THE BIG INTERVIEW - YG Talks "I Got Issues" Album, Working with J. Cole, The Music Industry, PnB Rock, and More

THE BIG INTERVIEW - YG Talks "I Got Issues" Album, Working with J. Cole, The Music Industry, PnB Rock, and More

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome to another episode of The BigThe Big Interview podcast put up on Meek.
I played them so I'm like,bro on my the preod already up.
You know what I'm saying. It'slike weird, like what you think?
Like you know what I'm saying.So I had conversations about it because
you know what I'm saying, that'snot a ain't no situation to play with,

(00:23):
you know what I'm saying. Realninety two three Law Home for Hip
Hop Big Boys Back in the neighborhoodonce again, Man, YG, Welcome
back to the neighborhood, bro.Man. Appreciate y'all for having me.
Man. We appreciate you for showingyeah, because it gets to a point
man, when you get you knowsomething I've seen into my career YG,

(00:43):
where people get successful. You know, they get a lot of albums and
then they don't come back as muchas they used to. You know what
I'm saying. They don't understand atthe medium of radio, it's still top
dog, Man. But thank youfor coming into the neighborhood. Bro.
I got issues the new album OhNo A Man, the first I remember
we spoke at one point and yousaid the album was going to be called
Pray for Me. Yeah, whygo from pray for Me till I Got

(01:07):
issues? I feel like pray forMe title and I got issues still,
like, yeah, it's in thesame thing, you know what I'm saying.
But the Prey for Me it wassounding like too much like I'm crying,
you know what I'm saying, soI ain't want to get it.
It almost sounded like victim, likeyeah, and then a lot of the
questions probably would have been like you'regood, like you're good, You're good,

(01:30):
You're good, But I got issues, man, when you listen to
the body of music on that.And one thing I enjoyed about it too
was not yg where you just went, But I enjoy that it was like
fourteen because sometimes people try to loadyou up. You know what I'm saying
in fourteen. I can get throughfourteen and I can repeat. But when
we were talking of fair Bro,I was telling you that you got a

(01:53):
great album because it's a full bodyof like music, and I think,
Ygen, I could be wrong,but I got issues the entire body.
Did it feel like you opened upeven more on this album? Then?
What album than anything previous? Likea body of music though, Yeah,

(02:16):
for sure, Like like I definitelylike open up more, you know what
I'm saying, But it's it's it'sreasons why, you know what I'm saying.
Like prior to you, I'm sayingto these uh, this album,
I was like, my situation wentright and so like I like, I
never wanted to like do all thatin a situation where you know, I'm

(02:36):
saying I ain't really own my mastersand all that. I'm like, I
can't get real pieces of me tothese to this company and I don't own
you know what I'm saying my master. I'm like, I can't do it.
But you know what those ask consumers. We didn't feel that, Like
I didn't feel like, oh he'she's holding back, you know what I'm
saying to me. Definitely it soundlike and it may sound crazy and all

(02:57):
therapeutic and stuff, but it soundslike growth. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. It sounded like growthand not that anything. It wasn't.
But we were talking about the offair, just the progression of what this
album sound like and what YG,you know, in his young thirties sound
like compared to YG, you know, almost a decade ago Yeah, it's
like that. There's a lot ofa lot of growth there. Bro.

(03:17):
Do you feel like this album waskind of like therapeutic where you get a
chance to just write down what youwere feeling at the time. Yeah,
No, it was definitely therapeutic,you know what I'm saying. And at
the time I recorded the whole album, like during COVID s something like two
songs on earl that got recorded liketwenty twenty two, but like like everything

(03:37):
else was recorded like twenty twenty one, you know what I'm saying, And
like top of twenty twenty one,you know what I'm saying, mid twenty
twenty one, so you know whatI'm saying, I was still you know
what I'm saying. I was stillon like COVID vibes, you know what
I'm saying. So like it wasgood to be able to like get that
all off, you know what I'msaying. But it don't sound it don't
sound dated, and it don't soundlike like you were trapped in the house.

(04:01):
It was right something like, man, what the hell wrong with YG?
You know what I'm saying, Likeyou did it your way even with
baby Mom. I'm like, Bro, that's an anthem. Now all people
gotta do is go to court andplay that. But but that's another one
of them things. Man. Iwas like, Oh, he's writing what
he feel. Yeah, he's writingwhat he feel. But but it's coming
out the y G way. Yeahyeah yeah, and more melodic too.

