Juicy J Talks New Memoir, Three 6 Mafia Sound, Addiction, Depression + More

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mess you're promoting a book your Memoir Juicy J yeah I know you love horror movies but damn hey man I'm an advocate a mental health awareness so I just wear this mask you know to show people like you know hey man it's a um it's a different side you don't have to do nothing crazy or harm yourself or harm other people you can always get some help call 988 uh any kind of hotline or reach out to an organization to um you know uh take care of your mental health and with this crazy Straight Jackets I'm not mad at I'm a big mental health Advocate too so if you're doing that to raise mental uh mental health awareness I ain't mad at it yep uh I'm gonna need my own assistant she can take my mask off that's cool okay it's hard to talk in this and juicy Jason Halloween came early yeah you know what I mean there we go there you go there you go there we go come on show them you ain't Asian Juicy J yeah man there you go there you go fresh line up you know I mean hairline attack still 30 years old man there you go I'm saying still 30 years old there we go she was having an amazing book out right now called Chronicles of the juice man A Memoir I'm gonna be honest with you I got this book a couple weeks ago and I was like I don't even know Juicy J had a book coming up yeah yeah yeah and from the first from the prologue it's exciting thank you man so many questions about the book but I never knew first things first that they had flavored cocaine yeah watermelon cotton candy that way you want to jump in that wine before we get watermelon flavor cocaine water with flavored cocaine I didn't know they had that hey it was crazy when I said I was just that's like y'all like what the y'all put the flavors in there yeah I'm not gonna try it but you know what I'm saying what made you write the book let's start there I always want to write a book um you know I've been doing this for a long time y'all been seeing me I've been knowing how happy you when y'all was interns and so you know so it's just it's just that time you know and it was very difficult when it was doing a book me and soaring Baker he wrote it with me uh my mom was on she got diagnosed with cancer the time I was writing this book so it was just like it was it was very very very I had a very hard time trying to finish it but we we you know we broke through we finished it you know I'm saying rest in peace and now here we are so I always want to do this you know that'd be the most interesting thing about Memoirs man you know your life in the industry was great yeah it's the stories before the industry yeah that made that made the Juicy J that's even even more interesting yes yes yep what made you what made you want to name your Memoir after the first solo album um I mean it talks about I mean it's Chronicles it's my life you know I'm saying it's telling everything about what's going on so I mean I just used it it was perfect you know what I'm saying it um it matches everything with you know from my story and everything so it's perfect fit that's how I looked at it was there anything that you had to take out you know we've been reading you know a lot of our ogs in this game I've been writing books from Jeezy The Fat Joe the recent ones was anything that you had to take out because you were so brutally honest in this book yeah it's a few things man it's um I'm not gonna say no names but it was some some you know I had some people come to me about killing himself in the book it's more than maybe like three to four people I had put in a book and then when uh they read it it was like you know like the lawyers and stuff like that you can't put all this stuff in there and then I talked to some of the people and they didn't want me to do that so I took it out and you you never tried cocaine no contrary to popular belief no no you never tried cocaine but you talk about why in the book can you touch on that a little bit yeah uh I was um when I was like a kid I was watching TV and I seen this basketball player named Lynn bias that's right and uh they said oh Lynn Baez he died on cocaine and I was like looking into Like Cocaine I didn't you know I didn't know what it was I was like cocaine I was like I ain't never doing cocaine like when I seen that I stuck in my head I said I feel I just felt like if I did it I'd die and then like as soon as we're after that you know I think I could have been I don't know I could have been 13 14 and this the older I got you know I started getting approached in Memphis like you know I would see people in the street they'd be like hey they want some coke they want this one thing I was like first thing came to my mind like that's stuff that Lynn buyer took I said hell no man ain't taking that no matter what flavor they come in yeah that and you've always seemed to have like a sense of self-awareness about yourself that other people around you didn't seem to have how is that self-aware and has helped or hurt you in life uh you say help all hurt yeah helped all hurt um I don't really think it hurt me I think it it kept me uh to survive I survived off that I would have it's weird I would have had these two voices in my head I had one voice be like hey hey do this do that smash that without the rubber whatever then I have another voice like man don't like you know saying you know what happened to EZ you know what I'm like I had like real I had these voices in my head telling me like one one is telling me to go one is telling me nah you might not want to do that because you know this girl might be this you might get a pregnant then in child support and all you know it's just all kind of crazy even just whatever not just saying just with females just within the street stuff you know it's times I you know I talk about in the book I had the strap about to blow somebody's ass off and then like one minute something's telling me to go then something's like nah man you might don't want to do that because this person you know he might snitch on you can you trust this you with you know what I'm saying so stuff like that man and um it's it's good that that happened like that because I'm here today because right the reason I