T.I. On Telling His Own Story, Drake & Kendrick, Young Thug Case, Buying Back His Hood, Family +More

wake that ass up in the morning The Breakfast Club morning everybody it's DJ EnV justar shamine the guy we are The Breakfast Club before we get started I see TI looking again last time he was here we said that we didn't finish the wall yeah and we told the king that the new wall had him on it okay I see do you see yourself on the wall I see me okay all right just make you know in 14 years cuz you know everything on this wall is 14 years of Breakfast Club hisory we had to figure out which which version of TI was going to be on the wall I see I see you got Dre you got dread TI that's right okay then all right how you feeling though I'm cooling it man what's up with y'all good good can't call it I be wondering is dread TI more TI tip or Clifford Harris man yeah that probably more Mr Harris okay har yeah yeah it's a little it's a little it's a little evolved and elevated in the Consciousness and all okay so how do you how do you feel with cuz now that the evolved TI is also the the even more of a father TI because not only are you just a father you have to be a father in the industry because all your kids are in the industry man um damn yeah that's that's that's I ain't see that one coming you mean nah I didn't um you know cuz I mean to be honest with you when the money when he first said he wanted to rap you know like like he suck so I know did you tell him did you tell him you score damn but but but the thing is man I really I I I really uh admire his dedication and commitment to the craft cuz you know I kind of told him you know what was wrong about it and he committed to to to to changing it you know what I mean and he's probably one of the most eloquent rappers I know right now yeah that generation love him yeah he dope what did he what was he getting wrong man to be honest with you man all he was talking about was buying not the ice cream truck for everybody he was a kid something like yo bro you goingon to get your ass kicked man you know you got you right now you rapping about a privilege that only you can enjoy this is something this is a life only you know about you should be rapping about the things in your life that you have in common with other people who may not live like you and then that's when he start like talking about about you know um you know uh weekends at a mansion and and going to school for me Mama house and you know just just you know growing up you know without a full-time father and you know just those types of things and when he start tapping into the elements of relation that's when you know it start clicking on a different level did you have that when you first started were you yeah absolutely so you was Dope From the Beginning well I mean not as dope as I am now but I mean I I knew what I wanted to talk about it was always about me not having the pops it was about my uncle being in prison it was about you know me being forced to go to school when I don't think that's the answer for me you know what I mean um it was about you know uh uh how I feel like people in our generation is kind of pushed into the dope game whether we like it or not like I got demos of me in 93 and I'm rapping about the same [ __ ] for real you was you was a teenager then right yeah I was 12 13 years old yeah yeah yeah and now your youngest daughter which is I'm sure that's the one you got to make sure she's singing and she's successful people love her and I heard that you guys up here you know looking shopping deals and stuff no no no I'm not shopping No Deal uh she's up here with her mom like her like for real I don't push the industry on none of my kids I really would love for them to do like like major he he he just brought so much joy to my heart when he was like nah I don't want no parts of that I just want to he said he want to be a author like he want to like write books and do do stories and [ __ ] so that was that was like like a relief for me but but Aris is under her mother's toage as a as a singer and a performer and she just she just dropped the song with Van van well van van featured Aris on her song and of course you know van van is managed by the legendary MC light M okay uh so you know it's it's a pleasure to work alongside that team and uh van Van Works real hard she's super dope you know I mean she's a dope ass MC at five wow yeah I mean uh so they got a record and they went to the Tamar Hall show yesterday I was just there for support so is it A house divided is it I don't want my kids in this business but the the queen does oh yeah definitely um n no she definitely Josephine Jackson you know I'm I don't like I I really man I really just want the kids to be able to focus on being kids and and developing all of the fundamental principles that they need in their life in their character um uh uh but she like yeah yeah yeah they going to have that too but they going they going to do some work and I I respect the fact that you know she want him to work early I just know that this this game is unforgiving you feel me uh but so far so good man you know what I'm saying King man I think I think King he he he he trying he trying to get in the ring he want I see him boxing crazy he want to be a a UFC fighter or some [ __ ] I mean you know when that happened in the gym hey man he always been nice with his hands I ain't going to lie but I mean who you get that from his daddy nah I think uh yes Mom definitely um I think n I think uh I think really it was in his hard at first uh because all we did was turn him on to the the the principles of boxing I put all the kids in boxing Maj included major Messiah demion but King was really the one that really really really wanted to work at it he was going when we when we weren't going and he he just has a a love and a passion for it and and to be honest with you I think you know if he decides to dedicate himself to it it's something that that he could