Wiz Khalifa On His Music Anthems, Co-Parenting W/ Amber Rose, Smoke Sessions & More | Drink Champs

foreign [Music] laughs [Music] laughs [Music] I rap the gang gang would it could be homies want to see me this is your boy n-o-r-e what up is DJ efn and this drink chaps happy hour makes up foreign [Music] right now when we started this show I wanted this brother on this show I've got to see him from one of his first shows in New York to hey I don't know if you remember the story I'll get to that later hold on let me get to that later I wanna um show but this brother here if you put George Clinton Willie Nelson damn Snoop Dogg and put a little bit of the Beach Boys in there well all feel good music this is what this brother would be he is Relentless and I I I can see him and I've never I can honestly say I don't think I've ever seen him mad I think I actually see he actually enjoys life he's made he's been on a crazy mixtape run to all of his accolades to all of his this things and things and things and things and he got all type of clothing lines all kinds of merchants Khalifa cushions and all that Liquors and Liquors he's an entrepreneur he's the first Stoner to come here on time early I was still getting my haircut oh this is the first time and when I gave my father he said because I'm a businessman and in case you don't know who he's talking about we talking about the one the only [ __ ] foreign [Applause] thank you for being here thank you for having me yo um one of our one of the first shows I believe that you had in New York I don't know if it was the first show but I think it was like one of like your top five it was the first show it was the first show yeah and do you remember what happened I do remember [Applause] okay what did I call you you called me whiz so I'm a kid I'm like I'm like still in high school and [ __ ] I was like 17 years old maybe and this was uh all hip-hop it was breeding ground so this was like early blog era day Peter Rosenberg yeah exactly so there was only like a couple cats doing blogs and they were covering a couple dues and uh it was me uh the cool kids I think uh what was what was knowledge in in his dudes group's name they were from Chicago as well I forget that cool kids already yeah wow but uh yeah it was us and Nori was the who was the host yeah so he was like you know everybody loves Nori he's legendary like you know what I'm saying we all look up today and I [ __ ] up your name it means something yeah you know what I thought that's how you pronounce the um the thing let me ask you man because as soon as I um you know pulled you up one of the craziest things on the internet about you is your feet right yeah yeah yeah yeah they are on your feet deal I swear to God he said what a foot deal like a foot deal you ever seen Seinfeld where um he became a hair model oh okay like for some reason tons of offers from like people to do foot products and uh snoopers shout out to Snoop he doing Skechers okay but like more like moisturizing creams and and things that'll lock the moisture in because I really don't have bad feet they just dry right oh yeah yeah but I've been working on it misunderstood like a lot yeah like a lot of people they don't take that type of criticism and do anything about it like me I've been lotioning my feet every day I went and got a pedicure yeah know what I'm saying so I'm trying to get it right but I know yeah I I um I feel like I feel like you're one of the people that's you always feel good energy yeah like and to me you know in in this game of hip-hop you know so many people they get bitter you know after a while whether they successful or not or and I just feel like you always as good energy yeah how do you develop that type of um Aura um you kind of just got to take everything and roll with it and I just reached certain points of my life where like looking cool isn't the the object you know I just love to make music I love to take care of my family I love to entertain my fans and as long as I'm doing that I'm pretty happy um the other stuff it doesn't really bother me because that's not my that's not what I wake up and do this for right yeah yup and then like the bitterness I think that comes with like bad relationships or things when you take it personal and there's a lot that goes on in this industry that could make you bitter but you have the the choice whether you want to react to it or not so I just don't let that type of stuff phase me man I just base my relationships off of different things and that's how I'm able to move that's what's up yeah yeah kind of collaboration with a porn star yeah yeah Mia Khalifa man like one of the biggest she's an ex-porn star actually okay yeah so she came into the game that's kind of like how people notice her but uh she's been able to Pivot and do a lot of other things I think she still has her only fans though right like but I don't know if it's like straight hardcore [ __ ] nah she doing uh we doing Khalifa Kush together oh yeah so me having the Khalifa Kush brand shout out to Berner I built this uh this whole brand with him yeah it took us 10 years and now we've been all over the United States we're going overseas and um we're we're uh branching out and we're doing celebrity uh endorsement deals as well she's the first one and that's under Khalifa Kush and that Khalifa Kush is under cookies no Khalifa Kush is his own business yeah yeah but we come from the same cloth though like the same cuts that Bernie gets his trees from okay that's the same you know Tinder and hair that we put into the Khalifa Kush product so anything that comes out under Khalifa Kush weather is me Mia Khalifa or any other artist that we uh endorse at the time is going to be a really really uh you know up to Brand product so um is uh bouncing around a little bit um I remember I think the first time I heard Ty Dolla signs was was with you yeah it's Ty Dolla Sign still with um telegram yeah Ty's always going to be Taylor Gang uh we started out managing him wow a lot of people don't know that Taylor Gang is a label and a management company so uh a lot of those first moves that you were seeing in his career were from you know me and will managing his career and putting him on tour and you know just getting him out there like basically using the same stuff that we were able to to to accumulate but he was already there as well he already knew a lot of radio people already knew a lot of writers and producers it just took a little extra push and um just having the platform that I had we were able to use that through Taylor Gang and um you know Ty's a legend he was always meant to be who he is and we were just able to you know push it a little bit faster right let me so let me ask you right because you know coming from Pennsylvania right yeah and then every uh the the known uh city is silly it's Philly yeah how was it harder for you for being from Pittsburgh and how was it did you have to navigate because like I know like uh like like you know people from you know uh um sometimes they have to go to to New York yeah was there something like like that you had to skip over Philadelphia and go to New York is there anybody any Legends you looked up to that were that came out before yeah I mean it's a long story about Pittsburgh because we were really influential in the uh the early 90s West Coast sound were like Sam Snead and like uh mailman and those are people who were really close with shug and Dre and Snoop and like really pioneered that sound but they just weren't in front of everybody clean so we always had like that yeah it is that's good stuff so we always had like a direction that we wanted to go in we just never had anybody like wave that flag for us and um just being from PA in general I think it's really difficult for a lot of artists even from Philly um you know to get noticed or to get looked at and be like this these guys are original or have their own sound and I think anywhere you have to really leave and become bigger somewhere else for your City to kind of look at you as somebody I feel like even if you're in New York like nobody's gonna call you your rap name and they're gonna call you who they know you from the Block you know what I'm saying so yeah exactly so at the end of the day you have to make yourself somebody and then come back home and it was the same thing with Pittsburgh it was it was a lot of grinding and um being a teenager being somebody who's just trying to find myself as a young adult and uh you know make music that was appropriate to who I was and that translated to other people that were doing different things it took a minute you know what I'm saying but um it was worth it um and I love Pittsburgh right there's a lot of dope artists out there man there's some crazy stuff he seems crazy from the beginning all the way till now like we have a lot of talent out there when it comes to uh producers musicians artists cameramen designers it's such an artistic City bro but you don't miss the witness no I don't it's so cold and so what was it for the moment like because to me you're a rock star right yeah like like like I mean you transition just being a hip-hop artist just being a stoner like you're you're if not I think you already is you're you're a superstar right but it started from being a rock star at what point did you see yourself transition and um um hip-hop like you don't say being I don't want to save you bigger than hip-hop but you know like feeling like my audience isn't just yeah yeah yeah you know what I mean I feel like I have my own like subculture of hip-hop it's like alternative rap right where it's rap but it's not like hardcore [ __ ] you know what I'm saying a lot of people like to say crossover or mainstream but that was always my goal to make big songs you know I never wanted to just be underground or just be a [ __ ] who was just known around the way like I wanted to appeal to worldwide crowds and that's how I write my music that's how I structure it and just you know my knowledge about music it goes beyond just hip-hop and that's why it translates the way that it does but uh I think for me it's more just the attitude than anything because you have to have the knowledge and you have to understand music and how to appeal to people and who you want to appeal to but also you have to have a certain way about yourself that you present it and pretty much I'll be sometimes I'm the only one who cares about my opinion right you know what I'm saying but like I don't give a [ __ ] something like being you in the studio and you're the only one who likes this Vibe and you still go with it just in general about how I want to dress about how I want to talk about yeah just being different just how I live my life like I'm the only one who agrees with me a lot of the times but that's I feel like that's the rock star energy is just not giving a [ __ ] and doing what you want to do and presenting that to people and making people love you for who you are and I do it in a safe way I'm not dangerous I'm not hurting anybody I'm not trying to hurt myself so you know I always just conducted myself with this confidence and this care for myself right yeah well the first deal you had with Warner yeah the first time I was with Warner I was the rep and I was we he actually was a young kid yeah yeah and we worked it felt in the beginning if I remember correctly and I might you know might not but it felt like in the beginning Warner didn't know how to how to work your record how to Market them yeah at that time the music business was really digestion they would they didn't know what to do I think like little scrappy was the biggest artist at Warner at that time and that's because trillville was popping off and they had J-Rock you know what I mean and Kendrick was under J-Rock so they didn't know what was going on with who or who was going to be where in 10 years you dig what I'm saying and it was up to us as the artist to like pave that way for them and yeah you're right they didn't know what to do with me but I had a song that like appealed to the radio um it was called say yeah and it was over at Alice DJ simple and they never heard nothing like that at that time they were like who's this kid you know mixing like you know rap with techno like they never heard that so they put of course they put me in the studio and try to make get me to make 30 songs like that right but I'm talking about smoking weed and riding around with my homeboys and hanging with girls and they're like what the [ __ ] is this like you know what I mean where's the Techno at so it didn't work out because it felt like because going back to that blog era yeah it felt like the traditional little marketing style that was being done from the majors wasn't working and it felt like you and and that whole generation yeah found your own lane absolutely on your own and yeah and you made it work yeah it was just more going on than what the labels were like showing people you know they were just trying to polish it and kind of get uh the best of that but they weren't trying to get everything that was put into that to get to that point and that's what I was showing everybody man I think artists even need labels at this point hell no hell yeah no if you're an artist you are your own label like you're here because you know you know what's crazy about like I obviously I come before you but your generation still people will get discovered yeah right this generation is already building their fan base yeah yeah they already have a fan base they have five thousand spins it might be 5 000 different people they're already building a fan base so I always wonder and but then you you'll see um our artists you know get some popularity and then they'll still go and they'll sign yeah why do you think it is that there are good labels out there they are um that take care of the artists that nurture their artists that you know promote them and you know make them a priority but that's just a certain game that you have to play and if you don't want to play that game you don't have to right and I think a lot of the artists sign because they don't know what they're signing up for I think you should be fully aware what you're getting yourself into and then sign the paperwork like don't sign it thinking that you're gonna get a Rolls Royce and You're Gonna Fly private and you know what I'm saying like that's not what you get into it for it's a career it's like signing to a basketball team so you have to put in work and you have to do other things along with that to make it freaking lucrative you know what I mean so it's like it's all a part of what game you want to play but to succeed nah you don't need that all right no like like right now um being an efn is uh opening a distribution for podcasts and our contracts are like two pages so it's not no complicated [ __ ] right if you want to be here you be with us right you don't want to be there I feel like record labels if you sign to a label it should be that should be it shouldn't be that complicated it should be especially with all the [ __ ] who's going to jail these days and the [ __ ] on drugs so you gotta have life insurance for a [ __ ] okay you're making an investment so like you know what I'm saying you got a lot it's like it's like a car like you know what I'm saying the car's not a lifetime contract but you yeah there's there's people who have life yeah and perfect like like I'm sorry to sound like yeah there was no digital in my contract yeah yeah that should never existed because of in the universe they said the universe yeah yeah but what is the core purpose yeah yeah no I mean at the end of the day like you just got to know what you sign them up for like you can own certain [ __ ] and then you can break bread on certain [ __ ] for a certain amount of time as well you just work it out into your favor and then just like you said these days it's more dependent on the artist so the more you walk in there with if you have a fan base and things like that the more leverage you have to say you know just what I want to do for how long so that's my advice for anybody is to just build up your leverage so when you do actually you know start taking those meetings or considering it you know you're you're in a good place and so you can level up take advantage of the machine yeah no no doubt thank you brother do you know you're a legend yes I do okay mm-hmm I feel like I'm in Dubai there's Rosie there's like flowers oh my God this is good weed man I'm not sure you added heat it heat it to a temperature that turns it from not not in the smoke but in the vapor so it's not smoke it's not harsh it's not bothering you it's just Vapor that's right you got all type of commercials out this [ __ ] killing it this thing is dope look at y'all technology right here yeah this ain't no coal now you're gonna oh see you again we could adjust what does that do righty tighty lefty Loosey mine's ain't going I got a lotion on my hands oh here we go here we go oh okay so it's got to be on there yeah I see the different mode awesome yeah hold on this one is this one off because come here come through yes like he's from the company right here I got it I found it all right man you got the cartridges yeah with me over here show them the cartridges that's official but where is we want you to just gonna take this with me okay they want to literally give you your flowers thank you [Applause] beautiful yes this is going that's exactly where I'm gonna put that now another thing about how hearing your music I've been I was running through it um we mentioning watches a lot man yeah you're a watch guy yeah I I was it was yes I slowed down since I had a kid okay yeah yeah okay yeah yeah yeah yeah I had it I hadn't bought a watch in a minute actually burner bought me this watch this was a gift man he just popped up at my house one day he was like you know thanks for being a good friend you've been a real good friend it's like you you you walked into my life at a real important time he was like I just wanted to show you how much I appreciate you gave me a bus down God damn it bro I gotta upgrade my friends man yeah boy on the cover Forbes man yeah that's a good friend I'm [ __ ] around he got that with the 420 box and yeah the first thing that pops up is yeah oh yeah yeah see Vernon be sure I'm going to the lake house B I'll see you a second brother you ever thought I know this is like kind of a cliche but you know uh back then people would be locked up for touching yeah any type of Bud like totally I remember one time in my hood I threw the the journey away the [ __ ] blew away and the police still arrested me yeah I saw you smoking I was like there was no evidence I mean like this is [ __ ] up and now in New York City yeah you can smoke right in front of the police if you ever thought this day would happen no I didn't I mean I mean actually I I did but I didn't think it was reality like I thought I was just thinking some crazy [ __ ] like you're doing Amsterdam would just be Amsterdam and that's it I mean even over there you had to go in the smoke shops like you couldn't just smoke on the street like that's true [ __ ] that [ __ ] is recreational