Speaker 1: Hey, what if y'all it's dj V.
Speaker 2: It's the NFL Playoffs. Teams are entering the home stretch.
Speaker 2: Gold and glory is in sight, and I've teamed up
Speaker 2: with DraftKings and official partner of the NFL, and right
Speaker 2: now they have an offer. If you want to know
Speaker 2: the offer, you don't want to miss it. All customers
Speaker 2: can get no sweat bet, get a bonus bet back
Speaker 2: if your same game parlay or same game Paula X
Speaker 2: bet doesn't hit max reward limits apply. Download the DraftKings
Speaker 2: Sportsbook app now and sign up by using promo code TBC,
Speaker 2: which stands for the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: That's TBC.
Speaker 2: And if you're a new customer, you just bet five
Speaker 2: dollars and you get two hundred dollars in bonus bets instantly.
Speaker 3: How dope is that wondering.
Speaker 2: What you can do with that two hundred dollars on
Speaker 2: bonus bets. Combine multiple bets together for a shot at
Speaker 2: even a bigger payout. If sports betting is not yet
Speaker 2: available in your state, you can still join in on
Speaker 2: all the fun with DraftKings Daily Fantasy Sports. Download the
Speaker 2: DraftKings Sportsbook app now. All new customers can use my
Speaker 2: promo code TBC only at Draftking Sports Book Brown is yours.
Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is Steve j n V.
Speaker 2: Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 2: a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, brother Kevin Gates.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, brother, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
Speaker 4: You look clean?
Speaker 1: My brother? You do, man, I should have did this
Speaker 1: off the hel Uh. You promised me that last time
Speaker 1: that if I brought you, uh the book that you're
Speaker 1: an autographic. Oh, you gotta put the You gotta put
Speaker 1: the one that's gonna be worth money though. Put the
Speaker 1: scenes your work need both of my books. Do that.
Speaker 1: Before the inter of you over, I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you. Why are you feeling, brother? How do I look? Amazing? Great?
Speaker 1: And amazing? I just ran them all happy in like
Speaker 1: six minutes before I came over here.
Speaker 3: Really outside in the hotel, on the trimming on the tread.
Speaker 4: Man, that's your routine in the morning. Was your morning routine?
Speaker 1: Yoga? Just movement, I'm gonna say, just movement, moving the
Speaker 1: body around, raising my frequency. Inside running is easier than
Speaker 1: outside running.
Speaker 3: Gotta deal with the elements.
Speaker 1: I like outside running more. I don't know, it's just
Speaker 1: when I'm outside. It's just like I like to be
Speaker 1: going somewhere.
Speaker 3: Twenty four degrees through outside today.
Speaker 1: I just was outside at the Lamb truck with short
Speaker 1: tun and for real, Like, that's cryo therapy for me.
Speaker 1: Like when your body, when you subject your body to
Speaker 1: cold temperatures, what it does is in order for to
Speaker 1: stay warm your bady, to kill off all your bad selves,
Speaker 1: all your inflammation and things of that nature. So it
Speaker 1: was therapeutic in nature for me.
Speaker 3: What got you into your knowing yourself and knowing your
Speaker 3: body soul?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: Well, how did you get on that journey?
Speaker 1: I used to do drugs, and drugs used to make
Speaker 1: me feel good, and I believe that rehabits for quitters,
Speaker 1: so I never been to reh have So now it's
Speaker 1: like I do things that make me feel good. Working
Speaker 1: out makes me feel good. I'm addicted to it now.
Speaker 1: Before I work out in the morning, don't talk to me.
Speaker 1: I'm a grouch. I'm gonna curse everybody out. Just let
Speaker 1: me get this work out out the way and then
Speaker 1: after that, hey, I'm good. I can be of service now.
Speaker 5: You know the beauty of what you said. Most people
Speaker 5: will say that about coffee. Most people will.
Speaker 1: Say that about weed. You know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: can't talk to you till I drink my coffee.
Speaker 5: I can't talk to you. I smoke my cigarette a
Speaker 5: smoke of blood. The fact you said that about.
Speaker 1: Exercise, that's crazy that you say that those are rituals.
Speaker 1: Like my morning ritual is working out. And that's crazy
Speaker 1: that I got a coffee brand called ritual, like as
Speaker 1: far as me being one of the generals, its general's ritual.
Speaker 1: That's my coffee brand, And that's a ritual. That's one
Speaker 1: of my rituals in the morning. I gotta have my coffee.
Speaker 1: I gotta work out. I gotta get up in the morning,
Speaker 1: black coffee, cold, shower, pray, stretch, workout, and then I
Speaker 1: can be of service. But before that, don't talk to me.
Speaker 1: I'm a grouch man. The thing I love about you too,
Speaker 1: Kevin Man.
Speaker 5: And when I listen to this ceremony, everything you're saying
Speaker 5: right now reflecting the music, every like every single thing
Speaker 5: you call it medicine music.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about what medicine music is to you.
Speaker 1: The music that raises your frequency Like. I used to
Speaker 1: just play a lot of songs on Live Like because
Speaker 1: when I'm working out in the gym, I like to
Speaker 1: hear something positive but hard. So I got this one
Speaker 1: song on the called The Ceremony where I'm talking to
Speaker 1: myself and I'm like, purpose driven, I'm developing richesh you
Speaker 1: pleasure driven, you develop adjiction, elevated and ranking. My dick
Speaker 1: is not friendly. I would not be distracted by women
Speaker 1: like because I and the reason I said that is
Speaker 1: because every time you on your purpose, that's when all
Speaker 1: the distractions come. When I'm trying to call and see people,
Speaker 1: don't nobody have got time for me. Like soon as
Speaker 1: it's payday, everybody call you. They know your They just
Speaker 1: like they got a magic PingER or a blink or
Speaker 1: something that let them know that you just got some money,
Speaker 1: all your energy up. That's when all the distractions come.
Speaker 1: When you're doing you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 5: I want you to expound on that because that was
Speaker 5: one of the lines I love from Ceremony, when you
Speaker 5: said you was purpose driven over being pleasure driven. I
Speaker 5: think we're in an era right now where everybody's pleasure driven.
Speaker 1: Man. When you when you pleasure driven, you develop addictions.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is any feeling gonna
Speaker 1: get old to you, so you're gonna constantly be chasing
Speaker 1: a greater feeling. That's why people have become addicted to
Speaker 1: drugs or whatever they become addicted to. I done became
Speaker 1: addicted to things that's gonna raise my frequencies, such as
Speaker 1: working out, the fitness and things of that nature. So
Speaker 1: that's what I mean by If you purpose driven, and
Speaker 1: you stay on your purpose, like I said on one
Speaker 1: of my other songs, if you're looking for a micro
Speaker 1: wave blessing, it won't happen. That's right now.
Speaker 3: You also say earlier you said you know rehab was
Speaker 3: for quitters, So that's for quitters. My question is, so
Speaker 3: how did you get over the drug addiction you said
Speaker 3: you had?
Speaker 1: Is some of those negativeddictions, you know, if you go
Speaker 1: back to one of the old interviews on here, I
Speaker 1: was in here drinking lean in a coffee cup. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a coffee cup with a lid on it.
Speaker 1: I was drinking, sir in an interview. Wow, I was
Speaker 1: a junkie when I had the habit or my body
Speaker 1: with ache. If I didn't have it. It ain't nothing,
Speaker 1: but heroin addiction is a disease. Yeah, of course, I
Speaker 1: don't know why people don't look at it like that.
Speaker 1: It was a disease. Yeah. So I replaced that habit
Speaker 1: with another habit. I didn't just go cold Turkey. I
Speaker 1: had to replace my unhealthy habits with healthy habits. And
Speaker 1: as I kept going and going and going, you know,
Speaker 1: I start getting into body hacks, like if you take this,
Speaker 1: it'll give you more energy. If you take that, it'll
Speaker 1: make you It'll make you focus better, like saffering, it'll
Speaker 1: make you focus. It's just like adderall if you take
Speaker 1: a sea mass and she legit and all that. So
Speaker 1: I just start getting in all that. If you drink
Speaker 1: beat you that take all the sortness out of your
Speaker 1: muscles because it's high nitrous out said. So I just
Speaker 1: got to look in at body hacks, like what could
Speaker 1: make me perform better? So I could get even greater feeling.