that he could he could thrive in if he take it serious so you used to box nah well not not not not not profession training gy okay okay cardio I definitely n i box for survival uh but I I didn't I've never played any organized anything I ain't never did nothing but ride bikes and sell dope all my life you never play basketball nothing baseball any of football you find me in a damn in a un taking a picture for a team man I got I I give you my my Tesla cyber truck damn it man that's impressive cuz not to bring up old stuff but there was a former uh champion of the world uh one of the greatest boxers ever who who quoted he's quoted as saying godamn TI was fast when you this guy crazy I remember him saying that he quoted he said that damn TI was fast Hey listen man I'mma tell you this um I think that you know and I and our youth you know what I'm saying we find ourselves in situations that you know sometimes it's more it's more metaphysical Than Physical you know what I'm saying sometime your mind and your heart get you through situations uh that your physical you never really knew you had the capabilities of you know what I'm saying uh and you know I I did I would never step in the ring you don't kick with a karate man and you don't box with a boxer you me you know you tried though nah I mean you know what I'm saying that was on the street sir I'm not getting I'm not going to be bound and restricted by no rules and regulations you what I'm saying we throw we throwing chairs and napkin holders everything what about this business you know cuz you've been in for so long it's been 20 it's been 25 now man uh so let's see 23 23 yeah what about this business would you not want your your kid what about it makes you not want your kids to be in it's the treasury it's the treachery the Betrayal the deceit you know what I'm saying I mean just the fact that my kids man they all expect they they they they expect uh great things from the world because they they were raised around honest and and righteous people you know what I'm saying they were raised around people that meant the best for them you know and and the world ain't that the world just ain't that so so I know that when they walk out the house they expect what they was raised around the people that they would raised the the integrity and the principles that that that come from the people they were raised around and that's not what's out there in the world so I feel like they already at a disadvantage mhm you never thought about I don't even know if you've done it like creating your own production and say you know I'm going sign each and every one of them so they have to deal with that and since you've been through the industry you mean working for my children no I don't want to work for my children you know uh it's guiding your children you rather you have your kids so you can follow and guide and make sure they do the right contracts your lawyers your accountants contr the with the label they not the labels ain't necessarily going try to I mean you know what check this out if now if it and yes they will try to play me you know but you know the game I got to I got to kick in those and flip over tables to get my money right you know I'm saying uh and it's only so many of me I can only get away with so much for so long you know what I'm saying some of the extremes you have to go through to get your [ __ ] together you ain't going to get away with that [ __ ] two times and three times you know what saying they go like okay I know I a coming this time you know uh but that's not a bad idea I feel like execution is key you know what I mean and the team that you able to surround yourself with uh and I man not just music bro I I run like run like 12 13 companies you know what I'm saying and I have a team of uh maybe six and like six of us running 12 13 companies you add another [ __ ] with you know with more [ __ ] on top of that that [ __ ] going you know some going to fall through the cracks mhm so it would have to be a hell of a staff but it's a great idea I tell you what how about you come on you come on board man and help me figure it out I got six kids Grand Hustle still exist it ain't like Grand Hustle don't don't exist absolutely I mean you know what I'm saying Grand Hustle like you know we we uh we exist but we a satellite unit you know for the most part everybody you know kind we come in as we need to to operate uh in the capacity is necessary but everybody kind of like doing their own thing a little bit coming from the EXs you come from do you ever want your kids to have just just some of that some of that struggle in them is is that necessary for them to have some of that ah [ __ ] well l king tell it he got he you know he he he got it out he got it out the mud man uh I mean now but I do I do see some of the the tenacity and King that I had you know what I'm saying some of the the the got to make it no matter what type [ __ ] like he he really pushing like he you know like he came like he came at at the at the at the welfare line but um I do want that for him but I don't want to be there to see it you know what I'm saying I don't think it'll break my heart to see it you know but yeah I would you know what I'm saying like if if I could fall asleep for if I could have fell asleep for about two three years and then woke up they were like man we glad you up man we were struggling like a [ __ ] man godamn and we ain't at you know uh I think uh I think that that that that would offer them some some principles that would benefit them you know and get and I think that you know that kind of [ __ ] you can't you can't teach that yeah yeah you know what I'm saying that kind of tenacity that kind of that kind of Die Hard you know uh uh just just resilience you can't teach that [ __ ] how much of that is coach's fault right because you know hip-hop has glorified the the ghetto we've glorified the hood you know we made it it's fly because that's what we came from