The Breakfast Club - King Los Interview

Episode Date: June 29, 2015

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Yep, it's the Breakfast Club. Charlemagne Tha God Angel E.E. I don't know where the hell Envy went But we have a very very special guest with us That's what Envy says Yeah that's his thing He says that to everybody It could be from Love & Hip Hop

Very special special special guest So I'm not that special But they know say we're Minister Farrakhan's here as well That's my bro Huh? Isn't that wrong? Yeah What's the God King Los?

Yeah man how you doing? I'm blessed the God King Los. Yeah, man. How you doing? I'm blessed, man. God Money War is out now. Yeah, man. Explain the album title because, you know, I've heard the album, so I get it. But some people might be like, why are you mixing God with those worldly things? I mean, God created the world.

But beyond that, I just feel like there's three things in life that you know affect us very deeply you know and neat you know need to be talked about God for one you know some people wake up and don't even believe in God very true and reach for that smartphone before they pray yeah I mean you know I mean not don't even pray I'm saying like I'm saying? Like, it don't even get to prayer. It's like we just have people walking around empty, you know, and we wonder why we have so many things that hold us back, you know. People don't have something higher to reach to. So I feel like I just wanted to give that to people, you know, from a perspective of you don't have to be perfect to love God, you know,

and just in that essence, you know, and especially with our community and seeing the stuff that we be going through, you know, as of lately. And then the money, you know, it's just something that I grew up in, being from Baltimore, you know, being basically, like, raised by, like, kingpins. Like, I lost my dad when I was 16. My dad was murdered. So, like, from from that point that's where you really start to become a man and shape who you are and i was embraced by just street dudes

who was doing it on a major level and i could have went any way in life you know what i'm saying so you know that was the money part just letting people know that money shouldn't you know um it shouldn't rule your heart you know what i'm saying? And then the war. And my definition of war, it's not like the stuff we see on TV and it's not like the racism and it's not that. I feel like it's the personal war. It's the war within yourself. It's the war for your soul, you know what I'm saying? So those are the things I wanted to break down in my CD because my CD wasn't,

that CD in particular wasn't about me. God, Money, War wasn't about me. It wasn't about Los. You know what I'm saying? It was about us and what we go through and how we just need to be there for each other. And you know what I noticed too? When it comes to God, a lot of times people pray when they need something, not necessarily to be thankful for the things that they have.

Sometimes the only time somebody might pray is if they're like, oh, Lord, please don't let me be pregnant. You know, don't let me be pregnant. Have you made that prayer before? I'm sure everybody has. Please don't let me be pregnant. I haven't. I'll never, ever.

But, you know, it's crazy. Like, that's the thing. See, some people use God selfishly. And it's like, I pray for other people, like, before I pray. Or, like, I never prayed, like, for, like, you know, to be successful. Or, like, you know, even though, I mean, you can. You can pray for anything you want. You know, I'd rather pray for people to be healthy and stuff like that.

But it's up to you, man. I mean... God ignores prayers, though. God'll send a couple prayers to his fan folks if they go crazy. Yeah, yeah. I mean,

you gotta be careful what you wish for because you might get something you're not even ready for. You know, one time there was a preacher who told a story about a lady

who prayed to, you know, to just get by and that's all that ever happened. She just got by. Just got by, just barely, because that's all she prayed for. Lord, just help us, just please, just get by. That's the power of positive thinking, too, though.

Maximize your blessings. You speak things into fruition, so if that's what you're constantly saying to yourself, I just want to get by, I just want to get by, that's what's going to happen. Or when people be like, man, I don't even know. There you go. You know, it's interesting, when you came in uh that's like angela said something but you got a gun i don't know what that and you was like no i got god yeah no because you know when somebody goes in the bank say where's the nah i mean that usually that means like you

know you got the you don't want to say what it is no man i mean that's interesting to hear you say that you were saying you were looking for water. That's the nah meme. Yeah. I was actually looking for, I had a Fiji water. I don't know what I did with it. It's interesting to hear you say that because it made me think of the, I mean, it's fresh on my mind because I'm born in Charleston, so I'm thinking about the Charleston shooting.

Man, that's crazy, bro. And I heard what the representative said. He goes, oh, you know, if somebody in there could have defended themselves. And I'm like, well, that's church. They were in there praying. So do you feel like you need guns well, if somebody in there could have defended themselves. And I'm like, well, that's church. They were in there praying. Do you feel like you need guns in church now because these things could happen? Or do you just rely on God? I mean, at the end of the day, man, if things like this are happening,

where people are going into, you know, a holy place and committing just like uh like atrocities like there's no way to there's no scale to gauge what you do in that situation or do murder nine people so like i think for some extremities you you might you might need an extremity you might they might need to protect themselves because i mean you're not aiming to harm people. So that's someone taking advantage of you. And that's different. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I mean, you got to protect your family. I bet that preacher or whoever, when they're home, you know, you got to think of the church as your home.

You know, if somebody come in your house and try to harm you, you got to do what you got to do to protect your children or your wife. You know, nine people died. It was young people, older people. I know God protects me, but I still sleep with my gut. Curtis Jackson. Hey, you got to keep it. If that's what people are doing, then it's no rules, man. You got to protect yourself.

Now, you have this song, Glory to the Lord, with R. Kelly. How did y'all hook up? What's your relationship with R. Kelly? I don't have a relationship with R. Kelly. My only relationship with R. Kelly is that I think he's amazing and that I've been a fan forever like everybody else. I made the record Glory to the Lord because I wanted to talk to the hood. And, you know, again, I'm from Baltimore.

He from Charleston. Like we from places where we've seen extreme turmoil. You know what I'm saying? So me having a foundation in Christ and just growing up like in a church or whatever, you know, I'm not a perfect person, but I've been extremely blessed. And I've also went through crazy, crazy situations. You know, but through it all, you know, I give the glory to God, man. You a rapper.

