Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - DAVIDO: MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 223

Episode Date: June 11, 2023

We are joined by the globally renowned artist, Davido. We delve into the extraordinary life and career of the Nigerian superstar, exploring the triumphs, challenges, and invaluable wisdom acquired along the way. Davido has left an incrdible mark on the music industry. A trailblazer in the Afrobeat genre, he has successfully bridged the gap between African and international music markets, captivating fans across the globe with his infectious sound and charismatic persona. With numerous awards and accolades to his name, Davido's journey to the pinnacle of success has been a testament to his unwavering determination and exceptional talent. From his breakthrough single, "Dami Duro," to chart-topping hits like "Fall," "If," and "Fem," his discography is a testament to his ability to produce chart-topping bangers that resonate with listeners from all walks of life.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mworthofgame

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Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I just want to know how do you feel. Afrobeats is on another level. The world is respected and it's bracing it. They loving it. You live on both sides of the game. America, Africa. How was it growing up for you?

You know what I'm saying? coming up, you know, over here. How was it? You know, first of all, like, I'm second generation, like, back and forth in my family, like, going to, you know, America and been in Nigeria. My parents actually, you know, finished their university in America. You know, I'm going from, straight from Nigeria. My dad, my dad graduated from Kentucky.

You know what I'm saying? My mom, I think Clarks in Atlanta, Atlanta. So I'm second generation, you know. But, you know, with me, it was really more of, we mainly stayed in Lagos, and we'd come to America for, like, the holiday. So it was kind of a thing where, like, the kind of, you know, successful people that were in Nigeria at the time, in, like, every holiday, all the kids, you know, like, all the rich kids, you know what I'm saying? Like, we take a holiday to either London or go to America. So that's really how I started coming. I was born over here.

so a lot of times what happened was that you know a lot of parents would bring come over here especially people who had money and you know could get to America to give birth over here so we don't got to go through all the visas and all of that so once you get birth over here in America you you're from automatically a citizen so I came here my mom gave birth to me and I left after like five months you know back home with the passport and boy that blue passport you don't understand it has helped me like my whole life yeah So, you know, that's that. And then, you know, just coming back and forth.

But I didn't really, really stay in the U.S., like really stay, like, live to, like, close to, like, when I was getting to college. So let me ask you this question, though. So by the fact that you was born in the States, did they give you any issues going back to Africa? What? They welcome you, like, the blue passport.

Yeah. That blue passport. Yeah, but what I'm saying, you go to London, you with a blue passport. Yeah, they'll welcome you, but you're taking your ass home, nigga. You're from over there. How long are you going to be here?

Yeah. No, but your parents is Nigerian, so. Oh, okay. I have dual citizenship. So when I got back home, yeah. Obviously, to get to back home, I got to get a visa.

Yeah. I don't understand what you're saying. Yeah. If I'm American, yeah, I got to get a visa to get back home. Right. So when I got back home, obviously, they probably took me to...

But how you mean, get back home. Your home is now here. You was born here. No, it doesn't work. See, I used to argue all the time. Yeah. I used to like, Like, even when I got to college, and I'll be like, where are you from?

They'd be like, I'm American, my dad is like, I'm like, no, it don't work like that. Right. Wherever your parents are from, in Africa, that's where you're from. Right. So if you're Liberian and your people left there 500 years ago, if you come to America, you're librarian, but you're American, but I'm asking where you're from, like, you're a librarian. So I know in America, it's where you're born. That's where you're from. Right.

Where you people are from? When they ask you back on, where are you from? I'm talking about blood. blood. I'm not talking about what's your nationality or, you know what I'm saying? What neighborhood you was wrong.

Yeah, so home is, like I said, just being born over here it was because my parents had the means to bring me over here. Right. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know what I'm saying? It was good.

Let me ask you a question. Did you ever take any flack from being born over here? Like as far as in your music, you know, hate motherfuckers. Well, he wasn't born. He's not originally born here. No, no, no.

Oh, that's beautiful then. I think because, no, I think also because that part of my life didn't come out until I blew up. Oh, okay. You feel me? I didn't come out saying, oh, I was, I didn't come out. Oh, people thought I lived in Nigeria. Right. It's later on, like, three years, four years down the line of my career.

People started, I told like, oh, yeah, I did come to college and stuff like that. It wasn't like I was introduced, like, as an American artist in Nigeria. Oh, no. Like, I've been in the street. I've been, like, back home. all that all the only thing is that i just i could fly anytime i wanted like go to america every time i wanted that was beautiful you don't understand till date i don't care how much how much money you got that blue passports is worth more than a million dollars i'm telling you

it's crazy because like just even with like it's crazy just even with like booking venues like if like okay for example we're going to australia for a tour so it's like to get it to Australia is so hard. So even parts of like my band members, they're getting difficulties into like getting the papers because, just because of that passport. Do you understand? But obviously it's kind of easier for me because of the blue passport.

So that's like an example of how it kind of has been easy for me. How was it that? See, you've been in the game for a while before Applebees blew up. And you was getting embraced by a lot of hip-hop artists. You didn't did songs with anybody from me,

Rick Rose. Chris, Chris, Chris Brown, young thug Like, everybody was fucking with you. Everybody was fucking with you. The two babies, yeah, yeah. But people were fucking with you before it blew up. Like, they was already born you in fancy music. Because of Atlanta.

Yeah. So I can explain that. Obviously, like, even before, like, even before, okay, so when I, when I, my dad sent me to college in Alabama, I was 15 years old in college. So it's like, I'm young. First of all, I'm African.

I'm black. You know what I'm saying? The only kind of advantage I really had was like, I just always had paper on me. So I go in there, you know how that goes being in an all-black college? You got paper, you good, whatever. Right. You 12 years old, you 13.

So my sister, my sister went like two years, like, she went like three, four years before me, school. So when I'm coming to America, she tells me, she's like, when you get to school, like in our language, like when you get to school, don't tell them you have 15 or. like nobody will fuck with you type shit so I'm like cool because like I say

where I'm from if I show you a 13 years old you'll never believe it right thing like a grown man you know what I'm saying so me I'm coming with we call it OTI orientation

so I'm coming to America with like orientation I'm 15 but I got that orientation I was like a 22 year old you know I'm saying so I remember I land I land in America I have my school stuff

so I'm coming from I'm coming from grade 11 that's like over here that's like 12th grade. So I'm going to college. Blah, I land. The first school, actually the first school they took me to, I was in Tennessee.

Yeah. It was an all-white Christian college. Flunked out after like one semester. So then they moved me to Alabama, HVCU. Next to the school was Alabama A&M. Oh, yeah. So, you know what I'm saying?

