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Kid Capri Talks DJ Culture, Squashing Beefs, New Music, Being Proud Of His Madonna Collab + 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 DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We
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Speaker 1: are to Breakfast Club A special guests in the building.
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Speaker 1: It's up up back again. I knew he was gonna
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Speaker 1: say it like that. I mean, it's only right. You know,
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Speaker 1: any places I went around the street, people I got
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Speaker 1: so tired of people doing anything. But you know when
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Speaker 1: they come to me and they'll be like, YO, do
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Speaker 1: the thing. Good morning, everybody is d like it's it's
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Speaker 1: the same thing. It becomes your signature. Yeah, yeah, it
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Speaker 1: is what it is. So how are you feeling, man?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, a couple of months ago you
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Speaker 1: had COVID you said you lost forty pounds. Yeah, talk
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Speaker 1: about that a little bit, because that was right around
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Speaker 1: the time that Rest in Peace k Sleigh had COVID.
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Speaker 1: Man Kase Slay got sick at the same time, and
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Speaker 1: he went in the hospital and I didn't um, and
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Speaker 1: I was talking to k I was talking back and forth,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I remember him telling me he said,
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Speaker 1: O kid, I almost checked out last night. And then UM,
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Speaker 1: I stopped talking to him and I started talking to
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Speaker 1: his MS and me and Hub were going back and forth.
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Speaker 1: I was checking to make sure he was all right,
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Speaker 1: and then I said, let me just lay off of
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Speaker 1: him for a while. I know she's probably gone through
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Speaker 1: with him. Let me just lay off. And then next thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, find out that he was he passed. And
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Speaker 1: then when I spoke to it, she said, I can't
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Speaker 1: even going the woman look at him. Wow, she couldn't.
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Speaker 1: His vole manager or somebody was over him playing, but
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Speaker 1: she couldn't even go into him the same. It was
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Speaker 1: just sad. It was sad. Man. Did you have all
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Speaker 1: your shots or did you? Did you go through the
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Speaker 1: shots and the boosters all that? I sure didn't, So
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Speaker 1: how do you feel about that now? Would would you
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Speaker 1: have got your shots? Now? Was one of those things?
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Speaker 1: And why didn't you get the shots? I didn't. I
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Speaker 1: didn't understand. I didn't. I wanted to see where it
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Speaker 1: was going. Man, you know I didn't. I still don't know.
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Speaker 1: You know, um, I will say since the boosters and
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Speaker 1: sister shots came, everything did go down as far as
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Speaker 1: the COVID's concerned. But I just didn't what I wasn't
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Speaker 1: fully convinced yet. I didn't really understand. This is the
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Speaker 1: second time a quarter two. Wow. Yeah, the first time
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Speaker 1: a quarter was it was way worse. I caught that
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the OVID and it was bad.
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Speaker 1: I understood why people died from me Fred to Godson.
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Speaker 1: He was sitting in my carib but a month later
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Speaker 1: he was dead. You know what I'm saying. This dude
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Speaker 1: was dancing around my house and happy. Um, but I
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Speaker 1: just felt like, um, it just wasn't something I was
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Speaker 1: prepared to do at the time. And you know, clue.
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, he when I when I
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Speaker 1: got sick the second time, he sent me see mass
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Speaker 1: He sent me different days, and people from around the
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Speaker 1: country send meself. So I was taking care of and
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Speaker 1: I was good. You know, I just didn't see myself
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Speaker 1: taking them shots shre. I just I don't know. And then,
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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, certain dates that I was
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Speaker 1: supposed to do, certain shows, I was supposed to have
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Speaker 1: to cancel because I didn't have a shot because you
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Speaker 1: didn't have the car. Yeah. Yeah, So but I feel good,
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Speaker 1: I feel healthy, I feel strong. Yeah, man, I didn't
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Speaker 1: have no issues. Everything is beautiful. Man. I was saying
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Speaker 1: that because you know, the other day you're supposed to
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Speaker 1: come up here, and my wife got COVID and my
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Speaker 1: daughter got COVID the baby, and you know they didn't really.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the only reason she even knew we were
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Speaker 1: on our way to go out, like I was in
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Speaker 1: the car. She was dressed maker. We were about to
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Speaker 1: go out on date night and then she sprayed perfuming.
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Speaker 1: Was like, babe, I need you to test me. And
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Speaker 1: I'm like wow. She was like I can't smell the perfume.
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Speaker 1: Wow tested her, she had COVID. I tested all my kids.
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Speaker 1: Nothing tested myself, nothing tested the nanny, nothing tested the baby,
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Speaker 1: who was six months old. Hat COVID. Wow. Um called
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Speaker 1: the doctor immediately and she was like, you know, the
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Speaker 1: reason why it probably didn't affect the baby and mom
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Speaker 1: is because when she was pregnant, she got she got
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Speaker 1: the shot. She got both shots in the booster. So
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Speaker 1: in four or five days it was out there system
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Speaker 1: and they didn't feel anything. My baby she was a
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Speaker 1: little moody, but nothing too crazy things. So it's not
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Speaker 1: as strong as it was now as it was Dan
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Speaker 1: when it was killing people. It was just that it's
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Speaker 1: still in the miss still around. Either that or just
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Speaker 1: you know, because she got the shot, it didn't affect
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Speaker 1: the system the same way. You know. I just had
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Speaker 1: it myself, like, um, how long ago? Is that a
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Speaker 1: couple of months ago? Maybe like two two and a
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Speaker 1: quarter too, But it just felt like a cold. I
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Speaker 1: only had it. I was probably I felt a little
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Speaker 1: under the weather, and I don't get sick that often,
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Speaker 1: so I was like, this doesn't feel right. So I
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Speaker 1: did an at home test. It was positive, and then
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Speaker 1: I did another one and that was positive too, And
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Speaker 1: I just was a little under the weather for maybe
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Speaker 1: like three days. Man to see something, To see all
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Speaker 1: the entertainers and all the different people that I knew
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Speaker 1: that passed from this man, it was. It was a
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Speaker 1: treacherous time, you know. Last the last pandemic was in
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Speaker 1: two in nineteen eighteen. That was the last time they
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Speaker 1: had it. Did Win went to the same thing two
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Speaker 1: years of masks and everything went around. But imagine what
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Speaker 1: they went through then without having the medicines and the
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Speaker 1: technology that they have now. Back then they had to
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Speaker 1: stay to suffer that out. So it was definitely something
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Speaker 1: that turned the world around. It made it kind of
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Speaker 1: cheapened the world a little bit for a minute, you know,
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Speaker 1: and you didn't know what they expect. That must have
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Speaker 1: been scary for your family too. Absolutely, And when I
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Speaker 1: got sick, you know, everybody reached out from around the world. Man,
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Speaker 1: I shot everybody that did that. But it was a
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Speaker 1: scary moment because you know, you don't you don't know,
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Speaker 1: you don't know it did it all of a sudden.
