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How real the wolf goes? I'm gonna tell you. I'm real the wolf. Man, all this shit look real. I'm talking about, like, this. No. Like, right. Real.

That's not real shit. Hey, that matter. That matter, bro. Like real. What level? Yeah, yeah. What we're talking? Five.

Probably seven. Okay. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's got to be higher than that we're on. Real life shit. Okay. You can literally sit there and look at the text messages and that shit to go straight to the text message.

to the text message, bro. Like, this shit adjust to your eyes, bro. So the shit looking at you looking at it while you look at it? So, yeah, it don't feel like the Oculus. Have you ever used the Oculus? Man, this Oculus is bullshit compared to this. You went home to broke your eye. It's a light, go for the face.

Right, everybody's going. Man, you don't need no fucking controls and none of this shit, brother. This, you can look through your pictures, play music, watch movies, go on YouTube, all of this shit, and it's just controlled by your motherfucking hands and eyes it's crazy you can pick different backgrounds like if you don't want to see this shit you could put whatever the fuck you want to back there

and it's in 3D I was sitting on a mountain last night so okay so and I look up nigger it's a whole other fucking mountain right there like if you look over here it ain't gonna be the same image just like a mirror image it's a whole fucking 360s that you're sitting in so you go to the mountain shit This is incredible. And you can't see out this shit, right? But then you just hit a button you can see out. Yes.

It's literally that easy. Now you can literally make the whole like National Park shit just the background and still just play all the shit you want to play. He'd just be chilling on the motherfucking moon. You look, you know you're sitting on the couch, but if you put your hand down, nigga, you on the motherfucking moon. Can you see your hand? You can see your hand. and it looked like you really in this shit. Man, it's the...

Man, we ain't taught real singers? All right, bro. You're not hearing me, bro. This shit is... However good you think it is, it's better than it. Okay. I'm sold.

Okay. I will be down there tomorrow to get mine. Because the thing I heard was it wasn't nothing to do. Like, once you get past that shit, they ain't got a lot of like shit. Ain't no like games or no goddamn, like just... Amen. It's enough shit.

Did it make you buy that motherfucker. I tell you that. I mean you kind of selling it right now how much they gave you what they didn't give me one this free promo I might wait a few months when they can download the whole shit Don't want to watch the point-o act like I'm standing in the living That's what I said so you that's what I'm said that's too free what so you watch the photo on the moon and somebody come in but you can't see who come in so you just out you get stripping now if a motherfucker will walk by and you could You don't know that they're there. Why are you on the move? Yeah, but they won't fuck the whole thing up, is what I'm saying.

Like, you can see like a silhouette type shit. Okay. You can FaceTime motherfuckers on there, and they just got the shit look like you, like you airbrushed. Like, you can, they make a whole facial scanner you while you own the shit. And you can FaceTime motherfuckers from the headset. I've seen a couple people using that picture. Okay, yeah. Yeah, you're gonna really look weird though.

Yeah, you gonna really look weird when you're sitting at doing like this and you pinching air nipples. I was the only way you can make the shit go. You gotta click the shit. See, I like being too present in life. Amen. Yeah, I feel you tuned out and then to wear it in public, four dollars. But think about it, right? On your head?

As an adult, there ain't even many things that can. possibly keep us entertained for that long. You get what I'm saying? So when you see this shit, it's really gonna fuck you up, like, okay, I have severely underrated this product. She was dope, though. Yeah, it's gonna get smaller. Just like the phone.

More conveyances. You should be some contacts soon. Whatever it is. They ain't putting that shit in my eye, man. Come on, I. Bitch, throw a drink of your eye to electrocuted your eyeballs. Now you got a patch on, man. I feel like it depends on how the culture talk about it sometimes.

They'll entice you. This shit, hi. Everybody ain't gonna be in the fuck with this. You know, a nigga, gang shit up by some- Nick, I was on the moon. You feel me? Like, he swayed me, for real. I'm like, damn, for real, like.

Hey, man, that nigga's only when he said he pet the wolf. When he said he pet the wolf. No, you don't pet the wolf. Okay. I was talking about this shit. They got what's got dinosaurs come out, right? It's some evolution shit. So you're sitting on like a mountain, right?

Then it's a little butterfly that fly out. Little butt this shit looked like it's right there like and that shit is like well come to you Real motherfucking butterfly then a little baby dinosaur come up out the crack But that motherfucker literally right there it looked real as fuck like you can see it because you there You're literally just sitting there and a fucking baby dinosaur come up out the fucking ground and you like what the fuck Then you start hearing like a big-ass dinosaur like this way What the fuck is this? So this bitch come around the corner, right?

And he's just like doing dinosaur shit. Then the motherfucker like smell you. Turn around, right? And do the dinosaur shit like on some real live Jurassic Park shit. This shit is so close you feel like you need to move back. But if you try to pet the motherfucker, he like move out the way from, man, this shit is the crazy. You better move out of swung on this big ass. Hey man.

Nika slaying anything, boy, hey. I swang on that dinosaur. That shit crazy. Man, if it wasn't so late, I send somebody up there to get one of them bitches right now. Go get one. I have one next time you see me. Okay. I might not even be talking to motherfuckers no more after this.

I found out how to download some digital friends. This is a fucking rap. But he got a rest of the driver with it. But they said you're supposed to be able to drive with it because you can see through it. Nah. They're going too far. See? They're going too far.

If somebody could have that shit torn in. You're driving on the moon. But that's the thing. You can have the shit where you can still see out of it and still use it, though. All your phone should be up there. Yeah. A.R. A.R. Augmented reality. See, you'd be knowing a bunch of shit you don't tell nobody about it.

No, I tried to tell y'all. Hey, man. New years ago, niggas, they want to live. Try to get a nigga the game, man. Br. I'm fucking with it. I'm letting y'all know to get this shit. Yeah.

The hood is old. The hood? The whole hood. The whole, like my section of it. Everybody who stay in my building, they fucking with it. Because they got to see mine. Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Then the motherfucker who figure out how to make some money out of that bitch now. That's the real genius. What motherfuckers have made it? They ain't made it. I'm saying the nigger who turned that shit into some millions. That's gonna be a cold motherfucker. When you're gonna take you on a tour and not go nowhere?

