Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - ROTIMI: MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 233

Episode Date: August 13, 2023

Discover the remarkable journey of Rotimi, a versatile artist who seamlessly blends acting and music into a powerhouse career. Influenced by his Nigerian heritage, Rotimi's captivating vocals and authentic storytelling have earned him both adoration and acclaim. From his TV roles to his music career, this bio explores his creative evolution, work ethic, and future ventures. Join us in celebrating Rotimi's ongoing impact as he continues to inspire through his unwavering dedication to his craft.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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Actor, sing. He's slash, slash Gordon. AKA he thinks he's the sexy butterscotch. Yeah. What is it? is Mr. sexy Nigerian butterscotch

Oh my God You have to say it right brother You have to say The right He's not playing Brother What

What Oh my God So So So I would be The The The ugly

Ethiopian Bottosquatch Yeah That would I'm the ugly Ethiopian The

It's crazy man What's up brother I'm good my brother. Who we got in the building, man? Rotenny! We got him in the building, man. He's doing his thing, man. And, like, you know. I did not know this nigga was from Jersey, man.

Yeah. Well, you live in Jersey from, you know. Oh, he's from Jersey. Yeah, born and raised. Born and raised. Born and Jersey. Yes. Yes, sir. Yes. What part? Maplewood. Maplewood. Yeah, right next to Newark.

Oh, right where you can shot at. She used to shoot you to your shirt. Come on. They said, that nigga used to sing his way out of gang banging. There's a minute. I'm getting home What's up, brother? How you feeling, man? I'm good, bro.

I'm blessed, man. Man, you're blessed by the best, man. You got so much things going on. I see you online. I got, you know, I'll be tapped into you, man. First of all, I just want to give it up to you on music doing your thing. Thank you, brother. You're a hell of a fucking actor, man.

Hell of a bro. Thank you. Did you ever take acting classes or anything? No, I never took acting classes, bro. Never. So you never? Never. Never? Never, never took acting.

So that shit was natural, huh? It was natural. It was, acting wasn't even my plan. Like, it's always been music. So for me, it was just like I was just struggling artists trying to get money, you know? And so my manager at the time, he was like, I mean, you're really good in music video,

so why don't you just see what you do? Like, just go and get an agent. No agency in Chicago at the time wanted to take me because I had no resume. So it was just like, all right, so the only way I got my agent was because this, um, this small, boutique agency her son went to my college so she was looking out for alumni yeah

that's the only way i got my shot yeah so then what college was that northwestern you know the northwestern man thank you so yeah so i go in no idea but i didn't know at the time i had a photographic memory so i saw the audition and i literally got the lines like this and just did what i felt to get on the agency right yeah and then two days later she sent me all to my first audition And it was with the show that I was on Kelsey Grammar Show boss with TI. With TI, yeah, yeah. But this old twist before all that back in the day. Yeah.

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What's up with you and Jay, man? Jay, you You say, you're doing shows and shit, man. Yeah, that's crazy. Jay Z, man. Jay Z. So when I was in high school, so I went to high school with his nephews. So Rommel, Jarrell, all of them. I went to high school with him.

God damn, they whole name was a rap. Romel, Jamel, Browell. And Dale. Yeah, man, so I went in, man, and I was the only singing dude in school. So I was always the singer. So they were like, if we want to start a group. But if we start a group, we got to take it seriously. And Hove wants us to take the train, to drive every week to go, like, perform my

records for him. So we'll be in his living room at 1617 performing all the songs we wrote during the week and seeing if he liked it. So he's like, ah, that was whack. Oh, that's great. Bring that back. So we're honing our skills in high school. So it was crazy, bro. Yeah. He played a big part in you being where you at right now. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. It's more of like a confidence boost. And discipline. And discipline. Like how bad you want it? How bad you want it? You know? Yeah, I mean, y'all niggas is all in the motherfucking jade living room. There's a meeting in my bed Jay, like that's the one

That's the one right there That's what's up though At the time though No because How long ago was this? This is 2006 No, so Jay is already He's huge at this time

So it's just an honor To just even being a nigga Living Romaine This ain't like Jay Z where he was He was the biggest nigga in the world Yeah yeah And the fact that he took time And the fact that he was like, yo, y'all got it, just work hard.

It was like, oh, if I got to do it, all I got to do is work hard and stick to what I'm doing, hell yeah. Right. That's major. So you're from Nigeria? Yes, sir. You're Nigerian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your parents are from Nigeria, first generation.

And when did they come to the States? So my parents came to the States when they were both, like, 25. So they brought their whole family here. So I'm the first generation of that. So growing up in a Nigerian household, it was strict. It was nothing but discipline. I played ball in high school. So I played ball and football in my whole life.

So it was how bad do you want it? And like the Nigerian mindset is if you're going to do it, be excellent at it. Right. So being young and having that mentality, it was like, yo, you got to go get it. So that was my whole thing. It was like, if you want to do this, do it. And my mom had me singing Nigerian wedding songs at four. So I was a Nigerian wedding singer around the Tri State, baby.

Damn. Four years old, bro. So he was a lot of Nigerians And what's the thing So you was doing like His family some hustling My mother truckers Hey boy

You can talk boy He can talk Get him on stage How many ones What was he doing the month Shit I was doing Three a month So they bring you

With the little Nigerian shit On top Yep Yep Yep Yep He was getting that bad But this thing

Before you were just He was getting that bad But the thing is They were throwing The money On the floor So my parents Were the ones

Picking that up Okay, yeah, good job. I'm like, can I get something? Like, nah, no, no, no, it's not for you. Don't worry about this. Rottom, you don't worry. Just go sing. I got it right here for him.

