Mystikal on Cash Money Beef, Prison, Master P, Snoop, Pharrell, Shake Ya A**, Luda (Full Interview)

all right here we go we have legendary rapper mystical in the building welcome to vlad tv thank you man wow appreciate you appreciate you i've been such a long time fan thank you thank you man so many hits under your belt thank you so many classic albums multi-platinum albums timeless music grammy nominations thank you oh man glad we finally got to sit down and actually i got to say man i i i definitely enjoy the booster interviews and the the godfrey interviews and yeah i i like the platform man god forgot for a talented dude man man definitely oh yeah man we've had some talents you know and lucy's from from baton rouge louisiana so yep yep homeboy you know okay so this is our first time so i want to start in the very beginning okay so you grew up in new orleans born and raised okay and what was new orleans like in the 70s and 80s and in the early days it was we weren't known for for the rap culture i bet you that you know we were country bumpkins so we weren't known for that we was you know uh mardi gras you know i said that we know for stuff like that our gumbo our food our jazz you know thing definitely one i was saying back then you know so okay so you originally had both your parents but then your dad died when you were seven years old seven yep i was a youngster okay what happened to him uh he had he he he had some kind of he went to the hospital originally for like some type of cysts on his brain or something and a blood clot he's some kind of way he got a blood clot and that killed him yeah sad yeah sad okay so then you're growing up with your mom and uh how many how many siblings did you have well i lost a sister too in 94 when when new orleans was the murder capital and i still had i still have my younger brother so it's me and my younger brother now and my nephew that my sister left left behind so yeah okay and i want to talk about you know the story with your sister because that's okay very important but so growing up during that time were you primarily a good kid were you getting into trouble i was a good kid you know i was sheltered you know uh having a single parent since my dad died you know my mom you know she was on me man and it's it's funny because we talked about it yesterday when i talked when i talked to i said man you i said you kept me sheltered you a lot of things i couldn't do my friends going going out at night man can i go no can i do it no and and i appreciate it as i grew up because a lot of friends ain't around no more you know what i'm saying definitely right right so you ended up going to cohen high school come on oscar and then right afterwards you went to the military right okay what made you join the military because i still wanted to do something productive but i was outside of school i was enough of that [ __ ] sick of this [ __ ] you know so i said i i joined the military and go get me a bmw or something you know when i joined 20 years without conflict the year i joined men we go on the wall oh [ __ ] man you know and it's funny because i remember when when i found out we was going to walk i caught home i called my sister at tears and i was like michelle in the name of michelle michelle i might die i'm [ __ ] that gonna tell me i know you're supposed to say that she's about to tell me boy you're gonna be all right i said i might die she said i know i'll say boy that's cold i wasn't even scared anymore after that so you know we was able to laugh about it okay was this a desert storm i was it was the operation there's a shield at first right before the conflict really started we were just going out there to be you know just that you know stand guard and then uh bush gave him to ultimatum he didn't listen [ __ ] operation there's a storm now than planes with the bombing [ __ ] okay and were you in any gunfire at all during that time i was the driver i was a driver of my squad i was a combat engineer that's like a damn suicide job my job was to breach any obstacle in the way of there's some kind of gap we have to build a bridge in the kind of minefield we have to blow it up that [ __ ] was suicide but i i didn't you know it wasn't that kind of war so i didn't really have to go through those kind of things you know that she was lopsided and [ __ ] with one side of there we were too strong too strong no i feel you thank you for your service thank you for your service first welcome okay so at what point you saw did you decide that military wasn't for you as soon as as soon as the guys that i was that i recorded my first demo demo with at home as soon as they made a record i knew i [ __ ] this on the [ __ ] they thought i was gonna be a rapper man soon as i left they made a wreck and i'm like what the [ __ ] so my heart wasn't in it no more i stopped shining my shoes my out my uniform was wrinkled yeah i know i'm gonna last long okay so you get discharged from the military you moved back to new orleans and you started your rap career right [ __ ] i had i had to get a job too i think i was working at uh uh uh wolverine it was a company called woolworth back in the g f w woolworth wolverts i was also working at uh one of our uh ex saints player he's he's no longer here wrestling steve stonebright he had a restaurant i worked there and i worked at the superdome ushering people you know showing them where these seats were take them to the elevator things like that yeah okay and i guess there was a there's an outdoor concert uh at the i guess the treme center right that's where it happened that's what happened and and uh a guy named leroy precise edwards was in the audience right sorry to perform you open up for run dmc and dougie fresh that kind of shows you this also spice one was in the in that country place one okay that's the hobby right there from the bay okay and i guess he saw you perform and that's when he actually brought you in and right you gave your contract and the rest was history after that definitely okay so here you are you get your first record contract and it's with the indie label right you know still still you're sort of on your way right and then at night well the the day i met them uh uh uh charles temple was the he was at the actual ceo leroy precise edwards he was he was the producer well he was one of the exact stupid he was the producer also and they had rob shell with three guys it was charles temple rob shaw and leroy edwards system producer robbed the management and and uh chuck he was he was the head the cup in the head man they gave me 500 i quit all them jobs [ __ ] it i'm out yeah i'm out your first deal was for 500 he just he just did that to me he just threw that to me because he was like man what's he doing tomorrow i gotta work i gotta whoo i got you know you're like man here and give me some money [ __ ] them jobs and i went to the studio okay so you start working on your debut album and then the tragedy occurs right right uh in 1994 your sister michelle tyler was murdered so i mean according to reports she was found in in her family home she was stabbed and strangled i found her yeah she wasn't i you found her thank thank god it was me and not my little brother not my mom and nobody like that somebody that was you know strong enough to handle that situation i found my sister in her bed dead with a mystical promotional t-shirt on saying i'm not that [ __ ] on it man on my birthday you know and i actually she was she was part of she had signs she had just signed with big boy records too that's the label that system uh chuck and robin had it was called big boy records and she you know she was signed as a r b act and i was saying that as a rapper because she actually performed with me the day uh leroy the the site saw me performing at the treme center she was she was uh singing background from me because it was my first single call not that [ __ ] i was saying i'm not that [ __ ] i'm not that [ __ ] she was saying not that [ __ ] and you know so that that's that's that's how that went down man i i found i found a girl like that man well i mean according to reports uh her boyfriend at the time davey neville was actually the grandson of one of the neville brothers he got arrested and charged without murder but then he was acquitted he actually he actually confessed also then took all that back you know his family had a lot of influence and you know we we were nobodies at that time so he wound up getting off of getting off of it so you know but i was like i said okay that's all right there there's there's more than one way to skin the cat but you know my mom i don't know the day i've i was gonna hit that [ __ ] door and do something to probably never make it back home my mom she must have saw it in my eyes she said where you going son i don't know how the [ __ ] she knew this said listen she said that's that's whatever you think you're going to do is not going to bring michelle back and then i'll have two children gone you know saying one they're probably going to execute you in their everything man i'm telling them right you know you're gonna go to jail for the rest of your life just you know let god handle it and you know i i i just took refuge in my music after that i took refuge in my music well from your point of view you think he did it what you mean he said he did it he said it i know he did absolutely i know he did it yes of course he did it okay yes yes and you know he actually did an interview i remember i i saw that he did a you know an audio interview uh okay okay i've never seen it yeah he did uh he did an interview and he talked about the situation and said the cops were beating him up and he admitted to him and i can imagine that because back then man it was rough police were rough at those times you know i would see it