Joe and Jada - The Real Report - A Boogie Wit da Hoodie on spending $500K on Chrome Hearts, smashing his Ferrari & and releasing a new EP.

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

A Boogie Wit da Hoodie joins The Real Report to talk about his rise from the SoundCloud era to earning over 72 gold and platinum records. Boogie opens up about selling out Radio City Music Hall, bring...ing out Mary J. Blige, smashing his Ferrari, and spending over $500K on Chrome Hearts, while debating Richard Mille vs. AP watches and the next wave in fashion. He also reflects on heartbreak as inspiration, staying consistent in the industry, future collaborations including Chris Brown, and what’s next as he looks to launch his own fashion line.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:56 Listen to if you can hear me on my iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. Yo, we in New York. You know I gotta ask you. You fuck up the strip clubs in the clubs. Who's your top five strippers and your top five ball tickets? Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:02:11 I'm not, this is a real report. I don't have this shit. It's right. You like that. You like that. What do you mean? Top five strippers. You're about top five.
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Starting point is 00:02:52 I see his jacket, man. You know what's going on? You know what I'm saying? The Bronx in the building. The nigga with the most accolades, the most cars. throws the most money in the clubs is we got A Boogie in the building Make some noise for A Boogie.
Starting point is 00:03:04 A big of a building, Bronx on, you heard? We got to take a shot to that. You know what we? Definitely, man. It's not the shot or a fight, let's get it, man. Definitely, man. Let's talk about the EP, man. Let's talk about the EP.
Starting point is 00:03:16 Fire. I'm gonna keep it real. I'm glad you did, um, dead to me. Carl Thomas, you did that. I'm loving glitching. I love, what is it, drunk? What's your favorite one on? I think it's between,
Starting point is 00:03:28 dead to me, but I like the feature you got party, party girls, what is it, party girls? Party girls with 41, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that was Eddie Will. And I ain't going to lie, man, like, I know how you fuck up the strip club, shout to the whole high bitch crew, you know, um, Q, Bubba, A, uh, just everybody, man, shout to the whole high bitch crew. And, like, I like red light, too, because you took them out throwing 10,000 and starless on the dead night.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Yeah, starless night, starless nights. I like that, man. Mines is glitching, dead to me. I can fuck the whole, everything. I had gone front, man. I like, I like this shit with all zealien them, the four one. And the trippy red shit is that shit knocking. The trippy red shit.
Starting point is 00:04:07 The trippy red shit. That's the thing sometimes though. You see how you say I'm a club nigger and all. I be in the clubs, right? I'd be listening to other niggas in the clubs. But I like that though, like Pluto in the club and all that, that's my vibe. But when I make music and shit, I don't be thinking like club music sometimes. So I just be, you know, I just be freestyling, like, speaking my mind.
Starting point is 00:04:25 And then when I drop the shit, I'd be like, damn. I'd be like, damn, I need some club music, for me? So, like, right now that's where I met with the EP crossing into the album. I feel like not just club music, but like, just vibes in general, just having vibes, these vibrations, like, not just some shit that niggas got to sit and really listen to the words heavily, the shit, just like, no emotion on that motherfucker. I'm about to say, I was just about to say that because this one feel like, this is for, this is for all the fellas that's going through a little.
Starting point is 00:04:52 I feel like, this is for the fellas, like, I get back outside, like, you back outside If you was probably going through something in the house and you and the misses they're we back outside. Let's go fellas. Let's get focused, man. Yeah, definitely. If I'm doing it, yeah, anybody got to be doing it at that type of, you know. Got you.
Starting point is 00:05:07 But like, nigger, shit, like the process of making an album is the reason why I dropped the EP. I felt like I needed a little, you know, a little more time to drop this album. So I was just like, I fucking, let me just pick six of my favorite songs right now and those was it right there. Look at that. Well, that's how that came about. And the name of the album is artistry.
Starting point is 00:05:26 So I ain't have an EP name And none of that till I was like I never even realized A Boogie has 72 What is it? Let's look up to accolades 72 across gold and Platinum records
Starting point is 00:05:38 God Say that again for the people 72 across gold And platinum records So name some of the records Was five times platinum Seven times platinum Yeah
Starting point is 00:05:47 72 Look back at it I ain't even know that I ain't got a lot I don't pay Oh shit That's crazy Nah for real
Starting point is 00:05:54 I don't look at that shit like that because I feel like I gotta just keep going. That's the keep on going type of thing. Just like, you know, same thing with this shit. You drop some shit, get back in Aladdin next day. I'm about so I said that. You think you're more hungry now or when you first came out? It seemed like you're still on your hungri.
Starting point is 00:06:09 So when I hear the music, I'm like, when people get your type of success, right, and been doing it for that long, you don't hear it no more like that. When I hear it like, this nigga is still like hungry. Yeah, I feel like it's two different type of hunginess that was going on when it comes that like when I was more fucking broke and now a nigger with money. still hungry, you know what I'm saying? It's different, it's different fucking aspects and expectations than myself and all that now.
Starting point is 00:06:33 So I just like, hell yeah, I'm still hungry, but in a way different way now, where I'm just, you know, creating like a life around this shit, not just, you know, not one bubble of just me doing music and this whole shit, you know? Got you, got you. Yeah, it's when that bunny, come on, dude. You want to smoke that, A. Bougie pack, man. What's up, my name, you good?
Starting point is 00:06:52 This is how we do on the real report. Feeling better already. with us on the plane. So that's my guy. We went into him on the plane, man. Yo, I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to tell you a story, right? So we was at rehearsal one time, right?
Starting point is 00:07:06 And you were supposed to come there. The funniest shit. And my man, Devon, Shadne. The funniest. He was like, no smoking. No smoking. And then, yo, you just came in with a, with a spliffy just in the air. You can't make this shit up.
Starting point is 00:07:16 Nobody said nothing to you. And I was like, see, that's power right here. You just told us. You can't smoke. So you got to tell him what you went back to my man, Devon and said. He said, well, how about that you can't smoke? But, hey, boogie walking here, look back at it.
Starting point is 00:07:30 That's what I'm saying, man. Your worldwide success. That niggins is funny as shit. You smoke wherever you want to, you, A, Blee. You know what I learned about that shit? Like, some places you gotta walk in that shit and acting like you're supposed to be doing it. When you, like, got that confidence in smoking,
Starting point is 00:07:48 like you're supposed to do the shit. Like Whiz Khalifa. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you do it and you talk to people like, you know? Like, like, rest of peace, Nick, when he was alive and shit, we was in Rihanna on ballroom getting high and all these white people were looking at as crazy. So it was like, we thought it was a bad way they wanted to, you know, they wanted to
Starting point is 00:08:06 get high with us. So, you know, you never really know, you gotta just. Better believe it. You gotta see yourself, man. You gonna start doing that shit, man. We was just at a private event not too long ago with some, some important people. I ain't gonna say what they are, right? Black, focus.
Starting point is 00:08:19 It was, and this guy right here was so, like, sometimes, you know, sometimes. He don't like when I want to smoke in certain places. And you'd be surprised, man, these people that were so important, they didn't mind that smoke. Did they mind that smoke? Yeah. I didn't even know you had 72 platinum and gold fucking records, bro. You put me on.
Starting point is 00:08:37 That's crazy. That shit is crazy. Yo, look, Ed, why are you worried about an ashtray for my man? He's got it. He got it. I ain't even know I had that shit, though. Real shit, like, I ain't even know I had over 70. You got worldwide hits.
