The Breakfast Club - Gunplay Interview
Episode Date: August 18, 2015Gunplay Celebrates Release of Album, How He Is Handling Probation and Being A Real Street Guy Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for p...rivacy information.
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Friend to the room, family member.
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You know I'm the fourth member.
The fourth member of The Breakfast Club?
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Gun Play!
Hey, man!
What's up?
Congratulations to Alice in Stores.
Living legend.
Right now.
Hey, man, you got a copy, man.
Hey, man, did you steal it or did you buy it?
No, I bought mine.
I don't know why Def Jam give out hard copies. I got mine on my phone. Oh, okay, you got a copy, man. Hey, man, did you steal it or did you buy it? No, I bought mine. I don't know why Def Jam give out hard copies.
I got mine on my phone.
Oh, okay, okay.
That's what it is.
So we can stop having Gunplay come up here and asking him,
so when is the album going to come out?
Yeah, finally.
You know what I'm saying?
It feels real good.
Focused long enough and stayed out of jail long enough.
Thank God.
Is that all it really took?
Yeah.
Stay out of jail.
I swear.
Did they give you like a, say, hey, if you just stay out for a year like a say hey if you just stay out for a year
if you show us you can stay out for a year we got you something like that yeah but you got signed
while you were on the run yeah yeah that's normal people get dropped then yeah yeah you know what
i'm saying um i think everything happens for a reason and um you know i didn't get a chance to
bask in my glory of having a getting getting you advanced and going shopping and shit.
Man, here, man.
Lawyer, bail, mama, take the rest.
I'm out.
You know what I'm saying?
I heard you say that on the album.
You said you took your advance and bail a lawyer and you bought a gun.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Expensive gun.
Now, you kept it short, 11 songs.
That's honestly how I like my album.
What made you go that route?
Especially being that it took a while to do.
Yeah, because nowadays people's attention span is like a five-year-old.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's like you don't want to have 17 songs,
and they might not even get to the 10th one.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's in and out like a robbery, man.
And you put the 11 best songs
because sometimes people
just try to fill it up.
Yeah, nah, yeah.
I just, you know,
I just took a few songs
that I had already,
recorded some new ones,
and just wanted to paint
the picture of a living legend.
Now, Dark Days,
you know,
and Mouse Pike Miles,
that's one of my favorite
records on there.
Is that an old record
or was that new?
That was a new one.
Okay.
Produced by the Morris Brothers on Ashes.
And I just had to dig deep right quick
and pull out a pop me, you know what I'm saying,
to put that on that record, you know what I'm saying?
So I sounded upset and a little upset,
you know what I mean?
I felt like, yo, your best days are ahead of you, Gunplay.
Yeah, yeah.
We're going to leave that right there, though.
You know, we think about the future on the next album.
I'm already working on the next album.
I don't even know what it's called yet, but I know I'm working on it.
What was Rick Ross' involvement with this album?
He just gave me the okay.
You know what I'm saying?
So he wasn't in the studio.
And the reason I ask is because when we first seen Ross, when he first came out,
we just always seen the crazy, dread, light-skinned guy on the side.
So you was always with him.
So now it's kind of stepping out,
branching out on your own. Yeah. Was he
involved? Because now you're moving on your own. It's no
longer moving with Ross. Yeah,
exactly. You know, I followed his blueprint.
His blueprint. And
I seen, you know, the keys to success.
And, you know,
he's confident that I know what I'm doing.
You know what I'm saying? So he, you know,
of course I run things by him.
Like, what you think about this?
What you think about that?
And, you know, he don't want to actually name the album Living Legend.
He called me up.
I was taking a shit.
He called me up.
Just beat the case.
I'm like, what's up?
What's happening?
He's like, man, I hear all these screams, man.
You know what I'm saying?
They looking at you like a pot, man.
For real, man.
You done came back for some wild shit. You know what I'm saying? So, at you like a pot, man, for real, man. You done came back for some wild shit.
You know what I'm saying?
So, man, you know, you name your album, Living Legend.
I'm like, bingo, got you.
Living Legend, you damn right.
And that goes for anybody that's been through similar or worse
and rise above it and still shine.
They a living legend.
Single Moms is living legends.
You know what I'm saying?
So if you ever taking an itch, make sure you answer the phone
because it could be some good. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying? So if you ever take an itch, make sure you answer the phone because it could be some good.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Now, Stally's also on the album.
