DaBaby Rapped Better Than Jay-Z on Kanye's 'Jail' & Picked Lamelo Ball over Victor Wembanyama

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of Club Shay the guy that's stopping by for conversation on the drink today is a Grammy nominated artist a gold and platinum selling chart topping artist International rap star fix performer songwriter and a father coming to the club today the baby how you doing bro pleasure to be here bro thank you for dropping by I know you're busy I know you're busy I want to toast started off the right way this is my KAC shave by lorer shave by lorier bro to all your success appreciate same to you and future appreciate you bro tell what you think smooth too now it's smooth yeah you hear that I need a b to take with me no problem we got we got we have a shoot home and get you a botle we get you a b to take with you welcome to the club apprciate having grew up in Charlotte are you all things Charlotte you like the Bob the Hornets uh the Panthers y'all going through a little tough time right now I just gave my season my my floor seats my season tickets up for the the Hornets this year I told him I won't be renewing my my residen what happened what man look you know it's I I'll be back when the time is right you know we got we we doing some rebuilding we remodeling right you know what I'm saying with the Hornets my mama a panther's fanatic me I'm a Tom Brady fan okay you what I'm saying so I retired a couple years ago I've been a Tom Brady fan I since since we played since we beat the Panthers in the Super Bowl my mom had a Super Bowl party everything she almost made me sit outside the whole day my mama make me sit outside on Sundays you Ain going for her team like she a sports fanatic you I mean when I just told her I coming to sit down with you she like what when it come out you know what I'm saying like she a sports fanatic man so you know I'm definitely a Tom Brady fan so I retired from football about two three years ago I be I'm trying to find trying to take a like into somebody else new you know what I mean and ride it out with but I'm a I'm more of a fan of of of players individually man than I am of organizations you know what I'm saying but and and and and athletes they love rappers and now that you giving up your floor seats yeah when all your favorite players the Jason Tatum the LeBron James Kevin Durant bro you going to miss them n look I didn't met them all you know they were coming and I couldn't keep doing that they come they see me they come D me up come put 50 on me you know what I'm saying every time I'm Kyrie 50 Jason T I'm they they hit a three look at me wink that at me you know what I'm saying back pedaling I'm like bro we got to do something about this you know what I'm saying and I feel like the horn is much love to the organization man but you know and it's kind of like how Charlotte is as a whole man it kind of you know they they just they they got it honestly you know what I'm saying organization they don't Charlotte ain't and Charlotte ain't never to me and for my opinion ain't never did a good job of of you know knowing how powerful incorporating culture into sports and everything else is like culture is a big part of it you know what I mean when you got you I'm I'm I got floor seats I got eight floor seats now not just two so me my mama I got my mom and a husband floor seats two for my brother we in there right you know what I'm saying and and for you know for me to be it's my hometown and for you know for the people that come in the the whoopers on the road for them to come in and notice you know what I'm saying what I bring to the game I shouldn't give them more energy to to whoop us than I'm giving the home team you get what I'm saying so you didn't feel like they Incorporated you enough they didn't show you and I ain't tripping you know what I'm saying like I ain't tripping that's almost something you got toay you know what I mean here and there you got like the players will come I'm talking about these Stars right these Stars they'll come throw me the basketball like shoot it you know what I'm saying while I'm sitting there I get up to go shoot they act like they about to call the police and put me out I'm like d y'all tripping bro y I'm supposed DJ kellet on the sideline you The ref's Chopping it up with me everybody I'm like bro I got you know this leverage you know what I'm saying y'all need I want y'all to use me right you know what I mean half time shows what have you whatever y'all need me to do use me to you know what I'm saying get the fans excited to get the city excited to draw more talent in you get what I'm saying like they'll see oh BR be there sitting court side okay yeah that's a team I might go play for instead of you know what I'm saying be have this team on my radar that team on my radar you know I just feel like uh incorporating the culture into like you know sports teams and franchises it's it holds value you get what I'm saying I don't feel like I don't feel like the Hornets was was utilizing the value of that you know what I mean I don't think they was utilizing the value of that like they should have Mike just sold a team did did you have you ever met Mike I met Mike m i met Mike coming out the game are you are you surprised that given who he was and his ability to play that they weren't able to feel field better teams and be more competitive only reason I am I am but I'm not you know what I'm saying at the same time cuz I know it's politics that go along with everything and not only that like you know for the same the same the same thing I just spoke on like I'm I'm already used to my city not like they don't even know what to do with having Michael Jordan is the you get what I'm saying like I I would play on that from a business standpoint from everything I would I would leverage that you get what I'm saying and use it use it to my advantage which I'm sure they have in several other ways but it ain't you know that's okay that's that's one of the goats right you know it a lot would say he is the goat that's that's the goat right that's Michael Jordan that ain't GNA make this team win no games he ain't out there you get what I'm saying so you know it is what it is I don't feel entitled to you know what I'm saying instant gratification or gratification three four five years in cuz it's Michael Jordan they still got to go out there and put that ball in the basket and stop the other team from putting it in the basket more than them you know what I mean that's just what it is well you have lamelo I think he's I think he's I think he's finally got a guy that he can build around lamelo seems to have it all he has the personality he has the Charisma he has the flare for the game he makes people want to come watch him play what's your thoughts on Melo man I love Melo man and he's super you know is is is out there as people think is Melo still he humble you know what I'm saying like he humble his gamees control he out there he ain't doing too much talking on the sideline like he ain't you know it's controlled you know you would think that somebody who done been in the li like before they made it to the league right would be one of them people to where you know they got to jump them hurdles of of having too much dip on their chip you know what I'm saying once they in the league but n it's it's nice and he's a ball player right Melo is a ball player you know what I mean through and through Annie Young and turn but I feel like you know when you got a star like that you get what I'm saying okay then you got this component this this artist you know what I mean is here every game every night I feel like you got to utilize all that cuz he out here he with me you know what I mean we we keep up with each other you know what I mean on and off the court we tapped in with each other but I think these are things that you got to use to you know to motivate your organization and your players and make sure they having a good time you know I mean you don't want to have too much fun too much fun comeing trouble you dig what I'm saying but yeah I feel like you supposed to leverage that man but shout out shout out to the Hornets all togethers organization you know what I mean and the and the different key players for the organization you know I mean I had fun while I was sitting there checking the games out but you thinking about going back in a few years I might be back next year who knows okay okay you know what I'm saying who knows yeah I might be back next year if I say okay players under 25 I give you Melo Luca J Zion Victor wiama and Chad who's your first pick of guys under the age of 25 Melo ball Luca donic jaran Zion wh miyama Chad H Dam that's a conflicting question man hey okay we going to take it that's a conflicting question hold on I'mma go with Melo I'm rocking with the home Melo you know what I'm saying I'mma go with you Melo you know what I'm saying but I love Luca love love J game too man can't wait to see him get back on the court shake the you know shake the [ __ ] off get back on the court too for sure for sure you know what now that we we we you mentioned y' as somebody who's gone through some things themselves if you could sit down if jaw was right next to you if his team reached out to you what advice would you give I actually I got uh it it's crazy uh I actually ended up you know I mean on on FaceTime with him briefly probably about a month ago but it' be also simple one thing about jaran too and that's why I'm like man it's conflicting question he from the Carolinas he from South Carolina and I know how it is like coming from there especially when you come from there and especially like in like if you you hone in on his particular situation not even from a broad spectrum like you know when you come from a place like North Carolina or South Carolina where he from it ain't it ain't even like Charlotte you get what I'm saying I think where J from something to South Carolina where he from where he from in South Carolina it ain't even like Charlotte so I know you know what time it is when you able to make it to the just like how he made it you know to the damn near the top of where you can make it at you know what I'm saying in in his realm and his profession I did the same thing you know what I mean music wise and I know what come with it in terms of you know having to having to go back in time and figure that out he way younger than me you know what I'm saying that I am you know by the time I made it to where I made it to professionally he's way young way younger damn near six seven years younger than I was when I you know what I mean first touched the bag and got all this attention and and you know love coming my way or whatever you know what I mean getting recognized for the hard work I done put in man but one thing one thing about it you know it people around you or the people that you love or you know if the people who you didn't grown to become loyal to all that it take time for them to adapt to what you got going on just like it take time cuz y'all adapting to it at the same time but they going to adapt at a slower rate cuz they ain't the ones out here really putting this work in and really whatever man so you know whatever you sway by I understand everybody everybody going to have to [ __ ] up somewhere along the line you get what I'm saying so some of us is blessed enough to go through those go through those fuckups jump them hurdles ahead of time before we get that microscope on us and you know what I'm saying and you know others we got to figure it out in real time man and just you know it take experience to teach us them lessons so it it was all so brief it's like Shake I'm ready to see you shake it off and get back to it it's it's as simple as that man you know I I ain't got no I ain't got no lecture for you you know what I mean I'm I'm flawed my damn self you know what I'm saying so I ain't I ain't got no lecture for him at all it's just ready to see you shake it off ain't ready to see it be the end of you that's the difference between me and you know what I mean you know uh uh the perspective that a lot of other people will have that'll be the difference I'm really really ready to see you shake it off and win cuz that's going to be even even more of an accomplishment than getting there in the first place was you know what I'm saying so you have you have players you say you know Tatum daap you up and and everybody they giving me the Jersey I'm talking about put 50 on it I'm trying to leave I'm trying to sneak out I'm trying to sneak out they yo they talking to the the the interviewer they J I'm like bro they see me bro I live here like I got to live here bro I got to ride around I got to be my kids I got to be safe bro I can't be y'all just put you put 50 on us bro with the straight face how you going to get me the Jersey I'm supposed to walk out with the Jersey on but that should have went to show you know what I mean the Hornet like what's going on like I'm motivating to the way team they they come see me and it's oh it's over they like let show you how I get down everybody from everybody from Braun to everybody when they come in there and they see me you know what I mean we they they show me yeah look let me show you what I do when I it's no different than how I would rock if they comeing to see me perform on the stage right like I'm going to do my thing and I'm a little man that [ __ ] ain't nothing I'mma look off to you wink my eye at you middle of the performance winking my eye and everything you get that's what they own like they come down do something spectacular you know what I'm saying but as an athlete this is they this stuff they train and do every day winking AI at me backpedaling with the straight face I'm like bro stop doing that like I and I'm making faces when they I'm like this and I got to hide it cuz they looking at me they point I'm trying to make sure the cameras ain't on me man so you know I didn't I didn't seen the best of the best come be come be the best of the best they show me when they see me they make sure they demonstrate every time you know what I mean and you know plus you know Mike be sitting up there too yeah so you know they got they let know what time it is too they got to give some of that but I think Mike didn't gave that up man Mike tired too Mike don't want his flow seats no more either you I mean much love though to the Spectrum center of the Panthers or I mean not the P the Panthers too I love the Panthers I got a sweet there too right but the uh the Hornets man and their organization as a whole don't ban me from the spectum center man I ain't you know I just feel like we need to come together it took you know uh uh OG Shay platform for me to let y'all know bro y'all got to open up them floodgates and let me come bring the culture and attach it to you know the the Athletics and you know it's going take us places right you feel me oh give me your top five NBA players right now top five NBA players oh man top five for me in in no order no order I'm a BRI fan first of all Bri me and you one of the same I ain't playing about Bri I'm going where he go if he go to uh uh he go over going there you go you get what I'm saying he go play for uh uh if he go play for Russia godamn I'm trying to learn the language you get what I'm saying going so bra of course uh of course Bri man uh I always took a like in the Dame okay I always took a like in the Dame Steph you how can you not Draymond That's My Boy you know what I'm saying I I love a lot of things about Draymond on and off the court you know what I'm saying he actually he I performed at uh Draymond W okay you know what I mean so that was something you know near and dear to me you get what I'm saying already being a fan of them and just you know what it represent uh so you know I got I got different but and as as far as like if I'm talking like on like a skill from like a skill set perspective it's a lot of names that I would have say five ain't enough bro you know what I mean somebody GNA be offended let me go with what I did Raymond I only got one more Dam D you got one more damn some [ __ ] going to be mad at me boy I got real relationship with the people I know you do you know what I'm saying let me think about one that I don't want to mess up hold on let me think about a relationship don't want KD Jason Tatum although if