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You get your podcasts I ain't trying to get I'm trying to get kicked off for a goddamn lemonade You ain't getting kicked out of here from him We ain't that petty You may not hear the end up No, we'll bring it up a bunch of times

But we ain't gonna kick you out of it I appreciate it I'm stopping a nigga about a goddamn limineer. Yeah, because, you know. That's what niggas do. They do. What you've been up to, G?

Man, I've been working, bro. Cooling and working, bro. That's all I've been doing, too. Cooling and working and shit. Trying to stay out the mix. That's how you stay in the mix when you stay out there, motherfucker. Staying out the mix.

Yeah, for sure. That's how you stay going. Hell yeah. Stay out the way. Like, what's been up, fool? You got that glitter backwood over there I ain't fucking with What glitter backwood?

Look, it's glittery You don't see it? You see the glittery? Oh no, man Police ain't pulled me, right? You don't know or you see You might be tripping, dog We just tripping, I'm tripping

You know, sir This is after I rinsed it off I've seen that on shit before though I don't know bro you might be overthinking it I've seen that on shit before and I just lick right over wow you gotta pause that

you can't just say that lick right over he just lick right on at this day and days you can't you can't just say that my boy I don't know if we can let that about so I said lick

I should be good you're going to double down it Oh, that should be good. Shit, okay, man. Oh, shit. Let's y'all say something. Oh, shit.

How are the fuck good? I have my God say, I can't say shit in the house. He'd be like, you know, oh, God, dude. You've been to get out of my eyes. But at a certain point, you got to, you can't, everything can't be. That's how about 40 years old, nigga. Oh, shit. He didn't even now a goddamn giving Shannon Sharpton of hell looking at that shit.

She's giggling like here. I move my little nigga up there with me so he can have a better opportunity and shit, man. That hard. Boy, that little niggas being out laughing at every guy's saying. Everything pauses and shit. Like, I'm like, man, I'm growing. I better be the same way, y'all. That shit be fun.

You have to keep them right, because they keep you y'all. They keep you up on shit. For sure. Your brother, 14? Yeah, yeah. My damn son, 15. Yeah, yeah. A nigga just turned 15, like two, three days ago.

Has asked not playing the don't yet? They keep you on your shit, though. You still looking at it. They keep you on your shit. Yeah, man. You gotta be like, you damn to be like, we're the nigg. That we're trying to be cool, and they are, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's a whole other shit to stuff.

They're going to make everything you do look like it like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you like it, it ain't cool. That's how them niggas is. Me and that nigga get into it by everything. I would like, this nigga, hell. I ain't got no damn kids. But this nigga here?

Bro. He remind me every day. And why you don't? Mm-hmm. Oh, my goodness. That nigger remind me every day because my, boy. be having a guy mad around my own damn house. Yeah, man.

Diccan clean this up, clean this. I was like, bro, I don't want to be doing that shit all day, man. Oh, shit. I feel like we're about to talk some good shit in here, man. Yeah, for sure. Erica had Justin going through therapy in here. Erica, this is going to be there talking about this shit. Yeah.

What happened? Y'all was on. Yeah. Erika came and woke up my, my demon, my agent, whatever. Whatever? I don't know. He laid on the couch.

We were talking. He laid on the couch. It all started in 93. So, all right. The Lord said, see, look, he's staring off in space and they ended up that shit on. He got caught gazing, my nigga. You know what a nigga going through some shit when he gazed off? No, for real.

Start thinking. Nicky started. Niggins were staring at some shit that wasn't even there. I called him, though. Yeah. I've seen him. No, that's the problem. Yeah.

Yeah. So you had to open up? Yeah. They were trying to get me that, bro. I'm good. They were trying to get me that. See, Erica want to open up about the, bless. Something the lies she tells.

So, I don't know. I ain't want to open on me. I wish I missed, I don't know, man. I missed that one. You are, you don't. She wasn't, she stuck to the cold, though. She pulled the wonder shit on. He thought that she was going.

Don't let it go? Yeah, she thought she would. She was a G. Yeah. She stuck to the cold, though. No. Not so much sympathy. Yeah.

I was, you know what I was trying to see what secrets they'd be holding back some shit like that and she wasn't budding. She wasn't like, nigga, please. Just assume they're lying about everything because she's just playing out of the team. I'm going to do that in the way. Basically that's what I learned. Just assume they line about everything.

Right. And don't ask her shit. Don't press her. My bad. She said don't press her, but basically don't question. Sound about right, don't. It sounds like therapy right now. See?

Don't question her. Yeah, I think. You can't complain. You know what I'm saying, quote-unquote, you can't express yourself. Oh, you can't do that. What you mean? You can't complain about what she's doing. Nothing.

About nothing. Oh, no, I just do a performance evaluation. Hmm. I just show up and I have a clipboard and I'm like, let's go through it. Oh, she probably said you complain. Wow. No, I'm not complaining. It's just not your performance.

You're not, you're not. Is this a point system or what? Oh, hell of points. How many are you left? Oh, she's in the negative. When do you get fined? She in the negative. At what number do you get fined?

I know some of them 21. I'm giving you two weeks to get your shit together, really, like. Wow. Yeah. Performance evaluation. Wow. You're doing great praising and show the praise. It really is.

And it worked, man. You're women time. They give you 21. They get you 21. When you get the 19, they spend you for a lot of two days and let you know a eight niggott. Would it feel like to be fine? And you get them, you know, you get two more points.

That's your ass. You know, you ain't suspending. Oh, hey. You put them off a post. I ain't coming back, man. No, we're saying. I do, yeah, yeah, I do the punish me. Yeah.

He's just spent me? That means I'm subject to suspension? That's right. So you think you're on. They get on punishment, huh? Punish me, bro. Damn. That 90 day will be there.

God damn. But tell her 90. I tried to do a bit like that one time. I punished myself. Wow. You see how this shit work? When you're trying to stop? And she went out and got some more.

I thought I was teaching a bitch a lesson. Let's talk me for that. Don't try it again, nigga. What made you think? I don't know, bro. You know, you know, when you, all right, you know. If you don't deserve me at my worst, you don't get me at my best, this, nigga, drove off.

She drove fuck off. That bit was like, all right. Then she left in a challenger with a nigger with a nigga swimming. Let's go! A hell can't at this. The big one. The waxed out.

You know that it's over you. When she posts on that story and that motherfucking hell cat and all you see that nigga elbow is over with it. All they on the beach and all you see it, his hand toast, all right. Nah, he posted breakfast and there's another plate over it. You got screenshots and zoomed me in that beach.

We fucking eat off that other plate. Country ham Ain't gonna know it's a digger meal You know it's a nigger meal Oh man Country ham In the morning Yeah

Ed's up They're sitting aside Women don't eat eggs like They're fiddly Nah for reed This niggins A drinkin of orange juice And water

Oh man He's up He boot parking He was hot He doesn't totally like This niggum Rehydrate and wake up Have a nigger over there

Who took the picture? It's over with That shit, Chris. He's crazy, fool I had a bitch to do me like, All right, we ain't gonna do that. See? All they heard coming up.

But sometimes that shit, you know what I'm saying? We get into it, and that thing, I know she's on the store and I see another nigger knuckles holding the cuck talking with it. Yeah, that's all she put the bitch

They were doing the toast and she's gonna take a picture and just hitting knuckles and, man. But you know it's social. So they be pulling that shit, bro. That could have been the security guard. No. At the door, like, hold this right quick.

You better hold the security guard, take care of you, bitch. Because they do shit. I'm going to run with it. It worked next. Wow. He's taking care of them. Yeah, I don't know no other way. Oh, you got that.

You take care of them. You take care of them. If you mind. Not all the ones, I thought. No, hell, no. I was like, hey, ladies. You're looking for a rest of me? I'm going to play.

That's crazy. All of? No. No, I'm not going to even tell that lie. Right. Come on, man. Yeah, that can't be the case. That's what they think of it.

Let's the internet tell them. What, you're supposed to take it out of? I don't think nobody on the internet happy. It can't be. Uh-uh. You can't be. They make up too much. You're going to be less happy.

It's just a scientific study. I did it. Oh. You think it's because they're seeing people who really They're happy? Huh. No, because them people ain't happy. It's an unhappy period.

What about this? We on that, motherfucker. Huh? We on there. Yeah, but we ain't on the internet right now. And that's why people fuck with it. If we was on here on the internet, would you fuck with it? If we were all just on here on our phone.

Oh, that's you saying like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I thought somebody, like, he was active on that mother. No, I'm saying. We're active on here, but we actually being in this phone. Yeah, yeah. I'd be out, I'd be on.

I'm in a moment, for sure. Yeah, I ain't figured out this shit. Some motherfuckers got a whole life on social media that they created, you get what I'm saying? Shit, we really, all of that's dude, goddamn. No, he's talking about motherfuckers just living in a whole, like a whole fantasy. Like, they didn't create a version of themselves

that just on land. Yeah. Yeah. You were gags on line, and then they pulled up and slapped the shit out you on live. And took it. your gun. That's make it worse. They took your gun, then.

Hey, but some of them be finicing into a bag like that, though. Creating a whole facade or who they is, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. They'd be finessing it to that payment. You can do it right. Yeah, do that shit. But it's right. I can't maintain anything like that, though.

You got to just get the bag and get the fuck on. That my heart ain't. I got to be me, man. For you? Yeah. Yeah. Some people cool with being fake, though. Yeah, no.

You know, there's some people find solace. Yeah, them the ones who figure out how to get the money. That's what I'm saying. You can't be real, man. And then they make it real, and it's real, and it was real the whole time. We get a little money too, bro, don't say that. So what was a rapper that you thought went home and just had a totally different accent? Nika, think...

Oh, my God. He rapped one way for getting in the house and be like, poor all this thing. The nigga hit the car at the time. They don't even speak English when they need a bitch. Just think a while. Shit, a lot of them. Think of it's some, it's like, it's some of them DJs who make the most money every year with the list come out.

And these motherfuckers don't even be performing in front of people. They're just doing this shit from the crib. Yeah, I'm saying nothing. Yeah, you're talking about those people. You put the marshmallow head on and you don't know who the fuck that is. You don't know if that's the same motherfucker or not. I know what's crazy I never thought about that. Yeah.

I'm telling you, man. Motherfucker performed with a whole moose head. Don't nobody know who the fuck under that. You don't know if the nigger walked that damn press one button and all that shit was. pre-recorded or not. But they make up, I will give them this. One thing I did, they make up for that shit with other

shit. Like, for a motherfucker to just be playing music, you're going to see the best 3D light show. This motherfucker's going to shoot laser beams into your eyeball. Like, I'm saying, like, twicken in infinity. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They make up for that shit, like,

motherfuckers be like, they just playing music off the shit, and I'm like, yeah, but really. But they're all going to it, though. Yeah. It's a home show, yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. But you don't have to actually... You gotta make up.