So I remember about, like, my uncle dropping me off on campus. So my daddy's telling him, like, okay, we're going to take you three schools. pick the one you want to go to because obviously you don't like that one or white one

so we got to Oakwood and then I've seen the first you're making you enter the school when you walk into the registration where you go register

two dreadheads just passed me spending like we you're like yeah I said I said

I think I'll be able to money but still at Christian school because my dad is a big Christian so any university I'm going to

it must be Christian school you must go to church So in that school you have to go to church Wednesdays Saturday we're seven day

Venice You know what I'm saying So we got to go church on Saturdays So I enrolled in then So when I enrolled in that school That is when I really start understanding

The fact that Yo These people are really not Educated about Africa At all You know what I'm saying Like I said I only come for holidays

So I'm not You know what I'm saying Come for holidays I'm not really notice saying nothing, you know what I'm saying? So I remember, you know, when you get at the dorm, they fix you up with a roommate. And I think the first guy they put me in was from, like, New York or something, I can't remember by his name.

So he's asking me, like, oh, where are you from? I'm like, yeah, I'm from Nigeria. I was like, oh, like, where are you from? I'm not from Nigeria. Like, how'd you get here? I'm like, bro, I just flew him from Nigeria, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, a couple months ago. He was like, wow, like, you guys have airports?

You guys have, do you know what I'm saying? So that was really like my first. It was a little different. He'd be a moderate. that nigga was like y'all niggas got airport son yeah the mother's son is airport what part of New York from was he from Brooklyn yeah it was from Brooklyn hold a hold up time out

now listen he came right in there so you're from this is a twist this is a twist Liberia where fuck is that son we like where you from there's two type of people right there's two type of people that I don't give a fuck where you go at in the world a nigga from Brooklyn a nigga from Nigeria they every fucking way in the world I'm talking about there everywhere

Listen, them the two places With them two people It's everywhere in the world So y'all, I'm talking about That's crazy And you're gonna say something? Motherfucking, Nigeria must be the Brooklyn of Africa.

Yes. Because they're some hustling motherfuckers, man. If you can survive in Lagos, you can't survive anywhere in this world. I'm telling you. I was in Japan. We was walking down the street and Nigerian nigga

tried to get us to come into a strip club. You talk about I run this. This is my strip club. Come in. I'm like, Nick, me, it's your pain. So what fuck you do? What is true?

That's crazy. So I think, also I think that that was like the perfect person that like they could have put me with. So once I go into school, I start hanging around like the New York people because to me, those are the closest,

I'm happy you said that, because to me, those are the closest people to our Nigerians way. Just how like New York, Jake and. So from there, that's really like how I started like being out here and then, you know,

like then like I'm in you know I'm in the dorm just chilling and then like I remember like two three weeks after I'm like you know what I've been in the door let me try and explore and see what's going on in school I walk around blah blah I started making some friends and then you want to see the masses come on man yeah yeah yeah from there that's when like they kind of kind of knew like yo this guy's kind of different like they didn't really know it was kind of weird Like, oh, what your people do, bro?

You know, those kind of questions. And then from there, you know, I was just how old. They knew you was different. He said he had their paper. He always said he had their papers. I know, let me tell you why. So there was one day, right? I'd never forget.

So it was one day. I remember, like, after we eat, like, my friends, they always go line up somewhere. You know what I'm saying? And apparently it was like, I think this place called financial aid. So I ain't know about that. Yeah. That you're paid for.

That's your pay for. So my only's food, food. My daddy's even paying. He's paying like 10 months, like five years in advance. Right. So I was asking him my friend. I'm like, why are you guys? What is this line?

He's like, young guy? I'm like, what's that? He was like, come, let me take you. Then he takes me to the account office because he's just trying to make sure I'm okay. Right. He even trying to see if my hand was you're sleeping. He's trying to make sure that I'm okay. They pulled the records up all of him.

They start talking to Africa. Add a plus. You know how you have the minus? I have an overt. word, I had, like, plus 27,000. Bro, he can look at me so crazy. Because he'd take you in there, I just want to make sure my man, financial aid cool. They pulled them up.

They're like, yo, get the fuck out. We're not giving you no money. That means you got more money in there. So I ask him, like, what are this plus 27,000? I mean, he's like, oh, that means you have, like, extra money. I'm like, oh. That means your pop over paid. Could I get it?

You try to get the money. He showed me how to get it Boy, I was on from them Oh, you took the money out It all came from his pop Damn That didn't come from the government Then she came from his pop saying

How much is it? It was like it's $27,000 This year's pop said 47,000 No, he was doing crazy Just in case he needs something No, no He wasn't doing it because

He didn't even think I knew He was just doing it Probably just leave bed there That was the best shit That he could have did It sucked it to your pocket I got it though I know

Because you can get the check Bye by Anyway like Fast forward That's when I got that check Start hanging out with the New York people Left the dorm Yeah left the dorm

Doing all that Mind you I'm still like 15 and a half You're in a party with all the checks I was dating a girl She was like I don't know if I could say it

I was doing a girl like much older So this time I was like 16 I had tattoos bro, as in how they get me? Them New York niggas church you bruh

every jays that came out all the jays that was coming out on Friday I'll buy it for five of my friends every Friday while I go to the mall while buying the new jays

then like the new polos then it was like polo that shit was like coming to a man you were hanging with the New York niggas and I was paying for everything too

oh you know they're something Vanessa nigger they said son All they tell me like they tell me like okay this the new ones that come out I said how are we outside

Niggin, we get them. So we get the shoes. We go to the game. And this time I'm like 16, 17, like. And you hanging with niggins, the 18 to 19? No, yeah, they think, no. I'm hanging with girls older than that. Chilling, boy.

So after that, then that's how I kind of like goes into the music. I was really serious about the music. So you weren't even doing music then? I was, like, kind of, but it wasn't like, I didn't like have a studio set up and all of that. So that's when I kind of like,

because I had a friend through the Jamaicans, but he was like a gospel singer. So he was like our roommate. His name was J-Mo. So he was a gospel singer. And then that's when I, like, one day I went to his room. And then I seen, like, studio equipment just like this. The gospel singers.

