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Tory Lanez On Being Unapologetic, Independent, Talks Allegations, Hair Restoration + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast club morning.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is d ch Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy.
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Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got special guests in
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Speaker 1: the building. Album out this Friday, Tory Lanes or some south.
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Speaker 1: How you doing You tired? I'm tired, seen your tweet.
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Speaker 1: But I gotta sleep in three hours after the Breakfast
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Speaker 1: Club in the morning. Yeah, that was about three hours ago.
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Speaker 1: I was a Starlets, yall was out. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a tradition that every time I come here, I go
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Speaker 1: to Starars first. I just had to do that. What
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Speaker 1: was happening in a Starlets last night? The regular ship?
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Speaker 1: You know how much you spent last night in Starlets?
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Speaker 1: Nothing crazy? What's nothing crazy? The Tory Lanes not like
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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars, nothing crazy. It was mad late. It
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Speaker 1: was just it was like literally thirty minutes left. I
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Speaker 1: didn't even get to spending money. Okay, now sorry for
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Speaker 1: what now that your new album? First of all, you
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Speaker 1: are you signed to a major? Are you independent on
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Speaker 1: I'm independent, fully independent U one Umbrella Records. You know
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Speaker 1: we distribute to create. But for now and that's how
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Speaker 1: you won it? Yeah, for sure, I've always wanted to
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Speaker 1: be independent and you know, be able to touch the
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Speaker 1: money that the labels touch, just being an independent artist.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, one, so you prefer the independency over of course,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot more freedom. You could do whatever you
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Speaker 1: want drop whenever you can't get canceled. You ain't got
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Speaker 1: to worry about somebody telling you what you know, feeling
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Speaker 1: you're good, you're You're able to just kind of move freely.
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Speaker 1: And I think just for me being such like an
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Speaker 1: eclectic artist and an artist who's just like kind of
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Speaker 1: all over the place musically, that's good for me, Like
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, to be able to move
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Speaker 1: and do what I want to do musically whenever I
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Speaker 1: want to do it. Now, let's got off with the
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Speaker 1: title of the album. Sorry for what? What is the
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Speaker 1: title expressing the talking about? UM? I think for me,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've always been a very unapologetic person when
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Speaker 1: it comes down to my craft and to the things
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Speaker 1: that I enjoying, the things that I love and I
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Speaker 1: feel like UM, when we was creating an album, When
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Speaker 1: creating an album title, you know, and listening to the
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Speaker 1: music and how it's sounds, it sounds unapologetic, but it
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Speaker 1: also gives you that like resilience, that that that uh
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Speaker 1: standing in the wind when it's blowing, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and um, I feel like it's just about staying tall
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Speaker 1: and you know, staying true to you and you know,
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Speaker 1: being unapologetically yourself. So I called it sorry for what now? Recently, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you got into an alleged altercation. But an R and
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Speaker 1: B artist, August, I've seen him look man, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm here to just answer about the album. Well, is
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Speaker 1: there an open investigation with the LAPD because I saw
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Speaker 1: they said they were looking into it again, couldn't tell,
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Speaker 1: you don't know, but you know, like I shouldn't here
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Speaker 1: for the album in positivity, I know, you know. And
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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'm always here to answer all
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Speaker 1: the questions and stuff, but I'm really just here just
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Speaker 1: preaching positivity today. Like you know what I'm saying. Everything
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Speaker 1: that's been going on in my life and the things
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Speaker 1: that's been going on around me, I just try to
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Speaker 1: keep positive, you know, So no disrespect, but I'm just
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Speaker 1: not here to talk about just one last question that
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Speaker 1: we've seen that you walk by each other and he
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Speaker 1: put his hand out, did y'all. Did you ever knew
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Speaker 1: that yall had a problem, because I'm sure if y'all,
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Speaker 1: if you knew it was a disagreement, you wouldn't put
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Speaker 1: your hand out. No, I mean, just generally speaking, regardless,
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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with anybody. And I wrote
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Speaker 1: for him before this. You know, it's not it's not
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Speaker 1: one of those oh so you penning stuff for its
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Speaker 1: projects or something like that. Well for Meeking August the
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Speaker 1: record they did under that. Okay, yeah, okay, that's probably
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Speaker 1: why because I guess he had an issue with the
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Speaker 1: freestyle that you did talking about the situation. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: I like, I like, I like how we're doing this,
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Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm here to talk about. I
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Speaker 1: like where you guys are going. It's great. Do you
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Speaker 1: ever have like, um, you know, you've been through a lot,
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Speaker 1: like you said recently, and now you're trying to do
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Speaker 1: all positivity, But do you ever feel like if there
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Speaker 1: were people that were not in your corner? Than are
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Speaker 1: you forgiving of that? As you know, as time passes
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Speaker 1: to think about it? Is just like I can never
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Speaker 1: be upset about someone's opinion, you know, and when there's
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Speaker 1: people who have opinions. It's like whatever they thought at
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Speaker 1: the time was just whatever they were feeling at the time.
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Speaker 1: And I know that, you know a lot of people's
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Speaker 1: opinions have changed up and down about me. And you
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Speaker 1: know it's not of me to be a judge or
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Speaker 1: to be God or to be playing God's role and
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Speaker 1: judging people. I forgive everybody, you know, I don't forget,
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Speaker 1: but I forgive so you can work with somebody who
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Speaker 1: might have said something negative about you. Of course, I'm
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Speaker 1: a I'm about this money, you know. It's like I'm
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Speaker 1: about getting to the money. I'm about getting to the business.
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Speaker 1: I don't hold negative feelings about anything anybody said about me.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't forget that you said it,
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Speaker 1: but not to you know, to not forgive you. It's
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Speaker 1: just bitter And I'm not a you know, a bitter
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Speaker 1: hearted person during the ant say, during that time, during
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Speaker 1: this time, of course, you know, people took sides and
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Speaker 1: nobody knows the truth. And I'm sure we'll never know
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Speaker 1: the truth until it comes out in court. Do you
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Speaker 1: always do you look who you work with depending on that,
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Speaker 1: Like for instance, right, and I'm gonna bring up August,
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Speaker 1: I'll see, but not to do with you. But when
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Speaker 1: the thing happened with August, everybody made jokes, right, Everybody
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Speaker 1: talked about it, everybody threw a line in the rap.
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Speaker 1: Everybody though, But it was the culture, right, something happens
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Speaker 1: to Angeli et, something happens to me, everybody's gonna have jokes.
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Speaker 1: Of course, something happened with you. Everybody has jokes. But
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Speaker 1: now when it gets down to and it goes to
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Speaker 1: that music making process, how do you decide who you
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Speaker 1: want to work with, who I'm not going to work with?
