Latest / The Breakfast Club / Best Of 2024 Full Interview: T.I. & Young Dro Speak On Sobriety, 'OMG Girlz' Lawsuit Victory, New Music + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in Steve j n V
- 0:07Speaker 2: Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Justice on maternity leave. So long the roast is filling in.
- 0:13Speaker 2: And we got some special guests joining us this morning.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Yes, indeed we have t I.
- 0:17Speaker 2: And the Brother Young Joe. Welcome, fellas. Are you'll feeling
- 0:20Speaker 2: this morning?
- 0:20Speaker 4: Man, bless we know you we do.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Almost. Congratulations, man, thank you.
- 0:29Speaker 4: How does it feel.
- 0:30Speaker 2: I heard that you're not really taking any shows anymore, but.
- 0:33Speaker 4: John got to be the first thing. Congratulations, Thank you.
- 0:37Speaker 1: I appreciate you because.
- 0:38Speaker 2: That's how our show, that's actually our show, our show.
- 0:42Speaker 4: Show you were jingle balls talking about, Yeah, this is
- 0:48Speaker 4: my show I named you.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Show that we're doing in Atlanta.
- 0:52Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm excited about it. Man. You know it's
- 0:54Speaker 4: gonna be a dope show. Uh. And and you know
- 0:57Speaker 4: I still have other performances, stuff that I agreed to
- 1:01Speaker 4: when I felt like I needed to do it with
- 1:03Speaker 4: or just yeah, and that's still you know what I'm saying.
- 1:06Speaker 4: The PSC you know what I'm saying. They probably they're
- 1:08Speaker 4: gonna get like probably three four, you know what I'm
- 1:11Speaker 4: saying three four of them, like, come on, y'all do it,
- 1:14Speaker 4: you know, like one air quarter. I'm just joking, man,
- 1:17Speaker 4: I'm just joking. But I don't worry about it. Man,
- 1:30Speaker 4: pulling the room on the yacht man.
- 1:34Speaker 5: I was always to retirement. It's not an age, it's
- 1:36Speaker 5: an income. And we heard you say that the solo
- 1:39Speaker 5: album gonna be your life and just said you said
- 1:41Speaker 5: it's gonna be your last show.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Paid shows that that That don't mean that I'm not
- 1:46Speaker 4: gonna still work, you know what I'm saying, Like, there
- 1:48Speaker 4: are other things that I'm doing. I'm still writing, producing,
- 1:50Speaker 4: directing films, and I'm working on my third one. We're
- 1:54Speaker 4: about to start. Actually, by the time this is I'll
- 1:57Speaker 4: probably be feeling. It's called sit you Wlationships of Romantic
- 2:01Speaker 4: Comedy based in Atlanta. Lodland is looking for love in Atlanta,
- 2:04Speaker 4: good Luck, and I'm excited about that. It's the first
- 2:08Speaker 4: film that I'd be directing and starring in myself. Terrence J.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Brittany hall Uh, Dominique Perry. You know what I'm saying.
- 2:19Speaker 4: So you know we got you know what I'm saying.
- 2:21Speaker 4: Other things that we're doing probably feels shoot my special
- 2:25Speaker 4: end of the year.
- 2:27Speaker 2: But you know, for that that movie, we have somebody
- 2:29Speaker 2: that might want to be a part of it. Trying
- 2:31Speaker 2: to find some love in the world.
- 2:34Speaker 5: Was not me because I'm married your reality show, that
- 2:37Speaker 5: wouldn't be a movie, just wasn't.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Who are you talking about?
- 2:39Speaker 3: This young lady over here always got.
- 2:41Speaker 2: It, always in her room.
- 2:49Speaker 6: Best joke You've been sitting on that one, because I
- 2:55Speaker 6: ain't even heard that one.
- 2:57Speaker 7: Think I'm looking in Atlanta though, what whoa wow?
- 3:01Speaker 2: Discrimination No, I just I sound like what you said
- 3:05Speaker 2: about the Trump I have.
- 3:07Speaker 6: I have some homegirls down there that have had really
- 3:09Speaker 6: bad experiences.
- 3:11Speaker 4: It's a little really bad experience.
- 3:12Speaker 6: Ye, it's a little trauma in the group chats. So
- 3:15Speaker 6: I think I'm.
- 3:20Speaker 4: You do it. You do a track with the energy?
- 3:22Speaker 3: You just tell you that all the time.
- 3:23Speaker 7: First of all, I'm not talking about me and about the.
- 3:26Speaker 4: Homegrowns, but you're talking about how that how their experiences
- 3:30Speaker 4: are influencing your decision. Sure, I think you're talking about you. Essentially,
- 3:34Speaker 4: I attract great things you do. Why would that change
- 3:41Speaker 4: if you took it? If you took that same energy
- 3:43Speaker 4: to Atlanta?
- 3:44Speaker 7: Well, from what I hear in Atlanta. I think the
- 3:47Speaker 7: ratio makes it where.
- 3:48Speaker 4: Like objection, here's.
- 3:53Speaker 7: I just hear a lot about that ratio.
- 3:54Speaker 6: And how kind of you know, the guy's got a
- 3:57Speaker 6: lot going on, you got it's it's a lot down there.
- 3:59Speaker 6: And you know, everybody wants to deal with successful and
- 4:03Speaker 6: you know these amazing black men. But if they they
- 4:05Speaker 6: and fifty people and don't want to settle with one
- 4:07Speaker 6: like that, they that they never gets nowhere long as.
- 4:10Speaker 4: You've got the whipp appeel. Oh my goodness. We don't
- 4:13Speaker 4: think we can say that. We can't we say we
- 4:15Speaker 4: can't say that baby faith.
- 4:18Speaker 7: That's baby face.
- 4:19Speaker 8: Yeah right, wait a minute, Spotify we have whipping peel
- 4:30Speaker 8: my baby face ring.
- 4:32Speaker 7: Yeah not that funny.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think that I think I think that
- 4:37Speaker 4: I think it's somebody down there. And because it's probably
- 4:40Speaker 4: a dude down there right now, like man, all these
- 4:42Speaker 4: girls want the same thing, and you know, everybody want
- 4:45Speaker 4: to be seen with somebody in Cardier glasses. And happened.
- 4:48Speaker 1: I have made back what's wrong with Cardier class.
- 4:50Speaker 4: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, but
- 4:54Speaker 4: you know, but that's the kind of guy. She's saying
- 4:56Speaker 4: she's trying to avoid.
- 4:58Speaker 1: She's trying to avoid me a little bit.
- 5:00Speaker 6: It's just I think it's it's just certain. I think
- 5:03Speaker 6: the lifestyle in Atlanta, although it's really really fun, you
- 5:06Speaker 6: have a good time, I think that kind of plays
- 5:08Speaker 6: a part of it too. It's like eventually we get
- 5:11Speaker 6: like and I'm outside, go outside, I'm around, but you
- 5:14Speaker 6: get tired of like every single time we go out,
- 5:16Speaker 6: we got to be in the club, we gotta.
- 5:18Speaker 7: Be with the hookah and.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Every weekend.
- 5:23Speaker 6: No I don't not every weekend if I'm dating somebody,
- 5:25Speaker 6: I want to do things other than that. And a
- 5:27Speaker 6: lot of the people that this is another conversation the
- 5:29Speaker 6: group chat. A lot of my homegirls feel like in Atlanta,
- 5:31Speaker 6: that's all the days are. And it's fun in the beginning,
- 5:34Speaker 6: but then you want to really dig.
- 5:35Speaker 1: But you got to always go to the club and
- 5:37Speaker 1: do hookah.
- 5:38Speaker 9: Now you can go to ether Ridge, you can go
- 5:40Speaker 9: on banks.
- 5:44Speaker 6: Around the wrong guys because the people that's coming through
- 5:48Speaker 6: our chat, it's like they just want to go to Cheetah.
- 5:51Speaker 7: They want to be they want to be out like
- 5:52Speaker 7: they that's it.
- 5:53Speaker 4: I mean, well, yeah, I think, like I said again,
- 5:55Speaker 4: man you. You you attract the energy that you distribute.
- 6:00Speaker 4: If that's what they If that's what they attracted, they
- 6:02Speaker 4: should probably look within, you know what I'm saying, and
- 6:06Speaker 4: be the change. Stop going to cheer you, stop meeting people.
- 6:11Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
- 6:12Speaker 7: Good food over there.
- 6:13Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Go to chi They got good wine.
- 6:21Speaker 5: Now, Jo, you took a step back, man, you took
- 6:23Speaker 5: a step back. You put out I was just what
- 6:25Speaker 5: twenty fifteen.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Took a step back?
- 6:28Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean like it's for putting out albums. Yeah,
- 6:33Speaker 10: you know what I mean. Well, over that, over that
- 6:36Speaker 10: period of time, it's I still put out like little
- 6:39Speaker 10: pieces of projects and things that like that of that nature.
- 6:43Speaker 10: You know what I mean. I think we did after
- 6:46Speaker 10: that we had TikTok, yeah saying put out TikTok, and
- 6:50Speaker 10: and then I went into rehab and stuff like that.
- 6:55Speaker 10: So I've been rebuilding myself as a person.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know what I mean. I felt like I.
- 6:59Speaker 10: Should digging to the inside of me and find out
- 7:02Speaker 10: what what I have to give to the public.
- 7:04Speaker 3: You don't have to use that voice.
- 7:16Speaker 1: I had to find the good in myself. I think.
- 7:20Speaker 4: The world.
- 7:22Speaker 10: I think it's good in all people. You feel what
- 7:24Speaker 10: I'm saying. And if nobody can find the good and
- 7:28Speaker 10: you or see the good in you, I think you
- 7:30Speaker 10: should give him a hug and tell them life is
- 7:32Speaker 10: difficult for the blind.
- 7:33Speaker 4: You know he had to dgd You know what I'm saying,
- 7:37Speaker 4: What did.
- 7:38Speaker 1: You decide or what got you into rehab?
- 7:40Speaker 2: When was that that calling and said this is the time?
- 7:42Speaker 2: Because I mean for my whole career, I would see
- 7:44Speaker 2: Droe in the club with me every week and drow
- 7:47Speaker 2: is performing Drowers at every stage you were you were
- 7:50Speaker 2: pitting me of an artist because you were out.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Well, I got tired like.
- 7:57Speaker 10: The same things like you know what I mean, like
- 8:00Speaker 10: over and over again getting high and saying I'm not
- 8:03Speaker 10: getting high, and you know, repeating.
- 8:05Speaker 11: Repeating, man struggled a man talking about it real overcoming
- 8:15Speaker 11: the real struggle and man.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Because your crew is gonna do nothing to laugh like
- 8:20Speaker 2: even it's down to I was like, welcome to Like
- 8:23Speaker 2: nobody takes it serious.
- 8:25Speaker 1: But you know what he's got him.
- 8:29Speaker 4: Bad guy.
- 8:33Speaker 10: He's telling the truth, like Noah. But you know, you
- 8:37Speaker 10: know it was more than that. It was actually overdose.
- 8:41Speaker 10: You feel what I'm saying, And I used I used
- 8:44Speaker 10: this platform with with the thank god toground.
- 8:53Speaker 4: That's crazy, man. He's a mechanic.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Mechanics always laughing.
- 9:00Speaker 4: There's a dastard individual.
