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G-Unit Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast more than everybody
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  Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club got some special guest with us today.
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  Speaker 1: The original unit brought some liquor with us this morning
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  Speaker 1: that I thought you was one of the one of
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  Speaker 1: the Diddy boys. I am no longer, okay, but fifty
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  Speaker 1: cent units in the building. It's good. That's all good.
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  Speaker 1: What's the fan vodka about fifth Evan? Like it was,
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  Speaker 1: it was organic, like the collaboration with me and being okay,
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  Speaker 1: look together on that one, and then it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a good it's a good model. Like I um
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  Speaker 1: Evan stands for the smooth and Dutch, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. It existed, it was already out in the markets.
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  Speaker 1: It's like five variations of it and it's already there,
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  Speaker 1: and then I just came in and you know, put
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  Speaker 1: behind it. You don't really drink like a healthy vodka
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  Speaker 1: for I think everything's good modivation and I'm saying and
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  Speaker 1: then occasionally I get to it like if we these
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  Speaker 1: guys drink drink black black shirt, is it for me
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  Speaker 1: and everybody around? Like like even when when we was
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  Speaker 1: in the on in the neighborhood. It was more like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't choose to do everything the same way at
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  Speaker 1: the same case, them like, because I know I got
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  Speaker 1: a real Uh yeah, I was like, leave fifty alone?
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  Speaker 1: Was it? Who wasn't I forgot who wasn't man' asap Rocky. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm to leave that man just running. But for the
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  Speaker 1: place he cool. He was at the basketball game, but
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  Speaker 1: with him, he didn't really know you know what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: He did that to everybody, said everybody the same time.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? He hit up tattered up Holly and I
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  Speaker 1: guess you was in her DM was like, who w
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  Speaker 1: w w now? Sent it to me? She said to you, damn.
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  Speaker 1: But she knows that the type of person you are, like,
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  Speaker 1: she knows it's not going to just be smooth. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I really don't care about you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't respond to anything connected to her like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we just don't have that kind of friendship where it
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  Speaker 1: would be like you're reacting over something so on saying
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  Speaker 1: like if you guys someone to involved in nightlife, that's
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  Speaker 1: where you go to meet people, right, Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying hang out like that and then it's
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  Speaker 1: not we don't have that kind of relationship anyway, So
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  Speaker 1: don't matter. I totally leave fifty alone. Anybody else you
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  Speaker 1: can ask for that. You ain't seen nothing wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, if you invest that kind of time money
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  Speaker 1: into a female, hey, you have the right to speak
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  Speaker 1: out and say stay away. But you know if you
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that that's the woman's job. True, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, like because I think the guy
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  Speaker 1: like if you're not right there, like you can have
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  Speaker 1: all of that, you have everything, it's just's your like
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  Speaker 1: for your wife, who's the gig keeper. She got to
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  Speaker 1: know from your communication what's acceptable and what's not acceptable
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  Speaker 1: absolutely and move on that, you know, I mean everything
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  Speaker 1: else is and that's that's like, that's not my girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: They don't really. But there was another video where she
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  Speaker 1: was I guess how to beat for another girl. They
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  Speaker 1: said that you drove it to the fight that you
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  Speaker 1: fail there, drove the fight for a family. I've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out, like fifty does not act like
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  Speaker 1: a millionaire like world, I let's go shoot the FAMILYE.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't never gone just ever get born for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: like the promo runs, the press run. I love it, man,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. It's just part of life now, man,
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  Speaker 1: be smart, stirt forget about that. You're doing these EPs fast?
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  Speaker 1: Why so fast? Usually it takes a year a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half, but you guys are really into this
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  Speaker 1: music real quick. What's crazy is this was like the
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  Speaker 1: first week. This music is from the first week that
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  Speaker 1: we did when we did the Summer Jam, showing all
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  Speaker 1: that following that the week after we recorded this this music,
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  Speaker 1: first conversation we had that whole being the old beauty
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  Speaker 1: and Beast that was spoken about in that first conversation.
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  Speaker 1: To see it playoff now, it's kind of crazy. From
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  Speaker 1: a business perspective, Why the why the sixth song epiece? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't do any damage to the overall
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  Speaker 1: brand based on numbers, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 1: it's better to just just give them something to keep
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  Speaker 1: everyone active in new music coming out, and then it
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  Speaker 1: creates a content that allows to continue to shoot the
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  Speaker 1: music videos so we can stay current viral because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times people it's different. It's changing so dramatically,
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  Speaker 1: like the people making different choices for entertainment, like they're
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  Speaker 1: getting extreaming stuff and doing all kindstus like watching cable.
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  Speaker 1: How many channels are your cable? So we ain't seeing
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  Speaker 1: everything that would traditionally we used to have to watch
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  Speaker 1: up to channel eleven, you know what I'm saying, And
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  Speaker 1: then we're doing the cable started coming and now it's
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  Speaker 1: like a hundred channels. Channels you can thousand channels, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have a schedule anymore. Of what I'm watching,
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  Speaker 1: I just flipped through and took I see something I
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  Speaker 1: want to look at, you know, I just wrote from that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think numbers still matter? I don't. I think
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  Speaker 1: when when I can't allow numbers to matter because of
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  Speaker 1: what my numbers were, you know what I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: thirteen million records and then ten million records, like they
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  Speaker 1: are gonna have no artists to go diamond again, right.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's gotta be scary though, because people now
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  Speaker 1: not selling the amount of units, and people seem like
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  Speaker 1: they're still looking at numbers, like the fans don't care
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  Speaker 1: about it now. The more they look like what he
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  Speaker 1: did first week, you gotta be I think so well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I don't really, that's how impressionable the music
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  Speaker 1: is like when I think and when you have momentum,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy for you to sustain it by being active,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I just watch and
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  Speaker 1: see if you could create something that special, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't had that momentum at that point, then it
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  Speaker 1: says you're in podcast or you got your finger on
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  Speaker 1: the post of what's going on. But a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the music that don't watch it now I'm saying it
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  Speaker 1: it's backwards. Instead of it coming from radio and going
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  Speaker 1: into the nightclub, it's starting in the nightclub and coming out.