So I'm like, that's why I'm always hearing music. He stays upstairs of where we used to stay. So I'm like, that's why I'm always hearing music. He was like, yeah, he does gospel music. That's my first time I see. interface mic set up all that

I'm like oh so you record then I'm like okay so how much is all this stuff he's like like a good set

up probably like 1500 like that and you said Nick or what I was like oh yeah

so from Dan got the equipment fast you got that shit in two days go about everything no actually went to the store

I went to the store guitar center I never forget today I went to like my first trip went to guitar center bought all the equipment and that was the beginning of like my musical journey

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Are you recording in college? Yeah, so I bought the equipment. And then obviously, I'm not recording myself in college. Don't forget, I'm around a bunch of the York people. Oh, I'll rap. Oh, all rap. So I'm like, but. So I started just like, I started using them to, like, practice

because I was really more focused on, like, musical engineering and stuff. like that. I plan to call my dad like at the end of the semester. Like, oh, dad, I want to change. I think I had, like, I was doing like business major. Yeah. And the marketing minor. I wanted to change it to like a minor in music technology.

Any of them New York niggas try to talk, you in the manager, no? Sponsoring them. Same thing. No, but hey, do you know the crazy stuff? No, I'm going to get to that. So after I did that, I was recording, like, mixtapes for people, because I was just

using it. I wasn't charging them. Right. I was using it to, like, get better. Right. So there's this one dude from Philly, funny enough. I mean, I promise you, he's upstairs. I recorded his whole mixtape. Did he put it out?

It was called, I remember, I never forget, it was called the guillotine or some stuff like that. He put it out or like whatever, like him then, it was like lime wire or something. Yeah, yeah. Or like, what's the, there's some popular stuff? But he put it out. So I was getting better, getting better.

So he got to a point where it's like, so I've done, like, It was like a year and a half, been in America. So now I'm in America. So, like, after a while, my cousins from Atlanta, they all moved back to Atlanta, and they do music too. So I'd go, then I started coming to Atlanta every weekend. So this is where, you know, I'm trying to tell you, like, how the whole Atlanta thing. So I try to come to Atlanta every weekend to see my cousins.

I'll get on the Greyhound. Only me, I'll get on the Greyhound. I'll go from Huntsville. the Greyhound was like $117. I go from Huntsville. The Greyhound takes me to... I've seen so much shit, right, Greyhound. I see him like Cracken's having sex.

Bro, that's crazy shit. Yeah. He used to be a Greyhound Warrior, too. Crazy. So from Huntsville, it would take us to... We'll stop in Birmingham, Alabama. From Birmingham, Alabama, I don't know if it's Memphis.

I would stop somewhere before we now get to Atlanta. So I used to do that like every weekend. because my Monday I got to get back to school because my dad had an uncle there that was like my supervisor because obviously I was not of age but then I had my older brother's ID

and come down here and turn it up yeah so I could I was good so I come to Atlanta every you know I'm saying every weekend you know start recording you know my cousins people are in the hood I said I had so much weed for free

because I record all the drug dealas big car big car different people you're right on and I'm doing this all like people don't even know my background I'm just doing this because I want to learn I want to get better so it's like I'm just They paying you a weed thinking you fucked up

huh man take this little half ounce man So we did that And then from there that's That's when I was like I don't want to go to school no more Like I really want this one I want to do the music thing And stuff so started moving my way around Atlanta That time like A call was really big How did your parents feel about that?

No they didn't know So you just dropped that My man passed when I was not. Oh, okay. So it was really my dad. So my, this time, I'm telling me my dad thinks I'm in school. Yeah. He doesn't know about me doing music.

No way. Oh, shit. Nothing about it. Right. So over coming to Atlanta so much, I'm being so focused on being in school. Sorry, being so focused on the music, I forgot about school. Like, completely. I just fell in love directly with music.

Yeah. So my grace was bad. It was crazy. Like, like, so I. I remember when my first, the grades, like, first bad grades came back. And, like, normally I'll send it to my dad, send it to my dad. So this time, it's like, you don't send me your grades this time. I said, no, no, no, no.

I said, this semester, I don't know, something happened. I think Obama became president. I was like, oh, because Obama, the black pride, I lied. I said something. There's no school. There's no results to say. But I'd flunked out. So it's time to go home for Christmas.

Every December, like I said, go back to Nigeria I tell you go back to Nigeria when you come here boy I went back to Nigeria boy ha ha

I'm seeing Lambo's I'm seeing I'm seeing I'm seeing Bentley's Mastomartins niggas

rome Lexus APs I'm like I'm like what's going on like the entertainment industry making so much

money so I've seen it from before like happening in Nigeria I remember being in the club then like the biggest artist

was like P Square DeBanj. Like, even then, Whis kid was like, young, he was really young. But, like, I remember, like,

him just coming up in the game. So the game was coming up. And I remember that moment, I was like, I want to do Nigerian music. Yeah. I want to get in on this early.

Like, I can really tell, like, it's going to be big. Big, yeah. So whatever I was doing in America, like, I just started focusing on African music. Yeah.

So my plan was, okay, I'm here for Christmas. I'm about to go back, you know, try to get these grades up. and then transform. You know, I told you I'm in a Christian at Ventus University.

So you can transfer your grades. And there was one in Nigeria. So my plan was moved the grades to Nigeria. Right. Blah. Pop's like, nah, fuck that. Go back to school. Right.

So that's how I came back to America and then ran away again. And that's how I finally said, I'm doing music. And that's how I finally left school. So just even just going to Atlanta all the time and just being around Atlanta, lifetime. As soon as I got like

some type of success from Africa, you know what I'm saying? I came out back here and just started finishing my way. Did you ever go back to Africa though and start fucking with the music? Yeah, so that's what I'm saying. So when I came back to trying to get the grades

up and stuff, my dad had found out that I lied about that one time and he got the real grades and all that. So I'm like, shit, I'm already fucked up. I can't, I know there's one thing about Africa fire homes if you leave if you do something bad don't go back until you have become something of yourself yeah you know what I'm saying like don't go home like if you like if you're like you left

a failure can never come back in failure I don't care how long you stay away from home you cannot come back a fail you must pull back up with that G wagon with that Rolex so like with some cash in your pocket you know what I'm saying like yeah nigga like that type shit yeah so in my head I'm like almost like I ain't going back and I have a big family so all I'm in here is why can't you be like this guy right don't you be like this guy so I'm like fuck that like I ain't even going back on that shit like I'll be on the road I'm on demon time I'm outside right it's already I'm already fucked up so I moved back to Nigeria start hustling bro just like imagine a billionaire child sleeping on the floor bro like yeah I'm coming like a 60 million

dollar house 15 minutes away I'm sleeping on my friend couch on the floor right just because I must do this music I can't go back away Yeah, you can't go back home because you dropped the fuck out. You lied and told you dad. He told you my fucking dad, Obama got elected to the Lord of the Lord of Lump. That was a crazy one.

I thought about that shit for about five months. He said that shit don't make no sense, man. The fuck Obama getting elected. Your uncle was slipping. Your uncle was slipping. He was supposed to be watching you. He was over a party. He was over there party.

