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Best of full interview: Clipse Talk New Album, Def Jam Split, Travis Scott Beef, Cousinz Fest, Kdot, Ye, Leaks + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning, Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is the j n V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: We got some special guests in the end.
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  Speaker 2: Clips.
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the clips? Or is it clip Clips? Because
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I say the clips too clips?
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  Speaker 2: You call that.
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  Speaker 5: Shot, So it's just clips.
• 0:27
  Speaker 6: What's the origins of the name for people who don't know?
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  Speaker 7: So that came from Full of Clips. I came up
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  Speaker 7: with it and at the time of Fat Joe had
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  Speaker 7: the Full of Clips Crew, so we just shortened it
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  Speaker 7: the Clips.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Now I want to go back right because you
• 0:42
  Speaker 8: guys haven't been a long time, for a long time,
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  Speaker 8: so I want to start from the history.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I know you guys for a long, long, long,
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 8: So what got you into rapping and to form the
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  Speaker 8: group The clip Clips for people that don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Always always been a fan of hip hop like anybody else.
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  Speaker 4: You know, My older brother was into the whole cardboard box.
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  Speaker 7: Break dancing, boom box rapping when you had to push
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  Speaker 7: play and record and wrap directly into the box and yeah, man,
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  Speaker 7: just uh just coming up, just coming up under that
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  Speaker 7: and uh we went to Chad's house one time and
• 1:22
  Speaker 7: Pusha he wrote his first rap, and Pharrell was like, y'all,
• 1:25
  Speaker 7: should you know be a group? His first rap was incredible,
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  Speaker 7: but before that it was just me rapping over there.
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  Speaker 8: Now when you're first met Chad and and Pharrell, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: y'all are totally opposite. So how did y'all even meet
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  Speaker 8: and even learn each other? Because growing up in Norfolk
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  Speaker 8: in Virginia, like, it's totally two different sides. So what
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  Speaker 8: made y'all even say, you know what, let's connect with
• 1:47
  Speaker 8: these guys who wearing tight shirts at the time and
• 1:50
  Speaker 8: tight pants and looked like skateboards and look nothing like
• 1:52
  Speaker 8: y'all serving them, serving them? So it made ya say,
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  Speaker 8: you know what, let's link with them and start you know.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, so I was a djuh dj Alex in Virginia.
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  Speaker 7: Beach lived down the street from me, and we went
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  Speaker 7: out and we rented a drum machine and we got
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  Speaker 7: the drum machine, but we couldn't work it, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: we had to turn it back in, so and we
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  Speaker 7: had paid for it, but you know, we was gonna
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  Speaker 7: have to turn it back in before we even had
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  Speaker 7: a chance to use it. And he was like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: let's take it to my homie's house. And we went
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  Speaker 7: over there and it happened to be Chad and he
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  Speaker 7: knew how to work it. And you know, that's just
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  Speaker 7: stuff that we was doing before clip.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where it started. So when did y'all take
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  Speaker 2: it serious?
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  Speaker 8: When did you say, you know, what this rap thing
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  Speaker 8: is is something I'm gonna take serious. I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 8: off the street to say this is.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: What it is.
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  Speaker 9: I have to say that was in meeting Pharrell. In
• 2:42
  Speaker 9: meeting Pharrell, and you know it was Pharrell, it was
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  Speaker 9: the Teddy Riley coming to Virginia. You know, we began
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  Speaker 9: to see that it was a real thing, that that
• 2:54
  Speaker 9: that music was was actually attainable in arms reach. I
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  Speaker 9: mean we seeing the cars, We're seeing the Ferraris, were
• 3:01
  Speaker 9: seeing Michael Jackson in Virginia Beach. You know, we're seeing
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  Speaker 9: MC's whole everybody was was coming, was coming down. And
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  Speaker 9: then at the same time we had you know, Timblin
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  Speaker 9: and MISSI they was doing their thing. They were you know,
• 3:16
  Speaker 9: they had left home and went to Jersey and was
• 3:19
  Speaker 9: working with Joe Tosy.
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  Speaker 4: But these are all our childhood you know, high.
• 3:24
  Speaker 9: School school, for last thing, so we we got to
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  Speaker 9: see it from a lot of different angles that you know,
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  Speaker 9: music was possible.
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  Speaker 3: Why why Virginia don't get the like the credit for
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  Speaker 3: being a hip hop hotbed, just a black music hotbed.
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  Speaker 1: Not just not just music.
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  Speaker 8: You remember Allan Hobson from that area, Michael Vicks from
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  Speaker 8: that area, like this, it's so much in that area
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  Speaker 8: that people.
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  Speaker 3: Forget I'm the music because you got regions and you know,
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  Speaker 3: states that get that love.
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  Speaker 6: But y'all don't seem to.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 9: I think I think it's because I think a lot
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  Speaker 9: of people have. Everybody who's made it in Virginia actually
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  Speaker 9: had to leave Virginia to make it. I don't think
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  Speaker 9: any one particular artist of any of us. None of
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  Speaker 9: us broke in Virginia. So we always broke like Clips
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  Speaker 9: broke in Philly. You know, you know everybody, everybody broke
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  Speaker 9: somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: So I think.
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  Speaker 6: Clips broken Philly. I never heard that.
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  Speaker 1: Man, yeah clips broken Philly.
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  Speaker 9: Man really shoutow cosmic v Yeah, yeah, clips broken Philly.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what record was at the funeral or
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  Speaker 4: grind grinding Broken Philly.
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  Speaker 8: Now do you remember that when Farrell gave you that
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  Speaker 8: beat for grinding. I remember the first time I heard it.
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  Speaker 8: It was confusing. Yeah, it was confused. I was confused.
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  Speaker 8: So when he first gave it, how did you know
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  Speaker 8: that was?
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  Speaker 4: You probably got the c D that I was handing out.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I did, Yeah, I believe you did.
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  Speaker 9: You know when we heard it first, we was like,
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  Speaker 9: you know, we were it was. It kind of took
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  Speaker 9: us back because you got to think at that time,
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  Speaker 9: Pharrell was singing on every hook.
• 4:59
  Speaker 4: It was uh, whether it was mister Cool and whoever?
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  Speaker 9: Right, So, you know, this is our first joint and
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  Speaker 9: he like, yo, this is the one, and we like
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  Speaker 9: we want you singing, like sing, you better tap or
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  Speaker 9: do something. And you know, he was like, now I'm
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  Speaker 9: telling you this is this the future. This is what
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  Speaker 9: it is.
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  Speaker 7: And he was right, and it was confusing because we
• 5:21
  Speaker 7: actually wrote to it twice three times.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think I got three joints on that joint.
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  Speaker 8: I still can't blend it to this day because I
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  Speaker 8: don't know where the beating the snare go at this.
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: Wow, actually blend on it. You just gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's crazy for you to say.
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  Speaker 2: That to this day.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: J M me up there, me up there.
• 5:42
  Speaker 10: I just love Vegas with envy, rocking, smoking, Thanks, thanks,
• 5:50
  Speaker 10: you know on the album alas you said, you've been
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  Speaker 10: both Mason bethists for people who don't know what that
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  Speaker 10: line needs.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just feel like I understand stood and walked
• 6:02
  Speaker 7: a similar path like Mace, you know, to be in
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  Speaker 7: this industry and then to have.
