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Best of full 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 ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Morning everybody, It's the j M V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne
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  Speaker 2: the God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a
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  Speaker 2: special guest.
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  Speaker 1: In the building, Rich dirty Bronx nigga.
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  Speaker 3: Rich Dirty bron.
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  Speaker 4: You know where that inhow came from?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Dirty Bronx Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: You know who called me that.
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  Speaker 5: We were in.
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  Speaker 2: I heart even in Vegas, and I was like, your French.
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  Speaker 2: He was a I was like, damn, I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Is a dirty Bronx nigga. But I was so proud
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  Speaker 2: of him because I didn't see friends come up from
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  Speaker 2: the slums like you know, people talk about where they
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  Speaker 2: came from and and the things that they did. But
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  Speaker 2: 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 3: That's where you would see French. I'm like, damn, you
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  Speaker 3: came a long way too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's all I'm right before.
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  Speaker 4: That, Max was nigga, never ignorant, getting goals accomplished. Right,
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  Speaker 4: It's like Coke Boy's creation of kings everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you already got it prepared. When you have, you're
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  Speaker 1: 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 intro. It's called Dirty Bronx, and you
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  Speaker 2: kind of talk about everything where you came from, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh see see yeah, yeah, you.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about everybody people comparing you to Chings and and
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  Speaker 2: Max with Wave and all that. So I think that's
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the dopest joints on it. Why Max
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  Speaker 2: and Cheese five and what took so damn long French?
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  Speaker 4: I felt like, you know, I needed I needed to
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  Speaker 4: get everything out the way. Then go back to the
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  Speaker 4: mixtape vibes. I feel like the game I always try
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  Speaker 4: to go with a where the puck is going out,
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  Speaker 4: where the pucket is act, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like the game needs mixtapes. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like we lost a lot of you know, it's like
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  Speaker 4: that feelings there. Nomore was like like albums is dope,
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's getting used to it. I feel like the mixsafe games,
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  Speaker 4: just like I want to hear the Wayne mix Saves.
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  Speaker 4: I want to hear Ross Rich Forever mix Safes. I
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  Speaker 4: want to hear you know, wis Kalif for Dropped Orange.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. And I just, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I just want to get back to that vibe and
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  Speaker 4: I want to lead the wave with the mixtapes.
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  Speaker 1: I like how you set the tone with Dirty Bronx.
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  Speaker 6: Why did you feel the need to confront like all
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  Speaker 6: 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. It's like, you know, it's like I learned
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  Speaker 4: from from from eminem you know, the tactics he used.
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  Speaker 4: I learned from you know, Jay when he did four
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  Speaker 4: four four, And I learned from you know, I'm like
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  Speaker 4: a student of the game. So it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this is this is me interviewing myself on my own
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  Speaker 4: albums just in case, you know, cause you got your fans,
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  Speaker 4: but then you also got your haters that listen to
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  Speaker 4: your music. So the haters gonna hear theirselfs in there,
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  Speaker 4: and your fans gonna be right there, like I told you,
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  Speaker 4: So it's like that's the kind of vibe I was
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  Speaker 4: going with.
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  Speaker 5: You know why I ended on five bobcause we do
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  Speaker 5: need more mixing? Is why are you ending it on
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  Speaker 5: five man?
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  Speaker 4: Because I just wanted to give him my all and
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  Speaker 4: just leave it right there. Yeah. Yeah, it just starts
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  Speaker 4: something new. But you never know. You know, jay Z
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  Speaker 4: made the Black album and he backed out it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: so it's like you never know.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a retirement album.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the series, mystic series, What do
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  Speaker 4: you do to.
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  Speaker 1: Make all your money?
