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Speaker 2
Do do do you? Get.
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Speaker 2
Eating mushrooms. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
Every school, every school I would eat. No.
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Speaker 1
Well no in the game do.
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Speaker 2
Do do do do in the game. You got some versus.
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Speaker 4
That I it is about to be the enemy.
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Speaker 1
All right, guys, thanks for joining the elation podcast today. We are with chop chop chop style. What's up man? How you doing?
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Speaker 2
I can't complain. It's good to.
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Speaker 4
Be here with.
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Speaker 1
You. It's good to see you, man.
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Speaker 4
Good to see you.
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Speaker 2
Too, man. Yeah. Fresh off a show. Fresh off a show tour.
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Speaker 1
And, like, always doing good thing. Oh, yeah. you know, it's funny being around you. You say stuff that that that I find myself saying. Stuff that you sing your songs by accident. Not even like trying, you know? Absolutely, man.
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Speaker 4
You know, I just I be myself, you know, a lot of people, they just go out there and they, you know, they haven't asked me. I don't be asked, and I be.
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Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. No, 100%. You could tell that you were meant for that stage. You know.
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Speaker 4
If you asked 20 people ten questions about Chop, you're going to get 30 different.
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Speaker 2
Answers. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
You know, your nighttime job or your daytime job. You stage job and you got determined.
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Speaker 1
Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Speaker 4
Well, to be here.
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Speaker 1
Absolutely, man. Well, you know, there's certain people made for the stage and certain people not. I'm not made for the stage. So we know that we. We found that out from that. You know, I, I, I'm good here, but you get a couple drinks in me, and you put me on stage in front of a couple hundred people and, I'll say the wrong thing.
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Speaker 2
That was the right thing. It was? Yeah.
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Speaker 4
And you.
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Speaker 1
Bang! You saved me. You say you saved me. You saved me. You know, everybody, even my mom noticed it, like, you know, chopped and saved.
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Speaker 4
You know, we would come and do one thing. Make America dance.
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Speaker 2
Again. There you.
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Speaker 1
Go. Make America dance again. I love that. I love that slogan, by the way. I love that slogan. I think and I think it's actually something, you know, we're going to get into your story. Origin story? Just a minute. but I think it's something that, we really need as a nation to, to pick up, you know, that good feeling that that we enjoy being around each other type feeling.
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Speaker 1
Because I feel like we lost that.
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Speaker 4
And Covid makes people come together. I don't care whether you're in church, the club, riding your vehicle, you play the right song. Everybody around you have a good time. You play the wrong song. Everybody's going to be crying, right?
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Right now, I hope says.
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Speaker 4
We got to make them dance. That's my whole goal right.
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Speaker 2
Now, 100.
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Speaker 1
Percent. Well, and I think I feel like we were we were more fun when we were dancing in the club, having fun with each other, you know, and there was, there was a, there was a time and we all truly did that. Now I feel like it's it's gotten so angry and so dirty and so, dangerous.
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Speaker 4
Put it like this a perfect example. I was in Atlanta, for the Saints game last season, and I told my girl, I said, let's just go explore. I wanted to go see what Atlanta club like the nightlife was about. So I paid like $100 to get in this club.
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Speaker 2
It was cool.
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Speaker 4
And the drinks was like 55 bucks. Just was something out of that. For seven bucks, I still, you know, I see a time to have a good time. I don't even want to chat, but I just want to come to our hand like, hey, I don't like this right now. You can't really see me, right? I'll ask him and it ain't him.
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Speaker 4
So, anyway.
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Speaker 1
You pulled the Will.
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Speaker 2
Smith you for the Will Smith.
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Speaker 4
oh, that Fresh Prince walk that you did. And, everybody that was in the club and he was they was playing. They were just standing up against the walls and I'm like, damn, nobody dancing, you know, nobody having a good time who just awesome, you know, turn and shit. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2
Right?
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Speaker 4
And I'm like, that's cool, but ain't no woman on the dance floor having a good time, you know what I'm saying? So I said, man, you know what? When I leave Atlanta tonight, I'm about to do something different than I made sure when I made it back to New Orleans, I got back in the studio and I said, I'm about to make America dance again.
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Speaker 1
There you go.
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Speaker 4
I got to I want to be the one. I mean, I'm not saying no disrespect to no other artist that has, you know, club songs or whatever, but everything is, is, is turning into is either. Well, I can't say that because I was the guy saying, if you want you eight hollow.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, but but you know what? The drugs were more uppers. They were they were uppers back then. Now everything is leaning in and codeine and pills and. Yeah, everything is.
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Speaker 4
On something different now.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, 100%. But you also notice that the dance floor has gotten smaller.
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Speaker 4
Because they just want.
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Speaker 2
The bar. Right. Well, so the.
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Speaker 1
Club owners are building more booze and, and bottle service stuff.
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Speaker 4
And it should be a section. You know this right here. Oh, I sold another section.
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Speaker 2
125.
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Speaker 1
Right. Right here. You know, it's crazy. I was in Vegas years ago for, one of the, I think many of the Pacquiao fights. I forget exactly what it was, but, and, I was with a group people that were while I was with Aiken's older brother, Omar. I don't know if you know. Yeah. Or. Yeah, but, so Omar and then he he walked in with a group, and that group had paid for, like one of the DJ tables that night, which was like 50 grand and at like, we got, I got there like 10:00 and at midnight they were kicking us out because they sold that table again to somebody else
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Speaker 1
for 80 grand.
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Speaker 4
I mean.
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Speaker 1
I was like, so you paid 50 grand for two.
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Speaker 2
Hours.
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Speaker 1
I'm not even drunk because of the way bottle service works. It's. And we go out.
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Speaker 4
50.
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Speaker 2
Grand, and.
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Speaker 4
That's 50 grand a job.
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Speaker 2
Right?
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Speaker 4
Oh, a game that would have set it up on top of it was Saint Charles style. Oh, did you order chocolate?
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Speaker 2
Oh, man. Oh. Believe me. Oh, man.
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Speaker 1
I would have known how to spend that 50 grand, but, That's fine. No, it's just I feel like. I feel like even as a whole, the club scene, we just need to get back to dancing and having fun, and it'll make everybody, like you said, music, make everybody come together. But it's about the type of music you listen to, you know, because it could def because it could definitely.
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Speaker 1
If we could definitely separate two, you know, it can put you in your corner and separate, you know.
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Speaker 4
So see, when I be in that club and I hear the wrong music. Oh my goodness. Get away from me. Get away from me. I'm, I'm fussing with the people.
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Speaker 2
That's with me doing what's wrong. Right?
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Speaker 4
I told y'all I'm a monster that night.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 4
And now make me feel what a demon that they went in me.
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Speaker 2
Well, yeah. Yeah. How do.
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Speaker 1
You say. Well, you. It's it's what you want. It's what you feed the animal too. You're a beast. So you feed yourself. I mean, if I watch The Sopranos all day long, I'm going to start talking like Tony.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. You know.
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Speaker 1
I'm going to start. I'm going to stop taking shit from anybody, you know? So it just is part of it. But it's what you got to feed the beast and. And I feel like feeding it with good, good energy will help. Will help.
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Speaker 4
Overall, records in the club?
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Speaker 1
No, not at all, man. Not at all. Well, so let's get into your origin a little bit. So let's tell the people. Where you from. Where'd you go to school. Let's do that type of, that type of talk.
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Speaker 4
All right. Well, I just want to invite everybody and welcome them into the mind, man. Y'all know what it's like to go down there.
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Speaker 2
So right where.
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Speaker 4
I'm from is the West Bank side of New Orleans. You know, a lot of people always say.
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Speaker 2
Oh, the West Bank ain't New Orleans. And then, shut up.
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Speaker 4
You don't go there. They don't know the history. And, you feel that way. You go. I'm always.
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Speaker 2
Very upset.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, but in the part of the city, you know, I'm saying.
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Speaker 1
My my dad was born in Crown Point, raised in the feet. So we went back.
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Speaker 4
You can't go back there on the feet. Talking to Trey is.
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Speaker 1
And absolutely not.
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Speaker 2
Going to be. how did you say it? Yeah.
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Speaker 4
The reason why I what I represent the West Bank, the entire West Bank, is because we moved around a lot. So, like, that's why I. You asked many people, you know, a couple of things about job, but you going to get 30 different answers, you know, you may have some mindset, man job if you get a job from a railroad job from Harvey originally my mom and dad, they're from home.
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Speaker 4
So I was raised in Harlem. We moved to move our route when I was about, nine, ten years old. maybe a little younger than that. You know, I don't remember being home.
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Speaker 2
Right? Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
we moved some of our own. I started holding the railroad down. You know, I still hold Harvey down, and we moved to Gretna. Then we moved to Algiers. You know, we moved a lot of places. I got families away and you know what I'm saying? Kennedy Heights, you know, I'm saying power line. I got family and having deals.
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Speaker 4
So it's like Westwego, right? All of that is a part of my origin. So it's like I represent the whole West Bank. So when you speak of the West Bank, just know my my flavor is on it some way. Whether you love me, I hate me, I love you.
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Speaker 1
Well, you put a little bit of the energy on the street from an N.O. track because you shout out everybody.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, because a lot of people wasn't just like they forgot about the West Bank. So I had to let them know, come on, man, we got big orders that came from over there. Like temps move bust down mic thing, you know what I'm saying? Straight. dog house boss man. The record labels. That was. I was looking up to when I was a young mobile Records, you know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2
But,
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Speaker 4
It was a lot of record labels there. Almost everybody. Man. Because of that man, he forgot me.
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Speaker 2
You know.
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Speaker 1
you gonna let you Grammy speech? Can't. We can't tell everybody. You can't name everybody, but, Well. That's funny. Well, so, so where did you go to school?
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Speaker 1
That sounds like my story, because I got I got kicked out of a bunch of schools. When people ask me what school I went to, I'd only pick one.
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Speaker 4
I stayed and I never made. Yeah, Rosie was my best friend.
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Speaker 2
Okay.
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Speaker 4
People that don't know Rosie mean remainder of the school year.
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Speaker 2
I got put up.
