Offset Tells Epic Takeoff Story, Calls Out Shannon Sharpe's Pants & Talks Public vs Private Dating

you got to stop wearing them tight pants too no I can't do that yes you you got to bro I'm trying to tell you like play I'm trying to tell you like I a't let them change me man ain't about that bro just you big my myice SCE got the roll of dice that's why all my life been grinding all my life all my life grinding all my life sacrifice P the price want a slice got the roll a dice that's why all my life I've been grinding on my [Music] the thrilling excitement of March Mania is here in draftking sports book one of America's top rated Sportsbook app is giving new customers a shot to turn five bucks into $150 instantly in bonus bet with any college basketball B North Carolina listeners don't forget draftking Sportsbook is now live in your state download the draftking Sportsbook app and use code Shannon new customers can bet five books and get $150 instantly in bonus bets only at draftking Sportsbook with code Shannon the crown is yours hello welcome to another episode of Club sh Shay I am your host Shannon sharp I'm also the proprietor of Club Shay the guy that's stopping by for conversation on the drink today is one of the most influential figures in the music industry he's a Grammy nominated songwriter a multiplatinum chart topping rap Superstar he's been a part of 40 gold in Platinum certified records a style icon and a Trends Setter a successful entrepreneur an investor actor Entertainer musician one of the culture biggest Titans he's globally known and a fan favorite and he's a father what's happening how was that intro bro I did I do you right that was player I like that you R the car out for me okay I did that check this out man you know you he thanks for coming to the club I got my own knac and the start of your little tour your tour big tour and new album new album Set It Off set it off yes sir damn you took it to the head like that cuz oh it's smooth I got to go and get it down now D I thought we going to sip throughout the throughout throughout We Sip the how we going to sip you know took to the first one you got to go and take to the Head real quick just get it in your body okay let me go and get you another one you know Godly I mean I ain't never had nobody do it like that say it yeah ain't goingon to do it like me ain't gonna do it like me okay check this out this is what I want to get to thanks for stopping by the club you're set to start your first headline tour solo yes sir what's the excitement what's going through your mind because normally you're with your you with the Migos but now you going to do your own thing it's different for sure everything um I'm super hands- on with everything um I'm preparing every single day with rehearsals 8 Hour rehearsals I'm locked in I'm really focused on the production I just want to make sure the production that's my main thing I like to make sure my lights is on time my smok is on time my team we on the same page with how the performance goes cuz that's why I'm put all my heart so you said the production so obviously you're a rapper and normally we don't really think of like production with with rap now that's R&B we see Usha and and and and Chris Brown they're singing they're dancing but I saw a little footage of you you're going to be doing a lot of that also yeah I got some moves no but it's u i I try not to be like everybody else I studied the great you know James uh Michael uh I studed great and I just feel like Showmanship is missing and rap right now so I'm just trying to up the level so we can get get back to it and get back putting the show on for the people instead of just you know having all the good songs be hard but you know when you ain't really it ain't no element of your show is just kind of get repetitive and I feel like I'm trying to step out the box you got your start as a backup dancer TLC Whitney Houston Bobby Brown and the music videos how did that come about did you audition did you know somebody that had that were a part of the the production with these these people no my my mom was driving me in the car one day um in College Park and it was like a sign she seen it and she pulled me in and then when when it was time to go go I just went in I was like 8 years old did my thing and then they I stood out and they just was asking like who was this kid and then we was just like we just pulled up and I end up making my momma $300 man each video what we needed that money too back then real it felt good just being I ain't I ain't she she she got me whatever I want but I just know like at the end of the day that 300 help 300 help right so what what's your finding memories of that because obviously you know who they are you know TLC that was a local group Whitney Houston was as big as big as as big as you got so what was going through your mind you're an eight-year old kid your mom just stopped by like hey we gonna go in here do your thing did you did she know you could dance yeah you know it's a little family thing the whole family knew I just was a little little dancing when I was little right you know what I mean and um the most memorable thing I remember is just staring at with Houston couldn't believe they was right there Then Bobby Brown came out and he was cool and like making us laugh Mike EPS was there right and um he was funny he he was funny and then um it was like a it was like a pimp walk that we had to do a part of the scene and and I won and then Bobby Brown gave me $100 I remember that that was hard do you keep the 100 or you spent it oh that was gone oh that M spent you spent that no but it was just the experience of just being able to see how video set was uh ran during that time and how Ser she took her craft with a play like with the camera angles and everything she was detailed and on every single every dimension of of the music video so she was hands on is that why you're so hands- on because you say I'm handling every When the Smoke supposed to go the Smoke's go when this supposed to go the camera supposed to be here it's supposed to be there is that where you learn to be hands on yes like looking at the grades because I feel like back then they didn't have the same opportunities as we had know what I'm saying so all that counted for it and then just be taking take like it's art at the end of the day so I take it seriously MH and I just want I always want to make perfected you know you a big fan of Michael Jackson what was it about the king of that made you gravitate towards him his worth ethic first and foremost and like um his determination to be better than what he was cuz you know he was and I just felt like it was a it was a relevant situation you know what I'm saying dealing with family in the group and just starting to go on your own and to grow as an artist and then he I just always know like in the history of him he always challenged himself to be better and bigger stronger and um just taking the art to another level where most people be scared like that's like the production of my shows like I feel like a lot of artists or rappers ain't going to really do that because they might not think it's the coolest thing to do but I'm trying to take it to the next level so you're willing to take risk in your music career at this stage of your career would you have been willing to take these risk earlier in your career had you not been established like you are now would you been willing to take those type of risk um I don't think so cause I had not doed so far into myself yet and believed in myself when I first came into it it was just like I'm living a dream kind of and I ain't really I took it serious but I start as I as I got older and went through the game I start paying more attention to details and learning the art of things to that what made me stand out you reacted a thriller and a smooth criminal in one of your music videos did you I mean did you understand that like the the the craftsmanship Michael videos uh smooth criminal um the one um what's the one he did with uh with uh Janet his sister that was way way ahead of his time right is that what made you like man you know what I really want I kind of I like him I'm I'm a different you know I'm Different he's pop you're like rap is that what made you like really get into the music um or did you always know you wanted to do music I always wanted to do music it was like and then I'm from so you know like Gucci and it was a big was a big motivation to that too to keep real and like but as far as performance entertainment yes looking at him and like shooting my own videos CU I directed all those videos you saying to to dive into that and the film part aspect of it to put the film mixed with the music I wanted to I wanted to get into that and I I looked at him as as that CU if you the same thing you saying like Thriller back in the time like the money he even spent to make the the video that wasn't a normal thing no and then I don't even think they was showing black artist on MTV yet like that so for him to change the game and then it open the doors for everybody that's all I'm trying to do for this generation they showed him but it was like a midnight 1:00 in the morning when everybody was going to bed that's when you had to watch him so if you didn't stay up till there you it was it was over he was getting no Pride child watch it so I I'm I'm you got a Michael Jackson tattoo so bro I mean Michael was that look I'm old enough to remember Mike when he was with the Jackson 5 and just watch him transition to do off the- wall his own thing and and then Here Comes Thriller and then bad and so forth and so on so was your family did your mom listen to Michael Jackson who listened to Michael Jackson that you like man this dude is got my mom when I was like four years old actually my uncle my Uncle D and my uncle van they had like it was around Halloween and they put me in the room all dark I was like four years old so I got put on mic when I was four years old okay and he they was playing Thriller and when I when I came in there I was trying to do what he was doing it didn't scare me and then ever since then like my mom and my grandma they always play music around right and then I I remember when I was probably like 10 or nine I got the moon walker I got no I got the American dream on the VC uh VHS and I used to back then I got a picture that I posted before