Latest / The Breakfast Club / Troy Ave Interview
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity, real time morning. Everybody is DJ
- 0:08Speaker 1: m Vy, Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
- 0:11Speaker 1: breakfast club special guests in the building. My name, I'm
- 0:18Speaker 1: good Man. I didn't do this in a while, mad, tired,
- 0:20Speaker 1: but good I'm black. Yeah, you need to be here
- 0:23Speaker 1: because you know you had to end of that going
- 0:25Speaker 1: nuts last week. Bro, you sold records allegedly, that's what
- 0:31Speaker 1: they said, thirty physical copies right now. With those numbers accurate,
- 0:36Speaker 1: I don't know they wasn't accurate, you know what I'm saying.
- 0:39Speaker 1: I think Billboard wrote like an article after about what
- 0:41Speaker 1: exactly happened, because you know, that was really my first
- 0:44Speaker 1: time going selling stuff. Like the other time I had
- 0:47Speaker 1: New York City the album, I put it up for
- 0:49Speaker 1: self for twelve hours, and in after that I put
- 0:52Speaker 1: it out, you know, for free on a lot of mixing.
- 0:54Speaker 1: It was with that pivot whatever. But this was the
- 0:56Speaker 1: first time I went and did it full out. I'll
- 0:58Speaker 1: go cap it best bout whatever. What happened was, I
- 1:01Speaker 1: dropped the album on Friday. Usually albums drop on Tuesday,
- 1:05Speaker 1: and the physical copies wasn't supposed to come out till Tuesday.
- 1:10Speaker 1: You feel me. So what happened was between Friday to Monday.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I guess sound skin is reported from Friday to Monday.
- 1:16Speaker 1: So from Friday to Monday, I sold like forty three
- 1:19Speaker 1: hundred or whatever, under forty five hundred, you know what
- 1:23Speaker 1: I mean, in those two days or whatever. And then
- 1:25Speaker 1: on the or was it on Tuesday. The thirty copies
- 1:28Speaker 1: that were sold, they were so illegally, Like I don't
- 1:31Speaker 1: give a fuck there so illegally because I just want
- 1:33Speaker 1: my music out. But basically it was like the mom
- 1:35Speaker 1: and pop stores that had them and if people came
- 1:37Speaker 1: and asked for them early, they were just giving them.
- 1:39Speaker 1: And it was really this one one store in the Bronx,
- 1:42Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and sold the thirty copies,
- 1:44Speaker 1: but shout out to them, they got my music out.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I ain't chipping its forty five hundred records sold a
- 1:49Speaker 1: flop for the independent artists first week? Hell no, hell no.
- 1:54Speaker 1: You gotta think like I seen everything going in the
- 1:57Speaker 1: uproar and all that, and it said out, so forty
- 2:00Speaker 1: file any records, But if I'm getting ninety five percent
- 2:02Speaker 1: of my bread and that within that week, from that
- 2:05Speaker 1: Friday to the it wasn't from Friday five, any Friday
- 2:08Speaker 1: to Saturday or whatever. I made a honey twenty bands,
- 2:11Speaker 1: you feel me, between the record sales, between thirty thousand
- 2:14Speaker 1: singles between you know what I mean doing hosting. So
- 2:17Speaker 1: like when you're independent and you really self made it,
- 2:20Speaker 1: self paid independent, and it don't matter, it don't matter.
- 2:23Speaker 1: You gotta get the slow ground, like the reasonable doubt ground,
- 2:26Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, Like they're gonna catch
- 2:28Speaker 1: the later and they keep picking up and picking up
- 2:29Speaker 1: and picking up. And at the end of the day,
- 2:31Speaker 1: I'm here to make money. I'm here to get the paper.
- 2:34Speaker 1: And now I understand what jay Z meant by can
- 2:36Speaker 1: you really match a triple platinum artists buck by Buck
- 2:38Speaker 1: with only a single gon goal? I could really match
- 2:41Speaker 1: a platinum artist buck by buck with not even a
- 2:43Speaker 1: single going goal. You feel me? Because what usually happens
- 2:47Speaker 1: is an artists they get a deal, and they're regular deal.
- 2:50Speaker 1: They get fifteen percent of every dollar a little more
- 2:52Speaker 1: if they hot, you know what I'm saying, And now
- 2:55Speaker 1: with me, I'm getting ninety five percent on every dollars.
- 2:57Speaker 1: So if an artists get fifteen percent of dollars, they
- 3:01Speaker 1: sell a million singles or whatever. They supposed to be
- 3:04Speaker 1: old one hundred and fifty thousand, but the record label
- 3:06Speaker 1: then spent two fifty three hundred to make them hot.
- 3:10Speaker 1: So really, what happens if they spend two fifty the
- 3:13Speaker 1: artists old one hundred thousand back to the label? You
- 3:15Speaker 1: feel me with cho you have? It don't cost me
- 3:18Speaker 1: nothing to make no album. I got my own producers,
- 3:20Speaker 1: I got my own art graphic design. Na, I don't
- 3:24Speaker 1: got when you got the respect. When they see you
- 3:26Speaker 1: coming up and they see you like you're the boy,
- 3:29Speaker 1: they're gonna do that with the strength same way I
- 3:31Speaker 1: do it. You know what I'm saying. If I see
- 3:32Speaker 1: somebody moving, I'm gonna do that over the loving everybody
- 3:35Speaker 1: you see on there, like yo, we're rocking with you.
- 3:37Speaker 1: What you need or shoot me back a feature or whatever.
- 3:40Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like y'all just have five
- 3:42Speaker 1: in yo, whatever you need. Know what I'm saying. Yeah,
- 3:49Speaker 1: So what I was saying is like if I if
- 3:51Speaker 1: I turn around and I sell a hundred thousand records
- 3:54Speaker 1: or whatever, like I'm getting more money than somebody who
- 3:57Speaker 1: went platinum. You know what I'm saying. And I'm just
- 3:59Speaker 1: talking about les and singles, be moving everything. Just BSB
- 4:03Speaker 1: get off that coming up. Of course it's gonna sell
- 4:05Speaker 1: more than forty five hundred over time. But how much
- 4:07Speaker 1: the BSB get over that? Get we get ninety five percent?
- 4:11Speaker 1: You know, five percent go no, ninety percent, five percent
- 4:14Speaker 1: go to my lawyer, and then five percent go to
- 4:16Speaker 1: the distributor. But I'm so ill that I negotiated it
- 4:19Speaker 1: where I need to distributed it pay two point five
- 4:23Speaker 1: or my lawyer percentage. I pay the other two point five.
- 4:26Speaker 1: It's all about getting having a leverage man and do
- 4:28Speaker 1: what you want to do. And he's an independent artist
- 4:32Speaker 1: at the truest for him, meaning he doesn't ray doing radio,
- 4:35Speaker 1: he doesn't have help doing everything comes out of his
- 4:37Speaker 1: own pockets. But he pays for radio promotion, he pays
- 4:41Speaker 1: for touring, he pays for everything. Usually when when the
- 4:43Speaker 1: artist is they independent, they get a little help from
- 4:45Speaker 1: a label and they only get up they got a
- 4:47Speaker 1: little secret development deal or something like that. You know,
- 4:50Speaker 1: it's it's so ill that. Look, look how I came here, y'all.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Remember when I first started, he was like, yo, go
- 4:55Speaker 1: signed to a label? Sign He was like yo, how
- 4:56Speaker 1: long or whatever? Whatever, and then I just still here,
- 4:59Speaker 1: and I I stood the test of time. I stayed
- 5:01Speaker 1: focused on what I was gonna do. I told you
- 5:03Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy me. I'm gonna buy me a crib.
- 5:06Speaker 1: I'm gonna give me a RRI I'm gonna do. I'm
- 5:08Speaker 1: gonna do this thing independing. You know what I'm saying.
- 5:10Speaker 1: I don't get me wrong, I still want to go
- 5:11Speaker 1: to a major, But as he joined Venture, I want
- 5:14Speaker 1: to do with with Rockefeller had I want with murdered Ink,
- 5:17Speaker 1: with bad Boy like you know that's you have two
- 5:19Speaker 1: and two fifteen. Do you really need that? I mean,
- 5:22Speaker 1: it puts you on with me. It's like hustling. Like
- 5:25Speaker 1: I was a heavy hustler, So I always result everything
- 5:29Speaker 1: back to that. That's that's my mom frame. So if
- 5:31Speaker 1: I'm hustling on a honey blocks and I'm making a
- 5:34Speaker 1: thousand dollars a day, whatever, say I'm making a thousand
- 5:36Speaker 1: dollars a day off for one block. Now record label
- 5:39Speaker 1: gonna put me on a thousand blocks, but they want
- 5:41Speaker 1: to take fifty percent. I ain't tripping. That's still more money.
- 5:44Speaker 1: I gotta give up half, but I'm getting more money
- 5:46Speaker 1: instead of me getting a thousand dollars. Now I'm getting
- 5:49Speaker 1: what's a thousand tons five with five hundred thousand and
- 5:51Speaker 1: fifty thousand, whatever it is, I'm still getting more money.
- 5:54Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, we ain't greedy. Now.