Speaker 1: And it's another end of journey. It don't stop.
Speaker 3: What was the test?
Speaker 1: Was it a near scare?
Speaker 3: Was it a friend of yours that was close that
Speaker 3: almost passed?
Speaker 1: What was the reason? Like?
Speaker 3: No, today's all change.
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed into working out and it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed in us getting in shape because when
Speaker 1: I was fat and I had titties, when I would
Speaker 1: walk in the room, I would look for the flowers
Speaker 1: and everybody in the room and I would expound on
Speaker 1: those flows, so no one would pay attention to me.
Speaker 1: You're projected. I was projecting, so no one would pay
Speaker 1: attention to me. But when I had my shirt off
Speaker 1: at the video shoot, I'm like, yeah, I'm trap house sixy,
Speaker 1: I'm on the block six. That was a facade. I'm
Speaker 1: holding a baby, the baby trying to suck my titty.
Speaker 1: Everybody looking, they laughing, but it's one of them laughs
Speaker 1: like you don't want to you don't want me to
Speaker 1: see you laughing, so they like. And then I see
Speaker 1: the baby leaning. That's the most embarrassing shit in the world.
Speaker 1: When you holding a child and the child innocent, HI
Speaker 1: don't know no better. He reallean, the baby really trying
Speaker 1: to suck your titty. I hear, man, take this baby,
Speaker 1: and everybody fell out laughing at me, and I felt
Speaker 1: like the worst than the world. I was like, so
Speaker 1: it was anger, it was embarrassment, it was everything, and
Speaker 1: I was. I couldn't be mad at everybody because ship
Speaker 1: the baby. You know what I'm saying, They trying to
Speaker 1: suck my tea. And after that, that's what just made
Speaker 1: me say, you know what, I ain't fucked that man,
Speaker 1: I'm about to get in shape. I'm tired of being
Speaker 1: a fast slob. And then everybody watched when I got
Speaker 1: on the on Instagram and I said that before I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: just make me lose all this weight today. God, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of being a fast slob. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be the fat rapper no more. And everybody just followed
Speaker 1: my progress in my journey since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: You really worked out, you ain't. You wasn't like an
Speaker 5: Ozimpic gold medalist. You wasn't doing none of that right.
Speaker 5: Ozimpic is the shot that everybody's taking now.
Speaker 1: You know this, People that take that shot, their head
Speaker 1: be bigger than they body. You notice that the head,
Speaker 1: it looks like You're right, I'd be like, they head
Speaker 1: be bigger than they body. It looked like they be disproportioned.
Speaker 1: Even people that go get surgery, like not women, I
Speaker 1: don't know what women be there. They be looking good
Speaker 1: when they do it. But like a lot of the
Speaker 1: men that I see that go get surgery, they head
Speaker 1: be bigger than they batty, like it's disproportioned, like it's
Speaker 1: I'd rather just be disciplined because if I cheat, my
Speaker 1: white Cheetahs never win. I'm gonna hold myself accountable. Like
Speaker 1: I just come off a seven day fast right before
Speaker 1: my listening party, I ain't eating nothing for seven days,
Speaker 1: no food at all, no food at all, so just
Speaker 1: a liquid or just liquid. I've been longer than that, though,
Speaker 1: but I just need to clarity, and whenever things get
Speaker 1: too cloud for me, I just don't eat nothing. Wow.
Speaker 5: When you say rehabits for quitters are you're not discouraging rehab,
Speaker 5: are you? Cause some people in mind isn't strong enough
Speaker 5: to just quit things cold turkey. Some people need to
Speaker 5: go to rehab and have other people there to hold
Speaker 5: them responsible, hold them accountable.
Speaker 1: Quitters. But that's the point. You want to quit the
Speaker 1: drugs now, I'm gonna replace on healthy habits with healthy haveabit.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, because because once I started
Speaker 1: working out, that lean started tasting like drugs to me.
Speaker 1: Once I started sweating out and detaxing, my body. When
Speaker 1: I drink, I'd be like she takets like drugs and
Speaker 1: me wanting better for myself made me not want to
Speaker 1: fuck with it. I'm not about to sit around for
Speaker 1: you to come pat me in my ass and all
Speaker 1: letting tell me it's gonna be okay, Kevin, Little Kevin
Speaker 1: and nothing. That's not what the world gonna do, Kevin.
Speaker 1: So I can't talk about what nobody else going through.
Speaker 1: I gotta hold myself accountable, rehabits for quitters. I can't
Speaker 1: get up there and say, now, some baby gonna say
Speaker 1: that was fucked up. He said that. Nah, I take
Speaker 1: self accountability. It may sound harsh, but I'm gonna beat
Speaker 1: myself up so the world can't beat me up. Because
Speaker 1: the world is a cruel place. It can be a
Speaker 1: beautiful place if you allow it to be on your
Speaker 1: perspective changes. That's what miracles have. But I'm not. I
Speaker 1: don't need nobody. I don't need to go sit in
Speaker 1: front of nobody and they tell me, yeah, the first
Speaker 1: kids admitting you have a problem. I told myself I
Speaker 1: got a problem. I talked to myself. I'm in tune
Speaker 1: with myself. I'm calling twice as bigger than me. And
Speaker 1: I say that because I'm calling this female Collins female. Hey, Kevin,
Speaker 1: stop calling that whole fuck that O. You stay on
Speaker 1: your purpose. When she comes back, you ain't gonna have
Speaker 1: time for I talk to myself. People may say i'dm crazy,
Speaker 1: but I'm winning. That's how I process things. It's talking
Speaker 1: to myself.
Speaker 5: On the song Broken Men, you you talk oh my god,
Speaker 5: I can't believe. Oh, I think that this is probably
Speaker 5: your best album to me, but I'm broken men. You
Speaker 5: talk about a person who told you things would fall
Speaker 5: apart if y'all split. That's a true story.
Speaker 1: That's a true story I had on I asked somebody
Speaker 1: to tell me that if we were if we wasn't together,
Speaker 1: that everything will fall apart. You know this is some
Speaker 1: old like but they told me that, and I was like,
Speaker 1: and that affected me. I never said nothing about it,
Speaker 1: but that was kind of part of my draft, Like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna hustle so hard you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to see me, and if you don't see me,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to hear about me. And that was
Speaker 1: part of my motivation and in doing all of those things,
Speaker 1: like kind of like the great gas he did all
Speaker 1: of if you if you never seen the movie, he
Speaker 1: did all of these things, these great feats, only to
Speaker 1: show somebody else his worth. So I did all of
Speaker 1: these things just to realize that external things never add value,
Speaker 1: anything external. And it was like the reason I called
Speaker 1: it broken me in because so many men go through
Speaker 1: that feeling inadequate, not feeling good enough, feeling like they're
Speaker 1: owner as good as their ability, to their ability to
Speaker 1: provide and to do, And because I still feel like
Speaker 1: that sometimes, like like what can I give? Did I
Speaker 1: do enough? And things of that nature. But I hate
Speaker 1: to sound like one of them people that, uh what
Speaker 1: you call them? Them? You know them positive people that
Speaker 1: I hate, not not them, know, the ones that go
Speaker 1: hiking and ship with you. Hippies. They're your sponsor, they said,
Speaker 1: hippies accountability partner. Yeah, they'll tell you are enough people.
Speaker 3: What you mean, that's that's like a sponsors.
Speaker 1: I hate to sound like one of them, but you
Speaker 1: are enough, Like anything external does it add value? You
Speaker 1: are enough. I didn't know I was enough until I
Speaker 1: got to really know myself, and I'm like, man, I
Speaker 1: don't fly, And that's kind of like I still like
Speaker 1: the way Juror and stuff for my brother. But at
Speaker 1: my listening part, I ain't even with no Juror, and
Speaker 1: it came and gifted me with this watch I had
Speaker 1: never seen before, and then I just put it on us.
Speaker 1: I ain't even gonna wark no jeur. I am the Juror.
Speaker 1: I think of the situation like that.
Speaker 3: You know, back to what you were saying, a lot
Speaker 3: of times your partner or your friends around you should
Speaker 3: be instilling that into you. That's why you talk about
Speaker 3: positive energy and your friends in positive frequencies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't have that around me coming from where
Speaker 1: I came from. So a lot of times when somebody
Speaker 1: could see your greatness, they'll say things to put these
Speaker 1: up on the same level as you, so you won't
Speaker 1: think too much of yourself because you might get away
Speaker 1: from them. And you know this is you know miss
Speaker 1: Misery Loves Company question.
