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#670 - Ludacris Talks New Music, Fast & Furious, ATL Rap's 25-Year Run, Being a Radio DJ, DTP Legacy & More · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Butlet cav show where we got a special guest in here.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: It's not very often that we get somebody I could
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: say is a living legend. This is the case today, Man, Ludacris, I.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Want to come to the syndicated people. Man, I want
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: to come to the people that's in one hundred million
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: different markets.
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: Man, that's who I want to do interviews with.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: You know what's crazy, Luda is a little unknown story.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I used to be on the radio at a place
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas called KVG, and I had made the plan
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: to quit, but we had an interview scheduled labor day
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: weekend in twenty twelve, and I hung onto the job
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: for like an extra two weeks just to get the Ludacris.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: Interview over the finish line.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: And that day we did the interview, and then I
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: went on the radio that Sunday.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: And quit on the radio. I love it. You never
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: told me this story. That's a dope story. And he
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: was in Phoenix too, because I Phoenix. Yeah, pimping all
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: over the world area.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Codes as you would say, Yeah, you see what.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: We did there?
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Pro anyway, Man, I'm welcome, dude. I'm glad this here.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like I get excited when you have the music.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Bug. Man, thank you man, you have so much going on. Yeah, Like,
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: I feel like you gotta love it, man, Like humbly speaking,
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: ten albums, and it feels crazy to even say that, right,
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: and it's just being real. There's so many people in
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: the game that you get over the sophomore jinks, even
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: if you get to the sophomore jinks. But to honestly,
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: it be twenty five years in the game, right to
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: have ten albums. You can hear it in my voice, man.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Sometimes been in the game that long, you kind of
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: got to take a break and you really got to
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: become a fan again, because this industry will mess you
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: up with all the you know, the business behind the
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: scenes and how people act and the craziness. It's like
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: I need one of them little men in black, like
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: you know the thing and where they flash you so
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: you could just go back. And all I'm saying is
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: that sometimes you take a break in order to kind
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: of revitalize yourself and really understand what you got in
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: it for as opposed to just putting out music.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: And so I'm back at that point. Man.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: I'm loving I'm loving music. Loving the video aspect. I
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: don't know if you saw.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: It's just vintage MTV.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: I'm like, this is why we like.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: I remember you were like you, and obviously before you
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: a bit was missy, but you were the guy who
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: came in the game and busted two man and just
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: went crazy, and we have all these iconic moments.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: You know, we think. I appreciate that. So that's partly
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: why I wanted to do that pull over video the
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: way that I did it. Man, it's give that nostalgia
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  Speaker 2: and you know, give you some real, real funny, crazy,
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  Speaker 2: ludicrous wild visuals to go along with the brand.
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: It's right on brand.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: I gotta ask you.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: So I bought Timberland's solo album, Tim's Bio as a kid,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: and Fat Rabbit was on that album.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: That was the first commercial success I had.
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: That ended up being on your first album too. But
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: that was the first song. It's like time I had
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: ever even heard you.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: I was like, yo, this guy's and it wasn't even
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: a single like it was on his album Cut, but
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: it was my first time being on an album. I
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: basically pulled it off and promoted it myself. Yeah, so
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: that was this crazy that you say that because that
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: was and that was from me working at the radio station.
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: Timberland came to the radio station in Atlanta and was like,
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: who is this kid? I heard rapping on the radio
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: and Shako was the manager at the time because he
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: was the music director, and I was able to give
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Timberland my demo and from there that's how me getting
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: on this album happened. I'll tell you a crazy story
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: that I haven't really told anybody. I was working at
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  Speaker 2: the station. I was not signed to a contract, so
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: they could have fired me any day. I was the
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: youngest person at the radio station, like eighteen seventeen, eighteen
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: years old. In order to go Timberland was like, I
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: want you to come to Virginia. This is where I'm
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: recording this album. But I need you to come like
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: on random Thursday. I was like, in my mind, I'm like, bro,
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: there's no way I could take off from this station.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: They'll fire me miss the show. I'm gonna miss the show.
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: So I had to tell them and God bless rest
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: in peace. My grandmother said, my grandmother just died. I
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: have to go to the funeral in New York. I
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: used my grandmother to go record Fat Rabbit with Timberland
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: in Virginia and I got off.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: I can't even tell you the amount of times I've
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: used my grandma. Once she had actually died.
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, oh man, I.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: Was like, I could you I could apply this her
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  Speaker 1: dying to a lot of like citr ibo.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: Man, grandma's not doing well. My grandmother would forgive me.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, man, that's exactly what I did.
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  Speaker 2: My rest is history. That is fire.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: So you go to Virginia, you work with Tim. Was
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: there anybody else in the studio at the time? Was
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: it like, because that that was a star studded album,
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: like Jaz was on that album, like.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. I think this was like
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: one of the last ones he was doing for this song.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: So it was me and him engineer, you know, Jimmy Douglass.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: This is world right now. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just so excited.
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: Man. It was my first time. Timlin my favorite producer
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: till this day.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Man.
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: And then next thing, you know, organized noise I did
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: game got switched with him. I was the first rapper
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: on Madden two thousands. Youer, main dupre put me on
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: a video game. It feels crazy because at the time.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: I forget. We got to look that up. We're gonna
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: google that real quick. Madd in two thousand. It was
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: in two thousand. It was John Madden. It was there.
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: You go, yeah, that's crazy. It was before they started playing,
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: so history first rapper to rap on a video game
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: thanks to Jermaine Dupree.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: That is incredible. Man, did Tim try to sign you?
