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Episode 192 "DJ DRAMA" · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: Hold up, Hold up. This is welcome to the Ballor
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  Speaker 1: Alert Show podcast available everywhere you get your podcast. I
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  Speaker 1: go over in the name of your best dec you know, BT.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the building with that oh special guests today
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  Speaker 1: and all Red. How's it going, Mr DJ Trauma, what's up? Family?
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Gang? How are your feeling? We appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: coming to our studio interview with us. Thanks for having
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  Speaker 1: me you you guys having an amazing beautiful facility here
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  Speaker 1: over here in mean street. This is this is this
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful. We actually get a lot of love for
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  Speaker 1: the studio. We have a wall of great artists that
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  Speaker 1: come by check it out. All that in the little
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  Speaker 1: side of run saw that too. That's offices. We got security.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've kind of decked out, but don't that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get the inside joke. This is really his studio, Atlanta, Georgia. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: DJ Drama Grammy Award. We are not only in the
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  Speaker 1: room of greatness. We are in a facility that hosts
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  Speaker 1: a million great people. You probably had a million amazing
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  Speaker 1: verses come out of the studio. A lot of amazing
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  Speaker 1: stuff has come out of the studio, one being the
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  Speaker 1: ball l podcast. Um, you know this room that we're
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  Speaker 1: in now actually was the first room that I built. Here.
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  Speaker 1: A little backstory, like, so when I first built the studio,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I have went to Serious XM and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yo, like maybe I should you know. I
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  Speaker 1: was at the time myself, Green Lantern, Nina nine Screen,
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  Speaker 1: We all had shows on on Serious and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if I build a studio, when you guys
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  Speaker 1: partnered with me like maybe making like a serious XM
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  Speaker 1: South or something, and they were like, yeah, we're down
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  Speaker 1: to do that. So I went ahead and built this
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  Speaker 1: room right here and did it. And then I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: look guys, I did it and they were like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice, but we don't really have any money. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like damn. So I was like, you know, well,
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  Speaker 1: um I incurgent right. I was like, well, fun it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep on building. So you know, we built
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  Speaker 1: the the B room which is next door and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and I kept going and like when I would we
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  Speaker 1: would do our show in here, that's how I would
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  Speaker 1: I would introduce people to the studio. I was like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: f well, I like, you know, when people were coming
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  Speaker 1: as a guest and everything, um. I would show him
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  Speaker 1: around and just kind of get them to like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to do work or or you know, use the studio.
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  Speaker 1: And then I started. Then I was building. I had
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful building and nobody was really working out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then one day I just called Metro booming and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, bro, like you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: the studio. Um, I'm just give you some free time
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  Speaker 1: and what have you. And Metro came over here into
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  Speaker 1: the b room and then you know, he started working
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  Speaker 1: out of there. And this is around the time when
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  Speaker 1: the was really but this is this is like twenty
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  Speaker 1: I originally started building twenty I bought. I bought the
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  Speaker 1: build in twenty eleven, really started building it out, and
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  Speaker 1: then like um, Metro came in. And then because the
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  Speaker 1: Metro came in, Thug. That was my first time meeting Thug,
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  Speaker 1: and Thug came in and that was you know, our
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  Speaker 1: first interaction, and he was like this this is your studio.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. You know. Then Thug
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  Speaker 1: started working out of here, and then you know, around
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  Speaker 1: the same time, it was when I did my deal
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  Speaker 1: at Atlantic and I came on as an A and
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  Speaker 1: R and uh co on prey through KP was vice
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  Speaker 1: president of k Chard KP and you know, I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you know, I'm building a studio in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: Um if you guys might want to partner with me,
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  Speaker 1: So they set KP over here um to check it out,
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  Speaker 1: and KP was like, yeah, it's dope, it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: So when I came on in Atlantic, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got them. I started using their money and built out
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the building, you know, um around the
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  Speaker 1: corner of the ink side and the other room. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, the back room actually wound up turning out
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  Speaker 1: to be like the Sunny Digital metro booming room at
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  Speaker 1: the time when they did this deal. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the room next door here, like is in the
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  Speaker 1: photo shoot, the photosome room, but before that was that
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  Speaker 1: room right there was the original room where I had
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  Speaker 1: before we had all this equipment. I had all my
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  Speaker 1: stuff in there. I used to do radio, my my
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  Speaker 1: mixtapes in there. I did. I did h True Religion
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  Speaker 1: in that room to chains and it wasn't the anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: It is actually the anniversary of True Religion eleven eleven
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  Speaker 1: years I did. UM. I think I did Dream Chasers
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  Speaker 1: maybe one over there in that room and this before
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  Speaker 1: everything was built, and then you know, like uh, when
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  Speaker 1: it was when we first saw Uzi he came down
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  Speaker 1: here for his first time meeting. Thug was in there,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Susy did the whole Love His Rage
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  Speaker 1: and that b room that was his room. Nipsey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Nipsey Rest in Peace of Nipsey, the Nipsey and
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  Speaker 1: Thug records. Nip Nip was working out of here. Playboy Cardi,
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  Speaker 1: Cardi B did her whole album Invasion of Privacy a
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  Speaker 1: lot in this building. It's been some legendary stuff in here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just the way that the way
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  Speaker 1: the building is set up, like you know, people were
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  Speaker 1: running to people in the in the in the um
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  Speaker 1: in the an area and like you know, gonna gonna
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  Speaker 1: with just being there chilling it before he was quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote Ghanna um Bad and Bougie uh was made over there.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a lot. It's been a lot through this,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean Main Streets has become quite legendary, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, in an Atlanta fixture, So I'm pretty proud
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  Speaker 1: of it as you are yourself legendary. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciated. I want to take our time to give
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  Speaker 1: you your flowers. Um, your name is DJ Drama Man,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's a household name as a DJ in a
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  Speaker 1: world where DJs tend to be local. Yeah, um, and
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  Speaker 1: they could be popping locally. I don't want to make
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  Speaker 1: it seem local, like local was a bad thing. But
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  Speaker 1: when a DJ's recognized nationally, that's a and you globally. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's such a big deal. So I just want to
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  Speaker 1: take our time to thank you. Flies. Are you ready
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  Speaker 1: because we're gonna We're gonna know I'm here. I I
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  Speaker 1: wanted you to bring it to that. You should have
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  Speaker 1: told me. I would have brought it. Man, definitely would
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  Speaker 1: have brought it. I got I just built this, like
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  Speaker 1: you Standford case, glass case. I did. I drunk um.
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  Speaker 1: The first time I drunk out of it was on tour.
