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#283 - G Perico · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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Speaker 1: Brule Cat Podcast. We have a special guest in here,
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Speaker 1: his gangster grill S drops Friday Gangs to Grills, Geeperico, Welcome.
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Speaker 1: First of all, things are going very well, as I
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Speaker 1: see you have a brand new necklace that is massive
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Speaker 1: compared to previous enterprise clickchains. Yeah, the last one is
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Speaker 1: like just one of these letters. Yeah, that's why I
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Speaker 1: did it. People was giving me shit about I'm usually
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Speaker 1: good at drowning out outside noise, but like I was
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Speaker 1: getting roasted from my you know, because it was too small. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I usually I was getting roasted for uh, for my piece.
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Speaker 1: You know. I was just keeping it modest on the grind.
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Speaker 1: So let me just how much was this? It was?
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Speaker 1: It was a nice It was a pretty manny north
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Speaker 1: of fifty. Yeah. Wow. You know you you strike me
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Speaker 1: as the kind of guy who doesn't do stupid things
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Speaker 1: with your money outside of buy cars, because you do
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Speaker 1: have a car problem. Yeah, I definitely have a I
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Speaker 1: was just talking to my business manager I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get a made back the other day, and she like,
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Speaker 1: you just bought the necklace. Old damn, this was already coming. Okay, okay, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: how many cars you have now? Uh, I'm low right now,
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Speaker 1: and then did a lot of flip totaling out and shit, jesus,
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Speaker 1: are you license fucked up? Man? That's gonna say? Is
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Speaker 1: it safe to see you're a bad driver who loves
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Speaker 1: cars because I'm a bad driver. I just don't want cars. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not the best driver. It is exciting to ride
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Speaker 1: with me, though, That's one thing I could say. Is
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Speaker 1: it dangerous? Noah? Noa noa, noah No. I mean the
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Speaker 1: worst thing that happened with me my lip, my tooth
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Speaker 1: went through my lip, and ship that's not too bad.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty bad. Yeah. Yeah. So are you currently allowed
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Speaker 1: to drive technically? Nah? So I don't drive, right, you
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Speaker 1: don't drive? Yeah? The homies d off? So who's that
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Speaker 1: you don't? You can't even get car insurance if you wanted.
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Speaker 1: Huh I got insurance in your name? Yeah? Oh I
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Speaker 1: got insurance. Well, they usually like how many points are
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Speaker 1: on your license. I think I'm gonna point away from
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Speaker 1: just being like fucked up for a while. But I've
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Speaker 1: been good all year, so I'm actually getting everything situated
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Speaker 1: this upcoming week, so we gotta I'm gonna be that
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Speaker 1: good back Golden You've been dropping a lot. I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: say that, man, I feel like I kind of like, no,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like you've been applying like
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Speaker 1: NonStop pressure. Man. Like it's it's moderate, it's pretty hey,
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Speaker 1: you know it's it's nice. It's moderate. We're gonna get
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Speaker 1: heavy though, We're getting heavy after this. Well, that's what
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Speaker 1: I keep hearing, right, I keep hearing that you have
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Speaker 1: like this body of work that you're working on that's
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Speaker 1: like the real album. Yeah, at the end of like
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Speaker 1: some crazy singles, you got crazy features. But you've been
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Speaker 1: just throwing out kind of like these projects. Yeah, you're independent.
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Speaker 1: You do what you want now, you know, right, right,
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Speaker 1: So the end of the year, I'm working on like
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Speaker 1: that project that's like that thing that's gonna be timeless,
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Speaker 1: not for the time, you know what I mean. So
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Speaker 1: I've been I've been working on that for a minute.
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Speaker 1: I've heard the names that are supposed to be on
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Speaker 1: that project. Yeah, it's a few, it's a few good Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a few good men on there. I heard you
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Speaker 1: get some get some big names in. There's big features.
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Speaker 1: It's a few good man's care to share. It's feeling good, Uh,
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Speaker 1: when it's time. Well, because I okay, because I know
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Speaker 1: when it's time, we'll drop the bomb for sure. How
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Speaker 1: did the Gangster girls thing happen? Lake Chezy? So Lake Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Lake Chezy twenty twenty one when I uh just like
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Speaker 1: got made my mind up and got focused and start
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Speaker 1: doing it, like just start connecting immediately on the underground,
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Speaker 1: and Lake Cheesy have been and hollering at me and
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Speaker 1: I had it was a few like La Summers. Tool
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be a Gangster Grills, but I just
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like I wanted it to be a like
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Speaker 1: I wanted to be a Gangster Grills when I make
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Speaker 1: a Gangster Grills, so I wanted to feel like a
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Speaker 1: mixtape but like an album at the same time. So
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Speaker 1: that's what this hot shot is. But the conversation been
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Speaker 1: going on for a year. And the crazy thing is,
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Speaker 1: you know Lake reached out to me. You know, usually
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Speaker 1: it's people like man, I need a Gangster Grills, dying
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Speaker 1: for it, and it's always been a goal of mine
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Speaker 1: because when I was growing up, Gangster Grills was that ship.
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Speaker 1: Of course, that's all you heard. So like, this is
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Speaker 1: definitely something off the bucket list, and you know, Lake
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Speaker 1: was hitting me, but I didn't really think nothing of it.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just thinking he's saluting, Hey, we should
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Speaker 1: do a project. And you know how to end well.
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Speaker 1: Lake ain't an industry, Nigga industry for sure, but you
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Speaker 1: know how a lot of people just be like, Hey,
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Speaker 1: let's work, let's do something. It never happens so and really, like,
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Speaker 1: really just take it too serious. And then I was
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Speaker 1: in I'm in fucking Vegas taking my daughter. I took
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Speaker 1: my daughter shopping. I'm in the area and I'm running
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Speaker 1: down to what's that javierss Mexican Spider. So I'm upstairs
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Speaker 1: in the room, tired, just tore down for my daughter,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm hungry. I ain't ate shit all day.