- 5:55Speaker 1: People had a lot of jokes after they put that
- 5:57Speaker 1: out there with the sales and everything. A lot of me,
- 6:00Speaker 1: a lot of things, right, A lot of people commented, No,
- 6:04Speaker 1: it don't affect like, yeah, I come from the dirty
- 6:07Speaker 1: I come I come from. I'm self made and self paid.
- 6:10Speaker 1: I can't say that enough. The real things that affect me,
- 6:13Speaker 1: like jokes and all that that don't affect me. That's
- 6:16Speaker 1: to me. That's like it's like I'm like Jackie Robinson
- 6:19Speaker 1: and a racist fan, you know what I mean? Hey,
- 6:21Speaker 1: or whatever, Michael Jordan when you see him putting his
- 6:24Speaker 1: hand up and it's somebody in the crowd, you whatever,
- 6:26Speaker 1: it don't matter at the end of the day, because
- 6:28Speaker 1: if you look up at the skull board, I'm still winning.
- 6:30Speaker 1: You feel if I was broke, or if I was
- 6:33Speaker 1: if I if the show started slowing up, or I
- 6:36Speaker 1: just came from my I'm dead tired, you know what
- 6:38Speaker 1: I mean. But I know I gotta work. It's a
- 6:40Speaker 1: big platform. I gotta be here. You know what I'm saying.
- 6:43Speaker 1: I just came from Miami. Ain't my life. He ain't crazy,
- 6:46Speaker 1: like crazy about with your confidence. But I also think
- 6:51Speaker 1: I'm gonna taking the crazy part not to catch you up.
- 6:53Speaker 1: I've seen somebody say, y'all, I don't like Joe EV
- 6:56Speaker 1: because he's too confident with type No. I seem too.
- 7:00Speaker 1: But I was like, all right, people had it on.
- 7:01Speaker 1: When somebody say too confident, that don't make no sense
- 7:04Speaker 1: to me. That's just other people's insecurities. That's me shying
- 7:08Speaker 1: a spotlight on it because of my confidence, you know
- 7:10Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And it's making them insecure, like it
- 7:12Speaker 1: don't What happens is they try to like you, try
- 7:15Speaker 1: to tear choy av Dan. It's like, you gotta look
- 7:17Speaker 1: at the people that's writing stuff. It's either people that
- 7:20Speaker 1: I came in contact with and for whatever reason, they
- 7:23Speaker 1: don't like me for a personal reason, so it's a bias,
- 7:26Speaker 1: you know what I mean, or whatever they call you,
- 7:28Speaker 1: they call you Troy Average. I had a song I
- 7:31Speaker 1: heard somebody called me CHOI average. Well, let me tell
- 7:33Speaker 1: you about this average to the Ford. What I say,
- 7:38Speaker 1: I'm talking to the four new holes on the average,
- 7:40Speaker 1: and it ain't a half to domb on an average.
- 7:43Speaker 1: Every show I get it down on an average, and
- 7:45Speaker 1: my downs about eighty one carriage. You know what I'm like,
- 7:48Speaker 1: It don't affect me. You gotta think when these people
- 7:52Speaker 1: tear down Choyav, it's like, who else do we got
- 7:55Speaker 1: from the city that's doing it this way? You tain't.
- 7:58Speaker 1: You ain't just trying to tear down me, trying to
- 8:00Speaker 1: tear down the generation of people. You want them to
- 8:02Speaker 1: lead and follow somebody else. You want them to be
- 8:04Speaker 1: drug addicts, or you want them to have I represent ambition.
- 8:08Speaker 1: I represent grinding, coming coming from the bottom, when people
- 8:11Speaker 1: tell you can't do nothing. You can't now, you ain't
- 8:14Speaker 1: gonna be this or you ain't gonna be that. Y'all
- 8:15Speaker 1: all went through the same struggle. Look at the platform
- 8:17Speaker 1: and each other. Had you feel what I'm saying, Like
- 8:19Speaker 1: everybody came from I'm pretty sure Amby had to carry
- 8:22Speaker 1: crates or whatever. You know what I'm saying. People got
- 8:24Speaker 1: more pride than money, and I'm willing to take risks.
- 8:27Speaker 1: I put my pride to the side. I put my
- 8:29Speaker 1: money with my mouth is I put my work ethic,
- 8:32Speaker 1: I sacrifice to be where I'm at. So for somebody
- 8:35Speaker 1: to try to tear me down and slam to me,
- 8:37Speaker 1: it's like damn me, like modern day slavery, like you
- 8:40Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like to the point where they say, um,
- 8:43Speaker 1: you know what Troy as doing too much? He's not
- 8:46Speaker 1: like a humble or a type of a yes of
- 8:49Speaker 1: bass typing, you know what I'm saying, So we need
- 8:51Speaker 1: to tear him down, you know what I mean? Not
- 8:53Speaker 1: comparing myself to Malcolm Mamatin, but they told that, they
- 8:56Speaker 1: told him down Michael Jordan, definitely, because they're great. Shit,
- 9:02Speaker 1: you better get pay yourself to the grace if you
- 9:04Speaker 1: want to be great. But do you think part of
- 9:05Speaker 1: its comments that you've made about other artists too in
- 9:07Speaker 1: the past, because people have been be dealing facts, I'll
- 9:10Speaker 1: be dealing. I never even like Colin, Kendrick Lamar or Weirdo.
- 9:14Speaker 1: And I know you ask me if I think Kendrick
- 9:16Speaker 1: Lamar is a widow one of my one of my
- 9:18Speaker 1: pos at the end of the day, at the beginning
- 9:20Speaker 1: and end of the day, when you independent and you
- 9:23Speaker 1: like I am, I don't. Nobody built me up, so
- 9:26Speaker 1: can't nobody tear me down? So I don't. I'm not
- 9:28Speaker 1: held to the same restraints as artists on a major
- 9:31Speaker 1: who might not be able to say something because they're
- 9:32Speaker 1: on that label with that person, or they might need
- 9:35Speaker 1: this person for a feature. So let me dance around
- 9:38Speaker 1: and be politically correct like I just dealing facts. Smike
- 9:41Speaker 1: say Choyavis Dawskin, that's a fact. I can't get mad.
- 9:44Speaker 1: You can't get mad as Smike for reporting the news.
- 9:47Speaker 1: You know. I never said Kendrick Lamar was whacked. He
- 9:49Speaker 1: made whack music. I just said, they said, you think
- 9:51Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's a widow. I said, yeah, he's a widow,
- 9:54Speaker 1: and that was it. I ain't saying in a malicious
- 9:56Speaker 1: way because I don't care. At the end of the day,
- 9:58Speaker 1: you could be a widow. I don't care what you
- 10:00Speaker 1: are as long as don't affect me and mind, I
- 10:02Speaker 1: don't care. That's the only reason people are slandering the
- 10:05Speaker 1: way that is. Nah, they try. They trying to tell
- 10:09Speaker 1: me down because I represent everything that they not and
- 10:13Speaker 1: and my and my my confidence that makes them become
- 10:17Speaker 1: insecure because if you got people like me who ain't
- 10:20Speaker 1: afraid to say, Yo, I'm that, which Lebron said, He's
- 10:24Speaker 1: he's gonna win because he's the best in the world,
- 10:26Speaker 1: and it was an uproar. Why you can't say that
- 10:28Speaker 1: when Michael Jordan don't think you should have said that? Everybody?
- 10:32Speaker 1: Why not? I think why not? I think you should
- 10:34Speaker 1: allow other people to speak for you. You can't. You
- 10:38Speaker 1: can't because what if they don't speak for you, then
- 10:40Speaker 1: what if they don't speak for you, then what does
- 10:41Speaker 1: that mean? Hell no, you got you gotta put you
- 10:45Speaker 1: gotta put that out there. When Little Wayne was saying
- 10:47Speaker 1: he the best rapper in the world or the best
- 10:49Speaker 1: rapper alive minus jay Z being alive, if he didn't
- 10:52Speaker 1: say that, I wouldn't have been thinking that. And then
- 10:54Speaker 1: what happened. Little Way end up be getting hot and
- 10:55Speaker 1: he became the best rapper to a lot of people.
- 10:58Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Sometimes you can't wait for
- 11:00Speaker 1: somebody to give you a Just dude, you gotta take
- 11:02Speaker 1: it it. Feel me. It works when you got the
- 11:04Speaker 1: actions behind it to prove it. You got it. You
- 11:05Speaker 1: gotta keep working. You can't just say it. You gotta
- 11:07Speaker 1: have to work. You got you gotta have a work ethic.
