The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Fridayy Talks New Album, Father's Passing; Dealing With Grief, Meek Mill, Chris Brown, Haiti + More

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With  Fridayy To Discuss New Album, Father's Passing; Dealing With Grief, Meek Mill, Chris Brown, Haiti. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We got a special guest in the building. His album is out right now, ladies and gentlemen. We have Friday here! Welcome, brother! Sup man, how y'all doing? You getting some money Friday. I can tell when a nigga got some money now. It's a little different from last time.

Yeah, for sure. But you stay consistent though, yo. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you gotta stay consistent. How you feeling, though, brother? I feel amazing, man. You feel me? It's been 18 months since I dropped my last project,

so the fans been waiting on this. I feel good. I ain't gonna lie. What's changed over the last 18 months for you? Personally and professionally. I'll go personally, just coming into the industry. Last time it was like my first for then. Now it's like I'm experiencing everything all at one.

You know what I'm saying? Like the highs and the lows, just everything that come with the fame. It's been like a tricky past year, you know, especially losing my dad. Lost my dad last year. Just at the highest point of my life while I was on tour, selling out shows, I got the car, I lost my dad. Lost my dad last year, just at the highest point of my life while I was on tour, selling out shows,

I got the car, I lost my dad, so just balancing that and working on the album for sure. You was in Europe when you got that car, right? Yeah, it messed me up bad, like I get chills just talking about it, because I was in theory when he died, I just could see him going, you feel me, his eyes open, I couldn't even talk to him, you know what I'm saying?

It's like bring real trauma. I cry every time I could think about it. Did they put you on FaceTime with him or something? Yeah, it was just, my mom put me on FaceTime. It was like, your dad gone. I couldn't believe it. I'm like, let me see. And I looked at his face, his shoulders, all his body.

I'm like, there's nothing I could do though, you feel me? I'm 12 hours away, so it hit me every time I think about it. And that's what the record, I guess, with Meek Mill, Proud of Meek, because you both lost your dad, and that's what you're talking about in that song. Yeah, for sure. You reached out to Meek for that,

or how did that song come about? Yeah, I was actually in New York. My album was already turned in, so I pulled up on Meek at the concert, just chopped it up. Meek showed me love. He was one of the few artists that brought me out to my first show, 20,000 people, you feel me? So we've been locked in since.

And I dropped this song like a month after my dad died, and then Meek DM'd me like, my dad died too, so we connected even more on that. And my album was done. I made that song probably like two months ago. You know what I'm saying? I just called him because I knew it was gonna touch his heart. You know what I'm saying?

And we was on FaceTime for like three hours. You know what I'm saying? I'm pulling up on you in New York, like I need this verse. Like I pulled up on him, he told me, like bro, I've been in writer's block for the past month, but I'm gonna knock this joint out for you, feel me? So he was in the booth for 11 hours. Like I watched him stay in the booth 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. just making

sure he got this done for his dad you know I'm saying cuz drama like that hits different yeah and on an album is some days I'm good some days I'm not now I can't help but to notice on the cover, you don't look happy at all. You don't. It's a dope cover, but it definitely speaks. It screams that you're not okay. Facts.

And that's how I wanted the cover, you feel me? Everybody around me smiling too. Like being at this position, you almost make everybody else happy because they all getting something from you. So you might be outside, everybody happy, because like, but they not even wondering like how Fry are really doing,

because it's a lot on him, you know what I'm saying? Like nobody even asks you, like bro you really, yeah they don't really care, because we living like, you feel me? Feel me, and you putting them in positions like, yeah you changed my life, but they will never even think like, what Burgo going through, yeah, for sure.

What you know on the Proud of Me record, you talk about how it hurts you all, but then you say you heal your pain by buying diamonds on diamonds. Yeah, for sure. So a lot of people are gonna be like, oh, he good. No, no, no, it's just something that like, it's just something that give me happy, you know,

I might be messed up and just go to the, you feel me, go to Sean real quick. I don't even gotta buy jewelry, I'll just chill in the jewelry store, just look at that. You feel me? Go to Shine real quick. I don't even gotta buy jewelry. I'll just chill in the jewelry store, just look at it, you feel me? Because it's one of my trophies to me. You know what I'm saying? I'm one of them guys like I ain't gonna wait

for somebody to give me a trophy, so I'm gonna go buy my own trophy. Look, it's a trophy. They call that retail therapy, but it's temporary though. Like how long does that last? It's temporary, but it's a trophy to me. You know what I'm saying?

