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Vine iconic. Listen to Vine on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey, y'all. We're backstage with Backwoods, Dreamville, 2024. We sing here with none other than trade of truth. Rapper, activist, actor. Yes. What you don't do? There's no activists. Y'all, hey, man. Clap it up. Yeah. What's up, man? What going on, man? I'm cooling, man. I just popped in for a second support, bro. You know? No, for sure. Today your first day out here? Huh?

Today your first day out here, dream? Yeah, yeah, I said I wanted to make sure I came. For one, I came out to see a cold sit and just, you know, support them, man, from seeing where we all started from to now. You know, it's just like as a brother, you always want to appreciate salute and, you know, you'd be excited cheering for them like you cheer for yourself. So, you know, that's where I'm here. And they go likewise. He just dropped the project. Mm-hmm.

What's y'all doing the Beezel, bro? I gotta know. So if you look out here, it's sprinkle of the family that was actually that note of the real story. Like they, so what happened was when I, right after I got shot, man, he was like, man, bro, you just, you're in the hood too much. I just want to show you something different

than what you know all the time. And he flew me to a Beezer. I was fresh out of the hospital, arm in the sling, everything. And we went, of course, you know, I was drinking nothing like that, but definitely we have fun, man.

The video on the way, it's going to show you a lot. Yeah. But the crazy thing with the video is, it's going to show you a lot in real time. Like, it's not we reenacted, nothing. Oh, so y'all was, like, documented why y'all was out there?

We didn't know it was fully documented until we found it, but yeah, it was documented. So you didn't even know he was going to make that song or nothing. Like, that was on some genuine shit and he just came. Yeah, yeah. And then he had me come talk, you know what I'm saying, to do the outro, which was leading into the intro of his album, you know what I'm saying? But, yeah. But, uh, I guess

since we had a dream, I might as well tell you, it's a second version to that song that's about to come. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. Like, how far away are we from it? It's all going to be able to bro. Yeah. It's there already. Okay. So, but him even just dropping the project, like I don't think well we knew what was going you know taking place with like you know the rap people coming back with verses and stuff like that but I didn't know he had the whole project was the project was done already the project was done he just threw that on now yeah yeah yeah and you got to you got to salute him because the thing with him he it's like sparring for him that's what he does do you know what I'm saying so and you know both of them my brothers him and yeah yeah for sure I'm probably one of the only people that have both of them on the same songs You know, but, you know, it's good, you know, that people's excited about it.

And it's healthy for hip-hop. Yeah, I just hate when people try and act like it's real beef. That ain't that. Like, they don't understand, like, man. This is competitive. Yeah, it's just, it's a competitive sport, but everybody got love for everybody, man. For sure. I feel like in an all-star game, like you do want to see the best defender

to go against the best offensive player like, at least a play. Who don't want to leave with a championship ring? Right, exactly. Yeah, yeah. At least. But me and myself, man, I don't even use the energy that too much to talk about. At the end of the day, I want people to realize

Cole dropped a dope project, you know, minus the hype and what everybody was focused on at the moment when you go and you focus on the project, the project is dope. Right, overall project. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing that people need to lock in and understand.

Definitely. Who else are you excited about seeing why you're out here? You know, man, just about everybody is family. I mean, you know, they, I'm pretty sure you would know. I probably got the most relationships in the industry period. No, for sure. It ain't nobody I don't know, you know, so it's just for me. You're going to fault with somebody.

It's a couple, but we ain't going to go there, but yeah, yeah. It's all about energy, though, huh? No, for sure. I was going to say the first time I met you, I think I was with low. And we was, I think it might have been the apartment's premiere. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know Tia, my brother, Loss, my brother, I mean, you know the thing, man, I think the reason why people really, really rock with me heavily is, even for me to be, you know,

most people, it's so crazy, people used to always call me a legend, now people just call me an icon for just different things because I grew so much, but I think because I be so down the earth and don't as you see me now I'm just moving around solo by myself and just cool and approachable too yeah I think that's what I think that's what people value the crazy thing is it's a it's a double sword right because I'm approachable but they at the same time they be scared to approach me but you got to know me to know how I am you know you you know you you seem a little reserved but it is like okay but you cool you fuck with who you fuck with him it's how you approach you that's it's how you approach you I'm gonna go there if you

