Today on The Breakfast Club, YG Talks 'THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUB,' Vulnerability, Evolution, L.A. Street Politics, Grief. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Every day up waiting, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
You don't finish for y'all done.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Morning.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
Everybody's the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we
are the Breakfast Club. Laura ROAs is here as well.
We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, ladies,
a gentleman of y g Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Brother. What what are you feeling? How's your energy this morning?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Brother? I'm good. I feel good. You just landed. You
just you just around right, something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You just like that on a plane. I know they
pulled you to the side.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
No, no, no, no no, I'll just put this on
the You know what I'm saying, it's the fit.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The album of the Gentleman's Club. Is that the new
way to stay therapy the therapist office?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, okay, pretty much. You know what I'm saying. Well,
we'll break it down.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Well, break it down the meaning of Gentlemen's Club and
why you called it that, because the first thing people
gonna think is when you seen Generman's.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Club, strip club, the club you got list.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
But it's a lot different from that. So break down
why you play with the words like that.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
So like I took the Gentleman's club concept, you know
what I'm saying, because like I'm known for like party
music and all that. She was like all right, bet,
but I put a little twist on it, you know
what I'm saying, like like the Gentleman's Club, like with
the album like for me, like I mean grown man growth,
you know what I'm saying, And like with with the
(01:33):
concept of the album, like I like I built the world.
It's like, oh, the Gentleman's Club is like a place
like you can come and we can talk as men,
you know what I'm saying, talk about things that men
don't normally speak about, you know what I'm saying. And
the interest how you get in this club? You know
(01:54):
what I'm saying. You got to kill your old self,
you know what I'm saying. So that's your entry. Like
so yeah, but I just played with it, like you know,
I put the dress code with it, black tied fear.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I love the concept.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Did you ever feel trapped by by by a version
of yourself like that the O. G.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Street version?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, for sure. I don't want to say I felt trapped,
but like you know, I was doing that and giving
the world that for so long, like people started to think,
you know what I'm saying, that was all I had
or you know what I'm saying, that was all.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I knew how to do, you know what I'm saying,
And I really be on some.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Artist ships, I'm like, all right, this album right here,
I'm gonna let y'all know, like I'm more than that.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You know what I'm saying. You can look at me
like like different, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, So I had to, like I had to get
this off my chest, you know what I'm saying, to
move forward.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Getting was it difficult? Now? I felt like I held
back for so long.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'm talking about just a lot of stuff due to
like my situation with the labels and shit, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I was holding back a lot. So like like.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
When I finally was like, yeah, I'm going there, I'm
finna do this, like I was ready, I'm like, bad,
let's talk, you know what I'm saying. And then I
was just going through life at the time, so like
like it felt good to like, you know what I'm saying,
busting records down, Like yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Did the label tell you not to do it. That
was they specific with like we only want club records
from you. Were they specific with telling you what to
do or what they wanted to put money intowards.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
So I was just like I was just going through,
like me finding out like what type of deal I
was in, you know what I'm saying. And when I
found that out, like early on, like I told myself
and all my peoples, I'm like, look, I'm not really
giving real albums and shit, so I'm finished just drop
projects until I get out my deal. Oh hell yeah,
(04:09):
just like most of everybody, you know what I'm saying.
But I just basically chouse to crash out, like you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I just you I'm finish just running shit up. But
like what I was.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Doing, it basically hurt me in the long run, like
how I felt, you know what I'm saying. But like
I made sure on every project I dropped, you know
what I'm saying, I got a hit, like that's mandatory,
But like as far as putting together like full complete
albums like how My Crazy Life was and all that,
and I wouldn't know that at all.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'm like, no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, you can't do that. The reason you can't do
that is because of my crazy life.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
My crazy life was such a complete body of work
from top to bottom with the skits and the storytelling.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You can't we.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Expect that from you at this and that's you feel me.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
That's why I said I crashed out because you know,
it's like, all right, yeah, you was mad at your situation,
but it's like, you know what I'm saying. You just
start doing whatever, and people started looking at you like that,
you know what I'm saying. So that's that's what I
was doing.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I saw that you said you had a conversation with
Kendrick about not putting out like rushing to get through
albums to get out of a deal.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You were talking about this same situation.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So there was in the midst of all of this.
So was he hearing the music and came to you, like, yo,
just hear something?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
He just no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
So I was just telling him like like the whole
like like the like the the whole concept of the
album and my intentions and my goals, you know, I mean,
like I just explained the same thing, Like I was
just doing that, like to get out my deal and
I'm like, yeah, you tripping you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm like, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, When did you realize why G? That you actually
needed to evolve instead of just sifve.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
O man?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I realized that like twenty twenty like two three, But
I started working on this album twenty twenty four. Yeah, So, so.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What happened in your life that made like self examination important,
like more so than just self reservation? Like what made
you finally take that step back and start doing that
in the work.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think like the situation.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Like I was explaining, like like I asked people like
like I started asking people this questioning like twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, Like I'm like, when you think of
why G, what you with? You Like, what's the first
thing that come up in your mom You know what
I'm saying. And I'm asking like.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Homies, females, people, what I work with. What I'm saying.
I'm just asking people.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
And everybody like super Blood, Red.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
L A and seeing you maneuver it's literally that party
in Hard Bottom now.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
But when you just said it, the first thing I
thought I was like the first thing that came in
my mind is blood. That's the first thing that came
in my mind when I thought about the second is
the music.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
The first ones to his style. We got a very
particular style. I think you dressed like Michael Jackson.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
So yeah, so like I I got saying, Prince.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
He would have been like, the hold up, Michael Jackson.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I feel like, yeah, yeah, no, that's a compliment.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah I'm saying yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I like I asked people that question, and you know,
they were saying that, and then I'm just like at
this time, I'm like, damn, I'm like a fashion thing.
I'll be dressing. I'm like a dad and I got
like two three businesses. I'm running like myself, like you
feel me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
That's all y'all think. You know what I'm saying. And
I had to like, so I'm asking them, like, why
do y'all think that they like? Well, bro, that's all
we see.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
We get on the internet, we see news clips, we
see you in real we see gang shit, and we
see homies doing we see you. And I was like, damn,
be right, like and then when it comes to the music, right,
when it comes to the music, you know what I'm saying,
Like I've been giving the same shit in the videos
(08:45):
and like that's all they seen. It's just all that,
you know what I'm saying. So I was like, all right,
like I gotta intentionally go and show y'all and give
y'all me in a different like way, you know what
I'm saying. So for me when I came with the
Gentlemen's clubs and I'm like, yeah, I'm finished black tied,
fear dress code. You know what I'm saying, everything black
(09:05):
and white on some grown ship. But don't get it
fucked up, like like what you think of me all that? Yeah,
I'm yeah, I'm not for sure you know what I'm saying.
But it's like that's just not.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It more than that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah you know so yeah that's what happened, bro. And
how has it changed been for you?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Because we see we've seen the change, We've seen you
dress up, we've seen you step outside of the box
before more did has it been well received or.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh yeah yeah? People?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah no, they they you know what I'm saying, Like
I've been I've been on some other ship like you
was just mentioning like I've been dressing like how I've
been dressing for a long time you know what I'm saying. So,
like like people already know, like if you know me,
if you around me, you already know, like yeah that
Niggan smother ship. But as far as me as an artist,
(09:56):
like what I've been giving to the world, like music, music,
video and all that, I've been giving them the same shit,
you know.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So, but I've been on some other ship.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Two of the best moments on the album, you know,
because it kind of crystallized, crystalized. The album is of
course hit Man and ready to die, right because as
you said, you know, you got to kill off an
old version of yourself. Do you think you have to
always kill off the old version of yourself to become
who you're supposed to be?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I mean, like when you come from like places like
I come from, and your lifestyle is what your lifestyle is,
and you you learned like a lot of things that
you learn in the streets, like I feel like to
get to that next point of like life, like like
being grown, like you definitely got to kill yourself because
all all I know is crash out like burnt fry
(10:47):
nigga shit.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
That's and I think we all think that's regular and
it's normal.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And then you know when you like when you.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Hit a certain age and you just start looking at
like life and damn, like when you start really breaking down,
like how this happen? What happened? It is like, well
you crashed out. Yeah, you responded to this like that,
you get you you and like you really you shouldn't
have been up over there like that, or your homiekeepers
sitting the been like why she's still over there? It's
(11:16):
really you know what I'm saying, you gotta deal with yourself.