it's like I had a little TV maybe like 10 10 in 12 in and it was sitting on like three books right and that movie was playing on the back of it so yeah cuz you react didn't you re reenact one of his uh his the I think it was Thriller Smooth Criminal smoth criminal yeah and they actually um I can say this they actually they actually green light and brought me the actual clothes that he wore for Smooth Criminal the family really yeah so cuz I wanted to connect with them too cuz I I wanted to pay respects too I didn't want to seem like I was just uh like mimicking cuz I was just inspired by it and so I did reach out to to the family I don't want to name them stuff because I know they very private and I want respect that but yeah I'm tired that's that's that's what's up I'm looking at you and you're making the transition and we saw a lot of the greats we see within a group Jackson 5 transition away we see Justin Timberlake in sync transition away we see Robbie Brown so forth and so on is that the direction that offsets headed in I'm just trying to be the better me you know what I mean I'm just trying to be the best me and get to the highest level that I can get to and um I started you know I started I'm I was grow I'm growing up and I wanted to get my business in order and understand the business so I wouldn't be tricked or nothing like that be lost in Lost in the sauce of what's really going on and like I just dove into me so do you did you did you talk to any of these I mean obviously Beyonce probably you know she started was in the group Destiny's Child now she's solo so it's Kelly Roland um have you talked to any of these people that started in a group and branched out and kind of do their own go solo now have you talked to anybody or you just like hey this is what I want this is my career I think I know the direction that I want to head in and this is what I'm going to do no I never talked to nobody but that might be a good idea though I ain't never talk nobody about it though I just was a decision within myself you know what I'm saying and you felt that this was the at this time at this time was the best the best thing for yeah I'm just building my Foundation I'm playing my seed so what's your take I mean obviously Atlanta and there are a lot of great groups you know you got Goody Mob you got Outcast you know the Migos you got a lot of where where would you rank where would you rank your group even if you want to do just Atlanta groups or you want to do NW you want to do NWA whatever if I do just Atlanta I give us two cuz I'm respect we got you got to respect out yeah I mean they they kick the door down for us down south I mean when it was a time where we wasn't even accept it then if you look at Dre the way he was able to like change his whole fashion sense and change his whole look and still be cool with the same people in the hood that he grew up with in Atlanta right that mean a lot to me cuz you got Outcast wuang NWA run DLC now we go now if we go all the way I'm still going to stay at two cuz I'm going put Outcast first I'mma put S2 I'm put wuang rap groups locks I get them for lock man what you you you you put NWA way down there I respect NWA and and and they kic the gates Off K the G they ki the G they kiic the gates off and like everybody in everybody in that situation still got some type of motion right now that's still here right and but I'm young too you know I mean so you really don't remember a whole lot about NWA remember a whole lot about n definitely don't remember uh run DLC no for sure no for sure no that's that's my error but I but I do pay respects though I ain't no I ain't no like no young head that's like not knowing what's going on they kic them do down for us even krs1 like they kiic the do down for us when they they made gave us opportunity to be here where we at right now so you got to always pay respect man off said it was really good to see you and quo performed the BET Awards in honor of of uh takeoff what was that moment like for you the moment was special man um it gave me the chills it gave me like a boost to life I spoke about it before um just cuz like a lot of these people be in the way of stuff and don't really be knowing what's going on with family you know what I mean and family go through ups and downs at the end of the day when you can get back with your family and stand there and represent the family to the world is the best feel in the world M it was reported that for real convinced you to do it was this something that had you had you in quo actually spoke about possibly doing something together and would you collab with him in the future we had we had so the answer first question we had spoke about it and then the closer got to um I was in Paris um for fashion week and so the time the time I we had to I had to I had to I had to leave that same night and luckily God God willing we was able to find a flight that same night to get get me up out of there but I just it wasn't a thing where I didn't want to do it it was a thing where I was all the way in Paris and and it's all the way in LA and I'm right how I'm going make that work and it was like the planning of it was a little uh we made it happen like me and quo made that happen right but you guys needed that we needed that we needed that for each other and just just just for the peace and for the world because one thing about even though I'm going I'm doing my solo thing I still understand my core base and I still understand that I'm Amigo end of the day like that's where it come from that's where that's where my roots is my roots stay and I never turn my back on it you know so well is there a is there a chance that you and guy you and uh quo can do a project again together it's possible I read where take off was really a funny guy fun to be around fun loving is there any funny stories you like to share body um that you can share with us funny stories that I can share with y'all I don't even want to share my little Jewels uh yeah we was making Bando a long time ago we was living on offside Mama house we used to had a we had we had took the you know the mats from from high from school the little blue little thick matchs yeah we had took that and nailed that to a closet and when we was making Bando I wasn't so confident as a rapper yet you know what I mean cuz you know they was giving me the game and teaching me how to do stuff and then I remember when T came in there he did that he did the he he did the he did the the Migo flow first the first time I ever we we ever seen it and then he was teaching me and then when we was teaching me I couldn't I couldn't get it off my tongue and then we just we was just laughing and laughing and it was just like the reason why that's so special is because we had never thought that song was going to blow up like you know what I'm saying we was just some kids trying to Chasing the Dream everybody neighborhood not really thinking like what y'all doing right we really going hard and I just I try to keep all the the the the the the fun memories to keep me going cuz it's hard bro you got a tattoo of him on your back yeah um what are your three what's your favorite tattoos obviously the one with take off that that's very meaningful yeah because of the relationship that you Shar with him so what are your three favorite tattoos my three favorite tattoos would be what it got to be six cuz I got five kids okay so you got so you got five kids so the five kids are your favorite they're my favorite okay so what's the what's the other favorite my other favorite my mic tag I like that my M tag um um my grandmother's name Sally you know we from the country and the third one will be to say that right the third will be my mom is my mama cuz I ain't going to lie when I was young I had got tatted up right like 14 15 so I'm thinking I'm cool I didn't have no meaning I oh she let that fly no she ain't let she ain't let it fly I had I had I had sold my Xbox and everything to get tto Ted I wanted to be the first one in school with tattoos and I just getting dumb tattoos like I got Louis I got l Louis Vuitton I had Louis Vuitton tattoo before I ever own a I had I got uh I got Marvin the Martian he ain't even my favorite cartoon you just getting tatted for the hell of it I'm just trying to be cool I'm come to school look what you got look you got so you when your mom found out so how did you so obviously you got them in places that she no I ain't getting no no no my first was I got right here okay you know and then clothes was still a little the shirts back then was still down yeah okay you had you had to extra large te huh tall you know the f one I get was my mama and my grandma name so when she pee I thought they were going to be I thought that was going to be the deal breaker them folk was not going for that I SL right in my mou by that I was 15 too she was tripping so you get a tattoo you wanted to be the cool obviously Mom and Grandma work and you Tred you tried to sneak it past like hey you know what I got mama name I got Grandma name so that thing going to fly they're like boy don't be marking your body up like that that was de mad about that you a big fashion guy when did you when did you get into fashion have you always been in the fashion I always been into it um you was at green bar Mall huh no I was inet place I was at G place okay you know what I mean when the polos was in right I used to risk my life for now don't think I used to risk my life just to be fresh i' have been chased out the mall stilling out of Macy's and I didn't get caught though but I was but but couldn't afford certain stuffff like when the Levi way was in a long long long time ago and then I I would go to the masy store and be like I'll be trying them on I might got two three of them on but one day they caught on and then so you take off with them on I take all with him on get up out of there oh yeah out of there down the escalator that's what killed him he come I went down escalator opposite way and then you know another black brother helped me out though he was working at um I think it was Honda cuz you know by a dealership by m and I was just running through but I lied to him I told him I was getting jumped I'm like man I'm getting jumped I need to use your phone and then I call my homeboy to come pick me up but yeah I used to risk my life try to get it if I if I a we a't have no money cuz I felt like you know