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#691 - Belly Gang Kushington Talks XXL Freshman Freestyle, Druski Skit, $100 White Tee, T.I. & More · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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Speaker 1: We got a special guest in here, man. One of
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Speaker 1: the hottest rappers on the planet right now. You already
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Speaker 1: know representing the A. He's back. Belly Gang Cushington. Welcome back, bro.
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Speaker 2: What it is, bro?
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Speaker 1: How you doing, man?
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Speaker 2: Good, man, working nonstop.
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Speaker 1: I see, obviously, you were wearing jewelry in the No
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Speaker 1: Jewelry video. No Jewelry is the new song, but you
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Speaker 1: came with a lot of jewelry on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I took it off. Nah, that's just how I rap,
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Speaker 2: without no jewelry.
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Speaker 1: No, I feel like the No Jewelry thing is definitely
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Speaker 1: your M.O., because I feel like between the white tees,
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Speaker 1: the forces, it's just, you know, I just feel like
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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't need the jewelry.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fact. Nah, when I came in the game, I
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Speaker 2: ain't even had no jewelry for the longest, even when
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Speaker 2: I got the money to go get it. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just was like, I'm going to get it when
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Speaker 2: I feel like it. Then I've been going to the
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Speaker 2: studio a lot lately, and I had went without no
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Speaker 2: jury by mistake one day. I just felt good, you
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Is that how the record came out?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm inspired.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: I'm inspired, man. So look, man, would we consider last
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Speaker 1: year's project a mixtape or your debut album?
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Speaker 2: Mixtape, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Mixtape, with the Deluxe and all that. So is the
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Speaker 1: songs we're getting right now, is this going to be
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Speaker 1: a part of your debut album? Or is this another mixtape?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is another mixtape.
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Speaker 1: Another mixtape.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: So you got another body of work coming.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. On the way. Big one.
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Speaker 1: Big one.
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Speaker 2: See the first single.
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Speaker 1: What the fuck going is going crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: You got a pocket full of money. Who the fuck's hoeing?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is it frowned upon to spend money for... Women, I guess.
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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I don't know if you saw. Did
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Speaker 1: you see the owner of the 49ers got caught in
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Speaker 1: a trailer park in Ohio?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I seen that shit, bro.
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Speaker 1: He was trying to buy some pussy for $ 140.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: And he's a billionaire.
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Speaker 2: Yo, I guess he wanted that feeling, man. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: In a trailer park?
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Speaker 2: Shit, that's as low as it go, ain't it?
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Speaker 1: It is. I mean, it sure the fuck is.
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Speaker 2: How much it was?
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Speaker 1: $ 140.
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Speaker 2: Shit, that high for some trailer park pussy. That's high.
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Speaker 1: My fantasy football, like, league dues are more than that.
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Speaker 2: A buck 40.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you supposed to give her? That's
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Speaker 1: like Costco pussy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's high.
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Speaker 1: But you think that's high for trailer park?
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Speaker 2: I mean, for me to be a B & M
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Speaker 2: going to a trailer park, she 140.
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Speaker 1: You think it's like an $ 80, $ 100 QV? I wouldn't know. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: me neither would I.
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Speaker 2: 140, that's high for a trailer park. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like there has been this. I saw
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Speaker 1: Drake talking about this where he was talking about, like,
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Speaker 1: I like to be nice to people. I have it.
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Speaker 1: It's not tricking, because I'm just a nice person. How
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Speaker 1: do you feel about that?
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Speaker 2: I mean, for real, bro, you got to think, like,
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Speaker 2: we're going to eat good, we're going to shop good,
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Speaker 2: we're going to travel good, like, and the girls that
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Speaker 2: vibing with us, they just, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 2: long for the ride. They just want to come with it.
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Speaker 2: It ain't necessarily like, hey, here goes the money, let's exchange,
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, for sex, but, you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean?
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Speaker 1: You're paying for it whether or not you know you're
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Speaker 1: paying for it, though.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: You're going to pay for it one way or the other.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I come from the streets, so I know
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Speaker 2: the other gang, too, where, like, you can date a girl,
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Speaker 2: spend money on a date, or you go get $ 200,
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Speaker 2: I'll quit. You know what I mean? Get it out
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Speaker 2: the way? That's funny.
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Speaker 1: Have you had one, because like now you're obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: by the way, I remember when you announced that Atlanta show,
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Speaker 1: your first show, and it sold out like instantaneously, so congrats.
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Speaker 1: That was, I know that was a big moment. But
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Speaker 1: you're also like, you know, friend dudes like in the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hall of Fame now for the strip clubs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a friend of mine. Still going crazy.
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Speaker 1: It won't go away. Tell me the craziest night in
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Speaker 1: terms of just like, did you finally get the, I
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Speaker 1: fucked off way too much money tonight? Whether it's at
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Speaker 1: a strip club or throwing money. What was that night
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Speaker 1: for you and how much you think you threw?
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Speaker 2: I ain't going to say I fucked off too much money,
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Speaker 2: but I really did. I would book there like two,
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Speaker 2: three clubs. I fucked around there. Left a bag with
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Speaker 2: like $ 55, 000 in the car. Lost that. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Like someone broke into the car?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Fucked around and went to the strip club after
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Speaker 2: that and still spent like $ 10, 000, $ 15, 000. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Just a $ 65, 000, $ 70, 000 type of debt. That was just
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Speaker 1: at night.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? We probably had like a
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Speaker 2: $ 100, 000 night.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be a... Because I've had not quite $ 55, 000,
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Speaker 1: but I had $ 20, 000. Somebody followed me out of the
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Speaker 1: bank during COVID. I ran in to get a paper
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Speaker 1: notarized at a Kinko's. I came out, back window busted,
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Speaker 1: trunk wide open. Someone hit a lick. But I was like,
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Speaker 1: I was mad, bro. How do you still party after that?