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  Speaker 1: So like Cocole and Hot, these records are all um,
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  Speaker 1: they're great album cuts and not single like it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: written with intention to go to the masses, but it
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  Speaker 1: becomes that cool thing that everybody's embracing. So as long
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  Speaker 1: as you've got stuff out there for people to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to test and play with and you can have those
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  Speaker 1: records happen. You think release dates are played out, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because an established artists, anyone who who's actually showed records
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  Speaker 1: like you see when you see Beyonce released the record
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. Even Drake Slash record
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  Speaker 1: came out and thinks the call of the mixtape, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was the That was the okay, in case it doesn'tselve,
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  Speaker 1: you can't really gauge what Numbers is going to do
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  Speaker 1: and you got to kind of momentum and exposure that
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  Speaker 1: you need to be current right now. So they're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna put that there and see what happens. This is
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  Speaker 1: what Animal Ambition was and it but me making it
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  Speaker 1: like a mixed state. It's the difference they said the
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  Speaker 1: Drake albums for him to get off cash Buddy's getting
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  Speaker 1: his films. I don't know why there's so much of
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  Speaker 1: a problem over there. I think every time they bring
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  Speaker 1: like they asked me about MTV about Baby and Way,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, no comment. And it's only because
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  Speaker 1: your relationship with your pops he can forgive you, he
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  Speaker 1: may not necessarily forgive me, you see what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's their personal thing. And I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: when you just see they had that father son type
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  Speaker 1: of relationship. I think it's a tough thing for you
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  Speaker 1: to uh, you know, from the outside to say something.
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  Speaker 1: But business wise, when everybody on the company say that
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  Speaker 1: they're not making money or they haven't received royalty checks,
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  Speaker 1: they gotta be Banks and y'all never I never heard
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  Speaker 1: you complaining about money. Never, never had a problem. Fifties
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  Speaker 1: a little crazy, but they all when I can't even
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  Speaker 1: supposed to get paid, you know what? You know what
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  Speaker 1: it is with Fifth like and with the whole unit situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's like even when I came home out of jail,
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  Speaker 1: it was never like I went back to the hood
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  Speaker 1: and had a chance for somebody to smoke you in
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  Speaker 1: the hoods. Once you get a deal and you up there,
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  Speaker 1: you already know how this game change. I moved straight
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  Speaker 1: to twenty fifth Streak, right right down the block from
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  Speaker 1: on Fashion Institute, and then from there me and Banks
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  Speaker 1: had a call down Battery Park. They say I got
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  Speaker 1: them kicked out, but it wasn't me. It was I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was Fifth. It was nice. We had to
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  Speaker 1: see the Statue of Liberty when we stepped out of Corndo,
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  Speaker 1: So it was like, you know, we was good. I
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  Speaker 1: was good when I came home. So in Connecticut and
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  Speaker 1: Fifth and then they moved to their houses. They had
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  Speaker 1: the condos in the city. They know basically even like
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  Speaker 1: to be there in Connecticut, he didn't want to be there,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm going to be nowhere and yeah, in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning he was like like, he goes yo, I can't
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  Speaker 1: see laugh. I'm a huge name, but I'd rather watch
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  Speaker 1: the Nick game on my TV. That's the way I
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  Speaker 1: react with Nique, you know what I mean. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like Banks, the cool guy we thought he was
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  Speaker 1: as a mogul though, how do you not pay your
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  Speaker 1: franchise all this though? If you're burn how you don't
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  Speaker 1: pay what? Well? I think he paid them. I still
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  Speaker 1: think that their relationship is different. Like I think if
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  Speaker 1: you say I think that it can get blurry and
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  Speaker 1: you can feel like this is our money because it's
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  Speaker 1: father and son and he for a long time he
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  Speaker 1: put in the Wayne like Wayne's hit. The album was
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  Speaker 1: his sixth album, right like hen will already be out
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  Speaker 1: of the game like any place else. Without having the
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  Speaker 1: passion that our father has for a son, no one
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  Speaker 1: would continue to pour money to you. Look, even with
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  Speaker 1: marb did They'll look at it and say, our expectations
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  Speaker 1: are five hundred thousand pieces, and then their budgeting goes
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  Speaker 1: to the expectations of five hundred thousand pieces, not the
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we get something, we're gonna go after
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  Speaker 1: it to the maximum ability because they felt all we're hot,
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  Speaker 1: we're heating up, they're feeling you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: He said he did stick with it. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it would have happened if it was he was with
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  Speaker 1: another company. I think they would let him go by it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how did he determine who gets what? Though? Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you gave Yale too much money, A banks too much money?
