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INTERVIEW: Belly Gang Kushington Talks Vulnerability, Childhood Upbringing, Identity, Lil Wayne Linkup + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Every day up, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: You know I'm finished for y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Done morning, everybody in Steve J M G just Hilari
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  Speaker 3: and Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club, long
• 0:12
  Speaker 3: the rules and here as well. We got a special
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: guest in the building.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed you got Belly Gang Cushington. Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Brother. How you feeling man? Bliss brother Club?
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Where your name come from? Brother man?
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  Speaker 2: But when I was doing the wrong thing, I don't
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  Speaker 2: like when people like make their own names, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. They was just like the boy got
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: cuss by the time Christie. Then like I started getting fat,
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  Speaker 2: so they were calling me belly Gang. Start rapping. I
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  Speaker 2: currently thinking now just put it together.
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  Speaker 1: Belly Gang Cushion too.
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: And you're from Atlanta. How did you get into music
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  Speaker 3: since you were doing the Cushington thing?
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: What made you say?
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  Speaker 3: You know what, let me put this to the side
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  Speaker 3: and take music series and start rapping.
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  Speaker 2: Take music seer kitchen Casey. I had a son, he autistic,
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Like I got to beat off for my son, you
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. My mama left me. My dad
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  Speaker 2: ain't really name, so like I got to beat up
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  Speaker 2: on him.
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  Speaker 3: Did I'll make you take it serious and let me
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  Speaker 3: take the serious get out of the streets because I can't
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  Speaker 3: get locked up, Yes, sir. And when did it finally
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  Speaker 3: connect to you? When did you know that this was
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  Speaker 3: the thing that was gonna make you where you needed
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: to be to take care of yourself. When was it
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  Speaker 3: real for you?
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  Speaker 2: I met my members of Monday, like he understood how
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: to make the dots connected my head.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Monday, not that he met him on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he understood how to make the dots connected
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  Speaker 2: my head. Like, bro, you know, you can pay your
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: rent out there, like you ain't got to worry about
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: getting rich, like just worry about not having to work,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, or get money like that.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: So that when I knew like okay, you know what
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, he tapped my stream all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, okay, No, were you scared at first because
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  Speaker 4: it was like you're going from something that you knew,
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  Speaker 4: you knew how to make money off.
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  Speaker 2: The you know, it's a different from like you ja
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  Speaker 2: a dirty nigga run around with a gun, you know
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: what I mean? I actually was like raising a family
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: out there actually like about houses and all that, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So it were real hard, like
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: that was a harder thing I had to do, like
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  Speaker 2: lead the street.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder what I hear people say that? What was
• 2:18
  Speaker 5: what was so hard about it? Because you know the
• 2:20
  Speaker 5: end result, right, the result is jail or death? So
• 2:22
  Speaker 5: what was so hard about it?
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  Speaker 2: Things really like yetta think, bro, you wake up no'
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  Speaker 2: miss some twenty THI dollar play right now? Like that's
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: going through your head no matter what you do, like
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  Speaker 2: a headache, Like I'm waking up every day like that's
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: a twenty jail past or thirty forty very hard.
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  Speaker 4: You've always felt like that was worth the worry of
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  Speaker 4: going to jail or time or you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew it was bad though when like I
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: was getting locked up and it was just regular like
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: I ain't even care it would come with it, like
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. You know they're getting bad,
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So who made you believe that you could actually turn
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: this into.
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  Speaker 2: A whole career real for real, for real one day? Okay?
• 3:04
  Speaker 5: Because one thing was somebody to tell you, but to
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  Speaker 5: actually instill that confidence in you, like you know.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean? I always had the confident cocker tell
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  Speaker 2: like I could rap like I knew, like when I
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: get around my peers who rapped like they ain't really
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  Speaker 2: it ain't really like coming across like man I would.
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  Speaker 6: So that it was trash basically saying, nah.