like you can just smoke butt and they're removing it from uh piss tests they're not drug testing people for marijuana they they let they left it out of the NBA they do it for like uh for a probation or parole like what the hell you know how many people like smoke a little weed and end up going back to jail right man that's amazing there's a lot of [ __ ] I've known these books a week yeah yeah just smoke a little smoke a little bit Yeah you deserved your life together you'll need to be in jail in your life I'm very happy about that and uh yeah I think a lot of people are going to benefit from it right um now you said that you you're overseas uh with the Khalifa Kush yes so we're in Amsterdam now or you've been in Amsterdam uh we're in Amsterdam we're going to Thailand Germany okay yeah those are a few places the UK you know what part of Germany no just the whole country dog okay yeah just Germany yeah bro it's like saying we doing mushrooms over there too do a mushroom yeah you got the Psychedelic mushrooms over here you got some chocolates all right let's get it off camera because you know I felt like those are crazy where the [ __ ] did you get them from that's Erickson bro it's a homie that has some of them at Coachella one time bro just like Marvin Gaye do you take a big piece like that oh no when two is talking about yeah yeah nah them [ __ ] so have you [ __ ] up right there yes there's a whole eighth in there yeah I felt like I was on a roller coaster all right he's your real friend or your brother like whatever it is he likes you yeah I felt peer pressure with Mike Tyson none of this [ __ ] yeah he gave you all shrooms I love Mike Tyson but I can't eat shrooms raw like that he gave us the chocolate ones but it was a live podcast in front of an audience but by the way he wasn't aggressive at all but in my mind he was like yeah and I was like all right you never know was this your first time me and Mike say something you just did it shows I met him before so and you met you met Stoner Tyson because it's a different version where he didn't get Stoner I did I met him when he wasn't getting stoned but he was always nice to me okay he's a cool dude he's a cool dude he drew this version of Mike he just seems like one of them dudes like don't [ __ ] with him type dudes you know I mean all that playing around and [ __ ] like some [ __ ] don't like that [ __ ] I remember it's funny as hell EFM gave him a smoke challenge joint he took a smooth chance right now he's getting back and you held it I was like he loves weeds he's all about that weed and you then you also just play um George Clinton sure did what did you play it about what uh it's this movie called spin and gold it just came out it's in theaters okay it's about the story of Casablanca records uh Neil and all of the homies who started up this record label that hosted a bunch of legendary ax Kiss The Isley Brothers uh Funkadelic Parliament uh freaking Donna Summer Village People like they just had the Disco air on Lock and um yeah it just kind of describes their whole story and their rise and you know uh in the music industry and what effect they had and the stories that go along with that though and I played George Clinton that's [ __ ] that's cool as hell his grandkids was on the uh on the set yeah with us they were actually in the band so it was really cool man it was it was like you have to meet Georgia yeah [ __ ] yeah hell yeah we smoked hello he was here yeah right before I met him in person yeah I was down there smokes I thought it was a joke because there's like you know we don't want to make the older guys drink and [ __ ] so we'd be like okay all right cool oh he kept going yeah yeah I performed with him too at the premiere that [ __ ] was cool as hell yeah it was it was dope to rock with his band like I'm like a real music nerd so just to see him conducting his band and here excuse me and hearing everybody like doing what they was doing it was really tight it was really inspirational what's what's the artist that you didn't have to work with that you would love to work with yeah yeah I haven't worked with Hove yet and he smokes weed now too so that's pretty cool I want to work with her man yeah that'll be fun for that quick time ready yeah you want to explain the um rules yeah we give you two names places of things you pick one or if you pick neither or both we drinking or smoking okay you could take a shot I guess yeah yeah by the way before we start that did you invent kush-ups no I didn't okay so I did it so like like the game of pink um beer pong what is the legendary story or cush-ups push-ups is you take 10 Puffs and you hold it in until you can't until you you know yeah can you do kush-ups if you if you can if you can achieve ten if you can achieve ten and that's like the you know the respective number of push-ups so if you don't make it to 10 and then you tap out and you still need to work on your lungs you need to get your cush-ups together you need to get it you need to get it together yeah okay bro I've seen some of the best photos so it's all good man don't even worry about it Tony and Tripp uh takes practice a dab I [ __ ] with dabs I smoke you know it's whatever bro bongs papers or bowls I just don't hit blunts that's the only but yeah it's the favorite it's a famous famous footage so you kicking the dude out of the um Studio I was like damn where's this racist yeah blowing a grape Swisher it was it was almost like God said because I woke up this morning I had no swishes and all I had was was papers and I was like okay look at [ __ ] whiz is God working on me and it was crazy before I asked for the blunts I just started rolling joints the problem is with me I suck at rolling joints I can't I got cones I suck even more at that it's just like I'm gonna show you a picture I want to show you a picture of what I did this morning I had a whole [ __ ] pregnant like it was it was like yeah I couldn't do it I can't do it I guess I got a great grinder but how did you learn how to roll a blunt but being in the hood yeah drinking milk and cookies yeah yeah he wrote my blood yeah okay okay so we're gonna be ready for a quick time and I'm gonna do I'm not actually gonna do Sonny's not here right oh Sony's here you want to drink from so I could do Japanese you wanna take shots to be the ringer oh yeah he is ready [ __ ] funny Sonny you he'll smoke but you'll drink a shot give me the ringer smoke a little whiz joint now wait before we start this I should have brought didn't you guys oh [ __ ] it's failed already yeah okay all right that [ __ ] about the THC Mama Horner they have one oh damn didn't you guys have a collab with raw or yeah I [ __ ] around okay yeah man uh raw has been the the premier joint and just Archer our joint of choice probably since we started smoking them like me and Spitta we crossed over the joints around the air currency around the same time him before me but you know I made it in time to you know create the law with him right and uh we went through a couple different types of joints there were zigzags there was easy widers it was uh Randy's they had like these little wire in them and you could like smoke it like that uh yeah Juicy J's and then elements we liked elements and then we found out that element in raw was of the same company but we just like raw a little bit better and then that's what we started running with the unbleached you know uh the raw paper dips what does that mean it's paper but it's not bleached a lot of people yeah there's no chemicals a lot of papers are like bleached in half different chemicals and stuff like that that you're smoking on yeah [Music] yeah so yeah you know raw papers but we got Khalifa papers coming out that's what we talk about right yeah yeah yeah yeah so everything I enjoy I just spinning into my own lifestyle yeah you should you know so you you want to talk about your liquor company because we yeah McQueen McQueen is uh it's a gin you know anybody who who followed me early in my career I used to drink a [ __ ] ton of gin and uh we we drink Bombay but that really wasn't that good so we designed something that was based off of a better taste still the same great gin feel uh but it's really smooth like a lot of people drink gin they don't like the flavor of it but this one's smooth it mixes well and uh we haven't infused one that just came out two is called uh ultraviolet this is the blue one yeah it's purple yeah so this the the full name of it is McQueen Violet fog and the purple one is ultraviolet but we're in the same family as uh do say uh Bel Air uh bamboo vion those are a couple of our other companies we just keep making other little Brands and so blowing them things up you know models hella nice yeah hell yeah it's a good gin we taking over all right so you're not taking shots though no absolutely not nah I'll let y'all have that you know what I'm saying all right look is this true before we go into that uh currency put you on the rocking Jordans yeah I had never even owned a pair of Jordans before I met currency I never had one pair of J's before I wanted some but I just never before Chucks that's I was gonna say coffee yeah yeah I mean in Pittsburgh like it's Air Forces Tims [ __ ] were Jays but like I I had to choose like if I was going to spend that much money on sneakers or other things so it's like you know just growing up that was just I never even thought about that like spending 130 or 50 bucks on a pair of shoes like I would go to Army Navy and get some Dickies and get some white teas and contracts and Carhartt like [ __ ] that was my whole style so like yeah so I mean but Tim's cost a lot but you get like one pair of them a year like you know what I mean like for real for real not in New York yeah in New York we be like six pair a year when I was a kid yeah okay yeah look at me all right two pair yeah yeah like it's religion in in New York yeah I feel you like and it's crazy because you got to get the right ones don't get the ones nah you gotta get the letters the double like the souls got to be right on there and everything like we call them Butters in Pittsburgh it's a science to this [ __ ] yeah yeah but we mainly wore like forces and [ __ ] like that but yeah currency put me on to to sneakers and cars and just like street wear fashion in general like you know what I'm saying just I always had good taste like you know what I mean but just like knowing what to get like right that's fine yeah he put me in the right direction I need you back all right all right cool I want to make sure when the killer Jamie tried to kill me though you're taking shots right I'm gonna take it so oh yeah join me well if where's he going on that's good it's good great guys damn now he got a bunch of smoke Anyway come on let's go yeah you ready first one two pocket DMX X you got it you got a reason why or do I have a reason why I have to you don't have to explain oh um both great actors both great like a lot of passion both poets but I think for me I went and bought X's first single like I got get at me dog with Stop Being Greedy on the other side I bought the tape so like it just means yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah yeah gotta Make some noise for you sir yeah yeah yeah that's hard okay we'll go to the next one yes Snoop or currency oh no you can say both you could say both that's when we drink and that's what we say both are neither we drinking both yeah what do you got to do push-ups it's different is working [ __ ] all right okay don't don't do that again okay I got it on too [ __ ] hold on I gotta go back to one God damn wow all right cool yeah that's it and that's it all right let's go be real or burner [ __ ] shots yeah both yeah one two oh three four oh let's make some noise for heavy I'm in the game now got that uga's Lit baby that [ __ ] it's going baby I'm about to write a song in this [ __ ] you got it oh no I damn I'm lost I got you I got you kiss or styles [Music] um um [ __ ] I ain't gonna disrespect none of them both good so I look one you should go for six make it even two three four I should get me high and I ain't even smoking it uh oh give me a sick oh you just gonna keep going oh damn seven it's a long game it's a long game nine I'm setting the standard yes yes [Applause] forget it big let's begin and this is the 420 Edition yeah the bars have been set yes yes the boss being said I ain't gonna lie to y'all don't call it the gun we call it the machine get the machine out like that like them like the area no guns on premise yeah no guns please no no no no anybody yeah the machine all right all right wait till the next one okay okay what y'all put it in there y'all putting KK in there um Red Man and Method Man oh [ __ ] all right this is no disrespect I don't like breaking groups up but meth for me okay because of his voice okay red got bars meth got bars both funny as hell both got great timing right but mess voice is crazy oh they're stage presents too crazy like best ever but mess voice is a little bit iller I ain't gonna lie okay all his answers is pure hip hop I know music no no I'm just saying I'm more I'm even more than I expected I'm even more like I was actually cool you blowing my mind thank you man yes appreciate it I love I love Yeah you got to do the knowledge all right calendar drama drama love drama bro I love Cali too cow is a great person you got a gangster grills I did 28 grams broke the internet all that drama he's he's just like a Pioneer just for the the mixtapes and he got like I feel like he got I think Cal is like a official ass DJ but drama got more mixtapes yeah yeah and when he's doing right now with those juice skits for his albums yeah yeah I love it I think to me personally drama against that one yeah I say DJ wise but I feel like overall producer I feel like college might have that as just oh I think as a producer Khalid is better than a lot of fools yeah he's got a great he knows how to put that [ __ ] together and he doesn't mind going after a record bro everywhere yeah shame cause some [ __ ] will give up or they'll be like oh I'ma wait like you know three four days he's like nah let me get that verse and I respect the hell out and he's always been like like Miami cast he's been like that since the beginning that's dope that's what it takes bro for sure all right chicha Chong I gotta do both that's a good one have you met them yeah yep all right cheers you drink it up Sunny yeah yeah take a shower you should have been taking the rum okay then take the Luca how many is that Wiz I'm doing five now yeah it's okay it's okay it's acceptable payments yes sir all right we already know what you're gonna say today sir yes oh maybe not let's see let's get it cookies are gumbo it's weed or like weed weed oh okay I never had gumbo before damn who makes gumbo gumbo my friend gumbo man yeah damn who's Gumbo yeah it's a homie it's a homie look look up bro yeah yeah I was about to say I'm a weed snob so I'm real bougie yeah he was on Ramadan to bring something all right well he was on ramadan's on the list of things to try okay that's right okay Ty Dolla or juicy damn it both all right Juicy Jenkins I'm not drinking cause y'all would have had me out of his back yeah all right Dave Chappelle Chris Rock yeah Dave Chappelle he way funnier okay was that mean no I mean the last comment he made all right um Ooka or hookah Uka [Music] this is cool like right around there you know what I mean that's next like a little light up little LED dip you know what I'm saying sure these will go crazy over that yeah go ahead oh yeah yep all right Biggie or punt Biggie or pumpkin yeah damn well I'm gonna have to go big okay yeah y'all but I [ __ ] with pun though puns hard yes any reason why you this is something big he was just smoother like you know what I mean like he he talked about clothes and [ __ ] like that right about [ __ ] like if I go shopping now I'll just be seeing some [ __ ] that biggie said in the 90s you know what I mean Versace yeah yeah like punt had bars but he didn't have bars like that though like you know what I mean he was more talking about like breaking [ __ ] back some like several places and [ __ ] like that that was cool too radio or podcast um oh you're talking about like as far as radio like listening to jams or like podcast is just like however you want like what platforms to you is better what activity you want ASAP Rocky or Big Sean damn that was both my partners it was both my brothers I love Big Sean but I feel like I'm gonna have to go Rocky okay I'm gonna go Rocky because I don't look up to a lot of [ __ ] when it comes to dressing and Rocky can dress his ass off and Sean contrasts too but it's just like a different type like you know what I'm saying like they don't really go against each other and Rocky I'll be looking at his fists and Rocky could really dress so I'm gonna say rocky shut up Sean's the better rapper in my opinion like okay Sean's better rapper than me Sean's better rapper than a lot of [ __ ] that I know right so like when we talking lyrics I'ma say Sean but as far as like the [ __ ] Rocky Rocky's the [ __ ] sounds like a shot to me we need to have a good conversation about that why you know I'm taking a shot for you anyway drink chance alumni both of them [ __ ] [Music] all right let's see if it's the same with these yeah Rick Ross of French Montana both big homies of mine but Imma go Rosado okay uh just because Rose invited me to his crib in Atlanta and had a mountain of freaking weed that me and currency could roll out of he drove us around and bought us sneakers it was like cool as hell bro it's like the Rick Ross shopping yeah he just dreamed yeah he just took us to the stores like get whatever you want Little [ __ ] we was like hell yeah we were like yes it was like a hip-hop father like yeah this wasn't last week and Rose actually got me my my deal with breakfast on the show yeah uh Brett was asking them about like some people who would be good for Branding and help build the company and he was like whiz he was like I know that little [ __ ] about his business he does his thing he's actually out here in the field and he's going to promote like he spoke really highly of me and still still does so and you know French is my man we went on tour together we made money together we got hits together [Laughter] yes it was half and half yes that [ __ ] was five now that was fine straight sourdough hell no so you got to realize we come from where they invented the word loud so yeah we don't know East Coast terminologies he knows everything I'm giving that one up to 40 we ain't gonna argue about it back to the side okay what about it yeah yeah so you said what about it to me kasawa to me sour comes from Canada okay so there's no way it could have went to Chicago before it came to New York because you come from Canada right to New York boom not the actual Sarah the word I was just talking about the word loud oh I'm talking about the actual plan the actual plan comes from Canada okay Canada I believe Canada Montreal Vancouver area Toronto then you know comes from to New York that's why New Yorkers I believe we had an abundance so it was easier and it