So I felt like you come from the streets, you
gang bang whatever. You know what I'm saying, You gotta
unlearn a lot of the shit that we was taught.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I agree wholeheartily. But the streets won't let you do that.
A lot of times, streets was like you ain't not.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Be on that no more. But we are.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
We're still yeah yeah, no, I mean yeah, the streets
is gonna like the streets is gonna for show me
the streets. But it's like, bro, Like I felt like
everybody from where I'm from, bro, they already know. It's like, Bro,
I didnet did the streets all the way up, like
so it's like like the only thing that'll come next
for me, like still trying to do the streets up
(11:58):
like not music, but like in real life. Like it's
like I'm end up dead in jail. Like so it's
like like everybody know this. You know what I'm saying.
So it's like I got a pass, like you feel,
That's how I feel. But like you feel, this album
is not like this whole era. This album is not like,
(12:21):
oh I'm a square now, Like what.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You're doing now is more gangster than anything you've ever done, okay,
because you have to let go of that old version
of yourself that probably served as like a mask, right,
like a shield protection that armor. Now you're saying, now,
I can't use that no more. That don't serve me
no more. So here's me, real me that's more vulnerable
and more.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Than anything else.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
The Tyler Creative record that was like totally different from
what we usually get from YG.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
How did that collaboration come about?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How I collab come It's lit though, it's just okay, yeah, no.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
When I like when I made the record, Todd produced
the little beat, he made the beat, I went in
there did the song and then I'm whispering, and I'm
just like, like, whoever I put on this song, it
got to be an artist that like know how to
like like.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Play with his voice or just do some different shit. Right.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
So Tyler was one of the first motherfuckers I thought
of about.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I sent it to Bro and then this niggas sent
it back and he ain't even whispering. I'm like, like,
this niggas did the whole opposite, But you feel me.
That's why it's a good balance exactly, like you know
what I'm saying, but yeah, like yeah, that's how it happened.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's one of my favorite songs on the album is Insecure,
right because I think that you're talking about anxiety in
a very relatable way.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Insecure as fuck. I want to fuck this slut, but
I'm scared thinking how early I might know.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
You can tell me there before you insecure.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's why I'm off the liquor. That's why I pop
dick pills when I hit the strip. I understand what
you're saying. You're just talking about anxiety that comes with life.
That's just what you use to talk about. What made
you want to you know, do that record.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I mean like like the album is The Gentlemen's Club,
you know, and we're talking about we're talking about things
that like people who I'm from don't talk about them,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
So like like.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
The record or the Insecure record, Like as I'm piecing
the album together, you know what I'm saying, I was
probably like one of the like the third last record
I did. You know what I'm saying, what's that one?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right? The fourth? But I'm I'm I'm piecing the record together.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
The first myself record I've made on The Gentleman's Club
that's on the album was the mid Life Crisis record, right,
that's the last song, right, so boom I make that
record and then I'm like, I'm killing myself.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I like, you know what I'm saying, the old meat
right Like so now boom, I know how the album ending.
So I'm putting together It's like, all right, how did
we get here though, you know what I'm saying. So
I'm working backwards, so then boom, like I'll make hit
me boom and I'm just like all right, all right, cool,
like like I know I'm killing myself, how do we
(15:46):
get here? I put a hit out on myself trying
to high hit me, all right, cool boom. So then
I'm just keep piecing it together and it's just like
how do we get here? Like I'm going through every
phase of like, you know what I'm saying, want to
kill your old self, and like I feel like man,
niggas like we like we be having insecurities, you know
(16:10):
what I'm saying, and in life like to get you
feel me to the next phase wherever you're going through,
like like.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You gotta get through that shit. You gotta get over
that shit.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
So like like insecurities is some shit that you know
what I'm saying, Like you gotta kill too?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How hard did did they admit that?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Especially when you know you come from a culture where
it showing any type of weakness vulnerability can be taken
as you know, soft.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
So yeah, that's why I feel like everybody got insecurities, right,
But like I'm not like insecure when it comes to
like like like I know I ain't a soft nigga,
Like I know like you feel me. So it's just
(16:55):
like me and the homies we be in the group
chat talking about all types of shit be talking about
you know what I'm saying that like niggas don't really
talk about to the world, so I'm just like, nah,
I'm gonna talk about all this ship like we be
talking about all type of shit, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like, no, we canna put this in the record,
you know. And I feel like like on the verse
(17:15):
like I came, I came on the verse. My verse
represent like the street niggas, like the Fried niggas, like.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You know what I'm saying. And then like everybody else
did they thing.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, me being there with them rapping ass niggas.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh me that niggas so said this verse bag were
like what the this nigga? This squeak crazy this. I
was like, oh, you know what I'm saying, but like.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm saying, I'm a famous rapper, so I can have
any any girl that I want except that I want, damn.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
And then just how he like like like like how
he did his verse like you know what I'm saying,
and on some like spoken word type shit like that
shit was crazy. But yeah, bro that record, I feel
like it was like it was needed. Like if I'm
if I'm trying to if I'm like killing my old self,
like insecurities, Like it's definitely poort of that.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
What were some of the things that you realized that
you hadn't killed off by the end of the two
year span, like when you got to the end of
this album, that you were like, maybe I didn't deal
with that the way I thought I did I personally,
so like just anything that you addressed on the album,
whether it's like vulnerability or whatever as you're because you're
working backwards, like you know, right, So it's one thing
that she was like, I thought I got over this.
I thought I dealt with it, but I didn't.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
The we know the truth record is is that was
like the last record. No, that was the second to
last record I did on an album. And you know,
I'm a street nigga show.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You know, I'm like the last of a dying breed.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I'm like a street nigga that was like in the
streets when the Internet became a thing, you know what
I'm saying, So like like a nigga, like all I
know is like we don't get on the internet talking
about nothing, Like we don't talk about nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
We don't talk about nothing on the phone. We don't
do none of that, right.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
So so a situation happened and my name was all
in it, like like like I did something or whatever, right,
and people just on the internet just talking. I took
like the street nigga, like you feel me the law,
like I'm not saying nothing about nothing. I ain't talking
about nothing, And I thought I deal with that shit
(19:48):
like that, you know, by being silent like, but then
it just got to a point to where it's like
I'm like, nah, I gotta say something, you know what
I'm saying, Like I gotta speak on this show.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That was that moment right there.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But do they I guess that the people from the
other side, do they believe that, Like when you say
you ain't had nothing to do it that blah blah blah,
do they believe that?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean, like.
Speaker 11 (20:19):
You don't given it's like it's it's it's like it's
fat like it's it's it's fact, right, like like like I'm.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Not even gonna say what niggah I want to say, boy, like, man.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
You're doing great.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
He's doing great, because even when I'm listening to you
talk about the record right now, it's kind of hard
for you to speak about it because of the severity
of the situation.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Right, I know, it was hard to recall, like I.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Now, like you there's never been any charges officially for you,
Like you've never been charged with anything. You kind of
left everything alone when the rumors were circulating. Why talk
about it now?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Because people keep talking about on the internet and then like,
you know, family like calling like like you know what
I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
It's just your family or the opposite side, No, my.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Family, like people like and everybody like tapping in Like
I'm like, bro, ain't got nothing to do with that, Like.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Like we'll break it down because a lot of people
might not know what you you're talking.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
About politics, whether you wrapped about it or not.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You want to break it down.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Again with a girl like okay, yeah, got you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
One thing that you did mention in that record you
talked about the grief you was going through it that time.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yeah, because yeah, like like a week before that, you
know what I'm saying. So that was one of the
main things. It's like, bro, I got paid six hundred
thousand to do this show. You think I like, like
I can't do that, Like you know what I'm saying
it don't make no sense, like and then you like
(22:16):
the homie just got killed, you know, so it was like, bro,
like what they saying and how they saying it is like, bro,
that ship all cat. You know what I'm saying, Did.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You even give yourself time to grieve Slim or did
you just keep it moving?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
No, no, you know no I had time. I still
you know what I'm saying, Like going through that book. Yeah,
like I have to put the homie obituary together, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, his family was like, nah,
we want you to do it. So like that ship
right there was crazy, Like I was fucked up doing
that like it was.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
It was crazy. But it's dope though. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, LA's Creek politics one of the most complicated things
to ever even just witness. I can only just imagine
living it because just on the ourside looking in, it
just seems so impossible to navigate.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I mean, when you're from out there, that's all you know,
So it's normals, like you said, why, it's so.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It feels like it's almost impossible to navigate, like like
you said earlier, to not end up there, to not
end up in jail.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
In that lifestyle seems like okay, so complicated.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
So I tell people this all the time, right, I'm like, look, bro,
most of everybody who become successful from where they're from,
you know what I'm saying, They leave, they go move
to Atlanta, they go move to Miami, they go move
to LA.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
They go move wherever the fuck they go move to.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
When you a nigga from La Comptent, wherever you're from,
longba Wood, South Central, whatever, you from LA, we ain't leaving,
you know what I'm saying. You feel me just the
place everybody want.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
To move to.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Be from visiting all that. It's like we really ain't
really leaving like that, you know what I'm saying. So
niggas get money, become successful, and you know you would
move like out the way, but everybody moving out the way,
you know what I'm saying. And then you feel me
when you come outside, like you twenty miles away from
(24:38):
like where you're from, like where it's happening at, you
ten miles away from where some shit is happening at.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So it's like.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
You would go out and you would think you being low.
