The Breakfast Club - Yo Gotti & Yung Dee Talk New Project, Angela Simmons, 42 Dugg + More!

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

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And also the producer Young D. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Saddening. How's it feeling? How you feeling, Gotti? I'm good, man. You just went on a tour for your birthday, man. Oh, yeah. You know, I like traveling now. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So do you enjoy it? You just said now? Just now? Yeah, you know, I used to travel a lot because I don't really like planes like that. Mm-hmm. So I was late to going overseas and stuff like that because I didn't like to be on the plane for a long time.

So you was missing out on mad money then. Yeah. Just off shows and everything. It's so, every time we have Gotti up here, I just love the first interview of Gotti where we had Gotti for 30 minutes. He might have said five words, and now Gotti's opened up.

He's traveling. He's just a CEO. I just love to see the transformation of Gotti. So how's it been being CEO? Less music. I know you got a mixtape out now, but really developing your acts? Hard.

Shout out to Young D, man. He executive produced that joint. How's it been developing those acts as opposed to diving into the music as much as you were before? I mean, I think I got the same passion for both. You know what I mean? I always had it from the beginning. I just knew, like, you know, it's a time for everything. I had to get to a certain point in the artistry point to you know I'm saying to go to the executive but I think it's the same

satisfaction for me you know I'm saying like seeing an artist win that I work with is like I get the same like validation to seeing myself I think that's why I'm so like passionate about it you know I mean it's so into it into the details of uh artists i work with is it's just like if it was myself i'm like selfless when it comes to that you know i mean like i see us as the same how do you know when it's time to take the executive jacket off and get back in the trenches as an artist like how did you know this was time to do i showed you show um it's just energy i go off energy i'm still like a fan of music at the same time. So when I'm listening to music, I can hear when I feel like something is missing.

You know what I mean? So, you know, if I feel like I can, you know, try to deliver it, I try it. You know what I'm saying? So, and I feel like to me, like this mixtape to me is like outside music. You know, I feel like a lot of the music like laid back and your feelings and get high music or you know what i'm saying like i feel like it's a um hustle music it's kind of like missing you know so what i do what gz do what you know what i'm saying like in that era i feel like i ain't no like get money music

you feel me i feel like you know we need some good you know I can feel it with this one yeah I was gonna say what made you go back to the elements of the mixtape cuz you could have did an album we could have did an EP but you decided to link up with with drama and do a gangster girl version when I think about the whole get money arrow that this word took me back to you know I'm saying like it's the whole arrow I'm like you make it fun like it ain't that serious really for me at this point like I want to make, like, it ain't nothing but 10 songs on here.

So this is like the shortest project I ever put out since I've been doing music. So it ain't about, like, you know, putting a lot of tracks on another track. You know why. You know the tricks of the game and shit. It was just about making it, like, an art piece. You know what I mean? 10 songs, only the right 10 songs. Not nothing that's just filling me in.

Like if we felt like it went hard, don't put it on there. So we felt like we had number eight hard song, we'd only put eight. You said on the project that you're not doing no more albums. Yeah, it makes sense. Just takes from here on out, because you don't care about the charts.

Do you really feel that way? Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. Why, you don't got no no clearly you don't have no more album obligations then no no no i'm i'm 100 independent wow yeah so why why not do an album too much pressure or no i just think like i think that's a mental thing too though for me too it's like when i say i'm doing a mixtape i don't know it's just like i've been a different mind state when I say I'm doing an album you know most times when I do a mixtape

