Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist Talk Gatekeeping In Music, New Album, 'Not Like Us' + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up early in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in Steed j n v
- 0:07Speaker 2: Ess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
- 0:09Speaker 2: You got some special guests.
- 0:10Speaker 1: In the building.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Yes, indeed we got the Alchemists.
- 0:12Speaker 2: We got Larry June and two Chains. Welcome album. Life
- 0:19Speaker 2: is beautiful as out right now.
- 0:20Speaker 4: Early Album of the Year contend. It's still early. It's
- 0:22Speaker 4: only February. Early Album of the Year contender. Man, I
- 0:25Speaker 4: appreciate that.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Man.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Change came in here, like, where's my picture on the wall?
- 0:30Speaker 2: I'm walking around here? But his picture is right there.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Next thing.
- 0:32Speaker 3: They got his feet up, He got his feet up there.
- 0:34Speaker 5: No, I hadn't been to this location.
- 0:37Speaker 3: It's the first time here.
- 0:38Speaker 5: It's my first.
- 0:38Speaker 3: It's been a minute since you've been up here.
- 0:40Speaker 1: So how y'all brother's feeling feeling good? How about you?
- 0:43Speaker 3: I'm good.
- 0:44Speaker 4: Change had to make the wall number one of your legend.
- 0:46Speaker 4: That's number one. But number two Chains was the first,
- 0:48Speaker 4: the first breakfast club show we ever did. Oh boy,
- 0:52Speaker 4: and the first person say anything was too changed? How'd
- 0:55Speaker 4: you get two chains around?
- 0:56Speaker 6: Matter?
- 0:59Speaker 2: You were here so at the time, we didn't have
- 1:01Speaker 2: no money right, so to change did it for the love?
- 1:04Speaker 3: And Charlemagne was supposed to handle transpen what.
- 1:07Speaker 7: Change was red hot?
- 1:08Speaker 4: I mean red hot like early too early in carnal?
- 1:11Speaker 4: What's the word in car nations of two change? You
- 1:14Speaker 4: don't know what red hat? But Charlamage was supposed to
- 1:17Speaker 4: handle car service. Charlamagne man had a car. Charlamage didn't
- 1:21Speaker 4: say it was a caravan, picked up two changes in
- 1:24Speaker 4: the caravan.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Yes, yes he did.
- 1:25Speaker 7: You just thought that was cool. I had the money.
- 1:29Speaker 8: But you're supposed to let a nigga know a van
- 1:31Speaker 8: gonna come pick him up, and not a black.
- 1:32Speaker 7: I don't know they was going in a van. I
- 1:33Speaker 7: thought they had asked yourself.
- 1:35Speaker 2: But change that he never he never did, never play
- 1:39Speaker 2: and always never talked.
- 1:40Speaker 1: About alwayshows love.
- 1:41Speaker 7: We always appreciate that, Sir three link up for this album.
- 1:45Speaker 1: How we do it?
- 1:47Speaker 6: Well, let me see, I know Larry and I work
- 1:51Speaker 6: together before. I'm a fan of his music. You know
- 1:55Speaker 6: what I'm saying. He a player. You know what I'm saying,
- 1:57Speaker 6: I'm a player and I don't know. We had a
- 2:01Speaker 6: conversation like just about doing a couple of records. Yeah,
- 2:04Speaker 6: and he's somebody that is into like cohesiveness and everything.
- 2:08Speaker 6: So he was like, we just need to do one producer.
- 2:11Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, We're gonna rob with Al
- 2:12Speaker 6: And it just started becoming like you know what I'm saying.
- 2:17Speaker 6: Every time a song was finished, it started to becoming
- 2:19Speaker 6: just dope and dope, you know what I mean. And
- 2:21Speaker 6: I felt like, man, we probably ain't do about six
- 2:23Speaker 6: seven more, you know what I'm saying. And before you
- 2:26Speaker 6: knew it is like what he said, the early contender
- 2:29Speaker 6: for album.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Yeah, And how did Alchemists get to play? Why was
- 2:32Speaker 2: he the producer? Why he was the one that's like,
- 2:33Speaker 2: this is the sound we want for this?
- 2:36Speaker 9: We had we were already working like we've been talking
- 2:38Speaker 9: for a while. We had a couple of records in motion,
- 2:40Speaker 9: like the last couple of years, and.
- 2:41Speaker 6: I've been working with Al but with me a lot
- 2:44Speaker 6: of my projects, they would have different producers, so I
- 2:46Speaker 6: would have two or three our type joints on it
- 2:49Speaker 6: feel good, but people would just kind of go towards
- 2:52Speaker 6: the party records or the trap records. So it felt
- 2:54Speaker 6: good for me just to do what I really like
- 2:57Speaker 6: to do best is and that's a.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Rapt Those real hip hop beat, that boom battle you
- 3:03Speaker 4: know what I mean?
- 3:03Speaker 7: That sun done.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Yo yo yo?
- 3:07Speaker 7: What about those type of that sound energizes your pen.
- 3:12Speaker 6: My voice is able to cut through on samples. With
- 3:14Speaker 6: the trap drums, I'll be having to like kind of
- 3:16Speaker 6: yell a little bit. I can sit down and record.
- 3:17Speaker 6: When I'm doing these songs, I'll be having to stand
- 3:20Speaker 6: up record trap songs and then and I'd be having
- 3:23Speaker 6: to kind of be creative and sometimes it hit it
- 3:25Speaker 6: and sometimes it miss but I have to be creative
- 3:27Speaker 6: around the drums and kind of peek my head out.
- 3:30Speaker 6: But with those loops and things like that, I'm able
- 3:32Speaker 6: just to get my idea across looser.
- 3:35Speaker 9: Yeah, you get looser because it's like it's just a
- 3:37Speaker 9: phil at it's not like you know, like it's kind
- 3:40Speaker 9: of understated the production, so at least room for like
- 3:42Speaker 9: the lyricists, like if you if you got something to
- 3:44Speaker 9: say on those type of beats, you're gonna flourish, you know,
- 3:47Speaker 9: change Larry there, those type of mcs like less is more.
- 3:51Speaker 10: It's found on that like a file a like yeah,
- 3:54Speaker 10: like a raw versus like a stacked up like I
- 3:58Speaker 10: would compare like a track to something that's layered up
- 4:01Speaker 10: on the vocals.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Some of these are kind of just.
- 4:03Speaker 9: Raw and it's just like a mood, you know what
- 4:05Speaker 9: I mean, where it's like they're just to just to
- 4:07Speaker 9: move their pens.
- 4:07Speaker 11: So it's like the focus is on the lyricists.
- 4:10Speaker 9: And you know, I mean change, I don't. He's been
- 4:13Speaker 9: one the people who know music. No to Change has
- 4:15Speaker 9: always been top tier with the pen like, but he
- 4:18Speaker 9: always had the knack to make hit records too, you know,
- 4:21Speaker 9: but that never fooled me, Like I could tell the
- 4:23Speaker 9: MC's like a big Sean or somebody who's like, yo,
- 4:26Speaker 9: he makes shit records, but he can rap like extremely well, like.
- 4:30Speaker 11: With anybody who you would put on any list, you know.
- 4:33Speaker 8: So so that's your comference on the trap is not
- 4:35Speaker 8: really a trap you just do for us?
- 4:37Speaker 6: He ain't really no, So of course I trapped before, right,
- 4:41Speaker 6: and even on this type of subject matter, I talk
- 4:43Speaker 6: about the streets and the trap. But early on I'm
- 4:48Speaker 6: always throw Tech under the bus for this.
- 4:50Speaker 1: You know.
- 4:50Speaker 6: Early on, I was doing a mixtape. It was called
- 4:53Speaker 6: all Ice on Meal. It was a double.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Mixtape, and I had who doing was it? It was
- 4:57Speaker 5: you and who else? It was him? A screen, and
- 5:00Speaker 5: then I gave Tech like some my your.
- 5:03Speaker 6: Kids stuff, and he was like, boy, I don't want
- 5:05Speaker 6: I want some boy, give me some of that trap.
- 5:07Speaker 6: And then when I gave some of that trap, he
- 5:10Speaker 6: came back with like data saying, boy, I'm telling you
- 5:12Speaker 6: they rocking with this right here. So he was more
- 5:15Speaker 6: as a manager, more data driven as far as like
- 5:17Speaker 6: what the people were kind of leaning towards. When I
- 5:21Speaker 6: would drop a project that had some some lyrics and
- 5:24Speaker 6: some trap stuff, you know what I mean. But you know,
- 5:26Speaker 6: I'm in this thing to like to show growth anyway
- 5:30Speaker 6: and to show that anything's possible.
- 5:31Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. I ain't get my meeting
- 5:33Speaker 5: Stiles after thirty.
- 5:34Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. I'm still out here having
- 5:36Speaker 6: more motion in the ocean. I'm saying, business is doing good.
- 5:39Speaker 6: The rap's gonna come out. We're gonna talk about how
- 5:41Speaker 6: we got these businesses in this passive income going. We're
- 5:43Speaker 6: gonna popy like that. You know what I'm saying. I
- 5:45Speaker 6: ain't spending no blocks. I ain't got time to go
- 5:47Speaker 6: to jail, leave my family. I ain't no more crash
- 5:50Speaker 6: dummy mission. You could never get me like that. So
- 5:52Speaker 6: it's just like I just stay out the way. I'm very,
- 5:54Speaker 6: very highly confident in everything I do, and so that's
- 5:57Speaker 6: my comfort zone, knowing it when I walk in the room,
- 5:59Speaker 6: my chin up, my chest.
- 6:01Speaker 5: I don't like that, you know what I'm saying. Like, man,
- 6:03Speaker 5: God did his thing with me.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Now, you like to collaborate a lot.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Change Like it feels like you like competing, right, whether
- 6:09Speaker 2: it's early on with Drake or it's with Wayne, it's
- 6:13Speaker 2: with Larry ju And why is that you never fall back?
- 6:15Speaker 2: You always seemed like you want to do that more.
- 6:17Speaker 6: I think Atlanta is a place that we just are
- 6:20Speaker 6: into doing collaborations, you know what I'm saying. Atlanta artists
- 6:23Speaker 6: always we always work together and work with different people.