you know Yann is like that uh Yan is a dog man Yan is a different type of dog I'm I I go with Giannis and and I don't got a personal relationship with Giannis you know he he's straightforward he's just trying to play ball but I'mma go with Yiannis and just leave it at that I ain't even going to stress myself out Kyrie too I love Kyrie you know I mean and just what he represent you know what I'm saying like as a person like I I love Kyrie man since we dealing with ball so where we at we at Jordan we we Team Jordan or we team Braun damn I'm team BR I I don't even really got to think twice about that I'm team Bron and Bron from Ohio I was originally born in Ohio right you know what I mean but Bri he always showed me love always I DM Bri while we sitting here right now like what's up what's up champ just checking on you he going to DM back right you know what I'm saying right now so you know I rock with Brian always have from from the beginning you see jcole as Jordan sold part of the sold his the last ownership share that he had in the team jcole was one of the people that invested money and purchas how excited were you somebody from your genre from your side from your walk look like you that was able to buy a minority share into a professional that was dope man beautiful thing beautiful thing you know what I'm saying that something you be interested in yeah for sure for sure had the opportunity to present itself for sure and I'm able to to take advantage of it absolutely so hats off to jcole for that that's major what do you I mean Cole I think Cole is from Carolina too yeah he from Fairville it's like 2 and a half hours yeah and hours we used to play fville state I'm to HBCU so what is mean I mean think about it Carolina only is so big got you Cole right that's about it you got Anon hamon P Pablo from the rapide me Co py Pablo you know what I'm saying that's all I was hearing coming up and a lot of people you know a lot of people uh you know they ain't really know if you a cold fan though you know he from fville you get what I'm saying but a lot of people like I remember like as I was coming up in the game I'm doing press runs I'm doing radio all that they only me that's pety Pablo that's all they had to men they think North Carolina pety Pablo pety Pablo so I always took pride in you know bringing a a a different side of Carolina you know what I'm saying to the Forefront in terms of you know I mean who I am uh and what I represent with my music you know what I mean like it was and and I'm pretty I know for a fact Carolina appreciated that too because it's a whole different you know in this from this era from this generation like you know we yeah yeah we we different and we really have culture we really got you know we really are forced to be reckoned with in the Carolina the Carol is a major state but a lot of everybody know about the Carolinas you get what I'm saying so to not have several artists you know what I mean come from up out of here but you know I've been blessed enough to to get the way I've been able to get to and continue to go to where I'm on the way to you know what I'm saying within this within this game and in this business and and to be able to Trail blades for even more people to come behind me and leave that that Avenue wide open like uh tusy he from he from North Carolina as well you know what I'm saying so just to just to be a part of that man uh representing you know what I mean where we from and and really hanging in there after getting there man it's it's real big you know you know from the for the Carolinas as a whole not to mention I when you talk Charlotte I'm the only one you know what I mean that didn't ever came from up out of there rap wise I'm the only one that ever came from up out of there man so it's a big responsibility but you know one that I you know one that I take pride in cuz normally when you take a Carolina you think a Carolina uh Duke North Carolina you think Tobacco Road tobacco and Carolina Barbecue I mean y'all got some good barbecue but not a rap you cold you Pablo yeah no no display no real real deal authentic display of the culture and you know what I'm saying what it is like when you think you know when in in terms of okay coming to Charlotte okay what type of people should I expect to run in how I need to move with these people what these people about what these people ain't about what what's their tolerance for this what's their tolerance for that you probably need to look at baby you know what I'm saying you probably need to be looking dead at me and then you know that'll that'll get you through there right you know what I mean because I if I can navigate and you know come to being the top streaming artist the top streaming rap artist in the world from Charlotte North Carolina you know that's that's like putting your hands on the mou and moving it you know what I mean it it took the faithful Mustard Seed and I got it I was able to get it done you know what I mean I read where you played rugby yeah I did I never knew they had Rugby teams in the South they don't they my school it wasn't even an official team it was like a club team so to speak so we ain't even really we wasn't even named after our school my team wasn't the same colors or whatever but I definitely played rugby though that's a how you how did not basketball not football rugby basketball our basketball coach used to make you uh he made all the all the players shout out to coach Rob man I ain't look if you see this he cuz I'm sure he a fan of you um but he used to make I don't know why you used to do that coach Rob he made kids cut their head like they in the military and I had braids at the time I'm like nah wish my mom ended up making me cut anyway I got little sck at the mouth one day she say soon as you get home from school you you cutting that off and she stood on it I got home she yeah get in the car you know what I'm say you know I ended up cutting them anyway but that's why I didn't move forward with that I would go to tryouts every year and everything make the team and then you know you come back once they make the cuts the next you already day of practice I'm not showing up that's that's what you got to have why you keep going out when you know that fun I still like to play the game and then football I ain't even football you know what I and it's a damn shame aside from the Summers right footb football you know you got to do they they start practicing in the summer that was that was a problem for me I'm like you know all right cool and uh but then they also used to have and this is crazy cuz I love to wear dress clothes now when they used to have to dress up I didn't like that like I ain't wearing no suit no T you know what I'm saying like I Ain I ain't get comfortable with that side of my swag until until I was a grown ass man you get what I'm saying right mhm so you play you you went out for the football team you didn't like to dress it up what position did you play when I played now so the now when I played I played for the football team right and and this is my last this really was the turning point over it really with me and on hindsight this right now sitting here thinking about this this when I you know I come to this realization it's more about just you know I don't I don't know if I did good with discipline early on like I think I would you know if I feel like discipline is being when I feel like ego is being incorporated into discipline you get what I'm saying I ain't compatible with that you know what I'm saying so if it's cuz I remember I was on the team it was it was eighth grade I was no it was seventh grade because it was only two seventh graders that made the team James Martin Middle School our team was the truth too undefeated right James Martin two seven graders midd team it was me and one other uh one other one other kid that made the team name was Dorian the details in this to let you know it's a th% facts name was Dorian I ain't seen this 20 years 30 years you know what I'm saying it me and Dorian we made the team two seventh graders and I had a math teacher she was bad too she was fine name Miss Davis she going to see man you looking at the M teacher in seventh grade bad she was bad talk like Rihanna she was from the islands or something I remember like it when yes a lot of people go see this they going bounce like she what Miss DAV was bad but Miss Davis I don't know why you did this see I could have been a professional athlete see what I'm saying uh and and you know the bell I don't know how it was you know what I mean I'm sure you you know what I mean you Excell you know I mean in in in sports your whole life the bell will ring sooner for football players so they can break off before the school break out at the end of the day and get to practice you know what I'm saying right the bail R they made the bail run for football players they made the noun football I get up I'm in her class for the last period I get up and startu I do it I'm supposed to pack up go to football and she not why you packing up I ain't tell you you can pack up I'm like you feel this this what's supposed to go on you know man so I you know and let let me not make this a let me not make this a thing but I know you know certain teach when people having a bad day somebody could be having it's sort of like that thing when the person in Authority having a bad day you know and then they you ex their power exactly it's that type but I'm I'm that type I was that type of kid like I'm going to ask you like what like what's wrong like what's going on today like you having a bad day like why you you feel me like this is what I do every day when this what I'm supposed to do you get what I'm saying so what's different today what's different today is how you feeling you know what I mean and she she called herself making an example out my ass walked her fine ass to the coach to the to the uh out there with the foot and then she bad I told you this not right so the coach he sweet on her of course this [ __ ] tell me we had this heel we had this this Infamous heel at our school you know I mean in the back by the football field yeah you got to run 30 heels what you get I say who I say who they ain't never see me again they ain't never see me again that my exact words who who never see me again I'm cool on that this what you got to do with the the play for the football deal with people attitudes and ain't got nothing oh no I'm straight I said I'm cool you know what I mean that was your football I was already selling my little candy I I didn't been you know I've been I got two cell phones first of all Miss Davis I got two cell phones ath grade or not I still ain't got nothing right but you know I got something figured out to have two cell phones I pay for and a but you know I ain't if I got to do that in order to you know what I'm saying to do this then it ain't you know it ain't the same thing to me no more so yeah that was the end of it long story short I saw you I mean coach Prime out in Colorado doing some great things a little hard times right now but I saw you out there and you've been recruiting him said like once you won a championship at Colorado come on down here and Coach the Panthers man I swear I'd love to see it I'd love to see it you get what I'm saying they seem to understand you know I mean that's a prime example of like going back to what I say you know like how I feel like people should should leverage you know what I'm saying like incorporating culture into you know and and seeing how it correlates with the direct success of just the overall energy of vibe brought to organization man like promise somebody who gets that you know what I mean he gets that it's it's a certain formula to it I mean I'm pretty sure if you was to go back and and you know begin to coach your organization or whatever like people they going to want to come play for you not only because okay boom you've been you've made it to the top of where you can make it in this sport you get what I'm saying you you got the Super Bowl you got all you're Hall of Famer all this not only because of that but you know that what you represent as a man as a person you get what I'm saying all these things see that's that's somebody who I want if if uh coach Prime would you if you say boom this this right yeah you need to run the hill 30 times I'mma why somebody made you do that before you know what I'm saying that's what turned you into the champion you all right bet I'm do it but not just cuz you sweet on on Miss Davis bro I'm sweet on the too you what I'm saying yeah you know what I mean so you know just just the directly related to my personal experiences man you know uh I definitely feel like that's super effective I love to see him anywhere I love to see him involved with with a with a NFL organization period bro I think that'll be a beautiful thing for sure for sure do you think a lot of that has to do with his ability to relate to the kids because I think a lot of time the coaches in today's society because we got social media and you have to be able to get through to the kids and talk to them on their level that old yelling and screaming and cursing in then guy face that a kick it work for some it work for the ones that come from that that come from that old school tough love you know what I'm saying environment but for for some you know it make him shut down so I think definitely his ability to to be able to relate with the with the kids bro got a lot to do with you know why people would want he's just a you know he he's a he's a prolific person all the way around the board like you know you want to be around him you want to learn from him you want to seek knowledge and and and you know and just and just you know learn from from a person like that you know if they tell you look this a mistake you going to trust that you know what I'm saying and see it through on the other end and and for the majority of those who have trusted that and saw it through I'm pretty sure they learned on the back end of that that that was that was probably the right move to make you know what I mean yeah he's willing to teach what's been taught man you can't you know I got the ultimate respect for that in any category any business any Lane you know what I mean being from Charlotte being from Carolina your whole life you know all the Panthers all the great Panthers give me your top three Panthers play Steve Smith uh Cam Newton and uh uh Steve Smith Cam Newton we give you one more ah I'mma go with I'mma go with my boy I'mma go with my boy Jonathan Stewart I'mma give it to him CU That's My Boy tapped in with me man you left pep off oh damn no ST my bad my bad man you know I love you you know I love you n Julius Peppers I'm tripping definitely number 9 Julius pepp 99 number 90 90 yes Julius Peppers for show9 you left Keele off yeah I can't put him before Julius Peppers or Cam Newton or Steve Smith I know that's all I used to hear my mama say that's all you my M my mama's so turn man when turn when it come to sports and football especially them Panthers she do not play you know what I'm saying but no I definitely I go I go Steve Smith Steve Smith uh Cam Newton and Julius Peppers right cam was in Carolina for a minute and cam you know that that lineage of of black quarterbacks the Michael Vicks Lamar Jackson Donovan Pat Mahomes Warren Cunningham you got a top three you got to in terms of like what black quarterbacks and they impact on the game definitely cam got to be in that mix you got to go Mike Vic Cam and N Lamar I you know Donovan MC now cam out did you bro brought the co I'm telling you he did you know they got a lot C brought that swag he brought that swag you know what I'm saying and that's while that's while I'm you know uh like one of the most you know I'm I'm one of the most turned local artists too I remember making a song called like Dab City where I shot the video outside of the pan Stadium on Game Day right had on the Panthers jersey I'm walking up to people that's when he Incorporated the the dance that everybody was doing that did that worked wonders for me me being able to tie them two together it it worked out for me you get what I'm saying it also gave the city something you know something to call theirs and something to turn them up because we just had the vibe going we was undefeated everything so yeah yeah I'm forever I'm forever