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Speaker 1: It just pops uporing you, And how do you deal
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Speaker 1: with it? Like with Biz. With Biz Mark man like
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Speaker 1: to see him going right now, for him to not
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Speaker 1: be here, that's just wild to me. Man. I was
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Speaker 1: looking at him in the Caskey Man, I couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, This is a dude. It's
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Speaker 1: some people that you just you know, everybody's gonna go
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Speaker 1: one day, but it's some people that you just see
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Speaker 1: them here forever, like a Michael Jackson. You see him
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Speaker 1: for if forever, you know what I'm saying. But unfortunately
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Speaker 1: it's not that way, and you're in Bisiness Markey have
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Speaker 1: such a rich history together. Biz Markey gave me my
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Speaker 1: first album deal when I don't even one album there.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't even trying to be a rapper. I got
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Speaker 1: hot with the mixtapes in the street. I'm selling. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was Coach and I sell the little rhymes on
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Speaker 1: the mixtapes, you know, they got popping in the street,
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Speaker 1: and he gave me mom done. He could have gave
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Speaker 1: the album done anybody that was a good, worthless rapper
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Speaker 1: at the time, but he gave it to me. Sat
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Speaker 1: in the studios, the beats, vote the rhymes in the
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Speaker 1: studio and we put it out. And um, you know,
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Speaker 1: record has never been in my bread and butter. So
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Speaker 1: that's why I didn't do one every year. My next
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Speaker 1: record wasn't until seven years later, which the soundtrack in
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Speaker 1: the Streets, and now I got my new one out
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Speaker 1: twenty something years later after that. So you think if
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Speaker 1: you would have been consistent about putting out your own
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Speaker 1: records back then, it could have been your bread and butter. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it could have been. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to deal with clamasses. I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to deal with attitudes. I didn't want to deal with egos.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to deal with all that stuff. I'm
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Speaker 1: an easy dude. I like things to just go easy,
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Speaker 1: everybody to be happy, and we just have fun to
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Speaker 1: do what we do. This is supposed to be fun,
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Speaker 1: this ain't supposed to be a thing. We're supposed to
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Speaker 1: stress out of it. So when I did the soundtrack
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Speaker 1: and Streets album, dealing with clamasses, dealing with the schedule,
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Speaker 1: people coming to studio drunk, you know, just different things
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Speaker 1: that he was like, you know, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I want to do this, and now I'll just make
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Speaker 1: records here and then when a mask. But then when
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Speaker 1: I did album, when I started helping the Battle Rappers,
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Speaker 1: a lot of battle rap, you know, or the battle
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Speaker 1: rap thing, a lot of artists wasn't helping because it
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Speaker 1: was figuring that the Battle Rappers couldn't make good records,
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Speaker 1: which was a stigma on them. I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: let me go and try to take that stigma away.
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Speaker 1: So I win't got the Battle Rappers that did the
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Speaker 1: album called Top Tier, which was the album for this one,
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Speaker 1: I just never put it out, but they gave me
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Speaker 1: the attitude of yeah, I can do this because it
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Speaker 1: was humble came in, they did everything I asked him
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Speaker 1: to do, was on time, you know, and it was
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Speaker 1: just a breath of fresh yair for me at that
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Speaker 1: time to do it. So that's what caught me. Got
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Speaker 1: back in the moves. So when I did the Love Album,
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Speaker 1: that put me in the real big focus, and it
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Speaker 1: all started from the top two album before we talk
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Speaker 1: about the Love Album. When it comes to DJs, you're
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Speaker 1: probably one of the most known DJs when it comes
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Speaker 1: to hip hop, probably one of the biggest and best DJs.
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Speaker 1: What do you think of the DJ culture now, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you this, Sammy. You know when I was
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Speaker 1: getting on at that time, Man, unless you was somebody
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Speaker 1: that was behind the group, like jam Master J behind
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Speaker 1: Run DMC or Jazzy Jeff behind Fresh Prints or Red
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Speaker 1: Alert on the radio. At the time, DJs wasn't getting
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Speaker 1: the recognition, the money, and the respect that they were
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Speaker 1: supposed to get. And that was part of my whole
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Speaker 1: fight was to have a to have a stance on.
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Speaker 1: Treat me like an artist. I have to be good
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Speaker 1: enough to demand and that type of respect. But when
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Speaker 1: I show you who I am, treat me as such.
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Speaker 1: So when I would get on stage with this platinum
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Speaker 1: artist that had this big record that sold millions of records,
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Speaker 1: what am I going to do? I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: better than that dude on that stage because I had
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Speaker 1: to be because the imagery of the DJ was we
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Speaker 1: just play records, We just come a dime. A dozen
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Speaker 1: girls will look at us like he's just a DJ,
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Speaker 1: you know, And I didn't want to be looked at
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Speaker 1: like that. I wanted to be looked at as an artist.
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Speaker 1: So my whole thing always been to make the DJ
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Speaker 1: be an artist. Why aren't were on the front page
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Speaker 1: award shows, award magazines, or being invited to award shows,
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Speaker 1: or being held to regard as somebody that, like a
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Speaker 1: Stevie wanted that plays keyboard. I'm playing the turntables. Why
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Speaker 1: can't that be an instrument as well as a keyboard?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So that was my mindset.
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Speaker 1: So to see the DJ elevate to where it's at
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Speaker 1: right now, that was always in my plan from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: Where the downside is is that when you got signed
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Speaker 1: to a record label, if you got into a club,
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Speaker 1: the DJ l you got hired, got booked, you were special.
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Speaker 1: Now it's to the point where anybody could grab a
9:09
Speaker 1: computer through a bunch of MP three's on it or
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Speaker 1: a fly out and they're out. They didn't do no
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Speaker 1: artist development. Ain't you know struggle, They ain't been here.
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Speaker 1: They ain't cry. They had no doors shutting their face.
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Speaker 1: Everything was set up for them to just do what
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Speaker 1: they got to do, which is cool and I'm not
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Speaker 1: mad at that, but understand where it comes from. Understand
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Speaker 1: that's why all the older people always been my heroes.
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Speaker 1: I would never talk down And I'm not saying anybody
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Speaker 1: talking down on me. I'm just saying I would never
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Speaker 1: talk As a general statement, I would never talk down
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Speaker 1: on the people that came before me, the older people,
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Speaker 1: or the people that I might not got the money
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Speaker 1: to accolades or the things I might have later on.
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Speaker 1: They always looked at to me as heroes because they
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Speaker 1: didn't get those things. And so that's why it's it's always,
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Speaker 1: it's always, it's always right to understand where it comes from.
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Speaker 1: Understand where you're at, and if you're gonna be in this,
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Speaker 1: then understand that it's not just about you. It's never
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Speaker 1: about me. Whenever I go do a show, whenever I'm
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Speaker 1: in the venue, it's always about the people that paid
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Speaker 1: that money to come see me. How can I make
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Speaker 1: them feel better than they did before they got there.