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Speaker 1: Or is it just like I don't care, it is
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Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, yeah, like I said, like
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Speaker 1: musically in business business wise, like I'm about whatever makes sense,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and whatever feels like it's
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Speaker 1: the thing that I should be doing. I don't discriminate
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Speaker 1: per situation or you know, whatever's going on. I just
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Speaker 1: I still reach out to everybody, and you know, some
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Speaker 1: people will be either ready to do it in a moment,
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Speaker 1: or some people won't or for whatever reason. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: it's not even always the reason that you think, sometimes
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Speaker 1: just other reasons, you know. But nah, I've never don't
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Speaker 1: I don't look at people like that. It's just kind
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Speaker 1: of like, you know, if you want to make something
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Speaker 1: and it makes sense and it's gonna make us money
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Speaker 1: and we can get to the business, let's get to
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Speaker 1: the bag. Why not? Was also gonna say when when
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Speaker 1: it came to it, you know, you had people picking
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Speaker 1: side or whatever and not knowing the real of what happened, right,
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Speaker 1: and some of these people you were friends with, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, how did that affect your relationship
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Speaker 1: moving on? When it comes to it. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: feel like, at least in my mind, because a lot
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Speaker 1: of those people you've done things for before, you know,
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Speaker 1: I wrote a lot of a lot of these things.
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Speaker 1: But I will say this. I will say this. You know,
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Speaker 1: the way the way it's painted in the media, you know,
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Speaker 1: they would have you thinking that, like nobody fucks with me.
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Speaker 1: But like I talked to everybody that I've spoke to before,
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Speaker 1: you know, and even throughout this um, there was moments
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Speaker 1: when it was a little bit more like crucial to
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Speaker 1: go out in public and do certain things because you know,
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't that people had an issue with me.
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Speaker 1: Is just people didn't want to backlash coming from something
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Speaker 1: that you know, they weren't involved in or whatever the cases.
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Speaker 1: And I think that just for me, like I've always
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Speaker 1: been a guy that's been good at kind of assessing
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Speaker 1: the situation and kind of seeing, like you know, who
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Speaker 1: moves a certain way. And like I said, it all
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Speaker 1: falls down to this. It's like I forgive, but I
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Speaker 1: don't forget. So it's like, again, I can't base no
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Speaker 1: situations off of how you moved in the past or whatever.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And how did you not fold? Right?
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Speaker 1: And everybody can say, oh, I'm not a fold I'm strong,
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm gonna staying ten feet downs. But that's
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Speaker 1: that's bullshit when it comes to most days, right. And
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Speaker 1: the reason I say that is because, I mean, you know, they,
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Speaker 1: you know, they, you know, tried to ban you DJ's
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Speaker 1: from playing your records. They tried to and who knows
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Speaker 1: who they is, but you know, they tried to make
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Speaker 1: sure that your record wasn't spending on radio. They tried
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Speaker 1: to ban you from clubs and venues and you know,
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Speaker 1: um performances. So so how do you not fold when
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Speaker 1: all that's going into play? I mean, because it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a time when Nikki was not fucking with Tory Lane.
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Speaker 1: It was and it was that mean time, but you buckle,
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Speaker 1: I always kind of felt like the world didn't fuck
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Speaker 1: with me before that. So it's like, you know, I've
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Speaker 1: I've I never that has never affected me. Um, But
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Speaker 1: I will take you into my world force for a second. Right, Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know when you do something fucked up.
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Speaker 1: Before you do that, you can't say the world and
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Speaker 1: fuck with you, right, pandemic. No, I don't mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't like, I don't mean like something the
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Speaker 1: pandemic that the world fuck of course, of course, but yeah, definitely,
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Speaker 1: I mean that was you know, that was a solid
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Speaker 1: like two three months that was which was which was amazing,
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Speaker 1: Like you feel me, um, But I'm just saying like
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Speaker 1: this in an overall like, Um, you know, when like
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Speaker 1: you have a day that something happens on the internet
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Speaker 1: and like you said, you know, a bunch of people
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Speaker 1: will start making memes and laughing and dah da da da,
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Speaker 1: and you feel like, oh my gosh, it's the end
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Speaker 1: of the world. You gotta understand, like I've I've learned
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Speaker 1: to live over there like a million people that are
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Speaker 1: hating on you order to imagine that for two and
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Speaker 1: a half three years straight. It's like you get to
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Speaker 1: a point where it's like it's kind of normal for me,
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Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. And I know artists
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Speaker 1: are always like yo, I'm not you know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: scared of the comments or I love my haters. They
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Speaker 1: see three, four or five ten comments saying the same thing,
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Speaker 1: you look at it and you're like, damn, Like, as
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Speaker 1: an artist, I need to pay attention to whatever. It's
9:11
Speaker 1: like if you post a picture right now and you
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Speaker 1: got two thousand comments, but twenty of those comments that
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Speaker 1: are like back to back happen to be like, yo,
9:20
Speaker 1: envy your nose as big as shit. Bro. You might
9:23
Speaker 1: look in the mirror and be like, yo, it's my
9:25
Speaker 1: nose really really big as shit. But but over a
9:30
Speaker 1: period of time of a million people telling you this
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Speaker 1: every single day, you start to be like, well, if
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Speaker 1: my nose is big, so be it. I'm not tripping
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Speaker 1: on that. You know, you start to accept whatever flaws
9:43
Speaker 1: that people are trying to pick and pick at you,
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Speaker 1: and then it gets to this point where you really
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Speaker 1: actually don't care about like the hatred or whatever the cases.
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Speaker 1: I kind of live over here, I'm not allowed to,
9:53
Speaker 1: you know, live in that place where artists live, where
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Speaker 1: it's like, yo, if I just keep doing something good
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Speaker 1: and you know, the people are just gonna love me
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Speaker 1: and Dada da dade, it's more so like whatever I'm doing,
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Speaker 1: Nigga's gonna hate it regardless, but I'm gonna keep on going.
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Speaker 1: And my mind set it's so tunnel vision on that
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Speaker 1: that nothing really bothers me. And I was gonna ask,
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Speaker 1: you know what the with the new project, in all
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Speaker 1: your music, do you feel like no matter how great
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Speaker 1: the music is, right, how great the record you make,
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Speaker 1: how well it does, it'll always get blocked out from
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Speaker 1: the other stuff. I mean, for now, while I'm in
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Speaker 1: a situation that I'm in, and you know, for any
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Speaker 1: artist again, I bring you into my world, you know,
10:38
Speaker 1: the artists, you get to be excited. Yes, I made
10:41
Speaker 1: this ship, like this shit is fire. I made that ship.
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Speaker 1: It's like I'm making ship that's firing. No it like ya,
10:47
Speaker 1: this is not getting play, this is not going away.