- 6:26Speaker 6: We never had that problem, you know what I mean. So,
- 6:28Speaker 6: like I said, respect Larry, I wanted I wanted to
- 6:30Speaker 6: do this project. It wasn't Larry idea. I like, we
- 6:32Speaker 6: ought to do this, you know what I'm saying. And
- 6:34Speaker 6: I was just I wanted to do it too.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:37Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just letting you know. Like I mean, I
- 6:40Speaker 6: go to Vegas, I go to Miami. I tell DJ
- 6:42Speaker 6: Man put on that smoothie. In nineteen ninety one. I
- 6:44Speaker 6: tell him, I want to hear that before I get
- 6:46Speaker 6: out of here, you know what I'm saying. So it
- 6:47Speaker 6: was just about it was just genuine organic like his campaign.
- 6:50Speaker 6: It was just organic love, and so it.
- 6:54Speaker 12: Came organic too though it wasn't even We didn't think
- 6:56Speaker 12: too much about it just kind of came. Yeah, he
- 6:59Speaker 12: had a few records, sent it to me and then
- 7:01Speaker 12: we just kept that ship rocking.
- 7:02Speaker 1: It was real smooth.
- 7:04Speaker 7: What I like about you you wrap about.
- 7:06Speaker 4: You wrap about a lot of health and in organic living,
- 7:09Speaker 4: Like what got you into a mindfulness lifestyle and what
- 7:12Speaker 4: made you start putting that in your music?
- 7:14Speaker 12: You know, I started a little like I dropped my
- 7:16Speaker 12: first mixtape when I was fifteen. I was kind of
- 7:18Speaker 12: talking about a lot of shit that I wouldn't really
- 7:20Speaker 12: like fully into. Then I had just tuned into my
- 7:23Speaker 12: real what I was into and like my actual life,
- 7:26Speaker 12: and when I saw I wrap about my day to day
- 7:27Speaker 12: shit to just start working for me, you know what
- 7:29Speaker 12: I mean.
- 7:30Speaker 1: I'm kind of like him. I didn't make no.
- 7:31Speaker 12: Bread into to my thirties really too, so you know,
- 7:34Speaker 12: I had they go through the ups and downs and
- 7:36Speaker 12: really finding myself as an artists, and when I start
- 7:38Speaker 12: talking about the shit that I really like to do,
- 7:40Speaker 12: it just kind of start coming natural for me.
- 7:42Speaker 7: So early on you had a lot of cap in
- 7:43Speaker 7: your app.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
- 7:44Speaker 12: I was fifteen sixteen, you know, I just kind of
- 7:46Speaker 12: more influenced by the hip hop, you know what I mean,
- 7:48Speaker 12: and the shit you know what I mean. And it's
- 7:50Speaker 12: finding myself as an artist, you know what I mean.
- 7:52Speaker 12: And when I start doing that and really like fall
- 7:55Speaker 12: on like what I want to do and start working out.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Did somebody tell you how did you just check yourself?
- 7:59Speaker 4: Did somebody be like, come on, nobody.
- 8:01Speaker 12: Didn't tell me I was around all that. You know,
- 8:02Speaker 12: I'm from that, you know what kind of that was
- 8:04Speaker 12: like my my environment and shit. But it was just
- 8:06Speaker 12: more like what can I bring different to the game?
- 8:09Speaker 12: I was like, you know, it's only one me. I
- 8:11Speaker 12: can talk about my life and what I do and
- 8:13Speaker 12: people will relate to it.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Some people might not, you know, people will. I'm thankful
- 8:17Speaker 1: that some people do.
- 8:18Speaker 4: You talk about financial literacy a lot too, which is
- 8:20Speaker 4: interesting because you know, to chains he talks about flexing
- 8:24Speaker 4: a lot, right so and spending a lot.
- 8:27Speaker 7: So how did that you know?
- 8:28Speaker 12: Mention the studio, Uh, listening to a lot of audio books,
- 8:32Speaker 12: you know in high school, like you know, Robert Kolsaki
- 8:35Speaker 12: and shit like and stuff like that, and just just
- 8:38Speaker 12: trying to do better, you know what I mean, coming
- 8:40Speaker 12: from that environment, and you know, just trying to switch
- 8:42Speaker 12: it up and do something different and have longevity in
- 8:44Speaker 12: my career. So I start knowledging myself about things like
- 8:48Speaker 12: that and just you know, put it into the music,
- 8:50Speaker 12: you know what I mean, and letting people know, not
- 8:53Speaker 12: the major and minor things.
- 8:54Speaker 1: But I still I still flex.
- 8:55Speaker 12: I talk about shit, my fleck's a little different, you know,
- 8:57Speaker 12: I might talk about a fifteen dollars orange juice some
- 9:00Speaker 12: ship like that. I'm just saying about hop out with
- 9:03Speaker 12: the lawsuit to the side, very peacefully.
- 9:06Speaker 1: I'm talking about Now you.
- 9:08Speaker 8: Got a bunch of singles that you drop on like
- 9:10Speaker 8: different platforms like streaming platforms and then YouTube exclusive, how
- 9:13Speaker 8: do you like figure out what's going drop where?
- 9:17Speaker 11: Because in different places.
- 9:20Speaker 1: So when I do it, just the YouTube, I just
- 9:22Speaker 1: put it out.
- 9:22Speaker 12: I don't think too much about it, just put it
- 9:24Speaker 12: out just more just for the for the fans, and uh,
- 9:27Speaker 12: just keeping it going. I don't really think I don't
- 9:29Speaker 12: think too much about it. I talked to day, but
- 9:31Speaker 12: just do it, like, let's do it, do whatever we feel.
- 9:34Speaker 12: I don't really think too much about it.
- 9:36Speaker 7: What do you like about Larry is an MC?
- 9:40Speaker 9: I mean when you know, first linking with him, it
- 9:44Speaker 9: was like first like the tone, you know, like I
- 9:46Speaker 9: go off of music, you know, like obviously Resting Peace
- 9:49Speaker 9: Prodigy that was like my brother. We did a lot
- 9:51Speaker 9: of music together and sometimes it's just like the tone,
- 9:55Speaker 9: it's just something similar to her with Body James or
- 9:57Speaker 9: it was like Larry tone was crazy. And then I
- 10:00Speaker 9: was actually late. Once I got hip to his shit,
- 10:03Speaker 9: it was like he was deep in. I had to
- 10:05Speaker 9: go back and like, do you know because like with
- 10:07Speaker 9: Larry's music, you could you need a tour guy because
- 10:10Speaker 9: he got so many different styles, like it just depends
- 10:13Speaker 9: who takes you through it, you know, the right way.
- 10:16Speaker 9: And it was like I dug into his music and
- 10:18Speaker 9: was like, Okay, I figured out after a while, Okay,
- 10:21Speaker 9: I feel I felt like I could make something that'll
- 10:23Speaker 9: fit to it, you know what I'm saying. And then
- 10:24Speaker 9: when we started working we did like one joint. I
- 10:26Speaker 9: think it was j Worthy who linked us up and
- 10:30Speaker 9: then it sounded good and for me, if I if
- 10:32Speaker 9: I can get one, it sounds good.
- 10:34Speaker 1: You know the Monico joints. Yeah, for your album Go Joint.
- 10:38Speaker 9: Before we did Great Escape, we did one joint for
- 10:40Speaker 9: his album, and it was like, I felt like there
- 10:41Speaker 9: was potential because sometimes you do one record with somebody
- 10:43Speaker 9: and it's like one and done, and sometimes you.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Build a better relationship.
- 10:47Speaker 9: Plus just like my brother now, Larry is super likable,
- 10:51Speaker 9: like he's just one of the coolest movies, just my brother.
- 10:54Speaker 9: So you know, in music you build relationships sometimes beyond
- 10:58Speaker 9: how long did.
- 10:59Speaker 7: This this project take?
- 11:00Speaker 8: Because I saw an interview you said if you Larry,
- 11:02Speaker 8: you said, rapping gives you anxiety?
- 11:05Speaker 1: Uh, with that?
- 11:07Speaker 12: Working with Change he changed that. But he worked so
- 11:10Speaker 12: quick and he owned he on my phone with a verse.
- 11:12Speaker 12: With a Verse, I had to switch my whole program
- 11:14Speaker 12: up so that this was pretty quick, you know what
- 11:16Speaker 12: I mean. We got a few records we didn't put
- 11:17Speaker 12: out yet, and it was I ain't I was keeping
- 11:19Speaker 12: up with Change. I ain't got he was. He was
- 11:21Speaker 12: giving me the sauce, and I was see what I
- 11:23Speaker 12: can do? Me come different on here. So like working
- 11:26Speaker 12: with chains and al like definitely took me out my element,
- 11:29Speaker 12: you know what I mean, different patterns and uh topics
- 11:32Speaker 12: and and it's making me a better m C.
- 11:35Speaker 1: I'm very thankful.
- 11:36Speaker 7: Is that pressure of that pressure line by the verse.
- 11:40Speaker 12: It ain't it ain't pressure. It's more like I'm just
- 11:43Speaker 12: I'm getting better, you know what I mean. And he
- 11:45Speaker 12: he are real lyricists. He really really do this ship
- 11:47Speaker 12: so like he give me like styles and I ain't
- 11:49Speaker 12: even thought about even doing me rap like this and
- 11:52Speaker 12: try this and just putting me in a different box.
- 11:53Speaker 12: Just like when I did the Great Escape with you,
- 11:55Speaker 12: I was telling him like, man, I love these beast dudes.
- 11:57Speaker 1: He was putting me you know what I mean.
- 11:59Speaker 9: He made I think he made us both step up
- 12:02Speaker 9: just because of the level that changes as an artist
- 12:04Speaker 9: and as perfection. It's like we went out to Atlanta
- 12:08Speaker 9: and got to work with him in his lab and
- 12:09Speaker 9: just got to like get his energy in his world.
- 12:12Speaker 9: That was like is different, super impressive, like sleepy in
- 12:17Speaker 9: his in his city. It's like I went home like
- 12:20Speaker 9: as a different animals just seeing his operation like change
- 12:23Speaker 9: is a mastermind. So both of us going out there
- 12:25Speaker 9: seeing his operation in Atlanta was like super motivating like heah,
- 12:29Speaker 9: we gotta.
- 12:30Speaker 3: I want to.
- 12:30Speaker 4: I feel like Wayne was on you like that change.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like I can see you
- 12:34Speaker 4: and Wayne working together and Wayne hitting you up, like
- 12:37Speaker 4: where is the verse?
- 12:38Speaker 7: The song is done?
- 12:39Speaker 1: You know?
