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#451 - Young Dro · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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Speaker 2: cap Podcast special guests in here. I've been trying to
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Speaker 2: get Young Draw on the show for a very long time. Man,
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Speaker 2: he's in the building.
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Speaker 3: I'm in the building, Young drow Baby.
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Speaker 2: Well that's good man, and I'm you know what's crazy
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Speaker 2: is like there's certain people like when you meet him. Well,
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Speaker 2: first of all, I met you last night, but I
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Speaker 2: appreciate you coming poloed out like this. You know, I
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Speaker 2: feel like it's only it's it's on brand. Like if
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Speaker 2: I if you would have put up here like in
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Speaker 2: a pro club or something, I'd have been like, damn,
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Speaker 2: you came up here with that ship on.
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how much polo do you own?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 1: A lot of it? You know what i mean? Over
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Speaker 1: the like. So, I've been doing music since two thousand, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I want to say like two thousand when I got
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Speaker 1: you know, we start getting like rap checks. So and
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Speaker 1: then in high school of course I had like right,
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Speaker 1: but like getting money off it twenty four years yeah,
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Speaker 1: like yeah, putting it on, having it on pieces, going
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Speaker 1: to New York. That's when New York had the Rugby store.
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Speaker 1: I used to go up there and get pieces. And
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Speaker 1: then I started customizing some of it, taking the patches
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Speaker 1: from that, putting it on stuff that I already had,
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Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying, recycling it, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. I used to when I shot for it, though,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm like, I might get a shirt, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and it might take two years to
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Speaker 1: match it up, right, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: So you might just be holding on to a shirt
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Speaker 3: on two years.
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Speaker 4: Hold on to it for like two years.
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Speaker 1: Then I find, you know, the shoes to match it
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Speaker 1: in pants and all that built socks.
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Speaker 2: You know, when I was a kid, I can only
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Speaker 2: get the United States Polo Association from Ross.
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Speaker 4: No, Bro, don't ever say that, bro.
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Speaker 1: But I was like, look, we call that polo assassin,
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Speaker 1: like it's the killer of all you know what.
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Speaker 3: I'm saying, because I thought it was the same thing. No,
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Speaker 3: it's the man. It looks like the same thing.
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Speaker 1: The man on the horse actually has a book bag
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Speaker 1: on and some other stuff.
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Speaker 2: He's got like a fig he's got like it's like
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Speaker 2: a lot going on in the horse.
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Speaker 1: He got a golf club and like I don't know,
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Speaker 1: he got a cane.
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Speaker 3: He got too much stuff and the kye popped off.
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Speaker 2: And I had a job at Macy's, so I started
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Speaker 2: stealing like real polo out and then I got caught
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Speaker 2: and got fired.
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Speaker 3: I'm technically banned from Macy's.
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Speaker 2: But I got some nice uh you know them them
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Speaker 2: them at the time the collar churts were popping.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that that horse on that that was
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Speaker 1: a donkey. It wasn't not real horse. It was a
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Speaker 1: donkey man.
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Speaker 3: The US Polo you were a real jacket.
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Speaker 2: They had a US Polo Association outlet and Arizona Mills
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Speaker 2: And as.
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Speaker 3: That ship did it burn down? I think it's still there.
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Speaker 2: No, you can see people rock of that ship, like
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Speaker 2: they got that ship off, like dog, that ain't polo.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's an actual like league or something like,
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Speaker 2: it's a real thig, Like I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know what that was like when we used to
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Speaker 1: like we tried to wear that ship like in high school.
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Speaker 4: Bro, it was like, what's that got a unicorn horse? Yo?
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Speaker 3: How much do you think your collection is worth?
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Speaker 2: M hmm because some of that, like a lot of
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Speaker 2: that stuff, like the even the Teddy Bears, like you
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Speaker 2: could like.
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Speaker 1: Well, like I know, I spent like like a million
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Speaker 1: on over over the twenty year, like over a million
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Speaker 1: dollars over twenty years, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Like, which probably isn't that bad if you compare some
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Speaker 2: of these guys spending like a million dollars in a
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Speaker 2: year on like Louis and what they actually get for it, right.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, So like over a meal
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Speaker 1: or something like that. You know what I mean, I don't.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not able to pinpoint it. But I've
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Speaker 1: given away a lot of it, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: just because one time I just got sick.
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Speaker 3: Of it and I was like taking a space.
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Speaker 1: Well, I just got sick of the brand because you know,
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Speaker 1: the world started changing. And then I was like I
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Speaker 1: still had it all and I used to just start wearing.
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Speaker 4: You know, random shit, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And then I was like, you know what, I stand
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Speaker 1: out pretty good in that, so, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: like I could put I couldnt have it on and
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Speaker 1: people would even recognize, like, you know, they'll be like
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Speaker 1: I wanted to say that was you, but I didn't
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Speaker 1: see that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 3: What have you been up to?
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Speaker 4: Man?
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Speaker 3: I know you just dropped.
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Speaker 2: You're on the new single Rico shot the Pip Squad Click.
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Speaker 2: I know PSC album is on the way.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, album on the way.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: It's been a hell of a ride, just you know,
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Speaker 1: recording with the guys and getting back in there even
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Speaker 1: you got some good ass music man, and me and
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Speaker 1: Tip just actually been working on some stuff that me
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Speaker 1: and him going to try to get an album out,
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Speaker 1: you know, what I'm.
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Speaker 3: Saying, like a joint album. Yeah, Tip and Drove.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Man, you know this right here,
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Speaker 1: what we're doing with the guys, just showing us as brotherhood.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of clicks that started that's
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Speaker 1: not together, right, all of us are still together all
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Speaker 1: these years later, all these years later. So I really
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Speaker 1: want to just showcase the brotherhood and how we ain't
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Speaker 1: letting them break us.
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Speaker 4: You feel what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: What's crazy too?
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Speaker 2: Because like really if you think about like the mixtape era,
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Speaker 2: I mean, fifty said gets a whole lot of credit
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Speaker 2: as at it as well deserved, but I feel like
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Speaker 2: the PSC tapes were like the whole other thing, Like
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like it just kind of
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Speaker 2: like I feel like it was that and then there
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Speaker 2: was like the Southern Smokes and then the Squat Up
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Speaker 2: Ship that Little Wayne was dropping around that same time.
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Speaker 2: But the PSC tapes to me like stood out on
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Speaker 2: like a whole other level.
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Speaker 3: And like what was it like?
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Speaker 2: Because back then it was you know, I was always
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Speaker 2: confused if you were an artist because mixtapes were bootlegged,
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Speaker 2: right you would either download them online or they was
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Speaker 2: at the at the barbershop, or like, how were y'all
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Speaker 2: making money off of something that didn't have a skew
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Speaker 2: that was at best Buy? Like were y'all printing them
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Speaker 2: bitches yourself?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Printing myself like drama, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: And of course famously enough Drama who was hosting them? Shit?
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Speaker 3: You know he went to you know he got he
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Speaker 3: got to hit him in.
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Speaker 4: Up, he got jam you know. So I really looked
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Speaker 4: at it as.
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Speaker 1: Like like warm ups, you know what I'm saying. I
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Speaker 1: ended up well, my mixtape game, I think I got like.
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Speaker 2: Fifty The one you have that's on Spotify is it
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Speaker 2: Day one?
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Speaker 3: Is it?
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Speaker 4: There's a couple of morning Day one on that.
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Speaker 2: Day one is the one I sold at the swap
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Speaker 2: meet myself. That's how I got my name. I was
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Speaker 2: printing them covers out my creer. It's funny cause I
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Speaker 2: was just looking at your Spotify and I was like,
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Speaker 2: oh I sold that at the swab was like that's crazy,
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Speaker 2: and you listen and sorry. Anytime I have an artist
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Speaker 2: in that, I've pirated music from when I was seventeen.
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Speaker 2: I definitely pirated your first album, yeah, and made some
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Speaker 2: money office.