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  Speaker 4: A real live revelation of God.
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  Speaker 7: And who he is, you know, and then have to
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  Speaker 7: navigate your way. As far as navigating, not so much
• 6:19
  Speaker 7: because I knew that I had.
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: To chill, take a step back.
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  Speaker 7: And I also want to give you y'all flowers too,
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  Speaker 7: because y'all were still messing with me during that time.
• 6:30
  Speaker 7: You let me come in here and you know, promote
• 6:32
  Speaker 7: the documentary and you know, uh my solo projects and everything.
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I appreciate that. But yeah, I feel like.
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  Speaker 7: I understand, uh seeing a lot of the same things
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  Speaker 7: that that Mace.
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  Speaker 4: Uh s.
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  Speaker 7: I bought that up because you know, they actually caught
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  Speaker 7: me Mason a club. It was in a club in DC,
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  Speaker 7: and it was like we got to push your ta
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  Speaker 7: in Mason.
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  Speaker 2: For a while.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm cool with it all. Yeah, I'm cool with
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  Speaker 4: it all.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I brought it because that's what ultimately caused
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  Speaker 3: the clips to you know, in for that.
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  Speaker 7: Time.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So what got your back? What was the
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  Speaker 2: call that said I want to do this again?
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  Speaker 7: There were a few baby steps, I'm gonna say, uh,
• 7:14
  Speaker 7: going out to Wyoming and uh, you know, working on
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  Speaker 7: use this gospel with ya with my brother. I always
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  Speaker 7: knew that we could do it, but I just knew
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  Speaker 7: I needed to sit down period, you know what I'm saying.
• 7:28
  Speaker 4: And uh, what else did we do? We did push
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  Speaker 4: his album I Pray for You. We did the Lego album,
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  Speaker 4: the album.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean those were.
• 7:38
  Speaker 9: Things I could ask for that I knew, weren't you know,
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  Speaker 9: just solid nose and you know, man, from there, it
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  Speaker 9: was just like, what we're gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: What was the exact moment though, because y'all were on
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  Speaker 3: two completely different life paths, So what was the exact
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  Speaker 3: moment that said, Okay, it's time to do another album?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So I'll say this.
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  Speaker 7: You know, when when we were doing they use this
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  Speaker 7: gospel and punch bowl and push his album and whatever.
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  Speaker 7: I had to ask my dad. I was like, you know,
• 8:09
  Speaker 7: what do you think about me rapping again? And he said,
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  Speaker 7: he said, son, I think you've been too hard on yourself.
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  Speaker 7: And my dad's a deacon, you know, like he was
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  Speaker 7: a deacon. So to hear him say that, I am
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  Speaker 7: like a word.
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  Speaker 4: That's how you feel like, you know, And you.
• 8:23
  Speaker 6: Answered one of my questions.
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you about that because you talk
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: about that on Birds Don't Sink, right, And I just
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: thought that was such a powerful thing, just just to
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: explain like you was going through his you know, dress
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: and draw seeing his notes. But then he y'all had
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: conversations about you rapping again. I'm gonna ask you, what
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  Speaker 3: would those conversations?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we you know, just everything was the way
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  Speaker 7: it lined up. It told the whole story, and it
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  Speaker 7: let me know that God is intentional. These things don't
• 8:50
  Speaker 7: just be happening to us the way you know, we think.
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  Speaker 7: God is very gracious and he sets you up. He
• 8:56
  Speaker 7: knows what you can take, he knows how much to
• 8:58
  Speaker 7: put on you. He knows the order and which to put,
• 9:00
  Speaker 7: you know, things in for you. So I just know
• 9:04
  Speaker 7: that He's in control all the time. And the conversations
• 9:09
  Speaker 7: with that record, you know, pushing talking to my mom
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  Speaker 7: and me talking to my dad and being able to
• 9:16
  Speaker 7: document those last conversations. Even those conversations was a type
• 9:20
  Speaker 7: of preparation, you know, getting you ready for what was
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  Speaker 7: about to take place.
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  Speaker 4: So like, I'm I'm cool with it.
• 9:26
  Speaker 8: All, but condolence is first and form, you know. I
• 9:29
  Speaker 8: was when I was in Vegas. You know, I was
• 9:31
  Speaker 8: with family members of yours, and what I like to
• 9:33
  Speaker 8: do is is pull them to the side and just
• 9:34
  Speaker 8: have conversations.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I was coming up for an interview and
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: trying to get tea yeah, of course, and one of them.
• 9:41
  Speaker 8: Was like, now we were talking about the albums before
• 9:46
  Speaker 8: I heard the album, and he was like, he was like, yo,
• 9:48
  Speaker 8: the best thing about it. He was like, I had
• 9:51
  Speaker 8: their mom in the car and he was like, the
• 9:53
  Speaker 8: greatest thing that ever happened is the two boys are
• 9:55
  Speaker 8: back together rapping. So how was that feeling of knowing
• 9:59
  Speaker 8: that mom was just super duper happy that her two
• 10:02
  Speaker 8: sons were back.
• 10:05
  Speaker 9: Uh man, you know she that was that was always
• 10:07
  Speaker 9: a big thing, you know for me as a soloist.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: She would always be like them, Yeah, I want your
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: brother with you.
• 10:14
  Speaker 9: I want them back out there with you, probably just
• 10:17
  Speaker 9: to you know, look over me, watch over me. But
• 10:21
  Speaker 9: that was that was always her thing. She was huge
• 10:24
  Speaker 9: on like us just being together.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Yea, now, dis y'all know, y'all had to start the
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: album with a dedication to your parents.
• 10:30
  Speaker 9: Like because it was the hardest record to make, Like
• 10:35
  Speaker 9: it was the hardest record to make.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah.
• 10:38
  Speaker 9: So finally, like when we cracked that code, you know,
• 10:41
  Speaker 9: we were you know, we were putting the order in
• 10:43
  Speaker 9: and we was like, man, nah.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: This this, this has to start, like, this has to
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: start the album.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: It was polarizing the response, you know, just in the
• 10:55
  Speaker 4: creation of it.
• 10:55
  Speaker 9: Man, everybody who heard it, you know, and there were
• 10:58
  Speaker 9: people in there, like you know, we recorded it in
• 11:01
  Speaker 9: the in the LV headquarters, so it's a room and
• 11:05
  Speaker 9: it's you know, it's open. The mics are like this,
• 11:08
  Speaker 9: ain't no booth you record like this. You look outside,
• 11:11
  Speaker 9: you look through that window right there, and then it's
• 11:13
  Speaker 9: not a window, it's just an open space. Somebody with
• 11:15
  Speaker 9: a sewing machine, somebody with you know, bag shoes whatever.