But when you ain't doing shit, you gotta make up for. Yeah. You know what I'm gonna be? But it's the music they playing. All this shit digital now. Yeah. Because you know, you're a rapper. You can sit in that motherfucker to one DJ, he gonna speed that bitch up.

And he'd be like, man, what the fuck you did to my soul? He's like, trust me. This shit gonna work at the places I'm going to play this shit. That's better versions, yeah. It's a new thing, but they do work, though. You get what I'm saying? Because they got an audience who, nigga, these motherfuckers are on so much. shit, all this shit sound regular to them anyway.

They want to hear shit faster. They want to hit too sick. Right. They want to hit shit faster. I just learned about that drug. I didn't know that every song got a white people version of it. If you go to the right club? No, they do.

The EDM version. Oh man. That you sometimes be having that part of the packs they be sent or not, bro. But you take, if you get, so right now, like labels do, like you got one big DJ that to put the EDM on somebody's song, it's still gonna go credit to the person's song that it is, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So it's gonna be, they bank.

They go, that's why they do like the slowdown version, sped-up version and all the different versions of one song. Man, I've been seeing all kind of rap pop up on the internet and TikTok and shit. You've seen the old English men who be rapping like a motherfucker? There's two-old. Yeah. They grandparents and shit, but they're rapping their ass off. I seen a group of Arabian dudes that was rapping.

It was like, it was like some trap shit, but that shit was funny. Yeah, the end-ocan Indian dudes. But the melody was hard, yeah, yeah. That's all that shit. It was like a whole group of a man. When you're watching it, you're like, hold on. You know what he's saying? Oh, okay, okay.

You don't know what they're saying. It's like 13 niggas around one nigga, they're just all in the hell just going off. There's a little fat Punjabi boy. And he went off on that bitch. You don't know what they're saying. I said he notorious Punjabi. Like, if he don't come out with a little song or some shit,

yeah, he'll love a kid, though. I'm pretty saying, but he floored. It's all that man. It's a crazy motherfuck is on TikTok, though. I'd get them that, though. The TikTok had you looking at some shit you didn't even know you liked, man. Nah, for real. But they're rapping their own shit.

That way. Yeah, nah, you're everything. You fuck around in like one thing and next thing you know, that's all the fuck you've seen. You can't, you ain't got liking no, but you fuck around and click on it. You think about it. That shit gonna pop up. Because I know, I don't even follow. You think about it.

You think about that shit be on your phone. These motherfuckers, I don't even follow. When I go, if I click on their shit, And look, next thing you know, it's gonna be suggesting that I watch some of this shit. No, I never trying to see what the fuck they were doing here. I don't want to see it no more now.

I don't want to talk about that shit we're talking about right now. You look up on your phone, that should be on there. That's why every day I grab my phone and I yell at it, I say, big black titties. Because that'll be something I never get tired of seeing. But it never show me them. It never gone. And you know it here.

You're saying it in the wrong way. Give me what I'm asking for. I didn't ask for the other shit. They sure. You can fuck around and talk to somebody about. about vacuum cleaning and hang up they show you dirt there was all across the beach but you ain't seen not one area oh they can't sell you they can though they can yeah they can say everybody they can they can tell them teeters too yeah it's the same not what they're gonna say

do we got this drink in my man somebody pull up come on pull up type shit turn their shit up man then they're ain't gonna say no lie I'm gonna just keep it real with you this the first time I heard of you what what was out before this like what I had a song called, what your name is that was at before this. Okay. But I was already, you know, you got your mixtapes and shit like that. Yeah. Like, this one.

This was, okay, this nigger floored. This nigger musical vibe. No, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's when I came from. That's why I was. This was a little moment. At the time, I made this song. I'm about to say you.

So the niggins know where I was from. That's the only reason I made that, right. Because everybody thought I was from here. They thought I was from Dallas. Yeah. And they thought I was from Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? Houston. So the first song, which name is I had a problem. I had a fucking label.

I had what the L.A. had in the damn video. I didn't think that shit matter. I was young as fuck, you know what I'm saying? But my whole city was mad about that shit. So yeah, it was like, this is our first time since 2005 we didn't have a nigga on, you know what I said? It's all you saw in the coming. It was crazy. It was like, I'm like, damn. So I made it my point, like, I'm gonna try to make this shit just, you know, some old Houston shit, something is nowhere a nigga from. That was the only intention. Listen in motherfucking disguise. Like, I was in my motherfucker.

I was in my partner, Grandma Hise. We didn't have no studio. It was like a bed. Sit on the bed. That nigga had the hell right here. And I'm just recording sitting on the bed. The first song? This song.

Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. Because it went crazy both ways. It went crazy, screwed and chop. Yeah, no, for sure. And then it went crazy just on the rain. Like the mainstream, shit, like the charts. Yeah, we did that hole in the highs on the east side.

At your partner, Grandma house. Yeah. We ain't none of us had no house. You know what I'm saying? So he, like, he was, that was the studio, though, or that was just on, like... That's what we recorded music and shit. But he didn't have, like... He had to sit on the nigga bed, nigga, and he's on the computer right up.

Got it and shit on the wall and shit. Nothing, right? Just drive. That nigga was so cold with that shit. He knew how to, you know, on mixing shit. Shout out of that, Nick. Hey, and my other partner was making the beat, and we were just in that whole vibe and shit. Never, I ain't in my records, I ain't never really just did none of me in the studio.

Like, it's always been, like, at the eyes, you know what I'm saying? and in the room and she recorded myself and shit like that. That's hard. How long you took you? This, are you? Yeah. Yeah. I had this shit.

Man, when we cooked the beat, he probably took another hour and cooked the beat. Probably like another hour or two hours, though. When you were doing it though, did you feel any different, like, this shit? He'll be the one. No, because at that time, I was just really like, man, I'm just fiend. Like, I'm signing this shit, so I'm just like, I'm a coachable nigga, you know what I'm saying? Like, if I got a good coachman, I'm a work, you feel me? Yeah.

So, like, I was just feeding them niggas. And I was like, I got nothing. Here I go. And I'm gonna do the niggins. I'm not thinking of that shit. The biggest, the crazy thing, I went to do her radio, she went to Detroit. And I was about to, what your name is, was my shit at the time. And so I played this song before I did my rehearsal, you know what I'm saying?

And the nigga that was behind the boy, she came. He's like, bro, what the fuck was that? And another nigga came, another nigga came. And so I started doing that shit and all the shows. And I was like, I was like, bro, told my manager, like, hey, this shit, this might be some. You know what I'm? And then from there, shit, we just went. Played the horn radio in Houston.

They played that whole ten times in the road. What? Hell yeah. Manager was acting like he already knew. I told you. You're the one I was telling you. You know what I said. I said the shit I won it when you were in the message.

You got to tell him you. You're talking about what your name, man. I'm talking about drinking the coke. You're trying to sneak the shit in the countryside. I was going to fuck with my favorite song and don't tell me on. You know, that's been my shit. Yeah. This is the one.

This is what I listen to when I'm listening to the shit. I really know. I was just creating all that shit really like me and my partners, you know what I'm saying? You know what I ain't had to do nothing? That shit I already packaged up. Go do what you got to do with that all. And that's how that shit would, bro. That way crazy.

You was talking about the label shit earlier, man. What's some of the shit that you learned being signed to the major, though? That you actually, they put me up their time. Them niggins are old? I learned it's you against them, you know what I'm saying? When you're sitting there by the sign of that contract, it's you against them at that table, you know what I'm saying? So if you get fucked over, they let you, you know what I mean?

You let yourself, you know what I'm saying? So at the time, I wasn't educated on that shit. I'm young, bro. Like, I grew up port in the bitch, like, you know what I'm saying? It's the same shoes. I'm hooping in, and I'm going to school in them hoogs, you know what I'm asking niggas for change at school to eat lunch with them niggas, you know what I'm saying? So when I came into some money, I'm like, shit, whatever.

I feel like a thing gonna be like me. Like, I ain't gonna fuck over nobody, you know what I'm saying? So I feel like that's how I was gonna be on both sides and then I like like like that. But looking back, it's like I can't be mad at them. It's like I ain't educate myself, you know what I'm saying? I wasn't, my mind weren't strong enough at the time, you know what I'm saying?

So, but the labels for the young nis, like bro, now like you don't need that shit bro, like independently you can get paper out here, you feel me? And you gotta look at yourself like a brand, like a company, like you can set have a song on the streaming site says doing a thousand. You say you're making a thousand out of this bitch, you feel me?

Like, niggies got real estate that they only making $1,000. You know what I'm saying? So say, if you did that with 10 songs, now you make it $10,000 and one of streaming. Because people be complaining. So I'd be trying to show boys like, hey, you got to slow down. You make it too much sense. Come on, bro. You know what I'm saying?

So. You just wanted you to slow it down for the motherfucker who. So, yeah. They weren't listening fast enough. So basically, I'm saying, like, with that streaming, like, because a lot of times, see the question that you had, a lot of time, a lot of times, like, what you learn? And a lot of time it turned to the bad shit.

And so I'm trying to look at it like, niggas, y'all niggas in these situations. It's coming up. You got the good things, too, you know what I'm saying? So I'm like, now, what the game in? Now it's like about giving information. So I look at it with the streaming platform, say, we could break it down like if a nigger making a 300 off a song.

If you can do that 10 times, you know what I'm saying? Put a 10 song EP's, it's safe for instance. You can make 300 and you're making $3,000 a month now. You got people that with houses that they put $100,000 in houses in real estate and the marketing and stuff that ain't making it. You know what I'm saying? And so you got to look at yourself like a company, like a brand.

Now, I made $300. So now I can make three times. I can make 30, so on and so forth. And you make, say, 80% of your money. You know what I'm saying? You don't need it. Like, as long as you can make enough money to put out your next project and you can eat and you got a roof over here,

I feel like you're straight, you feel me? But with us, we be on that at advance. You know what I'm saying? And then advances be taking us down. We take the advance, go by all the designer, jury, and calls. We're done. That's the, you know what I'm saying? That's a loan.

You know what I'm saying? One of the worst loans, it's probably the worst loan you can get, you know what I'm saying, with all kinds of interest in there. Labor take you out to eat. You see 10 steaks on the table. You think they're treating you good. Nick, you're paying for all that shit. You know what I'm saying?

You might be going to pay for. Yeah, you're paying for all that shit, bro. You might be paying for it two times then, bro. It's too long story. You got to wise up on your business side. Like, you got to treat yourself like a brand, like a company, you know what I'm saying? You got to just, we got just wise up as a people, you know, like, it can change. You know what I'm saying?

It's meant for, you got to, you guys be winning. The niggas be winning. The niggas be winning. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? They're going to win every time. Because they got their business together, you feel me?

Our business don't be together, so that's why we'll be losing. And it's always the same story over and over and over again. So you're independent now? Yeah. My home are my own label and stuff. I got him, I got my older. But I turned, all my pot is in the rapist. Everybody rap.

