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#4 - Mozzy · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We own a motherfuck a bootleg care podcast. We own
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  Speaker 1: a motherfucking boot lig care podcast. That's right, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome, Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, got a shout out everybody who's showing
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  Speaker 1: us love. Man salute episode number four. If you missed
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  Speaker 1: episode number three. I really didn't do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: promoting of episode number three, but it's doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to shout out everybody who showed love to
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  Speaker 1: episode number three, which was not an interview based episode.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a me and my boy Wheck shooting
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  Speaker 1: the shit, my best friend talking hip hop, talking current events, etc.
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  Speaker 1: You could go check that out if you didn't. So,
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  Speaker 1: I have been in quarantine for like three weeks with
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  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. If you've been listening, you know I got
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  Speaker 1: the COVID. I feel better as I sniffle, I do
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  Speaker 1: feel better. I don't have any symptoms, so I went
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  Speaker 1: and got retest yesterday. Unfortunately, because I've I've been quarantined up,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been able to record any new episodes whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do as many in person as possible
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  Speaker 1: before we start going heavy on zoom, because there's obviously
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to be a lot of stuff done over zoom.
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  Speaker 1: So let me explain this next episode with the homie Mazie.
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  Speaker 1: Before we talk about Mazie, I got a shout out
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  Speaker 1: at vapin. Shout out to them. We're gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: new sponsor next Monday. So I'm excited for the new sponsor. Saluta,
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  Speaker 1: the new sponsor. They know who they are. It's odd Socks,
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  Speaker 1: all right, there you go. I just threw that out there,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to odd Socks. Anyway, Mozzie. So let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, this episode is like it's pretty old.
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  Speaker 1: It was recorded in May, right after Mozzi's album came out,
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  Speaker 1: and it was actually supposed to be the first episode
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast. Unfortunately, uh, some things came up and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't end up putting it out, So, uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's I guess it's dated in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: we talk a lot about Mozzi's album, which has been
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  Speaker 1: out for a couple of months. But it is a
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  Speaker 1: good conversation. Mazzie is one of my favorite artists. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's a great dude, man, just the epitome of independence,
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  Speaker 1: brilliance and hip hop and man, we had a great conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a it's a couple of months old,
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  Speaker 1: so you won't hear us talking about anything that's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the world right now, as far as George
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  Speaker 1: Floyd or Black Lives Matter or any of the protests
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. That's obviously something that I would have loved
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  Speaker 1: to have spoken with Mazzi about. But it was recorded
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  Speaker 1: mid May, around the time Mazzi's album came out, and
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  Speaker 1: I actually wasn't gonna put this episode out even though
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  Speaker 1: it's fire. I just you know, like I said, look, man,
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  Speaker 1: I got the COVID, so we're dropping the Mazzi interview.
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  Speaker 1: It's fire. I love Mazzi. If you're not a fan
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  Speaker 1: of Mazzie, listen to the interview and you probably will
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  Speaker 1: end up being a fan of Mazzi. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: hip hop head, if the Freddy Gibbs interview brought you
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  Speaker 1: here and you're still not tapped in with Mazzi, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: You should go tap in with him because the dude
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  Speaker 1: can wrap his ass off and he's saying some real shit,
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  Speaker 1: real real shit. So if you're not up on Mazzi yet,
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  Speaker 1: listen to the interview, you'll like him after the interview
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than before if you are a fan
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  Speaker 1: of Mazzi and just enjoy it all right. Also, gonna
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  Speaker 1: be dropping since I'm, like I said, since I've been
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  Speaker 1: kind of on lockdown and I haven't been able to
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  Speaker 1: get in with some face to face action pause tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: or the next day, I'm gonna drop on a Dre
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  Speaker 1: London interview from about a year and a half ago
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  Speaker 1: when we originally were gonna launch the bootleg HP podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Drey London is Post Malon's manager, and I just think
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  Speaker 1: that there's obviously it's there is some dated shit in there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's Also, if you're in the music industry, you
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  Speaker 1: want to be in the music industry. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: gems in that. So I'm gonna just throw it out
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  Speaker 1: there for y'all to listen to. Uh. That's later this week.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you hit subscribe. Rate, please rate the podcast
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  Speaker 1: But if you throw that rating my way on Apple,
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  Speaker 1: I'd really appreciate it. Let's get into the Masi interview.
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  Speaker 1: Are we six feet apart? Six? About six ft? All right?
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  Speaker 1: We got a social distance, bro, it's good though, you
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  Speaker 1: know we're gonna make it work. Hey. First of all, mighty,
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  Speaker 1: the new album is out, and I gotta say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, you've leveled up every album quality. Why.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like you're getting better man. Nah, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, uh fully my intentions. Yeah, Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: being first of all, I'm assuming there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of opportunities where you could have gone major. Uh why
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  Speaker 1: why at this point are we still staying independent? Shout
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  Speaker 1: out the empire because we got a plaque. There's a
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  Speaker 1: plaque right here. Oh, we got one of them. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You gotta you got. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's your name on there one up top ikey something
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  Speaker 1: stocky in the chappie huh. Now, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just comfortable. I'm comfortable with the independent lifestyle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I just know how to tweak it to
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  Speaker 1: where it been fits me in mind. So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just squeeze it for what it's worse. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like over the last couple of years, the mainstream,
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  Speaker 1: like the taste makers, have really started to embrace what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. What do you think was like the point
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  Speaker 1: in time where the narrative change where you were like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I know the Black Panther soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: had to be one of those moments. But leading up
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  Speaker 1: to that, I feel like finally you were getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of the respect that you've been
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  Speaker 1: deserving for a few years. We came overlook the Kendrick
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  Speaker 1: Lamar shout out either I think, you know, just seeing
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  Speaker 1: the embracement of others. I think, you know, people just
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  Speaker 1: see other people embracing other people. Them sent me of
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  Speaker 1: their statue embrace, you know, the up and coming and
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  Speaker 1: they follow suit. That's it. You know, if somebody get
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  Speaker 1: if somebody starts sizzling right now and we pick up
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  Speaker 1: on him and embracing, you see other people that's in
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  Speaker 1: my lane pick up on him and embracing. So I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like people just following suit, and you know
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  Speaker 1: they actually it's they're exposing. So you know, by others
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  Speaker 1: embracing it, they exposing me to you know, their fan
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  Speaker 1: base and the crowded people that that that function with them,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, they they pick up on so
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  Speaker 1: they fan base, they pick up on that new that
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  Speaker 1: new sound, or they pick up on something they like
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  Speaker 1: and they start functioning with it and exploiting it to others.