Speaker 5: Was that person right, the person who told you things
Speaker 5: wouldn't work out for you if y'all split.
Speaker 1: Look at me for the moment I'm talking about In
Speaker 1: that moment, look at me, look at me trying to
Speaker 1: find in love with them. I've been thinking about you,
Speaker 1: and I can't pretend I'm falling in love home once
Speaker 1: up again, no longer looking for love out of sounds
Speaker 1: of let you in. Yeah, come on, man, we don't.
Speaker 5: We don't talk about the inspiration that women can provide
Speaker 5: like that. We just heard Rod Wave say the same thing.
Speaker 5: He was like he got on his grind musically because
Speaker 5: his girlfriend at the time was a super NBA young boyfriend.
Speaker 1: I go back and tell her thank you all the time,
Speaker 1: thank you, but not believe in him. Say I still
Speaker 1: have a good relationship, not believe in well, I don't
Speaker 1: know what she is right now? Thank you. Then what
Speaker 1: did she say when you say that to her? She cried, Dang,
Speaker 1: she missed me something serious. I'm turned up about you.
Speaker 1: I got beautiful children. This shit in our life goes on.
Speaker 2: Speaking of turned up, did you really go to a
Speaker 2: Beyonce concent and turn up in a Beyonce concert?
Speaker 1: Buck? But look, this is what happened. I paid for
Speaker 1: my nannies. All my nanni is to go to the concert.
Speaker 1: So you remember when they were supposed to come to
Speaker 1: New Orleans. So they had everybody was outside, just outside.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, we're gonna go because I've been going.
Speaker 1: I went to a Drake concert. I went two nights
Speaker 1: in the road of Drake. I wann't seeing Usher, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just on that end, like just studying all of
Speaker 1: the greats. So you know, if you go to New Orleans,
Speaker 1: it's a party outside before you even go inside. So
Speaker 1: I was bomb bomb, bomb bomb, you know, and it
Speaker 1: just it was a party outside before it was a
Speaker 1: part of inside. So that was like, I'm beyond turned.
Speaker 1: So he really turned during that time. Yes, Lord, if
Speaker 1: I come out the shirt, I love to come off
Speaker 1: my shirt. I mean, look at me. I just I
Speaker 1: love to come on my shirt. I love to take
Speaker 1: it off now. I used to hate that, just I
Speaker 1: used to wear layers. Now I can't wait to come
Speaker 1: on my shirt. You want to come out that bitch
Speaker 1: right now. You ever wonder what the titties went? You
Speaker 1: have a look at the mirror and be like, no,
Speaker 1: it was dietary issues. It was it was dairy, it
Speaker 1: was it was the day I was eating. I still
Speaker 1: like a little I still do a lit deer every
Speaker 1: now and then, but it got to be done in
Speaker 1: moderation because it'll caused you to be like, it'll caused
Speaker 1: you to have that little layer of fat like up
Speaker 1: under your nipples that men have then most men don't notice.
Speaker 1: You still got apps way up here. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And that's what tightened it up. And dips
Speaker 1: tighten it up. Also, I thought I was gonna have
Speaker 1: to get that litt fat removed. It scared me. But
Speaker 1: I noticed once I changed my diet and started working
Speaker 1: those areas, I ain't got no problem. That's what I'm together.
Speaker 3: Now back to the y'all say freestyle. BG is on
Speaker 3: that record BG and sixty rig one of the first
Speaker 3: here BG and sex rep. But this was one of
Speaker 3: the first times we've heard of BG verse. So was
Speaker 3: you and BG cool? How did you and BG link
Speaker 3: for this one? This is the first verse.
Speaker 1: I've been knowing him because he like a friend of
Speaker 1: the family, Like I got cousins that know him, like Menace.
Speaker 1: I got Booby, that's my brother, he know him. He
Speaker 1: grew up with them. And I've been knowing him for
Speaker 1: a couple of years playing, but like thirteen years. We
Speaker 1: ain't seen each other in about thirteen years. I probably
Speaker 1: know him a couple of years before that, maybe like
Speaker 1: we met like two thousand and seven eight or something.
Speaker 1: But through friends of the family, and we always have
Speaker 1: been kind of cool. But the whole time he was
Speaker 1: in prison, we always sent them pictures and looked out
Speaker 1: for him and things of that nature. So his journey
Speaker 1: was our journey. He was with us when we was
Speaker 1: in Germany. He had the pictures and everything, Like we
Speaker 1: walked him all the way down his whole big for
Speaker 1: people that don't know what that mean, walked him down
Speaker 1: his whole big. We josed him, We sent pictures to him,
Speaker 1: you know, we kept he kept his spirits lifted. So
Speaker 1: when he came home, it was just only right. It
Speaker 1: was only right, like it was beautiful. It was historical
Speaker 1: nature of me. He's a legend to me.
Speaker 3: I love the way you sound, because sometimes you know,
Speaker 3: somebody will go get locked up and they come home
Speaker 3: after a while and they got that that old flow on.
Speaker 1: But he sounds. I think he better than sound. He
Speaker 1: get up and work out every morning and everything he
Speaker 1: on his workout ship and it goes straight to the studio.
Speaker 1: So I think this situation made him better than ever.
Speaker 5: You know, you talk on this album a lot about
Speaker 5: cleaning your sins. What does cleaning your sins look like?
Speaker 1: What kind of sins, some because some some some sins
Speaker 1: people are saying, uh some some sins people will say, like,
Speaker 1: uh that you that they did something bad they need
Speaker 1: forgiveness for it. Some sins you gotta forgive yourself for.
Speaker 4: So what are those sins you talking about?
Speaker 5: Because to me everything seems like a like you said,
Speaker 5: a self awareness journey of reflection you talking about.
Speaker 1: When I say hear him clean, uh fellers floating on the
Speaker 1: top of my head, cleaning my sins, I think that's
Speaker 1: all of my sins. Okay. You know when I go
Speaker 1: up on the mountain and I ask God for forgiveness, Hey,
Speaker 1: forgive me for the things that I did unknowingly, forgive
Speaker 1: me the things I did noringly. Just forgive me, and
Speaker 1: then I forgive myself so I don't keep looping in it.
Speaker 5: What does that feel like? Do you feel it like?
Speaker 5: Do you feel something removed from you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Come off your spirit. You can feel it like
Speaker 1: you could see it right here and say, on this
Speaker 1: whole of the divine day, I hear by release all
Speaker 1: the energy that no longer serve my higher self, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel lifted because we impassed. We pick up
Speaker 1: on energy everywhere we go. Now, some stuff, a lot
Speaker 1: of people say that I did. They look at it
Speaker 1: as sins, But I don't look at it as sins.
Speaker 1: I look at it that that needed to be done,
Speaker 1: So them ain't the sins I'm talking about it. I
Speaker 1: need forgetting this for if I did that, I meant
Speaker 1: that because some things, you know, it just had to
Speaker 1: go like that. What you mean, like discipline, like violence? Yeah,
Speaker 1: standing up for myself, you know, because you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times people don't learn from just talking. Pain
Speaker 1: sometime has to be the greatest motivator.
Speaker 4: From what I learned, it's actually better.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like self defense is a no.
Speaker 5: And it's actually better when you got a clear mind
Speaker 5: because you know you're not projecting your pain and hurt
Speaker 5: onto somebody, so you know you're only defending yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't operate like that. But I'm big on respect,
Speaker 1: like I'm super big. I'm still big on respect because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's all I have.
Speaker 1: But I leave with my respect first. But they got
Speaker 1: some people that And I tell my children this, I
Speaker 1: love y'all. I do, and I'm a great father. But
Speaker 1: some people did have to know me as a monster,
Speaker 1: because that's the only way that they will stop.
Speaker 4: I love a bird birds calling too.
Speaker 5: Man, When you say you're a polycanto big torch lighter,
Speaker 5: you say prayer is more important than exotic cause. And
Speaker 5: to me, was it intentional to put lyrics like that
Speaker 5: in a song called birds Calling?
Speaker 1: Because people will see the title and thinks it was intentional?