You'll be at Maestros and Malaebu and it's a whole
old table like niggas, it's probably your ops. Like you
know what I'm saying, They touching money. You got some money,
so niggas all like like he gets a treaty like that.
(25:11):
But like, like what I'm trying to say is we
stay in the city.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
And you know what I'm saying, We like it's close,
you know what I'm saying, Like it's close, so like
it's a dangerous like it's a dangerous lifestyle, you know
what I'm saying. Because you still like if you go
like and you having a club hosting or a booking
(25:37):
in like Hollywood or like downtown, all the hommies pulling up,
it's like whoever else pulling up, Like it's a whole
bunch of gang members in the party. Like that's just
what it is, you know what I'm saying. So as
far as on my side as an artist, you know
what I'm saying, having success and all that, being from
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the city, still living in the city. You know what
I'm saying, it gets tricky, Like it gets tricky because
then being a real nigga, you know what I'm saying,
you still pulling up.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You know what I'm saying. You still around popping out
like ain't thinking happened? But that makes it fun?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Of Did that make it work?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
If I gotta be on P's and Q's when I'm
with my son, I gotta be P's and Q's. I'm
taking my daughter, if I want to be P's and Q's,
if I want to go to my strolls or I
want to go shopping, does that make it fun and
worth it to you?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Especially?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
See it's the fuck up part. I'm from the ship,
so that lifestyle living like that and all that. I
know that, Like.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
You enjoyed the bull That's what That's what we're real
like not like to not the ship really is just
like it's like bro like like like so like everything
that comes with that, it's like bro, this wal it
consist of right, so you you you accept that.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And learn that like early on and yeah, like but.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
That's the part of me is like you gotta learn
that ship, bro, because it's like, yeah, like it's all
funny games until get bad, you know what I'm saying.
And it didn't got bad plenty of times. You know,
I'm just blessed niggas still here like so yeah, but
(27:41):
like when it come to my kids and like moving around.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Like I don't really play with that. So like.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Ye, I was literally about moving to play.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Everybody won't be but for harmony for the baby girls,
like you take them up out of it.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Like my daughter played tennis. So yeah, so I was
like like if we move, we'll be moving to like Florida,
like so she can go to im I MG Academy.
You know what I'm saying. Ship like that, but outside
of that, like I don't got no plans on moving.
(28:31):
No players, did you all leave in New York?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I living?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I live in Jersey now.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Live in the valley.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Is your daughter you see works?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
See works?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
No, you be like a b BB.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
My little daughter like my youngest one h she fried,
matter of fact, her birthday tomorrow, well birthday, I don't
know your birthday birthday and.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
She turned seven, but yeah, she be like she'd be
like what's up? Four hundred? Don't mean she she was
like what's up? Und I'll be like, man, what the fact?
Who taught you that? Like? Who told you that?
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Mary Bristle's daddy?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Four hundred? This man too? When you decided to step
away from like when you didn't want to do label
deal situation. Still it's four hundred label.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yeah, I got an artist like right now, Yeah, I'm back.
I'm back, but I'm I'm like, I'm taking a slow
like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You, yeah, rebuilding?
Speaker 6 (30:02):
What made you want to because I saw you say
you wouldn't It's not easy. You didn't want to do
the dealing artists no more?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yeah, because I feel like like early on, like when
I had like my label, my JV a lot of
more artists, it was like homies and and people that
became like friends because you know, we're young, and everybody
that come around me from ended up feeling like a
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part of the family and hamony vibes and all that
because from that's just my energy, which I learned it's
not it's not good.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
You can't really like it ain't good, you know what
I'm saying all the time. So like a lot of
stuff just I feel like when left or ain't really
be what it could be, meet.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Us full potential because of like that.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
So you know, I like, like I said, shut through,
like the label down for like some years and I'm like, man,
look I'm not feeling do nothing with no orders. Shit,
I gotta figure this shit out. And then I that's
the part I figured out. I'm like, like I become
like the bro. You know what I'm saying, Like the bro,
(31:19):
I become the bro and the hommy. And it's like, yeah,
that's straight, but it ain't always good for business, you
know what I'm saying. So, like my approach now is
just like fall back, Like if I got artists, like,
let them do their thing, chime in when I need
to chime in, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, but
(31:43):
I got a new orders to ain't peyt gotty and
shit he watched in the Gang Business Yeah, the Game
Business record.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You know what I'm saying, Younger he got it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Now let's talk about the Tiffany record that was trending
right before we went on a break.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I ain't know people was mad at you or not.
Some people say it was a cautionary story. I just
felt like it was reinforcing homeful stereotypes about transgender people.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Nah. Like like so like I said, like the album
The Gentlemen's Club, like it's a place like man come
to to talk about things that we normally don't talk about.
And when I was making this album, I don't know
if if y'all remember, but like one of the first
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songs I put out from this whole era, it's called
two thousand and four, and the song start and it's
like when I was young, I got raped by bitch
twice my age, you know what I'm saying. So I
put that song out first, like kind of like let
people know, like I'm on that, you know what I'm saying,
(32:51):
We finish, I'm fineling like I'm feeling I'm on that, right. So,
when I was making this album, we'll have sessions like
in the studio and shit we have like sessions with
like homies, is like we all talk about like shit
that we never like talked.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
About, you know what I'm saying, And like everybody was saying, like, yeah, bro,
this happened. You feel me. I had my shit.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
You fe homies like I ain't even know, Like you
ain't never talked about that. You should me have the
homies Like yeah, that same shit happened to me who
I was young.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Like it's like, yeah, like we all got raped, Like you.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Know what I'm saying, and one of the homies he
he like he told his story and it was like
hard of him and like really like tell it and
then you feel me he told it and like damn,
and he was like, yeah, bro, like like you know
what I'm saying, you should, like if you can find
(33:50):
a way to like rap about this, like make a
song about it, you know what I'm saying, Like, I
think you should do it. And I'm just like I'm
like yeah, like because it's it's like it's a situation
that happens in our community, and like people don't know
how to talk about it. People scared to talk about it,
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you know. And then when it coming like like artists
and making music like or just speaking about certain things,
people are scared, you know what I'm saying, because people like,
oh I don't want to get canceled or or whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Right.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
So I was just like, yeah, that's that's kind of
hard to like make a song about like without nobody
getting mad, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
So like it took me a minute, and I'm just like,
you gotta tell the story. Yeah, the truth is the truth.
I'm an artist, I'm storytelling, you know what I'm saying,
and this is a real situation that happens, you know,
And I'm like, what.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
What, Well, let me put the record out.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
While I was like all right, yeah, I'm cool with this,
it's because I ended up telling the both sides, you
know what I'm saying. And I'm like, ifee me just
as a human, I'm like, all right, if I write
this record, listen to this record.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And it sounded sound and then at the end you
get you got both sides of the story.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
I'm like, people are like like, understand that and appreciate
that and look at it like, no, this art, like
you know what I'm saying, it's real, Like this art,
he's storytelling, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
So yeah, bro, that's all it was. Is not no
hate record.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I'm not trying to tell nobody to like do anything
violent to nobody, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It's just like a somebody I knew exactly. How was
it received? How was the feedback to you that you
got from me?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Feedback being great, like I think a lot of people is.
