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To see how y'all come up
bro like I respect it
I respect it as just being a man
A black man
This shit hard for us
Watching niggas come up in any aspect, it's gratitude and respect, bro.
And I saw y'all come up there, this D.C. nigga, I got to watch him and just watch what y'all doing, man.
That shit respectful, bro. Very, very respectful.
That shit means so much coming from you.
I'm a student of the game, blood, so I watch it all, bro.
You know, we're really from the South, so it's like...
You're responsible for that soundtrack, bro.
Yeah.
Real talk, bro.
Yeah.
Just to see you get it and really, like, you and Peter only, like, icons that
we had to really sing they can come up out of the mud and get that shit and really had that
shit and y'all really changed the game it's like all the old interviews coming out like y'all
was the ones who really had some money that were the first niggins really get money and shit right
you're watching what that nigger was doing like you remember but I was already doing it
before he was doing it but when I saw him take it to another level like he did and um that shit
just made me you know he was like for me he was like um it was like um it was like competitive
for me. Yeah. Like, I wanted to be better than them niggas. I ain't really never had
no problem with them niggas. I just felt like we was better than them niggas. And not
no shade way, just to say that if I could do it, another nigga could do it behind me.
Everybody know. I'm the biggest Birdman fan. So before we even get into end of this shit,
it's some shit I just got to play. You know how it's like, man, if I was never with this,
this giving you your own hours, we got to, we've been ride for a minute. I flew out here. I'm on my brother's
seat toward my nephew, Nino, and I'm like, man, I'm on your time, man.
We're going to smoke and we're going to boo. Can I get a light?
So look, the first shit I want to hear is big timers.
Yeah. The song called Big Timers. Yeah.
Because that's out of all the shit. Now, that's what I created big time.
I already know. Hold up. Don't give me shit yet. Don't give me shit yet. I think I'm going to put my playlist out first.
And don't give me shit yet. Because this like, I've been knowing you all my life in my mind.
Big facts.
Because this, I'm gonna tell you what made me a fan at me
when I first got the first big time of CDA.
As soon as I put that bitch in, you said,
I ain't no rap.
I'm a game spiller.
That told me everything I needed to hear.
That was my thing.
That was my thing.
You got that shit, J.O.N.
Oh, he always got it.
Oh, y'all got it queued up.
Y'all, I'm fucking with that.
Yeah, we're not bullshitting, man.
You know your time is very valuable.
You got to go produce.
Man, this, just like, I was, I wanted to do this.
There's my choice. I called you.
You damn sure did.
I called you.
Because I thought the nigga, whoever it was, I thought they were bullshit.
They were like, Nick Birdman trying to get in touch.
My partner, Hi Beza, which is my best friend, my right hand.
And if Beza called it is official.
I ain't know. I ain't know.
But I called you.
No, I called you.
I said, nigga, I want to come to do your show.
I fuck with y'all.
That was it.
Play this shit right here.
That'd be just on the hook.
I already know.
My little BG is on the bus putting that cigarette bus.
For the record, I just want niggas to know that.
that my little nigger official cash money ain't no cap in that year i'm so ain't nobody else he can
ever sign with besides this shit so i'm bringing all this shit back together so bg signing the cash
money so y'all ain't got to hear coming back together come on man that's a fact give me one more dj
j win come on i need to hear this hypnotizing cash money like if me and bird man was ever riding
in the drophead phantom this the shit will be playing because i like how much shit you talked on this one too
It's one of them once.
And I've been doing music about 34, 35 years.
Damn.
What was your...
What was your first rap name again?
Hold on you.
I know you.
I know.
I know you know it.
Go ahead.
B 32?
Yeah, B 32.
Yeah.
I had a mouthful of goals at 14 years old, 13, turning 14.
And I went to beat, I was always baby.
Baby was first.
That's my original name, and I went from B3-2 to Bubba, Beatrice, very mad.
Stunner.
Amen.
You can call me what you feel.
You can pick any one of them.
I'm going to answer any one of them, man.
Hoping out the platinum hunger with the platinum grill.
What happened, J-O-M?
With the platinum piece and the platinum chain.
Oh, shit.
Oh, now, I always wanted to ask you about this now.
You talk about it back in the day, right?
off the ramp yeah yeah give me one of your favorite off-the-ramp stories because I
heard it a while back then um off the ramp is um Melphamane project I grew up um on Saratoga
Routen the which is crossed the street from the Melphamian project where I grew up at
was a harron well tricks posse 2 all that went on on my block so we was kids and my
pops used to make us get off the block because it was a lot of everything going to
on shooting killings so we had to go on the project by my sister so my
sister stayed on the next coat off the ramp so a ramp was where you get from
one side of the project to the other side of the project so we used to just
play on the ramp but a lot of shit went down on that ramp you get your head you're
on that ramp at the wrong time the night you get killed like and if you ain't
on your shit if you're hustling a lot of shit gone but um the male
family project was the first project that I that I was exposed to as a kid
Then I went to the Magnolia Project.
Then I went to Valentine Street.
And I learned my hustle in the Magnolia.
And Magnolia told me everything.
Well, it's a legend.
I ain't never heard you deny or no confirming this.
That you've been rich since you was about 14, 15 years.
I had a million dollars at 15 years old.
I had 10 cars at 14 years old.
I was already stunting with cars as a youngster.
I had 14 cars.
The whole project, we're all booming.
We're all popping.
Motor bikes, cars, jerry, fucking holes.
By the time I was 15, I had, you know, 10, 15 cars, and we were just bawling.
We were just doing our time.
You know, I got it.
I love some fucking cars.
I wanted to ask you.
I see you without.
You're going to have a new shit.
I had a fetish for this as a kid.
Yeah.
What's your favorite old schools?
I never had an old school in my life.
Word.
I never had an old school.
I always wanted.
I saw you in the red thing, and I was like, man, I'm going to tell a nigga I want to buy that car.
I just saw you in the red car.
I said, I wanted to tell a thing I want to buy that car.
I ain't never had an old school in my life ever.
I wanted to, I always was modern if it was...
You were getting, you were getting it as soon as it came out.
Yeah, I wanted that.
I never had an old school in my life.
I bought an old school from Fresh.
That's what Fresh into.
Fresh, he had all old schools.
