The Breakfast Club - RICH HOMIE QUAN, BIG BANK, DJ SCREAM - STILL GOIN' IN!
Episode Date: January 18, 2020Rich Homie Quan joins Big Bank and DJ Scream on Big Facts and talks about his relationship with Young Thug, the Rich Homie Quan Dance, his infamous Notorious B.I.G tribute performance with Lil Kim, ne...w music and more!Visit www.bigfactspod.comFollow @bigfactspod Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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                                         You're listening to Big Facts with Big Bank and DJ Scream.
                                         
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                                         We're live from First Class Sounds.
                                         
                                         Big Bank Black is here.
                                         
                                         We got a special guest on the next edition of Big Facts.
                                         
                                         We'd like to welcome Rich Homie Quan, the Big Facts.
                                         
    
                                         Now, before we get started, man, in tradition, Big Facts, raise your right hand, man.
                                         
                                         We got to swear you in.
                                         
                                         You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
                                         
                                         Yes, I do.
                                         
                                         Okay, and you can plead the fifth as well.
                                         
                                         You ain't here to mess you up.
                                         
                                         I ain't trying to plead the fifth, though, man.
                                         
                                         That's what it is.
                                         
    
                                         Big Facts.
                                         
                                         What's up with Rich Homie, though, man?
                                         
                                         What you been on?
                                         
                                         Oh, man, working, man.
                                         
                                         Staying focused, man.
                                         
                                         You know, I'm staying out of the way.
                                         
                                         Staying out of the way?
                                         
                                         I'm still working, though.
                                         
    
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Still collecting that bag.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Still paying bills and shit.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Absolutely.
                                         
    
                                         Why would you say staying out of the way, though?
                                         
                                         I mean, you got a lot of fans that don't want you to stay out of the way.
                                         
                                         I got a lot of fans.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         But, like, you got to think, like, Black just said, like, nigga came out so hot, started staying out the way.
                                         
                                         Man, I made a lot of that money fast, bro.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I make a lot of that money fast.
                                         
    
                                         Ego got in my way.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So sometimes, like, now I have to just step back from self and absorb self.
                                         
                                         And, like, nigga, you tripping.
                                         
                                         And no rule book come with that money, basically.
                                         
                                         Yeah, exactly.
                                         
                                         There's no rule book come with that money.
                                         
                                         You ain't know how to take all the shit that come with that shit.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, then like, you feel me, it went like, then it got like a hundred thousand to five
                                         
                                         hundred thousand.
                                         
                                         Went from broke to like a million fast.
                                         
                                         Billions, yeah.
                                         
                                         So it's like, you feel me, that shit'll fuck with your mental.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         Yeah, I understand that.
                                         
                                         That shit'll fuck with your mental.
                                         
    
                                         Like, you feel me, especially coming from nothing, and you think you want everything,
                                         
                                         then you buy everything, yeah, it's stuck.
                                         
                                         Like, what I'ma do next?
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So it was just like one of them me moments where I just had to
                                         
                                         step back from myself
                                         
                                         and just like,
                                         
                                         let shit fizzle out a little bit
                                         
    
                                         and just find out
                                         
                                         what's my purpose
                                         
                                         for being here.
                                         
                                         Is there anything
                                         
                                         you would have did different?
                                         
                                         No.
                                         
                                         Yeah, of course.
                                         
                                         If a nigga say,
                                         
    
                                         nah, he lying,
                                         
                                         of course I would have
                                         
                                         did different.
                                         
                                         Maybe a couple moments
                                         
                                         where you was like,
                                         
                                         man, I might have did
                                         
                                         this like this.
                                         
                                         No, it's just like,
                                         
    
                                         man, one thing I always say
                                         
                                         what I would have did,
                                         
                                         to be honest, I didn't even read my paperwork.
                                         
                                         I just signed it.
                                         
                                         You see what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Nigga been broke.
                                         
                                         Shit.
                                         
                                         The TIG, that fly, he got a check.
                                         
    
                                         I know he ain't finna try me.
                                         
                                         They want my mind, telling myself.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Not saying I signed a bad contract, but, like, shit, at the end of the day, that's why we
                                         
                                         end up doing what we had to do, because, like, the contract went, like, that shit wasn't
                                         
                                         right.
                                         
                                         So that's why, like, it feel like your shit just slowed down
                                         
    
                                         or came to a stop because you feel like you was in feud with your label?
                                         
                                         Oh, yeah, I was.
                                         
                                         We was going through litigation.
                                         
                                         So at the time, we trying to see what we going to do with songs.
                                         
                                         And shit, I hadn't been paid for the other songs I put out.
                                         
                                         So you got to think in my mind, I'm like, shit,
                                         
                                         I haven't even been compensated for the good music I done did.
                                         
                                         Why the hell I'm going to drop some more shit
                                         
    
                                         if my money ain't even right by this?
                                         
                                         So let me get my business right
                                         
                                         so when I do drop some more shit,
                                         
                                         I know I'll be paid the right way.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So that's really what it was.
                                         
                                         What would you say to people
                                         
                                         about the signed contracts
                                         
    
                                         like some of the young ones
                                         
                                         and the artists and all that shit
                                         
                                         because that's a common thing.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I can't really say what to say
                                         
                                         only because like,
                                         
                                         that shit worked for me.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Like, I was doing work for me.
                                         
    
                                         Like, I would just say like,
                                         
                                         get your entertainment lawyer
                                         
                                         if that's something you want to do. You feel me? Like, that's what you Like I would just say like Get your entertainment lawyer If this is something you want to do
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Like that's what you should start off
                                         
                                         Like get your entertainment lawyer
                                         
                                         Cause like me
                                         
                                         I don't like to read paperwork
                                         
    
                                         Niggas send you 8,000 papers
                                         
                                         You just trying to see
                                         
                                         The lab paper and the fur paper
                                         
                                         From where you signed it
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Yeah so like
                                         
                                         I would just say like
                                         
                                         Get somebody to look over that work
                                         
    
                                         You know what I mean
                                         
                                         Just being smart about it
                                         
                                         Like it's a business bro
                                         
                                         It be all type of shit
                                         
                                         Heading up in that shit
                                         
                                         Come on man
                                         
                                         You know like
                                         
                                         That's like on a commercial
                                         
    
                                         The shit that be real
                                         
                                         That you can't see You know what I mean Y'all they gonna tell you Come on man And like type of shit heading up in that shit. Come on, man. You know, like, that's like on a commercial. The shit that be real little you can't see. You know what I mean? Y'all, they gonna tell you. Come on, man.
                                         
                                         And, like, I don't like to read that shit. So, like, without, like, going forward, I would just get me
                                         
                                         an entertainment lawyer. You know what I mean? Just be smart, man. You feel me? Like, read
                                         
                                         everything before you sign it. You know what I mean? Straight up.
                                         
                                         Hi. You interact with your fans a lot. Now, you know you made them a promise on these
                                         
                                         projects and these tapes. You would never stop going in. Now, you know you made them a promise on these projects, these tapes.
                                         
                                         You would never stop going in.
                                         
    
                                         So I've had people ask me because you rock with Tank, too, and he close to you.
                                         
                                         Like, what's up, man?
                                         
                                         They want you to keep going in.
                                         
                                         So what's the status on 2020?
                                         
                                         What can we expect from Rich Home?
                                         
                                         What's going to be going on?
                                         
                                         Shit, man.
                                         
                                         Of course, I got to keep going in.
                                         
    
                                         But I feel like I had to just get out of that, brand myself by still going in.
                                         
                                         Of course, I want to evolve, you know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         So it's like, shit, that's me.
                                         
                                         I already done said it.
                                         
                                         I don't want to keep saying it, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Just about elevation, man, growth.
                                         
                                         Of course, as long as there's a mic in my face, I am an artist.
                                         
                                         So with that being said, I still got a job to do.
                                         
    
                                         I still got fans to please.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Music going to get dropped, but it goes back, like I said, I got my business handled now.
                                         
                                         So now I know whatever I drop, I'm really benefiting off of, you know what
                                         
                                         I'm saying?
                                         
                                         I seen shit on, uh, Graham, I think, on your page, you posted, like, um, Old Korn.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah, the Old Korn.
                                         
                                         Old Korn, the hardest, bro.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, I, I, I fuck with Old Korn, but, like, the, the, the song came about, it's like,
                                         
                                         every time I go, like you just said.
                                         
                                         No, I'm saying, the old Kwan.
                                         
                                         The old me.
                                         
                                         It's the hardest.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         But, like.
                                         