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Speaker 1: That's my whole focus. So that's what we need to
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Speaker 1: worry about now. Who's the best DJ, who's the best
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Speaker 1: at this, who could shine on this? If I look
10:18
Speaker 1: out for this person, it's he gonna outshine me because
10:21
Speaker 1: I looked out. And that's not what's important. What's important
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Speaker 1: is we help each other and keep the movement going
10:27
Speaker 1: because you got things like TikTok. You know, stuff like
10:32
Speaker 1: that is dictating what's supposed to go on. And you
10:34
Speaker 1: know that's why we got to stay strong in it.
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Speaker 1: Why do you think that a lot of the older
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Speaker 1: DJs sometimes feel a way like or what I mean
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Speaker 1: like that. It's it's like I feel like some of
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Speaker 1: the older DJs a lot of times don't want to
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Speaker 1: help the younger generation. I'll tell you this. Soldier Boy
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Speaker 1: made a statement saying that the oldgs don't want to
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Speaker 1: help the youngest. That's not true. If you listening to
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Speaker 1: my radio shop playing young music, the old music everything together,
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Speaker 1: we can't even put me in. I'm a different thing.
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Speaker 1: But I've watched, uh, I watched Grandmaster Flash the other
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Speaker 1: day on a I G. He said that DJs was out,
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Speaker 1: saying that the new DJ's are the in the new
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Speaker 1: influences or the new something that he said, and he
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Speaker 1: also said that that's disrespectful, which it is. Um, if
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Speaker 1: you haven't done, if you haven't done with a kid,
11:29
Speaker 1: could pre done, or a flash done, or you know
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Speaker 1: anybody that's been around and did everything. You can't make
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Speaker 1: statements like that. You can't. You can't be the man
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Speaker 1: in your city. And because you're the man in your city,
11:45
Speaker 1: that's then't all be over. If I take you out
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Speaker 1: of that city and put you in why I'm with
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna be able to do? If I take
11:50
Speaker 1: you out of that city and put you in Mexico? What'
11:52
Speaker 1: you're gonna do? If I take you out of that
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Speaker 1: city and put you in alb put you in Anchorage, Alaska,
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do? You're gonna be able to satisfy
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Speaker 1: those people to where you do at your hometown. But
12:02
Speaker 1: what happens is we get caught up in this thing
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Speaker 1: where we embody who we are. I said this line
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Speaker 1: on one of the new songs that did, I hate
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Speaker 1: a little rapper that's a wrapper all day. I'm David Loved.
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Speaker 1: When I wake up, I'm not kicking free when I
12:15
Speaker 1: wake up, I'm kicking pre when I need to be
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Speaker 1: turned it on. When I have to but sometimes we
12:20
Speaker 1: embody this thing that when we make it to a
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Speaker 1: certain level where that and that's it, that's the end
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Speaker 1: of all. Is nothing beyond that, it's nothing before that.
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Speaker 1: We are in and that's it, and it goes further
12:31
Speaker 1: than that, it goes way further than that, and that's
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Speaker 1: what we have to respect. We have to respect each
12:36
Speaker 1: other's position. So I try to stay um as balanced
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Speaker 1: as I can, try to stay at home when grounded
12:44
Speaker 1: as I can, and just it's still learning and still
12:47
Speaker 1: trying to be creative and try to make people just
12:51
Speaker 1: understand that it's not it's always bigger than what I'm
12:54
Speaker 1: trying to do. It's always about them. So that's where
12:56
Speaker 1: I'm at with it. And we always ask this question.
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Speaker 1: We talked about the Mount Rushmore and DJ's right, we'll
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Speaker 1: be on your Mount Rushmore and DJ's a while, Um, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna put myself up there. And there's a
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Speaker 1: reason why I'm gona putt myself up there because of
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Speaker 1: the business I brought to the to the game, the style,
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Speaker 1: the way I a DJ should look. Don't put yourself,
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Speaker 1: let nobody put you in the corner, be in the
13:19
Speaker 1: center stage like you're gonna tell jay Z to grab him,
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Speaker 1: put him in the DJ in the corner, right, This
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Speaker 1: is how we got to be treated as artists. But
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Speaker 1: if the Mount Rushmore is for me, will be grandmaster
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Speaker 1: flash red alert, Um, I would say, Hollywood, and I
13:43
Speaker 1: will put myself in there because of what my accomplished
13:46
Speaker 1: was accomplishments. Well, but there's probably somebody else that I
13:49
Speaker 1: probably deserve to be there before me. Now, as far
13:52
Speaker 1: as DJ's coming up, who do you look like? Who
13:55
Speaker 1: do you say? Okay? This? This DJ has took it
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Speaker 1: to the next level. He nice just took it to
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Speaker 1: the next level with what's going on with that. Abutely,
14:03
Speaker 1: positively definitely took it to the next level with that.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind, I tell everybody that was lightening
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Speaker 1: in the bottle that was lightening, don't follow it like
14:12
Speaker 1: that was perfect time, perfect time. He does it. He
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Speaker 1: does it as generic as it was. It wasn't like
14:19
Speaker 1: I did it for a check. He did it out
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Speaker 1: of his heart, and that's what resonated with the people
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Speaker 1: when you do things from your heart. That's why I
14:26
Speaker 1: had a hard time with DJ's or supposedly DJ's that
14:32
Speaker 1: was up there begging for cash apps when the turn
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Speaker 1: of the pandemic capp and five days later about that,
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Speaker 1: A lot of people manage you about that, I didn't
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Speaker 1: care who was mad, and I still don't care what
14:42
Speaker 1: we explained. So if you don't know, kickapri a lot
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Speaker 1: of DJ's during the pandemic, when they DJ, they put
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Speaker 1: that cash app on the bottom. That's not what happened. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry you happened. What happened was I personally think
14:56
Speaker 1: people should send you money. If you up there DJ
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Speaker 1: and wasting electricity and sweating and trying to entertain the people, Yeah,
15:03
Speaker 1: they're supposed to, damn light, send you money. And if
15:05
Speaker 1: you want to put your little pin up there because
15:07
Speaker 1: you don't want to keep answering the people, but I
15:09
Speaker 1: want to send you money. You damn light. When when
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Speaker 1: you turned to the camera in the middle of people's misery,
15:15
Speaker 1: five days after it started, and the first thing you
15:18
Speaker 1: saying out your mouth is Joe, who could send me
15:21
Speaker 1: fifty dollars of my cash yap in the next ten minutes? Yo,
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Speaker 1: two minutes, send me send me twenty dollars. Yo. I
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Speaker 1: need I need yo, I need you to send me.
15:28
Speaker 1: Now you're making the business that took care of myself.
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Speaker 1: And you look trashy. You make it look like we're
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Speaker 1: a bunch of beggars. There was no cooks up there
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Speaker 1: doing that, no no actors up there doing that. There
15:40
Speaker 1: was no behind the scene sports people, no sports people.
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Speaker 1: There was nobody up there doing that. But the DJs. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, but the DJ was the one, and it
15:52
Speaker 1: was people that wasn't really DJ's. They would probably somebody
15:57
Speaker 1: that had a controller, and you know, they did what
15:58
Speaker 1: they're doing, but they in the name with the DJ,
16:00
Speaker 1: they just made it look terrible. And I got promoters
16:03
Speaker 1: all around the country watching, you know what I'm saying,
16:06
Speaker 1: promoter to C that said, yo, he's doing this back
16:07
Speaker 1: and I ain't paying what they want. Biking bins look crazy.