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Speaker 4
Listen, I played football for every school I went. I was I was good, you know, and I, I played for the parks coming up. They knew I had talent in football, so it was even football or rapping. So football season. Oh, I stayed in the school, right. I was that's what I want to.
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Speaker 2
Do, right?
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Speaker 4
Let's focus in. I passed every test. You see I have the football season, man I do what I want. The freeze my threes. You call them out. Mr..
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Speaker 2
Darwin.
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Speaker 4
And you know all we need and dead now so they will freeze my grades if I was.
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Speaker 2
Pass and.
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Speaker 4
Just keep him home the rest of the school year. And everybody that know me, they know that ain't no.
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Speaker 2
Lie, you know.
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Speaker 4
What I'm saying? Like I have to. Yeah. I was at home planet and do.
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Speaker 2
Do do do you? Get. But, Eating mushrooms. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
Every school, every school I would eat. No.
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Speaker 1
Well no in the game do.
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Speaker 2
Do do do do in the game. You got some versus.
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Speaker 4
That I it is about to be the enemy.
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Speaker 1
man why is the mic moving?
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Speaker 4
When I tell you I went to every school on the West Bank, even if I was, cutting class and I just went to. I went to every, you know, John Everett High School, right? And I used to cut class and go to West. Yeah. Because I had a to over there, you know what I'm saying? And I used to get on campus like I was a student there.
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Speaker 4
And I sit in teacher's classes every. I think Jubilee used to be letting me in classes, and he gave.
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Speaker 2
Me the.
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Speaker 4
Whole because, yeah, you know, Jubilee was a teacher.
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Speaker 2
Man. If you could do that stuff back in the day, man.
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Speaker 4
It was it was great. Nowadays you go.
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Speaker 2
You know, you go to jail for.
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Speaker 4
That truancy, matter and see every day, you know, I went to, a railroad middle el and I went to, Truman. Man, it's like every middle school in the railroad know me and all my teachers that see me now, they were like, Darwyn, I'm so proud of you. You know, you change your ways, and you, you know, you you living your life the way that that that you always see it.
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Speaker 4
You can see me. I always had a problem with authority. And I felt like, tell me what I to do. Let me tell you, do what I want to do. And still to this day, I'm not saying all y'all should do.
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Speaker 2
That right now, right?
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Speaker 4
I know my code. I know exactly what I want to do when people ask me, when I was young, what you want to be. I said going to be entertainment. They looked at me and laughed. You know what I'm saying? Look at me today. I'm entertaining. Right? Entertainment with you right now. We want to go viral.
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Speaker 1
Well, you know, funny in football and music have a little bit of that entertainer side in each other. So when did you truly decide to move into rapping from from sports. Because, you know, it's funny, I so I jumped around a little bit. I, I started in Curtis because I wanted as I was playing football in grade school and I was like, I want to play football.
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Speaker 1
And then I got to Curtis and realized that I don't want to play football like this because Curtis is different, different animal. JT puts you that summer. That summer is not summer. It is. It is NFL camp style crazy.
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Speaker 4
And changed my life. I was winning all our games, was undefeated and we scrimmaged against these country boys. These man my dad is.
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Speaker 2
In big neck.
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Speaker 4
My say it's a scrimmage game and you can count your man coach and say if you put me in. So I, I went in as fullback. I gained about 13 yards and one inch went through I.
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Speaker 2
Woke up hit a wall.
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Speaker 4
Like King Williams is.
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Speaker 2
Hahahahahahaha.
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Speaker 4
Oh you know what Johnny boy? Let me tell you I got it. I looked up so many stars. Got something I want my help. Right? Didn't mean y'all.
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Speaker 2
Gonna hurt me. Oh, that's a scrimmage game. Oh, man.
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Speaker 4
Just action. What I was said Monday morning. Shit. I was in the studio.
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Speaker 4
Waiting for records. I said, I gotta go.
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Speaker 2
Wrap up, man.
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Speaker 4
Man, I won't play, you know?
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Speaker 1
No, I football, it's serious. Yeah. We had to run through, you know, freshman, you know, stuff I had, I had to run through the offensive line throwing pillowcases with cleats and stuff in it, as, like, it's a rush thing. And I did that, and and and I did it. But the thing that got me was the running, the, I enjoyed playing football, but I, I guess I didn't really enjoy the workout part, you know, like the.
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Speaker 2
Tunes.
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Speaker 4
You took, you know, to keep you balanced one.
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Speaker 2
Hundred.
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Speaker 1
Percent. Well, and that's the thing, like, you got to be 100% in those things to truly do it. So, you know, I wasn't into that. So once I got pushed too hard in that I was out, you know, but, you know, it's it's still an entertainer. So you know so rapping what when was that. So after. So that was that first decision like all right I ain't doing football anymore I'm a I'm a moving to rap.
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Speaker 1
And what was the first song that you created then after that.
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Speaker 4
Well during that time of me playing football in school to move from middle school to a little bit of high school, it wasn't even songs. It was something. Call it 9:00 props. I don't know. A lot of people remember that, always do something on the radio.
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Speaker 2
Hey, you a what's your name? You on a radio with your boy Wild wing? Okay.
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Speaker 4
I will get on there, like, every night. It was me and, a couple of my partners, we call ourselves Dog Boys, because at that time, I was living in Woodmere. So. Woodstock.
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Speaker 2
Okay.
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Speaker 4
I sell the stock, boys, and we would go against anybody. We didn't care who it was. We would smash him every night on 9:00.
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Speaker 2
Just do a freestyles.
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Speaker 4
Yeah. So we would, tag team on them. tell them what? I'm on my phone. We on three weeks. I do the first version, my partner do the second version. Right.
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Speaker 1
But that but that that had to start somewhere before you got you started doing it on the radio that like, did you guys start doing it like in the street together. Like like how did it how did it like or in school together? Like, did you guys just build up confidence before you got to that spot or.
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Speaker 4
Actually, I mean, to be honest with you, I know this was what I was going to do from when I was a kid. I did a talent show in fourth.
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Speaker 2
Grade, okay.
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Speaker 4
Grade school, like I remember, you know, as we lift your pants leg up, you about this.
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Speaker 2
High, right, right, right.
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Speaker 4
Doing that one that on the show.
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Speaker 4
Actually, we one of the principals that, that, the grade school I went to, made a song for him because he was retiring, you know, and he let me rap it. So, I mean, I.
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Speaker 2
Know you say you were. Yeah, you were in it already. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
I was going to do so, like boys. Like the first song. I can't even remember what my first song was because I had so many of them. I mean, you from the, you know, went to the park, didn't got dope type rapping.
00:16:38:02 - 00:16:39:15
Speaker 2
So. Right, right, right where I'm at today.
00:16:39:15 - 00:16:40:12
Speaker 4
Like I always just.
00:16:40:12 - 00:16:41:20
Speaker 2
Right right right right.
00:16:41:20 - 00:16:55:14
Speaker 1
Right. All right. Well, no, it started from freestyle and started from freestyle. And then you I mean you build a confidence doing that, you know? Well, so then tell me about your journey to No limit. What what led what led you to P.
00:16:55:16 - 00:17:18:19
Speaker 4
I mean. You put it like this year when I started hitting the stages. Oh, they had I was too young to be in the clubs. Wanted to get in, while Wayne again, we bring his name up into this concert and the players. So he probably watching this right now. He did say my name. Where you going to say, Wayne?
00:17:18:19 - 00:17:21:18
Speaker 4
I'm sorry, but I gotta tell him.
00:17:21:20 - 00:17:21:23
Speaker 2
He.
00:17:21:23 - 00:17:38:06
Speaker 4
Can't pick me up and, And raise, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, you know, he come pick me up from my mama. I'm going to range from, you know, the young Wayne's to eight. I got this show that I'm hosting in the place I want you to come in. I want you to rap. Are you serious?
00:17:38:06 - 00:17:51:04
Speaker 4
Like, you know, I'm fresh out 9:00 this year, so, man, I don't know what happened. When you drink this beer. You are right, man. I perform with my back. Turned to the crowd.
00:17:51:06 - 00:17:52:21
Speaker 2
He came. He looked at me. Hey, you got.
00:17:52:21 - 00:18:09:07
Speaker 4
To turn that way. So I turned that way to rock the crowd. You know what I'm saying? From that point on, it was just everything. It was. It was like, just the beginning. The job was style, you know what I'm saying? I was with a group before they called Soulja Boys, and we put out an album, you know, like high school days.
00:18:09:07 - 00:18:25:14
Speaker 4
So just picture me playing football, having albums, you know, coming out, you know, records coming out, right? We in the morning, me and my partner down kill. We beat down the polls before class and between class. When the bell rang with making the girls dance and all kind of you know I'm so I can't see the song deal to his blessing.
00:18:25:16 - 00:18:47:22
Speaker 4
Everybody went to school. It ain't no. But, we'd be having dance number 20. So the journey, me and big ramp was real tight. You're going out. He kept telling, you know, take full records like, hey, this dude is Johnny. Holla at him, you know? So, they weren't listening. They didn't understand. They didn't see the potential at first, so.
00:18:47:22 - 00:18:51:07
Speaker 1
Well, it takes a long time for that message to get across, you know?
00:18:51:13 - 00:19:07:08
Speaker 4
Right. You know what I'm saying? He's still bringing me to the clubs. He'll come pick me up. Listen, man, I'm doing Mike's place tonight. I'm doing Star Wars or whatever. So I just go grab a mic, you know? And that's when I. I met fifth while we did Josephine, Johnny and Hot Boy Round and Charlie. What? You know what?
00:19:07:08 - 00:19:24:08
Speaker 4
I'm saying? So it's like, I would see them on stage and they'd doing something different from what I do. Like, I would go on stage and I'm rapping metaphorically, like I'm spitting bars, right? And, you know, by me having a little look go to women. They like me, you know what I'm saying? But Johnny would come on like.
00:19:24:11 - 00:19:27:00
Speaker 2
Oh, 000.
00:19:27:02 - 00:19:30:08
Speaker 4
Go crazy. I see what I'm doing wrong thing.
00:19:30:10 - 00:19:31:13
Speaker 2
right.
00:19:31:15 - 00:19:36:20
Speaker 4
So, you know, I came back with some things, you know, Crown Heights stuff. And I know why I went to them, and I. What are you.