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  Speaker 1: When I first I first got it, I drunk. I
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  Speaker 1: think I took a shot at Cosimigos. I was when
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  Speaker 1: I was on the Whiz tour this summer, in front
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  Speaker 1: of like the whole crowd, I drunk out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then like when we dropped Snowfall, uh Me and
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  Speaker 1: Jeez were on Live and you know when we played
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  Speaker 1: the song Grammy, I took a shot out of it
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  Speaker 1: um on on live when I was in I was
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  Speaker 1: in my uh my little trophy room, well before the Grammy.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to take it back. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to Philly. How was hip hop growing up
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  Speaker 1: in hip hop at that time in Philly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: before Atlanta, before college and all that. It was. It
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  Speaker 1: was great. Ironically enough, I just ran in the Omar
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  Speaker 1: Epps last week, and you know he's like one of
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  Speaker 1: my biggest inspirations for being a DJ. Yeah, off the
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  Speaker 1: movie Juice. You know I went to go see Juice
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  Speaker 1: when I was in about to go to high school, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the summer between eighth grade and ninth grade. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: before I was big, before I became a DJ, I
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  Speaker 1: was I was really in the skateboarding, but I was
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  Speaker 1: I was trash and like in Philly at the time,
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  Speaker 1: they used to there was like this this like um
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  Speaker 1: this this this little scene of like black skateboarders that
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  Speaker 1: used to kind of congregate downtown in the spot called
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  Speaker 1: Love Park. Um. I'm not if you're familiar with Stevie Williams,
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  Speaker 1: but you know he started d G k UM internationally known.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I grew up. Me and Stevie came up
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  Speaker 1: together and everything. So out of all the you know,
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  Speaker 1: young black skateboarders, I was like the worst. So I
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  Speaker 1: was trash, thankfully. So when I saw Juice, I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know that that's that might be something I want
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  Speaker 1: to do, like, you know, as a hobby. So I
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  Speaker 1: started DJ and I came up, um you know, like
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  Speaker 1: in Philly. Um, I literally watched the Roots like kind
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  Speaker 1: of that was my first example of like watching somebody
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  Speaker 1: really get on and like make it in the music business.
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  Speaker 1: Like I watched them go from like local talent to
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  Speaker 1: getting their record deal to turning on Rap City on
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  Speaker 1: two raps and seeing distortion the static video to you know,
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  Speaker 1: going to their um album really or signing party where
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  Speaker 1: you know they were on tour with the Fuji's and
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  Speaker 1: opening up and you know, like, um, quest Love. I
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  Speaker 1: used to run into him just like downtown playing video
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  Speaker 1: games or Black Thought used to and Emily be Rust
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  Speaker 1: and Beach used to like do freestyles for me on
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  Speaker 1: my little mix tapes and everything. So um yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean Philly had a nice little buzzing hip hop scene.
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  Speaker 1: Another person that really put me on. Was this UM
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  Speaker 1: female artist in Bahamadia who was actually like my next
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  Speaker 1: door neighbor to where my dad lived in West Philly,
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  Speaker 1: and she she was signed to Guru from Gang Star,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, she kind of took me under her
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  Speaker 1: wing early on and used to take me like to
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  Speaker 1: New York and go to like, you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: industry parties and everything. So I was before I came
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  Speaker 1: to college. I was making a little local name for
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  Speaker 1: myself and I was making like little local mixtapes Philly
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  Speaker 1: and everything. Yeah, I got that name UM. I think
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  Speaker 1: I was like fifteen sixteen. Where did it come from?
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  Speaker 1: So I had these two friends I used to I
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  Speaker 1: used to work for this organization that did UM like UM.
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  Speaker 1: It was called Reconstruction, and it was like an outreach
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  Speaker 1: program for UM not for young black men who were
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  Speaker 1: coming out of prison and looking to you know, get
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  Speaker 1: back uh into society and what have you. And so
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  Speaker 1: I was doing like you know, kind of like internship
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  Speaker 1: type work for for that organization. I had these two
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  Speaker 1: homeboys that worked with me there, and one was named
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  Speaker 1: Hakim and one was named Bakari. And Hakin was like
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  Speaker 1: the biggest Tupac fan ever I just always remember that
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  Speaker 1: he was super tuer. Bak Fan McCary was from Senegal,
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  Speaker 1: So his name was Baccari Drama and he used to um.
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  Speaker 1: He used to like sell like mixtapes and incense and like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dabble a little bit in DJ. And he
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  Speaker 1: used to sell sell stuff on like Broad and Gerard
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  Speaker 1: and Philly. So I came used to always call Bacari
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  Speaker 1: DJ Drama because his last name was Drama. UM, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, damn, that sounds like that's a fire name.
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  Speaker 1: And at the time I didn't really have a DJ name,
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  Speaker 1: and Barry wasn't like real, he wasn't like taking his
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  Speaker 1: DJ ship that serious. He was like the name I
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  Speaker 1: asked him. I was like, yo, with what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: with that? You're using it? He was like, no, you
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  Speaker 1: can have it. So he gave me. He handed me
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  Speaker 1: over the name DJ Drama. The name I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask about. How you feel now you gotta grammy, how
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  Speaker 1: do you like? Does that change? Come say hi kid?
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  Speaker 1: Then come on, come on hi Gollo. Yeah, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: Don Cannon. Uh you where y'all met? Right? We met you?
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  Speaker 1: So I met kennon my sophomore year. Um. He was
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  Speaker 1: you know this this tall lanky kid that just came on.
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  Speaker 1: He did he played basketball in high school ever, and
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  Speaker 1: play Cannon's gotta be six eight six nine. He's uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's might never man. So Cannon used to
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  Speaker 1: like kind of try to like befriend me on campus
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  Speaker 1: and everything. And I had this other homeboy, Kyle, and
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  Speaker 1: then went to high school together. So Kyle had kind
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  Speaker 1: of put in my head that Cannon was a nut right,
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  Speaker 1: like he was like he was like not no, just
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  Speaker 1: like that's Philly slang, like he's a nutball. Like so
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  Speaker 1: Cannon used to you know, you know, I had already
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  Speaker 1: I had a little rep on campus already, like by
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  Speaker 1: you know, after my freshman year, and me and me
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  Speaker 1: and since used to do all the parties and everything together.