in school when you young you being fly the only thing you really got right unless you like a super athlete in sports so was the flyness just because of you or you was trying to track the honey I was trying to track the honey and it was it was because of me too though I just wanted to be fly you know what I mean but I was though the honey like that they like they like the gear that you had on yeah I was having it on see if my senior year I got on Gucci and I wearing best dress so I'm saying in high school oh you want best dress I'm having pattern yeah I'm having pattern about the drip now yeah yeah that ain't just come when I got the money so so what's your favorite what's your so you going out yeah you I'm not talking about to the Oscars or to the gram is you just going out what's the gear I'mma throw on a little see I'm mixing it up so I might go a little Rick on you but older Rick though okay and then I'm going go marel on you cuz I feel like a nobody really wearing the Marella in my leag they don't really get it Lang they don't speak that language um and I like a lot of and the thing with me with clothes I like my clothes the cut is more important than the actual designer who's making it you know what I mean it got how it fit my body and how how I put it on it matters I'm going go belt but sometimes I might go double belt outside the loops I'm giving these Keys now when y'all remember this because you gonna see it now that I said it but yeah and I'm inspired by Mike too so I might go some days I might go blue jeans and when I sit down you can see the white sock on purpose like I got on Rick on right now you know right so I'm just I'mma just play around with it I'mma play around I ain't gonna never I ain't gonna never go mannequin I feel like a lot of people go mannequin they go I'm g go Gucci and I'm g go gucci gucci gucci I'mma go balenciag I'm wear it all the way down I really don't do that I like to switch it up so you can kind of like cuz in the fashion world people pay attention to what we call pieces so you want to always have a piece on which mean it's like a it's like a a rare a rare piece from the brand or something that everybody don't got that they want it though but everybody want it you know what I mean well if it's not if you say pieces but if you ain't got the Ensemble on how do you make it flow so how do you put Balenciaga with LV how do you put you know uh a mean with uh uh uh Gucci so how do you make it cuz you got to run away from the prince you know what I mean like as a fly person I'm I'm trying to stay away from the prince I don't want to I don't want you to really know this is that you got to really know when you walk past me you got to be into fashion to know to know what you got on MAR he got he got JW Anderson t-shirt on okay you know what I'm saying cuz the out loud to me that's country like I ain't goingon to never wear like the Gucci G print or the Louis V Jeep all the way printed up top and bottom outfit but you'll wear a piece okay it might be a Lou jacket or a shirt or something but you're not going to have the Lou pants or the Gucci pants to match that top bottom man that's mannequin okay okay we can't be in there looking like the statue can't do that but so if you were to put a piece together you know like okay you got some jeans on but and you got the Balenciaga uh the hoodie so that's how what would you what would you classify as this this is a Cas look this casual man you know this is this casual but it's still stepping cuz the brands is what it is I got Chrome I got a Balenciaga and um the way it fits me particular it looks better than if you fit somebody else but you in the Watchers too yeah you'll you I mean that that seemed to be I've noticed a lot of guys I mean khed uh Drake obviously LeBron HOV a lot of guys in the watches now when did that when did that Trend come about I mean me personally I stopped weing bust down watches probably like in 2016 I did that because shout out my jul Elliot he put me on game he like hey look them Diamond cuz I'm buying it from him yeah he like them diamonds you buying he like man if you can get connected to the store anyway you need to start buying watches from them because because that hold of value cuz he was teaching me about diamonds the different ones the tricks that julus play he was giving me the game and he like man your watch ain't going to be worth nothing he like you rather buy something that's 50 60 70,000 and then two three years AG go by now it's 250 it's an investment it's more of an investment piece than anything you know what I'm saying they go up higher than real estate sometimes it does it does so because I like I mean you I see the uh on the the right hand you got you know you iced out but on the r you just got the AP roll and also this another thing too about them playing watch it introduce you to people that might wouldn't look your way it definitely introduct your people CU they know they like oh is that a protect it's like a solid World they know what's going on they know what it is they know what's going on and they know you know if you got a now obviously everybody going to know what a rle is but when you start getting the protex you start getting the APS and things of that nature the re they like really really I ain't going to lie I got a story for that one time I was in V I'm at the crowd table cuz I don't really go to the private room cuz I feel like the energy from the people sometime make instead of being so serious so I'm at the reg table and this white guy come and grab my wrist and say how do you got this watch and I said what you mean how I got the watch he's like what do you know about the watch CU it was a it was a padic yeah 5980 the big boy oh yeah that picture yeah the RO yeah yeah they discontinu that Mar now now now you now we talking we yeah yeah you know what I mean yeah so and I'm like he like how old are you it made him start asking me my age and everything I'm like man I ain't up 2 I was 28 during the time and he like like that's a great watch man and it didn't offend me like that it kind of put me on game like I know it was kind of offensive but at the same time it brought attention to somebody who understand understand the language and I like to be presented like that techn is where it's at that's us you never fail that yeah so let me ask you this yeah outside of real estate what's the most expensive purchase most expensive purchase outside of real [Music] estate most expensive is purchas outside of real [Music] estate could be a car I say over time like over time I I ain't never I don't think I never spent nothing over no real estate like I ain't been no dumb fol and spent no million dollars on no car and stuff like that I ain't I ain't going for that right no matter how much money I got it just don't be making sense like biggest thing you know cars be like 3 400 I done bought them a couple times hey you should be good now though what car what car that you you don't have that you feel like you got to get before it's all said and done because I'm sure you've had everything the culling and the lambo and the Ferraris and you had everything so what is it that offset would like to have that he doesn't have as a car oh man there so many cars I want you want a Bugatti or spaceship I I don't want Bugatti I want a like Ferrari though cuz like Ferrari I feel like the prestig of fer ferari oh yeah you know they discontinue that so you have to get one on the secondary market and you know they like times x yeah they about like 5 million 4 for sure it's a uh but what you going to do with it I'mma drive it but then now you can't put that many miles on it cuz then you going to decrease the value cuz I know you GNA want to get up out it yeah you that's why but see this the reason why I ain't did it though I could did I could I could have went him snatch a Ferrari up I ain't did that cuz at the end of the day it's like you saying and then one time I ain't going to lie I was buying a Rose Royce here in La at the Rose Ro dealership and then I I asked you how much Bugatti is he like uh 3.6 million it was the new the shot run and he like but listen man let me tell you some real sh black dude like let me tell you some real though soon as you drive off you lose a million soon you drive off he like you know if you drive a culling in off you might lose 50 that day right right there but with this car you're going to lose a million doll immediately just soon you pull out the lot and I'm like why he like I would never buy that car if I was you and he the dude who selling me the cars what I'm saying so I listen to that I pick up on that so but is out of out of question I ain't done with the money you got to have the money put up I ain't done with the money oh yeah it Ain how much you make is how much you keep now at the end of the day exactly you got to put that up I'm going to give offset three brands you going to only wear three brands for the rest of your life what you going with damn for the rest of your life you go three brand only Nike for sure how you can't can't L with Nike um forever only three of them yep I gotta go Nike Jordan that's the same thing though so I get two a pass on that yeah so I'm just say I'mma say Nike you can go highend fashion if you like yeah but I'm trying to make sure you talking about forever yeah that's all you got that's a long time that's that's a long that's a long time some of you can't wa forever uh a longl lasting brand I could work for a long forever marel okay and I'mma say Balenciaga longest Dem still in there which is the creative director State fell you're good okay I'm G give you a choice AJ ones or af1s the George ones or the Air Force Ones BR you gonna ask me that and I really collect shoes man oh yeah I know that's why I'm asking you I gota go F1 F1 for sure especially like 2006 2008 Untouchable oh yeah for sure 206 2008 F1 Untouchable Jordan Ones only the reason why I didn't pick the Jordan Ones is cuz I I like the old I like the Retro Jordan Ones M I like the 85s right you know what I mean the originals and you can't really find them I got five here though but you can't really find them nowhere that's why you can't find them cuz you got them all yeah I got them all every time I catch a pair I'm buying it so let me ask you a question how do you get into collecting shoes obviously we you grew up in the AA I mean I grew up in the era where Michael