10:51
Speaker 1: You could be like, but here's the difference, right, It's
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Speaker 1: that my my mind, in my hustle, in my drive
11:00
Speaker 1: is so deep and the people around me care so
11:04
Speaker 1: much about us just popping and getting our stuff done
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Speaker 1: that I don't run into situations where it's like, well damn,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna slow me down. Now, I'm like, well,
11:17
Speaker 1: all that means is I just need to do double
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Speaker 1: what the artist is doing. I need to do double
11:22
Speaker 1: the amount of volume to reach what they're reaching because
11:26
Speaker 1: they're doing it through an algorithmic playlist. I'm getting these
11:30
Speaker 1: numbers now organically. So now what artists are getting from
11:34
Speaker 1: these editorial playlists I'm actually touching organically. You gotta gotta understand,
11:39
Speaker 1: like I got sixteen point something million monthly listeners on Spotify.
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Speaker 1: When I'm looking at other artists, and I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: like pop popping artists. When I'm looking at other artists,
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Speaker 1: they don't have the same It's not even like it's
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Speaker 1: like half of what I have. But it goes to
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Speaker 1: show you that the volume, the dedication and the amount
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Speaker 1: of times I'm gonna keep striking, I'm not gonna stop
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna keep making hot shit. I'm not a
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Speaker 1: one hit wonder. I'm someone who knows how to make music.
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Speaker 1: So to me, it just gives me extra drive. It's like,
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Speaker 1: all right, cool, I just gotta work triple times that
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Speaker 1: average artists. But that's never been an issue for me.
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Speaker 1: It's like, no matter what you put in front of me,
12:21
Speaker 1: I'm lying hearted, you know what I'm saying. I'm a leo.
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Speaker 1: My mom always told me I was a wolf, and
12:27
Speaker 1: she said, you know, wolfs we fighting packs and and
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, a wolf's
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Speaker 1: always gonna bring it back home to the pack. And
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Speaker 1: like that's just kind of how I look at it,
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Speaker 1: Like it's a lot of people who depend on me,
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Speaker 1: my family, my friends, you know, my team, and I
12:43
Speaker 1: always want to make sure that they know that through
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Speaker 1: any any weather, through anything, through any storm, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: bring it back, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's
12:52
Speaker 1: that's That's what I kind of pride myself on. It's
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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be resilient through anything. And yeah, when
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Speaker 1: you make music, Yeah, I was, I was gonna ask you.
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Speaker 1: Tweted out that a Buggie was the only feature on
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Speaker 1: the project, but he was also the only person you
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Speaker 1: reached out to. Yeah, well and my brother, my brother,
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Speaker 1: Yoko Gold. He was also the only feature on The
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Speaker 1: Day Star, the album that came out but um, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're the only two features. And I didn't even reach
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Speaker 1: out to him. He was actually recording in a studio
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Speaker 1: that was like across from our studio, one called Camp David,
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Speaker 1: which I used to record all my records and I
13:29
Speaker 1: still do some time time. But he was in there,
13:32
Speaker 1: and then he came inside the studio and I hadn't
13:35
Speaker 1: seen this niggame mad long, like like mac get some
13:39
Speaker 1: of this world on lips draw shit, um, but I
13:45
Speaker 1: hadn't seen the niggaa mad long. And when I seen him,
13:48
Speaker 1: it was just so refreshing because I hadn't heard like
13:51
Speaker 1: new music from him and stuff like that either in
13:53
Speaker 1: a while. And just seeing him, you know, he's like,
13:56
Speaker 1: you know, he had a tat on his face. He
13:57
Speaker 1: was like this new guy, like you know what I'm saying,
13:59
Speaker 1: and he was just so ready to work, And it
14:01
Speaker 1: was so refreshing just to see somebody that in my
14:03
Speaker 1: times of working, who's always been a partner with me,
14:05
Speaker 1: like when we when we work, Um, just to see
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Speaker 1: him so motivated and just ready to go, it's just like,
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Speaker 1: all right, bet, I'm gonna do this one song with you.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna leave a project like how it was.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm gonna leave you on there and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my brother on there and then that's
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Speaker 1: that's it. Like you know, I was gonna ask, you know,
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Speaker 1: with with your music and your songs. And the reason
14:24
Speaker 1: I'm asking is, you know, with artists now, it seems
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Speaker 1: like every judge, DA prosecutor go through this song to
14:31
Speaker 1: try to connect something. If you have to be careful
14:33
Speaker 1: what you write in your song because you're like, oh,
14:35
Speaker 1: they might try to use this and say this is
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Speaker 1: concerning to this, especially for somebody that doesn't know our culture. Um,
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Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't really say while shitting my
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Speaker 1: music like that to that point, I'm I'm more concerned
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Speaker 1: about what I gotta say on Twitter, like I gotta
14:50
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, and that's another thing
14:52
Speaker 1: I know. You know, time after time, this is always
14:55
Speaker 1: a time when a story will come out about Tory
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Speaker 1: Leans and then the narrative will be wild, y'all. Gotta know, Like,
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Speaker 1: as much as I would like to like love to
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Speaker 1: tell y'all, nigga's a narrative. I can't not allowed to
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Speaker 1: even an open case until that's done. You're there's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a couple narratives that you're just not gonna get
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Speaker 1: because I can't speak about them. So it's like, you
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Speaker 1: know why I don't. I don't play around or dance
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Speaker 1: around those lines or try to play with those people
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Speaker 1: over there. It's like, nah, so you see them. I
15:23
Speaker 1: mean like you see some of these blogs and be like, well,
15:24
Speaker 1: Tori said this is the song you must be concerning.
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Speaker 1: He must be advising to this. You'd be like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I go again. I'm gonna get in trouble for something
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Speaker 1: that I didn't even do. Well. Well, nah, I just
15:33
Speaker 1: go well, there's another story I can't talk about. But
15:37
Speaker 1: he's like, all right, whatever the narrative is that they're saying,
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Speaker 1: I gotta run with it, and I gotta wait till
15:42
Speaker 1: there's a time when I could talk about it. So,
15:45
Speaker 1: now that this album's coming out this Friday and you're
15:47
Speaker 1: kicked off the tour, hold on, I'm just joking. I
15:50
Speaker 1: want you to explain. Now. We're not gonna get into
15:52
Speaker 1: this deep. But I was never on a tour. You
15:54
Speaker 1: did three days, two dates, two dates. They called me
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Speaker 1: for this for the third one, but we canceled. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't enough money. I'm not being funny and I love Rod,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's not one of those
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Speaker 1: things like where I'm trying to disrespect or whatever cases.
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Speaker 1: But if we're just being like honest, I do real tours,
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Speaker 1: like I really sell tickets, like for real, for real
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Speaker 1: by myself. So you did two shows. I wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: on an R and B tour with a comedy thing.
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Speaker 1: I just I like the way that they did it.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was dope, Like, yo, you could do
16:23
Speaker 1: these two shows. I did it. I wasn't really contracted
16:26
Speaker 1: to do at Yeah, and it was two songs each each. Yeah,
16:29
Speaker 1: it wasn't supposed to be some set like they could
16:33
Speaker 1: only afford two songs. I mean, like you gotta understand,
16:36
Speaker 1: like like if I'm gonna go for thirty thirty forty minutes,
16:39
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost somebody around one fifty something like that.
