@WildWayne catches up with @Rob49up before the Vulture Island Weekend in New Orleans

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Episode Transcript

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It was done. It's your boy, Peted Craig. Ain't no damn Peter
Craig. Who is this Well he'sjust recorded. Check it out as your
boy while wheezy coming out. YouHappy Thursday. We're getting it in with
the one and only Rod folks nine. You know what I'm saying. Rifle

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down in the building, man inthe walls. Then are you ready for
the big weekend? Or what wasdeath Man Friday? We got the celebrity
game starting at three thirty five gym. Five dollars for kids, ten dollars
of those man everybody invited. I'veseen some stuff with like um, yeah,
I wish I was Celebritus. Ican go like what you don't come.

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It's open to the public right rightin all ages obviously, just like
the show at the Fieldmore Well,who you got running? I got?
I got Gilly, I got umyounger Niece, I got um she heard?
Well? Who else? I gotRoder Rebel, Lard Murrow, Nino,
Calvin young Row, Elois, Shimmyand tied the Menutes Stunner for Vegas,

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fridle Bay, Jim Stack, seethe duce. I got something now?
Who is the coldest out? Ofall of them you just mentioned,
I ain't gonna lie to see theduce want um he won the MVP last
year. Ain't gonna lie. Hewon the MVP, right right, and
he wind up and he wanted oneof the Super Bowls saying yeah, so
that's kind of right right, Imean lead the same cut up this shit

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o him and Guilly on the sameteam. But I think Gilly Knights like
that. Brother Duke, complay basketball, bro, what about you? I
can play basketball, but Gillick completebasketball. Now did you play in high
school? Yeah? I play inhigh school. You played for thirty five?
He was nice at thirty five?Yeah for sure. Yeah, some
scholarships on the table, like youA forward played forward? Up? I

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played point. Okay, So didyou you expected Nuggets to win it all
this year? Yeah? I did? I see them. Okay, Okay,
what do you think the Pill's gonnado this year? Um? I
don't. I don't. I don'tknow. I think we're gonna go photo.
Ain't gonna lie. I'm a teleganceband when the louis Okay, it's
hard media. I was excited lastyear because you know I'll be trying to

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work my little magic on the insideand you was in the crowd for the
playoff games. That was dope tome. And then performing with the live
band this year that was dopepe Butthat your first time with the live band,
Yeah, my first time, firstown. I never did it again.
So do you like the band fieldor do you like like the track
in the DJ? I like thetruck in the DJ. Just because the

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band field. I had to doit in an arena. It's hard.
It's hard to hear, hard tohear, so I ain't really I ain't
really like it that much. Soare they asking you to do that in
some of your shows since you,like you've had a lot of shows in
the last two years. No,not really, because I'm I'm I'm like
kind of young, like right,like, so they don't know nothing about
that. All they knew it waslike the music gonna They just wanted to

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turn up. Yeah, they justwant to turn up. Okay, Okay,
how many shows have you done inthe last two years? You keep
counting? Hell, have you madesome money? Ain't gonna lie, right,
That's the best thing about the wholething, like doing shows and stuff.
So when you was at three tofive balling. Did you ever in

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your wildest dreams, I think youwould be in a position that you're in
there, I'm mess you up.So I when I was playing basketball,
and I never had like you knowwhat people like, yeah, that's my
dream, like, but it wouldbe a dream that you went to sleeping
had I actually had a dream inhigh school and I'll playing basketball like a
sleeping dream that I'll perform in frontof crowd. Wow, I remember I

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woke up. I was like,man, that song was so hard?
How can I come up with it? Right? That's that's dope. Hey,
Sometimes sometimes the book is written,you just never know. And I
know you had to think back onthat because you didn't done some other things
like after three to five, Yeah, you didn't immediately become a rapper,
Like what did you do in thatgap before your start started to shine?

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Um? I worked the show fora day one day. Why one day
I just couldn't do it, man, I went to the Army. Let's
Alie me in Ham and she happened. It was just it was just I
had I had a terrible manager,bron Okay, yeah he was. He
was one of the crazy people,and I wanted up going to college and

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that's boy. Then at the atthe COVID COVID, I started rapping.
So what did you want to doin college? Um? I wanted to
build nursing college. Okay, yeah, I was a school for nursing.
Now, how did you get yourget your wave with the rap? Because
I remember watching you early, likeon Instagram, like dropping videos and then

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you were always at the gas stationthat was like the number one spot and
then I think the I think itwas in the seven one on one of
the videos. Yeah. I um, I was already hot and a city
like like as a person, likeyou know what I'm saying, just moving
on around. So when I startedrapping, you know when you start rapping,
people like, yeah, rob rappingand even like we're robbing, they
wound up saying robbed that nobody knewit, Like but I was arrived there

