The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - V.EDO in the Trap | 85 South Show Podcast

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

Karlous, Clayton, and DC sit down with singer and songwriter VEDO in the Trap! || 85 SOUTH App: www.channeleightyfive.com || Twitter/IG: @85SouthShow || Our Website: www.85southshow.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I already decided it. Yeah, this ain't up for me. All right, let me check it out. I mean, I got a freestyle all over. No, you don't. I got to do this shit again. Here we go. We're hard, though, though.

Let me say how we do these shit. Go to the C draft and then go under the C's and then play me something that started with a beat. Man, that bit plowed up. I feel to put that bitch on my shoulder like, yeah, Coo-J. I can't live without a radio. I can't live without weed. I can't operate on weed, man.

Now, you don't need to start. Now, you don't need to speak. Y'all one happens to me the albums as we got out if I smoked weed. Hell long. Don't smoke weed. Don't do that. I have about two albums. I think you did already.

I mean, you got nine? Eight. Pop your shit. Come on, man. Out, like, out now. They go see it. Straight now. Get it.

But he got a drunk out, man, a sober out. Yeah, I do. And he said the sober one more jamming. I did the sober one more jamming than the drunk one. Absolutely. So the other six are drunk. No, they was kind of half and half. Half and half.

But the one you went soap. The one I just went sober on. That motherfucker. You wouldn't retort it. That's why I tell. You could tell what a nigga in their bag. In 1980s, early 2000, 2005. Ooh.

Don't fuck him up. He ain't jagged head. Come on, you know what? Me, me, hey. Oh, I got a head. Oh, he ain't do the, you ain't sellin' folk, D. Come on, go. Yeah, you got one like that.

Yeah, you got one like that. You got one like that. We got a lot. Okay, okay. Okay, okay. We ain't there. We're gonna go ahead and get it for the low up stick.

You know, it's a lot of elements the R&B niggas got to bring back, bro. Yeah, man. Like R&B niggas got to start back singing to the women in the rain. Absolutely. Yeah. Niggas got to be in the rain, bro. And a nigga got to start back reaching for shit that ain't there.

You're right about that. That's a fact. Yeah. I think I actually played your song. Niggas got to start. No, play me something else on my old album. Just the beat. I didn't know that.

Yeah, I'm like, he ain't really mean his album. I don't have an album. He meant like a beat album. All I heard, like, that's real album. Oh, yeah, that's my shit. I've been making an R&B too on me, girl. Nah, I love that, man. I love to hear some.

I ain't ready to play anything yet. I didn't. That ain't really going to go crazy. I heard the beat. You got to hit it. So, 11 minutes and 30. You got an 11-minute song? Yeah.

What is called? Popper's rolling song, eh? It was the 3rd of September. God damn, what was? I think it called Badi, babe. Yeah, I tried to put all... It's an album, but it's one song. I did it, recorded it all at once, like a concert.

The whole album is 11 minutes. No. Just that one song. But I'm saying once you listen to the album He did it like an old blue now And they got up there He's got

See, because what y'all don't for a minute? He really did that shit, no care That shit was funny Cut the music off for a second I just want to express myself I just want to talk You think you're mad can I'll fuck me

I'm gonna put you out your goddamn That's hilarious Keep you one time Pop How much push you think you were Not more than me. That's hilarious. I can't do these lemonade shit, bro.

I wish they would shoot a brought in when I had that sweet tea. Oh yeah, that would have been mixed. Good me. You ain't just used the straw, man. That shit be pussy. Oh, yeah, my straw not the right side. Look, you drinking that was crazy. But the shit's crazy part about, look, this shit ain't need.

Bigging up, Paul. Oh, yeah, this is. Damn. Just get worse. Nick, Tripper. Just get worse, man. Just get worse, man. Mine got that's why I got a margarita straw.

Oh, okay. And it's through the lemons. It's through the limits, yeah. I see it. I put it in there. He poked it. Oh. Way, man.

This shit is crazy. This shit is sweet of hell. That's how we living, man. You got to bring back reaching for shit that ain't there. And starting the song off, where the analyst, man. Absolutely talking in the beginning, telephone voice, all that shit there.

You gotta start doing that shit. Hello? Everything. Need you be like, hello? Where you at? At all that. I'm feeling come over. And you gotta start breaking up.

Hey, what's your favorite song, phone call? Go here, my baby, I can't even remember one off the top of my head like that. I think mine is, uh, no, Usher. For real? Say it ain't so. You don't play with me like that. Don't play with me like that.

I'm gonna call you back Every time I'm gonna be in LA I'm gonna be in LA I'm with my egg girlfriend Every time you call me Baby I'm working Oh That niggins in the back

Tell me somebody Nah fact You know the best On call them on all time It's on DMX Who you're fucking? Who you fucking? Who you fucking? I don't know That's the best phone call.

That's the best phone call. It's a matter of fact. I think mine was a... I think mine was a... What's his name? He said, I can't be in two pledges at one time. If you think you're lonely now. That's a boy.

That's about one, huh? I like the K.C. and Jojo version of that bitch. What? That song? Oh, that song. Man, he imagined drunk Casey on that mom. You know my favorite one? They did it.

It was for a soundtrack, though. It was for a song. Yeah, it was a, what soundtrack was it? He did make a version of that song. Real, I got to see. Jason Lear? Is Jason Lyric? Yeah, Jason Lyric.

Yeah, told you. Like 97. Yeah, I was, I won 93. I think 96. See that movie. But they made a, I didn't see the movie until it was TV. Casey and Jojo had a run where they was making hits, and they was on soundtracks. They made an updated version.

Live, live, live. Oh, you think you're lonely enough. How did I get live? I said, how did you make a song about jail? That's one of the coldest first life, though. That's a lot. They need that of great. I'm down here doing 23.

It's like that. I told my mama I'm going to be life. This is a feeling of joy in life. How did I get life? Yeah, look that up, look up that one. Look up the K.C.M. That's funny, bro. A PC and Jojo Berger.

Sure, absolutely. Damn, they was going crazy with the soundtrakes. I voted that Adina Howard, because I just liked the Dean of Howard at the time. That t-shirted and panties, that little phone. T-shirted and new panties on. Yeah. But then you got to bring up Alia then.

Because remember her fucking phone dad on the old cell phone. Hold on. Wait a minute. You there? You there? Damn. When you know, Alicia Keys, she just started talking about shit. They ain't have nothing to do with shit.

Man, she left the long as messing with that. Man, what? Lisa Keys left a 20-minute voicemail. I know you come in. You talked about that shit before. The nigga ordered what's fucked up. The nigga had a terrible order. What?

That nigga ordered catfish and coffee. Hot chocolate. Who? The nigga had Alicia Keys video. Catfish and coffee? What type of... You ain't watched the video? Most of death was the nigga, nigga.

He wanted the catfish. You know what she said on the phone? I put extra cream in your hot sauce. That's it nasty. They want me to use milk. Yeah, my folks get mad at me every time. But I'm doing it there because I think you're sweet. So was you that trying to make me shit on myself?

Hell. That you don't mean. I got it out. Really? What? I lost two jobs fucking with you. Catfish and coffee? That's what that nigga was ordering.

Hot chocolate. Catfish and hot chocolate. Catfish and hot chocolate. I used to eat noodles on hot chocolate. That's what? I used to eat noodles on hot chocolate. You know what? The mug used to make me feel business like, like I had a mug.

Because I wasn't, I wouldn't own nothing, like, drink coffee. So I would eat it, and then I was like, Why you just drink decaf? No, I was young, too young to drink it. That was decaffe in, no. Hell no, that shit, that's nasty. That's black. You just want to drink out of mugs.

I don't want to look. I wouldn't feel like I was grown. So I would drink hot chocolate like it with tea. I didn't start drinking black. coffee until I was a firefighter. But people don't remember that you were a firefighter. And I fucked around and had some coffee with breakfast. That's a good

question. What side of time was? He didn't make. No, I was in Mississippi. Oh, okay. Tell them, tell them why you stop. Tell them what broke you down. It was hot. Uh-uh. He had to slide down the pole. You know, the fuck I did. He had to slide down that pole. That's not real,

he said, y'all have got no steps. He said, y'all didn't go down that pole. He said, Hey, my nigga, I have not. Slide got out of the pool. Hey, man, where the fuck did y'all make up this shit at? He said, I quit. Did none of the fire station in the state of Mississippi have a fucking pool?

Oh, man. You niggins watch too many. You. She's not like a seat on a players club. You. You know. You guys watch too many Adam Salem movies. I ain't gone for it.

Y'all got that Mississippi came right there boy. Hell no. They got me fucked up. They got no bull. They got them stuff. He said, y'all didn't have those facts. He said, the fire wasn't enough in the one store. You said the fire, fuck that.

Oh, that shit was real, nigga. He said he stopped being a firefighter because of the fire. Well, it was a longer story than that. I went to a racist fire academy. I didn't never lose the job. I got kicked out the fire. What was the requirements, though? You just got to be able to do some firefighter shit.

They kept trying to, no. They kept trying to send him on fire. Every time he go to sleep. What the fuck are y'all doing? First, with the polls, now y'all want to say you're going to fine. Everybody should be able to be ready at all time, for those. Okay. But, like, it's a physical.

The first shit you have to do is, like, a physical test. It's, like, an obstacle course of, like, 12 different things you got to do, and you got to do it under a certain amount of time. But the trick to this shit is, first thing you got to do, No matter how big, small, or tall you are, you got to put on a 75-pound vest and walk for two minutes on the stepmaster. But you can't use the rails.

So by the time you finish this shit, it feels like you got knives in your leg. Then you got to do about 10 more station. You got this shit where you got it like, you know, that big stick that's on the side of the truck. They used them to just to breach roofs, right? So they got this one shit where it's like, it's this weight thing,

but you have to use that shit and you had to go up a certain amount of time then you got to pull down a certain amount of time so now you're fucking the shoulders and your back

is on your legs or your whole miss so you won't in shape no I was I used to kill the shit they loved to watch me I went and had great time

on my foot they love to watch they love to watch they do you do the office of course watch it he's great

look out because you have to do it to get the job and you got to do it to get in the fire academy No, I feel that. Watch the ladder part. Watch this nigger girl.

He's been doing this for quite some folks. But these are all old motherfucking white dudes who ain't had to do this shit. He's up the ladder. Go back out the ladder. All you missed it, Stacey. Wow. She's up there. He's up there.

We're waiting for you to come down, buddy. Come on. We're going to do this. Let's go to the sniff. He's up there. No, they did. The poll is last. They used to watch the nigga to do that.