I don't spend a lot of time on it like I may do it in a week you know what I'm saying 10 days 9 days something like that you know you may be working on your album

for 6 months 8 months you know what I'm saying like going back and forth so I think it's kind of like you know when I came up in the mixtape era mixtape was

almost like practice it was like man i'm gonna do this before the album like it's kind of like yeah this is a warm-up before the album but they always be special you know what i mean so it's kind of like what i'm on you feel any pressure with you know with you so many artists right we just seen you gorilla's birthday you bought our maybach truck right yeah so now do you have any pressureilla's birthday, you bought her a Maybach truck, right? Yeah. So now, do you have any pressure with every artist's birthday? Because you got a lot of artists now. You got producers now. Now, do you got that pressure

where every time an artist come out, you got to say, you got to spend a bag? I mean, not really. You know what I mean? Because all me and my artists got special, you know, relationships and bonds

and we do so much for each other. You know, some of it is seen, some of it is not seen. So everybody know I rock with them a thousand what made you get gloria a maybach truck was it you know the fact that she's been you know successful the last couple of months she's been putting records on the chart she's she's out here yeah and i and i like to see it i like to see it like you know what i'm saying glow glow bought her first car not too long ago like you know it's crazy like the whole like probably a year run she didn't even have a car Glo bought her first car not too long ago. It was crazy. The whole, probably a year run, she didn't even have a car.

You know what I'm saying? Not because she couldn't afford it. Of course she could buy a car, but she wasn't even like Glo. She didn't really be on that. You know what I'm saying? So I wanted to buy that type of car because she probably wouldn't even have bought it. Those negative people. The internet say that's Gorilla money anyway.

They say you just spend spending money on her budget. I mean, I mean, no, we don't have budgets, but it's more definitely my money. You know what I'm saying?

You feel me? So she's not going to look at a statement later on and be like, $400,000? No, no, no,

no, no, no, no. And if, you know, I'm the type of person that like,

when we have them type of issues, I'm the type of person that like, we just don't have them type of issues. You talking person they're like we just don't have them type of issues you know there's too much paper it's too much paper floating around uh have money issues another time you put it on uh social media that um i think it was a couple million dollars for any lawyer that can help you get four two out yeah short two now did anybody call did anybody reach out what's the process what's going on with four two everybody reached out you know what i'm saying but they can't really do nothing Yeah, he's short too. Did anybody call? Did anybody reach out? What's the process? What's going on with 4-2?

Yeah, everybody reached out, you know what I'm saying? But they can't really do nothing. You know what I'm saying? But Doug already, you know, we rock with who Doug Lord is. He good. He was good from the beginning, you know what I'm saying? Just we thought we can get him home earlier. We would have bust the move.

You said he's short. So you coming home soon? Yeah. How soon do we know? Like six to eight days or something like that. Oh, wow, wow. Okay, okay. So before the end of the year. How soon do we know? Like six to eight days or something like that. Oh, wow, wow. Okay, okay. So before the end of the year.

And Young D did this whole project? Well, most of it. Executive produced it. He produced most of the records. But the executive produced the whole project, meaning like I work with him like, you know, even if I got to be from another producer, I don't even know the type of energy and tempos

and stuff like that we was going in. Was it a lot of pressure, D going in we did a lot of pressure uh d we're a lot of pressure okay i'm just i was just mixing my style with his style where are you from d jackson tennessee tennessee yeah how y'all connect i don't know what year that was 2020. yeah you know we found him he was he was 14 years old i was gonna say they look young yeah he's 17 he was 16 or 17 now 17. he's 17 now we met him he was 14 on instagram live what you mean on instagram like he was on live and he said he sent those some beats and uh and it kind of rocked from there like and he sent bags some beats and then me and bag was talking about him you know the young number 14 and me and bag actually

collaborated and signed them together when he was 14. what did you what did your parents say when when you have most parents look at the rap game the rap game is is nah it's not gonna be it's gonna take a long time and you're not gonna be successful so what did your parents say when both these platinum artists at the time said i want to sign you they was happy they believed in it from the jump and they let you go and let me do me really yeah how do i do you need to travel with us him and his dad to pull up to the studio yeah they're young yeah you got to have conversation with the parents just to let them know what the plan is yeah you know you got to even when you're doing business that they're young the parents got to be involved and all that but the data was you know super supportive we travel with them to the studio session

and everything when we would cook up we had these cmg sessions and he'll come to him where he cook up live in the studio your dad will bring him down though man one record you got on the album man with money back yo mind my business yeah i swear man that's how you feel that's how everybody feel when they come from a certain environment you know what i mean because you want to help yeah but sometimes you don't feel like your help is appreciated yeah then you don't really know what you can do. So sometimes you're just like, man, I'm just going to mind my business, point to my people.

