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INTERVIEW: French Montana Talks 'Mac & Cheese 5,' Bridging The Gap For New Artists, Pop Smoke's Death & More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning.
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Speaker 2: Breakfast Club, Morning everybody, It's the j M V. Jess Hilarious,
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Speaker 2: Charlamagne the God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
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Speaker 2: a special guest in the.
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Speaker 1: Belting Rich, dirty Bronx Nigga rich dirty.
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Speaker 3: You know where that insow came from, right, Dirty Bronx Vegas.
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Speaker 4: You know who called me that we.
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Speaker 2: Were in iHeart in Vegas and I was like, your French.
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Speaker 5: He was a I said, Damn, I'm proud of you.
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Speaker 2: Is a dirty Bronx nigga DNA. But I was so
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Speaker 2: proud of him because I didn't see friends come up
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Speaker 2: from the slums like you know, people talk about where
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Speaker 2: they came from and and the things that they did.
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Speaker 2: But French used to be in the dirty b X clubs,
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Speaker 2: in the dirty Brooklyn clubs and the dirty Queen's clubs,
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Speaker 2: making the DJs play his music, and he was never
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Speaker 2: that was French.
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Speaker 1: That's where you would see French.
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Speaker 5: I'm like, Damn, you came a long way to yeah,
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Speaker 5: that's all.
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Speaker 6: I'm right before that when Max was nigga, never ignorant,
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Speaker 6: getting goals accomplished, right like Boy's creation of kings everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Oh you already got it prepared.
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Speaker 3: When you have.
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Speaker 1: You already prepared, they never need to use this.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of my favorite joints in the album,
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Speaker 2: which is the the intro is called dirty Bronx, and
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Speaker 2: you kind of talk about everything where you came from,
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Speaker 2: everybody talking see yeah, yeah, yeah, you talk about everybody
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Speaker 2: people comparing you the chins and and Max with wave
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Speaker 2: and all that. So I think that's that's one of
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Speaker 2: the dopest joints on it. But why Max and Cheese
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Speaker 2: five and what took so damn long?
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Speaker 4: French?
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Speaker 6: I felt like, you know, I needed, I needed to
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Speaker 6: get everything out the way. Then go back to the
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Speaker 6: mixtape vibes. I feel like the game I always try
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Speaker 6: to go where a where the puck is going out,
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Speaker 6: where the puckets act, you know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 6: I feel like the game needed mixtapes. I feel like
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Speaker 6: we lost a lot of you know, like that feelings.
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Speaker 6: Then almost like you like, albums is dope, everybody's getting
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Speaker 6: used to it. I feel like the mixsafe games, just
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Speaker 6: like I want to hear the Wayne mix Safes. I
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Speaker 6: want to hear Ross Rich Forever mix Safes. I want
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Speaker 6: to hear you know Wis Kalifa dropped Orange.
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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, And.
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Speaker 6: You know, I just want to get back to that
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Speaker 6: vibe and I want to lead the wave with the Mixsafes.
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Speaker 1: I like how you set the tone with Dirty Bronx.
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Speaker 3: Why did you feel the need to confront like all
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Speaker 3: the negativity that's been directed towards.
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Speaker 4: You, Because I wanted to get that out the way
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Speaker 4: so we can focus on the music. You know what
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Speaker 4: I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: It's like, you know, it's like I learned from from
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Speaker 6: from eminem you know, the tactics he used. I learned
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Speaker 6: from you know, Jay when he did four four four,
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Speaker 6: And I learned from you know, I'm like a student
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Speaker 6: of the game. So it's like, you know, this is
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Speaker 6: this is me interviewing myself on my own album, just
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Speaker 6: in case, you know, cause you got your fans, but
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Speaker 6: then you also got your haters that listen to your music.
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Speaker 6: So the haters gonna hear theirself in there and your
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Speaker 6: fans gonna be right there. And I told you so,
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Speaker 6: It's like that's the kind of vibe.
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Speaker 4: I was going with.
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Speaker 1: You know, I ended on five.
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Speaker 7: Do you need more mixing?
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Speaker 8: Is?
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Speaker 7: Why are you ending it?
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Speaker 4: On fire Man because I just wanted to give him
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Speaker 4: my all and just leave it right there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it just starts something new. But you never know.
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Speaker 4: You know, jay Z made the Black album and he
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Speaker 4: backed out it and you know, so it's like you
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Speaker 4: never know.
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Speaker 1: So this is a retirement album at the end of
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Speaker 1: the series series what do you do to make all
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Speaker 1: your money?
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Speaker 4: French me, Yeah, this hustle my husband for a long time.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we know a dirty by the way, that
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Speaker 3: was the beauty of Dirty Bronx because you put a
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Speaker 3: lot of things in perspective. I think I knew that
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Speaker 3: you was the most screamed African born art. Yeah, but
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Speaker 3: I didn't know you had told them any records.
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Speaker 4: Yeah a million.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, like like like one hundred million between minds and
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Speaker 6: all the features that I was. I mean, you figure
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Speaker 6: like Unforgettable alone, it's like thirteen million. So that's just
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Speaker 6: like that's like by itself. So but I mean, man,
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Speaker 6: I've been on some big record. My catalog is crazy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But you say on that album, you say, people think
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Speaker 1: it's just your features. Yeah, you the main feature.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know you still look at them all
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Speaker 6: the way ups and you look at like you know
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Speaker 6: what I'm saying, Like the lawyer Chris Brown and all
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Speaker 6: those like you know, that was part of some big
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Speaker 6: features and and and you know, like the catalog is, man,
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Speaker 6: I still ain't selling you. I'm thinking about selling that
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Speaker 6: and just buying like this building across.
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Speaker 1: The street from me, how much you think your catalog were?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know, honestly, I ain't even
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Speaker 4: I didn't even get there.
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Speaker 6: But I always felt like, you know, if somebody's trying
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Speaker 6: to buy something from you, then guess you know then
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Speaker 6: how much money they gonna make. Ain't no buying, buying,
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Speaker 6: nothing to take a loss. So you know, I always
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Speaker 6: looked at.
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Speaker 4: It like that at one time.
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Speaker 2: Well, if you know French, you know, when French goes
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Speaker 2: out and he knows you, he's going to invite you
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Speaker 2: to his party, right, That's who French is as a person.