So it's something like I worked hard my whole to me. You know what I'm saying? So it's something like I worked hard my whole life for. You know what I'm saying? It's equal to a Grammy. I look at this like a Grammy. You know what I'm saying? For sure. Let me pull out my diamond tats.

Let me see if you should be happy about this. No, stop, man. No, you're good. Go ahead. I like that. I'm just saying. This man always want to do that. I'm just saying, when you want me to, I got to warm up for you.

I got to warm up for you. Because you might be out here happy for no reason. All the way good. This guy's crazy. Where he's coming out, man? We got that old days diamond taster. I was gonna ask, you know, how long did it take you to do this album?

Cause listening to the album, you could, you feel the pain from the first song. Yeah. From the first song, how long did it take you to do this album? And how difficult was it to do this album? And there's so many elements in this album that scream gospel.

Yeah. It took me like 18 months to do this album. Like the last album, I was very still, like I ain't even gone on tour yet. I just locked in for like a month straight and just boom, two months, 14 songs. But this album, I was on tour, two tours, losing my dad. So it was like, it all came together like in 18 months.

That's why I see even 21 songs on this album. It's just a process of me recording through the whole year, making good music. I couldn't even take nothing out, you know what I'm saying? And also a reason why I said double this, you feel me? I got a lot of fans that love the R&B side of me and the other fans that love the life, you know what I'm saying? The pain side of me.

So I separated in that way just to feed my fans, you know what I'm saying, the pain inside of me. So I separated in that way just to feed my fans, you know what I'm saying, it's been a long time. Besides you. You grew up in church, that's why. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. My dad's a pastor, you know what I'm saying, that's where I learned everything, like he forced music on me, you know what I'm saying.

There wasn't no musicians in the church, so he told me and my brothers, y'all need to learn something, you know what I'm saying, y'all gonna play something. It kinda like came natural, like I was playing instruments and singing in the church show, he told me and my brothers, y'all niggas gotta learn something, y'all gonna play something. It kinda like came natural, I was playing instruments and singing in the choir since I was like 11. I wonder what the meek verse, was it the writer's block, or the difficulty of making the verse,

artifact that y'all was sitting up talking about, grief that took 11 hours, what do you think it was? I think it's everything, you know what I'm saying? Like when you make a song for somebody you lost, it's like you gotta get it done, you gotta do the best you can for that person. In that session too, if you look on my Instagram, I was probably crying tears the whole session, you know what I'm saying?

Cause while he was recording, we couldn't hear, but like when he finished his verse, even though he lost his dad when he was a kid a lot of the stuff he was saying like Was touching my heart in a different way like I got everything But I just really want to hold hands with my old man on wedding day while I slow dance You feel me and just I lost my dad and my brother got married My pot wasn't that that so everything he was saying was just hitting my heart So that that session was a therapy session, bro.

We was crying real tears in there. What other healthy conversations have led to art? What you mean by that? Like other conversations that you've had with people that lead to music. I get music like that. It's like a lot from like experience, especially convo's, even like I got a song called

Some Days I'm Good, Some Days I'm Not on the album, like that was a conversation I had with my manager, just finding an album title, and then we found it, right after we found it, I just went into my basement, produced it, and just freestyled that song. So a lot of my music come from experience for sure. Hell yeah, because Empty Stomach is still my favorite. Oh yeah, she a date.

That's why I love Jess. She been showing me love since the beginning, for real though. I was gonna ask, what else you been dealing with on this album in the last, I guess, 18 months? Because besides your father passing, I mean, listening to some of these songs, it seems like your friends has snaked you.

Seems like your friends only out for one thing, a girl Did you dirty like there's so much pain, but I wanted to get after he listens out I said I gotta get his brother a hug like you've been dealing so what else Wait for me like this wreck is never leave like this record where you're gonna pray. But like, sun comes down, wait for me, like this record's never leave, like this record's where you're hurting, so talk about that a little bit. I say like being the first person to make it out,

it's like a blessing and a curse. And it's like, when you make it out, all eyes is on you. And I'll say this, like, it'll be like the closest people around you, they just look at you to everything. You know what I'm saying? They even blame you for everything, you feel me? You just wake up and you get five calls,

like bro, what you think about this business? Like you feel me? I'm like, talk to me. Niggas don't got no clue what they wanna do. I'm like, all right, but, oh Friday, weirdo, you don't wanna invest in my business. Then that's another joke, you feel me? And it's like, I'll say this,

like bringing people to the water, it's a blessing and a curse. Cause they'll take it for granted, I'll say that. And then they'll blame it on you, you feel me? In a way, like, say you bring people backstage, right? I put people in this room. They'll look at you to do everything else. No looker in the room, what a looker.

