Birdman on discovering Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj and the birth of Cash Money Records.

[Music] as we celebrate hip-hop turning 50 it's been a soundtrack of your life definitely and you've made it the soundtrack of many of our Lives definitely the influence you've had so it's my honor to Welcome to the Renaissance Man Brian Williams Oh what y big cheers brother big cheers yeah congratulations for all you've done for yourself for others and the first thing I thought about when I looked at your amazing influence not only in music but in our culture who influenced you um I was strictly influenced by my daddy it was my world to me um and I lost him at a young age so I um I grew up around a lot of debts and I made debt make me stronger not weaker when I watch it weak my family so I I a want to be like my family I wanted to be better so I could make a just a change not saying I a want to be like them because I saw a lot of them that made them turn to drugs and I ain't want to go that route so for those that have not been to the community that you grew up in give us a a description of where you grew up um poverty real ghetto um Uptown New Orleans um drugs murder protitution um just a hard life like everybody um struggling um it's hard to make it it's like we call it a crab in the bucket if one get up majority of people that we thought we'll make it got killed and where we come from so um and murder become numb to you so um just growing up it was just what it was we couldn't we was born in it so we seen it and we had to live through it and figure it out and try to make what others went through we be better and know and our sacrifice be different so I never met my father and for you to lose your father so very young what kind of influence did that have on you I lost my mama first I lost her at two years old um uh was moved to Canada I lived in Prince Jorge Canada and when I came back I was in the boys's home then I got adopted by my father what yeah hold on I never see this is why we're doing this and I'm really grateful that you took the time by the way y'all y'all see we in Miami oh yeah we doing it big you know that had a game tonight we feel short but we going to bounce back you know what I'm saying so I want to talk more about the Dynamics of your parents and losing your parents what kind of impact did that have on you as a young man oh man um losing my mom I never recovered in life I'm still haven't recovered in life losing my father like he was my everything cuz he he adopted us he brought us back to him when I was living in the boy's home in the boys home in my five six years in the boys home I was adopted by a white family um I stayed with them for like a year and I decided I wanted to go back cuz I wanted to be with my brothers and sisters but when my father got us back he passed away and um then I just turned to the streets that became my family the streets so for a young man that was bounced around in so many different areas of his life and now you see young people as we do like glorifying being in prison glorifying the street life tell us what being in the streets was like for you I started so young but you know in New Orleans you on the edge every day we call it your head on the swivel so you got to be you got to be on your game because you could go you know you know thatb come fast so how we grew up we was prepared for we're prepared for everything anything and um penitential was honestly like a second home for us cuz we we learned that at a young age so if we go to jail we know how to we know how to do time so um just that lifestyle I just ain't know no better so I was in it and once I was incarcerated and I read the Bible it um it changed my insight about life and what I wanted to do in my life and when I came home I did something different and started my company at 16 years old making 17 I started Cash Money Records at 16 yeah that's when you got started it yeah so obviously if you're in the streets and you're starting your label at 16 and you calling it cash money that mean you was really getting some bread yeah we was we was we was we was really we was young and um we was young and popping we was young and you know making a name we thought we was making a name for ourself but we really was lining ourself up for the penitentiary so when did you know this company that you're starting with your brother Slim Right big shout to him Godfather you guys entrepreneurs so very young when did you guys realize we can convert from the street life to being entrepreneurs and entertainers well starting cash money was solely my idea um and I went to my brother cuz there was something I wanted to do um cuz we was already into real estate I was buying houses and I had Body Shop um few Car Washers I had different businesses at a young age and my brother them Nam so um I say I want to completely start music and do something different and let my past be my past and I gave my life to it I gave my soul to it I looked at it like I could have lost my life this way so I'mma give my life this way and soon as I made that mental switch I never look back and being a leader of a a label that means you have to identify talent and one of the greatest people in this industry to ever do that