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Speaker 2: I just said, man, that's my fault. I'm sleeping. You
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? For sure.
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Speaker 1: Like, leaving it in the car is crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Stupid as hell.
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Speaker 1: Especially in the parking lot of a strip club.
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Speaker 2: In a new Louis bag. Now, they weren't even parking
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Speaker 2: lot of a strip club. That shit was somewhere else. But, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that shit was crazy.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy, man. Have you realized kind of like, because
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Speaker 1: I feel like every new artist, once they start to
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Speaker 1: really become like a thing where it's like, all right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: my homie Belly Gang, he's on the come up. He's grinding.
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Speaker 1: But now you're on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And you're very successful. How have you been dealing with
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Speaker 1: that success and dealing with just some of the weird
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Speaker 1: energy that comes with that and people switching up? Like,
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Speaker 1: how have you been able to deal with that?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even really like to even think
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Speaker 2: about it or look at it at all. You know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? I just move how I would have
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Speaker 2: if I was still doing something else. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying? Because that should have taken over your whole mind. 100%.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? That shit will take over
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Speaker 2: all your relationships. That shit will do it. You know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Are you like a lot more cautious about just like
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Speaker 1: who you're letting around now?
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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, for sure. For sure. Whoever being locked in,
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Speaker 2: that's it. Ain't no new. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hell nah, especially around work. And that's all I do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm assuming you just meet so many people who
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Speaker 1: are like, yo, we got to get up, man. Hey,
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Speaker 1: take my number.
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Speaker 2: We got to work. Hey, yo, yo.
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Speaker 1: It's like, all right, man. Which rapper... Do you feel
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Speaker 1: like kind of embraced you first that was already kind
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Speaker 1: of like on, I guess? I remember Killer Mike pretty
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Speaker 1: early on had you on his album.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, like I say, very, very early on
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Speaker 2: when I was just like literally nobody on B-Peasy.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to Peasy, man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like on some like big shit
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Speaker 2: after I had went up, I'd probably say I know
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Speaker 2: Rod Way reached out early. Wow. Who wasn't like? Future. Future.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But then as he went on,
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Speaker 2: it was just like everybody. You know what I'm saying? Yo,
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Speaker 2: G Herbo rocked with me too. I just seen him
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Speaker 2: last night too.
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Speaker 1: I feel like you've also kind of influenced like, we
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Speaker 1: always talked about like, finally someone's rapping about getting money
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Speaker 1: and not rapping about like killing everybody and getting high.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like it's like that energy I've noticed
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Speaker 1: is like kind of started to catch on with other artists.
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Speaker 1: You feel like you're kind of like a new influence
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Speaker 1: for a lot of the new generation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely see the influence. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: And on top of that, man, like that's what the
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Speaker 2: culture about anyway at the end of the day, getting
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Speaker 2: money and piping it. So I feel like if I
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Speaker 2: did contribute to that, you know what I'm saying, that's good.
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Speaker 2: But I think the gang going to always have to
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Speaker 2: recycle back to that anyway. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: When you... I always wonder, when you do something like
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Speaker 1: shut down the freeway to shoot a video, does that
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Speaker 1: put you in, like, bad favor with the local authorities?
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Speaker 2: Hell yeah. I ain't even really do that, by the way.
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Speaker 1: It was optical illusion.
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Speaker 2: It was AI. Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: But, yeah, it definitely ain't... not good. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's... I just watched... I'm, like, I'm so
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Speaker 1: scared of Georgia now, because you know the documentary guy
8:44
Speaker 1: Tommy G? Nah. So there's this white dude, Tommy G,
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Speaker 1: and he does, like, these... crazy documentaries and he went inside,
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Speaker 1: is it Cook County that's near Atlanta? What's the, Clayton County.
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Speaker 1: Clayton County. So he went into the Clayton County jail
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Speaker 1: for like a week. And it's like the, it is
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Speaker 1: the craziest place in the world.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. We got some fucked up jails.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, dog, I could never move to
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Speaker 1: Atlanta because one, I'll get caught with weed or mushrooms.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to get fucking stabbed in the,
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Speaker 1: it's the worst jail ever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The Atlanta facilities and like, Just all that shit is
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Speaker 1: fucked up. Well, Georgia is in totality.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That shit fucked up, man. It's like
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Speaker 2: a war zone. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy, too, because it's like, I feel
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Speaker 1: like we're out here in Cali, so it's like, I
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Speaker 1: feel like so many people go back and forth between
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Speaker 1: Atlanta and Cali. We're so used to just, like, doing
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Speaker 1: shit out here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Out there, it's not the same.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, hell nah. Hell nah.
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Speaker 1: But a lot of stuff is decriminalized in Atlanta, though, right?
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Speaker 2: It's just outside of Atlanta? Yeah, like in Atlanta, but
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Speaker 2: I think it's like up to a zip. you get
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Speaker 2: a ticket, you know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: Which is not bad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's just most people probably live on the outskirts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Motherfuckers be in a new county be like god damn
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Speaker 1: It was wrapped like a brick. How many of those
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Over a thousand for sure. That's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Over a thousand.
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Speaker 1: Did you sign them all or was it just like, yo,
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Speaker 1: pull up?
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Speaker 2: No, I didn't sign them all. Some of them were online.