You're not supposed to do that. I don't know what these rappers do. I don't know what these rappers be doing, man. But, you know. But why act like you can't put hip-hop and God together? I remember a time when that's all it was about. I grew up on Outkast and Goody Mob. they were giving it up for god yeah man when they won awards y'all want to thank god now you don't see none of that no more man it's just crazy like i feel like um we going

towards like you know it's just anti-god you know they want to give you every reason to deny god man but every day you know there was a guy who said, I watch this guy, Ravi Zacharias, all the time. Like, I just be trying to get my, you know, you know. And he was, someone asked him, he does a lot of Q&A,

but he does it at like those prestigious, you know, colleges like Yale and Harvard with all these intellects. You know, once people get so smart, they don't need God. So he does Q&A. So the guy asked him about Jonah who was in the well, in the Bible,

and does he think that's ridiculous or does he believe it? Because if somebody says something about somebody being in the well, the first thing you would think in your shallow thinking. That's not true. I've never seen it so i don't believe it so you don't believe it right so he said if to say you don't believe that is to say that you ignore the miracles that we see every day and i think that's what people don't have enough appreciation your human body is a miracle you know everything about you is a miracle

it's miraculous for a woman to be able to have a child and then be connected emotionally. He said even like into like relationships, the way men and women, you know, the way we are connected to each other, the way we're magnetized towards one another. All those things are miraculous, but people don't have a high enough appreciation for just the simple things in life. So, of course, know that he said so for somebody you know rose from the grave and did all that being someone being in a whale stomach that's a small order but somebody who created the Sun and you look at it every day and don't appreciate it you know I'm saying so that's just my synopsis now you have all Kelly on that record how do you think God feels about him peeing on little girls at one point in his life? I don't know, man.

Only God can judge him. You know? I don't know, man. The alleged pee. No, we saw the tape. I ain't see nothing, man. Our couch never saw it either. I ain't see nothing, man.

I don't know nothing. That's child pornography if you saw that tape. I don't know what in the world was that. But Kevin Hart said, wait, wait, wait. Was I a part of it?

I don't want nothing to do with it. The future's been cleared. You can give your opinion on it. No, it's all good, man. Like, I don't really know. I don't really know. You just know you like him as an artist. And he sounds good on the song.

You like that Dave Chappelle skit, man. That's crazy. Now, I like Ghetto Boy a lot, too. It seems like, you know, you talk about your grandmother a lot on that record. It seems like she had a big influence on you. Yeah, yeah. You just mentioned your father got killed. He was murdered Yeah, when I was like 16 you said that on the record he wasn't around so like like what's she the one that raised you? Um not my grandmother didn't raise me man

My mama raised me at a point in my life my grandmother on my dad's side raised me for a Little while cuz I want my grandmother on my dad's side raised me for a little while because I went to live with my dad. You know, a lot of young men, when their mom and dad's not together, they want to go live with their dad. You know, like, I want to go live with my pops because it's just your dad has this different, a different essence and he don't beat you for everything. Like, your mama, if you want to discipline you all the time, your dad be like, boy, stop. And, you know, it's like more of a masculine thing, you know, so grandma you for dumb stuff like having playboy like yeah pops be like nah man like i remember one time i was watching um i was watching the uh like the uh spice channel back in

the day i was probably like 14 and i'm watching it you know back in the day on the k we had the button where you could go back to another channel just with one button and you go back and forth. So I hear my dad come out the room, go back to the last channel, be like a Disney channel or something, right? He come out, get some juice,

he go back in the room and I go back to Spice and he come back out and I change it. He like, boy, you still woke? And I said, yeah, I'm still up.

He said, yeah, all them naked women keeping you woke. I'm like, how did he know? How did he know I was watching a thing but he had like the monitor thing where his tv changed he had a box thing he worked for the cable company cable is what you're saying no he worked for cable company so we had we had the works like he worked for everything you watched would change his channel yeah yeah he had a little device where

he was watching it with you yeah he knew he was on me he was on me early but that's like a pop so pops like oh look at him a mom come out there and be crying yeah he probably like man he keep changing the channel i'm trying to watch this you might want your son to see some you might want that was your pops in the game um not really not really my dad was like from the streets from the you know from the projects and raised around it but like my dad had careers you know he he was a hard-working dude like he copped cribs and whips and had all the flyest stuff from working and that was what he basically instilled in us you know but like all my brothers yeah my older brother right now incarcerated um my younger brother incarcerated you know i'm like the one that made it out did your dad know you wanted to do music before he passed no my dad never got to uh

see me rap why did he get killed if you don't mind me asking like who killed the cable guy um uh i don't know man it was like some it was like i really don't know the true story but what the uh you know the newspapers had was that um he was giving somebody a ride and they went to like rob him because you know he he laced you know what i'm saying and they went to rob him and i i think like all they end up getting was like six bucks or something and they they killed him like so he died in the car they killed him in the car you know what i'm saying working hard minding your business yeah man so i don't know man it's like some weak individual. So, when did you decide to start doing music?

After that, like, I just started writing. I just was looking. I just, I needed a way to express, like, all my anger instead of, like, just having, like, this immense hatred for the world. You know what I'm saying? And just turning to that guy, cuz it was it was it was right there you know I remember like deciding like whether or not I wanted to just hate this world and just go massacre on people or try to figure something out you know so I started writing and many times I would have like a blank piece of paper and get up and it still be blank I just

knew I wanted to write something and I didn't know what I didn knew I wanted to write something, and I didn't know what. I didn't rap, you know what I'm saying? So then I just started writing all kinds of literature, you know what I'm saying? And I got into literature early. So that, like, drove me to, like, you know, like, you know, Edgar Allan Poe and, like, you know, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and, you know, different. So you were a poet really at first. I mean, I wasn't really a poet I was just a writer

and then I started trying poetry and different displays of the artistry and I just did it and I was dope at it and then when I ended up transferring to this other school because I was supposed to go with my pops because I played ball

I was a ball player and I was supposed to go with my pops. Because I played ball. I was a ball player. And I was supposed to go with my pops. He was coaching at this other school with my Uncle Mike. And so I had to go somewhere else. So the school that I went to, they was rapping. So at lunch every day, it was on. So I would write before lunch. And when I got to lunch, it was time for them bars.

You know what I'm saying? So that was like my introduction. So if you would have never probably went to that school, you might not have. Well, my dad probably wouldn't have got killed if I probably was playing ball. Were you the kid who brothers and father used to be like, don't come over here with us.