No food? You ain't got no food? They in the room with you and they be like, yo, Tech Shrollamane, bro, I just put you in the room. You just met 80 artists, but you worried about girls. You ain't leaving no numbers, and then you go to sleep like, your Friday ain't putting me in position. Only thing you can ask for is the door to be open.

You feel me? So that's one of the things, big things going through, like making it out for sure. I tell you something that I wish somebody would have told me earlier, focus on yourself, Ken. Nah, for sure. Because you can travel farther alone,

and then when you finally get in the position you wanna be, then you can help who is worthy of being. Nah, for sure, yeah, thanks. You know, another thing too, man, you say that the pain won't go away, you say that on the some days I'm good, some days I'm not. It's like, you know it's not really supposed to. Yeah.

You're supposed to just deal with it. You're supposed to deal with it, understand it more, and find the good in it. Yeah, you said, I know you might wanna escape from it, you know, have a little drink, buy some jewelry, but it's a natural thing. You should be grieving, you lost your pops. That's what I'm understanding.

No, for sure, yeah. I'm learning that as the days go by, I just understand it more. You feel me? I understand it and take it as a lesson of how I'm supposed to be moving forward in my life. So yeah, that's right. It'll never go away though.

I know shopping for jewelry and just sitting in a jewelry store, that's your yeah, that's a fact. It'll never go away, though. I know shopping for jewelry and just sitting in a jewelry store, that's your trophy, that's your therapy, but you don't have a professional therapist that you see? No, not yet. I'm thinking about it, but not yet. I really just go to the studio, you feel me?

I just, I don't know, it's kinda weird. I don't wanna pull my life out to somebody I don't really know, you feel me? And I don't wanna pull my life life out this am I hmm. I don't really know You feel me in I don't pull my life out this am I that I do know? Yeah, cuz my knees so from me so they're gonna tell me everything I I want to hear instead of what I need to hear so No, kiddy a text, you know that but yeah, you ready I started going in 2016 do it when you're ready Yeah, for sure. That's your alarm. I don't know all that, but yeah. Do it when you're ready. I started going in 2016. Just do it when you're ready. Yeah, for sure. That's your alarm?

No, I don't think it's mine. That's mine. That is mine. You be waking up at 1022? Nah, look. Look, sometimes I got alarms just to, you feel me, pay this bill or something, something like that. Just remind me.

What was that reminder for? Yo nosy as hell. Like it was a gas light bill or something. A gas light bill? Yeah. Okay, okay. But nah, just go to therapy when you're ready to. Yeah, for sure.

You know what I mean? Let me check this jewelry though, I need to see. Oh, here you go. It was making a lot of noise, man, hold on. I love when somebody step up. I love it, step up. Tell them to stop playing with you, Fry. Like, we not doing that.

I don't know, Fry. You doing the jewelry, go ahead, go ahead. Where the diamond at? Where the diamond at? Oh, okay. I don't know fry you doing no What a diamond it okay Has to be on it That was the first diamond test that ever made Cuz I've seen other ones that don't look like that Run up in the jeweler right now But it ain't making no noise why it's not making no noise

It's supposed to make noise whether it's fake or real it ain't supposed to be quiet Is it working right? Should have waited to the end to do this shit. Now he ain't going to answer no more questions. You're going to get this right. OK. You're going to get this right. God damn, man. I don't know.

Come here. If you make sure my chain broke. It's about to be one of them days. I'm going to go to the jeweler with you. OK, hold on. No. Hold on. Damn, this. Yeah, that shit joke. Okay, hold on. No. Hold on.

Damn, this. Yeah, that shit broke. Yeah, that's real shit. I already knew it. Fuckin' tell ya'll, that was real. That was real, nigga. What you talkin' about? Yes it is on all the way. Hold on, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Turn it off, turn it back on. It's on all the way. Yes it is. Stop disrespecting Sean. You put real pain, real money into the trophy, feel me? Tellin' you, yo. I don't into the trophy. You feel me telling you About a person who's man Yeah, it's about the view one of them days he ain't okay man.

