Dallas Austin in the trap! W/ Karlous Miller & Clayton English

hey man well first of all welcome back to the eighty-five i feel like we tv one today because we so uh behind the music oh man but i see how i see it behind the music behind the boards behind all of it we got a real one in here today clay man i'm talking about this man got a hit record for every letter in the alphabet literally and not just and it's not just one no no no it's his piss like that hit hard you need one though you ain't got nothing with disease i'm working on that okay okay you're right i wrote one called zanzibar the other day just because i was like i got no z all right let me finish this answer about that that's crazy i got to finish the intro i gotta [Laughter] one of the coldest [ __ ] in the music game ever produced with michael jackson uh tmc all your favorite all the music with the black people in it he has something to do with it whether he did he got a hit for everybody in the house for the kids they got a hit for every come on watch your face [ __ ] none other than mr dallas that was amazing they still wouldn't get it dog the impact but everybody who has come on this show and sat on this couch has brought your name up i've been seeing that man and that's when i was like like damn that's like um even from of course gipp and then buster and then i was like i want to go on that show i was like hi get on there on i'm crying [ __ ] no but i'm scared like when it comes to atlanta and the influence and making what the landscape what it is man you have definitely was one of the people who had the foresight to look at the city and say this is that this is what it's going to be this is what it could be and man we it's just an honor to have you in here with us for real honor to be here bro like it's been crazy it's been a long time um coming from college park and then looking around now to even like you know passing the things you can do in georgia is while i stay in georgia you know because i'm gonna leave me here for one if i go to california i'm another producer right yeah but i you know we we started this thing we started out running the greenbrier on skating the jelly beans um dressing the kids from another bad creation at the mall while we were just doing records like just trying to uh then organize noise had they had their uh studio inside jelly beans right so i'll go there and go skating and be playing the records i'm working on and then they had an actual studio that they gave them inside the skating rink so that's what organizers they were dancing like wesley was dancing and guests dancing with some of the dance crews pat rico and then yeah they ended up having a when i first saw rico wade is crazy because he was the first one i've ever seen with a dope boy phone like one of the phones that was in the bag yeah he's standing up in the skate ring on the phone like what is that i wonder who he was talking to he had to be somebody on the yeah it's crazy how everybody you know atlanta we seated it you know yeah so to see us all grow and all of us do what we've been doing it's just been amazing so what was in the skating rink organized on your first studios and jelly beans i want to ask you this like what was it like what did you see in atlanta that early to make it seem you know to what it is today they're like all the talent that's in this city like you it was crazy because you tapped into it earlier everybody was just like when i met jd we were like 17 i think um i met him at a car wash i knew of him because leather some other stuff he had going but um he was like in a little white herbie love bug get up because he was like you know going through the times leather phase um i was going in the mental bbd phase and it's crazy how we lived around the street from each other then now we live around these three from each other in st springs but it started off on this college park and me going to his house making beats at his crib before we even did tlc um before we even really did another bad creation and all that let me tell you my another bad creation story my teacher took my abc tape and kept it the whole school year i'm talking i had that [ __ ] when it was the time to have it i'm talking about i had it early enough to stunt and then i used to just play the instrumental and just you know the instrument was like because i had it in school she was hating you know she wanted to listen to them because i had the cassette i mean single abc was huge they didn't realize that they blew up before boys the man um and so when they were going to linux and people start freaking out they would just start crying because they were like five years old five to nine and 12. so they would start crying yeah because they're freaking out of people running at them but imagine your five-year-old being little dave in abc you know imagine you're seven and you're eight nine year old being red mark and ga being by eleven so like and he's a kid kid the [ __ ] that was coming at it was probably ground full-grown titties [Laughter] they'll never get the credit they deserve bro jealous girl yeah a little bit i mean you know like i said it will be before boys and men and boys and men was opening for another bad creation they were like a phenomenon was the man was opening for another bad group yeah but the kids took off they took off fast because of you know being aisha and i made them a little poison so it made them just be cool they made them from god be road made them like but then you know when i first saw the kids they were like they had them in like the drop crouch like the hammer pants like the um because they were trying to be like new addition right not doing any heartbreak i was like nah man we gotta make them a little bbd and we just start flipping them you know and so it was so exciting when kids saw it it was caught on like wildfire because this [ __ ] they were saying in the song was a little kid we played nintendo that [ __ ] you was doing [Music] and i wanted to be in public enemy so bad when i was little like hank shockley i used to listen to the bomb squad and and like atlanta was trying to find ourselves we had kilo we had like rahim the dream you know what i'm saying and and stuff like that maybe sos man people bryson but we were like the first tip and point of like cool young music being able to be made you know what i'm saying and it just made it where that that tipping point like even from another creation up i knew everybody that's ever made it out of here that's what's insane you know ludicrous when they had they had the show him and chris what's lovely i found the first video show for them when they were dj's and they were doing it like a video dj show um like arnelle starship it was like like arnold schwarzenegger but it was supposed to be like from mtv yeah loving dre um and so that was even before chris started rapping and when he started rapping he started bringing me his records first uh before he even got the death jam you know so oliver it's like ciara monica's little brother's girlfriend yeah this was like all this everybody that's like that's not a person that's from atlanta that hadn't been through dark because you know i opened that studio so long ago and then i made it so that it was about having people come in and congregate come in and work in each room you can hear hear what somebody's working on in the lounge so you can make yourself better and um i always wanted to have the producers where they were they were rocking because i was in bad contracts before that so i didn't want to do that [ __ ] to nobody else so you always busted down and like opened the whole platform up man like how like how would you say that that impacted all the business like because when you you could have just been a star by yourself but you literally put on two 300 people yeah it's crazy because we didn't even know what was doing then i was like i mean when i first got rowdy um i didn't really want to label i was just hanging out of masquerade out slam dancing i was klf i was like hanging out with like i was just alternative as hell um but i was doing i just did abc and boys man and all that and then so when when ellie and clive came to me like oh you should have a label like nah man i'm on the label bro i'm just getting my [ __ ] off um it's like i'll just make it a division of the face you know so i was like that could be cool sign the skateboard kids you hang around signing rock bands and [ __ ] you know like all right cool so that's how i started rowdy it was one office inside the face um but it was supposed to be the hip-hop label so to speak you know and rock label and then next thing you know i got full-on staff in new york 23 staff members and i'm like so zelda was like we gotta move it we gotta label like that it need to be in new york um and i was so atlanta at that point and i was just like man all right so i would go up to my office in new york full-on staff everybody marketing department publicity department everybody i just go back to my office open the window smoke a joint and be scared as hell because i'm like i'm in new york well you know in atlanta we don't mess up these new york [ __ ] that's how we thought about it when we was around so i wasn't really you know i would go every day do the same [ __ ] listen to music open my window smoke some weed and one day uh one of you know ladies she came and she said i talked to you for a second so yeah she said do you like anybody out here so what you mean he said you got everybody on pins and needles because they think you don't like the staff cause you'll never go talk to nobody i said oh she said you might want to have a staff meeting what's that so everybody get together you meet everybody that's how green i was i was still like and you got the label yeah i'm full on the president and i still had a staff meet yet but you but you got everybody shook everybody worried about getting fighters he won't look at me but you just going in there he never looks at me sneaking and smoking weed at your own labor i'm 21. like 20 21 years old and from you could have been putting your joint out on somebody's forehead right and they would've took it strong i'm not opening the window at my lane thank you i got wood cracker window in this [ __ ] i was like what other window you got to go upstairs and go outside my [ __ ] nerves was bad i was in new york i wasn't like i'm too cool like calm i'm in atlanta you know i'm like yeah easy walk around with birkenstocks and [ __ ] on little five points i go to new york that's just like everything's frantic and everybody's just going crazy and fast and so i had to to settle into that for a minute and by the time i did get settled then it did the king and i did flip them over buster buster's helped me help me settle in a lot oh god that's how that whole story came about because i was like uncomfortable hanging around anybody up there because i didn't really have no squad my staff was a staff so yeah we don't trust new york we couldn't if you good with busted rams in new york you don't gotta hang with nobody this is the most diabolical [ __ ] to ever put his hands on a [ __ ] keyboard and you [ __ ] and you [ __ ] don't want to [ __ ] be around greatness [ __ ] bite your [ __ ] favorite producers what's crazy is that he would come to me we first started he would come to me in the studios and he'll be like he didn't want to go solo it was charlie brown i want to go solo he understand he want to be in the leaders but he was getting all the attention so when he first started i was like he played me song after song got the song everything was just thought about it was so much you just couldn't catch it you know for a record and so he would do that all the time all the time all the time and i'm just like man that's good but it's just like jazz man and it was like and then he'll play the records not being nodding off smoking down frontal leaps and [ __ ] with him that's too strong for me and then at the end he will always do this he will wait until i'm telling you 20 30 records and then he'll play me wuha and i'll wake up and be ah [Laughter] from the back to the front and then again now i'm in new york every every time he put out a record from that point he had to come play records for me and and get my get my penises so we do it again i'm in new york he's playing me song for song now i did a little better you know then it's complicated but still song for song for song i'm smoking the fun toy leaf i'm falling asleep again i'm out and it goes what the [ __ ] is that i like why you made me sit through all the records to get to the one this [ __ ] put you to sleep to wake you up it was all night long man pull that one out he'll pull that one out all the time and so that's how we really you know worked with him in flip mode he was like that's why he was my dog that's what i was running with that's coming back and forth to atlanta yeah um and at the same time that's when he was hanging with goody mom and everybody in atlanta because we got pieces of the story from different people from them being on the part and just to see how like dude it was insane it ended up being like that's what i'm saying every piece connects back to you you you literally did everything you're the temple that's why i was watching them going oh [ __ ] that was then oh ridiculous [ __ ] that was the only one [ __ ] like yo that is austin first [ __ ] the web michael shorts [Laughter] i remember that [ __ ] came up the green brown [ __ ] shorts and [Music] [Music] [Laughter] it was usher's ninth birthday the [ __ ] showed up with lemon juice and pepper it said put it on the least an way in atlanta bro you need so much [ __ ] first i'm trying to get a street of statue while i'm living it's not an interview we just came we wanted you to come [ __ ] this is really the statue plan revealed this is all this is about we appreciate everything you telling me all right we just wanted you to come in this [ __ ] so we could be like we selling this [ __ ] for a million dollars really like start off playing no [ __ ] i know you'd be playing you like one of the codes making music you probably want to hear [ __ ] but like some silence and some claps but no nice instrumentals and [ __ ] now we was going to make this a hit record what would you do to this it's about who you put on it and what they do on top of it at this point i got i'm about to call anthony hamilton oh yeah oh he'll kill him i'm putting him on there first kill it kill that you hit it right in the head though for some reason i want lizzo [Music] because they can say in both of them now and you got to track rocking anyway so that'll be like something nobody ever heard before hey man you was working with one of the probably the best musician in the history of the world when i say that i'm talking about michael jackson man how hard was it to produce music for michael jackson oh man that's it was so crazy bro um when i first when i when i first started to work with him uh then he he would show you stuff like he would beatboxing like i got i had i still got beat boxes of him because he'll go in the room like that's on something like this he goes straight to the right like a [ __ ] it sounds like all the other kind of michael jackson records you heard bro bro are you can you just like drop some of that on instagram yeah just man michael jackson man that [ __ ] gonna get auctioned off at the louvre we got michael bett-jackson beatboxing tapes can i get 100 000. 100 000. we got 100. we get 140 thousand hundred percent of that [ __ ] they gonna say all that [ __ ] at least let me see what's crazy though is um i got so many crazy stories with him when i um we started working on the project i saw jimmy jam and taylor lewis and when i saw them i walked right past michael because like jimmy jam oh [ __ ] i grew up on i wanted to be in the time you know what i'm saying i know and i played get it up i was on the other hand to be like oh yeah that's michael michael how you doing yo jimmy jam so mike was over there michael didn't think i was hyped enough on him right so he commits to taking us to this little like like you know where you have your when he's recording a long time in the studio you have your own room with your records and all your [ __ ] and he just stopped putting in videotapes and he was the first one wearing the mask he had the mask on and hat on and he started putting on tapes and it was like this is me and charlie chaplin so it's him and charlie chaplin dancing together he had the challenge he did video integration wait a minute bro oh i was about to he put out right but that's how i'm feeling i'm like god damn and then he'll be like oh yeah this is me when i was in africa and everybody uh you know 300 thousand people trying to get in and a few hundred thousand people inside look at this i'm watching it and they're like michael michael and every time he put another tape i just started being like [ __ ] that's him you know what i'm saying that was the nicest anyways we're saying don't ever try me like it's worth it this is what killed me right here so then don't ever get it [ __ ] up this one took me over the top i'm [Applause] he him a video in right and he's sitting at this piano and he's saying i'll be there it's kind of like the round like you know before after remember the time stuff right yeah tank top on ponytail curtains are going he's singing i'll be there at this piano right i'll be there and he keeps hitting another i'll be there in the background he keeps looking over his shoulder he starts singing again and he look over his shoulder again and it's little michael standing there in a little brown outfit with the afro and i looked and he looked back at him and then both of them come over and start singing the song he's sitting next to him and by that time i was just like oh [ __ ] how did you do that right and he said that's a pepsi commercial i just shot that as a demo that's something we might use might not by this time i'm i'm i'm like okay i'm through the roof now he got me i'm like that is michael jackson i'm sitting next to in here like i'm like this is crazy so then i think once he got my attention and then we started working on stuff he said that's what he said to me said i did this song this time around and he goes you know um what's crazy is he sent us to the museum of tolerance i don't know if anybody ever went there before in life that was his stimulation around being around him uh that [ __ ] was crazy because i didn't know we sent us there but when you walk to this museum it calls you names it shows you everything [ __ ] fatso hunky cracker all this [ __ ] and you're in the same room with everybody and you're like and it's like a disrespectful yeah yeah [ __ ] [ __ ] yeah so stupid and then you know it went through the whole holocaust so last time i get back to the studio like why did he make us go that [ __ ] was sad like everybody's crying and throwing babies out the windows the holocaust is going on in there they're showing you all the stuff he's like well he wants you to understand the world what's happening in the world because you know this this attack you know he feels like it's a world attack you know i like how this [ __ ] think he's like he's like if you don't understand this yeah bro so so when we started working on the record he said i want somebody rap on the song dallas i need somebody really good to rap on the song so i'm thinking okay let's get stretched you know because the hip-hop race it's kind of commercial and ain't too hard then he goes no no no i need somebody i need some somebody harder like somebody a little bit harder than that so that's