Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 148 FEATURING WIZ KHALIFA

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Right. Ooh. I'm looking out the bag on that gosh, y'all, nigger. Oh, oh, oh. I hop up off to playing for him, bitch, roll my autograph.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Light that shit up, Gil. Hobbing off the jet, more money to invest, a lot to have fun, business never neglect. Niggas know it's the gang, they never disrespect. A quarter million dollars, I put that on my neck, want to come at my ride, you better come correct, my niggas down the slide, I put that on the set, no fucking up the vibes, good cush in the air, my hand is on her thighs, get money, you're anywhere, conduct myself like A player niggas saying what I should do But I don't give a fuck I don't care
Starting point is 00:01:04 I'm talking and be about it A pounder because you won't see me without it My weed is the loudest and I put that on game You never turn on a soul Pull up and ain't done with it sucks That's how you know I'll be kidding That's how you know That's how you know what her real is in this bitch
Starting point is 00:01:21 Yeah Uh huh Uh Another shot Poet up She left you now she's feeling it Tidal talk And we're living in
Starting point is 00:01:32 I get my weed from a dude That look just like me Locks lung, big crib for him And all of its seeds Rolling trees in my car Spill some nugs on my seat If you walk up in my closet A lot of jays from my feet
Starting point is 00:01:44 A lot of chucks too Wanna kick it with a real nigga So she come through Her friends say she having fun too I don't blame her Let them get as wild as she want I don't tame her You can smoke this shit if you want
Starting point is 00:01:56 A lot of flavors Some good vibrations My backyard feel like vacation I put you on a first name basis Don't get tied up No laces No lanes over here All gang shit
Starting point is 00:02:07 Never trying to I pull up and they don't Yeah, niggas That's how you know We're gonna keep killing it Why y'all niggins This is fucking What you met, grow it up
Starting point is 00:02:21 It's 2021 Never shot poet Put your paper home She left you She's feeling it Somebody Tired I talk And we're living in
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Starting point is 00:02:55 But listen Right now Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to introduce you to the 2,022 Smoker Limics. Today we have Wiz Khalifa and Gilly the King and it's going to be a smoke fest. This is Smoke Fest
Starting point is 00:03:07 2002. This is smoke like you never can imagine. I'm feeling a little type of way. I don't know my name right now, but I know my name. Yeah, the contact is in full effect and this is a different type of smoke. To all you smokers out there, welcome to the 2000, once again,
Starting point is 00:03:23 22 Olympics. I don't know if I'm in 22 or 23 based off of the aroma that's in this room. My clothes is going to be different. I'm going to have to get rid of them after this. But, you know, we're going to let the games begin. We have two top flight, all-star, you know, top ten smokers in the country. So what are we waiting for? We're going to do the smoke-up.
Starting point is 00:03:45 What is it called? Cush-up challenge. The Cush-up challenge. Is this Cush? Yeah, time-pops, you can't let no smoke out. And what's the name of this aroma that I'm smelling? This is where it's Khalifa Cush. Califa Cush, man.
Starting point is 00:03:55 Leifer Cush. Cush from Khalifa, him. himself right okay discovered in 2013 brought to me by my big homie burner y'all know burner shout out to burner that's my burner taught me a lot about the weed game you know and uh i moved out to l-a and he he brought this beautiful plant to my house and i've been smoking it ever since so you know it's here so it's landed what are we waiting for this let's go show challenge yeah yeah we got to see this one Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten, eleven, eleven.
Starting point is 00:04:48 You didn't tell me we was going to keep going. But you didn't tell me we was going to keep going. I got extra credit, you know, I got extra lums. You cheated. I just came from the gym. keep doing. I just came from the gym. I got extra lungs. He do, man. I'm younger than you. I had to do the extra
Starting point is 00:05:04 five for the young niggas, man. All right. Yeah, there you go. You called, though. I'm paying that shit out. You get high? No, that's not no real. I just got high. Oh, perfect. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:22 So actually, hold up. Let me sit there. All right. So actually, You lost, the Olympics. I didn't know he was, I didn't eat it. You tapped out, because he did. But he did cough too, so.
Starting point is 00:05:35 What? You tapped out. That wasn't a cough? I'm going to give you 11 because that you coughed, that took away like 12 puffs. That was like, when you are a habitual smoker like us. Yeah. You tapped out, Gil. You kind of always do just a little.
Starting point is 00:05:48 I knew, I didn't know we was going to keep going. We'll let the viewers figure out. We let the viewers figure out. We went to smoke. Yeah, man. But once again, man, we're in here. We got Wiz here today. What's up, dude?
Starting point is 00:05:58 I mean, this is some Pittsburgh players shit right here. This is, you know, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia players, Pennsylvania players, all that type of shit going on. It's the KOPs. The K-O-P-A-all-day. The King of Philly. It's going down. The King of Pittsburgh. The King of the Penitentiary.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Listen, it's going down, man. K-O-Pee's. I went to Penn State. I was the King of Penn State. So, you know. Oh, wow. Yeah, I went to the Penn State. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:06:22 Shout out of the State. Same thing. You know what I mean? All that shit is the same thing. But, you know, We're in here, Wiz, listen, man, you've been fucking the game up. But first of all, allow us to get to our sponsors. This episode of a million dollars where the game is brought to you by Roman Swipes.
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Starting point is 00:07:40 We don't do no script. We'd be right up the top. That was sweet. I'm like, where's the TV? I'm like, we're going right there. Wow. Now, this is how I go, Wiss. I'm in the penitentiary.
Starting point is 00:07:50 I'm the greatest for a penitentiary and greatest for Pennsylvania. My homeboy, shout out to D. Black. You know who you are. You always brought me that real stuff. He said, yo, you got to listen to this tape because we had tapes. We used to have the transfer CDs to tapes because we still had tape cassettes in prison. We didn't have.
Starting point is 00:08:06 So he said, listen to it. I listened to it. Long-ass tape. It was you, currency, cushion orange juice on there. And then he had some hit one of his albums on the other side, whatever. I listened to this shit. I'm like, damn, then I start reading about you. Yep.
Starting point is 00:08:19 I get on the phone one time. I'm on phone with Gil. Cosmic Cab. You remember I told you this, DJ Cosmic Kev. I say, yo, man, he put me on you. You got to bring, I said, you got to bring Wiz Khaliva. This is the strongest nigga in Pennsylvania right now.
Starting point is 00:08:32 You got to bring him to the come-up show. I'm in the prison. He's talking with him, man, what you? I said, nigga, I'm telling you, this nigga doing college shows. This when you was doing college shows. Yeah, yeah. He was fucking the college is up. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:08:42 Running around, I'm talking about killing the college campuses. I'm talking about, I'm not talking about HBCUs. I'm talking about every college. He was fucking shit up. So I'm telling him, he's like, what? I said, man, get him. Then, like, a month and a half later, you was on a come-up show.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Yeah, yeah. This was back then. So I've seen you, I've seen you just take this shit to another level. I'm listening to your tapes in jail. I'm like, yo, this is this shit. It's crazy because being from Pittsburgh, a lot of people don't know how rough it is out there. It's serious. And I was always different.
Starting point is 00:09:12 I was always just into music and, you know what I mean? But I had a lot of cousins in the streets and a lot of my homies is locked up. And you know what I mean? You probably same. I was in jail with all them, Garfield, Holwood, the Hill. Shout out to all you all, man. A lot of them. Shout out their old Pittsburgh, man.
Starting point is 00:09:26 A lot of niggas. You know what I'm saying? So as my music was moving up from the street level, a lot of my niggas was in jail and they were like, yo, this is my little homie, like, blah, blah, or as my shit became more popular, they were like, yo, that's my niggas. So it kind of was able to spread that way.
Starting point is 00:09:41 I got a lot of niggas who heard my music in jail, and I'm not even a jail type of niggas, but just bars, you know what I'm saying? And yeah, exactly. And that time, it was different from music, too. So my style was a little bit different and the things I was saying was a little bit different. but just on a musical aspect,
Starting point is 00:09:57 I feel like we always just try to stay relevant to people who matter, you know what I'm saying? And it was good to get that type of response from motherfuckers like all over in life. You know what I'm saying? Not just stoners, not just college kids, not just street niggas, not just chicks. But it was like a, I always had like a well-rounded fan base.
Starting point is 00:10:17 I was blessed with that. Yeah, yep. You got somebody in Pittsburgh. I love this fucking guy, man. I don't know if you know him. He's a fucking star. His name Lou. Ratchet.