                                         I'm putting you down.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Like, old Kwan, like, the old Kwan is the hardest, like, but, like, at that time, but,
                                         
                                         like, right now, I ain't going through that type of shit I'm going through in my life
                                         
                                         no more.
                                         
                                         Hey, man, you got to figure out how to make that shit.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You got to, I'm putting you down, man.
                                         
                                         That right.
                                         
    
                                         I'm putting your head down.
                                         
                                         That right.
                                         
                                         You got to go get some inspiration.
                                         
                                         You got to go ride past, you know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Yeah, that right. That's what niggas wanna hear
                                         
                                         Like
                                         
                                         Like bro
                                         
                                         You came out so hard
                                         
    
                                         And niggas was saying
                                         
                                         You sound like Future
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying
                                         
                                         We know that
                                         
                                         I called this nigga
                                         
                                         I said bro
                                         
                                         This nigga I just seen up here
                                         
                                         With Gucci bro
                                         
    
                                         I don't think he signed
                                         
                                         To nobody
                                         
                                         You need to sign
                                         
                                         This nigga now man
                                         
                                         He sound like you
                                         
                                         But it gonna work
                                         
                                         I told that nigga
                                         
                                         That shit
                                         
    
                                         He'll tell you.
                                         
                                         We locked down
                                         
                                         over there at Gucci
                                         
                                         about a month, man.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         For real.
                                         
                                         Gucci would not
                                         
                                         let a nigga leave.
                                         
    
                                         Nah, really.
                                         
                                         That's how it work.
                                         
                                         That's how it work.
                                         
                                         Right down in Moreland.
                                         
                                         You pushing them
                                         
                                         bitches out, bro.
                                         
                                         You pushing them
                                         
                                         bitches out, bro.
                                         
    
                                         It was that hunger, bro.
                                         
                                         It was that hunger, man.
                                         
                                         What you think
                                         
                                         can trigger that
                                         
                                         same shit back in the day?
                                         
                                         What, get that hunger back?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Like what I just did. Like me, I had to get back in the day? What, get that hunger back? Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Like what I just did.
                                         
                                         Like me, I had to get out of the studio with everybody and get back to recording with just
                                         
                                         me.
                                         
                                         Stop trying to make all the heads nod and what's it called, and just get to dropping
                                         
                                         music that I like.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         The music that I like, the world got to like it.
                                         
                                         It's mine.
                                         
    
                                         Opposed to me trying to please everybody.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You know like you, you're an artist.
                                         
                                         So you know you in the studio, you looking through the booth, when you start seeing them head nod, that make you smile. That's croaky ego. You feel me? You know, like, you know, like, you, you don't be, you're an artist. So, you know, you in the studio, you looking through the booth.
                                         
                                         When you start seeing them head, now, that make you smile.
                                         
                                         That's croaky ego.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So, I started, I had to just dumb it down.
                                         
    
                                         Nobody in the studio, just me, bro.
                                         
                                         Yeah, because some of the time, it be niggas just nodding their head because they know
                                         
                                         you looking.
                                         
                                         Yeah, exactly.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         So, I was playing your game with you.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So, it's like, I just had to just cut everything out, get out the beat, yo, go back in the
                                         
    
                                         room.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Just get inspired, bro, some way, somehow.
                                         
                                         Yeah. You feel me? That's all, man. Then you then you start you saying you see niggas around you moving shit I'm supposed to be moving like that side. That's inspiration. You feel me? No, I know y'all niggas ain't harder than me
                                         
                                         I just got out work out niggas you feel me and that's just been my whole thing like they ain't fucking with me screen
                                         
                                         I just got out working bro even don't get caught up in the sauce. Don't get caught up in the hype. That's my mind frame, bro.
                                         
                                         Now, you know I'm a mixtape nigga.
                                         
                                         I dig through hard drives.
                                         
    
                                         I think, how many songs you and Future got together that we ain't heard?
                                         
                                         I think it's about five or ten of them.
                                         
                                         Twelve.
                                         
                                         There ain't no more than I do.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         About twelve.
                                         
                                         About twelve of them?
                                         
                                         We got an hour long.
                                         
    
                                         Think we'll ever hear them?
                                         
                                         Bangles.
                                         
                                         I done heard all of them.
                                         
                                         You heard all of them?
                                         
                                         Yeah, I don't know.
                                         
                                         They get to hear everything
                                         
                                         You the DJ man
                                         
                                         I really like
                                         
    
                                         You feel me like
                                         
                                         I would want to get back
                                         
                                         In the yo though
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Yeah I would want
                                         
                                         To get back in the yo
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Cause like
                                         
    
                                         I've grown as an individual
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Then I want to see
                                         
                                         What bro head at
                                         
                                         Just to see like
                                         
                                         Do he feel comfortable
                                         
                                         Putting it out
                                         
                                         Cause I think like
                                         
    
                                         That was always like
                                         
                                         His songs
                                         
                                         We just collaborate
                                         
                                         If you ask me
                                         
                                         Them bitches would have been out.
                                         
                                         But then I didn't want to just let the song pop up, pop out, and mess up the relationship.
                                         
                                         Man, he don't do that.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         So when bro want to drop me, he can just hit me up.
                                         
                                         My line open.
                                         
                                         Like, shit, I'm ready to drop him.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         And just as a fan, I just got to throw it out there, man.
                                         
                                         This is like me asking like OutKast, where they do music together.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         With you and Young Thug,
                                         
    
                                         where we see one song,
                                         
                                         one song reunion, maybe.
                                         
                                         I don't know, bro.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Is the conversation anywhere
                                         
                                         amongst the camps,
                                         
                                         anywhere is it in the air at all,
                                         
                                         or is it just y'all just...
                                         
    
                                         If you had one thing to say to Shline,
                                         
                                         like, as your boy, your brother,
                                         
                                         how y'all would lock in,
                                         
                                         what you would say on the phone
                                         
                                         if y'all was on the phone?
                                         
                                         Right now?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Shit, bro, let's just set a pull-up on me,
                                         
    
                                         let's just chop it up. You feel me? Like, before we even get was on? Right now? Yeah. Shit, bro, let's just sit and pull up on me, let's just chop it up.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like,
                                         
                                         before we even get to songs
                                         
                                         and things,
                                         
                                         I want to just see
                                         
                                         what, bro,
                                         
                                         mentally,
                                         
    
                                         like,
                                         
                                         because,
                                         
                                         like,
                                         
                                         to this day,
                                         
                                         we still ain't just
                                         
                                         had no conversation.
                                         
                                         It was more like
                                         
                                         people around us
                                         
    
                                         talking opposed to me
                                         
                                         and bro just sitting
                                         
                                         down having that conversation.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So,
                                         
                                         if I talk to my bro,
                                         
                                         shit,
                                         
                                         pull up on me,
                                         
    
                                         let's just chop it up.
                                         
                                         This ain't no studio,
                                         
                                         this ain't no nothing.
                                         
                                         It's just like,
                                         
                                         to see where we at,
                                         
                                         let's just chop it up.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         That's what it'll be, straight up.
                                         
    
                                         What you think got in the way of that shit?
                                         
                                         You got to think, at that time, man, we both hungry. We both just take off. And like I just said, just straight up egos and people around us talking. You know what I mean? And that
                                         
                                         shit happened fast, bro. That shit happened fast. You know what I mean? I ain't expected
                                         
                                         to do that. Straight, straight up, man.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         How you feel?
                                         
                                         You check out his music, like, his last album and everything?
                                         
                                         How you feel when you ride child and you be happy for him?
                                         
    
                                         Be a liar, man.
                                         
                                         Nigga, come on, man. Yeah, I'm just, you know.
                                         
                                         My dog, man.
                                         
                                         Facts.
                                         
                                         We was in the studio every day, like.
                                         
                                         Yeah, with facts, you know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Everything.
                                         
                                         Yeah, this shit hard.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         This shit hard.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         That's what we're here for, the facts.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Nigga, this shit hard.
                                         
                                         Like, nah, man, I ain't listen to hats.
                                         
    
                                         Some people be on that. Nah, I don't listen to the fact. You know what I'm saying? They're going to laugh at you. Like, nah, man, I ain't listening to half. Some people be on that.
                                         
                                         Nah, I don't listen to no rappers.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         You hear it.
                                         
                                         You ain't got to listen, but you hear it.
                                         
                                         You know what's happening.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So, yeah, I listen.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Of course, like, coming out, like, I'm not saying I'm going to look for it, but if I
                                         
