 I interviewed you in Houston, you were fighting cancer, you were beating cancer at the time. And so how did that end up, you know, far as, are you still dealing with that now? Man, I'm pretty much done with it, but there's a new drill. Okay. How do you pronounce my name, Keith Trudel? Keith Trudel. Keith Trudel, for example. So I got my chemo put right here. Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. Man, we come down here to celebrate E's birthday with him. It's your birthday. Man, you know, I won't. Man. My birthday. I do what I want. E's my birthday. I do what I want. E's my birthday. I do what I want. E's my birthday. I do what I want. E's my birthday. E's my birthday. E's like an idiot. But I heard the music, man. You know what I'm saying? Well, you got new music even in a hospital, man. Yeah, I got a studio under my bed. Hey, man. Hey. Man, but on a real note, man, just want to show love to you. You know, me and you, we done did a few interviews now, man. You like my favorite interviewer, man. Like me and you, we just like hand and glove, man. We gon' make it work. You know what I'm saying? Keep each other right. You're my bro, bro. You're my bro, bro. Like I didn't hesitate the first time. Not at all. To make you a freestyle god, give us the, I want to hear the in-depth why. I mean, for example, South Side Steel Holder, that was no pen and pay. South Side Steel Holder. No pen and pay. I can do freestyle. See, I can freestyle verses. I can freestyle. Some of my songs are just straight freestyle. You know what I'm saying? I've been noticing a lot of other sometimes, they be like, you know what I'm saying? Like, who is this? What they got? Who is this? I didn't give a damn who you are. It did or not. It was just that I had already seen you just putting in work. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And I know how it is with, especially with this grind, for example, I can go to a concert. I can, I can drop a mixtape. I can drop a song. I can go to and get a feature. Yeah. Yeah. You, on the other hand, you got to work triple what I got to do. Yeah. I have to work twice as hard. You know what I'm saying? To make sure other people want to be engaged with you and sponsorships and a lot of times people don't understand it. You know what I'm saying? No, they don't. They think the M.S.D. Card Sheet. You know, but, you know, like the top of it all, you know, us and our relationship with Big Tony, you know, I, you know, that, that's the thing that made it to where it drove me. You used to always come down and play your hometown. Right. You would perform. So, but before that, it was in Jefferson. You were 12-town. I'm a wild way want to hear you. But I'm from Smithland, but I always would be there with Big Tony because that's, that's my boy. But Marshall right up the street. Yeah, that's what it is. But the thing is you always show man love to everybody in the South, man, like you do, man. So I always, I'm a true Southerner. So swinging and banging and all that stuff. I came up with that. So I just don't play about that. You know, when people mention a top five album, that's one of my top five. And a lot of people don't do that. Cause we from the South, I got to make it known. We ain't playing no games about these down here. You know what I'm saying? I said, I said this on Instagram another day. It was the top team most influential albums out of here. Really? Once I seen number one and two, I just, I didn't want to see the rest of this. Exactly. Because I think it's going to be a little bias to, to, to, to age, to, to the culture, to, to people where they from. They had, they had face out and get a boy there. Then everything is a lot of little stuff. We just like some, you know, it took everything of me not to come in on it. I don't know why I feel like, I feel like I got a pink ring on. This is my, this is my oxygen monitor. It took everything on me. Like, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes I just got, you know, I got overlooked a lot of time, but that's what fueled me to go to a well known, you know what I'm saying? And it's like people try to throw chinks at the arm and a lot of time we, we, we self, you know what I'm saying? Almost self destruction. That's right. You know what I'm saying? That's right. I'm going to drop the goddamn grenade on my foot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We do it on our own. So you got to be careful. So you got to be careful. So, but music wise, I hate to say this, man. God brought me through a bunch of, a bunch of things. Yeah. And the reason he did it, I'm telling you, a journalist told me a couple of times, they say, as journalists, writers, we, we, we want to see you as the next representative of the South as the same way. PMC, the Rick Ross. Yeah, yeah. Because you never got your just. No, no, you and you deserve it