• 11:19
  Speaker 9: And while we're doing this in real time, everybody's in tears,
• 11:23
  Speaker 9: like everybody just you know, they're they're watching it. By
• 11:27
  Speaker 9: the time we finish it, it's like you know, just
• 11:29
  Speaker 9: like any other record. It's like, man, you know, we
• 11:31
  Speaker 9: we cracked the code on it, like we were satisfied,
• 11:34
  Speaker 9: but it was just so hard to do. And everybody
• 11:38
  Speaker 9: is always like, you know, everybody want to put the
• 11:40
  Speaker 9: hardest record first, and I'm like, nah, man, this this
• 11:43
  Speaker 9: is the this is the hardest record, and I want
• 11:46
  Speaker 9: to see how it like really touches people.
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: You know, from from the jump and the didn't get
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: into everything else.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Did that change you?
• 11:52
  Speaker 8: Because you know, you talk about on the record of
• 11:55
  Speaker 8: where you were and the things that you should have
• 11:57
  Speaker 8: been doing that you weren't doing.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I've seen a for a.
• 12:00
  Speaker 8: Couple of years with you when you had your son,
• 12:02
  Speaker 8: like everything is about your son and you show up
• 12:06
  Speaker 8: more than anything else and that wasn't you beforehand.
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: So did that change you?
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: What is my first son? So you know this is
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: this is this is new to me.
• 12:14
  Speaker 9: But you know, I man, I don't know if it
• 12:21
  Speaker 9: changed me.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: I would say that my parents prepared me to.
• 12:24
  Speaker 9: Be a dad, like a real dad, because I had
• 12:27
  Speaker 9: a real dad and a real mom.
• 12:30
  Speaker 11: Were there conversations that you wish you had with your mom,
• 12:32
  Speaker 11: like in those moments where you talk about you went
• 12:34
  Speaker 11: to Turks for Thanksgiving.
• 12:35
  Speaker 9: And no, no, like me and my mom was so straight,
• 12:39
  Speaker 9: like we've been, like we always were straight.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: And I think that the.
• 12:46
  Speaker 9: You know, the whole the Turks thing when you know,
• 12:49
  Speaker 9: and looking at in hindsight, you know, she was like, damn,
• 12:52
  Speaker 9: you're gonna get out of here, you know, you know,
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: looking at it and everything, I sort of feel like
• 12:57
  Speaker 9: she knows, she knew everything, you know.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's just it's it's it was.
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  Speaker 9: It tells the story, you know after you know what
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: I'm saying, like the whole story for me, Like I
• 13:13
  Speaker 9: see it all now, I see it all, but at
• 13:16
  Speaker 9: the time, no, I didn't.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 7: I think it also says a lot for you know,
• 13:22
  Speaker 7: being in harmony with your people. Yeah, really you really
• 13:25
  Speaker 7: should be, because that is what gives me a lot
• 13:28
  Speaker 7: of peace knowing that, you know, I was there for
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: my mother, a great relationship with my mother and my
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: father the whole time. So if you're out here and
• 13:39
  Speaker 7: you have like a dysfunction or a lot of dis
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: disdain between family members, you should really try to fix that,
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, you should you should really try.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: To fix that.
• 13:48
  Speaker 7: If possible because right now with my parents being gone,
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: I get a lot of peace just knowing that everything
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: was straight and always straight.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: That's not the only thing.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all choose who was going to rap about who?
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: That was kind of easy. I mean.
• 14:07
  Speaker 7: And even though we were, you know, just all of
• 14:10
  Speaker 7: us very close knit and tight knit, uh, you know,
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: my dad and I we always talked about things of
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: the Bible, you know, and just whole even my mom
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  Speaker 7: because my mom was you know, over the house every
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: Saturday for Bible study. But I don't know, it just
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: seemed like it kind of made more sense for you know,
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: me talking about my dad.
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: Will we get a visual for this video? I mean,
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: it's already shot.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: It's already shot.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Look at you. It's not like you already.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Pull everybody to the side.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Definitely asked how difficult is it to rap honestly next
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: to your brother because y'all y'all really know each other,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: so you could be like, yo, you're lying, that ain't happening.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: We don't. We don't have them kind of issues.
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, it's cool if you're getting it's.
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: Real, But is it ever like maybe that's too much?
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: Like maybe we shouldn't say that.
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: I think I think push It likes, especially now he
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: likes when I curse, you know, try.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: To like all the way there with it, you know
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: But nah, I mean the rapping is is is just
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: like second nature to us and we've been doing this
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: for a.
• 15:21
  Speaker 9: While, so just the funnest rapping has ever been, I'm
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: being honest with you, this gound, Yeah, like this is
• 15:27
  Speaker 9: the funnest rap has been.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Like this ain't even like that's not a thing, like
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: it's you.
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: Know, the rollout and all of that is like the work.
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: This the music, not the music is what it is.
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: Like the music is there.
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: You feel like you gotta you feel like you got
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: to prove yourself though it's like I see it would
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: hold right people.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Oh you lying? You ain't really do that?
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: Ah man, I feel like you gotta bro I've been
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: in this twenty three years, like I've been who I've
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: been twenty three years, Like I don't I don't feel
• 15:58
  Speaker 9: like I got to prove anything to anybody, And I
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: feel like I'm the best at what it is I'm doing.
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: Like I don't think nobody talks like this, Nobody like
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: it's a lot that comes with this, and I feel like,
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: you know, people give you that the coke wrap, Moniker bro.
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: We like it's so much deeper than that. And listen,
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: I don't even argue that. I don't even argue the
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: title no more. It's fine. It's just you know this
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: right now, what we're making is for those who know
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: and for those who understand, and for those who are
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: like you know, into hip hop, into the lifestyle, and
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: that I think that's what you're seeing in the.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Whole rollout of this album.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: This this is high taste level everything, and it's you
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: know it and it shows the heritage of like how
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: and what we've been a part of for all these years.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: You know, whether it's you.
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: Know, high fashion, whether it's car hard, whether it's streetwear,
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: whether you know, whatever it is, it's all hip hop.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Like this is we're trying to give the hip hop
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: tutorial of.
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: Like why we loved rappers, you know, the rappers I
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: cut my eyebrows broke, you.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Know, like these things I did, like I did, you
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: know what I mean?
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: And I want people to love us in that way
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: and I want to show that, like, you know, this
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: is what this is what hip hop means to us
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: like be entrenched, and that's what we're just trying to show.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: You know. That's funny because.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: That was one of my revelations with my departure, everything
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: that we were talking about, the things that we had
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: been through, the things that we were sharing, and then
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: to see how it all came crashing down with friends
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: and family you know, around us and death, yeah, death,
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: indictments even to present day. You know what I'm saying,
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: The same people that we were running with. We we've
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: lost a few, a few more recently. But my revelation
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: was when I would hear narratives of you know, they
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: weren't into that, or they weren't doing this and that,
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: and I'm like, I know what we've been through, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: for anyone to say anything like that, for to have
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: such a sacrifice of all these things going down, just
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: for someone to say that which doesn't trouble me at all,
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: doesn't bother me. And you know, people have their opinions
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: and can say what they want, but to be fighting
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: for that and talking that and and then then when
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: it happens and then somebody won't say you ain't do that,
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: I was like, oh man, I'm chilling.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm good.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: I didn't hear a lot of cocaine wrap on this record, though.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Was that intentional? Do you think you should not the
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: clips project?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Right? No? I think, you know, I think it's more reminiscent. Yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: if you.
