Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club, Morning everybody, It's the j M V. Jess Hilarious,
Speaker 2: Charlamagne the God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 2: a special guest in the.
Speaker 1: Belting Rich, dirty Bronx Nigga rich dirty.
Speaker 3: You know where that insow came from, right, Dirty Bronx Vegas.
Speaker 4: You know who called me that we.
Speaker 2: Were in iHeart in Vegas and I was like, your French.
Speaker 5: He was a I said, Damn, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: Is a dirty Bronx nigga DNA. But I was so
Speaker 2: proud of him because I didn't see friends come up
Speaker 2: from the slums like you know, people talk about where
Speaker 2: they came from and and the things that they did.
Speaker 2: But French used to be in the dirty b X clubs,
Speaker 2: in the dirty Brooklyn clubs and the dirty Queen's clubs,
Speaker 2: making the DJs play his music, and he was never
Speaker 2: that was French.
Speaker 1: That's where you would see French.
Speaker 5: I'm like, Damn, you came a long way to yeah,
Speaker 5: that's all.
Speaker 6: I'm right before that when Max was nigga, never ignorant,
Speaker 6: getting goals accomplished, right like Boy's creation of kings everywhere.
Speaker 1: Oh you already got it prepared.
Speaker 3: When you have.
Speaker 1: You already prepared, they never need to use this.
Speaker 2: And that's one of my favorite joints in the album,
Speaker 2: which is the the intro is called dirty Bronx, and
Speaker 2: you kind of talk about everything where you came from,
Speaker 2: everybody talking see yeah, yeah, yeah, you talk about everybody
Speaker 2: people comparing you the chins and and Max with wave
Speaker 2: and all that. So I think that's that's one of
Speaker 2: the dopest joints on it. But why Max and Cheese
Speaker 2: five and what took so damn long?
Speaker 4: French?
Speaker 6: I felt like, you know, I needed, I needed to
Speaker 6: get everything out the way. Then go back to the
Speaker 6: mixtape vibes. I feel like the game I always try
Speaker 6: to go where a where the puck is going out,
Speaker 6: where the puckets act, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 6: I feel like the game needed mixtapes. I feel like
Speaker 6: we lost a lot of you know, like that feelings.
Speaker 6: Then almost like you like, albums is dope, everybody's getting
Speaker 6: used to it. I feel like the mixsafe games, just
Speaker 6: like I want to hear the Wayne mix Safes. I
Speaker 6: want to hear Ross Rich Forever mix Safes. I want
Speaker 6: to hear you know Wis Kalifa dropped Orange.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, And.
Speaker 6: You know, I just want to get back to that
Speaker 6: vibe and I want to lead the wave with the Mixsafes.
Speaker 1: I like how you set the tone with Dirty Bronx.
Speaker 3: Why did you feel the need to confront like all
Speaker 3: the negativity that's been directed towards.
Speaker 4: You, Because I wanted to get that out the way
Speaker 4: so we can focus on the music. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, it's like I learned from from
Speaker 6: from eminem you know, the tactics he used. I learned
Speaker 6: from you know, Jay when he did four four four,
Speaker 6: And I learned from you know, I'm like a student
Speaker 6: of the game. So it's like, you know, this is
Speaker 6: this is me interviewing myself on my own album, just
Speaker 6: in case, you know, cause you got your fans, but
Speaker 6: then you also got your haters that listen to your music.
Speaker 6: So the haters gonna hear theirself in there and your
Speaker 6: fans gonna be right there. And I told you so,
Speaker 6: It's like that's the kind of vibe.
Speaker 4: I was going with.
Speaker 1: You know, I ended on five.
Speaker 7: Do you need more mixing?
Speaker 8: Is?
Speaker 7: Why are you ending it?
Speaker 4: On fire Man because I just wanted to give him
Speaker 4: my all and just leave it right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just starts something new. But you never know.
Speaker 4: You know, jay Z made the Black album and he
Speaker 4: backed out it and you know, so it's like you
Speaker 4: never know.
Speaker 1: So this is a retirement album at the end of
Speaker 1: the series series what do you do to make all
Speaker 1: your money?
Speaker 4: French me, Yeah, this hustle my husband for a long time.
Speaker 3: I mean, we know a dirty by the way, that
Speaker 3: was the beauty of Dirty Bronx because you put a
Speaker 3: lot of things in perspective. I think I knew that
Speaker 3: you was the most screamed African born art. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: I didn't know you had told them any records.
Speaker 4: Yeah a million.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like like like one hundred million between minds and
Speaker 6: all the features that I was. I mean, you figure
Speaker 6: like Unforgettable alone, it's like thirteen million. So that's just
Speaker 6: like that's like by itself. So but I mean, man,
Speaker 6: I've been on some big record. My catalog is crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you say on that album, you say, people think
Speaker 1: it's just your features. Yeah, you the main feature.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know you still look at them all
Speaker 6: the way ups and you look at like you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, Like the lawyer Chris Brown and all
Speaker 6: those like you know, that was part of some big
Speaker 6: features and and and you know, like the catalog is, man,
Speaker 6: I still ain't selling you. I'm thinking about selling that
Speaker 6: and just buying like this building across.
Speaker 1: The street from me, how much you think your catalog were?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know, honestly, I ain't even
Speaker 4: I didn't even get there.
Speaker 6: But I always felt like, you know, if somebody's trying
Speaker 6: to buy something from you, then guess you know then
Speaker 6: how much money they gonna make. Ain't no buying, buying,
Speaker 6: nothing to take a loss. So you know, I always
Speaker 6: looked at.
