Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: T.I. & Young Dro Speak On Sobriety, 'OMG Girlz' Lawsuit Victory, New Music + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Everybody is the j n V. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy.
- 0:09Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. Justice on maternity leave. So
- 0:11Speaker 2: long the roaster is filling in. And we got some
- 0:13Speaker 2: special guests joining us this morning.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, yes, t I and.
- 0:17Speaker 4: The brother Young Joe Welcome, fellas. Are you feeling this morning? Man?
- 0:22Speaker 5: Blessed?
- 0:22Speaker 1: We know we know.
- 0:26Speaker 5: Almost.
- 0:26Speaker 4: Congratulations man, thank you?
- 0:29Speaker 5: How does it feel.
- 0:30Speaker 4: I heard that you're not really taking any shows anymore,
- 0:33Speaker 4: but that.
- 0:33Speaker 5: JO got to be the first thing. Congratulations, Thank you.
- 0:37Speaker 5: I appreciate you because that's how it show. That's actually
- 0:39Speaker 5: our show, our show show you jingle balls talking about, Yeah,
- 0:47Speaker 5: that is my show, show that we're doing in Atlanta.
- 0:52Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm excited about it, man. You know it's
- 0:54Speaker 5: gonna be a dope show. Uh. And and you know
- 0:57Speaker 5: I still have other performances, stuff that I agreed to
- 1:01Speaker 5: when I felt like I needed to do it with
- 1:02Speaker 5: PSC or just yeah, and that's still you know what
- 1:05Speaker 5: I'm saying, the PSC. You know what I'm saying, they
- 1:08Speaker 5: probably they gonna get like probably three four you know
- 1:11Speaker 5: what I'm saying, three four of them like, come on,
- 1:13Speaker 5: y'all do it, you know, like one air quarter. I'm
- 1:16Speaker 5: just joking, man, I'm just joking, but I'm.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Doing this.
- 1:29Speaker 5: Don't worry about it, man, putting the room on the
- 1:31Speaker 5: yacht man.
- 1:34Speaker 6: I was always told retirement it's not an age, it's
- 1:36Speaker 6: an income. And we heard you say that the solo
- 1:39Speaker 6: Ib'm gonna be your life. You just said you said
- 1:41Speaker 6: it's gonna.
- 1:42Speaker 4: Be your last show.
- 1:43Speaker 5: That that that don't mean that I'm not gonna still work,
- 1:47Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like, there are other things
- 1:48Speaker 5: that I'm doing. I'm still writing, producing, directing films, and
- 1:53Speaker 5: I'm working on my third one. We're about to start. Actually,
- 1:56Speaker 5: by the time this is I'll probably be feeling. It's
- 1:59Speaker 5: called Relationships of Romantic Comedy based in Atlanta. Longland is
- 2:03Speaker 5: looking for love and Atlanta good luck. And I'm excited
- 2:07Speaker 5: about that. It's the first film that I'd be directed
- 2:10Speaker 5: and starring in myself. Terrence J. Brittany hall Uh, Dominique Perry.
- 2:18Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. So you know we got
- 2:20Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Other things that we're doing.
- 2:22Speaker 5: I'm probably finela shoot my special end of the year but.
- 2:27Speaker 2: You know for that that movie, we have somebody that
- 2:29Speaker 2: might want to be a part of it.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Trying to find some love in the world. Was not
- 2:34Speaker 4: me because I'm married.
- 2:36Speaker 3: A reality show, that wouldn't be a movie.
- 2:38Speaker 5: Who are you talking about?
- 2:39Speaker 3: This young lady over.
- 2:40Speaker 7: Here, always got it, always alone in her room.
- 2:49Speaker 5: Joke.
- 2:49Speaker 8: You've been sitting on that one because I ain't even
- 2:56Speaker 8: heard that one. Think I'm looking in Atlanta though?
- 2:59Speaker 5: What what?
- 3:00Speaker 1: Wow?
- 3:01Speaker 2: Discrimination you know, I just I sound like what Trump
- 3:05Speaker 2: you said about the Trump I have.
- 3:07Speaker 8: Some homegirls down there that have had really bad experiences.
- 3:11Speaker 5: It's a little really bad experience.
- 3:12Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a little trauma in the group chats. So
- 3:15Speaker 8: I think I'm.
- 3:20Speaker 5: You do it. You do a track with the energy?
- 3:22Speaker 7: You just tell you that all the time.
- 3:24Speaker 9: First of all, I'm not talking about me and about.
- 3:26Speaker 5: The homegrowns, but you're talking about how that how their
- 3:29Speaker 5: experiences are influencing your decision.
- 3:32Speaker 7: Sure, I think you're talking about you.
- 3:33Speaker 5: Essentially, I attract great things you do. Why would that
- 3:41Speaker 5: change if you took it if you took that same
- 3:43Speaker 5: energy to Atlanta.
- 3:44Speaker 8: Well, from what I hear in Atlanta, I think the
- 3:47Speaker 8: ratio makes it were like objection.
- 3:49Speaker 7: Here's I just hear a lot about that.
- 3:54Speaker 8: Ratio, and how kind of you know, the guy's got
- 3:56Speaker 8: a lot going on, You got, it's a lot down there,
- 4:00Speaker 8: and you know, everybody wants to deal with successful and
- 4:03Speaker 8: you know these amazing black men. But if they they
- 4:05Speaker 8: and fifty people and don't want to settle with one
- 4:08Speaker 8: like that, they that they never gets nowhere long as.
- 4:10Speaker 1: You've got the whipp appeel.
- 4:11Speaker 5: Oh my goodness. We don't think we can say that.
- 4:14Speaker 5: We can't we say we can't say that baby faith.
- 4:18Speaker 9: That's baby face.
- 4:19Speaker 10: Yeah we have whipping peel my baby face ring.
- 4:32Speaker 9: Yeah, not that funny.
- 4:34Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think that I think I think that
- 4:38Speaker 5: I think it's somebody down there. And because it's probably
- 4:40Speaker 5: a dude down there right now, like man, all these
- 4:42Speaker 5: girls want the same thing. Yeah, you know, everybody want
- 4:45Speaker 5: to be seen with somebody in Cardier glasses and happened
- 4:48Speaker 5: out and mayback.
- 4:49Speaker 1: What's wrong with Cardier class.
- 4:50Speaker 5: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, but
- 4:54Speaker 5: you know, but that's the kind of guy she's saying.
- 4:56Speaker 5: She's trying to avoid.
- 4:58Speaker 1: She's trying to avoid me a little.
- 5:00Speaker 8: It it's just I think it's it's just certain. I
- 5:03Speaker 8: think the lifestyle in Atlanta, although it's really really fun,
- 5:06Speaker 8: you have a good time, I think that kind of
- 5:08Speaker 8: plays a part of it too.
- 5:09Speaker 9: It's like eventually we get.
- 5:11Speaker 8: Like and I'm outside, go outside, I'm around, but you
- 5:14Speaker 8: get tired of like every single time we go out,
- 5:16Speaker 8: we got to be in the club, we gotta be
- 5:18Speaker 8: with the hookah and.
- 5:22Speaker 5: Every weekend.
- 5:23Speaker 8: No I don't not every weekend if I'm dating somebody,
- 5:25Speaker 8: I want to do things other than that. And a
- 5:27Speaker 8: lot of the people that this is another conversation in
- 5:29Speaker 8: the group chat. A lot of my homegirls feel like
- 5:30Speaker 8: in Atlanta, that's all the days are. And it's fun
- 5:33Speaker 8: in the beginning, but then you want to really dig.
- 5:35Speaker 1: But you got to always go to the club and
- 5:37Speaker 1: do hookah.
- 5:38Speaker 5: Now you can go to ether Ridge, you can go
- 5:40Speaker 5: on banks.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Around.
- 5:44Speaker 8: The wrong guys, the people that's coming through our chat,
- 5:49Speaker 8: it's like they just want to go to Cheetah.
- 5:51Speaker 9: They want to be they want to be out like
- 5:52Speaker 9: they that's it.
- 5:53Speaker 5: I mean, well, yeah, I think like again, man, you
- 5:56Speaker 5: you you attract the energy that you distribute. So if
- 6:00Speaker 5: that's what they're if that's what they attracted, they should
- 6:02Speaker 5: probably look within, you know what I'm saying, and can
- 6:05Speaker 5: let them be the change on. Stop going to chair,
- 6:09Speaker 5: you stop meeting people. You know what I'm saying.
- 6:12Speaker 9: Good food over there.
- 6:13Speaker 5: See what I'm saying.
- 6:17Speaker 1: They got good wine.
- 6:21Speaker 7: Noo.
- 6:22Speaker 6: You took a step back, man, You took a step back.
- 6:24Speaker 6: You put out I was just twenty fifteen.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Took a step back. Yeah. I mean, like as far
- 6:29Speaker 1: as putting.
- 6:30Speaker 11: Out albums, yeah yeah.
- 6:33Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 6:34Speaker 11: Well, over that, over that period of time, it's I
- 6:37Speaker 11: still put out like little pieces of projects and things
- 6:41Speaker 11: that like that of that nature, you know what I mean.
- 6:44Speaker 11: I think we did after that we had TikTok, yeah
- 6:47Speaker 11: saying put out TikTok and and then I went into
- 6:52Speaker 11: rehab and stuff like that. So I've been rebuilding myself
- 6:56Speaker 11: as a person absolute, you know what I mean. I
- 6:58Speaker 11: felt like I should digging to the inside of me
- 7:01Speaker 11: and find out what what I have to give to
- 7:03Speaker 11: the public.
- 7:05Speaker 3: You don't have to use that voice.
- 7:16Speaker 1: I had to find the good in myself.
- 7:17Speaker 5: I think the world.
- 7:22Speaker 11: I think it's good in all people. You feel what
- 7:24Speaker 11: I'm saying, And if nobody can find the good and
- 7:28Speaker 11: you are see the good in you. I think you
- 7:30Speaker 11: should give him a hug and tell them life is
- 7:32Speaker 11: difficult for the blind.
- 7:33Speaker 5: You know he had the d D. You know what
- 7:36Speaker 5: I'm saying, What did.
- 7:38Speaker 2: You decide or what got you into rehab? When was
- 7:40Speaker 2: that that calling and said this is the time, Because
- 7:42Speaker 2: I mean for my whole career, I would see Droe
- 7:45Speaker 2: in the club with me every week and drow is
- 7:47Speaker 2: performing drows at every stage.
- 7:49Speaker 4: You were you were the epiting me of an artist
- 7:51Speaker 4: because you were out.
- 7:53Speaker 11: Well, I got tired like the same things like you
- 7:58Speaker 11: know what I mean, like over and over again get
- 8:01Speaker 11: high saying I'm not getting high, you know, repeating.
- 8:05Speaker 12: Repeating, man struggled, the man talking about it real overcoming
- 8:15Speaker 12: the real struggling man of that.
- 8:18Speaker 5: Because your crew doesn't do nothing but laugh.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Like even it's down to I was like, welcome to
- 8:22Speaker 2: like nobody takes it serious.
- 8:25Speaker 11: But you know what, he's got him bad hell got
- 8:33Speaker 11: He's telling the truth, like Noah, But you know, you
- 8:37Speaker 11: know it was more than that. It was actually overdose.
- 8:41Speaker 11: You feel what I'm saying. And I used the I
- 8:44Speaker 11: used this platform with with the thank God to.
- 8:50Speaker 4: The background. That's crazy.