Starting point is 00:08:50 That's fire. How you start fucking with the melodies? How you start fucking with the melody? Because I feel like from like, like I was saying in the other interview, like that came from motherfucking like 50 and max B type shit like especially when like when it comes from gangsters doing it and you from the hood and you're around nothing but gangsters. So like singing at first feel like some shit that you can't do. Are you not supposed to be doing that?
Starting point is 00:09:11 Definitely. It don't even feel right. This is ain't right. Yeah, you're on a block and it's like, you know, you trap at six in the morning. You're out here singing and shit like but it was, it became a thing, you know, after well. Oh yeah. who's too, nigga from Harlem.
Starting point is 00:09:25 Like, we used to be like, we used to be in a cut, just singing that nigga shit and all that too. And all that came together and really put me in the lab doing that type of shit, because I started off with my little balls and all, like, you know, rap, I'm like fucking like Cassidy and shit. Definitely. You start off like that. And after a while you had to just, you got a transition
Starting point is 00:09:43 when you're making music songs and all that. So I'm like, I'll just put all my like favorite type of inspirations together and I just came up with melodies. And that shit till this day, I got unlimited fucking melodies. to this day. Come on, man. You know, we've been, we've seen your shows overseas.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Yeah, that's a lot. We've seen you Paris, London. Everybody knows a buggy. It's hard for artists to get, you know, overseas recognition like you, man. And make all that money. How much money you spent on Chrome bars? Because you made a lot of motherfuckers.
Starting point is 00:10:10 A lot of niggas. A lot of niggas go broke trying to catch up with y'all nigg. I'm not doing it. G's 10,000. You know what I mean? Man, it's bad inspiration for people that don't know how to follow up
Starting point is 00:10:22 with that. Like, I'm not doing. doing it for people that, you know, that making, that's making $5,000 a week to go spend their check on a pair of jeans. It's level to this shit, man. Like, you can afford it, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, it is what it is.
Starting point is 00:10:34 When you get up to that level, just do this shit. You don't, you're not supposed to be like, trying to make yourself look like it is, you know what I'm saying? When you there, it's just there. When you there, it's nothing. Exactly, exactly. Like telling what you wearing that, that new ERD shit. Their niggins don't even know about that.
Starting point is 00:10:49 He was just putting up, he was putting niggas up on that shit right now, you know what I'm saying? I know the hat was Monty, that's probably, you know, a good ticket. Yeah, it's the Monty hat. I fuck with it with the yellow and the brown. And what's the hoodie? How much the hoodie? About 2000?
Starting point is 00:11:00 Yeah, it's probably like 2000. Damn. I don't know. 2000 change, 2000, something like that's 2000. That's decent from the Crohn's because the chrome's is what, 10,000? Yeah, I've been wearing. What's your expensive? Most expensive crumbs?
Starting point is 00:11:11 50,000 or something? Yeah, probably, yeah, probably you... For jeans? Yeah, you could say it's probably like 50, 60, 70 years. For one pair jeans? Yeah. Crones go, they're, niggins. I got some, my black leather with the lime green crosses.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Those are the most expensive crumbs I probably got cut like. Dang. I can't even, it ain't even no number of those right there. Those are one of ones right there. You mean looking like Liberace at the Nick Games, look. This thing got. You know he let him Nick games. We was getting money back in the days, but you really get money, man.
Starting point is 00:11:41 We need a lighter. We need a lighter. I borrow that jacket for a nickname too. What's your favorite call? You can't take this. I got this just because, you know, we got the Bronx chin coming in, man. I ain't gonna lie. I see you viral with the, like the Army tank.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Which one is that? Oh, that's that motherfucking. That bulletproof shit. Yeah, that's that rhino. What was the ticket on that? About like 300, 400? My shit probably like 500 because I put the ballistic level six in my shit. I got the bullet poop, bulletproof of my shit.
Starting point is 00:12:09 When it comes, when it comes- He ain't lacking, nigga. Yeah, when it comes regular, it's not bulletproof or a little bit. He got a lot of cars, man. He's mad when I say you don't know about the calls, but you want. I don't show up my cars, though. I show off my bulletproofs. I don't show off my cars, though.
Starting point is 00:12:23 You know what I'm saying? I don't feel right. You know, I'm out here. So like, yeah, oh, come on. Niggas, hey, single nigga, no, my car. I'm in the city. Definitely. Got my shit parked outside for,
Starting point is 00:12:32 I was going in and out of spots. Nah, I don't move silly like that. So I show niggas my BPs, because it's like, you know. What you're gonna do, nigga? Yeah, even outside of the shit, it's like, what you're gonna do? I'm gonna, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:12:42 Definitely, definitely. Yeah, like. It's crazy because you consistent, like a lot of, Like now with this era of music, like a lot of artists are like, last like a year and a half, two years. Like you having that run and you like consistent overseas hits. Sold out Radio City. Talk about that because tell up the average motherfucker bum nigga
Starting point is 00:13:02 that's hating on you can't do that. Yeah, we had one of them 50 runs, man. We had one of those type of runs. So it's like, man, can't beat that. Who out of New York did the shit? So it's like, when niggas be trying to argue about that whole, you know, now you don't gotta call me no. King or whatever when it come down to the whole New York shit.
Starting point is 00:13:19 I don't go fuck about none of that. I just be like... But if you want to put up the stats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean 72 gold and platinum records. And a nigga not even like going hard. Like, I'm not even going hard no more. Like, I'm just chilling.
Starting point is 00:13:32 I really just drop music right now because I want my fans to hear my music. That's what I really like. I love making music. I don't want to be a nigga that's out here doing a whole lot of other shit so people could pay mind to my music. I'm trying to drop something. some flames and naturally let that shit go crazy because the music is actually fire. Like, I don't want to, you know, have a gimmick with this shit.
Starting point is 00:13:54 No, definitely, definitely. Did you pick a single off this EP right here? Because it's a, it's going to be hard. I'm about to say, it's hard. Like, what's going to really trying to? I'm going to go with Dead. Dead to me. Because Carl Thomas said, what he's saying.
Starting point is 00:14:07 It is. That shit. When that shit came on, I just was like, oh, man. That was a strong. You know. Call a fad something. I was in my bad. That was, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:16 That's a fan. I was in my bag when it comes to that melodic shit. I feel like that melodic shit, it wins, man. Especially with the girls. Like, when you aim for the girls, you can't really miss, you know? Or, like, girls hear music first, I feel like always. And then, like, niggas be in the call. Nicks go to the club and they hear with the girls like, you know, follow with that.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Like, oh, I get this vibe, yep. Like, you're the type of all this. They like the gangster shit, too. You better believe it. You better believe it. Motherfuck. There's girls out of it. It's sweet girls out in London.
Starting point is 00:14:43 I like the gangster shit now. So it's like. You know, I see you. I've seen the impact. I've seen you perform plenty of times. The place is always, tickets always sell. It's a buggy. I mean, come on, bro. You could do a two, two, maybe three hour show. Shit. Three hours is crazy for me. I mean, Chris Brown got to hit that truck, man. I've seen Chris Brown do it, Merck. You just saw Chris Brown do three hours show. I was saying that niggas a goat, right?