00:19:36:20 - 00:19:38:18
Speaker 2
Doing, dude? Like, you know, you can really rap.
00:19:38:18 - 00:19:59:00
Speaker 4
So I say when you. And then the club with me last night, I saw the women dance, and it just changed my whole atmosphere, like I wanted that. So, you know, I ran with them for a while. We called ourselves yo, you know, and nobody was, you know, messing with us in the city, you know, we were going to different little talk shows and everything locally, and things started happening.
00:19:59:00 - 00:20:18:04
Speaker 4
So, we all start branching out, doing our own things, but it was like when Voltron get together, we Voltron, but break up and then do our own thing. So, after that, that's when take full, you know, got interested in, you know, they put in the project got on me. You know, it actually did numbers.
00:20:18:04 - 00:20:18:18
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:20:18:20 - 00:20:25:08
Speaker 4
We did, I can't remember, I can't recall, you know, but it did a lot of numbers, you know, regionally.
00:20:25:12 - 00:20:25:20
Speaker 2
Right.
00:20:25:20 - 00:20:28:14
Speaker 1
So what made noise? Obviously.
00:20:28:15 - 00:20:34:11
Speaker 4
Yeah. getting with no limit. I don't know the true story, but I heard two stories.
00:20:34:12 - 00:20:36:04
Speaker 2
Okay. All right.
00:20:36:06 - 00:20:50:19
Speaker 4
And God bless. And then Mr. Magic told me. Store and God bless this wild Bob told me his story, and he was in different places at different times. It was like, master P was signing with universal at the time, and they asked him.
00:20:50:19 - 00:20:53:00
Speaker 2
Like, hey, who is this kid making all that noise?
00:20:53:00 - 00:20:55:07
Speaker 4
I knew all the job and PC job.
00:20:55:09 - 00:20:57:05
Speaker 2
Just last week. Oh. The job.
00:20:57:05 - 00:21:10:12
Speaker 4
Well, so I'm sitting on the cop with my dad, you know, God bless their doctor. Rest in peace. I'm sitting on the cop was my dad, and I get the call. That's why I buy me, like.
00:21:10:14 - 00:21:11:17
Speaker 2
Man. What's that? Why?
00:21:11:17 - 00:21:15:00
Speaker 4
You know, he's like, he won't talk to you. I'm like, Pete, are you serious?
00:21:15:00 - 00:21:16:19
Speaker 2
Like, you know, I'm excited, right?
00:21:16:21 - 00:21:36:02
Speaker 4
Like mad man was a worry. I don't know what we don't know, man. I gotta fly for you to come to. Well, one. So I went and I was sitting in my feet that leave the ground. No more like I was just floating on edges, performing around the world, you know? So, really appreciate what he did for me.
00:21:36:02 - 00:21:56:19
Speaker 4
He, he saw something in me and took me to another level. I know a lot of people have a lot of negativity to say about the man, but, always be positive because he took me from a place of this local scene. and got me away from that and took me to a national stage. And I was appreciated the same way.
00:21:56:19 - 00:22:01:01
Speaker 4
I was appreciated local to the world. So he know how to pick town?
00:22:01:01 - 00:22:02:12
Speaker 2
Yeah, well, one thing about.
00:22:02:14 - 00:22:29:22
Speaker 1
Well, you know, and what I'll say about my experience with him as well as, you know, a lot of people say negative stuff about every boss in, in that realm of that, that type of status. they, they just there's, there's, there's a, you know, business. You have to be, in a sense, not emotional. And, and when you make non-emotional decisions, you piss people off.
00:22:30:00 - 00:23:09:21
Speaker 1
And, you know how, what I, what I actually appreciate from him is getting to know everybody and doing the tour stuff. I realize that there's one thing that replicates across the whole spectrum, and that's respect and and yeah, there might be some differences. Yeah, there might be some some, you know, off and on. But for the most part, everybody understands that the and appreciate the initial start and push and and and which lead into careers and and they all want to keep that respect and and so but by him to.
00:23:09:23 - 00:23:12:06
Speaker 4
Give you a start you gotta keep it going. Right.
00:23:12:07 - 00:23:13:06
Speaker 2
But you but help.
00:23:13:07 - 00:23:14:19
Speaker 4
This person and just make everything.
00:23:14:19 - 00:23:40:07
Speaker 1
You know. But and but you realize that a lot of, you know, a lot of artists will sit there and talk shit about that boss and, and, and and then ruin things in the future of that, of that tree, that fruit tree that they were all part of. Yeah. And and, you know, just, all of y'all have had that same type of respect for him, which has made me respect him even more.
00:23:40:12 - 00:24:01:19
Speaker 4
And let me tell you something. I remember when I went, when I first got with No Limit, we went to, we shot the video in California. That was my first time being in California. I had Lamborghinis out there and all kind of stuff with my name on it. Like, P treated me like a brother, you know? And I remember us going, to radio station, and, you know, all I knew was Q 93.
00:24:01:19 - 00:24:05:20
Speaker 4
So right on cue, 93 and the animated and, you.
00:24:05:20 - 00:24:08:06
Speaker 2
Know, but,
00:24:08:08 - 00:24:19:09
Speaker 4
So DJ family feel, you know, he's a real, everybody knew fell. He fell was I watched Pete walking out with me and said, hey, I need this job. A song play, and the Filipino.
00:24:19:09 - 00:24:21:08
Speaker 2
Will do it like that for you. You gotta go.
00:24:21:08 - 00:24:30:20
Speaker 4
Through the proper Jason, man. Look, I'm on my way to the YMCA. We're going on my way. I'ma go listen to the radio. We better have a job interview. Boy. Next thing we saw.
00:24:30:22 - 00:24:33:21
Speaker 2
You, interview.
00:24:33:23 - 00:24:41:21
Speaker 4
He told me straight up. He said, man, I know who you are. Because I saw the videos on uncut. You know, you think uncut. Let me tell you, if you missed them uncut, y'all missed.
00:24:41:21 - 00:24:43:04
Speaker 2
Like, oh, man.
00:24:43:06 - 00:24:46:03
Speaker 4
Videos on beat at 12:00 at night.
00:24:46:03 - 00:24:55:02
Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. No, I remember, oh, yeah. I ain't got no panties on. I never saw white.
00:24:55:04 - 00:25:14:04
Speaker 4
Girls like we did Choppa style come like right behind that and oh my goodness bro like we, that's when the regional stuff was happening and it was so dope. When I say it just turn me on to a whole different crowd. And everybody around the world was able to see you. So when Uncut Gold, that's when you hear the pastor come on.
00:25:14:04 - 00:25:24:15
Speaker 2
Because God. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, it was a hell of a change. Ellis. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. And a hell of a hell of a change. man.
00:25:24:15 - 00:25:25:03
Speaker 4
I miss them.
00:25:25:03 - 00:25:25:15
Speaker 2
Days.
00:25:25:17 - 00:25:28:07
Speaker 1
I used to watch you in the box every now and then.
00:25:28:09 - 00:25:31:03
Speaker 2
Remember the box to box? Yeah.
00:25:31:05 - 00:25:39:14
Speaker 4
So to me, the box was. I was fat. Fat now. Right. But you able to touch the world and used to, like, put numbers into something.
00:25:39:14 - 00:25:42:07
Speaker 2
Yeah. Right. Yeah. yeah.
00:25:42:09 - 00:25:56:06
Speaker 1
I think it was channel 70 or something on the cable, but I remember I, I had to pass like 4 or 5, like snow porn channels to get there. yeah. Yeah, you know, whatever. Now and then I stopped for a minute, you know, and it become.
00:25:56:06 - 00:25:59:00
Speaker 2
Clear that before fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that we.
00:25:59:00 - 00:26:05:18
Speaker 4
Didn't have to be refused them. So like when a porn used to come to you, like, it'd be so wiggly, squiggly and blurry, but you see, it.
00:26:05:20 - 00:26:32:13
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. No, it was all snow. And then all of a sudden king. And so, you know, you'd watch it for like 30, 45 seconds and see if you catch something and then you'd keep moving. But, but no, the box was fun, man. And, but but no, I, I, I enjoyed that watching watching you guys make a movement and it was it, it was, it was crazy to watch and grow up and now, you know, kind of be around you guys and see see what it's turned into.
00:26:32:13 - 00:26:34:16
Speaker 1
It's just it's a crazy legacy.
00:26:34:18 - 00:26:39:11
Speaker 4
To see that was planning. And just for me to be a part of that legacy. Man, I'm so grateful.
00:26:39:12 - 00:26:39:21
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:26:39:22 - 00:26:53:23
Speaker 4
You know, you like I like we talked about a second ago as a lot of people that's not grateful. I don't understand that. When you get put in a position in no matter what position you you end, you have to, like, see what. It's just that that, you get this right here, but you gotta keep it going, right?
00:26:54:01 - 00:27:01:00
Speaker 4
Because I just kept going by just being myself. Being me. I don't care who like me. If you dislike me, you hate me.
00:27:01:00 - 00:27:02:16
Speaker 2
I still love you 100%.
00:27:02:18 - 00:27:06:10
Speaker 4
I could walk upon with no type of interaction. Like, you.
00:27:06:10 - 00:27:07:09
Speaker 2
Know what I'm saying? Yeah.
00:27:07:11 - 00:27:09:13
Speaker 4
And knowing I know what you say about.
00:27:09:15 - 00:27:10:23
Speaker 2
Right, I'm going to keep on moving.
00:27:10:23 - 00:27:17:11
Speaker 4
And guess what? My energy is so great, you know? And I believe that's why I'm still where I'm at today. You know, I could you could drop me off anywhere.
00:27:17:13 - 00:27:17:22
Speaker 2
Yeah, but.
00:27:17:22 - 00:27:29:00
Speaker 1
That's part of the husband saying the husband says the southern hospitality that we all learned growing up. Right. Like like we. You can drop me anywhere. We'll. I'll have fun with somebody, you know.
00:27:29:02 - 00:27:32:04
Speaker 4
Man, ride to the airport and everything.
00:27:32:06 - 00:27:35:11
Speaker 2
Well, we'll stick around with us, but. Yeah.
