No Jumper - The Saviii 3rd Interview: Getting Out of Jail, High Speed Chase, Cash Money Fall Out & More

Episode Date: March 1, 2022

Saviii3rd finally made his way to No Jumper to talk to Adam about his crazy life, signing to Cash Money West through Wack100 in and out of jail, been on the run, been grinding for years, finally getting his due, fatherhood and new music! https://www.instagram.com/saviii3rd/ ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Jumper. Coolest podcast in the world. And today I got a man fresh home. I've been looking forward to having a conversation with for a long time. Saturday 3rd is in the building. How are you feeling, man? I'm in the house, man. You know, I feel good, though.

Yeah? We were supposed to be in there and did this. I know, right? Long time ago. That's cool, though. You had to go away for a little while right when you were heating up there last time. Yeah. I had to get that over here.

People don't know. That was an old-ass case. It was from 2018 January. Okay. What kind of case was this? I stretched it all the way out to 2012. Oh, you just kept pushing it back? I even went on the run twice.

Really? What was this case over? It was a hitting run with injury. Ah. But I had a parole violation and then they gave me 16 while after that, plus four with 80 for the hitting run with injury. injury. Wow. So you kind of knew that you were going to be doing a couple years there for a long time?

Yeah, I thought I was going to do at least, I'm like, if I ever get caught, like when it's time, I'm going to do for sure at least three years for sure. I'm going to do three years for sure at least. Right. So I keep getting out of jail, bail out. They keep giving me a bell. Gave me a bell again. Boom, I went on the run. Every time I get out, I bail out going to run because I know that I'm not trying to go to jail, period, because I'm going to go back to that pen.

Right. So I go back that last time and then give me no bill. It was over. But were you just living in fear? Like, is it stressful? Yeah, it was the most stressful time in my life. If you get pulled over, you're done. It was like the most stressful time of my life.

I couldn't. I was a whole different person for sure. Really? You're just stressed out? Everything. That shit affected everything. Because I know in the back of my mind I got to go to jail one day. But are you kind of also thinking like, shit, maybe I could do this for like 10 years?

Jail? No. like being on the run. Oh, no. Well, yeah, hell yeah, because I know the homies that and did that. I got a homie that was on the run. Beans, rest in peace, beans.

He was on the run for eight years, bro. On the run for eight years with a real outstanding felony warrant. Wow. He didn't get caught. So that's what motivated me. So I was thinking about that, but I knew once I got caught, especially I had just had my son.

So I really was like, no, I ain't going to jail. Like, he only one years off. Hell, no. Definitely. He won and I go to jail for four years. No. We're not doing that.

So I got caught on. He did a year, bro. And I mean, your career, like, 2018, because you've been putting on music videos for, what, like 10 years? Let me see. It's 20, yeah, 10 years. We can say 10 years, yeah. I mean, 2018 was really when your career started hitting, though, wouldn't you say?

But I started, like, yeah, 2018 is when it took off. Right. Jesus Christ, I haven't fucking a race out there on the street. Right. So, I mean, was that part of why you didn't want to turn yourself in, that was just the fact that it was fucking. I mean, I knew that... You're going up?

Yeah, because I built my fan base, and then I knew that the shit that I was putting out was, like, really feeding them. And it would motivate me to do that, you know what I'm saying? So now it's not like I'm trying to catch people attention. Now I got people attention, and I'm trying to keep it. So it's like, damn, let me drop something hot. Oh, man, I just dropped some shit, hoping to take off.

And the shit that I think could take off, it don't usually be it, but the shit that do take off, it be the random ones. Right. Like, batter up. That was a sound cloud throwaway for me. You know what I'm saying? That's my biggest song. But isn't that, like, the thing that makes you want to keep making music

because that realization that if you go in and make two songs, that one of those songs could be the fucking song that changes your life right there. It could be anyone. Anyone. But I just always try to keep the fun and making music. Like, if I don't got a passion for it, then I can't do it. And once that shit gone, it's over. Like, if I'm not having fun with it,

if I'm not having fun making this music in the studio every night, getting better and shit, like, with my sound and just all different type of melodies and stuff, just learning everything more about music and really loving it. If I ain't loving it, I can't do it. I'm not going to just do it for the money or nothing. I just go broke. I got to love it. So if I'm still making music, I mean, I'm loving this shit.

Are you so in love with making music that you? you were sort of like tormented by being away from it while you were locked up, like the realization that you're just missing out on these years of being able to record. Yeah. I mean, that killed me. Being in there just like, I couldn't even write

for the first like seven months in there. I couldn't write nothing. I tried to write. I couldn't write nothing. I'm like, man. But it killed me just not being able to make music and just being a student, how that vibe, shows, everything.

That's all I visualize. That's all I visualize, bro. Like, and being with my son, that's it, them two things. Right. That's it. So after six months, you started to feel comfortable enough to record, or not to record, but to write. Yeah. I wrote a couple songs after six months once I went to a reception.

Because, you know, a reception, you don't got nothing, no phones. So I had to write. I finally started writing, and I got in the groove. By the time I got to the main line, I was already writing like them there at least once a week. Right. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of a question. Like, because when you're at home, do you punch in in the booth? Yeah, I mean, but.

I punch in, see, my recording process, like, I listen to it. And even though I wrote it, I go do that line, that one line over and punch that in. You know what I'm saying? But I wrote all that. You feel me? It's not freestyle. Right. Sometimes I freestyle.

Going there with nothing straight from the dome and punch it in. I just have like a theory that even though most rappers punch in, that if you write your verses in advance, and then you sort of like really work on each individual line that a lot of the biggest rap songs end up being. those songs. Do you see this Kanye documentary yet? Yeah. Because those songs that Kanye was writing for fucking months, and then he finally gets to record it,

and he's made every bar hilarious or something really smart. I swear to God, the ones that you, when you sit down and really think about what you want to say instead of just coming off the top, I mean, that's cool, but it's way more potent when you sit down and write that shit, bro, because, man, niggas Pankame can be crazy. So when you just sit down and give them some time

to, like, come up with some shit, it's cold. It's a big difference Immediately like the shit I wrote And the shit that I freestyle you could tell It's immediately like oh yeah You wrote that like you sat down and thought about that Right The other shit it sounds like it's cool

It's a vibe but Like you can tell it's not written Right 100% You can tell definitely So what was your jail experience like Like this time around at least In terms of how fucked up it was Or how it is for you now

As somebody who's so known as a rapper around LA This time it was totally different, bro. Totally different. That's Gung Gay's. He just stepped in the building. This time, it was completely different. The first time is my first experience. You know, you go through that county experience,

going to court, back and forward, back and forth to court. In the county, that's a total different experience than going back and forth on the street. So if you're in the county going to court, it's your first, it's a whole other experience. Like, when you go to court, it's phase cracking. Like, it's really, like, it's booming in L.A. County, for sure. Wherever you at.