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Speaker 2: Some of them were just being out. Like, you know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? I ain't signed all on them, though.
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Speaker 2: But I know, like, the first probably, like, 100 I
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Speaker 2: had wrote on them. You know what I'm saying? Stuff
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Speaker 2: like that. But I ain't get to sign them all.
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Speaker 2: Then somewhere we end up putting on, like, a QR code.
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Speaker 2: Because at first, though, when we first dropped the shirt,
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Speaker 2: the thing was to, like, open it. And then you
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Speaker 2: would see a QR code on the tag. Scan that
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Speaker 2: and get an exclusive song.
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Speaker 1: Oh, nice.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But we started seeing people
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Speaker 2: not even opening them, just.
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Speaker 1: Keeping them like that. Yeah, that's what I would do.
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Speaker 1: I'd put that bitch on the shelf.
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Speaker 2: We got to get you something, too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: But, yeah, then we started putting a QR code on
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Speaker 2: top of it. So, like, it's a couple different versions
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Speaker 2: out there. I don't know, man. We got some more
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Speaker 2: merch on the way, too. I'm going to get you
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Speaker 2: some of that, too.
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Speaker 1: Please, man. I feel like in L.A., we're pro club
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Speaker 1: people over here when it comes to the tees. What
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Speaker 1: is your, I mean, and then, like, quietly slept on
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Speaker 1: the target teasers. They fuck too. Target teasers are crazy.
12:42
Speaker 1: But what is like your go-to, if you have it
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Speaker 1: your way, which white tier are you grabbing?
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Speaker 2: Oh, Hanes.
12:48
Speaker 1: The Hanes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Just the vintage.
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Speaker 2: Regular ones.
12:51
Speaker 1: Those are one and dones for sure.
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Speaker 2: One time with Hanes.
12:54
Speaker 1: How many pairs of Air Forces do you think you've
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Speaker 1: bought in the last three years?
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Speaker 2: Three years?
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Speaker 1: Well, let's just say all time. Are we over like 10,000, 5,000?
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Speaker 1: 365 days in a year.
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Speaker 2: You're buying a pair a day. I mean, sometimes I
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Speaker 2: wear other shoes, though, especially when I go 10. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I'd probably say I'm definitely probably doing 200
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Speaker 2: a year.
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Speaker 1: 200 a year is a lot.
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Speaker 2: Probably.
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Speaker 1: When you are done with them, do you just leave them?
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Speaker 2: Or are they, like, donated? If I'm out of town,
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to keep it real. I know this
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Speaker 2: shit is wasteful. But, like, nine times out of 10,
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Speaker 2: I just got to leave them because, like, I don't
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Speaker 2: accumulate these motherfuckers out of town. I don't even want
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Speaker 2: to fly back with no bag for them. Yeah, no,
13:35
Speaker 2: that's a lot of luggage space, Air Force. It is.
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Speaker 1: So you just might leave them, like, in the Airbnb?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm sure, like, whoever be in the Airbnb,
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Speaker 2: get them and be like, oh, these, you know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying, donate them or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, for sure. I remember I was at a concert,
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Speaker 1: a Griselda show, and I don't know who from Griselda
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Speaker 1: left their brand new forces on the floor in the garage,
13:53
Speaker 1: but I was like, well, my son got a fresh pair.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They ain't my size, but they're his size.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Nah, that's crazy, man. Shout out. Hey, I feel like
14:02
Speaker 1: between the YTs and the Air Forces, man, you are
14:05
Speaker 1: pumping the economy in Atlanta, for sure, when it comes
14:07
Speaker 1: to just inspiring other people to do the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I go to Nike now. They already
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Speaker 2: got them on file. They already know what I want.
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Speaker 1: Will you mass buy like it's Costco? Like, I need
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Speaker 1: 20 of them.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes I do that, but it's like I move around
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Speaker 2: so much, it's just more convenient to just get them
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Speaker 2: at the nearest store. Right.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? On the mixtape last year,
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite records was the record you did
14:31
Speaker 1: where you flipped the Eminem record dedicated to your mom.
14:35
Speaker 1: Super vulnerable, super deep record. Were you kind of intimidated
14:39
Speaker 1: to take on such a legendary song and, like, make
14:42
Speaker 1: it your own? Because you did such a good job of, like,
14:45
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're going to take that on,
14:46
Speaker 1: it's got to deliver, and you delivered.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Oh, man, that's a good question. No, I
14:52
Speaker 2: wasn't intimidated. I ain't even, I was so light. The
14:56
Speaker 2: eyes weren't really on me back then, so I really
14:58
Speaker 2: didn't even think, like, you know what I'm saying? I
14:59
Speaker 2: thought I was just freestyling over somebody's beat type shit.
15:02
Speaker 2: I didn't really think, like, they were going to be, like,
15:04
Speaker 2: he was an Eminem beat, you know what I mean? But, yo,
15:08
Speaker 2: looking back, though, like, that's one.
15:10
Speaker 1: Of the ones. Do you know if Em's heard it or.
15:14
Speaker 2: Was his hip to it? I think he did.
15:16
Speaker 1: Oh, he had to clear it?
15:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to clear it.
15:18
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I mean, if he had to clear it, yeah.
15:20
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I can't remember. I think, like, I
15:22
Speaker 2: don't know if, like, they ain't really want, me to
15:25
Speaker 2: be talking about my mom on there, so I can't
15:27
Speaker 2: remember what it was, but.
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Speaker 1: For you, like, when you do share so much personal
15:31
Speaker 1: details about your life, is there anything that you've, like,
15:35
Speaker 1: regretted sharing in a song? Because there's got to be,
15:39
Speaker 1: is there a downside to being so vulnerable?