Right.
Nah, he had them.
But he's from downtown.
They're not up, like uptown.
So downtown, I ain't gonna say all New Orleans niggas ain't never had old schools.
Yeah.
Well, we come from uptown.
We ain't never had old schools.
No shit.
Nah.
But Fresh, he's old school like a motherfucker.
motherfucker everything he ever ride nice to be like man you tripping with that old
school shit but that shit used to be shy and he'd spend a nice penny fucking with
that shit but I ain't never had old school with shout out the fresh man you
one of those that would get the car like two years before it come out yeah I wanted
the new shit yeah uptown we just want that new fly shit you know because we
ain't really had shit so once we went to getting cars we wanted everything so
we went crazy like nigger when I was able to get some money about cars I went
crazy. I don't care. I ain't care if I ain't had no more money. It never matter to me.
I want all the cars. We had motorbikes. We were just like the popping project. We had everything.
Cars, the broader. And we was a bunch of young niggas. Young niggas, 15, 60 years old, just fly.
Yeah. That's fucking wild. I think about the big ball and shit when you say that shit.
Like, so that had been going on for you.
Nah, we were really living like that. I'm saying that. It really been like that. It like
It wasn't.
But we saw older niggas who did it before us.
They was living like that.
And the Cadillacs, the fly whips.
You know what I mean?
So we wanted to be like the older nigga.
All I ever wanted to be was a dope boy.
I didn't care about nothing but a dope boy.
I wanted to be the like the most popular dope boy
with all the goals in his mouth, with all the cars, the jury.
I was already prepared to die.
I was mentally ready for that as a kid.
Because they always told us we were going to die young.
So we was ready for that.
that, that's all I ever wanted to be was a dope boy,
because my apostles was one.
See, I've been following the story too close.
I feel like I know you, Mr. Johnny.
Yeah, exactly.
That was my everything.
When I lost him, I just turned to be what I,
I ain't know what I was gonna be.
And I, you know, in life, like,
you gotta make the right choices.
If you make the wrong one,
you gonna end up in the wrong places.
Yeah.
And I, I made it.
I made the right choices in my life, bro,
because my mindset as a youngster,
I wanted to be where they was at.
I really was prepared to die.
I was ready to go to jail and die mentally.
But, you know, being incarcerated,
that shit woke me up and made me want to do something different.
And then I was watching Wayne them.
There was young niggas who was following my path.
And I changed them niggas lives,
and then I felt like we could be something.
I remember in a lot of the, like,
A lot of the songs used to say, I feel when 2000 comes, it's going to be all about Wayne.
Facts.
So you saw this shit coming, like the monster being created, man.
The little nigger just had that ambition.
He wanted to be a superstar.
And he had the ethics to be a superstar.
Juvie is very successful as a rapper.
Wayne is very successful as a rapper.
And when BG come home, he's going to be very successful as rappers.
Right.
Man in Fresh, he's very successful at with him.
at what he do.
Right.
Drake, very successful at what he do.
Nicky, very successful, what she do.
Drake and a whole nother fucking sex-thogger,
very successful what he do.
Future, very successful what he do.
Niggas up, niggas very up, bro.
Man, how, on Wayne, how did you,
how, when did you notice, like, hold on?
Like, how long before you noticed,
like, just seeing him around,
or was it, this motherfucker got something?
And we knew that. We've been new. We, you know, proud about, right when we formed the high boy shit, like, he was like the first nigga there, the last nigga leave. All of them was living with me since that was like 12 years old. I was like a baby raising baby. So all them was with me. And all I used to do is just make them rap all day and write raps all day. But we just saw something different than Wayne. And he was the youngest, right? We knew Juvie was a stock. And we knew BG was a star, BG was a star for there was a stuff.
right then juvie came then wayne came but we knew we knew we had something with them but you know
we was young i was young myself shit i signed my deal i was 20 years old and i got 30 million
dollars when i got that you know we still was we felt like we were still dreaming just young
niggas out we still in the project so 30 million of still in the project still in the project
five business i went about six business and we still was in the projects
Man.
This is the shit you're gonna get to here, man.
That's wow.
It's a fact, but no cap in it.
You didn't know that bitch was laid out probably too.
Man.
You know, they're gonna play with us.
Right.
They're gonna disrespect us.
Ain't no nigger gonna, nah, man.
So it was like the...
That's home.
It is home.
Like, where we come from, I feel more comfortable
where I come from anywhere in the world.
For a fact.
I feel like that soldier rag album was slept on but that was the come up yeah that
got you that got the whole hoods in the south that shit called fire no yeah it's yeah it called
five a juvill nigger that bitch that niggum bad man bro because that shit's he's still a bad
motherfucker you're all right i watch him every day i watch him because you know that's like one of my
best friends juvi like one of my closest partners you're right you know you know you know why ain't
forever my son we super tight and I talk to BG like every day I'm super tight with
future I'm super tight with Drake super tight with Nick a lot of them I'm still
super close with but um that nigger Juvie that nigga bad man he's still a bad
motherfucker yeah but I watch all of them still be super super super successful they're very
prosper still today like they make a lot of money bro that's what we did this shit for
to be who we be and who we are.
That's what this shit built on, bro.
The roster crazy, man.
How you put that ball of blocking movie together?
Hey, man.
I'm shooting baller block of two right now, right?
What you're doing?
I'm really super, super excited about the movie, man.
And, like, we put a lot into it, bro.
NBA Young Boy is one of the stars, main stars.
That's go.
That's what a club.
Bring that shit back, man.
Yeah, man.
The baller block and it's a classic, man.
Big six.
And I know it's a classic, and I wanted to make sure that we make it traditional, and I ain't want to really start shooting until BG come home.
Hell yeah.
Because D.G, he is a street legend in his own right.
Like you said, he was a star first.
Like, when you first signed him, did he just immediately take off, or it just?
What was the buildup like?
Right.
He was 13, right?
Jesus was like, he was around for like a year.
And then that little nigger just got on the mic one day.
We was at Fresh House, and I went to the stoke.
When I came back, Jeezy had to make about six, seven songs to chop a city.
I'm like, man, that little nigger called.
And he was so young and so advanced, and right after that, we just cut him loose.
He was like 14 years old, and he was advanced like a motherfucker with the street life.