well you know the hood always hey man look man I don't care man as far back as you can go the most fun the most excitement has always been where the most danger was that's right you I mean it's always been that way you know I mean man I mean is it the ghetto fault bro not I don't think so because it's not intentional you know what I mean the ghetto is the way the ghetto is naturally it's it's genuine you feel what I'm saying um ain't nobody intentionally trying to project no image just because they think it look cool you know I mean like [ __ ] do that [ __ ] because you know it's out of necessity you know what I mean mean or out of out of out of [ __ ] despair it's the [ __ ] who want to imitate that they from the ghetto that's doing it just to look cool you know what I mean the [ __ ] just in it they doing it [ __ ] cuz this all they got you feel me but it's so Unforgiven though like you know just think about it some of the stuff that we did just imagine if there was cameras back then you know I mean imagine if people were videotaping us and putting us on social media that should be amazing i' be it wouldn't be amazing greatest story told it would be the greatest story about people who never there to hear cuz you end fast the stories that you hear about tip from back in the day if you didn't if you didn't see it or didn't know people who could actually vouch for it you probably wouldn't believe it you done talk and forget and forget the hood n done talk people off buildings from committing suicide say like seriously like you done did out things that you like he did what now yeah well I don't want to look first of all I'm going say this man and I say this every chance I get man the glory go to God it ain't me you know what I'm saying I'm just I'm an instrument I just happen to be in places with a notion to do things that turned out to be the right thing um just as well as our places and de [ __ ] that turned out to be the wrong [ __ ] but for the right reason um I think that you know all of us have greatness in us all of us uh have a purpose all of us are s here with the capabilities of doing phenomenal things for the world itj whether or not we going to listen to that voice or whether we going to listen to the fear and the doubt you know what I'm saying the oh no you can't do that because every time I went I found myself in a in a an outstanding situation every time I I I found myself in a situation like that there was always that voice that man you can't do that how we going to do that that ain't going to work but I had to push past that and go on and do the [ __ ] and on the other side of it you know that's where you you get the courage and you get the the wisdom and the understanding I wanted to ask what did you think about and without picking winner the rap beef right and the reason I say it is did you think it was needed we've seen it with with you and and a bunch of people you've been beefing with we've seen it with Jay and Nas we've seen it with fif and gyu we've seen it with so many different artists do you think it it was needed in hip-hop to bring back that competition nobody got hurt nobody got you know nobody yeah I don't know about needed I would say I I feel it's inevitable you know what I mean I think man you know there can only be uh uh there can only be multiple juggernauts without a clash for so long you I mean eventually we got to see you know I mean which one of us which one of us is going to walk out the ring you know uh like ultimate warrior style like that just that's the nature of the that's the nature of the not just the Beast it's the nature of humanity to be honest with you that's I think that's in that's in the in the in the bill MH um but I I think that the the bright side here like you said nobody got hurt and we got some phenomenal bars out there definitely did you know I mean and I mean and and I think that they handled it way more mature than our generation used to handle it cuz our generation was music and being on radio saying when I see you it's going to go down well TI would have pulled up on a person's block and took a picture you haven't beat with one rapper that you haven't had some type of altercation with him hey man look let's or somebody in the crew hey let's talk about the bright side you know the Silver Lining is like you said it stayed on wax and but you know what I'm going to tell you something I'm a little more concerned about [ __ ] who don't say anything I'm a little more concerned with that you know uh but but I think that for right now this [ __ ] is is it's just it's it's a phenomenal sport right and you know we've had an opportunity to witness two of the greatest uh of of not just of our time but the greatest to do it yeah two are the greatest to do it go at it and exchange blows and [ __ ] you know I think it's a it's a beautiful time to be alive to say that we that we live through it you know I mean another page in this amazing book that is TI every time Drake does get mentioned in a rap beef somebody n nah we ain't doing that one I'm just saying it comes up every time I can't do it bro I got you I don't know man I don't know if you if you don't know what we talking about no don't bring it respect man go to the old interview but I need to ask were you surprised uh the other day Charlamagne um about a week ago right you did a freestyle was it on leas oh yeah that leyle Charlamagne get he got so excited he up here he listening to the bars right that's tip one of my favorite rappers the world got excited and I'm sitting there like what y' forgot tip cons spit like were you surprised that people really forgot that you can rap yeah they just thought you a comedian I'm like know bro I think uh you know out of sight out of mine you feel me um and and uh yeah I think man because I be hearing [ __ ] I you know they had these reaction videos where people play it and then they'll react to it m they're like man I'm not expecting much cuz you know when's