But this time, bro, it was like I'm famous, so certain niggas would be like, you know, most niggas show they love, you feel me? They, they, like, I respect it. You walk in the main line. I respect it. And plus, I can turn it down nothing. And I'm really tripping. I'm not going to lie.

Like, you feel me? I ain't going to pop it on here. I ain't going to pop it on the podcast. Right. But I, like, like, if a nigga, no, if you see me in that county jail, I'm tripping, bro. I'm not going to lie, for me. Because when you're at home. I got it.

I feel like I gotta be the one that tripped, like, because I already know that they think that's what I'm on. Like, that's what I'm not on, I mean. They think that's what I'm not on. So I'm tripping, you feel me? I'm like, no, I can't give them no room. You know what I'm saying? I can't give them no room for it.

But some niggins that came and tripped on me, and I gave them what they want, period. That's just how I go. But is it, do you at all feel like, you know, I'm something now? I got something to lose. And all of a sudden I got this crusty-ass bum who thinks that he's worthy of a goddamn fist fight with me And you're just kind of feeling insulted by the fact that he even has this opportunity. Because on the street, you would never get this guy a fair fade, right?

He's a fucking weirdo, you know? We don't fight ops. Never. But I expect that shit. So every day I'm, you know what I'm saying? But, you know, a nigga being certain modules, you feel me? They got certain modules. Like they got the gangsters and the hooves, everybody that's allies in one module.

Okay. You feel me? So they put niggas that get along together. If you fall in somewhere else where, Like, they don't get along with your side. You feel me? You might get a couple fags and get pulled over there or whatever.

But wherever you land, you just got to stay the same nigga. I was the same nigga every time, wherever I went. The same nigga. I don't know who up in here. They asked me where I'm from, from baby insane.

Whatever. I say it the same way as if I knew it was a hundred homies in here. Right. Like, if a nigga knew all his homies in here, he's going to be with the extras. Right. You feel me?

I'm, who, who, who, who, but if you knew all his enemies was in here, you're going to do it like that. No, I'm the same nigga every time. Right. Feel me? So that's all you got to do. You just got to stay thorough, bro.

Are you miserable being in that environment, though? Or once you get in there, are you just kind of like, all right, it is what it is. I don't lie, man. I was in there smoking spice. Getting through the time. Damn. I was hizing up. It was expensive.

Niggas, he got the bag. He's in here blowing a bag on spice. Man, man, boy. Compare that to some good weed, though. Man, it's a whole other high. Yeah. You can't even put it in the same category. No, but niggas be catting out off that shit.

Niggas don't cat off the weed. Right. That's a chemical. Yeah. Niggas is smoking incense. That's what they told me when I was downtown at the store and shit. It's all we got. They told me that the crazy shit that you see downtown with the bones, people think it's meth, heroin, whatever.

It's the spice. The K2 is what's really making them off the wall. Tell you, I've seen so much shit, man. I was in there smoking that, but. But you never did any crazy shit? Never. Ever. That's all the mind thing, man.

Two vicious for that. I never what? Hell no. Right. But that's just all you could get in there? That's just the easy shit to get? No, I mean, shit. It was other shit, but I wouldn't do no drugs in there, you feel me?

I went fucking around in there. I was eating. That's how I got fat. I was in there eating, you feel it? I couldn't do no. I'm not about to do no drugs. That's going to make me think too hard. Right.

And then I'm going to really be mad as a motherfucker in this jail cell. So I'm about to do some shit that's going to have me sleepy and all that, you know what I'm saying? So I was smoking some spice. Once you get in a groove in there, though, it becomes less violent, I would assume, where you kind of everybody's sort of leisure I mean, I was with niggins that I fucked with. You feel me? I was with the hovers. I was with gangsters.

I was with them. I was in that model. But you feel me? A couple of enemies, they'll fall through. Like, oh, you got an enemy here. I'm from the squabbling. That's it. Boom. Get out the way and that's what it is. It's over. But then you can see that guy a hundred more times. Yeah, yeah. It's cool. Yeah, it's cool. After that, niggas, no, it's good after that.

But, yeah, it's rare that you squabbling again. You see them later on at court again or something, and you squabling him again. Like, if you scribble, okay, you're going to be like, I'm like, I'm going to go out. It's kind of like you gain a certain level of respect for each other. Yeah, for sure. Definitely. For sure, for sure.

For sure. Okay, can we take it back, though? Tell me a little bit about your early days in Long Beach. Well, I've been from Locust's app the whole time. Okay. Like, I can say that. The whole time. That's all I know.

I was at 10th and Stanley for many years there. I've been 21st in Locust since forever. Right. Like, it never was nothing else. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, nix be having different shit. 10 years ago, he wasn't saying that.

He was saying a whole other thing. I was saying something. I was saying the same thing. Right. But, you know, it was like, you know, it wasn't hard. It was hard, but we made it work. Shit, I made it work. You feel I mean, like I always gypsy my way through life.

Right. You know what I'm saying? I mean, he's a shy nigga. I always made it happen. I figured it out. Right. Sure. I mean, Lawn Beach is an interesting place, you know?

You got a lot of nice areas. You got some crazy-ass areas. Long Beach is a crazy city. I love Long Beach, bro. Shout out to Long Beach, man. Growing up, though, like, I mean, did you think of yourself as somebody who was from L.A. or, like, part of L.A.

Or were you thinking, I'm Long Beach? That's it. Never. I'm from Long Beach. Okay. But as an artist now, you know what I'm saying? I could go with the term and be okay with being called the L.A. artist because that's what they're going to say.