But they watched everybody, but they, I was one of them niggas that went through that shit and didn't have no problem with you. But the actual fire is like, oh, yeah, it was too much for you. Man, that shit is, especially, can you imagine, though? It's a motherfucking freezing outside. Right. You're in the warm, fire station, you ain't had shit to do all day. You know, ate good. Everybody in their motherfuckie sleep.

And out of nowhere, you hit the loudest goddamn siren in the world go off. You got to jump up. Run to the truck Get dressed Out of the middle of your fucking sleep Figure out where the fuck you're going It's freezing cold outside You get to this fucking fire

This shit is so goddamn hot You're on the bad part when you're feeling this shit When you pull up It's like I've seen some fires where it's like This shit gets so goddamn hot The mailbox milk From the house to the mailbox. Plastic mailbox, dude.

You get there, that shit is bright orange In the middle of the night Fucking fire looked like that shit going up to you guys did you save though did you say me me I'm saying me I saved me I say it myself they die out I stayed in the car I'm saying I stayed in the car No that you can hear my voice come this way Hey and you get in the car windows rolled up take me home

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No. I didn't even go to a lot of fires. We live in a small town, but I remember that first night I went to a fire. That was exactly. We had went to this fire in this fucking warehouse, bro. And then keep in mind, this in the middle of the night, it's fucking cold. And then once you pull this fucking water hose out, this is a real, this ain't no bullshit water hose like you got at the house. This motherfucker, yeah, this is real.

Right. This shit is trying to shut the block down when we cut the water over here. So look, it don't matter how good you put this shit together, nigg, it's going to be water every motherfucker well. So you're definitely going to get wet. You can be wet. This shit already 50 pounds worth clothes on. Then your shit get wet. It feels like you got 100 extra pounds and shit.

And you're in the cold. You go in a hot-ass fire. Ain't nothing but motherfucking steam. It's crazy. So when you see these people out here and they really saving motherfucking real, make sure you salute them. No cap. That shit, like, I don't get a fuck.

Some people say you can get caught in the moment and you just start reacting and shit. But, nigga, you definitely still know when you're putting your life on the line for some motherfuckers that you don't even know, Who ain't even going to say thank you This nigga's stuff That puts shit in perspective

Where it's like Where do you draw the line that between Job and Hero, man? Think about it Everybody who got saved By somebody Got saved because they decided That it was worth the risk

Muckuckin'an that win in there It's fire every goddamn way You're gonna be standing here spraying water for A goddamn hour before the shit ain't even Orange no goddamn up Right Not shit boy Right. I was just been saying at one point in time when you were doing the obstacle course, you were like,

I'm Batman, nigga. I knew that it wasn't a whole lot of work. I knew that when the work, when we did have to do some shit, it would be like some little boy shit, like some kids playing with the fireworks or something, little dumpster fire, a little car fire. That's easy shit. But you do all that shit. Not thinking like, nigga, this is a... You got the big she bag on your hurt and go around.

They're calling help and everything. Help! Help! Went to my first fire. You got here first call. Help! Get down. They said, come on, Los, we gotta go in.

I said, I ain't going in. Right. And I was like, why you ain't going in? I'm like, this is my first time. It's a rap. This is my first day. If we didn't practice going, then never. How did you listen to email?

That's funny. In person? No. He went home in night. When I got thrown out the Fire Academy, I had to go, no, because you can't even, it ain't like a job where it's just a boss and they're going to tell you what to do. I got, I was working for the city.

So I had to go to these fucking, like, Seven people, a committee. Chamber of Commerce or some shit. No, and then they're like interviewing you, so they can't just, since you are, the way it's set up, they can't. It ain't a government officials type shit, but it's like they can't just, can't one person fire you. This whole, right, right. This whole group of people have to fire you. No, that's what I'm saying.

Like, you work for, like, the city slash the government, but it's like you have to be brought upon the committee so they all can fire you at a group. Yeah, that's a group. So, makes sense. You didn't want to go ahead? Thrown out of the Fire Academy, it was like a lot of, you know, they paid for that shit. So it was just like, they weren't going to pay for me to go again. So I'm like, fuck it. I don't care.

No care. I tried to go for the Navy. We're here. What happened? But see how he's talking about fire? I say, when you know how to swim, mean, you know how to swim. I ain't know how to save nobody. Saving people is a different thing.

This nigga was in the Navy. That's heavy. He's a good nigga, mentally. any thing in the Navy you were AWOL I bet you did I bet you did that Navy shit's on serious

but I expect everybody working the name like The first time they jumped in like their little pool shit but the pool was like a wave pool

and it was like the currents was dragging you down nigga you're crazy I thought I was swimming but I kept going I mean fuck up

for the good of other people absolutely I do music exactly yeah so that's the type that shit is like medicine And you could be creating life, saving life.

Music is a great medium to create all. Thank you. Everybody who has a job that involves saving people. The real heroes. We need you. Because they got it. It's the music when they're saving people. For sure.

I mean, you try to be a firefighter. That's crazy. It was a lick, though. I ain't really had to do a whole lot of work. But when it was time to work, it was time to work. That's why they say, that's why they say, Chew-Goo. Why they say, huge job.

You didn't let me finish telling you what I did. When I first got there, I was like, I'm not fucking going in. It was like, all right, cool, you ain't got to go in. You just stay out here and take everything off the truck. So I literally did that. They had all the fire trucks lined up. It was three of them in a row. Took everything off all the trucks.

So they can go in. So while they're going in, it took us longer to put the shit back on the truck than it did. I literally took everything off there. It's hundreds of things on that, bro. You were hitting the gadget. You were putting that shit together. Took all that shit.

Why did you cut out? See, they need you to do that. That was just my first assignment. I took out the motherfucking road flares, laid all them bitches out. The jaws of light. Poping this shit that's on the side. The one we'd be riding by. No, yeah, the little red one.

Yeah, the jaws of life. Right. I was a fool, on the jaws of life, too. That's what they would have used me for had I stayed. I was a fool on the motherfucking jaws of life. But this is the thing, though. If you didn't do all that. I knew how to take that bit and just stick it in the, you know, the little dope crack?

Yeah. Put that bitch in there. And get it right. Oh, that damn dope. Oh, no. Bro. I took the motherfucking jawl of life, right? Hold on.

You was good with the jaws of life. I was in the fire academy for three weeks. I was cold on the jaws of life, Nick. So we got, they got cars in the joints. So they called you job. Niggins. They call you a job. No.

They call the baby Cowbone. Oh, he didn't fucked up. He called you jawbreak. You're a motherfucker fucking lot. Hey, job on. I'm going to be on in. This is what we're doing? No, they didn't call me no shit like that.

Call the nigga, JJ. Hey, B. Hey, no, don't join them. Don't join them. Come here, man. Jay B, all you with that? Oh, hell. We got the job bomb.

going nowhere. You niggas is fucked up. I'm sorry, bro. He started. I didn't do it. I do it. He said, wait, I would listen to the story. It was interested.

I'm still listening to it. Nah. That don't even match. I know. You have to understand what that shit is. It ain't like I use my droves, nigger. It's a motherfucking machine.

It's a big as this goddamn table. But I was cold with you. That bitch. It's a machine. They cut you out the car. We just bolt the whole roof back on that bitch. But they needed you anyway because how you're going to go in without the equipment off the truck? Absolutely.

Hell yeah. They need all that. They want you going in there unprepared. Going there with no equipment. Go in. I need to. I had it. In that moment, if that's all the fuck they needed me to do, that's all.

I was going to do that shit well. To keep them going in that bitch because that shit sounds like over. You're a firefighter, you want to go in that bitch. If you see motherfuck, it looked like the devil has something to do with this shit. Because if you look at flames, it really looked like a motherfucker like in the cartoons. It's like, ha, it's different, nigga. This ain't, this ain't barbecue fire. Right, right.

This mother's shit. This shit with that black-ass smoke. You can't control the flame, but black smoke, gray smoke shit. But the motherfucketail fucking take the goddamn hos and they're hitting this bitch with three, four hundred gallons at a time. And the fire, like, bitch, I ain't going no well. Right He takes water It's not wet enough

No, yeah Something on that water Agitate the fire Yeah Yeah, that shit Definitely wasn't Definitely one for me though No care

You cause you move in the fire With the water Sound crazy I'm gonna be No firefighter hell now But the most of the 80% Of the time You probably ain't even doing shit

Yeah That's a grave end I mean you're in a small You say you're Mississippi Alright Yeah Okay We're a small

Ain't shit case The dumbest shit that we had to respond to was like a motherfucker put, like, three confiders in a dryer, in a single dryer, and that shit burned up. I'm down, like, you're just fucking stupid. They stuff that. They're stuck that.

Three confiners? That's somebody did not want to wash clothes at all. They were mad. They're doing this. I don't want to do it in. It's on laundromat. You can burn it up. Lodermat. That's a real ass whoop. Then you've got to go to all them fucking smoking at the hotel type shit.

Smoking along. Anytime it's smoking along, go off. But y'all know C.P. There's a lot of them around the city that, like, but y'all know CIPA. Directly to the fire department. Like, they're calling me. Sometimes when they're sitting, like,

they're sitting this shit called a tone where it's like a siren. We'll let you know shit serious. It's like a car wreck or a big-ass fire. But then sometimes they'll just call and be like, we need, you know, the small unit or, you know what I'm saying? They don't need the big ladder truck to just go to. But the fire, I always, the first, responded. Yeah.

They got to go to everything. Yeah. That was the fuck that. We don't be mean, y'all. Y'all just down. They're like, hey, my nigga, he's shot. What y'all going to do? Well, you know, a lot of the firefighters... No CPR. They EMTs.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's a big-ass-a-truth. So everybody on the truck got a different job. It's like an engineer. That's the motherfucker who mathematically know how much water, how much pressure. He knew what a fire hydrant in that. He knows how to hook that shit off. He pretty much coordinating the whole shit. Then you got the chief.

Then you got the battalion chief, and then you got the motherfucking, you got the driver, then you got the new nigga like me who just takes shit off the truck. I ain't got no title. It's your time, man. Let's go up. That boy, Charles, man. That boy, Charles, man. That's shit crazy.

I don't think you should be able to go off in that shit until you really, like, get properly trained. Can they work, darling? No. Go on that shit on and then the shit ain't on right. You're gonna burn yourself the fuck up. I ain't burn shit, so I feel a little bit of burn. I'm a part of that. Yeah, though.