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  Speaker 2: It jailed like people were reacting to me more. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So I knew like man, I
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: might go crazy if I take here, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. But I couldn't get the business right, like
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  Speaker 2: I ain't understand like marketing or nothing like that. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. I just knew like drop a song,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't blow up all right, you know what I'm say.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the first time you wrote something?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a studio on Cometon. My buddy who
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: jed past actually had wrote me someday. I kep telling
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: him like writing something. He like, Bro, like you got walk,
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: you got to talk, bro, just put it down on
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  Speaker 2: wats You know what I'm saying. I think I wrote
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: a song like true Legion or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Your music does feel rooted in real life hustle, So
• 4:07
  Speaker 5: I'll be wondering, like what part of your story do
• 4:09
  Speaker 5: you feel People still don't fully understand.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Really, I paint the pictures so good, like they
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  Speaker 2: really understand. Like I got so many different type of supporters,
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: like someone be rocking with the deep stuff, someone be
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  Speaker 2: rocking with the like your friend.
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  Speaker 1: That's my ship because to catch you, I like the
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  Speaker 1: old sort that ship.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, plopping his ass, bouncing mother, What do you what
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  Speaker 5: was we talking about?
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  Speaker 3: You know, would be your mix?
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  Speaker 1: Your mix being mixed?
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  Speaker 3: It was it difficult for you because people like, no,
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  Speaker 3: we're not with him, he's too he looks white, or
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: he looks like skinn or he looks just with that
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But I understand marketing like saying like I knew the
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  Speaker 2: shock value with that. So it's just like okay, cool,
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  Speaker 2: go crazy. I ain't even answer you know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying because just like in real life, like this the internet, bro,
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  Speaker 2: this ain't real. I don't been in the cell block.
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  Speaker 2: I don't been in other peoplehood across the country, trapping like,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't answering. It ain't no pulling up on me.
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  Speaker 2: So I ain't gonna get on the internet explain myself
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  Speaker 2: figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever think he was like you?
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: Did I ever think I'm like skinned, nah, I'm mixed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he said I was like, what.
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  Speaker 7: Cause you mixed?
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  Speaker 8: Like to I saw you say when you sat down
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  Speaker 8: with Big Bank and a Big Facts podcast that when
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  Speaker 8: you were younger, you felt like or it was like
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  Speaker 8: you were too black for the white kids, too white
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  Speaker 8: for the black kids.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I definitely felt like that, like you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, but like I only were raised
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  Speaker 2: by my black side, so I definitely like it was
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  Speaker 2: definitely weird with the white kids, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: because like some folk looking at me like what you're doing,
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  Speaker 2: like you know what I'm saying. But the black folks
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: that were like like in my area, like they knew
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So I was used to that,
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  Speaker 2: Like I was spoiled with that. Like when I go
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: to other hoods and stuff like that, play football, like
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: they used to be like white, Well, you know what I'm.
• 6:14
  Speaker 6: Saying, And did it bother you then like younger coming up, it.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: Kind of probably did, but I think everybody got something
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  Speaker 2: different about their ball.
• 6:24
  Speaker 5: When you were telling Push by the Ton, like did
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  Speaker 5: you ever be on the phone with somebody and they
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  Speaker 5: like then you pull up there like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah you talk Okay, yeah that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that had that happened a lot of time.
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  Speaker 7: How you can't do that? Like what do you do
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  Speaker 7: to show them? Like, yo, I'm not undercovered like they
• 6:48
  Speaker 7: start talking.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you know word when I get
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  Speaker 2: around in the field, so you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: People like starting on as a you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: You said you understood the shock value.
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  Speaker 8: I know people didn't understan They didn't know your race
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  Speaker 8: at first, so when they would hear you say the
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  Speaker 8: N word, there was a lot of backlash for that.
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  Speaker 7: And that's what you're talking about. You say you understod
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  Speaker 7: the shock, but you kind of like didn't respond but
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  Speaker 7: leaned into that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the thing like I ain't looking at it
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  Speaker 2: like that like Drake meets he said, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So it's just like that just what it is,
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  Speaker 2: Like I ain't really killer explained or kill her like
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  Speaker 2: do too much. Like I mean, it's just me.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: I always think you should just say half of it
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  Speaker 1: when you.
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  Speaker 2: Like nig crazy. I don't even really like just sit
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  Speaker 2: back and be like I'm finished say this word like
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: it's just my lingo like when I be rapping, like
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  Speaker 2: I be talking.