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  Speaker 1: Do you term who gets well? Now I did practice.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why in the scope then not on in
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  Speaker 1: the scope is their contracts were designed on the old
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  Speaker 1: music making too much money. Yeah. So it's like they
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  Speaker 1: would have had to pay them seven hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand in advance for the next record, and they go,
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  Speaker 1: what we can get the new kid the transition of
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  Speaker 1: the three sixty deal that hadn't happen after me? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: after after three sixty deal, can't they said that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen again, you know, like and it was like
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  Speaker 1: when they implemented that thing in the deal, I thought
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  Speaker 1: they would be expanding the building or trying to do
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: what Wanna was doing, because Wanna was paying for they
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  Speaker 1: were financing Chris doing a brand assets to try and
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  Speaker 1: facilitate the deal making process to make more money. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, we're gonna do this through sixty deal,
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  Speaker 1: but we have this arm that's gonna go find you
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  Speaker 1: the deal. And they didn't even do that. They just said,
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  Speaker 1: if you get a deal, we get a piece. Do
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  Speaker 1: you still love the music? Thal because you make money
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  Speaker 1: from liquor underwater you knowends to make money. So why
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  Speaker 1: is the music because it has to be the least well,
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  Speaker 1: it may not be the biggest financial piece, but it's
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  Speaker 1: still it's still a passion connected to it. It's the
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  Speaker 1: reason why everything else I'm able to do all those things.
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  Speaker 1: And and it's you know, the feeling you got that
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  Speaker 1: song to come on one o'clock in the morning, and
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  Speaker 1: it's that song like I feel like I always I'm
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  Speaker 1: always the record away because of how big my profile is.
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  Speaker 1: So you make a song and it shifts back to
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  Speaker 1: you bet right back in the middle of everything that's
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  Speaker 1: at the top of music culture. Right. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people have that hot song the moment, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: have that hot song for life, Like Bable turned twenty
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  Speaker 1: one yesterday and yeah, like that those records a timeless
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna be there like it's just it marks a
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  Speaker 1: whole period of of our actual music. It's like and
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  Speaker 1: and Wayne has it for that period that the Carter came,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And that Drake that that
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  Speaker 1: first album is it's his spot. Like you don't have
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  Speaker 1: artists come in and they don't have that period where
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  Speaker 1: it's that's happening right in the music culture, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. And we gotta always because it marks
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  Speaker 1: like it marks time, like you don't have a person
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  Speaker 1: pickus that's that's our song, Like when they go out
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  Speaker 1: of couples, that's their favorite joint, and then what comes
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  Speaker 1: on it takes them right back to the things that
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  Speaker 1: were doing back then, right, you know. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I think that when people stereotype the Unit a lot,
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  Speaker 1: I mean because when when we heard first heard fifty
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  Speaker 1: it first heard the Unit, it was gun busting, shooting,
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  Speaker 1: punch you in the face, we mobbed an out, but
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  Speaker 1: all that was really happening. But it was like you
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  Speaker 1: already know the party's involved, right, But now that it's
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: hard now because it's like you're not there anymore. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to run around queens and punch people and
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  Speaker 1: fight people. And now it's it's more diverse. Even the
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  Speaker 1: second song off the I'm grown right but you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's a different like everybody. All the audience
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  Speaker 1: got older with us, So the majority has to be
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  Speaker 1: into the content of the material or they're gonna look
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  Speaker 1: at it and go, what are you talking about? Like
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: you're watching in hip hop, they're trending so hard, like
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  Speaker 1: the things that I fell in love with have felt
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  Speaker 1: out of the culture, Like it was important for you
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  Speaker 1: to have something that made the music you or made
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  Speaker 1: it special unique from you. And now they're following each other.
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  Speaker 1: I hit New York artists say it's trapping out a band. Ugh,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And I'm like, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: Hold up? Okay, I got it. Took me a second,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying to get and there I go.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, you gotta even the hot hot record from
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  Speaker 1: Bobby and him that sounds like drill music to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's Chief Free Bobby Smurder. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Why I didn't want to make Bell? Yeah? Why did you? Why?
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  Speaker 1: If she was signing he would you have got him already.
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  Speaker 1: I had to. He would have been out of it
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  Speaker 1: I got. I had I got guys that were an
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  Speaker 1: artists that I built up. Man, Bobby would have been
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  Speaker 1: out my little, my little, my son, like my my baby,
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  Speaker 1: Hove is my Trav's big brother is my baby. Every
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: time he got in trouble with my house, it was
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  Speaker 1: like his bell was like a million dollars dollars and
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: he was hitting him like that and she's done blazing.
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  Speaker 1: He was connected to me, right, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like when they did that, I was like,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: get him. He don't look for trouble, but he warns
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: people that find trouble finds him in Connecticut, like you
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: gotta get in the car and drive. Mind from right,
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  Speaker 1: Like he just he differently, like he went through something.
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  Speaker 1: When travel is saying the things that he was saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, It was like what you're doing,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: like you just pushed us away from you trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a mixtape to work, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's like he can't see me to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: But the Travis, like I had none to do it.
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  Speaker 1: That kid like he's a little guy trying well. He
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  Speaker 1: was actually trying to do what he see me doing
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  Speaker 1: at different. But I kind of saw him saying that things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you gave him, you gave him motorcycles.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody in the project's motorcycles. He was the first one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even give one get a motorbike. You don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's a little different with you though, because you
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  Speaker 1: actually everybody knows you put in work in the street
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  Speaker 1: and you had to be for real street dude. But
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: they come in and they see it work on a
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  Speaker 1: rap formula and feel like I can do the rap formula.
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  Speaker 1: But then it gets real for them in the streets
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  Speaker 1: because of that, right, and then it just you see
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  Speaker 1: all the way across the board, like you see it.