I don't know the nigger who starts selling them backgrounds or some shit. Whoever got the best shit that they get 3D scanning put in there. I feel like that's low-key happening though. Somebody got it. Like selling digital property and shit like that, digital world and shit like that. That's that, yeah. You're gonna start seeing that shit. When you go to concerts and shit, they're gonna have that little shit set up where a motherfucker gonna be like,

now you really on stage with these. motherfuckers as it's live going on watch they're gonna be able to watch live shit right there like you live like they in there yeah that's different I see where you going you might have a whole sold-out show and won't nobody be in that bitch but everybody in that bitch I don't want to see that they gonna make a fake hey man you got to go to live shit yeah I don't know I gotta get used to just seeing the nigga with goggles in the microphone like or whatever like would it be you performing this shit like the you probably the motherfucker who performing probably going to have one on tune in that so they'll

be there but they'll be in a whole other reality and you perform they mean to the only scene right and they know they know they this is some real live shit not the game bro in like next level type shit think about like the game but you actually end the mother That's all the niggas want to do, man. If I can get in 2K, they're trying to figure this shit out of a hundred dollars and it's nasty in life, but it ain't right on the game. You see, it ain't one of them things where you've got to be wandering around

and walking around like you in the shit or no, like nothing crazy where you might fucking hurt yourself. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, man. Roll up, man. We got special guests in here with us today. Come on, man.

Jay Owen, what's you playing right now? Come on. Turn it up. Turn this up, man. That's money. I used to do it in the building. You feel me? Black.

I'm keeping with y'all for as, man, see what you, what you brought all y'all building. Yeah, bro. Like, it's a big deal, bro. I'm pulling up to the building, seeing all black and shit like that. I'm like, damn. You blacked out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Black old.

But this is what I mean, you know, what I mean about living out in, just like the whole vibe, because this is what I love to see. Absolutely. And black, you know, individuals being able to provide for the people around them for themselves and for their families. So it's really a beautiful thing. Walking in here, seeing all the activation, seeing just like, I feel like your mind is in here. Exactly.

And just like, all the parts of y'all are in this shit. So I just think like, it just shows. We're working over him, man. We came a long way. And this is just, this that, it's that final level up, man, where it could really just turn ideas into, you know, tangible reality. Yeah.

Now we're gonna have to figure out some virtual shit, Because you're going to be in the VR. Definitely. You've got to have a headset all right. Man, I'm going to be able to do it. I'm at least be teaching some courses or something on that, motherfucker. Yeah, man. The game is changing, man.

It's going to be, niggins ain't even going to have to record shit. They're just going to be able to think of it. Then it's done. Come on. You imagine you just plug in and just think, just think of the shit in your mind. And there it go right there. You think it ain't some rappers out here making whole raps off chat GPT? They let the start that.

Yeah, right. May you know that? Somebody doing it, ain't it? They're doing it with the voice and everything. They're doing the chat PT for the first, and they got another one that do the voice and will say what you want it to say the way you want them to say it. Yeah. No. Yeah.

Yes, they, like, they do a famous artist, everything. motherfuckers making biggie songs pop you ain't been on that man it's my day you ain't smite yeah okay okay yeah i've been doing that shit yeah yeah going crazy with that shit that i've been seeing that shit that shit been to get into video shit it's already somewhere in the video shit but it ain't weird man and that shit is going up through the roof every few months yeah yeah it's getting better it's stereo because you ain't gonna know what's gonna ask you what what should a's hood name the new album what's what should i name that we're about to see That's crazy if you give a real suggestion.

Watch this. It's going to give you a suggestion based on your history already. Ace Hood could name his new album. You ready for this? Unstoppable Evolution to convey growth, resilience, and progress in his music career. You think I'm bullshit? Chad GPT. Now, see, this is why.

I don't rock with it, I'm telling you. That ain't that. Or is it the name of your album. Don't tell you this is the name of your album. Because if you already named your album. Nah, it ain't the name of my album, but it's what I've been on. The evolution, the Unstoppable Evolution is... Oh, you know.

You understand. You understand. That's what I've been on. The fact that this shit that I can know me is... It do know you. But you might have said some shit on the interview. I don't know where it's pulling shit from. It's pulling from everything on the internet.

It makes me a little proud, too, because it's... Because it got the computers know what I'm on. You feel me like, which means that I, yeah. Right. You don't put it out there some type of way, digitally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in the imprint. Yeah, folks talk about your footprint.

Yeah, it's what you need in the stamp in the real world, but that's not a bad digital one they have. That's not a bad. That's not a bad digital way to have, bro. Yeah, yeah, that's real. Let me know what they think, what y'all think, Unstoppable evolution, that's kind of wild. That's kind of wild.

This sound right. That's crazy. No, who would have just said something, right? I asked him, what should you name your comedy special? It said, Laugh Chronicles from the South to the stage to highlight his southern roots in comedic journey. Hey. Hey, man. That's him telling you.

Hey, man. Hey. Don't ask this motherfucker, nothing else. You don't nail this shit? Yeah, I got it. I told you about it. That she scared me. I turned it off.

Because I was trying to break it. Yeah. I was trying to ask this shit. I knew he couldn't answer. Instead, I should name my comedy special, unfiltered laughter, the Carlos Chronicles, to rip. No, don't you chronicles.

Everything in chronic. Unrestrained comedic style to showcasing his unique storytelling ability. Why he's trying to chronicle us, though? They chronic. That feels just, his shit felt hard. My shit felt generic. Like, any time you put a comedian in there,

chronicle, like, yeah, yeah. Like, they're going to hit you. Yeah. Use of chronic. Yeah. That's funny. For my heart For my heart podcasts in Rococo Punch, this is The Turning, River Road.

I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to ten girls, and four. forced them into a secret life of abuse. Why did I think that way? Why did I allow myself to get so sucked in by this man and thinking to the point that if I died for him, that would be the greatest honor. But in 2014, the youngest of the girls escaped

and sparked an international manhunt. For all those years, you know, he was the predator and I was the prey. And then he became the prey. Listen to The Turning River Road on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of,

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like the visionary behind a movie pass, black founder Stacey Spikes, who was pushed out of movie pass, the company that he founded. His story is wild and it's currently the subject of a juicy new HBO documentary. We dive into how culture connects us. When you go to France, or you go to England, or you go to Hong Kong, those kids, are wearing Jordans, they're wearing Kobe's shirt, they're watching Black Panther. And the challenges of being a Black founder. Close your eyes and tell me what a tech founder looks like.

They're not going to describe someone who looks like me and they're not going to describe someone who looks like you. I created There Are No Girls on the Internet because the future belongs to all of us. So listen to There Are No Girls on the Internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, Jay, we think it's time for us. Oh, we didn't even cranked up yet.

We ain't even cranked up yet, man. I was trying to get used to time to put together some vegetation. I'm slow, especially if we in here talking, and we're talking to all the type of shit that's, you know what I'm saying? This shit a high level, but I just had the shit, I just had one day. Amen. This chat, you'd be addicted to asking this motherfucker question. It learned from you, though.

I corrected it before. It said some shit wrong about me, and that's it. You're right. I apologize. And this shit started explaining. I only know stuff up to 2021. What? Yeah.

They only know shit up to like 2021. They ain't like rebooted that bitch. Yeah. They might not need to. You know what I'm saying? They got to update you. Shit don't need to be smarter than us. Hey man, welcome back to the 85 Telshel.

