March 9, 2026 • 31 mins
2 Chainz Visited the Cruz Show to talk about his new book. He told stories about his Dad, Justin Bieber, Drake & more. 2 Chainz also talked about the Hawks Magic City Promotion, his love for the Lakers and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, is that Nico Blizz I'm good friend. Yeah,
I'm different, I'm good friend. Yeah, I'm I'm good friend.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah I'm dioff friend.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Pulls up to the scenle mysel and missing, Hello, Man,
bitch is not my fucking prop rom And yeah, I
like the fucking Coulo. Man, bitch is not my fucking problem,
rom And yeah, I like the fucking coup fucking problem.
Whistling dzey middle school. I was getting head on the test.
He niggle little bloodline pimpern work there like on Twitter
eight said, remind me of big Ward everything proper, no
(00:30):
propaganda troper kind of gold Yard back down, big suck
A lot of holes like samt do a birthday party
in the A million dollar purple game in I sold Green,
sold white soul, lid be so high, the flowing so
ice cool woo. Tould a Gucci stole, Honey, I a home,
I my ship, I need a pell O toiling pet
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phone and side.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
B exam, come about that ship.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Make that nigga buy you something that said you bought
that ship. So you stand up the run up from
the floor, poking out everybody when your friend calls Hello,
pressure speaking will on the door.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But the pressure reason the.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Sho start puts a little bit Florida two.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Ship that's yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Who you.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Man, two chains is on the Cruise show. I could
think of like thirty more songs. My gee, we could
hear all day change.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Man, that was a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Noah, shout out to Nico Blizz for that intro. Right there, man, Blizz. Cool,
but that's what you got the camera. Great, great job,
he wants to reaction.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, you did good. That was great. That was really good.
I was telling Cruise right before this.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You're literally one of my goats bro for real in
real life, so doing that was super easy for me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Bro. Thank you, man, thank you for the love and support. Man,
it sounded good too, crazy right, I've never I've never
heard it like like that, like how you did the
how you put it together, like I thought it was
really you know, and then it really I realized how
much like West Coast byes, I got some West Coast bops.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, I love you out of here chained met least.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, you mean you're a very multifaceted person.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm telling you, come on, leave here. You don't need
them coming with me. You don't need you don't need.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This, y'all.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Change is here, man. We're celebrating the new memoir. The
voice in my head is God. Congratulations on the book.
We got a book signing tonight. Yeah, and we at
the grove.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
We had to grove Barns and Nobles, you know, uh,
you know, meet me there and I'll be you know,
just putting us my you know, first book, you know,
first time author. But I'm excited about it. My book
is about intuition. It's about that gut feeling that you
have before something is about to happen. And it's just
(03:02):
about me creating awareness. It has you know, has God
in the title, but it's not so much a religious
based book. It doesn't have like scriptures anything, and it's
it's me talking about God through my life experiences and
how I got to realize that that when you hear that,
when you have that something told me type of situation
that is coming from the higher source. And I'm I'm
(03:25):
crediting that to God.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So you signing every book right, this is your first
book now, first book of signature.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, don't I'm excited. It's cool. You know, I ain't
really expect a lot of people to no, I expect feeling,
but they are coming. It's sold out. So it's it's
that's right, it's doing We're doing good man.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It changed you right though, bro, Like you know, every
time you.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Come out of a situation and you go wow, like yo,
thank you God, like, it's it's because of that voice
in your head.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's that higher power in your head say don't do that,
don't go there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, it'll say that God. God acts and love. So
if you're trying to differentiate the voices, if it has
love around it, then I feel like it's God. And
so the book, the voice, the voice, and the title
is my conscious is my intuition, and then God is
me giving credit to somebody that's that's higher than myself,
(04:23):
that's bigger than my ego, that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Through you too. And that's something that I like, I
really love that you have said before, is that although yes,
God is in this book, and that's what you believe
in as well, and it doesn't matter who's reading it,
they can take what they want from whatever that voice is.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In their head. Absolutely. Yeah, it's it's just about me
trying to create awareness and tell people it's Okay, to quiet,
you know, shut it down, Quiet down the noise and
tap in, tap into that inner monologue and listen and listen,
and also don't be afraid to the question to to
(05:06):
do it, because what it is is you can't see
why it's telling you this. It's the voice comes before
fear comes, It come before ego, It come before doubt,
It come before accident, It coming for all of that,
you know what I mean. You can't see around the corner.
So sometimes we just do what we want to do
as humans, right and like, man, you know, forget that
(05:27):
and then you go back and say, man, I should
have Man, some told me I shouldn't even you get that,
some told me sometime I should need messing with y'all.
Is man, I got to go to you know what
I mean. So whatever that is is me just you know,
telling my story and and also me telling you like
my my compass, my internal confisce, like this is how
(05:50):
I've been moving, this is how I navigate. I feel
like my consciousness led to my success.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
That's what you talk a lot about that in the book, man,
And you know, we want to go over it. But
before that, we got to remind people who's here? Those
is here, changes is here, My hairweave killer is here.
See Tony, Tony.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
This is this is my you know, the general the
GC drop drop off a few, drop off a few
migos to the crib, and I'll be asking them. And
when you don't understand what I'm saying, just c C
C C. I I called me boss, and yeah and yeah,
(06:36):
but you know, mister George George. But but the last,
the last guys I had working in my crib. I
got these, man, I got them hop and narrow peppers
in my garden. You grow your own vegetables, right, yeah,
and uh, you know, you know the the migos that
was working on my house, they bring their own hot
plate and just make their own tacos.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
That's we will set up a barbecue in your backyard
for lunch.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
No, so they weren't you. They would use their own.
But I was like, damn, man, let me show some love.
They would just be making their own, you know, lunch.
So I come out there one day with the hir
and narve and uh, there's two of them and migo
you uh, we're gonna need doors. No, this is mine.
I see them going at they fighting about this hybernarow
pepper I said, I said, look, I'll be back. I
(07:27):
went to the garden and got on small one.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, one one hilopeno pepper per Migo.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I see, I'm on some man. It's hot, y'all. Need
I swear? That's what they do. They like, yeah, that's
what he's telling me, Like bro perf is one. Yeah, yeah,
He's like, no, go get another one because I mean anyway, yeah,
they were having a little tugg of world with what
(07:52):
do you even put like on your taco? Because are
you still pescantarian?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So I'm I'm I eat. I don't eat beef pork,
but I will you know, I love seafood, which which
is why you get the pescatary. But I still eat
like turkey burgers, turkey bacon and stuff like that. On
my tacos. I might do like shrimp tacos and fish
tacos and stuff like that, you know what I mean.
But I'm not even making them, like I said, they
(08:17):
were making them in the in my garage, and I'm like, man,
I'm like, I like that really self officient, you know,
I'm like, man, this is you know, because when somebody
starts working on your house for over a month. You
you get to know that, you get to know them.