Starting point is 00:15:09 Yeah, he ordered. Three hour show. Yeah, he's a motherfucking legend in this shit. He definitely already, man. Shut out to Chris Brown. All right. Still doing it. Fuck then. He still doing it. Who would you want to feature with, like, Chris Brown? I could see you doing the dope record. Yeah, me and Chris Brown want to make some things. I remember he came to the studio back in the G and like, before Cass got booked.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Shout out to Cassanova, too, free cast. Free Cassie and over, man. Cawr, Cache's like, man, you want Chris Brown do a song with you? I'm like, yeah, nigga. He's like, yeah, you got to the studio right now. You know how that shit. Look at that. Cats did have a song with Chris Brown.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Yeah, definitely. Hell yeah. They fucked with each other Harvey too. After that, you know, we fucked with bro Heavy after that too. We did that pills and automobile. We went to LA, shot the video and all that. My son had a thousand, a thousand vibes in the video. Literally, like, a thousand vibes.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Me and my friends was looking like, nah, this niggas really Chris Brown. That's in the beginning where we're looking like, Stinkin really Chris Brown. They got a thousand girls for them. That shit was crazy. That shit was crazy. Like, I feel like that party was just,
Starting point is 00:16:06 I felt like it was a party. Like, it wasn't even a video. It was a party. That was like 20, what? Like 2018, something like that. Look that, boy. Damn, man. Longevity, consistency, man.
Starting point is 00:16:22 But, yeah, I'm on some new shit right now. I'm just trying to drop more music now. All the shit that I'll be cooking up right now on the live and I'm going to be dropping. I know niggas be like, oh, this nigga selfish. You don't drop no music. Those are all the songs I'm about to start letting go. I'm going to do a leaked project this year.
Starting point is 00:16:37 I'm going to do like prior. I ain't going to tell you how many, you know, whatever, whatever. But, yeah. I'm going to get out of shit. I'm going to get off this project right here. Because I want to know what's going to do. be the new video for this project. I might drop a whole other single on them.
Starting point is 00:16:50 You never know. Oh, nothing even off the project. Yeah, I want them to, like I say, man, I want them to head shit. Gotcha. Got you. You just had the birthday party with the fucking, um, paid and full shit with the alpo jacket on. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:17:05 We want to see some shit like that, nigga. I can see that. You doing that shit for the older niggas too, man. That would be a good music video. The older demographic love you too, bro. That'll be a good music video right there. Pay the full video. Is somebody gonna pass me a joint or not.
Starting point is 00:17:19 I just fucked it up, brother. Hey, hey, hey, take the light, buddy. I'm probably being heavy right now. Murder pads, eight boogie pads, something, man. But yeah, um, dead to me, glitching. Yeah, yeah. The joint was Zettie and party girls drunk. I like that one too.
Starting point is 00:17:36 You gotta hit that one. I think Zetty went crazy on that. Yeah, that's a club, that's a club smash right there, boy. I feel like you got definitely some joints for the summer that. We definitely gonna be rocking. There's definitely flaming that shit, TikTok on love. I know it's playing because it was like one of my favorite six songs at the time.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Like, when you go in the studio and you got certain songs, if you listen to in a call, you won't even be bumping all the motherfuckers on your files, but you got them certain like 10 songs you bump, those was those for a little while in my playlist. So I was like, aye, I'm going to give it to the fan. And right now I got a whole set, you know, a whole new set of 10 right now in the phone that I just be bumping to. So I'm going to keep on creating right now until I figure out the right, you know, the perfect the perfect puzzle to the album.
Starting point is 00:18:18 Some is yours, basically. That's what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. Some is yours. You know what I want to ask you, you coming from like the SoundCloud. Like, that's how you kind of... Yeah, I missed them on fucking raised.
Starting point is 00:18:27 And now, how you feel like shit changed from now from there? Somebody passed me. Look, I just sparked and he wants them running away. I'm just a little bit of grabber. I do a little bit of grabber. You fuck with the grabber too, right, Boogie. It might be a little better than yours. It might be.
Starting point is 00:18:40 You see that, buggy. I smoke. Oh, no, this is that high. this that high. I forgot. I'm smoking on that high. That's that high right here. It's that fire, fire.
Starting point is 00:18:47 You like a buggy some of this? Dispensary gardening or street? No, I like street shit. I don't like, though. See, we're going to change your mind. We're going to change your mind with the unit dispo. We're going to change your mind with that, man. Because they got that gas in it.
Starting point is 00:18:59 We're going to change your mind, man. But the black, shout out to the black market. They always got that gas. You can in front of the black market. What's your favorite? What do you like to smoke the most? I like the smoke on like, I got, you know, I got certain girls I focus.
Starting point is 00:19:12 So I can't even like say it like that. Okay, got you. Got you. I like to smoke certain, you know, people's shit, though. Like. Got you. Got you. Well, look some gas right here.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Shout out Toasties. Were, like, man, we get hot, though. You get a high. Shout out. I always try to stop smoking and shit, but it's over. That shit don't work. It's not working, man. It don't work.
Starting point is 00:19:33 It don't work. I'd be in the studio, ADHD, start kicking, walk around that bitch and start bugging. It helped me write the music, man. I smoke it right. That's how I get in my zone. That shit makes you a little tired and all that. It do.
Starting point is 00:19:45 It do. Fuck all that. Yeah, it get the job done. Fuck that. It get the job done. It get the job done. Fuck that. Nigger got to get hot.
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Starting point is 00:23:26 Niggas is, what you call, like, unappreciative. Like, niggas don't, you know what I'm saying? Got you. Got you. Got you. You got to, got you. You give me a lot of 20 songs. I feel like it's too much nowadays.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Like, you got to just. Their attention sparing no money alone. I ain't gonna do that because I'd be on the same shit, though. I ain't listening to a whole 20 songs now. Too much going on for that. Too much. You know, the calm 13 on the album is perfect to listen to one take. But, like, when they go past 16 and shit,
Starting point is 00:23:50 they got to be a long car ride or some shit now facts and even that niggas start falling asleep you don't matter if the shit pain or not you start falling asleep you don't want to give that barrage you put that EP out with the label or that was just y'all independent
Starting point is 00:24:03 because I know how you you got this situation you got one of them damn near them cash money deals you came in the game on a 90, 10 damn near split 80, 20 damn their big dog deal you know what I said? We did it with the label this time
Starting point is 00:24:14 okay okay yeah we did it with the label this time I almost did it I almost you know just did it yourself like, yeah, but I'm thinking like, nah, let me not, you know. Okay.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Let me not try shit this time around. Let me just keep on going, and play the game, you know. You could have, though, because you got your own, like, wave going on. Yeah, I definitely could have. Like, for real. Yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Starting point is 00:24:33 I'm gonna do it soon. Okay, okay, okay. Might as well try that shit, see how it goes. Yeah, see how the money, see how the extra money go. Yeah, I'm in it, you know. Because you got real, like, die hard fans.
Starting point is 00:24:44 Yeah, you got die hard fans. They go, you got them fans. I mean, when you think about New York, City rappers, right? What markets do we have? We have New York City. We got Connecticut, shout to Connecticut. We got Boston. Shout to Boston. They love you in Boston. We got, what, Buffalo and all that, but that's considered New York City, too, right? The Tri-State is so heavy. Anywhere I go into Tri-State is heavy. You know where it'll be
Starting point is 00:25:07 a little with problems for me? Motherfucking Cali, like the West Coast, I feel like, I don't know, like, in the comments in this shit, let me know if I'm wrong or right, but I feel like They don't be jacking us like that. You know, we be trying and all that. But like, yeah. You feel like you don't believe to get in love like that, Callie? No, they jacked me.