It would work on one of these days. It works. You sure? I'm playing. Okay, okay, okay. Let's try it. Okay. Put it on me now.

Let's see. You gotta put your thumb on the top. All right, all right, all right. All right. Put it on me. Stop playing with me. Hey, told this nigga to stop playing. Okay, okay, okay. All right, all right. Stop playing with me. I told this nigga to stop playing. OK, OK, OK.

All right. I knew he was going to do it too. I was going to go to the jeweler with you Friday. I was like, you can't do it. Put that little shit around your neck that you got tucked. Take that out. All right, damn. He keep going.

I got to make sure he right. Ain't no Philly nigga like Friday, right? Come up here with no fake jewelry This is highlighted all interview like what are we doing? I'm gonna put Friday just sweat a little bit This would have been one of them days that he's not having a good one This would have been one of them days that he's not having a good one But I like the come home record too, yeah, Nihila, what else you got? That was ten minutes.

I text Nihila right after, I appreciate you saying it. That would have been three minutes without Nihila. No, but I like it though because you talk about how you put a woman through a lot of shit. Yeah, I ain't say that. What song you talking about? On the Come Home. Oh yeah, for sure. In a way, in a way. I ain't say that what you write about what song you talking about? Oh, no, I'm the come home Oh, yeah, for sure in a way in a way. Yeah, but to have that level of self-awareness Yeah, that's it. That's a great record writing wise, you know It's special like is this is this explaining like is it too late for me to come home?

Like maybe an outside late and doing all my dirt and just coming home You know when you come home, you don't feel feel like, you don't wanna give nobody a hug, you gotta watch out first, you know what I'm saying? It's like one of them songs, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. You steady trying to cover up your filthy side. You don't come home with a lot of baggage I've been hard to manage. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

That song crazy, and it's not even about love, it's about whoever you coming home to, you know what I'm saying? Even if it's your kid, even if- Hey y'all, it's your girl, Cheeky's, and I'm back with a brand new season of your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill. I'll be sharing even more personal stories with you guys.

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like me, I'm coming to see my mom, I gotta take a shower if I'm doing something crazy, you know, for sure. Do you feel like you have to, I guess hide things, hide the way you feel sometimes, because you said that earlier, like you don't wanna express yourself to people. So if you do get close to a woman,

but you are having one of them days where you're grieving or something, shouldn't you be able to share that with her? Yeah, sometimes, but like, I'll say like sometimes women, like they take that for weakness when you like really open up to them. Like so, that's how my dad was too. You almost gotta be like really strong, you feel me?

Not even just saying women just throw it in your face, your weakness, but it's just like, they don't wanna see you weak, you know me? Not even just saying women just throw it in your face, your weakness, but it's just like, they don't wanna see you weak, you know what I'm saying? It's like they look down on you. Most women, it's like they look down on you when you weak, from what I've seen, you know what I'm saying?

For sure. That's some Philly chicks, y'all. Nah. All right. Nah, the Philly ones hold you down. It's just like, they just expect the men all the time. You know what I'm saying? They just expect that protector, the provider,

like they don't have the emotions. It's not worried about that most of the time for sure. It was crazy, that's what men be needing. Yeah. We be needing that. We don't just wanna be the protectors and providers. Nah, for sure. You mess around and tell her, show you how you feel.

She tell you how she feel right after. Damn. Or when you get upset, she throw it at you. She throw it at you like, well this time, but it's like, damn, I can't express myself without you throwing it back at me. It's like, let me feel how I feel.

I was telling my brother that I don't think men can feel how they feel from a woman. You find the right one, you can. Yeah, I know, I know. Cause she gonna throw it back in your face, that's not the right one. Cause that means you can't be open to any time that you feel the way

you can never express yourself fully. Yeah, for sure. Now one call away featuring Chris Brown, I love, you know I love Chris Brown, Friday fans too, I love Chris Brown. Every song y'all have together is a bop. Is he somebody that you know that you can just call and just talk to?

