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Episode 351 "Roscoe Dash" · The Baller Alert Show

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Speaker 1: They get a little They called me.
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Speaker 2: Broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show.
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Speaker 2: I go by the name of Ferrari.
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Speaker 1: I go by to there, you know, bt Rosco Dash
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Speaker 1: of the buildings on Fellas. What's up, Bro? How y'all doing?
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Speaker 1: Long time? No man, but I'll be bumping into yall
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Speaker 1: and auto right, yeah, that's cool. Let me know. We
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Speaker 1: all doing we're supposed to be doing. So every time I.
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Speaker 2: See you, I just think about that that diamond record
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Speaker 2: you got.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, diamond real hand right, that's right,
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Speaker 1: that's right. I appreciate the people for that. Man, we
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have had that if it wentn't for everybody. Just
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Speaker 1: keep to me. The bigger part about it is that
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Speaker 1: it's had the longevity has had over the years. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, classic right now. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Coming from an area that wasn't digital, going
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Speaker 1: into digital like that and just being able to have
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Speaker 1: that longevity is what makes it what it is. I
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Speaker 1: think to me, anyway, first of all, what the hell
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Speaker 1: you been bro? Tucked in, Bro, trying to get it together.
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Speaker 1: But I've been plotting over Bro I've been putting some
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Speaker 1: new music together. I've been doing some acting. Are you
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Speaker 1: acting there? I'm working on a documentary right now to
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Speaker 1: tell where I've been at. So just a lot of
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Speaker 1: good things, bro, A lot of stuff that I needed
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Speaker 1: to do to to kind of just re remind people, reintroduced,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, do my thing from there. So
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Speaker 1: is the mohawk you over coming back? It's actually under
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Speaker 1: these braids like this is this is really a long mohawk.
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Speaker 1: I just break it down.
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Speaker 2: I swear no, lie that when when you when you
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Speaker 2: had everything in the chokehold, I'd say, what two thousand
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Speaker 2: and nine and you know, going on for a couple
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Speaker 2: of years after that, But I remember two thousand and nine, Bro,
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Speaker 2: oh no way.
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Speaker 1: You said everybody had a mohawk. Everybody we had rosary
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Speaker 1: beads and all that. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Man, yeah, even that flow your cadence, how you you know,
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Speaker 2: accentuated your your wordplay.
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Speaker 1: That was a that was a thing. Yeah, It's crazy, bro,
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Speaker 1: because I think what really sparked that was just what
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Speaker 1: I was listening to and how it was influenced growing up.
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Speaker 1: So I have so much influence from music, bro, Like
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Speaker 1: from Andre three thousand to like even the dmx is
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Speaker 1: and stuff like. I used to go get the booklets
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Speaker 1: and read the lyrics you know what I'm saying, and
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Speaker 1: like really see what's going on. So once I got
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Speaker 1: into like the t Pains. I think this was right
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Speaker 1: after Little John was started going Crazy. He was on
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Speaker 1: like his second or third album, going Nuts. So I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to take something and just kind of make
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Speaker 1: a hybrid you know what I'm saying or what was
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Speaker 1: going on. And Roscoe Dash came from that. So what'd
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Speaker 1: you get the name Roscoe Dash from? Dash?
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Speaker 3: Shit?
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Speaker 1: Bro?
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Like, what's your real name?
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Speaker 1: My real name is Jeffrey got it? Johnson Junior. I'm
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Speaker 1: a junior too, Okay, Ballot, We're Roscoe Dash come from.
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Speaker 1: I went to the internet. Bro. I had a lot
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Speaker 1: of names before I had Roscoe Dash, honestly. And it's
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Speaker 1: funny because when I was moving around with with Travis Porter,
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Speaker 1: they used to try to give me names too, like
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, nah, that ain't it. Or I come
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Speaker 1: up with a name and they be like, nah, that
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Speaker 1: ain't it. But I went to the Internet ultimately, and
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Speaker 1: remember we used to have those two lists and two
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Speaker 1: column list of like mix and match you draw the
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Speaker 1: line to it or whatever. I literally went and found
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Speaker 1: like retro superheroes and they after the identities, and I
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Speaker 1: just mix and matched it till I found something network
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I needed something that's gonna stick.
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Speaker 1: So basically, you use the old AI. You feel what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've been We've been on
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Speaker 1: a a you know. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now I remember, I'm glad you brought up Travis Porter
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Speaker 2: one time for Travis Porter, but I do remember vividly.
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Speaker 2: Uh it was a version of the song all the
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Speaker 2: Way turned up, All the Way was all the Way
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Speaker 2: turned up, all the Way turned up, and then I
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Speaker 2: saw Roscoe Dash and Soldier Boy version.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about that because I don't know
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Speaker 2: if the right clarity was ever addressed.
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Speaker 1: What happened, honestly, bro a lot a lot of stuff happened.
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Speaker 1: Whose song was it first? But everybody thought it was
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Speaker 1: the song? Yeah yeah, but that's because they were popping.