I like I go into his accent, though. That nigga was just talking like a nigga from Jersey. What's saying? No, this is not for you. This is so. Stop it. Get your ass up there and sing. But I want to get your parents a shout out, man,

because it seemed like your parents taught you, you know, but one thing I can say about all of my African homies. Them niggas work hard. man. I'm talking about like even shout out to one of my partners, Tomah Ali, you know all time, second all time on a sex list for Kansas

City Chiefs. You know he's from Liberia. And one thing about the nigger, man, that's one of the hardest working motherfuckers. I don't, like he brought, I think he, one time he brought some players down to train with him. Them niggas lasted about two and a half days, man. They said, what the fuck

type of African training is you doing? Man, this ain't NFL shit. This ain't no regular shit. It's different, though. The mentality is all about hard work and, like, because nothing was given. You know what I'm saying? Like, I got no excuse because my parents came here homeless. Right.

So I have no. They was homeless. Both of them homeless, bro. So, like, I had no excuse not to do well, you know? And, like, it was making sure that I lived up to what, you know, the hard work they put in. You know what I'm saying? And, like, most Africans, they, like, you're supposed to be a doctor. So it was like, I wrote to me, you have to be a doctor.

a lawyer, an engineer, a dentist. What is this music thing? So I had to go hard for anything that was entertainment. When did they believe? Oh. It's like they still don't believe me. Don't be a fucking dentist.

Nah, bro, it was my mom. See, my dad was like, I don't really care for this. But my mom was like, now my son could sing. My son is good. So she was like,

let me be your manager. So she had me in the, Hood, writing the song. Well, that was his manager, gore. Fuck out of you, lying this thing. So she had me in the hood recording at 11. You know, she had me performing at the YMCA. So everything was like my mom was like my rock at that time.

At that time, was it mostly African music? No, it was church. It was gospel. It was gospel. Then it was like a little R&B. It was Kenny Ladamore. Oh, you can sing him regular shit, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For you, I can use. Yeah, that was a hell of a song. That's what you went to prison talent show with, man. He fucked that joint up in a prison town. You know what's crazy about it is that? He sang in all the weddings in prison. You think I'm joking. You do R&B and Afro beats and your actor.

So you're just a slash guy. Like, you want some Jamie Fox shit out here. Yeah, man. You know what I mean? He's Army. He's a Swiss Army knife. And then he didn't even go to acting school. Like, he didn't go to Juilliard.

He can't do shit. No, coaching. He just said, I'm going to do that. No, because he was, he been acting his whole life. He'd be,

he'd be away with his homies. He'd talk a regular as soon as he'd get in trouble. He'd go right back to African. Moodah, I don't know. That didn't do nothing to Mouta. More die, four and die. He'd been acting those old life.

For real. Was it hard when you first, when you, so you was born here then? Yeah, okay. So you, when you came,

you didn't, so how did you pick up the African? accent just from your mom and household yeah just living like hearing it every day my dad still got a heavy accent so like I just emulated that my aunt my uncle's everybody's talk like that yeah for me it was just like okay oh that's how my uncle talked let me just use that yeah yeah because because because you the majority of the people you was around yeah didn't talk like that because that was just in the household then you leave out the house they're like what's up nigga yeah yeah son listen son yeah we're the mother son you can sing a little bit, son. You need to go ahead and take that son and make something having out of that soon. Yeah. So you had to, and it's crazy because my homie time, but he can

switch it on and off too. Yeah, bro. He can talk and you wouldn't in a million years if you heard his voice know he was from Africa. But then he could talk to his folks and that they could go full-blown Liberian. Yes, sir. Yeah, it's who we are. Absolutely. You ever did your 23

and me and all that to see what you are? No. You ain't do it? I need, I already know I'm from Ethiopia, man. I already know I'm an Ethiopian Bruda Shout out to my Ethiopian brothers I am one of you I know

Where he would be from Probably be Morocco Yeah Morocco Why the fuck you gave him Morocco I was gonna say Dominican Republic

I usually get that one You know Baseball had my change He was like a bootleg As Dominican coach Of a baseball team Don't need a low league Baseball team

ain't sent nobody to the pros he's just still out there coaching for no fucking reason everybody from the Dominican Republic the niggas can play baseball like a motherfucker you were coaching 40 years he ain't nobody to the pros he had one pro come through his camp

look at him I'm just coaching man so touring how has that been for you touring been good bro did my first like headlining tour last year did international so we did

all of Europe we did some of Africa. We did all the states. So it's been good, man. When you have, like, again, like, most artists today don't take advantage of touring money and actually performing anymore. So I made sure that my team,

my fans were able to get, like, a real, real good show with a live band, every state, every country, and it was just amazing. So we're about to hit the road again at the end of the summer. So when you perform, and them ladies all over the sexy Buddhist got king, what, what, if you,

Beyonce, you say. Well, shit. You know, she's smooth because I don't give her a reason to feel anything. You know what I mean? So it's more of like she was an artist herself.

So she understand the artistry. She understand the artistry. She understand the show. She understand everything. So it's been, it's been real good just having somebody who loves you and loves what you do. And it's like, oh yeah,

my man's good. He's good. We're good. So that's the energy that we all have. They got to understand. A woman has to understand as an R&B artist. My job is to go out here

and make every woman in this crowd say I want to go home with that nigga tonight they ain't go home with me but my job is to make sure every woman in this crowd is like I love this

nigga yeah yeah because they're gonna be your fans for her ever they grow with you they grow with you you know what I mean it's different for rap shit your motherfuckers come to a rap concert they sing your shit they don't want nothing to do with you I just like the nigga music R&B they fall up a car

Yeah, yeah. They go crazy, crazy. Nica, take your shirt off, they fall to fuck out. For real. That's why it's important, like, to make time this music, man. You know what I'm saying? Because it's hard, it's hard. Like, once you get their fan base and they grow with you,

you make good music, they're with you forever. I want to shout out to your old lady, though, because you know how many women don't understand that? You know how many these niggas perform, ain't do nothing wrong, but turn a bunch of women on and then get home and got to argue. fuck you grab that woman hand like that for which you talk about the lady who buying my shit who reached up and just wanted me to touch her

you mean re-arguing about that shit when I just left with you I'm coming home to blaze you bloke bubbles in your fucking butt and we talk about some fucking lady so a lot of women don't understand man and it'd be crazy because a lot of women too get dropped off during a nigger's journey

a lot of women is they were supposed to be right here with the nigger But somewhere along the line, they had to fall off the journey because insecurities they was facing. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, shout out to you. I got a woman. I got an old lady that's like that. That's like, no, nigga, go be great.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring that ass home. You're going on. Can you come, bring that ass home more time, too. Nigel, without that show was over. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right.