- 12:39Speaker 5: This was men and Wayne?
- 12:40Speaker 1: We this we was.
- 12:41Speaker 6: That's why I was on him like that because I'm
- 12:42Speaker 6: used to Wayne shooting it right back. I'm used to
- 12:44Speaker 6: thinking I'm finna smoke this guy. And he sent it
- 12:47Speaker 6: back with just some crazy shit with wind level and
- 12:50Speaker 6: some lyrics and and so it was just like telling Larry,
- 12:54Speaker 6: just don't they don't overthink it, like you know what
- 12:55Speaker 6: I mean. So with man Toune, we actually have hundreds
- 12:59Speaker 6: of we work really fast together. He's someone that I
- 13:02Speaker 6: can go on. I can go in the booth with
- 13:05Speaker 6: half an idea and finish it up. What's like getting
- 13:07Speaker 6: a booth and then Wayne and going to the booth
- 13:08Speaker 6: with the whole idea. So he'll just want to take
- 13:10Speaker 6: the whole thing all the way through. So it's just
- 13:12Speaker 6: different rhyme styles. But actually working with him has made
- 13:14Speaker 6: me a better artist, like he said I did for him.
- 13:16Speaker 6: So it's cool to be able to like trinkle down
- 13:18Speaker 6: and pass that energy on because me doing two projects
- 13:22Speaker 6: with Wayne, I'd be lying if I say I ain't
- 13:24Speaker 6: get better. You know what I'm saying right rocking with him?
- 13:26Speaker 2: You know, I was gonna ask you what you mentioned
- 13:28Speaker 2: earlier with Prodigy two questions with that, Are you surprised
- 13:32Speaker 2: about how much love that Prodigy is getting now in
- 13:35Speaker 2: the last couple of years.
- 13:36Speaker 11: I feel like people are.
- 13:37Speaker 2: Dissecting what he's been saying, and I think they missed
- 13:40Speaker 2: it before. I've been seeing it more and more and
- 13:41Speaker 2: more recently.
- 13:43Speaker 9: I always felt like that was gonna happen, like they
- 13:45Speaker 9: become like more legendary after, you know, because they did
- 13:48Speaker 9: so much work.
- 13:49Speaker 11: It was like insane and you could just peel.
- 13:51Speaker 9: Back layers of prodigies rhymes like he went so far,
- 13:55Speaker 9: he was so ahead of his time that it's like
- 13:57Speaker 9: and even them, it's funny them being small too.
- 14:00Speaker 11: I always felt like them being.
- 14:01Speaker 9: These two little guys, like they would be rediscovered in
- 14:04Speaker 9: twenty years by some young kids like mob Deep, Like
- 14:07Speaker 9: if some kids finds them in twenty years, they're gonna
- 14:10Speaker 9: hit it, strike a gold mine. Like their discography is
- 14:13Speaker 9: like unmatched, and you know, yeah, I mean Pea's legend
- 14:17Speaker 9: lives like he did more than the average person while
- 14:20Speaker 9: he was here and even left behind a lot of stuff.
- 14:23Speaker 11: So we're lucky enough to be working on a new
- 14:25Speaker 11: mob deep project.
- 14:26Speaker 3: There's another we have change.
- 14:29Speaker 9: It looked like what doing the beats and you know
- 14:34Speaker 9: Nas is.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Involved, and yeah, man, it feels.
- 14:38Speaker 9: Great, just even just like when you hear his voice again,
- 14:41Speaker 9: you're gonna be like, wow, missed you know what I'm saying,
- 14:45Speaker 9: Like how much we missed it. It's a void just
- 14:46Speaker 9: not hearing his voice anymore.
- 14:48Speaker 4: The Metro reach out to you because when he was inspired,
- 14:51Speaker 4: it seemed like Prodigy inspired couple of projects.
- 14:54Speaker 9: I reached out to him actually and thanked him for
- 14:56Speaker 9: that because I thought that was so dope. When they
- 14:58Speaker 9: sampled his voice throughout the album, just kept his spiritual
- 15:02Speaker 9: That was just super and.
- 15:03Speaker 11: Plus you know him in Future had a little bit
- 15:05Speaker 11: of history as well.
- 15:07Speaker 3: In Future were cool.
- 15:08Speaker 9: There's a video that they never came out with that
- 15:10Speaker 9: p is in actually a Future video and that it
- 15:12Speaker 9: never came I forget what song it was, but they
- 15:14Speaker 9: were they were cool.
- 15:15Speaker 6: It was a dope contrast artists with creation from Somebody
- 15:20Speaker 6: is Ship Poppers Pope.
- 15:24Speaker 9: But I think we're keeping the tradition alive even doing this,
- 15:26Speaker 9: that's doing you know me coming from you know, you
- 15:28Speaker 9: know where my history and then Lincoln with somebody like
- 15:31Speaker 9: Change and Larry and just bringing it all together.
- 15:34Speaker 3: You know you have a bar when when you That
- 15:36Speaker 3: was my secon question.
- 15:37Speaker 2: Do you have a bar of artists that you work with,
- 15:40Speaker 2: like you be like I'm not working with him because
- 15:41Speaker 2: it's just this doesn't fit or is it like I
- 15:43Speaker 2: give everybody opportunity like Larry Jewel fists chains fists, but
- 15:47Speaker 2: certain one somebody.
- 15:48Speaker 3: Else might not fit.
- 15:48Speaker 13: That might say you I need alchemists a beat cool,
- 15:51Speaker 13: but yeah, certain artists fit more where I feel like
- 15:54Speaker 13: I could make whole projects with like you know, Rock Marcy,
- 15:57Speaker 13: you know Body, James, Larry, June to Change.
- 16:00Speaker 11: Of course, Prodigy and I. You know I do have
- 16:02Speaker 11: some like repeat you know friends that I work with.
- 16:06Speaker 6: I told I told him I'm making my pop producer
- 16:08Speaker 6: by rocking with me when we had them conversation like nah,
- 16:11Speaker 6: you know low key underground like boys stop make yes
- 16:14Speaker 6: pop out here.
- 16:15Speaker 9: But I think I get the jacket put on me
- 16:20Speaker 9: sometimes and be in this like purist, keep it real
- 16:22Speaker 9: hip hop I'm really not that.
- 16:24Speaker 11: I don't I love music.
- 16:26Speaker 1: I don't want to be put in a box. I
- 16:27Speaker 1: don't want to be limited.
- 16:28Speaker 9: Even when we did Generations, you know, join on the
- 16:30Speaker 9: album at first, Change was like he didn't even want
- 16:32Speaker 9: to hear any.
- 16:33Speaker 11: Of those beats because we started that record together.
- 16:35Speaker 6: First, and he was like, I don't want those shorty
- 16:37Speaker 6: alchemists trapped men.
- 16:40Speaker 9: Because to me, I have different bags I go into
- 16:42Speaker 9: depending on the artist. Like if you listen to the
- 16:44Speaker 9: rock Marshy O My Day last December, those beats sound
- 16:47Speaker 9: nothing like these, so I know how to like kind
- 16:50Speaker 9: of create different palettes. But that joint at first, Change
- 16:53Speaker 9: was like, we're gonna use this for something else. And
- 16:55Speaker 9: then we thought about it and was like, you know what,
- 16:57Speaker 9: we should add that into the album because it's like it's.
- 17:00Speaker 11: Blending the sounds a little bit.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I don't want to. I'm not a purist. I'm not
- 17:03Speaker 1: like I hate that other stuff. Keep it real hip hop.
- 17:07Speaker 11: I love all good and it's bad, you know, in
- 17:10Speaker 11: every category.
- 17:11Speaker 7: To me, I love that song Generations.
- 17:13Speaker 1: You know.
- 17:13Speaker 4: The hook is we the Generation got all these kids
- 17:16Speaker 4: on the Dirty Spry, We the Generation got got them
- 17:18Speaker 4: on the Perkys every night with the generation got them
- 17:20Speaker 4: on switches. What was the conversation about that hook? Because
- 17:24Speaker 4: Larry you from that generation, I was influenced by a
- 17:26Speaker 4: lot of that, So I know y'all had to have
- 17:27Speaker 4: a conversation about that song.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Man is the truth.
- 17:31Speaker 6: It just it just when you look at you know
- 17:34Speaker 6: how it is. You know, everybody you get a little older,
- 17:36Speaker 6: they try to unk you to death. They try to
- 17:38Speaker 6: you know, they try to drink most syrup and you
- 17:41Speaker 6: to death. They try to smoke more whatever than you
- 17:43Speaker 6: to death. You got to be like, bro, we do
- 17:45Speaker 6: want to.
- 17:45Speaker 3: Turn y'all out.
- 17:46Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
- 17:47Speaker 6: We the one got y'all. It's like when I go
- 17:49Speaker 6: back and I listen to somebody like eight Ball and
- 17:51Speaker 6: m JG. Who I came up on. They had songs
- 17:53Speaker 6: like robbery. They had me lurking, you know what I mean.
- 17:56Speaker 6: And so it's the same thing that I know. If
- 17:59Speaker 6: it wasn't a music, it's the videos. It's the lone
- 18:01Speaker 6: blunts and videos we had. It's the double cup this stuff, y'all.
- 18:04Speaker 6: Daddy was attracted too. And then y'all come up and well,
- 18:09Speaker 6: not y'all, I'm just talking about in general. You know
- 18:11Speaker 6: what I'm saying, some people come up and so that's
- 18:13Speaker 6: what the generation idea came from. Like we kind of
- 18:16Speaker 6: the generation that kind of might have messed up some stuff,
- 18:23Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So you know what I'm saying,
- 18:25Speaker 6: lack of parental advisory going on nowadays, so you know,
- 18:30Speaker 6: lack of church, God and everything, you know what I'm saying.
- 18:34Speaker 4: So that's where the idea for generation. So how do
- 18:37Speaker 4: you course correct that though? Or do you even try
- 18:39Speaker 4: to cause correct? Do you just acknowledge it a I
- 18:40Speaker 4: know we did that.
- 18:42Speaker 6: I think you just acknowledge it for me, you know,
- 18:44Speaker 6: you know, I know it takes more than one person
- 18:47Speaker 6: to try to save the world, you know what I mean,
- 18:49Speaker 6: And so trying to be, you know, a frontline soldier
- 18:54Speaker 6: was just not my idea for this. It was just
- 18:57Speaker 6: more like finding a creative way to say we started
- 19:02Speaker 6: a lot of what's.