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Speaker 3: I probably owe you some money.
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Speaker 4: But it's cool, man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had your I had the fucking bootleg shitty
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Speaker 2: litte hundred dollars printer printing your album cover.
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Speaker 4: Out for sure.
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Speaker 1: Man, that's crazy man. But you know what though, too,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's bad. I don't think that's bad
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Speaker 1: because you know, whoever bought it like that, the relevant
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Speaker 1: the relevancy of that, you know what I'm saying, Like,
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Speaker 1: you still get circulated.
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Speaker 4: People know it, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: And you cant was an era too, you contribute like.
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Speaker 2: The bootleg man was, Like, you know, we were necessary
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Speaker 2: back in the day to a certain extent. You know,
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Speaker 2: like you if you didn't want to go watch The
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Speaker 2: Matrix three, but you wanted to see what it was about.
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Speaker 2: I had a copy of it, but you just had
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Speaker 2: to deal with some people standing up and walking in front.
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Speaker 3: Of the screen.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: But but still though you still turning, you turning people
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Speaker 1: on to us that you know might have wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: got it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I always tell like, dude, DJ Smalls, if I
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Speaker 2: ever meet him, I'm be like, bro, you know, I
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Speaker 2: met him once he was DJing for Gotti and I
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Speaker 2: just told him, I'm like, bro, I had them Southern
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Speaker 2: smokes going crazy, swap meet though.
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Speaker 1: Me and smoked me and smoke got in. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm being small got in man. He was cool.
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Speaker 4: Dude was like.
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Speaker 2: Damn the gangs, the grills and all the June the
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Speaker 2: radios were just like fucking just best sellers.
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Speaker 3: Man. It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: I feel like you have become like an underappreciated like
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Speaker 2: figure when we think of just like just in general,
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Speaker 2: just in hip hop, man, because I feel like you're
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Speaker 2: you're like an elite level MC, but you also have
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Speaker 2: like this classics like even like you know, like I'm
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Speaker 2: like high times. I think it's like super slept on
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Speaker 2: body of work that you put out what's like ten years.
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Speaker 3: Ago now, right, yeah, Jesus got it might be twenty thirteen,
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Speaker 3: twelve somethod.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Fuck that song was hard. I forgot about that. We
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Speaker 3: be in the city, in the city, Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: But you also feel like you're okay with that. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if that makes sense, Like you ain't like
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Speaker 2: like I feel like you like like you you're so
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Speaker 2: good at this shit, it comes so naturally to you,
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Speaker 2: but you don't like stress over the flowers or stress
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Speaker 2: over Like I've always just kind of felt like you
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Speaker 2: do the shit because you love it and do what
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Speaker 2: it does.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, well, but like I can't be I
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Speaker 1: don't be upset with it because it feeds me, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying right like to you know, like
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Speaker 1: I go out and when I do it, like if
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Speaker 1: we like we just did like forty thousand people the
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Speaker 1: other day, me and Tip in Fort Stewart and that's crazy.
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Speaker 3: They were singing it like it came out yesterday.
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Speaker 1: So to say, I got like something of vendetta against
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Speaker 1: you know, you know what what people the feedback people.
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Speaker 2: Give, if not even the feedback like you feel like
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Speaker 2: you're underappreciated or underrated, I'll go for underrated.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they appreciate bro.
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Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying because every time I
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Speaker 1: go somewhere and you know, like me and the mirrors
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Speaker 1: out the other night, and every time you introduced me
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Speaker 1: to Peo, their face just lit up, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know I believe like underrated, you know,
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Speaker 1: so so so a little bit so so.
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Speaker 3: I mean, motherfuckers was shoulder leading all over the world.
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Speaker 4: Man, you did you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: You know what's crazy is there's like so many of
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Speaker 2: those that era of record that I'm like perfect for TikTok.
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Speaker 2: Like I almost feel like y'all should kick off a
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Speaker 2: fucking TikTok campaign on that song, like right now, because
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Speaker 2: it could. Like you've been seeing these songs that are
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Speaker 2: old pop back up on TikTok and they have like
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Speaker 2: a whole new.
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Speaker 3: Whole life.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen, I've seen.
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Speaker 1: I've seen Shoulderling get on TikTok and do something, do
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Speaker 1: some crazy shit, you know what I mean? FDB, I've
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Speaker 1: seen that going there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jesus man.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, freeze me. I ain't seen freeze me yet, you
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Speaker 4: know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: I think I have a you know, FDB, I think
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Speaker 2: I have like an acapella intro to that I would
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Speaker 2: just always scratch the West Side.
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Speaker 4: That's crazy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got some classics, dog for sure.
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Speaker 2: What was like for you guys, like give me the
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Speaker 2: motivation of coming together and doing a Pimp Squad Click
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Speaker 2: album in twenty twenty four, because you spoke earlier like
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Speaker 2: just to let everybody know, like, hey, we're all still together,
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Speaker 2: and that's a rare instance but you know, to get
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Speaker 2: everybody in. Everybody's got their lives going on. What's the
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Speaker 2: what's the creative inspiration when you guys.
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Speaker 3: Are all in the studio and why was it the
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Speaker 3: right timing?
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Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, as far as me and
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Speaker 1: Tip go, we always been like competitive in the studio,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I know, I know it's
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Speaker 1: like iron sharping the iron, you know what I mean
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Speaker 1: when it comes to shout it in there. You know
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Speaker 1: Mac Boney and Country, you know Mac Hustling, you know Country,
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Speaker 1: you know pimping, you know what I'm saying. So I
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Speaker 1: felt like all of us together back again, can actually
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Speaker 1: just let people know that once it's once it's in there,
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Speaker 1: it's on. You know what I'm saying. It's like something
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Speaker 1: that can't be like it's just like.
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Speaker 3: Riding a bike. You can't unlearn how to ride a bike,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So just to come back and do it again, just
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Speaker 1: to show, you know, the youth that once it's in you,
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Speaker 1: like music is with us forever, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So I feel that man getting back together man, just
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Speaker 1: to show that man that togetherness. And you know what,
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Speaker 1: I mean that competitiveness and you know, and for me,
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Speaker 1: I felt like I ain't done, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: And I know Tip got to kill the king and
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Speaker 1: stuff on the way. This is the perfect time for
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Speaker 1: us to showcase, you know, there's still lyrical ability that
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Speaker 1: we have, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: So I need to figure out why you have a
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Speaker 2: t c L Best Buy branded flip phone?
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Speaker 4: Here?
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Speaker 2: What is happening with? What is is this your main phone?
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Speaker 2: Can you show this to the camera, just a weekend one?
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Speaker 3: This one right here? Yeah? So you you this is
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Speaker 3: your main line?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: What is uh?
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Speaker 1: I mean what like you know I got I got
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Speaker 1: ADHD and those you know in that in those newer phones.
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Speaker 3: All those cold you don't have iPhone? Nah?
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Speaker 4: If I did? I use it like for music or
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Speaker 4: you know, like so what is uh? What do you
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Speaker 4: do with that? Like you just talk?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 2: Like when you text you got to hit the button
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Speaker 2: three times to find a letter.
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Speaker 1: No, that's that, that's the predicted You can take it
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Speaker 1: out that and then straight tap now now, So if
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Speaker 1: if I'm I'm big on like distractions, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: So at this point in my life.
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Speaker 3: No, iPhone is a distraction.
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Speaker 4: Distraction, that's distraction.
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Speaker 1: So at this point in my life, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, getting ship done? You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: I gotta be like if I can't be paying attention
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Speaker 1: to what another motherfucker doing, because before I, you know,
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Speaker 1: finish my task, I'll be looking at what what Jason
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Speaker 1: doing or what Tamika? What kind of clothes Tamika got?
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Speaker 1: On the day I big, I asked, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, So you know what I mean, just to
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Speaker 1: cut all that ship out, just hit me. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I just you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: You got to call me the goa hit me, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, I get to hang up like this,
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Speaker 1: Oh that there's nothing.