Starting point is 00:25:24 They jack me, but I'm saying, you see how it is on the fucking East Coast? Like, oh, yeah, shit, divided by two type shit. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I know what you go to the West Coast, they're gonna say, West Coast the best coast, yeah, yo.
Starting point is 00:25:36 I don't be in the drop-dust West Coast, yeah, yo. You know what I'm saying? They fucked with us because we had a trade. Niggins is still giving you you pocket and Biggie Vibov when you go over there. Like, sure.
Starting point is 00:25:47 My nigger, nigga, you're 26, nigga. You know, they still be on time. It's still on time. But I'm just saying when it comes to you, it's like when you make the melodic records, I just feel like it, like look back at it. Like, when that shit come on, I always, every time you perform that shit,
Starting point is 00:26:03 to me, that's like one of them. I know you got 72 of them. You know what I'm saying? That's one of them. That explains, you know, the Richards and the APs and the Ferrari's. That's definitely, yeah. And the six-figure shows. That's what I'm like, nah, this nigga, yo, I don't know, come on, bro.
Starting point is 00:26:20 You're making six figures a show. A lot of rap is never getting that. Yeah, that's what I'd be saying too when it comes down. I'd be looking for new niggas to like fuck with in the city and all that, right? It'd be hard. Like, shout out to cash, you know. Niggas, niggas climb over that hill sometimes, but they be hard. And like, nigger, like, niggas, this shit ain't easy.
Starting point is 00:26:41 You can get a song for me. And that shit, you know, it's all about. about you still after that. And I don't know, I don't think some of these niggas understand that shit. Understand that got you. Certain niggins could get that spotlight and niggas really jack them, though.
Starting point is 00:26:52 So you really gotta be that in order to get live off a feature. I think New York, every time like, it gets like super lit where we have like that run where you think you're gonna have like 10 of the best artists in the world. Pop Smoke got killed. Six-nine situation. You know.
Starting point is 00:27:08 He did what he did. But the record you had with him is a fucking hit. The record you had with Pop Smoke was a hit. Like, it's just like, like a nigger like cats get locked up. It's like every time we have that wave, it's like something always happened. Nah, that ass though.
Starting point is 00:27:23 But you still, you know, I'm gonna say, movie stayed out the way. Like, you just stayed out the way as far as consistently being there. Good music. Yeah, I just be myself and do what I would know. You gotta just do what you would do. If anything, like, you don't wanna like move
Starting point is 00:27:36 off another nigger opinion just because of, you know, the money and the fame sometimes, you just gotta stay true to yourself sometimes. Something that day in London, when you told me, the whole year drinking shit. I was like, yo, this niggas buggy. I did that?
Starting point is 00:27:48 You have your days. My nigga was twisting. Oh, you was twisting. You know, you're on your King of New York. I was like, damn. He was like, damn. You was like, nah, because you gave us the bar. We opened it a bar.
Starting point is 00:27:59 We're lending on the balcony. And I'm opening a bag and you're like, yo, yo, yeah, what you used to open the nickels or something? Yeah. You're like, you're like, you're like, you know, like some king of New York stuff. You know, yeah, when you get sourcing, you know, when you get sourcing,
Starting point is 00:28:13 you know, He was having a little problem. He was having a problem. He was having a problem. He was like, yo, niggum bag, something. You gave me a drink. I'm like, this thing I'll be holding this drink. You were saying.
Starting point is 00:28:21 He was in New York shit. Fuck it though. You got 72 hits. I see why you was acting like that. You get me a little bit of liquor in a. Platinum. Yeah, that shit was hilarious, man. He got over.
Starting point is 00:28:34 Nick get a little bit of liquor in him. Shit. What's your favorite watch? Richard Millie or AP, man. I'll have to say the AP. I thought you was a Richard Millie head now. No, now. Now, now, Richard Millie is probably always, always, always.
Starting point is 00:28:46 But I like the AP because it's like... Over to Richard? Nah, nah, no, it's probably temporarily right now. No, you get tired of shit. You go to the next one. I see you with the rich. He's like with the cars. Like, I was fucked with the lambs and shit.
Starting point is 00:28:57 I got the Rari and shit. I crashed out. I hate the Rari now. What the hell for you smashed the Rari? Like, I hate the Rari. That shit slippery. I want the lamb. I want the lambs and that soul, you know?
Starting point is 00:29:09 Trying out of the shit. Shit get you fucked up. Real shit. Man, the west side highway, nigger the, nigger the floor wet. It ain't raining, though. Right. It's summertime, you know what, I'm human days and shit. Moist on the floor.
Starting point is 00:29:22 So I'm like, yeah, we're good and shit, you know. You gotta get the whales hot on the Rari before you really start going crazy. So we just leave the crib. I'm driving for like 15 minutes. My tires is cold. They're supposed to be hot as fuck sticking to the floor like gum. But I'm over here. Buggin, uh.
Starting point is 00:29:39 We, uh, bugging on the west side highway. I merged to the left I started sliding shit just started sliding nigg to the wall bop sliding boom boom hitting everything
Starting point is 00:29:51 Kippling them shit me and my man in the car like this Crazy Lucky motherfucker man He's praying I should slap the wall The airbags finally hit out
Starting point is 00:30:02 You're like what the fuck I bet That's why I don't drive brother That's why I don't drive What did you do? Lamb truck Land truck drive better to me to me.
Starting point is 00:30:13 Than the Ferrarra? Yeah, I ain't no fucking NASCAR driver, but I drive real good. And I don't like the fucking the wheels on the robbery. Like, I'm sure. That shit traumatized me, nigga, like. I see Radio City wrong on Mary, man. Rest the piece to the owner of Call of Duty, matter of fact, too. Oh, for real?
Starting point is 00:30:32 Yeah, he crashed the same whip type of shit. Oh, shit. That's how, you know, that's how that happened type shit. Like, well, after that, too, I was definitely over with Rari. I'm like, yeah, I know exactly what happened. funny shit. We ain't even gonna do that right now, no, but... Look at that, yeah, yeah, yeah. Getting ready for a game
Starting point is 00:30:52 means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember, 988, Canada's suicide crisis helpline. It's good to know, just in case. Anyone can call or text for free confidential support
Starting point is 00:31:06 from a train responder any time. 988, suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in Canada. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles, I'm Minnick Lamouba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. had both been assassinated,
Starting point is 00:31:23 and Black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Almer Mata, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King's senior,
Starting point is 00:31:40 and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die. In 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you do in the headlines? don't explain what's happening inside of you. I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul, a place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life,
Starting point is 00:32:33 celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks, and we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff, identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore, loss that changes you, purpose when success isn't enough, peace when your mind won't slow down, fake when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever
Starting point is 00:32:59 felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's a unicorn.
Starting point is 00:33:51 No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You say he brought out who at radio?
Starting point is 00:34:14 Oh, no, when he brought out Mary J. Blige's, you know I'm a big fan. Shout to Mary J. Bloss. Hopefully we get on the show. I'm a big fan of Mary J. Mary J. Blahs. Mary always come through, man. You gotta love Mary.