It's always been me. Yeah. It's always been me. I think that's like one of the things the streets teach you in the beginning. Like, you know, I call it just survivor skills. You know what I'm saying? Like a lot of people survive longer just staying out of people's business. You know what I'm saying?

Like, man, I don't hear nothing. I don't see nothing. I don't know nothing. I ain't even got no opinion on nothing. You know what I'm saying? It's out of the loop. But then when you're somebody like yourself who is a figure, you know what I mean, and come from the street,

you probably can change a lot of the next generation's lives or show them a better way. I think we we we put we put in work to make changes where we can it's still a lot of stuff we do do you know what i'm saying or it's a lot of stuff we do do that we do think is effective to to help you know i mean um but i think that's a it's a it's a it's a land right it's a land where you can do that and it's a land, right? It's a land where you can do that, and it's a land where, like, you know what I mean? It's almost like, can be almost backfiring you, or you just, or you need to just stay and mind your business,

you know what I'm saying? I feel like Memphis, man, Memphis got everything to be that next hip-hop hub, but for some reason, it still feel like it ain't there yet, which is strange to me, because y'all got so much artists coming out of Memphis. What do you think the problem is? I think it's the hip-hop hub. I think we created – we always had our sound.

I think people just got on to our sound late. You know, I think from – I think you finally get the respect from record labels that put all the A&Rs and executives, you know, look for Memphis artists. Man, so many people call me about different Memphis artists. You know what I'm saying? They be knowing someone quicker than I do. That's how the microscope is on the city. You know what I'm saying?

So I'm proud of that because I think it's a lot of opportunity for a lot of people that come out of there. I just think that, man, we just, like, Memphis just screech, screech. You feel me? So even with the opportunity, you know, I think most people just be screed dudes more than they be artists. You know what I'm saying? So it's more like, you know what I mean?

It's more like I had to do this at one point. I think you have to just accept that, man, I'm an artist now, and I'm going to put that to the side. You feel me? I think when more people do that, that's what probably, you know, you'll see the artistry turn into more of like really the industry artists, and then that probably be the answer. On the album, you say you're still riding around with the pistol? The pistol and the Rolls Royce, though.

I mean, you know. I mean, you know, we got to survive. I was going to ask, with 50 years of hip-hop being this weak, what got you into hip-hop being a young hustler from Memphis? What made you say, this is where I want to be? What made you fall in love with it? I mean, I was just a fan of it from the gate since a kid you know i'm sorry i remember standing in front of the flow model tv just looking at videos that was out and i just always thought it was um dope and fly i just was you know

a fan of hip-hop from the beginning you know what i'm saying before i even knew that i would be in it i was a fan of it and did you all did you know that was going to be your way out of what you were doing? Nah, I actually didn't know. You know what I'm saying? Even when I first started rapping, I didn't believe that it was possible. It actually happened because coming from where I'm from, we didn't know anybody famous. We didn't know, like, nobody that had made it, like, from rapping,

from being an NFL player, being an NBA player, a talk host. You know what I'm saying? We didn't know, like, anybody that made host. You know what I'm saying? We didn't know, like, anybody that made it. You know what I'm saying? Other than, you know, the dope boys from my neighborhood who had fly cars and jewelry and the Fila outfits. You know what I'm saying? Like, so, you know, even when I was doing it,

it was kind of like it was just something to do. I didn't really think that, like, it can really, you know what I'm saying, turn into what it didn't turn into. Who made you think you could do it? Who made you believe you could do it? it who made you think believe you could do it was it three six oh well it started out being on started out being a dude of 9k see from my neighbor he was a rapper he was the only rapper in our neighborhood he's the rap and we saw just listen to him rap then he wrote my first rap for me I

just like the rap he wrote me and I started like put my own words in it and to the exact same pattern Mm-hmm, you know I'm saying and um So that was like the first person that made me like really want to be a rapper other than that. Um, oh Skinny pimp I see skinny pimp ride through Memphis in the drop top 5.0. Mm-hmm. That was like the first artist I seen Back in the day with the Mustang drop you feel me because i didn't really see three six that much like physically seeing them you know what i'm saying and then when project pet came home i thought yeah project pet came on and um he used to be like on the