uh uh grateful of what they was able to do that season yeah and the 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sh y sh y for $20 off download game time today last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed and reading up and reading up on you you're big in the fitness what's what's your training regiment like I try to be man I'm trying to get like you trying to get like you that's what it that's what it's like one thing with me man and and you know I'm sure it's like this with a lot of people you probably got this this good problem too it's more it's more genetics than it is anything like I can take you know I cannot work out for a month get in there for a week straight and people going to be asking me boy what's up who your trainer who you train with what you do you know is is more so just these good jeans this last name that I stand on Kirk is is dead you know I it's what I get from my pops and you know just my muscle memory and how was able to just you know stick to me when I get to it but I been way more consistent lately and hanging in there felt like I done pulled something right there I probably need to holl at you about it give me some pointers or something I told you I'm trying to get like you so we we'll talk about that so so what what is your what is your training regimen consist of are you cross trainining or you I got oh no no no no no I don't do no running you don't do no running I don't do no run so you ain't got no cardio on that stage when I'm up there shaking my ass for 60 minutes in a time that's I like the colge get up there and shake your ass for 60 minutes that's your cardio that's my as play it take cardio to do it it ain't easy yeah but I thought you you need to do cardio to make sure you able to do that up there I'm doing that so much that I need to sit down when I get up time it's time to sit down man the people in the gym they ain't running 60 minutes right and and and rapping words while they doing it and and you know and still grooving to the beat and you know what I mean transitioning in between this and that and look at fans in the eyes and engaging with them you know what I mean on and off and periodically throughout all simultaneously they ain't doing that that takes some that takes some cardio but you know I've been blessed enough to be able to hang in there one with think I do cardio when they see me you know my my ability to you know control my my wind and everything you know what I mean when I'm either rapping or performing live but now I don't do no cardio you know what I'm saying no cardio anything but cardio so so you bench what's the most you ever benched the most I done ever bench is probably 230 but this is so long ago benching ain't something I even it probably 235 but this is this is when I'm not even this was like 2000 this before IA this probably like 2017 like 2 5 that's the most I put on there and even try probably 250 I didn't even put on and at the time take this into account at the time I was probably like 140 what swear to God 140 mhm wow so that's you know that's that's great that's very good yeah absolutely 100 plus pounds now I can probably I can probably get in there and get more up off me you know what I'm saying but I a bench that ain't even something my that's the one thing I don't got in my uh personal gym at the crib is a bench Ben uhhuh one thing I don't got so when you were you always were you always in the waight were you always uh like worried about Aesthetics like man you know you do a little bit you get in the muscle show a little bit you like okay no I wouldn't you know you you would look at a picture of me like maybe seven years ago and be like boy you skinny as hell you know what I mean like you know we we from the south mom people call you po boy you po boy you po you know what I'm saying I was just joking with somebody about that the other day like your people ever said that like Po like yeah you po you need to eat something you know what I'm saying so no it wasn't that wasn't something I was always into now my big brother my oldest brother like yeah that's definitely something he was into like he was working out like he was getting ready to go to prison he was 14 you know what I'm saying he was 14 years old working working out like he was getting ready to go to prison my mama kept her she kept her uh uh that's one thing she made sure her boys had my mama uh boy mom Three Sons you know what I'm saying I'm the youngest three siblings and um she kept us uh a weight bench you get what she kept us a weight bench and kept us a punching bag and a speed bag in the garage parked the car outside you know what I'm saying coming up once we did move to a house that had a damn garage yeah for sure mhm so she kept y'all active yeah for sure yeah she let her boys be boys her boys all boy oh boy mhm I'm I'm looking at you and like in your when you sh your video your videos are like movies and you say you drew inspiration from Missy and Buster Andre the very very very C Luda very very creative minds and if you look at their videos they are like movies no for sure now that's something I'm definitely got a passion for um even from a you know even greater aspect in terms of like film and television like I draw a lot of inspiration from my favorite movies growing up or my favorite sitcoms or what have you you know what I mean I draw inspiration from it it's it's one thing about you know just laugh that you know It Last Forever you know something that made you smile something that made you feel good something make you laugh you ain't going to never forget that you know what I'm saying do do you want to move behind the camera yeah absolutely I already am you know I mean like I'm already in the direct and I've been building a production the entire time even when I see you know the way you diversify your portfolio and you got your media company going and set up I'm I'm I'm I'm a fan of that I admire that to the fullest that's something in I'm I'm still figuring out how I want to go about doing it in my own way you get what I'm saying so it's it's dope to see man and not only that you know you can continue to shine light on who you is as a person and get these thoughts that we got up here make them tangible get them out in front of us man and you know and Inspire others I see where and some of you you ripping off your shirt you like like you're incredible a show like to do that man you know what I mean let them know yeah let them know let them know small but hey the package the package here strong you know what I'm saying St boy yeah for sure for sure the the the way you shoot it that's a very expensive process absolutely it gets though you know what I mean it gets there and and just like everything else man you know that's that's the game is to be sold not told you know what I mean so that's knowledge I didn't had to pay for I done paid for that game and now you know I didn't I didn't been blessed enough to to have enough experience to where I know how to navigate through a lot of the the the hoes that are that'll send you you know send you to the bank to go get some money out to get this idea done now I know you know from the very beginning you know how to set these things up and how to produce these projects in ways to where it's most coste efficient you know what I'm saying and I'm able to keep doing more and keep doing more and able to keep you know what I mean producing more of my ideas why was it important to you to be different on stage than a lot of the other Rappers that's kind of just like how I was already set up too to begin with so from the beginning I you know I really commercialized myself you know what I'm saying from day one like from the start like it was never I never intended on you know um the my target audience was never the the the the dudes that's going to be standing in the corner looking at you like this me that ain't what I want they ain't spending no money right they they want to do something to you you get I can't do nothing with y'all if y'all like it cool I take it but my target my target audience always been the masses you know what I'm saying like from day one and I and I feel like I done did a tremendous job at walking that thin line of staying true and authentic to myself you know what I'm saying and and being able to appeal to the masses like that's why my my demographic is it's so widely ranged you know a two-year-old beat saw me and dropped they they pacifi out their mouth and pointed to me and they Grandma at the same time beting beating ran over I know who you is come here you ain't hiding you know so it's the demographic it go from here to here man and you know that's a that's a wide window to be able to jump through and do whatever within that space and without you know um without without taking away my Integrity of who I am as a person you get what I'm saying yeah so I came in from the jump with that what how did you become so Fearless on stage though I had to be Fearless in the house you know what I mean I've been working on my yeah exactly I've been working on my documentary lately so that's you know there something I've been exploring I've been doing a lot of writing and self-reflecting finishing up on my documentary but definitely like every day in the house it was it was a it was a it was the Super Bowl every day in the house who going to get who going to get the last drop of that milk for that cereal we got out there boy you got the bang right you get and I'm the smallest one you get what I'm saying I'm the smallest one some days I had to finesse it some days I had to tell my mom on that ass why they end there getting the woman M got you today some days I had to fight I had to lose a lot of fights right that I ain't never lost no fight outside the house no never undefeated you floor maywe outside the house I ain't never lost no fight outside the house I'm I get my ass whoop it's going to be in here when I go out there I got something for y'all I got something for y'all is it true that you wore a a diaper it's absolutely true at an event in Texas mhm for the stage name because you wanted to be you wanted to be the baby marketing Guru man not even I wanted to be the baby we had just switched the rap name you get what I'm saying and that which I had already put tons and tons of hours and and you know and dollars in the market and what the rap name was you get what I'm saying I had did bought tons of promo materials I put posters all over the place hand people see these I used to holl at the club on and finesse my way in there before the club open there let me going in the bathrooms I got posters on the bathroom star of a female going there use the bathroom they close the door they I'm looking dead at you smiling It Go my Instagram all that you get what I'm saying I get a lot of my critical thinking done when I'm on the toilet I don't know about y'all you get what I'm saying so I had it figured out early but I say all that to say this like I had already marketed the the previous name so well I'm like now what we now change the name I'm like bro what we going to do you know what I mean what we going to do and I'm like I know what I'mma do St by St watch this the baby cuz at first when I heard the baby I'm like the baby it's a person is he can vouch I'm like like the baby that ain't it ain't even feel right to me say it took me a while to even be able to say it cuz at first baby Jesus exact there you go so I wouldn't even say it like for a while I had to say all my other Alias is along with it just to like the way it rolled off my Tong you get what I'm saying when I finally you know but I'm like okay boom you want to switch to the B I'm like the baby all right bet I got something you know I mean I'mma do this he like hell no you can't do that can't do that can't do that you going to mess the M yeah because you have you already got a name how hard is is it cuz I can't imagine you know Snoop Dogg changing his name I I can't imagine Drake or some of these rappers changing exact bro we don't want to hear it you dig what I'm saying so I'm like nah I don't you know I'm afraid of what that come with you get what I'm saying we starting back from ground one but I'm like n you know what I got an idea they went everybody went against the damn near everybody until I came around that corner with that thing on tell nobody I pulled off one or two people out of the 20 people I was down there with and I looked it up where I get these old man diapers that what I typed in I found the pan CBS I said stop at CBS I'm in the Sprinter switch right there in the back put it over my put it over my draws just in case thing I don't know how saf fell off you put it over my draw got out there man look and and stole the show this I did this I don't know how many years ago probably six seven years it's still ring bells to this day ain't nobody utilized you know ain't nobody utilized that that that Annual Festival to way way out and utilize that ain't nobody been able to draw that much cuz it's a music festival and you got thousands and thousands of artists down there looking to get look that that were premeditated murder you know what I'm saying premeditated murder so did they used to call Michael Jordan Black Jesus did you know did you was that me with me the the baby Jesus name that that I started off um that I started off Coring early on it was more so about me me and I still feel this way to this day in terms of my purpose as a person you know what I'm saying and why I feel like God put me here is to do for others right you know what I mean like that's what it's all about with me that's why I'm most fulfilled you know when I'm at the top of the world you know what I'm saying getting 400,000 in the show whatever I I can get on the song and say One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish it's going top five on Billboard I had it like that right you know what I'm saying but I'm not you know I'm I got the straight face until it's time for me to perform do my like I'm not really that's not fulfilling to me not doing for others and and Shining my light on on other people and and you know uh revealing The Light Within them to themselves like that's what I'm about that's what I'm that's where I'm most F at you know what I'm saying doing for others you know what I'm saying so it was all about that with me just you know like I'm here to to sacrifice myself to do for others you know what I mean I read what little baby say people Tred to create a a beef with you and him because he little baby you baby sure and I'm pretty sure that was on both ends you know what I'm saying like definitely and that's just people just being people being who people is and hat off to him I don't think two people in this industry right here could ever have two NE cuz he popped right before me you get what I'm saying I actually ran into him at South by Southwest right that year you know what I'm saying I ran into him earlier in that week before I got before I uh I pulled my my genius marketing move you dig what I'm saying but I don't think two people could have uh names that closely related without it becoming a issue or or one person's ego you get what I'm saying or whatever or or insecurity shining through it was none of that there ever I never sense the second of it it's too easy to do especially with him popping before me he could have easily just you get what I'm saying like he had the leverage at the time to be able to this [ __ ] copying me right you get what I'm saying but he had he had already ran into me you know what I mean so he knew ahead of time like that's what my name was or what I saw he mention interview like he had already ran into me you know what I mean down at South by South West but he could have easily yeah this n copying me of this or that but he was confident enough in his ability to do what he do to not have to go that route you get what I'm saying and as was I you know it's plenty money out here for everybody and that's what I wanted to ask he pops right before you he's little baby you coming along the baby did you like damn man I might have if this up with this one N I ain't trip you know what I'm saying I ain't trip for a second you know I'm a stand up individual BR too you know I mean I get it to him any day any day that's yeah that's that's commendable you get what I'm saying and honorable respectable