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#536 - Kai Ca$h · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: That's right, let's get into the interview Boutlet Cap Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We got a special guest in here. My guys pulled
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  Speaker 1: up shout to Generation Now, always involved and always bringing
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  Speaker 1: new talent to the to the the same man, DJ
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  Speaker 1: Drama Don Cannon, I want you to introduce your news
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  Speaker 1: artists from Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's up, everybody, We're here on boutlet keV, our brother,
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  Speaker 3: our family, and h we brought the newest signee of
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  Speaker 3: Generation Now to the table, to the family, to our guy.
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  Speaker 3: He goes by the name of ky Cash from Brooklyn. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and he is gonna be on the Mount Rushmore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great intro. I don't think it's it's
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  Speaker 2: better than that.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I can't follow that, okay, I mean ship like okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know, keV, we don't been here before, like we
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  Speaker 3: done did this before. You know, it's it's it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of fun sometimes when it's you know, you feel like
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  Speaker 3: good underdog situation, even you know, when you have so
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  Speaker 3: many wins, so many successes. But I mean when we
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  Speaker 3: first met Kai and we first were introduced, like it
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  Speaker 3: was it was a studio session where you know, he
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  Speaker 3: just kept playing record after record after record. He was
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  Speaker 3: blown away, you know what I'm saying, just to you know,
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  Speaker 3: hear those bars, and especially in the climbing of today,
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  Speaker 3: where you know, you only have a real handful of
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  Speaker 3: artists doing the type of music that he's doing right
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  Speaker 3: and can really like you know, come to the table
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  Speaker 3: and really he's really from the cloth.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, that's always been exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Dream Bill fast this weekend too, Yes, sir, Saturday, last
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  Speaker 1: stream Bilfest. I'm super excited. You know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little bit of performance hit is that I
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  Speaker 2: always get before I get on stage, but other than that,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like, hell no.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you get on these guys radar? Because
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  Speaker 1: this is not an easy radar to get on. Facts,
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  Speaker 1: it's not an easy cold to crack. I'm just working
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  Speaker 1: for real.
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  Speaker 2: Some mutuals always put the bug in the air, but
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  Speaker 2: it's just like doesn't always work right. So finally it
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  Speaker 2: came to Fruition and it was just like, yo, let's
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  Speaker 2: let's sit down, let's just see.
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  Speaker 5: What we can.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just listen to the music first and foremost the
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  Speaker 1: most important part. Want to go play the music, and
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  Speaker 1: we hear, yeah, what part of Brooklyn you're from? I'm
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  Speaker 1: from East New York by way a bed style. My
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  Speaker 1: dad is from the sty old family from the sty
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  Speaker 1: so so for people who don't understand, like East New
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  Speaker 1: York because it's is I feel like we we shocked
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  Speaker 1: some ship in the East New York before. What is
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  Speaker 1: the vibe over there?
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  Speaker 2: East New York is the last East New York and
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  Speaker 2: Brownsville are like the last places that are gentrified in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 6: That's I should tell you that aren't right right right
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  Speaker 6: right right? That aren't my bad?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that should tell you everything that you need to
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  Speaker 1: know about it. I feel like if they ever tried
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  Speaker 1: to gentrify Brownsville, like I don't think will come with
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  Speaker 1: a hipsters.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like, yeah, you know it, don't It just
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  Speaker 6: don't make no sense.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's like the grit of Brooklyn for real, and
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  Speaker 2: it still is. It still looks the same, still feels
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  Speaker 2: the same, is it?
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  Speaker 4: Like? By the way, MP is probably in the whole
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  Speaker 4: foods as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shots, it's crazy like our favorite like rappers from
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  Speaker 1: New York are like super healthy now shots and ship.
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  Speaker 4: Gz somewhere you know, drinking a wheat grass shot right.
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  Speaker 1: Jada Kisses is literally all types of pull ups So
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  Speaker 1: I was checking out some of your ship. I saw
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  Speaker 1: you you obviously tapped in with the l A Boys.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you got some ship with Greedo. Yeah, shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Greedo. I got a song with Chick that
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  Speaker 1: it's old the joint. I'm trying to get him back
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. What a new Chick before the Kendrick ship.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean we all did shot the fact
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  Speaker 1: shout out, Yeah for sure. So uh give me kind
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  Speaker 1: of like man like, like what your influences, Like who
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  Speaker 1: are you listening to? Like you know, because I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to your ship and like they said, like I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this ship is like like you really doing this hip
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  Speaker 1: hop ship rapping. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Craziest thing is I listened a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm a fan of music in this entirety, like
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  Speaker 2: even the dumb shit, but like growing up find dumb shit,
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  Speaker 2: dumb ship Like it's this, it's this song called Phoebe Phoebe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's to me is fire, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I really loved as hell, But it's ship like that,
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  Speaker 1: like I fuck with it, Like yeah, he's like he's
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  Speaker 1: the most hilarious artist alive, Like ours are so disrespectfully offensive.
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  Speaker 1: He don't he don't.