• 18:38
  Speaker 11: Give a little in the beginning, a little something in
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: the beginning, favorite.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: For who you really they tried.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: They tried to scrap it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I tried to scrap it. They tried to scrap that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: I told them.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, that's it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: About want to because I was I was actually mimicking Guru,
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: like vocally, and I didn't think I nailed it good enough.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: And I was just like, man, I didn't get Guru.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, okay.
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, very monotone, very conversational, very then
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: and then and it was like you know that, I mean,
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: I I just didn't. I wasn't sold on the execution
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: can man, that's crazy, that's crazy because it was gone.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: That's my favorite version.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Did you tell him I don't want to do too
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: much of the cocaine thing.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: On this No, I mean, I think you know that's
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: a good thing.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Between my brother and I, things are understood, you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: he knows why stand I know where he stands. I
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: don't try to age him or he don't try to
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: change me. And it's a it's a good playing field
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: where we come together and it's just real. We don't
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: have to like overcomplish or manufacture anything. It's just it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: just what it is.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: The the other day, they said I was glazing the
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: clips right.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: That is what I said, was I said, I said
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: something to this fact. I said, Push has if he
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: hears anybody go at him, he has five records on
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: the side of five versus the case.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I said, I just know because I know who he
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: is and what he is. Is that true? No, man,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not listen man, you know he said.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: No, he said he looks good like the skins, always fresh.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: Like like I like skin compliments.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I do like skin compliments. I'm gonna tell.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: You to raps it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: Sometimes they throw stones that you do you have something
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: in the stass for each and every.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: One of them.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: Man, I mean, I think you know, just me being
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: a rap artist and me being an MC is that's
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: just second nature. And usually most most people who throw stones, man,
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: I mean, nobody's perfect. So I mean I can dissect
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: anybody just like they could dissect me. But you know, man,
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: I try not to. I try not to to engage
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: to my like I've done that. Like I've done a
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: lot of it, you know what I'm saying. I've done
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: it with the best and the biggest, Like I've done it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: So it's like, you know, you can't just entertain everything
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: because everybody and everybody's not good. Like everybody's not good.
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: This is this is a new day in a new
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: era where like you know, just uh clicks and and
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: and and clickbait and and people just say things for
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: for attention, and it's like.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: You just can't entertain everything, man, you just can't.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I feel like you've been trying to catch your body
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: since the story.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I've been trying to catch a body.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: You caught a body. I think those were shots directly
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: at you. You were surgical with you said at the
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: end of peel Back, the lay is real slow.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: So I feel like you really wanted to go there
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: with somebody for the longest.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Nah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Man, no, no, I mean you know it's it's never a.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: I got I got for real, I have a lot
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: to to to rap about. I got a lot to
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: wrap about. I got a lot, a lot of content.
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: The creativity is is ever flowing and it don't ever
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: have to be about an individual. It don't have to
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: be like not for me, Like I mean, like, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: feel like this album is incredible and I don't think
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: it's really dialed anywhere you get.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: A necessory to murder charge because when you listen to
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: you for.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Things that you laid you know, you laid down that
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Kendrick used for you for it, and I think it's
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: used in the battle period.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: Man, you know, I think I think you know, great
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: great lyricists just.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You know, tune into the obvious.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Speak during that battle and yeah, speak during the battle.
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: I when do you pick and choose when to say
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: something about something because you sit on a lot of
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: stuff for a long time.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm always like that, like I
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: feel like and that just comes with that just comes
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: with like my position in the game and like just
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: where I am as an artist. Like, man, I don't
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: you know, it's not always a radio record that I have.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: It's not always you know, we don't get you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: I'm not putting out music constantly, you know what I'm
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: saying every five minutes a new record.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, uh, you know, things happen.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: You got to store it. You gotta store, you gotta craft,
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: you gotta make it right. You got to set the platform,
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: set the stage, breakdown.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: With the hit.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: The situation with death Jam. You guys were on death Jam. Yes,
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: decided to leave.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You crazy too, man.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: You can sit up here and tell Death Jam was like, Yo,
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: death Jam, Death Jam don't care about your project.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Crazy honest man. Man, He's.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Like, I'm not gonna do that after her, like what
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: is You're not to talk about your music? What are
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: we gonna be talking about?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: And I actually left that because we didn't sit down,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: but he still wanted to do it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: But I was pushing for her because I love Cocoa.
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: If we've been honest though, because listening to the project
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: now and knowing with the background with you're on death Jam,
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: you I don't understand why they would let a project
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: like this go.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: So what was the call when when when you hit
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: it in the album and they called and said, we
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: can't put this out, we can't clear this record.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: What was that call?
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: I mean, it was you know what it was? It
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: was something that I wasn't really dealing with firsthand. They
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: were like speaking to my management, uh and my team
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: and just like you know, and then it got it
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: got a little dicey to where to the point they
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: weren't they wouldn't text or email send these things an email.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: They would they would like only talk on the phone,
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: and you know, they would instruct not to email us
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: back and forth these.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You know, that type of correspondence.
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: So, I mean, man, you know it's I don't know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: like I don't I don't know why.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can only assume.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: That it was just the optics with everything they got
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: going on with litigation, lawsuits and over that the optics
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: of clips Kendrick together, because that's that's.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: When it all happened. Like we don't, we don't.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: We don't really deal with the label that much anyway
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: outside of nothing.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, we don't deal with the label.
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: Like we we go make our album and then we
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: come and bring the album back.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: But y'all, you and you have worked together before, y'all
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: got a classic together. If you ask me, yeah, different, Oh.
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: It's a different day. It wasn't you know, that was
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: back then. But y'all wasn't even shooting that dude, It
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: doesn't it doesn't matter.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: That's crazy.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: So then so when you wanted to leave, you call
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Hole and then the first room was they just let
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: you go for free.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: We was like that can't be true.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: No no, no, no, no no no, we had to pay,
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: had to pay.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: So you reached out the whole and Hope sit absolutely possible.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Was Stephen did Yeah, Stephen, Stephen reached out to him.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: There were other other labels in the in the in
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: the bidding, and he just called home, like yo, I
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: think there was a there was a there was an
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: approval process between one of the labels or something took
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: a little long, and he went and ass whole, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: Hope was like, look, yeah, let's do this now, like
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: twenty four hours, maybe maybe forty eight hours. I never
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: seen lawyer work like this fast. Yeah, I didn't know
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: it even happened like that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: And what record was all supposed to be on on
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: this project?
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: Ship man there was I mean we got he was
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: saying changing whibs.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Uh it was Mike Tyson.