just as a man outside of the artist you dig what I'm saying you got to be a certain type of a dude to you know what I mean you got a certain type of Dude to not take the not take the the the the negative route I'm going to say the word negative not take the hater route did not take the you know what I mean the salty route or whatever you got to be a certain type of dude man so that's something I didn't always you know what I mean respect it bro folk especially with him being the one that that got through the threshold first you know what I'm saying I saw what little Duvall said you're the Spike Lee of this boy with Duvall I would have never thought you rapper would want to transition and be what Spike lead to movies you want to be on that side no for sure man I love it's it's I got a whole lot going on up here A whole lot of real life experiences I went through before I ever even got behind a microphone you know what I'm saying and made a song that you know all the I got I got vision and I got experiences and I got thousands and thousands of stories that I could tell that that can touch the heart the mind the soul of of just about anybody I can check out all the boxes you get what I'm saying based off what I been through so I definitely and anything that I take a like into like I'm that type of person if I take a like into something I immediately you know become engaged and learning as much as I can learn about it and and you know figuring out how I could operate in that space and utilize you know my my gifts and my blessings to you know put my touch on that and and represent it in a way that I feel like it ain't been presented before like that's what I'm all about are you able to sleep because I think in order for you to be a rapper or in order for you to be a director you have your mind never like your mind is constantly racing because you're always putting this and that this rhymes with this this rhymes with that or you see something are you able to rest peacefully yeah I mean that's where I get my resting a lot of times I'm resting with my eyes open you to call my name I don't even hear you you call it oh what's up bro but n definitely man it's you know and and not only that it's it's almost therapeutic to me you know like that's my outlet okay you know what I'm saying that's my outlet you know like I'm you know I'm I'm creating I'm taking these experiences that I didn't that I didn't you know that I done had and some of them traumatic as hell you know what I mean need to go talk to a therapist about them but you know I find I find humor in them that's just what we used to doing just as oppressed people period from the beginning of time you know what I'm saying you find humor and that's why we some of the most humorous people in the world all comedy is different it's edgy and it's you know and it touch on it touch on traumatic experiences so it hit you in more than one place at the same time but not only that it's healthy that laughter you know what I mean we can not know Mama could not know how to pay the rent tomorrow you know what I'm saying of what we going to eat we still going to be in here laughing smiling having a good time today to okay today we going today we partying though you get what I'm saying we we'll wor about that later so that's just always been I feel like you know an outlet for all people you know and it and as it is with me you know what I mean definitely definitely an outlet definitely healthy I love to have a good time make people have a good time I love to take thoughts and turn them into things that's fulfilling to me what's your favorite movie and video of all time o That's aough tough one man that's a tough one favorite movie damn that's a tough one I don't know if I could I don't know if I can name one well give me a couple of your favorite a couple of my favorites training day yeah you like Lonzo huh training day yeah yeah for sure Trader day for sure man uh uh King Kong ain't got ain't got nothing on ain't got nothing on you know what I'm saying uh training day all the Ed like Eddie Murphy like I'm a fan of a lot of people bro even in even you know if if you want to go a different route and like Jim Carrey you know what I'm saying but like I'm a fan of a lot of films I love all the all the hood films I love minister to society you know what I mean all the Fridays it's it's tons of movies man I I've been in I've been you know in in sync with the movies you know early on that's kind of for for a time that's all we had even if it was the bootlegs and the little CD book you know what I'm saying like I love me a good movie man so I got a lot of good movies music videos all things Buster Rhymes Eminem ludicrous uh uh uh uh Outcast Missy Elliott all them man I it's hard to pick one you know what I'm saying of all time it might be my favorite music video of all time but the one that the one that resonate like the most with me like it affected me the most might be Michael Jackson Thriller I pissed the bed about a thousand times used to be scared to death boy of that music video and and the character he portrayed in it but couldn't stop watching it right still was so you know it was so compelling to me too so that like that what I'm saying that's a music video that came out before I was born right you know what I mean so just the fact that it's that that I remember and it reated so much with you you know what I mean like that that just goes to show you know I probably didn't had interest in in these these Realms way before I even knew that I had interest in them you know what I mean what did you want to be when you were growing up if somebody would have told you said like what what what do you want what do you want to do with your life son that's the easy one for me cuz it was always it was always straight cut and it it was nothing normal it ain't going to be Norm something to make a my answer as a kid too I'm talking about as a kid younger than my oldest kids it was it was something to make a lot of money I knew I wanted to make a lot of money that's what I knew you didn't know what it was but I make money what it was so even in school when they when they get the putting it in front of you and they give you the list of all the occupations you can you know grow to go to go to college and and study or whatever at the top of the list it was you know you got doctor of course you got this that I'm like nah you got to go to school for too long I'm factoring all this in nuh uhuh and which I always sell the school speaking of school but like you know you got doctors this and that one of the ones that was up there and and that I and this is something I I took a lik into early was a chef you know what I mean that was the only the only thing I ever wanted to be ever growing up was a chef I I didn't even want to be a rapper it was a chef I had a chef jacket I'm I'm like that you like that the I'm like that you like that in the kitchen for real in the kitchen on the grill on all yeah I'm like that so what you do what okay I in it name Thanksgiving coming up I can make the whole thing you got a lady coming over you want it's over for over it's over for I'll be telling a lot of them I look I can't cook for you cuz then you going to be see you going to get acting crazy yeah you know what I'm saying ain't nobody going to understand so you going to be like a straight I ain't going to be able to get rid of you I swear to God ask about me he me take here hey he that right there hey I'm standing on that ask about me you know what I mean speaking of that me and my baby we and my my oldest daughter we got a cooking show getting ready to come out so really congrats on that bro Cong but I get down in that kitchen though so what you like to cook so what you everything OG every you you a breakfast you like to make breakfast that's everybody that's easy breakfast easy so okay breakfast let's let you know cuz you you got people say I can cook they make scrambled EG this and that I can make homemade biscuits what video on my Instagram right now I make homemade biscuit like a month ago on Instagram right I don't know nobody that can make homemade biscuits beside my mom right like I ain't never dealt with a female that can cook better than me ever what you get what I'm saying and that ain't to take nothing away from nobody yeah but I ain't never dealt with no Fe y'all know I ain't never dealt with no female better than me for sure like I yeah I'm like that they know too I'm like so so what made you to get I mean had two oh okay okay yeah my mom she get off her main job she got to go to her parttime after taking care of her boys you get what I'm saying so we I had to go in that refrigerator I had a house key at 5 years old cuz you know Elementary School they get I'm I'm the youngest now I'm the baby right Elementary School get off the bus first you know what I'm saying I had a house kid like 5 years old I get off the bus I I go open the door my damn self lock it don't let nobody in don't come to it act like you ain't there I get that stomach you know kids be hungry after school boy stomach at the growling I got to look at here and figure it out you know what I mean I got to turn oodles and noodles in the roof Chris I got to make this I got to make this pack of beef noodle beef noodles was in in the '90s I got to make this taste like a steak right you know what I mean so you know that just that just go from just having to having to figure it out and then one thing you know one thing about my family like my family didn't always been big like food that's that's my mama love language her grandbabies everybody she going to feed you that's my grandma that's how they do too that's that's the clout she cut from they going to feed you you get what I'm saying so that's that hey that's why I found that love and that nurturing so I like I say anything that I take a lik to I want know everything about it and how to figure it out so I'm like this while my mom end up getting it in and I'm like okay B so you you watch it I need to know how to make this for myself so I ain't never got to depend on nobody I'm thinking like that early unknowingly but that's the one thing I ever wanted to be I used to have a uh they got me a chef I think my pops ordered it for me when he knew that that was something I was taking a like into uh cuz I've been like that too like you know I've been you know assertive and just strong minded with my thoughts about take a lock something I lock in on it I've been like that since a jit and you know my people is one thing they always did was was support whatever it is we was with and I remember my Pops I think it was like for my birthday or Christmas or something and I would have this I love this gift so that'll let you know what's going on uh he got me a chef coat and a chef hat and it had my one of my nicknames uh embroidered you know what I'm saying with my favorite royal blue letters embroidered it said hard chocolate ni name hard chocolate one hard was yeah I'm telling you now I've been there so you got a cookbook you gonna do a cookbook I'mma do I'd rather do a show than a book I do a book but you got to see this you know what I mean because I cook with love so it's kind of like you know it's the it's like I could I could I could show you how to do it you still can't do it like me type of thing it's one of them right but a lot of people not I'm good at I'm good at teaching people you know what I got going on like you feel me like I I be saying that that's like a little joke I got you know with with with somebody I done dealt with I ain't dealt with before like you be making my recipes for them n you be I know what time it is yeah I already know you got them hooked I already know I already know what time it it make sure you tell them I'm the one taught you how to make that you know what I'm saying like are you you teaching your kids how to cook yeah absolutely I know you say you got a cooking show coming out with your oldest daughter but all your all your kids going to know how to cook all my kids going to know how to cook I'm a girl Dad too so they got to know they got to know how to get down all of them going to know how to cook for sure for sure right you talking about you being behind the camera would you like to act absolutely so so behind the camera and in front of it you know what I mean absolutely that's that's a lane I'm very much already you know what I mean uh finding my way in right now as we speak who's your favorite actor I got to go Den H that that wasn't even hard at all I got to go my boy Zale that that what I like to call myself when I'm when I'm doing exceptionally well on camera soon as we cut yeah okay call me zel I gotta go Denzel man he just he got such a wide range and you know he one of them actors to well right you you know that's him like even the way he be fighting in the movies you know Denzel punch you and put you in the head like why he looking like this punch you okay okay he he going to whoop somebody ass in real life that ain't he too good at like how you beat somebody up and look cool doing it you know what I mean but no no I love I love Denzel man I gotta go Denzel and I love uh I'm a big fan of Eddie Murphy and just his ability he like water you know what I mean like he can play several different characters you got to think how brilliant um I don't think people even understand you know how brilliant of a of an actor he is man he got to be one of the tops on my list like he like like what is it meet the clumps Professor the professor playing Five Characters sitting at the table together Norbit you get what I'm saying he's playing every every lead character people got to understand you got to understand what it take to even be able to do that you know what I mean like you got to it it take a certain type of Mind man he really a a maniac you know what I mean in the best way possible in the most genius way possible a maniac man a genius I see you doing a lot of skills on social media is that helping you hone your skills yeah absolutely bro and I have fun doing it you know what I mean more importantly like I have fun doing that like I do the skits and all that stuff like it's this is really me you know this is really me if you if you just kicking it with me outside of social media like I like to laugh have a good time I love to entertain myself right that's the thing about me so a lot of the a lot of the entertainment that I do put I really was just entertaining myself I just packaged it and you know and shared it with the world but my ideas they get even more you know Instagram it ain't enough to show my ideas you know what I'm saying like I got some ideas that ain't GNA they ain't going to serve me well on the internet you get what I'm saying like I got to really package these and present these the correct way and that's why I'm like you know it became undeniable that I had a a real deal passion for for fil for film making a gift you know what I mean a gift that I'm that I'm passionate about and you know that I'm that I'm adamant on exploring and and learning as much as I can about it I done really you know put the time in to do that so it's dope whenever I do get to put it on display I see ti ti is the f is the only person I've know in this genre he's a rapper mhm that went into comedy yeah you good with comedy you try comedy well and like in terms of like stand up or whatever N I ain't never try to stand up would you I probably wouldn't a lot of times when I when I transition from like one song to another like even while I'm on stage now you know what I'm saying during my shows it almost be feeling like stand up like if I was to explore stand up I think I would definitely excel in it and that's that's not me calling it easy at all like I understand what it is but just in terms of of making adjustments on the spot the word is improv in terms of improv like I I definitely excel at that like you know what I'm saying definitely so I think I think I do I think I do good that might be that might be a way I challenge myself one day I might jump out there and see what's up with that you know what I mean yeah yeah I'm fans of a lot of standup comedians like a lot of them people man a lot of them is I've been fans of them from the get-go anything that that make that make you laugh you know what I'm saying especially laughing at at at what was once pain or or you know