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Speaker 1: I rushed down the Javiers to see if the kitchen
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Speaker 1: is still open. Somebody yanked my arm. I'm like, who
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Speaker 1: the fuck is this? It's an LB cousin. I go
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Speaker 1: to the back LB and them runts LB jokes up. Man.
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Speaker 1: They got the whole back of the restaurant sold up right.
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Speaker 1: So I sit there. I don't even have to order shit,
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Speaker 1: it's food everywhere I'm eating. And I met this guy
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Speaker 1: named Rob Liddy. He own a company called Liddy. He like,
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Speaker 1: what you doing? Paid me to do a private party?
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Speaker 1: Like and it was like, like, damn near more than
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Speaker 1: what I get paid for a lot of shows. I
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Speaker 1: only did two verses. But Jeezi was also performing there
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Speaker 1: and GZ camera guy I know him from going to
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Speaker 1: uh to a drama in the studio and shit right,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, man, what's up when that gangster grill's
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Speaker 1: coming out? That's what he tell me. And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: gangster grills? What you mean? And he like, yeah, Druma
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Speaker 1: and Lake been talking about it. I said, oh, this
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Speaker 1: shit is serious, right, So that's when I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's get this shit done. And did you have do
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Speaker 1: you don't have to pay drama for that? Uh? It's love,
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Speaker 1: it's love. It was love. We definitely gave up a
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Speaker 1: few dollars, but nothing nowhere to what it was. Just
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Speaker 1: like the money I gave him was just a token
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Speaker 1: of my appreciation. Yeah yeah, but it was like what
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Speaker 1: he get like, it was like not even a fucking
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Speaker 1: tenth for that shit? Right? So did Lake try to
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Speaker 1: sign you the generation? Now? Nah? We never had a
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Speaker 1: conversation like that, but you know, I got the full
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Speaker 1: support and all that. So but it is, you know,
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Speaker 1: something possibility scheme for a while, you know, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's definitely a possibility. But I'm just man, I'm enjoying
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Speaker 1: Empire and Perrico's enterprise, Like yep, I'm fucking like in
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Speaker 1: the best position I've ever been. Like, fame wise, it's whatever,
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Speaker 1: but like, you know, financials and the shit that I
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Speaker 1: could do and the type of different business calls I'm getting,
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Speaker 1: especially with this thing where everybody's selling catalog and shit, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been getting these like no boys, shit, no exaggeration,
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Speaker 1: I've been getting like multi million dollar offers for your catalog. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it's like I feel like I ain't even hit
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Speaker 1: that fucking peak or got to a place where we
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Speaker 1: invested because I haven't spent no money on marketing or
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Speaker 1: anything at all yet. Yeah. Because how okay, So since
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Speaker 1: leeveen Rock Nation, how many projects have you dropped with Empire?
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Speaker 1: Because it's been two and a half three years now,
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Speaker 1: it's been two years exactly, well two years and a
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Speaker 1: month exactly in that time. How many projects do you
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Speaker 1: I think we at like fifteen or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Jesus So the multimillion dollar deal is for those fifteen Nah,
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Speaker 1: it's just for uh or for your twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: It was just for the twenty twenty one catalog. So
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Speaker 1: all the shit I did in twenty twenty one, did
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Speaker 1: you turn it down? Yeah? Yeah, respectfully, you know, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, if it's the opportunity is still there,
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Speaker 1: we'll circle back around. But you like you could be like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: fuck twenty twenty one, take that, take the bread, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, just running up in twenty twenty two
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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three, and nah, for sure, for sure,
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Speaker 1: it's a It was like a great feeling to know
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Speaker 1: that that's there, and also like it got me looking
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Speaker 1: at the board a little bit different and setting goals
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Speaker 1: a little bit different because it's like, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I haven't spent any money on marketing, right, so I
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Speaker 1: got money. Let me invest some money in marketing and
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Speaker 1: some of this old shit because it's really not that old.
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Speaker 1: People got songs, it's three years old. They're fuck around
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Speaker 1: to go viral and catch for sure, it's happening all
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Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, so let me put a Now it's like,
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Speaker 1: let me put some effort into marketing this old shit
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Speaker 1: while I'm still dropping some new shit because I feel
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Speaker 1: like I haven't maxed out the situation. It's like, if
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Speaker 1: I could get that, then you know, why not try
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Speaker 1: to get fucking fifteen to twenty million. Do you feel
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Speaker 1: like you could ever do the major label thing because
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Speaker 1: you've been so like I feel like you've been thriving
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Speaker 1: on being under empire, being in a situation where you
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Speaker 1: call your shots. You could drop it any time you want. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the major the major thing isn't for me, just how
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Speaker 1: just the type of person that I am and how
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Speaker 1: I grew up Like bro, I got like a serious
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Speaker 1: problem with authority, you know what I mean. You put
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Speaker 1: yourself in a major situation. It worked for every It
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Speaker 1: worked for different people, so everybody thing is different. But
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Speaker 1: for me specifically, I hate having to go explain why
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Speaker 1: my record is tight and why it might work and
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Speaker 1: why it's necessary when it's clearly this is what I'm
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Speaker 1: in the building for for what I do, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean? So I don't think the Major thing
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Speaker 1: is my It's not my cup of tea at all.
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Speaker 1: Because even before I signed, they was giving me one
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Speaker 1: hundred grand for a project. For each project, and I
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Speaker 1: was just coming out you know what I mean. It's
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Speaker 1: because I understand business in the hustle. So I had
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Speaker 1: what I realized when I signed the Rock Nation already
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Speaker 1: had everything that a label got besides radio, already had
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Speaker 1: my own digital marketing team. I already had my own
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Speaker 1: PR and then I got you know, I'm the strategic partner.