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  Speaker 6: Care at all of it, but he just doesn't get
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  Speaker 6: And that's that's my thing.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you hear me, you wouldn't think I would
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  Speaker 2: even listen to somebody like Dave Bloods, but I'll be
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  Speaker 2: listening to everything, like my ear is just open. But
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  Speaker 2: growing up, it was more so like what I seen.
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  Speaker 2: It was Mace, it was chay Zy, it was big
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  Speaker 2: fifty cent Lloyd Banks.
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  Speaker 1: You think Double Up is slept on, Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: do think so.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think it's better than Hallom World though,
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  Speaker 2: But I do think it's slept on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Double Uve has some ship on it. Yeah, it did, definitely. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so Mace is up there for you. Yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool to watch Mace turn into like facts podcaster. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that shit is fine because he's hilarious. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: like really disappointed in the guys that you decided to
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  Speaker 1: do business with because they pumped faked this well, this
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  Speaker 1: fucker right here, Like, you know, I'm gonna do a
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  Speaker 1: podcast for like six episodes and then disappear and stop
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  Speaker 1: doing it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm been doing another season.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is is people like DJ drama, have the
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  Speaker 1: biggest podcast in the world and hip if he but
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  Speaker 1: all he wanted to do was come and get a
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  Speaker 1: bag and then disappear the Silver Surfer.
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  Speaker 6: I'm still should definitely do a part problem.
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  Speaker 1: You should have the biggest hip hop podcast in the
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  Speaker 1: world's can't you put your ship behind a paywall or
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  Speaker 1: something crazy?
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  Speaker 4: No, I put it out through Amazon Prime.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you fucked up. But they gave you a bag,
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  Speaker 1: so take that bag and then you know, launch a
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  Speaker 1: whole new podcast.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a bad idea because they get Calid a bag.
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  Speaker 3: Well I don't know, but they gave me one. Shout
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  Speaker 3: to Kenya Barras.
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  Speaker 1: But yo, for real, like nobody should be fucking with
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  Speaker 1: you in this space.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know again, it's it's very oversaturated right now.
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  Speaker 1: So it is.
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  Speaker 4: If I if I was to, it'd be like me
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  Speaker 4: trying to.
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  Speaker 3: After the Rush try to come out with a DJ
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  Speaker 3: record with like artists on it, like in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: like a little late.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you feel me. So, I mean, I'm not opposed
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  Speaker 4: to it.
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  Speaker 3: But the reason why you brought it up, which is
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  Speaker 3: so dope, is because of how Mason can pivoted and
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  Speaker 3: did like a sports podcast. So if I was to
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  Speaker 3: do something, I would like to do something with a.
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  Speaker 4: Twist to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you could talk about.
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  Speaker 4: But again anything again, I mean I did.
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  Speaker 3: I did have one season run with the Gangster Grills podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We just do you on the ID episodes? Yeah, me
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  Speaker 3: and Kenya on it together. Yeah, and I still have
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  Speaker 3: the visual from it that I haven't put out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't do any visuals.
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  Speaker 4: Huh, No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You just did the whole shit wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was I mean, but you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to say because because of the bag, I chose to
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  Speaker 3: go in the directions. But obviously it would have been
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  Speaker 3: nice to have the video that come out with it.
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  Speaker 1: You have your own, like like actual headquarters where you
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  Speaker 1: could shoot it like you don't need anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean we want to do a whole documentary
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  Speaker 3: about all that too, So that's still in the works.
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  Speaker 4: We got the.
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  Speaker 3: Affiliate story, the Gangster Grill story, the Generation Now story,
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  Speaker 3: the Mean Street studio story.
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  Speaker 1: So are you guys going to do a documentary about
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  Speaker 1: just like the you know, the late two thousand run.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're still trying to figure out and
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  Speaker 3: what context that we want to tell all the stories,
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  Speaker 3: Like is it four part series where we go through
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  Speaker 3: the different time periods? It two separate ones, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So we're still trying to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: Did you grow up listening to Gangster Girls? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Started from maybe like dedication to I think was the
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  Speaker 6: first one that I kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Got familiar with drama was and Cannon, and then from
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  Speaker 2: there I just kept just like I kept hearing them.
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  Speaker 2: It was inevitable. It's like they did every mixtape. So
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  Speaker 2: I've been tapped in for quite some time end in
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  Speaker 2: my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the most slept on mixtapes of all time
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  Speaker 1: to matter facts, it's the brother a little I haven't
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  Speaker 1: even got that far, That's what I'm saying, Little Brothers,
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  Speaker 1: the Mad Gangster Girls taps. I've never heard Skateboard P
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  Speaker 1: One two, heard that one, classic, super classic, Hey Druma,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think is your most underrated mixtape of
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  Speaker 1: all time? And maybe didn't necessarily get like the the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of like a dedication.
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  Speaker 3: To and.
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  Speaker 4: Hm hmm, there's uh Jeremiah Late Nights, Oh for sure, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was it. That was slept on.
