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#546 - Rick Ross & Nino Breeze · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: That's right, let's get into the interview. Yo, it's the
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  Speaker 1: Bootleg keV Show. Man. We got a special guest in here,
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  Speaker 1: a living legend, one of the greatest rappers that ever lived,
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest moguls and hip hop history. Ricky
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  Speaker 1: Rose is in the motherfucking building name Ross.
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  Speaker 2: What up?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 2: You already know what it is. Man.
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  Speaker 1: We here like this way a little bit, just so
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  Speaker 1: we get you for the Michael little bit and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be type me and you're gonna be typing. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta get you. Brought a special guest with you. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you introduce.
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  Speaker 2: Most definitely, I brought the motherfucking living legend, the street legend,
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  Speaker 2: the one and only Nino Breeze. I'm talking about before TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: my nigga was trending in the Federal Penitentiary stand Solid
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  Speaker 2: making his music, you know, and I began to hear
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  Speaker 2: about his dream in the place he was making his ship.
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  Speaker 2: We all was patient, and when he came to the crib,
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  Speaker 2: wilat here he is.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're from Saint Pete. I lived in Saint
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  Speaker 1: Pete for three.
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  Speaker 3: Years, Okay, then I remember when he was out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to live in in the Emerald Point
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  Speaker 1: apartments on Fourth Street, fourth and seventy third, which was
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  Speaker 1: like very sketch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna lie like a lot of home of
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  Speaker 4: ages happened though, for sure, Like dudes move out there
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  Speaker 4: thinking the.
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  Speaker 1: Time I lived in Tampa, that's right, I lift yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously shout out to the Salems off of Eighteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you used to go get my gyros cracking over there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Pete's shit though.
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  Speaker 4: They shut that one down. It's like they opened a
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  Speaker 4: new one. It's a little it's down there still on
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  Speaker 4: eighteenth though.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was like one by a Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they push it to the side a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It's still there.
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  Speaker 1: So how did how did you because obviously you've been
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  Speaker 1: getting money in Tampa forever, You've been fucking with with
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Saint Pete area forever. How did y'all
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  Speaker 1: initially just end up kind of connecting?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: When I was in, like Doc Dog said, when I
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  Speaker 4: was doing my fair bed, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I was still doing my thing with the music, even
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  Speaker 4: behind the wall. I still you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: How long were you sitting down?
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  Speaker 3: I was going for five year this last time.
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  Speaker 1: When did you get out?
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  Speaker 3: I got out of March twenty eight two, than then twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Two, Oh shit, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so we just over three years. But while
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  Speaker 4: I was in there, I cut into a nigga named Kano.
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  Speaker 4: Kano was a good friend of Ross. But even when
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  Speaker 4: he was locked up, Kano still was involved with the
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  Speaker 4: music that like I was involved with the music. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, we stayed locked in and when I hit Turf,
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  Speaker 4: I was always sing my music and he was playing
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  Speaker 4: for a fat boy, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 4: like once he heard the music and he seinging the grind,
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  Speaker 4: he was already familiar with a nigga.
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  Speaker 3: Makeup, you know what I'm saying. So we just locked
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  Speaker 3: in front off Ross.
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  Speaker 1: How tapped in? Were you with the area? Because musically,
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  Speaker 1: like that area has a sound it's called joke, Like
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  Speaker 1: the jerk movement is so big out of Tampa. Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, you think of guys like Christal and Tom
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  Speaker 1: G and obviously you know fast yeah, a little key.
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  Speaker 2: The list goes on, you know, I'm gonna tell you,
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  Speaker 2: like even before that, I was tapped in when Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: when niggas was screwing music.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of niggas on't know Tampa was on that early.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me, I remember them niggas was screwing music
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  Speaker 2: long time ago, years ago, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember when one of my homies from town
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  Speaker 2: Nigga used to pull up on me, real nigga, solid nigga,
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  Speaker 2: get money, and he used to be shit, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what the fuck is this nigga? And he was like,
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  Speaker 2: what it's that I'm talking about? We was JITs, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So Tampa always been unique with
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  Speaker 2: they sound. Yeah, you know, we always fuck with him,
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  Speaker 2: so shit, here we are. It only makes sense. My
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  Speaker 2: nigga got a unique sound. Ain't nobody else gonna sound
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  Speaker 2: like Nino Breezed in the way he actually rhyming and
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  Speaker 2: rapping and putting words together, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: He got something to say.
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  Speaker 1: So uh with Nino, what would you say? Because obviously
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be a big deal to have something
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  Speaker 1: like Rod Wave, one of the biggest rappers on the
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  Speaker 1: planet representing Saint Pete, because Saint Pete's always kind of
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  Speaker 1: been like, you know, like the afterthought of the area
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  Speaker 1: when you because people nationally they don't think of Sat Pete.
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  Speaker 1: They Thigga Tampa Bay. You know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 1: Saint Pete is its own place. That's where that's where
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  Speaker 1: the baseball team is at. It's on downtown, it's on politics,
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  Speaker 1: it's like vibe everything like but they have road wave
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  Speaker 1: kind of it on like for real, like yo.
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  Speaker 3: Yo yo, yeah, Rod definitely doing this thing.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like with me, me having an opportunity that
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  Speaker 4: I got, You feel me like if I can get
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  Speaker 4: my foot in the door and bring a couple of
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  Speaker 4: niggas with me.
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  Speaker 3: I just think, you know, that's always been a dream
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  Speaker 3: of mine.