But you got to shout this out, too, man, because we make them feel like it's cool. Absolutely. You know what I mean? You got to make a woman feel like, you know, it's security and good. Right. My fault, I'm giving them the credit and shit. Let's own us. You put that comfortability on y'all.

You had some love coming into the game, you know, Jamie Fox. Yeah. He showed you some love early in the game. What was that about? You know what? And it's funny, man. That's the first celebrity I ever met when I came to L.A. And it was, I was at a party, and he was filming Django at the time.

So he had the crazy mustache and the beard. So I didn't know who he was. So somebody kept tapping my shoulder like, yo, I turned around. Okay. Turn around again. I'm like, what, man? He's like, yo, I'm a fan. And I'm like, oh, appreciate you, man.

Thank you. Thank you for respect. I still have no idea that this is James. He's like, oh, bro, look at me, bro. Look at me, bro. I said, oh, shit. Yo, I'm so sorry, bro, my, bro. My bad, my bad.

So at that point, he was like, yo, I'm a fan of your work. I love watching the show. Me and Leonardo DiCaprio, we stop everything and watch your show. And I was like, wow, this is a show I was on called Boss. Yeah. So watch he's like, yo, come to the house tomorrow, man. Come watch the game. It was a playoff.

Come watch the game. Go to his crib. and literally he's like, yo, so what else do you do? Tell me about you. And I was like, I do music. He's like, you do music for real? I said, yeah. I went to this movie.

He's like, yo, come to the studio. I played him all my records. And he was like, yo, you're my little brother, man. I got you. Like, you really doing it too? I got you. So ever since then, I'll be at his crib. Even if he's not there, he gave me the keys, just to chill,

just record when I wanted to. And it was just a big brother, like since 2013, that it being him and me doing the same thing and just learning from him. It was just one of the most amazing experiences And still, it's still my brother today, so Shout out to Jamie Foxx. I want to shit, I want to give a big shout to Jamie Fox

Because you don't see niggas embrace Knicks like that For no reason. Never, bro. Shout out to Ving Rames, man, because he embraced me like that. It was a situation with me and Cassidy I went to Cassidy Block.

Ving Rames seen the shit on YouTube and called me out of nowhere and said, there was some gangster shit, brother. I was like, what? Like, I want to put you on some movies. I'm like... That's great. This Ving Rames.

That's crazy. All right, nigger, whatever. Whatever. All right, you want me to fly out to L.A. nigga, all right. Nick on here, talk of this Ving Rames and shit. It was really fucking Ving. So, you know, I try to do that for Youngens.

You know what I'm saying? I try to embrace Youngins because somebody embraced me when I didn't even have no reason to be embraced I had no ambitions on acting I had and he just embraced me and put me in some movies and help feed my family so for Jamie Fox to just be like

open arms somebody that's already up here that that's amazing man bro it was so real like I had a birthday party it was like maybe six people he pulled up with him and his lady friend at the time kicked it chill out of hosting he came to the hosting got on stage put his on like yo

and within the next three to five years this man you're all going to know his name and the fact that somebody like you said like him to do that it's like oh man it's a confidence boosts it's big man that should have really make you go hard yeah absolutely because you like okay not only do i see it somebody that's successful see it yes yes and then nothing nothing in this fucking world can make you feel better as a creator, as a musician, as an artist, whatever you do out here in this creative space when somebody that's already made it, somebody that already has proof of a concept of I know how to do this shit and win? And they say, you got it. You got what it take. Before you got some money, you're like, oh shit. Okay, I'm going in the right

direction. Absolutely. I might have been thinking about giving up. I might have been thinking about going to get a job. I might have been thinking about doing some other shit. But you just saved my life, man. Because what you told, that simple-ass words, man. Simple as just to embrace somebody, man.

People don't understand how much that shit mean to somebody, man. That shit could change your life. He came home from jail. I embraced him. He didn't know how much that. I didn't know how much that meant to love. cuss you know what I mean he the only person he ever got

embraced from was his sally you know he was a little spoon plenty of nights you know what I mean it's hard being a little spoon laying up on that nigga but I embraced him he laughing hard too

he believed that shit he laughed at so hard you know he believed that you're lying on me but shout out to Jamie man because it really show you that his motherfuckers out here that's on a certain level that's still Do great things, man.

Absolutely. And people would never even know that story if you wasn't here to tell it. Yeah. And for me, man, like the fact that 10 years later, I still remember that moment. So much has happened in my life that I still remember those words, bro. It's still like, so for me now, as I'm getting old and I'm getting seasoned, I'm learning, you know, to do that now for somebody who's 18, 19, and say, yo, you lit, you got it, da-da. You know, I know to pass that down.

How did the power situation come about? Wow. Dang, man. So, power. So let me paint the scenario. So the first show that I was on, boss, had just got canceled. So I'm trying to figure it out. Why?

That was a good show. It was a great show. But a lot of the politics in Chicago was telling a lot of the truth that was happening in Chicago. And they ain't like that shit. They didn't like it. So he started. Get your asses out of it. Exactly.

So that happened. So the illest thing my dad did for me, though, was the money that I made from that show, he put it all up. He said, you're not touching this. I'm going to let you keep about 20,000 and figure out what's the next step. So at the time, I'm like, how are you going to keep my money from me? He was like, nah, but let me just protect you from yourself. You know, you're 21, 22 years.

Oh, you don't know what you're going to do with this. So I had to make $30,000, $20,000 work. And at that time, studio time, got to find an apartment. So I'm losing this money. Then my agent at the time calls me, he's like, bro, there's a show called power. just audition for it. I was like, okay, I put my tape in,

but then if they like you, you got to fly yourself to L.A. and meet everybody on stars. So I'll get past that first level. They say you got to come fly out, but we don't know how long you have to be out here. So I'm thinking like, damn, like, how am I going to keep this money?