don't it's all uh you know i'm all for pushing people just to enjoy their stuff man probably because any real gangsters that's been through real life situation man we ain't trying to wake up tripping every day i got keys i got to get back to and a bigger mission the goal was to get it and get out and pull so many others with you you know yeah for sure for sure anybody that's why it'd be a trip right when you see so many people doing crazy stuff on social media or so-called beefs it's like man don't nobody want to wake up looking over somebody who really been there you don't want to wake up looking over your shoulder every day every way you move or something like and that don't make you motel this stuff it's just like at the end

of the day like you can't even exhale or that's not what like about yeah yeah stand on business when it's time but if it ain't necessary sometimes for me I got this thing like it used to be back in the day I'm gonna let you make it but now's like nah let me make it man I'm gonna get out your way not because I'm scared I'm gonna get out your way because I know how far I'm gonna take it

yeah yeah so it's like why would I do why would I don't even want to take it there to bring you into what you're gonna run into so it's like growth is like man you got it but it's different sides to do like I don't think a lot of people know like because you just did a movie

like it's a comedy movie you come to comedy shows Did you, um, my cartoon comedy movie just came out two days ago. Oh, for it, no, I ain't nothing. Trey, yeah. Features, of course, you know, my brother J-Ton, Gray boss, Snoop Dog, Rahim, Devon, Redman, Davies, Gwop Dad, Slink Johnson Problem, T,I, everybody in it, you know what I'm saying?

So, man, I'm a hustler. We're going to get out there and figure out and try and see what we can do, you know? Who's some of your favorite comedian? like that inspired you to really want to tap into that genre? I just love people in general. You know, like, he's my real brothers. Dave Chappelle is my real brother. Martin Lawrence is my real brother.

Tony Rock, my real brother. Like, it's so many to name, you know. But the thing is, it's just even down to the music, a lot of my relationships don't be for what we do as a living. It'd be us as people in general. So sometimes our relationship, I don't even really be thinking about as if they're a comedian or something like that. But, yeah, I got strong relationships with everybody, man. I'm just supportive in general.

It can be music. You can be a computer geek power. I care. If you, I sell it, and I rock with you, I rock with you. Yeah, that's what's up. What made you always be like that? Like, it's not like you're just a lover of kind of like people. Like you said, personality.

I don't know. I think just my heart is my heart, man. It's always been that. And I understand that it really is that because when I find myself looking at my kids a certain situation that they do, they do the exact same thing. I do so I know that it's just naturally in our genes, you know.

But like T.I. used to tell people, he's like, man, the reason why he loved me the way he do as a brother is, I'm a breath of fresh, yeah. Because at the same time, as I embrace and do so many things with people. I'm still one of the people that you know you don't have to look at as I'm trying to use your benefit or come

up off you. I stand on my own, you know. Yeah. And it ain't a lot of that. It ain't a lot of authentic people or genuine people in the game, you know. And you give back a lot too if a lot of people didn't know that. Like how you do trade a true weekend. Like, you know what I'm saying?

I get back more than I do anything else. And that's why people went to doing these titles, but I don't really do the, like when they say activist, philanthropist, I don't look at the title like that, man. I'm just me. I just do me, but I get back at the end of the day, a lot of people be in need, man. And, you know, some people have a, they go to, whether it may be, some people like to get lit, drink, and smoke, and whatever mine is the excitement of knowing I'm taking some type

of stress off somebody who was going through it at that moment, being able to change somebody life. And that's rare. And it's crazy because I do it so much. I can, and I can actually put this on my kids, man, at least 70 to 80% of the time people run up on me all the time. Like, you don't remember me? I'd be like, nah, not necessarily with you. Where, where from? You did this for me or you did this for my mommy. You did this for my auntie. You rebuilt this or you helped us out there. And it's like, I do it so much. I don't be knowing who be who, who, but. But when they tell me the story and I think back, like, yeah, I did do that. I remember that.