He produced that song also?
No, no.
Mighty Joe.
Mighty Joe something.
Yeah, Mighty Joe.
Shout out Mighty Joe, man.
He produced that track.
I laid the hook to that.
Like, when I heard the song,
he was playing some beats for me.
I heard the song.
I just said,
let me drop that hook right quick. Went in booth dropped the hook and i just i just kept
it in the tuck you know what i'm saying and then i figured it was time to um it was time to put it
out anytime any song about smoking is great with currency on it too yeah yeah you know what i'm
saying smoke one uh lead a game you got a phone call from your mom dukes yeah right before that
record was that a real call? Yeah, okay
Yeah, you know I'm saying I just say my just call me in and I'm gonna be in the booth just
You know, I mean the song is called leave the game, right?
She was like, okay, I could do that. I can handle that. You know I'm saying she just gave me some no
She knows I'm tough. I'm strong. I'm strong-minded. You know what I'm saying? And um, I don't put my mama on every album You know what I'm saying And I'm gonna put my mom On every album
You know what I'm saying
Cause I took her through hell
You know what I'm saying
I think she deserves
Some recognition
You know what I'm saying
Not just rapping about it
But I have her
Really on my album
How often do you get
Those G calls from moms
And G checks
Oh man
Not anymore like that
She just wanted
You know make sure
I'm alive
And I ain't in jail now
She just you know
Called me
I'm just checking on you You know what I'm saying Them calls stopped A long time ago man Since I've been focused You make sure I'm alive and I ain't in jail now. She just called me, I'm just checking on you.
You know what I'm saying?
Them calls stopped a long time ago, man, since I've been focused.
You know what I'm saying?
Word.
Now I was watching your Live and Legend series that you did,
and you were talking about getting paid $250 for shows when you first started
and how hard it was for you to leave the streets
because you wasn't making no money doing music.
Right.
So what was the biggest check you got after that
that made you be like,
okay, I can finally leave the street stuff alone?
Was when I got my triple C advance.
It was a nice little piece of change.
I ran through it.
It was gone like two months.
Where'd you find that?
I don't even remember.
I don't know what happened.
I don't know.
I was just out there just throwing it up, doing what I do best, man.
You know what I'm saying?
I wasn't focused on the future.
There's so many mistakes, so many poor decisions that I made that,
you know what I'm saying, it's coming back to haunt me now.
But it's also, you know, a stepping stone and a learning,
something I could learn from so I know not to make that mistake again,
like invest in yourself.
You know what I'm saying?
I made that mistake
with Roland
you know the record
you know got on tour
and I effed off
that money too
he was Roland
I f***ed up some money man
I could f*** a check up
I'm telling you
I would
yo commas
so what's different now
when you said
invest in yourself
what's different now
so you mean like
you wish you had
took your own money
and put it in the Roland instead of waiting on the label to put money in?
Definitely should have put the money in.
I told him that.
Yeah, yeah.
That was a huge song.
I told him that two times.
I didn't care.
I just, man, I'm buying a new car.
I'm going to fly this bitch in.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do that.
You know what I'm saying?
It's just too much, man.
Flying a girl in is kind of investing in yourself, though.
Hey, you know what I'm saying?
No, it's not.
Not when it's local girls and you don't got to fly nobody in. That's an investment for my nuts. Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Yeah, you know, that's cool. I just want, you know, when I put out this album,
I wasn't going for the commercial notoriety like that.
You know what I'm saying?
I just wanted to make sure I fed the streets.
They've been waiting for this album forever.
You know, I just wanted to make sure I gave them a solid body of work.
And, you know, next album, I think I'm really going to think about
the commercial side of the business. You want to do a record with Chris with Chris Brown man? Yeah I'll do a record with Chris Breezy and you know
while he's skating on the thing, on the hoverboard thing, you know what I'm saying? But yeah man you know I'm
just glad to put out the record man you know what I'm saying and the streets been
loving it you know I mean getting a lot of good feedback on the screech that's all that mattered to me man. As long as the screech effing loving it, you know what I mean? Getting a lot of good feedback on the Screech's. That's all that mattered to me, man.
As long as the Screech's effing with it, you already know.
Now, Blood on the Dope.
Just don't get no blood on the motherfucking dope.