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  Speaker 3: What I consider Chris Brown in my zone, slept on.
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  Speaker 3: He came off that joint, A smash came off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there was no bullshit was on there. Yeah, the second one,
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  Speaker 3: Deuces was on there. So yeah, it was a couple
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  Speaker 3: of songs that came off that tape.
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  Speaker 4: What what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Me and beat Out have this argument a lot of times.
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel like Crenshaw gets counted as a gangster
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  Speaker 3: girls as much as it should. That's one, It's so
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  Speaker 3: there's so many What else is a slept one must
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  Speaker 3: have left there?
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  Speaker 5: Slept on the girls?
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  Speaker 4: Huh? I was just about to say that.
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  Speaker 3: I was just about to say that one next I'm
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  Speaker 3: still going in rich preloaded.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was the name of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the way is one ship. Yeah, bad love just
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  Speaker 1: different pocket like after Christian and you guys should fucking
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  Speaker 1: spin the block on like eggster grills, just because I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be opposed to that. You're kind of like, standon
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  Speaker 1: Taylor gang already thirty tours.
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  Speaker 4: And that's I'm definitely tell a gang that's family for life.
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  Speaker 1: Uh do you get just like you know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like Don Cannon's speaking of slept on one of the
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  Speaker 1: most slept on the greatest producers of all time. Facts
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  Speaker 1: do you just get like your your first pick on Beazzer?
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  Speaker 1: Just like yeah, yeah, so you get.
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  Speaker 2: To pull up before you like now he'll just come
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  Speaker 2: in in the in the studio and just open the
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  Speaker 2: laptop and just start playing ship Like he'll play chops,
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  Speaker 2: the simple chops with this Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Even if I don't fuck it, Yep, I need it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's all right sending it to you leave. Are you like,
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  Speaker 1: are you like actively producing? Like with him and mine are.
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  Speaker 7: Actively well because he's there. It's like I know that
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  Speaker 7: he's gonna up on certain things that this game is
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  Speaker 7: really missing, Like I'm going to certain artists they're not
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  Speaker 7: in that bag anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But he's in that bag.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm like, Okay, I'm in that bag. Let me
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  Speaker 5: get there.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I'm in a hip hop state of mind
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  Speaker 7: right now. You know we're purist, So sometimes I just
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  Speaker 7: get in that mode where it's like, man, I know
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  Speaker 7: we're gonna make something special because I'm in that I'm
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  Speaker 7: in that mode.
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  Speaker 1: Is it like we're freshed? Obviously, not to get into
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  Speaker 1: the politics of what happened with Kendrick and Drake. But
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like the Kendrick moment at least brought
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  Speaker 1: like a certain level of like fans being a little
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  Speaker 1: more cognitive to the lyricism one thousand.
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  Speaker 7: Per It brought so much to it. I mean it
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  Speaker 7: invited invited other people to try their hand in bars.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. You've seen Joey Badass just
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  Speaker 5: jump in.
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  Speaker 1: And just yeah, people were manager. I'm like, why don't
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: mad at Joey. Joe's one of the ones like this.
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  Speaker 7: I'm supposed to inviting people to be excited about rapping again.
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  Speaker 7: And that's what that's how we clear up the belly
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  Speaker 7: of hip.
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  Speaker 3: Hop, like you know what I mean, make it interesting,
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  Speaker 3: not even just fans, but like the artists too, artists exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody looked at after that time period, this
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  Speaker 3: time last year and the months that ensued afterwards, like
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody felt like we got to step our
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  Speaker 3: ship up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think too. It's like you see, you know
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  Speaker 1: how you think about the Big Three, like all of
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  Speaker 1: them are like lyrical killers, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: And it's been like that forever and generations and.
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  Speaker 1: The error is like those like that for trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody. I'm like, yo, if y'all see the artists
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  Speaker 1: who are here forever, they got longevity. None of them
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  Speaker 1: are whack.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah they're killers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah a little way, they'll have a little you know,
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  Speaker 1: two three year run. But then it's like, well, ship,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? A little pop? I don't know, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, not to take your shot a little pump,
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  Speaker 1: but but yeah, no, I think I think that's why,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's dope to see, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think Jack's like that too, man Like I think
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  Speaker 1: like Jack had Remia motherfuckers he could rap when he
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  Speaker 1: dropped that Jackman Ship.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, I think you know that was his whole
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  Speaker 4: point in doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little punch in the throat. What's up with
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  Speaker 1: his new uh? His new album? Is it? Is it done?
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  Speaker 4: Is it come?
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  Speaker 1: I know the single with Dose.
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  Speaker 5: Cats out, he's actively working on it, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 7: I just feel like he's still looking for a satisfying
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  Speaker 7: moment for him as far as lyrics and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, these guys are writers, you know him, and
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  Speaker 5: they're writers.
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  Speaker 7: They're sitting there and just going through the best lines,
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  Speaker 7: best possible idea they can and that takes time, you know.
