French Montana on ”They Got Amnesia” & The Bronx Mentality | Extended Interview | DESUS & MERO

[Music] no more sure late night nothing but illustrious guests oh baby today we got a bronx legend what i'm saying in the building that's right you know what i'm saying how to go you got to introduce him but he does not need an introduction who is in the building had to go get my jewelry steam clean because [ __ ] french montana in the building ah french montana oh boy general you know what i'm saying down to the streets uh-huh you know i'll say it if you would say bodega boys if it was for coke boys you know what i'm saying got us through many situations y'all saying a lot of bus rides to court a lot of sleeping underneath a bookings bench what i'm saying eating peanut butter sandwiches you know the vod yo french what's up man how's it going what's going on always good to see you you're not a stranger to the show yeah yeah yeah no you're the homie how are you doing man man i just love i just love you know seeing the levels man where the bronx came to you know what i'm saying yes all day man i'm happy to be here with my brothers man thank you man cause like we leveling up and because we watched you level up and i was like you know we had that whole thing on twitter and people was like you know french don't got hits french and this is like as two bronx individuals who you know they was born during corona yeah you know they don't know they're young they're young they were never off the porch babies okay they grew up playing zoom yeah so they don't i don't know what's going on y'all was outside somewhere masturbating at 200 pm but yeah after that you dropped a new album yeah now of course you know i'm biased because i'm from the bronx so any like as soon as he announces i want my classic you know how we do yeah come on what another banger yeah you got that joint with uh dozier and sweetie yup over that a big pun sample yeah that's a wild how'd you come up with that because like i mean that wouldn't be the part of a big [ __ ] uh song i would sample yeah but the way y'all did it it works yeah that was i was in the studio with hit maker and he just played that and i was like let me see how it dropped because i remember a big pun like he used to come to my hood and that's big rest in peace pun he used to play me capital punishment and so i had like like a relationship with him so no like for me to redo something like that it had to be right the way dozier did the hook i was just like you know what you can't go wrong with this that [ __ ] is fire bro yeah thank you thank you i said it's fine and it's like it's super nasty and i played it i saw people's faces like god damn oh [ __ ] okay okay that's what we need that makes people uncomfortable especially have like female rappers comfortable rapping about their sexuality yeah on the track like that i mean definitely man you know we come from the bronx it's like you listen to cardi b wipe you listen to my first song pop that you know what i'm saying oh me and nicky freaks yeah you know it's just you know we come from the busted open era no the bus opener i like that that's sub-zero i mean like strip club music so we know cause we're we're from the bronx with season french montana kind of swords like a lot of people don't know your history like battle rapping yeah young french versus french montana [ __ ] getting a shot in the head yeah people don't know that like explain that whole situation there oh man just being that being at the wrong place at the wrong time back in the days you know coming out the bronx is like you know well coming out of new york in general you damn they got to lose your life to make it where you got to go you know what i'm saying i feel like you know a lot of artists i mean look what happened here on dog recipes young dog recipes that's a piece of change stack bundles yeah you know what i'm saying you know odd it's like that space between you know being a superstar and finally getting you started you know i'm saying that yeah we all lose ourself because we still don't know how to move we still think everybody's your friend and still yeah if you make it through that that part like i did you you know you'll never make that same mistake again i feel like it's very important yes sir and just like coming out the bronx man like when you come outside it's like every day you gotta battle rap mm-hmm show them who's who what's what and i'm saying so every two block radius somebody won a battle every day you gotta have like four or five clips just ready then you might get shot while you're battle rapping so you got to take everything you know that's the most broad statement i've ever heard you might get a shot while you're about rappers casual regular but that's the [ __ ] like yeah it's already hard living but coming out of there is like an extra hard living you know what i'm saying yeah but they said if you make it out of new york you make it anywhere but i made it out of africa first so right you know there was a hassle every with everything you know but but definitely man no life insurance no nothing just get shot and lose it all right there yeah that's that's that was the only thing i thought about because i remember my boy got shot and he went to a hospital that was not a trauma center so he had to go to jacoby yeah so he had to like get in a cab yeah while he was like bleeding out the neck because he wasn't gonna pay for an ambulance yeah he had no insurance and that's regular broke [ __ ] that's the kind of thing you're thinking about like with me the guy that set me up drove me to the hospital oh wow so i don't think it's him that's crazy that's that's crazy oh it's kind of smart only in the bronx yeah the rocks wow then people find out but being from the bronx and now being rich and you're out here yeah do you still have that like hood mentality like one thing i've noticed like i'll come out the boat as soon as i come out like a building i'm like check both sides yeah you know like that kind of stuff that's still there i mean you got to have it now even more because because you know like how jay-z said broke dudes don't want no cash they just want to kill you for the name they don't know the rules [ __ ] like you said if they coming for you they got ski masks mask on they're coming for your ice mask off they're coming hi yeah hey by jack move you got the ribs yeah yeah like there was something happened in the rust of the day but it was there was a joke at a barber shop yeah and i was just like yo you willing if you're posting 15 bands worth of jewelry on the internet yeah and i'm like fam i'm from the bronx like yeah i wouldn't do that