What exactly does that mean for those who haven't heard the record?
Well, you know what I mean?
The record is called Blood on the Dope, featuring me, Yo Gotti, and my artist, PJK.
I basically put him up on a lick.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm like, hey, man, he got two workers in there.
He got some cocaine, got $100,000.
He fell.
Go grab that.
You know what I'm saying?
He down bad.
He need to lick.
You know what I'm saying?
Put him up on it.
I set it up.
He executed it.
And whatchamacallit, Yo Gotti came and mopped it up.
You know what I'm saying?
And it's a dope record.
The video's crazy, too.
So just don't get no blood on the dope,
meaning when you shoot him,
don't shoot him near the dope.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
You know what I'm saying?
Just take what you want, tie the ass up.
Yeah.
Just don't get no blood on that motherfucker.
You think it's a lane for street rap still?
No.
You said no? No. why you say that um look at the climate of the industry right now
you know what i'm saying it's they're pushing us out more and more and more pushing us away from
in the streets you know what i'm saying but um i don't care i'm gonna be screwed for life
you know what i'm saying I'm gonna cater to those
That
That can relate to me
And
You know
Shout out to Meek Mill
Two number one spots
I mean
You know what I mean
Two weeks in a row
You know what I'm saying
That's a Screed rapper
So that gives us hope
That gives me hope
That gives
You know what I mean
Anybody out there
Doing their thing
In the Screeds
And you ain't got to
Wear funny clothes
You ain't got to
You know what I'm saying
Be talking funny
You ain't got to Rap like the next man just to, you know what I'm saying,
get a spin or two, you know what I'm saying.
So, you know, I rock with it, man.
Screech back.
I asked that question because some little kid was on Twitter,
and he was saying, I can't, I think it was Troy Ave he was talking about,
I can't relate to Troy Ave because he talk about all that drug dealing
and yada, yada, yada.
So it's like a lot of these kids didn't grow up around that.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
They squaying.
They square lane, you know what I'm saying?
And we're not doubting them for that.
Go listen to the squaying.
When you want to get into some street,
you start smoking your first blunt,
you come listen to Gunplay.
But it's good though.
Snort your first line, you come listen to Gunplay.
We're not starting a snort you, man.
We're not snorting over here.
It is good, though, that a lot of kids aren't going towards the street life, though.
Yeah, it is.
And they better pay homage because we paved the motherfucking way.
You don't have to go through the streets.
You could be a square.
What did you think of the little skirmish between Meek and Drake?
It's none of my business.
Ain't none of my business, my brother.
I'm just glad that ain't nobody die.
You know what I'm saying?
Because I'm tired of going to funerals.
I'm tired of RIPing, man.
So, you know, it's good for hip-hop.
Just don't want anybody to get hurt.
And it's none of my business.
We had Uncle Luke up here yesterday,
and he was saying the whole MMG should be responding.
That's how it was back in the day.
You just one member of the crew, the whole crew ride.
Yeah, I think he was saying when Jay-Z was beefing with Nas,
the whole Rockefeller crew.
But see, we a different kind of breed.
We a different kind of label.
We not going to rap that shit.
We going to concede.
You know what I'm saying?
That's it.
So I don't, that's fine. You know what? Come on, y'all know me. You know what I'm saying? That's it. So I don't, that's fine.
You know, come on, y'all know me.
You know what I'm saying?
I ain't finna sit there and tongue
wrestle with no mother man.
Man, I'm finna concede about you.
I'm gonna do my homework.
I'm gonna lay and that's it.
But battles are good for hip hop though.
Yeah, cool.
Yeah, cool.
Just don't call my name.
Just say my name.
I won't come back with a diss record. Yeah, cool. Yeah, cool. Just don't call my name. Just say my name. I won't come back
with a diss record.
Shots fired.
You can rap, though.
I don't give a fuck.
Fuck that shit.
You're not gonna
try to slander me
or pick my character apart
on a record
for these motherfucking lames
out here listening
to it back and forth
and make memes on it.
Hey, man, look.
You can see.
Oh, fuck that.
You're going to see.
Hey, man, shots fired.
Motherfuckers is down.
Holy shit.
That's on everything, man, for real.
Now, how important is writing your rhymes?
Because that's how the whole situation started.
Because you used to ghostwrite for people.
Yeah.