Jordan burst onto the scene and to get those shoes but we would even have the wherewithal to think like we got the shoes we wore them we a get the shoes we a have no money first of all to get one to rock one to stop yeah 100 not a lot of money back in8 i$ back a lot of my time my mom tell you the truth my mom ain't buy me no Jordan right it was too high so I had to get old enough and get to trade my Air Maxes and you know in school get to trade my Air Maxes uh for some js or do it like that so that's what made me get into it because the same thing you said I couldn't really I couldn't my mom didn't didn't have the money just be she we was on limit three boys it long time it was just my mom before she met her husband you know what I mean so we I didn't had the opportunity to get no JS I remember the two uh $89.99 f41 that was like the lottery for me black and white every school year yeah that was automatic1 you to be $4 pair F I said two two for 89 special we gonna go white we gonna go black and white gonna get one on special occasion but yeah and then at my school though I ain't going to lie though at my school in N by the time I got about nth grade you know everybody started feeling their self yeah if you came in my school with like fake JS it was like a known thing in my school bur my high school you coming up with some fake Js it's kind of was sad cuz everybody knew the protocol you know in the morning time cafeteria breakfast time you know you coming in you got to come you got to be right me with them it's like a protocol people that don't know your homeboy whoever them folks going to put they G to sit on the um sit at the table and lift their feet up and point at your shoe so it was an embarrassment thing so you had to be right stepping you couldn't come with them fake them F gazes when did you start collecting shoes when did you say you know what I'm going be a sneaker I'm become a sneaker head when did you start and do you wear all do you wear your shoes about grade when I was able to finesse and do stuff to get shoes probably like a l grade and if you go look at my old pictures like I was having limpic sixes on you know what I mean I always was having I was having the JS in the polo era we used to wear caros and polos and American Eagle and all that was in you had to have the J so about 11 grade cuz like I said I couldn't I couldn't from from middle school on up it was it was the same routine at 41 when How many pairs of shoes do you think you have probably about like 6, 5500 6,000 yeah yes sir do you got your do you have a damn a room a house your a house for shoes I got multiple walls and I got houses I got houses in New York here in LA and Atlanta so they spread it out in East Coast what's your favorite shoe to collect I gotta say fos Wes bro cuz it's more it's more let me tell you why let me tell you why let me tell you why because it's more it's more selections it's like it was a lot of collabs done with them back then and the leather on the F Force One from 2006 2008 is just a little different but my favorite Jordan is Jordan 16s and the fours but the fours you can get but the 16s they always rip like my gingers I got like seven pair every time I wear them one time they coming out they they they they rip cuz they old right so what's the what's the most expensive pair of sneak that you own marate flies they're like 100,000 but I didn't pay that though you the Air Max yeah Air Max the old ones the on I got the one that they tie for real and blow up and both my shoes work and they put up somewhere on Ice you ain't going to wear them I pay I wor I wore them too I wear all my shoes yeah I wear all my shoes I believe you ain't no shoe collector if you don't wear the shoe I don't I don't respect so you ain't going to try to get off off from there n never and I call him for the sweet 25,000 you call him what call him for 2 dude here in La at so stage I think he needed the money and I had it I got the money you need so what's the one thing that you bought purchased in your life that you like man I should have left that alone I can say what I it's not a specific purchase it's just like I gave a lot of money away like family friends loved ones family friends but I don't regret it though because at the end of the day my folks needed help but like now I'm getting older like I'm like now I you hold that money a little tighter you ain't Hey cuz you know they they figure you got let off let your boy hold five you like all right no problem I green at one point I was just giving that away yeah and then till got to the point where like you know you get to start seeing your real folks when that happened though you get to see who your real because when you don't give it to him now all of a sudden they say you acting funny you don't get it to him it's now you hearing the story man bro what they saying you be crab boy I didn't gave you all this and this and this and that but I'm a crowd now I'm to be I ain't looked that that disappear and then then I got real friends of I don't want to get it m like a lot of my boys from like 17 years ago we've been we've been we friends it be the folks that come like that you meet through through time and Sh you they become your boy now they part of the crew and stuff like that and then it be them to be like cuz my real homies be like um they won't even ask I have to ask them I because you know your family your brother you can see it like on you like you right you good right and even if they say I'm cool you know they not good you know they're not good you see what I'm saying you know it so I'm thankful to have that them type of people I got a lot of people like that too and I got homies that be like hey stop giving that some money stop giving him money to another bro like to another homie like hey man stop doing that so I'm good I got I got a good Circle I always tell people all the time you got to put limits on what you give because takers will never put limits on what they take exactly so free free 99 so investing what's what's some of the tips I mean what are some of the things that you know you're like man glad I got in on that damn I missed that opportunity so what as far as money because like you said you coming into some money you get M you got money coming in and you like it's not how much you make it's how much you keep exactly you can make 10 million but if you get 9.9 milon 900,000 away as opposed to hey I got a million and I kept 900,000 so how how does offset go about delegating where the money goes um I invested in PH Clan I got real estate um and it's this it's just I can't say what it is though I can't say I have a big investment that's on your phone that deal with Avatar mhm and uh I had actually listen to my mama to this so the dude was here in LA in Chinatown and he was working out of his his little apartment and she brought me to his apartment and then he needed like uh $245,000 and now now I can show you an article where it's like up to like 700 million but I don't never talk about you the first person I ever talked to about it's a avatar so it's like he's but I'm not allowed to really speak on well you good you straight in you sure you want to make music yeah I want to make music I mean you you good you got later though see what I learned is everybody Investments hit around like mid 40s right like look at n with ring and all that and like even Juicy J so I'm cool I know I got some up the river but as of right now I save a lot of money though I got a lot of kids bro yeah you got to save it's expensive I got kid I I got kids still got them you know had kids I got kids I've been there you already know I know you know and I got two daughters too oh you got two weddings coming I got two I don't want to I I ain't ready for them days or them talks I don't even want to talk about that so obviously the Avatar we can't mention about um let me ask you this what have you learned about the the since you entered what have you learned most about the music industry cuz I always hear it's cut throw they do you bad they put you on these deals where they take it all the money or you get in advance and blah blah blah so what have offset learned most about the business knowledge is key and you can't blame you can't blame the system cuz the system gonna keep going so what you got to do is like I did you got to adjust to the system get the learning what what what ask questions like I'm asking questions I don't want you to before you give me the money I'mma ask you what you what I got to give you yeah see because at first when I first came in the game well you got two million for me man run it publish you got five million run it not really reading the terms not really understand it and then your lawyer ain't going to tell you your lawyer GNA tell you what you got to do but I feel like if you build with your lawyer like I talk to my lawyer dayto day when I'm asking questions and he know like I'mma ask this question and I need you to break it down into a way that I can understand so I understand what I'm signing up to cuz I've been a dumb artist before just sign and just get because they get you with the money you got to think you 20 years old these folks like look you got a hot song Let me give you uh $2 million but then I'mma own you and then you got five albums but then soon the album come out most people don't know when your album come out you at artist level like me man your first month they done made 23 million wow but it ain't your cut it ain't it ain't your money and it's not counting to your recruitment but on the what they own that didn't recruit the 23 million and they still got you in $3 million debt and quarterly counting it down and they still got to spend the money to get so but at at the same time they making an investment so you got to understand the business terms and understand that business these folks need to make the money so and they giving you a lot of money but you also got to learn like okay cool what are my deliverables for this money what's the time limit on this on the deliverables and then me I love my labor I work my labor Capital Records I work with them I'm going go to the office I'm going sit down and politic if I got a complaint I'm not going to try to be like a about it I'm going try to get a way to to figure out the game how can I politic better how can our R shoulder so this person can know cuz a lot of time we blame the label