something that you wish you wasn't going through and I'm all about it that's what you know that's what kept me at peace my whole life let me ask you this social media there's good and bad yes sir give me a couple examples how it's helped you give me a couple examples how it's hurt you it didn't hurt me the same way it didn't it didn't help me you get what I'm saying at the end of the day it's a tool you know and and I always been real big on that on utilizing social media as a tool now while utilizing social media as a tool if this Hammer work for you if you carrying around this Hammer all day and you know how to use it and it's working flawlessly uh what you going to do you going now now you carrying this Hammer around when you don't even need bro you ain't putting no Nails in no in no in no wood today what you got this hammer for and then you then you get to abuse it somebody might say oh hey hey what you looking at brother and you pull a ham out I'm looking at you you get what I'm saying like not it's it's you know that's that's my analogy for it you know what I mean to just sum it all up and keep it in a nutshell like yeah anything you know U anything that that suits you you know that that has the ability to change your life or get you to a certain place and change the life of people around you and and you know and a tool that you've been able to utilize and it's work for you so good you know you can you can easily become distracted and and begin to abuse the use of it you know what I'm saying and and use it in ways that you shouldn't or not know when not to use it when to put that down you don't need that if you angry you probably shouldn't have no what you going to do with a hammer in your hand if you ain't right you know what I'm saying you going to get to grabbing it like this you know I'm clenching on it like you ain't got no you ain't got no good intentions with with that in your hand right now you probably need to put that down in certain instances so you know it it's that's the way it's been able to affect me in a in a negative way you know not not knowing that okay I should put this down at a particular point you know what I'm saying and then getting the worst end of the of the stick because I didn't you know I didn't make that decision consciously and you know follow through how have you been able to block out the negativity because I'm sure you read you read the comments this song sounds just like that song and that song sound like this song and this song how how do you block that out like with that one with the with the song sounding the same I just play like I just play like my top three songs they ain't nothing like each other you know what I'm saying you go from Rockstar to Suge to this them ain't nothing like each other so in terms of that the songs sounding the same Can't Rap better than me like I you know so if I I say well what's your favorite rapper if I you know if I could actually get in the room with some if it was worth it if it was a argument it was worth me having I mean I probably wouldn't argue anyways I'd say what's your favorite rapper what's your favorite song by him and I'll go rap on that beat and then yeah you going to yeah you going you know you going to straighten it they going to straighten that out right you know what I'm saying I kind of let people do that on their own I do it all the time when I you know do freestyle so in terms of that that's whatever I ain't tripping on that you know what I'm saying that's that's like me saying you can't play football huh right no for real OG OG you can't play football right I can't play no more all the tight hands play like you you're just a tight end you get come on bro that ain't even you know it's like yeah right you know what I'm saying but in in in other areas right cuz a lot of times I mean it's a lot of these things these opinions you know they they they have some type of validation you get what I'm saying at the end of the day it's all about you know it's all about it's all about remaining valid to yourself you get what I'm saying at the end of the day and and as as arrogant as a lot of people like to think I am I really I'm really way more humble than than you know based off people's perception of me the public the wi The Wider public perception of me I'm really way more humble than than than people think I am you get what I'm saying I ain't tripping you know like I come in the room and know okay I'm the elephant but I move I move smooth you get what I'm saying and you know I'm I'm trying to find out where the other elephants at so we can run together right you get what I'm saying like I ain't I ain't never really tripping on that in terms of you know when it when it come to the naysay or whatever or the the he say she say like it is what it is when it come to that and but I do also like to study whatever I do right so if I do put out a music video I do put this out I love to see people's reactions I like to see it I like to see the patterns and okay how many people hated on this as opposed to how many people you know hate it on this one like and then that's how I know to you know move forward and but that's that's a that's a never ending game you know what I mean that probably ain't even something healthy to do but I think studying you know studying what you do and and studying the way people respond to it I think that is a healthy thing when you thinking longterm and appealing to the masses me I want everybody you get what I'm saying even them haters I want to you know I eventually fli i f yeah I you know I get a kick out of that you know what I'm saying I get a kick out of yeah showing you what time it is and then having a strip then I'm not even going to throw it in your face when I you know what I'm saying cuz I didn't already got I didn't already got my high off the situation I'm I got high off just yeah showing myself yeah right man stop playing with me you get what I'm saying like you know and it's all good so that's how I really deal with that like I really you know them them them people that I I win them battles silently you get what I'm saying and I don't even really trip cuz I know what time it once I and they know what time it is too that's one thing though it's kind of like if you you know somebody say you can't beat them you playing one-onone even when you're done okay but you was pushing or you was filing or you was doing it ain't going to never stop so once I show you and I show me it's really just about me showing me yeah to stop playing with me after that it's all good I'll let people you know I'll let them run the circus you feel me and I'll come through and be and I come through and clown when you make me mad enough to come through and clown I'm going to come through and clown right and then I'm going to yeah get right back up out of there and then let y'all do y thing give me your M Rushmore rappers your M your great your greatest four rappers of all time 50 Cent little no no particular order 50 Cent Lil Wayne Tupac and me you the first you want a shot yeah no no take take this right here I I got I got you yeah yeah yeah and me for sure for sure 50 Cent Lil Wayne Tupac and me you're the first of all the people that I've had in here and I've had a lot of comedians a lot of slabs in here you're the only one that ever put yourself on my rushb oh man I got to you know what I'm saying I got to and I'm willing to demonstrate that's the difference you are I I call myself the I've been calling myself the best for a while now you know what I mean and that's not to take that's how everybody should feel about whatever it is they do that's the first step right you dig what I'm saying but but that second step is being able to if that's tested you know what I'm saying be able to follow through with it I love to you know what I mean I love to and I love to I love to uh uh the the go up against some iron and be and be sharpened or or be or to be showed hey you ain't sharp enough you know what I mean get get right I love to you know I find no I find no discomfort in that huh who would you like to jump on the feature with that you haven't been on one with that I haven't been on one with Kendrick Lamar okay Kendrick Lamar uh uh Drake the best anybody who considers their self the best I love to bro that's what I'm all about you know what I mean that's what I'm all about and I'm going to do something you going you know they know when a [ __ ] got it like that too see that's the thing like they know little little yachi little uhuh he said that your verst on jail was better than hoes it was you heard both of them I I want to inv I don't want to get involved cuz I try to I try to get you a straight shooter I'm try to get on here I'm trying to getra I'm going answer that once I get him on here said I just saw you you just got on BR cuz he said if he didn't go to Miami you heard that so you gonna let you gonna let Jay-Z slide Jay-Z real talk bro you know what I ain't got nothing but respect for you check this out was your verse better than mine you know what was your verse better than mine come on come on OG come on OG you I mean it was it you know what I'm saying I'm I'm yeah it wasn't no G and it is that's okay we ain't do it at the same time but let me ask what I'm saying it ain't like we you know it ain't it ain't like you had the ability to be able to say okay now hold on let me you know let let me do it over yeah we did it in two different two different times but definitely so but you but but do you know let's just say for the sake of argument you jump on a feature with somebody and they got two other two other guys three other people on on that thing you don't know when they're going to do theirs it didn't happen to me before you get what I'm saying like I didn't like to where okay send me a song I'm just thinking okay boom they just sending me this song you know and and in every and in every situation it ain't competition the the O the end goal is to make the best the best song possible you get what I'm saying like you know the end goal is to make the best song possible but you know when you when you got if you know you got the opportunity to compete with with people whose skill set you didn't you didn't looked up to you know what I mean for decades or what what have you if you know you in the room with the best you know you got to come with your best right you get what I'm saying so that's also a thing too but we wasn't n in the room we wasn't he had no knowledge of me his song his version of the song was already out or whatever and you know to my defense I didn't listen to his version of the song and then go do my verse like Kanye just said this one right here you know what I'm saying and yeah he really gave me a couple of them to do I recorded that in the middle of a warehouse on a on a cart had a studio set up on a cart mhm but definitely and like that recorded in probably like like 10 minutes didn't write a word you know what I'm saying it was just like that yeah for sure for sure for sure but I definitely feel like my verse my verse better but when you jump on the you jump on the feature are you trying are you trying to go hard are you trying cuz it's comp certain songs for sure yeah yeah that competitive that competitiveness kick in for sure like the like on the um I got a song with jcole because there was another person I would have mentioned he would have been at the top of that list I want to do and I was going to mention that I want to do more work with jcole hell yeah especially with us both being from North Carolina like I love to whatever hopefully you know this right here Sparks the conversation and we can move towards that but um I got and it's a lot of people like like one of their favorite verses for me people come up to me and tell me all the time I'm running to people in traffic uh Under the Sun you know what I mean it got me J Cole on it another dude from Charlotte named Luke Luke West but uh a lot of people you know they they dig that verse not when coold sent me that and they like okay yeah CLE want you on the song yeah you know I'm yeah I'm coming with okay now I'm coming like this on this song I know how I'm coming on this song you get what I'm saying because I know who I'm hey look I know who I'm getting in bed with you get what I'm saying I gotta be I gotta you know so I got to come ready to play say c songs I don't want to do people like that so if I'm on a song with a certain type of artist and it's you know they style ain't really cuz I'm I I mean I'm I'm I like to think of myself without being in here sound like I'm to my own horn but I I'm very aware that I'm versatile right you get what I'm saying I could dumb it down and make everybody I can make together women put their hands on their knees make together women put their hand or I can get on Lauren Hill beat you get what I'm saying and make the Auntie say boy don't play with that boy like he you know what I mean he like that so you know it's kind of like I got that going on but I don't I don't utilize that like I I take advantage of that I don't take advantage of that taking advantage of it to be getting on the song where that ain't CS for and going outside of the vibe that's already set with you coming to get a feature from me going outside the vibe and the groundwork that's already set getting off topic off off you know what I mean I wanted to be cohesive in a and a piece of work you know what I'm saying I don't want it to sound like I came in here to compete with somebody who is is a fan me to be able to ask me to you know what I'm saying come take part in what they got going on N they coming to do that because they take a lik to me of some sort if you feel like I'm trying to take your head off you ain't going to come you ain't coming back right you ain't come on now if you if if you call me to come play football I ain't going to think you trying to come run me over you get and if we get out there and that's what you do nah bro this ain't what I came for you this ain't what I came for you know so it Ain if we go out there right now throw football around you ain't going to take not line up in front of me now we I ain't playing with you you ain't going to do me like that you know what I mean so it's that type of thing man you going to keep it within a you going to keep it within the space to where we can have the best the best performance cohesively you know what I mean so I don't I don't do that like certain times I scale back when I know I can like I can take over the whole song like I'm not about to play like that like that ain't what I'm in it for you know what I mean but other times when it's artists that love that like that competitiveness and that you know and yeah and and and what they bring to the table it commands that then yeah I'm going to rise to the occasion every time like call S God did he got Rob I got baby I got this feature let me tell you I'm tell you's it right nowed mile a half Ross Weezy ho Drake Cole dad had to tell me boy the song over stop rapping the beat would have went out out have still been going I'm going to make them say when when you turn when this go off boy that boy boy yeah I'm say I'mma make him say that I'mma make him say damn he just is raw you know what I'm saying he just as raw if not more than than the company that he's in you know what I'm saying like and that's what I'm supposed to do you know what I mean as a man as a person as a artist that's what you're supposed to do since you've been on the game for a minute now what's some of your what's one of your best purchases and one of your worst purchases best purchases uh my best purchases I had to say the the the the the 10 acre estate that I own that I bought flat out um uh which is worth way more than now uh worst purchases I got a lot of them I I got a lot and and and and I won't even call my my home that I own my my best purchase I'll call it my best purchase just because it's it's tangible it's something I can I can immediately get to my kids right now you get what I'm saying and let them decide to do what they want to do with it what have you but um I think I think my best the best way I spent my money was investing in myself reinvest and that's something I've been doing from the from the get-go you know what I mean that's where majority of my bread that the bread I didn't spent I spent it right back and just reinvesting in myself