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  Speaker 1: You see him choose, but they noticed understand it to
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: go after a crazy nineties instead of to come to me,
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  Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying, Like, and it's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why they did that because that didn't make
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  Speaker 1: no sense at all to me. But I felt like
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I was trying to brush the dirt off him from
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  Speaker 1: what just happened by creating more conversation, like like about
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  Speaker 1: something else that's going on. But you know it was
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: that was kind of sucking more. But I think that
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  Speaker 1: it's just confusion right now with the g unit and
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  Speaker 1: moving Gene around because it gets coarsely and everything is
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  Speaker 1: it's more independent now. So so how does that work now?
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  Speaker 1: Because before it was the label, the labels taking everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: We all go together. But now it's like it's it's
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  Speaker 1: fifty in Caroline, So you gotta pay for the movement
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  Speaker 1: of banks. Kid kid yae yo buck And like, you
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  Speaker 1: know the other day, you know, I know you don't smoke.
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  Speaker 1: I walked to the car the other day. Man, when
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I got home, my wife was like, you were smoking.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is just I just gave that
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I stepped in the car. What I said it was
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: if I got pulled on it with a straight to jail.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't. We rappers, man, we do a rap not you.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: You're different. Let me tell you. Fifty Boo Boo always
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: been a dude on the block. Maybe like oh man,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: here he comes, Like that's just I'm used to it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: And I was always yeah, but he he'd been in
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the streets with the best of them. Like it's real,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Like it's not not bullying, you know what I think.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Like they said the same thing about Joel by fact
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Joe it's just prior to you know what I mean.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: And I never picked my shots. I just looked at
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: see they was helping. His loyalty made him help with
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the honey guns, honey clips, y'all. And then I had
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to make sure that that didn't we can do John,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: so I went after him and Jada, you know what
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But it wasn't personal, so it was able.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: He's able to resolve it as Chris passed. And then
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: he's not like, you gotta watch. You gotta watch the
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: person that you have an alter case. You gotta see
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: who they are, like you see me look closer into it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: And then I knew that if it would be bumped
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: heads for relled, it would be something like we would
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: go back and forth. It'd be bad. You know. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: started looking through the crew a little bit and pictures.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I'm looking in the background. I'm investigating, like who that?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: But y'all cool? Though they said they said you was
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: at the Baby Faith concert last week by yourself. I ran,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I took my aut I took my aunt, Yeah, I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: took my Joe's day boy. It was clean. As I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, okay, I said, what is going on?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I'm almost making deals behind the scenes on us. She
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: was going on here because he had but yeah, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it wasn't he shortly I was she was smoking, you know.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I hope that was the right thing for me to say.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I think that was his wife. I think so. I mean,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you just just look look like he's a good spirit.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: You know. It's cool. Like um, the baby Face Show,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: that was more fun than I expected it to be.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't realize how many records he wrote because
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: he went to that little part portion of his show
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and it felt like thirty years of hits. Wow. He
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: was performing all night, hit after hit after hit hit,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and it was like it gets to a point like, well,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you know how like even now the music businesses like that,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like they go who Who's Who's high? Okay, let's uh
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: get hit boy or get DJ Mustard or get you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, different joints like and I I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: understand that, but I haven't operated that way. I've always
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: made records for guys that you didn't know them from nowhere,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know him. I just they just had
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: something that inspired me. Like it was the kid um
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: rob Reef did what up? Gangster? Um? I get money?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: The kid Ape that was his first record, Mini Mafia
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: twenty one. Question is different dangerous LLC? Like these guys
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: up the guys I worked with that didn't have momentum,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: just had the record I needed at the time, So
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta kind of that's the only way
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you find something that I feel like is it's new. Yeah?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Why why you never did the second album? I don't know, man,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: it was just a lot going on. I think it
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: was politics with Interscope and it was just a lot
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: going on at that time. But I got advance for it,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I got paid for I got paid to get contractually.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They had to Yeah, get that money, so got it,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying to you. So they got paid
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: out like that, and then it was time for then
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to spend more marketing dollars on it for that, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to go into the next cycle. And it's like do
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: we want to do that or do we want to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: change our model? Right with the climate of things is
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: then and they had to adjustments. Like I think any
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: business you have to do that. You have a lot
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of people around you, you know what I mean. Like
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I said, I be at a store and somebody like
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: your fifths on the line. You know what I mean,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You have a lot of friends around you. You feel
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: like you pay people necessarily almost like to be your
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: friends because it's what work are they doing, because it
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: seems like everything is so structured. Now. Yeah, you look.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Look if you say seventy percent of people who have
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: a job were referred by a friend, what happens when
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you become the job. You start to give those people
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that you would be comfortable with as your friends the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: job or the position, even if there not as season
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: or prepared for it. You'll bring them around early. Like
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I've had kids that like like bring them in and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I go follow you what you wanted to do? Be
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to a manager? Okay, look, go follow them to a manager.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Here your assistant, make him do everything. He's his assistant,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: do everything. And he didn't know he was his replacement.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: My tour manager came to watch the same process watching,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He came for thirteen years. Yeah,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: like all came in and it was like the guy,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you go with him, work with him to go work
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: as an assistant for the tour manager. And then when
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the other artists comes, they can handle going to take
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: facilitate banks. So I'm still manage my he's my DJ
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and my book and age. I think it all happened
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: too fast with Union. We went from fifty Grandmother Crib
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to all of this. It seemed like it was a
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: slow process in a way that we saw because they
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: didn't see the Columbia process. I don't think a lot
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: of people remember that. I don't remember Doll, That's what