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Speaker 1: So it's like I pretty much got like the meat
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Speaker 1: and bones of what a label did, because all I
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Speaker 1: did was signed, and you know that's another story, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: I never I never signed to a major ever, pretty
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Speaker 1: much been just giving you an advance. At that point,
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Speaker 1: It's like I'm signing for an advance and radio play
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Speaker 1: that never happened, right, And I'm in it. I'm not
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Speaker 1: in it for the fame, like I'm in it because
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Speaker 1: I like to make music, but I love to hustle
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Speaker 1: and be able to do. I love to be active,
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Speaker 1: and I love challenges and shit, so like, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to put myself in another situation where the challenges
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Speaker 1: me just getting music put out and then if the
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Speaker 1: shit don't perform how it expected, then everybody moving on
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Speaker 1: to the fucking other one hundred thousand artists that I
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Speaker 1: don't fuck that like I'm in it. Like I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, like, like, you're obviously famous, right, You're not
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Speaker 1: like a superstar, but like you know, amongst the West
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Speaker 1: Coast hip hop world, you are one of them ones,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, but pretty much any
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Speaker 1: city y'all hit, somebody gonna notice men, Right. But I
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Speaker 1: do feel like a lot of artists they get into
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Speaker 1: this shit and they focus on the wrong shit, which
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Speaker 1: is like being famous or oh man, the look academics
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Speaker 1: ain't post me or all that type of shit. And
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Speaker 1: it's like, I feel like you're doing so much better
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Speaker 1: than a lot of these guys because you kind of
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Speaker 1: are approaching the game from a whole different perspective, Like
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Speaker 1: you're putting your money in the right shit. You're like
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Speaker 1: using the music as a vehicle to set up like
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Speaker 1: long term wealth. You know what I'm saying exactly. I'm
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Speaker 1: in it for the long game because that's where that's
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Speaker 1: where the money is at in the long game. And
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of artists got like this Cinderella
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Speaker 1: idealism in their head, which it also stemmed from the streets.
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Speaker 1: Think about it in the streets. I'm broke one day,
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Speaker 1: I fuck around and hit a lickt and then I'm
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Speaker 1: up shining the next day, you know what I mean? Now,
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Speaker 1: Like business, business don't work like that. You gotta put
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Speaker 1: in the footwork and really grind it out. So a
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Speaker 1: lot of people do it to get that advance and
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Speaker 1: to get shipped like this and this, and then be
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Speaker 1: broke and then and then get to complaining about a
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Speaker 1: situation that they took you signed. It's like, yo, you complaining,
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Speaker 1: but you signed the paperwork, right, You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: For you? Man, Like I know you you in d Smoke,
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Speaker 1: partnered up and bought Broadway Gym Smoke. I've heard you've
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Speaker 1: been doing other stuff in the real estate game. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just got a house, new crib. Yeah are you
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Speaker 1: doing anything? Are you just everything? Like all the ship
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Speaker 1: for me to move in just got finished, So all
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Speaker 1: the little work that I had to do and shit,
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Speaker 1: so I'm feeling good about it. I was gonna say, you,
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Speaker 1: like diving in pretty pretty tough on the real estate
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Speaker 1: in terms of just like investing. Nah, I ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: sit here in front like that. But if an opportunity
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Speaker 1: present itself, and then at the time, if I got
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Speaker 1: the liquid to do it, then I do it. But
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Speaker 1: I'm really just focused on on music, just getting my
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Speaker 1: brand together and content. I want to get into these movies. Hey,
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Speaker 1: for real, you think you act? I definitely could act.
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Speaker 1: I did a few roles and shit, you know the
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Speaker 1: movie shit, it's this term that got called hurry up
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Speaker 1: and wait. So I didn't shot some shit like a
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Speaker 1: year ago. Some two years ago they still not release yeah,
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Speaker 1: like to b shit, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well one
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Speaker 1: of them is like an actual feature film. Oh fire. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you think you're they're gonna typecast you. I'm pretty type cast.
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Speaker 1: But it's like some nineteen so I think I spoke
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Speaker 1: on them before. On here. I'm like, it's in the
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Speaker 1: seventies when hip hop first started. So I'm like a
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Speaker 1: fucking like a gangster security. Do they have to cover
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Speaker 1: your your tats up? Yeah? They make up me down?
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Speaker 1: What's that like? Like? Seeing yourself without tattoos for like
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Speaker 1: a couple of days? That shit is dope? Like I
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Speaker 1: want to I actually want to get some of this
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Speaker 1: shit removed, But I just got something on my face,
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Speaker 1: which the you know, the ideal behind that is I'm
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Speaker 1: building this company up to sell it for one hundred million.
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Speaker 1: So when I get that check, I'm getting this shit
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Speaker 1: removed the blue T shirt. Which tattoo would you get removed? First?
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Speaker 1: By the way that shit hurts, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: got it, like I got a lot of shit, Like
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Speaker 1: I was like a scratch paper at one time, letting
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Speaker 1: my homies practice on me and shit. So your BG tattoo,
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Speaker 1: How painful was that? Cause it's like all just dark ink.
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Speaker 1: It actually wasn't that painful because the only thing that
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Speaker 1: I remember that always stand out is when you start
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Speaker 1: getting under the orange pit, I'm like, bro, don't worry
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Speaker 1: about that. They ain't gonna see under my shit anyway.
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Speaker 1: That shit hurt. It's kind of like the places you
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Speaker 1: can see that usually hurt the most. Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
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Speaker 1: I have a few tattoos in like right here. That
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Speaker 1: shit hurt. Yeah, I want to get a few more.
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Speaker 1: Like at first it was like, damn, I want to act,
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Speaker 1: But now with this makeup shit and technology, I'm good.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to. I actually wanted to get permanent gold teeth, right.
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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do that since I was like fifteen,
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Speaker 1: and it's like I wanted That's one thing that is
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Speaker 1: definitely you still want to do that, Yeah, but it
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Speaker 1: don't do that, bro, but it's gonna be difficult, you know,
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Speaker 1: getting rolls because I would love to fucking do some
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Speaker 1: shit like iced tea, play a fucking cop or just
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Speaker 1: get the joint you pop in and you pop out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: get this the all right, listen. I don't know anybody
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Speaker 1: who got permanence that are like that breath don't smell
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Speaker 1: like shit. All their breath stinks, and nobody actually feels
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Speaker 1: like it was a good idea like two years later, right,
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Speaker 1: you gotta brush your teeth like like like it's just
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Speaker 1: so much. It's just a lot of maintenance. It's a
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Speaker 1: lot of fucking maintenance. You could go to Mexico and
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Speaker 1: get that shit though done for the low ski for sure,
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Speaker 1: just go to t J. I don't want to come
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Speaker 1: back with no big horse gold teeth though it look
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Speaker 1: like AD, but we'll go AD. Got them chompers, I
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Speaker 1: got my teeth. My teeth blew out right. But it's
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Speaker 1: like I felt like if I get like a perfect
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Speaker 1: set of whites, it kind of steal from the characteristics
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Speaker 1: of my shit, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I like the crooked chip Tooth, Brown Tooth's mouth. Fuck it,
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Speaker 1: I'm thugging. It is what I didn't live, the life
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Speaker 1: that lets you know some shit didn't happen. I love it.
