The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Big Tigger in the Trap! w/ DC Young Fly, Karlous Miller and Chico Bean!

Episode Date: February 5, 2022

Big Tigger and the crew bust a cold mental health awareness freestyle! Big Tigger from BET's Rap City The Basement came to talk about the 85 South and Atlanta Hawks collab! The trap is the cousin of the basement! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and search IHurt women's sports to listen now. No, my seats ain't that close, my seats in the 100s. No, we're talking to. No, not like white by these. Huh? Sad this seat.

And they're not. Oh, the girl. Not the girl. Not, no, girl is be sitting close. Huh? I got to see. Yeah, I'm behind you like 12 road. Really?

Well, I'm saying, I sit on the floor where I sit now. What I'm saying? My seats are. On your seats, okay. They're like, you ain't never sitting there. Yeah, anyway, right. I'm getting, I'm getting a float for the plate type.

Feet touching the floor, the court. I need players that for me to fuck up. All right. When they're scow, you know, yeah. If you play in talking shit to me and I'd be too far back. For you to respond to him. You go hard with the whole stuff. You got this shit tech now.

We're black. No cap. The man is. I've seen that. You did. Westside AP. Yeah, that's all right now, we're with the counter. Huh?

You scared that one. He scared of that one. He scared of that one. He's scared that one. I'm going to get the old dirty bird. The long south. Oh, the Deon Sanders, yeah. Yes, sir.

So that's what you're going to get? We had, oh, what that thing are night? Tomorrow is. Yeah, yeah. This right here. That's right here. That's right here. You got to get a Wapha House

I'm out of the day, nah. You got to get a Wafel House there, too? Hell, no. They ain't get no Waphouse. They're racing. Motherfugre. Look at who you're down. He don't get that shit on my back.

Too many five. No cat. Chattid drink. Shantrelle's logo, nigga. Then I'm going to have to get everybody beautiful, Mr. Everything. I'm going to get everybody. I'm going to get everybody.

I'm going to get one. Thank you for that guy. Mr. Everything. Mr. Everything. I'm going to change one. I told you, I'm going to put you up on game. Get MARTA on your back? Barter.

Nah, I'm barter going through some dying right now, man. Yeah, they see you. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy, man. That's crazy, man. For you to go out like that? That's crazy. That's the only way you can go.

I mean, yeah, that's like that's going out on 85 and just staying in the world. They're going to crazy. Damn, damn. That's fucked up. Yeah, man. Can you imagine the type of stress you got to be under, though, for you to pick that? Yeah. Out of all the ways to go, nigg.

I don't want, I don't want to. I don't know what type of threat that is. That's a stretch street. You ready to go, go. Fuck the bullshit. You don't want no accident, no nothing. You ready to go. Man, people don't just do that shit for no reason.

Mm-mm. That's why you gotta pray for people mental health, man, because that shit is serious. Pray for people instead of praying on people. Mm. Bars. You dig what I'm saying? Yeah.

No cow. Another motherfucker ain't worried about you. It's a beautiful day. Hey, hey. What are the folks over there doing so good? Man, can they get money. Man, they didn't worry about no goddamn bad. Shit.

But the crazy part about the old I get, I realize how mental health is serious. Because you ain't got nothing but time to think about all the bullshit that went on in your life. See, you were trying to hear me when I was telling me that shit to beat T Wars, man. I ain't think that. You were like,

get the fuck out of it, that shit weird. I'm like, flop, telling you. Nah, nigga, you know, what's your problem? Like, nigga, that ain't the case. You got to get that shit out. You got too much stress, man. It's too much going on. But, nigga, be 35, still tripping off shit.

They were 14. 14, 13. You got to let that shit go. Especially all the shit. We've received in our life, boy, gotta talk to somebody about that shit. But that's why I realize a lot of people don't pray, though. They don't need to love.

Yeah, why? They don't need to start the thing to love. But they need to start the thing to love. Every day you went, I gotta go home. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. another day, yeah Oh, no I don't pay What you see?

Hey We end up Maybe we be ticker Everybody in a circle We're somewhere Oh, whoa Hey Round city in the basement

No replacement All up what you're chasing Hey That money I be thanking Okay On my mind I'll never be drinking No

Because I'm scared of you I Hey, they're just the peace in your fly Hey, dig on smoking, we saw, feel high Hey, hey, hey, I'm high in the sky So, God, thank the Lord Yeah Gotta stay up and thank the Lord Come on

Hey, yeah, yeah Hey, thank the Lord Gotta stay praying up and date the Lord What we do? We got to pray Let's just say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what we gotta do? Bring me, yeah, yeah. Because I'll be on my leave, like, hey, Lord, it's me again.

Thank you for the blessing you're saying. If you got some extras left over, give them to me, my friend. Hey, yeah, yeah. He's like, what you want. You don't have to thank me, son. I'm going to do it because I won't. I'm like, wow. I'm like how.

He's like when, he's like now. Hey, he's like, all the blessings up here mandates are to come down. Hey, yeah. Where you live? You're my son. That's your crib. I'm going to make sure that you're straight. I'm going to be a father.

That's what it is. Hey! You got to pray. Dang, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Lord. We got to pray, yeah, yeah. We got to pray. You got to pray.

Thank the Lord. He can help you reach your goals. I said a prayer. I found the dollar when I was watching clothes. I'm like, damn, God. Thank you for the blessing. You just said. If you know what I know, then you got to repent

And say, thank you for giving me another day Okay, hey, that's why I get down on my knees and pray Okay, I know my blessings coming every day That's why I hear all my blessings are that Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah You gotta pray, hey, hey, yeah, yeah, you got to pray, yeah Hey, man, well, baby, everybody's such, you know, my heart. Yeah, you've caught up.

Yeah, you called us. You caught up. You call up. You're praising the Lord. You know what that? It's public. Thank you y'all way in public. Hey.

Come on, man. Shalom. All that. Whoever you pray to? Not who ever. Not who ever. Not who ever. Not something is true.

I had to read out. We ain't going to claim. I knew I wasn't wrong. Uh-uh. You're wrong. You're wrong. Whatever you call. Yeah.

Whatever you call. Man, we got a man, listen, it's special loads today. We got a legend. Man, we're overdue all the way. It's overdue. Ain't no way he been in Atlanta this long and ain't been by the trap. I know.

I mean, the trap is the cousin of the basement. Right, amen. We basically ain't here, you know what I'm saying? Trying to keep the legs, sell. Right, following a blueprint that was laid down by this gentleman right here. We need a mic, we need a mic, we need a microphone. We need a microphone, damn the light.

Oh, amen. If it wasn't for this man right here, you might have missed out on some of the coldest interviews, the coldest free-stiles, the coldest visuals, man. He gets a vault of culture. All the way, man. He ain't even spoke about you. All the way.

I grew up listening to this brother. I'm from Washington, D.C., as everybody knows, and 95.5 W.P.G.C. The Uriah. The U.S. was hosted by his brother. He used to ride a bike, you know what I mean? Ride up and down the streets of D.C., you know what I mean? You would see this dude out, you know what I mean?

He was a part of the city, man. The city is a big part of the culture of the city is because of what this man laid down. I'm talking about go-go music on the radio. This brother right here, man. Icon. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, big ticket in the trap.

See that? Be out, we need to get to it. Gee, G, in y'all. Man is on albums, movies. Yeah. Be dating all types of flying women and shit. Hold on the court. Announcer, radio personality.

Fact. I just did an event with him at a college. We was giving back to the HBCUs, man. A philanthropist. A philanthropist. All of that. I can leave, man. No, you can do it.

No, don't do that. Don't do that. We got a bad record of that. We are taking to start this. We just want to say thank you for all the work that you'd employ. No cap, man. You get it. You're a legend, man.

Shit. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. You've been a part of a lot of the culture. Yeah, I mean, he was one of the first person when I got to Atlanta called me legend. I was like, you know, they feel old. Oh, yeah.