They got some ass is so bad. I don't know. My dad, he can watch this. But his son, Man, me and that's something we used to blow down. So, Tim, we used to go to the back, blow down. Fucking Saturday, right? That was your brother or your uncle?

No, it was just like my dad's friend, you know? So, like an uncle to me. They said Tim thinking Tim was responsible. Tim, they got some good-ass wheel over there, nephew, you hear me? Because I told you, I always had on my pocket at all times. That's 200, 20, 30, 30, 30. It's always on me. You know what?

And then, we ain't smoking smoking, because you know what I'm saying? then a quarter was like $25 or some perp or some regular That nigga just called him Bring me 15 quarters I'm calling the house He's like this All getting blazed the fuck up

Huh Didn't even know your pop think he'd here Being responsible or shit So from then Obviously like my dad Then my dad finds out You know what I'm saying that Yeah

Dude ain't been in school Blah blah blah So, then I run away feel like my dad looking for me. I feel like a good. And I'm the last child. His last child. Pop was talking crazy about you. He cut everybody off.

No more allowance. Even to staff. Everybody going to look for David. There they come. Where the fuck was you running at? And your pop got all these people. Man, he was a couch warrior, man. I was, I was in.

You were sleeping on his own big couch? No, I was in Lagos first. And it got too hot. So then I ran to London. I had a passport. Keep telling me. So you was able to move around? If I had to go to Russia, if I had the money,

I can't just go to a ticket counter and buy it. Right. You know what I'm saying? So at this time, think about it, I've been telling you the stories on school. So at this time, I'm like 17, you know what I'm saying? About it hit 17. So I had to go to London because it was just hot.

My sister calling me, oh, dad tripping, brother, blah, he cuts everybody off. Damn. Imagine a billionaire cutting everybody off. Like, he shut the whole shit down. Like, David don't call. come back, I ain't bad again, shit.

So everybody called me, like, you're fucking up about our own pew. Do you understand? So I was in London. I was London for like four months. I had a girlfriend at the time. London. One of my guys was chilling. He had a studio in his house. You know what I'm saying? So that's really

when I got time to, like, record. So this whole time, this is like, when, like, Facebook was popping. So all my family members, every morning I'd wake up to like 20 new messages. You need to come back home. blah, blah, your dad, this one,

blah, I'm like, God, just leave me. I don't want to do this music. I don't want anything from you.

I don't want to do this music, but it was just like, he was like, no. Like, nah, he ain't,

he ain't bugging. He ain't budging. So I found a way to, like, get some bread, you know what I'm saying? I came up a little bit. Then I was like,

I mean, equivalence to like $60,000, you know what I'm saying? I was, like, 17? Yeah. So I was like,

shit, I'm going to get this paper, go back to Nigeria, get an apartment, build a studio, and start working. And, you know, before I left, because I was from America, so every time I'd be in the club, me and my boys already act like

with stars already. So people in Nigeria, industry, I already knew, like, about us. And obviously, they knew like, his dad has money, all that. So I already kind of knew people in the industry. I knew whiskey, I knew Wandaq, I knew DeBanche. So my plan was,

Shamba was about to go back and turn up. But, and I knew I was good. I had the music, I had the music sense, everything. So I moved back to Nigeria fully. First time, instead a couple months left, came back. Boy, when I was now going back with the money, you know, had the plan, everything. As soon as I get off the plane, fucking army, grab me, bro. Damn, damn, nigger, dad got an army.

He ain't that about this. Real army. I'm not. The sergeant, get that motherfucker. The army that go to war to fight type of shit. I know. I know what you told you. And how was that conversation?

You just grabbed me. I was not like, fuck. Because I thought when he grabbed me, I thought he grabbed my pants because I was sagging. My pants was down. So I thought he was telling me. But he was like, tell me, ooh, we're going to get you type shit. Like, go step your passport. Bro.

As soon as I stepped my passport, bro, I just walked outside. So one of my friends. And he had money. One of my close friends, he had given him money and manipulated him. Because that's the only way my dad could have gone. me because my friend ran me out. So I'm calling my friend like, oh, I'm landing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not knowing that they give him money already, blah, blah, blah.

So I look at my friend as I'm coming out. I'm like, ah, I'm late. I'm taking my girl away from me at the hotel. I'm taking, we going out tonight. You feel me? I just looked at me. He just looked at his face like this. You know, like, you knew how, like, I know you had disappointed in me.

I looked at, I don't say never. I said, you sniff. I can never forget. I looked like him. I said, you snitched? I just looked right. I just saw my dad. What did your dad say? He just ran and hugged me, like, shaking, crying. That nigga thought he didn't know what the fuck he was doing, baby.

He thought he was on a vicious crack binge or something. David, I did do it. Smoking rock. Yeah, they thinking, I'm going crazy, but I was actually chilling. So he put me in the car. I remember that the ride home. It's like, ah, why did I run? I was like, but you know when, like I told you, you know when like

you know you should have listened type stuff listen to you you know what I'm saying because he's a real busy man you know what I'm saying so I would say like

he wasn't like Did you hear them with a little bit of the guilt the guilt trip down? Man he had him Father that it's not my dream father no no

I was just like we're just talking and then we got to the crib imagine getting to the crib and like it's like I have a big family but he's like

where did you go so I'm just like bro what the fuck so I go in my room close the door you can't lie though it felt good to be home oh a little bit it felt good they had a burden off your chest he running from his pot

it felt good to stop running I wasn't fitting good like oh I'm home like oh food money it felt good to just stop running you got people calling you you know what I'm saying so

then we're men to have a meeting the next day right to figure it out so he like yeah so let's have to meet So I remember I go in the room I face some of my girl at the time And she had the hotel She actually told me to go through Ghana

And then drive to Nigeria Because like it's like an eight hour drive I'm like fuck How was this nigga on the run Like a fugitive From his parents shit That's crazy No land in Jersey and then dry down to Philly

Because you know your pop got an army That's crazy But guess what If I'd gone to Ghana I might not be sitting here with you because I want to have got caught and then the story would have went the way it went kind of.

But let me feel. So we had the meeting the next day. So the meeting is like, okay, what do you want? I said daddy, I want to do music. I don't want to stay in the house. I want to leave. I'm okay.

I'm okay, I've stayed the night. Everybody see I'm back. I don't want to fight. I'm good. My head, I got 60K on me. Like, I'm good. He's just like, okay, just go to school. What do you want?

I would do it. anything you want. So I'm like, all right. They're talking what I like. So what's up? What's he going to do for him, man? He said, I must go to school. I said, I was thought about it.