(04:25):
Trying to sing. Yeah. Nah, Like like back in the day when
I was doing my mixtapes and allthat, you know what I'm saying.
I used to like do that onthe mixtapes, like like just reread ups
and all that. I used tolike has like melodic records. I used
to be on there singing little allthe tune and all that. And then

(04:45):
when I started doing the albums,you know what I'm saying, I was
like, nah, I'm from therap, Im from the rap. And
then I'm like, all right,I gotta get back to the melodic thing.
But I ain't want to do ituntil our own my masters. You
mean, that was another situation.I'm like, nah, I ain't finning
give him that, like you knowwhat I'm saying. So when I got
my situation, I'm like, yeah, it's time. Hey man, how
hard is it to give blood?Sweating tears? And people don't understand what

(05:06):
it's like. You know, wepeople look at it as like an artist
they want to do that, butpeople don't understand how you can hand something
to somebody at a label and theydon't follow up, or people think you
want to be on this label,and sometimes you are unhappy with the way
that your material is presented, youknow what I'm saying. So when you
say you got your masters, howto those that don't understand that? Why

(05:30):
was that so important to you toown what you create? I mean,
you know what I'm saying. I'mI'm like, I'm growing, you know
what I'm saying. So that's one, you know what I'm saying, That's
one of the things. And thenit's like, you know what I'm saying,
when you came up and you spendinglike the time I was spending with
like somebody like Nipsey, you knowwhat I'm saying, he used to be

(05:50):
on that. Yeah, man,I wouldn't. I ain't used to think
like that. But no, bro, like blah blah blah. And just
like you start really like paying attention, realizing and doing it's like oh yeah,
like nah, bro, I needmy I need my issue because you
know what I'm saying like how Iwas, how my deals were structured.
I was basically like a slave,you know. Yeah, so you know

(06:11):
like I'm not this like I'm notthe guy that's cool with like feel like
a slave, Like that's not myvibe. So you know, you you
kind of early on you want toget in and a lot of people yg
they do get caught up in paperwork. They do get caught up, you
know, not understanding just like,man, I just want to do my
music. Y'all handle that, I'dbe the artist part. But when you
get with someone like Nipp and nippwas so in tuned early on, when

(06:34):
Nipp is telling you about ownership andmasters and things of that nature, did
you understand it then or did youstart to understand it even more where y'all
were together and after Nipsey passed,did you like, Okay, I understand
what this is for real now?Yeah? No, I started understanding like
the photo fast. You know whatI'm saying. It's just like like I

(06:58):
was like since my first came out. It's it's really when I was like,
oh yeah, nah, this ain'tright. I gotta get right.
You know what I'm saying, Ishould have been got right. I could
have been got right, but likeI wasn't with the right people. You
know, you show me. Theywas acting like it was like nah,
like that's not at work, andit's really like, nah, bro,
that's how it work. I couldhave been got right, you know what
I'm saying. But yeah, it'sjust like I just went through the mud

(07:21):
with the situation. But nah,Like the Homie was telling me, talking
to me about this type like twothousand twelve, you know what I'm saying,
Yeah, before the first album evencame out. You read this book
yet I'm like, yeah, nah, show hey, man, what does
that feel like when when we wereall that nipp star man and there's so

(07:44):
many accolades, you know what I'msaying. But to be out there on
his birthday and see and see Nipseyget his star in Hollywood, Bro,
it's it's a lot of celebrities anda lot of people that haven't had the
honor, so called honor of havingthat space, that real estate. What
was that like? Man, whenyou were out there that day? Who's

(08:05):
bro? It was? It wascrazy. My brother Homie really got a
star like super crip. You knowwhat I'm saying really got a start.
But I mean honestly, it's likebro like like, yeah, I'm saying
that's what he deserved. Yeah,period and some more. You know,
we're gonna continue to make sure thatit happens. You know what I'm saying.
We got HyG in the neighborhood,your big interview, y'all continue to

(08:26):
hang out with this big boys yG in the neighborhood, Big boys interview
on issues? Man, you dowhat? What's what's the lyric that that
why you give us on that one? That's quote? What's up with your
brother? Ish? I ain't talkinga mustard. I just fell back.
Can't let a blank treat me likea sucker? Hey man? And yeah
it's probably sound different when she saidhe didn't recognize your own songs, and