was loud yes you couldn't like that was the first weed you had to put in jars yeah remember like remember we didn't come in jobs before it's just so loud with some Haze because [Music] it don't even got no label on it that's how you know this is real this is drug dealer week ah damn I love Scarface has The Lyricist but I'm gonna go Cube because what he did with movies like you know Friday just like you know pivoting and just you know being a legend but uh uh yeah yeah Cube I ain't gonna draw that one out too far all right Half Baked to Friday damn Half Baked for show yeah I'm gonna go half bake okay Friday's a classic you know what I'm saying everybody knows Friday but I think the story I have baked is just funny as hell and Dave Chappelle like is one of my favorite comedians so it's like yes Cuban B yeah I use that all the time that whole [ __ ] I'm from Jamaica what part of Jamaica by the beach [Laughter] yeah yeah Drake is hard you know he got [ __ ] more hits than anybody right yeah but I think Wayne just sparked the whole culture for everybody like and then like when he started as a hot boy Wayne and then when he came back out like lyricism he's like Wayne's up there for show let's see here nips here Easy E nip missing piece of both yeah rest in peace of both but I'm gonna say nip cause I was my friend you know what I mean yeah that was my homeboy yeah Eminem or Busta Rhymes Busta Rhymes for show uh lyricism is up there but well Buster wouldn't want to hear that he'll be like I'll kill that [ __ ] but he'll say that with anybody exactly which is what a real yeah he don't want to hear none of that [ __ ] but Busta inspired me a lot man like you might not see it in my style like exactly like just being animated being like more Goofy and more silly and just like not catering to one or two crowds just being myself but he still gets the respect that he deserves nobody looks at him like uh like somebody who you could just run up on you know what I mean just because he smiles yeah off stage is not that right and he's great on stage I always love fast rappers like that's always been one of my favorite things like growing up as a kid his videos always been amazing um yeah Busta Rhymes is one of my favorite dudes man for show right he's a great dude man like every person yeah yeah Legend too he gives good hugs yeah words of encouragement are yes just amazing love that guy yay or Pharrell Kanye or Pharrell Pharrell for sure uh yay is you know classic out there but P I think he speaks more to like my crowd which is like the skateboard alternative hip-hop but like you know still you know [ __ ] into rock bands type [ __ ] right yeah p is like the leader of that so I'm gonna go pee Bob Marley Jimmy uh Bob Marley or Jimi Hendrix imma go both on that one okay I need to take a shot yeah yeah yeah you said it Jamaican I'm gonna go both on that one I felt like the Rastafari just came out of you so you want to go back on the foreign George Clinton or Willie Nelson George Clinton yes um yeah George Clinton have you ever met Willie Nelson I have not met Willie Nelson I was gonna say I have but he wrote me a joint and I didn't get to smoke it but I'm gonna chop it up with Willy Willy what's happening he rolled you a joint you didn't get to smoke that's a long story I was at my album Premiere uh my album release party in New York it was my first album black and yellow had just went number one I was performing in New York I sold out the venue Snoop Dogg was doing a late night television set across the street with Willie Nelson he left across the street with Willie Nelson to come over to cross the street with me he said Willie said that he wanted to be here but he couldn't because he owed but he wrote you this joint and he wanted you to smoke it I went on stage I got off stage I said where's my Willie Nelson joint and one of my homies smoked it would have been Boris Boris would have done that to you that was from Willie Nelson you ain't supposed to do that damn no but he probably didn't know it was one of my he's one of my close friends yeah we're still really good he didn't know which one really knows his name rhymes with heavy Goods to hold who knows man okay okay did he say it was good I mean I don't think he was trying to do all that like at least it was fire because like yeah you don't do that hey I know y'all got some more questions [Music] all right today's 4 20 and it's today Ooka is available right now at getuka.com let's go all right all right this is if I can't answer this one right I get candy gun yeah or this just cause I mean right now we're just waiting for that but it's gonna happen whatever eventually is happening yep uh how high are Pineapple Express uh how high I had an answer for that one you ever hung out with Seth Rogan I have we got a picture of me him and snooze smoke yeah we did the cross jointed so the cross drain is for Real it's not just in pineapples all right and he actually smokes weed too there's a lot of [ __ ] who do weed movies who don't smoke now you can tell yeah yeah yeah he smokes weed so we good NWA Wu-Tang Wu-Tang all right this is the last one say the last one okay the last one we are everyone thinks that this is a trick game but this is the only time where we feel like you it's it isn't a trick love or respect loyalty or respect excuse me loyalty or respect but hmm I would take loyalty yeah cause you can respect somebody and not be loyal to them and I'll take loyalty like if you don't necessarily respect me I don't really give a [ __ ] right but if you're loyal to me if I could like depend on you for something that means a lot right I wouldn't have that in reverse order right yeah like that's the only time both is necessary I feel like loyalty and respect goes hand in hand so like that's me but everybody don't respect everything yeah you're right and like a lot of [ __ ] lose they might start off respective and they [ __ ] lose respect for you or you might end up losing respect for somebody else based off of something they did but you ain't never gonna cross that man right I respect that so what you're saying is both go ahead did we do this to DJ Khaled he did not like he did not like it let me know he was like I see this show all the time wait for me don't ever do this [Applause] let's do it again bro yo pure drink Champs faster how come I look like it got drinking get another one yo pure drink chance fast hey yo he's been holding that gun for your episode so you should have tested the sturdiness of the handle you should have swung that [ __ ] one more time we got weed for him right as long as we got weeds we got weed we good yeah we thought we had it playing right come on guys my weed Gods came through again bro that was the Khalifa cushion there thank you that was the Khalifa you just didn't want me to get smoked out okay okay you're in college yeah fix it together oh by the way it's classic we got it all on filled it's still classic all right I'm gonna tell all my fans yeah not to get on your line I feel like be nice I had no for real please so you got the two records like if I if they were to tell me these are the last some of the last records I want to hear in my life these would be two of them um from what I'm about to play it right now oh okay but we thought we had our [ __ ] together little Papito do not have it together oh that was like a timing game over there turn it up oh okay okay yeah yeah so seven oh oh we don't care who hey that sounds closer here we go hey living one more time let me tell you why I love this flipping away because it was like it was like Hey dipping like I'm dripping in pink I don't want to say you bring the youth out of Snoop but you could tell you was you were rhyming and Snoop did not want to be around by you that's what it felt like in a great way like in the most greatest Point ever that's exactly what was happening yeah that's exactly what was happening man when we made that song uh I had moved out to LA that was that was like my first like time staying there for an amount of time and uh I was living at the W and I I just taught myself in Hollywood I just told myself I was like I never wanted to move out to LA till I had my money right like I know how much money it costs to live out there so I wasn't like trying to be cracked so I was like I'm gonna make sure my bread is right and then I'm gonna move out here so I got my money up I was like all right I'm moving so I lived in a hotel for like a week and I was like if I don't find a crib in a week I'm just gonna be [ __ ] homeless because I'm not going back home and in that week I met up with Snoop we shot a couple videos we did a video for that good we uh we just talked about a bunch of [ __ ] and we just came up with a like a whole game plan and he was like yeah you're gonna move right up the street from me this is my little apartment my little right here you're gonna stay up the street from me we're gonna shoot a movie we're gonna do this we're gonna go on tour we're gonna lock and I'm like all right cool I'm your little homie I'm gonna post it right up the street so that's when this song was created in that little amount of time and he had an apartment um right off of Sunset and I would go down to the apartment and just pick out beats and [ __ ] like that I'll pick like five or six beats and he literally had the move in the closet so I'm walking in the apartment going in the room the engineer is there I'm walking through the bathroom there's like kitty litter there's like two cats in there I think it was like Prince and uh or it was two names I forget what the name it's like I can Tina or some [ __ ] he had two cats and then you walk through the bathroom and then you're in his closet and it's Snoop Dogg's closet so it's like all types of like custom Snoop jerseys and Steelers [ __ ] and Laker [ __ ] just like legendary [ __ ] I think [ __ ] one of Don Juan suits was in there and I might just land verses in this closet and he would be in another room like just chilling smoking playing the game doing his thing but he would come in and hear my verses and I would leave and he would do his verses and I will come back and I will hear his [ __ ] so it was like we was going back and forth I would hear his verse I'd be like oh okay all right go back and forth you know what I mean yeah like real [ __ ] and this particular record we came together because I had just signed to Atlantic and uh he was like man these [ __ ] keep sending me this weak ass song he was like it ain't for me and he was like but I think together it'll work like for both of us he was like so that hook was on there already yeah yeah yeah that's Bruno Mars singing The Hook oh [ __ ] yeah that's Bruno Mars but he had caught a little case around that time so they didn't want him being involved I remember to get higher record because you know there's a little case or whatever but Snoop didn't like the song for him individually I didn't like the song for me and the movie was an amazing it sounded like two like you know what I mean it it sounded like two it was like it is it didn't sound right for both of us like individually y'all could be featured on it but when we came together it just made perfect sense like we recorded that [ __ ] in 15 minutes and just put that [ __ ] straight out and it went crazy man that's like one of the biggest songs they sing that [ __ ] all over the world they're singing good record they're singing in Africa they're singing in India party is down yeah go to there yeah you can sing that at the airport and then people would just start singing it with you yeah yeah you know we can't look over what you just said that type of mentorship that Snoop was willing to give you so dope I got we need more of that in the culture like yeah snoop's really the big homie man he's he's really the greatest of all time because I feel like a lot of people that their legacy is living past them he's the living legend he's the one who's still here doing it doing it and nobody else in the rap game has a second coming of them like another one of them like you know what I mean and he was able to bring me into the game and people be like yo Wiz is the Snoop Dogg of Our Generation nobody else has that I believe Rock Kim has that with nas a similar nah Nas is Nas yeah but some will organize was the second coming out right but did Rock him share the stage with nas have they been on tour together do they have a movie together no Snoop Dogg all right you win okay I'm gonna take a shot for that yeah you got it ready last one um she went to the shop that's what that's why we got to stick to Ooka because what um the anticipation of it when it was about to go down it was going nah because it was so funny how we had got College all right but that was it was so funny how we got College we were trying to get you we got to put in the weed guards just looking for you I want to see gallon oh yeah whatever he said I see the show all the time he was like they don't never do this yeah yeah you don't smoke all right so one of my I don't know when I say top 20 or top 50 or whatever songs that I would like to hear we got two of them in my list oh I think I know what this one is they got a second one oh it wasn't what I thought it was [Music] an Anthem though [Applause] you were dancing ass [ __ ] over there yeah man you got Purple Haze you got plenty of anthems I'm just you know picking those two for now but what I'm saying is I know you said it earlier you always want to make Global Music yeah but it's a difference from Global Music and Anthem music yeah right so there's Global Music where it's just pretty much like I would say the record about Paul Walker that's like a to me a globe but then you making these Anthem right and if you make a global Anthem global app next so what happens but um I know you said it earlier but I just want to reiterate that um when you make these anthems are you going in and saying I'm making an Anthem tonight that's crazy because no right yeah um good nah man I didn't I didn't really know that I was making Anthems for a minute I thought that I was just kind of getting lucky with that [ __ ] right and then I just started realizing like okay these are those types of records that people [ __ ] with uh when I did black and yellow um that was just me representing my city I love Pittsburgh so much everybody in Pittsburgh loves the city so much so it was just you know my way of letting everybody know where I'm from and still is just happened to go to the freaking Super Bowl right that year Another Sunday yeah it was the same year that black and yellow was on the radio yeah they you know so that happened with uh with black and yellow and then with Weed and Boys um I have really good taste in music and I just know a hit when I when I when I hear one and at this particular time in my career I was working on my third album and that could be like a a tough spot for artists because you're trying to find your thing and you're trying to still do what's new and you're just you're just trying to figure out a bunch of things it's a lot with the label because they might be expecting they have other people coming in so it's a lot of competition and for me it's just always about like making the best music and being in that pocket right then and there and um I knew I needed a hit you know what I'm saying and I was just willing to work with with anybody that that was you know making good music at that time uh when I did black and yellow uh Stargate they were making hit records at the time so it was like let's work with Stargate and when I did We Dem Boyz um detail was on his way up he already had like a bunch of hits and a lot of people that he was working with but he was still you know seasoning and you know shifting and pivoting and doing a lot of different things he was all over the place so he was open again in the studio with me and as soon as I heard you know the rough for we dem boys I was like that's ahead I'm like this is a banger and it was just one of them songs that I was really ready to you know go to war about and just be you know stand up like yo this is the record right here the label you saying yeah yeah yeah make sure the label like understands the message it's still a dark sounding record when you're here but it's a it's a it's something that gets you Rowdy when we were in the studio making it like we were standing up on top when we went on a promo Run for the club we would just snatch the mic and just be like hold up hold up so it just made us feel a certain type of way and we knew that the world would feel that way as well and um I came up with the idea for the video and and you know that came off really well so it was just a really really good moment for my career man hell yeah oh yeah and then Dallas Cowboys picked it up and made it Like official merch and [ __ ] like that too because the Cowboys the the uh apparently they them boys so yeah they like got [ __ ] in their yards that says we dem boys they got Dallas Cowboys shirts and all that when they score touchdowns they [ __ ] screaming we dem boys so it's like I got a Pittsburgh Anthem and I got a Dallas Anthem as well Gary Jones is cutting them checks I mean not necessarily a check but it's good promotion though and they let me go to the stadium and like eat some nachos and [ __ ] it was cool now they they're really really cool about it and you know it's good promotion you guys fix that over there yeah we have literally a mechanic a mechanic working bro I also heard you say somewhere that um you if you if you had a chance to do rolling papers over or if you you would have did something else no that was like early in my career I was like letting the criticism get to me yeah yeah uh I had felt that people were expecting one thing from my mixtape [ __ ] and then they got something from uh from uh from my album that they didn't that they weren't ready for and uh just me caring about people's reactions that's what made me say that but looking back I don't give a [ __ ] that [ __ ] is legendary like I got plaques in my crib from more than half of that album which means people physically were buying that [ __ ] and it was a really good you know exercise for me to get to where I'm at in my career now and if I I wouldn't have done that it wouldn't have made the you know pave the way for hits like you know we them boys Young Wild and Free see you again and you know all the other Platinum hits that you know people love me for so I'm glad I did it I'm glad I wrote the letter and but I I don't feel like that today though at all you also one of the first artists working with uh the guys rolling loud they remember I remember out here the Fort Lauderdale the revolution revolution live when they were doing the early rolling louds they were just doing straight concerts and you were one of the first artists working with them yeah yeah did that translated you that relationship still intact yeah definitely um we pioneered a lot of things man just by being available um I think me being like one of the first rap acts doing festivals and just bigger you know headlining stages and things like that it opened up a lot of opportunities for for people to bring that you know