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  Speaker 6: Like this's just what it is, Like you even talking
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  Speaker 6: like that almost your whole life.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like my whole life. My daddy called me that.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, I notice is you and
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  Speaker 5: I know this is who you are because like I
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  Speaker 5: know people that are that have known you for a while, Like,
• 8:01
  Speaker 5: now that's really really who he is. But do you
• 8:03
  Speaker 5: ever feel like, you know, when you say you were
• 8:06
  Speaker 5: raised by your black side, you leaning into stereotypes?
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  Speaker 2: Am I leaning into a black stereotype? Well? Now I'm
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: just being me, you know what I'm saying, being authentic me.
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  Speaker 5: What would you say to the people who say that though,
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  Speaker 5: like they were like, okay, he says he's raised by
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  Speaker 5: his black side, so he wears the jewelry and he
• 8:25
  Speaker 5: got the tax and you know he talks a certain
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  Speaker 5: way in.
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  Speaker 2: My culture, like it's my culture. I don't even talk
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  Speaker 2: a certain way. They're just how it come up. It's
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: my culture, you know what I'm saying, you know, dominating
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  Speaker 2: his culture for real? We being honest before this full rap,
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, touching out a pretty female
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  Speaker 2: getting all the money you know what I'm saying getting
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  Speaker 2: back to the community, you know what I'm saying. So
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: I don't really you know what, I don't say none
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  Speaker 2: of them. I just get the money and keep moving.
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  Speaker 8: Real what about to the people who would have would
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  Speaker 8: take issue with hearing I leaned into that like shock
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  Speaker 8: value of people thinking I'm white and I'm saying the
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  Speaker 8: N word because that's such a like sacred conversation for
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  Speaker 8: some people.
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  Speaker 2: NA I ain't lean into it. I just didn't answer it.
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  Speaker 2: Just like just like the girl in my intro on
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: the AM, like, please tell us what you on ohe
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: you no insformation like or you you're a person on
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: the internet just typing m You.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: Said you had to like, you know, learn I guess
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: the business of music.
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  Speaker 5: What lessons did you have to learn the hard way
• 9:28
  Speaker 5: about like ownership and leverage?
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: I ain't really I'm kind of blessed with a good
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: lawyer early because he liked my music, and then like
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: just being a hustler period, like I'm a tiltoe for
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: I just jump into anything. I do nothing you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying until I figure it out. So I
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: ain't really been through that yet. I sure I am
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: gonna go through that, but like I ain't been through
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: nothing that I feel like, damn, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: maybe being in a distro and then it wasn't really
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: what I thought. It wore that probably like the worst.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: You dependent right?
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah? On with LVR end though, Okay, okay, yeah, yeah
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: that my family, like we're going crazy.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: Do you see yourself staying independent long term?
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Are you opening like some strategic partnerships?
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Mum, I want to be big, but you know, the
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: game the game changing right now. I don't know, you
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, might not need that in a minute,
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Yeah, we going big? Just
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: this though.
• 10:25
  Speaker 6: I love that you you actually opened up a Wayne
• 10:28
  Speaker 6: on last Yeah went on to Wayne, Yeah, how was
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: that when you got that call?
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: Like what was that? I ain't believe it at all.
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: Who was already doing like five six shows a week?
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: So like I was just like, nah, I ain't ain't
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: calling me what he needed me for like this little Wayne.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: So I still didn't believe it. And they were having
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: a conversation for like over a month. I ain't believe it.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: I seen the email like the dates, What time you
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: gotta be here?
• 10:53
  Speaker 6: It's crazy, Yeah, Monday, Nigga, you still don't.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: Believe, Nigga, ain't believe you.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: Y'all got to call you believe.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: Damn. I thought it was just probably like some age
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: and shit or just like I ain't think like they hit.
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: So you said when you when you had your your son,
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: it changed you a lot. And one of your songs
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: in the album, you talk about your son being autistic.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: You feel like that could be calmer for being in
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: the streets.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Break that down, man, I really feel that, you know
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Really, man, my daddy, like you used
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: to tell me, like you know, you do wrong, they
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: come back on your kids. Like you know what I'm saying.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what there's some folks tell shit or what.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: But like I think, like you know, waking up here,
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: they doing the wrong thing, like you never know, maybe
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: God wanted to slow me down, sit me down. You
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. It definitely did. Though it turned
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: my hustle up legally back then, like had turned my
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: hustle up. But but but I became't like I understood
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: mores and values and you know what I mean, like yo,
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: people different, Like it's crazy because like I grew up different,
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: my son now he growing up different.
