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INTERVIEW: BG Talks Cash Money Records, Verzuz, 'Freedom Of Speech' Documentary, Fatherhood, Forgiveness + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Click yours up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: You'll finish for y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Done morning, everybody, it's the j n V. Just hilarious,
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  Speaker 3: Charlamagne to God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
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  Speaker 3: a special guest in the buildiness. Indeed, be g welcome home, man,
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  Speaker 3: welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I'm I'm I'm feeling good man like I'm blessed. Man.
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  Speaker 2: You heard.
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  Speaker 1: I can't complain, man, I'm good man, I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you, brother, fresh off the verses.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, day man, fresh off the vers I was
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  Speaker 1: that shelter it was it was incredible, man like it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good moment, man, Like something like that
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have happened, you know, twenty years ago, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, so you know, for all us
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  Speaker 1: to be on stage, you know, at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: and and and and it just be you know, love
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  Speaker 1: and and and fun. And you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like for us to just give it, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: the people, and with even how bad would that deep?
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  Speaker 2: I want to say your energy, your energy was very
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  Speaker 2: infectious that stage because you sold New Orleans. So for me,
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  Speaker 2: when I'm watching you on that city, I'm just watching
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  Speaker 2: you celebrate the city. I wanted to even when no
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  Speaker 2: living music was coming on.
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  Speaker 1: You, I couldn't help myself. I couldn't help myself, man,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm a fan, you know what I'm saying. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fan of mag I'm a fan of me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fan of fiend. Like you know, Soli just slimming,
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  Speaker 1: that's my brother free see murder. Like you know, so
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  Speaker 1: I just was, I just was in the moment, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you know, even though we
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  Speaker 1: was battling, like it was certain records that came on
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  Speaker 1: where I just couldn't help my like.
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  Speaker 3: How bad it was to be because you know I'm
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  Speaker 3: from New York. He from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, from Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: Year so how bad was it? Because I want to say,
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  Speaker 3: like they didn't they never thought it could happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you know back in the days, man,
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  Speaker 1: like you know that that that that mag know your
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  Speaker 1: you know Calio beef was real. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: it was It was. It was really real, man. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to you know, just going to you know,
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  Speaker 1: the specific the specifics of it, right, but you know
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  Speaker 1: it's it's you know what I'm saying, it's some people
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  Speaker 1: that died, right, you know what I'm saying on both
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  Speaker 1: sides or whatever, you know what I mean. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is, man, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, for us to be able to come together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after all this time and make that happen,
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  Speaker 1: and then not only that, man, like you know, they
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  Speaker 1: didne reached out to us for the No Limit Cash
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  Speaker 1: Money tour. Man about that, you know, like, man, we
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  Speaker 1: I'm man, let's check bag.
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  Speaker 2: Came heard bag? Yeah, I heard they heard about a documentary.
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  Speaker 1: Magnolia Absolutely, absolutely absolutely, Like it's a lot of opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that presented itself. But yeah, I was on the phone
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  Speaker 1: with with with with with ag yesterday. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, ain't talking about you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: A bag And yeah, like we're gonna we're gonna close
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  Speaker 1: that out and make that.
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  Speaker 4: Happen, and the tour definitely gonna hit New Orleans because
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  Speaker 4: you know people it was mad yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, nah it But you know it's complex kind
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  Speaker 1: of right, you know what I mean. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think if it would have been in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been Yeah, it would have been could
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  Speaker 1: it have happened?
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  Speaker 3: Because they were saying that it couldn't happen because maybe
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  Speaker 3: the violence.
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  Speaker 1: But I was like, nah, nah no, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been just as it would have been, just as fun
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  Speaker 1: and and and you know, just as incredible as it
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  Speaker 1: was in Las Vegas. Man. But I think you know
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  Speaker 1: that it should have been in New Orleans. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it happens. So now that they see, you know that
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  Speaker 1: that it could happen on a level to where it
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  Speaker 1: ain't no BS involved, you know what I mean, Now
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  Speaker 1: we could you know, move on and make things happen
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  Speaker 1: on another level. So it's all good?