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  Speaker 7: That's how we used to do it back in then,
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  Speaker 7: like three four years sometimes to make an album because
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  Speaker 7: they were trying to come up with the best ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Back in the day, people used to
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  Speaker 1: really like, damn, when is when is NAS gonna drop again?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: The living experience, you know what I mean, just going
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  Speaker 5: out there.
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  Speaker 6: That's why you could appreciate like Tyler so much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially because he makes such a moment out of
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  Speaker 3: it too, and like in every album or every season,
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  Speaker 3: similar to like someone like Outcasts is like it's not
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  Speaker 3: comparable to the last Like that's that doesn't happen that
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  Speaker 3: often these days.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like you have to in order for it
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  Speaker 1: to be so unique and like intentional, you have to
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: take your time, yes, Like you can't rush Chromacopia and
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  Speaker 1: that rollout. Hey, yo, what's the what's the what's the
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  Speaker 1: mood board? Like for this album? What am I gonna wear?
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  Speaker 4: Right? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: Well, ship, college schemes, all that ship.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Kanye used to do before. You know, obviously
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: he's got his own mood board. But like you think.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: But speaking of that too, though, he made a very
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: good point I will say in that interview, and not
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: to get controversial, but when he talked when he was
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: talking about like putting an album together and like you know,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: when you take an album of a certain specific like
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: it needs to be curated to have a certain sound,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: like you know what I mean, Like for sure, people
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: don't do that any like they don't take it that serious.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: H Kyle, what what's up with you?
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: What do you got coming? Man? I know you, I
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: know you dropped a single. Yeah, What you Want just
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: came out? Do you see it?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Before that? And Cash Rules is coming out on April
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: twenty fifth. It's the first project on the label Cash Rules.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just super hype, Like that's why we're out
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: here right now.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pushing are you? I mean? You know, I think
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: at this point, like Generation now has become like a staple.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure if you think about, like appreciate that
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the legacy of you know, two of the biggest artists
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: of the last decade are facts. You know. Yeah, So
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: is is there any pressure now?
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: For me?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: It's more so like I'm just excited because I'm about
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: to be third. That's how I've come into it, Like
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna be the third, right I've seen
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I got the chance to really see, like just as
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: fans first, well as a fan of them first, like
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: how it worked for both of them, Jack and Uzzi,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And it's just like, oh, yeah, I'm in this place.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I can't do no wrong, right, you know, so I'll
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: be more excited than pressure for real?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: What made you tap in with like the la guys? Really,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I used to be out here a lot.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I used to come out here from when I was
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: like thirteen all the way to maybe twenty nineteen, right
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: before COVID, I was out here, damn man.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: So you were out here, grip Yeah yeah, yeah, family
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: out here. Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: My pops ended up staying out here for ten years.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: He had a sneaker store, he had hands and I'm
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: reopening world on wheels before COVID.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Oh dope, Yeah, so I should just be out here. Yeah,
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: so you got fucking ties down?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah's your pop still out here?
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: No?
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, he moved back to New York.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah once COVID, COVID got a little Yeah, COVID
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: fucked everything up. Set in Atlanta.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why I ended up moving to So
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it was just like I don't being outside over.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: There, like damn, you can still get lapd into Yeah,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: they close for a weekend. We shout out to the ATM.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: For you.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Man, Is there anything like obviously would you drop like
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a you know, I know it's not your debut project.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: You got a couple of projects out, yeah, but this
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: is like your first like real major major yeah, you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: released with a generation? Now, is there a are you
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: like super cognisant of like yo ship with fifty dropped
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: his first time? I am there was get rid of that?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I try and Doggie style, like there's all these kind
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of like this legacy of like classic first projects you
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: will is that something you you go into thinking about it?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I try.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I try not to put because that feels like pressured
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: to me sometimes like yeah, and it all comes, you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: when you see the end result, it's like, oh, this
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: is legendary. And I feel like Cashrews is gonna be
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: super legendary still, But I don't really pay that too
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: much attention like I have before. But it's just like nah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: like more so I'd be like, damn, this Nigga might
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: have got a Grammy nomination of his first mixtape for
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: he made a million on his first mixtape, like how
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Drake did or how Meek did or something like that,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: or even like just things in that nature more than
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: like oh this first project with the label so on
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: and so forth, like what can I do with the mixtape?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: That's really how I look at it for the most war.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think there's gonna be a reassurgence of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the mix tape era? It feels like artists are doing
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: more like on the fly ship and not worry too
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: much about DSPs.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Like I think there's some nostalgia.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: There's always some nostalgia, So I don't know if I