Yeah. I don't know if you know, but it's time that you get to know. This was voted the number. one show amongst black people who have owned or written in a Cadillac. This is the number one show amongst black people. Who? That was blacker when they were younger.

Only real black people even know what that mean. Jay Owen, you've been in your bag. And I've been telling y'all we got all kind of guests. guests that's just gonna stop through the trap this year you don't never know who gonna pull up sometimes we just go outside and be like who out there but these some you know other times I'd be having to call somebody they know somebody they went to school with somebody they owe somebody a couple dollars they don't talk but they'll give me the number to go around all that sit the email then get a

text then call them on WhatsApp Just to get their Facebook page so they can tell me to follow them on Instagram, send a tweet, then leave a voicemail, then get a call from an unknown number. Call them back block. They don't answer the phone. Let somebody send a text. They say, who is this? Text back. You text me first.

That's how hard I go for this show. I go through extreme means. to go get some of the colds. I didn't say what you do all that. Some of the brightest. Some of the artists. Some of the most world-renowned ghetto legends.

Now when you become a ghetto legend, that's better than just being a regular legend. That means you did something in the ghetto that you're going forever be remembered for. I'm talking about this thing that sold millions of records. Of records. Come on.

I mean a whole bunch of millions. Platinum plaques. Yeah. One of the only rappers in the game. Ain't nobody had shit crazy to save out. Ain't nobody took nothing from. Come on, man. Furrow all the way up and through there.

Been on a journey of evolution. Unstopping was... Quit eating chicken. Now he just eat fruits and vegetables and smoothies. Salt fruits with no seeds in them. But he wanted to see it. So they can be organic. Spring water.

Alkaline. Alkaline. Sour socks. Alkalinic. No, man. My dog. A's hood. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. He's soft fruits. That's right. Nothing but string beans. That's crazy. Welcome to the trail, Jay. How you been?

How you been? I've been. good man what do we even start that what I'm saying honestly bro it's it's been a journey dog I don't even know what it starts like we can start anywhere we can start we can start with the life we can start independent we can start you know what I'm saying we can go kids life man we go travel we can go business we can go there's so many pillars and you know places we can touch on well I'm gonna go ahead and say it then bray everybody's been seeing you on the ground yeah in love for sure you don't wife do a lot yeah

Every time you got all women all across the country. You see what Ace Hood doing? You're a lightweight bodybuilder now you picking her up and all this. Putting pressure on the streets. You found there one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Congratulations, my boy. How did it feel?

It feel beautiful. It feel beautiful, though. Honestly, bro. You know what I'm saying? They have a partner, you know what I'm saying? Somebody who's really a partner for you in which you, allow you to be vulnerable, respect how you feel emotionally. You know what I'm saying?

Respect my struggles and the things that I went through. Right. And yeah, man, allow me to just be, you know what I think that's important for men to just have safe spaces, you know what I'm saying, with their partner, where they can just be, they feel safe, you know, you can be open and honest and shit. And they ain't never had that. I ain't comfortable, man. See? Where are you about hurry? Everybody be asking me, man.

How you detoxified? She rolled in on the media right. She had no toxicity. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, we ain't safe. No, toxicity. in all of us now okay you know what I'm saying oh my girls sometimes I was like hey now you you know oil spill right yeah I should is you got this shit on me yeah I ain't

this much toxicity on me but yeah right but uh okay that's what's up yeah it's work it's real work type shit you know what I'm saying like that shit can get toxic for sure in the beginning portion but I think we were super intentional about our marriage and even getting together you know what I'm saying so for us you know even on our attorney to heal and all that shit we decided to do that together for the most part now that's dope you find somebody to do that with me how you know she was the one that was the one as soon as i told the lady jews coming on the show that's that was the number one question that i got how you knew for me it was uh it was a response like you know some shit had got out

early on in our relationship about um i don't know whether the time i think me and my being was at odds or something like that it's just some propaganda got out into the internet and uh it was about uh I think it was about, it might have been about my being with or somebody else. And as opposed to going off on me about this shit, like she understood. So to me, that was a real moment for me. Because naturally, like, you're going to meet a woman, like, she might jump to conclusions, you know, being that she don't understand your situation. Right.

So being that she didn't jump in conclusions, and she was like, she came from a place of understanding, a place of, you know, being compassionate and all of that. I was like, you know, this is something to build on. And I feel like I've never gotten this response in terms of, like, you know, what I understand. Right. Tell me what happened. And to me, that was major.

So that was one of the inclination that I recognized, like, oh yeah, yeah. Like, she was a show. Because you were probably preparing for the bullshit. Yeah, because we didn't even talk around that time either. I'm like, I ghosted. Yeah. I ghost the motherfucker quick. You know, my time was, bro.

I ghosting and get gone and forget it ever happened. So, you know, some time went by and then, you know, by the time we did have a conversation about it. I liked the way we went about that conversation and that conversation a lot, some other things, other things, some other truths and shit like that. So it made that moment real special. You know, when you had that bonding moment between your person where it's like,

my nigger, I appreciate you. You get it? You got me? Yeah. So that's really was. Ain't only that, bro. You know, as long as I can still be me and be married, that's what matter.

Yeah, you gotta be yourself. Yeah. I can't be nobody else down. I'm gonna be, I'm sorry, this the shit. This, I know, it ain't easy. I love it. I don't know. Man, you find somebody to let you be yourself.

That's worth fucking with anyway. Especially with these horror stories you're hearing on the internet now. A few of my homies going through that. Few of mine, too. I'm like, boy, the dating world just sound like, it just sounds something that's almost ancient now, like the way they're talking about it. Yeah, this shit sounds like a...

Bro, it's crazy. I took a bitch how she ate 47 oysters. In real life. The bill was 2,000, bro, crazy. The bitch did eat 47 oysters. and then act like order an entree, ordered the side, ordered drinks,

and buddy left and went to the bathroom. She recorded this shit, and she's like, he could have said something for it. No. I'll be concerned. You're a mammal. You're a single. I can't fucking...

That's how I feel. I'm like, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't give a fucking milk as chicken nuggets. Yeah. You ate 47 anything. I don't want a woman you ate 47. Nothing. Not even 47 M&M.

Bitch, you ate 47 pigs in the food. blanket? Nothing. He's like 47, not even 47 Eminem. Nothing. 47 Eminem's a lot. How many other pack? Like 22?

There's two packs of M&Ms at one, like in one sitting? Yeah. That is, that's very concerning that. Like, I appreciate the woman who's not afraid to eat all her food on a day, but not like all the food. You ain't got to eat the whole menu. That's right, right. That's a shit you saved to like later on when she, when y'all already locked.

They try to take a lot home. Like, they try to take a whole separate order home. And that's something you should tell somebody if they pay it. Like, you know, I can eat these motherfuckers all night. No, for real. After like 15, then you need to be like, I'd pay for the rest for the year.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, I know. I know, I know you thinking I can't possibly won't know about. But you ain't gotta pay for these. I got to eat. Yeah, right. Right, right. The next 15 on me. That's crazy.