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  Speaker 2: Wow, th't Wayne there? That's the question everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I talked tod Wayne yesterday, man, and and I talked
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  Speaker 1: to Wayne in the morning before, right, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the morning before the versus, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: sure it wasn't feeling good man, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, because he had a concert that dress
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  Speaker 1: the same night and he canceled that as well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. And Swiss was you know, even
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  Speaker 1: hurt behind it, right, you know what I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: for real, for real, you know that's the reason Swiss
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  Speaker 1: pulled the trigger on it. You know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because Wayne, you know, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Like come on, I mean, you know, Shorty, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, sure, you know Shorty right, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He got muscled right, So but yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was you know, shure it wasn't feeling
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  Speaker 1: good because he definitely was supposed to be there, you
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  Speaker 1: know what i mean. So you know he he he
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  Speaker 1: told me that, you know, he wasn't feeling good and
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  Speaker 1: you know he had to go to the hospital or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, you know what I mean. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: people be thinking that it was you know whatever, whatever whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like I told him, Man,
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  Speaker 1: wa ain't spring chickens no more? Man, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. So you know, you gotta make sure, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're healthy. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: You know, get your rest. Man, You've been running thirty
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  Speaker 1: thirty five years strong. You know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 1: you gotta make sure, you know, you get your resting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, make sure you know what I'm saying that
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  Speaker 1: show you no body and help just all the wind
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  Speaker 1: tag or whatever whatever, But yeah, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: I think that was the reason that you know short,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't there. He was dealing with some personal issue.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll get the sea Wayne on the tour, if
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  Speaker 4: the tour happens with Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know that I can't answer that, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, I really can't answer that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, sure to Pole,
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  Speaker 1: don't be on what's sure to be on. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So you know I would love to
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  Speaker 1: see him out there with us, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and on the tour. And you know, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you know that that sure they'll turn down you know
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  Speaker 1: the bag that's on the table, but then you know
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  Speaker 1: them they already rich forever. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing ketchup, you know what I'm saying. So you
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  Speaker 1: know I'm trying to clock at all. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But yeah, man, we'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: When you and Wayne, Wayne were coming up. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason I say you and Wayne cause I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if even people know. First time I got introduced to
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  Speaker 2: anything cash money related with baby gangsters, no fact, no
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  Speaker 2: fast and Wayne when y'all were coming up, did y'all realize, man,
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  Speaker 2: this could be what it turned out to be?
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  Speaker 1: Third Absolutely not, absolutely not, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, we we we just was doing it
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  Speaker 1: for the love of the music, for real life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at that point, we was kids, man, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you know, Wayne was eleven, you know
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know what I mean, like we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see this far. You know what I'm saying, like we
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  Speaker 1: we we really couldn't see this for you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was a vision. You know that that that Baby and
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  Speaker 1: slim Head, you know what I mean. And you know
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  Speaker 1: they was you know, trying to come out the streets,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and you know, try something different,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying, like, you know, change
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  Speaker 1: our lives, you know, through the music or whatever whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, if I was to stay there, I
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  Speaker 1: saw you know, us being who we became. Like you know, nah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that far.
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  Speaker 3: Or break down that vision because what what did Baby
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  Speaker 3: and slim see in each one of y'a Because y'all
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  Speaker 3: were young, ten years old, twelve years old? Juvenile was young?
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  Speaker 2: Really him and Wayne, that's why I keeps you. I
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  Speaker 2: want to stretch that because that brotherhood to me is
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  Speaker 2: the foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's a fact.
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  Speaker 3: What did he see in y'all? And how did he
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  Speaker 3: find y'all to say this is the start?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, baby and Slim no more my mom
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  Speaker 1: all right, you know what I mean? And you know
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  Speaker 1: I don't be wanting to, you know, put it out
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  Speaker 1: there like that or whatever whatever, But you know my
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  Speaker 1: mom My house was a stage house like where you
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  Speaker 1: backing the g You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So you know what I'm saying. Like you know, moms
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  Speaker 1: used to have bricks in oven, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: Like for bibb and Slim like way and eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight, eighty nine, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 1: I knew bib and Slim since I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: in elementary school, you know what I mean. And then
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  Speaker 1: when I started you know, writing raps and things of
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  Speaker 1: that nature, and they had started cash money in like
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  Speaker 1: what ninety one ninety two, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: And they heard I was, you know, rapping or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and my baber stand called them like man little wood,
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  Speaker 1: he wrap up, blah blah, blah blah, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And they come to the barber shop and
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  Speaker 1: they like hold on man that sense, like you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and I wrap form and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they put me in a car and brought me, you
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  Speaker 1: know to my mom and was like, man, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: change his life. Man, like, you know, let us take him.
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  Speaker 1: My daddy had just got killed, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I was out wildland. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't had no guidance or whatever whatever. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: Babyman Slim took me un there they wang and you know.
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  Speaker 3: The rest history how Wayne getting the picture.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne came into the picture. I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: ninety ninety four ninety five man Lie Slim, who was
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  Speaker 1: an artist on Cash Money Records, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying at the time, and you know he yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: he introduced you know, Wayne to Cash Money and to
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  Speaker 1: a Babyman Slim, you know, to check him out or
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  Speaker 1: whatever whatever. And you know, he came to out Sit
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  Speaker 1: Records one time we had an autograph signing or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and Wayne spit some things to him and then like
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  Speaker 1: you know, baby and Slim, you know, put me and
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  Speaker 1: Wayne together and formed a group called the Beg's which
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  Speaker 1: is the Baby Gangsters. And you know that was the
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  Speaker 1: first album you know that me and Wayne dropped together
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  Speaker 1: in like nineteen ninety four. Nah, that was ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: That was ninety four, Yeah, ninety four, we came with
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  Speaker 1: the True Story album. It was me and Wayne, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. And then Rest in Peace the Rabbit,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Wayne Stepdaddy, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Who ended up getting killed? You know, he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to start his own record label, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and he ended up taking Wayne, you know
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  Speaker 1: from the label. You know what I'm saying. It was
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: going to invest his own money and Wayne, and then
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  Speaker 1: he ended up getting killed, right. And then in like
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  Speaker 1: ninety six, you know, ninety seven, you know Missie the
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: let Wayne come back, you know, to the label. And
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  Speaker 1: then that's when we formed the Hot Boys around Me,
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  Speaker 1: Trouvire you know, Wayne and Turk, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: How did that brotherhood between you and Wayne, like that
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  Speaker 2: brotherhood before the fame, How did that shape y'all as
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  Speaker 2: artists and as men?