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  Speaker 1: So finally, so finally, one day Cannon was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you my bat C D and um,
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  Speaker 1: he gave me his bt c D and I went
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  Speaker 1: home and that ship was fired. Like ship. He was
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  Speaker 1: like baby premier. And the next day I was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 1: this ship is hot, bro, and like we should be friends,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So um, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: after that, we just you know, we were inseparable. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's literally been twenty well I want to
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  Speaker 1: age myself too much, but you know, two decades plus
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we've been We've been um friends and partners,
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  Speaker 1: business partners and working together and everything. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: literally met on CU campus. And I I don't think everybody
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  Speaker 1: knew that you went to a Yeah, yeah, I went
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  Speaker 1: to Clark, Atlanta. I mean that was what got me.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's why I came to Atlanta. Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I came um to Atlanta to A ten Clark and
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  Speaker 1: like the way when I was in Philly, I always
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  Speaker 1: thought I was gonna wind up in New York, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, living in Brooklyn, like on the Brownstone, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And but I came down to visit Atlanta a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times with my pop, and I just loved the culture.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, anybody that comes down here you can
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  Speaker 1: see like it's just a place of you know, as
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  Speaker 1: we call it now, Wakonda. But you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: just like you can you can feel the vibrant energy
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  Speaker 1: of it was amazing in the nineties, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: just young people of color everywhere into everything, and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was the place to be, and I came
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  Speaker 1: in like the right, I came into very Tail and
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  Speaker 1: Freaknick and even like the first Freak Nick, so I
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  Speaker 1: came in ninety six, and so they say that like
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  Speaker 1: the last Freaknick was literally like ninety seven, and in
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven for Freak Nick instaid of me, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've always been a hustler, So like I bought, I
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  Speaker 1: bought a bunch of T shirts wholesale, and during Freaknick,
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  Speaker 1: I was hustling T shirts. So everybody used to know
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  Speaker 1: me as like hustle man beating back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Come on us, man. So you come to Atlanta already
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  Speaker 1: established as DJ Drama. You're doing the mix tapes, and
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  Speaker 1: we know that there's probably a lot of like Philly
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  Speaker 1: sounds from New York sound, but I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: South was still trying to figure out, like what is
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  Speaker 1: our staples? Now? How did you find yourself in the
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  Speaker 1: mix of Atlanta music? Because you know, Atlanta is a
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  Speaker 1: we are a bubble, right absolutely, you know, we accept
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  Speaker 1: what we want to accept, right, So I mean, thankfully
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  Speaker 1: enough for me coming down here and becoming to school
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  Speaker 1: because I was very very East Coast stubborn and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways. Um I was. I had always been
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  Speaker 1: a big outcast fan for sure, like even you know,
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  Speaker 1: even before I got here. But you know, going to
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  Speaker 1: school in the a u C. You have kids from everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: like all over the country, and everybody wants to be pleased,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially in college parties like DC niggas wanting
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  Speaker 1: here go go Florida want to hear base at the Tom.
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  Speaker 1: West Coast niggas won da hear West Coach sh it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Texas want to hear they ship, like Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: one to hear they ship like New York Try State.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to hear their ship. So it trained me
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  Speaker 1: how to be very well rounded as a DJ in
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  Speaker 1: that sense. And then but I still was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like you know, I was. I was still I still
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  Speaker 1: had my backpacker roots too, So you know, there used
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  Speaker 1: to be this thing called Lyricist Lounge, and like you know,
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  Speaker 1: my my roommate at the Tom was was best friends
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  Speaker 1: with Live Quality. So I came up like you know,
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with Black Star when they would come to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: So I was, you know, I was. I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a renaissance man in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: So then when I started doing mix tapes, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: or when I when I got back into mix tapes
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  Speaker 1: when I was in school. You know, I would set
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  Speaker 1: up on campus and you know, literally sell my own
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  Speaker 1: my own tapes and then turned into CD. So I
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  Speaker 1: would have like East Coast tape, Reggae tape, and Neil
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  Speaker 1: Soult tape. And then when I did I finally did
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  Speaker 1: a South tape, like that ship just took off like
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  Speaker 1: hot cakes. And you know, I remember like my first
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  Speaker 1: South tape ever, the first song on there was like
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  Speaker 1: Bling Blaine. So this had to be about ninety and
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, around the cash Money era run And when
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  Speaker 1: I got to Atlanta, um, it was in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of the Big Own dominance. So shout the Jelly Monte,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like Big when it came to the mixed
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  Speaker 1: mix tapes and mixed CDs, they ran the South and
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  Speaker 1: they ran Atlanta like that was that was it, Like
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  Speaker 1: Big was everywhere. They had their own stores, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that was literally like that that was
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  Speaker 1: the sound of of the mixtape scene in Atlanta. So
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  Speaker 1: just to fast forward a little bit, when I when
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  Speaker 1: I started Gangster Girls, and like I remember people telling
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  Speaker 1: me like, yo, if you do a South mixtape, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to hear people talk on there,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: or they don't want to hear new music or no
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: freestyles or none of that ship like and because that
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: was they were kind of used to a certain sound
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: just based off what people were doing. And even at
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the time, like um camping, then they didn't really have
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: like covers or you know, they would just like have
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: their CDs with the number, you know, whatever number CD
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: it was and what have you. And then I kind
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: of just went against the grain like of what people
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: were telling me, nigga's in the South want to hear
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: and I really like applied like up North formula to
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Southern music. So I was you know at the time,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: like having a host was was something that was popular
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: up north from the East Coast. So you know, I
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: got a little John the host. That's how the Gangster
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Girl Drop was born. And then I started just like
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: kind of talking on tapes and I was like getting like,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: you know, local artists. Local at the time, nigga's like
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Tip and you know, David Banner and Killer Mike to
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: like do freestyles and stuff, and you know, and I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: was putting a lot of effort into the covers and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: things of that nature, and the ship just took off,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: you know. And so basically like you know, me going
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: against the grain of what people told me, niggas wanted
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to hear, and me, you know, trying something different. It
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: worked and at the time, nobody in Atlanta or in
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the South were making tapes like what Gangster Whels was
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and then ship took off. Okay, wait, so my big
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: dog Jessy was on Drink Champs earlier, um, and he
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: said you didn't want to do his mixtapes. You said
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: he wasn't hot enough. Now you are on the Baller
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Do you have a rebuttal, sir? Or is
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: this accurate? And yeah, that's not that's not all the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: way accurate. That's not all that's not what happened. Um.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: So the part that's true was he definitely used to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: make I used to make show CDs for him, and
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I didn't make him charged in my hundred dollars d First, yeah,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars was driving the land but it was nothing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Then yeah, I was living in the full for it
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: in the duplex, which is still there. Did you make
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: him take it I didn't make him taking shoes. That
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: part of the story is true. I made him take
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I made him taking shoes off to coming to my
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: my humble about four for and I would make I
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: would make a show c ds for him. And everything
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: about the part about me turning him down to do
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a tape, that's that's not true. What really happened was
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I was I was making gangster Grills and you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I was getting some buzz to it. And then I
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: had did a party Shout the Cloud nine and Batty
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: uh By we did a we did a gangster Grills
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: party in Buckhead at the time, and that was my
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: first gangster grills already. I had tip posting. I think
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Um bone Crusher was there. I think Fab was Fab
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: was there? Um? Who else was that? Maybe maybe Scrappy? Yeah?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: So and Jez was there in the cut. You know