I kind of started to get used to it, and people called me, he and the other person called me OG. I'm like, as I've been in Atlanta almost 10 years now and look back on it, you know, like rap city ended 15, 16 years ago. People still talking about it every day. day that went by somebody and say you bring it back bring it back it's a conversation if it doesn't happen I have three letters for you to play we know

we know the three letters we ain't gonna say it we love them but yeah they got sometimes sometimes so I mean most of the time when I think about it and I get the love that I get from people like you that people are you know now that basically the pulse of the culture feels good to know that you know like if I'm disappear tomorrow, they'd be like, I'll be remembered for something like forever. Bray, no way, you're gonna be able to disappear tomorrow. Yeah, no, we don't know the air.

Look how much shit you do it yet, bro. You be hosting at, like, celebrity basketball games. You host this shit in Punta-Connor. Ponte concert. And fucking Memorial Day weekends and the Atlanta Hors. You said, he meant that. Yeah, I was there. I was there.

It went out. The Poonter-Conter. I'm like, this thing. It's incredible. You're like, they're hosting baggage. You're great. No. Didn't be noticed if you just disappeared.

Ain't nobody about to let you disappear. He's got like 100 events to host this year. Amen, we got to get the work. That was the hardest thing about the pandemic. I couldn't be outside. Damn. My first question is I always thought you were from D.C. What brought you to the city?

I went to a university in Maryland, college park. Okay. On a partial track scholarship. You were running? Yeah. Half the time. It was positive. I taught my hamstring my freshman year.

It was tough. And I was in rehab. and then my major needed a research internship. So I went up to WPGC. I was like, because I had been DJed since 16. I was like, fine, I'm in a new place. I can get some free records, meet some people, and do all my stuff since I'm not running as many.

I was there like two months. I walked into the studio to get something from LBD. LBD was like, he was like, hold on for a second. I watched him do a radio break. And I was amazed. I was like, I was like, I came to get da-da-da-da. he was like I was like a question how much can you make doing this right he's like he made away from 50,000 five million he was like oh you're about to show me this right so I

switched to under Alby and Alby took me under his wing I became his producer and his intern and then I just kept pushing I just kept saying you know somebody let me in and when I finally got my break to do nice on radio in DC you know like the whole thing was I knew I wasn't from D.C but I had a roommate in college that was from Temple Hills okay so I had a good pulse of what the earth was like, and he had already taken me to Dino's. He had already taken me to East Side to see Gogo and all of that. So I was well indoctrinated, and I knew it for me to fit in.

I didn't have to act like I was from DC, but I had to know D.C. So that's what I did, and that's why lots of people, D.C., be like, nah, he belonged to us. And then New York was like, no, he belonged to us. So, I mean, that's just how it kind of came about. But I love D.C. Maryland, Virginia, gave me my first opportunity to be me.

That's beautiful, man. That's incredible, man. All the way. made you make the transition down here. I mean, of course, this is the mecca. This is dirty, this is dirty dirty. But what made you go from being a New Yorker to come into DC, which is like their midway point,

you know, I mean, and then transitioning all the way down to the south. Well, True Star, I actually got fired on my birthday. That's some whole ass shit. Some whole ass shit. I got five. I know what that feel like, but that's fucked up. I got him.

Hey, man, if you ever want to do some fuck shit to me, don't fucking wait to my birthday. I tell you that money. I'm fired on my birthday. I'll tell you that fucking much. My birthday is three days. Three days before Christmas. Damn.

This story is getting worse and worse. Not yet. First day was on the Friday. It was on a Friday. So I mean, it was good though. I was on the contract. They had to pay me out the rest of my contract. About six to eight months later, I was like,

all right, I need to get some work. So I called Reggie. It was like, Reggie, hey, you need any money down there. He said, come down and do a couple ships. Let's see how it fit, how it sound. They had some other things. They were trying to move around. around and he was like you want to come to Atlanta I was like sure because I've been here all the

time have been to looters events I've been to germane events you know all the stuff that was happening down here so it was like it felt right it was a right fit for me everything this is as it was becoming when I got here in 2013 what it is now it's all music film TV everything that is what I do is all here so it made a lot of sense the rap city come about how did the mogul the main thing The big Chabain. Now, how did that come about? I was already on D.C.

This is when BET was still in D.C. Right. And I used to, I got a call for them. They just was like, we need a younger voice to do, like, little promo stuff. Right. So, like, I would go down there once a week and be like, Teen Summers brought you by Snickers. I'm going to be why weak.

Like, stuff like that. And then every time I was down there, my plan worked in radio, I just kept pushing people. I was just bumping the people. Hey, you need me do something? You need me do something? do something so about six months later they had uh keith paschelle and Greg Trent came to me was like we got the segment we want to try one day a week it

was like it's only two minutes I was like I don't remember right right it was called hip-hop news right and I would literally go shoot whatever the hip-hop news was for the week for two minutes but I mean the first time it came on I was like I'm in 70 million homes for two minutes I was excited right so I kept doing that and then the end of the season happened it was two hosts at that time It was a big lesson Joe Clare. Damn, your original host, Chris Thomas. Shut out, that's how long I've been down with.

Shout out to the mayor. Joe moved to New York. Last move to L.A. They needed somebody local in D.C. And since I was already doing a segment on the show, that year was me, Joe, and Les were the three hosts. And KRS 1 did the intro for the whole show. And you couldn't tell me nothing that man.

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And there's so much history that come out there building. I just went and did something with Ray Grant, who was running for mayor. And, you know, he was... Shat and OG. Yeah. I can't call him that. I mean, we running for mayor. But, you know, we went and did a tour of the building.

And I didn't, you know, being from the city, I knew that the building was there. But, you know, I was Watteen, something and everything. But going in there and seeing all of the... cubicles and he's showing us all of the history of what you guys laid down in that building is amazing man it's a lot of a lot of legendary stuff y'all did coming out of that be et building in dc yeah there was a lot happening in the dc at that time if i was in the right place at the right time with the right set of skills a bunch of times and i just kept pushing i was relentless and you know that came one of my before it was a hashtag that was my hashtag be relentless

like i was like i didn't know oh let me ask you brought up the hashtag this was actually trending on Twitter at one point the the freestyles like they was trying to figure out who had the coldest rap city freestowns okay who you think who gets your vote give me some of your your top freestyle from the error question love that's okay okay one of my favorites is is was was rap city the bashramid which was me elephant man boojubantan and bobby condes is playing the track and that That was big for me because even today when I go to the Caribbean, they are still talking about that one freestyle because they had never seen anything like that in Jamaica or national

television. Cameron Count Money, of course. That was cold. That was cold. Fuck, man. Wayne verse, everybody talks about the Wayne verse. Yeah, yeah. Wayne Ring.

Every time, me and Louda had three. E-ahe. And the one that I remember the most is Luda came in and he was like, you know, and like he said something like kidnapped free and holo for in ransom for 10,000 and then I played right off of that in the freestyle when I jumped in and I was like something something I was like you got me all up in my field is damn 10 grand you better bring 10 million or something like that and everybody in the boom was like so me and Luda had three epic ones I mean there was so many good ones LL's one was kind of crazy DMX um course there were so many iconic moments I tell people

there's no right or wrong answer, whatever it felt the most amazing to you is what it was. You know what I'm saying? I mean, but for you, though, like, you just named the ones that was the, as far as the artist, but as far as you,

what do you think your best performance in the booth? KRLS, I got to go on the booth for you. I grew up on KLR1. So going in with KRS1, going in with Raqim, going in with LL. God, MC. I pumped out with Jay when it.

You did? I was a little nervous. Really? What? I got excited, and then he was going, and I was like, nah, you got a, Jay. This is when the black album came out. And I was like, if I don't kill it after Jay,

everybody's gonna talk about how I messed it up. So I was like, ah, nah, you're good, we good. Black album, we're for Tyrant. It's going on your business. Did all the episodes you did come out? I believe all of them came out. Because we didn't, like, it wasn't live, but we taped them like two, three days when they came out.