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  Speaker 4: Just just just taking what I'm familiar with, the that
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  Speaker 4: I growed up seeing and putting it on that main
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  Speaker 4: stage and bringing it to the forefront. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: we got a lot that we could bring to the
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  Speaker 4: game if that happens, you know what I'm saying. It
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  Speaker 4: just wasn't always realistic for us. We didn't always have
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  Speaker 4: them opportunities or though them outlets, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: But that shit opened it up right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ross talk to me what obviously, Man, the legacy
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  Speaker 1: that MMG is a label has in hip hop is
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  Speaker 1: so insane. I was just listening to Self Made too,
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  Speaker 1: Like I was just listening in the power circle whichever
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  Speaker 1: self made that was man. But like you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like you've been doing this entrepreneur ship,
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  Speaker 1: open up wing stops, doing car shows. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 1: been doing so much over the last few years. You
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  Speaker 1: and Mek dropped a really underrated project a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. How important is it to like, because you're
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  Speaker 1: not the type of person to just sign somebody just
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  Speaker 1: to sign somebody like you, You're You're very self aware
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  Speaker 1: of the legacy the MMG holds, so like, how important
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  Speaker 1: is it to keep that legacy going? And what was
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  Speaker 1: it about him that kind of like, you know, makes
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  Speaker 1: sense with the lineage of the label.
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like what music was at Nino will
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  Speaker 2: be needed more now than ever. Right, It's time for
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  Speaker 2: that real nigga vibe to step back to the forefront,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and speak for the street niggas. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, and you know, shout out to all
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  Speaker 2: the niggas who shining right now doing their thing. I
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  Speaker 2: love it, But most definitely we need niggas with that
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  Speaker 2: certain cloth that's gonna represent for where I'm from, real niggas,
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  Speaker 2: floorda niggas, street niggas and regardless wherever you're from. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, dog gonna talk that ship and
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  Speaker 2: put it away that real niggas can appreciate it. So no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not signing niggas just to be signing them. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even excited by ninety five percent of the ship
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  Speaker 2: out here. You gotta show me that you're really gonna
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  Speaker 2: go get it. You know what I'm saying, What niggas
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  Speaker 2: really hustling, What niggas really want more than a norm
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  Speaker 2: You can't be some part. You can't be average if
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  Speaker 2: you are. That's what it is. You know what I
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  Speaker 2: Meany niggas done came and left in the game in
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  Speaker 2: the last five years. Facts, niggas load up. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: Sound I'm just saying, you know, a lot of took
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  Speaker 2: off and that ship. It is like, and we're not
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  Speaker 2: laughing at no niggas situation. We're just saying, it's niggas
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  Speaker 2: that take all the way off. But you gotta maintain
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  Speaker 2: that shit.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Just accept the challenge. Do it for the challenge, even
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  Speaker 2: if you don't give a fuck about it, do it
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  Speaker 2: for the challenge. A lot of shit I do just
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  Speaker 2: for the challenge. That's what it inspired me. That might
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  Speaker 2: be that bottle.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you the best bubbles we got some y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Got any cups? Yeah, we celebrate. I like that you're
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  Speaker 2: getting that money. Care what this is?
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  Speaker 1: How much from Houston?
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  Speaker 2: Houston? Slap woods?
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  Speaker 1: H town guys. I'll tell you off camera, good guys. Though,
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  Speaker 1: I also like actually smokes slop woods.
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  Speaker 2: So you already know I smoked hot tolerance. But we
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  Speaker 2: do benness with everybody, ship with us.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me Ross about obviously you know there's so
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  Speaker 1: many errors to your career. Do you feel like, you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people would get to your position
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  Speaker 1: and then we've seen a lot of people kind of
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  Speaker 1: kick back you know what I'm saying. We don't hear
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  Speaker 1: from a lot of people. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: go get that Dubai show bag, they'll pop in, pop out.
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  Speaker 1: But like you're you know, when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: kind of success and wealth that you've been able to
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  Speaker 1: build and hip hop, Ross, what and outside hip hop?
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  Speaker 1: What is it that still keeps you motivated to continue
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  Speaker 1: to just put up shots and continue to just try
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  Speaker 1: new shit and shit.
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  Speaker 2: I just told you it's the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you love the sport to me.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that's what it is. It ain't just about
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  Speaker 2: the paper. But you gotta realize it, you know when
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  Speaker 2: it is about the paper. Let's say you a young
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  Speaker 2: nigga and you want to your dream was to be
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  Speaker 2: a millionaire. When you become a millionaire, it should be
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  Speaker 2: the challenge of hitting ten that puts you to the ten.
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  Speaker 2: Once you hit ten, it should be the challenge of
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  Speaker 2: the hundred that puts you to the hundred. Then once
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  Speaker 2: you get a hundred million, shit, I could pull off
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  Speaker 2: five hundred million. You hit five hundred million. Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: I could taste it. I could smell it. It's like
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  Speaker 2: a bitch laying on her back and that pussy shaved pretty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I could taste it. I normally hit a bill, but
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  Speaker 2: that should be the challenge. It's no particular number, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So when you're making music and
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  Speaker 2: you a nigga that really loved make music and you
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  Speaker 2: still got shipped to say, you might have a nigga
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  Speaker 2: to the disc. You might have some shit you just
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  Speaker 2: want to rep some shit. You want to rep for
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  Speaker 2: some shit you want to speak on. Behalf of your city,
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  Speaker 2: behalf on the real niggas that can't say nothing. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna say this for them, that's the ship that should
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  Speaker 2: make you want to keep making music. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like for you the sport of the
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  Speaker 1: rap shit has finally kind of been because you you
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  Speaker 1: obviously jumped into the arena with the with the Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: Drake shit that happened. Do you feel like the sport
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  Speaker 1: has been like reignited with with what has been going
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  Speaker 1: on the last year or so.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna say, you know, reignited, but I
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  Speaker 2: felt like, you know, that was something that was necessary.