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: That's interesting though, because the reality is your son ended
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: up being your biggest blessing because you said that, you know,
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: finding out he was autistic ended up being your biggest motivation.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, So I can't say that was a
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: wrong thing, you know what I mean?
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: Yo yo yo yo yo. I do know he gonna
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: have not a hard life because because of my situation now.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: But I do know like all the autistic parents out there,
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: like like they feel the same way I do. Like
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: I see the interviews I talked to him and means
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: and stuff like because he's like damn like my son
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: like there, I really don't never want to leave him,
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know somebody gonna care for you. Hi't
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: like like I do. Like I was locked up with
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: a uh. I was locked up one time, and like
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: it was a guy, like he was just locked and
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: like I could tell he was slick, like you know
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying a little different, So like I'm like
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: it ain't wrong with him, like and we we seen
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: we checked his paperwork and he was enough for Like
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: I think, like burglary or something. But like how he
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: did was like walking on the lady porch and drunk
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: some lemonade and lyft and they locked him up. You know,
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: sometime they hit you with a bigger charge, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. He had never been locked up before.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: When I was talking to him, he was just like yeah.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: I was like, how you don't get no stole like
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: or now He was just like nah. Like he ended
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: up telling me he get a chick. He lived at
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: a boarding house and then come to find out like
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: he was, it's like bro, Like he was like fifty dang. Yeah,
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: it's like bro, this lady getting his chick probably, you
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like he and he was locked
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: up on a two hundred dollars bun for burglary.
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: Like yeah, yeah, being in the streets and then having
• 13:42
  Speaker 8: your son who is autistic, which takes a lot more
• 13:44
  Speaker 8: patience and like you know what, what did you have
• 13:47
  Speaker 8: to tap into the most to make sure that you
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: were present enough for him physically but mentally, man, it
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: was hard.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie like the crying, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. He can't talk when he got older. Then
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: what's so crazy? Like he started to talk regular and
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: it just stopped, you know what I'm saying. So, I
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: don't know. I've been seeing a lot of like kids
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: his age going around them years like go through that.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: So but I I really just had to be like, look, man,
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: did what it is? You know what I'm saying. Like,
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: and then at a certain point I wanted to be
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: there like every day all day, you know what I'm saying,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: to make sure, like who else gonna do it? My
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: big mama, She's a good MoMA, but like who gonna
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: do the man part? Yeah?
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: You would never leave your child to bit sed off with?
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: You know how your situation was.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: For shure Man? Sorry, yeah, for sure, Like for sure
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: I would never leave him because of that.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: You resent your mom?
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: I did? You know what I'm saying?
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: High k Royal, he can only call if you're gonna sing.
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: You got to sing it again till you be let's out. Yeah, Milk,
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: it's so shy in front of company's crazy.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: You on drugs? No?
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: Actually here looking for that? K what you're looking for?
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: I'm geeked up looking for what when you're coming to
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: see us?
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Whatever you're ready, that's on you.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: I'm ready now.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: You're dropping. You're dropping a project this year?
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I am, but I'm I got my first headline, so
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: show today.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: So congratulation.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: When you drop whatever you dropping, pull up on us.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: I'm going to drop tomorrow a single first period hear.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, come on.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: Up, Yeah you got to Okay, I'm.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Gonna belly gang the plug. He's still the plug.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Don't put that on.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: So you you were growing up, right, who did you
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: look to like?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Who were you?
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Some of your favorite rappers? Who was your inspiration?
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Man? I took it like into the trap store obviously,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: like rock O, Jesu, t I, Gucci, you know what
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. Then like future you know what I mean?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Out of the trap.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: They've been comparison comparing you to Jeezy though you ever
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: met him.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Nah. I think I think they doing that just because
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I was dicas and talk about selling bricks like I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: don't even sound like Jesus nothing like because I put
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the diggers on and talk draw talk. That's why I
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: think they see the movement. I go out of hundred
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: deep stuff like that, Yeah so cool?