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  Speaker 1: It's stuff like like double XL freshman covers, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of shit, those kind of accolades like matter to you
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  Speaker 1: at all. Hell, yeah, I was hot, said I ain't
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  Speaker 1: get Freshmen of the Year. I felt like I was worthy,
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  Speaker 1: and especially out of ten man list, out of ten,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. And yeah, you ain't in minds
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  Speaker 1: ain't up there, and then you got you know, no disrespect,
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  Speaker 1: but you got a couple of Theodoreks and peons up
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  Speaker 1: bunch of bullshit. You know what I'm saying. And uh, now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like it turned political. It
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  Speaker 1: just turned political. But double XL is my people, and
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  Speaker 1: I love them dearly. You hear me. I just take
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  Speaker 1: them a little, you know, I take it on the chin.
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  Speaker 1: I take it on the chin. Evidently you know I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't politically tied in or I didn't put in enough
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  Speaker 1: work either or And I don't blame nobody but me.
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  Speaker 1: So I go back to the drawing board, get it in,
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  Speaker 1: bite down, and find that hunger drop and make him
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  Speaker 1: respect something. So your album's coming out, it's obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: out today. Day's the day they I'm dropped. Last night
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  Speaker 1: Drake announces he's putting out a project. Howevo? I mean
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  Speaker 1: you do shout out to Drake, but like that's got
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  Speaker 1: to kind of be like, well, fuck man, like n
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie, wasn't really tripping. I heard it,
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  Speaker 1: I seen it, and I really didn't react, you know,
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  Speaker 1: shut out to Drake. He'd do what he won't when
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  Speaker 1: he won't. And I got that same type of attitude.
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  Speaker 1: I do what I won't when I won't. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who drop. You know what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 1: me on the day that I drop, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it just makes it more memorable. It give it more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't mind Drake dropping that. That's big
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  Speaker 1: MINSI and Drake drop. You got me in the same conversation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you got and you gotta fanger so rude. You
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  Speaker 1: got some shit to get sensitive too, and you got
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  Speaker 1: some gangster ship. Nah. Yeah, I got it on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's on there man, and that. You know, if if
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  Speaker 1: y'all comparing my album to Drake Nigga, your album is better,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do nothing but smile, my boy. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: not out. The Drake album is a great body work, man,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. On the project, you were saying, if people
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  Speaker 1: mistaking you just being a rapper, that'd be a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be a mistake. Man. I'm much more than that,
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  Speaker 1: and I you know, on the on the album, I
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  Speaker 1: was referring to it as a you know, as a
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  Speaker 1: street politician, but in actuality, just period, point blank, in general,
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  Speaker 1: I'm much more than that. I'm much more than that
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  Speaker 1: to my family, I'm much more than that. To the
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  Speaker 1: streets of Sacramento slash oh Pork, I much more than
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  Speaker 1: that to you know, the West coast alone, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I get to test the people, I really touch them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we all identified with the same struggle,
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  Speaker 1: so they considered me one of theirs. The quarantine shit
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  Speaker 1: with this COVID nineteen shit, how has besides live shows
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  Speaker 1: and ship like that, Like, how has it affected your life?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, I mean, you look
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  Speaker 1: like you're healthy, you look like you're doing well. All
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  Speaker 1: the prices want a prices on the tissue. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, prices on the napkins price is not. No,
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  Speaker 1: You're right though. Listen, bro, you go to seven eleven
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  Speaker 1: right now and you had a se sanitizer. Come on, nah.
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  Speaker 1: But outside of that, first and foremost semi cadulesist love
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  Speaker 1: respect to the family that lost family during this time.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a serious you know this is this
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  Speaker 1: is something serious, man, and I take it seriously. But
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  Speaker 1: you know I ain't been highly affected. I'm an entertainer,
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  Speaker 1: so my check been rolling in and if somebody in
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  Speaker 1: my family has been affected by it, I assist, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with what I can, and so we all Gucci
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  Speaker 1: and Gabana, the schools. I'm you know, my daughter at home,
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  Speaker 1: so she her being out of school, that affects, you know,
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  Speaker 1: spend more time with your daughter. Yeah, but nah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying it. I ain't gonna lie. I'm enjoying the whole process. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind if the world stay like this. Uh
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  Speaker 1: we because you it's less value on materialistic things and
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, we just it's more family oriented oriented.
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  Speaker 1: So man, I'm enjoying it. Man I I ain't got
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  Speaker 1: no complaints. What's been the wildest shit? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think I feel like I've watched all of Netflix. But like,
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  Speaker 1: have you been binge watching any TV shows or like,
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  Speaker 1: what have you been Like? I've been tapped THEE and
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  Speaker 1: they got one called U first and Foremost. I've just
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  Speaker 1: watched that last night What is it? All day and
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  Speaker 1: the night? Oh they got some of the hell Gang
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  Speaker 1: music in there. Shout out to the production team and
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  Speaker 1: everybody behind that. But I've been watching first forty eights Fire,
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  Speaker 1: I Slide in the house and where we turned on?