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Speaker 1: So no features on the Gangster Girls. No, actually I
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Speaker 1: got a hook from RJ. Okay, I got a hook
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Speaker 1: from RJ. But outside of that, like my you know,
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Speaker 1: I love taking projects to the face man, because I
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Speaker 1: record at the crib or at my office and it's
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Speaker 1: just like, you know, super comfortable. I think that's why
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Speaker 1: it just come out so much. It's like I'm not
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Speaker 1: in the pressure like I'm in a twelve hour session.
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Speaker 1: I gotta hurry up and do this. Like I get
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Speaker 1: to ride around, listen to beats, rap, shit in my voice, memo,
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Speaker 1: come home, record through my other work. So you know, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I enjoy doing that for you. Like I know, doing
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Speaker 1: your tour like is a big deal because I feel
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Speaker 1: like you're kind of doing something that a lot of
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Speaker 1: LA artists have had trouble doing, and that's like doing
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Speaker 1: like a national tour, you know. And I think like
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Speaker 1: a lot of that is just the result of, like shit,
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Speaker 1: the love of the fifteen projects straight of just you know,
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Speaker 1: building your monthly listeners. And I think like I've noticed
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Speaker 1: like that for you because I think we always look
18:26
Speaker 1: at a lot of quote unquote LA rappers as having
18:28
Speaker 1: a certain ceiling. But I do feel like you've done
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Speaker 1: a good job of like starting to break out of
18:32
Speaker 1: what that ceiling looks like, for sure. For sure. Like
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Speaker 1: my goal, my goal in the culture and my contribution
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Speaker 1: is to is to bring something new to LA And
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Speaker 1: when I say new is you know, our culture and
18:49
Speaker 1: the way we operate out here is like to chill,
18:51
Speaker 1: hang and bang shit. And it also spilled over into
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Speaker 1: It's set up to never recope. Look, the average artist,
23:41
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Speaker 1: Even niggas that say they got JVS, this shit be
23:48
Speaker 1: fucking fluff for a headline. So it's like on average,
23:52
Speaker 1: it's an eighty five fifteen type shit or twelve percent royalty. Right,
23:57
Speaker 1: But what they don't tell you is that when they
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24:03
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24:07
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24:11
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24:14
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars, right, because you're cooping. Yeah, it's it's
24:19
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24:22
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24:26
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24:30
Speaker 1: out of one hundred goes towards paying your balance off. Right,
24:33
Speaker 1: the rest of it they just put it just got free.
24:35
Speaker 1: So it's like you not recoop, but we made a
24:37
Speaker 1: shitload of money. That's for you to really recoup off
24:40
Speaker 1: that hundred. Your music needs to make a million. If
24:43
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24:45
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24:48
Speaker 1: how much is how much streams you really need to
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24:52
Speaker 1: or an album? It's it's a serious amount exactly, And
24:54
Speaker 1: it's like that's why you know, people complain about these deals,
24:59
Speaker 1: and a deal don't get restructured. What they do is
25:02
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25:06
Speaker 1: It's a great business, fucking yeah exactly. It's not like
25:08
Speaker 1: they didn't make no money. They actually you didn't. You
25:12
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25:22
Speaker 1: a shipload of money already. It should be happening with
25:25
Speaker 1: so many artists that I know. Well, they'll complain, but
25:27
Speaker 1: then they'll they'll take the advance. Yeah, because it's like,
25:29
Speaker 1: all right, take the advance because what they complaining about
25:32
Speaker 1: they need money. Okay, cool, here's money. Here goes some money.
25:35
Speaker 1: All right, you better tour. Yeah, we put a band
25:38
Speaker 1: aid over some ship that needs stifles and stitches, and
25:41
Speaker 1: now you got more money to recoop. You've done. You've
25:44
Speaker 1: dug your whole deeper with the label. But that there
25:47
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25:52
Speaker 1: if you aren't recouped, it's not so. I think normal
25:56
Speaker 1: people think that when they hear that that if you're
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Speaker 1: not recouped, that you didn't make money, know that you
26:02
Speaker 1: are like in debt to the label like personal Like no,
26:06
Speaker 1: like if the label gives you a million dollars and
26:10
Speaker 1: your music only makes one hundred thousand dollars, now you
26:13
Speaker 1: might not be recouped through your deal, but it's not
26:15
Speaker 1: like you're moving around with a fucking nine hundred thousand
26:18
Speaker 1: dollars debt over your head label. Yeah, because that going
26:21
Speaker 1: right if they let that, if they let you go,
26:23
Speaker 1: they're gonna write you off. Like with Nation tax right off. Yeah,
26:26
Speaker 1: with Rocknation, they let me go, and it's like, I
26:29
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26:33
Speaker 1: you see what the Russell said that like Rocknation offered
26:35
Speaker 1: him like a really bad deal. Uh, yeah, y'all saw
26:38
Speaker 1: that interview? Yeah? Was that? How was your deal? I mean,
26:41
Speaker 1: that's it. Nah, My situation wasn't nothing like that. But
26:45
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26:47
Speaker 1: Like in business, people are gonna do and get over
26:50
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26:52
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26:56
Speaker 1: even with lawyers and shit, like these lawyers are slick
26:59
Speaker 1: as a motherfucker, and a lot of times they all
27:02
Speaker 1: like like they kind of work together. Yeah, and like
27:05
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Speaker 1: entertainment lawyer. That's kind of like maybe not living in
27:10
Speaker 1: LA for sure, like because or somebody that's fresh out
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27:19
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27:21
Speaker 1: Like I had a situation to where I worked out
27:25
Speaker 1: a deal and this motherfucker telling me, all right, everything
27:28
Speaker 1: is great. I don't like this. I don't like this.