- 8:55Speaker 11: He's a mechanic, mechanics always laughing.
- 9:00Speaker 5: Stead there's a dastard individuals overdose, Yo, I did you
- 9:06Speaker 5: know what I mean?
- 9:07Speaker 11: And all of all of these things happened the overdose.
- 9:11Speaker 1: My daughter was on drugs, and you know, career wise,
- 9:15Speaker 1: I was aware. I wasn't what's up with you? Are you?
- 9:21Speaker 5: Finnah?
- 9:21Speaker 1: Get slapped?
- 9:23Speaker 11: I mean we're cool, but I slapped at you by laughing.
- 9:26Speaker 11: Oh man, I'm just I'm just telling you cool. What
- 9:30Speaker 11: you want to do, what you want to do? Him
- 9:34Speaker 11: take you out of the sober drove.
- 9:38Speaker 5: He listen, Hey, listen, hey, both of y'all.
- 9:42Speaker 13: Y'all, everybody came in and motherfucker with me. Hey look,
- 9:46Speaker 13: everybody came in the motherfucker with me. Hey look, everybody
- 9:48Speaker 13: came in the motherfuck with me. Hey look remember who
- 9:50Speaker 13: you came in, and remember what we're doing here. Man,
- 9:52Speaker 13: come on, man, they get this ship together.
- 9:55Speaker 5: Bro. All right, all right, I'm sorry.
- 9:59Speaker 6: First of all, gratulations on being two years old, like
- 10:02Speaker 6: I was saying three, actually three three, I'm approaching four.
- 10:04Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying.
- 10:05Speaker 11: So like, like all of these things happened to where
- 10:09Speaker 11: it made me want to actually seek something better you
- 10:12Speaker 11: know what I mean. So when I took myself to
- 10:14Speaker 11: rehab out in LA did a couple of months out there,
- 10:18Speaker 11: and it was cool, you know what I'm saying. I
- 10:20Speaker 11: got back out and I was still tempted to live
- 10:24Speaker 11: that kind of life. But I saw what was in
- 10:27Speaker 11: front of me and I was like, this is more
- 10:28Speaker 11: valuable than what's behind me.
- 10:30Speaker 5: What what gave you the courage?
- 10:32Speaker 2: I would say to to be able to talk about
- 10:33Speaker 2: it right, because you know, some people look about it
- 10:35Speaker 2: as it's embarrassing, and then some people say, you know,
- 10:37Speaker 2: it could actually help people that's going through the same
- 10:39Speaker 2: thing that you're actually going through or that you dealt with,
- 10:42Speaker 2: you know, I.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Mean with the support team. You feel what I'm saying.
- 10:46Speaker 11: Because the first time it happened, we had like an
- 10:48Speaker 11: intervention and he came.
- 10:50Speaker 9: On, it's over those first time.
- 10:52Speaker 3: I need to know what the intervention looks like.
- 10:55Speaker 1: I read, well, he came up with an a pummer
- 10:58Speaker 1: like bro delicate right now.
- 11:00Speaker 11: But I mean like the love I got in the
- 11:04Speaker 11: support I got, it made me feel safe. It made
- 11:07Speaker 11: me feel safe, and you know what I'm saying. Of
- 11:09Speaker 11: course I do feel ashamed, you know what I'm saying
- 11:11Speaker 11: at first, you know what I mean, Wow, it's a disease. Well,
- 11:15Speaker 11: because like we from, you'ren't supposed to let nobody see
- 11:19Speaker 11: you like that, you know what I'm saying. We always
- 11:21Speaker 11: talk like you know what I'm saying. Once you find
- 11:22Speaker 11: yourself in that position and your brother called you out
- 11:25Speaker 11: on it, you be hoping that you can get rid
- 11:28Speaker 11: of it before he come and check me.
- 11:30Speaker 1: But when he comes check me on it, I get mad.
- 11:32Speaker 11: At myself and be like, damn, I supposed to got
- 11:34Speaker 11: straight before you know what I mean, my manager would
- 11:36Speaker 11: come or if he would come, you feel what I'm saying.
- 11:38Speaker 5: So it was it was now. The thing about it is,
- 11:42Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, And we've had this conversation before,
- 11:45Speaker 5: Like as long as he was battling this addition, long
- 11:49Speaker 5: as he was on drug, I never actually saw him
- 11:52Speaker 5: do drug. I never saw it, like you know what
- 11:54Speaker 5: I'm saying. So whatever he would do it, he'd do it.
- 11:57Speaker 5: And I don't know whether he would have while he
- 11:58Speaker 5: was around me or not, but I would. But what
- 12:01Speaker 5: I'm saying, there went like while we was around each other,
- 12:05Speaker 5: it was still this in it was still like this.
- 12:07Speaker 5: So when I went to him. I didn't even know.
- 12:11Speaker 5: I didn't know the difference. You know what I'm saying.
- 12:13Speaker 5: I still but I was concerned. So I'm like, hey, man,
- 12:17Speaker 5: I can't even fuck with you like that. Man, Then
- 12:19Speaker 5: what you're gonna do?
- 12:20Speaker 1: Bro?
- 12:20Speaker 5: Then what you're gonna do? Bro, I ain't finna sit
- 12:22Speaker 5: around while.
- 12:22Speaker 1: You do this.
- 12:23Speaker 5: I ain't gonna do it.
- 12:24Speaker 6: I feel like I remember that period when you was
- 12:26Speaker 6: It feels like you was giving Drove tough love, like
- 12:28Speaker 6: you had to put him to the side.
- 12:29Speaker 3: You didn't come on.
- 12:30Speaker 5: I didn't put him to the side. I just told him, Man,
- 12:32Speaker 5: you're gonna either man either. I can't just continue to
- 12:36Speaker 5: support you, deteriorate, to deteriorate, destroying yourself. You got it.
- 12:42Speaker 5: And he was like, man, all right, I got to
- 12:44Speaker 5: cook the funniest thing that man told me Cause when
- 12:47Speaker 5: when the overdose. Wait a minute, now, I'm trying to stop.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Bro.
- 12:53Speaker 5: Look man, you show problem whatever, but no, no, no, no,
- 13:01Speaker 5: but it helped me through it. But look, no hit
- 13:04Speaker 5: me out. So this is what I'm saying now, God
- 13:07Speaker 5: bless all of the people who have you know what
- 13:10Speaker 5: I'm saying, who have overcame h addiction and God bless
- 13:15Speaker 5: the people who have succumbed to it, and so many
- 13:19Speaker 5: of our our leaders and so many of our just
- 13:23Speaker 5: the the heroes of our culture are passing away, you know,
- 13:28Speaker 5: you know because the feenal everdemit is real.
- 13:32Speaker 1: You feel me.
- 13:33Speaker 5: And we've seen so many people like like like fall
- 13:38Speaker 5: and not make it. That man made it three times,
- 13:43Speaker 5: three times. And the third time they called me and
- 13:47Speaker 5: he was, you know what I'm saying, somewhere with people
- 13:49Speaker 5: that I would feel like, you know what I'm saying,
- 13:52Speaker 5: wouldn't have the same care to do the things that
- 13:54Speaker 5: need to be done. But he still made it. Uh,
- 13:57Speaker 5: And I could be you know what I'm saying that
- 13:59Speaker 5: that that that I'm speaking more of the area than
- 14:03Speaker 5: I am about the people, you know. But after that
- 14:07Speaker 5: they called me and I said, hell, nah, man, you laught.
- 14:10Speaker 5: So I called. I say, brouh man, Man, what's up? Bro?
- 14:14Speaker 5: Like man?
- 14:15Speaker 1: Now?
- 14:15Speaker 5: I said, what do you mean now? Now? Someone? What's up?
- 14:18Speaker 5: I said, Man, I know you ain't you know, I
- 14:20Speaker 5: know you ain't gonna suck around off yourself. And he say, man,
- 14:23Speaker 5: that that ship didn't even happy.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I didn't.
- 14:26Speaker 11: I didn't feel I didn't feel like well I didn't
- 14:28Speaker 11: know what fitting on was. You feel what I'm saying
- 14:31Speaker 11: to be honest with you, like like like he said
- 14:33Speaker 11: like it was a crazy pill, Like I didn't. I
- 14:36Speaker 11: didn't I want to ask for he Look, you got
- 14:39Speaker 11: fitting off.
- 14:39Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. I just what drug was?
- 14:41Speaker 1: It was?
- 14:41Speaker 11: It? It was a pert you know what I mean.
- 14:43Speaker 11: So once I once I took it, I didn't believe it.
- 14:47Speaker 11: You feel what I'm saying. So when it when it happened,
- 14:49Speaker 11: I felt like I felt like now I'm obligated to
- 14:53Speaker 11: tell my story and so it can help somebody that's
- 14:56Speaker 11: and you know that's fighting addiction, you know what I mean.
- 14:58Speaker 1: We just lost let the.
- 15:00Speaker 11: Legend, yeah, you know, and and for me to be
- 15:05Speaker 11: that made it through, I think that, you know, I
- 15:08Speaker 11: should use this platform that I have, you know that.
- 15:11Speaker 1: And he shares with me.
- 15:12Speaker 5: And then and then it was also after we lost
- 15:14Speaker 5: our partner, h our pon the peanut that done, Peanut
- 15:18Speaker 5: done done, like kind of he died the same way.
- 15:21Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. But it's a calling on
- 15:24Speaker 5: this man life. So when you say why is he
- 15:27Speaker 5: sharing it? I don't think he has a choice. I
- 15:29Speaker 5: feel like he was kind of positioned to survive all
- 15:32Speaker 5: the stuff that he survived and to have the effortless
- 15:36Speaker 5: connection with community. You know what I'm saying, If you
- 15:40Speaker 5: go anywhere in Atlanta, you gonna see Droe Couds. I
- 15:42Speaker 5: don't give a damn where you go, what part of
- 15:45Speaker 5: the city you in, you go see somebody who related
- 15:48Speaker 5: to young Joke. And he didn't been there every high
- 15:50Speaker 5: school in the city. He know everybody and you know,
- 15:54Speaker 5: to have that community tie. But then had his testimony
- 15:58Speaker 5: that you can share with these people and you know
- 16:00Speaker 5: what I'm saying, to inspire and uplift like that's that's special.
- 16:04Speaker 3: You know what I like, dro do give you give
- 16:06Speaker 3: rich pastor energy, rich pastor. I want to thank God.
- 16:12Speaker 3: Record makes so much sense to me when I heard it.
- 16:15Speaker 11: Yeah, I feel like I feel like I have, uh,
- 16:19Speaker 11: you know, the ability to give a ministry, not a minister,
- 16:24Speaker 11: you know what I mean. Like you know, like to
- 16:27Speaker 11: you you know, being growing up in the church and
- 16:29Speaker 11: stuff like that. You know, I just came back to that,
- 16:32Speaker 11: you know what I mean. But you know this right
- 16:34Speaker 11: here was a blessing man and you know, Tip called
- 16:37Speaker 11: and was like, hey, I think you should start to
- 16:39Speaker 11: tell because I did a lot of interviews in the
- 16:41Speaker 11: in the beginning and I didn't.
- 16:43Speaker 1: Want to say it, you know what I mean.
- 16:45Speaker 11: But I said it on this track, and I thought
- 16:47Speaker 11: that I should should have said to God first, you
- 16:49Speaker 11: feel what I'm saying.