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  Speaker 1: Man like man bro we man man. Wayne used to
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  Speaker 1: be writing raps together in my mama kitchen, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like you know, baby, or lock us
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  Speaker 1: in the house, you know I'm talking about, Like he'll
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  Speaker 1: get many fresh to make a beat and literally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: lock us in the house while they going out and
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  Speaker 1: run errands and stuff and make us, you know, write
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  Speaker 1: songs to this one beat, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know he'll come back and listen to
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  Speaker 1: what we had and you know be like that, ain't it. That?
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  Speaker 1: Ain't it? That ain't it? And you know, tear our
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  Speaker 1: wraps up, like but keep this, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, man, like he just tore this my ship
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  Speaker 1: up like writing all day, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But he like I mean, it was like Miller Seri.
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  Speaker 1: It was like it was like a military school man.
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  Speaker 2: But it.
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  Speaker 1: Created you know, the the it created something. It created monsters, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like you see Wayne have
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  Speaker 1: became you know what I mean, Like you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just just the work ethic. It created
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  Speaker 1: a work ethic that's just undeniable.
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  Speaker 2: And Birdman was like a father figure to both of y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely I heard you call nah, Absolutely, absolutely he raised me,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like he he pretty much
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  Speaker 1: raised me, man, you know what I'm saying. Him and
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  Speaker 1: Slim Man they raised me man from from from from
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  Speaker 1: from twelve or nothing. Man, Like you know, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: give them all the credit. Many they raised me, man.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I like, I like talking about cash
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  Speaker 2: money because you know, of course everybody knows what Wayne does.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows what, but there's no cash money without BG.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: mean cash money was built on my back, man, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like when when when you think
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: about it, you know, julid first feature was on my
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  Speaker 1: chaper City album. You know what I'm saying, Like you
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: know from you know, BG, True Storage, chaper City. It's
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: all on you volume one, It's all on you volume two,
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  Speaker 1: you know, till we formed the Hot Boys in nine
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  Speaker 1: and seven. But they get it how you live and
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: you know, so forth and so on with the Soldier
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  Speaker 1: Rags and this that and the third. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: was I was, Yeah, yeah, I was him, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the documentary after all that, in the documentary, right,
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  Speaker 4: you talk about how hard it is to stay relevant
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  Speaker 4: while you're locked up in your way for the amount
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  Speaker 4: of time that you did.
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  Speaker 5: Did you think it was over for you while you.
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  Speaker 2: Were did I did?
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  Speaker 1: I did? Like when when? When? When the judge gave
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  Speaker 1: me them fourteen years? Like, you know, it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: stay relevant and it's rep thing for for for a month,
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  Speaker 1: you know, six months A yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: If you ain't really yeah, it's not for a vicious
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  Speaker 3: of violent crime.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't give fourteen years for violence gun
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  Speaker 1: man guns and structing justice. I really got ten years
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  Speaker 1: for the gun, fourteen years for the fructing justice, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. But you know when I got
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  Speaker 1: them fourteen years, I was like, damn, it's all you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, my career, Like I couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: the end, you know what I mean. And then, you know,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: social media started popping and Instagram started popping, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was ways to you know, stay relevant. You know
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  Speaker 1: through social media that really helped me, you know, staying
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: tune with the fans and things of that nature. And yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm back. And not only that, I was attached to
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  Speaker 1: a brand you know that stay relevant, you know, throughout
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: that time, you know what I mean, Because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, yeah, absolutely, like Stunner was there,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Nah, Stunner was there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wis it was shouting me out and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the whole gang or whatever whatever. But if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for if it wasn't you know, for social media, who knows,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like because yeah, man, yeah
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  Speaker 1: say that.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Because you know jay Z won't say that. If everybody
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  Speaker 2: in your click is rich, your click is rugged, nobody
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  Speaker 2: will fall because everybody will be each other's crutches. I
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  Speaker 2: would think even with fourteen years no fact, Wayne, I
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: mean Wayne became Wayne in those right right, like they
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: was all still in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: They were still in the mix. And not not only
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: that though, Like you know, at the end of the day,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I can't tell my story without telling these stories, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jupiter can't tell his story without telling my story.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne can't tell his story, you know without telling my stories.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we all joined at the hip, whether
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: we like it or not, you know what I mean,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Like our legacies are all you know what I mean,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Like like one, you know what I'm saying, so you
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: know that I think that benefited me too.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that era taught you about loyalty
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  Speaker 2: and ownership?
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  Speaker 1: Mmm? Man, I mean it taught me to be on
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: your be on your Yeah, you know what I mean,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: because you know it's it's a lot of things that
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I had to come home to. You know what I'm saying,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: that I had to fix your day for us. You know,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: having people around me, you know that was around me
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: for all the wrong reasons, and you know what was
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: doing things that you know I wasn't aware of. You know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: that had me in situations that you know I didn't
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: choose to be in. But you know they was doing
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: crooked you know how I go. Man, You know what
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I mean. So, yeah, it taught me a lot, man.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: And now I'm on point now man.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Now what's your release?