You go on the radio and they're like, We got one of the hottest artists from Los Angeles. Oh, no. I'm going to be like, I'm going to be like, Long Beach. Yeah, I'm going to let him know. I'm from Los Angeles County. But, you know, I'm from Long Beach for sure. Right.

It's just something you have a shit little pride in? Yeah, definitely, bro. Like, we got to show pride in our city because, man, it's like a, it's a big elephant in the room, but niggas don't talk about it, man. Niggas never like Long Beach. They never like Long Beach like that. They always said a little shit. But, you know what I'm saying?

They know what I'm saying? going on. You feel me? They respect what they respect. But niggas always say little shit. Niggas catch that. I ain't going to beat around the bush and sugarcoat it. But, you know, they give us our respect. I know that. At the end of the day, that's what it's about. They give us our respect. That's all we ask for. Right. But was that part of what motivated you to rap?

It's just really wanting to represent, do a good job represent. For sure. That's one of the, I mean, hell yeah, that's what motivated me. Matter of fact, hell yeah. Right. Like, that made me feel amazing. I know I'm putting on for my hummies and my, my niggas in my section I know that they gonna be proud of this I'm like yeah they gonna love this the people my people because Long Beach has had some of the biggest

rappers in the history of Southern California but then also has gone long periods of time without really having a king of the city per se yeah yeah I mean shit until I was like you came out after Snoop what was that probably Advil that was a perkinson respect respect to honesty. Okay. So growing up, though, would you say, like, were you just automatically in the streets

or were you sort of attracted to the fuck shit? I was automatically in that shit. I mean, I lived right in the shed. Like, I lived in the set. You know, growing up, you feel me? You know, I understand that as a little-ass kid, but then once I got the middle school, it was a rap. Right.

They had me. They got me. High schools were wild as fuck out there? High school was like adult life. High school was crazy. Polly High? Oh, man. Oh, I know Polly.

We share a school with our ops. Really? You feel me? So it's crazy. Other than L.A., they had their own school. And then their ops got a school over here. Like, this is the Wuthuble School and this is our school over here. We share a school with ours.

Wow. But a couple on the west side, a couple of the north side. Nika, we share school on the east side with our ops. But so is it just what? You fighting in math class every day? Or how does that go down? We fighting it? whenever it's cracking.

Right. You feel like, whenever we see him or whatever, I mean, it was cracking, though. After school, really, though. That's when it was booming. You'll see a bunch of grown niggas outside in the front. Polly High, niggas, all kind of niggas up in the front. Oh, we too.

Yeah, I'm in the front. Oh, ain't. You got a grown-ass men tripping in the park. They're up there. We're up here. Where they're recruiting? We tripping. We tripping.

Really? Go to Polly Burgers when it was Tommy's. Yeah. Right down the street. I used to drive by Polly every day. I had no idea it was so hectic over there. Man, I mean, now it's probably nicest of motherfucking. Really?

My generation's probably the last of that turned-thurted up breed. Were you feeling that? I mean, with the high school, though, with the high school, that's it. You feel I'm you? Right. Because we got a whole new generation, that's tipping shit. Right. Because when I drive down fucking 4th Street in Long Beach now, and I look around, I'm always

amazed by how much nicer it keeps getting, and how many cool little stores and all this. this kind of shit yeah they're trying to I mean they're gonna they gonna clean it up and make it look good but right always been like that I remember when they did that shit to the pike get up that makeover right yeah made it look good or it was grimy over there before huh it was grimy over there by the pike for the record that's like the main shopping area down by the beach and Long Beach I mean it was just it wouldn't look like that yeah there's no hooters no hooters was down there oh shit

game works was down there they switched that to the bowling alley Oh, that Nike store wasn't down there. Right. They gave it a whole makeover. We used to be at the lighthouse live, drinking any type of liquor we could get our hands on. Right. When did you decide you wanted to start rapping, though?

When I was 14. 14. Well, I was faking. I used to rap the instrumentals when I was 12 when Carter 3 came out. Okay. I used to rap the instrumentals and shit. And then, because my mom seemed. And my dad used to rap.

I was in the studio my whole life with him, you feel me? Really? If it wasn't for that, I got a song with you when I was a little-ass kid, you feel me? Really. So, it goes to say, I've been around music my whole life, but I really started like taking and, like, making songs when I got out of camp, and me and the homies made,

no, we made our first song before I went to camp, I got out of camp, I made my first song like by myself. And I got good feedback, and it was like, you hard. And I made a mixtape. mixtape with my dog Johnny Love called Plea to Phil made the whole mixtape and sold CDs and I'm great they love that shit so I kept going all the way after that mm-hmm all the way definitely and and was there anybody you were looking at who kind of let you see like oh this is a real way you can make money and and really have something for yourself

uh all I mean all that was on my mind was was getting a deal and I thought I thought everything would be picture perfect right that's what was on my my mind, like I was a young nigga rapping and trying to like take it serious. I'm just trying to get a deal. That's the biggest, that's my biggest goal. You feel me? I wanted to sell out stadiums. But that seemed like a dream that was too

big for me. Right. Like getting a deal was, it was realistic to me. Like, I can actually do that. You feel me? I get some of my attention, boom, because the social media started booming. Right. You know what I'm saying? I was active on every social media. Right.

That's when Instagram first started in 2010 and shit. But those were kind of, of the dark ages where labels weren't really giving people good deals and it was hard to make money as an independent artist because everybody's watching shit on YouTube but you're not making any money on streaming and shit all I thought of was getting a deal you feel me and then I started fucking with DOC at Universal all right I remember DOC that was my first like little taste of the real deal like studios I never been in a real studio like that before right that was a whole new vibe you feel me he started we made a whole project I

I popped some Xanax one night. And made a project? Or I felt like you were about to say something that happened. Okay. It did. Listen. I popped some Xanax one night and woke up in jail. Damn.

And they said I was in jail for armed robbery and first degree residential burglary. I said, no. You had no idea. I had no idea. I still don't remember what I did. Holy shit. I did four years for that. Zanx a hell of a drug.