say the self-awareness hurt is because sometimes you might be too critical on yourself I see that throughout the book like yeah whether it's about oh three six music is whacking I'm like I don't remember that time like you know I mean like stuff like that like you might have been a little too hard on yourself well I I'm very hard on myself you know right I'm very hard on myself I didn't say it was whack I don't think I think I said it it didn't sound right at the time when we was in LA because we lost and we've lost in the sauce we didn't I mean I felt like when I was in LA for so long I just you know I lost my taste of uh Sound and Music and what the what the wave was and everything you know I'm saying I'm usually on top of that and never never fell off of that but when I was in LA party and kicking and drinking so much and popping pills I lost it all you know I'm doing music that was I was stuck you know I mean you know like some people moved forward I was I was stuck in like 2005 somewhere around 2003 you know I'm saying I was stuck in that era when it was 2008 music was totally different what got you what you got what you got got you out of that that slump I got the hell out of L.A and I moved back to Memphis you know what I'm saying like immediately I sold my house I was like I'm getting the out of here everybody like you leaving man I'm gone bro like if I stay here man I'm gonna be up I might I'm gonna kill myself because I was doing so much drugs and Vicodin and uh Adderall all kind of bro I had a medicine cabinet full of like you could have came I could have prescribed you some bro because I had so many people you know doctors like you know what I'm saying I never get my up the street I never with that street I always get my straight from the doctors you know what I'm saying so I had these uh call them wacky doctors you know what I'm saying they would give me all kind of you know saying whatever I want to give me 100 200 they'd be like all right what you want the funniest part of that story I mean it's there's always human and everything right yeah so you talk about how the girl you told your girlfriend at the time to come pick you up yeah because you might kill yourself yeah and then it's like two sentences later so I broke up with that girl and I moved around what yeah she came to your age yeah yeah for real she did you know what I'm saying I appreciate it you know thank you you know what I'm saying but I just I was to the point where I just needed I needed to get out so you know I had a lot of stress and a lot of pressure I was just pressured about I was stuck you know I mean like I'm so used to um making great music with the group and everything was moving forward and everything was falling apart so I was like you know I was man I was really depressed bro I was drinking crying it was just like it was I was just hurt man you know what I'm saying no people I would think that because you was having the most success you know yeah I just won the Oscar you yeah the MTV show yeah you know like nobody would think he was depressed yeah people when they would see me they would see me drinking but I was drinking to escape you know what I'm saying I was really trying to get away from the uh the pain I had that was going on with me you know what I'm saying even y'all y'all probably seen me during that time of you know just around because we was partying I was running everybody yeah I was smiling and drinking but like deep down I was not feeling too good man I was really up you know what I'm saying and I refuse to believe man that you ever wore two rubbles I don't know why people be telling that goddamn lie yeah I did you can't put on two rubbers but she can yes I did I don't believe you I did I don't believe you I didn't believe that well hey man that's when did you stop then uh when did you stop I mean when I when I settled down you know what I'm saying you know I I said all right you know I ain't the rubbers you know what I mean yeah so down with you know one girl you know yeah yeah I was I was I was going crazy bro I was two three girls a night you know what I'm saying I was yeah but you did this in high school you wrote This Record in high school what was the record of uh Slob On My Knob no before slobber it was another one oh don't be scared yeah yeah don't be scared about the rub on here you go you know what after don't be well I had a situation you know I'm saying I was with this chick yeah and then I got you know sizzled and then I had and I wrote this song called Don't Be Scared with the rub on the head yeah for rubber you know like um uh safe sex but it was a hit in the hood yeah you could just walk around in the club or I could say Club I wasn't really going into clubs like that but I would see in the street and like people like playing it in their cars don't be scared put a rubber on their head it was just a chant so you would never even scared to talk about the STDs in this book either no it you know I mean it's real a lot of out here didn't get burnt before the man DJ you know I'm saying yeah promise of God never had FTD in my life yeah hey man that's you grace of God now I want you to know you said you went back to Memphis right yeah what did Memphis mean you know recently I did a car show in Memphis and I see how much Memphis supports Memphis Yeah so talk about why you left Memphis and why you thought you had to come back because a lot of people say they have to leave Memphis because a lot of times the hood takes them out yeah I had to come back to get my mind right you know what I'm saying I just went grounded I was I've been in La too long you know I'm saying it took me over the music my music was sounding different I was moving different I was doing a lot of crazy drugs and so I I went straight back to Memphis and I just went back to the hood I hung out with my and chilled and you know I got my vibes back I understood what you know my grounds were my roots you know what I'm saying and then I was like all right we're cool I can go anywhere in the world I'll never lose my sound again I didn't know you and Project Pat was actually brothers and I didn't know Paul was lord infamous's Uncle yeah does it make it harder or easier working with family no no no it's cool it's everything