Chingy Reflects On The Success Of ‘Right Thurr’ And A Career-Costing Mistake | #FindingBET

when I used to go to these radio stations they'd be like yeah man they trying to they trying to get us to stop playing your record and sabotage your record not to play your music [Music] [Music] growing up in sandals is always traveling tribulations made my mother rest in paradise but and my father still her but you know they wasn't a huggy huggy hug you all the time kiss you all the time type of prayers so it was cool they show they love tough love my dad's a street dude so he was into the streets he was doing what they do in the streets he had nice cause you know what I mean II I was about six he had like two rolls-royce's when I was a kid you know you get to eat on the back in the trailer would Greg this stuff so my daddy was cool everybody likes my own father and so I I tend to you know gravitate towards him because I wanted to be like that I thought he was cooler but I thought he was cool but my was real close to my mother as well come a long way I worked hard with the school graduate you see what happens when you come up around that like I said my father's in the street my brother's my cousin's my uncles everybody was in the street on both sides of my family so when you come up around that is easy to gravitate towards that but it's one thing that kept me on another page and that was some music easy he actually made me want to start rap him but I was into music Michael Jackson got me into entertainment so I knew entertainment and music was something I wanted to do but at the seeing eazy-e I was like yeah I wanna oh I started my first rap group when I was 12 years old hey what's up y'all I'm misfit mi see you he was in without warning we changed without warning with my group it consisted of me and two of my homeboys misfit and MGD that led up to us putting our local CDs at fifteen sixteen after that though I actually bought it from that rap group without warning because you know people just went on the same page it just it just wasn't going good as a group a homeboy of Mines named mo D we did a couple songs together and we thought we sounded good together and so he's just like let's just make a group out of it and so we made a group out of the car three-strikes mo D is our Lee from the lunatics younger brother Nelly went oh he was went on this tour they needed to open and act and we had good music we got to open up on a shows only on a little run that they did so this is just pretty because Nia was like the biggest storm in probably the United States at the time this is what country gram and all that stuff came out he was huge we was over at the time Nellie's road manager house yellow nearly came in there and so he came in there he was like um he said you know what I signed you but he wouldn't want to sign them he wouldn't sign them and so I was like man you know we're group so ain't ain't one just bail out on them or leave them with nothing but everybody wasn't as serious as I was and I was very serious about doing I was doing on the bottom making it in the industry and becoming a name and as soon as I got out of the group it happened for two [Music] whoo I must say discovered me was Shaka Zulu from disturbing the peace Lucas's manager and and co-owner of disturbing the peace first artist on disturbing the peace slash capital man how'd you hook up with ludachristmas actually my home produces the track stars we was back in st. Louis and Shaka Zulu has just started managing those old who's part of the track stores already had a relationship with Chaka we thought we had some so so hit him up and was like hey man I'm working with him this guy this young guy named Changi and we got a demo we working on once you check it out and so that's kind of how I met Chaka dudes over what we are right now we in the apartment complex condo whatever where me and the track stars recorded the jackpot album right third one call away holiday in it was all recorded right here in this little apartment I believe in this room right here I think that was the living room we slept in there on I was on his futon and was on the floor eating Emo's pizza all the time me and Shama been and laid down the Ganga tracks the drums and I've been to did my parts on the verses and then so come back and here lady keys and the piano and stuff down and I'm dead it all happened right her he was already working on the jackpot I'm finishing it up actually and we put together these six songs on the demo and right there was on the demo city but it was Jess it was the beat the hook and the first verse and I had now keep in mind this is when I was 22 I wrote that when I was 16 and we sent it off to a couple of record companies but chocolate kind of got back to him quick and was like a tell Chingy to finish that song right there something to finish it put the second verse on there and y'all get it mix and master see what I heard dude that record was ready to go so when we heard the record we got a memo to record he got in the studio work you put the project out and next thing you know December 14th I had my record deal with disturbing the peace last Capital Records and in 2003 right there was a number-one song like these three girls that used to come to this club called the monastery on the east side of st. Louis and they used to always do that dance they used to always do that dance and there'd be just them three girls on the floor doing that dance people looking at I'm like what are they doing I remember this and that's what a dance came from it nearly kind of made it popular I've kind of made it famous gateway cities hip-hop scene which already gave us Nelly and the lunatics