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Is it true that every lyric that you rap now
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: or right now you have to send for approval?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: So so so I definitely I saw I have to
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: turn it over to my pill, you know what I mean,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: like they they don't get to approve because when I
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: first came home, or the when I did the album
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: with Gucci, Man, when I first came home and and
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: wapped it a tape together, right, and they tried to
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: violate me and send me back to jail for that,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I was like, damn, like,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you know, like what's up, Like I ain't did nothing
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: but what I've been doing, you know what I mean.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: So they were saying that they didn't want me doing
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: nothing pertaining to entertainment or nothing pertaining to music that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I could make money off of, you know what I mean.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: So it was like wow, damn, like yoh, they like,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I don't I didn't understand it. And that's why I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: thought it exactly, like I've been doing this since I
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: was thirteen years old, like, and you're trying to send
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: me back to jail for just simply trying to make
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: a living, you know what I mean. So the judge
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: agreed with me and said it was a violation of
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: my freedom of speech, you know what I mean. And
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: but but she did say that I had to turn
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: over the lyrics to my probation officers before I made
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: them available to the public, you know what I mean.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: So I still, you know, have to turn my lyrics
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: over to my probation officers before I make them available
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to the public. But she don't have to approve them
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: or nothing. But I still be having to just you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: be mindful of what I say and how I said.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: You can't put this out.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Nah, they ain't gonna lie. Or they've been. They've been.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They've been working with me like they've been. They've been,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they've been. They've been giving me, they've been, they've been
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: giving me my they've been giving me my space and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: letting me make it. And I got a good po man, like,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and I ain't got number like two months left, you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I haven't done everything I was
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: supposed to do the right way. You know, I ain't
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: feel no drug says I did and did all my
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: or my community service. You know, I didn't completed all
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the programs you know that they you know, wanted me
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to complete. Like so everything is everything, man, And I'm grateful.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: They want you to drop a gospel.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: He listen, not because in the beginning or like, they
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: didn't want me rapping about guns. They didn't want me
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: rapping about snitches. You know, they didn't want me rapping
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: about I'm talking about you know, everything that I've made
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a living off, like my whole career. Like and I'm like,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: hold up, Like I ain't the first one to rap
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: about it. I ain't gonna be the last one to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: rap about it. Like what you mean?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I can't rap about this, this, that, and the third
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Like come on, like it's only entertainment, you know what
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I ain't no different from Denzel Washington
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: playing Frank Lucas, like I'm Christopher Dorsey playing BG. Like
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it's only entertainment. You see what I'm saying?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: You even still have to play that anymore? Because I mean,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you're you're a wiser man now, older, you got a
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: lot of life experiences, non facts, and you've always been
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: you know, vivid with depending story facts. But do you
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: even have to lean into that anymore?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Not? Not not really, Like I just I just pretty
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: much I just pretty much tell my story, you know
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And you know, rep about what I see,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: rep about what I go through, rap about what I experience,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and you know, just try to keep it authentic, man,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and try to keep it real.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Know when you first in the documentary, you talk about
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: when you first came home and you tried to go
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: to Vegas, versus staying in New Orleans because you just
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: knew it wasn't good for you, and they denied that
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: at first. Yeah, and then you had the conversation with
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: your prosecutor for two hours, but you don't tell us
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: what the conversation really entailed in the documentary. So I'm wondering,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Like you said, it went well, but like, what what
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: did you say to him or her? And what did
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: they respond back with that? God did approval?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I mean basically, you know, I just told them that,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I felt like my life was in jeopardy,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you know if I went back to New Orleans, like
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I felt like it wasn't safe for me, you know
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: what I mean. And I told him that I needed
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a new start, you know what I mean. And I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: wanted a new start, you know what I'm saying. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I just didn't want to go back to the city,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: man like, because you know a lot of the dudes
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that I left was still out there doing the same
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: things that I left him doing, you know what I'm saying.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: So you know, I just wanted a fresh start, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: he agreed with me. He agreed with me, and they
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: gave me a pass and let me go. You know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: start a new life in Vegas. So I went to Vegas, syce,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know, and everything worked out for me.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: That should be common sense, though you're asking that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah for real, for real, because if I would have
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: went back to New Orleans, I probably would be already
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: back in jail, you know what I mean, Like if
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: i'd have went back to the city. You know what
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like, if I'd have went back to the city, man,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I already be back in jail right now. Man, you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I mean, like I couldn't go
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: back to the city.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: One thing I like about you too, You've always been
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: open about your drug addiction. Did did jail help you
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: get clean?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: No? Not absolutely, because when I left, you know, I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: was a lean head. You know, I was a pill
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: popping animal, like you know, syrup sipping, you know, so hoigh,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you couldn't reach me with an antena like like on my wing.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: But yeah, not heroin too.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Not.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I ain't did heroin since twenty twenty, since twenty old two,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: twenty three, you know what I'm saying. But you know
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I had started popping pills and drinking lean and like
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: oh four five, like when a hurricane hit you know
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: what I mean. So, yeah, I didn't. I haven't done
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a heroin since like two thousand and two, two thousand
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and three, I kicked heroin, but then I picked up
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: another opiate, you know what I'm saying. And you know
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that I learned that that just was a substitute for that,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying. So yeah, man, I'm jailed definitely.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: You know, help me, you know what I'm saying. Just
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: shake that all the way, all the way, all the way.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Do you know what you might have been trying to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: escape when you were doing those drugs?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Just just just just you know, the man, it's a