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  Speaker 4: French me? Yeah, this hustle. Hustled for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we know you Dirty Brood.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, that was the beauty of Dirty Bronx
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  Speaker 6: because you put a lot of things in perspective. I
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  Speaker 6: think I knew that you was the most screamed African
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  Speaker 6: born ar. Yeah, but I didn't know you had told
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  Speaker 6: them any records.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a million.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like like like one hundred million between Minds and
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  Speaker 4: all the features that I was. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: you figure like Unforgettable alone, it's like thirteen million. So
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  Speaker 4: that's just like that's like by itself. So but I mean, man,
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  Speaker 4: I've been on some big record. My catalog was crazy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what you say on the album, you say people
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  Speaker 6: think it's just your features.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you the main feature.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know you still look at them all
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  Speaker 4: the way ups and you look at like, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, like the Lowyer, Chris Brown and all
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  Speaker 4: those like you know that was part of some big
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  Speaker 4: features and and and you know, like the catalog is. Man,
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  Speaker 4: I still ain't selling you. I'm thinking about selling that
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  Speaker 4: and just buying. Like this building across the street from me,
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  Speaker 4: how much you think your catalog were? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, honestly, I ain't even I didn't even
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  Speaker 4: get there. But I always felt like, you know, if
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  Speaker 4: somebody's trying to buy something from you, then guess you
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  Speaker 4: know then how much money they gonna make and buy
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  Speaker 4: buying to take a loss? You know. I always looked
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  Speaker 4: at it like that.
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  Speaker 3: At one time. Well, if you know French, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when French.
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  Speaker 2: Goes out and he knows you, he's going to invite
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  Speaker 2: you to his party, right, That's who French is as
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  Speaker 2: a person. Like if y'all smoking, y'all smoking together, y'all drink,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna take care of You're gonna make sure you're good.
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  Speaker 2: Then there was one time where you just stopped right,
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  Speaker 2: because you said you had to get back healthy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you stop drinking, you stop smoking. Are you still in
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  Speaker 2: that that phase and the more drinking and smoking off?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, definitely. Man. You know, when you sit across
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  Speaker 4: from like a billionaire or something, you know, as soon
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  Speaker 4: as you take that sip of liquor take that buffer weed, like,
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  Speaker 4: 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. We lost a
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  Speaker 4: lot of money and made a lot of bad business
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  Speaker 4: deals with you know, might have overslept and lost the bag,
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  Speaker 4: might have did this, might have did that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and I got a chance to make some generational wealth
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  Speaker 4: and change generations down, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, let me just focus up
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  Speaker 4: and not 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 artis say that sometimes they feel like that drug
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  Speaker 2: or that alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: Puts them in the right zone. Will you ever fear
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  Speaker 3: for that?
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  Speaker 2: Damn, if I don't drink like I used to, or
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  Speaker 2: I don't smoke that I might not be in the
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  Speaker 2: same zone as I was and making pop that or
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  Speaker 2: you ain't worried about nothing or you know some of
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  Speaker 2: those other records.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I've been popping perks for like ten years, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Oxy's perks. Drinking this twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: It got to the point where I wasn't getting drunk
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  Speaker 4: or high anymore. Right Like now I'm higher than I
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  Speaker 4: was when I was taking the drugs. It's just like
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  Speaker 4: my body just like you know, it's like in shock.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like making music is a passion, is love.
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  Speaker 4: It had nothing to do with drugs, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying. It was just like the drugs kept the
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  Speaker 4: negative shit around me. You know what I'm saying, like
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  Speaker 4: the people I lost people when I stopped doing drugs,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't lose the passion, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, when you drink and you take drugs,
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  Speaker 4: you let you know what I'm saying, You let the
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  Speaker 4: devil in you let you know what I mean. Like
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  Speaker 4: I was inviting everybody, and everybody wasn't inviting me. You
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Everybody everybody, You know, everybody had
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  Speaker 4: motives and some of them had the negative I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't mind helping people that have motives. You know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying that that's how we get our blessings.
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  Speaker 4: But there's people that have motives that have negative motives
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  Speaker 4: towards you. I have anybody to have a positive motive
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  Speaker 4: towards me. So I feel like I was letting the
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  Speaker 4: negative in a positive and that's why things started happening
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  Speaker 4: and this and that.
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  Speaker 6: What about your passion for sleeping with rappers wives? That's
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  Speaker 6: inviting the devil too. French, Huh, come on, you say
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  Speaker 6: on the album.
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  Speaker 1: As we heard you come.
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  Speaker 4: On, that's but that's where hand came from. In the
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  Speaker 4: club and they be like, you know, people try to
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  Speaker 4: do business deals in the middle of the club, and
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  Speaker 4: they're like, so, so, so let me tell you the
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  Speaker 4: story about that. Okay, So me and Drake was first
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  Speaker 4: working on the record another sniper, Yeah, working on the record,
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  Speaker 4: and the first line he said, he was like on
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  Speaker 4: double MG, fucking rapper's wife. He was like, we should
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  Speaker 4: start the ship off like that. Then I just then
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  Speaker 4: I just took it and I just ran with it,
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  Speaker 4: and I just made the first line that.