was rough so i guess that was you know that's how they had to handle [ __ ] back then i guess i don't know you know and aft after a while uh it might have to be about seven or eight years for my birthday to just be my birthday and not the day my sister died and my birthday because i woke up on my birthday and i talked to my mom and she was like son today is your birthday i was like yeah it is she said no son today it's just your birthday and it dawned on them i was like wow not that we forgot about my sister something but you know time heals thing you know you know if you know i felt that the healing happened you know so and also i've i've i've been forgiving them for that i forgive me we'll never be friends a [ __ ] like that but i actually called his family and talked to him and you know tom you know it's it is what it is you know definitely yeah that must have been tough to actually do that well i mean after a certain amount of years a lot of years have passed a lot of years i've had a lot of growth and maturity i have been through my drama and foolishness you know so definitely well and then you know that the murder of your sister was kind of a recurring theme in a lot of your albums and songs right you talked about it quite a number of times so right you know i'm sure that was tough that's the first feeling that was the first time i i that's really close to death a sibling man that once once i found that girl like that and seeing my sister in that kind of situation i wasn't scared to die no more after that i'm like wow then she died horribly you know and and in a [ __ ] casket at a funeral she still had to look a pain on her face i'm like man i'm gonna shut that [ __ ] you know so my mom and eve my mom never saw that she remembered my sister with a beautiful smiling face and she didn't look she didn't even look like herself and that actually helped me at the funeral because even though i knew it was my sister i didn't see my sister so i opposed to me seeing my sister there like looking like she sleep that would hurt worse that would truly hurt worse so but you know yeah man i'm sorry you had to go through that to actually see the body like that that's i can't even imagine that that [ __ ] was scary that [ __ ] felt like a movie when you when you when you're looking at a movie you find it there about it whereas normally where's the killer right behind you you know so that's that man that [ __ ] was scary so you know i ran upstairs and looked at my lip i said lord that's that's door number one what the [ __ ] imma see behind door number two and three i had my my little brother my nephew had a room my mom had a room i went to my nephew in the room first open the door cut the light on i seen him kind of fidget around i said okay okay and i just busted in my momma room wait wait you mean to tell me that she was killed in the house other family members in the house at the same time really really big house we didn't have a smart matter really really big house upstairs and downstairs everybody else is upstairs and and michelle and her boyfriend you know they were real private at petition club it was you know that that he had room to do it he definitely had room to do it yeah everyone was good you know and i i know he regretted it you know i'm sure he did i know he did you know yeah you know of course he can't can't say that he did it you know but uh you know i know he regretted that i know he did and still do well then your debut album comes out uh self-titled right mystical right uh and you know like you said your your sister's on one of the songs right um and the album comes out and how does that first album do i'm very successful at uh locally i sold over 100 000 units and i got the attention of the major labels and jive they came down and got me after that you know and worked the deal out with me okay so then you sign a jive right now how does it feel and you know jive is still one of the biggest labels out there right how did it feel to to be this kid who's grown up in new orleans and now you've signed with one of the biggest record labels in the world i felt like you could take me now lord i did it i made it you know and the deal wasn't uh what none i didn't i didn't get anything like 100 000 even though the deal was for 500 my my cut was a hundred thousand man i felt like a kazillionaire into that third of my past spent that [ __ ] i'm [ __ ] i'm balling on your [ __ ] said three months there y'all let me hold something okay so so here you are you're building up you just signed you know you just dropped an independent album that was crazy in new orleans you signed a major label deal right and right around the same time there's some other labels in new orleans that are popping yeah are you gonna break up cash money what you're gonna say where you going vlad cash money that's right that's right we have this one yeah we have someone and uh some of the guys on cash money records started a diss you know uh unlv right and then you know lil wayne the bg's right started dropping me man why ain't that just me that was that was bg bgs and yellow just too oh okay sorry you know cause i remember wayne was in a group called the bg's yeah man wayne didn't diss me i was one i'm [ __ ] i'm one of the reasons why he became a rapper you know wayne look looked over that fence as a youngster and seen me out there in the in the rap backyard tanning my [ __ ] ass up and came back and said yeah i'm up that's what i'm gonna do you know what i'm saying so [ __ ] yeah okay so unlv and bg ended up doing this records on you right why why were those dis records in effect i started that [ __ ] listen i was i was at odds with bounce music bounce music is a genre of music that we you know said from new orleans created and started so but it was just all repetitious you know saying the same line over and over off of of uh the show boys be trigger man off of that down beat and i wanted to be known as more than just a bounce rapper you know so i was kind of dissing the bounce genre because i it was hard to try to [ __ ] perform and and and be lyrical and and don't get the crowd hitting somebody with a [ __ ] bounce on and tell the [ __ ] crowd up so uh so i kind of saw i said the line and y'all ain't ready my biggest single i said uh one three things i'ma never do one i'm never gonna change my style two never gonna burn three never gonna bow and i was a shot at unlv because they had a song called do they had about what was a [ __ ] major hit dude about do they had a never gonna bounce never gonna bow and they heard that [ __ ] ain't [ __ ] they're supposed to diss my ass back they did what they're supposed to do they're from new orleans [ __ ] right unlv dropped uh drag drag him in the river man i still play until this day now i don't i don't say the mystical you're hoping but i still i still jam to that [ __ ] forever a good job and then uh [ __ ] big boy by bg they couldn't [ __ ] with us they're gonna [ __ ] with us they gotta [ __ ] with that they man they don't though we were definitely fans of each other's music and i i know i used to [ __ ] their head up cause see they live then they lived uptown where i lived too but they lived in the uh third war nice to go down drive down they street and my in my bonneville and matter of fact in this in the the bottom of it my sister left behind that was her car i got it all fixed up once i got got my little [ __ ] together and once i turned into big musical had that [ __ ] fixed up with them speakers in the back of that [ __ ] going down the street playing dragging from the river like this yeah just look at me like this [ __ ] here crazy all right i remember one time i went down there they got fed up with my electric start throwing rocks at my car boom i jumped out that [ __ ] they hauled ass too for real so i mean you know that beef was different back then man that [ __ ] was fun i remember i used to see yellow i'd be in my uh land cruiser he had been this would he had a trooper this [ __ ] was nice too when [ __ ] with my land cruiser but anyway we was uh be on the road and see each other i see him i stopped i rolled the one around this was up yeah that was up i get out [ __ ] what's happened what's happened probably probably like a block away we're not right up on each other all right [ __ ] what's happening what's up with these pull the gun out what's up with that i said well look i got one of them too [ __ ] the gun what's up with these nah i was out with the gun i'm going to my eyelashes [ __ ] i'm successful already [ __ ] you're still open you're tripping i'd have made it got me [ __ ] up okay so then when you drop your major label album mind a mystical that's when you actually dissed them back on beware and here i go beware it just sounded like that when i was saying [ __ ] a yellow i was talking about you're scary i wasn't really even talking about him it just worked out like that yeah just yeah it'd be what i did i was somebody's there that's right i was you're right [ __ ] right okay that was and then and then here i go was the other diss track right that's that's what i'm mixing up here i go when i say line yeah bl be well strictly for his ass yeah yeah i go really it wasn't for them now i did a a diss track call back from the river we never released it or not like that and yeah that was uh kick the ass on that too all i took was a line or two to [ __ ] them all the way up i didn't have to really dedicate whole songs to them they couldn't [ __ ] with me was there a point where y'all just squashed it or just kind of just played out it just it just played out and then daniella got killed himself so you know you know and man yellow was a devil he was a [ __ ] comedian man you know we we we knew each other pretty well you know we we i wouldn't say we were friends but we knew