I wrote for Chris Brown before I was an artist, you know what I'm saying? I came to this game as a writer and producer first. So I was running around LA just writing for people and he was like the first big artist that I wrote for. I wrote on two songs on his album with Bryson Taylor and Lil Dirk. And we ain't really meet yet, you feel me? But when God did and everything came up,

he DM'd me like, bro, let's lock in in person. You know what I'm saying? I lied to him, I'm like, I'm in LA right now. I was in Philly though, bro. You feel me? But I'm telling my team, yeah, you feel me? I'm telling my team, I gotta get to LA tomorrow. You feel me?

So I'm like, y'all can be there tomorrow. He invited me to his crib and it was just like, love ever since, you know what I'm saying? He's one of the most humble artists I ever met in my life. Like, he just let me head my way, like, cook up, you feel me, he like, I just wanna rock with you, like, do what you need to do in the studio, and just tell, he telling me, like,

you can leave me in his, you know what I'm saying? Ever since then, we've been locked in, so every time I call him, he pick up for sure. What do you think makes that connection so special? Because you know, the industry is so fake, what makes that connection so special? First is just the music, like a fan of each other. You know what I'm saying?

Then when you meet somebody and they real genuine, you could really have a conversation, like pass the music and talk for hours in the studio and create something y'all love is just a special thing. You won your first Grammy because of Chris Brown too, right? Yeah, I won my Grammy like last month, you feel me? I'm featured on his album. Well you won a Grammy because of you, but you know what Brown too right? Yeah, I won my Grammy like last month, you feel me? I'm featured on his album. Well you won a Grammy because of you, but you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, for sure, but I thank him because he put me on that album and I produced on that album too. So I got two songs on that album. Wow, how'd that feel? Feel amazing man. I can't tell you how I feel like he was one of them guys like I just dreamed of working with him, you feel me? Now I get to FaceTime him and celebrate a Grammy with him,

it's crazy, you know? It's dope. I'm gonna say this and then I'm gonna move on. Don't give it away, part one, and then don't give it away, part two. That shit is something that I listen to, I have to listen to when I'm on psychedelics. It is like shrooms, I don't know if you,

What's psychedelics? Pupil shrooms, shrooms. Okay, okay, I'm a little worried a little bit. Psychedelic. Is it shroom? Yeah, it's other things, LSD and all that, but I only do the shrooms, right? Okay, okay, okay.

But the Don't Give It Away part one, it's a, like y'all, they had, these niggas gotta listen to it. I know, I know, I know, I know. They don't know nothing about it. It's so different, and it's like heightened. Yeah. It's enlightenment.

Like you and Chris Brown together. Yeah, it's crazy. So I'm trying to see if y'all can do a Collaborate album. Yeah, a lot of fans be asking for that even like a little EP. Yes Is that something that y'all talked about? Nah for sure we got songs in the tuck too like people ain't even hear it. Crazy. We talked about it in the stool Like it would be crazy, but you know we doing our own thing too. So we gotta we gotta push our goals first I see that coming. What do you prefer? You prefer doing the afro beat sounding records or the more the R&B sounding records? But you know we're doing our own thing too, so we got we got push our goals first

What do you prefer you prefer doing the afro beat sounding records or the other more the R&B sounding records? They both a vibe. Yeah, I like it equally. You know what I'm saying cuz growing up Haitian Afro beat and Jamaican music was like second home in New York, you know, so it's like Yeah, so I like it both equally for sure Well, how much the God did change your life? Change everything I ain't gonna lie really talk about financially. Did you get? Some my first artists do right after God did you know what I'm saying? And I was still in the hood when it came out. You know what I'm saying like Came out I heard I even know my voice was on there, I was just waiting.

Midnight came, I heard my voice, I seen the future. I'm like, everything about to change, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, I gotta get out this hood though, you know what I'm saying? Like then I bought a crib, you feel me? It changed everything. Was that the third year?

Cause I saw you talking about how your third year is when you really started making money in this business. So was that? Yeah. I'll tell every artist, at first, the first year is really like sacrifices. If you're doing it the right way. I feel like a lot of artists, they do it like,

I wouldn't say the wrong way, but it's just like a money grab. Just like for shows, of course, like, no, it's a money grab. I'm coming with me and my DJ and just rocking it out, just to get the whole, but me I like to present a certain show, like I gotta make sure the sound right, I gotta make sure I got it bent, like you feel me? So for me the first year was more sacrifice. Like breaking even.