16:10
Speaker 1: And that's how I came from it. So it wasn't
16:12
Speaker 1: a thing about it where people to make money. Of course,
16:14
Speaker 1: someone you to make money, especially in the situation that
16:17
Speaker 1: was going on, but there's a classy way of doing things,
16:20
Speaker 1: you know. And my way of my thing was, you know,
16:22
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do y'all see me up here on the
16:24
Speaker 1: live doing my thing, come seeing the mall if y'all
16:26
Speaker 1: like it, had me come do your wedding, had me
16:29
Speaker 1: come do your event. That's a that's a business way
16:31
Speaker 1: of doing it, in in a classy way of doing it
16:33
Speaker 1: where you don't look like you're taking advantage of people misery.
16:35
Speaker 1: So that's when my problem was, and I stood on it,
16:38
Speaker 1: and I remember mister C called me. He said to me,
16:40
Speaker 1: it was like your kid, what you said was one
16:42
Speaker 1: hundred percent right. But what even more that I love
16:45
Speaker 1: about it is that you stood on what you said.
16:48
Speaker 1: It didn't matter if somebody felt the way about it
16:50
Speaker 1: or not, because they didn't totally understand where I was
16:53
Speaker 1: coming from. And that's whereever were living in this internet ever,
16:56
Speaker 1: is that you gotta be real particular and real sure
16:59
Speaker 1: about what you say when you say it, because if
17:01
Speaker 1: you meant something, they don't take for sure. You and
17:06
Speaker 1: Scratch got into it a little bit because of that.
17:08
Speaker 1: The y'all level squashed that out and said, like if
17:09
Speaker 1: y'all got back and forth for that, and I hated
17:12
Speaker 1: it because y'are both my guys and I look up
17:14
Speaker 1: to both for you guys, but y'all were both stand
17:16
Speaker 1: on what you believe, and but what you understanding is
17:19
Speaker 1: like Scratching Kid or the two DJs that you grew
17:23
Speaker 1: up watching. Well, I did my generation, I can say,
17:25
Speaker 1: because a lot of kids say they grow up watching me,
17:27
Speaker 1: But I watched Scratch. I watched Scratch through the tricks,
17:29
Speaker 1: and I you know, I used the same mask and
17:32
Speaker 1: try to do the same tricks as him and Kid
17:34
Speaker 1: could pree like a lot of his style I got
17:36
Speaker 1: from Kid. Yes, I'm the same way. Don't put me
17:39
Speaker 1: on the side stage, put me in the middle. Don't
17:41
Speaker 1: don't don't make me aside, No, put me right in
17:43
Speaker 1: the middle. I'm the star to night. I seem the
17:47
Speaker 1: way that you speak, the way that you talk, the
17:48
Speaker 1: way that you use your mouth paused when it comes
17:50
Speaker 1: to the crowd. I got that from Kid. Now it's
17:52
Speaker 1: the truth because I said the way you thank you
17:58
Speaker 1: just who I am. So to see you guys not
18:01
Speaker 1: necessarily see out of eye on things. Why was that?
18:05
Speaker 1: This is before I'm gonna say this. The verses was
18:07
Speaker 1: the was the was the ice and of the cake man.
18:11
Speaker 1: We already had some issues and let me just say this,
18:14
Speaker 1: Scratch is somebody I spoke to every other day. This
18:18
Speaker 1: is like my brother. So for things that happened the
18:22
Speaker 1: way it did. I was more hurt than mad, you
18:25
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because I didn't see that coming.
18:28
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't see that coming. So I'm not
18:31
Speaker 1: going to get into all everything that happened. But as
18:33
Speaker 1: far as the verses was concerned, you know, um, when
18:36
Speaker 1: I went to verses, I came there and hugged him
18:39
Speaker 1: because at first, to be I wasn't really rocking with it.
18:41
Speaker 1: But did it start from the cash? I think that
18:42
Speaker 1: that's where it started from. He felt, you show it
18:45
Speaker 1: started before that. I started before that, But that was
18:47
Speaker 1: one of the things that me that that was starting
18:49
Speaker 1: to weaken our relationship when he when he interjected in that,
18:53
Speaker 1: and instead of being on my side and understanding where
18:55
Speaker 1: I was coming from, he went and put a message
18:57
Speaker 1: under there saying, before you get at me, D nice
19:01
Speaker 1: for taking cash aps with your naciss sisty ways and
19:04
Speaker 1: all the stuff he said. I wasn't even talking about him,
19:06
Speaker 1: D Knights. You know, it just elevated it to something else.
19:10
Speaker 1: So by the time the verses came, you know, before
19:14
Speaker 1: that whole, before the verses came, I wasn't rocking him
19:17
Speaker 1: at all. And then when the verses came when I
19:20
Speaker 1: was asked to do it. Um, I felt like, you know,
19:23
Speaker 1: it was bigger than me, and it ain't about me
19:24
Speaker 1: and me just going to do the event. It's about
19:26
Speaker 1: these guys. I want to see them get their flowers.
19:28
Speaker 1: Let's just make it happen. So when I got to
19:29
Speaker 1: the venue, first thing I did was seeing scratching. I
19:32
Speaker 1: hugged him. I was like, Yo, we're on rock right now,
19:34
Speaker 1: but you know, I love you and we'll see how
19:36
Speaker 1: the later on. At some point and I walked away,
19:38
Speaker 1: I was it was that was the end of it.
19:41
Speaker 1: No lost, and it was about the event. Let's do that.
19:43
Speaker 1: And the whole time, he had a whole setup where
19:46
Speaker 1: he was trying to shoot on me in front of
19:48
Speaker 1: the whole world. Like he took that opportunity to do that,
19:52
Speaker 1: which wasn't a smart thing first of all, because I'm
19:54
Speaker 1: not the dude you do that to take my talent
19:56
Speaker 1: and you move it to the side. I don't have
19:59
Speaker 1: a record of being bad to people or treating people foul,
20:02
Speaker 1: or doing bad business or any of that. So I said,
20:05
Speaker 1: it's on the drink chairs right there. You lose just
20:08
Speaker 1: because of that alone. Let's take my talent. Move it
20:11
Speaker 1: over there. Now you got to deal with the talent,
20:13
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I hadn't been up
20:15
Speaker 1: against a lot of great people, you know what I'm saying.
20:18
Speaker 1: And Scratch is one of the great people. He is
20:21
Speaker 1: who he is. But nothing intimidates me. Nothing's going to
20:24
Speaker 1: make me fold, nothing's gonna make me feel like this
20:27
Speaker 1: person's going to be better. Even if they are, I'm
20:28
Speaker 1: always going to have that attitude that I'm the greatest
20:30
Speaker 1: on stage no matter what. So for him to do
20:34
Speaker 1: what he did in that setting, it was like a
20:38
Speaker 1: smack in the face because it wasn't about me and him.