27:31
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell him this, but didn't tell me that
27:33
Speaker 1: he slipped in. I need five percent out of this
27:38
Speaker 1: deal in the contract. You tell me everything else, but
27:41
Speaker 1: forget to And a lot of people get fucked like that.
27:44
Speaker 1: But I'll be on top of everything. So because it's
27:47
Speaker 1: not like I could just pay you your hourly fee
27:51
Speaker 1: paying a flat, right, but it's like a motherfucker they'll
27:55
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28:02
Speaker 1: in some shit under your nose, like all this shit
28:04
Speaker 1: go on, you know what I mean, But you can't
28:06
Speaker 1: get mad at it. It's the games I think that
28:08
Speaker 1: I see. Well, I noticed that too, with a lot
28:10
Speaker 1: of managers on top of it, managers shitty managers will
28:15
Speaker 1: they backdo you. They'll force their artists into a shitty
28:18
Speaker 1: record deal because they don't got to recoup off the advance.
28:22
Speaker 1: They get their percentage Scott free, I need to play
28:24
Speaker 1: this rent so they're getting their bread. Meanwhile, you're locked
28:27
Speaker 1: into a shitty deal and you're not gonna recoup. And
28:31
Speaker 1: it's like, but the manager got paid, the lawyer got paid,
28:33
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I see that shit happening
28:35
Speaker 1: all the time, where like, like some of my homies
28:37
Speaker 1: are like their fucking management will like be pushing them
28:40
Speaker 1: to sign like shitty deals, and I'm like, bro because
28:43
Speaker 1: they when it's a red flag and managers like that.
28:46
Speaker 1: That's how a lot of managers think. I'm the coach.
28:50
Speaker 1: I outlive the artists. I'm gonna have thirty more of you,
28:53
Speaker 1: like motherfuckers. I nenver heard somebody say, I'm not gonna
28:58
Speaker 1: say who, but close to shit, an average artist lifestyle
29:03
Speaker 1: lifespan is five years. But that's really not the case
29:07
Speaker 1: no more. Because rapping turned into rock and roll right too.
29:10
Speaker 1: Short them they're sixty and he's stealed the shit? Is
29:13
Speaker 1: he almost sixty? Yes? He like fifty five fifty six,
29:16
Speaker 1: hold a sugar free. Sugar Free is around the same
29:19
Speaker 1: thing fifty three fifty four. But it's like rapping turned
29:22
Speaker 1: into rock and roll, so it's no age limit. But
29:26
Speaker 1: like people a bad management to tell you shit like that,
29:30
Speaker 1: and damn put this idea in your head that you
29:34
Speaker 1: got to rush into these fucked up situations because you
29:37
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29:39
Speaker 1: if you're a brand, you're gonna be here forever. Rappers
29:42
Speaker 1: do got a fucking expiration day, but brands don't. Right.
29:45
Speaker 1: Are you pretty much self managed now or do you
29:48
Speaker 1: have management? Yeah? Because I feel like you could kind
29:51
Speaker 1: of you. You know, you're one of the few artists
29:53
Speaker 1: I feel like, probably don't need a manager. You have
29:55
Speaker 1: good people around here. You got a great project Yeah yeah, yeah,
29:57
Speaker 1: fire like Gentry. Yeah, Gentry my project manager, you know
30:00
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And he's like, he's definitely one of
30:04
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30:08
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the people that like change the
30:10
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30:13
Speaker 1: But as far as management, man, you know I do that.
30:17
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30:20
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30:24
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30:28
Speaker 1: ten percent of the music. It's ninety percent of how
30:32
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30:35
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30:38
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30:41
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30:48
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30:50
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30:53
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30:55
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30:59
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31:05
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31:08
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31:11
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31:16
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31:18
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31:24
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31:27
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31:45
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31:48
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31:51
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31:54
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37:56
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the interview. As DoD as a
37:58
Speaker 1: fucking great dude, great guy, and he's also good at karate.
38:02
Speaker 1: Yeah he'll whoop your ass for sure. Yeah, you told
38:05
Speaker 1: him I don't want no smoke. Would you ever try
38:08
Speaker 1: to get because I know you, you know you're in
38:10
Speaker 1: a boxing gym. Would you ever try to get down
38:11
Speaker 1: with the jiu jitsu? Or I was thinking about taking
38:15
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu? It was just like just the timing of
38:19
Speaker 1: you know, everything, because when I get involved, I don't
38:23
Speaker 1: want to commit. I don't want to go to two
38:24
Speaker 1: classes and quit like I actually want to get some
38:26
Speaker 1: like belts and move up and think about jiu jitsu.
38:29
Speaker 1: Is I just don't know how much time I want
38:31
Speaker 1: to spend rolling around with a dude on the ground,
38:34
Speaker 1: right and getting this shit kicked out and getting ring
38:36
Speaker 1: warm or like getting a fucking staff infection because the
38:40
Speaker 1: fucking mats are dirty. That should be happening staff. I
38:43
Speaker 1: ain't heard that. When I was in a pen. It
38:45
Speaker 1: was like the staff ship was big in the country
38:49
Speaker 1: at the time, and motherfuckers was catching that shit. Bro
38:51
Speaker 1: I was, man, I was so spooke. How long were
38:55
Speaker 1: you locked up in total? I did about six years.
38:58
Speaker 1: What was your longest like sing like it total of
39:01
Speaker 1: my life? I did about six years, a little over
39:03
Speaker 1: six years. What was the longest single bid? Three years
39:08
Speaker 1: and like six months? Geez yeah, or four month three
39:12
Speaker 1: and four something like that. Yeah. For you, like, who's
39:17
Speaker 1: playing you in the movie? Man? You were in prison,
39:19
Speaker 1: you got so much crazy shit that's happened in your life.