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Speaker 2: Like if y'are smoking, y'all smoking together, y'all drinking, you're
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Speaker 2: gonna take care of You're gonna make sure you're good.
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Speaker 5: Then there was one time where.
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Speaker 2: You just stopped right because you said you had to
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Speaker 2: get back healthy. Stop drinking, you stop smoking. Are you
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Speaker 2: still in that that phase? And the more drinking and
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Speaker 2: smoking off.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, definitely. Man.
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Speaker 6: You know, you know when you sit across from like
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Speaker 6: a billionaire or something, you know, as soon as you
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Speaker 6: take that sip of liquor take that buffal weed, like
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Speaker 6: you're already richer than him, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: So I just had to focus up.
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Speaker 6: We lost a lot of money and made a lot
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Speaker 6: of bad business deals with you know, might might have
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Speaker 6: overslept and lost the bags, might have did this, might
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Speaker 6: have did that, you know, and I got a chance
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Speaker 6: to make some generation new wealth and change generations down,
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Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: So I was like, you know, let me just focus
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Speaker 4: up and I leave no bags on the table.
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Speaker 2: Do you have a fear for I know a lot
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Speaker 2: of artists say that sometimes they feel like that drug
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Speaker 2: or that alcohol puts them in the right zone. Will
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Speaker 2: you ever feear for like, damn, if I don't drink
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Speaker 2: like I used to, or I don't smoke that I
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Speaker 2: might not be in the same zone as I was
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Speaker 2: and making pop that or you ain't worried about nothing.
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Speaker 5: Or you know some of those other records.
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Speaker 6: Man, I've been popping perks for like ten years. You
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Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, Oxy's perks drinking this twenty years.
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Speaker 6: It got to the point where I wasn't getting drunk
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Speaker 6: or high anymore. Right Like now I'm higher than I
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Speaker 6: was when I was taking the drugs. It's just like
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Speaker 6: my body is just like you know, it's like in shock.
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Speaker 6: But I feel like making music is a passion, is love.
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Speaker 6: It had nothing to do with drugs, you know what
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Speaker 6: I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: It was just like the drugs kept the negative shit
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Speaker 4: around me. You know what I'm saying, like the people.
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Speaker 6: I lost people when I stopped doing drugs, I didn't
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Speaker 6: lose the passion, you know what I'm saying. Because you know,
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Speaker 6: when you drink and you take drugs, you let you
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Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, You let the devil in you
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Speaker 6: let you know what I mean. Like I was inviting everybody,
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Speaker 6: and everybody wasn't inviting me. You know what I'm saying. Everybody, everybody,
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Speaker 6: you know, everybody had motives and some of them had
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Speaker 6: the negative I mean, I don't mind helping people that
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Speaker 6: have motives, you know what I'm saying, that that's how
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Speaker 6: we get our blessings. But there's people that have motives
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Speaker 6: that have negative motives towards you. I have anybody to
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Speaker 6: have a positive motive towards me. So I feel like
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Speaker 6: I was letting the negative in the positive and that's
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Speaker 6: why things started happening and.
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Speaker 4: This and that.
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Speaker 3: What about your passion for sleeping with rappers wives. That's
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Speaker 3: inviting the devil too?
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Speaker 4: French?
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Speaker 1: Huh, come on, you say on the album we heard
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Speaker 1: you come on and you was another one.
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Speaker 4: That's but that's where hand came from.
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Speaker 6: In the club and they be like, you know, people
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Speaker 6: try to do business deals in the middle of the club.
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Speaker 4: They were like, so, so, so let me tell you
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Speaker 4: the story about that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So.
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Speaker 6: Me and Drake was first working on the record another sniper, Yeah,
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Speaker 6: working on the record, and the first line he said,
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Speaker 6: he was like on double MG, fucking rapper's wife. He
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Speaker 6: was like, we should start the ship off like that.
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Speaker 6: Then I just then I just took it and I
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Speaker 6: just ran with it, and I just made the first
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Speaker 6: line that.
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Speaker 1: But what they got to do with doing an in
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Speaker 1: real life though, huh? What they got to do?
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Speaker 4: Got to do it? No, honestly, I never did another
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Speaker 4: nobody why.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, no rapper wire Okay, So just rap rape.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's right.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, you're also on Dirty Brunch.
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Speaker 3: You talk about buying your block, but you said that Nipsey,
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Speaker 3: the Nipsy situation made you made you pause.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, can you elaborate on it?
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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like watching that video with nip
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Speaker 6: was like one of the most disgusting things I've ever
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Speaker 6: seen in my life. And I felt like he would
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Speaker 6: and and all he was trying to do is just shot,
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Speaker 6: change his neighborhood and just bring some some some great
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Speaker 6: things back and try to buy his block. And I
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Speaker 6: feel like watching that scared me away from trying to
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Speaker 6: do the same thing. And and and you know, because
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Speaker 6: look what happened to Chinks. Chinks got shot in Queens,
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Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. Look what happened, you know,
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Speaker 6: to a lot of people that don't have a name,
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Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, a lot of falling soldiers.
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Speaker 6: I was just like, you know what, so why come back?
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Speaker 6: Why come back and do that when I'm just seeing
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Speaker 6: everybody around me just fall into it.
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Speaker 1: Damn. So how did you overcome that? Or have you
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Speaker 1: overcome that?
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Speaker 4: I went to Calabasas.
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Speaker 6: I'm still not but I'm still but I still come back.
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Speaker 6: But just you know, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 6: it's just you know, it always comes. You know, they
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Speaker 6: always come from the inside, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: So you just gotta be careful how you you know,
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Speaker 6: how you let people get you know, get in contact.
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Speaker 4: With your touch.
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Speaker 6: You can't be just easily touched or easily get in
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Speaker 6: contact with easily so anybody can pull.
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Speaker 4: Up on you to do anything to you. You know
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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. You gotta be able to be like
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Speaker 4: a hawk on top of the mountain. Just watch your prey.
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Speaker 4: Whenever you want something, you just go handle your business
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Speaker 4: and dip.
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Speaker 6: I feel like that's like that's like that's like advice
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Speaker 6: for anybody that that's making real money.
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Speaker 4: I got a lot of jealousy that comes from where
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Speaker 4: we come from. You know what I'm saying. It should
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Speaker 4: never be a situation.
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Speaker 6: Where somebody can go to the to the block and
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Speaker 6: see you at a store or this and that when
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Speaker 6: you you know, some people with jay Z said broken
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Speaker 6: is the one.