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. A lot of people don't remember the Columbia process.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: They just remember him getting shot. We was on and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: then coming back out with the music. I was on
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the Cash Money tour right before they opened the curtain,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: right me and fifty and the Money Swiss t K. Kirkland.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: It was funny as a mother, like it was like
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that baby, and then would come helicopter Drew. He was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: smoking hot. That was crazy all that, and it's like
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: going on before anybody, Like, yeah, people remember because they
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: didn't get there yet, right they were still on their
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: way in and stuff like that. But it was like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: it was an experience and it was able to put
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: us in front of like in the sheds. I was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: always amazed how you took Buck, because Buck was on
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the fence of signing with either you or juvenile. It
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was like right in the middle of juvenil, like you said,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: was on fire at that time. He had this out
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and then he decided, I never understand how you did that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: It wasn't Julie had looked I talked a buck and
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: didn't say anything to him about working with him. Like
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I knew how you get around someone when you say, yo,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he's dope, like he has cool energy to him. It's good,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: but you don't want to violate the person that they
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: connected to because they did with someone right, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and I go I didn't say anything, but Julie had
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: reached to Banks. He liked Banks, so he was talking
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: like he was talking to him. Remember we came back
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and we had because look what I did was when
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I heard from somebody else it was around us, one
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of the homies. It was there. He was like, yo,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Banks said, Julie was feeling him like that said, oh word,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I hadn't done anything. Yeah, well Banks, like we started
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to g and it street tape momentum. So I was like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I had his contracts released done and I was telling
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: them how you could go do what you want to do?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: You look crazy on UTP. Banks like look crazy to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: even discussing it. There's never a reality man, like I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: just said. I said to him, I was like, yo,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but because I heard it from someone else, it means
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it in my mind it met It was some excitement
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to it, you know what I'm saying. And he was
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: repeating it to one of the other them. I said,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you said that I got to release done and say
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: how you get just sign that? I always wondered when
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: did y'all realize y'all like really had something with what
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you know? What happened is we went through a process.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I would say, like, who are you as an artist?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? So we don't make the mistake
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of marketing you one way and then it doesn't allow
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: you to do things that you want to do? And
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: was yea was he's the drug? Yeah? He wanted to
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: write that content from one, three, four, And this is
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: why I thought to get fellon and different things that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: he did or the concepts for those records that happened,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like he'll do that, what even the mixtape series is?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: But and then Banks I would go, yo, you should
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you should write about girls? M He go what like
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: like like it wasn't that cool? He was open off
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to that one line he said, when the only way
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I cat blue balls is if she wear a blue
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: lipstick that get a photo. It's like every time he
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: said something that related to women, he would say a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: cooler line. But see that came. That guy came because
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Smile was first. So the girls coming up. I like
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the Smile record, and then they coming out. He got up,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: no you don't love me, and Buck got you know
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: what I mean. I like it, but it's when you rather,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, when you right around the girls. When
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: he started to do things that is in that lane,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: like even I don't deserve you the different joints? Did
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he do it be on point point? Mama said, I'm
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: knock you out. You know what I'm saying. No, I'm
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: not saying it. It was I'm not saying other people
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: want to be looked at and just see girls like
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: no offense. You know what I mean, fabulous right about
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: but fabulous right girls. But all his mixtapes is all
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: street because he's aiming at the street. But we know
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: what he does, like if you get ready to get
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you got an R and B artist singing something that's
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that's hot. You need fat you want to sign that
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: off to make it of fish you but fat voice
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: on it. Let me hear it, and I'm excited about it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It feels good to me, right, you know from just
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the way he came up that he's done that consistently
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: in his career. Good. So when I hear it, I go, yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: hit like the last one, you know what I mean?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Like when he did the waiting for the right moment
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to collaborate with artists, for me, it's like, I don't
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: do the you see now it's koombay y'ah my lord,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: like everybody like everybody was turning into one fraternity, our culture,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and then when you had me, I was sit and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: wait until I felt like it's the right time for
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: me to work with the artists like Soldier Boy. If
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you noticed when we did the record, it wasn't because
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I was so impressed with his lyrical performance. I was
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: impressed with the idea of a kid producing the record
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and having a hit that big at sixteen years old.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I know it made Christmas. It changed everything around but
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: his house, everybody was in a different space because of
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the record, And I'm like that, so you produced it too, Okay,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I gotta like that, and I didn't work with him
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: until the influences kind of got him, like and he
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: he was having problems with the he was doing the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Gucci man, you know what I mean. He had so
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a little cocaine and stuff like that around at the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: time of the Superhead thing was happening, and it was
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: so much confusion for him. And I'm like, I do
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it now. Then he later had kind worked with them,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: part work with them. It changed how you know, people
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: felt about so you know, it's a good timing with
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that one. And then and I just was thinking myself.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: When I went to Los Angeles, I was getting ready
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: work on the album. And as soon as I got there,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I said, um, let me hear the new guys. I
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: did Hygie's first song, toot It. I did Jeremiah's uh
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the down on Me record, The Man's Buzzing. Put out
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of those new artists that same night. I recorded all
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: those records, put them out, and it's like their first
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: real hit hit records outside of well jem I had birthday,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: sect yeah, birthday. Yeah, you two got a relationship with
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Dreke not like that. I don't call to talk to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: him for no reason, like I think that relationship was business,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you know, Like for a long time I was in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: New York U Nick Player in the middle of la