is you facts what artist was the person that you felt like you were going to invest in to kick off the label um I started with a lot of different artists but I was young just trying [ __ ] I ain't know no better I ain't never had nobody teach me so I'm a kid really though um so I was just trying [ __ ] but it really got um really solid for me um when BG came and Lil Wayne came then juie came then my daughter rest in peace Magnolia shorted um Manny fresh was around and um that's when I seen that um I a have no other charts I wasn't looking back regardless but that's when I seen like we had some young talent and uh we could really really with with grooming them cuz there was I signed Wayne at 12 I signed BG at 13 and I seen that with the right grooming these young boys could be Stars cuz there was young and speaking above the age they had a lot of Street know with they rap so you thought they was older but they really was younger and the crazy thing about being an icon you could just say those names easy like facts like BG like tell me about like signing BG being in the studio with him nurturing him as an artist that don't happen in the game no more no you talking about right that that's really I I put years into them correct before they became Stars correct um cuz I sign I'm So Young um I signed BG at 13 BG is from my NE of the Ws which is my neighborhood and um I knew he could rap and I went to him and I knew his mama and um he used to rap to me and I liked him so I used to let him be around me a lot same thing with Wayne so them two used to be around me a lot and I used to make them just write raps all day you know like y'all practice all day question just write raps all day as soon as I do come around I want to hear what theyve been writing andap so I kind of groomed them to be what they became but I think they was born to rap and then juvenile came sharp it came super sharp fresh was already in the game but um them Tree to me is somebody God put here to rap you're so very accomplished and as I mentioned hip hop is turning 50 what BG song did you realize he got it the album Chopper sit in the ghetto he was classic 14 but nobody knew he was that young because he was so Street mature and that was a turning PR for us um cuz him and Lil Wayne did the album together called the bgs but they was like 12 and 13 nobody really never really heard it but when we put out that Chopper sitting the ghetto BG was 14 but he was he had a deep verse and he was mature you thought he was a teenager um with his lyrics and raps and fresh put the right music up under it and um that was the start of our Legacy after all the other artists I had before that like the Pimp Daddy UNLV um couple of them I had before that but that broke off but when BG came uh and we started that that's that's when it was history so and and I've always appreciated your humility because in your position not only are you making artists you're making entrepreneurs you're changing lives you're changing Generations you're changing people's trajectory of their careers and Wayne wrapped about this in a song and I think it went over a lot of people's head you just reminded me that you signed him when he was 12 well he basically wrapped in a song that he tried to commit suicide when he was 12 um accidentally he was writing a rap and the gun he was writing a rap called a nine and his index finger the bullet went above his heart wow so as a in a leader when you have 12 13 14 year olds that accidentally shoot themselves they're making songs about Choppers but they're extremely talented what kind of father figure does that now make you at an early age for them man I was like I was a baby trying to raise babies because I didn't want them to go my way because I thought maybe they wouldn't have made it cuz they don't even know my past they just know me now and what they heard of um when that incident happened to Wayne went to the hospital the same day and the next day he went home um I knew God had a different plan for him and just um me I was just trying to show them the right way that we could do it we're going to do it we going to do it not we can't do it I just had my mind made up that we was going to make it and and I just showed them what it took and what we had to go through and the sacrifice and just the hard work the the writing all day and the being in the studio every day the studio became the block ain't no more block no more block the block now is the studio if you want to see a female she got to come to the studio if whatever you want to do everything going to have to happen in the studio cuz I want you [ __ ] here at a certain time right after school and we G to stay here all night every day and I I made that and that's how they became great cuz I opened up that book Farm to be able to do that and and Wayne has always acknowledged you as a father figure um as somebody that he started to call himself Birdman Jr so what song or what session did you know because he went on and he still is one of the greatest artists of all time that's a fact like I think he is right this ain't like no he this ain't hype no like this is real spill it's a when did you see that he had that we knew he was special but around the hot boys time that's when we seen