May 27, 2024 • 48 mins
Episode 326 - "The Baller Alert Show" Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Octavia March
Topics include: Young Dro Talks About His Past Drug Addiction, Spending over 1Million On Polo, Dating, Doesn't Want A Woman Who Drinks or Smokes & More.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Word with me here.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know, BT know how it goes, shout at oct
no color, what we see? Whole game? Wait the butler something.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Oh, you can't stand on the house to see. I
already know you came with me because with the squad
of me, they get a little They called at me. Hello, Hello,
reporting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show.
I go by the name of fil.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I go by the name you know, BT.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Want to see where that who the devil doed.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Is in the village or walked in done? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Drod has a flip phone. Joe has a flip for well,
I've seen the flip phone for a while. I don't
remember the last time I seen a flip phone. The
last time I seen the flip flowd.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I said, hold on, Joe, what you got going on?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Man? Because I texted him. I thought he gave me
the wrong number. It was a it was a green bubble.
I said, Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah? So I mean, well, my ADHD and that phone
and like you're talking about with iPhone, yeah, previously, like
you know, all on those apps and you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So this does not have any apps.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
No, it takes along the text. Man, it was like
I got to hit the numbers.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
A couple of times, so you know, you can't even
do a voice note.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Damn you like that aspired shot.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, it's just it keeps my attention off of everybody else,
and it keeps me, you know, like like information I
try to intake. I try to make sure that there's
some you know, something that's other than what everybody else knows.
You know what I'm saying. I do get information from
people they oh boy, you heard it, like okay, but
(01:49):
you know, instead of me just taking it all in,
because once I get through looking at all those apps
and all that information, and I get to taken it in,
and if it ain't good information, that's what I spit
back out, you know what I mean. I spit back
out the stuff that I intake, and most of that
stuff ain't good. So half of the time I don't
had any good to say, you know what I mean.
If I'm all in that app and looking at everybody
(02:11):
living their best life.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You've really been doing the work on yourself. You know,
when did that start?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
When I went to rehab, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I kind of like, was like, how many years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Was that three three years April sixteenth?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, third year ye sobriety yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So back when I did that, I was like, you
know what, I felt like I couldn't do the stuff
I used to do and get ahead from where I
was at, you know what I mean. So if I
was going to go to rehab, then I was going
to have to change the women, you know what I mean,
because all of this stuff went with each other, like
the drugs, the women, alcohol, this the hanging out, you
(02:51):
know what I mean, the friends that I chose. So
I had to cut everybody off. And I love I
love the people that I cut off. I still think
about them and stuff like that, but it hinders me
to go back and repeat what I already done and
already see the results for it, you know what I'm saying.
So change the number, got a new phone, got off
(03:13):
social media.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But you still someone still posts for you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm supervised, so you know, if it's something that I
need to know or I have to do drops, you
know what I'm saying, stuff that's you know, leveling me up,
you know what I mean. We all sit down like
this and they be like, this is what you got
to do, boom boom, boom boom when I get through
phone back.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And so there is a designated phone for you, you
just don't use it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, it's a designated phone for me. But I have
to be supervised because if you walk out the room,
I'm like, you know what I'm saying, I'm not disciplined enough.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is that your phone?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
But you just don't have it or somebody has it
and they put all your stuff on it, meaning like
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, I have my own phone, but I don't have
my own phone. So and then like I make sure
that everybody has the code, you know what I mean, everybody, everybody,
like my management team, my lawyer, you know what I mean.
My lawyer was got in on it. You know what
I mean. You wanted to hey, look man, you can't
do this. And I'm making sure you're not doing that.
(04:16):
And you know what I'm saying, No, I don't want
to fall back into what that was. That's a rabbit
hole that nobody wants to go down, you know what
I mean. Like, you know what I mean, Like it's
almost like a nightmare that I woke up out of
that if I if I go back into it. I'm
going back to the nightmare and it's just not it's
not healthy for my mind, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Do you feel better?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
How are you? One hundred?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
That's good for the people like that don't understand how,
you know, dealing with addictions and stuff like that work.
Could you talk a little bit about, you know, when
you went to go get sober kind of like what
was your process and everything? To kind of help a
lot of people that really don't know the direction to take,
you have.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
To have a support team, you know what I mean.
I don't believe I could have done it without great management.
Sierra's my manager and also she's run for office, by
the way, running for office man Forton County Commissioner District six.
But she's also a doctor and she has a doctrine
in behavioral and mental health, so she was able to
(05:19):
you know what I'm saying, like something wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm like what? Because blunt? What a blunt and a perk?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And you know what, Selean won't fix you know what
I'm saying, Because I could just drown this out, you know,
medicate myself, like I thought was you know, I thought
that was the way, so that process. What meant like,
you know, well, I'm gonna get your family together, the
ones who do care, because you know, you would think
that everybody in your family is on board. That's not
true for me, you know what I mean. I don't
(05:45):
know for anybody else, but everybody didn't believe it. You know.
I had some family members liked it the way I
was because I gave a lot, you know what i mean,
how all the time you could just pretty much take
advantage of me, you know what I'm saying. And that
was the same thing that went with in public, my friends,
you know people that was around, what could we get from?
(06:07):
And he got a show. Let's everybody pile up. We
about to go to the show. He gonna give almost
all his money away. You know what I'm saying. We're
gonna get high, we're gonna get drunk, and we're gonna repeat,
and we're gonna do this for what twenty years?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You know what was your breaking point?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, the repeating of it. And then when I saw
my child, you know what I'm saying, and I felt
like that's that was a low blow. You know what
I'm saying. When I seen my little girl like that,
I was like, man, I can't tell her not to
get high. No more. Car I'm still having it in me,
(06:46):
you know what I'm saying. So the best thing I
could do is just go ahead and change myself. And
then she saw it and she actually cleaned them question yeah,
yeah clean? And uh you know I was talking to
her the other day, man, and she was just she
was in her daughter mode, like you know what I'm saying, Dad,
and I just started crying. I was like, man, I
(07:06):
praised so I wish I could have pressed a button.
I thought it was a dream. I was like, what
did I do to deserve this? You know what I'm saying.
Then I thought about it and I was like, I
took my mom through the same thing. You know what
I'm saying. You have to humble yourself and see what
you put people through, you know what I'm saying. And
once you see that, you be like, oh, I get it.
I needed to learn this lesson, you know what I'm saying.
(07:28):
But my kid, what you do show up in your kids,
like the kind of person you are and the things
that you do. If they're good things, and good things
to show up in your kid. If they're bad things,
they're bad things will also.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So having been through all of these things to be
where you are, do you feel like you waste the
time when you were, you know, on the drugs and
all that stuff, or do you feel like this kind
of was a journey that took you to where you're at.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now kind of in the middle. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Do you remember? I mean, I have a moment? Can
I share?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I a moment? Man?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was hosting Compound and you didn't even know what's
going on. It was your album release part.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah. I remember that day because Roco was trying to
give me some champagne and they was like he said,
he was just was definitely there. He was just tapping
me and I was just out of it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And then I turned. You know, this dude like Slick
raised me. So I turned and then he was like,
I was so out of my mind, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And that's when I got worried. Yeah, I forgot what
the year was that That year.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Was one of those moments that I was like because
when I when I when I got the feedback off
that night, they was like, yo, he was just standing there.
And then I had this thing, this myth thing about
me to when people used to be like, man, he'd
be out of it. But when it's time to wrap,
I just used to you were amazing, But I would
(08:55):
miss the best part of you know, the experiment, the
people well, the love, the paying attention, the want to
collapse and you know what I say, you have the
success part. And then you know, and then when I
wake back up the next day, I would again, just
do it again, and I'll be like, you know, they'll
be like, well, this person tried to talk to you.
(09:17):
You know, you know, you you said something of this person,
you ignored this person, You said some real cruel stuff
to that person.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yah.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Man, Well, you know, unfortunately that's a lot of artists
journeys like drugs and all that stuff because they feel
like maybe they are better as an artist or whatever.
So it's just so great to see you come out
of that and just be who you are.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
We're so proud of you.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Hey take this out minus your boy you on Joe
on right here on the ball Alert Show kicking it
with for Ririe Simmons, Oh, C T and BT.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You dig what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now, Young Doe was actually signed before TI. Yeah, bigger
record deal, bigger situation before t.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I the same amount like the people were No, it
was actually Roco. It was a you know, Monica was
into on it, like because she always has given me
big support. So the Roco thing, right, it was it
(10:24):
was crazy like because I wasn't a superstar yet. I
just had the pen, you know what I'm saying. Good
with the pen, and Roco was like man and I
used to just go around and be rapping for different
people in the street and you know what I'm saying,
And it was so it was so good. Roco was like,
I'm been and put the house on shot. So he
built the studio for me, you know what i mean,
(10:46):
southwest over there by Green Brown, you know what I'm saying.
And so when he built the studio, you know him
and Monica. You know, Monica was always supportive. I remember
me and her first song was You Deserve We redid
the he May Hail Mary beat with Tupac and and
Man Rocco had me with I got a song with Juvenile.
Back then, you had some big records. Yeah, I had
(11:07):
one with Jazzy Fay, Bone Crusher, Turk bunt Be, a
couple of more people, Monica of course. But this was
all on one tape car respect to connect it. And
you know, I was just feeling this way through it,
you know what I'm saying. And I think he pressed
up so many of those CDs and he forgot to
put the barcode on it. It was crazy back then.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
That was the time when they when people actually bought
physical CD physical city. You were selling them in the
streets too. How much money were you making?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Uh? Well, we used to charge like ten dollars of CD.
But Roco gave me, like I think Roco gave me
like twenty grand cash for my advance. Wow, without even.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Being what'd you do with it?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I blew it.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's what most artists do it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But to be honest with you, I was so into
my drug habit. But it was bad then because I
was trying to hide it. And then like on the
way back then, yes, like but because drugs had been
in my family for a long time. My dad, you know,
my dad been using, my dad using for like fifty years.
You know, my aunties and uncles all died off of drugs.