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Speaker 4: No cast I just want to kill you.
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Speaker 1: But even moving to Calabadgies, I mean pop got got
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Speaker 1: in calling.
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Speaker 4: No, no, you're not getting through the security.
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Speaker 6: I live next door to Chris Jenna, the next door
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Speaker 6: to cross the street from j Lo because Will Smith
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Speaker 6: down the block, his kids walking up like you're not
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Speaker 6: gonna get through.
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Speaker 4: They know about that.
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Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, Pop had no security.
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Speaker 6: Pop had a gun on him. Pop had the wrong
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Speaker 6: people around him. I was supposed to meet up a
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Speaker 6: Pop that night. He had a party at his crib. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: were supposed to meet up. I went to the Strip club.
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Speaker 6: And after the strip club, we were supposed to go
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Speaker 6: to his house. Because he sent everybody the address for
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Speaker 6: the party. You know what I'm saying he had, And
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Speaker 6: he had put that post up a couple of hours before,
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Speaker 6: and and and you know, he had no security. And
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Speaker 6: even when I first went to La, when you go
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Speaker 6: to the Hills, it's like they don't have no no
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Speaker 6: gator communities. It's just like the fences like the size
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Speaker 6: of the hip.
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Speaker 4: Let me just jump right over them, you know.
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Speaker 1: So he was supposed to have a party that night.
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Speaker 4: That night, he was supposed to have a party.
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Speaker 1: Oh so that's why people had the addy. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: just that everybody was saying it was a post on this.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he would sending addies to us and me and
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Speaker 6: to everybody else that was there. But yeah, he had
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Speaker 6: posted the Mary package that was sent on Yikes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah they got that right.
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Speaker 2: See what happened with Drake on that? Because I know
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Speaker 2: you and Drake made a lot of music, he said
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Speaker 2: on this project.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we did. But we got the documentary coming out in.
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Speaker 6: June, and he executive producer, and so we're just gonna
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Speaker 6: push the records back to them.
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Speaker 1: Did he have to choose?
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Speaker 3: Because it felt like, and I'm just listening to maca
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Speaker 3: cheese in a way, it felt like I'm like the
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Speaker 3: Kanye epenis or he just on a few records.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean me and Kanye was locked in for
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Speaker 4: like a month.
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Speaker 6: Okay, he had he had rented out the hotel for
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Speaker 6: like a month, and we knocked out a bunch of
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Speaker 6: bunch of records. And the sound is we were doing
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Speaker 6: like two different sounds when I was coming in. We
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Speaker 6: were doing the sample vibes and we was doing the
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Speaker 6: you know, the that whole like you know, him producing
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Speaker 6: and like the whole graduation sound. But then the new
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Speaker 6: sound he got now it was something that he was
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Speaker 6: working on. So I was like you know what, Bro,
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna just take these records and I'm just put
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Speaker 6: them on Mac and Cheese five because MC and Cheese
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Speaker 6: five got a certain sound. Even Bryson Taylor, he sent
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Speaker 6: me like this, this AfroB vibe. I was like, yo, Bro,
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Speaker 6: send me that grimy one. He sent me one.
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Speaker 4: So it was just like a certain sound was going
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Speaker 4: for for Mac and Cheese five.
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Speaker 7: Was it like working what was it like working with
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Speaker 7: today's version of Kanye?
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Speaker 4: Man?
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Speaker 6: I mean when they come to me music, I don't
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Speaker 6: I don't feel like you get too many versions from him.
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Speaker 4: You just get the music, you know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't feel like you get too many versions
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Speaker 6: from him. I just I feel like he's He's what
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Speaker 6: entertainment is.
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Speaker 4: He?
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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like being so unpredictable is like
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Speaker 6: as entertaining, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Not when that shit cost you billions of dollars.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we spoke about it on the song too. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I mean, but man, he said I lost. He said
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Speaker 6: I lost eight billions to get the chains off my neck.
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Speaker 3: Only to try to put him back on, only the
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Speaker 3: only to apologize and sh I'll give you all twenty
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Speaker 3: percent cut it.
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Speaker 6: Out man, I ain't gonna lie. Kanye's on back and
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Speaker 6: she's five.
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Speaker 1: Web is hard.
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Speaker 4: That's hard. That's hard.
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Speaker 3: You also spoke on the Dirty Bronx record about how
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Speaker 3: New York DJ's never used to play your music and
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Speaker 3: you had to go down south to get your recognition.
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Speaker 2: I talked about that exactly what he said, to go
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Speaker 2: down there to get popping Chopping Down.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't playing his music.
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Speaker 3: If you think about the last few people from New
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Speaker 3: York that became big time, New York wasn't really supporting
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Speaker 3: them like that, and not Nikki, not the sad you.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Cardi because it was a little dity supported
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Speaker 3: and they supported, I mean they supported Cardi after they
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Speaker 3: saw so many artists making without them.
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Speaker 6: They was like, you know what, we gotta pick a
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Speaker 6: side right now, fifty fifty another one?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Hell yeah?
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Speaker 1: Why is that envy? Why don't New York DJs? Why
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Speaker 1: weren't y'all supporting y'all?
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Speaker 4: French?
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Speaker 5: I supported all them.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I had like the whole Cocaine City era. Then
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Speaker 6: I had my my whole Max b era. Then I
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Speaker 6: had then I went down South May Chopping Down. Then
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Speaker 6: I was like like scorching hot. Then I then I
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Speaker 6: was like, you know what, New York ain't show me
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Speaker 6: no love, let me go down South. Then I made
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Speaker 6: I made Shot Caller after Max B got locked up
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Speaker 6: because I was so much black Ball because everybody turned
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Speaker 6: their back home me because Max B was just tearing
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Speaker 6: everybody ass up. And after he got locked up, he
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Speaker 6: just left me with the black Ball. I was just like,
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Speaker 6: so I just locked in with Harry Fraud and we
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Speaker 6: made Shot Caller. It's like I got put into a
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Speaker 6: corner and it was like, yo, is he not gonna
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Speaker 6: fight through this with music or I'm just gonna just
14:22
Speaker 6: be like you know what used to remember that kid?
