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INTERVIEW: YG Talks 'THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUB,' Vulnerability, Evolution, L.A. Street Politics, Grief + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Every day up waiting, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: You don't finish for y'all done.
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  Speaker 3: Morning.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we
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  Speaker 4: are the Breakfast Club. Laura ROAs is here as well.
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  Speaker 4: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, ladies,
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  Speaker 4: a gentleman of y g Welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Brother. What what are you feeling? How's your energy this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Brother? I'm good. I feel good. You just landed. You
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  Speaker 1: just you just around right, something like that.
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  Speaker 3: You just like that on a plane. I know they
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  Speaker 3: pulled you to the side.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no no, I'll just put this on
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  Speaker 5: the You know what I'm saying, it's the fit.
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  Speaker 2: The album of the Gentleman's Club. Is that the new
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  Speaker 2: way to stay therapy the therapist office?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, pretty much. You know what I'm saying. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll break it down.
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  Speaker 4: Well, break it down the meaning of Gentlemen's Club and
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  Speaker 4: why you called it that, because the first thing people
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  Speaker 4: gonna think is when you seen Generman's.
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  Speaker 1: Club, strip club, the club you got list.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a lot different from that. So break down
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  Speaker 4: why you play with the words like that.
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  Speaker 5: So like I took the Gentleman's club concept, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, because like I'm known for like party
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  Speaker 5: music and all that. She was like all right, bet,
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  Speaker 5: but I put a little twist on it, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like like the Gentleman's Club, like with
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  Speaker 5: the album like for me, like I mean grown man growth,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, And like with with the
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  Speaker 5: concept of the album, like I like I built the world.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, oh, the Gentleman's Club is like a place
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  Speaker 5: like you can come and we can talk as men,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, talk about things that men
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  Speaker 5: don't normally speak about, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 5: the interest how you get in this club? You know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. You got to kill your old self,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So that's your entry. Like
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  Speaker 5: so yeah, but I just played with it, like you know,
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  Speaker 5: I put the dress code with it, black tied fear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love the concept.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever feel trapped by by by a version
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  Speaker 2: of yourself like that the O. G.
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  Speaker 3: Street version?
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. I don't want to say I felt trapped,
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  Speaker 5: but like you know, I was doing that and giving
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  Speaker 5: the world that for so long, like people started to think,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, that was all I had
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  Speaker 5: or you know what I'm saying, that was all.
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  Speaker 1: I knew how to do, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: And I really be on some.
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  Speaker 5: Artist ships, I'm like, all right, this album right here,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna let y'all know, like I'm more than that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You can look at me
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  Speaker 1: like like different, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I had to, like I had to get
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  Speaker 5: this off my chest, you know what I'm saying, to
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  Speaker 5: move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Getting was it difficult? Now? I felt like I held
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  Speaker 1: back for so long.
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about just a lot of stuff due to
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  Speaker 5: like my situation with the labels and shit, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I was holding back a lot. So like like.
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  Speaker 5: When I finally was like, yeah, I'm going there, I'm
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  Speaker 5: finna do this, like I was ready, I'm like, bad,
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  Speaker 5: let's talk, you know what I'm saying. And then I
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  Speaker 5: was just going through life at the time, so like
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  Speaker 5: like it felt good to like, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 5: busting records down, Like yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: Did the label tell you not to do it. That
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  Speaker 4: was they specific with like we only want club records
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  Speaker 4: from you. Were they specific with telling you what to
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  Speaker 4: do or what they wanted to put money intowards.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 5: So I was just like I was just going through,
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  Speaker 5: like me finding out like what type of deal I
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  Speaker 5: was in, you know what I'm saying. And when I
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  Speaker 5: found that out, like early on, like I told myself
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  Speaker 5: and all my peoples, I'm like, look, I'm not really
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  Speaker 5: giving real albums and shit, so I'm finished just drop
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  Speaker 5: projects until I get out my deal. Oh hell yeah,
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  Speaker 5: just like most of everybody, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: But I just basically chouse to crash out, like you
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  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I just you I'm finish just running shit up. But
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  Speaker 1: like what I was.
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  Speaker 5: Doing, it basically hurt me in the long run, like
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  Speaker 5: how I felt, you know what I'm saying. But like
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  Speaker 5: I made sure on every project I dropped, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, I got a hit, like that's mandatory,
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  Speaker 5: But like as far as putting together like full complete
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  Speaker 5: albums like how My Crazy Life was and all that,
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  Speaker 5: and I wouldn't know that at all.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't do that. The reason you can't do
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  Speaker 3: that is because of my crazy life.
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  Speaker 2: My crazy life was such a complete body of work
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  Speaker 2: from top to bottom with the skits and the storytelling.
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  Speaker 3: You can't we.