- 9:04Speaker 1: What's overdose? Yo?
- 9:05Speaker 10: I did you know what I mean? And all the
- 9:09Speaker 10: all of these things happened, the overdose. My daughter was
- 9:12Speaker 10: on drugs and you know, career wise, I wasn't aware.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I wasn't.
- 9:18Speaker 3: What's up with you?
- 9:20Speaker 1: Man?
- 9:21Speaker 10: Are you finna get slapped? I mean, we're cool, but
- 9:24Speaker 10: I slapped at you by laughing. Man, I'm just I'm
- 9:27Speaker 10: just telling you we're cool.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Slapping.
- 9:29Speaker 4: What you want to do?
- 9:31Speaker 1: What you want to do?
- 9:34Speaker 4: Him take you out of the sober drove.
- 9:38Speaker 12: He listen, Hey, listen, hey, both of y'all. Y'all, everybody
- 9:43Speaker 12: came in and motherfucker with me. Hey look, everybody came
- 9:47Speaker 12: in the motherfucker with me. Hey look, everybody came in
- 9:49Speaker 12: the mother with me.
- 9:49Speaker 4: Hey. Look remember who you came in and remember what
- 9:51Speaker 4: we're doing here? Man, Come on, man, they get this
- 9:54Speaker 4: ship together. Bro. All right, all right, I'm sorry.
- 9:59Speaker 3: First the first of all joke cond gratulations on being
- 10:00Speaker 3: two years old, but like I was.
- 10:02Speaker 1: Saying, three, actually three three, I'm approaching four.
- 10:04Speaker 10: You feel what I'm saying, So like, like all of
- 10:07Speaker 10: these things happened to where it made me want to
- 10:10Speaker 10: actually seek something better, you know what I mean. So
- 10:13Speaker 10: when I took myself to rehab out in LA, did
- 10:17Speaker 10: a couple of months out there, and it was cool,
- 10:19Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. I got back out and
- 10:21Speaker 10: I was still tempted to live that kind of life,
- 10:25Speaker 10: but I saw what was in front of me and
- 10:27Speaker 10: I was like, this is more valuable than what's behind me.
- 10:30Speaker 1: What what gave you the courage?
- 10:32Speaker 2: I would say to to be able to talk about
- 10:33Speaker 2: it right, because you know, some people look about it
- 10:35Speaker 2: as it's embarrassing, and then some people say, you know,
- 10:37Speaker 2: it could actually help people that's going through the same thing.
- 10:40Speaker 1: That you're actually going through or that you dealt with,
- 10:42Speaker 1: you know, I.
- 10:42Speaker 10: Mean with the support team. You feel what I'm saying.
- 10:46Speaker 10: Because the first time it happened, we had like an
- 10:48Speaker 10: intervention and he came.
- 10:50Speaker 3: On over those first time I intervention looks like, well.
- 10:56Speaker 1: He came up with an a pummer like bro delicate
- 10:59Speaker 1: right now.
- 11:00Speaker 10: But I mean like the love I got in the
- 11:04Speaker 10: support I got, it made me feel safe. It made
- 11:07Speaker 10: me feel safe, and you know what I'm saying. Of
- 11:09Speaker 10: course I do feel ashamed. You know what I'm saying.
- 11:11Speaker 10: At first, you know what I mean.
- 11:13Speaker 3: It's a disease.
- 11:14Speaker 10: But because like we from, you don't supposed to let
- 11:18Speaker 10: nobody see you like that.
- 11:19Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We always talk like you
- 11:21Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
- 11:22Speaker 10: Once you find yourself in that position and your brother
- 11:25Speaker 10: called you out on it, you be hoping that you
- 11:28Speaker 10: can get rid of it before he come and check me.
- 11:30Speaker 1: But when he comes check me on it, I.
- 11:31Speaker 10: Get mad at myself and be like, damn, I supposed
- 11:33Speaker 10: to got straight before you know what I mean, my
- 11:36Speaker 10: manager would come or if he would come, You feel
- 11:38Speaker 10: what I'm saying.
- 11:38Speaker 1: So it was it was.
- 11:40Speaker 4: Now The thing about it is, you know what I'm saying.
- 11:43Speaker 4: And we've had this conversation before, Like as long as
- 11:47Speaker 4: he was battling this addiction, long as he was on drug,
- 11:50Speaker 4: I never actually saw him do drug. I never saw it,
- 11:54Speaker 4: like you know what I'm saying. So whatever he would
- 11:55Speaker 4: do it, he'd do it. And I don't know whether
- 11:57Speaker 4: he would have while he was around me or not,
- 11:59Speaker 4: but I was. But what I'm saying, there went like
- 12:03Speaker 4: while we was around each other, it was still this
- 12:05Speaker 4: in it was still like this. So when I went
- 12:09Speaker 4: to him, I didn't even know. I didn't know the difference.
- 12:12Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I still but I was concerned.
- 12:15Speaker 4: So I'm like, hey, man, I can't even fuck with
- 12:18Speaker 4: you like there. Man, Then what you're gonna do?
- 12:20Speaker 1: Bro?
- 12:20Speaker 4: Then what you're gonna do? Bro, I ain't finna sit
- 12:22Speaker 4: around while you do this. I ain't gonna do it.
- 12:24Speaker 5: I feel like I remember that period when you was
- 12:26Speaker 5: It feels like you was giving Drove tough love, like
- 12:28Speaker 5: you had to put him to the side.
- 12:29Speaker 3: You didn't come on and put him to the side.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Just told him, Man, you're gonna either man either. I
- 12:33Speaker 4: can't just continue to support you. Deteriorate, deteriorate, destroying yourself.
- 12:42Speaker 4: You got it. And he was like, man, all right,
- 12:43Speaker 4: I got to cook. The funniest thing this man told
- 12:46Speaker 4: me cause when when the overdose, Wait a minute, now,
- 12:51Speaker 4: I'm trying to be stop bro. Look man, you show
- 12:57Speaker 4: problem whatever time to lie, but no, no, no, no,
- 13:01Speaker 4: but help me through it. But look, no hit me out.
- 13:05Speaker 4: So this is what I'm saying now, God bless all
- 13:08Speaker 4: of the people who have you know what I'm saying,
- 13:10Speaker 4: who have overcame uh addiction, and God bless the people
- 13:16Speaker 4: who have succumbed to it, and so many of our
- 13:19Speaker 4: our leaders and so many of our just the the
- 13:24Speaker 4: heroes of our culture are passing away, you know, you
- 13:28Speaker 4: know cause the fendal evidemit is real.
- 13:32Speaker 1: You feel me.
- 13:33Speaker 4: And we've seen so many people like like like fall
- 13:38Speaker 4: and not make it. That man made it three times,
- 13:43Speaker 4: three times. And the third time they called me and
- 13:47Speaker 4: he was, you know what I'm saying, somewhere with people
- 13:49Speaker 4: that I would feel like you know what I'm saying,
- 13:52Speaker 4: wouldn't have the same care to do the things that
- 13:54Speaker 4: need to be done. But he still made it. Uh,
- 13:57Speaker 4: And I could be you know what I'm saying that
- 13:59Speaker 4: that that that I'm speaking more of the area than
- 14:03Speaker 4: I am about the people, you know. But after that,
- 14:07Speaker 4: they called me and I said, hell, nah, man, you last?
- 14:09Speaker 4: So I called, I say, bro, man, Man, what's up?
- 14:14Speaker 10: Bro?
- 14:14Speaker 4: Like man?
- 14:15Speaker 1: Now?
- 14:15Speaker 4: I said, what do you mean?
- 14:16Speaker 1: Now?
- 14:17Speaker 4: Now? Someone? What's up? I said, Man, I know you
- 14:19Speaker 4: ain't you know, I know you ain't gonna fuck around
- 14:21Speaker 4: off yourself? And he say, man, that that ship didn't
- 14:24Speaker 4: even happy.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I didn't.
- 14:25Speaker 10: I didn't feel I didn't feel like well, I didn't
- 14:28Speaker 10: know what fittinge was. You feel what I'm saying to
- 14:31Speaker 10: be honest with you, like like like he said, like
- 14:33Speaker 10: it was a crazy pill, Like I didn't. I didn't
- 14:37Speaker 10: I want to ask for he look you got fitting
- 14:39Speaker 10: of You feel what I'm saying.
- 14:40Speaker 1: I just what drug was?
- 14:41Speaker 4: It was?
- 14:41Speaker 10: It it was a pert you know what I mean.
- 14:43Speaker 10: So once I once I took it, I didn't believe it.
- 14:46Speaker 10: You feel what I'm saying. So when it when it happened,
- 14:49Speaker 10: I felt like I felt like now I'm obligated to
- 14:52Speaker 10: tell my story and so it can help somebody that's
- 14:55Speaker 10: in you know, that's fighting addiction.
- 14:58Speaker 1: You know what I mean. We just lost a now
- 15:00Speaker 1: the legend.
- 15:00Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, and and for me to be that
- 15:05Speaker 10: made it through, I think that, you know, I should
- 15:08Speaker 10: use this platform that I have, you know that, And
- 15:11Speaker 10: he shares with me.
- 15:12Speaker 4: And then and then it was also after we lost
- 15:14Speaker 4: our part uh our pon the peanut done peanut the
- 15:18Speaker 4: done done like he died the same way. You know
- 15:21Speaker 4: what I'm saying. But it's a calling on this man life.
- 15:25Speaker 4: So when you say, why is he sharing it. I
- 15:27Speaker 4: don't think he has a choice. I feel like he
- 15:30Speaker 4: was kind of positioned to survive all the stuff that
- 15:32Speaker 4: he survived and to have the effortless connection with community.
- 15:39Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. If you go anywhere in Atlanta,
- 15:41Speaker 4: you gonna see Droe Couds. I don't give a damn
- 15:43Speaker 4: where you go, what part of the city you in,
- 15:46Speaker 4: you go see somebody who related to Yo Joe, and
- 15:49Speaker 4: he didn't been there every high school in the city.
- 15:51Speaker 4: He know everybody, and you know, to have that community tie.
- 15:56Speaker 4: But then have his testimony that you can share with
- 15:59Speaker 4: these people, and you know what I'm saying, to inspire
- 16:01Speaker 4: and uplift like that's that's special, you know what I mean?
- 16:05Speaker 5: Like dro do give you give rich pastor energy, rich pastor.
- 16:12Speaker 3: That's why to thank God record makes so much sense
- 16:13Speaker 3: to me when I hear it.
- 16:15Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel like I feel like I have, uh,
- 16:19Speaker 10: you know, the ability to give a ministry not a minister,
- 16:24Speaker 10: you know what I mean, Like you know, like to
- 16:27Speaker 10: you know, being growing up in the church and stuff
- 16:29Speaker 10: like that. You know, I just came back to that,
- 16:32Speaker 10: you know what I mean. But you know this right
- 16:34Speaker 10: here was a blessing man, and you know, Tip called
- 16:36Speaker 10: and was like, hey, I think you should start to
- 16:39Speaker 10: tell because I did a lot of interviews in it
- 16:41Speaker 10: in the beginning, and I didn't want to say it,
- 16:44Speaker 10: you know what I mean, But I said it on
- 16:45Speaker 10: this track, and I thought that I should should said
- 16:48Speaker 10: to God first, you feel what I'm saying.