but we ain't really gave them no type of information and don't like whole process so did you learn did you have to learn the hard way these lessons yes had a lot hard way for sure man like being trapped in deals or be being sign signed into one deal like not owning not own I ow my rights now but like not owning your rights to your music right all that is like you controll so help help me out with this okay there's ownership there's Masters and there's publishing or are those the same thing wait you said there's ownership let me ask you a question so is publishing and Masters is that the same thing no or they two different things that's two different things okay so you own the publish all my masters you don't uhuh I ow a percentage of my mans but I ow iow 100% are you going to try to get them yeah I'm trying to get them but you got to just you got to like I just said you got to finish your deliverables okay so say answer uh you get signed they sign $3 million Five albums but your album Turn might say you can't drop a album for 9 to 12 months so if we do the math that's some years that's years four years four or five years maybe even six years cuz the average artist ain't just going to drop no album exactly on the nine months so it's still going to be a stretch you're creating and then while that time while it's going on they still got to spend the money into you so it's doubling down so it's like most artists you don't see no check from the label but the one that you sign that's it that's it now publishing going to go the publish that's where publishing come in they going to go see where all your mus been licensed get all the licenses you can recoup through streams and all that but it be pennies to a dollar so it might so instead like for me my publishing I have an admin deal where we are in agreement that you will go get my stuff I'll give you a pie H but I'm not gonna put it all in your hand and you can go grab everything then I get the crumbs because then I'm G be left in the deal forever so the purpose of that is to recoup and re and renew every time every two every two three years you renewing without having to drop a project cuz you know with catalog I got a long catalog with Migos and my solo stuff it it recoups like I'm F to go reup now right I'm going to reup soon after this album so the streaming I because I've hear some people say screaming ain't no money then um I did talk to 21 Savage Savage says yeah hey they cut M check every month so there got to be some money in it what what's your take on what's your take on on on streaming I get could have checked too streaming is is is is it's it's not for everybody like I ain't G lie Savage got he he he he did it right like you get hot first you get a r you go he went platinum before he was signing anything so he got his master everything but that don't be for that's like he like a 10% he like a 10% with his situation okay but I'm saying most artists streaming ain't nothing but like a to me I'm going say it's a hype thing cuz you get you get sound STS money but the like you might have all the billions of Screams that ain't going to register to your to the to the that you ain't going to be getting no check like that all the time because it's that check is going to the label for signing you right so if you let's just say they own the rights they own the Masters they own the publishing so oh so in order for you to get that the billion stream for it to hit your pocket you need to own the publisher the catalog and all that other stuff yeah but it CS to it's it's it's two things with that see I don't want to talk too political all right for for instance like some folks that just be hardheaded you got to give you got to get with them folks a little bit because they still a machine like the label is still a machine I never tell nobody to be just straight independent even though people say it all the time but it's like you got to have you you already got to have some money put to the side before you just say I'm going to be an independent artist straightforward I'd rather be with a machine cuz the partnership and I sell music and my music sells right cuz they going to push they going to help push it out there and you because basically you you're spending their money making money yeah but you have but you have to position yourself right though offet because you have leverage too like but you gotta you gotta you gotta you got to not take the money up front like if I'm tell talking to a new artist I'm going tell them like Hey listen build your Buzz up to the highest peak that it can get you and if you can't get past that Peak then you get with them folks cuz then you got marketing and branding which L know I mean but SM but if like IV heed great he put He got hot he went platinum he had already sold a million copies before a label he signed to a label so now that's leverage like I just said you get leverage now you can walk in tell what you want hey look man I want my masters I want this this this and even if you get Masters I'm only giving you 10% and then you in a great position but most artist a't like that so what I recommend the most artist that's like in steals right now is figure out your deliverables your albums pay attention to them time spans you dropping them albums try to if you get if you get so say you drop an album and it was your first Buzz album that second album do better numbers than that buzz album then start to try to renegotiate because everything is for negotiation especially if you making them money now if you now if you grabbing all the money yourself doing your shows and doing all that and you ain't really blowing up as a brand they probably ain't going to rock with you it just need to make sense you need to make sure you building your stuff up so you can come with them with the lers hey this album I sold 50,000 my second one I sold 100,000 so can I change this term from 12 months to maybe 6 months cuz cuz now you need to be able to drop music rapidly anyways right that wait in a year two years somebody else be came through two three folks then be came through kick the door and it got hot and people forget about you noway quick you got to stay consistent has streaming help or hurt hipop it helped I see like lot of people say it hurt but they not I see a lot of older artists say that but y'all not see it the money we seeing it back in okay for instance back in the day you be you could be selling albums but not on the top a list of status and you ain't going to have no money like that it's folks that ain't never been on the Billboards with M because people streaming people streaming stream don't always regate cuz it's it's artists that stream big and don't never they don't need they don't go to Radio they don't need the radio they stream big they just stream stream stream and then that when you have high numbers in streams that create festivals and different shows and fan bases is into that now the kids are into who got dang this song got a lot of streams this this person got a lot of monthly listeners people look at that now back then people weren't really own it unless you did some amazing oh he did first week million sales and if you look at hip-hop back then it was probably like five six artists like 50 uh M it was like Wayne it was only a few of them ho it was only a few of them doing it and it was a lot of rappers and they you would see the difference in the money with us streaming even though you might not see a streaming chat man if you a streaming artists man they give you a lot of opportunities they give you a lot of people people because people are into that now people dive into that the kids is into that streaming artist people it's crazy now I feel like now that people are more into trends like what's trending know I mean like so if you if all of a sudden all the blogers posted like oh this song Got 5 million streams a couple days later it might have 7 million streams just from that just from people seeing that because people go people getting on stuff late what's your take on Tik Tok because Tik Tok is threatened to remove some of it from their platform because people are using uh the music what's your take on Tik Tok I feel like I I I Tik Tok cool my kids love Tik Tok What I just as a artist who who makes great music you know what I mean I feel like it should be also Tik Tok need to be counted as a stream too right you know what I mean cuz and this but I'm going keep it real too Tik Tok is taking a listener away because they going to instead of like listening to a beautiful art of song they going to the part that might it might be 10 seconds 15 20 seconds and people and when people is doing it so much it make people feel like they got to dis get discovered from Tik Tok like new artist you don't got to do that bro good music going to be good music regardless but I be hearing a lot of Tik Tok music now I ain't hanging on it I salute it I salute it because I don't want to seem like I'm hanging on the Young Generation I just feel like it do kind of close the door on the artist right like on the artist side but it can blow up it can make your catalog blow up like for instance you might have a song you dropped four years ago and it go viral tomorrow and it rechart that's the good that's why I say it's a good and the bad so um when when you said um artist going viral do you believe that's that's sustainable like you have a song and all of a sudden it just goes viral can that Artist Artist have sustainability for sure let me tell you why cuz every person don't went viral every every generation y'all just older generation just ain't call it viral right when somebody had a hot song that you never known and then the song becomes hot and they a new artist that's viral okay so viral it depend on the art the artist it's just if it's a great artist or not now sometimes people go viral and they don't be able to do nothing after that they might not be the best artist but I feel like everything is always been viral in music perod like Michael Jackson when he first dropped when he when he first dropped off the wall off the wall and then when he dropped bad it's viral it's everywhere viral don't mean nothing but everybody see it and everybody turning into it and and channeling in on this one thing oh so I don't I don't want to ever take away from the viral now it's people that do gimmicks I feel like gimmicks don't last okay that's