you know what I'm saying I'm glad I work with my family man because my brother is one of the persons that that uh brought me out of this you know what I'm saying I was in LA he would come in there I'd be laid out on some lean he'd be like what the y'all doing y'all ain't hot no more people tell me that you know I'll be like what what you say you're what I said y'all ain't hard like I'm in the club you out here in L.A hiding you know what I'm saying ain't playing no threesome Mafia in the clubs no more that done it's new out here man y'all be said May y'all beats don't even sound the same man ain't got no y'all so you gotta put that hand based on y'all be simulation y'all listen this bass and listen y'all base you know he playing I think he was playing some drummer boy stuff listen this bass listen y'all base y'all amazing and I was like you're right I mean he told the truth man that's what you need I mean like I only know yes man I don't like yes man around me I like tell me if I'm doing something crazy I would always tell people in the group man look if I if I one time picked up Lord Infamous right I took him to the um so I took him to the rehab he didn't want to do it we stayed we were riding around the neighborhood for almost an hour and a half I'm trying to get this to bro you need some help you need some help he's like no man I'm cool and we're talking and I told him I said look man look I'm just looking at you for a as a as a friend brother I love you I don't want nothing to happen to you and I said if you see something I'm doing please tell me don't Yes Man me my you know what I'm saying I'll be like yeah juicy go you see me doing anything crazy drugs or with the wrong crazy you think I'm with a with you know some skis or something I'm about to get robbed or whatever you feel that that ain't right please tell me you know what I'm saying I tell Paul anybody in my group or anybody around me like don't don't Yes Man me man you know what I'm saying you know check me if you see me doing something crazy because I want to live I want to go to jail or do some stupid you know for this Iron Man I am what's taught you more about life being in the industry or the life you lived before the engine um I see the life I live before the industry because if I if I didn't go through all the stuff you know I'm saying in North Memphis I wouldn't be where I am today um you know facts I was gonna ask you you know there was one time they used to say that that the music that you guys put out was demonic and that was like that the the thing how bad did that affect y'all I'm a church man so I mean I looked at this like you know like y'all ain't no devil worshipers ain't nobody you know I'm saying worship no devil uh uh touching a Ouija board or whatever y'all think it is not I just looked at it like hey man it is what it is but we I felt like we had to clean the name up so we changed the name in 360 because I feel like it just because it was everybody was scared record labels like I don't know man I don't know we might want to sign we might don't so it was you know whatever man we changed the name up and then things started coming together you know you even saying the book I'll um you know that you the Three Six Mafia thing the devil worshiper thing was was kind of a gimmick that's what I felt you know what I'm saying I didn't see nobody worship the devil so I just looked at like a gimmick you know I didn't look at it like it was really worshiping the devil you know what I'm saying but I mean like Memphis was a dark city so it was a dark time so you know triple six Mobby was perfect for that at the time you know what I'm saying because it made Memphis is still dark but it was like just it's crazy and not in back then but you know that's what I'm saying I was coming from that so it was cool but then like later on we started making you know more music and you know a couple more I don't think we brought this out called the end we had changed everything it went from triple six or three six and it was better you know I sounded we stepped that game up on the sound we had a couple of Records on there that was a little bit more radio friendly because nobody want to play I on radio so we had a couple records on that radio friendly so yeah man you know it's just about growth you know I was gonna ask how difficult was that coming up you know because the sound was different it was a sound that we haven't heard before how difficult was it breaking into different markets outside of Memphis and we didn't give a we just did what we did you know people caught on you know what I'm saying um we we you know we just experiment with a lot of things like we me and Paul was one of the most greatest producers of all times I mean we would experiment I can't I don't want to give all my formula away you know what I'm saying you gotta you know read the book and uh you know pay for that but but we we experiment with a lot of different things man we we we're real artists you know what I'm saying we ain't just just walk in there just make a beat we we put a bringing we bring the pain you know you might walk in our studio you might say a whole orchestrating that you know what I'm saying and like we just had our minds was was just bigger than just making a couple of Beats and that was it but like I had the SP 1200 I would make beats on that but then I would add extra to it like and I can't tell you how I did it but you know it's a secret how we made our music well the formula to me was Memphis it was Memphis that's what I love about the book too how you detail memphis's music history yeah yeah everything everything be I sound everything came from the city you know what I'm saying but just the way we made our beats we had like a certain kind of formula we made out of beach like you know some people make their beat certain way some people make you know I'm saying we had a way we made our beats because everybody how y'all make your base sound like this how y'all make y'all kicks out like I gotta make y'all you know what I'm saying snare sound like that so we we was very uh we made our own we created our own snares we created our own kicks you see what I'm saying we didn't get our kick from somebody else we created it now you talk about the drug use