The ScHoolboy Q Episode

SCHOOLBOY Q TALKS: TDE vs DEATH ROW, GOING THROUGH DRUG WITHDRAWL, THE RAP INDUSTRY IS DEAD, AND MORE!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The more deeper and deeper I got into music over the.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Course of my career, I just found the importance of
like who I am and in my gift and like
meeting people and shit and realize that, oh, I'm more
than just a rapper, you know, like raps like get
people up drugs, raps that you know, be like oh damn,
like gang bankers can be like normal people, like everybody

(00:28):
ain't mad, like you know what I'm saying, like meeting
people like you know, I'm I'm here to push the
envelope for us, cause the perception of what we are
is not really that, you know what I'm saying, So
more people like me need to be around and for
the long the longer I'm around, the longer I can help,
the longer I can guide, the longer I can lead.
You know, Like I said, you just meet all these

(00:50):
people and you travel in the world, and like you
realize like, oh, like I said, you're you're like a
therapist almost to some people.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
People doing like the the peel rap like that type
of that type of vibing in.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I mean, obviously drug everybody's a pill.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's why I That's another thing too. I felt like
I did that, and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
A little thing where I'm like, fuck, so I normally
talk about sobriety a lot, you know what I'm saying,
Cause like I kind of put that out to the world.
I feel like I don't know for sure if I'm
the first person. Nah, you know that's tough to say
you're the first person, especially in music. But I don't
know if I sparked like a pill rapping thing. But

(01:34):
I don't remember people really rapping about like you know,
ecstasy and shit, but like prescription drugs and shit.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't remember people rapping.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
About that type of shit up until I started rapping
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Do you feel so now you say you rap about
sobriety intentionally and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Do you feel guilty for that?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I mean you should a little bit, but not really.
I feel guilty, but not really. It's like, oh, well,
like if you take feel some way about it, oh
you too, for a sucker, Like that's was what I
was on at the time.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know what I'm saying. I'm a different person.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now, Like you know what I mean, I kind of
feel bad, but at the same time I really don't.
But it's just like, you know, if you put it
out there. It's like if I disrespect you publicly, but
I just text you and be like my bad, like
I should probably, you know, publicly, Like you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
The polity should be as loud as disrespect.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
So if I'm like, if I put it out there,
I should, you know. Like I had a song called Druggish.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I love that song, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
It's like one.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know, I remember doing shows and like people used
to be like, you know, coming up to me and
just always offering drugs.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
To me, like fans.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Damn you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
So it's like, oh so yeah, ship is like you
know some people he probably I'm not saying I got
them on drugs, but I'm I'm damn no sure not
helping them quit, you know what. So like you know
now and show you like, oh look, you can come
out on.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
The other side.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And I look younger than I did in fucking twenty fourteen.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Bro, I was looking at a picture I have apartment
when we were like twenty.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
Ten, twenty ten, oh nine, oh ten, it was definitely
a different school boy.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah. Yeah. So it's like it's like you can literally
turn the.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Whole thing, your whole shit around, just like getting a
hobby or like, you know, being honest with yourself. That
was pretty much what I am with my music, just
being honest with myself.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
How is that with the fans though, because I mean
a certain level of like people will appreciate that, Like
for me, I've been sober seven seven years, myself eight years, right,
which is amazing, right, But then you have fans that
want to see the old Q or like not not
necessarily evolved with you.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Shit by I'm already cute.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Shit, yeah, I'm already cute you either we're on the
train and shit, you ain't.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I ain't chripping.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Every day I wake up mazed, like who the fuck
I am? I'm not even joking. Every day every day
I wake up, I'd be like, wow.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
You know what's crazy?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
You said that?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
I went to I went to go see I went
to go see dot at Uh at the in Vegas
for the for the Mister Morale tour. And I went
up when we was when it was over with, I
was we was back back in the dress room. When
I was asking, I was like, yo, like doing this
ship still trip you out? He's like nigga every day,
like every day. I can't believe this is happening.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Seriously, It's like you be you know you like you
said you remember me two thousand and ninety two thousand,
every y'all like we were pulling up to the house and
ship and grinding what was that inglewood?

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, like like pulling up you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And then to be like this guy that go to
the store and people are like giving you praise, you
do a show, it's like sold out. You fucking just
waking up in my big ass bed, like going to
the bathroom every.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Time I go. I'm telling you, every time I go
to the bathroom, I'm like this a big ass back
every time.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
That's gotta be.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
You sit there taking a ship like this is crazy, bro.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Every time I got like fancy shipter things now like
my boy gave me the rich people shipter now where
you put your feet up, you ship.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
And you got like you got like a staying on
this it's read ship. I'm like, yo, this is you
know what I mean. He's talking about make you ship
better whatever, but off top bigger.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
But yeah, like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm
growing to you know, to push like I said at
the Envelo four, And I appreciate where I'm at in
my life. So if somebody don't appreciate it, all good.
I mean the music is out there, like you know,
that's another thing to it, Like rap, like they always
shoots like basketball players and not like my rap saint

(05:50):
you know about bad like this Saint basketball for me,
like I get it.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Like the fun and all that ship.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, like we need those records too, But I'm not
a guy that just make those records, you know what
I'm saying. I'll make records about my life, like all
my albums about my life.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
So you fun too though. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
But what I'm saying is just like on the normal,
like I'm not like a I'm not like club driven
or yeah like a super duper duper bop.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
You know, I'm more aggressive and storytelling.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
But I mean, you hear artists struggle with that when
when it's time for them to evolve, whether it's through
you know, parenthood or like you said, sobriety and the
fans just aren't ready for that, you know what I'm saying.
Sometimes artist struggle with giving the fans what they want.
But also internally like no, I gotta I gotta grow
up my damn self.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, I mean what I'd be lying if I
would be like trying to make raps about drugs.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't do drugs on myself. It's like I really
don't even know how to do that.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean, i'd be I'd be panicking trying to I'd
be you know what I'm saying. Every now and then
I take it a little zaan actually go to New York.
I can't even find a plug for this. God damn,
I really don't know nobody. I just want half a
fuck it to sleep on this flight. I can't even
get a fuck of you know what I'm saying, Like
that's so so riyo. I don't even know nobody that

(07:11):
got any trace or anything.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't know what was the shift for you?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (07:17):
The shift?

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Because I remember having to talk with Chuck about the drinking.
What was it change for you?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I would say, like I kind of quit, like twenty fifteen,
but I really didn't. Then twenty sixteen came, I quit,
and then I really didn't. And I would say twenty
seventeen that's when I was like, fully like.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I just I don't know. I just didn't want to
do it.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Just woke up one day and like fuck it.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah yeah, I'm one of those people though, like you know,
like I was on drugs, but I went on drugs
like that long like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I started smoking weed at like twenty.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
One, you know what I'm saying, Like like I was
never really into.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Drugs and shit, like I just got on and just was.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Like I'm gonna expel mantle. Motherfuck a lot. I try it,
you know what I'm saying. Take a drug.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh yeah, that's weak. I like this one. And it
was one of those things like, oh I like this one.
I was fucking with you know what I'm.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Saying, Lean and all that ship for like a few
years and then I'm just like, all.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Right, I'm fat.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
That should make you fat. Yeah yeah, I'm like never
quick for vanity.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
It was like I'm like, all.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Right, I'm ugly, ship, I'm fat.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Like it just wasn't cool no more. And I was
just like I just quit.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
That's wild because like that ship, you having that ability
to go cold turkey, right, That's that's not something you
should do. And that's what I'm saying that's a personal thing.
Not everybody can do that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
So I can do that.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
I can hear, I can hear the the responsibility and
like taking accountability for that, making sure that people understand, like, Yo,
this is just me though I'm not telling you to
be me, but it's how I handle my situation.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I got lucky though, because you can have a stroke,
you can like you shouldn't just.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Pour all the shit out?

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Did you? Did you go through anything physically?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Hell?

Speaker 4 (09:04):
What did you go through? Like?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Uh, just like with draws and shit like shivers. I
remember us at uh south By Southwest. I was going
through with draws and all I could do, like I
couldn't lay on like or touch like soft surfaces, like
I had to be like on the ground, like I
was mad weird, like and I would like see on
the ground, sit on the ground. But I had some
shows and I was getting paid pretty well like for

(09:27):
the shows, and I needed that chilli at the time,
and I was just on the ground like what for
hours and then a time for the show, and then
I'd just be aching all the way up into the show.
Then when I get to the show, I feel normal
and I do the show. As soon as I get
off stage, I was fucked up again. I had to
lay on the floor like and that shit happened for
like a month. I was just like chill shakes, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(09:51):
just like jittery and shit.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Did you ever hallucinate or anything like, cause I know
people usually do.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
I I really don't remember hallucinating.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
It was just like more body pain, like just like
anxiety more so than anything.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Like you just gained anxiety like like you know, just
it's just smoky.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Shit, you know, but your body just ates and ship
and then you just like your stomach and shit all
fucked up and then it then it just stops.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
And then it was just like out of nowhere, like yeah, yeah,
I saw you.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I saw you talking about the process of working on
on the album, and you started working on this what
the lyrics for the album? Yeah, you basically been working
on this since Crash Talk Drop as far as the album, right, So,
but the inspiration behind we'll get to that. But when
it comes to the Blue Lips specifically, is that something

(10:45):
like what like, I know you named the album, I
saw the explanation for the album and stuff like that,
Like it's blaxploitation and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Want to get into that.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
But when it comes to did you already have that
in mind? Like this is where I want to go
because I was talking to the homies and it was like,
he just want to.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Make a like a pro black, like a black album,
Like yeah, that.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Was pretty much the direction at first. Like I was
like super pro pro black, Like why cause that was
around the time where it was just like a lot
of them the media was feeding us a lot of
like black shit that cause for Black attention type shit,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Like it's a lot of Black Lives matter shit.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was people dying, like you know what I'm saying,
And it felt like a lot of black people were
like almost you know, like coming together almost in the
sense yah. Yeah, but it was all cap it was
all It was just a media cap thing black people

(11:45):
really wasn't.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
All You don't think Black people like, I don't.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Think we got stronger though, Damn. I think we got worse. Yeah,
we're getting worse. Yeah, I think we're uh dividing ourself
way too much. I think, uh, I think we're worried
about other everybody's fighting for some spot that it's whatever

(12:08):
spot you got or whatever spot you got, and I
just feel like everybody's fighting for some spot, like as
our people and like also that's all you see nothing
but in our world like negative shit or like people
just it's no like creativity with anything.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
It just like reacting to something. Are like.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Just saying something you're dislikes more than what you like,
if that makes sense, you know what I'm saying, Like
so like the downfall of such, It's like the downfall
of a successful person is crazy.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Crazy, It's like, what the fuck are we talking about?