It's taking it for what it's like really gives you
know what I'm saying. Of course you're gonna have people
talking about whatever they choose they want to talk about,
you know, but like a lot of people like nah, bro, like.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Like you did that. You know what I'm saying, Like
like you did that.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
You took its own a crazy story journey and it's
like nah, this ship real and it's like you really
took us there though, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
With the pen the transgenders hitting you up in the DMS,
I don't be really checking.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
My d.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (36:43):
I mean, how of support like seeing what they.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Say, like, yeah, I see I seen.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
I've seen like a website, a website from that community.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
They was like they was, they was like supportive of
the record.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
I think, right, I mean I think they're in the middle.
They're posing the question to the readers. Do is it
harmful or is it just insight as to like what
it's like to experience that and providing context to how
you can get through the situation. They were trying to
figure it out in my opinion too.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Okay, okay, but you get did you get your homies approval?
Did you have to tell them you were doing it?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Or you know?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
The hummies was like like the hommies who wasn't a
part of you're feeling them them sessions like the homie
like when like when niggas heard it, like niggas was like, bro,
what like.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Like they're like why would you like wow? And I'm
like that's why because yeah, like that's why cause niggas
like wow.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
It's like you bro, we got to talk about it,
like you know what I'm saying, Like like when you
listen to the album, Bro, we're talking about insecurities right
in my rooms near life crist it's just trying to
kill the old me. Like we just talking about a
lot of things that like man from where we come from,
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don't talk about you know what I'm saying, And that's
what the album is about.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
You feel me, that's what the Gymal's Club about and
your entry to this club. Bang.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
When you make a song like Tiffany, what responsibility do
you think you have for how people interpreted because it
sounds like you really put a lot of thought.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Yeah for sure, Like like yeah, like the responsibility like
like I said, for me to put the record out,
like I had to like like like I had to
feel like people was gonna hear it, had they thoughts
(38:52):
as they listening or you get to that last first
and it's like oh shit, like.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Damn, like.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Yeah, that had to like that had to happen. It
took some time. It took some time, but that record
took me. That was like the longest record because I
did the first record and didn't want to beat switching
and beat changed, you know what I'm saying. I did
that record like four months five months later.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Well, art is supposed to create some type of discomfort,
I think good art.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
And I knew like when I came into this album,
I'm like, like my goal with this album was since
I was putting out just whatever for so long, you
know what I'm saying, I feel like people was playing
with my name, like as an artist, you feemale as
a rapper, So like one of my main goals was like, hey,
like you gotta come and get right because you know
(39:53):
what I'm saying you with that, So you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
That was one of my main goals.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
And I knew I could do that, like it might
get like it's gonna be risky, you know what I'm saying.
I'm gonna have to like it's gonna be uncomfortable, like
I'm gonna be uncomfortable, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
It's a part of it. So I was just like,
fuck it, let's do it. You know what I was
thinking about.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
And I listen to this album, but I was like,
your Nipsey.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Would really be proud of you, bro, damn, just just
of the evolution and you opening up in that way
trying to show Street is something different. That's when of
the first things came in my mind, like Nipsey would
be especially after her in Secure.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
I was like.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
And then I was like, like I wrote this whole
like I put the whole thing together, like and as
I'm putting everything together, like I'm just like how.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
This ship gonna look on tour.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Like IM thinking about this tour, I think about the show.
I'm thinking about like like like the hits like my
catalog mixed in with like like the storyline of the
Eye album. Like you know what I'm saying, how I'm
putting this it together.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
I'm like, yeah, hard did you think about when you
were creating?
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Of course all the time, like for sure like this
like the nip shit, you know what I'm saying, Like
it be fucking me up A lot, because.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Like I'll be like.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
With me and bros doing in the city with the
music and just you know what I'm saying, the relationship
like in the music, like it ain't gonna be able
to be recreated and it's just it's just a void
that's missing, you know what I'm saying. Like a lot
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of people from like other places be like, well you
you the only like street nigga like from the West
Coast and niggas like fuck with like like what's up
what you doing?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Like I'm like, damn bro, Like I'm like.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
Me, And it was like the ones like you know
what I'm saying, streets all the way doing the music
shit that was like nigga like dolo, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
That should be fucking with me a lot.
Speaker 8 (42:20):
We're gonna get any visual well, I see The Gentlemen's
Club being like a visual album where you can tell
your story of the album visually, like right with a
whole bunch.
Speaker 10 (42:29):
Of videos like Michael Jackson did. It's not a song
that Michael Jackson got. We ain't got no no videos
to it.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeeah, yeah, you're gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
No.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
We had talks about it, like like we had talks
about it. Shit, I got like some shit lined up
like with this whole like Gentlemen's Club World. Yeah, we
talked about it like like this album campaign, it's gonna
be like a loone campaign.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (43:01):
But yeah, because even what you said about the tour,
you can see it like you're putting it the whole story.
Speaker 10 (43:05):
You're putting it together on tours.
Speaker 8 (43:06):
Seeing how it would look.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
It was like a movie. It would be dope.
Speaker 10 (43:11):
So I mean a video to every every track in
the order of the way that the story is told.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Doe. Yeah, let's get into a joint off the album.
Speaker 6 (43:22):
Man, what you I was gonna ask you feel like
this album because I saw I think was GQ said
this is like your best album since my Crazy Life.
You feel like this album gonna get you on beat
Outs list? This he did that the best album in
West Coast. You was upset about that.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
Yeah, I like when I made this album, like I
got all that in my mom I'm like I remember this.
I remember your niggas saying this. Niggas ain't mentioning my
name like already bet like this whole next era, like
like why geez, like I'm tripping. I'm I'm tripping, and
I know, like why a lot of people heard the album.
They're like, oh, it's far, but like Nigga's wanted more
(44:02):
slaps and all that, Like, yeah, we're gonna get to that.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
You know what I'm saying. That ain't nothing.
Speaker 5 (44:09):
We're gonna get to that. Like I had to get
this off though, you know what I'm saying this this
art piece. I had to get this off.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I feel like you're feel like this is like your
mister Morale and the Big Stepper.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
See. I heard a lot of people saying that too.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
That's one that's one of my favorite Kendrick albums, probably
top two, maybe just because of what it represents for
men in that moment. I think that's one of the
moms you go back and you listen to in the future,
and when you start to see a lot of men
evolve and start doing more work on their stuff, they
point that album.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
And four fur four Ye, that's what's up.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
What's the biggest thing you had to kill about your
your old self in order to become the man you are.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
To that was the ego? Was it pride? Was it revenge?
Or was it. Yeah, I think revenge like just crashing out,
like like just in every.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
Aspect of my life, Like whenever I like I like
i feel like mad in disrespect to the play, like
like my solution always be crash out, you know what
I'm saying. And yeah, yeah, Like just even when I'm
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dealing with like now, when I'm like dealing with certain stuff,
people like I'm calm. I'm like, I'm trying to talk.
I'm trying to be grown, Like I don't even want
to argue, like bro, Like, I'm like, you know what
I'm saying, Like I'm like a whole different motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Like I'm like, if you got some weird energy, I'm
going the other way. I'm trying to run.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
It's certain ship. I'm like, it's a certain thing. I'm like, man,
I hope I don't ever be in the same place
as this person because.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
I'm a run.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
I'm gonna run the other way because if I don't
crash out, you know what I'm saying, I'm on that.
I'm like, man, I don't want no smoke. Man, I'm chilling.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
You know, if you run into the girl from dinner
dates and heartbreaks, that's gonna be calm too.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
You funny?
Speaker 6 (46:20):
Is that a personal story? That was your personal story?
Was that one of the homies?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
No, that was my story and shit like like like
you know, like I think me dealing with through girls
and ship.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
On that song he talks about being finding out he
was getting cheated on m hmm. Yeah, And I thought
I knew who it was in the song and then
you threw me off a bit exactly, yeah, because you
was like, we got caught outside the country. I'm like, okay,
I remember those photos.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
And everything on the album is twisted as fucke me.
So you probably think you know what you're talking mom,
and you gotta really like it's twisted up.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Okay, it's twisted up.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Let's get what your health down, brother. Huh what you
want to help down? Play that? Oh my god, push it.
That's that joint. It's all pushing. Let's get into it
right now.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Congratulations, keep growing too, that's right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
That's yg It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning every day
a week ago. Pick yours up the Breakfast Club. Finish
for y'all. Dunk
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Every day up waiting, click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
You don't finish for y'all done.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Morning.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
Everybody's the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we
are the Breakfast Club. Laura ROAs is here as well.