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Are you so cool?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Or the song from the song but it cras like
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: the first day we met, we just clicked like somehow,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: like we've been to each other for twenty years.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: But oh yeah, she's from Atlanta to Yeah, so it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Crazed, like you right up the street from my hood.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I ain't even no.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I seen you killing Mike co signed you too. Yeah, yeah,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: what did that mean for you?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: That was big because it was so early on, probably
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: had like ten thousand followers. He's on Curator Cuz like
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: you had heard me, I had wrote a song Lord
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: propelled me. I wrote that, so like he heard, he
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: was like might like did he want to get on?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: And he got on it. He was like, matter of fact,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I wanted from my al that was big Like me,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I had never did No, I had no accolades in
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: rap at the time. Just how somebody walking past the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: studio hearing my song, Like, so that's all big.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: What if you learned from Mike, you know, Mike always
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: dropping some jewel.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Man how to win a Grammy. No, just that, just
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: that you know, he ain't gotta be all about gangster
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. You could take a look
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: at politics, you know what I mean. You could take
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: a look at what's really going on to speak on
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that too.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: That's a good segue because what version of yourself did
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: you have to in order to grow into the to
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: the artist you are now?
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Probably the hot head, you know what I'm saying, Like
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: just reacting off as soon as I feel. So when
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I first came in the game, it was like, yeah,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: this shit go with anything I do. And I realize, like,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: you cannot bring that over here, Tod, you know what
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. Yeah, kid, that hot head. Damn.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at your stats and I see, all right,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: So seventy eight percent you got your fan based black.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Five percent of y'all is Hispanic and black Asian.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Fully got eight point four Asian and then eight point
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: four white people.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: You got some ages up the people just brow Mexicans.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Mexicans on there, shut up.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah Hispanic is yeah, I'm black. Yeah, anyway, did it?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Shot?
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: Do it?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: You got forty five percent females and then fifty four
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: percent male co Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: That's what's up.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: That's that's that's up there.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Are you shocked to know you got any Asian fans?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah? You shot for real a little bit. It'd be
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: like closing lines in Japan and stuff. Hearing up Thoughso yeah,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: they were playing music out there.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Now that you've been in the industry a little bit,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: what's something about the industry you wish artists talked about
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: more honest.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Being theirself. What's really going on? I see a lot
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: of folks trying to follow the leader for real, just
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: be yourself, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, we got
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to push that. You need kids and everything, because like
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: everybody can't be no rapper. Everybody can't be no you
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Somebody might need to be a manager,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: somebody that might need to be a computer tech guy.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Them people cool too.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: How how has it been meeting like, you know, people
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: that you might have looked up to or listened to music,
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Like I saw you linked U with Drake?
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, how has that been?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: That was big? Like they hit me like pull up,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: pulled up just at the gate, like my flowers, like
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: get your flyer, Like yeah, no, that was big. Though.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I don't really want to meet nobody else though, because
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: it ain't always like like when I met Drake's future
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the like cool, Like you know what I'm saying, they
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: really rock with me, Like he really rocked with me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, But you must have met
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: somebody that a couple of yeah, from the crip, from
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: the crib, but like out of state.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Uh out of state? Oh yeah yeah?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Were they not familiar?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I can feel that like for real like energy.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, people might get that from you, though only
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: because you come from the streets and you know, you
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: had to move a certain way kind of a survival, right,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Like even when you said you used to react that everything.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: That probably saves you a lot of times in the streets.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Now you're not there, know somebody, somebody might be looking
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: trying to figure out your disposition.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: But you know, no, I think that my fault for
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: like listening to somebody music thinking they was you know
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, that's fault. Oh I got you?
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, did that disappointment? I mean you said you don't
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: want to meet anybody? But what else did that disappointment
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: bring for you outside of just not wanting to meet people?