16:42
Speaker 1: If it's a four set sixty minutes, gonna cost you
16:44
Speaker 1: around two to something you're asking me for You got
16:49
Speaker 1: forty grand for me, Like it's gonna get you two songs.
16:52
Speaker 1: So you did two songs, like you are supposed to
16:55
Speaker 1: be on the third day and you're not on that tour,
16:56
Speaker 1: you wouldn't. I didn't even know that was a tour.
16:59
Speaker 1: I just thought it was a weekend that they were doing,
17:02
Speaker 1: you know which, which again, there's always a time when
17:07
Speaker 1: there's a narrative and like I said, I gotta watch
17:10
Speaker 1: it and be like, ah, even me like talking about
17:15
Speaker 1: it now, I'm not trying to wake nobody up and
17:17
Speaker 1: start something new with whatever, you know what I'm saying,
17:19
Speaker 1: I'd just be trying to stay out the way. Like
17:21
Speaker 1: you know, there are ways that you feel like you
17:24
Speaker 1: should move a little differently, being that every time something happens,
17:27
Speaker 1: like I saw the article in Madame Numar, it's like
17:30
Speaker 1: mute Tory Lanes after the August I seeing an incident.
17:33
Speaker 1: But do you feel like, okay, you know, there's this
17:36
Speaker 1: like aggressive aura that people are saying, this is how
17:39
Speaker 1: Tory Lanes is. And so being that you have some
17:42
Speaker 1: open cases something, there's no aggressive aura about me. There's
17:46
Speaker 1: aggressive narratives that are never that are only told by
17:51
Speaker 1: one side. But there's there's anybody who really knows me
17:56
Speaker 1: or seeing me or is around me is like one
18:00
Speaker 1: of the most gentle, nicest people in the world. And
18:02
Speaker 1: I say that just because like I'm a nigg who
18:05
Speaker 1: plays too much like I'm always laughing, I'm always joking around.
18:08
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not a guy who's like just tough
18:11
Speaker 1: and terry. I never portrayed to be a gangster. I
18:14
Speaker 1: never portrayed to be a thug. I never portrayed to
18:16
Speaker 1: be any of those things. I stand on business and
18:20
Speaker 1: I stand on positivity, but I stand on what's right
18:24
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. The difference is, you know,
18:27
Speaker 1: in the last two three years, is that it's not
18:30
Speaker 1: that Tory Lanze has gotten more aggressive. It's that stories
18:33
Speaker 1: come out and Tory Lanes can't explain himself anymore. Tory
18:36
Speaker 1: Lane is a very outspoken person. I'm very outspoken. I
18:41
Speaker 1: love I'm always there to be like, nah, no, this
18:43
Speaker 1: is what happened. Stop. I'm always there to be outspoken.
18:47
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm outspoken artist, but I'm not allowed
18:50
Speaker 1: to do certain things. Certain things correlate to this and that,
18:53
Speaker 1: and the people that don't need to be looking into
18:55
Speaker 1: this start looking into that and this, and then it
18:58
Speaker 1: turns into something. You know, But again, like, it's not
19:02
Speaker 1: that that Tory Lanze has gotten more aggressive, It's that
19:04
Speaker 1: the narratives have gotten more aggressive since other narratives have
19:07
Speaker 1: been aggressive about me, and it's like, let's just pile
19:10
Speaker 1: these on while he can't talk. I see you still
19:12
Speaker 1: got that Playboy airring on, So let me ask you
19:14
Speaker 1: say exactly. You have a song on the album right
19:19
Speaker 1: where it's called this Ain't Working, And I'm like, does
19:21
Speaker 1: Tory Lanez want to settle down and get married and
19:24
Speaker 1: have a bride? But then you have other songs where
19:26
Speaker 1: you're like picture with some people out and about too.
19:30
Speaker 1: You have other songs where you're, you know, just being
19:32
Speaker 1: a guy running around doing him and sucking her and
19:37
Speaker 1: her friends and everybody else. So what does Tory Lanz?
19:41
Speaker 1: Could that matter? Say? You know, it's twenty songs on
19:46
Speaker 1: the album, so we get both of those things. Yeah,
19:48
Speaker 1: that's something that you struggle with within yourself. Like on
19:51
Speaker 1: one hand, maybe I want to be I don't know
19:54
Speaker 1: if I'm like super great with like commitment in relationships. Um,
20:02
Speaker 1: I've seen you in five pictures now, five pictures with
20:04
Speaker 1: the same person. It's starting to feel like it's almost
20:07
Speaker 1: a relationship. I mean hey, I mean like, like, you know, whatever,
20:13
Speaker 1: if you got your your opinion on whoever you're seeing
20:16
Speaker 1: me with But I mean, like I'm just talking about
20:17
Speaker 1: in my real personal life, Like I think that I
20:20
Speaker 1: have an issue sometimes with commitment. I mean, why is that.
20:26
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to find somebody who matches my speed.
20:31
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a real like rock star, and sometimes
20:34
Speaker 1: like the things that I do are just like really
20:36
Speaker 1: spontaneous and dat. I don't think I found, like, you know,
20:43
Speaker 1: my person that's like exactly like me, you know what
20:47
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And maybe it's not Maybe I'm not supposed
20:49
Speaker 1: to be trying to find a person that's exactly like
20:52
Speaker 1: supposed to be coming to the top rafters of the
20:54
Speaker 1: club's performing anymore. I am oh boy, Oh I am
20:58
Speaker 1: oh I am. I just you know, things, things, things change.
21:02
Speaker 1: I do. I do look at, you know, certain things differently. Um,
21:05
Speaker 1: just as I get older, and I do see myself
21:08
Speaker 1: settling down though, don't get it twisted, Like I don't
21:10
Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna be a bachelor, playboy my whole
21:14
Speaker 1: life or something wild shit like that. I know, I'm
21:16
Speaker 1: you know, eventually going to start getting up there. And
21:19
Speaker 1: so my thing is, it's like I just want to
21:21
Speaker 1: find something that that's my speed. And I think that
21:24
Speaker 1: you know, um, when it happens it or happened, who
21:28
Speaker 1: is this ain't working about thing because you use a
21:29
Speaker 1: little Lauren hill Cadence on that X fact a lot
21:33
Speaker 1: of the songs, there's no there's there's not like a
21:36
Speaker 1: bunch of songs on here that are like all about
21:38
Speaker 1: the same person. There's I always draw from all of
21:41
Speaker 1: my exes anytime I talk about like toxic shit or
21:45
Speaker 1: whatever the case is, or I always draw from like
21:49
Speaker 1: just things that I went through, you know, with girls
21:51
Speaker 1: or whatever the cases. And so like, it's no one
21:53
Speaker 1: specific that I'm talking about on that specify myself as
21:57
Speaker 1: toxic when it comes to relationships. Nah, I'm not the
22:00
Speaker 1: toxic one. I don't ever feel you know what I
22:04
Speaker 1: feel like though, I feel like and and all people
22:07
Speaker 1: who've been in a relationship can relate to this in
22:09
Speaker 1: some sort of way. I feel like I have a
22:11
Speaker 1: problem with trying to fix people and then I end
22:13
Speaker 1: up in some toxic shit like for trying to fix
22:15
Speaker 1: this person, like you know what I'm saying, or trying
22:18
Speaker 1: to be with a person that it's like, you know what,
22:21
Speaker 1: I know that they just they just don't get it
22:22
Speaker 1: because someone never really told them the right way. I
22:25
Speaker 1: wanted those people, and then I realized, Yo, I'm in
22:27
Speaker 1: some wild would want to fix somebody. No, I just
22:32
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like sometimes when I meet people
22:35
Speaker 1: who uh don't have enough love in a life, or
22:39
Speaker 1: they just like lonely or like super like uh, not confident.