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  Speaker 1: But what they got to do with doing any in
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  Speaker 1: real life?
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  Speaker 4: Though?
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  Speaker 1: Huh, what do I got to do it?
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  Speaker 4: No? Honestly, I never did another nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Why Okay, okay, no rapper wire, Okay, so just rap
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  Speaker 1: rap that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's right.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: You're also on Dirty Brunch. You talk about buying your block,
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  Speaker 6: but you said that Nipsey. The Nipsey situation made you
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  Speaker 6: made you pause. Yeah, can you elaborate on it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like watching that video with nip
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  Speaker 4: was like one of the most disgusting things I've ever
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  Speaker 4: seen in my life. And I felt like he would
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  Speaker 4: and and all he was trying to do is just
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  Speaker 4: shot change his neighborhood and just bring some some some
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  Speaker 4: great things back and try to buy his block. And
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  Speaker 4: I feel like watching that scared me away from trying
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  Speaker 4: to do the same thing. And and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: because look what happened to chinks. Chanks got shot in Queens.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Look what happened, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to a lot of people that don't have a name,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, a lot of fulling soldiers.
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  Speaker 4: I was just like, you know what, so why come back?
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  Speaker 4: Why come back and do that when I'm just seeing
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  Speaker 4: everybody around me just fall into it.
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  Speaker 3: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you overcome that? Or have you overcome
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  Speaker 1: that I.
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  Speaker 4: Went to Calabasas. I'm still not but I'm still but
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  Speaker 4: I still come back. But just you know, at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, it's just you know, it always comes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they always come from the inside, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So you just gotta be careful how
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  Speaker 4: you you know, how you let people get you know,
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  Speaker 4: get in contact with your touch. You can't be just
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  Speaker 4: easily touched or easily get in contact with easily, so
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  Speaker 4: anybody could pull up on you to do anything to
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  Speaker 4: you. You know what I'm saying. You gotta be able to
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  Speaker 4: be like a hawk on top of the mountain. Just
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  Speaker 4: watch your prey. Whenever you want something, you just go
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  Speaker 4: handle your business and dip. I feel like that's like
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  Speaker 4: that's like that's like advice for anybody that that's making
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  Speaker 4: real money. I got a lot of jealousy that come
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  Speaker 4: from where we come from. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: It should never be a situation where somebody can go
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  Speaker 4: to the to the block and see you at a
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  Speaker 4: store or this and that. When you do you know
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  Speaker 4: some people, well, jay Z said, broken is the one
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  Speaker 4: of those casts.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to kill you with a name. But
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  Speaker 1: even moving to calab Badgies. I mean Pop got got.
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  Speaker 4: In calling no, no, you're not getting through this security.
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  Speaker 4: I live next door to Chris Jenna, next door to
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  Speaker 4: cross the street from j Lose Will Smith down the block.
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  Speaker 4: His kids walking up like you're not gonna get through.
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  Speaker 4: They know about that. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: Pop had no security. Pop had a gun on him.
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  Speaker 4: Pop had the wrong people around him. I was supposed
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  Speaker 4: to meet up a Pop that night. He had a
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  Speaker 4: party at his crib. Yeah, we was supposed to meet up.
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  Speaker 4: I went to the Strip club and after the strip club,
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  Speaker 4: we were supposed to go to his house. Because he
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  Speaker 4: sent everybody the address for the party. You know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, he had and he had put that post
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  Speaker 4: up a couple of hours before and and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: he had no security. And even when I first went
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  Speaker 4: to La when you go to the Hills, it's like
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  Speaker 4: they don't have no no gated communities. It's just like
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  Speaker 4: the fences like the size of your hip. Let me
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  Speaker 4: 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 6: Oh so that's why people had the addy. It wasn't
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  Speaker 6: just that everybody was saying it was a post on this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he would sending addies to us, me and to
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  Speaker 4: everybody else that was there. But yeah, he had posted
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  Speaker 4: the Mary package that was sent to him.
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  Speaker 1: Yikes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they got that right.
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  Speaker 2: See what happened with Drake on al 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 a documentary coming out
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  Speaker 4: in June, and he executive producer, and so we're just
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  Speaker 4: gonna push the records back to them.
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  Speaker 1: Did he have to choose?