outside of town so i could see project pet um ball and g uh then balling you but i'm saying like i listen to ball and g music and three six music but i'm saying like i listen to ball and g music and three six music but i'm saying like physically seeing it because i'm the type of person that like if i don't see you i don't really believe it you know what i'm saying like i really like seeing this but like you got to be able to see it to believe it's possible you know what i'm saying so skinny pimp project is what i seen what made you uh stay the independent route because you know most when people want to be a rapper a lot of people's dreams is to Sign to a major they want to sign to a deal. I did all of it. I did all of it. You know what I'm saying?

I was independent. I was signed back independent signed. I mean even right now I'm doing all of it You know what I'm saying? I got you know, my labor ain't independent a hundred percent We're in a partnership, you know saying but me as a artist is independent. So is this you know saying is you know? I don't think it's no I don't think it's no, I don't think it's like no big reward or no big thing to be independent. I think it's like you got to do like what makes sense for your business.

You know, I think being independent for me at this level in the game makes sense for me today. You know what I'm saying? Because I ain't even, you know, I may drop a project whenever I feel like it, so I may not need the same resources that a new artist may need.

So I think you got to align yourself with what you need for you to have the best shot to be the biggest artist in the world if that's what you want to be. Now you also said that, you know, you didn't see 8 Ball and JG. You didn't see 3 6 Mafia. When did you realize and be like, you know what you didn't see, you know, 8-Ball and JG. You didn't see 3-6 Mafia. When did you realize and be like, you know what,

I got to move where people don't see me because a lot of people don't want what's best for me? It took me a while to understand that. You know what I'm saying? And I think as an older guy, I understood them more. You know what I'm saying? Because. Oh, explain that.

Yeah, you know, because like you just said, like I didn't understand when I was young why I didn't see them you know I mean I remember being in Memphis and they were telling me like I was 16 I'm staying in LA and I'm like why the fuck them niggas move to LA you feel me like I'm like you feel me like I'm out you know what I'm saying like but now I get it you know what I'm saying like but I ain't when I was young I ain't really I ain't you know what I'm saying? But when I was young, I ain't really, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, like, I'm man enough to say that, like, you know, as I, you just change mindsets, you know what I'm saying? And you learn and you mature and you see things differently. You know what I'm saying?

So, but when I was young, I most definitely was one of them, you feel me? Like, you know, probably like what the young guys is today. You feel me? You know what I'm saying? So I used to think like that and didn't understand some of the things. I want to talk about your pockets a little bit. You're part owner of an MLS team. A lot of money right there.

How did that come about? And did you ever have any like, well, maybe I shouldn't invest in this? D.C. United. Yeah, you said you never had one. Because back then, this was before, I mean, it's a soccer team. Did you ever think to yourself, maybe I shouldn't invest in this? What made you say, I'm going to put my money in this? I never thought I shouldn't invest in it.

It was more so like, can I invest more? You know what I'm saying? I knew it was the play. You know what I'm saying? For multiple reasons. Like, you know, I do my research, for one. I got the right business team around me, so we do all the right fact-checking

and making sure that the business is in the right standpoint. So that alone, on paper, it was the right business move. But my passion for diversifying and growing and accomplishing different things as a hustler also was a big part of it and then soccer was like the only sport my son ever played so that's how i even know i was gonna ask you like that you didn't seem like you played soccer as a kid i never even seen and i told them that when we when i was getting into the team that i never even seen a soccer field when i was a kid when i seen a soccer field when I was a kid.

When I seen a soccer ball, I thought it was a flat football. We used to shoot basketball with a soccer ball. Cause just cause it was a ball, you know what I'm saying? And we just thought like, man, why the ball flat? Why it won't bounce? You know what I'm saying? So we had no exposure to soccer in the way I grew up.