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Crazy?

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Like you know what I'm saying, ship like that about me,
the downfall.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Of Cutch all the YouTube videos and stuff you watching.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Those, I'm like, bro, I'm in like this crazy house,
so so so mad records I did like man ship
in my career, Like the downfall of me is like insane,
Like won't you applaud me for being.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
What I am?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Man?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You know what I'm saying, Like downfall like bitch, what gold?
Like I'm the gold post? Like what like I've been
the gold Post?

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Like well, you know it's rare for.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
A loan for a lot of such if you from
the streets, Like what how many people did it my way?
Like they ain't get to go home to their family
and nobody tripping from their hood bout me not doing
no game banking ship. The dudes just like get the
trouble with their hoods and ship. You got people telling.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Take it. I'll be damn you tell me that, you
know what I mean. I'm you know, I'm really from
that cloth.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
So to be able to do what I do and
live with my life I live, I'm actually the gold post.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Do you have a responsibility to kind of speak up
more on those things?

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Like you said, I do? Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I speak under dollar. Yeah, like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
But I'm saying because it can be easy to like again.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Not feel like your voice is powerful enough for like,
you know, I feel like, damn I can say this.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
We can re track back to you know, not giving
a fuck you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
But yeah, at the same time, you do have a
voice and it's powerful, so it's we applaud you for
speaking up.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I gotta speak up. Shit, I'm
constantly speak up in the streets.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Ain't that ship cap If you like, you know, if
you're the toughest street guy in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
You actually really dangerous, Like that's you know what I mean.
You know, you know every other generation is like, oh,
these motherfuckers ain't nah.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
If you game banging in twenty twenty four, you are dangerous.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's no purpose for you to be like like brouh,
Like we.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Just seen generation of the generation, you know what I'm saying, Like,
you know, we know better now at this point of
what's right and what's wrong, not saying you don't have
to be a part of the community. Yeah, yeah, that's cool,
but you don't have to partake them like damn man ship,
like just do dumb shit for no reason at this
point in twenty twenty four, where it's.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Cameras everywhere where everywhere.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's just like and then you you're you're doing it
on camera too, Like I think that now the toughest.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
They that though.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, and you actually are doing it though you saying
you the toughest, and then you actually go through some
shit it's like the most Like, No, they.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Different, bro, I'm telling you this generation.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
You spoke on that on on Thank God for Me,
you talking about this snitching. Yeah, yeah, but I think
motherfucker's telling on themself too.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
For sure. That's the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
And they don't care. They don't care. That's what I'm saying,
you dangerous, bro. I'm scared of these little motherfuckers. Like
I don't want know smoking now because they gonna smoke you, bro,
and be like.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I just smoking.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah no, camera, like you know what I mean, I'm
smoke you, man, and really smoke you and then be
like I smoked them. I'm telling you, bro, is different, Bro,
Like they different now, they different type of gangsters.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
But got it, they win the error of all gagss.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'm serious, you got it.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
They ain't got no real enemies all they you so
called enemies. You're cool with them. You only beefing with
whoever beefing with you.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Pretty much at this point. You know what I'm saying.
You just tripping, So I'm cool.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
It's wild because like you say that and people talk
about that, but it is a clout based error right now.
So those things that would normally get you in trouble,
it's like, oh, that's the thing that can get the
most attention. So I think that's what it is. People
are just you know, craving that attention by any means.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
No, and they getting it, and you know what I'm saying,
And you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Motherfuckers is going live with jail. They don't give a
fuck if they come in take their phone.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
They think a motherfucker, like a motherfucker wanted that much,
so much attention, he'll go live from jail. Like, bro,
you gotta access to talk to your mom anytime you want.
You got access to talk to you while you're in jail.
You're trying to keep You get what I'm saying. It's
like wow, But you know, once again, like that's me

(17:10):
talking from this side of it. But you know, and
it's easy for me to speak from this side of
it when some people never saw the other side.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
But you've never been done. You've never been that person
to do stuff for attention.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
No, no, never, never never.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
But I mean, you know, it's not too late that
I'm speaking about it, but I could have spoke on
it earlier, if that makes sense, because now I'm way
out of reach too.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
But when it comes to like uh streets and.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Like my opinion, like my opinion matters, like I said,
I'm not I think I'm the goal the goal line.
But at the same time, I'm not around a lot
like that, so a motherfucker could hear it and be like, yeah, yeah,
but them and something you know, should be happening weekly
in these parts. So motherfucker's gotta move how they move accordingly,

(18:07):
and they gotta react you you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
So it's like I can say that.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
What about what about the dudes that feel trapped? Because
you spoke on that too, Like as far as feeling trial,
I want to on Blue Slides, you talked about every songs,
by the way, being a prisoner in your house. But
then what's crazy is you double back on it on
first and you said you felt like a prisoner in
your head, So like, where does that come from?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
It's just me just overthinking pretty much.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
He's overthinker. Used to be killing me, I mean.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
And that's another reason why I said that.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
It's easy for on one end, somebody can say I'm
going back to the drinking shit or or you know, sobriety.
Somebody can go cold turkey because that's just the personality.
You can easily walk away from it. I did cold Turkey,
so I understand that. But there are people that. I
know that struggle that overthink that I mean, people have.
It's just depending on who you.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Are, you know what I mean, Like, especially with the
alcohol and the peels, bro we gotta make sure we
say that don't go cold turkey like it's not even though.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
We did it. Don't do it, motherfucker. You will have
a stroke, you will fuck around and die. You like,
don't do it. You know what I'm saying. You can
really fux up up.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
And I was parallel that to the overthinking of because
I'm overthinking.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
But some people be like, man, just stop. Yeah, that's
easy for you to say, Nigga, I'm overthinking, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, for sure, I'm overthinker.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
But at the same time, you know, it got me
to where I'm at, Like I you know, I've been
overthinking my whole life, like shit.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
It always are the pros and cons to that.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
The pros is you you give things time and a
lot of time.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Things need time. The cons is you give things time.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
You can take too.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Much time, but sometimes things need time so you can
react to something or I can let it go and
then react to it two days later and then it's
out here instead of here is that?

Speaker 3 (20:02):
What is that what you do with the music? Is
that why you usually take your take your time with
the music?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Feeling bro I wouldn't say overthink, I overwork, If that
makes sense.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I don't overthink, because I would I even wrap. I
just boo boo boo boom. You know what I'm saying.
What I do is I work a little too hard.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I kind of learned that from Dott and like, uh
learn what was dre sessions, like how hard they worked
and just seeing it.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
So I think.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I built that into me. Like, like I said, it's
not overthinking. This album been done and I know it
was done, so I'm clearly not like a big overthinker.
But at the same time, I just like I'm addicted
to working, like I'm addicted to like being in the studio.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Coming up with something like oh just might be hard.
It didn't wake it up the next day like this
is awful? Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm saying like I don't know, I just love that
process of it and and it's hard for me to
like let go to if that makes sense, you know,
Like okay, cool, Like I said, once, you i'd be
saying talking about my life and like progression.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
And shit about myself.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
So a lot of times I'll be saying shit and
it be cap because I haven't done it yet, and
this is what I'm about to do, Like this is
how I'm about to live, This is how I'm about to.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
So it's like manifested speaking yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's like you know me pretty much in the album
talking about how I don't neglect and blah blah me.
But that's that process of starting of not neglecting, like
barely started.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I think know what I'm saying, but I wrote it
a minute ago.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
But I think that's important though because even in even
like I know I know you right, we know each
other before like all the years, but.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Just seeing your growth.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Like not even fuck the music and all that, but
just as a man like like like I'm a father
like me, like you was like, bro, I take my
daughter like you really an active father and I don't
really know like a lot of black men who take
a mints pride in being an active dad. Like he's
like that, you know what I'm saying, Like we be
beefing low key because he'd be like canceling interviews and shit.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Pigure up my son.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
You know what I'm saying out there, But.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'm not a dad, so I can't relate to that, right,
But I do respect it because that's something that we need,
and I'm glad that you know you wish. Even when
Joy right when she was like little, you were showcasing
that like y'all hanging out, y'all playing in the backyard,
you raising the dogs. Just like you said, it's important
to undo all the drug talk. That shit is equally
important because it's a lot of men having kids not

(22:40):
in their life, not taking care of them, not just
like oh shit, it that's her problem, like all that
type of time. It's important and it's good that you
do that, and you put it into music. So where
I was, where I was going with it, was you
adding that to the music because I heard you say
you don't like when niggas be tweeting, like put that
shit in the song, like give me the record, right,
like give me the songs. So if you put that

(23:00):
in the music is very important because I feel like
when when Dot dropped mister Morale, he was talking about therapy.
You talked about that before too, like music is your therapy.
Like I think all that shit in the music because
these kids is listening to that and they learning the
lyrics and they might just kick a kick a cue
verse in the car and it might be like, man,
I apologize to my girl like I'm a dog that

(23:23):
type of shit.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, and Dot we kind of came different angles from
the therapy. He was like pro therapy, and I'm like
pro like homie when it comes to therapy, I'm like
pro like you know, like.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm how do I say this? Like?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
But he had, like, you know, he found something that
worked for him really really good in him and his family,
you know what I'm saying. And me personally, when I
did therapy, it made me feel more like shit really
yeah yeah yeah, more so because I was I felt

(24:04):
like I got more out of like.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Talking to my homies in the studio because it was.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
The same kind of thing and that it kind of
let me know that, oh, we're just not honest as
we think we are as people, because like, I get
into this room with this person that really really don't
know me and give the whole hundred percent honest truth
and then everybody that I love you can't get on
seventy you know.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
So that's kind of a mind fucked.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, it became like a this is actually this is
like I'm actually the problem, Like it's nothing she can
do for me, Like just look, you know what the
problem is a lot of the times when you have
coming since some people, like I said, some people didn't
grow up a certain certain certain way, like I had
a mom, Like yeah, I'm grew up in the streets

(24:53):
and gaming, but but it ain't what.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
You know what I'm saying. My mama went on welfare.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
I had video games, I had the Jordans Like I
was a fly.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
I was a rich the richest fucking ghetto motherfucker.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
You were a conscious fuck up.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like I didn't have to do That's
how it was. Like I didn't have I didn't have
to do none of that ship. It was just like
a thing was just like fuck it, let's let's do it.
But yeah, like I didn't have to do none of
that ship. Like I was. I was always saucy. I
knew I was gonna be saucy.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Like like my mom, she you know, she raised me right,
and she.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Single mom.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
She gave me like all the discipline I needed to
get me to this point like she gave me like
mad discipline, but gave me everything in the world too.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Like so you feel like you you feel like you
benefited from I feel like I benefited from a single.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Mom and not having my dad around.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
And I feel like I benefited watching a black woman
do that on her own.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
You know what I'm saying, And it's true. He was
born in Germany.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, born in Visba in Germany.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
My mom and dad was in the army, so in
the military. Yeah, served in the military. So I was
born there. Then went to Texas straight from Germany. And
then I think I was I came to LA when
I was like, I came to LA before I was three,
but she was still like active in the military. So

(26:18):
it was like back and forth La Texas and then
once it was like over, I was completely in LA.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
So it was like I was like.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Two three when your when your mom said, I remember
you speaking on your your your family dynamic. And when
your mom said, like, do you want to meet your pops?
She was like nah, And she only asked you one time. Yeah,
she never asked you again after that. No, and you
had no desire. I was already grown when she asks
me that oh okay.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
It wasn't like uh as a kid, she didn't try
to like, uh, introduce me to and I got like
if she said I got like a sister or some
shit like like age.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Uh, I don't like do you think you ever get
to the space where you were?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
No?