when i said what about biggie yeah i like him i said okay so i call puff like yo um michael jackson on biggie come rap on the song he's like [ __ ] he out there now [Music] [Music] i'm not here either this is actually looks like recorded biggest sitting in the car smoking outside the studio listening to the song over and over i mean over while he's rapping and he's saying man damn damn this is gonna be 19 bro he's like this crazy i can't believe i'm sitting in the car with you writing a song for michael jackson this is crazy right and i'm like yeah yeah this [ __ ] you know so he started wrapping the rap you know uh listen i got taps on the phone [ __ ] making the cops see that i'm a killer [ __ ] i ain't joking and no smoke got me talking smoking i'm like oh [ __ ] i don't know that might be too much [Applause] i'm like oh what are you saying one more time because i know you know it that's how he sold it i ain't joking smoke got me talking i was like okay um i don't know but let's let's go let's let's let's let him hear it you know what i'm saying michael's gonna say you know what i don't know if i could say this i don't know if i could say that i don't know i mean his [ __ ] is going down he hears that [ __ ] and he goes oh my god i love it that's exactly what i said that's exactly what i'm trying to say see mike wanted somebody to say all this [ __ ] he couldn't say he couldn't say that's it and you know he didn't cuss so he'll be like you dude who had gorilla that's what that's what that's what he called it that was the [ __ ] i was complaining to him i was complaining about the engineer sometime like yo man this internet he's acting shady man oh he's horrible he's stinky he's such a snakey man he's hurting he's such a stinky monkey no stinky man such a stinky man he's horrible he's stinky that's horrible but he would not say cuss words he didn't like anybody that said like cuss words either he wouldn't even know look at i'm sitting in the studio one day like this right don't let it be the last and then the he said well dallas you know i built hospitals in africa and i did all this great stuff but look what the united states says he showed me a newspaper it says michael jackson thinks africa stinks because he got his hand over his hand over his nose he had his mask and he said so i got some friends coming by um today that's just coming from africa to pay homage right i promise you exactly what i'm gonna tell you it happened just like this first secret service shows up looking up then these girls start coming and dropping red rose petals going on the floor right yeah driving red that [ __ ] amazed him and then he couldn't hold it it came out automatically it's exactly like coming to america they come in they got the lion head on the like the king and the cleaner showed up and they came and said michael we all seem to like what the [ __ ] michael we come to thank you for what you've done you've done such a good job in africa with the schools and with the hospitals and with this and the other thing we just had to come over and give you a gift so i'm just sitting there like what the [ __ ] is happening right now like and uh after they left i mean every day we would look around like like see if we sit in this room right y'all saying a red streak could go by and then you look at me like did you just see that like did you see that [ __ ] i'm like man that's michael and red shirt red streak so i feel like he was like he he was magical he was he was like he was that way michael jackson was magic and they just want me to just it's magical man so he could literally just the monkey was going crazy one day when the lounge the monkey just flying everywhere because michael went in there right i mean my man just like what the [ __ ] this morning he's going crazy michael comes in the room this dude jumps up on him and puts his thumb in he looks at us like nothing never happened with his thumb in his mouth on michael like this and i was like what the hell that little monkey was going crazy he walks in and everything goes calm he draws he paints like if you see some of the paintings michael jackson has done they look like the costume do this [ __ ] like he's just he was incredible he was insane people i think seen one part of him but not like the art and oh the business mind his business model was incredible it's crazy that's wait you saying he could just over there like over there me and you look at each other and say did you see that you know my engineer there you see that so he didn't really walk just over there because he was gliding i don't know what he was doing i just know i saw a streak but he was i mean after after all this stuff he was showing me i i was super impressed that just everything of course is michael jackson man i'm [ __ ] up right now because all the [ __ ] that i've ever heard people say nobody ever mentioned that part nobody tell the real [ __ ] man man i gotta get my life together because i don't want [ __ ] to think i was just out here walking around i don't [Laughter] you just did you see that [ __ ] did you see that [ __ ] exactly you didn't see him walk over there you just see him run over there you saw he basically just told us michael jackson wasn't emotion [Laughter] he lives inside all of our hearts he ain't gone he was never never here stop it stop it this is home i'm so happy you know that reason though i don't know what do you think of this one yeah lemon pepper you got a food tester bro you got a food tester they'll make that food and somebody else test it first this was the most important person there ever was i'm out here eating food by myself [Laughter] whatever i thought i had going on with this little operation michael jackson wouldn't approve he would love the show he would yeah that's so real crazy i knew he was a real one i didn't even know you had heard about it oh yeah y'all like y'all what'd you think l.a large no it ain't that we're just so humble yeah that's that's the south man we knew it wasn't i saw y'all was down to columbus i'm like columbus georgia when i saw that yeah they love us down there they gave that's where we was performing in that haunted ass theater oh yeah i saw i had to get away from down there yeah so we went down there and did the spot did nobody want to do the show yet and then they was like man we appreciate y'all for coming down here and [ __ ] with yeah yeah that's your hometown man long time man yep me and kevin porter man ken porter's in kindergarten together down there frank thomas all of us from the hospital yeah come on man yeah man columbus is crazy because it's his own consolidated government you know gibbs is opening up goodies down there um yeah yeah okay let's go but it's it's so consolidated government so i don't really abide by georgia laws because of fort benning yeah so my dad used to run the the segregated parts down in columbus when in the late 60s like when i continued turner james brown all those people would come to town they had to perform at my dad's place and stay at the little party houses and then on this block it'd be like prostitution houses it'll be like where the gaming and 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prostitution days left and it was just like politicians and y'all was making money the right way but i was trying to get the hell out there i couldn't take it no more i was like because it was just it's columbus so it ain't no hope down there you know when i go down there now i'm like we got to put some hope in this [ __ ] can we put a factory or can we put like a film studio or something down here because this [ __ ] is depressing because it's still buildings there that that was there when i was there 30 years it was like when i was little and they still got they got moss on them with the same names blood johnson's barbershop like you know so there ain't been no like hope no development down there so i've been been trying to see how they could push something to to get those people down to something that's why i was asking if you went how was it you know thank you man man love down in columbus man yeah especially down there after five man they've been doing comedy uh at after five the sports ball down there due to brown yeah yeah yeah they got they got a live live comedy scene they show a lot of love when we do anything down there let me go down there get your house down there how much house is that [ __ ] about 17 17 000. everybody buy a couple of blocks let me do it they owe those stupid houses they be like one and a half bathrooms and then you get like two and a half bedrooms that's when the beds come out the water yeah the kitchen and the living room as soon as you walk in the house you're already in the kitchen yeah but now if there's some [ __ ] down there like he said then the houses that wasn't [ __ ] the value you gonna increase people gonna need a knife if it's a factory missile ship if it's something that'll have some hope down there that's why you know drumline was about me being in the columbus high school marching band that's what that's about shout out to nick cannon what up nick who made you big you're trying to find characters that's close to you and how you were at that time you know what i'm saying and they get a movie a whole different perspective yeah it was a high school story zoe saw donna played kim i mean kim was always basically kind of was growing up cause she's like my best friend um but she played bells um and so when i when i told the story of fox i was i just pitched it one day i was young so i was like man i don't know i got a movie i did you know it's a musical you know what about a marching band oh that's like the macy's day parade marching bands i'm like nah and i came and filmed about a little bands i went back and showed it to them like this they're like what is that they're playing a leader so i was like uh and i just told him my story when i was in there yes but this kid that couldn't be music in a marching band really my brother uh he was in the marching band first and he was a section leader right so by the time i went into coming in as a freshman he was leaving out as a senior and everybody's waiting on my ass to come in you know i'm saying he was section leader so now the new section leader would rough me up they wanted that's why you got the problem with doing the movie but i was so good because he would bring the drums home every day you know i'm saying i would practice with his march with his drum line all the time as a kid so i just knew my [ __ ] so by the time i got to uh marching band i played better than everybody but i couldn't read [ __ ] i still can't read [ __ ] you can't read music oh hell no my [ __ ] you live it though yeah they asked me to do this thing one time for quincy jones he said quincy jones wants you to be the music director for this thing they're doing in washington dc and he wants you to md the band well all right cool ain't no problem i can do that yeah man who's the band who's the bear i show up it's damn herbie hancock wow greg filling games uh um [ __ ] bobby mcferrin uh he was just and it making all his to him and it was like all these great musicians and i'm like i cannot they don't know i cannot read music how am i gonna tell these people what to play so so i'll be like one two three they go into the song then if herbie hancock said let's go to g7 minor major i was just like okay one two three and when they start playing my ear is good enough that i'll pick up i'm in there oh now we got it let's go we can play we can play thriller let's go no no no no no yeah yeah change it again oh no what if we played that in like scenery look bring it down 12 steps i'm like all right ready one two three hold on man hold on hold on hold on i said 12. [ __ ] it went to the very end when i looked over and told herbie hancock after it was all over and done and all this [ __ ] it was having a jam section and it turned i was cause i was turning the sheet music when i was playing like i was [Applause] [Laughter] to do this in the marching band that drumline i was doing the same [ __ ] in the morning and first period man [Music] and dude looked over they said daddy reading the music i'm like wow section he's like you got to read the music can you read the music man think that [ __ ] yeah of course not to play that [ __ ] let's play you hook up him you put that sheet music in front of me that's japanese that [ __ ] just like so yeah that's great so i still can't read yeah yeah don't learn bro you've been supposed to do not learn [Laughter] some [ __ ] just see that [ __ ] and know how to i don't know brains work crazy exactly like your computer different bro so old [ __ ] voice listen whatever that [ __ ] is you got it you understand that don't learn how to read that [ __ ] man you already that's damn straight too that's real tough i mean what did you say when you told him you couldn't read the music he's like we knew man he was like what you mean he could read the music i was like i can't reach none of that he just started laughing he's like you did a great job let's go through it you know what i'm saying i had to do that with prince one time too like hold up bro wait a minute just hold up hold on man wait wait no you're not about to [ __ ] me up again you got to you can't you can't okay [Laughter] whatever you doing now this man already did the young producer in atlanta with the popular place before you tell that story you used to park your car in the principal spot yeah md collins because i was like was it it was a white bmw 528 that's so disrespectful because the principal could never have one the principal was pulling up because i saw rico away with the phone right so i got this card now the car used to smoke like a [ __ ] leave a blue trailer smoke going down the highway but i just wanted to bmw it was a diesel you should have told everybody that [ __ ] was fresh look good pulled up in school to it you know saying girls liked it so i decided i had to get a phone though because rico had a phone so i'm like gotta have a clown in this [ __ ] you know what i'm saying to top it off so then my cousin decided we can go steal one so we go to all great ideas all apartments on gabby road and on riverdale you go up in there we're pushing on the windows to see what window we first got to see who got a phone in the car they got one okay push the window with that crack all right let's try it the first time and this was this was bad i was doing bad things back then don't do the tiger woods on me it's like took the brick right throw the brick bam [ __ ] won't break because mercedes and say this had two fly windows when you know that so we going hide go back around there bam that one then break so then we found a truck right this truck got one threw it through bam here we go we got it get up in there get the phone we out here next day i'm like this [ __ ] is dope and i got to take the cartoon so they can hook it up for me so it'll work all right so i go to cartoons i pull up and i told him i said yo man i need to get my phone hooked up he's okay no problem no problem he come and i looked at it so i got the phone in the base there's the phone he goes where's the rest of it i know what you mean he said all the stuff that go in the trunk the base you know he said you know the whole system was in the truck you just got the phone right here so i'm like oh [ __ ] where'd you get that phone from and i was like my uncle gave it to me he said we'll tell you he said tell your uncle you need the rest of it cause that [ __ ] ain't gonna work that's just the phone so from that point i just double stick glued that [ __ ] in the car and every time i pull up to the crystal i thought the store was over no no it gets even better i'll pull up that school like this and that [ __ ] parking in the principal spot on that fake ass phone just looking hard bro and then i worked in the jewelry store in the mall at that time you know intrigue they stopped all the gold chains right and um so what i would do is you know don't do this at home this ain't good for y'all to go do all right but don't get no tips what i would do is i'll put the chains in the garbage right take trash out so then i have to do some school from md collins like bear and all them will show up don't say their name okay [Applause] [Laughter] i gotta go down there and talk to them well i would go to school with all this gold on i would take all of my arms i had like jewelry all of my arms changed all of them i would have a black long coat on some uh holy jeans as a football cleats right and my keyboard would be in in a bag instead of my books you was way the [ __ ] out of the way so what i would do is just sell them [ __ ] at school like all day long like hey get hundred dollars for a handball i got you 100 all day long i'm taking mcdonald's checks all day and i got now and i got a stack that's how i end up having the bmw and just kind of like starting to get my first keyboards and stuff up here don't do that at home but i had to get that jury bro you've been an entrepreneur your whole life hey man that's a genius ass plan this [ __ ] was doing some thievery [ __ ] he probably replaced the [ __ ] with fake necklaces too jewel thief [ __ ] i think if he was on if he was all national where the [ __ ] used if he was ever old national and gabby road and that was your stumping ground then he was just doing devious [ __ ] there was nothing else to do but try to do some music and do some devious [ __ ] down in there hold up you act like we're going to ignore the fact that you was just wearing football please ain't never played football it was just a thing no in atlanta you had a little part that back then like it's like me and devine stevens will be a vote right and instead of wearing polo we want to look like the polo man you know so we got the cardigans and you had your boots and the boots tucked in you come to school to whip the turtleneck on and the blazer they skipped the class you just stand out in the hallway so when everybody out there then that's where we start dying the tree torns to match uh the treton sweaters so everybody just start going out to linux and and stealing [ __ ] and taking it back to get some get some that school better [ __ ] out lakeshore me and devon you still got their hair up really weird to death like really wear long coats and like just fly out just being you know in the hallway a lot was like that you said they act out the whole part or whatever what bring the tennis racket to school with the tree tournaments [Laughter] so [ __ ] don't know where to [ __ ] if you if you get it he just done it bro this [ __ ] said he wanted to dress like the whole polo man not the sh i don't want to dress like what they put on the mannequin i want to put what's he already know about the polo i think i've been facing this whole life [ __ ] wrong let me reevaluate oh we're going back to press this was all leading up to that okay please don't leave that out okay that's the one bring that back oh yeah so prince so i grew up on prince like everything i ever done all the music i ever made i was just sitting on prince records over and over and over and over and i copied the address to page i mean off the back of a warner brothers record when i was like eight i sent the demo on the warner brothers off the back of a prince record eight years old yeah they said i mean it's car boots like cassio uh i just copied that [ __ ] and mailed it and they mail back we do not accept unsolicited material but i had warner brothers letterhead so i was like mom look at this and she's like what are you doing i got this from prince you know i was thinking i got it