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Speaker 1: They were they were already look like I was going
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Speaker 1: to the club trying to get my song played when
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Speaker 1: they were doing Badness, Bitch in the World and ship
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Speaker 1: like that. So like respecting them for that because they've
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Speaker 1: been doing it before then, and they were black mind
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Speaker 1: before then. A lot of people don't know that hard
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Speaker 1: hitters or whatever it was. So I've been on them.
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Speaker 1: I've been on like black Man versus the fan stuff
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Speaker 1: sit like that. So nonetheless, I made the song. I
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Speaker 1: think my mom had just moved to Like it was
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Speaker 1: like a really bad time for America, like we was
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Speaker 1: in a recession and shit like that, and so my
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Speaker 1: mom had just got laid off and they relocated her
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Speaker 1: to Seattle, and so I was in the crib by myself,
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Speaker 1: and I went and got like some U Haul blankets
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Speaker 1: and shit, like I'm literally fitting for myself at like
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Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen. Okay, So I went and got some U
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Speaker 1: Haul blankets. I set them up in the corner of
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Speaker 1: the room, got a microphone, wrapped a washcloth around it
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Speaker 1: with a rubber band. I think I was recording on
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Speaker 1: like Adobe Audition's three point zero, which was like not
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Speaker 1: even some recording software for real, playing it off a
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Speaker 1: boombox like it was really put together, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like I really kind of nigga rigged it
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Speaker 1: a little bit. But nonetheless, I came up with the record.
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Speaker 1: I knew I needed to re record the record, so
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Speaker 1: I went to who was sire the Kids now? But
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Speaker 1: it was his arrogant music studios off of Wendy Hill.
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Speaker 1: I went and re recorded that song, and I did
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Speaker 1: another song called crunch Time, but it was just the
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Speaker 1: hook in the first verse for turned up so fast forward.
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Speaker 1: My cousin had a good relationship with them from school
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Speaker 1: or whatever, from Miller Grove or whatever. So we went
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Speaker 1: to this club, just Jamaking Club off South Harriston one night,
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Speaker 1: and we was with Strap and I played the CD
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Speaker 1: in the car and he heard it and was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this shit hard. I was like, I actually wanted I
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Speaker 1: need somebody to get us still some open spots on
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Speaker 1: here with you with the woop. So he was like, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna do it woo woop. So a couple
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Speaker 1: of days later we went over to CEO Charlie's Mama
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Speaker 1: crib to spitch your game office or whatever and cut
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Speaker 1: the record in his totality for what the Travis Porter
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Speaker 1: version was. A couple of weeks later they put out
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Speaker 1: the Differenter album and it ended up on there from
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Speaker 1: whoever however, it just ended up on their project as
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Speaker 1: Travis Porter featuring I was ATL at that time, young ATL,
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Speaker 1: so nobody knew who Roscoe Dash was, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Until they heard the first verse and they
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Speaker 1: heard me actually do it, then it's like okay. So
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Speaker 1: I went and moved around with them for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and I actually was open to get in a situation
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Speaker 1: with I guess. I don't know what the name of
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Speaker 1: the Porterhouse label was before it was Porterhouse, but they
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Speaker 1: were in they were on their way to building that
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Speaker 1: in print or whatever, and so I talked to the CEO,
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Speaker 1: Charlie about it, but he wanted me to be included
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Speaker 1: in the group. And I'm like, Nigga, I can go
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Speaker 1: move around with them, you know what I'm saying, because
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Speaker 1: it just made sense for them already putting the record
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Speaker 1: out as their record. Now they don't have to tell
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Speaker 1: anybody that it's not their record, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: That's what I think from his perspective, he was thinking
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Speaker 1: the boys didn't know nothing about that. They just being
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Speaker 1: the boys, you know what I'm saying. So, and we
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Speaker 1: had the conversation too, and I told him, I'm like, bro,
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Speaker 1: you know I got kids, just like I think Strat
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Speaker 1: was the only other person that had kids at that time. Like, Bro,
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Speaker 1: I gotta you know what I'm saying, it's my shot.
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Speaker 1: So they was like, Bro, do whatever you gotta do.
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Speaker 1: And ultimately it just led to being done that way,
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Speaker 1: which is partially boommn fault. Really that was a boom
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Speaker 1: man and K moved not the throw K in the
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Speaker 1: hot seat too, But it worked out, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And we gave a credit to the original
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Speaker 1: producer for the remake and just took off. Soldier did
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Speaker 1: that shit in like forty five minutes because of what
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Speaker 1: was going on.
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Speaker 3: He sent it right back, so you so boy like, oh,
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Speaker 3: like yo, we need to get you on this record
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Speaker 3: so that you know the brand.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even know, Bro, I didn't even know until
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Speaker 1: it came back. Like he just put the play in
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Speaker 1: motion because he was like he already had the I
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Speaker 1: think he did turn my Swag on and some other
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Speaker 1: shit for Soldiers, so they already was locked in, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So he got him to send
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Speaker 1: it back. I recut the vocals on the new beat
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Speaker 1: that K had win his stitch together or whatever, and
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Speaker 1: the rest was history. After that, we did like four
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Speaker 1: or five records show out Maximum Stories stuff. You did
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Speaker 1: all that with k it was like a trip to Valdost.