each other you know we knew each other so okay so you drop minor mystical now this is on a major label right how did that album do that it was exciting it wouldn't go it did go it did go it did go it did go it would it it would have did more but i don't think jive really understood how to market me you know i was i was so unique of an artist that if i'd have been on deaf jamming this name does not know knocking this against job because i love them and i truly appreciate them might have been on def jam or universal that should have been platinum and shake ass that [ __ ] would have i probably would have went diamond on their mother urban that you know they had their real true urban street team like i nailed them did they on all them dudes i saw them you know even though i was multi-platinum with them they outsold them because they they come i don't know they company had a better understanding of how to how to market it to the urban community so well after the back and forth with some of the cash money guys you and little wayne kind of became collaborators in a way well so he uh that came after after i made it made it back home from from a little six-year stint of foolishness that i had to go through and you know him and well baby and i kind of kind of got cool during during all of that time too nobody nobody never knew that nobody never knew that babies called me all the time and try to sign me even when i was with no let me use to try to sign and that's it he'll call me what's up [ __ ] let's just sit down i'm like [ __ ] i'm already sitting down what's up what's up you know so yeah it was cool man it's the [ __ ] when i go to miami on the boats and [ __ ] like that yeah sit there sit there okay so you're on jive records and you just dropped a gold album mm-hmm and then in 96 you signed a master p in no limit right man it's 97 somewhere but yeah somewhere up in there okay right right right around that right because because jive and i we were we were running out we were running out of steam you know it was like like i said they didn't truly understand the the dynamics of how to market me man you know how to really get me out there to them they just you know they their bread and butter was britney spears and backstreet bars and instinct you know that that was a pop company you know we was crumbs and i was saying you know the crime yeah yeah even when you compare r kelly to them that [ __ ] don't it didn't add up you know no it's true i mean because you know too short you gave me they were also on that label and they did okay but they weren't good uh uh uh most beautiful keith murray [ __ ] i remember i took a page out of keith murray book he he he wasn't he wasn't pleased with how everything was going with with uh with driving in himself and he went and told my temper tapped around on his big tyre and he got what the [ __ ] he wanted i said oh that's how you do that so when i wasn't pleased i went my ass up there in new york ah i did my [ __ ] tire rated timber chance kicking chairs and [ __ ] but one time out of my my in my mind i was gonna tick the table and flip that [ __ ] that bit was so heavy i couldn't even burn that but i just kicked the chair [ __ ] it i got what i got what i wanted though and i think i was fussing about uh them uh i saw i when i turned my element i had it songed up i had the the the list of songs and it wasn't the way i turned it in and you know i'm saying so after i kicked that [ __ ] chill it was hot it was how i wanted it was i wanted it at the time when you signed a no limit number one no limit was hot to death d [ __ ] yeah well the hottest and were they beefing with cash money during that time um that i mean i mean he was in competition with everybody and he see you know i'm saying blew past their [ __ ] ass but uh i don't think so i i know i know p had p had had personal issues whatever you know i'm saying internally whatever whatever you know i wasn't around i don't know the insides of it you know okay so now you're you're signing no limit and you dropped your third album unpredictable right how does really was my second album because the first album i did locally i kind of just put it out and added some songs to it when when i got a national deal so unpredictable was really like my my second go round okay got it so then you dropped unpredictable still to this day this was my best effort man that's that's the hardest [ __ ] i ever put out that this devils have been with that smoke for real oh okay and uh that's when snoop dogg was actually at no limit right right right right right right well he came a little while he i think he came out that i did what was he on that down he was on ghetto phallus that out he's on he's on that album he's unpredictable yeah that's when he came cause we were spending a lot of time in in california doing the movies and things like man pewds don't bad people doing it [ __ ] big and and i still still had a little small beef with with cash money like i remember i seen bg in in the piccadilly i just came over to got big that's when i was working out real hard just came home from church it was me my mom um baby mama uh [ __ ] like that little nephew and i seen i walked into the piccadilly and i see bg at the table lord as a [ __ ] [ __ ] out look uh i said i got his ass now all that [ __ ] you talking got it last night so he seen me coming and then he kind of set up he's he stood up there and he said mr cross got to it that [ __ ] he disarmed he unarmed he said [ __ ] that unpredictable go hard i couldn't even do nothing i was like [ __ ] all i can say was [ __ ] the chopper city going hard and it was over he changed he changed he totally changed my mindset man for real with a [ __ ] compliment flattery will get you everywhere man that's crazy that's great and until that day what's up bg come on home baby we miss you my [ __ ] we miss you man we're gonna talk about the free bg free mac out there freezing murder hey free mac yeah i mean yeah i interviewed mack uh we were trying to interview c murder but he's always kind of going through something right right [ __ ] man i we got i wonder why i wonder why mac wasn't uh in in uh in the running for the [ __ ] part and [ __ ] man i really wish that could have happened i guess nobody's like speaking out for him enough man man free mac free mac truly truly innocent man all that [ __ ] time man that [ __ ] don't seem real how the [ __ ] the [ __ ] is that even happening like that you know still to this day man of people know that being innocent everybody involved from the judge and da's and the [ __ ] victims man they know that [ __ ] man didn't do that they know that you know that yeah you know yeah crazy yeah i mean i mean we talked about the whole situation over the phone what the [ __ ] that's why i said man i got to get i got to get i got to get back all the way all the way rich man they need a thousand there she ain't gonna work work man you know man if if if i had enough money i would definitely give it all to get back out of that [ __ ] place man for real well you're on no limit you dropped your your first time on no limit but you're showing up on everyone else's right master p he's he's a hot top topic dagnabbit yeah okay and then ghetto fabulous comes out and that goes platinum right and ghetto founders that that definitely was my worst effort because it i'll just say that i mean it was pretty it was a good album i said it was my worst effort because i had to rush it you know p had a pace man he had a [ __ ] pace he was he was like a [ __ ] fourth dealership he was producing my [ __ ] cars he was putting them [ __ ] out for real for real i mean i mean how did you feel about that because i remember reading interviews by by beats by the pound and they talked about how you know certain producers takes a month to put together beat but not not at no limit you know you need that [ __ ] tomorrow that was all masterpiece driving for us because you know we we we come from i come from the old school hip-hop web man they'll take me a [ __ ] month to write my [ __ ] song when i finish with that [ __ ] don't give a [ __ ] if you got 10 album that one song gonna kill all your [ __ ] you heard me and uh klc went through that too my dj klc and the beast by the pound he he he mixing that [ __ ] and trying to you know i'm saying tweak that [ __ ] and get it perfect i can remember p coming in the studio saying uh come on k i mean take it all along with that [ __ ] my hair up cut that [ __ ] base up cut my vocals up so that people hear me put that [ __ ] out man [ __ ] ain't got number one speaking they call anyway so you know he had he had a different mindset man he had a different mindset you know and that that kind of helps that that helped us a lot you know and masterpiece is one of the one of the few people every time he [ __ ] told me something that came with the fruition if he told me something next time i see him be like man you told me bro you [ __ ] told me bro so you know i i definitely look up to him man definitely look up to him oh yeah i mean master p is really one of the great business minds of hip-hop all the way from i mean the deal that he signed where he got to keep like 85 or 90 of his money got to keep his publishing got to keep his masters right right to the amount of product he put out to how he switched up he's truly one of our leaders man i'm talking about from the the whole spectrum from the from the streets all the way to like you said to the to the businessman and the father and the husband and you know what i'm saying man he he he own this [ __ ] man he only [ __ ] you know learned truly learned a lot from him and a lot of people absolutely and i was able to speak my mind when we had differences i never did in the front door whole crowd to try to you know what i'm saying but if i