(12:16):
You know what I mean. They didn't live. Nobody lived
to be over sixty five or something like that. You
know what I'm saying. So, and my grandmama like had
like seven kids, all of them smoked dope self for
my mom, you know what I mean. So for me
to be on drugs, you've been like, oh figure, you
know what I'm saying, because that it had been embedded
in my family.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That you see it when you were younger, Yes, you
saw I had to.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I had to go buy it. You know what I'm saying,
Like my aunt ties and uncles will come over and
they'll send me to go get it. You know what
I'm saying, Like I knew where to go get their
drugs from.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
When was the first time you wanted to indulge it?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Or did.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Twelve? I started smoking? We ad twelve, You know, I
felt a junkie was out there. Man. And my one
of my friend's mom she was she was smoking. She
was like, I ain't no boy, that we gonna lead
to something else. I was like, get out of here
and law and ball.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
She was right, she was correct.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Introduce you to something heavier.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Or yeah, I was introduced to something heavier by just curiosity.
I was like looking at my friend and I was
wondering why they was acting, you know, more chill than
everybody else. And I felt like, you know what I mean,
I wanted to indulge in that. And you know, of
course everyone nah, man, you good, and I was like, nah,
(13:35):
I don't want to try it, not not knowing that.
I just thought they was having a good time that night.
I didn't know that it was going to ruin my life,
you know what I mean. I saw it, but I
was like, you know what I'm saying. I knew what
my aunties and uncles was doing. They was doing heroin
and cracking, you know what I'm saying. You know stuff,
you know what I'm saying. So when we went out
(13:56):
back when I was coming around, you know, X pills
and cocaine and weed, and you know what I'm saying,
that was young people were doing that, you know what
I'm saying. Then once I saw that, I was like, well,
this ain't that, you know, because we used to be
at big parties and you know, everything was going on
and everybody was indulged, and I was like, oh, it's lit.
(14:17):
You know what I'm saying, It's just everybody just having
a good time tonight. And you know what I'm saying,
Once I win in that rabbit.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Hole, it just when how old were you then when
you when you went there, I.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Want to be I want to say eighteen. I would.
You know what's crazy? I was the same age my
daughter was. You know, this is the generational curse thing
that I broke.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But then you started making a lot of money. Yeah,
so now you can support your habit and it gets worse, correct,
it gets worse.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And you know what I prayed. You know when I
first wanted to do music, you know, I really asked God.
I was like, I really don't care about money. I said,
I just want to have longevity. And you know, and
I was like, but if I don't get rid of
this drug habit, I said, it's probably gonna kill me.
You feel what I'm saying. And it changed. I started
(15:10):
morphing with the drugs when something went out of style,
like when X pills was like popular those became I
was like, the X pill was just stuff for so
much stuff. I was like, okay, this was enough. In
that time passed then Molly came, you feel me then
when Molly came. But and then you know, I spent
five years, six years on X pills, like eight years
(15:35):
on this and they didn't come to perksn't come to Zans,
they didn't come to Lean then you know, alcohol, and
we stayed there, you know what I'm saying. So it
was just I was just morphing into different druggies, you
know what I'm saying. So and by that time, you know,
I guess you know, God just kept his hand on me.
You know, because for somebody to survive that, and this
(15:56):
goes out to anybody that's using and you still living,
that means that it's still a purpose for you to
do because you can overdose.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Do you have any lasting effects, like does like your
ReBs heard or do you have like stomach problems or
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Do you have no stomach problems? Like random headaches?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Did a Rocco ever intervene with your or did he
ever say anything?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I hit it from him. I was able to mask it,
like because I thought, well, clothes was my creep out thing,
like if I got fresh, you know what I'm saying,
Because there's a method behind how I dress. Now you
know what I'm saying because I saw it in school.
I was like, clothes keep people off from the attention
about what's really inside of me. You feel me long
(16:45):
as you long, long as you can see me fresh
and not my interior.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I was good on that, like a distraction, Like a
distraction when people won't expect somebody that's dressed nice and
that's room to be heavy on drugs.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Ultimately, that hurt me more than anything because everybody was like, alright,
he dead fresh, You know what I'm saying. And I
wanted that. You know, I didn't want you to look
at me any different. You know what I'm saying, because
I I'll be and I'll say to myself on some
arrogant stuff like what she would say, somebody me and
I'm cleaning than you. You know what I'm saying, Like
like that, you know what I'm saying. But like the
(17:17):
way the way it tore up friendships, the way it
the way I did, you know how like you know,
breaking girls hearts and lying and you know, lett my
mom down, and you know what I'm saying. And people
I made some people who cared. You know what I'm saying.
That that was like you know, like Ferrari or somebody
that saw me like that genuinely cared that. You know this,
(17:39):
this guy is tripping, you know what I'm saying. But
at the same time, it's other people wanted me in
that position because it benefited them.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, nobody cares about a rich junkie.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Nobody cares about a rich junkie if he's good looking.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Now, when you was, when you was doing drugs, did
you did you need the drugs to create the type
of music that you was making because you putting out
a lot of hit records at the time.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You know, still all to day.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
But I always just wanted the does artists always feel
like I need to get high to get in the
studio and create this type of music that people are loving.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I think that's that's I think that's the trick that
the devil has, you know what I mean. He tried
to convince you that God didn't give you everything that
you need to you know, be the best person you are,
and I had to fight with that for a long time. Now,
I do want to say that it did stimulate, you know,
my brain and make me you know, think, you know,
(18:33):
harder and concentrate, because that's just what it is, you
know what I mean. But to say that that's true,
that's not true. You know what I'm saying, Like you
have you are equipped with everything that you need to
be the best person on this earth that God. You know,
the gifts that God gave you, those are the best gifts,
not drugs.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I just seen the famous quote that Wayne May when
he put out a documentary. He said, people are telling
me to put down the cup, put down the lian
and he said, I ain't putting down nothing, because this
lean got me more rich and more successful. So I
just always thought about there, like for a long time,
I'm like, does every artist do drugs?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know to make this popular music that were listening to.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, you can lie to yourself, you know, you
can a lot to yourself. But the truth is I'm
not on drugs now and I do great music, so
I would be telling you I'll be lying there. I
did a lot of myself and made me make myself
believe that that that that I needed that. But that
was the crutch, Like that was the that was the
move that the devil played. You know what I'm saying,
(19:35):
you need this, you know what I'm saying you need me,
you need me, you know, well actually you don't.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Man, Hey, Dree, So one of my favorite songs you
ever did. I always wanted to ask you this question.
I actually never asked you this in private, so I'm
asking you right now or revoked TV ball alert.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I don't know. I don't fuck with y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, because I'm a big Can we talk about that
record and making that record? So I saw you perform
that live at the Pearl on a Tuesday night and
dug at the Pearl. It was a it's a club,
It's no longer there, Green Brier. The Green Brill was
at South Southwest. Yeah, right, the Green bro Mall long
live Johnson because that was his party. Yes, And I
(20:18):
was there on a Tuesday night one time, a DJJ one.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
He was the DJ.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Didn't smoke or drink. Meanwhile, the club was lit.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Bit job over there lit, and I never forget dro
performed this song. I was in general population, just looking.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Up like, yeah, this is the reason I'm here, this
is the reason why I love Atlanta. Were talking about
that song.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, that that era was you know what I mean,
heavily inspired by I want to say young La man
he kind of like, you know, showed me a different
way of doing things because I used to rap so
hard back then and it was like before it's time,
and I was like, I can dial it down a
little bit. But you know, I decided to dial it down.
(21:01):
I was like, you know, younger lay made me feel
comfortable in that in that in that state, you know
what I'm saying. And when I recorded it, you know,
you know, some of him lingo were like, what's up
it out? You know what I'm saying? Always like big dog,
Like everything was big dog. You know what I'm saying.
And when I said when I was talking about, you know,
the lingo in there, I was really referring back to
(21:24):
Atlanta culture. You know how we how we you know,
how comfortable we are with how we talk. And I
was slag and you know what I mean, and all
that bow and all that stuff that we was. It
just fit, you know what I'm saying. And when I
decided to do the video, it just got Big Man
(21:44):
Mike Epps came. I had him in Chapel for as
on the West Side I'm talking about. He was out
there with one shoe on what you all big and
bugers I was like, this guy is super real and
I ain't. It wasn't nothing that I called. I ain't
even have to call him, you know what I mean,
just pulled up with Droyd. I'm on the way, you
know what I'm saying. I was like, man, this lit
Mike ELPs over in the hood man, So that that
(22:07):
that was that and that that was the first video
that had a filter on it.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
If you look at the video, I don't know what's
the filter, like the.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Filters on Instagram, like the color, the color of it.
You know what I'm saying, Like, how you can you
know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
It was? It was?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It was lit? Man.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
When did you meet t I?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh, we weren't famous. I think it was like it
was a rap.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You said that he stayed up the street from you
or somebody, so.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
We were so we both was from Bankhead, which was
I stayed in the projects. He stayed in Center Hill.
So in hindsight we were already on the West Side together.
He just was up the street. In reality, we ended
up moving to the same spot in Riverdale.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So when I that's weird.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So when I got over that, I just you know,
I seen everybody kicking it and when nobody really kicking
it like us. Hold, that's so I'm looking like. I'm
like he had like somebody, I know, you know what
I'm saying. Then it just it came together, you know
what I'm saying. And he was hustling and you know
what I'm saying, doing the thing, you know what I'm saying.
And I used to I used to go down in
his house. You know, her mom used to be cussing up. Hey, y'all,
y'all do my living room more than purnature. I'm like,
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you know what I'm saying. But actually we just connected,
you know what I'm saying. He I seen him how
he was moving it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And I knew.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I knew how we sold drawers in the city and
I've seen how they were selling draws out there. And
he was telling me, boy, it's triple out of him car.
You know our dins out him.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
They thought it out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm like, oh, lik, you know what I'm saying. So basically, man,
we connected.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Sixteen was y'all wrapping in or no, we was.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I was just doing beats man, Okay, he was. It
was like doing he was a producer, like he was
producing beats, serving serving service.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You're producing big serving and boy, yeah, just do back man.