Starting point is 00:10:25 Lou Ratchet, yeah, yep. Shout out to Lou Ratchie. You know, he looked like Gil's son. Yeah, Lou Ratch is crazy, bro. That motherfucker's crazy. He's a start-up. Yeah, yeah. Put babies on me.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Yeah, I think when you ran through doing tours back in the day, you might have blazed somebody. Like, he lou, shout out to Lou Ratch. Keep doing your thing. His motherfucker's crazy. Yeah, yeah. I mean, what up? I've seen you glow up, too.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Yeah. I mean, you came a long way from rapping with your uncle Muhammad, you know, with the mammals. Yeah. The mammals, baby. The mammals. He didn't think I knew about that. But no, the globe is real
Starting point is 00:10:57 And one thing I can Say that The consistency is real Yeah, good look I just always Like I said, I love music And there's a lot of talent in Pittsburgh A lot of
Starting point is 00:11:08 Mac Miller did his thing Right Rest in peace We were signing Jimmy Wapo Before he For he You know And then just even before me
Starting point is 00:11:17 And now There's like fed the God There's a lot of A Hardo Yeah Hardo's been doing a There's a lot of female emcees out there as well. There's a lot of producers as well
Starting point is 00:11:28 who've been doing their thing and are doing their thing. So, music, I mean, Pittsburgh is really, really talented musically. And that's always been my motivation is just, like, staying in the pulse. Like, I love being able to walk outside and people be banging my shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it feels good, and that's kind of what you do it for, as well as trying to uplift people, make them feel good. But at the end of the day, you just want people to go crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And that's always been what the reception was in Pittsburgh. Like when I was a young nigga, I was just doing mixtapes and niggas didn't really know who I was. I was right there in the mix with everybody else. It wasn't like I was, you know, all of like away from them or ahead of them. I kind of had to separate myself and take it to the next level on my own. But, you know, the competition was always there. And it made me into somebody who I really just don't stop.
Starting point is 00:12:21 I never see the finish line. Yeah, well, you know, like, what was it the point of, because from, you know, because Cushing Orange was just a fucking classic mixtape. This before, you understand, you, you was in the game right around the time when mixtapes would be coming mixtapes. Right. You know, it wasn't, you know, because our mixtapes was a DJ, I have a bunch of mixed songs and different artists on it, then y'all came out.
Starting point is 00:12:42 Uh-huh. When, after that, black and yellow, you know, when did you know it was, this shit was on another level? And it was, it was bigger than just being rap. It was taking, it was, it was going outside of that. It was going out. Yeah. So, so for me, it happened in stages and shit.
Starting point is 00:12:59 So I got my first deal, uh, when I was like 19 and I first left high school and shit. And I came out here to L.A. And I was sign of Warner Brothers. And that was more like the corporate side of things where I, I seen like, you know, you want to wait for the plane. No, it's cool. We're at L-A-X shooting.
Starting point is 00:13:14 We shoot right up, right, right. LAX is right on right here. I'm a professional. They can hear that shit. All right, cool. So yeah. So I, I see more like the, like the, like the, the ends and now. like the radio game and going to the offices and trying to pitch, you know, singles and
Starting point is 00:13:27 I got my first video set and I seen my stylist for the first time. So it's like I got that part of the game, but it didn't really last long because I only had one single and they didn't sign me back for my album. So when I went back to Pittsburgh, I probably had like 30 grand in my pocket. So I was like, it's not really about the money. I'm going to try to like get my influence out there. And the main thing I did was just tapped into the internet at that time. Twitter was brand new.
Starting point is 00:13:53 There was a couple cats on YouTube who I looked up to, Gil being one of them, just from the DVD era because that's what happened before the mixtapes and all of that shit. It was DVDs.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Like, niggas had screens in their cars and you would put the DVD on and they would play all types of little hood shit and there would be music videos in between or like freestyles
Starting point is 00:14:11 and this nigga would be on there going crazy, you'd be smoking weed and it was just all the shit that I was into. It was like, that's the attitude that I wanted to bring
Starting point is 00:14:19 to the game where it was like, we don't give a, fuck like we just show you what's going on right here right there and there like if i'm in the booth and i'm breaking down some weed in the joint i want you to record it i want you to see it and then you know uh the reaction started getting really good from the fans because they were just really into seeing me making songs and seeing me working on a whole mix tape and following me through the project day to day exactly so that's what i don't know for those
Starting point is 00:14:45 that don't know day to day is it like it's it is a blueprint of what artists supposed to be doing the day. If you're an artist, everybody want to describe to your TV show. Your TV show is your vlogging on YouTube. And shout out to Lil Yadi. Little Yaddy gave you your props. I said, damn, because one of my favorite shows on YouTube is The Boat Show by Lil Yaddy. I said, man, I love you. He said, man, I got that from Witt Wizz was doing the joint day to day. And I got it from Wizz. And I just do it. And I don't think, and I don't think as an artist, your fans, your supporters, they want to see the process. Yeah, absolutely. They want to know what type of When you smoke weed and you go to the store,
Starting point is 00:15:21 you munchies, what you eat? Absolutely. Show your shit if you're an artist. Stop. Stop. You know, people want to see your life and bring them into your world. You're a TV show. Yeah, absolutely, man.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Day to day did so much for me in my career. And it's done a lot for other people, too. Kids run up on, not kids, but like fucking artists younger than me, they always run up on me. Bro, I was watching your day to days. I was rolling up, watching that shit. And to be here with you now is like, it's like a sign that, you know what I mean? So it's cool.
Starting point is 00:15:49 as hell because that's that's what I did that shit for just to uplift motherfuckers the way that I was uplifted as well and it was my journey and you know people got to follow me and that's what I really realized it was real it wasn't about money or it wasn't about anything it was about me being able to tap in use my creativity and my craft and you know go anywhere in the fucking world with it uh I went to Brazil I went to fucking Taiwan or Thailand or wherever I've been all over the place And it's been based off of those videos Off of smoking weed Off of getting tattoos
Starting point is 00:16:22 And you know Just kids wanting to party with me and shit And then you know The bars are there The work is there They always see me in the studio I bring the studio with me Everywhere that I go
Starting point is 00:16:31 I bring my homies with me Everywhere that I go So it's like a vibe They understand That it's family It's work It's branding And you know
Starting point is 00:16:40 That's when I seen Everything kind of working In my favor To the I'm sorry I'm gonna let that go back That's a real one Mm-hmm
Starting point is 00:16:47 That's the 757 part right there. Yeah, that's a real one. Yeah, I would say... Yeah, right. Smokefest in here. I would say that's when I started seeing shit working to my favor where it didn't matter if I was in a building or not
Starting point is 00:16:59 or if I had, you know, this person working my project. I was like, I know what's best for me more than anything. So this is the direction that I'm moving in and I was getting hell of money off the shows and stuff like that. So, you know, it was around that time period where, you know, mixtapes were taken off. And at that time,
Starting point is 00:17:17 the control of music had left the record label. Like, they had no control over what was hot because their radio artists were not fucking with us at all on the underground level. They weren't selling more tickets. They weren't more popular. They weren't selling more merch or anything. And that's when the shift happened
Starting point is 00:17:34 because they were like, how do we sign them and get them to work for us so we could get back in control? And, you know, it was a process of, you know, getting to streaming and doing all of that stuff and just basically putting everything and making it all one, again, like a 360, they restructured that now. So streams and views and merch and all of that shit is calculated in it.
Starting point is 00:17:56 And it took eight, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But when I came in the game, it really wasn't like that. Like, it was the beginning of all of that. So, right. Yeah, yep. One thing I commend you on, because most youngans, when they come in the game, their attitude is like, it's all about the young niggas, the young niggas, we next.