in the book and you know you just mentioned it now what got you to slow down on the drug use was it the birth of your kids was it Mom Dukes was it not in the zone what got you out of that God called that time out yeah it was it was it was getting crazy I remember I was at a show in Atlanta and I was coming from Atlanta I was doing a lot of Xanax I was drinking at Bombay man I was just like really really up man you know what I'm saying like slumped over in the car and my bodyguard was like he's like hit me like this hey man he just whispered on my ear take it easy man you know and I was on the way on the ride home I just had tears in my eyes I was just thinking about Three Six Mafia and how can we get this group back together and we could figure out you know what I'm saying um and so you know that was just one incident and then uh I did a show in New York and I had left my Xanax in the room and boy see I didn't I didn't know the powerful the power of Xanax you got to take them just every day if you like Miss a couple of days and you start getting these body these crazy body aches I'm talking like this is like man I was like scratching I was like tweaking I was like man I said I don't feel right I'm telling Ray I was like man I don't feel good man I didn't take my zans and I left them in the room and then we did the show and I was sweating on stage and man it was just like crucial so then I remember we went to Atlanta kind of just kind of moving forward because we were flying all over the place I always went to Atlanta because when I got back to the room I took the xan so it was cool I was like oh geez so then I went we went to Atlanta and I made mistake one left zans in the room again and we did to do the show and I just man that at that day man I was really feeling really down bro I was like just like slumped over and I was like man I'm not feeling good man and I was outside the club and I was telling Mike Will I was like man I left my zans in the room hotel room he said oh man I know you go ahead I know you're going through it and after that I was like man I can't do this no more and uh my manager my cousin took me to a doctor and a doctor told me how to get off the Xanax did you have to go to rehab or was it something that he gave you no well he just told me uh I was taking a hole when he said take a half one he said take a half and you'll gradually just get off of it that's all really so I just started taking half and I just gradually just have quarter ten yeah I got off of it you know what I'm saying and right today I mean I'm cool and don't get me wrong it's just times I've been on the plane I might take a Xanax I'm on an airplane but I'm not I'm not addicted like that you know what I'm saying um I actually really need them they prescribed to me I actually I really really need them but I don't take them like I used to take them I used to be like just taking them taking them drinking alcohol it sip some lean it you know what I'm saying I remember I was in Toronto I was sipping lean taking Xanax and I just felt like my body was just slowing down I was like oh and then like that voice hit me in the head like put a damn lean out and then one boy said man you're gonna put that lane that's a lot of lean that's a good lean then other boys like nah put a link out and I pull this out and say it I want to live man I need your peers can't come up to you and talk to you about it because I mean in the industry there's so many people that have been on it got off of it have been on it we've seen uh lose so many people let any of your parents say let me talk to you see my parents hit your peers anybody else oh no no no no no no no no no nobody nobody said anything to me but uh my family the people that was close to me like my manager and uh you know my bodyguards and stuff people from Memphis well you had a lot of people close to you that didn't get the opportunity to you know shake shake it like you did you know you think of the Mac Miller's and you know the gangster booze God bless the dead you think there was a point you wish you could have like I don't know intervened with them or you couldn't help them because you couldn't even help yourself at the time well um you know back in the day when three six my we first started I wasn't really doing a lot of drugs like everybody else you know I'm saying I might skip a little lean here smoke a little taste of weed there you know I was a heavy drinker but I didn't do drugs like they did drugs they was really going hard with the cocaine and you know Lola was on a little hair on here and there you know what I'm saying it was it was very very serious so um my situation was I was trying to get everybody off not so much I was trying to get everybody off of the I didn't really I really didn't give a about the syrup and the pills because I feel like that really wasn't the problem the problem I saw was was the cocaine because when they do cocaine when they come up those withdrawals they go crazy you know I'm saying it makes you mad makes you like you a tough guy you know what I'm saying would hit that cocaine boy they would tear up all them going to the club they're the club up you know what I'm saying would throw man I've seen Paul throw a chat a shooter strap you know what I'm saying like go crazy you know what I'm saying was just turned up like that and I was only you know like have sober I mean half so but I got my head a couple of drinks or something but I'm still sane so I'm like holding Paul back lord Coop you know what I'm saying Coop was like a cook was crazy as hell man ain't gonna like rest in peace but he would do anything right was just like if you just say man let's just blow up a building he would he'd be like all four he was crazy like that you know and crunchy black saying what Crunchy Black was every week he was going to jail he just fight shootouts all kind of you know what I'm saying real so I was just trying to um I was not I was not I wasn't as high as them I was just trying to get that cocaine out the way because I just every time that cocaine was in the in the in the building the would go down if the pills was cool what you know what I'm saying I don't I didn't see nothing going drastic with the pills but the cocaine was crazy and then when I