                                         hear it, I'm listening to that motherfucker.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So, what was the situation with Bird?
                                         
                                         See, I ain't never get a chance to ask you about that.
                                         
                                         Like, it went really no, it went never no situations. It's like, I never did paperwork with Bird. So, like. Just niggas just locking in on you. See, I ain't never get a chance to ask you about that. Like, it wasn't really no, it wasn't never no situation.
                                         
                                         It's just like, I never did paperwork with Bird.
                                         
    
                                         So like...
                                         
                                         Just niggas just locking in on some...
                                         
                                         Yeah, you didn't know, like,
                                         
                                         you seen, like, me and Thug in the studio every day.
                                         
                                         Bird come with Thug,
                                         
                                         and I'm Bird at the O every day.
                                         
                                         So it's like, shit, Bird, like, shit,
                                         
                                         I just want to put this shit out.
                                         
    
                                         You know, JJ, I want to put it out.
                                         
                                         Let me put it out, corn.
                                         
                                         Come in, Thug, drop me a lot of music.
                                         
                                         We don't really know what we're going to do with it.
                                         
                                         Bird was like, shit, man,
                                         
                                         let me just put it out under the rich gang.
                                         
                                         We ain't do no paperwork.
                                         
                                         We ain't do nothing.
                                         
    
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         We just making music.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Bird probably like rapped on two songs.
                                         
                                         The songs that I already did.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Bird just, but he's niggas.
                                         
                                         But he working so much.
                                         
    
                                         Like, man, thug in two different rooms in the yoke.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Sometimes we'll just get in.
                                         
                                         Other than that, he working, I'm working.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         And Bird just, like we were doing, put the shit together.
                                         
                                         And we just put it out. You know what I mean? It was I'm working. You feel me? Bird just, like we were doing, put the shit together, and we just put it out.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
    
                                         It was never no situation.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So, it's like, I was never tired of the bird.
                                         
                                         So, like, I don't know, but, like, I see bird.
                                         
                                         It's still, what's up, bird?
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         There ain't no bad blood in there.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         I don't know how he feel, but I'm telling you what really went on.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Straight up.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You know.
                                         
                                         Is your country falling apart?
                                         
                                         Feeling tired? Depressed, a little bit revolutionary?
                                         
                                         Consider this.
                                         
    
                                         Start your own country.
                                         
                                         I planted the flag.
                                         
                                         I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.
                                         
                                         I own this.
                                         
                                         It's surprisingly easy.
                                         
                                         There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.
                                         
                                         Everybody's doing it.
                                         
                                         I am King Ernest Emmanuel.
                                         
    
                                         I am the Queen of Laudonia.
                                         
                                         I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg.
                                         
                                         I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.
                                         
                                         Be part of a great colonial tradition.
                                         
                                         The Waikana tribe own country. My forefathers did that themselves.
                                         
                                         What could go wrong?
                                         
                                         No country willingly gives up their territory.
                                         
                                         I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead.
                                         
    
                                         Oh my God.
                                         
                                         What is that?
                                         
                                         Bullets. Bullets.
                                         
                                         We need help!
                                         
                                         We still have the off-road
                                         
                                         portion to go.
                                         
                                         Listen to Escape from Zakistan.
                                         
                                         And we're losing daylight fast.
                                         
    
                                         That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan
                                         
                                         on the iHeartRadio app,
                                         
                                         Apple Podcasts, or wherever
                                         
                                         you get your podcasts.
                                         
                                         What's up, y'all, this is Questlove,
                                         
                                         and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast
                                         
                                         I've been working on with the Story Pirates
                                         
                                         and John Glickman called Historical Records.
                                         
    
                                         It's a family-friendly podcast.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you heard that right.
                                         
                                         A podcast for all ages.
                                         
                                         One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids
                                         
                                         starting on September 27th.
                                         
                                         I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records,
                                         
                                         Nemany, to tell you all about it.
                                         
                                         Make sure you check it out.
                                         
    
                                         Hey, y'all.
                                         
                                         Nimany here.
                                         
                                         I'm the host of a brand new history podcast
                                         
                                         for kids and families
                                         
                                         called Historical Records.
                                         
                                         Historical Records brings history
                                         
                                         to life through hip-hop.
                                         
                                         Flash, slam, another one gone.
                                         
    
                                         Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. through hip-hop.
                                         
                                         Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history.
                                         
                                         Like this one about Claudette Colvin,
                                         
                                         a 15-year-old girl in Alabama
                                         
                                         who refused to give up her seat
                                         
                                         on the city bus nine whole
                                         
                                         months before Rosa Parks did the same
                                         
                                         thing. Check it.
                                         
    
                                         And it began with me.
                                         
                                         Did you know, did you know?
                                         
                                         I wouldn't give up my seat.
                                         
                                         Nine months before Rosa, it was called a moment.
                                         
                                         Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records.
                                         
                                         Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
                                         
                                         Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba.
                                         
                                         I shook up the world.
                                         
    
                                         James Brown said, say it loud.
                                         
                                         And the kids said, I'm black and I'm proud.
                                         
                                         Black boxing stars and black music
                                         
                                         royalty together in the heart of Zaire, Africa. Three days of music and then the boxing event.
                                         
                                         What was going on in the world at the time made this fight as important that anything else is
                                         
                                         going on on the planet. My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself
                                         
                                         out. Welcome to Rumble, the story
                                         
                                         of a world in transformation.
                                         
    
                                         The 60s and prior to that, you
                                         
                                         couldn't call a person black. And
                                         
                                         how we arrived at this
                                         
                                         peak moment. I don't have to be
                                         
                                         what you want me to be. We all
                                         
                                         came from the continent
                                         
                                         of Africa. Listen to
                                         
                                         Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74
                                         
    
                                         on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
                                         
                                         or wherever you get your podcasts.
                                         
                                         Absolutely, man.
                                         
                                         You got that Falcons jersey on, man.
                                         
                                         Let's talk a little sports for a quick second, man.
                                         
                                         I had this on yesterday, man.
                                         
                                         I love them birds, though.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         I'm from Atlanta. This shit on yesterday, man. Went to a little video shoot. I wanted to birds, though. You feel me? I'm from Atlanta.
                                         
                                         I'm like,
                                         
                                         this shit on yesterday, man.
                                         
                                         Went to a little video shoot.
                                         
                                         I wanted to rep them birds.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Yeah, now that's real.
                                         
                                         We salute that.
                                         
    
                                         We salute it.
                                         
                                         It just be tough, man.
                                         
                                         Them birds don't cost us
                                         
                                         so much money.
                                         
                                         All right, that shit,
                                         
                                         that shit Atlanta, nigga.
                                         
                                         We ain't want that.
                                         
                                         That shit the brave, bro.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, I told myself, like,
                                         
                                         I probably going to be
                                         
                                         the lamest nigga in the world,
                                         
                                         but, like, when we play
                                         
                                         Golden State in stealth combat,
                                         
                                         I'm going to be courtside
                                         
                                         with a stealth phone. They're like, Quentin, what are you play Golden State and Stealth come back, I'm going to be courtside with the Stealth on.
                                         
    
                                         They're like, Kwon, what are you doing?
                                         
                                         I'm like, I'm on that bankroll with Stealth.
                                         
                                         I got to let bro know.
                                         
                                         They go in there with all that Atlanta shit on.
                                         
                                         They capping.
                                         
                                         Come on, man.
                                         
                                         I go in there, man.
                                         
                                         I'm going to be Golden State.
                                         
    
                                         I'm going to look like the Mad Scott, man.
                                         
                                         On that Stealth, man.
                                         
                                         You still live in Atlanta?
                                         
                                         Hey, man.
                                         
                                         I got to stay in Atlanta.
                                         
                                         This is the black Mecca, man.
                                         
                                         This is black Hollywood.
                                         
                                         You feel what I'm saying?
                                         
    
                                         Like, this Atlanta.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         I'm here.
                                         
                                         How that shit is with,
                                         
                                         like, with your hood,
                                         
                                         you know,
                                         
                                         when niggas get famous
                                         
                                         and shit,
                                         
    
                                         go up and shit,
                                         
                                         like, your day,
                                         
                                         not day one,
                                         
                                         but you know,
                                         
                                         niggas that was around and shit.
                                         
                                         You know how that go, man.
                                         
                                         When you get the sand on the nose,
                                         
                                         man, you know,
                                         
    
                                         you a fuck nigga.
                                         
                                         Soon you say,
                                         
                                         yo, you know,
                                         
                                         you their best friend again.
                                         