- 16:50Speaker 4: And on that platform, that was the first time you
- 16:52Speaker 4: really made it. Now people knew that you was you
- 16:54Speaker 4: was clean, but they didn't know like what I didn't know?
- 16:57Speaker 1: Yeah, just like the question you asked, what made you?
- 16:59Speaker 10: And I used to always be it around it and
- 17:01Speaker 10: I was like, well, I ain't ready to say it yet,
- 17:03Speaker 10: you know what I mean. But when he came along
- 17:05Speaker 10: and said I think you should start telling it, I was.
- 17:07Speaker 1: Like, what better way you feel?
- 17:10Speaker 6: How did you feel after you're in the studio and
- 17:12Speaker 6: you finally said it's on the record, Like did you
- 17:14Speaker 6: feel weight lifted off of you? Or did you were
- 17:16Speaker 6: you anxious about how people would respond to knowing exactly
- 17:18Speaker 6: what happened?
- 17:19Speaker 10: Or I felt like a weight lifted off of me
- 17:22Speaker 10: because of where we recorded at with with Kurk Franklin
- 17:28Speaker 10: overdosed in that studio, So I think that where God
- 17:32Speaker 10: where I broke myself at God built me right.
- 17:34Speaker 7: Back up or do I just ended up?
- 17:37Speaker 1: I just put it. It just just happened that way,
- 17:39Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
- 17:39Speaker 10: And I was shamed to go back to the studio,
- 17:41Speaker 10: and I was, and I was, you know, I was
- 17:44Speaker 10: talking to Guy, was like, I don't want to go back,
- 17:45Speaker 10: and he was.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Like, go back in there and watch what I do.
- 17:47Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 17:48Speaker 3: So you knew you was going to record this record,
- 17:50Speaker 3: but you you didn't even know? Wow, wow wow wow.
- 17:53Speaker 4: Well he was actually at the studio for something. I
- 17:55Speaker 4: think he was working on the ps C L So
- 17:57Speaker 4: he was in the studio for something. Mal uh And
- 18:00Speaker 4: then I was just like hey, uh Kurt, Kurt on
- 18:03Speaker 4: the way You're like what now I'm Finela do mine?
- 18:06Speaker 10: Now?
- 18:06Speaker 4: I'm Finela going you know what I'm saying. So he
- 18:08Speaker 4: went on and laid Ladies Lady versed down right then
- 18:12Speaker 4: that day. But it was definitely ordained.
- 18:17Speaker 10: Initially, I was ashamed to go back to the studio
- 18:21Speaker 10: because everybody was there, you.
- 18:23Speaker 1: Feel what I'm saying.
- 18:23Speaker 10: So so so when we started working on the psc album,
- 18:27Speaker 10: I just was like, you know what I'm.
- 18:29Speaker 4: Saying, something he never even told me. I didn't even know.
- 18:31Speaker 1: I didn't.
- 18:32Speaker 10: I wasn't cool with coming back in there. You feel
- 18:34Speaker 10: me after I'm been laid all out on the floor,
- 18:36Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. But once I, once I
- 18:38Speaker 10: got the opportunity, I just swallowed that, took that walk
- 18:41Speaker 10: of shame, went back in there and recorded, not knowing
- 18:44Speaker 10: that God was going to rebuild me and give me
- 18:47Speaker 10: a platform to actually share with people what happened.
- 18:50Speaker 1: To me right there and you know, get the glory
- 18:53Speaker 1: out of it. You did? You know what I'm saying.
- 18:54Speaker 3: Did you hear God in that moment?
- 18:55Speaker 1: Did you like that I heard him in that moment?
- 18:56Speaker 4: Wow?
- 18:57Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 18:57Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, did you deal with why
- 19:00Speaker 2: you needed or why you thought you needed those pills?
- 19:02Speaker 2: Was it upset? Was it I wanted to turn up?
- 19:05Speaker 4: Was?
- 19:05Speaker 2: Did you you needed it to make a record? Did
- 19:07Speaker 2: you deal with.
- 19:07Speaker 1: That part of it?
- 19:08Speaker 2: Because that's the part that scared me with any artist,
- 19:10Speaker 2: because it's like you take it feeling like it's gonna
- 19:12Speaker 2: take you to someplace else, and it's like, well, what
- 19:14Speaker 2: made you feel like I had to take that pill to.
- 19:19Speaker 10: It started out with like just having fun, you know,
- 19:21Speaker 10: in the hood again high, but then it made me
- 19:24Speaker 10: feel like.
- 19:26Speaker 1: I needed it to make good music, you know what
- 19:29Speaker 1: I'm saying.
- 19:29Speaker 10: And actually it just stimulated and I used to just
- 19:32Speaker 10: write crazy and then it got to the point where
- 19:35Speaker 10: like it became an addiction. So that went out the window.
- 19:39Speaker 10: Music went out the window. And then I was like, oh,
- 19:41Speaker 10: well I needed to you know, do this and do that,
- 19:43Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. Plus from trauma, you know
- 19:45Speaker 10: what I'm saying. Things happened to me when I was younger,
- 19:48Speaker 10: you know what I mean, being shot and introduced to
- 19:50Speaker 10: dem role and addicted to that in the hospital, and
- 19:53Speaker 10: you know from from the from the way I got
- 19:56Speaker 10: whoopings as a child. That that trauma. You know what
- 19:58Speaker 10: I'm saying.
- 19:59Speaker 5: Well, we don't talk about that, yeah, Lord, traumble discipline,
- 20:07Speaker 5: that's not.
- 20:13Speaker 4: I can't speak on that.
- 20:15Speaker 10: I can speak on I got and stuff. We was
- 20:19Speaker 10: tied up and beat like but but not like. But
- 20:22Speaker 10: to be honest with you, my family, like we we
- 20:26Speaker 10: thought my mama had five boys, so it was hard
- 20:28Speaker 10: to discipline five boys.
- 20:30Speaker 7: On her own youngest, oldest, middle, I'm.
- 20:32Speaker 10: Right after the oldest, you know what I mean. So
- 20:34Speaker 10: when she laid the belt down, and it was necessary
- 20:37Speaker 10: because right all of us are living today, none of
- 20:39Speaker 10: us are really like that bad of people. But and
- 20:42Speaker 10: she did the best. But when you whipping like that,
- 20:45Speaker 10: you have to be careful about how you do it.
- 20:47Speaker 10: And now it's cool to whoop your child, you know,
- 20:49Speaker 10: and discipline them, but if you're gonna beat the ship
- 20:51Speaker 10: out of them, then you might as well get ready
- 20:53Speaker 10: for something in them that you don't know about. You
- 20:56Speaker 10: know what I mean, because now that I'm older, she's
- 20:58Speaker 10: probably surprised that when she hears this, you feel what
- 21:01Speaker 10: I'm saying.
- 21:02Speaker 2: How does that affect you with your kids? How you
- 21:04Speaker 2: discipline your kids?
- 21:05Speaker 10: I see, I've recognized it, and I'm not gonna do
- 21:08Speaker 10: it to that degree. I'm a straight mind, but I
- 21:10Speaker 10: ain't gonna go that far because I don't want the repercussion.
- 21:13Speaker 4: I feel like, I feel like I feel like as
- 21:15Speaker 4: far as as far as child discipline is concerned, they
- 21:19Speaker 4: just need to know that they can get their ass work.
- 21:21Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying. You don't always have to
- 21:23Speaker 4: whoop their head, but you got to do it. You
- 21:25Speaker 4: got to leave it down one time and they're like, hey,
- 21:27Speaker 4: you remember Okay, Now you see what I'm saying.
- 21:30Speaker 3: So y'all got boys, I got all girls, So it's different.
- 21:34Speaker 4: Man. You can't whoop your girl, That's what I'm saying.
- 21:36Speaker 4: Y'all got you got a strong black woman.
- 21:38Speaker 1: With you, that's right. Absolutely.
- 21:39Speaker 10: Hey man, I want to apologize my friend. I got
- 21:42Speaker 10: beside myself. I shouldn't have took feelings to that.
- 21:46Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That's my way right there.
- 21:49Speaker 11: Man.
- 21:49Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 21:49Speaker 10: I ain't finna be slapping no goddamn bad.
- 21:54Speaker 4: Listen, hey man, we all we all here together. We
- 21:57Speaker 4: came here together, We're gonna leave here together. We're gonna
- 21:59Speaker 4: grow together, you know what I'm saying. So you know,
- 22:01Speaker 4: I just had to make that. So we're gonna have
- 22:03Speaker 4: a good time. We're gonna have bad times, you know.
- 22:06Speaker 4: But one thing we ain't gonna have it no broke tabs.
- 22:11Speaker 3: You did say something your daughter was on drugs.
- 22:13Speaker 1: He said, yeah, my little girl ended up picking up drugs.
- 22:16Speaker 10: But it happened just like how I did it when
- 22:18Speaker 10: I was seventeen eighteen. You feel me, and it just
- 22:21Speaker 10: played back, and it's the generational generational curse that like
- 22:25Speaker 10: how my father was My father picked it up at
- 22:27Speaker 10: that age and he did it for fifty years, you
- 22:29Speaker 10: feel me. Then I picked it up and then I
- 22:31Speaker 10: lived that way then my little girl and I was
- 22:34Speaker 10: thinking about it and all of this happened before I
- 22:37Speaker 10: went to rehab. Overdose, this and all of that, you
- 22:39Speaker 10: feel what I'm saying. So when she did it, I
- 22:42Speaker 10: looked at gard and it was just like he had
- 22:44Speaker 10: just revealed himself, like, Hey, I'm here now, it's time
- 22:47Speaker 10: to start grabbing this by the reins, you know what
- 22:49Speaker 10: I'm saying.
- 22:49Speaker 1: So when that happened, I was in rehab while she
- 22:53Speaker 1: was out. We're supposed to went together to get the help.
- 22:56Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 22:57Speaker 10: And she wasn't ready, but I had to go ahead
- 23:00Speaker 10: of her to be an example, you know. And she's
- 23:04Speaker 10: I actually broke this curse in my family.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Because that's what she's good.
- 23:10Speaker 4: Man.
- 23:10Speaker 10: She's working at the hospital and we talk all the time.
- 23:13Speaker 10: She she's doing great. Man, She's clean.
- 23:16Speaker 6: You have the It takes a village foundation that you
- 23:19Speaker 6: do where you're in the schools talking to the kids.
- 23:21Speaker 6: When you're talking to the kids, like what are you
- 23:24Speaker 6: dissecting from your story to because some of the kids
- 23:25Speaker 6: I saw in these videos are really young. So what
- 23:27Speaker 6: are the main issues you're seeing with the kids, and
- 23:29Speaker 6: how do you take your story and kind of mentor
- 23:32Speaker 6: them up a bit.
- 23:33Speaker 10: So what we do is it still takes the village.
- 23:37Speaker 10: We're in the communities, and then the schools and then
- 23:40Speaker 10: the homes, and we do like interventions and I use
- 23:43Speaker 10: what I've been through. And then my manager to doctor
- 23:47Speaker 10: Sierra l she is like she's been in LPC for
- 23:50Speaker 10: twenty years and she's into mental and behavioral health.
- 23:53Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying.