same attention to other artists as well or take their their artists on tour or sell merch and do things like that so it's really good to see like the whole show scene and the festival scene like budding and you know everybody you know eating off of that and and it's still the original homies from before yeah and there's cats like you know things that we did at South by Southwest that are still going or you know reach their Peak and we were able to see that through so it's really dope man do you prefer doing festivals or a show that's just you I like all of it I love doing the festivals I like doing the festivals because you get different types of music like that's the only time I'll be able to perform with like Elton John or some [ __ ] like that you know what I mean so it's really cool to do the festivals and then when I'm on my tour um I'm able to you know go in with the production and just be more creative and things like that with my own vision and stuff like that so I get a I get a lot out of both hell yeah is there any place that you you can't go to because of your smoking habits Dubai don't allow smoking but it's not that I can't go there I just can't smoke while I'm there yeah yeah because I'm hearing that um they decriminalized it but I don't know what that means but it's religious why they don't do it over there yeah but I'm just saying religions but it's like still you know like having weed is one thing but then like trafficking being with traffickers it's like it's a lot right you know what I mean like I was chancing it over there I remember smack dad in the middle of you know people getting arrested for weed it was like Snoop had like the illest past like he would come to this one hotel in New York and for seven floors they would just let him smoke whatever the [ __ ] he wanted yes and it's like um stupid's different man that's what you do when you're a boss yep the [ __ ] oh let me get some more we should have the gun popping yeah man come on man you let us down shoot me let's be honest it's not gonna happen more you guys are way too optimistic let's smoke this Ooka then yeah are we smoking that God damn I think I need uh no they they refilled they did it yeah it's crazy because me listening to um we repacked it um your music I was I said to myself man I always wanted a record what Wiz and Pharrell and we I actually do have a remix with me and you and Pharrell but it's not the real thing before who do you mean it's not the real thing I mean because I just felt like it was it was just a remix but like me listening to his music I need that I need I need that hook I need what the hell are you gonna do with that verse then no we we got you put it out I need we I want to go where me you for real get him y'all need to go in the studio and make her feel good right yeah you gotta spark it though oh I'm a Spock yeah yeah well well maybe it's not my last album or maybe it's a drink Champs full album and I want to do guests that we had that's easy you know what I mean yeah like we had we had a studio up there oh well we won so we're gonna be in the studio together or are you sending this way I like being in the studio with Pharrell and I like being in studio with you yes yes thank you and there's nothing like being in with Pharrell because I I was able to be in the studio with them a couple times and foreign maybe I think we locked in for like three days when I was working on my second album and then maybe like another time after that okay it was really good though he made a beat right there on the spot yeah yeah um uh he did a verse on there oh wow yeah because I I like saying my part and then I rap my verse and I was like yo P let me get a verse on here real quick and he went in there and wrapped me a verse I was like oh hell yeah just like most people think people write his verses he showed up for the video as well like yeah what the [ __ ] yep so what producer would you want to work with now that you have a dress Dre is on the list I'm definitely gonna work with Dre but uh I want to work some more with with Timberland Timberland yeah yeah yeah yeah I want to [ __ ] with Tim a little bit more um Swiss beats Swiss beats yeah I could see that I could see that easy yeah me and swiss I can see that um would you do it versus not right now not right now no you think you got more years or why why you feel that's for someone that's more your elder or you you feel like it's catalog-wise you want to do more I think I feel like catalog wise I would want to do more like just as a consumer when I watch versus I'm I get happy when I hear like older songs that I didn't even know that they had anything to do with or just like hits that you know they might have been behind the scenes on than these sides and [ __ ] so it'd be cool to like bring that out I feel like a lot of my [ __ ] is still relevant so it's like not a not a real surprise like you know what I mean like it'll be cool to be like oh yeah this [ __ ] does have a lot of bangers but I want to be involved with a lot more different things that aren't just Wiz Khalifa and then if I was to do it versus be like yeah and I wrote this play something in Spanish like you know what I'm saying like you know that's more of a flex to me right right so yeah have you done anything like with reggaeton any artist I do a ton of stuff man yeah no [Laughter] I don't know and we say the English sir come on what did you just say this is so disrespected yeah yeah tell them in Spanish what did he say oh damn relax I smoke exactly so we spoke about the foot earlier do you think the thing that goes back you'll be kicking the [ __ ] out of the boxing them heavy bags you be kicking the [ __ ] out you said is that's why my feet are dry ask him no no no I said you think that's the reason why to feed this viral is because you'll be kicking the [ __ ] out so fast because I'll be looking at you you don't be playing yeah what are you training in mutai yeah I do Muay Thai I do Muay Thai Jiu Jitsu Taekwondo and oh you were banana it's mixed martial arts it's MMA so it's everything a [ __ ] might throw you on the ground a [ __ ] might elbow you a [ __ ] might grab your ankle all that [ __ ] basically you don't [ __ ] [ __ ] up with your big time it's a sport I'm in shape you use your feet yes he's saying you chalk up your foot to kick no [Laughter] I mean you know nah I think it's just from like lack of moisture that's all okay yeah all right but you do be kicking the [ __ ] out the back yeah I trained five days a week uh at a gym it's called unbreakable I've been I've been training for about six years consistently now I I do weight training and uh and you know the the martial arts end of it as well so yeah only UFC [ __ ] go there only them well UFC is a is a brand so MMA is the art yes and training in all those practices karate is a part of it any martial arts yeah mix them up exactly exactly exactly oh you ready don't lose no more Khalifa Cuts yo hold that [ __ ] glue that [ __ ] to your hands [Applause] all right oh you guys smoking definitely smoking right now oh [ __ ] oh man happy 420 yes [ __ ] kick you hell yeah holy [ __ ] that was awesome why am I the only one coughing here yeah right I don't even smoke you're high I can see it in your eyes yes I'm about to have one of these Mike Tyson bites yeah oh yes eat it here man oh [ __ ] so cut your orange juice right yeah order me a pizza it's a unique sound how did you how did you capture that sound um man it was like really just living on the road and being a young man and just rapping about my my uh excursions as a young player and it was real fun man it was uh it was a good time I met currency during that time and we kind of came up with our well not kinda but we really strategically came up with our own style and our own sound and we actually called it karate and we were watching a lot of we were watching a lot of anime and samurais and just you know what I'm saying just crazy ass [ __ ] and we just caught up there you go we just called our flow karate like just how we would kick it how we would do [ __ ] and um the cushioned orange juice name came from my homie uh Jake in in Toronto so I went up to Toronto for a couple days and I was recording the the last couple pieces of uh how fly which is the mixtape that I did with currency but I was also working on cushioned orange juice and um everything that I would say was like waking bacon like we would wake we were baking we would do this and it just randomly he was like man your laptop smells like cushion orange juice and I was like yeah laptop yeah yeah and I was like damn bro you don't understand that's my whole life right there like it just felt to me like a different way to say wake and bake like Christian orange juice and I was able to wrap the music around that and um you know just texture everything to to really just describe what we were going through at that time and I shout out to cardo shout out to sledrin shout out to germ e Dan everybody who produced on that album nesby Phipps um uh big crit you know everybody yeah everybody who had beats or verses on that album man like uh it was it was legendary for us and not only that it was like like you know most hip-hop albums have skits that's the one thing I'll notice about it is yeah yeah his idea was it that was my idea okay yeah I came up from that area where you know that every classic album has this on it like The Chronic or you know something that tied all the songs or [ __ ] you know every dope album has skits on it so I just wanted to do it in my own little way and of course I I came up listening to snoops so they had you know uh doggy style radio right and uh and all of that [ __ ] so I just made up my own little radio station w-e-d and made my own little you know host of it and we just went with it I did a bunch of mixtapes before cushioned orange juice I had like seven mistakes it was crazy yeah I had like seven projects before that where I had also you know done the same concept but like everybody knows it takes a minute for it to catch on right and especially at that time I had the internet to help me out like you know Twitter was brand new so I was just [ __ ] abusing that and uh YouTube I was just you know uploading everything and making it a movie or making it a a post or a vlog and people were just following my whole thing on Twitter so when that album came out it was really interactive for the fans as well and it was one of the first things to really use the internet like that too so it was it was big you feel like you was one of the first viral artists like internet viral internet right right which is what I mean no that's what viral no I would say Soulja Boy is the first virus yeah yeah I would say Soldier Boy Soldier Boy yeah yeah I would say but I don't want no smoke or Soulja Boy yeah but that's it's true though like he really was like the first fight I think he literally got his record deal no absolutely because he was hustling he was like in his house yeah and people heard his music from him promoting it and before it was like out of the trunk and the internet became the new Trump yeah yeah so I would say soldier boy which went hand in hand with the ringtone yeah he's at the beginning of that yeah the ringtone era was was one thing too because yeah for sure that was a big thing over at Warner was like dude does he got a ringtones yeah that was all the labels yeah yeah yeah hell yeah oh man I didn't I didn't know I didn't know that yeah yeah for sure he would say something we interrupted you no okay yeah go go for it bro yeah I got mad uh questions yes it does oh roll up that song yeah where was you at what was you did you roll up did I roll up that's your part of the question how you just came up with that um so that was that was an interesting part of my career because I have written Black and Yellow maybe like eight months before but nobody really believed in black and yellow so so black and yellow was out eight months and it wasn't reactive no they didn't believe in it before I put it out yes before if we dropped it it was about four months before it dropped so that was the period where nobody like believed in it and that was a period of them like the label asking me to record another single I'm like nah I got to sing those black and yellows black and yellows black yellow so we put black and yellow out in the fall was that was Atlantic yeah it was Atlantic I don't want to throw anybody on the bus make a seat because I remember working these records exactly I don't want to make a scene coming do the right thing I don't want to make it seem like anybody's bad at their job but like you know what I'm saying like they know the story they'll tell the story too the label didn't believe in black and yellow we put black and yellow out and went number one so they're like [ __ ] we need another song immediately like right now like get on the plane get back in the studio with the same producers and do what you did the first time I was like all right cool [ __ ] it so they played me a couple beats I didn't really you know [ __ ] with any of them I was like this one sounds cool and I'm gonna do it about this instead you know I did uh [ __ ] you know a sports Anthem I was like let me soften it up a little bit but I'm on my weed [ __ ] so let me like troll the world and like have it sound like friendly but be talking about [ __ ] weed at the same time time and I wrote roll up and you know they went with it and we uh we shot the video Cassie was in the video shout out to Cassie and that was another you know Platinum Platinum record for me right out the gate because that was like right on the verge of weed like kind of like being um untaboo at this time yeah no no it was still a thing like it was still a tablet yeah yeah it was still a thing especially like me coming from like the blog or mixtape era like people weren't used to me making those types of songs but I always knew like yeah I'm gonna make bigger records that are gonna appeal to everybody but I'm gonna just do it in my own way right so that was my way of you know making a crossover record but still making it weed friendly like you know it's genius yeah yeah let's make some noise for that yeah good and just to go back on not throwing the labels under the bus just to be fair to these marketing departments this was the era where the internet was so new in terms of how people were promoting music that the labels would start on the old guard of just radio promotion and the old school way that that's why they had like they they they didn't catch up quick enough you know saying they were all like kind of behind on that yeah they didn't understand that we were in control of our fan base right they thought that they knew better than we did I'm like look I could say [ __ ] this [ __ ] uh blah blah blah and they're gonna buy it like they love me they don't care what the [ __ ] I'm saying like labels hadn't seen that before they were used to building the artists and the Machine is still the machine back then there was no digital sales it was all like physical so if I'm selling a million records these are probably a million [ __ ] who's going to buy this [ __ ] so it was a different time back then so it was a lot more on the line back then and they controlled the publicity you could go straight to the Blogger right straight to the internet right and I think they were still catching up it was just a disconnected they hadn't come together once Young Artists started to take control like that your generation is is probably that generation that started to take control absolutely after that generation is where they introduced the 360 deal the 360 started before that yeah but I mean what I mean is they re they read Because 360 was was trying to grab your your show Money everything it was everybody it wasn't having to do with internet unless it was just grabbing your show money so they already started after these artists like you know start to you see self-contained yeah self-contained I believe that's where it reintroduced itself yeah I feel like the 360 started to just become more of what makes sense because they wanted everything together and they were losing money they were losing a lot of money because CDs they've seen the the the control that an artist would have and it's a way to leverage it more to be like yo just work with us because you'll end up making more money right you'll give us this percentage but you're gonna make a [ __ ] ton more than you would just by yourself and that's just them you know up in their game like like we're getting the Napster era like The Arrow free downloads yeah and bootlegging on the digital level yeah he was telling my [ __ ] I preferred that controller different stuff started becoming valuable for an artist like merch wasn't that valuable for an artist before I came in the game but you know you start seeing Taylor Gang This Taylor Gang now they're like [ __ ] we need a piece of that like you know what I mean so that starts to get wrapped into 360 deals and then you start talking about like monetizing [ __ ] social media and all of that other [ __ ] and it just gets real crazy that that didn't even exist when I was there but um yeah there's a lot of different reasons why they do it and different ways that they upgrade it due to you know what I mean where we're at in the game like for sure 100 would you ever sign an artist or a 360 deal no I wouldn't okay no hell no I'm just not that big of a machine like I I can't I can't follow through of what a 360 deal entails got to provide help them get the shows yeah yeah I mean why I could help you get shows and [ __ ] like that like that's cool but it's like you know I can't go to Radio and be like yo play play this song like [ __ ] all of those other artists play this song yeah because that's what they do like other I mean like labels you know what I'm saying like if you're a priority artist you're going to get that type of treatment that's the problem with the 360 deal and only a certain small percentage become those priorities for the show and everybody else is stuck they're not saying that and they're only a priority for a certain amount of time right yeah yeah right don't last forever they got other priorities there's no [ __ ] ain't no fun the song yeah uh girl talk yep smoke dizza yep okay cool yeah yeah no I thought big crit was on there the Creator is on there okay all right cool I just didn't get the name okay yeah yep tell us about that I was [ __ ] loaded girl talk caught me to the studio I was like we're making an album bro it's got three of your best friends or two of your best friends on there just get in the studio just start making jams you know like like old times me and dizzy we came up you know mixtape days blog era yeah smoke smoke there's a crit took him on our first tours together you know we really really just came about the mud together so when it comes to getting in the studio with them dudes it's automatic like we just coming up with ideas sometimes smoke will start it sometimes Critters do the hook sometimes I'll come in with a hug sometimes I have a verse like it just nobody stepping on nobody's toes hella laughs and uh girl talkers from