Speaker 4: It like that at one time.
Speaker 2: Well, if you know French, you know, when French goes
Speaker 2: out and he knows you, he's going to invite you
Speaker 2: to his party, right, That's who French is as a person.
Speaker 2: Like if y'are smoking, y'all smoking together, y'all drinking, you're
Speaker 2: gonna take care of You're gonna make sure you're good.
Speaker 5: Then there was one time where.
Speaker 2: You just stopped right because you said you had to
Speaker 2: get back healthy. Stop drinking, you stop smoking. Are you
Speaker 2: still in that that phase? And the more drinking and
Speaker 2: smoking off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, definitely. Man.
Speaker 6: You know, you know when you sit across from like
Speaker 6: a billionaire or something, you know, as soon as you
Speaker 6: take that sip of liquor take that buffal weed, like
Speaker 6: you're already richer than him, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I just had to focus up.
Speaker 6: We lost a lot of money and made a lot
Speaker 6: of bad business deals with you know, might might have
Speaker 6: overslept and lost the bags, might have did this, might
Speaker 6: have did that, you know, and I got a chance
Speaker 6: to make some generation new wealth and change generations down,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I was like, you know, let me just focus
Speaker 4: up and I leave no bags on the table.
Speaker 2: Do you have a fear for I know a lot
Speaker 2: of artists say that sometimes they feel like that drug
Speaker 2: or that alcohol puts them in the right zone. Will
Speaker 2: you ever feear for like, damn, if I don't drink
Speaker 2: like I used to, or I don't smoke that I
Speaker 2: might not be in the same zone as I was
Speaker 2: and making pop that or you ain't worried about nothing.
Speaker 5: Or you know some of those other records.
Speaker 6: Man, I've been popping perks for like ten years. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, Oxy's perks drinking this twenty years.
Speaker 6: It got to the point where I wasn't getting drunk
Speaker 6: or high anymore. Right Like now I'm higher than I
Speaker 6: was when I was taking the drugs. It's just like
Speaker 6: my body is just like you know, it's like in shock.
Speaker 6: But I feel like making music is a passion, is love.
Speaker 6: It had nothing to do with drugs, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It was just like the drugs kept the negative shit
Speaker 4: around me. You know what I'm saying, like the people.
Speaker 6: I lost people when I stopped doing drugs, I didn't
Speaker 6: lose the passion, you know what I'm saying. Because you know,
Speaker 6: when you drink and you take drugs, you let you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, You let the devil in you
Speaker 6: let you know what I mean. Like I was inviting everybody,
Speaker 6: and everybody wasn't inviting me. You know what I'm saying. Everybody, everybody,
Speaker 6: you know, everybody had motives and some of them had
Speaker 6: the negative I mean, I don't mind helping people that
Speaker 6: have motives, you know what I'm saying, that that's how
Speaker 6: we get our blessings. But there's people that have motives
Speaker 6: that have negative motives towards you. I have anybody to
Speaker 6: have a positive motive towards me. So I feel like
Speaker 6: I was letting the negative in the positive and that's
Speaker 6: why things started happening and.
Speaker 4: This and that.
Speaker 3: What about your passion for sleeping with rappers wives. That's
Speaker 3: inviting the devil too?
Speaker 4: French?
Speaker 1: Huh, come on, you say on the album we heard
Speaker 1: you come on and you was another one.
Speaker 4: That's but that's where hand came from.
Speaker 6: In the club and they be like, you know, people
Speaker 6: try to do business deals in the middle of the club.
Speaker 4: They were like, so, so, so let me tell you
Speaker 4: the story about that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So.
Speaker 6: Me and Drake was first working on the record another sniper, Yeah,
Speaker 6: working on the record, and the first line he said,
Speaker 6: he was like on double MG, fucking rapper's wife. He
Speaker 6: was like, we should start the ship off like that.
Speaker 6: Then I just then I just took it and I
Speaker 6: just ran with it, and I just made the first
Speaker 6: line that.
Speaker 1: But what they got to do with doing an in
Speaker 1: real life though, huh? What they got to do?
Speaker 4: Got to do it? No, honestly, I never did another
Speaker 4: nobody why.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, no rapper wire Okay, So just rap rape.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's right.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, you're also on Dirty Brunch.
Speaker 3: You talk about buying your block, but you said that Nipsey,
Speaker 3: the Nipsy situation made you made you pause.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can you elaborate on it?
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like watching that video with nip
Speaker 6: was like one of the most disgusting things I've ever
Speaker 6: seen in my life. And I felt like he would
Speaker 6: and and all he was trying to do is just shot,
Speaker 6: change his neighborhood and just bring some some some great
Speaker 6: things back and try to buy his block. And I
Speaker 6: feel like watching that scared me away from trying to
Speaker 6: do the same thing. And and and you know, because
Speaker 6: look what happened to Chinks. Chinks got shot in Queens,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. Look what happened, you know,
Speaker 6: to a lot of people that don't have a name,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, a lot of falling soldiers.
Speaker 6: I was just like, you know what, so why come back?
Speaker 6: Why come back and do that when I'm just seeing
Speaker 6: everybody around me just fall into it.
Speaker 1: Damn. So how did you overcome that? Or have you
Speaker 1: overcome that?
Speaker 4: I went to Calabasas.
Speaker 6: I'm still not but I'm still but I still come back.