We in the street. You go ball. Go right. You know what? I always been embraced by the streets, so it was always like i never had to because like they always the streets just took care of me i was like colloginal you know i'm saying like they they just took yeah they just took care of me man like i'm i'm closer

to to some of the the guys you know i mean and um at some at one point in my life i did stuff you know i i did a lot of stuff you know i'm saying because of the connection that i had in You know, I mean, and at one point in my life, I did stuff. You know, I did a lot of stuff. You know what I'm saying? Because of the connection that I had and the trust that they had for me, you know, on that level, you just get introduced to it because it's there. It's readily available for you. And I did a lot of stuff, you know, but I never, like, I never glorified it and I never thought it was fly. That's why I said the money part for me is, like, it was a lot of stuff you know but I never like I never glorified it and I never thought it was fly that's why I said the money part for me is like it was a lot of money but it just it just it wasn't this right it wasn't the breakfast club it wasn't lights camera action it wasn't go time it was just like sky boxes and bottles and you know we was popping Chris like I'm out that mug

you want to be seen it wasn't the right it wasn't seen in the right way though like even when Mitch had it was like I didn't want to be in a crowd I wanted I wanted to be like you know like we went to Jay-Z show and Jay-Z stood on stage and was doing like this and we was all in the crowd I was like I'm in the wrong spot you want to be with Jay in my spot like what's up Like, what's up? How did you and Dizzy hook up then? Because I was just on my grind. And I went through a couple people, man. My man Sadiq.

Shout out Sadiq in Philly. Sadiq did Black Friday to put beans on. That's the guy that took me to Puff. I was doing my little rap thing. I had a 10-minute freestyle that I had put together. It was over like 50 different beats. And I was doing that for everybody, whoever I could, that knew somebody. And they were connecting the dots.

They was like, yo, this is amazing. I got to take you to such and such. And I climbed. That's how I climbed the ladder. And Sadiq took me to Beans. Beans heard it and was like, yo. Took me to Dame. Dame heard it and was like yo there was Damon Biggs was in there um at the time and um then it went

to like it was about to go like the J mm-hmm and it was puff it was the last two Wow and we went to puffuff first and Puff shut everything down. Puff wouldn't let you leave the room. Not at all. Especially being that he probably know Jay wanted you. Not at all. Now, why didn't it work with Diddy? Why didn't it work with Diddy?

He wanted all your best verses. You'd write something, he'd be like, let me get that. Nah, man, because, you know, I make those like people like like like like people make excuses gotcha that's easy it wasn't that man it was my i lost that first deal because the homies everything caught up to to to them at that point so i mean these dudes were multi-millionaires you know like who now you the dudes that i was with okay okay like I took them. We went all the way to Puff. Okay. So they was funding everything.

And, you know, Fez got involved and it got ugly. So they came and we had to dissolve the situation. It was, it just. So Diddy had to say, look, man, I can't. Yeah, and this is right. Mind you, this is like not too long, like this The Shine stuff. So in his mind, he running from everything that feels like he's not about to be. Shout out to Diddy, boy.

Diddy will get away from these things when he need to. Hey, man, smart, smart man, you know. And we was right there on like the cuss word, like album. And it just didn't work, man. You know, a lot of stuff happened, man. I mean, movie stuff with my people that I was with. So it was a good thing that that went the way it went. It was unfortunate, but it was the greatest learning experience

because after that, I was back in the hood and grinding and struggling and broke for like six years. So you signed with Diddy twice? Yeah. Yeah, so the first time you signed with him, you were on the cusp, and then all that happened, and then you went back. Because nobody else was checking for the kid. You couldn't have went back to J.D. after that.

I came to New York, and I went to every meeting with everybody that was halfway important, and they was like, yo, this is crazy, this is crazy, and did not sign me. So when I was back in the hood, bro, and it was like, this dope is right here, and you know everybody, and you could do this. And it was like one day, the phone rang after six years, and it was Puff again. Wow. What did he want he was like yo all your publishers like yo I know never never never did it I never had a bet man listen check this

out my first after the first deal we exhausted like over two hundred thousand dollars out of budget I had a half a million dollar deal back then you know I'm saying this is in 05 so that's that was that was wavy Like, for a guy from nothing to half a million, nice little advance, that done well. You know what I'm saying? And we exhausted over $250,000

out of that budget. Puff let me out the joint without owning me, without me owing him, like all the things from the past that people let me go scot-free. And we wasn't close at that time. You know what I'm saying? Let me go scot-free. Look wasn't close at that time you know I'm saying let me go

scot-free look I know y'all situation ain't cool Fez came up here I told him nothing but good stuff about y'all but and that wasn't even Puff like Harv told me that they had to not you know go any further with it with the deal or whatever so Puff was just like yeah man yeah he kept it 100 you know I'm saying so I didn't have no attachment so I still had the ability to go somewhere else without somebody saying oh yeah but did he got the thing I don't know so after all that time and I go back now Puff is like yo I'm hearing you you're making so much noise like I saw you didn't even know it was you Cassie told me like yo that's Lowe's from back in the day like that's los los he like los so that's when he reached out and um we got in touch or whatever i i hard put to new york

you know what i'm saying went to his book thing when he put out that book just linked up with him we vibed and he was just like yo i'm watching you i'm interested like you know i might want to fix things and let's see where we left off because it's seeming like you the one. It's seeming like you the one. You know what I'm saying? So we linked up, and it took a little while. About how long did it take, Ernie?

About a few months. A few? Like five, six, about five, six months, and we did a new deal. And, I mean, mean yo I owe everything to puff man it's like that next deal um took that's what took me to LA like that's what got me out the hood you know I'm saying I got a lot of questions go ahead go ahead do your thing so yeah the Jay-Z Diddy thing how do you decide I'm gonna sign with Diddy over Jay if it's right there like how do you let Diddy say

Okay I'm going to keep you in this office Because we never Diddy say you're not moving We never Ah That's hilarious That's hilarious What happened

We never got to Jay Oh okay Diddy wanted it that badly He wasn't going to let you get to Jay That's puff man At that time He was like fresh off a marathon What do you say to a man

Diddy versus Diddy look we was in the thing and he had a window he had a window to like from there to there like in his office and the curtains was closed he was sitting there the whole time and i did the 10 minute thing and you know he was like he was really impressed he was trying not to be over impressed but he was really impressed and it was hard for him to hold it back and so everybody was quiet because i like killed the room and then he was like got up drew the curtains open the curtains and it was his billboard and times square was right across the thing like this he was like yeah okay okay i'm back i'm back and he literally said i'm back because i guess i took him somewhere with my thing so he was like look that's 1.5 a year for me to come to work every day

and look at myself. And I'm with the most treacherous, gangster, guerrilla kid. Just like everybody just broke down, just bust out in a smile because it's like, that's Puff. That's what he do. He put that stamp on who he is. And he's a genius in marketing. And it was like, yo, this may be a good.