We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, ladies,
a gentleman of y g Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Brother. What what are you feeling? How's your energy this morning?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Brother? I'm good. I feel good. You just landed. You
just you just around right, something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You just like that on a plane. I know they
pulled you to the side.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
No, no, no, no no, I'll just put this on
the You know what I'm saying, it's the fit.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The album of the Gentleman's Club. Is that the new
way to stay therapy the therapist office?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, okay, pretty much. You know what I'm saying. Well,
we'll break it down.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Well, break it down the meaning of Gentlemen's Club and
why you called it that, because the first thing people
gonna think is when you seen Generman's.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Club, strip club, the club you got list.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
But it's a lot different from that. So break down
why you play with the words like that.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
So like I took the Gentleman's club concept, you know
what I'm saying, because like I'm known for like party
music and all that. She was like all right, bet,
but I put a little twist on it, you know
what I'm saying, like like the Gentleman's Club, like with
the album like for me, like I mean grown man growth,
you know what I'm saying, And like with with the
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concept of the album, like I like I built the world.
It's like, oh, the Gentleman's Club is like a place
like you can come and we can talk as men,
you know what I'm saying, talk about things that men
don't normally speak about, you know what I'm saying. And
the interest how you get in this club? You know
(01:54):
what I'm saying. You got to kill your old self,
you know what I'm saying. So that's your entry. Like
so yeah, but I just played with it, like you know,
I put the dress code with it, black tied fear.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I love the concept.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Did you ever feel trapped by by by a version
of yourself like that the O. G.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Street version?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, for sure. I don't want to say I felt trapped,
but like you know, I was doing that and giving
the world that for so long, like people started to think,
you know what I'm saying, that was all I had
or you know what I'm saying, that was all.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I knew how to do, you know what I'm saying,
And I really be on some.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Artist ships, I'm like, all right, this album right here,
I'm gonna let y'all know, like I'm more than that.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You know what I'm saying. You can look at me
like like different, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, So I had to, like I had to get
this off my chest, you know what I'm saying, to
move forward.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Getting was it difficult? Now? I felt like I held
back for so long.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'm talking about just a lot of stuff due to
like my situation with the labels and shit, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I was holding back a lot. So like like.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
When I finally was like, yeah, I'm going there, I'm
finna do this, like I was ready, I'm like, bad,
let's talk, you know what I'm saying. And then I
was just going through life at the time, so like
like it felt good to like, you know what I'm saying,
busting records down, Like yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Did the label tell you not to do it. That
was they specific with like we only want club records
from you. Were they specific with telling you what to
do or what they wanted to put money intowards.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
So I was just like I was just going through,
like me finding out like what type of deal I
was in, you know what I'm saying. And when I
found that out, like early on, like I told myself
and all my peoples, I'm like, look, I'm not really
giving real albums and shit, so I'm finished just drop
projects until I get out my deal. Oh hell yeah,
(04:09):
just like most of everybody, you know what I'm saying.
But I just basically chouse to crash out, like you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I just you I'm finish just running shit up. But
like what I was.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Doing, it basically hurt me in the long run, like
how I felt, you know what I'm saying. But like
I made sure on every project I dropped, you know
what I'm saying, I got a hit, like that's mandatory,
But like as far as putting together like full complete
albums like how My Crazy Life was and all that,
and I wouldn't know that at all.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'm like, no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, you can't do that. The reason you can't do
that is because of my crazy life.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
My crazy life was such a complete body of work
from top to bottom with the skits and the storytelling.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You can't we.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Expect that from you at this and that's you feel me.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
That's why I said I crashed out because you know,
it's like, all right, yeah, you was mad at your situation,
but it's like, you know what I'm saying. You just
start doing whatever, and people started looking at you like that,
you know what I'm saying. So that's that's what I
was doing.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I saw that you said you had a conversation with
Kendrick about not putting out like rushing to get through
albums to get out of a deal.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You were talking about this same situation.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So there was in the midst of all of this.
So was he hearing the music and came to you, like, yo,
just hear something?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
He just no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
So I was just telling him like like the whole
like like the like the the whole concept of the
album and my intentions and my goals, you know, I mean,
like I just explained the same thing, Like I was
just doing that, like to get out my deal and
I'm like, yeah, you tripping you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm like, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, When did you realize why G? That you actually
needed to evolve instead of just sifve.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
O man?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I realized that like twenty twenty like two three, But
I started working on this album twenty twenty four. Yeah, So, so.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
What happened in your life that made like self examination important,
like more so than just self reservation? Like what made
you finally take that step back and start doing that
in the work.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I think like the situation.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Like I was explaining, like like I asked people like
like I started asking people this questioning like twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, Like I'm like, when you think of
why G, what you with? You Like, what's the first
thing that come up in your mom You know what
I'm saying. And I'm asking like.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Homies, females, people, what I work with. What I'm saying.
I'm just asking people.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
And everybody like super Blood, Red.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
L A and seeing you maneuver it's literally that party
in Hard Bottom now.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
But when you just said it, the first thing I
thought I was like the first thing that came in
my mind is blood. That's the first thing that came
in my mind when I thought about the second is
the music.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
The first ones to his style. We got a very
particular style. I think you dressed like Michael Jackson.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
So yeah, so like I I got saying, Prince.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
He would have been like, the hold up, Michael Jackson.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I feel like, yeah, yeah, no, that's a compliment.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah I'm saying yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I like I asked people that question, and you know,
they were saying that, and then I'm just like at
this time, I'm like, damn, I'm like a fashion thing.
I'll be dressing. I'm like a dad and I got
like two three businesses. I'm running like myself, like you
feel me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
That's all y'all think. You know what I'm saying. And
I had to like, so I'm asking them, like, why
do y'all think that they like? Well, bro, that's all
we see.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
We get on the internet, we see news clips, we
see you in real we see gang shit, and we
see homies doing we see you. And I was like, damn,
be right, like and then when it comes to the music, right,
when it comes to the music, you know what I'm saying,
Like I've been giving the same shit in the videos
(08:45):
and like that's all they seen. It's just all that,
you know what I'm saying. So I was like, all right,
like I gotta intentionally go and show y'all and give
y'all me in a different like way, you know what
I'm saying. So for me when I came with the
Gentlemen's clubs and I'm like, yeah, I'm finished black tied,
fear dress code. You know what I'm saying, everything black
(09:05):
and white on some grown ship. But don't get it
fucked up, like like what you think of me all that? Yeah,
I'm yeah, I'm not for sure you know what I'm saying.
But it's like that's just not.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It more than that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah you know so yeah that's what happened, bro. And
how has it changed been for you?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Because we see we've seen the change, We've seen you
dress up, we've seen you step outside of the box
before more did has it been well received or.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh yeah yeah? People?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah no, they they you know what I'm saying, Like
I've been I've been on some other ship like you
was just mentioning like I've been dressing like how I've
been dressing for a long time you know what I'm saying. So,
like like people already know, like if you know me,
if you around me, you already know, like yeah that
Niggan smother ship. But as far as me as an artist,
(09:56):
like what I've been giving to the world, like music, music,
video and all that, I've been giving them the same shit,
you know.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So, but I've been on some other ship.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Two of the best moments on the album, you know,
because it kind of crystallized, crystalized. The album is of
course hit Man and ready to die, right because as
you said, you know, you got to kill off an
old version of yourself. Do you think you have to
always kill off the old version of yourself to become
who you're supposed to be?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I mean, like when you come from like places like
I come from, and your lifestyle is what your lifestyle is,
and you you learned like a lot of things that
you learn in the streets, like I feel like to
get to that next point of like life, like like
being grown, like you definitely got to kill yourself because
all all I know is crash out like burnt fry
(10:47):
nigga shit.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
That's and I think we all think that's regular and
it's normal.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And then you know when you like when you.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Hit a certain age and you just start looking at
like life and damn, like when you start really breaking down,
like how this happen? What happened? It is like, well
you crashed out. Yeah, you responded to this like that,
you get you you and like you really you shouldn't
have been up over there like that, or your homiekeepers
sitting the been like why she's still over there? It's
(11:16):
really you know what I'm saying, you gotta deal with yourself.