I don't think there's any like vault somewhere of things that we didn't shoot. But it was a, I mean, it was a lot of fun to go in there every day and go head to head with some people I respected some people I didn't respect. That's hard interviewing people like. Well, I mean the interview part is that's where to be a professional. If I don't, I ain't gotta love you, I still got a job, so we're gonna talk with you talk. But when we're getting a booth, if I felt like you wasn't up to par, I came at some people a little harder than other people. other people so because I was like I know what I could do like you now here's your 72 million homes right here's your opportunity to sell 12 million albums you better show

out and I tell people you ain't got to come off the top of me do whatever is going to sell your album pack some people did better than others and some people didn't yeah you say who you were like they're like real talk when the camera went out you like His rap is too sensitive, man. They're gonna be like, I mean, this is all-knit, oh, now, these niggins like 50-A-N-N-N-A-N-N-A-N-N-A-N-N-A-N-N-A. I've had some very, some really dope memories, though,

like the first time we ever saw Kanye West in the booth. Okay. Kanye came, and Kanye was very much Kanye behind the scenes. He wanted to, if you watch it, I just saw it again for the first time the other day. He shouts out all his artists, GLC, and all in a. He wanted them to come in the booth with him. The network said no, because they didn't know him.

And he was Kanye to the fullest. He was acting the ass the whole time. Finally he went in there and did this thing. And I literally was like, dog, this is your first network. Look on BET and you're going to say, you don't want to do it. And they ain't going to put your peoples in there? I'm really talking to him on the stuff.

Like, are you serious? And he was like, I do that, I do it. So he did it and he smashed it. It was just, I mean, there was so many good bonus that we saw and people didn't see and behind the scenes things. So I'm really appreciative of that whole situation. I got one more about the freestyle.

Which one of the ladies came through and smashed it? Which one of the ladies? We had one that had a whole lady's first thing. Yeah. It was a Rod Digger. Digger. Digger. Moni in the middle.

What's he at? In the middle? It was Ron. Moni. Oh, God. I'm the MC. Jazzy Joyce is on the wheels and stills. And I think it was Trina.

All of them did like a lady's first. type thing in the booth. That was kind of dope. Did Missy ever come in the booth? I think yes. I think Missy came once. We had some odds. We had some other moments when people that you wouldn't expect to be in there, Destiny's Child came. Oh. Mary Jay came. We closed it with Mama Tigger, aka Patty LaBelle. She finally came downstairs. The man that we can't talk about anymore came by. Yeah. I was just by the ass. I was gonna do it. You don't know who move your body like a snake mom. I should.

Tickin' up. I was worried a body like a snake fly. You know me? Man, those niggins be listening to that niggins shit, man. You know, man. Tick on the, Tigger got five songs with him. You do. Yeah.

You said, me. He was boys. You know, you knitted too. I got one that came out. Two that came out. The snake and the snake remix. There was a remix to a J.S. on ice cream that never came out.

You think he was on a J.S.? You can get a scoop on my ice cream, baby. You got me. Why ain't gonna put out? You know what? Yo, yo. Oh, I said many track and he was like, da-da-da-da-d-d-d-l. I sat there and I still remember that thing.

And I was thinking all this ice cream references in the joint. And I think my verse was, um, whatever you need. I got that. I dream of cookies and cream, strawberry, prailies and chocolate. Top that off with whipped cream and tin cherries. Your flavor's more major than any benigeries. Watch me, Big Tigger, get all up in the shit. Fresh vanilla butter, pecan.

I'm gonna lick up your nice rum raisin. raising girl you are amazing ice cold but the way you roll that is cage it mm-hmm oh yeah you can wait to wrap that cage and roll ice it's right you're waiting to get there but I know how to go and go ice cream please oh long time ago I'm just happy I'm proud of that boy in his bang all the way you're going on another game about it's called ice cream please Well, it's hard for a nigger. He's going.

He's going. What it is? There you go. Well, that one good. That one good. So, like, being as though you were, you dabbled in the recording industry. Like, did you ever just think, like, you know what, I'm about to go full time and put an album out? Had a couple meetings.

Uh, had three meetings. Didn't like the way the meetings with. I was already doing rap city. I had a radio show in New York at the time. We started Power 105 in New York. Oh, you was on that? Yeah, when it first launched, I was doing... Oh, gee, that shit, man.

You can start all this shit. So, I mean, it was like, I had two other hustles, and I was like, for me to put a hustle down, because I was going, if I'm gonna do it, I had to focus on it. And I was like, for me to put a hustle down in a platform down, this deal got to be right. And they was kind of, oh, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know.

We don't know when Snake was out, I was going crazy, too, Really, we don't know? So I was like, the other difference for me is I had an outlet every day at 4 o'clock. So anytime I went, you know, like the best, that's why a lot of artists' first album is their best. They got 20 years or what they've been going through, what they've been feeling. They just, ah, you know, and their first album was like, okay, then the second album, they got to go live some more to, you know, put it together. I was every day, either on radio just doing my show, rap city, in the booth.

So I had lots of different ways to express myself. So I wasn't like, I gotta get this shit out. So, I mean, I didn't get there. It is the music business, and the business wasn't right, so that's why we never got an album. So how much music are you sitting on? No, you're sitting on a lot of shit. If you didn't dump that, you got a lot of shit.

You want to end up? I got this. This one I wrote a 99. Ice cream, sandwiches. This was about chips. Y'all ain't shit. I would say, I could do music with this all, mostly dated at this point. At one point, I was when Swiss first launched full

surface, it was Cassidy, Meshonda, Bounty Killer, and people don't know Tigger. And we was working on, they did a mixtape, full surface mixtape, which was like, and I did a verse on Mishanda's record at the time, but we was working it out, working out, and then it just didn't work out. So I mean, I got some songs and me and Swiss did some things together so me like me and swiss always like yeah remember that dude it was like um it's been a lot of fun man we did a remix to a song another son that didn't come out uh it was a it was a song for for r l r r l had a song that swiss did and i think it was a remit but it didn't come out but like even r l but like yo that mergers i remember that

murs so i mean the law story short is i i don't have any regrets um i did what i was supposed to do i'm at where i'm supposed to be I mean, I made it to the trap, so I got to be winning. Hey, boy, you win the motherfuckin' out. One thing about it. That's big. Man, where that fucking... Making it to the trap.

Fuck all that other shit, then you're the trap. This shit gonna come out, too. I'm old damn. You gonna put it out. After years of working, like, what keeps you motivated? Because you didn't, you know what I mean, if you were to sit down now, your legacy is cemented. So what is there left for you to do?

Even with doing all this, like what keeps you just going? I think, first of all, most of the stuff that I do is fun. You know, hosting, you know, for the Falcons, being a PA announcer for the Hawks, big, good morning show on V-103. I mean, I had a new show this last past summer on Revolt, but off top. All the stuff that I get to do is usually fun. And if it's not fun, it has to be so enormously, ridiculously lucrative, then I'm like, all right, I'll do.

Right, right, right. So I've been able to move in that way in a lot of ways. Other than, I mean, I just like doing what I do. You know what I'm saying? I don't have a lofty goal or anything. Like, oh, I want to go down and, you know, like, the whole time, I just been blessed that people respect me for being me because I've been me the whole time.

Like, people who met me back then, like, oh, you said, you know, you ain't get brand new on me. You know what I'm saying? So that's kind of like the thing that keeps me moving is I'm still viable or still, you know, somebody relevant. You know, this is my 28th year in radio, 25th and tell me. God damn, I'm about to be 30, man. I was a baby when you was first getting a job.

Finally got some old niggins up there. Yeah, come on. Hey, let me ask you this then. As an older gentleman. An elder statesman. Yeah. How do you find the new shit? Like the new rap?

Yeah, the new shit. Some of it's better than others. But I'm saying, how do you find it? Because a lot of this shit. Oh, where do you locate it? Yeah, where you locate you? Because I got a young nigga that put me up on the young shit. But luckily I'm working a radio station, and I'd usually be like, Greg, what's crazy?