And me I was just healing up because I had
I had got shot like a year two a year.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Why did you get shot?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Ah? Man?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It was crazy man, just I mean being in being
in the wrong place, doing the wrong things.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
One of you dude tried me when I was young,
and it kind of like I want to say, it
shook me a little bit, but I knew I wasn't
gonna suck out, So I was like, Okay, you tried
me like that. Bit. I'm finna go. I'm finna go
to bankhead Cole really went from the area right there.
I'm finna go to bank had get my get my connect,
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and we're gonna come back over here and straighten it.
And then when we went back over there and straighten it,
you feel what I'm saying, we did. We did and
on the way out, somebody came up to the car
and shot me in the back, you know what I mean.
And I had to wear like colossomy bag. You know
what I'm saying. Man, Yeah, I was using the bathroom
for myself and like at a young age, I was
out in my mind. I was like, what the world
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just happened? Because I just thought we was going to
do some you know what I mean. Next thing, you
know that that was on me, you know what I'm saying.
So by the time I met Tip, I was I
was heeling up for my stable. I had like fifty
six staples and I had you know what I'm saying,
I had just got the bag reversed. You know what
I'm saying. I think I was sixteen turning about to
be seventeen.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So you got shot at sixteen fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Wow, you know I had to you know, of course
I had the bag. So once I went through that surgery,
I had to wear the bag till I was like
a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
The bag is you using the bathroom and it goes
into the bag?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Yeah, wow, Yeah, that's a lot of That's something that
a lot of people don't talk about, you know, when
you hear people getting shot in all this stuff, because
people try to glorify that in the streets, but people
don't know the aftermath of what you know, people actually
have to go through or getting shot.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, see my drug have it burst from then, Like
I believe because I was on some strong such stuff
in the hospital, right, and they used to give me
this stuff called demarol, and they used to be hit
me and then like and I used to be ringing
the button all the time. And then the lady, the
lady found that out. She was like, he's addicted, you
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know what I mean? And I really didn't know. I
just kept saying I'm in pain. But most of the
time I wasn't in pain. It was just that that
stuff used to knock me out. It was opious, like
you know what I'm saying. So and behold when I
got to the hospital and then and and I was
asking him, I was like, is y'all gonna give me
that that same stuff? They was like, no, we can't
give you that, Like on the way out, like we're
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going to give you some stuff, you know what I'm saying.
It wasn't it good stuff? So when I got out, man,
I was looking for that too, that high. I wanted
something to medicate me because that was addictive to me.
I had addictive personality, like you know what I'm saying,
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Like I wanted that fix again. So that's when it
burst too. That's when I was like, Okay, when I
found something to have me sedated like that on the street,
I was like, oh, what is what it felt like?
You know what I'm saying. So yeah, So by the
time I met Tip, I was healing up from that,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
But then you went and got to deal with Rocco
before no.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I had to deal with Raheem the Dream, so it's
very okay.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
So now the Raheen drinks I knew dream was first.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You feel mean because you know, we was on the
West Side and I was rapping at my cousins. He
was doing something on the bank at the bank which
was the Bounce, you know what I'm saying. So I
went in there wrapping it at his show and Raheem
saw it. He came and got me in. He signed
me in. You know, I had this song called yes Sir.
You know what I'm saying this when every you know
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today people were saying yes Sirski you real me? But
I had an actual single call this in two thousand. Wow,
you know what I'm saying, Like twenty some years ago,
you know what I'm saying. That was my first single
call Yes sir, you know what I mean? Uh, Greg
Street broke it great, Dan, So that was that was
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the thing. And you know I had to deal before Tip.
That's what That's what it was. You know what I'm saying.
I was on the radio. So by the time he
got on radio, I had already saturated on the radio.
And I think I think he was at the radio
one station one day and I called up there. I'm
telling girl, I'm like, hey, Greg, you know what I'm saying.
I was like, that's that's Tip. And then Tip like
(28:30):
who were that? And he was like, I was like,
this drove And then he was like you know what
I mean because he was doing you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He was like, you drove. I was like, you know
what I'm saying. He was like I had no because
my voice and stuff got heavy.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Like how you say that?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
So yeah, man, So when I met Tip where we
wasn't we wasn't we wasn't rappers, were just kids.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
You listen to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Hey take this out minus your boy on Joe on
right here on the ball Alert Show, Kicking It with
for Ririe Simmons, Oh CT and BT.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You dig what I'm saying that With.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
The Barler Lip Show, we got young Droe.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
And the Bill Gi Yeah, fresh as always.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
He's talking about TI.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
You know, Grant Hustle years y'all was off the charts,
and I feel like that was Do you feel like
that was the peak of your success?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah? I mean yeah, the bigger part.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Because when Shoudaling came out, I feel like it took over.
It's still about today.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, it's actually playing the dope thing about you, and
I feel like you guys are those legendary artists. Your
music is coming back because how radio is working now
is they're playing all those hits from the early two
thousands to two thousand and eighty ten's, So you're gonna
hear Droe, I heard whatever you liked the other day
(29:56):
on the radio. I heard Shoudeling the other day on
the radio. So it's starting to come back, which I
think is a dope thing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Pretty good?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Man?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I always wanted to make music that like classical music,
you know what I'm saying. Like, I listened to a
lot of alternative music, you know what I mean? And
those those songs are around today. You know what I mean.
Hip hop is the only genre that that says, Okay,
we're done with this, you know what I mean. But
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you still can hear a John Bon Jovie song that's
still popping, you know what I'm saying. You still can
hear you know, those kind of songs still popping today.
And I felt like, since I have a sense of
that kind of music, I kind of had it in
my spirit to make stuff that I you know that
you still got you know that you can still play today.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
You have an interesting story about how Shoudoline was developed.
Can you give us that? Can you share that story?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It came from us not dancing because the whole the
whole city was dancing, like and you know, I ain't
knocking it, you know what I mean. I used to
wish I could dance, but I couldn't picture myself dancing.
But we was like trying to fit in, you know,
trying to you know, not beat so much of an
art ball, you know what I'm saying. So when till
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when Tip came to it was like, hey man, it's lit.
You know, faboed him got lafty tappy.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But originally it was Tip song right.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Originally he when he did the when he did the
hook right, he was going to carry on, you know
what I mean. And I was like, well, well, first
of all, we knew that we wasn't dancing. And he
was like, man, we could do.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
This, We could do that.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I'm like, no, trying to convince you to dance.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You was about to do some snap stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Because you had fall then you had the franchise.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
It was lit.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But I was like, well, you know, I ain't never
seen you dance, you know what I'm saying. He was like, man,
we can just do something. He said, what you think
about this?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I was like, you know what, go ahead. Then
when I heard them, I was like, I got this, bro.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
But was the beat already made when he was doing that?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Because Little See Little c was there too, but Little
See what he was He Tip did this like a cappella.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
And Little See is the producer.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Just Little See came with.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
That beat man, and I remember hearing it and when
he when Tip put his voice on that beat, and
it was in little Seek because Little he did the
beat around what he was. You feel what I'm saying.
I heard that and I had this. I had this
like a dream, like a vision. I was like, man,
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when I when I wraped this, I'm gonna say how
fresh I am. And I could just see myself back
in the crowd up and showing off my feet on cleaning.
It was almost like it was almost like a book. Man,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
That's so classic. He said, go to the club and
you was that you had to finish the song.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, they wasn't there when I did it.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Nah, they wasn't around when I did it, so back
when I came. So when I got through it and
they heard it, man, Tip and was like man, So
we ended up. He was on tour.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We drove to Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
This is what the song was his birthday because at
first it was just amongst us like so they were like, okay,
that's Joy's high man. We got the Jacksonville, Florida on
the tour bus and we had like a bunch of
girls come up. Everybody was on the bus and were
having a good time. So Tip was like, put this home.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
When they put that song on, broke we on it
was like it was lit.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Bro we knew.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Okay, So since we're here, this ends up being your
biggest record today.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yes, well no, I think FDB was bigger than that.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Okay, I know, but but did did FTB chart higher
than Shoulderling? Which one made you the most money?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I think that FDB is a more bigger song because
it's everybody. Everybody feels that, everybody can relate to it
all all all skin, all skin tone of people feel that.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You me and a lot of people know.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Shoudling show Lean went one two right then I sold
two million ring Tones, So that's like four million, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
At the time when Big.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Tones was big. So so I know, I know it
went platinum twice, and I know I bought it, you
know what I'm saying. And then like you know what
I'm saying, So I got a ring Tone Award for
that song, you know, you know what I mean. I
remember a kind giving me that, you know what I'm saying. So,
and I was the first one to get a ring
Tone award.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Wow. Yeah, don't let Soldier War hear this.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
But then you had we Be in the City. That
was another big one that my.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Favorite I heard that played at the Olympics. That was
a pretty big song. I heard that somebody sent me that.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
You beat's always crazy. Man, you got you you got
a ear when it comes to beats.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I also like when you perform that song because you
let it cut off and you go a compella. You
go a compella.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, I try to let you know, you know, I
you know, that's when I try to show people how
much I like music.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
People people like you know, you hear stuff on the radio,
you hear people record, But a live show shows how
much you're embedding into what your craft is and how
you want it to be. Come out to the people,
you know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Saying now the showder Lin come out before Fat Joe.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Laying back, because I remember he was talking about like
people in the South took you know, his song and
everybody just kept, you know, remaking it.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That whole bacle was weird because I don't I don't remember.
I can't tell you that I heard Fat Joe and
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I just always wondered that because I seen him make
you know.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
He I saw that that was kind of weird, you
know what I mean. I seen it was.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Because it was a lot of lean song. After you know.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
But the thing about it is, I don't even think
that anyone knew of anyone doing it, you know what
I'm saying, Like, I don't think franchise you know, you
know knew drou was doing it, or I was was
aware of it. Was like, oh, I'm gonna do a
lean song. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Now you've had some You've had a very high profiled relationship.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Can we get any type of who else have you?
Were you in a relationship with that was kind of big?