Now, I wouldn't fucking with that, bro. You can't ask for no boys after she didn't eat 447 oil. She's gonna shit, ew. What is wrong with your stomach, man? You need to go to the ER. We need to go to the hospital. That's the next step.

Yeah. But you're gonna make a pearl inside of your oyster. You're gonna shit out of pearl. Right, right, right. You're gonna shit out of pearl. You spend the night with her and she on boo-boo-boo the whole time. Like, what the fuck is? That morning fart gonna be the stankest shit in the motherfucking world.

You're gonna think a dead aquarium to bust open. Right, right. I never want to see you again if you eat 47 horses. I don't want to see you at 42. I hope I got that bitch at 35. You take a woman out to eat, and when she finished, they'd be like, ma'am, can we get a picture?

For what? We're going to put you on the Wall of Fame. You're going to put your picture right next to Big Joseph. He's 42. We're going to put you on our wall, Captain's favorite. That's crazy. Hell no. Man, it's overweight out here for the dating world.

That did. You know, you say your homie's got stories. What they're going to do about? Hey, how are you gonna get about them? What did you be trying to tell them to get? You know they'd be calling some advice, bro. They be wanting advice, but you know, now that they don't always take the advice, bro. You feel me?

They do the opposite. They call you and be like, that's what I should do. That's what I said, you feel me? But fuck that. Yeah. That's exactly how you respond to. I started to have my dog today, too. I'm telling you the same way, man.

You say, nah, what fuck that is, man. I'm out of here, bro. I got to be out here going for the streets, bro. Nick, you're going to ask and not do it. Yeah. Every time. Then when they fuck up, man, I should list to you. Yeah, it's the responsibility.

Women want this, they want that, but she were looking to get this out of me and this, you know what I'm saying? So it was always the expectation. What happened? Oh, man. You're holding these mics. Which one, you need to, you need a, you know, back from me. Coming up after these messages. After these messages, we'll be right back.

If your girl leave you, do you even want a back? If your girl leave, would you try to get her back? No, it depends on the circumstance. Nah, ain't no circumstance. Shit going good as this going right now, and she just leave. Oh, that's different. That you left when everything was all right? You crazy motherfucker.

Motherfucker got to stop waiting the shit fucked up to leave. You got to leave. I'm out. What? What? We were doing good. We were doing good. What is this?

Yeah, I just didn't want to wait for shit to get bad. This is it? This is as good as this gonna be? Right. I'm leaving. Right. No, I just, I feel like this is the best we gonna do. That's leaving, like, you know.

She just leave. You know, sometimes you can run off. Yeah, you can definitely run a woman old, but get around. How are we sound? All right, welcome back to the 85 South Show. I don't normally be eating and drinking on this show, but this Lindenade is too goddamn good, not too. This motherfucker brought you one limb,

J-J, Ziplock, man. This shit good. I might have heard y'all boy talking about that. I was talking shit, I am so sorry, man. You ain't been to JJ? I ain't been to JJ, bro. I've been out here, bro. I got to get right.

You haven't had it? I need a hood tours or something like that. What you want? To get me through him and get me. What you eating is? They take me all through the little hot spots. They're never going to let you down. It's fried food, though.

They're going to be fast, yeah. No, they got some other shit. They got some grill shit. No, they don't. They fry everything. If they ain't fried? They fry the receipt. They fry everything.

They've got no grill or nothing. Right. No. Real nugget, a little snapp. They got one of... They fried that lemonade. Lemonade deep fried. Why that bit so good.

And then you can get the flavor with the, what do you call? You can be real childish. Now, we're going to put you up on the spots, man. Let's let you know where to get some good shit. Two-Chane got a spot out this way. That's goodball. That's good bar. That's good bar.

Yeah, that's Cabbar South. That ain't too. Hey, man, let me shut the fuck up. We do an ATL food tour. Where the hell we're at? You can't say it out here. That's the whole city. Out here is everywhere.

Out here. Yeah, out this way. We're in here, but we're out there. I ain't trying to be out there. Too much shit out there. You can be out there. This is how we get out there through the camera. Hey, man.

Real shit? You cold as hell with that rapping. Yeah, man. Thank you, bro. You're rapping fast and all that shit. Thank you, bro. Yeah, bro. Who did you?

Who did you perfect your rap skills with? Like, how did you get that shit so down then? Honestly, dog, as being a down-south guy. Yeah. I always listen to a lot of up-north. You know what I'm saying? Like, who you fucking? I listen to the big L up north.

I listen to, um, um, oh, man, what's my guy name? Um, but it's a guy from the past, too. I twist. They got them. C. A. Z. It's another guy, man. He would rap fast, too, from up north.

Oh, my God. I can't forget. They had a few. Yeah, but this was one of the guys. It had to come to me. Oh, okay. I just left New York. Fuck.

Okay, man. The Mecca. She's going crazy up there, man. Brats everywhere. Migrants. They're having a migrant prices up there now. Yeah, I forget, brother, they ain't, though. They're trying to give them bread, too.

Yeah. They've been putting them up in hotels and stuff. And they said, too, some crazy shit I read, they said, they got them giving them meals, but they're not eating the meals because they don't want the shit or whatever. So they're wasting the food, so instead, they're going to give them a debit card with like $12,000 on it and be like... What?

Don't finish getting them one. That's what the... I'm saying. That's that question. Well, what you're talking about? This is up in New York with the migrants and shit. The mayor trying to make some shit up there where they just give them this money. Because they got the money from the immigration and board of shit.

But folks be like, y'all don't do the shit for the people. You know what I'm saying? You got homeless people here that you won't do shit for. Damn. And that money comes from somewhere else. And that's how they always separate all that shit and try to make the shit seem like. Well, it's nothing we can do what we can. It don't work like that yet because you don't want it to work like that.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Damn. We was talking about music and got all political. Yeah. I wish I remember Dahl name, but he was one of the ones. Dahl used to, and because he's not like the common rappers, I just can't think of his name right now. But he's from the old school, Dahl, but he used to, you know, spit that fast flow.

Because, you know, I came up in the era where it's like, niggas used to always say, niggas from down South Korean rap. So that whole, that whole energy was going on. You feel me? Yeah. kind of had to carry that shit. Right, right. You had to prove yourself of extra.

There you go. But my thing was, they were saying motherfuckers couldn't rap, and I was like, y'all not even listening to what they were saying. Like, some of the shit they were, like, referring to rap was like, oh, they sound country and shit. I'm like, did you not just hear this nigga say this big-ass word? Just because the niggas got a motherfucking accent? You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. Yeah. That shit crazy. Yeah. They just didn't fuck with this southern lifestyle, though. What, having to call? No, I'm just saying, the whole lifestyle And there's still the culture that we got, right?