                                         It just come with,
                                         
                                         like, growth, man.
                                         
                                         It's no for me. I don't give a damn how, what you consider me? I look I don't say yeah thousand time bro. You feel me? Yeah
                                         
                                         We still want a lot of them years got them make you be had to tell somebody you love in the future. No
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, tell you bitch no she can't get this cuz you got them being yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah niggas ass I got some day ones who want it straight. I got some day ones who want forever be day one
                                         
                                         You know that I go I still can go to the hood you feel me that what going on man
                                         
                                         That shit come with it if you don't know how to handle it. I feel like you weren't built for this shit
                                         
                                         You know I'm saying if you're gonna quit you wasn't built for this shit
                                         
                                         If him like two things I ain't gonna do and I can't do
                                         
                                         If him like come on, man.
                                         
                                         Atlanta breed warriors, bro.
                                         
                                         How old were you when you started rapping, though?
                                         
    
                                         When I first, when I take a serious, like.
                                         
                                         Oh, shit.
                                         
                                         Probably like 11th grade.
                                         
                                         11th grade when I just like fought baseball.
                                         
                                         I just want to do, you know, rap.
                                         
                                         I think I want to rap.
                                         
                                         Probably like 11th grade.
                                         
                                         But I feel like, shit, my whole life, like, God was throwing
                                         
    
                                         signs, I was in the band, shit.
                                         
                                         Third grade, third to eighth grade, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Quit that shit, though.
                                         
                                         You know, you go to that football game, I'm up there, Price, so we went to Lakewood Stadium.
                                         
                                         I pull up at 10, all the cool niggas in the top, so I was like, I don't want to do the
                                         
                                         baseball, I mean, I don't want to play the band no more.
                                         
                                         So by the time I get to high school, baseball, that shit wasn't working out.
                                         
                                         So I was like, try to rap.
                                         
    
                                         Like, I always like poems, like to read books.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Let me see what they do.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I thought I was good.
                                         
                                         Shit was so, like, when I listened to it.
                                         
                                         But it was just part of my growing process.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         After I got out of jail, I was like, that's what I want to do.
                                         
                                         Fuck it.
                                         
                                         That's what it is.
                                         
                                         Do you read Instagram comments?
                                         
                                         Nah, I don't get caught up in them.
                                         
                                         You don't get caught up?
                                         
                                         Nah. So social media, you don't hear the trolls in them. You don't get caught up? Nah.
                                         
                                         So social media, you don't hear the trolls and the people and the comments and all that?
                                         
    
                                         Nah.
                                         
                                         You try to just stay focused on them?
                                         
                                         Like the one that be at the bottom of a picture, if it's just like at the bottom, but that's
                                         
                                         probably somebody I'm already following.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         But mine just like going through scrolling on them, my brother.
                                         
                                         What's the craziest shit ever came to your DM?
                                         
                                         Blew your mind.
                                         
    
                                         A nude.
                                         
                                         A who?
                                         
                                         A nude picture.
                                         
                                         A nude picture?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Like for somebody I wouldn't even expect no nude from.
                                         
    
                                         Blue check?
                                         
                                         Yeah, of course.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         He said of course.
                                         
                                         A nude, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah, a nude.
                                         
                                         Other than that, you feel me?
                                         
                                         You see DMs all day.
                                         
    
                                         Niggas asking.
                                         
                                         I don't think like nothing crazy you ain't heard before.
                                         
                                         You pretty sure it was a crazy DM you done talked.
                                         
                                         Not as crazy as yours, bro.
                                         
                                         Not as crazy as yours.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
                                         
                                         Like, I don't know.
                                         
    
                                         Like, crazy, crazy.
                                         
                                         Like, I did some crazy shit.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You ever opened up the DM though, like, speaking to like news and blue checks and all that shit
                                         
                                         and be like, like, bingo, jackpot.
                                         
                                         Like, I was waiting on this.
                                         
                                         I thought about this.
                                         
                                         Hell nah.
                                         
    
                                         Nah, not yet?
                                         
                                         I don't know. I just don't look at it like, that ain't the way I try to holler at women. Like, you was waiting on this. I thought about this. Hell nah. Nah, not yet? I don't know.
                                         
                                         I just don't look at it like, that ain't the way I try to holler at women.
                                         
                                         Like, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, I ain't trying to holler at you through the ground.
                                         
                                         I'm trying to show you this shit real life.
                                         
                                         Because I'm, my mind like, everybody trying to use that avenue.
                                         
                                         Everybody going to send a DM.
                                         
    
                                         Let me just pull up on a pimp for real.
                                         
                                         Let me just show her what it is for real.
                                         
                                         So, I like, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, I ain't going to say, like, I don't reply back to bitches now.
                                         
                                         Because I'm captive.
                                         
                                         Right, right.
                                         
                                         But, like, I ain't trying to shoot my shot on that motherfucker.
                                         
                                         That make sense?
                                         
    
                                         I'm entertaining the bullshit.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I ain't shooting my shot, but I'm entertaining the bullshit.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Entertaining the bullshit, but not shooting your shot.
                                         
                                         I read between the lines.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I read between the lines, man.
                                         
                                         Who you think one of the hardest young niggas in the city on the come up?
                                         
                                         Shit.
                                         
                                         Baby, he done came up Yeah
                                         
                                         He up
                                         
                                         Let me see who I just like
                                         
                                         Baby killing it
                                         
    
                                         I'm just trying to think
                                         
                                         There's so many niggas in Atlanta rapping now
                                         
                                         I don't even know who is who
                                         
                                         The nigga from here
                                         
                                         The baby hard too though
                                         
                                         I know he ain't from here
                                         
                                         Let me tell you who I like though What's the dude's name from here. The Baby Hard too though. The Baby Hard, but I know he ain't from here.
                                         
                                         Let me tell you who I like though.
                                         
    
                                         What's the dude's name?
                                         
                                         Lil' Gwark Tarantino.
                                         
                                         Lil' Gwark.
                                         
                                         Gwark Hard.
                                         
                                         Yeah, Lil' Gwark Hard.
                                         
                                         Gwark Red.
                                         
                                         I like his image.
                                         
                                         Shout out to him.
                                         
    
                                         He charged up.
                                         
                                         Yeah, that nigga hard.
                                         
                                         He charged up.
                                         
                                         Gwark charged up.
                                         
                                         Yeah, Gwark charged up.
                                         
                                         And he got the work ethic.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Yeah, so I'm like,
                                         
    
                                         yeah, he can rap.
                                         
                                         Shout out to Gwark Tarantino Free Band.
                                         
                                         Shout out to Guap, yeah.
                                         
                                         But I just be still listening to niggas who can rap.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Niggas just throwing on beat, just talking.
                                         
                                         You still got niggas.
                                         
                                         There's still some talent out there.
                                         
    
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                                         What's something you're looking forward to doing in 2020?
                                         
                                         As Rich Homie Quan, that you ain't got a chance to do, like, some bucket list shit.
                                         
                                         Let's see, bro.
                                         
                                         I wouldn't mind doing a book, write me a book.
                                         
                                         But I ain't trying to write no autobiography.
                                         
                                         It's more like on some Alex Crowe shit.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         Some different shit.
                                         
                                         I just want to show niggas different.
                                         
                                         Everybody want to come out with an autobiography.
                                         
                                         I feel like that's what I rap for.
                                         
                                         I've told you enough about me.
                                         
                                         What I'm going to tell you in the book, you don't already know my nigga.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So I just want to come out
                                         
    
                                         and just show niggas like,
                                         
                                         nigga mind be thinking.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Maybe then put that shit on the movie,
                                         
                                         a little strip,
                                         
                                         but it started writing the book.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You think out there
                                         
    
                                         in this rap shit, right?
                                         
                                         Mm-hmm.
                                         
                                         You think that street shit
                                         
                                         automatically come with the rap shit.
                                         
                                         Not no more.
                                         
                                         When you a rapper.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying? Like, just're a rapper. You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Like, just like beef and, you know what I'm saying,
                                         
    
                                         confrontations and egos and all that shit.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         That shit automatically, you feel like it automatically
                                         
                                         come with or you can escape it.
                                         
                                         That shit automatic, bro.
                                         
                                         That shit automatic.
                                         
                                         That shit automatic.
                                         
                                         Like, I don't give a damn.
                                         
    
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         You're the backpack kid.
                                         
                                         It's going to be a nigga that's going to come for your spot.
                                         
                                         You're going to be put in that situation
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Like
                                         