Yeah, breaking even, like my tour, like I ain't even, you feel me, it was even. I might have to come out of pocket sometimes, you know what I'm saying? But this, like this the year, like I ain't even, you feel me, it was even. I might have to come out of pocket sometimes, you know what I'm saying? But this, like this the year, like, I feel like I start making more money for sure. What do you call real money? Like, you don't gotta give a number.

Yeah, I want a number. Like, what did you, or maybe financially, what did you be, what were you able to do that made you say, okay, now I'm making real money? So you don't gotta give a number. What I'm able to do now, like I'm able to help the people I love. That's, like at first, you know, when you shine, they don't gotta give them no. What I'm able to do now, I'm able to help the people I love. That's like that first, you know when you sign,

they don't really understand. Million dollars turning to three, 400,000. You feel me? You pay your taxes. You pay your team and all that. But everybody looking at you like you got an M or two. You know what I'm saying? And they got their hand out like,

yo, you supposed to, you feel me? Nigga might ask you for 100,000. God damn. Like you feel him? That's how you think you signed for, you feel me? Nigga might ask you for 100,000. God damn. Like you feel me? That's how you think you signed for, and we grew up together. 100,000. How you never had balls enough to ask somebody

for 100,000 dollars? Yeah, that's crazy. But it's just a mindset thing. So now like two, three years in, I'm just, I'm more comfortable with, you feel me? Helping my family, you feel me? Giving them money, that's what I feel like. I'm good now. Are you honest with them though? Do. That's what I feel like. I'm good now.

Are you honest with them though? Do you tell them like, look, it ain't that shit? Yeah, I had a few sit downs last year, like a year and a half, like really explained, like you feel me, it's not that. You feel me? Because most artists, they would even pretend in front of their family is that.

You feel me? And they be like, you bragging to us is that, and we starving. So I make them look at you and even build a hate, you feel me? So you gotta be honest with them. You explain what it is, you feel me? And they'll understand, they'll understand.

How you move that up? I'm starving too. I be acting like I'm starving too. Like you gotta, like nah, that's just what y'all see. You're not paying me up at breakfast club, I say it all the time. Nah, that's what you guys say. You might have to put it a little lower too.

You feel me? I don't wear no designer. I'm like, I'm an intern up there. I'm not really. Gee, I bought this chain. They start asking for more of it. I mean, come on now. Like what?

Yeah, get crazy. And then they see him tested. That's why you should be happy that the test didn't go off at first. You gotta edit the whole out. Look, I know him too. Make sure you get what it went on. Don't edit the... I see what he's trying to do to you.

That's why I was like, give him a little check. Yeah, I already speak with you. Whole Instagram clip, it cut off. They definitely cutting that part off. He's gonna be the part where it's not real. He's doing it. He gonna text the editor like, yeah. And the last thing he's gonna be like, yo, I'll go with you to your jeweler, but that's

what's gonna happen. How is it working of Will Smith? Will Smith. The song with his, uh, You Can Make It song. You Can Make It, uh, Will Smith of Philly Legend, you know what I'm saying? I actually made that hook in like 2021, 2022, and he heard it this year by producer Ayo, and he just did the verses. So it was love since he just hit me like, yo, got a record and he sent it to me, it was love. That's dope.

I know all the old heads in Philly around you really thought you made it then. Yeah, especially the OGs, like my mom and all that, my aunts, they like, you feel me, you got a record with Will. I'm like, yeah, you feel me, that was a big moment. So how far, I'm sure you moved out of Philly. Yeah. How fast did you move out of Philly?

Real fast, cause it was getting a little bad. You know what I'm saying? You were pulling up at the crib? Just Pete walked down the street like, oh Friday, you feel me? The first week, it was like, nobody even knew my face. They was just saying my name, so I could go to the club. I'm here, it was Friday, snap, they don't even know it was me,

but it was like three weeks later, a month, I'm like, I gotta get out of here. You know what I'm saying? I ain't even feel safe. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I ain't even know it was me, but it was like three weeks later a month, I'm like, I gotta get out of here. You know what I'm saying? I ain't even feel safe. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I ain't even feel safe. So that was the first thing I did. I bought a crib and I moved away.

Did you move with your aunt and your uncle in Bel Air? Or you moved to Bel Air? No, I moved with my mom out and all that. That's what's up. Was it something that happened or you just felt it? No, I just felt it. Philly like crazy. It's like a dangerous city, so it's like I already know

what it come with, especially it's not a lot of resources out there. So when you the one getting a little bit of money, not even like, god damn, I'm talking about even if you just up and coming. It's a lot of upcoming rappers with 30,000 followers, and they's getting shot just because niggas hating on your success.