- 11:09Speaker 1: But when you know, when you know what you're gonna be,
- 11:11Speaker 1: you do that. You put it out there. I remember
- 11:13Speaker 1: I was talking the meat shout shout the Meek. I'm
- 11:15Speaker 1: talking to meet and I'm like, we're talking about just
- 11:18Speaker 1: rappers in the same bunch of chucks or whatever, and
- 11:22Speaker 1: they don't got. I don't talk about nothing. I don't
- 11:23Speaker 1: got And then I was like, yeah, I don't even
- 11:26Speaker 1: be talking about having Ferrari's lamb. I'm getting the Arrari
- 11:29Speaker 1: me and you was talking Yeah. I was like, I
- 11:34Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I don't be like that, and Meek
- 11:37Speaker 1: was like, man, I ain't gonna friend. I did, but
- 11:39Speaker 1: that's because I knew I was gonna get it. I
- 11:40Speaker 1: knew I was gonna be that. I knew I was
- 11:42Speaker 1: gonna have that. I was talking about, you know what
- 11:44Speaker 1: I mean, And you put it out in a universe,
- 11:46Speaker 1: and if you go hard and get after it, it's
- 11:48Speaker 1: gonna happen. So a lot of other artists do show
- 11:51Speaker 1: your respect and have been working with you, wanted to
- 11:53Speaker 1: collaborate with you, time with you. Yeah, But for some reason,
- 11:57Speaker 1: I don't know why your haters are so vocal, Like
- 11:58Speaker 1: I go online just because of the attitude, which is
- 12:07Speaker 1: I'm not coying. I'm confident. Man. I know. I'm not
- 12:09Speaker 1: saying that I could do nothing that I can't do
- 12:11Speaker 1: or that I haven't been doing. I told everybody I
- 12:13Speaker 1: was gonna restore the feeling in my city. I did
- 12:16Speaker 1: that on the last album. I like the New York
- 12:18Speaker 1: to but a lot of people from New York feel
- 12:20Speaker 1: like you didn't. They're like, what have you done to restort?
- 12:22Speaker 1: What have I done that? I just I saved the
- 12:24Speaker 1: whole generation of people from being drug addicts and turning
- 12:27Speaker 1: up and winning tight pants and feeling like they gotta
- 12:30Speaker 1: they can't be, they can't have hometime town pride. That's
- 12:34Speaker 1: what I did. I look and I sound like New York,
- 12:36Speaker 1: and I kept it one hunting all the way through,
- 12:38Speaker 1: and you feel me in and all that out and
- 12:41Speaker 1: and majority I get a majority of support. So that's
- 12:43Speaker 1: why I ain't another chipping. You know what I'm saying.
- 12:45Speaker 1: People from wearing tight pants. You got, I mean you
- 12:48Speaker 1: got to, because look, look if you start dressing feminine,
- 12:52Speaker 1: what's next. Listen, man, that's crazy. Anything that happened I
- 12:59Speaker 1: gotta stack all about Troy av scared that his son
- 13:02Speaker 1: might be gay. No, I didn't even have a son
- 13:05Speaker 1: when they wrote that. Yeah, I know what they were.
- 13:07Speaker 1: You were doing a lot of tweets about like okay yo,
- 13:09Speaker 1: that's another thing. They'd be digging up my tweets from
- 13:12Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven tho type of stuff. Like it's
- 13:16Speaker 1: case said, I said, Kanye rust ain't fly. Somebody just
- 13:18Speaker 1: dug it up and put it out there, like all right,
- 13:21Speaker 1: Like what do they hope they trying to? I'm telling you,
- 13:23Speaker 1: they just trying to tear troy As down. You're committing
- 13:26Speaker 1: a very dangerous crime right now. You gotta do this
- 13:27Speaker 1: with the nikes on. First of all, I'm gonna tell
- 13:29Speaker 1: you about that because I'm gonna tell you it's so ill.
- 13:32Speaker 1: It's so ill that you don't even know where that
- 13:34Speaker 1: came from. As me, I'm the one who put that
- 13:36Speaker 1: out there. You can't mix and match brands. I put
- 13:38Speaker 1: that out there. You could check the video. It's from
- 13:41Speaker 1: like three four years ago. But now it's certain sneakers
- 13:44Speaker 1: that you could wear. You can put the camera on. These.
- 13:46Speaker 1: These ain't regular sneakers. It's certain classic joints. These are
- 13:49Speaker 1: the hot Top Air Force ones. They're a little more
- 13:51Speaker 1: money than the low top. I wouldn't do the low top,
- 13:53Speaker 1: you feel me, or certain Jordan brands. You could do
- 13:56Speaker 1: this like I'm one of the flies ones moving. You
- 13:58Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And I ain't saying that way.
- 14:00Speaker 1: I'm just dealing in facts. I got people wearing check
- 14:03Speaker 1: pains from Adidas and this is from Wexu was saying
- 14:06Speaker 1: that this is Wexa Thedidas saying sales have spiked in
- 14:09Speaker 1: the Dida's track pains since we did a deal with Troya.
- 14:12Speaker 1: I just dealing facts. I like to keep it black
- 14:14Speaker 1: and white. No, no, they checked the soccer pains. Paul
- 14:18Speaker 1: Chack sus, I ain't got people wearing those. I ain't
- 14:20Speaker 1: gonna chuck you like I've been doing that. But the
- 14:23Speaker 1: soccer uniform wasn't nobody win. That wasn't nobody wining soccer jerseys,
- 14:26Speaker 1: you feel me? And then I came through burning it up.
- 14:29Speaker 1: But yeah, you can wear Adidas with UH with hot top,
- 14:33Speaker 1: air Force ones with the strap or like Jordan's and
- 14:36Speaker 1: stuff like that. But you can't just be wearing on
- 14:38Speaker 1: Nikes with a regular Nike check. You can't wear amats.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Now you can't. That's just a note. That's no bueno.
- 14:45Speaker 1: You gotta get some shell toes and just keep it cool. Man. Now,
- 14:48Speaker 1: how did you in fifty end up making amends? Because
- 14:51Speaker 1: I know at first he felt a little bit weary, like, Okay,
- 14:53Speaker 1: this guy's try nails that whole thing up. Man. Now Nah,
- 15:01Speaker 1: look who's up? Man? Look Look at that Bill cubing
- 15:06Speaker 1: on his drinks were getting money? Man? But how did
- 15:09Speaker 1: that come about? Like? How did you and fifty end
- 15:11Speaker 1: up having a conversation and I know now you're supposed
- 15:13Speaker 1: to do some dates with him, possibly from the road,
- 15:15Speaker 1: did a song together. How did y'all finally make some amends?
- 15:18Speaker 1: It was just it was it was actually at like
- 15:20Speaker 1: your own like a Chris Brown concert at the Barkleys,
- 15:25Speaker 1: And um, I was supposed to come out. I end
- 15:28Speaker 1: up getting it a little late or whatever because I
- 15:29Speaker 1: found our last minute. So Paul, I mean when I
- 15:32Speaker 1: get to the spot, yeah, Barkleys. When I get to
- 15:35Speaker 1: the spot, I see fifty in a joint in um
- 15:40Speaker 1: whatever that underground job whatever it is. Job were joint
- 15:43Speaker 1: and on parking the parking lot, indoor, the arena. And
- 15:46Speaker 1: then like I'm the type of person you ain't gonna
- 15:48Speaker 1: hear like I don't. If somebody had a problem with me,
- 15:51Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be like I'm not gonna be in
- 15:53Speaker 1: the same room as them and and know nothing happened,
- 15:55Speaker 1: or you know what I'm saying, Like I don't. Just
- 15:57Speaker 1: I ain't a passive person, you feel me. And that's
- 15:59Speaker 1: probably another reason why I get I began some slacks sometimes,
- 16:03Speaker 1: but I mean, I'm confident whatever. So anyway, after the
- 16:07Speaker 1: whole thing, you know, with the with the gun in
- 16:09Speaker 1: a in a Lloyd Banks and then whatever, and then
- 16:11Speaker 1: y'all asked me how it felt or whatever, and then
- 16:14Speaker 1: M fifty says something I got on who it was.
- 16:16Speaker 1: I said, Man, when I see his I'm gonna pull
- 16:18Speaker 1: them to the side. I gotta chop it up, like
- 16:20Speaker 1: real talk, like you know what I'm saying, which is
- 16:22Speaker 1: a very dangerous thing to situations. I mean, it's it's
- 16:25Speaker 1: dangerous for some people like but I ain't. I ain't
- 16:27Speaker 1: a coward, you know what I'm saying, And I know
- 16:29Speaker 1: who I am. So when when I seen him, like
- 16:33Speaker 1: I just had real talk, I pulled him to the
- 16:35Speaker 1: side and then we kicked it. Because that's more than
- 16:38Speaker 1: anything fifty was that that was my favorite rapper growing up.
- 16:41Speaker 1: You feel me? So like for that type of that happened,
- 16:44Speaker 1: I felt like, Yo, you're supposed to embrace me, you
- 16:46Speaker 1: feel me, you know what I'm saying. And he was like, Yo,
- 16:49Speaker 1: you know what you You're right. It was other ship
- 16:51Speaker 1: moving around that happened with that, you know what I mean.
- 16:53Speaker 1: And it wasn't the energy wasn't directly towards me. And
- 16:56Speaker 1: he said, matter fact, you know what, take my number,
- 16:58Speaker 1: hit me tomorrow, whatever whatever. So I'm going through the airport.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I hit him. We end up talking for like forty
- 17:03Speaker 1: five minutes, a forty five minute conversation, and end up
- 17:05Speaker 1: till a fifteen thousand dollars check. I ain't really yeah no,
- 17:13Speaker 1: I ain't really asking no questions. I was you sometimes
- 17:16Speaker 1: sometimes you just gotta close your mouth and open your ears,
- 17:18Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, especially with somebody that been
- 17:21Speaker 1: in the game, that you respecting and have been doing anything,
- 17:24Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it wasn't a lot
- 17:25Speaker 1: of questions. I was just kicking it with him, just regular. Really,
- 17:29Speaker 1: I'm gonna put your soul on power, you know what
- 17:30Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like what you're doing, et cetera, et cetera.