You know me, I wake up in the morning, come
out there, passa. They become friends, become friends. I even
(08:40):
had them checking on my dogs, like you know what
I'm saying. Like I left one time and I'm like
yo and yo pedroal. I said, go on town, you
check on pedroal.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah he's got it. No problem. I got you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Problem.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yes, you feel me? No, listen, can you can have
something to do? Whatever you can? Count on it. My
g I need you to pick up my son from school.
Trust you're gonna pick up yourself in school. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Man, speaking to your son when he was born, you
saw your dad's spirit in the room. This is a
wild story, but this is true. And you have a
picture to document it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I do. I have a picture. Yeah, it's a story.
The night my son was born, my alarm went up
at my house and my mom and my daughters they
were already at the house, and so my mom was
calling to not only tell me that the alarm went off,
but she was asking for the cold. You know. They
(09:41):
come through and say, you know what's what's the name
what's the cold. So she was asking for that, and
so when we leave the hospital about five days later,
something like that. My wife looks at the email. And
when you have motion, a motion detector that goes up,
it always takes a screenshot of what the motion is.
(10:03):
And so when the screenshot, when you look at the email,
she like getting my attention. I look at it and
it was like an image of my father. And my
father passed away in twenty twelve, and so this image
that I have is from twenty fifteen of him just casually,
but it's the same time my son was being born.
(10:23):
So it's a lot to unpact.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The spirit was in the room, man, Yeah, almost maybe
transferring energy.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, it's my mom. My mom said something to that effect.
She's very very spiritual. I almost didn't talk about it
in the book. I definitely didn't put the picture in
the book.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Good for you, that's personal. Keep that for yourself.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, it might make me sound a little strange, but
it really happened though.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It's amazing. That's amazing your dad. You talk about his
scent and when you smell it, you know, you can
still smell it. It pops up right. You're like one
of his jean jackets. Yeah, that still has that scent
to this day. The scent hasn't faded to day. Man,
I can smell and it wasn't a cologne, was it. Nah,
it's not a coloone. It's not like if somebody wear
the column be like my dad used to wear that.
(11:08):
It's not that it's a it's a sense.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And it's not like I think we all have sense
and don't even know it. Really, I really do, you know?
And I'm not talking about like old people. Yeah, and
not not anything to where you're not you have bad
high jeens. It's just like a scent. And so I
do have one of his blue jean jackets that smells
(11:30):
just like him. But then I can smell that jacket
sometimes when I'm not around it, and so I just
assume that he's.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Right there around He's right there. He also have some
advice for you in the book. You talk about him
calling you and saying, go get a gun from Walmart. Yeah, dude,
why did he advise you to get a gun from Walmart?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So it's a situation in the story. Well, no, the
first chapter is called shoot him in the stomach and
let God decide and so somebody tried to rob me
in college. And I went to college in Alabama, but
I'm from Atlanta, so you know, I'm already thinking I'm
like this city, city city kid, you know. And I
(12:15):
was going to get some rams in these Alabama guys
they pulled, they pulled a tool on them, they pulled
a weapon. But the voice in my head before I
even got there, told me to put the money in
my sock, like, put it in my crop, put the
money somewhere else, just for some reason I don't know.
(12:35):
So when I got there, the whole time i'm running
over there, I'm feeling like, man, I don't think no
rams here, but I'm not really like tapped into like
this voice or whatever, you know what I mean. So
I get there, they they hit my guy with the
pistol and then they like they go through my pockets,
but I'm telling them, I'm just coming to see the rams.
Don't have no money, so they don't end up robbing me,
but they end up laying me down. So now I'm
(12:57):
upset and I won't like revenge. I want real smoke.
So I called my mom, I call Atlanta. I go
back to Atlanta, and my dad called back from prison,
and I told my dad, like, man, I just got
robbed by you know, well, somebody just tried to rob
me in Alabama.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So his.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
His parenting skill, told me to go to Walmart and
get a rifle because you could buy a rifle at
the time. I guess from Walmart. I did not. I'm not,
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I didn't go.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, I didn't go. He said you can go get
a rifle. And he told me that to find a
guy and to shoot him in the stomach and then
let God decide if he should live or die, because
it's no or it's nothing there. It's like nothing in
the stomach and he should And my mom like grabs
the phone and say, what kind of advice is that that? Like,
(13:47):
you know, and they had their little argument. But that's
that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's a true story. Yeah, that is, man, that's that's
some advice.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That just it's probably it's really it's horrible advice. I
didn't want to say it's actually and then you know,
you'll be like I was just listening to with my daddy.
You know some of us, some of us just delirious
and just like this is what my daddy told me
to do.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But it's good that you.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Give a lot of perspective about like I guess, like
what to listen.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
To and what not to listen Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So so my dad that I talk about so much
in that instance right there, whenever that was, he was
in prisons. And so while I was writing his book,
I found a letter. I found letters from two thousand
and three, like these prison letters, like around Thanksgiving, what
he was doing, what football team was good around that time.
This stuff that kind of puts you back in that place,
(14:42):
like a time capsule. Yeah. But all the back of
his letters, like when I finally stacked up, all of
them got God his love on the backup. But you
know they just tore at the top where I don't
pulled the letter. I just read I'm really not paying
attention to like the doodle and that's on the envelope.
But we're not as in a that was adult then,
but as a mature more tapped into an individual. When
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he's writing God is Loved. It was like the most
simplest answer to what God is like. So if it
got love in it, then it got God in it.
Like God ain't gonna be like with hate, like he
ain't gonna be on like this is my opinion. This
is me not doing any like chat GPT, none of that. No,
(15:27):
this is no fact checking. This is just how I've
been living my life. And I feel like God equals love,
and so in this voice, it's telling you, like the
crash out, then that might not be if it don't
have love in this crash out. I don't know if
it's coming from this. You know, you get what I'm saying,
because we got I got the forgive my you know,
(15:48):
I do have a chapter called the fucking Voice, and
we live in that daily. We all be like, you know,
fucking I'm gonna I do it. I fucking I'm running light.
I don't. I'm not standing that this light fucking you
know whatever, whatever. And then as soon as you get
whooped up here like man, you know it's me. Man,
you know it happens to me every time I run
the same stop sign. My son be like, damn, why
(16:09):
you do it. It's like, man, damn, it was the
police right there. He's like he like they come to
like they they pull up and they'd be like, change,
what are you doing? I'm like I don't know, man,
I don't know something. But but this voice, it ranges
from something very minute to something very you know, very deep. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Now, Pop's advice to get a gun from Walmart. Let
God decide to God?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is left spiritual gangster? Your possibility spiritual man? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And then of course the music man. There's so much
talk about these records and so many stories behind. You know,
you met Wayne, you were selling you know, you were
selling vegetables to Wayne. I guess right, we're selling lettuce,
I guess, d Wayne. And that's how you guys met
and he didn't know you were a rapper. And then
fast forward duffelbag ball it was a verse and you
didn't hear because it was wrong email baby old nine
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hundred dollars. It was a lock on on right, And
then you know, fast forward you're in a deal with
Ludacris and disturbing the peace, and you know, so much happened,
And then you meet Drake.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I think twenty twelve All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well I met him.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I was ready.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah. Well, when I went on to a Wayne, he
was on tour, like when I went on to A Wayne.