So I had God did with Jay-Z, so niggas looking, I knew I had to do it for sure. That don't make no sense to me, man. Like why would you try to hurt somebody who potentially could help your whole situation? Whole community. Like that makes no sense. But they don't really look at it like that.

They more look at it like, wow, wow, him and not me. And they look at it like, shouldn't be him, it should be me, you know what I'm saying? It's more of a threat, bro. It's dangerous for Philly, for sure. Who's your support system? I keep my brothers close, especially my mom close too. Like every time I get a chance,

I go see my mom for sure. She the one pray over me and all that before I leave the crib. That's my support system for sure. My mom and my brothers. You know, there's this thing called the five stages of grief, right? And it's a series of emotions people experience

after a loss. And it's denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Where do you think you at? I'm at, I'm almost at acceptance. Y'all say that. I'm at, I'm almost there, you feel me? I'm understanding it more and more as time goes by, because it's a lot of whys and hows, you know what I'm almost there, you feel me? I'm understanding it more and more as time goes by

because it's a lot of whys and hows, you know what I'm saying? Like the way my father died, the way somebody died, it could be like damn, like why I had to go like this, you know what I'm saying? So it's more like why, and I'm kind of accepting it right now for sure, yeah. How would you like his legacy to be remembered? Just by what I'm right now, for sure, yeah. How would you like his legacy to be remembered? Just by what I'm doing now,

like putting my real in my music, inspiring people, giving people good words and encouragement and all that, you know what I'm saying? That's why I keep it in the music how I can, because I know I'm doing right, you know what I'm saying? I could do a whole R&B album if I want to, and some people want that, but I know it's people that need the real, you feel me,

the real music that get them through life. Like my DMs is crazy, like a lot of people in the jails listening to me, a lot of people like about to commit suicide, a lot of people, like I saved them through their day, you know what I'm saying? And just me reading them DMs, I don't take that for granted. So I feel like I'm doing his legacy right now because he taught me everything.

Did you get to hear him say that he was proud of you? Yeah, for sure, yeah. Oh, yeah, I bought him that crib. And I just told him it's because of you, you know? It's because of you. You don't gotta pay a bill. Like, you know, he gave me music, he forced it on me. You know what I'm saying? He gave me God, he showed me everything. So it was like, like, you know, he gave me music, he forced it on me, you know what I'm saying?

He gave me God, he showed me everything, so it was like, yeah, for sure. Even when I went to Europe, before I went to Europe, I'm like, bro, I'm about to go to Europe, you know what I'm saying? Forget the US, I'm about to go to Europe and do a Europe tour, it's cause of you. I looked him in the eyes, look, it's cause of you.

Feel me, the way he died, like, you see like the LeVar Ball thing, when he had to amputate his leg, that was kind of like my dad's situation. But I got Haitian parents, so it's like they got a lot of pride. Like my mom and dad be like, we ain't cutting off his leg.

But the doctors would be like, I think it's smart for you to cut off the foot right now, so it won't go up. So it was probably been like six years, like three, four years, my mom like, nah, we ain't doing that, too much pride, like let's do something else. So my dad, you know, he spread it up.

You know what I'm saying? So last time I went to the doctor, they like, we gotta go above the knee. You know what I'm saying? And that was the last time I was with my dad, like like, we gotta go above the knee, you know what I'm saying? And that was the last time I was with my pop, like, he was about to cut his first leg off on top of his knee. He just looked at me balling up,

like, they really about to take my leg off. I'm like, we cried for like an hour before he went in there, you feel me? And then I went to tour, and I went to tour that week, and I performed the first show, and they said, they about to cut the other leg or they have to. Right then, like, everything just stopped.