Wow, I'm the only one with my phone out on the bar. After you told everybody else. After I told everybody else, throw them in the river. Throw your phones in the lake. So he said it, man. And we was just like, man, let's rock with this guy. You know, we coming from where we coming from. And we trying to turn our lives around.

So let's do it. And we rock with him. And, you know, I from where we coming from and we trying to turn our lives around so let's do it and we rock with him and um you know i mean everything was good we that was something that we messed up so i'm not blaming puff you know for my career or nothing like that and then the second time around it was just like the timing of it all it was just in a scope you know i can't say that they were the most Involved You know Like when nobody Coming out to You know like

Jay Grant Come to my sessions You know I'm with RCA now So he there He's giving me music Nobody was doing that You know so basically

I was with Puff Every day We was more close Like brothers Than like his artists So like whatever he needed I was there for him You know when it came

Like the same damn time Verse and I wrote that And you know, when it came like the same damn time verse, and I wrote that. Ah. That verse was ridiculous. Yeah, and that was like. You were like, who wrote that? That was it. To this day, I'm on the treadmill listening to that verse.

That is an inspirational verse. I saw when you tweeted, like, yo, what Puff just did to that, he was going to make you quit everything you're doing or go harder. Absolutely. I remember that. And that was the thing. And when I wrote it, he didn't,

he didn't, he didn't want it at first because he said that he doesn't want to intimidate people and he doesn't want to come off like too braggadocious. No, he definitely made you re-evaluate.

It was too over the top. And he said it, he was like, man, don't know I don't I don't know if people gonna take this the right way by me saying it because it's all true and I was like yo that's crazy so I wrote a new verse you know I'm saying I wrote a new verse no it was a verse worse than the one that he put out no you wrote one tone down no no no I no, no. I wrote, I wrote, no, I just wrote another one. It wasn't toned down. It just wasn't, it wasn't as in your face.

You know, I just wrote another one that was still crazy, coming to his crib, pulled up to the crib. And when I got to the, we put the little studio in the crib. So by the time I got to the studio, he opened the door.

He was like, wait one second. And he closed the door. He was in there recording the other verse and because he had recorded it you know and at the time i think his assistant neil told him like yo you bugging you got to do this verse when he started saying it it made all the sense in the world and i didn't i didn't even ever give him the second verse i literally had it in my hand so your money ain't money ain't the same damn kind. I can live your life and my life at the same damn time.

See my riding out money? That's your buy your house money. I got that. I could buy more right by your house money. Jesus Christ. Now for those six years that you had to go back home, go back to Baltimore, what did you do to make money? Like how were you surviving?

Ain't no money, B. No, it wasn't no money. It wasn't no money. In Baltimore, like, it's only a couple ways to make some money, you know? So that's, like, a problem, and I didn't want to do that. I was just taken care of, man. I was just blessed. Like, you know, like, the streets took care of me.

I was protected, you know? Like, I got family. Like, my older brother, he was rich. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, my older brother, he was rich. Right. You know what I'm saying? Okay, so you was good family-wise. I was taken care of. My homies, like, they was in situations, you know, with the law,

so they couldn't really, like, you know. A lot of them got locked up. Every last one of them got locked up. Every last person that I took to Bad Boy at that time, every last person got locked up. Nah, people home now. That was 10 years. My man did a dime.

He home. I got another man I'm waiting for to come home. The other guys, we don't really care about. They did some... They switched. They did. No, no, no. They did some stuff.

They did some stuff worse than that. Worse than that? Worse than that. Worse than that. Pedophiles? Nah, like, but on that level. Wow. Yeah, man, like, you know what I'm saying?

Kidnapping. Can't rock with that. You know, murder. People in the crew. You know what I'm saying? So when it get to that, it's like, dude, like, we slept together. You know what I'm saying? No, you know.

Not like that. But we slept. Like, we grind. We stayed in hotel rooms In Jersey To just drive over the bridge To go to New York And hustle in the morning To try to get our dreams

And y'all did that During that time Did you feel like You were gonna give up music? Never I never ever felt like I was gonna give up Nothing

I'm from the worst of the worst My pops was murdered When I was 16 What else could equate to You know There's no equivalent There's nothing you could do to me nothing i hear you talk about uh balance a lot on your album you even got a record called

balance is good yeah we encourage brothers to get out the hood now a lot of people like to glorify the hood you're telling people to get out explain on that a little bit um i mean you can't help the hood unless you get out you know i just went back to the hood the other day you know i went back to the project 1600 bruce court you know gilmore homes project you know what that is no that's where they that's where they that's where they did the thing to freddie gray yeah i stood on them blocks every day you know i'm saying with all them kids i rapped on those corners to those kids you know when i first got my first deal and iped my old school through the 20s on it and I came through the block, I had a 65. I had a 65, not a Monterey, but I forget what it was, right?

But I had a 65. It was clean. Came through. Kids running up to the car. You know, like I was that guy to those kids in those same projects where they did that to Freddie. So I shot. Did you know Freddie? You know what i

think i knew freddie i think he was just really young at the time because this is like six seven years ago so i think at the time he was one of the kids that was just running around being you know i had to know him there's no way i did not know him because i know all them kids you know and i just went back the other day and i shot ghetto boy you know and it was almost like a tribute to freddie at the same time and it was just so so reflective of what happened to him and those people that are still in that environment like we shot one scene in the ladies house in the projects and it was like literally like yo i remember sleeping in these this these play like what is this place like we did it in places you can't come though so it's like you know it's like

really showing these kids like being visual inspiration you know i'm saying and they still it's the mentality because like even when i walked up it's like I got cranes and cameras and crew. It looked crazy. We got the projects lit. It's like 300, 400 people out here. Everybody's coming out. Old people looking out their doors like, what's going on? You know what I'm saying?