- 23:53Speaker 10: So when we when we come in and when we
- 23:56Speaker 10: come into a situation, like I try to I try
- 23:59Speaker 10: to bring street park into it. You feel what I'm
- 24:02Speaker 10: saying and let people know you know what to do
- 24:05Speaker 10: when you're like conflict resolution, if you're out in the
- 24:08Speaker 10: street and you feel like you don't want to be
- 24:10Speaker 10: no lame and this and that. But sometimes they diagnose
- 24:14Speaker 10: these young kids with things that that's not wrong with them.
- 24:17Speaker 10: You feel me. They been like, oh, he bipolar or
- 24:20Speaker 10: he mad at you know, But the only thing is
- 24:24Speaker 10: he probably be mad at his dad because he wasn't
- 24:26Speaker 10: at home, or they don't have nothing. You know nothing
- 24:29Speaker 10: to eat or you know what I'm saying. But we
- 24:30Speaker 10: give them, we diagnose them with stuff like that. But
- 24:34Speaker 10: my partner she covers that area and I can tell
- 24:37Speaker 10: them about the street part. So we do mentoring and
- 24:41Speaker 10: stuff like that.
- 24:41Speaker 6: You know, do they know when you come in because
- 24:43Speaker 6: the kids are so young, like do they know Young
- 24:45Speaker 6: Joe the artists? Or are they just like happy that
- 24:46Speaker 6: someone's in the school talking to them that they can
- 24:48Speaker 6: relate to?
- 24:49Speaker 10: Well in Atlanta, nine times out of ten, I probably
- 24:51Speaker 10: done been in that project before.
- 24:53Speaker 1: You you feel what I'm saying.
- 24:55Speaker 4: Ehere everybody, man, he gonna look at it. Hey man,
- 25:00Speaker 4: who your mamma? Your daddy? Yeah, man, tell you dad?
- 25:03Speaker 4: I said. It was like one of those kind of people.
- 25:05Speaker 10: But we do want to go across like America for
- 25:08Speaker 10: the most part, you feel me. So if you can't
- 25:10Speaker 10: identify with who I am as a rapper, you'll identify
- 25:15Speaker 10: with you know what I've been through, and what I've
- 25:18Speaker 10: been through is what a lot of a lot of
- 25:20Speaker 10: youth go through, you know what I mean?
- 25:21Speaker 1: Rather black white, whatever.
- 25:23Speaker 10: You feel what I'm saying, like you've been through If
- 25:25Speaker 10: you don't been through the trenches before, I have trenches stories,
- 25:28Speaker 10: and I have a I have an outcome that you know,
- 25:31Speaker 10: I made it out, you know what I'm saying.
- 25:32Speaker 4: And you way back, Yeah, we'd have been through some
- 25:35Speaker 4: ship man. Nah. No, No, I ain't in middle school. Yeah,
- 25:40Speaker 4: we were probably probably right that drop out right at
- 25:42Speaker 4: the drop out age. You know what I'm saying. I
- 25:45Speaker 4: just didn't voluntarily d I got I got me too, though.
- 25:49Speaker 4: I got kicked out of Riverdale Middle. So my mama
- 25:51Speaker 4: moved me uh from the West side uh uh to
- 25:56Speaker 4: like to what what what was at that time the suburbs.
- 26:00Speaker 4: And can't hate when I called it the suburb. He
- 26:03Speaker 4: hate that. That's what me and him fall back because
- 26:06Speaker 4: he really is south. That's his area where he grew
- 26:08Speaker 4: up and live. He's like, you know, suburb man. When
- 26:12Speaker 4: I moved there, you know, you know y'all had got
- 26:14Speaker 4: y'all about. Noah, we had been had about we had
- 26:17Speaker 4: got out. Yeah, we had moved from uh we moved
- 26:20Speaker 4: to so h and there was some like some real
- 26:25Speaker 4: real good apartments everything.
- 26:29Speaker 11: Man.
- 26:29Speaker 4: It wasn't Central Central ac you know what I mean.
- 26:32Speaker 4: So we moved out there. I was there, I had
- 26:35Speaker 4: been there since eighth grade.
- 26:38Speaker 1: I got yallo.
- 26:39Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a vouch before then. You know section
- 26:44Speaker 4: eight food stamp baby man. Indeed, I don't remember. I
- 26:47Speaker 4: don't know about the e B T. I remember snatching
- 26:49Speaker 4: the food stamps at.
- 26:50Speaker 9: The brown, the brown, brown one and the green. We
- 26:54Speaker 9: had blues back then. It's been in blue back then,
- 26:57Speaker 9: but now so eighth grade, I moved that up.
- 27:00Speaker 4: And and then you know, I was going back and
- 27:03Speaker 4: forth when I got kicked out of Riverdale High School
- 27:05Speaker 4: for inciting the race. Were actually got kicked out of
- 27:07Speaker 4: saw what a race war. I got kicked out of
- 27:10Speaker 4: all Clayton County school. That's really what they called it.
- 27:15Speaker 4: That they kind of what happened was me and my
- 27:17Speaker 4: partner Boos in school suspension. And then you know what
- 27:20Speaker 4: I'm saying it was, It was it was a white
- 27:22Speaker 4: wife that called us a nigga, and we got to
- 27:25Speaker 4: getting on his head and uh then you know, his
- 27:28Speaker 4: sister came around the corner and she yeah, she called
- 27:30Speaker 4: us some niggas to get out my brother and niggas,
- 27:32Speaker 4: and you got to kick her head. And then everybody
- 27:34Speaker 4: in everybody was getting out of school like and it
- 27:36Speaker 4: was just black people fight white people. And I'm gonna
- 27:38Speaker 4: tell you something. The white teachers jumped in. No. Yeah, man,
- 27:44Speaker 4: the white teacher, you know how you supposed to be
- 27:46Speaker 4: bringing up fight. They be like, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
- 27:49Speaker 4: I remember that. And after the melee, you know, didn't
- 27:55Speaker 4: nobody like, didn't nobody get kicked out but me and
- 27:58Speaker 4: boo me, you know what I'm saying. So after that,
- 28:01Speaker 4: I went back to the West Side for a minute,
- 28:03Speaker 4: got in a whole lot of trouble, caught my first caught,
- 28:06Speaker 4: my first case, well my first case as an adult.
- 28:09Speaker 4: So I was dealing with that. So I had to
- 28:10Speaker 4: move back with my mama and around then that's when
- 28:14Speaker 4: I was like sixteen seventeen years old, and that's when
- 28:17Speaker 4: Drove had moved out there. And so then it was
- 28:20Speaker 4: like we two West Side guys just out here and
- 28:24Speaker 4: we just clicked and she.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Was sweet out there. Man. Yeah, our knicks went for
- 28:28Speaker 1: like thirty Yeah.
- 28:31Speaker 4: We literally go to Jones Burr Soide was like thug hood.
- 28:35Speaker 4: We was literally go to Jones Burr South and by
- 28:37Speaker 4: dying bags. So we then we we drove back to
- 28:41Speaker 4: the Eye side of town and sold them for thirty dollars. Yeah,
- 28:44Speaker 4: it was really that sweet. But anyway, that's not and
- 28:46Speaker 4: I'm not we are not. Let this is just a testimonial.
- 28:53Speaker 4: This is our testimony. We lived through this and we
- 28:56Speaker 4: earned the right to speak on it. Don't try you
- 28:59Speaker 4: remember that I'm not that big, No more to get
- 29:01Speaker 4: it do so they gonna work today?
- 29:03Speaker 9: Remember the first time.
- 29:05Speaker 10: Well that would be that would have been on me
- 29:07Speaker 10: because he was already there. So it was just this
- 29:10Speaker 10: apartment that was just booming. I kept saying, you know,
- 29:14Speaker 10: when you get there, you'd be like, what it's that.
- 29:16Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. When you moved somewhere, you
- 29:18Speaker 1: like what I'm saying. Man, you feel me?
- 29:19Speaker 10: And then I just kept saying and then you know, shouting,
- 29:22Speaker 10: he serving not the wonder.
- 29:24Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And you know, my partner
- 29:26Speaker 1: knew him. Who I the other looking partly?
- 29:28Speaker 10: I meant named being he knew him, you know what
- 29:30Speaker 10: I'm saying, And we just all just and I ended
- 29:33Speaker 10: up going over there and I knew his The way
- 29:35Speaker 10: his way he talked was like how we talked.
- 29:37Speaker 1: How he was moving. It's like how we moved or
- 29:39Speaker 1: we were from bank Head. You feel me?
- 29:41Speaker 10: Seemed like we was destined to meet because we was
- 29:43Speaker 10: on one side of town. I was in bankhad course,
- 29:45Speaker 10: he was up the street in Center Hill. Then we
- 29:47Speaker 10: moved to Riverdale. Then you know what I'm saying, not
- 29:49Speaker 10: even knowing that this was going to come together, you
- 29:51Speaker 10: know what I'm saying, but it was all.
- 29:53Speaker 1: It was all.
- 29:53Speaker 4: And I also and I also like had like a
- 29:55Speaker 4: little studio, so I was selling dope, but I also
- 29:59Speaker 4: had a little studio in my in my room, right
- 30:01Speaker 4: so and droke he rept, you know what I'm saying,
- 30:03Speaker 4: and so you know, we'll we'll be rapping. And I
- 30:06Speaker 4: had like a keyboard with some little speakers and shit.
- 30:08Speaker 1: So I'll be.
- 30:09Speaker 4: Doing my doing my beat and cutting up my dope
- 30:12Speaker 4: at the same time. And Joe like, man, what you're
- 30:14Speaker 4: trying to do. I said, Man, I'm gonna be a rapper.
- 30:16Speaker 4: I'm cutting I'm cutting my god damn an. He's like,
- 30:19Speaker 4: I can't.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Tell you be no damn rapper.
- 30:21Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 30:22Speaker 4: And that's kind of how we you know, we bonded
- 30:25Speaker 4: because he wasn't really selling though like he was. He was,
- 30:29Speaker 4: he was out there in the mix, but he didn't
- 30:31Speaker 4: for some reason, had no interest. He really wanted to
- 30:34Speaker 4: be a rapper, like he was really, really really seriou
- 30:36Speaker 4: about it, and he got a deal before I did.
- 30:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:40Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Joe had a deal. He had to two deals.
- 30:44Speaker 10: You signed up. I'm about to. I was on the
- 30:49Speaker 10: radio like one day he was. He was at the
- 30:51Speaker 10: radio station and I called up there, but I was
- 30:54Speaker 10: already on the radio. I think you're putting out I'm
- 30:57Speaker 10: serious or something like that. And I called him and
- 30:59Speaker 10: he was like, yeah, it drove like drove drove And
- 31:02Speaker 10: I was like, nigga did doe.
- 31:04Speaker 1: He was like, you drove. I was like, yeah, you
- 31:07Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But I was already on the radio. Body. Yeah.
- 31:10Speaker 3: So when you meet you met KP is the one
- 31:12Speaker 3: who really.
- 31:14Speaker 4: Yeah KP he uh. I met KP through uh DJ
- 31:19Speaker 4: you know Jason. Jason took me Jason DJ, Tump and
- 31:22Speaker 4: my cousin too God bless uh he he. They took
- 31:27Speaker 4: me at an intervention because when I told you, when
- 31:31Speaker 4: I told you, I caught, I caught that that dope case.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Uh.