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Speaker 3: Listen.
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Speaker 2: I got an iPhone and I got a Galaxy, but
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Speaker 2: but you can't listen. I had the Galaxy flip that
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Speaker 2: that that there's like the photo one and that's the
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Speaker 2: Remember when I was showing you all when I had
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Speaker 2: to flip and I was like, nah.
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Speaker 4: But look yeah, so if you hit in on that,
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Speaker 4: you'd be like that's good.
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Speaker 3: If you're mad, you.
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Speaker 4: Still can't hear it, just.
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Speaker 3: Not me me you you know what I'm saying. What
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Speaker 3: I'm saying, you can't even get off you. We're talking
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Speaker 3: about TikTok. Got TikTok.
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Speaker 4: You can hear me hang up on you with this.
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Speaker 3: You can hear it. Yeah, wile you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Even though you can't hear it, you can hear me.
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Speaker 3: Hear it. This nigga just slam the phone on me, like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: What's the plan like on that? It is like twenty
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Speaker 2: bucks a month. Nah, I got like a little unlimited
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Speaker 2: family plan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like I could go to I can go to
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Speaker 1: China and his motherfucker you could go to the fucking
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Speaker 1: hell in that part I got.
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Speaker 3: I got that bitch got snake on it.
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Speaker 4: I got some serious roaming.
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Speaker 1: But guess what what, the motherfuckers don't work, this little
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Speaker 1: son of a bitch getting.
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Speaker 3: I bet it does. Yeah, I didn't even android, bro, I'm.
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Speaker 4: Telling you this bitch, this bitch working.
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Speaker 3: Hell. I was talking to the devil the other day.
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Speaker 3: Hot is the mother damn.
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Speaker 2: It's like whatever, yo, we're droping at even on this
15:52
Speaker 2: flipfold dog, Hey, that's gotta be dope. Though you ain't
15:56
Speaker 2: really distracted by like you know, you were you in
15:58
Speaker 2: the studio, you ain't see what other people are doing,
16:00
Speaker 2: focused on your ship.
16:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly what's going on.
16:03
Speaker 3: I love it.
16:04
Speaker 2: How do you feel about you know, I'm curious, man,
16:08
Speaker 2: because I obviously Atlanta's going through something interesting right now
16:11
Speaker 2: with you know, Free Thug, who obviously has a great
16:14
Speaker 2: relationship with with with you guys, but you guys kind
16:18
Speaker 2: of went through a similar situation when Tip went away
16:20
Speaker 2: kind of like at the height of everything and and uh,
16:24
Speaker 2: you know, he came back and everything was fine, but
16:27
Speaker 2: it was definitely a scary situation because that was like right.
16:29
Speaker 3: After King, right.
16:30
Speaker 4: I want to say that.
16:32
Speaker 2: I remember he got locked up and I saw him
16:33
Speaker 2: on a Chevy commercial like the day before, and I was.
16:35
Speaker 4: Like, damn yellow in a yellow Camara.
16:38
Speaker 2: What was it like just being a part of the
16:40
Speaker 2: crew at that time and having to kind of go
16:42
Speaker 2: through the uncertainness of like what could be happening to
16:44
Speaker 2: you know, at the time, the hottest rapper on the
16:46
Speaker 2: planet and the leader of the crew.
16:47
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like at that point in time, man,
16:50
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities that was in front of us
16:54
Speaker 1: kind of got like put on hold, you know what
16:56
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And because as as as a crew, you
17:01
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, we had these plans and you
17:03
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and once they came to a halt,
17:06
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Thank god. You know, I
17:08
Speaker 1: still had lyrical ability to sustain myself throughout that those
17:13
Speaker 1: trials or whatever. But man, it was shit. We weren't
17:16
Speaker 1: We weren't too happy about that, you know what I'm saying,
17:19
Speaker 1: You know what i mean. So while we was going
17:22
Speaker 1: through it, it kind of like it's kind of like
17:27
Speaker 1: if you if you was if you had a big
17:28
Speaker 1: brother and y'all live, you know what I'm saying, y'all
17:31
Speaker 1: at the house, and you know, he fuck around, go
17:33
Speaker 1: to jail, you know what I mean. Everything is on
17:36
Speaker 1: hole and at the same time, your feelings are, you know,
17:40
Speaker 1: all over the place, because hey, look this big bro,
17:42
Speaker 1: like I kind of like follow his lead, and you
17:45
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because he went out and start
17:47
Speaker 1: getting MS. So it's almost like he had the blueprint
17:50
Speaker 1: and the blueprint.
17:51
Speaker 4: Went to jail.
17:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything was it was like at the peak, yes,
17:55
Speaker 2: man crazy. Yeah, So I'm thinking Grand Hustle when I
18:01
Speaker 2: think of the label man, I think of just one
18:04
Speaker 2: of the more underrated rosters ever at a certain point
18:07
Speaker 2: in time. Grand Hustle is yourself obviously, PSC b.
18:12
Speaker 4: O b.
18:14
Speaker 3: Iggles. Oh yeah, Young La. By the way, can I
18:18
Speaker 3: j G kill? Yeah? I was gonna say killer, Mike.
18:21
Speaker 2: Scott, Travis Scott, Yeah, damn. I mean I even like
18:27
Speaker 2: the one dude who was just crying on the internet.
18:29
Speaker 3: I thought Alpha Mega was hardest fun. He was raw
18:34
Speaker 3: on that Hurt record with Bust the Rhymes. Who else?
18:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just such a crazy fucking roster DJ drama,
18:43
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying?
18:45
Speaker 3: Like, was it the duck Rich kids?
18:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys had such a crazy were you ever
18:50
Speaker 2: like like you're the oga, the the crew? Like when
18:53
Speaker 2: like Tip with sign somebody knew, would you give him
18:55
Speaker 2: any input or would you kind of like like help
18:58
Speaker 2: like assimilate them to being like a like Travis Scott
19:01
Speaker 2: for example, Like I mean, look, Travis Scott's Travis Scott now.
19:04
Speaker 2: But Tip kind of saw something and before anybody on
19:08
Speaker 2: that level, did you know what I'm saying? Was that
19:09
Speaker 2: like like were you around a lot of those conversations
19:13
Speaker 2: in some of those early studio sessions with some of
19:15
Speaker 2: those people.
19:16
Speaker 4: I was high man.
19:18
Speaker 3: You were being young, best thing, smoking.
19:20
Speaker 4: Geek that my mind when people came. You know what
19:21
Speaker 4: I'm saying. I was.
19:23
Speaker 1: I was always supportive though, you know what I'm saying,
19:25
Speaker 1: just like when we signed young La, like I gave
19:29
Speaker 1: him my chain, you know what I'm saying. Then when
19:30
Speaker 1: it got a bigger change. You know what I'm saying,
19:32
Speaker 1: Like when people came, I knew that my brother was
19:38
Speaker 1: choosing something that he took interest in, and whatever he
19:41
Speaker 1: took interest in, I took interest in. Also, like if
19:44
Speaker 1: he loved you like that, I loved you like that,
19:46
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If he didn't fuck with
19:49
Speaker 1: you like that, I really didn't fuck with you like that.
19:51
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
19:51
Speaker 1: So you know when anybody would ever come in like
19:55
Speaker 1: I was there and I was around, you know what
19:57
Speaker 1: I mean. Of course you know what I mean, because
20:00
Speaker 1: we're close knitted. You know what I'm saying. It was
20:03
Speaker 1: impossible for me not to be around when those conversations
20:07
Speaker 1: were going on.
20:08
Speaker 4: But for the most part.
20:10
Speaker 1: On a as far as the business go, I don't
20:14
Speaker 1: think I was too.