- 16:50Speaker 5: And on that platform, that was the first time you
- 16:52Speaker 5: really made that. Now people knew that you was you
- 16:54Speaker 5: was clean, but they didn't know like.
- 16:56Speaker 1: What I didn't know? Yeah, like just like the question
- 16:58Speaker 1: you asked, what made you?
- 16:59Speaker 11: And I used to always be it around it and
- 17:01Speaker 11: I was like, well, I ain't ready to say it yet,
- 17:03Speaker 11: you know what I mean. But when he came along
- 17:05Speaker 11: and said, I think you should start telling it, I
- 17:07Speaker 11: was like, what better way you feel?
- 17:10Speaker 8: How did you feel after you're in the studio and
- 17:12Speaker 8: you finally said it it's on the record, Like did
- 17:14Speaker 8: you feel weight lifted off of you? Or did you
- 17:16Speaker 8: were you anxious about how people would respond to knowing
- 17:18Speaker 8: exactly what happened?
- 17:19Speaker 11: Or I felt like a weight lifted off of me
- 17:22Speaker 11: because of where we recorded at with with Kirk Franklin
- 17:28Speaker 11: overdosed in that studio. So I think that where God
- 17:32Speaker 11: where I broke myself at, God built me right back up.
- 17:36Speaker 9: Or do I just ended up just put it.
- 17:38Speaker 1: It just happened that way, you know what I'm saying.
- 17:39Speaker 11: And I was shamed to go back to the studio,
- 17:41Speaker 11: and I was, and I was, you know, I was
- 17:44Speaker 11: talking to guy, was like, I don't want to go back,
- 17:45Speaker 11: and he was like, go back in there and watch
- 17:47Speaker 11: what I do.
- 17:48Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
- 17:48Speaker 3: So you knew you was going to record this record,
- 17:51Speaker 3: but you didn't even know.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Wow wow wow.
- 17:53Speaker 5: Well he was actually at the studio for something. I
- 17:55Speaker 5: think he was working on the ps C L So
- 17:57Speaker 5: he was in the studio for something. Mail uh. And
- 18:00Speaker 5: then I was just like hey u k Kurt on
- 18:03Speaker 5: the way You're like what now I'm FeelA do mine
- 18:06Speaker 5: now I'm feeling you know what I'm saying. So he
- 18:08Speaker 5: went on and laid ladies. Lady verged down right then
- 18:12Speaker 5: that day, but it was definitely ordained.
- 18:17Speaker 11: Initially, I was ashamed to go back to the studio
- 18:21Speaker 11: because everybody was there.
- 18:23Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying.
- 18:23Speaker 11: So soon tip so when we started working on the
- 18:26Speaker 11: psc album, I just was like, you know what I'm.
- 18:29Speaker 5: Saying something he never even told me. I didn't even know.
- 18:31Speaker 11: I didn't I wasn't cool with coming back in there.
- 18:34Speaker 11: You feel me after I'm been laid all out on
- 18:36Speaker 11: the floor, you know what I'm saying. But once I
- 18:38Speaker 11: once I got the opportunity, I just swallowed that, took
- 18:41Speaker 11: that walk of shame, went back in there and recorded,
- 18:44Speaker 11: not knowing that God was going to rebuild me and
- 18:47Speaker 11: give me a platform to actually share with people what
- 18:50Speaker 11: happened to me right there and you know, get the
- 18:52Speaker 11: glory out of it.
- 18:53Speaker 1: You did you know what I'm saying?
- 18:54Speaker 3: Did you hear God in that moment?
- 18:55Speaker 1: Did you like I heard him in that moment?
- 18:56Speaker 5: Wow?
- 18:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna ask you did you deal with
- 19:00Speaker 2: why you needed or why you thought you needed those pills?
- 19:03Speaker 2: Was it upset? Was it I wanted to turn up?
- 19:05Speaker 2: Was Did you think you needed it to make a record?
- 19:07Speaker 2: Did you deal with that part of it? Because that's
- 19:09Speaker 2: the part that scared me with any artist, because it's
- 19:11Speaker 2: like you take it feeling like it's gonna take you
- 19:13Speaker 2: to someplace else, and it's like, well, what made you
- 19:15Speaker 2: feel like I had to take that pill to.
- 19:19Speaker 11: It started out with like just having fun, you know,
- 19:22Speaker 11: in the hood again high, but then it made me
- 19:24Speaker 11: feel like I needed it. To make good music, you
- 19:29Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. And actually it just stimulated and
- 19:31Speaker 11: I used to just write crazy and then it got
- 19:35Speaker 11: to the point where like it became an addiction. So
- 19:38Speaker 11: that went out the window. Music went out the window.
- 19:40Speaker 11: And then I was like, oh, I needed to you know, do.
- 19:43Speaker 1: This and do that.
- 19:43Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying. Plus from trauma, you know
- 19:45Speaker 11: what I'm saying. Things happened to me when I was younger,
- 19:48Speaker 11: you know what i mean, being shot and introduced to
- 19:50Speaker 11: dem role and addicted to that in the hospital, and
- 19:54Speaker 11: you know from from the from the way I got
- 19:56Speaker 11: whoopings as a child. That that trauma. You know what
- 19:59Speaker 11: I'm saying.
- 19:59Speaker 6: Well, we don't talk with that known yea lord, troumble
- 20:06Speaker 6: this discipline, that's not.
- 20:09Speaker 5: Stuff I can't speak on that.
- 20:15Speaker 11: I and stuff. We was tied up and beat like
- 20:20Speaker 11: but but not like. But to be honest with you,
- 20:23Speaker 11: my family, like we we thought my mama had five boys,
- 20:27Speaker 11: so it was hard to discipline five boys on her own.
- 20:30Speaker 9: Were you youngest, oldest, middle, I'm.
- 20:32Speaker 11: Right after the oldest, you know what I mean. So
- 20:34Speaker 11: when she laid the belt down, and it was necessary
- 20:37Speaker 11: because all of us are living today. None of us
- 20:40Speaker 11: are really like that bad of people. But and she
- 20:42Speaker 11: did the best. But when you whipping like that, you
- 20:45Speaker 11: have to be careful about how you do it. Now,
- 20:48Speaker 11: it's cool to whoop your child, you know, and discipline them,
- 20:50Speaker 11: but if you're gonna beat the ship out of them,
- 20:52Speaker 11: then you might as well get ready for something in
- 20:54Speaker 11: them that you don't know about. You know what I mean,
- 20:57Speaker 11: Because now that I'm older, she's probably surprised that when
- 21:00Speaker 11: she hears this.
- 21:01Speaker 1: You you know what I'm saying, How does that affect you
- 21:03Speaker 1: with your kids?
- 21:04Speaker 4: How you discipline your kids?
- 21:05Speaker 11: I see, I've recognized it, and I'm not gonna do
- 21:08Speaker 11: it to that degree. I'm a straight mind, but I
- 21:11Speaker 11: ain't gonna go that far because I don't want the repercussion.
- 21:13Speaker 5: I feel like, I feel like I feel like as
- 21:15Speaker 5: far as as far as child discipline is concerned, they
- 21:19Speaker 5: just need to know that they can get their ass work.
- 21:21Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying. You don't always have to
- 21:23Speaker 5: whoop their head, but you got to do it. You
- 21:25Speaker 5: got to live it down one time and they're like, hey,
- 21:27Speaker 5: you remember, Okay, now you see what I'm saying.
- 21:30Speaker 7: So y'all got boys.
- 21:31Speaker 3: I got all girls, so it's different.
- 21:34Speaker 5: Man. You can't whoop your girl.
- 21:36Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
- 21:36Speaker 5: Y'all got you got a strong black woman with you.
- 21:38Speaker 1: That's right.
- 21:39Speaker 3: Absolutely.
- 21:39Speaker 11: Hey man, I want to apologize my friend. I got
- 21:42Speaker 11: beside myself. I shouldn't have took feelings to that.
- 21:46Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That's my right there.
- 21:49Speaker 11: Man.
- 21:49Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I ain't goinna be slapping,
- 21:50Speaker 1: no goddamn.
- 21:51Speaker 5: But listen, hey man, we all we all here together.
- 21:57Speaker 5: We came here together, We're gonna leave here together. We're
- 21:59Speaker 5: gonna grow together. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So
- 22:01Speaker 5: you know, I just had to make that. So we're
- 22:02Speaker 5: gonna have a good time. We're gonna have bad times,
- 22:05Speaker 5: you know. But one thing we ain't gonna have it
- 22:07Speaker 5: no broke tabs.
- 22:11Speaker 3: You did say something your daughter.
- 22:13Speaker 5: Was on drugs.
- 22:13Speaker 1: He said, yeah, my little girl ended up picking up drugs.
- 22:16Speaker 11: But it happened just like how I did it when
- 22:18Speaker 11: I was seventeen eighteen, You feel me, and it just
- 22:21Speaker 11: played back, and it's the generational generational curse that like
- 22:25Speaker 11: how my father was. My father picked it up at
- 22:27Speaker 11: that age and he did it for fifty years, you
- 22:29Speaker 11: feel me. Then I picked it up and then I
- 22:31Speaker 11: lived that way then my little girl and I was
- 22:34Speaker 11: thinking about it, and all of this happened before I
- 22:37Speaker 11: went to rehab. Overdose this and all of that, you
- 22:39Speaker 11: feel what I'm saying. So when she did it, I
- 22:42Speaker 11: looked at God and it was just like he had
- 22:44Speaker 11: just revealed himself, like, Hey, I'm here. Now it's time
- 22:47Speaker 11: to start grabbing this by the reins, you know what
- 22:49Speaker 11: I'm saying. So when that happened, I was in rehab
- 22:52Speaker 11: while she was out. We're supposed to went together to
- 22:56Speaker 11: get the help, you know what I'm saying, And she
- 22:58Speaker 11: wasn't ready. But I had to go ahead of her
- 23:01Speaker 11: to be an example, you know. And I actually broke
- 23:05Speaker 11: this curse in my family because.
- 23:07Speaker 3: That's what.
- 23:10Speaker 1: She's good. Man.
- 23:10Speaker 11: She's working at the hospital and we talk all the time.
- 23:13Speaker 11: She's doing great. Man, She's clean.
- 23:16Speaker 8: You have the It takes a village foundation that you
- 23:19Speaker 8: do where you're in the schools talking to the kids.
- 23:21Speaker 8: When you're talking to the kids, like what are you
- 23:24Speaker 8: dissecting from your story to Because some of the kids
- 23:25Speaker 8: I saw in these videos are really young, So what
- 23:27Speaker 8: are the main issues you're seeing with the kids, and
- 23:29Speaker 8: how do you take your story and kind of mentor them.
- 23:32Speaker 5: Up a bit.
- 23:33Speaker 11: So what we do is it still takes a village.
- 23:37Speaker 11: We're in the communities and then the schools and then
- 23:40Speaker 11: the homes, and we do like interventions and I use
- 23:43Speaker 11: what I've been through. And then my manager to doctor
- 23:47Speaker 11: Sierra l she is like she's been LPC for twenty
- 23:50Speaker 11: years and she's into mental and behavior health.
- 23:53Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. So when we when we
- 23:55Speaker 1: come in and when we come into a.
- 23:56Speaker 11: Situation, like I try to, I try to bring the
- 24:00Speaker 11: street part into it. You feel what I'm saying and
- 24:02Speaker 11: let people know you know what to do when you're
- 24:06Speaker 11: like conflict resolution if you're out in the street and
- 24:09Speaker 11: you feel like you don't want to be no lame
- 24:10Speaker 11: and this and that. But sometimes they diagnose these young
- 24:14Speaker 11: kids with things that that's not wrong with them.