Starting point is 00:34:24 Radio City music hall was packed, man. Yeah, fact. She came on the stage, man. My mom went crazy. I see my mom in the crowd. Mary came on stage. My mom ended up on the stage, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:34 She ended up on the stage. Look at that. My love so. I'm like, I'm like, come up, mom. To think like dance, she really loves Mary. In the 90s, that was A Beyonce, man. Not that ass.
Starting point is 00:34:47 Mary was like A Beyonce, like Mary Jay Blige, man. Every album was a classic she got. She got classic but her classes. You ain't lying about that. You're gonna ever pass that to me? Yeah, now it is about time. I got you, my brother.
Starting point is 00:34:59 I got you, my brother. I got you, my brother. I got you my brother. Who else you brought out? Because I'm about seeing a clip of Mary. Say it was Mary, Queen Naja, Cash, Zetti Will, Max B, Fetty Wapty Wap. Of course, Don Q and Trammy. Shout to Don Quill, my God.
Starting point is 00:35:17 Excuse me if I'm forgetting any names, but yeah, you see me. see what we're doing. We're smoking. Yeah, we're smoking. Yeah, we're smoking. No, I'm saying. No, shit, man. EP out now. Y'all know what it is, man. Y'all remember I seen some shit when you was in motherfucker. I forgot where it was, man. London, Paris, somewhere, man. You had the bottle going crazy, man. It was a little funky out there. You was popping all, man. I was talking about Japan. Yeah, Jim was somewhere.
Starting point is 00:35:40 I was like, my nigga, hey, buggy on front line. You never know what is. You know what is. I'm like that. I'm like, they're a buggy on the front line. Like, just, he wasn't listening to nobody. That's my problem, though. You got to stop that shit, man. You was on the front line. Like, nigga. I got to stop that.
Starting point is 00:35:54 You're the mail ticket, brother. You understand that, right? Yeah. My nigga was on the front line. It's the BX, man. I know. I had a lot of talks to it, you know. With some people later, these niggins are telling me I got to chill.
Starting point is 00:36:06 No, facts. Fags. Yeah, I can't be doing that shit. Yeah, a lot of people depending on the guy. You know what I'm saying? There have been a lot of people depended on the guy. You can't help it, man. You got the money.
Starting point is 00:36:17 You got the fame. You know, sometimes he just won't do it. I just react. I ain't a lot. My reaction is a beginning. Fuck it. Nigger, forget about all that shit, nigga. I hear him.
Starting point is 00:36:28 Fuck that. You got to think in New York City, you know how people look at the Bronx? Like, that shit is like a no-fly zone. Like, you ain't just going to the Bronx. You ain't lying about that. You ain't going to the Bronx is. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:36:40 You like you ain't just going to be just going to chill in the Bronx. Yeah, that's a fact, man. Shit. I was just thinking, like, I imagine niggas was head back in the gee, when they were, nah, nah, you know, you know what I was in the same thing. It's like all your projects be next to each other,
Starting point is 00:36:57 Soundview, be next to Academy, and then what's down the block from there? Yeah, but we ain't on none of that no more. Like, before, like, that's what I'm saying. Back before it was crazier when like, you know, anybody was getting away with shit. And nowadays, niggas can't get rid of- Too many cameras, man.
Starting point is 00:37:12 We ain't on none of that, you know. We're chilling. Just chill out, man. Niggas just chilling get into the bag, man. Too much, too many cameras, man. Well, we didn't even try to. to scuffle with him, I ain't other that shit. You know, it happens sometimes, niggas get drunk and all that.
Starting point is 00:37:24 But, like, we just be chilling overall. You still be chilling. He got, man, you're getting six-figure shows and you got $10,000, $50,000 jeans, nigger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You fuck up the money, you know what you're saying? No, that nigger boogie was stupid, man. He'd be overseas on private jets, smoking the best butt. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:37:47 I don't even take probably just like that. That's how I feel like I save up on most. some of my money. You know, nigga, get on that first class. That shit ain't never going to hurt a nigga. Get right on first class, nigga. I ain't worry about nobody seeing me in the in the end. Except when you're running the people.
Starting point is 00:38:01 I don't care about. I'm talking about us. You know, we don't care about it to people. I'm about it. We don't care about that. So it's like, we, we, I'd be weird. Definitely, definitely. I probably, you know, treat myself sometimes going on vacation
Starting point is 00:38:14 on a PJ, you know. But we got to think about the numbers. Like, well. It don't make no sense for that. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah, I tell Mama, love the numbers on those. Like, she's gonna watch.
Starting point is 00:38:24 She gonna kill me. Like, what you're doing? What you're doing? But it's like the price of your jeans, motherfucker? Nah, but I replace. It's a replacement. You gotta replace certain things, though. Everybody got their certain shit.
Starting point is 00:38:39 It's all to me, niggas. It's like, all to me, dude. So it's like, how much those? How much those? I don't know. I don't know. These is plain jings. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Starting point is 00:38:48 But they're playing jane over 2000. Yeah, these is. plain James, but they're like 25, something like that, yeah. All right, but your chromies are like... Plain James, you're like that? Yeah, I don't got no cromee playing James, but those just be like... The cromies are, I've seen you in Chromehar for a straight year different years. Yeah, I probably get like one, one pair every month type of shit.
Starting point is 00:39:03 You gotta lose a quarter million in Chrome on. Nah, more than that. More than that. So what are you talking about private jet? Gas money put. Nah. Cash money right here, motherfucker, you got that shit right here, motherfucker, you got that shit right there. No, we got to give you a deal, nigga.
Starting point is 00:39:19 lying about that shit. Nigger, you were like the spokesman for that shit. And it's so crazy, like, when you look at clothing lines, like, even in Mary, like, come on, bro. Yo, how did they just die like that? Speaking to the young fashion guard, like, one of the young fashion guard. Is it there? We got to ask them.
Starting point is 00:39:33 All right, yeah, because you damn there, you damn there built them motherfuckers, I felt like at a time. I don't think. I felt like it was just oversaturated after a while in, in this area, like, of the world. You know what I'm saying? Got you. Like, you go to Australian shit. Them niggas is still on it.
Starting point is 00:39:48 Like, they coping that shit. like it's chrome right now. Okay, got you. Yeah, but like, I feel like it was a song, you know? Some things like you gotta have longevity for, and we're looking at it like, oh, it's dead, but nah, this, nigga, he probably owns some whole other shit. Like, niggas is still rocking that still, but yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:40:06 It's just like our coach. We were like, we got tired, but I guess, I say that a little bit, I guess. Yeah, we're not wearing tight, we're not wearing tight pants all the time no more. Like, we would still do, but not like how we used to. Yeah, we used to be. Yeah, we do it.
Starting point is 00:40:19 The baggies is coming back in and all that, definitely. I still wear my leather pants and shit like that. So what's the next four of the line? You tell me, because y'all, y'all motherfuckers predict the future with the clothes, man. Man, we got to see. They're going to see me with that shit. I'm not about to tell the niggins of the next shit. I ain't trying to buy it on my wave, right, man.
Starting point is 00:40:39 So, all right, so look, don't you think it's fucked up if I buy the mirror? I got like a pair of Mirries. Remember the patron the Rolling Stone ones? Yeah, yeah. It's over. Tell him it's over, buggy. Tell him to you see, but it's over, yay. It's over, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:51 See, for me, if them shit costs two, three grand and the hoodie costs a grand, damn, I'm asked out. It's just over? Yes. So you saying, buddy, tell that nigger it's over, Bucky, man. Tell him it's over, buggy. So I know, so when you just go to the projects and give all the little niggas your marriage. That's what you do. That's what he do.