20:15
Speaker 2: Were you in like any like sessions with like Travis early,
20:18
Speaker 2: like I was wondering, like, you know, before we know
20:20
Speaker 2: who Travis Scott is like our Pharaoh days, Like what's
20:23
Speaker 2: it like?
20:23
Speaker 3: Just be like did you see that ship of that kid?
20:25
Speaker 1: Like I knew the well we knew Travis was with
20:28
Speaker 1: shiit though, like it was like a what I want
20:33
Speaker 1: to say, shit, some extra terrestrial shit, Like you know
20:39
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Travis Scott was beyond like out of
20:42
Speaker 1: this world like type shit. It was like and he
20:44
Speaker 1: do everything, and you know what I'm saying. I was like, yeah,
20:47
Speaker 1: shot of going somewhere, you know what I mean. I
20:49
Speaker 1: feel the same way about Bob.
20:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bob is an alien. He always was an alien.
20:54
Speaker 4: Big old fan, you know what I mean. We can't
20:55
Speaker 4: forget Doe b.
20:56
Speaker 2: Man, dope b rest in peace, shout Alabama man that
21:00
Speaker 2: that he and he was just getting started man when
21:03
Speaker 2: he passed.
21:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:04
Speaker 1: So all the tracks that I got with all these
21:07
Speaker 1: all these people, these are dope tracks. And we was
21:11
Speaker 1: able to flex our lyrical you know what I'm saying.
21:14
Speaker 1: Of course I couldn't wait to you know, get on
21:17
Speaker 1: them and shown that you know, hey, look it's gonna
21:20
Speaker 1: go down when drown and motherfucker you you know what
21:22
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Yes, sir, I.
21:24
Speaker 2: Was gonna say, do you feel like Grand Hustle gets
21:28
Speaker 2: the credit it deserves for starting a lot of the
21:32
Speaker 2: movements that we because I feel like we forget Like
21:34
Speaker 2: I like, I was like, we're going through all these names.
21:36
Speaker 2: I'm like, god damn, Like I remember the magazine cover,
21:38
Speaker 2: Like Grand Hustle was like really instrumental in so many
21:41
Speaker 2: people's careers.
21:42
Speaker 3: Do you feel like it gets the credit that it deserves?
21:44
Speaker 4: Man? Who get who do gets the credit for what
21:46
Speaker 4: they do?
21:47
Speaker 3: You feel like some people do some people get too
21:50
Speaker 3: much credit?
21:51
Speaker 1: Well that's one thing, but but like when people do.
21:55
Speaker 3: Like I think a lot of people get get the
21:56
Speaker 3: credit they deserve. I feel like, you know, I don't.
21:59
Speaker 1: Think like it's always it's always a story about about
22:04
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
22:05
Speaker 3: When people jay Z gets a lot of credit. Okay,
22:08
Speaker 3: that's one in a million, you know what I'm saying,
22:10
Speaker 3: Like you know what I mean.
22:11
Speaker 2: Like, you know, doctor Dre all the fucking credit, you know, rightfully?
22:15
Speaker 1: So these are these are big dogs, I mean big
22:18
Speaker 1: old dogs for sure.
22:19
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. But it's a lot of
22:21
Speaker 4: things I'm quite sure.
22:22
Speaker 1: They feel like, hey, look, nobody even noticed this right
22:25
Speaker 1: here about you know what I mean what they did
22:28
Speaker 1: and in the mark that they put in on the
22:30
Speaker 1: game you did.
22:31
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Hey, when you guys picked
22:33
Speaker 2: fuck that Bitch FDB as a single, uh, nowadays, like
22:40
Speaker 2: right now, Gunn has got a song called fuck you
22:41
Speaker 2: mean it's a radio signal? How hard is it to
22:44
Speaker 2: come up with like the clean version of that for
22:46
Speaker 2: DJs to play on the radio.
22:47
Speaker 3: That was the hardest ship because the ship is called
22:49
Speaker 3: fuck that Bitch.
22:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
22:53
Speaker 1: We had to actually go to I Don't Trust that Chick,
22:56
Speaker 1: which was totally so.
22:58
Speaker 4: I was so I was so pissed off.
23:03
Speaker 1: Yes, it was like a whole it was like a
23:05
Speaker 1: whole nother book I had to write. But f dB,
23:09
Speaker 1: I think we was at Clark Clark, Atlanta, you know
23:12
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Collegen Man, that was the least song
23:16
Speaker 1: that I felt like, you know what I mean. I
23:18
Speaker 1: had other things in mind until we was like, oh,
23:21
Speaker 1: just played it to see how it goes. And when
23:23
Speaker 1: we played it, those college kids went berserk and then
23:27
Speaker 1: we was.
23:28
Speaker 4: Like that's the one.
23:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you play a song that no one's ever
23:31
Speaker 2: heard before and they lose their fucking mind. Yeah, go
23:34
Speaker 2: with that. Yeah, because people don't like loving new shit.
23:38
Speaker 2: They don't know, so that shit gotta be fire man,
23:41
Speaker 2: that ship.
23:41
Speaker 4: With fire as hell.
23:42
Speaker 1: But then when everybody was like, man, what I said, like, well,
23:45
Speaker 1: I consider FDB like if I had raps that was
23:49
Speaker 1: stacked up like to right here, it was at the
23:52
Speaker 1: very bottom, right. Yeah, that's that's how much I cared
23:56
Speaker 1: about it.
23:57
Speaker 4: And then it just so happened to be a big one.
24:00
Speaker 2: So obviously PSC album on the way you and Tip?
24:02
Speaker 2: Is there going to be another drug solo album?
24:04
Speaker 3: There? Are you cooking something?
24:05
Speaker 4: Yeah?
24:05
Speaker 1: Man, it's a lot of It's a lot of work
24:07
Speaker 1: that I'm doing right now, Like on this walk I
24:09
Speaker 1: got going on right now. You know what I'm saying,
24:12
Speaker 1: being being as though, you know what I'm saying, three
24:15
Speaker 1: years clean from all the ship that I've been doing,
24:18
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying.
24:19
Speaker 2: What was all of the ship Just a lot of drugs, man,
24:23
Speaker 2: like all of the drugs. Yeah, but obviously are you
24:26
Speaker 2: still smoking weed?
24:27
Speaker 4: No? Oh, I don't do anything.
24:29
Speaker 3: Man, You're not quite young Droe anymore. Nah. I mean,
24:32
Speaker 3: I mean you're still young, Droe, but you know you're
24:34
Speaker 3: not the best thing smoking anymore.
24:35
Speaker 4: I'm just not heavily sedated.
24:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a lot of stuff went past, like
24:42
Speaker 1: on all them drugs, man.
24:43
Speaker 3: Were you doing like ecstasy and all that ship?
24:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the all the rock star stuff step a
24:48
Speaker 1: hairin ship.
24:49
Speaker 3: Like now, but like you know the ship that motherfucker's
24:52
Speaker 3: party with.
24:53
Speaker 4: Ship that the party pack when you put it out Listen.
24:55
Speaker 2: I did ecstasy for the first time in my life
24:58
Speaker 2: not too long ago, and uh, I was stuck. I
25:03
Speaker 2: was grinding my teeth and I was slowed down and
25:06
Speaker 2: I was like stuck.
25:09
Speaker 3: I was like, Yo, how.
25:11
Speaker 2: Do people do this ship at festivals? Because I'm like delayed, bro.
25:16
Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was different.
25:19
Speaker 1: It was used to made me just just try to
25:21
Speaker 1: like get all the bitches like you know what I'm saying.
25:24
Speaker 2: And then and then like you know, I've never done
25:26
Speaker 2: cocaine in my life, never done any hard drugs. I
25:29
Speaker 2: was super scared to try ecstasy, to be honest, because
25:31
Speaker 2: I've only done weed and shrooms in my life besides
25:34
Speaker 2: doing ecstasy recently. But I have had women sniff cocaine
25:37
Speaker 2: off my dick that's that's and I feel.