- 31:34Speaker 4: They put me on seven years of probation. I was
- 31:37Speaker 4: seventeen years old at the time. But me and Tump
- 31:41Speaker 4: too and Jay all of us had put our money
- 31:44Speaker 4: together to work on like a demo, you know what
- 31:46Speaker 4: I mean, And so they but I had just found
- 31:48Speaker 4: out that I was about to have my first child.
- 31:52Speaker 4: So after that, in my mind, I'm like, oh no,
- 31:53Speaker 4: I can't live like this having no baby. I got
- 31:55Speaker 4: to get it. I got to get to I got
- 31:56Speaker 4: to get it together. So I just kind of like
- 32:00Speaker 4: in my mind, I was like, Okay, so I'm gonna
- 32:01Speaker 4: just sell a whole bunch of dope in a little
- 32:03Speaker 4: bit of time and stack me up enough money do
- 32:06Speaker 4: what I need to do. But in the process of
- 32:08Speaker 4: doing that, I was like up all times a night,
- 32:11Speaker 4: riding the bicycle all up and down bank head, all
- 32:13Speaker 4: kinds of I tell me, no matter what time you
- 32:15Speaker 4: from five in the morning, eight pm, twelve pm, all
- 32:20Speaker 4: times a day, I'm just riding my bike up and
- 32:22Speaker 4: down with a backpack like a little messenger, like a
- 32:25Speaker 4: messenger and just just trapping and saving and trapping and saving.
- 32:30Speaker 4: And they had an indiventure cause they found out. I
- 32:33Speaker 4: was trying not to let them know what I was doing,
- 32:35Speaker 4: but I guess word got around. They found out, and
- 32:37Speaker 4: they sat me down, was like, hey man, how is
- 32:40Speaker 4: we gonna be investing our money, and you if you
- 32:43Speaker 4: continue to doing what you're doing, you get locked up.
- 32:45Speaker 4: You're already on probation, and everything we're working for is
- 32:48Speaker 4: gonna be for nothing. I'm like, man, I got a
- 32:50Speaker 4: baby on the way. I'll tell you what. You take
- 32:52Speaker 4: me somewhere right now, Man, Well, I could showcase my
- 32:54Speaker 4: talent and I can actually, you know somewhere that I
- 32:57Speaker 4: could actually get a deal and do this professionally, and
- 33:00Speaker 4: then you can have me to stop. I ain't. I
- 33:02Speaker 4: ain't stopping, just to be stopping. And then I think
- 33:06Speaker 4: Tump and my cousin like, man, that's that's not even reasonable.
- 33:08Speaker 4: How can you say something? Then Jason say I know
- 33:10Speaker 4: a place, I say, see I like him, and so
- 33:14Speaker 4: he At the time, KP's a part of a group
- 33:16Speaker 4: called PA Parental Advisors Extension organized Know It and they
- 33:20Speaker 4: had their own deal with dream Works and they was
- 33:24Speaker 4: doing the album. And as it was described to me,
- 33:27Speaker 4: the album was proposed to be like like like the
- 33:29Speaker 4: Chronic how the Chranic had a bunch of unknown guys
- 33:32Speaker 4: and Dre were doing the beats, so so they was
- 33:35Speaker 4: looking for talent. They were looking for you know, unknown talent,
- 33:39Speaker 4: and so Jason called him and said, man, I got somebody. Man,
- 33:42Speaker 4: it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be harder than anything
- 33:45Speaker 4: you listening to. And so they said, bring them. So
- 33:48Speaker 4: we went that same night. We went and uh, KP
- 33:52Speaker 4: wasn't there, but the other the other two members, Mellow
- 33:54Speaker 4: and Reeche, they were there, and I think Reeche probably,
- 33:59Speaker 4: I think Mellow play the beat and Reefed was like,
- 34:03Speaker 4: you can wrap on that? I said, can I wrap?
- 34:05Speaker 1: Man?
- 34:06Speaker 4: What a booth? I go straight in the booth. One't
- 34:08Speaker 4: take it. They were like where you being, like, ride
- 34:12Speaker 4: my bike up and there and uh. And then they
- 34:17Speaker 4: told k P about me, and they told me about
- 34:19Speaker 4: KPE and uh, they gave I gave my beef a number.
- 34:23Speaker 4: Yeah that's how long ago people, you know. So it
- 34:31Speaker 4: was about two weeks and I was like, yeah, exactly,
- 34:34Speaker 4: just like I thought, nothing happened. I'm back on my
- 34:36Speaker 4: bike and I got a I got a page, you know,
- 34:39Speaker 4: when I got a page with no cold. And that
- 34:43Speaker 4: was strange, you know what I'm saying, because all my
- 34:45Speaker 4: pages came with cold. So I know where to go
- 34:48Speaker 4: and what to bring with me, and so I just
- 34:50Speaker 4: rolled down to the payphone again, show you how long
- 34:53Speaker 4: ago this morning? So I rolled down to the payphone
- 34:56Speaker 4: and called and said the face records things. I said,
- 34:58Speaker 4: what some dope it little face somebody page tip and
- 35:03Speaker 4: then it's like, oh, it must have been KP. And
- 35:05Speaker 4: then I was like KP. And then he was like, yo,
- 35:08Speaker 4: you was in the studio with with with Reson mellow Man,
- 35:11Speaker 4: and I'm KP. That's my group. And you know, I
- 35:15Speaker 4: gotta I gotta recollect with the Ghetto Vision and we're
- 35:17Speaker 4: going out to the We're going out to the Source Awards.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Uh in l A want to know if you want
- 35:24Speaker 4: to come, I'm like, who going? You're like, just you
- 35:27Speaker 4: know me? And you know KP. He has this way
- 35:30Speaker 4: just as like throwing away some very very monumental moments
- 35:36Speaker 4: like oh man, just me out care get him all
- 35:39Speaker 4: kool Breeze, young bloods, you know, gonna go hang. I say,
- 35:44Speaker 4: all right, let me let me, let me check my schedule,
- 35:46Speaker 4: let me see what I got to do. Okay, yeah,
- 35:49Speaker 4: I think I can make it. And uh So at
- 35:54Speaker 4: that point, I'm like, okay, well I got to get
- 35:56Speaker 4: up enough money to get out here. So I'm you know,
- 35:58Speaker 4: so I could take care of myself and handle myself
- 35:59Speaker 4: like a player. So I went and got, I went
- 36:02Speaker 4: and got. I was getting too in the baby at
- 36:05Speaker 4: the time. So I paid for my reup. But then
- 36:08Speaker 4: I told him to front me another uh another one
- 36:11Speaker 4: on top of that, you know. So I had me
- 36:13Speaker 4: a little fueway and so I sold half of had
- 36:16Speaker 4: the money put the rest of it back. So when
- 36:18Speaker 4: I said when when I come back, I'm I'm gonna
- 36:20Speaker 4: trap this and then that'll be my reup. You know
- 36:22Speaker 4: what I'm saying for for for my net load. So
- 36:24Speaker 4: I went out there. Man, I ended up freestyling on
- 36:28Speaker 4: the tour bus with good in Mob and Outcare. I
- 36:30Speaker 4: ended up doing the camera blocking Caukubrie were driving from
- 36:34Speaker 4: Atlanta to LA to tour bus. No, no, you're driving
- 36:37Speaker 4: his he adin't fly. Then he didn't fly. So he
- 36:41Speaker 4: drove from Atlanta to LA and made it, but minceed
- 36:46Speaker 4: the camera block and so they say, man, we need
- 36:47Speaker 4: somebody to do the camera black and for Coob report
- 36:50Speaker 4: on watch for the hook like I know, I know,
- 36:52Speaker 4: I know the song man. So I ended up on
- 36:55Speaker 4: the stage with Outcare, Good in my wish doctor and
- 36:59Speaker 4: you know backbone the whole organized nois Rico Wade. Uh,
- 37:04Speaker 4: I mean everybody and everybody like embrace me and said
- 37:07Speaker 4: it like where you from? Bro? I'm like, man, I'm
- 37:08Speaker 4: from Atlanta. Now where you from? Bro? Like from the
- 37:11Speaker 4: west Side, well, Bankhead, well niggas center here, Baker roll
- 37:16Speaker 4: what's up?
- 37:16Speaker 1: Bro?
- 37:17Speaker 4: They was like, oh, shout it from the town for real.
- 37:19Speaker 4: And I remember that one then when I really felt
- 37:22Speaker 4: like I had made it right. So we came back
- 37:26Speaker 4: I think maybe from camera blacking or maybe from some
- 37:28Speaker 4: some official thing. Where everybody went to came back was
- 37:31Speaker 4: in the all in the lobby of the hotel and
- 37:34Speaker 4: I'm looking this way cie Lo cu Joe and looking
- 37:37Speaker 4: their way, Big Boy and Dre Court Dray went straight
- 37:40Speaker 4: to hero you know what I'm saying. Where everybody just
- 37:43Speaker 4: hanging out right? And uh then, uh, you know, I
- 37:48Speaker 4: was always kind of like I just had away with
- 37:53Speaker 4: attracting lady and stuff. And you know, of course a
- 37:55Speaker 4: group of niggas. Everybody like, man, the girls, what a girl?
- 37:58Speaker 1: What a girl?
- 37:58Speaker 4: So I was like, man, you know, I go to
- 38:00Speaker 4: that And we were right across the street from the
- 38:02Speaker 4: Belly Center at the Sofa tier R. Caros Street, from
- 38:04Speaker 4: the Beller Center LA. I was like, man, I go
- 38:05Speaker 4: to the go to the mall, get some girl that
- 38:07Speaker 4: you know. So me and KP went to the mar
- 38:10Speaker 4: But then where we were finna go. I remember Big
- 38:12Speaker 4: Boy saying, hey, man, yeah, when you get back, man,
- 38:14Speaker 4: come on up to the room. Man blow one. Man.
- 38:16Speaker 4: I say, huh, Big Boy from outcastes and told me
- 38:20Speaker 4: to come smoke one with a minute.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Man.
- 38:23Speaker 4: Hell yeah, So we go come back. I go knock
- 38:27Speaker 4: on Big boyroom smoking and we chilling and talking. I'm like, man, nigga,
- 38:31Speaker 4: I have made it. I'm in here smoking with big
- 38:34Speaker 4: Boy from outcast and I just freestyled with sea load
- 38:40Speaker 4: and man, I went back home. I dave at dope
- 38:43Speaker 4: A boy I didn't never tell. I didn't want to
- 38:44Speaker 4: see a no more dope no more. I told my
- 38:46Speaker 4: I told my plug. I said, a brouh, I feel
- 38:48Speaker 4: do the rap shit. So I ain't got your money
- 38:50Speaker 4: right now. I had to spend all the money that
- 38:52Speaker 4: I had. I I ain't got your money right now.
- 38:54Speaker 4: I don't even want to risk it. He say, you
- 38:56Speaker 4: know what, rouh, you don't owe me nothing long as
- 38:58Speaker 4: you're doing that. But you get back in the game,
- 39:01Speaker 4: I want my money.
- 39:03Speaker 2: Did you ever go back and get money or that?
- 39:05Speaker 4: I didn't know. No, Now he had called a k man,
- 39:07Speaker 4: he had caught a case and he would he was
- 39:10Speaker 4: gone before I could, God damn get to him.
- 39:13Speaker 3: You know, this week was twenty three years if I'm serious,
- 39:15Speaker 3: I'm serious. Came to two thousand and one.