That may have went under the radar.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Oh man, I actually that was the only thing.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Is you famous folks be having relationships?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I actually, man, you know what, I'm a hood. I'm
a hood dude, you know what I'm saying. I for
the most part, I was I was all about a
fine chip from around the way tight, you know what
I'm saying, Like because it fit my persona, you know
what I'm saying. Even though a lot of you know
what I mean, I smashed some stuff. I won't say,
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keep it a peak. I won't say. You know what
I'm saying. Whatever they did see it went public. You
can have that, but I wouldn't tell what was it?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Anybody that you was like, man, I can't believe you
know this shorty doesn't hit me up. You know, this
was somebody that I always wanted.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Of course, okay, yes.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Or anybody now or do you want to be married?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Or I mean, well right now? Man, it's I'm working
on myself and I just was.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I just had to to separate myself from spreading myself thin.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I've dealt with some cheeks. You know what I'm saying
that you know, some real good women. You know what
I mean, And I mean real good women. You know
what I'm saying. But you know, once you once you
done had your share, whatever you pick and choose. You
know what I'm saying. You might you know, you want
to just make sure. I want to make sure when
I jump back into this relationship whole. You know what
(38:00):
I'm saying, You ain't gonna get nobody else need to
get high and you're not working on itself. And it's
it's some stuff. I went to the rehab because it
was stuff I needed to regrab. You know what I'm
saying about myself that I need to be doing. How
much of a man that I need to, you know,
be to give to this relationship.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You know what I'm saying. I don't want to short
change the next person. Gotcha? So could you ever date
a woman that drink or smoke?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
So she can't drink or smoke.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I mean you can drink, but you can't be an alcoholic.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I ain't ever thought chicks who smoked weed was attractive,
like we do it later. What you talking about?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
You?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
For you?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
It's not triggering. It's almost embarrassing, like to just have
a check that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Anybody who can drink.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
You don't think this is gonna bother the women who
smoke weed.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I just it just ain't for me. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I'm not knocking it. It's it's just ain't you know
what I'm saying. Because women be so beautiful, you know
what I'm saying, Like smoking is not good. You know
what I'm saying in so many wait words?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
If you look at it like because I got children
to raise, and then for me to be saying, oh
you ain't gonna be smoking nothing, and then mama and
there like come on, man, I cut it out for
my son, you know what I'm saying, So own't on
him saying I got this from dad. You know what
I'm saying. You know I went through that with my child.
You know what I'm saying. It's just not your preference,
(39:30):
not my preference.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And everybody got a preference to your preference is polo.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
I was gonna say, how was Joe the father today?
Are you in all the baseball games or at.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
The basketball games?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And I had to learn how to be dad and
stop wearing jewelry because I used to be culled three
four chains on pulling up in these you know what
I'm saying. It was like look looking at me, like
you just dad today, man. But I had to humber myself.
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Stop wearing jewelry to the games, stop dressing up so
you know, because sometimes I just go to these games
and people be like why, I don't know. I got
to learn how to turn it off. So right now
I'm more conscious about what I let him see, or
about my attitude, about what I accept, what I don't accept,
what's around me. You know what I mean, letting what
(40:23):
I'm letting him see, what I'm letting him listen to
you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's different.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Do you see a lot of yourself in him?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
A lot of it? And I have to correct it.
And I believe, I truly believe. This is one of
the reasons why I'm not on drugs because I'm able
to see it now. If I was under the influence,
I would let my child grow up to be exactly
like me. And that's not the goal.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
So you don't have two kids, I have three. Three Okay,
do you see music in their future or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
My son is going to be great at something. I
think sports, you know what I mean. He's he just
turned eight, and he's so smart in basketball. He had
to have this information at five or you know what
I mean. He knows so much about basketball to you
it would trip you out, you know what I mean.
And his body, the way he built like I see him,
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I see myself and him. When I was young, I
would cut up and I played football before I got shot.
But he has a football physique, but he loves basketball.
So I know he's going to be big. Mark my words,
He's gonna be famous.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Now, does Droe do you work out? Like what did
you change about your life. Are you doing something that
you've never done before that's kind of like new?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Or yes, I get up every morning and that workout
every morning.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Never did that before?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
No, Like do you job to hit the elliptical?
Speaker 4 (41:45):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
I walked five miles? Wow, every day, every day, five miles.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
That's a long time.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Changed.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, well it changes because I don't want to still
spicy dog meat.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I mean, I mean like I can't eat exquisitely. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
I can eat you know, the alligators and the dover
the dover fish and stuff like that, squid and sea
arch and you know what I'm saying. I can eat
that type stuff because it's not too heavy. But I
do try to eat right so I can help out
the five miles.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I don't want to be eating too much, too tired.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Oh yeah, I got a little gym. Put it in
my put it in the garage. I go work out.
Do that. I do that every morning, And that's that's
tough to get up at seven point thirty every morning,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
So, now, do you have a studio in your house?
Speaker 2 (42:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
I try not to.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
I don't I don't have. I don't play the radio
at home literally because my choice of you. I don't
want my son to end up picking up the room stuff.
You know what I'm saying. Even though I make that
kind of music, I don't. And if I do listen
to music at the house, it's alternative music.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
So how did the Glorilla remix come about when you
got on that?
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Because you brought that raspy voice back.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
You know what, when I be walking, I heard Gloilla
rip the beat so bad and.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
It was a good way.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I mean, she killed it in a good way. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah, So it was inspiring, you know, you know some
some stuff she was saying about about you know, quit thinking,
quit overthinking, and you running circles around these people.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I'm like, get them glow, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Saying, And just just how you know, just to hear
the young generation and just to hear it, hear in
her voice like she was commanding the beat, and I
was like, I can command that beat like that, you
know what I'm saying. So and then and I just
found myself saying, yeah, drove all the time. And then
and then dude looking at me, was like, you did it?
I was like, Nah, I ain't did it. I was like,
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you know what, Big Jon was like, go ahead and
do it. I was like, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
John, have a big jump.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Now how much you think over the years you spent
on polo, man, it's.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Over a million, over a million, because, like I used
to have to be some serious you have some stuff
I've never seen before. It was a serious sickness with that.
Speaker 5 (44:09):
Have you a deal yet?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (44:10):
I mean I actually was up for it, and then
I got into some trouble and stuff, you know, and
I think, you know, everything is you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
You know not Ralph Laurydy got to call you a
million dollars in polo. It's crazy, man. Listen in the
first little section of my life. You know what I'm saying.
I want to say, when it was starting out, I
had just did like quarter of it, you know what
I'm saying, A quarter of me. I want to say,
it's well over that. You know what I'm saying. One
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hundred thousand on Ralph is easy?
Speaker 2 (44:43):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Two hundred thousand is easy.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
You were wearing the most expensive so I used to
I remember walking into basis at the ball, whatever the
ball it was, and like that.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Stuff wasn't special. Like that jacket right there, Bro, I
know that, ain't you know what I'm saying, it's out
out jacket. Oh my god, Conor Rod over its side.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
I'm gonna say this. You influenced a lot of people
in the culture to wear polo.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Them Polo boots, and I was Atlanta was wearing Polo boots.
Speaker 6 (45:10):
And I'll never forget I say the money I saved
them like two paychecks. I was working at Route twenty
one and I bought some Polo because you have.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
The numb I definitely you know. The no ones went up, man,
you know what I'm saying, Dude, you used to be
telling that I'm just like Droe instead of saying the brand.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
You know what, I went to Marshalls and would get
the Polos when they was thirty nine out of his side.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I got to know what I'm talking about, Bro.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
I used to go to Marshalls and or I will
wait till they'll be right before back to school tax free,
and they went down before the new ones come in.
You know, the old ones will be like nineteen ninety
nine no.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Tax that so you got the polo. I hope you
get a deal.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
We kept paying it for a deal.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
You can get that.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Yeah, you deserved that second chance. But so you had
the PSC project that you did. You had a couple
of songs with them.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
It's gonna be, man, the PSC got a big project
coming out with DJ Drama. Man, and it's just that's
going to be that has some real dro stuff on it,
you know what I mean. And after that, I think,
you know what, me and going to do a joint album,
you know what I'm saying. I think I think we
owe that to the.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Coach. Yeah, we need that.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
When is the book coming out? Because you have a story, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Book actually, man, you know what. My manager is an author.
Doctor Sierra is an author.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Also doctor Sierra.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
She she actually wrote a book before we, you know
what I'm saying, got doing business together and she's a
great writer, and she was like, I'm going to write
your story and she she you know, she documented, she
has she has a lot of stuff like, hey, look man,
I've seen this happen. I seen the boy go through this.
(47:01):
I seen him overcome this. He came out of that,
he got stuck right here, and it's just you know
what I'm saying. And she she got the book together,
and I think the book should be ready by twenty five.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I'm excited for I'm so ready for today. Where did
you meet her?
Speaker 1 (47:15):
By the way, man, we have been knowing each other
for twenty years.
Speaker 6 (47:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Actually I grew up with her brother, Meatball shot the
Camilton road print. You know what I'm saying, print locked
up right now. You know what I'm saying. He actually,
unfortunately he went down in the bloody summer. He has
life in prison. You know what i mean. We grew
up together. You know what I'm saying. Meatball is a
very important person in my life. Her brother, you know
what I'm saying. So when it was only right that
you know what I'm saying, I let her manage me
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and drive my career.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
And she really cares about you, bro.
Speaker 5 (47:44):
Yeah, so we're excited. Anything else that you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Me and Zaytoven got a project comes, yes? Yes, man.
They Toven is one of the people that I actually,
you know, took a liking to that was on my level.
You know, clean, stand up guy, you know what I'm saying.
He still you know what I'm saying. He don't do
He's wanting drinking, ain't doing no smoking. So when I
(48:09):
got a rehab, it was like God sent me to him,
you know what I mean. And he's been a great
person and he's been perfect, you know what I'm saying
for what I'm going in life.
Speaker 5 (48:19):
Right now, Joe, We are so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Man.
Speaker 5 (48:21):
We thank you for always talking about the ball up show.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
It is for you.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Man.
Speaker 8 (48:25):
Be clean.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Hey, I had to dress up today too. I have
to make sure you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Get right.
Speaker 5 (48:31):
So Man, before we get out of here, we do
have a pep talk boy, and I just.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Want to say this, Man, if you don't stand on anything,
make sure you stand on principal. You know what I mean,
Nothing else matter.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
If you get the principal right being you good.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
You know what I'm saying. Put God first and everything
else is a walk in the park.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know, BT know how it goes, shout at oct
no color, what we see? Whole game? Wait the butler something.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Oh, you can't stand on the house to see. I
already know you came with me because with the squad
of me, they get a little They called at me. Hello, Hello,
reporting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show.