                                         Retaliator don't
                                         
                                         Bro how do you feel about it
                                         
    
                                         Even on the internet
                                         
                                         They're gonna ask you
                                         
                                         Your facial expression
                                         
                                         Gonna tell it all
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying
                                         
                                         So like yeah
                                         
                                         Ain't no escaping that
                                         
                                         That shit come with it
                                         
    
                                         Price of fame
                                         
                                         Real shit
                                         
                                         Straight up
                                         
                                         You feel me like
                                         
                                         You said earlier like
                                         
                                         God damn
                                         
                                         Basically like
                                         
                                         Nigga kinda Got lost in this shit Yeah Like chasing the wrong light Straight up. You said earlier, like, goddamn, basically, like,
                                         
    
                                         Nick kind of got lost in this shit, like, chasing the wrong light.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         What mood you feel like, now you look back on, like,
                                         
                                         damn, I wish I would have never did that shit.
                                         
                                         Probably that, um...
                                         
                                         It was that damn, bro.
                                         
                                         You said the damn?
                                         
                                         You shouldn't have did that shit.
                                         
    
                                         I ain't going to lie.
                                         
                                         You shouldn't have it that's it
                                         
                                         the dad like the that's a big thing i'm putting you down man look you should have did that
                                         
                                         shit all right now pete gang are you right so my defense look how many got dancing though
                                         
                                         i feel like yeah you feel like that was It was like, that nigga finna do that. Yeah, like, and I ain't gonna lie.
                                         
                                         I ain't gonna lie.
                                         
                                         And it went.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         It went.
                                         
                                         That was like five years.
                                         
                                         I feel like, I just felt like, I don't know, bro.
                                         
                                         I was drunk as hell when I did it.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Straight up.
                                         
                                         Look, the craziest I ain't give.
                                         
                                         I did this shit, bro.
                                         
    
                                         We in Florida, and I remember.
                                         
                                         But you started running with it.
                                         
                                         You should have just let that one time.
                                         
                                         Like, okay.
                                         
                                         But listen, dude, what I'm telling you, when I did it, bro.
                                         
                                         Man, the girls went so crazy
                                         
                                         Yeah yeah
                                         
                                         I see you
                                         
    
                                         I felt like
                                         
                                         Boy you ain't never seen
                                         
                                         When Diddy be dancing
                                         
                                         I felt like printing
                                         
                                         I had never just heard
                                         
                                         Like the girls throwing
                                         
                                         Panthers and shit now
                                         
                                         I'm getting panthers
                                         
    
                                         And bra
                                         
                                         I'm getting panthers
                                         
                                         And bra's
                                         
                                         Throwing at me now
                                         
                                         I was like nigga
                                         
                                         I was like nigga
                                         
                                         I was like boy that shit
                                         
                                         But I ain't gonna
                                         
    
                                         That shit when I did the damn
                                         
                                         Bro I had
                                         
                                         Nigga had sold Two million, bro, in 10 years.
                                         
                                         We had them broker record, like, on some shit.
                                         
                                         That's an independent.
                                         
                                         But I ain't going to lie.
                                         
                                         That shit was all about the downer.
                                         
                                         Let me tell you what.
                                         
    
                                         Niggas stopped taking me serious when I did the damn.
                                         
                                         Yes, man.
                                         
                                         That's our opinion now, man.
                                         
                                         Niggas stopped.
                                         
                                         But get with it to this day.
                                         
                                         Boy, you can't give me a dollar to do that motherfucker, bro.
                                         
                                         Niggas like, boy, hit the damn, hit the damn.
                                         
                                         Nobody hit corn, bro.
                                         
    
                                         Ain't nobody,
                                         
                                         we not hitting no more.
                                         
                                         That ain't even him.
                                         
                                         I'm not him.
                                         
                                         Yeah, man.
                                         
                                         So like,
                                         
                                         yeah,
                                         
                                         at the moment,
                                         
    
                                         like I said,
                                         
                                         it was drunk.
                                         
                                         Yeah,
                                         
                                         I probably shouldn't have did it.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Because niggas did start like,
                                         
                                         this nigga damn.
                                         
    
                                         You hit the damn, though.
                                         
                                         No, for real.
                                         
                                         You did that?
                                         
                                         No, I said you hit the damn.
                                         
                                         Oh, I thought you said you hit it.
                                         
                                         Them folks made a whole nother hit off that shit. Mission, bro. To this day, man. For real, you got paid? Did you get paid off that shit? Nah, for real. You did that? No, I said you hit the dance. Oh, I thought you said you hit it. Them folks made a whole nother hit off that shit.
                                         
                                         Mission, bro.
                                         
                                         To this day, man.
                                         
    
                                         For real, you got paid?
                                         
                                         Did you get paid off that shit?
                                         
                                         Nah, man.
                                         
                                         What the hell?
                                         
                                         Nah.
                                         
                                         They hitting the coin, doing the dance, and saying your name.
                                         
                                         You can't get no better.
                                         
                                         Only because, bro, I just felt like, like you just said, I ain't even want to be associated
                                         
    
                                         with nothing with the dance.
                                         
                                         Like, after the nigga made the song, bro, and who made it?
                                         
                                         No disrespect
                                         
                                         to I Heart Memphis
                                         
                                         and that,
                                         
                                         you know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         But like,
                                         
                                         I was like, man,
                                         
    
                                         he was young.
                                         
                                         You got to think
                                         
                                         at that time,
                                         
                                         I'm like 26, 27,
                                         
                                         man.
                                         
                                         I was like,
                                         
                                         baby,
                                         
                                         that nigga
                                         
    
                                         doing the dance
                                         
                                         like that.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         He done named it
                                         
                                         and there wasn't
                                         
                                         no name to it.
                                         
                                         He made me a verb.
                                         
    
                                         At the video.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like,
                                         
                                         when he hit the
                                         
                                         corner and now,
                                         
                                         bro,
                                         
                                         we never had a name on it. When he put the name on it, man. You was through. Yeah, bro. At the video. You feel me? Like, when they hit the corner now, bro. At the video. We never had a name on it.
                                         
                                         When he put the name on it, man.
                                         
    
                                         You was through. Yeah, bro. At the video, though,
                                         
                                         what your partners, man? Ain't none of your partners say,
                                         
                                         hey, man, what's going on? Bro, they saw the way
                                         
                                         the girl was looking. They were trying to do it.
                                         
                                         You feel me? What you mean?
                                         
                                         Now I'm putting you down.
                                         
                                         You feel me? They was trying to do it.
                                         
                                         You know, man, after they saw the girl reaction, you know what I'm saying?
                                         
    
                                         Like, niggas start trying to do it. You feel me?
                                         
                                         I went, like, to be honest, after we had done soul and soul,
                                         
                                         then I started like, oh, these niggas laughing at me.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Like, they probably laughing.
                                         
                                         I'm thinking like, oh, boy, y'all.
                                         
                                         I'm getting up.
                                         
                                         Like I told you, like, once you step back from self,
                                         
    
                                         you just look.
                                         
                                         Like, everybody mad.
                                         
                                         Like, bro, why you ain't do the dance?
                                         
                                         Everybody know you for the dance.
                                         
                                         But y'all niggas ain't up here doing the dance with me.
                                         
                                         She talking about, man, you ain't be.
                                         
                                         All she got back, like, on the ass, man.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
    
                                         So we retired the dance, RIP the dance.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Dance is over.
                                         
                                         Like, straight up, man.
                                         
                                         Dance made some money, though.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         But like I said.
                                         
                                         Nah, it do.
                                         
                                         Like, it do.
                                         
                                         It take you to somewhere that you don't want to go.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it was a gift and a curse.
                                         
                                         But you're going to stay there.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         You're going to stay there.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You think a nigga like, it was a gift and a curse. But you're going to stay there. Yeah. Boy, stay there. You feel me? Yeah.
                                         
                                         But Duke ain't doing what he was doing.
                                         
                                         You know he wasn't doing it.
                                         
                                         Duke dancing.
                                         
                                         See, it'd be different if I came out dancing.
                                         
    
                                         That's what it was, too, though.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah, if you came out dancing, you could stick to it.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah, but like, nah.
                                         
                                         But like, fuck the dance. Korn know that shit wasn't right, man.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         For real.
                                         