- 39:18Speaker 4: God damn. Okay, and there was two years before that,
- 39:21Speaker 4: so they were twenty five years ago. Yeah, won't he
- 39:25Speaker 4: do it? Thank God?
- 39:26Speaker 7: I was just thinking, like, what's your conversations of God?
- 39:28Speaker 6: Like y'all have y'all story God amazing, like the blessing?
- 39:33Speaker 5: Yes, like man drove cover too, but tip cover, I
- 39:37Speaker 5: mean I'm supercovered.
- 39:38Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:39Speaker 4: I think we both at this kind of why. I
- 39:40Speaker 4: think we kind of we understand the position that the other.
- 39:47Speaker 4: I understand his position, He understand my position. I understand
- 39:50Speaker 4: like I know that God got his hand on him
- 39:53Speaker 4: because I could see it.
- 39:54Speaker 10: And man, I'm on bard time, you feel me. I
- 39:57Speaker 10: don't supposed to being doing this interview? Can I sound
- 40:00Speaker 10: the amount of money I saw him lifeless? I saw him.
- 40:03Speaker 10: I saw it with my own amount of money.
- 40:05Speaker 4: Not in person, but but my son, like the money
- 40:09Speaker 4: was actually the one that walked in and tall he
- 40:11Speaker 4: faced me say hey, what's up with Joe. I'm trying
- 40:14Speaker 4: to wake him up. He won't wake up. And I'm like, jo.
- 40:17Speaker 10: Jo, hey man, that's what woke me up. I was like,
- 40:21Speaker 10: this is so annoying.
- 40:29Speaker 4: Get your something, he said.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Then I heard something. He said, what's wrong? I was like,
- 40:33Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean he was doing.
- 40:37Speaker 4: It was like he was trying to talk back, but
- 40:39Speaker 4: he couldn't talk. You know what I'm saying, I said, man,
- 40:42Speaker 4: don't call them lamb man. And you know what I'm saying.
- 40:45Speaker 4: They said that he had if the money.
- 40:47Speaker 1: Had the money was actually when you actually he did
- 40:52Speaker 1: talking about the.
- 40:52Speaker 2: Family, how old the money was.
- 40:55Speaker 1: He was. He almost broke my chest.
- 40:59Speaker 10: You know, he knew what when I when I when
- 41:01Speaker 10: I got, when I was up and I was came
- 41:04Speaker 10: to I was like, my chance is killing me.
- 41:06Speaker 4: It was like he might have been nineteen.
- 41:13Speaker 2: Wow, and you talked the money.
- 41:16Speaker 4: We all did so back, you know, back because because
- 41:18Speaker 4: my sister, prescious, she used to have me. She used
- 41:20Speaker 4: to she used to have uh asthma tacks all the time,
- 41:24Speaker 4: and so because she had amatur all the time, she
- 41:28Speaker 4: was living in the house with us. We never didn't
- 41:30Speaker 4: want you know, one of the kids. Actually somebody did
- 41:33Speaker 4: did walk in while she was having an ADMITAK and
- 41:35Speaker 4: didn't know what to do, and that what prompted us
- 41:36Speaker 4: to get everybody some CPR training. I don't know if
- 41:40Speaker 4: everybody remembered it, you know what I'm saying, but obviously
- 41:42Speaker 4: he did.
- 41:43Speaker 10: Yeah, just say I'm covered as an understatement, I have
- 41:46Speaker 10: something to do. Yeah, it's something that.
- 41:49Speaker 4: I feel too, bro, I feel like, you know what
- 41:51Speaker 4: I'm saying, it's a perfect God got me here because
- 41:52Speaker 4: I could. Man, you remember that shoot that were hey,
- 41:56Speaker 4: listen to me.
- 41:57Speaker 2: How do y'all remember.
- 42:02Speaker 10: I was I was actually healing up from a gunshot,
- 42:06Speaker 10: so I wasn't. I had still had staples in my stomach,
- 42:09Speaker 10: you know, that was healing up, and we know these cases.
- 42:12Speaker 4: It was so funny, little man shot. We were really
- 42:15Speaker 4: going to fight the you do right, because you know
- 42:18Speaker 4: I was one.
- 42:19Speaker 2: I was this was this before signed this plat.
- 42:25Speaker 4: I ain't touch no dope. I ain't touched no dope
- 42:27Speaker 4: since that day. I ain't touch no dope. You know
- 42:29Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I might have I might have seen
- 42:32Speaker 4: a little bit, but I ain't touching, you know what
- 42:33Speaker 4: I'm saying. But anyway, so they were telling on me
- 42:37Speaker 4: because I guess they had just moved out there, and
- 42:40Speaker 4: I get they wanted to get in and have their
- 42:41Speaker 4: little motion and I already had all the motion and apartments,
- 42:47Speaker 4: and so they were telling. They were telling the police,
- 42:50Speaker 4: and it was a particular police officer did, uh, we're cool.
- 42:55Speaker 4: You know, I ain't gonna say no name. But used
- 42:57Speaker 4: to buy weed from him, and you know what I'm saying.
- 42:58Speaker 4: When he's buying the little weeds and stuff. He was like, man,
- 43:00Speaker 4: you know me, you know the folks telling people down
- 43:02Speaker 4: there about you. You know, I'm like, I know you laugh.
- 43:05Speaker 4: And so I walk up, you know, seeing them there,
- 43:08Speaker 4: and tap on the wind and said, hey, bro, you
- 43:10Speaker 4: know what happened. You know what I'm saying, Folks saying
- 43:11Speaker 4: my name, saying my name is police station. You know
- 43:13Speaker 4: what happened where I'm from? Right, He just rolled them
- 43:16Speaker 4: up and put off and so you know what I'm saying.
- 43:18Speaker 4: So I was like, I know what to do about
- 43:20Speaker 4: the So me and I went and got all my
- 43:22Speaker 4: punel on the west side.
- 43:23Speaker 1: Man.
- 43:23Speaker 4: We had came and we were we can't. But we
- 43:28Speaker 4: wasn't you know what I'm saying. But it's just a
- 43:30Speaker 4: little lad whip. It just teaching a little spanky And
- 43:33Speaker 4: so you know, I went to Joe Hall and were
- 43:35Speaker 4: walking down, walking down the hill smoking and we said, daddy,
- 43:38Speaker 4: go right there, but were walking up there, little we
- 43:40Speaker 4: walk up. So we walk up there the nigga walking
- 43:42Speaker 4: out the shadows. It's big, but.
- 43:44Speaker 1: They had on gold jail. They looked like gold. Like
- 43:50Speaker 1: way a.
- 43:50Speaker 4: Motherfucking manute man, No, no, no, no, hey man, let's
- 43:52Speaker 4: switch to the other plan. Let's sit.
- 43:55Speaker 2: He was like, what hell no, I'm saying.
- 44:00Speaker 1: It was like.
- 44:02Speaker 4: We up the fire, up the fire, start start blabing.
- 44:05Speaker 1: Man.
- 44:05Speaker 4: The nigga droves and the shoot that's going this way
- 44:07Speaker 4: right you know that nigga drove ran straight here just
- 44:11Speaker 4: like that.
- 44:14Speaker 1: What no shirt on? I was like, this chain ain't
- 44:19Speaker 1: gonna help this.
- 44:20Speaker 4: Like dude, I'm like, why are you running this way?
- 44:23Speaker 3: Bro?
- 44:24Speaker 1: Hey man?
- 44:25Speaker 4: That ship was in here and didn't get where. We
- 44:27Speaker 4: all went back. So after the shoot that, everybody break,
- 44:30Speaker 4: I'll go there own way. We all make our way
- 44:31Speaker 4: back to U Droves. How could that we left her?
- 44:35Speaker 4: We made it back to Droe putman and in any apartment,
- 44:37Speaker 4: it's like a it's a building. You walk in the building,
- 44:40Speaker 4: it's two put men downstairs, stairway upstairs and two pupmans.
- 44:43Speaker 4: So stead uh, So we go in the building. We
- 44:45Speaker 4: knock on the door and we can hear the police.
- 44:48Speaker 4: So we're laying down. We're knocking on the door. Joe,
- 44:50Speaker 4: Mama say, hell no, don't bring that ship in.
- 44:52Speaker 3: Y'all ain't coming in here.
- 44:54Speaker 10: So we said, everybody lined up on the step were
- 44:56Speaker 10: trying to Mama, you got to let us in.
- 44:59Speaker 1: Y'all ain't coming in here. Let us in.
- 45:02Speaker 10: So now when she let us in, all us laying
- 45:05Speaker 10: on the floor while departments is being flooded with police.
- 45:08Speaker 10: And mind you, every time me and him get together,
- 45:11Speaker 10: they end up kicking in the door or the police
- 45:13Speaker 10: come and they try to take us away.
- 45:15Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
- 45:15Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question.
- 45:16Speaker 5: When y'all get together like this, right, trying to separate it.
- 45:21Speaker 5: But when y'all get together like this and these these
- 45:24Speaker 5: moments right, one moment that's coming to mind that the
- 45:26Speaker 5: MTV Awards when y'all y'all came out and performed shoulder land.
- 45:30Speaker 3: But then you did what you know about that by
- 45:31Speaker 3: yourself being y'all.
- 45:32Speaker 5: Have been through all of those life or death situations
- 45:35Speaker 5: and all of that type of shit. And what is
- 45:37Speaker 5: y'all mindset when y'all in those moments y'all just look
- 45:39Speaker 5: at each other and laugh, like God, we don't already.
- 45:41Speaker 4: Think about it, like we'll talk about it to like now,
- 45:44Speaker 4: we just you know, if we weren't here, we probably
- 45:47Speaker 4: we we create new moments, you know what I'm saying.
- 45:51Speaker 4: The next moment is probably what we're thinking.
- 45:53Speaker 1: About rebuilding, creating new moments. Just the thing.
- 45:57Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and you know till we watch black people
- 45:59Speaker 5: get there stolen all the time. Likeness gets stolen all
- 46:02Speaker 5: the time, and it's usually big fish ease little fish
- 46:05Speaker 5: with these corporations. What made you want to go to
- 46:07Speaker 5: war with with that that corporation numerous times too?
- 46:10Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm gonna be very very clear concise with
- 46:14Speaker 4: my message, and I'm gonna be honest and direct. I
- 46:18Speaker 4: did not want to. This was my wife.
- 46:19Speaker 2: My wife.
- 46:20Speaker 4: Yeah, she was the one who were pressing the hell
- 46:23Speaker 4: out the issue. But she kept pressing the hell out
- 46:26Speaker 4: the issue, and and I'm glad she did you know
- 46:30Speaker 4: what I'm saying, I'm glad she did. God bless you know.