When I first met Drake, I didn't know he was
from Canada, and then I thought he was maybe like
one of the homies from like New Orleans or something
like that, you know. And then they were telling me,
like he's from Canada. And then like I want to say,
(17:37):
maybe Wayne was listening to I Want to Be a
successful song with I remember hearing that for the first
time with Trey songs I just want to beat and
so it was like that. So he was already like
he's already like preparing to do what he was about
to do. But he was on We was all on
to Awayne. But I had a song that everybody knew,
(17:59):
which was Double Boys. It was eight none that I
think about. So I had a song like this out
performing well. But Wayne had did like a mixtape where
he had all the young money, you know, Nikki all
of that. So fast forward a couple of years later,
I run into Drake. Now we kind of like there's
a report there. Yes it's a reporter because we've been
(18:19):
on tour, and that's just you know what I mean whatever,
But he and it also was like I talk about
this too long on not necessarily in the book, but
how like so much can happen in a year or
two years, like you if you just stay down, but
you know what I mean. And so at this point
it go from me having a recognizable song to this
being one of the biggest artists. And so when we
(18:40):
saw each other on a whim, I was just like, yeah,
I got I got this record for you, and I
really didn't answer.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, we were lying. Yeah, but what came out of
that was no Lie funny that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah. I was like, I went but I
had my tour bus with like my studio on it.
So I go back to the bus and I'm like, yo,
Brush say he gonna rock with me? We need something,
you know what I mean? It just like you know
what I mean at this point, just really trying to
find something that I felt like he would keep, you know.
And there was a Mike wheelba and it was we
three four times playing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Knocked it Out man. Yeah, latinum crazy. It's crazy how
I went from a lie to no lie.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
God, you're that good. He set me up for that.
You're that good. That was You're that good.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, you know, I appreciate it change when it comes
to like the newer music, right like you were on
you were doing ad libs for Yukon Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Did you ever have a verse on that song? No.
I was supposed to go to the studio out here
in l A. And I was, I don't know, maybe
in Atlanta, and so, you know, beable, like come come
to the studio. And I couldn't make it. So he
sends me the song and just tells me, you know,
(19:56):
put some ad libs on here. But it was nothing open.
It was just a song. It was like not an
open you know what I mean. So I was I
was thinking the same thing, like you just want my
that's cool, you know. But then I remember saying, I
ain't gonna lie. Man, it's been hard. I remember telling
them like I remember telling them like before y'all even
thought about him, Like when I first got it, I
(20:18):
was like, man, it's hard, bro, I ain't gonna lie.
So yeah, you didn't even attempt to write to it. No,
because it's like you know, as artists, I get it,
Like I mean, I understand like if I say, bro,
you know they you know, if you need me, I
jump on it. And you know, if they bite, they bite.
If they don't, I'm not the one to keep being like, hey, well,
(20:41):
well I decided you never got back at me. So
here's a Some stuff is communication without saying you know
what I mean. As artists, I think we all should
do a better job of understanding when somebody don't really
want us say no sometime and it's like you got
to read the room. So I'm not saying, but he
I didn't just do the ad libs without saying, hey,
(21:02):
brow if you need or whatnot. You know what I mean.
I think he you know, as a creative, I think
he got just what he wanted out. That's right. Whatever
the yeah, And that's like I tell people, that's a
fresh Yeah. That ain't like a used man, That's that's
what that's Yeah, that's that's the that's that's a that's
(21:22):
a fresh out the plastic, brand new Amazon, the voice
in my same day, drone drug, all the new technology.
That's what that well was a new Yeah, that's right, yo.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Change You talk about the deal that you passed on
with with with Jay z oh many s No, Man,
it's in the book.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know it, man, I know, man, it's nothing though,
there's nothing I didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I think it was brilliant. I think it was brilliant.
It shows who you really are as a man. You
couldn't bring your manager slash DJ and said hey, we're
a package. What a duo man, and you you respectfully
said no, thank you, which I think is I mean,
especially starting out in the game with Jermaine dupri and
Jay Z on the phone, anybody would be like, whatever
you need, all right, I'll fly out there and i'll
(22:13):
tell you know, I'll tell my manager when I come back.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We'll figure this out. But that wasn't your.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Case, you know, Yeah, man, you know what stuff happens,
good man, stuff happens, yeah, man, shoe box money, all
that shit, crazy shoe box money.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Something that I also love about that I don't think
artists talking enough about is the health and wellness of everything.
And you mentioned that in your book, Like what I
guess prompted you at what point in your life to
really focus.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
In on your health?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And well, this is the thing. You're the person only
person that ever asked me about the health stuff that
I be on. That's right, So I don't I still
don't think that's good for you. But I still don't
think it really like connects with people or even people
like Bro. You smoke all the time, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
But that's not that's not likely.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Because the way that it resonated with me is because yeah,
I mean, I do smoke all the time. I like,
but at the same time, I'm on this health journey too.
I think that's what a lot of people in this
industry don't understand, is that there's so many people just
dropping like flies because we don't take care of it.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, smoking is one thing, but like being addicted to
lean and getting ulcers and the other year.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, that's what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, But like the you know, the way I eat,
the way I you know, the way I try to
take care of myself. It's just like you know, it's
just like it's imperative. It's imperative that as you growing,
as you as you get physicals, you get you get
these checkups. It's important that you know, you understand that
(23:41):
what you putting in your body, it eventually come. It
becomes the receipt. That's what I talk about, Like you
are your receipt. You walk around like if you see somebody,
I can see somebody, look at this one and I
can tell you what they eat. I can just look
at him and be like yeah, yeah, nah he don't
he don't eat, or yeah that he needs to whatever
I can tell you by looking at it. So when
people understand that, like when I say appearance, I ain't
(24:03):
really necessarily talking about the drip and all of that
stuff I'm talking about, Like, you know, you got to
be able to look at yourself in the mirror before
you get in the shower. A lot of people taking
dark showers, you know what I'm saying. They I don't
want to see that, Like you know what I mean,
and I don't need.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
To see it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You just take all your clothes. But it's important. And
like I go through phases of like being on my
fitness journey, but then I have to stop and do
this book run for two or three weeks. But I
just I have muscle memory. I know how to get back,
you know type, how to get back to them, how
to get back in shape, even if it's only in
my room doing perpoes and working out. But it's like
(24:36):
it's the self motivation aspect of it. It's the ambition
part of like wanting to take care of yourself, wanting
to like, you know, eat the right foods I have.