from prince i ain't know too much about warner brothers so then as i you know fast forward through my life as i started doing tlc um and i would do interviews and say stuff about prince you know like i go from prince a lot so one day he told me in larry come to paige lee park he had just finished building paige's park and and he changed his name to the symbol and you know he was early on the internet um and so we go there and i see him walking down this long corridor and i'm like holy [ __ ] that's him like my idol he's walking he's got his cane he's like got this pimp walking he's coming down his quarter he was actually walking oh he was walking he got a cane but he was pimp walking he pulled up on me and he just put the cave in my face like this and said michael jordan should make his own nikes and i was like huh that's that's the first thing he said to you the very first thing my idol never said to me but then he goes come here and now i'm just like now we're going to like wankerland he takes me in a room with all these clothes and he's like see everything in here we make all of that it's all mine we make everything in-house everything's in-house see this gotta make your own stuff all right cool say see i'm telling you michael jordan made his own nikes all right cool so then we go in another room he's sitting at the at the console singing bet you by golly wow he just sits down and starts singing he's putting himself in different harmonies and i'm just sitting there looking at just do this insane he gets up boom come on let me show you this he's walking me around paisley park showing us all the stuff right so he goes you know what man i'm gonna do a concert for you because because now because i was just talking about all the songs and i know every record sister party up head all the everything b-sides um and so he's like you come back tonight i'm gonna do a concert for you i'm like [ __ ] okay so me and lady we come back later on at night we go into what is like the glam i mean the big studio he has like in graffiti bridge and so now he's called about maybe 25 people um from being on the internet at that time you know he had this whole glam slam thing so just us sitting in there and all of a sudden lights go off boom smoke comes off he's on a moving sidewalk playing 1999. he's coming in this moving sidewalk lights man full-on concert right so i'm like whoa [ __ ] you know then he starts to go doom what do you want to hear next i'm like she's always in my hair he goes one two three four pray on them what do you want to hear next um raspberry regular one two like he would go into him that fast like with his band right so then he goes and starts jamming and he starts playing this song i did call black people on the highland plays mobster's record you guys played it the other day thank you thank you d nice by the way um so he starts playing this on black people and he goes i got one of my favorite producers in the house now let's come to the stage oh no no no no no i'm not gonna say with favorite prince no that ain't happening like he's gonna outplay you he always battles people he always challenges people like he did the [ __ ] to lenny and i saw what he did lenny on that we called lenny kravitz so bad and then he started doing the thinking thinking he started killing this [ __ ] so i'm like i'm not going on a stage well a security guard comes down says [Laughter] boss wants you on the stage i said no no man i'm good man i'm good he said no no you got to go i got to take you to the stage you got to tell him you're good [ __ ] so okay you keep going dallas come to the stage hold the mic on the mic yeah full on white's playing what does that come to the stage i'm like [ __ ] is he saying it like dallas i know these musicians are incredible they're like okay i can play some stuff i play some instruments yeah but they play all day that's all they got to do 24 7 is be ready for when prince say one two three play this right so i'm gonna [ __ ] okay i'm not going near a guitar that's for sure so i go where the keyboard guy is like come down let's play it so now he's playing guitar at the time so he's thinking to keep no cool i got this i go get all the keyboard on i'm checking i'm playing with him like this yeah that's good i look back for two seconds i'll look back over him this [ __ ] wouldn't put on a big ass keyboard one of these the [ __ ] you can carry around like this and he comes at me come on get some he is [ __ ] wearing my ass out and this is louder than mine too so i'm not standing the chain so i just turn my [ __ ] around turn it down turn the whole volume off and go crazy killing this [ __ ] just turn that [ __ ] down and watch how good your [ __ ] is you ain't worried about making no mistakes no you're just rocking out until danny came to atlanta one time um i talked to him on the phone and when d'angelo did how does it feel i was like man you should take your name prince back really why because they're starting to listen this dude's got records sound like you kind of make you feel like prince you just come on man this is crazy because we should talk a lot of times about masters i had labels for so long that you know that's why i like the guru of it because i've been through all the fires you know what i'm saying so i started having an independent record company myself at 20 years old and from that point on from that to free world everything so that's embedded in his head when he talks to me and he was always dallas you know they on the slaves when they only master your slave you know [ __ ] like 800 million dollars what are you then you know it's all for either this or that but he was really headstrong about doing that so as i'm talking to him on the phone about taking his name prince back his fax is coming through free tlc free tlc and i'm like is that you well yeah you tell la reid um you know when he freeze tlc what just got to do about your name coming back bro he was just like that's it you tell leb this so then when he shows up this night and he comes to atlanta to play a prince concert i'm like he can't be playing a prince concert you know he would call and say guess what i'm playing a prince concert you know so sure enough i go down to the concert um and he has a room full of people sitting around like this and he's trying to tell make them play his records because remember they banned playing his wreck because when you're at warner brothers being a label like that worst thing you can do is have a catalog that big and then try to go against them at the end of the day because they're going to beat you with your own catalog all right so so once he left warner brothers and call his daughter ruckus and said [ __ ] that i'ma go be prince and the symbol and the sign and all this they said okay go ahead go tantrum we're gonna out all your [ __ ] and it's going to kill everything you're doing so they put all those b-sides remember that set they did had everything on the b-sides to this that the others um and but he came back this night trying to get people to play his record and he had all the radio people in atlanta sitting in a room like this so i walk in the room and he goes aha now dallas is here now we can really get down to it so i'm like get down to what i'm telling all them they slaves in here because they can't play my record they listen to the masters at the radio station the program directors are mastering their slaves right dallas i'm in atlanta i live with these people i can't be saying that [ __ ] like that you know um and so finally i'm looking at him and i'm like he got his hair flipped like like the prince covered he got the little uh you know khaki raincoat on and so i keep looking at him like is he gonna play be prince for real tonight not saying nothing he's gonna just kind of keep going off on them like he gonna use yo so you i got a new record coming out you can't play my record without your uh program director right and you might be like well no i played a couple times see slave and i'm just over there like whoa okay one guy he goes you can't play my record right cause i got a new record tonight what about you he says i got a gospel station i sing to god see slave right so um but then he clears it all up he goes downstairs and we go to watch the concert and i keep thinking if he comes out playing with uptown he comes out with that snare drum this whole [ __ ] print show sure enough he came out with a snare drum he came out full on prince full-on uh trench coat first guitar had red bandana playing head sexuality all the print [ __ ] right so about halfway through the show he said turn the lights up for a second and turn the lights up and he goes you're still going to the master slave thing again you know you if you they're on your masters that makes you a slave therefore i got a new record coming out and if anybody want to get my record dallas got it go talk to dallas i'm like what lights are on bright light in the house gotta get it from dallas stick it take a take one two three four so i my studio bro it was a lot of cars lying down the street right the phone's going off all day long and i don't know what's going on like i don't know what he's talking about i have no idea what he's talking about it's about this prince wrecker i call it his people uh i said charlotte to my assistant they got to call him and ask them what's going on this is crazy people keep calling about prince they call him the boss said how many pieces you want one yeah what's that which mean how many pieces i want he said don't you got a record call me a record store i said no man i got a record company that's a different story i don't have a record store oh he said oh he thought you wanted to buy his records and put him on the record store i said no man but y'all got a bunch of people out here that want to get this [ __ ] so i just look for the house man um he's um he's you know with that he was he was just the baddest to me it was it was just he's the baddest person ever playing man that's the craziest [ __ ] friends said you got his record oh yeah it's like i'm in the record store so and didn't tell you [ __ ] about i even heard the record i don't know what he's talking about it's just crazy he can't even ask him about the record so what soldier what record [Laughter] you want something for me too slave what what what is this [ __ ] at least i haven't read on the side of his face [ __ ] whatever the answer is slave hey man i saw a piece of an interview that tiny did and she said you told them they sung too loud would escape yeah well i mean because like when they they all sung out you know what i'm saying like they all sing we're saying like full voice for them so they're saying i understand whatever they're saying is full of voice and when we're doing like tlc things like that we were just working it was just different and they that's what made them i think you know appealed to people because they were singing out like that and they had such everybody was singing from here you know and maybe that's why they would get into it too because everybody's just like singing from here usually somebody ain't singing from there somebody softer somebody's hearted somebody could sing loud but all of them was singing from here and that that was just like new in that sense you know even in vogue was singing like softer and like different in the tones and then escape if you listen to escape stuff um so it wasn't it wasn't just louder it was like really singing from the gut which makes you think about it well that [ __ ] was so funny like you got the best goddamn outlook on how atlanta can change like what's the biggest differences oh man well you know what was crazy is like during the late during the early 90s and stuff like we were going to jelly beans and um you know it was always it was big dope boys back then like the miami boys was here like and so it was always like dope it was always like you know it was a little bit crazy there was always killings and stuff and then we saw atlanta go through a phase where music kind of came in and i think people started to say we could do that and so all that started to change into a whole music focus like once i did another bad creation um then jermaine did crisscross and then arrested development came we started covering these different spectrums like of the south that started making us have our own [ __ ] going on you know what i'm saying because we were always like well new york ain't accepting us california accepting us we got to make our own [ __ ] um and that was the first wave of us starting to get like our own amalgamation because we were put from everybody we like hey shockley we like dr dre we weren't scared to be like i like everybody we want to tell you we want to sound like everybody so it was it was interesting because you know we didn't really know we just wanted to get to we never we just wanted to get to this point at some point you know but first it was about riding around listening to that [ __ ] in your car on 25 or like dressing the act putting the pictures to it making the music feeling oh [ __ ] man we just ride out listening to it um and then when people start getting successful you saw atlanta change into um the record the late the like lawyers started to get ready everybody started to get record companies like this [ __ ] is popping we need a record company we need a work economy so it opened up the gates for a lot of talent to go through also you know and then new york and la they used to call us like what do y'all know down here we don't know what is going on like that y'all got something crazy going on y'all are selling record records because other people wasn't selling records like that like lightning the mary's and new york records they would do the platinums and double platinums we were doing like 9 10 million records um 10 12 million records like our first thing if a record was coming out we were like damn man how many were going to sell the first week 500 000 or 700 000. 92 all the way up to like napster and everything else kicked in because our record range was like distribution back in the day meant that you had trucks and you had the the printed from somewhere and the trucks had to take it to walmart to take it to tower wherever it was going and if you're in different territories like if you're in london or if you're in wherever you are around the world it wasn't like now you can hit a button and it goes everywhere they had to literally print them up over there and ship them over there and all this right so so the record sales was different um and you were like twenty dollars per album and sixteen dollars per album so we were making so much money um and it was enough for everybody because it was just so much money crammed into that cd cost um back then and then it wasn't that accessible so if you sold you sold there was no other way to get it you know um you know seeing that transformation and then we went through where uh we were selling so many records down here it was just like and that's what's making us sustain to this point because we sold so many types of records out of atlanta um on so many types of artists you start to see people sprout up like they'll come they'll come to the studio one day you know singing a song like you know aaron hall or something hey what's up man carlos miller you will not believe this man draftkings is giving away 55 million dollars they have this super bowl prediction challenge all you have to do is go to the website draftkings.com and enter the free super bowl prediction giveaway you can win instant prizes all the way up to 25 000 some people might win five some people might win one but it's crazy because they giving away money they got 55 million dollars because they're the official partner of super bowl 55 so they're giving away 55 million dollars download the draftkings app now and use promo code 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million dollars hold on look at this kid let me tell you this story dallas aaron hall right he was performing god had just they performed after this comedy show we had this [ __ ] aaron hall singing this song sound exactly like the cd [ __ ] this [ __ ] was singing wiped his face and didn't even [ __ ] up the song i was like this [ __ ] ain't real bro that [ __ ] sounds exactly like the [ __ ] like you think it was playing this [ __ ] was singing that [ __ ] live that's cause there was no auto tune back then it's like that you gotta realize that you had to be able to sing bro wasn't the way that matter of fact was what invented autotune is people going like even when we did tlc they like don't y'all got that thing on their voice like they ain't no thing to have on their voice you just got to keep doing that [ __ ] until you get it right and so people kept thinking that about stuff that isn't that some magic box that fixes it like when i was doing another bad creation i would sample that whole uh verse and fix it with a pitch wheel on the keyboard because it was five you can't you know you had to have a guideline singing and then try to fix it like this but you know i think that's one of the biggest differences today is that you know you had to be able to have talent because it's been so much money on you to record you like it's half of the [ __ ] you hear right now more than half of it would never got signed ever because you had to spend money on this [ __ ] so if somebody came in in your room and they're going yeah when that whole [ __ ] was going on where everybody's singing online i'm like what the [ __ ] is this like going up on the tuesdays and those kind of records like coming around and people i was sitting at bmi one day and uh i was sitting with some of the country people and he was performing that record and i was like if this song walked into your office in the country in nashville what would you say about it what the [ __ ] is going on because it takes so much money when you're doing music music it takes money to record the talent and if you're not talented i'm not going to spend my money on you right user generated content came in uh let's say around the time of soulja boy right where men that you can make your music on the computer upload your music and distribute it at myspace right so now you're gonna cut out the distributors you're gonna cut out a talent gate you don't cut out everybody who could say no and it's only up to the consumers now most of the consumers you got can't say and can't wrap we can't do none of that either either right so that's why some of the most simple [ __ ] that you want to why is that making it because most of the people that are singing and wrapping it can't sing and wrap either so that's easy for them to say that it's easy for them to sing along to that and when that floodgate open instead of it being like hey i want to sing as great as whitney or i want to sing as great as uh perform as great as this person or michael whoever it started being like oh my caliber's down here because that [ __ ] i can do what he's doing so i just wanted to and so that opened up this gate of user generated content and it lowered the quality of music that you had to reach for in order to make it like you had to really like go through like for us i spent so much time playing keyboards and playing over songs and learning how to write songs in my life it was i don't even know how many hours it's been because i didn't do [ __ ] else you know it wasn't as easy as let me turn on my mac and it's gonna do do it for me or here's the 808 sound so that's half the song already so it wasn't you know we used to search for drum sounds like how do i find a snare drum how do i find a