Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Trae tha Truth On New Album 'Angel,' Reuniting With His Daughter, 'Trae Day' 'Tha Dads Matter' +More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning Breakfast Club.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Yes, we are the world more Dangerous Morning Show, The
- 0:06Speaker 2: Breakfast Club. Charlamagne the God just hilarious. DJ Nvy is
- 0:09Speaker 2: out the day, but we got our guy in the building.
- 0:12Speaker 2: He's got a new album coming out on July third.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Trade of Truth is hell.
- 0:17Speaker 3: How you doing, man? You got your little one with you? Yes,
- 0:19Speaker 3: she don't even.
- 0:22Speaker 4: Got damn about nothing.
- 0:24Speaker 5: She will pop in when she wants to. But on
- 0:27Speaker 5: that game, yeah, when she playing, she wants to go ahead,
- 0:32Speaker 5: You're gonna be.
- 0:37Speaker 3: How long you've been asking you for that trade?
- 0:40Speaker 5: Because she chew it and then spit out gum there
- 0:42Speaker 5: and want more. She just should do it all day.
- 0:44Speaker 3: But so how much softer has she made you?
- 0:48Speaker 5: I think that you got trade doing tiktoks trade dancing.
- 0:56Speaker 4: I love it, though, but this is what you want
- 0:58Speaker 4: to you know, this is exactly what you're getting, exactly
- 1:01Speaker 4: what you wanted, what you asked for and everything. So
- 1:03Speaker 4: it's good to see you and Dad moved.
- 1:05Speaker 5: Yeah, Mensal a full time job that people really treat
- 1:09Speaker 5: her as management.
- 1:10Speaker 1: So like I did.
- 1:12Speaker 5: I was doing the interview in Atlanta a day ago
- 1:16Speaker 5: and I couldn't do the interview unless they brought her
- 1:19Speaker 5: her boat Jangles hid.
- 1:22Speaker 1: So right now we're fulfilling her riders.
- 1:25Speaker 3: I know that's right now. The new album is called
- 1:27Speaker 3: Angel tell Us Why of course.
- 1:30Speaker 5: You know, it's inspired by my daughter, you know, my
- 1:33Speaker 5: whole the whole process of everything I went through. I
- 1:36Speaker 5: think this album probably people say, would be the most
- 1:41Speaker 5: vulnerable I've been as far as most just open about
- 1:44Speaker 5: everything I was going through. And it means a lot
- 1:47Speaker 5: to me. I mean, it means a lot to me.
- 1:48Speaker 5: You know, I've always been able to do dope music,
- 1:51Speaker 5: but this album was recorded in the process of what
- 1:55Speaker 5: I was going through. So this one definitely gonna be
- 2:00Speaker 5: And I think it's just a climate of the culture.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Man.
- 2:02Speaker 5: Everybody going through rough and dark chimes right now, so
- 2:07Speaker 5: everybody ain't always club wise or turned up.
- 2:10Speaker 1: You know these days over Yeah, I'm gonna say because
- 2:14Speaker 1: Houston is the part.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Of what I'm talking about for our era, because you know,
- 2:18Speaker 2: we've grown, Like who are making the music for us?
- 2:21Speaker 3: Now? You know what I mean?
- 2:24Speaker 5: What's what's in your deck right now? That's still it
- 2:29Speaker 5: depends because I ended up listening to songs.
- 2:31Speaker 2: It's more than like projects, right, Like I'm listening to
- 2:33Speaker 2: that new Eric about doing Alchemists. I've been riding the
- 2:35Speaker 2: Ray Vaughn this year as far as the younger is concerned,
- 2:38Speaker 2: the good, the bad, and the dollar menu.
- 2:41Speaker 3: You've been listening to the flutes. Been definitely put.
- 2:45Speaker 2: A piano album. The piano album, So that's probably that's
- 2:49Speaker 2: pretty much. I listened to like singles. I don't listen
- 2:51Speaker 2: to like full projects that much.
- 2:53Speaker 5: Is it because nobody puts something together as a whole,
- 2:55Speaker 5: you like.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I think that's what it is. That's what it is.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Because if it's a full that I like, like I
- 3:00Speaker 2: listened to GNX, you know what I mean. Like I said,
- 3:02Speaker 2: I listened to Rayvaughond. But if it's not a full
- 3:04Speaker 2: project that I like, I'm just gonna go to singles.
- 3:08Speaker 4: That was your album in story mode because I know
- 3:11Speaker 4: that was a long process that you had to go through.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Right now, is it in story mode? And is it
- 3:16Speaker 4: like when I mean by story mode from the beginning
- 3:19Speaker 4: to now?
- 3:21Speaker 5: I think I think each part touches just different moments
- 3:27Speaker 5: within that was happening in different moments within my life.
- 3:30Speaker 1: It's not like necessarily.
- 3:33Speaker 5: In the order of how things happen, but I think
- 3:36Speaker 5: it's set up to from start to finish, you you'll
- 3:40Speaker 5: get the feel that you need, you know, every every
- 3:43Speaker 5: every moment, and that definitely would be a different highlight,
- 3:46Speaker 5: you know. But for me it's it's a lot of
- 3:50Speaker 5: people say, you know, a lot of people have their
- 3:52Speaker 5: favorite picks of my album, but for me personally, this
- 3:54Speaker 5: would probably be one of my favorites right now.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because it's close to home for sure.
- 4:00Speaker 3: The therapeutic the write this project.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Yes, uh, it wasn't even writing.
- 4:04Speaker 5: What happened was when I when they finally got me
- 4:07Speaker 5: the to leave LA to take a break, you know,
- 4:10Speaker 5: because the main thing that was being pressed to me
- 4:14Speaker 5: was sometimes I could be in God's way if I'm
- 4:17Speaker 5: trying to do it my way. So I finally got
- 4:22Speaker 5: to understand and if I leave, go do something like
- 4:25Speaker 5: like like work getting the process of things I love.