- 24:17Speaker 1: You feel me. They been like, oh, he bipolar or he.
- 24:22Speaker 11: Mad at you know, But the only thing is he
- 24:24Speaker 11: probably be mad at his dad because he wasn't at home.
- 24:27Speaker 11: Or they don't have nothing, you know, nothing to eat,
- 24:29Speaker 11: or you know what I'm saying. But we give them,
- 24:31Speaker 11: we diagnose them with stuff like that. But my partner,
- 24:35Speaker 11: she covers that area and I can tell them about
- 24:38Speaker 11: the street part. So we do mentoring and stuff like that.
- 24:41Speaker 8: You know, do they know when you come in because
- 24:43Speaker 8: the kids are so young, like, do they know Young
- 24:45Speaker 8: Joe the artists? Or are they just like happy that
- 24:46Speaker 8: someone's in the school talking to them that they can
- 24:48Speaker 8: relate to?
- 24:49Speaker 1: Well?
- 24:49Speaker 11: In Atlanta, nine times out of ten, I probably donet
- 24:52Speaker 11: been in that project before.
- 24:53Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying.
- 24:55Speaker 5: Ehere everybody, Man, he gonna look at it. Hey man,
- 25:00Speaker 5: who your mamma? Your daddy? Yeah, Man, tell you dad,
- 25:03Speaker 5: I said. It was like he's one of those kind
- 25:05Speaker 5: of people.
- 25:06Speaker 11: But we do want to go across like America for
- 25:08Speaker 11: the most part, you feel me. So if you can't
- 25:10Speaker 11: identify with who I am as a rapper, you'll identify
- 25:15Speaker 11: with you know, what I've been through, and what I've
- 25:18Speaker 11: been through is what a lot of a lot of
- 25:20Speaker 11: youth go through, you know what I mean? Rather black white, whatever,
- 25:23Speaker 11: you feel what I'm saying, like you've been through if
- 25:25Speaker 11: you didn't been through the trenches before, I have trenches
- 25:27Speaker 11: stories and I have a I have an outcome that
- 25:30Speaker 11: you know I made it out.
- 25:32Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, and you go way back. Yeah,
- 25:34Speaker 5: we'd have been through some ship man. Nah. No, No,
- 25:38Speaker 5: I ain't in middle school. Yeah, we were probably probably
- 25:41Speaker 5: right that drop out right at the drop out age.
- 25:43Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, kicked out.
- 25:45Speaker 1: I just didn't voluntarily.
- 25:47Speaker 5: I got I got me too, though. I got kicked
- 25:49Speaker 5: out of Riverdale Middle. So my mama moved me from
- 25:53Speaker 5: the west side, uh uh to like to what what
- 25:57Speaker 5: what was at that time the suburbs. And can't hate
- 26:01Speaker 5: when I called it the suburb He hate that. That's
- 26:04Speaker 5: what me and him fall back because he really is south.
- 26:07Speaker 5: That's his area where he grew up and live. He's like,
- 26:10Speaker 5: you know, suburbs, man. What when I moved there? You know,
- 26:13Speaker 5: you know y'all had got y'allbout Noah, we had been
- 26:16Speaker 5: had about we had got out. Yeah, we had moved
- 26:19Speaker 5: from Uh we moved so and there was some like
- 26:25Speaker 5: some real real good apartments everything.
- 26:29Speaker 12: Man.
- 26:29Speaker 5: It wasn't Central Central ac you know what I mean.
- 26:32Speaker 5: So we moved out there. I was there. I had
- 26:35Speaker 5: been there since eighth grade.
- 26:38Speaker 1: I got yallo.
- 26:39Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a vouch before then.
- 26:41Speaker 1: You know.
- 26:44Speaker 5: Section eight Food stamp.
- 26:45Speaker 1: Baby man.
- 26:46Speaker 5: Indeed, I don't remember. I don't know about the e
- 26:48Speaker 5: B T. I remember snatching the food stamps at the brown.
- 26:50Speaker 1: The brown brown and the green.
- 26:54Speaker 5: Had blues back then. It's been in blue back then,
- 26:57Speaker 5: but now so eighth grade, I moved up and and
- 27:02Speaker 5: then you know, I was going back and forth when
- 27:03Speaker 5: I got kicked out of Riverdale High School for inciting
- 27:06Speaker 5: the race were actually I got kicked out of what
- 27:08Speaker 5: a race war? I got kicked out of all Clayton
- 27:10Speaker 5: County school. That's really what they called it. That what
- 27:15Speaker 5: they kind of what happened was me and my partner
- 27:18Speaker 5: Boos in school suspension. And then you know what I'm
- 27:20Speaker 5: saying it was, It was it was a white wife
- 27:23Speaker 5: that called us a nigga, and we got to getting
- 27:25Speaker 5: on his head. And uh then you know, his sister
- 27:28Speaker 5: came around the corner and she yea, she called us
- 27:30Speaker 5: some niggas to get out my brother and niggas and
- 27:32Speaker 5: you got to kick her ad and then everybody and
- 27:34Speaker 5: everybody was getting out of school like and it was
- 27:36Speaker 5: just black people fight white people. And I'm gonna tell
- 27:39Speaker 5: you something, the white teachers jumped in.
- 27:43Speaker 1: No, yeah, man.
- 27:44Speaker 5: The white teacher, you know how you supposed to be
- 27:46Speaker 5: bringing up fight. They be like, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
- 27:49Speaker 5: I remember that. And after the melee, you know, didn't
- 27:55Speaker 5: nobody like, didn't nobody get kicked out but me and
- 27:58Speaker 5: boo me, you know what I'm saying. And so after that,
- 28:01Speaker 5: I went back to the West Side for a minute,
- 28:03Speaker 5: got in a whole lot of trouble, caught my first caught,
- 28:06Speaker 5: my first case, well my first case as an adult.
- 28:09Speaker 5: So I was dealing with that. So I had to
- 28:10Speaker 5: move back with my mama. And around then, that's when
- 28:14Speaker 5: I was like sixteen seventeen years old, and that's when
- 28:17Speaker 5: dro had moved out there. And so then it was
- 28:20Speaker 5: like we two West Side guys just out here and
- 28:24Speaker 5: we just.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Clicked and she was sweet out there.
- 28:26Speaker 5: Man.
- 28:26Speaker 1: Yeah, our knicks went for like thirty Yeah.
- 28:32Speaker 5: We literally go to Jones Burr soide was like thug hood.
- 28:35Speaker 5: We literally go to Jones Burrs out and by dying bags.
- 28:38Speaker 5: So we then we we drove back to the eye
- 28:41Speaker 5: side of town and sold them for thirty dollars. Yeah,
- 28:44Speaker 5: it was really that sweet. But anyway, that's not and
- 28:46Speaker 5: I'm not we are not let this is just a testimonial.
- 28:53Speaker 5: This is our testimony. We lived through this and we
- 28:56Speaker 5: earned the right to speak on it. Don't try you
- 28:59Speaker 5: remember that not that big, no more to get So
- 29:02Speaker 5: they go work today.
- 29:03Speaker 11: Remember the first time, Well that'll be that would have
- 29:06Speaker 11: been on me because he was already there.
- 29:08Speaker 1: So it was just dis apartment that was just booming.
- 29:13Speaker 1: I kept saying, you know, when you get there, you'd
- 29:15Speaker 1: be like, what it's that. You know what I'm saying.
- 29:17Speaker 1: When you moved somewhere. You like what I'm saying, Man,
- 29:19Speaker 1: you feel me?
- 29:19Speaker 11: And then I just kept saying, and then you know,
- 29:21Speaker 11: shot he serving Nott the wonder.
- 29:24Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 29:25Speaker 11: And you know my partner knew him. Who the other
- 29:27Speaker 11: looking parably not meant named Ben. He knew him. You
- 29:30Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. And we just all just and
- 29:33Speaker 11: I ended up going over there and I knew his.
- 29:34Speaker 11: The way his way he talked was like how we talked,
- 29:38Speaker 11: how he was moving. It was like how we moved car.
- 29:39Speaker 11: We were from Bankhead, you feel me. Seemed like we
- 29:41Speaker 11: was destined to meet because we was on one side
- 29:43Speaker 11: of town. I was in bankhad course, he was up
- 29:46Speaker 11: the street and center Hill. Then we moved to Riverdale.
- 29:48Speaker 11: Then you know what I'm saying, not even knowing that
- 29:50Speaker 11: this was going to come together, you know what I'm saying,
- 29:52Speaker 11: But it was all, it was all.
- 29:53Speaker 5: And I also and I also like had like a
- 29:55Speaker 5: little studio, so I was selling dope, but I also
- 29:59Speaker 5: had a little studio in my in my room, right,
- 30:01Speaker 5: so and droke a rep, you know what I'm saying,
- 30:03Speaker 5: And so you know, we'll we'll be rapping. And I
- 30:06Speaker 5: had like a keyboard with some little speakers and ship,
- 30:08Speaker 5: so I'll be doing my doing my beat and cutting
- 30:11Speaker 5: up my dope at the same time. And Joe like, man,
- 30:14Speaker 5: what you're trying to do? I said, Man, I would
- 30:15Speaker 5: be a rapper. I'm cutting I'm cutting my god damn
- 30:18Speaker 5: ounces up. He's like, I can't tell you be no
- 30:20Speaker 5: damn wrapper. You know what I'm saying. And that's kind
- 30:23Speaker 5: of how we you know, we bonded because he wasn't
- 30:26Speaker 5: really selling though like he was. He was, he was
- 30:29Speaker 5: out there in the mix, but he didn't for some reason,
- 30:32Speaker 5: had no interest. He really wanted to be a rapper,
- 30:35Speaker 5: like he was really, really, really seriou about it, and
- 30:37Speaker 5: he got a deal before I did.
- 30:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:40Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Droe had a deal. He had to two deals.
- 30:44Speaker 3: You signed up.
- 30:45Speaker 1: I'm about to I was on the radio like one
- 30:50Speaker 1: day he was.
- 30:51Speaker 11: He was at the radio station and I called up there,
- 30:54Speaker 11: but I was already on the radio.
- 30:56Speaker 1: I think you're putting out serious or something like that.
- 30:58Speaker 1: And I called in.
- 30:59Speaker 11: He was like, yeah, drove like drove and I was like, Nigga,
- 31:03Speaker 11: didn't doe. He was like you. I was like, yeah,
- 31:07Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying. But I was already on
- 31:09Speaker 11: the radio.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Body. Yeah.
- 31:10Speaker 3: So when you meet you met KP is the one
- 31:12Speaker 3: who really.
- 31:13Speaker 5: Help Yeah, KP. He uh. I met KP through uh DJ,
- 31:19Speaker 5: you know Jason. Jason took me Jason, DJ, Tump and
- 31:22Speaker 5: my cousin Too, God bless uh he he. They took
- 31:27Speaker 5: me at an intervention because when I told you, when
- 31:31Speaker 5: I told you, I caught, I caught that that dope case.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Uh.
- 31:34Speaker 5: They put me on seven years of probation. I was
- 31:37Speaker 5: seventeen years old at the time. But me and and
- 31:40Speaker 5: Tump too and Jay all of us had put our
- 31:44Speaker 5: money together to work on like a demo, you know
- 31:46Speaker 5: what I mean, And so they but I had just
- 31:48Speaker 5: found out that I was about to have my first child.