22:43
Speaker 1: Like I hate when I meet a beautiful girl who's
22:46
Speaker 1: not confident. It makes me just want to be like, yo,
22:48
Speaker 1: let me just take you out of the town to
22:49
Speaker 1: just show you who you are, Like you know what
22:51
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But then you wand up hurting them all
22:53
Speaker 1: because you take them out on the time they fall
22:55
Speaker 1: in love with the guy, but you're not ready to
22:57
Speaker 1: settle down now. But you know, I think it is
22:59
Speaker 1: it's I think in the process of of me trying
23:03
Speaker 1: to give that extra arm of support and love or
23:07
Speaker 1: whatever it is that a lot of times people are
23:10
Speaker 1: not ready for it, and it's like the reaction to
23:13
Speaker 1: it because it's something that they never got. Sometimes it's like,
23:17
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a shock to them or something
23:19
Speaker 1: like that, Like you know what I'm saying, could you
23:21
Speaker 1: get that stems from somewhere? And if you can't work
23:23
Speaker 1: on that and someone's just trying to say here, this
23:26
Speaker 1: is what you deserve, this is what you need, but
23:28
Speaker 1: you still don't feel that because of whatever. Yeah, accept that,
23:32
Speaker 1: Like I'm what what's the word an EmPATH? Where you
23:35
Speaker 1: feel like what everybody like when I when I when
23:38
Speaker 1: I talk to people, and this could just be regular
23:41
Speaker 1: people too, Like even if I see a bum on
23:43
Speaker 1: the street, or if I see a homeless person on
23:45
Speaker 1: the street or something like that and they tell me
23:46
Speaker 1: yo u yo, I'm really They've genuinely give me a
23:51
Speaker 1: story that's like and I just really like them, like
23:53
Speaker 1: I really feel for that person. And I think that
23:55
Speaker 1: would be my problem in relationships is that sometimes I
23:58
Speaker 1: feel too deep into people, was like passed and I
24:01
Speaker 1: want to help them change they you know they outlook,
24:03
Speaker 1: but it's like that's some some things that just not
24:05
Speaker 1: of you. Therefore, you know, other people to kind of
24:09
Speaker 1: get over themselves, you know what I'm saying for other
24:11
Speaker 1: people to go through themselves. Do you feel like you're
24:14
Speaker 1: underrated or you don't get the amount of love and
24:16
Speaker 1: respect that you should as as an artist? I think
24:20
Speaker 1: I think people would say I'm underrated. I rate myself.
24:24
Speaker 1: I rate myself ten out of ten. As you should,
24:27
Speaker 1: you know, And I think that at the end of
24:28
Speaker 1: the day, as long as I feel that way, the
24:31
Speaker 1: realization of the world will come. There was a time when,
24:35
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think that I was rated enough
24:39
Speaker 1: to be on the Breakfast Club, or I didn't think
24:41
Speaker 1: that I was popping enough to be here. I'm saying
24:44
Speaker 1: there was a time before my first interview here. You
24:47
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I used to be watching this
24:49
Speaker 1: like YO, when I get to that point, I'll be
24:51
Speaker 1: popping enough to do X y Z. But if if
24:54
Speaker 1: I ever stuck on that thought, I would have never
24:56
Speaker 1: got here. So, um, just a thought of like being
25:00
Speaker 1: underrated to me, it's not a real thing to me.
25:03
Speaker 1: I'm I want to denounce that away from me. You
25:06
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm not underrated. You know my
25:08
Speaker 1: time is gonna come when it comes. And that's just
25:11
Speaker 1: it got. You know that when the Baby did a
25:14
Speaker 1: song with you years ago, you know, people got mad
25:17
Speaker 1: at the Baby for doing it all. Then he released
25:19
Speaker 1: the song the Boogie Maire recently, and now you know
25:23
Speaker 1: everybody hits the Baby again. What was your thoughts When
25:25
Speaker 1: he releases music and he talks about his life but
25:27
Speaker 1: don't people do it all the time. Everybody hates the baby, Well,
25:29
Speaker 1: they're upset with him for a record he release today.
25:33
Speaker 1: Let's asking some questions, that's all. I don't think everybody
25:35
Speaker 1: hates the baby. I think, um, I think again, that's
25:39
Speaker 1: the way that they paint things. And I think that,
25:42
Speaker 1: you know, you got to realize that there's people out
25:45
Speaker 1: here that spend money to push narratives into your face
25:51
Speaker 1: and make you feel a certain way. If I spend
25:55
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars on a post and I'm a major label,
25:58
Speaker 1: or if I'm a major corporate, I spend one hundred
26:01
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on a post that's like, Yo, this guy
26:04
Speaker 1: is wrong. Over a period of time, you're gonna be
26:07
Speaker 1: bringing while you keep seeing that shit, you're gonna think,
26:09
Speaker 1: like you said, well, everybody hates this guy. Everybody doesn't
26:11
Speaker 1: hate that guy. Everybody doesn't hate whatever person they're saying.