I was like, all right, man, cool, cool. But I want to go school in Nigeria. So he agreed, like, cool, he can go school in Nigeria. But then he sent me, he tried to send me to, like, the village far away. So I'm like, nah. So he's like, all right. If he

gives me money, if he builds a studio for me, like a world-class studio, like he's really telling me, not all these Robby Studios in Nigeria, I will go to Atlanta, who will pick the best equipment. Flex! And that's exactly what I did.

We'll pick the world-class equipment, anything you want. Any studio you see in America, show me the picture. We'll build it for you. Just go to school. And lucky, I'd be feeling like he promised my mom like before she passed like please make sure they go to school because my mom was a teacher yeah in the university the same school so i'm thinking in my head i'm like he's like he's really adamant on that school so i'm like okay i go to school cool but what's the deal you're like okay i got to go to

school so the school is like five hours drive from the city so if i go to school for two weeks that for two weeks that weekend i can come home go back do another two weeks that weekend i could come to the studio that he's built it. Yeah. Right? So I'm like, shit. Cool. I'm about to go to school

for like five months. Blow up, dip. Like, that's what I'm thinking. So I started going to the school. I got enrolled in the school five hours away. He built me the best studio in Nigeria. I mean, like, everybody used to come there. Whiskey, depart.

So that is when I started, like, because I had the best studio. Right. But think about it. He has the best studio. The studio is only open every two weeks Because they're in school So that shit's the fuck the head up Like damn, like

So I come every two weeks to the studio Everybody would be coming over Coming over And stuff like that And funny enough That time I was really recording my music Like that Like I said

I told you I was learning engineering So I'd have people come over to the studio And be recording, recording So one day I always give people ideas Like if you're in the studio You do a verse or you do a hook, I'll switch it

or I'll say I'll say, oh no, sing it this way or do it this way then my boy started realizing that bro, you better than all these people that come in? Yeah, cool. Right.

But me, I'm like, no, no, I'm like, bro, I figure out to go to school. My dad tripping, I haven't tried to run away and do all that shit. They were like, bro, just trying. I was like, fuck it. The first song I recorded it was up.

First, not first song that, oh, hear my song. The first song I ever had, like, took my, obviously I've recorded, but like, the first song that I was like, this is going to be my song. This is it. Bro. They dropped it, like, funny.

You know how you, SoundCloud? Then we used to use, like, YouTube. Then it was like Twitter just blew up. So I dropped it. And then I went to school because I had to go back. You know, I'd do the whole. two weeks thing. So I did the song

it was called Back When Feature NADO C there. So I dropped it and then I went back to school. So I go back to school. And at this time, I've been in school for like seven months. So to be honest, I've actually kind of gotten used to school.

The vime of one of be artists is like, the dream is kind of dying. I ain't going to laugh. Like I'm already in school. I'm like, fuck it. You know what I'm saying? My friend just called me. after I've been in school for like two weeks. Say, brother.

I said, bro, what's up? I'm tired. I'm laying down. I remember the series I was watching. You watched Dexter before? Yeah. I was like, I'll never forget. I was on like season six of Dexter.

I watched Dexter. I watched all the series because I'm fucking bored. In that place. He just called me. He said, brother. I said, well, sister, I was in the club last night. When they played your song, all the girls went crazy. I said it's a lie

She, bullshit I said it's a lie, Joe Who was that, that's your brother right there? Yeah, it's my cousin Was he the one that called you? Nah What was he say? And the rest is history

And the rest is history, huh? So from that day I was just like I said, I'm sure I said don't let me leave this school I don't want to run away again Yeah, I'm coming back Yeah, because if I

If I run away this time I'm like, it got to be, oh, you know what I'm saying? He said, brother, I know then there was no Snapchat, you can't send you. It's only word of mouth. You have to, you have to, you have to see it. I said, fuck it, I'm coming, I'm coming to you. So I did like a fake human, you know how you do the fake human being that you can put the pillows in the bed? Because my dad, guess what?

My dad had me sleeping in the same apartment with the principal of the school. Oh, Lord. Damn, yes. He had a three-bedroom apartment This is the principal of the school This is my room And this is like his son's room Nika dad had so much money

He paid the principal Go check him at night Bro That's crazy Principal David, you in there? I did the whole thing From there Dip

They start calling me again So I'm on the way to Lake the city like They call me, calling me I'm like boy Whatever this boy said About the song Better be true

I've left Skulu So Sam got to the club To see if what he's saying It's real Yeah He walked in there When I walked in I looked at my cousin

I was like oh fuck Boy So yeah we back lit Boy It was like a wave My dad couldn't stop it Was so much The President's ringtone

Was my song The president of the country. He's a ringtone. Damn. That's my song. So from there, that's like... So hold on. Okay, hold on. All right. So now you got the song, song pop and all the women listening to it. They banging it. Your dad wasn't like, I don't want to hear that shit. Go take your ass back to school.

No, yeah. He was like... Because it takes a minute. It just don't like it come out and then it just blow. It takes a little minute for it. I blew up. But not like he was like... Every show I'd go to, he sent a police to The rest, me, you booked the show, you, you paid for a table to watch the ticket to watch the show, the fad, you too. Everybody gone. Damn, how many shows he done that shit till?

So they stopped booking me. And you just kept going, you didn't give a fuck. And then I did another record, and that record was like times three of that record. And then from there. Digger Dad had so much money, he locked the old club up. They booked David, lock the club up. That's fucking crazy. They got 500.

Arena up. Not the clubber. Not the clubber. Lock the whole fucking arena You know how much money they take It's a lot of money And he probably bailed niggas out Let them all stay for a day

Then bail everybody out When did he break down? Shit Like let me do what I want to do He said like you know what Fuck it Yeah it was kind of just getting peak You know what I'm saying

We're getting big guy And then I actually got an offer For a contract By this like media company In Africa Like this telek It's like a team mobile Yeah

Of Africa of Africa. Yeah. How much they offer you? How long? Then, like, I was... What year? I think then, and this is just like two songs in.

How old was you? Like, how old was, like, 17? 18, something like that. Like $250,000. Yeah. So when he, because, you know me, he's a non-bos guy. Yeah. He's a, he's a, he's a, he's a non-bos guy.

Uh-huh. So he hears that, okay. So then he now calls me in as his son to start. advising me. Okay, let's do it this way. So he actually arranged my stuff, registered my company, registered my name, you know, opening an account for me,

arranged my royalties. Really just made sure nobody like... He's seen that you finally in the business. No, Papa is a fucking business man to the top of the lot. The niggins, wait, they offer you what? He got to be good. Come on here, boy, let me tell you about this business.