You know, so, but my son different, he went to different type of schools, right? So they had a soccer field in his school and it's the sporty place so between going to practices and games you know I learned what the sporty or so on an opportunity presented itself I'll familiar with it with the sport and being at DC all the time keep you in the White House let the record show God they found cocaine in the White House and you know boy. I don't think they found it before you started going there. Nah, nah.

You pitching to Biden? Pitching a hunter? I don't know nothing about that. So you pitching a hunter? But you do get invited to the White House a lot. Yeah, I went a couple times. I went a couple times. What's that like?

I mean, you know, it's a surreal moment. Again, I was just telling one of my partners, like, just coming from, again, coming from where we come from, we never expect to be at the White House. You know what I'm saying? Period. You know what I mean? So to be actually walking through the White House and, you know, I think that's just, for me, I don't know what it is for other people but

that's an accomplishment within itself you know i mean because i feel like everything is like you're an example of a coach right you know i mean and i would like pass knee deep in the streets like you feel me so i think that like for the next young hustler that's how i look at it for the next young hustler if you see me at the white house and you if you really do your research, you know where I come from, you could be at the White House. You could be doing more than what I was doing at the White House because that's how I look at Jay and different people.

You know what I'm saying? I look at them like, oh, you know what I'm saying? He's doing this, he's doing that. So they give me inspiration that I can do it. You know what I'm saying? So I hope that, you know, all the Young Hustlers see it as something something like that how far removed do you feel like you are from the street all the way because in the album you talk you you say some things you know i'll let people find it on their self you know what i mean but it feels like you still feel like you got some pressure no i'm all the way

removed okay okay i'm saying i'm already removed from the street one,000%. I would hope so. 2,000%. Yeah, 2,000%. You know what I mean? But I think streets is not like an action. You know what I'm saying? I think it's a way of thinking. Meaning, like, I don't think there's a certain way of thinking would ever, like, leave my mindset. Meaning, like, and that's just from like a protection standpoint or or

um common sense standpoint or um street sense standpoint meaning like just knowing how to move right so i can stay behind three security guard gates or whatever i still pull up to the house same way you know i'm saying i still look if i pull up if it's too dark i may not go in the house that's right you know that's what i mean by street mentality you know i'm saying? I still look. If I pull up, if it's too dark, I may not go in the house. That's right. You know what I'm saying? That's what I mean by street mentality. You know what I'm saying? I mean, like, it's a feel.

You know what I mean? It's still to the day where I pull up to the house sometimes and I just look and I keep going. I just don't feel it's safe to go in the night. I go to the hotel room. But that's a trait I got from in the street. But do you still feel that way, though? Yeah, but do you still feel that way? Like, now to this day?

Yeah. You ain't got cameras in the house, you can't look at your phone? I got everything. That's what I'm saying. I got cameras, I got 24-hour guards, I got animals, you know what I'm saying? I got every form of protection you have,

you know what I'm saying? I still move like that. Damn, that's PTSD, bro. That's exactly it. I was going to ask, with everything that's going on, and you look that's going on and you look at your career and you look at your life and I remember you putting out the record and you just threw a shot out there for Angela Simmons and to see it 360 and now that you're actually dating.

What was that original conversation like? Was it a joke? What you mean? The original, like the first, first conversation? Absolutely. The very first time I ever said anything to her was after the song. I just told her I was serious. You know what I'm saying?

Because I seen her and then it was like a joke. And I'm like, nah. Like, this shit ain't funny. I'm serious. You know what I'm saying? Did she think it was serious? She was like, it's a joke. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Did she think it was serious? She was like, he didn't play. She was like, he didn't say no joke.

You know what I'm saying? Word up. Yeah, that was the first thing I ever told her. First time I ever seen her. Did she take you serious when you told her that? I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think so.

On the album you say, I ain't never lost a crush. I missed a follow up or something. Yeah. I'm pretty consistent. I'm pretty consistent. I'm pretty consistent. Is the record, is the one, is that about her? Oh, yeah, yeah, it was inspired by her for sure.