He always been older than his age.
So after that, the next day we did, we did that whole album like two or three days, Chappacitic.
And shit, it was history after that.
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Man, ain't that shit amazing how Fresh made all them fucking albums?
In his house, we ain't even had a studio.
We was caught in Fresh Kissin.
Mani said he made all y'all hits with only about eight sounds.
Fun fact, he kept it real simple.
But that was his charge.
See, me, I'm like, I'm one foot in one foot out, so I'm like,
nigger, whatever you do with that shit, I'm banking on the nigger
because the nigger turned me on time, so I'm like,
shit, I know Jesus doesn't want rap.
These little young nigger won't rap.
And Jesus just took off.
When I come back, I won't go on by the hour too, man.
He had knocked off six songs, man.
The Choppah City.
I'm the one named the Chopper City.
I named the BG.
I did all that shit.
I was just naming baby gangster after myself.
This is what we were riding to, man,
on that comedy shit, going to shows.
We're listening to Cash Money.
That's our soundtrack.
That's our mindset.
That's where we're trying, you know what I'm saying?
We hear you say the, you know what I'm saying?
I'm gonna buy a platinum football fit.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm getting a dick or hope.
I'm trying to put platinum.
them eyebrows on a bitch.
Come on, man.
So that was, yeah, but it was just like, you know,
seeing y'all come up like that.
And you know what?
Atlanta always been my second home, man.
I stayed out here five years with young thug, man.
It's my partner, man.
Word.
Nothing but love and respect for thugger, man.
That's a real nigger.
They give them a raw deal like that.
We came out here and did that rich gang shit, man.
And we flipped the whole game when we came
game when we came with that rich gang shit man that shit was you know me
that niggas showed me Atlanta in a whole nother way man Atlanta always been a
second harm to me but when I can't fuck with young thug he showed me the real side
of the eight man man how did the young rappers find their way to bird man because I
see you'll pop out of you'll throw a verse out for a few motherfuckers but like I'll be
finding my way to these niggas yeah like I'm really not hard to find
these a few niggas bees or see-toe you're like like
I found my way to you.
You ain't have to find your way to me.
I'm gonna say you all the times I was like,
man, bird man coming on this motherfucker.
I ain't know how it was gonna happen.
But I said it was gonna happen.
Real talk.
And guess what?
When I really do them, then like,
man, I want to come.
I like to see niggas coming up, man.
That's what this shit built on.
Word.
Empowering, this is what we built on.
This shit ain't never been easy for us.
All our people, man, that shit been hard.
Niggled get a ride, we're gonna ride it.
That's what it's about.
So I gotta ask you.
this man you had one of the your deal you're going down in history yeah
fucked up the deal for anybody after you because you chose the option that not a lot
of people would have chose to stay independent and and work the major how you did it like
for the people who don't know just speak on how you how you did that and bet on yourself and
you won on this shit man on everything but turn it down joe win this shit right here
I just felt like I lost everything already.
So how can I give you anything
when you ain't work hard to get it?
I lost my mom and my dad and my brothers and my sisters.
I lived in boys home.
I lived in Canada, I lived in,
I was adopted by white folks.
I just was, I had a hard life coming up, bro.
So I felt like I lost too much to gain them little.
So I wanted to keep all my shit.
When I went up there, they was offering me 50-50 deals, I wouldn't accept it.
So I wanted an 8 to 10 or 90-10 split, and, you know, other niggas paid the way.
I got a show respect to them, dudes.
They did this shit before I did it.
So I just felt like I could have a longer run than them because we was younger,
and I felt like I could last longer than all of them.
I personally felt this way as a man, as a youngster, that I'd be the new wave of the game.
And honestly, we held hip hop down when niggas were saying hip hop was dead.
When niggas wasn't fucking with hip hop,
niggas was saying they retired and left the game alone.
We held hip hop down.
And I just felt like I just couldn't give up what I believe we lost a lot.
These are the moves that you've studied, though.
It's like taking that chance.
A lot of people would have took the money.
I gambled it, right?
And I hit the lick.
But what was it, 80%?
No, my shit 90% right now.
It was like 8550.
Hold up, man.
Hold up.
Come on, man.
I've been in the game 30 plus.
You know what I mean?
I'm a 9 and 10.
Well, 85.10 when you first did it.
85.15 when I first started.
Because I had a P&D deal, what's called a pressing distribution,
and I paid for all my marketing, right?
So I owned all my masters, and I still own my master's.
And I own all my shit.
So I had what's just called a P&D.
K&D deal, so it's called a press and distribute, which was 8515.
So that's all you needed them for, was just press this shit and get this shit out.
But the shit took off so fast, right?
But my first album I put out was 400 degrees, and it sold 10 million copies, which was juvenile.
And it had a long life.
That's all right.
You got to understand the time 400 degrees.
The TAC went down the road.
And had singles for the next two years.
Yeah, right.
Four hundred degrees was still dropping, like, albums don't have that kind of life, mate.
It sold $15,000 the first week and ended up selling 10 million copies.
Damn.
You know, outcast, all them boys did them type of numbers, and Juvie up there with them
niggas with them type of number.
Juvenile was one of the biggest selling artists still till the day.
Ten million.
It was knocking off.
Ten, seven, five.
Yeah.
under five.
Damn.
Hey, man.
Man, I bought every record, John.
You got to respect it.
You know what?
Another favorite part of cash money records for me?
Zigley Wigley.
Big Chief told the face.
That bitch retorted.
He retarded.
They always talk good shit, though, man.
Y'all always had some good skits, though.
I got to get a skips to many friends.
But Ziegler was from my hood, right?
So they knew him from my hood, but Fresh had the idea of the skits.
That was all fresh.
We were like, man, Fresh tripping with that boy shit.
We didn't really care about that shit.
But Fresh knew what he was doing, and we had to stand down and let him do what he did.
And he knew what he was doing.
Hey, you had the way.
He said, man, he didn't come, man, oh, fuck you.
You said, what?
My sister tell me love you.
Shit, you up what now, billion units sold a billion records?
I sold over a billion records, I sold over 500 billion streams.
It's up there.
This shit still exciting, long run.
For me, it's still exciting, yeah.
I ain't tired yet.
I ain't tired.
I'm still talking with it.