15:41
Speaker 2: Nah.
15:42
Speaker 1: Nah.
15:43
Speaker 2: Nah. I mean, I came in a game where it's like,
15:48
Speaker 2: First of all, I just ain't the type of person
15:50
Speaker 2: to just pull my phone out and talk and tweet
15:52
Speaker 2: and woo.
15:52
Speaker 1: Not for sure.
15:53
Speaker 2: So in the music, I'm just give y'all me.
15:56
Speaker 1: It's the therapy.
15:56
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But yo, nah, I ain't really. Man,
16:00
Speaker 2: I ain't going to lie, man. We live in a
16:01
Speaker 2: world of so much fate. Like when you do come,
16:04
Speaker 2: you just be all the way real. It's like I'm
16:06
Speaker 2: going to attract the type of supporters I want anyway. Right.
16:08
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? So nah, I ain't really
16:10
Speaker 2: held nothing back. And I ain't really mad about nothing
16:13
Speaker 2: I put out there. Maybe, you know, like my little boy. Yeah.
16:20
Speaker 2: He autistic, so it's like, sometimes I think like, what
16:24
Speaker 2: if he wouldn't want this type of life? You know
16:26
Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Like him getting noticed out in public
16:28
Speaker 2: and shit without me. But other than that, I mean,
16:31
Speaker 2: it is what it is. And on top of that,
16:33
Speaker 2: dad paying the bills.
16:34
Speaker 1: Well, I heard you say like people have like name
16:37
Speaker 1: called your boy on one of your records.
16:39
Speaker 2: Yeah.
16:40
Speaker 1: That's got to be fucking, I mean, that's the kind
16:42
Speaker 1: of shit that make you really want to like, obviously
16:44
Speaker 1: you got to block all that shit, but does that
16:45
Speaker 1: happen often?
16:46
Speaker 2: Or is it hate or is it? No, it don't
16:48
Speaker 2: really happen often. I mean, yeah, it really a figure
16:51
Speaker 2: of speech to let you know what's going on on
16:53
Speaker 2: the Internet and that I see it.
16:54
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
16:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
16:56
Speaker 1: What is something raising a special needs child, what is
16:59
Speaker 1: that like? Because I feel like it teaches you a
17:02
Speaker 1: whole new side of being patient.
17:04
Speaker 2: Hell yeah. You know?
17:07
Speaker 1: But I feel like there's a lot of special needs parents.
17:09
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people who are raising special
17:10
Speaker 1: needs children. But I think, like, it's dope that you
17:13
Speaker 1: share that. But also, like, what is something that just, like,
17:16
Speaker 1: you've learned from your son? You know what I'm saying?
17:19
Speaker 2: Man, how to appreciate every little second of life. You
17:22
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Like, he don't, and also how
17:25
Speaker 2: to be yourself regardless. Like, but he don't have a
17:29
Speaker 2: gauge of, like, what people think of him. Right. Like,
17:32
Speaker 2: he don't even have a gauge of, like, if he
17:33
Speaker 2: making too much noise or if he ignoring you, like.
17:37
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
17:38
Speaker 1: He's just unapologetically him.
17:40
Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly. So that's the biggest thing I learned from him.
17:42
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? He in his own world. Like,
17:45
Speaker 2: this for real. So, yeah, I probably learned that. And
17:48
Speaker 2: how to be patient, man. Like, I was wild before
17:51
Speaker 2: my little boy. So, yeah, I had to learn.
17:53
Speaker 1: You think he brought you back down to like, all right,
17:56
Speaker 1: I got purpose now. I got something I got to
17:57
Speaker 1: come home to.
17:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's some other, like, political shit
18:02
Speaker 2: that he opened my eyes to. That whole situation.
18:05
Speaker 1: Oh, I can imagine. Yeah, for sure. Um, this new project, man, uh,
18:11
Speaker 1: when are we gonna get it? You're heating up, I mean,
18:13
Speaker 1: this shit's hot right now.
18:14
Speaker 2: Might drop it, motherfucker, next week.
18:16
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking.
18:17
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But now, uh, realistically, like,
18:20
Speaker 2: in the next month or two. Right. Yeah. Fire.
18:23
Speaker 1: Any features you can share?
18:26
Speaker 2: Obviously, 217.
18:27
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously.
18:29
Speaker 2: Uh.
18:30
Speaker 1: Any other Atlanta legends?
18:34
Speaker 2: Hmm.
18:37
Speaker 1: The way you said that, it feels like, wait, the
18:39
Speaker 1: way you just did that? No, the way your man
18:43
Speaker 1: just made that noise, I was feeling like it's Andre 3000.
18:45
Speaker 2: Oh, nah, I'm going to go on JT right now.
18:47
Speaker 1: I don't know why, when he made that, I was like,
18:49
Speaker 1: wait a minute. He made that like, you have no
18:51
Speaker 1: fucking idea.
18:52
Speaker 2: We got fucking Andre.
18:54
Speaker 1: He's like, nah, let me be clear. It's not three stacks.
18:56
Speaker 2: I would love that, but nah, I'm just going to
18:58
Speaker 2: keep it in. Nah, we do not have 3000 on
19:00
Speaker 2: the album. I would love that, though.
19:02
Speaker 1: Were you a big OutKast guy?
19:04
Speaker 2: Oh, yo, hey, yo. I mean, you had to be
19:05
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. Of course, yeah. You know what I'm saying?