now has produced the hottest new name in hip-hop you'd have to say that is of course cheeky as well as a dance sensation that is quite simply sweeping the nation [Applause] Yeah right there being a dance track in alone with that dance just made it right there even more bigger and then the way I talk you know I'm saying see this and that's how we got this shirt right now they're people think that's the country I guess in different so they that's what make the people like that song and so I was just glad that I was doing what I always wanted to do on another level what we call professionally and you know and be acknowledged for it meant a lot to me man because you know I ain't been nominated for that many awards and so hopefully I'll walk home with this they had came to us in at the end mix and mastering stages of the project and was like do you do you I got a song for like the ladies something's a little slower for ladies like oh yeah we got one song one call away but whatever we didn't we didn't even really care about the record and happens to be one of my biggest records and so they heard it was like yeah I was keeping this away from this record is dope keshia knight pulliam Rudy from The Cosby Show in the video beautiful I think that was one of the first times people seeing her so growing up as this beautiful young lady trust on her right I know everybody probably when they see it they say that but I got to see it because this is really my first time giving no we run into each other all the time this is the most you've ever spoken to me sure in the months I've known him yeah we should just take my breath away I can't say that yeah it costs people thought we was date everyone day she's cool but yeah one caller wait was one of my biggest records [Music] Holloway featuring Jason Weaver debuted on the countdown on January 21st and for all you facebook viewers we're gonna play one last time but he's been on for 64 days now that's the record is that a record that has to be a record I don't remember 64 when I first met Chris Ludacris we was in Atlanta I believe he was gonna record holiday in and manage track stars is there but Chris didn't talk to us yeah yeah he didn't talk to us he didn't speak so you know you know we thought that was strange you know we like that happy sad sister feed but dude don't even speak in Salem to us nothing like that being a trek stars so we act shocked about that chuckles like he'll he'll come around don't even don't pay him no attention here come around things start progressing and everything he didn't come around he reminds me of a younger me I say that all the time he's just a real hard working individual he stays in the studio you know he's a workaholic just like myself and that's what we do how that collaboration came by with Holiday Inn actually I want a Snoop Dogg and Chris on the record it was a big record one of one of the biggest records for me and like a and like the college environment they loved that record and so um yeah man that's pretty cool now you recently split with DTP and so first I'm doing album without them tell us you know what made that happen or what I'm starting my own label slot a lot records outside of the occiput nor too you know how that happen to me leaving disturbing the peace I didn't have a lawyer I didn't have my own lawyer so I was using other people lawyers and so my mother got this lawyer this guy from her st. Louis I don't even think he was an entertainment lawyer but obviously I don't know the difference entertainment lawyer traffic lawyer I don't know but I think he I think that's what he dealt with family stuff but acting like he knew the music business so he instantly says disturbing the peace is stealing from me so it's to them like they are like I'm like dying he's stealing from me just started feet wide it won't steal from me like you know I'm saying I'm a kid he get in touch with Shaka and then from disturbing the peace and we said this meeting this meeting her in st. Louis so Shaka come and we didn't really get no we're only only only place we got was a bunch of people being in they feelings to the point where I don't want to talk anymore you know what I'm saying for months and months you continue to say I want to talk you got to be a man of your word and so we eventually just stop talking and contracts getting off disturbing the peace side the capital all that stuff went on financially he is still signed to disturbing the peace we'll do what we have to do but we don't want anybody representing the crew that's gonna make false accusations like that or you know have that type of we have no respect for this individual basically I still to this day I don't I don't I can't say they'd stole from me I don't know what really happened but I was a kid I didn't know business is called power bonds and stores right now right now go get it go get it right there so Capitol barely promoted my secondhand Powerball and I came out with baller baby was the first thing we came up with the remix with Lil Flip and a friend of mine at the time Busey which both records were big and that was it though we didn't come out with a second single a third sing with nothing because the record company in this at the time I wouldn't with disturbing the peace it was just me slot a lot in Capitol Records the record company didn't listen to us and so I ended up not even having a second single and what was a great album didn't get promoted as being a great album still went platinum and over platinum but the music wasn't put out there like I wanted to and so that's that's one of the situations where I would say you know they didn't they didn't listen to me they didn't listen to