had a difference i'd go always put him to the side and say nah pee off i'll feel like that man and we always you know that's that's kind of relationship we had and that that [ __ ] was cool well you dropped the you dropped ghetto fabulous on on no limit in 98 right and then by 2000 you left no limit uh two thousand yup right right before i ain't i did not leave no limit let's set the [ __ ] record straight no limit left me man i showed up for work and looked around there boxes and [ __ ] there they hit no more what the [ __ ] away no living [ __ ] nah pete i was i was in atlanta i was actually recording a song that that out that the uh that um shake ass on i was recording that album because that's when that's what [ __ ] juvenile hit lord have mercy jesus oh jesus 400 degrees you know i was situated in the [ __ ] with him sit down so that was and you know we competitive so i'm like man how the [ __ ] can i just [ __ ] he was killing it it was no he was just like me he was something you never heard of you go fresh it was news like [ __ ] and shake your ass came out my [ __ ] mouth that [ __ ] cause i got a p i got something i got something for that back that is got him i got it never made it to him i never made it to him he called me i was in atlanta in the studio he called me said man look they said mike bro we did our thing bro we everything you know on up and up i'm gonna go and let you do your thing i finna go in a different direction man i was really hurt i was like hi bro hi all right [ __ ] and then after that the biggest album that i could ever made i was by myself single out i wasn't in the crowd and because like you know it was uh that was a big crowd to try to shine off even though i still i still shine through like a [ __ ] in the crowd but i didn't have a crowd they have to shine through this time i was by myself you know i was by myself and it was the most successful album i ever had for real i remember i got on the airplane and uh setting entertainment was on that well i know people ready let you go boy that man you killing this i said man like that man still doing that thing [ __ ] i feel like richard said [ __ ] you know what i'm saying so that [ __ ] was fun man that [ __ ] was fun okay so you're talking about the let's get ready album right which wasn't my best but definitely was my biggest it debuted at number one on the billboard 200. not yet 200. on the billboard 200. not the r b charts yeah not all that [ __ ] the the one with britney spears and got the kenny rogers that that one yeah the big one it ends up going double platinum right right how did it feel to be in the game and listen last time on platinum so you're right you know you're already really in the game but to have a number one double platinum album coming from where you come from how did that feel it felt great i i i was expecting more because like i said i was looking i was watching nelly and and uh outcast and i got you know what i'm saying and all those guys like that you know i'm i'm getting grammy nominations and [ __ ] like that i'm like [ __ ] who beam in the first half eminem [ __ ] then the second time outcast beat me but that's i still i still was in the conversation you know so i mean it felt great it felt great it felt gratifying you know i definitely deserved it i didn't earned it for real for real well on that album the neptunes did three songs now and for those who don't know pharrell is half of the neptunes that's that change that changed my whole entire career we changed each other career at that juncture because because i think i had i heard that oh oh no oh oh well we've got woo boy what [ __ ] that yeah they killed that [ __ ] they killed that [ __ ] like how did pharrell end up hooking up with you on that album uh that was that was that was jive's idea that was john's idea that was the idea so they they played the norris song for that oh no then i saw the video i think that's when he had roy jones on that mug too so i was like man i i like that beat and we got in the studio and man pharrell has he he has the ability to bring whatever you have in you bring it all the way out so yeah he is does [ __ ] oh yeah uh so on that album danger been so long produced by the neptunes featuring nivea of course when that was already done all i had to do was do my verses he had he had the hook done he had nivea already singing on it he had to beat everything sewn up all he just had spaces for me to put my verse in there and and and do some ad libs on top of the hook you know so i'm like yeah yeah yeah you know we we kind of knew where i was going you know i'm saying what i needed we knew each other as artists at that point that song went number one on the the hip-hop r b charts right uh and then shake your ass shake hands first shake ass [ __ ] first okay and i didn't want shake ass to be the first single because i didn't want it to i'm like man i wasn't like i'm trying to be like a juvenile with the back that ass i mean put one on my lyrical hard wood if you could i'm throwing all one you know i'm saying it's still that [ __ ] gonna go like nah man nah nah you gotta put this [ __ ] ass out and i and i always give toy green the credit for making that song what it was she was my anr at the time because i was about to make shake ass uh another battle rap kind of like a woman dick in my hand my foot in your head be cool and i have nothing to do with no woman or a bird about her ripping this [ __ ] she want to quickly put a flipping [ __ ] just what do i do see still not about a girl i'm not professing i'm out there crescent nazis a full-grown german shepherd [ __ ] keith stephen i already wrapped my heart [ __ ] towards them said wait nah mike do something for the ladies you gotta say something for the girls huh pay your help fix your hair throw that plus i got product for my boo now for my boss and she changed the dynamic of that [ __ ] song man and it made it it made it made all the difference in the world i love you toy thank you dawn uh uh forever and you're dead for that one [ __ ] yeah and that song got nominated for grammy right right that was your first grammy nomination ever ever i remember my i was somewhere my mom called me said boy you nominated for a grandma lying to me like no seriously i was like wow wow that [ __ ] was dope that [ __ ] was dope great well and that song i mean just continued to live on it started showing up in movies and tv shows everywhere everywhere man i i was like true a-list celebrity man you you couldn't cut that television on and not see me man i was on everywhere except the [ __ ] young and the restless you know what i'm saying i i was on my way and and didn't know they had a dark cloud brewing that bills was brewing and it it felt so gratifying because like i said in the beginning of the the rap [ __ ] coming from new orleans you know wasn't trying to hear us when i said we cut country as bumpkins oh no [ __ ] rap because like when i first started getting recognized in new york people were there gave me a compliment and diss me in the same sentence yo you that kid mystical i'm like damn you recognizing me like yeah i'm like man you [ __ ] my music oh nah [ __ ] i know yes but i like well why the [ __ ] would you tell me you know who i am to tell me you don't like it you know i still took it as a compliment that's good enough you know me i'm you're liking soon enough after [ __ ] gas i was in new york for the uh puerto rican day parade or something man it was a jagged edge and myself jagger they were doing let's get married i'm on a float going down the street with two million people in windows and all on the side of the [ __ ] this new york man this [ __ ] is packed so it's my turn to perform night did shake hand man after i did shake your ass and got to the end of that parade man i had to run down the street i looked back you know that scene with michael jackson with all the [ __ ] police and people running behind him and [ __ ] that's how that [ __ ] felt i had to run from that [ __ ] crowd and dive in the back of from fans from craven raven fans you know what i'm saying that that's that was the kind of love i got in new york after that i'm like wow wow and and they liked how i looked to them girl they the girl had like that i looked it look i was all right all right there you go there you go all right okay then the next album tarantula don't know still don't they're one of my favorites too still one of my favorites that album goes gold right see that's how the [ __ ] you go from cards juvederm back marketing mark it really shouldn't matter what i put out after that it's it's the scheme you know what i'm saying is come on man come on man [ __ ] so blah blah blah uh the neptune's worked on that as well yeah and i think it was it was that first single i did not want this what did this start off with bouncing back i didn't want to do that and and i did it for for for honorable reason because of the the 9-1-1 tragedy you know what i'm saying that happened or whatever and you know ferran was like man let's do it i was like nah man put out the rationale first put something it just i don't think bouncing back should have came out first shoulda did that [ __ ] second or something we had time to do that let me let me come out put you know what i'm saying put my best foot fault the [ __ ] that i like the best because the world that i that i like better always come out better if i like the beat then if i'm doing a song and i like it that [ __ ] gonna come out right if i'm just doing it for the money you work hard for the money don't damn [ __ ] that album you got two grammy nominations still still you said i'm saying like that come on that [ __ ] don't go together come on now come on now i went from here to that's come on now i saw i know i gonna win now [ __ ] [ __ ] right because