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: he wasn't you know Jeez the superstar rapper yet so
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: coaching jeez Um told me they wanted to take me
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: to lunch and have a meeting. So we went to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: harry AND's sons and we sat down and Jeez told me, like, yo,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I was at your party. I don't know if you know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: but the streets really funk with you, like and I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, were like you know, and you know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I was in the streets like doing mixtapes, but I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: wasn't in the streets, so he was telling me the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: streets funk with me. So um, he was like, look,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I got this idea, like, you know, I got this
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: vision to do this project. And that was Jez was
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the first person to ever pay me to do a mix,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to do like a gangst grow so so they gave me.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: They gave me a thousand dollars. That was the first
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: time I got paid to do it against growth and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you know, but I was like, he told me, said,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I got a vision. This is what my movement is.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And you know, originally the tape was called geez Up.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Before it was called Streets Is Watching, but Scrappy's crew
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: was called gee Up, so we wanted up changing the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: name of it to the Streets Is Watching. But at
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the time, you know, I was like, all right, whatever,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you know, he's trying to pay me for a mixtape.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I'm cool with it, you know. Um. And then I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: went into the tape and then you know, my man
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: rolled up on me on the on Glenn Iris Glenn
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Irish when I was on Glenn Irish after this Streets
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Is Watching and he was like, Yo, that new the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Geez tape. That's the best gangster grills ever. And I
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: was like, what like the new nigga? You know, like
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I just did like a t I tape And I'm like, huh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And you were never paid for like t I tape. Now,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I never got paid for nothing before that. I was
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: just doing tapes like you know, I was, I was
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: selling them, but nobody ever paid me to do just
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: like their tape. And then, um, yeah, you know, next thing,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you know, fucking Streets Is Watching is the hottest thing
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in the South East. You can't go nowhere without hearing
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that music. And you had to hear me all over
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: it because that was the only place that existed was
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: on that you know, on that platform. So um so yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: The part about the part about me telling him now
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you're not hot enough, he he fabricated that a little,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: but I'd say seventy five. So I gotta I got
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a question. So do you feel like DJ Kelly is
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: duck in the smoke? Um? Yeah, is he duck in
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the smoke? I don't know. I mean because you've been
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: calling him out. I ain't been calling him out. I've
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: been calling anybody out, like I'm just not running, you know.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I guess I guess the difference in the interviews is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that in the interviews that I've done, you know, his
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: name comes up, So I guess the difference needs to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: be you know, whenever he gets on a platform, you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: someone specifically needs to bring my name up, you know
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So you know, I don't know, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I don't know if my name
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: came up and drink Champs, you know, when Nori did
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the interview. I don't know. We have to ask Nori.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But you know, in the interviews that I've done, obviously
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: his name has came up, and I've said that I'm
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: with all the smoke, you know what I'm saying. So um, yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I think that that I've already answered it, you know
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: what I mean. I think that's more of a question
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: for him. Someone needs to bring my name up, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's all love. I think at the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: end of the day, like it would be great for
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the culture, you know what I'm saying, to see DJ's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: on our level, like you know, as we know, versus
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to be a celebration, you know what I'm saying, Like
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's all you know, hip hop is
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a very competitive sport. I don't I don't care where
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it is. Like I'm I'm I'm coming a ball, you
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like you know, like I haven't
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: an extreme catalog, you know, um as does calid. You
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So um I think it just
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: it would be a great time, you know what I mean.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: So I'm with I'm with all, I'm with all the fun,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and I'm with all the smoke, so we can go
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: whatever way with it, you know what I mean. I'm
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to bless anybody else. There are so many
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: people that just don't understand why mixtapes were so big,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: so important in two thous and for those of you
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that don't know, you didn't really need clearance like you can.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: It was like the wild West. Yeah it was. It
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was a free for all and that's what mixtapes so
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: great because you did not have to go through the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: regality or not. And it was great until the cop came.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It was crazy back then. Why were they on you
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: as hard as they were? Um? I mean, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I was the top of the food chain, like you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: know I was like when I was the mixtape king,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, it was. You know I was when you
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: when you watch the footage and they came and confiscated
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: fifties six thousand CDs like you know, we were, we
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was getting to it, you know what I'm saying. So, um,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they want me so hard because
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: at the time, like I was, you know, I was
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: working directly with the artists, Like I wasn't a bootlegger,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It wasn't like I was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: stealing Nigga's music and putting it out or labels couldn't
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: control it. They couldn't exactly, and and the labels weren't
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: all the way into cahoots. So like the promotions department, um,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and you know the marketing department I was, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: they haraled to me, but you know, the legal department
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: or the other side probably didn't understand, like why are
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: we giving this guy this music or allowing our artists
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to you know, use his platform and put these CDs
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: out that are not you know, sanctioned by us. You
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So um, yeah, it was. I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: think it was just at a time, um, in the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: space where the music industry was going through a lot
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: of hits and you know they were watching like their
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: their bottom dollar kind of um, kind of not making sense,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and you know they came after me, you know what
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I mean. And yeah, it was. It was a crazy time.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: You know. Um it was the gay the day the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: game change, you know, the mixtape game. And I was like,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you know, for me, like because growing up such a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: fan of mix tapes and mixtape culture, like you know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I felt a lot of guilt at first, like damn,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I can't watch this culture like die on my shoulders
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that I you know that I that I grew up
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: loving so much. And then I become you know that
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: guy and then here they try to you know, destroy
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: it or take it down while while I'm in control.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So um, but yeah, I mean, you know, and it
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: was crazy. It's like if you watch the reports sty
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you know, when they're going to news, the cops says, normally,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: any situations we find guns and drugs. Um, this circumstance
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we didn't like. Thankfully, they came on like a Monday morning,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: like when we just got back from m oka weekend.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: They didn't find one split, one handgun, no nothing, just
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: CD s, you know, so they tried to make it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: out obviously you know the criminalization of hip hop and like,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if they thought they was
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: gonna really like come us some big ass, you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: crime organization, like because you know, they really hit me
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: with the rico, like you some real ship, you know
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I was like, what making I'm
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: making mixtapes. Yeah, I'm a sucking DJ. Like what are
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you talking about until monetize? I do have a question. Um,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: we never really I don't know. I haven't seen anyone
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to ask you this question. Affiliates, Okay, I always wanted
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: an affiliate change because I was I remember I was
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: around at the time, and I was like, damn, that
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: was actually one of the reasons why I wanted to.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I started doing mixtapes watching You have a Crew, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I remember I was at compound. Um. I wasn't supposed
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to be there. Um, I was old, had to be eighteen,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: crazy um. And I saw all these affiliate change in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the building. Then I saw you walk past me. I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was like, whole ship, that's DJ drama and I've just