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  Speaker 1: Expect that from you at this and that's you feel me.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I said I crashed out because you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's like, all right, yeah, you was mad at your situation,
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  Speaker 5: but it's like, you know what I'm saying. You just
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  Speaker 5: start doing whatever, and people started looking at you like that,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So that's that's what I
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  Speaker 5: was doing.
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  Speaker 6: I saw that you said you had a conversation with
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  Speaker 6: Kendrick about not putting out like rushing to get through
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  Speaker 6: albums to get out of a deal.
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  Speaker 1: You were talking about this same situation.
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  Speaker 6: So there was in the midst of all of this.
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  Speaker 6: So was he hearing the music and came to you, like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: just hear something?
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  Speaker 1: He just no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: So I was just telling him like like the whole
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  Speaker 5: like like the like the the whole concept of the
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  Speaker 5: album and my intentions and my goals, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: like I just explained the same thing, Like I was
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  Speaker 5: just doing that, like to get out my deal and
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, you tripping you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, When did you realize why G? That you actually
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  Speaker 3: needed to evolve instead of just sifve.
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  Speaker 1: O man?
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  Speaker 5: I realized that like twenty twenty like two three, But
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  Speaker 5: I started working on this album twenty twenty four. Yeah, So, so.
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  Speaker 2: What happened in your life that made like self examination important,
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  Speaker 2: like more so than just self reservation? Like what made
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  Speaker 2: you finally take that step back and start doing that
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  Speaker 2: in the work.
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  Speaker 1: I think like the situation.
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  Speaker 5: Like I was explaining, like like I asked people like
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  Speaker 5: like I started asking people this questioning like twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, Like I'm like, when you think of
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  Speaker 5: why G, what you with? You Like, what's the first
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  Speaker 5: thing that come up in your mom You know what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying. And I'm asking like.
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  Speaker 1: Homies, females, people, what I work with. What I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just asking people.
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  Speaker 7: And everybody like super Blood, Red.
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  Speaker 6: L A and seeing you maneuver it's literally that party
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  Speaker 6: in Hard Bottom now.
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  Speaker 4: But when you just said it, the first thing I
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  Speaker 4: thought I was like the first thing that came in
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  Speaker 4: my mind is blood. That's the first thing that came
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  Speaker 4: in my mind when I thought about the second is
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  Speaker 4: the music.
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  Speaker 8: The first ones to his style. We got a very
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  Speaker 8: particular style. I think you dressed like Michael Jackson.
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  Speaker 9: So yeah, so like I I got saying, Prince.
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  Speaker 10: He would have been like, the hold up, Michael Jackson.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like, yeah, yeah, no, that's a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I'm saying yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I like I asked people that question, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: they were saying that, and then I'm just like at
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  Speaker 5: this time, I'm like, damn, I'm like a fashion thing.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be dressing. I'm like a dad and I got
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  Speaker 5: like two three businesses. I'm running like myself, like you
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  Speaker 5: feel me.
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  Speaker 1: That's all y'all think. You know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 1: I had to like, so I'm asking them, like, why
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  Speaker 1: do y'all think that they like? Well, bro, that's all
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  Speaker 1: we see.
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  Speaker 5: We get on the internet, we see news clips, we
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  Speaker 5: see you in real we see gang shit, and we
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  Speaker 5: see homies doing we see you. And I was like, damn,
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  Speaker 5: be right, like and then when it comes to the music, right,
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  Speaker 5: when it comes to the music, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 5: Like I've been giving the same shit in the videos
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  Speaker 5: and like that's all they seen. It's just all that,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: like I gotta intentionally go and show y'all and give
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  Speaker 5: y'all me in a different like way, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying. So for me when I came with the
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  Speaker 5: Gentlemen's clubs and I'm like, yeah, I'm finished black tied,
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  Speaker 5: fear dress code. You know what I'm saying, everything black
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  Speaker 5: and white on some grown ship. But don't get it
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  Speaker 5: fucked up, like like what you think of me all that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm yeah, I'm not for sure you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: But it's like that's just not.
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  Speaker 3: It more than that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know so yeah that's what happened, bro. And
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  Speaker 1: how has it changed been for you?
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  Speaker 4: Because we see we've seen the change, We've seen you
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  Speaker 4: dress up, we've seen you step outside of the box
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  Speaker 4: before more did has it been well received or.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah? People?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah no, they they you know what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 5: I've been I've been on some other ship like you
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  Speaker 5: was just mentioning like I've been dressing like how I've
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  Speaker 5: been dressing for a long time you know what I'm saying. So,
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  Speaker 5: like like people already know, like if you know me,
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  Speaker 5: if you around me, you already know, like yeah that
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  Speaker 5: Niggan smother ship. But as far as me as an artist,
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  Speaker 5: like what I've been giving to the world, like music, music,
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  Speaker 5: video and all that, I've been giving them the same shit,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 1: So, but I've been on some other ship.