hi-hat that jermaine ain't using like our sounds was like our grill like no you can't get my sounds dawg that's my sounds you know what i'm saying now it's like wait wait you can have them [ __ ] [ __ ] out somebody by the sounds they got i heard that goddamn drum pattern in your [ __ ] life okay you never use a triangle this just wins since when you [ __ ] since when do [ __ ] come in on the xylophone i'll tell you since when since we were getting there [ __ ] this [ __ ] played a harmonica dude actually i used to be mad i hear them they took my snare drum i had my one snap you know everybody at some point have your sound that you like i would always just veer away and anytime something got popular i would like go try to do some whole other [ __ ] so if like if i did enough over here and i'm like well let me go do pop rock let me go do pink and gran stefani and anastasia and duran duran and all this kind of stuff because you know i grew up on all that [ __ ] wanting to beat them and watching them on mtv like with their keyboards with the names on the back and i just wanted to have one keyboard that i could afford with my name with korg or rolling or something on the back of that [ __ ] you know yeah and my mom my brother financed it for me in columbus and it took it was like 1200 it took five years to finance this [ __ ] god damn it he was broke broke we broke broke broke you know and i was like i gotta get the [ __ ] out of here and this is gonna be my saving grace and enough she took the keyboard with you yeah my brother i was down there playing get it up in columbus georgia right and then my mom's down and we we went in the hood hood and the house was a little crooked and the restaurant was connected to it and and that's why she had a soul food restaurant but i was playing get it up over and over and over again on this keyboard he bought me that i just died to have a rolling gx3p right right and he came in and mom said clean up bombs and clean up he owned budweiser's you know ain't paying attention to it he picked the keyboard up and throw it and it breaks into like a million pieces and [ __ ] so i'm like i go in the shot right now i just have a knife fetish when i was a kid because everybody's bigger than me so i'll just get knives and play boom right you know how you bro you know your brother used to hold you down and put the knees in the chest put the charlie horse in yes i was the youngest one so they would do all that [ __ ] so i had a knife thing so i went downstairs got the biggest knife i could find out the kitchen my mom where are you going with that [ __ ] killing he broke my keyboard ran upstairs with a knife and tried to get my brother and mom's like where you doing you're doing so i made a big ass deal out of and said [ __ ] that this dude brought my keyboard greyhound bus station is next door for my house like three three doors down i packed my [ __ ] up and went to greyhound like i'm going atlanta i was like 12. my mom was like so it was night time too i've been crying all day and [ __ ] it's gonna broke my keyboard so i just sleep with the keyboard i started with a casio and i was like mom every christmas get me a bigger keyboard you know what i'm saying and so i got now to some [ __ ] that i can actually be in bands with and sound like the [ __ ] on the radio yo she was there and now you're gonna buck my [ __ ] up so she came around the greyhound bus station she was like yo what are you doing like i'm going to atlanta still want to clara i can't make it down here this thing broke my keyboard and she's like are you serious she's like you know you just mad i know you mad just come on back home and like we'll talk about it and tomorrow if you still feel that way then you know i go home sit down look at my keyboard all night mad as [ __ ] i get back up next morning pack my [ __ ] take some money at the cash register because you know you gotta own the soul food restaurant get some money out of the cash i tell you what i'm out dude [ __ ] i go back to the bus station yo and i'm sitting there it's daytime now so i'm ready i'm waiting on the atlanta bus to come out mad as [ __ ] my mom was like yo what are you doing you really leaving me huh i'm like he broke my keyboard i cannot be a big record producer down here this dude broke my [ __ ] she said i'll tell you what if you guys serious give me some time to sell that restaurant i'm going with you you ain't leaving me down here she said give me three months sell the restaurant i'm going to atlanta with you i got to find a job whatever but give me the time you that determined to go we're going she left you came up and she started working at po folks on old national and while she was doing that i was in charlestown like this all day long wires went into the bathroom [ __ ] recording like the chip and some of the dudes in the neighborhood come singing and recording all the time she coming home with flowers on her face mad as hell like we said my brother's selling dope up and down gabby road we just had a footlong going on all day that's why atl my uncle george then the movie was real and we used to get locked in there was a safe way or national something like that and clean up at night and uh and we were skating every sunday and during that time it was like it was just amped up bro it was just like everything you could have going down dope deals all day long don't go down there parking lot is about here he comes back to the one yeah first and foremost michael jordan needs to make his own magazines come here [Laughter] popeyes [Laughter] what people don't realize that tricky steward did who that right they i don't know who they knew who that but that's tricky stewart and bro we just found out you produced must be the money oh [ __ ] you are the infamous producer behind [Applause] oh [Applause] hold on hold on let me tell you that now there's a good one all right so the shoe is at my studio that's a good one no that's exactly right me and suga tonight subway here at the studio right i had a group illegal making jamal so was trying to get work from from dream from uh colin wolf so he's there one day this is dallas dion sanders wants you to do a song on him you know we got him on death row now um he wants you he wants you to do a record on him my initial response was like nah man he's a football player i love dion he's great he's got go to club go to this club all that but singing a song no man he want to rap a song he wants you to do it i'm like sure man i'm talking to sug by the way so i'm like [ __ ] i'm in this instance right now like what do i do what i'm saying i'm like nah man it's just i don't know if i can do that bro i don't think that's gonna work out you gotta figure it out i'll be right back he come back in he got he got a photo album full of cars pick a car it's lamborghinis it's rolls royces it's all in pick a car man just whatever car you want i get to you do go ahead take care of that for me with dion i'm like thinking myself i cannot take a call from this [ __ ] that's gonna make me go like he's gonna don't be really indebted i can't do this i can't do that either so he goes god didn't talk to dion he come back he said dion really want you to do the song man now i'm feeling like this [ __ ] about to be like you gonna do it yeah you got one more chance what you said though i'll tell you what he just wants you to do must be the money or it must be the music man i give you 250 000 to do that right now i said you want me to take my speed of music and do much want me to do that now for 250 000 i'll get you right now i got that record in the back my [ __ ] let's go i went straight back to the back went through my records put that oh yeah must be the music i love this record let's go put it together boom boom that's the most money ever got paid for one song like at one time like that shout out to sugar shout out to [ __ ] [Applause] dallas austin produced shout out to dr too because nobody know like nobody knew i did and then by the time i didn't think the i didn't think theo was gonna go through all the way with it but by the time they did it he was full on you know he did it he did it all the way nobody you're right nobody know i did that right either because i was like oh man you have done so much music with [ __ ] everybody who's good madonna oh yeah that's that's the freakiest [ __ ] in the world i just want you to know what he said that's the freakiest thing in the world right there dallas hey you know how every crew got a [ __ ] that's him he got an ankle just like his ankles to be out [Laughter] the [ __ ] remains the same temperature no matter the season [Laughter] yo man it was crazy because uh working with madonna it was more like you know again i'm atlanta to death i got like dreads down in here i'm at my studio like i'm just in my own [ __ ] i ain't really like too you know shaken by anybody but then they called okay she called the studio and my security guard came somebody told me to come out she went down on the goddamn i'm like yeah yeah man somebody somebody seemed down on the phone so i'm like huh he's like no i told him i knew it wouldn't hurt man so you know but he did a call like one or two times or something like that so i'm like and this wasn't the back day when you had the text and all that so just like all right so then they call it again he's like you want to take this call and i said yeah and then i picked the phone she was dallas i'm like holy [ __ ] this isn't done ain't it so yeah i was like oh because you want inspector to be called in the studio but a manager talked to mine before he gave him a number so she's like i want to come to come to atlanta um and come out and meet with you and so i'm like all right so she calmed down i'm still atlanta to death bro i'm like back then i didn't talk at all i wouldn't speak talking to nobody i was just like chilling and um so she came in and then we started to she was like yeah i want my record to sound like what you do i love your records i love this and then the other and so she said so we hit it off good and she goes um well i got i'm gonna um be in california i want you to come out to miami and california come meet the you know people we're working with so i'm kind of like on a little madonna tour right first stop is gonna be la and then i'm gonna go to miami right i meet her out there so i go to la and she got this she has this castle right it's the castle i think al capone or somebody's living but she painted the [ __ ] burgundy and yellow stripes the whole castle what right ain't that like wait a minute but this is what she had told me by the castle right i'm gonna put this weed down she said because the [ __ ] you being the [ __ ] he'd be saying so regular [ __ ] mcdonald's got a she was a castle but she painted this [ __ ] striped right like burgundy yellow or something [ __ ] and that was the big big thing about it so i go to go to the house she ain't there the housekeeper was there but she had told me already and i was talking um she goes you know i got a ghost i see what you mean so i got a ghost at my place in l.a and i could tell it's a woman because she throws my shoes around sometimes or i bought something like a carpet or something i come in the room and it's missing so oh my god i love jax i know so for real right so i go to this house and then uh and and she's not there for me during that label she's like go stay at the castle while you you know so me my man dave gates you go up in there like [ __ ] look at this [ __ ] castle like we just like this is out of control long castle tables big castle doors like everything was just insane i ain't we ain't never seen nothing like that being from atlanta either so i go in the room and so we jumped on the bed like [ __ ] let's turn on bets like watching tv like sitting there drinking beer like smoking because it's just me and daddy you know i'm saying the housekeepers downstairs right so this is a wall like when you walk out the door it's like it's like see how those doors against those walls right there they flat the castle door is huge it's flat against the wall right so we've been in there just tripping like i'm just like bugging like my daughter [ __ ] road like you know get ready walk out to go to my meeting that damn castle door slammed so hard bro it just went out i was like what the [ __ ] dave was like what the [ __ ] was that because it's impossible for the door to do that right the housekeeper's coming up to step she's like oh yeah that's the ghost she was just mad y'all was in the room i still got the garage door opener because i left i was supposed to go back that night so i had the gates open that [ __ ] slammed so hard it was insane um and then by the time we started working together i was hanging on my man i was hanging with my man jack and lana hatian jack i was hanging with him um when we last started working with madonna and that's how they got their uh you know the two packaging jack madonna connection all of that [ __ ] starts going on the same time but boy you are the square root of black it's history martin luther king was like death hey you got atlanta bro we came up in an era where like everything was just like i think it was the verge of everything you know a start and everything and then it was a fresh the city started just rolling the stadium started being like everybody just became interested in us everybody from everywhere became interested in atlanta like what's going on there how do we get the sound of it how do we get a piece of it and it just became that that time when everybody was just rolling like the east coast west coast battle started here right down the jaguars right right at the club here where all of us in that jd's party is like you know so much stuff has happened all of us in the spot and that's puffiness shook and and there's the beef in the club and everybody's all tense and [ __ ] and then next thing you know go outside his boy get popped across the street then he would go east coast west coast from that point on all that [ __ ] just kept going it kept going but all started right out here it's crazy good man it was a product to everybody um and then you know for me during that time i was just working with everybody mick jagger and stevie nicks and every big kind of rock star i started bringing into town kind of just rolling around atlanta with with people like that and then just taking them giving them taking on the mjq like taking janet jackson to mj you know you was [ __ ] people up when you was doing it right like [ __ ] i might have been half but i was an old national austin [Laughter] daddy's thoughts and he wasn't talking to nobody because you know he hear the music in his head so okay that's what [ __ ] used to say bro dallas don't be talking because he hear music in his head the thing was it was a trip because i was really just shy of [ __ ] and so i would have my shades on all the time because i didn't want to be [ __ ] with nobody right but then it was like oh that was how cool he is i don't want to go home [ __ ] like i don't even want to be in here i don't want a class ring i don't want to do none of that [ __ ] i don't go to the prom i just want to go to the crib but i was always that dude and so it just kind of came along with the territory of being doing so much [ __ ] at the same time man you just knew what to do when the [ __ ] to do it uh like your whole life your timing is impeccable yeah this [ __ ] ain't missed none of the shots when it was time like he knew when it was time to go right mom sell that restaurant sell that restaurant [Laughter] aggressive old white [ __ ] i wish you would leave then you gotta kill my ass fighting i'm out of there ghost got to work the other way too though you gotta hunt the [ __ ] out of white people it's gotta be some black ghosts you know somebody gentrified a crack house [ __ ] in the middle of night the stove just caught on [Applause] you boiling water babe did you see my wallet every morning i wake up it's 20 minutes [Laughter] i know i'm not tripping that's 80 bucks this week did you put this baking soda on the counter i keep dropping the meatballs going to bt i'm sick of watching baby boy i see you playing your time the tv just pop on in the middle of the night used to be a point where in atlanta we didn't we didn't really you know that's for new york people at all right so got to the point that even when puff people want to come down here [ __ ] start calling each other like big boy start calling out yeah you know queen latifah i'm trying to buy land we're gonna let them do that [ __ ] i don't know dog uh you know what they're trying to buy land on old nationals we're gonna let them do that [ __ ] i don't know man what y'all think what you think what do you think cause this is country we we protect that [ __ ] because so many people ran ran in here and either [ __ ] us over or ran out or kind of you know took the coach and ran out you know so we always been gipping them was the worst about it yep and then was just like oh no no no no oh i had rowdy in new york and um la was supposed to have you know rowdy being the rap label but then l.a some kind of way sound outcast to the face and i'm like well hold on it's supposed to be the rap label oh man think you really like them like that anything i like outcasts i'm from atlanta what you talking about well you know what he said they just said what because why did the red [ __ ] be doing because you know what it is they just you know play as well took off from being a um a record that was a christmas song it was the christmas song right right and when it took off they needed something to take off because the face at that point was just getting that went through a lot of down you know acts that spent a lot of money and stuff like that before they really start making money again right um and so then i got mad i was like you know what i'm up here in new york don't want to be up in this [ __ ] first place and then you're going to sign out caster to the face i'm out so i'm going to collapse i got to go to atlanta i want to be up here and um so he was like all right well because i thought he was going to be like okay we're going to close the label down but no no no no no no take it with you let's start over like just you know if you want to go to atlanta i understand and at the same time puff was buff got into it um with andre and i was getting fired for uptown so he called me and was like dude i don't know what to do you know and so i flew up to new jersey i was like dude you should have a label once you start your own [ __ ] too when he was starting he had already been doing records with with uptown we had i had like two labels at the time rowdy and i had another one called lymph and i said you should start your own label dude just just move do your own [ __ ] so then we took him to harrison did the deal with clive i said another thing is it take my offices because i want to go home so he took those offices the rowdy offices and the bad boy offices and then i moved rowdy down here on marietta street and took the floor of marietta street and then south monica there's too much information i wasn't going into i was like like at one point i was like you know that [ __ ] should be a movie but then you would tell a story and i was like oh [ __ ] that is the movie that's your movie but you got even more [ __ ] that need to be a movie unless you're gonna tell me this movie so you gave your office the pro and he turned him into the bad boy offices and then i got office down now this is a crazy part my office downtown on marietta street there's a full floor across from the newspaper right and you know who the