the last time you heard TI drop some [ __ ] that was like oh Lord when was the last time you heard bars from TI I'm like time where the [ __ ] is this got been living who you know it's like these [ __ ] computers don't work or something but uh I I mean you know and to be honest with you I didn't plan on going there and doing that uh uh I really so I just you know I dropped I dropped the record Long Live OG clay me and NBA young boy uh dropped that record and of course I would moving around doing press happened to be in La uh and and and uh Jess incredible asked me to come in you know to the leakers and of course I did uh and and and we all have seen all of the other freestyles and [ __ ] so I was like in my head I was like damn how I'm going tell him I don't want to do it how I'm going tell him I how I'm you know when he asked me to do it how I'm like going to be keep it player and say no right and then at the end of the interview he was like all right well I'll let you later I'm like damn this [ __ ] ain't even going to ask dang now you wait a [ __ ] minute don't you ra this mother you know what I'm saying he was like yeah he like oh oh you get down like that like man [ __ ] man find me some [ __ ] man find me down like that God damn incredible yeah yeah yeah so that I mean you know what I'm saying that's how that came about it wasn't even nothing intentional for real you on the freestyle you said uh 21 Savage is is like a your grandson I can't remember the exact line but now that's that's that's a term that we have for like uh me Savage uh my part doc uh drugs uh uh dirt uh you know what I'm saying like it's a it's it's a group of that hang and we kick it and you know what I'm saying play cards and talk [ __ ] at coper code that just like a term that we've tossed around got you got you within our little group one thing that always goes viral is you talking to 21 and you telling 21 I can't sign you because you know if I give you a million dollars I'm G have to damn near yeah take everything yeah yeah yeah because the value of it I mean like for instance right and I mean you know he he he understands it now but you know at the time he want to hear that he like [ __ ] you got it come on man uh and I admire you know I admire his his you know belief in himself to even come forward and say some [ __ ] like that uh but but it's almost like okay let's just say if you go [Music] to uh a place that's being gentrified and the present value of this property is a 100,000 mhm but you know they about to build uh they going to build a whole you know what I'm saying and you know that over the course of these three four years it could go up to be worth 1.2 1.3 in about four five years is you going to come and get that million right now for that 100,000 for that for that property is only worth 100,000 right now the build the business is just not structured for that type of AC and that's what I'm trying to explain uh now if I do come and give you a millionar it going to be because I know that it's worth $1 million and I'm going to take something and I don't want to do that I don't want you know I don't even want that on my spirit right so I just communicate I communicate to him and I'm very forthcoming uh with with with with the intention walking into it and I'm sure that that's built y'all Bond over the years yeah man me him me Thug you know what I'm saying uh it's so many of us bro that we just had that b i don't make no money off for him I don't have no bus relationship with him but we just so we uh Weezy you know what I'm saying uh we just had that kind of relationship because of how we how we met at the beginning of their career M you talk you spoke to th yeah yep that have you ever seen a case like this he coming home got to be right nobody has yeah nobody has nobody has what what makes you think he I I believe he's coming on too to I don't think that the prosecution is successfully proven a case of you know him knowingly and willingly participating in a active street gang I don't I just don't see it uh I don't think that the witnesses that they've called thus far have proven what they said that they would prove um and and I I I don't I just don't think that you know that the the grounds of their case have been uh have been presented proberly I just I just ain't seen it the sad thing about that all is is that's a man that's a father that can't see his kids he can't make no money while he's in there all he's doing is spending money because you got to pay for attorneys and all that other stuff so when he comes home is he almost damn they got to start from zero again and everything that he built to don't worry about it when he come home we'll get it right we we we we just just get him here get but I hate I hate the fact that they do that you know what I mean th come home was going from zero to 100 immediately talking about a bank account I mean man bro it's it's it's already in the it's already in the it's in the bag all he got to do is touch down when he touch down we getting there now have you made a conscious decision to kind of like stay away from any political conversations yes okay why is that yes I have uh why man man cuz it ain't it ain't it ain't it ain't as important to me as it is to them you know what I'm saying like you know the the political conversations that I was having was out of a a sheer genuine sense of wanting to do what's right for the community it wasn't because I wanted to put myself in no position it wasn't because you know I have any aspirations of being a mayor Governor president none of that [ __ ] I don't care about none of that [ __ ] I hold a position I hold without a political presence um but for others they willing to d load to certain levels of treachery that affect me and the people around me in such a way that it just ain't worth it for me so you know uh I can only I can only help them till it hurt me you know what I'm saying and it just ain't worth it for me I I'm I'm out we