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  Speaker 6: Because it felt like, and I'm just listening in the
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  Speaker 6: maca cheese in a way, it felt like I'm like
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: the Kanye epenis.
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  Speaker 1: Was he just on a few records?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 4: I mean me and Kanye was locked in for like
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  Speaker 4: a month.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he had.
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  Speaker 4: He had rented out the hotel for like a month,
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  Speaker 4: and we knocked out a bunch of bunch of records.
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  Speaker 4: And the sound is we was doing like two different
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  Speaker 4: sounds when I was coming in. We was doing the
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: sample vibes and we was doing the you know, the
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: that whole like you know him producing and like the
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: whole graduation sound. But then the new sound he got
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: now it was something that he was working on. So
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, Bro, I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 4: take these records and i'ma just put them on Mac
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  Speaker 4: and Cheese five because Mac and Cheese five got a
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  Speaker 4: certain sound. Even Bryson Taylor. He sent me like this,
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  Speaker 4: this afro beat vibe. I was like, yo, Bro, send
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: me that grimy one. He sent me one. So it
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: was just like a certain sound it was going forth
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  Speaker 4: for MC and Cheese five.
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: What was it like working What was it like working
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: with today's version of Kanye Man?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, when they come to me music, I don't
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: I don't feel like you get too many versions from him.
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: You just get the music, you know. Yeah, I don't
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: feel like you get too many versions from him. I
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: just I feel like he's He's what entertainment is he?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like being so unpredictable is like
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: as entertaining, you know what I'm saying. Not when that
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: shit cost you billions of dollars. Yeah, we spoke about
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: it on the song too. Yeah. I mean, but man,
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: he said I lost. He said I lost eight billions
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  Speaker 4: to get the chains off my neck.
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  Speaker 6: Only to try to put him back, only only to
• 12:34
  Speaker 6: apologize and shy, I'll give you all twenty percent.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: Cut it out, man, I ain't gonna lie. Kanye's on
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  Speaker 4: back and she's five.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Webside. Gun is hard. That's hard.
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  Speaker 4: That's hard.
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  Speaker 6: You also spoke on the Dirty Bronx record about how
• 12:52
  Speaker 6: New York DJs never used to play your music and
• 12:55
  Speaker 6: you had to go down south to get your recognition.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: I talked about that like that exactly what he said,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: had to go down there to get popping chopping down
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  Speaker 2: because you all.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't playing his music.
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  Speaker 6: Say, if you think about the last few people from
• 13:08
  Speaker 6: New York that became big time, New York wasn't really
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  Speaker 6: supporting him like that, Not Nikki, not the Sap model you,
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  Speaker 6: I don't even know. Maybe maybe Cardi because it was
• 13:19
  Speaker 6: a little day supported and they supported.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they supported Cardi after they saw so many
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: artists making without them. They was like, you know what,
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: we gotta pick a side right now. Fifty fifty is
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: another one? Yeah? Hell yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Why is that envy? Why don't New York DJs? Why
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: weren't y'all supporting y'all?
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  Speaker 4: Loan French I supported them, Yeah, I had like the
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: whole Cocaine City era. Then I had my my whole
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  Speaker 4: Max B era. Then I had then I went down
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  Speaker 4: South May chopping down. Then I was like like scorching hot.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Then I then I was like, you know what, New
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: York can't show me no love? Let me go down South.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: Then I made I made Shot Caller after Max B
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: got locked up because I was so much black ball
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: because everybody turned it back on me because Max B
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: was just tearing everybody ass up, and after he got
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: locked up, he just left me with the black ball.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: I was just like, so I just locked in with
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Harry Fraud and we made Shot Caller. It's like I
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: got put into a corner and it was like, yo,
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: is he not gonna fight through this with music? Or
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna just be like you know what used
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: to remember that kid? He used to have mix saves
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: with MAXI. So just like you know, but it took
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: me ten years, like like oh two, I dropped the
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: first Cocaine City, so oh nine, that's when I got signed.