Y'all wasn't that long, though. I knew that shit wasn't for me. Did you have a job? Because I know, what, music was always first choice? I never had a job, bro. I don't ever get one. I had a job selling body oars in the mall. Freak-ass-haired, niggas.

So you're the rear job, breaking. See? You want some walls on you. That ass, side of the cat. Woo! Yeah. Like that. The cologne oars?

The cologne oars, yeah. What? So did you, y'allon? I was an old, man. Excuse me. Can I speak. you for a second queen. Did he use the gold and saying, baby, you smell good.

Uh-huh. Yeah, he was throwing a hell of shit. Give me 25, five for 25. Uh-huh. Yeah. That fire. He put it on the bitch, red, see, this is a special blend. I created myself today.

And I put it, and I write their name. What's your name? Shela. Right. So how you get in the music game? Sing it, nigger. I know that, but I'm saying. Like, what was interesting?

It wasn't. It wasn't. Dude of all? Shit, I ain't had nothing else. I ain't had all the plan. Music was my first love, man. I was like, my dad wouldn't need to go to the military out of high school. Ooh, shit.

And I said, yeah, pops, I don't think I love America that much. I'm just, you know, let me go sing it. He said, I give you two years to start making some money. Otherwise, you got to go to college or go to the military. I went through the voice, start making money, nigg. That's cool. I can know, man. I said, you.

Hey, man, I don't know, we have to do this. I did it in a year. I did it within, I did it within about eight months. Okay, that's cool. That's hard. Hold up, before we do this, I gotta do this. What you gotta do? Welcome back to an 85 South show.

Yes, dude. Yes, you do. We got a very special guest in here with us today, man. This nigga bring me. We've been on the ground out here in the city for a nice little minute. No count. And he out here making shit happen. He had to stop through the trail.

No, Cal. You know. Vito the Sangha. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Thank you for having me, fellas. What's up, G. I'm high as well, coke, but I'm good.

You did. the 85 Souths. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've been talking good shit in here all motherfucking night, man.

Yeah, man. It's been the vibe. I love the energy already. I love it. Yeah, most definitely, man. Introduce yourself to the 85% let them know who you are and what you do. It's Vito, baby.

Singer, songwriter, extraordinary, label owner. We've been doing this thing for a long time. I write some of your favorite songs for my favorite artists. Uh-oh. Get to know me. You're going to be, I'm going to be around for a long time. So, read up, baby. Oh, oh.

Yeah. Oh, oh. Arn't reach you. I had to go on. I thought she was about to drop your beep on them. And you can beat me at 9-17. Right. 7-77.

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So listen to There Are No Girls on the Internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I had the people with four minutes left. Four minutes. Had three pages left. The muffled were like, I had a more pages. Somebody had another page with 899.

I used the four minutes up off three pages. Oh, damn. They hit me up and ain't had more minutes. You made some money, though? No, you can't make no money off people. I don't know. I had a page at the end. Hell no.

I'm talking about the answer. Like 2000. Like 2,000. It was 99. It was 99. It's a classic 99 shit. Probably like 2001 to maybe 2003. People?

Yeah, because they were like, they was phasing them out. Right. So they had this plan that you can get unlimited pages for like $7 a month. Ooh. Yeah, I was like three. And they're fashionable. I used to. I had to slip out where you could slip that bitch out.

See, I miss B. In college, it was the only way you could get reached. Started with the blue seat. You just had your door. So I needed some way to be reached because I ain't going to be in my dorm like that. See, I had the beeper when there was a repaid minute. Pape me. Yeah.

So I would wait until my shit was free. Nick, I had boost mobile. I ain't had no beeper. See, people were for people who ain't like to talk. Beep me and then I called you and I feel like that. That niggas tell you your age right now. I did this shit every week. I said through the afternoon.

Yeah, they fell out later about 2000. Yeah, I had my shit probably from like 2000 to make it give it like 2003. That when the side kick came out. Because 2003, that was a side kick to. You started getting side kick three-way. Yeah, I had sidekick, two, no cow. Next time. I had moments on that bitch, though, no cow.

Yeah, probably 0-2 or 03. That shit, it was a moment. Yes, it was. But I had the month, because it was the shit to have a beeper and the cell phone. This ain't the 1980 people. We wasn't. We had the see-through. We had the see-through the color with the orange with the green.

I had them up and light up when you get the beeped the whole bitch light up. Yeah. I got you. I started with the square. I wasn't around for them. No, I was. I think they, matter of fact, I'm going to buy me a beep. Who are going to, where are you going to get the service at?

They still got it, because I still got the car phone. You can probably do the shit online somewhere. I got a call phone. It work? Yes. Nick, that is a, but you can't call anybody. I know, but it's a car phone. Yes, I can.

I can put minutes on it. With who? Bro, everybody takes money, baby. Oh, gross. This a nigga right now. Hey, hey, baby, puppy. I got some money for your phone. You can call with that car phone.

I got so many for your phone. That nigger who sold the jury at South DeKamp Mall. Yes, baby, do you see you? I put 450 minutes on your phone, baby. Why you still got minutes? You can only call in certain states, though, like, Tennessee or Kansas. The phone don't say that. We go only calling Tennessee and Kansas.

Why, I don't think you got a car phone. You know, anybody in Tennessee or Kansas. What's the number? Masked, yeah. What's the number to your car phone? It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's his tag number. No, it's started with 1-0. They're watching.

No. I can't wait to call me. They will. No, you're not having to blow me up every time I'll crank my damn call up. They'd be a vibrate. The number is. This is a traffic. Because I sold them on Instagram.

I swore on my 99, on my laces. That bitch still work. Still plugged up. It's a cell phone. Migger, you can put minutes on it. It has a computer chip. It has a car phone. It's a car phone cell phone.

It just happening. It was a cell phone in the car, which makes it a car phone. No, a car phone would be the phone that's in the car. Like, it's got a console just for the phone. Yeah, what you think this phone is at? You just think it's in the glove compartment? It's in the spot for the phone. It's made for the phone in the car.

I thought you were to make some real sense. Nick, me too! He's talking about some. That's it. The phone is loose. No, it's plugged up, like, through the car. No, listen, the wire is made. It's plugged up.

The wire is made through the car. The car is made with the phone. It's not made without the phone. The car came with the phone. The car came with the phone. A nigger then custom put the fits in there. No, I don't just have a car phone. No, I didn't custom put the phone in there, I didn't waste no money.

You just had an old phone and you put it in there. No. Oh, shit. This motherfucker got a phone then. Okay, bet. Somebody left their phone in that bitch. There's a phone in that bitch. Then I hit it.

And that bitch is through the speakers. When I pressed the button, you can hear it through the speakers. It's like, bha-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-ha. You can call somebody? Like, I don't know. I thought that shit was obsolete. No. Any cell phone that still has a computer chip in it that can be plugged up to any type of

network. Technology is technology, man. That motherfucker works. You understand me? I mean, you know, I'm going to make your earring fall out. You can't call it. You're going to use that phone. Your earring never fit no more. So you got a fat phone. You got that. It was, it was. It was.

Hey, you got to turn to the whole thing. They say it's, they say it's Vig. I didn't know. No, it's not the one with the, uh, with the, with armrest in the phone and come up with the big mother. The one that come up like a T-Rail on. No, not the one that come up like this. It's actually like, it's new school.

It's the one that the boys had. Oh, that's the one. You know what I'm saying? That's the one. You can step outside and still be in the car, but you know, got the card with it. Hello? Can't go nowhere, but you can stand right here.

That's about all you can do. Can't do things. I'm at the pick-up spot, man. I'm at the pick-off spot, man. Where are you, man? What's you at? Watch you at? What's your way?

I like that. Oh, that's funny. Okay. I thought I customized a phone. I did not waste money, Clay. I didn't know that you didn't have them. No, I did not buy a old school just to put a phone in it. If I had one album, you're acting like I'm talking.

You got to see me radio. Nick got a secret radio. Hey, Clay, look, look what I put in my brother. You see what it is. No, nigga. It came with the 99 Lexus. Dang. Now I got to get me some shit with an old phone.

You know what? It's just going to fuck people up when I put my regular phone on. speakerphone and just be holding them of her. When you find that mother, let me know. I'm telling you. Yeah. I'm telling you. They got calling cards at the grocery store.

They got calling cards at CVS. Just look at them. You can call wherever, whoever, if you got the phone. You just got dial the caller card. You just got the dollar card. Somebody somewhere going to get a high-edge phone bill. What about green dot com? Nana.

I don't know if it take green dot. You walk to the mailbox. Mother, we're going to have an 8,000. $1,000 phone bill to somebody in West Georgia. I don't have that car anymore. I'm like paying this. AT&T sent me a $13,000 phone bill last week. About making a call?

Apparently, somebody in Atlanta. John sold that damn Lexus, and they're still using the phone. I called for a lady in West Georgia. It was charged $13,000 for a cellular car phone. Talk about taking my farm. I put a lien up against my house. They'll put a lien on for anything, boy. That put a lien about for shit, but let your name be attached to it.

Okay. Bus stop. That's what. They want their money. They want their money. They want their money. We're giving them whatever they want. won't. Here you go. Nah. She got quiet when you brought up some real shit.

Oh, Ted. That shit hurt. My fucking scared these men. Nick, I won't even say the taxes work. I'll tell you about this, uh, but the, uh, math. No cap, boy. I've been studying the tax laws. You've been. Hell yeah. You gotta pay them people. Shit, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, they're trying to pay them at law. That's on the first page. Pay. We made those for you. Mm-hmm.

Now, you know, they got the check. Pay the folks. First thing is pay them. Pay their ass. You got to know exactly. You got to know what you're paying. If they get you something back, you really paid them too much. That's what they say. Fuck that.

Pay them with that paper say. You want to write it, write off. I brought up everything. Pay them with that paper say. Make sure you get sure that. Hey, they're, these show sites. Pay them with that paper say. Get the writing off.

Yeah, oh, man. Brow the favorite thing. It's part of it. Well, you can't write off these prostitutes. Well, actually, that was a business meeting. That was a dancer for my show. Did y'all eat? Yeah, we did a lot of eating.

We definitely ate. She definitely ate a lot. She definitely ate a lot. Actually, she was responsible for catering. I can't do it in a sense. You could say that we had a catered event. She was a sous chef. Yeah, that was a bouncy house involved.

My dude, dude, you still. No, that was a bouncy house operator. I don't know why it said Madam, Madam Cleo. Madam. Cat house. That's how a lot of motherfuckers then got jammed up, though. Prostitutes. They said proptu legal now in Vegas.