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  Speaker 2: It was something that you know, the streets needed, the
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  Speaker 2: culture needed. Let's clarify this shit. Who gonna really step
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  Speaker 2: up to the forefront, right, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But anything other than that, it's not too dramatic to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, do some niggas make it more than what
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  Speaker 2: it is? They could?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just felt like it was very It
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  Speaker 1: was very like like you said, it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a palette cleanse where it was like, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta really kind of dissect what people are saying it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's let's do that. Fuck all the
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  Speaker 2: metaphors now, let's just get down the business. You see
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  Speaker 2: what's really happening now here? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Could you I'd heard now you can stop me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong. What's the What was the root cause of
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  Speaker 1: the falling out with Drake?
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  Speaker 2: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Some of it told me it was because of the
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  Speaker 1: way he had treated French on a record?
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  Speaker 2: Is that I mean I spoke on that on the
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  Speaker 2: record I released. You know what I'm saying, Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: fuck that ship. You know what I'm saying. Classics together,
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  Speaker 2: If it's real niggas, If real nigga's gonna stay real,
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  Speaker 2: that's it. You know what I'm saying. Was it something
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  Speaker 2: really deep? Now? Fuck that though? But if if you puss,
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  Speaker 2: you puss. If it's real, it's real, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: Could that ever be something you could ever see? Like
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  Speaker 1: you guys talking it out, and you guys have so
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  Speaker 1: many classics together, such a long history together.
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  Speaker 2: You never know. If a nigga send me a bottle
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  Speaker 2: of Luke Bellair, especially the white one, you know, bottle
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  Speaker 2: for any of these young.
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  Speaker 1: Niggas out here, especially if it's a magaz.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, send me a white bell Air bottle and I'll
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  Speaker 2: take a picture with you. Because that white bell a
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  Speaker 2: bottle is you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, Can you break down because you know it's so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about that Power Circle record. You've always had
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  Speaker 1: such a great ear I one of the greatest ears
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  Speaker 1: ever when.
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  Speaker 2: It comes to me when I put Kendrick on that record.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you put Kendrick on Power Circle alongside the whole
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  Speaker 1: label the valley. I donay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm down in Miami all the way on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the map. But it's just certain things I
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  Speaker 2: could watch. It's certain things that I understand, and when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to music, I believe I got a vision
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  Speaker 2: for it. That's it. I've been watching and studying that
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  Speaker 2: shit since I was in the first grade, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. So it's certain things that I can see,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So you just kind of knew what the Kendrick thing
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  Speaker 1: because that time he was bubbling. But I felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was at that time you were like mmgs, the hottest,
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  Speaker 1: hottest fish.
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  Speaker 2: Grease, and I was like, I understand who this young
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  Speaker 2: nigga is right here, Come get on this record. Let's
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  Speaker 2: all wrap on this record. And it's not about now.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't that he was huge. It was for the sport.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was for the sport. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: give a shout out to gun Play for having one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest verses of all time to play Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, no cartoons and Cereal is different. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: cartoons and as.
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  Speaker 2: He don't play got.
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  Speaker 1: It's all I can see that. Yeah, yeah, I want yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to how's gun Play doing dog one of
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  Speaker 1: the most underrated rappers of all time?
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  Speaker 2: No, not niggas know what time?
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  Speaker 1: No, I know, but I'm talking about when it when
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the big talks, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Underratedigga, niggas know what time it is? Playah yeah, my
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  Speaker 2: niggas still getting this shipped together. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Triple C's album was hard to very very slept on
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to your ear though, ross like, there
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  Speaker 1: was a few artists that almost came to MMG, A
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  Speaker 1: couple of West Coast guys. Dom. I know you were
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  Speaker 1: talking with Nip potentially, and I know the Whiz thing
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  Speaker 1: was kicked around because I remember when he got on
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  Speaker 1: the Super High remix. I remember I was stoked because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, it's we'z about to be on MMG.
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  Speaker 1: What is going on? Like how close, specifically was the
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  Speaker 1: nip thing from happen? Like I know you know, he
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  Speaker 1: obviously gave you a lot of love. He said he
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  Speaker 1: fucks with Rick Ross because he's teaching wealth And I
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  Speaker 1: know you guys have such a long history. But how
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  Speaker 1: close was that actually to becoming a thing?