They don't, we got music. Fuck that shit, B, this Knicks ride the realm We actually do in there. Just drive itself everywhere, that's crazy, son. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all drive on the street, we ride under the street. Right.

They ain't got asses like that in New York. Hmm? No, ass, it's too, it's not enough room. They ain't got asses like. You gotta go. Why we need certain shit. Some shit, see, we have music that fit exactly where we're going. Bootish, right you.

Exactly. A street club type shit. Some shit to sit in the yard and smoke a good blunt to. Some shit to ride the court to. These niggas ain't living like we live. What they make of, no, titty music. Hey, any y'all. Some shit that's going to fit somebody off too early in a day.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. I got to go to work. I got to go to work. Yeah. Some shit to make the tennis boughs. Yeah. But at Hood, you don't have some of the biggest songs of the, like anthems, my nigga. When you know that shit go crazy and when everybody know it, though, it's like everywhere you turn, every video, every fucking radio streaming, all that shit, man.

You had some, like, tell me some of the, some of the moments of you that still, like, really stand out, keep you going in the game. Oh, man. It's a lot of moments, though. You know, I think, you know, jumping out with the record that I did, that you know, the The cash flow record was huge. You know what I'm saying? With T. Payne and Ross on it. That was a big way to introduce myself at that time.

I'm 18 years old. Yeah, I was a young, I'm still a young nigga. It's so funny because some people have seen me be like, they think I'm older than I am. I'm like, yeah, bro, I was like, I was like, I know you weren't, nigga. What? Nigger, I, you know what I'm saying?

Like, yeah, right. I'm 3-5, so like, you know, so. But yeah, bro, cash flow was one of the ones to introduce. But, like, you know, after, you know, dropping them two projects and then with that one two projects and then you know getting it to like the self-proclaimed record which was hustle hard to me that was like a self-identity record of like I arrived because of what all led up until that point of me just generating that record dog was like you got to hustle hard

man yeah bro I'm saying so shit like that was was huge he was one of them amp all that shit when you know that shit were coming down you're finn't hit back-to-back banga from you know what I'm saying like yeah yeah I remember here and shit like the first time going down to like not the first time but first time going out of Florida for comedy yeah to do comedy down there yeah yeah bro we had city sown up man you know what I'm saying I was like the youngest part of like that movement so I was like the baby of that you see what I'm saying this was raw flow call it I was on the road lies everybody you know what I was me it was but y'all ain't let up the south period every has been

running, but it was certain areas. It's like, oh, okay, you know, see, they got it right now. Trying to create, niggins, son up. They got it. Yeah. Yeah, but like you said, that was a hell of a way to introduce yourself, man. Yeah, bro.

Jumped in that way and to do so. To me, that record was big, dog, for the simple fact of, like, where I was. Because it was, like, literally for me to have created this record. Like, I was in the space of, like, literally me and my dog on the couch. We were trying to figure it out.

You know what I'm saying? Brut sent me the beat. Lex Lewis sent the joint over, and I'm like, man, literally like my thought process was like if I flip the flow on this bitch this shit going to another level that's it like I knew that like if I flipped this in a way because I knew what everybody else was doing I'm always anytime I approach a record trying to be more innovative than anything you see what I'm saying trying to create something new for people a different style or maybe we're saying the same thing but just in a different way right so that's how I approached that record and uh and I put that shit

on the mixtape put it on the mixtape that shit went crazy see what I'm saying so you know And I love that. I love forcing the hand, meaning, like, putting the energy out, and then the people, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, you get them calls. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah, but this shit going. Boy, you heard that new hood record, boy, that shit da-da-da-da. And then from there, man, we did. But you did this shit that quick. Just like, you got to be it. Yeah, yeah. It was all. Yeah. It was literally like, that was my current situation at the time, too. It was like, man, I got to figure this shit out. I got to hustle. You feel me? And, you know, really just take control, bro. Yeah, yeah. I think it probably still do. That bit still doing numbers.

Hell yeah. I got just my old catalog on its own doing numbers, my back catalog, not even talking about what I do independently, but like, you know, so it's a beautiful thing. And I love all of the records, man. And from there, you know, we created more shit, got in the studio with Wayne. Hell yeah. You know what I'm saying? We out shit, we got the Bugatti shit.

We got the, you know, all these shit's top five. That Bugatti shit, I feel like there's a lot of motherfuckers that said that after. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you hear that. My fuck ain't know where the Bugatti was at that time. Yeah, I was damn sure confused. Yeah, I was doing waking up. I was traveling overseas, so I already knew what was going.

Let me see that later. I'm saying. I woke up in a new Bugatti. That's the hell of a night. Yeah. That's a hell of a night, though. When you fall asleep and just wake up in a brand new fucking... That's the black people hang over.

That's the black people. That's what that is. Woke up in a new Bugatti. Mm-hmm. We're putting that shit in production right now. Come on. We already, um, you know, We'll take some meetings later.

How you like the independent route? I like it, bro. You know what I'm saying? Honestly, bro, I love it. It has its challenges, but I love it. I love the ownership portion of it. You know what I'm saying? I like putting my hand on it.

You know what I'm saying? Like really overlooking the thing. You know, the moment I went to dependent, though, I went back to school and all. For real? I went to Berkeley, nigga, took a music business course. Berkeley? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, shit. Like a sixth week, feel me? And, you know, got my degree on that. Just so I just wanted to get the information because what I recognized before is I didn't have the information. So a part of me was powerless for real. You see me?

Yeah. So I enjoy the independence because it's like it's by your own hand. It's how you're going to show up for yourself. And I love that. Through good or bad, I love that showing up and knowing that I got the power to change whatever my circumstance looks like.

I love that, you feel me? I get to learn the information. I could go in, I can spend time with it, then ultimately I can change the thing. Right. And make it look however I want to look. I can play, I can be vulnerable, I can do whatever. And I like that freedom, bro.

Well, most definitely. You know, my own business, my own contracts and shit. Like, you know, like, yeah. So. Walking to the mailbox with the mysterious checks in there. Come on now. Oh, I forgot I've been working on. Oh, yeah, they do owe me.

They owe me. Forever. Oh. Forever they owe me. Did we send the invoice? Yeah. Sniffy! Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, nah, that's what's up. So you went to the whole business route, music, you said it was music business? Music business. School, got your degree in that shit? Yeah, got my degree in that. Man, that man, invest in it.

You'll make a lot of money. You just gave. So do you not teach in that shit? You handle everything, or you still got... Oh, no, I got people to delegate, you know what I'm saying? They can't take you for no motherfucker, right? No, they can't play with me. They can't play with me.

Yeah. They can't play with me. I'm too, like, you know, I'm aware now, dog, as opposed to just, you know, most artists as we like to do, we like people outside of us to handle our business. You got shit at some of the game that you got from taking the music class, bro. What's one of the things that really stuck out to you once you got into it? Man, he had to pay for school. Yeah, bro. You had to pay for you.