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: lot of pressure. You It's a lot that come with
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: this industry, you know what I'm saying. It's a lot
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that you know come with you know, just the bills
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and you know, your family and you know, just trying
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to please everybody and just trying to mask, you know
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: what I mean, like certain things and it's just it
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: be escape, man, for real, for real like and and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: that's why I was away.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: The man, I want you feel hold enough.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Just just just living, you know what I'm saying, Just
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: just really for real, for real being free. You know
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying being free, you know, being happy and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: being alive. Man, for real, for real, you know what
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, because you know I didn't lost a lot.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I Dodnet, lost a lot of good homes along the way,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and and and I know what they could do. You
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I was in jail, and you
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: know I've seen you know, what had been the Juice world,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and I know that could have easily been my story.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, I see X
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and you know, I like, it's a lot of good men.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying in this industry. You know that,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That that then that then
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: from you know what I mean. And I'm like, damn, man,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that could easily been me, Like that was me, you
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like and you know, jail pretty
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: much saved my life, you know what I'm saying.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: For real real, I feel like you and X would
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: have had a great connection. I know y'all did.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nah, fact that was the bro. That was the bro. Yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I loved the X man like that was
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: my dog, you know what I'm saying, Like he.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Was ex.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, nah, I got some stories that never keep to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: myself yeah, man, I love X man. That was the broke.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: That was the broke.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I wanted to ask, you know, before y'all did verses,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: did y'all have to have a conversation? Are we seeing
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: that Gucci and Jeezi had a conversation before versus? Did
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: y'all have to have a conversation, lay things out or no?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: All sides? Well? Well, home team, And I mean, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: me and Klse been working together forever, Like I love KELC,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: like you know we we were doing a whole project
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: together right now. Like Mac is my brother, like I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: love Mac, like Mack was on my first album, Chopper City.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, fiend my brother like me
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and X my sister, Like you know what I'm saying,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Like see murdered my dog, you know what I mean?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, you know the conversation that you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: bebing p head or if they even had a conversation.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I was having conversations with you know, all
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the people that I just mentioned before.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: You know, we did it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, listen, man, come on, man, stop
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: playing man. Let's check this bag. Man. You know what
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Let's check this bag. You know what I'm saying,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Let's give it to the people. Let's do it for
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the culture. Man, you know what I'm saying, Like it's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: just been long overdue and it happened.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And how to be wrong, But I feel like murdered
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: only no limits money artists to collaborate.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like, and well, me and men collaborated, and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: men and me and Freend collaborated. Freend was on my
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: last album. Yeah yeah, yeah, facts.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And how bad does the Turk situation hurt? Because it's
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: it's y'all grew up with each other. Y'all looked in
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the same house as you'll told I'm sure s h yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: miniving travel right, how is that situation that the family
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: can't be tight?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, man, I mean bro like man, brouh man.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: This Internet is poison man, you know, I mean, you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you know, it's it's a
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: crazy place, you know what I mean. And you know
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, just get caught up,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you know what i mean, like in the likes and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: you know, in the followers, and you know, just in
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the bs. You know what I'm saying that that come
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: with it, and you know, everything ain't for everybody, you
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. And that's just how I feel,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I come up and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: grew up in a time where you know, you you
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: try to keep what was private private, you know what
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, and nowadays it's just like everybody's just
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: want to just you know what I mean, like, come on, man, like,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: what is we doing? Like? Come on man, stop it,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: man like? You know what I'm saying, Like were supposed
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to be man like, we're supposed to be cancled Like
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: what is you going? You know what I'm saying, Like
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: what is you? Like? What is you doing?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Like what's in the like it be throwing me off, man,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: But you know it is what it is.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: If you try to be the bridge, the one to
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: say you know what to me, be the guy.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: That you've grown you bevore nah facts facts.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I mean listen, man, Like I said, Man, you know
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: me and Stunt, I got our relationship. You know, I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: got my relationship with Julie. You know what I'm saying, Man,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: wis they got our relationship? You know? Men? Fresh you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: know we got our relationship. You know what I'm saying,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Like t you know he beyond, he beat man, he
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: beyond what he beyond, And I just ain't on that,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know, at the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: end of the day, man like it is what it is, man.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: But it always looks good to see all of y'all
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: who may be trying to front on Turk's roll in
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the hot.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. And you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, don't make me go there.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Man, like you did have the best verse on blank blank.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: On blink blink not Maybe I need a high girl,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Maybe I need a high.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: No not. He He's like, like, I ain't. I ain't
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: taking nothing away from round. You heard me, you know
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But man, roun be shripping now. I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: mean y'all did with y'all was on.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Tour together for a little while, and I saw y'all
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: in New Orleans. It was a great vibe of there,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: but then it was the whole thing.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He's just be doing goofy ship, you know what I'm saying,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Like he's just for no reason, like like like like
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: he's just me jumping out there, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: With no parachute on, you know what I'm saying, like
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for no reasons, like and you know what I'm saying like,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and it's just be like, man, you know what I'm saying, like,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: come on, bro, you you got jewn man, you got
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: fresh Man, you got bird Maid. You know what I'm saying.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You playing with me? You know what I'm saying. And
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: then you got short in the cut, like don't give
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: about none of it?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Like, and it's like, bro, come on, you shot yourself
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in the foot. You know what I'm saying, like you
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and then you constantly shooting yourself in the foot.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: But could he be going through something though?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Like could it be something deeper?