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  Speaker 1: Oh did you see the top Tiger King? Yeah, tweaked
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  Speaker 1: on that Joe Exotic, that's my boy. Hey, yo, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if I'm not sure if that was him
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  Speaker 1: really singing. But if it was he could sing, he
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  Speaker 1: was doing his douggie. He was doing his duggie. I
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  Speaker 1: think it might have been him lipsticking somebody. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he could sing that well, I would you do?
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  Speaker 1: Would you do a record with Joe Exotic? Right now? Running?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, cook up you feel me? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Gang related jungles that should be crazy off of ap
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  Speaker 1: gang related jungles. You know what I'm saying, Yo, it's
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  Speaker 1: crazy because I remember the first time I met you
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  Speaker 1: was like twenty seventeen. You came up to the station.
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  Speaker 1: You remember, you freest out over Triumph and who tank
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  Speaker 1: be for us? Huh? And at that time you were
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  Speaker 1: this was like Mazie leaned out on a cloud, Masie
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  Speaker 1: I fell asleep on Yeah, you was like in another world.
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  Speaker 1: No I was. I was in the hall another world
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  Speaker 1: man during that whole time. Yeah, And I remember like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: he's like you killed it. But I remember I remember
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  Speaker 1: talking to you know, talking to Gazi like, man, this
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  Speaker 1: if this guy could get his ship together, like he's
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  Speaker 1: a star, you know what I'm saying. Like, and then
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  Speaker 1: what I thought was so dope, man, was you were
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  Speaker 1: the first rapper to really make it okay to like
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  Speaker 1: kick the cup. You started that, You started to kick
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  Speaker 1: the cup challenge for sure, most definitely, And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it was needed because like that wasn't cool at
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  Speaker 1: that point in time, and it was like somebody, somebody
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  Speaker 1: needed to step out and be like, yo, man, you
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  Speaker 1: know it's it's okay to kick this ship now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they banged me upside my head for that too. I
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  Speaker 1: remember them. They bashed me upside my head, all types
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  Speaker 1: of people. But I wasn't mad at it based on
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it benefited more than than anything. It
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  Speaker 1: benefited a lot of people, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: more than anything. So I wasn't mad at it. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I take I take the lit. And this was prior
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  Speaker 1: to like you know, obviously a lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: trying to get clean now because a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: have passed away. You know, Juice wrld is before all this,
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  Speaker 1: before this, when it wasn't cool, when it wasn't bully
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  Speaker 1: bull to kick the cup. It's when it was nigga
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  Speaker 1: with you talking about kicked the cup. Nigga, I'm seeing me.
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  Speaker 1: You know. They was tweaking on me, But I ain't
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  Speaker 1: mad at it. Like I said, I take the lick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing me if somebody could benefit off of it?
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  Speaker 1: Was that still? Is that still something you struggle with
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  Speaker 1: because I know that that's you know, recreational around. I
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  Speaker 1: just said it in my song. Man. You know, at
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  Speaker 1: least I don't promote it on the GRAM. This is
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  Speaker 1: my addiction, though. He said I told the road I quit,
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  Speaker 1: So I forgot how I go told the road I quit,
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  Speaker 1: But I ain't. Oh told the road I quit. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to kick it though. At least I don't promote
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  Speaker 1: it on the GRAM. That's my addiction though, And nothing
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  Speaker 1: the pain that I be going through. Who are you
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  Speaker 1: to judge? I miss you, Brenda Usha, Without you, I've
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  Speaker 1: just secluded love so nah. Yeah, you know I had
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  Speaker 1: a little bar in my song where you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was admitted to admitting to relapsing, right, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: glorifying it. Nah, But I don't glorify it, man, don't
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  Speaker 1: on painted is this is something that somebody So these
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  Speaker 1: is my real struggles. This is what I deal with.
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  Speaker 1: These is my everyday struggles. I'm a real human being
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  Speaker 1: and I'm seeing me and I go through things and
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  Speaker 1: I find methods and ways to numb it, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know this is my battle. He's one of the
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  Speaker 1: battles that you know what I'm saying me, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a ring with and I gotta face. But I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: advise nobody I love, nor nobody you love to indulge
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  Speaker 1: in them type of activities lyrically like on some MC shit,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you're like top notch man. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're especially on the West Coast, Like when I
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  Speaker 1: think of like Ella, Yeah, like when I think like
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  Speaker 1: like who can melt somebody on the sixteen, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Mazzie's one of those guys, like who is
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  Speaker 1: somebody who you respect on that level as like a
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  Speaker 1: rapper who like even like Yo, man, I like if
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  Speaker 1: you were to do a record with you might be
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  Speaker 1: you guys did a whole project together, whole project. He
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  Speaker 1: one of them people that I get in there and
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a spicy situation, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying me, We it's spunky smoke, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I know he gonna dish it
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  Speaker 1: out and so I gotta return fire. He go brazy.
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  Speaker 1: Who else I respect on that level outside of my camp.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying, because you know the silly rules he
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  Speaker 1: go break, I'm saying, eat my snubs. This them them
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  Speaker 1: they are competitive and they make but yeah, I say surfing.