Starting point is 00:41:12 All the little niggas on the project? Nah, because he be doing it. He went to, um, what's this nigga store? Christmas time They was like Boogie just came in here and bought like 5,000 pairs
Starting point is 00:41:22 sneakers for the projects What is it What's the sneakers store in the city, bro? I'm fucking bugging Hollywood, tell me the sneakers store everybody goes to
Starting point is 00:41:30 Flight Club Flight Club Hey Boogie Christmas time I came around I went there I went to go by like two three pair
Starting point is 00:41:37 They said Yeah I'm boogie bought 5,000 pairs Sniggins Damn I thought I was somebody that came in there
Starting point is 00:41:46 thinking I'm y' Yeah You know, that's the Christmas that motherfuckers from Jordan. They ain't pick up the phone. 5,000 pair of sneakers for the project. Yeah, it was as one Christmas, Jordan. Jordan ain't pick up the phone. Not Michael Jordan himself, but I don't know.
Starting point is 00:41:58 I was calling out the Jordan Company. They ain't pick up that Christmas, y'all. It got heavy. Last minute shopping, it get heavy. Man, I just came in the store after you. And you went and went crazy like that. Yo, they said this nigga bought 5,000 pairs sneakers for the projects. That was, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:42:13 So when he was over there, scrambling, I sent my men to the store like, yo, I'm gonna give you these sizes and just go crazy. That's crazy. You know, we got some little niggas coming home. They would love that of Mary, man. Tell me my nigga JetBlue, he coming home. Ross said he needs some of Mary.
Starting point is 00:42:31 Yo, egg boogie. I got him. I ain't go lie. I got a closet full of a joke. I know he giving a shit. Fucking word. Mad shit. I ain't going to lie.
Starting point is 00:42:41 That shit is crazy. You spend all your money on drip and this shit just could die down. You think Chrome, but Chrome. Chrome ain't going nowhere. Chrome is going to stay there for me. Yeah, Chrome is one of those things that's going to stay there for sure. Rico ain't going nowhere. Chrome was in since, nigger before Ghost Rider.
Starting point is 00:42:56 Got you. You seen the Ghost Rider movie, the OG one. It's been around. He was rocking all chrome, a leather chrome. That's why I did that in the part of me video, because Ghost Rider was all fucking chromed out with the leather on. I don't think nobody knew that. Yeah, I just did it because it was my own type of shit in my head. So, you know, but yeah, definitely, though, like, that shit gonna stay around forever.
Starting point is 00:43:16 So where's the dapper then, Jack? He made that for you for the party? Yeah, I got all that. I got all that. I need one of those. What he charged you for that? Couple of grand. I pay like-
Starting point is 00:43:24 I paid like five bands for that one. I got some shit. I got a lot of suits from that nigga too. Yeah, he been- Did that make suits too now? He's been making suits. I thought he just made the jackets. Nah, I thought he started with suit.
Starting point is 00:43:37 Oh, yeah, he did start with the jackets. He did stop the jackets. Because remember Mike Tyson had the fight in front of the store back in the day? Yeah, he wasn't even booing. Nah, I know what about that when he beat the knick. Yeah, Mitch, he beat the knick. Definitely. Yeah, yeah, facts. My boy knows he wasn't born, but he knows history, Nick. That shit was like a viral moment back in the days.
Starting point is 00:43:54 Because he knocked out Mitch Green and did he end up fighting him. Mitch Green had the Jerry Curl. Shit was funny. You beat him up in front of Dapper Dan shit. Yeah, I ain't gonna front of your party. You had that shit. That's one of a jacket I need from Dapper Dan. That shit crazy. I gotta give me another one. Gotta give me another one of those. Why? What happened?
Starting point is 00:44:16 Huh? You gave it away? Nah, nigga. I'm talking about another, I got to make a custom one. Never. You haven't come out with your clothing? Because you're a drippy nigga. You wanted them fashion, niggas. Yeah, I'm going to come up with some shit soon.
Starting point is 00:44:26 I'm working on some shit right now. All right, that's dope. Look at that. Yeah, definitely working on. Y'all motherfuckers been sitting transcript. You ain't lying. Y'all made these other breads popular like a motherfucker, man. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to go about it still.
Starting point is 00:44:37 But I'm working on the art part of it. So. Yeah, you know, because you know New York is critical with fashion. Yeah, I know what I want. It's like a married dead, nigga. I'm still winning my shit I have much to go in that after a soul of it? No, shit.
Starting point is 00:44:56 You can afford that shit, man. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember 9-88, Canada's suicide crisis helpline. It's good to know just in case. Anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a train responder anytime.
Starting point is 00:45:20 98A suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in Canada. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Minilic Lamouba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had both been assassinated. And Black America was out
Starting point is 00:45:36 a breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Almemada, Moore House College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King Sr. and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die.
Starting point is 00:46:00 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you do when the headlines don't explain what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul, a place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life, celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks, and we go deeper than the polished story we talk about. what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope.
Starting point is 00:46:54 We get honest about the big stuff, identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore, loss that changes you, purpose when success isn't enough, peace when your mind won't slow down, faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the I-HeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or, wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:47:27 China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, special agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea
Starting point is 00:47:43 the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's a unicorn.
Starting point is 00:48:03 No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You don't like a nigger really say, give a fuck about what the niggas say about what you're wearing to, but at the same time, it's like, you know.
Starting point is 00:48:30 You got to pay attention to what the culture say, man. You got to be a nigger, you gotta look at the culture. Yeah, real shit, though. Gotta pay attention. You gotta pay attention. I was telling you, yeah, no more than Mary. And you go through the shit, like, I am the culture, so I feel the shit.
Starting point is 00:48:42 Like, when I win something too much, too much, and I feel like I burnt the shit out, you know? That shit just, I just switch it up. Even with Chrome right now, I was just telling you all, I'm gonna switch that shit up right now. You were half- laying in the clone? I'm like a nigga, that shit about to sit there and straight ERD
Starting point is 00:48:57 and some other shit right now. It's going to stay there. Look up the Asian dude that make mad money off of Chrome. It's an Asian dude, and that's how I knew they had jeans for like murder. 4G? I think that's his name. They got Chrome jeans for $75,000, right?
Starting point is 00:49:12 That's fucking crazy to me, man. They got chrome jeans for $50,000, bro. Yeah, they be wild. That's why I don't really think that's going to fade away. Like, I think that's going to always be, you know, Like a Birkin. That's like art, too, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:26 Yeah. Berger's is something I'm always get to. I get a lot of them motherfuckers. Like, I'm size 40s, 41s and shit, 43s, all them shit. So I'd be coping out. Nah, but them shit's going up and value. Yeah, it do go up in value. That's a good investment.
Starting point is 00:49:39 But you want to carry one, though, because you think this is wild carry a nigger. Yeah, I hope. Yeah, yo, Diego. You got 10,000. You got to have 100,000. Nica say, yo, Diego. Yo, Diego. Diego.
Starting point is 00:49:49 Diego. Chichi, get the Yale. I got my shit right here, nigger. So that's the new style. I could get a bag like that, niggas ain't gonna snap on. Nah, niggas. I wanna see this bag.