us and so you know kind of went downhill I'm trying to these guys with him on Ludacris in there and tell these guys take a shot to me and all these interviews and these song subliminal shot I ain't with all this foolishness you'd be so how things actually got heated between me and Nelly is from a situation where I was on promo tour and I Lee called my phone said it's gonna blow my head off this DJ from st. Louis where he was at trying to be a mixtape DJ wasn't a real DJ his name was DJ Bishop he made a mixtape and it was basically and nelly going against each other where he had and it was just a lot of my songs a lot of nearly songs but he made it as if we was talking about each other people in the street heard it and then people start thinking that we had a problem but where I knew that something was wrong was we had a show in Arizona of a photographer came and got me and was like man come on I want you to take a picture and I was like he was out much taking picture with Nelly I'm like cool he went and got nelly and nelly walked up when he think he was taking a picture with he looking he just turned around and walked off so that's when I knew I was lying okay so something up but then when he came out with it ain't another one I'm listening to the song and then a song you say I like the way you do that right there you just remember why you do that right so I felt like he was trying to serve me I was like and then I kept asking people is it this is this and something like okay well yeah it is what it isn't so I made a look this record my dis record was mainly about Ali but this is where when the beef really this is when it went up my second album power baller came out I shot baller baby in my neighborhood I shot the video a mutual friend that they knew and that I that I knew came over to my neighborhood just being cool we had a dirty and teach I know some of the homeboys from went from told him you know what's going on so tuck that chain you can keep it was just tuck it and so he's walking around there was chess out he took it they took it it took his chain and they sold it it was key wanna change from the lunatics are cocky wanna and I'm talking to keep my like okay this is what the situation this what happened what do we say should have been over there in the chain with his chest out it wasn't his chain in the first place but I don't care about that change so Mickey wanna that's like my brother and so when Kyi said he didn't care about it he should have been over there I'll let it go but that started something else because that night some guys came over to my neighborhood and it it got real like lot people notices that situation got under serious and hit me and they're cool but then you couldn't talk to you can talk to him he's never you know back to hear the song talking to him and he keep telling me I ain't listening to him now something like this till you're not listening okay I thought I said you know what we're not getting nowhere so we're talking about so it was just funny but you know I've just had three shows with Neil you know yet for but we could back then it was it was pretty great I came my way pulling me back with Therese produced by Jermaine Dupri was also one of my great number one chick records right there I was in California for some and I ran into Tyrese ed up at this live event and I was like man you know what I got this perfect record that you can sing all that you can you know feature you so I'm a sinner too and so I sent it to him and he did it send it back we sent it to Jermaine Dupri and it was a simple it went just like that [Music] so my third album hood store I feel wasn't I feel it wasn't promoted properly at all but at this time Capitol store going down into a slump they was they was fined a lot of people they sent to get rid of the president and I was getting caught in it I was gonna get caught in it my third album did get caught in that door September 19th that's coming out you did September 19th Capitol stop the promotion only stop the promotion on the whole third album period and I eventually came to think that they didn't know what to do with me and how I got back with disturbing the peace a mutual homeboy of of mass and verse we was on the elevator going up says Roy he was like man you know shocking them here and I was like yeah he's like yeah maybe I should talk and Chris and everybody y'all should talk and I was like cool tell them it's all good we was all standing in the same hotel and you know we just saw sat down and talked talked about the whole situation with which which was a misunderstanding and miscommunication and their thing so we talked about it put it in the past and we just figure we move forward and you know what I'm saying and reunite and at that time we just we thought it was beneficial to go with the starting a piece Def Jam from the situation what was going on over at Capitol but looking back on it I probably would if I could've did any difference I wouldn't have resigned with disturbing the peace I'd have just made a man's and we'd have been cool and just kind of did my own thing still serving a piece we don't die we multiply it's a lot of members you know we got a lot of different artists coming out in the year 2008 they are working on a compilation album I'm guessing to introduce the the new acts and stuff but I had a song that I wanted to be my first single title celebrity chick they liked the song so much they wanted to use it for the first single for the DTP compilation album it was cool but that compilation album ended up not even coming out so my what album was actually my first album to not crack the top 10 I I just didn't feel like it was promoted right