You know what I'm saying? You're about to get in it now, nigga. When that happened, You know what I'm saying? And then, and then me just became cool. And then he kind of finessed me into, like, go doing like a part-time school, online stuff, going back to school right now. And I ended up getting a degree in 2015.

Damn. Still got a degree through all that. That's a blessing. Damn. So that shit just... So from there, you know, that's when, that's when, from there, that's when, like, everything just popped off. Yeah.

So obviously, like, now, like, I'm on, you know what I'm saying? but don't forget I'm coming from America so I'm blowing up in Africa going crazy like everything is spreading so quick everything's happening so quick and I'm just coming from America

so all my boys hit me up like yo yeah I see you know all those New York people are like yo I see you but obviously I didn't reach them yet

but they've seen it on my page like oh I see your moves and obviously the dream was always you know what I'm saying to be able to come out here and do the same thing right and um so i i i'd come but obviously like there was no afro beats here at that time right so i'd come just link up it the first person i really was like linking up with was uh was thug

yeah you know what i'm saying because i was friends as one of his partners yeah so he always be in the studio so me and thug was like the first person like always go over there smoke with him chill yeah they did records and from there i met i met baby when baby first came out of jail little baby before I did the record with him the day he came out of jail I think the next day

I met a little baby I promise you smoking, asking me where I'm from you know what I'm saying so from then I started meeting everybody

Migos blah blah blah so when they all would come to Nigeria or come to Africa the first person they asked me

was like yo my partner David all out there you know what I'm saying so I picked them up and then you could do a big in Africa oh

the first people I picked up I remember I picked up Quaver from the airport. Nika. I'm my boy, you know, all of them, three of them. This is like, and guess what? This is like right before Bad and Boogie blew up. Yeah. So, like, they had their experience.

And I feel like everybody that's come to Africa is always like, they come and they blow up. Yeah. Same thing with, um, it happened with Migos, happened with little baby, happened with cats. Yeah. You know what's so crazy. You was big. You was understanding. Okay, he big in Africa.

Okay, cool. But then when they got over there and you was able to say, I'm going to pick y'all up from the airport. Dad, I need the Army. You took the Army with you. No, right now I'm the Army. You're the Army at that time. It's different.

Now I'm the Army. Right. So now you pull up, they probably like. God. Damn. And it was so like, you know, like my joy is like able to pull up on them with things they see here. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? I picked up the baby in my Ventador in Lagos. I picked up a little baby in my in my Bentega in 2018 when the car just came out Yeah You know what I'm crazy It's like, you know, I'm happy

Like Even the reaction I see it like You know what I'm saying? So, you know, living in both worlds I'm just happy to see that And I always knew Like even when I got my deal with Sony In 2015

It's the first time I'm signing A contract with a major label where I'm from where I just used to wake up, drop a record, tweet it, put it on Instagram before I sleep and wake up

is the biggest record in the country. You know what I'm saying? That's where I was coming from before I saw my deal. So imagine, you know, over time, like, you know, Afro beats really blew

internationally. It was actually through the UK. The UK was like the first area to like really acknowledge Afro beat, I can make it pretty real big a thing. We're doing the arenas in the UK from since. You know what I'm saying? So from there, it kind of

moved to America. Right. Moved to Atlanta. Move to New York and Atlanta. And then kind of like spread. But I used to tell them, I was like, this is the next sound dude. I'm telling you, I remember, I remember when I used to want to do

records with artists and they, we do the song, and then the next day they'd send my lawyer invoices with a clearance for 350K. Right. man 400k that's what a lot of artists don't understand

to a motherfucker do the record with you take your money and everything no just give me just give me 50,000 to do the record now when I see them hear me like you all to remix this I'm like the only artist

the only artist in this America that I tell you facts it's Chris Brown that does it because he loves the arts that's for me child de breezy I don't know about anybody else and when I'm talking about

killing the record video shoot staying there for five hours loving Afro beats not only do my record even helping other Afro beats artists and that's like now the genre is break

everybody trying to harp on it but I'm saying we have to acknowledge the people that you know was there in the beginning you know Thug hasn't really done Afrobeat because me and Thug are more

on a friendship level but when I'm talking about like the African culture and people that really like I'd say put on. I say like you know what I'm saying like Chris you know what I'm saying? A couple other people but mainly him you know and I said that when I was going to do this interview I was going to give him a big shout out

but we've worked at a lot of people do a lot of people and I'm just happy that you know finally the genre because I remember when you know when you're in the studio and everybody just playing their stuff you know how it is like play you let me hear this And every time, like even when I used to be in the studio with them, Thog or whoever I'm in studio with, everybody played their song.

When I played my own, it was always different with the Afro beats. I always knew when I was in the dorm, when I was playing in my dorm, when I was playing them Peace Square and the band. My friends that are walking past my room, be like, yo, what's that? I'm like, yo, this African music.

Trust me, one day, you're going to love it. You know what I'm saying? And then And now As arena's all over the world You know what? I want you to name about five

Right I need five from you From back home Right Okay That the world Need to know about But they don't know

About right now I need you I need you to say Their names on here Hmm That you want the world To know about But they don't know

I don't want to say Because I think a lot Of them people know But also wants to just say I'd say like the five Next five I can say the next five The next one.

Because I don't want to, you know, leap in a lot. I say, Rema, he got the Calm down record. Calm down, calm down. I say Rema. I say Buju. Uh-huh. I say Ira Star. Uh-huh.

I say... Victorini. See, now this one, it gets tough because he started looking around the room at niggas. Think well. I don't want Joe, so. Nah, nah.

Ah, okay, okay, okay. So, okay, let's do like this. It was Rema, Buju, as Shakere. Without a doubt, shocking. No, he's gone. Oh, good, nice. Him and Rama.

Him and Rama. I say they are. They're at the top. Who else was it? Ira Star. Buju there already. Ira Star, Gruga. Ruga.

The future Afrobeast is crazy because now it's different. You know, before we needed a whole studio to record. Now, you can record on your phone. You can record on your phone. And these boys are so good. You know what I'm saying? My only worries is which I feel like for me is the next phase, especially after this album and tour that we're about to go.