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: People didn't think you serious as a rapper. They remember
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: you was the DVD.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: Guy at first at first, but but the DVDs you know,
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: there was a time when Envy had an artist ref
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Red Cafe. It was a time wh would Clue have
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: fab It was a time where where Greenland cocone. So
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: nobody was letting nobody. So this one guy named Smack
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: came out with the most brilliant ID ever, bringing all
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: the rappers and he was putting Shay Davis on it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: YEP.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I was like, yo, I know all the drug dealers,
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: I know all the rappers. Let me make Cocaine City DVD.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: And I'm putting myself in the middle. How you put
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Shay Davis. People didn't know I was the one making
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Cocaine City DVD. People throw somebody else making it, and
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: they was putting me in it. So by the time
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: the fifth volume came, Acon called to sign me. You
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, because they didn't even know I
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: was the DVD guy. This and that. So but the
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: whole object, the whole time was for me to be
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: a rap star, you know what I'm saying. So I
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: was making the money. We would make Cocaine CITDVD would
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: make thirty thirty thousand copies five dollars apiece. You'd make
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: about quarter million and a half a million dollars and
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: promoting myself. Wow, people was paying Smack fifty thousand dollars
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: to get on Smack DVD every time. I was making
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: three hundred thousand dollars to five hundred thousand every volume,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: and I was putting myself on it. By the time
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: the fifth volume came, it was just like so I
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: was always ahead of myself, like you know, I mean
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: from from like from the beginning.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: So half a million dollars of DVD.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: But you know, you put it right back into it,
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So he was always invested,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: investing for the big picture. So by the time Akon
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: signed me, when he gave you the fake watch, oh
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Man shot Acon. The second watch is fake too, I
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: ain't gonna do that. The a car, but you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: we had a shopping deal. Then after that, the shopping
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: deal didn't work because he had lady got this and
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: that whatever, whatever, it didn't work. But you know, I
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: appreciate Acon just for the for the opportunity. Then after that,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: that's when I got with Max being this and that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: But that's but that's what it was.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: It was Max doing it is because I know there
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: was rumors that he was coming out last year.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he just put coming home on his page. So
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: we all waiting, well, yeah we are.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: How do you introduce Max B back to this era
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of hip hop?
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: He is this era of hip hop? He is the
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: most one of the most viral max Bs like the
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: wave guy, Like, nah, that's a silver surfer. Like remember
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: back then he was he was viral off YouTube. We
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: would just sit there and watch YouTube and just go
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: just go ham. So it's like, you know, it's the
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: same thing, just YouTube in the app.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: I wonder, do you do you feel like you didn't
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: take the DVD thing to the next level because I
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: feel like the next step would have been a website
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: for y'all.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I feel like that wasn't my passion. You
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. You always follow your passion. If
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: that was my passion to make DVDs, I would have
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: been the biggest DVD, biggest blogger or biggest. My passion
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: when I the idea, when I first got it, it was
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: for me to wrap, you know what I'm saying. So
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: I went through them ten volumes of me like sacrificing
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: and you know, going to meet up with people and
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: having somebody interview him and doing all that. I don't
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: want to do that shit just to pull myself in
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: the middle, but I had to sacrifice. I had to
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: get people what they know until they knew me. And
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: once they did that, I was like, Okay, cool, now
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: let's take over this rap thing. I ain't got to
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: call nobody no more to make music. All that was,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: 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 with dev,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I used to see Gucci like once in a while,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: like he would pop up to deb and this and that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: But every time I seen him, it was always loved.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: And he came to my video shoot. Matter of fact,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: when I shot Chopping Down, he just showed up to
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: the video shoot and he came in. It was a vibe.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I wanted to know what how's did he have? You
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: spoke to Diddy? How did he doing? Because I know
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: you and you signed the Diddy at one time.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I spoke. I spoke to him in New Year's
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I spoke to him in New year checked on him.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: He's doing great, for sure.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: You you embraced a lot of young artists from the
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: Bronx too, Like you got shot of them on this project?
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, shot shot the d things, shot the Kenzoshi in
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the back. They both from the Bronx. I got, I
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: got forty one. They're from Brooklyn forty one. Yeah, yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: they're on the album forty one. Jim Carter too, Yeah yeah,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Jim Cardy ye Yeah, they're from Brooklyn. Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: What makes you want to embrace the young generation like that?
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Man? I always looked at myself like the bridge when
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: it comes to the to the music game. I felt
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: like I could always tap in with with the Kanye's,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, the J's or whatever it is,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: and it's still tap back in with it with the
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: pop smokes, the schmurders and do this, do this and that.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I felt like I was always like the bridge in between.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: You know. They go talk about the Bronx right there, they.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Did, they search off, get them some chains. Who is that?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Who? Who is the thing?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, you just signed the recently right yeah?