Starting point is 00:18:13 You know what I mean? And it's kind of like a rebellion, a rebellion. type of thing against the old heads and motherfuckers that came before him. Right. But you came in on some smart shit. Like you came in, you did your thing, you connected with Snoop. You said, oh, no, Snoop got a fan base that I need to tap into. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:35 He smokes weed. That's what he's known for. He's known for being the smoke godfather. I'm known for being the smoke, the nephew of the smoking shit. Right. y'all got together one on tour did a whole bunch of shit together yeah yeah and I commend you for that
Starting point is 00:18:51 because most young motherfuckers don't got that mindset yeah they got the mindset of oh he he old man he was out with my pop was right I ain't and you didn't have that mindset I just think like honestly because I'm right in the middle or that in between it it's like
Starting point is 00:19:09 anybody who speaks like that they just miss that greatness and you know I was was a part of that shit. You know what I mean? Like, I rode around in my car and listened to Doggy Style and like I watched backstage and, you know, concerts with, uh, with him and Eminem and and Dr. Dre and all of that shit. All that's up and smoke. Up and smoke. I seen free, like, freestyles of him on the bus with his afros. So it was like, when it came time to meet it, for me to meet him, I'm like, yo, I love this nigga already. These kids, not I don't even
Starting point is 00:19:42 want to call him these kids, but, you know, the people that you speak of who really, you don't acknowledge that, they missed that. They didn't go through that. They didn't have that, that same spark, that same energy and shit. So it doesn't mean the same to them, and it's hard to explain to them what it means. You know what I mean? And, like, the way that the internet moves is so fast, like, they really didn't have no time to do that homework.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Like, I'm a young nigga, but I went back and did my homework. I listened to all the classic albums because that's just what you had to do at that time. You couldn't fucking talk to no way. about rap music if you didn't know certain shit. Because you would get talked bad to and you would look crazy. It's not the same. Like, niggas ain't really tripping off of that shit no more. So it's like
Starting point is 00:20:25 for somebody to try to go in on somebody like that, you look more crazy trying to talk to them than they look for not knowing. Absolutely. And I completely understand that. You know what I mean? But I do give them the time to actually experience it. And when they do experience it, they're going to go through the same shit that we all went through. This episode
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Starting point is 00:21:48 you know they was in that in that studio and they're making their mixtable making a black and yellow trying to make that and they're from Cincinnati they're from Pittsburgh they're from Philly they from Trenton they from Harlem they from Compton St. Louis
Starting point is 00:22:01 Atlanta Nashville what advice do you get them right now you know about going after this shit I would say in this time in this time right now have as much fun as possible and try to impress your homies
Starting point is 00:22:17 like if you have friends hopefully if you have yeah break that down yeah break that down yeah break that down if you have friends if you got close friends like this is the way that you guys are cool and the way that y'all like trip on each other if he makes something good you're going to tell him and in his secretly in his head he's going to be like yo I'm going to make something that
Starting point is 00:22:36 this niggas gonna go crazy about so he can't talk shit on me so just to having that that good competition between your homies that elevates you and it makes you better and it makes where you're at more real right so if you have a good circle of people who bring the best out of you it really don't matter with the outside fucking you know what I'm saying they're going to buy into that because they believe y'all and but the key to that is you can't handle yes men around you which camera which camera is me well that's why I say your homies right but but a lot a lot of niggas homies be yes man especially when you get famous for me especially for me if I'm talking about you're talking about
Starting point is 00:23:12 I'm not talking about niggas who be around I'm talking about your real homies like you know what I mean like I know exactly what you mean but a lot of homies too they won't tell you some shit is not hot because they don't want to hurt your feeling
Starting point is 00:23:28 so you'll say what you think about that no it's cool now when you broke you feel what I'm saying no niggas niggas still massage niggas eagles when they broke bro I I know the reason why I know is because I be in a studio around a young niggas and
Starting point is 00:23:44 a nigger are going there and lay a verse and he would come out the motherfucking booth and his homies would be like, yeah, you killed that shit. And I'm like every last one of you niggas is lying, man. But in this day and age, he probably did
Starting point is 00:24:00 kill that shit. He didn't really. No, I listen to this thing. No, but to you, he didn't kill it. But to them niggas, he murdered that shit. No, he did it. He was of course, you're allowed to have your opinion. You got that because you got an old ear. You're allowed to have your opinion. Like me.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Bro, I'm not supposed to like it. I listen to all young niggas, bro. If his homies like it, you know, you only listen to dirt. You're lying, bro. You're lying, bro. You don't fucking listen. Like me, Wiz, I would tell his name. I told this nigga he was trash.
Starting point is 00:24:26 The fucking bum-ass rapper. See, I'm a real homie. Gilly's hard. But why he had a picture of me on his wall? I had a fucking picture you. Gilly just still be done. Gilly caressed. He's got he's got hella charisma, bro.
Starting point is 00:24:37 No, no, no. He's very believable. He was a D-less rapper. You don't have got niggins that never, you all keep hyping this. No, I just, you're lucky I ain't your homie. Yeah, he a hater, though. He's just mad because he missed the ride, you know. See, me, I'm the type of nigger, and I tell all my homies, I like trash shit.
Starting point is 00:24:53 Like, it could be fucking trash. I like it, though, because I see the art and the vision. You say trash. No, there's some shit that I've listened to. It's been complete trash. But I'll admit that I like it, though. Because, because of it. No, I got some shit that's completely trashed that I like.
Starting point is 00:25:09 That's what I'm saying. But we live in a time now where it's, though, you can't really say with trash because the ears change. It's different ears. To me, trash is lacking quality. Thank you. But if it's marketable, that's not trash. No, what I'm saying is,
Starting point is 00:25:27 I can see something that's marketable. What I'm saying is, right. This dude who was rapping is like, because now they don't separate who got talent from who you. don't got talent. Were they high? You feel what I'm saying? How high were they?
Starting point is 00:25:43 Like back in the day, back in the day, we understood that, bro, you don't got no talent. 100%. I used to tell you that. It's not for you, bro. Yeah, get out the booth. That's why you're taking you off the song. Like, your verse is not going on there. This generation encouraged niggas to rap just because they're hanging around.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I mean, you might as go ahead and live, dude, you might as well. You ain't, dog, he don't got no talent. First of all, if you tell a niggas... You can't tell a nigger that. You feel what I'm saying, but you can't hate it. This day, you can't... It's sad because we live in a time now where's, though. You can't do that.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Everybody is ultra-emotional. Exactly. If you say, dog, that shit you got on that shit look goofy. 100%. You hate on me, man. This nigga hate knowing me. This nigga don't want to see me when. Baby.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Bro, it's just not it. Babe, I'm just saying this is goofy. It's true. We grew up a little bit different. But, but times changed. Times changed. Because we're saying, this is what dude's got to understand. Older niggas got to understand something that's real important.
Starting point is 00:26:42 I'm not talking about my cousin. I'm just talking about people in general. Your time was your fucking time. It's their time. So shit that might be, that might was cool in your time, that shit might be dated and it might be irrelevant in this time until their outlook of what fly is or what cool is or what hot music is. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:59 My thing is, I'm not trying to be the nigger who, not even I, I'm not trying to be the nigger who's wrong. But it just don't feel good telling the nigger he can't do. some shit and he actually do it. Yeah. Because you would do anything. You could do it. You could really do it. But let's be for real, bro. It's just, you're not going to tell me that you in the studio session.
Starting point is 00:27:19 A nigger go in the studio, he don't got the look for what he's rapping about, so that's not marketable. He don't have no flow, no cadence. The concept. He don't have nothing to what he's doing.
Starting point is 00:27:35 But niggas out there like, no if you do that line over no if he get the fuck out the booth what the fuck are y'all talking about it's phototype listen they're looking at prototypes of the people they already seen that fit everything you said they ain't got to look they shit is all beat they are all over the place
Starting point is 00:27:53 and they go so they're looking at like boo-boo went crazy mic went little doodle went little shitty went he's popping I could be popping bro so so now you can't be telling a nigga the thing about it too is you don't have to fucking like that shit they got kids who love them
Starting point is 00:28:10 and they talk to them every day and that's who's going to yeah but at the end of the day it's not see it's some it's people and that's not even
Starting point is 00:28:19 nothing personally against you no I know it's people that slip through the crack but it's it's a lot of people more rappers more bullshit rappers
Starting point is 00:28:26 who don't make it then do make it and it's the numbers of bullshit rappers that don't make it is extraordinary extremely higher than the number of bullshit rappers that
Starting point is 00:28:39 make it. So let's not push, let's not push a bullshit narrative. Oh, you're a shitty rapper, you got a chance. That's not true. No, no, I'll tell you. The reality of this shit is you'll probably go end up you're in the security at Ross.
Starting point is 00:28:55 The shittier you are, the more chance you have. No, no, but see, a shitty rapper, but listen. You're absolutely wrong. But just the twist. That group, that group, Listen, that group of shitty rappers that didn't make it, he's the leader of it. You didn't make it. You was a shitty rapper. You was a fucking hype man for Lil Wayne and a weed roller.
Starting point is 00:29:14 Yo. This nigga ain't made it. So don't pay him no attention. Who to call him a weed roller, bro? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Anytime you made an abundance of money from rap, you made it. What do you talk about? It is either you make money off a rap.