I'm working at the radio station. Swamp Isle, what's crazy? My young nigga be like, hey, oh, gee, this one of the one. You might fall with this one. Yeah, so I just, apparently Super Gremlin is the thing. Right, yeah. That's a whole lot. I'm part of the Super Gremlin's thing.

I just had to find that out, you know, from other people. I just, that's kind of the way around the station I asked my young, my young people at the station, Sturgis, Greg Street, Swamp Isle, Peanut. I was like, all right, what's popping? They were like, oh, this is crazy, this is crazy, this crazy. And they just put me up on this dude, Big Yevo. Big Yevo, yeah, yeah. Big Yevo.

Okay. The Big Yevo. So, so 28 years and pushing 30 years, my question to you, Ben, as though we just getting really starting in our journey in this game, for real, for real. Like, what would you say the time where it stopped being about money for you? Like, where the money stopped being the motivation and you was just like, you know what? Yeah, because I don't want to get to that point. I mean, for real When I say the money

Stop being, because you just said If I'm doing something that's fun Unless it's super duper lucrative I'm sure there was a time Where it didn't have to be super lucrative We were just like a check I got it, whatever, you know what I mean? I learned at some point

That not all the bags are good bags I've been offered some bags To do some things that wouldn't sit well with me Or to be in places That I probably shouldn't be Or, you know, like it was just, I remember like, like back then, I remember that I got offered to do something with malt liquor And malt liquor wasn't, you know, like even though I drank it, I wasn't about to be running around telling everybody else to drink more Right, right, right, right.

And then, so it was just like different. I always tell people, for y'all who are doing amazing well, I would tell you to always stay true to your brand, stay true to yourself. As long as you can get up in the morning and look yourself in the mirror, and be like, I'm good with me and still cut the lights on and you should be happy. You know what I'm saying? You could always want bigger and better, but it got to start this.

Like, you got to be able to be like, all right, me and me is good. I feel good about me inside. I could wake up, I can still go to sleep. I ain't worried about. Oh, man, I shouldn't have did that. You know what I'm saying? That's the hardest tradeoff with the money part. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free.

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in the bag all day long but sometimes you're like yeah maybe not when in the first time you do it

you're just like you don't notice it it's not like something specific I haven't I don't know it you're like oh

that's great I don't know about that one you know what I'm saying that I don't want to do that I don't want to do the Trump rally

you know something like that I'd do it I do it what's the fuck I would pull up on the vote what would you do

shit What they won't do it. I'm gonna charge these motherfuckers so much money. You're gonna go, you're gonna get your knick's slave man. You know, you're gonna get Colos out there. He's gonna fan about $3 million. I don't get with me. Y'all's gonna look on Fox News,

they're gonna be on there. Black people have to make away for themselves. Stop blaming the white man for everything. How much they're paying this nigga? A lot. A lot. Slavy was men. misinformation.

Hell, nah. I'm gonna come back in that. Hell, nah, he's bull and shit. No, he ain't. No, he ain't. It's a clone. Shit. You know what I mean from Mississippi?

Yeah. Can't wait. I can't wait. Can't wait. Can't wait. Man, I love drunk watching this. I knew I had one of. No.

I had one of. I had one. He's going to get that in all those guys. He's going to see that shit. If you're like, look at my mind. for getting him there isn't he wonderful I think he's stupid oh man anybody that you ever wanted to get in the booth with that you didn't um who wasn't he's gone before the two people big and pop past before the show happened um anybody else i really

want i think i pretty much got him was just about everybody else thanks uh i would have loved to getting with ODB pass before it happened. That shit would have been legendary. Oh my god. I just wonder, I would just wonder what his opening bar would have been. You're shaking ass, you're stupid. What did you got, Michael Jackson in there, mama. Man, that would have been so cool.

Tigger, I got it, Tigger, I got it. I got it. I just missed him at the, so the one time he came to the beach he was, I was backstage when he came off the stage and it was like a line of people. We was all waiting to be like, hi Mike. And then soon he was like, Like right where you at, they made him go that one.

I was like, no! You're a club! But he saw him at first. I saw him, it's close. It was close. That's it. I need to dab mic up. Was he standing there?

Was he floating? He was kind of floating. Because Dallas also said that nigger can go from over there to over there, and nobody would even see him move. It was him and James Brown coming off the stage. God damn! Because that's what he did at the BT one. That's a lot.

It was honor of James Brown, and he came out and put the cape on James Brown, And then did the little James Brown, with James Brown, and we was all like that. And as soon as I saw that, I was like, I'm going backstage, because I know what side they're coming off of her, I went backstage and was sitting there like this. We say hi to Michael Jackson, he was like, eh.

I was like, damn, damn. I mean, by the minute's Mike, I definitely would have caught James. Yeah, dang, dang, dang, dang. He was saying, what he was going to phone and tell me, hell yeah, they said that shit on the camera. I see that.

James probably just listen. He said, I said that shit on the camera. Yeah, well, yeah. I'd love to see you and James Brown naked. See, that's a crazy story. I don't have a couple of legs and James Brown. What you want to do? What you want to do?

I'd do it for you, James. What's one of the craziest rooms you've been in? You got the Michael Jackson and James Brown story. You ever looked up in the room and were like, ain't nobody ever gonna believe this shit if I tell them. Oh, I ain't mind. I'm gonna cover. Look at me.

Think of it for a second. So I remember one year, it was New Year's Eve in Miami. And we were at the Delano, I think. And I think Jamie Fox and Snoop were before. So they had like this dinner. We went to Snoop's room. Snoop introduced. I don't really smoke that often, but every once in a while.

Snoop had this, he had a little mini coffee grinder. Snoop brought, he had one little L out, passing around. Everybody was high. he was like oh man oh see you heard that did you hear that well that nigger had everybody had off one little hell but it was this long it was this long so everybody was like oh he was like oh nephew that's the warm-up weed when the bag came out this little coffee grinder and four like pounds and made this thing he called gubbow what he called it he called it gullbo he took a pinch out of this bag put him right pinch out this bag put it around it came out like powder

It was another loan with like lungs that they was I was like snoop man I was we was we went to dinner so it was me Snoop Jane Fox Luda Gabriot Union Sinai Lathan and me and Gabby was cool these all sound like high-ass people that you know that I'm in nowhere everybody at how like why is he telling this story I don't know we haven't they have spoken wrong to ask me. I had to know in Billy Joe. The piano?

Billy Joe. Billy Joe. We was like, wait. Uptown girl? Billy Joe. I made that nigga sing that shit. Hey, Billy, man. Uptown girl over there.

I'm from uptown. Talk about my bitches one time for me. Billy John. I was like, Billy Joe. So we're walking in dinner and I'm telling Gabby that I'm like, Gabby, don't let me sit next to this and now. I had a question. I said, no.

next to Sanai. I'm high as here. I don't know what I'm gonna say this tonight. Right, right, right. We get up to the table, Gabby's like, Tim, you should sit next to now. It's like, bouch! So I'm saying, I'm like, hi. Yes, that's me. I was nervous the whole dinner. I was spilled the water. I fumbled. I love some doubt, too.

It was a failure, but it was fun failure. But I just remember it was all a cool vibe, and then Billy Joel popped up. And there was somebody else I can't remember who didn't fit that, that room. You're like, where the hell did they go from? Like, Emmanuel, or something like that, popping up. We were like, what's happening? Ha ha ha ha ha.

You ain't talking about the little... Yeah. Not, Immanuel Lewis. Emmanuel Lewis, I'm sorry. Yeah. The man, Daniel Stewart is the boxer coach. That's the boxer coach, man. He's going to...

That's my boy. But he'd be in somewhere, though. You see him everywhere, but back then, you ain't see him that on there. Yeah, like Immanuel Lewis, he'd just be popping up, man. He'd just be popping up, man. You can be at the U-Board on Camp Creek, He'll just walk in.

I said he made me lose that crucial one night. You know in him, man. He ain't gonna jump you here, man. With some cagas on. That's crazy. Yeah, that I mean, I'm here. Oh, man. There's some cool rules on.