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  Speaker 1: You know Nick, I used to feel that way about
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  Speaker 1: Ni g O D. Like I got a tweak when
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  Speaker 1: I get in here with him. I can't ain't no
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  Speaker 1: playing with it. Uh it was one more Oh my boy,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Rock. I respect, of course, I respect rocking the
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  Speaker 1: way he rock out. It's a couple. I respect a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that be shooting that is a man.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. There's some people that that can
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: dance in that booth you talk about j Rock. Obviously,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Kendrick putting you on that Black Panther soundtrack was a
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: big look. Man. Was there ever any dialogue of you
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: signing with TD or is that discussion ever happened? Like
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: did they ever like show interest? Because I feel like
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you were to fit in TD function with me. I
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna a lot. They done through me so many
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: other ups, man, and I can't wait to return the favor.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: G O. D. I feel like I'm in dead with
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: them people, man, love them. Was there ever like any
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: discussions that you signing signing with them? No, it was
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: you know, I was, I was throwing that out there.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, me tapping Top Dog was
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: had Bretta brother. But uh, we sel family oriented that
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you know it it it nobody. We ain't never pressed
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: play on that. And you know, I'm so bumfortable and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: bully boo with my little situation that I never really
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: entertained anything outside of it, but for show, I function
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: with the whole TD camp and uh, that'd be dope.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: You talked about like, you know, your relationship with Empire
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: shout out to Ghazi. Uh what is it about working
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: with Ghazi that, like you you don't think because a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: lot of you know, I feel like Empire is this
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: island in the middle of the music industry that some
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: people know about, but other people are like what is
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: going on over there? Like what is it about working
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: with Empire and Gazi that to you is like special
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and sets sets that company apart? Because I know Gazi's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: one of the smartest guys I know. So coming out
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the trenches, I felt like when I talk to Inner,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I mean record labels, my main request was, you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: just freedom to do whatever I want as far as creatively,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and that's what they offer. They tell me I'm entitled
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to do whatever I want. They ain't try to change
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: my music, they ain't try to dilute it. They ain't
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: come with no like, look you should do this. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you know, they don't even suggest things that it's out
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of my lane, you know, and they let me be me,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: they let me do me. I'm entitled to drop that wheel.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: The fact that everything is so transparent, you know, all
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the deals is transparent. It's like, you know, I said,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: twelfth grader can understand the whole. If they sit down
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and talk with you and you're a twelfth grader, they could.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: They could bust it down. Somebody who's new to this business,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: never done any type of work in this business. They can.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They'll make it transparent for you to understand, and then
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: they'll follow through with that. It's not like you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you know how fine print. It's everything is clear. And
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I was able to comprehend and understand it and see
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that this is the situation best, it's best for me,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it benefits me. Of course, I wanted to take the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: long way. I didn't want to jump on the elevator.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I wanted to run the stairs, so you know, and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: they and they assisted me with that, and they got
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: behind me, man. And like I said, they word is platinum.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Anything they say they gonna do, they follow through when
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: they come with these deals or you know, however, it's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it's I feel like I feel like they family. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: feel like if I go broke today, I can call
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: guys in and say better better send me from me
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: one of them. Emberly's man, right, right right, You're gonna
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: work it over, you feel me. I feel like I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: could call name name team. I need a hunter k
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: like today though, and he had worked that over and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that's I just it's crazy the relationship that I got
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: with him. So you know, anytime I can, I can
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: persuade somebody in it. Not even persuade, man, anytime I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: could recommend you know what I'm seeing me or refer
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: somebody to Empire, Man, I for surely go about it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: You've like, throughout your career you've been extremely active, Like
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: if we don't have a MASI album, we'll have a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: collab project with you and gun Player, you and Sue
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: or you gotta stay lit man, that's what we're in it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Fo Yeah, Like I feel like that that you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: just your activity has a lot of a lot to
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: do with your success, right, Like, sure, what what is
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: some some some advice you would give the independent artists
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: because I feel like you've been building this for so long,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: but like I've noticed, like I'm like, yo, this guy
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: don't give fans like a chance to forget. Like he's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: on top, he's on their neck. Like consistency is key.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Consistency is key, and you know, know who your market is,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and reciprocate the love. Make sure you give back man
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: as much as you receive straight up, like the smallest
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: things in the world. It go a long way with
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the fan base. Just imagine you having an unconditional love
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: for an artist and you push up on him and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: he's stiff on you. Right, You're gonna feel some type
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of way. You might not feel the same way you
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: felt about that artist again. You feel me, So you know,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I see the love, I recognize the love, and I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: reciprocated when I see it. I make sure you know
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I dish out the same energy. I make sure make
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: sure I treat them. You know, I treat them like
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: like if it was the other way around, if I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was the fan and this was somebody I listened to,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and how how would I want to be, you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: treated in this situation. So even when I'm tired, even
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: when I'm exhausted, al I'm with my daughters and I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: don't feel like doing this shit. I'm tired of taking pictures,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of sign this ship. Watch out feel me.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: This is me time, my time. I still go out
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: my way, Still go out my way, and make sure
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: you know that that that they leave satisfied. And it's
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: worked for me. It's benefited me. Man, It's worked for me.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And the crazy part about it is it's not it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: not hard or it's not a task when when you're
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: genuine about it, when you genuinely felt like that, you
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, the same thing with this music,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: it don't feel like work when you're passionate about this.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: This is this is I do this for free. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: would love to come do this interview. You know I'm saying,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: this is this is me, this is what I this
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: is what I signed up for. I've been waiting on