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Speaker 1: I used to go like every other weekend and just
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Speaker 1: go down to take Valdosta was leading.
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Speaker 3: You had the I feel like you were just going
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Speaker 3: like back back to back back with hits.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we was. We was creating a style then,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it was easy to
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Speaker 1: kind of just keep redoing the footprint that we was
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Speaker 1: laying at that time, you know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 1: once Kay heard me on the horns, he was like,
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Speaker 1: we're doing horns on everything. I don't get. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's how it happened. Not but there wasn't any bad
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Speaker 1: blood between There was at some point in time, because
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Speaker 1: I mean like it was times we were bumping to
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Speaker 1: each other at shows, bro we was about to hit,
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Speaker 1: like we was outside like it was like bad. Like
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Speaker 1: they'll tell you this why they was bad at you
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Speaker 1: if it was your song. I think it was just
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Speaker 1: how it was being portrayed, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: They probably felt a little played. I ain't gonna lie.
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Speaker 1: I probably would too if I took somebody on the
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Speaker 1: road and this, that and the third because they didn't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't think they really knew the perspective of what
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Speaker 1: Charlie was trying to do. Oh like the business behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes really what blew up their relationship because we
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Speaker 1: had a relationship, you know what I'm saying, Like we
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Speaker 1: was kicking it. We was going to the club, we
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Speaker 1: going to the studio. I used to go on the
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Speaker 1: road with them a little bit. We did all and
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Speaker 1: we did all these other you know, Southeast region shows
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Speaker 1: and ship like that where I was just coming out
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Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So, but
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Speaker 1: it just got like that because I think from the
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Speaker 1: public perspective, I feel like people were trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out what's what and I got I got mad too
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Speaker 1: when people were saying, oh, no, it was really their
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Speaker 1: song and they're telling the story like it was them
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, bro, that's not how it happened. Sold
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Speaker 1: boy really blew the song up. He went crazy.
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Speaker 3: I think that's how you know, everything happens for a
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Speaker 3: reason because he was the hottest wrapper out.
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Speaker 1: But but but that no hands my boy. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: how did that happen? Man? So was on the Walk
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Speaker 1: of fo We was on the road. And it's funny
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Speaker 1: because the stories kind of correlated because I think we
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Speaker 1: all been cool since like Mariachi Mondays and stuff like
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Speaker 1: that that we was doing way back in the gap
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Speaker 1: for the open mics with et and them, and so uh,
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Speaker 1: when we started moving around, we used to get booked
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Speaker 1: for a lot of the same gigs. So literally, when
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Speaker 1: I'm about to like hit with Travis Porter and we
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Speaker 1: about to fight or whatever outside for whatever reason, Walker's
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Speaker 1: like the mediator and this ship because he's like, bro,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to get in you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Walker was the mediator mediator and it's crazy wow yah yeah,
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Speaker 1: so if you know, you know boom. So anyway, long
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Speaker 1: story short, we came off the road from doing like
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Speaker 1: a little stamp doing a couple of shows together or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I think this was around the time when Gucci had
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Speaker 1: just got out of jail from the second I want
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Speaker 1: to get you know, one of them times. So boom,
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Speaker 1: we all at patchwork and Reese shout out to Recie Recye,
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Speaker 1: the one who kind of made it happen. She put
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Speaker 1: the session together between Drummer Boy in the b room
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Speaker 1: and and Waka, So I guess Gucci was in the
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Speaker 1: A room. Everybody was showing up for Gucci, but Druma
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Speaker 1: snuck out of there. He dropped his back off the
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Speaker 1: Gucci and then went and worked in the B room
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Speaker 1: with Waka. So when I went in there, he was
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Speaker 1: just making it. He was actually about to do something
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Speaker 1: completely different, like a whole different style of record that
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Speaker 1: nobody hit her before. It's called like trap step or
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Speaker 1: something was about to get ready to create. That's something
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Speaker 1: that I don't think nobody ever knew. But I heard
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Speaker 1: that beat and I was like yo. I was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: chicks love you. You know what I'm saying. Where this for be?
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Speaker 1: Motherfuckers up in the club or whatever you're doing? Like,
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Speaker 1: they love you for whatever persona they see you as
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Speaker 1: or whatever. So I said, you do a song for them, bro,
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Speaker 1: It's gonna carry you for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 1: I said, matter of fact, just write the verse. Bro,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. You know what I'm saying, like
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Speaker 1: this rite the verse. Drama must have been listening to me,
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Speaker 1: listen to him making the beat and saying what I'm
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Speaker 1: saying to him, because he started putting that shit together
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Speaker 1: and guess what happened. Them horns came on. When the
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Speaker 1: horns came on, when the horse came, Roscoe came to man.