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  Speaker 2: Two of the best moments on the album, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because it kind of crystallized, crystalized. The album is of
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  Speaker 2: course hit Man and ready to die, right because as
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  Speaker 2: you said, you know, you got to kill off an
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  Speaker 2: old version of yourself. Do you think you have to
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  Speaker 2: always kill off the old version of yourself to become
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  Speaker 2: who you're supposed to be?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like when you come from like places like
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  Speaker 5: I come from, and your lifestyle is what your lifestyle is,
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  Speaker 5: and you you learned like a lot of things that
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  Speaker 5: you learn in the streets, like I feel like to
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  Speaker 5: get to that next point of like life, like like
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  Speaker 5: being grown, like you definitely got to kill yourself because
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  Speaker 5: all all I know is crash out like burnt fry
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  Speaker 5: nigga shit.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: That's and I think we all think that's regular and
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  Speaker 5: it's normal.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know when you like when you.
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  Speaker 5: Hit a certain age and you just start looking at
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  Speaker 5: like life and damn, like when you start really breaking down,
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  Speaker 5: like how this happen? What happened? It is like, well
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  Speaker 5: you crashed out. Yeah, you responded to this like that,
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  Speaker 5: you get you you and like you really you shouldn't
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  Speaker 5: have been up over there like that, or your homiekeepers
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  Speaker 5: sitting the been like why she's still over there? It's
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  Speaker 5: really you know what I'm saying, you gotta deal with yourself.
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  Speaker 5: So I felt like you come from the streets, you
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  Speaker 5: gang bang whatever. You know what I'm saying, You gotta
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  Speaker 5: unlearn a lot of the shit that we was taught.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I agree wholeheartily. But the streets won't let you do that.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of times, streets was like you ain't not.
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  Speaker 1: Be on that no more. But we are.
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  Speaker 5: We're still yeah yeah, no, I mean yeah, the streets
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  Speaker 5: is gonna like the streets is gonna for show me
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  Speaker 5: the streets. But it's like, bro, Like I felt like
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  Speaker 5: everybody from where I'm from, bro, they already know. It's like, Bro,
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  Speaker 5: I didnet did the streets all the way up, like
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  Speaker 5: so it's like like the only thing that'll come next
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  Speaker 5: for me, like still trying to do the streets up
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  Speaker 5: like not music, but like in real life. Like it's
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  Speaker 5: like I'm end up dead in jail. Like so it's
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  Speaker 5: like like everybody know this. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: So it's like I got a pass, like you feel,
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  Speaker 5: That's how I feel. But like you feel, this album
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  Speaker 5: is not like this whole era. This album is not like,
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  Speaker 5: oh I'm a square now, Like what.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing now is more gangster than anything you've ever done, okay,
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  Speaker 2: because you have to let go of that old version
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  Speaker 2: of yourself that probably served as like a mask, right,
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  Speaker 2: like a shield protection that armor. Now you're saying, now,
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  Speaker 2: I can't use that no more. That don't serve me
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  Speaker 2: no more. So here's me, real me that's more vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: and more.
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  Speaker 3: Than anything else.
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  Speaker 8: The Tyler Creative record that was like totally different from
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  Speaker 8: what we usually get from YG.
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  Speaker 10: How did that collaboration come about?
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  Speaker 1: How I collab come It's lit though, it's just okay, yeah, no.
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  Speaker 5: When I like when I made the record, Todd produced
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  Speaker 5: the little beat, he made the beat, I went in
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  Speaker 5: there did the song and then I'm whispering, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: just like, like, whoever I put on this song, it
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  Speaker 5: got to be an artist that like know how to
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  Speaker 5: like like.
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  Speaker 1: Play with his voice or just do some different shit. Right.
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  Speaker 5: So Tyler was one of the first motherfuckers I thought
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  Speaker 5: of about.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 5: I sent it to Bro and then this niggas sent
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  Speaker 5: it back and he ain't even whispering. I'm like, like,
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  Speaker 5: this niggas did the whole opposite, But you feel me.
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  Speaker 5: That's why it's a good balance exactly, like you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, but yeah, like yeah, that's how it happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite songs on the album is Insecure,
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  Speaker 2: right because I think that you're talking about anxiety in
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  Speaker 2: a very relatable way.
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  Speaker 3: Insecure as fuck. I want to fuck this slut, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm scared thinking how early I might know.
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  Speaker 9: You can tell me there before you insecure.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm off the liquor. That's why I pop
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  Speaker 2: dick pills when I hit the strip. I understand what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying. You're just talking about anxiety that comes with life.
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  Speaker 2: That's just what you use to talk about. What made
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  Speaker 2: you want to you know, do that record.