    
                                         Like, he was right at the time But listen
                                         
                                         In my mind though
                                         
                                         But you gotta think bro
                                         
                                         Trying to
                                         
                                         At the time
                                         
                                         Like niggas still
                                         
                                         Trying to cross over
                                         
                                         Cross over
                                         
    
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Like you gotta think
                                         
                                         This was my biggest song
                                         
                                         It's chasing the light
                                         
                                         It really chasing the light
                                         
                                         And at the same time
                                         
                                         Like you say
                                         
                                         I gained
                                         
    
                                         I gained the crossover
                                         
                                         Like the crowd
                                         
                                         But at the same time
                                         
                                         I lost like my core
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         But you gonna have to come back too
                                         
                                         You lose your core
                                         
    
                                         Y'all always gotta come back
                                         
                                         You feel me Y'all like So then So then Yeah like I said Now you gonna have to come back too You lose your car Y'all always gotta come back You feel me
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         Y'all like
                                         
                                         So then so you think
                                         
                                         Yeah like I said
                                         
                                         Yeah you gotta turn into
                                         
                                         A do the dance nigga
                                         
    
                                         It ain't even about the money
                                         
                                         But like you know
                                         
                                         When niggas like
                                         
                                         But why you do the dance
                                         
                                         You just have to bring the money
                                         
                                         Let you know like
                                         
                                         The dance wasn't done for nothing
                                         
                                         But at the end of the day like
                                         
    
                                         You lost your vision
                                         
                                         Doing the dance
                                         
                                         So yeah
                                         
                                         To say what you say
                                         
                                         Yeah you right
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         Yeah cause that shit took
                                         
                                         That shit like
                                         
    
                                         That shit silly bro That shit shit like That shit silly bro
                                         
                                         That shit silly man
                                         
                                         That shit silly bro
                                         
                                         I ain't trying to be funny bro
                                         
                                         You know I'm funny
                                         
                                         From the beginning
                                         
                                         I know your character
                                         
                                         He gonna be real
                                         
    
                                         You hard though
                                         
                                         You hard bro
                                         
                                         I know you
                                         
                                         You harder than
                                         
                                         When I seen that
                                         
                                         When I seen that shit
                                         
                                         I'm like
                                         
                                         Hell nah
                                         
    
                                         You jack out there Like That was it You know what I'm like, hell nah, bro. You just got to lie.
                                         
                                         That was it.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         That shit, that swag and all that old shit, that was it.
                                         
                                         Stay right there.
                                         
                                         Because nigga tried that ooh, ooh, ooh.
                                         
                                         That part.
                                         
                                         But listen though.
                                         
    
                                         Listen, everybody, everybody.
                                         
                                         Hold on, I got me a plaque out there.
                                         
                                         But listen though.
                                         
                                         But go ahead.
                                         
                                         He could have wrote that for somebody.
                                         
                                         But listen to what I've been telling you though.
                                         
                                         He got the same.
                                         
                                         To my credit, to my managers in here, bro, I didn't pick that song.
                                         
    
                                         It was a hit.
                                         
                                         It was a hit.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but at the same time, I was so used to picking the songs that describe who I am.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I wasn't used to.
                                         
                                         That's a shit nigga's world though.
                                         
                                         Bro, I wasn't used to, bro.
                                         
                                         The singer getting picked for me.
                                         
    
                                         Like, bro, this the one we're going with. I'm like, hold up. I don't need. You feel me? I wasn't even feeling it. I went you like but like I want you still brought the singer game pit for me like but it's wrong
                                         
                                         We're going when I'm like, I don't need you feel my brother. I went in feeling I went like I went out of form
                                         
                                         It like nigga once you don't gave it to me. This shit is up. It's up like I hate it
                                         
                                         I hate it doing try it out like the fuck will booking me with goddamn bra you hate that shit, bro
                                         
                                         Like y'all booking me with what them boy named Trav reporting no shot to them.
                                         
                                         But, bro, this ain't what I'm doing.
                                         
                                         This is pimping.
                                         
                                         I'm talking about.
                                         
    
                                         This shit just sound like that, bro.
                                         
                                         No, man.
                                         
                                         I just, man.
                                         
                                         One day, Jeff, I quit.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you did.
                                         
                                         Like, doing no more shows.
                                         
                                         Don't call no more.
                                         
                                         Fuck it.
                                         
    
                                         They got 100,000.
                                         
                                         I don't want it.
                                         
                                         You know, I got to go up here and do this shit in front of y'all.
                                         
                                         Damn.
                                         
                                         Yeah, your boy's like damn
                                         
                                         I know my nigga's like
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         Bro like I wasn't feeling it
                                         
    
                                         Cause I knew like my core fans were like
                                         
                                         Bro they want to hear some hard shit bro like
                                         
                                         They want to hear some hard shit
                                         
                                         And Fly like bro I'm telling you this the one
                                         
                                         Fly saying I'm telling you this the one
                                         
                                         But what else Fly supposed to say
                                         
                                         It was the one
                                         
                                         What else Fly supposed to say from a business standpoint it was a hit yeah it was
                                         
    
                                         it was a hit though he picked the hit but i gotta come back to this shit yeah corn like
                                         
                                         when these hoes you know saying they get older these hoes start looking at me okay
                                         
                                         now these hoes ain't screaming no more well my niggas didn't want to hear this shit yeah that
                                         
                                         right too you get what i'm saying you don't want to hit a nigga only getting no video no nigga shit not saying this happen like ready niggas
                                         
                                         Nigga dog
                                         
                                         Bro you came too hard
                                         
                                         But you shut the streets my nigga nigga don't do that When they come out You shuck the streets
                                         
                                         I'm gonna give you that
                                         
    
                                         Shuck this bitch up
                                         
                                         I don't give a fuck
                                         
                                         Every car
                                         
                                         Every car
                                         
                                         Nigga playing that shit
                                         
                                         Word for word
                                         
                                         I don't understand
                                         
                                         Why niggas feel like
                                         
    
                                         They gotta do something else
                                         
                                         Not to you
                                         
                                         Any nigga
                                         
                                         I don't understand
                                         
                                         Why you gotta do something else
                                         
                                         Let them folk cross over to you That's how you gonna be big But you gotta think I don't understand Why you gotta do something Let them folk cross over to you
                                         
                                         That's how you gonna be big
                                         
                                         That right
                                         
    
                                         But you gotta think
                                         
                                         I'm crossing over
                                         
                                         I'm doing these crossover records
                                         
                                         Your mix take hard
                                         
                                         In your albums bro
                                         
                                         Cause you try too hard
                                         
                                         On the album
                                         
                                         That's just how I be
                                         
    
                                         Niggas got
                                         
                                         Get that same effortless
                                         
                                         Effortless shit nigga
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying
                                         
                                         Geek that shit
                                         
                                         That you think ain't shit
                                         
                                         Gonna be something
                                         
                                         I'll pin you down
                                         
    
                                         Yeah but you gotta think too
                                         
                                         You young Like I don't know What I know now You feel me No I'm putting you down. Yeah, but you got to think, too. You young.
                                         
                                         I don't know what I know now.
                                         
                                         No, I'm saying,
                                         
                                         I'll just put that out there for the listeners.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
                                         But putting you in my mind,
                                         
    
                                         you young.
                                         
                                         You like,
                                         
                                         my boss man told me to go with this shit.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Bro, I kid you not, bro.
                                         
                                         I would not participate for the song, bro,
                                         
                                         for like the first three months.
                                         
                                         Oh, wow.
                                         
    
                                         I don't pay radio over $100,000, man.
                                         
                                         Can you please participate?
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I'm like, all right.
                                         
                                         I did the dance on Milk Marie.
                                         
                                         That's the first time I did it.
                                         
                                         The girl went crazy.
                                         
                                         I get drunk again.
                                         
    
                                         I do it on flip.
                                         
                                         I'm like, shit, okay.
                                         
                                         This will make me like the song for the minute.
                                         
                                         Then the dance got old.
                                         
                                         I got tired of doing it.
                                         
                                         It's straight up.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Shit wasn't the same vibe no more.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Let's talk about what space was you in when you did the freestyle that went viral.
                                         
                                         That was overseas.
                                         
                                         Tim Westwood.
                                         
                                         Tim Westwood.
                                         
                                         I don't know, bro.
                                         
                                         I was so happy to be overseas.
                                         
    
                                         I think that was my first time overseas.
                                         
                                         And I don't even freestyle for nobody.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         It's like, when I saw it, I was like, yeah, I was tripping.
                                         
                                         But the freestyle was still hard.
                                         
                                         I was just excited.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I was excited.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And how you feel when you look back at that?
                                         
                                         It's like a memory.
                                         
                                         A memory?
                                         
                                         Yeah, like, I was high as hell, excited.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Don't do this shit no more.
                                         