Yeah, and that's a different type of reward, too. Yeah, even when the hurricane and all that stuff was impacting in Houston, like you were front-line with it. But, yeah, not just Houston. I did all Louisiana, Carolina, when the hurricane here, I did Florida, Mississippi. Crazy shit, I'm just a street nigger that do music and do other stuff,

but it was like people need to help. Right. I didn't went from rapping and just doing me to, the cutting trees, the tarping roofs, to rescuing with boats, trucks, and everything else. But it's like, shit, when people need it, man, you got to just adapt to that situation right then. Yeah, because, like, why I'm a wait a week

for somebody to be sitting at their desk figuring out how they're going to help you. Those people need help now. They might not make it to the next day. That's what's up. Who's somebody that you listening to right now that we wouldn't expect to be in your rotation? I don't know.

I listen to all music, you know, from Cole to Brent, to Gap Band, yeah, yes, that's my bro, to Gap Band, to, to Dirt, to, of course, my brother Nipsey, to, I listen to everything. It ain't, you, there ain't really much you can revive. The only thing with Brent, I feel like you got a light of calendar when you turn their music on, it's like, it's just, like he set the move. Yeah, like, it's just the vibe. We got, we got, we got, we got, we got records that's not released it. Huh? Oh, y'all got a record? Yeah, we got a couple of records that's now.

But see, the thing is, a lot of artists that come out, I'd be ahead of the career with them. So, like, it was so crazy, I was talking to somebody, and y'all know her as Money Long. Yeah. Back then, I knew that's Priscilla Renee. Yeah. We got, like, five records.

I got records sitting up with me, her, and Travis Scott, and everything else. So that's how far back. Like, I always just embrace people. But even with me embraces. Huh? I say you should drop a collection of. like throwbacks that you got a people and make and name it something nostalgic it's the crazy thing that still can be fresh right now drop that shit i got over i got over 2 000 unreleased

records that's one of the biggest arguments people have like even artists everybody just i don't put the music out like i do it and just keep it for myself what do you think do you feel like now it's too special or what do you think keeps you from dropping me i used to not want it to get lost in the shuffle And even though it's clichés, it might seem, the person who was on me the hardest about consistently, I wouldn't even start putting albums back out within the last five, ten years, if it wasn't for cold. We would sit up and we just, you know, we debate a lot.

And he always, like, bro, it don't matter if you put the music out and only ten people get it. Guess what? Next time we may have 20, 30. Like, bro, just... Because you can see the progression. Yeah, like, we ain't thinking about... Yeah.

We wanted to be the purpose. perfect rollout. We got to just go with the move, man. Yeah. Create. Just let it out. Yeah, yeah. Look at nephew. I spot you a mile away. Yeah, yeah. That's what's up that you got somebody like, Cole that's close that seemed like a brother to you. That's also like pushing you to be, you know, a better artist and even a better man, like you said, bringing you out to Beza at that time in your life. Like, I feel like every great king or man, has like a council of like people who who you respect who you like will go to and talk to like who are some like who some people that's on your council in the industry um it's a lot

before i go there before i go that shout out my nephew demony man oh yeah we don't have we don't have him on him i was proud you know even though i just got here i was proud to see him touch the stage because one thing for sure when you hear de moni it feel like the fit of dream bill with a height just where he had at as an artist right now so I was excited for that but um yeah not just like that I mean you know everybody from from Cole to um Tia you know even if you switch it up to mama Tina you know miss Tina knows Beyonce mama like I just it's just different relationships even Tamika Mallory like it's just like me and Rhapsody was just talking the first thing she

asked me is bro hey you took the time to go do your therapy yet because I promised them at one point I'm gonna do it. I ain't never did it before, but I did. I support black men going to therapy. Yeah, yeah. No, that's what's up. That's a very, I like that council. Oh, man, that's a lot.