Starting point is 00:29:30 You was rapping for weed and beer. You was rapping at bars, bro For fucking, fucking 2-Elevens and shit You dranking 2-11s And people give me you weed Come on, you gonna come through Jump on this verse Alright, give me your A for weed
Starting point is 00:29:42 You wasn't doing that What you fucking you're talking about Hey, let me tell you something Let me tell you something You know One time I was in Pittsburgh You're the most popular rapper that didn't make it I swear you is
Starting point is 00:29:53 I took an A for a verse before See? Well, he's been doing that shit His old grill He's still busing move Shit I used to have to I used to have to do verse.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Yeah, yep. I used to have to do verses. One time my man went to jail, we was on the road, and I had to, like, spend the bail money, I mean, spend the show money to get him out. And we had no money to get to the next city. So I got on Twitter and was like, yo, I'm in this city.
Starting point is 00:30:18 Hit me up for verses, blah, blah, blah. It said nothing. Made all the money, travel, got to the next city for the tour. That's when the internet was real early, bro. Yeah. Real shit. You still fuck with Twitter? I still fuck with Twitter.
Starting point is 00:30:28 What's more powerful, Twitter or Instagram for you? They both are Honestly I'm actually starting To engage more on Instagram Because I'm not even going to lie I got to a point where I thought I was fucking cool You wasn't on here
Starting point is 00:30:40 I was just like posting that You was not on there And shit like that Yeah But that's not the wave It really isn't I like the sincerity of that Yeah
Starting point is 00:30:49 Because most rappers To sit up here And they won't tell the truth Nah You know what I mean And I respect the fact that you said I thought I was cool Yeah
Starting point is 00:30:57 I was on some dumb shit Yeah That's not the wave like get the fuck on the gram promote what you got going to fuck promote that shit all the time because I got a lot of businesses and shit like that so I would just like tag the businesses and stuff like that
Starting point is 00:31:10 and not even that whiz right the thing is what you got to understand is right you got into this shit because you love this shit for sure right then a lot of times
Starting point is 00:31:25 artists get money and you know they get the fame and they go on a thousand shows and fucking 50 tours and they get a little content but the reality of this shit is it's a kid right now in Pittsburgh in Minnesota
Starting point is 00:31:46 in Philadelphia in Dubuque, Iowa in California, Houston who was 10 years old listening to black and yellow, black and yellow, back in yellow. And they're trying to be the new Wiz, Khalif.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Because they're 20 now. You feel what I'm saying? They're 20, they 21, they 22. And the less work you put in, the more they get to come into the game. Yeah. You feel what I'm saying? Hell yeah. Because, you know, artists a lot of times fall back and they don't give their audience
Starting point is 00:32:26 the attention and the proper attention and the proper. neglect their audience If somebody else come You know how you see an artist is like Similarly you're like Yo he reminds me in Yeah People's like like yo he
Starting point is 00:32:36 Weird's remind me of Snoop You know what I mean I think there's layers to that too Because it happens intentionally Because when You are an artist You want to change right You don't want to do the same things
Starting point is 00:32:51 That you started out doing Right So what happens immediately Is they go get the other version of you That will do it So that's the first thing that happens while you're, you know what I'm saying, in the middle of it. And then the second thing that happens, either you get content or where I've found myself is trying to figure shit out to where you still play ball like on a business end and you still control things the way that you want to control it. but being a pioneer and having to change things.
Starting point is 00:33:31 You know what I'm saying? And it's like, what is the appropriate change? And how does that change even look? And when you first start, you can't do the same things that you did when you came into the game. You can't be a young nigga. I fucking hate when artists, like, say niggas is like, oh, yeah, I miss old whiz, blah, blah, blah. And I fucking cut my hair and put a blonde patch back in my head. That's the worst thing I can fucking.
Starting point is 00:33:57 do ever. I hate when people do that shit. Because it's like you already done that. You got to take people forward. You can't be scared. But there's a process. There's a time limit. There is an engagement. There's a there's a lot of things that go into it. You got to align
Starting point is 00:34:13 your team. You got to get your team ready for that shit too. And it's like What is the team for these people that don't know? Team is visual. You got to have you know, visuals. Yeah, content got to step up. Like whatever is popular at that time. You got to be on point when it comes to content.
Starting point is 00:34:30 And just to narrow that down as far as content, what's your brand? So if you come in and you start with a brand and the content shifts to a whole other market, do you change your brand or do you find a way to make your brand, you know, marketable to those people as well? That takes time too. So changing lanes, you got to switch lanes. you can't do the same thing over and over and over again. The things that you, the work that you put in, it's time for that shit to start paying off for you.
Starting point is 00:35:04 So instead of just rapping about weed, you got to own some weed. Instead of just going to the club and buying liquor and having sessions and having everybody in there getting fucked up and paying for that shit, you need to own that shit. Those are just a few things, you know what I'm saying? If you party and lifestyle shit,
Starting point is 00:35:22 I own liquor, I own water, I own a gaming team, I own a fighting league because I work out. I own, did I say weed already? What else we got? I got a jewelry company. I got Hotbox by Wiz, which is a food delivery company, an online food company. That's six right there.
Starting point is 00:35:45 I'm on two of the leading TV shows for this year, which one is a cartoon, and another one is a timepiece on Apple Plus. And that takes time. Like, you know what I'm saying? To set that shit up. Like Time Magazine piece? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:59 No, no, no. No, I'm sorry. And what I'm, and the thing is, he put the rap in, he put the rap in. Now he's on the companies. Now he, that's a lot of business you got going on on a day-to-day basis. And that causes somewhat of the complacency of the rap. Because when you get in so much money and you got so much business going on and you,
Starting point is 00:36:22 it's like, I just know just now. reaction from people you know what I'm saying not necessarily seeing you in general I'm just saying artists in general if I don't agree with that because if you're 10 12 years in the game that's I related to like sports right you're just not the same athlete that you were back in the day you're at a different point in your career but okay you're right but if you prime example you got athletes to be 10 12 years 13 years 13 years years in the game, but they still wake up every day and put that same grind in. That's why they able to play those extra two, three years that they probably wouldn't have
Starting point is 00:37:07 been able to play if they wouldn't have put the grind in. I could see if you're talking about somebody who doesn't work, like who doesn't go to the studio and doesn't write or doesn't, you know, put other projects out and shit like that. Yeah, no, I'm not necessarily talking about you. I'm saying I'm talking about artists. But that's what I'm saying. Artists in general a lot of times. I'm speaking from just a different point of view
Starting point is 00:37:29 because I think it's really easy to pin that on the artist and be like, oh, he got money. Now he don't care about rap. That's not always the case. I'm just saying it's not your first priority like it was when you were just dependent on rap to eat. Not even that. That's not the case.
Starting point is 00:37:47 You feel what I'm saying? That's not the case. That's really not the case. Let me ask you a question. You said, you write your shit? Yeah, yep. Oh, you write on that? pen and paper.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Oh, shit. You know, I know. I'm just saying for some, for, it's easy to be like, yo, that nigga probably ain't even in the studio every day or he's so busy, blah, blah, blah, this, that and the other thing. It's niggers where it's not, that's not the case. It is niggas where it's not the case, but there's a lot of niggas where that is the case. Whereas though they, I'm going to get to it.
Starting point is 00:38:15 But why are we talking about them? No, I'm just saying because what, what we was talking about was when, how not to become them? And the artists that get lackadaisical is when they allow the young niggas to come in and replace state and take their audience. That's what we was talking about initially. You know what I'm saying? So that's what my point was what I was making. We were talking about Instagram.
Starting point is 00:38:43 Yeah. And I was saying I hadn't engaged on Instagram the way that I normally would. And I was like, I was like. And a lot of older artists do that as well. Right. They don't engage in a social media like this. To take the point of Instagram and say that a nigger ain't in the studio every day, that ain't me. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:39:00 See, we hold on. I just was slacking on Instagram because I didn't give a fuck about the Instagram. Before we went to Instagram, I made the point of that, see, you smoking that Calipha Cush, you forget your memory. We're fucking running back. Yeah, I made the point of, you know, when a lot of artists get older, they kind of get a little lack sedesical and they allow a young member. said as a young Wiz Khalifa right now. But I'm just using you as an example. As a young, all the artists that's, you know,
Starting point is 00:39:29 pushing to the 30 and, you know, 31 and still could do their thing out here, still in their primes on what, you feel what I'm saying? It's a young dude that was listening to you when they was 10, when they was 11, when they, now they're 20. You feel what I'm saying? Right. And now they mimicked you. They want to be the new Wiz Khalifa.