parking lot guys was alex and them alex i was you know long time ago but like just to see everybody evolve into what they've evolved to shaka being there to spotify now when he was at at radio stations like everybody just evolved into you know grown-ass people i guess we don't even know it [Applause] tlc don't ask him damn [ __ ] cause i'm sure he did especially if she is off that freak nick age it's it's over don't even ask him you know he's having a good time he was having a blast back then he didn't even talk [Laughter] [Applause] do you like me [Laughter] man tlc man they was right here in atlanta yeah what was funny when i was big when i started when i went to have a meeting with them i knew t-box from the skate ring like atl was supposed to be called jelly beans by the way and um and so laura london kind of plays tebow's character and like what she we wasn't dating them but she was like she was a real tomboy like she would escape me with her hat down like this and she danced and she eaten with everybody she you know you know so she was part of me rico tebaz all of us knew each other divine we were all at the skating rink um and when they when i went to meet with them because they said i got this group and so i want to meet with them i'm like by the time i was like okay come on everybody want to build a group in atlanta now because everybody stopped popping up with axe acts of black uh three the black girls this to that everybody was just popping with that and so when i said with them i'm like oh [ __ ] y'all want to be in that y'all going to be a group too then it was like elle was like yeah you know i don't know what to do with them so they start they performed um like one of the teddy riley songs and i'm like i know what to do with them you know um and then that's when we started writing all the songs and um we were just living out the time because they were like that in the first place we were just young and wild and you know making records about what we were doing for real and then all this [ __ ] started happening like you know the pebble started putting the thing on there with the girls was really insecure about it yeah that movie was fun like the lifetime but you know what's crazy is um people just didn't understand they wasn't telling the truth it wasn't about it wasn't about what was happening now it's like you don't tell them the truth like one thing about me and my artist i'm gonna tell you how it is this is how it is right here i'm gonna spin this you can do that we're gonna do this we're gonna do that that's this that's that that's how this is they didn't do that back in the industry back then it was more like what you didn't know is what made the money and instead of what you did know so you know if somebody came to you right and said hey um well your video is going to cost two and a half million dollars yeah this is going to cost that yeah this is going to cost that your your balance is going to be right here do you want to go ahead and move on with this they would have said yeah right but you say no it's just that after you shoot all that [ __ ] and after you see how expensive it all is and you look at the books and you say you know this is how much money we spent on the project they just didn't understand on that you know and so that's they sometimes ignorance is bliss like the way that they got the deal is they kept saying i remember they kept saying mary j blige got this much money we ain't got that much and it wasn't true they just heard that in the in the streets man jay blase got this so much weekend so there was just like veggie blocks got 20 million dollars i don't think she got 200 million dollars like this was on the second album yes they did they gave her way more money than us so them not backing down off of that and then them going up to arista and um taking them girls from techwood they took a whole crew of girls from techwood and put them in the car and they drove straight to new york these girls don't know about nobody at all they just know techwood they took them to arista them girls went up in there puffers on the phone they went up in the um in the office on the phone pups tlc need to talk to clive davis what is going on here and the girls went in and stood behind cloud like there's two big old girls like tech with girls took behind like this and it was like we want to know what our country said they said you got the money you say la's got the money we don't know who got the money so we ain't leaving too we find out who got the money while they doing that the other girls is going up and down arrows to taking down plaques off the wall to take home oh [ __ ] we're in houston oh [ __ ] tlc they don't play they're taking the plaques off the aristo walls and taking they got to leave with something they'll take that's as long as right but you at least gotta take the tlc that's ours and they wouldn't they wouldn't get off they wouldn't leave until ellie and clive got on the phone on speakerphone and said whatever it was in front of them and then that's how they got the deal kind of got their deal worked out you know but if somebody told it's just that back then in that day so much money was being spent and nobody is telling you all these chargebacks you got and if they did tell you what you were getting charged for you probably you still would have said yeah you want to shoot your video you want to say oh i don't know if i want to use hype williams you know let me shoot one for 150 000 instead of 2 million that wouldn't even cross your mind because you don't even know nothing about none of that as an artist right so you still would have did the same thing it's just that not having information and everybody's going to always come out like the bad guy on the other side of not showing you the information you know that's that was the real key to it everybody's been through that same scenario if you've been in the record business because recruitment it takes so it takes a minute for you to recoup the money that somebody somebody said to you right now hey man yo give me twenty thousand dollars and i get back to you so what no i want sixty thousand forty thousand dollars give that back then you want your money back you know why you pointing me though down because i know that's how it is don't ask me in my opinion i mean other than probably new orleans but we don't have the best run of like dudes coming out of the streets already been dope boys before and flipped they [ __ ] in the careers um and flipped it into real viable businesses to employ other people that's the truth because back then the dope boy just went to jail when you like they they got to the point where i think even the people in atlanta know they knew like then bmf and was running around and taking out billboards and dumping money out the helicopters and doing all the [ __ ] they do they like the city didn't know and jeezy had like a thousand snowman uh cds out everywhere nobody could he had more mixtapes than anybody ever could have out and that was breaking them so it they really took that street mentality and flipped it back in the day it used to be gangsters doing it anyway like the tommy montolas and all them was other kind of gangsters but seeing that happen in atlanta where you know the real hustle became how do we flip these records you know and how do we turn these records into successful records and that's how it changed like we were coming up in and like how do we play these dudes came up and how we got the dope game how we flipped this [ __ ] and into into music um i remember i did the hard boys back in the day and that was one of the first royal cd was one of the first kind of rap groups out of here um to try to you know define what was being done here already that's what i'm saying it don't matter how far you go back he's right there carry the one get that i remember [Music] [Laughter] that's that's crazy um james brown too well my my step dad played for jake right okay i'll tell you the funniest james brown story right so i went on i used to go on the road with them when i was a kid them in the jb's right my stepdad who plays all the guitars jimmy nolan i think the thing so i wake up in the morning in third grade smoking a piece of joint with him right and play those licks like take it thank you thing he played all those licks here on james brown so we get up in the morning that was my day outside school anyways nobody knew i was smoking weed at third grade then um with your pops yeah i just don't hit a little bit bro the best life i have ever seen a black man [Applause] so we all just be on this tour this summer tour so i'm along with the jb's and so they line up in this uh in the hallway and you know we talking smoking waiting on him to come out this dressing room right they got their light blue tuxedos on and they talking [ __ ] and smoking cigarettes i'm standing next to my uh step option so james comes out of the room wow crowds out he comes out fired up he walks by and slaps the [ __ ] out of everybody [Music] i'm terrified i'm [ __ ] terrified and [Music] but so i got we got after it was over i got back on the bus with them and it was talking just like [ __ ] you know this bad show like that like they didn't even pay attention why he hit y'all like that he didn't want us to mess up he said to get our attention to make sure we're paying attention you know so if you see us out there like that he's like yo and he's like he's so we don't [ __ ] up [Laughter] um [Applause] [Music] if one person [ __ ] up like they were playing the bahamas one time one person [ __ ] leave everybody everybody y'all can find your way back and he didn't play that he was just like they were that's how you kept them that's why i kept them tight but yeah that [ __ ] scared the hell on me now fast forward katherine bruton who um she's the head of bmi um that all of us love very much she's going into bmi just one year and she goes you know i think i want to start a an award ceremony to be in my awards and the first thing i want to do is i want to honor james brown and i want you and pharrell and rodney jerkins um and chad to be the jb's so i'm like holy [ __ ] this is crazy ain't nobody leave that [ __ ] put that in my contract i didn't even think this much i didn't even think this dude remembered me because of how long it was ago but i guess through music and stuff everybody kind of the word got out whatever so here i am on stage james is performing what it is is what it is and i'm playing this game if real's playing drums and i'm like this shit's crazy i'm like this whoever thought i'd be playing the same [ __ ] behind james brown and my stepdad taught me to play with james right and after we finished playing he goes now where jimmy knowledge boy at i don't know oh [ __ ] and i'm like he's like if he come and grab me he said y'all know i know how long i know this boy and then because i used to be on the sweet child's organ when they would be practicing i'd be on the street charles oregon like chilling and he brought it he's got a sweet child's organ and i was like [ __ ] then they brought that flashback up too i was like that's the same day you slapped the [ __ ] out of everybody [Laughter] he came full circle damn i remember that day i remember that day he's a terrified you know forgetting them [ __ ] like something scary like that he'd just be like that's just crazy hit him that hard he slapped him straight there was nobody laughing no more sweets they were gay [Laughter] that dude was a little worker though man like i looked at his uh like if y'all gonna watch mr dynamite uh watch what's the dynamite that's a good that's a good documentary about james and you'll see all this stuff some of that stuff in there not all right there's a whole documentary just about james brown slapping people he didn't catch [ __ ] [Laughter] damn man [Music] yeah it's been there's been it's been so many so i mean i know y'all heard the uh when buster was on here he was telling y'all about everybody being in the studio right but george clinton what he did is he came in and i seen that i haven't seen the mothership lab when i was little in columbus right because my mom's restaurant is down the street from the coliseum right so i've seen all this [ __ ] when i was little like the mothership land because everybody come eat soul food and go play right commodores zap my brother would take my my mom elementary school snare drum and sneak me in the back of the concert club yo we got snack drums for zach rogers uh drummer and then there we go boom we ain't backstage all the time right and so i've been able to the one of the things that's been the trip is i've seen all these people as a kid that i would just see the two of us sitting outside the restaurant they go to common doors to what's inside the restaurant there's george clinton so as i started to get you know up in music i started working with all these people i work with lionel i work with george and when george started coming to darp and he just one weekend he came in there on a friday or something right and i wanna use the studio so i do you got it i left when i town and came back i'm sitting i got a room in my studio i'm sitting there at two or three o'clock in the morning george just comes out of one of the rooms so dude you've been here this whole time so yeah i ain't leaving this [ __ ] so then if you surround that with at the same time i had diamond d too short buster um eric sermon an outcast and goody we all used to be at dart and we used to hold these forums and george would sit down and tell us what was booked like they were saying he would tell us [ __ ] like yeah you're going to see it flood in places you've never seen a flood before and then they're going to come on tv and say hey we're fema we'll give you flood on this insurance like really they're going to make it fly yeah they got weather machines and they're gonna make it rain it's gonna flood everywhere so he kept telling us every all the [ __ ] that started to happen he was telling us in these sessions and then all of a sudden one day people were roboting by the top of their houses in chicago i mean in illinois and milwaukee and you know like the robot over your roof you know how much water that is so and then the commercial come on we're fema we're the only ones can give you i'm like just dude all the [ __ ] the checks the checks turning in the cash cards all the stuff he told us a long time ago he was telling us all in this room and that's when when goody mom started doing cell therapy and stuff is when we were having these new world order forums in the studio but look at that group like too short diamond d buster eric sermon illegal all of us will be in this whole little squad and every day we hold a forum like this and georgia just download us with crazy [ __ ] like nasa's sending a um a person on the road with them when he was talking about spaceships all the time because anything you play with with space nasa want to know they don't care if you're joking or not anything you're talking about the mother ships and all that kind of stuff they want to know so they sent the person on the road with them but they were so hot they didn't even know who the person was for a long time yeah make yourself useful maybe like 20 people on the stage so they didn't really know who was who was with him or what you know and so he he would just download us with all this [ __ ] and one day i pull up to the studio and it's short and uh george and all them they're standing outside and everybody's looking up in the sky like this i don't know what the [ __ ] are they doing and i pull up i'm shorting like yo [ __ ] we just seen a [ __ ] ufo i'm like what like and it's like afternoon time it's like it ain't dark yet it's like it's still like afternoon time and all of them literally but they're sitting up with their head like everybody the whole inside all of my back they're just like yo we just saw the [ __ ] uf oh all of us did you know like what was it like and they're like you had lights going like this and a v and it was sitting over the damn studio i said that's what i was looking at when i pulled up it's like [ __ ] yes like y'all [ __ ] is high for real like really but everybody was saying this so i can understand if it was like one or two people but all of them all and they're like nick see that [ __ ] right you know and so george always come tell us stories about you know the ships and he's always been that guy um but all of us basically sat in there and just pulled all kind of energy from those sessions that he would do and that and it started like everybody's just kind of doing that amalgamation of working together like working all in different rooms and you know two shows doing getting in georgia producing that um but it was like it was you know i feel like atlanta has that thing where um especially from a label standpoint everybody's like country you know what i'm saying you can go buy somebody's house wipe your feet for your miss johnson house [ __ ] take them goals out for you so everybody has a sense of respect about each other and love for each other and all that um so i just feel like um where's to see it come from those kind of days and then to see it go into you know everybody really shooting each other and everybody really taking it to the next level was like okay everything is going to for atlanta was really about the collectiveness that we brought together milan is really about cash doing curtis mayfield and these [ __ ] coming out of the the hood with fur pants on and gold teeth in the cadillac you know what i'm saying and like that difference is what makes us really atlanta i think that's really now what i miss the most about it um that has gotten really linear when it used to be so creative it should be like and we this is the place where you push your creativity to the match like i'm bringing the football cleats back you should have done it you should [Laughter] that's why they're playing a flute now that's different he don't need to do nothing is that a fluke i don't i think it's like a type of flute i thought it was an oboe or some [ __ ] is it a flute or an object maybe it's it's a collected kind of a flow like it was probably like a combination of two of them but i i thought it was a joke at first but he really liked that bassoon it might be able soon i know it ain't a regular flute because you'll be holding it like this yeah no it's something it's something too it's a alto sax i don't know whatever the stretched out saxophone this is a chance our partner fabo was not lying when he said so you fascinated by the [ __ ] that was in the air [ __ ] michael jackson go from right here to over there come on man and ain't nobody seen [ __ ] just a shirt whatever color he had what if he didn't even have on a red shirt that's exactly what i was thinking crazy you'll see him driving down ventura in the in the van itself driving himself to the studio and we were walking like michael jackson's a red shirt same hat window down black van had rims and everything on it and he'd be sitting in the red light but i think the lady probably thought that look at this [ __ ] trying to look like michael jackson like but we would get we would be walking to the studio like going to get something to eat and he'll be sitting there like this like crazy michael roger he had to be strapped though right i just think that it's la so like la is like that you would never if that's really that's not him that's like all these other people that look like him probably like riding on the street like you know they probably just didn't think twice about it that's cold as hell this is some of