and you know and exploring different areas you know what I'm saying and different fields that I that I feel like I got the ability to operate in but worst purchase got to be um [ __ ] it might be investing in others it might be hand in hand that might not be that complex of a question at all you know what I'm saying and invested in us but I don't even I wouldn't even call that you know what I mean a bad investment because you know that's that's who I am as a person right you get what I'm saying like that's just who I am as a person I never I don't think I could ever change that as as much as it bite me in the ass I don't think that's something I can get away from and still field ffi you know what I mean as a person did you really own a private jet no I was I had that on my I had that was so at yeah at the end of uh whatever Year all that all the drama tip of 2021 I was definitely going to give me a private jet I already had had 30 million on the schedule not to mention the the the boy about the 100 that would have came around I was definitely buying me one I would buying me one i' be seeing you and oo go back for that my dog too that's every time I run into him he really lik that too now I I didn't ran into him at the M store like what's going on he I had this outfit on two three days I'm going to buy another one I had this on since Thursday I'm like real quick playing I'm serious I'm serious but n um I definitely had plans on doing that still do I'm like you man I look I work too I work hard now I ain't trying to take my shoes off take my laptop out the bag I don't mind that but I don't you know like I'm I'm practical but what I tell oo I'm doing all this hard work and I get the least enjoyment out of you see I'm saying we got to balance it out somewhere along the line somewhere along the line it got to be balanced out I read that you took your grill out because you wanted to be more commercial not even want to be more commercial just got just got tied of it and I done always had a pretty smile you grew out of it yeah yeah yeah I was just over that you know what I'm saying yeah I was over that you too though but that that was definitely one of the things like where I was able to take it where I was blessed enough to be able to take it to within the first 12 months of my mainstream career yeah definitely it was time to it was time to you know yeah trying to scare you off when I smile I want you to be like damn man I'm looking the the the your North Carolina State you got a football field basketball court swimming pools guard towers concrete walls yes sir your neighbors complain yes sir they want what they complaining about this this young here doing it bigger than them what going on who is that who is that why we can't come over no that's why that's why you know what I mean it's for me my kids my people this ain't you know it's all good I came out here for peace I wouldn't even came out here you know what I mean if I wanted to be in the mix have people in my business I would have gotten the mix that's easy right you know what I'm saying I'm I came to get away from the mix but they definitely wanted me out of there oh you noral with they just they just left me alone they just left you alone they just left me alone just left me alone uh what made you decide to stay in your hometown my kids it's the only if it if if I wasn't if I wasn't the type of the father that refused to you get what I'm saying up and leave him like i' have been G I left before I popped right you know what I'm saying and came back you know what I'm saying I left and and and yeah and took me me my baby mom and my daughter we came to La we came out here before I popped maybe in 2017 moved out cold turkey you get what him I've been I've been trying to get on from now they don't welcome success where I'm from that was one of the points I touched on the beginning like they don't you know it ain't you can't you can't be a a a black man and be successful that that's that's too foreign to them right you know what I'm saying and they ain't trying to make it become you know domestic they don't want to get used to that you see what I'm saying they don't I don't you know that ain't something I can I could put a finger on you know as the why it's like that but that's what it is on from yeah because I'm thinking it's like and we see so many people um from their Hometown and you would think everybody's like man he from a hom town he do it he doing it big but it seems like they hate even more yeah especially where I'm from that's just how it go you know I mean you you see what happened to I forget head in Memphis don't put a Target on your back but why look you know you in a position that there so many people that that they seeking you know what I'm saying man like I don't I don't know that's something that's a whole that's a whole thing man you have to you have to move differently I had to before before you know what I mean I popped as an artist so and and that's kind of like how I navigate through this that's why a lot of the things like that I that I've been able to navigate through that I had to navigate through since I done been in the in the mainstream music business it's like cake to me bro cuz it's you know this what I'm from like where I'm from everybody hating on you so so when they when it was that time where everybody loved me everybody Lov everybody Lov a baby I ain't trust it I'm looking like man yeah right I had a straight face you get what I'm saying I you know I still you know know how to network know how to move around whatever but it's like you know when when when things did take a turn and everybody jump [ __ ] that's why I didn't respond that's why I didn't Panic that's why I didn't because you didn't trust when it was all good it was I knew that was I knew that was due to happen you get what at some particular point for whatever reason you get what I'm saying I knew you know what I mean that was do to happen I'm so used to that what was what I had what I was having trouble with growing used to was the the love you know what I'm saying and the you know and and just the yeah the admiration but it's it's like that in Charlotte like I can go you know across the country put 10,000 people in this arena for a Charlotte artist you be and put 10,000 people in the arena somewhere else you come to Charlotte just because you from Charlotte boy you be lucky you get a th that's that's a that's that's what it is you know what I'm saying and that's all the way around the board that's from the people to the PO leas to everybody you know like once they learned oh I'm about I sign a major deal they pulling us over dressed like us blue jeans on everywhere we go pulling us over searching the whole car they were trying to build a case the second that they they realized you know what I'm saying I had I had you know uh uh went into another another bracket financially you know what I'm saying along with just already being uh a black man from Charlotte I guess they felt like that was a dangerous combination and or they like get get it away from from over here go go somewhere else move to LA move to Atlanta but you move to LA and you got arrested on thing I love about man I ain't move to LA when I got arrested on Roo man you I was in a car with a [ __ ] he was supposed to that was his gun you ain't take your charge for your gun man long long time partner of mine too he dead ass wrong man that was he he made you eat it you had e charge he he didn't say nothing he know how this go so when you don't say nothing they going to charge everybody with it but not when you got a rapper in the car oh no that's his that's his you did what I'm saying so he thought hold on your your partner he going to make me get back mad about it yeah yeah y hold up hold up forgave and moved on and got dismissed he got dismissed he got to eat that one you see what I'm saying for sure you get what just off the strength of being I mean we done been pulled over several times in the streets before I had the Grammys two weeks after that all the all the I was nominated four times in the Grammys that two weeks after that that inent you get what I'm saying like and yeah all the all the bottles that one pop because of you all the all the you know the things that come along with be with the baby and he ain't eat that one man look I tell you what man laier yeah laier man keep you some of this man just in case you need to take a shot like I do right now you know but you live and you learn man you know say are you still are you cool with it or you you don't let that go you like Noah bro we can't for a while I couldn't e I couldn't even stomach being in the room with my boy man for a while but I done forgave since then I didn't forgave him you get what I'm saying and uh you know but I just I just move I just move accordingly I just move you move I ain't even [ __ ] I ain't even going to be in the car with nobody that you know if I you know I ain't yeah but the Forgiveness wasn't for him it was for you you had was for me it was definitely me man I love you know I his daughter that's my niece BR his mama that's that's my baby you get what I'm saying you know that's my baby they know this it it hurt them too right you get what cuz they know you get what I'm saying like they know they know this you feel me they know if I'm with me even being who I was if the gun was mine I wouldn't have went out like that right I would have that's mine you get what I'm saying it's legal it's we you're allowed to have it first of all so it ain't no just to give people context we ain't riding around he ain't it was no gun with no body you can have it so it's like what you what you doing like you feel me that's your your to take your lick yeah that's what we've been doing yes that's what we've been doing way before we got here so it's I would it it was so it was so left filled and I'm just like damn but you know I feel like it was a lesson that I needed to learn you get what I'm saying yeah at the end of the day lesson I needed to learn you you talked about your mom when you grew up you had a bench you had a speed bag you had a heavy bag so obviously you're good with your hands and you say I ain't take hey I got beat down at the hey my brother's got me but outside the house I ain't taking how do how do you move differ because you know people want to try you yeah so how do you move how do you how do you move accordingly to make sure the baby ain't in a situation back at end like and we know some of the things that happened in your past to end like that again on a day-to-day basis like I I've been I didn't had to and you know we didn't test on a lot of points that that shape the way I move on a day-to-day basis including the city that I'm from I've been had to move you know what I mean on the basis of of staying out the way and and survival you know what I mean from day one before I ever even got in front of a microphone from in the streets to you know what I mean uh uh translating over into you know what I mean doing music and being a rapper so I'm I'm almost just I'm I'm accustomed to it now for the trouble the trouble that you just can't seem to to avoid that they seem to come knocking on your door step I just happen to be ready for it that's all you know but I don't I ain't no I'm not no bully I'm not no you know fight battles I feel like I know I can win I don't even partake in them right you get what I'm saying like I don't I don't get down and I don't respect that I don't respect bullet I don't respect you know what I mean I don't pick my battles I ain't going to act respond like this to this dude but not respond like this to this one that ain't how I rock you know what I mean but I just I mind my business bro and I you know I just I move with Grace on a daily basis like I don't bother nobody you know what I mean I be cooling you know so the contrary the popular belief like you know I mean just overall I'm I'm a good guy you know what I'm saying like I don't I don't start no trouble nowhere you know what I mean I I'll avoid it and Andy try to and try to uh uh diffuse it before I you know before I be the The Vessel of it like I that ain't really how I get on anyways just as a person that ain't how I get now I give I respect I give respect first you dig what I'm saying in all situations I give respect I leave with I lead with what with what I demand you get what I'm saying and then that way you know it is what it is if it go any other way that's something somebody else is adamant on on taking place you get what I'm saying it got to be that it never go anyway with me that's why you see like a lot of my a lot of inst that occur with me yeah it'll make headlines it'll do this it'll do that cuz I am who I am but if you if you know if people do they they doe diligence on the situation charge dismissed or nothing happens or it didn't work for the it didn't work for the other end you get what I'm saying because it wasn't done righteously you get what I'm saying me I just I move righteously on a day-to-day basis you know what I'm saying I I move righteously I get my hustle on I you know I um I pour I pour into my creativity and never to pour it into the world I take care of my kids and my people right you know and and I you know I stick and move I move smooth I know how to move right you know what I mean so so where are you what's up with this rapper beef I didn't even know what to rap why why why we got rap beef you say you told me early in the interview that there's enough money for everybody yeah all that all that be you know the robing around ego not for any rap beef did where somebody didn't actually been hurt or something okay that's a different thing you know I mean like you know that that boils down to you know loyalty or this or that you know what I'm saying like for whatever but but other than that it it really just be ego man it be ego you know a lot and a lot of people isn't better than them they can't shake they can't shake it you know what I'm saying but I ain't really want to I ain't never really been want to partake in no rap beef like I I'm not trying to play like that because it ain't rap you know it's right I ain't trying to play like that you know it's one or two types of people you know what I'm saying I a I ain't one of them I am not trying to go back and forth with you on these zones and we get in this room and then you act like we don't got this going on on nah nah uhuh you know what I'm saying so I don't even participate in it you know what I mean and I and you know I I thank God people don't don't try to reel me into that right you know what I mean good you dealt with a some loss in your life you absolutely Abol father how did that impact you how did that because you know you got three boys you mentioned three boys so I'm I'm I'm assuming and pardon me if I if my assumptions are off that you were close with your brother AB because if three of y'all you say your mom J job and so basically y'all raising each other absolutely you get what I'm saying how did the loss of your dad and your brother impact you man tremendously but at the same time you know and and like I I've been working on my documentary lately really finishing finishing it up so I've been exploring these thoughts and doing a lot of self-reflection lately because a lot of these you know emotions and and the trauma that come along with these experiences and these is experience this I didn't experien this at the height of my when my father passed it was two three weeks after I dropped my debut project uh baby on baby you know what I'm saying and my first day of tour that's when I find out he passed I I fly in the lay him the rest and fly out the same night go right back on tour you get what I'm saying and and go on to uh dedicate a a album that was number one a number one album Kirk dedicated to him but I I really and this is something I didn't just notice while I self-reflect I'm finishing up my documentary but uh I I always suppress these emotions you get what I'm saying I suppress these feelings and distract myself from them you know what I mean and from the healing process by just pouring uh putting that much more energy into my hustle you get what I'm saying and everything I had going on but that's unhealthy you know what I mean that I end up becoming a a tick and time bom waiting to go off you know what I mean so you'll see a certain