They've been legal at the bunny ranch. How you know? That's where your boy got caught. Who? Yeah, I was trying to blame it on somebody else. When they get caught, they all try to put it on somebody else. You know they legal up there at the Bunaheimahe. How do you know?

Well, you know, that's what they call on boys. That's what we're going to call them. That's where the boy got to call them. You remember me? I mean, you know, that's what they're doing a nigger who was at the woman. Listen, I went by there. I went by there to see if it was there. It was dead. I said, oh, shit, it's dead. It was right there. That's what thing coming out. Yeah, boy.

The boy. I only go up there in the daytime because, you know, they do brush. They got good food. Right? Anytime a nigga say food, he cap. I go to for the wings. I don't even sell wings. Little cap. I ain't ain't ain't gonna lie, man. They didn't say nothing about them kind of wings.

Man's got their sticking at a rice. Go for goddamn. Eagle wings. Well, how you turn singing in the mall selling Oz into eight album? Oh, man. Eight. I really didn't have a choice though, man, because I was broke. Because you're gonna go to the army.

I had no money. How close were you to go into the military? Very close, actually. Very close. Yeah. What's crazy is I gotta give props to my manager because my manager brought it to me like, yo man, to me like, yo, man, the voice is coming in town.

That's fine. I was really like, I never really... Atlanta? Yeah, in Atlanta. Mm-hmm. And I was really like, I didn't really like the competition aspect of it, because I think the competition aspect of it takes the fun away. It takes the fun away of creating and being able to, you know, be yourself and expressive.

And so I was like, I don't really know. But, you know, that's like my big brother, so I'm like, I'll do it. And what people don't know is I actually got sent home. You know, there's so many auditions you got to do before you even make it to the blind audition. I did the first one. I did the second one. The third one, the folks said, now we're good. King, we don't need you. Send me to the crib. Damn. Send me to the crib. Shit, I was like, all, cool, say less. Still hit the ground running YouTube, doing songs, doing covers to other people's songs and just going crazy on it. About three, four months later,

they hit me back, like, hey, yeah, we see your progress, man. We want to fly you out to the executive auditions. I'm like, no, I'm busy. No, I was like, I was like, I was also like, man, stop playing. Y'all just sent me to the crib. Somebody playing with me on the phone. You got, y'all joking with me? Right. And they was like, no, this is serious.

I said, all, I bet. Send me the flight confirmation hotel. I know it's real. All right, click, bye. About two hours later to see me that shit. Right. And they asked me to do my version of a song that I covered on YouTube. That's how I knew they had been watching from those previous months.

The three, four months there. And what's on that one? Boyfriend, Justin Bieber. Oh, shit. So I did a whole little, you know, my whole little, my whole little version of that joint there. Obviously, I feel like it was all playing for me to be on an Usher's team. But that's how I really, that's really how it happened.

Man, I told Roe, like, Popstrand maybe goes to the military or he's trying to, you know, make me go to college. Don't worry about your dad. Let me talk to me. No, college, college wasn't for me. Charles, man, that boy's got talent. Don't do him like you did yourself. Give him a chance.

Mama, I want to sing Listen to him You let me do what I want to do Charles, I would never disrespect you But look me in my eyes And tell me that that boy's nice Stop! When have you listened to your son, Joel?

He's dark right? I just don't want him to be like me. I just don't want him to go out there And their britch is hard. There's good money working out here. There's nobody from where you're from ever made it. Good money out here. You can fix these.

What movie is this? What movie is this? We ain't wrote it yet. That's a good one. That was a good. I'm not looking like, I don't see this shit before. I don't see this shit somewhere. Is this a temptation?

Hey, it's something like that. Listen, Charles, he needs $600 to finish his demo. Are you in or out? Are you in the out? That was it. Now, you know he'd be to blow. Ain't nobody got to listen to that. He don't need to say that, man.

Cut to the scene. He's up in the studio. Cut to the C. He up there. ABC. Ooh, baby. That boy. And believe it or not, he's coming through.

Vito with his hip. That's my dad. He said, I'm on a voice dad. He said, I told you. I see on TV, son. I said, Oh, okay.

Hey, that was... He let you know, though. He ain't better to be extra with it. He said, listen, son, you guys turned to turn the radio around. It wasn't even though two years. It wasn't even two years. I think it was like a year. It was like a year before he said, you got a year to start making some bread.

Or you got to go to the military or go to college. Yeah. I did it in eight months. Didn't cut to the scene. And he got a hot seat right in Atlanta, young Vito. Mom, they're playing me on the radio. They show Charles at work. Who did he say?

This is my boy. This is my boy. Y! That's my boy! That's my seat. That's my boy. You're talking about this right here? It's been blowing up all over the country.

That's all the way. Hey, y'all! This child, sir! It's just a slow wall to them listen to it. Everybody just made. I'm talking crying. Hey, that's the... Hey, y'all's the...

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, man. Look at that's dumb in pork, bro. Hey, man. Man, I think of your job in pork, bro. No gap. That's every black movie.

That's how it starts. Well, what? Turn it up? Oh, my goodness. That's it right there. All the nigger run in the house. Mama, cut on the radio. Boy, what's wrong with you?

Vito's on the radio. I mean, Bob, you might say nothing. Oh. But they don't do that. They don't give a good credit in the black movie because the little sister always have support. I knew you was always going to make it big brother. I knew you had it in you.

I knew you had it in you. When everybody told him here and shit, she'd be sitting on the steps, I think you can sing. Listen to them You're still the greatest singer in my eyes I love all your music I love all your music

Don't let him stop you, Charles Don't let Charles stop He's not our real father anywhere She kept him on the way out Right before you jump out the window To go audition for the view Hey, I believe me. He's not our real father.

It's almost the time. Hey, don't forget about him. Hey. He's not our real father. Mama said, leave him anyway. Why do you think I don't go about CJ anymore? My name's Vito from here on now. I'm here on that.

Charles Jr., that's crazy, though. Charles Jr. Stop calling me that. That's crazy talk. Charles, Julia. The gayed a nigga, a whole other nigga name. Well, that's funny, bro. Bear y'all students.

He's not our father. You follow your dreams, big brother. Oh, man. That's the element to the black movies. The little sister got to be. be supportive as here. Always, bro. Yeah, but I'll get enough credit.

I listen to the one of supportive. She said, fuck all that shit. She wouldn't? Send me some money. That was she wanted. Damn. You said it? I definitely did.

Then she started supporting. What's the age difference? How much? I'm 30, so you're looking at about 15 years. Okay. She younger? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

She don't know. She don't know you out here really get, she don't, she probably go see it now. No, I mean, you know, that's my baby, though. Yeah. You know, it is what it is. She get it now. that she's older, so. And she gets, how blessed she gets, yeah.

You know, I feel like, I don't know what the fuck wrong. I don't know what the fuck wrong. My family. You know, you just had to take them as they off, man. You know, honestly. No, sometimes you got to tell them what, y'all got me fucked up. Sometimes I'd be like, they be trying to space out the big. You can't space out the big.

Don't add for $100 on money and after 100 on friday. It's a half for $200 to this. They know you. They know you. You feel, but they're talking about it. I ain't really want to bug you like that. Yes, you did. So why I add for a hundred.

I mean, they don't even want to add for, they'd be wanting to hum it to them, and let me get it. They know a hundred to you ain't nothing. I'm like, what? What? What are you? What are you? Look, man.

And you ain't ever had anybody just saying you was a money request without even asking. Oh, yeah. They send a request and then hit you up to see, did you see the request? Oh, nah. Hey, cool. Joe on the seat, did you see that? They're just question mark the request. I'm like, did I see that?

They don't even hit a nigga up. They're just question mark the request. Guess what I learned. Ignoring is worse than saying no. Because now they have to reflect on why they asked and the why I didn't answer. They were like, let me hold 300, cool, I need it. We have a whole conversation for hours. So they say, let me hold.

I'm gone. I'm out of here. And now they have to reflect, and then they answer, don't worry about it, because I found it. And I come back in the conversation. I knew you would, champ, ask me for that shit. You are right? My boy, you.

That shit right now. I had faith in you. I was just in the sentence. And you got it. Boy, you were good. Right. You were all right. That was it.

You ever agreed to give it to him and then found out you was taking too long to send me. Hey, Cud, you think I can get $300? Yeah, I got you. And then they hit you back. Hey, code, whenever you get ready to send that shit, me like, hey, hey. I didn't get this fucking eat that. I ain't know I was taking too long.

They put a time living on your butt. Whenever you're going to do that. You need it. I need it by Wednesday. I ain't even know that. No, I got to go and help you. Oh, you meant Wednesday tomorrow. You meant Wednesday at 12 o'clock tonight.

Okay. Oh, you need it tonight? No, you didn't say when you. you need it. How did you know I had it to give it to you right now? It's like a nigga at house be like, he got it. Oh, come on. Don't do me like that. Cool. But you know what thing? Let me get $4,000. No, see, they got a better chance of asking me for an off number. Right. Don't never ask me for the whole folk. Right. You tell me you need 3750. It's like bidding on the

price is right. See, if you say some shit like 3750, that let me know that you need exactly this amount. Right, right. When you're gonna need a whole even amount. Like a whole four. Right, that's the fact. You could know, but whatever you need is, it has a number to it. Yeah. You don't just need $4,000. And it got taxes. $5,000. You got taxes on it.

Ain't nothing never, with the zeros in it, bitch. It always got numbers on it. Yeah, because like, are you borrowing money just like, so you could do what you need to do and have some left and do what you wanted to do? Because you really need $23, $8,000. Right. But you want the other $15.75. to ride off and feel good about it.

But niggis ain't never gonna say, hey man, can I get some money for this? And there's some money so I have, so I can be killed in Chile. If you feel it good, just shoot me a little extra. No, they make it seem like they got a whole $4,000 problem. But they try to build a cooking in. They try to build that country.

I hate when they motherfuckers say he ain't gonna believe that. I'm telling my mind. This would help with the motherfucker be like, man, shit, if you can give me 700, I can get the rest. You only know what the rest is. What is the rest, digger? It sounds like you're trying to arrest by me.

No, $20. No, guess. I know you can do $20. I need $7.00. I'm going to get the other $30 for somebody else. What? You can borrow $30 from them? I want the $30.

Give me the $30. Go add $1. Go add $30. I'll take the $30 one, please. What? You crave to him, blessed me. I just send him a bill. You have to.

You got to do it like how the bank's doing. I said, listen, you got to understand, man. You're never getting up from the bank without putting something up. Yeah, add a text. You got to put a little collateral. What you're willing to come back and get? What you're willing to come back? Sign off something.