Speaker 6: But just you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: it's just you know, it always comes. You know, they
Speaker 6: always come from the inside, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So you just gotta be careful how you you know,
Speaker 6: how you let people get you know, get in contact.
Speaker 4: With your touch.
Speaker 6: You can't be just easily touched or easily get in
Speaker 6: contact with easily so anybody can pull.
Speaker 4: Up on you to do anything to you. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. You gotta be able to be like
Speaker 4: a hawk on top of the mountain. Just watch your prey.
Speaker 4: Whenever you want something, you just go handle your business
Speaker 4: and dip.
Speaker 6: I feel like that's like that's like that's like advice
Speaker 6: for anybody that that's making real money.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of jealousy that comes from where
Speaker 4: we come from. You know what I'm saying. It should
Speaker 4: never be a situation.
Speaker 6: Where somebody can go to the to the block and
Speaker 6: see you at a store or this and that when
Speaker 6: you you know, some people with jay Z said broken
Speaker 6: is the one.
Speaker 4: No cast I just want to kill you.
Speaker 1: But even moving to Calabadgies, I mean pop got got
Speaker 1: in calling.
Speaker 4: No, no, you're not getting through the security.
Speaker 6: I live next door to Chris Jenna, the next door
Speaker 6: to cross the street from j Lo because Will Smith
Speaker 6: down the block, his kids walking up like you're not
Speaker 6: gonna get through.
Speaker 4: They know about that.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, Pop had no security.
Speaker 6: Pop had a gun on him. Pop had the wrong
Speaker 6: people around him. I was supposed to meet up a
Speaker 6: Pop that night. He had a party at his crib. Yeah,
Speaker 6: were supposed to meet up. I went to the Strip club.
Speaker 6: And after the strip club, we were supposed to go
Speaker 6: to his house. Because he sent everybody the address for
Speaker 6: the party. You know what I'm saying he had, And
Speaker 6: he had put that post up a couple of hours before,
Speaker 6: and and and you know, he had no security. And
Speaker 6: even when I first went to La, when you go
Speaker 6: to the Hills, it's like they don't have no no
Speaker 6: gator communities. It's just like the fences like the size
Speaker 6: of the hip.
Speaker 4: Let me just jump right over them, you know.
Speaker 1: So he was supposed to have a party that night.
Speaker 4: That night, he was supposed to have a party.
Speaker 1: Oh so that's why people had the addy. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just that everybody was saying it was a post on this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he would sending addies to us and me and
Speaker 6: to everybody else that was there. But yeah, he had
Speaker 6: posted the Mary package that was sent on Yikes.
Speaker 5: Yeah they got that right.
Speaker 2: See what happened with Drake on that? Because I know
Speaker 2: you and Drake made a lot of music, he said
Speaker 2: on this project.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did. But we got the documentary coming out in.
Speaker 6: June, and he executive producer, and so we're just gonna
Speaker 6: push the records back to them.
Speaker 1: Did he have to choose?
Speaker 3: Because it felt like, and I'm just listening to maca
Speaker 3: cheese in a way, it felt like I'm like the
Speaker 3: Kanye epenis or he just on a few records.
Speaker 4: No, I mean me and Kanye was locked in for
Speaker 4: like a month.
Speaker 6: Okay, he had he had rented out the hotel for
Speaker 6: like a month, and we knocked out a bunch of
Speaker 6: bunch of records. And the sound is we were doing
Speaker 6: like two different sounds when I was coming in. We
Speaker 6: were doing the sample vibes and we was doing the
Speaker 6: you know, the that whole like you know, him producing
Speaker 6: and like the whole graduation sound. But then the new
Speaker 6: sound he got now it was something that he was
Speaker 6: working on. So I was like you know what, Bro,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna just take these records and I'm just put
Speaker 6: them on Mac and Cheese five because MC and Cheese
Speaker 6: five got a certain sound. Even Bryson Taylor, he sent
Speaker 6: me like this, this AfroB vibe. I was like, yo, Bro,
Speaker 6: send me that grimy one. He sent me one.
Speaker 4: So it was just like a certain sound was going
Speaker 4: for for Mac and Cheese five.
Speaker 7: Was it like working what was it like working with
Speaker 7: today's version of Kanye?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 6: I mean when they come to me music, I don't
Speaker 6: I don't feel like you get too many versions from him.
Speaker 4: You just get the music, you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't feel like you get too many versions
Speaker 6: from him. I just I feel like he's He's what
Speaker 6: entertainment is.
Speaker 4: He?
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like being so unpredictable is like
Speaker 6: as entertaining, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Not when that shit cost you billions of dollars.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we spoke about it on the song too. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, but man, he said I lost. He said
Speaker 6: I lost eight billions to get the chains off my neck.
Speaker 3: Only to try to put him back on, only the
Speaker 3: only to apologize and sh I'll give you all twenty
Speaker 3: percent cut it.
Speaker 6: Out man, I ain't gonna lie. Kanye's on back and
Speaker 6: she's five.
Speaker 1: Web is hard.
Speaker 4: That's hard. That's hard.
Speaker 3: You also spoke on the Dirty Bronx record about how
Speaker 3: New York DJ's never used to play your music and
Speaker 3: you had to go down south to get your recognition.
Speaker 2: I talked about that exactly what he said, to go
Speaker 2: down there to get popping Chopping Down.
Speaker 1: Wasn't playing his music.