the single the album any of it I didn't felt like it was thrown together and just thrown out there and just pushed with no pushing and so after that project personally me I was just um I just went even into music I just didn't feel like doing nothing and then eventually I hit Ludacris up and was like you know I don't really want to be on disturbing the peace no more I rather if I'm a fail I'd like to be at fault myself you know the man I ain't trying to blame nobody and nothing like that and plus it just wasn't really starting to be that much fun to me no more with all the business stuff was making it too too hard so I just kind of fell back a little bit [Music] I basically told him that you know I was transgender I'm a transgender woman or not I understand if you were like you know you know wouldn't want to hang with me like that so you're saying that you had sex with cheese I remember actually waking up one morning my phone went off as a bottom line he was like man what's this stuff on social the Internet we ain't know what he was talking about I'm so clueless I go upstairs it was almost like a movie because my sister my brother everybody's glued to the computer look at the stuff I'm like I'm like what's y'all looking at like I don't know what's going on it was a show me and Ludacris had and the promoter had dancers on stage and body paint so one of the one of the girls came up to me in one of the pictures said there was a fan and I was like you know hey how you doing you know being nice asked him for a picture I took the picture and that's what that situation was that's it and they came out with a hole that they knew me for two years we had a relation all this nonsense but the thing that I dislike most about that when I seen I've seen a lot of radio people interviewing a person without even saying no we gonna get cheeky on the front we're gonna see what Giggy got to say about this it seems as if they wanted it to be true because nobody got in touch with me and of course the truth comes to light and this person told you they lied I am strong enough to admit like yeah I was wrong for that but by that time the sabotagin was already in place I lost a record deal cuz that was so huge on the internet you know sometimes people do ignorant stuff for fame and want to you know that person apologized and you know and I it is what it is before I say this verse all praises to the most sitting on the throne Chingy the king but I go back to jumped off the slave ship - what spaceship bore I'm so flat cut your triangle out with my short madness no I would inspire King Judah I was going through like a serious inner transformation and when I say inner transformation just with knowing myself on the inside and how I work with this whole existence in this universe and so on I started getting into a lot of religious readings like the Israelites tough the Bible and so King Judah was based on Israelite teachings but I think when it comes to these religious teachings and everything and having got so deep into dissecting and researching it it's esoteric truths with secret truths or whatever but it's not it's not so it's not bad at all it's not bad at all it's just you got to know what these things mean and it's very enlightening I like the way you're looking them paying say you're fine Lamar mile quarter piece she far from a dam the type of girl that it gets you up and go make your ground who is ching-he today I used to be just this kid who just loved music didn't know much else with music now I've gotten into knowing myself on the inside like I said so I'm a little more knowledgeable of myself versus I used to be knowledgeable of everybody else cared about what everybody else wanted now it's more about okay change what do you want to do how do you feel about it so I'm it's a grown man him am sitting her looking crazy like damn my overall experience in the music industry no it was a great experience you know it it taught it taught me be loyal it taught me be loyal I've seen I've seen a lot of like my next project is called loyalty and greed and those two things explain my previous career from start to finish because I witnessed a lot of people being loyal I witnessed a lot of people being disloyal I witnessed a lot of people being around me just for the materialistic the fame the name the excitement and all of that one thing I would have done differently it's not got that Lord you know that happened because of the decisions that were made if those decisions were made that is when a totally differently I drop two hundred thousand on a new back back just like that just like that just like that musically where fans can expect from me today I'm the same I'm still the same ching-he you know I like to make party music still I make music with a little more substance as well about what I've been through what I'm going through what I'm trying to go through off this new project I got coming out his first single was titled just like that produced by DJ snow might or DJ and friend of mine and I'm yeah so just like that that's the first single it was from from the store that was all about music with me so that's not gonna change so if my legacy got to be like oh the guy who said you talk about the guy that said right there if this can be my legacy in here let it be you know it I just want to be known to make good original authentic classic feel-good music and that's all I ever wanted just like jazz yeah yeah what's up y'all - ooh boy changi and make sure you subscribe to BTS youtube channel the link right here you

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Length: 26min 52sec (1612 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 20 2019