seen Lord on the Heron I was like oh this this is getting a little different now it's getting extra serious and that's when he just kind of listen he pretty much left the group on his own I wasn't misreading the book I thought there was one point Lord Infamous didn't do drugs right and at a point he didn't yeah you know what I'm saying the point he did he just smoked a little weed and then he just you know things start going up you know I'm saying the more money we start getting excuse me things started going up and um I was just trying to man uh I was the main dude just trying to hold you know everybody back from doing that um I called the white devil you know what I'm saying because it was really up and it was it was destroying the group you know what I'm saying and then you know things Advanced we won the Oscar and then that was it you know we went Hollywood and how difficult was it to talk back to the members during that time when everybody went their own ways and everybody was having their own success how difficult was it to say you know what let's put the group in front of everything else um it was very difficult man because they didn't listen to me they just laugh at me if I was talking who was the most difficult to talk to Lord of my man rest in peace he was a cold man like he was the man man he was it was hard to deal with I remember we was in the car and the had like we got pulled over right they didn't find nothing in the car and then I looked into his Park and I said I said man you better be glad they didn't check your pocket because his pocket this had some Xanax um he had a lot of in his part like his like his little he had like a little button down you know had like the side pocket his side pocket he had so much he's like oh I forgot all about that I forgot to hide that I was like oh after that day that was the day I said I can't ride with you I might want to get my own transportation I went and got this van because he's riding like the same bands uh me and Paul used to drive the Vans and then we start hiring drivers but that day when he said he forget to hide that drug the Heron and the Coke and whatever it is he had in that little side pocket I was like this I I I said then I started trying to I had to separate myself because I like man I can't make no money in jail bro I ain't trying to go to the jail my like we making money we having success why the I want to get pulled over for some you know some cocaine or some that wasn't even mine and go to jail foreign [Music] but anyway I had to she listened to me a lot but it was difficult with Lord Infamous man when you was writing the dedications because I feel like the dedication to every everybody that you lost right yeah pretty much when you write that how did that feel does just have to write that dedication yeah it's bad man um uh it's crazy bro like I I should have tear every other day man thinking about that man you know what I'm saying it's it's been a um it's been a great painful Journey you know what I mean great painful Journey your mother Lord Infamous coopster gangster boo Clinton creep Brady and carty K Rock Burn yeah yeah yeah I always always want to ask when I hear stories about you know drug use like that like do you remember who introduced you to it right because as a kid or growing up you I remember who introduced me to my favorite car my favorite sports team my favorite rapper my favorite musician do you remember the time that somebody introduced you to that drug and why what made you say you know what I'm gonna try it trying to think the Xanax who introduced me I mean you know like at the end of the day like Lord Lord and uh questions they did a lot of Xanax and stuff so you know it was around already um and I used to when I used to we was flying a lot and I was talking to this doctor I met in Hollywood I was like man flying and I probably need something calm myself down or something I got something for you and he just gave me the Xanax you know what I'm saying it's always kind of went from a little conversation I was like okay I know you know crunching them takes Xanax you know what I'm saying so it went from there you know what I'm saying I never I never really seen them go crazy like off the chain on some some pills or even some lean you know I'm saying it was kind of sleepy I kind of you know slum or whatever but even that was like the cocaine I wouldn't do no because I felt like the cocaine was more like the rage drug so I was like I I never had to tell these to slow down on the lean and other stuff like that so I guess this might be cool to you know Papa's Anna or something and then just it gradually it definitely makes you feel good you know it's gradually just kind of slowly but surely took me over you know what I'm saying and then Elaine I already knew about Lane I mean I said Lane before so you know I had it you know at the hook on the ACT I had so much act man they bro I was the act man I was acting I still got something yes what is act activist oh yeah well did they discontinued it or something yeah they already banned it I still got something I have no idea what y'all talk about yeah what is that activist it's a drug is that you said the full name yeah I'll Google it yeah Google it now you all right no don't try it I love it in the book you pay homage to Memphis music but you talk a lot about Stacks records yes talk about how you were influenced by that by the story of sex um uh Al Bell um Jim Stewart you know what I'm saying uh he had a sister too that was uh involved in his activity I can't remember my name but she was a last name was Stuart too um man I was just influenced by that man you know what I'm saying uh Isaac Hayes Rufus Thomas um man you name a man they had The Temprees and it was the it was the biggest record labeling that's out and you know when I was coming up you know it was over with but uh they had tore down the building I remember it was in the news in the newspaper they tore down the stacks building I was like why the would they do that you know what I'm saying I just thought it was some racist I like man he poked no one's ass out here man he just told him building down like that's a historic place and they tore it down and then eventually built it back up but I was like man