- 31:52Speaker 5: So after that, in my mind, I'm like, oh no,
- 31:53Speaker 5: I can't live like this having no baby. I got
- 31:55Speaker 5: to get it. I got to get to I got
- 31:56Speaker 5: to get it together. So I just kind of like
- 32:00Speaker 5: in my mind, I was like, Okay, so I'm gonna
- 32:01Speaker 5: just sell a whole bunch of dope in a little
- 32:03Speaker 5: bit of time and stack me up enough money do
- 32:06Speaker 5: what I need to do. But in the process of
- 32:08Speaker 5: doing that, I was like up all times a night,
- 32:11Speaker 5: riding the bicycle, all up and down bank head, all
- 32:13Speaker 5: kinds of I tell me, no matter what time you
- 32:15Speaker 5: from five in the morning, eight pm, twelve pm, all
- 32:20Speaker 5: times a day, I'm just riding my bike up and
- 32:22Speaker 5: down with a backpack like a little messenger, like a messenger,
- 32:26Speaker 5: and just just trapping and saving and trapping and saving.
- 32:30Speaker 5: And they had an indiventure because they found out. I
- 32:33Speaker 5: was trying not to let them know what I was doing,
- 32:35Speaker 5: but I guess word got around. They found out, and
- 32:37Speaker 5: they sat me down, was like, hey man, how is
- 32:40Speaker 5: we gonna be investing our money? And you if you
- 32:43Speaker 5: continue to doing what you're doing, you get locked up.
- 32:45Speaker 5: You're already on probation and everything were working for is
- 32:48Speaker 5: gonna be for nothing. I'm like, man, I got a
- 32:50Speaker 5: baby on the way. I tell you what, you take
- 32:52Speaker 5: me somewhere right now, Man, Well, I could showcase my
- 32:54Speaker 5: talent and I can actually, you know, somewhere that I
- 32:57Speaker 5: could actually get a deal and do this professionally, and
- 33:00Speaker 5: then you can ask me to stop. I ain't. I
- 33:02Speaker 5: ain't stopping, just to be stopping. And then I think
- 33:06Speaker 5: Tump and my cousin like, man, that's that's not even reasonable.
- 33:09Speaker 5: How can you say something? Then Jason say I know
- 33:10Speaker 5: a place. I say, see I like him, and so
- 33:14Speaker 5: he At the time, KP's a part of a group
- 33:16Speaker 5: called PA Parental Advisories Extension organized on it, and they
- 33:20Speaker 5: had their own uh deal with dream Works, and they
- 33:24Speaker 5: was doing the album. And as it was described to me,
- 33:27Speaker 5: the album was supposed to be like like like the Chronic.
- 33:29Speaker 5: How the Chronic had a bunch of unknown guys Just
- 33:32Speaker 5: and Dre were doing the beats. So so they was
- 33:36Speaker 5: looking for talent. They were looking for, you know, unknown talent.
- 33:39Speaker 5: And so Jason called him and said, man, I got somebody. Man,
- 33:43Speaker 5: it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be harder than anything
- 33:45Speaker 5: you listening to and so they said bring them. So
- 33:48Speaker 5: we went that same night. We went and uh, KP
- 33:52Speaker 5: wasn't there, but the other the other two members, Mellow
- 33:54Speaker 5: and Reeche, they were there and I think Reeche probably,
- 33:59Speaker 5: I think Mellow play the beat and Reef was like,
- 34:03Speaker 5: you can wrap on that? I said, can I wrap?
- 34:06Speaker 1: Man?
- 34:06Speaker 5: What a booth? I go straight in the booth? One't
- 34:09Speaker 5: take it. They were like where you being? Like ride
- 34:12Speaker 5: my bike up and there and uh. And then they
- 34:17Speaker 5: told k P about me, and they told me about
- 34:19Speaker 5: KPE and uh they gave I gave my beeple number. Yeah,
- 34:24Speaker 5: that's how long ago people people gave making, you know.
- 34:30Speaker 5: So it was about two weeks and I was like, yeah, exactly,
- 34:34Speaker 5: just like I thought, nothing happened. I'm back on my
- 34:36Speaker 5: bike and I got a I got a page, you
- 34:39Speaker 5: know when I got a page with no cold. And
- 34:43Speaker 5: that was strange, you know what I'm saying, because all
- 34:45Speaker 5: my pages came with cold. I know where to go
- 34:48Speaker 5: and what to bring with me, and so I just
- 34:50Speaker 5: rolled down to the payphone. Again, show you how long
- 34:53Speaker 5: ago this woman. So I rolled down to the payphone
- 34:56Speaker 5: and called and said the face records thing, I said,
- 34:58Speaker 5: what some dope it little face somebody page tip and
- 35:03Speaker 5: then it's like, oh, it must have been KP. And
- 35:06Speaker 5: then I was like KP. And then he was like, yo,
- 35:08Speaker 5: you was in the studio with with with Reson mellow Man,
- 35:11Speaker 5: and I'm KP. That's my group, and you know, I
- 35:15Speaker 5: gotta I gotta recollect with the Ghetto Vision and we're
- 35:17Speaker 5: going out to the We're going out to the Source Awards.
- 35:21Speaker 5: Uh in l A want to know if you want
- 35:24Speaker 5: to come, I'm like, who going? You're like, just you
- 35:27Speaker 5: know me and you know KP. He has this way
- 35:30Speaker 5: just just like throwing away some very very monumental moments
- 35:36Speaker 5: like oh man, just me out care, get in mall
- 35:39Speaker 5: Kool Breese, young Bloods, you know, gonna go hang. I say,
- 35:44Speaker 5: all right, let me let me, let me check my schedule,
- 35:46Speaker 5: let me see what I got to do. Okay, yeah,
- 35:49Speaker 5: I think I can make it. And so at that point,
- 35:55Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, well, I got to get up enough
- 35:56Speaker 5: money to get out here. So I'm you know, so
- 35:58Speaker 5: I could take care of myself and handle myself like
- 35:59Speaker 5: a player. So I went and got, I went and got.
- 36:04Speaker 5: I was getting too in the baby at the time,
- 36:05Speaker 5: so I paid for my reup, but then I told
- 36:08Speaker 5: him to front me another uh another one on top
- 36:11Speaker 5: of that. You know. So I had me a little
- 36:13Speaker 5: feway and so I sold half of had the money
- 36:16Speaker 5: put the rest of it back. So when I said
- 36:18Speaker 5: when when I come back, I'm I'm gonna trap this
- 36:20Speaker 5: and then that'll be my reup. You know what I'm
- 36:22Speaker 5: saying for for for my net load. So I went
- 36:25Speaker 5: out there. Man, I ended up freestyling on the tour
- 36:28Speaker 5: bus with good in Mob and Outcare. I ended up
- 36:31Speaker 5: doing the camera blocking Caukubrie were driving from Atlanta to
- 36:35Speaker 5: LA the tour bus. No, no, you're driving his he
- 36:39Speaker 5: adin't fly. Then he didn't fly. So he drove from
- 36:42Speaker 5: Atlanta to LA and made it, but minceed the camera
- 36:46Speaker 5: black and so they say, man, we need somebody to
- 36:48Speaker 5: do the camera black and for COOPB report on watch
- 36:50Speaker 5: for the hook like I know, I know, I know
- 36:53Speaker 5: the song man. So I ended up on the stage
- 36:56Speaker 5: with Outcare, Good in my wish doctor and you know
- 37:00Speaker 5: backbone the whole organized noise Rico waite, Uh, I mean
- 37:04Speaker 5: everybody and everybody like embraced me to say it, like
- 37:07Speaker 5: where you from, bro, I'm like, man, I'm from Atlanta.
- 37:09Speaker 5: Now where you from, bro, Like from the West side, well, Bankhead,
- 37:14Speaker 5: Well niggas center here, bake a roll. What's up?
- 37:16Speaker 10: Bro?
- 37:17Speaker 5: They was like, oh, shout it from the town for real.
- 37:20Speaker 5: And I remember that one then when I really felt
- 37:22Speaker 5: like I had made it right. So we came back
- 37:26Speaker 5: I think maybe from camera blacking or maybe from some
- 37:28Speaker 5: some official thing. Where everybody went to came back was
- 37:31Speaker 5: in the all in the lobby of the hotel and
- 37:34Speaker 5: I'm looking this way at cie Lo cu Joe looking
- 37:37Speaker 5: their way, a big boy and Dre Court Drave went
- 37:40Speaker 5: straight to he room, you know what I'm saying. Where
- 37:42Speaker 5: everybody just hanging out right, and uh then uh, you know,
- 37:48Speaker 5: I was always kind of like I just had away
- 37:52Speaker 5: with attracting lady and stuff. And you know, of course
- 37:55Speaker 5: a group of niggas. Everybody like, man, the girls, what
- 37:57Speaker 5: a girl? What a girl? So I was like, man,
- 37:59Speaker 5: you know, I go to that. And we was right
- 38:01Speaker 5: across the street from the Belly Center, at the Sofa Tier,
- 38:03Speaker 5: right cross street from the Beller Center. La. I'm like, man,
- 38:05Speaker 5: I go to the go to the mall, get some
- 38:07Speaker 5: girl that you know. So me and k p went
- 38:09Speaker 5: to the marble. But then where we were finna go.
- 38:11Speaker 5: I remember Big Boy saying, hey, man, yeah, when you
- 38:14Speaker 5: get back, man, come on up to the room. Man
- 38:16Speaker 5: blow one. Man. I say, huh, Big Boy from Outcastes
- 38:19Speaker 5: and told me to come smoke one with a minute. Man.
- 38:23Speaker 5: Hell yeah, So we go come back. I go knock
- 38:27Speaker 5: on Big boyroom smoking and we chilling and talking. I'm like, man, nigga,
- 38:31Speaker 5: I have made it. I'm in here smoking with Big
- 38:34Speaker 5: Boy for outcast and I just freestyled with sea load
- 38:40Speaker 5: and man. I went back home. I gave at dope away.
- 38:43Speaker 5: I didn't never tell I didn't want to see a
- 38:45Speaker 5: no more dope no more. I told my I told
- 38:47Speaker 5: my plug. I said a brouh, I feel do the
- 38:49Speaker 5: rap shit. So I ain't got your money right now.
- 38:50Speaker 5: I had to spend all the money that I had.
- 38:52Speaker 5: I I ain't got your money right now. I don't
- 38:55Speaker 5: even want to risk it. He say, you know what, rouh,
- 38:57Speaker 5: you don't owe me nothing long as you're doing that.
- 38:59Speaker 5: But you get back in the game, I won't my money.
- 39:03Speaker 4: You ever go back and get money on that.
- 39:05Speaker 5: I didn't know no now he had called a k man.
- 39:07Speaker 5: He had caught the case and he would he was
- 39:10Speaker 5: gone before I could, God damn get to him.
- 39:13Speaker 3: You know, this week was twenty three years if I'm serious,
- 39:15Speaker 3: I'm serious. Came to the two thousand and one.
- 39:18Speaker 5: God damn okay, and there was two years before that,
- 39:21Speaker 5: so they were twenty five years ago. Yeah, won't he
- 39:25Speaker 5: do it? Thank God?