I never did it again. Oh, yes, I did. I ain't gonna lie. But I don't do it now. That's like my worst nightmare. Because when I used to do zanz and shit, I always feel like something crazy could happen that would really fuck my life up

and I would fucking not even know. That shit changed my... Bro, I don't remember. I don't remember. So that fucked up, that whole situation with DOC, right? Right. Boom and I got out.

He was just over it at that point. He's like, fuck it. I ain't working with younger artists now. I mean, yeah, I mean... Or just you specifically. He knew I was about to do some, like, a couple of years. So he was like, I wasted his time. You feel me? Like, I caught a case. And we put in all that work in time in the studio, bro, with the features and everything.

We were trying to get that shit going. And we was about to. Like, it really felt like it. Like, in 2013, and I went to jail in 2014 all the way to the end of, no, yeah, at the end of 2017. And you had no chance of beating this case? No, it was dead bang. They called me dad bang. Wow. That's what they said. What, like in the middle of performing the armed robbers? No, I mean, like, I don't know. I think they said I was coming out.

And then I tried to go, I don't know, they said I knocked at somebody else's door. I was fucked up. And then I turned around and walked away. And they just called me walking up the street. Wow. With a bunch of shit on me. That's fucked up.

So do you think your rap career? I was sick. Was your rap dream dead for a while there? Or were you just thinking, nah, I just got to get out and I'll be good. No, no. I started going hard. I started writing.

I was hungry, bro, because all I was hearing on the street was shit that was popping in my city. Like, damn, they got that popping. They told me, Long Beach Movement. I'm like, Long Beach Movement. What's that? They're like, yeah, they got to run some different huds and snoop. I'm like, oh, you feel me?

So that motivated me. Because I knew I was going to get out and do my shit, bro. I'm not going to lie. I was like, if I get through all this time, that seemed like forever to me, bro. I was in love. Nika, I was in the middle. Man, my whole world came crashing down.

Bro, you feel? A lot of shit, my whole life changed in that four years. Like if I get through this, nigga, I'm something going to happen. Right. So I got through it. Nick, I felt like I would never get out some days. I'm never going home.

I got three years left. Oh, my God. Wow. So, nigga, I knew I was going to get out and do my thing. I was motivated in that motherfucker. I'm not going to lie. Right. I was hungry.

So how many years did you have for a run there before you went in this most recent time? Say it again? Like, how long did you have in between that prison bid and then going in more recently? Oh, it was, I got out, that was 2017, and I just did a year, 2020 to 2020. Oh, it was only a year? Yeah, only a year.

Only did 13 months. Okay. Damn. So, yeah, I mean, I feel like a lot of people kind of, well, obviously, you're creating your own buzz, but then at a certain point, you do a management deal with Wack, right? No, I signed to Cash Money West. Oh, you signed Cash Money West, but Wack was involved with it, too, right? Like, on the management side?

Wack made that happen. Yeah, the management saying. How did he actually reach out to you? That's a crazy-ass story, bro. It's kind of unbelievable. Really? I'm not going to lie. Man, that's a crazy story.

I think I only told it one time. But let me see. Okay, so March, start fucking with Warren G. Okay. I was signed a warrant G. Right. Well, I signed a Warren G in, like,

I think April or May. But I was fucking with him from, like, all the way from March till then, and then, But it is kind of crazy that you, so early in your career, got the attention of somebody like D.O.C., Warren, G. Like, all these West Coast legends just seeing the potential of you. Yeah, no.

I mean, I always got the vibes, like, that I was great. But I just wanted to, I always looked up to, like, Kendrick and shit. I wanted to be on a superstar level, bro. You feel me? I always got the vibe. Like, I'm hard as a motherfucker. I got the whole package. You know what I'm saying?

But as I got deeper in the game, I realized that that's not all you need. You feel me? You need more than that. You got to really know the big. and you got to move right bro so it was like man one mistake it cost you everything you feel me so it's like I always got them vibes though you know as far as like great shit happened I always did miracle shit you feel me so it's kind of it's kind of normal to me I'm not gonna lie but like from the outside

looking in is it look amazing right you know so you were you did a whole project with Warren G and you were like on the verge of signing with him signed oh you did sign oh I was signed with Warren G look I start recording with him We was recording, recorded some songs and shit. And he presented the deal to me. You feel me? Blah, blah, blah. On story short, I signed it.

We get ready to go on tour. Wack started hitting me. One of the homies posed one of my freestyle videos I did in the car when I was doing that shit every week. Wack, follow him. He comment on there, who is this young nigga? I want to sign him. Blah, blah, nah.

So I'm not going to lie, the whole time, The whole time I'm thinking, Wack Cabin. Like, because he, he hit me on Instagram. Boom. He, like, I got the keys

to the Cash Money West from Birdman. He's looking for his first artist. He wants to sign him as his first artist. He'll start screenshoting the shit that he wanted to put out under them. You know what I'm saying? I'm looking, I'm talking back and forth with him,

but I ain't telling him what's going on with me and Warren G. You feel me? Because I don't even believe him. He's talking about Birdman and all this. Like, there's something new to me. So I really didn't believe him at the time. I'm not going to lie.

So I go on tour of Warren G. Get off tour of Warren G. I come back. This is June 29th. I'm sitting in the car parked in the back of my grandma apartments. And I'm in the back seat. Police drive-thew. they stop, start fucking me for nothing.

They didn't let me out the car. They ran my name, seen him on parole, search the car as a gun under the seat. Boom. Prior to that, whack, I answered a phone on accident. He called me. He connected to the Bluetooth. He connected to the Bluetooth. She think it's, because I'm with a female, she think it's her phone.

You feel me ringing? She answered from the steering wheel. I've been doing. declining why cause. You feel me? Like, I've been like, like, moving around you. So he calls, he answered on accident. And he like, hold on. He like, hold on. Hello? Don't hang up. Don't hang up. Niggins, since you think I'm bullshit and stunter on the line. Stunner on the line. I'm about to merge him. Hold on. So he's merging. Berman like, Berman like, playboy. I said, I looked at her. She said, look, I looked at her. She said, she said, she said, that's Berman. I said, yeah.