When you look up and you see artists like Wayne and Drake and Nicky and they so far ahead
of the whole fucking music game and like that shit still, like it's still, like it's still, like
still give you that same excitement of when you got that first 30.
That 30 was like, it was like, we was happy, like, super, super happy.
Like, we were still youngsters, like, I was 21, 20 years old, right?
So for me, with that kind of money, still living in the projects, we had to figure it out.
Like, you know, we thought life was a dream.
We thought we were still dreaming because we, you know, we still was double clip tight, you know?
We still was real thugging and we didn't.
wall is the murder capital so your head on the swivel at all time so you gotta
I mean we ain't know what we was doing bro we were just we ain't I didn't know
because you know right I had such a hard life way harder than these niggas
I'm working with rapping my life was ten times harder than nance they
ain't even know what I've been through right in life so you remember for me I
would just happy to say that we made it because I ain't never thought we would
I thought I'd be in the penitentiary or dead I ain't never thought that I could
make it what type of advice are you giving the young niggas who just now
get money who want to who want to survive the game for 35 years man I tell
that the nigger when you get old nigga you better still have money right
and they have money young when they get old they won't have money and
believing what you believe in fuck who don't believe in you I ain't
nobody believed in me right fuck everybody and who ride and riding
who ain't riding fuck them damn this young nigga had a million dollars when he
15 so it's like having money wasn't new to you now and I think that play a big part
niggas when the niggas just start getting money he'll be a different nigga right
when the nigger been having money he had you know he a made nigga like I was getting money
as a youngster right so when I'm going to ask you when did you learn how to manage that shit
though man that was a trick for me because I was blowing it fast I want all the calls I want all my
niggas with the cause I want all the holes I want all the jury we pop in bottles and we
live in the life like it wasn't a
tomorrow.
Man, we were throwing parties in a Super Dome, nigger.
In New Orleans in a Super Dome.
Hold on, man.
At the football stadium.
I got footage of that shit.
For a fact, right?
How you called the city and be like, hey, nigger?
Nah, it was like, it was a fetish for me, right?
Like, man, I used to play on the dirt because they built the Super Dome right, by our hood, right?
So we used to play on the dirt that they built it on.
When I was a little kid, I said, man, if I gave a chance, I'm gonna do a party in that bitch.
And when I got money, man, I threw about four, five parties.
I was throwing me birthday parties in that bitch, giving myself Ferraris, Lamborghinis, in the Superdome.
Hey, this thing is do itself a surprise party, like two chains in.
Come on, for me.
Like, Tuchess in the dome and giving myself Lamborghinis and Rose Royces and have them all pulled up in the Superdome, man.
And like, that was like one of the highlights of my life.
You hinted earlier about putting the band back together.
Yeah, I'm doing that.
Everybody.
I don't know if it's going to be everybody, but I'm doing that.
Going to be some other.
Yeah, it's going to be some other.
First of all, right, you know, you know, Mullah, we can't do shit without Mullah.
Right.
And Jesus, he coming home.
And Juven, and we're gonna figure it out.
But for a fact, a nigga going hustle now.
We ain't gonna let no niggas stop the money now.
Never.
I don't give a fuck if they, I don't give a fuck who they are.
Well, I don't give a fuck about nothing but that money, you know.
But I know certain niggas, we all bought our bag and we're out getting our bag and that's
what it's gonna be.
Yeah.
We've been doing it for a minute and we're about to stop for nobody.
Hell yeah.
I mean, shit.
Why would you?
It's a lot of money on the table.
Big facts.
A lot of it.
Four, five million dollars a show.
Shit, I'm gone.
Shit, I know most of the lyrics.
I'm gone.
I'm gone.
We've been off for like four, five million dollars per show.
That's what I was, Drake and Nicky.
So you know with Nicky and Drake,
that shit about about $15, $20 million a show.
Shit.
Man, just let that simmer for a minute.
That's crazy.
That's a whole festival.
Nah, that's one night.
That's but it's a festival.
Then one night.
Yeah, that's per night.
One show.
Per night.
You can't go to the bank festival.
Yeah, we did our thug.
We earned it and we deserve it.
Yeah.
Ain't no nigga asking for nothing we ain't earned.
Ah, shit, I already know.
I went to seeing y' y'all here back in the day,
cash money, rough riders tour.
Hey, shout out to them niggas, I talked to Swiss the other day
about really trying to put together that cash money
rough rider tour again.
Ooh, that would be crazy, man.
And I talked to Swiss about seeing if they're gonna make it happen.
It was a conversation, you know, but you know,
everybody out trying to get their money.
So if we do it, we do it, we don't, we don't.
We're still going out though.
Now, you make a lot of money investing too.
Yeah, definitely.
Now, I ain't even got to invest.
I make enough money on my music where I ain't got to do nothing.
I can sleep, I'm good.
What it looked like, man?
What that feel like, man?
What kind of sleep that is?
I don't never really get all the way sleep
because I know it's some more money I need to go get.
You're at the end of the money game.
When these mothers say,
you ain't got to do nothing else.
That's the end of the game, ain't it?
I got 25 years of music, 34 years of music.
Like, I did my thing.
You're doing it currently.
That's fucking amazing.
I did my thing in this game.
I did my thing in this game.
Who showed you a lot of games?
about the music industry while you was coming up.
Ain't nobody showed me nothing.
I learned the hard way, that's why I made a lot of mistakes.
That's the hard way.
Yeah, I got it out the mud.
It's the only way, really, really?
You know, nowadays, youngsters don't have to go through that.
They don't have to make the mistakes that we made.
But hip hop ain't been around but 50 years
and I've been in it 34 years.
So there was a lot of mistakes being made,
I ain't want a motherfucker to take from me
like they took from niggas who did it before me
because a lot of niggas did it before me
they had fucked up situations and fucked up deals
and a lot of people did it before them
they had fucked up situations and fucked up deals
so I didn't want to fall under the bracket
of a nigger taking something from me.
I wanted to be respected as I did my thing
and set the trend for the next nigga
that they ain't got to get fucked over like that.
You did it, bro.
That shit megastars, man.
How you stay so calm with this shit?
Man, because you don't, like, are you,
that you ain't never responded to shit.
Real talk.
Like, literally.