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Speaker 6: He used to have Mike saves with Maxaze, So just
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Speaker 6: like you know, but it took me ten years, like
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Speaker 6: like oh two, I dropped the first Cocaine City, so
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Speaker 6: oh nine, that's when I got signed.
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Speaker 1: You didn't take you serious as a rapper because they
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Speaker 1: remember you the DVD guy.
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Speaker 4: At first at first, but but the DVDs.
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Speaker 6: You know, there was a time when Envy had an
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Speaker 6: artist ref rec Cafe. It was a time with Clue
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Speaker 6: Half Fab. It was a time where where Greenland Coconine
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Speaker 6: so nobody was letting nobody. So this one guy named
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Speaker 6: Smack came out with the most brilliant ID ever, bringing
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Speaker 6: all the rappers.
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Speaker 4: And he was putting Shay Davis on it. YEP. I
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Speaker 4: was like, yo, I know all the drug dealers, I
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Speaker 4: know all the rappers.
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Speaker 6: Let me make Cocaine City DVD. And I'm putting myself
15:18
Speaker 6: in the middle. How you put Shay Davis? People didn't
15:20
Speaker 6: know I was only making Cocaine City DVD. People throw
15:22
Speaker 6: somebody else making it, and they was putting me in it.
15:26
Speaker 6: So by the time the fifth volume came, Acon called
15:30
Speaker 6: to sign me. You know what I'm saying, because they
15:32
Speaker 6: didn't even know I was the DVD guy.
15:34
Speaker 4: Was this and that so. But the whole object the
15:37
Speaker 4: whole time was for me to be a rap star,
15:39
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So I was making the money.
15:43
Speaker 6: We would make Cocaine CITDVD would make thirty thirty thousand
15:46
Speaker 6: copies five dollars apiece.
15:48
Speaker 4: You'd make it about quarter million and a half a
15:49
Speaker 4: million dollars and promoting myself.
15:52
Speaker 6: Wow, people was paying Smack fifty thousand dollars to get
15:56
Speaker 6: on Smack DVD.
15:57
Speaker 4: Every time.
15:58
Speaker 6: I was making three hundred thousand dollars to five hundred
16:01
Speaker 6: thousand every volume, and I was pulling myself on it.
16:04
Speaker 4: By the time the fifth volume came.
16:05
Speaker 6: It was just like so I was always ahead of myself,
16:08
Speaker 6: like you know, I mean from from like from the beginning,
16:10
Speaker 6: so by half.
16:11
Speaker 1: A million dollars of DVD, but you know, you put
16:14
Speaker 1: it right.
16:14
Speaker 6: Back into it, you know what I'm saying. So he
16:16
Speaker 6: was always investing, investing for the big picture. So by
16:18
Speaker 6: the time Akon signed me that when he gave you
16:21
Speaker 6: the fake watch, oh Man shop Acon, the second watch
16:26
Speaker 6: is fake too, I ain't gonna do that the Acon,
16:34
Speaker 6: but you know, we had a shopping deal. Then after that,
16:40
Speaker 6: the shopping deal didn't work because he had lady got
16:42
Speaker 6: this and that whatever, whatever, it didn't worked, But you know,
16:44
Speaker 6: I appreciate Acon just for the for the opportunity.
16:47
Speaker 4: Then after that, that's when I got with Max being
16:49
Speaker 4: this and that.
16:49
Speaker 2: But that's but that's what it was, was Max doing
16:52
Speaker 2: it is because I know there was rumors that he
16:54
Speaker 2: was coming out last year.
16:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just put coming home on his page. So
16:56
Speaker 4: we all weighing, well, yeah, we are.
17:00
Speaker 1: How do you introduce Max b back to this era?
17:03
Speaker 4: Of hip hop. He is this era of hip hop.
17:05
Speaker 6: He is the most one of the most viral Max
17:08
Speaker 6: b like the wave gud like nah, that's a silver
17:11
Speaker 6: surfer like Rememn. Back then he was he was viral
17:14
Speaker 6: off YouTube. We would just sit there and watch YouTube
17:18
Speaker 6: and just go just go Ham. So it's like, you know,
17:20
Speaker 6: it's the same thing, just YouTube and in the app.
17:23
Speaker 3: I wonder, do you do you feel like you didn't
17:24
Speaker 3: take the DVD thing to the next level because I
17:26
Speaker 3: feel like the next step would have been a website
17:28
Speaker 3: for y'all.
17:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, But I feel
17:31
Speaker 4: like that wasn't my passion.
17:34
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. You always follow your passion.
17:36
Speaker 6: If that was my passion to make DVDs, I would
17:38
Speaker 6: have been the biggest DVD, biggest blogger, the biggest. But
17:40
Speaker 6: my passion when I the idea, when I first got it,
17:43
Speaker 6: it was for me to wrap, you know what I'm saying.
17:45
Speaker 6: So I went through them ten volumes of me like
17:48
Speaker 6: sacrificing and you know, going to meet up with people
17:51
Speaker 6: and having somebody interview him and doing all that. I
17:52
Speaker 6: don't want to do that shit just to pull myself
17:55
Speaker 6: in the middle. But I had to sacrifice. I had
17:57
Speaker 6: to get people what they know until they knew me.
17:59
Speaker 6: And once they did that, I was like, Okay, cool,
18:01
Speaker 6: now let's take over this rap thing. I ain't got
18:03
Speaker 6: to call nobody no more to make music, all right?
18:05
Speaker 4: That was That was the passion.
18:06
Speaker 1: Her instrumental was Gucci Man in your career.
18:09
Speaker 4: When I went when I went to down South.
18:15
Speaker 6: With Dev, I used to see Gucci like once in
18:20
Speaker 6: a while, like he would pop up to deb and
18:23
Speaker 6: this and that. But every time I seen him, it
18:24
Speaker 6: was always loved. And he came to my video shoot.
18:27
Speaker 6: Matter of fact, when I shot Chopping Down, he just
18:29
Speaker 6: showed up to the video shoot and he came in.
18:31
Speaker 4: It was a vibe.
18:34
Speaker 5: I wanted to know what how's did he have? You
18:36
Speaker 5: spoke to Diddy?
18:37
Speaker 4: How did he doing?
18:38
Speaker 5: Because I know you and you assigned the Diddy at
18:39
Speaker 5: one time.
18:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, I spoke. I spoke to him in New Year's
18:42
Speaker 6: I spoke to him a New Year, check on him.