no we talked about on a they tried to they tried to jam you up over support was over your support for another candidate I mean man like when you heard a lot of egregious [ __ ] that was coming out yeah yeah all that [ __ ] was you know you know what I'm saying she admitted to it yes she did yeah she did I can't remember her name yes she did I won't say her name I remember anybody care enough to research it it's googleable um but yeah man I a lot of that stuff that people was you know saying about me and then drug my wife into it it had a whole lot to do with you know my support for uh one political uh candidate and the opposing uh political candidate that was running against her you know had had some supporters that they used as henchmen to come out and kind of uh they they I guess they felt like they were going to remove my ability by um I guess muddying my name to keep me from being able to support the person that would beat them and I guess eventually I ended up supporting the person that beat them um but that was out of sh I didn't I didn't even like I wasn't even interested and I hadn't even thought about it until they started attacking me when they started attacking me it was a fight it was kind of like when you bag somebody up against a wall you got to come out you know but at this point I just want to live my life and you know continue to raise my children uh do the best I can for me and my family and you know just humbly allow the people around me to continue to flourish I ain't really I ain't tripping if y'all want whatever y'all want to do politically y'all go and do it go and do it man talk to us about the uh what the building called is it inada yeah inada inada what that mean uh man inada is a it's a musical term um in TR is a musical term that uh I believe it is a transition in music if I'm not mistaken um and I'm going to go to my Google on this I'm not sure if yeah please some research and check that it is a musical term though uh and I didn't come up with that name uh my partners my development my development Partners did yeah musical introduction or Prelude yeah okay there you go I was right after all okay cool um so it is a affordable housing mixed use uh community that uh we've been fortunate enough to offer to to to Atlanta uh because you know we found that % of the people that work in Atlanta can't afford to live in Atlanta now 90% yeah damn mhm people live on the outskirts of Atlanta now um because you know I guess the good and the bad you know so many people have migrated to our city making get a metropolis and it has brought a lot of great things to the city but one of the things that it has done that is uh that is that is that is negative is they they they they brought they cost a living with them you know what I'm saying like people move from New York and you know when you move from New York to Atlanta and find out where you was paying uh 4500 for a two bedroom and you come down and find out that you in competition with somebody who paying uh 2500 for a fabit room you're like man I give you 3,000 and so people just start overpaying and out price the people who had been working their Liv Liv there for years and you know and now here we are I think the last time you say you was looking for was it a drug store or grocery store uh looking for a grocery store and I found one okay yeah I found one uh at least I at least I believe we have as we've gone as far as a verbal agreement for a um uh for a grocery store to occupy the retail space that's um at the ground level of inada and um I ain't even going I ain't even going to say their name right now cuz I don't want I don't want to mess nothing up but I think I found one I think I have finally been able to offer fresh produce and groceries to the community I hope I can get a pharmacy in there too ohe and how and how big is this how many 143 units 143 units of affordable housing y I ask how do you know with Atlanta I notice like traffic is crazy now in Atlanta getting to the airport is crazy it is uh crime slowdown it seem like a lot in Atlanta recently um I haven't paid much I paid like crime I pay attention to it week to week you know what I'm saying like and in the last couple weeks it's been it's it's it's it's picked up but you know all in all bro um the city is filled with beautiful people who who have a a phenomenal culture and you know even with the bad stuff I feel like the good always over overweighs it outweighs it I want to go back and TR for a minute because it's 143 units but you bought this property over a decade ago right yeah 20134 I just want people to understand the process of how long it takes to get something like this this going yeah man um I just I just bought the property um I I I didn't know what I was going to do with it at the time and it was a series of events that took place that brought a lot of things to my attention like the statistic I told you uh and and and affordable housing uh was was a huge part of the city's initiative and um and me having the opportunity of sitting next to Killer Mike uh on the the the transition team for the mayor of Atlanta uh at the time which was mayor Kesha Lance bottoms um that put set me alongside of of some huge huge uh affordable housing developers uh one of them which uh took took us under his his wing and mentored us as developers and that was the legendary Noel khil um and and God Rest his soul he he kind of taught us the game and showed us a lot of things about it uh that we just didn't have any understanding or awareness of uh and and as we just begin to connect the dots we saw that this piece of property could could offer as you know as such a benefit to the to the community uh and you know and we just began that's when the dream was born incredible everybody you know we have all these conversations about the buying you on buying back the block and you know investing in your hood like you you've done that in a major major way man yeah man way more than one bro