26:14
Speaker 1: I feel like when you go outside into the world
26:18
Speaker 1: and you see how people react with you, there's a
26:20
Speaker 1: big difference between the Internet and people, and like there's
26:26
Speaker 1: a ratio thing that I always do and I think
26:28
Speaker 1: that the world needs to do. When you start thinking
26:31
Speaker 1: that everybody hates somebody. You need to look at the
26:33
Speaker 1: ratio of the numbers, right, A lot of artists you'll
26:38
Speaker 1: get maybe let's say, let's look at the artists like
26:41
Speaker 1: the baby since you brought him up right, I see,
26:43
Speaker 1: he'll post a picture, get say, like maybe five hundred
26:47
Speaker 1: thousand likes on something. And let's say it's one of
26:50
Speaker 1: those days where like you're saying, someone's upset at him,
26:52
Speaker 1: and a bunch of comments are in his comments. You'll
26:55
Speaker 1: probably have like three thousand and six thousand comments. Maybe
27:00
Speaker 1: a thousand of those or five hundred of those are
27:02
Speaker 1: like Yo, fuck you da da da da da whatever
27:04
Speaker 1: they're saying. But then when you look at the ratio,
27:06
Speaker 1: it's like, Yo, five hundred thousand people like this picture,
27:11
Speaker 1: one thousand of them niggas is talking shit? Who really
27:15
Speaker 1: is greater? That's why it's like, I don't I can't
27:19
Speaker 1: go off of Joe. Everyone's saying that. No, everyone's not
27:23
Speaker 1: saying that. A couple of comments that you've seen are
27:26
Speaker 1: saying that got go out into the world. It's a
27:29
Speaker 1: big place. Now, aside from music, what are some other
27:31
Speaker 1: things that you are dipping your finances into, um Man,
27:39
Speaker 1: I don't want to fully say it, but I am
27:43
Speaker 1: definitely in the medical field now in a major way,
27:48
Speaker 1: and I think in a major way that's going to
27:50
Speaker 1: affect our culture and our community just for years upon
27:55
Speaker 1: years and generations after this. How did that happen? I
28:05
Speaker 1: when I was in this situation that I was in,
28:07
Speaker 1: I started looking at things like, you know, if they
28:09
Speaker 1: were to ever be able to take this from me,
28:14
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Just in case, let me
28:16
Speaker 1: make sure you know I'm being smart. I'm being an entrepreneur.
28:19
Speaker 1: And it woke up this energy and me that I've
28:22
Speaker 1: I've never I've never experienced before. Um. I think one
28:28
Speaker 1: of the greatest things that I did. You know, we
28:30
Speaker 1: owned on Don Taboo with with Corey todd Um and
28:34
Speaker 1: Shamara Todd from Jamaica. I don't know if you guys
28:37
Speaker 1: ever been to Taboo in Jamaica, but it's like, you know,
28:39
Speaker 1: the biggest club in Jamaica. There's three of them in
28:42
Speaker 1: the West Indies, and then we got two of them
28:44
Speaker 1: in Miami. So yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, that's
28:49
Speaker 1: the hottest club in Miami. I'm not even saying that
28:51
Speaker 1: because we're I'm here. I promise you like you know what.
28:53
Speaker 1: I'm literally yeah, and you know me, I'm not going
28:59
Speaker 1: anywhere doing it, but the vibe is just so great.
29:01
Speaker 1: Us best food in the city past eleven o'clock is
29:05
Speaker 1: nothing to eat out there like after a certain period
29:07
Speaker 1: of time. So it's like you gotta depend on which
29:10
Speaker 1: club's gonna be right for you. We got the best
29:12
Speaker 1: food in the city and there's two of them. So
29:14
Speaker 1: there's Taboo Miami and Taboo A twenty six um, and
29:17
Speaker 1: I own both of those with Korey and Shamara. So um.
29:21
Speaker 1: That's another thing that we were doing. It's just a
29:23
Speaker 1: it's a lot of little different like little business plays
29:25
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But ultimately, you know, I care
29:29
Speaker 1: about the music. That's my first love and you know,
29:31
Speaker 1: the most important thing to me, So you know, I'm
29:34
Speaker 1: always on that. Also, I'm doing this TV show too, Okay,
29:39
Speaker 1: I've been shooting this TV show. What's it about? Um?
29:42
Speaker 1: It's actually based off this song that I had called Pieces,
29:45
Speaker 1: And it's like a story about a girl who got
29:48
Speaker 1: raped by her uncle and she turns into the like
29:51
Speaker 1: the street and like a lot of it's just like
29:53
Speaker 1: a lot of different stories that kind of come into
29:56
Speaker 1: one as like different pieces of the story. But U,
30:00
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be able to do something that
30:01
Speaker 1: was dope and show off my acting skills because you know,
30:04
Speaker 1: I got tired of like not getting the roles for
30:06
Speaker 1: some of these big films, like I would be like
30:09
Speaker 1: auditioning for Yeah, I was big. What's the biggest role?
30:12
Speaker 1: Now I was auditioning from big stuff. I did the
30:14
Speaker 1: Uh I almost got the role for um, it was
30:18
Speaker 1: it King Richard the Will the Will Smith movie. Uh.
30:23
Speaker 1: For the for the I was supposed to be the aggressor,
30:25
Speaker 1: the dude who got shot up at the corner store.
30:28
Speaker 1: They had me read for his parts, and um, every
30:31
Speaker 1: time I've done it like a power I was supposed
30:33
Speaker 1: to Uh. I was supposed to do Uh Joey badass part. Okay,
30:37
Speaker 1: you know, no he does. He does an incredible job,
30:43
Speaker 1: but like that type of character. Every time I've always
30:46
Speaker 1: like read, I've always get I've always gotten called like
30:50
Speaker 1: multiple nice guy or something to change his whole I
30:53
Speaker 1: mean artists, artist art You know what I'm saying is
31:00
Speaker 1: it's like you're accomplished. No, now you're going in front
31:04
Speaker 1: of people and you know, I look at things that
31:08
Speaker 1: that exact way I'm not Tory Lanes. I don't expect
31:10
Speaker 1: no special treatment. But because of that, I always had
31:14
Speaker 1: incredible self tapes, Like incredible. They brought me back for
31:18
Speaker 1: that part about three times. Don't get it to this one. Yeah,
31:21
Speaker 1: they brought me back. They made me talk to the
31:24
Speaker 1: main lady and like, you know what I'm saying. But
31:26
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like I said, I
31:28
Speaker 1: feel like my time with my time will come. You're
31:30
Speaker 1: gonna see me on the screen and be like, yo,
31:31
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. He could have played that role too,
31:34
Speaker 1: But my thing is just like you know, like I said,
31:36
Speaker 1: like the time will come in and like everything that
31:39
Speaker 1: I never got, I always just taught myself how to do.
31:43
Speaker 1: Like when they told me, oh, I'm not singing on
31:46
Speaker 1: your song because you're not a big enough rapper. I
31:48
Speaker 1: taught myself how to sing. I sucked that singing before.
31:50
Speaker 1: I taught myself how to sing. When a video guy
31:53
Speaker 1: wouldn't shoot my videos, I taught myself how to shoot.