- 17:33Speaker 1: And then you know, we just took it from then
- 17:35Speaker 1: and forging relationship and then and then once like I've
- 17:38Speaker 1: been consistent no matter if fifth says something that I
- 17:40Speaker 1: think it was funny or whatever, I'm gonna hunt it, man,
- 17:43Speaker 1: I'll keep it all the way rail. So I'm like,
- 17:44Speaker 1: all right, whatever he said that, but regardless of anything,
- 17:47Speaker 1: that's still my favorite rapper, and that's who influenced me
- 17:50Speaker 1: to be doing what I'm doing now getting all this
- 17:52Speaker 1: money where I'm at. And then what happened to me
- 17:54Speaker 1: and went to dinner, I mean with the dinner, we
- 17:56Speaker 1: went at the spot that you be at. You be
- 17:58Speaker 1: in my spot? Yeah, yeah, I just shout in my spot.
- 18:04Speaker 1: So I said, I can't go there and to the
- 18:06Speaker 1: spot now. So I'm like, what come ahead, yo, I go.
- 18:13Speaker 1: I go to the spot. And then we just said
- 18:16Speaker 1: he like, man, it's some flies or whatever. I'm like, yeah,
- 18:18Speaker 1: I said, I I just just how I showed gratitude.
- 18:21Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like you influenced me, whether
- 18:24Speaker 1: you realize it or not, indirectly or whatever, and that
- 18:27Speaker 1: got me on it where I am now to be
- 18:29Speaker 1: doing what I'm doing. So at least I could do
- 18:31Speaker 1: is take you to dinner and were just shopping it
- 18:33Speaker 1: up and we blt from there. You know that's funny,
- 18:35Speaker 1: you said, because you know you can always tell when
- 18:36Speaker 1: hip hop people come to this pocket. The first thing
- 18:38Speaker 1: when I go there, the first thing they said was,
- 18:39Speaker 1: oh yeah, Troy, I was here. I'm like, you just here,
- 18:43Speaker 1: you can spot in Cologne. Man stayed up. I see
- 18:46Speaker 1: a lot of people also give you flat man, because
- 18:48Speaker 1: they said you haven't lived what you rap about. They
- 18:50Speaker 1: say the whole dope boy Troy thing, it's a farce.
- 18:53Speaker 1: If it's a farce, where did the money come from?
- 18:57Speaker 1: When I first came on Breakfast Club, I had a Rolex?
- 19:00Speaker 1: Where you get it from? I had a Jesus Peace
- 19:02Speaker 1: where you get it from? I was driving at me,
- 19:04Speaker 1: say now whatever, you know what I'm saying, But like,
- 19:12Speaker 1: where do the money? You can't fake the money. That's
- 19:15Speaker 1: one thing you can't fake. Dug No, I'm good man,
- 19:18Speaker 1: I live. I live a good lifestyle. We're selling the streets.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but we don't. At the end
- 19:22Speaker 1: of the day, I'm blessed. I pray to God and
- 19:25Speaker 1: once you once you on God's side. I don't never
- 19:28Speaker 1: start no conflict. I always I'm always gonna win because
- 19:31Speaker 1: I don't never start them. But I finished everything. That's
- 19:33Speaker 1: a fact though, So when I know I'm blessed or whatever,
- 19:36Speaker 1: whatever I say, whatever I do, I'm I'm always right.
- 19:39Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying and not saying I'm right
- 19:41Speaker 1: because I'm kacky. But I got God on my side,
- 19:44Speaker 1: I ain't. I don't start nothing. I never started nothing
- 19:47Speaker 1: since I was a name, probably like high school. I
- 19:49Speaker 1: used to be in at the bullsh start and robbing,
- 19:51Speaker 1: the type of dump. But after that, man, right is
- 19:54Speaker 1: right and wrong is wrong. Now, do you have any
- 19:56Speaker 1: idea what these numbers are gonna be like when they
- 19:57Speaker 1: come out? No, I don't, maybe like maybe like seven
- 20:03Speaker 1: eight thousand, maybe seven. I don't know what the hard
- 20:05Speaker 1: copies is because you know, I'm independent, so we don't
- 20:08Speaker 1: shipped like how I think usually labels might ship fifty
- 20:11Speaker 1: thousand hard copies with anything transformed digital. So we only
- 20:15Speaker 1: did a few mom and pop stores and a few
- 20:17Speaker 1: best bards, so they might have shipped. They might have
- 20:20Speaker 1: shipped six hundred copies altogether. Of the of the hard
- 20:23Speaker 1: copies because the majority of people streaming it on Spotify,
- 20:27Speaker 1: like I didn't I made. I probably made at first
- 20:30Speaker 1: it was fifteen bands or for Spotify streaming or for
- 20:33Speaker 1: the reggord Doudo, you know what I'm saying. So like
- 20:35Speaker 1: like the streaming, this is real, this new age streaming
- 20:39Speaker 1: and downloading, it is real, you feel me? And at
- 20:41Speaker 1: the end of the day, to be honest, New York
- 20:44Speaker 1: City not even made you without a deal. That was
- 20:46Speaker 1: supposed to be a mixape I supposed to get. I
- 20:49Speaker 1: was supposed to get hit did that pifth? I was
- 20:51Speaker 1: supposed to get a little bag with all those appearances
- 20:54Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, it filled out later on. That's supposed
- 20:57Speaker 1: to be white Christmas three and the end up feeling
- 20:59Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and people I was chucking.
- 21:02Speaker 1: I was like, let me get it right. The only
- 21:03Speaker 1: reason I ain't drop it around Christmas tithe was because
- 21:06Speaker 1: what I didn't know, Like you know, we're going as
- 21:08Speaker 1: we learn, iTunes shut down at a certain date and
- 21:12Speaker 1: you can't get it on iTunes or whatever. So what
- 21:14Speaker 1: I like to do is I usually would put it
- 21:16Speaker 1: on iTunes for twelve hours from twelve am and then
- 21:19Speaker 1: twelve pm. You get it downloaded for free. So they
- 21:22Speaker 1: shut down on me and everybody left the office for
- 21:24Speaker 1: the holiday season, and I couldn't put it out. So
- 21:26Speaker 1: I was a guy. Let me just waiting, you know,
- 21:28Speaker 1: Neils and hope like, man, it don't matter. It's gonna
- 21:30Speaker 1: wait for it, and it's gonna be They're gonna be
- 21:32Speaker 1: happy when they when they get it. It's like you're
- 21:33Speaker 1: waiting for a rod and you mattered person probably finally
- 21:37Speaker 1: showed me like, man, I took your solong and are
- 21:38Speaker 1: you happy? You ready to go? So I knew what
- 21:41Speaker 1: I had with that in White Christmas made you without
- 21:44Speaker 1: a deal was supposed to be White Christmas. I was
- 21:45Speaker 1: only supposed to get fifteen to twenty back bands for that,
- 21:49Speaker 1: you know how that go on a little debt pith
- 21:50Speaker 1: or live mix sape, and I just held out and
- 21:54Speaker 1: I end up made almost ten times that you feel me?
- 21:58Speaker 1: So this chest not checkers, and this is a marathon,
- 22:01Speaker 1: not a race. There's a period of time when it
- 22:04Speaker 1: seemed like TI was gonna sign you, and he had
- 22:06Speaker 1: even said that y'all were in talks and had a
- 22:08Speaker 1: rebel agree dog and that didn't work out. So, um,
- 22:12Speaker 1: what is your situation now with Ti. Is it something
- 22:14Speaker 1: that you're still talking about or is it a big
- 22:16Speaker 1: Tia my dog. Like any type of I'm a loyal person,
- 22:20Speaker 1: So any type of business move, I'll make you know
- 22:22Speaker 1: what I mean, even if because TI extended his hand
- 22:26Speaker 1: and and like, I don't never take none for granting.
- 22:28Speaker 1: I don't. Kids might give me a piece of bread
- 22:30Speaker 1: when I ain't have nothing. I don't never, I ain't
- 22:32Speaker 1: gonna never burn bread. He probably got burgers shout to
- 22:37Speaker 1: his new restaurant scale nine to five. I think I
- 22:40Speaker 1: hope I said it right, but yeah, it might give
- 22:42Speaker 1: me a piece of bread when I ain't gonna turn
- 22:43Speaker 1: around and say that was only a piece of bread.
- 22:46Speaker 1: I never forget that. And they got my loyal tie forever.
- 22:48Speaker 1: So whenever I'm making a business move, I'm I'm gonna
- 22:51Speaker 1: hit tip, yo, tip, what's up? We think I should
- 22:53Speaker 1: do this or whatever? And right now he said, Yo,
- 22:56Speaker 1: it's trying to get a joint venture or whatever. You
- 22:57Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So we're just gonna figure it out.