Speaker 1: Because like I said, I got a new coffee brand
Speaker 1: called Ritual. It's out right now, and it was beautiful
Speaker 1: because I went back to the trap, but instead of
Speaker 1: flipping bricks, it was keys of coffee. Was the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about it. Like some people say, he's glorifying this,
Speaker 1: glorifying that, No I'm not. I'm turning the negative into
Speaker 1: a positive. I just got the key to the city
Speaker 1: and bad and ruge and I got the key to
Speaker 1: the city in New Orleans. And I never thought that
Speaker 1: what I was doing was helping people like but what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, like helping other people heal, is really me
Speaker 1: helping myself.
Speaker 5: Here, you got two songs on the album with the
Speaker 5: healing title. One is called Healing, the other one is
Speaker 5: called Orried.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I think you're doing amazing every song.
Speaker 1: I'm on there talking to myself every song, Like every song,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to myself.
Speaker 5: I don't think you can heal anybody. Okay, you think so?
Speaker 5: You said you can heal a woman. Yes, I think
Speaker 5: a person has to want to go get healing.
Speaker 1: I heal ship. Yes, Lord to how you start to call?
Speaker 1: At what point you know my touch is healing? But
Speaker 1: you know I heal a ship. Though. You really think
Speaker 1: you can heal a woman. I don't think I know?
Speaker 1: Can you? I think you can.
Speaker 4: Assist them, show them the direction.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a new creature when she leaves around me.
Speaker 4: You can't start with calling her a bitch, the person
Speaker 4: you're healing.
Speaker 1: That's only in private and public's bay and love and
Speaker 1: all of that. But in private, oh bitch, it's a
Speaker 1: term of endearment. Bitch, you so beautiful? Oh Lord, yes, Lord, God,
Speaker 1: thank you, God, bless the hand in preparing this meal.
Speaker 1: Were about to say, our grace. But you can't go
Speaker 1: around just healing everybody. Have a flashback now, I don't
Speaker 1: heal that everybody. Everybody don't deserve here, That's what I'm saying. Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody don't deserve healing. Because they might be here for
Speaker 1: a week, then they'll just go back to that same,
Speaker 1: that same behavior. Then I got to put them on
Speaker 1: deck restriction.
Speaker 3: Restriction.
Speaker 4: You have to put girls on a restriction, Yes, yes, sir?
Speaker 1: How long? What's the longest you ever? Did? I do?
Speaker 1: I start with? And you tell them that you're like
Speaker 1: the first offense?
Speaker 3: What's the defense?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just it depends on your you know,
Speaker 1: code of conduct is big with me. You know, to
Speaker 1: what's the cooter co? What see you? What do you
Speaker 1: have a problem with? Different? So what's part of it?
Speaker 1: Ain't that? But you know, like I believe that honesty
Speaker 1: is the best policy. Like when I meet you, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you the truth. I'm gonna tell you how
Speaker 1: I'm living. This how I'm living now. If you accept
Speaker 1: it or rejected, it's how I'm living. Have you ever
Speaker 1: had girls rejected like I'm not doing ninety Reschriedule. No,
Speaker 1: they don't that, none of they don't go like that.
Speaker 1: It just they just end up being like, look, you
Speaker 1: keep on, I'm gonna put your own dick restriction so
Speaker 1: you still go out. You just no, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just you gonna you know, like I say, rejection is
Speaker 1: rejection is a beautiful thing. I reward loyalty with loyalty.
Speaker 1: I reward disloyalty with distance. You know, you you think
Speaker 1: about what you did. You know what I'm saying. If
Speaker 1: you're not, it's not peaceful. I'm not gonna be nowhere.
Speaker 1: That's not peaceful. I'm not gonna be nowhere that's gonna
Speaker 1: lud my frequency. That's just why I'm with it. Like
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to be you know, I ain't trying
Speaker 1: to make the blogs for you know, talking like this,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's how I'm coming.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been on vagina restriction?
Speaker 1: Who me? Bye bye? I can't. I've already I already
Speaker 1: had it, Like you don't know Glood and Lightning both
Speaker 1: shoot out their motherfucker what I'll do? Respect, baby, But
Speaker 1: what if you got if you make an offense?
Speaker 4: What if you do something she don't like?
Speaker 1: Like what, I don't know? You already knew what I
Speaker 1: was when you met me. Damn you already knew. Like
Speaker 1: with all due respect, Like see, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I be meeting killers. That's scared to tell a woman
Speaker 1: the truth? Like when you tell a woman the truth.
Speaker 1: You give her the option, I understand is the best policy.
Speaker 1: But women have intuition. And the reason I'm truthful with
Speaker 1: a woman because it's spiritual. They are spiritual creatures. They
Speaker 1: can transform liquid into something physical, so they already know
Speaker 1: you fullishit real when they meet you, they already knew,
Speaker 1: like they know what's up with you? Like, so, babe,
Speaker 1: where you've been? Fucking baby? You don't help me? Watch
Speaker 1: these sins off me? You're gonna help me? Watch these sins?
Speaker 1: Are you want me to help you pack? Which one? Baby?
Speaker 1: Like what we're gonna do.
Speaker 5: One of the two, because you know either she's gonna leave,
Speaker 5: what she's gonna stay. So you're gonna help me? Watch
Speaker 5: these sins off you are you're gonna help me pack?
Speaker 1: I mean they already know, Like women already know what
Speaker 1: you've been doing. Like, I don't know why people think
Speaker 1: they don't women psychic. I'm not about to lie. And
Speaker 1: then God and bless me. I got too many blessings.
Speaker 6: So do you ever see yourself with just one woman?
Speaker 6: I'm with one woman right now. What at the moment, you.
Speaker 5: Know when you talk about layd when somebody's disloyal to you,
Speaker 5: how do you bring them back in your fold?
Speaker 1: Like trust?
Speaker 4: Once trust is violated, that's a motherfucker, man.
Speaker 1: It ain't it ain't gonna it ain't gonna never be
Speaker 1: the same no more. I mean, suspect eve no want
Speaker 1: to see it once? See it, forget it not once?
Speaker 1: The enemy could never be a friend. And that's just
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to cut a lot of baggage.
Speaker 1: I had to trim a lot of fat like that
Speaker 1: last the last time we was here, I trimmed a
Speaker 1: lot of facts since then, like with just the people
Speaker 1: around me, I started throwing away all of the wrong relationships,
Speaker 1: follow the right reasons. And sometimes we be lowyer to
Speaker 1: things that's not loyal to us. But that's just why
Speaker 1: I'm at with it right now.
Speaker 3: Were you a forgiving person? Were you somebody that I forgive?
Speaker 1: Like I told y'all last time, I forgive, I do,
Speaker 1: but I ain't about to forget. Let's not be naive,
Speaker 1: nobody that you just do it to me again, Like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not intelligent.
Speaker 4: You told another great story on healing.
Speaker 5: You told a story about a woman not getting wet
Speaker 5: for you no more, and you said mentally, shit.
Speaker 1: Women, women, women can mentally check out. They can mentally
Speaker 1: move on. And you know they have vaginal dry vaginal drying?
Speaker 1: Is there a rouse a fluid? Not there? No more
Speaker 1: because they just they mentally moved on. That can happen.
Speaker 4: And what are you doing a woman in that situation?
Speaker 1: You just let it go? I mean the proof is
Speaker 1: in the putting there. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the proof is in the putting. Now, she could
Speaker 1: have been dehydrated or something because she was on the plane.
Speaker 1: But I ain't got time to be in all that.
Speaker 1: You know, you checked out, baby, it's mentally checked out.
Speaker 1: Women mentally checked out. When I had to ask my
Speaker 1: mother what that was, she said, Baby, she might have
Speaker 1: mentally checked out. Damn, that happens sometimes, Yeah, what if
Speaker 1: it is just a physical Sometimes sometimes it happens because
Speaker 1: you not being a person that a person want you
Speaker 1: to be. No, I love you enough to let you
Speaker 1: go go find that person that you say that's better
Speaker 1: than me. Can't wait? Is that hurt? Everything hurt when
Speaker 1: you love somebody? I love for real, But like nah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get my heart broke. I just
Speaker 1: use it for motivation. You should turn into a monster.
Speaker 1: Look at me. That's the fuel to this stagging on me.
Speaker 1: Do it some more. Come on, let's go, y'all. Ain't
Speaker 1: doing nothing but making me better. Every time I get mad,
Speaker 1: I'm in the gym. Let's go. They don't bother me.