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: He did try to sign me at the time, but
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: I forget what happened with the contract. There was like
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: so much going on at the time to where I
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: just decided to put the album out on my own independently.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: But man, still, obviously I got loved for Tim Lee
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: went on to do roll Out. We did Potion together,
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: which I still perform to this day. One of the
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: hardest instrumentals of all time. Crazy, right, Jesus for to
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: like to stand the test of time, and people still
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: putting that.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Rap on that record too, Like it's still like a
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: go to, like yo put the Potion on.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: When you watched the jay Z documentary and saw that
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: he had passed on it, yep, what were your thoughts, Like,
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: I thank god he passed.
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: You know, it's the thing with artists. You asked any
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: artist a hit song that's out and they're gonna say
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: they passed up on the beat, like it's it happens
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: with every single person. So I've done that before I
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: got to think of what I did that on. But
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: when I saw it, I was just like, that's dope,
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: Like I actually picked and that did a song that
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: was going to jay Z. Because we idolized jay Z
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: every time I was on Death Jam. You know, he
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: was number one on the call sheet, as they could say.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: And so when people say, you know, we had the
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: the hardest era of music, you really think about that.
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: It was me, it was jay Z, it was DMX,
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: it was Eminem, you know what I mean.
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: And it was like.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: Multi platinum every single rap solo artist. And so I'm
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: in the category with these individuals for every award, and
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: I'm losing for the first five years. Every single time,
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: Eminem whooping my ass. Jay Z beat me in every category.
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: But I kept consistent and I stayed at it, and
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: eventually I started winning the damn Awards.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they were taking breaks.
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I just got right, you know,
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: the right time in after year five or six.
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: But after that, it was all the way up.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Do you remember a time like, do you remember any
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: records you passed on her hooks or anything where you
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: were like, oh.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: Damn, you know what's crazy? Go girl, it's your birthday.
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: Open one man. Trey Songs, I think I was. I
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: was supposed to get on that record, and I don't
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: remember exactly what happened, but I messed that up for
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: some reason.
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I was too big.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: Like that was the era where Trey Songs.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: There was like three or four artists that were just
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: doing hooksher records, and it was like Trey.
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: Songs was brutal mars that went on to be a
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: hit song, and it was supposed to happen like that.
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: Fabulous killed the verse. I'm one of those people like
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: I don't really resent or regret anything. It's more of
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: everything happens the way that they're supposed to. So salute
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: to Trey and Fabulous for making that a hit record. Man.
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: She immediately come in the game.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: You've already worked with timbaland, you already got the Timbo
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Co sign. Your breakout first record on the debut album
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: of Southern Hospitality, which is a phar real beat which
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: is a Neptune's beat what like in the heyday of
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: the Neptunes era. That's pretty early in the Neptune.
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  Speaker 3: It was early. That was the last song that I
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: recorded for the album.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: We had to turn the album in like in like
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: a day, and I remember going to Virginia again.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: We went to Virginia. It was me and Shaka.
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: Something the water out there by the way. Oh absolutely,
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: Pharrell put on that beat. I was like, I kind
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: of like it. I go, I go in the damn
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: car and I'll just write within like I'd say, forty
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: five minutes wrote all verses, go back in there, spit it,
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: and Shaka and Pharrell are going crazy, this is it.
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: This is the one. I'm just sitting there like it's cool,
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: Like Oden bowls in there.
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking it's cool.
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: So the answer to to towards that point, I did
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: not realize Southern Hospitality, the Throat and Bow's record was
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: the record that everyone realizes it is today. I did
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: not know it was a hit. I just thought it
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: was another album cut. Well that was that. I was
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: actually the second single, was it? What's Your Fantasy? Was
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: the first thing? Fantasy was the first. Yeah, crazy man. Yeah,
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: what a time, dude. Listen man, history, what is that?
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: In two thousand, two.
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: Thousand, So incog Negro album came out in nineteen ninety nine,
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: I was and that was the end of record. I
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: was the independent record So technically I got ten albums
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: out now, but that was the independent one that I
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: sold on my own. I sold fifty thousand copies at
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: seven dollars a pop, so I had a three hundred
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars check before I was twenty one
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: While you're on the radio, right, while I'm on the radio,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: does your PD have any problems with you? Like I
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: always wondered, like the og radio stories like you're cracking
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: in the city.
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is your PD getting nervous that.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: You might leave?
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: Or is That was the thing? Man?
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: The thing is that they never signed me to a contract.
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: They were at they were tripping when I left, but
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: they didn't know it was gonna happen.
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: So this song is blowing up.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: One of the greatest days of my life is signing
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: my deaf Jam contract knowing I'm about to get a
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: seven figure check. While I was on the air, while
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: commercials are playing, you got like a seven minute timeframe. Yep,
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: somebody brought me my contract. Got you know, my lawyer
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: had already read it over. I'm signing it and just
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: smiling to myself, like, Okay, after this shift, I'm gonna go,
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say I'm putting my two weeks in
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: and I'm out of here, and it's still all love
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: at the station. But to answer again towards your point,
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: they did not sign me to a contract, so they
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: have me every day feeling like I could get fired, right,
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: And I was naive, you know what I mean. I
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: didn't know the business like that. I was the youngest
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: person at the station. I was just happy to be there.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: You get to be on the damn station. You get
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: to go do clubs. I'm getting cash I got. I'm
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: like wilding out here in these streets. Sure, I was
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: having a great time.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Was there any like once you left? Did the station
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: hold it against you a little? Did it take them
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: a while?
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: No?
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: They could embrace you.
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. They could not hold it against me.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: Everyone at this station had a contract for at least
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: a year, right, but me, And they're like, well.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: Chris left, so I don't know if we're gonna be
• 10:41
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• 10:42
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• 10:44
  Speaker 2: was me and Pooon Daddy, and like I said, we
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: were the youngest up at the station. So I think
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: they just they felt like I needed it, and then
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: they realized later that I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: So you're the first artist signed to deaf Jam South,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: which Scarface is the president of. Yes, so there's like
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: this idea of deaf Jam South. It's like this new thing.