Starting point is 00:49:57 Hold on, what the fuck Diego add with this shit? Diego! Yeah, go. A lot of niggas say something about this bag. Nah, boge, you can't convince. A lot of niggas. You got a hundred thousand on two niggins. That's the burkin right there.
Starting point is 00:50:14 That's the drip. You gotta have that money in it. I just got this shit, so I just got... So you think the man, burking is cool. That's cool. It's the style, man. Yeah, yeah. I wear this for like airport shit.
Starting point is 00:50:25 Not weird, but nigga, I carry this shit for like airport shit. So murder see me with that. You wouldn't joke on me, murder if I came to airport? I'll tell you all niggas later, but yeah. They got $2 million in it, nigga. I might have joked her if I didn't know what was inside of it. Two million. They got into shit.
Starting point is 00:50:42 Money's up. I'm going to get me one of the need. Okay. Yeah, like, make a reseller niggas be selling these shit's crazy. I should go up in value. That's the thing with Berkham. If I was one of them reseller niggas, I could have went. I'm gonna be crazy with my, with my burglars and shit.
Starting point is 00:50:55 But like, these is personal for me right here, cause like, I'm gonna get used to the kids or something. Got you. Okay, okay, got you. Got you. I told niggas, years ago, the nigga, Aesap Rocky was the first nigga I've seen with the man purse. And niggas had jokes, like Snoop Dogg and niggins 50 was like. That nigga, Aysop know what he's doing with the fashion shit.
Starting point is 00:51:15 Fast forward. That nigga, you could ask Aesap Rocky. This is true story. He put me aside. He was like, yeah, they don't know what's going on, but watch what happened. what happened. And everybody had that shit after the Louis shit, shit, worded mother. That was the first nigga I seen do that shit. That shit became illegal after a little shit. Niggas is totally. Niggas had the hammers in there. Yeah. That's why you need
Starting point is 00:51:36 not illegal, but niggas was like, the boys on there. Red flag like that you might as well invite them to come just pull you over in search. Now look, when we overseas, that nigga got a deal with Ray Band, the Ray Band glasses, shout to Ray Band. And like, you'll be overseas like Switzerland and you'll see A.Sap Rocky on a big-ass billboard. Bro. Man Claire, all type of stuff. That's the shit you need to be on, bro. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:59 No, for real. See that light of, boo. You need to get them deals, man. For real, because you were a fashion nigger. Right, before I wasn't knowing that, we were just doing it. But this time coming around, we're going to be more open to doing that type of shit. No, facts. Taking the deals and doing all that shit.
Starting point is 00:52:15 I'm going to drop a few more albums, and we're going to get into that. I want to see you drop your own clothing line and maybe grab a little bit. And maybe grab a female artist from the Bronx, break a couple of new artists from the BX. We like that. Yeah, I'm trying to get into that too, to be honest. That's why I told you it's hard, like, it's hard finding that, like, that shit tough.
Starting point is 00:52:35 How do you feel when you hear new artists that might sound like you a little bit, man? It's cool. Yeah. Before I used to be like, why this thing sound like me, you know, like, you got a joke. How about it? All right.
Starting point is 00:52:47 I used to cry about it like, nah. Now I feel like that shit fired, to be honest. To see that you espied somebody like, I aspire this motherfucker like that. Got you. Got you. Got you. So niggas wasn't critical of Sean when Biggie came out? Of course he was.
Starting point is 00:53:04 Brooklyn was like, what the fuck is this? That's not Biggie? I ain't gonna lie. When he first hit, Brooklyn was like, what the fuck is this? No fan likes a replica. No, they don't. They don't. They don't.
Starting point is 00:53:15 And what was the other nigger that sounds like Biggie from Cali? He was a little tubby too. I forgot. They had good records, but it was like, Sean had good records. But it was just like hard to fact that, you know, sound like. At the same time, it's like coming out of my shoes. It's like we do the shit to inspire niggas and shit. So it's like when we inspire niggas and they do the shit we're doing, it's like we can't be mad about that shit.
Starting point is 00:53:37 Facts. But at first a dude pissing the girl, like, hold up, nigger. Yeah. You're trying to take my wave. Hold the fuck up, man. Yeah, but then that's some ego shit. Definitely, definitely. That you got to overcome.
Starting point is 00:53:48 Some niggas probably sink too deep into that ego and it gets to them, but not, not me. Well, they're mad because they're not doing arenas, brother. You know how that's going. You're doing arenas, you're getting all the money, you go all the clubs. I hear people say, A. Boogie underrated. Do you be feeling like you underrated sometimes?
Starting point is 00:54:08 I'm not. I've never heard that. Put like this. They talk about all- I be like some shit I'll be dropping me. Pain sometimes. I ain't got a lot. Like, it's certain songs I got that I be
Starting point is 00:54:18 bumping that I dropped before. And I'd be like, how the fuck this shit ain't go apply to? Got you. In certain songs. That's why I feel like the underrated.
Starting point is 00:54:26 You know for making hits so it's just more pressure. When you know for making hit records, we always know A. Boogie's going to come out with a dope single or a dope record or dope record or dope EP or dope album. That's a fact.
Starting point is 00:54:37 It depends what moods you in. That's a fact. Like when you break up with your girl, oh shit, we know you're going to get the best shit out of this nigga. I don't know if you got a new girl on this new shit. We're going to get the best shit out of this.
Starting point is 00:54:48 That's, Exactly. Because that's how everybody look at you. Every time A. Boogie break up, you know, you know, that's the, you know. Put that pain in. I mean, that's life do that to- Because they say the best music is what you've got to. I'm having no new girl.
Starting point is 00:54:59 Like, I'm on some shit where I'm just like, I'm just having fun of life at this point. Got you. Got you. You ain't like a lot. Cause we're here forever. We're trying to look in and getting on, you know. Yeah. Words.
Starting point is 00:55:13 Yeah. All I do anything shit with a girl every day waking up like, nah, nigger. Like, I'm a nigga. I like, I'm a, like, I like being alone. some time. So it's cool. This life is cool. Definitely. Definitely. Word. I love this shit. The world loves your baby mother. I know that. Yeah, she got a lot of fans and all that.
Starting point is 00:55:29 Everybody loves your big mother. Shut out to her. She doing, you know, she doing whatever she wants to do that, make her happy and all that. Facts. Like, for me, kids are still getting to the kid. That's all that matters. We love the kids. After that part it's done, it's like the kids that, you know, that's the final touch. Definitely, definitely. That makes sure that's all that matters after that. So. No, I think when you see it's like the ultimate, love story, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:55:49 Your first album, your baby mom. Nah, I'm just saying. You hear this, nigga. You know what I'm saying? It's like the love story. Like you and your baby Marks getting married right now. That's shit going super viral. You get married, Bill.
Starting point is 00:56:02 Yo, he's marrying his wife. He marrying her. It's going to go viral. Everybody, yo, yo, for real, we love you, you. That's the thing. That's not me. People love that.
Starting point is 00:56:10 I'd be feeling like certain niggas be doing that. Like, certain niggas do like relationship images and like do that for the fame and all that. Like, that's not, you know. Got you. I don't do that shit for me. I don't want to front. I don't want to fake it.