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like what okay, what I'm saying, Like, because we were the ones
really moving around, we had aname in the city already. So so
did you have a crew. Yeah, yeah, we all this went to
different high schools and stuff. Theystill rapping. Oh no, a crewel
rappers, we were doing that.My policy was one of my partners was

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rapping and we were in the studioone day and he was rapping. I
told him like, man, thistrail. I'm like, man, it's
trade. He was like, yougetting there and do it, and so
I just went and then the restis history. Well, the first time
you recorded, you remember O firstsong I recorded, it was like to
g herbal type beat. I don'tremember, a matter of fact, I'm

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lying. It was to a nocap beat. A matter of fact,
it was a future beat because Imade three songs that night, first night,
first nine, I made three soonWow, it was to the future
um and drake um. I forgotwhat was called went into I'm like,
good it was that. It's justfunny. I heard it the other day.
I made a hood by Stone thatnight. Yeah, it's crazy man,

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Just like you know, I wantpeople to the story like who is
Rob fort nine? You know whatI'm seeing me? Yeah? Yeah,
That's why I wanted you give thema little text to the seat. You
came from the same dirty words asa lot of other people. From the
waters. Man. I'm from thewaters for real. Like I never sold
waters in the French quarters. Ididn't, you know what I'm saying.

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Cap dance to nah, Well Idid it like twice, but I ain't
a real I'm saying I played thedrum in the French quarters really in the
night water. Yeah, and I'mfrom the field. I have a project
right right right. I know whatI'm telling. I'm understand one. You
told me to tell her. I'mtrying to tell right there. You know

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what I'm saying. So it's I'mliving show. Did you go to three
to five when it was oh andthen when they got the new Okay,
okay, that's what I trying tosay, Like what happened from what happened
when Contrina hit? What do youdo when Contrina hit? Um? We
went to Houston? Remember that,didn't I remember that? Didn't for real

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what happened? None. I justremember we was leaving and stuff. I
remember popping my basketball with a knife, like, man, I ain't coming
back to this house. I rememberall that. So you wanted to Katrina
babies? Yeah? You probably waswhat six or seven six five six?
Wow, I don't know. Wehad a monta colo. We had a

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monta colo. The windows didn't work, the n running hot. We drove
all ride to Houston with the contraflow. Fact, every fifteen minutes we
stopped and putting water in that car. Y'all was stopping to catch your breath.
Now we was. We was drivingwith the doors open. I promised
that I'm Lyne Mama right there.Okay, hey, hey, well,

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you know it all makes your storythat much much more thick when it's all
said done, because you're here.Now are you eating? Hey? You
know how big it is like tocome from them kind of situations and circumstances.
Now you got your own weekend inthe city that she was born in.
Like that's that fire, like itreally is. I was like,

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I was so excited to see youdo your thing. Um last year for
the first annual you had the mayorcame to your event and everything. That
was a whole nother story. Butwe're back this year. So you got
you got Friday with the basketball gameand then Saturday you hit the field more

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yea, So tell me about theline up for the Vulture Island experience going
down at the field more once again, it's all aged. I had a
lot of people, they was winningthe tickets there. I was like,
I wish my baby could go.I was like, your baby can't go.
It's all it is. I justwanted to emphasize that you got we
got me. Of course as theclosing that we got another wick um bullshit

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badass, no cap got o doit a little antid the menisc Louis Shimmy
Mosquino, gi Herbo, black Mego, gem Or Stackxon, proud of Pete
and the host gonna be fired.So I got been a dime baby aducing.
Look at one from the city.That's what's up. It's got be

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a din from the city. Hefrom Memphis. He had a big yeah,
a big like social media dude.So it's gonna be let man.
Well, I'm excited about the weekend. But also I've seen like your your
wives, you know what I'm saying, Like, uh, with with success,
you know, you gotta make sureyou can make that money, make
money, right. I've seen alot of artists get the bag and fumble

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it like for real. But yougot some stuff that you've been, you
know, pro active on in termsof investment stuff. What kind of stuff
youre doing with that um you toldabout like the cologne and stuff, cologne,
the property, Like you know whatI'm saying, I've been I've been
looking forward again. Property. I'vebeen saying it for a minute now,
but I think like, like rightnow it's a time for me to do

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it. I had put in offerfor this house, like my first house.
I wound up not even getting it. Bro what not. I don't
know. I think somebody like offeringmore than or something like that. But
now we're gonna we're gonna try itagain. But I'm trying to get into
the house and now and okayins andstuff. Now what's that with the cologne?
If the lone man my dad's goingit's supposed to be big doing probably
like like there's no messages that wetake that. What's it called? It's

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a metal? Say what it's ametal? It's a metal? Yeah,
I mean king in what language?My language? Metal like say Gucci.
And he was saying, what dothat means? It means Guci. So
you where you're gonna have you sellingall online? And you got stores that
it's gonna be distributed out of whatI'm right now, I got it online,