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  Speaker 2: And you know what? This something I just want to
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  Speaker 2: say because I be seeing niggas on podcasts speaking on
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  Speaker 2: such oh shit, trying to recin and I don't be
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  Speaker 2: knowing how to feel about it. What I want to
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  Speaker 2: say is all the names you said, these niggas to
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  Speaker 2: me were already icons the same way I say Nino
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  Speaker 2: breezing because I already know I have a feeling, you understand,
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  Speaker 2: So they already niggas was already gonna shine. I was
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: just able and in the position to, you know, make
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: music with him at such an early stage, right, you
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. So Nipsey was another nigga that
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: I already felt was an icon in my mind. He
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: was already huge, and it's not like you're to a
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: lot of other niggas. He was younger, you know what
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So that's what it was. And I remember
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: us just talking about you know, both our ideas. Right,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I'm a nigga that's inspired by you sharing your ideas.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: So anytime I sat down with any of these niggas,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: it was really they had their ideas already. I had ideas.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: We just sharing ideas. We just going back and forth.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Let's exchange numbers, nigga, Let's stay in touch. You know
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So that's what it was. Shout out
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: to Dom Kennedy, Rip the nip the marathon still continue.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Wiz, I flew him. I
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: flew that. I told them niggas really just currency was
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: another one. Yeah, yeah, I flew them down and both
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: of them niggas was already shining.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Oh and they were. Yeah, they were obviously killing the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: mixtape game.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: I just said, come down here, let's smoke some good weed.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I got a good weed plug. Yeah. You know what
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. They flew down, nigga, We jumped into bands
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: and we just went. We went smoked weed, got tattooed,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: ship like that. Niggas just ate good real nigga shit. Yeah.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: No, it's crazy because I feel like you're one of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the only artists who has a label, who had a
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: label who did it the right way, where your approach
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: was always like I want people to be bigger than me.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I would love it, you know.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying. It's like I feel like a lot
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: of artists, they will have their homies or the assigned artists,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: but they don't ever want if they're if they're super active,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: they don't ever want like their artists who over over
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: shine what they're doing, if that makes sense. But I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: feel like yourself, and then I feel like you kind
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: of laid the groundwork for like Gody CMG because God
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: is kind of taking that same model and just ran
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: with it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Facts.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been dope to see. Man, are you
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: working on new music?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Ross?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Like for yourself?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I am, I am, I am. All you niggas get ready,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Ricky Rose.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Because we haven't had a Ross album and man, obviously
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: you and Meat dropped, but.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Right right, And for me, it's all about the motivation
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: and once again it's the challenge Nino Breeze being here
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: spitting that ship, me hearing hard ship. It gave a
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: nigga that real inspiration. Other than that, I'm gonna just
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: get fly every day and watch you niggas do y'all thing.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: But when I'm inspired, nigga, Yeah, so get ready? Are
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: you what I do?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Are you still with that Jam?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Of course not you.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: You had left def Jam a while ago. You ended
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: up messing with Gamma, right.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to the team over at.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Gamma, Larry, shout to Larry.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But the Empire double MG. We're doing it all
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: the way to the from the bottom to the top.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: That's what's up. Nino. Can you tell me, like the
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: first time you are in the studio with this guy,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: what is that experience like? Because I can only like,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I I just hear, like the way this guy he's
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a savant, you know what I'm saying, He's a goat.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: So I can only imagine, like being in a lab
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: with him had to be where you nervous? Was it
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: a vibe?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Say? Were you nervous? Now?
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: It's just a natural vibe. Like me and Dogg was
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: already you know, hanging a back and your feelin I
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: this ship is genu wine, right, So like we had
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: already hit the club together. I got on the yard
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to get a you know, big vies. You so like
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: this is my nigga for real everything natural?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Do you do you get a swing stop gift cards?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: When you sign the MG, do you get like the.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Is there to cash them?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Man? Because how many? How many locations?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Isn't that gonna go off? Face though? I would just
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: walk in that bitch telling what I need.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Because I know you got to have some of that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: in the Saint Pete area. You gotta at least have
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: one over there.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got we got the one.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: We got one on through the fourth and like seventeenth
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: North and then there's one by crawl the street from
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Logo Mall.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I know about them too.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: How crazy is it for you, man, just to see
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like the growth because you go in, you're going for
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: five years, right, so you get out and it's like
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: a damn near different place. Bro Like, like.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You don't like it?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: What you mean you don't like it?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: They gentrifying that the hood ain't the hood no more.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: You feel like a lot of that gut shit. I'm
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: speaking on just my frame of reference, what I'm familiar with.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: It's like, you you go to my hood right now,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: it's white people walking their dogs and shit. The only
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: time I used to see white people in my neighborhood.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: They was bond ope for taking niggas of jail, you
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So it's just like it ain't
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: that part that I missed, But it's like you just
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: got like aunties and grandmas who grew up and they
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: was used to working for the city, driving buses, whatever
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: it is they and that was enough for them to stay.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: There wasn't enough for them to sustain themselves.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: That was enough for them to like have a family,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: to get together, just look out for the gits and
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: shit like that, and all of a sudden it ain't
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: good enough no more. And then they don't have the
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: skills or like the opportunities that like really get it together,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: so they just pushing niggas out.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Of the way. Yeah.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I went to Rumbo in Saint Pete like a year
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and a half ago, and I was down in that
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: area and I didn't recognize nothing.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: I was like different, I'll be watching my old music
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: videos to try to remember what it was.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And then I got I stayed downtown Tampa. Like my