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  Speaker 1: And back then you would hear like death Row East
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: or like yeah, you know what I mean? Was it
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: who was like the was it Scarface that initially reached out?
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: Like what was that whole process like getting in again?
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin Lyles and Scarface reached out at the same time.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: But that's another good question because as the as the
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: song is blowing up, I'm starting to get calls from
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: different all the different record companies. Literally I went to Electra,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: I went to Atlantic, I went to Sown and that
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: just kind of you know, sitting me down, taking me
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: through the office. This is gonna be a CEO. This
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: is what we're gonna do for you that radio. And
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: then I went to death Jam. They weren't even offering
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: the most upfront money, but it was just something about
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: death Jam with Kevin Lyles, with scar especially at that
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: time that time. But here's the thing, though, I was
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: the first artist from the South signed to Death Jam.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: They had nothing but a whole bunch of mostly New
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: York artists. So there was a time where we were like,
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: is this going to work? Should we even do this?
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Because do they know how to work a Southern artist?
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it looks good now because it eventually worked out,
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: but at the time we were still risk. I took
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: a risk, but my heart and my spirit told me
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: that's where I needed to be. Plus ll Cool Jay
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: is my hero. He's kind of who inspired me want
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: to rap in the first place. He was the first
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: rap artist signed to.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: We're like, Yo, I'm gonna be the first Southern artist.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: That's what make it happen.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you saw, but twenty five
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: year anniversary, we just did a show in Atlanta called
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: One Music Fest. My management surprised me and had LL
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: cool J come out. I got the rap with LL
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: cool J on stage.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was the first rapper I ever met as
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: a kid or super nice.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was a jewelry store in Arizona. It was cool.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: I had all world.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I had him sign it. I mean the greatest. Yeah,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: shout out to l So he was cool though, Yeah,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: super cool.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah man, that's that's just how he is. Man.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: You gotta love it.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I always wonder when you are in the studio making
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: the song, like, ho, this is one of my favorite songs.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: It's such a brilliant song.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Then somebody else just as this.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead, but just like what is the
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: like like like what is the inspiration behind you writing
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: the song?
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: And like what is the vibe?
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Because no one has written the whole like you really
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: broke down that term right in a very crazy like way, great,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: great question.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Like I was telling you, I was at the radio
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: station at that time, even when I wrote that record,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: So I was wild in the studio at the station
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: sometimes doing that sometimes too, but just just living it
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: and knowing about, you know, being promiscuous in these streets.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: But I also am a fan of comedy. I'm a
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: fan of We were just talking about like silly television,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: so silly ass movies. You know. Coming to America is
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite movies. And this is the end.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: It's crazy stupid shit like that. When you incorporate comedy
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: and stand up comedy, and you incorporate me being a
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: hip hop fan, and you incorporate all of these things together.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: To answer your question about how I come up with
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: that stuff? Where us a whole, It's just combining all
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: of those elements. That's what makes Ludacris Ludacris.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: What is Scarface's reaction to hearing Hope for the first time?
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I just got to I wonder what he's like. Does
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: he got any notice?
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Psyche? So Scarface is one of the greatest rappers of
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: our time in terms of storytelling, he is one of
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: those So when he heard that record, you could tell
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: that he knew I had a little bit of ghetto
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: boys in Scarface DNA, but I just added my Ludacris
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: element to it. So I think that he was proud.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: He was a proud man. It's just proud because he
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: sees me doing something than unique and doing it of
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: my own. And by the way, I come from a
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: background of loving like Red Man was was one of
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: the artists that I really loved, and he kind of
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: had that kind of comedic element. So you think about that,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I am the summation of a lot, all of it,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: of all of it. Yeah, common common Sense is one
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: of my favorites. Red Man, one of my favorites. Snoop
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Dogg of course, who I got to work with. I
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: got to work with all of my heroes.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Man, you you kind of spike the whole sophomore slump
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: thing out of the park with Word of Mouth.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Is you know a classic album? Yeah?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Also the first album I could remember that had a
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: hidden track where you had to get through block on
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: lockdown at the because at the end of it was
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: like the one to Atlanta remix, but it was like
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: two minutes of silence before it kicked in.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: He just reminded me about that we gotta bring well,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I guess we can't bring that back. Yeah, Like if
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: you play stream a song and it's at the end
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: of that song, but there was all.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: The silence at the end, So like I remember, I
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: would have my CD player and I'd be having a
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: fast far fucker to get to the Walk by the Ways,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite records that is Block on Lockdown.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: That's my shit.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Man, You're gonna make me go back and listen to it,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: but no, like for you, man, Like I just remember
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: like Rollout coming out in the video, and it just
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: felt like as much as like your first album was
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: like you arriving, it felt like, oh, this motherfucker's start coming.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Out another great story. This is how you know bouleg
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: kV is good at what he does. He asks questions
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that invoke memories that I don't even know that nobody
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: else asked. So roll Out video before picture it without
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: the big head like without the post effects. We at
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: death Jam in my disturbing the piece. We shot this
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: video and we could not figure out what made it special.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody was like this videos trash, it's nothing. It's literally
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: nothing going on here. When we decided to add the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: element of the big head. It took it from we're
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: about to trash this video too. This is one of
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the best videos that's gonna last and stay ever in
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: people's brains forever. Yeah, so I just had to bring you,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: just brought back that memory that before we had the
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: big Heir roll out video, was he was gonna trash it. Yeah,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: it was bad, that's crazy.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: It was nothing. It was nothing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: It was it to and who did it?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Because that's that's something like ahead of the time of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: editing there.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I want to say. I don't
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I don't remember the director. We gotta look that up,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: but I just remember like the storyline and none of this,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: none of it made any sense. And he was just
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: like I said, it's big ass head to it and
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden it make because it's Ludacris.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, that album has area codes, it's got Saturdays on it,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: it's got move Bitch on it, yeap, move Bitch all time,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Caucasian rap song, whatever wedding you're at, whatever fucking it
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: could be fifty five year old white people.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: They play move Bitch and they sing that ship when
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I perform that record, it's a it's a crime because
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I hold the mic out to the crowd. They paid
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to see me. I don't have to do a damn thing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I it's a crime.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Well, that was the era too, where songs would get
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: banned in the club.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Will You'd be like, like, yo, there'd.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Be records you could like, you couldn't play in the club.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: It'd be like knuck if you buck, that's right, move
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: like I feel like. Move Bitch was kind of one
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of those.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Records people will get killed. Bro, You're a thousand percent right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: You gotta be careful about where you perform it too,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: because fights breakout. Obviously. It was one of those. It
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: still is one of those. It's a beautiful thing. Man.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you to all the fans for ingraining all of
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: these songs in the culture for the last two decades.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Let's keep it moving.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Shout out to our brothers a hard Dean man OTTs family.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Of course, they've been sponsoring the podcast for years now.