- 39:26Speaker 8: I'm just thinking, like, what's the conversations of God, Like
- 39:29Speaker 8: y'all have y'all story?
- 39:30Speaker 9: God amazing, like the blessing.
- 39:33Speaker 7: Yes, like man drove cover too, but tip cover.
- 39:37Speaker 1: I mean I'm supercovered.
- 39:38Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we both are. This kind of why.
- 39:40Speaker 5: I think we kind of we understand the position that
- 39:46Speaker 5: the other. I understand his position. He understand my position.
- 39:50Speaker 5: I understand like I know that God got his hand
- 39:52Speaker 5: on him because I could see it.
- 39:54Speaker 11: And man, I'm on bard time. You feel me, I'm
- 39:57Speaker 11: supposed to be doing this interview. The amount of money
- 40:01Speaker 11: I saw him lifeless.
- 40:02Speaker 5: I saw him. I saw it with my own amount
- 40:05Speaker 5: of money, not in person, but but my son, like
- 40:08Speaker 5: the money was actually the one that walked in and
- 40:11Speaker 5: saw he faced me say hey, what's up with Joe.
- 40:14Speaker 5: I'm trying to wake him up. He won't wake up.
- 40:16Speaker 5: And I'm like, Joe jo.
- 40:18Speaker 1: Hey, man, that's what woke me up. I was like,
- 40:21Speaker 1: this is so annoying.
- 40:29Speaker 5: Get your something, he said.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Then I heard something. He said, what's wrong?
- 40:32Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know what he was doing.
- 40:37Speaker 5: He was like he was trying to talk back, but
- 40:39Speaker 5: he couldn't talk. You know what I'm saying, I said, man,
- 40:42Speaker 5: go call them lamb man. And you know what I'm saying.
- 40:46Speaker 5: They said, if he had if the money had.
- 40:47Speaker 11: The money was actually when you actually he did talk
- 40:52Speaker 11: about the family, how old the money was.
- 40:55Speaker 1: He was.
- 40:56Speaker 11: He almost broke my you know, he knew when I
- 41:01Speaker 11: when I when I got when I was up and
- 41:03Speaker 11: I was came to I was like, my chance is
- 41:05Speaker 11: killing me.
- 41:06Speaker 1: He was like.
- 41:12Speaker 5: He might have been nineteen.
- 41:13Speaker 4: Wow, And you talked the money.
- 41:16Speaker 5: We all did so back, you know, back because because
- 41:18Speaker 5: my sister, prescious, she used to have me. She used
- 41:20Speaker 5: to she used to have uh asthma tacks all the time,
- 41:24Speaker 5: and so because she had admatur all the time she
- 41:28Speaker 5: was living in the house with us, we never didn
- 41:30Speaker 5: want you know, one of the kids. Actually somebody did
- 41:33Speaker 5: did walk in while she was having admitak and didn't
- 41:35Speaker 5: know what to do, and that what prompted us to
- 41:37Speaker 5: get everybody some CPR training. I don't know if everybody
- 41:40Speaker 5: remembered it, you know what I'm saying, But actually he did.
- 41:43Speaker 11: Yeah, just say I'm covered as an understatement, I have
- 41:46Speaker 11: something to do. Yeah, it's something that I.
- 41:49Speaker 5: Feel too, Bro, I feel like you know what I'm saying.
- 41:51Speaker 5: It's a perfect God got me here because I could. Man,
- 41:53Speaker 5: you remember that shoot that we were sing?
- 41:56Speaker 1: Hey, listen to me.
- 41:57Speaker 3: How do y'all remember shoot?
- 42:02Speaker 5: I was.
- 42:03Speaker 1: I was actually healing up from a gunshot woman, you
- 42:05Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I wasn't. I had still
- 42:07Speaker 1: had staples in my stomach, you know, that was healing up.
- 42:10Speaker 1: And we know these cases.
- 42:12Speaker 5: It was so funny, little man shout we were really
- 42:16Speaker 5: going to fight. D you dude, right, because you know
- 42:18Speaker 5: I was one.
- 42:19Speaker 4: I was this was this before signed this.
- 42:25Speaker 5: I ain't touch no dope. I ain't touched no dope
- 42:27Speaker 5: since that day. I ain't touch no dope. You know
- 42:30Speaker 5: what I'm saying. I might have I might have seen
- 42:32Speaker 5: a little bit, but I ain't touching you know what
- 42:33Speaker 5: I'm saying. But anyway, so they were telling on me
- 42:38Speaker 5: because I guess they had just moved out there, and
- 42:40Speaker 5: I get they wanted to get in and have they
- 42:41Speaker 5: look motion and I already had all the motion and apartments,
- 42:47Speaker 5: and so they they were telling, they were telling the police,
- 42:50Speaker 5: and it was a particular police officer did, uh, we're cool.
- 42:55Speaker 5: You know, I ain't gonna say no name, but to
- 42:57Speaker 5: buy weed from him. And you know what I'm saying.
- 42:58Speaker 5: When he's buying the little we this stuff, he was like, man,
- 43:00Speaker 5: you know the me you know, the folks telling people
- 43:02Speaker 5: down there about you. You know, I'm like, I know
- 43:04Speaker 5: you laugh. And so I walk up, you know, seeing
- 43:07Speaker 5: them probably there, and tap on the wind and said, ay, bro,
- 43:10Speaker 5: you know what happened. You know what I'm saying, Folks
- 43:11Speaker 5: saying my name, saying my name is police station? You
- 43:13Speaker 5: know what happened where I'm from? Right, He just rode
- 43:15Speaker 5: them up and put off, and so you know what
- 43:18Speaker 5: I'm saying. So I was like, I know what to
- 43:20Speaker 5: do about that. So me and I went and got
- 43:21Speaker 5: all my parnel from the West side.
- 43:23Speaker 1: Man we had.
- 43:26Speaker 5: And we we can't but we weren't. You know what
- 43:29Speaker 5: I'm saying. But it's just a little lad whipping, just
- 43:31Speaker 5: teaching a little Spanky and so you know, I went
- 43:33Speaker 5: to Joe Hall and were walking down, walking down the
- 43:36Speaker 5: hill smoking and we said him, Daddy, go right there,
- 43:39Speaker 5: but were walking up there, little we walk up.
- 43:40Speaker 1: So we walk up there.
- 43:41Speaker 5: The nigga walking out the shadows. It's big, but they.
- 43:44Speaker 1: Had on gold jail. They looked like gold.
- 43:46Speaker 14: Like, wait, a motherfucking man, man, No, no, no, no, man,
- 43:52Speaker 14: let's switch to the other plan. Let's he was like,
- 43:56Speaker 14: hell no, you know what I'm saying.
- 44:00Speaker 5: It was like up the fire, up the fire star,
- 44:04Speaker 5: start blabing.
- 44:05Speaker 1: Man.
- 44:05Speaker 5: The nigga droves and the shoot that's going this way right,
- 44:08Speaker 5: you know, this nigga drove ran straight here, just like
- 44:11Speaker 5: that shirt on.
- 44:18Speaker 1: I was like, this chain ain't gonna help this.
- 44:20Speaker 5: Like dude, I'm like, why is you running this way? Bro?
- 44:24Speaker 5: Hey man? That ship was fun in here and didn't
- 44:26Speaker 5: get where. We all went back. So after the shoot
- 44:28Speaker 5: that everybody break, I go there own way. We all
- 44:31Speaker 5: make our way back to U Droves. How could that
- 44:34Speaker 5: we left her? We made it back to Droe Putman
- 44:36Speaker 5: and any apartment it's like a it's a building. You
- 44:39Speaker 5: walk in the building, it's two punt men downstairs. Stairway
- 44:42Speaker 5: upstairs and two pupments up stead. Uh, so we go
- 44:45Speaker 5: in the building. We knocked on the door and we
- 44:47Speaker 5: can hear the police. So we're laying down, we knocking
- 44:49Speaker 5: on the door. Joe, Mama say, hell no, don't bring
- 44:51Speaker 5: that ship in.
- 44:52Speaker 1: Y'all ain't coming in.
- 44:54Speaker 11: So we said, everybody lined up on the step were trying, Mama,
- 44:57Speaker 11: you got to let us in.
- 44:59Speaker 1: Y'all ain't coming in here. Let us in.
- 45:02Speaker 11: So now when she let us in, all us laying
- 45:05Speaker 11: on the floor while the departments is being flooded with police.
- 45:08Speaker 11: And mind you, every time me and him get together,
- 45:11Speaker 11: they end up kicking in the door or the police
- 45:13Speaker 11: come and they try to take us away.
- 45:15Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, ask a question when y'all
- 45:17Speaker 6: get together like this, right, trying to separate it. But
- 45:22Speaker 6: when y'all get together like this and these these moments, right,
- 45:25Speaker 6: one moment that's coming to mind that the MTV Awards
- 45:27Speaker 6: when y'all y'all came out and performed Shoulder Land.
- 45:30Speaker 3: But then you did what you know about that by
- 45:31Speaker 3: yourself being.
- 45:32Speaker 6: That'll have been through all of those life for death
- 45:34Speaker 6: situations and all of that type of ship and what
- 45:37Speaker 6: is y'all mindset.
- 45:38Speaker 3: When y'all in those moments, y'all just look at each
- 45:39Speaker 3: other and laugh.
- 45:40Speaker 5: Like God, we don't really think about it until like
- 45:43Speaker 5: we'll talk about it to like now, we just you know,
- 45:45Speaker 5: if we weren't here, we probably we we create new moments,
- 45:50Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. The next moment is probably
- 45:52Speaker 5: what we're thinking.
- 45:53Speaker 1: Man, rebuilding, creating new moments, just the thing.
- 45:57Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 45:58Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know we watch black people get there
- 46:00Speaker 6: ip stolen all the time. Likeness gets stolen all the time,
- 46:03Speaker 6: and it's usually big fish, each little fish with these corporations.
- 46:06Speaker 4: What made you want to go to war with with
- 46:08Speaker 4: that that corporation numerous times too?
- 46:11Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna be very very clear concise with my message,
- 46:15Speaker 5: and I'm gonna be honest and direct. I did not
- 46:18Speaker 5: want to. This was my wife, My wife. Yeah, she
- 46:21Speaker 5: was the one who were pressing the hell out the issue.
- 46:24Speaker 5: But she kept pressing the hell out the issue. And
- 46:28Speaker 5: and I'm glad she did. You know what I'm saying,
- 46:30Speaker 5: I'm glad she did. God bless you know. That's that's
- 46:34Speaker 5: that's what marriage is. Fucked absolutely and I think you
- 46:39Speaker 5: know it was her tenacity, and now I was I
- 46:43Speaker 5: saw it, but I just didn't see how, you know,
- 46:47Speaker 5: we could just keep pushing it, pushing and pushing it
- 46:49Speaker 5: like that, and it ship was caustly, you know what
- 46:52Speaker 5: I'm saying. We were probably like three and a half
- 46:54Speaker 5: million in and and every time we go back to
- 46:57Speaker 5: court it's another some figure. And then the last time
- 47:02Speaker 5: we had lost the case, you know, for whatever reason,
- 47:07Speaker 5: and then the other then he had the nerve to
- 47:11Speaker 5: send me his bill. I said, I know you fucking last.