25:40
Speaker 4: Like you're fucking freak man.
25:43
Speaker 3: Shit.
25:44
Speaker 2: Back in my back in my heyday, they'd be like strippers.
25:48
Speaker 2: They'd be like, can you get coke? I'm like, well,
25:49
Speaker 2: I don't do it.
25:50
Speaker 3: I gu's fine. If you give me something, I sniff
25:51
Speaker 3: it off your dick car. Well. So I feel like
25:54
Speaker 3: if I were.
25:54
Speaker 2: Ever to get into cocaine that those few experiences would
25:57
Speaker 2: have been my gateway to like put some ship up
25:59
Speaker 2: my nose. But I was strong enough to just you know,
26:02
Speaker 2: kind of do it. I guess it was on my body.
26:04
Speaker 3: You know. Do you ever have a girl do that? Nah?
26:07
Speaker 1: I probably wanted it, like I was like, no, I
26:10
Speaker 1: don't waste that. Why would you do that?
26:14
Speaker 3: Why would you waste that? Yo on the table? Sit
26:18
Speaker 3: down there for what? Bring it on? Bring it over here?
26:22
Speaker 4: Nah? But I remember one time though, like.
26:27
Speaker 1: I did like shrooms, and I did shrooms in ecstasy,
26:33
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Well, and then when I
26:36
Speaker 1: was talking to this bitch, I was talking to her
26:38
Speaker 1: in her ear, and I don't know what happened to
26:42
Speaker 1: my eyes, but they left out my head and then
26:45
Speaker 1: started looking at me. And then I stuck my tongue
26:48
Speaker 1: in her ear and it came out the other side.
26:52
Speaker 3: Sick.
26:53
Speaker 4: That shit was like, I was like, this is my
26:55
Speaker 4: last trip?
26:56
Speaker 3: Oh so that was your last time, like with shrooming ecstasy.
26:59
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. If that would have happened to me,
27:01
Speaker 3: I'd have been.
27:02
Speaker 4: Like fuck yeah, no, man, the fuck yeah.
27:07
Speaker 3: We got to spend the block on this.
27:09
Speaker 4: That was some.
27:10
Speaker 3: That was some.
27:10
Speaker 4: That was some demon type ship though.
27:12
Speaker 3: I was like, it sounds like venom for fucking Spider Man.
27:17
Speaker 3: How to help my eyes come out my head?
27:19
Speaker 4: Look at me? Then I was like, yes, you know.
27:22
Speaker 2: What I always tell people is like you could get
27:24
Speaker 2: so high a certain especially if you eat weed.
27:27
Speaker 4: You ate weed like edibles like on some broccoli ship.
27:29
Speaker 3: No, like edibles like you know, like a candy bar, chocolate.
27:32
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I thought you.
27:34
Speaker 2: But like I always say, there's something about if you're
27:37
Speaker 2: a certain level of high that unlocks some sort of superpower.
27:40
Speaker 2: Because if you've ever been high where you're like in
27:42
Speaker 2: a room or a show and you could hear everything
27:45
Speaker 2: at once, or you could like hone in on ship
27:47
Speaker 2: from far away and hear it.
27:49
Speaker 4: You want to know what's crazy? I heard your tesla
27:51
Speaker 4: truck in front.
27:53
Speaker 3: So she was like, WHOA, that's how that's the real noise.
27:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought I thought I was back home.
27:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were just I was like fuck.
28:03
Speaker 4: I was like, I know no dope and kicked in
28:05
Speaker 4: all these years.
28:06
Speaker 3: B Yeah, I've been high before.
28:09
Speaker 2: I felt like I was like, I'm like, bro, there's
28:11
Speaker 2: some sort of superpower I got right now because I
28:13
Speaker 2: could hear everything.
28:17
Speaker 3: And eating weed? Do you eat too much? I keep
28:20
Speaker 3: picturing you eating buds.
28:22
Speaker 2: Bro, You'll be fucking bribing out a concert. A rich
28:25
Speaker 2: shout to Ritz from Gwynet County Rich and Yobow show.
28:28
Speaker 2: I was fucking zuited off the Edibles dog and I
28:32
Speaker 2: could hear everyone's conversations at once in the whole concert.
28:35
Speaker 2: I was looking across the whole fucking venue and would
28:37
Speaker 2: look at the lady at the bar, and I'd be
28:39
Speaker 2: able to just hear what the fuck you're talking to
28:41
Speaker 2: her boyfriend about it?
28:42
Speaker 1: Shroons be too in depth, man, I thought like, because
28:45
Speaker 1: I thought I was dreaming, and in my dream I
28:49
Speaker 1: peed like I went to the bathroom and Peede Pede
28:52
Speaker 1: in the damn bed YEP.
28:55
Speaker 3: Thirty some years old. I pissed myself in from I'm
28:58
Speaker 3: talking about I went the whole p like like you.
29:01
Speaker 4: It was like you butte but.
29:07
Speaker 3: Sometimes you know, lot as a motherfucker, you wake up
29:10
Speaker 3: in the morning, what the fuck? But the ac turned
29:12
Speaker 3: the cold. I was like, I'm gonna be the pneumonia
29:14
Speaker 3: you ever do, like uh, like d m T or
29:17
Speaker 3: anything crazy like that domestic terrorist.
29:20
Speaker 4: What's d MT?
29:21
Speaker 3: It's like, uh, that's a drug. Ship sounds like like
29:27
Speaker 3: you freebase it like crack. Yeah, I'm not lie and ship.
29:37
Speaker 2: It's like this chemical that your body produces when you're
29:39
Speaker 2: born and when you die.
29:41
Speaker 3: It's you know, the gland that's right here. What the
29:43
Speaker 3: is it called?
29:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so like your body produces it, but you
29:47
Speaker 2: could there's a frog that sweats it, and so you could,
29:50
Speaker 2: you know. Mike Tyson always, I don't know if you know.
29:52
Speaker 2: But Mike, well, you don't have you don't have the internet.
29:53
Speaker 2: You don't know, leave me alone, nothing on that. No,
29:59
Speaker 2: Mike Tyson always he smokes the toad and it changed
30:01
Speaker 2: his life. He's smoking toad sweat, but nigga, so he
30:06
Speaker 2: don't have warts and shit.
30:07
Speaker 3: No, but if you smoke d MT, you're it's supposed
30:12
Speaker 3: to be like you just go away for.
30:14
Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes, like you're in another to mension. You see
30:19
Speaker 2: shit that like you're not supposed to see.
30:21
Speaker 3: Like, so what if you smoke that ship and all
30:24
Speaker 3: of a sudden you turn the lights off in here?
30:26
Speaker 3: What do you? What do you.
30:32
Speaker 4: That's that's a frog?
30:34
Speaker 3: I mean like this nigga is toting his nigga told no,
30:40
Speaker 3: you're supposed to Like there's like a lady who talks
30:41
Speaker 3: to you. They call frog lady. I don't know, bruh,
30:45
Speaker 3: I'm scared to do it.
30:46
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm scared as fuck right now.
30:48
Speaker 3: But it's a it's a hallucinogetic. It's not addictive, but
30:50
Speaker 3: it is crackheadish because you do have to free basic
30:53
Speaker 3: what if what if? What if you saw a crankhead frog? Hey,
30:58
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie, like in La there's a frog
31:02
Speaker 3: smoking fatanol right now.
31:05
Speaker 4: Look like.
31:07
Speaker 3: This nigga eye separated.
31:09
Speaker 4: Your skin is terrible.
31:11
Speaker 2: But but what was your breaking point when you were like,
31:12
Speaker 2: I gotta get sober, I gotta I gotta leave all
31:14
Speaker 2: this shit alone.