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this day. I pray for this day. I sat on
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a bunk and prayed for this. So now that I'm
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: here man, I am break said wholeheartedly. And you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: at anything I do, man, I give it my awe.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: So I just I say, stay, stay consistent, and you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: just reciprocate the love. Man, even I don't care how
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: small it is. If it's somebody reposting your ship on Instagram,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: if it's somebody at DJ shouting you out man on
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the radio out of nowhere, just make sure you know
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you you you get at love right back, and yeah,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: build your build on top of that. That's something to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: build on. You talk about getting locked up. I know
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the last time you you you you were down. When
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you got out, you had a battery in your back. Yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that was kind of what kind of like was was
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: was that motivation to really get on this campaign? For sure?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Take us back to that, that that mentality when you
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: when you went to jail last time and you was
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: sitting in yourself thinking about like, damn, I can't take
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: what I got for granted, because I remember talking to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you and you were like, motherfuckers knew who you were
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: in jail, and shit, you know what I'm saying now,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: for sure they'll get on me too, Like the Homies,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the Homies, be, they'll be devastated when I slide through.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Usually you know it's a celebratory situation, right one of
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the homies come in, gang man, that you ain here
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: for wile you lightweight, you know what I'm saying, undecoveredly
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: hoping the nigga got a little time so he can
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: come big it with you, right, kick with all. They
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: be disturbed when I slide in there, like you know
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, what is you doing? And I'm talking
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: about the ones that genuinely love me. Anybody else they
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: happy to see me. But the ones who genuinely love me,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the ones who watched me struggle and what I'm saying
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and watch this marathon take place. You know, they they
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: they feel some type of way man, and I appreciate
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: that and that go a long way. So when I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: be in there, I just it be like Bret, Nigga,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you better get it together. Don't double back here, nigga,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: You double back here? Nigga is up. And you know
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I be in there playing, plotting, strategizing, writing down what
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, how I'm gonna do it, how long
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take me to do it. You know what
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I'm saying and and and when they cracked the gates.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: But I'm sitting in there. I'm sitting in there and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I'm impatient. I want to do it now, anything that
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I can do right now. Over this phone, I'm calling
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: home and I'm trying to get it done. Bro. We
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: gotta do this. Bro, Bro, we got it. You know.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: You know it's ugly for me right now. But as
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: soon as I get out, I'm telling you, Bro, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: need to hold this and we gotta do this. Hey,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: hit dude and tell dude this. So it's like a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: machine and moving and you're trying to keep it afloat
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and you're impatient and you can't wait because you could
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: taste it. And then they crack them gates, man, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you get the child down, or you get to bite down.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You get to prove it. So when I came home,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I already knew I was fake. Waight, gang, I was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: like like, gang chief, you know what I'm saying, And
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that's how that's how the gang task was teached. Treat me.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So you know, the suckers was on my line like
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm here at Honcho, we gotta clean him up.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And I was so I was you know, I was
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: they knocked it, I got shot at a lot, whatever
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the case. But been going through CPS, fighting CPS, fighting probation,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, getting into it with the homies because you know,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I'm shooting up. So it's just like all odds against you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's crazy. And I was still able to juke,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: move and hurdle, jump over them hurdles and them obstacles
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and and and still overcome all the all the negatives
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and everything that was against me, man and find and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: find my niche. And so it's just crazy. It's crazy.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Hella thankful, beyond blessed, and I'm grateful a lot of gratitude.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: So I try to give back in any shape and form.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like every time I see you, bro
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like or just over the years, man like, I feel
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: like you're somebody who's always improving, like as a person,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Sure, whether it's maturity, whether
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it's the way you conduct yourself, whether it me know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you're always leveling up. You know what I'm saying. God too,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you got so that's what we're getting it for it. Man,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I'm raising girls, So I'm raising girls, and you know
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. I can only give them the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: best of me. So if I'm not better in myself,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: then I feel like I'm cheating them, I'm giving them less.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: So I gotta you know, it's time. You gotta educate yourself.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: You gotta stay, stay focused, determine. You gotta make sure
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you financially if you if you financially literate, what kind
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of good game you gonna pass on to your kids? Facts? Hey,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I just try to stay.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I try to stay because my little girl's damn, they're
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: smarter than me doing homework. Six that's the one I'm
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: talking about. But I got one six and another one too,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: but smarter than me. Bro, We're doing homework. And if
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: she trying to tell me, like, this is the right answer, Dad,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, I don't think that's right. She's right,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: She's right. So now you know, I just got to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: stay on my toes. But hell yeah, I appreciate that. Bro.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: That's what we're in it for. Man, A whole lot
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: of growth. Man, that's you know, I'm embracing. I'm in racing,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: uh that og status you talk about financial financial literacy
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: which I feel like all of us usually learn the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: hard way, whether it's fucking off money we shouldn't have
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: fucked off, or like owing the taxes or whatever it is,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: like what is for people watching? Like what do you
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: what is like one thing you could say to them,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: like they should be on their toes about when it
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: comes to bread, because that's not something that gets taught
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in school. I just feel like you should. You should
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: treat it the same way you treat anything else. And
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for female wan her breast done, I'm seeing me, she
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: gonna go tweak on a doctor. She gonna look at
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: all types of pictures and makeovers, she gonna study it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: She gonna look at what with with what causes? With
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: how I can get ugly for it? You know what
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing me. If you want to become an attorney,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you get study, You go study, bro. I feel like
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that's the same thing. You want to get rich. You
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: need to study. You need to study financial literacy. You
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: need to know the ins and outs of the game
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that you plan. You need to know how to how
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to how to manage money. You need to know how