I say, what's going on? He said, yeah, man, everything you hear coming out of his mouth is coming straight from my mouth. I'm trying to change your life, man. So that's what I knew. I was like, all right, he's been telling the truth this whole time. Right. You feel me?

That changes everything. You're probably like a pretty loyal guy. Yeah. Did it feel like weird to do that to Warren G? No, listen, because it shit led up to that. That's what I'm saying. It led up to, to, I feel like anybody would have did what I did in that position. You feel me?

Because, man, I'm not here to talk about that. I don't want to talk about it because I'm not going to mention what he did but so I won't seem like the bad guy But I have my reasons bro right just you say I have my reasons you feel me so anyway Now I know whack not he's not lying bro you feel me so that changes everything now we set up a meeting At the Fox Hills mom opposed to meet him up there the next day boom right after that that's when the police came through the alley right found the gun took me to jail I got a pro for four days Boom. She'd get out. We bail her out. She'd get right out. I get out.

And let me see. Because I signed on the 10th. No, I signed on the 17th. And that was July. I got out like two days. Yeah, that was July 6th. Two days after the 4th of July. Boom, I shut that batter up video. And I went in Matt Wack up there. Wack and a couple other people right up there at the 4th of the 4th. Fox Hill Mall.

They bring the contract. I bring the contract on my email. I show them it's the same one, bro. You feel me like the lawyer even said it. It's the same one. The numbers is quadrupled, bro. You feel me? So I'm taking that check.

I said, that's all I did it for. Right. And then after that, you know, we announced the news. I was signing cash money. And then, shit, we tried it. What happened? from there like you know there's all kinds of shit that you kind of expect when you

sign to a label and like different artists get different levels of attention from the label obviously when you think about cash money they've had huge fucking artists over the years but they've also had plenty of artists that didn't really go anywhere like how much attention did you feel like you were again uh when it first happened bro it was like you know set the city on fire like you know that the thing aside was big you feel him it was big And then, let me see, it went left. Like, it went left when I, after I got out, no, yeah,

after I got out from that, I wanted a high-speed chase in the 550. So that changed everything. Really? That time right there, I was in jail for two months. They, I want to high-speed chase, I had guns on me, you feel? We tossed the guns, they didn't find them. And then they just got me for a, I mean, probation violation. and I end up just doing like 80-some days.

Right. Two months and some change. But you felt like the label lost... Two months and some change. They lost interest during that time? No, because Berman, more Berman, he was still, he was sending me money and everything. You feel me? You feel me?

You know, even though I had money. He was still sending me money in a bank account every week that I was in jail for that time. When I got out, I got out. And, you know, we was linking up and shit. We had a plan. But I'm not gonna lie, they had already, I could see that they already chose to move forward with Blueface.

That's what it was. And it didn't seem like they were interested in doing both? I mean, no, they were, but I was on the back burner and I didn't wanna be. So I just started doing my own thing. I ain't gonna lie, I went rogue a lot. Really? I wasn't ready to be managed.

You know what I'm saying? I wasn't, I had a mental for it. I was still a young high head. I didn't have none of the wisdom and I got down. I was nowhere near the person that I am now, like mentally, it was just my first experience doing shit, like, and I just wasn't ready for it. I wasn't ready, like, for the business part, bro, you feel me? And that's what I said.

Like, as I got deeper into, I seen that it's way more to it than just talent. Right. So that business part, I didn't, I didn't have that shit all the way right because I fucked it up. All I had to do is just take guidance, you know, and just, you know, do what I'm supposed to do. Did you feel, was part of it, like, you taking it personal? y'all were fucking with me. I go away for two months and now you're gonna do it.

No, no. I wasn't because I'm not gonna lie. Man, whack is crazy because he crazy, you understand. I love whack, bro.

I would never say, I've never said nothing bad about whack in my life. You guys have gone back and forth a little bit, right? No. Have you seen me ever really said that go to anything

where I talk about whack? I never say nothing bad about him ever. I always say that. Okay. I won't speak bad on his name because he's the one that gave me the opportunity in the first place. Where I come from, that's the hand that fed.

Right. I would never, that's the first thing I'm going to look at. You feel me? So I always come at him respectfully. Like, I always look at him like, you know, up here. You feel me? So with that being said, we always clash because I just, you know, whatever I'm like, I just feel like I'm saying what I'm saying.

He's saying what he's saying. But at the same time, he's going to get, like, what he says right. It's right. But he going to keep saying that shit. Even after you didn't got it right. Like, damn, whack, okay, I got it. it down but whack crazy though

and we wasn't I mean I'm gonna take the fault bro when it come to that shit going left with that I'm gonna take the far for that because it was me ultimately it was me ultimately if you could live it again

would you have just sort of been patient yeah I would I would do it right because when you think about from their perspective at that moment blue face was already viral as fuck so from a label perspective it's like with you you had a wave going but they're gonna have to really like keep working on it.

Whereas like the blueface thing was kind of just doing its own work at the time because it was he was just viral for all these different shit with the mob. But it's not, it's like they can't say they didn't give me my chance, you know me? They gave you my chance. We dropped a single, had Benny Boone shoot it and all that.

We were, it was time for take all. We're gonna go on the promo run and I went on a fucking high speech because I wanna carry guns. It was my fault. Right. But coming from where you're coming from. You know, but I mean, that's, that was,

That's what my mind and my heart and my soul is telling me to do at that moment, so I can't take it back, I don't regret it. If you could relive it, would you have just got the fuck out of Long Beach and, like, been posted up at the mansion or something, like, you know, get a rental somewhere far away from everything, or you're just too in love with your city and shit?

I would have did it way different. I would have did it way different, but like shit, man, I'm not gonna lie. I did a lot of shit right. I did a lot of shit right. I mean, but when it comes to just, like, building something with, like, doing what I was supposed to do, bro, it didn't work, and it was supposed to. It was supposed to. That's the whole reason they've seen it in me.

But, you know, I feel like everybody will be more patient if they could go back in life there, be more patient with some certain things. Right. I don't regret it, but I would do a lot of shit different because. a lot of shit I was just doing irrationally. And like, you know, with no type of thought behind it. Right. Just moving, literally just moving on, like doing shit, bro. Right.