Starting point is 00:39:50 They want to be the nigger that's known for. smoking weed. They want to be the new Jada kiss. They want to be the new future. They want to be the new, you feel what I'm saying? Right. And I was saying the more that the artists who, you know, who've made the millions, the more that they fall back,
Starting point is 00:40:06 the more that they allow the young kids to come in and fulfill their audience. Just like in basketball. If you was putting in work, putting in work, putting in work, and then you get the year 12 and it's like, uh, I'm a work out three times a week instead of six.
Starting point is 00:40:22 times a week, you opening the door up for this young kid. Is that a problem, though? No, it's not, because at the end of the day, you cross the finish line. You got the way you needed to go. Your family is taking care of for the rest of your life for most of them. But that means you finish. That means you finish because you did it, because you let somebody else come up? No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:40:42 I'm not saying that you finished, but listen, when I'm saying you finish. I'm asking. No, no, listen. When I'm saying you finish, I'm not saying you finish as far as recording. I'm saying is you made it past the finish line. You got your family out the ghetto. You feel what I'm saying? You're able to change generations for your kids.
Starting point is 00:41:04 You feel what I'm saying? So when I'm saying you, I'm not saying as far as the music industry, I'm saying you made it to the finish line. Whereas though you've been successful. Nobody can take that from you. You feel what I'm saying? You've been successful. you probably if you never rapped again you probably don't ever have to rap again so as far as you know what I'm saying you can't do this shit forever like Brian James can be great forever Michael Jordan can be great forever but at some point in their career they crossed the finish line you feel what I'm saying and so that's all I'm saying but you're still young you're still in your prime you know what I'm saying right you're still able to do what you need to do I'm just speaking on how a lot of older artists you know
Starting point is 00:41:50 their careers get cut a little short, maybe a year, two, three short because of the inconsistencies, because of the lack of the social media push, the lack of providing their audience what they want to see from that person. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, it wasn't nobody coming to take your place because you ain't had no place. Oh, shut the fuck. I'm just saying, I'm just putting that out there because you're saying people would be trying to take it.
Starting point is 00:42:14 You just was like a bullshit. This is a competitive game. And in this game, everybody is. It's being getting compared. Oh, who you think. Well, it's like what you said is like, who you think, Little Durk of this person, who you think, little baby. So this is a competitive sport.
Starting point is 00:42:30 Yeah, well, it's like, it's like what you said where you were like, like the second coming to Snoop for me. And it's like, Snoop didn't take his foot off the gas for me to be who I am. It was just a natural progression. You know what I mean? Absolutely. You now in a format and a look. And he's still hustling and he's still doing what you're doing today.
Starting point is 00:42:48 And that's one motherfucker right there. I could say he never took his foot off the gas. Right. That's why at 50 years old, Snoop could be out here. Make some money going to think. There's a lot of people where... And there's a lot of niggas at 50 years old that can't do that. Right. You know why?
Starting point is 00:43:08 Because they never kept feet in their audience. Because when people love you, bro, they'll love you forever long as you make them love you forever. Yeah. You feel what I'm saying? Absolutely. Because they die hard fans. Damn, Snoke got a fucking tough. There's, there's nothing wrong with, like, not, you know, like letting somebody come up.
Starting point is 00:43:30 And it ain't about not letting somebody come up. You feel what I'm saying? I'm just saying a lot of young niggins come up easier because older artists don't, they start being lack of days ago. I just feel, all right, okay. You feel what I'm saying? It is a competitive sport. No, I don't feel what you're saying. You don't get agree to disagree.
Starting point is 00:43:51 That's what I'm saying. That's what I said. Okay. I'm going to say this dope. It's like, we've sitting here, and when you mentioned Snoop, what fucked me up is that Snoop got like literally a dub in. 30. Even more than that.
Starting point is 00:44:04 It's been, yeah, it's been 20 since the 2000s. Hold up. Yeah, yeah. Oh, shit. I'm fucked about the time. I'm talking about 2012. Yeah. That nigga got 30 balling.
Starting point is 00:44:14 Yeah. You know when a nigga out of prison GED. No, I'm just saying, listen. He got 20 in. For real. I was the thing. So, so, so for Snoot and his legs. Prison GEDA, motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:44:25 He still got legs out this motherfucker. Yeah, because Snoop always been consistent, bro. That's just my point right there. And Snoop always been embracing and welcoming to every generation. Yes, because when you are older nigger and you're not consistent and you take that lapse and then you try to come back, niggers be less trial. Oh, he's a nigga ain't. But when you keep. feeding them and keep feeding them
Starting point is 00:44:51 it's like you never stop working you know what I'm saying they always had something to grass to even if they didn't like it even if they thought it wasn't your best work whatever they thought about they always had something to grass too but there's some people who want niggas to take a little bit break and breathe a little bit
Starting point is 00:45:07 there's some people who need four years there's some people who need to breathe for their personal time and give you their best because as an artist you know what I'm saying like if you're not in your best mental state you can't really give anybody else anything and you i look at the extension of my life or a person's life in general and you really don't start living until like 40 50 years old so
Starting point is 00:45:33 why burn out on all of this material and then in your 40s and 50s not even be able to do nothing that's why snoop is really doing this thing now because he didn't burn out and a lot of people don't look at their mental health or their mental state they look at, oh, I need to be popping or I need to go on tour or I need to make some money which if you ain't right, you might need two, three years to make some music.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Let me ask you a question though. You know, in this day and time, it's like, like you could be just as relevant off your content more than the record. Right. That's why I say, like, that's why I say it's not really about
Starting point is 00:46:13 like an artist falling back and somebody coming up. It's about what the artist does. at this point. Like, there's kids who are unknown who are getting way more streams than vets in this game. And it's just all because of the climate and the temperature of where we're at. And if you take one of those vets and try to get them to do what the young kids are doing, they'll look fucking stupid.
Starting point is 00:46:35 It don't work in reverse. So you just got to let them think it's do what they do at some point. And it just is what it is. Like, sometimes motherfuckers be winning. What made you keep doing day to day? mainly because like the comments and what people come up to me and tell me in real life of how much like my day to days changed their life or if they was about to make a decision in life they were like yo I watched this day to day or I listened to this album or man I was
Starting point is 00:47:04 in college and I dropped out and became a cameraman or I became a blah blah blah like just hearing people living their dreams and making important as decisions based off of some shit that I was just having fun but still putting a lot of creativity into because I put a lot of energy in the edits and just the whole texture of it like it really has to come off a certain way so just seeing people grasping that and knowing how important it is kind of just kept me doing it for the last I think 10 years now yeah now yeah we've been doing it for like 10 years you got one how many cameramen the thing about it is I've been shooting it for years
Starting point is 00:47:39 so I had hell a cameraman I had hell a niggas different editing I do my own edits sometimes so you never know what's going on oh but I'm saying it's like one camera no oh it don't be no no it's hell of cameras god damn that's like you show you got like a real a real shit you ain't ever think about taking it to a network i true well i thought about taking it to the network but it's networks are so structured and i'm not i'm not really with like watering it down and structuring it and i'll just do a whole totally different type of show and call it something else but i'm keeping my brand though like you know what i mean i got to be able to do that what is what is what is the meaning of whiz got wings
Starting point is 00:48:16 Whiz Got Wings So Cardo is the original producer Who I did Cushing Orange Juice With Cardo, Sledrin E Dan's on there Germs on there as well But a lot of people
Starting point is 00:48:27 Connected me and Cardo With that sound And Cardo's full name Is Cardo Got Wings So when we link back up To do this project It's executive produced By Cardo and Sledrin
Starting point is 00:48:37 So I just was like Well actually I was in the studio With my partner Duffy And y'all know DJ Duffy And she was listening To the music And I had another name boy. She was like, yo, you should call it Whiz Got Wings.
Starting point is 00:48:48 I was like, that's perfect name. Now, now, Cardo, that's the one, I think him or what's the name got an album together, him and Larry June? Mm-hmm. Cardo, I've never seen this fucking bull in my life. I've been hearing this shit forever. He'd be low-key. Yeah, you never see this bull.