00:27:35:11 - 00:27:48:10
Speaker 1
Right. Well, so, you know, talk about legacy. How do you feel about songs, your song being sampled in and every few years you get, you get a new artist that, that wants to do a little sample out or something that you did. How do you feel about that?
00:27:48:10 - 00:27:49:18
Speaker 2
I love it.
00:27:49:19 - 00:28:00:16
Speaker 1
You know. Well, because I, because the one thing I definitely found online was there a lot of school bands that do Choppa style, a lot like Saint OG and, and I mean that's got to be fun to see, you know.
00:28:00:16 - 00:28:01:13
Speaker 2
But fun.
00:28:01:13 - 00:28:09:07
Speaker 4
Part about seeing bands play it is the middle school bands and the high school bands, they weren't even born.
00:28:09:09 - 00:28:11:00
Speaker 2
Much out of style was, you know.
00:28:11:06 - 00:28:16:16
Speaker 4
That makes me feel so great to know that I'm still going to be relevant in this new.
00:28:16:17 - 00:28:17:22
Speaker 2
New, new, you know.
00:28:17:22 - 00:28:19:12
Speaker 1
Legacy is continuing.
00:28:19:12 - 00:28:25:06
Speaker 4
You got babies three years old. They doing a whole nother now. And I'm like, it ain't how day is going. Go, go like this.
00:28:25:08 - 00:28:27:00
Speaker 2
But if you to do it like that, hey.
00:28:27:02 - 00:28:29:21
Speaker 1
It might blow up on TikTok. Do it like that.
00:28:29:23 - 00:28:57:02
Speaker 4
You know, that's a blessing, bro. Even with the samples, I'm like, I love it. see any girl samples right? Right. You got it. You got talk about dope all day, you know what I'm saying? Cocaine white. You know, this this with all his. His music was about, other partners that's in that industry, right? That do that and when they called me, it was like, for God, he sampled your shit.
00:28:57:02 - 00:28:58:08
Speaker 4
You the shit.
00:28:58:10 - 00:28:59:21
Speaker 2
There?
00:28:59:23 - 00:29:13:16
Speaker 4
Like, come on now. Like. So they took what God had to send me for y'all to tell me. I might have been around y'all 13 years. I want the same song, but hooking up with your wife, since she's doing that, you put it up in the shit.
00:29:13:16 - 00:29:14:16
Speaker 2
Don't do but you. But.
00:29:14:17 - 00:29:31:02
Speaker 1
Yeah, but, you know, it's it's harder to get recognition from someone next to you than somebody else. Until somebody far away said something, right? You know, and it's crazy how it's like that. But the people closest to you that see you every day, they don't see you special. And until someone else sees you special.
00:29:31:03 - 00:29:35:09
Speaker 4
Yeah, you. Because. Yeah. So I mean, I received that too. That's a.
00:29:35:11 - 00:29:36:12
Speaker 2
100%.
00:29:36:14 - 00:29:44:01
Speaker 4
Just it's love just to see the people, continue to sample. But this is my thing, and it's a big of what I'm talking about. Yeah. Doing the. But yeah.
00:29:44:03 - 00:29:45:00
Speaker 2
It's big.
00:29:45:00 - 00:29:50:14
Speaker 4
On. But when I say this, if y'all want to sample my song, contact me.
00:29:50:20 - 00:29:52:14
Speaker 2
Please contact.
00:29:52:14 - 00:30:08:22
Speaker 4
Me first. Like I'm on Instagram. I'm. Man, listen to me. I got a, I only fan page. If, we could do some good. Bitch, I can do it live. Because at the end of the day, sometimes when the songs get sampled, we don't see everything, you know, right?
00:30:09:04 - 00:30:12:04
Speaker 2
Right. So, I mean.
00:30:12:06 - 00:30:13:12
Speaker 4
Yeah, that mean,
00:30:13:14 - 00:30:15:15
Speaker 2
Yeah. He's going. You good?
00:30:15:20 - 00:30:16:09
Speaker 4
God damn was.
00:30:16:09 - 00:30:21:11
Speaker 1
Up. No, no. You good?
00:30:21:13 - 00:30:22:20
Speaker 2
Ha! Hahaha.
00:30:22:20 - 00:30:27:17
Speaker 1
guys, thanks for joining us on the podcast episode one for Choppa Style. Please join us
00:30:27:17 - 00:30:29:18
Speaker 1
soon for episode two.
00:30:52:22 - 00:30:57:14
Speaker 1
it's your legacy. Why aren't they calling reaching out to you to see how it should be?
00:30:57:14 - 00:31:00:19
Speaker 4
You know, you got to go to the labels. You know what I'm saying? That's how I supposed to.
00:31:00:19 - 00:31:01:09
Speaker 2
Be, right?
00:31:01:10 - 00:31:18:01
Speaker 4
I respect that, too. You know, I just being young, that, you know, and naive, not knowing that, you know, this can go to this level. You understand? Yeah. contract. So we gotta abide by the contract. But the thing is, man, after a certain time, these contracts.
00:31:18:05 - 00:31:22:18
Speaker 2
Should be expired. I was gonna say. Yeah, well, so. So what?
00:31:22:18 - 00:31:26:21
Speaker 1
What is the proper challenge for Choppa style right now? What? What is the proper channel?
00:31:27:01 - 00:31:27:21
Speaker 4
Contact me.
00:31:27:22 - 00:31:29:15
Speaker 1
Okay. All right. Heard?
00:31:29:20 - 00:31:32:12
Speaker 4
Yeah. Contact me like you can find me anyway.
00:31:32:13 - 00:31:34:16
Speaker 1
All right. Well, you know, and that's.
00:31:34:18 - 00:31:37:11
Speaker 2
Also, might be. Yeah.
00:31:37:11 - 00:31:38:20
Speaker 4
You catch me the Superdome metaphor.
00:31:38:22 - 00:31:39:22
Speaker 2
They gotta picture me in the.
00:31:39:22 - 00:31:41:10
Speaker 4
Superdome right now, bro. You saw.
00:31:41:10 - 00:31:43:05
Speaker 2
That? I did.
00:31:43:09 - 00:31:44:19
Speaker 4
I got a shout out. The rouses.
00:31:44:20 - 00:31:46:08
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
00:31:46:08 - 00:31:51:12
Speaker 4
He got me all that. So y'all take a picture by that, that that that portrait of me in the Superdome.
00:31:51:14 - 00:31:52:00
Speaker 2
I'm a, you.
00:31:52:00 - 00:31:54:20
Speaker 4
Know, we pull out that man.
00:31:54:22 - 00:31:56:13
Speaker 2
Well, that's love. Absolutely.
00:31:56:13 - 00:32:15:20
Speaker 1
Well, did you expect the national love you got from Choppa Style? How did how like when that song came out and you saw it, you started getting, the feedback. Did you, did you all of a sudden expect this crazy onslaught of national respect or or was it, kind of out the blue?
00:32:15:22 - 00:32:36:13
Speaker 4
Forgive me for not being as modest as I normally be, but I knew it. And I told a thousand people to tell a thousand people they didn't believe. Yeah. Hey, the town crazy. That's why I tell people, man, follow your heart. Follow your dreams. Because I knew what I was going to do since I was in the fourth grade.
00:32:36:13 - 00:32:42:10
Speaker 4
Like, this is going to be me. Y'all going to be saying my name. That's why I made the song with my name. And I thought.
00:32:42:12 - 00:32:43:21
Speaker 2
Right.
00:32:43:23 - 00:32:45:04
Speaker 4
Who they want to. I was.
00:32:45:04 - 00:32:46:01
Speaker 2
Up,
00:32:46:03 - 00:32:47:07
Speaker 4
I had to do another song.
00:32:47:13 - 00:32:51:09
Speaker 1
No, you really don't know.
00:32:51:11 - 00:32:54:21
Speaker 2
You really don't want people to Louisiana.
00:32:54:23 - 00:33:13:10
Speaker 4
And I want to say New Orleans. I represent Louisiana, man. Like, this is us from the from the beginning to the end. Like, you got to acknowledge who Choppa is, you know, and I like I say that the hardest part is still there with them. Humble man. I'm the most humble person you ever could be around, bro.
00:33:13:10 - 00:33:14:17
Speaker 1
I'll. I'll second that.
00:33:14:18 - 00:33:19:16
Speaker 4
I got to. Wow. Cause sometimes they don't understand. I got to show them support. I got to pop out.
00:33:19:18 - 00:33:21:14
Speaker 2
So 100% Kendrick said.
00:33:21:17 - 00:33:33:00
Speaker 1
Yeah to 100%. But you know, you gotta you saying your name a thousand times of the song? Absolutely. That'll definitely get them, man. Yeah, you branded the hell out of that.
00:33:33:00 - 00:33:33:15
Speaker 2
But you go out.
00:33:33:19 - 00:33:37:01
Speaker 4
You look Jarvis style. Dog collars.
00:33:37:03 - 00:33:40:04
Speaker 2
choppa style. Hey, I style barbershop.
00:33:40:08 - 00:33:44:20
Speaker 1
I listen, I still think Choppa Chow works.
00:33:47:19 - 00:33:56:03
Speaker 1
Speaking on that chopper child because that's what that. Then you got the whole dog food. Oh yeah I know you beginning dogs at.
00:33:56:05 - 00:34:05:17
Speaker 4
I'm animal lover. Let me tell you something. Just the other day I'm leaving out my own, my neighborhood. And they had a baby deer going across the road and.
00:34:05:19 - 00:34:07:01
Speaker 2
I stopped.
00:34:07:03 - 00:34:20:09
Speaker 4
There like 4 or 5 cars behind me. They belong at home. I didn't throw the bird baby deer from my voice, so I didn't want him to get them. What I'm going to do. I thank God it is deer to the side of the road and once they sold I would do any.
00:34:20:09 - 00:34:29:16
Speaker 2
Good for me. Oh, you're such a good person. But look back there blowing. I'm saying like, come on. But I just love animal. Yeah.
00:34:29:18 - 00:34:45:18
Speaker 4
Like, because I feel like he's a part of nature and I appreciate everything around us, you know what I'm saying? From the trees, they give us oxygen to right? The manners, even the insects. And it's all crazy, but it's real. You have certain insects people kill that actually help you out.