Speaker 5 (27:01):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So he's gonna be asked, so I gotta pay for
some ship.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
You're not school boy, Q. Let's just say that you're
not school boy. Q. You said at any point you
would never want to.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Never want to me.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm thirty seven at this point, Like, Bro, I'm the man.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
I look at my I take prior in that like.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
I'm the first man of like my thing, Like you
know what I'm saying, I have my own I don't
have his last name, I don't have like you know.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I'm literally the first man of my own family. And
you know what I'm saying, like, uh.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Of my tree.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah that makes it.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, So I don't want to know that I'm second when.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I mean this ego fool, you're damn rights thirty some
years to see me like bro, like I'm at a
parent in my life where I don't need.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
You, like I don't I never had a father.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Oh well, big fucking deal, likert over it. It's like
I am a father though, and I don't how to
raise my kids.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
But you know how important that is in the connection
that that you have with your kids like you and
not to say you have to have this whole family
of union kumbay our moment.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
But it's like, there's no, nope, I.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Don't want to see him. You don't want to meet
him if it ever happens. And if he was to
reach out, what I say no, No, I wouldn't say no.
But I'm not looking for it. You don't know who
I am.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
You don't got to be looking for it. Mine reached
out and I had a conversation with him and it
was we still haven't had a face to face like man.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Like you, but have you?

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Did?

Speaker 4 (28:33):
You know?

Speaker 7 (28:33):
He looked like, oh yeah, I look just like him,
like the whole like, look at all.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
This identical to him, same name and everything. I'm a
junior and a junior. I'm a junior food. It's ugly.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
You know, that's not a podcast. You gotta change your
name to the first.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
I've changing my name to.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't think it worked like that.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
My fucking change his name to sink you first funk
out of here. I ain't know what you man, but
I feel you though I feel I'm not.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I'm not with it. Though I'm not with it, I don't.
I don't need to, you know. I know my background.
That's it, Like where you come from and shit, that's
all I needed.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
To know, just like some genetic shit. Other than that,
I don't give a fuck about.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
What if he want to play golf with you and
he'd be and he whipped your ass.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Though he would never like golf for me, he's somewhere
struggling right now.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
He lived the life he lived with it me going
on by my life and he ain't struggling at this
part of my life. That's like he's going through something
for sure. I feel you know what I mean, he's
going through something.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
What So what what invice be healthy? What advice could
you give to to fo? I'll ask you this before,
but you only had joy at the time, So now
that you have too, Yeah, what what's been the biggest
change from one going on too? Cause I'm I've been
doing dad vice for some time, right, it ain't Nobody
told me about the second child being different from the
first child.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, completely different my second child. I'm still working on her.
She I've been working on her for a while, but
she just don't She's not joy jolly like you know,
respecting me.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Listen to me. Uh you know what I'm.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Saying Like that, I know exactly what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, like have a little fear for me, you know,
won't won't disrespect me like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
The second one disrespect.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Won't talk back like my daughter never talks back to me. Never,
My little one, complete opposite, hates me. Don't care, yell loud,
shut up.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
I need this advice.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, Like I just started recently being because I never been.
I'm not like a yeller or like being mean. Like
I just had to reverse on this one. Oh, I
have to like actually be mean. I can't be Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Because it's getting older. She's
getting older.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
And older happened to be for sure.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
So it's like, Okay, I can't take the joy. I
have to accept that that I can't take the joy.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Route with her.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
So how how long did it take for you to
realize that recently?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Once I stopped with the album and ship, like, you know,
I realized, all right, I.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Gotta be mean a little bit mean.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah yeah, Like I was always against that if you
gotta get you know what a good parent. You don't know,
but that's not true.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
You have to yell.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
If your kid got trauma from you yelling, tell your
kids up back like a little bit like people out
here getting their ass. You know what I'm saying, got
trauma now because you gotta yelled at your parents.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
I don't feel like.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
You see me, dad, Yeah, like they be preaching that
ship now, careful what you say to your kid.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Like, bro, I just yelled at my fucking kid.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I'm a daddy, motherfucker, Like like you know what I'm saying,
Everything is like traumatizing. Now it's like br So you
know I have to yell a few times now. I'm
raising my voice and you know, grabbing her, not like that,
but like grabbing her, looking at her and like being
kind of firm, letting her know like hey, you can't

(32:27):
do this or I can't say this.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't want to go to urgent care today.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, like just you know, just putting
her in in her place to respect me. As a
fucking dad, you know, and making her sister do it
and her mom and like, you know, don't let her
disrespect me, you know, putting them in.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Position to to say you lost your fucking mind.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Let her know, like you know, it's a family thing,
like we have to do, like you know what I mean.
She can't just be just talking to me crazy. Everybody
in the house needs to trip. Oh, you know what
I'm saying, Like I'm a fucking I'm your fucking father,
Like you know, way you disrespect.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
And you're good dad.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Yeah, Like I.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Wouldn't let her disrespect the mom, you know what I'm saying,
And like you know what I mean, Like I'm gonna
be on it.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
So it's the whole.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Family thing where, you know, because like like I said,
we're not like yellers and ship like.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
So Joy was so fucking easy. It was like the
perfect fucking kid.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
And now I got this fucking Calabasa's fucking well grat greatefulpon.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
She thinks she just get everything.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Serving great pulpon and fucking cavard for dinner.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Something like, get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Your label.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
That's that's that hard work that you put in so
that she had that life.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Right, that's some bushit like she got that shit is
very terrise.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Oh my god, you mentioned on the album about need
to be a deabie to let the kids either something
like that. I'm not paraphrasing, And so when can you
kind of expound on those moments and when you felt
like that?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
I mean, shit, my whole career you feel like that
at some point you like, you know, you're bouncing around,
you're on tour, you could.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Be going like my first few years, like, bro, I was.
I lived on the road.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Bro, Like from twenty well, twenty eleven till twenty eleven,
twenty eleven till like twenty seventeen, I lived on the road,
So thinking that's years.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Yeah, pivotal years too, Like.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
You know what I'm saying, years of missing out on
joint shit and I would still be there for a
lot of shit, but just missing out on little things
like missing her first steps.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Mister Bourne, Damn, you know what I'm saying. This is
my heart, Like I'm super duper close with my oldest.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Like you know, and I missed out all these shits,
like you know what I'm saying, Like, but you know
I had to do what I had to do.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Not only that I was I love.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
I would do music for free, but I have the
opportunity to get paid to do it.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
And it was a nice paycheck to set us up.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
For this time, so, you know, and with her being
the oldest, so it was partant for me to have
more kids, you know, she had to you know, I
was building something strong and consciously knowing I'm gonna have
more kids, just consciously knowing that she, you know, the oldest,
needs to be the strongest, and I want her to
be super super strong.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
She was my first, my heart. I had her when
I was twenty.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Two, like and tried to have her, oh you intentionally, yeah, yeah,
twenty one.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
We made the plan to have her while I was
in jail through the phone.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
She's a fucking like I said all the time, my
girl is a fucking idiot.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Okay, you're gonna have a.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Baby phone, So okay, hold the dumbest fucking why you're
making that pact on the phone. Imagine your daughter doing
some dumb ass ship like that and talk about eagles
have a baby by this that's behind bars, Like fucking
you fucking eighty slapped the ship.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Out of So if Joey's on the phone one day,
what if.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Somebody in jail? Hell no, hell no, get out. Click,
I'll get your ship together then we'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Come on, would you would you bail her boyfriend out
for her?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Depending if I'm close? Hell yeah, okay, if she if
she loves.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Somebody, yeah, I'm not against her dating like in high
school and none of that ship.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Like, I'm not one of those.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Lads, are you?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
How are you gonna be as one that's one starts
starts coming, like bring the nigga to the house, let
me talk to him?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like chill out like if he cool?
Like cool?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
I mean, I ain't about to be condoning fucking and
ship like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
But I mean, this is the truth. I was fucking
in high school. It's just the truth. Reality. Bro.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Do you have real nigga conversations with her?

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Kinda?

Speaker 4 (36:55):
She not there? She's nine?

Speaker 1 (36:57):
My daughter? Joy? What in high school? Bro? She about
to be fifteen?

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Week old? Bro?

Speaker 5 (37:06):
Are we old for real?

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Sut to be fifteen next month?

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Oh no?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
That's wow.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
I just really, I just really I remember when you
when she was like just you.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Just got her like, oh my sound like Amazon just
got it.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
I'm just saying, like dark, Oh that's wow.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
She she's fifteen, bro, she's grown up. She's like we
have like grown up conversations. Like I didn't even have
to put up on games. You already knew it was
going on. And my mom is like, my mom is
like the she's awful.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
That just fucked me.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
My mom is like awful. She tell her everything like
she's straight. She's doing that straightforward.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't even got to say ship, like you know, like,
don't be you know, don't put your.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Mouth on old deck. Oh wow, that's my mama.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
So there it is all right, you know what I'm saying,
don't do that, don't get you, don't.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Get hurt a crazy, don't you be like like god damn.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Yeah yeah, like what we're doing.