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: Mike Tyson blow to the face. You know, Whole had
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: the album so you know it, Yeah, it was it
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: was all for him. To whatever he wanted to do
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: to be on so be it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of the options.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and nothing moved the spirit.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Man. I don't know, Man, I don't know, man.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: You know you know on pov Malast you said that
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: you came back for the money, that's the devil.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: Can you explain it?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: I just thought it was a real fly line, you know.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: And for anyone who has any questions about me, I'm
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Jesus inside out, like I'm all the way gone with it,
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: like it it's crazy. But uh, I just took artistic liberty,
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: you know with that line. And really, to me, you know,
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: money is a good thing. You need money, especially to
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: you know, you got friends and family to be able
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: to help people.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: It's nothing wrong with money. I think people put a
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: stigma on money.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: For the Bible says that it is the love of
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: money that's the root of all evil, not the money.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: It's how much you love it, What are you willing
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: to do for it? What won't you do for do
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: you lose all your principles and your moral So I
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: don't think we can demonize money. But for me, it
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: was just a fly line.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: To the church, right, Nah, not because the line is fresh.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: That's the devil in me. Had to hide it from
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: the church. That's the jackal of me.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But I'm just talking.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: About the duplicity and the dichotomy.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Of you know, uh, the mind and and how people think,
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: and the two sidedness to people. Sometimes that's everybody, absolutely, Yeah,
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: that's everybody.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: Earlier, right, Yeah, when Mace came back, it was on
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: his ass right because of the lyrics, because of this
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: type of records that he was on.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: But with you, they don't do that with you. Why
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: do you think that is?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Uh, I don't. I don't know, but but I'm gonna
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: tell you for me.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: And and looking at Mace now, like I get Mace,
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Like I understand. People are judgmental, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: I've heard a few things about me. You know, I'm
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: not gonna like I haven't seen anything.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: But you you have to.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: Know be solid and who you are and if you
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: have the Word in you. The Bible says that there
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: is none righteous, no, not one, so nobody can like
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: truly point the finger. But uh, you better have your
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: heart positioned in Jesus Christ by the end of the
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: day because when when when the music stop, you definitely
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: want to have a seed.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: He taught me that at it because I didn't know.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: He told me, God, God think we all dirty?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: That's what?
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: How do your conversations be with it?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Do you know about forgiveness alone?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: No?
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: You know what, Listen, I'm gonna tell you. Like my
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: brother listens to me, you know now, or he has
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: the appearance of listening.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: He hears me. He hears me.
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: And any time I get to witness to anybody, you know,
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: with with without being preachy or forcing myself.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: I the problem is for me is that I happen
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: to know how serious this is. And the thing about
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: not knowing is that you don't know that you don't know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: So when you're.
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: Trying to uh, when people open the door and are
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: willing to listen, I just I try to do whatever
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: it is I can. But my brother, he's been incredibly
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: supportive of me, even in my stepping away.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: He's never you know, was like, Yo, what are you
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: doing or this?
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: Like he basically just said okay, you know, He asked me,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: was I sure?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: And And that meant a lot to me because I
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: had a lot. It was like a heavyweight. So to
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: have the support of my brother, even through the whole hiatus.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: He would come to me. He was like, Yo, so
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: and so was offering this amount of money.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: But what he did, but but but what he would do.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Was he said, I already told them no, but I
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: didn't want this to happen without me letting you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: just in case.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: So but right right, well, you know, I felt supportive.
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: So that's all that matters.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Robbed when people never feel never feel robed.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: How do you feel when people leak music? Like when
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: people release your music prematurely?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yo?
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: You know, the game goes how it goes, and that's
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: how we maneuver, we navigate everything.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna sit up and be upset about anything.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: That happens when we get in there and we create
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: and we make our music and we do what we do.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: What else you're gonna do? What else can you do
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: other than that? You know what I'm saying. And I
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: stand on our product and I love it. And it's
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: good for fans to get things sometimes, so it's cool,
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: like as long as they enjoy it.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: It's good.
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: Did y'all ever think about trying to get another Kendrick
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: verse once that leaked before the album? Actually like dropped.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Man, we try to get all Kendrick versus.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Why not y'all knew playing that song in Paris for
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: everybody's phone out it was going.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Y'all had to know that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's part of it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: NB said something about what you asked about Malice about
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: why you don't get the flack. I think one reason
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: is because y'all have always had like a spiritual thread
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: in your music, especially with the album titles. So how
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: is your personal understanding of good and evil evolved?
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Since like hell have.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: No fear good and evil?
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: How is your personal understanding of it evolved?
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: When you're even talking about rap?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Like you know, people some people say rap music is secular,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: it's the devil, you shouldn't do it, But then you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: you went on your journey, and you were doing it
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: even while you're on your journey, but now you're back.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: Like yeah, I think. I think one of the things
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: that I have learned is, uh, start with yourself before
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: you try to correct anybody matter. I'm not even saying
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: you should try and correct anybody, but you start with
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: yourself and looking within and and change the things that
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: you can change, and work on what you need to
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: work on. And then you can like offer some kind
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: of advice or if if people are even interested, you
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, be able to give a reason
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: for the hope that you have. And yeah, I think
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: if more of us looked at ourselves and instead of
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: trying to judge other people, I mean, because you know
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: you you you look, you look deep enough, you'll find
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: something all the time, you know.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: So what you said about when you went to Wyoming
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: to do use this gospel, by the way, the hardest
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: song on on that album. How do y'all feel about
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Kanye Now? Do you feel sadness or sympathy for him?
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: Y'all see him now?
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: No no, no, no, no, no no no.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna say and and and and I'm gonna say
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: that I think this goes for for anybody.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: It's crazy. When you have a true.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: Revelation of God, it is radical because when you when
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: when when you when the scales fall off your eyes,
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: you do you want to run and tell everybody what
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: you what you witness or you know we've been missing
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: it this whole time. You know, it's how It's how
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: I felt. But once you get that, you gotta sit
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: down for a minute. You can't get the revelation and
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: then try to keep going in this world. The epitome
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: of the gospel is denying yourself. That's why Christ got
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: on the cross and.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Gave up his flesh.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: So you have to be willing to give it up
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: so you can learn and then let God restore you
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: and rebuild you. You know, correctly doesn't mean anybody is
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: a perfect person, you know what I'm saying, or or
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: you can't even try to have the facade of Okay,
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: I'm saved now now I'm perfect.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Nah, It just doesn't work like that.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: So I have to deal with it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: Push because deal with Kanye, because you know, you're not
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: the type of person to hold your tongue.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: You know, you don't hold your word.
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: So when some of the stuff that he did that
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: might not have aligned what you thought, did y'all have
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: those conversations?
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, you know, I spoke on it. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: feel like that's that was the beginning of our fallout.
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: M M.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But you know, he.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Sits on a lot of miscarriages of justice. I've seen it,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: I hear things and things being said, and I see,
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: you know, his reserve.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: You know, I admire his restraint.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: People By the time he jumps out the window, you
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: think he's going overboard. But I'm telling you as knowing
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: my brother, he sits on a lot.
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: And what about all that music, because I'm sure you
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: you got tons of music, but we never hear the
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: stuff that you've done.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you will, because they leak it all.
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: They leak it all they put out or just sloppy,
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: you know, I don't you know, I don't know.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't use it. I don't even keep it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: But you know you've you've seen and heard the things
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: that have been out there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 11: But I saw you say you hate Kanye's leadership and
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: you got away from that, got away from that community
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: that he built because of the feeling over there, right.