31:16
Speaker 1: When I I tried to quit, right, so, I tried
31:21
Speaker 1: to quit over the pandemic and couldn't. But I had
31:26
Speaker 1: stopped for a little while, and I was like, you
31:28
Speaker 1: know what, I'm good man. And then you know, I
31:33
Speaker 1: found myself going back to something that had me racy,
31:38
Speaker 1: because that shit brings on depression, you know what I'm saying,
31:40
Speaker 1: Like you be trying to figure out what's going on,
31:43
Speaker 1: and and and and at that point in life, I
31:47
Speaker 1: wasn't really where I wanted to be, you know, as
31:50
Speaker 1: far as doing shows and ship and get money that
31:51
Speaker 1: she had got. I was like, well, I'm always doing
31:54
Speaker 1: shows and I'm always traveling, but that's not enough for me,
31:57
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I can't get the
31:59
Speaker 1: way I'm trying to go fucked up all the time.
32:02
Speaker 1: I don't have that energy no more. You know what
32:04
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm not twenty, I'm not I can't, you
32:06
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I was like, you know what,
32:09
Speaker 1: I've been trying this shit like this for years, you
32:13
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, a lot of years, you know
32:14
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I was like, shit, and my
32:16
Speaker 1: breaking point was one day man, cause I used to
32:20
Speaker 1: I had my my concoction of drugs that I used
32:24
Speaker 1: to do, right, you know what I'm saying, I might
32:26
Speaker 1: do some Maali you feel me.
32:28
Speaker 4: Then I might do the perks. You know what I'm saying.
32:30
Speaker 1: Then I might do you know, I'll mix that in
32:33
Speaker 1: with adderall and then you know, of course we get
32:36
Speaker 1: the lean and then and then when I run, when
32:40
Speaker 1: I get tired of running, I do the zan. So
32:44
Speaker 1: when I was that this particular day, when I was like,
32:47
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I was running, I was running,
32:49
Speaker 1: and then I was like, I'm tired of running. You
32:51
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I'm tired of I'm tired of
32:54
Speaker 1: telling this bitch a lie and you know, trying trying
32:56
Speaker 1: to fuck this bitch line. And then you know what
32:58
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm not me some of this stuff with
33:00
Speaker 1: my kids, and you know what I'm saying, my career.
33:03
Speaker 3: Is looking like this. And now I was like, you
33:05
Speaker 3: know what, it is, just time, you know what I'm saying.
33:07
Speaker 4: And then when my little girls started using drugs, that.
33:10
Speaker 1: Was a real bigs. She was actually like eighteen at
33:16
Speaker 1: the time, So when I saw her do that, I
33:21
Speaker 1: was like, how in the hell can I tell my
33:23
Speaker 1: child whatnot? I'm over here, fucked up, geeked up.
33:27
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I can't.
33:28
Speaker 1: I can't tell my child not to do something. I'm
33:30
Speaker 1: I already geeked up, you know what I'm saying. So
33:32
Speaker 1: I clinked all that shit up. Plus I got a son.
33:35
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Junior came. I don't want
33:37
Speaker 1: Junior looking at me like like that's a zombie. Sometimes
33:39
Speaker 1: come on, man, you know what I'm saying. And I
33:41
Speaker 1: had enough respect for them not to do that type
33:45
Speaker 1: of shit in front of them. But still my behaviors
33:48
Speaker 1: showed that, you know.
33:49
Speaker 2: Stuff that you wouldn't even notice. But obviously, yeah, I
33:52
Speaker 2: also think too, like when you're doing that much drugs, man,
33:55
Speaker 2: whether or not you consciously know it, your day become
34:00
Speaker 2: revolved revolving around like getting more high or.
34:04
Speaker 3: Figured out high.
34:05
Speaker 2: And then I remember, your productivity goes towards the drugs
34:08
Speaker 2: and your career or your family or your kids.
34:11
Speaker 1: I was so high one time, dog, I was talking
34:13
Speaker 1: to a garbage can you feel me. I was literally
34:16
Speaker 1: having a conversation with the garbage can. I was like, yeah, nigga,
34:19
Speaker 1: and I don't even know what you be on. And
34:22
Speaker 1: then I was like, and you stink nigga, you know
34:24
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And the garbage was talking back to me.
34:29
Speaker 3: He was like, there's some shit in here.
34:32
Speaker 1: Oh my go straight up, Like, yo, you got me
34:34
Speaker 1: too full, bro, and like this, I'm serious about that though.
34:39
Speaker 3: No, I don't believe you. I think it's like it's
34:42
Speaker 3: it's real.
34:42
Speaker 2: It's like it's like at the end of the day, bro,
34:44
Speaker 2: like you know any ejiction where there's drug alcohol, Like
34:47
Speaker 2: people don't realize, Like yo, you might not. You might
34:49
Speaker 2: think you got it under control, but like your whole life.
34:52
Speaker 3: Really revolves around you're moving your priorities.
34:57
Speaker 1: Out of the way every day for the sake of
35:00
Speaker 1: whether it's alcoholism or I gotta go get drugs or damn,
35:03
Speaker 1: I'm ana plan on my day because I gotta make
35:05
Speaker 1: your so and so.
35:05
Speaker 2: I gotta go see so and so to get more
35:07
Speaker 2: of this or you know what I mean. It's like
35:08
Speaker 2: it's bandwidth in your life. It's just getting burnt up
35:10
Speaker 2: just to be high, you know.
35:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I got tricked too because we was like
35:15
Speaker 1: I remember, we was in uh we was in some
35:17
Speaker 1: like some little drug courses and stuff.
35:19
Speaker 4: When Tip got out of jail. You know what I'm saying.
35:21
Speaker 1: And I was in there and I and I've seen
35:23
Speaker 1: some people that you know, they was, you know, addicts
35:26
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I heard them talking and shit, and
35:28
Speaker 1: I was like, I ain't this type of addict.
35:30
Speaker 3: Like Nigga. We rich, We haven't ship, you know what
35:32
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
35:32
Speaker 1: We got nigga, We got big beings of condole top flows,
35:36
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I didn't know that
35:39
Speaker 1: I didn't have it under control. I thought that I
35:42
Speaker 1: was in control of it. But in due time, that
35:46
Speaker 1: ship will catch up to you and bust your motherfucking ass,
35:49
Speaker 1: you know what I'm.
35:49
Speaker 2: Saying, Because you think, well, I ain't on the streets right,
35:53
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I don't look like this month,
35:55
Speaker 2: I'm fly fun, having fun.
35:58
Speaker 4: I'm a rich ass junkie.
35:59
Speaker 3: Yeah. Was it for you?
36:02
Speaker 2: Is it like hard to Your brand is so synonymous
36:06
Speaker 2: with marijuana, Like people look at you like the pie
36:08
Speaker 2: head guy right, like a lot of your album covers
36:11
Speaker 2: and titles and songs.
36:13
Speaker 3: Is it? Is it.
36:15
Speaker 2: Like not difficult? But is it like you know, being
36:19
Speaker 2: clean and sober, being younger? Be like Snoop Dog when
36:21
Speaker 2: Snoop Dog said he stoped smoking weed.
36:22
Speaker 3: People were like they almost lost their fucking man.
36:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, but to a lesser extent, I was like, but
36:28
Speaker 2: like a lot of your brand, it's like, yo, your
36:29
Speaker 2: young drove like you know, like I mean, is that
36:32
Speaker 2: like a obviously it doesn't matter, but it's almost like
36:36
Speaker 2: when like what's his face? Jonah Hill lost the weight
36:39
Speaker 2: the actor people are like, yo, yo, but you're the
36:41
Speaker 2: funny fat guy, you know what I mean, Like, did
36:44
Speaker 2: you have any sort of like identity crisis with with
36:46
Speaker 2: your brand or like, man, I don't like if I'm
36:48
Speaker 2: not high all the time when people look at.
36:50
Speaker 3: Me different, Like now you know what I thought?
36:53
Speaker 1: I was like, my lyrics represent the kind of weed
36:57
Speaker 1: that I chose my name to be, and shit's gonna
37:00
Speaker 1: be smoking anyway.