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to you know invest money. You just it's you gotta
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: learn money that's it. I just feel like you have
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to educate yourself. We wouldn't know our math, our additions,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: nor subtraction if nobody educated us on that, and so
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: we won't know how to deal with money. I don't
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: care who you are, what you think, you ain't gonna
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: know how to really play with money, man, if you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: don't educate yourself on it, if it doesn't you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: if it don't come natural. I remember when you posted
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: that screenshot of your bank account that everybody was like, yo, yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I needed I needed some financial education. Then man, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: was tweaked out. What did he do? But now you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: know I was trying to I was just yeah, I
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: was just trying to motivate the young man that it's real,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Like it's you know, because it I could tell you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I got a million dollars, A rapper can say you
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: got a million dollars, and you know that's what I'm
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: seeing me. That's well, look at that as an opinion,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: not fact. That's an opinion. Yeah, like, yeah, you might
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: have a million, but you might you probably sold all
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: your jewelry. Yeah you I even touched a million dollars,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: but you ain't got a million liquid? Yeah, you ain't
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: got nothing, man, come on, And so I just wanted
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to show my youngest and send them trenches because you know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I still pull up like regular fella. I'm pulling up
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: regular real nigga. I'm jumping out, I'm him. I'm still
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: in places where you shouldn't be. You got a million dollars,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and I just want to show them like niggas like
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: us me And you know what I'm saying, we the same.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And if I can go get that in belet you
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: can go get that embly. It's it's, it's, it's it's attainable.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: The album title beyond Bulletproof, talk about why what, what's
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the significance of that time the loved one? Unconditionally beyond bulletproof.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: It means bulletproof. Man, I lay your boy layer bulletproof.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, the love that I got
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: for you is it can't be penetrated. Man, can't none
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is teflne ain't nothing. You know what I'm saying, We
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: ain't nothing going through that can't not disturb what we
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: got going on. Man can't then penetrate the surface. So
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you know that's bulletproof. I'm letting you know it's beyond bulletproof, man.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And that's I'm specifically talking to the forgotten, the overlooked,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the you know, the ones that we tend to unconsciously
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: forget about, the ones that send themselves them jail cells,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the ones that's I'm seeing me less fortunate? Is that?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Is that what the story behind the album cover too?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Like who's in the car with you? And yeah, that's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the less fortunate. That's my people them unking. I'm gonna
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: call them unking them, that's unking them. I pulled the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: skared rod, told them get in, slid through the trenches,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: slid through Hollywood, smoked some good dope with them, took
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: them to Bostonova's buzzed down. You know what I'm saying
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: me little chicken on fires, and then jump back in
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the load. Took a couple of photos. You know what
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying me, went on about my day. My Pinta
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: sent me the photos. They was plattinum velvet. I'm like,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: what's this? You know this looked like album cover material?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Right ran to play. That's him beyond bulletproof at explain
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: everything that's going on in the cover. I love you unconditionally,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: no matter your circumstances, beautiful one. We talked about you
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of cloud projects. You obviously I love
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: slimy individuals. Ooh, that's my boy. Shout out big Burn. Yeah,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I mean ship logic was on there, y g was on.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I mean it was it was as Burn too that
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. Not only was I'm saying me,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: not only did we go half on the project, but
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: he won one hundred percent on production. Hell yeah, he
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: ran every play, autumn plays a beat was that's his selection,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: every feature. That's him tapping into his men's in them
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: pull up. He went brazy man shot studio. We went
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to his studio where he recorded that. I'm saying he
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: smoked all his weed. I mean he's got a lot
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of weed. That nigga. I ain't gonna lie. He made
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: he made my job. He's a hella. Extra easies come in.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Do what you doing? Yeah, watch out, I got the merch.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I take care of that. Well. He did his dougie
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: man shout out to Burn. We're fin the double back.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: On the double back to its gonna ask you what's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: like another? Who's who's an artist that you would like
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: to do another? Like? Do a collab project with that
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you haven't yet. It's hello artists out there to name
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a few. You know you got the Little Babies futures. Yeah,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I fuck with Atlanta Tough, Me and Luchi. We got
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: something on the way way on the freeway. Uh. I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: like to do something with who out there? Oh, you
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: know Dave, he's be talking that ship. Oh you and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: would be perfect. You guys have worked together. You guys
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: this album came out on the same day a couple
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: of years ago. Yes, my dog, I let it do
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: one with Anthony Hamilton's just a whole soulful album, Anthony
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: ham That would be some all time ship. Yeah. Who
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: else have you tapped in with the Griselda guys yet?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I just say Bennie just tapped in with the Butcher.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: That'd be crazy. I just tapped in last night. You know, sir,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: if he tapped me in better better that you need
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to funk with the Okay? Yeah, Benny's like, I feel
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: like what you are for the West coast those guys
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: right now for the East coast. Hell yeah, that's that's squad.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I function with him. Uh, and I want to hear
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you and Freddy Gibbs wrapped the same. That's my boy.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Come on, Gibbs, big dog. I function with him heavy
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: here a fella now, it's it's a lot of people.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I let her collab with Man a lot of R
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and B too, So getting out Eric Bellinger's on the album,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that's what I mean. You guys did the remake with you? Yeah?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: That was that? An easy sample to get cleared. I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: don't know. I think they beat us upside our forehead
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: about that sample, g O D. I think they beat
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: us up side our foehead. But you know what I'm
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: saying that gang LAMB made a shake man, so we
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: we here. It's president. Make sure y'all gonna snatch that too.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Which sample was harder that one of the Tupac one.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to touch Tupac want to touch it.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: They forced me to do that. I didn't want to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: touch it. So you didn't want to do that record.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to touch it. That's pack. I don't
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: want to touch nothing they got to do with pac Man.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: That's I just got that type of respect for him,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: like I don't even want to I don't even want
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to play with it. So I mean that that was
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a dope record. No, it was a dope record and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the whole role out of it, it was a dope play.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I functioned with the whole play, but it was something