How the fuck do you do that?
Like.
And you know you, in your position, you have every right to,
if you ever wanted to, but you never said shit back.
Facts.
It's just with certain niggas, I wouldn't say shit back to me.
because I love them and respect them.
And I ain't know, you know, I ain't come up like that.
I'm not about to be war-waring with no nigger.
I was brought up different.
And we got a problem, we got a problem,
and we're going to entertain it.
We see each other, we're going to blow.
And that's what they're going to be.
We're going to finish it like that.
And I always wanted to be smarter.
I didn't want to throw my life away.
And I really know this music.
They can be talking, but really not really, really.
about drawing their life away.
You ain't trying to go to penitentiary
unless you're really trying to do that
and we all could, you know what I want to be a smarter man.
I wanted to be the smartest man.
My mission in this game was to be the smart,
one of the smartest niggas doing this shit.
And that mean ducking bull shit,
sacrificing myself and my family for success.
Right.
I always wanted to be the smartest, not the dumbest.
Right, majority of time, the loudest niggas is the dumbest nigger.
The smartest nigger is the quietest nigger.
Word.
You don't want to say nothing now.
Everybody quiet in the mouth, man.
Shit.
No, they're genuine facts, bro.
That's real.
Because I could have been dumped and doing goofy shit and could be, you know what I?
Yeah, that's real.
I rather be smart, do small shit and still be here 20, 30, 40 years.
To talk about my life.
life. I'm buying helicopters and private jets, nigger.
Living on marbles and walking on, hyena floors.
Yeah.
Haina?
Haina floor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That shit laugh a little bit when you walk on it.
That shit giggle.
The floors giggled.
That's what we want here, though.
We like that game spent when you tell us that shit the niggins can't get, man.
You say you change the car color every year.
What's the car color?
Man, I'm on my black shit.
I'm on my mafia shit.
Like, I moved like the president, but I think like a mob.
That's just my whole model when I jump off a PJ or however I get around.
You know, I'm just straight, I'm straight gangster by mine and I'm all black.
I'm black with black interior, triple black with the black tints and the black whales.
So I know you buy these motherfuckers fit there at a time.
What's in the fleet these days?
He ain't popped out and it showed us the fleet.
the minute man now I just got I just got the the wagon with the M okay I just got
me a Bugatti which is the four okay I said so I ain't got to do all that shit like
I used to do because I'll take an image and just buy a bunch of whips but I just
spent five on two whips so I was straight with that I'm gonna I'm gonna die stutton
I ain't gonna never stop no you think I'm just trying to get an update man
I want a helicopter, the new one, the photo.
Who the fuck knew they had a new photo?
Who did they had a new photo helicopter?
No, they got a sedan.
They got a sedan helicopter.
They got the new photo.
I got the coop helicopter.
It's going to take me from, it's just like a two-minute flight
from the whoop to the whoop and jumping my whips,
and we ride up.
You need to be aspiring to take a helicopter
from the whoop to whoop.
If you ain't never whoop to whoop in a helicopter,
two minutes flat.
It ain't even two minutes.
If it's in the photo, I'm gonna look in to get one.
I ain't even got no whoop to go through though.
Tell me about some old shit that I didn't know existed,
man, the photo helicopters.
I want that old school, y'all saw you riding
in that red thing, bro.
I'm gonna lean on you about that.
Okay, hey.
I saw you planning that old school.
You say you put the motor in it.
Hey man, put it on them.
Make them sell it.
Make them sell it.
He'd have bought my shit.
Oh, he bought shit for me.
He bought shit for me.
Man, you wouldn't even believe it.
I really wanted to sell it to you, too, stunting for three minutes.
You're out.
Nah, I definitely.
I got some shit.
What's up, man?
What's up, pal?
You good?
Yeah, yeah.
What's up?
How you live?
Pop that fish from a seat.
I knew it was official.
Yeah, it's big old fish.
I knew it was official.
You know what?
It'd be the...
Come on.
Oh, shit.
Just get it.
So I know he got some art of things for you.
Oh, shit.
If he bring out the case...
I know he got it.
Real rap.
If he bring out that case, though...
This nigga like a his story.
Wait, bro.
On a real up and up, bro.
Man, I respect...
What y'all doing, bro?
I know what the fuck I did.
And I got 34 years to speak about it.
But what y'all doing and how y'all did it and how y'all doing it, man?
That shit.
I got the utmost respect because y'all came up.
Y'all niggas then came up, man.
We appreciate it, man.
That mean the world coming from you, bro.
Man, I'm studying.
We even got you some 805 South shit.
Hey, man.
We got you some shit.
And I'm going to wear this shit too.
merch?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They might need to get us something.
We might get to give some more shit, though.
Because I know you need something in red.
Man, I want y'all niggas to come to Miami and come enjoy life with me for a day.
Man, I'm gonna send a plane.
All right, y'all gonna send a helicopter.
No, I'm gonna send the photo.
No, I'm gonna send a PJ.
All right, I'm coming.
Hey.
Hey, I want y'all come to the town, jump on the...
First of all, I got a hundred and five foot yacht out there, man, y'all.
We're going.
It's gonna be some of the yacht.
We don't even see.
Hey man, come on, let's set this shit up, man.
I'm with y'all come thug with me in the town, man.
I'm with it.
Then I'm gonna bring y'all into the jungle, too.
Y'all gotta go to New Orleans, right?
Gladys Ball.
We're gonna go thug out there, too, now.
Come on, man.
We gotta shoot this shit.
Yeah, I'm gonna film the whole thing.
We got to shoot some of it, though.
We were just in New Orleans,
and New Face got to go, because if New Face wasn't there.
When were we in New Orleans, dog?
With your tour.
He was on this nigga show.
I didn't got to see these.
Come on, man.
Come on, man.
It's all.
on you come on.
Man, bro.
Bless that for me right there.
And I was at the tour of cash money right last tour.
Stop it.
Stop it.
With the rapping on it.
With the rapping on it.
You got that ball of block.
Now, the ball's like I got chewed up.
The pit bull had that one, but that shit hard.
That looks like you got vinyl and everything.
We got Birdman, solos.
Wow.
Come on.
Why you get all this shit from me?
He had it since he had it.