like we seen a different Wayne and really when the breakup came that's when he just cuz I was like I don't want to I didn't want to rap no more at the hype of my career wow I say look Wayne I don't want to rap no more I'mma get you the flow you run the label you the president of the label and I'm going follow your lead I completely step back as a artist and as a CEO and I said I'm going to go learn the business and you run the label and you do your thing and I think that changed his whole life not only did it change his life but let's recognize he he goat status oh goat for show right so um how do you now view when you see thousands and millions of people buying his record screaming for him like as somebody that was there to nurture him and in the hospital to support him when he shot himself as a young person to now seeing him in the gym so to speak writing his Rhymes and hone his craft to have this kind of career I gave him the game as a youngster right um and he sucked it up then when I stepped back he took the flow and I always gave him the confidence I believe in him and he knew that I believed in him I believed in him enough to say this your company now you do your thing with it and I think that just gave him all of the ammunition he needed to go and finish the mission what is some of your favorite Wayne songs or albums he got so many I know this so unless I asking you like the favorite fish in the water n he got he he deep with it it's hard to even say like cuz I could go back to some of the old Wayne then you got some of the um the new Wayne it's just hard for me to say what's my favorite cuz he got so many mean the the like um his archiv is real long like he had 100 singles in one year like 100 features like there never been done he broke all records ever but you got to understand we from the south right EIC so he was I put him in the I put the work ethic hustle down with them right but we from the south and we was the most underrated mhm so we knew we had a part to proov right to be the best and when our turn came everybody was saying hip-hop was dead we didn't understand that [ __ ] coming from the south right cuz Hip Hop was Rising for us when they were saying that was dead correct and that's when we shot straight through so what about Manny F FH fresh what about his influence nah he's special he he he paid the weight nothing but love and respect for fresh like fresh paid the weight like you know fresh was a like a a left alone [ __ ] we ain't even we just let him do the Beats he right he from another part of the city so he don't know half of the [ __ ] we going through up he just coming he com and go to work but really though bro we started doing music in fresh house we didn't even have a studio we recorded all our songs in fresh kitchen wow we ain't even had nothing we before we went to Gardner Studio but by time way up come around now we're in the studio right but fresh still look like a left alone type [ __ ] let him do whatever he want to do he got the Beast ready I'm I'm on these [ __ ] ass so these [ __ ] don't get in no trouble you understand me me fresh older so he doing his own thing so we just coming there you know fresh like a you know you got that one [ __ ] on the team you just don't [ __ ] with him he just go ahead bro he got it go ahead bro so not only have you started and and by the way I don't even know if you know this Russell Simmons in 2014 they were doing tributes to all of the greatest labels and Russell Simmons said the greatest label in the history of Hip Hop is cash money what do you feel when you hear that um coming from a a man of that value of the game U you got to respect it um in 2014 when we was doing that we respected it but we still was on a mission any kind of compliment honor you get from this game you got to respect it cuz it's a hard feel you hear so in 2014 we still we heard it and we respect it coming from a a a icon a legend in this game with nothing but respect for that man um it was another thing you know that's that's motivation for us we like I said we sudden we we down bottom so what we doing we not even supposed to be doing the game wasn't built for us the game came in our lap and we just rolled with it we took it and ran with it so um all that [ __ ] was just Mo big big big motivation for us and a difference between you and other label leaders like Russell is that you also are a signature artist and tell me about the formation of Big Timers um that was man fresh right yeah this we started the thas in our city big Thomas is like a dope boy and so I told fresh we're gonna just be the big towns you know that's how I come up fresh like why are you getting me into the that's my partner so we started the bigtim but we all with the Cash Money Millionaires at the big ERS and the hot boys so um and we really started rapping cuz them little [ __ ] was too young to get in the club and they used to be kind of you know besides juvie the rest of them used to be a little shimmy so we used to be like they hype man uhhuh and I ain't get in the game to rap I got in the game to make rappers right but I was kind of forced to rap so I said I'mma just try this [ __ ] I don't care if I rap or rhyme [ __ ] I'm G just pop my [ __ ] if you [ __ ] with it you [ __ ] with if you don't I don't care and um that's how that [ __ ] started bro but the big timers now we got a legacy of our own correct for a fact so so tell me about one of your favorite big Tim shows um man fresh used to do a lot of shows bro um the [ __ ] used to throw their draws and panties on the stage and cuz that's what y was Ring about man fresh he a wild boy you he GNA entertain all that [ __ ] you I'm like I ain't really with all that but fresh entertaining all anything popping at the time when we was young so you know that was that big time and [ __ ] we was popping out [ __ ] and they was [ __ ] with it so like big timers to me like changed the game in a lot of Way Big Timers was all about which was really me my image my life all this the names of the song diamonds jewelry cars that was all my identity I just had a fantasy as a youngster I wanted to show my ass and when I got some money that's exactly what we did so also that spurned an era of things that a lot of people followed facts The Bling Bling era yeah and that get we still live in that now no doubt and that gets me to another one of your nicknames not the number 10 N8 but the number one stunner yeah the number one stunner definitely definitely where did that come from honestly right man and my partners we on we on MAR Luther King and clayon and my partner kept saying man do you watch this movie mava I said nah man I don't even watch TV he said man this dude be doing his own stunts I said yeah and they clicked I said you know what I'm about to be the number one stunner I'm about to come to my city and cuz back then we ain't really had [ __ ] right I said I'm about to change our identity of how we look at we might have had one C with no AC we know [ __ ] riding with the windows down I didn't understand why we had to have one car one house right you know mean like you know we were sharing outfits sharing clothes I got five shirts my partner got five shirts he got five jeans and we switching that [ __ ] up you know [ __ ] switching clothes up so um I said I want to have a honey cones I want to have a honey houses I w't have t extreme amount of clothes and that that little monster that was in me it came out oh it definitely came out because you guys in your leadership and your creativity also was the spring board to the bling bling era facts what do you remember about starting that era like I said it just come from not having nothing and I just you know in New Orleans we ain't know nothing about none of that we a know nothing about RS Rises and foreign whips you know we were Dicky suits Dope Boys you that was normal for our city and um honestly I went to New York and seen them [ __ ] in foreign cars and all that [ __ ] [ __ ] rocking big chains and like man I'mma bring this [ __ ] down bottom we ain't never seen this [ __ ] down bottom and that would influenced me bro I went seeing that [ __ ] in New York and I came home and I put jewelry on everybody we went bought Rose rses and you know we already had Rolexes but we went bought APS and all kind of wild [ __ ] and and I we just turned up we was treating cars like it was nothing doing donuts in them wrecking them just my partner slamming into you know we were just you I go to C lot and buy 50 whips for everybody yeah 50 yeah I bought 50 whips for everybody what kind hold on 15,000 was the maximum but for some of them but a couple of my partners I spent a little more but yeah everybody in the project that had a license I brought them a car that's love really you remember what type of cars they was it didn't matter whatever they had on the L whatever they whatever they had just whatever they had on go to the lot whoever we rocking my partner who who my partner who was a friend of mine through my other partner um Drew hm his name was Greg green he was a call salesman so we go get Greg and bring everybody that had a license I bought him a whip and bought him insurance and I just thought that when I was young that's all a [ __ ] was hustling for was a whip and that gave so many of us cuz I was included Pride and when you start talking about being Hood Rich G for the pimp big fact like those Jingles became anthems fact and do you realize the impact that that had on so many of us and the game no I didn't yeah it's it elevated not only the Midwest and gave us confidence but the South but I you know we seeing it from our perspective we in New Orleans so we Still Ghetto with it we still honestly that [ __ ] true like everything in my mama name we really was living like that so and that's why it was so relatable to other people because you got to ghetto in all America you know understand so um we didn't see the impact till later on and for you as an artist you also show that you can Branch out and be on other hit records and hold your own cuz I've referenced this song so many times yeah what happened to that boy what do you remember about the formation of that song n forel put that together that was a forel forel did the beat um forel wanted to work with me and I wanted to work with him cuz I was that was the really the first producer I worked outside of fresh and was kind of skeptical about working outside of fresh and for real was like bro I think you dope I won't work with you bro um I