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Like how is it? J Did your experiences as an artist?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Mmmm? Probably make me become more vulnerable, like more let
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: them see exactly why I know my album real vulnerable,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: but this Nickson going to be overly vulnerable, like let
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: him know like this all the way meet you know
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Yeah, for sure, did.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You ever struggle with your identity as a as a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: mixed kid growing up? What you mean just in general?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Like did you ever even want to see what the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: other side was doing? Okay, but did you have a choice.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I should have had my baby pictures on file? No,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I thought I was like a little bow, a little
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Romeo or.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Early on, but even but never like Macaulay Culkin or
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: nothing straight home alone.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Nahna, you wouldn't.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, you never even knew your other side of the family.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I never I met my mama one time. That's crazy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I met her one time. Like that's it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: I saw you say.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: You were raised with so much like loving just whatever.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: You didn't even know that there was a difference until
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: you had to know.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I ain't even know, Like I ain't even
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: missed that mama. Like you know what I'm saying. My
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: cousin raised me, like call her mom, like her mama.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I called her mom before she died. Like it's like
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Grandma Nana cooked chicken every Wednesday for the for the
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: for the congregation, like they come and to preach in
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the basement, like I gotta help up cook the cheek
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: with a suit on, you know hood, you know what
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So like I ain't really know, like they
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: grew up ghetto fabulous for real, Like my other grandma,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: my dad and mama, she stayed up here. Oh I
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: forgot what she stayed at. But like she I went
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to one O. SI's apart all that about like nine
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Free AJ put me on stage and everything, the rapper
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: then I was just yeah as a kid, I was
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: like nine years old.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Need a kid as a proper because you imagine you're
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: trying to pick on them. I'm gonna get my cousin.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Let's go get your little white cousin.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Before. Now that's another thing. I got brothers and sister too.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Like my big brother he he the worst. So like
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, he would like that for sure.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: When you look at like like a racist white person,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: what goes to your mind? Like what do you be thinking?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't understand why the days old. You
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, I don't understand why they like
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: that any racist person for real, you know what I'm saying.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: But at least you telling me you racist, and that's
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: what you will, you know what I'm saying on the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: cover with it, You know what I mean, I think
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I get I think I think my type of people
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: get it the worst case. Like you know, like I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: don't have like white people like and black people like
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: older like real older be like you're a mixed breede
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: like that, ain't there's nothing you could do?
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, you ever had as you ever have an
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: accounter with a white person that look at.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You like like you yeah, like you like all that? Yeah, yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I mean like growing up like my demean always kind
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: of being like this. So I ain't really never dealt
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: with stuff personally, you know what I'm saying. But I don't.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I don't encounter stuff like that for sure. And I'm
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: sure like even in nick game, like you probably got
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: like gate keepers like looking at like man trying to
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: cool though, just work hard and so on to come
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: across the couple on too.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You never had to coach with you get your homies
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: out of a jam, you know what I'm saying.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: You know what crazy we were looking at my records,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: you know, every Jill put me in as black. I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: never told her I don't rope white on them before
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: thinking they're gonna help me.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: When you when you met Drake, the caption was rich
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: mixed kids compos in the back of the area right
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: areas the ship clerks. Yeah, so was that just like
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: a fly caption or were y'all really having conversations about
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: navigating this industry as a mixed kid because he gets
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: a lot of like slack for like going in and out.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: We didn't speak on being met, but like it was
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: too rich miex kids. It was just in the back
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of not having a conversation.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: I asked, was it just a fly conversation? You just
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: never know?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: No, we weren't talking about meat. We're just to meet kids.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: I just came through Femi gonna say, tell him doing
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: white voice, a.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: White boy crazy, I'm a suburban kid.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You didn't use that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: You didn't use that privilege at least once to help
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the homies get out of jam Man, because.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: How you had to.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I ain't no try I'm gonna try that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's already out, he's good looking back.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I'll be getting pulled over now like that. Know who
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I am and.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: What I wanted to meet with.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I wanted to meet you and talk to you for
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: a little bit before I said this. But Drew Ski
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: definitely was acting like you yo.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: No, definitely like belly because I wasn't familiar with you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: when he did the sketch, So it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Was just that really like I ain't gonna lie like
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: when he did that though, Like that really skyrocketed for sure. Yeah,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: so what was the.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: First like, oh, this is skyrocketing?