Speaker 3: If you think about the last few people from New
Speaker 3: York that became big time, New York wasn't really supporting
Speaker 3: them like that, and not Nikki, not the sad you.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Cardi because it was a little dity supported
Speaker 3: and they supported, I mean they supported Cardi after they
Speaker 3: saw so many artists making without them.
Speaker 6: They was like, you know what, we gotta pick a
Speaker 6: side right now, fifty fifty another one?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Hell yeah?
Speaker 1: Why is that envy? Why don't New York DJs? Why
Speaker 1: weren't y'all supporting y'all?
Speaker 4: French?
Speaker 5: I supported all them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I had like the whole Cocaine City era. Then
Speaker 6: I had my my whole Max b era. Then I
Speaker 6: had then I went down South May Chopping Down. Then
Speaker 6: I was like like scorching hot. Then I then I
Speaker 6: was like, you know what, New York ain't show me
Speaker 6: no love, let me go down South. Then I made
Speaker 6: I made Shot Caller after Max B got locked up
Speaker 6: because I was so much black Ball because everybody turned
Speaker 6: their back home me because Max B was just tearing
Speaker 6: everybody ass up. And after he got locked up, he
Speaker 6: just left me with the black Ball. I was just like,
Speaker 6: so I just locked in with Harry Fraud and we
Speaker 6: made Shot Caller. It's like I got put into a
Speaker 6: corner and it was like, yo, is he not gonna
Speaker 6: fight through this with music or I'm just gonna just
Speaker 6: be like you know what used to remember that kid?
Speaker 6: He used to have Mike saves with Maxaze, So just
Speaker 6: like you know, but it took me ten years, like
Speaker 6: like oh two, I dropped the first Cocaine City, so
Speaker 6: oh nine, that's when I got signed.
Speaker 1: You didn't take you serious as a rapper because they
Speaker 1: remember you the DVD guy.
Speaker 4: At first at first, but but the DVDs.
Speaker 6: You know, there was a time when Envy had an
Speaker 6: artist ref rec Cafe. It was a time with Clue
Speaker 6: Half Fab. It was a time where where Greenland Coconine
Speaker 6: so nobody was letting nobody. So this one guy named
Speaker 6: Smack came out with the most brilliant ID ever, bringing
Speaker 6: all the rappers.
Speaker 4: And he was putting Shay Davis on it. YEP. I
Speaker 4: was like, yo, I know all the drug dealers, I
Speaker 4: know all the rappers.
Speaker 6: Let me make Cocaine City DVD. And I'm putting myself
Speaker 6: in the middle. How you put Shay Davis? People didn't
Speaker 6: know I was only making Cocaine City DVD. People throw
Speaker 6: somebody else making it, and they was putting me in it.
Speaker 6: So by the time the fifth volume came, Acon called
Speaker 6: to sign me. You know what I'm saying, because they
Speaker 6: didn't even know I was the DVD guy.
Speaker 4: Was this and that so. But the whole object the
Speaker 4: whole time was for me to be a rap star,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So I was making the money.
Speaker 6: We would make Cocaine CITDVD would make thirty thirty thousand
Speaker 6: copies five dollars apiece.
Speaker 4: You'd make it about quarter million and a half a
Speaker 4: million dollars and promoting myself.
Speaker 6: Wow, people was paying Smack fifty thousand dollars to get
Speaker 6: on Smack DVD.
Speaker 4: Every time.
Speaker 6: I was making three hundred thousand dollars to five hundred
Speaker 6: thousand every volume, and I was pulling myself on it.
Speaker 4: By the time the fifth volume came.
Speaker 6: It was just like so I was always ahead of myself,
Speaker 6: like you know, I mean from from like from the beginning,
Speaker 6: so by half.
Speaker 1: A million dollars of DVD, but you know, you put
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 6: Back into it, you know what I'm saying. So he
Speaker 6: was always investing, investing for the big picture. So by
Speaker 6: the time Akon signed me that when he gave you
Speaker 6: the fake watch, oh Man shop Acon, the second watch
Speaker 6: is fake too, I ain't gonna do that the Acon,
Speaker 6: but you know, we had a shopping deal. Then after that,
Speaker 6: the shopping deal didn't work because he had lady got
Speaker 6: this and that whatever, whatever, it didn't worked, But you know,
Speaker 6: I appreciate Acon just for the for the opportunity.
Speaker 4: Then after that, that's when I got with Max being
Speaker 4: this and that.
Speaker 2: But that's but that's what it was, was Max doing
Speaker 2: it is because I know there was rumors that he
Speaker 2: was coming out last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just put coming home on his page. So
Speaker 4: we all weighing, well, yeah, we are.
Speaker 1: How do you introduce Max b back to this era?
Speaker 4: Of hip hop. He is this era of hip hop.
Speaker 6: He is the most one of the most viral Max
Speaker 6: b like the wave gud like nah, that's a silver
Speaker 6: surfer like Rememn. Back then he was he was viral
Speaker 6: off YouTube. We would just sit there and watch YouTube
Speaker 6: and just go just go Ham. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 6: it's the same thing, just YouTube and in the app.
Speaker 3: I wonder, do you do you feel like you didn't
Speaker 3: take the DVD thing to the next level because I
Speaker 3: feel like the next step would have been a website
Speaker 3: for y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, But I feel
Speaker 4: like that wasn't my passion.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. You always follow your passion.