Pittsburgh he's a big DJ um just in the scene he's been in the scene for a minute and um he's a producer as well so that was just our opportunity to just mix everything up and um you know have something great for the fans okay hell yeah me and you got like something similar but I feel like you think yours is a uh as bigger whenever someone passes away here like for my crew I made a record call sometimes right which is about my father but see you again is like the bigger version of that yeah right thanks um it's up there where uh you know what's what's what's what's the Puff Daddy [ __ ] uh I'm missing you and Bone Thugs yeah Crossroads crosswords yeah yeah you like one of my favorite songs ever yeah that's a big record you know I want to be as careful as I can because we all know it's about Paul Walker correct right so um we know that you know how he passed away or whatever but what made you wanna like create that type of type of record I was brought into that um for Fast and Furious yeah for the Fast and Furious soundtrack Kevin Weaver right shout out to Kevin Weaver man give me a huge solid uh they were coming up with the soundtrack I'd done one of the Fast and Furious soundtracks before I met Paul Walker no I didn't I didn't meet Paul Walker nope excuse me I had done one of the Fast and Furious soundtracks uh the movie before this one I think it was on this one was on nine see you again was on nine so I think I did a song on Fast eight and it performed really well so they had to See You Again song um the situation had happened right yeah it had happened they filmed the movie and he was in a lot of the movie but then the situation happened mid filming the movie so like the last scene of the movie they had planted they were like this is the song that's going to play in the last scene of this movie here you go buddy I'll write it I was like damn skeleton under the beat the hook was already there Charlie was singing The Hook okay and um the idea behind the song was to have a lot of different artists on it but so there was a little there was a Lil Wayne verse I think they had Chris Brown cut the hook as well they had a lot of different artists on the song and um it just went through like a trimming and a shaving phase and it just ended up being my verse on there with Charlie's hook and they were like we like this it pays a perfect picture like you really tapped in uh because you write another verse for it I'm like totally so we all got in the studio I sat there and wrote my verse and we put the song out and the first week it performed well the video comes out and then it just goes to number one and it's stated number one for I think 13 or 14 weeks and um yeah that was like my biggest record and hell yeah it was just a huge huge [ __ ] moment you know because that's crazy that you have like some of the most beautifulness record yeah and you got one record that's like yeah it makes everyone cry yeah yeah for sure I mean it's a blessing like a lot of people don't know I lost my brother as well and um at that time I I knew he was going to pass because he passed from cancer and he decided not to get treatment and um so yeah I was dealing with that as well so I was able to you know write real feelings it wasn't just like I was just talking about tapped into that you know what I'm saying so there's real feelings in that song and that's why people are able to connect with it because uh you know that's gonna last forever like you know sadly death is a part of life is [ __ ] guaranteed and you know people die every day you know what I'm saying people lose something or there's just hard [ __ ] to hold on to in the song it can help you get through it it can help you deal with it it can help you you know what I'm saying remember that [ __ ] so it's a it's a blessing more than anything to be able to be a part of those moments in people's lives yeah let's go yeah yeah how about um Mac Miller you know I know you guys had oh rest in peace yeah but you want to speak about anything like well uh Mac Miller y'all you guys relationship yeah Michael's a really good friend of mine super talented yeah man hella talented represented Pittsburgh I want to say he's from Pittsburgh yeah representing the bird tremendously and um just carved his own way like you know what I'm saying he can't he came up at a time where everything was still finding directions so was like you could be this or you could be that but he made his own way and uh the way that his fans respect him and love him and people think cherish his music is uh it's beautiful man they the way that they keep him alive and uh and keep him going and it's it's super sad that what happened to him and uh what it represented because I was talking to a uh one of my homies the other day and he was just saying how for a whole era of people Max spoke to you know what I'm saying so like losing him it's kind of like a lesson to them but it's also like really sad that that's the way that they had to learn that right yeah where did you you're a Mac Miller meet he's younger than me he went to my high school but I didn't actually meet him high school yeah yeah I didn't actually meet him in high school I met him at the studio just like pulling up I would be there with my homies or I would go away for a tour and I would come back and they would be in the front room making a little choice or uh shooting videos or just running around the city like you know what I'm saying they kind of made a name for themselves and that's how I got on to them was there ever any kind of competition being from the city no no no no I think it's always about embracing like especially the people who are coming up after you like you have to embrace them and kind of just show them the right thing to do or how to do it or would it would it what a good example of that looks like and then they're able to take it on their own and Define it for what they wanted to be but to compete with them like that's not the way of like hell no never that hell no now um recently me and you spoke offline because we were both bringing our kids to goddamn WrestleMania that was dope I did not go damn why aren't you guys no I went one of the kids got them yeah yeah yeah yeah but um yeah yeah yeah uh but uh then I seen you there I seen you there right um are you a wrestling fan yeah I am put us on what is Snoop was in there right yeah Snoop was actually I go live yeah Snoop went crazy yeah yes it was in there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh [ __ ] I used to watch bro well I watched wrestling before it was WWE I watched WWE yeah yeah yeah when I was a kid I was into it yes I was like stone cold I'm a little younger than that wearing [Music] limo driving private jet flying I was like worried up that's bars you know what I see a Ric Flair at a at a Insane Clown Posse at the the Gathering you ever played at the Gathering of the Juggalos no I haven't yo this [ __ ] is wow and he went on stage I don't know I think he was hoping he said yeah but then you know out there the the Juggalos they throw uh I don't know what that that that bottle of it's like soda these big ass soda bottles what it's called out there where are they from they're from uh Detroit right from Detroit yeah so they throw these big ass bottles at you but that's out of luck out of love Yeah but yeah everybody came back he's like what the [ __ ] [ __ ] blowing [ __ ] is this throwing [ __ ] at me he was pissing the [ __ ] though that's my refresh let me ask you you think the wrestlers was on cocaine do I think the wrestlers were on cocaine yeah I don't think I've pretty much heard I know oh [ __ ] oh oh go for it with the sample the trail what's the sample what's the name of the sample um come on come on pull it up the record son yes Empire of the Sun no no I got it as it's the thrill walking of the dream walking on a dream walking on a dream yeah Empire the sun is the group oh hey you see you see you telling me he showed me from Australia they hard so you sampled this this record yeah now for those that don't know this is interpretation is different right interpretation is where you can do someone's record over yeah I don't know and not pay them no interpolation is where you like yeah replay it replay it there you go there's like certain notes that are different but this was like a whole flip so what happened with this was um with the thrill in particular this was just like the mixtape error and I went to a party and there was I was in Indy Indiana I think and I had chilled with the with the guy who brought me out there we he was I was at a college campus and I hung out with him the whole day he was so cool he took me shopping we did the show he was so professional and as soon as the show was over he started doing tons of coke and everybody in the room was doing cocaine I was like what the [ __ ] happened because y'all were [ __ ] professional as hell earlier I'm just smoking weed and everybody in the room is doing cocaine and the Empire of the Sun song came on and this dude was coked out of his mind not the promoter but he was too but look he had a regular collared shirt on like yours damn and when he started doing the coke he flipped his collar up so yeah that's who he turned into when he did yeah exactly so he looked at me he was like bro he was like if you rap over this song you'll be the [ __ ] man and he was right dog he was [ __ ] right I went home I wrapped over that [ __ ] dog I just took the beat and and looted like right at the beginning I just loot the part that I wanted because they didn't have the instrumental and I just put that [ __ ] out like that was back in the day before you would get like sued you know I mean they wasn't really looking at this internet kid right you know blah blah blah but fast forward I started doing hella shows off of that [ __ ] and they were like damn you're making money off of our records so they like made up this whole little rule where it was like if you sample certain records you can't perform them unless you get clearance from the artist blah I just said another thing because you're technically making money without clearing the record I was making millions of [ __ ] dollars traveling the world performing this song and they're sitting at home like that's our song like it's death it's damn near bigger than our record like what the [ __ ] we haven't even performed Our Song at that level So eventually they just had to break bread they was like look we'll just [ __ ] make your version whatever your name and your song is that'll be your version and then we'll have our version it's basically the same song but I got my version and they got their version yeah yeah I'm not gonna lie keep the collar flipped up dog yo that is crazy yeah because um no he'll be saying like how he sampled This Record like um I don't know if you you remember but Lala and New York New York like we had to give 100 rights to the Sugar Hill like we couldn't like as soon as they sued us we just said yes we did sample you yeah yeah record yes with them they worked with you yeah hell yeah you know you could do that what you can negotiate those situations what happens is most of the time the artists don't ever even ask yeah and then after the fact the Publishers are coming and grabbing their stuff right so if you were to enter like anticipate that situation you could go and negotiate with the estate or with the artists or whatever yeah and they might be usually they're going to be probably cool about it it works in everybody's favorite when they are cool about it because they start saying how much money they could make they'd be like oh all right never mind let me just chill right yeah nobody wants to go to court and do all that crazy [ __ ] after the fact and then and then especially with digital sales they back day everything so that song was streaming for like 10 years so all of the streams from 10 years get brought up now so they're about to get a fat ass check from all of the [ __ ] that it already did just for just for signing the paperwork yeah for sure okay yeah hell yeah just reciting the paperwork just for being like all right we cool with it we talked about producers you would work with but what about straight MC's you want to collaborate with or would you do ever do it actually never mind the collab would you ever do a joint album with someone and who would it be a joint how are you done with currency yeah currency I'm down to do a joint album with anybody man like I feel like bless you I feel like anybody who I get in the room with and Vibe with for like four days we end up making like a little mini album anyway uh me and Cuddy been working back and forth uh on some stuff I could see us like you know continuing our our flow because it's very very natural and the the the [ __ ] that we got is [ __ ] Heat so yeah we don't yeah why stop that you want to cut it would be crazy yeah yeah that would be fun I mean I think that's one of the illest things about you is your melodic yeah thank you you know when you like you could rap rap yeah yeah yeah but then you can also get into this melodic yeah and I think that's what Cudi is too something would you guys give that the beginnings of that melodic in in in rappers to Bone Thugs 100 okay he's from he's from he's from Ohio I'm from Pittsburgh definitely Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 100 because I don't think I heard that much until then yeah no that's that's my influence right for sure it was it was a time right I was just like in rap Purgatory you know what that means yeah like you I'm just in between chilling and I went to LA yeah when I went to Alchemist house shout out Alchemist such a legendary man come outside you know I was I was like if people don't know what Purgatory is it's a state where you're not really Between Heaven and Hell yeah but you're not really like you're just existing yeah just existence the document said to me and Kid Cudi at a show The Alchemist said to me come out this has been Kid Cudi is you know so I'm saying ah I'm not going to Michelle's let's cut those type of people don't like me you said that yeah that's right that's right that's what you thought that's what I thought right where's kayaka doesn't like a cake by the way I brought it enough for him to take his shots back at me I won't remember to get it back at me but anyway we gotta do all your drops so anyway so I told Alchemist I was like nah he's like yo like you had something to do with putting on Pharrell Pharrell is like the Godfather of this like hipster scene I didn't really know what I don't want to call the hipsters I said that well it's fine it's not that's cool it's not racist it's not racist that's derogatory it's cool so I'm gonna go into this Kid Cudi concert I'm not a concert it was a show in LA somewhere and I walked in and I'm trying to be Incognito I got a ski hat on in L.A a ski hat a ski hat yeah like a giant ski hat like they like they didn't know I was from New York you know what I'm saying I sit there and kid Cuddy see me on stage it was like Lori come up here and it was crazy because I didn't realize Alchemists had already told told him he's bringing me there we had my records and when I performed for these kids and I was just like I had didn't know that my records resonated with them yeah because and it was like you even got a tick tock song now yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's pretty cool still resonated [Music] that's the reason why I came back to Alchemist because alchemist that was two weeks before right so it was like something like this this shows you how dope Alchemist is how humble he is he's such a legend and he's he still loves you so much he's gonna come spin for you just off just like I did I I wasn't I wasn't um what does that [ __ ] called confident you know like I said I mean Purgatory come a time where I don't give a [ __ ] how much music you made I don't care for how much platinum you went how much records you and Pharrell made it's just going to get tired of you that's just that's just how this music business is and then you have to find something to transition to something else but in that in that moment I just wasn't confident and Alchemist was the one and because of Kid Cudi I bring that up because it's sweet man yes God damn it so what would you like do you forget your Swagger back what do you like more making the record or performing the record I don't like either one or less music no I love creating it because it's so fun to just have this idea that doesn't exist and to make it real right and I love performing it because you're doing the same thing you're making people believe in some [ __ ] that on that you create that only you you know what I'm saying and then it starts to like uh it starts to like develop into this like experiment where it's like I'm playing with people where it's like I'm in the studio like oh I know they're gonna go crazy for this and then they actually do I'm like what the [ __ ] like it works like you know what I mean I just made this [ __ ] yeah imagine is fun as hell it's so fun I get a kick out of that [ __ ] and you know I feel like the people they get a sense of that too they're like this dude is having a good time with us like you know what I mean so um I I enjoy both I enjoyed experiencing both I love performing brand new records I love performing hits songs that are out for freaking 10 12 13 years I love doing all that [ __ ] yo thank you I'm gonna take a shot but then I gotta ask you about that brand new record [ __ ] yeah hell yeah are the toughest thing to perform so where were you saying you like to perform this at in like intimate situations no anyway it feels like the best of a brand new record at a festival [ __ ] three verses let's go you're gonna listen to this whole song that's what music is man it's making people believe are you looking for something specific when you do that new record to that audience are you I know if I if I make this song in a room and it's just me and if I can make it go crazy I know a million people or however many people I'm imagine a million it's probably fifty thousand sixty or whatever I know I can make y'all go crazy if I could make a room full of nobody go crazy like you know what I'm saying I can feel that that that's your homies though my homies ain't there it's just me oh yeah yeah I'm not talking to no [ __ ] like you know what I'm saying I'm mapping this [ __ ] out in my head like what feels good and what doesn't what would embarrass me if I was in front of a hundred thousand people that [ __ ] still embarrassing if I'm sitting there by myself right you dig what I'm saying I don't gotta go out there you gotta gauge of it while you're listening I know I do I got a great taste I got great timing I'm confident in all of that [ __ ] like I said I'm just experimenting on people but I know I'm coming up with the [ __ ] game plan right then and there so if I say it in a song or if I map it out for the song to lead up into this you're going to do a certain thing when it comes on I'm just walking you into it so when I do it on stage I'm just doing what I already knew was gonna happen I'm just trying it out on y'all and it works