- 4:28Speaker 5: So I went for like probably like three days and
- 4:31Speaker 5: I just recorded back to back. Wasn't even necessarily right now,
- 4:34Speaker 5: I ain't wrote music and so long I just go
- 4:36Speaker 5: in there and just get it off. So the two
- 4:39Speaker 5: things I did when I left LA for that short
- 4:41Speaker 5: amount of time, I did the album and then I
- 4:45Speaker 5: went to help with the hurricane and the Carolina so
- 4:48Speaker 5: you know those two things that give me my energy.
- 4:51Speaker 1: You know.
- 4:52Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, is it was it any song on the
- 4:54Speaker 4: project that you felt like, well, you broke down, like
- 4:59Speaker 4: it was very a challenging.
- 5:01Speaker 1: I think you.
- 5:02Speaker 5: I think through the project you will hear different stuff,
- 5:04Speaker 5: and I think it was displayed a certain way to it.
- 5:10Speaker 5: It almost makes other people break down on they here,
- 5:12Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So it's a lot of
- 5:14Speaker 5: moments in there like that, you know, but it's a
- 5:16Speaker 5: lot of proud moments too, like you know, I got
- 5:19Speaker 5: the record all right on there with Look Crazy and
- 5:22Speaker 5: Truth featured on that. Like you know, it's different moments
- 5:25Speaker 5: that it's just a whole roller coaster, but it's set
- 5:28Speaker 5: up the right way.
- 5:29Speaker 1: You know.
- 5:30Speaker 4: So baby girls on the album, yeah that a couple
- 5:33Speaker 4: of times Okay, she rapping or she just talking, she
- 5:36Speaker 4: popping her.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Gun, she was singing, but she sung on this album.
- 5:39Speaker 5: But you know she wraps, She do a thing whatever
- 5:41Speaker 5: she feels like doing.
- 5:42Speaker 3: That's why she got to write her That's right. What
- 5:46Speaker 3: was that feeling like?
- 5:47Speaker 1: Man?
- 5:47Speaker 2: When you cause you know she Truth was reported missing
- 5:50Speaker 2: back in all into twenty twenty four. What was that
- 5:53Speaker 2: moment like when you first found her, Like when you
- 5:56Speaker 2: realized she was good and you was about to go
- 5:58Speaker 2: see her.
- 5:59Speaker 5: Man was excitement, nervous, your brain moving a thousand miles
- 6:07Speaker 5: power because you're wondering, how is this first thing actually
- 6:11Speaker 5: gonna be?
- 6:11Speaker 1: Is it gonna be? Man? I missed you, Pops. Is
- 6:15Speaker 1: it's gonna be? Uh, I've been away from you for
- 6:17Speaker 1: a minute.
- 6:18Speaker 5: I'm cautious. So it was just Man, it was a lot.
- 6:24Speaker 5: Funny part is when I got the car, jumped up
- 6:28Speaker 5: because I got it on New Year's I had just
- 6:30Speaker 5: went to church that night for New Year's and I
- 6:32Speaker 5: got up. I got the car like five from the
- 6:36Speaker 5: US MARSLS and they like, we found there and they're
- 6:42Speaker 5: close to the ball to Mexico. So I jumped out
- 6:44Speaker 5: the bed. I'm running from the bed to the bathroom
- 6:47Speaker 5: when all the while I'm supposed to be trying to
- 6:49Speaker 5: get dressing.
- 6:51Speaker 1: After twenty minutes of.
- 6:52Speaker 5: Going back and forth and absolutely doing nothing and living,
- 6:55Speaker 5: you know, I was in a whole world nervous. But
- 6:59Speaker 5: my youngest son, Houston, he was upstairs. I'm like, man, bro,
- 7:03Speaker 5: we gotta go. He there's thirty minutes. We went, We
- 7:07Speaker 5: booked a flight, we flew to San Diego.
- 7:09Speaker 1: My bro Rob.
- 7:12Speaker 5: Picked us up in San Diego and we drove down
- 7:14Speaker 5: to the border. So when I get there, man, you know,
- 7:18Speaker 5: I'm nervous the whole time. So finally when we when
- 7:22Speaker 5: I first seen her, if if you've seen the video,
- 7:24Speaker 5: she was a little hesitant, you know, because you know,
- 7:27Speaker 5: at this point, I don't know what's going through. It
- 7:28Speaker 5: is so but at the end of the day, she
- 7:31Speaker 5: do know I'm Pops, and she know I'm always gonna
- 7:32Speaker 5: protect her. So she come to me. I can tell
- 7:35Speaker 5: she was with mixed emotion. But when I tell her
- 7:39Speaker 5: turn around and she's seeing her brother, it's like I
- 7:42Speaker 5: always forgotten At that moment, it was like she was like, yeah,
- 7:46Speaker 5: I'm back with my guys at that moment. And from
- 7:48Speaker 5: that moment to as we sit here now, we've been
- 7:52Speaker 5: non stop together. You know what I'm saying, It's a
- 7:55Speaker 5: lot because it it makes me a like to think
- 8:00Speaker 5: all of just you know, from being in the streets
- 8:03Speaker 5: to the music to everything else.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Now most of my.
- 8:06Speaker 5: Days, if I'm not sitting up watching cartoons of us
- 8:10Speaker 5: and taking her to a trampoline, making sure she.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Get through school.
- 8:15Speaker 5: Now, that was another hard moment though, Like when she
- 8:18Speaker 5: first came back, she didn't want to be around no
- 8:20Speaker 5: other kids. She was like, wow, I want to do homeschool.
- 8:23Speaker 5: And I kept, I kept, you know, we were working,
- 8:26Speaker 5: but I kept personally like, man, just try to be around.
- 8:29Speaker 5: So when I finally got her a go, she agreed
- 8:32Speaker 5: to go for like maybe an hour or two a day.