I go by the name of fil.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I go by the name you know, BT.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Want to see where that who the devil doed.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Is in the village or walked in done? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Drod has a flip phone. Joe has a flip for well,
I've seen the flip phone for a while. I don't
remember the last time I seen a flip phone. The
last time I seen the flip flowd.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I said, hold on, Joe, what you got going on?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Man? Because I texted him. I thought he gave me
the wrong number. It was a it was a green bubble.
I said, Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah? So I mean, well, my ADHD and that phone
and like you're talking about with iPhone, yeah, previously, like
you know, all on those apps and you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So this does not have any apps.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
No, it takes along the text. Man, it was like
I got to hit the numbers.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
A couple of times, so you know, you can't even
do a voice note.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Damn you like that aspired shot.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, it's just it keeps my attention off of everybody else,
and it keeps me, you know, like like information I
try to intake. I try to make sure that there's
some you know, something that's other than what everybody else knows.
You know what I'm saying. I do get information from
people they oh boy, you heard it, like okay, but
(01:49):
you know, instead of me just taking it all in,
because once I get through looking at all those apps
and all that information, and I get to taken it in,
and if it ain't good information, that's what I spit
back out, you know what I mean. I spit back
out the stuff that I intake, and most of that
stuff ain't good. So half of the time I don't
had any good to say, you know what I mean.
If I'm all in that app and looking at everybody
(02:11):
living their best life.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You've really been doing the work on yourself. You know,
when did that start?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
When I went to rehab, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I kind of like, was like, how many years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Was that three three years April sixteenth?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, third year ye sobriety yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So back when I did that, I was like, you
know what, I felt like I couldn't do the stuff
I used to do and get ahead from where I
was at, you know what I mean. So if I
was going to go to rehab, then I was going
to have to change the women, you know what I mean,
because all of this stuff went with each other, like
the drugs, the women, alcohol, this the hanging out, you
(02:51):
know what I mean, the friends that I chose. So
I had to cut everybody off. And I love I
love the people that I cut off. I still think
about them and stuff like that, but it hinders me
to go back and repeat what I already done and
already see the results for it, you know what I'm saying.
So change the number, got a new phone, got off
(03:13):
social media.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But you still someone still posts for you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm supervised, so you know, if it's something that I
need to know or I have to do drops, you
know what I'm saying, stuff that's you know, leveling me up,
you know what I mean. We all sit down like
this and they be like, this is what you got
to do, boom boom, boom boom when I get through
phone back.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And so there is a designated phone for you, you
just don't use it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, it's a designated phone for me. But I have
to be supervised because if you walk out the room,
I'm like, you know what I'm saying, I'm not disciplined enough.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is that your phone?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
But you just don't have it or somebody has it
and they put all your stuff on it, meaning like
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, I have my own phone, but I don't have
my own phone. So and then like I make sure
that everybody has the code, you know what I mean, everybody, everybody,
like my management team, my lawyer, you know what I mean.
My lawyer was got in on it. You know what
I mean. You wanted to hey, look man, you can't
do this. And I'm making sure you're not doing that.
(04:16):
And you know what I'm saying, No, I don't want
to fall back into what that was. That's a rabbit
hole that nobody wants to go down, you know what
I mean. Like, you know what I mean, Like it's
almost like a nightmare that I woke up out of
that if I if I go back into it. I'm
going back to the nightmare and it's just not it's
not healthy for my mind, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Do you feel better?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
How are you? One hundred?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
That's good for the people like that don't understand how,
you know, dealing with addictions and stuff like that work.
Could you talk a little bit about, you know, when
you went to go get sober kind of like what
was your process and everything? To kind of help a
lot of people that really don't know the direction to take,
you have.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
To have a support team, you know what I mean.
I don't believe I could have done it without great management.
Sierra's my manager and also she's run for office, by
the way, running for office man Forton County Commissioner District six.
But she's also a doctor and she has a doctrine
in behavioral and mental health, so she was able to
(05:19):
you know what I'm saying, like something wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm like what? Because blunt? What a blunt and a perk?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And you know what, Selean won't fix you know what
I'm saying, Because I could just drown this out, you know,
medicate myself, like I thought was you know, I thought
that was the way, so that process. What meant like,
you know, well, I'm gonna get your family together, the
ones who do care, because you know, you would think
that everybody in your family is on board. That's not
true for me, you know what I mean. I don't
(05:45):
know for anybody else, but everybody didn't believe it. You know.
I had some family members liked it the way I
was because I gave a lot, you know what i mean,
how all the time you could just pretty much take
advantage of me, you know what I'm saying. And that
was the same thing that went with in public, my friends,
you know people that was around, what could we get from?
(06:07):
And he got a show. Let's everybody pile up. We
about to go to the show. He gonna give almost
all his money away. You know what I'm saying. We're
gonna get high, we're gonna get drunk, and we're gonna repeat,
and we're gonna do this for what twenty years?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You know what was your breaking point?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, the repeating of it. And then when I saw
my child, you know what I'm saying, and I felt
like that's that was a low blow. You know what
I'm saying. When I seen my little girl like that,
I was like, man, I can't tell her not to
get high. No more. Car I'm still having it in me,
(06:46):
you know what I'm saying. So the best thing I
could do is just go ahead and change myself. And
then she saw it and she actually cleaned them question yeah,
yeah clean? And uh you know I was talking to
her the other day, man, and she was just she
was in her daughter mode, like you know what I'm saying, Dad,
and I just started crying. I was like, man, I
(07:06):
praised so I wish I could have pressed a button.
I thought it was a dream. I was like, what
did I do to deserve this? You know what I'm saying.
Then I thought about it and I was like, I
took my mom through the same thing. You know what
I'm saying. You have to humble yourself and see what
you put people through, you know what I'm saying. And
once you see that, you be like, oh, I get it.
I needed to learn this lesson, you know what I'm saying.
(07:28):
But my kid, what you do show up in your kids,
like the kind of person you are and the things
that you do. If they're good things, and good things
to show up in your kid. If they're bad things,
they're bad things will also.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So having been through all of these things to be
where you are, do you feel like you waste the
time when you were, you know, on the drugs and
all that stuff, or do you feel like this kind
of was a journey that took you to where you're at.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now kind of in the middle. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Do you remember? I mean, I have a moment? Can
I share?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I a moment? Man?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was hosting Compound and you didn't even know what's
going on. It was your album release part.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah. I remember that day because Roco was trying to
give me some champagne and they was like he said,
he was just was definitely there. He was just tapping
me and I was just out of it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And then I turned. You know, this dude like Slick
raised me. So I turned and then he was like,
I was so out of my mind, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
And that's when I got worried. Yeah, I forgot what
the year was that That year.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Was one of those moments that I was like because
when I when I when I got the feedback off
that night, they was like, yo, he was just standing there.
And then I had this thing, this myth thing about
me to when people used to be like, man, he'd
be out of it. But when it's time to wrap,
I just used to you were amazing, But I would
(08:55):
miss the best part of you know, the experiment, the
people well, the love, the paying attention, the want to
collapse and you know what I say, you have the
success part. And then you know, and then when I
wake back up the next day, I would again, just
do it again, and I'll be like, you know, they'll
be like, well, this person tried to talk to you.
(09:17):
You know, you know, you you said something of this person,
you ignored this person, You said some real cruel stuff
to that person.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yah.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Man, Well, you know, unfortunately that's a lot of artists
journeys like drugs and all that stuff because they feel
like maybe they are better as an artist or whatever.
So it's just so great to see you come out
of that and just be who you are.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
We're so proud of you.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Hey take this out minus your boy you on Joe
on right here on the ball Alert Show kicking it
with for Ririe Simmons, Oh, C T and BT.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You dig what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now, Young Doe was actually signed before TI. Yeah, bigger
record deal, bigger situation before t.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I the same amount like the people were No, it
was actually Roco. It was a you know, Monica was
into on it, like because she always has given me
big support. So the Roco thing, right, it was it
(10:24):
was crazy like because I wasn't a superstar yet. I
just had the pen, you know what I'm saying. Good
with the pen, and Roco was like man and I
used to just go around and be rapping for different
people in the street and you know what I'm saying,
And it was so it was so good. Roco was like,
I'm been and put the house on shot. So he
built the studio for me, you know what i mean,
(10:46):
southwest over there by Green Brown, you know what I'm saying.
And so when he built the studio, you know him
and Monica. You know, Monica was always supportive. I remember
me and her first song was You Deserve We redid
the he May Hail Mary beat with Tupac and and
Man Rocco had me with I got a song with Juvenile.
Back then, you had some big records. Yeah, I had
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one with Jazzy Fay, Bone Crusher, Turk bunt Be, a
couple of more people, Monica of course. But this was
all on one tape car respect to connect it. And
you know, I was just feeling this way through it,
you know what I'm saying. And I think he pressed
up so many of those CDs and he forgot to
put the barcode on it. It was crazy back then.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
That was the time when they when people actually bought
physical CD physical city. You were selling them in the
streets too. How much money were you making?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Uh? Well, we used to charge like ten dollars of CD.
But Roco gave me, like I think Roco gave me
like twenty grand cash for my advance. Wow, without even.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Being what'd you do with it?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I blew it.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
That's what most artists do it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But to be honest with you, I was so into
my drug habit. But it was bad then because I
was trying to hide it. And then like on the
way back then, yes, like but because drugs had been
in my family for a long time. My dad, you know,
my dad been using, my dad using for like fifty years.
You know, my aunties and uncles all died off of drugs.
(12:16):
You know what I mean. They didn't live. Nobody lived
to be over sixty five or something like that. You
know what I'm saying. So, and my grandmama like had
like seven kids, all of them smoked dope self for
my mom, you know what I mean. So for me
to be on drugs, you've been like, oh figure, you
know what I'm saying, because that it had been embedded
in my family.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That you see it when you were younger, Yes, you
saw I had to.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I had to go buy it. You know what I'm saying,
Like my aunt ties and uncles will come over and
they'll send me to go get it. You know what
I'm saying, Like I knew where to go get their
drugs from.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
When was the first time you wanted to indulge it?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Or did.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Twelve? I started smoking? We ad twelve, You know, I
felt a junkie was out there. Man. And my one
of my friend's mom she was she was smoking. She
was like, I ain't no boy, that we gonna lead
to something else. I was like, get out of here
and law and ball.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
She was right, she was correct.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Introduce you to something heavier.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Or yeah, I was introduced to something heavier by just curiosity.