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: channel what was the name of Big Chris's club channels Asia?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my ball too.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I would go up in that bit.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I was out there with odd so was doing some ship.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: These drink more in the bar than they would in
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the club.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: That's a good I don't lie the ball motion, that's different.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: You're getting straight to it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I like the bar. I'm a bar.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Do we have a bar in Miami? Definitely?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: The bars everywhere?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Tampa's blowing up though, Like Channel Side, I don't even
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know where I got. I came out
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: of my hotel and I was like, weird, what is this?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And then I realized. I walked down and then I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: saw the amily and then I started how it used
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to be out in my head, and I'm like, oh shit,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: they got rid of all this shit.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yea, all that shit flip on this.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Ship is insane. What are you working on? Obviously you
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: got the new record out. The type of record has
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: been going crazy for a minute, but the new record
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: is going crazy.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got new eight and Rotation right out of
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: its doing it. You know what I'm saying. That's a
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: little bit more upbeat. You know what I'm saying. That's
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: that bounce, that's that swat.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Well, you were just getting a different molde on that,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: like you feeish yourself coming through. But other than that,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: you know, I've been we've been going city to city
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: on the Millennium Tour YEP. A lot of times when
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I touched down the different cities, I tap in with
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: these like freestyle platform and like, you know, just being
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: really showcasing what a nigga can do lyrically.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: And the screets tapping in, they fucking with the freestyles.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So now we're taking the free styles and we're doing
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: the EP.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Some of the free styles I did, I'm adding courses
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: to them. I'm an second Versus and the other list shit,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: And we're gonna put that EP out there form while
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I work on the next project.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: How's the Millennium Tour, Ben Ross been good?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: We've been having a good time on that ship Allas.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: They having fun, you know, just it's just a fun vibe.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: You know. We just wrapped it up, performed the last
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: show last night.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I saw Boozy was out there, Chris.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Chris Brown, you know, and for me just to watch
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: my Nino Breeze run out there, man and get to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: shine on the same stage with the moments That's what
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: really inspired it from the beginning. And you know, going
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to all the markets promoting the car show, promoting the brands,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: promote my nigga music. It was you couldn't ask for nothing.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Else, Yo. I don't know if I've ever seen a brand.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I remember when Belair launched, and I don't even know
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: if Bellair existed before you, but they did well. I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: don't think anybody knew it just.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Put it on the mouth respect.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: But I say that to say that I just saw
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: like a recent uh someone that told me what bel
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Air is worth recently. Shout out to my guy Will
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: from Taylor Gang is his manager. We were having a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: discussion about alcohol and you know, Wiz has his McQueen
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: under the same you know umbrella. But then we started
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: talking about just how big bell Air is and the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: amount of money that bell Air is worth is preposterous.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And I understand that you own a good chunk of
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that company, at least of that brand.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Can you just speak to the levels of success that
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: you've been able to reach with a champagne that is
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: seemingly just like it's the champagne of like no matter
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: where you go, they're gonna have bel Air's the.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: One I don't recall. Hey, look, look this is what
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you. This is the number one Bubbles
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And you gotta realize there are markets outside of the country.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: The brand, the brand ambassadors, the team, shout out, the Brett,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the whole squad with you speaking on the value. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: don't even have those conversations, you know what I'm saying, right,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I'm one of those like, when it comes to anything
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that I'm doing, let's do it out of love. When
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: it's time to discuss that, you know, we discussed that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: But other than that, of course, Bellair was before I ever
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: became a brand ambassador, was already on this vibe.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: But it changed.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Man, It's most definitely in a good space, but it's
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the best. It's the best shout out everywhere around the world,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, France, Africa.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Outside of your career, you've invested in a lot of companies.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Which one has been the most rewarding financially? Is it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the wing stops is at the Champagne? Is it? Is it?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: That? Is it?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: The massive mansion in Atlanta that gets rented out for movies?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: The car Show go on and on?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: And on. I don't recall.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: All of the above.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: It's just what you got to realize is okay, wing
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: stops once again, you start with one?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: How many you guys, I don't recall more than fifty.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I don't recall nice I started with one. That's what's
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: most important. The one is the most important. Worked our
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: way up to ten, twenty thirty, and that's at that point.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: It's not even about the numbers. You understand. The challenge
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: is still there. That's what I just said twenty minutes ago.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: It's about the challenge. Because I didn't come in the
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: game and said, man, I want to own X amount
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of wing stops. We just worked our way to it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Shout out to my team, my beautiful mother, my sister.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know your sisters, man, she's a champions.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so you know, we're just hustling. That's that's
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I love it, man, and it's the challenge.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: It's the challenge.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I love it for you. Ross is there you know
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: when we think about MMG, the Wiles, the Meeks of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the world, was there ever? Can you kind of give
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: me like there was like this big misconception that you
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and Meek weren't necessarily see and I to ie you
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: guys end up putting this album out kind of shutting
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: all that up. Like how much of this rap shit
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: do that fans hear about? Is simple like miscommunication, whether
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it's some entourage shit or it's just you know, people
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: just because we don't talk for six months, people assume
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: shit ain't good. You know what I'm saying. I'm assume
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of that.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got it. You gotta realize when I used
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: to see things Meek mill wile, you know, a lot
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: of that ship was straight, right, cap, you know what
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Besides them two together because they were there, they had
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a thing together.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these niggas are be in the studio and then
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: two nights, two days later, you see some shit. But
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: that's what Just fuck that shit, right, That's why you