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Speaker 1: So the rest was history. But it's crazy because while
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Speaker 1: they ended up being in a room through recy two,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So this is my first
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Speaker 1: time meeting him. I knew of him before because I
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Speaker 1: saw him with the on BT jams and all this
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Speaker 1: other stuff when I was in the studio from the
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Speaker 1: song he had about the shoes and shit. That's the
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Speaker 1: only song I knew at that time, though, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I think like halfway through the
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Speaker 1: record rec he came and tapped this and was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: while they had something, I'm like telling to get on
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Speaker 1: us to go in a booth, bro, get him on
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Speaker 1: the song. So he went and later and the rest
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Speaker 1: was history, bro honestly, and it just took off from that.
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Speaker 1: I think we put it out on his More About
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Speaker 1: Nothing mixtape like a day after we cut it or
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Speaker 1: something like that, and it was out of here. Damn. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the time.
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Speaker 2: That's one of those timeless hip hop songs, especially, it
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Speaker 2: represents a time period place it's just man, it's one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest records ever. It's almost to me is perfect.
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Speaker 1: It's a perfect so I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So now what happens next, because I feel
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Speaker 2: like we're at the height right now and I don't
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Speaker 2: really remember anything else after this nobody.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what really happened. I was in a bad
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Speaker 1: label situation. So I'm gonna say IM gonna say this
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Speaker 1: just to set the record straight because I really don't beat.
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Speaker 1: I'll be waiting for the right time to say what
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Speaker 1: I need to say about certain stuff. So originally when
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Speaker 1: I went and did my deal, I did a management
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Speaker 1: deal with boom Man right from h M M I.
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Speaker 1: At the time, he was going crazy in Valdosta. He
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Speaker 1: had it going on up here too. He just kind
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Speaker 1: of knew how to market it and put it together right.
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Speaker 1: So he connects me to try to get me a
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Speaker 1: deal and take me. Once we put that record out
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Speaker 1: and start going crazy, He's like, Okay, now I need
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Speaker 1: to get it. Get the situation. Which record was all
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Speaker 1: the way turned down, so we had show out and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. We had like a five pack and
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Speaker 1: all the way turned up and show. I was in
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Speaker 1: that five pack so we already knew we had the
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Speaker 1: first and second record. We was just marketing it as
11:53
Speaker 1: all five so that when they go listen to it
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Speaker 1: on YouTube, they got a foundation. That's a that's free game.
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Speaker 1: They get foundation of how to you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: what you sound like with the next record, gonna sound
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Speaker 1: like whatever? Whatever? So boom he goes and gets me
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Speaker 1: this deal or tries to give me this deal with
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Speaker 1: deaf Jam. The situation with Travis Porter and whose record
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Speaker 1: it is messed up the deal with deaf Jam through
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Speaker 1: Tony Neil. Tony Niel like put out this is what
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Speaker 1: I heard, allegedly put out a Neil hit me too,
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Speaker 1: want to come on the show. Yeah, he put it.
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Speaker 1: He hit me like last week too. We're cool now.
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Speaker 1: But he uh he put a petition out that like
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Speaker 1: was saying that they're not going to play the record
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Speaker 1: because it's not my record. They're gonna only gonna play
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Speaker 1: the Travis Porter version or whatever. So that kind of
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Speaker 1: sparked the height of the Soldier Boy version. We started
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Speaker 1: really mashing the gas. Then we got Interscopes Attention through
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Speaker 1: a furnishing deal, so I really was signed to Polo
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Speaker 1: to don and this other group called music Line at
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Speaker 1: the time. So how'd you get signed to Polo to
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Speaker 1: don through Chubby Baby? Shout out to Chubby Baby. Let
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Speaker 1: me tell you when I tell you, Bro, Chubby really
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Speaker 1: went to bat for me, Bro, and like I didn't
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Speaker 1: even know this was happening. I don't even know how
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Speaker 1: Chubby got winded me or whatever, but he went on
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Speaker 1: V V one O three, got Polo to go on
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Speaker 1: V one O three. I got the sound bite from
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Speaker 1: this too, It's gonna be in my documentary where he
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Speaker 1: told him like, yeah, we just signed this new kid,
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Speaker 1: Roscoe Dash with the all the way turned up woo.
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Speaker 1: I found out then. I didn't even know, like they
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Speaker 1: passing my shit around, Like I don't know, Bro swear.
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Speaker 1: So little did I know boom Man had I think
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Speaker 1: I went in there that I was doing but just
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Speaker 1: signed the boom Man on the men on the management.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't know it was a three sixty, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So he really had me on
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Speaker 1: the management and the artist side of the recording side too,
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Speaker 1: But I didn't know that at the time, eighteen years old,
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Speaker 1: I ain't know, you know what I'm saying. So boom.
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Speaker 1: When we get to the next situation with the furnishing
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Speaker 1: company furnishing me to Interscope, he had already sold my contract.
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Speaker 1: I think I was working on kn' cash the lambou
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Speaker 1: at this time or demolition of twenty twenty. He sold
13:31
Speaker 1: my contract to that furnishing company and got out the way.