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Like you know, man, I don't know. Man, you know
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know behind you know every
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you know what they say behind every strong black man
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: is a strong black woman, right, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: And then you know behind every goofy, it's a goofy
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: free man that's telling them what they're doing is.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I won't trying to go that way, but I do
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: want to ask you what's one thing you know about
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: freedom now that you didn't understand back then?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, it's man, it is the most important, Like
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: because I got my son in here with me right now,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: right And when I left the streets, he was eleven
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: years old. You know what I'm saying, And I come
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: home to a grown man. You know what I'm saying, Like,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I come home he twenty two, twenty three years old.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And I miss you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the most important years of his life, right, you know
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And you know sometimes you know, he
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: be doing things and I be like, damn, I can't
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: even fault him for not knowing what I wasn't never
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: teach him. You see. You know what I'm saying. So
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you know it's it's man, bruh, Like man, freedom is man,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and it is everything. Man. You know what I'm saying,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Like I don't wish you know, jail on my words. Enemy, Man,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because that's not nowhere that nah.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: It ain't nothing cool about it, you main, nothing cool
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: about it. I mean, I know it, come with it,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. When you out there living,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you know a certain type of way, you know when
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: you're doing certain type of things. You know what I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: mean like, you know, you gotta, I mean, it is
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: what it is, right, you know what I'm saying, and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you gotta take your ligging and you gotta, you know,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: move on. But yeah, man, I definitely it's a lot
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: of things that I wish, you know, that I could have,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you know, took back so I could have been there,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, for my family and for
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: my kids and just for you know, the people that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: love me. Man. So yeah, freedom is everything.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: What's dad bej Like? Now your home and you're getting
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: to be with your son, Like, what are you like
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: as a father?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm the cool dad, you know what I'm saying. Like,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I try to you know, put my foot
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: down when this you know what I mean, time to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: put my foot down. But also you know I miss
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: so much time, right, you know what I'm saying to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, in certain situations, I be
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: kind of timid, you know what I mean, and don't
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: be wanting to be too, you know what I'm saying,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: like strict or whatever. Whatever. But yeah, man, I'm just
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: enjoying it. I'm just enjoying it. Man, I'm just enjoying it,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm enjoying it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: You've always been wrong with your music, but you know
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: now that you're old or wiser, not your freedom. Is
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: there a part of your story you're more protective of,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: like something you'd rather kip to yourself than put it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: In music, not necessarily. Like I've always been an open book,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I've always been an open book.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Like I ain't never really hear nothing, you know in
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: my music. I always you know, and embrace the good,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the bad, and ugly, you know what I mean. So yeah, man,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and I still keep it that way.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: What was the hardest thing you had to adjust to
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: when you first came home?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Social media? You know, you know what I'm saying. Social media,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: like you know, the the you know, the the DM
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in and you know, you getting with females and trying
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to take pictures of you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Now it's differently.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, listen. But I'm glad, you know, I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: in a relationship now. I got a woman now, you
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I ain't gotta you know,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: live like that no more, you know what I'm saying.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, man, it was, it was, it was, it was,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: It was it was strange, you know what I'm saying.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It was it was different, like you know, just adjusting
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: because when I else, Instagram had just thought that you
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: can only just post a picture, you know what I mean,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: like you you couldn't go live, you couldn't do this,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: do that, do that, do that? You know what I'm saying.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And then I come home and it's just you know
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: what I mean, like, you know, everybody got a voice now,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: everybody got a old pain. Everybody like it just was
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a lot. And you know what I mean, you.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Got girls that want that fresh out of prison.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Because the.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: People were waiting for BG to be It.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Was like nah, nah facts man. But yeah, I'm heppily.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I'm heapily in a relationship. Man. I think I'm getting
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: married that ship.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Saying, for real, for real, you know, that's the one.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: She she she she made me feel you know, complete,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: you know, she she makes me happy. It's not for real,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: for risk real though, man's it's it's it's real, man.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: And I ain't never like I've never out of my
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: thirty years of just wilding and just dugging and just
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you know, being a hot boy, right, you know, what
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I ain't never like you know, being in
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: this place, like you know, just mentally, like and physically,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: that's a fact. Already.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: You've been looking at rings already.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I've been. I've been. I've been looking at rings already.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I love it, n for real, for real, man.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: How does an artist like yourself, who really come from
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: the street, who really come from that life, how do
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: you adapt to this new era without losing your authenticity?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Damn, that's a good question, man, Like, I mean, I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: just gotta stay true to who I am, you know
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, you know, just as a person
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and as a man, right, you know what I mean,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: because you know it's just waller down all you man Like,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: it's just different, you know what I mean. Like, it's
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of things and I just be like, man,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the you know what I mean, I be like, man like,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: sometimes I just be want to hang up, like, man,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I'm about to go do see what I'm saying, Like
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: like I'm about to find because it's it's but at
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, man, that's what I signed
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: up for, you know what I mean, That's what I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: signed up for. You know what I'm saying, and I