• 19:31
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  Speaker 1: to give a shout out to our brothers. I just
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  Speaker 1: tell you, you walk in that thing and the butt tenders
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  Speaker 1: are great. They take care of you immediately. The selection
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• 19:47
  Speaker 1: into that cab, you get into that uber immediately say
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  Speaker 1: take me to Hardean.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Don't know what they're doing, all right?
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  Speaker 1: I was just in town for Raffi's birthday.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Had to pull up. Get right, this.
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  Speaker 2: These are not available, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Shot to them, man, all right, salute to the family.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Follow him on Instagram. Hardean Underscore Las Vegas. Sorry, let's
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: get back to the podcast. What was like for you man?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Like DTP has this historical roster of artists. I mean,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you're you're part of so many people's careers. Back then,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it felt like the like rapper owning a label thing
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: could go one of two ways, Like you could have
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a label and just sign your homies and like hope
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: for the best. But I feel like you and Shaka
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: were signing artist and like the goal was like for
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: them to be bigger than you. You wouldn't mind that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: because I remember CHENI was on Dog Got the Double
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: XL with Chini on the cover.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Over there on the table. Jingy sold more records than
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: me on that Jackpie record on the album I think
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: it was called Jackpot and I had chicken and beer out.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I sold like three million, he had like three and
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: a half. Yeah, he went crazy. It was always the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: goal to sign artists that were gonna be bigger than me.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: You know, Bobby v you know, went platinum, Shauna had,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Shauna had a record, so it's like, like, man, come on, man,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: like that was the goal. We had artists, and all
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: of these artists performed with me on the twenty five year.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Can you tell me I'm a kid from Phoenix?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you think went wrong with the Willy
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: north Pole project? The Connect?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Because I bought like ten copies of that shit?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Man, I don't even know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'd answer that question because I.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Love Willie north Pole, great guy, phenomenal, no album, you
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: know what.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He had the Hood Dreaming record with Bob, but it
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: was damn near like nine months too early before Bob,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: like really.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Cracky, and some of that might be timing, and some
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: of it might be we believe in the artist is
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: disturbing the piece, but ultimately deaf Jam has to distribute
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: it and they have to put the money behind it
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: as well. And so sometimes what our vision is deaf
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Jam doesn't match the vision of what we're trying to do.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: So I would probably say it was a combination of
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: those things.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Can you tell me what's Nate Dog like?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously Nate's one of those guys who.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: The chillest man, the coolest dude on earth. May he
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: rest in peace. I'm the biggest Nate dog fan. I'm
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: so glad I got a chance to work with him
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: numerous times. But I'll tell you, man just laid back
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: all about his work. Smoke, get high as hell, write
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: the verse, you know, write the right his.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Hooks, lay it down and go chill. Some more like us.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: He just chill.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Do you give him the concept for area codes? And
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: does he come up with the hook or I think I.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Think we did.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Me and Jazzy Fay did that, and we was exactly
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: because of the verses were already done, so we knew
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: it was gonna be called area codes. But the way
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: that he broke it down. It was just like he
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: accentuated it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Are you guys in with him? Or is it something
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: he sent over?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Like, because no, he was in there with him. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: brought I came here to La and worked with him,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and then I got on a record of his where
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I had one of my favorite rap lines. I said
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: something about you got a frog in your throat like
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: miss Piggy given head or something like that. Crazy, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: it was on his record. But yeah, man, fun times,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: all fun times. Did anybody feel like you left it? Like?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: What was the area code you felt like you left out?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: The Mostly you would get feedback from the fans.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I got a lot of feedback.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I want to say Hawaii was mad as hell. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: don't know if I said anyway, but it was definitely
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a couple of area codes that were extremely.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Pissed that I left him out.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Can you tell me? Like I was, Like, I was like,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't have ose there at the time,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Like I can be mad at me. The songs called
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: hose in different area codes. For sure, I need ose there, Okay,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Like when do.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: You kind of know it's time? Like like obviously we
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: talked earlier, like when you get the itch to kind
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of like like I guess, kind of get remotivated, but
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: it feels like you're really like super locked in. Is
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: when did when? When is it time for you to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be like, Okay, are you putting movie stuff to the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: side while you're in music mode or you're still trying
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to do both?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Can you do both?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Good question?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: John Singleton may have me try out for Too Fast,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Too Furious. I was on tour with eminem at the time. Man,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I had to disturbing the Peace tour. Yeah, exactly, that was.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: What Anger management.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I went to that tour. I think was Papa Roach
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: on that tour, I think, so, yeah, I was.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I went great memory, I snuck backstage. Exhibit was on
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that tour, so it was King t and uh No
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Sofa Sofia was on the tour.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I was backstage and I had to put
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: these lines on tape to uh to send to John
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Singleton and I got the part. And it's crazy that
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you say that because I was always in the not
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: like I'm not trying to do both at the same time.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Because if I if I'm acting, I want to put
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent into the acting. If I'm doing music.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I want to put one hundred percent into it. I'm
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: not trying to convolute this and water it down. So
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: as long as you use your time wisely when you're shooting,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you shooting. As soon as you've done with that, man,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: you go right back to the music. And that's what
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I did for years, yeah, and still doing. At this point,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: we're supposed to shoot one more fast you know, the finale, finale,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: because the last one was open ended. So I've been
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: in seven Fast and Furious movies, believe it or not.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So is the next one for sure the final one?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: You think final one? I feel like yes for us.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I feel like, just like Jurassic Park, I don't think
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: they'll ever get rid of.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I just feel like, eventually you guys are gonna end
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: up in a time machine and they'll be a fastening