13:34
Speaker 1: But he had already hit my publishing too, so it
13:36
Speaker 1: just created a bad situation for everybody.
13:38
Speaker 3: Oh, he didn't got the publishing, the deal with the
13:42
Speaker 3: with the labels, so he didn't already made his money,
13:44
Speaker 3: so he like, here, y'all can have them.
13:45
Speaker 1: That's why MMI is not MI no more, because he
13:47
Speaker 1: even fell out with the business partner. You see what
13:48
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's why I changed the Authentic Empire. That's
13:51
Speaker 1: really Roscoe Dash money that he would have started that
13:53
Speaker 1: label with, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, So, and
13:55
Speaker 1: that that's when the whole like trajectory of what he
13:58
Speaker 1: was doing changed a little bit. You know what I'm saying.
14:00
Speaker 1: I'm kind of to the wolves at that point because
14:01
Speaker 1: I'm with some new people that I just met through
14:03
Speaker 1: a furnishing company. I'm signed to a deal with a
14:05
Speaker 1: major label. So this is really my shot that I
14:07
Speaker 1: wanted as a kid dreaming of getting a record deal,
14:09
Speaker 1: But it's tied to some other bullshit too, you know
14:11
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And do you know what's going on
14:13
Speaker 1: at this particular no idea? Like I found out from
14:15
Speaker 1: asking how I was like, I want to shoot the
14:17
Speaker 1: video for whatever song off my mixtape to help, you know,
14:20
Speaker 1: drive to whatever we're doing for that shit. He was like, oh,
14:22
Speaker 1: we don't handle that no more. I found out in
14:24
Speaker 1: the studio bro in the booth, like in this booth
14:25
Speaker 1: that we sitting next to. I found out like that swear.
14:29
Speaker 1: So did that drive you to start looking at like
14:31
Speaker 1: the business situation? Said? You sound very educated now?
14:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, now, but at that particular time, did you
14:37
Speaker 3: did you when you experienced that situation in the studio,
14:41
Speaker 3: did it kind of spark your mind and saying like,
14:43
Speaker 3: you know, I need.
14:44
Speaker 1: To I start looking around. Yeah, you got to look
14:45
Speaker 1: around and see what's going on because now I'm already
14:48
Speaker 1: in bed. Paul's with these other people that I don't know,
14:51
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm with the big label and they're
14:53
Speaker 1: tied to the situation with the big label, and I
14:55
Speaker 1: got another person, Polo who's not even probably not even
14:58
Speaker 1: tied to none of this bullshit that's going on over here.
15:00
Speaker 1: He just wants to give me a shot as a
15:01
Speaker 1: you know, being a talent instead. You see what I'm saying.
15:03
Speaker 1: So it kind of was a rotten egg and a
15:06
Speaker 1: cart in that.
15:06
Speaker 2: So this is all happening as all hands is out,
15:12
Speaker 2: oh man, But you're making show money.
15:14
Speaker 1: That's what's keeping it cool. That's all honestly between us. Bro.
15:17
Speaker 1: That's that's up until about like maybe a year so ago.
15:20
Speaker 1: I didn't even know where the publishing money was going
15:22
Speaker 1: because the deal that he sold or created and did whatever,
15:25
Speaker 1: I didn't even know. I had to track all that shit.
15:26
Speaker 1: That took me fifteen years, Bro to figure that out.
15:29
Speaker 1: Fifteen years of track. So it's like it's like either
15:31
Speaker 1: do I keep riding a wave and put That's why
15:33
Speaker 1: I said, for a minute, I was like, I ain't
15:34
Speaker 1: doing hook no more shit because I knew that was
15:36
Speaker 1: gonna shut them down from doing what they was doing,
15:38
Speaker 1: so I could figure out how to get to what
15:40
Speaker 1: was going on. So you were in silent and I
15:42
Speaker 1: went and started focusing on the other stuff. I had my
15:44
Speaker 1: second daughter around that time too. It was just a
15:45
Speaker 1: lot going on. Lost my best friend the day before
15:47
Speaker 1: my second daughter was born. It was a lot of
15:49
Speaker 1: shit going on at one time. So for me being
15:51
Speaker 1: twenty two years old at the time, I'm kind of
15:53
Speaker 1: trying to figure it. I'm looking at the lawyers who
15:54
Speaker 1: helped me do the deal. I'm looking at like, who
15:56
Speaker 1: can I even look? You know what I mean, Like,
15:57
Speaker 1: how do you even navigate that type of situation, you
15:59
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And then come to find out,
16:02
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know the business of like producer
16:04
Speaker 1: agreements or like side all disagreements and shit like that.
16:07
Speaker 1: So all these things are going untouched. Like so the
16:08
Speaker 1: relationships I'm having with the wala's, the dramas, the people
16:11
Speaker 1: who I'm giving these records to. They situation is messed
16:13
Speaker 1: up too because the paperwork an't getting signed, you know
16:15
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's like a lot of different
16:16
Speaker 1: things that's going on at one time that's just kind
16:18
Speaker 1: of hindering me from being who I am. In that moment.