39:21
Speaker 1: If you had to pick somebody to play you in
39:22
Speaker 1: the movie, whould be Man, he probably ain't even hit
39:27
Speaker 1: the scene yet. It's yourself. Yeah, you just play yourself.
39:31
Speaker 1: I feel like i'd be maybe at certain parts, but
39:35
Speaker 1: I ain't really thought about it. But I think, like
39:37
Speaker 1: with the movie shit, my goal with that too is
39:40
Speaker 1: like I'll be studying motherfuckers like John Singleton and US
39:44
Speaker 1: Brothers where they was taking these super talented unknowns. Yeah,
39:49
Speaker 1: so that's that's like my goal and the ship. I'm
39:51
Speaker 1: not looking for the big name like I know, so
39:55
Speaker 1: I've been trying to get in it, so I don't
39:56
Speaker 1: set with a lot of different producers and a lot
39:58
Speaker 1: of different writers, and a lot of these dudes think
40:01
Speaker 1: the same way. Some of these rappers think having a
40:04
Speaker 1: gang of names tied to some ship is gonna make
40:07
Speaker 1: it dope, Like it's gonna get you some eyeballs, but
40:09
Speaker 1: is it gonna make great product? Well, think about who
40:14
Speaker 1: Uncle Jerome the actor was or who Franklin Saint the
40:17
Speaker 1: actor was before that show, and now they the ship.
40:19
Speaker 1: Now they're lit, right, So that's my goal with that
40:21
Speaker 1: Franklin Saints banging Lori Harvey right now, God bless them.
40:27
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Okay, so how many more projects are
40:32
Speaker 1: you dropping this year? The big album's coming for sure
40:33
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Yeah, big album, fourth quarter,
40:36
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the probably just and it with a
40:39
Speaker 1: like Nova show or if I could do something bigger
40:42
Speaker 1: than that, that'd be awesome. I mean, it's about time
40:45
Speaker 1: to do the Novo or do Palladium. Yeah yeah, yeah,
40:47
Speaker 1: yeah I didn't. I mean having offers to do them.
40:49
Speaker 1: What rocks? The Roxy show is special. Yeah, and like
40:52
Speaker 1: the Roxy, like I could have did the Nova, you
40:54
Speaker 1: could have been so gotta do the Roxy first. But
40:57
Speaker 1: it's like for like tradition's sake, I feel like it's
40:59
Speaker 1: like I love the Roxy and I wanted to just
41:01
Speaker 1: do like my one last show, the Rock, you know,
41:05
Speaker 1: I mean, so that could go down, But yeah, I
41:07
Speaker 1: think I'm pretty I got the Fonda coming up, you
41:10
Speaker 1: know what I mean. That's big. Yeah. So how many
41:13
Speaker 1: days are you and Richie doing? Twenty five? That's a lot, man.
41:17
Speaker 1: How far east are you guys going? We're going all
41:20
Speaker 1: the way the Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts, I think that's far
41:23
Speaker 1: and then Orlando, Florida, so northeast and southeast that's lit. Yeah.
41:28
Speaker 1: You think you like like I do, think like, you know,
41:31
Speaker 1: having fans because I remember living in Tampa and at
41:36
Speaker 1: the height of my crazy life, Ygi came and I
41:40
Speaker 1: was because you know, I'm a West Coast guy from Phoenix.
41:44
Speaker 1: So when Ygi came to Tampa, this is like twenty fourteen,
41:48
Speaker 1: when he was on fire fire, and I no one
41:51
Speaker 1: cared because it was Florida, so it was like different
41:54
Speaker 1: like people were they loved like riche On m Kwan
41:56
Speaker 1: and Boozy like people who wouldn't have necessarily people would
41:58
Speaker 1: have cared about like that out here. But I do
42:01
Speaker 1: think it's like important, like like you said, like you
42:03
Speaker 1: got to go and build those markets up fan by
42:06
Speaker 1: fans exactly. So I know a lot of these dates,
42:10
Speaker 1: I'm putting myself up to the challenge in building majority
42:14
Speaker 1: of the dates, over half of the dates is no burners.
42:17
Speaker 1: They're gonna be sold out, right, But my goal is
42:21
Speaker 1: to build the torn So you know, I'm curious to
42:24
Speaker 1: see how Orlando, Florida go, you know what I mean,
42:28
Speaker 1: And however it go, I'm gonna just keep hitting the
42:30
Speaker 1: nail on the head until I build that market out
42:33
Speaker 1: because once it's built, then you know, that's that's that's
42:37
Speaker 1: extra dot to the net at the or the gross
42:40
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. So you know, that's
42:42
Speaker 1: my goal. What has been the most random like place
42:45
Speaker 1: you've seen, like fans just really fucking with you outside
42:49
Speaker 1: of the fuck outside of the US, Japan, Australia, Well,
42:56
Speaker 1: Japan is not right, it's West Coast to coach motherfuckers
43:00
Speaker 1: in Japan, Australia, London. Like I get dms every fucking
43:06
Speaker 1: day from overseas. Have you been in Japan yet? Nah?
43:09
Speaker 1: Do you think you'd be allowed to go? Yeah? For sure,
43:11
Speaker 1: record for sure. I heard it. It's like it's like Canada. No,
43:15
Speaker 1: it's not as bad, but I heard It's like, nah,
43:17
Speaker 1: I should be good. I've been out of fucking prison
43:20
Speaker 1: for I got released in January twenty fourteen, almost ten years,
43:25
Speaker 1: so I should be good. Man. I ain't got nothing
43:28
Speaker 1: but some you know, traffic violations. You gotta tap in
43:32
Speaker 1: djn and head. They got the fucking all the Japan
43:36
Speaker 1: there's like this like West Coast culture out there and
43:39
Speaker 1: they'd be bringing hell up like D Smoke went out
43:41
Speaker 1: there and got a bag. Yeah, yeah, we definitely hitting that.
43:45
Speaker 1: Who's your DJ Steals? Okay, my boy Steals my DJ
43:50
Speaker 1: executive producer. I have my executive producer, So like me
43:54
Speaker 1: and Steals like got this synergy built, Like yeah, what's that? Yeah?