- 47:14Speaker 5: And then the law changed, the law change that said
- 47:18Speaker 5: that the First Amendment could no longer protect uh, you
- 47:24Speaker 5: know when it comes to to like to likeness, uh
- 47:27Speaker 5: and so on. I think it was some kind of
- 47:29Speaker 5: Jack Daniels case where it was a little puppy, a
- 47:32Speaker 5: little a little like a little dog that a little
- 47:36Speaker 5: Jack Russell dogg that I think it had something similar
- 47:39Speaker 5: to Jack Daniels own it. And they thought that they
- 47:42Speaker 5: could do that, and Jack Daniels the whiskey was like, no,
- 47:44Speaker 5: y'all can't do that. It's like, now it's a parody,
- 47:47Speaker 5: and we protected out of the First Amendment, and the
- 47:49Speaker 5: Supreme Court rule, no you're not. And that's what got
- 47:53Speaker 5: us back in court to judge said, Okay, well this
- 47:55Speaker 5: law change, so we had to go and we had
- 47:57Speaker 5: to revisit this all over again, and thank and thank god,
- 48:01Speaker 5: you know, we did. And Judge was extremely he was
- 48:04Speaker 5: extremely fair, you know.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Uh.
- 48:07Speaker 5: And and I think that the jury that we had
- 48:12Speaker 5: could see through a lot of the shenanigans and nonsense
- 48:15Speaker 5: that the other side were trying to pull. Although I
- 48:17Speaker 5: understand the other side position. You know, this guy he's
- 48:21Speaker 5: you know, he's a billionaire, right and and I'm sure
- 48:26Speaker 5: he not in that motherfucker looking every day and who
- 48:28Speaker 5: does and trying.
- 48:29Speaker 1: To say what.
- 48:30Speaker 5: So I'm sure some people who he had put in
- 48:32Speaker 5: position who probably didn't want to do some work and
- 48:36Speaker 5: just say, you know what, I could just take this
- 48:38Speaker 5: and do this and then that that he won't know,
- 48:41Speaker 5: you know, and he probably didn't until and then.
- 48:44Speaker 2: But now, Hey, the crazy thing is they probably would
- 48:47Speaker 2: have offered you guys a deal. You guys probably would.
- 48:49Speaker 5: Have did a deal with the pactability absolutely, man. I mean,
- 48:52Speaker 5: like at the beginning, we've had several mediation and he
- 48:56Speaker 5: just never wanted he never wanted to come to the
- 48:58Speaker 5: table to mediate, you know what, I'm saying never even
- 49:00Speaker 5: thought that he even had to consider you know, uh
- 49:06Speaker 5: like like resolving this. I mean I gues because, like
- 49:10Speaker 5: you say, corporation do it all the time. I give
- 49:12Speaker 5: people are so used to it, it's become the norm. Uh.
- 49:15Speaker 5: He didn't think that it deserved any consideration. Luckily, the
- 49:20Speaker 5: judge and the jury thought different.
- 49:22Speaker 8: First thought when y'all when the ruling came down for
- 49:25Speaker 8: the window, Like, what was your first thought?
- 49:27Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, that's it, that's man. I was with KP
- 49:30Speaker 5: actually and we were actually and I was feeling like
- 49:33Speaker 5: I didn't make it to the day for the when
- 49:37Speaker 5: the when the deliberation was handed, you.
- 49:40Speaker 4: Much as thought you were gonna lose any I.
- 49:42Speaker 5: Had to shoot a movie. We just got through shooting
- 49:45Speaker 5: Apartments Part two, and as a director, you know, I
- 49:48Speaker 5: got to be there. I can't. And I took one
- 49:51Speaker 5: week off and they said it was gonna be done
- 49:53Speaker 5: that week and then the next week, like it were
- 49:55Speaker 5: suposed to be done by Friday. They started, they went
- 49:57Speaker 5: into deliberation on Friday, and we're suposed to come back
- 50:01Speaker 5: Friday with divertedt but they didn't. So they said it's
- 50:05Speaker 5: gonna be Monday. I said man, I can't come back Monday.
- 50:06Speaker 5: I got to go back to work. So I did,
- 50:09Speaker 5: and I'm on the phone and I'm listening and we
- 50:14Speaker 5: were still shooting too, we still supposedly feeling I said, man,
- 50:17Speaker 5: y'all handle it, y'all hand it? Hey, man, Yeah, because
- 50:24Speaker 5: I walked out in the middle of a scene, and
- 50:27Speaker 5: so they still doing They're like hey. I was like, man,
- 50:30Speaker 5: and then k K Kate said, I cut.
- 50:35Speaker 11: I can tell you how I felt. I was like,
- 50:37Speaker 11: remember what we had talked about. Make sure you give
- 50:39Speaker 11: me my little pig. That's all I need.
- 50:43Speaker 5: But I didn't know no number I was. I was
- 50:45Speaker 5: listening and I heard him say, you know that, you
- 50:48Speaker 5: know that, like the first infringement or so on and
- 50:53Speaker 5: so forth, and they were talking. They went down the
- 50:55Speaker 5: list of dolls, which one did was one then, but
- 50:57Speaker 5: then I heard the number seventeen points. I'm a million.
- 51:01Speaker 5: I say seventeen Yeah, I did, I say seventeen million.
- 51:08Speaker 5: And so I hung up the phone. And then we
- 51:12Speaker 5: had to go fly to Vegas to do a show Arizona.
- 51:16Speaker 5: We had to fly to Arizona to do a show.
- 51:18Speaker 5: And while we're on the plane, they went back into
- 51:23Speaker 5: the liberations for punitive damages. And then they came back
- 51:26Speaker 5: with the punitive it said fifty three million three means
- 51:30Speaker 5: say plus the seventies.
- 51:34Speaker 1: Around text Again, I was like, don't forget that piece.
- 51:38Speaker 5: I said, you better stop showing that like this. You
- 51:41Speaker 5: better stop showing that like this now.
- 51:43Speaker 4: And them lawsuits to tax free so there's no TAXI taking.
- 51:45Speaker 5: No that's not true. Oh yeah, you don't put that
- 51:47Speaker 5: out there like that. Now, the actual damages, for the
- 51:52Speaker 5: actual damages, there are no taxes because the taxis to
- 51:55Speaker 5: actual damages. Are you know what, whatever dolls they say
- 52:00Speaker 5: look the most like the girls with those dolls made,
- 52:05Speaker 5: so those are actual damages. And and the the taxes
- 52:09Speaker 5: were already put into the they were taken from the
- 52:12Speaker 5: gross before this, so the taxes was paid on this money.
- 52:15Speaker 5: So this on this note, well, on the punitive, you
- 52:19Speaker 5: do have to you do have to pay taxes. It's
- 52:21Speaker 5: still a come up still, man, No, it's a blessed right,
- 52:36Speaker 5: you're right, yeah, but but even more so I love
- 52:39Speaker 5: to see like my daughters, my daughter and my nieces
- 52:43Speaker 5: like they also like they straight you know what I'm saying.
- 52:46Speaker 6: I saw people saying that on social media was like,
- 52:48Speaker 6: I hope they get a girl something like.
- 52:51Speaker 5: No, man, it's they fight. You feel what I'm saying,
- 52:54Speaker 5: And I feel like for them to be vindicated and
- 52:59Speaker 5: you know, to come out Victorias and the sea. If
- 53:03Speaker 5: you stand up for some you know what and you
- 53:06Speaker 5: and you know that, you know in your heart truly
- 53:09Speaker 5: that you that you fighting for for what's what's what's yours.
- 53:13Speaker 5: You know the outcome is gonna be victorious as long
- 53:18Speaker 5: as you claim it, believe it, and let God lead
- 53:21Speaker 5: the way. I'm happy to be a part of the
- 53:24Speaker 5: process of of of allowing them to see that.
- 53:28Speaker 1: M hm.
- 53:30Speaker 3: Now sometimes and it's a more paper and none.
- 53:31Speaker 5: I'm to tell you it's more because there's more dolls
- 53:34Speaker 5: that came up to look like other celebrities. I'm just
- 53:36Speaker 5: telling you some more money out there. Money.
- 53:39Speaker 6: These corporations do get retaliating sometimes.
- 53:44Speaker 5: No, I mean, you know what I mean. I mean
- 53:46Speaker 5: they have the right to appeal and the man they
- 53:48Speaker 5: can exercise that right then that'll open the door for trademark.
- 53:52Speaker 5: So trademark means now we're looking at all the dolls.
- 53:54Speaker 5: If you want to open up the door for trademark,
- 53:56Speaker 5: you're gonna open up the door for trademark going in
- 53:58Speaker 5: a pill. Now that's the three could turn the two
- 54:01Speaker 5: three bs, So go ahead, open it up, do your things.
- 54:04Speaker 5: I got it, you know, but oh, you could just
- 54:07Speaker 5: come over with this sementy right now.
- 54:11Speaker 6: I saw du Ball post you man. He was at
- 54:13Speaker 6: a show the other day. I forgot what y'all performing
- 54:15Speaker 6: at Community Service Community Service, and he said, he said
- 54:18Speaker 6: that you just one of the best performers, one of
- 54:20Speaker 6: the best lyricists out there, which people feel.
- 54:22Speaker 3: How did that make you feel?
- 54:24Speaker 11: It made me feel good. Man, it's long overdue. I've
- 54:26Speaker 11: always thought I always thought that the talent and the craft.
- 54:30Speaker 11: I've always had respect for it, and you know, to
- 54:34Speaker 11: to get my flowers for it. Man, It's it's long overdue.
- 54:38Speaker 11: I mean I have I feel like that if you
- 54:41Speaker 11: if you love the craft and respect it like the
- 54:44Speaker 11: way I do, because you know people, you know, people
- 54:47Speaker 11: can get your music, you know, to get your album
- 54:49Speaker 11: or whatever. And that's one thing for somebody to have
- 54:52Speaker 11: your album. But I think that once the album died
- 54:55Speaker 11: down and then you know, it just only depends on
- 54:59Speaker 11: your and what you have to offer in a live show.
- 55:02Speaker 11: You feel what I'm saying like, oh, well, you know
- 55:04Speaker 11: I want to see Drove perform live. You know what
- 55:07Speaker 11: I mean, because shouted live show crazy. I had to
- 55:10Speaker 11: see de Bo once I met him in person and
- 55:12Speaker 11: I seen it live. It carries you know what I mean,
- 55:15Speaker 11: So I appreciate it.
- 55:16Speaker 3: Man, What will DRO's new music sound like? You know
- 55:20Speaker 3: what I mean? Because you know you see Kendrick put
- 55:21Speaker 3: out the party. The party was the party.
- 55:23Speaker 6: Most director and here with La Crab been saying in
- 55:26Speaker 6: D one how they want more positive messages in the music.
- 55:29Speaker 3: Is it gonna be that? Like you're gonna really give
- 55:31Speaker 3: the ministry most definitely.
- 55:32Speaker 11: I'm going to make sure that I set aside time
- 55:36Speaker 11: and use my vocals to put back into what happened
- 55:40Speaker 11: to me, you know what I mean, and for use
- 55:43Speaker 11: it for like a positive outlook on things. But I
- 55:45Speaker 11: will not stop telling my truth and what's happening to
- 55:49Speaker 11: us as a community and what society is you know,
- 55:53Speaker 11: has to offer us, you know what I mean? Like
- 55:55Speaker 11: I won't I won't shy away from telling you how
- 55:59Speaker 11: I took a appeal that killed me.
- 56:01Speaker 1: I won't shy away.