Starting point is 00:56:22 Like, fuck faking it. I'm a nigga that came from a real, like, a real family tree. So, like, that should be real to me when they come down to a female that you really fall in love with and have kids and settle down with it. You got to be like, you know. Got to be that. Like, for real. And I came up to a conclusion that, like, nigga, that shit is impossible nine days. So I'll just be chilling.
Starting point is 00:56:43 And, like, you know, you got to just love a girl for who she is. Fuck it. Like, you know, I'm a comfortable. to that one day. You think it's a positive? You think sometimes it'd be our fought, though, Buggie? Do you think it'd be our for it? Yeah, we savages and we created.
Starting point is 00:56:56 All right, okay, okay. We created an image for these females right now. Like, they motherfuck fucking stronger than us when they come down to it. They all me I'm talking about. Yeah, you better believe it. Facts, ligger facts. Like, politically, they army is stronger than us and we got the physical thing down pack.
Starting point is 00:57:13 Better believe it. That don't work if we're trying to, you can't fight that. Can't. But people love love. When you hear Dirt and his girl are shooting it out together, Nick's love that shit. You know, we don't get on violence, but somebody break it in the house, you hear, you know, India and him and they Bonnie and Clyde.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Yeah, free Dirk, man. Free Dirk, definitely free Dirk, man. That's a fact, man. You know what I mean? Free Dirk, for real. People love the ultimate love story. They do. Make music that women relate to and women like. And when you break up with his girl, the music's good.
Starting point is 00:57:47 When he get back with her, the music's good. You know what I mean? Break up and getting the music good. That's how I mean. That's life. You make music back. You can make music for the streets. That's how this is, that's how this is started with me though.
Starting point is 00:58:00 So it's like, it is what it is when it come down to that whole heartbreak shit that people like out of me. Nigger, that's how this shit started. Nigger just be talking their real life. Like that's it. Like dead to me. Yeah, me spitting that shit, I embrace that at the end of the day. I ain't gonna lie. But like the actual.
Starting point is 00:58:17 actual real life living. It's like, nigger, you gotta know how to control that part. Being a celebrity in this type of world. But they're dealing with real life at the same time. Yeah, like, you gotta really know how to do that shit. Because I remember before I used to be tripping, I used to like read comments and head shit. Like, nah, niggins is, you know what I'm saying? You reccombe?
Starting point is 00:58:38 That's what I'm saying. I used to, yeah, I don't give a fuck. I make the rap up. I was telling, yeah, you know, some time you're, you know, I said, you're weird, yay. I said, I make the rap. You think I give a fuck about. comments. I said, yo, I said, you know how many people I talk about that got fans that love them that come on my page that personally shit on me every time? I'd be like, yo, fuck them.
Starting point is 00:58:56 You know, let me have enough to spend a half a million on jeans. I'm telling motherfuckers kiss my ass every two seconds. Yo, we in New York. You know I got to ask you. You fuck up the strip clubs in the clubs. Who's your top five strippers and your top five ball tickets? Oh, shit. I'm not, this is a real report. I don't have this shit. It's it. You got to You heard that you're going to get a fucking. What you mean? Top-bob strippers, your pop, top-bop. Come on, bro.
Starting point is 00:59:26 Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. I'm going crazy. That's too much. I'm going crazy. I wouldn't even tell you what drip I'm going to win next. He accidentally. I definitely go put the more blast.
Starting point is 00:59:41 All right. What's the motion? Have everybody tried to snipe? Right now, anybody come and try to snike my niggish shit. See, that's a good question. You know, top five bartenders, top five strippers? That is. All right, what's your favorite strip club?
Starting point is 00:59:53 Fuck it, at least, I mean that. Big a cell, at least tell me that. Two of your favorite, maybe three. All right, so what I used to do like a template in New York. I used to go to them, three clubs every time I went to the city. So it was like, I would go to fucking, I would go to the regular club first. I would go to Harbor and then I would go to a club like Starliss and then I would go to Rivies. Like, that's two strippers.
Starting point is 01:00:15 clubs or one regular clubs so the first club was like a pregame you're chilling regular shit boom next club strip club y'all in there buggin now boom boom anything late probably through 30 000 you go to the afti afteries now nigger we lead that bitch like seven in the morning the sun is up and shit nigger we over here we're we over here trying to figure out we trying to go to the city or the crib after that like like he's drunk all the last shit we was in we was in streetport this one i know this nigger goes the clubs He said, fuck the hip-hop. He started playing the Spanish man.
Starting point is 01:00:48 Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, how this thing are know all these songs? He could be a fucking DJ with that shit. I remember that. That's the fact. My nigga took over the DJ. How the fuck you know all the Spanish music? You're Dominican is all?
Starting point is 01:01:02 You Dominican too? Nah, I ain't gonna lie. I came from like... The Bronx. Being in the Bronx? My favorite food is Dominican food. So, like, yeah, that's Bronx shit right there. Look at that.
Starting point is 01:01:14 Bronx is black and Spanish. So, like, I grew up straight, like, you know, mad Spanish niggas. The Spanish niggas where I grew up was like, them niggas is like, like, you would think they're black. But the black niggas like, we like Spanish food. That's crazy. Look at that. I don't know you knew all that Spanish music. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
Starting point is 01:01:32 Hey, buggy, though. Shout out to Rochi too. Rochi, what you call the J1. My fucking like, like, all of the songs will be bumping indictment and shit. Those be like party songs. turned up, states facts. You don't got to know what they say. I know words for this shit, though.
Starting point is 01:01:49 I don't know how you know the music. Yo, we got the P-O-P-O ready. Shout to P-O-P-O. We got some Peruvian food. We're going to take it out there. Yo, but yo, A. Boogie in the motherfucking building, new EP out now. Appreciate the interview.
Starting point is 01:02:01 It's the real report. The Bronx in the building. Shout to the whole high bridge. Oh, BX. You heard? Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Long Island. It's the real report with Aibuggie. He smoked wherever he wants to smoke.
Starting point is 01:02:12 You know the vibe. This is our first time smoking in the building. But being. that A. Bougy was here, they gave us a pass. You see how shit happens? You know what A Bougy did for me? On my daughter's 16th birthday, he gave her a personal video for her birthday. A personal shout-out video for her birthday. And that made her so happy that was the best gift she ever got.
Starting point is 01:02:31 And I ain't going to throw my brother. She really loved that. Like, you're her favorite rapper. Lidia. Like, that meant a lot to her. She was in love with that. She was like turned up at her school. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:02:44 My boy got my daughter to list. Definitely. You already know a buggy in the build and this the real report. How rich the label, baby. Wow! Shout that ain't boogie with the highway in the middle of the left. You're about to get right with this food now. Chicken is right. Yeah, the chicken is good.
Starting point is 01:02:59 You're still here. The gang, high bridge in the building, shout to the whole VX. You know what it is, man. He's selling the most records. That the beans. You got that green sauce. Yeah, green sauce. Shout out my Bronx, Jackie.
Starting point is 01:03:13 Let me tell you something about how these niggies is funny too. These niggas is funny to a little bit, right? Because I was walking by, niggins were seeing me. Nobody said nothing for a minute, right? You know, you're like, Merkle's something. No, we feel, what's merkling up? As soon as they realize the jacket said, the Bronx, yo, my nigga, that jacket, oh, my nigga,
Starting point is 01:03:28 that jacket tough, my, my nigga. Shout up to my high fish, God. You! What's these chopped-up a-o's and fries? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Chopped-A-O. He said chopped-up a-o. Yo, me proud.
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