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: would see I feel like a full resurgence, But I mean,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: you know, in the last couple of years, obviously, like
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: even after me and Tyler did call me if You
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Get Lost, there was a huge gangster girls resurgeons, Like
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: you see what Swamp is doing with Cardi, Like even with.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: If you listen to.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: West Side projects a lot, like he has various like
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: drops in there and everything. And then like you said,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: like you know, artists are going back to some rogue ship.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Where they even like who Kid getting a drop on
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the push ups was sick fire.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: But I heard.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, check out that who Kid.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I talked when that happened, I hit him like, YO,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: send me the song. I'm thinking he did, he did it,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: he had it, But I just literally literally was just
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: placed there just to give you that tape feels.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: You know, people don't notice too well, don't think about it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: But Damn was a mixtape. M hm, yes, Capri, that
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: drops off, you know what I mean, So that that
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: was another form of it. I was still the other day.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: I was like, Damn, it's actually a mixtape. He's doing
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: what Swamp was doing just little you know, I'm sprinkled
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: throughout the whole joint.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: It's dope for sure.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: That Damn put that in perspective. Yeah, shout to kid Capri. Man,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: he's kind of like the godfather of of course. So yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that's wow.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Man and and ship.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: If you put it like that, it really makes sense
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: since when you think about the mixtapes he was the Godfather,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: went on to become who he was, and then you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: a project like Damn came out and you know, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: didn't even remember Cole put project out and had killer
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: talking at the beginning.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, when we and Cameron just talking
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to another that's another Yeah, that's dope. And he had
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: little John at the end.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: That was hard.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: That was hard.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Dream deal Fest gonna be crazy though. Yeah, I'm hype
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and it's the last one. I'm kind of mad it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the last one. No, man, I think it's been so
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I understand, like why though, I feel like the festival
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: game has been bastardized and hoard out.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we talk about that all the time.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, and then it also
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: kind of fucked up, like you won't see like artists
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: doing like normal shows anymore because they're just holding out
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to get a festival bag because they could charge more.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: So then you won't Like a lot of kids these days,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: they don't have the experience of going to watching their
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: favorite artists do like a three hundred room or three
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: hundred person cap anymore, because they're just gonna go do
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like be like the twelfth artists on Coachella or something
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and look and make it. You know. That's the thing.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: That's why I respect. There's a lot of artists like Doci.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Doci just did her her tour and she did the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Crowbar in Tampa, which is like one hundred and fifty people.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Recently, Yeah, since the Grammy No No, she was.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Touring this mixtape for this project. She did that tour
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and I remember even seeing the dates and I was like, Oh,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: she's doing Crowbar. Wow, that's sick.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: That's fire like.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: But she's smart enough and has people around her to
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: know what it's like to build up to be a
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: have a ticketing fan base, and that's important too.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I think Boss Mandilo just went through that where he
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was getting all that all that club money and his
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: team had to be like, hey man, you're gonna suck
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: up your hard ticket bread and then they did their
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: His tour is going crazy.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Right, that's shot at the Boss Mandlo.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: By the way, you and Boss Mandilo doing a Gangster
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Girls would be fucking like, that would be classic.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I like that idea.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: That should be funny as hell.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that idea that she would be sick
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: because he's kind of like the new Jezy look key
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: like obviously they don't sound the same at all, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: like you know, just subject matter.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: That statement has come up before. It's an interesting statement.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I love Boss Manilo, I love, I love. Just on
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: the intro, make sure you shout out KIV.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Trying to move like idea, let's go.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I would say something way more creative.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, I appreciate it. Let's go.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: It's not a terminology, mister, Thanksgiving Rocko trauma.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, come up with.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Is there any new ak's that you've come up with
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a topical drama? Who dramatic?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I like that fine, man, Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That's man, it's tough.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I like it. I'm probably I'm actually in.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: The dramaa Harris. If she would have won, if she
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: would have won, you go.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: With the drama Harris, Right, I'm gonna probably skip that one.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you couldn't do it now, for many reasons,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: For many reasons.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I didn't think about that one.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: My favorite was the iPod King, though I was mad
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: about that. I want to call myself the.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Bro the iPod Era. I had that big one, that
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: fat silver joint.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Man. I had so many did you have? No?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You had the shirts?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I had the shirts. Yeah, I had the shirts. Somebody
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: had an eye I think they did. Somebody they did.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Somebody had the iPod they did?