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Furious in the twenties and you guys are gonna be
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: racing fucking buggies and like, yeah, I just feel like, yo, motherfucker's.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Been to space.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeh, that's what I'm saying.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for, like like a Michael Myers Jason Voorh
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: He's like introduction it, like yo, look in the next
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Fast and furious. We're merging a bunch of different univers.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And all of that is like the original cast, or
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: can I say the cast over these last ten we've
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: had a hell of a run. For sure. I feel
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: like they'll bring it back and it'll probably be a new,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: younger cast at some.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Point, almost like I reset the whole ship.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to reset it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I think I think too fast my favorite one, really,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I stopped watching listen five. I gotta be honest with you.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Five is the last one I've.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Watched five and five is not your favorite, the one
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: with the rock in something.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: About the Tyres introduction. I just liked it. I don't know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I just it still felt realistic.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I love that you say that. I mean, I'm in
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: that one. So as long as you didn't pick one
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: that I wasn't in, I'm cool. Get too fast.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I just feel like after five, I was like, I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what's.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Going on here anymore. There you go see.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And then I saw a clip it was like, there's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: like some shit y'all did in space. I saw on
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Twitter and I was just like, what.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: We went into space? Man, I've been there. I've been
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: in space and back. What can I say?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: What do you think is your most slept On album?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Slept On released not released Therapy. My last album, which
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: was Ship was the Day Universal. I think Louli versas
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: slept On. I think Theater of the Mind.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like you was going.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Crazy on that Theater of the Mind one I won
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Grammy for that was released there.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: That was the ship that had to do it for
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: hip hop.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I'll give you that. I'll give you that. I'm with
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: you on that. I would say, Floyd there, Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I like rock skit. It's between Theater of the Mind
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: and and Louli versal for sure.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: When you do the record, I do it for hip
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: hop and Nas and jay Z, Like, do you know
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Nas and jay Z are getting on the song?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely because I got Nas on there first and jay
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Z was the president of Death Jam at the time,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: and I asked to get on there and he was like,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: he kept it for a little while, he didn't say
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: yes right away, and then he just sent me to verse.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I was like, I got one, were you like?
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it for that time.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And yo crazy, that's like I think that's only the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: second time they because I think did the Black Republican
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: record on.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: The NAS album absolutely and it was a DJ Premier beat,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So I kind of knew it's hard for them to
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: turn down the DJ Premiere, but they both work with
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Premiere numerous times. What better way to get NAS and
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: jay Z on a song than to get the DJ
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Premiere to produce it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: You have been known to hop on other people's songs
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and steal the show. What is the time someone's hopped
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: on one of your records where you feel like they
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: got the better of you?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Man? I always tell people this, man Shauna as an artist, like,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I always had to watch myself, Like I knew she
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: was gonna get on the records, like spitting fast and
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: like and having lyrics and annunciation. I always was like,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I gotta watch Shawna. So I feel like I can't.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I got to think of a specific record, but Shawna
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: just femail wise one of the.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I always say she's one of those left on rappers
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: ever crazy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: But I got to think about it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I got to think about when somebody came on my
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: record and absolutely annihilated it or annihilated me. I feel
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: like it's arguable if somebody, I feel like it. I
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: feel like you've done that a lot were you like
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: you steal the show. I appreciate that for sure.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: When you end up on this Justin Bieber baby song,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: obviously Justin Bieber hughes at the time, but he's not,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: but like well like on you like there was like
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a buzz on YouTube like street folks like, but this
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: is the song that like breaks him for show like
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: baby is the first joint. Yeah, And you're like, like,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: how does that because because at that time, you're kind
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of you're you're kind of in the Hollywood space a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: little like.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: A little bit, but still you still have people wondering
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: why I would do a song with like a thirteen
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: year old kid, right, So, you know, I got a
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: lot of backlash. And it's funny because right after I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: didn't embrace them, the entire hip hop community has embraced
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Justin Bieber and the then you know, next thing, you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: he continues to ascend and he's he has this community
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and has this community, and he all of.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: A sudden has everyone.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was like, I never went off of
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: someone's age or you know, like someone's race. I always
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: go off of when I listen to the song if
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I feel it in my heart. And now when I
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: listen to that song, I knew it was a hit record.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: And I just stepped on there and just talked from
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: my point of view of when I was that age
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and next thing, you know, the rest is history.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like that, like like I feel like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: when you get on certain like records in of that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: big do you feel the difference, like, oh, ship, there's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a lot more little kids who like.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, bro, Like, I got two names in
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: these streets. I'm Ludacris and that's the that's the dude
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that's on the song with Justin Bieber. Right. I mean
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that to say that there's a whole other generation of
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: kids that know me from being on that song. Some
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: people will be like, Yo, that's Test from Fast and Furious.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Oh that's Ludacris. Oh that's a that's that's that's lude
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: he was on Justin Bieber's song.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: That's how huge that damn song was.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: You've done conceptual albums throughout your career, obviously Battle the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Sexes we talked about Theater.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Of the Mind.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: The first time I met but let kV.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He was in Phoenix, he was like, I just want
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: to start off and say I don't like your oving
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: battle of the sexist. I was like, okay, but I'm
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: a fan. Did I say that, No, it's something to
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: that effect.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I met you in Vegas first of one of these.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I think we was in. I think we was in. Yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: maybe it was.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't love it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I love I mean, look, look my chicad was cool.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I said it to tell you that I appreciated your honesty.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I still got a gold plaque from this damn album.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't feel a certain way about it. You got