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that you felt was a little forced and something that
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: you really didn't feel when I did it. I loved it,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: fell in love with it. I was juice ecstatic about
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: how it turned out. The you know, the response from
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the people, the whole nine. But you know, before I,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: before I even wrote to it, when he pulled the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: beat up, I'm like, I don't want to I don't
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: want to play with it. And they, you know, they like, well,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this to play. We get WOOTI woo
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: woo woo woo had WOOTI woop slode. I'm like, all right,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: let's run the play because you know, I'm I'm not
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that combatic with my with my team, you know, if
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: they if they recommend something and they feel like it's
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a good look, and I ran to play and it
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: was a good look. Man. Is that a record you regret? No? No,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I just the record with the record. I just didn't
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: want to touch it. Before I touched it, you know
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And after I tested, I appreciated it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: It's the closest I can get, the pac Man closest
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing me as far as you know, given a
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: dedication and without without directly giving a dedication. So it
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: was dope, man it. I loved it and everything. I
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: appreciate everybody that was involved. You know the same dude
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: who played Pa was in there in the video. Yeah,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: my boy, so it the whole killer kid man. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: loved it, but it was crazy. You know you did,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you did right by it. Like that's like, you know
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Mac dre record, I left Matt, that's Mac a Jack
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of Record, big dog. Who's who is like your top
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: five all Timezzi, top five hours, Pa, dribble Pot. I
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: don't want to leave nobody else. So it gets spunky,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm from the eighties, but I'm gonna
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: just give it to you rang. You know the snoops
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: bock snoop wang d MX DMX is he don't get
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: mentioned enough in that conversation. Uh, somebody else too, somebody
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: else something about DMX and his like his ability to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: convey pain through his voice. That's what it is. It
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: is crazy, that's what it is. Bro. Like those prayers
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: on his albums. Ship Man, I was crying to one
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: of his songs that Nigga said. I forgive what it was,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: but I cried. I cried even on the slipping I'm falling,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I can't get up. That's my when that come on
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: that whole Belly, when he played Belly, when he played Tommy, yep, yeah,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: that's I function with dude, heavy, straight up. And then
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: he got the beautiful struggle he endured. You watching him struggle,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: whether through the drug abuse, through the going to jail,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: blse a real one. He's just naturally a real one.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: You know what I don't I hate about our generation
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: is like like a lot of people try to shame
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: DMX because of his demons, but nowadays it's like that's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: just a normal business. That Nigga said, she with me,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: then she hugged me, kissed me on my forehead, told
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: me that she loved me. I saw that and her too.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: More than it hurt me. I'm thinking, damn, man, how
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: bad could this hurt be? I know now that what
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you did was all out of love. What I wouldn't
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: do for one more hug from grandmom Baby, It's gonna
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: be okay. Yeah, that's my shit right there like that,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: just that type of shit. Before my grandmother passed. That
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: was my favorite song when my grandmother past. It's saw
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I slacked crazy. Ye shout out to DMX that I
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: feel like that's something that's in the room of possibilities.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: He'd be hopping on. He'd be hopping on people shit sometimes. Nah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I'm finna go get him. You know, I don't even
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: buy versus. I don't pay for versus. That's what you've
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: never paid for first thus far, man, I'm like, a
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: all this rip is you know, don't I ain't got
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: shit clear, We ain't gonna let's keep that clear. Yeah,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't got some ship clear man. I didn't pay
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: for Niggs to come show up for the video player.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, get them right, But I'm I'm majority of
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: my features and collaborations, it's people that I genuinely fuck
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: with and they genuinely fuck with me. Yeah, so I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: don't never I ain't never really went out my way,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: but a DMX, Erica Badou my dog just got the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Anthony Hamilton them like my three that I I cast
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: out on spot. Let's go. I just want to work
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: with you, DMX because that's my childhood. That's when he
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: when I feel like you, I can hear DMX and
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: your sh that's my Erica Bado. That's my childhood. I
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: just that's what we was. And then you know, Anthony Hamilton,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: that's Grannie. I ain't know nothing about it, Anthony Hamilton.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Granny took me to a show, a little concert, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I ain't even want to go with her.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, that's old folks. Shit, she already
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: doing oh O G. I was raised by Granny, so
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: she'd go to old restaurants, old shows, and I ain't
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: got time for this. I'm seventeen, sixteen, seventeen or something.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I'm thugging, you know what I'm saying. I'm banging old work,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Fourth Avenue, Bluff. I'm right, yeah, I'm not aware. I
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: go to the show now, coming from where I'm from,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: album was crazy what I go to the show? Bray
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: took me to church for sure, coming from Round Front album,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I know that whole album. Today, Classic album did a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: lot of yeah. Yeah, that's my dog though. Anthony Hamilton,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: he just knocked something out for me too word oh shit.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: A song for it dedicated to Granny. It was supposed
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: to make the album, but I'm saying me my management
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: pump fake know I'm a highlighting about it, Fucking Dave.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I mean how much? I mean, I already know you
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: already got most. I mean you gotta be how many
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: records you're sitting on right now, bro, at least a
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: forty pip nine. I'm just talking about dope shit, crazy shit,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: at least a little fody pip I'm talking about album material,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: shit that I approved, like, yeah, we could put something
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: together other thing, you know, outside of what I approve,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I got crazy shit. I just you know, it be
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: what you call them, like scraps. They just be all
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: types of scraps where niggas just go in there, do
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: a verse in the hook and never do it, never right,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and then pull it up four years later, like no,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: sh it was fire, nigga. We could have made a
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: heat out of this YO with this album. I feel
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: like this has been the I feel like y'all's roll
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: out this go round has been so crazy, and it's
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: so crazy because we're in the middle of a quarantine.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: You hear me, though, They lucky niggas is a lucky quarantine.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Slid up and shut shit down because they would have
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: got spunky. I'm talking by it. It got spunky on
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: them radio runs on this tour. It you know, we