Did you?
Hell yeah.
I know that.
Yeah.
I don't know if I want...
That's what a ghostwriter does.
You know, but I, you know,
hip-hop is in a whole nother chamber right now.
This is not about that no more.
It's pop now.
Hip-hop.
That's what it is.
And you know what I'm saying?
If somebody don't write their raps, nobody cares.
When it comes out at the end of the day, you don't go to McDonald's and be like,
yo, who cooked that?
You just buy the sandwich.
You eat the Big Mac.
Y'all like the Big Mac, man.
It tastes great.
I'm going to go back again.
Nobody cares.
Hey, man, you the one cooked this?
Hey, man. Hey, you didn't wanna cook this hey man hey you
didn't wash your hands no they don't nobody gonna give no man these kids man they don't even they
just found out what a ghost rider was just not so what made you want to come to the forefront why
did you say ghost riding get paid you ain't got to worry about the fame they called me you know
what i'm saying but at the same time you know know, I live for entertaining people, you know what I'm saying?
I like, on my shows, I entertain, you know what I'm saying?
I just don't hold a mic.
I like to entertain people.
I like people to be, you know what I mean?
Just the energy and shit like that.
So, you know, that's why I did my thing.
You planning to do a tour for this album?
Yeah, I was supposed to be on the Lil Durk tour.
But a few things going on with whatever, whatever.
But you know what I mean?
We're working it out.
You still having legal trouble?
I'm on probation.
Okay.
For a dope charge in Atlanta.
Like after I beat the case, what a donkey.
Oh, you had caught another charge? Yeah, dog.
Yeah, dog.
That's what I'm saying, man.
I'm saying, yeah.
I thought you said you left all that behind you.
I did.
I mean, I got comfortable.
Beat the case.
Yeah.
Fuck that.
Teflon Don.
Why they going to the airport?
Why got some motherfucking Miley in my bag of shit?
Hey, excuse me, sir.
Can you step to the side?
Search your bag.
I'm like, today? Why? Why today? And I had some Miley in there. Can you step to the side? Search your bag. I'm like, today?
Why?
Why today?
And I had Shemali in there.
You forgot it was in there?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was in there.
I had like 1,600 in ones.
And I tucked it in there somewhere.
And they went through all the ones.
And what was this?
Man, I'd probably get thrown out.
It's ice.
I'm like, ice?
What the fuck is ice?
It's Molly.
No, nigga, that's meth.
I got charged with f***ing
methamphetamine man
goodness gracious
so everybody
talk about this
molly s***
boy y'all snorting
meth man
y'all popping
meth
don't get it
twisted
that's how ecstasy
was ecstasy was
just all a bunch
of different stuff
put together
but they lied
us and said
molly was the
purest form
of MDMA
that s*** is methamphetamines.
Get the fuck out of here.
Did the case got dropped?
Was it over or no?
No, I got three years probation by this shit.
It was a three years prison or three years papers.
You're like, I'll take the probation.
$15,000 later.
Yeesh.
Now, you've always had no problem
expressing your love for drugs.
You know what I'm saying?
On the new album, you got the white bitch.
White bitch, yeah. You even got the skit where you snorting how
much of that right no I did I was cooking man I was cooking man I was cooking up you know what I'm saying
you know what I'm saying I was doing it like like the fast trap way where you just
dump it in the cup woo woo put it in the microwave heat it up hit the fork with
that mother make sure that*** stick to the fork,
and then you know what you're working with.
You know what I'm saying? That's that real, real, real,
real, real, real, real trap s***.
How much of that is for entertainment now?
And how much, like, are you still dabble?
I don't do s***.
I'm boring as hell.
It's all entertainment.
I don't do s***. I play fight night. I go fishing.
I go boar hunting.
Yeah, I go on boar hunting too. fight night. I go fishing. I go boar hunting. I seen you fishing the other day. Yeah, I go on boar hunting, too.
I kill pigs.
Okay.
Pigs.
I kill pigs.
You like the big game hunting.
Yeah, man, I like it.
You and that Dennis would have been out there killing them lions in Zimbabwe.
Oh, man, that's crazy.
Yeah, I would.
King of the jungle, king.
Nah, but I like big game hunting, big game fishing.
You know what I'm saying?
Just sh** that's different.
You know what I mean?
Nobody in hip-hop is doing that.