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: locker room, like yeah, realized Interscope was the West Coast
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: when its East coast West Coast going on. And I
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: never really sort of respond properly to games disrespect what
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it happened because they had some sort of allegiance to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the West or something else, and I didn't understand it,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Like I was like, you know, I wrote the records
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: like almost Violet. The parole for the things that you
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: say are okay. The parameters are high function. So I look,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I go, if it's okay for you to say I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: have to say any thing as you say about me,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: as long as you can earn some money, then it's
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: okay for me to say whatever, because I earned money
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: with no problem for the company, you know. And it's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: like I've seen him say it, like why we can't
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: get that again, Like, well, we can't make like find
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the artists that can do that again. It's it's a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: lot more than the studio performance that the artists had
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to come out and find themselves in the comfort to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: beat themselves in front of people so they can embrace them,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: like my imperfection is visible at points I get. I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: look in the tactics that I would use on the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: corner you here. So it's if you use the mentality,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: then you take over. I'll just feel work until we
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: positioned ourselves to be strong enough to take over. And
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it's just it's just what that process has taught us.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Because we beat somebody up for doctor Joy, I could say, yeah, nobody,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it wasn't no, don't disrespect to La, But it was
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of New York dudes beating somebody up
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for Joy. He's cool. I like his music and everything.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: It's just, you know, I just feel when you beat
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: somebody up, I feel like they owe you a little bit. Yeah,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: we beat them good. I think that to disconnect between
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: me and Jimmy created the distance between me and d Yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: because like you gotta understand, like when Sugar was gonna
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: kill Drake, It's gonna kill him because he had because
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Tupac was making number one records and Drey wasn't producing
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: No and pockets getting ready to be done. So you
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: get him out at five album deal, his first CD,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: All Eyes on Me, Double CD, Come Back, Michael Velly
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Break Street dates. So he's back early with that when
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: that one's number one selling, and he got two others
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in the studio doing artwork. He's done with that, moving
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to the Outlaws and doing everything else, and you go out, well,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: how do I keep them? Maybe I give him grace.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Jimmy, something might have to happen to dract,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you know, like these are the thoughts. And she's still
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: trying to kill him. You saw that, but ae weeks
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: ago he showed up to the movie. She still want blood.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I never seen anybody how to kind of fear that
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: they had for like for Shu. Shugar came around like
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: in the club. Yeah, that's the first time I've seen
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Mexicans with tattoos on these face, Mexicans with him. He
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: can't they look they said, Sugar outside man, everything dropped,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: scammeras video people makeup everybody like Sugar is like what
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: y'all do? Though, But we came out box opened the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: gun in the gun right there on the boxes, gonna
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: come across the street. We don't understand none of that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they were. That's the first time
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I see people with tattoos on their face. My first
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: time in La, I'm like, what the hell? What opened
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the box? To open the box? Get out of there,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: go with Eminem came outside too. Yeah, you know, m
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: had a different thing going on like him and Proof
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Proof custom out of a couple of times seeing the
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: places up to Proof, he was a wild boy. He
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: didn't care, you know, didn't do it, yeah, because I thought.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I think what happened was trying to shake Proof hand
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and Proof is like you you can get out of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: my fingers words. Proof was crazy man, rest peace and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Proof did y'all you met up before? He never was
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: after that again. After that the thing would in the warshaw.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I think it was shaky. I was shaky, shaky, no fashion.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: And it always kind of ends up in situations with
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: guys that had maybe ten or fifteen more years in
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the street than me, like the Henchman and all that.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: That's the discomfort with you know how they look they
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Grandpa o g o goat. We only celebrate like history
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: on February. What you do last week? Boy? You know
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Because all the other stuff. The young
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: boys now they're differently, they even even more intense. Now,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, so you look at it
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and you go, you gotta know how to play that.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: You can't be out there just playing with right. Absolutely,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Now what about what about your son? You speak to
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: your son to y'all squashed that beef, my world starts
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: shooting hoops. You know, I don't do well man, You
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: know I think um that Dave. Look, my son's mother
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: has done a great job with persuading my son believed
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: in with him being up being a privileged child, he's
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: still feels the pride. So that's like, say the new
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Jordan's come out and then the retro joints pot and
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: it's he want on them about twenty fifty dollars, right,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and stead up, She'll go, you want to actual the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: sneakers to go? All right, I'll get them for you.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: But I just wish man, your father, I just you're
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: supposed to have them all. So if you say that
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you don't even feel the gratification of receiving what you
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: want it even though you're getting what you asked for.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: You know, like in support, I've paid over a million
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: dollars for him since me and his mother haven't been friends.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I gave to a twenty five thousand a month for
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: six months. I was supposed to be a walking paper book.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Because she thought she's gonna get fifty five thousand dollars
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: a month. She blew it. So when they tell a
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred dollars a month, like hits in the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: head like somebody throw a rock, and that is an
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: adjustment for them me. And then that process she goes on,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you know, to go get fifty cents house baby mother's
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: house instead of the place that she could have gotten.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: It's really affordable in Atlanta, and you know, just the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: kofa sack and the people that surround it make it
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: a more expensive you know peace. And then other than that,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't have a reason. I used
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the same compass and logics that I will use in
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: any other situation for that. And I watched and I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: see when I see someone gravitate to someone that they
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: felt like has a problem with me, it tells me
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: that in your heart and in your mind, you've become
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: my enemy. You don't look at yourself as your enemy though, no, no, no,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: just in general, you know how people find a common
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: ground or disliking someone, absolutely your enemies. Enemies are your friends, right,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: they come to you. But when I'm watching it, did