- 46:33Speaker 4: That's that's that's what marriage is fucked, that's absolutely and
- 46:38Speaker 4: I think, you know it was her tenacity. And now
- 46:41Speaker 4: I was I saw it, but I just didn't see how,
- 46:46Speaker 4: you know, we could just keep pushing it, pushing and
- 46:48Speaker 4: pushing it like that, and it ship was caustly, you
- 46:52Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. We were probably like three and
- 46:54Speaker 4: a half million in and and every time we go
- 46:57Speaker 4: back to court it's another some figure bea And then
- 47:01Speaker 4: the last time we had lost the case, you know,
- 47:05Speaker 4: for whatever reason, and then the other then he had
- 47:10Speaker 4: the nerve to send me his bill. I said, I know,
- 47:12Speaker 4: you fucking life. And then the law changed. The law
- 47:16Speaker 4: change that said that the First Amendment could no longer
- 47:21Speaker 4: protect uh, you know when it comes to light to likeness,
- 47:27Speaker 4: uh and so on. I think it was some kind
- 47:29Speaker 4: of Jack Daniels case where it was a little puppy,
- 47:32Speaker 4: a little a little like a little dog that a
- 47:36Speaker 4: little Jack Russell dogg that I think it had something
- 47:38Speaker 4: similar to Jack Daniels own it. And they thought that
- 47:41Speaker 4: they could do that. And Jack Daniels, the whiskey was like, no,
- 47:44Speaker 4: y'all can't do that. It's like, now it's a parody.
- 47:47Speaker 4: And we protected out of the First Amendment and the
- 47:49Speaker 4: Supreme Court rule no you're not. And that's what got
- 47:53Speaker 4: us back in court and to Judge said, okay, well
- 47:55Speaker 4: this law change, so we had to go and we
- 47:57Speaker 4: have to revisit this all over again. And thank and
- 48:00Speaker 4: thank god, you know, we did. And Judge was extremely
- 48:04Speaker 4: he was extremely fall you know. Uh. And and I
- 48:09Speaker 4: think that the jury that we had could see through
- 48:13Speaker 4: a lot of the shenanigans and nonsense that the other
- 48:15Speaker 4: side were trying to pull. Although I understand the other
- 48:18Speaker 4: side position. You know, this guy, he's you know, he's
- 48:23Speaker 4: a billionaire, right and and I'm sure he not in
- 48:26Speaker 4: that motherfucker looking every day and who does and trying
- 48:29Speaker 4: to say what. So I'm sure some people who he
- 48:31Speaker 4: had put in position who probably didn't want to do
- 48:35Speaker 4: some work and just say, you know what, I could
- 48:37Speaker 4: just take this and do this and then that that
- 48:40Speaker 4: he won't know, you know, and he probably didn't until
- 48:43Speaker 4: and then. But now, hey, the crazy thing is they
- 48:46Speaker 4: probably would have offered you guys a deal.
- 48:48Speaker 1: You guys probably would have did.
- 48:49Speaker 4: A deal with the bactability absolutely, man, I mean like
- 48:52Speaker 4: at the beginning, We've had several mediations and he just
- 48:56Speaker 4: never wanted He never wanted to come to the table
- 48:58Speaker 4: to mediate, you know what I'm saying, never even thought
- 49:00Speaker 4: that he even had to consider, you know, uh, like
- 49:06Speaker 4: like resolving this. I mean I get because, like you say,
- 49:10Speaker 4: corporation do it all the time. I give people are
- 49:12Speaker 4: so used to it, it's become the norm.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Uh.
- 49:15Speaker 4: He didn't think that it deserved any consideration. Luckily, the
- 49:20Speaker 4: judge and the jury thought different.
- 49:22Speaker 6: First thought when y'all when the ruling came down for
- 49:25Speaker 6: the window, Like, what was your first thought?
- 49:26Speaker 4: Man, Yeah, that's it, that's man. I was with KP
- 49:30Speaker 4: actually and we were actually and I was feeling like
- 49:33Speaker 4: I didn't make it to to the day for the
- 49:37Speaker 4: when the when the deliberation was handed.
- 49:40Speaker 2: Much as thought you were gonna lose an I.
- 49:42Speaker 4: Had to shoot a movie. We just got through shooting
- 49:45Speaker 4: Apartments Part two, and as a director, you know, I
- 49:48Speaker 4: got to be there. I can't. And I took one
- 49:50Speaker 4: week off and they said it was gonna be done
- 49:52Speaker 4: that week, and then the next week like it were
- 49:55Speaker 4: suposed to be done by Friday. They started. They went
- 49:57Speaker 4: into deliberation on Friday, and we're suposed to come back
- 50:01Speaker 4: Friday with diverdedt but they didn't, so they said it's
- 50:04Speaker 4: gonna be Monday. I said, man, I can't come back Monday.
- 50:06Speaker 4: I got to go back to work. So I did,
- 50:09Speaker 4: and I'm on the phone. I'm listening, and we were
- 50:14Speaker 4: still shooting too, were still posedly feeling. I said, man,
- 50:17Speaker 4: y'all handle it, y'all hand it? Hey, man, Yeah, because
- 50:23Speaker 4: I walked out in the middle of a scene, and
- 50:27Speaker 4: so they still doing They're like hey, I was like, man,
- 50:31Speaker 4: and then k K K Kate said, I cut.
- 50:35Speaker 10: I can tell you how I felt. I was like,
- 50:37Speaker 10: you remember what we had talked about. Make sure you
- 50:39Speaker 10: give me my little pig, that's all.
- 50:43Speaker 4: But I didn't know no number. I was. I was
- 50:45Speaker 4: listening and I heard him say you know that, you
- 50:48Speaker 4: know that, like the first U infringement or so on
- 50:52Speaker 4: and so forth, and they were talking. They went down
- 50:55Speaker 4: to list of dolls, which one did was one then
- 50:57Speaker 4: but then I heard the number. I heard seventeen points.
- 51:00Speaker 4: I'm a million. I say seventeen Yeah, I did, I
- 51:04Speaker 4: say seventeen million, And so I hung up the phone.
- 51:11Speaker 4: And then we had to go fly to Vegas to
- 51:14Speaker 4: do a show. Arizona. We had to fly to Arizona
- 51:17Speaker 4: to do a show. And while we're on the plane,
- 51:21Speaker 4: they went back into the liberations for punitive damages. And
- 51:25Speaker 4: then they came back with the punitive it's fifty three
- 51:28Speaker 4: million three means say, plus the seventies.
- 51:34Speaker 1: Around again. I was like, don't forget that piece.
- 51:38Speaker 4: I said, you better stop showing that like this. You
- 51:41Speaker 4: better stop showing that like this now.
- 51:43Speaker 2: And them lawsuits to tax free so there's no TAXI taking.
- 51:45Speaker 4: No, that's not true. Don't put that out there like that. Now,
- 51:49Speaker 4: the actual damages for the actual damages, there are no
- 51:53Speaker 4: taxes because the taxis to actual damages. Are you know what,
- 51:58Speaker 4: whatever dolls that they say look the most like the
- 52:01Speaker 4: girls with those dolls made, so those are actual damages.
- 52:06Speaker 4: And and the the taxes were already put into the
- 52:11Speaker 4: they were taken from the gross before this, so the
- 52:13Speaker 4: taxes were paid on this money. So this on this note, well,
- 52:18Speaker 4: the punitive you do have to you do have to
- 52:20Speaker 4: pay taxes. It's still all come up, man, No, it's
- 52:23Speaker 4: a blessed you're right, yeah, but but even more so,
- 52:39Speaker 4: I love to see like my daughters, my daughter and
- 52:42Speaker 4: my nieces like they also like they straight you know
- 52:46Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
- 52:46Speaker 5: I saw people saying that on social media, was like,
- 52:48Speaker 5: I hope they get a girl something like.
- 52:51Speaker 4: Man, it's they fight, you feel what I'm saying, And
- 52:55Speaker 4: I feel like for them to be vindicated and you know,
- 53:00Speaker 4: to come out victorious and the sea if you stand
- 53:03Speaker 4: up for some you know what and you and you
- 53:06Speaker 4: know that you know in your heart truly that you
- 53:09Speaker 4: that you fighting for for what's what's what's yours. You
- 53:13Speaker 4: know the outcome is gonna be victorious as long as
- 53:18Speaker 4: you claim it, believe it, and let God lead the way.
- 53:22Speaker 4: I'm happy to be a part of the process of
- 53:25Speaker 4: of of allowing them to see that.
- 53:28Speaker 3: M hm.
- 53:29Speaker 1: Not now.
- 53:30Speaker 4: Sometimes and it's a more paper and none that I'm
- 53:32Speaker 4: going to tell you. It's more because it's some more
- 53:33Speaker 4: dolls that came up to look like other celebrities. I'm
- 53:35Speaker 4: just telling you some more money out there.
- 53:39Speaker 5: These corporations do get retaliating sometimes, No, I mean, you
- 53:45Speaker 5: know what I mean.
- 53:46Speaker 4: I mean they have the right to appeal and the
- 53:48Speaker 4: man they can exercise that right then that'll open the
- 53:50Speaker 4: door for trademark. So trademark means now were looking at
- 53:53Speaker 4: all the dolls. If you want to open up the
- 53:55Speaker 4: door for trademark, you're gonna here, open up the door
- 53:57Speaker 4: for trademark. Gon in the pill. Now that's something the
- 54:00Speaker 4: three could turn the two three bees. So go ahead,
- 54:02Speaker 4: open it up. Do your things. They got it, you know.
- 54:06Speaker 4: But oh, you could just come over with this sementy
- 54:08Speaker 4: right now.
- 54:10Speaker 3: I saw du Ball post you.
- 54:12Speaker 4: Man.
- 54:12Speaker 3: You was at a show the other day.
- 54:14Speaker 5: I forgot what y'all performing at Community Service Community Service,
- 54:16Speaker 5: and he said, he said that you just one of
- 54:18Speaker 5: the best performers, one of the best lyricists out there,
- 54:21Speaker 5: which people feel.
- 54:22Speaker 3: How did that make you feel?
- 54:24Speaker 1: It made me feel good. Man, it's long overdue.
- 54:26Speaker 10: I've always thought I always thought that the talent and
- 54:29Speaker 10: the craft, I've always had respect for it, and you know,
- 54:33Speaker 10: to to get my flowers for it. Man, it's long overdue,
- 54:38Speaker 10: you know what I mean?
- 54:38Speaker 1: I have.
- 54:38Speaker 10: I feel like that if you if you love the
- 54:42Speaker 10: craft and respect it like the way I do, because
- 54:45Speaker 10: you know, people, you know, people can get your music,
- 54:48Speaker 10: you know, to get your album or whatever. And that's
- 54:51Speaker 10: one thing for somebody to have your album but I
- 54:53Speaker 10: think that once the album died down and then you know,
- 54:57Speaker 10: it just only depends on your talent and what you
- 55:00Speaker 10: have to offer in a live show. You feel what
- 55:02Speaker 10: I'm saying, Like, Oh, well, you know I want to
- 55:05Speaker 10: see Drove perform live. You know what I mean, because
- 55:07Speaker 10: shouted live show crazy. I had to see the bo
- 55:10Speaker 10: once I met him in person and I seen it live.
- 55:13Speaker 10: It carries you know what I mean? So I appreciate it.
- 55:16Speaker 3: Man, What will DRO's new music sound like? You know
- 55:20Speaker 3: what I mean?
- 55:20Speaker 5: Because you know, you see Kendrick put out the party.
- 55:22Speaker 5: The party was the party most.
- 55:23Speaker 3: Director and here with La Crabe been saying in D
- 55:26Speaker 3: one how they want more positive messages in the music.
- 55:29Speaker 3: Is it gonna be that? Are you gonna really give
- 55:31Speaker 3: the ministry most definitely?