Yeah, I had the pay. Yeah, yeah. Don't tell them shit. Yeah, yeah. Don't tell them nothing. That's why motherfuckers don't. You take your ass to school. You might not be able to go where he went, but you could go somewhere.

Right. Don't give a creep, no, you could learn, like, you can learn all type of things, man. Like, you know, learning about the different type of, like, licensing and sync and the difference between, like, royalties and publishing and stuff like that. And what you actually get paid from that, if your music is playing in the background somewhere, what that royalty looks like, too, you know what I'm saying? So, understanding different language and contracts and perpetuity, learning what that means, you know what I'm saying?

It means, like, for the lifespan of, so. it's like you don't want deals like that's in perpetuity and for most of the people of artists who you know who are young and they get them contracts to say that because they want to you know hold you to that lens so they can kind of keep recycling recycling recycling so you know those are like the key things for me that that I learned through just about the royalties and shit and then like now I got into like neighboring rights so the neighboring rights it's like being able to collect money overseas you know what I'm saying a lot of artists don't know that you can collect via my and your sound exchange and all of that in the states but overseas as a whole pot

of gold that many artists maybe don't know about as neighbor and right playing that shit if they play in you they're playing it so like it's a whole another situation over there that we can go take advantage of but so for artists man looking to neighbor and rights and shit like that so if your music has ever been playing like 40 different countries across the water we get paid for that too so um just little things like this is is what I've been focused on and I think that's sometimes where Maybe the unfund part come in because I got to be so focused on the business and the logistical parts of things. So, you know, ultimately it's finding, like, the right pieces that can get the thing and where we needed to go. But I'm being patient and I know what I want, so, you know.

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It's good to hear, though. Yeah, bro. Good to hear. Like, you're taking it serious to the point where you go back to school. That ain't no easy test. Yeah, but you ain't just go to school to fuck around. You went to school. You're like, I'm going with this, right here, this thing that I got it?

Y'all got it? Okay. Yeah. Because it felt, bro, it felt terrible, dog. feel like getting out of my situation and not having ownership of my Spotify not having ownership of my YouTube not having ownership and knowing with my BMI and all that other stuff looking like not knowing like you know not really having connections to those labels and shit like that like you don't really know so it's a time to just gain these you know gather these systems back you know because labels had them and certain people got control you got to relinquish that control so it's like

it's that type of thing so uh yeah it was it was it was it was hell going through it because You got to kind of, but, you know, once I went through my situation, I just recognized how much I didn't know, and that shit just made me uncomfortable. I was like, in a way I can be successful because, you know, coming from a space where, like, nobody don't know, nobody knows where I'm from. Nobody knows. Right. You see what I'm saying.

But now you see this a reason why. Now you see there's a reason why I went. So I'm like, I understand why God took me on the journey. Like, you know what I'm saying? So I get it, man. And for me, like, it's like being of service too, so the youth know, like, what to look out for. You know what I'm saying? How to represent themselves and stand in their power

regardless of being on a major situation or not. No matter where I go, I stand in my power. And I'm very proud of that. It's based on me being intentional and the decisions I made type of shit. So now that you know that that part of it, is there any way or what's your plan to get some of that shit back to you? Yeah. Fully standing in my power, I think it's going to look a little different.

I think now, you know, my voice is the key. or whether that's through music or whether that's through speaking or whatever that might look like. I think that's my, you know what I'm saying? That's my next space. And not only that, I think really for me is to do it at, give it a thousand percent, you know what I'm saying? I know that I can do more.

I know there's areas where I can show up and be better. You know what I'm saying? Being out there a little bit more, just doing certain things, speaking, what's on my mind, talking about certain things. That's how I tend to bring it back to me because I am already the thing. I think it's just highlighting that, you know, This is what I do.

This is how I live. These are my thoughts. These are my ideas because before I never shared them. Right. So I think this is why, you know, coming out and speaking and, like, people hearing me, getting a perspective, helping to understand my journey, what I've been through and what I have to offer. So that's where I am now.

It's like, that's how I'm going to get it back in blood. It's really just I'm going to do the work. I'm going to put out great music. I'm going to put out great videos. Every time we show up, we're going to be 100. We're going to connect with people. We're going to build the relationships. You know what I'm saying?

We're going to serve people in a way that we need. to build others up along our journey and I think that's what I'm doing now that looks different for sure what I'm saying? That's all I do. That's all I do. Talking that shit, man.

That's what the people want to hear. Standing and doing too, man. That's the fact. Standing and doing. Not just talking about it. Yeah. I would never preach anything or say anything that I haven't done

have been through, never. So who are some of the young dudes that you're in tune with right now next generation pretty much generation man i like a lot of the young niggas bro who doing they thing um um i like what baby doing i like what dirk doing um a young boy i like what he doing too in the music side um uh i like that new boss man dlo jane i'm saying i like i like where uh he got a few of them been you got a few of like him doing um Yeah, that's probably my playlist with them ride to right now. Yeah.

That type of shit. Yeah, yeah, that high energy shit. Yeah, yeah, that high energy shit. Yeah, man. So I fuck with it all, bro. That shit, you know, to watch them do themselves and express themselves at the highest level, that shit. Yeah, I love that shit, bro. Need them outlets, man.

Yeah. You know, like, you're up to tune in to some young nigga shit as an old nigger and be like, I see your nephew. That's just that spirit, that energy, man. Yeah. Yeah. Just hope it don't go too far. Yeah, you got to keep it on the record. That's all I look at.

That's shit, bro. It ain't worth it because if you, because it's so crazy. It's like if one of them cats make it to see or even to see 30, you start processing this shit in your mind. I'm like, damn, it wasn't even that worth. It wasn't even worth. You know what I'm saying? Even if a nigga lived two, three years longer, you feel like,

you get to the point with like, nigga ain't even worse. And when you look up and then you see everybody else didn't. And you're like, man, that shit, and you was right there. Yeah. And give a nigga a whole new outlook. But I hate that, like you said, they got to go to that extreme for a motherfucker to realize how valuable life really is. Right, bro.

You only get one? Yeah, yeah. Right. Did that bitch to the fullest, man. What's the name of your independent joint, your independent label? So the hood nation in my brand. Right. So I didn't start the label yet, but it'll be under the hood nation.