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you be more comfortable around someone that you think is
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the enemy minds than me? Then it says to me
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: where you're at mentally. It says that the lads like
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: he ordered it hit the enemy is looking back when
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: you say when you communicate, like with Bags and them
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Troy money Bags, when I was having issues with preming them,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I'm comfortable communicating with them because they had that already
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: had a problem. Just was my man like these reasons
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: why I like, like even kind of dealt with the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: rest of it, you know what I mean? So when
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and they was tied into that and I didn't understand it,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: but he was like it wasn't for him, it was
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: fun frame And then I got that perfectly clear because
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, you should have got him right,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, do you ever let
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: anything go? Because there was even a rumor that I
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: don't mean, I know it's not true, but it was
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: rumor that you bought Murder Inc. And you know, our
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: own publish I was like, I'm sure he would try.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he would try. Yeah, it's just you know,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it's not worth much anymore like that you saw that
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: though it was Yeah, I looked at it. I was.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: It even made me look at you know, like that
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: what it would cost? I looked just like, yo, how much?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: How much it'd be cool to do that? Like just
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: because you because you can't right, you know, they just
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: finish it off. You really got in the laws. It
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: says when you destroyed, destroyed completely, or you've offered someone
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: more passion because you heard them. Let's talk about Power. Now,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Power is done extremely well. Yeah, next season you're taping it.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: It's about to end. Now, Now what do you think
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: about Empire? Because at one time, you throw an Empire
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: was kind of a stab stealing what Power was doing? Yeah,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: what they did? They did they stole the art. They
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: copied the art for the actual show, and then it
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was like the show so different. Um Like, when I
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: watched it, it feels like glick. It feels like because
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the choice to not allowed the ambience of the room,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: it drops out, so it feels like a play like
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: when the music when they start rapping and the music
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: comes on, it feels like you're watching a televised play opera. Almost. Yeah,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: so I watched it. It is. I had a lot
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of friends on the show, Like it turns Howard Day.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: You got Timberlin's the music supervisor. Yeah, Brian grayjer is
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the producer, the joint even the director communicated with him
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: a few times, you know. Naomi. Naomi was running up
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: on me. I just said this about my show, this
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and now I said, yeah, but they don't say show. Yeah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: She kept jumping on me at the CIA, at them.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: When I went to the I was in La doing
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a not an Emmy. I feel like you're trying to
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: bake to Roger for a date. Man. Oh no, I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: just didn't want to fight. I just want to fight girls.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I don't want to fight girls. I gotta just look.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I said, just wait, wait, how do you deal with
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: this one? When she gets out everybody, she's the one
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that's saying something, and you go, a wait, that's not
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the right thing to do anyway, I argue with She's
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: not a music artist or someone that you would be
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: competing with to generate an interest. So it's like, as
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: soon as she says that, I go, let me think
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: about this, because so as you kind of find sometimes,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you know, since that baby boy thing, when I looked
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: at the baby Boy. You know, maybe I could be
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Jody without that mama problems. You try to get rich.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I think she did, she did she she came in.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I think we read like very in the very beginning.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And then uh still Tracy Morgan too, you know, and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of it you'll see, like because Hollywood's
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: like hurry up and wait, you know, in the process,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: like hurry up, you prepared, now wait till the right
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: opportunities come. And it's cool. I got things lined up
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: pretty good though this the summers be high. I got
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the Spot movie coming with Melissim Cothi, Jason Salem, Drew Law,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and then I did h that's in May, and then June.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Power will be back. Then July South Paw me Jake,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Jill and Forest, so they'll see me back twice on
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the big screen. While I'm doing television. You're still doing
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: the boxing thing. Yeah, my fight. Actually, uh, I'm going
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: to Houston right after this to do the press conference
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: for Canello versus James Curtly. Yeah, but you got me
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: weather Pack, Yeah, I got Champ cham gonna gonna go ahead.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: He's gonna smoke him. So it's gonna look like gonna
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: look like it was pumped up for no reason. You're
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: going back probably like one point six six now. You
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: said the way the point six comes, bro one point
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I've been thinking this out myself. You budgeted it out,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: how much like like wait, let me gotta get me
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: a real bad because I know. Look, he focused right
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: now too. You can't lose this. We don't have to.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: You can't lose now. He's like, you gotta come right
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: and I mean working. I ran into him at the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: hit Barclayers. I popped out on Chris Shaw and I
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: came into surprise and then they came backstage to talk.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: So he got your just kicking a little. But that
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the first time you spoke from since all that. It's
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: been a while because it's hard for him to make Look,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: he don't have to answer to nobody, like you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you give me, but that fight is probably gonna be
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: like eighty hundred million dollars from I don't I don't
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: have to talk to him this now. They don't have
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to be anything that we speak to each other about.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But it's when you there face to face. He go, fi, man,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: why you gotta say that? You say something to go
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: everywhere everywhere. Man, You're like, yo, stop, this is not
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: like the Tiber FaceTime. So he called me and get
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: back to the hotel and stuff like that, and it's
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: not I can I can get mad at him. We
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: can both get angry when we're not speaking to each
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: other at the situation, because then it's like who you
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: think you are everything else that agitates you in connection
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to it's like your wife is You're upset with your wife,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: and then I'm irritating. It's really coming from somewhere else,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: but it's going towards you, but it's going towards you
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm at that person, and then it will
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: be like when we're not communicating with each other, get crazy.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: It really wasn't about money, like you know, like I
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say, oh, I'm gonna go in the box and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: so I can make this money off of Floyd, you know,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: And you can't commit to being financial supportive of a
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: business and just decide not to. Its easy. I could
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: easily suit him for that money back, got it back