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: What was that like last straw of like nah, I
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: can't no more.
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: I think for me it was I think for me
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: it was somewhere around somewhere around the Atlanta the dome,
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: the locked in when everybody was locked in the dome,
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: and you know, I. You know, like again, man, when
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: when we squad and we were working and we're doing
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: what we're doing.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: It's just all about the squad.
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: And I kind of just felt like, you know, I
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: would you know, I would have to leave and go
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: do things shows, whatever the case. Maybe I would come
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: back and the energy would just be different.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: There were conversations being had, uh you know, this is
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: this is after Addie Don and everything else, and you
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: know it was like, man, I was doing self serving
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: things and it was just crazy. It was just a
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: lot of like you know, backbiting and things like that,
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: and I'm like, damn, this is this is for the squad,
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: I thought.
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: But you know, so publicly negative about you. We heard
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: him say about Sean. We heard him say legend.
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: Oh no, for sure he has for sure he has
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: he put on remember he put on the little mask.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: He was like screaming in.
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: The culturally inappropriate Oh man, yeah, no, listen man, Okay.
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: So during during just the sessions, whether it was a beat,
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: whether it was you know, just the freestyles before and
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: making the songs, whatever the case may be, you know,
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: we would get hype about just like man, it's hard
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: or whatever whatever it was at.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: The time, and I forgot who said it, but somebody
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: it was Mike. Mike.
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: Mike was like, man, this ship is culturally in appropriate.
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: And Mike also worked on It's Almost Dry, so you
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: know how that had a common thread of like the
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: Joker laugh through the whole album. He like, Yo, say
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: that on the mic, and let me run that through
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: a filter, because you know, we just felt like we
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: just kept running that back.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: It's culturally inappropriate. He was like, say it through a filter, let's.
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: Find a voice and let's just see how it sounds
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: on records. And it actually just worked just to have that,
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: you know, just another thread to keep it, you know, cohesive,
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: keep the album cohesive.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, I like it just because it's something that
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I feel like we should say something is.
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it could have been a line. What I'm saying
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: is it could have been a line. It could have
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: been a song, it could have been a hook idea.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: At the time, I just you know, I just can't
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: remember what it was. But that's that's where that that
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: term came from. Something that was just said ignorantly and
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: what pissed.
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: You off about Travis Scott so much that you had
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: to mention him on a RECU Lady, what made you
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: say this isn't this nigga's going too far?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Ah?
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: Man, it was just you know, it was just that uh,
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: that whole coming to uh coming to Paris. You know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: he came to Paris during one of our sessions, you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: played his album and then he you know, when when
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: he left, the album comes out, and you know, the
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: record that he played, you know, had a verse up
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: there that was, you know, going at p whatever the
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: case may be. And I'm like, damn, you just left,
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: Like how you how you leave here? You know, let
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: he was on your album and then you're letting him,
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: you know, play your album for him, you're filming it,
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: and then you come back when the album drops you
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: got a verse you know, going at him. So I
• 40:21
  Speaker 9: just thought that was corny. And again, like you know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: that's part of the I think that's part of just
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: trying to leave all of that behind. And it's like, man,
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: like that's the type of thing that happens over in
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: that yay world and it's okay, and they you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: it's all right. They just brush it off and they
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: be friends and they go hang out together and then
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: you know, do whatever they do like that doesn't I didn't.
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: I didn't like that that was brought into this fold.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha. One time they said that the verse the
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Drake first wasn't done as a yet.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter when it was done. I don't care
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: when it was done.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: You you added to it.
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: You actually he actually had a verse after that verse,
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: so you you even added to the verse, like.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: Pate etiquette for a situation like that, just.
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: Stay the hell away from me, like like I'm not
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: I'm not into you anyway, Like I'm not even into
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: your swag and none of that, Like it's not into
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: none of it. So just stay away, like I only
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: want to mess with the real, Like I'm only dealing
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: with the real.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I'm only you know, doing music with the real.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: We just I just let's just let's just this is
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: like just drawing a line in the sand for everybody.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: What are you responsible for what an artist does on
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: your record?
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: M hmm?
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: Are you responsible for what an artist doing?
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: Like it's Travis responsible for Drake's line?
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: If you if you come and dance around in front
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: of me and and use and use and use footage
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: and do all this and all that, I think you're
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: responsible for anything that you do that you incorporate the
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: people that you know that are that are that are
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: that are that are being you know, uh talked about.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Of course, I can't believe you have to explain this.
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm not just taking size of it because
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: my brother.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know, but I'm talking about the
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: artists who might approach you because of what push your sax.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I ride with my brother. You know
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, and.
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: That and that's the and that's the thing about this
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: having purpose. I know what my purpose is. I'm making
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: music with my brother and I'm glorifying my God. That's
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: what I'm doing. And when you're in your purpose, if
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: anything fall on you didn't follow you, at least you
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: know you were where you were supposed to be. And
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: That's where I'm at right now. So I'm cool with whatever.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: When people approach you for things, I say, that's.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: All the time.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: But also also be you say, you got a video
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: of Travis Crime, no.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Man in front of me? Oh no, no, that that
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: that wasn't that. That's not about crying. So what's on
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: the video?
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Oh man? You know?
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, damn, I got you.
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: I'm glad.
• 43:17
  Speaker 12: Because can't do anyviews by yourself.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Created? How did you tell the creator? Yeah?
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah right. Tyler's crazy.
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: Man, Tyler ben We I mean since uh Trouble on
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: my Mind, he's huge, uh star trek Neptune for real clips,
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: uh fan like he knows the discography, you know, fromwards
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: and backwards. He's He's spoken a lot about how his
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: influence he's been influenced by things that we've done. But yeah,
• 43:54
  Speaker 9: I mean trouble, I don't even remember the year of
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: Trouble on my Mind came out, But since then, we've
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: all always been, always been cool, always been tight.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: And yeah, he came through on POV he came through.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: How do you reconcile in nostalgia?
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Fans will feel for the old clips being at y'all
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: totally different men today.
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: I'd like to think that they've grown with us. Yeah, yeah,
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: I'd like to think that they have. And I think that,
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: you know, I think that they've grown with us. And
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: I feel like our growth is something that you know,
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: needs to be studied and studied and just you know,
• 44:39
  Speaker 9: maturing in hip hop, maturing in hip hop and just
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: culturally just showing you how to navigate and grow in
• 44:46
  Speaker 9: this game and still be current and still be you know,
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: of the mix, and you know, just just not trying
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: to stay nineteen forever.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, when the last time you felt this safe?
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Because I can hear it in the music. You feel
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: like a homecoming, right, Yeah, people with the things that
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: y'all talking about.
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: You got Malice back live is on the album Yeah
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: for rail production.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: When I'm watching you in interviews, I'm like, damn, push
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: is just letting it fly, all of it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, when did you what made you feel so safe
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: in this moment?