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: love a culture. You know what I'm saying, you know,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: like like music, you know and repping like you know
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it's just in my heart, you know what I'm saying.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: And yeah, man, like I ain't gonna let you know
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the buffoonery or just the sucker stuff. You know what
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Dictate, you know what I'm doing and what
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I'm on. So I just stayed true to who I am,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: man and keep it pushing.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: My last question, I guess on the documentary is the
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: whole time throughout the documentary you're talking about how much
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: or your lawyer talks about how much you wanted to fight.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: From the very beginning.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Facts.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: It's a big fight to have when you went up against.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: The government right now, nah, big facts.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Were you ever scared at any point like yo, this
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: might go the wrong way because you said you felt
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: like they were putting you in that position because you
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: wouldn't cooperate with it, right right?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Nah? Absolutely, Like I mean I was, but I knew
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't do anything wrong, you know what I mean,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Like I knew deep down inside you know that I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: didn't do nothing wrong. Like like it's music, like like
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you gonna lock me up for some raps, like come on, man,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: like make that make sense, you know what I mean.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Like so you know, like I told him and then man,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I paid you a hundred grandmar you know what I'm saying,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Like you better go ahead and man, make this make
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: sense for me. But you know, at the end of
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the day, like yeah, nah, I just wouldn't lay down
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: like you know, because at the end of the day,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I felt like if if if I laid
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: down and then I seen what Doug was going through.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying in his case, you know,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: with them using his lyrics against him. You know, I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: seen other artists you know go through you know, whether
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: it was c Murder or mag or you know this
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: one or that one. And I'm like, man, nah, manna,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I ain't no because I ain't there nothing but with
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: some rabbit, you know what I'm saying, Like just cause
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: you don't like it, you know that, don't make it
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you know wrong, Like you know it's rock and roll
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: all this that talking about chilling me mamas, and you
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, doing all type of wow stuff.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. So you know you trying
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: to ridicule me and and nah, nah, nah, I ain't
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: laying now like that, man, because I ain't dead nothing.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I ain't did nothing, but
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make a living and I'm just
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: telling my story. And at the end of the days
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: on entertainment, so I had to go with my move
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and you.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Had Lana and then Tasha. I know she's here with
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: you fighting for you as well from returning back. Sorry,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Tracy, Tracy fighting hard for you. And they
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: were in the documentary talking about them choosing to fight
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: for you during the time where you said a lot
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: of people kind of like backed away. What did that
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: teach you about relationships and valuing relationships because they didn't
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: get nothing out of supporting you.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know you you you you always find
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: out who who who love you for you? Like you
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, you know, like you know people people, man,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: people love you when it's beneficial for him, right, you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like and you know it's man,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I could go on and on about that whole you
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, situation because I didn't experienced a
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: lot when they come down to that. But you know
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: they had to wrapped their arms around me for day one,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, since you know the moment
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I went to prison to you know, the moment you
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: know I came down that escalator and they was there,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you know, waiting on me. So you know that that
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: that goes without saying, you know what I mean, that
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: they was gonna stand with me and fight with me,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? But yeah, man, it just
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: sees you a lot about you know people. But I
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: ain't come on, man, like I already know it, Like
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I ain't knew of this. You know what I'm saying.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I'm true to this, So it's like I already know
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: what it is.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: So when you've seen both sides of loyalty from the
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: business and the street side, and just you know, given
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: your people, Like what's harder for giving somebody who crossed
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: you or forgiving yourself for like the choices you might
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: have made.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Mmm, I ain't lying, man, You not forgive, but I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: don't forget, right, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people feel like that, right,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: you forgive, but you don't forget. You know what I'm saying,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and you know, it just make you wiser, and it
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: make you smarter, and they make you you know, picking
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: shoes to people that you know, you choose the you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: know have around you in the future, right, you know
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: what I mean, Like it gives you a better you
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like it gives you a better
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: sense of the type of people that you know you
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: want around you or that you need around you, because
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I definitely don't like no yes men around me. You
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I need people around me that's
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: gonna call me on my bs. You know what I'm saying. Uh,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: that's gonna check me. You know when I'm you know
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, doing something wrong and things of that nature,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: because you know, like PEMPSI said, man in his book,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: like when you get to believe in you on hype,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like that's a recipe for disaster,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know, I try
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: to keep people around me. That's gonna you know, just
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: keep me in line and let me know, like, man,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: look you tripping you know what I'm saying, or you ain't,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, But it gotta be somebody
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: that you respect. You know what I'm saying, And that's
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: why I'm at with it.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Do you ever feel like your story could have been
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: a warning or a lesson for the next generation.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely, absolutely, Like don't be like me, be better
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: than me. You know what I'm saying like that, That's