- 19:02Speaker 5: Going on right And it could go both ways too.
- 19:05Speaker 9: That's why I thought the hook was dope because it
- 19:06Speaker 9: could be positive or negative like we the generation didn't,
- 19:09Speaker 9: or it could be like an admission of gilt and growth.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Yo, I'm sorry, Yeah, it's growth about where his kids
- 19:17Speaker 1: and his businesses too.
- 19:18Speaker 12: But he also let you know where he came from
- 19:20Speaker 12: and where he you know, his growth, but you know,
- 19:21Speaker 12: he young and that's the environment he was in, and uh,
- 19:25Speaker 12: he letting you know where he at now.
- 19:26Speaker 1: He talking about the LLCs and things like that.
- 19:28Speaker 12: So I see, I look at it as growth, like
- 19:29Speaker 12: you know what I mean, we the generation, but you
- 19:31Speaker 12: know what I'm saying, look at me now, like I
- 19:33Speaker 12: got multiple businesses, like I'm taking care of my kids
- 19:35Speaker 12: and my coaching, you know what I mean.
- 19:37Speaker 1: So I thought it was dope.
- 19:38Speaker 4: The next generation is more prone to listen to somebody
- 19:41Speaker 4: who went through it too and survived it than they
- 19:43Speaker 4: are to somebody who's just telling them they don't do
- 19:45Speaker 4: this and that. But you didn't go through none of that.
- 19:48Speaker 8: Yeah, it's back back in October, you had a I know,
- 19:52Speaker 8: I was saying, you wasn't with def jam no more.
- 19:53Speaker 8: He wasn't going to resign you a free agent?
- 19:55Speaker 5: Is that still? Yeah?
- 19:57Speaker 6: This was my first independent produ jack that I've dropped,
- 20:01Speaker 6: like I don't know, man, uh, twenty since twenty maybe
- 20:05Speaker 6: eleven or something, twenty ten, I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 20:09Speaker 6: tweeny twelve of my first boats, but I was signed
- 20:12Speaker 6: a couple of months before that. But yeah, this was
- 20:14Speaker 6: my first independent project. I just wanted to kind of
- 20:16Speaker 6: like test the waters. I don't have anything against step Jam.
- 20:19Speaker 6: I've been with them over a decade. Found you know.
- 20:22Speaker 6: It was it's ups and downs and everything, you know
- 20:24Speaker 6: what I'm saying. But at the same time, I built
- 20:26Speaker 6: a lot of relationships, you know. It was this was
- 20:29Speaker 6: just kind of stuff right here, it's just a phone call.
- 20:32Speaker 6: You can get up here and stuff like that. Don't
- 20:34Speaker 6: nobody have to set up my New York promo or
- 20:37Speaker 6: anything like that, you know what I mean. So it
- 20:38Speaker 6: was just about getting out here, you know. And it's
- 20:41Speaker 6: it's it's it's for me the best of both words.
- 20:43Speaker 6: I had some great things happening on the major side,
- 20:46Speaker 6: and now I'm learning how to operate in the independent space.
- 20:50Speaker 5: And it's it's freedom.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Do you like it? Yeah?
- 20:53Speaker 6: Because like they was like we need to drop this
- 20:56Speaker 6: next month. I was like, we can do it this
- 20:59Speaker 6: next week, Like we need to They was looking on
- 21:01Speaker 6: it was like Christmas. They was like we need to
- 21:04Speaker 6: come next the end of January. Then I started being like,
- 21:07Speaker 6: damn boy, this empire.
- 21:09Speaker 4: Yeah, but you also got money to change. Like everybody
- 21:13Speaker 4: can't be independent. That's the part of the independence. Folks
- 21:15Speaker 4: don't talk about. You got to have the paper.
- 21:19Speaker 5: The paper ain't no, yeah, you the budget. Now, you
- 21:21Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
- 21:22Speaker 6: I ain't fully wrapped my head around need to take
- 21:24Speaker 6: what was calling me about the faults and.
- 21:26Speaker 5: Fifties and sixties. We just we just chilled.
- 21:33Speaker 7: They can't get.
- 21:39Speaker 1: It.
- 21:39Speaker 5: Is like it just be different when you plan. You
- 21:41Speaker 5: know how it is. I describe it.
- 21:43Speaker 6: You know, when you have somebody else money, I describe
- 21:45Speaker 6: it like this. I just I described like when you
- 21:46Speaker 6: get a run a car, you don't never like stop
- 21:49Speaker 6: up a speed marks, you just jump them.
- 21:51Speaker 1: Damn.
- 21:51Speaker 5: You get your own car, you do like a you
- 21:53Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, you do like a thing. So
- 21:55Speaker 5: when you got other.
- 21:55Speaker 6: People money, you're more reckless, you know what I'm saying.
- 21:57Speaker 6: That's what I'm trying to say. You got all people
- 21:59Speaker 6: money for me, I'm not gonna, you know, fuck up
- 22:02Speaker 6: the bag. But I might be a little bit more reckless.
- 22:04Speaker 1: But when it's my.
- 22:05Speaker 3: Money, you go over that speed mass low.
- 22:08Speaker 6: The difference between having your own studio and paying for
- 22:11Speaker 6: studio time. When you have your own studio, you can work,
- 22:14Speaker 6: go to sleep, come back when you're paying for studio time.
- 22:16Speaker 6: In my opinion, you ain't even got time to go pee.
- 22:19Speaker 6: You got the guy, damn this working you got you
- 22:21Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, came in here. So that just
- 22:23Speaker 6: been my mindset to be efficient.
- 22:25Speaker 7: So what do you like more?
- 22:25Speaker 3: Major?
- 22:27Speaker 6: I haven't been independent, you said October, So not even
- 22:31Speaker 6: six months yet. But for this to be my first
- 22:35Speaker 6: independent project, I'm geek now, but this to be my
- 22:37Speaker 6: first and then you know me come this way, I'm
- 22:39Speaker 6: kind of it looks like a Rin benvention of Bantonio.
- 22:43Speaker 1: You know. You know.
- 22:46Speaker 11: When you spend other people's money, steal your money, they
- 22:50Speaker 11: gotta pay it back.
- 22:53Speaker 5: Yeah, that's probably why I'm so officient.
- 22:57Speaker 3: This time around. Them numbers matter because it's it's a
- 22:59Speaker 3: whole different game for me.
- 23:01Speaker 6: I kind of ain't been stunning numbers for a long
- 23:04Speaker 6: time because, like I'm gonna be real, I don't own
- 23:08Speaker 6: me or my team were not. We so late to
- 23:11Speaker 6: the back party and the streaming party. Once you hear
- 23:15Speaker 6: about it and who doing and all that stuff, you
- 23:17Speaker 6: kind of get discouraged. Like, man, you know a lot
- 23:21Speaker 6: of people are helping themselves or whatever you want to
- 23:24Speaker 6: call it, or cheating or whatever it's called. But then
- 23:26Speaker 6: I think about how I go in the studio nightly
- 23:28Speaker 6: I come up with this stuff. Nobody's beside me helping
- 23:30Speaker 6: me come up with the hood Nobody. I don't know
- 23:32Speaker 6: if this is smarter or not. No want has helped
- 23:34Speaker 6: me write something to I don't know what it is.
- 23:36Speaker 6: But I'm able to go in and still come up
- 23:38Speaker 6: with a dope idea every single night. That's what gives
- 23:40Speaker 6: me the life I got with this stuff, you know
- 23:43Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Other than that, I think, you know,
- 23:46Speaker 6: I'll probably be somewhere else with it. But me knowing
- 23:49Speaker 6: I can go tonight and make a make something incredible,
- 23:52Speaker 6: That's what got me.
- 23:54Speaker 7: You're a jone company right from the beginning.
- 23:58Speaker 12: I will Warner Brothers in like twenty seventeen for like
- 24:01Speaker 12: two years, did a couple of EPs with them, and
- 24:03Speaker 12: then I went like fully distro kid like a couple
- 24:06Speaker 12: of years, like just straight on the cell phone app.
- 24:10Speaker 1: And then my team Double Empire. Would you do you
- 24:12Speaker 1: like execution?
- 24:13Speaker 13: Uh?
- 24:14Speaker 1: Man?
- 24:14Speaker 12: I like independent. I can get to go drop sit
- 24:17Speaker 12: whenever I want to do it. I don't got to
- 24:18Speaker 12: think too much about it. I don't look at the
- 24:19Speaker 12: numbers at all. I might say it a lot, but
- 24:21Speaker 12: I just put it out. It's more like a long
- 24:24Speaker 12: term game for me. It's like like buying stocks in yourself.
- 24:27Speaker 12: Like we're putting the music out there. It's streaming. You know,
- 24:29Speaker 12: you're streaming that. You gotta just click that button. It's coming.
- 24:31Speaker 12: So it's like stocks. I'm putting that ship out.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Either go like it or you don't like it.
- 24:34Speaker 8: But it's not about acknowledge about your art.
- 24:37Speaker 1: You all gotta go platinum and and that I would
- 24:38Speaker 1: love to, you know what I mean.
- 24:40Speaker 12: But I'm just keeping it going, just keeping it going
- 24:42Speaker 12: and expressing my mind through through the music and people
- 24:45Speaker 12: relating to it.
- 24:46Speaker 1: And I don't think nothing of it, you know what
- 24:48Speaker 1: I mean.
- 24:48Speaker 8: And then tonight you'll performing Jimmy fallon show.
- 24:51Speaker 11: This is your first first time, my first time.
- 24:54Speaker 1: It's crazy legendary.
- 24:56Speaker 6: Man.
- 24:56Speaker 1: I'm over here looking around, like, damn.
- 25:00Speaker 4: The game, Larry, because I mean, you got such a
- 25:01Speaker 4: good head on your shoulders. Mar Like I said, you
- 25:03Speaker 4: talk about financial literacy, you talk about mindfulness. One of
- 25:05Speaker 4: the balls I love on this album. You say I
- 25:07Speaker 4: never had a bitch that was hard to keep found out,
- 25:09Speaker 4: found one solid hole.
- 25:10Speaker 1: Was all I need.
- 25:11Speaker 4: I'm like, for such a young man to understand that,
- 25:14Speaker 4: especially the lifestyle you live, it's found on that line for.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Me just from you know, you know, I have my
- 25:22Speaker 1: kid early nineteen, you know what I mean.