19:08
Speaker 2: But André, to me, like, honestly, like, probably the best
19:13
Speaker 2: to ever do this shit when it kind of, like, rhyming. Like,
19:15
Speaker 2: you know.
19:16
Speaker 1: What I'm saying? I have him in my top five.
19:19
Speaker 2: I have him.
19:19
Speaker 1: Quim and I right there. That's my favorite OutKast album.
19:22
Speaker 2: For sure. He one of the ones I get on
19:24
Speaker 2: a song with and be like, damn, man, like, can
19:26
Speaker 2: I keep up?
19:28
Speaker 1: Have you ever been on a record where you got
19:30
Speaker 1: the verse back and you were like, damn, I need
19:34
Speaker 1: to redo my shit a little. Or like, ah, fuck.
19:38
Speaker 1: He got me. Has that happened yet?
19:40
Speaker 2: Nah.
19:42
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of that, I gotta thank you
19:44
Speaker 1: for making the freshman freestyle class this year bearable.
19:48
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:49
Speaker 1: Because that acapella shit you did, it was the best
19:52
Speaker 1: freestyle of the year.
19:53
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:54
Speaker 1: And it was the highlight.
19:56
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
19:57
Speaker 1: That shit was hard. Was that something where you were like,
19:59
Speaker 1: did you know you wanted to do an acapella or
20:01
Speaker 1: was it just the beat they were playing didn't match
20:02
Speaker 1: what you wanted to do? Because that shit was tough.
20:05
Speaker 2: You want to be real?
20:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:06
Speaker 2: I just didn't like the beat.
20:08
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the beat's the beat. You're like, yo,
20:10
Speaker 1: cut that shit off.
20:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just didn't like the beat. You know what
20:12
Speaker 2: I'm saying? I mean, it wasn't my type of beat,
20:14
Speaker 2: so I couldn't really catch it. I'll put it like that.
20:16
Speaker 1: Right, right, right, right.
20:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
20:17
Speaker 1: I mean, acapella shit cut through, though.
20:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
20:19
Speaker 1: Have you gotten a lot of positive feedback on that?
20:21
Speaker 2: Yeah. Drew Skid had knew about it before it dropped.
20:26
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? So when he did the
20:27
Speaker 2: skit at BET or that shit, it skyrocketed again. Every
20:32
Speaker 2: time he do something pertaining to me, that shit just skyrocketed.
20:35
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say, he has the skit
20:37
Speaker 1: of the... he looks like you in the skit yeah
20:41
Speaker 1: did you take that as like he's being you because
20:44
Speaker 1: a lot of people will like tag you in the
20:46
Speaker 1: comment of that skit.
20:47
Speaker 2: Yeah i mean as far as the the the cypher
20:51
Speaker 2: wouldn't go like.
20:53
Speaker 1: No even when he was being the white dude.
20:55
Speaker 2: For yeah i think i think i think at the
20:57
Speaker 2: time he would just kind of like probably had that
21:00
Speaker 2: character and it was just like everybody like that's me
21:03
Speaker 2: but like Kind of like the story with the white
21:05
Speaker 2: family and stuff, when me, but like in the hood,
21:07
Speaker 2: kind of some of that stuff was me. So it's
21:09
Speaker 2: just like, well, what it was, regardless if he went,
21:12
Speaker 2: like skyrocketed me.
21:13
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21:16
Speaker 1: like the energy in Atlanta has kind of like shifted
21:21
Speaker 1: towards like more like a positive unity situation in the
21:25
Speaker 1: last year or two?
21:26
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I think Atlanta, we don't talk
21:30
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21:32
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21:35
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21:39
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21:39
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the podcast. Do you, are you
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Speaker 1: tired of people comparing you to like the, the, the
23:33
Speaker 1: OG class? I feel like you obviously kind of came
23:35
Speaker 1: into game. A lot of people say, and this is
23:36
Speaker 1: kind of the new Jeezy.
23:37
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
23:38
Speaker 1: Obviously you don't sound like him sonically, but subject matter wise,
23:40
Speaker 1: vibe wise.
23:41
Speaker 2: I mean, I never get tired of that. You know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Like it's an honor for real that
23:46
Speaker 2: you can be compared to them boys.
23:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Have you been able to tap in
23:51
Speaker 1: with any of those guys and just pick their brain? Nah.
23:54
Speaker 2: T.I. Me and T.I. talk a lot. Swap songs and
23:58
Speaker 2: stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? Tilt give
24:00
Speaker 2: me a lot of game, for real, like a real uncle.
24:02
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
24:03
Speaker 1: Any specific thing you were able to kind of apply
24:05
Speaker 1: to either the studio or your career or just life?
24:07
Speaker 1: Because he's been through it all, man. And he just
24:09
Speaker 1: caught a new wave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:12
Speaker 2: Anything, for real. I'll tell you, one time we was
24:15
Speaker 2: in the studio. He was like, hey, man, your daddy black.
24:19
Speaker 2: You a black man. Don't let nobody tell you. Yeah.
24:24
Speaker 1: If T.I. says it, and it's true.
24:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. It was just funny coming from T.I.
24:29
Speaker 2: He signed it just like my uncles and my daddy.
24:32
Speaker 1: Expeditiously.
24:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. For sure.
24:35
Speaker 1: Shout out to Tip, man. Yes, sir. Yeah, now, when
24:38
Speaker 1: he dropped that record and went number one this year,
24:39
Speaker 1: I was like, see? Yeah. When the legends just focus.
24:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:46
Speaker 1: Because it was a comedy. I'm like, bro, Tip came out,
24:48
Speaker 1: and this sounded like T.I.
24:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut the hell. Cut the hair. Then
24:51
Speaker 2: we were friend who was going up the radio charts.
24:54
Speaker 2: We had got the number two. We were just finna
24:56
Speaker 2: get number one. Tilt dropped that song. We ain't even
24:59
Speaker 2: made it number one. We stayed at number two.
25:01
Speaker 1: Oh, you peaked at two?
25:02
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. Because Tilt dropped that song, and it went
25:05
Speaker 2: number one.
25:06
Speaker 1: When you catch a record like Friend Do, though, it's
25:08
Speaker 1: got to be dope because first of all, Because you
25:11
Speaker 1: come in and, like, people know you for the street shit.
25:13
Speaker 1: They kind of know you for, like, the catalog shit.
25:15
Speaker 1: But it's like, nah, I got a hit now. I
25:17
Speaker 1: got a record for real.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, for sure.
25:18
Speaker 1: They had to open up, like, new doors, too, just
25:20
Speaker 1: in terms of just getting booked and shit.
25:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, man. That took us around the country.
25:25
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? And YK Nee's, like.
25:28
Speaker 1: She's on fire, too. Shout out to her. She's in L.A.
25:30
Speaker 1: right now.
25:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Her being on there, like, I think it's
25:34
Speaker 2: to go to show, like, eating to that girl, boy chemistry, like,
25:37
Speaker 2: on the song, like, brought all that back.
25:40
Speaker 1: Do you have anything, like something in the similar energy
25:43
Speaker 1: on the new project?
25:44
Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah. For sure, for sure.
25:46
Speaker 1: Something for the ladies?
25:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
25:48
Speaker 1: Something for the strippers?
25:50
Speaker 2: Yes, sir. We love the strippers. I mean, I drop
25:53
Speaker 2: what the fuck going.
25:55
Speaker 1: I mean, that's for the strippers, too.
25:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me be clear. Yeah, so, you know what
25:58
Speaker 2: I mean? But nah, we definitely, we love the ratchet bitches,
26:01
Speaker 2: for sure.
26:02
Speaker 1: Was the 21 Savage thing something where you were like, yo,
26:05
Speaker 1: I hear 21 on this? Or was there other people
26:07
Speaker 1: who almost got on it?
26:08
Speaker 2: I mean, to be honest, I really just liked the
26:11
Speaker 2: beat and rapped on it and put it on Instagram
26:13
Speaker 2: as a snippet. Preview? Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
26:17
Speaker 2: I wasn't even done with the song yet.
26:18
Speaker 1: That's funny.
26:19
Speaker 2: And then Savage DM'd me like, who getting on this?
26:20
Speaker 2: I'm like, shit, you. You get it. You know what
26:22
Speaker 2: I'm saying?
26:23
Speaker 1: That's why I tell people, man, you got to preview
26:25
Speaker 1: your music. You got to do the snippets and shit.
26:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. For sure.
26:29
Speaker 1: I mean, 21 Savage.
26:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
26:31
Speaker 1: Videos crazy yeah i saw you got a cyber truck
26:34
Speaker 1: now yeah we got a cyber truck playing playstation out
26:38
Speaker 1: of the back of the cyber truck yeah that is
26:41
Speaker 1: i didn't even realize there's a plug back there yeah
26:44
Speaker 1: i saw your video and i'm like i've been fucking
26:47
Speaker 1: that's like that's like uh you know football sundays are
26:50
Speaker 1: coming you go to the goddamn tailgate party you got
26:52
Speaker 1: to pull out the tv and the playstation now put
26:54
Speaker 1: them get them.
26:55
Speaker 2: Mad and go yeah for sure for sure.
26:57
Speaker 1: Yeah are you like a big sports guy.
27:01
Speaker 2: Not really, but I do like watching sports. Yeah. You
27:03
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
27:04
Speaker 1: Like Falcon's guy or.
27:05
Speaker 2: I ain't really got no team.
27:07
Speaker 1: Right.
27:07
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? I got some bros in
27:09
Speaker 2: the league, so I just really go for them.
27:10
Speaker 1: That's got to be kind of dope to just like,
27:12
Speaker 1: you know, motherfuckers is warming up to your shit now.
27:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah.
27:16
Speaker 1: It's crazy for you, man. Like, what would you say is...
27:19
Speaker 1: I think people might think they kind of know who
27:23
Speaker 1: your influences are. Not to say that they're not, but
27:25
Speaker 1: who is the most unexpected... artists or type of music
27:28
Speaker 1: that you listen to that you maybe grew up listening
27:30
Speaker 1: to that you took inspiration from that people might be
27:32
Speaker 1: a little surprised by?
27:34
Speaker 2: Grew up that they might be surprised by. I'd probably
27:39
Speaker 2: say like Adele, stuff like that. Surprised by. But obviously
27:43
Speaker 2: I was influenced by like T.I. Of course. But right
27:46
Speaker 2: now though, I'm overly inspired by Dolly Parton. From the
27:50
Speaker 2: music to the writing to the interviews to the outlook
27:53
Speaker 2: to everything to the givebacks. Like, I'm in a whole,
27:57
Speaker 2: all kind of rabbit holes about her right now.
27:59
Speaker 1: Did her passing away inspire you to dive in?
28:02
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, that's why. You know what I'm saying? Nah,
28:05
Speaker 2: I take that back. I'm probably say like a week
28:07
Speaker 2: before I seen just her randomly talking about how, because
28:11
Speaker 2: you know I'm moving around now and shit, so I
28:13
Speaker 2: got to worry about my health. Of course. I seen
28:15
Speaker 2: her talking about, it was like a week before she died,
28:18
Speaker 2: she was talking about how she dealing with health issues
28:22
Speaker 2: because she took care of her husband. She put her
28:25
Speaker 2: health to the side to take care of him. Right.