37:01
Speaker 3: It's the best kind you got the.
37:04
Speaker 1: Best kind of music. It's it's like the way I
37:07
Speaker 1: wear clothes. It's the best kind. You know what I'm saying.
37:10
Speaker 1: If my if my outfit had to be you know,
37:13
Speaker 1: it's it's just fires. It's the best kind of it.
37:16
Speaker 1: It's expensive, it's you know what I mean. It's this
37:18
Speaker 1: ship here, it's top of the line, you know what
37:20
Speaker 1: I mean. So I ain't really tripped you know what
37:22
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I don't really trip right now, you know
37:25
Speaker 1: what I mean, because drugs don't control my narrative.
37:29
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
37:31
Speaker 2: Do you feel like your pen game is sharper, your
37:34
Speaker 2: studio sessions are more productive, your creative ship is like
37:37
Speaker 2: more on point?
37:38
Speaker 3: Now?
37:39
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I do.
37:41
Speaker 1: At first, I didn't until you know, I did some
37:44
Speaker 1: some some soul searching, is you know, some self just
37:47
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I just got into myself
37:50
Speaker 1: and was like, I'm better. You know what I'm saying.
37:52
Speaker 1: I'm better than I was. You know what I'm saying,
37:55
Speaker 1: for the simple fact I can remember stuff. I'm attentive,
37:58
Speaker 1: like you feel what I'm saying. I'm aware, you know
38:00
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm you know, I'm paying attention. I'm focused.
38:04
Speaker 2: Talk to me Atlanta obviously, as I mean, what ran
38:09
Speaker 2: hip hop for twenty running hip They've been running hip
38:13
Speaker 2: hop for how many years?
38:14
Speaker 4: Have been?
38:14
Speaker 3: Twenty three, twenty four? It's been a minute. It's been
38:18
Speaker 3: a long time, right.
38:19
Speaker 2: I feel like the only, the only this is the
38:21
Speaker 2: closest I've ever seen to another place. Maybe getting it back,
38:25
Speaker 2: and that would be this Kendrick moment. If the rest
38:27
Speaker 2: of LA can get their shit together, we might be
38:29
Speaker 2: able to, you know, just just hold.
38:30
Speaker 3: It for a little bit.
38:31
Speaker 2: But Atlanta's been through so many eras, right, and you
38:35
Speaker 2: guys are so important to all eras of it. I mean,
38:39
Speaker 2: I mean shit, you know obviously from the track I
38:42
Speaker 2: mean trap music is we know that it's a thing
38:45
Speaker 2: because of Tip.
38:46
Speaker 3: You know, how do you feel about like where Atlanta's
38:49
Speaker 3: going as a whole?
38:50
Speaker 2: And you know, do you feel like it's still as
38:54
Speaker 2: united as because we always hear LA and New York
38:57
Speaker 2: guys always use y'all as an example, Well, Atlanta united,
39:00
Speaker 2: they always always work together.
39:02
Speaker 3: Do you feel like it's still as united as it
39:04
Speaker 3: used to be? Yeah?
39:07
Speaker 1: For the simple fact is we're from the South, right,
39:12
Speaker 1: we got hospitality for outsiders, so I know we have
39:17
Speaker 1: it for ourselves. And you know, if you're not somebody cousin,
39:21
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Y'all so close, you know
39:23
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, you know, and I think that the
39:27
Speaker 1: unity just has to be there because you know, somebody
39:30
Speaker 1: that's attached to somebody. I know, I got people that's
39:33
Speaker 1: attached to Thug, that's attached to Gunner, that's attached to Tip,
39:37
Speaker 1: that's attached to two chains, that's attached to Jezi, that's
39:40
Speaker 1: attached to you. Feel what I'm saying, it's almost impossible
39:43
Speaker 1: not to, you know, feel that love and want somebody
39:47
Speaker 1: like like for me. Once I see you know, people
39:50
Speaker 1: that make it. You know what I'm saying, It's almost
39:53
Speaker 1: like I made it too.
39:55
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
39:56
Speaker 1: And I'm quite sure a lot of people feel the
39:58
Speaker 1: same way if they play us. You know I'm saying,
40:00
Speaker 1: if you hated that, just that's just that yeah, you know,
40:03
Speaker 1: but you know what I'm saying. And then like the
40:05
Speaker 1: state of it right now, you know, like the baby
40:07
Speaker 1: Drills and the Antis and you know what I'm saying, Uh,
40:12
Speaker 1: the Newdies and you know, yeah, man, it's and then
40:17
Speaker 1: even the girls man like their lyrical too.
40:21
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
40:21
Speaker 1: I feel like you run yeah, yeah, a lot of
40:25
Speaker 1: Like when I see a lot of the state, when
40:27
Speaker 1: I see a lot of doing her thing, I feel
40:29
Speaker 1: like it's just a family thing. When I see Amarella spit,
40:33
Speaker 1: I be like she's got birth from you know what
40:35
Speaker 1: I'm saying. This ain't nothing like we get our best someone,
40:38
Speaker 1: We get our best ideas from others.
40:39
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Nothing is new under the sun.
40:41
Speaker 1: So when you're around or when you're around it and
40:45
Speaker 1: you're you know, you have these people that went before,
40:47
Speaker 1: you get to see an example.
40:49
Speaker 4: So when that that unity, yeah, the South got it.
40:52
Speaker 2: I mean, look, the South is obviously you mentioned the
40:54
Speaker 2: female MC's there. I feel like they're the only artists
40:59
Speaker 2: anymore that are like trying from the new generation to
41:04
Speaker 2: make records. I feel like the dudes is just getting
41:07
Speaker 2: in the studio, punching in, throwing shit together and don't
41:11
Speaker 2: putting it out, and there's no like conscientious like effort
41:14
Speaker 2: to be like, yo, we gotta put a record together,
41:15
Speaker 2: like well we got to put some hits out, like.
41:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they know how it's easy to I.
41:22
Speaker 2: Feel like that the male artists are underproduced because they
41:25
Speaker 2: kind of just like you said, it's so easy.
41:28
Speaker 3: They don't like, you know what I'm saying, Like they
41:30
Speaker 3: ain't like, damn, we gotta we need to we need
41:33
Speaker 3: to go to radio with this. We need to be
41:35
Speaker 3: intentional with this, or you need to take your time.
41:38
Speaker 1: You know, you got to get your ten twenty thousand
41:41
Speaker 1: hours in right, you know what, I'm saying, before you
41:43
Speaker 1: are able to experience this, this this thing called hip hop.
41:48
Speaker 4: Especially for like you have respect for the art form. Yeah,
41:51
Speaker 4: you gotta have respect for the art form.
41:52
Speaker 1: And one of the people that I feel like has
41:55
Speaker 1: serious respect for the art form is London j That's
41:59
Speaker 1: a This dude is out of this work.
42:02
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
42:03
Speaker 1: Like, man, I'm talking about when I tell you that
42:07
Speaker 1: most of the stuff that you hear comes from him,
42:10
Speaker 1: Oh wow, out of the South as far as writers.
42:13
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. He has a pin that
42:16
Speaker 4: is unmatched right now. You know what I'm saying. And
42:18
Speaker 4: don't connected to him as well?
42:21
Speaker 3: Are you going to be doing more remixes and stuff
42:24
Speaker 3: like obviously? Yeah?
42:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a visual out there. Yeah, dro, Like I
42:28
Speaker 1: couldn't you know what, man. I was in New Mexico
42:31
Speaker 1: and for some reason, I just kept saying yeah, Dro.
42:35
Speaker 1: And this young dude, I think he was like twenty one,
42:37
Speaker 1: he was like, you should do that, Dro, he said,
42:39
Speaker 1: he said just fits. So when he said it, I
42:42
Speaker 1: couldn't even sleep. I was like, I gotta do this.
42:45
Speaker 1: And I was inspired by Gloria.