- 25:24Speaker 12: You know, I was forcing this to have been a
- 25:26Speaker 12: single father very early and now it just kind of
- 25:28Speaker 12: changed my mindset on even like having women around period. Like,
- 25:32Speaker 12: you know, my son ain't been around multiple women at all,
- 25:34Speaker 12: so it was like it just showing him like I'm
- 25:37Speaker 12: not married and nothing like that.
- 25:38Speaker 1: So he never really got to see see that.
- 25:40Speaker 12: So I have to always like let him know that, look,
- 25:42Speaker 12: I'm not married like this, but it's it's good to
- 25:44Speaker 12: get married.
- 25:44Speaker 1: You know, I have one person that you're dealing with.
- 25:46Speaker 12: And I wouldn't always like that, But as I got older,
- 25:49Speaker 12: I started understanding, like, man, one solid woman can change everything.
- 25:53Speaker 7: You know, you say older, you're thirty three, Yeah I'm you.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Know, but yeah, I'm still doing numbers. Man. I feel
- 26:05Speaker 1: like I feel like I don't leave this ship. Like
- 26:06Speaker 1: a couple of times I ain't go hold you.
- 26:08Speaker 12: I feel like I'm way older and I feel like
- 26:11Speaker 12: they know peace peace like having one solid woman's peace,
- 26:14Speaker 12: you know what I mean. I feel like, you know,
- 26:16Speaker 12: I haven't really experienced that fully yet, you know what
- 26:18Speaker 12: I mean. But I'm getting there, you know what I mean.
- 26:20Speaker 12: But uh, I think it brings a lot of peace.
- 26:21Speaker 12: It can help you work more. And I realized that
- 26:24Speaker 12: when I was recording that song.
- 26:26Speaker 7: It wasn't your father, your uncle, just life like it
- 26:29Speaker 7: was more life.
- 26:30Speaker 12: Because I had I used to have a multiple you know,
- 26:32Speaker 12: I was a multiple kind of guy, like you know,
- 26:34Speaker 12: I had honeycomb high.
- 26:35Speaker 1: I was you know what I'm saying, spots like a cheetah,
- 26:37Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
- 26:38Speaker 12: You know, I was moving and grooving and it was
- 26:41Speaker 12: taking up too much of my time, you know what
- 26:43Speaker 12: I'm saying, from like working and being with my kid
- 26:46Speaker 12: and dealing with this situation.
- 26:48Speaker 1: And this happened now and got called.
- 26:50Speaker 12: Text too much extra ship like you know I'm talking about.
- 26:53Speaker 12: So yeah, that's that's kind of where the line came from.
- 26:56Speaker 4: How important is that change? Because you you know, you
- 26:57Speaker 4: you a married man yourself, you allays see you out
- 26:59Speaker 4: with your queen.
- 27:00Speaker 7: How important is that to have that?
- 27:02Speaker 6: Oh, It's very important for me, man, especially having somebody
- 27:05Speaker 6: that mature out to take care to make sure home straight,
- 27:07Speaker 6: make sure the little Michelaine and stuff straight, someone that
- 27:10Speaker 6: fully supports me, listens to my music critiques me. She
- 27:13Speaker 6: sent me a very very dope message the morning I
- 27:16Speaker 6: woke up. The first message I read was from was
- 27:19Speaker 6: from Keisha saying basically saying, I was a lyrical god.
- 27:23Speaker 6: JUSTI just doing what she's supposed to do my ego,
- 27:25Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you know, And so
- 27:30Speaker 6: you know, me and her, we laugh every single day.
- 27:32Speaker 5: Man.
- 27:32Speaker 6: We got the same habits. You know what I'm saying.
- 27:34Speaker 6: We go out, you know what I'm saying. She come
- 27:36Speaker 6: to Candy Land with me. It's just like, you know
- 27:39Speaker 6: what I'm saying, when you find somebody like that. I
- 27:41Speaker 6: love that line as well, you know what I'm saying.
- 27:44Speaker 6: We shot the video for that. I thought I was like, Bob,
- 27:46Speaker 6: I'm saying one one, but I don't think they kept
- 27:49Speaker 6: my part in the video. But anyway, that's why it
- 27:52Speaker 6: was cool working with him, because even though the difference
- 27:56Speaker 6: between him and I think Wayne is Wayne is a
- 27:59Speaker 6: more metaphoric type of MC. You know what I'm saying,
- 28:01Speaker 6: style mc you know what I'm saying, and wordplay physics. Well, Larry,
- 28:06Speaker 6: he just like very direct, lifestyle driven, you know what
- 28:09Speaker 6: I'm saying. And so it was cool for me to
- 28:11Speaker 6: pop up my lifestyle like, bro, i'm having this going on,
- 28:13Speaker 6: let me talk, you know what I'm saying. It was
- 28:15Speaker 6: more like it was more like cool ways to express
- 28:18Speaker 6: that you're not done, you know what I'm saying. That's
- 28:20Speaker 6: what this project really it is just a cool way
- 28:21Speaker 6: to spread that. Like you know, man, ain't ain't no
- 28:23Speaker 6: dumb brothers right there.
- 28:25Speaker 12: You inspired me to saying you how you move with
- 28:26Speaker 12: your wife? I'm like, yeah, that's how you do it.
- 28:28Speaker 12: That's that's how you rocking, and you got your kids
- 28:30Speaker 12: and that's real, you know what I mean. I was
- 28:32Speaker 12: really inspired by that.
- 28:33Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 28:33Speaker 12: You mean you're talking about your wife all the time, Like, yes,
- 28:36Speaker 12: that's how you do it. You know that's real bullshit.
- 28:38Speaker 12: Every boss got they queen I'm talking about. So, oh
- 28:41Speaker 12: it is your son thirteen, You turned thirteen, he had
- 28:44Speaker 12: the hotel right now.
- 28:44Speaker 1: You have to have to bring in my school for
- 28:46Speaker 1: this man.
- 28:46Speaker 3: But see, okay, so how does that work?
- 28:48Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 28:49Speaker 8: Because you don't hear about a lot of single dads
- 28:52Speaker 8: with these careers.
- 28:54Speaker 1: It's tough.
- 28:55Speaker 12: How he was torn with me since he was little,
- 28:57Speaker 12: like you know what I mean, I probably trained him
- 28:58Speaker 12: on the spinner van, you know what I mean. So
- 29:00Speaker 12: like sometimes I can make it work, like my dad,
- 29:03Speaker 12: he'll help me on my my grandmother and my mama
- 29:05Speaker 12: fly in and help. But he get times like this
- 29:08Speaker 12: where it's like you got a slide, Come on, we
- 29:11Speaker 12: get the online working, you get to get him a room,
- 29:14Speaker 12: and we just try to just get it done now.
- 29:15Speaker 12: Just I'm just trying to make it happen that you
- 29:18Speaker 12: do get tough. It be on your conscious like damn,
- 29:22Speaker 12: I'm doing the right thing as a parent. You need
- 29:23Speaker 12: to be at school for these three days or whatever.
- 29:25Speaker 12: But he learned the other things to learn the other things,
- 29:28Speaker 12: so and he very like ahead of the game for that.
- 29:31Speaker 12: Just's some traveling with us and seeing different things, being
- 29:34Speaker 12: able to meet you know what I mean, artists and
- 29:36Speaker 12: and he you know, he a big inspirational.
- 29:39Speaker 4: Y'all talk about that thoughing life is beautiful, y'all talk
- 29:41Speaker 4: about trying to balance being a father, you know, and
- 29:44Speaker 4: your career.
- 29:44Speaker 7: So that's conversations you'll have off the mic.
- 29:48Speaker 5: I think it's just evident. It's just the energy he's
- 29:50Speaker 5: gonna talk.
- 29:51Speaker 6: You know, he spoke about Eli a couple of times,
- 29:54Speaker 6: and then you know, I'm I'm Halo, like the second
- 29:57Speaker 6: highest earner in my household.
- 29:59Speaker 1: You know what I'm I think.
- 30:02Speaker 5: He get money.
- 30:03Speaker 3: How do you do with your son? Because I see
- 30:05Speaker 3: your son hollering at women.
- 30:07Speaker 6: Now, Helo like that you chill out a little bit,
- 30:09Speaker 6: a little bit or I ain't never told Helo even
- 30:11Speaker 6: be humble, nod that you know what I'm Stay there,
- 30:18Speaker 6: you that confident cocky, don't even man humble, won't because
- 30:22Speaker 6: what do this mean?
- 30:22Speaker 5: What do this mean? If he ever asked me one
- 30:23Speaker 5: humble men? I'm like, I don't know, I don't know.
- 30:26Speaker 5: Stay like you are. And it's just about you installing confidence,
- 30:28Speaker 5: especially in you know, young black boys. You know what
- 30:30Speaker 5: I'm saying.
- 30:31Speaker 6: I'm on them about you know, getting his books done,
- 30:33Speaker 6: whether he reading on the way to train or whatever.
- 30:35Speaker 6: But it's just, you know, it's a blessing to have
- 30:38Speaker 6: because I honestly feel like he is a direct reflection
- 30:41Speaker 6: of my father, who passed in twenty twelve.
- 30:44Speaker 1: I felt like Helo.
- 30:45Speaker 5: He just too mature to be nine years old, certainly. Yeah,
- 30:48Speaker 5: so I'd be like man and he started casting just
- 30:50Speaker 5: like my dad was.
- 30:51Speaker 6: So I really I'm into you know, I'm a spiritual
- 30:55Speaker 6: type of person, so I'm kind of into that. And
- 30:57Speaker 6: then my two girls they growing up driving. My oldest
- 31:01Speaker 6: is driving to school. So it's just like you look
- 31:04Speaker 6: up man, next thing, you know, you know, the house
- 31:06Speaker 6: is gonna be empty and a little bit or whatever
- 31:09Speaker 6: that is, you know what I'm saying. But it was
- 31:10Speaker 6: cool to kind of pop about it over these type
- 31:13Speaker 6: of vibes, you know what I'm saying. And that's that's
- 31:16Speaker 6: that's what it is. I don't think it's about what
- 31:19Speaker 6: the numbers we're gonna do. I think if we thought
- 31:21Speaker 6: about that, we want to drop the week of the
- 31:22Speaker 6: super Bowl, knowing that that's gonna HiPE Kendrick's numbers, you
- 31:25Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. I think it was about putting
- 31:27Speaker 6: out a project that has replay value. I haven't heard
- 31:32Speaker 6: one person that just played it one time. I keep saying,
- 31:35Speaker 6: I can't take it out, I can't stop playing.