it was a you got nominated for a best rap album right i got one grammy nomination for a double platinum and two grammy nominations for a [ __ ] goal yeah uh right and also the nomination for a best male rap solo professor pharmacist right right right right right right right yeah unfortunately you didn't which i was without i still still grateful for very grateful very grateful you know well then right around that time ludacris drops move [ __ ] featuring you man that that [ __ ] still feel like my song i feel like my [ __ ] song i feel like man for real but you know what's funny i had that beat before he before he did i don't remember hearing it though uh chaos said man i gave you that [ __ ] beat first i don't think the beat ever got to me i think my man i'm saying man you know what does she i don't think it ever got to me and and you know what that that uh nah uh 911 did play a factor in the difference in the sales i forgot about that i forgot about that time that's when the world was [ __ ] up man man i remember that i i like i mean i was a dj when that song that movie was blowing up was when i moved yeah when move [ __ ] came and let me tell you man it's like when your part comes on right you go here i come here i go and you shut off the volume and the crowd goes in the concert that's man i don't know how to do that i don't even have to have my uh oh they really gonna say that whole verse really they especially that [ __ ] hear my dad where are you that was a fun one man i had a lot of fun i i wrote that one uh i was i was on twitter i was doing a segregator with a jagged edge uh uh uh jaime you know me and and some openings whatever like that but that that's when that's when i wrote move [ __ ] that's when luda sent that to me man i i remember i wrote that [ __ ] on my tour bus on my tour question we pulled over to some studio and i would drop that [ __ ] right quick phone i sent it back to him [ __ ] yeah i mean is that your biggest song that you're on what move [ __ ] man i got a song with [ __ ] mariah carey there's some beggars out there who are uh uh well jeremy's okay let me let me say like this before we started out when you're doing concerts when you're doing shows is that the biggest song one biggest reaction one of one of one uh yeah i gonna probably probably get the like like if if if i'm in the uh in the arena and they kind of dry they kind of too cool or whatever to move around you know sometimes you get those kind of crowds i'm like all right guys don't worry about care yeah i just do my thing we'll go through the motions yeah yeah matter of fact boom boom boom ah [ __ ] don't dance alright y'all my [ __ ] school stop and kill them dance stop dancing [ __ ] you weren't dancing at first you know so yeah my i i i know they're bringing out the ass i'm not bringing out the [ __ ] ass okay and then there was uh i don't give a [ __ ] right little john the east at the end of my concert i say y'all good y'all do y'all y'all straight y'all gucci [ __ ] okay have you never called a missile counselor when the world makeup you better make your way to it goddamn you better make your way to it still to this day like like deontay wilder to this day to this day i still go on [ __ ] around with y'all well you had your situation after that we're not going to talk about it at all we can come out we're not going to talk about it all okay you come out when you come out when you come out of prison was it hard to readjust back to about your society boy i was i was in such a culture shock uh the best way i can explain that if you ever seen the movie i'm gonna get you sucker when the pimp got out and he had his [ __ ] uh his fish tank shoes on platform shoes and that's a [ __ ] behind the fashion power curve behind the culture curve behind the music man up man i was [ __ ] up bad man i was lost it took everybody took me about about a year yeah and a half to kind of readjust her because i had totally disconnected what i was during that time i couldn't pay attention to the streets and do that at the same time too that was just had to keep my eyes you know i'm saying focus on what the [ __ ] i was doing that [ __ ] was heavy man i had to sit in front of [ __ ] clock and look at six years elapsed off that [ __ ] [ __ ] you know innocently like damn you know but but i still was able to look in the mirror at myself and be like man you good you're good something good gonna come from it some good gonna come from it what do you think was your worst experience while locked up just just being away and being away from my children and missing missing those those beautiful years of my children growing up when i left they were two and three or three and four some [ __ ] like that man three and four years old you know and i remember sitting them down at three and four years old trying to have a [ __ ] heart to heart try to explain to them i said listen i i remember telling my daughter i said michelle daddy daddy going daddy might gonna have to leave for a little while i'll be going for a while but i'm coming back i am coming back and daddy love you and miss you daddy is coming back okay okay i forgot that [ __ ] 10 minutes later but you know it i did that with my children man i did i remember doing that [ __ ] that [ __ ] was tough man that [ __ ] was tough and it just felt and it felt it felt [ __ ] up because like my mom always always say mike is so free-hearty just so free hard you just give so freely and nobody don't get free to you you work hard for what you do and look how quick they [ __ ] over you look how fast they you know i'm like hey it'd be like that you know my monetary losses material losses i always say ooh lord thank you lord i ain't cut i lose my fingers on the [ __ ] toes i lost some time but i didn't you know losing in my limbs i didn't lose my [ __ ] life you know so yeah i mean no one ever tried to test you whether the other prisoners or the guards or or they all just fans i ain't really had a i don't really have no problems and when i did i always nipped it in the bud i did six in the can but i'm a [ __ ] i'm a man i drunk it like a six-pack and then i know that yeah my chest got big but i didn't get a six-pack man eight man you know i'm oh look and you know a lot of people they they kind of they kind of surround him like man we got you back i'm like nah i gotta fight my own battle because if i let you fight my bad now i gotta end your [ __ ] draw nothing now now you seen my [ __ ] keep wrestling me i'm trying to roll on my buddha please help me please help my all [ __ ] memes don't let her get my booty but other than that yeah i got it bro i got it i got it from here i got it from here you know i got my message man i've met some clowns in that [ __ ] man foreign a lot of good people in that [ __ ] up place man you know i just i was able to bring some light to a dark place that's all you know it i used to inspire people just by surviving like the guy that slept next to me two years two years had passed he was like man how the [ __ ] are you doing i said come on already in two years now just saying what you doing i got to do it and i know what they meant because they got a lot of artists that wouldn't have been able to do it like that with the mindset you know the thing i'm most proud of i came out that [ __ ] myself you know what i'm saying with the growth and everything all everything that i that i gained from it or whatever but i came by myself man like for real because a lot of people don't make it home they sell this [ __ ] boy that [ __ ] is precarious [ __ ] well you get out january 14th 2010 uh and you start putting out some music uh i think you had a song with lil wayne right see that i i still i still was in the culture shock i ain't i still was shooting live rounds i just wasn't hitting the target my conversation wasn't what wasn't lined up to you know i'm saying where the world was it just wasn't lined up i saw i sounded like a [ __ ] throwback i might want to put my [ __ ] out on eight track you know what i'm saying so after a while and you know what i'm saying i like i always always use the exact example when i stepped out of out of jail in 2010 i lit felt like a little white boy jumped over my head riding the skateboard with some earbuds playing lil wayne you know what i'm saying skinny jeans i'm like where the [ __ ] are we you know what the [ __ ] is this you know so after i shut up for a second and just and just watched and listened and paid attention to what's going on i said okay i got it because it took a girl one girl i was messing with i guess it was like this might have been 2011 12 or something like that i was doing i had two shows at the house of blues in new orleans and it was real big shows man my first concert at the house of blues that [ __ ] was like like like the essence fest was going on in new orleans i had the whole [ __ ] city festival i said man all these lights and cameras and helicopters and explosions and this [ __ ] is for me and my concert they're like man [ __ ] right bro [ __ ] city ride for you bro i'm like all right i rocked the [ __ ] show i killed that [ __ ] i'm just i remember standing feeling proud and i was kind of showing off i asked the girl i said i did that and she was like yeah you rocked that [ __ ] but what the [ __ ] do you have oh she was talking about my clothes i wasn't dressing right over damn bloody laughing bro say what the [ __ ] did you have my for the second show she bought my outfit and now i was i was on then i was like all right i see y'all see what you mean i'll see what you mean let's see what yeah right right because when you left everyone was sagging right the big white teeth jeans you come back everyone's wearing i mean like my wings look man put my [ __ ] crew just wet on achilles oh this is expensive no no more mike