No type of guidance. Yeah. No, definitely. Did your love of making music suffer during that at any point? No. No. I was having to. I was in my bag.

Really? Not getting that studio. Boy, what? I was in that bag. Every time I got in the boo, that's what I used to do. That's what I love to do. So now that I, just because I signed a deal, that's why I'm still gonna do with everything that I need.

Like, you feel me, I'm in here, I'm having fun, I'm making good music. I was, I was, I was making some hot shit. But, like, I always learn more and more, like, recording, I always try to, like, get better, show with every little shit. When, in terms of the cash money thing, not really working out, there was this weird situation where you made to joke on live or some shit where you said I'm a squabble with bird man right

and then didn't that get misinterpreted briefly and you had to go back on live and be like bruh people are taking this out of context that's not how i said it yeah they always do that though they're gonna troll on the shit it was just because whack was tripping on me about that shit that's the only reason i did it like you feel me they didn't did that with some whole other shit i just said some shit on live and they about snooping death rogue playing and they put some shit on live talking about additional man they troll it they always do that and you and you know that a lot of people are gonna see the thumbnail on YouTube and they're not gonna call me on the dead honies who is my PO oh shit this is the first hello hi ma'am oh

you said we said from like in between one and three right yes afternoon okay thank you that was pretty cool we got to see you like code switch there a little bit getting that bad yeah I got a couple homies like like the bank calls and then I'm like I hear them just speaking so much more properly and I'm like oh fuck put your white people voice on yeah hello yes ma'am how long you got to be checking in with them now she said I could get off in 18 months oh shit maybe a year right go get my password go out go overseas man I never been out of the country wrong is that goal hell yeah what man they that's where they really show love with no filter.

Yeah, Africa, that is out to country. Yeah. You haven't been there yet, but that's the first place you're planning on going? No, I'm saying. Like, Africa, that's where they really show love with no filter. Yeah. They love you. I always hear from everybody in terms of Europe or wherever that when you tour out there,

that there's just a million times more excited. L.A. is the most jaded people on earth, you know? I can tell, you can just tell, like, the way they show love on vlogs. And she, you be seeing shit, like, they show love out there. Right. definitely. Gotta go out there. Man, so what's your mentality on music at this point?

Like, are you stuck on being an independent artist? Are you still thinking about signing? Like, where's your mentality at? I mean, I just did like, I mean, the independent shit is really where it's at, bro, because like, the numbers I do in the of my check I get every month. You feel, I got to share that shit with nobody. You know what I'm saying?

I'm doing that shit about myself. Right. And then like, I just did like a little. little shit with Empire and, uh, my nika Devo. Oh, nice. You know, for one project, that was just some quick shit. And then the project is going to be like super impactful at the same time. Right.

But I really feel like the independent, whatever situation is right, but the independent shit is where it's at. But if you really want to go to the distance, you need a machine behind you. Right. But you got like a taste of what that was like with the gas money thing? Yeah. And do you miss that? Like having a whole machine behind you?

It feels like that with this project I just deal with Empire. They basically put the whole machine behind me. But hell yeah, I think that's way, that's way better, bro. Like, I don't care, when nobody's saved, like when that machine behind you and they really do their job and you see that shit go from here to here like that, boom, it's booming. Like, you can't, you know what I'm saying? But if you're doing that on your own, then it's like, what's the point?

Right. But, you know. It's also a question of how much you want to play the game. Because you could be going and getting features from these hot, new young artists and shit like that. For the free, though. These niggas's paying a bag for it. And I'm pulling up on them same niggas getting that feature

for free. Right. You feel I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Going to sell the project, you can go do it whatever you can, whatever you want to with the shit because if it's yours.

But, you know, it's both, I feel like the glory will be better. It feels better. Like if you end it for that, if you enter that type of thing, the glory would be better when you grind it out independent way and you still win. and get successful, but it just took a little longer,

that feel way better. That's the type of shit I'm in it for. Like, that type of feeling at the end. Like, you feel me? For sure. But who's, like, running Long Beach right now from your perspective? Man, savvy third, bro. Right.

For sure. But, I'm going to Vince Staples. I ain't ever forget about Vince Staples. He's like, he's a nigga, bro. He's left out the conversation. But he kind of has gone in such a different direction, musical. You know what I'm saying? But put him in that conversation.

period. They leave Tyler the creator out the conversation about the Kings of LA. But I mean, Tyler's kind of in his own world to even more extreme. It's the same shit like that with Vince Staples, how it is with Tyler Curator in LA. Right. But I mean, but with Vince, it's like he's an actual crypt from Long Beach who raps about street shit. That's very different than Tyler, too, yeah. Right, right, right. It's just a little different from everybody else's music, but they do leave him out. You got to mention that nigga because he, yeah, man, he earned that. Right.

I'm not going to lie. When it just comes to terms of just who make this shit look the best, bros, it's obviously me. Like, you feel me? I can't deny that if I wanted to. But at this point, man, that feel good.

That's cool. But it really, it'll feel better. Like, when your whole city on, you feel me? And the niggas from your section, that's really from your section, like DW Flame, to see him own. Like, you feel me, like me? Like me?

I love that type of shit I'd rather see him on than a whole other random nigga you feel him like he comes from what I come from right at the end of the day so I love that type of feeling too but just to take this shit as far as you can bro as far as I can and always

look back at where I started at that always you feel me humble me up right 100% why are you wearing the B hat for babies oh okay I'm from Boston area so I was just curious for And one time we had a security guard at the old store who would always wear a Boston hat,

and he told us he was just a big Boston Red Sox fan, and I always felt like he was lying, but I didn't really know what it meant. Shit, I ought to tell you. You're a security guard. You don't really want to be. Oh, yeah, yeah. I felt like he's like, I'm not going to tell these white people where the fucking from. He tried to keep that job.

Yeah, something like that. Okay, how do you feel about, like, the state of L.A. right now in general? Like, we've seen a whole bunch of big rappers getting murdered over the last couple months. They're dangerous, man. Hey, it's like, I'm telling you, I don't know, niggas be like, it, niggas getting smacked on live and all kind of shit. Just keep your head on the swivel.