My father was a diabetic, So I'm not like, I'm
not like a sugar seeker or nothing like that. It's
just things that people might not know. I don't know
about me, but I'm big on, like, you know, my
(24:58):
water intake something like that. I'm just big on just
the smallest things. And I can't sit here and just
talk about black sea oil and all that type of
turmeric and all that type of stuff. But I am
into like what I what I digest. I'm into that,
I'm meant to exercise, and I'm into praying. I'm into
(25:20):
the mental aspect. I'm into all that stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
What I mean.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
And I feel like also too, like you only get
one body in this lifetime, so it's like a matter
of taking care of it too. Do you ever think
that you would run a marathon maybe someday because you
work out so much.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I don't think my my calling this marathon because your
lungs take it. Yeah, I mean yeah, I prop up
my mind to it. I would slow down on the
smoking obviously before I got there ran four or five miles,
But I think mine would be I don't think it'll
be anything where I will try to compete or do
(25:57):
anything like that like even now my fitness journey, a
lot of it is not me taking selfies in the mirror.
It's just like me going making sure I yeah, making
sure I sweat, making sure I get it in and leave.
So when I do work out with somebody, they don't
realize how much knowledge I have or how long I've
been doing this, And it's not so much like look
(26:18):
at my Nike tag or or whatever, you know, because
I'm actually trying to be bombing as hell in the gym,
so nobody wants a picture or recognizing me. But yeah,
I'm doing it for me.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
We need the two change gym.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a gym. I got a
gym for real, I got a gym. That's crazy. I
got a gym. I got a gym that I that
I even really use. Everybody uses a lot of people.
I'm not even gonna name drop. A lot of people
use my gym. A lot of rappers, even boxes use
my gym. But I just don't know, man, why I
don't use it that much. I think I think, I think,
(26:54):
I think I think this is what it is. I
think it it's hard for me. I can do it.
But I like to work out with at least one
other person. Okay, you know what I'm saying. And sometimes
when I decide to work out at my gym and
be so late to just be me, so you get tired,
you sit down all that. So I think I like
when it's me and another person. And then the guy
(27:14):
that I work out with a lot, now he like
he got a he got a real like job, and
it's like a lunch break for him, and so for me,
it's like, we're not about to be sitting there talking.
We're going to get this work in. You gotta go
back to where he's going. I gotta go back to
where I'm going. And it's a it's a great pump.
Yes good, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Change man. I know you're a big Lakers fan. Dad
was a Lakers fan as well. Yes, Magic Johnson fan.
Kobe fan as well.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yes, yes, man, go Lake, show man Lake.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But but let me let me be clear enough. The
Hawks doing their thing too. Now, let me be clear.
I'm a Lakers fan, but I'm from Atlanta. I'm I'm
a Hawks fan too. And let me tell you, now,
we're looking good. Yeah, we looking good. Y'all, y'all, y'all
West Coast, y'all gave us for y'all gave but no,
we gave y'all Zingers, but y'all gave us kaminga And
(28:03):
it's it's looking good. We're looking all right, you know
what I mean. But of course I'm a Laker fan.
Pop always used to talk about this six' nine point,
gud that's how you used to talk about that boy,
magic but you know WHAT i. Mean and, then like you,
know six' nine at point guard was not even supposed
to be in the same like title for, so long especially,
back then so he just drilled that tall. Guard mentality
(28:25):
and then so when people, ask, me like is it
Just because lebron is my? Friend, Yet no i'm just
saying not, only THAT but i Am a laker fan like, For,
real yeah yeah they. Are, community hey, YOU know i
think it's getting a lot. Of uproar but let's let's
(28:46):
be let's be let's, be, Serious, right like if you
are old enough to Know What magic, city is you
are if you, like this these people talking about bringing,
their kids and how would they? Even know like it's
not gonna be, Strippers there we're Playing The, Orlando magic
like what levels of sensitivity are we at at? This
point like they got even People bringing god, and, like
man You know god's gonna punish it like, it's getting,
it's getting It's Getting, like okay it's like We're Playing. Orlando,
(29:09):
magic okay they're gonna have like this theme Limit, lou
will who's like known to have left the bubble to
go get lemon, Pepper wings so they're gonna have these
Limon pepper it's like when somebody is, tone deaf we'd,
be like they don't understand nothing. About us and then
when somebody, like say let's, do this but let's, keep
it you know within, the lines it still. Gets Criticized
(29:31):
so i'm not taking up for anybody. Or Anything because
i've been asked. THIS question i probably should have answered
it more in this Light because i've answered. Different LIGHTS
but i think LIKE if i bring my kids to
the game and they Say, it's MAGICITY and i don't
think my kid can be like what Is? Magic? City
meaning what does? That mean they're not gonna have, Any
dances they're not gonna have like any. High lights it's
not gonna be like you're not gonna, See money you're
(29:52):
not gonna they Just Have Magic city night and it's just,
LIKE anyway. I understand I guess, i, understand though if
you do have understand let me be let me. Understand
that if, you don't if you don't feel like, THAT'S responsible.
I UNDERSTAND but i do not think it's as serious
as some people. Are, taking, yes, yeah, yeah yeah we're known.
(30:16):
For that we're known. For that but, YOU know i,
get it like. We didn't we didn't start like this.
Adult entertainment you Know what.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm, saying, yeah y'all. Y'all, perfected yeah but.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Like magic that club has. Been open if you look at,
the documentary he's been doing it since. The eighties he's
been doing it since. The eighties his kids are, you
know in and. And everything they don't seem to have a.
Bad report nobody's, you know saying anybody's BEEN but i.
Get it it's it's a it's the dark web. Or
whatever it's not something you, know different but it needs
something to.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Complain about but, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Like yeah how dare you Call The? Magic city like
how you know what you?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Know about.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Because let me, tell you like they have and IN
the hbcu they Have The Magic, city classic and people
know what it's being two football. Teams playing that's where
they know it from because of. The area It's. In
alabama It's The. Magic city, nobody's thinking nobody going to.
Have time it's going to be a striple pole on.
The field no one ever. Thought of no one ever thought,
(31:17):
of crazy no one ever thought, Of it no one
ever thought. Of that You're, in ATLANTA and i. Get it, it's,
like man, you know but like even the promo is
not like a girl, showing too it's none. Of it
it's just like a sweatshirt that got. Magic on you
just got like Got the. Peach colors you? Get it
do y'all get It like Peach With, georgia peace? Do
y'all like so people just taking this old. You know but, hey, man,
(31:39):
anyway man come check.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Us, Out yeah i'm noble tonight At the grove.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Six o'clock the voice in my Head, is god, new memoir,
Two Chains, my god.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Appreciate you thank y'all for. Having, me man my guy.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
All day let's get, it too changed us
Oh my god, is that Nico Blizz I'm good friend. Yeah,
I'm different, I'm good friend. Yeah, I'm I'm good friend.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah I'm dioff friend.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Pulls up to the scenle mysel and missing, Hello, Man,
bitch is not my fucking prop rom And yeah, I
like the fucking Coulo. Man, bitch is not my fucking problem,
rom And yeah, I like the fucking coup fucking problem.