I was like looking at my friend and I was
wondering why they was acting, you know, more chill than
everybody else. And I felt like, you know what I mean,
I wanted to indulge in that. And you know, of
course everyone nah, man, you good, and I was like, nah,
(13:35):
I don't want to try it, not not knowing that.
I just thought they was having a good time that night.
I didn't know that it was going to ruin my life,
you know what I mean. I saw it, but I
was like, you know what I'm saying. I knew what
my aunties and uncles was doing. They was doing heroin
and cracking, you know what I'm saying. You know stuff,
you know what I'm saying. So when we went out
(13:56):
back when I was coming around, you know, X pills
and cocaine and weed, and you know what I'm saying,
that was young people were doing that, you know what
I'm saying. Then once I saw that, I was like, well,
this ain't that, you know, because we used to be
at big parties and you know, everything was going on
and everybody was indulged, and I was like, oh, it's lit.
(14:17):
You know what I'm saying, It's just everybody just having
a good time tonight. And you know what I'm saying,
Once I win in that rabbit.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Hole, it just when how old were you then when
you when you went there, I.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Want to be I want to say eighteen. I would.
You know what's crazy? I was the same age my
daughter was. You know, this is the generational curse thing
that I broke.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But then you started making a lot of money. Yeah,
so now you can support your habit and it gets worse, correct,
it gets worse.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And you know what I prayed. You know when I
first wanted to do music, you know, I really asked God.
I was like, I really don't care about money. I said,
I just want to have longevity. And you know, and
I was like, but if I don't get rid of
this drug habit, I said, it's probably gonna kill me.
You feel what I'm saying. And it changed. I started
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morphing with the drugs when something went out of style,
like when X pills was like popular those became I
was like, the X pill was just stuff for so
much stuff. I was like, okay, this was enough. In
that time passed then Molly came, you feel me then
when Molly came. But and then you know, I spent
five years, six years on X pills, like eight years
(15:35):
on this and they didn't come to perksn't come to Zans,
they didn't come to Lean then you know, alcohol, and
we stayed there, you know what I'm saying. So it
was just I was just morphing into different druggies, you
know what I'm saying. So and by that time, you know,
I guess you know, God just kept his hand on me.
You know, because for somebody to survive that, and this
(15:56):
goes out to anybody that's using and you still living,
that means that it's still a purpose for you to
do because you can overdose.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Do you have any lasting effects, like does like your
ReBs heard or do you have like stomach problems or
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Do you have no stomach problems? Like random headaches?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Did a Rocco ever intervene with your or did he
ever say anything?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I hit it from him. I was able to mask it,
like because I thought, well, clothes was my creep out thing,
like if I got fresh, you know what I'm saying,
Because there's a method behind how I dress. Now you
know what I'm saying because I saw it in school.
I was like, clothes keep people off from the attention
about what's really inside of me. You feel me long
(16:45):
as you long, long as you can see me fresh
and not my interior.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I was good on that, like a distraction, Like a
distraction when people won't expect somebody that's dressed nice and
that's room to be heavy on drugs.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Ultimately, that hurt me more than anything because everybody was like, alright,
he dead fresh, You know what I'm saying. And I
wanted that. You know, I didn't want you to look
at me any different. You know what I'm saying, because
I I'll be and I'll say to myself on some
arrogant stuff like what she would say, somebody me and
I'm cleaning than you. You know what I'm saying, Like
like that, you know what I'm saying. But like the
(17:17):
way the way it tore up friendships, the way it
the way I did, you know how like you know,
breaking girls hearts and lying and you know, lett my
mom down, and you know what I'm saying. And people
I made some people who cared. You know what I'm saying.
That that was like you know, like Ferrari or somebody
that saw me like that genuinely cared that. You know this,
(17:39):
this guy is tripping, you know what I'm saying. But
at the same time, it's other people wanted me in
that position because it benefited them.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, nobody cares about a rich junkie.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Nobody cares about a rich junkie if he's good looking.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Now, when you was, when you was doing drugs, did
you did you need the drugs to create the type
of music that you was making because you putting out
a lot of hit records at the time.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You know, still all to day.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
But I always just wanted the does artists always feel
like I need to get high to get in the
studio and create this type of music that people are loving.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I think that's that's I think that's the trick that
the devil has, you know what I mean. He tried
to convince you that God didn't give you everything that
you need to you know, be the best person you are,
and I had to fight with that for a long time. Now,
I do want to say that it did stimulate, you know,
my brain and make me you know, think, you know,
(18:33):
harder and concentrate, because that's just what it is, you
know what I mean. But to say that that's true,
that's not true. You know what I'm saying, Like you
have you are equipped with everything that you need to
be the best person on this earth that God. You know,
the gifts that God gave you, those are the best gifts,
not drugs.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I just seen the famous quote that Wayne May when
he put out a documentary. He said, people are telling
me to put down the cup, put down the lian
and he said, I ain't putting down nothing, because this
lean got me more rich and more successful. So I
just always thought about there, like for a long time,
I'm like, does every artist do drugs?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You know to make this popular music that were listening to.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, you can lie to yourself, you know, you
can a lot to yourself. But the truth is I'm
not on drugs now and I do great music, so
I would be telling you I'll be lying there. I
did a lot of myself and made me make myself
believe that that that that I needed that. But that
was the crutch, Like that was the that was the
move that the devil played. You know what I'm saying,
(19:35):
you need this, you know what I'm saying you need me,
you need me, you know, well actually you don't.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Man, Hey, Dree, So one of my favorite songs you
ever did. I always wanted to ask you this question.
I actually never asked you this in private, so I'm
asking you right now or revoked TV ball alert.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I don't know. I don't fuck with y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, because I'm a big Can we talk about that
record and making that record? So I saw you perform
that live at the Pearl on a Tuesday night and
dug at the Pearl. It was a it's a club,
It's no longer there, Green Brier. The Green Brill was
at South Southwest. Yeah, right, the Green bro Mall long
live Johnson because that was his party. Yes, And I
(20:18):
was there on a Tuesday night one time, a DJJ one.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
He was the DJ.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Didn't smoke or drink. Meanwhile, the club was lit.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Bit job over there lit, and I never forget dro
performed this song. I was in general population, just looking.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Up like, yeah, this is the reason I'm here, this
is the reason why I love Atlanta. Were talking about
that song.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, that that era was you know what I mean,
heavily inspired by I want to say young La man
he kind of like, you know, showed me a different
way of doing things because I used to rap so
hard back then and it was like before it's time,
and I was like, I can dial it down a
little bit. But you know, I decided to dial it down.
(21:01):
I was like, you know, younger lay made me feel
comfortable in that in that in that state, you know
what I'm saying. And when I recorded it, you know,
you know, some of him lingo were like, what's up
it out? You know what I'm saying? Always like big dog,
Like everything was big dog. You know what I'm saying.
And when I said when I was talking about, you know,
the lingo in there, I was really referring back to
(21:24):
Atlanta culture. You know how we how we you know,
how comfortable we are with how we talk. And I
was slag and you know what I mean, and all
that bow and all that stuff that we was. It
just fit, you know what I'm saying. And when I
decided to do the video, it just got Big Man
(21:44):
Mike Epps came. I had him in Chapel for as
on the West Side I'm talking about. He was out
there with one shoe on what you all big and
bugers I was like, this guy is super real and
I ain't. It wasn't nothing that I called. I ain't
even have to call him, you know what I mean,
just pulled up with Droyd. I'm on the way, you
know what I'm saying. I was like, man, this lit
Mike ELPs over in the hood man, So that that
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that was that and that that was the first video
that had a filter on it.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
If you look at the video, I don't know what's
the filter, like the.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Filters on Instagram, like the color, the color of it.
You know what I'm saying, Like, how you can you
know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
It was? It was?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It was lit? Man.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
When did you meet t I?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh, we weren't famous. I think it was like it
was a rap.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You said that he stayed up the street from you
or somebody, so.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
We were so we both was from Bankhead, which was
I stayed in the projects. He stayed in Center Hill.
So in hindsight we were already on the West Side together.
He just was up the street. In reality, we ended
up moving to the same spot in Riverdale.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So when I that's weird.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So when I got over that, I just you know,
I seen everybody kicking it and when nobody really kicking
it like us. Hold, that's so I'm looking like. I'm
like he had like somebody, I know, you know what
I'm saying. Then it just it came together, you know
what I'm saying. And he was hustling and you know
what I'm saying, doing the thing, you know what I'm saying.
And I used to I used to go down in
his house. You know, her mom used to be cussing up. Hey, y'all,
y'all do my living room more than purnature. I'm like,
(23:24):
you know what I'm saying. But actually we just connected,
you know what I'm saying. He I seen him how
he was moving it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And I knew.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I knew how we sold drawers in the city and
I've seen how they were selling draws out there. And
he was telling me, boy, it's triple out of him car.
You know our dins out him.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
They thought it out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I'm like, oh, lik, you know what I'm saying. So basically, man,
we connected.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Sixteen was y'all wrapping in or no, we was.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I was just doing beats man, Okay, he was. It
was like doing he was a producer, like he was
producing beats, serving serving service.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You're producing big serving and boy, yeah, just do back man.
And me I was just healing up because I had
I had got shot like a year two a year.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Why did you get shot?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Ah? Man?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It was crazy man, just I mean being in being
in the wrong place, doing the wrong things.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Man.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
One of you dude tried me when I was young,
and it kind of like I want to say, it
shook me a little bit, but I knew I wasn't
gonna suck out, So I was like, Okay, you tried
me like that. Bit. I'm finna go. I'm finna go
to bankhead Cole really went from the area right there.
I'm finna go to bank had get my get my connect,
(24:46):
and we're gonna come back over here and straighten it.