You know what I'm saying? She was in the studio with me when I actually like, you know, when I record, I come off the top on, right? So when I loaded the beat up and I was in the booth, like she was in the studio, one of them in the studio meet her and somebody else, you know, that's what came out. Wow.

How has it been to be so public? Because usually you have been very private about your private life, whether it's whoever you were dating or family members. So how was it to have your life on Front Street? Has it been difficult? It's difficult. I mean, I don't say it's difficult, but it's different. You know what I'm saying?

It's different. People judge you too much or is it always i don't care about none of that bro again i come from where like you know i'm saying like i don't think these type of like judgments and opinion like none of that can really hurt me i come from like the worst already you know i mean so it ain't it's just different it's just different and i think the reason why my i was never public it wasn't because or issue with the people or nothing you know i'm saying more like a safety thing you know i'm saying you know like you don't really want nobody to know your family is

that's right you know i think the difference is you already know she is you already know i am you know i'm saying you think you would get married i don't know you say she won like you know what i mean yes you know what i'm saying so we gotta we gotta see it's it's about time got him you know you got you listen you that dude right now you bossed up on a different level yeah ain't nothing like having that whole unit together you know what i mean yeah hopefully you're married you can give me some pointers and some information about that. I just got good at it. Yeah. I just got good at it.

Yeah. I'm totally good. Give me some, give me some, what word I'm looking for? Some pointers. Knowledge, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, unfortunately, again, coming from where we come from, ain't a lot of our people ever done that.

That's real. So it's like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't got nothing against it. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying, like, we still coming from where we come from and what we know. You know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't got nothing against it. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying, like, we still coming from where we come from and what we know. You know what I'm saying? So we know love.

We know loyalty. You know what I'm saying? And, but that's the end goal. I can say being married and actually doing it right by my wife. You know how in Color Purple when Sealy pointed at you and Sealy said, ain't no good going to come to you until you do right by me? When you do right by your wife, your life just, man, you think you're doing it now.

Oh, my God. Absolutely. Everything elevates. I respect that. I agree. Everything elevates. Have you had a conversation with Ron? Kind of.

Kind of? Yeah. Because it still got to be awkward, though, but it's. Yeah, it's kind of. Does he put his arm around you and be like, look young man. I got to sit down with him. It's lined up though. I love to see that.

That means it's about to get serious. I respect him. The song No Fake Love, man. Do you feel like all love is fake for real? Not all, but a lot of it. Most of it. You know what I'm saying? I think we're in an opportunist world.

I feel like, you know, people love you for what you can do for them. And once you stop doing it or once you can't do it, you will see that soon. That it's a different relationship, a different type of relationship. Whether y'all hustling together, whether y'all just friends, you know, a lot of situations, you know what I'm saying? People confuse love and opportunity. What do you think when you have an artist, right, because you've had so much success with different artists,

if one of the artists don't take off, what's that conversation like? We try. You know what I mean? Like, I tell all my artists this from the beginning, you know what I'm saying? artists don't take off? What's that conversation like? We try. I tell all my artists this from the beginning. We can win together, we can lose together. If I can go to the bank with you, I can lose with you too, I ain't tripping. Long as we both try our best to do what we thought we'd win.

You win some, you lose some. I ain't tripping. How do you know when it's time to move on though, from an artist? Well, most time, most time I only move on if like, we ain't like on the same page. It ain't really a monetary standpoint, you know what I'm saying? Because we can figure out how to adjust the numbers

to keep getting the artist shots shots and it still makes sense so we're not you know you're not losing too much you feel me as long as i feel like we still in it together and we're still trying together you know i'm saying that if if we on the same page we just wasting each other time you look at artists as ever being a little lazy uh because of the social media era. They got a lot of things that you didn't have. Right. So I remember seeing you come up and the things that you had to do, whether it was going to every homecoming, all star event, Super Bowl, where you would travel with all your cars to make it a movie. Like, I remember seeing that and seeing the grind.