Wow.
brought out my vermin my name my nigger headed since he had it yeah we got
vermin how many covers you how many covers you've been on my boy oh these niggas act like
they forgot though you're gonna remind these niggins up they're talking with this shit
come on come on baby and way i'll remember that for there let's go
that shit crazy we got no all the hot boy he ain't got no magazine no more
Newface got everything.
What else you got?
No, this nigga, he's, oh shit.
Man, you could get a bag from all this shit.
What you know about this?
Who is this?
Yeah, you'll get a bag for this shit.
Yeah, you know, tennis moves, New Orleans.
Yeah.
You got roofless juveniles, mobile account.
Yeah, he's been the peaches' ruckers, huh?
I was out the rough rider cash money to it.
This back in the day when you buy the little...
Yeah.
I bought a picture.
I bought a picture.
Like, look it back.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
New face was there, man.
You got a, and you was talking about your influence on the game.
Yeah, the beat up.
You got the influence on the game, but right here, it talks about your family tree in which
you would put in for the game right there, and you check that out right there.
You got your whole history, family tree.
Wow.
When this came out?
About three years ago, DJ SympTex.
Nah, my tree long, bro.
My tree long, now.
Stunning, man.
That's an eye.
Man.
Nice.
Where you get this shit from, man?
I need this right up.
Day one, I think, as soon as it came up, man.
Hip-H-H-H-H-Wraising.
True story.
Library, Barnes & Noble.
I need to get one of them.
He, a hip-hop, a story, because we don't get to shine in the South.
Like, we feel like everybody else's story kind of get told.
You know what I'm saying, through shit.
And that's what this show is for.
85 South is.
He was actually there.
His original CDs that he bought, original tape vinyl.
Bro, I want that old school, bro.
I got you.
I want one, bro.
Let's give it.
Say less.
That's a whole show.
That's a whole show stunter first old school.
Yeah, I want that, man.
And then you got to figure, you know, he put this shit,
he'll put this shit together.
You might want the shit with the new interior.
Everything.
I don't give a fuck.
How you doing, man?
Yeah.
It's already ready.
I want one.
The outside of Chevy, but the inside of Ben's.
Man.
Who got it?
I'm going to spend all this money in there and he goes like...
Yeah, I'm going to redo this shit.
Putting hyaid on the float.
For real.
Hell yeah.
Can I get one of them cuts?
Because I need this on my checklist.
I got to say I still some Chris was stunned.
Chris was done.
No, he got to, blood.
I got it.
That's fucking hell.
It's one.
But I ain't done with you niggas, nigger.
We're doing this shit again.
Hey, man.
This is part one?
Now, I want y'all to come to the yam.
Oh.
I'm gonna send the PJ to the yam.
You know what?
If you send the Bugatti up here, I just drive it right now.
No, I need you on the PJ time.
No, don't let that wrong.
See me and my lady can argue and get there quick.
Let me get the red one.
You already switched.
You already switched.
No, I'm on the...
I'm on the...
I'm on the PJ.
You're telling me...
I don't know about y'all who watching this, but right now I'm officially...
As far as I'm concerned, that's it.
I don't know.
Hey man.
Stunner.
Hey, man.
That's...
Yeah.
Where ain't gonna get my chain there?
I'm gonna get one made.
Don't worry, I get my own necks.
Nah, nah, no, I'm gladys.
The next time I see you, niggas, I'm gonna have cash money pieces for you.
Stop it.
No, hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
I'm glad the next time I see y'all I'm gonna have big cash money not that little
boy no no real donkey shit no no no no man I did to it I just want me wear the old
one then till I get my real one I want the one I want the one with the black on the
hold on yeah give me this one right here black on the back yeah that's all I'm
started let me get yeah hey hey that's the word we say you
But you couldn't buy no fake one.
I knew I couldn't have bought no fake one when I was a fan.
Hold me on to it.
Let me see you niggas in a week or two weeks.
Okay.
Hold me to it.
You know, I got your number.
Hold me to it.
I said the fuck.
I'm with it.
Okay.
I'm gonna have big donkeys for you niggas.
Big boy tours.
Hey, man.
Hey man.
You heard it.
Hey.
Hold me to that shit, nigga.
Hey.
J-O-N, you want one?
I thought you were chugging for real.
But he had to strangle itself.
Woo! Woo!
Y'all don't see me.
You all don't see me.
It's a taste different, right?
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looking like for cash money? Man, I'm gonna just, um, I don't plan it. I just
live through it, right? So, well, just keep doing what we doing? And really, though,
at this point in life, just being here, bro. Like, you know, staying healthy and, you know,
it's just self-explanatory. Everybody, it's shit on cruise control, to be honest.
bro. You know, the new wave, we got my nephew, Nino, D-Rock, Jaquise, um, still, you know,
Young Thug, Future, the Wayne Drake Nickas, VG, Juvie, that shit really on the coolest
control, bro. That's not, it ain't nothing they even worry about, bro.
Shit, everybody named a megastar, man. What you want your legacy to be?
Even when you say, all right, I had enough of the music game now, I'm just showing up.
Man, I just want a nigga to just respect me.
Yeah.
Put some respect on my name.
Put some respect on his name, bro.
Come on, Stam.
That's all I want.
That's what we here doing.
Look.
Look, it's not every day we get somebody in your caliber in here
that everybody in the room is a fan of, man.
So we're going to let some of the people in the room, you know,
ask you somebody questions.
The number one, something.
I just want to talk about maybe that I kind of covered with you and Wayne if you remember anything.
I know you got something very much.
Hey, that was one of my best covers I ever did in my life.
We shot that in my neighborhood.
I always brought Wayne to the 13 Ward.
That's where we from, which is all uptown.
So we shot that in my hood.
And Wayne made me take my shirt off because I never was on that type of shit.
But he always wanted.
he's like let's do this shit with no shirt on and let's just flex it out um but that's what
my favorite cover of all time my favorite picture my favorite everything what when way like um
that's when we was in the era of after the break up so we was getting into the father like son
era and that was like the stamp of the father like son it made the world of me it meant everything to me
And I got that picture in my house on a big pletch, but that was the start of after the breakup.
So when I see that picture, I knew that was after the high boys broke up, and we started the like father, like son.