no no iceberg but [ __ ] no that i know you need you boy all right all right all right everybody [ __ ] [ __ ] it [ __ ] it i ain't gonna go outside there i ain't gonna ain't gone [ __ ] it okay and then that next year you end up signing cash money right now how [ __ ] ironic was that all right right you go you go from from dissing cash money to signing the cash money and cash money go from sending hits at my ass to say you know what i'm saying that another one the first thing people said when i when when you signed me said boy said [ __ ] i was sending that pressure at you away i said i know i see the things i know i know they said man you handled this [ __ ] by your [ __ ] self i said i know i know i'm some [ __ ] worth dying [ __ ] you know i remember i remember having a conversation with master p and and he was trying to discourage us from performing like man i don't want y'all out there for safety because you know i [ __ ] up it was out there because when i first saw mass speed we had the bulletproof vests and [ __ ] like man i ain't never felt like i was gonna get shot up with this this whole pig what the [ __ ] i don't really need this uh it ain't like that for me but anyway he was like man i don't want you guys performing out there i'm like why p man [ __ ] trying to kill y'all out there say p [ __ ] i'm gonna be on that [ __ ] ground still holding the mic they're going to that [ __ ] still rapping i said that's worth it i said what else they got what uh what else what else could happen that ain't that ain't nothing but what else go ahead then thank you man thank you bro thank you bro you know yeah he that's that's one thing i can say about master p he he allowed the artist to be the artist after you give him within because he only want from the elements he wants what cam you say he wants you your mama song mama wants to pray for your baby and your homie song that's it you make all of the [ __ ] you want that's all that's his criteria well those guys two songs for you you know what i'm saying definitely well how long did you stay on cash money uh that i don't think that was about music babe was just saved my life that's all just say see see me falling off the shelf you know i was a a treasure tower city until you know what i'm saying to the you know to the rap game period you know what i'm saying so he kind of caught him for my left porcelain porcelain bowl fell on the floor and shattered he kind of caught me just just put me back up there and also his everyone to show me how rich they was too [ __ ] [ __ ] y'all rich god damn babe i mean the first time i i walked i walked into that that record company walking through the parking lot i tripped over [ __ ] bugatti and then bumped my head on two mate box before i hit the ground plum [ __ ] try to go inside and tiptoe up the steps threw a little rain grandma's head in the head poop like the cartoon but focus this [ __ ] y'all rich but when i get in that [ __ ] boot though yeah cut the lights off man the lights don't go out [ __ ] i'm in this [ __ ] yeah and i start going yeah for real that's that's that's that's that's that's why i shined that right there they cut that [ __ ] beat on so so it worked out man that was a great experience it was great and i'm forever in his debt man shout out birdmaster little big dog thank y'all man thank you wayne thank y'all bro right but you never actually dropped an album on cash money it wasn't about that it wasn't about that it wasn't about that it wasn't about that we devil's gonna have creative differences because babe was kind of like being an anr and kind of terrible i'm like baby you can't rap me you can't tell what the let me do that part you signed me as an artist you know i'm saying if if i'm signing the football player i'm signing him because i know what he's especially he can catch or he can throw he's fast you know let me do what i do let me do what i do and you already took over this this side of the world and this there's a whole another lane of the world that's mine that's that that you can have too if you let me do what i do you'll have all that too you know what i'm saying but it never came to that never came to that man that was that was that was that was a missed opportunity too i thought she was at least gonna put a [ __ ] album out man that oh i had a body music i still had everybody music you know it's like it never got a chance to come out yeah we got a chance to come out well right because you guys dropped uh original right you know that was pretty good yeah i mean i'm looking online got 15 million views on youtube that was dope big song that was dope we never pushed him we never follow up we never did anything like and my favorite song was [ __ ] though see that was the kind of song i'm shocked he let that be a single let me put that [ __ ] out you know but never put no push behind it never did and that was on the radio never i never heard it you know i never heard it never heard i've heard it okay and then you know we fast forward a little bit and you dropped uh just a little thick with uh without dickie and turned out trinidad james and lil dick and myself man we had so much fun we was about to start a [ __ ] group together tranndictaco your friend miss good little dicky and trinidad james training technical that's just gonna be fire man another dark cloud was coming no no clown was [ __ ] blowing [ __ ] and that [ __ ] felt like a bad joke i said now somebody is just doing [ __ ] cause they could do it not it it ain't funny no mo you know and then go through all that [ __ ] after all that time this are we gonna drop it y'all was going by the hall like find the [ __ ] would you drop it you know what i'm saying let the ripper band off again come on now you know come on now they people knew better than that [ __ ] they knew the first one was [ __ ] they knew that they knew that [ __ ] you know that [ __ ] like well i mean once again we're not gonna go into anything i know but i'm just saying for people that might find them themselves in that kind of situation man that's if you know you truly honestly didn't do nothing man that spiritual warfare bro that spiritual offer i can't i can't i can't defend it physically i didn't do nothing physically to get myself in that [ __ ] situation so i i i approached it spiritually and i fought it spiritually and i was saying and spiritually i can't fight i had no hands i had no spirit hands i said we let god fight your battles and photos i believe you know yeah so well december 18th all charges were dropped right right how did that feel [ __ ] i mean it was gratified it scared the [ __ ] out of me that's just i felt like because that don't normally happen for me that don't not like that man i felt like man i stayed inside three days felt like i was gonna walk outside and the piano was gonna fall on my [ __ ] head or something i said man cause normally they [ __ ] over me with the lies and all that [ __ ] and then all my blessings come after after i make it through but i i should i endured enough of that [ __ ] so it was time for that [ __ ] to get off me man it was time for that [ __ ] to go so that that was perfect that was perfect i would what i did was i had to get their evidence expert somebody that they know and love and trust and let him tell him what happened nothing happened you know and they know he wasn't gonna come in and [ __ ] lie from it because that was he was the guy that they use for their evidence and they murder cases and all these situations that get people in jail for life and all that [ __ ] so he came for me on my [ __ ] behalf they were like all right thank you thank you mr feretti thank you sir thank you dr ferretti thank you thank you thank thank you thank you joel pierce thank you tim yazbeck and and and with my baby uh uh uh verity bell well she's a verity gentry now yeah for real she was she was my specialist she was my specialist for real so they they came in got that [ __ ] off my back man for real and and i couldn't even afford to pay them hot they great like high-ass fees they they just came and did it for me i was like man man let me make my first album i got y'all i got y'all here i got you i got y'all i gotcha [Laughter] so you know you haven't had you know a full album since what 2001. that's that's what toronto came out and what two thousand traditionally came out 2002 2002 yeah okay it says well on wikipedia says 2001 yeah well you know that's well it was december 2000 closing up close enough close close enough so it's been almost 20 years feel like i ain't been out dropping down beetles dropped their last single yeah man for real man seriously man it's like but but you know what i you know what you know keep me upbeat and keep me going i can always go home and cut off something that y'all never heard before and perform that [ __ ] and know it's a hit and i could perform that [ __ ] like it's danger or shake ass or something that's been out see that that's that's that's why i clash with the music industry right now people do songs and they just do another song and do some man i make a [ __ ] song to go perform it when i do a song when i get to the concert i expect y'all to know that [ __ ] you know i'm saying it's not like that anymore i don't have that machine behind me so i got some mega hits like the song hit it i did the [ __ ] uh roller stone put it in the top 100 song that was a leak that wasn't even a song i've released i don't know how i got out but anyway the song hit it when it dropped man i know that man that was an international hit man i was ready i know i was gonna tell the world over that [ __ ] never got a chance never gotta really got a chance to release but that's i got back in the studio with sites right now and then we finna we're going to do some things and and kale and pharrell said you