18:44
Speaker 6: He's doing great for sure.
18:48
Speaker 3: You and you embraced a lot of young artists from
18:51
Speaker 3: the Bronx too, Like you got shot on this project.
18:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, shot shot the d Thanks, shot the kenslosh in
18:58
Speaker 6: the back. They both from the Bronx I got, I
19:00
Speaker 6: Got forty one. They're from Brooklyn one yeah, yeah, they're.
19:03
Speaker 4: On the album forty one.
19:05
Speaker 6: GM Carter Too, Yeah yeah, Jim Cardier yea yeah, they're
19:08
Speaker 6: from Brooklyn.
19:08
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:09
Speaker 1: What makes you want to embrace the young generation like that?
19:12
Speaker 4: Man?
19:12
Speaker 6: I always looked at myself like the bridge when it
19:15
Speaker 6: comes to the to the music game. I felt like
19:17
Speaker 6: I could always tap in with with the Kanyes, you
19:21
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, the J's or whatever it is,
19:23
Speaker 6: and it's still tap back in with it with the
19:26
Speaker 6: pop smokes, the smurders and do this, do this and that.
19:29
Speaker 6: I felt like I was always like the bridge in between.
19:32
Speaker 6: You know, they gonna talk about the Bronx right there?
19:34
Speaker 1: They yet did they search off? Get them some chains?
19:46
Speaker 4: Who is that? Who?
19:46
Speaker 1: Who is it?
19:47
Speaker 4: The thing?
19:48
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, okay, okay. Now you just signed the recently,
19:50
Speaker 1: right yea?
19:50
Speaker 3: Yeah?
19:51
Speaker 1: With ten K, they signed the.
19:54
Speaker 4: Okay with Cole Boys and bok. How hard is not
19:58
Speaker 4: to look in the back?
19:58
Speaker 1: How hard did the break of artists? Ods?
20:03
Speaker 4: Man?
20:04
Speaker 6: I think I think the artists gotta want it, you
20:07
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. I think there's no there's no
20:10
Speaker 6: certain structure menu to it. I feel like you just
20:13
Speaker 6: can't have no plan. Beaders gotta want it, you gotta
20:15
Speaker 6: go all out for it.
20:16
Speaker 1: What's the expectation though, Like, what do you like? What's
20:18
Speaker 1: the expectation for a rapper in two twenty four?
20:22
Speaker 4: I think there is nothing. There's so many. I think
20:26
Speaker 4: there is none.
20:27
Speaker 1: There's so many.
20:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel like you can ye with social media.
20:32
Speaker 6: I'm like, there's none. I feel like, you know, I mean,
20:37
Speaker 6: you just gotta you just gotta have that character, you know.
20:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, those big brother conversations though, like you know, the
20:43
Speaker 2: because I've know whether it's it's recording and spending or
20:48
Speaker 2: being on time and all the stuff that you fucked
20:50
Speaker 2: up with, Do you have those big brother conversations like
20:52
Speaker 2: let me let me walk you down.
20:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know. I saw him in the studio.
20:55
Speaker 6: I'm like, yo, bro, there's no other place you should
20:57
Speaker 6: be outside of the studio like that that room, right
21:00
Speaker 6: than in four walls. That's your bank, that's your vote.
21:03
Speaker 6: Anywhere out of that room, You're no good than nobody.
21:06
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. He just came home from jail,
21:09
Speaker 6: so like you're out of that room, you're no good
21:11
Speaker 6: because you know you're liable to get in trouble with
21:13
Speaker 6: a lot of people, to get caught up with the
21:14
Speaker 6: wrong things, a lotable to be around the wrong things.
21:16
Speaker 6: So I just feel like that room right there, you
21:19
Speaker 6: know what I mean, Like it's got to make as
21:22
Speaker 6: much music as you can because you never know, you
21:25
Speaker 6: never know when you're gonna make that one record that's
21:27
Speaker 6: gonna change your life.
21:28
Speaker 2: Eever, and how do you deal with all this now?
21:29
Speaker 2: Because you've seen everything. I mean, you didn't seen shootouts,
21:32
Speaker 2: you didn't seen death, you didn't seen so much because
21:34
Speaker 2: if you've been there, but you also do know part
21:37
Speaker 2: of your music is being there and being able to
21:39
Speaker 2: write that and wrap that and all that.
21:41
Speaker 4: You know, you know what I'm saying. You're gonna You're
21:43
Speaker 4: gonna do that.
21:43
Speaker 6: But but sometimes you get caught up too much in that,
21:47
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, especially if you come home
21:49
Speaker 6: from jail.
21:50
Speaker 4: You want to live the life, you want to do this,
21:52
Speaker 4: do that.
21:52
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just when when when things happen to
21:55
Speaker 6: people they never expected to happen, That's why it happened.
21:58
Speaker 3: Man, When things happened to people you never expected it
22:02
Speaker 3: to happen. That's why it happened.
22:03
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
22:05
Speaker 6: Chaks would have never wanted to that hookah spot four
22:08
Speaker 6: am in the morning, man in the morning by himself,
22:11
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
22:11
Speaker 4: No, he has security. He had security. Yeah, he had
22:15
Speaker 4: security with him and everything.
22:17
Speaker 1: Well, you got shot.
22:18
Speaker 5: It was in the car.
22:19
Speaker 4: So I mean he got shot six times in the car.
22:21
Speaker 4: He has he has security with him and everything.
22:23
Speaker 6: It was four in the morning, leaving a hookah spot,
22:25
Speaker 6: going chasing the joint on the side of the road.
22:28
Speaker 4: It just like, you know what I mean, Like he
22:29
Speaker 4: didn't expect that to happen. That's what I'm saying.
22:31
Speaker 3: Like, you know, so what's up when when you think
22:33
Speaker 3: about all of the violence that you've seen, were you
22:35
Speaker 3: afraid to sign drill rappers?
22:40
Speaker 4: I don't know. We was drilled before the drill were
22:45
Speaker 4: the original drug.
22:46
Speaker 3: Grab a chair with the chairs that coming chair for
22:48
Speaker 3: d thing, No, bro, because everybody was saying like there
22:53
Speaker 3: was a period it felt like labels were about to back.
22:55
Speaker 6: We heard drill music before drill music. Me and Max
22:58
Speaker 6: b we had people the whole in New York.
23:00
Speaker 4: Yeah.
23:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you don't think drill is a sound. It's
23:02
Speaker 1: just a it's a lifestyle energy.
23:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chicago is like that.
23:07
Speaker 1: So what what is drill? D think? What is drill?
23:10
Speaker 1: Right now?
23:12
Speaker 9: How drill is like anybody do it?
23:13
Speaker 10: Like you can just come from college and just had
23:16
Speaker 10: a whole good life and just drill rap now like
23:18
Speaker 10: niggas just do that now.
23:19
Speaker 9: It wasn't like that for me when I was coming.
23:21
Speaker 9: For me, we had to really do shit.
23:22
Speaker 3: Like but that's the problem though, you know what I'm saying,
23:26
Speaker 3: Like a lot of rap. Like you saw Pat Joe
23:28
Speaker 3: say nine his lyrics were live, not this new generation.
23:32
Speaker 4: No right he started drilling.
23:36
Speaker 9: You can't lock. That's bad. We can't really live. I
23:40
Speaker 9: really was rapping what I really lived?
23:42
Speaker 5: Do you seem like you gotta feel like you know what?
23:44
Speaker 5: I gotta get out the Bronx and the Bronx crazy.
23:47
Speaker 1: The craziest people in America from the Bronx and all
23:49
Speaker 1: the Florida is.
23:51
Speaker 9: Why I'm different now though, to get up go anywhere
23:56
Speaker 9: one now?
23:56
Speaker 7: Got it?
23:56
Speaker 3: Sad?
23:58
Speaker 4: Now?
23:58
Speaker 1: Kids? What is drill to you?
24:01
Speaker 4: To MI?
24:02
Speaker 8: To the mic, I feel like, like French, that is
24:05
Speaker 8: a lifestyle thing like because like I feel like you
24:09
Speaker 8: connect with people through music based off like like the
24:13
Speaker 8: vibes that they give you in the field that their
24:16
Speaker 8: music gives you. So like if somebody, like you said,
24:18
Speaker 8: if somebody can't rap in and it's like, you know,
24:21
Speaker 8: this person is in college and they're doing drill rap,
24:23
Speaker 8: it's not really gonna stick as much as you know,
24:26
Speaker 8: like French come out here talking about him growing up
24:30
Speaker 8: through the struggle and ship like it's gonna be more relatable.
24:34
Speaker 8: I feel like, like he said, I don't know about that,
24:37
Speaker 8: but I feel about I feel like it's like a
24:41
Speaker 8: lifestyle thing is like what you talk about, and like
24:45
Speaker 8: what type of vibe and energy here song or music
24:49
Speaker 8: has is what gives it to drill?
24:51
Speaker 3: Do you feel like people have to live their lyrics though,
24:52
Speaker 3: because I want you all to lie, I don't want it.
24:54
Speaker 8: I feel like I feel like, yes, you know, because
24:58
Speaker 8: your music has to.
24:59
Speaker 10: Be related to step to people because a nigga like
25:02
Speaker 10: me is not gonna jogg it now.
25:04
Speaker 9: If I know you did not do nothing before the
25:06
Speaker 9: whole world you got the whole world hype.
25:10
Speaker 8: You thinking about it in like a like a doing
25:13
Speaker 8: on something like how you said fresh could be capping
25:15
Speaker 8: about fucking, fucking rappers wife's.
25:17
Speaker 1: But that's some relatable ship.
25:19
Speaker 8: Somebody out there fucking sucking a.
25:20
Speaker 7: Rapper wife.
25:23
Speaker 9: Another nigga lifestyle.
25:25
Speaker 11: I'm just saying, I never do that. The perfect balance
25:29
Speaker 11: to have with which you call them best friends. Yeah,
25:32
Speaker 11: that's that's a good balance to have her with you, though,
25:33
Speaker 11: because I understand like the street part of it, you know.
25:36
Speaker 10: What I mean.
25:37
Speaker 7: But you don't. You don't only want to appeal to
25:39
Speaker 7: the street, you know what I mean.
25:40
Speaker 11: It's people that look up that will look up to
25:42
Speaker 11: you and that looks looks up to you. That it's
25:45
Speaker 11: not gonna be in the street and still feel like
25:46
Speaker 11: they can do what you do. But not in the
25:49
Speaker 11: street though, because everybody ain't got the heart you have,
25:51
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. And so she's a great
25:53
Speaker 11: balance to what y'all. So what you just said, you
25:56
Speaker 11: don't you don't.
25:57
Speaker 7: Feel like that, don't be you don't feel like that,
26:00
Speaker 7: do a little bit. It's a star like it's bigger
26:06
Speaker 7: than the streets.
26:07
Speaker 9: Now, I understand, but.
26:08
Speaker 5: You feel like you been through it, so you you
26:10
Speaker 5: you only respect what people have been through.
26:12
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel me, So I don't even care about that.
26:14
Speaker 10: I'm trying to change my life to I don't care
26:15
Speaker 10: about none of that period, none of that, no more,
26:19
Speaker 10: just being meat.
26:20
Speaker 1: And French is the o G.
26:21
Speaker 3: You gotta tell him like when you see hip hop
26:23
Speaker 3: under attack the way that it is, you see people
26:25
Speaker 3: getting you know, lyrics brought up in court, like you
26:29
Speaker 3: don't you know, you don't want to be confessing the
26:31
Speaker 3: things on records I had to learn.
26:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had with the Rico too, what that's.
26:39
Speaker 1: Why you did the three?
26:44
Speaker 9: I was about to come home?
26:45
Speaker 4: They went, they went through what I'm going through an
26:48
Speaker 4: early age. He got a crazy story because he got
26:51
Speaker 4: his story even with the group that he was with.
26:53
Speaker 6: His man took the gun charge for him, and like
26:55
Speaker 6: they got like they went through like what Big and
26:57
Speaker 6: d Rock went through, like at an early age, and
26:59
Speaker 6: like they already got like a whole documentary. And he's
27:02
Speaker 6: not even like he's early twenties.
27:07
Speaker 1: How could you learn that lesson? That's beautiful?
27:10
Speaker 5: So so what's next for y'all? What's next?
27:11
Speaker 4: What's next for the artists?
27:13
Speaker 5: Because I know usually you do compilation and you you
27:15
Speaker 5: Coke Boy.
27:16
Speaker 6: Go Boys seven he got he just dropped like two singles.