Starting point is 00:49:03 Yeah, yeah, he'd be low-key. He'd be doing a lot of tapes with people. He does a lot of tapes. He's really tapped in. Like, he knows a lot of people. And, you know, we started out together, and I wanted him to be on Taylor game, but he wanted to do his own thing and it ended up working out
Starting point is 00:49:18 so I'm happy for him. Now, all right, who all you got on the album? It's really just me. Fed the guy who's from Pittsburgh. He's also signed to Taylor Gang. My partner, Daegie right here. Dajie, okay. He's on Purple Fantasy.
Starting point is 00:49:32 Chevy Woods is on there. He's been signed to Shelfth. He's been signed a Shelfth. Yes. Yeah, that's my big homie. And currency's on there. Currency is the fucking... You and currency got this, like,
Starting point is 00:49:44 y'all got this brotherhood that's like timeless man my mom say we like outcast shout out the currency man you just like jet life baby that's my brother man and you know what i love about him i was just telling the i was like i'm used your lighter fool high currency keep going this motherfucker's selling a gang of fucking merch i don't even i don't even i don't want to disrespect him i don't know if jet life a clover line now and not merch you know yeah i think it's a full full on clothing line at this point he's doing this thing he's he listen if he go on tour he's selling shit out yeah Yeah, yep. Spitter's he's hella consistent.
Starting point is 00:50:17 He's independent. I think he drops every month. Is he independent? Yeah, yep. He drops every month. Would you, would you, whiz now? Would you sound a deal? Me?
Starting point is 00:50:30 I'm meaning as if you coming in the game right now, you got a chance because you know independent is totally different now. Oh, yeah. Is it a big difference? If I was a young artist, man, it depends, Joe. it really depends if I was one of those artists who just had one song 100%
Starting point is 00:50:48 if I was like trying to have like a lengthy career and make albums and stuff like that then nah okay so what advice would you give to these kids about protecting themselves going into these situations most of the time like you can control everything on your own like a lot of
Starting point is 00:51:07 everybody has their own fan base and things like that so that if you're signing for that you're not going to get it. You already have it. So you might as well just control it. Feed your fan base and let it grow at the same time and make all the money off of it. But if you're looking for like hell a promotion and, you know, people to back you and all of that stuff like that and placements and to work with, you know, the hottest producers and things like that and end up on the radio and, you know, then that's what the label is really for. But it just depends on what you want
Starting point is 00:51:38 to set yourself up for. There's a lot of songwriters out there too. You know what I'm saying? and they sign to labels and they kind of break bread where it's like you can just write those songs yourself and have a publishing deal and just get all of that money, you know what I'm saying? So that's what I would say. If you're really a good writer, like don't sign shit. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:51:59 Hell yeah, take all of that for yourself. But, you know, a lot of artists, they don't, some artists, they don't really write. You know what I mean? Or they don't come up with the hits. So the writers, the people who are coming up with the hits, I would, you know, protect them for sure. Torin and merch.
Starting point is 00:52:17 Yeah. How important is that shit, man? Man, it just, like I said, it depends on what type of artist you are. Like, some people don't give a fuck. You know what I mean? And some people, you can't sit them down and tell them like, yo, make the t-shirt,
Starting point is 00:52:33 sell the t-shirt. How much money you made off merch? Millions. Millions on top of millions. Yearly, quarterly. You know, I got locked up one time on tour, and my bail was $3 million, and I was able to pay that shit off of merch. You got locked up on South Beach, too, for smoking something, Ray.
Starting point is 00:52:55 I did. What's the story behind Ray? You didn't you have an anniversary not too long ago? Man, my partner, Ray, he passed away a little while. Yeah, RIPA to Ray. Yeah, yeah, but he was the first one to bring. Well, not the first one, but first one I was smoking really good weed with in Pittsburgh. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:09 My big homie out there in Hazelwood. Yeah, yeah. Got locked up smoking that rag on. Yeah, man. They weren't that weed friendly back in the day, man. They didn't, they didn't let the Caliphah man smoke everywhere. You was going crazy early when it was still hot out here to smoke wheat. Brough, I learned from these niggas, man.
Starting point is 00:53:26 I was watching these niggas on them DVDs. I was like, oh, yeah, I could do exactly whatever the hell I want to do. When I want to do it, I'm going to take it to the next level, though. They booked this shit out you out there. Yeah, they lock up, brup, pro, pro, come on. Yeah, they lock me straight. It was like, oh, you can't smoke in my head. Now, it was a time you was going to a club, right.
Starting point is 00:53:43 And you was going to the club, and Kevin Durant walked in. Oh, yeah. Before you. And you was like, Gab, like, and he hit you, like, with the emojis on, like, nah, that's not what happened. What happened? It wasn't his fault. What did you do?
Starting point is 00:53:57 I think he's younger than me, so he was, like, a low-key, like, a fan of my music before it even blew up. Because he's from, like, the DMV area, and that's close to Pittsburgh. So a lot of the girls, a lot of the dudes. We all, you know what I'm saying? Everybody smoking weed, chilling. So it was all my shit, and I was partying out there. Somebody was like, yo, KD, want to go to the club with you.
Starting point is 00:54:19 And I'm like, all right, cool, it's whatever. I'm going to pull up. So I pulled up, and I was on my camo shorts thing back then. Like, I was only wearing camo shorts and hoodies and all of that. And they were really strict at the club. They were like, you know, this nigga can't get in. And I was like, I'm with him. And he was like, no, he ain't with me.
Starting point is 00:54:39 But he did the right thing He was trying to keep his nose clean He's a basketball player He can't be with a weed smoking rapper Getting in trouble at the fucking club Like you know what I'm saying Of course Like he did what he had to do
Starting point is 00:54:51 But yeah No that thing ain't with me I don't know Yeah I got curved I don't know it I don't know it I don't know this motherfucker Hey
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Starting point is 00:56:14 And it's just like that. Wids Got Wings is out right now. Yeah, yep. You're doing your thing. Uh-huh. He got the label, you know, artists on there, they're doing their thing. Day to day, day still coming,
Starting point is 00:56:24 a merch still coming. Yep. He's just making a lot of fucking moves out here, man. Yep. Now, tell your artist, come on over here, say someone on the mic, man. You're sitting over there,
Starting point is 00:56:31 no, talk your shit, why are you the shit, tell them who you are, where they can find you at. All that shit. Dayjee, man, from southwest A-Leaf, Texas. You already know, man.
Starting point is 00:56:41 Houston stand up, man. Houston stand-A-Eastown. And I'm also as a creator of the world, man. T-G-O-D. That's what I'm talking about. And that's how, you see how the artist. That's how you got to step. You got to put it in their face.
Starting point is 00:56:56 And you've got to stay in their face of your artists out here. A lot of artists, man, got some real talent than artists, man. You just got to keep going, man. Keep going. You're going to figure it out. Get the merch.
Starting point is 00:57:06 Make sure you make that link in that bio jump. Yeah, yeah. One of the most important things is that link in that bio. You can put all the shit you want to put on your page. That lake in that bio,
Starting point is 00:57:15 you got to make that motherfucker break dance. You got to make them want to go there because that, that gives you leverage, whiz, when the artists out here they're independent, they're doing anything,
Starting point is 00:57:23 and they can show their proof of concept, they can go on their shop, or file on their back in, see their merch. Yeah, yeah. See them fucking ticket sell. Yep. See them emails.
Starting point is 00:57:31 Yep. Oh, man, that's the money. Yeah. That's the real money. Yeah, just own everything that's your lifestyle like if you're into it in real life try to own it and
Starting point is 00:57:43 I kind of learned that from Snoop too you know what I'm saying he's like if you doing it in real life you should own it don't stand by it if you don't own it you like cars make them give it to you you know what I'm saying if you like technology fucking buy
Starting point is 00:57:59 a tech team you know what I mean but don't just be a part of that shit so a lot of artists I feel like they get caught up, you know, just being consumers. And that's fun until you go broke. So, you know, just invest in the things around you. Or, like, put the homie on.
Starting point is 00:58:17 If it's like, if it's not really what you're into, start the business and let somebody who's really, really good at or really who's smart and crunching numbers, you know what I'm saying? Like, let them flourish and then y'all do that shit together. So, yeah, put the homies on. It works better like that. That's real. Now, now, when you say this.