Sign off something. And it has like a couple days where it's like, it has a time period. I don't like when people assume you don't need your money back the same way they need it. You got money that's just put up to the side. The minute is the way. You got to pay me back. What is that? That's when it goes.

Like, you know what, I don't need that much, man. Just shoot me, shoot me a little, shoot me this much. When you see, you got to pay me back, and niggas know what the consequences come with not paying me back are. But this the thing. Now they have a little more. They have a little more like, okay, no, I'm not going to get this from him because I ain't going to pay this nigga back.

They only say paying back because that sounds better than one that you will get it. If they know the nigger, though, you don't pay me back, but listen, you can't get nothing else for me. Yeah, you got to. That's a hundred people. That's the cost. That's the cost. You're a bad man.

That's the cost. Rojo. What you have for? See, this is the thing, though. See, I know God got me. You feel what I'm saying? And I know mentally I'm able enough. You know, he doesn't need the strength to get up and be like, all right. I'm not worrying about the amount of money or wondering how I'm going to get some money.

I know I have a product. And I know somebody's always buying. Right. That's what I have a mentality of. I have product and somebody's always buying it. This ain't got nothing to do with drugs. But it's just have to do with product. And marketing e-commerce and the economic world is like,

somebody's always looking for something. Somebody needs something. And I'm always the man in the middle of going to help you get it. But you got to put a limit on what you'll give because these niggas won't put a limit on what they'll take. That's real. Everybody. They're all family, friends, anybody.

So if that door is constantly open. But you got to know when you're being misused. And sometimes when we love them, we overlook it. We'll get abused, but I'm the one that I'll tell you. See, I'm the nigger that you come to ask for money, but I give you, I give you a lesson. Like, I talk. I talk when you want this type of people. Oh, you got to listen.

Oh, you got to listen. Oh, sit out, baby. I need you sit out. I'm on the old niggie, be like, hey, let me take some. Let me take some. I'm going to tell you right now. Listen, I'm on, listen, I'm tired and you're tired. You're making bad decisions.

Listen. I need to know what you're doing. You are making bad decisions. Come on. Because you know why you keep going backwards. Listen, we ain't never had nobody we could just come get $4,500. $5,000. You are abusing the access.

You make me seem like, somebody gave me $5,000 jump all with. No, we had a phone, nickel. $0,000, nickel. So this is always a better jumpstart than whatever I had, so I don't get it. What you're saying, that, oh, you don't know what to do with it. It sounds like to me you are a bad hustler. You still ain't got your hustle skills up. So, this is a plan.

Whatever the plan is that you're going to do with it, it depends on you or is you going to go up or is you going to go back? Now, if you just go do this shit and just be fucking up, well, you got to blame yourself, bro. I'm your plug. Since you want to be a hustler, I'm your plug. I need mine back. And some.

Oh, you put inches on. Oh, absolutely. Bad mom. He's a lot of shit. That's how it's going to get me. He's a bad mom. And nobody else's going to get to you at the same price you bought it. You ain't feeling like, you're going to get no long.

But you know what sometimes I do? I think you can get the same of my money you got from them back. Check this out. Check this out. I'm going to pull off the game. And they just thought. They just click in my head. I'm not giving you money because I know you.

I'm very smart than what you think. I just play a fool. I may be paying for the lesson. I'm always watching what not to do. You see what I'm saying? So if it's like, and then you watch what they do with the money, you like, don't do that. Look.

You all keep. affirming me, this is confirmation what not to do. Absolutely. If you go and succeed and it's like I can learn from that. If you keep failing, I'm going to learn from that. So it's like, yeah.

He took your money and went straight to stun. And he went straight to something. It's like, even when you at this age, I don't give a fuck. How much money you think you got don't get the stun. No. You see what the stunts lead you. Stunt when it's time. Don't stunt when you don't. Nick, when you could have went somewhere else.

You couldn't win. And you could have went and done some shit. It don't matter the levels of shit. The lesson is still the lesser. Absolutely. I don't know a nigga that's up here that's stunting. And, nigga, hey, man. The thing is.

It's the same as like shit. A nigga like a nigga like me never took the route to go to prison because I know niggas who have been to prison. Took your toe. And he came home. You learn. And sat down and said, hey, you want to fight for your life every day?

Not physically. Fighting. But, nigga, you fight for your life every day and that mentally. Mm-hmm. That you don't off your motherfuckin' self because you don't, you got 15, 20 years still to do.

He said, listen, son, this is my pop's telling me, son, listen to what I've been through. Listen to what I did. You know, you ain't got to see this shit for yourself. Right. And I took that shit to heart. I'm like, you know what? Nah, gang, you got that. You can do that over there.

Because I don't have to been to that shit already and survived it. And he said that shit wasn't easy. So I'm going to just leave that shit to y'all. Why would I be hard ahead to go try to figure out myself? The fuck? Nah. I want to see it. Nope.

Different experience. different people. No, we ain't doing that. Well, you know what? We're blessed to understand that, you know what? We are the people that sometimes that people come to, you dig what I'm saying? Some people make it a battle.

Some people, you just realize, they're going to fuck it up. It is what it is. But at the end of the day, they're not a burden. Once they become a burden, you got to put a hold to that shit. That shit can fuck with your mental. And if you ain't got it to give, that's the thing.

I'm not even tripping, bro. It's the president. It's the etiquette. I just want you to actually get on your feet. Nigger, be acting like you're in the way of them getting on their feet. No, nigger. I want you to not come back over here and beg for nothing else.

You're tripping over your own feet. I ain't in your way. You're tripping over yourself. Come on. I'm not in your way. Whatever you want to do, then you leave from wherever I was at to go do it. It's the etiquette, though.

Don't handle me like that. And that goes back to, you know. If you ain't got it, don't get to acting funny with me, though. Like, if you say, for instance, whatever you was trying to do took longer than you than it is. Right. Don't fucking, don't duck me. Don't act like I did something to you. Don't stop answering the goddamn phone.

When you blew me up all that we're trying to get the company's ad. Right. Now you don't know me. Right. Hey, you ain't even going to try to pay me back. You ain't going to call and say, Cah. I appreciate you, fool. I appreciate it.

He'll go 20 on. I ain't forgot you. I'm just showing you that I ain't forgot you. that I appreciate. That's it. Everybody doing that. And you know what? You motherfucking might say, you know what, Cah?

Since you even recognized that you did that and you knew that, keep that. I just appreciate it. It's the heart. I appreciate you reaching out to let me know that you ain't. You got real intention. Anybody who ever said that's going to give me some money back? And I can count on one hand. And they actually saved it back.

Which is actually three. Three people. And I literally looked at them and said, bro, let me tell you something, bro. I didn't need it if I gave it to you. So now that you got it to give to me, here's a lesson, and here's a lesson that I learned when I sold dope. I was so, I had the ambition just because a nigga fronting me,

and the weed at that point was $1,200 or cutie for some gas. I was able to give him his $1,200 and make $500 off wood. What does that tell me? I'm able to make $1,700. don't have the urgency and the mannerism to give me all this money back when you can do it for yourself

that's all I'm saying you see this? You see this? Yeah I got you it. Fuck doing it for somebody else had that same energy to do it for yourself. It's going to feel better. You're going to stack better. If you can hustle back 17 off of 12 Off of 12.

I'm able to make 17. Come on, man. Why, I give him 12 and make me five. Yeah. So I'm giving myself a short end of the stick. I need to have a plan. I make my own 17. Well, if you were just, you should have took another front.

See, that's the problem. You don't trust your stuff. No, no, hold on, hold on, Bito. Because I'm telling me, let's be telling us. Back in the day, this this, this nigger don't trust. They did never front nits. The niggas did it never get front of nothing. If somebody fronted you something, they'll listen, you should have took that $500.

Get fronted again. You're supposed to got fronted again. Then took that $500. Put that with your front. You see what I'm having? What you should have did with shotgun and kept it off. Nah, I can't do that either. Hell my nigga.

Then you take that $1,700. Now you get you a whole half thing. I'm going to tell you why I went wrong. Then you buy somebody for you to front. See, but did the thing. It was damn the first. front, you done made the money, so you now can buy it yourself. So now I'm learning lessons where I was like, I was scared to invest in myself.

So now I'm stacking up with money. That's what I'm telling you. So I don't want to go buy my own weed. I got comfortable that a nigger was giving it to me. I always bought my own wheat. As soon as he said no. I started out with four ounces and then I worked my way up to three pounds. I'm like that.

I started with four ounces. I ended up with three pounds. No count. Then I moved up to seven pounds. I believe. But listen, that's the same shit that's the same shit that's been in the music industry, right? Back in them day.

So, you know. They ain't let niggas have a boy than 10 pounds. He ain't even independent. Right. Nick, give me to step all day. He made, he go major. Never 10. He don't know what's like to be independent.

Right. That's what you're going to do. He's going to always try to go back to a major. He's always going to be dependent to a major to cataport his career to this level on what he needs to do. That's why I invest in myself. But if you start independent. But see, it's the levels of less.

of lessons. It's the levels of lessons and you've got to be able to invest yourself. Now, don't get me wrong. Now, this the game. A nigga fronting you is kind of like a nigga believing in your hustle. That don't happen every day. That's a nigga who wants some free money.

But now that you don't made your money, don't be scared. Because I'm looking at it as when I spend the money, I'm decreasing my stack. I ain't got that money no more. Yes, you do. You just want to be fronting. I said, bought my own shit. And I would have I'm being, nigger, and I'm my own boss.

And when you increase your stats, guess what? Now you can go over here. You can still get fronting. You can still get fronning. But you can get fronetting way more than you got fronting when you were planning. But see, this thing, though, law level. The urgency of knowing that this wasn't mine had to pay it back.

It was like a job. You're trying to show the manager, niggas, you coming to work. I want you to be chilling less. Every time you see me when I come to clock in, I want you to know, oh, my man's sincere. Oh, I ain't got that. Hey, you're in charge. I'm going to give it to him.

He's going to give it back. Yeah. You go chill in the office. But if you see what I'm saying? So it was like, you know what? I was scared to invest in myself because I had the money to go buy my own shit. But I was like, nah, me, let me go ahead. I didn't want to fuck the risk.

Yeah. I was just, I was scared. You scared, yeah. You scared. You're scared the same hustler. Yeah. Whether you're paying him or you paying yourself, you're just scared. And the crazy part about the cutest.

was cheaper. They were like 250 cheaper. I just ain't want to go, yes it was. I just ain't want to buy it. I was in it like, you spend money, you're going back broke, nigger. Number too low. It was from boys. It was. 9-100. It was a good mid.