Whistling dzey middle school. I was getting head on the test.
He niggle little bloodline pimpern work there like on Twitter
eight said, remind me of big Ward everything proper, no
(00:30):
propaganda troper kind of gold Yard back down, big suck
A lot of holes like samt do a birthday party
in the A million dollar purple game in I sold Green,
sold white soul, lid be so high, the flowing so
ice cool woo. Tould a Gucci stole, Honey, I a home,
I my ship, I need a pell O toiling pet
(00:53):
phone and side.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
B exam, come about that ship.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Make that nigga buy you something that said you bought
that ship. So you stand up the run up from
the floor, poking out everybody when your friend calls Hello,
pressure speaking will on the door.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But the pressure reason the.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Sho start puts a little bit Florida two.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Ship that's yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Who you.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Man, two chains is on the Cruise show. I could
think of like thirty more songs. My gee, we could
hear all day change.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Man, that was a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Noah, shout out to Nico Blizz for that intro. Right there, man, Blizz. Cool,
but that's what you got the camera. Great, great job,
he wants to reaction.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, you did good. That was great. That was really good.
I was telling Cruise right before this.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You're literally one of my goats bro for real in
real life, so doing that was super easy for me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Bro. Thank you, man, thank you for the love and support. Man,
it sounded good too, crazy right, I've never I've never
heard it like like that, like how you did the
how you put it together, like I thought it was
really you know, and then it really I realized how
much like West Coast byes, I got some West Coast bops.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, I love you out of here chained met least.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, you mean you're a very multifaceted person.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm telling you, come on, leave here. You don't need
them coming with me. You don't need you don't need.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This, y'all.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Change is here, man. We're celebrating the new memoir. The
voice in my head is God. Congratulations on the book.
We got a book signing tonight. Yeah, and we at
the grove.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
We had to grove Barns and Nobles, you know, uh,
you know, meet me there and I'll be you know,
just putting us my you know, first book, you know,
first time author. But I'm excited about it. My book
is about intuition. It's about that gut feeling that you
have before something is about to happen. And it's just
(03:02):
about me creating awareness. It has you know, has God
in the title, but it's not so much a religious
based book. It doesn't have like scriptures anything, and it's
it's me talking about God through my life experiences and
how I got to realize that that when you hear that,
when you have that something told me type of situation
that is coming from the higher source. And I'm I'm
(03:25):
crediting that to God.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So you signing every book right, this is your first
book now, first book of signature.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, don't I'm excited. It's cool. You know, I ain't
really expect a lot of people to no, I expect feeling,
but they are coming. It's sold out. So it's it's
that's right, it's doing We're doing good man.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It changed you right though, bro, Like you know, every
time you.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Come out of a situation and you go wow, like yo,
thank you God, like, it's it's because of that voice
in your head.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's that higher power in your head say don't do that,
don't go there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, it'll say that God. God acts and love. So
if you're trying to differentiate the voices, if it has
love around it, then I feel like it's God. And
so the book, the voice, the voice, and the title
is my conscious is my intuition, and then God is
me giving credit to somebody that's that's higher than myself,
(04:23):
that's bigger than my ego, that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Through you too. And that's something that I like, I
really love that you have said before, is that although yes,
God is in this book, and that's what you believe
in as well, and it doesn't matter who's reading it,
they can take what they want from whatever that voice is.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
In their head. Absolutely. Yeah, it's it's just about me
trying to create awareness and tell people it's Okay, to quiet,
you know, shut it down, Quiet down the noise and
tap in, tap into that inner monologue and listen and listen,
and also don't be afraid to the question to to
(05:06):
do it, because what it is is you can't see
why it's telling you this. It's the voice comes before
fear comes, It come before ego, It come before doubt,
It come before accident, It coming for all of that,
you know what I mean. You can't see around the corner.
So sometimes we just do what we want to do
as humans, right and like, man, you know, forget that
(05:27):
and then you go back and say, man, I should
have Man, some told me I shouldn't even you get that,
some told me sometime I should need messing with y'all.
Is man, I got to go to you know what
I mean. So whatever that is is me just you know,
telling my story and and also me telling you like
my my compass, my internal confisce, like this is how
(05:50):
I've been moving, this is how I navigate. I feel
like my consciousness led to my success.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
That's what you talk a lot about that in the book, man,
And you know, we want to go over it. But
before that, we got to remind people who's here? Those
is here, changes is here, My hairweave killer is here.
See Tony, Tony.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
This is this is my you know, the general the
GC drop drop off a few, drop off a few
migos to the crib, and I'll be asking them. And
when you don't understand what I'm saying, just c C
C C. I I called me boss, and yeah and yeah,
(06:36):
but you know, mister George George. But but the last,
the last guys I had working in my crib. I
got these, man, I got them hop and narrow peppers
in my garden. You grow your own vegetables, right, yeah,
and uh, you know, you know the the migos that
was working on my house, they bring their own hot
plate and just make their own tacos.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
That's we will set up a barbecue in your backyard
for lunch.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
No, so they weren't you. They would use their own.
But I was like, damn, man, let me show some love.
They would just be making their own, you know, lunch.
So I come out there one day with the hir
and narve and uh, there's two of them and migo
you uh, we're gonna need doors. No, this is mine.
I see them going at they fighting about this hybernarow
pepper I said, I said, look, I'll be back. I
(07:27):
went to the garden and got on small one.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, one one hilopeno pepper per Migo.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I see, I'm on some man. It's hot, y'all. Need
I swear? That's what they do. They like, yeah, that's
what he's telling me, Like bro perf is one. Yeah, yeah,
He's like, no, go get another one because I mean anyway, yeah,
they were having a little tugg of world with what
(07:52):
do you even put like on your taco? Because are
you still pescantarian?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So I'm I'm I eat. I don't eat beef pork,
but I will you know, I love seafood, which which
is why you get the pescatary. But I still eat
like turkey burgers, turkey bacon and stuff like that. On
my tacos. I might do like shrimp tacos and fish
tacos and stuff like that, you know what I mean.
But I'm not even making them, like I said, they
(08:17):
were making them in the in my garage, and I'm like, man,
I'm like, I like that really self officient, you know,
I'm like, man, this is you know, because when somebody
starts working on your house for over a month. You
you get to know that, you get to know them.