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: seen everybody needs affiliate change. Where did that name come from?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And like, I want to talk about that era because
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that was a that was a nice little era in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the pocket you was in on that they were all
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: they were colorful and long. There was the Long Change.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Um yeah. So basically it was actually after the CU days.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: We were out of school and at the time we
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: were part of uh crew called the super Friends. UM
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: where that was you know shout the DJ Mars, DJ Trauma, UM,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: DJ Doc, uh Cowboy Rock Fahrenheit. Um. Yeah, it was
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: so and they were like older than us, so they
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: were like, you know, they were pretty much to go
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to DJ's in Atlanta, you know, um um, and you
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: know Mars, Mars and Trauma were like kind of we
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: were me Cannon and sense kind of like looked up
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to them in a lot of ways. You know, they
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: were like somewhat mentors in a sense and what have you.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And and we they made us part of the super Friends,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: so we became like kind of the youngest members of
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the super Friends, and we were you know, super friends
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: were on fire in Atlanta, like I guess from like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you know, good Oh one too. You know, those those
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: those years formidable years before the Affiliates came along, So
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: at the time we were having some differences with them,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and um, the main fallout. Um. Then my version of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the story, um was that basically Jacob York offered the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: super Friends opportunity to do an album and he was
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: going to give them like fifty grand or something to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: like do a super Friends album, and we were so
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I remember we used to have meetings and everything. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: then when they when they came to the table, they
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: were like, all right, well, if we do an album,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: we need to we should call it Gangster Grills because
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that's like the hottest brand, you know. But they were
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: like really party like, like very focused on parties, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: we were trying we were focused on mixtapes, and you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: at the time, they like kind of told us like yo,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: like Jelly Monte oomed camp, like they got the mix
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: tape ship, like when it comes to like getting sponsorships
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and everything, we need to use this money towards parties.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: So we were kind of like, damn, we can't get
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: no money to sponsor our mix tapes because all the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: money was going to the parties. So I didn't really
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: want to use Gangster Grills as the title for the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: album because I was, you know, feeling somewhat indifferent at
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the time, and um, they pretty much kicked me out.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: They were like, well, we can't use Gangster Girls you
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: know for the title, like, you know, they removed they
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: don't come to the bowling party. The next we were
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: having we were having some with some I was having
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: some issues with them the management at the time of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you know, just just the management of of the super Friends,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Like I just was kind of, you know, we weren't
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: seeing eye to eye, and I just was like, yo,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you know, gangs Girls was my baby, Like I didn't
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: want the super Friends album to be the Gangster Girls album.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so they pretty much like you know, kind
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of kicked me out. And then you know, Sentin Cannon,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you know, those being my brothers, you know, they were like, yo,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: if job goes, we go. So we left. We had
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: we had this other friend of ours that I've known
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: literally since like sixth grade. His name is Ace McLeod
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: E's from Philly two and he was pretty much like, man,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: funk that ship. We don't need them, Like, let's do
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: our own ship, Like we could start our own group.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: And he came up with the Affiliates, and the A
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: was for Atlanta and Affiliates spelled it, yeah for pH
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I L L was that was tipped to debt. So
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: we started so because because we left the super Friends,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: we started the Affiliates. And interestingly enough, there was this
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: little magazine that was coming to do a story on
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: us being super friends, and we told him like, yo,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: we're not super friends no more. Like we started this
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: new group and they were like, all right, well cool,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: we'll put you all in the covers the Affiliates. So
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you know, like next thing, you know, it was like, um,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the Affiliates were like you know, the new kids on
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the block, you know, and Gangster Girls was was heating up,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying, and you know, super
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Friends and Affiliates we went. You know, we had little
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: competitive back and forths and all types of you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: little things here and there, which again this is twenty
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: years ago, so we're all homies now to this day.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Like but but yeah, but I mean, yeah, that was
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: literally how we came up with the Affiliates because we
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: wound up leaving the super Friends and starting our own ship.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And then you know, around that time and it was.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: It was tough. I just sit on um when I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: when I sat on Seti's tape, like yo. It was
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: literally around that time, I was like going broke and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: almost moved back to Philly because I was like, you know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Gangster Grills is lit. Gangster Grills was just getting lit.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But I wasn't seeing no real money like I was.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: You know, like the bootleggers was making way more money
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: off gangs girls than I was. I was just just
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: breaking even type ship, you know, just making them. But
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the Gangs girls was was still a thing. But I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: was like, yo' I'm not you know, yeah, I couldn't.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't enough to really cover the bills. And almost,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you know, I almost went home and then and then
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you know, one thing led to another that affiliates started,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and then Gangster Grills just like took off. I feel
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: like with you DJ since don Kan, I think what
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you guys were able to accomplish is so amazing. It
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of like Ja Big and Bigs
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and Dame Um how they stuck together and got their
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: stuff together. And I just think that it's just amazing.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I think your story is amazing and you have like
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a documentary later on or anything. I'm working on it. Um.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I've had numerous production companies and numerous people come to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: me about telling my story and the documentary. So, um,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I'm actually in the process of doing it now, just
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: trying to do it accurately, um and tell the right story.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And there's a couple of different stories to be told,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: but I'm definitely working on it. But there's like, so
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: there's an NPR, there's a Tiny Desk podcast that kind
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of tells somewhat in my story, but a lot of
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the focus is about the raid. And then like you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: like Hip Hop Evolutions did an episode on this on Netflix. Um,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: so there's different pieces here and there, but like at
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: some point I'm definitely gonna tell like the DJ drama
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: against the Girls story for sure. And then you know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: like you said, like you know, just myself and Cannon
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and Sense and even Lake show, like you know, we
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: we we all know each other since college, you know
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: what I mean, And like we say, we're a prime
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: example that friends and business can mix, you know what
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like we've literally been friends for twenty plus
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: years and been in business for you know, just that
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: amount of time in so many ways, and like we
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: know each other's strengths, we know each other's weaknesses. We
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: crack jokes about each other all day, Like you know,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: we have internal arguments and you know, don't always see
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: eye to eye at something. You know, it was a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: time and space for me and Canada had fell out
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and then you know we came back together. But um,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, you know, similar to you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the the origins of of Rockefeller, Like you know, us
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: coming up together like that definitely is a is a
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: dope story that I think needs to be told. Sure,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: do you feel like a new sense of energy around
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: your career legacy? Because I don't know if it's just me,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but noticing like Usher and like all these people that um,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you know have had amazing careers are like really getting
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: their flowers. Us it's on a whole run, making a
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: whole new bag old. So right, what do you think
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: this is? Do you think the hip hop community is
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: just little better about giving flowers? Are we just paying
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: more attention to our leaders? What do you think this
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: new energy is? Um? You know, I think everything just