Oh, no. 9-100 were crazy. At that time? No, 1,200. You got to understand, man. The pound was for their home. For some gad. $4,800.5,000. What? We're talking about 2,000 and lamb. We're talking about gag-gad. You still choking. when you smoke y'all niggas man this shit we smoke in nine man this shit this shit smoking

this shit cool this shit we smoked 2011 2008 me you had some drink no nigger that's popcorn you're talking about a cute of the mid for 250 two hummer yeah cute a me of me a minute for 200 that is fucking god's crazy that's crazy that shit that's even a cute of me it's supposed to be a good seven 50 that shit man you in mississippi man y'all country niggas in tax we in a lot of That shit, $2.50. $2.50. Some thrat punting. Then at that time, nigger won these smoky med.

There were niggas that was on crack smoking mid. Now, that's bullshit. You better tell that, man. $800 for the pound, man. $250 for the kid for a nigga for $0. $2.50 for the niggins for $2. But you got to find, niggas who's smoking this shit now? That $50 ounce of one shit, though.

Diggas. Diggas. All the old people were smoking mid. Man, they're loud shit too mump for me. Nah. You got some men. They were coming in. You're talking about the 2P for 250.

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And one big seed. One big seed. They stink, too. Mississippi got this weed. I don't know what kind of weed it is. It looked like some bullshit. It's green and piney and chocolate. Seated its head. But this shit will have it. It's so hot. I ain't even gonna lie, man. The guy came and fucked the city.

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When nigs start doing that on the way he eat. But shut up. You can't eat taste this shit. Shut up. Man, you remember Selma Mead with $25. Yeah. You'll be smoking all day. That Selma ain't blue.

Blunt. Yeah. Oh, dick, that's enough weed to last all weekend. What? Every day I went to $1.7. I made sure I made enough to make a quarter. Then I started making money. I said my first $25 that go in the pot.

But listen, bro. You're a different nigga buying seven. You was a different nigga buying seven. In the niggas buying sevens, you smoke. Yeah. Like, hey, let me get a cell. What? A dude was like, ooh.

Hey, man, I used to be able to smoke in seven like that they want a cell. That's a different. Okay, that boy, that boy, I'm a seven. I missed the whole weed, though. Yeah, but I, that shit, how y'all, how d'nick's smoked that mushroom? That's stupid. I'm in the studio.

The smoke coming through the door. That's smoking. The smoke coming through the door. I gotta go out there tell niggas like, yo, I'm trying to record, bro. The smoke coming through the dough. Andy fought with the mic. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, yeah, how y'all smoked that motherfucker, we y'all, y'all good?

Boy, that gag came here. Three five. Three five. Three five. Yes, man, I'm trying to tell you, man. My first time buying the gram on a gas right when that shit really really, hit. It was 20? It was more than 20? 30.

Oh, no. It was a half a gram. It was a .5. You got to the got to. No, I did not. This is when gas was gassing. In the little pink bag. This is, it was in the pink and the purple ones. It was the pink and the purple ones. The fact, the one 25.

They did the 125 bad now. I know, I ain't no black. The pink, listen, bro. The person got a little bit. Listen, if you get any gas out, the pink is for show. For show, for show, for show. So what the boo-boo in there? Boo-boo, man, we had

reggie, but if a nigga tried you with some reggie, he really trying you. He think you pussy. Like, if you got a reggie and a nigga sold you some reggie, you're pissed. You're pissed. He just tried. Like, he didn't even get you no med. Like, he gave you some bullshit. Now, if you can see the seeds in them look back, he thinks you're a

pussy. He really is slat him. Right. No cat. A nigga at least had a decency to take the seeds out there, motherfucker. Now, because that's, that's the finesse. I'm going here and take all the seeds out. Because a nigga's gonna look, he gonna look, he gonna be like, let me, man, sure.

Ain't no seeds in there, motherfucker. If you don't see no seeds, it's a good, bad. But you see a lot of seeds, you're like, man, I know this in bullshit. I'm gonna smoke three, four seeds or blunt. Start popping when they get hot. Or once a seed, that's every piece of weed that touch that seed fucked up. All that. Because that seed going to burn brighter and louder than that.

You got to tear that part out. You said, he's going to smoke different. That motherfucker fucking seed let you know what I'm in here. That bitch is a jump straight up out of the blood. Don't let that bitch do that. And you better watch, okay, he'll burn a hole in your clone. You're a fan. You look at you.

God damn, damn. No, with his pants out of fucked up. There's little goddamn little sweats or whatever. I think I hit a die game, go by a grandmother gab, bro. I have a sim. Go buy some of the mid. Oh, he was mixing. I was missing.

And we called it the mild blunts. So we were rolling some mid, and they put like a little bit of gas on top. We used to stretch. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? We get mid hop with a lunk gas for you. You know, we're straight. You know, that's right there.

I hate it. Hey, man. I take it to the mid. Oh, you're like, yeah, I'll take mid. Now here you're going. You think you're passing. I'll be trying to look where I put it. I said, I know if I put it right in the middle.

I'm my old, I'm a little. Give me some med. I had to smoke some med. I had to smoke some med to get back on no. I had to smoke some med to get back on it, though. I told you, nigga, they smoked me and sell everything. He said chips. Oh, he said, yeah.

He's selling every drug on the man. Well, when I, when I was on the pill back in the day. All right, pig. Why isn't in the pharmacy box? It's mid. I bought a pill back in, like, oh, nine, ten. Shit, fucked up my tolerant. I couldn't smoke weed like I used to.

What? When I used to pop pills back then, it fucked up my tolerance. I used to smoke weed a lot. Like, how I smoke now? That's bullshit. I used to smoke like extendos and shit. Yeah, but it was mid.

No, what? It was a gag. It was a game. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Once we transitioned, we were smoking. This is when we started doing that high-life shit. He was going to get the Q-Pek for $200. He talked to a nigga who did drugs.

I was a nigga who did drugs. It's different. Like, nigga, we're getting... What's that in the five? When the word, what's in the five? When that word geek came out? We're crazy. A geeky.

Yeah, geek monster. We're trying to be the geekiest. Who's going to be the geekiest? I'm going to be the geekest. You're going to get geeky than me? And I'm going to show you today. Right. I'm a weed you got.

And ain't for that nobody smoke. We ain't matching nothing. I want to see you smoke all day. I can never do the weed. Man, well, we pop a bill. We have a spread drink. That is to be true. Hell what?

Hey, everything. You said he ain't fuck with it. I mean. Same time. I did this a weird one time. Nick, I was in the goddamn, in the bed. I had to hire my phone for myself, boy. By to call my girl telling everything that she thought was the lie was the truth.

You've got to tell on yourself. I fucked it, baby. I don't know what's going on, but I fucked you. I hit my phone, boy. I hit my fucking too, baby. I ain't never been that high. But listen, that's why I don't know. I don't do with him.

I ain't know. And it sounds like Ricky Price. I fuck the good, baby. We had you made up stories eating. You lied on yourself. Man, nigga over there explaining some bullshit to his lady. Babe, look, she's talking about. Look, the girl's talking about.

She got better pussy than you. I said, talking up a real cool. I said, you think you got better pussy than my girl? All right, let me see. And, babe, she don't. She don't. I was like, you are lying, motherfuck. You ain't fending to be out here lying on my girl.

So I had the fuck of the seat to make sure she was lying. And the bitch, the bitch's lying. Lying, girl, because ain't nobody got a pussy better than you. She's trying to clarify to her pussy better than yours. Who's going to know better than me? So I had to see. So in my mind, this is what I'm thinking. I got to fuck this bitch to prove a point.

And my girl said she'll be the egg. Right. And I ain't be the head. Man, y'all, man, y'all don't want to hear what the fuck. Listen, baby, I'm fucking for you. Babe girl, wait. It was trash. Would you stop trying to leave?

He's talking about, wait. The bitch on Facebook and everything telling them, you're all, telling everybody that she got the best pussy over here. And I had fucked both of y'all, so I know that she laughed. I went to McDonald's and ordered some checker fry. I went to McDonald's and ordered some checker fry. some checker fry. When he's smoking, man.

Yeah, you have, bro. You had. I was geek. When I got them, they were just all light skins. I was like, where the brown was it? Oh, you, you really thought you were in Chuck. I really thought I was at Chucker. When they gave me the bag?

I was like, what the fuck? Oh, yeah. We're gonna fry again, light skin. And you know who really be looking out, though? Who? When you pull up at the fast food restaurant and they see as you, and they knew they was about to give you some bullshit food, they'd be like, DC!

Hey, bro, pull up. Pull up, bro. We ain't even gonna do you like that, right? Right. They drop these six of a quarter pound. Drops a new one. They did that yesterday. I'm gonna make shit you fry. That's it.

Yeah, just pull me up. I don't mind pulling up. If you ever see me and you work fast food, tell me to pull up. That's how I know you give a fuck about me. Oh, I'm gonna be really. You're gonna be about 10 minute, bro. You really don't want that chicken, bro. Thank you.

Don't drop some more. It's been in an all day. Look, we're in the clothes, bro. So I ain't cook none, but I can. cooks out for you. I cook some for you because I fought with you. But I just want to ask you. That's the first question.

They act like me, me and you and Chico get up every day and be like, all right, bro. So what you got up for the day in case anybody asked? Right. Well, you're going to be around about 2 o'clock from 2 to 6. Right. So I can tell somebody. Oh, yeah, because they go ask me where you are.

I'm going to go get something to me. My little sister graduating and she watched your show all the time. They always tell Calo come on Bill. I'm going to look out for them too. He don't need, he stay here, my boy. When he gets here, tell him come on all night. I'm going to fall with him. Oh, man.

He's not coming over here, my boy. I had a nigger. You need to tell him to cut him. I had a niggins to have him to tell me that me and D.C. travel separately for security. Security. Oh, I see what it is. So D.C. come first. He was there this morning.

And you, okay, yeah, I see what it is for, like, security purpose. I'm like, no. Niggas just got... I was just seen you, boy. Ooh, Carlo Joe walked through here. I'm like, he's going home. They live here. The fuck?

I don't know. That shit be crazy here. Yeah, TSA. They be looking out sometimes. They do. Yeah, if you recognize us, help us through. My T.S. They're fucked up, bro.

I ain't renew it, bro. My shit won't renew. Why? I don't know. I didn't try to renew the shit. I didn't know. Them five years went by fire. I ain't thinking about that shit.