situation where I go from zero to 100 that's why I'm still you know what I mean for have been head about my brother or my dad you know what I mean like so that's it's completely unhealthy to deal with it that way but on hindsight I'm just not realizing that's the way I went about dealing with these things and even further more I realize I've been doing that my whole life since a kid you know what I mean a four-year-old ain't supposed to know how to suppress the way they feel right in order to survive you get what I'm saying that ain't nothing for no kid you know what I mean my oldest daughter 6 I can't imagine her suppressing the way she feel in order to feeling like she got to do that in order to survive you get what I'm saying like ain't no way you know what I'm saying like ain't no way but when I think about it and I think about the fact that you know the uh our circumstances our environment you know everything ultimately like that's what that became that became something so natural to me at such an early age and and stuck with me all the way to you know me being a grown man you know what I'm saying grown man with kids and just now you know having to get parked you know what I'm saying like on top of the world in terms of okay where I'm at uh uh and from where I'm at compared to where I came from on top of the world right but God having to pull that front pull that chair from up under me and park me park my ass like n hold on bro you know deal with what you got to deal with heal you get what I'm saying and then move forward and then see how much you know how much further you can move forward once you done finally quit you know what I mean suppressing the way cuz I'm better at it than others right you get what I'm saying like I always knew how to do that I got other family members like my brother is an example like you know he it took him overboard you know what I'm saying his his experiences his trauma what have you it took him overboard the way he took his own life you know what I'm saying with me you know everybody ain't good at suppressing it and and and you know and and got that hustle to where they hustle keep them busy enough to stay distracted from it like I really still got real deal people that I'm responsible you know for for for taking care of them my brother had four kids I'm responsible that's a responsibility of mine that you know what I mean but who's to say that they able to and the last thing I want them to do is grow used to suppressing these emotions knowing the the possible negative outcome to that you know what I mean later on in life so you know it's like I got to be there I can't it's like I almost feel as if I'm I don't got time to hang my head or what have you then I got this mission that I'm on I was the number one artist in the world top streaming artist in the world uh top streaming rap artist in the world when my brother committed suicide you dig what I'm saying so I still got you know this responsibility to to continue to uh to see this through and and you know what I mean see it through and and make sure it is what it is and my people get what they supposed to get from it and we all get what we supposed to get from it you know what I'm saying so it's like you know I I'm I'm the head I'm the head of the family you know what I mean and it's it's it's almost like you know it take Real Deal experiences and it take time to self-reflect and and you know and it take experiences like me you know going through what I went through over the past couple years career-wise in order to hey quit using this to run from what you got going on I'm really running I'm calling this a pressent one would call it strong boy I don't know how you do it I don't know how you do it bro you're the strongest boy I don't know how you do it I don't know how you do it really ain't strong that's really a weakness I'm really running from it you know what I mean strength is is and this is all stuff I just now came to realization about strength is dealing with a head on healing from it and moving forward from it that's a that's a display of strength you get what I'm saying the running from itess you didn't think you could you dig what I'm saying to running from it's suppressing it you ain't really overcoming it that's still something that's there so while I'm out here you know what I mean it look like boy he's strong he doing this he's still holding down he's still provided but boy when them cameras go off I'm by myself I'm I'm messed up out here you get what I'm saying like I ain't got nothing to smile for when I get along by myself and all of that you know I can say all of that and go back to the very beginning like me you know understanding and feeling like from the jump I was a kid feeling like my purpose was to do for others and to sacrifice for others you know what I'm saying that's just always been me so I guess that's what made it feel okay but on hindsight it ain't you know what I mean it ain't you said your your brother took his own life because you felt that he wasn't love he felt like he wasn't loved did you did he have did did he show show any signs that something might be going on in his life that you didn't know about always always since you know since jits like always you know I mean that's that's that's really like kind of been and and the put it into perspective like you know I talk about traumatic experiences and and you know a crazy environment in terms of upbringing and all that and none of this is to discredit the phenomenal job my superhero of a mama did she held it down you get what I'm saying did that thing by her damn himself none of this is to discredit that but she can't save us from everything that's something I mentioned in that verse on that uh that Kanye song yeah you know I mean she too busy working to to protect us from all the elements you know it's still up to us as an individual to navigate through it as best as possible you know what I'm saying but definitely like it was always more and the experiences that I remember as being traumatic and that I could look at on hindsight is shaping me to be the person that I am today and this the reason why I go about this and okay think about the feelings I say I got to suppress as as a four-year-old as un from the understanding of a four-year-old he was nine you get what I'm saying so so so what I had to suppress at eight he was 13 and this some very real stuff I'm talking about you know what I mean my documentary going to really show it all it's going to get a world a completely different understanding of who I am as a person and how resilient I didn't just been blessed enough to be but like you know the the experiences I had and I remember as being traumatic he understood him from from you know a completely different perspective a perspective that was 5 years is older and more knowledgeable than than what I was and who's to say what he was exposed to that I wasn't you know I'm still the baby so a lot of times you know I can't be left alone with the [ __ ] he can right and not only that I'm the one out of the three siblings who who daddy is present you get what I'm saying present you know even if it is from a long distance you know what I'm saying like he present I go with him for the summer I got somebody putting something on my mind he got our drunk crackhead uncles the ones he got to look up to you get what I'm saying you know un do this do that you think it made him feel some type of way real thing AB that's a very real thing bro you know what I mean absolutely so it get deep you know what I mean and this is something that's apparent in households all over the world right you dig what I'm saying and it's something that it should be tended to and and you know people should pay attention to it because it's so many different factors that affect the way a person's mind develops and how they grow to love how they grow to receive love how they grow to identify what love is you get what I'm saying and what it ain't you know that's a very real thing that I feel like need to be tended to and ultimately like that's what this what this documentary we working on and ended up being shaped into it's like a mental health awareness piece is something that's just so healthy I feel like like my purpose I feel like this going to be my greatest contribution you know I mean to the world to this date you know I mean besides my beautiful kids this going to be you know I mean my greatest contribution you know I mean to the world to this date I feel like this going to save thou millions of lives not even thousands my it's this this documentary this this wom is going to save millions of lives cuz it's these is things it's not a household in the world that this this project is not going to be able to touch on you know what I mean you you you mentioned when you went through what you meant went through 50 Cent was there mhm how did he help you deal with the adversity that you were going through because you were at the Apex of your career you're talking about 400,000 400 woo easy all throughout schedule as a show calendar look like it got tattoos on it every day you couldn't even book me for that year this happened when July I would book till January e and we wasn't taking no dates after then it's like y'all gotta hold on we might be we we gonna be getting a million a show by that time we a we ain't fooling with y'all I call us in January it was like that but uh uh most importantly man the the the the most important thing being uh he wasn't he he wasn't ashamed of rapping his arm around me you get what I'm saying right and not only that like I feel like what hit home the most was him being a person who who didn't had controversial experiences throughout his career and and being a he's a person that was able to navigate through him yes and get on the other end of it that them them three factors alone was was enough to for a person like me I only need one of them three factors that you know what I'm saying I'm Fair indebted to anybody to do for me in any way big or smile that's how I rock you know what I'm saying but n he a real Sol dude man really put his arm around me really put any opportunity in front of me that he could put in front of me and didn't care about how it affected him you get what I'm saying a lot of people that I didn't help that I done been a major part of what they got going on but because what I got going on right now can potentially affect what they got going on right right I didn't I didn't they pick up the phone and call you but they doing it publicly I didn't went from a liability I mean from a asset from the biggest asset they didn't never had to liability I see completely different people you get what I'm saying that was never the case with him and he stood nothing the game he stood nothing the game a lot of these is people that game from me directly you get or have already gain from me he's never he stood nothing the game you know I mean the entire time even to this day you going through what you're going through Kanye West brought you out him too that's another one 30 m just like that quick Kanye lost a billion when you have conversation what's those conversations like because he's going you went through what you went through he's going through what he went through yeah so so what what's the conversation like damn man I Ed up with 50 with oh like the how I lead off the conversation of course with F50 is more the conversations they more they was more uh uh strategic more controlled you know what I mean I didn't did this before my boy Kanye is war with him he my boy Ready for War he don't get my boy Kanye that's really him now he ain't putting no no that ain't no beside that's really him was more so like you know like he he f up with this with the way it go you know I mean like he you know it it it got him mad the way they doing you get what I'm saying same thing with F50 that too but with Kanye is more like respond to it like this with 50 is more like more like you know it's more like this this like this like that it's like you know what I mean then then you be good you know what I'm saying Kanye is more like n you you know what I'm saying like War like both of them my language you know what I'm saying like I'm kind of like the hybrid between both of them right over them different methods you know what I'm saying but uh but definitely that's that's the difference in the conversation between the two when I you signed the Rock Nation to a distribution deal what was that experience like so when you go into a deal I mean are you like okay I I I eventually I'm going to want to do my own thing and I'm going to so I need to like pay very very close attention to every single thing that they do that's something that ain't even had light [ __ ] on it a lot of people don't know that I was sign the Rock Nation on the distribution deal early on this is before this is like what 2017 2018 vers out 2018 but really it was more so like I didn't even really have a strategy in term I did I definitely had a strategy in terms of how I wanted to Market myself as an artist where I wanted to go but this it was still just a distribution deal you get what I'm saying so it's like and that's on hindsight like this the way you know labors work right now it ain't their job to to turn you into to make people love you now it's once people do once you do got enough people to love you is their job to you know what I'm saying put you in the right places and just and just exemp it's their job to to pour gas on the fire you get what I'm saying they ain't really see that lighter sparking you know what I'm saying and new they ain't really see the little the little candle lit and they ain't knock the candle over and let it and let it you know what I mean ignite ignite a wildfire they ain't really let it do that you know what I'm saying that's all it was and then the terms of the deal had ended you get what I'm saying the the the time period of the deal it had ended and then that's when uh I dropped blank blank and then it was a big Bing War it was instantly a buiding war for me right did you see where uh uh Jay-Z and Beyonce's daughter Blue iy introduced uh Salon son to your song Shake something yeah I saw that I did see that you I mean I ain't know how true it was or not you know what I'm saying but I feel like you know if it come from in house you know it's it's it's validated but that's dope it don't surpris me I actually met Beyonce before that was one of the people people be like who you didn't met you know what I'm saying like it threw you out like it took you back like you know what I'm saying Beyonce she she uh I was at a party at did Crib in in La this was uh this was this was the beginning of of 2020 you know I mean uh did he had he had put everybody else out the crib like the the influx of people he had put him out but he had he had uh he had took a liking to me in particular around the time man it was really you know what I mean like putting his arm around me right so he had put majority of the people out but he allowed me to stay in there me and you know maybe about maybe about 15 others you know Jay-Z and Beyonce being you know two of the of the other other 15 people in the room so that that just put into perspective of the type of company I was in right at the moment you know and she came over and introduced herself to me like as if she had to Beyonce cut it out but I'm a big fan of your work you know what I'm saying whooop and that was just dope that was dope as hell to me man that was that was dope that was super dope what's some of the best cities that you toured in you've been all over the world best cities I toured in and do you like touring the best cities I like touring in oh man I done been a lot of places who who who energy do I just love as a city all together Dallas is is Dallas is a market that's like you know what I mean Dallas different man I always love Dallas and and I got to say Dallas I got to start with them because just early on Dallas one of the markets that like they all about having a good time you artist to know how to you know I mean have a good time this and that like Dallas going to take a like to you early and when they and when they love you they love you they don't care about no Dallas it's a world of his own I love Dallas um oh man I got a lot of strong markets man I got a lot of strong markets uh you like going overseas