Right. Everybody rap. Yeah. So you're going to be right. You're going to rap. Yeah. Why not? You never know who, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, I don't keep information, I don't keep knowledge, I don't going to keep the, you want to rap, come on.

Right. If you can't rap, if you can't rap, I sit there and write the whole shit for you. Right. You know what I said? And we're going to put you out like that. Nobody's going to go. Right. You know what I'm going to move.

That's right. That's right. I ain't going to hold you. Like, my brother, he's been making music. He was like, hey. But he knows how to record this up and anything. Like, I taught him all that. But really, what's crazy.

He's seen me do it. I'm going to take that bet. He's seen me do it. And one day I came home from the club. This is last year. Bro, I got on TikTok. And TikTok really taught him how to work pro tools. And he learned how to record this stuff while I was gone.

And now he's been recording his own music and everything. 15 years old, bro, engineering itself. That's what I record. I record out my own music. His music in your family? Or they just said you and your brother got? It just started with me. And then, like, from there.

But he'd be around me. I was like, my little brother. He's like my son. You know what I'm saying? He'd be around me so much. So he's going to imitate emulate everything I do me. Right. And broke hole, you shouldn't?

That's hard. Yeah, for real. Keep that shit in the family. For sure. I always look at it, like, bro, my little secret weapon. Like, they don't know. Like, I got another person, he's him. Yeah, he's probably proud.

He figured out how to do it without you showing them. Oh, yeah. You can show yourself. Yeah, he can show you. What I like about him, though, like, he's going to work. He's going to sit to the highs and record 20, 30 songs. You know what I'm saying?

But then I'm not going to help him, and he's not going to ask him for help him. But when I want to help him, he's like, he's going to help him. He didn't receive the information. And he knows how to adjust. He ain't, we ain't bickering when they come to that music. You hear something? Yeah, you hear something? Like, come on.

He'd be mad at me sometimes. Man, he don't want to help me, nigga, I don't want to help him. I won't help him. I don't know. I go cold on him because I want him to, I told him. I'm like, bro, this show gym at the highest. You got to feel this. This show practice.

He made one of the ones with me like, shit. I got to get on that, motherfucker. Yeah, for sure. I put them, I put both my little bugs on my last album. I put both of them on the album, because it's like this. I don't even, I ain't tripping, like, if you ain't at your best or whatever, if I'm around you, bro, if you're around me, I'm gonna give you everything I got to give, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's just how, like, my older brother, he taught me that. Like, that's how we do stuff. So it's like, nigga, if you got down, if I'm hooping, you hoop me, you know what I'm saying? If I'm gonna say, whatever you're doing, you know what I'm doing? So I'm gonna get us growing up. I'm gonna get rewarded. You know what I'm saying? And you know, us growing up, bro, it's another, bro. It's another out. I never had that. So my little brother, they got me, so I'm gonna show them every time. When you work like this, you're gonna get rewarded. You know what I'm saying that. You know, you know, you know These ain't reward us for shit. We're just out there hoping by ourselves, trying.

You know what I mean? Nobody rewarded us, bro. So it's like, now we gotta take our time with these kids and, like, show them, bro. Like, when you do something good, you get rewarded for it, then, vice versa. Man, that shit just crazy. I was still thinking about you made that fucking whole hit song

at your partner, grandma house. Not for real. How long was it hot or did you have the song out before, like, everybody? A year? A year. like now everybody's so short you know yeah like it took a whole year bro yeah so you were working and going around different spots i was in college bro okay i'm in college like i'm in college like my mama put me back in college because i had dropped that I'm like right I was 18 nigga working at a chemical

plant you know what I'm saying my mom and that homer simpsons crazy hair like breathe and my mom was like man just get this shit another shot really a old school nigga had I kept going back to the little porter potty right rap to my phone and shit. Right. This old-school nigga had to- hunt, no, I was a bunch of shit. It was a bunch of shit. It was crazy. Like, we just had this little e-clips shit.

It was some shit like that. Like, the son was beaming on the nigga in, dog, working with this Mexican nigga, he ain't telling me shit. He ain't telling me. He ain't just out there, like, fuck it. Man, the old-school nigga walked up on me. I don't even know what this nigga look like. He was just like, bro, you got a dream or something.

This shit for old niggis. This shit for niggas. He ain't got a dream. Go chase your dream. He'd go do that. and I got up and I lived. Ain't no better way to tell you. Man, thank God for that old nigger.

You're right. How's a nigga? Straight up, nigga. Hey. All the nigga pull up on you say some real shit. You know, man, get the fucking. That was either an angel or the future you. I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna say, you know,

let me some other old names said right. Look, they're like skinned. I'm watching the niggins. But they had me doing some crazy. She did that in the morning, like, in the morning, like, you or everybody got to, like, poet or water up for everybody in the whole damn chemical plan. But they had a fo in the table.

Take the niggins to go do that. They gave me, I'm on the phone. Like, I'm riding that bitch doing that. So, bear, my, nigga, check it up. First day that, ho, I forgot my lunch. I didn't know I had to bring the lunch out the call. I'm not knowing none of this shit, but I'm gonna try. I graduated school, 17, I'm 18, I'm just learning, like, life.

You don't know nothing. Bro, I'm at the lunch, uh, thing. Everybody got their food and I got my food. I'm like, fuck, I'm gonna go to sleep. It's a true story, nigga. I went to sleep, nigga, I woke up. You know, why everybody had gave me all, they, like, left overs, and all the food on the table.

say it was crazy, like a whole platter and shit, nigga. Like, it was crazy in the bitch, bro. The young man ain't got nothing. No, look, they're telling me, get your ass up out of this whole, bro. So, after that shit, the nigga turned up, bro. You know what I'm saying? That cottage did it. The cottage did everything.

Facebook. Where you go to school? I went to prison. That was right? No, like, look, I went through that whole life. That's the music school. Come on, nigga, Rogers and all the niggas. Me and DJ Chose at the same time, B. King was working this shit out there. Had they buried the road. They had just left the year before.

Like, shout out to B. That nigga. That nigga hilarious. Come on. All that shit, bro. All this shit was at the school. Yeah. So me, I was like the only Houston nigga though. They was all Dallas.

They were Dallas bugging and all that shit. But it taught me like, it gave me swag, though. You know what I'm saying? I had a Houston swag at first. It gave me like another kind of swag, like an edginess, you know what I'm saying? And shit from there, bro. You know, Facebook back in the gap, you had to have a college ID to get on that hole. You know what I'm saying?

So I used that hole. So shit niggas be doing that freestyle videos. I'm doing that shit back in the gap. Right. your name is, is a six-minute freestyle on Facebook. I'm dropping freestyles every couple days, nigga, and I blow up in college like that, I was already lit.

They were just waiting for me to have a song. I was rapping on everybody else beats, nigga. Now, that shit then went to fuck up, man. That's hard, right? Yeah, for real, bro. And then you just worked, I know you hit other colleges. Did you just go straight to other colleges with to sit once you got the record? I'm going to motherfucking back to Houston back and forth every day.

My partner working at the agency at the time that you were going back and forth to Houston going to DJ meetings. all this shit performing for free, like, of course you, everything's for free. Like, I don't have no money, nigga, because whatever money you got, nigga, that's what we got because I got shit, you know what I'm like three pads of pants, and I'm about the way these holes every other day, nigga. So, shit, that's what we were doing. We went to colleges, all that shit, you know, that shit was lit.

Like, people in Texas is going to get behind. You know, Texas, it's a different beats, you feel me? That's a big state, too. It's different when it comes to music, bro. Like, they're going to support you forever. I was telling them out there. Like, rappers in Texas don't really go, bro. Like, niggas, niggas be on forever, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah. You can just tour in Texas alone, and you're going to be good. Yeah, I bet you've been performing this song everywhere. Everywhere. I'm going to perform it every time. Hey, man, we get married, say, what are it going to cause? Just do that one for me, man. For sure.

My lady love that song, man. Whatever, none of your pride, man. Man, for show, bro. Everywhere, I mean, everywhere performing me. That's dope. Bro. Did y'all tell your partner and grandma that you all that made a hit at her house? Did she know this?

She'd be telling people at the grocery store. You know they made them? that at mine. No, for real. Nah, she knows. They did. Nah, bro, call like this. For the show.

We were doing everything over there. I said, maybe come with some drink in my cup. Yeah. And he went in there. He went in there. Yeah, and he said it all the same. Every time I'd be leaving, like, bro-ass in there getting in trouble and shit. You know what I'm here, I'm saying?

But y'all, y'all need to turn this. Like, y'all need to turn this down. We're never tripping. You never tripped on it. Like, I always did I do a thing. Smoking and that like that. We're just making music, bro. That's what.

What's up, man. At least they ain't in them damn street. Right. Right. I don't go back there and cut it lies as they want. It's better they do it here. Oh, shit. Come on knocking on the door for a little shit.

God, leave me a little piece of that reef of y'all got in there. I know y'all's smoke. Leave me a piece of that reef. This is your homeboy blowing a shot in my cup. Put a roach in my ass tape. How about that? One of y'all boy come in to blow me a goddamn shotgun all this life. That's funny, bro. That's crazy. That's great. That's big.

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No, I'm going to be real, like, he's just like, that's back to back, though. Like, what I used to do back in the girl, like, I would pull what you name is? I won't record from once. Oh, where? When I go back, and I went back, I had this. And then I stopped. And I went back, and I had my third single, which was called Keep a Trill. I had all of them all those back to back to, you know what I'm saying?

I'm on three different sessions. That's hard. Yeah, yeah. That's a fishing. as fuck too. But, you know, once you get that hit, you got to lock in, hit that studio, man. But you know that shit worked for you. That's your creative process. You got to play. So when this shit, when you write, when you think of a song, do you come over with a concept or do you just, how you put, what's your process?

Man, I go to the computer. I'm going to play a beat. I love the beat up. The mic going to be right here. I'm just going to start. You know what I'm in that shit. And then I put the words on that shit. Yeah. I can't hit the pad or like I can't do that shit you know what I can hear it's like oh this shit take it too now long you know what I believe that music is like it's music like it's called music like it's about feeling the rhythm and melody you know what I'm saying

like all right you know what I mean yeah so with even if you got good words you got to have good feeling behind that shit the feeling comes first you know what I'm saying that the soul come first you feel yeah so I'm going for that every time the melody you know We're getting that game though. No, I know. That's how that... Whatever you're singing on the song could easily be replaced with the instrument.

You know what I'm saying? So you got to look at it like that. A lot of times rappers, always want to just say the cooling balls and all this. You wonder why this shit don't work with it. You know what I'm saying? 35 lines in the ball, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

You got to go with that feeling. You got to learn how to make the feeling. You got to learn how to mix the two. You know what I'm saying? Hey, man, you're talking some good shit. This is a good game right here. But you know what time it is? What time it is?

Time for J-O-N to play me some pimper. We ain't got crack, man. Come on, man. Yeah, you thought we were started. We didn't even, you thought we had started this shit. We ain't even started that shit yet. Yeah, come on, man. You feel me?