- 55:32Speaker 10: I'm going to make sure that I set aside time
- 55:36Speaker 10: and use my vocals to put back into what happened
- 55:40Speaker 10: to me, you know what I mean, and for use
- 55:43Speaker 10: it for like a positive outlook on things. But I
- 55:45Speaker 10: will not stop telling my truth and what's happening to
- 55:49Speaker 10: us as a community and what society is you know,
- 55:53Speaker 10: has to offer us, you know what I mean? Like,
- 55:55Speaker 10: I won't I won't shy away from telling you how
- 55:59Speaker 10: I took a appeal that killed me. I won't shy
- 56:01Speaker 10: away from telling you that they serving them you feel me.
- 56:04Speaker 10: I won't shy away from telling you that most of
- 56:07Speaker 10: most of the things that we do in the hood
- 56:10Speaker 10: comes from like drug use, Like a lot of things
- 56:12Speaker 10: that go on in the hood.
- 56:14Speaker 1: Man, people be using drugs.
- 56:15Speaker 10: And with the mental state that we have, man, we
- 56:17Speaker 10: were out here doing the wrong stuff. You know what
- 56:19Speaker 10: I'm saying. So I won't shy away from that. And
- 56:21Speaker 10: I also use my my platform to do songs with
- 56:25Speaker 10: people like Dietrich hadn't like run out of time, you
- 56:27Speaker 10: know what I mean? And one k fu, you know
- 56:29Speaker 10: what I'm saying.
- 56:30Speaker 2: Absolutely, And now t I gotta ask. Now you said
- 56:34Speaker 2: I will raise this child to torture you the way
- 56:37Speaker 2: you torture me. Talk about King about to have his
- 56:41Speaker 2: first child, Is that is that true?
- 56:43Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, listen, I mean because.
- 56:48Speaker 2: He seems like the child I gave you the most problems.
- 56:50Speaker 4: Man, I mean to be honest, which I'm gonna just be.
- 56:52Speaker 4: I'mnna keep it. I'm gonna keep it. The book King
- 56:56Speaker 4: is you know, he's he's always been around, bunctuous, outgoing,
- 57:01Speaker 4: energetic child, you know what I'm saying. But just to
- 57:05Speaker 4: be honest, he is fucked compared to me and the
- 57:10Speaker 4: ship that I did, and how he ain't really gave
- 57:13Speaker 4: them kinds of problems, you know what I'm saying. Uh
- 57:16Speaker 4: he gave something that might resemble like it, could you know,
- 57:20Speaker 4: become that, but he never he ain't never you know,
- 57:23Speaker 4: did the kind of ship that I was doing that
- 57:27Speaker 4: I know about it. Uh So I don't. I can't
- 57:30Speaker 4: say that. You know, he just gave me a whole
- 57:32Speaker 4: lot of problems. But the problem that he did get
- 57:35Speaker 4: he did give, he gonna get him back. He's gonna
- 57:37Speaker 4: have a son and his son. I'm just telling you.
- 57:40Speaker 4: I'm just telling you, and he gonna understand. He gonna
- 57:43Speaker 4: understand what it means. Can you do shit? Like, let
- 57:45Speaker 4: me tell you some So I put you know, uh, Major,
- 57:49Speaker 4: and I wanted to put Major and and and King
- 57:55Speaker 4: and like one of the best schools in the lot
- 57:57Speaker 4: of wood Work. And we went and Daser had already
- 58:01Speaker 4: went to woodwork. And so now you know it's time
- 58:04Speaker 4: for Major to find him a new school. And I'm like,
- 58:06Speaker 4: well we put Major, that man will put King there
- 58:08Speaker 4: with him, so it will take Major King and we
- 58:12Speaker 4: do the test. You know, you got to have that uh,
- 58:15Speaker 4: the you know, the consultation, and they had had the
- 58:18Speaker 4: kid take a test and what had you Major pass
- 58:21Speaker 4: flying colors? And it was like Major, sure, I'm sure
- 58:25Speaker 4: we find a spot for him. He's definitely with materials. Say,
- 58:29Speaker 4: but your other son, is he okay? What you mean?
- 58:35Speaker 4: Is he okay? Say? These are the lowest test scores
- 58:38Speaker 4: we have ever seen. The man winning hill and intentionally fail.
- 58:44Speaker 4: He wouldn't have to go to private school. Man, he
- 58:46Speaker 4: wanted to stay in public school out there with his friend.
- 58:49Speaker 4: And so that's the kind of ship he did. You
- 58:51Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like it ain't bad, but it like.
- 58:55Speaker 5: The genius, I know how to stick around.
- 59:01Speaker 3: I want to be.
- 59:02Speaker 4: The still didn't get to be way he wanted to be.
- 59:04Speaker 4: I sent him way on the other side of town
- 59:06Speaker 4: to another school that he couldn't stand, you know, but
- 59:08Speaker 4: he made through. He stuck through it, and you know
- 59:10Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Uh, And then COVID happened, so they
- 59:13Speaker 4: kind of shined on him.
- 59:14Speaker 2: Now there was another video of you and Boosy talking
- 59:17Speaker 2: to your sons about the video with the with the
- 59:19Speaker 2: firearms in it. How was that conversation because I know
- 59:22Speaker 2: he was just like da come on that.
- 59:24Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah man. He don't never like
- 59:29Speaker 4: he he always looked at me like bro coming from
- 59:32Speaker 4: you do you know? You Like, I'm like, no, no,
- 59:36Speaker 4: now you didn't even know me back you hear me,
- 59:40Speaker 4: but he done heard a lot of stories like you know,
- 59:43Speaker 4: just like me and Drog shit around talk about and
- 59:45Speaker 4: then yeah, my other uncles and aunt ties and my
- 59:48Speaker 4: mama talk about how they had to deal with me.
- 59:51Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. So he like a you
- 59:53Speaker 4: gonna come tell me anything like nigga like this, you
- 59:56Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. But that that's actually a part
- 59:59Speaker 4: of a show that we remember me boosy uht. So
- 1:00:05Speaker 4: that was that was a part of the show this
- 1:00:06Speaker 4: but it was a real video and we did actually
- 1:00:10Speaker 4: like I think I think the camera people knew what
- 1:00:14Speaker 4: were going on, but they didn't necessarily tell us. So
- 1:00:17Speaker 4: when we walked up, it was kind of really really
- 1:00:20Speaker 4: kind of in shock a little bit.
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: For real.
- 1:00:22Speaker 4: We knew we were coming to film. We know that
- 1:00:24Speaker 4: this was gonna be it. You know, I thought it
- 1:00:27Speaker 4: was gonna be more so just like them using our
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: cause and you know, trying to imitate the life today.
- 1:00:33Speaker 4: But ain't a nigga. Ain't know y'all can do all this,
- 1:00:35Speaker 4: you know. So that was a real moment.
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: But I can't be nowhere around there.
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: I had to. Yeah, and man, one of the funny part,
- 1:00:43Speaker 4: I don't know if this is on the clip that
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: was shown. One of the funny part there Boosie looked.
- 1:00:49Speaker 4: That wasn't say hey you yeah, see you've been hanging
- 1:00:52Speaker 4: around a lot. You're gonna have to pay. You're gonna
- 1:00:56Speaker 4: have to pay, pay your dues. Like you know what
- 1:00:58Speaker 4: I'm saying. But all these things, I feel like it's important,
- 1:01:01Speaker 4: and I feel like I'm gonna put I'm gonna put
- 1:01:03Speaker 4: the uh because we did like a pilot episode. I'm
- 1:01:07Speaker 4: gonna put it out because I think it's important. As
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: I watch it again, were sitting down and we are
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: as two black men, we are fellowshipping and collectively as
- 1:01:19Speaker 4: well as individually dealing with raising our sons into to
- 1:01:24Speaker 4: be strong black men. And it's one part man, Well,
- 1:01:29Speaker 4: me and Boosh are talking and he just broke He
- 1:01:31Speaker 4: just said, straight up, man, look man, I don't want
- 1:01:33Speaker 4: to see my son in prison. I don't want to
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: go visit my son, you know, Damn Jez, I don't
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: want to do that. And I'm like, man, I get it.
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: I get it. And He's like, man, you know, I
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: want to take it down with him. I said, no,
- 1:01:44Speaker 4: we can't take it that with him. I don't know,
- 1:01:49Speaker 4: but boost is said, so she could mean anything like nah,
- 1:01:53Speaker 4: they ain't gonna do it. And so just us feeding
- 1:01:57Speaker 4: off of one another's uh wisdom and experience and using
- 1:02:03Speaker 4: it the benefit. How we deal with our sons, That's
- 1:02:06Speaker 4: something that the rest of the world needs.
- 1:02:09Speaker 6: How do y'all deal with the like the significant others
- 1:02:12Speaker 6: of because like I know, Demani has a baby now
- 1:02:14Speaker 6: king the baby shower and viral Like what is like
- 1:02:17Speaker 6: the parental check in the household?
- 1:02:18Speaker 4: What that means?
- 1:02:19Speaker 7: Like that when they bring like their girlfriend's home, are.
- 1:02:21Speaker 4: You like, nah, I stay out there being there. I don't.
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: I don't do that. I don't get into that, like
- 1:02:26Speaker 4: who they dating and with it. That ain't my business,
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. I that's one less thing
- 1:02:31Speaker 4: for me to have to worry. Man, I don't I
- 1:02:33Speaker 4: don't really deal with that, I just make sure that
- 1:02:38Speaker 4: they they they they being respectful and that they being respected.
- 1:02:43Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying like that really and that's
- 1:02:45Speaker 4: really I mean, that's really all that matter to me.
- 1:02:48Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying that is that that the
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: respect level of that, that everybody being treated fairly, you know,
- 1:02:54Speaker 4: and after that, you know, whether the love laugh forever
- 1:02:58Speaker 4: or whether it's only here a period of time, as
- 1:03:01Speaker 4: long as long as the respect has been there, that's
- 1:03:04Speaker 4: all it's important to me.
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: Let's get into the single right now.
- 1:03:07Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: Thank God, thank god. We appreciate you.
- 1:03:10Speaker 4: Y'all got a radio show. Y'all ain't play no damn
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: play some music, But we appreciate you brothers.
- 1:03:16Speaker 2: For joining us right on.
- 1:03:17Speaker 4: Man, We appreciate y'all man. And one more thing, man,
- 1:03:19Speaker 4: because you know, I just want to say, uh, could
- 1:03:23Speaker 4: y'all please stop telling everybody you know exactly how much
- 1:03:27Speaker 4: money y'all gonna get me.
- 1:03:30Speaker 7: Out there live after the she was.
- 1:03:36Speaker 4: The coach put that out there, to put the bills
- 1:03:38Speaker 4: out there.
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: I got you for real, got we get more music?
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: What's the next psc?
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: We got some.
- 1:03:50Speaker 10: I'm gonna snag a couple of Records, that Drawing Tip
- 1:03:53Speaker 10: got together and uh, that joint project gonna be there.
- 1:03:56Speaker 10: The ps C got a project coming out with DJ
- 1:03:58Speaker 10: Dramma You feel Me Still in the Streets and draw
- 1:04:01Speaker 10: and Atoven got a project coming out called ten Piece
- 1:04:04Speaker 10: Hot Man.
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: Make sure you bring your blue chee, you know, so
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: that all that's on the way.
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: Word let's t I is Young Droe.
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 1:04:12Speaker 4: You did wake that ass up ear in the morning.
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club