I mean... How am I going to house myself? I'm not going to house myself. So I had to find a motel in East Hollywood that allowed me to stay there for me. This nigga was staying at the Mexicana in, man, God damn, you know. How much was a motel?

$50 a night, but oh boy was like, man, like you struggling. Like, I'll give it to you for this 25, man. It was $25. It was Routes' rents. And the nigger had to tell him that in Spanish. He said it was everything. Man, it got over there.

Lots of Quinn. He said it was roach's rats. Everything, though. It was horrible. It was horrible. So how long was you there? Ended up being there for a month and a half. Damn.

Month and a half, though. That shit changed your life, though. But again, it was betting on myself. So then I went out. So I didn't see nobody, I didn't see stars anybody until two weeks in. So they got it. They set the meeting up, met with Courtney, the creator of power, killed that, then met with stars.

So this is over a month. So I'm now like, damn, I got like $1,500, $1,500 left in my account. And I finally get the call, you know, to go to, I got the job and, you know, go to New York. It was like, I didn't know what I was going to do after that, you know what I mean? My dad was like, nah, man, you're not going to be able to touch this. money for another two, three years. So just figure it up. If you are who you think you are,

make it happen with what I gave you. And that's the power. You know that nigga dad ain't to be fucked with. No. Me and my dad would add a shootout about that shit. You're fucking out here in my money. That nigga dad, don't play no getting you. Don't touch this.

Go find it. Go figure out. Shit, the nigga like, all right, O.G. Because you look crazy. You was homeless before. I ain't never to you that shit. I ain't never been at that point. I'm going to leave you alone, O.G.

Just don't fuck my money up. I'm going to make it happen. So, okay, so now you get the show. I get the show. So I get the show. Season one, they're like, look, man, you got, I mean, season two, I'm the new character. They said, you got this season, but your character's going to die in season three. That was my deal initially.

So I'm like, all right, let me kill it. Let me do my thing, you know. And, but the funny thing is, man, I went in knowing that if I stay past season three and I stayed like multiple seasons. I made a vow to myself that I wouldn't touch any of my power money So I never spent any of my power money While I was on the show for six seasons, bro

This nigga's an African for real man I don't get a fuck he was born in Africa or not You might be half African, half Mexican man You're cheaper than a motherfucker man He don't spend no money from nothing What I got to just got to 500,000 Give me 15,000 for the next seven months Wait, wait dog

How are you going to live off? You figure it out So you don't touch no power money. I didn't touch no power money until after it was done. So what I did was I lived off the music money. I was filming every day. And then the weekends, I fly out, do my shows, do my, get my endorsement situation. So I'll do my hostings and my performances.

So for six years, that's what I lived off of. So the first thing I bought after the show was my crib in Atlanta. So just turned all of that into real estate. How did that feel? To buy cash, bro. Amazing. And build it from, you know what I mean? And it was ripe for.

Talk heavy, nigga. Don't skip over the talking happy. You try, you try and build it from that. He was about to say, build it from the ground up, nigga like you. Then he caught itself. He called himself. No, don't be humble, nigga. You built it from the ground up.

The ground up, bro, straight cash, nothing. No mortgage, nothing, bro. And it was just like, wow, like I did this, man. And I turned that into, I bought that and I bought another one. So I turned all the money into real estate early. And the funny thing it was, like the best thing I did was do that right before. COVID hit. So when everything shut down, I don't got no mortgage, nothing to worry about just the basics, you know what I mean? So that was one of the other things. That's what's

up, man. Like, like, you know, one time, you know, Jay-Z, you know, what, what happened at that brunch? Oh, shoot, that was crazy. So, um, Rock Nation brunch. So fast forward about seven, eight years, um, now Powell's going crazy. My new record's going crazy. So I see And he's like, man, bro, like, I'm so proud of you, dog. I'm so proud of what you're doing. Just keep doing what you doing, man. Like, whatever you need. So his nephews were there.

He was like, nephews, he was like, yo, how y'all let this nigga go, man? What's wrong with y'all, man? How y'all let this nigga go, man? What's wrong with y'all? So that was the whole talk, the entire brunch with me and him, man. But it was dope just to see Hove again, remember what I... And to know he's watching. You know, and he knows he's watching what I was going on.

I know some niggas that know some niggas that know some niggas that know Hove. They said that nigger see everything. I was like, wait, everything? They said, that niggas, you see everything. I was like, damn, even with a bee and another bee? Crazy. He's still watching shit. Yeah, I said, well, I guess he probably got too much to do.

He got all the fucking billions. You're sitting somewhere on the island, fucking let me see what's going on today. But that's what's up, man. Jay remembered you. Yeah, man. And just to come from, it seemed like, though, you was, almost seemed like he was destined to be something. because you was you was doing fucking

you was the wedding singer at four you know way before the movie came out you know you you was rapping in Jay Z's living room at 15 16 singing and shit you know so it's like

how many people could say that oh I used to be you know back in the day I used to be singing in Jay Z living room for him I used to go every weekend we'd be singing into like what so it's like It was almost like all the things you went through in life was just getting you to the point that you're at now, man.

Yeah, man. Again, you just got to trust the process, bro. Like, I realized, like, trusting my intuition, you know, staying prayed up, keeping good people around me. Right. Making fire product, you know, like, you can't sacrifice the product, man. Like, a lot of people want everything else. And we were just talking about everybody want everything else,

but not the work, you know what I mean? So for me, knowing that I had to prove, like, I really do make great. great music. I had to work harder than most artists. I had to be, I had to go from, I'm bringing scripts to studio sessions. I'm on the way, on the plane studying by writing. So it's like I always had to figure out a way to make time when artists got three, four months to just make music. I'm filming those three, four months and I might get a session or two to make my EP. So I had to be so efficient that like, you know, and I'm happy I had it that way, but I have to be so

efficient. I didn't have the same time than most artists did and I finally have it now. What was that with like 50 Cent, I know when you sang and all that stuff, just thinking you were acting? It's crazy. So 50 so if you know 50 So somebody, so on season two, if you remember

it was a lot of Dre and Canaan. They spent a lot of time together, right? So playing that, it was seeing like him every day. So I saw how he was with people always in the street asking him, yo, can you listen to my mixtape? Can you listen to this? So he would be like, no, I'm going and throw that shit away.