And for the first time, it's something good. Right. You know what I'm saying? And it's still a mentality there. It's still like a trapped miss you know there so you know I just want to you know embrace those people and show them you know I'm saying that like yo you could do what I'm doing so getting out the hood man somebody gotta make it out first to show people that it's possible

absolutely situations like Freddie Gray Tray trayvon martin mike brown did they inspire uh black blood um um you know what they inspired god money war you know um i wrote the song war new years so that's how in terms of being ahead I was because the riots was just like what a month and a half ago almost like maybe two months like in that frame so I wrote war and if you look at the symbols like on on the television and if you look at the war video I put my pastor who's Jamal Bryant who was all over CNN during the riots. I put the hood the same blocks that the riots was on, North Avenue, CVS, when they was run up in the right of CVS. All that, West Baltimore, where I'm from.

You know, so Black Blood was just another extension of all those emotions and all those feelings. Jay Grant actually brought me Black Blood because he felt like it would be an essential piece to what I was already creating you know so it the record was just awesome from the beginning and then Isaiah Rashad put his artistic piece on it and it was like I this is crazy you say black blood make the grass grow in the ghetto expand on that um man that to me that was so metaphoric and just like it was just like such a um you know such a uh uh artistic thing to say you know i think about uh the concrete rose you know from tupac when i hear the black the black blood make the grass grow in the ghetto is probably the only thing that could grow a concrete, a rose from concrete.

You know what I'm saying? That's like almost the ingredients to the concrete rose. You know what I'm saying? And yeah, those lyrics was actually already on the song when I got it. The black blood make the grass grow in the ghetto. That was already on the record. I really thought the events of what we've seen over the past year, police and stuff um inspired that record i mean it had to because who's who writes that without seeing that you know you know i didn't personally write that that bar that was in the

hook already you know um huh kent from overdose yeah shout out to him cuz that's crazy and what's the joint um guns on the table oh yeah you killed my papa back in 80 back in 93 that's crazy my pop I killed 96 so that was like you know things were just fitting you know but in war I said um God told me this movie or write itself stay humble be wise and let foolery fight itself. So really, God, Money, World was like putting itself together. I wasn't, I was just like getting pieces, and it was just perfect every time. Like literally, it went all the way through. You also have your son on the album as well. Yeah.

I got my son and my baby mama on the album. Little bro, shout out to little bro. I'm the real MVP. My son two years old, man, flossing on little black boy. You know, little black boy was inspired by Freddie, Trayvon, Mike. You know what I'm saying?

Little black boy. And then the fathers, the fathers to the Trayvons. You know what I'm saying? Like, we need pops. We need, we need people to own up

and be responsible and raise your sons, man. Don't let these little black boys go out here and get murdered and be subject

to all these things that you could protect them from. You know what I'm saying? I shouldn't have to raise your children as a rapper. You know?

Now, how hard is it for you with everything that goes on, of course, you know, having a son now, what are some things that you are concerned about? And what are some things that you're gonna tell your son about growing up and, you know, just everything about living his life? Man, I'm just like the ultimate daddy,

you know what I'm saying? So I'm pretty sure like, like I already be joking with my son about like being light skin. I'll be joking. I'll be joking with him. Like my son got a sense of humor. Like my son will crack a joke. Like he's not even always like fluent in his speech,

but he'll crack a joke. Like he knows when he's doing something funny, you know? So like I FaceTime him and he'll be like, Mama. And I'm like, nah, nah, nah. It's all about daddy. And he's like, nah, nah, nah. Mama.

And I'm like, oh, so it's really about Mama? He's like, no, no, no. Me, me. So he didn't say it's about him. And then he just joked, put his hand over his mouth and laughed. I'm like, this kid is just, you know. So I like taught him how to walk in all those things so I'm just like that's how my dad was with

me right you know he was that connected so it's like it's nothing we're not gonna talk about we gonna talk about girls everything watch the Spice Channel yeah you can watch the Spice Channel man you can watch the Spice Channel I saw Meek Mill tweet once that King Los is one of the nicest out here. Everybody in the game knows it. Take what's yours. So what do you think has been the holdup for you? Just the way my story should unfold.

Just the way it should go you know um just being a real champion and like really really being able to like can't know there's there's nothing nobody could say like like there's not one thing a person could say there's not really one critique that people can have because I keep on advancing you know um I actually like my journey better than a lot of other people who are more successful than me you know I gotta be honest with you a lot of people on their way down right because they hit peaks uh you look man let's keep it let's keep it a billion I'm still elevating you know know, to me, that's the marathon. Everybody was sprinting and just running,

and now I'm, like, passing them, like, and they just, they looking tired. You got to understand, I was going neck and neck with Wayne. When Wayne was dropping the hottest freestyles in the world and the putting out, I was dropping the hottest freestyles in the world. I just didn't have the world to know it. Now when I go on Sway, it's number one. This is that.

People are recognizing. I did control. Kendrick is like, yo, that's the best. Nobody at the radio station said, hey, so what do you think about Los' verse? They mentioned everybody but me. And Kendrick's like, nah, they're Los. Because it's like at some point, man, you just got to give it up. If Meek is like, yo, you been the nicest, he giving it up.

Because we got to give it up to Meek. When he do the intro or do something, it's like you got to give it up. You can't. What can you say? The intro? Meek Mill in the club? Let's stop talking. When Drake do what Drake do, you got to give it up.

So when I saw Drake, he gave it up. Do these artists reach out to you? Like, let's work on something together? They don't necessarily reach out. They don't necessarily reach out. You know what I'm saying? Do you think it's because they're like, all right, if he get on, I'm going to let him get on his own way. It's competitive.

But I ain't helping him because he going to trump everybody. I don't know what they think. I just could say that I do recognize and respect and appreciate the competitive nature of the art form. Quote, unquote. That's from 50 Cent. 50 Cent talks about the competitive nature of the art form. I just had a conversation with 50 Cent the other day, by the way, too. That was really, really in-depth because I did This Is 50.