It's one of them type situations right there. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it was just like I knew you was coming. And then I'm like, man, we gotta have some real smooth pimp type shit playing, you know,

when it gets it. You feel me? You feel me? Yeah. It's like, it's one of them type things where you just, you play some shit like that. And then you just let that shit play.

And then niggip saw it and they phoned out, like, look, he's looking for his rap right now. Go ahead and reach your bird. You got a verse in there. You got a verse in there, love. I ain't got one, bro. I ain't got one, but I ain't going to lie to. You seem to have me out here on the other day looking stupid.

Now, you're going to do that. Yeah, I know it. I ain't going to do it. Yeah, you need the water, I got you. I don't feel like that move. So, pack off. Yeah, that's a high. Mother fucking pack home.

You need a water, though. I do. There you go. Damn, it one more? You want one? Appreciate it. If ain't there another, no, you grab one. No, it's another, man.

And I just take a goddamn, anything. It's another water in here, man. It's just, it's right? One one, one. And I moved on again. It's good. Thank you, bro. Yeah, bro.

Yeah, bro. Oh, yeah. One more. Appreciate it. No, I don't, I don't do no working, man. I ain't no worker. I don't do no work. Hey, don't work, me.

What is it? What bird is in? Yeah, man. I got to do all that. Nah, right. Let me do it. Let me move this shit. Man, if you don't know how to fix it, just say that.

One day, when his dreads get long, he's going to be like, fuck you nose. Yeah, you're going to be, I know that's all he's waiting on. Yeah. When they get long, he's going to say it. He's letting that shit build, man. Shake him out of his face. Yeah. I fuck with that.

But I'm about to tell the people what they need to hear. And you know what that is? Welcome back to the 85 South Show. Yeah. We're on a hell of a run right now. We're on the hell of a run, because I told you, once we established what we were doing over here at the 85 South Show, we ain't bringing nothing but motherfucking ghetto legends to the session, to all the sessions. Anytime we have a guest, guess what it's going to be?

A ghetto legend. Getto legendary? Ghetto legendary. I'm talking about when you wish upon a star type shit. Like, when you make a hit record at your partner in a grandma house, it don't. get no blacker than that. That's like black history. Nah, for real, no. Like, that's the way Martin Luther King would have wanted that shit to be.

Yeah. That's what they was marching about. The niggas don't even make hits in the studio. It just goes to show you how important family is. Not for real. Come on, man. I'm just saying, if I made me a hit record, guess what I want to make it at? Or at day out.

At my partner. The grandma house. Every time. That's, that's, that even one-ups at Jesus' Auntie House. That's almost on some dungeon and shit. The dungeon, yeah. A grandma house. Your partner, grandma house.

That was real. Obama house, right? The dungeon. The dungeon? I think so. Not real tea. That shit hard. Who did it? Uh-huh.

Yeah. In the kitchen. On the couch. record that shit at potting the grandma house. Okay. In the kitchen, on the couch. I'm recording at my partner in the grandma house. Now, Miss Gladys, she's real nice.

All she says is, son, make sure y'all cut off all the lights. She's in their thaw. I know she's about to go to bed. She's wearing a road. And she'd be walking around like, are y'all cold? Y'all want something to eat? Okay, then.

In there watching Madlock. Ain't nobody going nowhere. She got the padlock. Hold on, Ray. She's on for a superstar, and she old school. Still got the burglar bar. With the plastic on the couch. And she'd be still saying shit like,

y'all ain't finished doing all this. And out. That little girl called her phone and said, y'all ain't got to go nowhere because y'all at home. Yeah. And she'll never be. bitching. She made a whole cake and fried a whole bunch of chickens.

Yeah. That's real. That's great. And I ain't helped on the bill. Yeah. She put the money in her broth and said, thanks, baby. She's his grandma, but she's like my old lady. Hold on a love.

But I ain't hitting nothing. But she'd be looking for it. She was like, I ain't going to tell you because you don't know how your grandma and get down. She'd be like, you know, you can come see me sometime. You can come see her sometimes. That's only what she's been drinking when she started being real and tell you what she'd be thinking. She'd be sneaking drinking gin. I didn't walk in the room one time, but never again.

She closed the door and opened that road book. I said, go on here, baby, and start grabbing on all this stuff. And I was like, no, hold up. Wait. Everybody's still woke, but I might slide back and get a look over. Oh, man. All right, fuck, shut up. Hey, everybody broke. Everybody grow. For all the grandmas, the freaking one.

And get on that lick and get to grabbing you penis. I need away from, Grandma. Yeah, you'd have been approached by our grandma before. It's like it's just me. Or maybe y'all niggas ain't handsome like me. You can't meet him in the grandma capacity. She can't feed them with a grandma comparison. I can't make this up.

What? What is? Damn. That shit crazy. Told you. Did you know the couch? What it said? I got to show you.

You just said that shit. Lo just said that shit for real. What the fuck? Low spoke that shit up. The couch is the couch. It's the couch. Okay, cool. That couch's magical, bro.

They're trying to pay you a whole show price. Crazy shit. For that. And they just want their drinking to cook on me. That's what she said. A win. You just saying that shit. What?

That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. Put a suit on, bro, and do that shit. Br, say my, real talk. No, we're a talk. Lone's going to go through for my net truck. No, you got to say it.

You got to say it. That's wild crazy. What you're trying to get? A.M.G. Oh, they'll get you on there. Okay, cool, because I need one. But they're going to go. Oh, no, I got it.

I just, I need, you know. We're going to think tank it up, man. We're going there at the group. Let's go there. On paper, on broke. Man, they'll give you one of them. On paper, I'm broke. I got to get all that.

They're going to come in. Yeah, they're going to come in. One thing about me, I ain't going to go with an old phone. Don't go on the fold of their shit if you ain't got. Oh, but you thought that was it. I got to tell you who we got in here with us today, man. I was getting to it, and then I got the rapping and shit. shit. We don't know how that shit go, man.

Sad track. Getting sidetracked, man. But this still the 85 South show voted the number one black show amongst black people who grew up watching the Fresh Prince of Bel Air from episode one. You know what it is?

Yeah, how hard. Congratulations. Yeah. Award winning. This show is winning awards all across the country, man. Not only are we winning the NAA-CP awards, we are the number.

one watch podcast in barbershops who the owner owns the shop but still cut in the shop. Not real hard. Yeah, he's the owner, but he'd be there. He's sending no customers

that don't get no coffee. But I mean, it's his barbershop, though, so he's still getting to cut shit. He'd be sitting in his chair like this. You know, LeBron ain't playing tonight. He might get too old nigger coming out a week with everybody. Yeah, that's it. He can do it.

He cut kids have real good. Yeah, that's it He'd be busy When school Be about to start back He cut all the little Six-year-old kid You know how to make them kids

They all got that home They all got the same fame With a part In that bitch Exactly Little man man Yeah But we got a very special

Guess In the trap With us today Real ghetto Legend Making hits All ready Than put his name

Up there With all the greats Man That's how Astronomical His work is Man None other than

Houston's own Kirk O'Bain Let's go Yeah What we do, baby Been knowing this nigga For a long time Man, it's one of the first

On my first season of Wilder now I think you did the first episode I mean that shit I know what was going on Yeah You did that shit That she was live ahead Oh yeah

That's what's up That's crazy I forgot all about that shit You said you've been there That's crazy You've been everywhere You got about that That's what's up

And they show you so much love out there in the whole state of Texas, man. And like you said, that's one of them places where it's like, once you're on out there, you can work for the rest of your life. Yep. So, man. So rappers don't go broke. They don't go broke. I just want to be, say that, so they know.

I think that should be the goal everywhere, man. Like, if we can get it like that, because then it ain't matter about when you came out. It's, when you came out, did you have an impact and we embrace that song. It's going to stay. It's going to stay. It ain't like you get older and be like, ah, nah. Right. Man, I told you that the couch is magical when you first sat down

that they was going to have you performing the song that I'm winning somebody just text. She said, man, we need you to perform the shit that I win. Nah, she said she was on YouTube looking at the video. For some reason, she watched that video, and she was like, somebody had to come and said, you need to perform it and say they win. Hell, yeah. And you just said, that's funny. That wasn't even ago.

I've seen some white people on TikTok playing. shit at a wedding that was rapping into each other. That's hard. That's the stuff you got to sit down and think like, I'm about 15 trying to get it. If you find a motherfucker who want to rap a motherfucking song with you at the wedding. Oh, for sure.

Yeah, that's who you fucking get married to. So have people done, I'm assuming, man, because the song big, I can't think off the top of my head, but I know you're the best sample. And have people, if people. No, they be, like, sometimes... Oh, they do covers or something? They do covers, but ain't nobody, like...

Nah, ain't nobody did that yet. Okay. I'm cool. Okay. You don't want that? I mean, this is going to happen, but, like, you know what I'm saying? But as long as the paper straight... Oh, the paper, I always gonna be straight.

I ain't doing another trip. Like, yeah. Okay. Like, whatever they do with, I ain't tripping. Okay. You know what I'm just being standing. Like, me, I ain't know what I'm gonna stay away from shit, you know? I figure.

Yeah. Why split the money? You said, look at it like a business. Yeah, you create your money. Yeah. You just try to create the stuff that people are going to sample, you know what I'm saying? But I feel like the labels, they got everybody sampling right now. They got them in a blender. Yeah. Hey, bro, what was that moment for you where you felt like, okay, this was not a work paying, no.

This is some, I have exceeded my own expectations at this point, man. That moment that was just surreal to you where it hit you. When I was, I'm gonna start there. The BETT Awards, I was doing, I think me. Yeah, MeKat brought me up there. And we did a record, we had Young Yiddney. And I was on the stage, bro. I'm nervous the whole time.

I'm shining like a motherfucker, though. Yeah. I'm on the stage, and I'm like, it's like Calais, bird, man. And he's like, all these things I grew up looking, listening to. Like, they all in the front row, bro, and they all sang in the song with my words. You know what I'm saying?

With me, that's what's crazy. You know, that was crazy, bro. Like, you got everybody in the back, but you know, the front. That's where the big dog is at, you know what I'm saying? You're seeing everybody, it's like, bro, to see everybody here, like, singing my songs, like, they're fans of me, too, you know what I'm saying? Like, that was a, that was a real, some real woman for me just to see that. Because, you know, when it's like that, you're getting love everywhere.

It's like, you're just moving so fast, you're doing so much shit, you know what I'm saying? But that right there, had to call my mama about that. Then you got the whole hood watching, you got everybody watching, you know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah, yeah. Even dope. Yeah, that was it for me Whole BOTI award That shit had fucked you up

Yeah, yeah If you fucking around to look up Into Roger P. Henson And over there Singing your shit Yeah, what's wrong What's wrong with you, dog You got sighting, you're wild

That's what you saw It wasn't her But it was somebody like That I always wanted to talk to I was sitting behind at the B&T Awards And I ended up getting it Like after that And I always had one of them

And she had got on Twitter And said like Yeah, Kirk up behind me When I had gotten it I started fucking with it after that. Like, you know something. Right, why you say that. Now they're going to go back.