So I'm like, all right, okay, I'm never going to let, I'm not going to ask him for nothing. So I built a friendship and then one day, this is how, again, Destiny, bro. So I go to the studio one day working with these white boys I never met, these producers. I go in. And when I go in, they're like, yo, this is when Snapchat just came out. So we were like, yo, we just won a beat battle on Snapchat and this executive from a label is coming to get the beats that for his artists on. label. So he comes in, don't know who he is, but I'm playing my song that I'm working on in the studio. And he's like, yo, that's you? I'm like, yeah. He was like, I got music for

50 Eminem and all these people. I was like, who do you work with? He was like, yo, I'm the A&R of G unit. I'm the head A&R of G unit. So that nigga is the one that comes in randomly to my session and still 50 doesn't even know that I do music. So he's like, you'll come to this session. He'll come to this office tomorrow. So I go to the office tomorrow. So I go to the office tomorrow and you know when you play records you're in there for like 30 40 minutes right but I was I was an hour late so 50 came in a little later so when 50 came in he was like yo what are you doing here wrote what you're doing I'm like oh you know Tony asked me to come play you know some records he was like let me play let me hear what you got I played a song called

loto and he made me play that song nine times back to back to back and he was like I'm gonna do my verse tonight and I'm give you a G on the deal I said wow So just by God and timing, just, oh boy, coming in at the same time, 50 just happening You can get a lot of breaks. Bro, it's like, again, going back to the destiny, bro, like. That's a human fucking kick kick bar, man. It can't break me off. This motherfucker get breaks every year.

Crazy. Crazy. Yeah. And God, man. You know what I'm saying? Like, God put me in that position where it's like, wow. So just 50 here and that. And then two weeks later, did.

Dills done, video being shot. I got a record deal. This is all while filming season to the show didn't even come out yet. So everything was just happening at the right time. Buba, a good nigga, man. Hey, he's cool people, man. Buba a good nigga, man.

How was it like with the successor power working with the deal? How was it like working, like doing the show and like filming and then seeing, you know, you see all the work you put in. Then when you're not working, the response to the people when you're out there. How is that transitioning?

Oh, man. It's a blessing, bro. when you work so hard for something and people don't understand man we film eight months to make that show for people eight months eight months out of every year

so you mean to tell me your street is eight months straight or on and all eight months straight it'll go eight months straight and then the show would drop and then we'll get like a two three we'll get four months off

eight months again so I did that for six years so when you put that much time and now you're in people's living rooms every weekend it's like the best feeling to be acknowledged for what you do

You know what I mean? So for me, it was dope to be known as Dre. And then it was also dope to be known for my music. And then Mr. Sexy Nigerian bought our scotch as well. You know what I mean? So it's a beautiful thing. But again, man, it makes you want to work harder and do more. You know what I mean?

Yeah, you had a great fucking role, too. He was a vicious nigga on there. Oh, yeah, bro. I ain't going to lie to Eddie Edgy. You was playing that shit, too, because I'm going to keep it all the way real. I'd foot you as a motherfucker gangster, man. You go like, I'm through to you. Man, a nigga from Newark, man.

That nigga has shot a couple of niggins in his life. They had you playing some fucking rules on there. Oh, shout out to 50, man. And the writers of that shit, man. Crazy, bro. Because at that time, when that shit came out, man, motherfuckers was fiending for something to look at. Muffles was fiending for a series to grab on to, man.

And for a nigga like 50 who come in as a rapper. sell a bunch of records, you know, and then transition. Yeah. It's about transition. A lot of rappers, that's what I do want to shut Boo Boo out for. Because a lot of rappers is just rappers, man. That's all they ever going to be. They were good rappers in high school.

They was good rappers in their early 20s. They're rapping in their 30s. Raping in some niggas, that's just what they do. The transition game, they don't even think about transitioning. Yeah. So the fact that 50 is able to. The transition in so many fucking ways is inspiring to a nigger like me. I'm just keeping it real.

It's certain individuals in the gang that I look up to. 50 son is a nigga that I look up to. Even though he my peer, I might be a year older than 50. He might be a year older than me. But I look up to him. I admire the niggas. I admire niggas like Snoop, a nigga that had a fucking murder charge. And now he out here representing for Corona because that show you that your past ain't who you are.

day. You feel what I'm saying? Who I was back then is not who I am now. And I am able to grow. I'm able to grow as a person and I shouldn't be held accountable for some shit that was from back in the day. You feel what I'm saying? So for me I look up to certain niggas

and I'll be like damn man I'm trying to do that. He's a mastermind, bro. He's a marketing genius too, bro. It's 101. 50's 101 when it comes to marketing and selling products. I think I got the marketing aspect down. I got to get the other aspects

Fitty, I need a conversation for you, nigga I need you to embrace me like Jamie Embraced him, nigga pull up on me in Waddle Yeah You nigger's got it y'all can be producing TV shows Show us the way And we got some money too, nigga We don't need no money for them

That's major But we love using OPM Yeah, that's major But you know it's just like You're acting, you got the music You know, how do you balance all that stuff And then you got a lovely fiancé, baby Like, how do you balance all that?

Bro, you know, again, man, the way I grew up, they had me doing so much at one time. So I was always, I'm used to compartmentalizing. So I was playing sports and I'm singing, then I'm traveling, then I'm doing school, then this. I was always doing multiple, multiple things. So it prepared me as a man for this because, like, again, like music and acting doesn't really feel like work to me. Right. Like creating, don't feel like work. Right.