Speaker 1: It used to people don't even make me mad no more.
Speaker 1: I used to be like, man, this nigga pissed me
Speaker 1: to nah, you just I'm just disappointed. I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask that I'm disappointed in you. You know, I really
Speaker 1: had a lot of respect for you. Here's some people
Speaker 1: that are never rerespect me. There's some people I never
Speaker 1: rerespect because I ain't about to sit up here like
Speaker 1: I'm perfect. I done done bogus shit before. I done
Speaker 1: done lame shit before everybody did. I done done whole
Speaker 1: ship before I thought that, because even though I said
Speaker 1: something and I said it in dude face, I still
Speaker 1: did some whole ship. Yeah, I said it in his face,
Speaker 1: and we followed. My grandfather put them to the side. Man,
Speaker 1: that's some whole shit you did. You did some whole ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you told a girl this, this and that and yeah,
Speaker 1: then you said it again cause Marin speak twice. You
Speaker 1: said it in dude facing y'all foult and all that.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah you was a man, y'all foult, but
Speaker 1: you did some whole shit. Boy, don't do that no
Speaker 1: more so. I ain't about to sit up here and
Speaker 1: act like I came out to puss it perfect. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I ain't come out to puss
Speaker 1: it win or been down and all that, you know,
Speaker 1: with a pistol in my hand. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: These are learned behaviors.
Speaker 3: You have a look at some of the stuff that
Speaker 3: people pick up that you've said or that goes viral
Speaker 3: and be like, they just misconstrute what I said.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, I don't really pay that no attention.
Speaker 1: I used to, like in twenty twenty one, I used
Speaker 1: to pay attention to Instagram, but once I deactivated my
Speaker 1: page for that year and a half, I ain't engaged
Speaker 1: with the world now, because comparison is the killer of
Speaker 1: all joy. Because if I say something and they might
Speaker 1: just take a lit piece of it and it goes viral,
Speaker 1: but then when you go look at the real interview,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, he really made a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: And that's why my mama said man, I don't even
Speaker 1: tell nobody. I know this is gonna sound weird. No,
Speaker 1: it don't sound weird. This me. I'm my authentic self.
Speaker 1: People gonna either accept you or they not, and that's
Speaker 1: just why I'm with it or nothing.
Speaker 3: What made you take the page away for that year
Speaker 3: and a half? Was it clear your mind?
Speaker 1: I was depressed. It was causing depression because comparison is
Speaker 1: the killer of all joy. I'm comparing my life to
Speaker 1: other people highlight real and it was causing depression. Once
Speaker 1: I got off there and started engaging with the world,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, people love me. People love me. On
Speaker 1: the black top, people love me. People walk up to
Speaker 1: me and tell me, man, you changed my life. They
Speaker 1: don't really say that on Instagram. They say negative things
Speaker 1: all the time. Of course.
Speaker 3: I mean, I I seen something the other day when
Speaker 3: I guess you're talking from this two times and people,
Speaker 3: well he said this, I'm like, y'all must not know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I saw. I told him if have you
Speaker 1: ever seen any flaws? He said no. I said, if
Speaker 1: you do, will you please put my feet now? Mean
Speaker 1: to slam you if I do something, slam me like
Speaker 1: how No, No, blow my brains out, put my feet.
Speaker 1: Kill you kill me if I do something wrong, like
Speaker 1: I say, like I said on the other thing, Hey
Speaker 1: find me them two niggas. Find me that one that
Speaker 1: and find me the other one that can say I
Speaker 1: told on him. It's something to jail. You find me
Speaker 1: them two niggas. You can blow my mama brains out.
Speaker 4: I ain't never heard those rumors. When I heard that
Speaker 4: I'm saying, I was like, somebody said.
Speaker 1: That, No, I stand for something. So that's why I
Speaker 1: said that, you find me them two niggas, you can
Speaker 1: blow my brains off right here. I stand for something.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Find me a nigga that
Speaker 1: can say he stuck his dick in me. And find
Speaker 1: me a nigga that can say that I told on
Speaker 1: him and send him to jail. Find me them two niggas,
Speaker 1: and you can blow my brains out right here. And
Speaker 1: I mean that I stand for that. You know, because
Speaker 1: only when you when you start, when you start paying
Speaker 1: attention to the Internet, you can get lost in it.
Speaker 1: It's the blacktope that matter to me. That don't matter.
Speaker 1: That's just talk to Internet talk. And some people live
Speaker 1: their life based on social media, but if you really
Speaker 1: get out in the real world and engage with the world,
Speaker 1: the world operates one hundred percent different than this shit.
Speaker 5: And I think sometimes people like you and Finess y'all
Speaker 5: forget y'all know each other's lingos, So y'all having a conversation.
Speaker 1: I want to be honest. I could be honest with
Speaker 1: you. You never heard me address there, right, because I really
Speaker 1: don't care what nobody think about what he mean by
Speaker 1: put your feet there. Hey, try me, I'll show you.
Speaker 1: I'll show you what I mean. He demonstration is way
Speaker 1: better than verbal, so like I'll show you. Now, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. Like, I ain't about to address
Speaker 1: that because that's my brother. He know what I meant,
Speaker 1: and he know what I meant, and I know what
Speaker 1: he meant. So I don't see no big deal. Hey,
Speaker 1: keep me viral, fuck it.
Speaker 5: I'll be out this Friday album coming out the ceremony.
Speaker 4: Is it true Kevin Durant gave you some advice that
Speaker 4: got you in shape?
Speaker 1: To man, Kevin Durant, that's my out and the mart
Speaker 1: DeRozan and leave the shooter. I ain't know so much
Speaker 1: psychology winning the basketball. I started practicing with Leatha Shooter
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, I'm just going to shoot the basketball,
Speaker 1: learn how to shoot the ball. Man. This dude assessed
Speaker 1: me like, like in psychology you do the individualistic approach,
Speaker 1: and he did that by just based off how I shoot.
Speaker 1: You anxious, you focus on the last, you focus on
Speaker 1: your past. Wow. I'm like, Wow, don't worry about the past,
Speaker 1: don't worry about the one you miss, focus on the
Speaker 1: focus on the prison. Stay in the prison, stay in
Speaker 1: the moment. And I'm like, damn. He picked me to
Speaker 1: pieces and it was humbling, it was beautiful like and
Speaker 1: then like with the mar De Rozan, he showed me
Speaker 1: some shit. Kevin Durant showed me some shit like it's
Speaker 1: more like playing chess than anything. And I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: So when you say fit, you meant mentally fit more
Speaker 1: than anything. Yeah. Fit ability to take effective form, That's
Speaker 1: what fits me. Now.
Speaker 4: I love letter to my fans too, Oh my god.
Speaker 5: And you talk about it an attempt on that records.
Speaker 1: I made that song a long long time ago. Wow,
Speaker 1: a long time ago. And I was saying that's that's
Speaker 1: when I was going through the acting like everything was okay.
Speaker 1: On Instagram I was acting. I was pretending I'm happy.
Speaker 1: It's okay to be angry sometime, it's okay to be disappointed,
Speaker 1: it's okay to be upset, But emotionally and intelligently, how
Speaker 1: do we channel these feelings and these emotions? I asked myself,
Speaker 1: why am I feeling this way? But that's crazy that
Speaker 1: that I put that song on the on the I
Speaker 1: forgot that I put that song on there, but I
Speaker 1: owed it to my fans because I was pretending with.
Speaker 4: Them and they knew. Is it triggering to hear that song?
Speaker 1: Now? No, not at all, because it's beautiful, because that's
Speaker 1: why I was at at one time.
Speaker 3: And I always asked, how did you get out of
Speaker 3: that funk? Because there's a lot of people that listen
Speaker 3: that are in that funk and don't know how to
Speaker 3: get out.
Speaker 1: You want me to be honest, God, I was there,
Speaker 1: God like when I was supposed to kill myself. God
Speaker 1: in a vend because I ain't tell nobody I don't
Speaker 1: do that. I'm about to know. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: horse playing. I feel like you're supposed to walk in
Speaker 1: here and find me smashed in here, I'll smushed myself.