Speaker 8 (38:17):
Like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Like, so it was like, man, she is, so I
don't even gotta say ship.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
And we do talking.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
You know, we talked, but it's mainly about sports. She
really into sports, my daughter like an athlete, Like an athlete.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
You got ship out in common too.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, I play.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Sports growing up, So I'm big on sports too because
it teaches something like that's another thing about like with
the streets and.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Life and all that. Ship.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
My coaches was my pops, like, so I never needed one,
like I always was into sports, like they taught me
the competition.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
It taught me that sometimes.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Somebody may be better than you. You gotta just work harder.
Sometimes you gotta you know what I'm saying. Uses taught me, like,
you know, you just gotta outperform somebody except your role
and be great at that role. Like regardless, it's options
though for you.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Do you believe in part because I think the problem
with society where we're at now it's mainly do to
with white people.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
But not like.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
That, but I'm talking about, like with participation trophies. I
don't believe in participation trophies. But I also don't have
a kid, right, so I don't have that layer of
compassion that y'all might have, like, oh, it's cool, you
did a good job, Like no, bro, you lost.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah, But I think at like five and shiit like
right now, my daughter she's five and she's getting like
the participate.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I think that's cool.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
You think it's cool.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
They don't even know what they're doing. You know what
I'm saying. You just want them to keep coming back.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
So if you give them in a losing my state early,
it can like kind of wipe them out, especially if
they're good at various of things. Like my daughter is
really good at it a bunch of things, but you
gravitate to soccer cause our olders about her older.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sister plays soccer.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
So you know right now, if she doesn't play, you know,
even me in the backyard, you know, we just playing soccer,
kicking the ball around. If I'm like doing move and
do she mess up, she don't wanna play no more.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Ah, but she can she can do something else.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So right now, it's like it's cool
to just keep them coming back, keep him coming back.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
E's a man, he's a man. And then once it's
time to fight, which is pretty much next.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Year six seven in all sports now like six seven
and gets serious, like kids are like really good and uh,
you either gonna figure out you wanna do this or
you're not.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
It's crazy cause we we've talked about knowing you guys
for so long, man an, and now even I just
wanna stick on this on this with fatherhood as well.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Now you guys are all dads.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
We talking to.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
You, you know, Roll Rock, so so.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
I got how do you guys bond over fatherhood or
do you guys bond over father We kind of.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Like don't bond over fatherhood because.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
We all, like I think we were so close together
and was with each other so much.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
We really don't kick it like that.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like we talked to each other a lot,
FaceTime each other a lot. Like me and Dot was
just facetiming. I mean one FaceTime and talking on the phone.
It's about our kids. Me and Soul was just talking
about our kids.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Me and Rock.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
He was somewhere with his daughter doing some ship and
it's just like, you know, I think that's where our
lives kind of took us. Now we're like actually, you know,
like we're like really daddy's real dad that yeah, all
of us.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Wow, I know that boy that got a little boy. Yeah,
but yeah, all of us.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
Uh girl, dad, damn, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Yeah, I'm surprised you don't have a girl.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
You got two boys, but I'm done.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
You said you want to have more, So look you
are you going.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
For the boy.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, a boy.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Okay, he got the he got it all girls, but
a boy. He got the the snip snip.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Oh, you wouldn't done.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
He went and did it, bro, done look right, look.

Speaker 7 (42:24):
Way this is the way in real life. In real life,
he went and did it some way. He got questioning
my open book?

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Bro, what's up?

Speaker 1 (42:41):
So?

Speaker 5 (42:44):
So is it like air?

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Now?

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Now you finished it air?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
It's not here no, like like no, everything is still
there is like like is it like?

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Bro? Like what the funk happens? Now?

Speaker 5 (42:58):
It's all there. It's just the soldiers don't march. It's
damn the soldiers don't march. You know what I'm saying.
There's no no scares. Percent let's say percent.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Hey bro, hey bro, damn you go?

Speaker 5 (43:16):
I got the wood? Why bro?

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Oh my god?

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Is that something that you would ever entertained?

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Never?

Speaker 5 (43:22):
I mean we you know, two different brackets of life.
You know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, I can't.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
I'm good man. I think I think I'm happy. I'm
happy with my choice.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
I really you got mad at you?

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
I ain't getting newted got just crazy. My dog's not
even new to I got threw up this motherfuckern't.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
Got new.

Speaker 8 (43:47):
Man, you I'm dying though A man, Hey, bro, I
feel you.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
You know you know I don't.

Speaker 6 (44:01):
But at the same time, man ship, if if it
helps any it's reversible. So if I changed my mind,
I can Oh, you can reverse I can reverse it.
If that ship hurt, Nah, like you just gonna put
you to sleep and put you to sleep.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
It's literally a six minutes.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
A month, six minutes, bro oh, I thought you said
six months.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
I wasn't to be fair, I was super hesitant about it,
and then did some research on it.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
I'm like, Okay, it's not what I thought.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
You know it.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
I ain't gonna go into detail, but it ain't. It
ain't crazy, So I'm good.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
A bean shooter.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Shooting with the balloon.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Bean shooter now, Doug oh Man, no bullet all be.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Damn man, I forgot what the funk I was going
to ask you about. He said, you got new to you?
That's crazy?

Speaker 5 (45:04):
What I I wanna know? What? What does accountability mean
to you?

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Though?

Speaker 6 (45:07):
I mean cause it's a thing throughout the album and
kind of really showing up for yourself and kind of
looking at looking in the mirror, and you know, you know,
we talked about fatherhood, we talked about all that, but
for you, what does what does accountability look like?

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Common sense?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
A lot of times we don't use common sense for
a lot of things. And you know, like I said,
if you said something wrong, make it right. Accountability is,
you know, knowing that shit, I got a kid and
nothing should be more important than that. Even though I
do put my music first morn than anything.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
And I'm still gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
But you know, accountability is knowing that I got to
go just that artist with my family when his family time,
and leave that alone when it's telling to leave that alone.
If that makes sense? You know what I'm saying, be
present every everything just revolves around.

Speaker 5 (46:02):
Family with me at this point except that.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I'm coming around.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
Now.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Do you do you when you're making the music? I
know you don't make you don't think about critics when
you're making the music. But when now that the music
is out, do you care about what critics think about
the music and stuff like that?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Be honest, I'm trying to be here.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Let me see. Do I care a little bit?

Speaker 4 (46:29):
But not really not enough to change anything, not.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Enough to change right right? I think once you start
caring that much, you're not really.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Good because I remember, I remember I was at the
studio one day and you kick me out right yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
You just popped up after that moment. I'm like, wait
the fuck is that?

Speaker 7 (46:51):
Because nobody never comes to that studio right right right
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Like, but you was like for the record here, you
gotta roll, my nigga.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
You my boy, I do right now, my boy, looking
on you, my boy. But that's just record.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
No, no, I just you know what I mean, Like
I don't yeah, like the people that was in there,
you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Man, that's just how.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Now I get it. Trust me. I know it's a
creative process because they told me about I know about
the jam sessions and like with it out.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
The reason why I brought it up. I have this
rolling stone thing I want to read you. But the
second part of that studio is the way you the
way you create.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Is like a composer, Yeah, yeah, I am. I'm more
of a composer than I am a rapper. I'm more
of a producer, composer, engineer.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, because like you'll literally sit there and you record
and he'd be like all right now I want to
do this on top of this or you'll record while
Niggas is playing ship. Like It's just it's it's a
different I've never really seen that before.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah, it's just like.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
That always been you where you get that from?

Speaker 1 (47:58):
I got I got all that tricks.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
From like Ray Dott and like, uh Stevie Wonder.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Like you were you watched Stevie Wonder record.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
No no, no, no, like I mean YouTube, like uh,
just like interviews and just hearing people talk and like
Bob Marley, like watching him, like you know, wake up
in the morning, have this regimen of like soccer then
you know, making everybody work out pretty much, and then

(48:28):
from there and go straight to the studio.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Musty is a mother, you.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Know what I mean. And you know what I mean
making that ship.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
It's just a thing like this feeling and whenever you
want to piece it together, you can do that shit
on your own time.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
But right now, let's get some feelings.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Cook it up.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
We're trying to do like because you know, I'm all
about direction. I already don't, like I said, I really
don't care about.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Like what people think.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah, yeah, like what I'm on is what I'm on,
and more artis should feel like that.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Like, if you want somebody's opinion, that's your respect.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah, bring them in, Like.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
But I more so want people that can contribute more
so than just give me their opinion. I feel that
because everybody has an opinion. Fact so you liking it,
it's like, oh, thank you. But at the same time
you're just liking it, it's like oh whatever, but like
an ad like can you add to it?

Speaker 1 (49:28):
That's my whole thing.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Like that's the whole thing about making music and a
bunch of people in the room. It's like people add
to shit. Like so I always got musicians with me.
You know what I'm saying, Maybe somebody come up. You
gotta hook lay it real quick walking around be on
the album, you know what I'm saying, Like shit, like

(49:49):
if you and that motherfucker, you gotta contribute, Like you
can't just be in there waiting for the finished product
and then just say yeah it's good or not.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Like me and my like yeah, we gotta be in
that bitch everybody. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Everybody, So I'm gonna read you this and then you
tell me what you think, Okay, it says. After the
disappointing two thousand nineteen album Crash Talk steered too heavily
into the latter uh sonic direction, Q went on an
unexpectedly long hiatus, only occasionally reservicing with Loosely's uh bl. Thankfully,
Blue Lips returns to the dynamic stylings of blank Face

(50:27):
with a few important twists and.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
W huh, there you go, there go.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Nah, And with Kendrick Lamar having departed td UH for
his own imprint, it represents a moment when listeners can
fully appreciate Q for his singular ability to craft compelling,
thought provoking gems without resorting to comparisons between him and
everybody else. I felt like to me, like when I

(50:54):
when I read I was reading an article about about
I cause like when niggas come out, Like I know,
I have my opinions, I'm very but I want to
know like what other people are thinking, as far as
like people that I don't know, right, just so I
read random articles and album critiques and stuff like that.
But I thought it was fair. I didn't think the
album was the crash Tall album. Was disappointed, but I
thought it was a fair critique because this is a

(51:16):
cute album. I feel like this is like, Yo, to
be honest with you, I'm gonna keep it real with you.
Your albums don't really sound like nobody else's shit, And
I know you do that intentionally because you hate when
niggas rap on the same I always hear you talking
about you rapping on the same beats everybody rapping on,
like make some different shit, even when I don't even
know how to say YEARN the right way. But when

(51:37):
that came out, I'm like, this don't sound like nothing,
and it kind of reminds.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Me of Yay.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
To be honest with you, like the way Kanye put
his music out, even in the Vulture shit, that shit
don't really sound like nothing else going on either, And
I know you do that intentionally, So I thought it
was a fair critique.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
I accept it.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Hopefully they black, I don't know who.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, thing with that shit is like, you know, dope.
But you know they also like could have not.