00:34:45:18 - 00:34:46:19
Speaker 2
So absolutely.
00:34:46:21 - 00:34:56:15
Speaker 4
So we ain't gonna get too deep in that. And we'll talk about these dogs. Yeah, I've got these kind of call souls, I got balls, I got bullies, I even have the fluffy dogs for the ladies. If y'all want some.
00:34:56:17 - 00:34:59:05
Speaker 2
I get a fluffy too, Oh.
00:34:59:07 - 00:35:06:18
Speaker 1
That's awesome, man. That's awesome. And and I know you passionate about it and it's it's. You put 100% in anything.
00:35:06:20 - 00:35:22:14
Speaker 4
But I love people, to be honest with, you know, listen, you know, you don't hate on me. You know, they, they, they like, long as I feed them. You know, if I don't feed them, one day, they still coming back and appreciate, you know, love. I show them a person that one time, you tell them no.
00:35:22:14 - 00:35:24:22
Speaker 4
Oh, man, they want to tweet about you.
00:35:25:00 - 00:35:26:12
Speaker 2
not.
00:35:26:14 - 00:35:45:08
Speaker 1
No. Dogs are so much better than human beings. It's just. It's just a part of. It's just a part of life. And I think, I think when we get away from our natural instincts is when we become bad people, you know? So, like all the things that we learn in society makes us bad. If we would go back to the natural instincts, I think it would be a lot easier to do to deal with.
00:35:45:10 - 00:35:58:08
Speaker 1
But, well, so from, from, you know, you took a long gap in making putting out music for a little bit. You took like seven years before you did a.
00:35:58:10 - 00:35:58:16
Speaker 4
Eight or.
00:35:58:16 - 00:35:59:09
Speaker 2
Nine.
00:35:59:11 - 00:36:04:19
Speaker 1
Yeah. Somewhere around there. What was the what was the hold up? What were you going through?
00:36:04:21 - 00:36:10:05
Speaker 2
What we did with music. Well, what other things? Like with life. Now I hear.
00:36:10:05 - 00:36:19:11
Speaker 4
You. You got to understand, like coming from beat, MTV, VH1, and then Katrina comes.
00:36:19:13 - 00:36:20:17
Speaker 2
And.
00:36:20:19 - 00:36:42:16
Speaker 4
We just. And I got to go barbecue with somebody else back. But the love was there. But it's like I was performing all these spots before Katrina, and they love me. But a lot of people came to these spots from Iowa City and put a bad rep. So it was like chapel come. And he brought in New Orleans with him, about to be in trouble.
00:36:42:16 - 00:36:43:15
Speaker 4
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:43:15 - 00:36:48:15
Speaker 2
In it, really? What was going to be. Yeah. Calling us refugees. Yeah.
00:36:48:16 - 00:36:52:10
Speaker 1
No, we were Haitians for a while. We were Haitian refugees for a while.
00:36:52:10 - 00:37:11:02
Speaker 4
Man, I hated it, you know? But that wasn't the whole situation. It was just more. I had to regroup myself because a lot of people don't understand being an entertainer. football player. Whatever it is, you got to understand that. And it's coming from my heart. You have to take a break. You have to. You know what I'm saying?
00:37:11:02 - 00:37:24:22
Speaker 4
Look, a God bless a day. Look at people like Anna Nicole. You know what I'm saying? That that that come from Texas. And when did what she did, bro, with all the way up and in up getting in situations that mentally disturbed.
00:37:25:00 - 00:37:25:03
Speaker 2
I.
00:37:25:03 - 00:37:40:19
Speaker 4
Don't know the whole story, but I, I saw the documentary. Right. Documentary. That's what it looked like. So sometimes we have to put a pause on things and take a break to really, you know, be with your true self because if everybody telling me yes, yes, yes, yes, man, that's.
00:37:40:21 - 00:37:41:17
Speaker 2
A 100%.
00:37:41:22 - 00:37:42:08
Speaker 4
You know.
00:37:42:14 - 00:37:44:06
Speaker 2
I'm not that person. It's I know.
00:37:44:06 - 00:37:47:02
Speaker 4
God made me to be and I'm not I don't want no yes man.
00:37:47:04 - 00:37:52:03
Speaker 1
It's the same theory as the horses wearing blinders on a race.
00:37:52:05 - 00:37:53:19
Speaker 2
Come on, man.
00:37:53:21 - 00:38:28:23
Speaker 1
It's the same theory. You can't, you can't. You have to block out the noise sometimes. Because this focus is what keeps you sane. This focus is what drives you crazy. So if you you know. And so I appreciate that 100%. I mean, there are times I definitely wish I would have just said, you know what, I need to I need to take a break and focus on on myself and actually moving back to New Orleans as part of that, you know, because I went, I've, I was tired LA and I was like, you know what, I need to I need to come home, build a family, get close to my family down here and stop
00:38:28:23 - 00:38:44:16
Speaker 1
living away and, and and do something big in my hometown, you know. And and so it was all part of that mental comeback because because it can it could truly take your life away in, in more than one way.
00:38:44:18 - 00:39:05:04
Speaker 4
And during that process, you know, it was like I created a family for myself, you know? But I got to sons I love dearly. So it's like not being there always on the road, look like daddy don't care, daddy, just call it daddy, you know? So my daddy here now, right? You know what I'm saying? Y'all see how my daddy got to be on that road with daddy's home?
00:39:05:04 - 00:39:21:21
Speaker 4
Nine. You know, family, you know, just so, so, you know, many nights and so many parties that I miss just being around my mom. You know what I'm saying? Like. Right. Let me tell you some a hug from a mama. You feel different. I get hugs from fans all day and I love it with see a mama hug me.
00:39:21:23 - 00:39:22:16
Speaker 2
Oh yeah.
00:39:22:18 - 00:39:43:21
Speaker 4
genuinely, truly love. Like if my mama call me right now on this podcast. And she just knocked her toe on the edge of the bed, I got to be back. My mama crying. Yeah, I'll be back, y'all. You know what I'm saying? It just a different feeling. So, like, you had to have that. You got to have genuine people around you to tell you what's really going on, but nobody else be.
00:39:43:21 - 00:39:47:20
Speaker 4
Yes, man. Like a lot of people will. Yet they are sitting not yes man, but.
00:39:47:22 - 00:39:48:16
Speaker 2
They really do.
00:39:48:16 - 00:40:03:17
Speaker 4
Be yes man. And they have gained that trait from when they was young. And I'm being honest with you. Didn't even know they were doing it with mama. Daddy say know what you did? You did everything good for mom, Missy. Yeah, I'm look at that for you. Right. So as they got older, they they they they started. Yes.
00:40:03:17 - 00:40:05:12
Speaker 4
Men and to people to get what they want.
00:40:05:12 - 00:40:07:05
Speaker 2
When it been 100%.
00:40:07:05 - 00:40:17:07
Speaker 4
You see what I'm saying. And I don't want. No. Yes. Environment. If I don't want to be wrong I'm a I'm a blatantly respectfully tell you, hey, just move around.
00:40:17:09 - 00:40:17:13
Speaker 2
What?
00:40:17:13 - 00:40:29:13
Speaker 4
I did not ask you to move around like nobody have a problem. Like just at this moment. Leave me alone. Right. And family, they ain't gonna move out, you know. They don't. They going to tell you exactly what it's supposed to be.
00:40:29:13 - 00:40:30:15
Speaker 2
Yo, you trippin.
00:40:30:15 - 00:40:33:22
Speaker 4
I want you tell me I'm trippin. I want you to tell me I'm doing good. You know what?
00:40:33:22 - 00:40:34:23
Speaker 2
I'm absolutely.
00:40:34:23 - 00:40:37:06
Speaker 4
You know, keep that. That humbleness in me.
00:40:37:08 - 00:40:39:10
Speaker 2
Right? Keeps me humble, keeps me grounded.
00:40:39:10 - 00:40:57:08
Speaker 1
Checks and balances. Checks and balances. And you. And you know, when you see so many celebrities just get into that, that role of just having the yes men around them and all it does is get you in trouble, get you and I, and I hate to kind of bring up bad, subject, I guess, in a sense, but mystical.
00:40:57:10 - 00:41:03:11
Speaker 1
Mystical the same way. Mystical. Get the wrong people around them. I love Mike, but he keep the wrong people around him.
00:41:03:13 - 00:41:04:18
Speaker 4
And that's my brother. I love him.
00:41:04:18 - 00:41:06:04
Speaker 1
Too, you know,
00:41:06:06 - 00:41:30:14
Speaker 4
Matter of fact. Funny story. Let me tell you something. mystical in my name. I could name some other people, but, like, that was my favorite, you know, rappers, because they would. You see something off the wall. So funny story. When I first got with. No, let me, and show with Mystikal. And he told me it was it was me and Mike.
00:41:30:14 - 00:41:36:19
Speaker 4
I'm like, yeah, everybody go down. So I have $500. I think to my name I went bought the best.
00:41:36:19 - 00:41:39:21
Speaker 2
Weed that I could find.
00:41:39:23 - 00:41:41:00
Speaker 4
It's nice, you know.
00:41:41:00 - 00:41:43:19
Speaker 2
And now it's, you know,
00:41:43:21 - 00:41:47:00
Speaker 4
Man, I bought the weed. I had no money. Went on the road. I couldn't.
00:41:47:00 - 00:41:47:14
Speaker 2
Wait to smoke.
00:41:47:15 - 00:41:51:12
Speaker 4
Mister. You know what I'm saying? Like Devin the dude.
00:41:51:14 - 00:41:57:06
Speaker 2
yeah. Snoop Dogg, I spoke with Snoop. Yo, man, Mystikal told me when I.
00:41:57:12 - 00:42:01:04
Speaker 4
Got right in my cell. April. Like, that's why, you know? You see.
00:42:01:06 - 00:42:04:19
Speaker 2
I don't smoke no more.
00:42:04:21 - 00:42:05:12
Speaker 2
I was looking at.
00:42:05:12 - 00:42:07:01
Speaker 4
Myself in the mirror when I went back to the.
00:42:07:01 - 00:42:07:15
Speaker 2
Hotel room.
00:42:07:15 - 00:42:10:18
Speaker 4
I see.