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: so quick your head would have spun, you know what
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, and said there was some damage publicly to
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: me going into the category because of me marketing it,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and and I need additional money for damages. You know.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: But that's like I said, my little brother, So why
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: are you gonna? I can see you a little brother.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: So how do y'all line the music up? In the
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: midst all of this, you got the EP coming out,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: but banks you're doing a solo? Yeah? Well actually I
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: got a solo record on the Beasts yea to called
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Doping in My Lives, so they can, you know, check
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: that out, just to segway into my next solo project.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: And Bull put out a dope record that we permitted. Troy,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I was on the hook. I didn't know if y'all
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: had issues. I don't know what that was. You know what,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I looked at Troy in the very beginning, I'm going,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: here's so much for me, and then I'm not sure
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: to like it, but he giving it up though I noticed,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: and that later. Look, I'm telling the process for me.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just going, you know how my mom I said,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the things that I fell in love with I've kind
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: of faded. It was so important for you to have
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: your own sound, your own thing initially that it goes
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: of sound like that kind of sound like me that
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: oh I remember that I did this kind of melody
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: on this song. This is why I'm feeling like this
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: about this record. And then I go, oh, this is
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: but it's different pieces. It's not necessarily pieces that I
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: put out for commercial purposes like on albums. It may
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: be something that I did on the mixtape or something,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: but it influenced him. And then it turns into when
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: you see him be consistent, it's flattery and you like it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: You can appreciate it. You see what I'm saying. When
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: you when you you got so many guys that you'll
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: help them and in every way that you in process,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and then they'll go because you could have just made
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: me a start. All you had to do was say
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: this was this and put me this and spend and
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: spend the money. You know what I'm saying. Like, so
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: they're going, you go, I'm not sure I like that
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: until I start to see things from the feel different
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: than it's him, and then you know, now I'm cool
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: with it. I like it, Like I like all about
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the money, Like he had different joints. To me, that's
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: a new version that I get money. You see what
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, and it's just I watched content repeat itself,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: like the like candy shop is the like a lollipop,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: like um outcasts, ain't nobody dope as me? I dressed
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: so facial claim is I'm so fly and I got money,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: And that's a good enough reason about the things I buy.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Like Banks's record, Like a lot of these songs, I've
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: heard the content work and then come around again in
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: a new way and a new song and it feels good.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: So I watch it and that's just what that is.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Like I think it's it's time for new artists to
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: come in and from New York it's they're there, but
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: they're not getting the shot right. How would you like
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the old Freddie rock kid? I do? I like that
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: song like he had to sound it don't sound like
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: nothing out of here, you know, it's like like his
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: music the way I like the kid Um the Thug Thugs,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: no fun junked up because sometimes I didn't know what
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Young Doug was saying, but I like the way it sound,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and then being it from
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: New Yorker from Jersey and again you're trapping out a
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: vand ug. I don't know about that part, you know
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying it makes me feel like that you're not.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Actually it's trending, right, you're saying the things that they say,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: So we're all making Southern based records at that point.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: And it's like when you can't identify what not even
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: with who you are, because you sound like the last
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: record that came out, but the content in the words
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: that you're saying sound like the guy that had a
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: hit record, And it becomes one thing that we all
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: do you know? And why do you think New York
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: executives never recognized the talent that's right here in New
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: York because you got signed from outside. It's like like
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: got signed from outside? Its why do you never see
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: what's right under the nose? You know? What happens a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: lot of times artists didn't have the things that coincided
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: with who they say they were. Like, if you're writing
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: street music, street orientated music and you're not in the street,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: how does people have a connection to it or feel
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: it like that? I heard that that's one of the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: reasons you didn't want to sign Troy because said you
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: asked about them, but nobody, well you know I did.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: It didn't have the same But it's all this thing.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like what I was going through. My scenario
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: is not something that happens over and over because it's
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: not you're not gonna make it. It probably didn't potentially
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: get killed in the process, you know what I'm saying,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Like and it's it's just being real about it. Like
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: it's been guys have been in the street, putting in
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: work twenty years before. Like these people came in my parents'
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: age breaker that you know when way did ten years,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: came back back in the club and everything else, like
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: in their experience. So it's like if when you bump
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: with them, you usually you usually don't go right right,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: you know, because they'll make the decision and they already
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: know the consequences and they're gonna really go. So you
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: can't say these things that I was saying on his
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: records and that meant it. And then it was like
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: for them, their confirmation, them being comfortable to stand next
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to me in that period said who they were to
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: everyone else publicly and it but it was really my situation.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: You can't compare everybody's Spreek situations different stream back to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: the music, How often of you guys are gonna drop
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: because this is getting more more frequent. Yeah, it's gonna
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: be a lot of music coming out. El Chapo coming
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Cold Corner. Um. I think Kick Kick got some New
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Orleans dreams working on. I seen Buck out in the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: in North Carolina seat. He was running around to the clubs. Yeah,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: running around. He you know, he's getting the mixed. He'd
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: be working like he stayed where you would see him
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: and feel like, oh he did, Like like he's doing it.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Like they a condition for something different. They don't really
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: go to stuff for no reason. Yo got his All
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Star week infer though. Yeah, you know every throw back.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you joining us. The album is out right now.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Get the vodka, get the underwear draws, get the headphone,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: angles and power coming this summer. Well, it's the breakfast clubs,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: you nit.