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a big record.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not mad at you, bro. Sometimes you got to
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: speak your mind.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: You know how many radio individuals are scared to speak
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: they mind.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: You gave your opinion. Yeah, everyone has an opinion.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I remember the first time, the first time I met Common,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I told comm and I'm like, yo, you got my
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: six favorite album of all time?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: What did he say?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And he was like six And I was like, yeah, yeah, Resurrection,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it's like six seven for me up by the way,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: before the six he just looked at me like I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: was crazy.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah, that's Bootleg Cat, this is
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Bootleg cab Ladies and gentlemen. That's how he gets down.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: What is the vibe for this new project, because it
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: feels like you are like very much dialed in the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: new Glorilla records dropping Friday.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, he had the luxury of listening to these
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: records early. But man, just that hunger back. Wait till
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: you hear some of these these sixteens and these metaphors
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: and the things that people really want from me, rapping fast,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: rapping slow, the versatility. I feel like when it all
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: goes down, I want to be remembered as the one
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: of the ones that had the multi faceted it approach,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: like I could do anything. MVP that was another record
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I did. Most Valuable Player means when you talk about
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: hit records, you want to talk about verses, You want
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to talk about lyrics, you want to talk about features,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you want to talk about.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Anything hip hop.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: When you put all of those things together, the summation
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: of all Ludacris, all categories, that's what this is. Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like because I feel like you're one
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of the greats of all time?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: But do you feel like because you're ludicrous and you
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: are you have so much personality? I feel like it
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: happens sometimes with Buster and Rymes. Buster and Rhymes is
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest of all time. Yeah, but I
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: feel like sometimes when you have so much personality on records,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: like I feel like you overlook you get overlooked in
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: those conversations.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Thousand percent, and it's like kind of an underdog. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you, man, I wouldn't have
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: any the other way, because that's also what makes me
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: unique and makes me stand out, is having that type
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: of personality. And it always has me keeping that I
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: have something to prove, and I like the essence of
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: always having something to prove. I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: That's what keeps me going. So that competitive nature is
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it, and like I feel
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: like it's just you've had this run as like as
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a person.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Like you, I don't know how I feel like. You've
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: hosted iHeart Awards and you've been at the iHeart Words
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: two years straight doing some shit.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Bro Like that's what I'm saying. I'm so curious of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: a person. I just love trying different things. And when
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I was in radio, that's what might have even gave
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: me the bug to say, let me try and go
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: host this, or let me go try and be on
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: this show, or let me do this because the opportunity
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: presents itself. I'm gonna make sure everybody knows that I'm
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: capable of doing it all when it comes to this
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: entertainment business. And I'm just curious.
• 32:52
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• 34:02
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• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Baby. Let's get back to the podcast.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: So Yo, I remember the first movie that I saw
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you in was Crash, which is a fucking crazy movie.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: They won an Oscar Man Wild Movies.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: That was that your first first movie?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Or was it Too Fast?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Was the first movie? I was in the wash before that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Shout out to DJ Pooh Wash, Yeah, I made an
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: appearance a great yeah with doctor Dre Shout So then
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Too Fast, Too Perious, and then Crash was the was
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: the third one, and everybody did that movie. You see
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: all those A list actors, We all took like less
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: pay because it was an independent album. The cast was
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: insane and there was no budget for the movie, so
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: everybody agreed to take money on the back end and
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: it ended up winning an Oscar. So everybody made the
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: right decision. And that's where I met Lorenz Tate, that's
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: one of my best friends. Crazy.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you feel like do you feel like that?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: That was like the movie that kind of like really
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: because that's a serious movie. That's like that's when I
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: think Motherfuckers was like, Yo, Ludacris could act.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: That's what. That's literally what made me kind of cross
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: over because at that time, if you will remember, it
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: was a lot of actors pissed that anybody in the
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: music industry or rappers got an opportunity just because they
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: were rappers to get a roll. So we were beating
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: out a lot of actors that have done this for
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: all their lives and getting rolls. And so when I
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: did Crash, it was like Okay, I'm accepted into this
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: acting community. They're not mad that I just was a
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: rapper that got an opportunity.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I always wonder because you're one of the guys we
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: always hear we're in La. You know, there's all this
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: conversation about like when La hip hop ran shit, which
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was the nineties with Snoop and Dre and Tupac, and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: then you know, obviously the East Coast had it before then,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: but there's this like Atlanta run that has been happening
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: for the last twenty five years.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: It hasn't stopped.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It hasn't stopped. But you're kind of like you're like
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the first in the first.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Batch outcast man.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: No, no, I'm talking about outcast was like outcast was
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: a thing obviously.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well solo artists absolutely, But I mean just.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: In terms of like I think of like you guys
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: running ship kind of sonically, it was like kind of
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the beginning was like welcome to Atlanta, and then that
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: moved into like Little John and the crunk era, and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: then the ship just hasn't stopped obviously the future.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: But like you, honestly just you just messed me up
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: right there because I'm so humble. I try not to
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: take credit before me. You had Outcasts, you had Goodie Mob,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: you had Parento with Yeah, I mean I got a
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Quimini right there.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's my my third favorite album of all
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: time in terms.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Of solo artist.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: After Outcasts, it wasn't many solo artists like what I'm saying,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: man were making waves. Man, thank you for making me