Being on set don't feel like work. Right. It's just knowing that I'm enjoying what I do to create. It feels light. I think the family aspect of it, it gets tough. You know what I mean? Because traveling and everything. But again, you got a good partner that is super, super just like,

yo, just go kill it, bring this bread back and enjoy yourself. Make sure, you know, be disciplined out there and just and do what you do. But that's the important thing. If she was a headache, all of this was called. Do you think, do you think is she's able to operate in the space and be? media support system because she's a superstar back in Africa? Yeah, bro.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was an artist, you know, so she was like... She's like at home, I'm bigger than you, Mother's Foka. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely.

Absolutely. But she was, she's from Tanzania. So she's like the East African Rihanna. Like, that's what she was. Damn. Yeah, so she was big, big, big. So she's seen it all. She's experienced it.

So for me, it's like having that cheat code, basically, to know, okay, Even performance ideas or this idea. So it's been dope, man. Because she could get you a lot of game. Absolutely. Because she was seasoned before you. Absolutely, yeah.

So that's a beautiful thing, man. How was it respond to Africa? To me? Oh, yes. It's like, they call us like the royal family. You know what I mean? Because everything that we're doing is inspiring to people. You know, you don't really see two artists successfully make something work like that.

So it's being, you know, they love it. But then also me as an artist and as an actor, Man, it's been love. And I actually want to go back home and start doing, like, film product productions there as well. Like, just open it up to make, you know, Nollywood even bigger than it is and be a part of that because there's a lot of money in that. And plus, you know, there's a lot of talent, too. Now, you're independent, right? Yeah.

How do it feel to be independent? You got two gold singles. Yeah. Another one ready to go platinum. How do you, how do that feel, man? Like, listen, and, you know, if you're independent, you over the empire, you get all your money. We get all the money. Yeah, it's all the money.

So it feels better knowing that you control a lot of the decisions. You control the singles you pick. You control how you move. You control the narrative you want to create. So to see it be almost platinum and all that, man, it feels like mission accomplished. Why is this nigga punch smaller like that? So he asked you about that money. He love it.

We ask him out, Phil. Nick, the nigga back didn't talk about. He's getting a trip. He grabbing his pocket. Shout out to Punch, man. Shout out to Punch, bro. Real talk, man. The one thing I can say about Punch, man,

if he's with you, you're always with you, man. That's the one thing I could say. That nigga called me and start breaking you down like I ain't know who the fuck you was. Call me too. I'm talking about, nigga Dre? Fuck you're talking about. You're talking about Dre?

Crazy Dre from Power. Man, I want to commend you, man. You're doing your thing out here, brother. Thank you, bro. You're doing your fucking thing, man. and that's just how you know man when God got something for you it's for you

it's going to happen that man didn't take no acting classes but that man act better than a lot of you niggas that one Julia are you ain't got to say it I'm gonna say it because you believable

and when you could play a role like okay cool I'll go play a role where I'm doing some gangst and shit that's not acting that's easy fuck out of it nigga you keep bitch I shoot your tea catch you on five that's not that's not acted you playing a role that's not even you yeah yeah

and it's believable it's like oh shit and you know and you know what crazy thing is too bro like against any actors out there like one maximize every opportunity you got when that camera's on because for season two my first season I didn't say a lot of things but I made sure when the camera was on me everything I did was with my eyes so you'll see little things that just stare or what or this or this or that like different things that you'll do to make people be like, yo, he's about to do something crazy I don't know. Because that's what it was always about

for me. What was he up to? Is he going to do something or he's sneaking off to do something? So I made sure I took care of those moments, you know what I'm saying? And so that was really, really, you know, powerful. What did you learn of that? Actually watching a lot of Robert De Niro movies, bro.

Nick was in a house watching. He was one of my favorite. Bro, he's one of the greatest. He did everything with his eyes. You know what I mean? So him, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and I grew up with a lot of drays. You know what I mean? So I know a lot of the mannerism list, you know, that guy.

So it was dope. Even with your parents, see, as he just told it on itself. Even with his parents being slick, he was still running around with some raggedy niggas. He still snuck off and had some raggedy-ass friends. Parents don't know to this day. He's like, I hanged with a bunch of drees. He ain't. man

but um damn man I just want to I just want to shot you out man I would have never in a million years New Year rule to success came like this man

thank you you know what I mean Jamie Fox standing motels for 30 something days that's major yeah I mean rat motels

he's just rats roaches all the bed bugs he probably wrote some of his best shit in there too yeah from you know you writing from that survival move, you writing your best stuff. You know, you ain't write no hot raps in prison,

shit, hell. Fuck you're talking about. You didn't have big bucks in prison. Y'all had mice. You know, we can't leave without talking about this nests in Philly city. Oh, we ain't leaving. We ain't leaving.

What are we going to talk about? I'm just saying, don't, don't sleep. You represent Africa, right? Yes, I do. You know the Sixers have Big Moldefoca, right? Joel and Bid, big moody folkah.

Yeah, you think, who the fuck, who on the nets can guard big more than four guy? Yeah, you're right. Oh, yeah, okay. I keep to getting you, you forgot KD and them niggas got traded. I know, I know, bro. But we play hard, though. We play, like, a good team, though. And y'all play together.

Yeah. You know, I can honestly say that you all picked up some great fucking players from Miles Bridges to, uh, Cam Johnson. Spencer, Denway. Tough, tough. Y'all got some. That was my squad when Kyrie and Katie was up there. I left them since. That's just a fuck up, man.

Everybody's your team that's winning. Yeah. They're the good squad. I don't think they got a shot now. No, I don't think they got a shot to win the championship. In the league? In the league right now. Joel and Bede.

That's number one. Yes. I mean, he averaged 34 fucking points a game. Yeah, he's going crazy. He's going crazy, bro. Every game? 34 points a game. That's what that mean.

Every fucking game, goofy. He didn't get to say you average 34 points a game. He said, every game? What about John Moran in all the books? Dumb is This is a dumb motherfucker right This is my man named for Milwaukee Hold on

No order though But I do think right now Joel Embed is the best player in the league You got to have Yannis I can't I can't give it to LeBron this year Because LeBron been hurt too much Fair enough

I can't I can't give it to KD either I can't give it to KD Katie Are they still top top Yeah they are But he'd be hurt He love.