You got to be around all the culture, man, and just see shit happen for the first time. He came to wild and out that first time. We were all. He made was so excited. No, no, man, that Lewis ain't never did wilding out, man. before beach, I'll release it.

All that way, yeah, all the grad is there, God damn, baby, you, man. You ain't gonna be able to, don't think that. Don't pick them up, you ain't gonna be able to. Why I wouldn't it? He's like a baby gorilla. You can't pick up a baby gorilla in me. Nobody said he wasn't in a dog, me.

That, that's stupid hell, bro. I think you're having a baby gorilla. Just how it happened? You're not going to be able to pick that. Oh, boy, that's dougar. And a heavyweight. Yeah, it ain't like a paperweight. I just keep it right there, yeah.

Oh, that's crazy here. Big shit, pop it, man. So you've been announcing for the Falcons. Yep. What you're on with the host? The Falcons gave me a section called the Dirty Bird's Nest. how you keep from cussing uh carefully are you a fan of the faucus i am a fan of the faggis now oh now

yeah that's how you do that right i don't know how you do that right i mean i don't know how you be on their mic and not say fuck well these niggins nail on the style help because i have to go you know you do it i had to get me a bleak button at the time i'm like you do you just get up like i've been doing radio so i just you know When I know that click, that might come on, I know I just can't go that way. But you got a little look at the name sometimes. He'd be like, oh, who did they just got out? 54?

54 Williams, all right. Lost for five yards. So I mean, that that, that, honestly, the names is the hardest part for the hawk because there's some names. Trust you all the European players. Facts. There's some, you know, Bogdanovich's and Voochavitschis.

And I love one of them names, you like that. I wish my name was European. European like that. What? Carlos Chokovic. Or Carlos Keeper bitch. He's seen fucker bitch.

She called Desma bitch. From three, Desmer bitch down like what? She called Dezma bitch. She called Dezma bitch. You can tell you got to code his name

and the whole thing, though. Greg Popabit. Oh, he did me. Good popper business. Dad, he didn't do. Yeah, so I mean, the Falcons thing was fun, but you know, this year, transition

in the PA announcer for the Hawks was, I had DJed 12 years in the lead, five for the Wizards, seven for the Hawks. Nick, once you get the loser, you keep that moment. You did it for the Wizards. That man, I don't play that. His first job.

I know, he's not as an intern. He's like, you're looking for an intern or you got a long position. I don't do shit. I don't do shit of shit. Peter Savant, there's three company changes. My name cost five years. So what you, would you say was the best game that you've been a part of that you can remember?

Oh, man. The entire playoff run last year for the Hawks was amazing. Yeah, she was great. Especially coming off the pandemic, we had no people up until, like, playoffs. And then we were like, we might not make out the first round. Oh, made out the first round. Okay. Then the second round, we had all kinds of swagging in there, man.

And we was popping, big things, popping. Like, we was talking crazy. Talking. And I got an exclusive announcement. It just came through the facts machine. What is that? Y'all talking all this stuff back at home. So I mean, like the energy in State Farm

during the entire playoff was just the most fun, that was the most fun games I had been at. And Tigger, announced this for me. You want me to announce that? Yeah, because you'd announce you. I want the world to know. Y'all get rid of. Just act normal, y'all, act normal.

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We on fire! Chico, that's my bitch. We don't find it. Look, I didn't want to get some. There, though. Oh. Oh, shit, I don't need to see that. It's say Hawks, right?

Hox, come on. Oh, you go. Yeah. Then you flip it over. You got to flip it over. You got to look at the sleeve. Look at the sleeve. Atle, Holt.

You got to look at the sleeves. Atlanta, Holt. 85 South, A.T.L. Oh, God, it's good. Put that logo on the front, too. It's not on the front, too. Up there at the top. How they look to you?

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They'll be available all the way up until this is never part to this thing. Wait, wait, wait, shh, hold up, part two. You got here, part two. Part two. There's going to be a Forever 404, 85 South, South, whole thing happened in March 31st. Y'all gonna have your own ticket package. Oh!

Oh! You will get a ticket, you will get a t-shirt, and a $10 food and beverage credit. What? We're gonna close. The hot dog is $10 already. Oh, my God. Bring some money, because the hot dog is $10 already.

But you ain't gonna have to pay for that, because we're gonna provide you with the $10 to get at least one item, a money, and a ticket to what? Who? Who? Who? Us. Out of what budget? The budget that's already a statement. Oh, yeah, it's got for one. You already did. It's already done.

I'm about to crack because I ain't never make it to the NBA. But this is good enough. We got drafted, my boy. God is good. I feel like last year that run, remember, I don't know if y'all remember, but before the season started, we went to the, Park Stadium and we did that thing when we announced all of the games when they was playing and then they end up on to the finals so I mean this year with this

hey hey I don't know I'm just saying we real get on edges for this one right yeah now congratulations this a good look I mean because everybody don't want that everybody's gonna want this I mean a it's the right color way yeah it's got the 85 south one it's several times yeah and you know like this is this is this is kind of the thing to be rolling around it so can we go you Give a shout out to the Hawksville, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

True enough. You have a crabbush? Yes, sir. I know these people probably don't want no, you know, she's a loving lady here is in the back. You know, man. She is very, very instrumental when that's being in. Just say J.S. Say J.

You know, I don't know. Hey, J. Thank you so much, ma'am. But thank you so much, ma'am. Are you really? No, for real, man. I'm about to crap, man. That's big, man.

That's big, man. Bro. I mean, that's one thing I appreciate about the Hawks, to be quite honest. They are so interested in being a part of blending the culture. You know, it's not, their whole thing is basketball. Basketball is entertainment, and we live in the home of entertainment. So whether it be, you know, the Migos, whether it be... That's what I was just about to say, bruh.

They got to get Cuibo a 10-day. He could have caught one during the damn pandemic. All I'm saying is, bruh, they just need to, they really want to lock in. His little hoop. I need a 10 days. I'm good. Sam one of the Migo, man. I'm going to get in.

Well, what? My shoulders are spot. He got to get in. He's got to get in. He didn't get in the game. He's going to be crazy in the game. You got to put him in the game. You got to put them in the game.

You know, when they're playing somebody, you know, you know they're going to beat like the magic. I think it's going to start a trend. It's going to start trying. Watch. You're going to go to the family game next year. And the family, I'm going to be like, yeah, y'all know we're four p.

Yeah. Oh, That's what it is. That's what it is. You want to win next season? Hey, man, include us. Hey, we got some socks or something. Y'all need to do something.

Y'all need to do something. 85 south of Mercedes Ben's socks. 208 and 3. That's what we do. I want to pull up in the Mercedes Ben's tax. 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.

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Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your Podcasts. I mean, if y'all to win, fuck that Mercedes-Bin'all, don't bring that. No, we're going to bring it up. They forgot. You know, he had to talk him up to bed. I remember that video. He was in a dock.

Like, it was in a dock. He was in a car. I was like, fly. I was just called by myself, bro. It was a hint. It was like on the street. Somebody walked by and was like, go Patriot. I said, boy, whoop your ass, boy.

Oh, everything I got. I remember that video. He was like, we can't have shit. I was like, fly. Please, bro. whatever you at, don't start the car. How much would we celebrate at Hamtow? What was we thinking about?

Listen, I was in the house full of patron, what was everybody talking about? I was on their head, nigger. I walked around, everybody like in here. Tung who, nigger, Tung who, nigger. Tung who, nigger. By the third quarter, everybody was looking at me. They were like, so what's up?

What's up with your father now? I was like, I just want y'all leave me alone. Why y'all got a gag up on me? Why? I'm the only person here, that's a five and my mother on the one, it's a falcon fan. Man, 20, eight. The whole city was thinking about Magic City.

I was watching the game, right? And there was some fathers fans, we was watching the game. Nick said the coach and shit ever, if they won the game, this was a big coach. I forget who was performing the halftime. Who performed the halftime? So you remember that?