28:27
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But I seen that, and then, like,
28:30
Speaker 2: a week later, she died. So, like, that one, I really, like,
28:32
Speaker 2: died into the rabbit hole. Like, bro, that was a
28:34
Speaker 2: phenomenal woman.
28:35
Speaker 1: She was cool, man, and, like, super, like, for being
28:38
Speaker 1: a country artist, like, hella, like, into the social issues.
28:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Shit. Everybody has covered her records.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I seen what she turned down on. The one Whitney
28:51
Speaker 2: Houston did, she turned down Elvis doing it because they
28:54
Speaker 2: wanted too much pub on it. She ended up waiting
28:57
Speaker 2: on Whitney Houston later on in her life, and then
29:00
Speaker 2: she made her reach.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Dolly's crazy. I'm obviously not the biggest country
29:06
Speaker 1: music fan. There's some of the country shit that's cool. Yeah.
29:08
Speaker 1: But it's definitely like she's an icon for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Adele's crazy, though. You ever try singing?
29:17
Speaker 2: I suck.
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Speaker 1: Hey you're gonna be in the studio fucking high one
29:21
Speaker 1: night and one of these engineers or producers is gonna
29:24
Speaker 1: be like yo try this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah nah i i mean i don't know how
29:29
Speaker 2: to say it bro that's just what it is but
29:31
Speaker 2: like it ain't even really like who it is or
29:34
Speaker 2: what it is like as long as it's very very
29:36
Speaker 2: authentic you know what i'm saying you really feel what
29:38
Speaker 2: you're saying like that's what i'm gonna.
29:41
Speaker 1: By 100 is there uh any of the new artists
29:43
Speaker 1: that you want to work with or anybody who you
29:45
Speaker 1: just like you've just been a fan of recently that
29:47
Speaker 1: you're like yo man i see what you're doing like
29:48
Speaker 1: it'd be hard.
29:51
Speaker 2: Um i mean not really you know necessarily work with
29:56
Speaker 2: but like I like some of the new stuff, like
29:58
Speaker 2: the Ra-Ta-Ta Girl, what it is. I forget it. It's
30:03
Speaker 2: like Ra-Ta-Ta or something like that. Yeah, I know what
30:07
Speaker 2: you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, nah, I think hip-hop in a good spot
30:12
Speaker 2: right now, man, regardless of what they say. It is.
30:14
Speaker 1: I think it is too. I swear, I feel like
30:16
Speaker 1: people don't listen. It's like if it ain't on Billboard,
30:19
Speaker 1: people act like it don't exist.
30:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:22
Speaker 1: It's like, nah, there's incredible shit.
30:23
Speaker 2: I mean, you got like the... The little rock star guys,
30:28
Speaker 2: they selling out everywhere they go.
30:30
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
30:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
30:31
Speaker 1: Like the Nine Vicious dude just sold out here in L.A.
30:33
Speaker 1: It was a fucking shit show.
30:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
30:36
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? And I don't... Bruh, all
30:39
Speaker 1: that shit is going.
30:41
Speaker 2: Over my head, but it's... It's going on, though.
30:43
Speaker 1: It's going on.
30:45
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Trigger fire, honey. Okay? Fire. This shit
30:48
Speaker 2: going on, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:51
Speaker 1: Nah, for sure. For you, man, I want to go
30:55
Speaker 1: through some of Because I feel like there's always a
30:58
Speaker 1: debate who's got... Because I feel like there's trap albums
31:03
Speaker 1: from the era of trap music. We think about the Gucci's,
31:06
Speaker 1: the Jeezy's, the Tips. Could you rank your top five
31:11
Speaker 1: trap albums ever?
31:13
Speaker 2: Top five trap albums?
31:14
Speaker 1: By the way, I think Migos is in that combo.
31:16
Speaker 1: Future's in that combo.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Trap... I mean... I probably got Thought, Motivation, 101
31:24
Speaker 2: at one.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of the only right answer,
31:29
Speaker 1: but you know.
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Speaker 2: I probably got trap music at two.
31:35
Speaker 1: Tip?
31:36
Speaker 2: I probably got, for me, I probably got Rocco swag
31:42
Speaker 2: season at three.
31:43
Speaker 1: Shout out to Rocco, man. A lot of people don't
31:45
Speaker 1: give him his flowers.
31:46
Speaker 2: He's a real trap rapper. I probably got shout out
31:49
Speaker 2: to Lowell. What Lowell's album name was?
31:51
Speaker 1: Was it Numbers?
31:53
Speaker 2: Numbers in the City. Numbers in the City. Numbers in
31:54
Speaker 2: the City.
31:55
Speaker 1: Numbers in the City.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, number four.
31:57
Speaker 1: Foolish on there.
31:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. And on to my real trap rap. Yeah. Number five.
32:05
Speaker 2: Probably Future. I'm going to say probably like Streets Calling
32:13
Speaker 2: or Dirty Sprite.
32:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, Future. I feel like you can go so many
32:17
Speaker 1: different ways with Future.
32:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
32:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to Future.
32:20
Speaker 2: DS2.
32:20
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's crazy.
32:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Um.
32:25
Speaker 1: Is there anything outside of the music that you've, like,
32:28
Speaker 1: because I feel like when you start to get a
32:29
Speaker 1: certain level of success, more opportunities come, like maybe acting
32:33
Speaker 1: or other shit. Is there anything else that you, like, that's, like,
32:35
Speaker 1: sparked your interest you might.