we're gonna we're gonna be like Stacks man I'm gonna fall in the footsteps of Alabama was like he was running Stacks the black dude and uh I got the book I read like I read that book like back and forth and back and forth because I was so interested how to hide this from you know he was actually from he was from DC our bills from DC and I was just he moved to Memphis and he started running Stacks so I was just so interested like how this man you know run a whole record label so I was just reading about what he did and I took I talked about in my book everything that he did I did a lot of stuff you know in my life in my career the following his footsteps and it worked you know what I'm saying so uh that's that was the big influence that I had I don't want to give too much away from the book but like when I read about the issues you had with your father right and and some of your upbringing and then you know now you got two children yeah do you feel like you're you've done a good job of breaking some of those generational curse [Music] um I think I wouldn't I wouldn't call it a curse I just call it um I I just learned something from it you know what I'm saying um I learned a lot from it um I think I think I'm I'm good man I'm good with my kids man like if it won't cause my mom and my dad I wouldn't probably I'll probably be some mad man you know man I'm just being real they took care of me I love them they took care of me man they made sure we were straight regardless of I love small I call it small family issues because it wasn't nothing like big big you know what I'm saying and I never was like if my family nothing like that I mean I've been there for him day one I'm still there for him like you might talk about in my book like every time they call me I don't care what I was doing if I was in a strip club having sex with the phone ring and it's my mom or something I like hey stop just stop the music I picked the phone up all the time because Memphis was so bad and I didn't you know I didn't know it was it they just called me to check on me see how I'm doing or it could have been like emergency I mean one time one time my dad called me I was high as a mother but you know what I'm saying it was kind of weird too you know what I'm saying I thought I was smoking some weed and I thought they had put some cocaine in it man bro I was so high I was like laughing and uh couldn't stand up straight I was feeling like I'm about to pass out he just called me I know he's like what you doing I was like um chilling you know what I'm saying he's like oh okay I'm just checking I just thought about you and I said man this must have been a sign from God let me get out of this I was in somebody's house let me get the hell out of here man at the time you know so I left but uh yeah they all they took care of me man they made me who I am today your granddad had he did he have what was it two families it all had the same names yeah yeah yeah he had he had one family in Memphis and I think the other the other one was like in Mississippi and so uh he had named him the same names so he could that's wild yeah so he couldn't uh so remember he remembered the names you know what I'm saying like my mom name was Shirley so he named his other daughter he had somewhere else Shirley so he could remember the names where did y'all find that out uh uh my mom told me and my aunts told me they told me a lot of a lot of stuff about him I mean he was he passed away before I was born but they told me a lot of stuff about him and I just felt like like going back to mental Mental Health you know my mom you know I'm saying for her to come from that kind of situation you know I could tell like you know she had been damaged by that you know what I'm saying I could tell through her movements and things she did she was upset about that you know she told me her dad never told her she loved her you know what I'm saying so that's bad man you know what I'm saying so like I said man mental health starts with uh in the beginning of your life and it can affect you later like it it does affect you later on in your life you ever think about why our parents never said I love you like why was it so difficult for our parents to be like I love you because we hear the story all the time about our generation saying that parents never said I love you ever because after my daughter I say it all the time I say it overly but you know I think we take for granted can and like the way you talking about mental health the way I talk about mental health we're the first generation that has the luxury of healing Our Generation before they were scratching and surviving you know what I mean like they weren't thinking about that kind of stuff they weren't thinking about emotions and all that well my mom my mom told me she told me she loved me though yeah my mom did too my dad didn't my dad didn't but nah later on later on in life yeah I think he did too yeah yeah we need that though you know the kids need that love man you know what I'm saying absolutely you know what I'm saying and like I said and that affects us later on in our life you know you think about like my mom talked about that and I was like damn she I felt like she was really she was really messed up about that like like he never told me he loved me you know I'm saying she was saying and she would have tears in her eyes yeah so yeah it's terrible man you know what I'm saying she had to go through that and she really never talked to anybody it was all she was always quiet about a lot of different things and um that's why I said man A lot of times we just need to be needing to um have somebody to talk to you know like a therapist I have a therapist you know I'm saying I heard you talk about therapies like I got one I've had a couple of you know what I'm saying and uh we need that man you know what I'm saying you know we we definitely need to pray and uh pray to God most definitely that's number one and if we need to have somebody to talk to we need to have somebody to talk to to try to help get over that because I feel like if she maybe would have had if she would have talked to talk to somebody about that and somebody maybe like could understand her and listen to her things that may have been different my mom was