43:58
Speaker 1: You guys got such a chemistry man. Yeah, yeah, that's
44:00
Speaker 1: my boy, like because we like kind of like similar
44:03
Speaker 1: person like everything he wants and trying to do like
44:06
Speaker 1: each if you have regrettable tattoos for sure, for sure,
44:10
Speaker 1: for each of you're musically inclined. Yeah yeah, yeah, and
44:14
Speaker 1: little seasons, you know, it's a little season. And it's
44:17
Speaker 1: just like we we both at the same point to
44:20
Speaker 1: where it's like now or never and then are now
44:24
Speaker 1: or never. Isn't like the fame necessarily, but it's like
44:28
Speaker 1: them digits we take now he's got I saw. I
44:30
Speaker 1: just saw him in a v or dropping an album soon. Yeah,
44:33
Speaker 1: so shout out to Steal, shout to av Steel's been
44:35
Speaker 1: putting in that work. Yeah. So we just we we
44:38
Speaker 1: both building in real estate and this shit and helping
44:41
Speaker 1: each other. I was gonna say, like, when you drop
44:44
Speaker 1: that much music, is it kind of like is that
44:47
Speaker 1: the way you look at it? Like the more catalog
44:50
Speaker 1: I have, is it like compounding interest almost? Yeah, for sure,
44:54
Speaker 1: and then you never know which one is gonna be
44:56
Speaker 1: which And then also you know the way I look
44:59
Speaker 1: at it, like a lot of artists that I fell
45:01
Speaker 1: in love with, like in the beginning of the twenty
45:05
Speaker 1: ten that era, like the YouTube era, a lot of
45:08
Speaker 1: the artists that I became serious fans of, like withiz Currency,
45:15
Speaker 1: fucking with Wayne, before that, Gezy French, all these different artists,
45:23
Speaker 1: they had a shitload of content. So you know, when
45:26
Speaker 1: I discovered them, like, it's a lot of shit for
45:30
Speaker 1: me to fall in love with them. And then like
45:32
Speaker 1: around the time when I discovered Wiz and was like, damn,
45:35
Speaker 1: this nigga is crazy. Then Black and Yellow hit and
45:38
Speaker 1: then all the other shit go up. So you know,
45:41
Speaker 1: I'm trying to try and get mirror out of my
45:43
Speaker 1: own way everything else comes up. Yeah, I'm trying to
45:46
Speaker 1: mirror that in my own way. It's like, okay, with
45:49
Speaker 1: all the catalog that I get, let's say a song hit.
45:51
Speaker 1: I'm not doing my career based on a hit song
45:55
Speaker 1: because I know I can make ms without a hit song.
45:57
Speaker 1: So but if it hits song do hit? Then guess
46:01
Speaker 1: what my catalog go from whatever a month to a
46:03
Speaker 1: million a month? You know what I mean? Yeah, and
46:06
Speaker 1: then when they talking about selling catalog, shit, give me
46:09
Speaker 1: eighty million dollars, right, You do you feel like because
46:13
Speaker 1: I do feel like. I saw Russ recently comment on this,
46:16
Speaker 1: and Rust is somebody who kind of blew up through
46:17
Speaker 1: a lot of music videos, but he just said recently
46:19
Speaker 1: that music videos aren't as important as they used to
46:23
Speaker 1: be in terms of like the effect of I guess
46:26
Speaker 1: the ROI you would get. Definitely, do you feel like
46:29
Speaker 1: that's the case because I know you still shoot videos?
46:31
Speaker 1: A fact, Yeah, that's a fact because like let's say,
46:34
Speaker 1: like my record keep Killing, for example, keep Killing. If
46:38
Speaker 1: you look on YouTube, it's gonna look like the record is.
46:42
Speaker 1: But that shit got like fucking thirty forty million streams total,
46:45
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And it's not even close
46:47
Speaker 1: to a million on YouTube, you know what I'm saying.
46:50
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel what he's saying. I think in
46:53
Speaker 1: this era, like YouTube and like this the information era, right,
46:58
Speaker 1: so these podcasts and all this ship is the ship,
47:01
Speaker 1: and like I think YouTube is designed more for motherfuckers
47:07
Speaker 1: to get acquainted with your brand at this point and
47:09
Speaker 1: how you think and where you're almost is like a
47:11
Speaker 1: little extra, like you know, it's it's if you're an
47:15
Speaker 1: independent artist, like you're probably not going to spend the
47:17
Speaker 1: amount of money on music videos that you might have
47:20
Speaker 1: three or four years ago. Yeah, for sure, but it's
47:22
Speaker 1: something that kind of just helps with the brand. Yeah,
47:24
Speaker 1: it definitely helped. It's a commercial you know what I mean,
47:26
Speaker 1: I think a song is a commercial for the brand,
47:29
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, it's like it's the information error. And
47:34
Speaker 1: that's like even with with PRESS, right because I had
47:38
Speaker 1: a PR since the jump and that that's what uh,
47:41
Speaker 1: that's what helped me get known before my music, Like
47:44
Speaker 1: I was more known than my music, you know what
47:47
Speaker 1: I mean. And like with the way that the game
47:51
Speaker 1: is going, like the PR run is not really it's
47:55
Speaker 1: kind of becoming like dinosaur type shit, like going to
47:59
Speaker 1: blow and going to this different shake. I feel like
48:02
Speaker 1: paying a PR person if you have like decent relationships
48:05
Speaker 1: to waste the money now, Yeah, it's like if someone
48:07
Speaker 1: trying to sell you on blog placements, that's a fucking
48:10
Speaker 1: red flag. Yeah that's that's dinosaur shit. And it's like
48:14
Speaker 1: like it's the fucking podcasts are way more you know,
48:19
Speaker 1: important and valuable. So yeah, bro, like PR, I think
48:25
Speaker 1: fucking podcasts and all this different shit is way more
48:28
Speaker 1: important than a PR run at this for sure? Would
48:30
Speaker 1: you would you ever do your own podcast? Nah? Not
48:36
Speaker 1: at this point. Maybe when I slow down with music
48:39
Speaker 1: because with a podcast, bro, like you got to offer
48:43
Speaker 1: too many different things of yourself unless you keep it,
48:47
Speaker 1: you know, on one specific thing, and it's like it
48:50
Speaker 1: kind of steal from the mystique of the music, right
48:54
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It's good money though, it's
48:57
Speaker 1: great money. Like if you I would definitely reckon man,
49:00
Speaker 1: if you're an artist and you can't figure out how
49:02
Speaker 1: to stream or how to get people on your shit,
49:05
Speaker 1: like do a fucking podcast, bro, Like that shit is
49:09
Speaker 1: that shit? I know a lot of people that make
49:12
Speaker 1: like a lot of artists that got podcast now and
49:15
Speaker 1: made more than they ever made. They got an AD
49:17
Speaker 1: all projects running it up exactly, so AD like ad
49:22
Speaker 1: killing it. I'm like super proud of a d right now.