But, yeah, it's a competition. You know? Michael Jordan wasn't putting people on. You know what I'm saying? He was putting on. So I don't expect Nobody to You know That's why I like

I don't feel like Puff owed me nothing He gave me chances You know Shucks If it wasn't for that First shot And the second shot

The third shot I wouldn't even have You know I wouldn't have my son Out of a dangerous environment I'm Gucci You know what I'm saying And I don't expect

Nobody to do nothing for me. But what I can promise you is that you won't have a choice soon. And that's just what it is. Like, I'm learning, I'm growing, and I'm coming for the spot. Now, Diddy did a rant on Rick Ross' Mastermind album, More Than Nobody, and everybody said he was talking to you. Was that true? The thing is, the way people perceive it, the conversation was with me.

But anybody that know Puff know that he goes on these rants, you know, and, like, the thing with us was, like, yo, he started saying like, yo, I'll be around him and I'll pick up on like, you know, you got 50 people around him doing stuff. He'll say something like, yo, did anybody get that? So the more he kept saying stuff like that, I'd just be on deck. So when he'd be saying stuff, I'm already on record. So you was recording it? I recorded it so we was in his room and we just talked about the industry and just like my direction like what he saw for me you know and you know um it's like one of the greatest

halftime speeches ever because we was literally talking and they chopped it a lot but we was just talking about like the direction that these dudes is going in and where he saw me. And he's like, yo, I see you as somebody that I could, like, hand a torch to. And I never felt like that about an artist, you know, after, you know, Biggie. And, you know, he was just giving me such a high, you know, accolade. And, you know, he was just like, yo, check this out. And then he started saying this piece. And he just went into, like, yo, check this out. And he started saying this piece.

And he just went into like, yo, you don't want to walk with these roaches. And he was like, you got to walk with God. And, you know, that's the puff. And he put it on, but he knew I was recording. Because I'm like, so he went, kept going in. I'm like, I'm like not even trying to talk because it's so epic. So I had it. And then the next day he was like yo you recorded that thing that i was i

said yeah he said send it to me i want to hear i just want to listen to it so i sent it to him and he played it for french okay of all people shout out to my brother french he played it for french and french played it for ross and that's how i got on ross's album because if french was like french is like the song maniac. Like, he like, so he saw it like being a part of a record. And I was already using it as something because I recorded it. Let's be clear, French is a bootleg at heart. A bootleg at heart.

He came up with the DVD. That's how he started. Hey, French seen the whole vision for that thing. And he was working with Ross, so it tied in, you know. And so people just thought like Diddy was like getting out on me and going crazy on me or something I'm like no I'm actually recording and like that's the whole thing we do like we I have I have so many things in my phone like I use one on my on my album that just came out when he was like uh I ain't here to look all cool I already am cool oh so he didn't go in the studio and do that?

Nah, that was off my phone. I got whatever y'all need out there. I got the bitty, but it's, you know, it's going to cost you. You know what I'm saying? That's the King record. Yeah, I got a lot of stuff that Puff say, man, because he say valuable stuff that you want to be able to go back and listen to.

Like, I got stuff with me and Pharrell, like how we come up with records. You know, we go back and forth and rap. I got, like like 20 and 30 minute things of me and Pharrell just going back with a freestyle like I just feel like that's classic something to have and I could you could use it at any time in life even if Diddy was yelling at you what do you say back to Diddy you can't nothing like you're lying if that's the if that's the thing that somebody's yelling to you you might want to just be listening and taking it in and not being all in your feelings and all being mad and really just get that halftime

speech in. I mean, any, you know, anybody that wants to motivate you, they can't always just be on your good side. Like, what does that change? Like, change comes with devastation, you know, and extreme discomfort. Change don't come with like you being cool with the whole vibe. I feel like your voice, like, you could never change something about me. I feel like you could change a person because you might antagonize something

so much to the point where a person, yo, look, what you going to do? And you just keeping it 1,000. Like, no cut. No cut is good, and it's a balance. So when you got, like a thousand like you're like no cut no cut is good and it's a balance so when you got like the extremely sweet like i don't see you do a lot of disagreeing you know i'm saying when you got that then you got that it's like okay i see what the i see what the scale is but that right there make you say it'll make you reevaluate well let's talk about that because i like the i love the first seven songs on your album okay but it seemed like the

last seven it's like it's almost like you're doing radio records is that what it felt like the last seven it felt like the last seven was like yeah this is for the label well you know what it was a couple did i did um like the tide dollar signs one with the mustard b that that that was a j grant creation that was a j grant did you say you did four versions of that song yeah I did four different versions because I had to digress to the we that was an interesting record yeah um that that let's see can't fade us was can't fade us that that was it I like confidence that's tough confidence is crazy done what so you felt like To Be Honest was a radio record

To Be Honest is cool I like To Be Honest it's more like Can't Fade Us the Tide Dollar Signs one and cause that's it I don't really have

no radio records Slave I like Slave Slave content wise is just you know I was basically like this I was giving people like

what's good for you what vegetable is good for you like anything green like just like yeah like broccoli I was giving people like what's good for you what vegetable is good for you like anything green like just like yeah like broccoli in a Louis Vuitton box

you know you get the Louis Vuitton box you like oh my god you open up it's like yo broccoli that was like slave

cause like it sound like a trap joint but if you if you break down my lyrics you know everybody's a victim the vindictive system been

in his down been digging a hole to stick my is in like that's that's i'm giving you that's like you know it just i wrapped it in in in that because i felt like i didn't want to have something that was so preachy and so slow i felt like i wanted something that had some pace and some aggression so that was just me trying to moderate and keep like the people who aren't as astute. You know what I'm saying? The people who don't have that attention span to just sit there and listen through war

and God Money War and Ghetto Boy. See, that's what I like from Los. Yeah. But that's the thing. If I could please you with seven songs and somebody else with seven, then as long as I didn't compromise the integrity of my message,

then I'm Gucci. I felt like Can't Faders was a little off from the message of what I had, but it really fit in the money. When you think about just the money of it and the time you're just being caught up in that, it still fit. And it's a dope record. It's must an entire dollar.

That's a no-brainer for... A little commercial, though. Yeah, I mean... What's wrong with being commercial, though? I feel like everybody does that. Like, everybody, oh, yeah, get $10,000. Well, because people do want to have... Well, to my attribute, I've never had a commercial record.