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah with ten K, they signed a Okay with Cole Boy,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Think boy, How hard is the look in the back?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: How hard did the break of artists.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Man, I think I think the artists gotta want it,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. I think there's no there's
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: no certain structure menu to it. I feel like you
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: just can't have no plan. Be just gotta want it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: You gotta go all out for it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: What's the expectation though, Like, what do you like? What's
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: 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 put with social media.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I'm like, there is none. I feel like, you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, you just gotta you just gotta have that character,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: 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, yeah, let me walk you down.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I saw him in the studio. I'm like, yo, bro,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: there's no other place you should be outside of the
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: studio like that that room, right than in four walls.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: That's your bank, that's your vote. Anywhere out of that room,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: you're no good than nobody, you know what I'm saying.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: He just came home from jail. So like you're out
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: of that room, you're no good because you know, you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: liable to get in trouble, a lot of pole to
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: get caught up with the wrong things, a lotable to
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: be around the wrong things. So I just feel like
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: that room right there, you know what i mean, Like
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: it's gotta make as much music as you can because
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: you never know, you never know when you're gonna make
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: that one record that's 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 see shootouts,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: you didn't see death, you didn't seen so much because
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: if you've been there, but you also do know as
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: part of your music is being there and being able
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: to 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. But but sometimes you get caught up
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: too much in that, you know what I'm saying, Especially
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: if you come home from jail. You want to live
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: the life, You want to do this, do that. I mean,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: it's just when when when things happen to people. They
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: never expected to happen. That's why it happened.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Man, when things happened to people, you never expected it
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to happen. That's why it happened.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Chains would have never wanted to that hookah
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: spot four am in the morning, in the morning by himself,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: if you know what I'm saying. No, he has security.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: He had security.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he had security with him and everything.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Well he got shot. 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. It
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: was four in the morning, leaving a hookah spot, going
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: chasing the joint on the side of the road. Just
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: like you know what I mean. Like he didn't expect
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: that to happen. That's what I'm saying.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Like, you know, so, what's up when when you think
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: about all of the violence that you've seen, were you
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: 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 Grab a chair with.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: The chairs that coming with the chair for d thing,
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: No bro, Because everybody was saying that there was a
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: period it felt like labels were about to back.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: We heard drill music before drill music. Me and Max
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: b We had people with the whole in New York.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, So you don't think drill is a sound,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: It's 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?
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: D think?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: What is drill? Right now?
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: How drill is? Like anybody do it? Like you could
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: just come from college and just had a whole good
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: life and just drill rap now like niggas just do
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: that now. It wasn't like that for me when I
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: was coming. For me, we had to really do shit.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Like but that's the problem though, you know what I'm saying,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Like a lot of rap. Like you saw Fat Joe
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: say ninety his lyrics were live, not this new generation.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: No right he started drilling.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: You can't lock. That's bad. We can't really live. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: really was rapping what I really live?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Do you see? Like you gotta feel like you know what?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I gotta get out the bronxause the Bronx is crazy, the.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Craziest people in America from the Bronx and all of Florida.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Sh is why I'm different now though, get up, go
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: anywhere one now, God to stand.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: What is drill to you?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: To the mi Mi to the mic.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: I feel like, like French, that is a lifestyle thing,
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: like because like I feel like you connect with people
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: through music based off for like like the vibes that
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: they give you in the field that their music gives you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: So like if somebody, like you said, if somebody can't
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: rap in and it's like, you know, this person is
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: in college and they're doing drill rap, it's not really
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: gonna stick as much as you know, like French come
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: out here talking about him growing up through the struggle
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: and ship like.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: It's going to 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
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: has is what gives it the drill?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like people have to live their lyrics though?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: 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 be related able to step to people.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Nigga, because a nigga like me is not gonna jog
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: it now. If I know you did not do nothing
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: before the 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 French could be capping
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: about fucking fucking rappers wife's but that's some relatable ship
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: somebody out there fucking fucking a rapper wife.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Another nigga lifestyle.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, I do that the perfect balance to
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: have with what you call them best friend, that's what. Yeah,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: that's it's a good balance to have her with you though,
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: because I understand like the street part of it, you
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: know what I mean, But you don't. You don't only want.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: To appeal to the street, you know what I mean.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: It's people that look up that will look up to
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: you and that looks looks up to you that it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: not gonna be in the street and still feel like
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: they can do what you do. But not in the
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: street though, because everybody ain't got the heart you have,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And so she's a great