So I felt like you come from the streets, you
gang bang whatever. You know what I'm saying, You gotta
unlearn a lot of the shit that we was taught.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I agree wholeheartily. But the streets won't let you do that.
A lot of times, streets was like you ain't not.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Be on that no more. But we are.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
We're still yeah yeah, no, I mean yeah, the streets
is gonna like the streets is gonna for show me
the streets. But it's like, bro, Like I felt like
everybody from where I'm from, bro, they already know. It's like, Bro,
I didnet did the streets all the way up, like
so it's like like the only thing that'll come next
for me, like still trying to do the streets up
(11:58):
like not music, but like in real life. Like it's
like I'm end up dead in jail. Like so it's
like like everybody know this. You know what I'm saying.
So it's like I got a pass, like you feel,
That's how I feel. But like you feel, this album
is not like this whole era. This album is not like,
(12:21):
oh I'm a square now, Like what.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You're doing now is more gangster than anything you've ever done, okay,
because you have to let go of that old version
of yourself that probably served as like a mask, right,
like a shield protection that armor. Now you're saying, now,
I can't use that no more. That don't serve me
no more. So here's me, real me that's more vulnerable
and more.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Than anything else.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
The Tyler Creative record that was like totally different from
what we usually get from YG.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
How did that collaboration come about?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How I collab come It's lit though, it's just okay, yeah, no.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
When I like when I made the record, Todd produced
the little beat, he made the beat, I went in
there did the song and then I'm whispering, and I'm
just like, like, whoever I put on this song, it
got to be an artist that like know how to
like like.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Play with his voice or just do some different shit. Right.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
So Tyler was one of the first motherfuckers I thought
of about.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
And.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I sent it to Bro and then this niggas sent
it back and he ain't even whispering. I'm like, like,
this niggas did the whole opposite, But you feel me.
That's why it's a good balance exactly, like you know
what I'm saying, but yeah, like yeah, that's how it happened.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's one of my favorite songs on the album is Insecure,
right because I think that you're talking about anxiety in
a very relatable way.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Insecure as fuck. I want to fuck this slut, but
I'm scared thinking how early I might know.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
You can tell me there before you insecure.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's why I'm off the liquor. That's why I pop
dick pills when I hit the strip. I understand what
you're saying. You're just talking about anxiety that comes with life.
That's just what you use to talk about. What made
you want to you know, do that record.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I mean like like the album is The Gentlemen's Club,
you know, and we're talking about we're talking about things
that like people who I'm from don't talk about them,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
So like like.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
The record or the Insecure record, Like as I'm piecing
the album together, you know what I'm saying, I was
probably like one of the like the third last record
I did. You know what I'm saying, what's that one?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right? The fourth? But I'm I'm I'm piecing the record together.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
The first myself record I've made on The Gentleman's Club
that's on the album was the mid Life Crisis record, right,
that's the last song, right, so boom I make that
record and then I'm like, I'm killing myself.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I like, you know what I'm saying, the old meat
right Like so now boom, I know how the album ending.
So I'm putting together It's like, all right, how did
we get here though, you know what I'm saying. So
I'm working backwards, so then boom, like I'll make hit
me boom and I'm just like all right, all right, cool,
like like I know I'm killing myself, how do we
(15:46):
get here? I put a hit out on myself trying
to high hit me, all right, cool boom. So then
I'm just keep piecing it together and it's just like
how do we get here? Like I'm going through every
phase of like, you know what I'm saying, want to
kill your old self, and like I feel like man,
niggas like we like we be having insecurities, you know
(16:10):
what I'm saying, and in life like to get you
feel me to the next phase wherever you're going through,
like like.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You gotta get through that shit. You gotta get over
that shit.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
So like like insecurities is some shit that you know
what I'm saying, Like you gotta kill too?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How hard did did they admit that?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Especially when you know you come from a culture where
it showing any type of weakness vulnerability can be taken
as you know, soft.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
So yeah, that's why I feel like everybody got insecurities, right,
But like I'm not like insecure when it comes to
like like like I know I ain't a soft nigga,
Like I know like you feel me. So it's just
(16:55):
like me and the homies we be in the group
chat talking about all types of shit be talking about
you know what I'm saying that like niggas don't really
talk about to the world, so I'm just like, nah,
I'm gonna talk about all this ship like we be
talking about all type of shit, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like, no, we canna put this in the record,
you know. And I feel like like on the verse
(17:15):
like I came, I came on the verse. My verse
represent like the street niggas, like the Fried niggas, like.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You know what I'm saying. And then like everybody else
did they thing.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, me being there with them rapping ass niggas.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Oh me that niggas so said this verse bag were
like what the this nigga? This squeak crazy this. I
was like, oh, you know what I'm saying, but like.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm saying, I'm a famous rapper, so I can have
any any girl that I want except that I want, damn.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
And then just how he like like like like how
he did his verse like you know what I'm saying,
and on some like spoken word type shit like that
shit was crazy. But yeah, bro that record, I feel
like it was like it was needed. Like if I'm
if I'm trying to if I'm like killing my old self,
like insecurities, Like it's definitely poort of that.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
What were some of the things that you realized that
you hadn't killed off by the end of the two
year span, like when you got to the end of
this album, that you were like, maybe I didn't deal
with that the way I thought I did I personally,
so like just anything that you addressed on the album,
whether it's like vulnerability or whatever as you're because you're
working backwards, like you know, right, So it's one thing
that she was like, I thought I got over this.
I thought I dealt with it, but I didn't.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
The we know the truth record is is that was
like the last record. No, that was the second to
last record I did on an album. And you know,
I'm a street nigga show.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You know, I'm like the last of a dying breed.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I'm like a street nigga that was like in the
streets when the Internet became a thing, you know what
I'm saying, So like like a nigga, like all I
know is like we don't get on the internet talking
about nothing, Like we don't talk about nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
We don't talk about nothing on the phone. We don't
do none of that, right.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
So so a situation happened and my name was all
in it, like like like I did something or whatever, right,
and people just on the internet just talking. I took
like the street nigga, like you feel me the law,
like I'm not saying nothing about nothing. I ain't talking
about nothing, And I thought I deal with that shit
(19:48):
like that, you know, by being silent like, but then
it just got to a point to where it's like
I'm like, nah, I gotta say something, you know what
I'm saying, Like I gotta speak on this show.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That was that moment right there.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But do they I guess that the people from the
other side, do they believe that, Like when you say
you ain't had nothing to do it that blah blah blah,
do they believe that?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean, like.
Speaker 11 (20:19):
You don't given it's like it's it's it's like it's
fat like it's it's it's fact, right, like like like I'm.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Not even gonna say what niggah I want to say, boy, like, man.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
You're doing great.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
He's doing great, because even when I'm listening to you
talk about the record right now, it's kind of hard
for you to speak about it because of the severity
of the situation.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Right, I know, it was hard to recall, like I.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Now, like you there's never been any charges officially for you,
Like you've never been charged with anything. You kind of
left everything alone when the rumors were circulating. Why talk
about it now?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Because people keep talking about on the internet and then like,
you know, family like calling like like you know what
I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
It's just your family or the opposite side, No, my.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Family, like people like and everybody like tapping in Like
I'm like, bro, ain't got nothing to do with that, Like.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Like we'll break it down because a lot of people
might not know what you you're talking.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
About politics, whether you wrapped about it or not.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You want to break it down.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Again with a girl like okay, yeah, got you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
One thing that you did mention in that record you
talked about the grief you was going through it that time.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yeah, because yeah, like like a week before that, you
know what I'm saying. So that was one of the
main things. It's like, bro, I got paid six hundred
thousand to do this show. You think I like, like
I can't do that, Like you know what I'm saying
it don't make no sense, like and then you like
(22:16):
the homie just got killed, you know, so it was like, bro,
like what they saying and how they saying it is like, bro,
that ship all cat. You know what I'm saying, Did.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You even give yourself time to grieve Slim or did
you just keep it moving?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
No, no, you know no I had time. I still
you know what I'm saying, Like going through that book. Yeah,
like I have to put the homie obituary together, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, his family was like, nah,
we want you to do it. So like that ship
right there was crazy, Like I was fucked up doing
that like it was.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
It was crazy. But it's dope though. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, LA's Creek politics one of the most complicated things
to ever even just witness. I can only just imagine
living it because just on the ourside looking in, it
just seems so impossible to navigate.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I mean, when you're from out there, that's all you know,
So it's normals, like you said, why, it's so.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It feels like it's almost impossible to navigate, like like
you said earlier, to not end up there, to not
end up in jail.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
In that lifestyle seems like okay, so complicated.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
So I tell people this all the time, right, I'm like, look, bro,
most of everybody who become successful from where they're from,
you know what I'm saying, They leave, they go move
to Atlanta, they go move to Miami, they go move
to LA.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
They go move wherever the fuck they go move to.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
When you a nigga from La Comptent, wherever you're from,
longba Wood, South Central, whatever, you from LA, we ain't leaving,
you know what I'm saying. You feel me just the
place everybody want.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
To move to.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Be from visiting all that. It's like we really ain't
really leaving like that, you know what I'm saying. So
niggas get money, become successful, and you know you would
move like out the way, but everybody moving out the way,
you know what I'm saying. And then you feel me
when you come outside, like you twenty miles away from
(24:38):
like where you're from, like where it's happening at, you
ten miles away from where some shit is happening at.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So it's like.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
You would go out and you would think you being low.