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  Speaker 5: I mean like like the album is The Gentlemen's Club,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and we're talking about we're talking about things
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  Speaker 5: that like people who I'm from don't talk about them,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So like like.
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  Speaker 5: The record or the Insecure record, Like as I'm piecing
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  Speaker 5: the album together, you know what I'm saying, I was
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  Speaker 5: probably like one of the like the third last record
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  Speaker 5: I did. You know what I'm saying, what's that one?
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  Speaker 1: Right? The fourth? But I'm I'm I'm piecing the record together.
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  Speaker 5: The first myself record I've made on The Gentleman's Club
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  Speaker 5: that's on the album was the mid Life Crisis record, right,
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  Speaker 5: that's the last song, right, so boom I make that
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  Speaker 5: record and then I'm like, I'm killing myself.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: I like, you know what I'm saying, the old meat
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  Speaker 5: right Like so now boom, I know how the album ending.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm putting together It's like, all right, how did
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  Speaker 5: we get here though, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm working backwards, so then boom, like I'll make hit
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  Speaker 5: me boom and I'm just like all right, all right, cool,
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  Speaker 5: like like I know I'm killing myself, how do we
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  Speaker 5: get here? I put a hit out on myself trying
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  Speaker 5: to high hit me, all right, cool boom. So then
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  Speaker 5: I'm just keep piecing it together and it's just like
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  Speaker 5: how do we get here? Like I'm going through every
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  Speaker 5: phase of like, you know what I'm saying, want to
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  Speaker 5: kill your old self, and like I feel like man,
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  Speaker 5: niggas like we like we be having insecurities, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, and in life like to get you
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  Speaker 5: feel me to the next phase wherever you're going through,
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  Speaker 5: like like.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get through that shit. You gotta get over
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  Speaker 1: that shit.
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  Speaker 5: So like like insecurities is some shit that you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like you gotta kill too?
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  Speaker 3: How hard did did they admit that?
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  Speaker 2: Especially when you know you come from a culture where
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  Speaker 2: it showing any type of weakness vulnerability can be taken
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  Speaker 2: as you know, soft.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, that's why I feel like everybody got insecurities, right,
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  Speaker 5: But like I'm not like insecure when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: like like like I know I ain't a soft nigga,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Like I know like you feel me. So it's just
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: like me and the homies we be in the group
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: chat talking about all types of shit be talking about
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying that like niggas don't really
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: talk about to the world, so I'm just like, nah,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna talk about all this ship like we be
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: talking about all type of shit, you know what I'm saying.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: So it's like, no, we canna put this in the record,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: you know. And I feel like like on the verse
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: like I came, I came on the verse. My verse
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: represent like the street niggas, like the Fried niggas, like.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And then like everybody else
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: did they thing.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me being there with them rapping ass niggas.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Oh me that niggas so said this verse bag were
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: like what the this nigga? This squeak crazy this. I
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, you know what I'm saying, but like.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, I'm a famous rapper, so I can have
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: any any girl that I want except that I want, damn.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: And then just how he like like like like how
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: he did his verse like you know what I'm saying,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: and on some like spoken word type shit like that
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: shit was crazy. But yeah, bro that record, I feel
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: like it was like it was needed. Like if I'm
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: if I'm trying to if I'm like killing my old self,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: like insecurities, Like it's definitely poort of that.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: What were some of the things that you realized that
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: you hadn't killed off by the end of the two
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: year span, like when you got to the end of
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: this album, that you were like, maybe I didn't deal
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: with that the way I thought I did I personally,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: so like just anything that you addressed on the album,
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: whether it's like vulnerability or whatever as you're because you're
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: working backwards, like you know, right, So it's one thing
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: that she was like, I thought I got over this.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: I thought I dealt with it, but I didn't.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: The we know the truth record is is that was
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: like the last record. No, that was the second to
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: last record I did on an album. And you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I'm a street nigga show.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm like the last of a dying breed.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I'm like a street nigga that was like in the
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: streets when the Internet became a thing, you know what
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, So like like a nigga, like all I
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: know is like we don't get on the internet talking
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: about nothing, Like we don't talk about nothing.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: We don't talk about nothing on the phone. We don't
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: do none of that, right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: So so a situation happened and my name was all
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: in it, like like like I did something or whatever, right,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: and people just on the internet just talking. I took
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: like the street nigga, like you feel me the law,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: like I'm not saying nothing about nothing. I ain't talking
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: about nothing, And I thought I deal with that shit
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: like that, you know, by being silent like, but then
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: it just got to a point to where it's like
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I'm like, nah, I gotta say something, you know what
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like I gotta speak on this show.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That was that moment right there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: But do they I guess that the people from the
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: other side, do they believe that, Like when you say
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: you ain't had nothing to do it that blah blah blah,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: do they believe that?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, like.