You got everything from gangsters to activists, just like you said. So at one point was like the music, the therapy for you? It still is. Yeah, it still is. But that sit down with a therapist hit different though. I didn't ever did. I used to be honest with you. I just never thought about it because I feel like, man, I ain't crazy.

No, but you don't. you think that you have to be crazy, but they really just talking to you and asking you questions, and then they ask you questions that you never had nobody asked. And it's like, damn, you start answering your own questions for yourself. And then somebody who just listened and not pass judgment. I think that's what it is. And ain't going to run your business back.

You know what I'm saying? You might tell your partner now. He don't went home, told his old lady, his old lady don't told her bed for him. You just made me think about somebody that's a David Banner. That's what he told me. David Banner's like, man. Oh, yeah. Even go out of town, if you got to go out of town, somebody that don't know nothing about you.

Don't know nothing about you. Yeah, and just, I have a black therapist. She's from London, so I just feel like everything she says sounds better anyway, because she got the accent. No, but she don't know, like, you know what I'm saying? You could get different type of people that's not in the industry that don't know you, so they're not looking at you like, you know what I mean, in your business. It's what's up. I'm an advocate because I think a lot of us, especially in the black community, we go through things that we think are so normal to us. because we see it.

Every day. But we don't realize that it's still a little bit traumatic. It's trauma. It's trauma they feel, but, man, you know. We just make it cool. That's really what it is. We're not so far removed from, what, slavery, segregation and all that type of stuff. So our parents never really was, you know what I mean, going to therapies and stuff like that.

Yeah, no, they didn't have a resource. So we're behind the curve, so I think it's our generation to start telling our kids, like, you're not at fault to sit down and talk to somebody you know what i'm saying so it's like with you helping that's probably therapy for you you don't realize it but it's like i'm doing this with other people like to make my mind clear with other things feel yeah yeah you're right well as a man of my word i'm gonna do it so i'm gonna do it but we ain't trying to be no therapist well i'm just it's gonna get done at some point because i got to keep my worry my worry along so yeah what's something that you

feel like you set out to do in your career you like it could be it don't have to be like no award or nothing but something that's just for you that you feel like I really want to do this I don't know I think everything I do is for legacy even from the career from just how I move is for the legacy and the um what I'm gonna be remembered for through my kids and every everybody else and everybody just tied in to me so I mean I think I'm trying to achieve everything I was one of the, matter of fact, if you go down just a list of everything with me, I've achieved things that they never probably thought could happen. You know what I'm saying?

That's a lot. At this point, man, I don't receive every award you can think of except probably three. I never got an NAACP award, never got a BET award. And the people was working on trying to give me a Nobel Peace Prize. But other than that, I got every, I got every award. This to the point I don't even accept awards no more, you know. But you got to, you can't be mad that people want to appreciate you, you know what I'm saying? So I'll be cautious with I said, you know what I'm saying?

But, yeah, I've received any and everything. That NAACP coming. That's going to probably be next year. You know, typically you would have probably thought that would have been one of the first with me being front lines for us. But, I mean, you know, it's all on time. whatever God feel how you feel it needs to go.

Now, if you win a Nobel Peace Prize before that, you can't go even a way. Oh, man, it's, at that point, it ain't, like, and it's so crazy. Don't send me shit out. A Nobel Peace Prize? But look, but see, I ain't gonna lie. I had a few hiccups within the last year,

so I fucked that up for it. It's going to be a... It's okay, that's what's going to make, the testimony even greater. I'm laughing because, like, at just his growth, I understand God probably was tapping. Me and my, like, hey, bro.