because like, say lyrically and just the culture, you are, you are, you're the culture. So I got, you know, I'm going to tap in just a little bit. And I'm going to die this when I get out of here. Say, look out, man. Don't do that, man. Don't disrespect. I'm just ready to live that. I can't, it just for certain shows cause I cannot have, you know, I'm, I'm a real, I'm to last year when I had got a D.W.A. He didn't come up to me talking about what's up school. I said, say, they go to school. They go, ain't nothing old school about me, but some money. I'm talking about old school. They see great. I didn't hear everybody at school. I got a homeboy. They do me like that 24 years over here for the great. Yeah. But I would just do that for the youngsters who would do it on the same. Let me ask you this, man. I really like, like, with you going through what I interviewed you in Houston, where you were fighting cancer, you know, you were, you were, you were beating cancer at the time. Right. And so how did that end up, you know, far as far as, oh, you still dealing with that now? Man, I'm, I'm pretty much dealing with it, but there's a, there's a, there's a new drug, right? Okay. How do you pronounce my name, Keith Trudeau? Keith Trudeau. Keith Trudeau. Keith Trudeau, for example. So I got my chemo put right here. Okay. So I had a colon cancer. Okay. So they cut the big, big ass hole, cut the tumor out. And right before I was finished or chemo, my back kept hurting. You see, that's what drove me to the hospital. Yeah. I was like, man, my back kept hurting. And then all of a sudden, you know, I couldn't urinate. It was like, everything, like, yeah. When I visited my mama, I go to the hospital. They give me some damn STD. I say, man, they ain't got burns. I say, they ain't dead. Yes. So when I get back to Houston and come to find out, I had a little bit of small tumor locked in my bladder, in my bladder. So that's when they gave me the first med bags. And the Keith Trudeau, they say, I didn't need chemo. Yeah. They say I can take the Keith Trudeau and be seen, you know what I'm saying? And beat it that way, because it was so small. Yeah. So I started taking the treatments. You come for our, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And they just, which stood IV. Yeah, IV in you. So after the second one, man, I peered like 30 times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In one, like within an hour or two. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So the doctor was like, he was like, I got the doctor. Like something wrong. He was like, no, that's great. He said, I can't believe you're supposed to do that. He said, I mean, it's, it's shrinking out the way. Yeah. Man, so I had two treatments left. He said, after these two treatments, we should be fine. We should, you should be done. There's a company that's regulating insurance companies. Yeah. And what happened was the company, the company told my insurance company, we're going to no longer approve of the Keith Trudeau, because it's really made for loan counsel. Yeah. And it's not proven that it works for other counsel. Yeah. But all the doctors know it works for other counsel. Yeah. And it cost them down out of the shot. Oh, they're going to, they're going to, they're going to hit you. So, so, they ain't going to be, you know, getting it easy. Yeah. So they was tripping on that. And then the, so, you know, I don't have a man at first, you know what I'm saying? I used to be in pain, pain, pain. Man, once I came home, there was no pain. You know what I'm saying? They tried to give me, like, no cold. First they tried to give me morphine pill. Yeah. I didn't understand. I did not understand what the doctor told me. The doctor told me, he said, this is what it sounds like, he said, take one in the morning, afternoon, in the evening, any night, any whenever. Like, he wants you to constantly take them. That's what he told. That's what it sounded like he said. But what he really meant was, take one when you wake up. If you have any pain. Man, I took five of them. I'm in a truck like that. I don't know what the heck is going on. I sound like, that is what's wrong with you. I was like, man, man, take me to the hospital. Yeah. So, you know what I'm saying? So, no colds. I don't want to, you know what I'm saying? They sent me back to the hospital twice. So I just took straight Tylenol. They told me to take some CBD edibles, you know what I'm saying? Wow. You were cool with that. I was great with that. But you know what I'm saying? Them boys, they ain't gonna lie. Them boys got high. Yeah. I don't like edibles. No, no. How they do you? Yeah. That's a stomach hot, man. I don't like them edibles. That's it. So I just took straight Tylenol and prayed. Boom. That felt good. It felt wild. You know what I'm saying? One on one. One on one. Yeah, we gonna talk.