that's that's what I would say gimmicks don't last what's the state of hip hop right now if we looking at the whole scale like we talking about you talking about like the state of Hip Hop looking at all the hip-hop history and everything or you saying be how about this the state of Hip Hop currently as opposed to where it was when you were you remember what hip hop was yeah is hip hop still that or has I don't know what folk you talking about is still that why would it not be everything is culturally removed from hip-hop period I don't care what it is it is a commercial that ain't got nothing to do with nothing it's it's all still brought to hip-hop at the end of the day so you don't believe hip-hop is declining I don't believe so not while I'm in it what the hell I like saying it's declining right now I'm in it not no sir and it's way more rich black folks off of Hip Hop that made it ever it ain't never been no execs in the buildings like it is now it's black execs in the buildings like in the labor buildings making decisions more than it's ever been and we still run the culture and then if you still look up the quotas people just be talking if you still look up the quotas that they make that they label make ask somebody that next time you interview somebody like that's in the music business EXA ask them where that money come from pop country or hip-hop at the end of the at the end of the quarters it's hip-hop cuz hip-hop is coming so much it's flooding the market it's funny that you say country we see beyond make a country song Texas hold him um went to number one on the country and the Billboard charts what made you what what and your best guess obviously you're not in her head you're not in her team's head what do you why do you think Beyonce charted out because that was a huge risk now she's big enough she's a brand to herself but she's big enough to take that risk to take that chance what why I I don't even feel like it was a risk no chance she's a real talented artist you can't play with her like you can't put her in no box you can't put artist you can't put artist in a box it's the artist like you can't put them in the box and if you just look her history she from Houston Texas they ride horses they country for real right she got folks in her family's country I got folks in my family in Greenville taror Greenville I mean tville North Carolina and Greenville North Carolina is real country folks and country music come from black fol I don't know where is the new thing where it's like cuz I seen somebody get mad at her doing the song or something I don't know who who who it was but folks got to not take it don't try you can't take our history too like you don't but you don't think that was a risk for her considering who she is look she can always go back to what she was doing she's still one of the biggest artists in the world so she even if even if and it didn't she had major success doing it but even if she didn't have success she could always go back and say okay I'm just over here I don't feel like it's a risk cuz she an artist like we didn't got caught up in this thing where we like oh if they do that they tripping or that's not you're supposed to be doing this you was an artist right it's no it's no it's like go back to Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson bro if you listen to Michael Jackson Jackson 5 in the beginning it's love love love and you hear bad and dirty Diana that sound like a rock song you know what I'm saying it's not no limit to if you're a great artist it's not a limit to it's not a ceiling on you I don't feel like it was no risk like she make she make country music and and she and it sounded good too right so you would you be willing to experiment I do anything I get on any I get on any song I done did EDM you going to do country I tried no we GNA wait on that not right now not right now right now now not right now I'll do anything though I feel like I can do anything you know what you was on the uh Beyonce Renaissance T what was that like bro it was it was it was like it crazy crazy bro I ain't going to lie it's crazy like the production how she do the show the Showmanship how the treat how you treat in like how the fans is treated inside of the show she she amazing she amazing bro I ain't going to lie like it's crazy I mean a Non-Stop two hours of non-stop dancing entertaining she man it's a lot of it's like a storyline yeah when you there it's like a lot of oo and I moments it's a lot of moments it's like the energy just moving in different Realms but you did the Elric slide I mean what what made you and jck ho get up there and start doing Electric Slide you know I mean it felt like we was at the barbecue man I mean you know you know we got to jump you cannot be at a black you canot be at to cook out of the barbecue family Union and not hit the slide you got to hit it you can't be right that s cool you got to hit that man you got to get in up man it's a it's a Vibe it's an energy thing like everybody was happy I felt good like the show was a beautiful show and it was just a moment and it wasn't like some thing well you thinking it was just like you was at the cookout like I'm saying like you with the family like locked in it's electric it's electric so what can fans the seeing offset for the very first time solo what the can they expect going to your concert I'm doing back flips off the wall I'm hanging from the ceiling I'm touching the fans I'm getting in the crowd with you we going to turn up we going to have a good time I'm not trying I want you to leave out with an experience like damn I didn't know he was like that I don't want to do anything that's too cool I ain't trying to be too cool for school I a never have to sweat I want everybody to have a great time like I said in my production I put a lot of I spend a lot of money into this where it don't even really make sense where they like oh you but I'm going hard I just want I believe investing myself I believe I got to do something to separate myself from the other artist and I got to do something that make me stand out that that that you know I come from a I got to still represent my roots and where I come from too bro like I come from the Migos as a great group you know what I mean and we did things at a high level so I got to do this at a high level so you believe this is your opportunity to really separate yourself from other artists in your field yes for sure I I am going to do that I'm not it's not something I think I am going do it you know you said this is going to be the greatest show Greatest Show on Earth yeah that's what you said yes I read where you you went to Usher when he has his residency in Vegas and you studied a lot of what he did and the production and the theatrics of him and you going to try to are you going to incorporate a lot obviously totally different vibe but you're going to incorporate some of the things because you like the way his show was produced and the way it was set up I like the way how he had it intimate and he felt like you could reach him and touch him and then just cuz I cuz I'm looking at a show different aspect of I'm an artist so I'm going look at it different I'm looking at what the fan responses is how you activate with the fan when he go up the stairs and he get on his DJ thing and he's literally in the crowd with the fans yes and they even know how to act they not even losing it they know how to act they keeping it control but it's like the environment he did how he did his small setup for him to then go do the Super Bowl right and he from Atlanta too like you know it ain't a lot of people I'm seeing doing that from the a so he from home so I feel related to him and shout out to him man he brought me out brought me out on his tour I was able to perform his tour how he did like he poed the film aspect of it too was like his backstage where I came from was like Club Usher and it was like a club in there and how he was talking to me how I would be talking to the next artist if I'm don't just come out on the show I got this camera blocking make sure you be on point right here boom boom boom boom like make sure I'm in pocket of everything to make sure his show is still running I respect the uh professionalism wow that's so obviously I read that you said you you spend a lot of your own money on this set on this production yeah why was that important to you cuz I come I feel like um is it a control thing it's not fair to fans from where I come from and to do less okay it's do less it's not I don't feel like that's fair and I don't feel like I would be respected doing a show simple like a simple show I just be in the midst of everybody else doing Simple shows I've been in the game 11 years so I gotta come stepping I gotta be I gotta you I want you to respect me when you leave out the building right why was it so important because I look I haven't been to a rap show in since Hammer was a hatchet but no yeah it's been a while it been a while said you got to get outside huh I'm outside since MC hmer since MC Hammer no I Ain see no MC Hammer I got no you got to go back I'm talking about I got to go way back I'm talking about like Run DMC and the last time you seen a rap concert yeah you not being a part of the culture I about I about record I listen you ain't buying a record you streaming the record okay yeah come on uh uh uh come on satellite radio no man you got to go see the youngest man do their thing man you got to go see them do they thing I'm in the bed by 10:00 what time they coming off y'all coming on at 5:00 in the afternoon no I can't St that L you got yes you can man you got to rock with the c I got to work in the morning you got to rock with the culture man you can't let cuz then they going to put you in that old head bracket That ain't cool see old head bracket is only not it's not cuz of age it's because you're not culturally involved in the youth okay they call you got a lot of young cats rocking you bro they do they do man bro they like you too they rock with you bro okay all right I guess I'm you got you got to stop wearing them tight pants too no I can't do that yes you you got to bro I'm trying to tell you like I'm trying to say like I ain't going let them change me man ain't about that bro just you big I know too big for that n but see you see if I got on if I got on big clothes they might they got with big clothes but you I got on