Nobody knows. Oh, that's a blur. Yeah, but he was like, yeah, they would no longer be performing. The fat lady will be singing the halftime. I was like, damn. It was looking like that, then after the game. It was like, ooh.

When that nigga caught that ball on that niggum helmet, I said, I know we're gonna lose. Ain't a way in hell a nigga to call it over another league and it on his head. He had the ball on his head, like, look, bitch, I caught it with your help. I called it with you. We're about to win.

Y'all rummed it in, they ain't gonna call us. Cut it out. Shout out to the Atlanta Falcon. Hey, go on. I fought with a fountain. I got to get some season ticket. I got a season ticket at the hawk. They just sent them little plant.

saying thank you, see you in the middle. Y'all got the last, you know, I respect, like Atlanta so much, I love Atlanta so much, is because it's one of the only places where you can come from as a black person, you know what I mean, you can come from anywhere in America and find a way here

and be embraced if you're doing good business and making a way, you know what I mean, tickets from New York, I'm DG, you from Atlanta, you from Mississippi, people from all over, but if you come to Atlanta and do good business and got, you know, some product that's worth having the people to embrace you

and it'll be a space for you to do it. Yeah, it's like a black-ass Walmart. Yeah, exactly. It's the only place in America. You bring, as long as you're trying, niggas gonna fuck with you. Exactly. It's the only place in America.

You can come as a black person, get some money and not be looked at it, like, damn, you're the only nigga on here doing so. Right, because niggas in Atlanta be looking at you're like, damn, he got no money. Yeah, exactly. You know, we just got him.

Yeah, everybody got some money around this. They lie. They lie. They've been here. You see what? I said, we'd be hating when motherfucking would be new, acting like they been here.

Oh, you can tell who ain't been here. the traffic you can tell you don't know the whole tree that's playing versus Grady baby thing was the thing and when I first got it and I was like all right as I was like yeah I'm not I ain't from here see I'm born in George Baptist which is was uh what that shit is I forgot what that's Atlanta America now off the boulevard okay so you know what I'm saying my shit ain't in Atlanta I just say the cold shit when they be like me here you from Atlanta I'm like why I make my kids in Atlanta fuck you something out hey that's a fat yeah I make babies

What? What? They can't sit there, my boy. What? We're in talk. You got to do that shit just like that. Hey. What you're talking about?

What you're talking about? What? No care. No care. Oh no, what this shit called for? What? No care. Who'd be talked to?

We'll talk to you over here. Why, I fuck with you. Okay. What was your favorite Atlanta word when you got here? Uh, shit. This nigger, most of the shit that I learned and know about Atlanta, this is my... consigliate to Atlanta shit I'd be asking this nigga like a real tour's like

what's real Atlanta what's not Atlanta I'm saying like when I first got to Atlanta I just know it's Atlanta had their own words oh yeah oh yeah what was your favorite word when you got in I got what I shit I don't know that's a good one man uh you know I mean damn that's a good my favorite Atlanta word is fuck F-U-T I fuck with you boy yeah man probably be boy hey boy hey boy hey boy fuck They put a W in white. Why? White.

It's your, if you, huh, it's just, uh. My favorite word I got here was up. Oh, p. Oh, pussy. What's that? It's all one word. Yeah. Hey, talking about, like, like, l'am, like lamb,

lamb. L-M. L-M is 11. L-L-L-L-A. Yeah, we just say l'am. L-E-N-L-L-L-L-O-C-L-L-C-L-L-L-C-L. Then go across the street, can it go across the street,

can it's creak. I don't get a foot. thing, H-T-R, it got a, in it. Just another. It can be good or bad. Hey, you're talking about. More definitely. Yeah.

That can go either way. Yeah. Nick can walk in and be like, boy, I gotta have surgery on my leg third. Nick might look at him like, here you're talking about. Hey, you're talking about. But then, nigga be confused, though,

like, hey, you're talking about. You feel? Like, Nick, be like, buddy to me. Like, man. Yeah, you're talking about. Head, time out. Head, time out. Real talk.

Good dude, don't bad this shit, dude. We just got this fucking deal with the last box, the hawk snake. Hey, you're talking about. Hey, you're talking about. Hey, you're talking about. Hey, you're talking about. Yeah.

You know, make that transition coming from, you know, is you coming from DZ where there's a whole other language and they're coming down. Were you able to correlate the words, like what meant, you know what I mean? Y'all is like, we're just stupid, man. No, I'm them saying. It's slang. Hey, time.

Hey, time. Hey, man. It's stupid. I've been in enough places to learn to listen first. Yeah, exactly. I listen first. Yeah, I need got the dope on love. Before I try it, I listen.

You know what I'm just saying? I just listen to how people talk what they're talking about. And shout out to little Bankhead who was at the station when I went out. My boy. Banking with my hood. He was definitely my hood guy. I was like, Bankhead, well, what in? You have my head in time.

Yeah. Hey, I told he was somewhere... Shalding them could be more than one person to just know that shodding him could be one person or a hundred niggas. I know he was somewhere, he called my, he was right here, I'm in, and I'm like, where you at? I'm on a woo-d-woo-d-woo, and I was like,

she, hold up, let me do my nigger GPA right quick. Hold up, where you at? Yeah. Hey, my boy, you're scraking, you know I can go. I was on the east side. I was on the east side. He called me, he was like, boy, you're scraped. I'm like, nigger.

You know I'm here? You're like, here, yeah, but you're on the side of town, I might not be able to get to your body, straight. I'm like, man, I'm good, all right, you know, I was just making sure. I'm like, you know, I was here. You were like, shit, here you're talking about. I'm like, I ain't back, bro.

Appreciate you for looking out, man. You're gonna say so. Nick, like, what you got over here, but you know? I said, I know now. But they got this shit divided for real, nigh. West side, nigg, don't go to the east side. He said, I got on that for him.

He said, I remember I was asking, I'm like, what's the difference? He was like, nigger. Every time I was over there, I was like, boy, am I doing over here? I'm gonna tell you. And I just, it originated with me, right? And how people look at a level.

You know how we're in LA? When we go to LA, we might be in LA, Long Beach, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Hollywood. We're in all these different cities. We're in all these different cities, but if somebody calls you like, where you at? Well, I'm in L.A.

Nah, these niggas do in Lama. These nica might be in Lama. Stone Mountain, Locked on you, Decatur, Snailville, Guinek. You got him there, what they have? Boy, I'm in Atlanta. You're not in Atlanta, my boy. You dig what I'm saying. So it's like, it is what it is.

We kind of like embrace away. It's just like, we couldn't fight that shit, but. Like, we could not. Tell the nigga from Snailville, you're not from Anana. He's looking you up and now. Why I'm swimming alone? Why? You're like, no, you are not.

I see you, bro. That's all. That's the same way I feel about the DM. You like, you is Hager Town. That is not where you're in D.C., no you're not. You are in Midas Town, Maryland, sir. It's not even a Metro bus.

We have our-schools called Atlanta Public School. You go to Guadne. That is a lot from Atlanta. That shit bothers him. Oh, that shit be barred. But you know, I got old while, I was like, bro. It don't matter. It don't even matter, bro.

I swear. trying to make that Bay Area type feel, you know, because the Bay Area embray all the cities of the Bay Area is accepted. San Francisco's Laos, you know what I mean, all the different stocks and all that. But see, they came up with a word to represent everybody. They was just outskirby last year. They just did their name. They are already hot.

Yeah, we're gonna take Atlanta. They ain't nobody know. We stay in smells and you. Not on you. Locked on you. Locked on you. That sound like it's far. Locked on you by 50 minutes out.

It's far. Listen, two at a five This is called a lie thawya. That big called a lie thornia. But this way it get tricky though, Lo, I mean, go to Chigo, do where it get tricky then. You got APA, then you got Forty County. Now, we got a counter.

Now, four to county is the four Atlanta on the west side. We don't share no other counter. We don't know none of that. On the east side, you got a little bit of Fords County, but then you got DeKalb County. They got their own county. Now, you got some other cities who share our county. But that's considered Atlanta.