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: never seen me really speak on that ship, because it
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: wasn't even nothing to a dress, right, you know what
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. We get in the studio, we come here,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: bay blah blah blah blah blah.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Blah, whatever would you ever?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I may come in here one day and you don't
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: have the white bella, the pink bell la Man, fuck
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: this shit, keV. I ain't coming back to pose, may say.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Rose went, I only have the Black Bottle Ross. So
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: they had you feel me.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: You feel me and them holds to make that into
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: something and it ain't even like that. You my nigga.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. The homies, the homies, them
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: niggas really homies. If them niggas called each other right now,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: them niggas are come through for each other.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Facts.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: If I call me right now, if I called Wallet
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: right now, it ain't nothing them niggas wouldn't do for
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: me vice versas.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest mixtapes of all time is the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Rich Forever tape Rich. How do we get this on
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: DSP's Spotify, Apple Music. I'm tired of finding because that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: PIF's gone. I'm tired of going on YouTube and find
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: all the links.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I really don't want to do it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, like I want Holy Ghost on Spotify for
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Fox's sake.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: And the reason and the reason being is that was
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: just that was at a certain point and I just
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: wanted to do that for the streets. I had just
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: released the album with Depth Jam six months earlier, and
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I put that body of work together and I was
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: ready to release it, and I said, won't nothing come
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: in between it, even if it's the record label death Jam,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: fuck depth Jam. I'm finna get this to the streets.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: That's what the streets need.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And you had John Legend the intro of a mixtape.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Right, that's Rose, That's insane, that's Rose. Me and John
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Legend always been cool speed you know, speed out type ship.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: If I hit my nigga right now, Hey, my nigga
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: blessed this for me. He gonna have that shit back
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: to me. And you know what I'm saying.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Like that, you had this era where it kind of
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: heated up prior to Teflon Don releasing. But like the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: albert Anastasia era. I remember you had a record on
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: there with cool Gi Rap. Was it nice? I'm trying
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to remember the name of the song knife Fights. Yes,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: But you had like use the mixtape game in a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: way that I don't remember artists up until that point
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: having like a certified hit record that nobody could buy,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like BMF started on a mixtape and then ended up
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: on Teflon Down later. But it was kind of like
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the first time that had ever really really happened where like,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you know, there were buzzing mixtapes, mixtapes people love that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously people were downloaded, but like, I feel
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: like that was the first time where like a cultural anthem,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the hottest song in the street was something that wasn't
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: even out yet, but you had you had to go
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: find a z share link or a media fire link
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: online or go hit the DAP pit for what was that? Like, Man,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: can you just walk me through that era prior to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: teflon Dawn You're putting out Albert down the States EP
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and just that whole game. Such a.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: In the game.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It's such a crazy time.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: That's when niggas was paying two hundred for the Verse.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I was like, boy, this ship crack. Man, hold on,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: hold on, hit them niggas, man, hold on, hold on.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, How does Nick for real?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: No, I feel like that era of Ross like you
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: were the like like the like once it was like
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that two or three year run.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It was longer than I mean, I'm talking about where
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you're like because at that time you're about Drake. I'm
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: being serious. No, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about two
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: or three year run. Is like the undisputed hottest dude
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in the streets.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: In the game. Yeah, we had fun like that, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: that's what it was for me, you know what I'm saying,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Because at some point as a boss, when you really
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: got a boss mindset, once you achieve certain things, once
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you get your paper right, at that point, it's for
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the sport. It's just like coming to a concert or something.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: It ain't no stress, nigga. It's just about what joggers
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: you had on and what sneakers. Because this shit is
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: for love, you know what I'm saying. You forget what
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: you even charge these niggas to come do certain things.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: That's when you just text your system how much was
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: this ship for? Yeah, that's cool. You know what I'm
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: saying that at some point, as a young hustler and
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: as an artist, that's how I want you niggas to
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: approach it. At a certain point, you get you put
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: yourself in a position where when you're doing this shit, nigga,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: you just you doing it. You know what I'm saying.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I feel like you also got to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: have a team that you trust.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: You got to have a team that you could trust.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: That's without a doubt that's the only way. That's where
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: the longevity comes in at because if you the type
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: of motherfuckers who think you could fire someone every six
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: months and continue to start over, you setting yourself up
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: for huge failures for sure, not only that you're not
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: inspiring the rest of the niggas on the team. You
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: gotta show niggas the rewards of staying down, staying loyal,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: being committed. You gotta let them know the possibilities, not
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: the fake promises, but let them know the possibilities of
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: continue to grow in and possibly getting put in other
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: positions as a reward for that loyalty.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: You know, has there been anything you've been able because
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: obviously you're you're you're I'm sure an entrepreneur in your
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: own right, but what is just being around ross the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: short amount of time? Is there any any anythings that
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you've picked up that you're like, I can apply this
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to my shit, whether it's music, whether it's personal life, whatever.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: The main thing it'd be like, like I was just
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: looking just then you feeling like they're always taking off
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: I'm picking up what he's putting down. They don't even
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: always be necessarily by learning something new, So much is
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: reinforcing with a nigga already, know, Yeah, you know what
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like the people that you be around, the
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: thing on their shit that could take you off your squad,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So if you run, nigga
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: that's on it twenty four seventh, three sixty five, really
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: twenty four eight, twenty five eight, you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, sacrifice too with that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just it's.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Gonna stay on your mind. It's just gonna be. It's
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: gonna be a little bit more like.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: It's one thing to be that too when you're coming