20:43
Speaker 1: It was about Carerest and Kane. It was about making
20:45
Speaker 1: sure there was right now. How they came to me
20:47
Speaker 1: and say, your kid, there's a battle situation you want
20:50
Speaker 1: to get I would have saying, hell, yeah, you know
20:52
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, But that's not what was told to me.
20:55
Speaker 1: What was told to me, kid, I need to do assignment,
20:57
Speaker 1: come out there and tell that shit down when you
20:58
Speaker 1: first come out, and then do the care Rest thing.
21:00
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. So when that happened, it
21:04
Speaker 1: was an awkward moment. That's why I started rhyming. I
21:07
Speaker 1: did a little wax scratch because it was an awkward moment.
21:09
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do. It was like dead there.
21:13
Speaker 1: But in that moment, I was pissed off. I was
21:16
Speaker 1: really really hot because I'm thinking like, oh, why would
21:19
Speaker 1: he even do some shit like that, like why where
21:21
Speaker 1: did this come from? And then you know, Carest gets
21:23
Speaker 1: at him, Kane gets at him, so it was just
21:26
Speaker 1: all wrong. It was wrong, But mainly it was about
21:30
Speaker 1: Kane and Chris, and that's what I wanted to do.
21:32
Speaker 1: Like I said on the Dream Chams, I got sucker
21:33
Speaker 1: free clothingline. I could have wore sucker free shirt, sucker
21:36
Speaker 1: free hat. I could have warred the day. But in
21:39
Speaker 1: every situation, it's not about me. It wasn't about me.
21:42
Speaker 1: In that situation, it's about Kane and Chris. It wasn't
21:44
Speaker 1: about me. It's kicking free. I'm here, look at me.
21:46
Speaker 1: I did what you asked me to do, and that
21:49
Speaker 1: was my job of keeping mine. I've been asked to
21:51
Speaker 1: do versus four different times before that, and you know,
21:56
Speaker 1: normally somebody would have took that opportunity because it's dead.
21:58
Speaker 1: I don't take opportunities because his dad. I take it
22:00
Speaker 1: because it's the right thing to do at the right moment.
22:02
Speaker 1: Like the caress and the Kane thing was, have you
22:05
Speaker 1: spoke after Scratch? No? No, no, And here's the thing,
22:11
Speaker 1: after it was all over and everything happened right because
22:16
Speaker 1: we had a meet in the Kane's room and you know,
22:19
Speaker 1: but after it was all over, it if Scratch were
22:22
Speaker 1: to call me him and like your care you know
22:23
Speaker 1: what that was found with out there. But even if
22:25
Speaker 1: you don't rock me like that, that was just foul
22:26
Speaker 1: with I. Did you know what I'm saying. I shouldn't
22:28
Speaker 1: have did that. And I apologize. I just say, you
22:30
Speaker 1: know what, Scratch, I love you, but only worry about
22:32
Speaker 1: lets go fix this shit up and now have been
22:34
Speaker 1: able to fix it up, but it was on our way. Instead,
22:37
Speaker 1: he goes on the net and he lies against me.
22:42
Speaker 1: He says that he said the first thing he said
22:44
Speaker 1: was the vine I said was about Kane. Yeah, that's
22:46
Speaker 1: not the truth. What are you talking about. If I
22:49
Speaker 1: didn't tell Kane, I wasn't gonna do it with him.
22:51
Speaker 1: You wouldn't even been on the show. Kane's my man.
22:54
Speaker 1: My mom used to cook for Kane. No, it was
22:56
Speaker 1: about you. Danny said, Chickie Prie don't want DJs the shine.
23:00
Speaker 1: That's why he brings DJ's on the road with him. Well,
23:04
Speaker 1: ain't that making DJ shine? If I'm bringing DJ's on
23:06
Speaker 1: the road, paying the more this money, they've seeing the world,
23:09
Speaker 1: they're having a good time. They ain't got to worry
23:10
Speaker 1: about nothing. Ain't that making DJ shine? Like? What are
23:13
Speaker 1: you saying? Like he tried to say everything to get
23:14
Speaker 1: him out of that situation. And I understand that, But
23:18
Speaker 1: then I don't because I'm somebody that you talked to
23:20
Speaker 1: all the time. We talk to call me your kid.
23:23
Speaker 1: You know what kind of dude I am. I'm not
23:24
Speaker 1: a dude of you to call me and be like
23:26
Speaker 1: your kid. Nah, hung Nah, Let's work it out. And
23:30
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. So when you when when something
23:33
Speaker 1: like that happens, it's like, damn, man, whare's gonna come
23:35
Speaker 1: from next? Who's next to shit on you? Who's the
23:38
Speaker 1: next one to like mad at what you're doing? So
23:40
Speaker 1: now they're gonna come at you this way? And and
23:43
Speaker 1: it makes you shut down against everybody. And I'm not
23:46
Speaker 1: I'm not naturally like that. I'm an easy going dude.
23:49
Speaker 1: I love I want everybody to win. I want anybody
23:51
Speaker 1: to do good. I want anybody to be happy. And
23:53
Speaker 1: that's my life. That's that's why God has blessed me
23:56
Speaker 1: the way he is blessed me, because I have greatness
23:58
Speaker 1: in my heart for everybody. Now that you said they
24:01
Speaker 1: approached you about a bunch of verses, who did they
24:03
Speaker 1: want you to do verses with? One of them was
24:06
Speaker 1: keep sweat? Do you mean you sit and keep sweat?
24:10
Speaker 1: You the lights can keep sweat? What you mean? No? Yeah,
24:12
Speaker 1: he one day wanted me to back him up. Right now,
24:17
Speaker 1: they wanted me to back him up. But my thing was,
24:19
Speaker 1: he's the mighty keeps sweat. Come on, he is who
24:21
Speaker 1: he is, and he's hauled them on top of that.
24:23
Speaker 1: But I'm a DJ battle, I thought, no, it was not. No,
24:26
Speaker 1: there's never been a DJ And that's another thing. That's
24:29
Speaker 1: another thing too, in the history of versus, there's never
24:33
Speaker 1: been a DJ battle, correct, So for Scratch to do
24:36
Speaker 1: what he did, he didn't make sense. And they just
24:38
Speaker 1: had a Spanish one this weekend this weekend. Yeah, but
24:42
Speaker 1: but up until this weekend that has never been that.
24:45
Speaker 1: So that's why I didn't make no sense. Me and scratch.
24:47
Speaker 1: Don't do what each other do. I don't have sparks
24:50
Speaker 1: and or I don't do that. But that didn't make sense,
24:53
Speaker 1: It just didn't. He came there to kill me, that's
24:55
Speaker 1: what he came mere to do. So but it's all good,
24:57
Speaker 1: it's all good, it's past. But the verses. Yeah, the
25:01
Speaker 1: one thing about versus, when you come there, make sure
25:05
Speaker 1: that you there to work and really get it in.