got an armored car beat for me so so whatever oh yeah let's go pharrell got it for a guy i got an armored car beat for you i said okay okay okay and you know what else i got i got to give snoop dogg a shout out because after after i came on from that six the first time snoop before to me all his luxuries man his management and you know what i'm saying produces and you know i'm saying he's just he just helped me man he just put a team around me man and really helped help shape me and get you know saying give me give me a bad gun get me back on my feet put me in the uh uh uh uh the devin movie uh when i slow burn within that move uh uh mac and devin go to high schools yeah so like i got trying to do that you know i got me some show money got got some shows with him and things like that you know so and definitely can't forget uh the mark ronson bruno mars [ __ ] movement too man that was that was some a-list [ __ ] too for real they came took me straight from the chilling circuit hold up i'm gonna send them he'd be back y'all and took me to saturday night live and ellen and jimmy fallon you know and then i went back to the chilling circuit but i i got a break i got a break for a second you know right yeah you didn't feel right uh you feel right and it felt right exactly that [ __ ] was fine right i mean because i mean with your style a lot of people compared you to james brown such a compliment man come on man jay john was the baddest [ __ ] that ever put on a pair of shoes for real you better ask michael jackson bless himself said i love that guy you can't even michael jackson couldn't even say james brown without crying you know what i'm saying that's not bad that [ __ ] what man man dude you have you ever seen james brown on the tam show doing a prisoner of love at mag when you when you vote when you don't have nothing to do you have a spare free minute pull up james brown tam show performance it's like 18 minutes bruh man bruh be the bad [ __ ] ever ever ever ever ever ever i've been watching like some old elvis shoots whoever i ain't know i was that [ __ ] bad too god damn elvis yeah with this [ __ ] too all right man we have some that's that's the kind of [ __ ] i watch on on my free time when i'm on youtube but just looking at [ __ ] you know [ __ ] that inspired me man you know oh yeah we see it yeah i mean enough richard how is it how is it now was in style today is getting killed on live you can't be dead on live that don't go away that's a [ __ ] oxymoron ain't it that's that's that's the [ __ ] right now dead on live what the [ __ ] hey hey got you know protect your children man protect your children bro and your loved ones and be smart [ __ ] i don't know and i mean the other person you get compared to is a little richard that's just sound like a stab but i mean that's a compliment too it's just not like a jedi little richard bless it so yeah trust me trust me i know you're bad [ __ ] i know they talking about the the the i guess the the emphasis in the flamboyant i guess i don't know you know so yeah the ritual is a bad [ __ ] too bad [ __ ] too that's definitely a compliment right well i mean if you talk about new orleans right true you know the whole transgender scene hip-hop scene has always been a very unique very very very very you can go to to a club in new orleans and there's a circle of people surrounding somebody dancing in the middle you're like oh let me see the girl turtle trucking there's a [ __ ] dude's work oh [ __ ] all right you know that hey that's our culture though you know that's our culture man that's all that's our [ __ ] culture that's our culture it's our culture so what's next for you the world chico [ __ ] you know i put the the next step i put the next put my foot in front you know i'm saying take it take another step that's all that's not a step they can notice that recording man just trying to try trying to uh find that love again for it because without the passion i can yeah so just just trying to get get get back in love without i fall back in a little bit and fall back out a little bit fall in love and fall out you know it's it's like because at one point i i truly didn't i treated an aspire to be successful in how the rap game was i too much [ __ ] come with being popular down there ah [ __ ] my nerves too bad i'm nervously bad and and i know me so i wouldn't want to put myself in that [ __ ] because i man i'ma turn the [ __ ] up man cause i've earned it you know and i have children and [ __ ] you know so you know man i nip [ __ ] in the bud instantly so i stand so instead of putting myself in that composition that kind of i say wait i'm just over just kind of cause my way call my way and so i can do it to where i have my own lane and don't have to you know saying what i don't want to be a part of i don't have to be a part of you know i don't have to be a part of over the course of your career how many millions of albums have you sold that's a lot because if you come on think about all the no limits and right that's you stop right there you can start right there i've sold a lot of me my [ __ ] self collectively and then collectively with all the [ __ ] man how many how many albums do they say wikipedia say mouthpiece over 56 is the 43rd i don't know it's a lot that's a lot it's a lot it's right yeah because i mean whatever that number is i'm attached to that also you know right i mean the the double platinum album here the platinum i'm here the gold down here winning the grammy award winning album of mark granson i'm associated with that that [ __ ] want to help i mean that'd be one of the let me just want to uh the the grammy and i'm on that l you know i only got no grammy but i'm i'm i'm [ __ ] that out i'm on that one again this [ __ ] so so with all the millions of albums sold you you wrote most of that but you made yourself what you mean [ __ ] you mean me well well i mean i mean you told me like you know for example like on danger you know you said that was already down and stuff like that but as a whole but you're reversing you're right yes i wrote my own part yeah right that's what i mean but i mean as a song i mean there's a producer so you have portions of every song not necessarily a hundred percent right but you have portions of every song i got you i got you exactly i got it i guess that's what i meant but and it's something that i say that vlad because right now i'm gonna give me a team of writers [ __ ] with y'all talking about that's going to help me you know i'm saying get to that next level for real so definitely so so my question is with all the millions of albums that your name is associated with at this point in your life at this age are you financially well compensated for all that or were there bad business deals along the way where people i [ __ ] it up i was compensated i don't think i was compensated for compensating for exactly what i was supposed to get but nah whatever i did i'd definitely burn that up right now i can tell you that but i'm okay i'm okay i definitely can't put no [ __ ] hold no money phone up to my [ __ ] here definitely can't do that if i could beep you not only everything that i want to have i mean everything that i need have everything that i want you know so i'm good man i'm good i mean for the young artists that are coming up that are about to achieve the multi-platinum success what do you think some of your financial mistakes were along the way just not knowing any experience in experience not having it so not knowing what to do with it you know i'm saying all right man i want to die with all that [ __ ] man i'm going to spin this [ __ ] for to live this [ __ ] you know like like you said if i knew then what i know now so now i have the opportunity that i know now and i got another then so i can you know i could i could do better this time i can do better this time you know yeah at one point man i ain't want all that [ __ ] money that's too much [ __ ] all that you know i gave me something that money came by man like like when i'm in concerts packed full [ __ ] concerts fifteen twenty thousand people in the [ __ ] crowd and somebody come up to me and say man mr bro you man you underrated bro you don't get the credit you just stop watch this i take that [ __ ] [ __ ] that other [ __ ] i'll take that right there money can't buy that right there cause when i came home through 2010 i was the opening act because i you know i said i wasn't i wasn't on the radio all day the nicki minaj and the gucci mans and you know that they they were they were the headlining axe and i had to go first [ __ ] have trouble after getting off that still have yeah yeah trouble after that opening that kind because i i'm a performer i'm an entertainer man for real real talk excellent real talk oh oh yeah i don't think new too many people want to go on after myself juvenile juvenile stupid he's always said man y'all got me going on there and that's a bad [ __ ] man him i think we're the two that's my best one two puncher he can go first i can go second but a lot of times i go first he's younger he's he got to tell a story he's he's the biggest star he's the biggest star he's the biggest star so i mean we're just saying [ __ ] but i'm just saying that's that's that's how we handle it you know i'm saying he got the hits to back it up too he's a bad [ __ ] man that's little bro right there [ __ ] oh yeah [ __ ] yeah well mystical man uh number one at 50 years old you look great thank you thank you man thank you brother i laugh a lot lad when [ __ ] be worried and crying i laugh a lot i do and i mean especially you know knowing knowing your story from losing your sister having to see your sister like that to you know to losing six years of your life in prison to having to go through a whole situation again that you were acquitted of um