- 23:00Speaker 1: No matter what type of business I do. I'm about
- 23:02Speaker 1: to um, well, I ain't gonna say what I'm gonna
- 23:04Speaker 1: do because the contract getting away in yet. But it's
- 23:06Speaker 1: a type of ways to get money. Like I'm learning
- 23:08Speaker 1: that when I when I first started doing his music,
- 23:11Speaker 1: I was focused on Yo, I'm gonna I'm gonna get
- 23:14Speaker 1: on stage. I'm gonna do some shows. I'm gonna get
- 23:17Speaker 1: some bitches, IM get a nice car, I'm gonna get
- 23:20Speaker 1: a little fame, and I'm gonna just have money. But
- 23:23Speaker 1: I ain't know. Look, I had a billboard and in
- 23:26Speaker 1: all throughout New York, I got commercials on on on
- 23:30Speaker 1: TV for Sean john My video permitting Tom Square. I'm
- 23:35Speaker 1: doing endorsement deals with with liquors and clothing companies. That's
- 23:38Speaker 1: because I'm hot, you know what I'm saying. The hottest
- 23:41Speaker 1: artists don't always sell the most amount of records. That's
- 23:44Speaker 1: a fact. Though. You think your sales have been high
- 23:46Speaker 1: on a major label, Yeah, hell yeah, definitely, because they would.
- 23:49Speaker 1: They would have spent They probably would have spent. Envy
- 23:52Speaker 1: noticed because he had a and oh I heard, I
- 23:55Speaker 1: heard they spent like seven hundred and some thousand the
- 23:57Speaker 1: market artists and make you hot? Is that? Or you
- 24:00Speaker 1: can tell me right now exactly So a new artist
- 24:04Speaker 1: coming in, how much did they spend about um on
- 24:07Speaker 1: that marketing could be a hundred and fifty, so totally
- 24:11Speaker 1: everything that they would spend on nowadays. I mean, well
- 24:13Speaker 1: usually when you signed a deal, it could be like
- 24:14Speaker 1: a five hundred thousand dollars deal. Let give you a
- 24:16Speaker 1: hundred thousand up front, maybe one hundred and fifty recording
- 24:18Speaker 1: in the marketing promotion. Well what I spent on that?
- 24:25Speaker 1: Like to do? He liked to pocket the money. Now
- 24:27Speaker 1: they counted Nelson pocketing. The good thing is enough to
- 24:31Speaker 1: go around fifty on marketing the promo. All right, cool,
- 24:36Speaker 1: Well I'm spending less than the fraction of that. You
- 24:38Speaker 1: know what I'm saying in my return is bigger. So
- 24:41Speaker 1: you gotta think that's why at that makes you out
- 24:44Speaker 1: of deal? Job? We had three we had we had
- 24:46Speaker 1: four cools, all major labels. What's up? What we doing?
- 24:51Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? And we're like, all right,
- 24:53Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna see let's let's wait, because now
- 24:56Speaker 1: it's different when like me, I ain't I ain't coming
- 24:59Speaker 1: to them acts for nothing coming to me. So now
- 25:00Speaker 1: I got the leverage. Now I've been now uh they
- 25:04Speaker 1: see that it caused joy I have nothing to make
- 25:06Speaker 1: an album and he could sell it these amount of records,
- 25:09Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So now imagine if we
- 25:12Speaker 1: put this big spotlight on him or whatever, you know
- 25:15Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Imagine what he could sell. And the
- 25:17Speaker 1: good thing about it with me is I'm hot in
- 25:21Speaker 1: New York City. I'm not hot in in Arizona, you
- 25:25Speaker 1: know what I mean? Or not. I'm not hot in Omaha, Nebraska,
- 25:29Speaker 1: or I'm not an artist that's hot right there. I'm
- 25:31Speaker 1: hot in the biggest city. I'm so when you hot here,
- 25:35Speaker 1: you really feel it. You feel what I'm saying. So,
- 25:37Speaker 1: like I could be independent forever. I only want to
- 25:39Speaker 1: make five million dollars. That's that's my focus. Five million.
- 25:43Speaker 1: I'm gonna be rich forever. I ain't. I ain't never
- 25:44Speaker 1: gonna go broke, my family, good everything. So when you
- 25:48Speaker 1: got I take I make small ghost for myself and
- 25:51Speaker 1: I've been accomplishing them. I know, I know it's all obtainable. Yeah. Yeah,
- 25:58Speaker 1: it'shout to my little man too. Nay, yeah, yeah. What's
- 26:02Speaker 1: your relationship like with a Manolo Roles? Because it was
- 26:04Speaker 1: all kind of issues. They said the Dope Man record,
- 26:07Speaker 1: They said, you stole the hook and a verse from
- 26:09Speaker 1: that song. You know what it is, We don't really
- 26:11Speaker 1: got no relationship. You know what I'm saying. When I
- 26:13Speaker 1: see him, I probably get him a weggie slap them
- 26:15Speaker 1: so something regular. But it ain't na na you know
- 26:19Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, you know what it is, Yeah,
- 26:26Speaker 1: you know it is. They like I'm gonna tell you
- 26:27Speaker 1: the whole dynamic with that. They like they like some
- 26:30Speaker 1: older name from the hood who it was like Moso
- 26:33Speaker 1: on the widow type of vibe. You know what I mean,
- 26:34Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. You could be cool with the
- 26:37Speaker 1: widow type of vibe. But like I'm underst I'm explaining
- 26:40Speaker 1: you the dynamic of our relationship. I know them and
- 26:43Speaker 1: they and they team from selling them cocaine to sniff.
- 26:48Speaker 1: I'm I'm the dial. It's not allegedly, it's a fact though.
- 26:51Speaker 1: I'm the dealer day the user. You know what I'm saying.
- 26:54Speaker 1: But you can still to each his own. Everybody got
- 26:56Speaker 1: the vices, no problem, you could do your thing whatever whatever.
- 27:00Speaker 1: But now it's like a fiend from the hood. Feme
- 27:02Speaker 1: might be cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, chilling, Yeah, wipe with
- 27:05Speaker 1: my tires. I give you some money. For whatever. But
- 27:07Speaker 1: if Feen ain't never gonna be happy with the tend files,
- 27:09Speaker 1: you can come on. Give me a little bit more.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Come on, give me a little bit more. But I
- 27:12Speaker 1: mean he said he gave me a hit record, no problem,
- 27:15Speaker 1: make another one. I wish you the best. Wait, so
- 27:18Speaker 1: you did take the song, though I did not take this.
- 27:20Speaker 1: So I bought the beat. The song was it, The
- 27:23Speaker 1: song was a whole other. The song was the same record.
- 27:26Speaker 1: The producer who I bought the beat from, he just actually,
- 27:30Speaker 1: uh manolo wrapped a song straight through. The producer chopped
- 27:34Speaker 1: it up, made the hook or whatever. They've been trying
- 27:36Speaker 1: to get a feature with me. The DJ, which is
- 27:38Speaker 1: a homeboy in ma he played at a barbecue. I'm like, yo,
- 27:41Speaker 1: that's hot. I jumped on a remix. That's where they get.
- 27:43Speaker 1: I took the verse from what I was going to
- 27:45Speaker 1: do is use his joint and leave and leave him
- 27:48Speaker 1: on it or whatever. So I was just playing off
- 27:49Speaker 1: for his verse, you know what I'm saying. And then
- 27:51Speaker 1: what happened was I put I put it out and
- 27:54Speaker 1: then started playing it. So I say, Yo, what I
- 27:57Speaker 1: do is I could catch you out if you don't
- 28:00Speaker 1: leave you on the hook or whatever, and and put
- 28:03Speaker 1: you in a video everything. He was like, I bet yeah,
- 28:05Speaker 1: I'm all with it. I'm are with it. But before that,
- 28:08Speaker 1: they was initially but hurt because I didn't reply to
- 28:10Speaker 1: a text message or something. And I ain't ever do
- 28:13Speaker 1: it maliciously, like I ain't the type in eggs might
- 28:16Speaker 1: text or whatever. I was just busy and didn't see
- 28:18Speaker 1: it till mad long later on, you know what I mean.
- 28:21Speaker 1: But like I said, when people say they did something
- 28:23Speaker 1: for you, that's that's four to five songs ago. You
- 28:26Speaker 1: feel me. So if you made a hit record, make
- 28:29Speaker 1: another one and just do your thing. I gave you
- 28:32Speaker 1: the platform I put you did. He that was a
- 28:35Speaker 1: hard It ain't about it being a hard record. Is
- 28:38Speaker 1: it a hit record? Is he getting baggs? Is he
- 28:41Speaker 1: moving around? If that's if that's a good record, then
- 28:43Speaker 1: I guess sold more. Man. I'm blessed, so I don't be.
- 28:46Speaker 1: I wish the best for people and whatever. Now I
- 28:49Speaker 1: ain't even gonna I wish the best phone. I just
- 28:51Speaker 1: don't care. I'm doing my things so much. Yeah, I mean,
- 28:54Speaker 1: you know you know how that go. You want you
- 28:58Speaker 1: you stupid or whatever? You know what I mean, that's it,
- 29:00Speaker 1: But I'll just be wishing the best for people. I
- 29:02Speaker 1: just don't care because I'm doing I'm so much focused
- 29:04Speaker 1: on doing my thing, man, and I gotta deal with
- 29:07Speaker 1: real life issues. I gotta deal with with writers trying
- 29:11Speaker 1: to trying to tear me down. You know what I'm saying, Like,
- 29:13Speaker 1: what is this about? Like where does this come from?