42:46
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
42:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, because she was saying some stuff and you
42:49
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And it made me feel like,
42:51
Speaker 1: oh she is she got damned.
42:52
Speaker 4: She's standing on betting.
42:54
Speaker 2: It for you feel what I'm saying, How dope was
42:56
Speaker 2: it for you to see Killer Mike all these years
42:59
Speaker 2: of just a prolific career get his flowers at the Grammys.
43:03
Speaker 4: Man, that was player. Man, Like I said, the unity
43:06
Speaker 4: that we got.
43:06
Speaker 1: I felt like when he got the Grammys, we got
43:09
Speaker 1: the Grammys with him, right, you know what I mean,
43:12
Speaker 1: especially from Atlanta, because it just shut up all the
43:15
Speaker 1: talk and you know what I'm saying, and people talking about, oh, well,
43:18
Speaker 1: who was that? Like, that's I would love. I love
43:21
Speaker 1: the fact that it was done in that fashion. You
43:25
Speaker 1: feel I can sweep, Yeah, like he swept. You know
43:29
Speaker 1: what your thought and what y'all would toomb at all
43:32
Speaker 1: that bullshit you tomb at it got Sunday say you
43:35
Speaker 1: did what I'm saying.
43:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, felt it just felt special because it was like, man,
43:38
Speaker 2: first of all, he deserved it. That's the other thing
43:40
Speaker 2: he deserve. He had the best out of the year.
43:43
Speaker 3: I don't think it was a discussion to be had,
43:45
Speaker 3: and he deserved it. So it was just like you
43:48
Speaker 3: said it was funny.
43:49
Speaker 2: It was funny to see certain people react certain ways
43:51
Speaker 2: and then then once they listened to the outum, they're like, oh.
43:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, he deserved that. Motherfucker like desert.
43:56
Speaker 2: Because it ain't about I feel like with that is
43:58
Speaker 2: about It's about who like It should be about the
44:02
Speaker 2: best body of work, not who did the most streams,
44:04
Speaker 2: not who's most record. It's like, not supposed to be
44:06
Speaker 2: the best rap album of the year.
44:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I could tell, if I could tell motherfuckers
44:10
Speaker 1: that making music sh make sure you you like it,
44:14
Speaker 1: you satisfied. You know what I'm saying. Make sure you
44:17
Speaker 1: put out a body of work, you know what I mean.
44:18
Speaker 1: Don't be selfish with it. Make you know you know
44:20
Speaker 1: you got to put out music for the people. But
44:22
Speaker 1: make sure you're satisfied for about what you're putting out
44:25
Speaker 1: for the people.
44:26
Speaker 3: And you're good. Yeah, no matter, you can sell one record. Yeah,
44:29
Speaker 3: I'm satisfied.
44:31
Speaker 2: Can you give me a timeline when's everything coming out?
44:33
Speaker 2: Obviously you guys just put a single.
44:34
Speaker 1: Out, Okay, psc should be out. I don't want to
44:39
Speaker 1: say fall you feel me? I know me and zay Toven,
44:44
Speaker 1: which is a great producer, shout out to Zay. You know,
44:46
Speaker 1: we got some stuff you know coming.
44:48
Speaker 3: Out Atlanta and Bay Area.
44:51
Speaker 4: Go to Yes, Atlanta and Bay Area. People don't know that.
44:55
Speaker 1: So I think, like around the top of the year,
44:56
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop a couple of videos this year. But
44:59
Speaker 1: around the top of the year, you know what I'm saying,
45:00
Speaker 1: I should be gearing up for. You know what I mean,
45:03
Speaker 1: the Young Drow project. You know what I'm saying. I
45:05
Speaker 1: want to say that right after that, by that summer,
45:09
Speaker 1: I think the Drawing Tip project coming. You know what
45:11
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Drow plus t I P equals drip drow tip.
45:18
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, that's gonna be on the way.
45:20
Speaker 1: I think me and the boy Young La, We're gonna
45:22
Speaker 1: go back in and we're gonna you know, redo black boy,
45:25
Speaker 1: White boy too.
45:26
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, which.
45:27
Speaker 3: Was which was a how's he doing?
45:29
Speaker 4: He's doing pretty good, man, you know what I'm saying.
45:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, Remember he was going through his ship too, you know.
45:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know, life be lifing, But yeah, man,
45:38
Speaker 1: how you come out on top? You know what I'm saying.
45:39
Speaker 1: So all of us are we we were getting into it, man,
45:42
Speaker 1: You know the PSC drove Tip. You know, Tip killed
45:45
Speaker 1: the King on the way. You know what I'm saying,
45:48
Speaker 1: How is it?
45:48
Speaker 2: Uh? Because t I is also do a stand up now,
45:54
Speaker 2: which I think is dope because I've always wanted to
45:56
Speaker 2: try it, but I ain't got the nuts to get
45:58
Speaker 2: on stage. And but uh, it's kind of crazy, like
46:04
Speaker 2: is that something like have you have you ever considered
46:07
Speaker 2: like stepping out of the box of being an MC
46:09
Speaker 2: and doing maybe a podcast or doing some acting or
46:12
Speaker 2: just doing other ship.
46:13
Speaker 4: Man, do you want to you want to know what's crazy? Tip?
46:15
Speaker 3: And haha, mafia man. They always saying.
46:18
Speaker 1: Drou when you're gonna get on stage and do comedy.
46:20
Speaker 1: I'm just, you know, I'm just I'm just a crazy
46:24
Speaker 1: motherfucker on you know or default like you know what
46:25
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
46:26
Speaker 4: But I applaud him.
46:28
Speaker 3: Man.
46:29
Speaker 1: I remember one time we was at Madison Square Garden.
46:34
Speaker 1: We performed for Dave Chapell's birthday, and you know, and
46:38
Speaker 1: then next thing, you know, Tip did like a little
46:40
Speaker 1: set man.
46:41
Speaker 3: He killed it.
46:43
Speaker 4: Then he did some of that State Farm arena. He
46:45
Speaker 4: killed it.
46:46
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. At first, he wasn't
46:49
Speaker 1: that funny to me. But then this nigga started getting funny.
46:51
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
46:52
Speaker 3: I mean it's like anything.
46:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like yeah, that nigga just showed like he
46:56
Speaker 1: just was like, man, I'm doing this and that ship.
47:00
Speaker 1: That ship just started opening up, you know what I'm saying.
47:02
Speaker 1: So you know what I mean, whatever shot to put
47:04
Speaker 1: it ahead to like, you know, get it done.
47:07
Speaker 3: That's great, man, Look lots of new music on the way. Man. Yes,
47:10
Speaker 3: sir ski, I'm glad you came out and finally kicked it.
47:13
Speaker 3: And I heard you have a clip for me some bars?
47:16
Speaker 4: You got some bars?
47:18
Speaker 1: I don't do xanax somemore. Okay, well, oh you're talk
47:20
Speaker 1: about rap. Yeah, I thought he was trying to get
47:22
Speaker 1: me to jam. Give you some drugs.
47:24
Speaker 3: I ain't them bitches like like they're good.
47:30
Speaker 1: They wipe I'll be scared. I can't they wipe out
47:33
Speaker 1: your memory? Like you know what I'm saying. One time
47:36
Speaker 1: I slept with this ugly chick and took his in X.
47:38
Speaker 4: I forgot got. I was like, she woke up, she
47:41
Speaker 4: was like what have I I have no idea?
47:44
Speaker 3: How did you get here?
47:45
Speaker 4: How did you even get here?
47:46
Speaker 3: Yeah?
47:47
Speaker 4: You should take one.
47:48
Speaker 3: You should take one, Yo, Joe, I appreciate you. Brother.
47:53
Speaker 3: We go do a freestyle so you can check out
47:55
Speaker 3: the other YouTube video for that. Man.
47:56
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
47:56
Speaker 3: Cool, cool, fire,