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: up and you're hungry. It's another thing to be that
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: way when you already.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the niggas just be like some people like I
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: feel like me, I'm just permanently inspired.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I've been for a long time ago Like I'm always
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: just just I always got.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: This thing and well, like once you put me in
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: the quation, like it leads the motion and lead the
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: shit going on, you know what I'm saying, Like I
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: did all that fair time you feel me By the
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: time I can't, my dogs wasn't making music no more. Niggas,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: wasn't making beach no mold niggas wasn't pushing. We had
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: to close the line going. We had the party promo
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: shit going for I left. I revent all that ship
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: because it's just emmy, right, you know what I'm saying.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: So it's like being around niggas who own it, it
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: is like for me, that's that's That's more what I
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: feel like.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: We never crossed pass in Tampa. I lived there for
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I was at Club Scott every Friday and Saturday. I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: was we was getting to crack it out there.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was really fuck with Scott or like you said,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I was at Asia.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah you feel me.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I was fucked up by Kennedy.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Scott, Oh yeah, Kennedy on Monday Nights.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Monday Nights to Kennedy Martini. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: I all playing those cut I remember.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I brought Troy after Blue Martini for my birthday one year.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I remember when it came. I don't think I went,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: but I seen him them all that day.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was there with him. Man shout out
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to the Blue Martini. But Kennedy on Monday was crazy.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It was that and that what happened, I don't know,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to all that ship going.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Happened to all clubs for sure, No club that you
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: ever know gonna last a lifetime except live, get rich,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: stack that paper, and when it's time, you know.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Get about of there, they move one hundred. That's a
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: fair point. Ross. What do you attribute? They say you
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: have the best ear for production, and I agree. I
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: feel like your ear for beats is second to none.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I think you have the best ear for beats in
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: hip hop history. I mean, there's a few folks up
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: there with you, but I feel like you you are
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the king when it comes to picking beats, when it
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: comes to, you know, just making these cinematic records that
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: sound like, you know, like movies when you close your eyes, Like,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: what do you think the secret is to the way
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: you're able to pick beats?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Man? I think one of the the huge roles in
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: the way I listen to music is I don't close
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: my door to no type of music. I could wake
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: up in the morning, take a shot at tequila listening
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: to Gloria Estefan understand. Then we could go to too Short,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: then we could go to JT. Money. It don't matter.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I jump all across the board when it comes to sounds,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: you know, listening in the backseat whatever my mama and
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: then was playing. It was probably Johnny Taylor, you know
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: what I mean. So I just whatever it was down
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to the first instrumental I wrote my first verse to,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: which was CENTERP. I believe that was Michael jack Reebe Jackson. Yeah, y'all, y'all,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: y'all streamed at Rebe Jackson. That was really the first
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: beat I ever wrote too. So it's just one of
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: those things. I listen to everything. So once it's time
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: to tap into a certain vibe, a certain element, we finish,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: paint a certain picture. What's best for this background?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: M Yeah, because you would have because you know, Live
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Fast and Die Young sounds nothing like mc hammer sounds,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: nothing like Mayback music, you know what I mean. But
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: you did have. You were one of the first like
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: artists I can remember to pop with type beats on YouTube.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: There would be like Rick Ross type beats because you
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: had that run where it was like BMF and mc
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: hammer and there was like a lot of these records
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: that were very the beats had a similar like it
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: was like, oh that was an MMG beat that was
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: like a Ross beat. Do you remember when you got
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: like when you found that little pocket of like the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: trap shit and it just it was like your specific
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: sound like.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I do. I remember without a doubt and shout out
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to the producers that was giving me that pressure. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Lex Lugos, shout out the billionaire, the runners, all the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: niggas that was just giving me, giving me that pressure.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Niggas know where I was at. I got something to prove.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I ain't afraid to say it. I got something to prove.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: We're finna walk in. Take these niggas bitches, take all
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the money. That's when we finish. Come in. I need
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: something to I need beats for that, and niggas sent
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: them to.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Me and then it was like it was a sound
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: all the other artists starters changed.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: It's crazy because I'm just like front screen. They like
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: that sound. They that's it's real.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Prevalent right now, you know what I'm saying, Like like
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: they want to get over, Like what was dog Man
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: who made boev is it d Games.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: D Rich.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Rich boy with box Chevy.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: He makes a lot of ship for Jesus Ross and ship.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: But it's like that Vins traps the producer. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: that vins traps sound that ship like real, real prevalent
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: right now. It's like you got some of those dudes
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: being rediscovered, right and then you got these young niggas
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: making beats that sound like that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, That ship.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Coming back yo when you uh you know, I feel
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: like your feature on My Beautiful Dark Wistid Fantasy is
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest features ever. It was so good
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that you shot your own music video to it to
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Devil in a New Dress? You you get that? Do
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: you get that beat? Are you in the studio with yay?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And like just the idea to have you come in
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: it kind of reminded me how you came in at
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the end of uh you have this fucking thing? Were
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you coming at the end of records and just set
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: it off? Like what was the Mayback music that c
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I was on? Were you coming at the end? Uh?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: The one with Eric Abad everybody in the three Yes,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the way you came in at the end, Oh my god.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Devil in a New Dress one of the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: greatest guests versus of all time. You can you kind
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of walk us through that and just like, did you
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: know there was gonna be like a bit of a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: pause before you you finished the record off.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I did? I did. Kanye played me the record. It
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: was in the recurse studio in Hawaii. Yeah, a lot
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: of different rooms, a lot of different rooms. They had
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of different things going on in different rooms.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You gotta imagine nigga in