You know me, I wake up in the morning, come
out there, passa. They become friends, become friends. I even
(08:40):
had them checking on my dogs, like you know what
I'm saying. Like I left one time and I'm like
yo and yo pedroal. I said, go on town, you
check on pedroal.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah he's got it. No problem. I got you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Problem.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yes, you feel me? No, listen, can you can have
something to do? Whatever you can? Count on it. My
g I need you to pick up my son from school.
Trust you're gonna pick up yourself in school. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Man, speaking to your son when he was born, you
saw your dad's spirit in the room. This is a
wild story, but this is true. And you have a
picture to document it.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I do. I have a picture. Yeah, it's a story.
The night my son was born, my alarm went up
at my house and my mom and my daughters they
were already at the house, and so my mom was
calling to not only tell me that the alarm went off,
but she was asking for the cold. You know. They
(09:41):
come through and say, you know what's what's the name
what's the cold. So she was asking for that, and
so when we leave the hospital about five days later,
something like that. My wife looks at the email. And
when you have motion, a motion detector that goes up,
it always takes a screenshot of what the motion is.
(10:03):
And so when the screenshot, when you look at the email,
she like getting my attention. I look at it and
it was like an image of my father. And my
father passed away in twenty twelve, and so this image
that I have is from twenty fifteen of him just casually,
but it's the same time my son was being born.
(10:23):
So it's a lot to unpact.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The spirit was in the room, man, Yeah, almost maybe
transferring energy.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, it's my mom. My mom said something to that effect.
She's very very spiritual. I almost didn't talk about it
in the book. I definitely didn't put the picture in
the book.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Good for you, that's personal. Keep that for yourself.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, it might make me sound a little strange, but
it really happened though.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It's amazing. That's amazing your dad. You talk about his
scent and when you smell it, you know, you can
still smell it. It pops up right. You're like one
of his jean jackets. Yeah, that still has that scent
to this day. The scent hasn't faded to day. Man,
I can smell and it wasn't a cologne, was it. Nah,
it's not a coloone. It's not like if somebody wear
the column be like my dad used to wear that.
(11:08):
It's not that it's a it's a sense.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And it's not like I think we all have sense
and don't even know it. Really, I really do, you know?
And I'm not talking about like old people. Yeah, and
not not anything to where you're not you have bad
high jeens. It's just like a scent. And so I
do have one of his blue jean jackets that smells
(11:30):
just like him. But then I can smell that jacket
sometimes when I'm not around it, and so I just
assume that he's.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Right there around He's right there. He also have some
advice for you in the book. You talk about him
calling you and saying, go get a gun from Walmart. Yeah, dude,
why did he advise you to get a gun from Walmart?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So it's a situation in the story. Well, no, the
first chapter is called shoot him in the stomach and
let God decide and so somebody tried to rob me
in college. And I went to college in Alabama, but
I'm from Atlanta, so you know, I'm already thinking I'm
like this city, city city kid, you know. And I
(12:15):
was going to get some rams in these Alabama guys
they pulled, they pulled a tool on them, they pulled
a weapon. But the voice in my head before I
even got there, told me to put the money in
my sock, like, put it in my crop, put the
money somewhere else, just for some reason I don't know.
(12:35):
So when I got there, the whole time i'm running
over there, I'm feeling like, man, I don't think no
rams here, but I'm not really like tapped into like
this voice or whatever, you know what I mean. So
I get there, they they hit my guy with the
pistol and then they like they go through my pockets,
but I'm telling them, I'm just coming to see the rams.
Don't have no money, so they don't end up robbing me,
but they end up laying me down. So now I'm
(12:57):
upset and I won't like revenge. I want real smoke.
So I called my mom, I call Atlanta. I go
back to Atlanta, and my dad called back from prison,
and I told my dad, like, man, I just got
robbed by you know, well, somebody just tried to rob
me in Alabama.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So his.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
His parenting skill, told me to go to Walmart and
get a rifle because you could buy a rifle at
the time. I guess from Walmart. I did not. I'm not,
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I didn't go.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, I didn't go. He said you can go get
a rifle. And he told me that to find a
guy and to shoot him in the stomach and then
let God decide if he should live or die, because
it's no or it's nothing there. It's like nothing in
the stomach and he should And my mom like grabs
the phone and say, what kind of advice is that that? Like,
(13:47):
you know, and they had their little argument. But that's
that's where that came from.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's a true story. Yeah, that is, man, that's that's
some advice.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That just it's probably it's really it's horrible advice. I
didn't want to say it's actually and then you know,
you'll be like I was just listening to with my daddy.
You know some of us, some of us just delirious
and just like this is what my daddy told me
to do.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But it's good that you.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Give a lot of perspective about like I guess, like
what to listen.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
To and what not to listen Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So so my dad that I talk about so much
in that instance right there, whenever that was, he was
in prisons. And so while I was writing his book,
I found a letter. I found letters from two thousand
and three, like these prison letters, like around Thanksgiving, what
he was doing, what football team was good around that time.
This stuff that kind of puts you back in that place,
(14:42):
like a time capsule. Yeah. But all the back of
his letters, like when I finally stacked up, all of
them got God his love on the backup. But you
know they just tore at the top where I don't
pulled the letter. I just read I'm really not paying
attention to like the doodle and that's on the envelope.
But we're not as in a that was adult then,
but as a mature more tapped into an individual. When
(15:05):
he's writing God is Loved. It was like the most
simplest answer to what God is like. So if it
got love in it, then it got God in it.
Like God ain't gonna be like with hate, like he
ain't gonna be on like this is my opinion. This
is me not doing any like chat GPT, none of that. No,
(15:27):
this is no fact checking. This is just how I've
been living my life. And I feel like God equals love,
and so in this voice, it's telling you, like the
crash out, then that might not be if it don't
have love in this crash out. I don't know if
it's coming from this. You know, you get what I'm saying,
because we got I got the forgive my you know,
(15:48):
I do have a chapter called the fucking Voice, and
we live in that daily. We all be like, you know,
fucking I'm gonna I do it. I fucking I'm running light.
I don't. I'm not standing that this light fucking you
know whatever, whatever. And then as soon as you get
whooped up here like man, you know it's me. Man,
you know it happens to me every time I run
the same stop sign. My son be like, damn, why
(16:09):
you do it. It's like, man, damn, it was the
police right there. He's like he like they come to
like they they pull up and they'd be like, change,
what are you doing? I'm like I don't know, man,
I don't know something. But but this voice, it ranges
from something very minute to something very you know, very deep. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Now, Pop's advice to get a gun from Walmart. Let
God decide to God?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is left spiritual gangster? Your possibility spiritual man? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And then of course the music man. There's so much
talk about these records and so many stories behind. You know,
you met Wayne, you were selling you know, you were
selling vegetables to Wayne. I guess right, we're selling lettuce,
I guess, d Wayne. And that's how you guys met
and he didn't know you were a rapper. And then
fast forward duffelbag ball it was a verse and you
didn't hear because it was wrong email baby old nine
(16:58):
hundred dollars. It was a lock on on right, And
then you know, fast forward you're in a deal with
Ludacris and disturbing the peace, and you know, so much happened,
And then you meet Drake.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I think twenty twelve All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well I met him.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I was ready.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah. Well, when I went on to a Wayne, he
was on tour, like when I went on to A Wayne.