yeah i got the presence of mine to be like no different yeah like you got 15 000 a jewelry on the you shouldn't go to the barber he should come to you simple advice we got to write a book yes number two jesus mural and french get ready you know the best seller you heard okay i know we made that up is it so fun to rap i love it yeah i mean it is my you know it's my therapy how i keep my sanity as as as you know it's a different high because of the passion it wasn't because of the money it wasn't because i was trying to reach a certain goal then i was done with it you know what i'm saying it wasn't like to escape a predicament it was like this is what i really love doing like right now if i was to go on vacation i would be looking for samples you know what i'm saying i'll be by the water looking for samples looking for who did i miss out on that came out of the bronx but okay talking about that samples you and harry fraud you got a cr bananas if a beach samples you get together we got samples that be on peloton like i got me riding i'd be like yo i'm like yo kills this i don't even know how a white woman sung this oh my god just like sanctuary it's like a song about yo you broke my heart and the french was like yo i'm moving on bricks yeah going in for the kill music like you know what i mean it really kind of like encapsulates new york city the bronx at that time yeah definitely like you max that's that's that sound me and harry frog working on the tape right now just me and him love it like wait it's like it's like the intro the intro tape it's like nothing but intros yeah it's like a vibe like all samples like that how does that work does it is it like he hears a song and you hear a song you just collect yeah it's like it's like a car collector is what i'm saying it's like yo this is my my 88 ferrari yeah so it's like you know me and him will start sample battling you know what i mean so it's like you know to love music and heart you just like florence in the machine nobody didn't even know about her until he started grabbing the joints you put me on the floor as a machine and i i [ __ ] with it heavy but i'm just like the the way you change the songs yeah yeah like because you make a little grimy darker and it's just like yo yeah definitely since since that i'm so serious i mean fraud did it it's just like you know i feel like it's a different genre of music and you mix it with hip hop the same way how run dmc makes the rock and roll with the you know what i'm saying with the with the boom back yeah i feel like you know it was necessary for somebody to do that especially in new york man we got the soul definitely and like you said before like this is uh slightly different but like you said you came into the game and you were like yo you think everybody's your friend yeah people trying to finesse you that's like the first lesson you learn in this [ __ ] yeah the first lesson yep that's going to be in our book industry rules number 480 the first one how to move in the bronx and how to and how to stay lit i mean yeah i think definitely man i feel like you you're um when we make it it's different than somebody getting handed down something yeah what i'm saying or somebody being a part of something that was destined for him to do it like us we take it yeah and i'm saying so we make into spaces that don't usually let people like us in so it's like when we get there they look at like how this dude made it because you know there's no way you know i mean somebody come from africa and make it to the bronx the mecca of hip-hop so so it's like that that's how it is man i feel like you know to that next level and you still to this day rep the bronx apart as a [ __ ] like yo i can't tell you like you drop singles yeah you reference blocks like i'm worried about nothing each stream i grew up all up and down each stream you go up and down they treat my guarantee you you see your mouth either i was like yo you know what i'm saying like that [ __ ] thank you brother you'd be like yeah we made it you [ __ ] 47 we out here you're saying dick you know what i'm saying like as i'm saying like you put on for the hood and everybody's just like you know what i mean like that's why i feel like we have such a strong like yeah defense yeah you know what i mean when it comes to when people be like oh no [ __ ] out of here yeah just hearing about all the gangsters and and being six money murderers yeah and being and being being actually from the jungle like being like no one like it could happen down the street yeah you move with sharks yeah webster you know me going to [ __ ] chopped cheese but you might end up chopped cheese at the same time exactly with a sandwich you might get make sure you're facing the door when you're getting your hands out at the barber shop you do the specific bronx there you owe the food to the chinese store and then you stand outside so that's just right yeah yeah you ain't catching me aside we're slanging a crack in front of the building right there not knowing if i'm gonna get deported if i get caught or not yes you gotta take the risk that's what i'm saying yeah that's the [ __ ] too man being an immigrant on top of it like that's like buying extra work together that's like when you're on call of duty it's like rookie and you're like no veteran yeah yeah so it's like you know i was i was i was an immigrant to like the past four or five years i'm saying and then i got it and i got my mother on my thing it's just like that whole time we've been doing all everything under the earth what i'm saying just just to make it where we got to go and have to be like 10 steps ahead of the police because if you get caught you get deported yeah fam so my mother sacrificed for us to stay ahead so just like that's like a slap in the face if i yeah how often do you stop and think about that because that's something i've stopped like as i've gotten older i realized like my parents really just like stopped in jamaica and were like yeah we got over here yeah so these guys get a better chance yeah how often do you stop and be like yo my parents really like just like uplifted their whole life to just come to the newcomer yeah i mean i stopped and thank god for shelling me and just like you know making sure that i you know i didn't get caught because it was just like either because it was it was either two choices seeing my mother suffer to put food on the table or me taking chances so you know what i'm saying so she could leave work yeah because my pops came home my pops came and he like tried to invest money that he made in africa it didn't work so he went back and he told her let's leave french let's both go back she