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: what I always try to preach. You know what I'm saying,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Like I be going to you know, Drew in our jails,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: and you know, when I do my community service, I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: be going to the jails and you know, speaking to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the youth and you know, doing you know what I'm saying,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: like what I need to do a give back and
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: things of that nature. But I just be trying to
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: tell them all the time. Man, listen, man, don't be
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: like me. Man, be better than me. Man, I've been there,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: done that.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: I know where it live. Man. You know what I mean. Like, Man,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you man, like it's real. You know what
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I know a lot of dudes man
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: that's that's never coming home. Man, Like they're gonna die
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: in that jone. You know what I'm saying, Like literally,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: like they gonna die in that motherfucker. You know. Excuse me.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, But like it's it's it's
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: it's real out here.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: What part of your life do you think you want
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: this generation to pay attention to the most part of
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: your life what they learned.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: From the more for real, for real, Like I ain't lying, bro,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: man them drugs, broy.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Like you know, and I used to love that cup.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I loved that cup. You know what I'm saying. I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: loved it, you know, pomming pills. You know, it was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: my escape. You know, it was my safe place, like
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: it made me. But man, bro, that it hold you back,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like in a major way,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: man Like, it really really hold you back, you know
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So you know, I know you know
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: it's a look and you know what I mean, Like
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's you know, it's part of the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: swag and you know all this and all that. But
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, man like, man, nah,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: where is that you think it kept you from being?
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Man, absolutely absolutely it held me all the way back.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, it helped me all the way back. I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: think I could have been way bigger. You know that
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: than I was if if I wasn't torn what I
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: was doing, right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well us you know
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, as a whole, like we you know,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: we was in the studio just having fun one one night,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and you know we had
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: just started, you know, I mean, well we had been
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: getting money and shining and whatever whatever. And you know, man,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: you blinking and you know, you blink blinking and then
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Wayne come up with the hook and the rest of
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: it is in the diction ever in all types of
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you know what i mean. So I'm like, yeah, yeah,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: but but you and I wouldn't credit myself. I'm ana
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: credit the whole gang. Man.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, What does healing look like
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: for BG?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Healing?
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean you carried a lot, you know what
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, grief and farceration, Like what's peace look like
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: to you? Now?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Man? You know that just you know love man, like
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you know, just you know the kids. You know what
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like you know my girl, like you know music,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just you know, doing what
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I love Like I mean, yeah, man, that's that's that's
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: that's that's pretty much you know what what what healing
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: look like to me? Man, like just you know, just
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: just just really for real for it, just you know,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: being happy man, and is staying focused, man and staying
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: out the way for real.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Right, don't give me no answer.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Like New Orleans, I ain't gonna lie man like on
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: some g you know, and this is you know what
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I'm saying me and you're on some G like presentation wise,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I think they probably got us,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, they came,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you know, Camouflyes down. They was, and I was trying
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to get everybody on the same page with the T
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Bulls and Reeds.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I want to like, I want to come T's Bulls read.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: But song for song like they couldn't handle us, man
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: like song for song. But presentation wise, they won, man,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Song for song, No, they
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: never go see us, you know what I mean. But
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, it was
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a win for the city. It was a win for Louisiana. Man,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: it was a win for the culture. Man.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: When you go when y'all going to and your mind
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: he would be like, I'm getting my get back.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, big nah. That's a fact. That's a fact.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: That's a fact. That's a fact.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Man. Check out Beg's documentary and his deluxe album Freedom
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: of Speech.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: All yeah, nah absolutely absolutely, Man, I got the man
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Bullsik got an album bother come out. Me and Mike
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: will made it. Got an album bother come out like Man,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I got some Yeah, I got some shit. I got
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: some yeah coming on the place.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: He's another one who held you down when you was
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: in prison.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not bulls it man, bro, I love bull like
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: that's my brother life from another mother. Like I'm talking
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: about you know, every holiday, you know, he'd hit my
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: mama with a bag like you know, hit my kids
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: with a bag like you know, made sure I was straight.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Every time I called, he picked up like you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Man Boo is like the altar man man like I
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: ain't even must say enough about round.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: You heard me?
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. My man, t I you
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, was there for me like you
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: know a yeah, yeah, I hear signed Atlantic, but T
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I had executive produce the album with me. Yeah, he
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: was the reason I went over there. Like he orchestrated
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the whole play with Craig Kellman and wow, man, you
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, got us a bag and you
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like yeah, so you know tip
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: my brother to you know what I mean. That's a fact.
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: I can listen to you talk all day.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Listen man, I love it.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: I do want to say love.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Although you went through so much, you know, you do
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: not look like what you went through like you look good.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to see you, Paul.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: You go, nah Man, thank you, thank you man. I
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, Man, I appreciate it.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: Always good energy.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Nah big facts.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club. Thank you for coming here.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Every day. I wake up. Clake your glass up the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: You're finishing, y'all done. H