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Who was it?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: But it was like the case I pod used to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: be man was crazy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you can still get one, Yeah you can,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: you can, you can't.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: I'm sure the connected technology.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: About like that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Well, you know that PIFF went into bit shot the
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: KP there and this that PIFF bought world Star.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, I know there's some sort of
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: world Star Piff. I just saw KP do an interview
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: just recently.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: He did something with him.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: He did it with at him, he did. I watched that,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So I wouldn't say, like the question you just asked
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: about buying that PIF. What I will say is speaking
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: of mistakes or things that I'm I'm upset that I
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: didn't do.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Was around that time not making Gangster Grills dot com
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: and when artists were trying to put out Gangster Grills
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: not doing it where it was like, okay, you if
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: we can do it, but we're dropping on Gangster girls
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: dot com. Because I remember the type of money that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I was getting paid, initially from loud mixtapes and then
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: from that PIF, and it was I was making more
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: money in that era than I made before the raid,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And that was after the raid.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: That was after the raid.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: This was five cashing for the exclusive.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they were. They were cashing me out for the exclusive.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I was basically on payroll, so I was getting to
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: check every month just to be exclusive, and then when
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: an artist would come, they would cash me out for
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: the tape up until the artists realized what it was,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: and then KP had to start cutting the artist checks,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: which I was totally all for, don't get me wrong.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: But looking back on and thinking about how how much
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: money was being given to me, which means how much
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: money was being made.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: If I would have made a site and like if.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You ought to, almost been like, well shit, if they're
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: paying me this much, they must.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Be feeling enough yeah to cover this and more to
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: be living contently, So why didn't I do this?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: But you know it's all the high site.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you there's a lot of artists you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: guys almost signed.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: How the list is extensive?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: What was like the closest one that people kind of
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want you to like air out
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: somebody's like fucking deal situation, but I know that there's
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a few artists that you guys were talking to that
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: has been it was it was there something that almost
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: got over the finish line that just for whatever reason,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: just didn't work out.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there are many.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I mean we were, we were close to signing Tory
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Lanes shout to his album's hard.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: To listen to it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: It's tough, especially all things considered. Yeah, of course, I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: don't know how he recorded it, but that ship is tough.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we quartered a lot, quartered a lot of artists
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: quarter a lot. I can't remember.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You guys got the compound it a lot.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we quord it a lot. I just can't remember now,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: trying to think. I mean he speaks on it too, huh. Migos,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, migos you know spoken on that EESTG recently.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice guy.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, ot Genesis. I was gonna say that one. Yeah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: it's a bunch.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: What is you guys have done such a good job
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of Like, you guys have had a lot of artists
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that have worked out, but then you've had some that, like,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, don't work out. Right, what from the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: label side and your guys's perspective, You guys have worn
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: too many hats over the years in this music industry.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: What is like the I guess it's twenty twenty five things.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: The rules change every few years in the music game,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: right when it comes to breaking the artists, what are
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the things that, like, you guys feel like you're looking for,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Like someone has to have a certain trade or they
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: have to have a certain work ethic, or like what
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: is it when it comes to signing and all? Because music,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: y'all know this more than anybody. I'm sure music is
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: one thing. You could be talented, you could be dope,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: but that's like just a small part of the pie.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: You almost got to be coachable, low key.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, But you're also asking for something when you're
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: coming to what you would say the sittaple, like you're
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: asking for us to make you the superstar you want
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: to be. You have to actually be convicted in that word,
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: and you really got to do it, Like you really can't,
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Like we're not going to do this promo run come
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: to you and you like start rapping and you can't
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: rap or you're not prepared or you're not in this mode,
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: you're not ready to do the songs. You just you
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: really rebellion against everything, but you really want to be
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: that person, and that's what you run into a lot.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: We run into artists that weren't ready for that stage.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And it's like it's like, if you want to be Lebron,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you got to do Lebron shit.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: And we're convicted in it. So it's like you really
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: want this, Okay, We're going to show you what it takes.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: It's waking up early, it's being in mental shape, It's
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: having all your raps together, it's having your songs together,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: knowing your information, knowing who you're going to sit down with,
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: knowing what that stage to prepare for. Like you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: it's just a lot of those things that I feel
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: like as artists need to prepare for when they come
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: to us because we're not going to stop right, you
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: But you guys also developed talent one thousand, which is
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a lost art form, which is something like that. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: don't like, there's nobody really doing that anymore. Yeah, Like
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I think like if even if you just
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: look at like like Jack had like some dope projects
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: before fucking What's popping? Yeah, you know what I mean,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Like that wasn't like an overnight thing, even though some
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: people might think it was something with Uzy I mean,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you guys fucking had Uzy forever. You know, But like
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: what about the key to just kind of helping develop talent,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you know, because a lot of people like might be dope,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: but hey man, you got to work on a live show.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You know, you got this, this and this going for you.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: We're gonna like, let's say ki right, cool Kyle, We're
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: gonna put a tape.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Out for you.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: We're gonna take you around, introduce you to the public.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Like what did y'all's like strategy when it comes to
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: developing a new artist like that maybe isn't known yet.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we look at ourselves like but
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: it comes to meet Cannon and Lake like the three
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: headed monster in a lot of ways. So when you
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: think about the music business and some of the things
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: you just touched on, like a lot of people or artists,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: new artists will just come to the table and you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: want to just put a project out and don't understand
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the other sides of it. Like you know again, like
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: you know, artists early on don't even know the difference
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: or understand the value of you know, going to the
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: club and getting the brown paper bag and being a
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: hard ticket selling artists. You know what that means to
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: to you know, sacrifice going to get that club bag
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: and you know, working your way up through one hundred,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: one hundred cat venues to three hundred to five hundred
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: and so forth. So when it comes to us, you
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: know obviously, like I'm like the you know, the bullhorn.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like I played the druma