                                         But this shit was still dope.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, I don't be like, if it happened, it happened.
                                         
                                         Like, I ain't, like, ashamed of it.
                                         
                                         I ain't ashamed of my dance.
                                         
                                         I wear that shit on my sleeve.
                                         
    
                                         That is what it is.
                                         
                                         I probably shouldn't have did it.
                                         
                                         Standing up on it.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you feel me?
                                         
                                         I probably shouldn't have did it, but I did, and that's me.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, I ain't taking my time.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And I'm going to come back from the dance.
                                         
                                         Watch me.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         There it is.
                                         
                                         I'm going to wait.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
    
                                         No count.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         How much music you say you still make a week? You still go as hard as when you first started, or you slow it down? Not as hard. There it is. I'm on my way. You know what I'm saying? No cap. Yup.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         How much music you say you still make a week?
                                         
                                         You still go as hard as when you first started or you slow it down?
                                         
    
                                         Not as hard.
                                         
                                         Not as hard.
                                         
                                         Only because I be trying to get myself shit to talk about then.
                                         
                                         Even in the future, I mean in the past, doing all them songs, then just letting the motherfucker
                                         
                                         sit.
                                         
                                         So now I be trying to just get in the yo when I really got shit on my mind, maybe once a
                                         
                                         week, about five songs a week.
                                         
                                         You feel me? Just still try to just like get in the yo like when I really got shit on my mind, maybe once a week, about five songs a week.
                                         
    
                                         So, you feel me?
                                         
                                         Just still try to just like overdo myself.
                                         
                                         You feel me? But I try to get my time, try to get myself time to let my brain just marinate on my thoughts.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Who's somebody you didn't get a chance to work with or fuck with yet that you feel like you still got to get in with?
                                         
                                         Rihanna.
                                         
    
                                         Rihanna?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Yeah. A lot for. Okay. Yeah.
                                         
                                         A lot, for real.
                                         
                                         And speaking of that,
                                         
                                         you'll bring her to your world,
                                         
    
                                         or would you go to...
                                         
                                         It don't even matter, really.
                                         
                                         Like, I'm like,
                                         
                                         if she want me to come to her world,
                                         
                                         like, it ain't no preference.
                                         
                                         Like, I like to work,
                                         
                                         you feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, I'm...
                                         
    
                                         You get in?
                                         
                                         Oh, yeah.
                                         
                                         Like, with her, I'm trying to work,
                                         
                                         so if she bring me to her world,
                                         
                                         that's what I prefer.
                                         
                                         Do some shit I ain't used to doing.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         If she want to come to my world,
                                         
    
                                         that's even better, because I'm already comfortable, you feel me? her world, that's what I prefer. Do some shit I ain't used to doing. If she want to call my world, that's even better.
                                         
                                         Because I'm already comfortable.
                                         
                                         But whatever, though.
                                         
                                         I'm a fan of Rihanna, though.
                                         
                                         Her voice and shit.
                                         
                                         Not even like sexual.
                                         
                                         Of course, she fine as fuck.
                                         
                                         I want to work with her, though.
                                         
    
                                         What's some shit that Quan be doing that we might not even expect you to do?
                                         
                                         Some shit that you into?
                                         
                                         I should read.
                                         
                                         Read?
                                         
                                         You told us about that.
                                         
                                         That shit just powerful, man.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         I can get more out of
                                         
    
                                         message through a book
                                         
                                         as opposed to a movie.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Learning new words then,
                                         
                                         like if I'm going to be a rapper,
                                         
                                         I might as well watch
                                         
                                         other artists,
                                         
                                         you know what I mean?
                                         
    
                                         Even if I don't like
                                         
                                         to listen to other music,
                                         
                                         other artists,
                                         
                                         just to see how they
                                         
                                         get their message out.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So like reading
                                         
                                         is probably like
                                         
    
                                         the most powerful thing I do.
                                         
                                         Is your country falling apart?
                                         
                                         Feeling tired? Depressed?
                                         
                                         A little bit revolutionary? Consider
                                         
                                         this. Start your own country.
                                         
                                         I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out
                                         
                                         of like, this is mine. I own this.
                                         
                                         It's surprisingly easy.
                                         
    
                                         55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete.
                                         
                                         Everybody's doing it.
                                         
                                         I am King Ernest Emmanuel.
                                         
                                         I am the Queen of Laudonia.
                                         
                                         I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg.
                                         
                                         I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.
                                         
                                         Be part of a great colonial tradition.
                                         
                                         The Waikana tribe own country.
                                         
    
                                         My forefathers did that themselves.
                                         
                                         What could go wrong?
                                         
                                         No country willingly gives up their territory.
                                         
                                         I was making a racket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead.
                                         
                                         Oh my God.
                                         
                                         What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go.
                                         
                                         Listen to Escape from Zakistan.
                                         
                                         And we're losing daylight fast.
                                         
    
                                         That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, y'all?
                                         
                                         This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records.
                                         
                                         It's a family-friendly podcast.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you heard that right.
                                         
                                         A podcast for all ages.
                                         
                                         One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th.
                                         
                                         I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it.
                                         
                                         Make sure you check it out.
                                         
    
                                         Hey, y'all. Nimany here.
                                         
                                         I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records.
                                         
                                         Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop.
                                         
                                         Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history.
                                         
                                         Like this one about Claudette Colvin,
                                         
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                                         who refused to give up her seat on the
                                         
                                         city bus nine whole months
                                         
    
                                         before Rosa Parks did the same thing.
                                         
                                         Check it.
                                         
                                         And it began with me.
                                         
                                         Did you know, did you know?
                                         
                                         I wouldn't give up my seat.
                                         
                                         Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Goldman.
                                         
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                                         Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise.
                                         
    
                                         Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
                                         
                                         Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba.
                                         
                                         I shook up the world.
                                         
                                         James Brown said, say it loud.
                                         
                                         And the kids said, I'm black and I'm proud. Black boxing stars
                                         
                                         and black music royalty together in the heart of Zaire, Africa. Three days of music and then the
                                         
                                         boxing event. What was going on in the world at the time made this fight as important that anything
                                         
                                         else is going on on the planet. My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself out.
                                         
    
                                         Welcome to Rumble,
                                         
                                         the story of a world in transformation.
                                         
                                         The 60s and prior to that,
                                         
                                         you couldn't call a person black.
                                         
                                         And how we arrived at this peak moment.
                                         
                                         I don't have to be what you want me to be.
                                         
                                         We all came from the continent of Africa.
                                         
                                         Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app,
                                         
    
                                         Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
                                         
                                         That was another crazy moment where I felt like they just over did the whole thing.
                                         
                                         Tell them Bank sent the jewelry.
                                         
                                         When you did, Bank is making plays on Big Flex.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         Oh, when you-
                                         
                                         Yes, man, tell them you coming to meet me.
                                         
                                         You coming to meet me.
                                         
    
                                         Real play.
                                         
                                         Big Flex, live, unedited.
                                         
                                         Oh, the Biggie shit.
                                         
                                         Yeah, oh, yeah.
                                         
                                         See, Don, that shit was just like, bro, you know, like, TV different.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, yeah, TV different, bro.
                                         
    
                                         Like, bro, Le'Kian called me up.
                                         
                                         Today or Friday, Le'Kian called me Saturday.
                                         
                                         Like, I perform Sunday.
                                         
                                         Can you come doing this tribute to Biggie?
                                         
                                         And for the record, you are a Biggie fan.
                                         
                                         Like, you, because people were saying, oh, because I don't know.
                                         
                                         I ain't going to lie.
                                         
                                         I ain't even lie.
                                         
    
                                         Like, I know Biggie. I know Big going to lie. I ain't even going to lie. I know Biggie.
                                         
                                         I know Biggie songs, but I ain't no fan.
                                         
                                         I just know a Biggie catalog.
                                         
                                         So let me put you down.
                                         
                                         So she called it Friday.
                                         
                                         She hit back Saturday morning, like, what you going to do?
                                         
                                         I go tomorrow.
                                         
                                         I was like, all right, bitch.
                                         
    
                                         This little Kim, I don't want to leave her hanging.
                                         
                                         So keep in mind, I don't even know what song I'm doing.
                                         
                                         I'm from the South.
                                         
                                         I ain't really just Biggie. My preference, I ain't even know what song I'm doing. I'm from the South. I ain't really just bigging out my preference.
                                         
                                         I ain't going to biggie.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         It was more pop, but you feel me?
                                         
                                         But because Kim hit you and you fucked with Kim.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, it's Kim.
                                         