27:19
Speaker 6: I do a video to you too, Yes, No, he's
27:24
Speaker 6: moving like, came to my crebit love it, Yeah, came
27:28
Speaker 6: to my creb in l A. I go to sleep,
27:30
Speaker 6: I wake up eight in the morning. I hear all
27:31
Speaker 6: this noise. I'm like, what's happening y'all? Y'all just called
27:34
Speaker 6: the camera guy was shooting the video. It was eight
27:36
Speaker 6: in the morning.
27:36
Speaker 2: French was one of those guys they caught me at
27:38
Speaker 2: six o'clock in the morning about records in your records
27:41
Speaker 2: and your records. Every every couple of weeks, three weeks,
27:43
Speaker 2: four weeks, French is gonna hit me. And you always say,
27:46
Speaker 2: did your number change? I'm like, no, nigga, my number record.
27:50
Speaker 7: French is on it man Ken eighteen nineteen.
27:56
Speaker 10: Years baby, Yes, but they're doing when you shooting your
28:01
Speaker 10: video at this song right here is like I had
28:04
Speaker 10: to bring them back, like to the old me a
28:06
Speaker 10: little bit because the way I've been rapping a little
28:08
Speaker 10: but I've been trying to change it up and people
28:10
Speaker 10: want some like now we need the oldie things back,
28:12
Speaker 10: like like we don't know if he still got it,
28:14
Speaker 10: Like we don't know if he's the same like he changed.
28:17
Speaker 10: So I just had him just go crazy one more
28:18
Speaker 10: time to go some freestyles. I went crazy on that song.
28:21
Speaker 10: You know they're going jack that, like now he really back?
28:23
Speaker 10: Well do that like on the block, everybody come outside
28:27
Speaker 10: on the block and everybody with all black diggies.
28:29
Speaker 4: I didn't say that about everybody at all. Yeah, like, Yo,
28:32
Speaker 4: you don't sound like the last record, not even the.
28:36
Speaker 10: Last record like before I went to jail period and
28:38
Speaker 10: now that demon town no more.
28:40
Speaker 7: Like he changed, Bro, I didn't go anywhere. Yeah, you
28:44
Speaker 7: evolved with then you.
28:45
Speaker 9: Try to give him a new sign.
28:46
Speaker 8: They're like your core fans like they want to old.
28:49
Speaker 9: You than Bro.
28:51
Speaker 10: I'm like, but I'm gonna give it to them. They
28:53
Speaker 10: can't say not after this one, after this one, they're
28:55
Speaker 10: gonna say, like he's just like if.
28:57
Speaker 3: You're gonna drop a couple of songs, and we went
28:59
Speaker 3: to old the one that you just gave him two
29:02
Speaker 3: months ago, it's only two months later.
29:06
Speaker 7: I'm trying to evolve it. We'll keep doing that because
29:10
Speaker 7: that's how you grow your audience. You grow bigger you.
29:12
Speaker 7: You appeal to other girls and other guys. You know
29:15
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like it don't be scared to to
29:19
Speaker 7: like try different stuff.
29:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how you've had longevity, right ference, Yeah, consistent, Yeah,
29:27
Speaker 3: first sound good on.
29:28
Speaker 12: Any you could be a reggae song, a Spanish song,
29:32
Speaker 12: a d song, afro in the box, put me.
29:38
Speaker 6: In the box, I took. I took my first chance
29:40
Speaker 6: for Unforgettable. That's the biggest record.
29:43
Speaker 1: Well that was a risk. You thought that was a
29:46
Speaker 1: chance that sounds like.
29:50
Speaker 4: People people from the streets. Wasn't doing afro bro like
29:54
Speaker 4: what I played it for some people that were like,
29:55
Speaker 4: you better not put that out.
29:57
Speaker 5: It was like before that afroweight.
30:00
Speaker 6: I was like, was that was like the first person
30:03
Speaker 6: to do it. That's why that's why it's the biggest
30:06
Speaker 6: afro record to ever come out, and it's and it's
30:08
Speaker 6: the most stream record to ever come out of New York,
30:12
Speaker 6: out of jay Z, out of out of Nikki, out
30:14
Speaker 6: of the CARDI nobody, nobody record stream more than I'm Forgettable.
30:18
Speaker 4: Because I took a chance with it with a sound.
30:21
Speaker 7: Is that why Africa?
30:23
Speaker 1: Yeah?
30:23
Speaker 4: Shot in Africa because it was just like, you know,
30:25
Speaker 4: like to take it back.
30:26
Speaker 1: To you said a lot of his videos in Africa. Yeah,
30:33
Speaker 1: stand up for shooting videos.
30:35
Speaker 11: In Africa, I said, I ask, But yeah, I love
30:43
Speaker 11: to see it, you know, you shot a light on them,
30:45
Speaker 11: you shot a light on the artist.
30:47
Speaker 7: It's a whole baggage deal.
30:49
Speaker 1: I just wanted to different.
30:52
Speaker 4: He got a record with the Vito coming out, he
30:53
Speaker 4: got drill. Yeah.
31:00
Speaker 3: They still got you under the microscope, though, friends, because
31:02
Speaker 3: didn't they didn't they search your PJ.
31:04
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, hell yeah. I mean but it was
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Speaker 4: like the whole Cooke Boy thing. They probably googled, yeah,
31:15
Speaker 4: like you know, and it was in calias like the
31:17
Speaker 4: Capitol Cocaine damn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So they didn't have no reason.
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Speaker 4: They just no, they didn't have no reason, and you
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Speaker 4: couldn't do nothing nothing about it.
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Speaker 1: God damn.
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Speaker 4: I just see the dogs walking up and I'm like
31:29
Speaker 4: it was going on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you thought it was funny?
31:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I have that.
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Speaker 5: Hell yeah, let's get into a record off the album.
31:41
Speaker 1: Two more questions made in the USA.
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Speaker 3: You talk about, you know, just your appreciation for achieving
31:47
Speaker 3: success in America.
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Speaker 4: What does that mean you man?
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Speaker 6: I mean being born in Africa coming here at thirteen
31:53
Speaker 6: not knowing English is a different hustle than if you're
31:56
Speaker 6: born in born here and used to to the life.