- 31:37Speaker 4: It, and I can sleep good at night knowing that
- 31:40Speaker 4: what do you want Halo to do, man, because God's
- 31:42Speaker 4: the limit for a young Halo. What do you want
- 31:45Speaker 4: him to do? Like you personally as a father, what
- 31:46Speaker 4: would you want to say, You're going to the league.
- 31:48Speaker 6: Okay, you're going to league, so you want them here
- 31:51Speaker 6: going to the league. I just really say, you know, no,
- 31:56Speaker 6: I didn't go. I didn't go to the Super Bowl.
- 31:58Speaker 6: I watched it at my studio back in Atlanta with
- 32:00Speaker 6: a couple other guys. I had the chef cook and
- 32:02Speaker 6: I just actually had a show in Chicago on Saturday
- 32:05Speaker 6: with Jeezy, and so I came back to Atlanta Sunday
- 32:09Speaker 6: because I wasn't sure how it was some question marks
- 32:12Speaker 6: about the New Orleans trip, and I just came home
- 32:14Speaker 6: and chill like that, and then I came back out
- 32:16Speaker 6: here yesterday. We shot a video last night. And that's
- 32:19Speaker 6: another thing he got. He got an awesome team. That's
- 32:21Speaker 6: why I like working with Larry too. He got a
- 32:23Speaker 6: really really awesome team. And they would they would this
- 32:26Speaker 6: stuff on all like let's shoot listen, let's do that.
- 32:29Speaker 6: Love that? I love that, And so I landed at elaughing.
- 32:33Speaker 6: We shot the video like one. You know what I'm saying,
- 32:37Speaker 6: He up up we came and you know.
- 32:39Speaker 12: So, and I'm coming trap from Vegas. I had the
- 32:41Speaker 12: club live right before like some we got the airplane
- 32:44Speaker 12: was straight to the the video. But it'd be hard.
- 32:48Speaker 12: We're getting it done. We looked back like happy we
- 32:50Speaker 12: did all that. Kind of tired, but like, look back
- 32:52Speaker 12: we did that ship coming.
- 32:53Speaker 3: From the Bay Area. How difficult is it to get
- 32:55Speaker 3: that sound out right?
- 32:56Speaker 2: Because a lot of times when people think of the
- 32:58Speaker 2: Bay Area artist, they put them in a box.
- 33:01Speaker 1: How difficulty was that for you?
- 33:02Speaker 12: You know, you got to jump over the loops and
- 33:04Speaker 12: come from different angles, and you gotta be first.
- 33:06Speaker 1: You gotta be respected.
- 33:08Speaker 12: You know, they gotta know something about you, like know
- 33:10Speaker 12: that you ain't like just a random dude talking about
- 33:13Speaker 12: this and that you got to jump over them loops
- 33:15Speaker 12: like I was. I was blessed to be able to
- 33:16Speaker 12: have connections in atl you know, living in atl when
- 33:19Speaker 12: I was a kid and coming from a different angle
- 33:22Speaker 12: and working with people over there. Like one of my
- 33:24Speaker 12: first mixtapes with tm AD eight the way Mafield, he
- 33:27Speaker 12: gave me a b pack. That was my neighbor, you
- 33:29Speaker 12: know what I mean. They thought me and him was
- 33:30Speaker 12: brothers growing up, so when I still trying to get
- 33:32Speaker 12: into it.
- 33:33Speaker 1: I hit him. I hit a few beats. That's the dope.
- 33:35Speaker 3: Think about Atlanta.
- 33:36Speaker 5: Just everybody, just like you do the mood to Atlanta
- 33:41Speaker 5: if you want to. And just my first the way
- 33:46Speaker 5: I met Wayne was just like this.
- 33:47Speaker 6: I was I was obviously selling weed, and but I
- 33:51Speaker 6: was I was selling weed, but I was using the
- 33:54Speaker 6: money to book studio time and Patchwork, which is like
- 33:57Speaker 6: a renowned studio on Atlanta. This by one of the
- 34:00Speaker 6: X Falcons players. Everybody would be in there, you know,
- 34:03Speaker 6: that's where people went. And so I was in like
- 34:05Speaker 6: a little b room and baby them from cash Money
- 34:08Speaker 6: was in the a room, thirty cash money dudes whatever.
- 34:11Speaker 1: Whatever.
- 34:11Speaker 6: So somebody came to in and say, hey, them boys,
- 34:14Speaker 6: them boys next door need some weeds. So I was like,
- 34:16Speaker 6: sh I come over there. You know what I'm saying,
- 34:18Speaker 6: it's like the number ones. You know what I'm saying.
- 34:19Speaker 6: I'm being cool, but like he wasn't smoking that time,
- 34:22Speaker 6: but he had some other guys. They take my weed.
- 34:24Speaker 5: I'm telling them. I think this was like four fifty
- 34:27Speaker 5: at the time.
- 34:27Speaker 1: You know.
- 34:28Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, I take I give them
- 34:30Speaker 6: the zips they don't no money come. You know, I'm like,
- 34:36Speaker 6: I don't know, I can't give nobody. No, we ain't
- 34:37Speaker 6: in that position. So I ain't up going to New
- 34:42Speaker 6: Orleans with them following them about this, now follow them
- 34:49Speaker 6: about this nine hundred and so this was this was
- 34:53Speaker 6: before Katrina or you know, they had all these mansions.
- 34:56Speaker 6: Everybody had a match. They had a matching for everybody.
- 34:58Speaker 6: Then everybody had their own mansion, right and I'm standing
- 35:02Speaker 6: in the match, and for everybody they got a big
- 35:03Speaker 6: jacuzie as a living room sofa. Its many years ago.
- 35:07Speaker 6: And at this point, I'm not a full raper. I'm
- 35:09Speaker 6: a traveler. And one day Wayne comes over and we
- 35:15Speaker 6: go out in like the indoor pool and we smoked
- 35:17Speaker 6: some gas together, you know what I'm saying. And that
- 35:20Speaker 6: that's how I met Wayne, following baby to New Orleans
- 35:23Speaker 6: about these nine hundred dollars that he eventually did you
- 35:25Speaker 6: ever get do I got? I got the money When
- 35:28Speaker 6: he came in with a new car and he was like,
- 35:30Speaker 6: y'all something about the car came up there. I said, hey, man, hey,
- 35:32Speaker 6: o G I really I'm really going to I'm waiting really,
- 35:38Speaker 6: He like say, he goes Slim.
- 35:40Speaker 5: He did it, so yeah, I just.
- 35:41Speaker 3: Never collected it.
- 35:42Speaker 11: So every time you see him, you could be like,
- 35:45Speaker 11: that would have been.
- 35:46Speaker 5: More valuable I needed. Then I looked up. I was
- 35:50Speaker 5: on the way to New Orleans about that. I'm like,
- 35:53Speaker 5: they go to my Slim. We out here, we are
- 35:55Speaker 5: what we're going.
- 35:56Speaker 1: I'm going. I ain't got nothing to do.
- 35:58Speaker 5: I go to New Orlean but I'm not.
- 36:00Speaker 7: But you know, you ever thought about changing your name again?
- 36:02Speaker 7: Because you went from teddy boy to to change and
- 36:03Speaker 7: now you you know you're a mogul.
- 36:05Speaker 6: You ever thought about I go by Tony? Okay, I
- 36:10Speaker 6: ain't say to change the whole album. I didn't even
- 36:14Speaker 6: think about that. I did, but that was intentional.
- 36:18Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Wow.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Now the one I asked a hip hop question, favorite
- 36:24Speaker 2: production on the beat? Mine is always shook ones my deep.
- 36:27Speaker 2: That's how I start with your alchemists favorite production of
- 36:29Speaker 2: all time, all time?
- 36:31Speaker 9: I mean that's so I'll just say maybe what you're saying,
- 36:33Speaker 9: E P M days, I ain't ready for that.
- 36:37Speaker 1: You are ready for that? Shoot one?
- 36:39Speaker 6: You know?
- 36:39Speaker 1: I just picked one.
- 36:40Speaker 6: If we're talking about favorite, like ow, you know we
- 36:42Speaker 6: had to be a certain producer. I can't just say
- 36:45Speaker 6: favorite beat of all time.
- 36:46Speaker 11: I don't think too bright, that's too wow, how many
- 36:51Speaker 11: damn songs?
- 36:52Speaker 2: Because it's that one soe that you always hear that
- 36:54Speaker 2: beat just like h and that's always shook ones for
- 36:56Speaker 2: me every time I heard ship.
- 36:58Speaker 5: Wasn't just set it off in the party, he says out.
- 37:01Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, you got.
- 37:03Speaker 6: Pocket plan it just I think for me, it's moved.
- 37:06Speaker 6: I'm I'm mood moody, yeah, mouy. So this morning when
- 37:11Speaker 6: I woke up, I listened to Life's Beautiful because that's.
- 37:13Speaker 1: What mood I was in, right, I went, I heard
- 37:20Speaker 1: that beat me that thing. It was stupid. It just
- 37:22Speaker 1: came on as like a movie when I can see it,
- 37:25Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I saw it like that.
- 37:26Speaker 1: When the beat came on, it.
- 37:27Speaker 3: Was like that was the last song we did too.
- 37:30Speaker 5: That was the intro, was the last one.
- 37:32Speaker 1: Last.
- 37:32Speaker 11: We did that in Atlanta.
- 37:34Speaker 14: And when we did it, we did that that boy
- 37:37Speaker 14: now we did that. No, we did that in l
- 37:39Speaker 14: A l A four in the morning. Remember, Oh yeah,
- 37:42Speaker 14: that's right, But it.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Was the last song we did.
- 37:45Speaker 7: That's right, watch your name now, Life is Beautiful.
- 37:50Speaker 1: That's how we was feeling at the time, life feeling change.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Change came up with that one.
- 37:54Speaker 6: Yeah, because honestly, the song that Larry did, Life is Beautiful.
- 37:59Speaker 6: I really love that song. I really love that song.
- 38:02Speaker 6: I love that the context, the content of it. And
- 38:05Speaker 6: then when I thought about it, and obviously I thought
- 38:08Speaker 6: about it before the because I thought about the La
- 38:12Speaker 6: fires as well, because I got homes in l A.
- 38:15Speaker 3: And so I was like, but any of them affected?