I love overseas I was trying to keep it domestic overseas for sure anything overseas they go crazy they don't even speak your language they can't they can't say you doing but know every damn every word every word of the song man that always Tri me out man I go overseas they be waiting in the airport 20 30 deep down there chasing us to the car you get what I'm saying and it's all good energy it's all good they treating like Michael Jordan over there bro I'm looking at your 2019 uh double XL Freshman Class you Gunna M cord day Rody Rich blueface y good company bro M y'all got hey yeah we yeah we yeah we were something we were put together I know you've been paying ATT attention cuz it's right next to you Atlanta is hop skipping and jump from Charlotte three hours three and a half hours right and you see what's going on they say now we can use the lyrics that you rap about against you does that take away some of the creativity what are your thoughts on that I mean me personally I don't I don't I ain't rapping about Too Many real life experiences I ain't rapping about no real life experiences that can that ain't handled and and yeah open yeah hell not me so I I ain't got that problem I a I ain't worri about that I think about it all the time I get to say I'll take it right out delete that delete that running back ain't no way like I know what I can and can't you know I operate on that level and I'm pretty sure other artists do too I'm pretty sure a lot of the a lot of the lyrics that they probably do plan on using you know they won't be able to hold up man Thug smarter than that you know that's that's a smart man you know what I'm saying a good real good dude too man I I hope to see him come out on the on the good end of that for sure for show but definitely though that ain't something that ain't no problem I'mma ever have cuz I ain't even going to be playing like that now I got some lyrics you could probably definitely use to paint a negative picture so and I think it give them the ability to do that but at the same time you know it's also it's also you know it's also taking away they they constitutional rights at the same time so it kind it make it make a person ask you know what kind of game we playing you know right what kind of game we playing I saw a tweet that said you had a one point GPA you said cap that's the biggest lie ever if I call my mom about that she'll break her phone I ain't never even I ain't never had a f in my life you got to have a f to get a one point I ain't never had a d right never had a d but you went to college College yeah what so why you three years I ain't get no d i a never had no one point man you so close to graduate what what happened it wasn't for me man I was I after three years it wasn't for you it's normally after a quarter semester not three years man and then you know and like I say I ask questions like I PE I was still undecided too I never I told you I ain't want to be nothing was none of it special enough I knew I was special so I'm like N I ain't really nothing I went to school cuz that's what my mom wanted me to do I did make yeah make my make my parents proud for sure that's what that was and because it's easy like I said like I touched on it quickly earli but I always Excell in school like school was always easy to me like I don't school was always easy to me always like that ain't really about nothing like English class if it's a 10 page paper people been working on this paper the whole quarter the whole semester I'm doing it the night before I'm not even thinking about it to the night before and I'm going to I I didn't did that night before and got a 100 on a paper before you get what I'm saying like I you know academics that ain't never really been something I didn't I didn't ever even felt like it was cool to play around with it's too easy right it's too easy you know what I'm saying I'm trying to go and get this over with you know what I'm saying were you a party in school was I what a partyer a partyer in what college yeah oh yeah I I already know how to have some fun I know how to have some fun in college for sure you know you ain't never been around that many things before ever you see what I'm saying I on campus first I was in the good D my DM had both both both oh oh you had a coad coad that what it's called coad the nice one well you know what you know I had that on lock I can't even lie to you I had my way in enough I'm talk bad that up put the fox in the H house my best friends they best friends their whole life they done fell out I feel bad about a cover I'm like damn bet y'all masama know each other they such you do come on I got nothing to do they back doing hold what you mean Sally want to back those suie what you mean what you mean and I'm the door knob I ain't got hey I guess it's your turn you feel me it is what it is I ain't got hey look hey look I'm up here on this this a a in me this ain't in and I went to a real University bro like I went to I went to UNCG that ain't even like no North Carolina right you know what I mean the one of the most the problem is not even one of the most that's the one HBCU in North Carolina you it's right up Street yeah I win this route you know what I'm saying and that go to show you like I always Excel academic you can't even get you can't just go to UNCG right you don't work like that you know what I'm saying but like yeah I so I'm I'm walking through C I'm the only one look like me kids reading they they in the trees laying down reading books I'm like what the hell going on know what's going on up here it ain't really nobody like me here so yeah I was up there man I ain't really have I ain't have too much to do so you know I ended up getting done public relations would you ever date publicly again hell no why for what for what people be in your business but this the thing though like with me yeah no I wouldn't I wouldn't but at the same time it's almost like I don't I don't even think I got the luxury to decide whether or not now will I ever take it upon myself to put my business out there or allow myself or be okay with with somebody else you know what I mean going about our situation as if it's nah I'm cool on that been nothing done that that ain't about nothing right yeah that ain't about nothing that ain't that ain't a for no relationship that's that's called public relations right you in relations with the public not the person so you feel me you got It's Too Much Too Many Factors to go along with that I'm cool you you once said that you wanted to retire in 2025 you still cool on that day I say I wanted to retire at age 30 and that's crazy that's when I got cancelled yeah I said I'm stopping at 30 I used to always say that like I'm stopping at 30 I used to say I used to say by 25 I turned 25 I wasn't dead that thank you God I was dead and I wasn't Rich yet either I got rich about 27 and yeah you know and I was able to accomplish so much within within like the first year and a half of my career even though before that the groundwork I laid it took several years like a lot of people think I hear lot some people speak on and ask me questions and it's like you think I'm one of them popped up out of nowhere but I walking around giving out CDs like you get what I'm saying I took my money from the streets and went bought posters and CDs and flyers like I really you know I really brought myself you know down to the to the ground level I really put my feet to the streets and really got out here and earnt mine know what I'm saying but you know but that that just further prepared me and just built the foundation strong enough for me to be able to the the hit the ground running when I did crossover in the mainstream music business you know what I mean what's next with a baby this documentary it's it's you know ground breaking this documentary so the documentary is in front of uh albums right now absolutely mhm the next album going to come with the documentary okay you know what I'm saying like right on yeah and I I'm trying not to say too much it's gonna be docu series and we GNA put that out there album come with that M the album come with that with that season finale with that with that finale for the docu series the album going to come with that with that last one I'm gonna get you out of here on this if you could go back and do any part of your career over again what would it be what would you change nothing I wouldn't change that's a lie let me let me you wouldn't take them two minutes back on that stage I would I would have to roll loud I miss my flight we F to send y'all the money back I miss my flight boy I I swear I boy look you know I love y'all bro hey what's my boy name uh uh uh what's my boy's name man from Rolling loud man what's their name bro Tariq is it Tariq Ty that's how you pronounce it t look Tyre Bro Look boy the plane broke down bro they say they it's maintenance they say it's maintenance bro I can't make it you know I mean I do that differently other than that though man you know you liveing you learn man I and you know how different would your life be if that moment hadn't happened about million 100 that happened two years ago it was already it was man got to go up what I promise you but it's all good cuz you know on hindsight like a lot of the points I was touching on earlier like the way that parked me right and and kept me from taking off running and utilizing my hustle to to just distract myself and keep my mind and keep my my my spirit and my body occupied right who is to say like where I would be you know what I mean mentally and spiritually you know what I'm saying had I not you know been forced to sit my ass down and self-reflect cuz I still didn't sit down even you know what I mean when it took place I'm fighting it I'm fighting it I'm fighting hell no that ain't what it is that ain't what it is I'm telling yall that a I'm fighting it fighting it fighting it it took for that to not God like uh-uh yeah cuz I'm a good fighter yeah you a good fighter it looked like you was about to get up out of that sit your ass down you know what I'm saying you know it take for that for me to you know really get to a point to where okay I'm I'm I'm comfortable within my situation and with the results that I got and now let me explore okay what took place to get me here okay now let me explore okay what shaped me to be the type of person that that I am to even put me into this situation and caused me to you know go about the situation I would about it and you know it got me like as of lately since I've been since I've been doing way more writing and self-reflecting working on what I'm working on I'm I'm so fulfilled as a person I got such a better understanding on who I am as a person and how my upbringing and different factors and elements of my life on the way up shake me to be this person you get what I'm saying and I got the knowledge of okay how to do better with these situations and do better with with you know these emotions and traumatic experiences of what have you pain trauma whatever how to do better with it and move forward in a much healthier and better manner you know what I mean cuz I ain't tripping I had a conversation with somebody I was talking to earlier to day and I'm like really bro I'm I'm really in the space to where like because even when I was getting what I was getting the show had what I had in the bank this and that I wasn't happy as a person you get what I'm saying I'm like right now like I'm not tripping like I'm okay with I'm okay with with not making another dollar for the rest of this year that's a lie no I'm not but but it's like this like if if I'm okay with doing that to finish seeing this this project through to the Finish Line because that's way more fulfilling uh and and healthy for me as a person and for millions of people around the world and before the millions of people the people directly affected by the same [ __ ] that I'm packaging within this story my family you know what I'm saying like that needs to be laid out for them my story got to be told the correct way in order for people to even begin before they can begin to Bob their head to another song and fall in love with me as an artist or as a person period they need to really understand okay who is this who is this guy you get what I'm saying and what made him this way okay and how can some of the the things he's been able to experience how can we learn from his mistakes you know what I'm saying and and just move forward in a healthier way that's what I got going on right now so I kind of I don't I don't regret anything man that I done been through and it's it feels so good to really be able to say that and mean it right you know what I mean I probably said that before but I ain't really meaning it's like boy I wish I had my 200 million y y y'all rob me you get what I'm saying I I don't feel like that you know what I'm saying I don't feel like that I really feel like I I really feel like that's a blessing in disguise at this point in my life I just came to that realization over like the past two weeks I really feel like I needed that season that I didn't had to endure you know what I'm saying I feel like I needed that and that's what's going to make me you know be way more way more happy of a person way more you know that make me that much more of a man for the remainder of my life cuz I'mma live longer than I didn't already live you see what I'm saying it's just you know that's just that that's minuscule compared to the things I have been able to deal with you know what I'm saying and and some of the things that I'm going to have to deal with in the future but guess what I'm moving forward with with the knowledge and the wisdom to know how to navigate through it the correct way as opposed to suppressing and and and you know and sweeping you know how I'm feeling and how it's affected me CU ultimately sweeping it under the rug CU ultimately that's going to affect what I put out into the world you get what I'm saying it's a lot of people sitting there waiting for what I got to put out you know what I mean and it's my duty to to do right by that you know what I'm saying that's way way more fulfilling than any amount of money I ain't Tripp I didn't had I didn't have more money than I knew what to do with right literally like I've had it you get what I'm saying and I ain't I'm not tripping on it you know what I'm saying my most fulfilling the most fulfilling purchases I had I really couldn't even I sat here and thought about I got I had 17 17 cars I ain't mention no car I what I said was the the my best purchase was rein reinvesting in myself you get what I'm saying like you know I that's my that's what I feel like is is the best thing I to spend my money on so that just goes to say like those was those were the times I was most fulfilled when I was just you know living within my purpose you know what I'm saying that's when I'm most fulfilled that's why I found the most joy and comfort at man and uh that's what helped me look in the mirror and say boy you that [ __ ] when I look in the mirror you know what I mean right that's what it's about with me so I don't really I wouldn't do I wouldn't do nothing different except for say his maintenance issues on his plane I can't make for sure but other than that man it's all good man I love the space I'm in uh not as not as a artist or career-wise to is much bigger than I love of space I'm in as a person and I'm seeing it I'm seeing it attract everything I've been fighting to get you know what I mean fighting to get back to and I'm seeing it attracted you know what I mean and and I'm tenfold it's attracting to tfold it's everything coming at me right on time you get what I'm saying in a way that I can navigate through it the way this this best for me you know what I'm saying and that's that's the biggest blessing of all right now I me contined success all the best in end of 23 and end of 24 time you know appreciate it baby all my life grinding all my life sacrifice hustle P the price want a slice got the roll of dice this why all my life been grinding all my life all my life been grinding all my life sacrifice hustle P the price want a slice got the roll a dice that's why all my life been grinding all my life [Music]

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Length: 115min 54sec (6954 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 15 2023