                                         I go.
                                         
                                         We're in New York.
                                         
                                         The day I get there, she's like, well, we're going to do this song.
                                         
                                         I was like, they know.
                                         
                                         I'm like, I don't even know it.
                                         
                                         Can you get me the lyrics?
                                         
                                         So you told them you didn't know the song.
                                         
    
                                         Bro, we in rehearsals. I didn't even rehearse. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that shit. Yeah, I ain't even know it. Can you get me to live over? She told him you know, we rehearsals
                                         
                                         I don't even rehearse. Oh, yeah, I forgot about this year. I was I ain't even
                                         
                                         She called me I told you she called me Friday like she hit me up like a corn, you know, I fuck with your music
                                         
                                         Ooh, I want you to come up here doing a bigger tribute.
                                         
                                         I was like, all right.
                                         
                                         But I ain't just telling y'all yet.
                                         
                                         She was like, it's Sunday.
                                         
                                         She hit back the next morning.
                                         
    
                                         Kwan, I really want you to do it.
                                         
                                         I was like, all right, bet.
                                         
                                         So I'm going up there.
                                         
                                         So she hit me with a song.
                                         
                                         She's like, this is the song I want you to do.
                                         
                                         I'm like, I don't even know it.
                                         
                                         They give me the lyrics.
                                         
                                         But make a long story short, they were like, Kwan,
                                         
    
                                         we're going to put it on the teleprompter for you.
                                         
                                         Bro, I can get out there. I ain't nothing on the teleprompter. I can't hold no lyrics
                                         
                                         But they did okay. They get a song just to listen to earlier
                                         
                                         Yes, but like personally your phone even write my own music
                                         
                                         I guess like this is a whole process
                                         
                                         I don't even do when I like record if him like the way I made my art the way I made my art and like I
                                         
                                         Ain't know I was gonna be mimicking baby big is that words like I know what the way I made my art. And, like, I didn't know I was going to be mimicking big exact words.
                                         
                                         Like, I didn't know what the fuck I was going to be doing.
                                         
    
                                         I just told her, y'all, just look, Kim.
                                         
                                         You know, y'all don't want to fuck her in no relationship.
                                         
                                         She done called three times.
                                         
                                         Obviously, she wanted me to do it.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Because Fabulous was supposed to do it.
                                         
                                         I was like, Fabulous, bro, you made me look like that on TV.
                                         
                                         Nigga, you supposed to do it.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         But I didn't know it, and I didn't act like I did.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, bro, I didn't know it, bro. Yeah. You feel me? You don't heard it And I ain't act like I did You feel me like Yeah Bro I didn't know it bro
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         You done heard the song
                                         
                                         You know like the words
                                         
    
                                         Everybody know
                                         
                                         But the part
                                         
                                         You know the vibe of it
                                         
                                         But you don't know the lyrics
                                         
                                         Man come on man
                                         
                                         But you fuck with Biggie
                                         
                                         Man I went and bought
                                         
                                         A Cougar sweater and everything
                                         
    
                                         You feel me
                                         
                                         They said
                                         
                                         Man I had a Cougar sweater
                                         
                                         And all and everything
                                         
                                         Now they got the teleprompters
                                         
                                         On the stage and shit
                                         
                                         That's what they supposed to have
                                         
                                         But they didn't have the lyrics
                                         
    
                                         They told me like
                                         
                                         You feel me We gonna have the teleprompters On there You feel shit. That's what they supposed to have. But they didn't have the lyrics. They said they supposed to.
                                         
                                         They told me like, you feel me, we're going to have the teleprompters on there.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         When we get out there, ain't nothing out there.
                                         
                                         Ain't nothing out there.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I thought that shit was on.
                                         
    
                                         I ain't going to say that because I thought we can't.
                                         
                                         I got sabotaged.
                                         
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I don't know though, but when I got out there, there wasn't no teleprompters.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         There wasn't no teleprompters.
                                         
                                         You probably shouldn't have tried to keep going.
                                         
    
                                         You should have just got down.
                                         
                                         I look like
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         I mean
                                         
                                         I tried
                                         
                                         I wonder if he just
                                         
                                         That was just natural instinct
                                         
                                         Like just vibe
                                         
    
                                         Like I'm on stage
                                         
                                         Like
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
                                         Then you gotta think like
                                         
                                         I can't hear myself
                                         
                                         You got these things
                                         
                                         Your mic ain't on
                                         
                                         So you thinking
                                         
    
                                         Oh they can't hear my shit
                                         
                                         But you look at it on TV
                                         
                                         Boy they got everything
                                         
                                         Like verbatim
                                         
                                         Like
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying
                                         
                                         Yeah then
                                         
                                         Like I watched it one time With like the word come on at the bottom.
                                         
    
                                         Like, you know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Like, gibberish.
                                         
                                         That's what it said.
                                         
                                         Gibberish.
                                         
                                         You know what I'm saying?
                                         
                                         Nah.
                                         
                                         No, Kel.
                                         
                                         That shit said gibberish.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Like, that shit just ham, bro.
                                         
                                         That's crazy.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         But then again, all that is what make you rich on me.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Come on, you don't regret none of that shit.
                                         
                                         It's part of the story.
                                         
    
                                         You got to go harder, bro.
                                         
                                         You got to go harder. Yeah, it come with it, man. Keep going in, man. That's it, shit. It's part of the story. You got to go harder, bro. You got to go harder.
                                         
                                         You got to go harder.
                                         
                                         You got to go harder, man.
                                         
                                         Keep going in, man.
                                         
                                         That's it, man.
                                         
                                         Nothing perfect.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Well, we like to always ask, man, before we wrap the big facts, man, we want to make sure
                                         
                                         everybody in a good head space.
                                         
                                         So we'll be talking about our mental health and are you all right?
                                         
                                         We ask everybody that, not just pinpointing you, but you all right?
                                         
                                         You feel good?
                                         
                                         You happy?
                                         
                                         I feel great, man.
                                         
    
                                         I'm good mentally.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I'm mentally stronger than I ever was.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         What happened?
                                         
                                         Way more sober.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         So clear thoughts.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         You said way more sober?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         All them drugs.
                                         
                                         Smoking weed.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Them drugs, they can't be fucking them drugs, bro.
                                         
    
                                         Them other drugs do something else, bro.
                                         
                                         Damn.
                                         
                                         You got to smoke that weed.
                                         
                                         That weed going to do it, though.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Just keep a clear mind.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Keep a clear mind, bro.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         Taking it one day at a time, bro.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I'm controlling the music, not letting the music control me.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         And you're having fun with it still.
                                         
                                         Yeah, of course.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I'm having fun.
                                         
                                         For sure, man.
                                         
                                         We appreciate you pulling up the big
                                         
                                         facts man let everybody know what's coming up for the 2020 the fans got to know something oh yeah
                                         
                                         info oh shit we dropping more videos from the coma project we probably dropped like two three more
                                         
                                         projects this year okay i'm saying i definitely want to do a book this year you know i mean other
                                         
    
                                         than that man i'm on my mogul business shit yeah the whole year you feel me just because you don't
                                         
                                         hear from me i mean just because you don't hear from me, I mean,
                                         
                                         just because you don't see from me,
                                         
                                         don't mean I ain't working.
                                         
                                         I'm working, man. I just ain't social friendly.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         That shit ain't the same no more.
                                         
                                         So we'll get new Quan music this year.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, of course, bro.
                                         
                                         Of course.
                                         
                                         Go hard.
                                         
                                         What quarter this is?
                                         
                                         First quarter?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         When is the first quarter over?
                                         
                                         April 1st is the second quarter.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Before second quarter. Oh, first quarter. We getting first quarter music. Yeah, I is the second quarter. Yeah, before the second quarter.
                                         
                                         Oh, first quarter.
                                         
                                         We getting first quarter music.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I got some first quarter shit that come out.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         For sure, for sure.
                                         
    
                                         I got you.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         And I got you to go hard.
                                         
                                         Oh, come on.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Appreciate y'all putting up, man.
                                         
                                         Yeah, for sure.
                                         
                                         And I got the coma out right now on all platforms.
                                         
    
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         I'm streaming everywhere.
                                         
                                         You feel me?
                                         
                                         We're going crazy with that.
                                         
                                         You know what I mean?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Big shout-out to Rich Homie Kwan.
                                         
                                         You know this DJ scream,
                                         
    
                                         Big Bang Black.
                                         
                                         Rich Homie Kwan, Big Facts.
                                         
                                         Salute.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
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