Speaker 1: That's Now that's not horse playing. He's serious. Man, I
Speaker 1: love y'all. I'm tired all that. That's horse plan. You
Speaker 1: alluding to what you about to do? Now you got
Speaker 1: to find me in here stretched out. That's the type
Speaker 1: of person I am. I feel like, if you're talking
Speaker 1: about it, you're not serious. But it was god well
Speaker 1: the intervention. If you don't mind if factor, it's so crazy.
Speaker 1: I had talked about it last time I was up.
Speaker 1: I talked about it. But I said again, for anybody
Speaker 1: that's listening right now, I had got to a point
Speaker 1: in my life too well. I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm really beneficial to nobody. No more you No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I feel like I'm just a problem. It's
Speaker 1: always something I could do better. Look, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: get out the way, y'all. Just live out the money
Speaker 1: this shit. Everybody's gonna be straight anyway without me. It's cool.
Speaker 1: So the day that I was going, I was at
Speaker 1: the gym. I had worked out real real good, put
Speaker 1: out my jear around. I'm like, yeah, about to you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at myself in the mirror like, hey, hey
Speaker 1: don't chicken, Hey don't bitch out now, because you know,
Speaker 1: I talked to myself. I say, don't batch out bat
Speaker 1: you Hey, you know what time it is. Not so
Speaker 1: I'm leaving out the gym. A white dude. He just
Speaker 1: text me not too long ago, I'm leaving out the gym,
Speaker 1: and he said, excuse me, can I approach you? I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: he say, I notice I noticed you on you deactivated
Speaker 1: your Instagram and on Twitter you put this. You know,
Speaker 1: my friends and my family forgetting on my teachers. You know,
Speaker 1: I love you. All that is over with. Like what
Speaker 1: that means? I was like, I don't know what it means.
Speaker 1: So then he went on to tear me your music
Speaker 1: is the only thing that makes this crazy world makes sense.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing because I know I'm about to do something gangster.
Speaker 1: You know how you be joking you about to do
Speaker 1: some gangel but you really be knowing you really, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the world's you know, the world's a cruel place.
Speaker 1: You know the world would be a cruel place, you know,
Speaker 1: trust me. I know I'm telling him like that, just
Speaker 1: kind of joking. He was like, yeah, like your music
Speaker 1: kept me from killing myself. I said, yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you. You're the only person I'm letting
Speaker 1: know this. I said, I'm about to go stretch myself
Speaker 1: right now, I'm about to go push my shit out.
Speaker 1: He crying telling me, don't do this because if you
Speaker 1: do this, a lot of people gonna go behind you.
Speaker 1: That's right. And I was like, you know what, I
Speaker 1: haven't told anybody. I guess I'll stick around for a
Speaker 1: little while. I walked outside and told God, I guess
Speaker 1: that's a saying. I'm gonna give it three days, and
Speaker 1: in them three days. That's when life started changing for
Speaker 1: me because I was off Instagram, I was engaging with
Speaker 1: the world. I got to see that I was really loved.
Speaker 1: I really meant something to the world.
Speaker 4: You don't give yourself three days.
Speaker 1: You give girls ninety No, No, that's restrictions. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's not that day, dick restriction Okay, okay, yeah, So
Speaker 1: what makes you want to go back on that? On
Speaker 1: this crazy thing we call social media now? Because you
Speaker 1: know social media. To be honest, I really I really
Speaker 1: don't work my page. I just oversee it like I
Speaker 1: don't work it, like I approve like the pictures. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it'll be me when the caption be real hard felt
Speaker 1: you could tells me other times. It's just something that
Speaker 1: I approved because I got to maintain my sanity. I
Speaker 1: can't get lost in that social media shit.
Speaker 5: You said something else on letter to my fans that
Speaker 5: I thought it was interesting. You said you apologize to
Speaker 5: your fans. Is that the reason you apologize because of
Speaker 5: what that guy told you?
Speaker 4: That if you do it, then I wants a bunch
Speaker 4: of people to do it.
Speaker 1: I apologize to my fans because a motivational speaker that's
Speaker 1: given great advice I wish that I could give myself.
Speaker 1: I got all this positive shit to say, but I
Speaker 1: ain't feeling positive when I'm talking that shit. That shit
Speaker 1: just sound good as a bit. Everybody want to hear
Speaker 1: that been it positive, but I'm not happy. That's how
Speaker 1: I was feeling at that time. I'm like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: just positive, just stay positive. I was faking it till
Speaker 1: I made it, but I really wasn't making it because
Speaker 1: I never addressed the real issue internally. I still had
Speaker 1: hard with all kind of resentment and everything from past
Speaker 1: traumatic experiences.
Speaker 5: And now that you've done that, that's how you know
Speaker 5: you're a true service. You gotta go back and face it.
Speaker 5: That was the hard part, going back and face your past.
Speaker 5: You gotta face it. You gotta face it, you gotta
Speaker 5: sit with it. And when you sit with it, it's
Speaker 5: gonna be very, very painful. Like anybody listening right now,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be painful to go address these issues because
Speaker 5: it's a lot of stuff that we keep. Like we
Speaker 5: suppressed things, and like you could suppress things for so
Speaker 5: long to one of the thing could cause you to
Speaker 5: explode or implode.
Speaker 1: It's a trigger. So I had to go back and
Speaker 1: face a lot of these things. You know, sometime things
Speaker 1: I had to forgive myself for and move forward. You know,
Speaker 1: That's why I saying that some mistakes make us great.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I think you're doing amazing. How
Speaker 1: often you tell yourself that every day? Every day, every day,
Speaker 1: step inside this vocal booth, releasing all my pain. Things
Speaker 1: I deal with on a day are driving normal person.
Speaker 1: That's Sae. I correlate, gave my love and the exchange
Speaker 1: got shitting on. It happens on a daily and the
Speaker 1: progression is a testament to your elevation. Mistakes make us great.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I think you're doing amazing. Were healing. No,
Speaker 1: that's right, I think you're doing amazing. Now.
Speaker 3: You said you see yourself with Kashan Rock, the people
Speaker 3: laughing and joking that you see the fact that she's
Speaker 3: so loyal.
Speaker 1: I saw myself in her at that time she.
Speaker 5: Was actually said she's so loyal, she's stupid.
Speaker 1: I could see the pain like I could see her pain.
Speaker 1: And one thing about me, somebody that's really that really
Speaker 1: has hurt before that. I know pain when I see it,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the stuff that people do that
Speaker 1: they really be hurting on the inside, they really be
Speaker 1: crying for help. And my heart went out to her
Speaker 1: because I saw her hurting on the inside. I saw that,
Speaker 1: and I ain't like to see that. Not not whatever
Speaker 1: they got going on, that ain't my business. I give
Speaker 1: a fuck less. I'm just talking about her, Like when
Speaker 1: I look at her soul, I see a lot of myself,
Speaker 1: like with the pain. And you never know what pain
Speaker 1: to make you do you.
Speaker 3: Have a look at an artist that you can see
Speaker 3: going through the pain that you went to as a
Speaker 3: new artist, say I'm gonna reach out to them and
Speaker 3: talk to them because they didn't have that og. They
Speaker 3: didn't have somebody to talk to them.
Speaker 1: No, they could listen to Kevin Gate's music and get
Speaker 1: some advice from there. I ain't got time. I'm raising children.
Speaker 1: I'm raising me in right now. I got my own
Speaker 1: children to worry about. I ain't got time to be
Speaker 1: I hate to say it like this, I have to
Speaker 1: put my oxygen masks on first. If the plane is crashing,
Speaker 1: then aid and assists others. So right now, my healing
Speaker 1: journey was so that I could be a better service
Speaker 1: to my children and better service to the world. Me
Speaker 1: going sing a lot and talk that this one individual
Speaker 1: person he got needs that I can't cater to because
Speaker 1: I ain't got the time. He gonna want more than
Speaker 1: just some words of encouragement. He gonna want to come
Speaker 1: spend a day as soon as you tell him no.
Speaker 1: It's like you never told him. Yeah, especially if he
Speaker 1: ain't never had no daddy. So if he if he
Speaker 1: grew up just dealing with just a single parent household
Speaker 1: and he ain't had his daddy, how Tupac saying when
Speaker 1: things but the same drama. When things go wrong, we
Speaker 1: blame mom. You don't know how to deal with situations.