I see why you like the band team boy. Yeah. You were going crazy. Nah, I was going crazy. Nah, I could. I mean, because even, like, Sid was entertaining, he had got up on there. He was like, he was like talking to, like,

people about going to school and all that. He was like, yeah, everybody can't be Kirk O'Bain. I'm like, oh, man. Like, what? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, me? Yeah. Think everybody can't be me, you know what I'm what I'm saying?

All they was together, bro. Oh, this nigga, hell was living. You know what I'm saying? All that shit was together. So Cedricin, see I'm the coldest thing to do it. It was rapping my song. It was just, yeah, all of it was together.

So your new album, Call me KV. Yeah. But you get mentioned in a lot of rap songs, too. You do? That's crazy. Yeah. I don't know. It'd be weird to me because it's like,

and it's cool. I appreciate it, but a lot of people would, like, put like, a lead, be like, legend, legend, legend, like. legend legend like even like the young kids stuff like that and i'd be like do y'all say that to everybody or like what makes it like what makes it like what make me like you know what i'm saying I'd made records like we all make records you know what I'm saying and I also be wanting like because like just onto my humble shit I'm still getting to it you know what I'm saying like

still getting to the paper every day all that you know what I'm saying so like a lot of people from my time it ain't like that for them you know what I'm just blessed and honor to be able to still be able to be rolling you feel when I say legend I think of the shit we gonna play forever. Nah, real talk. Like, if I'm ever at the cook out with them kids' moms, I don't give a fuck if I'm six to six.

And they play, drinking my cup. I'm grabbing about a person. Yeah, me and your mom are fucking tonight. That's crazy to think about it. You got like one of them eyes and one of the records, you know what I'm saying? That's going to make you dance real nasty in front of your grandkids.

Nah, forever. That's crazy, bro. I ain't talking about some memory. That's crazy. She don't get no bigger than that for me, bro. That's what so. Yeah. Biggie to your ward, man.

What year was there? You remember? Hell, nah. Right on, you remember the year? You remember everything but to you. Never going to remember me. Black men don't keep up with time in days months. Man, who know, he's been looking at for however long.

That wasn't supposed to make you remember the year. Nah, fucking year. When you're having a night like that, you can't lose. I'm going to shut your shot at whoever was over there. Oh, bang. What? It's up. She just, I just got on save it.

And I'm going to do another song after, come on, man. She doesn't even know I'm at the end too. I'm coming back out. You think I'm not going back. Oh, she doesn't know. I got back to back hits. I got to do the other one with her. Yeah.

Yeah. You're coming back out. You're not for real. Why I got time on. You're gonna be here. You ain't gonna be here. I might not be coming back. Because after we can perform the other shit,

I'm just gonna stay back there with my friends and shit. Yeah, for real. You want to come back here, so you need to act like you want to go when I go. We'll have a lot of time to discuss this. That's crazy, Doc. Been there. That's that. Pull you one.

D1. Yeah. Well, congratulations, man. Congratulations, man. We need them type of moments, man. Nah, for sure. That's the shit that make life enjoyable. The highlights.

That's why we had to make this show, man. Nah, for sure, man. Yeah. It's one of them won. This is the one. Yeah, for real. Man, that Houston is different, bro. I don't know if everybody's been to Houston, but it's...

I love Houston. That motherfucker different, bro. I love Houston. It's even different for us, though, now. It's like, you go out, you meet. Anybody you meet, they're not going to be from Houston. None of the girls ain't from Houston A lot of people like to visit

Houston. They ain't from Houston no more They're moving there Oh yeah, yeah They're moving there, bro At an alarming race Like, bro, you never gonna go out and see the same girls twice

Like, like back Like you're gonna see different people Every time, bro It's crazy Where all the Houston girls go? That's kind of like What happened They did, but it's like

You know that level Man, Houston like Instagram in real life It is. You know what I'm saying? Shit you can't imagine walking them streets It's like, and it's like, in hours of nonstop,

every single day is going down every day from six to six. Godin, you know what I'm saying? It's going out. Every day, it don't stop. Damn. They're real. I have fun when I go. I enjoy it.

I mean, that's a good culture. Nah, it's up. You used to need something to leave in. That motherfucker would be hard to leave, bro. It's like, you make. They need my help. That's what the thing can be like, they need me now. No, for real.

I always tell my father, like, but I wonder what it feel like. To live somewhere else? To live somewhere else and come to Houston, bro. Well, we live in Atlanta. We got it real good here. You know what I'm knowing. Yeah, but coming from somewhere where you might not have the, the amount. It's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying. You know how many people leave Houston? It's surreal. It's sad until they get back. But Houston different, bro, for real. It's just that we don't got to see. I got the infrastructure. for the entertainment, bro.

We don't got that, you know what I'm saying? Y'all still got the parties, we got the clubs. Crazy-ed laws down, man, shit. We ain't got the infrastructure that y'all got out here to push the culture, you know what I'm saying, and really take it. Yeah, y'all got the space, though. Yeah, we got the space. You can drive an hour and still be in that one.

I didn't know this shit. Yeah, got the space. I ain't give, oh, that's too much stuff. Come on, die. Yeah, we can't get political. You know y'all be up in there. Yeah. That's all I take.

Mm-hmm Got to get some going We're working on it though No for real I fucks with it I think it's a great place to visit Be careful and respectful And you know

Yeah That's a wild place Make sure you go outside And get some Vizene Make sure your eyes is ready To see the things That Houston has to offer Just walking around

That's great Yeah absolutely Very one of them outside-type places Yeah, I'm sure You should get right, bro Yeah It's a very party atmosphere I don't know

Everywhere I got a patio Everywhere party You ain't gonna miss that That ain't gonna miss you You ever be riding somewhere in Houston And then you see some shit that look like It's gonna be more fun than where you was going All the time

All right, fuck this But you gotta stick with your itinerary You got to stick me what you're doing in there. You got to stick to it. You got to stick to it. One of the best day parties I ever been to in my life was at Houston. Where you were there? I don't even remember the place that it was. We got there early.

I took my dad. Oh, yeah. But then that shit had got too wild. I was like, we got to get him out of here. Yeah. Whatever. Because it's like, it was, wherever the place was, it was like inside, the outside. And then they had a fucking pool.

And I'm like, this is black people's shit. Ain't nobody getting in the pool. And I was right at first. And then, like, a whole other group of bad bitches showed up and started getting in the pool. And I was like, he ain't going to bear to stand this. I got to get him to fuck out of him, man. But they get him to God.

Nah, he ain't going to be in. He said, son. I was like, hold on. My pops in there, like, sir, you see this shit? They're getting in the pool, man. I'm like, man, hey, stop, bro. You're not getting in the fucking pool. Because he would take that shit.

That nigga would have jumped in there with draws on, man. I know he would have, I know he would have, bro. I know my pop, he would have did that shit. He would have jumped in the drawers first. Yeah, man. Hell nothing. That's crazy like that. That's funny as it.

Yeah, but we had a ball out there. That's funny. To a pool party. Go to do that shit. That's crazy they got in the pool. They did. But it was like, it wasn't, I guess they had the shit timed out or whatever. Because it was like it was some fine women there already.

They had like pool shit on, but then none of them getting in the pool. Yeah, no, it's going to be like that. Then they had some motor that showed up, and they were like some freaky-ass-haired hood divers or some shit. Hood divers. Because they was all about being in the water and shit. Not the pool party that went viral. And then this was a couple years ago. Yo, you weren't at that one?

had one that went he knows one day in Houston that they went they were doing every got to them bang in there they was wild in the pool at the pool party no they was outside there wasn't nobody in the pool they was outside oh they was acting a goddamn fool out there all the shit you ever heard in the rap song they were doing it this year wow they're freaking they fuck yeah at the pool party yeah see y'all got freaking pool party like that can any it went it went to me that It wasn't supposed to be. It just went there.

So this shit don't happen often then. It would. Oh, it's going to happen, but it's like the fact that it was documented. Yeah, don't go down there and pull your dick so when you get in the door. Hey, hey! I got it how that shit was on that video. Why are you playing? This person, don't go in there like this.

Can't even want my dick about it. Don't even think we'll fuck your ass. Did you make it out to Bun B-Rodeo? Nah, I ain't make it to Bunn. I think I had to burn. show that day. But I made it to I had $0.50. I went to his shit. That shit was loud too bad. I ain't making the bun and shit.

Yeah. Yeah. Undercrime. 50 cent, they just bought some spots out of the Houston. He didn't have all the kind of shit. He got a studio. He got a lounge and at the Rockies Stadium or all that. He's doing his thing. Oh, he fucked with Houston like that. That's what I said. The infrastructure

coming. You know what I'm saying? It's going to get that. He's going to shoot this shit down. He's all. He's doing some. He's doing some film company and shit out there. Something like that. He got some shit with the Rockets and all that. So, you know, you start seeing more people get more business things out there on the rap side than you know it's coming.

Even like a lot of stuff that Bunn doing, you know what I'm saying? Like with Trilberg with the Rodey, all that, you know, like, okay. That shit, this shit coming, you know what I'm saying. Man, that shit always be funny when rappers pivot because they be having passion for shit you never knew. No, we shall. Passion, folks. What you're doing? Man, well, you know, I just been doing these birthday cakes, man.

Who knew all these rappers was cooking like this? No, they be cooking like a bullfucking. Hey, diggas really be cooking. Not damn, treat they to cook everything. I know, look, little Kiki's cooking, Kiki and Pokey was cooking against each other on live. The Kiki and Poky recipe's big pokey, they was cooking on live. They would be cooking having a little cookoffs on live or something like that. That's crazy.

But that's cool. That's dope, bro. He's 40. No, kind of shit. He's 40. Yeah, go in the school. Big boy cooked like, fuck, no. Yeah, big boy would be having a big ass lot of themselves.

Man, big boy is a person on them dogs. And he got owls. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? He didn't have animals, right. That's crazy. He got dogs like way back then. He got the dogs now, but he brought the child back.

He got the dog now, but he brought the child back. The old meat dad dog back in the day. The little fluffy went. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He used to fight everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He had one of them, for sure.

And there was, I think, Bear, that's what they did. Yeah, he got childs, like, puppies in different colors. You know, he's been in that dog gang on the ground. No, I don't, I got too many people I love around me. They tongue was black. Black, okay. Yeah, they're black, they all black. Yeah, they call them Bear.

That'd be the name, one of the motherfuckers. I just said I don't know the dog named Bell. That's the name for the dog. It was Black. And they were male. Had the black tongue and everything. They were the bear or whatever black-ass name people were. King, and the middle of this a woman's shit, like, yeah.