- 8:35Speaker 5: So I would sit outside the door so she anytime
- 8:38Speaker 5: she come look through that crack, I'll be just sitting
- 8:40Speaker 5: on a chair Till she was ready to go.
- 8:42Speaker 1: And we worked and she very short.
- 8:46Speaker 5: So even missing all the months of school, like four
- 8:49Speaker 5: or five months, she came through, ended up graduating her class,
- 8:53Speaker 5: top of her class.
- 8:54Speaker 1: And she don't go nothing.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Was there any conversations with them, with her mother. That's it, Dang,
- 9:01Speaker 2: you don't even know why she did what she did.
- 9:04Speaker 5: I'ma be honest man. I do my best not to
- 9:06Speaker 5: even go there to too much speak about it, you
- 9:10Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, As far as I just really
- 9:12Speaker 5: focus on making sure her days happy, making sure we
- 9:16Speaker 5: focus and I'm doing everything I can to be the
- 9:18Speaker 5: best fall I can, because I feel like when that
- 9:21Speaker 5: time comes, it'll come, but you know, at the end
- 9:23Speaker 5: of the day, it's silent in God's hands. And then
- 9:26Speaker 5: I be real big on what I say because we
- 9:30Speaker 5: never had a conversation about that, Like, you know, I
- 9:32Speaker 5: don't speak on that with her. It's strictly what we
- 9:36Speaker 5: got going on. And you know, with us, it's a
- 9:39Speaker 5: full time job, you know, truth from singing to acting,
- 9:45Speaker 5: to energy to nash you on her YouTube too, Instagram
- 9:52Speaker 5: to it be a lot, a lot with her. But
- 9:55Speaker 5: you know, it's a good thing because we blessed to
- 9:58Speaker 5: be able to bring our kids into our world, but
- 10:01Speaker 5: then to watch them do their own thing too. So
- 10:03Speaker 5: and I'm not forcing.
- 10:04Speaker 4: Herd with thathing, you know, yeah are you are you
- 10:07Speaker 4: giving the dad okay or the dad yes to the YouTube?
- 10:11Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
- 10:12Speaker 5: One thing they know, I ain't playing with my baby.
- 10:14Speaker 5: So but the thing is she's always all my kids
- 10:17Speaker 5: always had their own fan base based off them being
- 10:20Speaker 5: my kids. So a lot of the world in Houston
- 10:23Speaker 5: and a lot of the world in the industry, they
- 10:24Speaker 5: watched them grow up as a whole because you got up,
- 10:29Speaker 5: we did the BT. You would think, of course everybody
- 10:32Speaker 5: excided to see me, but they're probably just more excited
- 10:34Speaker 5: to see us. So you see her on pictures with everybody,
- 10:38Speaker 5: So yeah, it's a good thing.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Yeah, You've been through so many losses man battles with
- 10:44Speaker 2: you know, radio stations and lawsuits, but you always stay tall,
- 10:49Speaker 2: like like what kept you grounded during the moments when
- 10:51Speaker 2: people like really tried.
- 10:52Speaker 3: To silence you with like just just hold trade back.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Well, God, definitely, God.
- 10:57Speaker 5: God is the key to all man because what I've
- 11:02Speaker 5: learned and even now I'm going through the learning process
- 11:05Speaker 5: of having faith more because you know, I feel I
- 11:09Speaker 5: have faith, but I guess he may expect a little
- 11:14Speaker 5: more from me. So I'm working on having a lot more.
- 11:16Speaker 5: And I was telling someone the other day that my
- 11:21Speaker 5: spiritual advisor we called Gigi, she was on me hard
- 11:26Speaker 5: about praying for my enemies, everybody who did me wrong,
- 11:28Speaker 5: just being a lot more forgiving and you know, for
- 11:31Speaker 5: people like us, it's like, man, you did so much
- 11:33Speaker 5: to me, Like I don't like, I don't I don't
- 11:36Speaker 5: hate you, but I don't want to be in that aspect,
- 11:38Speaker 5: but I definitely humble myself and daily that's that's what
- 11:41Speaker 5: I pray for. I pray for for enemies and just
- 11:45Speaker 5: a lot of other things, man. And I think the
- 11:46Speaker 5: more that I do that, the more at peace I
- 11:49Speaker 5: be with my kids and other things, you know, because
- 11:52Speaker 5: I think the last thing I'm trying to master is
- 11:53Speaker 5: being unbothered. I ain't like I ain't mastered that part yet,
- 11:56Speaker 5: but trying to get there, you know, because it would
- 11:59Speaker 5: be certain stuff you say it is gonna trigger me
- 12:00Speaker 5: and it just is what it is.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Yeah, do you feel like.
- 12:06Speaker 4: You get enough flowers or recognition for the things that
- 12:10Speaker 4: you do in the community.
- 12:14Speaker 1: I think when you don't look for it.
- 12:16Speaker 5: I don't really have a gauge of if I feel
- 12:19Speaker 5: I get too much, too little, if I feel I
- 12:21Speaker 5: need more. I think I just do the work. But
- 12:24Speaker 5: I can tell your moments that I be the most down.
- 12:27Speaker 5: It'd be moments like that that lift me up. And
- 12:30Speaker 5: you wouldn't believe how many in the industry. You wouldn't
- 12:32Speaker 5: believe how many just men and women across the world.
- 12:36Speaker 5: No matter where me and truth go, the first thing
- 12:38Speaker 5: they'll be like, Man, I was praying for you. I
- 12:40Speaker 5: watched everything you went through, so to watch people do
- 12:44Speaker 5: that and be happy and motivated, to see how strong
- 12:48Speaker 5: and how dedicated I was to get.
- 12:50Speaker 1: To my child.