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: role where you know, I can go out and you know,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: do my one two and you know, shed some light
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: on an artist. Canon is the wizard when it comes
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: to the sound, when it comes to the to the music,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: you know, to the production, to you know, everything technical
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: and beyond, you know, business business, super business savvy. And
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: then you know, Lake is Lake is, you know, a
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: one man killer himself. You know, for sure, one of
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: the smartest people I've ever met in the music industry
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: outside of being my best friend that I've known for
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: twenty five years.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: And you know what he brings to the table.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: When it comes to the right there, it's real sentimental.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just real shit. I'm speaking, you know
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: what I mean, crying talking facts like I mean, you know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: like just watching you know what I mean, Like it's
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: one of those people that can walk in any room
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: with the smartest people and be the smartest person in
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the room type. So you know, he handles business like
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: you know, he has his input in on the music
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: like you know, nobody has has had a such a
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: successful career when it comes to touring as far as
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: like what he's done with you know, for years before
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: we create a generation now to my career, to Uji's career,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: to you know, assist him with Jack and you know
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: where we want to see Kay going. So and then
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: you know it's it's we're giving our shoulders of legacy
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: for artists to stand on, you know what I'm saying. So,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: and I think that's very important, that's very potent, you
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: know what I mean with just what what we've already
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: established and created and you know, the jewels and the
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: wisdom that we can you know give to Kai and
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: you know the other uh.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: We are very boutique label. So the other few artists
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: that we have like or we have our eye on
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: and everything.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: So the shadow what he was saying too, I think
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: our strong point is building legos, like building even though
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: we've worked with houses that already worked with you know
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: what I mean machines that were already moving. I think
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: our strong point is actually building something from ground up.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: It's something interesting about gratification.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Gratification for sure, it's a difference in that from the
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: ground up to going out and signing an artist that
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: you know has had that. Everybody's trying to sound right,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: you see what I'm saying.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, if you're in a bidding war for somebody,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: it's like exactly yeah. But if like you bring somebody.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: That's that's not that's not exactly what we do. Now.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: We're not opposed to that as well.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Like you know, we're all we're all in it to win,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: but you know, we we get way more gratification and
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: out of the development.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: That's crazy. We've never won a bidding war.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Part of something, but never won.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Have we been a part of something where we actually
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: put a bid in or it was other people seeking
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: that artist.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: There's other people seeking that artist.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: Not a bona fide bidding war here. We're offering you this,
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. But we've never been in it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: But we've never won nothing either, right, you know what
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: I mean.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But we've had.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: Somewhere we were like, oh, talking to me and we're
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: talking to them too, but we never really, we really
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: never bid it. It was like, Yo, this is a
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: house and if you want to.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Be here, this is what we expect. This is what
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: you can see moving forward in the future.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: But we never was like here, here's a million dollars
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: sign with us, like we never you know what I'm saying,
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: that makes sense.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: What have you learned, Kai from being around these guys
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: any amount of time you've been signing them, because obviously
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: they're legends. Yeah for sure.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Mainly just like stick it to your guns. This is
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: what I took away just seeing Dram and Cannon like
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: every day they're still actively working. Like I ain't gonna lie.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Before this, I didn't know how active because I'm not
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: thinking about how active DJ Drummer Don Cannon off. But
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: it's like being here, it's just like, nah, these niggas
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: outside they working like young niggas. They're out working young
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: niggas and like, I know, but still still you know
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: what I mean, But it's just like that, and you
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: aging me at the same time.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Just say veterans, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get the young.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: One of the main reasons why even came to Gen
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: now while we you know, came together, is which I
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: was just talking about the development and I've seen that.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: It's like they take pride in building artists up. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: felt like for me, being an artist that had dreams
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: of being signed to a label, we kind of lost
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: those you know recipes, and it was just like, damn,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: they don't even develop nobody Nomore. It's like you gotta
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: go viral, you get signed, you fall off.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the allure of like back in the day,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: like man, I'm trying to get sign. People don't give
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a fuck about that shit Nomore. They just want to
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: catch up.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: What they want, they want to grab and I don't
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: know nobody that could do it on their own because
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I before I got here, I was doing a lot
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: of good shit on my own. But it's just like Nigga,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: that has always been my dream. I know what type
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: of system I want.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I just say this, like any artists who like, like
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: there's one side of being independent, it's great, but not
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: everyone's La Russell exactly.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: That was the example I was going to bring up,
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: Like La Russell is like an alien literally, you know.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: What I mean. So it's like that man has his
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: own thing going and it works for him. If you're
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: an artist and you're like, yo, I want to make music, Yeah,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I want to focus on the creative aspect. You have
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: to kind of It might not be a label, it
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: might be a management team, but you gotta, like, you
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: gotta put a team together. You have to because otherwise
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I tell people, man, the most frustrating shit. I'll see
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: his artists who just like put music out and hope
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: for the best that don't work. Ever, there's too much music.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: But that shit happens all the time.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: You'll see artists dropping and I'm like, yeah, but like
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: because it's get spoiled.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: What's the You get the chance to see somebody might
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: have done something that looks similar to that and not
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: knowing they had a whole team, and.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of artists be pocket watching
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: too much bout not even necessarily mean dollars, but they'll
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: just like be pocket watching people's attention.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's why a lot of people always
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: go wrong. Like you know, you can't you can't trust
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: someone else's process. Facts like you know your your time
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and your energy and when what you put into the game,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: like is it's your path. You know what I'm saying,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: like you know, I mean Kevin, you know, like how
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: we all came up? Like you know, I've been doing
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: this shit since I was thirteen. How do you guys,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I'm about to be forty seven, I'm thirty eight.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty eight. I'm actually thirty eight. So I'm gonna
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: say I was a kids grille. I probably got a decade.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I was tro I was stroll. Yeah, I was like, damn,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: we're both thirty eight. Were talking crazy teen when you
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: did Canada Real Child? Probably? How isn't that record like
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: twenty years old? Now? Is the record twenty years?