Or some shit, like, yeah. That's a big, dad, dog, boy. Get bit by a fluffy dog. Y'all brought that up. I'm talking about Big Boy. Oh, yeah. Oh, but he got the, what do you call the two? The best dogs I ever had was much.

Just dogs with two random parents. The trailer's from a movie. Well, you're a motherfucker's, like, what kind of dog is that? You'd be like, I don't know, just a dog. Like can't just be a dog, huh? Just a dog. That's the one that lasts the longer. Yeah, them the dogs that'd be the most resilient.

Hey, they'll be outside there. Hey, that'd be raining outside there. You don't even know the dollars to it. They're resilient as for. Man, we had a dog like that, they got hit by a car, made there for 20 minutes and got up. Ah, nah, can't fuck this up. I got a good situation. I'm good.

I'm good. But lay down in the garage, but I ain't dead. They're gonna go, they go through some shit. Yeah. They'll lose a hand in everything. You have about a lot. You don't even know them bitch will get pregnant. You just outside chill it one day and just,

yeah, them teetis don't drop. She's pretty pretty. She's out of that. Bidgett be gone for a week and come back. Right. Pupp is, she's been to have some puff. Yeah. I ain't ever have no goddamn dog.

You never had a dog? Never had a dog, bro. My dad didn't allow pets. You know, you know how my dad is. Yeah. This nigga girl was mean as dead. Oh, military. No kind of pet hunts.

Nothing. Military style. He couldn't have a rap. He couldn't have a fish or nothing. He was gonna settle for something, too, man. Let me get a, can I get a goldfish? No. My first grade teacher gave me a turtle.

He made me take a big man. No, I didn't know. Just want to go out on my mama, bring him back. Yeah. You don't get that fucking turtle at it? Yeah, cry like I'm gonna. I'm gonna have some shit in my house

keeping up shit and not paying no got turrets. Like a mom. Where you got me? Hey, when I said, don't nobody in my house, lay around and don't do shit. Hey, he ain't moving fast enough for me, son. I said clean up your cage. This niggas started moving slow.

My dad had one of them, bro. It wasn't no pet. Damn. He had no dogs. He had no pet. It wasn't on none of that. We couldn't do none of that shit, bro. He changed when my little brother came and he started letting my little brother like join recreation and shit like that.

That's why I don't really fuck with sports and shit like that. Like my little brother came, he let him do it. But when I'm, you know what I'm growing up, you can't, oh, he ain't joined the shit like that. I remember one time. Don't hear, man, get this out of your cheek. Go on here, man. Hell, hell, no. Yeah, no.

I remember one time I had my dad, can I join Boy Scout, he liked to kick my hand. Damn. Because I was like, yeah, damn, let me join it so. Damn. I had my dad, can I join Boy Scout. He looked at me from the fucking ground to the sky. Turn their head back and start looking at Andy Griffith and said,

Just get the fuck on away from him. Come, you know, this boy has me. Fucked him. Hey, man, that's fucked up, though. So I just, you know. It wasn't nothing, bro. You know, I can't tell you why he ain't want me to fuck with boy scouts on camera. But, you know, he went fucking.

He was right. Yeah, that boy scouts shit fucked up. Yeah, he didn't want me fuck over it. Yeah, you might not have knew. You thought it was just camping. You're kidding. Man, they're going to camp, then. So you know shit.

They get badges. My dad is a good. Boy, if you don't get the fuck away from that shit. My name ain't a booed and shit, boy. He knew some. It doesn't matter what you're afraid to a black parent. They're going to flip this shit back on your head. Can I be a boy scouts?

Boy, I'm going to scout your ass. You're going to get a skunk of a guy. You want to scout boys. That's what you're going to do. You like the scout boy. You get it? Boy, my dad is bullshit. Flip it.

That's crazy. Hell yeah. That nigga that old boy. And he don't remember none of this shit now. Yeah, he do. Yeah, he did. He made, like he don't. He might not.

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I've been waiting. I've been warned to get to this motherfire. I told you, little bro, let bro put me on, goddamn. Yeah. I've been won. We had came up here. We had did poor mines and shit. That's why I ran the bro.

Lock this shit in. I had to wait for y'all schedule, so I had to wait like three months to get up in here. Oh, man, we've been on tour and some of shit. I already know. I already know. Talking good shit all across the country. Once they gave me that day, this is locked. I'm going to be here for sure.

That's what I came out here for. Just the fuck with you child. How was your experience on poor men? Yeah. Well, you know, Lex, that's my homie, so, you know what I'm saying? All this stuff I'm talking about, she witnessed all that. Like, she was in college, them colleges that, you know what I'm saying, when I first started and all that. So it's crazy.

I'd be telling her, like, man, just to see you do that, bro, that shit is inspirational, you know what I'm saying? Like, taking it to a whole other level, bro. So that shit was cool to tell both of them 100. That was cool. They just had a lot of the dirt on the thing and shit, though. Oh, that shit. Oh, no, man. Yeah, she gonna get that.

She had you on that confessing this shit. Ah. She know you. Yeah, she know me. Uh-uh. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, no. I fought, them little girls in the comments was mad and said, ooh, he acting nasty to his leg. Oh, shit y'all ass up, man. That's my partner, man. You know how they be. Oh, my God. What?

We was going on there. Yeah, no, for sure. So, yeah, nah, because she had, one time I had this record, and I had never played the song for nobody. I knew a bowling party, and I played the song, and Lex knew all the words. I was like, how do you know all the words? But she was cool with somebody that I knew, and I was trying to get out of her, like, who had leaked my song, gave it to him when she knew the words, you know what I'm saying? And so she was telling that whole story, like, I got mad, I kicked out, and all that type of shit. That's she was saying.

I don't remember the kicking out for it, but I do remember her knowing the words in my song before the whole came out. You were on their liquor. You didn't know how to fucking get that song. Straight up. No, no, no, nobody says shit. No, she was like, you wouldn't get off with me.

I was like, yeah, I'm sorry, man. It's sensitive, man. Somebody pill talking around this motherfucker. And I don't want to know who it is. The guy ain't just play it, boy. He gave it to her. She just know the words. Like, he just gave it to her.

That means she's playing it. Yeah. Like, it's in rotation. He just gave it to her, sent it to her. it on whatever. You know if a nigger do that. Oh, man.

I got to get it. He put me on the platter. Like, he's just like, put, bro. I got to get his ass out of here for her. She wasn't telling me, who, though? I'm going to get some pussy with this nigger song. Yeah. That song, that song was done at Grandma's House.

Yeah. That one, too, another. You was in your bag. Another. Before and after drinking my coffee. This is after. It's another song called Rained Down. I did.

Oh, okay. I had, yeah. Well, he was in your bag. That was in your bag. Whenever you're at a house. Real talk, yeah. That'd be crazy, huh, right? Especially after this year.

That girl, do you go just chill back down for a couple of days? Nah, real talk. That's what the energy is. How many did you record, though? At grandma? Yeah. A lot.

Like, that way that you put out? Like, every day there at that time. Oh, for real time. Yeah. Yeah, it was strong. Yeah, you either got to go back over there or fucking set your shit up just like you had. Like, Grandma House.

You might need to start sitting back on the bed. Nah, for real. I believe in energy, you just go back over there and just, ugh. Nah, for real, though. Hey, grow my eyes. Hell yeah. Tell her fras some more that you got to chicken. Look at it.

I knew here if I started. Right. The same cups. The same cups over there. It's got my boy power on, man. It don't change. Same glasses. The same little Charlie Brown cup and shit.

That same bed spread, you were sitting on it. Same bed. We're busting out. We're busting out a piece in that, man. You might have fucked around. left some shit over there. The same computer set up, bro, I still got everything.

Nah, for real, though. Hey, Grandma, hi. Yeah, yeah. We all need a grandma's house, bro. I hope this shit turned into that. Nah, it's the vision. Ain't no grandma, but it got that. No, somebody, well, I'm going to get somebody

grandma to come in here and bless you. Where did you smoke at? Yeah, this is what this is. Now they will, brother. Now they. My homeboy had one. Like, we can just burn that motherfucker down. I used to feel bad.

We're going to get somebody a grandmother to come in here and bless it, though. If you're a grandma and you're around in the area and you're going to come through and make the spot feel like home, get at me. We're going to have us a grandmong contest. We're going to adopt us two or three grandmas for the whole 85 style production

because I feel like... You're real with that grandma. Yeah, we at that age where we just... We don't lost most of our grandmas, and we're ready that we don't feel like we should have to continue life without a grandma if there are perfectly good grandmas out here. No, I'm a grandma, boy. Me too.

I love my grandma. My grandma's gone. My grandma is gone. My grandma are gone too, so I feel when you said that, I feel that. Yeah, just get a new one. Hey, the combined the top of grandma, bro. Come on. It's a place in Houston.

If you're trying to push this, you're going to run into problems, going to tell me you. No, I'm not. Somebody going to tell you, hey, bro, take my grandma back. Now, look, you're owning someone that grandma outside. It's a place in Houston called a door. You ever heard of a door? No. It's lit, like super league.

Inside, outside, crazy. That's a good fella's shit, man. So they call it Grandma's house, though, like this. And they be playing spades in there and everything, bro. Domino's and everything, and that, motherfucker. That's hard. Granny's house, something like that. It's a vibe, though.

So when you were to say that, you know what I'm saying? Like that, that name, bro, you know, and bring that things. It's comfortable. Yeah, I'm pushing the agenda. He knows. I've been saying it. And I feel like at this point, if I'm adopted a grandma, I can have as men grandmas as I want to.

So that way, I will never not have one. No, you need that love, though, man. In like 15 different states. Yeah. Yeah. I need that love for sure. You know, grow in the trouble. I want one of them grandma with the tennis like, look, mom.

I want one of my grandmas and had the tennis like, like, yeah, like big mama had them tennis on that suit. I want a grandma that could play piano and shit. It's 12 in the morning at night and you got these six old ladies out fall to sleep on each other

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It ain't glitter. It's shimmery. It's fine. Fine tobacco. Fine tobacco. Fine tobacco. Okay. Shout out of the bagwood.

I left me. Have y'all been seeing all the crazy shit happening in the world since the eclipse? No, it happened. Oh, okay. The clues was just yesterday, right? I know. What did you saw happen? Did you look up at it?

I didn't even see it. I didn't know you had to have... It didn't look at it? No, it was just dark in my area, so I figured that was enough eclipse for me. I ain't gonna look up there and fuck my eyes. I felt like the sun was squintinting at me. quitting at me. Yeah.

What was that supposed to be, the sun and the moon? The moon, get in front of the sun. Oh, and, oh, okay. But you can only see it in certain places in totality. I don't believe that either. I don't believe that. I don't believe the shit really happened. That was their way of trying to convince us that the moon and the sun

ain't the same shit. The moon ain't the sun? I don't know. I don't think it is. When you look up at the sun, that bitch be bright. Huh? When you look up at the sun,

don't that bitch be bright? Then when you look up at the moon, don't that shit be bright too? But how come they're going to be out at the same time sometimes? You ain't never seen that? You never seen the moon out when the sun out? I don't know.