- 12:52Speaker 5: Moments like that bring you through and then moments of
- 12:55Speaker 5: coming across people and they'd be like, man, you don't
- 12:57Speaker 5: know nothing. I mean, you don't know you help my
- 12:59Speaker 5: ami here, you did this. Then that lady that you
- 13:02Speaker 5: did this for that was my relative. So stuff like
- 13:05Speaker 5: that would kind of keep me going, you know, because
- 13:08Speaker 5: it's like the work is really getting noticed.
- 13:11Speaker 3: You know.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Do you think more rappers would be involved in activism
- 13:14Speaker 2: if they felt like if they felt like.
- 13:17Speaker 3: It wouldn't hurt I guess hurt their brand, so to speak.
- 13:20Speaker 1: See the difference with me is I didn't care if
- 13:22Speaker 1: it because I always been me. You know.
- 13:24Speaker 5: You gotta think I'm one of the few rappers that
- 13:26Speaker 5: never never smoke or drink like I've always stood on
- 13:30Speaker 5: my own and been my own leader. So when I
- 13:33Speaker 5: did it, when I when I got out there, whether
- 13:37Speaker 5: it's fighting on the front line for people who passed
- 13:39Speaker 5: other disasters, I'm not thinking about what nobody else gonna feel.
- 13:44Speaker 5: I'm just doing me and I think that's what people respect.
- 13:46Speaker 5: But believe it or not, majority of the industry and others. Man,
- 13:52Speaker 5: they hit my phone on the regular. Man, next time
- 13:54Speaker 5: you go out let me come out. Yeah, like I
- 13:56Speaker 5: don't know, like it was a saying. Somebody told me
- 13:58Speaker 5: they're like, man, Trey, you made it cool. Give back
- 14:00Speaker 5: because if you go back to just looking when they
- 14:03Speaker 5: really got heavy, you start watching people from all over
- 14:07Speaker 5: like man, this holiday, this, this, I need to make
- 14:10Speaker 5: sure I'm doing that. So to be able to be
- 14:13Speaker 5: part of planting that seed for a lot of people
- 14:16Speaker 5: to follow that blueprint was definitely major because the thing
- 14:19Speaker 5: for me is it's a lot of people who need it.
- 14:22Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying a lot Hey trade truth?
- 14:24Speaker 6: Hey y'all question of when you are going through different
- 14:29Speaker 6: things right and people expect this like perfect symbol of
- 14:31Speaker 6: what trade of truth is, Like what are what do
- 14:33Speaker 6: you lean on when you know you're trying to let
- 14:36Speaker 6: people know like, hey, I'm not perfect.
- 14:39Speaker 5: I think the hardest thing and it's about what Charlemagne
- 14:43Speaker 5: is seeing. I don't know if y'all seen it. It's
- 14:45Speaker 5: a one on one sit down that's gonna come out
- 14:48Speaker 5: with tip and I think being at a point where
- 14:53Speaker 5: you can take accountability and growth, I think people can
- 14:57Speaker 5: appreciate that more to understand I'm human and I make
- 15:01Speaker 5: mistakes like anybody else do, and mistakes don't necessarily stop
- 15:06Speaker 5: you or define you as a whole, because you still
- 15:09Speaker 5: can keep doing the work and become better than what
- 15:12Speaker 5: you are in that moment, you know what I'm saying.
- 15:14Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to be me.
- 15:16Speaker 3: You think that interview is going to be received.
- 15:18Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 15:20Speaker 5: I think it was just it's honesty, and it's honesty
- 15:24Speaker 5: to the point where I felt like you can see
- 15:27Speaker 5: me and him don't necessarily.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Agree on everything, but you get the real.
- 15:31Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, And I think that always
- 15:34Speaker 5: out weigh in the end. Of course, in this day
- 15:37Speaker 5: and time with social media, it's different. You know, people man,
- 15:41Speaker 5: people be so weird on the internet, But as a whole,
- 15:44Speaker 5: I think you never can override just being authentic and real.
- 15:51Speaker 3: You know.
- 15:51Speaker 5: Sometimes it may be blunt and may be brutal, but
- 15:54Speaker 5: at some point you have to be like, yeah, all right,
- 15:56Speaker 5: I get it.
- 15:57Speaker 3: Are there any relationships you hope to heal with that interview?
- 16:02Speaker 5: I think I hope to get to a point where
- 16:05Speaker 5: I have no issues, which in my mind right now,
- 16:08Speaker 5: I ain't got no issues with nobody. I'm past that,
- 16:11Speaker 5: you know, because the thing is, man a lot came
- 16:16Speaker 5: with those, with those prayers, with those fighting moments to
- 16:21Speaker 5: even get to the point where I am with little one,
- 16:24Speaker 5: And you got to ask yourself, man, in these situations,
- 16:31Speaker 5: what's worth more? And for me, my kids and my
- 16:35Speaker 5: family is worth more than anything. So at this point
- 16:38Speaker 5: it's like, hey, do I want to run around with
- 16:41Speaker 5: pride and ego and stay focused on this way or
- 16:45Speaker 5: get to a point where, man, if it ain't affected
- 16:47Speaker 5: me in mine and I'm not gonna let nothing jeopardize
- 16:49Speaker 5: me in mind, then I'm cool. So I think I'm
- 16:51Speaker 5: at a point I ain't got no issues with nobody actually,
- 16:55Speaker 5: like I don't. I rarely even think about anything with
- 16:58Speaker 5: anybody else. Like my days is strictly trying to keep
- 17:03Speaker 5: up with my kids.
- 17:04Speaker 6: You know, what are you taking accountability for?
- 17:06Speaker 5: You talk about accountability and anything man regardlesss So that's
- 17:11Speaker 5: why I say it's crazy when you finally get to
- 17:13Speaker 5: see the thing with men tip I think I think
- 17:17Speaker 5: they may start releasing it this week, pieces of it.