Starting point is 00:58:36 this is what I want to know how many brand deals did you have during your journey you've had a lot of brand deals no I don't really do branding deals because I don't like licensing I don't like being a billboard I like to own shit
Starting point is 00:58:50 so anything that I do if I'm a part of it I get paid but I get ownership of the company I get a piece of the company whether it's stocks to trade or if it's like a legit piece of the company
Starting point is 00:59:05 to where when the company goes public I get broken off with it too because I'm getting paid to promote it I'm going to make the business bigger I want to be in business I don't want to just be a part of the business so I probably did two two branding deals
Starting point is 00:59:22 where it was like you know one and done I don't like exclusive shit either where it's like oh you have to do this and you for six months you can't do that like fuck out of here I'm the brand and as an artist you got to make yourself that valuable
Starting point is 00:59:38 to where you move and shake how you want to nobody could put a time limit on what I can and can't do or what I can and can't say what I can't and can't post when I can't and can't post it I'm the brand so I make sure everybody who I do business with they know that or we don't sign the paperwork because that's how they do you know what I mean
Starting point is 00:59:59 I'm not going to I'm not you got to treat me like I'm part of the business I'm not hired help I'm going to grow your company so break bread or fake dead all right now I like that break bread a fake dead
Starting point is 01:00:10 you've been in the game a minute but yeah yep who the artist you always wanted to work with but never work with
Starting point is 01:00:16 Jay Z that's it just hoove man did you ever come close to getting with him like in the studio
Starting point is 01:00:25 I'm talking just a connection or even trying to make that happen I met him I met him at a show
Starting point is 01:00:30 he was so low key like I didn't even know who he was to write before I went on stage. Well, that's when he said, what's up? And it was like, right before I walked on stage. So I was, like, in my little mode.
Starting point is 01:00:41 And then he was like, what's that, fool? I'm like, oh, shit, it's Jay-Z. And then that fucked me up, like, for the whole, like, concert. I'm like, Jay-Z's watching my show. So other than that, that was probably, like, our first face-to-face. I seen him at, like, a little dinner, like, this charity thing that we were doing. Because, you know, rich people, we like to give back. But, no, it was.
Starting point is 01:01:04 crazy it was like they were doing like million dollar auctions just for just uh for for for charity i seen like somebody donate like 15 million at one time bro it was awesome and jz was there and i seen and i said something to him then but not in the studio though all right when you're young and you coming in the game when was the point where like who was the point where you was out about you may have been an award show you might have been somewhere and you and you bumped into somebody and they was like Whiz Oh my God I fuck with you man I love and you was like
Starting point is 01:01:40 Oh shit like that's Yeah Like I'm oh I'm here nigga Like you called the niggas like nigga I'm here Yeah Like such and such just ran up on me and said they fuck with me Like yeah It was it's a couple times
Starting point is 01:01:56 I'm gonna name a couple Yeah I met Maxwell in the elevator That will fuck me up yeah Maxwell's saying you fucking my shit That shit fuck me up Babyface I seen him out of Clyde Davis party He had on a track suit I was like nigga that's ill
Starting point is 01:02:12 Everybody got on tuxedo And you got on a fucking track suit I was like that's fire He was like I fuck with you too bro Just like that That's exactly what he said Sting I seen him at the Grammys I was like yo I'm like bro
Starting point is 01:02:26 You are ill like you don't even know how crazy He was like oh man yeah you know And Amber was pregnant at the time So I was like, bro, can you rub her belly? Like, you know what I mean? He was like, yeah, for sure. And he just rubbed her belly. Sting's a fucking legend.
Starting point is 01:02:38 And Prince, I seen him backstage at the Grammys, too. Like, I didn't want to get close because he literally had two girls next to him. And I heard that that's his security or was his security. So I was like, I'm not running up on him. I usually run up on everybody, but I was like, yo, Pee, he was like, I'm like, yeah. Pino, what's up? Diggins said I made him to take it to him.
Starting point is 01:02:58 Yeah, yeah. When Prince gave you the motherfucker, nigga. Yeah, yep. I knew you be here. Yeah, yep. He was hell of cool. Diggily like, Rusty piece of prince.
Starting point is 01:03:09 Yeah, yeah. God damn, rest of a piece of the legend. You know what I thought you was going to say too? Andre. 3,000? Yeah. Never met him in person. No, I thought you were going to say like
Starting point is 01:03:17 one of the people you wanted to do a song with. He don't be rapping no more. Yeah, that's what we guess. Yeah, Andrene be playing the flute. Yeah, he don't rap. He publicly said it. He was like, I'm not rapping. He fucked Kanye John.
Starting point is 01:03:27 Did you go Diamond? That Kanye song he just did. Oh, he rapped on that? Yeah, he killed that joint. Remember that joint that was released? He fucked that joint up. Is it an all verse or a new? No, I think this is new.
Starting point is 01:03:36 It was some shit Kanye, him. Jucy said he was in the studio with him. And Jucy worked with everybody, bro. Yeah. Jucy's a legend. He said he was in the studio with him, and he laid down, like, Marvin Gaye and just, like, wrapped his verse, like, on the floor.
Starting point is 01:03:48 I'm like, that's fire. That sounds like some hundred three thousand shit. Yeah. Hell yeah. That sounds like some different shit. That shit was fired. I don't know how the young niggas now. They sit down in the gym and be like this.
Starting point is 01:03:59 I sit down to rap. I'll be like, damn, nigga. Oh, you got to stand up, you be on the battle rap shit, though. You'd be hella aggressive when you rap, but when we was, you had to, you know, you had the, you know, they just sit there and be like calm and shit like,
Starting point is 01:04:13 because they're on lean, bro, and painkillers. Killer shit. Yeah, man, killer shit. But that shit sounds like that shit don't sound like they sit down. They're all fucking, no. When that shit come on, it sounds like they. You do? Just like this.
Starting point is 01:04:25 My engineer would be right here. It's easier this way. You ain't start like that, though. I did. you started like that yeah like there was a point in my career before it became popular i was like damn i like sitting down and rapping like this shit kind of cool okay so soldier boy he was the first rapper sitting down nah don't don't have big drako uh go crazy i was the first don't have him on west califah's line yeah i love drako yeah that's my younger yeah yeah
Starting point is 01:04:55 we we had drago on here man we had a really good time man shout out to him man but that seemed like that the weed ain't do nothing to y'all, man. Oh, yeah. Y'all might be too. No, it's a great conversation, you know what I'm saying? No, but the weed, y'all might be too challenging. You know, we had to agree to disagree. You know, that's a beautiful conversation when you agree to disagree.
Starting point is 01:05:14 I'm just saying the weed ain't, you know, y'all might be too much. That's a beautiful conversation. I feel you, though. Just to go back on it, I feel you. I was just speaking from a different perspective. No, and I feel what you were saying, too, you know what I mean. I disagree. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:05:28 I don't even disagree. I feel you 100%. I'm going to end of that. Where's Khalifa, Phil's Gil, on what he said. And I would say, I felt you as well. All right, cool. You felt each other, okay. Chill out, bro.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Look at you. You know, he did 20 years in jail. I'm not saying, can I get a fill too? Let me get in on this. Let me get in on this. Like, out of all, one of my favorite songs of yours is, is, is, uh, remember you. With the weekend?
Starting point is 01:06:01 fucking unbelievable. The production, the way that shit came in. Yeah, yeah. It was just like, and then he just came in killing that shit. That was my favorite. I'm talking about that. And, you know, Joan, what you were in Too Short? On my level.
Starting point is 01:06:15 On my level. Yeah, yeah. Classic. Remember he came in there talking that crazy. He was going. Middle of night early in the morning. It was just like, I'm like, damn. He was talking about all the drugs on that song.
Starting point is 01:06:26 He talked some crazy shit on this. Nipsey was in that video, too. Yeah. That's a piece to knit, man. That's my partner. I just want to, man, I just want to get your flowers, man, because I don't know if anybody came before you from Pittsburgh, but I know.