I got a... Luca. Luca. Yes, there's three. Even though he's... Their team isn't that good. Shegildas Alexander been going the fuck off, man. I just put a punch on it.

Bro, dude is hard. He's been going the fuck off. You can't call him, bro. And he has nobody... You know, he has good players, but he's no superstars on his. team is no and he really carrying a whole team by itself he goes to fuck off and i'm just talking about this year i'm not talking about i'm with you you cannot that kid is he's special that kid is fucking special man yeah he's definitely tough that's my

favorite point though i don't leave right now um i think my fifth probably would be oh he played for peppers yeah he did he did he got traded or i don't know my The fifth would be, man. There's so many. Tatum, Jason Tatum. God damn. God damn. I was supposed to piece to say him first.

The second after Embed. Jason Tatum. So that would be my top five players in the league right now. It would be Jewel and Bid, Janice, Jason Tatum, Shay, and Dantz. Who would your five be? No order. No order. Give me Shay and Bid.

Oh, yeah, no kidding, you know. I like Devin Booker, man. Devin Booker's tough. He's a bucket. He's a fucking bucket. Yon is for sure, obviously. And then, yeah, give me Tatum. Give me Tatum.

Okay. So we just disagree on Don Chitla, and Luca just numbers is unbelievable, though, man. And he played his own pace, man. He's tough. It's tough. Absolutely, man. You got to understand.

Then, back in the day, you had the hardest jobs, man. You was an all-pro running back in a wedding singer at the same time. Nigger rushed for 30 times for 219 yards. I think I'd go sing. There would never come a day. You'll ever hear me say. Body, you can like a man, man, man, I want. Get that money, whatever.

We told you not to play football. Your main job is wedding singer. You know what's crazy, though, Cuss? What's that? I know, you know, he might look at you in the same way because, you know, he won the celebrity game and the Knicks, the Nets, I'm in a celebrity game, so he might think he can't. Ta, I cook the shit out of him.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, Barbie, my jellper be singing on that nigger. Now he's not going to meet me, what was in a, in my bed. That motherfucker. You won't even be able to get it all. Damn, what? I'm right here, no, no, no, no. I got a handle.

Whop, whoop, whop, you over there. That shit's so smooth That's the same thing At the Lee Chappas here You ain't gonna maybe get it on You old, yeah Big Three On TV

That went crazy You went crazy MVP I mean I was the oldest nigga on the court By far Like At the Lee Chapp was like 21

I'm like 46 I mean I'm probably older than your mother nigga and I cooked you So like I mean we had Brankowski on our team. He didn't win MVP.

The little nigger did. The little nigger with the jumper. Now we're going to do it, though. Whenever you're ready, because I come up to mebel wood, and then scorch the shit out of you. I just want you to know, whenever we play, it's going on camera. Easy, yeah.

Every bucket I'll be singing one of your songs. The ball will be in there and be, Step up, sexy, Mother Scotch! Step up, sexy, Mother's Scotch! I'm just telling you how it's going to go there before it go down. You'd be like, damn, Gil talks so much shit. Why ain't playing? Well, Gil told you.

He was going to cook you and talk shit at the same time. You show you what thing? Because if you don't, we can be on the same team now. We can cook together. I'm going to guard you, bro. Damn. I'm a guard you. He still got to guard me.

Look at my camera. My camera man, my camera man did like this. He said, because you know how many young niggas since he's been down with me, he's heard, it's over. I'm guarding you. You. Killing. Killing. Then they got to hear me talk this shit.

It's like, he don't even believe you. And he knew you an athlete. He like, I feel sorry for sexy butterscotch. Yeah, ain't going to go how you think. This nigger jumper is silky. It's crazy.

Seriously. I saw Chris Brown shit. It's crazy. Yeah, I got Chris out of there, you know. Just that Chris Russ Who else NLE Chaba

Who else So many, too many Than that Rob 49 Rob 49 Rob 49 What's the young boys Cooked him

Him and his man The young boys That went to the NFL Draft Oh you talk about Bryce Young C.J. Stroud Yeah, I play with them

We Cook Famous Loose Shout out to Famous Lose You know Famous Loos Barbecue bitch Four games games are too loose get you out of yeah go ahead

do your sports center shit now talk about the players when you talk about the players at me and they can talk about my game how I cooked you you never do that loose I went to Lose house too he had me paying

his little ass garage where you're going to take two dribbles like what the fuck type we had to go to L.A. fitness That's what I got him cooked you Who else?

Barbecue big anybody else? It was a lot. It's been a lot It's been a lot So we just going to add you on the list You know how fuck with you bro You know what I'm going to add you

You know what I mean just adds you on the list today about nothing. I know you can play, though. No, I'm nice, bro. I know you can play. I'm nice. I'm nice. Yeah. You're not going to be able to do it. I mean, what you're saying is nice, but I got you. Oh, shit. I got you. That's that Nigerian confidence.

Newsflash them niggas is not known for playing basketball. It's like one Nigerian nigga in the league. And he's the best. Who is he? Janus. He's from Nigeria. Of course. You ain't knew that? That was my favorite player.

He won. No, he's not. Yonis is from. from Greece, man. He's Nigerian, bro. I'm American, but Nigerian, he's Nigerian. He's a hundred percent Nigerian. He's just born in Greece. Oh, he was born in Greece, but he's, that niggas from Greece.

Yeah, he's Nigerian. I got to check on that, that niggas. You claim in Janus. No, he's Nigerian. He is? Yeah. I believe him because his voice is my heart. He's Nigerian.