- 29:16Speaker 1: They want to dig up my old pass? Like we'll
- 29:18Speaker 1: get the whole thing with vice, right? How does Complex
- 29:22Speaker 1: have such a bad review about my album? And that's
- 29:26Speaker 1: what is it called? When ain't writer's supposed to be unbiased?
- 29:29Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. So to have such a
- 29:32Speaker 1: bad review then everybody else and what the complex? So
- 29:35Speaker 1: them out? This is crazy with old A legends in
- 29:38Speaker 1: the game. Anybody who heard my album, Yo, this is crazy.
- 29:41Speaker 1: That shows you that it's biased with it. But you know,
- 29:44Speaker 1: I got I gotta deal with that because I represent
- 29:47Speaker 1: everything that they don't. I stand for everything that they
- 29:50Speaker 1: don't like. They want you to be yes the boss
- 29:52Speaker 1: and just be all fragile and dossile. I'm gonna submit
- 29:56Speaker 1: that we move a militant if if MUF don't because
- 30:01Speaker 1: ain't want to pay me I'm paying myself. Yeah, I
- 30:03Speaker 1: just sold the CD on the way out here. That's
- 30:06Speaker 1: a fact. Though I hopped out and sold in your
- 30:08Speaker 1: CD for five hours. I got eleven thousand dollars in
- 30:11Speaker 1: my pocket. But I don't care because I'm focused. I
- 30:14Speaker 1: never lose sight of what got me here and my
- 30:17Speaker 1: ambition and what I want to be. I came here
- 30:19Speaker 1: to be great. I ain't come here to be a
- 30:21Speaker 1: flash in the pain. You feel me. You have the
- 30:23Speaker 1: support of established artists. What about up and coming artists
- 30:27Speaker 1: um that might look at you as competition or you
- 30:29Speaker 1: might look at them as competition. Do you feel like
- 30:31Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care about competition, and jon't
- 30:34Speaker 1: to me. I feel like, do you have people that
- 30:36Speaker 1: you are up and coming with you that you feel like, Okay,
- 30:38Speaker 1: you know I'm cool with them. I'm cool with them. Yeah,
- 30:41Speaker 1: I'm cool. I'm cool with young Leto. That's my dog
- 30:45Speaker 1: Leo dope. But I mean, like, shout my dog Bleasie
- 30:49Speaker 1: from brown he from Brownsville too. I just vibe with
- 30:51Speaker 1: people when it's a honey, when you really rock with them.
- 30:54Speaker 1: People I don't be. I don't be with that whole
- 30:56Speaker 1: music industry Hey, you wrap, I wrap. Let's look around.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Hell know, when I'm from we don't trust people trust.
- 31:02Speaker 1: I seem to get old for trusting people like you
- 31:04Speaker 1: be out of here and trust could turn your dust.
- 31:07Speaker 1: So just because we rap, we're not in the rapper union,
- 31:09Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I gotta with you. We brothers. Hell No,
- 31:12Speaker 1: I'm with my savings that I came up with. I'm
- 31:15Speaker 1: not kicking it with a bunch of rat news because
- 31:17Speaker 1: we all in the music business together. It don't work
- 31:19Speaker 1: like that. Now, if somebody come across genuine, then I'm
- 31:22Speaker 1: gonna with them and we're gonna vibe like, oh yeah,
- 31:24Speaker 1: you will hunt it. Yeah, I don't got to hear
- 31:26Speaker 1: about you try to kick in my back from a
- 31:29Speaker 1: uh from some bitch that we whatever behind. You know
- 31:32Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like Corney shit like that, because I ain't.
- 31:34Speaker 1: I ain't for the Corney sho. So I don't be
- 31:36Speaker 1: really kicking it with much much people. I'm like, I
- 31:39Speaker 1: come from the same street aspect of everything, Like That's
- 31:41Speaker 1: how I look at everything. When in New York, you
- 31:45Speaker 1: don't say what's up to people and just start over something,
- 31:47Speaker 1: forge your friendship. You don't do that, just because you
- 31:50Speaker 1: work or whatever, you don't do that type of sh
- 31:53Speaker 1: and Hovain me telling me all the time. He'd be like, Yo, man,
- 31:56Speaker 1: this you gotta look at this like work and these
- 31:59Speaker 1: your co workers man. And I'm like, man, I'm a
- 32:01Speaker 1: passionate person, so I can't get over it. So I'm
- 32:05Speaker 1: hopefully I learned to work. And I just the people out,
- 32:08Speaker 1: the people off with everybody that you see on my album,
- 32:12Speaker 1: Like I like, push your t hit me at eight
- 32:14Speaker 1: in the morning, your album crazy, you know what I'm
- 32:17Speaker 1: saying like that, just just reaching out shooting gene love.
- 32:20Speaker 1: When I when I asked people, I'd be like why,
- 32:22Speaker 1: I'd be like, why don't you like can't you like
- 32:25Speaker 1: they said? They said, they don't like that you bully
- 32:27Speaker 1: like industry people like the right, but they don't run
- 32:32Speaker 1: up on nobody. That's the real street dude, Like who
- 32:34Speaker 1: what real street dudes ever? Have a pallem with me?
- 32:37Speaker 1: What real street dude ever? Because I'm gonna tell you
- 32:40Speaker 1: the thing about real street. They respect other street because
- 32:45Speaker 1: they know nobody wanted to be into no violence for
- 32:48Speaker 1: no reason because there's only one. It's a couple of
- 32:51Speaker 1: ways going in. Smike gonna die, Smiga gonna go to jail,
- 32:55Speaker 1: Smike gonna get hurt, and then and then you I
- 32:58Speaker 1: don't know if you hurt somebody before, but that feeling
- 33:00Speaker 1: that having to be low key, damn cops gonna come
- 33:04Speaker 1: get me whatever, that's your whole vibe. If you're from
- 33:07Speaker 1: getting money for a short period of time, but you
- 33:09Speaker 1: don't want to do that, so real streets have respect. No,
- 33:14Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. It's like, what would you? That's
- 33:18Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say, Like it be a bunch
- 33:20Speaker 1: of nobody that don't have some negative to say about me.
- 33:24Speaker 1: They have not listened to my music from an unbiased standpoint,
- 33:28Speaker 1: you felt. I'm saying, like, if you you can search
- 33:31Speaker 1: my name, you'll see you'll see probably eighty five percent
- 33:35Speaker 1: of people like your choy have albums crazy you talking about.
- 33:38Speaker 1: And then the other fifteen percent would be like, yeah,
- 33:40Speaker 1: oh you only sew x amount of records or whatever. Whatever.
- 33:43Speaker 1: But I'm independent dog, Like what you're not saying, you're
- 33:46Speaker 1: not dealing in facts. Somebody dealing in facts, I could
- 33:49Speaker 1: always respect it. I don't care what you're talking about.
- 33:51Speaker 1: You're dealing in facts. I'm always respect If you say
- 33:54Speaker 1: then that y have his Cuban links. Ain't even a keylo,
- 33:57Speaker 1: there's only seven hundred grahams and then you want to
- 33:59Speaker 1: try to do me for that. All right, I'm gonna
- 34:02Speaker 1: get the other three hundred grams when I get my
- 34:03Speaker 1: bread up whatever, But don't say no jumps. You got
- 34:07Speaker 1: a deal in facts. That's all it's about. Did you
- 34:09Speaker 1: see mccona's tweet where he said he didn't like made
- 34:11Speaker 1: you without the deal? I didn't mean I like. I
- 34:16Speaker 1: like mccony going up on Tuesday. You know what I'm saying,
- 34:20Speaker 1: So shout at the obi over Johnny Ros. You know
- 34:23Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I ain't then I don't chip
- 34:25Speaker 1: over that that all that music industry that sh ain't
- 34:28Speaker 1: really mean man, for really, this is fake because it's
- 34:32Speaker 1: a fact. Though when I see people who allegedly have
- 34:35Speaker 1: a problem, they either apologize, Oh it's gonna be an
- 34:38Speaker 1: issue and I'm gonna always win it, come out on top.
- 34:41Speaker 1: That's word. That's all my word. That's word to my son.
- 34:43Speaker 1: I don't take no else. That's a fact though, you
- 34:46Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's because I don't start nothing.
- 34:48Speaker 1: And you're serious about your FaceTime too. On FaceTime, Yo, Nah,
- 34:57Speaker 1: I'll be in the work. I was in the work
- 34:59Speaker 1: moode man, I was my laptop. I really be working hard.
- 35:02Speaker 1: It's me hoving and money nails, and I'll be by
- 35:05Speaker 1: my laptop sending out emails. I gotta send out tellor.
- 35:08Speaker 1: I hit this envy every other morning. You play much shit,
- 35:11Speaker 1: hold me down the mother ain't ain't only like that.
- 35:15Speaker 1: You get to get comfortable. But yeah, I'm chilling. I don't.
- 35:18Speaker 1: I can't get comfortable. I ain't at I got. I
- 35:21Speaker 1: had a lot of achievements and I'm blessed to be here.
- 35:24Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I don't take noney for granted,
- 35:26Speaker 1: even being here on the breakfast club. You know my
- 35:31Speaker 1: life being crazy. I just left from a hotel. I
- 35:34Speaker 1: came from Miami. Two parties, no four parties. I'm lying.
- 35:38Speaker 1: The first party was regular, then I had two on Saturday.