it it just you know it I can't say I'm not you know I a I ain't have like a plan to do it that way it just kind of like I have done things that put me in a position to be able to do it that way you know I mean it's like the evolution of uh uh new finish right yeah like so we started just buying houses me and my me and my uncle buying houses rehabing them buying lots of land building houses and um then you know after the market crash and I got out of prison I said well now I'mma do it different and so I started buying commercial you know what I mean and as I started buying commercial then you know uh I started meeting people that were Developers of you know of commercial learning about multifamilies and uh mixed use and you know all those types of things and uh and and and simultaneously the city is evolving m you know and going vertical so now it's like you know instead of building six houses in a row you want to build a six-story building you know what I'm saying so I just started to learn more about uh that that that portion of development right how how how difficult was it to make the Long Live OG clay record um how difficult was it at the time when it was made it wasn't difficult at all cuz I made it like uh like two day before the funeral damn okay yeah I did it like two days before the funeral uh I just I just H like we held on to it uh man just ironically enough young boy just reached out to me he just reached out to me and and we like just start talking cuz he was just my advice about stuff you know what I'm saying how to get into the movie business and you know like um how to how to invest his money and stuff and you know and just asking me advice and then he was like in our conversation he was like man I need to get you on something and then he sent me and I told him like Hey man I don't want to get on like none of that none of that uh that that all that Rob and killing [ __ ] I don't want to do that I ain't getting in the middle of none of that [ __ ] he was like nah OG I would never do you like that and he sent me something and I listened to it and at the time that's all I could even think about you know what I mean so it just came out like you know first take it didn't it it wasn't really no it was really no thought involved you know I mean it was really about like I how to end it cuz I I would have went on forever I had so much [ __ ] to say right you know what I mean it was really about bringing it to a to a close sticking the landing you I mean when you lose people like OG clay or even Capal Fon did that energy ever get filled in your life or is it a constant holding uh man it's definitely a constant hold uh man I think man you get numb you just kind of get numb and you figure out ways to go about your day and I kind of I I I I I appreciate the things that are there mhm more than I take notice of the things that are missing MH you I mean um and and I think that's that's the positive of it it it gives you uh a great appreciation for the things that are still present in your life you know what I mean and it makes you just just value the time and the the the just the presence of [ __ ] and show you how precious life is how precious uh the the loved ones we have and how how how short how short the time we have with them is uh but nah you don't never like feel no hoes you know the hole just grows and you learn to live with it you ever give yourself the proper opportunity to grieve I mean what is the proper opportunity to grieve let's say if I said I gave myself an entire week who says a week is enough say I said a month who says a month is enough so you know what mean like what is the proper opportunity you just um you know you you you go through your process uh you exist in that moment you don't try to run away from the feelings you feeling you know what I'm saying you let yourself go through that process and you you present yourself as you are you know don't try to cover nothing up don't try to duck and hide from the pain that you feeling you just go through it you know I mean as you go through it you learn to live with it do you think you you'll ever tell your your full complete story like you cuz only you can truly tell it you think you would ever tell it all not all no I tell it all I think uh I tell as much as I feel would help The Listener um and as much as I feel would would you know would be therapeutic to me mhm but you know know something man you know some things will never be spoken uh now now let me see so there there is an intention to do a oneman show uh where oh like how Mike Tyson did this [ __ ] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well I have an opportunity to step out and not just perform music but to tell a story and how the music kind of incorporate throughout you know as a as a part of a narrative um and you know we were so you know what I'm saying I I guess I tell you now so that what the standup [ __ ] for standup [ __ ] was to prepare me for you know to to stand up and speak for an hour or more in front of a crowd to you know just just to know that I could do it and as I get stronger in it now I can evolve into my intention which is is a one man show and that's you know that that that's that's more like a you know that more like I guess a man I don't want to say a play but no Mike Tyson was on Broadway I saw that that [ __ ] was dope yeah so you know what I'm saying so that that that's that's that's kind of where I see my performance going uh and I and I kind of took a I took a a stab at it with the orchestra show that we did uh December 30th which went phenomenally by the way uh so I see like you know Orchestra and me and story in and out of songs jokes you know what I'm saying and do that for about two and a half hour and you know I feel like that to me is that's where I see my career going rather than just going hopping around on rolling loud stages you know what I mean I just feel like that kind of calls on more of my my strengths and Gifts than