And then when we went back over there and straighten it,
you feel what I'm saying, we did. We did and
on the way out, somebody came up to the car
and shot me in the back, you know what I mean.
And I had to wear like colossomy bag. You know
what I'm saying. Man, Yeah, I was using the bathroom
for myself and like at a young age, I was
out in my mind. I was like, what the world
(25:07):
just happened? Because I just thought we was going to
do some you know what I mean. Next thing, you
know that that was on me, you know what I'm saying.
So by the time I met Tip, I was I
was heeling up for my stable. I had like fifty
six staples and I had you know what I'm saying,
I had just got the bag reversed. You know what
I'm saying. I think I was sixteen turning about to
be seventeen.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So you got shot at sixteen fifteen fifteen?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Wow, you know I had to you know, of course
I had the bag. So once I went through that surgery,
I had to wear the bag till I was like
a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
The bag is you using the bathroom and it goes
into the bag?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Yeah, wow, Yeah, that's a lot of That's something that
a lot of people don't talk about, you know, when
you hear people getting shot in all this stuff, because
people try to glorify that in the streets, but people
don't know the aftermath of what you know, people actually
have to go through or getting shot.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, see my drug have it burst from then, Like
I believe because I was on some strong such stuff
in the hospital, right, and they used to give me
this stuff called demarol, and they used to be hit
me and then like and I used to be ringing
the button all the time. And then the lady, the
lady found that out. She was like, he's addicted, you
(26:17):
know what I mean? And I really didn't know. I
just kept saying I'm in pain. But most of the
time I wasn't in pain. It was just that that
stuff used to knock me out. It was opious, like
you know what I'm saying. So and behold when I
got to the hospital and then and and I was
asking him, I was like, is y'all gonna give me
that that same stuff? They was like, no, we can't
give you that, Like on the way out, like we're
(26:38):
going to give you some stuff, you know what I'm saying.
It wasn't it good stuff? So when I got out, man,
I was looking for that too, that high. I wanted
something to medicate me because that was addictive to me.
I had addictive personality, like you know what I'm saying,
(27:00):
Like I wanted that fix again. So that's when it
burst too. That's when I was like, Okay, when I
found something to have me sedated like that on the street,
I was like, oh, what is what it felt like?
You know what I'm saying. So yeah, So by the
time I met Tip, I was healing up from that,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
But then you went and got to deal with Rocco
before no.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I had to deal with Raheem the Dream, so it's
very okay.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
So now the Raheen drinks I knew dream was first.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You feel mean because you know, we was on the
West Side and I was rapping at my cousins. He
was doing something on the bank at the bank which
was the Bounce, you know what I'm saying. So I
went in there wrapping it at his show and Raheem
saw it. He came and got me in. He signed
me in. You know, I had this song called yes Sir.
You know what I'm saying this when every you know
(27:49):
today people were saying yes Sirski you real me? But
I had an actual single call this in two thousand. Wow,
you know what I'm saying, Like twenty some years ago,
you know what I'm saying. That was my first single
call Yes sir, you know what I mean? Uh, Greg
Street broke it great, Dan, So that was that was
(28:09):
the thing. And you know I had to deal before Tip.
That's what That's what it was. You know what I'm saying.
I was on the radio. So by the time he
got on radio, I had already saturated on the radio.
And I think I think he was at the radio
one station one day and I called up there. I'm
telling girl, I'm like, hey, Greg, you know what I'm saying.
I was like, that's that's Tip. And then Tip like
(28:30):
who were that? And he was like, I was like,
this drove And then he was like you know what
I mean because he was doing you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He was like, you drove. I was like, you know
what I'm saying. He was like I had no because
my voice and stuff got heavy.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Like how you say that?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
So yeah, man, So when I met Tip where we
wasn't we wasn't we wasn't rappers, were just kids.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
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Speaker 2 (29:02):
Hey take this out minus your boy on Joe on
right here on the ball Alert Show, Kicking It with
for Ririe Simmons, Oh CT and BT.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You dig what I'm saying that With.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
The Barler Lip Show, we got young Droe.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
And the Bill Gi Yeah, fresh as always.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
He's talking about TI.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
You know, Grant Hustle years y'all was off the charts,
and I feel like that was Do you feel like
that was the peak of your success?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah? I mean yeah, the bigger part.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Because when Shoudaling came out, I feel like it took over.
It's still about today.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, it's actually playing the dope thing about you, and
I feel like you guys are those legendary artists. Your
music is coming back because how radio is working now
is they're playing all those hits from the early two
thousands to two thousand and eighty ten's, So you're gonna
hear Droe, I heard whatever you liked the other day
(29:56):
on the radio. I heard Shoudeling the other day on
the radio. So it's starting to come back, which I
think is a dope thing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Pretty good?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Man?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I always wanted to make music that like classical music,
you know what I'm saying. Like, I listened to a
lot of alternative music, you know what I mean? And
those those songs are around today. You know what I mean.
Hip hop is the only genre that that says, Okay,
we're done with this, you know what I mean. But
(30:25):
you still can hear a John Bon Jovie song that's
still popping, you know what I'm saying. You still can
hear you know, those kind of songs still popping today.
And I felt like, since I have a sense of
that kind of music, I kind of had it in
my spirit to make stuff that I you know that
you still got you know that you can still play today.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
You have an interesting story about how Shoudoline was developed.
Can you give us that? Can you share that story?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It came from us not dancing because the whole the
whole city was dancing, like and you know, I ain't
knocking it, you know what I mean. I used to
wish I could dance, but I couldn't picture myself dancing.
But we was like trying to fit in, you know,
trying to you know, not beat so much of an
art ball, you know what I'm saying. So when till
(31:12):
when Tip came to it was like, hey man, it's lit.
You know, faboed him got lafty tappy.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But originally it was Tip song right.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Originally he when he did the when he did the
hook right, he was going to carry on, you know
what I mean. And I was like, well, well, first
of all, we knew that we wasn't dancing. And he
was like, man, we could do.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
This, We could do that.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I'm like, no, trying to convince you to dance.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You was about to do some snap stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Because you had fall then you had the franchise.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
It was lit.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But I was like, well, you know, I ain't never
seen you dance, you know what I'm saying. He was like, man,
we can just do something. He said, what you think
about this?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And I was like, you know what, go ahead. Then
when I heard them, I was like, I got this, bro.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
But was the beat already made when he was doing that?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Because Little See Little c was there too, but Little
See what he was He Tip did this like a cappella.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
And Little See is the producer.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Just Little See came with.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
That beat man, and I remember hearing it and when
he when Tip put his voice on that beat, and
it was in little Seek because Little he did the
beat around what he was. You feel what I'm saying.
I heard that and I had this. I had this
like a dream, like a vision. I was like, man,
(32:36):
when I when I wraped this, I'm gonna say how
fresh I am. And I could just see myself back
in the crowd up and showing off my feet on cleaning.
It was almost like it was almost like a book. Man,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
That's so classic. He said, go to the club and
you was that you had to finish the song.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, they wasn't there when I did it.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Nah, they wasn't around when I did it, so back
when I came. So when I got through it and
they heard it, man, Tip and was like man, So
we ended up. He was on tour.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We drove to Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
This is what the song was his birthday because at
first it was just amongst us like so they were like, okay,
that's Joy's high man. We got the Jacksonville, Florida on
the tour bus and we had like a bunch of
girls come up. Everybody was on the bus and were
having a good time. So Tip was like, put this home.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
When they put that song on, broke we on it
was like it was lit.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Bro we knew.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Okay, So since we're here, this ends up being your
biggest record today.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yes, well no, I think FDB was bigger than that.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Okay, I know, but but did did FTB chart higher
than Shoulderling? Which one made you the most money?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I think that FDB is a more bigger song because
it's everybody. Everybody feels that, everybody can relate to it
all all all skin, all skin tone of people feel that.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You me and a lot of people know.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Shoudling show Lean went one two right then I sold
two million ring Tones, So that's like four million, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
At the time when Big.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Tones was big. So so I know, I know it
went platinum twice, and I know I bought it, you
know what I'm saying. And then like you know what
I'm saying, So I got a ring Tone Award for
that song, you know, you know what I mean. I
remember a kind giving me that, you know what I'm saying. So,
and I was the first one to get a ring
Tone award.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Wow. Yeah, don't let Soldier War hear this.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
But then you had we Be in the City. That
was another big one that my.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Favorite I heard that played at the Olympics. That was
a pretty big song. I heard that somebody sent me that.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
You beat's always crazy. Man, you got you you got
a ear when it comes to beats.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I also like when you perform that song because you
let it cut off and you go a compella. You
go a compella.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, I try to let you know, you know, I
you know, that's when I try to show people how
much I like music.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
People people like you know, you hear stuff on the radio,
you hear people record, But a live show shows how
much you're embedding into what your craft is and how
you want it to be. Come out to the people,
you know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Saying now the showder Lin come out before Fat Joe.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Laying back, because I remember he was talking about like
people in the South took you know, his song and
everybody just kept, you know, remaking it.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That whole bacle was weird because I don't I don't remember.
I can't tell you that I heard Fat Joe and
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I just always wondered that because I seen him make
you know.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
He I saw that that was kind of weird, you
know what I mean. I seen it was.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Because it was a lot of lean song. After you know.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
But the thing about it is, I don't even think
that anyone knew of anyone doing it, you know what
I'm saying, Like, I don't think franchise you know, you
know knew drou was doing it, or I was was
aware of it. Was like, oh, I'm gonna do a
lean song. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Now you've had some You've had a very high profiled relationship.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Can we get any type of who else have you?
Were you in a relationship with that was kind of big?