Like, you're on a different pal, like, tighten up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, it's hard because you're human. And human, you move, you move, you make mistakes, you move off emotion, just natural reaction. And, you know, even then with growth, you can understand, man, I'm wrong at times, you know. For sure. But even in my sense, I may not be wrong, but I'm just saying for the level of where I'm going

and what I am in that sense I can be wrong. That even go back to what you were saying, I'm a little. me make it like you used to look at it different like all right you know what my my path is bigger my vision is bigger i can't even be sitting here doing this type of stuff yeah and the thing is i'm always thinking the ways to do things that can never be done so right now i just i haven't even announced it right i'd actually be the first person come on exclusive i did a partnership with crisis bags right so crisis bags is um my god that's yo yo yeah that's what actually shot the video

so I did a partnership with crisis bags so you know when it floods in a lot of these disaster areas where there may be the Florida is of course Houston the Bahamas just where it's real natural disasters a lot of people always have to start over and rebuild so these bags even though it may not be able to save your home I can feel the whole room within the bag

meaning couches, computers, TVs, and this bag, once it's closed, it can sit underwater for two weeks. A bag? Yeah, so. How big is this bag? They have different sizes,

but it can, it's one big enough that can fit all this in here with ease. Oh, wow. And what happens is it can sit underwater for two weeks, right?

Yeah, that's innovative. I'm going to show you. But the point of it is... And it can stay underwater for you said two weeks. Yeah, so the point of it is, and y'all can look at it up crisis flood bags with a K.

But, um, think about it. If you have your family ashes or portraits of things that you can't replace. Yeah. Think of knowing, even though I may have to rebuild, I figure this out, my stuff is still there, you know what I'm

saying? And I think that's just, that's big for me because it's helping people prepare and it's saving lives in a sense too, because some things, man, some things are replaced with. Money. it can't, it came by. For sure. Like memories, pictures, all that type of stuff.

Yeah, yeah. That's what's up. You just partner with them? Crisis flood with a cake. Crisis flood with a cake. That's what's huge. I'm actually sure you why we're right here is going to chip you out. Okay.

But, you know, I'm always trying to just do the unthinkable for just our people in general, man. I like that. Besides Abiza, what another place you probably want to travel and go to? And you know, so crazy, I don't do vacations. Never happened. Yeah, I could tell how you said it. It wasn't even a vacation when I did that. Because Cole was touring working, so I was comfortable.

It would work. So on the regular, that ain't even make you like, I should do this more often? I just don't, I don't tour, bro. I mean, I don't vacate. Yeah, vacate. I'm a workout. Like, I work better on depression. You know what I'm saying?

So look at me. Okay. Well, what else you got coming up with you, the people can check out and just be in A bunch of albums Fing to drop My movie sold out on 2B Tray the movie The cartoon movie is on 2B

Okay And it's called Tray the movie Mm-hmm All right Everything You can fit the whole That's what's up It's different sizes too

So you could be like I just want to make sure these paperwork Don't get in this is a smaller bed And it's the one you can fit your whole room This is a way they got to insert that clip Crisis Bag Crisis Club bag That's what's up.

And then follow you on everything at Trey the Truth, right? Yeah, at Trey A-B-N. I always Trey A-B-N. Yeah, yeah. But shout out to y'all for having me. Of course, you know, I don't do too many interviews, but when I do, they know it's with something I'm affiliated with. So it's all the love.

Well, we appreciate you. Man, it was surprising to see you. And for show you, like, you said, you're just mobbing through solo. Everybody show you love, though. Like, I'd never seen nobody, like, had nothing bad to say about you, though. Yeah. and I'm not going to give them time too. And you got to realize that's hard,

especially in this industry, you're always going to find somebody to feel some way. Because your reputation can't perceive you, but they be like, oh, yeah, you are. And you always cool with good energy and, like you said, chill every time you're around. Yeah. Dad, and I'm just a natural protector

because most of the time I'm naturally watching over everybody else. So, you know what I'm saying? Like, I know. Ever since you've been singing, you've been right. Crazy thing, I see everything. Even when you think I don't, I'm seeing it, you know. But that's just will be comfortable. For sure, yeah, uh-huh

So on nature We were saying the other day Like if people come with wrong Intentions to a Dreamville Fest They just on some other shit anyway You just, the wrong type of energy Yeah At that moment

I got the right to act how I want to act Can't nobody Ain't nobody gonna be able to tell me Because I ain't gonna let the mess this up Yeah, come on like Dreamville Yeah, no It's a woke convention No, no, woke convention

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