Why didn't you say put up? Because I tried to renew it, and they were still having sent me the confirmation. I ain't had my shit for two months, but I went in that other line, bro. My shop had to try to take a gun through it. Why did you do that? I did that too, man. Me too. Then you talked about all these weed shit, and you're talking about a gun?

No, I'm, my shit clean. This weed is clean. The fuck is you doing? Is that man? His gun don't smoke? No, that's it, bro. That's fine. That's fine.

That's fine. Well, no, I had to, uh, I, I, I, Well, you was in Atlanta? I was going to Miami, actually. I was going to look at the wedding venue. You forgot it was in there? I forgot it was in there. I just forgot to declare.

You know, I'm not the axi or up front. Oh, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right, right, right. They didn't ask for that time. And I was like, I didn't think to even say, hey, I got a gun in my shit. What is technically not your fault? No, it's not. Right.

My shit, they took my shit for like two years. The TSA? Yeah. God damn. So you had to go in the regular line? Regular line. God. I got clear, though.

Damn, clear. I ain't shit. All that shit ain't shit. But see, I fly out for a clad. You know, we got a furclad in Atlanta. Hold on, well, you don't know? Yeah. What the first, right?

What the first class? Got by order. Yeah, all that. Yeah, all that. You know what? The first class? Furclad. But see, that's the thing, though.

I don't be furclad all the time. I be comfortable. I mean, let me tell you something. I ain't boogey. Comfort, I really got more leg room we really want to know. He ain't booze. He ain't booze. He got way more leg room.

You got to just walk around with him. He ain't booze. This is the same. same motherfucker I said he got to walk out on the airport one morning. He had a blanket over his leg. Nick, waved to me from the other line. D.C., why the fuck they're pushing you through this airport? He said he got a blanket over his leg.

One morning I had to get pushed through that. That was the only way I could get through the lab. Oh, shit. That's the best. That's one of them. Hey, bro. Those little people that are pushing through. Yes, they do.

He's what we get to do? I said, you got me in the line. I said, how much are you going to go? He said, 2.50. Stop right now. If you don't push me now? I'm walking now. I'm walking, man.

But you crazy. One nigga took the shit too far. I'm thinking he's just going to push me to the turn. And the thing. Get on the plane. They're going to put you on the train in there and got this thing. They're going to push you to the whole plane. And they're going to push me to the train and everything.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. What's going to tell him? I ain't pay you? Fuck you, bitch. No, sure I don't do that, bro. What a tough? No, we weren't worth it out.

I want to pay it like a hundred, but I still were happy with that. All you got to do, we got that shirt for a little money. They'd be like, all, oh, shut out. I got that shit. Oh, that shit. Oh, fun of there, bro. No, you're good.

Nakes, I had a blanket over in his leg. Anybody got a blanket over in the leg. You're trying to look sick. Yeah, you're talking about it. Gate, D3. Everybody got to blake it on their lid. They're trying to... Nika looking feelin' put in the motherfucker.

Oh, shit. But that's funny at hell, bro. You know how you gotta go up and go through the thine, right? So you can't walk long. Do you help me, please? What y'all think of time is fault, bro? Oh. Bro, that's funny, bro.

Oh, man. Plan sick. I don't like playing sick because that shit that's shit that's wrong with me if it ain't wrong with me for real. But that furclad line, though. I can't do it.

I'm old school. Like, don't lie, don't lie say you sick. You're fucking around and get sick. My stomach hurt. All right, tomorrow. My stomach hurt for real. I got a hundred million. I got a hundred million.

I got a hundred million. You said I don't lie about shit because of that happened. Oh, okay, yeah. All right, cool. I'm about to say, shit. I got a hurry to get me a real. What you got?

Right at 75. Okay, what about you? Yeah. Oh, man, they just sent me 80. I sent it back and said I need five more. Okay. You said, since we can't lie by shit, then I'm gonna add a hundred.

About a hundred thousand. Yeah, because they said, you know, you are what you feel, and I'm so, you know, I'm just terrified of like, you imagine having a billion dollars, that shit is it? I'm a hardworking, man. I'm at one-fifty, $150,000. I keep hitting $100,000.

$150,000. $6,000. I don't do it. I only got one comma. That 100 get gone. That 100 get gone. That 100 get gone quicker than a bit. Well, 100,000?

Yeah, I don't know. I still got my... Look at the house. Boy, hey, you... I still got my 100,000. You look at what... That's all I got in there. Damn.

Down payment on the cut new car. I ain't got nothing but a hundred thousand. I've been working too hard. I'm about those $50 so my windows wouldn't be naked. I'm about to retire with $125,000. Look, that shit expensive, dude. The good lines. Well, you both retired to the liquor stuff.

Yeah, it's about to. all I got, there's $125,000. That's why I got to give them a speech every time they ask for some money. I got $125,000. Once I give you this $5,000, I have $120,000. I'm fucked up until then. $400,000, maybe. Since you count my pocket, you're going to know for sure how much I got.

So when somebody asks you, I tell me, I got $120,000. I got $20,000. $5,500 to my next paycheck come. You want me to give you $200 of it? You got to give us some payroll. Because you know what? I look at it already there. I say, you get us your payroll, then you really see

do people give a fuck about you. That too, but you really see how much is good. You know, I pay myself $3,200 every two weeks. That's it. That's good money. $66. No, back in the day, they ain't let me make $1. That's $300.

I look at that like a pension. $6,400. I'm sending me. You know, you might buy some questions. Back in them days, they let the biggest have $3,200. You know, somebody made a new cupboard out. You know, you had a little covered out. A hamburger.

I don't need shit. What, nothing but 15? I don't need nothing. By the end of the month, I got about 20, 100. Sixes four back in my day. So when the first hit, guess what come happen again? Another 32 are, you know? Look at all I got to do one game.

I got one can rapio. That made you took them, took alma got that raviola. See all my ravioteo. A little raviola. Because you know, they're giving out raviola up there 10 for $2. So I bought 40 can.

Yeah, I bought 40 can. So when people ask for shit and then you realize, like, if I give it to them, you would really be fucked up. You know, if you go out with the shit that you got to do and motherfucker asking you for something, you're like, damn, shodder. Let's say if I had a good, decent paying,

child, that were paying me $3,200 a month. $3,200 every week. They're good money. $6,400 every month. Right. If I was to give all this money and pay my, my bill, man, y'all would be raping the average man, man. Yeah.

And you wouldn't even kill because out of $3,200. You add for $800. That's crazy. You put him in the blender. And you still got to pay that taxes. And I still got to pay the taxes. What? So I ain't really getting a whole $6.4.

Oh, no, no. They're going to taste some. They're going to taste some. I'm really getting probably like, 47. 47. Where you live? In about $47. I'm 48 federal.

Ooh. So some of that money going to my pension. because you want to retire. And you got your life insurance. And you got life in. I got the, and then I got to pop you with my name on it.

And you got to eat. And I got to eat. And I got to eat. And you got to smoke. And they said, you got it. You can deal with all that plus my problem. I ain't got it. They thought I had it.

Crazy. It looked good, though. That shit crazy. No, I'm just at peace. Hey, listen. I'm at peace. We're understanding. People think that when you ghost them

and when you just, you know, start standing yourself, that, you know, it's you hate them and it's like them, no, it's me loving myself. Right. That's just what it is. Me loving myself. I ain't got nothing else for you right now.

I got to get back to a place to where I'm comfortable enough to be able to answer your phone calls because I know it's going to be something whenever you call. Man, wait a little to go to Africa. Respect your own peace, protect. No, y'all niggins ain't coming over here. Yeah, they are. Jeez, boy.

If you find a way, I'm going to send your ass right to Alibaba. I'm an Alibaba hiring And if you Once you come on here You're gonna learn The shit you've been complaining about You're gonna really be grateful Then we're gonna find a way boy

You're gonna be grateful Bring your ass over here to Africa So you can be grateful I went to Cape Town And I was in the We was in the In the tourist part I was like

Yo I want to go actually See the people I want to see the people Hey my nigga What it looks like In the tourist part In the actual village Villages, may you be shame to yourself if you go to that shit and they'll go see that.

Damn, for real. That's crazy. You'd be shamed to yourself. Is that different? Is that different? It's like you're, like, you're still at home in the States. Everything at your disposal, whatever you want to eat, whatever you want to wear, anything. If you go over there, them niggas like, they really like, how you're doing, good to see you, thank you, thank you for coming here. You bless them.

And it's like, bro, it's all love, but you've got to go with people that know the land too. Right. then you become the food. But when you go see that shit, man, it's like it's a real, I just went to Africa for my first time for my honeymoon and I was just blown away. I say, yeah, this is probably one place I will come back to and be happy to come back to.

Because you see this shit, it's like, okay. Great for you. You see the black and white. It's like you see what, this is what they put in front of you. Oh, come over here. It's everything. The water's loose. Everything is affordable.

Everything come, eat, you know, at these five-star states. And then you go over here, these folk ain't got a motherfuckin' time. Right. Right across the road, nah. Right. Right. So it's like, God damn, that's how they do that over here?

And then you go back home and be like, all right, yeah, this shit, this shit really some bullshit. Put that shit in perspective. Damn, bro, you really got people over here. You got to, you got this side and got this side. You got an option. We have options. We have options. They ain't got no options.

Right. They're like, yo, we pray for people like you to come over here and bless us. Damn. You know what I'm saying? So I look at that shit like, man, y'all didn't wake up, visit the homeland, visit Africa, touch the soil, go over there and shake some hands, play with the kids. You know what I mean? Like just go over there, man.

I'm African. They didn't adapt to me and shit. Just go over there and see that shit, man, because it's different. I want to. It's different. I got to go over there with Michael Blassett. Don't folks that made me a song already. That shit fire, bro.

They made a song? It made a song. That's so fire, bro. Yeah. I heard it, bro. I heard it, bro. He put him on the phone. I got to go.

That shit. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. Listen to me. That's here with Jeremy. Boy, who's in the back, welcome DC Young Fly.