00:42:10:20 - 00:42:15:21
Speaker 2
Them rolling. 1 in 1. Smoke with me.
00:42:15:23 - 00:42:22:08
Speaker 4
Something wrong? Then I realized, okay, it's certain times that he couldn't smoke because it was situations, right?
00:42:22:08 - 00:42:24:14
Speaker 2
Right, right right right right.
00:42:24:16 - 00:42:27:10
Speaker 4
I ain't buying a weave no more. Rappers.
00:42:27:11 - 00:42:29:07
Speaker 1
You know, smoke their weed.
00:42:29:09 - 00:42:30:11
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:42:30:13 - 00:42:44:16
Speaker 1
that that's funny. No. My Mike, you know, he's a great dude, man. And it just it just sucks that, you know, I feel like he just keeps getting put into the wrong situation. Because if he got in the right hands, Mike could have a, a humongous career. I mean, I.
00:42:44:19 - 00:42:45:02
Speaker 2
Still.
00:42:45:03 - 00:42:53:03
Speaker 4
Have a humongous career. Once he come back, I could see that stuff he was doing, like Bruno Mars and all that. But, I will cut myself till I bleed to be in that position.
00:42:53:03 - 00:42:54:07
Speaker 2
Oh, 100%.
00:42:54:09 - 00:42:58:00
Speaker 4
Like with those type of records that he's putting out with them. That's what he's supposed to be.
00:42:58:05 - 00:42:59:01
Speaker 2
No, I'm saying.
00:42:59:05 - 00:43:00:16
Speaker 4
If he go to that level, oh my.
00:43:00:16 - 00:43:28:13
Speaker 1
Goodness, the 100%, you know, I feel like and I I'll say this, I feel like P had two of the greatest free agent signings ever when it comes to labels. I feel like Mystikal was one and Snoop was number two because everybody wanted Mystikal and P grabbed him and Snoop could have gone anywhere, you know? And he went to No Limit.
00:43:28:13 - 00:43:32:08
Speaker 4
So great story about No Limit. Anytime you.
00:43:32:10 - 00:43:35:09
Speaker 1
I mean, the respect level is crazy.
00:43:35:11 - 00:43:35:21
Speaker 2
yeah.
00:43:36:03 - 00:43:44:04
Speaker 4
I remember for essence when I performed at essence, bro. Like that was that was crazy. That was the highlight of that one in fucking list, right?
00:43:44:04 - 00:43:45:07
Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:45:09 - 00:43:53:13
Speaker 4
Like so I showed up to essence. Everybody had the no limit stuff on. I had a suit on because I felt like your mama, see.
00:43:53:15 - 00:43:57:12
Speaker 2
You know. Right. Right, right right, right.
00:43:57:14 - 00:44:00:23
Speaker 4
I mean, that's what Snoop some snoop say. Well, that's how you feel.
00:44:01:01 - 00:44:03:19
Speaker 2
You. You know what I'm saying? show.
00:44:03:19 - 00:44:05:12
Speaker 4
That. Dang. Like I'm doing.
00:44:05:12 - 00:44:07:23
Speaker 2
The right thing. Oh, yeah. I'm saying, like, a Snoop's.
00:44:07:23 - 00:44:33:23
Speaker 1
Cool too, man. No. Yeah. Now, so silk had him have me around him a couple of times when we were doing the shows and stuff. And, so the Chaka, but, Snoop was, was definitely very genuine man, you know, treated me like he knew me for years, but just met me, you know? So, but, well, you know, talking a little bit about all of that coming out of that.
00:44:34:02 - 00:44:35:21
Speaker 4
Since we talking about November, let's.
00:44:35:22 - 00:44:38:13
Speaker 2
Okay. Let's do that. All right.
00:44:38:15 - 00:44:49:06
Speaker 4
The experience over that was great because you had different egos, different characters. You had different people. That was genuine people. Let me tell you something, Mr. Magic.
00:44:49:08 - 00:44:51:06
Speaker 1
Oh, magic.
00:44:51:08 - 00:44:54:11
Speaker 4
All right. This one, I was smoking heavy. You know, we go to California.
00:44:54:14 - 00:45:03:16
Speaker 1
Which, by the way, that Roy Jones junior album, magic and y'all was one of my favorite albums that I bumped from nonstop and,
00:45:03:18 - 00:45:05:10
Speaker 2
That I had.
00:45:05:12 - 00:45:07:21
Speaker 4
I had I had my bed at myself.
00:45:07:21 - 00:45:13:02
Speaker 1
No, I had 312 and back in my car, I mean, that that that CD ran constantly. I was.
00:45:13:02 - 00:45:15:04
Speaker 4
Songs I was even on, like video.
00:45:15:04 - 00:45:17:03
Speaker 2
Games, like. Yeah, yeah.
00:45:17:05 - 00:45:31:06
Speaker 4
Yeah, shout out to Roy Jones. We're going to get to that. The second I promised Joe Roy oh my goodness man a joy Roy y'all know him to my joy one man yeah yeah yeah man. He got me out of a concert. I talk about.
00:45:31:08 - 00:45:32:14
Speaker 2
That.
00:45:32:16 - 00:45:34:16
Speaker 4
Money. He loved me. You heard me.
00:45:34:18 - 00:45:35:11
Speaker 1
the magic.
00:45:35:12 - 00:45:45:01
Speaker 4
Magic man is like we went to Cal. He was like. He had a cousin out there, and we had one some smokes. I had a raise. Sure don't. So he kept saying, you, boy, I can come with that. Sure.
00:45:45:03 - 00:45:48:01
Speaker 2
It's mine. Ain't no fucking game, you know, I'm saying, like I'm coming, you know?
00:45:48:03 - 00:45:55:23
Speaker 4
So we end up going. So we really got, like, some weed that was like California weed. I knew.
00:45:55:23 - 00:45:57:23
Speaker 1
All right, big difference.
00:45:58:01 - 00:46:07:06
Speaker 4
Tell in magic. Patel telling me. See you Shaggy. Come on. Circle here. They saying they said we be smoking in New Orleans, man. Whatever. I felt like smoking. I didn't.
00:46:07:06 - 00:46:09:22
Speaker 2
Smoke, you know, whatever I do this year or.
00:46:10:00 - 00:46:16:06
Speaker 4
We can no terror. We play man. I'm whipping everybody ass on, man. Yeah. Silk. You got work going crazy.
00:46:16:06 - 00:46:17:16
Speaker 2
You know.
00:46:17:17 - 00:46:38:10
Speaker 4
everybody else in the room was getting work, you know? So we smoked it, and all of a sudden, like, the men on the TV just thought, like. It's funny too, man. And I dropped my controller. He say, Shaggy, I told you, don't go next, man. Somebody knocking on the door and spooked out. That was his cousin's wife.
00:46:38:10 - 00:46:40:20
Speaker 4
Said, man, come get ham in the hallway tripping.
00:46:40:20 - 00:46:44:09
Speaker 2
So I won't go into detention. That bothered me. His cousin in the hallway.
00:46:44:09 - 00:46:46:00
Speaker 4
He smoke that shit to come up, man.
00:46:46:00 - 00:46:51:03
Speaker 2
My stomach intestines is coming out. so I said, I'm all right.
00:46:51:05 - 00:46:53:12
Speaker 4
Me here by myself while I was throwing.
00:46:53:12 - 00:46:55:11
Speaker 2
Water on my feet.
00:46:55:13 - 00:46:56:07
Speaker 4
By saying, never.
00:46:56:07 - 00:46:56:14
Speaker 2
Smoke.
00:46:56:14 - 00:47:00:15
Speaker 4
Lord, if you ever do that to get through this situation right here.
00:47:00:16 - 00:47:01:02
Speaker 2
love.
00:47:01:02 - 00:47:16:00
Speaker 4
Bad boy. This is some stories I never. We had so much fun, you know? no limit man. Rest in peace. So. But let me tell you so that was the realest dude, bro. Man, he was so real.
00:47:16:02 - 00:47:22:14
Speaker 1
He seems to be the glue to. He seems to be the glue to a lot of what we listen to.
00:47:22:14 - 00:47:31:17
Speaker 4
Listen to the game, to snakes. Yeah. Okay. How many snake those in the street one time. These numbers together, you know. So I'm known for.
00:47:31:19 - 00:47:33:18
Speaker 2
You know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:47:33:18 - 00:47:43:03
Speaker 4
Well, I'm a country boy. Yeah. That snake come across the grass. This is my opportunity to be a real nigga. You're my sustenance. Look at that snake, man. Or more. I see this.
00:47:43:03 - 00:47:50:23
Speaker 2
Snake, man. We picked it up. Was, was Bobby on shooter?
00:47:51:01 - 00:47:55:22
Speaker 4
I'm chasing them with the snake. He died laughing. After what? My point of being him.
00:47:56:00 - 00:48:10:11
Speaker 2
Yeah, because, you know, you, like, look, God. you know, brother. All right? Yeah, yeah. The house like that. I got some things. Lucky you don't eat them.
00:48:10:13 - 00:48:12:10
Speaker 4
You know this thing by eating?
00:48:12:12 - 00:48:14:01
Speaker 2
yeah.
00:48:14:03 - 00:48:15:23
Speaker 1
snake sausage.
00:48:16:01 - 00:48:18:10
Speaker 2
But, that's that's funny.
00:48:18:10 - 00:48:37:16
Speaker 1
You know, he always seems like he, like, every story I hear really seems like he was the glue to most of what we have been listening to at last, probably 25, 30 years out of New Orleans, Louisiana. Like that slim has a story with everybody from from back then. And he touched a little bit everything because he touched the cash money.
00:48:37:16 - 00:48:45:12
Speaker 1
He touched the no limit like he he touched a little bit of everything. And everybody, everybody had the respect for him.
00:48:45:12 - 00:48:58:21
Speaker 4
So you know his legacy. Great. You know what I'm saying. Instead of hate because, you know, they don't understand like living a life kind of way. He came from a certain days you had to do to survive. Right. You know, shout out to the eggs, man. They you know, me eggs with that grew to.
00:48:58:21 - 00:49:00:01
Speaker 2
Oh yeah man.