- 38:18Speaker 6: Nah? Man, God, that's good. I'm trying to sell one y'all,
- 38:22Speaker 6: so I'll let me. But but I said to say that,
- 38:29Speaker 6: I didn't want to be offensive to somebody whose life
- 38:31Speaker 6: wasn't beautiful.
- 38:32Speaker 5: At the time.
- 38:32Speaker 6: But I kind of just overall I overrode my opinion
- 38:36Speaker 6: on that and I just brought it to the guys.
- 38:38Speaker 6: I think we should call life is beautiful because I
- 38:40Speaker 6: think if you just got life period, you know what
- 38:44Speaker 6: I'm saying, you just got life at a period. That's
- 38:46Speaker 6: that's what I was trying to like, you know what
- 38:48Speaker 6: I'm saying, pinpoint right there?
- 38:51Speaker 4: One line I love when the records too, you said
- 38:53Speaker 4: I don't gate keeper on want everybody to eat, and
- 38:55Speaker 4: that that's very true about you. Has there been a
- 38:57Speaker 4: time when a gatekeeper trying to keep you up all
- 39:00Speaker 4: the time.
- 39:01Speaker 6: Man, I'm impressionable. Man, I'm you know, I'm somebody that
- 39:07Speaker 6: somebody probably try to set a screen or try to
- 39:09Speaker 6: block on. But man, I'm someone that truly believed that
- 39:11Speaker 6: if it's for you, it's for you. So but yeah,
- 39:13Speaker 6: I've been in that. I'm saying, now we talk about
- 39:16Speaker 6: numbers and all that. This is a big secret, been
- 39:17Speaker 6: going on for years. How people been manipulating the game.
- 39:20Speaker 6: Ain't nobody came and say, shorty, I just seen a
- 39:22Speaker 6: little dude in my in Kindland, in my club. He said,
- 39:26Speaker 6: I do the billboard stuff. I said, bill what I
- 39:29Speaker 6: do the bill boy? He said, artist name? I ain't
- 39:31Speaker 6: even gonna say. He said, he tried to show me page.
- 39:34Speaker 6: I say, ship showy, if this is what you do,
- 39:36Speaker 6: you know, you know cause everybody asked for my number,
- 39:39Speaker 6: I said, I see you again if it's meant to
- 39:40Speaker 6: be the next night he and my club with the
- 39:42Speaker 6: same job.
- 39:44Speaker 5: In my set.
- 39:45Speaker 6: So then when I seen that, my intendency, I don't
- 39:48Speaker 6: know if you really about business because you got the
- 39:51Speaker 6: same stuff.
- 39:52Speaker 5: Yes, they just I shouldn't even have been judging, because boy,
- 39:56Speaker 5: when he showed me popping up like little bitty measles.
- 40:03Speaker 7: But he can make you what he can do.
- 40:05Speaker 5: He show he just was like, I do this. I
- 40:07Speaker 5: make sure. And we was in the club. That's another thing.
- 40:10Speaker 5: I hate talking in the club to y'all. Man. I
- 40:12Speaker 5: can't get y'all, and then I.
- 40:13Speaker 6: Don't want to get too clock if you spit on him,
- 40:17Speaker 6: go crazy.
- 40:18Speaker 5: So that's why I kind of be y'all might think
- 40:20Speaker 5: I'm funny.
- 40:20Speaker 14: Man.
- 40:21Speaker 6: Let's clear this up now. Let's let's just write a
- 40:25Speaker 6: letter or something. Write a letter, maybe write a I
- 40:28Speaker 6: don't know how we should communicate in the club. If
- 40:30Speaker 6: I don't give you my number, let me think on him.
- 40:31Speaker 6: But just getting really close to me. If I'm sitting
- 40:33Speaker 6: down over me, I hate that, so I'm gonna stand up.
- 40:37Speaker 6: And if you am my ear, I don't like too loud.
- 40:40Speaker 5: It's too loud. Then I got to.
- 40:43Speaker 1: I got to see what you want?
- 40:45Speaker 5: Is the unclalled this. I got headphones all the time,
- 40:50Speaker 5: so I don't know. You know, that's just the part.
- 40:53Speaker 6: But I did see some stuff and then it popped
- 40:55Speaker 6: up a couple of weeks later, so I probably need
- 40:57Speaker 6: to find a little buddy, what about.
- 40:58Speaker 3: You the same ship? Like I heard you in the
- 41:05Speaker 3: breakfast club.
- 41:07Speaker 5: He got the he got the recipe. We're gonna We're
- 41:10Speaker 5: gonna outstream Kindred this week. I'm gonna.
- 41:15Speaker 1: That's just about you and you. Yeah, I think a
- 41:22Speaker 1: few times, you know what I mean, but I don't
- 41:26Speaker 1: really see it as much.
- 41:27Speaker 12: I'm not gonna lie be in my own bubble, but
- 41:29Speaker 12: I think people do try to gay keep, But I
- 41:32Speaker 12: try to do my thing so much that I can
- 41:35Speaker 12: avoid that as much as possible. When I'm focused on
- 41:37Speaker 12: the I'm more like fan driven, like for the people.
- 41:40Speaker 12: So you can try to get keep with the people,
- 41:42Speaker 12: rocking with me all the haze, it don't even matter.
- 41:45Speaker 12: Like the people is the people. I'm still doing digits,
- 41:47Speaker 12: you know what I mean. I'm still pulling up, hopping out,
- 41:49Speaker 12: drinking orange juice and ship you know I'm talking about.
- 41:53Speaker 12: That's because I'm focused on the people.
- 41:55Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 41:56Speaker 12: That the fans like listen to all the outside and ship,
- 41:58Speaker 12: don't you know? They shouldn't do that. I can't get
- 42:01Speaker 12: him on that show, then fuck it. We go keep
- 42:03Speaker 12: going outside. We'll keep hopping that trunk, and we'll keep
- 42:06Speaker 12: doing numbers.
- 42:06Speaker 1: You know what I mean about you?
- 42:07Speaker 9: They try to keep you away from certain artists, and
- 42:09Speaker 9: I mean just straight up gatekeeping is corny.
- 42:13Speaker 1: It's laying.
- 42:14Speaker 9: Anybody who does that is like a sucker to me,
- 42:16Speaker 9: Like you're insecure, you know what I'm saying to me,
- 42:19Speaker 9: gatekeeper has got to be some of the dumbest shit.
- 42:21Speaker 9: Like there was some stuff I encountered over the years,
- 42:24Speaker 9: but more than that, I encountered the opposite, like DJ Premiere,
- 42:28Speaker 9: Like when I first met him and was around him,
- 42:30Speaker 9: Like I met jay Z my first time with Premiere,
- 42:33Speaker 9: and he was.
- 42:33Speaker 3: Like, Yo, this is al He's dope, he got beats.
- 42:36Speaker 11: And what I took from that was like Premiere is
- 42:39Speaker 11: the utmost level of secure.
- 42:41Speaker 1: He's not afraid.
- 42:42Speaker 9: If you gatekeeping, you must be afraid that this next
- 42:45Speaker 9: guy is gonna come take your spot.
- 42:46Speaker 1: Get up out of there.
- 42:47Speaker 11: That's nasty. I don't I don't approve of gatekeeping, Like
- 42:50Speaker 11: we stand against that, you.
- 42:52Speaker 1: Know what I mean?
- 42:52Speaker 3: Now, you just meet the grams.
- 42:54Speaker 9: Originally was that a gospel record supposed to be a
- 42:57Speaker 9: gospel samples is from a gospel gospel record?
- 42:59Speaker 7: Yeah, what gospel loawgs? You made that dog shit?
- 43:01Speaker 1: For you know, I didn't.
- 43:05Speaker 11: Like yeah, and I you know, yeah, that's that's the
- 43:09Speaker 11: gospel record here.
- 43:11Speaker 7: The sample was how do you feel wh people make
- 43:13Speaker 7: your beat like this record?
- 43:16Speaker 9: It happens a lot to me, it does happen to
- 43:18Speaker 9: you like fifty of the animal things back then, and
- 43:21Speaker 9: it was the Bang Bang and I will come like
- 43:24Speaker 9: I want to be switchering.
- 43:25Speaker 1: Really.
- 43:26Speaker 9: I tried to tell the rappers, hey, I'm switchering, like
- 43:28Speaker 9: leave me out of it, you know, but they end
- 43:31Speaker 9: up making me the battleground. I mean, I'm indifferent to it,
- 43:34Speaker 9: just like I'm not. I don't have a dog, you know.
- 43:37Speaker 9: So it's like I make I make beats.
- 43:39Speaker 3: Do people get mad at you though?
- 43:40Speaker 11: Cause sometimes I know you're like, but look, here's the beat.
- 43:43Speaker 3: I'm not sure for.
- 43:44Speaker 9: Sure, but you know, in that case, I had sent
- 43:46Speaker 9: the record to dot like like excuse me months before
- 43:49Speaker 9: that happened, and like I heard it when everyone else
- 43:52Speaker 9: heard it, so it was like, yeah, that was one
- 43:55Speaker 9: of them situations where it was like I don't like
- 43:56Speaker 9: to get involved in stuff, but sometimes it happens, you know.
- 43:59Speaker 11: It was you know, it was tricky during the time
- 44:02Speaker 11: when p in Mall Deep and for J.
- 44:05Speaker 9: It was always a weird thing and it probably stopped
- 44:07Speaker 9: me from doing work with J back then.
- 44:09Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 44:10Speaker 11: But you know that's what you posted Which times we
- 44:13Speaker 11: spoke for sure back then?
- 44:15Speaker 9: You know what I mean, Like definitely you was so
- 44:17Speaker 9: click with MOBP what I mean you remember back then
- 44:19Speaker 9: it was kind of like it was like there are
- 44:22Speaker 9: instances where they're like, damn their family and it would
- 44:24Speaker 9: kind of be awkward.
- 44:26Speaker 6: Listen, man, this is a crazy question because I asked
- 44:29Speaker 6: my I said, do you feel more like an East
- 44:30Speaker 6: Coast producer or a West Coast producer?
- 44:33Speaker 1: He like, what coast?
- 44:35Speaker 5: And then we walked into my piece of spot.
- 44:37Speaker 4: And it was like to New York, Yo, yo, yo yo.