and it's like okay all right cool you know what I'm saying yeah hell yeah but that's what music is that's why I enjoy different genres of music a lot of people get so caught up on like listening to their favorite rap song or their most nostalgic song they don't put on [ __ ] that they never heard before and they don't understand how to you know uh go through the music and learn the sequencing and why you actually like a song or why you know the lyrics to a song and that's why country music and pop music is so you know what I mean easy to catch on to because they write the lyrics to where you can learn the hook and the pre-hook as you're listening to it so before the song is even over you know the whole [ __ ] song You might want to hear that [ __ ] again or by the time you hear it again you know how to sing it you know what I'm saying and that's what a great performance is to me if I could show up and I've I don't even know the band or know the lyrics to the song and I end up liking it end up singing it that's a great song you did what I'm saying and that's what I bring with my music that's what I bring on my performance and that's why I'm so confident to perform a song that nobody ever heard for the first time in front of fifty thousand God damn Make Some Noise yeah what what country that you performed at were you most surprised at at China China yeah what part of China are you into [ __ ] China China yeah they ain't speaking no English over there they were singing that [ __ ] dog that must have been a sea of people I can't sing in Chinese I'm like damn like maybe I should learn one of y'all songs while y'all singing my [ __ ] which would be the ill thing for a lot of artists to do yeah because it made me think we don't ever do that for them bro we're so American the country we're just like English yeah but we don't speak none of their languages no we don't even try English we mad like we don't speak English yeah hell no no sleep what's up did you get no sleep making that record uh that was a crazy time too pretty much the whole time I did rolling papers I was just partying my ass off right um and yeah so I got in the studio with Benny Blanco he's cool as hell uh at the time he wasn't I don't even think he was wearing shoes I wanted to say not not Sneakers but like I don't think he was wearing shoes at all socks neither just toes out I I [ __ ] with it heavy it was cool he taught you um so yeah no he was he's super cool we vibed like as soon as we as soon as we met each other and um that was another song that was more crossover because the beat kind of sounded like alternative like rock and roll to me but I like that type of [ __ ] that's what I came up on like so I wanted to write like a you know my own kind of college red cup Anthem right and uh that's wrong yeah yeah that's what no sleep was and it did really well the video did well the song ended up going Platinum um it was another song on off of rolling papers that you know if I perform it now people just it's like hella nostalgic for them like they remember the moment that [ __ ] dropped which is really cool to have them type of Records man oh yeah hell yeah you ever [ __ ] with the Beach Boys nah that was funny when you said that at the beginning you ever saw that movie the movie about the one dude from The Beach Boys that no no it's just wild it's just I I'm not even talking about it [ __ ] it up was that the one like his dad was like yeah it's all [ __ ] up is that the same [ __ ] up I'm a beach boy guys wait a minute you want another Beach Boy sorry I just know this music the dude the main like the dude who like don't tell me the music he was what I'm not I can't I don't remember so I don't want to [ __ ] it up I think we [ __ ] thinking about the same [ __ ] up ass [ __ ] yeah it's not crazy it's [ __ ] up Beach Boys yeah bro like it's some dark [ __ ] yes yeah it's super dark [ __ ] yeah that's why they had to make that happy ass music bro yeah you have never seen the movie yeah no this is oh you got to see that movie huh oh my God what you [ __ ] knows what it is yeah yeah so I'm actually not a beach boy but the inspiration yeah I was born in North Dakota uh yeah I lived in Japan I really didn't exist North and South Dakota yes of course this [ __ ] said it didn't exists I thought they just made that up I've been in North Dakota yes it exists sir two they should just make it one Dakota they got uh Mexico and New Mexico right the country and and yeah no that's a country and that's a state yeah I lived in Japan I lived in Oklahoma I lived in Germany I think so many other than [ __ ] South Carolina like years you remember like memorable years that you remember these places yeah yeah yeah I would live close like maybe a year or two at a time but what branch of military was your year they were in the Air Force oh so you're definitely moving around yeah so that was all the way up till I was like 13 years old wow oh yeah so you you got something from all these places yeah do you think that informs your music today at all no not really the music no I wouldn't even say that my dad really like influenced my music just by listening to a bunch of Records in the house when I was young I have like a really good musical palette like he would listen to disco he would listen to Bob Marley he'd listen to hip-hop people listen to Patti LaBelle he listened to Sade you know what I'm saying listen the truth he'll listen to [ __ ] my mom I've been my dad listen everything my mom she listened to more like hardcore rap [ __ ] so that's why I started listening like doggy stuff my mom was more hardcore rap yeah yeah yeah she was more like DJ Quick doggy style [ __ ] AMG she listened to outcasts real heavy too the mama West my mom's the one who smoked weed so she was like Erykah Badu and like all of that [ __ ] so like yeah that's where I got my musical background from I think moving around just helped me deal with people you know what I'm saying like I was always the new kid at school so I always had to kind of like assert myself or just be myself you know what I mean and it just helped me like deal with different crowds of people I could I could get down with anybody it don't matter what race uh what your background is what your age is like yeah I I I [ __ ] with everybody I've been around everybody I know everybody's family so it's like I'm cool with everybody nah that's some Global [ __ ] yeah yeah literally [ __ ] real [ __ ] and your father didn't smoke just moms no my dad don't smoke weed he'll he'll hit a little bit of weed here and there but coming up for sure my mom is the the weed head all right like I said man I'll show us about giving people their flowers you definitely deserve your flowers you're a legend thanks dude you out here doing this [ __ ] having fun continuing to be an inspiration to me like I I love watching you I love to continue to see you have success and continue to um be happy thanks as an actual uh something we should all salute now for real because this game is a roller coaster like you know being a rapper we can't have a bad day if you you want to have a bad day and you come outside it's always somebody that want to take a picture so somebody that want to you know have a hug or whatever so you know I know how hard it is to be famous and to maintain this and to maintain you know being level-headed so I just want to commend you salute you thank you and tell you we love you and respect you over here I'm drinking all this goddamn Japanese whiskey Japanese excuse me I was drinking this Japanese Deli y'all but Lily y'all you know you know black people own tequila yeah and you own goddamn gin yep so why you ain't drinking your own [ __ ] you gotta ask I don't drink alcohol we want you to sell your [ __ ] I don't care I don't have to drink it to sell it there's a gin Drinker out there waiting to drink yeah yeah you ain't gonna take a sip yeah yeah my hand just don't work here we go then I'm gonna make a drink and I'm gonna keep drinking it I feel like Boris you should have a have a shot too you have to because I'm dropping the joint yeah yeah good job cheers I like what you just did let's get it let's get a honest good critique Bumblebee the drink Champs have spoken yes but is this is the champions of Dreams is this true thank you that you deter you declined to go on a tour with Drake that was a long time ago too yeah do you regret it what was that no I don't regret it my thing let us go I'm such like a uh oh [ __ ] I don't know I think the word that that people use is stubborn right but when I have a vision and I see things going a certain way I see it all the way through and at that point in my career I was right there and then all of these certain things just started coming out of the woodwork that could have deterred me from what I was naturally and evenly doing and I just had to respectfully Decline and that's the thing that a lot of people don't see happen right if somebody stand up for themselves and respectfully decline I'd respectfully said no to that I respectfully said no when Rick Ross tried to sign me to Maybach Music as well there were a lot of other situations where I was like I'm doing my thing I'm Taylor Gang I'm Wiz Khalifa I don't want to [ __ ] step on your toes because you're going to be pissed at me when you see how hard I'm going about myself so I might as well just stick it out and give you this real ass answer right right that's all I did and be allies at it I mean earlier we'll be cool afterwards you know what I'm saying hopefully like yeah for sure but like I'm gonna be 100 though and that's all that was you know what I'm saying it's a hard decision to make yeah no because you get you get all of these things that are they're so shiny and they look so cool but you gotta like stay stay focused yeah yeah that's crazy yeah September 8th yeah September 8th December 6th oh yeah so we act the same come on yeah yeah up I didn't know what I was getting myself into yeah September six yeah I believe Beyonce's the fourth the fourth yeah Michael Jackson is in there Michael Jackson's a virgin yeah yeah he's like though exactly oh my goodness you don't dance nothing like him Michael Jackson I should have knew Kobe was a Virgo I did a record with Kobe and I went to the studio and I wrote the rhyme for him and he was like you ain't writing around wrong yeah and I was like wow he really went into the bus yeah yeah Virgo boys yeah Virgo boys nope I'm not asking that question yes not answering or asking it I'm not asking that Chris but I sent you that question Sonny d ude I want to know what it is no yeah why don't you ask yeah go ahead sunny sunny foreign about y'all sometimes yeah I brag about y'all sometimes hell yeah like I brag about y'all sometimes when I when like I see people like you know going through certain things and I'm like look look how they took the amicable route you know yeah and look how they both hell yeah so I brag about y'all sometimes yeah we're like the ideal uh couple even though we're not together yeah yeah don't you mean it's like we we share the most beautiful thing in life we have a kid we got great memories uh we were married so everything we did was out of life a lot of people we planned on being with each other forever you know what I'm saying but um you know that [ __ ] gets difficult and I think with marriage like legal marriage it kind of sucks because that has to be the end of something when that's over but I think we're proving that it's not the end of everything like even when that legal [ __ ] is over you know what I mean like I got her back she knows it all right she got my back I know it and we do a great job you know being there for our kid we do so many things for Sebastian and not even just for him but we just we're such a good unit for him that I didn't see growing up you know what I'm saying like my parents they weren't able to function as well as you know I'm saying her parents either I think just that generation of dysfunction yeah they they didn't they don't there was no come together there was no holidays there was no uh uh birthdays together there was nothing that [ __ ] is by my son I'm saying like that's what we grew up seeing I love seeing bash birthday all y'all yeah we do things together he gets to enjoy both of us together he doesn't see us separately you know what I mean [Applause] that's really important my parents were divorced since I was two and I had both of them in my life very important both of them in my life love my mother love my dad but they are dysfunctional as [ __ ] can't be in the same room together and that's not good for a kid like you know what I mean yeah and it's not their fault because they probably didn't grow up seeing the best functioning anything but we gotta break that and we gotta be better cycle for our [ __ ] kids so there's a lot you know what I mean there's a lot that we do just to be like not just to be but it's natural where it's like yo this man needs to see uh you know his father treat his mother good she he needs to hear his mother say great thing about things about his father like that's important you know like for real no that's a beautiful thing oh yeah both and um that's a beautiful thing oh yeah what y'all doing is oh yeah it's dope and like like I said like on the sideline because you know I know how I know you and I I see how y'all get along I always tell them like my homies when I see somebody doing something like look but they're in the Publix yeah yeah how could you not get along you know what I'm saying I mean you it takes a lot though like you got to really not be a [ __ ] [ __ ] right you know what I'm saying like a lot of people are like putting up a front for cameras and they'll you know they'll be [ __ ] Superman when the camera comes on and be a piece of [ __ ] behind closed doors right we ride for each other behind closed doors there's nobody who can come in between us not even our parents nobody we started our world together and that's what we live in and that's how we rock and that's how we stay on this did you guys speak on that though when breaking up now we got to that point um you know the relationship and put a strain on us and it I think it just brought out the best in US it kind of forced us to look at ourselves and what we bring to the table and moving forward I feel like we both really want love and companionship so the the people that we're going to be with they have to deserve us so we're making ourselves better for the people who are around us and in turn we're going to treat each other the best ever because we're just doing all of this work and other people might not get us on the outside but we've been through enough together and that's the thing too it's like time helps and heals everything so you can go through a situation one year and then you know six or seven years later that [ __ ] don't even matter but you have to be the bigger person and you have to grow when you have to you know really communicate and want to be on the same page as somebody and a lot of people they have you know certain [ __ ] that they need to go through I'm lucky to have a person who's as thoughtful as she is she's lucky to be with me as caring and as compassionate as I am you know what I mean so we're we're really fortunate to have each other and I imagine your son made you guys better people as well yeah 100 man hell yeah I feel like she was already dope as [ __ ] honestly I I had to grow up one two three she was always cool as hell I needed to grow my ass up man not for real honesty man where's man um like I said I'll show us about giving flowers man um I'm so proud to give you your flower hell yeah thank you man really thank you for joining us you're really a full-fledged Legend out here um stood the test of time you're out here being the happiest I love that man I love watching you and just you know probably for the last question um there's no beef with you Gillian wallow y'all good okay now I wish nothing but the best from the for those dudes for Gilly and wallow I'm not gonna say those dudes because that could be like it seems like oh yeah he said not Gillian wallow like even with that situation I never really really spoke on it in detail because I wasn't at that space but um it just didn't go the way that I wanted it to go um even with it being a misunderstanding uh with with the message um because with him making the joke that that wasn't the thing that really caught me off guard um it was more about him using his platform to downplay me and I didn't like that if we're in a room together and you make a joke about my shorts I'm fine with that like because I can defend myself but if you go on your platform and you say I'm unfollowing whiz because of this reason you're a low-key telling your followers to do the same thing and that's not what we out here doing like you know what I'm saying go tell them to about buy my [ __ ] or say something dope that I'm doing you know what I'm saying promote me or help me out because that's what I'm gonna do for you I understand it because we all from the hood and that's what [ __ ] do and blah blah blah but you're supposed to be better than that so I responded in my own way of you know defending myself and it went to a certain extent where I'm pretty sure a lot of my fans like reported him and got his [ __ ] taken down I didn't do it personally I would never do that to anybody because that's not my style it's easy to go on the internet and paint that picture and that's more or less what he did and that's what I didn't appreciate as well and I tried to call him and I reached out to him personally um and the conversation didn't go how I wanted it to go he called me all types of names like out of my name which I didn't expect he said a bunch of stuff like real fighting Words which I didn't expect because that's not how he acts when he's on the internet so when I'm trying to have a man-to-man conversation with you why are you acting like this with me now I'm not coming at you trying to be tough I'm trying to let you know that I did it get your page deactivated and that we need to settle this in a better way than you doing it the way that you're doing uh I got on the phone with wallow I was able to talk to him in a sensible manner because that's the only way that I want to have a conversation I don't want to have a conversation with the names that was going around like what was what was being said meanwhile's conversation was cool but then Gilly went on the internet and was saying stuff that was completely 180 of what happened and I don't respect that me and them never had got a chance to have a conversation after that I'm willing to just squash it and let it go but that's the real situation that's what happened it was a bunch of Lies it was a bunch of me trying to be cool getting called out of my name and I'm still at the position where it's like all right I could just let it go or you know what I mean because I don't want to you know I mean [ __ ] on nobody's platform or nothing like that they're doing their thing I don't have any hard feelings towards them I don't have any hard feelings towards anybody who I love and comes in contact with them and it's cool you