Like, you know, I've never had radio and none of that stuff. So it's still a good thing to grow, too. You know, you don't want to get stuck with, you just get boring and, you know, you're just, like, dry. Like like I love those kind of records because it reminded me beat wise of like where a milli was just with the snare with the kick kick kick kick kick kick that's a milli all day so when I first got the

song I just went crazy I went like a hundred miles an hour and then people had to tell me, like Jazzy Faye and Puff. Jazzy Faye is one of my mentors. He had to tell me, like, dude, it's not about rapping because if that's the case, then you already won. It's not just about rapping. Think about people who like music, who just want to dance. And then Puff was like, yo, it's like, who could dance to that? You're rapping so fast. Nobody can dance to that. And puff was like yo it's like who could dance to that like you rapping so fast nobody could dance to that and i didn't i didn't get it i was i was almost like almost offended by that i'm like yo i'm like i'm trying to kill the track because i don't want somebody

to say i did a commercial song and my bars was whack but that's not what it's about when you're making a song for people to have fun the only thing you should worry about is did they have fun everything don't have to be a lyrical slaughter you know and i'm just learning that that's why jay biggie and parker so dope yeah come on biggie man and still having the bar so can't fade us is still barred up it's still barred up and i had to tone it down so imagine the other version you know I'm saying but yeah it's still a dope record man and confidence who is that record for man what insecure low self-esteem person do you have in your life that you have to instill that type of

confidence in them I feel like I feel like you know that this world needs a confidence booster man I see so many people who are followers and don't have their own thing you know i feel like man just have a little confidence and maybe you'll be all right like i just see a lot of people following and we we have a lack of leadership right now you know in our community so i'm just trying to show people man how to just be confident and get through. Like I said, God Money World wasn't for me. It was for all the things I felt like we needed. You know, I felt like it was necessary devices, you know, that need to be implanted into our communities, into our kids,

and, you know, the youth especially. But even some of these older people that's just stuck, you know. Like my mom. Like I want my mom to have confidence. Like I don't want you to feel like you too old to do nothing. Now my mom a chef, you know. But she used to work for the city in Baltimore. Like now she's a chef in L.A.

Like she used to cook for Tiger. You know what I'm saying? And his whole crew. Tiger the Rapper? Yeah, go to his crib, cook like his personal chef. I put my mom, you know, I gave it a whole, like, look, we out in L.A. You can cook crazy. Let's go to culinary school.

Let's get this. Let's get it popping. Now she a chef, and she cook for all the studios I go to. Everybody order up. She deliver the food like she getting it in. You know what I'm saying? Do you plan to go on tour for this album? Of course.

Look, I've been going on tour for this album of course i look i've been going on tour for every cd i ever put out and i've been just dropped i was just only dropped had ever dropped mixtapes i always been going on so i always had a a crazy core you know fan base and i've always been touring so now that i'm on a label and jay grant is going to make sure that everything's okay and icm is going to make sure I'm booked up, I'm going to be on tour. It's crazy. Now we're going to go across the pond and touch the Londons

and we got to hit everywhere now. So we just got to keep spreading the good word. What's the easiest content for you to write about, man? God, money, war? The easiest thing for me to write about? The easiest thing for me to write about? The easiest thing for me to write about, man, anything that's real in my life. I have a hard time trying to do scripted stuff and create stuff that's not real. It's harder for me to make a record that everybody could turn up to.

Because, like, I don't even go to clubs like that. You know what I'm saying? I pop in and out. that you know I'm saying I pop in and out you know I'm saying I'm more low but you know so it's probably easier for me to write something with some substance you know it's easy for me to write something deep like it's easier for me to write something deep than it is for me to write something more basic you know so that's that's what I'm trying to grow to as well by having a two-year-old, everything can't be so deep and elaborate.

You know, you got to break it down for them. So that taught me a lot with this album, you know, just talking to everybody, not missing nobody, you know what I'm saying? For your son's mother to be on the album, was that you asking her, hey, you know what? I need you to come get on this song.

Or was she like, come on, boo, I know you're going to put me on the album. Nah, that's just Mando. That was she like, come on, boo. I know you're going to put me on the album. Nah, that's just Mando. That's just like, she's an artist. She don't have to be an artist. You can tell her like, Lola, this isn't for you. She, you know,

I challenge anybody that, because I don't write her. I don't write her raps. You know what I'm saying? I know a lot of people, especially females, since the beginning of female rap, you know, had help, you know. But, like, I don't help her with her stuff, you know. I helped her learn how to, you know, construct bars and put stuff together.

But she got some stuff that's about to come out that's cold. You know what I'm saying? And it's all about growing. Like like she ain't been rapping that long you know it's dudes that can't rap you know and it's a couple things that we did together where I felt like she had the better verse stop it Los real talk if she wasn't your baby mom would you respect her as an artist now yeah I remember when she first started rapping I was surprised when she first started rapping she was surprised when she first started rapping I mean she couldn't rap

period like she couldn't rap like but she wanted to rap I guarantee you I got any amount of money that she is one of the dopest female rappers

I got any amount of money i bet you a hundred dollars i bet you and it's hundred dollars i i bet you two i bet you i bet you two hundred dollars so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna personally send you i'm gonna personally send you a record right okay i don't write now hold on did you hear um uh lipstick and pistols what her cd yeah absolutely not yo listen to me that's why i actually have that listen that's why you talking if you if you heard the song gorgeous you would flip man when she did gorgeous first of all it's a hip-hop record and it's so crazy the swag of it is so ridiculous that it made me reassess why I'm doing so much stuff that sounds so clubby at the time I was kind of all over the place she did that now mind you she was in a hotel again you know whiz and around that so whiz

got a more relaxed vibe overall he do some turn up but he got a more like you know and um when she got into that whole essence and she just really started to learn and embody what it was about Yo, she got really, really dope You know what? I'm not even going to dispute you Because I never listened to none of her music Yeah

No, but I know He's just going to say that In your head, you're thinking But you've heard her on songs with Wiz Khalifa I guarantee you I could play you something And respectfully Because you respect real music, you would dig it.