I have. I don't know. Was it really that, or was it like a reflection of some shit? It could have been that the sun was turning around. maybe the sun is the moon the moon just the sun on the other side

I'm talking about that moon is man talking about when I get to ask a hypothetical questions and shit The moon is the sun's ass Yeah I'm just saying Maybe not his ass

But I'm tired of y'all, nigga Good night It could be That makes more sense than it not being that I don't know, man I don't know They said the moon made out of something But it ain't rocks

They say that bitch of ring If you hit it hard enough The sun, the moon will? And they say it's got a little structure or something Little structures? Yeah, right degree angles Anytime you've got right degree angles That don't happen at ain't in nature

Oh, somebody did it 90 degrees Oh Maybe it is the sun Can't nobody get close to the sun, though. They're safe. Ain't nobody got closer to the one? On that side.

I believe that, though, because the sun be hot from wherever the fuck it's at. Even if it's just stays in the temperature right here, when it's the summer, even if it just stays at 99 or whatever the point, I don't, I'm not getting on that, bro. So let me ask you this, can it be hot in the sun and not be out? If the sun not out, can it, like, on a summer day? And the sun not out. If it was about the rain, it's humid. Houston?

Yeah. Summertime, humidity. Sometimes the sun ain't out and it's still hot. Humid. It's not hot. Stinky than the mother. And Houston isn't stinky in the motherfucketer at nighttime. It's hot at night.

It's humid as close. Yeah, sometimes. It's hot than a bitch. Don't do that. But it was hot because of the sun. Are you saying the moon hot now? Oh, shit. He didn't get got us with that shit.

Oh, man. You didn't see how you make sense, you don't have to say shit? No. Hot now, okay. All right. Who's to say that it's night? Because we did just establish that the sun being out, ain't got shit to do with the touch.

So the moon just lukewarm sun is what you're saying. But you can feel that sun heat is what I'm saying. I said I don't want to touch it. You can feel heat even when the sun's not out. I'm talking about when the sun is on you. You know, that's why shade is different. Shade is different, my name. I ain't talking about shade, my nigga.

Because if it directly hits you, you're going to feel it different. So you have to put on sunscreen. You don't put on moon screen. Or do you? Very good at, you go. So where you get it at? Right.

Right. Where you get it? Maybe the people who make that shit already know that the moon is the sunburn. Exactly. It's out of getting it. It's out of gather. This is a motherfuck of stupid.

Why I got to be stupid? Brin. No. That shit crazy. Now you think about the shit, see. You don't even want to say it. I'll be thinking, sir, like, you don't know that. Why not of that shit, man?

That shit. I'm sorry. Sometimes I'd just like to just ask questions to see if you can really step or anything. Maybe that shit is the same, though. It could just be the other side. You don't never have no theories about shit like this? They just flipped them around. Right.

Because just like you said, it can be hot at night, even when the sun. So what happened with the eclips, though? You think you got to answer? Maybe that's just the process of the shit actually turning around. Oh, shit. Man, hell, I said I was talking about. Okay.

So the best we can do is that... Oh, so you said that was a back? So it's just... And so at some point, the sun and the moon is doing... How that shit happened? But they end up at the same place every day, every night. All right, so you're telling me that only one day out of the year. Out of all these years.

They just magically cross across each other. Out of all these years. I bet. Yeah, thank you. Like, we'll make them cross paths now. Yeah, they just cross paths every so often. And they do the same. They take the same route every day.

Exactly. But they're going to be tenets up on these hours. I know. Fuck it. They didn't smoke what I smoked, though. So they don't understand how I'm understanding. I'm almost understanding. What are you saying because I hear you?

I'm not even saying that I'm right. I'm just saying what if that is a possibility. That's what I'm saying. How are they doing the same thing every day and they're running into each other and I'm running to you now? Because of what? So the sun come up on this side, the moon come up on this side? No, it don't. It's like they're going in opposite directions.

You look up and see the sun all fucking day. Then you look up at night and the fucking moon is all right. Whatever. Why is the moon so bright then? She's... He asked me... I have. But she'd been itching to ask you this.

I have. But we all have. And uh-oh. And Clay did walk back in. What? She answered the same question you did. Has he not seen the moon and the sun at the same time? Yeah.

See? The crazy part is I don't even recall if I have or not. I'm privileged. I'm sure that I have. that I have. I want, yeah. You don't even be looking at the moon for you to know all that shit about it. That's what I'm talking about.

I need crashing the clouds, man. Clouds get on me off. All right, well, let me ask you this then. Is moonlight and sunlight the same shit? No. Yeah, because the sun reflecting off the moon is what they tell you. What?

He's going to tell you if the sun's age. They said it's the same way. No, no, no, no. No. On the other side of the moon. You see this? The sun lights the day. The night lights the night.

Nothing does what they do say. Like it does not light up the night. Like, you can see it, but it doesn't make the night bright, like the sun makes the day bright. How's the sun reflecting out the morning, create moonlight, though? What the sun is? I don't know what they say.

What that whole dark way can reflect anything from if it's gone. Maybe if I hit this motherfucker again, I'll be able to answer that. Yeah. Hey, man, your people are here, fuck good, bro. That nigga I always fuck this. He wanted to come. I said, come on. Hit the Eddie.

He looked like he wearing a disguise. I ain't gonna lie, I've been wanting to tell you to look up over there. He's like all the good drugs cars. Like, they had dreads go together. No, Jim Carrey. He'd put them off at the same time. Fun with Dick and Jane when they went to rob the bank. They had the disguise on.

Oh my shit. That niggis' muck up until a goddain. Hey, you fake on the phone, man. God. The neck was fucking over there. He didn't lean it like he didn't shot hair with it. Hey, bump on the palm. Now, they find Critsoke in dead prison.

Oh. And they just, he motherfuckers over there. They both grab their balls, bro. How the fuck they heard that shit and both grab their phones, bro. That's the sun and the moon. Oh, shit. I was texting, boy. Da.

I was thinking about what I was writing. Da, what the fuck, bro. Yeah, we're still up here, man. Hey. Hello. Yeah, yeah, they ain't asked a niggin' nothing about Star Ships and Rocky. Da, what the fuck? Oh, shit, that shit was funny.

That shit stayed in the car, man. Fuck this shit. Oh, shit. Daug. The nigg said that thing, like, got disguise on them. And both of them niggins are they looked up. Oh, shit. You get back on Facebook.

Oh, shit. Die. Man. What we look over there? Slump. Bro. Brother what are down there? What is they to ask you that all right?

And you were the blue? Oh, shit. Nick loose. That nigga had a neck like a new boy baby. I'll let me fix that baby, Nick. Oh, shit. Nah. Them niggas over there, out of there.

I'm telling you. But I had been seen y'all, been by looking these d'nig. Bro. Your friends, man. But this ain't in a workhouse. Shack on your friend still ain't forget to head up. Stop him in, goddamn. He's still in his head up.

Stop him over there, man. He's like when they go. Oh, shit. Don't. Oh. Oh, I'm talking about. Job. Bro.

I'm talking about it. That nigga looks like in this guy. That niggas. Boy, they motherfuck was fucked up over there. I'm kidding. You gotta be, you got to be high. That nigga heard you, though. That's a great thing.

They heard you. The energy. The both of the niggas got on their phones. How do you be aware and knock the fuck out at the same time? That they say, shit. They ain't talking about me. That might be your cousin right there. That's your cousin right there.

That's your cousin. That's your cousin. Man, what's shot, dog? They need got to be your cousin. Why, he got to be my cousin? There ain't no way you're just a little nigga be working for you who have socks and sounds and sounds like to work.

And they got to be family. Yeah, it's got to be family. Nah. Don't, don't do your people like that. That's my own boy. Nah, nah, nah, no. Don't bring them all the way to Georgia and they act like you don't know him.

Nah, they're from the A, man. My nigga's from Lemberton. They're from Lemberman. Don't try to do this shit. You let's try to do that shit. They're from Lellah, my nigga's on A. That nigga for Houston, man, shut up. Nah, man, my Easton nigga right there.

He's still coming to the 8th. Land over there, I put it all together. Still coming to the 8th wedding next week. Yeah, I ain't crazy. Like, cool, where the Sanders. With the sannie head. Man, fuck that. I got some white hoes meeting up with that after this.

Why you said? The Houston ain't big this in here. Man, if you left Sanders, you like white winners. He's all in the government. They're going to go in the government. And a nigga where sandals prefers white women

Is it because of it's like Black women ain't going to let you wear no fucking sandals my nigga you're just not wearing sandals

Wait first of all Why did you just comfortable You're too comfortable You're too comfortable You're scared You're scared I was being this comfortable

Black women don't want a nigga That's comfortable way you outside With sandals Lung a thing You don't even wear sandals in the yard.

You can't stand no business wearing no fucking sandals, my name. You can't? Huh? They allow you to wear them on vacation? Absolutely. Bro. Only once you were at a grandfather's age, you have to have grandchildren to wear sandals.

Yeah, you'd be an uncle, barbecue and shit, they'd be putting them sandwiches on. You know, got kids? I don't get, I got seven kids, man. But he ain't telling you about the other nine that he stopped fucking with. That, what's wrong with you, dad? Because you know uncles be having three, four families, man.

They have a set of kids now to talk to. Well, maybe not your uncle. Yeah, my daddy do that shit. For real? Yeah, man. That's a bunch of y'all? Yeah, yeah. Well, that's good.

You know? Yeah, I'm not. My daddy got, like, that nigga, that nigga, act like he got, like, sell him. a nigga about a guy 10 or something like that. Oh, he, he's playing. He say seven, but probably 10. Yeah.

Yeah. When we were kids, he always just pop up, we just always have a new brother and sister. So it's a seven and three-posses? He'd be knowing the whole time. He ain't going to tell the truth. What if he see this shit? They'd be like, why the fuck you go on that 10? He ain't going to say nothing.

He ain't going to say nothing. He's that type of nigger. He's a wild nigga. He ain't going to be talking shit in the comments. They're talking about me. They're talking about me. Actually, motherfucker. I got 15. He's going to be like this part right here. That's what they're talking.

They're talking about me, right here. This is my part. They're talking about me. My son bring me up every time he do an interview. Type shit. He loved his daddy. I love all my kids. I take care about it. Yeah, ain't shit.

Look at it. I'm going to blow up with somebody. Now, son, why would you go on there and tell them folks I got that many kids? Man, that niggina, no. That nigg got a lot of kids. How did the family, since you got a lot of brothers and sisters, man, how did they respond to the success and shit like that? Ah, they'd be showing love. You know.