- 35:41Speaker 1: I flew straight here, had a party last night. I
- 35:45Speaker 1: was in the in the hotel last night, and then
- 35:48Speaker 1: I came straight here to the breakfast club because I
- 35:50Speaker 1: knew I'm trying to be professional. I ain't trying to
- 35:52Speaker 1: be lating though. Yeah, using motherfucking live as a fact,
- 35:59Speaker 1: though I ain't gonna, I'm to man, I got a
- 36:02Speaker 1: new boy. I ain't putting myself out there. But he
- 36:06Speaker 1: was a mother live. Yo, I'm hot enough as a fact.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Hit me five times. I say, hell no with her,
- 36:17Speaker 1: we're good. We all the way good together stuff. We're straight,
- 36:22Speaker 1: We're straight. You know what I'm saying that we're good.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Like I'm about to get it. I'm about like one
- 36:26Speaker 1: of my dreams that I'm about to do. I'm about
- 36:29Speaker 1: to get a big ass house. I was talking to
- 36:31Speaker 1: Envy about cribs. You know what I'm saying, I get
- 36:33Speaker 1: a big ass house. Uh one point one million is
- 36:36Speaker 1: what I've seen. But after me and was talking, I'm like,
- 36:39Speaker 1: maybe I get something for seven hundred and fifty thousand
- 36:41Speaker 1: that I could uh you know, restore fixed up and
- 36:44Speaker 1: then it to be worked out or whatever. And I'm
- 36:46Speaker 1: gonna and I'm gonna move her and move and have
- 36:49Speaker 1: my mom's and everybody in a big ass house. And
- 36:51Speaker 1: don't get it wrong, my mom's ain't living dirt poor. Yeah,
- 36:55Speaker 1: my mom's got a Brownstone, she got money and all that.
- 36:58Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, It's like i'mna had
- 37:00Speaker 1: a whole family structure. Then I got my Flask condo
- 37:03Speaker 1: that I just bought. Marble flows, heated marble, all type
- 37:06Speaker 1: of You know what I'm saying, I'm just trying to
- 37:08Speaker 1: bost my life up, That's what I'm saying. How could
- 37:10Speaker 1: you hate Choya? The real is gonna get motivated. The
- 37:13Speaker 1: fake is just gonna hate it, and no I do.
- 37:15Speaker 1: I'm about ambition. I'm about coming from the bottom, about
- 37:19Speaker 1: working hard, hard work, and dedication. I'm living proof that
- 37:22Speaker 1: if you work hard, dedicate yourself and believe in God,
- 37:25Speaker 1: you could do anything wrong. You know what I meant
- 37:29Speaker 1: for us week first week sales. Don't always tell the
- 37:31Speaker 1: tees it's gonna be more than Yeah, it was only
- 37:34Speaker 1: two days. I sold records in two days. That's amazing.
- 37:37Speaker 1: I don't tell the hotel at all. That's what I'm saying.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Like the jay Z ground, its just the slow ground.
- 37:42Speaker 1: It's slow ground. And I can sell this amount of records,
- 37:45Speaker 1: but bet you're gonna see me hosting them parties. Come
- 37:48Speaker 1: pay to see me. Like even when I was just
- 37:50Speaker 1: doing clubs, just now Miami, I'm doing clubs when if
- 37:54Speaker 1: I'm in the street, I'm gonna sell you a CD.
- 37:56Speaker 1: If you come to the club to see me, I'm
- 37:57Speaker 1: gonna give you the album. I don't care because you
- 38:00Speaker 1: came to see me, so it cost me. It cost
- 38:02Speaker 1: me less than a dollar to print up a quick
- 38:04Speaker 1: little replica CD. Whatever duplicate motherfuck paying thirty dollars fifty
- 38:09Speaker 1: dollars fifteen hundred for a table to come see me.
- 38:11Speaker 1: I don't just take front of people. I like to
- 38:12Speaker 1: give back, you know what I'm saying. I like to
- 38:15Speaker 1: be like, I stop, I take hold of pictures with
- 38:17Speaker 1: these people. You know what I mean because BSP is
- 38:20Speaker 1: the people's brand and I represent the people. You look
- 38:22Speaker 1: anybody ever met me, Dame Chore, you have a cool
- 38:25Speaker 1: ass man here, a real dude, Like I'm gonna stop
- 38:28Speaker 1: on it yoga if even if I'm running, come on, let'
- 38:29Speaker 1: take let's take it on the walk. Let's do it. Oh,
- 38:32Speaker 1: come on, Shody, I got you. Whatever, it's nothing because
- 38:34Speaker 1: I don't take any for granted. This. I'm really living
- 38:37Speaker 1: my dreams. I'm living proof that you can live your
- 38:40Speaker 1: dreams and feel blessed like I'll be. Sometimes I'll be
- 38:43Speaker 1: waking up like damn, I feel like I feel like
- 38:47Speaker 1: I was telling hold. The other day, I feel like, um,
- 38:50Speaker 1: how how Kobe Bryant managed want to play bass? I'm
- 38:52Speaker 1: pretty sure we all wanted to be. I think it's
- 38:54Speaker 1: going to NBA. Who was younger Coole and Kobe came
- 38:57Speaker 1: in the league. He had his tongue out like Michael
- 38:59Speaker 1: Jordan's like that, But like, imagine how a Fieler want
- 39:03Speaker 1: to be like Mike and then really being the league
- 39:05Speaker 1: on some ship Like now when I get dressed like shot,
- 39:08Speaker 1: my fab fab come through flies all the time going
- 39:13Speaker 1: to the club. I'm I'm in being in the hood
- 39:16Speaker 1: getting my money, hustling and shop. And it was like, yeah,
- 39:18Speaker 1: we gotta go to party. Fab gonna be there. It's
- 39:20Speaker 1: gonna be mad. Bitches. This even before me at home,
- 39:22Speaker 1: he was kicking it and all were getting dressed. We
- 39:25Speaker 1: go on the club. We got our little table. We
- 39:27Speaker 1: probably didn't pay fifteen hundreds, sometimes four thousand. We got
- 39:31Speaker 1: a table. But meanwhile, this is woking. All the bitches
- 39:34Speaker 1: go from here to looking this way, you know what
- 39:36Speaker 1: I'm saying. So now I'm getting dressed up fly where
- 39:39Speaker 1: I'm coming through on some flies and everybody looking at me.
- 39:42Speaker 1: I'm on that platform and that feel good. I can't
- 39:45Speaker 1: even front and tell you it don't club. I ain't
- 39:48Speaker 1: never win the tight pants. I can't win skinny jeans
- 39:51Speaker 1: because my notch don't fit. To put the album out
- 39:55Speaker 1: early knowing nah nah, hurly, Hell no, I ain't. I
- 40:01Speaker 1: ain't released. You said, wait, say you're released early on
- 40:05Speaker 1: a Friday. No, no, no, no, I meant to do
- 40:08Speaker 1: it like that. Yeah, everything we were not. I'm independent,
- 40:11Speaker 1: so I ain't held it the same restraints released statement
- 40:15Speaker 1: thing you released through because you wanted to come out
- 40:17Speaker 1: before summer jam. Yeah, I'm probably have said that that's crazy,
- 40:20Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I wanted. I want to drop there
- 40:22Speaker 1: and then the physical copies where they came out on Tuesday,
- 40:25Speaker 1: like I could do whatever I want. I could drop
- 40:26Speaker 1: on Sunday night. It don't matter. I'm gonna still I'm
- 40:29Speaker 1: gonna still sell what I sell and I'm gonna still
- 40:31Speaker 1: get to the money and then it at the end
- 40:34Speaker 1: of the day, the sound scan is gonna be more
- 40:35Speaker 1: than forty five hundreds. But even if all right, I
- 40:39Speaker 1: was gonna get fifteen thousand dollars for this this album, right,
- 40:43Speaker 1: Let's say I sew two thousand copies, that's twenty bands
- 40:48Speaker 1: give it take because it's five percent off. That's twenty bands.
- 40:51Speaker 1: I still I still came out on top. You feel me.
- 40:54Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, it's about winning
- 40:56Speaker 1: that you got to look up at the scoreboard. It's
- 40:58Speaker 1: about winning. They didn't how much you won by. If
- 41:01Speaker 1: it was a blowout, it don't even matter who got
- 41:03Speaker 1: the MVP. It's about winning. And I came here to win. Dog.
- 41:07Speaker 1: You can't. There's no way you could tear down choy.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Have you ten down choy? Have you ten down the culture?
- 41:12Speaker 1: And I don't just mean black people, I mean black
- 41:14Speaker 1: white Spanish. You tenn down a coulture, You tenn down
- 41:17Speaker 1: a kid that came from from the streets and he's
- 41:20Speaker 1: trying to transition and changed his life around and come
- 41:23Speaker 1: to be something successful and do legit, legit business. You
- 41:27Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So how could you hate on that?