was really skeptical about working outside of fresh cuz I ain't want to insult him like that cuz I knew I started with him and I wanted to be Loy see how he felt and fresh ain't have a problem with it he was like nah man he dope man work with him so you know I made sure fresh was there and we was all at the studio and um for real kind of came with the hook too well like part he he he was like stun you do that part and get them to do that part but um that was a magical moment that was the only time I got to work with for real but it was definitely magic well that was definitely magic and then like I mentioned when Russell Simmons said that you guys had the greatest label in 2014 on purpose because that's before ym CNB and before you know it that birthed Drake yeah Nicki Minaj defin um as somebody that played in Toronto and saw Drake when he was very young as an artist can you define for us the first time you heard his music or you got introduced to him as an artist um Wayne brought the music to me when was asking me what I thought about it I'm like I think that [ __ ] dope [ __ ] bad we ain't never heard no [ __ ] like that like that [ __ ] had them long words and had that singing flow like we ain't never heard no [ __ ] like that in Hip Hop right and I went and I was like man that [ __ ] cold man we you remember me like first time I met him I told him he gonna be a legend he was like for real I'm like yeah Drake you gonna be a [ __ ] Legend in this game cuz the Hip Hop ain't had heard nothing like that ain't never heard nothing like that what is it like for you to like not only be a part of artist careers be a successful CEO and artist of yourself like yourself but see them become like ghost atest like we talk about some of the dopest people to ever do it n the dopest two ever do it right like what is it like for you to see Drake now be mentioned Wayne be mentioned as the greats that's [ __ ] really like magic because I put in the work with them yeah you did and to see them take it as far as not just with rap just in business no doubt you understand mean like they rappers but they businessmen to watch them take their business to those levels that's more impressive to me than the rapping you know we know they G to do the rapping and they're gonna do the rapping very well so watching them become businessmen outside of the rapping that that that that's like that's something I respect from them and um I know they watch you know they all come from watching what I did and what I done um but watching them become just businessmen that that's motivation for me do you have a favorite Wayne album do you have a favorite Drake album I like all of it I can't say no one particular album no one particular song because you sitting there you digested you know the coldest part about it is I'm fans of it so with Wayne I used to just go in his sessions and watch him work I wanted to watch him do this [ __ ] because I knew ain't too many people going to be able to do that just to say I saw him do this [ __ ] like it was intriguing to me that he'll go in the studio like 3 in the evening stay about 8 in the morning right so I'm there with him every night I just wanted to watch him do it I just used to watch and work like that and um I just wanted to be able to say that I saw that [ __ ] and I saw him be like that and and it didn't stop there Nicki Minaj nah she special Nicki Minaj also is a part of a goat she's a goat right so when was the first time you got introduced to her music or her as an artist same thing as Wayne Wayne brought me brought the Nicki to me we was in LA after the same day we sold a million copies on caller three album he say stunner you can't got me out my room come see this and um I come down there and he showed me Nicki Minaj I was like damn she cold he said we need a female and Young Money I said I said what you want to do he said I'mma fly out here he flew out there and we met and then that was history what about the clothing what about branching out to the point where it's one thing for us to be cash money as label it's another thing for us to be ym CNB as a label but now we about to Brand this thing that was my thing that was my thing right we're GNA brand the brand because I know the brand gonna last longer than the artist career you know um you know some artist last long some artist come and go but still the brand going to be there so I just decided to say let's we going to do this YMCMB thing we're going to break brand to Brand we're going to put the clothes out and the merch out and um and we branded it and it it became very very very successful so I have a clip that I've posted a few times Young Thug was in the studio shout the rich gang Rich Homie Quan this don't stop y'all by the way this man is so very influential in 50 Years of Hip Hop like if you don't know we going to make sure you guys learn definitely this is another Branch yeah that yeah that was a whole another error for me yeah so you had to reinvent yourself and I always talk about when I never felt that I had to reinvent I felt that when I went did the rich gang I just watched Wayne work so hard I watched him work so so hard and I saw some talent and I was like I found something Mula I found something where you could kick