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: realize this.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Yo, I appreciate. I know I came here for.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: When you're started with. Like I mean, obviously shots are
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Socio Deaf and JD, but.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Absolutely Man, he had Chris Kross and he had other artists,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: but yeah, solo, I had.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: To think, like you kicked off. The twenty five year run.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Of anything has come from this interview.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: We have just two thousand, right to two thousand's your first.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Album thousand, nineteen ninety nine to be complete that that
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: was incog Negro back for the first time was two thousand.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: So if you think about it.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Bootleg keV has just made a revelation.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Wow, when you get the idea from JD to do
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Atlanta.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know we basically strong arm that record and
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: said we're gonna put this on my word of Mouth
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: album at the end, Yeah, exactly because it was hidden track, right,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: And so now this is the anthem for all things Atlanta,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: which we greatly appreciate. There are a bunch of other
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Atlanta anthems, but this is one of them. World Cup
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: coming obviously, we're gonna be a part of all of that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, man, I just thank JD for that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: He was on one.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: You you're obviously the guy who kind of kicks the door,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and I feel like for like this new wave of
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Atlanta artists. And then it kind of pivots into like
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the Trap era, which is like obviously Tip and Gez
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and all that was what was it like kind of
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: coexisting in the city where there's like this BM but
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: you're like, Luda, I feel like I always got positive
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: vibes from you.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I never have negative vibes.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: It's always somebody messing with me. Then I have to
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: respond it's I'm never but I am toy jealous of anyone,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: never in my entire career.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: You're like this crazy force of like just superstardom. And
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: then at the same time, there's like kind of this
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: underground movement of like the Boys in the Hood album
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: comes out by the way, I was on bad Boy,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: but Jeeze's your label mate on Death Jim, what's it
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: like that era being ludicris while the trap shit's bubbling?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I mean the same time. Tell you something I've said
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: this before, like, uh, team one on one, like j
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Z's first album. I know he had a bunch of mixtapes,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: but I was such a fan. Yeah, so I'm I'm
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: loving it. To answer your question, I'm loving it. I was.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I'm a JEZ fan.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, can you tell me.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Thug Motivation one on one? It's a classic album to me.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's de only one of the greatest
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: greatest albums the show.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Geez.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: You guys never kicked the can around about doing just
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: like a fucking Transformers Voltron version of like a OG
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: like like you g Z T I just get together,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: have JD's executive produce it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I know, I know there's been conversations like but nothing
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: has ever come to fruition. I even remember I know
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: GZ and TI I think they were talking about doing
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: something together before. There's been conversations of you know, intot
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: like It's been a lot of that. It's just nothing's
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: ever come to fruition. Yeah, that'd be crazy. It would
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: be me Usher and Lil John and talking about trying
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to make something happen. That'd be crazy.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: John and Luda got to do it again.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: You guys got Lovers and Friends?
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Man, come on, man, yeah, classics?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Did you guys?
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Did you guys ever start?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: You going yeah?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yes, that's what I'm saying. These are too and
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Lovers and Friends. There was never a video to that.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: It still went number one. We never saw a video.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, probably, I mean I feel like, yeah, at a
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: certain point in time, was the biggest song ever.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: It's like number seventeen, biggest song of the century. That's
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: how that song and Jesus Christ crazy on Billboard. What
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: do you think is bigger that? Or Baby? That's actually
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: a good ask question. Baby is bigger on YouTube for sure.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I think it has over a billion views or something
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: like that. Matter of fact, Baby is diamond is yeah, diamond,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: that's a good question. Better be fucking diamond. That's a
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: good question. Bro. Those them things are neck and neck.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Talk about publishing Jesus.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: And then like radio play, I know for a while,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: there hadn't been another song that got played more on
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the radio than Yeah, there was like held the record
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: for a sec.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is now, but that song is. Yeah,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying. That's why, that's why it's one
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: of them century songs. That's a century song. How often
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: do you get those? Not often? Yeah? No, Yeah. So
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: it's like when I do shows now, you gotta think
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: it's people that have been in the game for twenty
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: five years with me. But then you got people that
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: might not have been born when the first album came out,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: and I'll do baby, and then a whole nother section
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: of the crowd is going crazy. Dude, you do have
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: all time Caucasian rap.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Songs, generation generational songs.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about bar Mitzvah's fucking weddings, birthday parties, corporative. Yeah,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: move bitch, something about this like move bitches, like a
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: It's forever.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Live shows is listen.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I will never stop doing live So it's like one
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: of the greatest It's the greatest thing of being an
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: artist in my opinion. Like, I love performing. Somebody paid
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: money to come see me. I'm giving you everything I
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: got on that stage. Man, how everything?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: How cool is it to have a roller coaster at Universal?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Now? It's dope.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: It's supposed to open in a couple of weeks.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Right, because you guys have the like the other version
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: where you like go through and you sit in the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: car and then you guys are on each side.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: But that was got the real joint. That wasn't as exciting.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: It's right here is gonna be exciting?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna pull up?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: And I got to the only problem is every time
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I get on a roller coaster nowadays, I get a headache.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: So I don't know what that's about. My equilibrium is off.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: You're just old man. I get to say, that's what
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thousand percent.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: But I gotta do this one fast and furious ride
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Universal Studios, Ladies and gentlemen, it's what he's talking about. Yeah, No,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: they've been building. It looks crazy. I mean I think
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: it's finished.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: He has done it. That's what I said. In two weeks,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: I believe they gonna debut that thing.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: What is uh?
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You know, when when can we expect this new album?
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: New album before the end of the year?