All the artists that you named under your umbrella right that you don't work with or found,
And which one were you kind of unsure about at first and then they surprised and you
was like, I see why I was talking with you.
I was never really unsure about none of them, right?
I always had confidence in all of them and I always felt like either we're going to win,
we're going to lose together.
So I never thought about being unsure about it.
I never had a lack of confidence in none of them.
I always had all my confidence in them.
And I was a young man with these artists
and I just felt like we're gonna win together,
we're gonna die together, we're gonna lose together.
That was my whole mentality.
So I never thought about no unsecurity.
I never thought that we'll lose.
I always went into it with confidence that we're gonna win.
Have you ever had an artist where you was like,
where it took you a minute to give where they were
Wayne, Wayne, Juvie, BG, all of them took a minute.
Wayne was the last the bus, but I just believed in it.
And he ended up being the biggest shit in the world.
He ended up being the best rapper alive in life.
So, but I always, I never doubted that I just,
sometimes niggas take more time than others.
A lot of niggas be thinking a nigger gonna prosper fast.
That ain't guaranteed.
Sometime it takes longer.
It took us eight years independent.
By the time we got major, the first year we blew,
but they ain't know about the eight years
we was already independent.
And with Wayne and Juva and BG, they had been.
But once we got on that plateau,
everybody was getting educated to them,
but that shit been in the brewing.
And they had started right done and up.
I got a question too.
When Wayne started doing the mixtape,
how did you feel about that at first,
Did you get it or was you like, what you doing?
Hey, I heard about it on the wind, right?
Because Wayne started the mixtape after these niggas left.
Yeah.
When the breakup started, so he started doing his own little thing, right?
But we already had met and said that this is what he gonna do.
He's like, stun him, we gonna do this.
It's more money in and now.
Fuck it, let them niggas go there about that way.
We're gonna make more money now, right?
And he was like, man, I'm better than all of them niggas anyway.
And I was like, man, you're right, Wayne.
You better than all of them niggas anyway.
He woke me up, right?
Yeah.
I ain't no disrespect to juvie.
That's my partner, BG.
That's where we was when all this shit happened.
So when he went that route and went to doing his mixtapes,
I heard this shit on the wind,
because he was just recording and putting this shit out,
and niggas was bringing it to me,
and I was like, but they had a short run
with the mixtape shit because they fell out.
Right.
So him and the squad didn't have a long run.
Right. But it was powerful, but it was more powerful in the city, but it had a short run.
So right after that, me and him, right after that, Katrina happened.
When Katrina happened, we all went to Texas.
Then me and him went to Miami, and that's when we started like father, like son's shit.
And it was right after Katrina.
when he was coming up, like, everybody had to get respect from, like, New York, California.
People weren't trying to get us out of their respect.
I mean, when they came out, they was not really trying to hear that person.
I was like, you know, man, y'all don't get it.
What was that like for y'all just trying to, like, having kind of the South on a lot,
but then trying to go to other places and get them kind of understand what you're going.
The East and the West was like the last two places,
that would embrace our music if he was from the South.
So it's always been a competitive thing for us with them.
Because they felt like they were better than us
and we felt like we was better than them,
especially in our neck of the woods,
was the South.
Once they caught on to us on the coasts
because you'll have a hit in the South
and it take a long time to hit in the East and the West.
But once they caught on to us like it is now,
I don't think they'll ever get it back.
Like, we're here forever, like, because they had it forever.
Like, the East and the West, they had it forever.
And it was challenging for us coming up, very, very challenging,
because they wouldn't play our music in no kind of way.
And like I said, Germain Dupree really broke that barrier for us down south
because he went up there and really made them play our music
because they wouldn't play our music at all.
And I got a lot of respect for Jermaine Dupree.
But they wouldn't play our music, and Jermaine Dupree went up there and was fighting for us,
and our music will be hissed down bottom, and it'll be four, five, six months before it be hit on the East and West Coast.
But now it ain't like that.
Our music hit more up there than down here, but there ain't nothing to love for the East and the West,
but I don't think we'll ever, us Southern niggas, we ain't never letting that shit.
We love the way it feel, we love the way with the dude, we love the way where we can buy,
Hi, nah, we ain't never letting this shit go.
It's a feeling, it's a vibe.
I don't think we'll ever let it go, ever.
Yeah.
And I say that respectfully,
I just don't think we'll ever let the vibe and the motion go.
And we're with the competitiveness,
because it's all about competing,
it's about who got the best town
and who can make the best records.
That's what this shit all about.
Ain't nobody got to be hating on nobody
to compete with music.
We're just trying to make the best music
and who the people gonna like.
And I think right now, we just got it.
And we've been having it for a minute.
And I just don't think we're going to let it go.
Yeah.
Check.
I think one of the biggest things in your legacy would be to bounce back
and how you were able to transition.
Mm-hmm.
Tell the people about, like, once manny and everything kind of dismounted,
and you found a young producer by the name of Jackson's Pager.
Facts.
And that whole engagement of how it was coming to them.
I heard Greg Streep was part of that introduction.
Facts, yeah, yeah.
How did that play a part into that?
Um.
know for some reason I've just been fortunate enough to be able to if a situation
break I could you know break into something different I was able to carry a long
legacy in this shit like even before the hot boys I had a couple of groups
before that you know if you know the history of cash money I had artists way
before that then that dismantled you and yeah a bunch of them
pimp daddy and a lot of them died and some of them left then you come with the
the hot boys and Magnolia Charlotte and rest in peace Charlotte and my daughter
she passed away and that kind of crumble then you had the Wayne who stood
alone then he moved and did his thing then I came in Atlanta fuck with
thugger but I had already signed your got it I had Cali I had Cali I had
It's just in my tree run long, bro.
I have a real, real long tree in this shit.
A lot of niggas counted me out.
And all I can tell a niggas,
I guarantee that I'm going to lose.
I built myself on that,
and I stand on that,
and I succeeded in that ever.
I'm guaranteed I ain't going to lose.
I think I know what I know,
and I think I'm blessed.
and I was fortunate enough to sustain a lot of weather, bro.
A lot of weather and a lot of ups and downs
and a lot of discredit and a lot of doubts.
And I won. I won big.
Hell yeah, you did.
Chad, what's your head?
What you did?
Well, you need to add something.
What did you say?