I talk about this all the time. My partner and them, they're like. It's just a different era. What we've done to promote and what we've done to get in position, I just don't think new artists today could even do that. You know what I'm saying? I used to go to New Orleans to

holler at Birdman. We used to wait 10 hours just to talk to him. You know what I mean? Imagine if you tell an artist to come meet you today and it take you 10 hours to talk to them. That's right. Like, you know what I mean? Like, imagine if you tell an artist, come meet you today, and it take you 10 hours to talk to them. They're going to feel disrespected. They're going to get on social media. God, it is.

God, it is. You know what I'm saying? They're going to feel disrespected. Like, man, we ain't 30 minutes. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, we would go to a video shoot and be there all day to be in a two second cameo you know what I mean

we ain't have no trailer no budget styling budget again man invite an artist to the video and he ain't ready to shoot him

when he pull up you know what I'm saying he feel different you know what I'm saying like it's just it's just a different like you know what I mean so

but I also think those things that those are things that make people like me, like, stronger on a different level. Like, I can take more. I can, like, I'm not bothered easily. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not really, like, I ain't phased by nothing. I already done it the hardest way you can do it. I've already been through the, you know what I mean?

Like, so, like, everything is is like, what's some serious to somebody is like it's a joke to me, I'm tripping off of it. You mad at that? You mad at that, yeah. You offended by that? Like. What's Young D done that made you be like, come on bro. Young D ain't done nothing bro, Young D like.

He cool? Yeah, Young D like just getting started and he on to a great start, you know what I'm saying? He done like Doug's, Maybag with Future, a lot of Moneybag records at an early age. So I think he kind of ahead of his time. You know what I'm saying? I think he creating a sound that's probably going to be like this CMG sound

for the next, you know, next wave. You got your first 100 bands yet, D? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Did it feel like a million? Yeah. For sure. Yeah. next way you got your first hundred bands yet oh d yeah oh yeah did it feel like a million yeah that's what that's what god he said on the the first hundred bands his first hundred bands felt like a million so what did a million feel like then god man you know it's crazy because it's like i mean y'all y'all y'all needs got a lot of money man yeah i'm not talking about

but it's like you know uh when you first get that first 100 in the hood, you're like a millionaire in the hood. You know what I'm saying? And then in Memphis, you know, you might be 1.5, and Memphis would have 100. You know what I'm saying? Because it's like, that's how it feel. You know what I'm saying?

When you get it the first time, it's a special feeling. And I think, you know know it's crazy that i think we all from a culture just wanted to be a millionaire at some point because it seemed like the end goal like man if i can become a millionaire that was it right until you get the million then you realize like oh man i need more yeah like this ain't what I thought it was you feel me I need a lot more than you you know what I'm saying so

I just think it's it's different tempos you hit like I think the 100 band the first 100 bands is special

you know what I'm saying and the street really too I think it's also different I don't know this but I think if you got a $100,000 job it may don't feel the same at the $100,000 510s and 20s

and your hand in the script like what I'm referencing to. You know what I'm saying? Because that's what I think. You know what I mean? I never had a six-figure job, you know, like they paid. Because if you get $100,000 a year at a job, that's really like $50,000, $60,000 depending on where you live at. $60,000, $65,000.

You never seeing all that money at once. Minus taxes. So that first $100,000 and $5,000, $10,000 and $20,000 and it look good where you live at. About 60, 65,000. You never seeing all that money at once. Minus taxes. So that first 100 bands and 5, 10s and 20s and it look good and you gotta, you know, how you gotta stack them, whether it's in $10,000 stacks

or $1,000 stacks. You know what I'm saying? I can't wait to feel that, man. We used to earn, I used to earn my money, put the small bills over here and you feel me? I can't wait to get $100,000.

Oh, man, you ain't got $100,000, $100,000 time and you feel me? So it's a special feeling. I can't wait to get a hundred thousand. Oh man, you ain't got a hundred thousand, a hundred down time. Come on, man. What are you learning from Hov at this point in the game? Cause on the album you say you feel like you right there with Hov. Yeah, I said, what did I say? I said, you feel like you right there with Hov.