You'll be at Maestros and Malaebu and it's a whole
old table like niggas, it's probably your ops. Like you
know what I'm saying, They touching money. You got some money,
so niggas all like like he gets a treaty like that.
(25:11):
But like, like what I'm trying to say is we
stay in the city.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
And you know what I'm saying, We like it's close,
you know what I'm saying, Like it's close, so like
it's a dangerous like it's a dangerous lifestyle, you know
what I'm saying. Because you still like if you go
like and you having a club hosting or a booking
(25:37):
in like Hollywood or like downtown, all the hommies pulling up,
it's like whoever else pulling up, Like it's a whole
bunch of gang members in the party. Like that's just
what it is, you know what I'm saying. So as
far as on my side as an artist, you know
what I'm saying, having success and all that, being from
(26:01):
the city, still living in the city. You know what
I'm saying, it gets tricky, Like it gets tricky because
then being a real nigga, you know what I'm saying,
you still pulling up.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You know what I'm saying. You still around popping out
like ain't thinking happened? But that makes it fun?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Of Did that make it work?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
If I gotta be on P's and Q's when I'm
with my son, I gotta be P's and Q's. I'm
taking my daughter, if I want to be P's and Q's,
if I want to go to my strolls or I
want to go shopping, does that make it fun and
worth it to you?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Especially?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
See it's the fuck up part. I'm from the ship,
so that lifestyle living like that and all that. I
know that, Like.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
You enjoyed the bull That's what That's what we're real
like not like to not the ship really is just
like it's like bro like like like so like everything
that comes with that, it's like bro, this wal it
consist of right, so you you you accept that.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And learn that like early on and yeah, like but.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
That's the part of me is like you gotta learn
that ship, bro, because it's like, yeah, like it's all
funny games until get bad, you know what I'm saying.
And it didn't got bad plenty of times. You know,
I'm just blessed niggas still here like so yeah, but
(27:41):
like when it come to my kids and like moving around.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Like I don't really play with that. So like.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Ye, I was literally about moving to play.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Everybody won't be but for harmony for the baby girls,
like you take them up out of it.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Like my daughter played tennis. So yeah, so I was
like like if we move, we'll be moving to like Florida,
like so she can go to im I MG Academy.
You know what I'm saying. Ship like that, but outside
of that, like I don't got no plans on moving.
(28:31):
No players, did you all leave in New York?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I living?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I live in Jersey now.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Live in the valley.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Is your daughter you see works?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
See works?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
No, you be like a b BB.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
My little daughter like my youngest one h she fried,
matter of fact, her birthday tomorrow, well birthday, I don't
know your birthday birthday and.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
She turned seven, but yeah, she be like she'd be
like what's up? Four hundred? Don't mean she she was
like what's up? Und I'll be like, man, what the fact?
Who taught you that? Like? Who told you that?
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Mary Bristle's daddy?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Four hundred? This man too? When you decided to step
away from like when you didn't want to do label
deal situation. Still it's four hundred label.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yeah, I got an artist like right now, Yeah, I'm back.
I'm back, but I'm I'm like, I'm taking a slow
like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You, yeah, rebuilding?
Speaker 6 (30:02):
What made you want to because I saw you say
you wouldn't It's not easy. You didn't want to do
the dealing artists no more?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yeah, because I feel like like early on, like when
I had like my label, my JV a lot of
more artists, it was like homies and and people that
became like friends because you know, we're young, and everybody
that come around me from ended up feeling like a
(30:31):
part of the family and hamony vibes and all that
because from that's just my energy, which I learned it's
not it's not good.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
You can't really like it ain't good, you know what
I'm saying all the time. So like a lot of
stuff just I feel like when left or ain't really
be what it could be, meet.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Us full potential because of like that.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
So you know, I like, like I said, shut through,
like the label down for like some years and I'm like, man,
look I'm not feeling do nothing with no orders. Shit,
I gotta figure this shit out. And then I that's
the part I figured out. I'm like, like I become
like the bro. You know what I'm saying, Like the bro,
(31:19):
I become the bro and the hommy. And it's like, yeah,
that's straight, but it ain't always good for business, you
know what I'm saying. So, like my approach now is
just like fall back, Like if I got artists, like,
let them do their thing, chime in when I need
to chime in, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, but
(31:43):
I got a new orders to ain't peyt gotty and
shit he watched in the Gang Business Yeah, the Game
Business record.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You know what I'm saying, Younger he got it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Now let's talk about the Tiffany record that was trending
right before we went on a break.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I ain't know people was mad at you or not.
Some people say it was a cautionary story. I just
felt like it was reinforcing homeful stereotypes about transgender people.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Nah. Like like so like I said, like the album
The Gentlemen's Club, like it's a place like man come
to to talk about things that we normally don't talk about.
And when I was making this album, I don't know
if if y'all remember, but like one of the first
(32:28):
songs I put out from this whole era, it's called
two thousand and four, and the song start and it's
like when I was young, I got raped by bitch
twice my age, you know what I'm saying. So I
put that song out first, like kind of like let
people know, like I'm on that, you know what I'm saying,
(32:51):
We finish, I'm fineling like I'm feeling I'm on that, right. So,
when I was making this album, we'll have sessions like
in the studio and shit we have like sessions with
like homies, is like we all talk about like shit
that we never like talked.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
About, you know what I'm saying, And like everybody was saying, like, yeah, bro,
this happened. You feel me. I had my shit.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
You fe homies like I ain't even know, Like you
ain't never talked about that. You should me have the
homies Like yeah, that same shit happened to me who
I was young.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Like it's like, yeah, like we all got raped, Like you.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Know what I'm saying, and one of the homies he
he like he told his story and it was like
hard of him and like really like tell it and
then you feel me he told it and like damn,
and he was like, yeah, bro, like like you know
what I'm saying, you should, like if you can find
(33:50):
a way to like rap about this, like make a
song about it, you know what I'm saying, Like, I
think you should do it. And I'm just like I'm
like yeah, like because it's it's like it's a situation
that happens in our community, and like people don't know
how to talk about it. People scared to talk about it,
(34:13):
you know. And then when it coming like like artists
and making music like or just speaking about certain things,
people are scared, you know what I'm saying, because people like,
oh I don't want to get canceled or or whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Right.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
So I was just like, yeah, that's that's kind of
hard to like make a song about like without nobody
getting mad, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
So like it took me a minute, and I'm just like,
you gotta tell the story. Yeah, the truth is the truth.
I'm an artist, I'm storytelling, you know what I'm saying,
and this is a real situation that happens, you know,
And I'm like, what.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
What, Well, let me put the record out.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
While I was like all right, yeah, I'm cool with this,
it's because I ended up telling the both sides, you
know what I'm saying. And I'm like, ifee me just
as a human, I'm like, all right, if I write
this record, listen to this record.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And it sounded sound and then at the end you
get you got both sides of the story.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
I'm like, people are like like, understand that and appreciate
that and look at it like, no, this art, like
you know what I'm saying, it's real, Like this art,
he's storytelling, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
So yeah, bro, that's all it was. Is not no
hate record.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I'm not trying to tell nobody to like do anything
violent to nobody, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It's just like a somebody I knew exactly. How was
it received? How was the feedback to you that you
got from me?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Feedback being great, like I think a lot of people is.