When I first met Drake, I didn't know he was
from Canada, and then I thought he was maybe like
one of the homies from like New Orleans or something
like that, you know. And then they were telling me,
like he's from Canada. And then like I want to say,
(17:37):
maybe Wayne was listening to I Want to Be a
successful song with I remember hearing that for the first
time with Trey songs I just want to beat and
so it was like that. So he was already like
he's already like preparing to do what he was about
to do. But he was on We was all on
to Awayne. But I had a song that everybody knew,
(17:59):
which was Double Boys. It was eight none that I
think about. So I had a song like this out
performing well. But Wayne had did like a mixtape where
he had all the young money, you know, Nikki all
of that. So fast forward a couple of years later,
I run into Drake. Now we kind of like there's
a report there. Yes it's a reporter because we've been
(18:19):
on tour, and that's just you know what I mean whatever,
But he and it also was like I talk about
this too long on not necessarily in the book, but
how like so much can happen in a year or
two years, like you if you just stay down, but
you know what I mean. And so at this point
it go from me having a recognizable song to this
being one of the biggest artists. And so when we
(18:40):
saw each other on a whim, I was just like, yeah,
I got I got this record for you, and I
really didn't answer.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, we were lying. Yeah, but what came out of
that was no Lie funny that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah. I was like, I went but I
had my tour bus with like my studio on it.
So I go back to the bus and I'm like, yo,
Brush say he gonna rock with me? We need something,
you know what I mean? It just like you know
what I mean at this point, just really trying to
find something that I felt like he would keep, you know.
And there was a Mike wheelba and it was we
three four times playing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Knocked it Out man. Yeah, latinum crazy. It's crazy how
I went from a lie to no lie.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
God, you're that good. He set me up for that.
You're that good. That was You're that good.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, you know, I appreciate it change when it comes
to like the newer music, right like you were on
you were doing ad libs for Yukon Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Did you ever have a verse on that song? No.
I was supposed to go to the studio out here
in l A. And I was, I don't know, maybe
in Atlanta, and so, you know, beable, like come come
to the studio. And I couldn't make it. So he
sends me the song and just tells me, you know,
(19:56):
put some ad libs on here. But it was nothing open.
It was just a song. It was like not an
open you know what I mean. So I was I
was thinking the same thing, like you just want my
that's cool, you know. But then I remember saying, I
ain't gonna lie. Man, it's been hard. I remember telling
them like I remember telling them like before y'all even
thought about him, Like when I first got it, I
(20:18):
was like, man, it's hard, bro, I ain't gonna lie.
So yeah, you didn't even attempt to write to it. No,
because it's like you know, as artists, I get it,
Like I mean, I understand like if I say, bro,
you know they you know, if you need me, I
jump on it. And you know, if they bite, they bite.
If they don't, I'm not the one to keep being like, hey, well,
(20:41):
well I decided you never got back at me. So
here's a Some stuff is communication without saying you know
what I mean. As artists, I think we all should
do a better job of understanding when somebody don't really
want us say no sometime and it's like you got
to read the room. So I'm not saying, but he
I didn't just do the ad libs without saying, hey,
(21:02):
brow if you need or whatnot. You know what I mean.
I think he you know, as a creative, I think
he got just what he wanted out. That's right. Whatever
the yeah, And that's like I tell people, that's a
fresh Yeah. That ain't like a used man, That's that's
what that's Yeah, that's that's the that's that's a that's
(21:22):
a fresh out the plastic, brand new Amazon, the voice
in my same day, drone drug, all the new technology.
That's what that well was a new Yeah, that's right, yo.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Change You talk about the deal that you passed on
with with with Jay z oh many s No, Man,
it's in the book.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know it, man, I know, man, it's nothing though,
there's nothing I didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I think it was brilliant. I think it was brilliant.
It shows who you really are as a man. You
couldn't bring your manager slash DJ and said hey, we're
a package. What a duo man, and you you respectfully
said no, thank you, which I think is I mean,
especially starting out in the game with Jermaine dupri and
Jay Z on the phone, anybody would be like, whatever
you need, all right, I'll fly out there and i'll
(22:13):
tell you know, I'll tell my manager when I come back.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We'll figure this out. But that wasn't your.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Case, you know, Yeah, man, you know what stuff happens,
good man, stuff happens, yeah, man, shoe box money, all
that shit, crazy shoe box money.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Something that I also love about that I don't think
artists talking enough about is the health and wellness of everything.
And you mentioned that in your book, Like what I
guess prompted you at what point in your life to
really focus.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
In on your health?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And well, this is the thing. You're the person only
person that ever asked me about the health stuff that
I be on. That's right, So I don't I still
don't think that's good for you. But I still don't
think it really like connects with people or even people
like Bro. You smoke all the time, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
But that's not that's not likely.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Because the way that it resonated with me is because yeah,
I mean, I do smoke all the time. I like,
but at the same time, I'm on this health journey too.
I think that's what a lot of people in this
industry don't understand, is that there's so many people just
dropping like flies because we don't take care of it.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well, smoking is one thing, but like being addicted to
lean and getting ulcers and the other year.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, that's what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, But like the you know, the way I eat,
the way I you know, the way I try to
take care of myself. It's just like you know, it's
just like it's imperative. It's imperative that as you growing,
as you as you get physicals, you get you get
these checkups. It's important that you know, you understand that
(23:41):
what you putting in your body, it eventually come. It
becomes the receipt. That's what I talk about, Like you
are your receipt. You walk around like if you see somebody,
I can see somebody, look at this one and I
can tell you what they eat. I can just look
at him and be like yeah, yeah, nah he don't
he don't eat, or yeah that he needs to whatever
I can tell you by looking at it. So when
people understand that, like when I say appearance, I ain't
(24:03):
really necessarily talking about the drip and all of that
stuff I'm talking about, Like, you know, you got to
be able to look at yourself in the mirror before
you get in the shower. A lot of people taking
dark showers, you know what I'm saying. They I don't
want to see that, Like you know what I mean,
and I don't need.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
To see it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You just take all your clothes. But it's important. And
like I go through phases of like being on my
fitness journey, but then I have to stop and do
this book run for two or three weeks. But I
just I have muscle memory. I know how to get back,
you know type, how to get back to them, how
to get back in shape, even if it's only in
my room doing perpoes and working out. But it's like
(24:36):
it's the self motivation aspect of it. It's the ambition
part of like wanting to take care of yourself, wanting
to like, you know, eat the right foods I have.