- 17:19Speaker 5: But even with accountability, right, no matter even if in
- 17:24Speaker 5: that situation you were wrong or you felt you was wrong,
- 17:31Speaker 5: or regardless of the situation, you can't worry about what
- 17:34Speaker 5: nobody else do. You just got to take accountability for
- 17:36Speaker 5: your part, you know what I'm saying. So I'm gonna
- 17:39Speaker 5: stand on my team for whatever I did in any situation,
- 17:42Speaker 5: you know, from being young to now, and just keep
- 17:45Speaker 5: it moving. You know, I think that's just where I'm at.
- 17:48Speaker 3: Are you happy?
- 17:50Speaker 5: I think there's probably the well happy and stress because
- 17:53Speaker 5: you know, the thing is you For my kids, I'm
- 17:57Speaker 5: their biggest idols, so I gotta make sure I don't
- 18:00Speaker 5: fail them, you know what I'm saying.
- 18:02Speaker 1: So, and then you said.
- 18:03Speaker 5: Some earlier that that that also well to the aspect
- 18:09Speaker 5: of what you said. It's like it becomes to a
- 18:13Speaker 5: point like you get kind of you can get frustrated
- 18:18Speaker 5: at times, right because it's like, no matter what I do,
- 18:22Speaker 5: you still do have people that just want to tear
- 18:24Speaker 5: you down. And then to when you you're doing stuff
- 18:28Speaker 5: in a righteous way, just to watch you still get
- 18:32Speaker 5: some of the bad end of the sticks that that
- 18:34Speaker 5: can get overly frustrating.
- 18:36Speaker 1: But you know, I'm working through it.
- 18:38Speaker 2: What's the symbolism of the dropping angel on your birthday?
- 18:43Speaker 5: It was supposed to be promoted way before, but I'm man,
- 18:51Speaker 5: so you know they say man delayed, ain't denied so
- 18:58Speaker 5: from God. So the thing is, I feel like maybe
- 19:03Speaker 5: it didn't align at the right time, so maybe it will,
- 19:05Speaker 5: you know, maybe it will the ligne now, whether it
- 19:07Speaker 5: be you know, my birthday and you know trade they
- 19:09Speaker 5: coming right around.
- 19:10Speaker 3: The corner two July seventeen, Yeah.
- 19:13Speaker 5: Yeah, July seventh, and this is gonna be a big one.
- 19:16Speaker 5: That's always just gonna be your number sixteen, man. And
- 19:18Speaker 5: that's to even take that in to be sixteen years
- 19:21Speaker 5: to take care of the people crazy. Yeah, but uh, honestly,
- 19:28Speaker 5: you get to when you get these moments in the
- 19:30Speaker 5: situations that I've been in. Sometimes just being transparent with y'all,
- 19:34Speaker 5: you can get to doubting yourself a lot, you know
- 19:36Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So you gotta get through them moments
- 19:38Speaker 5: to know it's gonna be all right. Because if I
- 19:42Speaker 5: would have dropped the album right when this was happening,
- 19:44Speaker 5: it might have been the perfect time to drop it.
- 19:46Speaker 5: But of course me, I was very hesitanting on it
- 19:49Speaker 5: and I wouldn't even really think about music at the time,
- 19:51Speaker 5: and I was getting ready to drop it, and then
- 19:55Speaker 5: I realized I ain't doing nothing nothing I'm supposed to do.
- 19:58Speaker 5: So I'm just like, man, at this point, I'm gonna
- 20:01Speaker 5: drop it on my birthday and I'm gonna get in
- 20:04Speaker 5: with you know, this is the new day and the area. Anyway,
- 20:07Speaker 5: you don't have to promote months in advance when you drop,
- 20:10Speaker 5: so sometimes you can drop and then come back and promote.
- 20:12Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make the best out of it.
- 20:14Speaker 6: Yeah, and for trade, the dad's matt y'all talked.
- 20:17Speaker 5: About the we ain't got the trader yet. I was
- 20:20Speaker 5: gonna say, you know you're gonna be on top of it.
- 20:23Speaker 5: I'm proud of you because I'm watching you. You're doing
- 20:25Speaker 5: your thing, But yeah, I know you're gonna be on
- 20:27Speaker 5: top of it.
- 20:28Speaker 3: I've been out of the interviews.
- 20:29Speaker 6: I didn't want to reask any questions, but I was
- 20:31Speaker 6: the dad's matter, the conversation that you're gonna focus trade
- 20:34Speaker 6: around this year. What other dads are involved that we
- 20:37Speaker 6: might know.
- 20:38Speaker 5: Corey hard It, Ricky Smiley Compton from Black Ink, uh Man,
- 20:51Speaker 5: Reggie Brass, he's out of l A. He he's an
- 20:54Speaker 5: advocate for fathers and children. That's who actually helped me
- 20:59Speaker 5: to get a lot of knowledge when I was even
- 21:01Speaker 5: before I got to the process of the situation I
- 21:04Speaker 5: was in. He helped me for years. It's gonna it's
- 21:08Speaker 5: gonna be It's gonna be quite a few. And the
- 21:10Speaker 5: reason I'm doing that is because throughout my journey man,
- 21:15Speaker 5: there was so many fathers that was like, man, I
- 21:18Speaker 5: wish I had the strength of you, because I got
- 21:20Speaker 5: so frustrated. I just back the way they want me
- 21:23Speaker 5: out the picture. I'm gonna just get out the picture.
- 21:24Speaker 5: And it's like for me, they want to go that way. Yeah,
- 21:29Speaker 5: I can't do that, But I understand because they feel
- 21:32Speaker 5: like they don't have the money, they don't have the means,
- 21:35Speaker 5: they don't have the knowledge, they don't have the motivation
- 21:38Speaker 5: to do it, you know, because you know, different people
- 21:42Speaker 5: built to handle situations in different ways. But I think
- 21:45Speaker 5: this conversation is never the bast woman at all. But
- 21:50Speaker 5: it's about to show fathers. It's gonna be a bunch
- 21:54Speaker 5: of legal people there too. It's showing fathers. Hey, these
- 21:56Speaker 5: are some of the processes you can go to. These
- 21:59Speaker 5: are some of the things you need to know, because
- 22:00Speaker 5: the thing is, sometimes you can get in there and
- 22:02Speaker 5: represent yourself if you just take the time to instead
- 22:06Speaker 5: of getting frustrated, you know.