these these caros okay these fit but when I don't when I got what you call them uh when I'm out doing stuff for for my lorer bro I'm going to be comfortable you can be comfortable in I uncomfortable I ain't uncomfortable in that I'm comfortable in what I got I'm comfortable in what I'm comfortly you shouldn't have to worry when you buy tickets to your next big event game time is the fast and easy way to buy tickets for all your sports music comedy and Theater events near you with killer last minute deals all in prices views from your seat and the best price guaranteed game time takes the guest work out of buying tickets game time is the only ticket out that gives you complete peace of mind with your purchase see the view from your seat before you buy so you know exactly what to expect when you arrive all in prices show you the total upfront so you know exactly what you're getting a great deal before you check out buy tickets in two seconds with two Taps take the guest work out of buying tickets with Game Time download the game time app create an account use the code SH Shay for $20 off your first purchase terms apply again create an app redeem the the code SH Shay for $20 off download game time today last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed the r Flair drift woo yeah how did how did the how did the the Rick Flair I mean you a wrestling I watch wrestling I like I I used to watch RI Flair too and that's my partner That's my boy that's my dog the ad libs so how do you come up with ad libs how do you come up with it's really a feeling and a and a in a and a it's like just an excitement a feeling and and when you doing a song mhm and it's like it's a gap filler and a lot of people and it's simple so people remember it that's the thing it's not so complex it's very simple when I do the Woos or the he when I'm doing that it's just a stand out moment in the song that I feel like a fan a fan just gonna dive into it and then you know RI flood did the woo right so it was only right I had to do it on the song but I read what you you had you had a little little discussion with Metro booming for putting U for putting on on the album without your permission y'all clear that up though yeah it wasn't a public thing that's my real brother so I we was we was we was going at it about that cuz um but I trust him though that so that even him having the choice and being able to do that is cuz I trust him but I did not like the song and he he always would tell me like but this gonna be one of your biggest songs six time Platinum yeah that was your first platinum record yeah so I had to respect him respect my boy it was my first solo Platinum yeah right yeah how was it working with Ric Flair because like you say you're a wrestling fan and if you're a wrestling fan you know Nature Boy he was the same way as I seen him on TV yeah he is he he was exact same person just a little older but the same person he got energy he ain't he ain't walking around like quiet no he loud and um when you know I like I said I play respect so I had reached out to him do the video and he he wasn't really so healthy you know I mean and then he said this brought he told me and I'm allowed to talk about this brought him back to life this what he say to me right cuz he said he was sitting at home he he wasn't working with uh the wrestling company was doing wrestling any he wasn't doing none of that no more and then when I made the song he said he started to get a lot of calls to like I guess bring him and do different different different things so if you always see him he got a diamond um he got a diamond Rick flet chain I got him too and he wear to this day every time I see him on his Instagram or whatever and he always show love to me in his um every time he in his interviews when they ask about the song um we only have a couple more minutes left but yeah you've gone to jail twice what what did you learn from going to jail and why did you go um I want to jail more than twice but damn oh we only got twice D how they make you out of jail where they do that at uh what I learned was like the find like I was young tripping you know what I mean I was I was going down the wrong path but I was just trying to get some money right I was never doing no I a I ain't never like I was just trying to get some money at all times right my brother got 15 years though that woke me up U my older brother he he probably only been out for two years now so you got to think he got locked up when I was 17 to about 2022 wow I mean so seeing the pain in my mama eyes seeing him get sentenc to 15 years in prison like you ain't never come you ain't come home 15 years and then like lost a lot of homies in the street too mhm that'll wake you up you know what I mean so I was trying to chase this music Chase something that get me up out of that and thank God it got me up out of it but then I still made mistakes in music but I was young my first time having a lot of money you know I mean I got I got my whole crew with me everywhere I go you know what I mean and then you responsible for them yeah so one of them Act a Fool that's on you yeah if I on you then clean I had to do a lot of cleaning up with my image man and I'm glad people don't don't really talk about it cuz that's what I did I did this for to push to push it away cuz at first I ain't going to lie when I first when we first was like it was like being the Bad Apple you know I mean sitting in front of these bands and they like well you you come out of jail so we you want to and and to shake that image it was hard and but but I'm able to shake it like I always encourage my my brothers in rap like you talk about how you talk but make sure you presentable when you come to the people you want time yeah you talk like that you talk to your homeboy but when you go to Corporate America you talk to people that can give you some money clean that up you got to clean it up we gotta be on time right can they expect you to be late yeah cuz you came early I mean no I was on time they told late n the interview was the interview was schedu no no no no no the interview was scheduled at 1:00 12:15 I got my schedule I can pull it up no but I'm just telling you what what we was how you going 12:15 they what y'all said they come for y'all I pull up she ain't in here I said damn no what happened was I had a meeting I did schedule two meetings today the interview was supposed to be at 1:00 you being a rapper y'all normally come at 1:15 130 see that's up that's up bro corporate world think the same way it's the truth how many times you think I'm sitting down with you guys I ain't late though no you early I'm on time you no you early you an hour early see I hit you with expected that you did thought I going to be late no I didn't I no I normally get here at 12:30 so when CJ hit me up and said everybody you be so everybody be late no not everybody I ain't late I'm on time all my me I won't cuz but but but that works for me though I like when people be you was early yeah I'm supp to be how you thinking I ain't I'm not oh you you was on time ready to go you know came in I'm like like you here already here ready to go we a got you something to eat come back still ready to go I like well damn yeah man you gota be professional oh they Barry Kudos and I got a production company too that I I got my own prod production company so I be w f to be be on time yeah yeah I'm I'm a big stickler for time be be on time invest my money and myself and and my brand so yeah so do women actually before obviously did women visit you in jail for sure you all lame all now this before everything now this yes come on now so I had juice did did you know these I mean these people that you had messed with and so they come they like hey I'm coming to see you the funny thing I tell you funny story all right so when I first was uh locked up when we had bace I was you know I was in jail when we blew up yeah I had like three four people on my list right three four girls yeah I was just cool with on the list and they wasn't showing up what I'mma tell you let me let me let me tell you how this go though my mama coming every every weekend my homeboy he my homeboy freak he coming every weekend it was him three girls soon my song Get on the radio I get on the phone they like this song all over the radio blowing up going crazy bro you would believe these folk come to the visitation now in the C County it's like they show your picture and they got the name of the people these girls was sitting in one lobby and wait and and going after another I I I start getting one visit to having four visits cuz during the time I don't know what it is now it was a long time ago you get six people that can visit you they get 30 minutes a piece but they all got to sit in the same Lobby and that's when I knew something was going on with the music I'm like it's really happening cuz it were like oh you like I got the juice I had the juice yeah I'm in jail you got yeah you got think I'm I'm about 19 I'm in the I'm I'm locked up and every time they like bro why they keep cuz I ain't tell nobody in during that time like when I was in jail I ain't tell nobody I was lame like bro that's me on the radio know I'm offet I was doing that and we weren't even all the way there yet but we was all on the radio and then they just start coming they like why you keep getting visits and I couldn't believe it either I'm like man they coming I mean how how they hold up you got three or four coming they and they sit in the same Lobby do they know they coming see you they know each other too how you pull that off it's you you like old sh hell when you well it start it start it start it just it's just I guess it was like the first it was like me getting to see the first level of Fame wow but it wasn't no fights or nothing it was just it was just everybody was chilling away just to go go visit me but it was like that at first though how about this give me a top five Atlanta rappers top five top five we gota go Dam I hate separating them you gota go Andre 3000 okay you know what I mean you got to go Amigos I got to throw me myself and there and you got to go I said it right now you gotta go Gucci gota go Gucci you got to go future you got to go Pluto you can't see them oh you gotta go future I want to say somebody y'all don't know though from Atlanta oh kilo you know who K he's from Atlanta right yeah exactly