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: balance to what y'all. So what you just said, you
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: don't you don't feel like that. Don't you don't feel
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: like that, do a little bit. It's a star like
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: it's bigger than the streets.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Now I understand, But.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: You feel like you came through it, so you you
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: you only respect what people have been through.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel me, So I don't even care about that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to change my life to. I don't care
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: about none of that period, none of that, no more
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: being met.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And French is the o G.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: You gotta tell him like when you see hip hop
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: under attack the way that it is, you see people
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: getting you know, lyrics brought up in court, like you
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: don't you know, you don't want to be confessing the
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: things on records.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: I had to learn.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they got.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They go with the rico too, That's why you did
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the three.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: 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 4: His man took the gun charge for him, and like
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: they got like they went through like what Big and
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: d Rock went through, like at an early age, and
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: like they already got like a whole documentary and he's
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: not even like.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Early twenties, Like could you learn that lesson? That's beautiful?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: So so what's next for y'all? What's next? What's next
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: for the artists? Because I know usually you do compilation
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: and you you coke.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Boy Boys seven he got he just dropped like two singles.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: I do a video to you too.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, he's moving like, came to my crebit. I
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: love it. Yeah, came to my creb in l A.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I go to sleep, I wake up eight in the morning.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I hear all this noise. I'm like, what's happening, y'all?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Y'all just called the camera guy was shooting the video
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: was eight 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 he always say,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: you did your number change. I'm like, no, nigga, my
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: number record.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: French is on it man eighteen nineteen years baby.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, but they're doing when you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Shooting your video a lot. This song right here is
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: like I had to bring them back, like to the
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: old me a little bit because the way I've been
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: rapping a little bit, I've been trying to change it up.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: People want some like now we need the oldie things back,
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: like like we don't know if he's still got it,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Like we don't know if he's the same, like he changed,
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: So I just hit him, just go crazy one more
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: time to go some freestyles. I went crazy on that song.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: You know they're going jack that like now he really back,
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: will do that like on the block, everybody come outside
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: on the block and everybody with all black diggies.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I didn't say that about everybody though, Yeah, like yo,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: you don't sound like the last recordside.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: Not even the last record like before I went to
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: jail period and now that demon town no more like
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: he changed, bro.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: I didn't go anywhere.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you evolved with then you trying to give.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: Him a new signs. They're like your core fans like
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: they we went to old you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: Than brom But I'm gonnaive it to them. They can't
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: say nothing after this one. After this one, they're gonna say,
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: like he's just like if.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: You're gonna drop a couple of songs and we want.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: The old the one that you just gave him two
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: months ago.
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: It's only two months later.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to evolve it. We'll keep doing that because
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: that's how you grow your audience. You grow bigger you
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: you appeal to other girls and other guys. You know
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like it, don't be scared to to
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: like try different stuff.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how you've had longevity.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Reight ference, yeah, consistent, Yeah, first sound good.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: On any verse.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: He could be a song, a Spanish song, a droll song, afro.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Put me in the box, shot put me in the box.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I took. I took my first chance for unforgettable. That's
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: the biggest record career.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Well that was a risk. You thought that was a chance.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: That sounds like when you hear it people people from
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: the streets, wasn't doing afro bro like what I played
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: it for? Some people that was like you better not
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: put that out.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: It was like I was before that afro wave.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like was that I was like the
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: first person to do it. That's why that's why it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: the biggest afro record to ever come out, and it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: and it's the most stream record to ever come out
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: of New York, out of jay Z, out of out
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: of Nikki, out of the CARDI nobody nobody record stream
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: more than I'm Forgettable because I took a chance with
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: with a sound.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Is that why you shot it in Africa?
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Shot in Africa because it was just like, you know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: like to take it back.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: To you said a lot of his videos in Africa.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, stand up for videos in Africa.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: I said, I'm asking, but yeah, I love to see it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: You know, you shot a light on them, You shot
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: a light on the artist. Yeah, it's a whole backage deal.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I just wanted to different I got.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: He got a record with the Vito coming out, he
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: got drill together. Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: They still got you into the microscope though, friends, because
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: didn't they didn't they search your PJ.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, hell yeah. I mean but it was
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: like the whole coke boy thing.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: They probably.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like you know, and it was in calias, like
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: the Capitol Cocaine damn. Yeah, So they didn't have no reason.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: They just no, they didn't have no reason.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: And you couldn't do nothing nothing about it. God damn.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: I just see the dogs walking up and I'm like
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: it was going on.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah you thought it was funny?