It's cracking, like, you know what I'm saying? It's just what it is. If the life you chose, you already know, man, what's going on. So I feel like, man, niggas just gotta stay dangerous and just, you feel, move right. You gotta move right, don't slip up. Right. But can't slip up.

But when you look at rappers who like start getting attention in LA though, do you feel like it's smart for them to just get the fuck away, from all the bullshit, or do you feel that you kind of need to keep a certain connection in order for people even like you? Sometimes, I mean, no, if you're not thorough in your hood, then that's how you're going to feel.

But, like, when you, like, when you coming up in this shit, your niggas that you been with every day, that's from your section is going to be coming up with you. They're always going to have support you, you feel me? So it's like, you're not worried about that because they're going, like, whoever is with you is with you. You got to get up out of there and go. Take them niggas with you and go, fool.

Like, you probably show your face that certain little shit every time that his homie's at, but a mick ain't chilling in the set. Right. Like, you feel me? Just like, like, nah, man. But how you feel like people would look at you if you just moved to Vegas right now? They wouldn't say nothing. I'm too much of a real one.

Right. You're talking about my homies or just people, period. Just in general. Because I've been moved out to set. I was having a conversation with whack the other day, and I said something like that about somebody just moving to Vegas, and he just goes a lot of snitches out there. That's where snitches move.

And I was just like, all right. There's snitches everywhere, though, man. That probably is what people assume sometimes when somebody gets out of town real quick. Snitches everywhere, duh. I'm not going to lie. But Vegas is right there. He sat in the seat right here? He sat in this one?

This the one he was sitting in? Okay. You got any beef with any rappers from L.A.? Or from Long Beach specifically? No. You're going back and forth with the job of a local a little bit, maybe? Who's that? No.

Who is that? Just a thought. I saw a few little going back and forth on Instagram type shit. I don't know who that is. I probably was talking about somebody else. I'm not going to lie. Who? What?

Hello? Interesting. I'll leave it alone. I won't press the issue. But he's just in here, you know? We got to wonder what's going on. Who is, girl? Okay, okay.

Yeah. Fuck. I think I just hit the end of this list of questions. But I mean, where are you at in terms of what you're planning on? You got a project coming up real soon? Yeah, I'm from the job. Let me be clear. That's the name of the project. Under Empire, I got Mr. One. Hot shit, all that.

Matter of fact, it's cold, but this shit is like, it's amazing. It's my best body of work I ever put out, bro. My best, my best shit ever. My most, my most, like, sat and calculated shit ever. You feel me? Right. Like, it's my bad. I ain't never been his focus, ever.

Do you feel like you got to really, like, progress with these projects, and what does that look like for you at this point? In what ways do you feel like you're still improving? Putting that top-tier music out, but you just got to, I don't know. Like, everybody know how they got to elevate, you feel, me? Like, you are knowing artists elevate, like, this. It's his sound, but on the way, like, on the next level, you feel me? It's his sound, but on the next level.

Like, it's his town, like, he found his, he found his groove. He found that bag that he was supposed to get in. So it's like, man, I always look at how they receive it. You feel me, you're going to always contemplate that, like, how they're going to receive it, you feel me? Like, so they always receive my shit well, and I know that this shit is like, you know, 10 times better than all the other shit that I was just put together.

It was nothing like this new shit. It wasn't well to put together like this at all. You feel me? So it's like I know they're going to be like, yeah. Like, this is it. You feel like your fan base is stuck with you throughout all the years, even when they had to go a few years at a time

without getting a project from you or anything? Yeah, because I always make sure that I give them something, bro. I'm not going to lie. When I was in jail, that's when I dropped Snowboy, the first one. And that changed That went viral for me Is it a relief when you get out of jail

And then you drop a video And it does good views And you're just like All right, they didn't move on Man, that's exactly what we said I swear to God When I first seen the truth of the video I was like, this is it

Now the last step Is to see how they're going to receive this shit Right When I dropped that motherfucker I was like, yes This is a relief They know the kid back Did you have

You felt like you had to wait a little bit to do an interview, like you wanted to get more accustomed to being out? Because you were supposed to do it, like, right after you got out, and then your manager, I think, was like, let's wait a month. I ain't going to lie, bro. I had to start over my whole wardrobe. Ah. You feel I'm? Like, literally everything, because, man, I don't want to tell the story.

But. Your fits were all, they're all old and don't look right. Jeans are too tight or so. I had to get rid of all my old drip, like everything. So I wasn't ready. I'm like, damn. I got to get some, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not ready for it.

You feel me? The worst is when the homie goes in and he gets all buff and then they come out and their clothes are too tight. You gotta make it look good. Yeah, I've seen that a couple of times. You always see that though. That's how it was the first time I got out. You don't want to tell him.

You don't want to be like, hey, bro, you look whack right now. You fat, you're thick, I'm insane. Look, you got ass, I'm saying. What's the first thing you do when you got out this time? What's the first thing you do when you got out this time? The first thing I did was all my son with family. Oh my son. Is that the hardest part being away?

That's the hardest part. How old right now? Me two, about to be three. Shit, man. I got a 15-month-old, so I feel you. Yeah, I'll be saying it. Man, it's the best job ever though. Right. But did that make, you didn't have a kid when you went in

the first time, right? So was it way harder, just knowing you were missing out on that? Way harder, fool? Way harder. Like, man, I'd be like, I'm like, I'm going to be like, I miss my baby, nigga. Like, I want to go on to my baby. Right.

That thing you missed me, but I was glad that I was getting this shit over early in his life. I'm never going to leave him again. I'm not ever going to jail again. Right. Did it feel like you, the kid didn't recognize you or like you didn't have that same connection that he had when you went in? That's how I was feeling. That's what made me, used to make me sad.

That's got to be tough. Like, he's forgetting me. Like, you feel me? I feel like he, I feel like he don't know who his daddy is, but he used always, like, bring my spirits of daddy daddy you feel me then he'll come visit me and get visits so that's how I kept him in my life you feel me every weekend I'm visiting okay that's dope but it was hard but the first time it was super hard I went through a lot of shit that first time bro I went through a lot of shit but just that one thing about my son not being with me it was it was super hurtful being in there going

through that but the first time when I did that four years I think I went through a lot I lost my nigga Lionel like killed by the police same year damn same year I went through that shit with the bitch man the bitch broke my heart man

damn really had me sick a lot of people won't admit to that stupid bitch how many years you put in on that one like six niggins we raised we raised each other but we ain't gonna get into that damn She changed me.