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: You don't given it's like it's it's it's like it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: fat like it's it's it's fact, right, like like like I'm.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Not even gonna say what niggah I want to say, boy, like, man.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: You're doing great.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: He's doing great, because even when I'm listening to you
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: talk about the record right now, it's kind of hard
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: for you to speak about it because of the severity
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: of the situation.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Right, I know, it was hard to recall, like I.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Now, like you there's never been any charges officially for you,
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Like you've never been charged with anything. You kind of
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: left everything alone when the rumors were circulating. Why talk
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: about it now?
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Because people keep talking about on the internet and then like,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: you know, family like calling like like you know what
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: It's just your family or the opposite side, No, my.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Family, like people like and everybody like tapping in Like
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I'm like, bro, ain't got nothing to do with that, Like.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Like we'll break it down because a lot of people
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: might not know what you you're talking.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: About politics, whether you wrapped about it or not.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You want to break it down.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Again with a girl like okay, yeah, got you.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: One thing that you did mention in that record you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: talked about the grief you was going through it that time.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because yeah, like like a week before that, you
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So that was one of the
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: main things. It's like, bro, I got paid six hundred
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: thousand to do this show. You think I like, like
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I can't do that, Like you know what I'm saying
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: it don't make no sense, like and then you like
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: the homie just got killed, you know, so it was like, bro,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: like what they saying and how they saying it is like, bro,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: that ship all cat. You know what I'm saying, Did.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You even give yourself time to grieve Slim or did
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: you just keep it moving?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: No?
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: No, no, you know no I had time. I still
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like going through that book. Yeah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: like I have to put the homie obituary together, you
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Yeah, his family was like, nah,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: we want you to do it. So like that ship
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: right there was crazy, Like I was fucked up doing
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: that like it was.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It was crazy. But it's dope though. Yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, LA's Creek politics one of the most complicated things
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: to ever even just witness. I can only just imagine
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: living it because just on the ourside looking in, it
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: just seems so impossible to navigate.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, when you're from out there, that's all you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: So it's normals, like you said, why, it's so.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: It feels like it's almost impossible to navigate, like like
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you said earlier, to not end up there, to not
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: end up in jail.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: In that lifestyle seems like okay, so complicated.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: So I tell people this all the time, right, I'm like, look, bro,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: most of everybody who become successful from where they're from,
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, They leave, they go move
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: to Atlanta, they go move to Miami, they go move
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: to LA.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: They go move wherever the fuck they go move to.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: When you a nigga from La Comptent, wherever you're from,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: longba Wood, South Central, whatever, you from LA, we ain't leaving,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. You feel me just the
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: place everybody want.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: To move to.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Be from visiting all that. It's like we really ain't
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: really leaving like that, you know what I'm saying. So
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: niggas get money, become successful, and you know you would
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: move like out the way, but everybody moving out the way,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And then you feel me
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: when you come outside, like you twenty miles away from
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: like where you're from, like where it's happening at, you
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: ten miles away from where some shit is happening at.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: So it's like.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: You would go out and you would think you being low.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: You'll be at Maestros and Malaebu and it's a whole
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: old table like niggas, it's probably your ops. Like you
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, They touching money. You got some money,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: so niggas all like like he gets a treaty like that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: But like, like what I'm trying to say is we
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: stay in the city.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: And you know what I'm saying, We like it's close,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like it's close, so like
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: it's a dangerous like it's a dangerous lifestyle, you know
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Because you still like if you go
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: like and you having a club hosting or a booking
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: in like Hollywood or like downtown, all the hommies pulling up,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: it's like whoever else pulling up, Like it's a whole
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: bunch of gang members in the party. Like that's just
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: what it is, you know what I'm saying. So as
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: far as on my side as an artist, you know
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, having success and all that, being from
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: the city, still living in the city. You know what
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, it gets tricky, Like it gets tricky because
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: then being a real nigga, you know what I'm saying,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: you still pulling up.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You still around popping out
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: like ain't thinking happened? But that makes it fun?
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Of Did that make it work?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: If I gotta be on P's and Q's when I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: with my son, I gotta be P's and Q's. I'm
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: taking my daughter, if I want to be P's and Q's,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: if I want to go to my strolls or I
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: want to go shopping, does that make it fun and
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: worth it to you?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Especially?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: See it's the fuck up part. I'm from the ship,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: so that lifestyle living like that and all that. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: know that, Like.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's kind of fun.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: You enjoyed the bull That's what That's what we're real
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: like not like to not the ship really is just
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: like it's like bro like like like so like everything
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: that comes with that, it's like bro, this wal it
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: consist of right, so you you you accept that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And learn that like early on and yeah, like but.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: That's the part of me is like you gotta learn
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: that ship, bro, because it's like, yeah, like it's all
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: funny games until get bad, you know what I'm saying.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: And it didn't got bad plenty of times. You know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: I'm just blessed niggas still here like so yeah, but
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: like when it come to my kids and like moving around.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Like I don't really play with that. So like.