- 41:30Speaker 1: They don't make no type of sense it. Troy have
- 41:34Speaker 1: his albums out right now, huh Major without a Deal
- 41:38Speaker 1: is wrapped album of the Year. I told people I
- 41:40Speaker 1: was gonna have rap album of the Year and it's
- 41:42Speaker 1: wrapped out. If you listen to my album straight through,
- 41:44Speaker 1: when I say wrapped album in the year. I mean
- 41:46Speaker 1: rap music like the classic rap, Biggie jay Z, h
- 41:51Speaker 1: a young Jez Chapper, died, tr Chap music, even U
- 41:56Speaker 1: master p ice creaming like that Street. That's what it
- 42:00Speaker 1: bringing to you right now. With rap rappers the only
- 42:02Speaker 1: genre of music where it's so bunched up and you
- 42:05Speaker 1: don't get to get the subgenres of music. With rock,
- 42:08Speaker 1: you get classic rock, you get metal rock, you get
- 42:11Speaker 1: acid rock, you get grunge, rocked, you know what I'm saying,
- 42:14Speaker 1: You get all type of different rock. But with rap music,
- 42:16Speaker 1: they just bunch use up all in one. They don't
- 42:19Speaker 1: separate the conscious rap or the R and B rap,
- 42:23Speaker 1: or the trap rap or the turn up or you
- 42:26Speaker 1: know what I mean, the stone a rap and shit
- 42:28Speaker 1: like that. They just bunches all up in one. And
- 42:30Speaker 1: I'm giving you that rap music, that Biggie, that jay z,
- 42:33Speaker 1: that street that you grew up on, or even if
- 42:35Speaker 1: you grow up on that, I'm giving you the foundation,
- 42:38Speaker 1: the solid foundation. And with Major without a deal with
- 42:41Speaker 1: New York City dolbum, My whole campaign was I'm just
- 42:44Speaker 1: stoning a feeling. I'm bringing back New York. New York
- 42:46Speaker 1: is back. I did that already. Now it major. Without
- 42:49Speaker 1: a deal, I get to spread my wings. So you hear,
- 42:51Speaker 1: you hear I'm outside the box now you know what
- 42:54Speaker 1: I mean. So now you hear songs like you got
- 42:56Speaker 1: from Biggie, like boning Biggie Biggie, you know what I mean.
- 42:59Speaker 1: Or Jay's big pimping. You know what I'm saying. So
- 43:02Speaker 1: now I'm just outside the box. And this is wrapped
- 43:04Speaker 1: album of a year, and it's gonna flourish. And I
- 43:06Speaker 1: guarantee me even doing this, it's gonna spike up the sales.
- 43:09Speaker 1: So then let's talk about the number six months from now,
- 43:12Speaker 1: let's talk about that. If I'm still getting his bags,
- 43:15Speaker 1: I don't ain't nothing slowing up. I'm blessed. People be
- 43:18Speaker 1: scared to promote and scared to pray. Gotta do this
- 43:21Speaker 1: all the time, and I'm on my grind and I
- 43:24Speaker 1: represent the people. You gotta vote, You gotta root for Choyav.
- 43:27Speaker 1: You don't root for Choyav, and you ain't rooting. You
- 43:30Speaker 1: ain't rooting for the dream. You ain't got no dreams.
- 43:33Speaker 1: You ain't got no dreams, no hopes, no ambition. You're
- 43:35Speaker 1: killing all the hopes. You're killing the hopes of anybody
- 43:37Speaker 1: to say, y'all want to grow up and go to NFL.
- 43:39Speaker 1: I want to grow up, go to NBA. I want
- 43:40Speaker 1: to grow up be a doctor. I want to grow
- 43:42Speaker 1: up be a rapper. I want to grow up be
- 43:44Speaker 1: in president. They're turning it down. No, you can't do that. No,
- 43:47Speaker 1: you gotta be humble. You gotta be dots out, you
- 43:49Speaker 1: gotta be the hell. No, I just gotta be great.
- 43:52Speaker 1: You gotta be focused good. But he's no Kobe Bryant's
- 43:57Speaker 1: robson getting my money. It's gonna be acolmars itself to
- 44:07Speaker 1: Malcolm X and that, like Nick, I'm a revolution never. Yeah,
- 44:11Speaker 1: I wanted to be like Malcolm X. He was a
- 44:12Speaker 1: great person. He was a great man. He's still for something.
- 44:16Speaker 1: And he didn't take no fancwer. If I would have
- 44:18Speaker 1: taken no fancwer, I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be nothing.
- 44:21Speaker 1: I went, I wouldn't be flourishing because it believe me,
- 44:24Speaker 1: on the road to success. And many does canna get
- 44:26Speaker 1: slammed in your face, People gonna cut you off, gonna
- 44:29Speaker 1: throw all type of tires in the race, shack banana
- 44:32Speaker 1: pills in the race, track, you're gonna try all type
- 44:34Speaker 1: of and you're gonna get haters. But don't anybody listening
- 44:38Speaker 1: trying to do their thing. Hater is nothing but an
- 44:41Speaker 1: insignificant character in the story of your life. At the
- 44:45Speaker 1: end of the day, it's gonna say mother teacher, substitute one,
- 44:51Speaker 1: student three. It's nothing. You don't remember that. I was
- 44:55Speaker 1: watching the Mother James Brown movie. James Brown had haters.
- 44:58Speaker 1: We all know James Brown. Did we know they haters?
- 45:01Speaker 1: We don't know. I can't name a James Brown hater.
- 45:04Speaker 1: I just know because they was in the movie. But
- 45:06Speaker 1: it don't matter. You gott hats, you gott haters, you
- 45:08Speaker 1: got haters. You're still flourishing. That's what it's about. I'm
- 45:12Speaker 1: sure I can google a girl's name that James Brown beat. Listen, man,
- 45:17Speaker 1: we just we just flourishing it. Man. We are living out.
- 45:19Speaker 1: We are living our jeans and we and we all
- 45:21Speaker 1: successful and we all keep being successful and just keep grinding.
- 45:25Speaker 1: And I just want anybody know you could do the
- 45:27Speaker 1: same major without a deal. They got a bunch of
- 45:29Speaker 1: jewels in it and gems is come with the money
- 45:32Speaker 1: back guarantee. I'm doing it again. It come with the
- 45:34Speaker 1: money back guarantee. You don't like the album, you can
- 45:36Speaker 1: hit me I hate. I'll send you the money and
- 45:38Speaker 1: PayPal whatever, ten dollars. But just know that you listen
- 45:41Speaker 1: to Major without a deal, it's gonna it's gonna give
- 45:43Speaker 1: you that motivation and that grind to go out and
- 45:46Speaker 1: get it. And don't look for no handouts. You can't
- 45:47Speaker 1: have you handing your chest out and looking like I
- 45:49Speaker 1: really what she would stop saying he'd give people their money.
- 45:53Speaker 1: We got the money, shouting man, hold on, don't can't
- 45:58Speaker 1: give you a hundred dollars but I don't know mind.
- 46:01Speaker 1: Then they're gonna look im gonna tell you that give
- 46:05Speaker 1: shot at me one hundred dollars right as they gonna say, Nick,
- 46:07Speaker 1: he didn't really have it right, I'm geting money for you.
- 46:14Speaker 1: I might be doing something like let me tell you
- 46:18Speaker 1: what this hundred dollars. Yeah, this is a fact though,
- 46:21Speaker 1: And I'm not a chuck. Let me tell you different
- 46:23Speaker 1: between the chuck chuck. I gonna have some money and
- 46:25Speaker 1: then ain't I still got I still at the bank
- 46:27Speaker 1: caused you ain't you know what I'm saying, ain't walk
- 46:29Speaker 1: around my reup three hundred dollars. Check. I had the
- 46:40Speaker 1: big bills on the top and it's small in the middle. No,
- 46:42Speaker 1: I put them small bills on top, and I had
- 46:44Speaker 1: a big in the middle. Because I'm never trying front
- 46:46Speaker 1: for nobody. This hundred dollars is not for Schott Meine.
- 46:49Speaker 1: This is for the breakfast club that had breakfast, because
- 46:51Speaker 1: they never had breakfast. When I'm here, you didn't stop.
- 47:08Speaker 1: Don't this my wave? We cut a breakfad cup. You
- 47:14Speaker 1: got to buy the breakfast club breakfast, and you start
- 47:16Speaker 1: by giving charge. Never gave us. Is henna leave you
- 47:21Speaker 1: in North Carolina. That's not true? Dirty true? He hurt
- 47:25Speaker 1: it dirty. I was too near early. The morning man
- 47:29Speaker 1: picks that money off the floor, Troy, you probably gonna
- 47:36Speaker 1: put it on and made you without it there after
- 47:39Speaker 1: least you're gonna buy them breakfast. Absolutely, Brother Sky Charlomne
- 47:46Speaker 1: was an early He was an early supporter. He stood
- 47:50Speaker 1: up for me at the time when you're saying some
- 47:52Speaker 1: other dumps, and it's about it's about the people who
- 47:56Speaker 1: who with you when you're not doing you're not and
- 47:58Speaker 1: they face or whatever. You know what I'm saying. You
- 48:00Speaker 1: shouldn't have to get nobody a hundred dollars. No, no, no, no,
- 48:03Speaker 1: I'm fortunate. I need He's a line with he go
- 48:07Speaker 1: to New Zealand, you come to the breakfast club, you
- 48:09Speaker 1: gotta buy breakfast because he don't never have no breakfast.
- 48:12Speaker 1: That's real. What's up with these that ain't no breakfast
- 48:14Speaker 1: on the breakfast club? We major without breakfast. Troy