That may have went under the radar.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Oh man, I actually that was the only thing.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Is you famous folks be having relationships?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I actually, man, you know what, I'm a hood. I'm
a hood dude, you know what I'm saying. I for
the most part, I was I was all about a
fine chip from around the way tight, you know what
I'm saying, Like because it fit my persona, you know
what I'm saying. Even though a lot of you know
what I mean, I smashed some stuff. I won't say,
(37:04):
keep it a peak. I won't say. You know what
I'm saying. Whatever they did see it went public. You
can have that, but I wouldn't tell what was it?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Anybody that you was like, man, I can't believe you
know this shorty doesn't hit me up. You know, this
was somebody that I always wanted.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Of course, okay, yes.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Or anybody now or do you want to be married?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Or I mean, well right now? Man, it's I'm working
on myself and I just was.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I just had to to separate myself from spreading myself thin.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I've dealt with some cheeks. You know what I'm saying
that you know, some real good women. You know what
I mean, And I mean real good women. You know
what I'm saying. But you know, once you once you
done had your share, whatever you pick and choose. You
know what I'm saying. You might you know, you want
to just make sure. I want to make sure when
I jump back into this relationship whole. You know what
(38:00):
I'm saying, You ain't gonna get nobody else need to
get high and you're not working on itself. And it's
it's some stuff. I went to the rehab because it
was stuff I needed to regrab. You know what I'm
saying about myself that I need to be doing. How
much of a man that I need to, you know,
be to give to this relationship.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You know what I'm saying. I don't want to short
change the next person. Gotcha? So could you ever date
a woman that drink or smoke?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
So she can't drink or smoke.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I mean you can drink, but you can't be an alcoholic.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I ain't ever thought chicks who smoked weed was attractive,
like we do it later. What you talking about?
Speaker 6 (38:43):
You?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
For you?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
It's not triggering. It's almost embarrassing, like to just have
a check that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Anybody who can drink.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
You don't think this is gonna bother the women who
smoke weed.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I just it just ain't for me. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I'm not knocking it. It's it's just ain't you know
what I'm saying. Because women be so beautiful, you know
what I'm saying, Like smoking is not good. You know
what I'm saying in so many wait words?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
If you look at it like because I got children
to raise, and then for me to be saying, oh
you ain't gonna be smoking nothing, and then mama and
there like come on, man, I cut it out for
my son, you know what I'm saying, So own't on
him saying I got this from dad. You know what
I'm saying. You know I went through that with my child.
You know what I'm saying. It's just not your preference,
(39:30):
not my preference.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And everybody got a preference to your preference is polo.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
I was gonna say, how was Joe the father today?
Are you in all the baseball games or at.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
The basketball games?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And I had to learn how to be dad and
stop wearing jewelry because I used to be culled three
four chains on pulling up in these you know what
I'm saying. It was like look looking at me, like
you just dad today, man. But I had to humber myself.
(40:01):
Stop wearing jewelry to the games, stop dressing up so
you know, because sometimes I just go to these games
and people be like why, I don't know. I got
to learn how to turn it off. So right now
I'm more conscious about what I let him see, or
about my attitude, about what I accept, what I don't accept,
what's around me. You know what I mean, letting what
(40:23):
I'm letting him see, what I'm letting him listen to
you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's different.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Do you see a lot of yourself in him?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
A lot of it? And I have to correct it.
And I believe, I truly believe. This is one of
the reasons why I'm not on drugs because I'm able
to see it now. If I was under the influence,
I would let my child grow up to be exactly
like me. And that's not the goal.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
So you don't have two kids, I have three. Three Okay,
do you see music in their future or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
My son is going to be great at something. I
think sports, you know what I mean. He's he just
turned eight, and he's so smart in basketball. He had
to have this information at five or you know what
I mean. He knows so much about basketball to you
it would trip you out, you know what I mean.
And his body, the way he built like I see him,
(41:14):
I see myself and him. When I was young, I
would cut up and I played football before I got shot.
But he has a football physique, but he loves basketball.
So I know he's going to be big. Mark my words,
He's gonna be famous.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Now, does Droe do you work out? Like what did
you change about your life. Are you doing something that
you've never done before that's kind of like new?
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Or yes, I get up every morning and that workout
every morning.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Never did that before?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
No, Like do you job to hit the elliptical?
Speaker 4 (41:45):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
I walked five miles? Wow, every day, every day, five miles.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
That's a long time.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Changed.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, well it changes because I don't want to still
spicy dog meat.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I mean, I mean like I can't eat exquisitely. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
I can eat you know, the alligators and the dover
the dover fish and stuff like that, squid and sea
arch and you know what I'm saying. I can eat
that type stuff because it's not too heavy. But I
do try to eat right so I can help out
the five miles.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I don't want to be eating too much, too tired.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Oh yeah, I got a little gym. Put it in
my put it in the garage. I go work out.
Do that. I do that every morning, And that's that's
tough to get up at seven point thirty every morning,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
So, now, do you have a studio in your house?
Speaker 2 (42:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
I try not to.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
I don't I don't have. I don't play the radio
at home literally because my choice of you. I don't
want my son to end up picking up the room stuff.
You know what I'm saying. Even though I make that
kind of music, I don't. And if I do listen
to music at the house, it's alternative music.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
So how did the Glorilla remix come about when you
got on that?
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Because you brought that raspy voice back.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
You know what, when I be walking, I heard Gloilla
rip the beat so bad and.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
It was a good way.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I mean, she killed it in a good way. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah, So it was inspiring, you know, you know some
some stuff she was saying about about you know, quit thinking,
quit overthinking, and you running circles around these people.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I'm like, get them glow, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Saying, And just just how you know, just to hear
the young generation and just to hear it, hear in
her voice like she was commanding the beat, and I
was like, I can command that beat like that, you
know what I'm saying. So and then and I just
found myself saying, yeah, drove all the time. And then
and then dude looking at me, was like, you did it?
I was like, Nah, I ain't did it. I was like,
(43:47):
you know what, Big Jon was like, go ahead and
do it. I was like, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
John, have a big jump.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Now how much you think over the years you spent
on polo, man, it's.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Over a million, over a million, because, like I used
to have to be some serious you have some stuff
I've never seen before. It was a serious sickness with that.
Speaker 5 (44:09):
Have you a deal yet?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (44:10):
I mean I actually was up for it, and then
I got into some trouble and stuff, you know, and
I think, you know, everything is you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
You know not Ralph Laurydy got to call you a
million dollars in polo. It's crazy, man. Listen in the
first little section of my life. You know what I'm saying.
I want to say, when it was starting out, I
had just did like quarter of it, you know what
I'm saying, A quarter of me. I want to say,
it's well over that. You know what I'm saying. One
(44:41):
hundred thousand on Ralph is easy?
Speaker 2 (44:43):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Two hundred thousand is easy.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
You were wearing the most expensive so I used to
I remember walking into basis at the ball, whatever the
ball it was, and like that.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Stuff wasn't special. Like that jacket right there, Bro, I
know that, ain't you know what I'm saying, it's out
out jacket. Oh my god, Conor Rod over its side.
Speaker 6 (45:01):
I'm gonna say this. You influenced a lot of people
in the culture to wear polo.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Them Polo boots, and I was Atlanta was wearing Polo boots.
Speaker 6 (45:10):
And I'll never forget I say the money I saved
them like two paychecks. I was working at Route twenty
one and I bought some Polo because you have.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
The numb I definitely you know. The no ones went up, man,
you know what I'm saying, Dude, you used to be
telling that I'm just like Droe instead of saying the brand.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
You know what, I went to Marshalls and would get
the Polos when they was thirty nine out of his side.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I got to know what I'm talking about, Bro.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
I used to go to Marshalls and or I will
wait till they'll be right before back to school tax free,
and they went down before the new ones come in.
You know, the old ones will be like nineteen ninety
nine no.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Tax that so you got the polo. I hope you
get a deal.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
We kept paying it for a deal.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
You can get that.
Speaker 7 (45:51):
Yeah, you deserved that second chance. But so you had
the PSC project that you did. You had a couple
of songs with them.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
It's gonna be, man, the PSC got a big project
coming out with DJ Drama. Man, and it's just that's
going to be that has some real dro stuff on it,
you know what I mean. And after that, I think,
you know what, me and going to do a joint album,
you know what I'm saying. I think I think we
owe that to the.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Coach. Yeah, we need that.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
When is the book coming out? Because you have a story, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Book actually, man, you know what. My manager is an author.
Doctor Sierra is an author.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Also doctor Sierra.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
She she actually wrote a book before we, you know
what I'm saying, got doing business together and she's a
great writer, and she was like, I'm going to write
your story and she she you know, she documented, she
has she has a lot of stuff like, hey, look man,
I've seen this happen. I seen the boy go through this.
(47:01):
I seen him overcome this. He came out of that,
he got stuck right here, and it's just you know
what I'm saying. And she she got the book together,
and I think the book should be ready by twenty five.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I'm excited for I'm so ready for today. Where did
you meet her?
Speaker 1 (47:15):
By the way, man, we have been knowing each other
for twenty years.
Speaker 6 (47:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Actually I grew up with her brother, Meatball shot the
Camilton road print. You know what I'm saying, print locked
up right now. You know what I'm saying. He actually,
unfortunately he went down in the bloody summer. He has
life in prison. You know what i mean. We grew
up together. You know what I'm saying. Meatball is a
very important person in my life. Her brother, you know
what I'm saying. So when it was only right that
you know what I'm saying, I let her manage me
(47:40):
and drive my career.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
And she really cares about you, bro.
Speaker 5 (47:44):
Yeah, so we're excited. Anything else that you have coming up?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Me and Zaytoven got a project comes, yes? Yes, man.
They Toven is one of the people that I actually,
you know, took a liking to that was on my level.
You know, clean, stand up guy, you know what I'm saying.
He still you know what I'm saying. He don't do
He's wanting drinking, ain't doing no smoking. So when I
(48:09):
got a rehab, it was like God sent me to him,
you know what I mean. And he's been a great
person and he's been perfect, you know what I'm saying
for what I'm going in life.
Speaker 5 (48:19):
Right now, Joe, We are so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Man.
Speaker 5 (48:21):
We thank you for always talking about the ball up show.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
It is for you.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Man.
Speaker 8 (48:25):
Be clean.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Hey, I had to dress up today too. I have
to make sure you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Get right.
Speaker 5 (48:31):
So Man, before we get out of here, we do
have a pep talk boy, and I just.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Want to say this, Man, if you don't stand on anything,
make sure you stand on principal. You know what I mean,
Nothing else matter.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
If you get the principal right being you good.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
You know what I'm saying. Put God first and everything
else is a walk in the park.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Can't get enough of baller Alert.
Speaker 8 (48:53):
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