49:25
Speaker 1: Like that's like, that's dope because he a good dude.
49:27
Speaker 1: So you know, he found his way so sold out
49:30
Speaker 1: LRA with the podcast big deal exactly, big your era.
49:35
Speaker 1: Let's say twenty ten to twenty twenty, who's the mount Rushmore,
49:38
Speaker 1: La Rapp twenty ten to twenty twenty, what's the mount Rushmore?
49:41
Speaker 1: Five faces? Give me five? Sure it's four, but give
49:44
Speaker 1: me five. Uh. Kendrick nip yg fuck damn Kendrick nip
49:59
Speaker 1: yg Uh. And like as far as like LA where
50:06
Speaker 1: you know they from l a ship Geparika, I like it.
50:12
Speaker 1: It's a solid five right after this Gangster Girls. You
50:18
Speaker 1: got another project ready to go? Yeah, I got another
50:20
Speaker 1: project coming. I got the click Tape coming. It's a
50:24
Speaker 1: it's another project by me, but it's it's just more
50:27
Speaker 1: focused on, you know, artists that I like out here,
50:32
Speaker 1: and because I don't do a lot of features. I mean,
50:36
Speaker 1: this is a fucking damn I lost my trend. You're
50:45
Speaker 1: saying that you're focused on Oh yeah, click tape, So
50:48
Speaker 1: click tape. Just artists that I like, and you know,
50:52
Speaker 1: people that I would like to do music with. And
50:54
Speaker 1: then other artists that I'm introducing, you know, under the
50:58
Speaker 1: Enterprise umbrella, like Homie two MILLI, uh fucking rock g
51:05
Speaker 1: Fo mo Fago, Well mo Fego not really Enterprise click,
51:11
Speaker 1: but I fucked with even heavy Dope up out of Ohio,
51:16
Speaker 1: and you know, different people that I always wanted to
51:19
Speaker 1: do music with. But you know, on my projects, it's like,
51:22
Speaker 1: my shit's so specific to the lifestyle and what I do,
51:27
Speaker 1: like I don't sometimes I just feel like people can't
51:30
Speaker 1: add value to that, even if they give me a
51:32
Speaker 1: hard ass verse, even if they're like super like if
51:34
Speaker 1: you turned down big features because you just didn't see
51:36
Speaker 1: like Yeah, I got a lot of big features that
51:39
Speaker 1: were supposed to go on projects, but it was like
51:42
Speaker 1: it's like, why what are you adding to the project? Yeah?
51:45
Speaker 1: Now it like as far as like monetary game, like
51:50
Speaker 1: it definitely adds that. So you know, we're gonna just
51:53
Speaker 1: start adding that slash with these click tapes. You know,
51:56
Speaker 1: there it is, man, we'll look The New Gangster Girls
51:58
Speaker 1: drops Fridays Thursday Night, Gangster Grills, three tens, G Perikoh,
52:04
Speaker 1: DJ Drama AKA Number one. That's me baby. When's the
52:08
Speaker 1: tour start? March thirtieth. We start in Brooklyn. We started
52:13
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, then we hit in Massachusetts, then Orlando and
52:17
Speaker 1: uh back this way. Yeah, we're getting We're getting all
52:20
Speaker 1: over the place. After that, it's the tours like this.
52:23
Speaker 1: You excited, Hell, yeah, I'm excited. I'm super excited because
52:27
Speaker 1: I love when I get on stage and just bumping
52:30
Speaker 1: the motherfuckers. Like Bro, somebody hit me the other night
52:34
Speaker 1: and I felt him. He was like, Bro, I was
52:36
Speaker 1: about to commit suicide. And it's a real nigga, like
52:39
Speaker 1: a gangster nigga. Bro, I was thinking about committing suicide.
52:42
Speaker 1: Dog and like I was listening to your music and
52:46
Speaker 1: then cause you know, I speak on a lot of
52:48
Speaker 1: shit that I go through and the troubles of the shit,
52:52
Speaker 1: like it's like therapy for me. But he like, Man,
52:55
Speaker 1: I listened to it, then looked at you, bro, and
52:57
Speaker 1: what was like, I didn't do it, you know what
52:58
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So, but then as other people walk up
53:01
Speaker 1: to me, Man, I got through college. I'm a fucking
53:05
Speaker 1: like psychi or whatever the fuck? You know what I'm
53:07
Speaker 1: saying with your music, So just seeing different walks of life,
53:11
Speaker 1: school teachers, fucking other just gangst you, niggas and kids
53:15
Speaker 1: trying to build shit, so you know, being able to
53:18
Speaker 1: see them and touch them and feel that energy. Bro,
53:21
Speaker 1: ain't it's nothing like it? That's fire man. Well listen,
53:25
Speaker 1: Purco appreciate you pulling up new album on the way
53:27
Speaker 1: mixtape Gangst Grills Enterprise Click no more Jewelry, Man, you
53:34
Speaker 1: got enough. It's giant. I got a few other pieces
53:37
Speaker 1: on the web. I bet you do. Jesus Christ, all right,
53:39
Speaker 1: you got to get a bigger Cuman for this motherfucker
53:42
Speaker 1: fool