Speaker 6: If that was my passion to make DVDs, I would
Speaker 6: have been the biggest DVD, biggest blogger, the biggest. But
Speaker 6: my passion when I the idea, when I first got it,
Speaker 6: it was for me to wrap, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So I went through them ten volumes of me like
Speaker 6: sacrificing and you know, going to meet up with people
Speaker 6: and having somebody interview him and doing all that. I
Speaker 6: don't want to do that shit just to pull myself
Speaker 6: in the middle. But I had to sacrifice. I had
Speaker 6: to get people what they know until they knew me.
Speaker 6: And once they did that, I was like, Okay, cool,
Speaker 6: now let's take over this rap thing. I ain't got
Speaker 6: to call nobody no more to make music, all right?
Speaker 4: That was That was the passion.
Speaker 1: Her instrumental was Gucci Man in your career.
Speaker 4: When I went when I went to down South.
Speaker 6: With Dev, I used to see Gucci like once in
Speaker 6: a while, like he would pop up to deb and
Speaker 6: this and that. But every time I seen him, it
Speaker 6: was always loved. And he came to my video shoot.
Speaker 6: Matter of fact, when I shot Chopping Down, he just
Speaker 6: showed up to the video shoot and he came in.
Speaker 4: It was a vibe.
Speaker 5: I wanted to know what how's did he have? You
Speaker 5: spoke to Diddy?
Speaker 4: How did he doing?
Speaker 5: Because I know you and you assigned the Diddy at
Speaker 5: one time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I spoke. I spoke to him in New Year's
Speaker 6: I spoke to him a New Year, check on him.
Speaker 6: He's doing great for sure.
Speaker 3: You and you embraced a lot of young artists from
Speaker 3: the Bronx too, Like you got shot on this project.
Speaker 6: Yeah, shot shot the d Thanks, shot the kenslosh in
Speaker 6: the back. They both from the Bronx I got, I
Speaker 6: Got forty one. They're from Brooklyn one yeah, yeah, they're.
Speaker 4: On the album forty one.
Speaker 6: GM Carter Too, Yeah yeah, Jim Cardier yea yeah, they're
Speaker 6: from Brooklyn.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What makes you want to embrace the young generation like that?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 6: I always looked at myself like the bridge when it
Speaker 6: comes to the to the music game. I felt like
Speaker 6: I could always tap in with with the Kanyes, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, the J's or whatever it is,
Speaker 6: and it's still tap back in with it with the
Speaker 6: pop smokes, the smurders and do this, do this and that.
Speaker 6: I felt like I was always like the bridge in between.
Speaker 6: You know, they gonna talk about the Bronx right there?
Speaker 1: They yet did they search off? Get them some chains?
Speaker 4: Who is that? Who?
Speaker 1: Who is it?
Speaker 4: The thing?
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, okay, okay. Now you just signed the recently,
Speaker 1: right yea?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: With ten K, they signed the.
Speaker 4: Okay with Cole Boys and bok. How hard is not
Speaker 4: to look in the back?
Speaker 1: How hard did the break of artists? Ods?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 6: I think I think the artists gotta want it, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. I think there's no there's no
Speaker 6: certain structure menu to it. I feel like you just
Speaker 6: can't have no plan. Beaders gotta want it, you gotta
Speaker 6: go all out for it.
Speaker 1: What's the expectation though, Like, what do you like? What's
Speaker 1: the expectation for a rapper in two twenty four?
Speaker 4: I think there is nothing. There's so many. I think
Speaker 4: there is none.
Speaker 1: There's so many.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel like you can ye with social media.
Speaker 6: I'm like, there's none. I feel like, you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: you just gotta you just gotta have that character, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those big brother conversations though, like you know, the
Speaker 2: because I've know whether it's it's recording and spending or
Speaker 2: being on time and all the stuff that you fucked
Speaker 2: up with, Do you have those big brother conversations like
Speaker 2: let me let me walk you down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know. I saw him in the studio.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yo, bro, there's no other place you should
Speaker 6: be outside of the studio like that that room, right
Speaker 6: than in four walls. That's your bank, that's your vote.
Speaker 6: Anywhere out of that room, You're no good than nobody.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. He just came home from jail,
Speaker 6: so like you're out of that room, you're no good
Speaker 6: because you know you're liable to get in trouble with
Speaker 6: a lot of people, to get caught up with the
Speaker 6: wrong things, a lotable to be around the wrong things.
Speaker 6: So I just feel like that room right there, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, Like it's got to make as
Speaker 6: much music as you can because you never know, you
Speaker 6: never know when you're gonna make that one record that's
Speaker 6: gonna change your life.
Speaker 2: Eever, and how do you deal with all this now?
Speaker 2: Because you've seen everything. I mean, you didn't seen shootouts,
Speaker 2: you didn't seen death, you didn't seen so much because
Speaker 2: if you've been there, but you also do know part
Speaker 2: of your music is being there and being able to
Speaker 2: write that and wrap that and all that.
Speaker 4: You know, you know what I'm saying. You're gonna You're
Speaker 4: gonna do that.
Speaker 6: But but sometimes you get caught up too much in that,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, especially if you come home
Speaker 6: from jail.
Speaker 4: You want to live the life, you want to do this,
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just when when when things happen to
Speaker 6: people they never expected to happen, That's why it happened.
Speaker 3: Man, When things happened to people you never expected it
Speaker 3: to happen. That's why it happened.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Chaks would have never wanted to that hookah spot four
Speaker 6: am in the morning, man in the morning by himself,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: No, he has security. He had security. Yeah, he had
Speaker 4: security with him and everything.