I'm like, yeah, I don't know how we gonna do this, you feel me? Like, it really hit my heart. So, once they cut the other leg, that's when we lost them. You feel me? So, that's why it's more of a wild like you feel me it's more of a why right now like I don't really understand how he went but I know God like knew like my mommy wants to see my dad like that I feel she more at peace right now I feel

like she more at peace even though it's a it's a hard thing she more at peace know he in a better place and seeing him how we would have saw him. Absolutely. I love you. I love you too. The album is out right now some days I'm good some days I'm not. Have you performed in Haiti yet? No it's a little tricky in Haiti right now I want to go so bad but like you feel me a lot of people like no not right now you feel me, a lot of people be like, nah, not right now, you feel me, but I got a Kumpas song on this album, Future Enjoyed Direct Fillet, you feel me, it's called Kumpas, a Haitian genre, and I feel like, since Wyclef, this about to be one of the biggest songs to just show Haiti

in front of the world in a big way, in front of the mainstream, so all my Haitians excited about that for sure. What's the misconceptions about Haiti you would like to clear up as an artist? Yeah, the first thing when people in America think of Haiti is just, I'll say they just think of like, a bit like a bad country, you know what I'm saying?

Like, or they think about, they think about all the bad, but it's a lot of good in it, you feel me? They never really go there and see the good, and it's a lot of product that come out of it. It's just like, it's just L after L. What they put on the news, that's how they show Haiti. They don't never show the good side. They don't never show a good part of it.

I feel like in America, they only show Haiti when it's some bad stuff happening, not always, not never when it's some good stuff. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like it's gonna change a little bit. Like Haiti's a great place, it's a lot of talent, it's a lot of great people out there. When I think about Haiti,

I think about some strong people who revolted against white supremacy. Yeah, for sure. And white supremacy's been making that country pay for it ever since. Yeah, I look at it something like that too. You know what I'm saying? First independence, strongest people, you know?

I don't know, I gotta do more research, but I just feel like, you feel me? Something happened, like they just made it that way. You know what I'm saying? Even separating Haiti from D.R. and all that. At first it was one people, you know what I'm saying? And they, at one time, even speak the same language, you know what I'm saying?

They separated, it's just a lot of stuff, like, even speak the same language. You know what I'm saying? They separated. It's just a lot of stuff, like, you know, for sure. You go to the doctor though, right? What you mean? Just in general. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I went.

He's always talking about another type of doctor. I went probably like six months ago. Okay. For sure, yeah. All right. Keep up with your health and everything. No effects. Let's get into a joint off the album.

What you wanna hear, Proud of Me? Oh yeah, for sure. Proud of Me featuring Meek Mill, Rest In Peace on Phylis. The video out right now, too, 228. And keep trusting yourself, man. Like, you got good instincts, man. Thank you, bro. You got good instincts.

I've read stories about how they wanted to put you in a 200-seat venue and you held your ground. It was like, nah, I know I can do more than that. Yeah, shout out my team, too. You feel me? They didn't understand the vision at first. And it was comparing me to certain artists, so I understand where it was coming from,

but we was just saying we bigger than that. You know what I'm saying? We got Haitians that's gonna come out, us Africans that's gonna come out, us R&B lovers that's gonna come out, and us rap fans that's gonna come out. So me and my team, my manager, Edgar, just pushed that like, no, we bigger than that.

So we proved them wrong too. And the last thing you said, I once saw you say, don't lose yourself in the music business. Can you explain it to the audience? What song, what song I said that on? I don't think it was a song, it was an interview or something.

Okay, okay. Yeah. It's just like, you just gotta stay grounded. And I feel like, I came in this game a little different, so I can't speak for the hungry artists that's like wanna be everywhere, wanna be at all the parties,

wanna be at all the sessions. But I feel like when you hungry, you'll eat anything, you feel me? When you starving, you'll go for anything. It's like, damn, I'm hungry, I'll go to this party. I'll go to this studio session. I don't even know who gonna be there. Not even-

You might be duty. Not even know who gonna be there. Not even- It might be Diddy. Dang. Not even know who gonna be there, like you might go there, you don't even know what's going on, it's not even laid out to you, you feel me? And I feel like that's how a lot of upcoming artists

lose themselves, they so hungry, it's like they'll go anywhere, you know what I'm saying? A lot of the stories I hear, I can't relate to, cause I'm just at the crib making music with my mom to this day, you feel me? And I stay with my brother, so that's how you just gotta stay grounded and just focus on the music. Everything else is gonna come.

Dope. Yeah, for sure. Well, let's get into it right now. It's Proud of Me featuring Meek Mill. Some days I'm good, some days I'm not. Album is out right now. Pick it up. Much success to you, Friday. It's The Breakfast Club. Good luck. Much success to you, Friday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up. It's in the morning.

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