(08:48):
I didn't say talking. I said, I ain't talked talked? So what
what's going down with the relationship?Is it? You know, Hiatus?
You know what I'm saying, Youknow, man, it's you know what
I'm saying, that's the hump,that's bro like, you know what I'm
saying. Just like and I thinkthat you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

(09:11):
we just ain't been communicating like that, and I think when y'all do
talk, you probably want to talkto Mustard and not me, you know,
you know what I'm saying. So, and that's what happens in life
too, man, you know whatI'm saying. We get around people for
so long, and I think onthe outside we want more of that relationship.
On the outside, we all wantto know what's going down. And

(09:33):
just as as men, y'all gotto have that communication. You know what
I'm saying, You gotta have thatcommunication, man. So it's not my
place to continue to say, Man, what's going on? What's going on?
You'll let me know what. Soyou basically just check yourself and you
have to bro because sometimes man,there's there's just time. And the reason
why I did ask is because whenwe were talking about the album, you

(09:56):
say a lot that's on your chestand on your mind at that time.
Yeah, I say a lot.But yeah, but the things I'm saying,
it's like I ain't really it ain'treally like I ain't coming for nobody,
you know what I'm saying, LikeMuscle, that's bro. That's like,
yeah, that's my broth for life. Like you know what I'm saying
he just ain't vobing like that rightnow. I'm like, it ain't like

(10:16):
it ain't never nothing like that,Like you know what I'm saying. And
when I say like it's crazy becauseat one point, man, when you
see growth in a person or oran artist, they kind of say and
not it wasn't crazy, but it'syou'll say kind of what's on your mind
as opposed to you know, uh, pushing it down. That's why I

(10:37):
asked you was the album therapeutic foryou? You know what I'm saying.
Definitely was, because like people knowme for like, yeah, what I'm
saying, like like the past projectsand just everything, it's like you feel
me. I'll be trying to avoidthings like I don't really be talking about
it. I don't really want totalk you feel me, That's my vibe.

(10:58):
I'd be holding a lot in likeand then I'll just be getting mad
though, Like I'm I get madlike this, you know what I'm saying.
I'll be ready to like go crazy, you know what I'm saying.
So like I'm like, bro,I need to say whatever I want to
say and just say it and justbe like yep, I said it it's
over. Yeah, you know whatI'm saying, But it ain't. You
know what I'm saying. It's justit's like it's like the Run video.

(11:20):
If you say you learned a lessonby how much you is that the video
where you say you learned a lessonby how much you spent on that video?
Yeah? I spent a whole lotof I spent a whole lot of
money on videos. It's whole Iwaste. I wasted a lot of money.
How much you think I shot likethree videos that didn't come out?
I shot two. I shot threevideos to Toxic, only one came out.

(11:41):
But take away from you, it'sgonna give you all that other back.
Yeah. I shot like five videosthough on this whole album that didn't
come out. And then you feelme the ones I shot like Scare of
Money a whole lot run, awhole lot. You know what I'm saying.
Let me damn very money. Webanging Scared Money here, right,

(12:03):
And I thought that Scared Money wasgonna be one of your biggest records,
you know what I'm saying. Sothat's why you will say, oh man,
yeah, I won't put it in. And the best thing to do
bro, you got a bet onyourself? Know what I'm saying. That's
like the whole situation just like nope, you know what I'm saying. I'm
I invested like millions of myself.Yeah, damn A man, when you

(12:24):
get the run video, did youthink like even with with the dressing up
all right? Was it was?It? Was it that time where people
you know how like some people lookedat the video, they didn't look they
didn't listen to the song. Somepeople looked at the video and some people
had a comment about the video anddidn't know the song. You know what
I'm saying. So do you goin with that on your head? Or

(12:46):
by the time you're done, isit a watch where you say, like,
man, I spend I don't knowwhat a hundred two three four hundred
on that one. I don't evenwant to talk about that one, okay,
Like like like like the whole conceptcame from Like you know what I'm