Speaker 1: All you did is watch a woman just want but
Speaker 1: see when a man raise that. Go in there and
Speaker 1: make your bed up, take the trash out, you brush
Speaker 1: your teeth, come heah, wash your face. Yes, sir, all right,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. I'm proud of you. Now you
Speaker 1: know if now you know, if you don't do these things,
Speaker 1: you got to take your lick. What you mean, take
Speaker 1: my lick? You got to take your lick. You can't
Speaker 1: play the game. And that's teaching accountability self accountability. And
Speaker 1: then a child be like, Okay, yeah, I gotta take
Speaker 1: my lick. If if I do something I ain't supposed
Speaker 1: to do, I gotta take my lick. We not make
Speaker 1: excuses for why you did what you did. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta take your lick home. When you're a man, stand
Speaker 1: with what you believe in. We stay with what you
Speaker 1: believe in you except what come behind it. You know,
Speaker 1: I talked to my son. He he ain't nothing but nine,
Speaker 1: but I talked to him like he grown. Because either
Speaker 1: you learn fast, you die young. If I don't. If
Speaker 1: I don't give him structure, the police donna kill him. Hm,
Speaker 1: they gonna kill him. They're gonna push your ship out
Speaker 1: because it's called the conduct gonna be off. He ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be conducting himself like a man. He gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, but you know yes, sir, No, sir, you
Speaker 1: know me? Agree me?
Speaker 4: Protect children?
Speaker 5: Speaking of that, protect children another very powerful record. What
Speaker 5: are some things you learned late that you want to
Speaker 5: teach your kids early.
Speaker 1: I hope it's not triggering. I really don't care if
Speaker 1: it is, because we all damn have been through this.
Speaker 1: That was about sexual victimization. Protect children. I treat your
Speaker 1: children like my children, like my birth children. When we
Speaker 1: was little, they used to say we was the worst children.
Speaker 1: We all been through things that at our fault. You
Speaker 1: got to work with them. Protect children. You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to hurt children. And what that is. I gave my
Speaker 1: children a place, a safe space. I created a safe
Speaker 1: space for them to communicate with me. Don't nobody never
Speaker 1: touch you that, not even me, not even your daddy,
Speaker 1: not even your mom, and nobody you know, and they
Speaker 1: have a safe space to communicate. Can't nobody get you
Speaker 1: nowhere and tell you if you tell your mam ma,
Speaker 1: imna hurt you. I'm gonna hurt you. Ay, y'all haven't
Speaker 1: seen what's up with y'all. Daddy, y'all know what comes
Speaker 1: behind y'all. So I have created a safe environment for
Speaker 1: y'all to communicate with me. And I asked my and
Speaker 1: my daughter tell you right now. I tell my daddy
Speaker 1: everything because I'm not here to judge you. We all
Speaker 1: make mistakes. We're gonna talk about what you did. I'm
Speaker 1: just disappointed a lit bit, but don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to judge you. I'm not here to
Speaker 1: beat you up for what you did or what happened
Speaker 1: to you. Just let me know. I don't care if
Speaker 1: you had a wreckon you accidentally kill somebody. They just say, hey,
Speaker 1: just stay there, stay there, I'm on the way. Now
Speaker 1: are you getting this car? And go? We put the
Speaker 1: body in the trunk. Come on, let's go. Always tell
Speaker 1: me the truth. I die for you, and I die
Speaker 1: to protect you.
Speaker 5: That's great advice that you tell your kids too, because
Speaker 5: as somebody who's been molested right when I was eight, saying,
Speaker 5: that's exactly what they tell you. The person that's doing
Speaker 5: it will tell you that, like don't tell your mom.
Speaker 1: It's always somebody close. It's always somebody close. It ain't
Speaker 1: never no outside person broke in the house and did this.
Speaker 1: And so when that happened, it's somebody that you trusted
Speaker 1: as a child. I trusted you, and then they speared
Speaker 1: me into all these different type of martial larws and
Speaker 1: all this because I had a fear of being vulnerable.
Speaker 1: It's led us to being violent. We ain't want to
Speaker 1: be violent, you know what I'm saying. We was good children,
Speaker 1: But that's you know, that's just the out that's that's
Speaker 1: like the side effects that come with that. It's like
Speaker 1: when I see children or women like I just and
Speaker 1: then come to find out I ain't even gonna say it,
Speaker 1: but when I talked to somebody else, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: you spot to protect her. It happened to them too,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's like it made
Speaker 1: me like over protective of women and children. I had
Speaker 1: to realize protecting them is creating that space for them
Speaker 1: to communicate with you, to know what's right from wrong,
Speaker 1: and communicating with them. See, we're trying to sweep that
Speaker 1: shit under the rug. Now. We got to communicate with
Speaker 1: our children.
Speaker 3: That the album is out.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I got a few more questions. I can't
Speaker 1: ask me anything that's crazy. I never thought i'd speak
Speaker 1: on that well. I spoke about it on a Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson interview. You know what I'm saying, and then shout
Speaker 1: out to Mike Tyson. I loved that brother. We was
Speaker 1: talking about what made us become so violent and I
Speaker 1: shared my story with him and he shared a story
Speaker 1: with me. It was like it would turn me into
Speaker 1: a monster, and I was like I saw myself in him.
Speaker 1: At that moment, I was like, I love that man.
Speaker 1: I always was a big fan. I always loved him,
Speaker 1: but at that moment, I was like, Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: this man.
Speaker 3: What's your relationship with Jim Jones? I see you and
Speaker 3: Jim Jones talks the story when he was on Drink
Speaker 3: Champs about how you had a good relationship early on.
Speaker 1: I always had a good relationship with Jim Jones. He
Speaker 1: was fly. You know what I'm saying. And I hate
Speaker 1: to say this, like I'm not trying to be racist,
Speaker 1: but I mean this would all due disrespect. It's hard
Speaker 1: for a bright nigga. You got to be extra gamester
Speaker 1: when you bright. You know, when you bright, you know
Speaker 1: like how you know how to fight so good? Kivin
Speaker 1: because I got beat up a lot. That's why they
Speaker 1: always picked the bright nigga. They don't never pick. They
Speaker 1: don't never pick. He this dude, he ain't did nothing. Gangster.
Speaker 1: He just ugly. He just ugly. Why are we ugly?
Speaker 1: Because we talk yet I ain't talking about you. You're
Speaker 1: a chocolate nigga. Man, I'm talking about an ugly niggas
Speaker 1: an ugly nigga too. But he fixed, he would a
Speaker 1: yellow he would a yellow bitch. Gonna like yellow bitch
Speaker 1: like chocolate niggas. They don't like bright niggas. Cat, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they feel like we. But then it's rights him.
Speaker 4: Though he's bright, you ain't bright to be kept.
Speaker 1: I'm really a nigga though. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I come up in there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been battle tested. You know I'm approved.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know so, But just
Speaker 1: coming up as a child, you know, being bright with
Speaker 1: curly hair. You know what I'm saying. You know I
Speaker 1: saw Jim Jones, like, man, this nigga fly, he gangster
Speaker 1: and he bright. I say that's row. You know I
Speaker 1: identified with that because it because I saw myself in him.
Speaker 1: And that's why I always been a fan of Jim Jones.
Speaker 1: It's still my partner to this day.
Speaker 2: He talks about the story he said, you refuse to
Speaker 2: sign with cash running to y'all, y'all met to you
Speaker 2: met with him.
Speaker 1: I guess he shout out to Jim Jones. I was
Speaker 1: up here in New York. I don't know if that's how.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. There was a third party, EI
Speaker 1: and Fie. I told Fee, I say, man, I want
Speaker 1: to meet Jim Jones, and FI talked to E. I
Speaker 1: and e I put it together.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they told him in the process,
Speaker 1: but I ended up meeting Jim Jones was and we
Speaker 1: developed a great relationship. When we have a great report
Speaker 1: to this day, like like that's my brother. I love
Speaker 1: him like whenever he in the city, he just holly
Speaker 1: where you at, and he everywhere. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: He never changed. Ye ill be in the same way,
Speaker 1: always the same. How do I get a pair of
Speaker 1: God's slippers? Man? You know how to happen? Somebody asked
Speaker 1: me to play cards. I'm like I will, but I
Speaker 1: don't like they was gambling. I'm like I will, but
Speaker 1: I ain't got no hands. But then they saw me eating,
Speaker 1: and they was like, I thought to say, no hands,
Speaker 1: they not mine. They for God. So when I said
Speaker 1: God's slippers, everything I got on I just borrowed it
Speaker 1: from God. All I have is the little that God
Speaker 1: bless me with. I borrow a pair of God's slippers.