Speaker 6 (52:06):
Said the disappointing shit, Yeah, like what was disappointing?

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Like that's what I'm saying, Like, oh for the crash talk,
That's what I'm saying. It's like instead of focusing on
things that they like, they's so focused.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
On things like the pescimen zone.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Yeah, and it's like Roan im are, I don't know,
but I mean, you know, I thank you. I guess shit, yeah,
I mean like I I don't know what to say
to it.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
It's like, I mean, I don't know, you know, that's
the their opinion.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Sound like they like the album, but I mean they
compared it to blank Face once again.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
They just people are they don't.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Know how to let go, like you shouldn't this has
this sounds nothing like blank Face, Like I'm sorry it don't, yeah,
because I put a album together like it sounds like
blank Face, like you know what I'm saying. It's like nah,
like I I don't fuck with that part. If you
don't fuck with the back end, compliment, compliment and if

(53:07):
you don't.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Like something like I said, that's cool, Like but we're
talking about.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
This now and you just have to revert to comparison
of what I'm not even a comparison. You can't compare
me to any artists, So why are you trying to
compare my albums to each other?

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Like ill intentionally? Go like you said, I.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Go different every album every time. So don't be trying
to like compare my ship. Like, enjoy whatever you enjoy,
you know what I'm saying, Like, or don't regardless of school,
like as long as you ain't disrespectful, you know what
I mean. Like, but yeah, don't don't compare my ship, man,

(53:50):
like enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
I've seen you.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
I've seen you compare your own albums. Rank your own albums.
If you had to rank the covers.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
All right, If I had to rank the covers, I
would say Setbacks are still the worst. Then I would
probably go Blue Lips, Blank Face, Crash Talk, Habits, and oxymar.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
That's a gold cover.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
That's that's like one of the Yeah, that that cover alone, Bro,
you see that ship, Like you know what I mean,
you know.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Exactly what that is. That's that's you know what I'm saying,
Like that that cover.

Speaker 6 (54:44):
Is just like I'm surprised to hear that that with
the art talk that Blue Lips is ranked as low
as it.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Is for you, Yeah, because it's like a.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
It's just lips and teeth, but don't really really really dope.
Something about just their teeth and the lips was just
a little unsettling. It's like this album cover. I'm like, yeah,
this album cover. And then I was just thinking, like.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Fun, I can sell a lot of this ship. I'm like,
I can sell Hella.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
And then I sold the Hella ship.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
I'm like, yeah, look that looked like.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Something somebody want to collect.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Like, you know what I'm saying, make everything like art.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Like if I'm with art and I'm always about art
and I do artist ship, make art pieces ship that
people will want to collect. You hang that body on
the wall. That should looks sick to some people. It
may look like guess what it ain't.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
For your wall? Got a big enough wall. But I'm serious.
But you know what I'm saying, Like, I want my
ship to be pieces.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
I want to be able to when people put them
vinyls up and shipping them, see these up on the wall.
I want that shit to be like, you know, like
a fucking action figure like Seasons.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
I know you Drew Inspission you said from Black Spaitation.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Yeah, uh coon skin yeap. The mac mis Education of
Sonny Carson. Yeah, you had these on in the studio
while he was creating.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Yeah, NonStop for what uh just to look at and
just like like I said, it started off on some
black shit, and just like you know how I looked
at it as like, you know, white people using black
people for as shit, and you know, you look at
entertainment like, no black people actually run anything, you know

(56:45):
what I'm saying, And we're all we but we set
the standard for everything. And I was just trying to
get on that and it just led me to myself.
You know, I was trying to talk about the world
and what was going on, and I just kept all
the bars were me talking about me.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
You know what I'm saying, which became like shit, I
was cooling.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
The whole time too. I was the whole time too.
I was doing this. No, I was trying to point
the finger more so like you know, it ain't even black,
but it's like I was doing like the exact same thing.
So it ended up being the same thing where I
was trying to take it, but just me in the
mirror doing something you don't want to do for some

(57:32):
publication that I don't care. Uh, doing a lot of
golf shit I did, and they were only using me
because I'm black, And I knew they were only using
me because I'm black, and they would like try to
make me more.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Black doing what we mean like PGA Tour or.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Or like the video game was one.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I've been getting on the ass the last couple in
the views, like you know, like imagine telling a black guy,
all right, yeah, uh, bring your grills.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Damn oh ship but the ship.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
It's like what all right, tell the Mexican bring your symbarrel?
All right? You know what I'm saying. It's like, I'm
already black, bro, Like you don't have to like extra
black me out he has any jury.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Can he bring?

Speaker 5 (58:30):
Can you bring the blank?

Speaker 4 (58:31):
You got the blank? I get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Then I did it like in the Tiger Woods commercial, damn,
and it was just like.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
You wasn't happy with what you saw from yourself.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
You know, even when they tell me do it and
they just made me do the shot over and over again.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
All right, put your grill in. Cut, do it again, Cut,
do it again. Cut.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
It's like, god, damn, how black? You know what I'm saying,
I'm already black and we already talking about it, like yeah,
we know change, but I don't, you know, like it's
not like my whole.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
You know, I'm more than a grill.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like you know what I'm saying, Like
it's not really the whole thing, so like just being
aware of like doing things like like even like me
saying white people just say that any word at my shows,
Like back in the days, I said that, Like, uh,
I don't feel like that no more. But like I said,
it's a different time in my life.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Like so now it's like I I agree with you,
though it's.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
More black now than I was then.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Like y, you get older and you tap into your
roots more, you tap into you travel, you see.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
What people been going through. You see like uh, you
know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
People really struggled for us to get to this point
and really went through some shit and for us to
just be.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
Like blacks a days ago and just yeah yeah and act.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Like we really are part of America or not. I
feel that, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
I do want to ask you about when you take
your hiatus, right, we see you pop up, pop up,
and I tell people all the time, well we've had
these conversations before. It's like are you really away or
are you like tapping into social media and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Always watching that's I'm always watching.

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
We tell people that ship all the time, it's like, Yo,
they're not they they're more tapped into.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
You believe I'm way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
More tapped in.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
I'll be with Everybody'll be thinking that I'll be chilling
with them, hanging.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
With them, you know. Ship. The motherfuckers be tapping into me.
You know what I'm saying. Shit, I'll be I'll be
out there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
But I mean, you know, I'm just I just don't
always have my phone out type of ship, and I
don't like being around phones pretty much when.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
People do all that shit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah, like you know, a lot of you know, everything
ain't for content. You know, when I'm making music, I'm
making music and then I'm on social media and then
I'm talking.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
I'm engaging. It ain't really to sell the album.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
It's really just I have something to say now, and
I'm gonna say it. I think sometimes a lot of
times we talked so fucking much that we don't have.
You only learn when you listen. So the person that
talks the most to me is you ain't really I
don't know what the fuck you bring to the table.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
I was telling I was telling people because they everybody
asked me about like four people. You one of them, right,
specially because we from here, right, So they asked me.
I'm like, Bro, them niggas ain't ducked off like that,
like them niggas be. They see everything. I remember talking
to Rhapsody about this. Sorry Rap, but I remember talking

(01:01:43):
to Rap. I remember talking to Rhapsody about this during
Grammy Week and I was like, Rap, like, where are
you being?

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Like we need you? What's going on? Like what the fuck?

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
Like you know what I'm saying, like put some music out,
like I need what I need. We need to balance
this shit out, you know what I'm saying, Like what's
going on? She was like, I'm like, I know you
be ducked off And she was like, oh no, I'm
not deft off here.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
I'm like what you mean? She's like, I watch everything.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
She's like, I want to make sure I watch everything
just in case one of these one of these girls
get out of pocket and I gotta, you know, you know,
make make my presence felt or whatever. And I'll be
trying to explain that about you and other people like
you know, dying whoever. Like, no, they see everything. They
be paying attention. They tapped in like Q, ain't Q
know that you said.

Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
That about him?

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
No, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
You know what I'm saying, Like Q know that you
said that about him. He ain't gonna respond or say
nothing to you, but he know you said it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
No, and I'm gonna see you too.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
They don't, they don't. But nobody's like people. I'm blessed
that most people don't, you know, says if it's somebody
down talking to me is normally just like the music.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Yeah, it's music.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
It's it's not nothing. That's cool. That's fine. Yeah, Like
I said, that's like, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Good, you ain't popping unless you got somebody that don't
like you, Like it's somebody else. People don't like Michael Jackson,
believe it or not, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
So it's like, what the fuck? Who the fuck? I
think I am somebody not like me?

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
But the people don't be you know what I'm saying,
be getting at me sideways. But you know, but even
with that, like I said, I'm gonna come see you, well,
I'm not really gonna come see but if I see you,
I'm gonna address it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
And I'm not trying to fight or nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
But better understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Yeah, Like, what was the purpose of you disrespecting if
somebody was to disrespect, I would never.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Respond like you said, I ever like what I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
I'm way more secure than that with myself to know,
like you know, sometimes people howling at the moon like
I wouldn't go out my way for some shit that
it's probably not beneficial. You know, only can either bruce
somebody up or bring me hard. It's not winning in that.
But you know, if I do see you, I'm gonna yo,

(01:03:58):
what up?