(13:07):
saying. I know people who whoused to rob banks and they used to
dress up like a's like women androll the banks and do all types of
stuff. I know people who didit like other crimes. You feel me,
it was dressed up and you knowwhat I'm saying. So, but
the whole idea came from that,and I think people was like, like
what the is going on? Causelike people look at me how they look

(13:28):
at me like and you feel justlike, bro, what is you do
it? But it's like bro,like bro, like it's a movie,
Doug hill Out. You know whatI'm saying. I'm a hardist, you
know what I'm saying. I didit like like it was a movie.
You know what I'm saying. So, uh yeah, I think it's just
called people like bro, what's youknow? Bro? Yg Bro? Yeah
you can't. You feel like peopletry to put you in that box sometimes

(13:50):
now they do put me in thatbox. That's the thing you feel me.
They you gotta be like this,you know what I'm saying. We
want you to be a gang mannerthe whole time. Yeah, you gotta
watch it the whole time, youknow what I'm saying. But like that's
really neatle you know what I'm saying, Like streets like, oh, that's
like bro, that's me. Butit's like bro, I'm grown like I'm
I'm growing up. Like it's likebro, like like I ain't living like

(14:15):
that day, like how I wasliving. Like you know what I'm saying.
People know who you are. Somesome of us know who you are.
People know how real in the fieldyou are. Right, But then
I also can look at you nowand I'll say, man, like why
did you look at him? Hewearing slacks or he got on thrash?
You know what I'm saying. Sothen that is that out the box where

(14:35):
and these shoes right here, lookat the like this right here, and
those at the camel like the cameltoe ones with the like yeah to.
But that's another thing, man,when we always do we do try to
put people in the box. Andas an artist, you got to make

(14:56):
sure that you continue to push thatline and get off that box. And
I think that's what you got.What I got choose the album as well.
Bro, It's like it's not totallydifferent, like man, what is
he on? But it is youcan see that. You could see that
growth. And one thing that Iwas tripping off of was listening to it.
I could hear the full body ofmusic, not just how you're writing,
but how you delivering, how youchoosing your music, what you're doing

(15:16):
with your voice. Now you knowwhat I'm saying, And there's just a
lot of growth right there too.Bro appreciate it. O, man,
that showed up yg on I gotissues the album. There's a song on
there called how to Rob and weknow how to Rob from like fifty and
you know, things of that nature, right the timing so for you to
have how to Rob that that songwas already done, you know what I'm

(15:39):
saying. And then we lose youknow, rock And it's eerie when you
hear the song because that's not theway it went down, but that's how
it goes down a lot. Sowhen you do this song and you hear
how p and D how he gotyou know, got over at Roscos,
what's the first staying that pops intoyour head when you know you already got

(16:02):
this song? Like damn, Yeah, it was a it was a u
A a weird situation. Like thetiming, Like so my my album was
already like up for pre orders,you know what I'm saying, Like two
three weeks before Bro got killed,you know what I'm saying. So like
when a situation happened, like Ihad like plenty of conversations with like my

(16:25):
homies, you know what I'm sayingthe team, you feel me. I
was in New York. I pulledup on Meek I played him the song.
I'm like, bro, the onmy the pre order already up.
You know what I'm saying. It'slike weird, like what you think?
Like you know what I'm saying.So I had conversations about it because you
know what I'm saying, that's nota ain't no situation to play with,
you know what I'm saying. Itwas just like the timing, you know

(16:45):
what I'm saying. It was justlike bad, It just like weird.
And then I'm like, I'm like, bro from like I'm from LA.
You know I'm saying I made thesong because during like you know what I'm
saying, the pandemic like crime rightcrazy? I know what I'm still going
Yeah, it's going crazy. Sowe had interviews where he was talking about

(17:07):
that, so this this is thisis what's going on. Yeah, this
was going on and like me beinglike who I am and where I'm from.
It's like, bro, this islike I'm I'm talking about my city.
Bro, Like everybody know, Bro, it's really going on in LA.
Like everybody noticed, So you feelme? I just felt like you
shouldn't bet the song. Come on, I know, I knew people was
gonna feel, you know what I'msaying, some type of ware about it,

(17:30):
And then I knew I was gonnahave to speak on it. So
I'm like, you know what I'msaying, I'm gonna speak on it.
And then I just feel like peopleknow, like like people know like me
as a person or all this,Like I ain't one of them, you
know what I'm saying, to doall that weird stuff like that, and
and do all that and be talkingcrazy on the internet doing internet weird stuff,
like I'm not one of them typeof dudes. So like I felt

(17:55):
like people would be like, Bro, he from La though, so you
should be what he's saying. Hemade a song about what's going on.
Already it was done. I recordedthat like make twenty twenty one, you
know what I'm saying, And thenthe video was already shot. We shot
the video and like June, youknow what I'm saying. So I had
all this already in the camp.I'm like, Bro, the pre order
up already, like it ain't reallytoo much I can do, Like people

(18:17):
already buying it. Yeah, andit definitely like and at no, but
I want to please my my condolence, go out to his family's friends,
his kids just growed and all thatfor a show, you know what I'm
saying. That's that's man though.And you're about the city just weird,
like it's weird out here, Likeit's weird. It's a whole different kind
of shwivel out here. It's alwaysbeing where you had to be. But

(18:38):
now, man, you know,now it's even more a bold bro they
catch it shick bro, yeah shipyeah man? Does that? Does that
keep you on your toes YG evena little bit more? Yeah? Yeah,
Bro. You know, I likeI don't really be really out here,
like I'd be like I go outof town, like I'd be ducked.
I'll be out of Tewn like airsold is all this, Like I'm

(19:00):
gone, bro, like i'd bedoing weird. Maybe that one time,
like two to three in the morning, we popped up at Dale taccle together.
Oh yeah, we won't do that, get it off. That's all
your people were telling me that youwere going to present me with a chain.
But yeah, like it was changingman, that you wanted to present
Your people said so yeah, changelike, yeah, some kind of necklace

(19:22):
or something. Bro, you shouldwant me to give you no change right
now, because change and all thatis not the vibe, not gonna be
that the house. Oh yeah,I'm gonna get some bro. My bad.
I ain't get the memo. Butis this you telling me you want
a phone hunt change or something?You saw through that though? Yeah,
that tackie like the approach people,it was a tackie. You couldn't get

(19:45):
it off that time. Just asksBroun the bus bro. Alright, yeah,
I'm gonna take you straight up.Man, I don't know how to
ask you, know what I mean. Been in here a few times.
Yeah, I've been in a lotand you're still are giving me one.
I grew up in man, youdid, Bro, We've seen you grow
you know it just from me toyou, Bro, it was tacky that

(20:07):
I did ask you live on theair. I don't want you to feel
obligated tell your truth. I didwant you to feel obligated, But now
at the moment, I don't wantyou to feel obligated. Man, does
Rod have one? Yeah? Igot some phone change change with like plural
that means more than one. Okay, so I definitely should get one.
You know what I'm saying, SnoopDogg got to get death rowing. I

(20:27):
don't think it's real though, buthe gave it. He was handing it
like Halloween got that crypto. Okay, it is there right there. So
whenever you want, man, wheneveryou want. You know what I'm saying.
I know that I've been very instrumentalin your career. I know that

(20:48):
if it wasn't for our relationship,you wouldn't be as successful as you are.
You know, if you you chooseto come here. You know what
I'm saying, I don't beg you. So yeah, man, you know
that's just me bigging myself up becauseit's obvious you wasn't gonna do it.
Why are you gonna get back outon tour, bro, because now the
so called world open back up?Yeah? Did you miss that during the

(21:11):
pandemic? Definitely? Yeah, man, definitely yeah. I go to Australia
in like two weeks and then Igot something that was lined up. You
know what I'm saying, trip youout, how known you are around the
world, and the reason why Iasked that you could You know, sometimes

(21:33):
man, we'll sit on the porch, we'll sit on the block. Sometimes
even the hood looked big. Andthen when you travel out. I remember
when I used to travel out.I used to think out of town with
San Diego in San Francisco, like, oh man, we headed up to
San Francisco. Man, We're aboutto get out of town. And then
you realize how big the world isman, And you've done it your way
though, you know what I'm saying, Like like you've brought people from where

(21:53):
you're going to Australia. You didn'tsell yourself or look goofy. They just
gravitated to would you in your message? Does it ever trip off of you?
Like you'll be in another country andyou're like, man, I'm really
here. Man. Yeah, forshows, it's crazy, Like it's be
crazy to this day, you knowwhat I'm saying, Just to be in
a situation you feel me that I'mblessed being like forever grateful and thankful.