Starting point is 01:06:44 In my eyes, you really put Pittsburgh on a map on a whole different level. You know what I mean? Shout out to Sam Sneed, you know, because I do know Sam. I didn't know he was from Pittsburgh. But to me, in my eyes, man, you put Pittsburgh on a map. and you know what Sam probably was it maybe an inspiration for you you know what I mean I'm going to say like he's older so we he didn't like have that same reach on us but like mailman mailman don't forget oh yeah Joe Beast for sure because he came out he was on
Starting point is 01:07:16 aftermath like when 50 was first over there and when game had started uh going crazy uh yeah Joe beast was like one of the one of our first dudes who was like out of Pittsburgh you know what I mean so those were the dudes who I looked up to and um yeah it's it's cool being like one of the first niggas from Pittsburgh because we didn't really have like a voice or a sound you know what I mean and even now the young niggas they sound completely different for me right there are some who you know what I mean they're carrying on a tradition but um you know there's all different types of styles and sounds that come out of the bird and I just think people
Starting point is 01:07:57 you know they gravitate towards what they want at the time and me being on the internet and being in people's faces and traveling and you know what I mean I was able to just be able to be like I do all of that and I'm reping Pittsburgh too you know what I mean it wasn't just like yo
Starting point is 01:08:11 but black and yellow was hell of intentional because literally at every point in my career when I was I knew I was going to be on the radio if I got a chance to make a single it was about Pittsburgh right there's a song called 412 or Pittsburgh sound. There's hell of shit where it's like,
Starting point is 01:08:28 I thought it was my chance at that time. And it was like, boom, here's Pittsburgh song. It just happened to be, you know, black and yellow was the one that. That was the shit. Yeah, yeah. So it was always my attention to really rep the bird. And, you know, I feel like now there's going to be a lot of,
Starting point is 01:08:45 a lot of new talent coming out of there, like, a lot of new talent. And one thing I could say I was in Pittsburgh and I was shooting a movie out there with Ving for, like, maybe like a month. Yeah, Ving Grames, yeah, maybe like a month and a half. Mm-hmm. And that's, when I tell you, they love the fucking Steelers out there, bro. Mm-hmm. Like, literally, bro, you will see a fucking 83-year-old fucking woman
Starting point is 01:09:10 with a fucking Pittsburgh Steelers jersey on on a Wednesday. It's like, it's not even game day. Like, why the fuck is this old lady walking around with a Pittsburgh Steelers? Like, when I was down there for that month and a half, that shit just opened my eye. to like this shit really is religion around this motherfucker like i don't know if it's because they ain't got no basketball team yeah like that shit really is religion around that motherfucker yeah not the black i mean that's black and gold because that's how we came up but i made
Starting point is 01:09:40 the song black and yellow because it sounded better but you know it's serious about them two colors over there is it it's just serious bro that's just serious that's fucking snoop team yeah Yeah, I think a lot of shit Serious And I got a lesson on that shit That month and a half I was down It was like, God It goes down
Starting point is 01:09:59 It's fun though But man, shout out to you man You're doing your thing Whiz got wings Shout out to you guys man For uh Elevating the podcast game You know being
Starting point is 01:10:09 Being African American homies Yes And and reping the brand Not changing the brand Oh fuck me Put people on Giving people a platform You know what I'm saying
Starting point is 01:10:20 It's really important and it's going to help a lot of people get to the next point in their career being able to come on to this show express themselves and you know just just be able to talk with some people who are real who don't got no motive and ain't trying to you know catch them in some clickbait or anything like that really trying to tap in and like educate people on you know moves to make and how to make them and you know a lot of artists should study other artists you know I feel like that kind of went out of style, and it was in style when I was coming up. You know, we had no problem looking at our favorite artists and watching what they do,
Starting point is 01:10:57 watching their moves, watching how they do it, listening to them talk, watch their interviews and stuff like that, and, you know, picking up on that game. So I appreciate y'all for giving us an opportunity to put that game out there. Thank you, man. For us, man, we base our platform around the youth, man, the youngans who got next and who got now when in the leaders of tomorrow when you know you're one of those guys who I've seen your rise you know what I'm saying I've seen you go from oh whiz you ever heard of whiskey he buzzing he buzzing out of Pittsburgh to literally a fucking rock star right you feel
Starting point is 01:11:35 what I'm saying literally a fucking rock star so man I commend you man for just being you staying 10 toes down and and you know never changing who you are you know what I'm saying You always been solid. You always been in your lane. I never see you get out your lane. I never see you act or be somebody that you're not. You always seem like you're in good spirits. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:11:59 Feel what I'm saying? You're happy to be here. You're appreciative for the things you got, man. And just keep being, continue to be a blessing, man. Thank you. And shout out to my son, man. Shout out to bad. You wanted me to tell y'all, what's up?
Starting point is 01:12:11 That's what you? That's what you. Shout out to you, man. I see he mean the world to you, man. That's my guy, y'all. It was like, yo, tell everybody I said, what's up, man. Don't forget to tell everybody. That's what's up, man.
Starting point is 01:12:21 So, yeah, shout off the badge. I want to go out here with a classic, man. I need you to go ahead and go up, man. All right. This is the classic, man. We're going to do. Oh, hey. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:37 Hey. No cushion our juice. Hey. I'm glad to take it so good. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Get breaking
Starting point is 01:12:48 I live life sucker free That's why the niggas you be with talk down Like they don't fuck with me I get money realistically And the homie show me love goopies Wanna lead a club with me Ain't nothing to a G Let your hair blow in the breeze
Starting point is 01:13:01 Want some bomb ass weed Get high, cruise out of jet speed Do it like I do it for TV 675 Domia Air LV 7 something with tax And when I'm on the plane Got to carry on the match Nigger that's flash shit
Starting point is 01:13:13 Trying to put game little umy just watch this Champagne in my cockpit Talking about you got a man, mommy just stop it Please As we proceed to give you what you need to roll up on leave I'm out here living it Niggas know are we doing a thing Cause we out here getting it
Starting point is 01:13:34 Well, I rep the game, gang, gang, game Ain't nothing change Girl still wrap the game Oh, it came Myself ain't been through what I've been through what I've been to through. So I know what I know. I write bum rap songs telling bitches what I'm into. So the holes won't roll. First class row to another coast. Just a smoke push. I know a nigger who grows. And that's on the real. Mama, if you're trying to slide, got to bring one for will.
Starting point is 01:14:02 Just another day in the life. Another plane another night. Getting faded with another nigger wife. Drinking hell of champagne ain't a raid with the sprite. Then I'm up in the AM to catch another flight. Niggas raping the game simply because everything else lame. The fans were real niggas, them hoes looking for change. I sing it all player in the game. First they bite in the flow, now they jacking on a slag. I'm out here living it. Out here living it.
Starting point is 01:14:24 Niggins, no. What are we doing our thing? Because we out here getting it. Oh, there getting it. Boy, I wrap the game, game, game, game, game. Ain't nothing changed. Still wrap the game. Still wrecked the game.
Starting point is 01:14:39 So incredible. If I didn't say so myself My nigga Jern On the boards Yeah, you did that shit, fool Yeah Yeah
Starting point is 01:14:54 But I will Yeah Thank you to go Oh wow They just got a concert Y'all got to pay ticket prices for that shit Yeah man
Starting point is 01:15:06 I just gave you all a concert Yeah, we'll do that anytime Listen that's that classic Whiz man Every time It's all love, brother We appreciate you having you You hear you smoke Gil out.
Starting point is 01:15:15 He won the 2002 Smoke Olympics. Yeah, man. I'm talking about this. I knew what I was going to win. He smoked him out. He was smoking the whole time. He was smoking his big ass paper. He's smoking his big ass paper the whole time.
Starting point is 01:15:28 Gil put this shit out early. Let me put this shit out. I would say that was Khalifa Kush, that shit. That's shit stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger in 86. You hear me. Fuck my lungs up and I ain't even smoking. So you know what's going down. But listen, we appreciate how you.
Starting point is 01:15:42 The class coat to another coach, just to see. smoke cush. I know a nigger who grows. That was a classic. Listen, if you don't know nothing about that, you ain't been around that long. But that's a classic. If you don't know, go back, get that cushion orange juice and listen, man. Damn, that's like some people breakfasts out here.
Starting point is 01:15:58 Cushing orange juice is like some people breakfast. Yeah, yeah. You see what I'm saying? That's major, you know what I mean? But like, I'm going to say this, man. We appreciate having you, man, keep doing your thing. You put on for Pittsburgh. You put on for Pennsylvania.
Starting point is 01:16:09 You put on for kids that just beat them. Yeah. And that's what it's about. And being you as a kid out here, when I say being you, that's the coolest shit you can never be. That's the shit. I mean, just being yourself. And that's what we showed is, man, you know, and keep doing your thing.
Starting point is 01:16:24 Listen, go down in the books, rock and roll, Hall of Fame, you know. You're going to go down. Just go down and all that shit. And you're going to be performing when you 50 because us rap, we got to start amplifying our legends, and our legends can perform when they 50, like the rock and all that do. We got some historical music, man, and we got to keep pushing that shit forward. You're one of the people that pushed it, man.
Starting point is 01:16:44 So I salute you, man, keep doing your thing. Tell a gang, listen, man, we're out of here, me and I was with a game, and it's just like that. Right.

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