It wasn't like saying poorside during the line three years.
Man, watching LeBron them, that was like,
highlight of my life. Moolah, he liked to go to the games. He's a sport addict.
So we go to games every night and that shit was like, I ain't never went to the games.
So you telling me, Donna L. Tucker Civil Center, September 10th, we're going to be there.
Sounds like we're ready to shoot. Hey, what's up? September the 10th.
Come on, man.
We will be in Tallahassee. I think that what we're doing.
At the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center.
That way he said.
Well, you know you're important when they have to say your whole name.
Daniel Miller initial Donald L. Tucker.
What the hell's there?
Leroy.
Leroy.
Donald Lewis took him.
La Wanda.
La Wamba.
Hey man, September the 10th, make sure you pull up.
That's this Sunday.
That's Tallahassee?
Yeah.
Ain't that what T. Pine from?
Yeah, I don't think he-Han-Han.
Tallahassee Paine, September the 10th,
we're looking forward to it.
Tell everybody who got gas in their car.
I'm like, why you 30?
Hey.
Sounds about right.
I was going to games because he was going to the games.
So we all go to the games and to watch that shit.
That shit was special to watch them duels and how they did it
and how they won them championships.
That shit was super, super special.
LeBron James is a very cool, cool individual.
He'd been a cash money fan, big cash money fan.
You saw him do the party.
I see him all the time jumping on the jets off the jets.
off the Jets. We always see each other at Clearport's and always been nothing to respect for him and his family.
Seeing each other at the Clearport.
Oh, man.
Come on, man.
It's just what you do though.
But to us, that shit is out of two.
Hey, that's motivation, bro.
Amen.
I ain't never seen your ass at the Cliport.
Me and this nigga be sitting next to each other on the airplane.
Do you understand that I can't even get in a Benz without talking about talking?
fucking shit in Birdman Boys first.
When I bought my bills, I was like,
that one with the frog eyes,
I got that bitch on dubs.
Hey, bro.
Bro, y'all know y'all got rich fast as fuck
because your niggins said,
boy, you know how slow the new Rose Rush B?
I'm like, I had no fucking idea
how slow it was.
Oh, man.
Boss B slowed out of this, Jen.
wanted to know this nigger they were always looking from the keys man why you
always had the key but it makes sense now because baby let me get the key to the
rover truck they're like damn birdman won't come up off them keys so I just
give them to my partners or whatever and we we partners
man hey man what you get rid of this year but I don't know what you get rid
of this year but I don't know
I do.
We had to sit it full of whips.
Because I always felt like, oh, my niggas want is a whip.
Nigger out there hustling every day to get a whip, sacrificing their life for a whip.
So honestly, I swear to go, I took like a hundred niggas, right, to the car lot, right?
And bought everybody their car, right?
What car lot was this?
That salesman had to be geeked to the motherfucker, man.
I told everybody they got $15 a spent.
Whoever had a license and they could go get them.
some insurance. I bought him a car. I bought him a call and insurance right down and
there. Like, I bought out your hood, a hundred more. Blue that white man's mind. I don't know
who the man was. He said he sells. He came down. He was like an angel. He rubbed his hands.
When I tell you, I was living in a life like I couldn't believe. We've seen it. We couldn't
believe it. I actually brought a hundred niggas out the project. Well, I travel with 100, 200
niggas everywhere I went we had four five buses with two hundred niggas I had to get 40
50 rooms everywhere I go there's a bunch of people in the other room ain't there's a bunch of people
in the other room no no I was just young wow you're gonna bring everybody yeah because I really
thought we was dreaming yeah I ain't think that shit was real nigga to be just living like that
and I just wanted to show niggas so if I was dreaming y'all gonna dream with me nigga y'all about to
see this shit right but when I
When I woke up and realized it wasn't a dream, then I took this shit serious.
Then I said, all right, we're about to be, we're going to get real money in this shit.
It took me about two, three years, right?
The breakup woke me up.
When niggas were talking about all that goofy shit, I said, all right, that one made me buckle
down and say, all right, that woke me up.
That shit woke me up and be like, all right, I'm sure a nigga I really do this shit.
I'm the reason why we are where we at.
And that shit made me buckled out and take it where we took it.
Right.
Shit.
Last minute.
Okay.
I remember when I was in LA, I think the first one that hit Kevin was a juvenile
high.
How it changed the game for you once LA and braced you got to move and give love on
head of course?
All of it was like for us, like we were still young.
So for us, it was like, it was like a party.
Nika, we parted, hard.
It was a party.
To watch the atmosphere, it was different.
But we still, we ain't had realized
what were really going on.
We were still young.
So it then came to a prank to where,
like I said, later on I took this shit serious.
At that point, we were just fucking, we thug it.
We got every, we on the bus with 200 niggas with 200 guns, and we thugging like that.
It wasn't, it wasn't serious for us.
We were just rapping, but later on, in life, we went to taking it, like, I took this shit serious.
Yeah, right.
Oh, gee, man, we damn sure appreciate you.
No, man.
This was doing here, fucking with us, man, this shit is unreal, man.
We're gonna see if we can get you to sign a few pieces.
Nah, I'm gonna do that, but I, with more than anything,
I need y'all niggas to fly the yammy.
I want you niggas to fly to the jungle.
I'm gonna put them pieces on y'all.
I'm talking big boy shit.
Come on, man.
I gotta do this shit.
Come on, man.
Come on, man.
Casualy, man.
Hey, man, we got to have a bird man.
Hey, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
And this ain't a ghetto legend.
I don't know what the fuck is, man.
Hey, hey.
That's all we have.
The definition.
Nah.
I'm a ghetto.
Hey, man.
Me and young thug, man.
That's my little nigga, man.
Yes.
Respect.
What a shit is?
We're taking pictures?
Of course.
Oh, most definitely.
Get one?
Hey, bro.
We got to get on some more shit.
Let's get a promo shot.
I'm a look in y'all and tell you,
nigga, I want you to come to the yammy.
I'm a P-J on me.
For real.
I'm in now.
in the jungle. I just need a dare to with you.
Come on. And I'm going to put that whoop on your whoop. Come on.
Come on, right. We're already. We're with it, bro. Frisade it.
Helicopter.
Let's get the promo shot. Let's do it. We're in here?
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