Really? Made you colder? She made me boss up and get a record deal. Wow. Spend it on another bitch. I like this guy. Yo bad. Explain your name for the people who don't.

Savvy? Savi third. Shavi third. My head, my set, we say savvy. You go to Long Beach and you say the word sobbing. That's an insane turn. Okay. You feel like that came from insane.

Savvy, you feel me? And then third. I made it stand for a lot of shit but y'all know, you feel me? Like, my hood, we do threes. Right. Like, we do three. It's troubles.

From an outsider perspective, insane cribs, it's got to be one of the coolest sounding gang names. Let's be real. Yeah, and we're the most notorious. The most. Like, the most, bro. It ain't no gang like the baby insanes.

Right. Like the insane cribs. Right. Like, I swear to God. You still got that pride. Look at you. Like, for real, bro. Like, you still smiling like you so proud to be a friend.

I love to say, I ain't gonna lie, fool, because, damn, I love this shit, but, yeah, my name, it comes, it comes from now. It used to be Savi T, because my first name, started with a T. Right. And coming up, it was a Savi T in high school. And then when I started rapping, I changed the Sabi 3 in the streets, like, trim me how I tell me my name Shavi 3, then when I really started rapping. Like, Shabby 3 sound way better. It sounded like a rap name.

When I introduce myself, I say I'm Sivey 3. That's my original, like, just nickname. That's not my other name, though. For sure. Hey, I got to point this out. This is a legendary right now. Yeah, that's Desto. That's pretty crazy, right?

They're fucking amazing. Hey, bro, that niggas a co-hustler. That's what I'm saying. Try the Desto, duh, a whole lot of it. He always tells me I inspire him, but he inspires the fuck out of me. You feel like your fans are open to you making? less street music or do you sometimes feel like you're kind of in a box? I always switch it up.

They know I'm about the transition to just pure pop in a minute. Really? They know I am. They know I've been a singer nigger. I've been a singer. But I'll rap circles around the nigga. You can be like Al Green by the time of 40? Yeah, I'll be getting them nicks mixed up.

Him Marvin Gay and all that nigg? I ain't going to lie. That kind of thing, you know? You ever just want to get on the mic and just croon? Yeah. For real. I respect that. And just melodizing, vibe out.

That'd be a good development. Yeah, if it really sound good, though, we know good music when you hear it. That's a fact. They'll let you transition if it's really hard. Yeah. Like, like, I was going to drop the third off my name and just say Savi. It sounds more marketable.

But it was just a thought. But then it doesn't stand out as much either, you know? It's not as unique. It was just a thought, you know. Yeah. That's what the independent artist go through. Just different moves. And rappers with like gang-based names a lot of times end up kind of wanting to scale it back a little bit when they get older.

Yeah. Yeah. At least you don't got a little because then all of a sudden you're 40, you want to get rid of the little, you know. But most people say savvy. Like they think it comes from that word. Like they think I'm trying to like say my name as savvy like the word. Right. But, you know, you don't get it right.

I've learned to not try to decode names that seem like they're street related because it's usually some shit that's too complicated. Yeah. If you're not for longbies, you wouldn't get my name. name right or you're not from like LA County or whatever 100% you wouldn't really get my name but you just think it's a savvy third right yeah I could tell you that I am actually genuinely excited for for this next project that you draw because I'm excited to see where you take things from here you put a lot of heat over the years but I feel like I feel like I feel like I'm gonna make everybody like stand up and pay attention yeah bro I'm gonna really raise a bar for myself bro and I'm not gonna lie

it's one of the most proudest feel as I ever felt when it come to like my music is like if you're artists, you know that after you finish a project and you know it's time to drop or pick a date, that's a good feeling that you got. So you're like, if you feel good after you sequence the album, you feel me, and then you know like exactly what songs about to

be shown to the world or your fan base, you feel good about that. So this time I really feel like the best I ever felt like how they're going to receive, they're going to go crazy for this shit. Like, the features I got, it's all elevation. You feel me? Like, you know, like.

You're leaking? any of the features? We got Mazzie on there. Shout out Mazzie. We got Shorty on there. Mm, shorty, shorty. We got Rumble. Shout out Rumble.

Blast. Ooh, blast. I ain't going to say that other one. Okay. Wow, because you're not sure it's going to happen? Yeah. Okay. I'm not sure it's going to happen.

But if it happened, if it happened, you're going to know that's the one he was talking about. All right, for sure. Dom. Oh, okay. But I ain't going to say the other one. Okay. That's the last one. Dom needs all his flowers right now.

What? We was just giving him to him. That's a big bro, man. He up there, sure. Budgeon. I've been to Dom K fences. I was like 14 when I first started. Yeah.

100%. All right, man. I appreciate it. Everybody keep an eye out for that project, dropping soon. Oh, yeah. March. March Madness, man, it's time. March Madness.

I promise you. I swear to God, y'all can bash me forever after this. If this project don't give y'all what y'all want, man, just don't ever listen to me again. If this ain't the next level, Savvy, stop listening to me. Write me off.

Call me a snitch. I swear to God, I'm in that one bag. Dead homies, let me be clear. It's coming next month. I swear to God. Confidence right there. Dead homies, I'm not playing, bro.

Call me a snitch. I never heard that. And this, this probably the only interview I'm going to do, I ain't planning on doing no interview. I don't got no reason doing the interviews. Stay mysterious. So, yeah. What y'all hear it is?

Tomorrow, whenever, y'all know. My shit coming next month from the job. I have another video and be coming. I swear to God, if you don't fuck over everything that come out around that time, don't ever just don't listen to me no more. No more. Ever again. Opinion.

L.A. is poised, needs a street moment right now, music-wise. I'm the savior. I'm not going to lie. I'm going to do it. I'm going to earn it too. Again. And again. I'm going back my talk.

promise you right way that's what I'm talking about appreciate you Adam right there Zavi appreciate you man Locke's hat

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