Yes, he is. I never heard you dig in that. He's like, he was hitting the motherfucker. hit the motherfucker sea notice damn I didn't know Giannis was from Nigeria You know that man

So Cameroon's right next to Nigeria So it's like Jersey How you know all this shit You was born in Jersey Nick of Maplewood He's talking like he was right there You know my man A couple miles away

I used to travel over the bridge How many times you'd be in Africa? Shit maybe 15 times Oh yeah God damn You were want back home for real yeah had to bro had to i went back home do your parents go back home yeah my dad go back like every two months

yeah that's why he never lost that accident he ain't he ain't losing that motherfucker he go back home every two months every two months bro there's a lot people don't understand there's a lot of money in africa a lot of money in nigeria a lot of money in africa period so they try to act like africa fucked up though what's they

bro they got more money than most of us 95% of us bro they live way better than 95% but why they always want to show us the villages and shit. I mean, because it's America, America, bro. America, America just always wants to look like it's bigger than everything.

Because them commercials back in the day, I'm just seeing it. I never believe them commercial. They got a motherfucking little kiss here flying on his fucking face. You can feed little $0.65 cents and who the fuck eat $0.65 cent?

Where they shop in it? That's a lot of rights. The fuck do you talk about 65 cents? How are they going going to eat off of that? Crazy. Like, they, them commercials. I always used to think that was a scam, bro. Most of them are, though.

Really? Yeah, most of them are. Let me find out of Africa where the fucking money at, man. It's where the money is, bro. For real. A lot of gold over there, huh? A lot of gold, oil, just new development, real estate, businesses, everything, bro. Everything out there.

All right, so is you going to take your company to your skincare company to Africa? Absolutely. So I got a new skincare line called Favor. It's F-A-V-R, F-V-R, F-V-R, F-E-R, F-E-Skin. And what I did during the pandemic, I went to Israel, and I partnered with these guys in Israel, to get products and minerals from the Dead Sea. So it's all natural organic because the Dead Sea is a healing component. Like the minerals there is all healing. So anything it does to your skin, it heals it.

So package it up, and now it's available everywhere. So favorskin.com, you can get it. We're about to do it. It's about to go live on Amazon as well. And we're about to do something with HSM. as well too so yeah man it's moving it's doing the guy

he wears like broken glass man so get that favor of skin how you be get that you know what I mean ASAP where they can get it at online any stores yes sir favor skin

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F-A-V-R He put favor skin he can F-A-B-R. Yeah, that's K-I-N. You had to tell the nigga out of spell skin. This shit is crazy, man. I see the website right here.

Yeah. You got it, yeah. Oh, look at that, nigga. He come right up. Look at him. He come right. Sixie Bortos. He's not playing the packaging.

Yeah, the packaging looked good at, too. You got a nigga out on a peach suit. He ain't playing. That nigga's not playing. you're not playing you got the website got the kids on there you think

got the skin kids getting their skin right for them was a pay yeah yeah boys and girls men and women all can wear it

all can use it so make sure y'all go check my man skin line out skin care line out you know moisturize your face

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A baby butt face Look at you He called him BBF Not BMF That's BBF baby butt face Yeah Look and you ain't use none of that You need to use it though

You need to use some favor on your shit man That's why you should be itching like that As a package man Got you Please yeah take care of it My shit start glowing and shit Because I smoke so much weed I'll be having a little tint to my shit

I got a bread All right, nigga I don't smoke with fucking Reggie Fuck you so much I bring my shit back To life favor Skin care

Reggie 10 Get that So I could be a A sexy Carmel Betta Treps I don't think I don't got no potential To be sexy

Like I I figured I was ugly Nick Way long ago I was like I just get that shit up Stop I stopped

I stopped giving the fuck About my regimens and all that. I'm like, none of this shit is not going to be cute. It's one thing we understand. But see, I'm able to face reality. You was one of them ugly niggas

thought you had a chance of shit. You were still getting dressed and shit brushing your hair for hours and all that. She had three little funky ass waves and all that dumb ass shit. Like, give it up, bro. And the stocking cap one.

You know, bitches look at you. They say, hey, there's Franklin. Look, he like, he tried to hold it in it. He tried to. He ain't shit. Shit, you know what some nigger knew. He really know he looked like Franklin.

He was like, he's like, When a nigga do that's when you do that's when you know they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you. He looked like Franklin, remember the show? Say it one time. He said, he's trying to get him to sing this. You do got one of the biggest wedding songs ever. Biggest.

You're paid to do all the weddings? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm back doing my wedding singing thing, but now it's actually my song. The song's called I Do. It's beautifully written, man. Because when I created it, I was like, man, there's no wedding song for this generation.

We don't have our own. We got everybody else's. You use the same thing, but we don't have one for this generation. So I wanted to make one that people could just feel good. So we've been just doing dope, dope wedding, while they're walking down the aisle, everything, man. So it's been really... You'd be singing an acapella?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do that. Let's do that. You need the back. I'm saying, I got you. Oh, you're going to start? You want to start? You going to start?

Yeah, let me start. He don't even know where to start with that dance, Steve, boy. You be doby Boodoo Bop Bupah Bupah Duah Duah

You That sounds like Some deep dark dumb shit But somebody sitting in the woods Indian style listening

To that dumb shit I got you I know It's hard To see Just how simple It is Until you love

Somebody Like one two three trust me you haven't lived until you love somebody how simple it could be it's simple truly keep going

until you love somebody how simple it could be it's simple truly keep going until you love somebody oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I'm about to get remarried nigga just when I'm singing my shit you see you know when a nigga can sing where he ain't got no problem singing a cappella you know what I mean you don't need

nothing at all the two shit you got nothing you got some motherfucker another motherfucker at day I ain't got no holes man my floor I need some tea I need holes in a hot tea and my throat I was in the studio to five in the morning last night and all that shit. He came right on until you need somebody. Yeah, I heard the little riffing in. Oh, that. Absolutely, man.

But we appreciate you, man, for pulling up on us, man. Giving us some of your time, giving us this great energy. And just teaching, you know, the youth about your journey, man. And how you got on, how you became who you are today, man. And this is an amazing journey. Thank you, brother. From Jamie Fox to the 50 cent to, you found a way to get in them fucking rooms, though. Man, man, the rooms find me, bro.

It's God. That was deep. The rooms find me. That was major. To all the young people out there when you put the work and guess what, the room's going to find you. Amen. And it's just like that. Right.