you know just going and you know trying to go on tour with you know 21 Savage and so on you know what I'm saying I just that just I just feel like that's more age appropriate for me all right but that but that's the lesson to be learned right cuz that's why I don't judge none of these rappers now because if you were to judge T 20 plus years ago man a Gucci a g any of these dudes like look where y'all are now how y'all evolved how y grown as men God is good that's right now is is comedy your number one love now or is it still music man I really do love it you know I I mean like I can't I can't tell it's a different type of love you know what I'm saying like it's just like a like a son and a daughter you know what I'm saying I really I really do love it you know you know you love some when you do it for free you feel me when you mean for free I mean [ __ ] I I go and do comedy I just go grab the mic and do that [ __ ] for free sometime you know just because you know it feel good tell me there's a piece there's a piece and the sense of therapy there well that's also how you know you're rich okay okay that's what that mean okay I I mean touche but yeah man um but yeah I love that [ __ ] bro and and the haha Mafia we still out there putting in work uh we going to be in matter of fact we going to be at Tes in Oakland uh at the end of the month I believe what it it the the the 30th 31st and the 1st or something like that um we'll be out there man uh outside right outside of Oakland and um you know we sh man we still taring down we still taring down stages and [ __ ] I'mma put together uh I'mma put together a time to do my special I'm going to do a special going to be the one man show or you going com going to be comedy straight comedy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and uh we just shot 15 episodes of a standup uh a standup series mhm which is sort of like uh you know death Comedy Jam or so on and so forth It's called uh haha Mafia in the Trap and uh we filmed it at the Trap music museum um and it's like a host with three comedians uh probably about 30 minute episode uh we did 15 of them you feel me we shot that independently um so oh we also have departments on all black you know I mean that we wrote it directed it um I produced myself DC youngfly Lil Duval uh Klo Miller and the haha Mafia uh about to do the sequel okay about to do the sequel later on this year and also in pre-production uh for a romantic comedy that that that uh we wrote and I would Direct and me and Terence Jay would produce it uh and star in it U it's called situationships um so you know what I'm saying we just trying to you know stay stay stay working what's up with the PSC album I thought y he yeah PSC we about to put some [ __ ] out soon man you know what man like hey with so many like the problem is we don't know how many different Partnerships we will have to support all of these things you know what I mean like everybody like you know everybody down to do it but [ __ ] we got to figure out the business part of it as far as okay who we going to do it with we know DJ Drama we going to do a gangster grill with him and um and we got you know some intentions to consider uh some some opportunities in in a a situation that's that's you know around Dj drama but I think you know they got to get their self in Pocket where they can present the right opportunity don't mind me I'm getting up cuz we got some your wife and your daughter here so we got to set hell no man you serious tip say about to go been here already about to wrap up you can't tell him about to WP up y out y mind the high club when you say like they mean they they they here already they here they coming upstairs oh okay cool man well we can end on this question what does success look like for for your kids in your eyes what does success look like for my kids in my eyes doing what they love and and earning a living by being able to take care of themselves doing the things that they love the things that fulfill their passion you I mean um allowing them to follow their dreams and and just create you know to create from their minds things that that earn profit for them you know um that's to me that's that's success on any level you know not being forced to do something that you really don't want to do just to get paid just to feed yourself right you I mean that's success M on any level all right well let's get into the record I thought they was upstairs do you have that problem a lot where they say they ready but they aell yeah 20 minutes 20 minutes is 40 minutes or 20 minutes in an hour man my old lady worse than the weed man you know what I'm she tell right outside you see me you see me man God damn bro well I I tried to sit up they said they was C upstairs I tried to sit up I guess they Li but all right well let's Long Live OG clay man long and thanks for all the support man you know what I mean everybody who been supporting it uh you know I think that this is one of probably the most important record that we dropped on Grand and we appreciate everybody man [ __ ] with us with it uh and this is uh to celebrate the life and the legacy of somebody incredibly important to me sir and Incredibly important to the careers of so many people from Atlanta in this generation going into the next one all right so long live OG clay featuring uh my partner NBA young boy you did well they did they did arrive they did arri they did they did cuz they said y were eight minutes out and it was like 20 and TI was like that's usually what happens tip say you worse than the weed man what when it comes to being late I'm getting better so so how was it having a a young all your kids are in the music industry we asked TI how you felt about it how do you feel about having all your kids in the industry and you know how this industry can be yeah I mean I hate it for some just because I mean it's scary the rep game is scary you know what I'm saying and I have a little wild child too so