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: Ye, I was literally about moving to play.
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: Everybody won't be but for harmony for the baby girls,
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: like you take them up out of it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Like my daughter played tennis. So yeah, so I was
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: like like if we move, we'll be moving to like Florida,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: like so she can go to im I MG Academy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Ship like that, but outside
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: of that, like I don't got no plans on moving.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: No players, did you all leave in New York?
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I living?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I live in Jersey now.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Live in the valley.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Is your daughter you see works?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: See works?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: No, you be like a b BB.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: My little daughter like my youngest one h she fried,
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: matter of fact, her birthday tomorrow, well birthday, I don't
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: know your birthday birthday and.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: She turned seven, but yeah, she be like she'd be
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: like what's up? Four hundred? Don't mean she she was
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: like what's up? Und I'll be like, man, what the fact?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Who taught you that? Like? Who told you that?
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: Mary Bristle's daddy?
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: Four hundred? This man too? When you decided to step
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: away from like when you didn't want to do label
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: deal situation. Still it's four hundred label.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got an artist like right now, Yeah, I'm back.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: I'm back, but I'm I'm like, I'm taking a slow
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You, yeah, rebuilding?
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: What made you want to because I saw you say
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: you wouldn't It's not easy. You didn't want to do
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: the dealing artists no more?
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I feel like like early on, like when
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I had like my label, my JV a lot of
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: more artists, it was like homies and and people that
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: became like friends because you know, we're young, and everybody
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: that come around me from ended up feeling like a
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: part of the family and hamony vibes and all that
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: because from that's just my energy, which I learned it's
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: not it's not good.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: You can't really like it ain't good, you know what
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: I'm saying all the time. So like a lot of
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: stuff just I feel like when left or ain't really
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: be what it could be, meet.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Us full potential because of like that.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: So you know, I like, like I said, shut through,
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: like the label down for like some years and I'm like, man,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: look I'm not feeling do nothing with no orders. Shit,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I gotta figure this shit out. And then I that's
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: the part I figured out. I'm like, like I become
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: like the bro. You know what I'm saying, Like the bro,
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: I become the bro and the hommy. And it's like, yeah,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: that's straight, but it ain't always good for business, you
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So, like my approach now is
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: just like fall back, Like if I got artists, like,
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: let them do their thing, chime in when I need
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: to chime in, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, but
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I got a new orders to ain't peyt gotty and
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: shit he watched in the Gang Business Yeah, the Game
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Business record.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Younger he got it. Yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Now let's talk about the Tiffany record that was trending
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: right before we went on a break.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I ain't know people was mad at you or not.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Some people say it was a cautionary story. I just
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: felt like it was reinforcing homeful stereotypes about transgender people.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Nah. Like like so like I said, like the album
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: The Gentlemen's Club, like it's a place like man come
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: to to talk about things that we normally don't talk about.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: And when I was making this album, I don't know
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: if if y'all remember, but like one of the first
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: songs I put out from this whole era, it's called
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: two thousand and four, and the song start and it's
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: like when I was young, I got raped by bitch
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: twice my age, you know what I'm saying. So I
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: put that song out first, like kind of like let
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: people know, like I'm on that, you know what I'm saying,
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: We finish, I'm fineling like I'm feeling I'm on that, right. So,
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: when I was making this album, we'll have sessions like
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: in the studio and shit we have like sessions with
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: like homies, is like we all talk about like shit
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: that we never like talked.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: About, you know what I'm saying, And like everybody was saying, like, yeah, bro,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: this happened. You feel me. I had my shit.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: You fe homies like I ain't even know, Like you
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: ain't never talked about that. You should me have the
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: homies Like yeah, that same shit happened to me who
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: I was young.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Like it's like, yeah, like we all got raped, Like you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying, and one of the homies he
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: he like he told his story and it was like
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: hard of him and like really like tell it and
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: then you feel me he told it and like damn,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: and he was like, yeah, bro, like like you know
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, you should, like if you can find
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: a way to like rap about this, like make a
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: song about it, you know what I'm saying, Like, I
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: think you should do it. And I'm just like I'm
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: like yeah, like because it's it's like it's a situation
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: that happens in our community, and like people don't know
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: how to talk about it. People scared to talk about it,
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: you know. And then when it coming like like artists
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: and making music like or just speaking about certain things,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: people are scared, you know what I'm saying, because people like,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: oh I don't want to get canceled or or whatever.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: So I was just like, yeah, that's that's kind of
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: hard to like make a song about like without nobody
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: getting mad, you know.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: So like it took me a minute, and I'm just like,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: you gotta tell the story. Yeah, the truth is the truth.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I'm an artist, I'm storytelling, you know what I'm saying,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: and this is a real situation that happens, you know,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, what.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: What, Well, let me put the record out.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: While I was like all right, yeah, I'm cool with this,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: it's because I ended up telling the both sides, you
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. And I'm like, ifee me just
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: as a human, I'm like, all right, if I write
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: this record, listen to this record.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: And it sounded sound and then at the end you
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: get you got both sides of the story.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: I'm like, people are like like, understand that and appreciate
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: that and look at it like, no, this art, like
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, it's real, Like this art,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: he's storytelling, you know what I'm saying.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, bro, that's all it was. Is not no
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: hate record.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to tell nobody to like do anything
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: violent to nobody, you know what I'm saying.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: It's just like a somebody I knew exactly. How was
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: it received? How was the feedback to you that you
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: got from me?