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: It'll be twenty next year?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Twenty one? When I made it, I made it in
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: two thousand and four. Out he's twenty one.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: No, I was twenty four to two thousand and four.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: I was twenty five years four five.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Jesus was young niggas though twenty Yeah, young niggers. But
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: it's twenty years is Trapp or die? It will be
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: twenty years of dedication to next year? Crazy coming out
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: on twenty years on all those tapes, Bro.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: What a time?
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Why did you ask our age?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Oh? No, because I just wanted to see how off
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: he was calling y'all old, because I'm I'm like an
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: unk to a lot of these moth Like three one
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: old baby calls me unk. I'm like, full, that's crazy.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: I mean he youngest's youngest, I mean in high school exactly, right, Yo,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I have a nineteen years old yo.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: That's the worst part. Does I'll be interviewing artists like
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I interviewed that kid, baby.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Kia K from Atlanta, right, yeah, like seventeen, and I
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: was like, wait, how old are you?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: And he told me. I was like fuck, And I'm like, oh,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it makes sense. I'm having a conversation with a juvenile essentially.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: But you know, I got past that, or not past that.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: But we went through that early because but.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: You didn't have to interview these motherfuckers and get them
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to be interesting as children.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I went through a period like we were still we
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: were still doing interviews when we're doing like Chade forty five,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: right right right, right, right, right, right right. You know,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I've definitely I've done my fair share of interviews with
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: artists who you got it, they're not the easiest to
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: talk to correct figuring that's part out. But early on
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of our peers got hipped to UZI because
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: of their kids. So that was one of the times
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: where it kind of came full circle where you know,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: people that like in our eras and beyond where hitting
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: us up about records because of their kids, you know
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So that's always kind of fun to see,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I mean, my daughter is
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: about to be twenty four this year, So I'm in
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: I feel like we was OG's in two thousand and
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: I feel.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Like they called us they were.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: We were in it for five years officially, I just
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: got into the league, but it was Big Brog like early.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that was, uh you when is it
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the Pirico tape coming out?
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: What's the date on it?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Because that ship he just dropped that music. That ship
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: was tough.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we just we just shot some ship yesterday and
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be hilarious, hilarious.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: It's called La Gangster. It's definitely dropping.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Japrico, very.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Birthday, Yeah, birthday, my god. Yeah, great guy, this's you know, uh,
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: we've got a few.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: So I know you have like flirted with obviously you
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: guys had scheme schemes also all time under.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Uh still signed to us.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: That guy, when is he going to put music now?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: I think he just toys with the idea of it.
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: But I think bro he he does and the freestyle
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: Like I feel like, because he's so good, he's waiting
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: for some type of.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Challenge, like our word don't mean nothing.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: I'll be like, yo, put some music out. But I
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: feel like if a rapper challenge him, like he really
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: get upset and.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Trying to you know, dog them.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean. He's an l A legend.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, he's a He's a dog for sure,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: no doubt.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: You're asking him, we're thinking about yeah always, yeah, yeah.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: You got one in mind?
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: We do nice. I can't tell him they followed us, Yeah,
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: they want to.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Find out it wasn't in the city. Of course. You
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: gotta gotta wrap inside of Mexican. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: And we signed a Mexican before we signed in a
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: rapper from Atlanta.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: That would be insane.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: That will be a.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: But I would they be rapping Listen, man, you know
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: the way we've gone about things, our whole career has
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: always been against the grain, so you never know what
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: could happen there it is.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: I told the story before when I did I want
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: to mister cartoon real quick and uh and I was
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: down there with Rich Hill and there was a couple
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: uh Mexicans out there rapping.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: I was like, they're good. But at that time, my
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: brain wasn't even thinking about signing nobody.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: There's just like I would do wa. Yeah the good
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: bro A good couple of brothers named Coyote. Oh yeah
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: that that Johnny did Shipes did a distro deal with them.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Their hardest fire.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they's tough, ye fire for sure. All Right, Well, fellas,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have We're gonna have you do a freestyle.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: That's cool, okay, but that's gonna be separate piece of content.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Go watch that.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you all pulling up doming out out April
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: twenty fifth, Cash Rules Man, any features.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I'll just let you all see that when it dropped
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: there it is Cash Rules. Appreciate y'all man, Thank you,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Bo