Speaker 1: I walked on water in front of you niggas. What
Speaker 1: I mean is I walked over all kinds of obstacles
Speaker 1: because I brought a pair of God's slippers. And I
Speaker 1: made this shit look flat while I was doing it.
Speaker 1: Adversity Bill's character. If it ain't rough, it ain't us.
Speaker 1: I borrought a pair of God's slippers, started the battery,
Speaker 1: got back in charge. Did it again.
Speaker 3: You know they don't believe that. They don't believe you
Speaker 3: started a call with your hands.
Speaker 1: You got to show somebody something I can give a
Speaker 1: fuck list with it.
Speaker 5: Hey, thank you for paying homage to the holy grounds
Speaker 5: of Walmart too.
Speaker 4: Man, Oh my God, you from the South. I ain't
Speaker 4: tell you about that.
Speaker 1: No. I was in there. I was on color cold, Okay.
Speaker 1: I was hustling at the time. This is when I
Speaker 1: was living illegitimately. I was hustling at the time. What
Speaker 1: color cold is? You gotta call in and if your
Speaker 1: color come up, you gotta go piss. So I was
Speaker 1: in there buying the gloves because I was doing my
Speaker 1: thing with the gloves so it wouldn't get in my system.
Speaker 1: That's the myth that I heard that don't get in
Speaker 1: your system if you wear the gloves. And you know,
Speaker 1: I end up meeting me a little one up in Walmart.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We was at wild House,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and she ate me up
Speaker 1: in the Honda. You know how they go retireded. You've
Speaker 1: been loving Walmart ever since. I love Walmart anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love They got everything you need, that's right. You know.
Speaker 1: That's one of the DVDs. You remember, they used to
Speaker 1: have a three pack of DVDs, a six pack of DVDs.
Speaker 1: I had the lit DVD player. When I used to
Speaker 1: be in the trap, I shoot over there and grabbing
Speaker 1: a couple of DVDs. I have my Jenkins, go get it.
Speaker 1: But it's something about going in there yourself late night
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 5: That's when they used to stay open twenty four hours,
Speaker 5: especially if you grew up in the country. In the country,
Speaker 5: probably wasn't nothing is them all?
Speaker 1: That's right, that's them all. That's right. Yeah, I met
Speaker 1: a winter like you know, I met a winner in
Speaker 1: that with the lit Chinese slippers on. You know, they
Speaker 1: be in there, you know what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 1: they got the little steppers walking around and there and
Speaker 1: stop playing. And you said you got.
Speaker 5: The Almighty on speed down, and you say, the only
Speaker 5: way to kill a god is when I called them
Speaker 5: that's it.
Speaker 1: Like, my body is my temple. Now A great responsibility
Speaker 1: to come with looking at your body like your temple.
Speaker 1: Like that's really what made me stop drinking alcohol. Like
Speaker 1: at my listening party, I had a glass of apple
Speaker 1: juice and then I told her the ball ten I had,
Speaker 1: make me something fruit and make it look like I drink,
Speaker 1: but make it just taste good and fruity booted. Make
Speaker 1: me a lit fruity oh the right fair. She's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love your accent. I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but don't put no alcohol in it, you know, but
Speaker 1: put me a lett flour on that, you know, make
Speaker 1: it look good. So I had that, and then I
Speaker 1: had two champagne glasses and apple juice and I was
Speaker 1: just walking around feeling good like everybody else was feeling good.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you say your body is your temple,
Speaker 1: come with a great responsibility. Like sometime when I need clarity,
Speaker 1: I gotta fast and clean my temple out. So the
Speaker 1: spirit of the Most, how I can abide in my
Speaker 1: temple God by the covered by the Highest. They guns
Speaker 1: hold no power to this holy temple. How you kill
Speaker 1: a God when a law called them? The only time
Speaker 1: he goes when a law called him. That's it, Almighty
Speaker 1: on speed doll. You on a speed doll. I could
Speaker 1: talk to God before I could call my phone. I
Speaker 1: could talk to God f I could call you with
Speaker 1: my phone. You on speed dog, I'm always talking to God.
Speaker 1: Before I drunk the coffee, I prayed over it. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they did to the car before they
Speaker 1: brought it to me. Everything with me is a faith move.
Speaker 1: I don't have I don't not have security because I'm
Speaker 1: a tough guy. I don't have security because I walk
Speaker 1: by faith or not by sight. I pray all the time.
Speaker 1: That's all I got. That's all I got is prayer.
Speaker 1: If not I be doing a life sentence or dead,
Speaker 1: I know this, This is a blessing for me to
Speaker 1: be sitting right here, right now. I'm not supposed to
Speaker 1: be here, big brother, and I mean that with all
Speaker 1: due respect. I'm not supposed to be here right now
Speaker 1: now you're supposed to be. God wants you here right
Speaker 1: but he got you here to help other brothers without
Speaker 1: deb You know this is God. This ain't me.
Speaker 5: You are here to help other brothers here man, and
Speaker 5: I think the ceremony is going to do a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1: You know something, You remember when I used to you know,
Speaker 1: any time I used to drop an album, I used
Speaker 1: to say things like, if you want to go get it,
Speaker 1: get it. If you don't want it, don't want that
Speaker 1: was like that fear of what if it's not good enough?
Speaker 1: This bitch good enough, go get it? Just the one? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: like if you're ready to just really just take self
Speaker 1: accountability and heal, just the one.
Speaker 3: What do you want to hear? Let's play a joint
Speaker 3: off down now? Which one?
Speaker 1: Oh? My god, my favorite? I can't pick a favorite.
Speaker 1: I like what move? Just tell me what move we in?
Speaker 1: What move we in?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 1: Let's play healing?
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I like healing. I love healing, but I also love
Speaker 1: that on that t Pain remix that I.
Speaker 4: Did, Shorty Shorty.
Speaker 1: You know like you might say this that even though
Speaker 1: I'm not your man, not my girl, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: you my lie. Yeah, let's play both of us. Like
Speaker 1: in Louisiana, you might be like, yeah, this is my yo.
Speaker 1: Say freestyle too though time.
Speaker 4: Oh let's play both little Yeah, we play healing.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna forget my own style. Play whatever y'all got, sendy.
Speaker 3: Clean versus saym cres for sendy Clean.
Speaker 1: Man devit gates. The ceremony is out this Friday. Go
Speaker 1: pick it up. Man. Tell us what the title me?
Speaker 1: I don think you ever told what the tight teremony? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the ceremony that I was having with myself. I
Speaker 1: learned the love again the stranger that was once myself.
Speaker 1: That was the ceremony to reuniting with my authentic self.
Speaker 1: It's been a long journey I'm talking about from the
Speaker 1: I even told my elders I never cut my hair,
Speaker 1: and this and this and that. But it came a
Speaker 1: time when it's time to go back to original form.
Speaker 1: I was like, but I just earned a new I
Speaker 1: just earned a spotted Eagle Feather said, Kevin, you don't
Speaker 1: wear the feathers in your hair. You wear the feathers
Speaker 1: in your heart for what it's staying for. You wear
Speaker 1: it in your heart. And I was like, you're right.
Speaker 1: I cried when I cut my hair because I had
Speaker 1: a lot of trauma and a lot of the things
Speaker 1: that I went through was all of that. My journey
Speaker 1: was in my heir and I cried and it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful because it was releasing and I just feel
Speaker 1: so much lighter though. And it's crazy. The girl that
Speaker 1: dupe that braved my hair, she said, I think you
Speaker 1: should cut it. I think once you cut it, it's
Speaker 1: gonna take you to a whole other level. I say,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't the sacrifice getting paid you go to a
Speaker 1: whole other level. She was like yeah, I say, because
Speaker 1: you committed this selfless act, forever you will be blessed. Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, Kevin Friday Man, Kevin, appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I love when healing, especially from black men, have a soundtrack.
Speaker 5: We need more of those, man, So thank you for
Speaker 5: making one. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: That's right, It's Kevin Gates is the Breakfast Club, Good
Speaker 3: Morning Wake.
Speaker 1: That ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club