- 22:07Speaker 1: And know they rights.
- 22:10Speaker 5: You know, you gotta think so many people pay child's
- 22:12Speaker 5: report and don't even get to see their kids, you know,
- 22:14Speaker 5: just and they don't know the rights that they have.
- 22:17Speaker 5: So I think that and I'm working shout out my lawyer,
- 22:21Speaker 5: Stephan their profit. I told her, and I was dealing with.
- 22:26Speaker 1: Black and missing the Black misfoundation.
- 22:29Speaker 5: Yeah, Natalie, I was saying, I want to work to
- 22:32Speaker 5: go to legislators so we can try and find some
- 22:36Speaker 5: of these laws that give dads a fairt shot, you
- 22:39Speaker 5: know what I'm saying to a because believe it or not, legally,
- 22:44Speaker 5: when it comes to custody situations, man, officers are they
- 22:50Speaker 5: ain't gonna eat.
- 22:50Speaker 1: You can be all the way in the right and
- 22:52Speaker 1: to have.
- 22:53Speaker 5: Your baby, and they'll be like, yeah, this ain't a
- 22:55Speaker 5: this ain't that criminal type of matter. Out on your own,
- 22:58Speaker 5: y'all figure out, you know, And sometimes they may place
- 23:01Speaker 5: a child in the wrong hands by just simply not caring.
- 23:04Speaker 5: And you know, I feel like that's that's a serious
- 23:07Speaker 5: situation because if it was their child, they gonna want
- 23:09Speaker 5: people to take stuff a lot more seriously. So it's
- 23:12Speaker 5: just trying to get the knowledge and just starting the
- 23:15Speaker 5: pre steps to get things together for but Dad's because
- 23:18Speaker 5: I feel like a lot of parents, a lot of
- 23:21Speaker 5: parents need they a lot of kids need their parents
- 23:25Speaker 5: in their life because if we ain't got role models,
- 23:29Speaker 5: that we ain't got our pops off family like that,
- 23:31Speaker 5: that's what make us wrong and do the things that
- 23:34Speaker 5: we do, you know, And that's what make a lot
- 23:36Speaker 5: of a lot of the young homies last shop because
- 23:38Speaker 5: they feel like they ain't got nobody. And then a
- 23:40Speaker 5: lot of times they feel like they ain't got nobody
- 23:42Speaker 5: because they've been taught and told things so long. So
- 23:45Speaker 5: when they finally do have that conversation, they like, I
- 23:49Speaker 5: had this all wrong. You know, I was made to
- 23:52Speaker 5: believe you ain't care about me at all, and that
- 23:54Speaker 5: don't necessarily be the case.
- 23:56Speaker 4: I got a couple more questions now that you have
- 23:58Speaker 4: a new manager, how was the dating life?
- 24:03Speaker 5: Uh? Man, I've been single for so long, and you
- 24:05Speaker 5: know what she told me, I don't need nobody else.
- 24:08Speaker 1: She's all I need.
- 24:09Speaker 3: That's the only time she's responded. She's been stoic, and.
- 24:19Speaker 1: Yeah she not she ain't going forward, but it is
- 24:23Speaker 1: what it is.
- 24:24Speaker 5: I mean, as a parent, you're gonna sacrifice everything for
- 24:27Speaker 5: your kids, meaning even if that means put my career
- 24:30Speaker 5: on the back burner to raise my kids. But yes,
- 24:34Speaker 5: and no, man, I've been single so long. It's the
- 24:36Speaker 5: new norm because I feel like everything I'm doing not
- 24:38Speaker 5: gotta be purpose. So if it ever gets to that point,
- 24:42Speaker 5: first and foremost, they gotta be somebody that my kids
- 24:44Speaker 5: really that that's genuine with my kids and the rest
- 24:49Speaker 5: of all and play. But when I tell you a
- 24:51Speaker 5: full time job with this one here, I think I
- 24:59Speaker 5: think female to be here tell me because they're like manly, like.
- 25:06Speaker 1: The options we have is slim because you ain't give it.
- 25:08Speaker 5: You ain't gonna be able to give us no phone time,
- 25:10Speaker 5: no no in lifetime.
- 25:12Speaker 3: It's just I'm always daddy. I want you to have
- 25:15Speaker 3: somebody one day. It's not right now, is truth?
- 25:20Speaker 4: Okay?
- 25:20Speaker 2: I love?
- 25:21Speaker 3: She was like, I'm sitting right here, okay, let me ask.
- 25:24Speaker 2: You true truth?
- 25:25Speaker 3: How old are you? I'm sick?
- 25:27Speaker 2: Okay? And and dad is the only one.
- 25:29Speaker 4: Who's forty four?
- 25:31Speaker 6: About train?
- 25:38Speaker 3: Little train? Has she heard letter the truth yet? Did
- 25:42Speaker 3: you play it for good to get the mike anyway? Yeah?
- 25:47Speaker 1: Yeah, she believe it or not.
- 25:49Speaker 5: You know, she's probably one of my biggest critics of me,
- 25:53Speaker 5: so like when you're going up all my music and there,
- 25:55Speaker 5: but yeah, I definitely, I definitely be trainings paying with
- 26:00Speaker 5: my kids so they can listen to it they you know,
- 26:03Speaker 5: so they get their own understanding. I've never really had
- 26:05Speaker 5: a conversation about that song in particular, but I think
- 26:10Speaker 5: in moments, you know, she she knows for sure, my
- 26:13Speaker 5: pops is is there? You know what I'm saying because
- 26:15Speaker 5: a lot of times when people ask a matter of fact,
- 26:18Speaker 5: you what is your dad?