the best it's so it's so crazy because you like even if you saw that man in the van like you all right man go on bro i'm gonna go to the crib and put this [ __ ] up ain't nobody like [ __ ] dude i kind of look like michael jackson bro you at that light though and you hitting the blunt and it's that long lighter you look look at this that man that's some wild [ __ ] it is yo that [ __ ] so hey man i can't believe you came through through the trap just to talk a little [ __ ] with us like that man and put us up on all this game so that's all we needed man any time bro that's what we i mean that's what we got to do that's what keeps us in atlanta no we ain't kicking you out james brown slapped the [ __ ] out of everybody everybody before the show you making me think i'm pursuing this whole entertainment [ __ ] wrong you gotta rule with the iron fist venus says so much you start snapping people and pointing your cane at [ __ ] and being aggressive about the situation yes y'all too so we i just launched d.a.d for everybody who didn't know it finally got my my distribution and i really got you know i always wanted a distribution coming in the first place but after me seeing like i felt like artists really talented artists was starting the places kind of throwing this [ __ ] in the ocean because it was no body to guide them i know distribution companies ain't supposed to be about it it's supposed to be i just upload your [ __ ] and you figure it out um but with a dad um it's different because you do get you know a person to help you navigate especially if you're somebody who knows a lingo and you're an artist enough to know what you're talking about and if you're an artist enough to have already built yourself up some then you need somebody to point you in directions or some [ __ ] um and it's exciting because uh it's a different story now cause i get to hear music from everywhere you know all over the world people can load up load up their music um what kind of [ __ ] you like to listen to anything that's great bro like what's crazy you got to be great already yeah it's some great [ __ ] that you don't like the people the most great [ __ ] is discovered like you hear it and you'll be like man like even when i heard the rest of the development the first time and it's like speech played it for me before it came out listen to this stuff right here man tell me what you think and i was just like god damn they got harmonicas and slave [ __ ] going on and african [ __ ] going on in college and it was just like and that [ __ ] who used to just be like i'm excited about finding new music and like just seeing people like we got this kid in birmingham to sign up and when you actually see their face when you pop up when the who pops up on the screen and talk to them in their manager for a while so what you got going on got any more songs just that little bit right there um kind of helps real artists so it's really for real artists that's really been like getting the door shut on them and [ __ ] like they know they talented they super fire they play they sing they all this whatever going for them but nobody's really giving them any uh any outlet so what advice do you give talented people if you if you're really talented um it's like a it's a it's a weird obsession you know it's one of those things that it just dies you die and just they just aggravate you all the time to do it um and in that case it's you're gonna the light gonna hit you at some point if you're just doing what you're supposed to be doing always that's how it happened to every one of us around here period like that's why i would see somebody pop up over like you know remember me i was in the group they came to talk a long time ago like the light gonna shine if they keep if it it's not a person that tell you the truth it's not a person that came through my studio that didn't make it not because of me but because maybe the opportunity for them to record in there or whatever it was but i don't care if it was 112 a ciara or like just everybody that since the time i made it it's not a person in atlanta that i haven't seen do it in a light that shine on them in some way like even look at coach kate when coach had hollywood and the stuff he was doing in mjq's and all this like there's plenty of times coach could have stopped there when when something happened or whatever but like reason he's coached that he is now is because he didn't and he's doing what he's been doing that whole time back then all the way up to now so i feel like that's happened with everybody period that i've seen put effort into what they're doing in the cities having it all too the same way exactly because i was just about to say man our og called you to og you get what i'm saying he showed us a whole lot about the comedy games who was that what was doing running around over there yeah holland placed mobsters and when i was really masquerading all this stuff he was a part of all that back then exactly and it was the crow all these dudes that was just like the really the fabric that made atlanta different to where it is now it gave us the right to be that way you know what i'm saying um so that man it's it's it's we love where it's headed we love where it's going we'll keep expanding it right keep growing it and i think keep giving opportunities you know what i'm saying so we got rowdy back up d.a.d i'm just set back for the opportunity and for the difference are you back in the game you're about to flip the game again yeah man we got you so you telling me you got to show up and take 700 new [ __ ] wishes yes time man i got to ride the squad me johnny this time i really go crazy you have a [ __ ] that juggle yeah we got some people who do plants and [ __ ] i don't know if you need some flint this time we're going full circle with it we got some [ __ ] make gumbo real good i had to go out and attack i had to go attack i feel like angel was getting left out i had to go i got jay wise i went down to edgewood i said it before i started i was like man soon i'm gonna pop rowdy back up i'm going straight to edgewood i'm going straight to work i hang out down there i would go down there all the time and be a sound table in other places and checking out chemist and just being in that element of atlanta and i was like i'm gonna bring this [ __ ] back up and this is what i want to elevate right here this cultural element right here is where i want to start off with so when i met jay wise i was like yo we're gonna get this thing plugged in and um you already got the filter through the playlist academy he was doing we did a pop-up on there and we saw like 60 damn action in like two days and so out of those 60 acts i was like all right let's just start getting this rolling and we started with johnny because i knew that like that the difference got to be cracked through around here at some point you got to just kind of hit it over the head so when i shut the [ __ ] up i was like we got to go with johnny paulo we got to go and why ain't nobody heard a [ __ ] bonfire why ain't nobody heard of this other underground [ __ ] in atlanta that's happening that you see black people doing like these incredibly creative positive things you know what i'm saying the only thing that was getting shown is well here's lucci and then fighting here's somebody shooting the thug here's somebody shooting at this here's somebody shooting at that and that's like none of us really came up like into that to that extent everything about atlanta was really creative you know even if he was a thug even if you even if you are young though he still should be creative you know but that's what it's about is being the difference here so with rowdy i'm hoping for i'm hoping for the difference i'm hoping for all that [ __ ] that we are here and that we did and it's got to be the new culture of kids like that that need that that outlet so here we go we're back man we're back to be crazy yep [Music] that's crazy so we take some questions from the fans from the audience oh [ __ ] we need to go to monaco that's what was crazy the other day about the night is um it was yeah for the awards yeah yeah we did have money she came through i heard what's your favorite oh what's here i heard somebody stole on somebody oh that would mean oh back back i mean yeah but you know what's funny though if you don't watch the verses if you watch the verses yourself i have to say nothing else like everybody saw what shade was being in and out of there like you see people on there did she just throw shade oh that's why she beat oh that's why i wanted to be like that oh that's what this is just that's the it's just the difference in being from l.a at the time from atlanta at the time period yeah this is period monica one thing about her was she's always been very like starting off well she's just tough as hell she was mad a lot of times like because she was just like mad at maybe her pops and what was going on the environment she was in and so she was missing for real she was coming in and just rolled my eyes all day long and like wearing a bunch of little damn chains from greenbrier flea market and a bunch of little girls what's a little sweat suit always in a sweatsuit and when uh she started calling me dad real young when she first because and her mom said look i hope this don't bother you because i'm just glad that she's looking at looking at somebody as a male figure different than the way she looked at what's been going on in her life because that's where all this anger comes i'll go into the vocal booth and she'll be just roll roll because you wouldn't see it come out of sugar yeah dad i'm ready let's do another part but it would come out of her in other ways like she would fight to get violent with you know if somebody she would snap fast you know and she went through a whole lot of [ __ ] um like coming up like just always in lila valley you know always taking care of who she was with the projects and things like that and by the time she it's funny because we kept every time we would get monica to one point she'll do something else like we shot the first don't take the personal video down and uh check us down on old national next day after we shot she got her hair down in here she got on jerseys all that next day i see her hair cut all the way off and i'm like we gotta we just put shot a video they're not going to thank you the same person let's shoot another one so they shot the one in black and white then by the time we got to the next thing you know she wouldn't got a tattoo but she was 14 with a big ass tattooing arm and i'm like this is not during the time where that was supposed to be acceptable like like you got what you know so put the band on arm so everybody's like oh monica got a ban on all that's cute she's hiding a tattoo um she shows up she's uh she shows up one day to studio and she gotta see murder in the car yeah this is my boyfriend i'm like okay murder's ready to go kill he's mad that dad he's going to do something man we got to go attack somebody i'm like okay honey i think he's mad at bow wow somebody said honey like you got to get better you know what's funny dudes around they've been calling me dad in a ladder for a long time like even big boy now my guess because you know it's one of those things where he like dead you know and plus i used to sit and talk to everybody about [ __ ] like if you got any contraction going through if you got any names go talk to me man let me tell you what i went through first like let me help you not make the mistake i made because if i made it if you don't do it then i feel better about the [ __ ] up [ __ ] i did or the the wrong decision i made you know what i'm saying now me and new face got to figure out what the [ __ ] bad well did that make see murder something oh we got to start a whole hip-hop investigation you know what it was you know what it was i think that it was either he said they said something about little romeo maybe it was a wrap with lauren you know it was something like little [ __ ] like that but look it was it was he was mad we had no idea no idea let's see murder would have wrote oh she wrote what happened little bow wow don't even you can't be having a date somebody named murder because he looked at monica like witnessed his whitney he looked at her especially coming up singing for you i will and all the pop songs he started to go there and then we got to the to uh the second hour with street symphony in the boy's mind and stuff and he's like dallas no no you have to talk to her she can't be dating somebody named murder it's not good for an image i'm like well he just wrapped on his feet symphony so why you gonna tell her that that [ __ ] ain't going down because like she's gonna she's gonna like that i have to talk to her about this as well why are you talking to about that she's got two diamonds putting her teeth right here too monica would just come back different every time oh she was full-on she had one time one time she had a lincoln continental bro around with a rag top and sitting on like 35's or something and i would notice she pulled up to the studio because the trunk would rally [Music] like the legend grows bro like we thought monica was who we thought she was but she no we knew we knew she even mowed and when we were lincoln on some 30 feet oh she's yeah she's like yeah she's that's why she but you know i'm proud of what she's talking she's turned into exactly what her songs were so growing for her like when she was singing why i love you so much or like you know the angel of mine of these songs like she sings them now and then now they really make sense because she's grown enough to be singing them so when you go to one of our shows everybody's singing these songs like oh angel of mine you know but she was saying he's at 13 and 14 years old so it's great that she could grow into her songs he sunk the same she sounds the same more controlled but when you hear the songs now coming from her from a grown-up standpoint it's it's like a [ __ ] to me yeah it's like yeah yeah her song was able to carry she didn't rely on like you know it won't just get fly every day like her you look at her instagram mother be going in she'd be like flied out somebody she just don't hear the curve of like okay maybe i ain't married no more so i'm flying it way out and she's doing it she's doing her thing i'm proud of her hell yeah we love it here the 85 songs [Applause] man that [ __ ] is crazy you didn't really sit here and [ __ ] me up today dallas james brown madonna madonna's ghost suge knight puff daddy oh man quincy jones quincy jones he's like quincy he uh i'm saying when i was going to get drumline made um it was it was taking me a long time right it took me 10 years to make drumline by the way i stuck with that [ __ ] for 10 years um just just trying to get it right trying to get if you don't make a move moving on hollywood they can all of a sudden say hold on we ain't gonna make it but we don't want nobody else to make it either so we're gonna keep it and turn around so you can't get it back to go make it nowhere else and then you can't make it with them so that happened the drumline so i go to quincy and i said man you know i got this marching band movie that's that's uh that's stuck how do i get this unstuck man like what did you do he showed me he put in a video right of uh oprah danny glover they look like they came out the western wall they had on like like oprah had like peach sweatpants with like lime greens flip flaps and like hair all over the place danny glover look i mean they look just like they're hanging out the western mall and in this theater and um and he's recording them and uh and they're doing the color purple they're acting out like test runs for the color purple right he goes to me says who do you think holding that camera i said you said nope steven spielberg i said holding the camcorder he said yeah he said you got to get somebody jewish you want to get that movie made so i said really he said yeah he said you got to have somebody jewish and inside really get it made like you want to get it made so at that time i signed an emi sony and jody gerson who is who saw me right so i called her i said yo what'd you say i need to find somebody jewish to make this movie she said she said well i'm jewish she said can i co-produce it with you if you do it i say yes she said good cause i got my friend wendy feinman she just came off far as dumping castaway oh so i go back in the fox and i say hey i got when they find them and i'm gonna make drumline and she's like they're like yeah right you got her say you got her you can do whatever you want so she caught she looked at me and lady said i have no idea what this movie's about i have no idea what a marching band is but i think you do so i'm just gonna force you off so you can go make the movie i'm probably gonna make a lot of money you probably won't but that's how it's gonna go for your first film but you'll get it made so all right [ __ ] it okay so i came back to atlanta with the with the and everybody thought i think when i was making drumline everybody thought i was i don't know what they thought i was doing because i got the hookup was out and some kind of beat like i think snow in the bluff you know it was out so i think the people thought i was making like yeah i was about to say [ __ ] you got enough money not to do that [ __ ] i would be mad with you i couldn't get people in the movie i wanted i'd be like yo man the luda man can you do this rap part for me oh no man it might be like you know and um so then the movie went from 13 million to 18 million because they didn't realize how i had to record the marching bands right write songs for the marching bands record them in the warehouse and then have them for playback so it became a lot of uh a lot of it came more money and so they called me from fox and said yo this movie's going from 13 to 18 put white people in it so i said okay well how many white people because if i don't get this right the white people ain't gonna like it you know what i'm saying it's a marching band movie so we don't care put white people in the movie the budget is going over so i'm saying i got to figure this out i go to the au center and they're having a step show right so fab 580 sigma comes out and they got this dude i think i thought he had on the mask because i thought he was doing the m m and everybody got the gig and whatever they got all the purple suits on and they got this white kid blind hair and while i'm sitting there i swear it's a mask i think he's gonna take it off so i'm like oh [ __ ] this a white kid in five better sigma hold on so then i started looking around the edu to see if it was some character like that in the youth center and it was this kid that lived down the street from the au center he always wanted to be a drum major and he had red hair and freckles too and he would play the hell like the symbols of morris brown so then okay we can figure this out they said no we want white bands so i actually put georgia tech georgia state uh whoever had white bands i put them all in drumline but it was [ __ ] atrocious because imagine that imagine seeing them standing there going in and then imagine [ __ ] like doing a thing by anybody else jackson state so you're like this you can't do this to the schools you know what i'm saying film you by the way oh yeah we ain't getting in there because we can't lose yeah that was the story they said they refused they refused to lose he's like we're not getting we're not getting that to lose so what i did was made a fake school right i make atlanta a t it don't exist it's a