32:36
Speaker 2: Want to do? Not yet. I'm just going to focus
32:39
Speaker 2: on the music because I fuck around to get sidetracked.
32:42
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
32:43
Speaker 1: No, I mean, it happens. You see people start doing
32:45
Speaker 1: this or writing TV shows, and it's like, yo, man,
32:47
Speaker 1: the music is, remember, the music.
32:48
Speaker 2: Is what started this. I mean, I'm still in love
32:50
Speaker 2: with the music right now, so just going in on that.
32:54
Speaker 2: I'd probably say like putting together shows, you know what
32:58
Speaker 2: I'm saying? That'd been a cool journey, but that's inside
33:00
Speaker 2: of music. But other than that, nah, because I see
33:03
Speaker 2: stuff that I'm interested in, and I'm just like, I'm
33:05
Speaker 2: just leave that alone right now.
33:06
Speaker 1: I always wonder, there's like a fine line to walk,
33:09
Speaker 1: especially when you're an artist like yourself, between like building
33:12
Speaker 1: a hard ticket like concert circuit, but then also you
33:19
Speaker 1: are the kind of guy that like every nightclub wants
33:21
Speaker 1: to throw a bag to.
33:22
Speaker 2: Exactly.
33:23
Speaker 1: To go host and I know it can be a
33:26
Speaker 1: very like fine line to walk so you don't burn
33:29
Speaker 1: yourself out in certain markets that you want to do
33:31
Speaker 1: hard ticket sales etc is that something you guys are
33:34
Speaker 1: trying to figure out.
33:34
Speaker 2: I mean I'm studying the game so I do realize
33:38
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying but I think uh I
33:42
Speaker 2: come from that I come from that culture bro so
33:44
Speaker 2: like I probably always have to go to that club
33:48
Speaker 2: because it like you know that that's what I come
33:51
Speaker 2: from when it's like you know what I'm saying A
33:54
Speaker 2: concert is one thing, but that club scene is just, like, special.
33:57
Speaker 2: You got to think, boy, you in the middle of
33:58
Speaker 2: nowhere in Baltimore, South Carolina. Right. These folk might can't
34:05
Speaker 2: make it three hours to four hours to, you know
34:07
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, to go watch no concert, but they
34:09
Speaker 2: can come to the club, though. Right. You know what
34:11
Speaker 2: I'm saying? You going to really get the real fans,
34:13
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, the real thing. But we also,
34:17
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, studying the game, and I know, like,
34:20
Speaker 2: we ain't been taking shows for, what, about two months?
34:22
Speaker 2: About two, three months. You know what I'm saying?
34:24
Speaker 1: Getting ready for this album to come out.
34:26
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So we can build
34:27
Speaker 2: a hard ticket sale. I mean, stuff like be on
34:29
Speaker 2: my FIFA, stuff like that we do.
34:32
Speaker 1: You did the FIFA shit?
34:33
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like 22,000 folks out there.
34:36
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
34:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. That shit was my biggest show ever.
34:40
Speaker 1: I mean, it's FIFA.
34:41
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
34:42
Speaker 1: Was that like, who played?
34:44
Speaker 2: Nah, I did the FIFA like concerts.
34:47
Speaker 1: Oh, they had a concert.
34:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had a concert.
34:49
Speaker 1: Well, I know they had people performing at the games
34:51
Speaker 1: and shit, and they were in Atlanta, right?
34:53
Speaker 2: Yep. In Atlanta, we had, what's the name? Yeah, a
34:57
Speaker 2: fan festival.
34:58
Speaker 1: Oh, FIFA fan festival.
34:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 22,000. Each artist's headline every day. That's fire.
35:03
Speaker 2: You know, my dad, that motherfucker, overly loaded.
35:06
Speaker 1: They had to be all kind of crazy fans from
35:08
Speaker 1: all over the world and shit.
35:09
Speaker 2: Man, yeah, yeah. I took the Mexican flag, put it
35:12
Speaker 2: on the folk, went crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
35:14
Speaker 1: Oh, you're lit now. Now you can eat shit.
35:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
35:17
Speaker 1: They'll love you in L.A. Hey, you come to L.A.,
35:20
Speaker 1: post that picture.
35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
35:22
Speaker 1: They gonna love you, man. All right, brother. Well, shit.
35:25
Speaker 1: The new album hopefully coming in the next month or so?
35:28
Speaker 1: Two months?
35:29
Speaker 2: We're gonna give you the detail first. We're gonna send
35:31
Speaker 2: it to you first. All right.
35:32
Speaker 1: And merch? New merch dropping?
35:34
Speaker 2: Yup.
35:36
Speaker 1: No Jewelry's out. Music Video's out.
35:38
Speaker 2: Yup.
35:38
Speaker 1: What the Fuck Going is out with 21 Savage. Dope record.
35:43
Speaker 1: Looking forward to who you got up your sleeve on
35:45
Speaker 1: this album. Whatever legend that made your boy over there,
35:48
Speaker 1: you know.
35:50
Speaker 2: He did this. He went like this. We'll see, man.
35:54
Speaker 1: We'll see which Atlanta legend you have on the new album.
35:58
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mixtape.
35:59
Speaker 2: Sorry.
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Speaker 1: We have to say it's a mixtape. Yo, but for
36:02
Speaker 1: the radio show, let's introduce the record, man. Let's get
36:04
Speaker 1: into the single everyone's talking about with 21 Savage. He's
36:07
Speaker 1: in the building. Let's get to it, man. I'm going
36:09
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36:10
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36:12
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