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were about to have it online.I was talking to um, somebody
has sex about putting it in satinsdown right right right? No, that's
fire, you know, I thinkIt's also like important for artists because you
don't never know. Man, thepublic is fickle. One day you're the
biggest thing ever and then somebody thatbumped you later on down the line.
Hopefully you have a very long career, but you gotta take advantage of your

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stardom and get merch out there,like that's the money because label deals are
funny sometimes you know what I'm saying. Or shows are up and down sometimes,
but your merch, like you couldeat forever. You got to look
at people like uh like whis Khalifa? Like currency like data made the bags
off of the merch currency right now, that jet Life gear. I just

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if I told you the number ofboys making God, I really know you
you knew it, Like jet Lifewas like the first people to charge some
me like one of those first people. Like why you didn't do it?
You get with Moose and them?Or I had one right they had already
was putting me on the numbers andstuff. So he just been trying to
help me. Honestly, that's awesome. Um, you know my thing I

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always like about currency got'men rockman fora long time. He never changed,
like what he wanted to do becausepeople wanted to do Gangster and wanted to
do this, and you know he'srocking Seat Murder a lot of other labels,
but he stayed true to his thing. You know what I'm saying.
It's Pete dividends for him, Sothat's awesome. You got a new project
just dropped for guys too, andnow tell me about that one because the

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playlist is crazy, like for yourfirst official official this is your first label
album. Yeah, Like I gotsome big dogs rolling with you on here.
That's crazy. Yeah right now?We um yeah, we like top
ten of the music, so yeah, we're doing good. And tell me
a couple of your features that yougot on feature artists. Um, I
got a rider rich on the Igot no cap Um gehrball Y TV,

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fat Um Tripper red Uh, thebaby Yeah, and I think the new
videos with the baby, right yeah, I got a video with the baby,
so I saw it. That videois crazy and the baby always just
very animated type videos. But eachone of y'all did your own thing and
it worked together, so that wasdope. So are you working on more

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stuff? Are you getting a lotof features with other artists? Are they
trying to pay you for features andstuff. Right now, I got I'm
working on dropping again right now too. I'm working on I'm probably dropping the
deluxe to that album. Okay,were you gonna add a couple more songs
to it? Had a couple moresongs? Okay, man, that's what's
up, bro. I'm proud.I'm proud, bro. Like every time

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you know, one of our peoplegets on like it just shows like how
much talent we got here. Imean we first met, I knew too,
and I was proud then I dolast year, almost a year a
year ago to the day I hadwind up getting them the nomination. As
I saw that, I was teazedup. I ain't a lie, right,

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that's good. That's good. Now. You know, next you gotta
work on doing a big song andget that Grammy NA. Like that's really
where it's at. It's so hardto get through all but you know what,
get in the Grammy association like gettingout, like you start building your
your ties. Um and they havesome representatives here like feeme X have done

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a lot with the Grammys. Uhread with because somebody you should definitely check
in with and just get in.You know what I'm saying. That song
gonna come that song. Song that'sgonna change the world, and you already
be in the driver's seat, youknow what I'm saying. But that that's
where it's at. Congratulations boom.Hey um. If people want to get
tickets for this weekend's events, isit? Uh? Can they buy pre

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sales or online or something like thaton livenation dot com. Or for the
film more and what about for thebasketball game? Last game? Just walk
up find out. Ain't ready thatmuch? Just come pound up. Okay,
So that's what's up. Man,I got some orders. I'm about
the sign too, So okay,here we're on. I would like to
hear some of the some of theissue something here. You gotta do the

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interview, man. We got tosee if their interview worthy. Okay,
yeah, everybody can't get on.Don't wait too late the interview, my
dog. Okay, now for surethough that I got some others. I'm
gonna let you put them on whothey are? You wanna put them on
the map? Break quick, moreskin though, black mego ten to nine,
man, lord, g turn themup man, okay. And then

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you got your own label? Yeah, what's your label? Okay? So
we got you gotta put it outthis your time. Let it all hang
out, man, because if youain't say their name soon as you get
you ain't saying my lad I alreadyknow yeah yet put them on anybody else
you need to put it on themap. Bile up here, No,
sir, my mama, shout outmy mama. Man, my first time
I'm on the radio and I gota pocket shout out. My dad had

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to shout out my sisters. Mikecal Scotland, I'm saying, Roger Mellow,
I got a lot of and anybodyelse feeling the blank. You know
who you are saying. I ain'tsee a name. La count shout out
count man cases chic. All right, we're gonna be doing Roman. We're

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gonna do this other day. We'regonna start. Hey when that is the
Homie Rode for nine getting ready forthe big Volts of Island weekend in part
two Project in the Ville, inthe Desire Project and the Desire out there
fire. Hey, we'll be backwith more, but hit me up right

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