16:21
Speaker 1: All I had was to keep doing the music and
16:22
Speaker 1: keep giving out what I had with so many girls
16:24
Speaker 1: the other you know what I'm saying to the world
16:26
Speaker 1: with r Kelly and Kanye I found out I was
16:28
Speaker 1: a songwriter in that same moment. That's what really gave
16:30
Speaker 1: me the longevity to keep going. In my opinion, now,
16:33
Speaker 1: that's damn yes, that is a lot.
16:37
Speaker 3: I couldn't even imagine going through something like that and
16:40
Speaker 3: why you were going through that. Did you ever think
16:42
Speaker 3: about like did you ever have a conversation with Polo, like,
16:46
Speaker 3: hey man, what's going on with this?
16:47
Speaker 1: Yeah? We tried to sit at the table. He tried
16:49
Speaker 1: to sit at the table and actually talk to him
16:50
Speaker 1: about it, and that shit blew up too. We met
16:52
Speaker 1: at Houston's one night, my mom came and everything. We
16:54
Speaker 1: tried to like work it out and they ended up
16:56
Speaker 1: getting into it cause with the label, Yeah, because Polo
16:58
Speaker 1: was kind of like trying to say he's a star, bro,
17:00
Speaker 1: we need to be doing this out of the third
17:02
Speaker 1: Like he wanted to buy me the lambeau Go sign
17:04
Speaker 1: some other artists that he had to all to write.
17:06
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Took me to the right parties.
17:08
Speaker 1: I was out with the right people. I met like
17:10
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. We doing I got Chris Brown records and
17:12
Speaker 1: all kinds of niggas never hear bro swear because the
17:15
Speaker 1: situation imploded. But I was knocking him out, you know
17:17
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it was just a lot of
17:19
Speaker 1: different stuff that was going on at one time. Bro,
17:21
Speaker 1: I can't say that or not. I know, you just
17:22
Speaker 1: be riding in the car like that. Yeah, like you
17:25
Speaker 1: listen to these records. Yea, I'm saying. For time to time,
17:27
Speaker 1: I got like computers, bro, with just like all kinds
17:29
Speaker 1: of stuff. And don't get me wrong, like I still
17:31
Speaker 1: was getting my shit off. I still got like other placements.
17:33
Speaker 1: But this is like for Roscoe Dash, I could have
17:36
Speaker 1: been like on some floor ride and shit at twenty
17:38
Speaker 1: two instead of waiting till I'm twenty eight thirty to
17:41
Speaker 1: do it. You know what I'm saying.
17:42
Speaker 3: And at that point did you just did you say said, man,
17:45
Speaker 3: hold on, I just need to take a break stop
17:48
Speaker 3: because I don't know where my money's going. I don't
17:51
Speaker 3: know the business what's going on. I just know I
17:53
Speaker 3: got these hit records. I'm super famous right now. I
17:56
Speaker 3: think I just need to stop.
17:58
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean I kept doing the music, but
18:00
Speaker 1: I knew that even in putting the music out and
18:03
Speaker 1: it was something new, I didn't know where that was going.
18:05
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was still whatever was happening
18:06
Speaker 1: was still happening, you know what I'm saying. So it's
18:09
Speaker 1: like it's like putting some uploading something into a black
18:12
Speaker 1: hole and just hoping it do what it need to do.
18:14
Speaker 1: So at that point, all I had was the fame
18:16
Speaker 1: that I had for people knowing what I do, you
18:18
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, to carry people to go do
18:20
Speaker 1: the records because now I got released from Interscope once
18:22
Speaker 1: they got wind of what was going on, they were like,
18:24
Speaker 1: you can just come back to us whenever you get
18:25
Speaker 1: all this other stuff out the way. But fifteen years later,
18:27
Speaker 1: it's just now getting to that point where it's like,
18:29
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying, So I can go move
18:30
Speaker 1: around and do those types of things. So I just
18:32
Speaker 1: kind of sat with and it went independent. Started building
18:34
Speaker 1: the other parts of the brand to kind of be
18:36
Speaker 1: my foundation because I know I can always do the music,
18:39
Speaker 1: like the music is always going to have been given
18:40
Speaker 1: out records to other people ever since, you know what
18:41
Speaker 1: I mean. I never stopped doing that part. So when
18:43
Speaker 1: I do my documentary and people see that list the Lotus,
18:46
Speaker 1: flower Bombs, the Tanache, it feels like Vegas, the all
18:49
Speaker 1: these other records that I've been doing this whole time
18:51
Speaker 1: home with Travis Scott. I've been doing like a lot
18:53
Speaker 1: of different stuff. I just ain't been publicizing it. What
18:56
Speaker 1: makes you what makes you not want to publicize? I
18:57
Speaker 1: do now, But I just knew the other thing was
19:00
Speaker 1: in that time, In that fifteen year time frame, you know,
19:02
Speaker 1: people gonna fall out when they catch wind of what's
19:03
Speaker 1: going on. People gonna go tuck in, do this, that,
19:05
Speaker 1: and the ThReD. You gotta track people down with the woop.