I feel like this is the run that's about to change the things. Not change things in terms of the culture, but change things in terms of ownership of the culture. Ownership before they grab it from us. You know what I'm talking about? Yes, ownership. You know what I'm saying? So that's really what we're working on now.

like ownership of the culture in the diaspora in America, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? I want to be able to have an app that agents can download if you want to book the healthest African artists. You know what I want to be able to have our own this,

our own debt. I'm doing the first, it's going to be, possibly the first African festival are going to be like the African culture. you know what I'm saying owned by an artist you know obviously the people do other ones

owned by like Live Nation stuff so I'm trying to do one I'm gonna do one in Atlanta I have a seven arena tour in a month seven arenas back to back what's the name of the tour the timeless tour

timeless tour after the album I think we start at D.C. DC Chicago Toronto Boston where else we go to Houston

Houston Yeah, Atlanta gonna be the last stop and then go Europe It's crazy Yeah You know what? I'm gonna challenge you right

This is what you do Because you said you want to But you can You got the resources and the means Yeah Create this app right But don't just create this app To book the artists

Create this app Throw the big boys on there So they could book them And all their stuff And then put the hub and comers on there too should they get exposure to and it's going to go you know what I mean

and like you said the festivals the merch you set up all these stuff on there and I'm telling you it's going to go because there's nothing like that out there for half a piece

I'm telling you one of the homies can do it get with a colder set that app up naming something boom definitely

definitely in the works just not even only that even like which even with like music distribution that all that like even with the new cuts coming up I don't want them to make

like the same mistakes we made, you know what I'm saying? You know, just rushing. And I know these days you can blow in 24 hours. When you say mistakes, what do you mean, bad contracts? Not only bad contracts, you know what I'm saying? Just bad moves. Like, you can have a bad contract before you get to your contract.

Right. You know what I'm saying? You always signing to five people before you even get to where you're meant to be. You know what I'm saying? I would say I sign the best contract. You know what I'm just about to sign some crazy shit right now. That's tangible for me. And just because of I didn't have the knowledge.

You know what I'm saying? Obviously, they didn't have the knowledge. They didn't know my music was going to blow, you know, as much as this as well. So, you know, that's all I'm trying to do. I have a label as well that, you know, I have, you know, sign artists, also develop creatives. Just a lot of stuff I walk in a lot. Absolutely. That's what it's about, man.

And what do you want the people to know about you and about the future of you before we get out of here? No, apart from being a musician, like, obviously, like, the charitable side of me, you know, are very, very, very, especially my family, are very, very big on charity. Yeah, yes. Giving back to the community. Like, I have a great, great story. I don't know if he had, on my birthday a year or two years ago. I wanted, like, a leather strap, Patek Philippe. So I told my friends, I was like, um.

everybody dropped like I have so much friends so I'm like everybody donate to this account I want to get the watch you know what I'm saying instead of spending it myself and then it just ended up

being a thing you know so everybody was sending money then I ended up tweeting my one of the accounts I didn't use that was like zero balance I tweeted the account number you should go read on after we leave you I tweeted the account number

and all my fans just started like donating and this is off just being of the goodwill I've done over the years. So just like everybody donating down to even people that have 25 cents are donating like transfers

transfers and it ended up coming up to $600,000 in two days. I'm going to put, well, fuck it's my birthday, man. See how much these niggas love me, you hear me? You ain't got to love me 600,000 worth nigga, just a couple hundred thousand

But, nigger, $200,000, I'm happy. I thought you. I think they're meant to pick up, because I'm going to go eat after. So, yeah, so it came up to $600,000, right? Guess who calling us? Pops.

What do you say? Ring, ring, ring. Hey, daddy. Come. You know you cannot keep that money, Abie? Like, you're saying that, you know, you can't keep that money. Part of me was like, yeah,

and part of me was like, hey, I knew he was okay. That nigga said, daddy, it's mine. What you mean? They sent it to me. He was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. God has blessed you too much. He was happy that, you know,

people, the fans and the country have showed appreciation. $600,000 for nothing in two days? He's like, we have to give the money to every motherless baby's home in the country. See, that's easy for Pop to say when Pop got a billion dollars

and shit. Pops didn't know so much motherfucking money. You got to give it away Just give it away You're like, what? So we had to I'm about to buy a fad of No, I'm about it

No, I had to kill it already Well, I was about this location But anyway, he made us like We had to like send people in the field To go look for all the Incredible motherless baby's homes In Nigeria And he came to about

Ah It's 36 states in Nigeria Damn Yeah And we get I think at least each state, like four, five mother-at-es-baby's homes.

It all split the $600,000 to the T, to the zero balance. And, you know, that's how we gave it away. So we do that as well. So that's something like I want to be doing like every year. God bless your heart, man. You know what I'm saying?

Every year. You're a good nigga, man. My last birthday, I couldn't do it because, you know, what happened me and my wife. But this year, we plan to do it again as well. A lot of stuff, you know, even like with politics, my uncle is now officially the governor.

You know, I don't know if you were on my page years ago when I was campaigning one time. Yeah. I'm sure you saw it. So he, like, four years ago, he won the election and they switched it up and gave somebody else. And then we ran again last year and we won. So we have a lot of good things, you know, going for us.

You know what I'm saying? Shit, one thing I want to do, I want to commend you Because they had to send me 600,000 Pops would have called. I'd have been back on the run for the fourth time. Where's David? I'd have been back on the run, dog, for the fourth time, man. Crazy.

That you think I'm giving up just $600,000? But you did a good deed, man. Yes, he did. It came back in a billion folks. Yes, it did. I'm talking shit, but I probably would have gave it away, too. But I just know it was hard at first. like shit

yeah 600 I was like let me keep 200 like nope every single dollar you know what I'm saying right

so shout out the pops for for just having so much money that's 600,000 oh me shit damn give it away

but listen man you got the tour coming up timeless tour yep yep yo you don't understand like And you know the crazy thing?

The bigger the genre gets, the more you spent. Especially with production on shows and stuff like that. I remember when my team would come to me like, okay, we're doing a 10,000 venue, 10,000 and 5,000 venue. All we got to do is just put the screen behind. Oh, yeah. Get the DJ, have the band. Now they're giving me a bill of $300 and some thousand dollars to build.

They're bringing you in from a helicopter. You're going to drop from the sky. You know what I'm saying? Insurance, blah, blah, blah. So it's good to see as well, you know what I'm saying? Like, even this tour we're going on. Like, we've already started planning from a month before, like, stuff you want to build. Just making it look good, you know what I'm saying?

Because now it's at a place where, you know, eyes is on us. You know what I'm saying? And like I said, ownership is very, very key. Very. Very. And another thing is, You know, when you got the light, man, you got to make sure that bitch shine as bright as possible because you never know. You know, that she could be here today and then three years from now, that shit could be gone.

You know what I'm saying? What do I always tell you guys? I said sleep. I can't sleep. But I cannot sleep because I'm the type of, I tell me, I'm going to buy out gracefully. I always said, I'm never going to be that, nigger. They're going to be like, oh, damn, it's over. Hell now.