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah? Dropping singles we just we like to
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: call it getting back in the blood stream. It's been
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: a minute, so we we out here getting back in
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: the blacks stream. We heating up.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Is there anybody who you'd like to work with on
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: this new album or just some newer artists that you
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: are fans of? Obviously you're working with Glow on the
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: new single, but yeah, there are artists that you just
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: are just taking notes of, Like I like what this
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: person's doing.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, let me think about that. Who do I
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: love right now? Definitely love it. I mean I work
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: with Chris Brown before, but would love to work with
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: him again. I love what he's doing in the touring space. Man,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: every every time he goes, it's just something totally crazy.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: But like Don Tolliver, love Don Tolliver in Atlanta, I've
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: worked with. I've done a song with Future for him,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: but I've never had Future on one of my songs
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: that would be dope. So yeah, just to name a few.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: It on a like a Conway the Machine record, like
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: scatter Brand.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you guys might have did that on TV.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I think he did it on He did it on
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: one of the late night shows. I don't know if
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: you were there for it. But what what like that's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: some underground boom back rap ship. What like what brings
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Conway to the machine, to.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Your radar to do a record with?
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: He hit me up. He hit me on it. Man.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: When I had a show one time in Buffalo, New York,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: and I got to meet him and he was saying
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: how much of a fan he was, and I was like,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: bro let's work. And he sent me that record and
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: the rest is history. And j I d Is another
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: one that I love. I've worked with him before too.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I love.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Oh That's dope, extra dope. Yeah, yeah, I love he
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: was styling on records he's called and he deserved that nomination.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: You know, I wish you would have actually for the Grammy.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: He deserved that. Man.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: That album is insane. You're gonna make me go listen
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: to that when I leave you.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Great album, man.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Great album.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Is DTP still, like are you still trying to sign
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: artists or is it? Are you guys kind of just
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: is are you the loan artist on DTP?
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Now we still have artists?
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Something that would be like we'll be announcing some stuff
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: soon and we're still working. Man, It's like we got
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I got songs with Seanna and Chingey. We're gonna start
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: breaking some things out. So again, it's just bringing everything
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: full circle.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Chinky's been on the road's been moving around absolutely.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: One night, I just I was at eleven and eleven
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: we booked Nelly, Chiney was hanging out.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, yo, you doing records.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Saint Louis. They love man, they got love for one
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: another at the end of the day. Yeah, it's all sure.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: There might be a new Chiney album coming on.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Cheeky's working on his album.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: He's not currently signed to DTP, but right now we're
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: working on songs together.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: That's fine still yeah, just because it's love. Yeah, we'll
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: listen new album hopefully before the end of the year.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, pull over video and go stream that is
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: and go check out the video on YouTube. Me and
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Golo Rilla for all the real hustlers twenty twenty six
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: that song, go stream.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: That crazy yeah, man, and one more video on the way.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: For this coming.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: We well, we'll let you know that it's in a second.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: We might have even more records dropping.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: On is the fast Interferio has already filed. Nope, so
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you still in.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Order for this to come out March twenty twenty eight,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Universal has it on their calendar. We got to be
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: shooting by top of next year. Oh so yeah, yeah,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: so we shall see and do we think?
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Like, is everyone coming back together?
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be? I haven't got the script yet, promise.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: I wish I could tell you. I don't want to
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: tell you nothing wrong. I don't want to give you
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: false information.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Is Vin Diesel as cool as he seems?
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Too cool?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: The coolest?
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I met him at a Super Bowl party I was
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: DJ and at and like fuck, I don't even remember
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: what year was, but he was so cool.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Too cool. And by the way, in his off time
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: he'd be in the studio.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: This man probably got over one hundred songs and nobody
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: he sings, He raps, he does it all. Please convince
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: him to put it out.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: He has put some out.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: But what I mean by that is he's a true artist,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: right Like he's behind the scenes making sure scripts and
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: stuff are right, getting his act and stuff right. And
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: just like when he's his mind constantly has to do art.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: He's drawing, he's painting, like he is an artist.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Bro, you gotta love it.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Vin diesel Man, what do you you
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: said your favorite fastest five?
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: That's your favorite? Absolutely? Yeah, go back and look at that,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the way it flows, the screenplay, the dynamic of Dwayne Johnson,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: and then together like everything comes for like that.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: That movie is the best.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: When like those two guys have like a civil war
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Do you feel conflicted because you're cool with both of them,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: we just don't get in it, like that's that's between
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: those two individuals.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Whenever the powerhouses in Hollywood.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but everything is fine now, But when there was
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: that issue, you just let two men kind of you know,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: dupe that out.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Last quick question, I twenty son is popping, destroy Lonely.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I love that he signed a Playboy CARDI he's a fucking.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: He's a beast popping man. I support. I support everything
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: he's doing. Man, I'm so happy to see that. And
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: never in a million years would you think that, like
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: one of my partners, his son would come and do
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: what he's doing right now, because I remember when he
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: was a young kid, and so I just love to
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: see that maturation.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I twenties got one of the greatest tones and voices
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: in hip hop history.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely shout out to Odd got songs with him too,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: new shit, Yeah.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Oh fire, Well listen, Luda. I appreciate you, man. There's
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on. Go ride the fucking
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: roller coaster, Universal Studios.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: You gotta come with me, man, we both got to
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: get a headache.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get a headache together. New single with Glow.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to this, it'll be out. And of
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: course pull Over is out. Videos, crazy crazy new album
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: on the way before the end of the year, sir.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Next time I do an interview, I'll tell you the name.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: We'll figure out a name.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I love to hear it. Man, it's been I see
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the DTP twenty five. It's been twenty five years.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Twenty five years and counting. That is crazy, absolute full
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: circle moments. Man. I just want to say, I'm blessed
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: to be in the game this long and y'all have
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: kept these records alive.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: We're gonna continue to make you proud.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Just legendary run as a label too. Man, you guys
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: have had some incredible love.
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