closed off she didn't really she had she even had like a lot of friends she was kind of just closed off you know what I'm saying um and um it just affected you know all that stuff affected her man would you what got you on your healing Journey um just um you know talking to talking with my therapist my therapist the first thing he told me he said man let's start with the beginning you know I'm saying how you know how will you raised where'd you you know whatever how's your mom and then that would put me I was like oh okay that's why I'm like I am today because I went through this and you know I'm saying okay okay that start realized he helped me realize like my issues I had like my paranoia my always looking over my shoulder you know you know what I'm saying I might overdo it I might have like more guns on me than the average gun I posted Apple you know maybe he's like hey man he's going to a small function bring one gun I might have two three I mean just bring one security I might have four you know what I'm saying it's come coming up in Memphis it's like man it was crazy out there you know what I'm saying I was like just was talking about rob me doing this and doing that so I'm like I'm gonna be on point won't pull up I'm gonna shoot him in the face you know that's how I was I you had to you know coming up in Memphis you got to be like that they make you like that even you try to be like I'm gonna be cool ain't gonna do the man still your bike stole my bike you know what I'm saying shot my one day I'm like all right you know what I'm saying it's like that okay I'm gonna mask up on your ass you know what I'm saying so you know I I was I I started sinking into that environment so and then it did but it's still even still yeah you missed a tough guy or whatever still you got to look over your shoulder because you don't know your best friend or somebody next to you you're gonna blow your ass off you know what I'm saying like real a snake out there pull some moves I didn't have set me up and all kind of so um so you just had a bunch of unhealed trauma you needed to unpack there you go all right so I'm like this right here so then even when I come there like I go anywhere I'm on the same type of time you know what I'm saying I ain't never like oh I'm just chilling I'm in a different city so I can just chill hell no we got more guns we got this I sleep with a bulletproof vest on in Memphis you know what I'm saying when I was in my house it was just so bad like that I would sleep with the vests on then I would I would try to train myself to wake up to grab the gun at a certain time I hear I hear a noise I'm jumping up with the strap you know what I'm saying like at least told you to get a better gun one time though yeah yeah I got pulled over he seen my gun I had this little 38. he said this piece of took the bullets out and threw the gun back at me damn let me get you a better gun man and they drove off how would you define Memphis Now versus when when you were growing up it's worse now really oh this man you it's so bad now this is man they jacking every day bro you know what I'm saying I mean like it was bad then but now it's like they didn't they didn't they didn't boost it up I feel like you know and we always say that things are worse now the thing I think is missing is there's no like crazy it's not there's no spiritual Foundation like these kids ain't got no morals no values like no respect no you know there was a respect among there was honor among Thieves and Crooks back I know that sounds crazy when you think about it but it was yeah it was it was a real Street code back then you know it was you're right it was honorable you know I'm saying it was like all right we're doing this we're doing that but we're not doing you know we're not you know no kids involved you know stuff like that in in Street business but now it's like it you know what I'm saying anything goes you walk through the door anybody with him kill them all you know they just think like that people think like that now it's up that's why I mean like you know when I'm done with this rap man you know the older when I get close to this 60 you know what I'm saying pushing 70. I'm running for uh uh officer some down there in Memphis man I want to change this city I want to give people better jobs because they don't have job opportunities down there man they like the hope is down there is like there's no hope so people are just going crazy down there you know what I'm saying I think if they had better jobs and opportunities down in Memphis and definitely some uh you know somebody talking to these you know what I'm saying and talking about mental health and talking about situations in life and how can we try to fix this I think things could be better it's just take time but also I think there's more I think they need more things to do yes like anything comes to the city like like I said when I did the the car show out there it was so many families and even even the the police and the sheriff they were happy they was like we need more events like this yeah for kids to get them out the streets let them come in and see things and be inspired and I was like a lot of cities need stuff like that and the amount of people that came out of Memphis it was just amazing but then when it was time to do after part I was like I don't know if I'm gonna go do I have the part I heard three people got shot last night you know I mean so it was that type of thing as well you know yeah it's bad man yep I feel you I know y'all had like hella police with y'all workers and I was gonna ask me busy out there when you talk about somebody setting you up how do you trust people again after you say somebody on your team set you up like how do you develop that trust again because that got to be like other people on your team because you always gotta be looking over your shoulder you always gotta be scared you know man you know you just um I just say man or do you not trust anybody anymore I'd really pretty much don't you know what I'm saying I trust the focus on what you know saying I mean look at the end of the day three says might be I trusted a lot of people in threesome you know we was a real it was you know we was but it was like a lot of outside that was