your feet up cuz all he ever wanted to do was make sure I kick my feet up that's dog all he ever wanted to do and he rap about it stun to kick your feet up I got this [ __ ] and that's all he ever wanted to do was make sure I kick my feet up so when I met Thugger I was like man this [ __ ] cold so I was like but this was at the same time we got Wayne Drake and Nikki and we got Thugger we got Wayne Drake and Nikki we got Thugger and I'm thinking he won't relax he ain't trying to relax this [ __ ] on a full-blown Mission he ain't giving a [ __ ] about nothing anything in his way he won't eat him that's dope every rapper in a way you you know that's like you know he had that Co mentality he want to win all the Championships he he Mambo um and that was my whole thing when I met th and them and I just saw something special in him and we did that rich gang and we [ __ ] the game up with it so I've talked about so many people that you've influenced put your fingerprints on and changed their lives can you recall who influenced you my influence came from my pops um he was everything I ever wanted to be he was like he can't got me out the boss home so I always had respect for him for that because I was adopted by a white family and I lived with them for over a year so when I got back when my brother and my sister and my pops came got me that was like he was my role model so as you see artificial intelligence has become a real thing in 2023 and I saw Drake song in a I've seen people talking about trying to do a Tupac album in AI I've seen Ice Cube talking about if somebody does anything AI in my likeness I'm suing them this this new [ __ ] out right this AI [ __ ] I ain't too much I ain't too much on it but I heard about it yeah so basically they what is this AI [ __ ] so AI is basically something that you can have on your phone and you can say a voice and then that voice gets repeated but it sounds like you close but not all the way right cuz I heard some [ __ ] sounding like some [ __ ] if a [ __ ] really a fan he gonna know that ain't correct but but also it's it's worked in different ways we've had stories of people calling their loved ones saying hey I'm in trouble come and pick me up Andor give them this Ransom money using somebody's voice so like your loved one one of your kids or whatever call your phone that [ __ ] real and it sounds like for some [ __ ] to somebody just happened like that correct yeah they got him out of fews that's what I'm saying so as an artist an entrepreneur a CEO of a label that's had your fingerprints on so many artists do you support AI what do you feel about it I don't really have no knowledge of it I'm just hearing about it I'm not only like that um but if anybody that's taking credit from anybody else identity and hard work ain't nothing cool about this [ __ ] I agree nothing cool about it to me [ __ ] work too hard to be successful and put too many hours and too much that's like playing any sport To Be A Champion that [ __ ] take a lot of dedication so as to go the same thing with rap it's like a professional sport we have to put a lot of time to be the best or one of the best is are to be successful in it um and if anybody taking any parts of that without putting in the slave work or the or the hard work there's nothing cool about that [ __ ] do you um enjoy sports love sports who's some of your favorite teams some of your favorite athletes I have a lot of favorite team I'm from New Orleans right um and I live in Miami so it's 3054 for me so I'm a I'm a pelican um Miami Heat um I'm always a Saints I was kind of raised in Kansas City because that's where my daddy from okay um so I'm a I'm a chief fan um um baseball I like the Red Sox that's my favorite baseball team how about this one so and Miami just got Messi which was a big that's crazy right I just watched Messi win the cup like right man Messi a bad boy like he GNA bring a cup out he GNA bring something out here then you got Florida they and hocky eight yeah the parents fighting over there yeah they doing their thing so and I appreciate you taking the time before I let you get out of here there's always something simp symbolic in nicknames so we broke down the number one stunner right when did you decide you was going to call yourself Birdman Birdman come from the streets um I earned that name it speaks for itself um I was baby I was baby because my mama never named me when I was in the hospital she named me once I came out the hospital weeks or months later so everybody in the neighborhood always call me baby and I was born as Brian Brooks that was my mama name and I got adopted and my name changed to Brian Williams so I'm pretty sure you aware that that now started a tradition of people being named baby so I want to ask you a fun question can you name some of the babies in ENT mment that's a few of them that's a few of them but I don't think that's you start yes it is n yes it is you the first one where you think from I'm original I'm the original but that's like people named Jaylen that they their parents heard my name and they got it from me Ain't No Way Around It You original baby all the babies I respect them I know can you name a couple of babies all right I'll start one for you we ezy F baby big facts