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I have that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, let's get into a record off the album.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Two more questions made in the USA.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: You talk about, you know, just your appreciation for achievment
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: success in America.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: What does that mean you man?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, being born in Africa coming here thirteen, not
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: knowing English is a different hustle than if you're born
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: in born here and used to to the life. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: felt like Madia in the USA is like it's like
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: an immigrant story. It's just coming here with your family
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: and it's like you know, your mother, watching your mother
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: struggle and just and just try to adapt and like
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: adapt to the culture, shock and just come in here,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: especially learning English, not knowing English, but not also just
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: not that trying to do the the worst fucking job
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: you can do, which is rap. So you picked the
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: hardest job. You know what I'm saying. You come right
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: to the mecca of hip hop. You know what I'm saying,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: when when it was hard to make it. You know
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, when you had big pun down the
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: street and you had like you know, so I feel
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: like Madia in the USA is kind of like that
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: was like one of them stories. Like then hustle I'm
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: talking about hustling on there, like literally getting getting crack
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: from my cousin and telling him my mother stole it,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: and I mean my mother seeing it and started crying
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: just so I could sell it and buy my own
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: work and started selling work. And it was just like
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: just like doing little little things like coming up and
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: just like you know, we learned from you know, man
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: shot the Luca. He back there. He been for my
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Black for like twenty years, so he seen the struggle.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: So making it in the USA, you know, it's just
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: it's just it's just something. It's just something. I'm proud
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: 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 7: Say I said, now the body that twenty years later,
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: look what they're doing. That's crazy, bore.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And you don't get enough credit for the community
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: service you do. I mean just around the world. Yeah,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: you donated five hundred canoes, Yeah to my Coco. It's crazy.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: It's like the city is under the waters. It's like
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: I've never been nowhere. It's like that.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: It's like you take it, you take your canoe from
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: like from like the bridge side and it and you
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: like you stay on the canoe for like a half
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: an hour. Then you just approach the city that's all underwater.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Like nah, it's crazy, Like yeah, like half of the
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: half of the cribs under the water. Then like the
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: only like the two floors up and people just nah,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: the living was crazy when I went there. No, it's
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: like I think, like three hund a thousand people. I
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: don't know. I don't know how I got like that,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: but it's one of the wonders of the world. Yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know the history, but it
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: was just a blessing to see that, the blessing to
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: see that I 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, we went yeah for that for Morocco,
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: same thing for the Bronx opened up school program. I mean,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: whenever we get a chance to get we always gonna
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: get back.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: It was true that you said that J Cole was
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: supposed to executive produced.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: My first album. Yeah. J Cole heard my first album
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: in Miami. We was all in Trina House and I
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: was playing for him and he was like, yo, bro
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: let me executive produce it. Then we was on tour
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: with Club Paradise, so with Drake, so we all just
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: jumped on tour. But honestly, part of me was like, yo,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna let him just put his name on it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: But if I'm gonna do an album with J Cole. I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: gonna want Jay Cole to do with me from the beginning,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: so I could benefit from the Jake Cole experience, you
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. I come to him with an
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: album already done, like y'all just slap your name on it.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Who you think you have better chemistry with Cold and Drake.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: I feel like Drake for something like y'all like Stackle
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: one and two, y'all go back and forth.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Drake, Drake my twin man, that's that's my brother. Me
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: and him definitely got better, better chemistry just just because
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: you know, when Drake first came and people didn't really
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: know who he was. He came and you know, the
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: New York and this and that, and we met up
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: and and we met up like again in Miami when
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: I was doing Ross album and we did State scheming
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: and Drake first heard it when Ross played it for him,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: and he was like, Yo, I heard the whole album.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: I want to do this joint, you know what I'm saying,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: And just like we're building out from pop Dad to
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: you know, the whole thing, I felt like like it
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: 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 moment was that was crazy?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Who smash more Cardashians? You a drink?
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Jesus, Christ, Jesus do you want to get into what's you?
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: I mean? Since we got drill in the building, let's
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: go to that forty one so on? Okay, all right, well,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: we appreciate you for joining us, Thank you for having me.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Mac and Cheese five, make sure you
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: get it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: It's out today, be real frail New York in the building.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Wake till answer up in the morning. Breakfast Club