00:49:00:03 - 00:49:09:10
Speaker 4
They bought everything to getting everybody together bro. Like she from the beginning of time with no limit. She was the one she was telling him like it. Get this person, get this person.
00:49:09:10 - 00:49:12:13
Speaker 1
Get that she she was everybody's mama and.
00:49:12:15 - 00:49:14:04
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:14:06 - 00:49:14:12
Speaker 4
Weekend.
00:49:14:17 - 00:49:21:02
Speaker 2
Yeah. mom, listen to. Oh yeah. Yeah. Absolutely like that mama.
00:49:21:08 - 00:49:47:23
Speaker 1
Absolutely. My. When Mia speaks, you listen 100%. Yeah I love I love Mia. Oh, yeah. No. And she's so sweet. I mean, you know, average. She definitely demands that respect and deserves that respect. Yeah. well, so what what do you think it was like, or I guess, what is what is it like to reinvent yourself? Because I feel like that's in the moment of where you're at right now in your life.
00:49:48:00 - 00:50:17:06
Speaker 1
You you're, you know, you've had a massive, massive hit. You perform a hit over and over and over again. You're you're in the independent game now, like, what's it, what's it truly feel like to to try to reinvent yourself because you've got to show something right. Something different. What what what what is it? What is it like in your mind to go through that?
00:50:17:08 - 00:50:19:19
Speaker 2
In my mind.
00:50:19:21 - 00:50:42:02
Speaker 4
It actually works like look at it fresh. Look at L'alcool G like, just go with the times. You know what I'm saying? Reinventing yourself is not truly what people think. It's just continue to do what you doing no matter who's listening. Right.
00:50:42:04 - 00:50:43:07
Speaker 2
Well, to you, what.
00:50:43:07 - 00:50:46:13
Speaker 1
Is it, artist? You reinvent yourself over and over and over and over again.
00:50:46:15 - 00:51:05:17
Speaker 4
That's what you know artists do. But like Chaplin, he just continue to be Chaplin. And that's why you got to know new generation sample of him. You know. And a lot of artists have that. Well you know people are sampling them and that reinvention of that like we spoke earlier. Let somebody else reinvent you.
00:51:05:18 - 00:51:07:16
Speaker 1
Yeah. But that to.
00:51:07:16 - 00:51:10:22
Speaker 4
Me, you call because I tell you I'm going to be like.
00:51:10:23 - 00:51:11:14
Speaker 2
You know, right.
00:51:11:15 - 00:51:12:04
Speaker 1
But to me.
00:51:12:09 - 00:51:12:18
Speaker 4
I tell you.
00:51:12:19 - 00:51:13:20
Speaker 2
Tropical. Yeah.
00:51:13:20 - 00:51:36:08
Speaker 1
But but that to me that's reinvigorating. That's not reinventing. So like, that's taking something that you had was already there that was that, that people loved and re re giving it giving it some new energy which makes it makes it come back up and resurface. But, you know, when I talk about the reinvent, I'm talking about Dee Turner, like, you know, so like, cause.
00:51:36:12 - 00:51:36:20
Speaker 2
Agree.
00:51:36:20 - 00:51:37:16
Speaker 4
To disagree.
00:51:37:16 - 00:51:39:16
Speaker 2
Okay. All right.
00:51:39:18 - 00:51:57:11
Speaker 4
You have to let the people decide where it is. Because I could come with a brand new song, and, we don't like that, you know, but just because I'm doing something different. But if I just continue to do what I love to do, they're going to gravitate toward me. Now with the de turn, the situation. That's a whole nother topic.
00:51:57:13 - 00:52:06:22
Speaker 4
Like the Turner. Yeah. Oh, you can on any record he will get on a pop record. He will get on, this group.
00:52:07:02 - 00:52:07:17
Speaker 2
Right, right.
00:52:07:18 - 00:52:13:09
Speaker 4
Put him on. He's going to adapt to the you know, and that's what I tell my earlier with a different brother.
00:52:13:10 - 00:52:16:22
Speaker 2
Right. 100%.
00:52:17:00 - 00:52:25:05
Speaker 4
That simple right? That right. You put any beat on in front of me, I'ma smash it. You know, I put that on everything I love. Well, if Kendrick Lamar wanted to feature with me, it would be so.
00:52:25:08 - 00:52:27:07
Speaker 2
Yeah, because I've heard, I've heard I've heard.
00:52:27:07 - 00:52:50:20
Speaker 1
Some of those Turner songs and I love them. I feel like I mean, I definitely feel like it's a it's a great way to go for Make America Dance Again. You know, it's it's a it's definitely that motto, you know. So what. Well that I guess, you know. In a sense, reinventing yourself also means that you're, you know, right now you're, we're chasing different money than we used to.
00:52:50:22 - 00:52:52:05
Speaker 4
So streaming.
00:52:52:08 - 00:52:54:16
Speaker 2
Well, so, so.
00:52:54:18 - 00:53:06:07
Speaker 1
What's it like going, being an artist, going from making money off of CD sales to now searching for streams and views?
00:53:06:09 - 00:53:15:13
Speaker 4
I don't know, because, I don't have the answer to that because a lot of the CD sales, I didn't make no money. I made money off shout out.
00:53:15:13 - 00:53:16:19
Speaker 2
No live it. You know.
00:53:16:21 - 00:53:36:17
Speaker 4
I made six shows, like I was booked from Monday to Sunday everywhere, somewhere. So when you get in ten, 15, $20,000 a gig, you know, and you on a on a roll from Monday to Sunday, you know, and I had my own gigs and I had opening acts with juvie. opening acts, you know what I'm saying? I'm not slim.
00:53:36:17 - 00:53:37:21
Speaker 4
All right.
00:53:39:08 - 00:53:46:06
Speaker 4
It's like you wouldn't worry about all that negative money. It just so you know, it's coming in, like, you know, so.
00:53:46:08 - 00:54:11:16
Speaker 1
Well, I guess the CD sales translated into shows and all that stuff, but but but I mean, you know what? But can you give some maybe some advice or, or maybe explain some of the troubles that you're going through as far as finding those streams and, and, and getting on those playlists and, and doing the new type of music side that we have.
00:54:11:17 - 00:54:28:06
Speaker 4
That's why I'm a little confused, and I'm gonna be honest with you, the streams and everything, you know, I see you that you go to different sites, you know? What is this, bill, kid or whoever? You know, your put your music through. And that's where I see money coming in. Mailbox money like.
00:54:28:06 - 00:54:29:13
Speaker 2
That money had to go in.
00:54:29:15 - 00:54:38:02
Speaker 4
Right. And so that's what I feel as if the streams are now, you know, but I'm still making the show money. So when that money coming in, I just put it.
00:54:38:02 - 00:54:39:11
Speaker 2
In the bank. Right. I got you.
00:54:39:12 - 00:55:06:01
Speaker 4
And I thank God that that I'm still able to do that, you know, to this day. But the difference is as well, I'm saying I really don't understand the difference. I mean, I'm being honest with you, but I know it is right. You know, dissect it it and researched it. I know what it is. Right. But the difference, I can't even tell you, you know, it's like, is you still making money, but you doing it a different way, you know, from the cameras we stream.
00:55:06:04 - 00:55:12:17
Speaker 1
Right. Well, I guess you getting less money per, per view, but you're getting more views, I guess, in a sense. Right. So, I mean, I see.
00:55:12:17 - 00:55:14:03
Speaker 4
You in person at the show. You still.
00:55:14:05 - 00:55:32:15
Speaker 1
Well, that's the thing. So as long as that's translating into ticket sales and, and and doing the shows and stuff. Well, so, well, I mean, I know we got, you got a bunch more shows, I'm sure coming up with the no limit stuff, and you got a bunch of stuff coming up independent wise. Yeah, yeah. tell us about a couple shows you got coming up.
00:55:32:15 - 00:55:48:21
Speaker 4
Well, festivals. festivals, if you haven't book me. You better book me now. Price going up. I'm telling you now, I got, I got about five festivals we got in the city. That's that's getting ready to go. I won't say no names, because you know what? Eddie is, man? You know, you got a lot of people jealous.
00:55:48:23 - 00:55:52:20
Speaker 4
yeah. Can't say, you know, because I'm supposed to be doing some of this stuff on the same day.
00:55:52:21 - 00:55:54:00
Speaker 2
No. Right.
00:55:54:00 - 00:55:55:00
Speaker 4
I'm going to get my bag.
00:55:55:06 - 00:55:58:21
Speaker 1
There you go. They all your knee surgery,
00:55:58:23 - 00:56:00:08
Speaker 4
Mister? I've been rocking.
00:56:00:08 - 00:56:01:00
Speaker 2
Stages.
00:56:01:05 - 00:56:03:15
Speaker 4
With a torn ACL for four years. Y'all ain't even.
00:56:03:15 - 00:56:07:01
Speaker 2
Know what I.
00:56:07:03 - 00:56:11:18
Speaker 1
Well, that's why you pick up that leg and that this. Well,
00:56:11:20 - 00:56:12:22
Speaker 2
That's funny.
00:56:13:00 - 00:56:14:23
Speaker 4
Through everything, I get up and I work.
00:56:15:01 - 00:56:27:10
Speaker 1
No, I hear you, man, I hear you. Well, that's good. Now let's go. Well, let's, I wanted to ask you again. I know you mentioned a little bit about Eminem and Mystikal being on your your greatest, list, but let's. Who is Choppa.
00:56:27:10 - 00:56:33:17
Speaker 2
Styles goat rappers.
00:56:33:19 - 00:56:48:03
Speaker 4
Oh, man. It's hard because, like, if we had to make a New Orleans Mount Rushmore, we need more space. Because I look at the hot boys, I look at, I mean, as, as a whole.
00:56:49:15 - 00:56:51:06
Speaker 4
I remember my daddy telling me, man.
00:56:51:07 - 00:56:52:07
Speaker 2
Ain't no music here.
00:56:52:07 - 00:56:57:06
Speaker 4
For to show. Don't don't don't, don't, don't, don't, don't you know what I'm saying.
00:56:57:20 - 00:57:16:08
Speaker 4
So now I will tell my kids like man listen to this. And we ride and ride and you know and listen to the hot boys. And they believe that any music they put NBA YoungBoy on. So you know I don't want to be like my day right. I just I look at all music bro I like all sounds bro.