the ups and downs the you know the the success but also the the pain right and say failure failures thank you that's the word the successes and the failures you know it's dualities there's ups and downs and af after after experiencing what i did what i experienced after losing my sister ups and down what compares to that jail right [ __ ] no losing some money losing a [ __ ] up nothing nothing so after that man couldn't show me [ __ ] man you couldn't show me [ __ ] you know that's that's how i was able to walk inside a [ __ ] prison station i'm a federal [ __ ] that which is a little nicer come and i'm in pain you know something [ __ ] jail jail jail you know what i'm saying like and man i laughed the [ __ ] lot wasn't unfunny about it you know ain't nothing good about it i had a blast and sometimes i did a lot of that you know what i'm saying i made the best of it put it like that i made the best of it i made the [ __ ] best of bro that's that's why i didn't it didn't wear me out uh take have a lot of wear and tear on me i came out that [ __ ] fresher than i would if i went in there got got some rest you know what i'm saying [ __ ] i got my juices filled all balled up you don't tell my pile back up yeah i'm ready not can't hold me to made a baby first time first time i hugged my [ __ ] big mom she was pregnant i'm pregnant damn [ __ ] baby you know and i have three well four now beautiful children you know since i've been home so you know yeah definitely well here's my final question louisiana has always been such an important part of hip-hop in no particular order excluding yourself because obviously you'd be on this list but your top five louisiana rappers of all time in no order okay no order juvenile bg got this one sorry no way [ __ ] god that's two minutes man uh gregory d y'all know greg that's the one gregory d is the [ __ ] that made me want to pick up a mic and rap oh [ __ ] who am i missing man who a fiend uh my uh who uh who up man who have we got i'm busy moving [ __ ] [ __ ] we got two minutes baby well uh uh give me give me some more bandwidth uh uh man [Applause] [Music] well and hold on hold on we're forgetting a very important one nba young boy damn he he's my favorite right now he's my favorite right now but him and him and little baby and the baby nba people are my favorite right now yeah i like how you're doing it i like how you doing i like how you doing i mean when you look at you know we're in baton rouge right you know i'm not i'm not really in the loop but i don't really be you know i'm saying i'm a pop on 59 you know what i'm saying for real so but they they they we got a lot of dope [ __ ] man we got a lot of [ __ ] bro yeah me x [ __ ] [ __ ] for real for real for real ex uh yeah i mean i mean i mean it's kind of hard to really for real you know what i'm saying not thinking about it like that as soon as i leave all i'm going to cover my hair i'm going to see like damn that man [ __ ] i forgot so if if i did it if i didn't say your name man it wasn't cause you was dope charged in my head not my heart wasn't [ __ ] you know what i'm saying so definitely you know when you look at someone like an nba young boy right who who is hot to death right now one of the biggest artists in the world he he's he's from kevin gates kevin kevin the [ __ ] game this is another one right [ __ ] exactly when you look at an nba young boy 21 years old on top of the world platinum plaques on top of platinum plaques but constantly in problems always getting arrested it goes hand in hand it goes hand in hand i just a young boy just just always remember dude you can always take refuge take shelter in your music you go and that's that's what he does that's what he does that's why that's why his music come out that's why we can feel his music like that because he gonna wear it on the sleeve you know when he gonna wear that [ __ ] on his [ __ ] sleeve for real yeah real talk talk yeah yeah i mean it's tough like the the the hotter you get the more the more the the spotlight is on you and the more [ __ ] you attract right right right yeah all right y'all talking about yeah y'all baby i'll see you [ __ ] yeah why that look y'all don't know why i died it's important though man you know what i'm saying that should be important bro yeah you know young bleed also can't forget him [ __ ] bleed he was snoop dogg's favorite when when he was on no limit with us he was losing favorite man [ __ ] believe man so unique so unique you you you too see look i see you baby chuck man o.g silo for real he wanted one of the guys that always has he just has that that that wisdom man like when i first came home i asked for advice i said man first of all uh oh see though hi look he said well your jewelry look a little throwback you give me skipping man what you need to do is get get under some youngsters man and get the swag and just go from that and when i saw him again i'm like and that's what i did that's exactly what everything he [ __ ] took his advice and when i seen him again i said bro see low bruh chub bruh man you told me you said man everywhere i go everybody tell me that [ __ ] man you told me you told me salute bro for real whatever you doing big dog keep doing it pm for real [ __ ] well mystical man uh quite a career and i think the most important part as an artist is you created timeless music that's that you created music that's going to be around and past your lifetime past your lifetime when you're when you're gone right you know we're all going to be gone at one point your kids are going to be sitting around and they hear they're watching some new movie and and there's a mystical song that pops up james brown michael jackson i'm going we spoke about those people richard watch this michael jackson he's not going no more once you said he he's here i mean he's not physically here man this music can always be here always be that's why i always tell people life about memories man like well my mom and i was talking yesterday talking about my sister i was like and she was you know kind of getting sad i said well i bet you can close your eyes and think about some think about how the mirror coming out here something like she said law thank you for memories can't take that back can't take that back can't take that back so yeah man man make great memories man make great memories y'all for real love each other be kind you know that's that's that's what pissed me off about the jail situation why the [ __ ] be a kind dude and a loving dude i'm gonna be a [ __ ] paper man i might jack [ __ ] be underhanded and you know i'm saying be low down and steal from people and [ __ ] why be nice and be a rapist you know i'm saying [ __ ] don't go together come on get out my [ __ ] face definitely one one final question because i skipped over this i guess you've done an interview and you said that when bruno mars called you you dropped your baby that's a joke yeah i had to drop this dad for real for that phone call he gonna be all right [ __ ] [ __ ] he definitely paid some medical bills got crazy he caught me off guard i wasn't ready yeah okay so you didn't actually drop the baby no one come through y'all come on someone's gonna give me trouble bro [ __ ] [ __ ] people out there protesting middle school drops babies no i ain't dangling them over the balcony yeah i ain't doing nothing [ __ ] though oh yeah man cancer culture man you know the hashtag baby dropper like you know is this [ __ ] yeah we got hey got to keep it moving though that's all [ __ ] how do you how do you feel because you know i mean throughout your career really the internet was not as important as it is now and now you have cancer culture when people you know when people want to cancel somebody and everything else like that as someone who's gone through this type of thing like what is your take on cancer culture i understand where they're coming from that i guess you feel like that for a reason when i'm in a gas station i don't give a [ __ ] who in that you could be the [ __ ] grand poo boy the clue [ __ ] clutch clan you can say [ __ ] if you want to i bet i understand where you're coming from you know i said i don't agree but i understand where you're coming from that's that's how you was raised my [ __ ] i say whatever you know what i'm saying it's all good i i need you to like me i i but i ain't gonna lie man i i don't know if that man really killed club clan i could tell he was racist though man that man left all that [ __ ] guys they laughing like we was cousins you know so yeah all that [ __ ] man love beat anything okay nothing beat love love conquers all it does you know it does there you go there you go mystical man i appreciate the time uh congrats thank you for having me man an incredible career thank you an incredible body i'm still writing my book i'm still writing my book still writing i'm still writing you know so that's what it is yeah yeah they know they ain't seen the last of me come on now every time they duck my head under the water all they do is wash my face thank you man [ __ ] i had some coal in my eyes anyway thank you you know so right yeah make the best of it man don't do the pity part of [ __ ] you know make the best of it right and i see as you still have the no limit tank around your neck man this [ __ ] means so much this is a new one doesn't i don't know what happened to my other one but anyway it's a long story uh p gators p.s during our uh the no limit reunion tour man that [ __ ] mean a lot to me man it does man bro for real yeah for real that's what it is man mystical man all the best to you man you know and keep it just keep it moving man keep putting out dope music i got some thank you man man god bless you vlad brother 100. that's what it is until next time peace

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