19:07
Speaker 1: So for me, it was just about making sure the
19:09
Speaker 1: time was right and knowing that when I do what,
19:12
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the shot. I need to have to
19:14
Speaker 1: to go where it needs to go, you know what
19:15
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So once they caught win and they're like, oh,
19:16
Speaker 1: he's still right, that's more my nigga. But let me
19:18
Speaker 1: go check the bank account and see if the money
19:19
Speaker 1: they came in, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
19:21
Speaker 1: trying to navigate all that ship. Because when you're dealing
19:23
Speaker 1: with labels bro Universal, they got an agreement. Let's say
19:25
Speaker 1: if y'all, if you're the artist and you're the manager,
19:28
Speaker 1: or whatever. If you go do a deal with me,
19:30
Speaker 1: it don't matter what he if. He can be like,
19:31
Speaker 1: oh I'm such and such, I am Ferrari Simmons. I'm
19:33
Speaker 1: trying to see what my publishing that. Woooo. Well, you
19:35
Speaker 1: gotta go holler at BT because BT we got an
19:37
Speaker 1: agreement with him based off of your admin rights to
19:39
Speaker 1: this that of the third and you don't really have
19:40
Speaker 1: no power in that situation. You see what I'm saying.
19:44
Speaker 1: You give out a lot of game. Yeah, the documentary
19:46
Speaker 1: is gonna be give it out a lot of game.
19:48
Speaker 1: Seem gonna be a.
19:49
Speaker 2: Lot of replay value in this interview.
19:53
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I appreciate y'all. Yeah, we gotta have you
19:56
Speaker 1: come back to sure.
19:57
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's uh, you know, before we wrap, let's
19:59
Speaker 2: talk about what you currently have going on now.
20:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, so right now, man, I've been I just did
20:05
Speaker 1: the BT Hip Hop Awards with Soldiers, Big fine. I
20:09
Speaker 1: just gave us the footing. We need to do what
20:11
Speaker 1: I need to do for people to be like, oh
20:12
Speaker 1: that's what he looked like. Oh that's what's going on.
20:14
Speaker 1: Oh that is he did do these songs with the wool.
20:16
Speaker 1: So right now, what I'm doing is. I'm doing a
20:18
Speaker 1: documentary that should be out first quarter, first or second
20:20
Speaker 1: quarter on the major publication or what is call the Scenes.
20:24
Speaker 1: We haven't decided what it's gonna be called yet, and
20:26
Speaker 1: I'm kind of between like two names. I'm trying to
20:28
Speaker 1: figure out what I'm gonna do. But it's gonna be
20:30
Speaker 1: on some like Amazon or you know, Hulu, whatever type shit.
20:33
Speaker 1: So we got that. I got a project I'm working
20:35
Speaker 1: on call Let's Have Fun. I really want to bring
20:36
Speaker 1: fun back to music, to the clubs and shit like that.
20:38
Speaker 1: So I got a project that I'm curating with some
20:40
Speaker 1: new and old talents smart. Yeah, it just kind of
20:44
Speaker 1: bridged the gap. Bro. I feel like I'm a bridge.
20:45
Speaker 1: I'm a young og, so I'm not I'm not as
20:48
Speaker 1: as up there as decorated as like a juvenile or
20:51
Speaker 1: whoever else, right, but I'm still a young og that
20:54
Speaker 1: can talk to the young kids and get them on
20:55
Speaker 1: them records to be you know, all on the same
20:58
Speaker 1: page or whatever. So that's kind of what I've been doing.
21:00
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, I've been doing the independent films.
21:01
Speaker 1: I'm on my third independent film now, uh that just
21:04
Speaker 1: came out two weeks ago called make it Rain. That's
21:07
Speaker 1: on to b and Netflix. I think I got for
21:10
Speaker 1: the Gram that's out, and I got rack Case that's
21:11
Speaker 1: out as well, on t being some other peacock I
21:14
Speaker 1: think or something like that.
21:15
Speaker 3: So thats got that business right.
21:19
Speaker 1: Get it together, man, I'll be telling people all the time, bro,
21:21
Speaker 1: It's about spreading it out, you know what I'm saying.
21:23
Speaker 1: Like you, when you start to get that fame and
21:25
Speaker 1: the song isn't bigger than you and people know who
21:27
Speaker 1: you are, you got to start spreading that stuff out
21:28
Speaker 1: because you never know. It could be some lifestyle stuff.
21:30
Speaker 1: I've been playing celebrity basketball games, football games, during the
21:32
Speaker 1: Super Bowl halftime shows, all kind of stuff just from
21:35
Speaker 1: showing the lifestyle, you know what I'm saying, Telling people,
21:37
Speaker 1: I'm vegetariing I can get some other ship going for that,
21:39
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
21:39
Speaker 3: So just all kinds of different things and people. Uh,
21:42
Speaker 3: just just for the record, we all are friends in
21:47
Speaker 3: the group chat.