And 100%, I do not write any of her bars. So if you let me hear a song and I won't give you $100? And I let you hear a song, what you're going to tell me is this. You're going to say, you wrote that. That's what you're going to try to put on me. And I'm going to tell you, I did not write it, and I mean that. I do not write her stuff, bro. And I promise I'm going to write you something, and I'm going to let you hear something, and you're going to respect it and i mean that i do not write her stuff bro and i promise i'm gonna

write you something and you're gonna i'm gonna let you hear something and you're gonna respect it i promise you this is me saying it like i don't have to say she dope or like i don't have to pump her up like honestly like i could hold everything down i could write all her raps if it like think about it think about the dynamics of it i could write all her raps and you could never speak like i could write her the craziest bars if it got if it got to go up against females it ain't even fair like i could do that but i don't so if i'm telling you she's dope and you're gonna like it i promise you and i know where it comes from i told her i said you're not gonna get respect at first you know she used to get outfits made and all this stuff to go rap and i'm like yo that's not i used to tell her she come on stage high heels and i said yo you used to be a

video model you're not gonna get respect like that that's why she don't sell sex that's why when she rap like it's easy for her to have a million followers on Instagram. She got like 200,000 because she not with her tits out and her booty out. She got all that. She had it first. She's trying to establish that respect that comes with the hip-hop community. She really got a love for the craft.

She really got a love for the craft. She'd be writing all night. I'm going to let you hear. She'd be writing all night and I'd be helping her and I'd be hard on her. I'd be like, nah that's that's weak how did you guys end up getting together i'm a mac i mean did y'all meet in the studio where was it a video we met like five different times and she tried to hit me with the heisman and every time i just swerved it i was like you ain't gonna hit me with the Heisman I'm gonna get you Like I had a poster

Of her on my On the wall Back when I was in Baltimore And I And every day I used to tell my man My man's son I used to

I used to be like Yo That's gonna be my girl The power I just didn't see a girl That looked better than her And then I seen her In real life

And then I got the number And I even swagged it, Charlamagne. I swagged it. I waited two weeks to hit her back. What? I waited two weeks. The number you ever used. It was the wrong number. It was her manager

at the time. Oh, man. I answer the phone like, yo, who this? Who this? This is Mike. Mike? Man, we at low lat. Mike, you playing? Oh, well, I said, look, she gave me the Namatomi car, so you need to put it on the phone. So he wouldn't.

So I seen her again. We end up having the same entertainment lawyer. And he gave me the one up, man. Shout out to Paul Garne. He gave me the one up. He was like, man, look, Lola's coming through the office. You could be here and pretend to be leaving. So if you just come, hurry up, get down here.

You could pretend to be leaving so you could say hi on the way out. Did you have your best outfit on? Man, I always got my best outfit on. So I came down there, and when she came this time, I said, this how I'm going to swag it. I'm going to act like I don't even care. I'm going to act like I never met you, never saw you in life. So she came in there, and she walked in that joint,

and I gave her a five like you give a dude. I was like, what's up? What's up, man? What's up? And I walked out. And then she was interested in music. So that's what the meeting was about. So he called me back.

Look, she's interested in doing music. You should help her. That would be great. So I ended up helping her with music. And now she got my son. You got, you trapped her. I remember when the news came out, I was like, I didn't even know they were dating. So I ended up helping her with music. And now she got my son. You got, you trapped her. That's how you get her. I remember when the news came out.

I was like, I didn't even know they were dating. Shot the whole club up. Yeah, because a lot of people didn't even know. I remember when it came out. And I was like, oh, congratulations. Because I didn't even know y'all were dating. I was like, shoot. I'm going to tell you what, though.

On some real stuff, man, you can look at a person. And you can gauge them from what you think. But she earned my respect in so many ways man it was so many dudes on her heels so many people and it was like i seen her curve people i seen her the phone calls never curve me well in the beginning well in the beginning it was like just like how you cute but we in the streets you ain't getting a number and that was dope right because i was getting numbers like don't play so and another thing was we spent the whole year before she even let me get any like in the same bed sleeping every night nothing every night nothing now let's not put that out there now we don't need to discourage girls from giving no listen listen but this is

but this one got my respect these are the new Every night I felt like I'm fitting the crack. Every night I'm like, I'm going to crack the night. I'm going to crack it. Nothing for a year straight. Then after the year, we just had the craziest bond and we was tight. And it was like, all right, come on. So y'all was just cuddling in bed? We was cuddling in bed.

But the booty kept me sane. And then it was just like one day you know she had to bow down to a player greater than her she had to bow down because i stuck in there i hung in there man man this is my final question i was thinking about this the other day you call yourself to god as i do so i'm wondering do you think i'll call myself to god you don't call yourself close to god no i call myself kinglos yeah where did you get that from i've never heard that i was like maybe this is something. I saw that somewhere. Somebody must have called you that.

Man, look, they call me that every time. I don't call myself God. But I do reflect in the God within myself. I do. You feel like that's something that's missing? Because that is empowering. Yes. You're supposed to call yourself King. I feel like that's missing.

And it's like this. If you say that God is the father of Christ, if you can say that, and then you say that we are children of God, I'm my father all day. Walk like him, talk like him, look like him. You know what I'm saying? Genesis 126 says God created man in his image according to his likeness. So come on, man. And I think that's why people don't do godly things and don't be on that frequency. Because they don't really identify with it that much.

They put it over there and then they put themselves in a smaller space. Of course, we're smaller. We didn't create ourselves. But I just want to do things like how he did it. He said, let there be light that's why can't nobody put darkness over me can't nobody tell me what I'm not going to be or not do right God said let there be light so he killed all that already I'm gonna create just like he created you know what I'm saying so yeah pretty much that I like it man that's the guy we out here we out here. We out here.

Right now. Jake Grant is not playing. Yeah. Yeah. It's that too right now. I just seen Meek just dropped his thing too. Yeah. Shout outs to Meek though, man.

Hey, blessings for everybody. To all these people that don't want to sign to a major, it's not always such a bad thing. You know, everybody's always like independent. It's not. And I'm going to do that interview later. On your independence, you're? Everybody's always like independent. It's not, and I'm going to do that interview later. On your independence, you only got it wrong. My man King Lopes, man. Got money wanting stores right now. Thank you for coming, my brother. Thank you, man.

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