big facts okay big facts what about other ones you got um you got the baby you got a little baby you know you know I don't know too many of them like that but my Detroit Brother s baby but I yeah all right yeah right facts you started a whole thing and I don't know if it I ain't never looked at it like that but that's where it came from you the original I'm original I'm definitely orig I'm old here but still hot and before I let you get out here one more thing you brought to the game I just did this at the Heat game and when I realized I was coming to talk to you I was like I stole this from him what do you think about when you see this oh that's my thing that's my thing I just had a habit of it like cuz they always say if your hand itch that mean you getting money so when my hand itch a lot I just rub them and it just it's just my thing I love doing it it's it became a habit bro like and I can't stop it I want to give a shout out to Future like that's one of my close friends and um and we I had a lot of part of future in this game too that's why one of my best one of my close friends in this game a very very crazy talented like Sky's The Living he still Pluto on another level with the gang right Pluto on another level who who are some of the artists you just mentioned future that you feel like that got now and next NBA young boy for sure he he he definitely he definitely one of them and um him for sure like you know time GNA tell what he gonna be but I but time I already told what he can be and what he have been so I'm I'm excited to see what nephew going to do and what's his longevity going to be in this game then you got a lot of producers um you know your guy that come from my umbrella also and what he doing is very respectable and how he he carrying his and his accomplishments but the game ain't going to never stop bro it's going to keep it's going to keep elevating and you know this like a Ghetto Dream for us this [ __ ] ain't take education correct but at some point education do kick in mhm cuz you're going to have to know how to make it and how to keep it mhm that's the biggest thing is to [ __ ] get my age and older and you still got money correct correct and as we wrap this thing up I appreciate you taking the time as hip hop turn 50 there's so many artists you've influenced there's so he I right hip hop 50 right but I still say that they don't compliment meant the out enough for me I agree and I don't respect that [ __ ] about what they doing in Hip Hop and um I never will respect it because the South I ain't G to just say us I'm GNA say the South we paid a a big wave of keeping hip hop alive and I don't think they compliment us enough and um I always was told what what a [ __ ] don't give us we going to get it anyway so but I don't respect it at all I thought about that I've seen couple of tributes and I seen Uncle Luke talking about this and he that man deserve a lot of respect for what he did yes no question and like yourself in his own way letter a label big cre a lane luk was around before we was around correct that man was huge and he played a big part into hip hop when nothing was popping down no doubt like he went to court he went to bat about it correct and that's the reason for y'all that don't know that's the reason why those stickers parental advisory are actually on albums they was locking them [ __ ] up they was locking them up when they was going to shows see theoris Tuckers and all of them I don't think they the sou get the respect that we deserve that's just my opinion and personally [ __ ] who don't like it that's just my take on it and all the accomplishments that we did and we do I think we deserve more respect but um respect come without but still long as we getting the checks and we making the money I'm good with that too but still the recognition comes with the game right and and I'll be like you know I'll take the awards but I prefer money i' rather the money over anything and for a fact we getting the money ain't no hands down about that we getting the money but still uh money comes with love and money come with respect and we earned all those rights we ain't asking nobody to give us [ __ ] we earned that [ __ ] who what are your top five record labels cuz they don't exist really no more it's like clicks it's like crws is like we doing posy tracks but it's not like we labels and we all wearing the chain um record labels it have to be [ __ ] who did it before me um I always Jay princeon rap a lot with somebody that I [ __ ] with you know uh Master P did his thing Jermaine depri did his thing Ru Riders did his thing um did it did his thing sh Knight did his thing Rockefeller did that thing um I respect all these dudes Russell Simmons No native Pioneers for everybody so all them [ __ ] I respect but I always felt that I could be better than all of them and I always thought that I could even did in him he did his thing I always thought that we was younger and we could last longer than of them that was my mentality as a youngster and um and we did that well you the number one stunner I want to cheers to you brother thank you for taking the time my honest man keep killing the game yeah

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Published: Wed Jan 24 2024