31:59
Speaker 6: I felt like Mada in the USA is like it's
32:01
Speaker 6: like an immigrant story. It's just coming here with your family,
32:05
Speaker 6: and it's like you know, your mother, watching your mother
32:07
Speaker 6: struggle and just and just try to adapt and like
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Speaker 6: adapt to the culture shocks and just come in here,
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Speaker 6: especially learning English, not knowing English, but not also just
32:18
Speaker 6: not that trying to do the the worst fucking job
32:22
Speaker 6: you can do, which is rap. So you picked the
32:24
Speaker 6: hardest job, you know what I'm saying. You come right
32:26
Speaker 6: to the mecca of hip hop. You know what I'm saying.
32:29
Speaker 6: When when it was hard to make it, you know
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Speaker 6: what I'm saying, When you had big pun down the
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Speaker 6: street and you had like you know, so I feel
32:36
Speaker 6: like Madia in the USA is kind of like that
32:38
Speaker 6: was like one of them stories. Like then hustle I'm
32:40
Speaker 6: talking about hustling on there, like literally getting getting crack
32:45
Speaker 6: from my cousin and telling him my mother stole it
32:48
Speaker 6: and my I mean my mother seen it and started
32:50
Speaker 6: crying just so I could sell it and buy my
32:52
Speaker 6: own work and started selling work. And it was just
32:54
Speaker 6: like just like doing little little things like coming up
32:57
Speaker 6: and just like you know, we learned from no man
33:01
Speaker 6: shot the luc out.
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Speaker 4: He back there.
33:02
Speaker 6: He been from my block for like twenty years, so
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Speaker 6: he's seen the struggle. So making it in the USA,
33:07
Speaker 6: you know, it's just it's just it's just something.
33:10
Speaker 4: It's just something. I'm proud of you.
33:12
Speaker 1: Also, you know, they don't give you enough credit for
33:14
Speaker 1: the community.
33:15
Speaker 9: Say I said, now they body that twenty years later.
33:17
Speaker 9: Look what they're doing. That's crazy.
33:19
Speaker 3: Bo. Yeah, and you don't get enough credit for the
33:22
Speaker 3: community service you do. I mean just around the world.
33:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, you donated five hundred canoes.
33:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, to to my Coco. It's crazy. It's like the
33:30
Speaker 6: city is under the waters. It's like I've never been nowhere.
33:33
Speaker 4: It's like that.
33:34
Speaker 6: It's like you take you take your canoe from like
33:37
Speaker 6: from like the bridge side and it and you like
33:40
Speaker 6: you stay on the canoe for like a half an hour.
33:42
Speaker 6: Then you just approach the city that's all underwater. Like nah,
33:46
Speaker 6: it's crazy. Like yeah, like half of the half of
33:49
Speaker 6: the cribs under the water. Then like the only like
33:51
Speaker 6: the two floors up and people just nah. The living
33:54
Speaker 6: was crazy when I went there. No, I'm it's like
33:59
Speaker 6: I think, like three thousand people.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know how I got like that,
34:03
Speaker 4: But it's one of them wonders of the world. Yeah,
34:10
Speaker 4: I don't know.
34:11
Speaker 6: I don't know the history, but it was just a
34:12
Speaker 6: blessing to see that, the blessing to see that I
34:14
Speaker 6: can help the same thing with you, Guana.
34:16
Speaker 4: We went and opened up a hospital over there. Same
34:19
Speaker 4: thing with Morocco went.
34:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah for that for Morocco, same thing for the
34:24
Speaker 6: Bronx opened up school program. I mean, whenever we get
34:26
Speaker 6: a chance to get we always gonna get back.
34:29
Speaker 1: It was true that you said that j Cole was
34:32
Speaker 1: supposed to executive produce.
34:33
Speaker 4: My first album. Yeah.
34:35
Speaker 6: J Cole heard my first album in Miami. We was
34:38
Speaker 6: all in Trina House and I was playing for him
34:41
Speaker 6: and he was like, yo, bro let me executive produce it.
34:45
Speaker 6: Then we was on tour with Club Paradise sold with Drake,
34:48
Speaker 6: so we all just jumped on tour. But honestly, part
34:53
Speaker 6: of me was like, Yo, I'm gonna let him just
34:54
Speaker 6: put his name on it. But if I'm gonna do
34:56
Speaker 6: an album with j Cole, I'm gonna want Jay Cole
34:58
Speaker 6: to do with me from the beginning, so I could
35:00
Speaker 6: benefit from the Jake Cole experience. You know what I'm saying.
35:04
Speaker 6: I come to him with an album already done, like
35:05
Speaker 6: y'o just slap your name on it.
35:07
Speaker 1: Who you think?
35:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, better chemistry would cold Drake. I feel like Drake
35:10
Speaker 3: for somebody like y'all like Snapper one and two, y'all
35:12
Speaker 3: go back and forth.
35:13
Speaker 4: Drake. Now Drake my twin man, that's that's my bro.
35:16
Speaker 6: Me and him definitely got better, better chemistry just just
35:19
Speaker 6: because you know, when Drake first came and people didn't
35:23
Speaker 6: really know who he was. He came and you know,
35:26
Speaker 6: in New York and this and that, and we met
35:28
Speaker 6: up and and we met up like again in Miami
35:31
Speaker 6: when I was doing Ross album and we did State Schemen,
35:36
Speaker 6: and Drake first heard it when Ross played it for him,
35:39
Speaker 6: and he was like, Yo, I heard the whole album.
35:41
Speaker 6: I want to do this joint, you know what I'm saying.
35:44
Speaker 6: And just like we're building out from pop Dad to
35:47
Speaker 6: you know, the whole thing. I felt like like it
35:49
Speaker 6: was it was more natural.
35:51
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's too Drake's best versus.
35:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely it was. It was it was moments, you
35:59
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. It was was that was crazy.
36:00
Speaker 1: Who smash more Cardashians?
36:02
Speaker 4: You a drink?
36:02
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, Okay, Jesus, do you want to get into
36:11
Speaker 5: what's you want?
36:12
Speaker 4: I mean, since we got drill in the building, let's
36:15
Speaker 4: go to that forty one.
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Speaker 5: So okay, all right, well, we appreciate you for joining us,
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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. Ladies and gentlemen, Mac and
36:21
Speaker 5: Cheese five, make sure you get it.
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Speaker 4: It's out today, knob Real Forreil, New York. In the building,
36:28
Speaker 4: wake that ans up in the morning. The Breakfast Club