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I don't, you know. I just think that.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: For me, I look at it like media has always
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: been a big part of the Clips because it's always
• 45:28
  Speaker 9: been a story. The Clips always has a story, and
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: I don't necessarily think you can get up here and
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: lie and play. People see through that, and I'm not
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: want to be seen through, Like I don't like I'd
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: rather just, you know, just tell the truth and call
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: it today versus you know, sitting here trying to tap
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: dance around things. So, you know, I don't know, I
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: think that it's not about feeling safe, It's just about
• 45:56
  Speaker 9: you know this is this is part of the game,
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: and this is part of the game for us. And
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: I feel like when you got the music to back
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: it up, man, you gotta listen, you gotta you gotta
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: be musty TV, you gotta be.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: You don't enjoy rappers line.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: I think it was on the album that was one
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: of my favorite, and I wanted to say that.
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: You've been by rappers you never believed or something.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: I just sung along with I never believe. I wish
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: I said that. I wish I said that.
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: That's what that's I wish I wish I could have
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: said the maceline and I wish I said that line.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Those are my two takes. Let's say, do y'all do
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: that all the time?
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: Like if you too? If you to switch verses on
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: like a classic clip song like.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: He Ain't give me his verse. They're saying, I'm going
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to right now what y'all talking about?
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: That's the debate online.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I'm go into.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: I'm one too, just off feature off the records, I'm
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: going to right now?
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: Nor every time.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: I'm sure man, I just I just do me man.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: And I think I think our personalities and experience lends
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: itself to you know, just different scenarios or whatever.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Different basis.
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: I can't I can't do what push does you know
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying? I get that, and all I can
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: do is be me.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: So you've never heard a push line and been like, damn,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: I wish you said that all the time.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all the time.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 11: I was going to ask at the listening that we
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: went to, y'all talked about y'all didn't have a ton
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: of music. Y'all are very particular about recording, and this
• 47:45
  Speaker 11: is the music we're going to do, and you've always
• 47:47
  Speaker 11: been that way. But it's been so long, So how
• 47:50
  Speaker 11: did you know what you wanted to say? Like? How
• 47:52
  Speaker 11: did you narrow it down to narrative?
• 47:55
  Speaker 9: I think I think the key, the key thing that
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: we were trying to find in the studio was urgency.
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: Urgency was like the key word that regardless of what
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: it was. It could be birds on sing, it had
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: to be urgent. It had to tug at your heart,
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: you know, if you listen to POV, the flow had
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: to be something of you know, or the bars had
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: to be something of urgency. So it wasn't about it
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: wasn't about honestly finding words or topics.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: To rap about.
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: It was just that the music needed to feel urgent
• 48:31
  Speaker 9: the whole time. I think that was our I think
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: that was our our biggest goal, just to make sure
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: that that sense of urgency was there.
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: Talk about what Virginia means to you, guys, because you
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: get a lot of people that leave their city and
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: they moved to New York, they moved to Jersey, they
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: moved to Atlanta, they moved to the West. You guys
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: have never left Virginia. So what does Virginia mean to you?
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: For me, Virginia is everything.
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: Childhood, upbringing, where my mother, grandmother and great grandmother hel
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: from friends. You know, we were just talking about this.
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: We have the same friends from you know, way back,
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: and just certain ethics and standards of loyalty, you know
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: that has been bred in Virginia. I absolutely love Virginia.
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't want to move anywhere else. It's my pace,
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: it's my style, is it's what I know.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: It's home.
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think Virginia, you know, for me,
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: and the fact of like never moving, I always felt
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: like my music would suffered to write and would suffer.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I've always felt like that.
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: I don't it's the comfort, the comfort of being there,
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: and I think that it gives a different perspective.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like the Clips, Damn the clips.
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: Clips.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like Clips.
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: I feel like Clips is different because of Virginia. I
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: feel like the music that we and the influences that
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: we've been afforded by living in Virginia, a military town,
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: there were things I never knew about musically or would
• 50:21
  Speaker 9: have never ran across if we weren't in Virginia. And
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: you know, the flavor for yous, the mixtape shops, and
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: you know, I was exposed to.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: The Bay sound.
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: I was exposed to Houston because of this town. And
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: it was only because like it was such a military
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: town that all these different influences came there musically. Even
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: I mean even the late or early eighties, late eighties,
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: the whole drug culture that the New York to Virginia
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: pipeline that brought so much music, so much influence, it
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: brought so much man, you you know, man, if you
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: just think about, if you if you just think, yeah,
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: if you just think about though, like the nineties, it
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: was it was Mace, it was big, it was Wu Tang,
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: it was everybody rapping about Virginia Beach, like you know,
• 51:22
  Speaker 9: just to to know like it was and it was
• 51:24
  Speaker 9: such it was so impressionable. I think that that that
• 51:29
  Speaker 9: that gave us a lot of fuel, a lot of information,
• 51:34
  Speaker 9: and a lot of different things to take from to
• 51:36
  Speaker 9: create what the clips are today.
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: When you met your wife, yes, do you know she
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: was the one as soon as she said her name?
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: No, no, not from Virginia. Yeah, that was crazy though,
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: But from there to yeah, yeah for sure.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: So do y'all do y'all like go out in Virginia
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: move around here to totally because a lot of rappers,
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, a lot of rappers like I have to
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: leave their city because of that. You know, with love
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: comes to hate the bigger you get.
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: Nah.
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: You know, up at the office, they were just talking
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: about what they hear about us at home and how
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: we're out. You know, every time I'm in the grocery store,
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm taking a picture by the peanut butter
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: that I don't.
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: Want to take.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing, you know, with the people.
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: But just you know, they catch me anywhere and they said,
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: I'm out there officiating weddings and people see me at.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: The gas station, like you know, we go out. We
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: definitely go out, and.
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: It feels good to be able to you know what
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: I'm saying, Virginia, don't be tripping.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Virginia's cool.
• 52:41
  Speaker 11: Y'all are like that. Not everywhere, but like I saw
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: that there was a video you in Miami Push and
• 52:46
  Speaker 11: walked up. I'm like, where is all the people with him?
• 52:48
  Speaker 11: Like you just walking around?
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: And what was the security? I was made?
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: I had the man I was. I was I was
• 52:58
  Speaker 9: going to get uh. I was want to get a
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: Mother's Day gift, I think, And you know south side man,
• 53:06
  Speaker 9: he just walked Yeah.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: But you know you all laid back and chill.
• 53:11
  Speaker 9: And you gotta be I mean, you know, you know
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: somebody got a gun. Man, chill, nobody had a gun.
• 53:21
  Speaker 9: Let's leave it there.
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: What is what is the skin regiment? Because brother, Push,
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: I'm sitting.
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: Here, Yeah, and.
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: I've never seen the inside of somebody look.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: So smooth like that. Like what you.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: Do?
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Is the diet?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: I think I think it's working out.
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: I don't know if it's no.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: The die is that their diets or diet? Yeah?
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Is that your.
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: Diet is it like, what isn't I think, you know,
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: we work out every day, you know, and we enjoy that.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: I think that's fine, watching what you eat, you know.
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: I think I think we are the first generation in
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: our family, you.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: Know, reading labels and calorie counts and proteins and stuff
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: like that. So maybe that's what it is.