I'm trying to go for a pilot for my show, My Wild Life.
Doing all that.
So like on some Discovery.
Stabbing alligators.
Might get bit.
I might let myself get bit for ratings one time.
Nah, I'm bullsh**. That actually would be a dope idea. You could be like the newest that dude who got killed. Alligators. Might get bit. I might let myself get bit for ratings one time.
Nah, I'm bullsh**.
That actually would be a dope idea.
You could be like the newest dude who got killed.
Steve Irwin.
Crocodile.
No.
Was that him?
He gonna compare me to a dead motherf**ker. No.
You got hit with the stinger in his chest.
That was Crocodile Dundee.
That was Crocodile Dundee.
Crocodile Dundee.
That's a movie.
That is a movie, man.
Oh, my gosh.
God bless the dead for the homeboy.
I thought Crocodile Dundee was real.
F***ing dog legacy up, man.
Damn.
I told you Uncle Luke was here.
He also said that he wishes the Miami artists that are on would put more artists from Miami on.
I'm the first artist from Miami that's signed a record deal and put out an album from another artist from Miami
first time in history so this is a very important album don't get it twisted everybody paved the way
but nobody reached back you know what I'm saying and um and Rosé is the first Miami rapper to put
on another Miami rapper
and get a record deal and put out an album.
So this is a very big day for Miami.
Miami, let's chuch up.
Let's get this money.
Do you think Miami has a sound?
Because that was another thing he was talking about,
that Miami used to have a sound,
but there's no distinct Miami sound.
There is.
You know what I'm saying?
It's called that juke music.
You know what I'm saying? You know, like, oh no. Shout out to De like juke music you know what i'm saying you know
oh no shout out shout out to des lock you know i'm saying piccolo oh no you can't stop my vibe
oh no no no no it's we got vibes down there but it's not commercial it's just for miami
it's you know i'm saying hoes wu-tang with it it's called wu-tang they do their wu-tang dance
and shit like that and you know what i'm saying it It's a whole other culture of music, but it don't get commercialized.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's there.
It's there, but it ain't getting the light.
You know what I'm saying?
You feel like the real Miami's being represented?
Yeah, with Ross.
Absolutely.
You know what I'm saying?
Especially my favorite album that Ross did was this last one, Hood Billionaire. When he really went in depth about Miami, you know what I'm saying? Like, especially, like, my favorite album that Ross did was this last one, Hood Billionaire.
When he really went in depth about Miami, you know what I'm saying?
Like, Wayne Parker, you know what I'm saying?
Bo Dilly, you know what I'm saying?
Like, Boobie, Black Boy, you know what I'm saying?
It's just, he went in.
He wasn't just rapping.
Like, I could relate to him.
I know who he talking about.
I met these people.
And you know what I'm saying?
And he really held it down for Miami with this one.
With Hood Billionaire.
But Living Legend is in stores right now.
I'll admit that.
Living Legend is in stores right now.
We appreciate you joining us.
Hey, I stole a copy.
You stole?
Yeah, I took a razor blade.
You don't say that for probation right now,
so you ain't stealing a copy.
You borrowed a copy.
You borrowed a copy from the store.
It's yours, technically.
So you can walk away with it.
I got a razor blade, right?
And I did like this.
I went to the barcode.
I cut the barcode out.
Just like he did.
Look, see?
Right.
How much of yourself are you policing nowadays
or making sure you don't go too crazy?
Well, every time I step out the house,
I step out the door, man.
I don't know if I have anything on me.
In my little pocket.
Oh, shit.
Uh-oh.
What that is?
A Quaalude.
You just said a Quaalude.
He's playing.
That ain't nothing.
He's playing too much, man.
It's BC powder.
Okay, you have a headache.
You know that BC powder?
When you have a headache. When you have BC powder? When you have a headache.
When you have a headache?
Yeah.
That's what that is.
Who do you...
You got excuses for days, man.
I got a headache, man.
Early in the morning, this guy's getting me drunk over here.
We just drinking a little cognac, man.
You know what I'm saying?
He got you drunk, or you came in here and poured that yourself?
He poured it himself after a while.
Nah, I pour my own problem.
Right.
I'm just happy my dog...
You can pour it for me, too.
Yeah, I'm just happy my dog got his album out.
Hey!
Got a f***ing album out!