I'm your rapper's favorite rapper, something like that. I'm damn known J-level. Yeah, but not literally, you said. Yeah, but then I make sure I tell you not literally, because that's a different level. That's a billion conversation. Yeah, but, you know, I say that in what I'm learning for J. Now, I think it's about, and this is my opinion,

I think everything with J-Rock Nation is about impact at this point. You know what I mean? I feel like, of course, they are all Nation is about impact at this point. You know what I mean? I feel like, of course, they are all the money in the world, right? You know what I'm saying? So I think for me, too, is like trying to see how much impact can you give. You know what I'm saying? Whether this happened to Young D or this happened to another artist or whether there's creating jobs in the city

or whether there's just helping somebody with information. You know, I do a lot of that. There'll probably never be public. There's so many artists that's not signing me that I get nothing off of that I talk to every week. Different artists that I just get information to, give advice to, help them with different situations

or try to help them go to the next level that I have no financial interest in. Just impact I think everything is information I I take in a lot of information but I also give the information back out you know I mean so I think I'm just at a point where I'm trying to figure out how much impact I can I can how many things I can touch I how much impact I can leave in the legacy. I can't, I can't think of no artist who's got a better roster of artists right now. I can't, I can't think of it.

You know, we've seen different people have different rosters at certain times. I'm talking about right now, this moment. I can't think of nobody who got CMG. Yeah. We blessed. Is it true? They always say that in Memphis, if it ain't CMG, if you're not with CMG, it's not going to work for you.

No, that's not true. Okay. There's a lot of artists that's not CMG from Memphis that work. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. And we like them, too. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of young cats right now that's killing it.

You know what I'm saying? Who I think they're killing on the street already, who I think they're going to be the next wave, and they signed the different people. You know what I'm saying? Nah, yeah. Did you give them information? Did you give, like, those other labels?

Anybody, bro. Anybody who hit me. Like, I'm an open book. I'm an open book. You know what I'm an open book. I'm an open book. You know what I'm saying? Like I ain't hard to reach. So anybody can get information from me. Do you want new artists? Do you want more people?

The right ones. The right ones. We got a lot going on right now. You got a bunch of artists. So we can't afford to be like, if you ain't really like serious, you know what I'm saying? If you ain't serious about hustling, we ain't trying to get no quick check or no just. Do you remember all your artists? You remember all the artists you got signed?

Glorilla, Moneybagg Yo, ESTG, 422, Black Youngster. What are all the artists you have? Anybody we forgetting? Big Boogie. Jesus Christ, I forgot Big Boogie was signed. Yeah, Pop Off. Big Boogie, Popping Off. What's up with Youngster, man?

What are you up to? I just was on the phone with Youngster a minute ago. He good. Youngster's a business man, bro. He actually work on a lot of other stuff. You know what I'm saying? A lot of real estate stuff. A lot of different hustles.

All right. Lil Papa. We got Lil Papa. Lil Papa. From Jacksonville, Florida. We work with Mozzy. Mozzy, of course. Mozzy from the West Coast.

I ain't know Mozzy with CMG. Yeah. I ain't know that. We rock with Mozzy. Man, it's a lot. You need somebody from the Carolinas, man. You need somebody from South Carolina. Well, you know, we looking.

Okay, okay. We looking. Who? Nah, I can't say that. They might grab me. They might grab me before. Tell me off here. We want to work with somebody from Carolina, New York.

We want to work with somebody from New York, Atlanta. In certain markets, we always wanted to find the right artist. Because you know the South Carolina guy always had big love for you. You know what I mean? South Carolina like a big part of our success for real. You know what I'm saying? Like if you took the Carolinas out of the picture, man you would take a lot of hot people. You don't realize that, no bro.

You would take a lot of hot people out there. Whether you talking about show money, whether you talking about record sales, streams, are you talking about, record sales, streams? A lot of it comes from the Carolinas. Because Arnold Taylor was a big part of your success early on. Yeah, he's my dog. He's my dog. He's my dog, for sure.

All right. Well, the album, Washington City Gangsta Grills mixtape, I Showed You So. You can pick it up now. Young D, we appreciate you for joining us. Appreciate y'all for having me, too. And, of course, Yo Gotti. Thank you, brother. For sure.

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