21:48
Speaker 1: Everybody, So I don't want to think, you know, it's
21:51
Speaker 1: still any issues or anything like that come up here too. No,
21:55
Speaker 1: for sure, I want to do a tour, bro. Like
21:57
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to get to the position where I
21:58
Speaker 1: can put a tour together that kind of features all
22:01
Speaker 1: the people that kind of paid the way and that
22:03
Speaker 1: not just in the era where I came out, but
22:04
Speaker 1: you know since then too, Like I want to do
22:06
Speaker 1: a real some real millennium turned up stuff. You know
22:09
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like.
22:10
Speaker 2: So well, look, I want to give your flowers, man,
22:14
Speaker 2: because I remember the time I went a little That's
22:17
Speaker 2: when I was.
22:18
Speaker 1: Becoming Ferrari Simmons.
22:20
Speaker 2: I was in them clubs with DJ Holliday and all
22:22
Speaker 2: them boys, and we was in them strip clubs.
22:24
Speaker 1: And ran around. He gave us some bangers. You know,
22:29
Speaker 1: We've been on plenty of stages.
22:32
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't even know. Manhi used to
22:33
Speaker 3: be on the road together. This when I this when
22:35
Speaker 3: I lived in Arkansas.
22:37
Speaker 1: He had that ship going crazy. Like man, he used
22:39
Speaker 1: to travel everywhere.
22:40
Speaker 3: Man, when I tell you this, dude is never going
22:43
Speaker 3: to be without a job because people love Roscoe.
22:48
Speaker 1: Dash love your music bro to this day.
22:52
Speaker 3: And it's like your music, it's so crazy because your
22:55
Speaker 3: music is being passed down from like generation, especially with
22:57
Speaker 3: the college he got the college market on Smash I got.
23:01
Speaker 1: I got a couple of people that's been hitting me up.
23:03
Speaker 1: That's like you know they the million or billion stream
23:06
Speaker 1: rap people or whatever. Right now it's like, Yo, we
23:07
Speaker 1: want to redoce sexy girl, we want to redo. And
23:10
Speaker 1: I'm like, hell you Like I I'm blessed to be
23:13
Speaker 1: in a position for you have the catalog or that.
23:16
Speaker 3: To you definitely got the catalog because your music is
23:19
Speaker 3: like being passed down a generation. Because I looked at
23:22
Speaker 3: the like we used to do the colleges together and
23:25
Speaker 3: I was like, man, he got the colleges on smash.
23:28
Speaker 3: And then think about it when they graduate college. Now,
23:30
Speaker 3: the new people, they're going to be listening to Roscoe
23:33
Speaker 3: Like it's crazy.
23:34
Speaker 1: It's the other that's the other gym that people don't know.
23:36
Speaker 1: I'll be telling them like it's the clubs and all
23:37
Speaker 1: that shit. Cool, bro, you getting them college market college.
23:41
Speaker 1: I always felt like you k camp and a couple
23:43
Speaker 1: of the Kevin is another one. Yeah, Camp is another one.
23:47
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I want to say this too, bro,
23:48
Speaker 1: because I remember it was times when we was at
23:49
Speaker 1: the Aragon Music Studio and I think it was like
23:51
Speaker 1: Shawn Teezy was popping around this time. Yeah, like this
23:55
Speaker 1: is this is some real Camp was around, Bro, and
23:58
Speaker 1: he was like the young you know what I mean.
24:01
Speaker 1: But I'm just so proud of watching them people that
24:03
Speaker 1: really stayed down and stuck to the ground. Sunny Digital
24:04
Speaker 1: is another one. I was just talking about him earlier.
24:06
Speaker 1: People that just always been in the right rooms and
24:08
Speaker 1: don't have to be in the front to lead, And
24:10
Speaker 1: now they're getting their time to do all the things
24:12
Speaker 1: they ever felt, and even the unfathomable stuff too, because
24:14
Speaker 1: those the best blessings to me, in my opinion, stuff
24:15
Speaker 1: because you're to see yourself doing so Shout out to them, man,
24:18
Speaker 1: Shot out to anybody who've been just holding it down
24:19
Speaker 1: and just persevering, you know what I'm saying, and being
24:22
Speaker 1: resilient so it's hard.
24:24
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, I need you to
24:25
Speaker 2: look at that camera. It's called the mental health check in.
24:28
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, what to do? What to do with
24:29
Speaker 1: your boy, mister Rosco yourself, Roscoe dash this is the
24:32
Speaker 1: mental health check in. If I was you, man, my
24:35
Speaker 1: word of advice for the day would be to stop
24:37
Speaker 1: by that mirror. Man, don't forget to stop by that
24:38
Speaker 1: mirror and tell that person that's looking back at you
24:40
Speaker 1: to day that shit bro and that they got it
24:42
Speaker 1: under control. You never lose the best thing you ever had,
24:45
Speaker 1: and you's about one hundred percent of your worst days.
24:47
Speaker 1: So keep on trucking. Keep the man upstairs first