25:07
Speaker 1: Don't come there playing around, man, because that's that's your
25:10
Speaker 1: all of your legacy in one spot at one time,
25:13
Speaker 1: and the whole world watching it. So you can't come
25:16
Speaker 1: in there playing shout the red, shout to jo see
25:18
Speaker 1: what happened. But you know, I don't think they have
25:21
Speaker 1: took it as sibious as they might have thought. What's
25:28
Speaker 1: your relationship with Flex? I love Flex? I mean Flex
25:31
Speaker 1: act the where you act with me. But I love
25:33
Speaker 1: them like you know, I tell the truth, man. I
25:36
Speaker 1: would love for me and Flex to be super cool.
25:38
Speaker 1: Me and Flex could have made me and Flex could
25:41
Speaker 1: have made so much money when I when I gave,
25:43
Speaker 1: When me and Flex had all the little situation going on,
25:46
Speaker 1: which time, which time? Kid? The last time I always
25:49
Speaker 1: had the big one I called Flex. I see a Flex,
25:53
Speaker 1: You know how much money we could have made, we
25:55
Speaker 1: could make to take because at the time I was
25:56
Speaker 1: doing givey Kid Foundation for the kids. I was going
25:58
Speaker 1: around the country take care or the kids around the country.
26:01
Speaker 1: So I said to Flex, we could have made so
26:04
Speaker 1: much money to take care a bunch of people that
26:05
Speaker 1: needed flex more. Flex thing was more of I don't
26:12
Speaker 1: want to shine or for me than let's take care
26:16
Speaker 1: of other people. Because I said to him, it's not
26:19
Speaker 1: about the DJing, it's about the opportunity that we could
26:23
Speaker 1: create for other people. Right, But he felt like I
26:26
Speaker 1: gave him pleasure. He felt like it wasn't the right
26:31
Speaker 1: time at the time. You know, whatever the case may be.
26:33
Speaker 1: But here's my thing, man, I don't want no beef,
26:37
Speaker 1: those issues, no nothing with nobody. I just want to
26:43
Speaker 1: do good in what I do. I just want to
26:46
Speaker 1: have fun, make my bread, create opportunities for other people,
26:50
Speaker 1: and keep doing what I've been doing. I'm not into
26:53
Speaker 1: if I'm better than this dude, to this dude's better
26:56
Speaker 1: than me, or as carry your spot. I ain't got nothing.
27:03
Speaker 1: I think that'd be great for versus though we could
27:05
Speaker 1: if they could figure out that he will never do
27:07
Speaker 1: it because it's not about who's batter who's not right,
27:09
Speaker 1: it's not it's never it's the culture, right, it's the
27:12
Speaker 1: It's the same thing as you know mixtapes back in
27:15
Speaker 1: the day, but envy. That's when when I told Flex
27:17
Speaker 1: let's have a little bad let's battle, it was about
27:20
Speaker 1: the culture. Keep in mind I didn't get on the
27:23
Speaker 1: same thing about his family, girl, his radio station, his friends.
27:29
Speaker 1: I said, baddle, that's battle for the culture, and that
27:34
Speaker 1: was it. That man got on the sod I fell off.
27:37
Speaker 1: He said all these different things. So I mean, I
27:42
Speaker 1: guess in battle, that's a part of it. But that's
27:44
Speaker 1: not where my head was at. My head was, you know, skills,
27:47
Speaker 1: it's just skilled. Let's just do it and this half fun.
27:49
Speaker 1: It wasn't even about the skills. It was because it
27:50
Speaker 1: take it to take the truth angel. Anything gonna went
27:53
Speaker 1: wrong that day, bad equipment for me. Nobody want to
27:57
Speaker 1: hear excuses. They weren't the results. So I could have
27:59
Speaker 1: had a bad day, would equip me sound man messed up?
28:03
Speaker 1: Whatever that happened in Flex with the one, it's not
28:05
Speaker 1: about that. It's about what we could have did and
28:07
Speaker 1: the opportunities we could create the open doors for other people.
28:10
Speaker 1: That's where my head is always about. You know what
28:12
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's always bigger than me. It's always about
28:15
Speaker 1: how can we make things better. Now, let's talk about
28:18
Speaker 1: this album. Love first album in twenty four years. Yep,
28:21
Speaker 1: he must have been board at home during pandemic. No
28:24
Speaker 1: what it was. I've been on the road from eighty
28:27
Speaker 1: eight to the pandemic. No time over but most that's
28:31
Speaker 1: been my bread and butter. Eighty eight to the pandemic,
28:34
Speaker 1: I've just been going and going and going. So I
28:36
Speaker 1: never had a chance to sit down and focus on
28:39
Speaker 1: anything else. Even when I did the soundtrack the Streets album,
28:41
Speaker 1: I kind of had help because I had track masters
28:43
Speaker 1: with me, But I never had a chance to sit
28:45
Speaker 1: down and just focus on other things. So on the pandemic,
28:49
Speaker 1: I did four albums. Well did the fifth album or
28:52
Speaker 1: it's five albums or the five albums? I did the
28:54
Speaker 1: real We opened the real estate, we opened up the
28:57
Speaker 1: fucking free clothingline, started um started another business. So that's
29:02
Speaker 1: what I say. I had a chance to sit down
29:05
Speaker 1: and just focus on stuff. So when I did this album.
29:07
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why I did this album was
29:09
Speaker 1: I seen a little pump disrespect eminem No nobody listened
29:12
Speaker 1: to you, old nobody listening to you. I'm like, Yo,
29:15
Speaker 1: what's up? It's calling people old and like, does that
29:18
Speaker 1: mean they're not capable? So on one of my records,
29:21
Speaker 1: The Business, on the album, I say that, I say, um, um,
29:24
Speaker 1: y'all better stop back and like the old js ain't capable.
29:27
Speaker 1: Get your ass crushed on that stage. I say that
29:29
Speaker 1: on the record, right. So when I seen the pump
29:31
Speaker 1: say what he said, that kind of contribute to me,
29:34
Speaker 1: you know, I said, you know, let me do that then.
29:36
Speaker 1: And then I started seeing some of the older statesmen
29:40
Speaker 1: and the music being too scared to put their music
29:41
Speaker 1: out because they're scared about what the young DJ's is
29:43
Speaker 1: going to do. And Um, I just said, you know what,
29:48
Speaker 1: let me just let me just write slack he I
29:49
Speaker 1: wrote slap Cam my first joint. I just wrote it.
29:52
Speaker 1: And when I seen that, I was like, Wow, did
29:55
Speaker 1: the record came out good? And then I did the album.
29:59
Speaker 1: So when I put sla Key out, my thing was
30:01
Speaker 1: if people don't accept this record, if I get any
30:04
Speaker 1: kind of negative or this record, the album's never going
30:06
Speaker 1: to see the light of the day, even though I
30:07
Speaker 1: knew what I had, even though I knew I had it,
30:10
Speaker 1: And with this album, I could have asked any of
30:12
Speaker 1: my producer friends or any artists that I know would
30:15
Speaker 1: come getting this album I did. I produced the world everything.