- 26:20Speaker 1: When when it comes to your dad, what is he
- 26:21Speaker 1: supposed to do for you? What does he do for you?
- 26:28Speaker 3: Statue of liberty?
- 26:36Speaker 5: So when people ask her like my job and stuff,
- 26:38Speaker 5: she'd be like, man, when it comes to my dad,
- 26:40Speaker 5: he protects me, you know what I'm saying. And that's
- 26:42Speaker 5: the main thing that I always want her to know,
- 26:44Speaker 5: so other than her running me crazy, it's.
- 26:46Speaker 3: Definitely he always knows.
- 27:01Speaker 2: What do you want to say sometheop?
- 27:05Speaker 3: What does daddy do? He's knows any fought.
- 27:12Speaker 1: The funny thing is you never know what she's gonna say.
- 27:15Speaker 5: But the good thing is I always let them beat them,
- 27:17Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, because it's I can I
- 27:20Speaker 5: be doing interviews. Sometimes you may see interviews. I got
- 27:23Speaker 5: stacks of napkins on my head. Sometimes I'm doing interviews.
- 27:26Speaker 5: She taking apart my beard. So it's like I just
- 27:30Speaker 5: let her be her, you know. I think kids deserved
- 27:34Speaker 5: be unbothered, unstressed. Yeah, however that may be, but yeah,
- 27:40Speaker 5: that's the main thing. Long as she know and what
- 27:42Speaker 5: she joking out, as long as she know at the
- 27:45Speaker 5: end of the day, Pop's gonna protect her, she's good,
- 27:48Speaker 5: you know, because if I was to leave out the room,
- 27:52Speaker 5: you know, she for sure I ain't gonna want to
- 27:54Speaker 5: stay in here. But if I told it's good, she know.
- 27:57Speaker 5: Pops ain't gonna ever tell me I'm my height if
- 27:59Speaker 5: I'm not, like you know what I'm saying. So that's
- 28:01Speaker 5: that's that's really important.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Joking, she ain't joking, but this is really.
- 28:16Speaker 4: Dope to see. I'm very very happy that you stuck
- 28:19Speaker 4: to your guns, you and got your baby girl. I'm
- 28:21Speaker 4: very happy last time you did not have her and
- 28:24Speaker 4: you were just stressed and you just to see you
- 28:26Speaker 4: from afar go through things and it was such a
- 28:30Speaker 4: long process.
- 28:31Speaker 3: So I love it. I love it.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Who were you talking to and let it the truth
- 28:35Speaker 2: part too though I'm still talking about okay.
- 28:38Speaker 5: Okay, And it's another one on there actually on the
- 28:41Speaker 5: album called Daddy Mischie. I wrote that actually right before
- 28:45Speaker 5: well I even wrote recorded it right before she came back.
- 28:49Speaker 5: So it's actually just a conversation as if she was there,
- 28:53Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying to me of me talking
- 28:55Speaker 5: to her, man. I think that's that's the dope one
- 28:57Speaker 5: you should check out. On the album's dope it self.
- 29:01Speaker 5: I released the record thank You with me Alan da
- 29:04Speaker 5: Adams chance to wrap up, uh, the record with Jeremiah Hancho,
- 29:09Speaker 5: I love Papa and Khaki Kai. You know he from here,
- 29:12Speaker 5: so he doing this thing. Another exciting record on there
- 29:15Speaker 5: is with Dave Chappelle Amen, which we was with me
- 29:19Speaker 5: in truth, was with him last night. So no, I'm
- 29:23Speaker 5: just blessed to be working.
- 29:24Speaker 1: Man.
- 29:25Speaker 3: You want to play right now?
- 29:26Speaker 4: You know this Nigga asked you who he was talking
- 29:28Speaker 4: to you on a letter to talking about.
- 29:32Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was sorry. You know, it's just just
- 29:35Speaker 5: a situation the whole. But I always talk to my babies, man,
- 29:38Speaker 5: so matter of fact, because even though truth with me,
- 29:41Speaker 5: you know, all my kids that they my ASA, So
- 29:44Speaker 5: shout out Nico, shout out Houston jeered.
- 29:46Speaker 1: So you know we're doing our thing, man, but that
- 29:49Speaker 1: on here.
- 29:51Speaker 5: But you know, and it's crazy round. I never whipped
- 29:53Speaker 5: the kid in my life. I don't believe in that.
- 29:55Speaker 5: But I tell people on the funny note, if anybody
- 29:58Speaker 5: deserved one that's gonna test me, is right, because if
- 30:02Speaker 5: I was to tell you, hey, don't knock that over,
- 30:06Speaker 5: She'll look at me and she.
- 30:10Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying.
- 30:11Speaker 5: All right, bro, you just gonna keep trying. If anybody
- 30:15Speaker 5: this one is definitely the one that stressed me out.
- 30:17Speaker 2: That's what I tell my nine year old time was
- 30:18Speaker 2: a girl. You lucky you wasn't raised in the nineties.
- 30:20Speaker 2: If you was raised in the eighties and nineties.
- 30:24Speaker 1: Crazy.
- 30:25Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's crazy these days because they believe any
- 30:28Speaker 5: whoopings tortured.
- 30:29Speaker 1: They don't know we used to go through it back then.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Man, Oh yelling, If you yell, they think you doing
- 30:34Speaker 3: something that you ain't got no do.
- 30:35Speaker 5: I remember I remember one time with me having the
- 30:39Speaker 5: discipline her. You know what the discipline was, what you
- 30:42Speaker 5: put this iPad down and you go outside and play.
- 30:45Speaker 6: Wow.
- 30:45Speaker 5: You know they do not believe and none of them.