It's taking it for what it's like really gives you
know what I'm saying. Of course you're gonna have people
talking about whatever they choose they want to talk about,
you know, but like a lot of people like nah, bro, like.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Like you did that. You know what I'm saying, Like
like you did that.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
You took its own a crazy story journey and it's
like nah, this ship real and it's like you really
took us there though, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
With the pen the transgenders hitting you up in the DMS,
I don't be really checking.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
My d.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (36:43):
I mean, how of support like seeing what they.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Say, like, yeah, I see I seen.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
I've seen like a website, a website from that community.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
They was like they was, they was like supportive of
the record.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
I think, right, I mean I think they're in the middle.
They're posing the question to the readers. Do is it
harmful or is it just insight as to like what
it's like to experience that and providing context to how
you can get through the situation. They were trying to
figure it out in my opinion too.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Okay, okay, but you get did you get your homies approval?
Did you have to tell them you were doing it?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Or you know?
Speaker 5 (37:20):
The hummies was like like the hommies who wasn't a
part of you're feeling them them sessions like the homie
like when like when niggas heard it, like niggas was like, bro,
what like.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Like they're like why would you like wow? And I'm
like that's why because yeah, like that's why cause niggas
like wow.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
It's like you bro, we got to talk about it,
like you know what I'm saying, Like like when you
listen to the album, Bro, we're talking about insecurities right
in my rooms near life crist it's just trying to
kill the old me. Like we just talking about a
lot of things that like man from where we come from,
(38:08):
don't talk about you know what I'm saying, And that's
what the album is about.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
You feel me, that's what the Gymal's Club about and
your entry to this club. Bang.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
When you make a song like Tiffany, what responsibility do
you think you have for how people interpreted because it
sounds like you really put a lot of thought.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Yeah for sure, Like like yeah, like the responsibility like
like I said, for me to put the record out,
like I had to like like like I had to
feel like people was gonna hear it, had they thoughts
(38:52):
as they listening or you get to that last first
and it's like oh shit, like.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Damn, like.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Yeah, that had to like that had to happen. It
took some time. It took some time, but that record
took me. That was like the longest record because I
did the first record and didn't want to beat switching
and beat changed, you know what I'm saying. I did
that record like four months five months later.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Well, art is supposed to create some type of discomfort,
I think good art.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
And I knew like when I came into this album,
I'm like, like my goal with this album was since
I was putting out just whatever for so long, you
know what I'm saying, I feel like people was playing
with my name, like as an artist, you feemale as
a rapper, So like one of my main goals was like, hey,
like you gotta come and get right because you know
(39:53):
what I'm saying you with that, So you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
That was one of my main goals.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
And I knew I could do that, like it might
get like it's gonna be risky, you know what I'm saying.
I'm gonna have to like it's gonna be uncomfortable, like
I'm gonna be uncomfortable, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
It's a part of it. So I was just like,
fuck it, let's do it. You know what I was
thinking about.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
And I listen to this album, but I was like,
your Nipsey.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Would really be proud of you, bro, damn, just just
of the evolution and you opening up in that way
trying to show Street is something different. That's when of
the first things came in my mind, like Nipsey would
be especially after her in Secure.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
I was like.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
And then I was like, like I wrote this whole
like I put the whole thing together, like and as
I'm putting everything together, like I'm just like how.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
This ship gonna look on tour.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Like IM thinking about this tour, I think about the show.
I'm thinking about like like like the hits like my
catalog mixed in with like like the storyline of the
Eye album. Like you know what I'm saying, how I'm
putting this it together.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
I'm like, yeah, hard did you think about when you
were creating?
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Of course all the time, like for sure like this
like the nip shit, you know what I'm saying, Like
it be fucking me up A lot, because.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Like I'll be like.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
With me and bros doing in the city with the
music and just you know what I'm saying, the relationship
like in the music, like it ain't gonna be able
to be recreated and it's just it's just a void
that's missing, you know what I'm saying. Like a lot
(41:49):
of people from like other places be like, well you
you the only like street nigga like from the West
Coast and niggas like fuck with like like what's up
what you doing?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Like I'm like, damn bro, Like I'm like.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
Me, And it was like the ones like you know
what I'm saying, streets all the way doing the music
shit that was like nigga like dolo, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
That should be fucking with me a lot.
Speaker 8 (42:20):
We're gonna get any visual well, I see The Gentlemen's
Club being like a visual album where you can tell
your story of the album visually, like right with a
whole bunch.
Speaker 10 (42:29):
Of videos like Michael Jackson did. It's not a song
that Michael Jackson got. We ain't got no no videos
to it.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeeah, yeah, you're gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
No.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
We had talks about it, like like we had talks
about it. Shit, I got like some shit lined up
like with this whole like Gentlemen's Club World. Yeah, we
talked about it like like this album campaign, it's gonna
be like a loone campaign.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (43:01):
But yeah, because even what you said about the tour,
you can see it like you're putting it the whole story.
Speaker 10 (43:05):
You're putting it together on tours.
Speaker 8 (43:06):
Seeing how it would look.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
It was like a movie. It would be dope.
Speaker 10 (43:11):
So I mean a video to every every track in
the order of the way that the story is told.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Doe. Yeah, let's get into a joint off the album.
Speaker 6 (43:22):
Man, what you I was gonna ask you feel like
this album because I saw I think was GQ said
this is like your best album since my Crazy Life.
You feel like this album gonna get you on beat
Outs list? This he did that the best album in
West Coast. You was upset about that.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
Yeah, I like when I made this album, like I
got all that in my mom I'm like I remember this.
I remember your niggas saying this. Niggas ain't mentioning my
name like already bet like this whole next era, like
like why geez, like I'm tripping. I'm I'm tripping, and
I know, like why a lot of people heard the album.
They're like, oh, it's far, but like Nigga's wanted more
(44:02):
slaps and all that, Like, yeah, we're gonna get to that.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
You know what I'm saying. That ain't nothing.
Speaker 5 (44:09):
We're gonna get to that. Like I had to get
this off though, you know what I'm saying this this
art piece. I had to get this off.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I feel like you're feel like this is like your
mister Morale and the Big Stepper.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
See. I heard a lot of people saying that too.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
That's one that's one of my favorite Kendrick albums, probably
top two, maybe just because of what it represents for
men in that moment. I think that's one of the
moms you go back and you listen to in the future,
and when you start to see a lot of men
evolve and start doing more work on their stuff, they
point that album.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
And four fur four Ye, that's what's up.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
What's the biggest thing you had to kill about your
your old self in order to become the man you are.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
To that was the ego? Was it pride? Was it revenge?
Or was it. Yeah, I think revenge like just crashing out,
like like just in every.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
Aspect of my life, Like whenever I like I like
i feel like mad in disrespect to the play, like
like my solution always be crash out, you know what
I'm saying. And yeah, yeah, Like just even when I'm
(45:23):
dealing with like now, when I'm like dealing with certain stuff,
people like I'm calm. I'm like, I'm trying to talk.
I'm trying to be grown, Like I don't even want
to argue, like bro, Like, I'm like, you know what
I'm saying, Like I'm like a whole different motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Like I'm like, if you got some weird energy, I'm
going the other way. I'm trying to run.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
It's certain ship. I'm like, it's a certain thing. I'm like, man,
I hope I don't ever be in the same place
as this person because.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
I'm a run.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
I'm gonna run the other way because if I don't
crash out, you know what I'm saying, I'm on that.
I'm like, man, I don't want no smoke. Man, I'm chilling.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
You know, if you run into the girl from dinner
dates and heartbreaks, that's gonna be calm too.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
You funny?
Speaker 6 (46:20):
Is that a personal story? That was your personal story?
Was that one of the homies?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
No, that was my story and shit like like like
you know, like I think me dealing with through girls
and ship.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
On that song he talks about being finding out he
was getting cheated on m hmm. Yeah, And I thought
I knew who it was in the song and then
you threw me off a bit exactly, yeah, because you
was like, we got caught outside the country. I'm like, okay,
I remember those photos.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
And everything on the album is twisted as fucke me.
So you probably think you know what you're talking mom,
and you gotta really like it's twisted up.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Okay, it's twisted up.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Let's get what your health down, brother. Huh what you
want to help down? Play that? Oh my god, push it.
That's that joint. It's all pushing. Let's get into it
right now.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Congratulations, keep growing too, that's right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
That's yg It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning every day
a week ago. Pick yours up the Breakfast Club. Finish
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