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: comes full circle or it has his moment of nostalgia,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: you know, So I think that you know, I'm in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a space of you know, after there's a there's an
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: error of that like literally grew up on me. You
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that there's a there's an error
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: that came up with me, and there's an arraa that
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: grew up on me, like one of those being Tyler
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: for an example. You know. So for him, it was
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: always a dream of him, dream of his to have
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a Gangster Girls or you know how influential Gangster Grills
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: was to him, like the Farrell tape or you know
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: the Wayane tapes and everything. So for him to make
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: his album into Against Girls album and then for us
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to you know, go ahead and it you know, be
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: this amazing body of work. Um, and then you know
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the space that I'm in right now, Like I know,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I feel in uh an energy, you know, just myself,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you know, with what I've what I've done and accomplished.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: And you know, for me, it was like even when
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I first got on, like you know, I was like
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: all right, like you know, and it I felt like
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: it took me like a good Like I started DJ
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: at ninety two. I feel like I got on maybe
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: like oh four oh five, like so that was like
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: twelve years of like grinding it out, you know what
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, And it was like, all right, now that
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I got here, like how do you stay here? Like,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you know, how do you stay relevant? You know what
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So to be in two after you know,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: thirty years of DJ and or after like you know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: after really making a name for myself at oh five,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and to be like probably like you know, we talked
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: about this last week, like having one of the hottest
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: moments in my career. Like he's a real testament, you
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So you know, it's like it's
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: it's like on top of all the legacy of what
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I've already accomplished, and then too then go after after
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the Affiliates and Gangster Grills and then start generation now
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: and then you know, to be part of the success
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: of Oozy's career and and and Jack Harlow and you know,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and now just for Surgeon a gangster Grills just like
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: it's a whole new life. I mean, it's give your
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: way to a lifetime achievement war you know, one day
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: and then then I still got a lot to accomplish,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I'm you know, I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: loving it. You know what I mean, I'm I'm I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: forty four years old, and even just being on it,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: like I said, like I went on tour Whids and
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Logic this summer and I was walking. When I walk
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: out and do my first set, these kids are literally
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: like chanting my name and like he's like eighteen, nineteen
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: twenty year old kids, and you know, and then my
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: first set, I'm playing Tyler and I'm playing I'm playing
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: stick off the dreamvill tape and everything, and you know,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: or my daughter, my sixteen year old daughter showing me
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: text messages of her friends like hype off the NBA,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: young Boy, Gangster Grills, you know what I mean. So um,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's a great space to be in, you know.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And it's just again it's a it's a testament of
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: how much like I love the music, I love the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: culture like I love what I do, you know what
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like, it doesn't matter if I was making
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: no money or you know, eight figures, nine figures, like
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I love hip hop like to its very core and
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: its essence. And it was always a point for me
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: to show how invested into the culture I am and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: have been my whole life. It's a legendary DJ drama
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: on the Boiler Show. Um, I got a question, so
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: after I just wanna go back to Jeezy real quick.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: After he paid you for that, did you get paid
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: for the Wane tape next? Or were they paying you afterwards?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: So I didn't I didn't pay for Wane tape? So Wayne,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: after I did the G I did Jeez Streets is
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Watching and then that popped, and then I did we
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: did Trapper Die, and then I didn't get I didn't
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: get paid for Trapper Die. I don't think I gotta
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: pay for TRAFFI paid from Trapper Do Why I made
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: money off of trapper Dot? Oh god. So by that
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: point we had already like made it. You know, trap
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: was crazy? Yeah, we was. We was no, no, no no.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: When the dedication comes, So basically after I did Trapper Die,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, damn, what the funk I'm gonna do next? Like,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: how am I going to top this dedication and the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: dedication to how many years? Now there's seven dedications because
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: there's six and there's a six point five? So is
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: my favorite? Yeah? She is my favorite? To two is
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: two is incredible? Um, so yeah, so I was you know,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the dedication series came. The first dedication came right after
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Trapper Die, like literally dropped within months of each other.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: But so I didn't I didn't get like I didn't
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: charge Wayne for a tape. But then they were already like, yo,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Gotti paid me for a tape. Um, so you're charging
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: at this particular moment. So I started charging, like people
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: started paying me for gangster girls after after that, probably
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: a lot. Alright, So I mean legally, can you say, like,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: what's the number? He was about to say, you're about
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: go ahead? I can. Yeah, I think God mean God's
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: first tape. I think God he gave me like sism.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: So that was early on, and then like the numbers
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: went to like tens, they went to tens, they went
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to fifteen, they went to twenties. Just cover to here
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: talking some with the number now crazy all right, so
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: what about snowfalls? How much? This is? What's the number now? Sir?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: What's that? The numbers now? Yesterday price? It's not two
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: days rice snowfall? How did that have because you know
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that's my guy, you're my guy. How did this conversation happen?
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: So can it happen without me, and I'm I'm perplexed.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Plex God, I'm perplexed. I I'm over here, like wait,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: it's been in discussions for like over a year now
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: that we've been planning this. Um. It really started between
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Cannon and Jeez. They had gotten back in, you know,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: can came up with the title UM and you know
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: they were you know, working on working on the music
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: together and everything. They brought me in about a year
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: ago and it's just like, Yo, you know, I think
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: it's time, like you know, let's let's make it a
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Gangster girls. And I was like it's been time. Um.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: So yeah. So then you know, we went through a
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: little tweaked hearing are over the last maybe six seven months,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and then we got back in a couple of months
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ago and just really like buckled down and got on
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the project and like you know, it's like ship feels
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: like oh five oh six again, And it was just
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: it's just amazing, Timmy, you know what I'm saying. Um
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: that you know, it came out just you know when
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: it came out, and it's fire and it's crazy. How
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: do you how did you link over NB A young
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: boy that nigga just but young Boy, don't funk with nobody,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: man with nobody. My nigga shout the fee um on
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: fee forever, you know from from Young Money days, and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: if he just randomly hit me and was like, um yo,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: young boy, w why do you want to haul at you?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: That's crazy? So we got we got on the phone
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and he was just like you know, he you know,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: he talks in a very like um um way and everything,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and he's just like, Yo, I got this new tape.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I want you to do it. And I bet he
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: was like, damn, I got like two other tapes coming out.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: You did Want with Snoop, I Did Want with Snoop
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: and I did Jeezy. And then I literally got the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: call like the week of fuck it about it. It's
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: about to be Gangster Grill season. So people knew that
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: the the Jeezy and the and the Snoop tape were dropping.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody knew about the Young Boy, and I was like, yeah,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I was. I was the shock when that came out,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Like fun, these niggas up, like Nigga's gonna be like
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: hold on wait, Trum just want to grammy Trum just
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: got these Yeah the year and this thing is dropping
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: three gangster girl. No, this is not fair like this
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: is this is this is getting unfair. That is not fair, sir.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: We have a game. We have a game, a game
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: called Baller Bliss Handler to you, oh ct are you ready?