- 44:43Speaker 4: I never thought about you with the West Coast are
- 44:47Speaker 4: synonymous East Coast production? Nociper said, But no, I never never, right, Okay,
- 44:55Speaker 4: we made my mark out here, like if somebody had
- 44:58Speaker 4: to tell me to look like the top tenies go
- 44:59Speaker 4: producers of all the time I'm putting documents on that.
- 45:04Speaker 3: Queens.
- 45:05Speaker 9: I mean, I put in a lot of work here,
- 45:06Speaker 9: you know, So, I mean it's blessing in New York
- 45:08Speaker 9: embraced me and I had an opportunity at the time
- 45:10Speaker 9: to work with like think about that era, like I
- 45:13Speaker 9: was working with Lives Mob Deep, you know.
- 45:17Speaker 1: In the time when they was like aplan airplane.
- 45:25Speaker 9: How'd I get And I went to school first, I
- 45:26Speaker 9: went to YU and then I just stayed here. I
- 45:28Speaker 9: was already tied in with Mugs. Long story short. He
- 45:31Speaker 9: connected me with Mob Deep and that everything happened from there.
- 45:34Speaker 9: That's why I love Mob Deep forever. Like I actually
- 45:37Speaker 9: had to ask Pe when he was beefing with Knaves
- 45:39Speaker 9: to go work with Knaves on god Son because that's
- 45:41Speaker 9: what we go back to the beef thing. I respected
- 45:44Speaker 9: P is that and P was during their beef and
- 45:46Speaker 9: P was like, oh, I know you're gonna give him
- 45:49Speaker 9: some heap of go out there, go out. He gave
- 45:51Speaker 9: me the blessing and go do it, which was always
- 45:53Speaker 9: appreciation for that. But yeah, I mean that's how it
- 45:56Speaker 9: started from Mob Deep.
- 45:57Speaker 7: It was like, what are we gonna make it for
- 46:00Speaker 7: jay Z?
- 46:00Speaker 11: It wasn't for him.
- 46:01Speaker 1: I played it for him though.
- 46:02Speaker 9: Yeah, you know hip hop, you know Campbell, it has
- 46:05Speaker 9: been my brother for a long time, and I should
- 46:08Speaker 9: go over there and play beach. And one time he
- 46:09Speaker 9: popped his head and he just checked it out and
- 46:12Speaker 9: it wasn't for him, I guess, but you know, yeah.
- 46:15Speaker 4: Why did you lie to Drake about being good? Kendrick said, two,
- 46:18Speaker 4: Chain said you good?
- 46:19Speaker 1: But he lied? Why you do that?
- 46:25Speaker 7: You know?
- 46:28Speaker 6: I just think it was kind of like some word
- 46:30Speaker 6: play because Drake and I got a song called no Lie,
- 46:33Speaker 6: and so when he said he lied, I just felt like,
- 46:35Speaker 6: I don't know, but I didn't take it as no
- 46:38Speaker 6: kind of way. I don't think he was taking a
- 46:42Speaker 6: shot at me. I've heard all type of instants when
- 46:44Speaker 6: somebody wanted me to say something back. I just think
- 46:47Speaker 6: it was a Mama where it was about Atlanta artists,
- 46:50Speaker 6: and you know, I do have a couple of plaques
- 46:55Speaker 6: with Drake, probably three or four plazes with Drake. I
- 46:57Speaker 6: think a lot of that people in that Scott so
- 47:00Speaker 6: with him. So that was just Kentrick, Well, just dialing
- 47:03Speaker 6: in on some subject matter.
- 47:05Speaker 7: When you first heard it, what was your reaction?
- 47:09Speaker 6: Well, I can tell you that I can tell you
- 47:11Speaker 6: that people who name me didn't say felt some type
- 47:13Speaker 6: of way, you know what I'm saying.
- 47:14Speaker 5: So I don't I was okay with it, you know
- 47:16Speaker 5: what I'm saying. You got other line of art at homies.
- 47:18Speaker 7: You know, I don't just a little babies a little
- 47:20Speaker 7: basic and he said, keep me out of that.
- 47:22Speaker 11: I want.
- 47:23Speaker 6: Yeah, some people didn't want their name. Some people was like,
- 47:25Speaker 6: why you didn't say my name? And it just no,
- 47:28Speaker 6: like it's just a moment. It was just a moment
- 47:30Speaker 6: that you know, but it didn't do nothing to me.
- 47:32Speaker 6: I know, I think my my harmony, my my middle
- 47:36Speaker 6: kid definitely says somebody asked at school, but it didn't
- 47:40Speaker 6: get it didn't get hectic.
- 47:42Speaker 1: It was it was yeah, not in here. I didn't
- 47:50Speaker 1: hear no, he said.
- 47:53Speaker 5: Line the last verse.
- 47:55Speaker 1: I never heard that. But that song.
- 48:00Speaker 7: Is on purpose, like you for the lights, like refuge.
- 48:07Speaker 1: With everybody.
- 48:07Speaker 12: I can particularly hear that that song. Fully, I heard
- 48:10Speaker 12: a lot on Instagram and stuff like they need. I
- 48:12Speaker 12: was doing the album with him at the time. I
- 48:13Speaker 12: wasn't listening to too much ship though like that. But uh,
- 48:16Speaker 12: you know, Kendrick, it's a little Kendrick. He hard respect
- 48:19Speaker 12: the Kendred Sure. I just didn't know he brought you up.
- 48:21Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 48:22Speaker 7: You never heard that.
- 48:23Speaker 12: Last Verson, by the way, phenomenal last Verson coming on
- 48:26Speaker 12: the picture, like kept saying like they're talking about.
- 48:29Speaker 1: I didn't see that, but I never heard.
- 48:32Speaker 7: You know what it is.
- 48:32Speaker 6: You know, it's not a lot of songs with three verses.
- 48:35Speaker 6: Three verses, so it's three verses the third.
- 48:38Speaker 5: You know what I mean. That's my opinion. I don't
- 48:40Speaker 5: think a lot of songs. I don't believe.
- 48:46Speaker 1: On everything.
- 48:47Speaker 5: I love He he in his own bubble. That's why
- 48:51Speaker 5: I love Wayne.
- 48:52Speaker 1: That's why I love him me.
- 48:54Speaker 5: That's why I love me.
- 48:55Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying.
- 48:56Speaker 5: Be in my own bubble.
- 48:57Speaker 6: I mean, of course I know some of the things
- 48:58Speaker 6: I need to know, but I really be clueless to
- 49:00Speaker 6: a lot of stuff.
- 49:01Speaker 3: And I'm cool with that.
- 49:02Speaker 5: I'm just cool with that.
- 49:03Speaker 7: You ain't here with Kendrick. Did you on the four first?
- 49:15Speaker 3: Oh God?
- 49:16Speaker 7: One last question?
- 49:17Speaker 1: Change?
- 49:17Speaker 7: How does it make you feel when you hit gods?
- 49:19Speaker 4: Like Tyler the Creator co signing this album Life is
- 49:22Speaker 4: Beautiful and he actually said two chains you on this
- 49:25Speaker 4: type of time.
- 49:25Speaker 7: Is yes with a bunch of essays.
- 49:29Speaker 5: It feels good. I have a great report with child.
- 49:31Speaker 5: I don't think people know.
- 49:32Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, great port and he's booked
- 49:35Speaker 6: me for it all before when I was in a wheelchair.
- 49:40Speaker 6: He booked me and was in the front. So I've
- 49:44Speaker 6: listened to his last couple of albums and supported what
- 49:48Speaker 6: he has done. And then I guess this one just
- 49:50Speaker 6: spoke to him. And he has a lot of influence,
- 49:54Speaker 6: so it felt good for him to not hold his
- 49:56Speaker 6: nuts on something that he thought was very tasteful, and
- 49:59Speaker 6: he didn't. I didn't ask him to do anything, he
- 50:02Speaker 6: just did it. So you know a lot of these
- 50:05Speaker 6: artists a gate keeper.
- 50:07Speaker 1: I don't know that's another version of gatekeeper.
- 50:13Speaker 5: But I can't let nobody know what's hard like.
- 50:16Speaker 1: That sometimes sometimes with no matter was the man.
- 50:20Speaker 7: I appreciate that.
- 50:21Speaker 1: I respect him.
- 50:22Speaker 7: Crazy me too to yours, Like like, what's your class.
- 50:27Speaker 1: Man? That's a good question, you know, maybe you know change, Yeah,
- 50:33Speaker 1: you know, it's.
- 50:34Speaker 4: A different generation I'm talking about, like your classic Like
- 50:37Speaker 4: uh said, he don't hang with the young.
- 50:39Speaker 5: Man really old?
- 50:42Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, he really like what he really I grew
- 50:45Speaker 12: up with, like you know, MESSI mar Juice, the jack
- 50:48Speaker 12: at A lot of classic they was older. I always
- 50:51Speaker 12: hanged with a lot of older people, you know what
- 50:52Speaker 12: I mean. So I really didn't really know too many people.
- 50:56Speaker 12: But when I was in the a I met, uh you.
- 50:59Speaker 1: Know O G Mack go.
- 51:01Speaker 12: Tmdiate a lot of them rappers like that that New Atlanta,
- 51:05Speaker 12: like the Batman Keys and all that Curtis and all.
- 51:07Speaker 1: I kind of all that, you know what I mean.
- 51:09Speaker 1: So I seen that whole air and ship like that. Yeah,
- 51:13Speaker 1: I was.
- 51:13Speaker 12: I was at nineteen. I became a father, so like
- 51:16Speaker 12: I wasn't really I was trying to get my bread up.
- 51:18Speaker 12: I didn't have no whip. I was trying to really,
- 51:20Speaker 12: I said, I got nine months to get my ship together,
- 51:22Speaker 12: and I just put my head down and I just
- 51:25Speaker 12: was trying to create this world for myself. So yeah,
- 51:29Speaker 12: I kind of missed a lot. I didn't go to
- 51:30Speaker 12: no proms, I didn't do none of that. I was
- 51:32Speaker 12: strictly yeah, like the Beautiful Man.
- 51:36Speaker 3: Let's let's get into a joint of that which I want.
- 51:38Speaker 1: To hear.
- 51:40Speaker 2: Life is Beautiful and text like the single Bad Choices,
- 51:44Speaker 2: which I would hear Generation Generation. All right, let's get
- 51:49Speaker 2: in the generation. Pick up the album streaming right now
- 51:52Speaker 2: to Chaine, Larry You and The Alchemist. It's The Breakfast Club,
- 51:55Speaker 2: Good Morning, so.
- 51:57Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast