January 9, 2026 • 52 mins
Today on The Show, Fetty Wap Sits Down With The Breakfast Club And Give His First Interview After Prison Release. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't every day up waiting click your ass up the
breakfast club.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, I'm feelish for y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Doune morning.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Everybody is DJ en Vy, Jess, hilarious, Chelamage the guy.
We are the breakfast Club, Long and Roses here with
us as well. We got a special guest in the building. Indeed,
welcome home, ladies and gentlemen. It's Feddie.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's up are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I feel good man, You ain't.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
There's no push up. It's been eating your protein, taking
full advantage of that time, a.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Couple of checking packs and tunes and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know what I'm saying? How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
First of all, brother, I'm blessed man. You know I'm blessed.
I could ain't know whether if I can sum it up.
I'm just blessed. I feel good to be back, you know,
sleeping my own bed, eat some real food, see the family,
make it all.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I love man to.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
See everybody just just happy to see me like I'm
happy to see them.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So it feel good. I'm definitely blessed for that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Do you feel like you need to get right back
to it or like you know, do you want to
just adjust and be human first before they you got
to get in the artist fetti walk moved.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh we allowed to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
No, yes you are.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
You're allowed to, but not like you would have to
make that decision for yourself.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I mean, uh, for me, I don't know. I'll just
you know, making music is just what I love to do.
So I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it's like getting
right back to it. It's just like something that I
missed for the last four years of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Definitely being in that studio, let that be my outlet,
you know what I'm saying for whatever I'm going through
at the time.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So if that's getting back to it, then yeah, you
definitely got to get right back to.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Have you gotten in the studio yet? Yeah, you're back
in there already here already you did.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The first day out record na, na the first day.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Excepted for a longer project or something.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
No, just you know, just like you know how you said,
like you know, when when a box ain't been in
the ring for a while, you just gotta I mean,
you got to meet up real quick. So if you
still got it, you know what I'm saying, like that.
So that's all just just just feeling it back out.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm gonna say. So, you know, most people want to
know what happened, right, and the reason they want to
know is you had numerous platum multi platinum hits, numerous
records that went through the charts. Now you had a
run and not just urban charge mainstream. I mean, you
were doing ball mixed.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
First.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What's the Spanish when you don't know I am not Spanish?
You know what I mean? You did everything and then
you want a different route. What happened? Like what was
the disconnect for Fetti?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Label?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I mean, well, you know certain things that I still
you know, I can't really talk about like like that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What I mean, just for certain legal reasons.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
But I guess to sum it up, you know what
I'm saying, as far as the music saw, Like as
far as the music saw, I just kind of, uh
was going through something with certain parts of a different label.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I don't want to say those names because I'm not
interpational body.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's not what I do.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You know what I'm saying, But certain things just wasn't
lining up. So I just you know.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
When they say, uh, you can't teach it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
What is it say you can't teach it something like that?
You know what I'm saying to basically put it in
a in a way where I don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Know what I mean? So I just had to just I.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Just did what I know how to do, you know
what I mean when certain things was happening.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So now when you got when you got locked up,
did it make you love music more? Because I feel
like at one time you didn't love music the same
like you did when when you first came out they
did it make you love music again?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Being locked up did a few things from me as
far as music, Yeah, of course, know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Honestly, not being able.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
To record music was the was the was the biggest
thing because you know we could You know, as an artist,
you're gonna you hear a little better. You do a
little bet on the table and you could just start
the writing and you get the right stuff in.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Your head or your humilodies in your head.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
But that feeling when you just im about to go
to the studio like oh nah, I ain't about to
go nowhere right now? You know what I'm saying, so
it made me miss It made me miss the uh,
it made me miss being able to, you know, just
get up and go when I want to go do music.
Definitely humble you a lot, you know what I'm saying
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
When you got that feeling when you were locked up,
did you just write?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Like?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
How did you?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Because as a creative it's still there, like what do
you do to release at that point?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Man?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's that's actually crazy, right because if you if anybody
knows me, they know like I don't really write music.
I just kind of freestyle, like I just go in
there and do my thing. So to write a song
it took me like maybe three weeks because I had
to the problem with me with writing is I feel
like it's not as authentic as it is when you
(04:32):
just go in there because you got the option to
change out things, say different things.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I want to I will say this different. I don't
want to say this.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Like, so like when you're writing, it's kind of like,
let me make it sound better, like you know what
I'm saying, like, but when it's coming out, it's just
whatever you're feeling out that it's like roy emotion, you
know what I'm saying so like that, Uh, that creative
process was basically the hardest thing for me.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
What did prison teach you about yourself? That that success never.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Could what their person teach me about myself?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Uh, that's success of it.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I mean honestly, well in that case, not really
too much, not really too much. It just like made me, Uh,
it just made me understand certain things in life, you
know what I'm saying. Like it made me understand like, uh,
the value of freedom.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I don't think a lot of people understand how blessed
they are to just wake up and do whatever they
want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, let's slow you down from and I'm seeing interviews
where you like, I go to store, be twenty of us.
Everybody gets an Avera rex, everybody gets a pair of jeans,
and then everybody gets a shirt. Are you will that
stop you from doing that? Were those same those twenty
people still there when you were locked up? Or you realize, damn,
they ain't there for me like that?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Nah, yeah, that yeah, that is definitely the crazy thing
is if they were there, it'll probably be the same mentality, No, no,
no exaggeration, you know, what I'm saying. They were, it'll
be the same mechality probably you know, let's get it.
Let's get it, like we're back on you know what
I'm saying. But you know, uh, when you behind that wall, man,
(06:11):
everybody show you who they are. You know what I'm saying.
You want their time now, you know what I'm saying,
And you gotta just take it how you want.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You want their time so they don't feel like doing it,
it's done. And if they don't do it, well he
he ain't coming home on tom soon?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Was the industry there for you when you were locked up?
And like who artists label people? Family? Family?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Including family? Uh? Yeah, my family was there.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Industry Nah man, Uh let me see, oh Coiler Ray,
Coler Ray uh fifty uh Chief Keith.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And like in what way like when you stay there
with there if you like, what was it?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Each of them? Like what did Coy do? Well? Coy?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
She actually she actually helped me out with a record.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I put out an album called King Zoo right and
she actually she featured on the record.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
She did a whole TikTok thing for me. She and
she just did it off.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The love like it was like, all right, fetty, I
got you, don't worry like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And she, you know, she she pushed it as if
it was her own record.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So like things like that, I could never like, I
won't even I don't even know how to thank her
for that, you know what I'm saying, because she didn't
have to do that. She was already she already, she's
doing her thing, you know what I'm saying, you know.
And she from Jersey, so that that was even more
like like damn, like they have like this theory with
people from Jersey where we like to pull each other down.
So for her to help lift me up in my
time with darkness, it was like, thank you a lot.
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You know what I'm saying. I'll be out too, you
know what I'm saying, I'll be all man. Uh you
said man fifty Uh. So I don't even know where
to start with him A lot for me, you know
(08:01):
what I'm saying. He uh. From from day one, it
was like he reached out like yo, whatever you need
to holler at me, you know what I'm saying, And
I'm like all right, And then it was like where
is money.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Going, I'm like what you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I ain't used to that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm used to It's always the other way around, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, So it was just like it was it was
it was nothing like he whatever I needed, he was
right there, Like he answered the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He he didn't shot you off. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
All the way down to the time I'm about to
come home, it's how you getting home and stuff like that,
you know what I'm saying. So like if anything like
as far as as far as financial and like mental.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Like help, he was probably there the biggest.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Fifty was like helping you diversify like income and different
things like that as well to what were conversations like
about when Fattie wob comes home, fifty cent is giving
you what advice of, like here's what you should be
doing business, wid because the industry changed so much.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I can't curse right yo, yo, stop sucking up. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I should have should have never stopped making music, like
you should have kept going hard, like you know what
I'm saying, that's fifty fifty fifty gone. He was gonna
say what he wanted to say, Like you know what
I'm saying. He ain't got no filter. So uh, it
was good.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It was It was everything he told me.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It was just like, you know what I'm saying, just
get back to it, like, don't don't waste no time
this time.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You only got this this this is my last chance.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
However, that however that sounds to people, But you know,
if you're in this industry, you know what that means.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You know what I'm saying. So you gotta you gotta
make a count.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I remember the interview you did with uh. I think
it was Academics before you had winning. Yeah, and you
was talking about, you know, going broke. What did what
did going broke after making multi million dollars teach? You?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
See that's crazy because you know that was like clickbait.
You know if you if you actually rewatch the interview.
I never said that I was going broke. I just
said it was slowing down.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Did Yeah, it was a big difference. Nah. I was
just basically like saying I was. I was telling him.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
How I felt the transition from being twenty fifteen twenty
sixteen fetiy Walp to being twenty seventeen twenty eighteen fetty wob.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So it's just like I guess the way they broke
it up and like put it together, it was like damn,
like but I get it though, you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But you blame yourself for that at all?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
What that transition and.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Transition from sixteen to seventeen, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
For the most part, man, I just you know what
I mean. I was young, man, I was real young.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I was young, hot headed, and you know what I'm saying,
I was just pro to gods man, Like you know
what I'm saying, Like if it ain't me and my
if it ain't me and my niggas, ain't nothing, you
know what I mean, straight like that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know what I'm saying. And you know I didn't
show up to a few things about that.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
But na truthfully though, man, truthfully, man, I just you know,
I had to grow up, man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like I was still I was.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I was young with all that money, man, like just
having fun, making sure everybody eat and making sure everybody.
You know what I'm saying, Like everybody's shining, Like like
how I'm shining?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
They told me a story the other day. Actually, they said,
you pull up to sneaker store in Patterson, right sneak
of Palace, You pull up there, you buy fifty pairs
of sneakers, and it'd be like you'd have ten calls,
ten of your cars outside, somebody driving a different car,
and you would all get in and just drive to
Atlantic City and gamble and going to party all night,
(11:41):
and nobody else paid for everything. They was like FEddi
would pay for everything. They said, they did this, damn
it every weekend. Then there'd be a time. But like
you didn't like to fly because it was like then
you drive to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm scared of hell of flying even Yeah, dang oh,
just judts Man.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
The last time I was on the plane before I
came home, I was shackled ankles and risks like that ship. Yeah,
that's another thing, like I told I kept telling myself.
I said, looking first class. They let me out right now,
you can put me in fifty two in the Middle Sea.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Hey, y'all good, we.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Think anything, you know what I'm saying, Get a little
back of peanuts and some ship like you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Too big now you can't sit it all the way
back there. Yeah, your shoulders too big for that ship
at this point.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Man, So outside of like showing up for things like
what you when you get back to like the business
of fetti WI, what else are you going to do differently,
like label wise because you said there was like some
issues with a label.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Was that the r g F?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, what's some issuage with the label? You know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Uh? Uh, this is like the best way I could
put that without like being to that whole thing. Like
I said, I don't like to bash nobody, and I'd
like to have conversations while the other person that's present
to to kind of you know what I'm saying. Uh,
money complicates family and when when it gets to a
(13:06):
point where.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
How can I say that? It's just like a money
complicates things.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know, That's the best way I could put it,
like you know what I mean, without getting it all
all deeper to it. But yeah, money complicates a lot
of things. So with that being said, uh, you know
a lot of people. A lot of things didn't go
right because of a certain situation. So that was just
like that's one of the biggest things as far as
the fedie. We obside with the label. But other than that, man,
(13:36):
I'm still you know, I'm still. I'm just I'm just
ready to make music, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I do. I do. I do hate when we do that,
the artist, because I know you're ready to make music
because you want to get back to it. But man,
there's still a part of you that just has to
be a human first, Like you just put your boots
back on the ground, you know, family, Like, like, I
don't know what was what was the hardest truth you
had to face while you were locked up?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I lived in my truth man, like I didn't. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I just you know what I'm saying, Like where I
come from. I'm from Patterson, bron You know what I'm
saying from Patterson, Jersey.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Man, Like you you know what I mean? You make
your value out late.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So it wasn't when it happened, it was like all right, whatever,
like let's just get this ship over, you know what
I'm saying. Like it wasn't like damn, I wish I
could have did this or I did that. Because I
did it. I did it once, and that's what I
chose to do. I knew the consequences, I knew it
was gonna come with it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So that was that.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Do you think you understand the lesson God might have
been teaching you?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah for sure, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You want to share it?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Uh? Uh take it?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Take take advantage of your blessings while I'm giving them
to you. You know, uh, you know this time we're
gonna gonna show you what can happen. You keep playing around,
you know what I'm saying, Next time might.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Not be so lucky.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Are you staying away from Patterson or you know you're
out of Patterson? Are you going back home?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Of course, yeah, you don't have to.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I feel like that theory is flawed when they say, oh,
if you go back home, this can happen. That can happen.
It only happens if you're allowed. If you're a weak man, week,
shit gonna happen to you. You know what I'm saying.
When you stand on business, stand on business, you know
what I mean. So I don't I don't follow crowds,
I'll lead them, you know what I mean I wasn't.
I wasn't the remy boys. I'm fetty wap, you know
(15:34):
what I'm saying. Like I say what I'm saying, No
disrespect to my guys, but yeah, I'm not the follower,
I'm the leader. Have you spoke to the guys, Yeah,
I spoke to a few of them. I spoke to
the ones who spoke to me when I've been down.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Did you have to did you have to forgive yourself
for anything in order to come home free? Just mentally?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I really I was. It's not more so me forgiving myself.
I just I just hope in the future that my
kids forgive me. Yeah, that's more so, like, uh, you know,
I took a lot of time from them, and.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Four years a long time. You see, you see your
kids go.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
From here to here, you know what I'm saying. And
it's just like I miss birthdays, I miss Christmas, I
miss doctor's appointments, I missed daddy school back, Daddy day
at school, and basketball games, dances, basketball games, football games,
my son first day of high school, stuff like that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
So more so, I just hope they forgive me.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Spoke to the older kids.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, I spoke to the old ones. Yeah, do they
forgive you?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I think they're just happy right now. They don't really
understand yet they understand. Yeah, I don't think they really understand,
but you know they for a while, we just try
to play this, uh Daddy's away and then you know
it's like.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Back about thirty days, like all right now we ain't Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You know the phones and you know they're on social media,
so you know that is that in jail?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You know like that?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So how do you separate who you were from who
the world still thinks you are?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Mhm h. I guess I just separated about a time,
like separated by time.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Time.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Time either is gonna fix everything or it's just gonna
make it worse, you know what I'm saying. So for me,
I feel like this time away fixed a lot of
things from me, you know what I'm saying, especially with
me and my family, Me and my sister, like we
always had each other back. You know, that's my gym
to one. You know what I'm saying. She June sixth,
I'm June seventh. You know what I'm saying. Uh, my
(17:35):
baby sister too, you know what I'm saying, my older
brother like commissary every week. You know what I'm saying,
even if I ain't even need it, but I really
didn't even need it. Like, but you know, any phone call,
I might just be going I just might be going
through something. I'm calling your sister.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What you think? What you think they gonna think? They
still gonna rock with me when I.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Get home, you know what I'm saying, Like you know
how you saying if I leave a game, that gets
still gonna love me. You know, I'm like, uh and
then uh, just learning myself man, Like you know what
I'm saying, Like that detox and that detoxing and you know,
getting your body together, especially working out, working out kind
of like kind of got me together a lot too,
(18:18):
you know that discipline, like being at like I don't
feel like doing it, but still getting it done. Like uh,
just watching, just learning from the old heads in there.
You know what I'm saying. I was down with a
few homies. That's you know that's not coming home no
time soon, you know what I'm saying. Really probably no
time ever, depending on if they outlast the years, I
mean outlast the sentence. And you know, I got a
(18:39):
lot of wisdom from them, man, and they all like,
you know, the way you carry yourself, little bro. Like
you know what I'm saying, way you carry yourself. I
don't really lay everybody little broke me. But you know
certain people that I respect, you know what I mean,
I call them big bro, And they just the way
you carry yourself, the way you move. You know what
I'm saying. I see the way you move through here.
You ain't You ain't full of yourself. You don't think
you the ship. And you know what I'm saying, like
(19:00):
when you get out there, man like, like like do
it for the gods, but we don't want to see
you back in here, man like, you got a lot
of shit to look out to. And then you know
a lot of people, Hey, hey, hey, hey, guess what
I'm in here with. You know what I'm saying, Hey, Oh,
tell them to send me a picture so you know,
I'll take a picture for the gods. We send the
autographs and shit like that. And yeah, me and my daughter, man,
the man, I'm like, man, I don't even know your
(19:21):
daughter knew I was, you know what I said? They younger, now,
you know what I mean. So it was just like
every every time I start to feel like I don't
know if it's gonna be it is hey, yo, man,
somebody saying, I'm like, well then, like I remember in
twenty twenty five, like the top of twenty twenty five
that was doing like the again thing with the JBL
speaker shit. So and it was like that my sister,
(19:41):
hey trending, I'm like, how the fuck what I do now?
Like you know what I'm saying, like what I do,
Like I'm in trouble with some shit like but it's
just like every time I started feeling down or feeling
like like out of like like like it wasn't gonna
be nothing for me when I come home, something always
reminded me man like, So like I said, either Tim
gon't either fix it make it worse.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So but this for me, Tom made everything better for me.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You know, you know, you know at your peak, everything
was moving fast, right, but then when you in prison,
everything stops. How did that shift your sense of purpose?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
It was much needed. It was much needed, for sure,
definitely much needed. And a lot of people say I'm
crazy for that, you know what I'm saying, But you
got one day you downtown selling CDs, trying to make
a name for yourself, and then you got another day
you on you on, you on stage with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You know what I'm saying. And then it's like you
do so much.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Everything was a blur, like you know what I'm saying,
Like I was moving so fast half the times. I
don't even have pictures of everything out did I'm like,
ain't send me pictures that you ain't got nothing, like
you know what I'm saying. So it was like, all right,
let me see where I went wrong over here or
what I did this, and you start to you know,
you just take mental notes like you learn yourself, man,
Like you learn yourself. Like I said, you're either gonna
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get better or you're gonna get worse. You know what
I'm saying. You're gonna give up on yourself? Are you
going to go hard for yourself? You know what I'm saying.
So for me, it's just like I gotta go harder, man,
Like I can't. This can't be it for me right here,
Like you know what I'm saying, Like, ain't no way
I'm about to just come home and just go get
a job or some shit, like you.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Know what I'm saying like I'm not going to target
like you know what I'm saying, Like, I gotta do
what I love to do. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
If I gotta, if I gotta, if I got a
man up and take responsibility for the ship that I
did to make to get me in this position, I'm
gonna do that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I did three hundred treat I seen you. You went
to three hundred yesterday. How was that reception?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Man, you know it's it's love.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And I've been with them for eleven year, oh ship, No,
it was six for twelve years now. Yeah, we've been
to goother for everybody left three hundred. When was the
same people there right right? That Salam show there, right,
that Salame show there. I think if I'm not mistake,
I don't want to miss miss like uh but I
think they're like the president or something like that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yes, Seline, just I think you've got promote.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah sure yeah man.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But so now what's your mind frame with doing music now?
Is it one time you went straight street, another time
it was crossover and party and music. So what's what's
Fettie's feeling.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Now, I don't have a I don't have a like
a genre. Man, Like, whatever I feel, I just do it,
you know what I'm saying, Like I don't really have
like a I don't want to be in a box. Yeah,
Like I don't want to be like that that that guy.
You know what I'm saying. If it sounds good, if
it feel good, I'm gonna do it. It's just it's
all up to the people reception of it, of course,
(22:34):
you know what I'm saying. But I don't try to
just stay you know what I mean, Because what I
feel like personally, I feel like when you when you
become a certain kind of artist, you have to follow
a certain kind of uh movement, you know what I'm saying.
So if you're a gangster artist, you gotta be a
gangster all day. If you're a trap artist, you gotta
(22:57):
really trap about this, you know what I mean, You
gotta really know what you're talking about. If you're a
pop artist, you know what I'm saying, you can't be
you know what I mean, Like, you can't be you
can't certain things you do. Like, But with me, it's like,
you know, even when when I'm like when I'm in prison.
A lot of people listen to the songs and they like,
ain't no way that's the same dude that's singing these songs. Like,
(23:17):
you know what I'm saying, just by the way I
carried myself. But then this is where I come from,
you know what I'm saying. A lot of people misconcept
the artists for the person. So they're thinking like, oh,
he's singing and you know what I'm saying, he probably
this way, and they it was good. It was popping
where the guys at.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
What that's funny?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
W you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Like, So for me, I don't want to be in
a box. I don't want to be I just want
to be a great artist.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Like, did your voice ever change? I think the first
project to the second project, it felt like your voice changed.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
A little bit. Yeah, for sure that for.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Something you did on purpose or was it from drinking
and smoking?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
She just came from getting older. I was.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Word, man, I was you know what I'm saying, Like,
there's certain ranges and shit, I couldn't It's kind of.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Hogh dam, but.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Hmm, I think more so more so for me it
was just like I was trying to find a way
to just do something different, you know what I'm saying,
because trying to follow, trying to follow these songs was
damned the impossible. I'm stressing myself out trying to make
another six seven, I try to make another Midway, try
to make.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Another Trap Queen.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
It's like this ship not gonna happen, bro, It's just
it is what it is, you know what I'm saying.
And the way they built, like the way that the
song's hyped up, like I can't it's like, you know
what I mean, It's a lot of people don't get
a Trap Queen record, so trying to follow that shit
is like damned impossible, you know what I'm saying. I'm
not saying it is, but that's tough, man. Like that
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feeling like the ship I was going through at that time,
you know what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I wasn't going through that no more.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You know, like a lot of that plays and a
lot of that plays a role, and you know, I
like a lot of things. I'll be saying, like you know,
when you follow artists from the beginning and once they pop,
you kind of like, eh, I don't know what the
hell you're talking about you know what I'm saying, Like,
I don't relate to that. And it was like the
same thing happened with me. You know what I'm saying.
It was just like when we're doing trap quain, this
(25:17):
is real shit, Like well, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We we outside, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm we're looking through the little uh, we're looking through
We're looking through such things.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You like that? Me?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I like that one. If I could get this one,
I would get it in this color. You know.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We we like that until and then it went to
which one of these you want? You know what I'm saying,
We're gonna take both of them.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Like life changes, so life experience change, so music change.
So it was like from the Fetti Wop album towards
the Butterfly Effect. You know, I was going through a
lot of ship uh, a lot of personal things was happening.
So with the when the Butterfly Fact, it was more
so me telling my story than trying to make.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
A hit record.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
So what do you coming back to music? What do
you focus on?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Cause people want to hit, but you've got a lot
of life to talk about at this point you spend years.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I mean, honestly, I don't feel like that's important. Like
like I did my time. You know what I'm saying.
I did my time. It's a lot of rappers that
went to jail. I mean, I hate to say it
like that. They came home and you know what I'm saying,
they want if they chose to talk about their jail shit,
that's them, you know what I'm saying. Like me, I
did my time with the guys in there, you know
(26:29):
what I'm saying, and they all bro leadership behind you
and you walk out leave ithead. You know what I'm saying.
We trying to see you on TV. Everybody wanted. But listen,
I'm gonna tell y'all something in jail. There's three things
that you don't turn the TV from. Sports, news, love,
and hip hop. That's just the three things in jail,
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you don't turn the TV from.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Something might happen to you. You know what I'm saying. But
you know that's just we want to see you on TV. Bro.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We trying to hear on the radio. I know when
you Bro get twenty days, I want to hear something
new on it. On the computer, you know what I'm saying,
Like this is the type of motivation I was having,
So I don't. I don't to come home and to
talk about that shit. It's pointless. I did my time
in it some.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Because I'm wondering, like, will you're writing change now that
you've lived such a real life consequence instead of success.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I guess, uh. I wouldn't say it'll change.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I guess it's always going to change, especially when when
you're trying to be creative. But more so, I uh,
I just feel like I just feel like I gotta
I appreciate music more. I appreciate I appreciate life more,
like just checking out, going to seven eleven for a
(27:47):
bottle of water. You know what I'm saying, Like I
appreciate everything, just to even just sit here without you
know what i mean, visit over you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Know what I'm saying Like that, you know what I'm
say saying for real? So you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You're watching people walk out the song, You're looking at
that exit sign like damn, I can't wait to it's
my turn. You feel what I'm saying. So it's like
I just appreciate everything, man, like I'm never gonna forget it.
You know what I'm saying, I ain't gonna never forget it,
but I'm not I'm not trying to make that my
focal point. Like you know what I'm saying, I don't
want nobody to feel bad for me. I'm knowing for
making we're gonna have fun when these shits come on.
(28:22):
Everybody want to grab it.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I remember what I was doing at this time that
I'm trying to keep that. I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh he talking.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I lived this hit for real, like and if anybody
that that was locked up with me, they'll tell you.
Like Bro said on Business Like, you know what I'm saying,
I wasn't wasn't in there playing around, you feel me?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So it was just like I ain't. I'm chilling with.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The ever moment. You know, it was so noisy in
your life before you went in with the ever A
moment when you was in prison where you fell in
love with the silence.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Yeah, for sure, definitely. I think I told my sister
that a few times too.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I just like, man, I want to say, what year
was that, twenty fourteen?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I think we did. I think I did six seven
nine On my birthday in twenty fourteen. That was the
year we signed a deal with three hundred. I think
like around November or September or something like that. I
don't remember nothing else besides getting sentenced.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Like from there it was just.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
A blurd yeah wow, Like I really, I think the
earliest thing I remember with Southwest Southwest and the next
thing I know, it was like I'm about to go
to jazz, like for real, Like it was just like that.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So it's like, like, damn with it.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I was just twenty three years old, you know what
I'm saying, like in my thirties now mid thirties, Like,
shit's crazy, you know what I'm saying. Looking at my son,
I'm like, well he was only five years old when
all this shit was happening, you know what I'm saying
Like that, So it's just like, man, everything just happened
so quick.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It was just crazy. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
There's a Bible scripture. I think it's a Psalm forty
six ten. Be still and know that I am God.
Nobody know. I know people probably said that to you
when you said you you fell in love with the
silence a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, I mean, I just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
It just felt good to just hear myself think for
a second, slow it down, take just take control of
my own my own life.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
How you gonna keep that going now?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Because like once things start going and you're moving around
and you're touring and all that stuff, like the noise
is gonna come comes with the celebrity life.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh trust me, it's a lot in prison. It's live.
As soon as they pop the doors, it's live. You
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You just gotta whether it be you got your workout team,
you know what I'm saying, we hit the yard at
a certain time, you know what I mean, we're gonna
get our money, all you got. You just you know,
you're getting you in your sad or your bunk and
you just you know what I mean, Yo, Look how
that later?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
You know what I mean, Like they gonna respect it,
or you know what I mean, or you make them
respect it.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
So it's kind of like the same thing for me,
except this time I'm just going to go in the house,
like going to.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
The crib, off like talking and take my phone.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's how did time the time away change your relationship
with fame?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I mean, I think everybody know, I didn't really care
about being famous. I don't think that was like a secret.
I didn't. I don't. That's that's that was never the goal.
You know what I'm saying, Like that was never the goal.
I just wanted to make everybody. I just wanted to
get a Ferrari, I said, And you.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Got a few of those if being loved these all
types of shit.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I just wanted to ferrari. You know what I'm saying.
I just wanted ferrari.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
About your mama house, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, man, they used to ride the motorcycles in the
Atlanta house. Yeah I didn't know that and everything they said.
I used to ride the motorcycles in the Atlanta house.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Like my dirt bike chef. We just ride through the house.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
How much did you have in your account at the
peak of everything? Like, what number did you look at you? Like, god, damn,
at the peak of everything? How much did you have
in your account?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
A lot? It was a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It was like hundreds of millions.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'm still trying to get to one hundred millions. Yeah,
I had a few. I had a few.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
What part of your old lifestyle do you not want back?
Even even if the money is there with it.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Uh, the feeling the need to take care of everybody. Uh,
everybody don't deserve me. Man, you know what I'm saying,
Like I'm I'm a real lord person, I'm real, I'm
loyal to a fault in a sense, and I'm loyal
to the court. When I love you, I love you
to deaths Like you know what I'm saying, I'll go
to the end of the world for you. Like you
know what I'm saying, Like it ain't nothing I won't
(32:57):
do for nobody I love so, Uh, that part of me,
I don't. I don't miss it at all. Yeah, I
blocked him out. That was one of the main I
guess you could say. No, I'm a geminar, so the
other side of me, I blocked him out, and definitely
so for that ship. Like yeah, if I don't, I
don't feel like I owe nobody nothing. I did it already.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You just got home yesterday, right, Uh on this Wednesday?
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Like forty eight hours?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, seventh Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
It was not real fast.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
This is a lot days.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
It feels like you've been here for about three weeks
for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Do you even get some checks yet?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You ain't even letting the band breathe weird.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I saw Masika tweeting about, yeah, that whole situation.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
She wanted that I was going to.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Ask a question regardless you all in his bedroom, but
I mean, okay, some asking you. I saw her tweet
about disappointment and I know you guys have a daughter together,
like what's the plan for you or her moving forward?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Because that gets loud.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
I appreciate her for you know, I appreciate her for
making sure. She making sure that my daughter knew that
I love her. She didn't she didn't try to keep
her away at this time. You know, during that time
I was damn uh. You know, whenever I called for her,
she let me talk to her.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I don't got nothing bad to say about her, so whatever,
I don't know, I don't be I'm not really a
social media person.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Would you jump back on the reality show? Would you
do that?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
I promise my gods, I'll do it for them. But
I don't you know what I'm saying. That's not that's
not nothing that I would have chosen for myself. But
like I said, when you when you're down, you just
like damn, I should have did that, man, so I
could you know what I'm saying, Like it's just a
whole bunch of things you just wish you should have did.
But yeah, as far as that situation, yeah, I don't
have nothing bad to say about nobody.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What I'm saying, how do you plan to break cycles? Man?
You know what I'm saying, Like not just financially, but
emotionally and spiritually.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Just like I said, man, with time, man, Like I
know it's probably like a like a like a corny answer,
but like like I don't know how to explain that
to you, Like I really don't know how to make
it sound like how I feel about it, you know
what I'm saying, Like just to have time to just
it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
A wonderful feeling man.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Like it's a lot of people waiting for their time
to come, you know, to come home, to be back
with their family, like you know what I'm saying. Or
like when you want to visit floor and you keep
looking at the at the clock, like time, what's up?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Like that word is powerful, bro, Like you.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Know what I'm saying, Like, like to have time is
a lot, so to take advantage of it. So you
know what I'm saying, Like to end my cycles, I'm
gonna do it with time, like when what time comes
great things for me? Like and I noticed that no
matter what, like I haven't had a I haven't had
a single besides the Yams things in ten years, bro,
(36:13):
you know what I'm saying. And somehow, some way, every
year one of them songs just get Do you all
remember when we just used to scream seventeen thirty? Like somehow,
some way, if something happens, where they where's fetti?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
And it just like like damn, I had to ask myself, like, bro,
where you at?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You know what I'm saying. And with time I figured
that question out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
So what kind of example are you most intentional about setting?
Not at your home?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Oh honestly, I just want to like show kids, like
especially kids with disabilities. You know what I'm saying, Like
kids with disabilities, kids that's less fortunate, kids that like
grew up without their pops or grew up without their moms,
or grew up in a foster kid that you know
what I'm saying, It's nothing impossible.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You know what I'm saying, Like I.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Wasn't supposed to be able to drive, let alone even
see I was born with congeneral black homer. You know
what I'm saying. It was supposed to affect both of
my eyes, you know what I'm saying, But they save one.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
So like.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I really want to do like a foundation for kids
that's like to to to better them with whatever the
disability may be. You know what I'm saying. Of course,
you know I fight for the for the for the blindness,
you know what I'm saying. That's just you know, it's
quite obvious why. But I just want to set an
example that you know, no matter what you go through
in life, like you don't have to let that define you.
(37:41):
Like you know what I'm saying, Like for years, you know,
some people are going to say, oh, well he went
to jail, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You got him.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Some people that that remind that remembers me from the music,
you know what I'm saying. But you have to set
the standard. You have to kind of narrate what you
want to be or who you're going to be. So
I just want to, like I just want to be
there for the people that don't got nobody, you know
what I'm saying. And if I could do that, then
I feel like I you know, I did a lot.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I mean one of the dopest stories I heard. I
don't know if it's true, but you said used to
wear the prosthetic guy, but you stopped, Yeah, because you
wanted to embrace the natural look.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, for sure. Definitely.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
When we got your statement when you first came home,
I posted it and the biggest feed that feedback that
I got from, like the audience who like pays attentions
when I'm posting the stories, is people really appreciated that
the first thing you talked about was doing stuff for
kids and what you wanted to do with your community
and the foundation and not music.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Like people were like we love that.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah, I mean, you know it's just like, first of all,
I have kids myself, like and like I said, I was,
I missed a lot of their life. You know what
I'm saying, I missed a lot of to me important parts.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Of their life.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Even if I see the phone calls, like sometimes it's
not enough, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
So and then like to.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Before that, I'm running so much like I'm doing so
much that I like, I really wasn't making time for
my own kids, you know what I'm saying. And I
feel like I feel like, no, I was fucked up
for that, you know what I'm saying. No matter how
how I tried to justify, Oh, I needed to get
the money, so we've got the money. That might be good.
I could make sure they always got rid of it.
(39:19):
It doesn't matter, you know what I'm saying. One thing
I learned that the most important thing you could do
for these kids is give them time. You know what
I'm saying. Like there's nothing there's nothing bigger than time
and showing up. And you know what I'm saying, Just
comm here, let's watch Frozen, and you know.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
What I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
You want let's go. You want to learn how to
throw football, Let's go throw the football. Buying them Shit,
ain't gonna do it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
You're just gonna be You're just gonna be the nigga
with the money like you're not.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That, you know what I'm saying, gonna be the name
of the new album.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
That sounds fired. But nah, I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Nah, time is just something that means a lot to me,
man Like, that's just it. Just I learned a lot
within these within these few years, especially about myself, about
how I want to approach certain things, and like when
it comes to like helping the kids, man like, it's
something I always did anyway. You know, I'm just like
I said, I'm real private. And maybe it's a bad thing,
(40:12):
you know what I mean, because you know I had
that mind state like damn you why you gotta post everything?
Like I used to always say that to me, Like
why they always got to post it if they're doing
the shit from the heart, you know what I'm saying,
And like I kind of understand now, like maybe some
people want to see it.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Some people don't.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
But for me, if everybody knows me, like I pull
up all the kids around, everybody get one hundred dollars
like little stuff like that. It was back to school drives.
We do back to school drives every year, you know
what I'm saying, Resting peace of my cousin Jay, like
we did the rest of the back to school drives
every year. Jday, we do like two thousand book bags,
sneakers and school supplies without a post. You know what
(40:51):
I'm saying, Like this is what we do. Like no,
it's no secret to the community, but it's a secret
to the world. So it's like for me, helping the
kids is something that I owe always been, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I know how I.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Felt to go to school with some fucked up sneakers.
I knew how I felt that, Like Damn, I don't
really want to wear this because I just have. I've
been wearing the same jeans for three days. You know
what I'm saying, Like I know that feeling. I know
that feeling of like getting laughed at and stuff like that,
you know what I'm saying. So when it came to
when it was my turn, instead of me being there
for for for my little ones, you know what I'm saying,
(41:24):
I'm thinking, let me make sure they all flyers had
like you know what I'm saying, so they don't have to.
You don't got to worry about that feeling, you know
what I'm saying. Just get me good grades and you
know it's it's a it's a bigger gap than that,
you know what I mean. So, uh, just that just
just to be there and you know, let them let
them see you, like you know what I'm saying, Like,
let them see you, let them be next to you, like, Yo,
(41:45):
can I sit sit in the car my door open,
go ahead like bro nose like you know what I'm saying,
like my doors to go ahead, sit in the car, sitting,
take your pictures, do what you want.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
You can stand on top of this motherfucker. I don't care.
It's just a material item, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
So I just I just want to be the best
I could be for whoever that's gonna appreciate me.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I feel like in a way man, you know, and
of course prison takes years from your life, but I
feel like it also gave you the clarity to finally
own your life.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yeah for sure, in the right way. Yeah for sure.
I definitely agree with you on that.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Well, we appreciate you for joining us, man, and I
can't wait to hear new music. I know, ain't got
nothing now, right, No, just double checking man.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Post it on the foundation work too, the foundation work.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
For sure. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Thank you absolutely. How do I do?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Got a couple more questions? How do you protect your freedom? Now?
Like I mean mentally, I mean financially, I mean spiritually,
Like how do you protect that freedom?
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Like I said, man, turn that phone off, give yourself.
It's just saying we got we got in jail, right
if you could, if you could watch.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
TV for an hour, you could do anything for hour.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
So out of jail, of course, we don't have to
be at certain things at certain times.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Give yourself to our a day for yourself.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Go in there, close the door, meditate whatever if that's
what you want to meditate.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I don't know. Do some yoga or some shit. I
don't know. I don't know how to do.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yoga and shit, I'm not flexible and shit. But for me,
I like pull ups. That's what I do. I like,
that's what I That's how I that's my thing. I
throw the headphones on, put the music on, do pull ups.
When I'm up there, I don't count.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
I think. I just go I'm all right. This was
like get down, all right? Walking around next? Know what
I mean.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
We're in the line and every time I hit it,
I just think about something else, you know what I'm saying.
Then I go back, I sit down, you know, take
my shower.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
This's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna do this. I'm
gonna do this. I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
You know, just you gotta find time for yourself to
give yourself time to do things, you know what I'm saying.
So that's basically how how I could keep my freedom.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Do you believe the system, the prison system is designed
for rehabilitation or just survival.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
The outside prison system or inside inside.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
M I don't know if I can talk about that, Like,
I don't know if I can talk about that, but
my personal experience, if I had to give you an
answer to be no, yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
How did I guess what I'm saying. Of course you survived,
but how did you kind of rehabilitate yourself? Because I'm
seeing I feel the older wives of Fetti like, so
what did you do? You said exercise?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yeah, I like to learn shit, man. So I talked
to a lot of the old ads, you know, like
what you did, how you how you fuck up?
Speaker 2 (44:36):
You know what I'm saying, what you did wrong? You
know what I'm saying, what you did wrong?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
And then you hear you hear like they got classes
like so the state present and federal prison is two
different things. You know what I'm saying so, and in
federal prison, the prisoners run the jail. You know what
I'm saying as far as let me let me rephrase
that because I might get it wrong. Uh, the prisoners
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run the programs in jail. So if you like taking
classes like I got my g D and uh uh
in prison, thank you?
Speaker 2 (45:09):
You know we did I did that.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
They have like stock classes or like what is it
called S and P Fortune something like that, S and
P five hundreds, and they teach you about the Billinger top,
Billinger thing bottom, Bullaing, all of that stuff. If you
if that's what you went to, they got whatever you want.
If you want to learn Spanish, you could go in
there and learn Spanish. If you if you don't know Spanish,
you want to learn English, you go in there and
learn English. Like it's ways to better yourself. But the
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actual system now it's fucked up.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Yeah, and it's got to be more fucked up for
people who were actually rich and famous, you know what
I mean. Yeah, you totally different.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
And that's that's that's the thing I always say too,
Like you know that part, that part of being in
jail was always the worst part for me, because you're
not coming, Like, no matter what spot I was at,
you don't just come in and you know, get yourself together.
They know I was coming before I even knew I
was going there, Like people knew I was coming weeks
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before I even landed on it, before I landed on
the yard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
So it's like, all right, let's let's just get this.
Let's just get this. Is straight to the.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Point I be like, you know what I'm saying, I'm
not about to be singing for nobody. We ain't about
to be yelling seventeen thirty eight. But you know what
I mean, like, no, you just you just be a man.
You know what I'm saying, Be a man.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Man. They gonna they gonna respect it. Man, they don't
respect it.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
What do people misunderstand about incarceration if they've never experienced Oh.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Hmm, wait, asked me a question.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
What do people misunderstand about incarceration if they've never experienced it?
Speaker 2 (46:50):
I think people think jail is like old jail.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
When I say that, like, I don't know if people
are watching like the show to ows Man like like that,
like in Jail's not like that, no more. It ain't
like that no more. Don't get me wrong. It's violent,
it's hell definitely violent. But state president and federal president
is way different, like it was way way way different.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Like it's way different.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
It's like goddamn government in there. It's politics, you know
what I mean. You've got you this person. You're wrong
with these people if you this, you wrong with them
and you can't even do nothing. You can't even do
nothing without accent this dude and he go to ot
access and then it's it's it's different. People misunderstand, like
you don't just go to jail and just think.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
I don't know, I don't even know. I don't even
know how to answer that.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
But you know, I don't want to tell nobody to
go to jail, you know what I'm saying. But if
you want to figure out what it's like go to jail.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
What does redemption actually look like for you?
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Loving on my kids?
Speaker 1 (47:57):
Man?
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Yeah, loving a my kids. I just want you know,
when I'm able to just.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Come on, let's go. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (48:09):
I'm in there watching I've never been on the cruise before,
and I just seen like I was every day.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
The commercial come on.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Just said the same thing when he was like the cruise.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yeah, like that's something you just it's it be little
ship like that.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Like I swear when I was home, uh, Chick Filate
didn't have mac and cheese yet, and so every day
Chick Filate show macaroni and cheese. I'm like, what the fuck, Damn,
I gotta get some macaronie. But you know it's like
little things like that, you know what I'm saying. So man, Like,
I just want to love on the kids. Man, That's
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what my redemption feel.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
Like.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
I get them. I want to go on the cruise.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
I want to take them to Aspen in the winter,
get a cabin, do the hot chocolate ship. I want
to take them to Norway so they could see the water.
I want to take them everywhere like Florence, my favorite
place I been with Florence. I want to take them
there so we go get some real Talian food. Like
you know what I'm saying, Just I just want to
I just want to experience this shit with them, like
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you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Like I said, like I.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Like, they deserve they deserve me, you know what I mean?
Everything I gave these niggas, all them twenty cars that
I let everybody drive and we out at Atlantic City
all this time.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
And you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
I'm telling myself, Oh no, you know I'm getting the money,
so everything good.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
I could do this I deserve.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
That's that's bullshit, you know what I'm saying, Even when
it comes down to what you asked me earlier, as
far as my daughter's mom, like you know, like, no
matter what happens, as a man, you stand up. So
it doesn't matter what anybody says about me. You know
what I'm saying, Like you take care of my you
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take care of my kids. I'm a love you forever,
it doesn't matter, like you know what I'm saying. And
I appreciate each one of my kids moms. You know,
they all healthy, they all in school, they all breathe,
then they're all doing anything. You know what I'm saying, Like,
and uh you know, oh yeah, And I want to
say I appreciate uh my daughter Lawrence mother too. She
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was she was there at the beginning of this bit
for me, you know, when she didn't have to be.
You know, she was going through her own thing, you
know what I mean. So yeah, I just I don't
have time for negativity, man, Like I don't want to
be a negative person. I'm not even gonna feed into
no negative shit man. And and that's how I'm gonna
keep it going from here. Like I'm just gonna keep
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going up.
Speaker 6 (50:31):
You're in the right place. What you give out is
what you're going to track. You're in the right place.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
And I know it's only been forty eight hours, but
you know what conversations with your kids, if you had that,
that just hit different.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Gonna. Son's funny as my oldest son, he's funny. Is yeah,
he's a uh yo, I'm your height now, like chill,
baby boy.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
You know what I'm saying. I have to do it.
You know what I'm saying. You know, man, but he
gonna you know he that won't work out. Or the
first day out. He took my chain, oh all, my
my my nephew, my nephews, they took my chain and
my hats.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
They took everything, the cloth and all. Yeah, they depot me.
Were it up? So?
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Uh my oldest daughter she you know, she's she don't
play no games neither. She listen to that. I don't
know what you're doing, but figure it out. I need
to see you.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
You know what I'm saying. Wow.
Speaker 4 (51:24):
So it's just it's just man, I'm just happy, man, Like,
I'm just happy to you know, see their face when
that face time came through and they.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Who and you know, to see that reaction like, yeah,
daddy home.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
You're surprising. They didn't know.
Speaker 4 (51:38):
Uh, some of them knew, but they didn't know exactly
when I was gonna pop up.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, so it was like that, Oh, congratulations, man, I'm
happy that you home and I'm happy to hear the
clarity more soon than anything.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
So you know, thank you.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
We appreciate you. I'm sure you'll be up here with
many some music soon.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I got you man.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
And don't rush through. Get some cheeks for us, these
cheeks man.
Speaker 5 (52:03):
If you're not in your pocket here bedroom, get out
all right.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
It's Fertie Wild. It's the Breakfast Club, Goring hold on every.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
Day a wake, pick your ass up, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
I'm finished for y'all. Done
Don't every day up waiting click your ass up the
breakfast club.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, I'm feelish for y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Doune morning.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Everybody is DJ en Vy, Jess, hilarious, Chelamage the guy.
We are the breakfast Club, Long and Roses here with
us as well. We got a special guest in the building. Indeed,
welcome home, ladies and gentlemen. It's Feddie.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's up are you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I feel good man, You ain't.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
There's no push up. It's been eating your protein, taking
full advantage of that time, a.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Couple of checking packs and tunes and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know what I'm saying? How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
First of all, brother, I'm blessed man. You know I'm blessed.
I could ain't know whether if I can sum it up.
I'm just blessed. I feel good to be back, you know,
sleeping my own bed, eat some real food, see the family,
make it all.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I love man to.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
See everybody just just happy to see me like I'm
happy to see them.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So it feel good. I'm definitely blessed for that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Do you feel like you need to get right back
to it or like you know, do you want to
just adjust and be human first before they you got
to get in the artist fetti walk moved.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh we allowed to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
No, yes you are.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
You're allowed to, but not like you would have to
make that decision for yourself.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I mean, uh, for me, I don't know. I'll just
you know, making music is just what I love to do.
So I wouldn't say I wouldn't say it's like getting
right back to it. It's just like something that I
missed for the last four years of my life.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Definitely being in that studio, let that be my outlet,
you know what I'm saying for whatever I'm going through
at the time.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So if that's getting back to it, then yeah, you
definitely got to get right back to.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Have you gotten in the studio yet? Yeah, you're back
in there already here already you did.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The first day out record na, na the first day.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Excepted for a longer project or something.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
No, just you know, just like you know how you said,
like you know, when when a box ain't been in
the ring for a while, you just gotta I mean,
you got to meet up real quick. So if you
still got it, you know what I'm saying, like that.
So that's all just just just feeling it back out.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm gonna say. So, you know, most people want to
know what happened, right, and the reason they want to
know is you had numerous platum multi platinum hits, numerous
records that went through the charts. Now you had a
run and not just urban charge mainstream. I mean, you
were doing ball mixed.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
First.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What's the Spanish when you don't know I am not Spanish?
You know what I mean? You did everything and then
you want a different route. What happened? Like what was
the disconnect for Fetti?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Label?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I mean, well, you know certain things that I still
you know, I can't really talk about like like that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What I mean, just for certain legal reasons.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
But I guess to sum it up, you know what
I'm saying, as far as the music saw, Like as
far as the music saw, I just kind of, uh
was going through something with certain parts of a different label.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I don't want to say those names because I'm not
interpational body.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's not what I do.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You know what I'm saying, But certain things just wasn't
lining up. So I just you know.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
When they say, uh, you can't teach it? What is it?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
What is it say you can't teach it something like that?
You know what I'm saying to basically put it in
a in a way where I don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Know what I mean? So I just had to just I.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Just did what I know how to do, you know
what I mean when certain things was happening.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So now when you got when you got locked up,
did it make you love music more? Because I feel
like at one time you didn't love music the same
like you did when when you first came out they
did it make you love music again?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Being locked up did a few things from me as
far as music, Yeah, of course, know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Honestly, not being able.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
To record music was the was the was the biggest
thing because you know we could You know, as an artist,
you're gonna you hear a little better. You do a
little bet on the table and you could just start
the writing and you get the right stuff in.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Your head or your humilodies in your head.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
But that feeling when you just im about to go
to the studio like oh nah, I ain't about to
go nowhere right now? You know what I'm saying, so
it made me miss It made me miss the uh,
it made me miss being able to, you know, just
get up and go when I want to go do music.
Definitely humble you a lot, you know what I'm saying
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But yeah, so.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
When you got that feeling when you were locked up,
did you just write?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Like?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
How did you?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Because as a creative it's still there, like what do
you do to release at that point?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Man?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's that's actually crazy, right because if you if anybody
knows me, they know like I don't really write music.
I just kind of freestyle, like I just go in
there and do my thing. So to write a song
it took me like maybe three weeks because I had
to the problem with me with writing is I feel
like it's not as authentic as it is when you
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just go in there because you got the option to
change out things, say different things.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I want to I will say this different. I don't
want to say this.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Like, so like when you're writing, it's kind of like,
let me make it sound better, like you know what
I'm saying, like, but when it's coming out, it's just
whatever you're feeling out that it's like roy emotion, you
know what I'm saying so like that, Uh, that creative
process was basically the hardest thing for me.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
What did prison teach you about yourself? That that success never.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Could what their person teach me about myself?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Uh, that's success of it.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I mean honestly, well in that case, not really
too much, not really too much. It just like made me, Uh,
it just made me understand certain things in life, you
know what I'm saying. Like it made me understand like, uh,
the value of freedom.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I don't think a lot of people understand how blessed
they are to just wake up and do whatever they
want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, let's slow you down from and I'm seeing interviews
where you like, I go to store, be twenty of us.
Everybody gets an Avera rex, everybody gets a pair of jeans,
and then everybody gets a shirt. Are you will that
stop you from doing that? Were those same those twenty
people still there when you were locked up? Or you realize, damn,
they ain't there for me like that?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Nah, yeah, that yeah, that is definitely the crazy thing
is if they were there, it'll probably be the same mentality, No, no,
no exaggeration, you know, what I'm saying. They were, it'll
be the same mechality probably you know, let's get it.
Let's get it, like we're back on you know what
I'm saying. But you know, uh, when you behind that wall, man,
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everybody show you who they are. You know what I'm saying.
You want their time now, you know what I'm saying,
And you gotta just take it how you want.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You want their time so they don't feel like doing it,
it's done. And if they don't do it, well he
he ain't coming home on tom soon?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Was the industry there for you when you were locked up?
And like who artists label people? Family? Family?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Including family? Uh? Yeah, my family was there.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Industry Nah man, Uh let me see, oh Coiler Ray,
Coler Ray uh fifty uh Chief Keith.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And like in what way like when you stay there
with there if you like, what was it?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Each of them? Like what did Coy do? Well? Coy?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
She actually she actually helped me out with a record.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I put out an album called King Zoo right and
she actually she featured on the record.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
She did a whole TikTok thing for me. She and
she just did it off.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The love like it was like, all right, fetty, I
got you, don't worry like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And she, you know, she she pushed it as if
it was her own record.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So like things like that, I could never like, I
won't even I don't even know how to thank her
for that, you know what I'm saying, because she didn't
have to do that. She was already she already, she's
doing her thing, you know what I'm saying, you know.
And she from Jersey, so that that was even more
like like damn, like they have like this theory with
people from Jersey where we like to pull each other down.
So for her to help lift me up in my
time with darkness, it was like, thank you a lot.
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You know what I'm saying. I'll be out too, you
know what I'm saying, I'll be all man. Uh you
said man fifty Uh. So I don't even know where
to start with him A lot for me, you know
(08:01):
what I'm saying. He uh. From from day one, it
was like he reached out like yo, whatever you need
to holler at me, you know what I'm saying, And
I'm like all right, And then it was like where
is money.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Going, I'm like what you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I ain't used to that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I'm used to It's always the other way around, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, So it was just like it was it was
it was nothing like he whatever I needed, he was
right there, Like he answered the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He he didn't shot you off. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
All the way down to the time I'm about to
come home, it's how you getting home and stuff like that,
you know what I'm saying. So like if anything like
as far as as far as financial and like mental.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Like help, he was probably there the biggest.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Fifty was like helping you diversify like income and different
things like that as well to what were conversations like
about when Fattie wob comes home, fifty cent is giving
you what advice of, like here's what you should be
doing business, wid because the industry changed so much.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I can't curse right yo, yo, stop sucking up. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I should have should have never stopped making music, like
you should have kept going hard, like you know what
I'm saying, that's fifty fifty fifty gone. He was gonna
say what he wanted to say, Like you know what
I'm saying. He ain't got no filter. So uh, it
was good.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It was It was everything he told me.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It was just like, you know what I'm saying, just
get back to it, like, don't don't waste no time
this time.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You only got this this this is my last chance.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
However, that however that sounds to people, But you know,
if you're in this industry, you know what that means.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You know what I'm saying. So you gotta you gotta
make a count.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I remember the interview you did with uh. I think
it was Academics before you had winning. Yeah, and you
was talking about, you know, going broke. What did what
did going broke after making multi million dollars teach? You?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
See that's crazy because you know that was like clickbait.
You know if you if you actually rewatch the interview.
I never said that I was going broke. I just
said it was slowing down.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's a big difference.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Did Yeah, it was a big difference. Nah. I was
just basically like saying I was. I was telling him.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
How I felt the transition from being twenty fifteen twenty
sixteen fetiy Walp to being twenty seventeen twenty eighteen fetty wob.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So it's just like I guess the way they broke
it up and like put it together, it was like damn,
like but I get it though, you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But you blame yourself for that at all?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
What that transition and.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Transition from sixteen to seventeen, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
For the most part, man, I just you know what
I mean. I was young, man, I was real young.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I was young, hot headed, and you know what I'm saying,
I was just pro to gods man, Like you know
what I'm saying, Like if it ain't me and my
if it ain't me and my niggas, ain't nothing, you
know what I mean, straight like that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know what I'm saying. And you know I didn't
show up to a few things about that.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
But na truthfully though, man, truthfully, man, I just you know,
I had to grow up, man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like I was still I was.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I was young with all that money, man, like just
having fun, making sure everybody eat and making sure everybody.
You know what I'm saying, Like everybody's shining, Like like
how I'm shining?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
They told me a story the other day. Actually, they said,
you pull up to sneaker store in Patterson, right sneak
of Palace, You pull up there, you buy fifty pairs
of sneakers, and it'd be like you'd have ten calls,
ten of your cars outside, somebody driving a different car,
and you would all get in and just drive to
Atlantic City and gamble and going to party all night,
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and nobody else paid for everything. They was like FEddi
would pay for everything. They said, they did this, damn
it every weekend. Then there'd be a time. But like
you didn't like to fly because it was like then
you drive to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm scared of hell of flying even Yeah, dang oh,
just judts Man.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
The last time I was on the plane before I
came home, I was shackled ankles and risks like that ship. Yeah,
that's another thing, like I told I kept telling myself.
I said, looking first class. They let me out right now,
you can put me in fifty two in the Middle Sea.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Hey, y'all good, we.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Think anything, you know what I'm saying, Get a little
back of peanuts and some ship like you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Too big now you can't sit it all the way
back there. Yeah, your shoulders too big for that ship
at this point.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Man, So outside of like showing up for things like
what you when you get back to like the business
of fetti WI, what else are you going to do differently,
like label wise because you said there was like some
issues with a label.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Was that the r g F?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, what's some issuage with the label? You know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Uh? Uh, this is like the best way I could
put that without like being to that whole thing. Like
I said, I don't like to bash nobody, and I'd
like to have conversations while the other person that's present
to to kind of you know what I'm saying. Uh,
money complicates family and when when it gets to a
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point where.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
How can I say that? It's just like a money
complicates things.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know, That's the best way I could put it,
like you know what I mean, without getting it all
all deeper to it. But yeah, money complicates a lot
of things. So with that being said, uh, you know
a lot of people. A lot of things didn't go
right because of a certain situation. So that was just
like that's one of the biggest things as far as
the fedie. We obside with the label. But other than that, man,
(13:36):
I'm still you know, I'm still. I'm just I'm just
ready to make music, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I do. I do. I do hate when we do that,
the artist, because I know you're ready to make music
because you want to get back to it. But man,
there's still a part of you that just has to
be a human first, Like you just put your boots
back on the ground, you know, family, Like, like, I
don't know what was what was the hardest truth you
had to face while you were locked up?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I lived in my truth man, like I didn't. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I just you know what I'm saying, Like where I
come from. I'm from Patterson, bron You know what I'm
saying from Patterson, Jersey.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Man, Like you you know what I mean? You make
your value out late.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So it wasn't when it happened, it was like all right, whatever,
like let's just get this ship over, you know what
I'm saying. Like it wasn't like damn, I wish I
could have did this or I did that. Because I
did it. I did it once, and that's what I
chose to do. I knew the consequences, I knew it
was gonna come with it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So that was that.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Do you think you understand the lesson God might have
been teaching you?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah for sure, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You want to share it?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Uh? Uh take it?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Take take advantage of your blessings while I'm giving them
to you. You know, uh, you know this time we're
gonna gonna show you what can happen. You keep playing around,
you know what I'm saying, Next time might.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Not be so lucky.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Are you staying away from Patterson or you know you're
out of Patterson? Are you going back home?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Of course, yeah, you don't have to.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I feel like that theory is flawed when they say, oh,
if you go back home, this can happen. That can happen.
It only happens if you're allowed. If you're a weak man, week,
shit gonna happen to you. You know what I'm saying.
When you stand on business, stand on business, you know
what I mean. So I don't I don't follow crowds,
I'll lead them, you know what I mean I wasn't.
I wasn't the remy boys. I'm fetty wap, you know
(15:34):
what I'm saying. Like I say what I'm saying, No
disrespect to my guys, but yeah, I'm not the follower,
I'm the leader. Have you spoke to the guys, Yeah,
I spoke to a few of them. I spoke to
the ones who spoke to me when I've been down.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Did you have to did you have to forgive yourself
for anything in order to come home free? Just mentally?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I really I was. It's not more so me forgiving myself.
I just I just hope in the future that my
kids forgive me. Yeah, that's more so, like, uh, you know,
I took a lot of time from them, and.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Four years a long time. You see, you see your
kids go.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
From here to here, you know what I'm saying. And
it's just like I miss birthdays, I miss Christmas, I
miss doctor's appointments, I missed daddy school back, Daddy day
at school, and basketball games, dances, basketball games, football games,
my son first day of high school, stuff like that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
So more so, I just hope they forgive me.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Spoke to the older kids.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, I spoke to the old ones. Yeah, do they
forgive you?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I think they're just happy right now. They don't really
understand yet they understand. Yeah, I don't think they really understand,
but you know they for a while, we just try
to play this, uh Daddy's away and then you know
it's like.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Back about thirty days, like all right now we ain't Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
You know the phones and you know they're on social media,
so you know that is that in jail?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You know like that?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So how do you separate who you were from who
the world still thinks you are?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Mhm h. I guess I just separated about a time,
like separated by time.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Time.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Time either is gonna fix everything or it's just gonna
make it worse, you know what I'm saying. So for me,
I feel like this time away fixed a lot of
things from me, you know what I'm saying, especially with
me and my family, Me and my sister, like we
always had each other back. You know, that's my gym
to one. You know what I'm saying. She June sixth,
I'm June seventh. You know what I'm saying. Uh, my
(17:35):
baby sister too, you know what I'm saying, my older
brother like commissary every week. You know what I'm saying,
even if I ain't even need it, but I really
didn't even need it. Like, but you know, any phone call,
I might just be going I just might be going
through something. I'm calling your sister.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
What you think? What you think they gonna think? They
still gonna rock with me when I.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Get home, you know what I'm saying, Like you know
how you saying if I leave a game, that gets
still gonna love me. You know, I'm like, uh and
then uh, just learning myself man, Like you know what
I'm saying, Like that detox and that detoxing and you know,
getting your body together, especially working out, working out kind
of like kind of got me together a lot too,
(18:18):
you know that discipline, like being at like I don't
feel like doing it, but still getting it done. Like uh,
just watching, just learning from the old heads in there.
You know what I'm saying. I was down with a
few homies. That's you know that's not coming home no
time soon, you know what I'm saying. Really probably no
time ever, depending on if they outlast the years, I
mean outlast the sentence. And you know, I got a
(18:39):
lot of wisdom from them, man, and they all like,
you know, the way you carry yourself, little bro. Like
you know what I'm saying, way you carry yourself. I
don't really lay everybody little broke me. But you know
certain people that I respect, you know what I mean,
I call them big bro, And they just the way
you carry yourself, the way you move. You know what
I'm saying. I see the way you move through here.
You ain't You ain't full of yourself. You don't think
you the ship. And you know what I'm saying, like
(19:00):
when you get out there, man like, like like do
it for the gods, but we don't want to see
you back in here, man like, you got a lot
of shit to look out to. And then you know
a lot of people, Hey, hey, hey, hey, guess what
I'm in here with. You know what I'm saying, Hey, Oh,
tell them to send me a picture so you know,
I'll take a picture for the gods. We send the
autographs and shit like that. And yeah, me and my daughter, man,
the man, I'm like, man, I don't even know your
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daughter knew I was, you know what I said? They younger, now,
you know what I mean. So it was just like
every every time I start to feel like I don't
know if it's gonna be it is hey, yo, man,
somebody saying, I'm like, well then, like I remember in
twenty twenty five, like the top of twenty twenty five
that was doing like the again thing with the JBL
speaker shit. So and it was like that my sister,
(19:41):
hey trending, I'm like, how the fuck what I do now?
Like you know what I'm saying, like what I do,
Like I'm in trouble with some shit like but it's
just like every time I started feeling down or feeling
like like out of like like like it wasn't gonna
be nothing for me when I come home, something always
reminded me man like, So like I said, either Tim
gon't either fix it make it worse.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So but this for me, Tom made everything better for me.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You know, you know, you know at your peak, everything
was moving fast, right, but then when you in prison,
everything stops. How did that shift your sense of purpose?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
It was much needed. It was much needed, for sure,
definitely much needed. And a lot of people say I'm
crazy for that, you know what I'm saying, But you
got one day you downtown selling CDs, trying to make
a name for yourself, and then you got another day
you on you on, you on stage with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You know what I'm saying. And then it's like you
do so much.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Everything was a blur, like you know what I'm saying,
Like I was moving so fast half the times. I
don't even have pictures of everything out did I'm like,
ain't send me pictures that you ain't got nothing, like
you know what I'm saying. So it was like, all right,
let me see where I went wrong over here or
what I did this, and you start to you know,
you just take mental notes like you learn yourself, man,
Like you learn yourself. Like I said, you're either gonna
(21:01):
get better or you're gonna get worse. You know what
I'm saying. You're gonna give up on yourself? Are you
going to go hard for yourself? You know what I'm saying.
So for me, it's just like I gotta go harder, man,
Like I can't. This can't be it for me right here,
Like you know what I'm saying, Like, ain't no way
I'm about to just come home and just go get
a job or some shit, like you.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Know what I'm saying like I'm not going to target
like you know what I'm saying, Like, I gotta do
what I love to do. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
If I gotta, if I gotta, if I got a
man up and take responsibility for the ship that I
did to make to get me in this position, I'm
gonna do that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I did three hundred treat I seen you. You went
to three hundred yesterday. How was that reception?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Man, you know it's it's love.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And I've been with them for eleven year, oh ship, No,
it was six for twelve years now. Yeah, we've been
to goother for everybody left three hundred. When was the
same people there right right? That Salam show there, right,
that Salame show there. I think if I'm not mistake,
I don't want to miss miss like uh but I
think they're like the president or something like that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yes, Seline, just I think you've got promote.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah sure yeah man.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But so now what's your mind frame with doing music now?
Is it one time you went straight street, another time
it was crossover and party and music. So what's what's
Fettie's feeling.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Now, I don't have a I don't have a like
a genre. Man, Like, whatever I feel, I just do it,
you know what I'm saying, Like I don't really have
like a I don't want to be in a box. Yeah,
Like I don't want to be like that that that guy.
You know what I'm saying. If it sounds good, if
it feel good, I'm gonna do it. It's just it's
all up to the people reception of it, of course,
(22:34):
you know what I'm saying. But I don't try to
just stay you know what I mean, Because what I
feel like personally, I feel like when you when you
become a certain kind of artist, you have to follow
a certain kind of uh movement, you know what I'm saying.
So if you're a gangster artist, you gotta be a
gangster all day. If you're a trap artist, you gotta
(22:57):
really trap about this, you know what I mean, You
gotta really know what you're talking about. If you're a
pop artist, you know what I'm saying, you can't be
you know what I mean, Like, you can't be you
can't certain things you do. Like, But with me, it's like,
you know, even when when I'm like when I'm in prison.
A lot of people listen to the songs and they like,
ain't no way that's the same dude that's singing these songs. Like,
(23:17):
you know what I'm saying, just by the way I
carried myself. But then this is where I come from,
you know what I'm saying. A lot of people misconcept
the artists for the person. So they're thinking like, oh,
he's singing and you know what I'm saying, he probably
this way, and they it was good. It was popping
where the guys at.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
What that's funny?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
W you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Like, So for me, I don't want to be in
a box. I don't want to be I just want
to be a great artist.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Like, did your voice ever change? I think the first
project to the second project, it felt like your voice changed.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
A little bit. Yeah, for sure that for.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Something you did on purpose or was it from drinking
and smoking?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
She just came from getting older. I was.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Word, man, I was you know what I'm saying, Like,
there's certain ranges and shit, I couldn't It's kind of.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Hogh dam, but.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Hmm, I think more so more so for me it
was just like I was trying to find a way
to just do something different, you know what I'm saying,
because trying to follow, trying to follow these songs was
damned the impossible. I'm stressing myself out trying to make
another six seven, I try to make another Midway, try
to make.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Another Trap Queen.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
It's like this ship not gonna happen, bro, It's just
it is what it is, you know what I'm saying.
And the way they built, like the way that the
song's hyped up, like I can't it's like, you know
what I mean, It's a lot of people don't get
a Trap Queen record, so trying to follow that shit
is like damned impossible, you know what I'm saying. I'm
not saying it is, but that's tough, man. Like that
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feeling like the ship I was going through at that time,
you know what I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I wasn't going through that no more.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You know, like a lot of that plays and a
lot of that plays a role, and you know, I
like a lot of things. I'll be saying, like you know,
when you follow artists from the beginning and once they pop,
you kind of like, eh, I don't know what the
hell you're talking about you know what I'm saying, Like,
I don't relate to that. And it was like the
same thing happened with me. You know what I'm saying.
It was just like when we're doing trap quain, this
(25:17):
is real shit, Like well, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We we outside, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm we're looking through the little uh, we're looking through
We're looking through such things.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You like that? Me?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I like that one. If I could get this one,
I would get it in this color. You know.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We we like that until and then it went to
which one of these you want? You know what I'm saying,
We're gonna take both of them.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Like life changes, so life experience change, so music change.
So it was like from the Fetti Wop album towards
the Butterfly Effect. You know, I was going through a
lot of ship uh, a lot of personal things was happening.
So with the when the Butterfly Fact, it was more
so me telling my story than trying to make.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
A hit record.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
So what do you coming back to music? What do
you focus on?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Cause people want to hit, but you've got a lot
of life to talk about at this point you spend years.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I mean, honestly, I don't feel like that's important. Like
like I did my time. You know what I'm saying.
I did my time. It's a lot of rappers that
went to jail. I mean, I hate to say it
like that. They came home and you know what I'm saying,
they want if they chose to talk about their jail shit,
that's them, you know what I'm saying. Like me, I
did my time with the guys in there, you know
(26:29):
what I'm saying, and they all bro leadership behind you
and you walk out leave ithead. You know what I'm saying.
We trying to see you on TV. Everybody wanted. But listen,
I'm gonna tell y'all something in jail. There's three things
that you don't turn the TV from. Sports, news, love,
and hip hop. That's just the three things in jail,
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you don't turn the TV from.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Something might happen to you. You know what I'm saying. But
you know that's just we want to see you on TV. Bro.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We trying to hear on the radio. I know when
you Bro get twenty days, I want to hear something
new on it. On the computer, you know what I'm saying,
Like this is the type of motivation I was having,
So I don't. I don't to come home and to
talk about that shit. It's pointless. I did my time
in it some.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Because I'm wondering, like, will you're writing change now that
you've lived such a real life consequence instead of success.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I guess, uh. I wouldn't say it'll change.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I guess it's always going to change, especially when when
you're trying to be creative. But more so, I uh,
I just feel like I just feel like I gotta
I appreciate music more. I appreciate I appreciate life more,
like just checking out, going to seven eleven for a
(27:47):
bottle of water. You know what I'm saying, Like I
appreciate everything, just to even just sit here without you
know what i mean, visit over you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Know what I'm saying Like that, you know what I'm
say saying for real? So you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You're watching people walk out the song, You're looking at
that exit sign like damn, I can't wait to it's
my turn. You feel what I'm saying. So it's like
I just appreciate everything, man, like I'm never gonna forget it.
You know what I'm saying, I ain't gonna never forget it,
but I'm not I'm not trying to make that my
focal point. Like you know what I'm saying, I don't
want nobody to feel bad for me. I'm knowing for
making we're gonna have fun when these shits come on.
(28:22):
Everybody want to grab it.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
I remember what I was doing at this time that
I'm trying to keep that. I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh he talking.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I lived this hit for real, like and if anybody
that that was locked up with me, they'll tell you.
Like Bro said on Business Like, you know what I'm saying,
I wasn't wasn't in there playing around, you feel me?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So it was just like I ain't. I'm chilling with.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The ever moment. You know, it was so noisy in
your life before you went in with the ever A
moment when you was in prison where you fell in
love with the silence.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Yeah, for sure, definitely. I think I told my sister
that a few times too.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I just like, man, I want to say, what year
was that, twenty fourteen?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I think we did. I think I did six seven
nine On my birthday in twenty fourteen. That was the
year we signed a deal with three hundred. I think
like around November or September or something like that. I
don't remember nothing else besides getting sentenced.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Like from there it was just.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
A blurd yeah wow, Like I really, I think the
earliest thing I remember with Southwest Southwest and the next
thing I know, it was like I'm about to go
to jazz, like for real, Like it was just like that.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So it's like, like, damn with it.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I was just twenty three years old, you know what
I'm saying, like in my thirties now mid thirties, Like,
shit's crazy, you know what I'm saying. Looking at my son,
I'm like, well he was only five years old when
all this shit was happening, you know what I'm saying
Like that, So it's just like, man, everything just happened
so quick.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It was just crazy. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
There's a Bible scripture. I think it's a Psalm forty
six ten. Be still and know that I am God.
Nobody know. I know people probably said that to you
when you said you you fell in love with the
silence a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, I mean, I just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
It just felt good to just hear myself think for
a second, slow it down, take just take control of
my own my own life.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
How you gonna keep that going now?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Because like once things start going and you're moving around
and you're touring and all that stuff, like the noise
is gonna come comes with the celebrity life.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh trust me, it's a lot in prison. It's live.
As soon as they pop the doors, it's live. You
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You just gotta whether it be you got your workout team,
you know what I'm saying, we hit the yard at
a certain time, you know what I mean, we're gonna
get our money, all you got. You just you know,
you're getting you in your sad or your bunk and
you just you know what I mean, Yo, Look how
that later?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
You know what I mean, Like they gonna respect it,
or you know what I mean, or you make them
respect it.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
So it's kind of like the same thing for me,
except this time I'm just going to go in the house,
like going to.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
The crib, off like talking and take my phone.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's how did time the time away change your relationship
with fame?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I mean, I think everybody know, I didn't really care
about being famous. I don't think that was like a secret.
I didn't. I don't. That's that's that was never the goal.
You know what I'm saying, Like that was never the goal.
I just wanted to make everybody. I just wanted to
get a Ferrari, I said, And you.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Got a few of those if being loved these all
types of shit.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I just wanted to ferrari. You know what I'm saying.
I just wanted ferrari.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
About your mama house, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, man, they used to ride the motorcycles in the
Atlanta house. Yeah I didn't know that and everything they said.
I used to ride the motorcycles in the Atlanta house.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Like my dirt bike chef. We just ride through the house.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
How much did you have in your account at the
peak of everything? Like, what number did you look at you? Like, god, damn,
at the peak of everything? How much did you have
in your account?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
A lot? It was a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It was like hundreds of millions.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'm still trying to get to one hundred millions. Yeah,
I had a few. I had a few.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
What part of your old lifestyle do you not want back?
Even even if the money is there with it.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Uh, the feeling the need to take care of everybody. Uh,
everybody don't deserve me. Man, you know what I'm saying,
Like I'm I'm a real lord person, I'm real, I'm
loyal to a fault in a sense, and I'm loyal
to the court. When I love you, I love you
to deaths Like you know what I'm saying, I'll go
to the end of the world for you. Like you
know what I'm saying, Like it ain't nothing I won't
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do for nobody I love so, Uh, that part of me,
I don't. I don't miss it at all. Yeah, I
blocked him out. That was one of the main I
guess you could say. No, I'm a geminar, so the
other side of me, I blocked him out, and definitely
so for that ship. Like yeah, if I don't, I
don't feel like I owe nobody nothing. I did it already.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You just got home yesterday, right, Uh on this Wednesday?
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Like forty eight hours?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, seventh Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
It was not real fast.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
This is a lot days.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
It feels like you've been here for about three weeks
for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Do you even get some checks yet?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You ain't even letting the band breathe weird.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I saw Masika tweeting about, yeah, that whole situation.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
She wanted that I was going to.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Ask a question regardless you all in his bedroom, but
I mean, okay, some asking you. I saw her tweet
about disappointment and I know you guys have a daughter together,
like what's the plan for you or her moving forward?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Because that gets loud.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
I appreciate her for you know, I appreciate her for
making sure. She making sure that my daughter knew that
I love her. She didn't she didn't try to keep
her away at this time. You know, during that time
I was damn uh. You know, whenever I called for her,
she let me talk to her.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I don't got nothing bad to say about her, so whatever,
I don't know, I don't be I'm not really a
social media person.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Would you jump back on the reality show? Would you
do that?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
I promise my gods, I'll do it for them. But
I don't you know what I'm saying. That's not that's
not nothing that I would have chosen for myself. But
like I said, when you when you're down, you just
like damn, I should have did that, man, so I
could you know what I'm saying, Like it's just a
whole bunch of things you just wish you should have did.
But yeah, as far as that situation, yeah, I don't
have nothing bad to say about nobody.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What I'm saying, how do you plan to break cycles? Man?
You know what I'm saying, Like not just financially, but
emotionally and spiritually.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Just like I said, man, with time, man, Like I
know it's probably like a like a like a corny answer,
but like like I don't know how to explain that
to you, Like I really don't know how to make
it sound like how I feel about it, you know
what I'm saying, Like just to have time to just
it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
A wonderful feeling man.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Like it's a lot of people waiting for their time
to come, you know, to come home, to be back
with their family, like you know what I'm saying. Or
like when you want to visit floor and you keep
looking at the at the clock, like time, what's up?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Like that word is powerful, bro, Like you.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Know what I'm saying, Like, like to have time is
a lot, so to take advantage of it. So you
know what I'm saying, Like to end my cycles, I'm
gonna do it with time, like when what time comes
great things for me? Like and I noticed that no
matter what, like I haven't had a I haven't had
a single besides the Yams things in ten years, bro,
(36:13):
you know what I'm saying. And somehow, some way, every
year one of them songs just get Do you all
remember when we just used to scream seventeen thirty? Like somehow,
some way, if something happens, where they where's fetti?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
And it just like like damn, I had to ask myself, like, bro,
where you at?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You know what I'm saying. And with time I figured
that question out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
So what kind of example are you most intentional about setting?
Not at your home?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Oh honestly, I just want to like show kids, like
especially kids with disabilities. You know what I'm saying, Like
kids with disabilities, kids that's less fortunate, kids that like
grew up without their pops or grew up without their moms,
or grew up in a foster kid that you know
what I'm saying, It's nothing impossible.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You know what I'm saying, Like I.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Wasn't supposed to be able to drive, let alone even
see I was born with congeneral black homer. You know
what I'm saying. It was supposed to affect both of
my eyes, you know what I'm saying, But they save one.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
So like.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I really want to do like a foundation for kids
that's like to to to better them with whatever the
disability may be. You know what I'm saying. Of course,
you know I fight for the for the for the blindness,
you know what I'm saying. That's just you know, it's
quite obvious why. But I just want to set an
example that you know, no matter what you go through
in life, like you don't have to let that define you.
(37:41):
Like you know what I'm saying, Like for years, you know,
some people are going to say, oh, well he went
to jail, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You got him.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Some people that that remind that remembers me from the music,
you know what I'm saying. But you have to set
the standard. You have to kind of narrate what you
want to be or who you're going to be. So
I just want to, like I just want to be
there for the people that don't got nobody, you know
what I'm saying. And if I could do that, then
I feel like I you know, I did a lot.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I mean one of the dopest stories I heard. I
don't know if it's true, but you said used to
wear the prosthetic guy, but you stopped, Yeah, because you
wanted to embrace the natural look.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, for sure. Definitely.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
When we got your statement when you first came home,
I posted it and the biggest feed that feedback that
I got from, like the audience who like pays attentions
when I'm posting the stories, is people really appreciated that
the first thing you talked about was doing stuff for
kids and what you wanted to do with your community
and the foundation and not music.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Like people were like we love that.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yeah, I mean, you know it's just like, first of all,
I have kids myself, like and like I said, I was,
I missed a lot of their life. You know what
I'm saying, I missed a lot of to me important parts.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Of their life.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Even if I see the phone calls, like sometimes it's
not enough, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
So and then like to.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Before that, I'm running so much like I'm doing so
much that I like, I really wasn't making time for
my own kids, you know what I'm saying. And I
feel like I feel like, no, I was fucked up
for that, you know what I'm saying. No matter how
how I tried to justify, Oh, I needed to get
the money, so we've got the money. That might be good.
I could make sure they always got rid of it.
(39:19):
It doesn't matter, you know what I'm saying. One thing
I learned that the most important thing you could do
for these kids is give them time. You know what
I'm saying. Like there's nothing there's nothing bigger than time
and showing up. And you know what I'm saying, Just
comm here, let's watch Frozen, and you know.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
What I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
You want let's go. You want to learn how to
throw football, Let's go throw the football. Buying them Shit,
ain't gonna do it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
You're just gonna be You're just gonna be the nigga
with the money like you're not.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That, you know what I'm saying, gonna be the name
of the new album.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
That sounds fired. But nah, I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Nah, time is just something that means a lot to me,
man Like, that's just it. Just I learned a lot
within these within these few years, especially about myself, about
how I want to approach certain things, and like when
it comes to like helping the kids, man like, it's
something I always did anyway. You know, I'm just like
I said, I'm real private. And maybe it's a bad thing,
(40:12):
you know what I mean, because you know I had
that mind state like damn you why you gotta post everything?
Like I used to always say that to me, Like
why they always got to post it if they're doing
the shit from the heart, you know what I'm saying,
And like I kind of understand now, like maybe some
people want to see it.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Some people don't.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
But for me, if everybody knows me, like I pull
up all the kids around, everybody get one hundred dollars
like little stuff like that. It was back to school drives.
We do back to school drives every year, you know
what I'm saying, Resting peace of my cousin Jay, like
we did the rest of the back to school drives
every year. Jday, we do like two thousand book bags,
sneakers and school supplies without a post. You know what
(40:51):
I'm saying, Like this is what we do. Like no,
it's no secret to the community, but it's a secret
to the world. So it's like for me, helping the
kids is something that I owe always been, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I know how I.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Felt to go to school with some fucked up sneakers.
I knew how I felt that, Like Damn, I don't
really want to wear this because I just have. I've
been wearing the same jeans for three days. You know
what I'm saying, Like I know that feeling. I know
that feeling of like getting laughed at and stuff like that,
you know what I'm saying. So when it came to
when it was my turn, instead of me being there
for for for my little ones, you know what I'm saying,
(41:24):
I'm thinking, let me make sure they all flyers had
like you know what I'm saying, so they don't have to.
You don't got to worry about that feeling, you know
what I'm saying. Just get me good grades and you
know it's it's a it's a bigger gap than that,
you know what I mean. So, uh, just that just
just to be there and you know, let them let
them see you, like you know what I'm saying, Like,
let them see you, let them be next to you, like, Yo,
(41:45):
can I sit sit in the car my door open,
go ahead like bro nose like you know what I'm saying,
like my doors to go ahead, sit in the car, sitting,
take your pictures, do what you want.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
You can stand on top of this motherfucker. I don't care.
It's just a material item, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
So I just I just want to be the best
I could be for whoever that's gonna appreciate me.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I feel like in a way man, you know, and
of course prison takes years from your life, but I
feel like it also gave you the clarity to finally
own your life.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yeah for sure, in the right way. Yeah for sure.
I definitely agree with you on that.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Well, we appreciate you for joining us, man, and I
can't wait to hear new music. I know, ain't got
nothing now, right, No, just double checking man.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Post it on the foundation work too, the foundation work.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
For sure. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Thank you absolutely. How do I do?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Got a couple more questions? How do you protect your freedom? Now?
Like I mean mentally, I mean financially, I mean spiritually,
Like how do you protect that freedom?
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Like I said, man, turn that phone off, give yourself.
It's just saying we got we got in jail, right
if you could, if you could watch.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
TV for an hour, you could do anything for hour.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
So out of jail, of course, we don't have to
be at certain things at certain times.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Give yourself to our a day for yourself.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Go in there, close the door, meditate whatever if that's
what you want to meditate.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I don't know. Do some yoga or some shit. I
don't know. I don't know how to do.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Yoga and shit, I'm not flexible and shit. But for me,
I like pull ups. That's what I do. I like,
that's what I That's how I that's my thing. I
throw the headphones on, put the music on, do pull ups.
When I'm up there, I don't count.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
I think. I just go I'm all right. This was
like get down, all right? Walking around next? Know what
I mean.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
We're in the line and every time I hit it,
I just think about something else, you know what I'm saying.
Then I go back, I sit down, you know, take
my shower.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
This's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna do this. I'm
gonna do this. I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
You know, just you gotta find time for yourself to
give yourself time to do things, you know what I'm saying.
So that's basically how how I could keep my freedom.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Do you believe the system, the prison system is designed
for rehabilitation or just survival.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
The outside prison system or inside inside.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
M I don't know if I can talk about that, Like,
I don't know if I can talk about that, but
my personal experience, if I had to give you an
answer to be no, yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
How did I guess what I'm saying. Of course you survived,
but how did you kind of rehabilitate yourself? Because I'm
seeing I feel the older wives of Fetti like, so
what did you do? You said exercise?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yeah, I like to learn shit, man. So I talked
to a lot of the old ads, you know, like
what you did, how you how you fuck up?
Speaker 2 (44:36):
You know what I'm saying, what you did wrong? You
know what I'm saying, what you did wrong?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
And then you hear you hear like they got classes
like so the state present and federal prison is two
different things. You know what I'm saying so, and in
federal prison, the prisoners run the jail. You know what
I'm saying as far as let me let me rephrase
that because I might get it wrong. Uh, the prisoners
(45:01):
run the programs in jail. So if you like taking
classes like I got my g D and uh uh
in prison, thank you?
Speaker 2 (45:09):
You know we did I did that.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
They have like stock classes or like what is it
called S and P Fortune something like that, S and
P five hundreds, and they teach you about the Billinger top,
Billinger thing bottom, Bullaing, all of that stuff. If you
if that's what you went to, they got whatever you want.
If you want to learn Spanish, you could go in
there and learn Spanish. If you if you don't know Spanish,
you want to learn English, you go in there and
learn English. Like it's ways to better yourself. But the
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actual system now it's fucked up.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Yeah, and it's got to be more fucked up for
people who were actually rich and famous, you know what
I mean. Yeah, you totally different.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
And that's that's that's the thing I always say too,
Like you know that part, that part of being in
jail was always the worst part for me, because you're
not coming, Like, no matter what spot I was at,
you don't just come in and you know, get yourself together.
They know I was coming before I even knew I
was going there, Like people knew I was coming weeks
(46:10):
before I even landed on it, before I landed on
the yard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
So it's like, all right, let's let's just get this.
Let's just get this. Is straight to the.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Point I be like, you know what I'm saying, I'm
not about to be singing for nobody. We ain't about
to be yelling seventeen thirty eight. But you know what
I mean, like, no, you just you just be a man.
You know what I'm saying, Be a man.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Man. They gonna they gonna respect it. Man, they don't
respect it.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
What do people misunderstand about incarceration if they've never experienced Oh.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Hmm, wait, asked me a question.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
What do people misunderstand about incarceration if they've never experienced it?
Speaker 2 (46:50):
I think people think jail is like old jail.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
When I say that, like, I don't know if people
are watching like the show to ows Man like like that,
like in Jail's not like that, no more. It ain't
like that no more. Don't get me wrong. It's violent,
it's hell definitely violent. But state president and federal president
is way different, like it was way way way different.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Like it's way different.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
It's like goddamn government in there. It's politics, you know
what I mean. You've got you this person. You're wrong
with these people if you this, you wrong with them
and you can't even do nothing. You can't even do
nothing without accent this dude and he go to ot
access and then it's it's it's different. People misunderstand, like
you don't just go to jail and just think.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
I don't know, I don't even know. I don't even
know how to answer that.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
But you know, I don't want to tell nobody to
go to jail, you know what I'm saying. But if
you want to figure out what it's like go to jail.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
What does redemption actually look like for you?
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Loving on my kids?
Speaker 1 (47:57):
Man?
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Yeah, loving a my kids. I just want you know,
when I'm able to just.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Come on, let's go. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (48:09):
I'm in there watching I've never been on the cruise before,
and I just seen like I was every day.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
The commercial come on.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Just said the same thing when he was like the cruise.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Yeah, like that's something you just it's it be little
ship like that.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
Like I swear when I was home, uh, Chick Filate
didn't have mac and cheese yet, and so every day
Chick Filate show macaroni and cheese. I'm like, what the fuck, Damn,
I gotta get some macaronie. But you know it's like
little things like that, you know what I'm saying. So man, Like,
I just want to love on the kids. Man, That's
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what my redemption feel.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
Like.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
I get them. I want to go on the cruise.
Speaker 4 (48:48):
I want to take them to Aspen in the winter,
get a cabin, do the hot chocolate ship. I want
to take them to Norway so they could see the water.
I want to take them everywhere like Florence, my favorite
place I been with Florence. I want to take them
there so we go get some real Talian food. Like
you know what I'm saying, Just I just want to
I just want to experience this shit with them, like
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you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Like I said, like I.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Like, they deserve they deserve me, you know what I mean?
Everything I gave these niggas, all them twenty cars that
I let everybody drive and we out at Atlantic City
all this time.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
And you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
I'm telling myself, Oh no, you know I'm getting the money,
so everything good.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
I could do this I deserve.
Speaker 4 (49:26):
That's that's bullshit, you know what I'm saying, Even when
it comes down to what you asked me earlier, as
far as my daughter's mom, like you know, like, no
matter what happens, as a man, you stand up. So
it doesn't matter what anybody says about me. You know
what I'm saying, Like you take care of my you
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take care of my kids. I'm a love you forever,
it doesn't matter, like you know what I'm saying. And
I appreciate each one of my kids moms. You know,
they all healthy, they all in school, they all breathe,
then they're all doing anything. You know what I'm saying, Like,
and uh you know, oh yeah, And I want to
say I appreciate uh my daughter Lawrence mother too. She
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was she was there at the beginning of this bit
for me, you know, when she didn't have to be.
You know, she was going through her own thing, you
know what I mean. So yeah, I just I don't
have time for negativity, man, Like I don't want to
be a negative person. I'm not even gonna feed into
no negative shit man. And and that's how I'm gonna
keep it going from here. Like I'm just gonna keep
(50:31):
going up.
Speaker 6 (50:31):
You're in the right place. What you give out is
what you're going to track. You're in the right place.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
And I know it's only been forty eight hours, but
you know what conversations with your kids, if you had that,
that just hit different.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Gonna. Son's funny as my oldest son, he's funny. Is yeah,
he's a uh yo, I'm your height now, like chill,
baby boy.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
You know what I'm saying. I have to do it.
You know what I'm saying. You know, man, but he
gonna you know he that won't work out. Or the
first day out. He took my chain, oh all, my
my my nephew, my nephews, they took my chain and
my hats.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
They took everything, the cloth and all. Yeah, they depot me.
Were it up? So?
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Uh my oldest daughter she you know, she's she don't
play no games neither. She listen to that. I don't
know what you're doing, but figure it out. I need
to see you.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
You know what I'm saying. Wow.
Speaker 4 (51:24):
So it's just it's just man, I'm just happy, man, Like,
I'm just happy to you know, see their face when
that face time came through and they.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Who and you know, to see that reaction like, yeah,
daddy home.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
You're surprising. They didn't know.
Speaker 4 (51:38):
Uh, some of them knew, but they didn't know exactly
when I was gonna pop up.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, so it was like that, Oh, congratulations, man, I'm
happy that you home and I'm happy to hear the
clarity more soon than anything.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
So you know, thank you.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
We appreciate you. I'm sure you'll be up here with
many some music soon.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I got you man.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
And don't rush through. Get some cheeks for us, these
cheeks man.
Speaker 5 (52:03):
If you're not in your pocket here bedroom, get out
all right.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
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