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: Was it a phone call for an opportunity like signal
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: the skyrocketing? I don't know you think it, Like, no, no,
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: I'm saying from Drew Ski, like you said he skyrockets
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: came about that. Yeah, So like did you numbers go
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: up on social media to.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Be followed just going crazy out like it was on
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: roll who was on the roads? Like why am I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: follower going crazy? Then like he seen Drew Like oh
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: he did. I ain't even watched the whole skit. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: ain't see the end where he went home to the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: white family and ye, but I know like he definitely
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: seen and at the time, I think that was Drew
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: sky biggest skit he had, Like yeah, that was Drew.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: School was already he was already following me and everything
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: he had already followed me and everything.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And studying you just to do a skit.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: So I had put the laughing faces like the comment
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: kind of got a lot of lights and ship. But
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: then I posted a picture on like black as he
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: get or something like that. He DM me like, bro,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: just won't listen to one thousand per cent one ting
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: about you on my cool.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Laughing You'll need to do a part too where y'all
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: meet each other.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: He brought me out at the could have been fished,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: like man went crazy then, like when I went and
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: shut down, like he was making billy cut jokes the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: whole time, like your drew skin, Like that's a big
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: brand for him to just not even know me and
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: like just really pass all emotional to me, Like y'all for.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: What's the life change of all that has been like
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: for you?
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: Because I saw a Billboard article that lists you as
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: one of the top ten songs played in the strip
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: clubs in Atlanta, like number young Thug, Jeezy, Young Nudie,
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: Like you know what I mean? Like what's that life changement?
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Like big Superstar?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Now, Mmm, I don't know it kind of feel like
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know it kind of feel like I guess
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: collect my path life kind of feel like shit, I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: don't know. Sometimes walk in it in the little ass spot,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: jump the little cars and just be like, man, it
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: should be going tomorrow, like work hard every day all day.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Like in my spot I got when you walk in,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I got all my mud shots on the wall should
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: remind me like, don't ever go back there in my house. Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: What does the Belly Gang movement mean beyond music? Like,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: what's the philosophy of the belly Gang man?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: No gang or nothing music music?
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: What's the deeper meaning of the move movement? Because you
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: get very vulnerable in your.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Music and you inspire your I mean that name is
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: just a name for real, Like like you know what
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. But my personal movement, I think just showing
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: these kids like morals, values like you ain't got to
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: kill nobody, you know what I'm saying. Get the money,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Like let's get the money to have fun. You know
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Girls, either success changed your circle or just exposed it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Mmm, it changed it for sure. I've seen something. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: think I forgot who said it, but like they were like,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think money changed you are changing people around you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: You know what? Crazy like my members told me. I
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: used to tell them like right, being had emotional, like
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: being had the money, like nah, that fing gonna change
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: this ship. Like he was totally right. Like the fame
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: making them for crazy crazy, like I'm overly humble Like fame,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: it changed a lot of folks. It really changed everybody
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: for really be honest, in what way?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: What's it noticeable?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Just like the girl I had. You know what I'm saying,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: you know, asking for more money? You know what I'm saying, Yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: not really caring about my day. And then like you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: it'll be like I can't even have a conversation no
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: more where like man, I'm tired of work, or it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: just like anytime they talk to me, it's the sad
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: story first, Like it's just like God, damn, I gotta
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: go talk to somebody who ain't trying to do all that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, have you learned to say no?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Hey? Yeah? Sure? Learn not say none at all? Back? Yeah?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Talk because you know what's crazy, Like people are literally
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: not care that you got a child. They'll not kill
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: that that you you you work every day all day. Man,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I've been woke. I just went to sleep last night
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: for the first time in two days, I'm finish, be
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: woke for two more. They in like three four different cities,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: like they don't care. Stop what you're doing and fix
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: my problems. Like, nah, that's all that. That ain't gonna work.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: You do get back a lot though, from what I
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: from what I sure for sure, Yeah yeah I give
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: I give back a lot real actually, but I think
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: like that's needed when I do it.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I'm talking about like the personals,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying, Nah, w ain't doing that?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Do you create music music more off emotion or intention?
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: Mum?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I think both? Like friend do? I kind of like
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: sat back and wrote that for six Rid. I was
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: like Rank, thinking like i'ma get it six Rid. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: like in my mind, I was just thinking, like girls
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: don't never just go to the club and talk by theyself.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: She's gonna stand by the box drink. She with her friend.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: They're gonna work together like like your friends like that.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I guess that was more so our emotion. I had
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: just noticed that before I do the song.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: You?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: What what's going on?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: That's the merks right there.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: Oh that's the hundred dollars tea, You just those.
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: Charlotte Magne was like, so slow man, the white tea, white,
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: open it up and make sure you should have white tea.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: You can't open them though they're gonna be worth you
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: You're gonna give us y'all. Okay, thank you because hundred
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: for my But you sold out of those teas, right.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: So like first week when we first read of again,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: sold out again, again, sold out again. Now became like
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I guess, like novelty idol, but the idea wasn't so crazy.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I love who idea was it?