Oh my God, I love it so, so much!
Do you care about sales and all that?
Nah, man, I don't give a f*** about no goddamn sales, man.
You know what I'm saying?
You know me, come on, man.
I would've wore some funny jeans.
Some funny jeans?
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
Spandex and s***, man. I would've been talking funny. If I wanted sales, you know what I'm saying? Spandex and shit, man.
I would have been talking funny.
I would have been, if I wanted shells.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
It's all good, though.
I don't care.
I ain't here to change the world.
I'm here to feed the streets, my brother.
You know what I'm saying?
The streets is hungry.
It's a lot of hollow music out there.
Shit that don't stick to your ribs.
You know what I'm saying?
And it's no substance.
And even though that's dinosaur nowadays,
I don't give a fuck.
I'll be a fucking dinosaur then, goddamn.
Because I know I got a fan base.
I got, you know what I mean, that support me in whatever I do.
So I'm doing this for them.
Next go round, I might win.
No, I'm bullshitting.
I don't think that's your lane.
I think you should continue to give us those real street stories.
I am.
I am.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm making a living, a decent living.
You know what I'm saying? I'm making a living, decent living, you know what I'm saying? A nice
living off of being me.
I don't have to
fake in front and
you know what I'm saying? I let the
world know my mistakes,
my shortcomings, and
you know what I mean? I'm high and mighty. I
never took an L.
Nah, dog. We all take L's, man.
You know what I'm saying? So I embrace my
fuck-ups. I embrace my mistakes. You know what I mean? And I learn from them, and I
move forward. And that's my core fan base. They can relate to it. You know what I'm saying?
Hey, fuck up too. Go ahead. Go fuck up. It's okay. Learn from it. Come back. Holler at
me. You know what I'm saying?
Have you found that balance yet between the industry and the streets? Because we still see
you from time to time bug out
on some industry folk. I remember in particular
when you went at Timberland
after that little situation. Hey, man,
they just put the battery in my back.
I just go. I'm a soldier.
You know what I'm saying? I don't know
dog from a can of motherf***er piss.
But you know what I'm saying? Hey, you know,
hey, man, somebody got a problem.
Hey, who?
What?
Hey, Twitter.
I don't Twitter.
Why don't you see me go bad on Twitter?
No Twitter beat you.
I'm just following orders.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm a soldier like that.
But don't people feel like, okay, let me just make sure I gunplay.
Nothing happens because he is on probation.
He's had some legal problems, so we don't even want you to have to go.
Yeah, what you saying?
Who's saying that? I'm just saying
in general, I would think people around you would be like
we don't want you to have no issues if something
goes wrong. Let's make sure Gunplay don't
get involved and don't get mad. I'm a
grown ass man. I do what I want.
I don't
care.
Even if they're looking out for you like Gunplay,
no. No. This is something I have to do, then I will do it. You know what I is. Even if they're looking out for you like gunplay, no. No.
Put the gun away. If there's something I have to do, then I will do it.
You know what I'm saying?
But for the most part, I'm super focused.
I stay away from anything that can bring me to jail.
You know what I'm saying?
So, like, the best cure for anything is prevention.
So I prevent everything from happening, you know what I'm saying,
before I even start.
You know what I mean?
And I got a great team behind me.
Shout out to Cook the Cook.
Hey, Cook the Cook, man.
Hey, man.
Rocking the D.C. shirt, you know what I'm saying?
You're like, man, please don't shout me out.
That's my partner right there, you know what I'm saying,
out of Care City, man, you know what I'm saying?
And we've been on this road the last three months,
tired as a motherfucker, but it's all going to pay off, man.
Who inspires Gunplay at this moment?
At this moment, my hunger, hunger inspires me.
So no other artist, musician?
No.
No.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't really listen to nobody.
You know what I mean?
I march to the beat of my own drum. I motherfucking
do what the fuck I want to do
when the fuck I want to do it.
And
that's my motivation. I still want to
put out another album.
Oh, the Triple C album coming on the way.
You know what I'm saying? Shout out to us, Breed. We doing that.
And I just want to work, man.
I just want to perfect my craft.
I like you because you never put yourself in a box you do pop records when you want to
Hey man, hey, I got this record man, it's like EDM ish, but it's you know, I never make these calls
The videos crazy though, I swear I was in the Mojave Desert in boxes and a mink.