Hood Nation entertainment type shit you know what I'm saying that's my brand my label also got my touring company too um but hood nation to be the the stable point so I'm just trading lightly with that space you know what I'm saying I've seen a lot of OGs you know go through things you know I'm saying in that space I think with managing artists and doing all that extra shit so I just want to be smart about it I want to make sure that I have the proper amount of value and uh you know leadership to be able to guide them the proper way so yeah that's really my thing man you know what's kirk i feel like you can drop one of these anthems whenever you get ready though yeah any good time summer coming up yeah i'm already on the head summertime even before then i got some afro beat

i'm a piano style music dropping too but one of the guys out there and i got like uh i'm telling brown will finish the body the soul portion which is just going to be like a testament of my heart my spirit hard shit to like really want them on type of shit you know what I'm saying so like I'm excited about it all because I love the opportunity to show niggas like I'm really the best doing this in any yeah that's what I was just getting ready to ask you know a lot of your fan bases in the street yeah real street niggas and yeah like you know hustle hard that what you're gonna have for them yeah uh I mean life shit you know what I navigated my path you know uh as a black man growing up in the hood bro like there's a lot that I

learned and I had to develop about my person and my being that I think any street nigger any hood nigger can benefit from on how to live a more loving life how to really be confident with yourself how to really just learn how to be as a black man I think that's important because everything is based upon us doing shit we got to do we got to create this thing do this thing do this thing when the reality a lot of us can't just be with ourselves so I think you know those type of things but in the ways in which black men can receive it though still in that way where it's like like I'm delivering this shit to where you can still feel it. Well, you'd be like, man, that's some real shit.

You know what I'm saying? Now it's time for me to give you the stories. You feel me of like what that frustration felt like. Man, what that fear really felt like, bro. This really what it felt like. It's really what it felt like. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

It's really what that. So to me, when you share real stories like that, that's a human experience ultimately. You know what I'm saying? So, like, that's what I plan on giving the real niggas, bro. is life in a in the in the in the in the in the in the in the in the in the in the in a song bro how did you find your piece uh I went in a hill bro honestly real shit I think like like I took three four years after the moment that I went independent and I left the

calis situation uh that was a moment where I just decided dog I was like man I got to I really got to take my power back I got to get some type of power like I ain't had no control of my contract I ain't had no control of my systems ultimately other people own my shit They tell me when to move, what to say, I'd have said. It was trying, it was time, you know, getting down to that. So for me, I was like, man, this ain't, this ain't me. I can't operate in my fullest truth because this is what they would rather me put out commercially. And I'm like, man, this shit just ain't authentic to me, dog.

You know what I'm saying? And business is getting handled without, you know, me being able to have a say-so in that, you know what I'm saying? Especially if I'm involved in the business, you know what I'm saying? I know it's not my thing or my label, but if we homies and we're handling business, you know what I'm saying, I want to be able to be up front about, just the move I made the homie like you know what's going on so you know what's going on so it was just little things like that man I think uh for me that just led me to just be like man you know what

now that I'm independent dog I got to just go on the journey of just finding out who I am because when I when I was 18 bro I knew who like I knew who ace hood was for years but I forgot who Lutuan was I forgot that shit I forgot how he rocked and how he do shit what his heart really won't like with his mind thinking and shit I totally adopted this ace hood and the life now I'm like now I'm addicted to the lifestyle of people telling me I'm great I need the performances I need this I need the I guess all fueling it's fueling that being and that thing until like you know God put me in a situation of insulation and isolation you know what I'm saying to really like be broken apart really to be kind of stripped away from those things that I love

the most or at least thought I love the most or at least these are the things that bring me value as a man so without these without these traveling or doing the things in the way that I do it the big label like who am i now am i worthy for real you see what i'm saying like should i still be doing this shit so i had to go through that uh the ego death of just really killing like not killing off but just healing that that youthful part of me that led me to the industry you know what what I'm saying healing that part of being a band that didn't have my pop feeling like man I'm gonna pull up you know what I'm saying like and now the industry has become like my soul proprietor my soul everything and I call it come in and he plays a

somewhat of a figure, you know, which was beautiful, you know what I'm saying? But I just recognize all of where I lack because as artists sometimes we look into the world like, man, we got this thing all figured out when in reality, like your person or your building, you know, your being is insufficient. You know what I'm saying? When you go home, you feel sad, but you got all the money. We got everything. We got the whips outside. We got it all. I've got the career. We got everything. I've always had it. But it's like, you know, recognizing, damn, we ain't got nobody to share this with. Some wife had come in later. Damn, I'm like, man, this shit feeling crazy.

I really feel alone and about four niggas with me. 40 niggas. I'm like I still feel like like, you know what I'm saying? Like if I feel like if I make a left or just go like a nigga gonna knock my head like

it's to the point where like we're doing this. You know what I'm saying? We ain't doing none of that other shit you want to explore with. And that's my being. You know what I'm saying? That was my journey.

So, you know, I had to go through cutting off and all that other shit, man. But I just went on the space of just separating myself from the industry because I had to decide. Like, I knew how the old ace hood rock but I got to figure moving forward Who am I now?

What am I going to say now moving forward? I gave you all this, the Bugatti is the hustle hard, but what am I going to say to you now moving forward as an independent artist? Exactly. Then we trusted the process. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's a hell of a spill.

Yeah. Yeah, man. I hope you listen to J-O-N. I was the one. Yeah. Every time I look up this nigga trying to go solo, I told them we're a group. See how hard this is to do this shit.

by yourself. You ain't been to nobody school, just a bunch of sunglasses. Don't know shit about this business. That's hard, too, fool. For sure. Yeah, it's good crazy. Hood Nation.

Hood Nation, man. You got, if you have any artists or you're focusing on the solo right now? You know you got to go get one of them, little niggins. I'm going to grab somebody. You got to? Yeah, I'm going to grab one of the youngest. You know.

And show them the business the right way. I want to be real, though, about it. Because, you know, I don't want to just do it because I feel like it feel like the thing to do. You know what I'm saying? Like, on some real shit, dog. I'm going to do it.

I'm going to find one, like, real shit. To me, when I get that spark of like, all right, this little nigga or whoever, whatever it might look like, then I can invest my time and energy. Oh, yeah, 1,000 percent. But it's just going to happen. You've been the young nigga before.

Now you know the business, so you can do the shit right. You can show up and he ain't even got to be about no money. there, no shit like that. Like, bro, I just want to make sure you straight. Yeah. This is what you're looking for.

This is what you avoid. Like you said, that testimony tell your story, man. Make sure my, like, that's the way you get them back. Yeah, real talk. Hell yeah. Yeah. I fuck with that. I think that's actually the way I would approach the two.

Yeah. It's like softly just involved myself, you know what I'm saying? Being around, offering information where I can. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And then eventually that'll make sense, you know. You see a nigga long enough, you know, I want the best for you. Exactly, man.

You know what you see the game there right now? From your vantage point, what it's looking like? Free fall, man. It's a free for all. I see opportunity though, you know what I'm saying? I actually see evolution too, man. Rather than I agree with it or not, I think, you know, I do think it's in an interesting space in terms of like, but I think there's versions of it, you know, I think there's versions of it, you know. I think, yeah, we got the drill and all that extra shit, and we got, you know,

but I think that's just what it looks like when it's evolving. It's been in the culture. I think this has been our culture forever, man. So I think I take it as it comes, you know. I think mainly I look at it as like how can I move with the times, right? Like almost be like with the waves and shit. Like I cannot, you know, fall in with the times and shit. Or elevate and grow with the times.