fake school so that nobody had to lose to another school right right i wasn't gonna be able to camera saying family or doing whatever right so make a fake he was still like we're not losing them either we're losing we're definitely so the cabbage most of the band atlanta team mostly high school man so we just called ourselves making up everything then people started coming to atlanta looking for the school they want to go there like that's in north carolina bro you started getting applications hey they said you could get me into the advanced program hey bro [Laughter] damn that's crazy as oh man but about but doing that i wish i wish i had got like two percent of every every movie that come here because i had to go i had to go to pass the film bill right so i went before the state of georgia and tried to pitch hey i need y'all to like uh make a film bill for us so i can film atl here they want to send me to new orleans to shoot atl i'm like i'm gonna shoot a skating rink movie with all my friends in it that i skated with in new orleans looks like it's cheaper to shoot it out there so get ready to shoot out there so then i went to uh you know i went to start lobbying down here going to sunny for doing them going yo man we got a film build i want to shoot at atlanta um and so i was just kind of talking [ __ ] i was like yo tell the governor if you want because they said well sonny do you want to talk to you about this so yeah right tell him gonna talk to me come to my house right so i was just talking [ __ ] obviously right because he's republican and i'm democrat was so far away from that happening i thought that would never happen in my life i was suddenly having a thing at my house um like this little maybach event or something they were doing and then there's a little bit this little box you know i think they're introducing the car or something they introducing the car they brought it to your house to introduce it that [ __ ] wasn't good enough to introduce it we cannot show the people where we made this [ __ ] we have not cleaned it where are you at in life when when the when the maybach is the is the little car [ __ ] they doing in my house what the [ __ ] [ __ ] not a mercedes event not the 350. but it was crazy [ __ ] they're doing it who's in atlanta too because this is like i just got my house it took me like six years to build my house whatever right i just finished it my [ __ ] was built ain't that crazy i already built [ __ ] had the nerve to be living in that [ __ ] they're nervous [Laughter] this little maybach [ __ ] [ __ ] [Laughter] and my assistant said yo the governor's coming he's coming here i was just talking [ __ ] what am i saying to do when you get here i don't know but he on the way so my thing was i will put the kids in white polos give me my white polo shirt and we gonna do this thing right so he comes in and we all white polo it out like there's people there's a party going on in there so he's like dallas i don't know what to do you know can you go speak at the g8 summit and help us get this i'm just not familiar with what this takes you know so i'm like okay i'll go to ja somewhere i got this [ __ ] i'll speak on it i got it we're gonna do this here yeah now keep in mind now and i'm lobbying for this so i got lobbyists you know going to pass this bill and all this [ __ ] so i'm thinking here it is the night before the g8 summit now the jade summit is in sea island savannah right i'm up now we know where this [ __ ] is we finna go lobby smoking right i'm working the night before i'm making beats my man keep going you know you got to do this [ __ ] tomorrow yeah [ __ ] we're going out to the [ __ ] summit i got this [ __ ] i'm thinking it's the [ __ ] g4 you know that channel g4 they got the games and [ __ ] right i'm thinking i'm going to the g4 summit right so i'm on the plane i'm on the way to playing like this this [ __ ] is like you're crazy what are you doing i'm like maybe i'll be ready i get on the plane i'm drinking bloody drinks bloody mary yeah all right so now savannah ain't that far right so he started flying savannah i start looking down i see tanks like military tanks everywhere she's like what's going on he's like you going to speak at the g8 summit [ __ ] what you talking about like yeah but why they got tanks like where do you think you're going i said you know the video games like all the games and [ __ ] they were showing you [ __ ] showing talking about entertainment showing you new stuff he's like no my man you're going to speak with george bush and tony blair all the world leaders are there all the world leaders are there and i'm landing i'm seeing hummers and tanks and like [ __ ] so i got a speech this lady wrote for me i ain't even look at this yet because i i thought i was going to this place i was going to wing it you know so yeah i like games playstation [ __ ] drop the new xbox expeditiousness man i get up there i'm nervous as hell i get i walk up in the room all you can see is suits and flags from the united nations and all these different countries and [ __ ] and you smell like weed oh man i smell like something either bloody mary's or something cause i've been drinking the whole time on that goddamn plane and i had to leave there i went into a bathroom and washed my face off and [ __ ] cuz i know i was going try to get my little [ __ ] together and then i get there and i haven't looked at this speech and i open the speech up at the podium and it's every big word you never see in your life right i'm like oh [ __ ] and i'm just looking i'm just like it says on behalf of the congressional state of georgia is how i start off and then everything else i'm just like too big i'm just looking around the room sitting there and like all suits so i just like i just bought this [ __ ] up and said man okay check this out i'm from college park right and i'm trying to make this movie here right and it's from atlanta by atlanta we should be making here why y'all trying to send me new orleans like this place could be the swiss alps it could be any place georgia could be anywhere it could be this that and others just so much money you're missing so much stuff here we got to keep our economy here these kids are going to school at georgia state and all these art schools and they can't go out here to work no way they got to go to hollywood you mentioned the whole industry by the time i finished what they had to start a standing ovation and everybody behind me was going and like dallas said and we appreciate that like dollar said what yeah that one right there [Applause] whatever you said opened up the floodgate because it came out [ __ ] here in atlanta yep um so that yeah they opened the floodgate bro i'm trying to get a big statue like running like a statue of liberty stuff we gonna have to redo stone mountain you gotta put him up there oh yeah we're waiting for outcasts to go up there they're gonna never let us go up there man crazy part about this baby you out cat and then it's like a little mount rushmo because it ain't everything that came back to the one they used to burn i used to see them in our textbooks they still have pictures of stone mountain with crosses running on top of them so i was always scared to go to snowman yeah i probably been there one time they didn't do that [ __ ] back in the day either they built the [ __ ] when it was clearly racist oh yeah that [ __ ] was finished in the 70s and [ __ ] they had to lie about what the [ __ ] they were building who that is all that well we got to figure out this time we got to figure out buckhead like somebody you got to figure somebody you gotta what i don't understand like kb [ __ ] from atlanta because nobody's getting shot at south dekalb or in the regular greenbrier it's all at linux so i feel like that is just getting crazy out here and we got at some point i don't know the police the mayor somebody could do something about it it's really getting out of control and i feel like atlanta for the dudes that said like certain things we just like two chains were saying we don't really stab people in the club you know what i'm saying we don't do it it's just it's just weird that it's taking its toll and they got to really flip this [ __ ] up down here and get get us get us safer don't go to far row by the way if you can't go to far row if you don't watch it what is the atl scoop will you be sitting there watching that should i be scared to go everywhere so don't look at that because i don't find myself this thing got shot in the the corner of this it'll bless out everybody's windows like even coming down here i got my gun in the car i don't know because man i'm just like you know what i'm doing this for you he said he said the west end tell [Laughter] got my slingshot on me too don't [ __ ] round no no no no no letting it happen to you man it's too much good [ __ ] that you do out here in the world bro look at all the [ __ ] that's useless i'm protected by it i'm protected by the lord man in my force of [Laughter] another big thing one more big announcement to make that i think everybody should proud of from atlanta is that we are getting our own walk of fame like to start walking in hollywood so you will like and they're going to put it i thought they would try to make us stick it on martin luther king which has been fine too but he's like no no no we got to be over there at the stadium you know we need to be right where everybody walking out the soccer games and you know they're coming out in phillips arena you know [Applause] we got to come home i think it well it's they're expensive so they do start with the first ten and then the spots go forward about 30 40 000. 30 40. i mean there's some fun with a payment let me get them let me get on yours let's do what [Laughter] towards the that's what's cool about it though it's the entertainment walk so it will include y'all it will include actors it will include sports who won't just be music you got to be up at the front you got a statue you got to square all right i gotta ask one more thing what was the wildest night in atlanta in atlanta that is austin's wildest night in atlanta oh boy damn really so it's me whitney houston jackie chan and steven seagal we are old nationals why you keep taking their friends well you know we had we had that wave that kicked in by the y2k where everybody's on ecstasy right the y2ks came in and mitsubishi's and then like that's when they first hit atlanta like like the real fun epidemic so everybody was wow everybody's out and like happy as hell and going to mjqs and [ __ ] and like so me and sleepy brown and joy and gib and uh uh what was it was under like all of us we started hanging in our own little packing on the squad and um so we had i think it was like christmas or something like that but all of us have been like done in the mjqs and we just thought it was a good idea like you know what we got to go christmas shopping tomorrow you know i'm saying won't we just stay up and go to the mall no so that makes sense right been there especially if you took a mississippi oh man yeah it makes sense right we having to go to the malls though but all of us then decided we should all about matching sweatsuits that's right knee sleepy all the stuff and then kappa sweatsuits with the chicks on the sleeve so now all of us are switching to those in the mall now we're in a whole another world because we just don't join but by the time we all look around and stop and they just sleeping on the on the counters and riches like sleeping in between sitting here and then all that but karma kong with the nightclub used to be our wildest days because we used to be we used to go underground and you didn't go we didn't go out until two in the morning like nobody went out at 9 10 11 o'clock that wouldn't allow anything to do you went out like one two o'clock you just stay out come out come back home the daylight's out you know what i'm saying and then karma that was just like a whole nother like i don't know if it was it might have been the bot it might have been this i don't know how sinister it was just sinister it was it was it was fun but it was dark because it was downstairs and i think across from where they had the uh the federal the federal building that they used to have slaves across the street basically so you got this real eerie feeling going on with everybody in the whole place be on the rolling they [ __ ] face off and that was the best to me that was the to me though that was the funnest time until the until the ecstasy started going after hours oh yeah yeah so when it actually started turning after i was like where like because that wasn't really for that it was more like hey we're gonna hang out the white kids wanna hang out get mixed and go to mjq's you know that's but when it start really moving to the after hours until the the black kid started taking after that i would start getting dangerous right start getting crazy but i would say that that those nights period because it wouldn't be one night i would say it would be an era and that era was like to me the fun is there because it was i think it was new it wasn't it didn't feel dangerous it felt like fun people you listen to music and you go around and it was just something new to everybody and you could tell when the new person tried it they were going to walk through the club and like oh [ __ ] that's where everybody at god damn why ain't nobody calling y'all everybody let me know in here forget it you know oh this goddamn dance ain't nobody said i got them baby hey because we saw the white people doing it we didn't know they were with the glow sticks you'll be like we're not letting [ __ ] know this [ __ ] is going on right here everybody's feeling good you know what i'm saying you know that dude there [Laughter] i don't know really now like when i look at um when i look at that and i look at people even in the scenes and being out like it's a whole different city you know it's like it's growing a lot more metropolitan you got your belt line and then you got like it's a lot more culturally uh significant than we were before you know we're the most culturally significant place on the down planet right now because we got a lot of spots well just in everything like in music and culture and everybody if you look at the lattice there's a lot of people from everywhere else but like the culture that really resides from being from here like the same [ __ ] that makes you change the tree towards the same [ __ ] to make soulja well put uh white out on his glasses right you know it's always something new and it's always some of the trend and culture i always say to kids here you don't understand that they ain't been that long that you're asking for the same bathroom like they would've put the dogs on you sprayed you down right here on edgewood 60 years ago that ain't a long time ago so what we've accomplished during this time of being here we become just way more like when you see dudes like i wonder what martin luther king don't think about like amigos i like when they see dudes with so much cars and cars i had a song that went just like that i want to hear quavo this it was all about the economy they didn't want you to get rich he wouldn't like that [ __ ] and but you look at a little bit you know look at a little baby look at these dudes you say to me they're like so much loot they got money stacked on their ears they had cars and stuff for days and this was about economy they wouldn't let you have green that's what this was about what about black and white right it was about we don't want you [ __ ] to make no money so the store owners the drug store man the mail there's all these people saying you know these needs [ __ ] they're gonna take over [ __ ] so as business owners they didn't want you to have a green and when we kind of kick through like i remember when we first started making money like me and jd around atlanta the countess was weird everybody was weird like what y'all doing like how do you get money like that because there was no legal way that they knew to make money without going to school accounting lawyering or whatever so we're doing music and they don't understand if a check comes in it's like five hundred thousand dollars a kid back then they're like what are y'all doing right how does this set up they didn't want to give you loans for [ __ ] because you're still like y'all black you know what i'm saying you can't get no loan for no house like well i got money in the bank well how do you get money in the bank how does royalties work what is that how does that so we educated the city you had the teams like these [ __ ] how did you get the teachers the count is because nobody knew about royalties and then these young black kids got checks coming in with money and like right you know i think they work every six months so like sometimes around money and then six months go by they don't see nobody come in and then it's another period where royalties come in again so they just didn't understand how that worked and when they figured it out it was like shhh we gotta get we gotta we got a gold mine going here because it was it's reoccurring you know it's a reoccurring cycle the artist is out now an artist that's gonna be out three years from now still out here right now coming up you know so it's always going to be the cycle around atlanta that just keeps doing that man this man all political philosophical geographical [Music] thank you i'm still missing some more but bro bro this dude got his reason every letter in the alphabet literally yeah that tripped me up i didn't know i didn't really know i was just doing a um i had to do something one day and then go to wikipedia and look at the songs and list them out for us and i'm like damn you got to click in the a but we were doing album projects too so it was like i was doing so many songs man so yeah you got to click on the a and go to a songs and b go to b song the c go to c songs and i forgot i did so many records bro for real because when you're doing them every day like that for so many years like even with denis was playing another night that's why i was tripping i wasn't even tears because i'm like oh [ __ ] where did he get this from you forgot your [ __ ] oh all the time bro i'll be listening sometime on the radio and i'm like did i do this song and then i just having something but i did do this song hello hey hey hey hey bigfoot hey yeah man but i listen as soon as i'm on the radio now not have to say did i do that i'll just am it or something deeper it you have this you have to hit shazam and be like oh yeah they did when i got deeper if you all got deeper you gotta get deeper because it's better than shazam because you get to go and see who really did [ __ ] so like i was yeah like plenty of times i've been sitting on that i do this song but did not not do this song oh yeah that's makes it great i did do that [Laughter] you did so many songs you don't even know the song that you just did you ever heard the [ __ ] have been like man this ain't me yeah and then you looked and he was like damn this was me i did a whole i did a whole messy great album but that i didn't know it was me until i was like because some of them sound the same you know like when you work with artists like i know i work with mason gray but what was it then you had to be like and then i was just like oh those are my symbols i know my goddamn symbols yeah so yeah that's a i've been blessed so i'm you know now it's about me helping out everybody else to get to that point man you know you're not a king when you just got your own you're supposed to have your own stuff as a man you're