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: We got the legendary DJ drama. We're gonna dig into
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: crates a little bit. I'm gonna do five songs. You're
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: gonna let me know what sample uh is sampled out
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: of the song. So alright, first up, Beyonce, break my soul?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: What is the sample? Um, isn't it Robin s is?
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Robin s Um? I forget the name Robin is? Alright? Cool,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: al alright? Second, we got Burner Boy. Last last, that's
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a sample he gave he gave I didn't know that. Yeah,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: he gave her, He gave her the he gave her
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: the publishing I believe too. Right, here's a clue. That's
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: rhymes Relaxton. Oh oh Tony Braxton. Yeah, okay, man enough
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: for me? Oh it's man oh man enough for me?
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right? That is that? All right? It's
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: sound good. Here you go, Here you go for the
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: third one. Jack Harlow first class, Um, I wonder what
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that is? Furgo this ship shot, the shot the furging
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: on that one. Yeah. I tried to pull all the
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: dog on that one and shout to what I am on.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I thought that was glamorous life. It was glamorous. Like
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, okay, it's glam it's glamorous life. Yeah,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: saying her name. All right. Fourth, we got MEGANA Stallion
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: playing b um um. Oh that's freaking you Joe to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: see right? Yeah all right. Last one maybe a tough one,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Drake Jimmy Cooks. Damn, I don't know that yet. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: don't know that one either. I don't know that one.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: That is you were gone by Brook Benton six that
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: was digging into crate with the legendary DJ. Yeah. Yeah,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: you gave me the toy. Yeah yeah. We'll be right
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: back with more of the Baller Alert Show message. It
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: is time for Baller Male Deir Baler Show. I've been
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: married for twelve years. Beautiful kids, beautiful wife. I absolutely
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: love her and adore her, but I believe she's cheating
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: on me. She texts me by accident last weekend and
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: said that was the greatest sex ever, and her and
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I haven't had sex and over two weeks I applied
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: to that text, and she wrote that she was talking
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: about a sex scene on p Valley in her female
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: group chat. She refused to send the screenshot to the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: conversation threat. What do you guys stay? Twelve years? Twelve
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: years kids, beautiful wife. I adore her and I love her.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I mean that's not bad though, two weeks, like for
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: married couples after twelve years, Like I thought you was
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: gonna say, like a year or like six months. I
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: know people that's married that don't have a lot of sex.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: So well, have you ever been married? Yeah, I mean
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: you know, married, but not that long. How often do
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: you have sex if you don't mind sex? About twice
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: a week? Okay, how long you've been married? Yeah, I mean,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: you know they say as the time, you know, everybody's different,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: but as the time goes, like you know, when you
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: get married, it's a lot of other things. You gotta
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: have kids, like you know, the kids are there, Like
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you know, sex is not always at the forefront. I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: mean it's it's a very important thing. And we're to
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: looking at like man that like you are you saying
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: that she'mating him? No? No, no, no no, I'm not saying
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: she's not cheating on him. What I'm saying is the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: fact that it's only been two weeks, like you know,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, first she should address her you know, and
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: you know, now if she if she continues to lie
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: on it, it might be time to hanging up. But
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: you know, if she admits to it, you know, things
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: happen in relationships. Maybe they should go to counseling and
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: you know, see if they can work through it. M Now,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: if she's a habitual cheater, then it's like, oh, yeah,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: you gotta chunk up the duce because you only get
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: one life. Only get one life, so nobody wants to
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: be unhappy. Your wife needs sex. Your wife wants sex,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: and if you're not giving it to her. But where
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: you're saying, but two weeks is like, that's not that long.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Clearly she needs sex, clearly, Like if she couldn't wait
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: for her husband, then clearly I'm not. First of all,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: she should. Yeah, she that came doing first and like
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: y'all like, And she may have and he may have
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: ignored it because he said, what you said, we got kids,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: we got jobs. Honestly, she may have said it and
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: he may have ignored her needs. Takes a lot for
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: a woman to cheat. It takes a lot, so you
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: may not have been listening to her. Sir. Again, cheating
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: is not right. If you get to some point that
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: you feel like you gotta cheat, pull your partner to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the side of that baby, I need to stick, Like,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: what's the problem. I need some passion, I need some love.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Where twelve years? Should they hang it up if she
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: if he finds out she is cheating? No, I think
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: they should work on I think that they should have
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: a real conversation. What are her needs? What are his needs?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: How do as your wife? How can I make you
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: more comfortable to want to be intimate with me? And
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: vice versa. It's gotta be something. You say, He hasn't
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: ejaculated at all in two weeks, like you don't think
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: that he may be pleasured himself. A man can go
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: two weeks, two weeks. Mom, to you, what are your thoughts?
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Please speak it to the micro sir, one of two
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: weeks for you? Two weeks, I can't go along, I
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: can't go I can go two weeks, two weeks. I
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: think women, y'all really just does is she cheating on him? Yes?
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Or no? You said, what is she cheating on him.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: She's definitely cheating on him. Somebody definitely pushed push that
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: box back. That's all I'm gonna say. If I was
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: him and I get a text, man, she said, that's
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the best sex ever. Whatever guns is in the house,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: you might not want to come back because I'm about
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: to be standing outside like what he had. Bring up
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: to the house. You ain't gotta hide that baby, put
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: the kids sleep, You tell your little friend to come
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: home and tires up too. I'm gonna be on that
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: bring your friend. Oh, you ain't gotta hide that baby.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Doubt I doubt it was. I doubt it was a
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: woman that. I doubt it was a woman too. And
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: she had the best sex ever with so. But so
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: basically the question he's asking is, Yeah, he's just asking
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: if she not asking us, if he needs to leave
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: her or none of that. Yeah, she his his insecurities
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: has spiked. Man, Listen, women do First of all, women
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: don't make mistakes. Don't make mistakes like they're sending the
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: wrong text message. That's what dudes. We do something like that,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: that's careless like that, or she might have wanted him
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: to She might have wanted him to investigate, dagn to
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: it and then have toxic sex. They got a TV
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: show about that too on Netflix. Could be toxic. What's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: it called sex life? For us to get up out
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: of here, to be toxic. Women like that toxic she
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  Speaker 1: holds be toxic. That's why people like brad Fire asks
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  Speaker 1: lit because the whole want to hear that toxic ship.