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Bro? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Then normally, you know, I didn't have this with personal
issues more so than like in the media or anything.
Personal issues or people just talking slick and it's like,
bron you know me thought and you see 'em and
they be nice as fun and it's like see yeah,
like it's be nice.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
See I'm nice too. Like you a nice guy. You
know you you knew who to play with.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Now you you see me in person, and now you
can say whatever you want to say. You're nice as fuck,
So let's just be nice and be nice friends.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
And shit you talked about h yeah, or dude, dude,
you do something you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Talked about, uh, your responsibility like with the drug stuff
and then talking about how sober you are. Now do
you feel the same responsibility for uh, giving a platform
to other artists, you know how people you how dot
and everybody will share they stuff with you or whoever
the case may be. I heard you speak about that too,
which was which was dope, cause you never hear people
being grateful for what people have done for them. But

(01:04:58):
like Devin Malik, Yeah, it's on the album, right, And
I wasn't familiar with that before that, right. Is that
something that you have a desire to do put people
on be an executive signed artist.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Yeah, I want a good executive side more of it.
But I mean the music business is so yanky, it's
so scanless.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
I don't know even know if I can do it.
I mean I put on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Ship tf uh, you know. And that's my hommie from
the same soil. So that's one of my proudest things
to see him to be out here moving around and
you know where like people hate us, bro, people loved you,
so to see that, to see him get the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
And I was for yourself the way you carry itself.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
I was in situations with TF where it was people
there that shouldn't fuck with him and they fuck with him.
That's what I'm saying, and it's respect. And I thought
that was super dope.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
And that's it's what you put out is what you get.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
You know, he don't go around acting like he's the
toughest dude. And this is a dude that really you know,
it was me and me and Mommy is really out
there and Knucklehead's this idiot trying to rob a bank,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
And now he's out here getting love. Fucking idiot, you know,
trying to rob a bank. I can't even get him
in the straight. You're dumb, Matt trying to rob a bank.
You're not getting in.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Over here.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I didn't rob a bank, Bro.

Speaker 8 (01:06:27):
I robbed the house you robbed by.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
You gotta figure this one out. You gotta figure this
one out. You're too scalless. He's too scalles. But you know,
like mom yeah him, Devin put Hike on the album.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
I mean, but I always show up to like, I mean,
have Sugar for you on Oximorrow, Corrupt had Dazz and
all them, and people like you know, they wouldn't put
them on the albums.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
You know, I always been doing it. I just I'm
just not like a I did this I was fucking
with that. You know, I'm just not that that type
of guy. But I've done a lot for.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
The coast to keep it going and peep shedding light
on it. So you know, I do feel some obligation
to put people on, but at the same time, they
still gotta be up to par I don't feel like
a lot of shit I do. I feel like a
lot of shit is hard.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Yeah, a lot of people got potential, but I don't
see like to peak the people that care.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Like I'm looking for people that care more so than
two people that just it's got some talent, you know
what I mean, Like because.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Anybody can rap. It's like anybody can play basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
It's like anybody can fucking get on the camera and
fucking ask questions.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Anybody can you can literally anybody can do any of
this shit.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
But are you really skilled and really gifted at what
you do?

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
And that's what I think we're in right now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
It all rap, not just because a lot of people
like to bring l a but bro, this shit's happening
everywhere everywhere, you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Know what I'm saying, Like La la hip hoppers look like, bro,
this ship is what's popping in everywhere. It's popping in woolwap.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
It's like, all right, you got one artist, bro, Like
you think that ship like, oh this is living Like no.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Bro, there's one fucking artist. Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
So like no, like you know what I mean. So
it's happening everywhere. But I think it's just to the
point because you know, rappers looked at it's like not
that cool even being a.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Good rappers, Like that's not cool. Like this motherfucker rap
good motherfucker joke on you from rapping balls. Oh I
take rap serious, bro, you take that shit too serious.
Just put that ship out, Bitch. I'm talking about my mama, bro.
Like just like bitch, I'm talking about like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Actual people that die, not like your imaginary dead homies
you be happy, like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
I'm talking about people that I never see ever again.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
They got forty years, you know what I'm saying at sixteen,
I'm talking about that type of shit and motherfuckers, That's
what I'm saying. Like these motherfuckers grew up a little different.
They grew up on the Internet, so they're not really
out there like that, so they don't have a lot
of feelings, a lot of connections to a lot of things.

(01:09:23):
So a lot of artists now are just like, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
I'm not depressed.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
I'm not depressed, fully fucking depressed, right, you know what
I'm saying, And they're just like just making this this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
I'm not press music, but you know I'm not depressed
or I'm super emo music.

Speaker 6 (01:09:40):
Do you encourage artists to at this point, like, knowing
how the industry is in the game, is there more
of an encouraging level, Like, man, okay, how would you
encourage somebody to step into the industry or do you
just say, man, stay away from it, let the dust settle,
or like what is that conversation with artists are trying
to get on?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
At this point, I don't know what to tell somebody
about the industry. I know the industry is dead, Like
rap industry is dead.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Think so, no, it's done.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
It's in what way? Like what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
They just they fired everybody in the music industry.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
They literally just did it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
The same people that's having spots right now are the
same people that already had the spots. They just getting
rid of people and they're realizing, you know, like rap
is where it's going it's in its uh rock face
because we allowed it, artists and the other side and
the media.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
And all allowed it. Yep, we all thought so we
needed it. We such and such need us. We all
thought that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
The labels thought the artists needed them, the radio thought
the artists needed them, and the artists thought we we
knew everything and knew and and now we all in
this whole thing or where we thought we thought we
knew something, and now we realized we didn't know shit.
And now they cutting every fucking body and you know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
The goalposts of.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
You know, at the time, you know, numbers used to matter,
and now like in this climate in the last like
three years, well already like the last five years, where
people didn't the whole number thing is like kind of
out the question because it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Don't even matter.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
There's more so much shows and touring and like merch
merch and shit like that. But the sales it's also
an indicator of where it's going, you know, like uh yeah,
the industry. So they you know, they cutn't budgets like.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
But so as a rapper, how do you feel being
amongst all this shit?

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Like is it like shit? Like I said, I'm lucky.
I'm already school boy Q, so it don't really affect me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
I feel bad for the younger generation, like because they
have to play the game, because the.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Label is killing the album.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
The playlist is killing the album. Us putting out eight
versions of one single because streaming is down right you
know what I'm saying, it's killing the album. You got
eight versions of the single. So when I click on
your single, I see eight. That's the whole fucking album
worth the layout, So like what the fuck is the album?

(01:12:29):
Like you know what I'm saying, It's not one single
carry your whole album though, So your single is selling
our streaming a million times a day, that should carried
your album into whatever and that should Why does.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Over a thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
Streams counters one fucking tal like make some of this
ship makes sense?

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Like when you came you came up in the magic
this like us, So do you prefer you preferred as
that way or you when.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Of course, I mean we actually got paid for selling records.
Then you don't get paid for selling records now, like like.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
So that's why another thing, why it don't matter. We
all realize that, like bro, we were selling. When streaming came,
it was just like we were selling, you know what
I mean, platinum this, platinum, that, this, that, and it's like,
but that shit wasn't hitting, Like when twenty fourteen went platinum,

(01:13:30):
that she was a different check fact, you know what
I'm saying, versus the streaming check. You know what I'm saying,
Like I was blessed to see both sides, right, Like
when IXI Moron did his thing, that shit was all
physical and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
I was a different check.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Don't you think it's harder? Don't you think it's harder? Though?

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Like being that you it's rare that, first of all,
you still exist in twenty twenty four. It's not that
many artists that are still relevant exists in twenty twenty four.
That was putting physicals out right, Don't you think it's
harder to sell physicals? And people that's putting on music
now don't really know that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
I think it's harder to sell streams, really, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
You have to get one hundred and fifty million streams.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Cuz to like one cell or something like that, like
for plant numbers some shit like that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
That's seventy five million streams. I don't but listen to
that number though, that's like, you get what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
You need a hundred and something million streams.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Bro, that's way harder than fucking especially with how much
shit is pumped out every Friday. It's hundreds of songs,
so people are constantly onto the next one to the next,
Like it's just easier to sell albums than being put
in the algorithm and happen to last in this algorithm

(01:14:58):
of people always the songs. I think it's harder now,
and that's why we don't really see the younger superstar anymore.
We'll see a big, hot guy, but there's no way
that it's still a Big three.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
So they call it a Big.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Three ten years later, there's no way, Like, it makes
no sense since winning the history of the game, as
the Big Three lasted.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
Fucking fifty came through John Row.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
It was like, man, people that kill DMX, you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
I'm saying, We can go down the line, Like, I mean,
these motherfucker's been at the top, but you know, I'm
not doing the Big Three, so clearly I'm not like
hating yeah, but I'm just saying, there's no way that
these motherfuckers been the top three artists for over a
decade and we're not seeing what's you know what I mean. Yes,
it's a lot of young people like that's killing it.

(01:15:50):
But they still haven't I don't care what you say.
They haven't surprised.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
A couple of things, A couple more things. We studio sessions.
You recording Blue Lips, it's been a process years, right, Well,
you have the lyrics, composed, the music.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
It was a communal effort.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
But a lot of the lot of the album, well
you I guess you started album during COVID during quarantine.
You had your birthday party in the studio.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Yeah, nobody caught COVID until like it was like over
with over. It's crazy, And that's crazy to me because
like everything was shut down, y'all still going to the
studio on the low.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
How would you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Able to that studio too for letting us go fast,
shut everything down. Not gonna say the name, but but
shout out to that studio.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
Because you was in there. You was you was in there. Food.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Me and Mustard Lokey facts Ship. Me and Mustard been
recording in that studio for years. Me and him been
in the different rooms. And that's the funny thing. And
we don't got no music.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
Why you ain't cutting nothing with Mustard. We just be
always cooking.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
We just like you know, we come in and we
get strength to work. We just straight cook.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
That's my boy, though, Like you know, what's what when
I notice about super Boy, I noticed about Mustard two
y'all both treated like a nine to five. Like we
go to the studio and then I'm off at six seven,
I go be my kids, I go work out, like
I ain't gonna be in two thirty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
All that a waste of time, bro, Like you realize
that you just just sitting there chilling, and you know
you gotta gonna stay with your family and do all
the shit, like you really only got four hours of
a prime of like extreme of focus throughout the day period.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
You'll only have four hours. That's it. You're twenty four,
So damn.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Find that four hour pocket of your best you know,
your creative pocket, whatever term that is.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
And I can do it for me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
It's in the morning, like eight in the morning to
twelve damn. But when I'm working, I'm here all day.
But once I break through all I break it down
to just four hours.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
People was pulling up on you in the studio. Though
I know why he pulled up. I heard Nelly pulled up.
That's random as fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Random as f Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
We just chilling and somebody was talking to Nelly on
the FaceTime.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Then I'm like, what up, Bro?

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
What up? Bro?

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
But he lived around the corner from me. Gotcha, he
lived right around the corner from We never kicked it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
He I'm about to pull up, I'm all about to
pull up, and the motherfucker.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
Actually pulled up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
His motherfucker walked in the studio and I'm like, Bro,
that's fucking.