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Feedback being great, like I think a lot of people is.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: It's taking it for what it's like really gives you
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Of course you're gonna have people
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: talking about whatever they choose they want to talk about,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: you know, but like a lot of people like nah, bro, like.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Like you did that. You know what I'm saying, Like
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: like you did that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: You took its own a crazy story journey and it's
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: like nah, this ship real and it's like you really
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: took us there though, you know what I'm saying.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: With the pen the transgenders hitting you up in the DMS,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I don't be really checking.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: My d.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, how of support like seeing what they.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Say, like, yeah, I see I seen.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: I've seen like a website, a website from that community.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: They was like they was, they was like supportive of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the record.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: I think, right, I mean I think they're in the middle.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: They're posing the question to the readers. Do is it
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: harmful or is it just insight as to like what
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: it's like to experience that and providing context to how
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: you can get through the situation. They were trying to
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: figure it out in my opinion too.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, but you get did you get your homies approval?
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Did you have to tell them you were doing it?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Or you know?
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: The hummies was like like the hommies who wasn't a
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: part of you're feeling them them sessions like the homie
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: like when like when niggas heard it, like niggas was like, bro,
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: what like.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Like they're like why would you like wow? And I'm
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: like that's why because yeah, like that's why cause niggas
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: like wow.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: It's like you bro, we got to talk about it,
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying, Like like when you
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: listen to the album, Bro, we're talking about insecurities right
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: in my rooms near life crist it's just trying to
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: kill the old me. Like we just talking about a
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: lot of things that like man from where we come from,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: don't talk about you know what I'm saying, And that's
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: what the album is about.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: You feel me, that's what the Gymal's Club about and
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: your entry to this club. Bang.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: When you make a song like Tiffany, what responsibility do
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: you think you have for how people interpreted because it
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: sounds like you really put a lot of thought.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah for sure, Like like yeah, like the responsibility like
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: like I said, for me to put the record out,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: like I had to like like like I had to
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: feel like people was gonna hear it, had they thoughts
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: as they listening or you get to that last first
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: and it's like oh shit, like.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Damn, like.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that had to like that had to happen. It
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: took some time. It took some time, but that record
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: took me. That was like the longest record because I
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: did the first record and didn't want to beat switching
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: and beat changed, you know what I'm saying. I did
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: that record like four months five months later.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Well, art is supposed to create some type of discomfort,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: I think good art.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: And I knew like when I came into this album,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: I'm like, like my goal with this album was since
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: I was putting out just whatever for so long, you
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, I feel like people was playing
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: with my name, like as an artist, you feemale as
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: a rapper, So like one of my main goals was like, hey,
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: like you gotta come and get right because you know
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying you with that, So you know what
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: That was one of my main goals.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: And I knew I could do that, like it might
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: get like it's gonna be risky, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to like it's gonna be uncomfortable, like
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be uncomfortable, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: It's a part of it. So I was just like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: fuck it, let's do it. You know what I was
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: thinking about.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: And I listen to this album, but I was like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: your Nipsey.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Would really be proud of you, bro, damn, just just
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: of the evolution and you opening up in that way
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: trying to show Street is something different. That's when of
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the first things came in my mind, like Nipsey would
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: be especially after her in Secure.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I was like.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, like I wrote this whole
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: like I put the whole thing together, like and as
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: I'm putting everything together, like I'm just like how.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: This ship gonna look on tour.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Like IM thinking about this tour, I think about the show.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking about like like like the hits like my
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: catalog mixed in with like like the storyline of the
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Eye album. Like you know what I'm saying, how I'm
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: putting this it together.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, hard did you think about when you
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: were creating?