My father was a diabetic, So I'm not like, I'm
not like a sugar seeker or nothing like that. It's
just things that people might not know. I don't know
about me, but I'm big on, like, you know, my
(24:58):
water intake something like that. I'm just big on just
the smallest things. And I can't sit here and just
talk about black sea oil and all that type of
turmeric and all that type of stuff. But I am
into like what I what I digest. I'm into that,
I'm meant to exercise, and I'm into praying. I'm into
(25:20):
the mental aspect. I'm into all that stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
What I mean.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
And I feel like also too, like you only get
one body in this lifetime, so it's like a matter
of taking care of it too. Do you ever think
that you would run a marathon maybe someday because you
work out so much.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I don't think my my calling this marathon because your
lungs take it. Yeah, I mean yeah, I prop up
my mind to it. I would slow down on the
smoking obviously before I got there ran four or five miles,
But I think mine would be I don't think it'll
be anything where I will try to compete or do
(25:57):
anything like that like even now my fitness journey, a
lot of it is not me taking selfies in the mirror.
It's just like me going making sure I yeah, making
sure I sweat, making sure I get it in and leave.
So when I do work out with somebody, they don't
realize how much knowledge I have or how long I've
been doing this, And it's not so much like look
(26:18):
at my Nike tag or or whatever, you know, because
I'm actually trying to be bombing as hell in the gym,
so nobody wants a picture or recognizing me. But yeah,
I'm doing it for me.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
We need the two change gym.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a gym. I got a
gym for real, I got a gym. That's crazy. I
got a gym. I got a gym that I that
I even really use. Everybody uses a lot of people.
I'm not even gonna name drop. A lot of people
use my gym. A lot of rappers, even boxes use
my gym. But I just don't know, man, why I
don't use it that much. I think I think, I think,
(26:54):
I think I think this is what it is. I
think it it's hard for me. I can do it.
But I like to work out with at least one
other person. Okay, you know what I'm saying. And sometimes
when I decide to work out at my gym and
be so late to just be me, so you get tired,
you sit down all that. So I think I like
when it's me and another person. And then the guy
(27:14):
that I work out with a lot, now he like
he got a he got a real like job, and
it's like a lunch break for him, and so for me,
it's like, we're not about to be sitting there talking.
We're going to get this work in. You gotta go
back to where he's going. I gotta go back to
where I'm going. And it's a it's a great pump.
Yes good, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Change man. I know you're a big Lakers fan. Dad
was a Lakers fan as well. Yes, Magic Johnson fan.
Kobe fan as well.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yes, yes, man, go Lake, show man Lake.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But but let me let me be clear enough. The
Hawks doing their thing too. Now, let me be clear.
I'm a Lakers fan, but I'm from Atlanta. I'm I'm
a Hawks fan too. And let me tell you, now,
we're looking good. Yeah, we looking good. Y'all, y'all, y'all
West Coast, y'all gave us for y'all gave but no,
we gave y'all Zingers, but y'all gave us kaminga And
(28:03):
it's it's looking good. We're looking all right, you know
what I mean. But of course I'm a Laker fan.
Pop always used to talk about this six' nine point,
gud that's how you used to talk about that boy,
magic but you know WHAT i. Mean and, then like you,
know six' nine at point guard was not even supposed
to be in the same like title for, so long especially,
back then so he just drilled that tall. Guard mentality
(28:25):
and then so when people, ask, me like is it
Just because lebron is my? Friend, Yet no i'm just
saying not, only THAT but i Am a laker fan like, For,
real yeah yeah they. Are, community hey, YOU know i
think it's getting a lot. Of uproar but let's let's
(28:46):
be let's be let's, be, Serious, right like if you
are old enough to Know What magic, city is you
are if you, like this these people talking about bringing,
their kids and how would they? Even know like it's
not gonna be, Strippers there we're Playing The, Orlando magic
like what levels of sensitivity are we at at? This
point like they got even People bringing god, and, like
man You know god's gonna punish it like, it's getting,
it's getting It's Getting, like okay it's like We're Playing. Orlando,
(29:09):
magic okay they're gonna have like this theme Limit, lou
will who's like known to have left the bubble to
go get lemon, Pepper wings so they're gonna have these
Limon pepper it's like when somebody is, tone deaf we'd,
be like they don't understand nothing. About us and then
when somebody, like say let's, do this but let's, keep
it you know within, the lines it still. Gets Criticized
(29:31):
so i'm not taking up for anybody. Or Anything because
i've been asked. THIS question i probably should have answered
it more in this Light because i've answered. Different LIGHTS
but i think LIKE if i bring my kids to
the game and they Say, it's MAGICITY and i don't
think my kid can be like what Is? Magic? City
meaning what does? That mean they're not gonna have, Any
dances they're not gonna have like any. High lights it's
not gonna be like you're not gonna, See money you're
(29:52):
not gonna they Just Have Magic city night and it's just,
LIKE anyway. I understand I guess, i, understand though if
you do have understand let me be let me. Understand
that if, you don't if you don't feel like, THAT'S responsible.
I UNDERSTAND but i do not think it's as serious
as some people. Are, taking, yes, yeah, yeah yeah we're known.
(30:16):
For that we're known. For that but, YOU know i,
get it like. We didn't we didn't start like this.
Adult entertainment you Know what.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm, saying, yeah y'all. Y'all, perfected yeah but.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Like magic that club has. Been open if you look at,
the documentary he's been doing it since. The eighties he's
been doing it since. The eighties his kids are, you
know in and. And everything they don't seem to have a.
Bad report nobody's, you know saying anybody's BEEN but i.
Get it it's it's a it's the dark web. Or
whatever it's not something you, know different but it needs
something to.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Complain about but, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Like yeah how dare you Call The? Magic city like
how you know what you?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Know about.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Because let me, tell you like they have and IN
the hbcu they Have The Magic, city classic and people
know what it's being two football. Teams playing that's where
they know it from because of. The area It's. In
alabama It's The. Magic city, nobody's thinking nobody going to.
Have time it's going to be a striple pole on.
The field no one ever. Thought of no one ever thought,
(31:17):
of crazy no one ever thought, Of it no one
ever thought. Of that You're, in ATLANTA and i. Get it, it's,
like man, you know but like even the promo is
not like a girl, showing too it's none. Of it
it's just like a sweatshirt that got. Magic on you
just got like Got the. Peach colors you? Get it
do y'all get It like Peach With, georgia peace? Do
y'all like so people just taking this old. You know but, hey, man,
(31:39):
anyway man come check.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Us, Out yeah i'm noble tonight At the grove.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Six o'clock the voice in my Head, is god, new memoir,
Two Chains, my god.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Appreciate you thank y'all for. Having, me man my guy.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
All day let's get, it too changed us
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