don't got to pick sides with me like I want everybody to get along I just want the same respect and I really wasn't dealt at hand but it's cool I'm willing to let it go like I ain't tripping off that [ __ ] I think I think that's warranted yeah I think yeah yeah yeah I think that's like yeah and I I don't think they'll see this and we chat yeah for Martin right they're good dudes yeah yeah man I'm always down to just shake hands Let It Go beautiful thing we got way more important stuff to be worried about you know yeah hopefully like just moving forward like you'll be able to deal with situations better than that like because I'm a cool dude like you don't gotta get like that or the same image that you portray really be about that in real life you know what I'm saying like you're trying to influence people to take a better route but you're not necessarily taking that route and you know you it is what it is yeah yeah we could all be better just put it that way and we're all going to try to be right right this should Inspire everybody is the [ __ ] out right now the hands in my toes I'm doing it like that gun up what happened it's done yeah what cereal milk is good weed what are you not gonna light it with you I'm gonna when I smoke I'm gonna smoke IG I might smoke the whole thing live I might just put it on my story hahaha [Music] foreign foreign [Music] thank you is this your first time spoken to Ooka yes like I said um I'm used to the The Volcano like where you gotta [ __ ] heat it up it's the same Vibe but it's like the hookah version and it's got water clean yeah now you're gonna take this home you're gonna see this a whole different technology right here it looks like a uh like an air freshener like like humidifier like the humidifier yeah yeah yeah I I had the volcano too yeah yeah I had the original one with the back just blow up like that that's where all like the the G Pen and [ __ ] like that that's where the the the the Vapes come from but those aren't like real Vapes because they use coils and [ __ ] they'd be like heating it up hella like this is way better for you like yeah you killed that you broke that down yeah I love how you break [ __ ] down like a scientist it's true it's a science because you're putting smoke in your body so you got to be careful like how you do it yeah be mindful yeah like [ __ ] be taking dabs and they be heating them shits up too much like you know what I'm saying you gotta do low temp you know what I'm saying let it bubble get the high taste you know what I'm saying so you ain't [ __ ] yourself up you don't remember when the average first came out they had the blowtorch you're still using that's not right you still use the toys you can still control the time why well I mean that's the only way to pause get it hot enough yeah deposit I mean I'm in from a different generation you play Parts a little bit different one of the things that I go through is a discography and I go through well give it from him look though he's the one dude that shouldn't have to join let him smoke he got him he got a police and he gonna blame Khalifa Kush nah they don't piss test for weed no more yeah okay okay now one of the things that comes up about you is your love for Max B yeah bigger Bell bigger Bell shout out to Big Avail man oh yeah oh yeah it doesn't work 420 God damn I feel like I'm inside a joint right now I can't even see you bro no no no no no no no no no we will not disrespect yeah not yet no I still don't play that no no but we did it to Colin he ran snooze did not play that [ __ ] somebody down no fury was here I think we did okay be real would be down he's with all the smoking yeah this new generation not Snoop not not anybody is there any young dude go ahead go ahead ask a question ask the question any young dude out here coming up that that can that can smoke with you they can do 10 ukas okay absolutely not only about only person only person I think that can hang with me and I probably haven't even smoked with this fool yet but I already smoked hella dope it's Chief Keef um I put Sosa up there because I heard it and when you're in these streets you hear some [ __ ] everybody else no don't even let them don't let them try to fool you and they're nah they wouldn't even try they wouldn't even I don't even think they would say anything like oh yeah I can hang with no hell no absolutely not I don't even think they're trying to like honestly like they're doing other drugs they're not trying to like smoke weed we need more people to like smoke a ton of pot and just buy ounces of weed and just listen to music and be cool and ride around with their friends and get girls right I like little Tyler yeah yeah yeah if y'all heard a little Tyler I like it now a little Tyler Tyler Creator hard though yeah a little Tyler hard though yeah they said you spend over 30 000 on weed a month no that was uh one particular year [Music] yeah I grow it so it's like you know what I'm saying like it evens out okay Humboldt County um there's just multiple places now yeah it's all over the place bro it's like wherever I like land bro yeah it's all over the [ __ ] place yeah exactly it is it's right outside right she's growing God damn uh do you like what's this back back then people just come to Florida and complain about Florida weed hey relax buddy I said Florida I ain't say Miami oh okay I didn't say Miami everywhere has decent wheat it just depends on who you know you're lucky you knew me at the time Cali is the best weed in the world sir yes sir Northern Carolina in the Bay Area yeah the Bay Area that's the best way have been in the Green Door The Green Door in Amsterdam no um and um I thought there was a day the green doors in Amsterdam I'm about Jesus Christmas brother I'm talking about the other greens oh and and San Diego no San Francisco all right let it go I'm just gonna learn today's got the best weed the bass got the purest stickiest most paid attention because it's closest to the source I mean the people who grow it the hippies out there are just [ __ ] right they're just traditional just we they don't even care about the money bro they just care about the yeah that's the sweet super hippies they're like down to the soil like every little microfiber like they play music for the plants they're in there yeah Colorado weed is cool it's kind of dry it's a little Dusty you know it's not it's not as sticky as West Coast weed West Coast weed is that's sticky icky bro isn't Colorado considered the briscoes no it's not I mean you could consider it that if you wanted look at the words you're using football there's no Coast on Colorado I think maybe like with like radios like considered West Coast [ __ ] that's the Midwest isn't it Swiss it's not West Coast yeah I don't think they're on Pacific time over there I think they're yeah mountain time then they would not be with Valentine's huh yeah they're mountain time yeah yeah that's Central yeah yeah smoke what you smoked and drank what you drank and then come with all this knowledge right now it makes you smarter man KK and McQueen makes you [ __ ] smarter he said some geography facts over there and he got some Ducey okay that's some good that's history who painted that on your shirt Who's the artist who's the artiste what oh let me say something let me say something that you said Tia hold on hold on hold on hold on let me say something let me say something T.I TI and Little Boosie I know that y'all you know y'all could have went to war you could have did a whole bunch of tremendous crazy [ __ ] but uh the fact that y'all show that two black men could get together and could talk it out I really commend that I really respect that I really salute that because we need to keep pushing that that it's not always drama everything a disagreement doesn't lead to y'all fighting and shooting I love the fact that y'all got together so T.I and Boosie wherever y'all at you know what I mean I want to salute and say yeah I I'm so tired of violence I don't like gun violence I don't mind fighting though all right yeah he's a train fighter but like it's healthy to like if you fight like in a controlled environment because [ __ ] gonna get into it you're gonna have a disagreement but if you're gonna shoot somebody over it that's kind of whack but if we can throw the hands evenly you'll really see if somebody really got a problem or not and that would solve a lot you know if [ __ ] would just square up that would solve a lot but a lot of [ __ ] are scared yeah a lot of [ __ ] don't want to fight or if you could train to a fight then you it would give you more confidence to if somebody be like yo let's get it they'd be like all right cool I don't have to have a gun to you know I mean handle this but it it there's a lot of programming that goes with that too but I don't mind fighting you know what I'm saying I think it's healthy I think you should learn how to control violence do it in a do it in a controlled environment and get it out the way and continue on with your life are you respond yeah yeah yeah the thing about train fighting it also teaches you how to lose with Grace yeah for sure cause somebody's gonna win and somebody's gonna lose you know what I mean but like the the majority of the of times when we spar it's not like uh I hate this dude I'm trying to take his head off somebody gets a good shot and you're like good shot technical [ __ ] and if you go to war with somebody and if it gets nasty but at the end of it you both come out you're both like yeah that was a good one you respect them a little bit more than anything and like I think people can learn from that because there's discipline in it yeah absolutely 100 yeah it's it's good for you it's definitely good oh yeah but but you're not trying to spawn no rapper or nothing like that I mean if it came down to it I mean it's it's for sport it's not like a competition so it's like it's fun it would be fun to see what somebody else knows or to learn from them or to show them what what I've learned throughout my time so like yeah it'd be fun oh I got a couple Partners in the league man uh the high rollers that's the that's a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu where you can smoke weed and roll at the same time and you compete for uh a pound of weed or multiple pounds a week what league did we just jump League yeah yeah yeah is the same thing yeah you fight and smoke at the same time there's a whole there's a whole league you smoke and you fight yeah it's called high rollers yeah Brazil it's uh well they do fights everywhere my partners have teams there's a Khalifa Kush team there's a headquarters in Vegas they get it on there and the fights are regular and it's and it's on regular TV so it's filmed this it's growing like you know it's growing yeah you smoke weed and you and you fight yo Sonny you gotta join that League bro yeah yeah and then I'm I'm I'm one of the creative directors and the co-owners of the pfl it's like in direct competition with Bellator and UFC we're on ESPN ESPN2 and this uh fighting League it's a point point based system where the fighters at the end of the season they they have opportunity to fight for a million dollars which not a lot of Fighters get to right unless they're dealing with their whole career exactly so this takes like you know the top fighters and they're able to earn points throughout the season depending on who they win against and how they win and that's how the Championships are determined so it's really based on the fights and it gives them opportunity to own [ __ ] um they own their their own licensing and all of that stuff so they get they get a hell of money just off of who they are and fighters who their contracts end at other companies they come right over to the pfl and just make hella money yeah yup Jake Paul just signed on with us oh yeah he's going to do a fight yeah yeah he's gonna do his first martial arts he's gonna do his first MMA fighter he's only been boxing yeah yeah right he's gonna do his first MMA fight with pfl UE kicking and all that kicking [ __ ] and smoking elbowing they're gonna take him to the ground he got he I'm sure he knows all that yeah everything yeah that's what I mean that's how we win the fight that you smoked the whole ring out and I come in there so one thing one thing you said is um when I asked you um you came early but she's like you said I'm a businessman and I love that obviously but let's talk about these businesses that you have not just the liquor but the fighting [ __ ] is dope fighting [ __ ] there's pfl there's liquid death there's a walk this is Oh I thought they was giving you the water you know we've been growing this brand yeah that was genius yeah yeah a genius how far along were they before you got involved they were brand new yeah yeah they were just looking for people to get down and they were really generous it's like yo I'm not gonna talk about the details of the deal but it was really really nice yeah that was genius yeah yup hell yeah uh there's liquid death there's uh McQueen but I have the whole company is uh you know it's all under everything so Bel Air uh do say uh you don't have to answer this but do you get um yes hell yeah I gave up a little bit you know because this was mine right like Brett went fully in with me uh I'm a queen so this was just me so I gave a piece of this up for a piece of the rest of the company as well so it only makes sense you know what I mean yeah because we're all family anyway and when one is helping each other grow one does well every every one of them does well um I don't know if you've ever seen the company shop GLD the jewelry company um I own a piece of that because the creators of that like came out of my Camp so when they first started the business they gave me a little piece of that uh I have Hot Box by Wiz uh well no it's packed bowls by Wiz now actually they they changed it it's a uh during the pandemic when all the restaurants close close down I opened up a delivery only restaurant and we're in like hella cities all over the place so it's basically like a delivery only menu that you can get it's not like a full restaurant but it's it serves food and it's packed bowls by Wiz uh [ __ ] what else do we got what else do we got wheels yeah the GLD [ __ ] uh we got tons of merch what else we got other businesses yeah we got the mushroom company Mr caps uh I thought Sonny was telling you what business you have like Sonny you too high right now bro telling him what businesses he got yeah GLD we'll get you right yo take a hit of that Ooka man oh yeah the weed Farms oh we got a gaming team too the Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh nice yeah we got a gaming team as well like like video games video games yeah that [ __ ] makes fresh yeah don't sleep on that [ __ ] hell yeah Pittsburgh nights yeah yeah those are like the ones that are like right in front of us that's a lot of [ __ ] it's a lot of stuff so hell yeah I'm gonna take one more shot dude I'm gonna take two more shots just Taylor Gang we keep it Taylor Gang we keep it tailored we want to give you flowers if you really deserve them like I said um you really a legend out here you really still the test of time and I I love listening to your music because I can understand the person not only the person but I can understand that you stand in the test of time meaning this was music over here I could make music that sound like that but it's my my land and you continue to do that and um should be noticed I appreciate it should be come on [Applause] all right now taking all the shots I took I mean live I took it in one glass bro I'll be calling up all types but it used to be drinking heavy yes so so what happened goodbye yeah totally yeah totally yeah for sure what made you stop your kicks wasn't coming out good no they kissed one the kicks were perfectly fine it makes you happy I mean yeah that's part of it it wasn't really too bad of mistakes I think I just I don't feel like I can afford too many more drunk nights okay I respect that yeah yeah it just it just it just it just ran its course like it it hit a wall like right I feel like everything else in my life that I'm doing is like lifelong you know what I'm saying plus the training that you do I'm sure that yeah I'm gonna be doing that for the rest of my life like I'm gonna be making music for the rest of my life I'm telling you like drinking like it just it hit a ceiling like it just it wasn't getting any better like it was just like that's the crazy [ __ ] we're in it gets better for us and it's terrible have fun bro that's why that's why I love I love people to just get [ __ ] up like because I understand it's fun as hell bro like that's all it is it's fun like it's hella fun until it's not but it's cool I like I I love people to enjoy some drinks I love people to [ __ ] rage and party I I'm not one of those people who you can't like get drunk around me right teach their own I just ain't finna like indulge I love smoking weed I love mushrooms right yeah you don't want one of the chocolates from my homie yeah I do the mushroom pills bro I do capsules I'm gonna do something right now on your [ __ ] show but I'll still give you from my homies shrooms and shrimp from the tacos he took micro doves those are micro dosing though yeah you're not gonna super 400 milligrams that's a lot that's why I stopped taking this oh but the Lions made is that is this no no that's the one yeah okay yeah now these are strong bro I don't know what's about to happen right now I'm about to do some mushrooms okay all right this one take a mushroom buddy look at Sonny the gifts no you already took one take one Sonny let's go you all need another one oh cause Jamie wants one Let's Go Daddy let's go Jamie Jamie take again hell yeah I gotta go piss one more time three more times yeah yeah right there two minutes yeah yeah go look at my neck was sunny bro Sonny's with the Vibes it's a good character yeah he's a great guy man that's a good dude man I love that gotta be down no one is yeah I like this remember you're taking that one home okay yeah just mine yeah I like this one damn you want to give him a brand new one do we have them in a box yeah okay okay uh mine's good okay cool yeah it's amazing oh yeah I'm gonna be so high yeah okay you want to ask a question wise you created was saying in English no I never felt like that I felt like with i i I'm more I have like a more of an issue of as soon as people start liking some [ __ ] I go on to the next thing and that might be like a gift and a curse people yeah yeah yeah I heard people tell me like bro like you gotta stop doing that but I just I don't like when people like [ __ ] too much you know what I mean it's like oh y'all like that let me do something different like you know what I mean that's enough of that yeah so I never get stuck in my ways and I and I always do [ __ ] that's totally different like so from cushion orange juice I did Cabin Fever because I wanted to do something totally different that didn't sound you know so laid back and chill and people gravitated towards it they loved it and then I did Rolling Papers which was like more mainstream and you know I got [ __ ] talked on that but the [ __ ] records went platinum and then I did um Owen IFC with the [ __ ] forget what color the pants were I think they were like shade I was the cheetah jacket with the with the American flag pants yeah and people's like that's not hip hop like you know what I mean blah blah like but for me I was like really Al Green and you know Marvin Gaye I wanted to make something that just looked like an old school album cover so it doesn't always align with what people think it's me or like on brand for yeah like with their taste for Wiz Khalifa is but it's always me just like uh narrating My Own Story kind of you know what I'm saying Hell yeah Revolution you're involving on your own I can't help it you know I don't I don't get comfortable like just sitting in one place like you know what I'm saying like I'm always changing or always coming up with new ideas or just different ways to do things or inspiration or you know what I mean just ways to reincorporate things and just tell a story without even like saying [ __ ] and if you get it you get it because a lot of the my fans and a lot of people that like [ __ ] with my music or [ __ ] with me they gravitate towards the same things so they'll be like oh this is that or that's why he did it but just on a larger scale a lot of people don't get that [ __ ] so it just comes off as [ __ ] weird sometimes so like I I just move forward and and just hope that you know one day people will understand it or grasp it but it never holds me back or gets me stuck to where I I want to redo something that I that I've done before like nah never that you ever did something that was against the norm that you regretted or an experiment that went wrong no I never had any experiments go wrong oh wow I pray I I try to calculate everything to where I'm pretty much gonna win and a win for me like it might not be a win for everybody else but I feel like but you already had calculated what would be a win exactly and I'm satisfied with it and it's a success based off of just getting to release it or you know I might not have got everything that I wanted to get done but I'm happy with what I got done you know what I mean like I I definitely just chalk it up and keep it moving like I'm always moving forward and I think that's just a blessing that I have as a creative to not really be focused on like money or popularity or any of that it's just I just love to create and I love to be a part of the conversation like you know just add me in there so it's like you always looking at the glass half full yeah half empty I mean it's like what could I do even if some [ __ ] don't necessarily work or doesn't do it exactly what what I wanted to do it's like all right that's a lesson it's not a failure it's like what can I do to do better you know what I mean I'm not looking at 80 people around me like you should have done this and you should it's like well what could I have done to make that [ __ ] a guarantee you know what I'm saying and then just move it from there a blunt I don't think it's been a long time no I'm not gonna come back home I'm not doing that that's gross that's not home okay ain't taking him there bro come back home well we all started with blunts yeah that was I was wondering it's getting tricked I'm [ __ ] with you [ __ ] all that that's terrible I like weed I enjoy weed [ __ ] no there's weed in it just wrapped in there somewhere that's the thing it's a high grade cigarette that's the thing about growing up in the hood like they try to like make it seem weird to like hit bongs or joints and things like that if you don't smoke oh man you smell you smoke weed dude that's like dog I actually like I always care about weed like you know what I'm saying like when you start to learn about weed you don't want to smoke a blunt bro because that [ __ ] ruins the [ __ ] actual pot bro to each his own it ruins it eat yourself you're not even fully inexperiencing it I don't smoke cigarettes no more so this is that's a cigarette you know what I'm saying like with the health facts and all that yeah he was going to be mad when I saw that footage online I said where's is is he's he's he's a tobacco he's the purist when it comes to the it's just not good for you man it ruins the weed I'm not even saying anything that's not right I'm just saying it no you're right yeah yeah I actually agree with you yeah it's all yeah but it tastes good as a [ __ ] right now you're addicted to it exactly yeah you're hooked you definitely won't want to smoke with trick then that's a totally different thing I'm not smoking a blunt with Trick Daddy but I'll chill with Trick Daddy all day now Twinkie is the best dude Miami I'm not saying that he's doing that but I heard I know it in Miami blood this is a lot everybody's doing it I don't know if you can call it a Miami blunt but you could definitely call it a trick and they're dirty no no no in Miami that that was a thing yeah that was a thing like Miami I grew that I don't know man I still know a lot of people still I'm sorry I'll be outside so let me ask you Jim Jones uh a close close friend of mine um said recently that rappers being a rapper is a dangerous job and I I agree with him in his totality but there's different versions of rappers right yeah I imagine J Cole could walk anywhere why you say that like Colin wit no I'm not saying it like I can imagine I'm just joking J Cole could go do his laundry laundry and like nobody might not try to get J Cole in my opinion actually that probably wouldn't be true it'd probably be less true you know listen they probably won't even think it's J Cole well that part yes no one bothering him right in that sense yeah and that's it but in Fame there's always dangers in all in any kind of Fame right I agree with you do you think being a rapper is a dangerous job especially living in LA right because they saying that La is the one of the most dangerous places in the world for a rapper yeah so I guess that's a two-part question um well I got a third part to that J Cole being able to go to the laundromat is a [ __ ] blessing yes it ain't it ain't as bad as you think no no that's a blessing it's a blessing for him to be able to walk through the park and go enjoy getting a freaking Glizzy and not get bothered so shout out shout out to J Cole more more rappers need to do that they love the glizzies for that so like my whole thing about um rappers it being dangerous it is it is very dangerous but um you're a Target you know what I'm saying like you're you're a target for somebody to get a name um a lot of people look at our profession and they're like this [ __ ] got it made right so they're like you know if you come through with a card or like he paid a hundred thousand or 150 for that car you might not have paid 150 for that car that might have been you know what I mean for real you might got a deal on that [ __ ] you might be paying rent on that [ __ ] every month you know what I mean or whatever your chain is like your chain might be big as hell but yeah qualities of diamonds they just see that [ __ ] shot and they don't know how much it really costs so you just become a target for things that you have on if somebody could get a name off of what they do to you so if I Rob this person they get a name off of that so that's that's automatic like when you become a rapper but or not a rapper but just a personality like just somebody who's out there so you just have more of a responsibility to calculate your moves uh calculate who you're around calculate the the situations that you put yourself in and the more you can avoid the better off you are um [ __ ] happens you know what I'm saying so you have to be prepared and you have to be ready and you got you got to be in the mind state to you know protect yourself and to protect your brand more than anything and not be like you know uh risking it too much probably active right yeah but at the end of the day like you know [ __ ] happens sometimes like you can you can never really people are human yeah you can't plan you can't plan everything and like you said uh J Cole he might not be a threatening artist but he might have some crazy yeah yeah you know what I'm saying don't use being a fan as a as a reason to get to you too to be like hey what's up I love your music and then flip it on some some crazy [ __ ] and then you're just being nice to you know what I mean a regular dude as a regular transaction so it's very scary you know what I mean like Eminem would stand with the song Stan is talking about that like anybody could have a stand right like even even with you like um to be honest with you like I said I follow you so I see you in the gym every day and then I see you leave the gym in a coup but then I realize oh someone's filming him so he's not alone no I'm by myself oh really yeah for sure oh okay yeah yeah you think do you think avoiding some of the [ __ ] is is like not having jewelry on or something like that because it's not having jewelry on but that's who you know honestly like knowing your environment it's who you know like you have to be tapped in with the right types of people out there and you have to be there for certain reasons and for me I like people know who I know and they know why I'm tapped in uh the way that I am and um yeah I mean there's there's a lot of different ways to go about it but just being in LA and not being from La um you gotta respect it but people people know what's real and what's fake so if you're just paying your way like you know what I'm saying as soon as that's up your time is up like if you have real respect from real people for real reasons you got to put in that work and do those things and you know what I mean like that's where I stand and that's why I'm able to move the way that I move and you got to take the time to do that that and a lot of people skip those steps you know what I'm saying they just look at the the important parts or the people who are there for them when they need them and they don't really return that or just be normal when it's time to be normal so it gets really Hollywood because it is Hollywood but it's like that everywhere it's like that in Atlanta it's like that out here out here it's like that in New Orleans like that in New York it's like that in Chicago you get pressed any and everywhere everywhere anywhere man exactly so you just gotta you just gotta stay tapped in with real ones and you got to put in that work the real type of work with the real ones and they and you'll be good honestly that's that's and really that's what I learned pay attention to your environment and respect the environment you're in yeah oftentimes people come from out of town thinking because they from another place they can come disrespecting another place yeah and you just gotta respect every there's a hood everywhere there's there's I mean even if you respect super respectful and you're soft like [ __ ] is going to try to pressure you know what I'm saying that's understanding your surroundings at that point if you're soft yeah if you understand where you're going as a soft person yeah there's nothing wrong with being soft right no you just got to be like yo all right well this [ __ ] soft don't play yourself exactly like don't try to act hard right right like just be soft right you know what I'm saying don't yeah no you're going to get pressed but like don't try to be hard don't put yourself in the situation exactly like no I'm I just do music bro like you know what I'm saying that's all I do yeah that's that's all the [ __ ] I do I do music bro all right there's nothing wrong with that nothing wrong with it there's nothing wrong with that nope man it's been a pleasure man thank you it really has been man because like I said I was happy to be a part of one of your first shows in New York I didn't know that was your first show in New York I thought it was one of but I was I was happy to be a part of that I was happy to see your growth it's certain people that I see that I'm just like man I'm just I'm just so happy man like you know what I mean like and that's real [ __ ] it's like it takes nothing away for me to be happy for you yep it takes nothing away for me to give you your flowers it takes nothing away for me to show you how great you are and how great you mean to this generation Our Generation generations to the culture at large nothing away from me in fact I think it makes me more of a man yeah for sure to sit there and tell you how great you are because you are sincerely great and we love you I do love you but before we get about it what's that what's next what's next for words got an album coming out Wizzle Mania yeah yeah it's gonna be so many will you be wrestling soon no I'm not I didn't know I will if they call me I'm athletic enough and I can do flips and [ __ ] like that too so what's good I feel like you got the meanest kick in hip-hop for real I've been saying that this whole interview I wasn't playing I don't know if you noticed I didn't laugh every time I smoke I mean you know I see you kicking my rib hurt I said oh [ __ ] they're getting better too I appreciate it no that's because you hardened that area yeah break that Shin yeah for real thank you um yeah so WrestleMania is dropping uh it's a new album full full length all bangers I'm really excited I got really good features on there um everything is pretty much locked in independent independent yeah who's gonna ask you that question independent or major yeah what do you prefer I prefer being independent but doing deals like exclusively you know what I'm saying so if you're gonna do it yeah like you license your project the licensure project because a lot of people don't know like music isn't really owned by the labels like there's there's a lot of private companies and a lot of investors who will invest way more in a project than a record label right I'm talking about way more like and if you can lock yourself into one of those deals you're gonna get some cheese and you're gonna you School us a little bit on that because I've never heard much of that I don't want to go too deep into it this just the surface of it it's generic I just said it private private investors way more because that album never got released like yeah this what's up fool what's up bro uh uh no because that album was like one person owned it this one is like they're buying staff like radio they're pushing it they're promoting it and you get like millions of dollars up front yeah but is that is that exclusive to Someone Like You Who already has a track no no no it's it's accessible to anything if it's worth money it's gonna sell you can lock in a deal and you can find a company that is not a major record label that will invest money then that's all they do is invest and you'll get right hey we need to hell yeah and it's crazy because it's they they just invest like they're not and they don't know [ __ ] about music right so you run everything like hedge funds get funding is that something that they can access or is it only a Busta Rhymes anybody can access it because these these private companies are investing in what's making money so if it's valuable if you can go on tour if you can sell merch if you could sell records if you have streaming if you're monetized if you have a video that's doing certain millions of views and is guaranteed to make a certain amount of money they're going to invest a certain amount of money to grow the project right whatever this project is it could be for an amount of time or it could be for the single project me or Busta Rhymes we'll probably just do like a one-off because we've already been through so many major labor deals or things like that but somebody else can be in their basement somebody could be like yo I see the potential in your growing here's 220 million dollars 220 million dollars yep someone in the basement yeah yep man see you don't want to talk about it but I need to talk about this I'm ready to go for a Cuban Cuban goodbye and there's no you can't Point anybody in a direction right now because it's not right now I'll holla at you uh okay okay I'll see y'all next chance when I'm floating in this [ __ ] everything on me is [ __ ] gold and [ __ ] remember that private investor I told you about yeah yeah I gotta wait okay we'll wait for this to be continued yeah we're giving a little game okay okay so we got the businesses we got the investment says we got the career we got the the acting what is left for you to do um I'm having a great time raising my kid bro that's [ __ ] awesome yeah [Applause] that's the best part of it all that's what brings it all together that's what really is you know my favorite thing right he's 10 now so I'm just looking forward to the next one you know and it went by like that oh man it went by so fast and to think that in another 10 years he's going to be 20 years old so it's like I gotta I'm in there like you know what I'm saying I already been in there but it's like yeah it's like really really important like you know like 12 14. all of that just you know yeah yeah he's that's my little man so that's my that's my job that's my that's my main focus is you know family just structure just keeping him right his his little personality is so so wild so it's like you know he he needs he needs that that Gathering that I got for him but yeah it's funny man I love being a dad I love showing up for him I want to have more kids um yeah I think like the career stuff yeah yeah the career stuff is I like not like um Nick Cannon it's like no no not like that I mean if you know if if that's the if that's the cards right whatever the vibe is but it's like the career thing is you know I've been doing that for a long ass time it's like structure and family and making memories and [ __ ] getting a lake house and going out on the boat and riding jet skis like that's the type of [ __ ] that I look forward to like you know what I'm saying so I'm I'm setting all that stuff up you're a real one this is for Legends this platform this is for people who um been here and we think it's going to continue to be here and you are definitely one of them since we started this show I've been reaching out to you because you have yeah I'm reaching out to you because um uh I probably never said this see but you're one of my favorites like I'm saying because if I'm having a bad time I can go to a a wiz playlist and Something's Gonna Come on that's gonna make me either yeah oh it's gonna make me happy that's what it's all and that's what's up you know what I'm saying that's why I [ __ ] with Pharrell in the beginning because that's really what street people are people from the streets is we're really happy people on the low we just was mad because of our condition our situation yeah and I had to give you a flowers I was wanting to give you flowers and thank you man okay so I'm gonna take two pictures you do some drops in them that's it

Channel: REVOLT

Views: 2,668,075

Keywords: REVOLT, TV, music, rap, r&b, hip hop, Wiz Khalifa, Drink Champs, Pittsburgh, Curren$y, Black And Yellow, Young Wild & Free, See You Again

Id: dvE2UCRk844

Length: 186min 59sec (11219 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 22 2023