30:18
Speaker 1: I just did everything, and I wanted to show the
30:20
Speaker 1: world that I'm not just DJ Kikapre. I'm everything. But
30:24
Speaker 1: DJ kick Kapri is where I got big as I
30:26
Speaker 1: got to Grammy on my wall with jay Z, I
30:28
Speaker 1: got different accolades of records I produced, but I got
30:32
Speaker 1: biggest kick compre DJ, so they never looked at me.
30:35
Speaker 1: In another way, I don't get a lot of credit
30:37
Speaker 1: for writing or producing, so this was part of the
30:40
Speaker 1: reason for me to do it. So I put my
30:42
Speaker 1: mother on the front cover. I put my daughter in
30:43
Speaker 1: the arena in the uptown record, and I made it
30:46
Speaker 1: about the love. I mean about the love of the
30:49
Speaker 1: career and the music and everything that should be going on.
30:52
Speaker 1: How you should listen to music, how body of work
30:54
Speaker 1: should be made. It should never just be just one
30:56
Speaker 1: thing because that one thing is hot. Make it everything,
31:00
Speaker 1: so it's layers to it, you know, and um what
31:04
Speaker 1: likest the most DJs put out albums, it's like a
31:07
Speaker 1: compilation situation. Yeah. Well the first album like that of
31:12
Speaker 1: his Car was marbum soundtrack of the Streets, right what
31:16
Speaker 1: other DJ? But then you have DJ Quick who was
31:18
Speaker 1: ah of what I'm saying, you have Run was a
31:22
Speaker 1: DJ um who else? Diamond D, DJ producer, you know,
31:30
Speaker 1: Q Tips, you know what I say. So you have
31:33
Speaker 1: people that is, you know, But for me to sound
31:38
Speaker 1: the way I sound right now, after all the time,
31:41
Speaker 1: my last album and at my age right now, it's
31:45
Speaker 1: pretty dope, you know what I'm saying. The beats, everything,
31:47
Speaker 1: the way I write, the way I perform it. I
31:49
Speaker 1: haven't got one complaint since I put this album out
31:52
Speaker 1: now one person said, Okay, you shouldn't have did this,
31:54
Speaker 1: or this record is whack, or that reck is week.
31:56
Speaker 1: I haven't got one complaint. The only frustrating part for
31:59
Speaker 1: me is I know that everybody doesn't know what's there.
32:02
Speaker 1: Because I'm independent. I don't have no big machine mihama.
32:04
Speaker 1: I'm doing it myself. I try to make it as
32:06
Speaker 1: good as possible so that it will have life on
32:09
Speaker 1: its own, whether DJ's on the radio played or they don't,
32:14
Speaker 1: or if you get the big backing behind it, I
32:17
Speaker 1: wanted to make an album that people will really like, say, Yo,
32:20
Speaker 1: this is really good, and that's all I've been getting.
32:22
Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's what the feedback ben. So you know,
32:25
Speaker 1: I shot three of the videos I did a slap
32:28
Speaker 1: key or the Uptown I did Why to wake those out?
32:30
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing more videos to it. And another thing,
32:33
Speaker 1: a lot of people put their their projects out and
32:36
Speaker 1: after a month for their project being out there, offer
32:39
Speaker 1: to the next thing, like their project ain't work for
32:42
Speaker 1: them putting the time to it. I'm never scared to
32:45
Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. I'm always going to work.
32:47
Speaker 1: I have no problem with working, and I'm going to
32:49
Speaker 1: continue to promote my album as long as I need to.
32:51
Speaker 1: I own it as mine, you know. And this is
32:54
Speaker 1: a This is a message to a lot of people
32:56
Speaker 1: out there. Sixty thousand records come out of day on Spotify.
32:59
Speaker 1: You're us. You could get lost and everything. So it's
33:02
Speaker 1: up it's up to you to make sure that people
33:05
Speaker 1: know what's there. Now. Every radio station is going to
33:07
Speaker 1: take care of it. You ain't gonna not everybody's gonna
33:09
Speaker 1: have two hundred, two hundred fifty thousand dollars to promote
33:11
Speaker 1: one record on the radio and across the board, So
33:14
Speaker 1: you have to make it as good as possible and
33:16
Speaker 1: then be able to take that cool thing about you
33:19
Speaker 1: push to the side and work it and make people
33:22
Speaker 1: know what's there, and keep pushing it and keep nothing
33:24
Speaker 1: people knowing, and be cool with the DJs and be
33:26
Speaker 1: cool with people that can help you and in return
33:29
Speaker 1: return them favors back to those people don't get on
33:33
Speaker 1: like a lot of artists do when DJ's helped them,
33:36
Speaker 1: and once they get where they're going, they don't even
33:39
Speaker 1: call the check to see if you're healthy. They don't
33:41
Speaker 1: even see if you are right, if you need anything,
33:43
Speaker 1: not that I do, but a call you'll kill you good,
33:45
Speaker 1: you're right. You called me every day when you needed something.
33:49
Speaker 1: So that's what kind of made me kind of shy
33:51
Speaker 1: back from people too, Like I didn't help so many
33:52
Speaker 1: people know same people I help. I can't even get
33:54
Speaker 1: a phone call to say you'll kill you good or
33:56
Speaker 1: who checks up on you? But when you're done and that,
33:59
Speaker 1: who calls you? Like for myself, I know, I know
34:01
Speaker 1: Fat Joe's gonna call, I know Fab's gonna call, I
34:04
Speaker 1: know Norry's gonna call. I know Buster's gonna call. Oh
34:07
Speaker 1: my gods, I love Buster. Um trying to think who
34:10
Speaker 1: else calls all the time? Those are the brothers that
34:13
Speaker 1: will call me all the time, besides clueing you, that
34:15
Speaker 1: make sure I'm good? Who reaches out to the kid?
34:20
Speaker 1: I remember to be honest with searing me. Not a
34:22
Speaker 1: lot of entertainers When I got sick, A lot of
34:25
Speaker 1: entertainers reached out. You know, a lot of actors, a
34:28
Speaker 1: lot of different people. When my mom's died, people like
34:31
Speaker 1: Terry Crews and people like that reached out. But and
34:36
Speaker 1: and you know what, I don't know if I have
34:38
Speaker 1: a type of a type of imagery that people think
34:43
Speaker 1: I'm all right, like nothing's never wrong, or like I
34:46
Speaker 1: got everything under control. I'm as human as anybody else.
34:50
Speaker 1: I guys feelings like anybody else. You know. I want
34:52
Speaker 1: to be checked on too. Give me a call your kid?
34:54
Speaker 1: You good? Because this is how I move. I remember
34:56
Speaker 1: one time Busters said to me, your kid, you never
34:58
Speaker 1: asked for no? You called me. He's like, Yo, you're
34:59
Speaker 1: never ask for nothing. I said, ask for no because
35:02
Speaker 1: I always call a check on them, CV healthy whatever.
35:04
Speaker 1: You never asked form no? I said, why do I
35:06
Speaker 1: need to ask for something because I know you got
35:07
Speaker 1: that got my own. Like I called the check on
35:09
Speaker 1: you generally because I care about how you're doing, if
35:11
Speaker 1: you're healthy, if you're eating everything, so are you moving around?