So I ain't never had, one thing I could say about my family, I ain't never had no family proud of somebody like, even like asking for shit, they don't know, they ain't never really asking a nigga for nothing and other than that when they could have, you know what I'm saying? Hip-out and when I can and hear and that and all that, but like, they ain't never just being like on a nigga about no money and nothing like that. Even people that didn't have, you know what I'm saying, they still, they just, make sure you come to the parties and when you can and family unions and stuff like that come to the get-togethers at the highest and shit like that.

Yeah. It's always been like that. Good shit, man. You gotta have that support system. Yeah. Yeah. I got too many brothers and sisters, though. Like, my stepdad, he raised me, too.

That nigga got like 20. He do? Hell yeah. So you put all the niggins together. So, hold, your stepdad got like 20 kids? For real. And then your real dad got like 10? Yeah.

Oh, man. Hell. I ain't lying. You better be glad they can start. That's a lot. So I be looking. Every time you be talking to chase, he'd be like, this is my brother.

This is my brother. They'd be like, man, how many fucking brothers you got? Hey, dang, everybody in my brother, though. You know all 20 of his? Nah, I stopped. I stopped, like, these niggas, they, like, were 22, 23, 24, somewhere around there? They were babies when I stopped. I was like, no, I can't keep up.

There's too many, bro. Niggas just be coming up. I'd be having a little niggie be deem me. Hey, you're my brother. Like, I mean, shit. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy, man. It's not for me.

It's probably like pussy that much to make 20 people. Why you just keep doing that shit? 20 fucking people. Ain't no way. I don't like people that wish to make 20 of the money. There's no fucking way. Because at some point, you just be like, man, it feels like every time I get some pussy.

I feel like them niggins back in the day, bro. Them niggins ain't killed. I'm all right. I feel like them niggins ain't killed back. Them nons ain't killed, dog. I'm telling you, pussy, it ain't to be better. It ain't even no pussy out here that you were born. 20 kids, it was a goal in that shit somewhere.

Nah, bro. You know what, I'm gonna see what I can do. Something wrong, yo, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back in the gathering, boys, they can kill, man. But niggas just fucking. Well, they made some cold niggas. Nah, for sure. We came out of that.

Yeah. Not 20. That whole shit. 20. I'm not, that was rape. That was our grandma in them from the 20 kids era. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Hell no. Nah, bro. Yeah, I broke out of my son, bro. Yeah, old women back then. They had 12, 13 kids, and still have. two, three miscarriage. Like, they were gonna, they didn't get him a fuck, they. You're having to, as a woman, it's crazy.

Yeah, they was eating real food, too, though. So they probably made you fucking different. Yeah, they raised, they meat. They grew their goddamn vegetable. Yeah, that probably made you fucking little different. Something was different. You got a damn right. Yeah.

Crazy. But these niggas is leaving it in. That's crazy. Say what? They was just, they ain't the fucking part. It's the part of, like. Like, creating a person that you wildly. Right.

And then the way that they did the shit, there'd be like 20 kids in a three-bedroom house. Like, how y'all do that? Tchoo-it-you-know-granddad. Me and my sister, me and my sister, we're the same motherfucking age. We got different mothers. Now, I mean, my brother.

Now, how many my brother is? We're two weeks apart. Damn. Yeah, yeah. We used to tell them we were twins to keep them out of business in school. Y'all damn there was. Yeah, they call it,

where they got ghetto twins and shit? Yeah, y'all definitely ghetto twins. He October 14th on November 8. Nah, that shit, they're cruel. Those niggas, how are you hiding that shit? Went on social media, though. That shit back then, you can get rid of some shit. But you know, the old day, your granddad wasn't going to put no rub on you.

Shit. And tell you a girl my ass up, both of them lay down and get up and do the same shit tomorrow. Hey, man, there's a lot of dope music coming out of Texas these days, man. No, for sure, hell, hell, yeah. Man, you're catching up on any other? I love it. I love it. Fuck with all living, man.

You know, OT. I was just talking to them about that Mexican OT going crazy out there. Yeah. I fuck with him. Like, D. Baby, baby. I'm two of my favorites, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. A lot of people, man.

He looked Germany out there. It's a bunch. Big X. Big X. Big X. Big X going crazy. Yeah, you got. It's so many things.

T's O. T.' Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? He's going crazy right now. Man. He's so dope, bro. Yeah. He's from New York?

He's from Port Arthur, I think. Okay. Port Arthur. You want his Beaumman. Oh, he's a bo-man. He's a bo-man. I think, don't give me the quote of you, bro. But yeah, man, everybody out there doing that thing.

Yeah, I've been fucking with him since his shit came out in the pandemic, man. Way back. I like everywhere. Like, so shit. Don't be no buster, that was my shit. Bro, it's dope, bro. That's so funny as fuck. And he kept doing this shit like the same way every time.

Yeah. Bro, cold. Bro, super nice. Don Tolla, we used you too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? So it's a lot of music. A lot of, and the whole state taking over with the music and shit like that.

It's a lot, a lot of music. Yeah. Shit, even the ladies, man. It's mainly Houston, right? Yeah, ladies taking over here at times. He said, who? It's mainly just Houston and that got the, I know, this is all the, I mean, like,

majority in Houston? No, they're different places. But it's like Texas, like big X in Dallas, you know what I'm saying? Well, it's Texas, though. Hell yeah. Man, they've got a lot of artists coming. Fucking Go Yeo, Jek, got out of jail and shit like that. He got a big following out there.

He crazed your own world out there, bro. Yeah, literally, bro. Houston is just... It's going to take you where you need to go. And it make you want to get some money. Like, the feeling as soon as you get that, like, man, you can't be broken. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you got to hurry up.

They got it. They got it. You're going to get swatter up. So you better to get what you can get or get the fuck out of room. You're going to have a regular, regular news out there living, like all better than rappers, you know what I'm saying? Like, niggas having paper for sure. Yeah, I like that thing.

Women having that paper. Yeah, I like that shit. That shit is fun. Women boutsing up, having businesses and all that kind of stuff out there, bro. Turning up, blowing up, bro. You gotta understand, like, it was a point of time when Houston had, we had all of, like, the big-name strippers.

You know what I'm saying? Like, you know what I was, it was, like, that was all we had, though. You know what I'm saying? And then a couple rappers come through mentioning and doing that and that. And then from there, bro, the whole shit switch, you feel me. A couple of Houston, land of Vegas is later. It's up.

It's up, though. It's up, bro. Good show. What's next for you, bro? What's you see for your career next? Maintain and working, bro. Like, I say, that, that, that, uh, that program I gave you with the streaming, that's what I do. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm, like, so I'm coding, bro. Like, I'm a straight, bro. I'm always going to do, like, I ain't got to be, I ain't got to be doing the big and stuff now. I'm cooling my shoes, bro, you know what? I can, I can go to Target and go performing for 5,000 people, you know what I'm saying? I can do both, you know what I'm saying? So I maintain my piece and who I want to be, you know what I'm calling, whatever I want to do it. Any day of the week I can do it.

And shit, I take care of my people, I'm straight, you know what I'm saying? Freedom. Ain't nobody in my pockets, ain't nobody in my business, you know what I said. I do all my own work, bro. I book my own motherfucker shows. I do my own contracts, you know what I do all that shit. So it's all money in for real. That's just, ain't no next thing.

It's just to keep maintaining and keep rolling and just get what I got to my little brothers and them and keep going from there. This game, bring it, right of book. Real, bro. Got this shit all figured out? Nah, for sure. I ain't got it all figured out.

We've learned it every day, you know what I'm saying? But I try to just keep pushing in that same direction and the information don't come to me, you know? I was just asking you about the new, you know, the newer generation of rappers coming out of Texas. They're reaching out, getting peaches, and all that type of shit. They do everything, yeah.

They do everything for me, bro. Like, I don't even be tripping by nothing like that. I'd be like, man, I just like to see y'all do y'all thing, bro. Like, you know what I like to be able to support y'all in because I feel like I had a big play in there. Like, man, whenever, like when I came around, bro, we had no rappers, nobody was popping. You know what I'm saying? It was nothing. We only had slim thugging them back in 2005 and shit like that.

And I come and open the doors of everything that's going on right now. You know what I'm saying? through a lot of kickback in everything. I don't auto tune, all this shit. Not everybody are auto tune. You know what I'm saying? This nigga's singing and rapping. Now everybody's singing and rapping.

You know what I'm saying? And I'm not the type of person to be like, get mad at that. Like, I'm glad that I had a chance to play a part in that, you know what I'm saying, and see everybody doing their thing, you know what I'm saying, making money and continuing where we started and continuing what I had a part to play for music

and not just Houston, but just music as a whole. I just see it. Yo. fucking with it you see we got music right here man my shit look here man we fuck with you over here

forever in the day I told you man we already consider you a ghetto legend no for sure appreciate it and we wish you much love and success going forward man I got to bring my little brother I got to bring my brother I got to bring him up here

he can fuck with shout a dog He loved that shit. What's his name so we can shout it out right now? Like, hey, man, he's like A official. That's his name, right? Yeah, let me tell you the story. I was on TikTok, and then I saw this shit. The head did one of them like, wait until you find out who his brother is.

And then they played the clip. Yeah. That's hard. Yeah, nah. It's my little nigga, though. I ain't know if the nigger was, like, if that was real or it was. You know how my face to be on the internet playing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Did you confirm that. Did you confirm that. Yeah, that's my little. He's my little man. child niggas tough. Look, hey. That's love. He was chopping on you already

so he got on the phone. He talks shit. Absolutely. Yeah. Cut your beard off. He got three strings. Wait a minute, young man. Wait a minute.

One day you're going to have a beard. Yeah. You're going to have a big beard of your own. Nah, I have the shit shop. That's love, man. I appreciate y'all, boy. Now, we appreciate you.

Stop, my car. down here from Chicago. She loved you. So, Chicago? She was all up on that shit. I was going down. And Newface came through. He brought something for you. Got that fresh one. Holy shit. Damn, I don't even got this. Yeah, Newface got all that shit, man.

If you can't ever find something here, shit, he already got the page marred for you. Damn. This nigga was sagging. Damn, you want me to sign it? Hell yeah. I bet. Man, go ahead and make it official, man.

Show, bro, bro. This whole lot. Oh. You fucked them up without one, Faye. I'm trying to read what I was saying. I said, man, I didn't even get this motherfucker. And you didn't get me one. Look, his own boy didn't walk up.

What did he got? What he got? Niggins say, in a freshman in high school, niggins say. I was asking for change at lunch. You did this. Damn. You kept that shit real. No bullshit.

You had to reduce lunch. Let me get 50 cents. Let me get 50 cents. Yeah. That shit crazy. That's all of it, bro. I got to get one of these holes. Damn shit.

New Faith might be able to plug you would want. Yeah, man. You got to put me down. What to get down, man. Look, this is your first time stopping through the trap, but don't let it be the last time. You know what we had been on. bro. I'm pulling it back up.

Lufei, here you go, G. I need to get that, Jack. Can you plug him with one of them? All right, man. Love, bro. We can definitely make that shit happen, man. Kirk Cobain, 85 South. We're out of the deal.

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