31:56
Speaker 1: I taught myself how to edit. When a producer wouldn't
31:59
Speaker 1: produce my music, I taught myself how to produce. On
32:01
Speaker 1: fruity loops when they wouldn't record me. I bought pro
32:03
Speaker 1: tools and learned it myself. So when they told me
32:05
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get the role for these Will Smith
32:07
Speaker 1: movies and these Dot of the Dogs, I'm going to
32:10
Speaker 1: do it myself. Okay. So now I'm on You know,
32:13
Speaker 1: I'm on set playing five jobs, being director, editor, and
32:17
Speaker 1: a actor. But the hard workers are gonna pay off
32:21
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I believe in myself. Bro,
32:23
Speaker 1: when I believe in anybody around me. You know what
32:25
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're already filming this. Yes, I got nine
32:28
Speaker 1: minutes of it. I showed to you. When we get
32:30
Speaker 1: off to you know, when you want to sign a
32:32
Speaker 1: major label deal, if somebody came at you or are
32:34
Speaker 1: you feeling like you're making too much? I know you've
32:37
Speaker 1: said that I have things changed. Somebody might come at you.
32:39
Speaker 1: But some type of offered you a wild check. A
32:42
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, they offered me a wild But
32:45
Speaker 1: y'all gotta understand while everybody was saying UH, was saying like, yo,
32:51
Speaker 1: he's who's gonna sign him and who's gonna I gotta
32:54
Speaker 1: understand that year what was that two twenty one? There
32:57
Speaker 1: was twenty or twenty one twenty twenty because the end
33:00
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, I signed probably the biggest deal that year,
33:03
Speaker 1: like as far as just distribution and on a distribution
33:06
Speaker 1: independent arm like shit that no one has seen my ship.
33:09
Speaker 1: My ship was eighteen point seven million dollars that I
33:12
Speaker 1: signed for twenty two months of distribution, not of major
33:17
Speaker 1: label obligations of distribution. I don't need to play this
33:24
Speaker 1: game with y'all, Like you know what I'm saying. I
33:26
Speaker 1: don't need to. I don't need to play this game
33:28
Speaker 1: with y'all because I'm silently gonna do what I do.
33:31
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and I'm never like yo. Um,
33:37
Speaker 1: let me break down a gem for y'all real quick
33:40
Speaker 1: and for any artists they really need to hear this
33:42
Speaker 1: off this show right, look at this when I was
33:46
Speaker 1: with Interscope, right, and I want artists to really pay
33:48
Speaker 1: attention to this. When I was with Interscope and we
33:54
Speaker 1: made music, let's say I didn't drop music for a
33:57
Speaker 1: solid year a year and a half. Tory Lanes solidly
34:03
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, made sure that his streams were
34:07
Speaker 1: about three million streams, like with all the music, three
34:10
Speaker 1: million streams a day off one million streams. Artist gets
34:15
Speaker 1: five to six thousand dollars every Friday or every other friday. Right,
34:20
Speaker 1: So that means that when I wasn't dropping shit and
34:23
Speaker 1: I was at home, some label was sitting on their
34:27
Speaker 1: ass collecting fifteen thousand dollars a day off of Tory
34:32
Speaker 1: Lane's music. But that music, if it was made by me,
34:37
Speaker 1: then I would be sitting at home, scratching my ass,
34:39
Speaker 1: fucking making fifteen thousand dollars a day. If I'm popping
34:44
Speaker 1: and I'm making songs, then it's I'm probably gonna do
34:48
Speaker 1: around like seven million streams, six million streams a day, right,
34:53
Speaker 1: just with all my music in general. Let's just let's
34:56
Speaker 1: call it five million streams. Let's just say that, just
34:58
Speaker 1: make it easy, right. That means that someone's making twenty five,
35:02
Speaker 1: you know, thousand dollars a day off of my music.
35:07
Speaker 1: So in four days they made one hundred grand guys,
35:12
Speaker 1: let's do the numbers, guys, Like, how long are we
35:15
Speaker 1: gonna let this ship just rape us? Like? Do you
35:18
Speaker 1: think though without Interscope you wouldn't be as popular as
35:22
Speaker 1: you are? Because sometimes, first of almost, I want to
35:24
Speaker 1: let y'all know this, I love Interscope for everything that
35:27
Speaker 1: they did for me, because at the end of the day,
35:30
Speaker 1: they are the people who take the chance. But I
35:32
Speaker 1: want y'all to know something right here, right it's at
35:35
Speaker 1: that moment when a label comes to sign you that
35:39
Speaker 1: you're usually really popping. You're popping enough that people are
35:43
Speaker 1: looking at you and they're probably starting to kind of
35:45
Speaker 1: pay you for things, and they get you at that point.
35:48
Speaker 1: And usually artists signed for four to five albums. And
35:52
Speaker 1: when you signed for those four to five albums, by
35:55
Speaker 1: the third album, we don't want to really hear you
35:58
Speaker 1: no more because we heard everything you got to give.
36:01
Speaker 1: It's very rare for artists to be able to get
36:03
Speaker 1: out of that situation in the first place, but then
36:06
Speaker 1: to get out of the situation and still be relevant
36:08
Speaker 1: enough to go independent. You're never gonna have it. So
36:11
Speaker 1: all your best songs are made during that period of time.
36:15
Speaker 1: All of the our favorite artists's best songs are made
36:18
Speaker 1: during like unless you're like, you know, the Drakes and
36:21
Speaker 1: the people who really went on longer. But like a
36:22
Speaker 1: lot of our favorite artists who didn't like go far, Far,
36:25
Speaker 1: Far Far, but they're like, you know, I just love
36:26
Speaker 1: that album or I love that artist the best songs
36:29
Speaker 1: came out in the majority of time that they were
36:31
Speaker 1: with the label. So all that money, of all that
36:34
Speaker 1: creative stuff that you're doing, it just went straight to
36:37
Speaker 1: a label. Now at that point when you're about to sign,
36:40
Speaker 1: you're popping enough to just keep going. It's just you
36:43
Speaker 1: just gotta learn how to use everything that the label uses.
36:48
Speaker 1: The label doesn't hire people that they employ or whatever cases,
36:52
Speaker 1: they outsource people that you can employ. And once you
36:56
Speaker 1: learn that, like the world is yours. But I guess
36:58
Speaker 1: some people might be in financial situations where they're not.
37:01
Speaker 1: But like you said, if you're popping enough, then you
37:03
Speaker 1: should have money coming in. You're in a financial situation
37:06
Speaker 1: because you're not independent all of that money. It doesn't matter.
37:09
Speaker 1: Now when I break it down it and I'm saying,
37:12
Speaker 1: you're a million dollars a day? Are a million players
37:15
Speaker 1: a day? Is this much money? That doesn't mean that
37:17
Speaker 1: Johnny over there from the Bronx is gonna make that.