00:57:16:08 - 00:57:20:14
Speaker 4
But I see the hot boy Spurs. Mac.
00:57:20:16 - 00:57:24:03
Speaker 1
Shout out Mac and Mac.
00:57:24:05 - 00:57:30:13
Speaker 4
who got me through thing Tim. Smooth.
00:57:30:15 - 00:57:32:21
Speaker 2
I.
00:57:32:22 - 00:57:36:05
Speaker 4
I could use a ride with me to Cardi B like I didn't know you listening to react.
00:57:36:06 - 00:57:41:00
Speaker 2
You right. Yeah. Under the bridge right. Yeah.
00:57:41:02 - 00:57:51:00
Speaker 4
Bon Jovi you know. Yeah. It's a lot of different music, you know. so I cannot really just say my favorite. I love the culture of music.
00:57:51:01 - 00:57:51:11
Speaker 1
Period.
00:57:51:11 - 00:57:52:16
Speaker 2
Yeah. You know.
00:57:52:18 - 00:57:59:12
Speaker 4
I won't be that guy to make the the Mount Rushmore come to be wrong in about a thousand people loving it. 10,000 people. Hey.
00:57:59:14 - 00:58:00:11
Speaker 2
Hey.
00:58:00:12 - 00:58:02:03
Speaker 4
My Rushmore. You feel me?
00:58:02:05 - 00:58:04:17
Speaker 1
All right, well, let's talk about the Saints season coming up.
00:58:04:19 - 00:58:07:09
Speaker 2
Who? Who? That. What?
00:58:07:11 - 00:58:09:13
Speaker 1
Who's your favorite new player there?
00:58:09:16 - 00:58:11:18
Speaker 4
We call.
00:58:11:20 - 00:58:15:15
Speaker 2
All right, well, come on. Yeah.
00:58:15:17 - 00:58:19:17
Speaker 1
well, I don't know, I don't know. Derek has approved it enough for me. I.
00:58:19:17 - 00:58:20:17
Speaker 4
Know, but I had a shot at it.
00:58:20:20 - 00:58:22:06
Speaker 2
You had to shut him out.
00:58:22:08 - 00:58:23:07
Speaker 4
Many people to do that.
00:58:25:07 - 00:58:26:08
Speaker 1
No. Listen, I.
00:58:26:08 - 00:58:33:07
Speaker 4
Know I talked to, my son. I could talk to you, man. Like. Like my favorite player on down, man. You know, man, my dude.
00:58:33:11 - 00:58:34:06
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:58:34:08 - 00:58:41:18
Speaker 4
That's, I'll be looking for him to score more touchdowns this season. We're looking forward to Rasheed returning, man with that new.
00:58:41:20 - 00:58:42:10
Speaker 2
yellow.
00:58:42:10 - 00:58:48:04
Speaker 4
Thing that he got now. Yeah. By the Q and we got another punt return that just came in. So man we going to be.
00:58:48:06 - 00:58:54:18
Speaker 1
Know I think. And I'm glad they got cam somehow I love Cam George man. He's such a such and such a great guy too. But you.
00:58:54:18 - 00:58:55:09
Speaker 2
Got to go mud.
00:58:55:10 - 00:58:57:11
Speaker 4
Run cam.
00:58:57:13 - 00:58:59:05
Speaker 2
we going brother.
00:58:59:07 - 00:59:25:01
Speaker 1
So he's, So he actually lives right around the court of my brother, my brother in law. And we see him all the time walking. And it's like, specially for, like, Halloween and stuff, but, but and and my sister's done some, some charity work with them, but, he's just a great dude. But I'm glad they got some help for him with chase chases and across the way and and and I don't know the defense look really good in preseason, but I'm just I'm still worried about that O-line.
00:59:25:03 - 00:59:25:21
Speaker 4
We were going.
00:59:25:23 - 00:59:26:19
Speaker 1
I was do worry about that.
00:59:26:19 - 00:59:38:18
Speaker 4
O-line could stop the other people's offense would be cool. But if I had to pick and I'm just being honest, don't be mad with me. my favorite player on the Saints team. I hope he never get traded. It takes me.
00:59:38:20 - 00:59:40:18
Speaker 1
Oh my God, you're kidding me.
00:59:40:20 - 00:59:45:19
Speaker 4
You know, no disrespect to nobody else, but y'all know, man, when I come into the dome, I got that Taysom jersey.
00:59:46:00 - 00:59:48:11
Speaker 1
He he does the most, I mean, the.
00:59:48:14 - 00:59:49:09
Speaker 2
Remind me of me.
00:59:49:10 - 00:59:52:11
Speaker 4
That man we put him on a song takes me a bounce rap.
00:59:52:11 - 00:59:53:15
Speaker 2
All right. Yeah.
00:59:53:17 - 00:59:54:22
Speaker 4
Been some lyrics and he.
00:59:55:00 - 00:59:56:13
Speaker 2
Yeah, 100%.
00:59:56:15 - 00:59:57:19
Speaker 4
As my dude know.
00:59:57:19 - 01:00:10:01
Speaker 1
100% man. Well good shout out to Taysom Hill I agree. he, he might be the most versatile player in the league right. You know, but, and I love the way he hits to man, you know, whether he's got the ball or not.
01:00:10:03 - 01:00:14:19
Speaker 2
He he goes he goes to tackle. You don't run up. yeah.
01:00:14:22 - 01:00:31:23
Speaker 1
They don't run abilities. And we'll go, man, we'll look at the end. I'd like to ask everybody, you know, and I know I probably know this answer already. Just. But but I know and you but what what truly brings elation to you in your life. You know, elation is peak happiness.
01:00:32:01 - 01:00:42:05
Speaker 4
So what makes me happy? first of all, when I wake up in the morning, joy makes me happy that, you know, a lot of people, you know, wake up day.
01:00:42:06 - 01:00:42:23
Speaker 2
You know, I'm right.
01:00:43:04 - 01:01:00:06
Speaker 4
I was. I'm on this side of dirt that makes me happy. Second comes my family. You know, having my family around me support me. Third thing comes is my animals. But fourth thing comes is my fans. And I hate to put the fans all the way that way, but you got to watch. You can't come before my right by.
01:01:00:10 - 01:01:00:15
Speaker 2
My.
01:01:00:18 - 01:01:08:09
Speaker 4
Family because they're going to keep me humble enough to come and speak with y'all, because sometimes, you know, people in the street may just oh, man, they take you somewhere.
01:01:08:15 - 01:01:09:01
Speaker 2
Oh yeah.
01:01:09:05 - 01:01:12:04
Speaker 4
We'll be all locked up.
01:01:12:06 - 01:01:15:04
Speaker 2
You know, but I know me. You know me.
01:01:15:06 - 01:01:17:18
Speaker 1
They'll take you somewhere physically and emotionally, you know.
01:01:17:18 - 01:01:33:11
Speaker 4
You know, and, like, I say, was on the fourth thing. The fifth thing, man. Just having people like you, you know, that that can actually broadcast how we really are in life and what this really means to us. I appreciate that, you know, that's what brings me love and joy.
01:01:33:11 - 01:01:35:11
Speaker 2
You know, I appreciate.
01:01:35:11 - 01:01:51:11
Speaker 1
That, man. I appreciate you, too, man. I appreciate you coming and giving, giving you time and and speaking real too, because it's it takes, you know, it's it's not easy to to just open up to the public, you know, about things that you don't necessarily say on records.
01:01:51:16 - 01:01:52:07
Speaker 4
Right, right.
01:01:52:07 - 01:01:55:11
Speaker 1
You know, but but that being said, we got to do some records soon.
01:01:55:13 - 01:02:10:18
Speaker 4
Oh, yeah. Come on, man, only thing is you got to you got to make sure. Yeah, yeah, I had the right quality sound I nobody lazy. They got it. Yeah I was sing like T-Pain. One day I might one rap like. And then one day just make sure you have everything set up for me when I go.
01:02:10:20 - 01:02:12:15
Speaker 2
Oh, we ready to go? We ready to.
01:02:12:15 - 01:02:13:14
Speaker 1
Go, man. We ready to.
01:02:13:14 - 01:02:17:12
Speaker 4
Go I just have a song with a man. The show that's a.
01:02:17:14 - 01:02:20:18
Speaker 1
I like that. I like that crossover.
01:02:20:19 - 01:02:22:14
Speaker 2
Shout out to man. That's my best.
01:02:22:16 - 01:02:31:04
Speaker 1
Hey that's good. No crossover music, man. That's. That's where it's at, man. That's that's where you can get that pop money, right? That's a whole different level.
01:02:31:05 - 01:02:33:12
Speaker 4
Bruno Mars I'm coming for y'all.
01:02:33:14 - 01:02:34:08
Speaker 2
Oh yeah I'll let.
01:02:34:08 - 01:02:36:13
Speaker 4
Y'all know that I love y'all.
01:02:36:15 - 01:02:45:03
Speaker 1
That's awesome man. That's good. What you tell the people where they can find you on your socials and some music that you got coming up. Tell everybody where you where they can find you.
01:02:45:05 - 01:03:06:08
Speaker 4
you have to check me out on Instagram at real job. Facebook the turner. Yeah, that's two different things. But remember, and if you interested, any of my dogs is call you ready? Next error. King call souls conical. So you know Italian. But we've Louisiana.
01:03:06:09 - 01:03:09:03
Speaker 2
There you go. King calls guard.
01:03:09:05 - 01:03:10:00
Speaker 4
Come check me out.
01:03:10:04 - 01:03:22:18
Speaker 1
All right. Awesome, man. Great. Well, thanks for visiting us today. And and it's good conversation, man. Appreciate you. And thank you guys for joining us today on the podcast. We enjoy exhilarating euphoria through creation and collaboration.
01:03:22:20 - 01:03:25:02
Speaker 4
And mama that was just wild in my cup.
01:03:25:04 - 01:03:26:03
Speaker 2
Oh yeah.
01:03:26:04 - 01:03:33:12
Speaker 1
Make America dance again.
01:03:33:14 - 01:03:47:10
Speaker 2
Thanks. That was great.