The east side is considered Atlanta, right? Yep, we got east side too, but it ain't be. That's why I called Decatur. They got their own city. It's that shit huge. What about the south side? It's south of it. But Collier Park is his own city.

Basically anywhere in Georgia, they got their own police. That's a whole other city. East Point, literally all this in the same, East Point is another city. Wow. East Point, Georgia. Yeah. Collipar, Georgia.

Yeah. This shit gets deep. I'm just really from Atlanta for real. But this shit so much. Let me show you how fucking crazy this shit is. I don't know no matter all that extra shit, but I know who y'all, we're here, though. If I leave my house and make it right,

I go to Atlanta. Okay. If I make it left, niggia, I ain't gonna tell you what other poor I am. I stay right in the middle. Right. This is a nigga, I don't know. No, I don't tell me that.

No, exactly way. If I go here, right now. Okay. Okay. That way yet. That way yet. Hey, hey. This way you.

No, no cat, though, bro. But see, I love that shit because even, like, it's so many people that's moving down here is making the outskirts even get better. So you could be at love, joy, and all that. Eventually, them place is gonna get better, because there's gonna be so many people moving here, you feel, and like, they ain't doin' them

but just building shit. Everywhere. I'm talking about they building apartments out of nowhere. You're like, they're doing this for a reason. They got a plan. These motherfuckers ain't making no $9 million projects out here for no reason. Trust me.

That's the other thing that's really dope about the Hawks, though, because there are so many people not from Atlanta here. Facts. But people love the organization. They love the team, the players. Like for that type of energy to be in the building, you would have done everybody from east side, west side, southwest, you know what I'm saying?

But there's so many people that's, you know, like from everywhere else that all call here at home now that represent for these teams and represent for that energy. So, like, that's one of the things that's kind of really dope. And the culture coming out of this city is so strong. They didn't remember. I would say Atlanta's been the most influential city in the rap game for what? 20 years now, damn me.

I mean, when you think about what came out of this out of everywhere, the most consistently represented city in hip hop has been Atlanta since like 2000. This is one of the only cities where niggas can have fun. As a nigger. Yeah. Be a nigger. You're talking about you can do all this shit, nigga.

You can go shopping. You can beat the girl of your dreams three, four times. You can go to the strip club. You can go to the strip club. You can have a birthday party. I got a restaurant in the strip club. Nigger, I take, man, he took me to the blue flame, and I don't, I don't do strip clubs,

because I respect the culture, and I know I'm not giving you, there's no money, so I don't know. Because I respect what y'all doing, but he was like, nah, man, don't even worry about that. I'm gonna take you and show you something else. We go to the flame, and everybody know him, is he'd have been in and out the culture or whatever,

so I go sit down, I'm like, man, I'm hungry. Let's take me to the somewhere to get something to eat real quick. He was like, nigga, shut up and just, shut up, I got you. We're getting there, man. I look at the menu. I was like, man, this is a setup. They ain't selling all this shit in the way. Ain't no way, niggins and macaroni and cheese

and braced collins. I'm like, they're making shit you don't mean. That good macaroni and with a little strong of macaroni chains and right in their chin. I'm sitting there eating this ass everywhere. I'm like, yeah, I don't think I'm never leaving. I don't think I'm ever going, no. I see that how you get, you come down here,

you come from a place, but they don't even let the women get naked in the strip club. And you come down here, see everything. And you got a plate full of grandma's cooking. When I'm like my OG uncles and shit, like when the family come to town, they all wave, come on, we're going tonight. We're going. Okay.

Boy, you're taking the motherfuck of the blue flame. They would talk about that shit for seven years. Hey, my hair, tell me, tell you. Hey, when we're in the big? Hey. Come off, hey. Hey. My nephew out there doing that.

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Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'd be creeping in that more or more, like an old player, like, y'all meant to know when y'all see this. Y'all, y'all know how to get down. You can tell you, I can tell you were raised by some old niggins' round here, because you do the classic shit,

nigga throw the money and leave. Yeah, you don't get through, you got to leave. Don't hang around. Don't hang around. I heard my last. You'll get hurt, because when another nigga throw more money than you, you'd be like, that shit left.

No, I learned my last movie. When we did that shit, we were wilding out, when we went to the, man, they went with the magic, for wild and out that time we first started shooting in Atlanta and I'm thinking man I'm gonna go ahead don't nobody know me we at Magic City man you know what I mean it's straight so we walk in I ain't got no money I'm thinking I'm gonna go in there staying for a second and lead niggick will look I know we ain't got that boy she gonna be in

him bitch I was like hey hey look at 500 dollars listen that's all I'm gonna fuck my name my head that's why I don't know what I got to throw some money I got a thousand money My name is competition night. Yeah, you can't go on. It's just who throw the most money. You ain't even enjoying your son. I don't know what you y'all was looking at.

This motherfucker is so fine in Magic City, it'll make you borrow some money. It all would be that one nigga. I'm straight. I ain't going to do nothing. That beat, that's pretty motherfucker. Hey, man, let me hold us up. I can't. She's going to dance.

She won't, she want to. She won't get down, man. I don't want to tell me. Who am I? She got kids, though. I want to support. Who are you in here? I'm not.

I didn't get in all the bitch with script mar. I come in like that. What time of DC was a stadium? I got out of pocket. I think I do about $5,000. That's the most. That's the most. That's different in the city.

That ain't how I caught you. The script clip clip clip we really had in the city was the penthouse. My uncle used to, do you know what I mean? That was terrible. See, Atlanta, he lost his life. And Larry's a different, no, man. That was, you know, my hurry. I grew up right there, so I grew up saying it.

I knew the girls from being around them. I got a picture of me in the penthouse with a chain on and six years old. Like, them niggas hand me around and shit. So I was like, Atlanta used to be crazy. I used to be like mini-vegas. Fours of an industrial used to be a strip. Full of prostitutes. Sevenies and eighties?

The same prostitutes is still out there, shit. I mean, I mean, the one of that still alive. The water is still alive. He just snitched on itself. He makes it right. He's like walking dead. He made that laugh. He goes down at him with a rock.

He's that walking dead. This is the fuck them, boy. You're actually right. You are correct. You correct as a motherfucker. Oh, no cap. That my old neighborhood. That motherfucker is lit.

Them Atlanta's different though, man. You got to give them money. This shit, they go. They'll get butt naked. Yeah, that's. I'm not everything. You can see her lung. lungs.

That's how those lungs. That's how those lungs. I didn't see it never for. I didn't see it before. Oh, man. Oh, man. They didn't that shit. What did you have a spinal cord?

You fucking around a big tingo on the mic. Make some noise for lungs. Coming to the stage. That is like, digging. This is a TV. Why on the strip car DJ talk to say? They always do. It's the process.

It's psychological. We need Pitta Kalata. They have a lot. Come to the stage. We got Diamond coming to the stage. I need Diamond, Kiddick, and Coca-Cola, getting ready. We need a $1,500 dollars coming from the top side.

But turn this motherfucker up. Two o'clock in the morning. We still just getting started. Make sure. waitresses, bartenders, $6.00 for fucking niggins. If you ain't got no money, take your broke ass. You're gonna break bread or break dead. See what I'm saying?

You can tell the one, no bottle in there. All the way, man. You gotta love the city for that, man. It's this, you gotta know. The culture of the city is. Hey, I'm telling you what you do, you just grab the money and hold it. You get the money and you just hold and you just watch them. They just stare, they just look at you like little roaches.

You're seeing, they come itching on up. You're like, yeah, she wants that money right here. What? You do the money like that they go with the money. You're like, look at this man, look at them. Look at them. Go with the money, uh-uh. Just a whole type.

Who's with the good old days? Atlanta got the best strippers. I still go. They'll put your food order in. Go get you some weed. I want a whole hundred dollars. You're like, bitch, you ain't damn now song. We get $5 a dollar phone, man.