Speaker 1: Well, you got shot.
Speaker 5: It was in the car.
Speaker 4: So I mean he got shot six times in the car.
Speaker 4: He has he has security with him and everything.
Speaker 6: It was four in the morning, leaving a hookah spot,
Speaker 6: going chasing the joint on the side of the road.
Speaker 4: It just like, you know what I mean, Like he
Speaker 4: didn't expect that to happen. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, so what's up when when you think
Speaker 3: about all of the violence that you've seen, were you
Speaker 3: afraid to sign drill rappers?
Speaker 4: I don't know. We was drilled before the drill were
Speaker 4: the original drug.
Speaker 3: Grab a chair with the chairs that coming chair for
Speaker 3: d thing, No, bro, because everybody was saying like there
Speaker 3: was a period it felt like labels were about to back.
Speaker 6: We heard drill music before drill music. Me and Max
Speaker 6: b we had people the whole in New York.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you don't think drill is a sound. It's
Speaker 1: just a it's a lifestyle energy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chicago is like that.
Speaker 1: So what what is drill? D think? What is drill?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 9: How drill is like anybody do it?
Speaker 10: Like you can just come from college and just had
Speaker 10: a whole good life and just drill rap now like
Speaker 10: niggas just do that now.
Speaker 9: It wasn't like that for me when I was coming.
Speaker 9: For me, we had to really do shit.
Speaker 3: Like but that's the problem though, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Like a lot of rap. Like you saw Pat Joe
Speaker 3: say nine his lyrics were live, not this new generation.
Speaker 4: No right he started drilling.
Speaker 9: You can't lock. That's bad. We can't really live. I
Speaker 9: really was rapping what I really lived?
Speaker 5: Do you seem like you gotta feel like you know what?
Speaker 5: I gotta get out the Bronx and the Bronx crazy.
Speaker 1: The craziest people in America from the Bronx and all
Speaker 1: the Florida is.
Speaker 9: Why I'm different now though, to get up go anywhere
Speaker 9: one now?
Speaker 7: Got it?
Speaker 3: Sad?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Kids? What is drill to you?
Speaker 4: To MI?
Speaker 8: To the mic, I feel like, like French, that is
Speaker 8: a lifestyle thing like because like I feel like you
Speaker 8: connect with people through music based off like like the
Speaker 8: vibes that they give you in the field that their
Speaker 8: music gives you. So like if somebody, like you said,
Speaker 8: if somebody can't rap in and it's like, you know,
Speaker 8: this person is in college and they're doing drill rap,
Speaker 8: it's not really gonna stick as much as you know,
Speaker 8: like French come out here talking about him growing up
Speaker 8: through the struggle and ship like it's gonna be more relatable.
Speaker 8: I feel like, like he said, I don't know about that,
Speaker 8: but I feel about I feel like it's like a
Speaker 8: lifestyle thing is like what you talk about, and like
Speaker 8: what type of vibe and energy here song or music
Speaker 8: has is what gives it to drill?
Speaker 3: Do you feel like people have to live their lyrics though,
Speaker 3: because I want you all to lie, I don't want it.
Speaker 8: I feel like I feel like, yes, you know, because
Speaker 8: your music has to.
Speaker 10: Be related to step to people because a nigga like
Speaker 10: me is not gonna jogg it now.
Speaker 9: If I know you did not do nothing before the
Speaker 9: whole world you got the whole world hype.
Speaker 8: You thinking about it in like a like a doing
Speaker 8: on something like how you said fresh could be capping
Speaker 8: about fucking, fucking rappers wife's.
Speaker 1: But that's some relatable ship.
Speaker 8: Somebody out there fucking sucking a.
Speaker 7: Rapper wife.
Speaker 9: Another nigga lifestyle.
Speaker 11: I'm just saying, I never do that. The perfect balance
Speaker 11: to have with which you call them best friends. Yeah,
Speaker 11: that's that's a good balance to have her with you, though,
Speaker 11: because I understand like the street part of it, you know.
Speaker 10: What I mean.
Speaker 7: But you don't. You don't only want to appeal to
Speaker 7: the street, you know what I mean.
Speaker 11: It's people that look up that will look up to
Speaker 11: you and that looks looks up to you. That it's
Speaker 11: not gonna be in the street and still feel like
Speaker 11: they can do what you do. But not in the
Speaker 11: street though, because everybody ain't got the heart you have,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. And so she's a great
Speaker 11: balance to what y'all. So what you just said, you
Speaker 11: don't you don't.
Speaker 7: Feel like that, don't be you don't feel like that,
Speaker 7: do a little bit. It's a star like it's bigger
Speaker 7: than the streets.
Speaker 9: Now, I understand, but.
Speaker 5: You feel like you been through it, so you you
Speaker 5: you only respect what people have been through.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel me, So I don't even care about that.
Speaker 10: I'm trying to change my life to I don't care
Speaker 10: about none of that period, none of that, no more,
Speaker 10: just being meat.
Speaker 1: And French is the o G.
Speaker 3: You gotta tell him like when you see hip hop
Speaker 3: under attack the way that it is, you see people
Speaker 3: getting you know, lyrics brought up in court, like you
Speaker 3: don't you know, you don't want to be confessing the
Speaker 3: things on records I had to learn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had with the Rico too, what that's.
Speaker 1: Why you did the three?
Speaker 9: I was about to come home?