Welcome DC Young Fly. I said, nigger, the moment I'll find some time. Nick, I'm coming to see that shit live, nigga. They're going to do it right when you go. Nick, as soon as I get off the floor, Well, DC Young Fly. Nick, I ain't never come back. Now, you know another person I went to

I went to, what the fuck do we go, Slick? do we go, Slick? We went to, um, was it, uh, New Zealand? We got off a goddamn playing. Look, I did a goddamn, oh, ooh. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, that's what it's some wine. Yeah, yeah. The hockey. That's what it's called. The Hocker. It's like, yeah, that's the one. I love going to places where they, they welcome you with so much love and so much as serenity and peace. Like, you're going to come to the States, like, you know, what I'm a cuss, nigga, what's up? What I'm from? Yeah. I hate that shit, nigga. I can't with my red, I damn, my nigga, I hate

that. I don't go to different places. I don't go to places that that shit is very prevalent. I go to, out of other countries I'd be, I'd be like this chilling. Chilling. All the jury on, niggins, don't be, that gets you, whatever, it ain't really pressed about this shit. Right, right. It's all love.

It's like, man, we watch you back home where you, in your home state, we watch you. So we want you to come over, and he wants to show you love. Right. Right. They have to be over there. They won't pensions. If I go over there, I got to be over there about a month. How long you stay? I stayed, what, 15 days? I got to stay about a month because I know me, man.

I don't know, man. I just get out there and just, man, walk bad feet, man. Feel the earth, man. Get out here and, you know, I ain't going to tell my plans. You can feel the earth without walking. I'm going to just, no. I'm going to get right. I ain't coming over here.

I know that. No, D.C., there's a reason we were sandro. But we have to have my thirst to grip. Put your sandals off. I have to have my heart to grip. You might not have the right kind of feet to walk me. You must ain't seen these feet. Just because I'm in America, don't mean they ain't got African feet.

When I went to St. Lucia, they got that volcanic sand, brother. It's signs you got to wear your shoe. That shit gets so hot. Oh, yeah. That shit gets, yeah. That shit. Get hot at the motherfuckers up. St. Lush.

That's in the, that's another, what a little island over there by the St. Tomlin? St. Martin. St. Martin. St. Martin. Same, yeah. Where the guy I'm DC, youngs fly. Where'll the guy I'm this, see you guys.

Oh, I got to go. See my teeth are dope, too. It's dope. It's dope. What, St. Mark? Mm-hmm. I like, uh, well, that's, U.S.

and say St. Thomas. That's a nigga named St. I mean, it's still. It's cool. But you know, I like the Korean man, because they go sleep at a 30. Everything shut down. You get your shit right now, day time.

And it's light time. Hey, man, once their sun goes down, sunset, you go home. I'm like, boy, I love this shit. I'm trying to do that. I'm trying to party. Trying to part it. They got four little clubs, but we're watching you.

We know exactly where you had a club and go home. St. Lucia, he had 24-hour concert yet. You could call and bring you whatever you want. That fire. But steel, though, everything is shut down. You get a whole butler the whole time you're over there. In St. Lucia? Well, at the J. Mellon.

They got a little, you get a little staff. Oh, that's fine. I got to see what's happening in St. Lucia. See, I like, I like on, on, St. Tom because it's beautiful. That's small as head. It's wide. What, St. It's very small.

I like that. But you, one hour, you know, I went and traveled the whole island. You were like a ruby there. Mojew. Yeah. But you know, you know where there's really fire? Church of Keiko. Did you like when it went to Bermuda?

Oh, I love Bermuda. We're going back? Yeah. We're going back. They tried to bring me. I ain't gonna say what they are, but I fought with them niggum, man. Those are real nigger, man. You hear me.

Those are real niggum. Where was that Bermuda? You hear me. It's a real nigger. The show started eight. The show started late than a motherfucker. Man, them d'nick come out. Oh, yeah, the show gonna start late.

The show they're gonna get a fucker. But they came out, dude. And they're gonna show you love. Yes, indeed. Bermuda. It ain't even a far flight. It's like three and a half an hour. Like, yeah.

That's who over the insurance, like for the world. That's where it stationed it. I didn't know. All the insurance, like life insurance. Right on the water. Like a ball come. You want to go get something? It might be one store about a mile away

and then everything else you got to put your ass on the boat. Every insurance that's across the world, that's, I guess, that's, what's the word I want to say, that's attached to Bermuda or that has, like, a contract with them, all the insurance and shit come from them, like, they can come to America and get, like, medical surgeries and shit for free. Oh, I got you. You feel what I'm saying?

Because they got the insurance plan. That's why all the insurance come from. So is that part of you? It's a rich continent. I mean, country. Is Bermuda part of the U.S.? Bermuda ain't part of the U.A? Uh-huh.

Uh-uh. So, I mean, I guess that my question would be, so how don't they have the privileges of our... Put it like that. Back in the day, a lot of people with a lot of money. Move it over. I don't know. Develop some shit.

Because when I go to countries, I always say, what's the, like, what's running the city? They have the majority of the place to be like, tourism and all that, but it's like, all right, something got to fund the tourism because the government funding has to confront something. They're like, oh, yeah, we're big on insurance. Life insurance.

Remuda is big on there across the world. Like, y'all don't get free Medicaid and all that that shit. That's how y'all if you really get it, quote-unquote, because the money come from us. The insurance and all that. Who y'all be, liberty and mutual. Right. Liburit. Allstate.

Rebuted. Triple A. Remute. Whatever insurance you got, Kako. Brimimoolew. You dig what I'm saying. No, the general ain't from Bermuda.

No. Bermuda. He's not even Birmingham. Yeah. Bermuda. Call it to the rules and say some time. Not Bermuda. No, they're just big on this shit.

Like, they just how they run the country, you know what I'm saying? How they, you know what I'm saying? The money flow. Like, Tursa Keiko, like, what run it? Tourism. Bahamas, what run this? Tourism. You see what I'm saying?

So it's like a lot of people go to certain place in there and they really be funding the motherfucking country. You see what I'm saying? That's why they're really being. on, oh, shit, getting built here because we want y'all to come here. Y'all money is worth more. So when y'all come here, whatever y'all spend, nigga, it's times five, six. Are you stupid?

Come here and keep looking at this shit like the water is beautiful. I'm hitting it back, though. I know he did it. Oh, shit. Last time, nigga did, that ain't come, man. I got a pin' on, bro. All right, let's go ahead. Do this outro video.

I got a pin, bro. Hello, man. Yeah, you can go, here. You can go. You're going. You're going. You're going on. A bed deal.

You get a bed. Yeah, you're going to be with God over. Hell yeah. We don't want nobody, man. Trying to find the station back of the day was so crazy, boy. That's Charles, son. The motherfucker's going to be like,

whee, wait a minute. There's the new veto. Coming out. I got to wake up early in the morning, bro. What time? I've been waking up at 5 o'clock,

man, taking my son to basketball practice. 5 o'clock in the boy? Hell yeah. Well, he's going to practice it. Well, hell. His, you know, he's going to, I'll tell you. That's your crap. No, bro.

Yeah, man, another great one. Another night of hard work, D.C. Yes, we did. The bitch them took my goddamn rapioca down now. But then took home my rabbioli. And that shit was a funny shit. A lie, my brother. I'm telling you.

bro. What I'm telling him? Ravioli. You're stupid. That shit is enough to break up a happy home. What? It did break up a happy home. It was one o'clock in the fucking morning.

What time you got to get up? Nah. That ain't too rare. Yeah. All the old niggas beat on left McDonald's and went home and went back to bed by then. Nobody get up older than earlier than an old black man. black man. Well, I laid down and then I got up this morning about 2.30. Yeah, they get on 4 in the morning, faithfully. You know I'm up at 4.

Why? And dressed on sitting on the porch, ready to go at 4 o'clock. Man. Well, I get up early and I wake up Jesus and... You know, Jesus like to sleep at least 5 in the morning. Get up here and up, Jesus don't even be up yet. That's hilarious. Man, let me tell you something, bro. Tell me something.

Hey, the cougar. Uh-uh, that niggas sleep anywhere. Hey, y'all. He ain't one. He ate some piece of gum. Ain't some pieces of gum? Man, give me... He ain't swallin' the gum, man.

You look like you ain't bored about something piece of a gun, man. Give me one. Let me have one. Smoke, give me one. Damn. He's swallowing gum. He's a damn show this. Any nigga that swallow gum is a murderer.

He's stupid. You remember that you always tell you, don't swallow a gum? I'm like, why? You stay in your body for eight years. Right, right. It's going to be hard for you to foooboo now. You're going to kill your goddamn self.

You laugh until you wipe your ass and then there's gum on there. There's gum on there. Your ass blow a bubble. Now you're a drug. Ah! Poo! Poo! What's the fucking?

Blow the booty bubble. My ass is sticky. My ass is sticky. I've been blowing bubbles for three hours. Get in there and get it. You get it. You get some of my sticky asses. What's I got going on?

I really die. Smells like bumble inches back here. You came back. Yo, hey, yo, Wilele. Nicar Wallyle, man. Man, I ain't eight bubble gum. Oh. Been to have the bubble licious disease.

This, nigga, he's crazy, man. But got BD. What? Bubblitia disease. I got a whole chest. Asher reflux. Just number, bubblegish. Hey, you're going to hold me.

I got the bubbleguts. I got the bubbleguts. Hilarious. I'm from bubblelicious. Hold on, wrong. What the music is, man. Where they can go listen to all your shit. Oh, man.

The music is everywhere. Um, it's probably your girl phone. Oh, it's on Apple Music, Spotify. Fuck your talk. YouTube. Any place that you can find music, it is.

It's on all the, the leak websites, Or Hub, it's on all that shit, too. What? Yeah, all that. For me free? Oh, yeah, for sure. I got music on that too. They got a music section.

Yeah, you got to listen to the background. Draw out the other noise. Mm-hmm. My shit playing in the back. That'd be fucked. That'd be watching this shit. You'd be like, But no, everything is out right now.

My eighth album, Next Chapter is out now. This is the next chapter of my life. That's when they, within how many years? That's, whoo. Shit, nigger, like 15, 16? 8, 8 albums? 8 albums? Yeah, man, next chapter symbolizes me getting married,

me, you know, stepping into different realms of business outside of music, just finding, you know, finding different things to do, you know, with my level of success. This is my money and the blessings that God have bestowed upon me. It's just the next chapter. And this is, I'll be honest with you, this is a good book. Keep reading. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. Hey. Something late to be your last time. Drew. Hey, you know we got something for you, you know we got something for you name. Got the nudge. Come on.

Got to throw it on? You got to do it on, man. At least to the photos. Let me look like, hold on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like this.

Okay. Oh. Let's now. Let's go. No, no. No. We ain't mean all that. Take on.

I ain't know what you meant. No, man. Relax. Let go. You've been a ditty career too. No, no, no, no. You part of with dinner, man? No, man.

No, no. Y'all was over there. That's it. That's it. Look, man. We appreciate you stop. Man, God. Bless you.

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