$15. That's all you need. Got me fucked up. This is just a different city. This is just a different city. There's a different city, man. As a black man, it's the blackest city that you could. Did you ever have this on your, on your, you know, in your radar, like, throughout the years of you going up?

Did you ever see yourself being here and entrench yourself in this culture? I always came. It was always fun to come visit. Especially when, like, when they had, uh, up in, like, Buckhead, when they had that whole, they had that whole, like, club role. It was like, they was open to, like, four, five in the morning. And I would come down here and I'd be like, it's open. open to what? And I'd be like, all right, so we'd just be like going across the street to a club to go.

That was kind of dope. That was back in the day when I was released. What was it like to be famous when fame was fame? When fame was fame, was fame. When you were 72 million. Fame, man. One of our days a week. Like, they ain't got no access to be able to call you a buck,

niggia in your comments or Chico check your head on boy. Like, there wasn't none of that. Like, when it was just really fame, like, what did it feel? What was the difference? You had to move a little bit more careful as well. Back then I had security. I wouldn't go to, like, I would, when I got out of town, particularly, because, you know, it can happen. It's going to happen out of town.

But, like, it was, it was a lot more energy for it because you didn't see people. You didn't have had access every day other than seeing me on TV. So if I popped up, and it was like, oh, you know, it was a lot with more energy to it. So it was just different because now, like, everybody feels like they know you because of your social media. They can see you on live, they can see you post, they can see everything. Right, like that, and they may see you up the street. Like, you know.

Flash. The land is different because they, you really might run into somebody doing nothing. But like, for, for, that was a lot of fun back then. Like, there was, yeah, it was a lot of fun. I couldn't imagine, brus. It was a lot of fucking. Being, being famous back then.

A lot of fun. With no, with no, with no. I would have turned into a whole other thing. With no. Stop talking to me. With no camera phones? No, no camera phone, no, none. Oh my God, you was famous with

It was really like when you walked into a place and they said your name. We got a big tig in the building and everybody. Bish is fucking, can they all know when you coming back. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? You feel me? You feel like, I hit your Instagram.

You're like, bitch, you don't know if you're gonna see me again. You're tripping. Oh yeah, now it was just, I mean, all of it was different. There was no social media, there was no camera phone. If you heard a rumor, guess what it was? A rumor. You got pictures? Nope.

That's a lie. I mean, like, it was a lot of stuff that happened back then. It was a lot of fun that no one really, really talks about just because there's no, why would you snitch on yourself next? You ain't going to be calling you, like, what the fuck? You said that shit on the toe for him. Yo, my man. I didn't know we was getting that hot?

God damn, Billet Joe. No, she was doing that. We're laughing about that one. That's a lady. Nah, that's the OG, man. I love Gass and Sanah. Hey, Samah. Sanat.

I think we all would be. Who. This is when she was sunshine, too. Ah. She's still sunshine. Come brighting up this couch. You know who's been beautiful, too? Nealong.

Neil Long, Sinai Theta, Regina Hall, all of them. People love for all of you pleased. Y'all always say the same motherfuckers, man. Don't nobody, never shout out Viola Davis. Hey! Shout out by the old David. I hate you. And I talk about all the day.

You look, man, that motherfucker, Pete. Stop playing. You gotta say everything. Oh, my God. You start the shit? How are you gonna throw me up in the attic? Be like, why you do? You know, I'm a win man that bitch.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. You know, that was, I would say, primarily the biggest difference right then.

You can move a lot quieter. Man. You move a lot quieter. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Stop it. Who is that? You see it in my face, yeah.

Hey, man. Hey, my nephew? He's doing it. He's doing it. Like, man. Damn, boy, I swear, man. Yeah, it was like, what we did the cash money rough rider tour? I hosted it.

Oh, my God. There was so much Harry Coochooch around that motherfucker. Oh, my God. I hosted the cash money rough rider tour. And I learned so much. I bet you did. Because I was on a tour bus, you know, like from cities. Like, I was only doing like the weekends.

So I would go like Friday, Saturday, and then Sunday I would fly back home, and then I fly back Friday, wherever to meet them, and then, like, Friday Saturday. But I mean, the things that I saw learned on them tour buses around that group between cash money and the Rough Riders, when they were cash money, and the Ruff Riders. Oh, my God. With the leather, with the leather vests, with the awes on the motherfucketing. Look at your bow's, bro, when they were stiff, when baby had two watches and... Oh, my God. With the black cash money chain.

Oh, man, the original, the hot boy. It was the hot boy. It was another one with, I think it was the jingle ball, something. It was Jirul and Cash Money, Jirul, and somebody else. That was another tour I hosted. And then I went on tour with R, and that was just amazing. Oh, yeah, I saw him. I saw him.

I'm sure. Yeah, and then with that, we don't think we're coming out. We don't want to get enough of this story. No, we don't. We don't. Yeah, the hawks, yeah, the hush. We got the hole. We got the hush.

We got the hush. We might let's put some pigs. Ha ha ha. She got all I want to say. All I want to say right now. These niggas, them loves. I think them love. I think of that right there.

Now we're going to edit all this. Them loves. Yeah, I'll dig your social media, man, so they can get in touch with you. get in touch with you. Please pull up on your boy at Big Tigger Show. Yes, sir. See my morning show at Big Tigger Morning Show.

Shout out V103 in Atlanta. Shout out the ATL Hawks. I appreciate. One of the other things I really love about the organization, they like, the first time they was like, yeah, we want our brands to. I've never, I think, now you know, watch a hit feeling. And NBA team said we want our brand to be aligned with your brand.

That's how strong. earlier, dude. That's how strong real. That's why I love the house, man. The first time they told me that, I was like, that why I fought with the house. You know, like, for real? So I mean, like, they've done an incredible job

of intertwining the culture with the entertainment and basketball. So shout out to everybody over there at that state farm arena, Atlanta house. Bro, what if this shit just keep getting deeper and deeper? They changed the kiss cam, the titty cam. And they just find big time. And they just find big tithes, and they'd be like, We got T-A's in the building.

Let's say that one. Let's say that one. Let's say that you know we got the long camp. They're looking for long. They're looking for long. Looking for long. No, that's great, man. That's going to be our next collab.

We're going to do something with lungs and respiratory therapy. Hey, man, get what? We can't leave without an exclusive freestyle. No, go. What y'all thought y'all going to creep up out of here like that? No, he thought he was looking. He thought he was going to leave. He thought he was going to leave.

He thought he was going to leave. He thought he were going to get up. Deal it. Let me have some pippin, man. Some pimpin. Hey. That's the one. Hold up.

Hold up. Kick it all, D.C. Nah, it got real, but we're fin to get real up. All really cool it with my nigger. Y, big tigger. Listen, you already know how we get down. Where side? Yeah, I get rhyme.

Come around and I get down. Okay. Everybody know, man, I get around. Listen. Where's side. Be the bedside APS at my side I'm gonna tell you like this shit It's only one counter

where I ride Listen, your name Chico Yep Fuck around Hit the Fito Yeah Sloop to the hawk Yeah

Fuck what you thought You did Fuck what you thought We get booed Yeah Then I see the girl alone You know we do it bigger And the motherfucker

A big ticker And you know I ain't plan Yeah Can you hear what I'm saying Yeah We'll never do the most Got a passage of my Homeboy Los.

One more time, let me kick it like I got some shit on my shoe. That's just what I came to do. And you know that I'm a fool. I'm that dude breaking off slabs. I'm that dude that's sweeping off crumbs. I'm that dude gonna tilt that strip with bust it open. Let me see them long. Hey!

What do you need? Man, we don't even smoke no weed. I'm higher than a bird. You need some glasses if you can't see. Yeah. What you thought? Yeah. Five South pan in them hawks.

Big Tigger give me what you need. Please you until you can't breathe. Screaming five. That's true. With my man Tico Benin. And my man Loz Miller. Big Tigger, I'm a killer. Yay!

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Staying right here with your boys, man, what's the fucking. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. I don't know. I know. I just stood a choice.

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