was like i ain't leaving him so she stayed and i'm saying so she didn't see her brothers and sisters for like 20 25 years wow but she stayed with us so at first she was just working like 12 hour shifts 14 you know they slayed you when you were immigrants oh yeah so she was working and one day i just walked in on her praying and crying and so i was like nah i gotta start i gotta start busting moves like like 17 on the pops left when he left she just became danny my wife and my two brothers became my kids kind of and i'm saying so you got to provide for the family yeah yeah so at the end of the day it was just like you know i got to get it so from then i started hustling what is it about the bronx though cause we talk about it all the time but like coming from you what is it about the bronx that separates us you know what i'm saying because we got you cardi b us you know what i'm saying people aoc let me aoc all these people coming up that are from the bronx and it's just like what's what's it about like tell the people what's about the hood man what's about to be wrong it's you you built the last yeah you built the last it's like not a lot of people make it but when they do they're built to last forever and i'm saying you can't get them out like fat joe you don't even know like how he does it but he just he's just going to last forever you're right cause like that joe you remember him from the ditch yeah he was like oh he got a cute little song yeah for the idea for fat joe to be a veteran right now yeah out here still making music yeah posting verses and stuff that's that whole bronx mentality because yeah we come up with the with our backs against the wall yeah so then to get any kind of success you're like yo i'm gonna rock this [ __ ] you know what it is too we come from the bottom of a map you know what i'm saying so it's like when we make it we take everything as a win it can be plus one it could be plus three we don't need plus a million plus a thousand we look at everything as a win so we appreciate everything that we get other other artists wherever they're from or hollywood like if they don't get that number one every time or do this it's like oh man it's over for me you know what i mean well us we like we're just happy to be here oh we did one all right let's do two tomorrow another thing about the bronx that's very important it's longevity yes and history we'd be remembered as legends krs one legends this year whether we do whatever we're legends and yeah there's nobody make it out i've noticed a lot that happens to us it's like people in the bronx still come up yo i'm you inspired me thank you so much you made me proud to be from the bronx like i'm getting my [ __ ] together i wrapped my yeah how often does that happen to you because i know if it's happening to us i know that's happening all the time yeah yeah all the time they don't be like yo i'm from new york city now they believe in yeah for real you know i'm always back and forth i'll be in my haven i'll be through dream on i'll be here yeah so man yeah it's it's a blessing man cause when they see you they should be like yo it's real yeah just seeing you it's not just on tv yeah how's your health man because i know you was in the hospital yeah we almost lost you yeah good yeah i turned yeah i turned up ended up in icu you you ain't turning up for your birthday unless you end up when i see you [Laughter] what was it patron shots it was 15 years to turn it up you're not lying what up with you it was some gatlings and hennessy with max b yeah he was on trial yeah i was like damn they're like i'm gonna try with him drinking gallons of hennessy and all that [ __ ] talk about that too that relationship cause that [ __ ] like y'all brothers man yeah yeah yeah yeah you're like the waveguard yeah like you keeping this lame alive yeah cause a lot of people get locked up and you we all know what it is because it's like the system the way the system is set up it's like hard to contact your people the prisons are like set up in a place that's hard to get to yeah like you gotta take a bus up to like three hours to work last city up in like yeah yeah yeah no hotels and [ __ ] yeah that's how they do it bro i was talking to him the other day i was telling him about his album he just dropped the album spirituals out here you know yeah yeah yeah so he was just telling me about it we got a joint on there and he was just like yo man i just went down i got your album i heard it now you impress me every time [Laughter] that you know that's his laugh we ever get another coke boys album yeah yeah we dropped we dropped cover boy five um last december i want a new one no yeah let's see i got some memories of saturday though you had that jamaican sketch what about the ladies yeah yeah yeah yeah come on man no that was like that was soundtrack music yeah you put that on i was like i'll do anything right now oh yo what else you got coming through man like are you getting into acting you want to do like some serious acting yeah yeah um we just finished the documentary it's about all that [ __ ] that i'm telling you about man just my whole life story of my mother with africa with this and that when is that coming out um that's coming out next year okay yeah we're finishing it up right now yeah we got a movie coming out national champions um it's about all the athletes they'll be getting paid less than the coaches yeah they'll be getting hurt and losing all all their money and things like that so shout out to my brother rick he did shot caller we're just shining light on that and i come out december 10. we got respect the shooter the movie that i'm directing coming out next year okay we're shining you know trying to get a little film money i'm gonna feel you i feel yeah also got the book coming out diesel maro and french montana you know from the bronx exactly yo french this has been the honor interview with you it's always like put the link up with our bronx brother i love the bowl there in the bodega chopped cheese you are an illustrious guest everyone in the body gets a neon sign what would you like your neon sign to say young weapon chopped cheese mega french fries general you know what i'm saying the legend let's go yo welcome to the jesus of marrow youtube channel that's right you know what i'm saying like subscribe you know what i mean that's right we got a lot of digital content in here to keep you up in between our shows so be sure to like subscribe and you know click watch another video we out here all the players watch man videos holla

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Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 06 2021