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: It was you? Ye that man? I got a team
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: we come up with I did, but this our mee.
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: I like that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: So are you more focused now and building a brand
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: or like perfecting the art of music or do you
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: see them as inseparable?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they in separate. You gotta do both, you know
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Right now, folks on music all the way.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I think the brand building last year pretty good, you
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? But this year, like folks on
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: music all the way, I keep coming with them here.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: It's been hard to be consistent.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Uh, It been hard, like find time to record, Yeah,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: but I'm always in my phone like rain down ideas,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: ship like that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So what's what's been hard at getting in the door
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: or staying consistent?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Now that you you in the door, getting in the door, Okay,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I worked twenty folks out. I don't take off. I
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: don't do if you see me in the strip club
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: because I got booked. Yeah, I don't take off at all.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: So when you are off, you stay in the studio
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: with your son.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming, yeah, I'm with my son studio. I got
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to find time for the vibe, you know what I'm saying,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Like usually just bringing the work.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Does he like the music?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: My son? I don't know. He don't talk no, no,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: but you know something like my my cousin, my mom,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: she sent me a video the other day. She claimed
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: he was hum and friend when it came on the radio,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: and she clean, he don't really express hisself like at all,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: But they feel waves to like they feel the vibe.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: So I was just wondering, if you head to the music.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I wrote the whole album though, like with him in
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the carture me and him in the car, do you
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: miss the girl that you broke up?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: With I guess.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I miss all, I miss I miss all my vibe.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Could you ever see yourself with a white bibe?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I like all girls all close. I like all girls
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: all coase.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: You know numbers that that charge fifty women forty.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: I love all the world like a Maigan, a Katie,
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: you know, like one of those ever get you like?
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, like Darri I.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Like I like Kim kardash and Mama.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: Date okay to get past court?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: I can't wait to talk to you in the future
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: because you know, the funny thing about talking to guys
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: when they like kind of like fresh out the street,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: it feels like you're interrogating them a little.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Bit, like they're getting interrogated, you know, with Jesus.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but in a very you gotta talk to my
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: lawyer kind of.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: When you ask them about the movement. Oh my god,
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: he was like no, no, no, And then.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: They pulled out bricks showing me got scared.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: You've seen that.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I've seen some wild ship. You can't do around long enough.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I've seen new artists fresh out the street.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: Crazy, just careless.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I know it's not him, it's the people that was
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: with him in the back.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: Not Monday. Monday told him to not be careless.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I just saw what I thought him putting up the back.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: You.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: So so this is my last question. What's next for
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Belly Gang Cushions? And you spoke about wanting to do
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: big music beyond trap music.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, no, working on second album. I think
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: the second album the most important album in somebody career.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. That first one you can
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: get lucky, but that second one like show you if
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: you're gonna be pressure, come with depression. So I'm just
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: working on the music right now, you know what I'm saying,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: turned down shows and all that focused.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: For somebody listening to this right now, Like, what's one
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: song in your catalog that you think best represents who
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Belly Gang Chris really is?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Introduction to everything. It's it's show how the fans perceive me.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: It's so high perceived. It only show high perceived my
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: past life and a new life.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Let's get into a jo, my friend, do could we
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: played that already? What else would you want to hear?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: That bird like pipe show that was going away? Can't
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: pull up the no Red light in Atlanta without hearing
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: it right now.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: That's a tribute to you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's on his beat.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get into that reach out yet for that
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: making the style. You know, she just opened up the
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Popeye franchises.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: Real in Miami.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I could not I could actually do that, for sure.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: We gave we gave how many old turkeys we gave
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: off from Pope when they hit the turkey from Popeye
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Popeye turkeys and all that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Turkeys look a little crazy, look look a little crazy crazy.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: But it ain't. Aven't get one. They're crazy.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that pop up turkey, it is pretty alright seasoning. Yes, yeah,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: that's what's.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Up, belly getting cause you're telling me appreciate you for
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: joining us, and don't be a strange to make sure
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: you come back up here.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: For sure. I don't walk past the room like tea time,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: like I can't wait I get in. But there you
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Good morning every day.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I waiting, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: You don't finished, y'all done