- 30:49Speaker 5: You know, this is what she's with twenty four seven
- 30:52Speaker 5: to day, that phone, that's what she loved doing. But yeah,
- 31:02Speaker 5: so this this is what I'm I'm dealing with every day.
- 31:05Speaker 5: And yesterday was exciting because I went and paid for
- 31:08Speaker 5: a billboy yesterday. So for her to to see her
- 31:12Speaker 5: face through times.
- 31:17Speaker 3: You need to see.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Got the billboard?
- 31:20Speaker 3: Did you approve of it? Truth?
- 31:22Speaker 1: I approve.
- 31:24Speaker 4: Okay, let me say, and that's her on it. Oh wow,
- 31:35Speaker 4: baby girl, that's your face.
- 31:37Speaker 6: That's so cool.
- 31:41Speaker 1: But you know the good thing too, because if I
- 31:43Speaker 1: have music and she don't like.
- 31:44Speaker 5: It, she's gonna be like, they don't put her on it. No,
- 31:48Speaker 5: she would be I don't like the song. She either
- 31:50Speaker 5: donna like it like they'd be brutally.
- 31:52Speaker 4: You need to so you need to get in touch
- 31:54Speaker 4: with the y ns so you can let them know
- 31:56Speaker 4: that same stuff you need to be. Oh so do
- 32:04Speaker 4: you have you got any comedy happening for trade a weekend?
- 32:07Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 32:08Speaker 5: Yeah, so I got the dazz Matter event. I gotta
- 32:14Speaker 5: of course Trey the Itself, which is the big event
- 32:16Speaker 5: on July twenty at that saber Cat Stadium. I have
- 32:20Speaker 5: the comedy show that Sunday man, I got like twenty
- 32:25Speaker 5: some events.
- 32:26Speaker 4: Sary, who you got sports? Comedians are born here?
- 32:31Speaker 1: Let me so I don't forget nobody.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Let me see trying to trying to.
- 32:39Speaker 5: You know, you know you learn a lot more patient.
- 32:46Speaker 5: So yes, even when I'm doing interviews, you know, somebody
- 32:49Speaker 5: may be doing something and it may throw.
- 32:52Speaker 1: You off and people like hold on stop like it's
- 32:55Speaker 1: just like I love it, you know, I do, yeah
- 32:57Speaker 1: a thing. But let me let me find these meetings real.
- 33:01Speaker 4: I need to. I need to see what up on there?
- 33:03Speaker 4: You got any women up on there? I know they're
- 33:04Speaker 4: not Dad's.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Women. Familiar with Kelly.
- 33:12Speaker 5: Well, yeah, you're the start hold Keller, Kelly Kills, I
- 33:15Speaker 5: got pudgy heat from here, Burn Poe uh Rito Brown
- 33:19Speaker 5: Black Ron Kelly.
- 33:20Speaker 3: Kill Black Run.
- 33:22Speaker 4: Okay, that's my guy.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Erica Dutchess Okay.
- 33:26Speaker 5: Baiar Rob Kazi, I love Monty Now fast.
- 33:31Speaker 1: The ball.
- 33:33Speaker 4: Green Rob Okay.
- 33:35Speaker 5: Then you know, always you got the whole my field,
- 33:38Speaker 5: and I always bring a big, a big one that
- 33:42Speaker 5: I don't announce. Yeah, yeah, okay, baby know you I
- 33:47Speaker 5: don't know if you're ready for comedy, but I.
- 33:48Speaker 4: Got you I got you all right, if anything open up,
- 33:53Speaker 4: just let us know up here.
- 33:55Speaker 2: That's good.
- 33:58Speaker 3: You should get truth number. It seems she figured it out,
- 34:01Speaker 3: like she literally talking.
- 34:03Speaker 5: If she gets your number, you're gonna be talking on
- 34:06Speaker 5: you might randomly. I wouldn't even do they just there.
- 34:09Speaker 5: She wouldn't have sent them the picture of the statue like, oh, you're.
- 34:13Speaker 3: In New York, in New York to let me test
- 34:16Speaker 3: it all right now, h crazy bust rhymes.
- 34:21Speaker 4: That's my favorite rapper.
- 34:22Speaker 2: Two a truth.
- 34:23Speaker 4: Let me ask you something a little truth, all right.
- 34:24Speaker 4: I'm a comedian, right, yes, now, yes, do you think
- 34:29Speaker 4: I could be Listen, do you think I should be
- 34:34Speaker 4: at trade a weekend on the stage with the comedians.
- 34:39Speaker 6: Everybody even even no, no, no, no, no no no.
- 34:44Speaker 4: She's trying to let me down nicely. I'm saying, I
- 34:46Speaker 4: want to perform. Can I do like some stand up
- 34:48Speaker 4: comedy at one of the shows that your day got
- 34:50Speaker 4: going on?
- 34:52Speaker 1: We bring to be an extra comedian in the headline?
- 34:55Speaker 4: Yes, okay, all right, thank you?
- 34:58Speaker 2: All right?
- 34:58Speaker 3: So you charge a lot? Truth? You got? What's the budget? Much?
- 35:06Speaker 1: Look at the just wanting around having everybody.
- 35:12Speaker 3: Daddy that's right. When it ain't true.
- 35:15Speaker 4: Little truth money show kids.
- 35:16Speaker 5: She said, I'm like you talk about me all the time.
- 35:18Speaker 5: To keep headed too, because she always talking about my dad.
- 35:22Speaker 5: Don't have no help.
- 35:25Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. Angel will be out July. Third Man Trey
- 35:29Speaker 3: always a pleasure. Truth, good to see you.
- 35:31Speaker 2: I love it.
- 35:31Speaker 3: I'm glad to see you in this space.
- 35:33Speaker 4: Trade Yeah, yeah, you have to reach out to reach
- 35:39Speaker 4: out to her for.
- 35:42Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club