coming in I didn't trust you know what I'm saying and and and the group didn't trust you know I'm saying stuff like situation like that but as far as before threesome I mean like not even talking about threesome might be me just coming up in North Memphis no I couldn't trust nobody man no I had this chick set me up I was at this chick crib one day and uh I mean I slept like when I woke up I was like damn I never slept that that long you know what I'm saying I woke up all my money in my pockets was gone damn my car was on flat all all four tires was on flat see you should have said no the ratchet you know right and she was like what happened I'm like what happened you stole them up and she was like no I didn't just I didn't do so I went out to my car I'm like man my time's on flat and like the didn't cut my tires he just let the eye out my tires so I got somebody to come by and put the air in the tires and I left and then she called me like a day or two she's like I didn't set you up I didn't do anything what you like why you know you don't call me I just want you to know I didn't do that don't call me on the phone in the face you know what I'm saying I just use it as a lesson learned man you know what I'm saying she was telling the truth though you just knew that was it up I mean look I mean like it was like a mom house and she had a couple of Brothers in there you know she tried to blame on her brothers but man come on bro damn come on I was in her room that would have been the end of ratchet for me juicy I mean you know I just had to point now where you can say no to ratchet I mean I'm married now you know what I'm saying you know that's done but but you know after that I started getting hotel room because I didn't get hotel rooms at first I was just like you know in a chick's house or whatever I might have to strap or something and I'm good no I wasn't good after that I stuck in hotel rooms and so uh you know like I'll pull up and get like uh you know they had these hotels in Memphis you can pull up like a drive-through we get like two three hours Smash and then Dash yeah oh book you got to get the book man yeah that's all in the book I want to say on good morning in America they wouldn't let you wear this great jacket in the Hannibal Lecter mask right no it was a little scary you know what I'm saying it's all good they were they good man I had a great time over there man they're good people uh I understood that's I brought extra outfits too so what they do they just came here and said hey man did you tell them what it was for you say I'm trying to raise up yeah we had that in place but they weren't really trying to hear that you know man yeah you know damn damn are you executive producing making a stallions new album no no I wish I was but I'm executive producing Ty Dolla signs album and then I'm I'm uh I'm producing a lot of stuff amazing I'm doing a lot of production for it yeah I heard y'all got a lot of records together man we got a lot of hard ass man so why yeah personally when I heard that I'm like Dan do you see Jep and making the stallion that sounds hot that's Ty Dolla Sign album is real it sounds like a 92 2000s uh you know mid 2000 three six months yeah it's hard singing over singing and singing over that crazy is that what he wanted he wanted that Vibe yeah yeah he he asked me the executive producer project the project what's Meg's Vibe like because you know that's um this is a big album for her after everything she went through like it's a big project big project I can't tell you that but uh it's hard hard in the she she man she energized man she going in she's killing everything yeah all right well that the book is out right now yeah one more question what is Psalm 107 1 mean to you song 107 one which Psalm 107. oh some oh this one on the back yeah oh let's read it oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his Mercy endure forever first I thought you said song yeah yeah um this is uh something I chose you know every every album I always put a Bible script on my album so I don't know if you ever noticed that um so I feel like this right here oh give thanks unto the Lord he is for he is good for his mercy and do it forever like you know his Mercy everything you know he has mercy on you you know what I'm saying like in other words you can change your life around he can he gonna forgive you of all your sins and your wrongdoings so uh this is uh very inspirational for me um it just I feel like this this is a part of my life right now you know what I'm saying um trusting in the Lord man because he gonna he forgives you and um you can always start over and be a new person you know what I'm saying you can go from bad to good you know what I'm saying I love it man Juicy J talking about spirituality that's right mental health come on man that's right come on man pick up the book don't tell us black men ain't evolving out here Chronicles of the juice man yes sir I appreciate you for doing it right now salute the song Baker too so you did a phenomenal job I don't know you but you did a phenomenal job yeah yeah great job yep shout out to three six might be DJ Paul Crunchy Black rest in peace Lord Infamous rest in peace Gangster Boo and coops and everybody uh uh shout out to the whole hypnotized Camp Posse man you know what I'm saying hopefully one day we can all get together and do a a crazy tour I had an idea I I thought you know since I heard BG got out you know shout out to BG I was like man be dope if cash money and hypnotize did a whole tour that'd be that'd be dope remember we said that earlier yeah would that could could you be able to do that without the gangster booze and you know everybody else yeah we we could we we'll figure it out we'll do it maybe bring like a hologram or something you know what I'm saying yeah something special with the special effects yeah I think that'll be dope you still dealing with that do you ever get over that is getting get over the passing of them never never I think about all of them all the time man I I cry here and there you know real like that told me up man still like still crazy all right well it's The Breakfast Club it's Juicy J yes sir shut up in the morning The Breakfast Club

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