supposed to be like all right there's my house that's my diss that's my dad i take care of my mom but like when you do that for other people and you got a whole bunch of people with that going on then that's what you like that's when you did something like when you're responsible for everybody else's houses and everybody else's cars nobody else's kids going to school hell yeah that's what i said man you brought at least 300 [ __ ] with at least oh yeah so about this little maybach [ __ ] they be doing in your yard man when they doing another one of them yeah when do they come out cause they don't send me no email they just use it for like the show you know it's good it's it's after this i just hope by the summertime maybe everybody got things back under control i think it'll be next summer but at least we're on the right track to like going but i don't think i don't know what happened in atlanta i don't get it because i don't think atlanta would shut down you look at compounds a thousand [ __ ] on top of each other it's like so i don't know if it's hurt immunity don't go around them typically i heard i ain't got it i heard ain't going to either that's what this is this is some of that good old vaccine oh i don't know i don't know i don't know about that [ __ ] just yet i don't want to say yes or no i'm going to stay safe with instead of the crib i need to know what's in it what's the ingredient [Laughter] for real i'm allergic i'm allergic to a bunch of [ __ ] man i heard patron killer [ __ ] off though so i'll be drinking that every day patron patrol get it up off the here yeah the corona can't hang with the liquor the weed like a rockstar lifestyle yeah that [ __ ] gonna be done that [ __ ] gonna leave on the next sneeze yeah we can hope you doing too much big trouble this show we chopped yeah this chocolate is joey this this is my wig oh [ __ ] yeah this is smoking like tree exactly i'm just smoking swishers i smoke a joint i get high as hell i get i get sitting at the green light yeah there's some of that well [ __ ] man what more can you say man dallas austin in the trap 85 track show what what are you doing do you want them to follow you on anything anything coming up in a pro mod anymore there's great [ __ ] you've got america's rowdy records in the building um johnny apollo echapo deuce mino we got a whole squad trip to hip major um oh yeah you see this oh yeah that's that's popular demand that's our new record is out right now go go check the record down a little trap record and if you're around town you know you might want to get one of these trays it's just nice nice trays coming that bag that's all some nice trays just you know oh music um we got the whole set up you got the whole set up right now right now um but yeah we dropping records everybody check out go to go to spotify look at the rowdy records playlist we've been dropping records all year we're gonna drop a lot more this year um it's just you know we're trying to get moving man in the time it's the pandemic it's a little harder but yeah we need a v x and a z so you can have a song for every letter now v x and a z a v x and z i got work to do [Laughter] yes [Laughter] what is this oh okay hey dallas anytime you want to come through here and kick it and bless the game this is only 199th of all the [ __ ] he has done anytime you need to come through and put us back up man all right i got tons of money i know you got money and you probably left out some parts too that's what i was thinking with uh when i was listening to the nights the other day um my charlotte called me she said damn didn't even play this he didn't play that didn't even play this they didn't play that he plays because it was just a trip to see how many uh how many records he played that was like you know either album records or records i did on somebody that that he just dug in the crates for it so so now i got to go add some more um songs to the alphabet you know like i can't be can't be slacking over here like three or eight i'm like tiger woods y'all watch the tiger with the victory story in that guy he i think he's going to get to the 19. i think he'll get to that that jack nicholas not it he's amazing he broke his back three times he didn't have his back surgery three times he hit him in like he went through the craziness all that now he didn't bounce back out again and won in 2019 so he did some [ __ ] where he hit the club with a lesser club and he hit it further than the other dude did like he just stunned it on yeah i mean watch this [ __ ] watch that [ __ ] that's a [ __ ] he went through a lot of [ __ ] with that yeah he ain't safe [ __ ] that's the gangster [ __ ] about it yeah it's so much he took way more [ __ ] than the average [ __ ] who would have took it yeah because he would he would have been get off the goddamn camera on my [ __ ] face he ain't did none of that [ __ ] dallas would have slapped all them [ __ ] like james brown taught them that [ __ ] would just come out when this [ __ ] went wrong with a silk shirt on one button button just a little that little bottom button yeah let's tell it bring some glitter on it's just how we live i got some outfits in the crib too if you want to try it on one day i got i got like the sex machine outfit like the with the hole in it right here the the whole james brown yeah i got a lot of just clothes and [ __ ] stop telling people [ __ ] like this [ __ ] your house is a national treasure wait a minute don't tell nobody where you live it's gonna be some groupie [ __ ] trying to wear the [ __ ] out i brought it i brought this [ __ ] when i came in here but brother living in america [Laughter] with a james brown jumpsuit new face what you bring man look you know new face of course this place got all the he got all the [ __ ] he had another one flip spot oh yeah he probably got your demo tape [Music] [Music] damn i told you watch out new face [ __ ] [Music] mitsubishi will fall off in your lap new face what is that man don't look hey give damn this is crazy this is this this is a trip oh these little [ __ ] are the baddest [ __ ] ever in life i i quit the music business out there for a while that [ __ ] was crazy they made you quit the music business these little [ __ ] for one they were like 12 11 13 and like they left out tricked me she told me she's like yo i got the baddest little rap group you've ever seen when she bought them [ __ ] around like little red man i mean then uh little trash right and they were like finishing each other's sentences and they were like you know yeah yeah so i'm like damn these little dudes are cool so left i was like i gotta go in too i'll be back didn't i mean she brought them to me and literally left the next day right i did not know these little [ __ ] were like little tyrants like that bro first thing they did to start stealing the engineers cars they would put pillows on the pillow because it was too little so a pillow in the seat steal the engineer's car right then the first time they brought it back they they they told the police that their mom was drunk or some [ __ ] and they took the car because the girl helped out anyway they got the police to bring them escort them back to dark well then they go they made it back to the studio but on the studio you have to go down the side like this the park in the back they scraped this car up the whole [ __ ] way down the back right all right so then one day i get a call um do you have a son named lamoris edwards no like uh this is the clayton county police uh we got your son down here i said i don't have a son nick what about malik tell him it's malik tell us malik i hear in the background uh what did he do well we found him in a stolen cherokee and he crashed into a house on riverdale road through somebody's living room he had a pistol in the car and weed i'm like okay so they were constantly doing [ __ ] like this and then check this out i sent them on a promo tour right they were the kids were great they were like you know everybody was like loving them because they were just bad as hell they cussed like a [ __ ] they write their own raps they they like just the ultimate little two kids right i i take them um they're supposed to go on a promo tour and we start this 500 promo tour half million dollar promo tour they go to la the first stop and never left got to the first stop and got which guy was snoop and dre and sugg the ghost like god damn it they got with sugar and then snoop and dre and of course dre snoop was hot as hell so it's like they wanted to be up on the dream snoop and then so they stayed there and stayed there and the bmg was like they're supposed to be in seattle tomorrow they're telling the people we're gonna hit you in the head with a hammer you try to make us leave y'all and so the ladies they threatened to hit me in the head with a hammer i can't be on this tour no more of them so i'm like [ __ ] well now they're really staying out there now it's still been like two or three weeks i'm not clive davis like dallas you gotta go get em i gotta go get em from death row i'm not going to get them he's like dallas they're stars you have to go get them so i'm like all right so yeah i'm going to death row and i get off the elevator right and plus i get off the elevator there it's just death throws big [ __ ] everywhere ain't no furniture nowhere ain't no furniture in there big [ __ ] big [ __ ] sitting on big [ __ ] hey little furniture they like i'm like whatever they doing in here they [ __ ] around cuz like there's a foldout table but without chair in the red death row big rug and so i'm like you know so i go there you go talk to suga so you're like man you know we should do these kids together man you know what i'm saying artists ain't loyal you know how that is dallas they got out here they got around dre and snoop now they want to be on death row so what would you just do death row rowdy i was like don't you just keep them little [ __ ] like just give me a check for what i spent on them and you just have them because this ain't gonna get it you know and then he said all right man well you know we'll work some out you know that's what you know they have good hands you know like i'm like you know let me i just gotta get out of here safe and so then i see the kids they come in and they all like yo man i'm going back to atlanta i'll catch you all later on right by the time i get back to atlanta right malik show up a few days later and he's like yo man you know i can't be [ __ ] with this [ __ ] out there like [ __ ] that man i want to be solo well you want to be solo like they started the solo [ __ ] on early i'm like okay just finish the group first whatever but he got convinced that that somebody put something on him like roots or something relief they play 13. like man i think that just grabbed somebody put some roots on me man i just want to be back in atlanta i think he just wasn't getting his way out like going in in l.a he saw a chance for him to come back out here and by the time they got here bro like that everything's so set for the kids but they were so wow and so bad and with the [ __ ] the whole time that we couldn't you know they would have been huge at this point um because it was right and they rhymes with like 12 years old and just cutting [ __ ] legs off with the rhymes like you don't want to big [ __ ] didn't want to battle rap them because they little they out wrap you and but they they got stuck out this was a crazy part we the uh so they did the work they're supposed to do this all makes sense but they missed the whole promo tour right so now the billboard awards come up for that year right so now these are the categories these are the this is who's up for it rap record of the year digital plan it's cool like that your paparaz naughty by nature you know this he's going yeah song got the song illegal we get busy everybody say who's that and the winner is illegal we get busy right you see everybody like what what is that cause you know in the way clive had playing out the politics uh i mean whitney houston got like 13 billboard awards that year so it was the arrows the thing you know it's like on the ass of things and it's just that they didn't feel the glass up so it just look it didn't depend on but there's the most talented little kids man that like it was bad as [ __ ] but after that i needed a i took a rap break [Laughter] i had to take a little rap break cause they were just like [ __ ] they sound like it man they're young so you can't do nothing with a minute because they too young so what they what it's like 13 14 yeah if sugar would have killed them little [ __ ] or let a rottweiler eat one of them little [ __ ] you would have been responsible they were signed to rowdy hey man i can't believe you left some kids with sugar all the [ __ ] you said that's the most irresponsible [ __ ] they went they were supposed to be old [Laughter] den to go get them [ __ ] damn [Laughter] full of history i'm sure that tape brought back memory they did i was like [Music] damn you got your other artists over here too jamal right here jamal was crazy he's like he was always like the that's he's the rowdy one in the first place so he always wanted to fight boxing's like league league didn't get it because he wanted to be all smooth and jamal was just out just straight up philly out of control he was deaf squad for a long time both of them man like i was it's i like to see kids as talented as they are as talented as they were i feel like the i don't know all the access and all the other [ __ ] is weakening everybody and what they're hearing is what they got to live up to is so low where they was trying to live up to you know rappers and mc's they were like trying to battle rap people and learn how to rap better and have more skills and all that kind of stuff so i feel like just now you know the bar is low it's not hard to do it you know what i'm saying what everybody's doing is just like oh i can do that too right that [ __ ] was like can't believe these cassettes bro they look so little was it a little bit like this right there yeah man bro because aatrex was the fat ones that [ __ ] looked like a vhs yeah man that's deal tlc fan mail this was crazy because we uh like we um that's just dl killed this this cover when we first did we first finished fan mail you know left i quit the group doing the whole record she was like all right i ain't i if y'all ain't doing my ideas then i'm quitting um and so i had to create the virtual vicky to rapping all the songs and so i would take the macintosh take each word like you listen to silly hoe or any of those songs most of the songs you hit a robot rapping you hit a computer wrapping in it and i had to take it and put it in the um keyboard to make it rap on b so you know you can't get with this one not you just tell about find out how to give it up like because she totally was like she's not [ __ ] the group so that we got to make a virtual version of her and so most of the records is like me making the computer rap in the song because she was just like i'm not doing this anymore i quit she quit at the beginning of us recording [Applause] now [Laughter] [ __ ] man let me hit the giant damn what if what if sugar was building them tell them you don't want to be over there no more but i do but i won't go i won't go back home can we call dallas put that goddamn phone up don't make me get them big [ __ ] outside who've been standing outside all day that's why it was so ready to fight cause they hadn't been standing up all day hey man let's just lean back to back like four is good man why you think suga's gonna buy no chairs man you think we're just gonna come down here every day and be gone [Laughter] [Laughter] [ __ ] were so crazy they were out do everything i'll play your basketball they'll wrap you yeah i'll gamble you to hustle you it's still your keys to take your car driving to north carolina while you're in a session [ __ ] out of control they taught me how to roll the blunt when i first when they after lisa left the next day they looked little mali looked at me said yo where did we eat at i was like little [ __ ] i'm not smoking no weed with you you the kid he's all right let's put his own [ __ ] he took a blood and he took this [ __ ] and he standing there opening dumping the shells what the [ __ ] is that it's like a little blunt [ __ ] what are you doing i'm rolling it you take the stuff out you see you take this out you're good all right it is it's so much black history and that was the first play this [ __ ] again in february this play this is the whole movie i'm so [ __ ] up right now just finding out that michael jackson was an emotion everything you said after that [ __ ] me up he's able to transcend time and space might just be from over there to over there now i'm wondering if like will he come back or did he ever leave where is he going now don't you think it's just insane that no matter who comes into this world they're gonna sing and know and love michael jackson i don't care like there's never been a child that came into the world a baby kid whatever like they just how do you still know this like they don't don't they don't take a prince like that or elvis and nobody else but like yeah every kid can have a little time where they're just like you know so i feel like his spirit yeah if they see it little kids be watching like and then people like still dancing like michael's still like i feel like he got like all artists when they get when everybody pass of course your stuff just gets more valuable because they can't get to you no more um but i feel like that that this him as an artist period just resonates in a way and seeing nobody really do like that it's crazy bro see him making like characters do it but you haven't really seen a person that resonates like their whole life like they've stayed one person that whole life like now i got to go home and watch some michael jackson [ __ ] just to be like there you go you saw it you saw it you saw it no dallas said this [ __ ] can go [Laughter] that was the word right [Laughter] i want to just title this [ __ ] michael jordan should just make his own nikes [Laughter] michael jordan will get this [ __ ] and he might have to come over here and then he can tell his wife michael jordan yeah he gonna charge us 250 000. to come out he can he that ain't got to go i gotta put something no i'm not playing they talk about mj on the tiger woods like he started hanging with mj and uh and charles barkley he said he didn't know what to say he said what do i tell the women and michael jordan was like told you tiger woods stupid that's the party dude you talking to that [ __ ] like friends [Laughter] go over there and get you some puzzles [Laughter] dallas austin you're named after two places in texas oh man the name so big you gotta take up two texas cities what i'm saying that's the weed you know you name that the two places in texas man this name got this doctor named dr dallas moore a word like a spiritual who do doctor what they call it it's like down in donaldsonville georgia like it's like a yeah yeah look him up he's one of them he'll scratch it with a chicken foot turn into a serpent not a snake a look here put the tlc up you got the tlc all that probably you got them tlc look here man we ain't gonna hold you hostage in here we damn sure i appreciate you [Applause] man we appreciate that man appreciate it this [ __ ] you dude let's get a picture right quick [Music] to hear let's get a photo somebody watching foreign

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Length: 170min 59sec (10259 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021