- 56:01Speaker 11: From telling you that they serving them you feel me,
- 56:04Speaker 11: I won't shy away from telling you that most of
- 56:07Speaker 11: most of the things that we do in the hood
- 56:10Speaker 11: comes from like drug use, Like a lot of things
- 56:12Speaker 11: that go on in the hood. Man, people be using drugs.
- 56:15Speaker 11: And with the mental state that we have, man, we
- 56:17Speaker 11: we out here doing the wrong stuff. You know what
- 56:19Speaker 11: I'm saying. So I won't shy away from that. And
- 56:21Speaker 11: I also use my my platform to do songs with
- 56:25Speaker 11: people like Dietrich hadn't like run out of time, you
- 56:27Speaker 11: know what I mean? And one k f you you
- 56:29Speaker 11: know what I'm saying.
- 56:30Speaker 2: Absolutely, And now t I gotta ask. Now you said
- 56:34Speaker 2: I will raise this child to torture you the way
- 56:37Speaker 2: you torture me. Talk about King about to have his
- 56:41Speaker 2: first child, is that is that true? I mean, I mean,
- 56:47Speaker 2: I mean because he seems like the child gave you
- 56:49Speaker 2: the most problems. Man, I mean, to be honest, which
- 56:52Speaker 2: I'm gonna just be, I'm gonna keep it. I'm gonna
- 56:53Speaker 2: keep it a buck.
- 56:55Speaker 5: King is. You know, he's a he's always better around, punctuous, outgoing,
- 57:01Speaker 5: energetic child, you know what I'm saying. But just to
- 57:05Speaker 5: be honest, he is fucked compared to me and the
- 57:10Speaker 5: ship that I did, and how he ain't really gave
- 57:13Speaker 5: them kinds of problems, you know what I'm saying. Uh,
- 57:16Speaker 5: he gave something that might resemble like it, could you know,
- 57:20Speaker 5: become that, but he never he ain't never you know,
- 57:23Speaker 5: did the kind of ship that I was doing that
- 57:27Speaker 5: I know about. Uh So I don't. I can't say that.
- 57:30Speaker 5: You know, he just gave me a whole lot of problems.
- 57:34Speaker 5: But the problem that he did get he did give,
- 57:36Speaker 5: he gonna get him back. He gonna have a son,
- 57:38Speaker 5: and his son just telling you. I'm just telling you,
- 57:41Speaker 5: and he gonna understand. He gonna understand what it means.
- 57:44Speaker 1: Can't you do shit? Like?
- 57:45Speaker 5: Let me tell you some So I put you know, uh, Major,
- 57:49Speaker 5: and I wanted to put Major and and and King
- 57:55Speaker 5: and like one of the best schools in Atlanta wood Work.
- 57:59Speaker 5: And we went and Danger had already went to Woodwork.
- 58:03Speaker 5: And so now you know it's time for Major to
- 58:05Speaker 5: find him a new school. And I'm like, well we
- 58:07Speaker 5: put Major, that man will put King there with him.
- 58:09Speaker 5: So it will take Major King and we do the test,
- 58:13Speaker 5: you know, you got to have that uh the you know,
- 58:16Speaker 5: the consultation, and they had had the kid take a
- 58:18Speaker 5: test and what have you Major pass flying colors, and
- 58:23Speaker 5: it was like Major, Sure, I'm sure we find a
- 58:26Speaker 5: spot for him. He's definitely with materials. Say, but your
- 58:29Speaker 5: other son, is he okay? Say what you mean? Is
- 58:35Speaker 5: he okay? Said? These are the lowest test scores we've
- 58:39Speaker 5: ever seen. But the man winning hill and intentionally failed
- 58:44Speaker 5: so he wouldn't have to go to private school. Man,
- 58:46Speaker 5: he wanted to stay in public school out there with
- 58:48Speaker 5: his friend. And so that's the kind of ship he did.
- 58:51Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, it ain't bad, but
- 58:53Speaker 5: it's like.
- 58:55Speaker 1: The genius.
- 58:58Speaker 3: I know how to stick around.
- 59:01Speaker 1: I want to be.
- 59:02Speaker 5: He still didn't get to be way. He wanted to
- 59:04Speaker 5: be a cent him way on the other side of
- 59:05Speaker 5: town to another school that he couldn't stand, you know,
- 59:08Speaker 5: but he made through. He stuck through it, and you
- 59:10Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Uh, And then COVID happened, so
- 59:13Speaker 5: they kind of shined on him.
- 59:14Speaker 2: Now, there was another video of you and Boosy talking
- 59:17Speaker 2: to your sons about the video with with the firearms
- 59:20Speaker 2: in it. How was that conversation because I know he
- 59:22Speaker 2: was just like that, come.
- 59:23Speaker 5: On that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Man. He don't
- 59:28Speaker 5: never like he he always looked at me like, bro
- 59:32Speaker 5: coming from you do you know? You Like, I'm like, no, no, now,
- 59:36Speaker 5: you didn't even know me back you hear me, but
- 59:41Speaker 5: he didn't heard a lot of stories like you know,
- 59:43Speaker 5: just like me and Droeg shit around talk about and
- 59:45Speaker 5: then yeah, hear my other uncles and aunt ties and
- 59:48Speaker 5: my mama talk about how they had to deal with me.
- 59:51Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. So he like, a you
- 59:53Speaker 5: gonna come tell me anything like nigga like this, you
- 59:56Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. But that that's actually a part
- 59:59Speaker 5: of a show that we remember me boosy uht. So
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: that was that was a part of the show. But
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: it was a real video and we did actually like
- 1:00:11Speaker 5: I think I think the camera people knew what were
- 1:00:14Speaker 5: going on, but they didn't necessarily tell us. So when
- 1:00:17Speaker 5: we walked up, it was kind of really really kind
- 1:00:20Speaker 5: of in shock a little bit. For real. We knew
- 1:00:22Speaker 5: we were coming to film. We't know that this was
- 1:00:25Speaker 5: gonna be it. You know, I thought it was gonna
- 1:00:27Speaker 5: be more so just like them using our cause and
- 1:00:30Speaker 5: you know, trying to imitate a life today. But ain't
- 1:00:33Speaker 5: a nigga, ain't y'all can do all this you know,
- 1:00:35Speaker 5: so that was a real moment.
- 1:00:37Speaker 4: But running off like I can't be nowhere around and
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: I had to Yeah.
- 1:00:42Speaker 5: And man, one of the funny part I don't know
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: if this is on the clip that was shown. One
- 1:00:47Speaker 5: of the funny party Boosie looked that wasn't say hey
- 1:00:49Speaker 5: you yeah, see you've been hanging around a lot. You're
- 1:00:55Speaker 5: gonna have to pay. You're gonna have to pay pay
- 1:00:57Speaker 5: your dues, like you know what I'm saying. But all
- 1:00:59Speaker 5: these things, I feel like it's important, and I feel
- 1:01:02Speaker 5: like I'm gonna put I'm gonna put the uh because
- 1:01:04Speaker 5: we did like a pilot episode. I'm gonna put it
- 1:01:07Speaker 5: out because I think it's important. As I watch it again,
- 1:01:11Speaker 5: we sitting down and we are as two black men.
- 1:01:15Speaker 5: We are fellowshipping and collectively as well as individually, dealing
- 1:01:21Speaker 5: with raising our sons into to be strong black men.
- 1:01:26Speaker 5: And it's one part man, Well, me and boos are
- 1:01:30Speaker 5: talking and he just broke. He just said, straight up, man,
- 1:01:32Speaker 5: little man, I don't want to see my son in prison.
- 1:01:34Speaker 5: I don't want to go visit my son, you know,
- 1:01:36Speaker 5: Damn Jed, I don't want to do that. And I'm like, man,
- 1:01:39Speaker 5: I get it. I get it, and he's like, man,
- 1:01:42Speaker 5: you know, I want to take it down with him.
- 1:01:43Speaker 5: I said, no, we can't take it that with him.
- 1:01:47Speaker 5: I don't know, but boost is said it could mean
- 1:01:52Speaker 5: anything like nah, they ain't gonna do it. And so
- 1:01:55Speaker 5: just just us feeding off of one another's uh wisdom
- 1:02:00Speaker 5: and experience and using it the benefit. How we deal
- 1:02:04Speaker 5: with our sons, that's something that the rest of the
- 1:02:08Speaker 5: world needs.
- 1:02:09Speaker 8: How do y'all deal with the like the significant others
- 1:02:12Speaker 8: of because like I know, Demani has a baby now,
- 1:02:14Speaker 8: king the baby shower on and viral?
- 1:02:16Speaker 9: Like what is like the parental check in the household?
- 1:02:18Speaker 5: What that means?
- 1:02:19Speaker 9: Like that when they bring like their girlfriends home, are
- 1:02:21Speaker 9: you like.
- 1:02:21Speaker 5: To na I stay out there being there?
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: I don't.
- 1:02:24Speaker 5: I don't do that. I don't get into that, like
- 1:02:26Speaker 5: who they dating and with it. That ain't my business,
- 1:02:29Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. That's one less thing for
- 1:02:31Speaker 5: me to have to worry.
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: Man, I don't.
- 1:02:33Speaker 5: I don't really deal with that. I just make sure
- 1:02:37Speaker 5: that they they they they being respectful and that they
- 1:02:41Speaker 5: being respected, you know what I'm saying, Like that really
- 1:02:45Speaker 5: and that's really I mean, that's really all that matter
- 1:02:48Speaker 5: to me. You know what I'm saying that is that
- 1:02:49Speaker 5: at the respect level of that, everybody being treated fairly,
- 1:02:53Speaker 5: you know, and after that you know whether the love
- 1:02:57Speaker 5: laugh forever or whether it's only here for a period
- 1:03:00Speaker 5: of time, as long as long as the respect has
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: been there, that's all it's important to me. Let's get
- 1:03:06Speaker 5: into the single right now, Let's go. Thank God, thank God.
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: We appreciate you.
- 1:03:10Speaker 5: Y'all got a radio show. Y'all ain't play no damn.
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: Play some music, and we appreciate you brothers for joining
- 1:03:16Speaker 4: us right on.
- 1:03:17Speaker 5: Man, We appreciate y'all, man. And one more thing, man,
- 1:03:19Speaker 5: because you know, I just want to say, could y'all
- 1:03:23Speaker 5: please stop telling everybody you know exactly how much money
- 1:03:28Speaker 5: y'all gonna get me.
- 1:03:30Speaker 3: Coach put it out there.
- 1:03:33Speaker 9: Live after that.
- 1:03:34Speaker 7: She was the coach put that out there, to put
- 1:03:38Speaker 7: the bills out there. I got you, for real, I
- 1:03:43Speaker 7: got you.
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: When we get more music, what's the next PSC We
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: got some.
- 1:03:50Speaker 11: I'm gonna snag a couple of records that Drawing Tip
- 1:03:53Speaker 11: got together and uh, that joint project gonna be there.
- 1:03:56Speaker 11: The ps C got a project coming out with DJ Drummer.
- 1:03:59Speaker 11: You feel me still in the streets, and Drew and
- 1:04:01Speaker 11: Atoven got a project coming out called ten Piece Hot Man.
- 1:04:04Speaker 11: Make sure you're bringing blue chee, you know, so that
- 1:04:08Speaker 11: all that's on the way.
- 1:04:09Speaker 4: Word let's t I is Young Joe, It's the Breakfast Club.
- 1:04:11Speaker 4: Good morning.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: You did wake that ass up in the morning. The
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: Breakfast Club