37:20
Speaker 1: Maybe he might get fifty thousand plays, but that's gonna
37:23
Speaker 1: equivalate to whatever it equivalates to, and he's gonna get
37:26
Speaker 1: that every Friday, you know what I'm saying, Like it's
37:28
Speaker 1: gonna come to his pocket. Every friday's gonna land in
37:30
Speaker 1: his bank account faithfully like a job. And all all
37:33
Speaker 1: Johnny from the Bronx has to do is keep dropping
37:36
Speaker 1: music and it's gonna keep stacking. So why would you
37:40
Speaker 1: not save your best songs and your best stuff for
37:43
Speaker 1: that moment for yourself. In that moment, you're gonna make
37:45
Speaker 1: all that money. It's just that artists don't understand how
37:47
Speaker 1: much money there is out here. And that's why it's like,
37:50
Speaker 1: you know, I've always been wanted to kind of take
37:53
Speaker 1: those steps for people, like you know, Um, it's times
37:57
Speaker 1: that I can't do certain things and I'm not able
37:59
Speaker 1: to do certain things, and I got to call on
38:01
Speaker 1: people that, you know what helped me do certain things
38:03
Speaker 1: and help certain things. Shout out to my uncle Speedy
38:05
Speaker 1: to you know what I'm saying, it's my dog. He's
38:06
Speaker 1: helped me through a lot of this and just this
38:08
Speaker 1: independent route and taking it there. But like you know,
38:11
Speaker 1: anything that you can't do, you can learn how to do,
38:13
Speaker 1: and if there is somebody who can help you do it,
38:15
Speaker 1: you can outsource them and pay them the same money
38:18
Speaker 1: that the label is paying. You know, it doesn't it
38:21
Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't it's not really expensive. And then think
38:23
Speaker 1: about it. You're an artist. This is for artists signed
38:27
Speaker 1: to the label. You're an artist. You're already signed to
38:29
Speaker 1: the label. You're going you're doing shows, you're getting money.
38:31
Speaker 1: Start looking at your money and realizing, like, fuck me
38:34
Speaker 1: buying this chain right now. If I take this hundred
38:36
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and I put this into this department, this department,
38:40
Speaker 1: this department, and find out who these niggas are hiring.
38:43
Speaker 1: The guy in the digital department doesn't cost twenty grand.
38:46
Speaker 1: He costs three thousand dollars to do whatever it is
38:48
Speaker 1: that he's talking about. The guy on TV costs seven
38:51
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. The guy it doesn't you know. It's it's
38:54
Speaker 1: things you can put your money into that's gonna really
38:57
Speaker 1: change your life. And as an artist, you got the
38:59
Speaker 1: money to do it, So do it. Sorry for what
39:02
Speaker 1: are you good at? Apologizing? If I have to? Yeah,
39:06
Speaker 1: And I know when I when I need to apologize.
39:07
Speaker 1: I'm not a dickhead. I'm not somebody who you know
39:10
Speaker 1: can't apologize or like doesn't know when he's wrong, Like
39:12
Speaker 1: you know, I know when I'll be wrong, and when
39:14
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I can take up for it for sure.
39:16
Speaker 1: And I gotta ask this, how's your hair holding up?
39:19
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you got to apologize saw a
39:20
Speaker 1: camera guy. I do apologize, yo, but because I was
39:29
Speaker 1: so sincere when I was telling him, like yo, you
39:31
Speaker 1: come over that camera. Nah. But but all up now.
39:35
Speaker 1: But it's it's good. Um. I'm actually you know, it's crazy, Angela,
39:39
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying something brand new right now, and it's
39:41
Speaker 1: it's not into full form for like formentation, but it's
39:44
Speaker 1: not a full form. But for a long time, guys, right,
39:49
Speaker 1: We've always been like yo, Tory, the guy the hey,
39:52
Speaker 1: the guy with the with the hero and the thought
39:54
Speaker 1: of the dot. For a long time, I've been dealing
39:58
Speaker 1: with these things. But I've been dealing with them for
40:00
Speaker 1: reason because me I am gonna be what is like
40:05
Speaker 1: the messiah of black people and colored people getting the
40:08
Speaker 1: hair back. Just feel me, y'll feel me. I'm not
40:16
Speaker 1: in a good hair day right now. I woke up,
40:19
Speaker 1: it just came here. But look check this out. I'm
40:23
Speaker 1: gonna grow my hair right, I'll promise you. But I'm
40:26
Speaker 1: doing it with a product that I've created. Like you
40:29
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I went I talked to the
40:31
Speaker 1: African ladies, the Haitian ladies, African Dominican ladies, everything, and
40:36
Speaker 1: I and I and I've learned that all of the
40:37
Speaker 1: things for your hair that you need, like naturally for
40:40
Speaker 1: your hair to grow, are in the earth, like you
40:42
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And it's really just a concoction
40:45
Speaker 1: that you create in order for you know, for elixir
40:48
Speaker 1: for your hair or for things I need to grow.
40:51
Speaker 1: I promise y'all. I don't know the name for it yet,
40:55
Speaker 1: but I promise you guys, I'm coming back with the
40:59
Speaker 1: with the put the cream in, the in the stuff
41:01
Speaker 1: that's gonna make your hair come back, and it's gonna
41:03
Speaker 1: be and you're gonna know it's authentic because y'all see
41:06
Speaker 1: y'all seeing the patch head, y'all seeing the ship that
41:08
Speaker 1: I had to go through. You feel me. You're gonna
41:10
Speaker 1: be good too, I know you. Like everything, that's the
41:13
Speaker 1: whole thing. You gotta believe it's gonna work for Charlemagne.
41:18
Speaker 1: And that's that's insane, because yeah, he tried. He got
41:20
Speaker 1: like the robots here, like the Georgia. I got him.
41:23
Speaker 1: I got him. And you know what else is crazy
41:25
Speaker 1: that That's another thing I wanted to say. On the
41:26
Speaker 1: medical side. Um, the doctor that did that did my
41:30
Speaker 1: hair originally and showed me like, you know, yo, you
41:32
Speaker 1: can do hair restoration and stuff like that. I'm actually
41:35
Speaker 1: gonna team up with him and We're gonna bring hair
41:38
Speaker 1: restoration down in Miami to the medical stuff that I
41:41
Speaker 1: was telling you about. Okay, um so yeah, so I'll
41:44
Speaker 1: be like one of the first UH hip hop artists
41:47
Speaker 1: to bring hair restoration like in real reality, like the
41:50
Speaker 1: machines and the doctors and and actually, yeah, like help
41:53
Speaker 1: people really get their edges back without the cream and
41:56
Speaker 1: stuff like that, you know what I mean, The cream
41:58
Speaker 1: of secondary feel the game change for a lot of
42:00
Speaker 1: you guys. I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to
42:02
Speaker 1: tell you it's like a BBL for men. I'm sorry
42:06
Speaker 1: for out to play what you wanna get into. Um,
42:10
Speaker 1: I don't even know jever what you want to get
42:13
Speaker 1: into and whatever you want to play. The eight Boogie one,
42:15
Speaker 1: the one broad call with a boogie. Okay, well let's
42:17
Speaker 1: get into it right now. It's Tory Lanes. We appreciate
42:19
Speaker 1: you for joining us. The albums out tomorrow. Thank you,
42:22
Speaker 1: bro Ill Love thank y'all, and it's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Good morning,