you know I I hate it for him but I know he loves it and getting you know music you know evolving a lot so I'm starting to really really like it but for her um I love it cuz I'm watching her grow and go and get into her mode you know and I'm helping her and we're grooming her she's you know I'm I'm I'm taking her through all the steps of artist development for sure M you know is she listening all the kids listening cuz you know sometimes they don't want to listen to the parents they like I got this I'll figure it out on my own so you know what she listens but sometimes get aggravated a little bit cuz I'm like a like no do it again do it again no that wasn't right and you know so I get somebody else I put other people in place to help her with a lot of that so they can do it and they can go through it and they know how to you know baby her through it a little better than me when they that young how do you know that this is something they really want to do and not just the face well this is something that she started doing with me like um when she started like really singing she was like two and I think I was doing like solo stuff and she would go out and she would want to get on the stage with me so we started putting the mic up with my background singers and she would be back there singing so after that like when she got three she was really like wanted to go she never wanted to miss a stage moment so it's something that she actually wanted to do herself I didn't really put her in it what do success for the uh for the kids look like the you T I asked tip the same question but what do success for the kids look like to you well if they can be happy doing what they love and and um just you know reaching some of their goals or some of the things that they really want to do in you know in what in this industry uh and just being successful you know she may she say she want to be an astronaut astronaut okay you want to be an astronaut I want to be an astronaut I love it who who's more annoying when it comes to making music is mommy or daddy more annoying um she looking at daddy she looking at mommy she thinking she need something for who she need something from soon you can say both 5050 60 6040 side on who side 60 Mama wait probably me because she sees me doing more music and dealing with her more mostly with music so it's probably me who whose music do you like more Mommy or Daddy a tough question okay so I have to go with Mommy because I only know a few songs of daddy that might be a good thing that might be a good thing why do she only know a few songs you a introduced to the catalog nah never too early for trap music Tip N well some of that language he has in there is a little too early for her but you know it just doesn't apply to her life you know what I'm saying not a lot of it but a lot a lot of our language too I mean I guess it doesn't it you know it's a little too early too but she loves it all like she come singing all these songs that I never show her she knows a whole Cog songs just not single just listen to yeah just listen do you get nervous at all when you're on stage cuz you look so natural like it doesn't bother your affection no not at all not scared at all not really no not really no like when we have concert she comes to me and be like am I going on stage and I'm like I didn't we didn't plan for that and you know but she's always wanting to be out there on the stage how do you know when you're pushing her too hard how I know when I'm pushing her too hard cuz she'll let me know she'll get aggravated but you know we may be in the middle of something like recording and you know I might be like do it again do it again you know and she'll get aggravated but she's going to have to in order to get the best we got to continue doing it so I may let her take a break or something you know let me take a break for five minutes that's five minutes is good how much time you need how much how much time you need to think 10 10 do you sing you sing better than Mommy yes wow wow know you just said I was your favorite singer now you sing it better than me okay I love no you my favorite singer but but I sing better okay boy y'all got h on what does success look like uh for you Young Harris um like what's your goals just my goals is to be smart and is to be smart and and and be an astronaut and a singer okay astronaut and a singer I can sing to the aliens I love that you can do that you can sing to the aliens that's right yeah would just have fun just have fun and enjoy enjoy the process of all of this that's all you live a blessed life that's right is there one thing that you want that mommy and daddy haven't gotten for you yet a spaceship yes but you got a cyber truck got truck it's kind of like a spaceship it's a car not a ship okay my bad my bad ship a ship goes goes a spaceship goes up into the air a car stays down underground you're right you're right okay I was wrong you're right do you have anything that you want to tell them about that you that you put out or you know that you want people to go and support do you have a a song or something that you that you would like for people to go listen to yes what is it called it's called it's it's called be it's called be yeah with Van van yeah with Van and go listen to it you can listen to it on YouTube kids regular YouTube Spotify Apple music and everywhere else you want to let's play it right now you you want to introduce it let's play 100 Market you about to get played in 100 cities right now that's right so introduce it to the world tell them your name and the name of the song and let's go my name is Iris and the name of the song is be with with v that's right on The Breakfast Club and we appreciate you guys for joining us thank you so much so much let's get into the joint right now it's The Breakfast Club good morning wake That Ass Up ear in the morning The Breakfast Club

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Published: Tue May 28 2024