Speaker 8 (01:18:42):
He just pulled up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
I'm like, bro, bro, and we both drove out, and
the funny thing we drove off, drove home and drove.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
The same way where you going like.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
But no, we've been living around each other, like living
around the corner from each other.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
So you don't see these people and be like, man, hey,
let's get one in.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
It's more just like, nah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Never asked to get one in. I think that's especially
certain certain people. Once you like at a certain eyre up.
I respect you as that and not just let you
be that. I don't like, oh, let's do a song,
let's do it song? Yeah, you know, like, nah, I
honestly don't even really want to. I did one with Corrupt,

(01:19:23):
and that's that's a little ky as far as I
can probably go. Got you uh with Corrupt, I don't
I really don't want to work with nobody.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
Don't list that you got with the idols.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
We can read too much respect and what I hear
from them and what I heard from them, I don't
think I could ever match whatever they did.

Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
Also, it's it's it's on a quality level in terms
of like, yeah, I want to stay a fan type
of ship.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Yeah. Yeah, Like Corrupt was like the only because I
just felt like he's just an alien and he can
like come to my road type ship. Yeah, but not
even thathing on disrespectful it because I could sound disrespect
But I mean, like I just don't want to rap
with my idols stuff. I feel that I really don't
want to rap with nas. I don't really want to
rap with Snoop.

Speaker 4 (01:20:14):
You haven't didn't rap with Snoop?

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Nah? I love Snoop bro, but not as much.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Would you get on something if he if he wants
you on his record, would you do something with him?

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Or you still you will love to write something for him.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
He wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
I don't think I would want my verse. Wow, that's interesting.
Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
It's Snoop Dogg. Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Every time I hang with him, and I hung with
him a lot of times, I can't believe I'm with
Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
You know what, I'm saying that same thing, same time
he say my name.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Like you, but I just like every time, bro, bro,
like you know what I'm saying, like like so.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
Like the first time he called me nephew and said
on family, I felt like I made like I made it.
I'm with me, y'all can't tell me nothing like okay,
last thing for me. I never really heard you, you
know how, Like athletes, I hear a lot of rappers
complain about the label, and it's that Q has never complained.
I've never heard you seen it. I've never heard you complain.

(01:21:15):
I've never heard it. I'm talking about from my aspect
of blaming other people. You take a lot of you
might complain about shit, but you know I'm saying, you
don't blame people for oh this album, Nigga the label.
Then promote my ship or never do that. You've never
done that in your whole And since I've been knowing you,

(01:21:36):
and I also saw you say I think it was
on drink chaps. I've seen you say like people always
blaming the like, oh, top is not the problem? Like
is that just because you take accountability for Q or
is that because you feel like it's it's really not,
that's really not the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Like it's always your fault, bro. Once you realize it's
always your fault, bro, It's that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Everything is your fault. Literally, everything is your fault.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Everything, no matter what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Yeah, like you put yourself in that circumstance, you put
yourself in as a man I'm talking as a fash
and that that that's that's aware of what's going on.
Like I said once again, some people don't come for
word word of the awareness part of you know, they
were raised different, So you gotta be a little more
patient with certain people.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Yeah, but when you're aware.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
It's your fault, you know what I'm saying, a lot
of people are aware of what's going on, and it
just let things happen and maybe it get better or
maybe the and the next thing, you know, you in
this whole and then you're like.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
Oh, what's going on? Is your fault? Is it you?
Just like bruh, it was your fault.

Speaker 4 (01:22:44):
You could have corrected that way earlier you signed the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not here to you know, ain't no
I can. I never bralamed the label, uh for anything.
I mean branted, I had sh crazy success in my career.
I don't have like no nightmare stories and shit like that.
But yeah, like blame what i'ma blame Top for about.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
I just think that what.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
I'm gonna blame Innerscope for, like what they they never
could do nothing for me anyway, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Uh, Top gave me a fucking studio. That's all he
can do for me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Like, oh, he can't do nothing for me, but give
me a fucking studio.

Speaker 4 (01:23:27):
Don't make you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
This motherfucker don't write music.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Like if he was a marketing genius, you think he
follow he gonna try to get some two new dudes,
all the new dudes.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
This motherfucker ain't no damn marketing genius. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
We were just trying to get to it and we
figured it out. You know, it was our fault. It
was we had the ball in our court. We actually
we didn't have the ball in our court. We had
to wait for next Then when we got on the court,
we really bring motherfuckers off the court, right, you know
what I'm saying. It's just like when you get your shot, mother,
I can take that shot, like you know what I'm saying, Like,

(01:24:03):
don't blame the label, like you know they.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
Don't understand me or they don't.

Speaker 4 (01:24:08):
Yeah, bro, you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Don't understand you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
You should be able to convince him, like we we
convince people with words, We get people to move.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
You mean to tell me you couldn't convince.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
That motherfucker, like you gotta be knowing how to talk,
like you ain't slicking off.

Speaker 9 (01:24:24):
See, you ain't ready, baby, you ain't ready. You couldn't
even convince the motherfucker. I don't even with no you
know what I'm saying, They don't even create. You can't
even convince him to get on your team. So maybe
you're not ready.

Speaker 4 (01:24:37):
You get what I'm saying, Like you're the rapper.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
The problem slick. You're supposed to be slick.

Speaker 9 (01:24:43):
You're supposed to be able to talk your way into
are honist whatever you want?

Speaker 5 (01:24:48):
Like you know what I'm saying. That's what we do,
like are you good at this shit or not?

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
Like you know what I'm saying. Once again, it's like,
all right, motherfucker, ain't feeling something?

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
Make a slap that they like that, I mean, especially
if you got all right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
So like top B had wanted me to make that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
Part right basically, yeah, I had blank face and I
didn't have like I was like great with groovy tonge.
This is even We did this on Oxymoron too, but
he was just like, bro, I feel like you should
have like a big record, like why not do it?
And you know, me, being stubborn, can say which I

(01:25:30):
did is like, man, this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Is the album blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Sure enough, I ended up getting the record from Cardo
and I make that part and why not? Yeah you
give what I'm saying, like why not give him that
part or make that part which benefited me too, And
it's like you get what I'm saying, and uh, and and.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
Get to keep the other eighteen fucking songs like that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
One time like or whatever it is. It's like it's
a you know, sometimes it's artist too. We don't want
nobody to just say ship to us.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
You know what I'm saying. We think we know every.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
But on this album on Blue Lips, that doesn't exist
because like you just did Q right yeah yeah, because
you said you did that with that part on blank
Face and then but also Colla Greens and Man of
the Year you did the same day, yeah before because
they wanted a single.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but already had studio mane.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
You get what I'm saying, Just like we got the single,
like you know, but as an artist you just be
stubborn sometimes, Like I said, you don't want nobody to
tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Nothing because you can't write, bro, So what are you
telling me?

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
Like, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
But at the same time, he's part of the process.
He been listening to the records.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
He been He's not just walking in and saying something.
You've been listening to the records.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
You know. He's been listening and you know, maybe try it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Yeah, Like what he's saying, why it works out?

Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
And it worked out?

Speaker 4 (01:27:07):
Why nothing since studio sound like that?

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
Because I did that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
Just move on to the next.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
It's easy. Honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
I can do that ship all day, especially R and
B record. I can make some ship.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
We got an R and B Q album coming, maybe
when albums coming, Beyonce pissing all them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
But look, my.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Thing is this, don't ever put me in no other
category besides rap rapper.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
I like to make a country out like that. It's rap.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
I'm gonna always have rap elements to it. Like, so,
what it's Kyler Greens though I call it a pop record?
What does does that make me a record? I mean
a rapper. I mean, and that's a pop it's.

Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
A popular record.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
No, like a pop Kyler Greens is a rap song.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
No, that's a pop song.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
Everybody keep trying to tell me that, bro, that is
a pop song.

Speaker 4 (01:27:59):
Okay, you can call it what you want, but.

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
You're on it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
But no, yeah, and that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
That's okay, Like, I mean, the Studio is an R
and B song.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
I mean that, you get what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:28:12):
I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
It's like like, I mean, it's not like a good
singing R and B song, but it is an R
and B song.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
But I'm a rapper, so you're.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
You know what you're rapping on? Collar Green?

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
No, for sure, But I mean pop is rap too,
though all they doing is rapping. They're just white like,
and then we came in and then it's like, you know,
we act like we wanted to fit in the pop when,
like rap, we already took from everything anyway, so why
are we trying.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
To still separate ourselves? Like I hate when rappers.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
Come out and be like, yeah, I'm doing alternative album
or I'm doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
I was like, it's just do the fucking album. You're
a rapper. Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
I'm sorry, but you're a rapper. You're the highest level
of music.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
We play instruments, were the US poets, We the most
entertaining you.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
Motherfuckers want to dress like us.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Motherfucker Like you know what I'm saying, we're literally every
fucking thing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
Don't put me in no fucking pop category though.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
I Like I said, Colin Greens is a fucking pop song,
and y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Not about to take that.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
Okay you are.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
It's a fucking pop song, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
But it's your record.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
You don't want to get in pop.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
Don't if you put my ship in pop.

Speaker 4 (01:29:28):
I'm a rapper. We're gonna get out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
I'm self aware that I made this pop song and
I loved it and I picked that beat.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
And it was like, this is what I want to do,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
That's the thing too, like there's no limits, like to
like don't box rap in either, like we came in,
you know what I'm saying, biting from other genres and
ship like taking and like making it our own thing,
like don't don't strip me from that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
Somebody never asked you before. Sorry, just listen. Have you
ever rewrote a verse? Because all the time, Okay, I
argue with somebody about you, about you and dots Kyler
Green verse back and forth. Like that's like it always
happens with the Jay Rock and the Money Trees verse.
You know what I'm saying, Like niggas always be like, man,
I don't know Jay Rock. I think Jay Rock got it.