Speaker 4: They went, they went through what I'm going through an
Speaker 4: early age. He got a crazy story because he got
Speaker 4: his story even with the group that he was with.
Speaker 6: His man took the gun charge for him, and like
Speaker 6: they got like they went through like what Big and
Speaker 6: d Rock went through, like at an early age, and
Speaker 6: like they already got like a whole documentary. And he's
Speaker 6: not even like he's early twenties.
Speaker 1: How could you learn that lesson? That's beautiful?
Speaker 5: So so what's next for y'all? What's next?
Speaker 4: What's next for the artists?
Speaker 5: Because I know usually you do compilation and you you
Speaker 5: Coke Boy.
Speaker 6: Go Boys seven he got he just dropped like two singles.
Speaker 6: I do a video to you too, Yes, No, he's
Speaker 6: moving like, came to my crebit love it, Yeah, came
Speaker 6: to my creb in l A. I go to sleep,
Speaker 6: I wake up eight in the morning. I hear all
Speaker 6: this noise. I'm like, what's happening y'all? Y'all just called
Speaker 6: the camera guy was shooting the video. It was eight
Speaker 6: in the morning.
Speaker 2: French was one of those guys they caught me at
Speaker 2: six o'clock in the morning about records in your records
Speaker 2: and your records. Every every couple of weeks, three weeks,
Speaker 2: four weeks, French is gonna hit me. And you always say,
Speaker 2: did your number change? I'm like, no, nigga, my number record.
Speaker 7: French is on it man Ken eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 10: Years baby, Yes, but they're doing when you shooting your
Speaker 10: video at this song right here is like I had
Speaker 10: to bring them back, like to the old me a
Speaker 10: little bit because the way I've been rapping a little
Speaker 10: but I've been trying to change it up and people
Speaker 10: want some like now we need the oldie things back,
Speaker 10: like like we don't know if he still got it,
Speaker 10: Like we don't know if he's the same like he changed.
Speaker 10: So I just had him just go crazy one more
Speaker 10: time to go some freestyles. I went crazy on that song.
Speaker 10: You know they're going jack that, like now he really back?
Speaker 10: Well do that like on the block, everybody come outside
Speaker 10: on the block and everybody with all black diggies.
Speaker 4: I didn't say that about everybody at all. Yeah, like, Yo,
Speaker 4: you don't sound like the last record, not even the.
Speaker 10: Last record like before I went to jail period and
Speaker 10: now that demon town no more.
Speaker 7: Like he changed, Bro, I didn't go anywhere. Yeah, you
Speaker 7: evolved with then you.
Speaker 9: Try to give him a new sign.
Speaker 8: They're like your core fans like they want to old.
Speaker 9: You than Bro.
Speaker 10: I'm like, but I'm gonna give it to them. They
Speaker 10: can't say not after this one, after this one, they're
Speaker 10: gonna say, like he's just like if.
Speaker 3: You're gonna drop a couple of songs, and we went
Speaker 3: to old the one that you just gave him two
Speaker 3: months ago, it's only two months later.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to evolve it. We'll keep doing that because
Speaker 7: that's how you grow your audience. You grow bigger you.
Speaker 7: You appeal to other girls and other guys. You know
Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like it don't be scared to to
Speaker 7: like try different stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how you've had longevity, right ference, Yeah, consistent, Yeah,
Speaker 3: first sound good on.
Speaker 12: Any you could be a reggae song, a Spanish song,
Speaker 12: a d song, afro in the box, put me.
Speaker 6: In the box, I took. I took my first chance
Speaker 6: for Unforgettable. That's the biggest record.
Speaker 1: Well that was a risk. You thought that was a
Speaker 1: chance that sounds like.
Speaker 4: People people from the streets. Wasn't doing afro bro like
Speaker 4: what I played it for some people that were like,
Speaker 4: you better not put that out.
Speaker 5: It was like before that afroweight.
Speaker 6: I was like, was that was like the first person
Speaker 6: to do it. That's why that's why it's the biggest
Speaker 6: afro record to ever come out, and it's and it's
Speaker 6: the most stream record to ever come out of New York,
Speaker 6: out of jay Z, out of out of Nikki, out
Speaker 6: of the CARDI nobody, nobody record stream more than I'm Forgettable.
Speaker 4: Because I took a chance with it with a sound.
Speaker 7: Is that why Africa?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Shot in Africa because it was just like, you know,
Speaker 4: like to take it back.
Speaker 1: To you said a lot of his videos in Africa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: stand up for shooting videos.
Speaker 11: In Africa, I said, I ask, But yeah, I love
Speaker 11: to see it, you know, you shot a light on them,
Speaker 11: you shot a light on the artist.
Speaker 7: It's a whole baggage deal.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to different.
Speaker 4: He got a record with the Vito coming out, he
Speaker 4: got drill. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They still got you under the microscope, though, friends, because
Speaker 3: didn't they didn't they search your PJ.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, hell yeah. I mean but it was
Speaker 4: like the whole Cooke Boy thing. They probably googled, yeah,
Speaker 4: like you know, and it was in calias like the
Speaker 4: Capitol Cocaine damn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they didn't have no reason.
Speaker 4: They just no, they didn't have no reason, and you
Speaker 4: couldn't do nothing nothing about it.
Speaker 1: God damn.
Speaker 4: I just see the dogs walking up and I'm like
Speaker 4: it was going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah you thought it was funny?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I have that.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, let's get into a record off the album.
Speaker 1: Two more questions made in the USA.