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Of course all the time, like for sure like this
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: like the nip shit, you know what I'm saying, Like
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: it be fucking me up A lot, because.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Like I'll be like.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: With me and bros doing in the city with the
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: music and just you know what I'm saying, the relationship
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: like in the music, like it ain't gonna be able
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: to be recreated and it's just it's just a void
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: that's missing, you know what I'm saying. Like a lot
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: of people from like other places be like, well you
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: you the only like street nigga like from the West
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Coast and niggas like fuck with like like what's up
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: what you doing?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Like I'm like, damn bro, Like I'm like.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Me, And it was like the ones like you know
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, streets all the way doing the music
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: shit that was like nigga like dolo, you know what
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: That should be fucking with me a lot.
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: We're gonna get any visual well, I see The Gentlemen's
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: Club being like a visual album where you can tell
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: your story of the album visually, like right with a
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: whole bunch.
• 42:29
  Speaker 10: Of videos like Michael Jackson did. It's not a song
• 42:33
  Speaker 10: that Michael Jackson got. We ain't got no no videos
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: to it.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Yeeah, yeah, you're gonna do that.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: No.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: We had talks about it, like like we had talks
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: about it. Shit, I got like some shit lined up
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: like with this whole like Gentlemen's Club World. Yeah, we
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: talked about it like like this album campaign, it's gonna
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: be like a loone campaign.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: But yeah, because even what you said about the tour,
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: you can see it like you're putting it the whole story.
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: You're putting it together on tours.
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: Seeing how it would look.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: It was like a movie. It would be dope.
• 43:11
  Speaker 10: So I mean a video to every every track in
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: the order of the way that the story is told.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Doe. Yeah, let's get into a joint off the album.
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: Man, what you I was gonna ask you feel like
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: this album because I saw I think was GQ said
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: this is like your best album since my Crazy Life.
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: You feel like this album gonna get you on beat
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Outs list? This he did that the best album in
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: West Coast. You was upset about that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like when I made this album, like I
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: got all that in my mom I'm like I remember this.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: I remember your niggas saying this. Niggas ain't mentioning my
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: name like already bet like this whole next era, like
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: like why geez, like I'm tripping. I'm I'm tripping, and
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: I know, like why a lot of people heard the album.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: They're like, oh, it's far, but like Nigga's wanted more
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: slaps and all that, Like, yeah, we're gonna get to that.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That ain't nothing.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: We're gonna get to that. Like I had to get
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: this off though, you know what I'm saying this this
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: art piece. I had to get this off.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: I feel like you're feel like this is like your
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: mister Morale and the Big Stepper.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: See. I heard a lot of people saying that too.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: That's one that's one of my favorite Kendrick albums, probably
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: top two, maybe just because of what it represents for
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: men in that moment. I think that's one of the
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: moms you go back and you listen to in the future,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: and when you start to see a lot of men
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: evolve and start doing more work on their stuff, they
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: point that album.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: And four fur four Ye, that's what's up.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: What's the biggest thing you had to kill about your
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: your old self in order to become the man you are.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: To that was the ego? Was it pride? Was it revenge?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Or was it. Yeah, I think revenge like just crashing out,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: like like just in every.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Aspect of my life, Like whenever I like I like
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: i feel like mad in disrespect to the play, like
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: like my solution always be crash out, you know what
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: I'm saying. And yeah, yeah, Like just even when I'm
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: dealing with like now, when I'm like dealing with certain stuff,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: people like I'm calm. I'm like, I'm trying to talk.
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to be grown, Like I don't even want
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: to argue, like bro, Like, I'm like, you know what
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like I'm like a whole different motherfucker.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Like I'm like, if you got some weird energy, I'm
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: going the other way. I'm trying to run.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: It's certain ship. I'm like, it's a certain thing. I'm like, man,
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: I hope I don't ever be in the same place
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: as this person because.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a run.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna run the other way because if I don't
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: crash out, you know what I'm saying, I'm on that.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: I'm like, man, I don't want no smoke. Man, I'm chilling.
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: You know, if you run into the girl from dinner
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: dates and heartbreaks, that's gonna be calm too.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: You funny?
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: Is that a personal story? That was your personal story?
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: Was that one of the homies?
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: No, that was my story and shit like like like
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: you know, like I think me dealing with through girls
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: and ship.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: On that song he talks about being finding out he
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: was getting cheated on m hmm. Yeah, And I thought
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: I knew who it was in the song and then
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: you threw me off a bit exactly, yeah, because you
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: was like, we got caught outside the country. I'm like, okay,
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: I remember those photos.
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: And everything on the album is twisted as fucke me.
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: So you probably think you know what you're talking mom,
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: and you gotta really like it's twisted up.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's twisted up.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Let's get what your health down, brother. Huh what you
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: want to help down? Play that? Oh my god, push it.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That's that joint. It's all pushing. Let's get into it
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Congratulations, keep growing too, that's right, thank you.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: That's yg It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning every day
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: a week ago. Pick yours up the Breakfast Club. Finish
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: for y'all. Dunk