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: I don't know that skin is crazy song.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Your skin too? All?
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: He produced every song?
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's what I feels like.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: He took like a more when when he produces for
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: it's more like a minimalist approach.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: I think it's a direct approach.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's it's.
• 54:42
  Speaker 9: I think it has a lot to do with our
• 54:47
  Speaker 9: vocals being instruments and treating it, treating the vocal like
• 54:51
  Speaker 9: a real instrument, like.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: You know, versus like overproducing so much.
• 55:00
  Speaker 9: There's so much this this centered around the word. You
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: know what I'm saying when it comes to us that
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: you have to let that breathe. And I think he
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: takes that that direction.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: How does that change your well? How did that challenge
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: your pin or delivery?
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 55:14
  Speaker 9: Everything is about the raps anyway. It's always been about
• 55:16
  Speaker 9: the raps. But I don't got a production bone in
• 55:18
  Speaker 9: my body. So I ain't never gonna be able to
• 55:20
  Speaker 9: lean on it, but so much, you know, I think
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: I think that I think there's a standard that just
• 55:27
  Speaker 9: comes with the writing. He just knows that it sounds
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: best minimal with us cutting through.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: So when the beat changes on a record, like with
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: the record that, do you ever say that's why it.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: Was him, That's why he was on it. He he
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: asked for two eights.
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: Bro.
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: It was like, yo, I got this change, give us
• 55:47
  Speaker 9: two eights. When we heard the be we was like, oh,
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: that's for Noads. I mean and just you know, just
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: knowing like you just know that that no, that that
• 55:56
  Speaker 9: is that he was in a.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Queen's bag of whatever, that was whatever was inspiring him
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: at the time. I was like, man, that was that
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: was for Homie.
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: I know d clues involved to right, Yeah, talk about
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: in the project.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Again, man, clue was he wasn't.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: What happened was, you know, just again making the records, going.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Through the records. Uh.
• 56:20
  Speaker 9: We actually stole clues drops from like just awful old
• 56:25
  Speaker 9: mixtapes because.
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: We just felt that it fit.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: And you know, when he heard it, he was like, no,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I got to redo these the.
• 56:33
  Speaker 9: Book, the studio, booked the studio, and he had to
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: he reconfigured everything he did and did it live. But
• 56:42
  Speaker 9: it was just some of those records kind of sparked
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: that nostalgia. And you know when when when we're in
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: the moment, you know whether it's a for real you know,
• 56:52
  Speaker 9: if you hear Farrell singing the hook or you know,
• 56:55
  Speaker 9: we wanted the hook that he's not going to stay on.
• 56:58
  Speaker 9: We gotta kind of finish it just to see what
• 57:00
  Speaker 9: it feels like. So we stole the drops.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: And once Clue heard it, he you know, did it properly?
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Talk about the Cousins Festival you got going on.
• 57:09
  Speaker 9: In Virginia, oh Man Cousins Festival. Cousins Festival is August thirtieth.
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: It is the best time. It's Labor Day weekend and
• 57:19
  Speaker 9: it is it's an indoor, an outdoor festival, you know
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: outdoor you have a Cousin's Festival stage. It's like all
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: the DJs, you got, backyard band, you got man you know,
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: drug food trucks. It's it's clue as. It's clue As
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: is envy. It's a DJ booth.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Ye yeah, we need just there.
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: And then on the inside we have as as the
• 57:49
  Speaker 9: as the day goes on, we have an inside. We
• 57:52
  Speaker 9: have a show and that's gonna be g z T
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: Pain Little Kim.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: And it's like it.
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: Is the best one day festival time of of of of.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend in Virginia.
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: Why don't you perform at the festival though, because this
• 58:10
  Speaker 8: is the second anyone.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, this is the second one.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Why don't you perform at your festival?
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: Well, actually we have a show already booked, so we
• 58:20
  Speaker 9: ruined it. No, not the day of, not the day of,
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: but you know, it just it just didn't make sense.
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: And you know, this is this is really about we
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: take real polls, like yo, who y'all want to see?
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: You know, we just last year.
• 58:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, last year was Rikabad Larry June, lion babe host
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: of d j's Jermaine, you know, and this year, you know,
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: this year we stepped it up a notch.
• 58:46
  Speaker 11: The show you got already booked is at the tour'll
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: go work game, yes, sorry about that?
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeaheah, yeah, I know, I know.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: I didn't say it, Kevin. It's all good, man, it's
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: all good.
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, I'm glad. I'm glad that we're
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: going out there with Earth Game. Those guys are awesome
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: and I feel like the show is going to be incredible,
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: Like twenty five dates, twenty.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Five dates, you know game hand for a little bit,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: you know, man.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that. Oh wow, crazy.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: I's got a couple more questions, man, how is your
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: journey as a pastor your spiritual journey?
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: Why does a pastor? No, I'm not, I could, I
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: could be.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not a pastor for.
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: Your spiritual journey?
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: How is that helping you navigate this current climbing and
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: hip hop but also this current journey to clips wrong?
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: It helps me with my journey through life with everything,
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: I feel like I actually don't know how you can
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: do it without God anything. Let all things be done
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 7: decently and in order, And no matter what you're doing,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 7: you need to have the Word of God with you,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: even if it's only to help you in understanding things
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: around you that you can't change, you know, to have peace, uh,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 7: in peace with yourself. So it's everything to me. God,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: God is everything to me first and foremost. And that's
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: not that's not cliche. Like I need Jesus, like I
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: need water and food.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: It's a fact.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what's what's the song on the new album?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: You think people are gonna completely misinterpret?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't care.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, I don't I don't know.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: It could be the whole album.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get into a join of the album. What
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: y'all want to hear? Not the two joints i've been
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: playing fight?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's get into that.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: You got to send that to me, please.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: Already?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Or do birds on sing?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, birds on sing?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: Sure?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: That's powerful.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you bubbs for joining.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Us, man, thanks for having thank you, thank you very
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: much on y'all.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: But we're gonna have to wait another fifteen years or.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: Nah, no, no, I don't think so okay, Yeah, let's
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: just say it. I don't know, y'all just so happy.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why when I said the safe space thing, like,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: I can really see that, I can see how this
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: is like a divine protection all together having an individual
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: when y'all together.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: You can I'm with that. I'm with that, I feel
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: that I see that.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is just that ch'a would question how
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: many people still think y'all twins everybody, okay, you growing up,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: I was like, they are twins. I will I will
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: all get people down.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Because they was right from down the street.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: I'm from Baltimore, you know they right there.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: But I got family in Virginia, and I was even
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: telling the Virginians, yo, they're twins.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Were just like, no, they not, so my bad.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, but people do say that it wasn't everybody exactly.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: Let's get into the record one last thing.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 8: Is there ever a problem you say, like I'm not
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 8: going there or push it, Like if Push is going
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 8: to a spot a strip club to host it or
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: he's going to strip like that, I'm not doing that, yo.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: Everybody keeps putting you in the strip club.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: For every.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: In the strip club, I usually don't.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I mean my book, but.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, work is work, work is work.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: It's clips its morning. Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Breakfast club.