I'm bound out on top. Right. Right. I'm living on top, goddamn. I bet you that. Right. You know what I'm saying? So I'm never out of the one that.

I wanted to dim. Like, bro, like six months ago, I wouldn't even think that I would be able to do an interview. Right. Do you know what I'm like, even before what happened to me, two years, a year ago, I'm like,

and you know, I would tell people this. you can have the biggest point of your career you enjoy that moment as much as you can't because when it goes down all you're going to be thinking about is

I remember that time yeah especially like with music with mentally I tell people I tell people that let that success not be your your pinpoint of being happy yeah

because I've been at the point where I've been the biggest and imagine Imagine having been, and that's the worst position because as soon as you just want to relax more or it's not the same or you don't get 10 minutes in a day because you got nine, it's a problem. Right.

You know what I'm saying? So imagine being that kind of person and I'm just, you know, grateful, so grateful. You know what I'm saying? Like after 12 years of killing shit, the biggest album just came. Yeah. nigger just getting started after 12 years

so imagine like shit been lit and I was telling somebody the other day I was sitting in the group shud like patience is virtue I could have been hitting on who I'm happy for I'm just happy that the genre is up yeah but you know what though you know what though for you

I feel like you always going to have a sense of of being able to make your make your best music because you got into this shit because you really love it. You was willing to say nigger, dad, I'm not trying to hear

none of that shit. You're a billionaire. You got all the money. I'm running away from home. I just want to do music. I don't care. I sleep on the couch somewhere. Yeah, I got a nice-ass house

with a bunch of armed guards outside a big-ass balcony probably, but I'm sleeping on the couch because I want to do music. You really love this shit. It's a difference. Some motherfuckers do this shit because they think it's the cool shit to do.

Some motherfuckers do. this shit because they just want to be famous some motherfuckers do this shit because they really love the art from this shit like you said uh no I'm gonna record niggas for two years just so I can learn how to record knicks all right now I know how to record

niggas I can record myself all right let's go then a motherfucker said dog man you you be making better sounding songs than these niggas man you just don't never record them but in here you tell them niggas what to do you need to do it part of you

had to be like, you know what, all right, fuck it, let's do it. If a part of you ain't got that fuck it in you, then you never do it. No, man, this shit ain't for me, man. I'm just going to be an engineer for the rest of my life, man. I'm telling you.

I say, the best feeling, and this one I felt, the best feeling is when everybody just thought it was over. And it just gets so lit. I know you know what I'm talking. Nick, I know when you saw a lot. Shit.

The niggas thought I'd be doing security at Ross right now. You guys don't understand. Shit. When I was, see, when we were in Dubai, and I saw one white girl tear a shit on Avileu person. I said, God, you got me. But we thought, like, we thought there's the, cannot get bigger. No, because they talk to that day, say, how? How do it?

Brother. Chabay. Right. So it's like, I'm grateful to God. Like, with everything that just happened, it's just like. But I haven't been thinking I'll be sitting here talking to you, but, you know what I'm saying? It's brought some type of healing, you know what I'm saying? For me and my wife, just, you know what I'm saying, musically.

You know what I'm saying? I'm just grateful to be here and then do it again. And also, I know how many people have inspired that are probably going to, like, the same thing we're going through. Absolutely. So I know how many people, you can't even tell me, because, like, even in my DMs, somebody wrote in the other day that after seven years after seven years of losing her child

she's just getting up after I dropped timeless album she said somebody can lose their child and record this type of album and have energy she got up, took a shower, did her hair like show me the whole story like her and she'd been on the bed for seven years you know what I'm saying

and when the album dropped she's like for somebody to be able to do this in, you know what I'm saying? And for me, I look myself in the mirror. I miss him every day. A tear comes out of my eyes every morning.

Nobody, you don't have to see it. Right. But I looked at myself in the mirror and I said, bro, apart from me, just being about me, I know how many people would love me. I know people are depending on me.

My son up there is looking down like, he wouldn't want me to be like, apart from me being strong for his mom you gotta hold it down which is my primary responsibility but have to be strong

for the world and you know I'm saying I'm just happy that you know a lot of people thought you know the album we're going to drop the album we're just going to be a lot of like sad

and we gave them bangers on bangers my son is dancing and my mom is dancing in heaven yes that's what I'm talking about rest and peace to them both of them so for four for people to see that it's possible

not that I wish it on anybody I would even wish it on my enemy do you understand but to be able to stand up again and be able to work man it's only God can't tell me

it's only God so you know those are one of the things that you know me and my wife like you know God it's a real boy and then everything everything just aligned back bro like

we perform him better Like, you know, we're in the gym, we're eating better. You know what I'm saying? Business is better. Right. You know, obviously, like, well, God is really rude to never give up. Because even though, a lot of times, even though you lose something, you know, when you go through the pain, you go through that hurt, it also put a sense of focus on you. Of course.

You know that nothing is fucking promised out here, man. Nobody has promised tomorrow. So even if you're not thinking like that subconsciously What you just want through You understand that None of us here is promised tomorrow So I got to get this shit The other day my boy was speeding

I said what I say I said slow Why are you rushing to? Chebert will go to the restaurant What's the time? Right. It's ate something Why are you washing to? Right Bro, you don't understand

I'm walking like Yeah Before it's walk I have a living life Just enjoying life, you know what I'm saying? You walk in light, baby. This oxygen, even just waking up and just, just sleeping and just waking up. It's a gift.

I hear stories all the time. People sleep, don't wake up. They'll do autopsy. Nothing. No cancer, no sickness, no nothing. You know what I'm saying? So just to wake up is a gift, understand that. But, man, we appreciate you for pulling up on us, man.

We appreciate you. Like, even, like I said, like both of you, watching you guys since before the show. You know what I'm saying? Even like when you were inside, when you just got out, I remember that video, when you and your wife just fucking around on the bed, my wife, send me the shit off.

I mean, it was just amazing to see what you guys have, it's crazy. And imagine how many people you guys have inspired as well. You know what I'm saying? And I really, really want that Lagos trip to happen. Yes.

You know, I do a festival my assistant working out. I do a festival every December in Lagos. It's very, very important

for you. We come out. You guys have come out there and, you know, you know, you know, I'm saying, fuck with it. You know, a lot of artists.

Not only interview artists, interview, you know, African legends, but we're politicians. Interview artists. There's this guy that, you know, Felakuti? Yes.

The guy that made all Felakuti's albums, all his, album arts walks and you've never been to Africa I'm gonna make it happen I'm making it happen by making it up on December

December We're in Africa baby We gotta do it And it's just like that Right team