And with boots.
You know what I'm saying?
It was crazy.
You know what I'm saying?
But yeah, I get bored with music sometimes.
Get bored.
Just want to do something different, whatever.
And that's when you go big game hunting.
Yeah, that's when I stab a boar.
I kill a pig.
That's when we kill pigs.
You did that with a gun?
Nah, we got to run up on them with a knife and cut their heart.
Gotta stab them in the heart between their red pigs.
Look at Abby's face.
Does stuff like that keep you from stabbing somebody?
Somebody, yeah.
I'm basically taking out on the pig.
Yeah, just kill pigs.
Yeah, just kill pigs.
Pig killer.
Did you eat it?
Yeah. The back strap.
You know what I'm saying? You gotta cut. Pig killer folive. Did you eat it? Yeah. The back strap. The back strap.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
Like, you got to cut.
They cut, like, right on both sides of the spine.
Yeah.
They cut the fat off, the meat.
You know what I'm saying?
Then you chop that up, and you boil it up,
and you make sure that it's nice and tender.
And you throw some motherfucking seasoning on that motherfucker. Throw that motherfucker on the grill, and man, we working.
What about gator?
You ever killed a gator in Florida?
That's my next thing.
Oh, God.
I'm going to get a hunt.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm going to club him.
Pink.
Right over the head.
I can't shoot because I'm on probation,
so I don't want them to be like...
So you out there primitive with it.
Yeah.
I love you clubbing gators.
Yeah.
Goodness gracious.
So you can't even use a gun to hunt?
Hell no. You can't touch a gun. even use a gun to hunt? Hell no.
You can't touch a gun.
Man, I went to,
do you understand?
I was on probation for a gun charge, right?
It was 2000.
I'm so retarded.
I got,
no, I can't say that.
Uh-oh.
But I'm so retarded.
I get a gun charge, boom.
All right.
Pay a bunch of money.
I had got probation
for like five years years some like that and
nine days before my mother probation was up i just said gunplay clean the house just clean your house
up clean your house stashed everything took everything that was in there i said you only
got nine days left before you know what i'm'm saying? Next thing you know, my PO doing a residence check.
I'll be there in an hour.
I'm like, all right, perfect, because I just, everything's not in my house.
My, she come down there.
I'm at the front door.
Open up.
It's hot outside.
I come downstairs in my boxers.
I don't even look outside.
Open the door.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
They, like, they wanted to fill up on it like i got boxes on man and then what am i getting arrested for it wasn't him and it was like remember that video that you did um um uh what's
the um the guns at the gun range what was that i forgot what it was. Cigar fan hardware. That video when I brought all my guns and shit like that.
And it was like, you went to the gun range and they assigned my name to go.
Wow.
So my name, my fucking name, everything was on that shit.
Like, it was retarded.
And they came and got me nine days of my probation.
So now I'm just, you know what I mean?
See, that's why you got to watch what you do online.
Yeah, man.
And fuck with you offline.
Straight up, man.
No guns, no nothing, man.
I'm glad you're in the stores right now.
Something positive.
The album's in stores right now.
I'm in the album, man.
Oh!
I dropped the album.
Oh, my God.
Living legend is in stores right now.
And I'm glad Gunplay wasn't in the house with Ross when Ross found that groundskeeper in there.
Hey, man. Hey, man.
It's none of my business, man.
Living Legend in stores right now.
Rosé gonna be all right just for the record.
Yes, he is.
These liars, these devils,
they just want to bring a black man down.
A successful, rich black man
with the biggest house in America.
They want to bring my man down.
That's it.
That boy. Pick up the album my man down. That's that.
That boy.
Pick up the album.
Living legend in stores right now.
We appreciate you every time.
What happened to the positive words?
Wise words from Gunplay, man.
We got to get.
Matter of fact, he got some on his phone.
Wise words from Gunplay.
We'll be coming back to the Breakfast Club next week.
Thank you, man.
You got one for us right now, man?
Only you got.
Leave us with one.
Wise words from Gunplay.
After you take a piss and a little bit of dribble dribbles out and she still sucks your dick.
When she feels your boxes are wet with a little bit of piss, she's a keeper.
I don't know that we can play that. Okay.
God, Gunplay is broken.
All right.
It's the Breakfast Club gunplay!
Yeah!
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