(01:30:16):
But that's my personal opinion, right, But it's a debate.
It's a barbershop argument every time, no matter where I go, Like,
these conversations happen. So when you go in and you
rewrite the verse, is that because he got me? Or
is that because like I just don't fit the song, I.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
Probably don't like it. It's never about he got me
no more. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
When I first came in, yeah, but I don't think
that was trying to like have the.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Better verse, man, get it, yeah, bitch, your bitch.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
He was trying to make a song right, like you know,
like at some point things do evolve, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, we are competitive still in rap, but
I mean I think now, like I said, we're the
highest of I don't give a fuck what nobody's saying
country or fuck out of here. Rap is the highest

(01:31:12):
form of fucking music. I don't given fuck what you're
talking about. And I think dot you know, he was
making music, he was songwriting, so songwritering, that's what we're
all saying, Like, yeah, we were saying rock first too.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
But me and I don't even gotta get it your bitch,
your bitch. I think anything in your bitch, it's like
it just catch you soon as you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
Get to it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Like I think that's just as good as having a
harder verse, and honestly, starting the song off and catching
people instantly is harder than going second. I feel sorry
to tell people that John is truth. Like hearing somebody
rap off the layup, off the backboard and win the
verse is impressive yeah, but in reality, meet all us

(01:32:01):
musicians that do it know that the first four lines
that were said was way more impressive than anything that
dude said.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
They it got us to that even got us to
that fucking verse.

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
I feel you you get what I'm saying, Like the
songwriting is like the songwriting versus I'm on your head
to outrap you like control verse.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
I think that's different from like songwriting, if that makes sense.

Speaker 6 (01:32:28):
I feel did you think it an amount to this
right here? Because when I'm when I'm looking at you Q.
It's funny because I remember being at the apartment and
you know, you used to pop in every you know,
every few weeks or whatnot, interview or not. And I
remember one particular when you came in. He was like, man,
don't tell nobody, but I got signed. Like you know
what I'm saying, I got got And that was like
an important moment because you know, I've seen you grinding

(01:32:50):
up into that point. Right so now here we are
we talk about, you know, ten some years later, and
you mentioned how you know your idols, like you know Snoop,
the Corrupts, And it's like, if we're being honest, when
we talk about hip hop.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
Especially in Los Angeles, it's Death Row and t d E. Right,
did you win? Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:09):
We win.

Speaker 6 (01:33:10):
So what I'm saying is, did you did you think
that it would get to this point in those moments
we were trying to get signed?

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
Once we once I met? Yep, we won. I don't
care nobody said we drop more albums. We saw that
more arenas we.

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
Didn't be we made. Yeah, we won.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
But I'm at the same time death Ro out of
respect for death.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
Bro, I would I would vote that Death Row. But
if we're being realistic, we win.

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
What's funny is I wouln't even have a comparison.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
I was doing comparisons about us. But I'm just sorry
regard fuck that we win. We can go with their
biggest artists versus ours and we win.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
I'm sorry we win.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
I mean, but you know, Snoop was a fucking I
don't think nobody on our label compared to Snoop.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
Well, Snoop transcends rap music.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Yeah, yeah, where where we win is the soldiers. When
it comes to Snoop and Dre, they win, but he
don't really count to me. To me, that's like, uh,
I mean dre is like he didn't, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
He's a producer, so like, you know, composer.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Like they got two classical albums as a rapper, for sure,
as a producer, Okay, as a composer, we'll say that.
You said, don't count your fa DJ quick that don't
even want to pot quick what.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
I'm saying, So Park don't count, Well you can count.

Speaker 5 (01:35:06):
Let's see, I gotta count.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
Let's see, let's gotta count. Let me be realistic if
we're talking about stardom.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
They went off stardom because it was only ten rappers
first off, so they win. It was only ten rappers
in the fucking world, So you get what I'm saying, Like,
of course everybody that's a rappers a fucking superstar. First off,
we had to compete with everything. We had to compete
with yg We had to compete with.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
Our future Hey Drake, the j did Drake.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
We had to compete with so much more ship out
there that was cracking and still hold our own. And
not only that, we brought y'all Sisen, who was the
biggest artist in the world. We brought yours a shot
who has this underground legend. He's basically an underground legend. Bro,

(01:36:02):
you got fucking Jay Rock, you got apps, so you
got me like Kendrick alone sound wave? Uh TB's you
got a lead who mixed everybody's album in music.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
If we're going Sug.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
Versus Top Top wipes the floor, I don't know who
their president was. I'm pretty sure it was still Sug
punch wins talking about videos, Uh, Dave and dot me,
my visuals are always better. Uh, if we're going rapping wise,

(01:36:44):
I'm watching.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
A lot of them. I'm watching a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
I'm watching a lot of them, but I can't outslap them. Dress.
I'm gonna outslap me to death. But they can't bar
with me. Dads can't bar with me. Uh, corrupt con

(01:37:11):
fuck with me, but I'm anna win. Corrupt can fuck
with me, but I'm a win. Uh, I can't fuck
with park Doc got popped.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
I'm sorry he barrnym.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
Up Sissa, she got Scissa versus Dre. That's tough, that's tough,
but uh but I mean, but then we go to
the soldiers though, like they ain't got no Jay Rocks.
I'm a soldier too, but they ain't got no Jay Rocks.
Ain't got no appsoce, they ain't got no Isaiahs. They

(01:37:45):
ain't got none of that. They don't got no Yeah,
we got a new artist coming up. You know, I
don't want to put them in there yet because they
haven't broke through yet. But I think we have more art.

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
I can tell you about.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
Gave you more albums, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Like, well, I mean the album Snoop gave me on
Death Bro Snoop is more Snoop Dogg and Death Bro
to me correct, Doctor Dre is more Doctor Dre and
death Bro uh Tupac is more tucacing death Bro correct.
So that's my whole thing. Like we're like like we're
like Golden State words. We were all drafted. They were

(01:38:25):
like put together. You get what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
Like they were like the Miami Heat.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Like all right, we're gonna get up. We were drafted
and did what we did. They were like put together
after already having success. You give what I'm saying. It's different.
And so when it comes to comparing, we win.

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
That's crazy. I was even trying to compare.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
I'm just letting people know the record, I'm comparing that
idol like I gave a lot of you know, gave
a lot of snipp is my idol. You know I
can't out slap Snoop. I never you know, I never
reached his heights. But I'm just saying the rest of y'all.

(01:39:12):
I'm wiping the floor with y'all. I'm wiping the floor
with y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:39:16):
Danny Boy, We're good.

Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
All. The rest of them, they don't have a chance.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
I just want I wanted to end on this. No,
when did you know? When do you know?

Speaker 6 (01:39:27):
Because you were talking about the feeling of making music
that the album was done, because then.

Speaker 5 (01:39:31):
I also heard that you were done.

Speaker 6 (01:39:32):
Alone, but then you make blue Blue slides after Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Mean when I when I say you leave it alone,
I mean more so like like you're just abandoned it.
Like you're just like it's like all right, fuck it,
nothing else I can do to it. Yeah, And you've
been putting it together this whole time, and it's together
now you're just like trying to figure out how you
can switch the together when it's like already to get

(01:40:01):
you know what I mean. It's just like like I said,
cause I put out bodies of work and catalogs about
my life. So so I put this out there about
my life. Am I leaving something on the out? Or
do I? Am I going too far? You know what
I'm saying with certain things like sometimes you want to
save a line for the next one, Like I got
shit in there that I took out for the next one,

(01:40:23):
and I got shipped from this album that I was
saying and crash talk that I took out for this one.

Speaker 1 (01:40:28):
So it's just like as long as you that's why
ideas have never stops.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Why I know I got eighteen or if I can
live to do it like I got eighteen more like
cause I'm just constantly talking about my life, Like I
got shit to talk about now. I came to this motherfucker, Tarzana,
and you know what I'm saying, and you gotta go
get your kids. That's a whole scenario of of what
I can come up with if I constantly talk about

(01:40:52):
my life. I never run out of shit to say,
Like the fact, that's what I'm saying, Like all that
slap shit, I fucking gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
Run out of slash right, I'm gonna still be I
win once again. I'm with a win. I'm telling you.

Speaker 4 (01:41:07):
Bro hey, listen, man, h congratulations, thank you man. I
appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
You know what I'm saying, you've been You've been the
same consistent, like you ain't really he's all outside. No,
I'm talking about I'm not talking about that you. I
told him that, But I'm saying you haven't like you.
You kind of almost are worse than you used to be,
Like you know, not as a man, not as a person.
I'm talking about like your level of fucks to give
is not even like you used to give a fuck

(01:41:35):
about certain things, what people said, what people but that
comes from a lack that comes from a place of black.
Now I can tell, like you more rounded in whole,
like you said, I got a family, Like I'm concerned
about other shit. I noticed that you not really even
when I be seeing the way you respond to people
on Twitter. It's not like the Vin Staples Show, for instance,
Like Vince Staple's got a show out that's the only

(01:41:57):
thing that matters, Like go watch that ship right now,
Like that that Q is like a whole Q. That's
not bitter Q, that's not drugged out Q. Like and
I think that that's like dope. You know what I'm
saying to see one of the homies like evolving. Even
I told him the same thing, like when he went
Cold Turkey. We had a conversation, he went go to
old Turkey.

Speaker 5 (01:42:18):
This is not a cold Turkey endorsement, No, no, But.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
I'm just saying, like I applaud that, like and also
as a father too, like I applaud.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
That, thank you, thank you. Prohaps y'all is still holding
it down.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
We ain't never beat either.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
For the record, what's up that I my homies, eisy, I.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
Don't believe in that, Like we gotta run the face
like we gotta get in him. Bro, we ain't friends
like that because I'm too articulate. If you punch me
in my face, we never gonna be cool.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
At this point in my life. Yeah, you can't put
your hands on me and cool right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
And you can't say something too far right, you know,
so like is it really that serious?

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
Times? But you know, shout out to y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
It down for years from an apartment to radio to
still jerking. You know what I'm saying, over ten plus
years and keeping la music and journalism like a lie
because I don't even know what ship is no more.
I don't know if I'm making a point, if it's
interviews or if it's a podcast, anytime I show up

(01:43:22):
to anything, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
So that's another reason why I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
Do shit everything, because it's like, what the fuck am
I showing up to?

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
I just make it a point, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
I never want to participate in the circus and it's
just a full circus out here.

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
I'm not a clown and I don't want all this.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
So yeah, that's my whole thing too.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
It's like if I don't so at this point, if
I don't know you, I just can't even. It's nothing
to talk about, you know what I'm saying. It's like,
it's nothing to talk about. Ship, listen to the music.
I got a bunch of people that I can go
to that with platforms and you know, shout out to
your office.

Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
Thank you, bro, thank you man.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
Appreciate the time in it.

Speaker 6 (01:44:04):
You look forward to the continued evolution of eighteen more.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
That's great, eighteen more. You heard it.

Speaker 6 (01:44:13):
Room to retire, man Alradio, Chuck Dizzle, DJ Ad school
Boy Q, see y'all next time.