35:14
Speaker 1: You know, you don't think about these things sometime and
35:17
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna say now, I say, I get it. You
35:19
Speaker 1: used to people having their hand out all the time.
35:20
Speaker 1: So when somebody don't, they're looking out for you. You
35:22
Speaker 1: know you used to that. I get I can't stand
35:24
Speaker 1: what people call and they don't tell you right away
35:26
Speaker 1: what it is if they want, but they try to
35:27
Speaker 1: act like they make a small talk. But you know
35:29
Speaker 1: this person is calling me for a reason. Let's just
35:31
Speaker 1: get to it. Yeah, but it's it's it's dope. When
35:33
Speaker 1: somebody called yo, you are is everything straight? Like you
35:37
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like and and and and that's
35:39
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. That's somebody that really care about
35:41
Speaker 1: what you're doing and care about well being and how
35:43
Speaker 1: and you know you can have your life in their
35:45
Speaker 1: hands and then and you're straight. But now you know
35:47
Speaker 1: then fortunately we live in a business. We're in the
35:49
Speaker 1: business where we love the business. We love we get
35:51
Speaker 1: out of it. But it's not for everybody, but everybody
35:53
Speaker 1: wants to be a part of it. And some of
35:55
Speaker 1: those people that are part of it, their heart is
35:57
Speaker 1: not in the place where my heart might be. And
35:59
Speaker 1: I used to get confused with that. She say, Yo,
36:01
Speaker 1: why nobody think the way I think? Why nobody see
36:03
Speaker 1: this the way I see it and take it personal?
36:05
Speaker 1: But you can't. You can't. Everybody's their own individual you
36:08
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Let me ask you this, if
36:09
Speaker 1: all the artists that you've worked with and helped you,
36:11
Speaker 1: what are you most proud of? Like what collab would
36:14
Speaker 1: you say? This is the one that I'm like, this
36:17
Speaker 1: was a defining moment. I'm really proud when Madonna called me.
36:21
Speaker 1: When I did Madonna Madonna, I mean, jay Z have
36:25
Speaker 1: everybody I worked with, I'm very honor But when Madonna
36:29
Speaker 1: called me, that was weird. That was that was It's different.
36:33
Speaker 1: It's all the way with that side, because that wasn't
36:34
Speaker 1: even somebody I had a relationship with. Right and she
36:38
Speaker 1: called and asked me to produce Masterpiece for I did that,
36:41
Speaker 1: and then she asked me to do the record. She
36:43
Speaker 1: wanted me to redo the record with her Nicki Minaj
36:46
Speaker 1: that she had out, but she already paid L M
36:48
Speaker 1: FAO to remix it. But she still gave me the
36:51
Speaker 1: same amount of money that she gave me for Masterpiece
36:55
Speaker 1: to put to remix this record, just to hear I
36:58
Speaker 1: would come out. And she never got the record, never
37:00
Speaker 1: asked for the money back, never came and got the record. Nothing.
37:03
Speaker 1: I still have the record. So I said this on
37:06
Speaker 1: Drink Champs. Nobody better ever talked bad about mcdonna. She's
37:09
Speaker 1: all right with me. The top of the lists, and
37:12
Speaker 1: she got that bag in a big way. So let's
37:14
Speaker 1: let's play record off the album. What you want in
37:16
Speaker 1: now you can play her type, her type, her type.
37:19
Speaker 1: And we appreciate you for joining us to legend the
37:21
Speaker 1: og kick compression love for us your daughter, give us
37:26
Speaker 1: an update on Na. Also, she's working on her She's
37:29
Speaker 1: in the studio all the time, man. And you know,
37:31
Speaker 1: I don't have no dealers with how she do a music,
37:34
Speaker 1: guy in and to nothing as y'all let her rock
37:36
Speaker 1: and do her thing. But she's really really works hard.
37:40
Speaker 1: She really works hard, as she every time I talk
37:42
Speaker 1: to you. A matter of fact, she's in the studio
37:43
Speaker 1: more than I see her, you know. And it's it's
37:46
Speaker 1: it's that business. You gotta be consistent, gotta stay hard,
37:49
Speaker 1: you gotta really work. And when she started show me
37:50
Speaker 1: that she could sing, it was more than just to sing,
37:52
Speaker 1: and she had to show me. I knew that she
37:54
Speaker 1: would be able to handle the business how it goes,
37:57
Speaker 1: you know, when you know how it is out here.
37:58
Speaker 1: But more than that, she could treat people good and
38:02
Speaker 1: you know, really perform and really work hard and show
38:04
Speaker 1: me a lot. So she's she's doing that thing, man.
38:06
Speaker 1: And then one last thing I wanted to ask you.
38:07
Speaker 1: DJ Premiere was up here the other day and we
38:09
Speaker 1: were talking about hip hop turning fifty next year, So
38:12
Speaker 1: do you have any big plans, oh, anything that you're
38:15
Speaker 1: planning to do, because that is a big deal. Yeah,
38:17
Speaker 1: I gotta think of that. I can't let that go
38:19
Speaker 1: that day go without me doing something. I'm gonna figure
38:22
Speaker 1: it out. I've been so busy with everything, man, It's
38:24
Speaker 1: be hard to keep up with a lot of stuff.
38:25
Speaker 1: But you're right, I gotta definitely start and so many artists.
38:29
Speaker 1: I gotta start planning on that. And this big rock
38:32
Speaker 1: the Bells thing is coming up to that. L just
38:35
Speaker 1: asked me to be a part of um to tell you,
38:38
Speaker 1: I just want to see the show. This is gonna
38:40
Speaker 1: be crazy. I did, but I wouldn't be a part
38:41
Speaker 1: of it too, So it's gonna be dope. But I'm
38:43
Speaker 1: doing my own festival and my own my first you know,
38:46
Speaker 1: I've been on the role forever, but I never had
38:49
Speaker 1: my own kick a pre tour. So now I'm putting
38:52
Speaker 1: that together, now, putting annual festival together. We're working on
38:57
Speaker 1: that right now, and it's gonna be big. It's gonna
39:00
Speaker 1: trying to make it as as big as possible and
39:02
Speaker 1: make it as make it a lot of fun. The
39:05
Speaker 1: festivals in New York or Yeah, well we're gonna try
39:08
Speaker 1: to take it around to different places. I gotta do.
39:10
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, got the big thing with the
39:12
Speaker 1: sound stage of Katona Park coming up August fourteen. From
39:15
Speaker 1: doing that me being a love in the hoodies, it's
39:17
Speaker 1: gonna be real big. So everybody's out there in New
39:19
Speaker 1: York come to Katona Park that day. Katona Park is
39:21
Speaker 1: the legendary park where you know hip hop started, see
39:25
Speaker 1: the park where hurt. But Katona Park is just as
39:28
Speaker 1: important as that park. So make sure y'all come through
39:30
Speaker 1: and have a good time with this man. It's gonna
39:32
Speaker 1: be really dope. All right, Well, this kid could pray.
39:34
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,