But even if I don't like it and or don't love what's happening, I don't shun it, though. Right. You know what I'm saying? Even if I don't understand it. I'm just like... Somebody liked it. Somebody liked it. Somebody liked it.

And you can see where it came from, because that's what... Whenever anybody get older, they're going to look at the youth like, oh, they were crazy. They were, looking at us like we was crazy. They were looking at them like they were crazy. Their parents was looking at them. Like, so, yeah. It's never going to, like, as long as we keep pushing the... shit, where else is going to push?

You know what I'm saying? Like, motherfuckers going to try to get more shocking than they can be than a motherfucker until, you know, bitch, you're so naked, they put clothes on. I don't know. Right. But you got to keep in mind. These young niggas... These young niggas don't want to make no music for

a nigga that's 35. They don't give a fuck if you like it a night. Like, that's the gauge that they're using. Like, old niggas like it, we ain't fucking with it. Move on and something else. It's time to switch this shit up. Man, I don't want on them jamming my shit. So they got one old nigga in the studio or whatever he nodded his head.

Cut that beat off. Hey, cut that bitch on. Turn that monkey shit off. Man, take them vote. I'm fend to put them on another track, man. We want them all fucking mucky. As soon as the old nigga be like, this sound like a bunch of noise.

Yeah, that's what we're running with. Yeah. We got a one man. This sound like a bunch of noise. Yeah, that's it. That's funny, though. They got. What a shit.

The nigger know better, man. You know shit. Taste testing. There's beauty and getting older. older man. Hell yeah, man, it's the gold. Getting wise and shit, you know. I hope you want to make some better decisions at some point in your life. I would hope so. Absolutely. Enjoy yourself, you know what I'm saying? Every day, I'm trying to make, I'm trying to make it better than the last one. Real shit, man. I wake up like the dad on American dad. I jump up,

Good morning, USA! One nut hanging out of my draws. That's one long-ass granddaddy nut. It'd be crazy. Like a cue ball in a skin sack. That's my crazy. One great fruit-sized nut. That's funny. Hey, man. I know you fuck with them, Verts.

Yeah, yeah, I fuck with the verse. Hey, I got, I need have somebody. I got some people out there that's wait. crazy to me, but for sure, I fuck with the verse. Hey, man, I got a few verse you might, you might want to see these. Let me see what you rocking with. I'm like, I know what's going on. That's real good shit.

I remember vividly, niggas, he's seeing them don'ts, nigga. I was, like, yeah. Who had the cleanest vert in your hood? The car community gonna love this shit. Give me some local legends. You know how when a nigga got a clean-air in the hood, everybody knows this nigga for about 22 blocks.

This nigga, novel, got a hard don't. Oh, he got one, he got another. one that he's working on right now that's gonna be cold. Navajoie hard. Navar from the crib. Yeah. Navas shit hard. Yeah, he, they shout out the Navva. He'll fool with it.

Yeah, that motherfucking blue he did with a goal. Rod Wave got a cold one too. I seen raw wave shit. Yeah. And what the boy did to that motherfucker? Kenney down there. Oh, oh, ooh, what he at? What he at?

That's the guy who do with the way. I-95 motorsports. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, he'd do some shit, boy. Hell yeah. He go all underneath there. He rebrand, retouch everything.

Bring him off everything. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got it. It's a few legends down that way, shit. Well, you're on, suit it. I'm gonna get me one while I'm out here, though. I got one for you. I got one for you.

I got one for me, bitch. I got you one for you. Man, yes, sir. Yeah, I got one for you. Yeah. I got to go crazy on mine, too, though. It's on, you know, I got to go crazy. I'm telling you, man.

I'm going to have you a nice project. You can go wherever you want to go with him. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, nothing to worry about on that, man. Let them know what they can keep up with the new shit and all that. What they can catch up with you at?

Catch up with me, man. Anything Ace Hood, you know what I'm saying? Shit, TikTok Ace Hood, Instagram Ace Hood. I got to ask you this. I'll put my fitness tool, hashtag shredder.com. Make sure y'all go check that out. Hell yeah. Yeah, we're building that community out too.

So, you know, we get y'all to music shit, you know what I'm saying? And I give you all to focus on your mind. and then I give you the health and wellness shit to focus on the body and the spirit, you know what I'm saying? That's definitely. And shit like that. So, you know, shit like that. That's going to be coming soon that I'm working on.

Brough, have you got to catch any of these new female rappers? What they got? They got a hell of a movement going on with the ladies right now. Yeah, they do, bro. So for you to be, you know what I'm saying, in the game? Like I say, your vantage point, man, what you think of that movement? That's going on right in the middle of the whole shit. Movement, bro.

I think they're killing it, bro. Yeah. They're killing it, though. The Lottos You know, it's another song That I heard From Memphis got about nine of them That can rap their ass home

Oh man, the glow Really that new drunk Yeah, glow That shit go out Yeah, glow That motherfucker That motherfucking all In that day,

Like Sunday service That shit That shit goes hard Man, every time I see Where they got damn Microphone Just hanging out in the street All the women

Who then did one of them All they shit hard Yeah Yeah Lebronn is We're singing Yeah, that shit Go hard

Nah That shit hard Yeah Stop with a little pussy Bitches and shit Torbting on curbing My shit is left Man, curing on curving

Yeah If she don't come out With her own chain She got to A curbin on curving Even the curbing Even the curbs Fuck with that one

Cuban on curbing My shit In lead That need to be The next That's the follow-up Keev'n on Keev'n. Hey, that music.

That shit different. There's a lot of new motherfuckers popping up, man. Every time I look up, I'm having to look up some nigga who name I don't understand. Yeah. Any nigga that got initials in front of their name, I don't know what that shit's stand for. Shout to Troutland Pat, though, two of the homies in the city.

Oh, that nigga go hard. I'm saying. Shout out the boys in the crib doing their thing. See them boys turning up and shit, so. Well, you heard of tight out of Florida? Tight. Yeah. Major.

Tight. T-Y-T.E. I am. That nigga foo. That shout out of my name. Oh, you go crazy. Yeah. Well, shit, man, we could do this all day.

And you hit now, so this is going to be, we'll just say this part one. Yeah. I'm going to pull it back up. You got to pull it back up when Chico and D.C. here. For sure. That's, that's, you got to do that. And I got to show you. before you get the fuck out of here.

Real shit. Well, look, man, this your first time stopping through the trap, but don't let it be the last man. Ace Hood, 85 South. We outta here. Hey, hold up, hold up. Can't let you go nowhere unless we give you some of these 85 South Merk.

Oh, my brother, I appreciate you. You know what I'm saying? Make sure you're big stepping out here on these streets. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. At least something to wear back from the gym. Yeah. Hey, good. We're out of here.

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