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: would have caused here. It would have gave a lot
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: of niggas a lot of problems. Man. But I ain't
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: mad at it, man, I'm loving to support a lot
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: of people in the industry getting behind it. I'm just
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I'm beyond appreciative. I let a whole album. It's really me.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: It's an album that you know, if you ask nigga,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: what album would you recommend if you're first time listener
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of Mazi, it'll be beyond bulletproof. And not because it's
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: not because it's new right now now it's great. Not
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: it's because it's great. I got a lot of ship
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: where O G person they hear it and and with
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: mind their kids listening to it. You feel me versus
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: just you know what I'm saying, because it's some ship
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: that they they they ain't functioning what they come from. Mazie.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: You know all that body for body right right right right, Nigga,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: body at the body body ship they like, come on, man,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: we not you know what I'm saying, But this beyond bulletproof.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: It just got a lot of a lot of a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: lot of just good game. Bro. I can't stress it enough,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of good game. Do you feel the need
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: to move a little differently because I feel like, now, Mazie,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you're like, you know, you're that guy bro, like on
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the low. You know what I'm saying, Like, like that's
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: the way I know you know you say you'd be ware.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of these motherfucker rappers won't go. But I
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: think you know, we've seen that that can that can
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: turn ugly. You know it could get ugly. But like you,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, these are the sacrifices we make just based
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: on these are people that's like, you ain't going to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: your family reunion because it can get ugly. You're gonna
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna skip out on the family reunion
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: and going to see Granny and them because it can
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: get ugly. Nah, nigg I'm finna go see my people.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I'm finna go see my family. I'm finna go see
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: what with with what I consider home was close to
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: my heart with with the people who met that matter
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: that I could see the whole royal smile. But that
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: don't do nothing to me. I'm affected by seeing those
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: that I love dearly smell. That's what That's what that's
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: when it counts, that's when it makes sense. That's when
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, now we onw this something. I ain't
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: just do this for the benefit of self. I did
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: this so so we can all you know, I'm saying
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: me benefit from this situation. And how how how can
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: everybody benefit from the situation. If I'm scared to pull up,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: if I'm scared to tap in, if I'm scared to
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: lock in with you, if I'm scared to vibe with you,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: if I'm just scared of your kind, how can I
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: be afraid of my own kind? This is what I
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: do it for. So you know this, And that's why
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I funk with Nip so much. He died behind you,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: that Nigga died behind him. That's what he exactly about
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about about not being afraid that the
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: function amongst your own kind. So uh, you know, that's
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: just the risk we take, man. And I felt like
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't have a lot,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't gambled a lot a lot more for a
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: lot less. That's fair man, have you because you know
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you've been in your your fair share of beefs per se,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Now that you're at a certain level of success, do
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you feel like you like let certain shit go or
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: like maybe like man Mozzi from three years ago might
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: have did this, now, I let a lot of shit go,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: not only to my success, just because Yeah, you're right
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: due to the nornoriety. Man. You talk about being like
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: your self improved, Like I feel like you know what
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're right, man, I let a lot of
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: shit go, man, because I understand my position. I understand
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: what I mean to my people, and you know it.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I can't afford to go to jail them. Nigga's losing out,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: So I let a lot of shit go straight up man.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: And you know, but at the same time, I stand firm,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I stand on my principles. I stand firm, and you
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: know I'm gonna hold my own ground. I hold my
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: own ground, and Nigga play with me sentimental value. Never
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: said the thing you gave to me? Hey, who the
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: king of macamental? They gonna say, it's me. I ain't
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: trying to end up in the ping That shit gay
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to me? Year mean that whole, that whole boy right there,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: explain it? What's your favorite song on the album? All
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: of them motherfuckers. Every day anytime somebody asks me that.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: One day it'd be Nigga behind I mean, bulletproofly, the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: next day be betrayed. Then I'd be like, nah, today
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Nigga unethical and deceitful. Then they'd be like, nah, the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: homies want to know. Really the hardest. But I'm functioning
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: with that. You it's crazy, I can't it's whatever. Whatever
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling. So right now, what I'm feeling is the
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: homies want to know. Okay, yeah, the homies want to know.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: We're Finnah drop the vio to that. I feel like
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: that that explains everything. That explains everything about the Alpum.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the core, that's the heartbeat of
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the album. Is it harder to shoot the videos now?
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: If you have, like like the record with Polo G
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: or the record with Herbo, Like, are those like because
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: of what's going on? Like, it's fellow harder. I just
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: shot a Quarantine video. You gonna see that, motherfucker. But nah,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's most definitely been a disturbance in
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the videos due to the quarantine. It's a lot of
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: niggas I wanted to shoot with that, you know, the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: quarantine didn't enable us to shoot with so. But it's
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: good though, because I got a lot of work down
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: before you feel me, before the virus even hit. I
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: cooked up and I got a lot of just good, good, good,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: memorable moments for the roll out, and so I'm satisfied.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I ain't tripping it and the rest of it, the
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: rest of the songs I could do to the necklace.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: So it's been gucci. I made it work in my favor.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: We ain't gonna make no excuses. Well the album is out. Uh,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: great body of work, man, beyond bulletproof. Y'ay snatch, go
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: get that mother immediately. You heard better. Better man, great
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: body of work, great body work, the dopest ship that
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I've dropped thus far. Just that one or one up
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: talk for me for sure. That's my boy. I needed
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: somebody to tell me that. No, no, not the I
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: mean I think they're on part with each other, Yo, Mazzi,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: thank you for coming through. Brother. Appreciate the plaque too. Bro,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: mom man, you know you're the fella fella, man, you
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: already know I appreciate the unwavering love and support y'all
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: have been functioning with me. It feels like since day one,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: not a dead every time we interview somebody, I always
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: try to figure out a way to bring you up, like,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: appreciate you broney all day perfectly boom