Speaker 3: You talk about, you know, just your appreciation for achieving
Speaker 3: success in America.
Speaker 4: What does that mean you man?
Speaker 6: I mean being born in Africa coming here at thirteen
Speaker 6: not knowing English is a different hustle than if you're
Speaker 6: born in born here and used to to the life.
Speaker 6: I felt like Mada in the USA is like it's
Speaker 6: like an immigrant story. It's just coming here with your family,
Speaker 6: and it's like you know, your mother, watching your mother
Speaker 6: struggle and just and just try to adapt and like
Speaker 6: adapt to the culture shocks and just come in here,
Speaker 6: especially learning English, not knowing English, but not also just
Speaker 6: not that trying to do the the worst fucking job
Speaker 6: you can do, which is rap. So you picked the
Speaker 6: hardest job, you know what I'm saying. You come right
Speaker 6: to the mecca of hip hop. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: When when it was hard to make it, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, When you had big pun down the
Speaker 6: street and you had like you know, so I feel
Speaker 6: like Madia in the USA is kind of like that
Speaker 6: was like one of them stories. Like then hustle I'm
Speaker 6: talking about hustling on there, like literally getting getting crack
Speaker 6: from my cousin and telling him my mother stole it
Speaker 6: and my I mean my mother seen it and started
Speaker 6: crying just so I could sell it and buy my
Speaker 6: own work and started selling work. And it was just
Speaker 6: like just like doing little little things like coming up
Speaker 6: and just like you know, we learned from no man
Speaker 6: shot the luc out.
Speaker 4: He back there.
Speaker 6: He been from my block for like twenty years, so
Speaker 6: he's seen the struggle. So making it in the USA,
Speaker 6: you know, it's just it's just it's just something.
Speaker 4: It's just something. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: Also, you know, they don't give you enough credit for
Speaker 1: the community.
Speaker 9: Say I said, now they body that twenty years later.
Speaker 9: Look what they're doing. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Bo. Yeah, and you don't get enough credit for the
Speaker 3: community service you do. I mean just around the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you donated five hundred canoes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to to my Coco. It's crazy. It's like the
Speaker 6: city is under the waters. It's like I've never been nowhere.
Speaker 4: It's like that.
Speaker 6: It's like you take you take your canoe from like
Speaker 6: from like the bridge side and it and you like
Speaker 6: you stay on the canoe for like a half an hour.
Speaker 6: Then you just approach the city that's all underwater. Like nah,
Speaker 6: it's crazy. Like yeah, like half of the half of
Speaker 6: the cribs under the water. Then like the only like
Speaker 6: the two floors up and people just nah. The living
Speaker 6: was crazy when I went there. No, I'm it's like
Speaker 6: I think, like three thousand people.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know how I got like that,
Speaker 4: But it's one of them wonders of the world. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know the history, but it was just a
Speaker 6: blessing to see that, the blessing to see that I
Speaker 6: can help the same thing with you, Guana.
Speaker 4: We went and opened up a hospital over there. Same
Speaker 4: thing with Morocco went.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah for that for Morocco, same thing for the
Speaker 6: Bronx opened up school program. I mean, whenever we get
Speaker 6: a chance to get we always gonna get back.
Speaker 1: It was true that you said that j Cole was
Speaker 1: supposed to executive produce.
Speaker 4: My first album. Yeah.
Speaker 6: J Cole heard my first album in Miami. We was
Speaker 6: all in Trina House and I was playing for him
Speaker 6: and he was like, yo, bro let me executive produce it.
Speaker 6: Then we was on tour with Club Paradise sold with Drake,
Speaker 6: so we all just jumped on tour. But honestly, part
Speaker 6: of me was like, Yo, I'm gonna let him just
Speaker 6: put his name on it. But if I'm gonna do
Speaker 6: an album with j Cole, I'm gonna want Jay Cole
Speaker 6: to do with me from the beginning, so I could
Speaker 6: benefit from the Jake Cole experience. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I come to him with an album already done, like
Speaker 6: y'o just slap your name on it.
Speaker 1: Who you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, better chemistry would cold Drake. I feel like Drake
Speaker 3: for somebody like y'all like Snapper one and two, y'all
Speaker 3: go back and forth.
Speaker 4: Drake. Now Drake my twin man, that's that's my bro.
Speaker 6: Me and him definitely got better, better chemistry just just
Speaker 6: because you know, when Drake first came and people didn't
Speaker 6: really know who he was. He came and you know,
Speaker 6: in New York and this and that, and we met
Speaker 6: up and and we met up like again in Miami
Speaker 6: when I was doing Ross album and we did State Schemen,
Speaker 6: and Drake first heard it when Ross played it for him,
Speaker 6: and he was like, Yo, I heard the whole album.
Speaker 6: I want to do this joint, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And just like we're building out from pop Dad to
Speaker 6: you know, the whole thing. I felt like like it
Speaker 6: was it was more natural.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's too Drake's best versus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely it was. It was it was moments, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. It was was that was crazy.
Speaker 1: Who smash more Cardashians?
Speaker 4: You a drink?
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, Okay, Jesus, do you want to get into
Speaker 5: what's you want?
Speaker 4: I mean, since we got drill in the building, let's
Speaker 4: go to that forty one.
Speaker 5: So okay, all right, well, we appreciate you for joining us,
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. Ladies and gentlemen, Mac and
Speaker 5: Cheese five, make sure you get it.
Speaker 4: It's out today, knob Real Forreil, New York. In the building,
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