yeah kilo I got to get Kil Private Dancer see yeah yeah cuz that what I listen to my mom in the house growing up and I don't never hear nobody ever acknowledge them ackowledge him Kil [Music] Ali yeah Dan up for money I do don't know nothing about that I used to hear that I used to hear that I used to hear that in my mama house all the time you had once had an issue with Joe Buton because he said something because you direct as a matter of fact as we sit here you directed cardi B's music video for the upcoming I think the song for upcoming album that she got uhuh you had I don't think he feeling it but you had a run in with Joe before correct yeah we good yeah we good with Joe man Joe just be I don't like how I I RO with Joe I didn't talk to him on some on some man and man but I just feel like he kick it with you and then kind of dog you out to the world right you know what I mean now it'd be hard for him to do that cuz it's like the credits don't be matching like the comparisons the credits that he has don't be matching oh okay okay I mean right the credits that he got don't really really be matching to like the people he he be getting on ass but he do got a word and sometime he say some things that that do make sense but I didn't like how he was trying to on the females you know what I mean right like it's a Evolution bro you shouldn't say that the the that it's dead and then I don't want him to come for me either like cuz I done talk to him I ain't just down to I just feel like I dis I disagree with your opinion with the female music like they doing their thing why why why on it you know what I mean right but we good we good though no problem I ain't got no problem with nobody let me ask you this how do you the criticism that comes along with it how have you been able to develop thick skin because you know there have been some criticism I don't come from that though right you what I'm saying like I didn't I didn't thank God like I blew up in 2013 where we were still we had to get on the floor we had to sell C these we had to put posters up I come from doing shows from 5,000 to 10,000 chilling circuit like I didn't come from damn I blew my song blew up on Instagram I'm let me check my comments you know what I mean and I just feel like your core fan base as long as you got that and you sucessful you moving but you know you do see stuff and you go through stuff but I try to keep myself up out of that cuz that'll end up it it'll drive you crazy trying to like prove to the people cuz once they see that they can get to you they just keep going yeah they do they they they it's like one soon they touch touch that nerve and you show they touch that nerve they touch it throughout your whole thing like I be seeing now like when people drop music right they like the next day it's like trolls on there saying how many streams they got in 24 hours when I come from your record growing because when your record grow it establishes you more right cuz you can have a number one record for one week and then it drop off the charts completely and then that person who at 89 and they go to 6 69 and they go to 70 that mean they done been on the Billboards for 12 weeks and they got up to top 20 top 10 and you had a number one and it fell right off the chart I come from development music like right where every my first my first songs ain't go top 10 on no billboard and I still was making my money and people love me and it's it's I feel like it's it's taken away from the artist creativity they ain't really cuz they so focused on like damn what my number going to be I don't be I ain't cheing that but I feel like first week numbers is a way to downplay us to make us a less value in the game to like the big label social media social media what role do you think social media because you like you said people sometimes people say things on social media that they would never say to your face and sometimes people do things just to get other people in social media to click up with him like yeah you see what he said about such and such he said this about offset or he said this about this about that are you are you on social media like that or you just let it wrong I mean I'm always watching but I try not to bite the bait you feel me like try not to bite the bait cuz as the artist sometime we see that's do I a going bu the B I'm as a matter of fact since you mentioned that I'm G give me some title clothes yeah now you told me that right there see don't B debate I'm give me some time you can't bite debate cuz once you bite debate and they might be saying the crazy you bite the bait and if you when you realize like damn if I'm so small soon you bite the bait that everywhere yeah soon as you speak on something it just flooded everywhere it it ain't got big but I ain't going to lie I'm a person too though sometimes the super disrespectful I just got to say something cuz it be cuz sometime it just be like too disrespectful like it's been time one time like they was doing some weird stuff with my kids you mad at me that much that you got to bring my kids and do like a fake little weird meme I don't play I I now that's when I speak on it when it's like my family or like my kids you got some weird nasty with my kid like and it be fan bases that do that and it's like bro come on bro like you I I say something to that but most of the time I'm going to ask I got good people around me too sh so I'm I'm I'mma I'mma hit I'mma hit my folks like hey bro and they'll be like don't say nothing they'll talk me about a I ain't just jumping the gun though right cuz sometime you'll just blow it up some people ain't even seen that and then next you know it's on every blog like ask Savage about this about dating privately versus publicly and what's your thoughts on that if you could do it over again what are your what are your thoughts on dating publicly versus dating privately if I could do it again definitely privately just so not let me say not so public I mean not so public I mean not not so public because I like to show mine off you know I mean but at the same time folk being in your business and people judge you like just too much like just too much into your your your your world and and it deteriorates a lot of things with that man it put a lot of pressure on folks and stuff like that and everybody Ain not everybody not really supposed to see your in professions or your professions you know what I mean that's supposed to be it's like a household thing so I would definitely more private I read it also that you you put the lean down yeah why do you feel that was important it was it bothering your health because I mean I didn't have no health issues it was bothering my relationships you know what I mean yeah my family like I hated that my mom would say uh just sometime I don't feel like I'm talking to my son cuz cuz that hurt you know what I mean you can't keep saying it but so many times and it wasn't her trying to like but I it was genuinely I can see in her eyes what she said or when I used to be right there just high like and just sit and I just cast my mom I peep her like just looking at me and she try to look off I knew I was disappointing my mama and disappointing my family and this the greatest thing I did though bro I ain't going to lie I got a clear mindset I'm not um cuz it have you like a little aggravated a little bit let me ask you why do you think so many rappers partake in it I mean people got their own trauma sometimes it I I never think it's a cool thing like people be like oh it was a cool thing do I think you try something and you enjoy it it make you feel good and you keep doing it that's just me being a thousand as we wrap up here offset how does offset continue to evolve and move the bar by being more creative um taking more risk the risk get the reward I got that Ted on me no risk no reward um also studying the great man you got to study your history you got to study sometimes you got to you got to I hear a lot of people like I don't watch nobody but I watch great cuz I want to see what they were doing to separate themselves and to keep growing cuz it's hard especially in this time people don't be wanting to accept so you got to force them to accept it that's why I just said like when said with the Beyonce situation you going to accept this and we going to go number one and we going to keep pushing this brand and sometime the risk come with a great reward you can't be scared I feel like as an artist you're supposed to do that people look up to you because they can't do that in them in their lives they don't have the heart you you inspire other people so if you do the same thing you only going to inspire the same amount of people I always want to grow my fan base I always want to and you've done it you was on that big ass TV show right and you came and did your own thing and your done grew bigger bigger M you've been a football stars you went through different levels and it's still it's always room for being a bigger and a better brand and sometimes you go through heartbreaks or sometimes you go through tough times and a tough time would make you and and you'll feel like damn what's going to happen next and then you don't get distracted by it and you keep on to your mission if you really you dive into what you really believe in man it's going to come it's going to come through for you appreciate you stopping by the club best of luck on the the solo tour yes sir say you know what you come to a city in there OA I'mma pull up I'mma come pull up on my boy man I like what you doing congratulations to you man you know what I mean you been you been helping people and you don't know it you know what I mean people people you you started your own thing you know I rock with oo yeah that's my real dog now that my real dog I like what y'all boys doing y'all keeping it original it's like a black talk it's real relatable to Young and the old you know what I mean yeah keep doing your thing man appreciate that you stop by one night I'm going stop by I want to get on that one my boy that my real dog that my boy [Music] offet P the price want a slice got the roll a dice that's why all my life been grinding all my life all my life gruning on my life sacrifice hustle P the price want a slice got the rolling ice this why all my life I've been grinding all my [Music] life

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Published: Wed Mar 27 2024