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the kitchen cooking and cooking up dope. Yeah, all the
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: pots on. You know what I'm saying. And when he
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: played it for me, I understood the magic right then.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: You were you like? Because I feel like when you're
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: in those situations, because everybody's working, like you said, you
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: gotta be kind of like like he was saying, permanently inspired.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: You gotta be like peak inspiration.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Everybody's around cooking.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest albums ever.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: You can't be a weak nigga. You can't be afraid.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: These niggas turned all the way up and they want
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: it right now right they ain't. No Yo, go back
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: to the hotel and all that shit. Noah, you can't
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: face time. The niggas who'll be writing your raps nigga.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: These niggas want it right now, right, and I'm one
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: of them type of niggas. Let's do it. It's too easy.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I'm one of them. So he gave it to me.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I understood the vibe. Shout out of that nigga Bink
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: the Humble Monster. I understood the vibe right there. Mike
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Dean was there, but Bank, you know, he created the record,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: the beat. So once I heard it, it was one
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: of those situations, I just I felt it right there.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: You had said in a verse you had ciphers with
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Easy before his mouth was wired. Could you give me
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: what was your first interaction with Kanye before we knew Kanye.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I guess if it was all the way back then,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it was.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Just a nigga hustling, grinding that nigga beat. Somebody been
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: two stacks.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: At the time, right, Yeah, at this time, he was
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: in the studio in Miami, because this is prior to
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Port of Miami.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: This is before my album of course. So when I
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: said that in the verse, that's what I was referring to,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: got it. That's something that I knew he would understand,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. We was talking about doing
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: a lot more work, and he got in his accident
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: after that, crazy like now send my niggas prayers. Boom boom,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: boom boom.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder, uh, you have one of the most iconic
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: callback records in the club. I mean you've got a
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: few of them, obviously, I mean BMF is probably, you know,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: top ten hip hop club record of all time, but
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: record insane shot the Styles P. Two We Got to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Give Love to. You know, a lot of times his
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: first doesn't get played because it's a long song. Your
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Kobe line on stage scheming such an iconic line. Did
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: you ever see Kobe after that? Did Kobe ever acknowledged
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: like that he had heard that, because I know you've
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: been courtside, you've been, I mean you're around.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I don't remember, I don't remember. But Kobe always was
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: a cool nigga. Yeah, And I'm sure if I did
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: bump into him, he would have knew what the vibe was.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: He would have knew that that was that was a
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: nigga speaking for all niggas in that situation. You know
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It wasn't an attack on brud All.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: It was just one of them things just for all niggas.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That's something all niggas still apply.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: And that's why in the venues right now they still
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: go crazy. You wasn't with me shooting in the gym.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Oh that was just for real niggas everywhere.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Tor just wrapped up. Uh, you got a new song out?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Is there gonna be a mixtape coming? You're just doing
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the single thing coming ross new albums on the way.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Rose are most definitely cooking up Maybag music. We turned
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: all the way up the car Show June seventh. Get
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: your tickets.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: This is at your house.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: This at the Promised Land.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah how I mean you didn't just.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: A regular house because I'm not confused.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: The kids, I know, but this is your estate. This
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: is where you rest your head right right.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: This is at the Crib fifty five thousand square feet
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: mansion on three hundred plus acres. I'm opening the gates.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Get your tickets, Rick rosscardshow dot com because it's gonna
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: be crazy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: What is is there? What is the drawback though about
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: having shit at your house? Like, it ain't no drawback nothing,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: because you don't got to run a venue, right.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: No, No, it ain't even about that it ain't even
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: about the venue. It's what makes it to me, what
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: makes my shit special. It's not in the venue when
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: I go places in you and some shitting looking at cars.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I want to be outdoors. I want to be free.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I'm outdoors. I love horses and buffalos and shit like that.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a cowboy on the load. That's why I bought
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: the mansion in Houston, because I'm really a cowboy. It's
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: ten percent cowboy in me. But I want to be outdoors.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I want to look at the cars, eat the food,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: you know, do what I do, vibe, and be outdoors.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: It's nothing like that. It's nothing. Shout out to Craig Jackson.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I just had a FaceTime with Craig Jackson Barrett Jackson
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: through my homie fifty Sega two three days ago. Yeah,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: but I want to be outdoors. To me, that's what
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: makes me ride a horse. Of course, rose a horse.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I did it once.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: It was it was, man, you gotta take your bitch
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: on a horse out bad. You know what I'm tying
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: you gotta take.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: A well listen, we gotta wrap this up. Ross. I
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: appreciate you pulling up, Nino. We're gonna have you do
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: a freestyle? Is that cool? We got time for that. No, no,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: no freestyle. Oh they asked me about it yesterday. Ross,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: you gotta go, you can stay. Is that what we're doing.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. Everyone's gotta go, Rose, Nino, you.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Got a question?
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: How much this shit gross?
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: And every year I tell you off off camera, come on, man,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: seven figure.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: This the business. This the business. Part of the interview.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Between like the radio show.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: I love it. No, let me tell you I love it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you better. Everything's going well.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Man. You're a solid dude, been solid.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: This ain't just new for anybody that's just starting to watch.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: I've been knowing them many, many, many years earlier in
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: my coming up.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you knew me when I was a run in
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. No, you always KG back in the day,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm proud of you.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: He was supposed to be my first radio interview ever
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: after Triller came out in the afternoon jock at the
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: station at the time, and Phoenix hated and took it
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: from me because I was doing it was at a
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Virgin You were running around with Brian Samson at Depth
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Jam back in the day and yeah, but look ross Man,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: you're you're one of the greatest of all time. Nino,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: You're talented as fuck. Saint Pete's in the building. Bulet
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: cap pot man, you already know we in here. Come on,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: boom