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  Speaker 1: They like starting fight. So you're getting mad at him
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  Speaker 1: and choke him out, and you choking him and so
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  Speaker 1: come on, you know, like, don't act like you ain't never.
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  Speaker 1: Don't act like you ain't ever try to make a
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  Speaker 1: nigga math so you grip you to funk up sounding
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: you know you like that ship. I don't know you
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  Speaker 1: have to take a math for that. I thought you
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  Speaker 1: could just ask for it. Okay, to get up out
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  Speaker 1: of here. We'll be right back with more of the
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  Speaker 1: baller Alert Show. Thank you DJ Drama for coming. It's
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: a pleasure. Give us some shout out, sir. I'm man.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Shout to y'all. Man shout to y'all for you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: holding the ball Alert podcast down, for doing your things
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  Speaker 1: as a unit and individually. You know, I know all
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  Speaker 1: of you are very well and you know you're all
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  Speaker 1: doing your think uh in your respective careers, and I'm
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: very proud of y'all. Uh. You know, skies not the limit,
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  Speaker 1: skies what you just stand on, the reason to be
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  Speaker 1: on and you know this is our first time really
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: interacting but the same as well. And you know, I
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: just uh, I salute to you all man, thanks for
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: having me appreciate that. It's it's definitely a tough week,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: a tough day for hip hop. We have lost yet
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: another young man had not even seen the age of thirty.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get a baby. Um. Definitely been
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: praying for the Megos and their families all day. Um,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: this is tough, praying for de Vito who lost his
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: three year old child. Just celebrated the third birthday. So
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  Speaker 1: it's an honor to have DJ Drama here and give
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: you your flowers and the flesh. Thank you for doing
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: what you do and for sumporting us. And please go vote,
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• 52:48
  Speaker 1: I do want to say, you know Resci pieces take
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  Speaker 1: off for sure, um, um if anything, dedicate this to him. UM. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely a tough day, you know, another cloud over
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: the city. You know what I'm saying, Um, take was
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: you know I've known him, I know him for since
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  Speaker 1: he was eighteen nineteen. Great kid, you know. Um. So
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: he will be missed and you know we definitely will
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: keep his legacy alive. Yeah. Man, I just want to
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: shout out you Drama for coming through. We know you
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: extremely busy and you know we appreciate you coming in
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  Speaker 1: rocking with us. Uh yeah, And I'm just shout out
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  Speaker 1: to you Drama, so again. Um. I I don't want
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: to have taylored my entire how you articulate yourself, how
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you carry yourself. But I look to you as a
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: motivational purpose because very very seldom like because my parents
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: didn't understand what I was trying to do. So I
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: was like, I want to be a DJ, I want
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: to be on the radio. They didn't understand it, and
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't really have anybody to look for look towards
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  Speaker 1: to kind of say that's who I want to be
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: like that in my case, that was you, you d
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: holiday um screen Um, and I saw your guys as template.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: You guys kind of had a template, even Cannon and
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: so I just appreciate our friendship. We'll talk to you often,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: play pool, we need play I phone pool ant, but
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I think I was busting your ass like too much. Yeah,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: because I went on a run. Remember that run right, Yeah,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: we're running back the hell of a run on them.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: But I appreciate it. It's so funny because people don't
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: don't think that we talk as often we do, but
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: we actually talk pretty often often. And I appreciate you
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: just for your friendship because you have no idea how
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: much that motivates me. Just a normal conversation and you
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: know that means a lot to me. Bro. You know,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: just just to hear stories like that. You know, I
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: know me coming up and I tell you all my
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: accomplishments when I get them every time I do something big,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: and I love to hear and so and it's like,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: you know, for for me to to be inspiration to
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: someone you know, and I'm someone that loves to give
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: flowers and to you know, to pay homage to people.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: So you know, for you to to to look at
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  Speaker 1: me for that like that, that that's part of the
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: greatest gift of what I do. To think that Dan
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: somebody like I wanted to become a DJ because of
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: what I was doing. You know what I'm saying. So
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: you know, so to you, yes, I would definitely say
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: your story is legendary, like just researching it. I'm just
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: like I'm a student of the game. So I just
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: love to I love documentaries and I can't wait when
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: yours come out because I want to know about the
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: drama Philly. I want to know about the hip hop
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: back then all the way up into now. It's just
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: amazing and I just want to say we appreciate you.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: And um lastly, we have work a word from our
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: ballers today. You are our baller and it's just an inspiration,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: uh speak to anybody coming up, just like a Ferrari
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: said in your Footsteps or anything like that you can give.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: You know, I always I tell people this all the time,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Like you know, for anybody that's coming in the game
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: and wanting to be in the game. You know a
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: lot of times, uh we aspire to like you know,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: to reach the top or you know, the highest of
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: the high where people have to realize, like hip hop
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: is is built out of like you know, movements, like
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: like organic movements, you know what I mean, And like
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: you know now in today's world, it's very easy for
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: someone to try to like d M, d J Drama
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: or d M Young Jeez and say, yo, I wanna
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: do this with you or do that with you. But
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, look to your left, look to
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: your right. You know, if it wasn't for people like
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Tip and Geez who were you know, coach ca Lib
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: around the corner from me, like um, Jason Jeter who
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: was tas manager, got my my number off the back
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: of a c D you know, a mixtape in the
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: barbershop and brought this young kid through. Like it's about
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  Speaker 1: creating movements. So before you try to, you know, go
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: and d M your favorite artist, who's you know already
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: a list or like the people around you are the
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: ones for you to come up with and to to
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: make those movements with movements with And I tell people
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: that all the time, Like that's that's out of anything
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  Speaker 1: what people respect about our culture and about hip hop
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: more than anything. Prime example, the meks you know, who
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: would have who would have known if or if they
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: would have known that you know, you know um uh
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: three family members you know would create this this sound
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: and this style that all of hip hop would go
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: on to mimic and try to do you know some
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: neig is from North side of Atlanta. You know what
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that change the world, you know, change culture.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, that would be my my ball,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: my ball advice. All right, did you drama the ball Alert,
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