(22:19):
And then like COVID, Like whenCOVID hit, like it made me really
appreciate, like what I do?You know what I'm saying, And I'm
like, bro, what I've beenin our house? I'm like, bro,
bro, Like since I was likeeighteen. Bro. Like, Bro,
I've been outside moving around doing shows, moving like non stop. Bro.

(22:40):
When I was eighteen, dog likeso like to have to sit in
the house and like bro, waithold on, like you really got start
realizing, like bro, what no, this feeling right here? This ain't
there. I'm like, bro,oh, I appreciate my life. Man,
the whole thing about it too.YG. There was no where to
go, no where to go,and it wasn't like, oh man,

(23:03):
it's just happening here. Man,I jump on a plane and head on
over the such and now it wasplaces you could you could have went,
like the South, you know whatI'm saying, Miami like if they would
probably shut down like three months.Yeah, and then after that it was
like, nah, bro, itwas going on out there. I just
didn't know what it was at first, you know what I'm saying. Like
I was just something like you knowwhat, I'm a real like west Side

(23:23):
you know what I'm saying, situation. I'm gonna just go through the thing,
my like my side of the worldgoing through. I'm gonna thug it
out with them, you know whatI'm saying. So I just really like
with all that international like how youabout to head to Australia and all that.
That was a yeah, that wasyeah. Do you at one point,
bro? Do you not miss likeoh I need to hear it or

(23:44):
bragg a dosh. But but didyou miss like the concert sound? Yeah?
Bro? And you did you missthe traveling? Like yeah? Because
like my like the main thing likewith me, like you know what I'm
saying, Like you feel me?I got the music like the hits and
all that, but like everybody bodywho who who? You feel me a
wild moment? Like for me?You know what I'm saying. Be like,

(24:04):
bro, he knows how to perform. Yeah, hit performer, it
shows be late, so like Iknow that about myself. Like I'm a
performer, Bro. I want tobe on the road like I need to
be gone. You feel me?That's what I like. I love performing?
Like when you do a Coachella,what does that feel like? Because
Coachella is definitely a pick and choose. They pick and choose everybody and you

(24:25):
when you do Coachella, you're not, like you know what I'm saying,
like one of them little ones wherewe got to get a magnifying glass,
like you know that that's you,right, there. What does that?
What does that feel like? Whenyou step out on stages and festivals like
like a Coachella, I feel great? Yeah, yeah, I feel great.
You know what I'm saying. What'son your writer contract? The must
have my writer was like, butnow when I pop back out my writer

(24:48):
feeling get real real, like yeah, I'm just grown. Yeah yeah,
I'm saying. I used to justtry to make it easy, feel like
everybody can. Like I went throughlike a stage where like everybody was just
like, oh man, one hegonna pull up fifty people and you know
what I'm saying, it's probably somethingprobably gonna happen and all this type of
stuff. So I was just tryingto make everything I'm I ain't really asked

(25:11):
for nothing. I don't want nosmoke, I want no problems. I'm
trying to come do my thing andget you know what I'm saying. So
the rider was just like Fiji waterand tequila. Yeah basically some fruit.
Look like now, oh man,you have a couch. Yeah I'm you
know what I'm telling I need toplace the age and five a new iPhone.

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Uh yeah, some shoot, I'mgonna need like five pairs of shoes.
You know what I'm saying, Somewhite beatles, some draws, you
know what I'm saying, some younever had, like after show gear,
Like I need boxers. I needy'all that had that. Like I like
request that when I need it.Like if I like coming to a spot

(25:53):
and I didn't left something, I'mtelling like, bro, I need this,
this and not, but like Iain't never did it on a regular
Yeah, I'm gonna start doing thaton a regular Yeah, Bro, I'm
Calvin, Calvin clink bax briefs.Yeah, yeah, I need that a
man. Yeah, put me alittle for strongmy sandwich in there too.
I don't really buy one now.We even big. We haven't like my

(26:15):
strokes staking all that. We ain'tdoing all we ain't going. Yeah,
man, I when I for strong, Yeah they got off for strong,
ye me at all? Man.What is the biggest misconception you think about

(26:37):
you? Oh? I think Ithink people don't look at me as like
a bad music emot. Oh.Like I feel like people just think I'm

(27:07):
a West Coast artist because the typeof music I'm making all that type of
stuff, and it's like, ohyeah, that's that up over there,
you know, what I'm saying.But and you know, that's like being
a West Coast artist, you knowwhat I'm saying, that's how to be
happening. You know what I'm sayingfor for a lot of us, because
our culture, like our music,our temple or bounce is like people can't

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really get with it. You knowwhat I'm saying. How we're moving and
import it. You know what I'msaying, So like I get it.
So I just gotta do extra things, you know what I'm saying, to
not be in a box. I'msure we don't make it easy too,
because I think we love to claim, like at least on the West,
because we love to claim you asare, so we hold you like so

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close, like Noah, he's he'sseeing that for the longest to you know,
n wa q, just whatever,easy, whatever it is quick.
And I used to hear, ohman, that's that West Coast, you
know what I'm saying. And thenat one point I remember even traveling and
people's like, oh man, y'allwear khakie, y'all wear there, y'all
are that? And now I lookand everybody took from the West Coast,

(28:11):
and I mean take it. Weknow how lovely it is. But I
remember man traveling and it used tobe West Coast. That's West Coast.
And now you see I used togo places man, and they didn't have
crips, they didn't have beat dogs, you know. And now you go
to those same places, Man,and and you know they really bang it.
Yeah, really bang it man.But yeah, but continue to hold

(28:33):
that West Coast and that West Coastis worldwide too. You travel, Yeah,
we inspired like everybody, you knowwhat I'm saying, But like when
it comes to the music and stuff, it'd be like, oh wha,
But it's like y'all like y'all inspiredby storing real life? Man, what's
the what's the hard parts about beingeither YG or being an artist? Because

(28:55):
you people would look at certain thingsand they think they want it. You
know what I'm saying. It's likeit's it's home radio supporting you, is
video supporting you, you know whatI'm saying. Like, and not that
you you complain about certain things becauseyou ain't never called me and said,
big man, you're not playing myrecord enough. But do you ever feel
like, man, everybody needs topay a little bit more attention. Yeah,

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I was definitely I didn't feel likethat, you know what I'm saying.
I didn't feel like that a coupleof times, but like really not
like paying more attentions, just reallygoing all the way. Like I felt
like I didn't have situations, recordsand all this that could have went further
than what you know what I'm saying, where they went and all that,

(29:44):
but you know what I'm saying,they were still hits. They were still
multi platinum, you know what I'msaying, hit records. But I just
feel like, nah, I shouldhave been bigger. I remember, man,
you told me when I was becauseyou know, trust my fingers is
always my yeah, and you werelike, man big I'm still trying to
change that one. And I'm like, man, this dude got hits after
hit hit, Like you got acatalog where you one of those artists now

(30:04):
where you can get on on astage and you can leave and people say,
oh he didn't do such and such, Oh he didn't do such and
such. Like now you have aset list, you know, so you're
going to Australia in a couple ofweeks where you go on tour. Do
we get a chance to see youor you want me to fly out to
Australia with you. How do youwant me to do this? Definitely coming
to Australia if you want to havefun, because it's like that out there.

(30:26):
But like what does have fun?Me? Am? I bringing my
wife and my two kids if youwant to Okay, that's what you want
to make it right? Okay?School? Are you suggest not leave everybody
at the house? I suggest youdo whatever you want to do. But
you know, if you I bringmy family out and we'll make it happen.
I bring my wife and my kidsout, you know. Are you

(30:48):
please? Hopefully I'm not disrespecting you. Are you in a relationship right now?
Yeah? Damn? So we're havingthe same amount of fun. You
know what I'm saying. He's like, hey man, yeah, he said,
with God's relationship with God, Ijust praise enough, you know what

(31:19):
I'm saying. Do you feel likeyou've gotten even more of a relationship with
God? Because I know that thatyou got a little more godly because I
had a chance to witness something.But do you feel like you've gotten a
little more closer or you opened upa little bit more to the so called
words? Nah? Nah, it'sjust regular you know, I believe in

(31:41):
God. You know, so whyare you me all crazy? We can't
talk about God? Yeah, wecan't. We got a problem talking about
God. I ain't got a problemtalking about God. You better stay pragedant.
We got stick around y'all. Radios. Put me, cook, put

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me, put me in, tookput me