 It's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit, name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E-C-E-O, and I'm here with the lovely official, Mr. Mako, what's going on? Say, man, look, man, we got exclusive right here, man. These niggas in trouble, man. Hey, man, I done pulled up on the block, man, and nigga really feeling the shelf right now. I got a quick trip in there, man. Say, man, what's going on with you, man? Life. Life, man. Hey, man, you got a catalog, brother, man. You've been working a long time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so what drives quick trip, man? What keeps them going? Life, life. The music come from my real-life story. Okay, so this ain't no... This ain't wrapping my brother's life, my uncle's life, my nephew's life, my cousin's life. Yeah, yeah. This is what I go through. Immediate family. Because it affects you. It affects your heart. Yeah. So you can put all that passion behind your music. Yeah. You got to be able to speak it when you ain't got nobody else. You can basically tell who really did it. Have you always been like that when you were younger just starting out? Was that what you always would rap about? Or over the years, as you get older, your style changes? No, it's what I go through. Yeah. Whatever I go through, I put it in my music. I don't get high enough from my fans. If I was a broke the day and I made this song, I'm gonna rub about me being broke the day. If I had a lot of money tomorrow, I'm gonna rub about me getting a lot of money tomorrow, but I'm gonna tell you about yesterday too what it did. See, a lot of people don't do that. I ain't gonna hide anything. You're my fan. You're my family. Oh, okay. How old were you when you first started? I used to freestyle a long time ago. When I was eight, nine, we used to freestyle. Me and Freshman, we used to walk around pieces of paper right now, little hooks. But then I started taking the serious when I started going fresh and Gucci on the road. Then I went to Houston 2012 with Future and shit. I seen some different things. I'm like, I got a store. I'm going back home. And from 2012, All Star, Houston, February the 19th, we flew back home. I made my first song, February the 20th, my own song. Yeah. I came home that Sunday and I made my first song that Monday. Wow. My own song. Before that, you had been with Freshman growing all up, huh? Freshman, my brother. Okay. That's life. That's life. It's just like, I didn't ever take it serious. I was always in the street. I never took it serious because I was like, all right. But then I went to Houston with Future and seen them chicks and picked up on back ends. I was like, I need in. So the money changed everything. It made me take it serious. And even then, people would always say you were good, but you just didn't care? No, they don't give me my credit like I supposed to get. Oh, so nobody really told you that? The fans, if you're out of town, it's never be the end towners. Wow. That's why I gravitate to the out of town, the end town. I think that is everywhere and everybody. So we always talk about it because even like being a performer, it's like you book more shows out of town than you do. And it's not just used everybody. It just happens out of town. There's a lot of bodies. I can promise you that, you know. But Jesus said the prophet was out of town in his own country. So I think a lot of time when you're in your own city, sometimes they show you a little up. Yeah, but they just going to look at you for what they knew you for before. That's it. They're not going to look at where you're trying to go until you go. Dean, they criticize you for going where you're trying to go and make you don't come back for free. You are absolutely 100 percent correct. What part of Atlanta are you from? I'm from Pittsburgh. Okay. Zone three. Zone three. Forton County, the heart of the city. So what they do on the outskirts, we move in 10-time fast in the city. So I got to keep up the pace with them. Wow. I can't do what you're doing in your size count. I got, I move in the city, right? Forton County, like 10-time fast. Everybody trying to hustle. Everybody trying to get some money. Everybody trying to scan. Everybody doing what they doing. So you got to be on, you got to be on pump with all that. Yeah. When you, when you, you got something like, I ain't going to lie. You got, you got some work out there, man. You and Bankrow, you and Bankrow, y'all got, y'all got music together. A lot of music. So like, like, like you, you, why do you, and you know, you've seen it. When somebody passed, a lot of times people showing more love than when they were here. You know, we had more three of the past and, and, and indeed like that. And then everybody, you know, and I, if people come on my platform and I tell them, I say, man, why you didn't give them the roses when they were here? A lot of time people, they wait to see, like you said earlier, you know, they know already you, they, they, they know what it is. There's like, show your first show and then post your film. I bet your friend are going to be packed in your first show. Wow. That's real. Because it's just, it's just the way people move for some reason, man. What, what is that? That's just life. Like, that's what they'd rather see. They'd rather see that. They'd rather see you lose and win anyway. You know what I'm saying? It's a lot of naysayers. The people that can't do things, they're going to always place their problems on you. Like, oh, he can't do it. He can't do it. But then when you do it, it's like, oh, you sold out. You did that. I'm trying to keep it real extinct. Like, what I go through is what you're going to hear. Like a lie, you got to keep that same life for 30 years. But the truth, you can be, everybody can tell the truth. If you, if you tell the truth, like if I tell you a story and I say such and such, if you get them on the pocket, they're going to be able to see it the same way I see it. Because I'm going to give it to you raw. Like that way, I ain't going to try to throw a two on a 10. I ain't going to do that. I'm going to tell you the truth. And that's how I win. Like I can go back and say, whatever I tell you today, we can come back 10 years and I can say the same thing. 10 years and that because it's the truth. How does all of those negative nances affect your career? Affect your, um, It don't. It don't. Because some people let it get to them, especially where we have social media today where a lot of cyber bullying, people saying things that hurt, you know what I mean? They're going to say that. They got to go home and deal with that. Yeah. They got to go home and look at the fuck the apartment wall. They live there. You say it. You say life, he say life a lot. You know, like things happen, things happen to you. You've been through a lot of street stuff. You know, cause I say life cause it's just high. Go like, say for instance, we doing something and it take a toll. But we done seen our peers take that same toll. So I look at the dictionary of life. Like it can happen. I learned from other people must say, if I seen you burn your hand touching that computer, I ain't got to touch that computer. No, it's hot. Some people do. I seen you did it. But you got people that are still going to say, how hot is it? I don't want to do that. Wow. You sound. I mean, I learned from other people's experiences. I ain't got no feelings. I'm in the street for real. I ain't got nothing. So don't pin your case on me. No. So what was the first thing that stuck out to you for is the first song that you really knew, like I'm doing my thing. The numbers went up or just the impact. The impact was right. I got a song, right? Mm-hmm. It's called We Bulk. Me and Fresh. Okay. We took it in the club. I want to say for like three weeks. The one song got us a mean word. Every label. But they all said the same thing. So I never put the song back out until like I get big. The verse is so up the par that Fresh loses like it don't age. I was beginning. So I changed my verse on it right now and put it out. It was going to be big. But this is what they told us. They told us do you want to put this song out now? Because you're going to have to chase a hit behind that song. This is going to be so big we can sign y'all for this song and take it real wide. But what you going to do if you can't top this song? Mm-hmm. So my mentality was like I ain't trying to jump the hurdle when I'm just starting. You know you can jump right in but you don't last long. I want to take my accolades and my $500 shows. I done did though. Go on to the club for liquor, bottles and I don't even drink. So I tell promoters what you going to spend on that bottle. You pay $40 for that bottle outside the club. You want to give me two bottles and tell me this $1,000 when you pay $40 for that bottle. Like come on keep it fair. Give me a $1,000 in your club. And I'm so player I'm going to spend $1,000 back in your club. I don't want to drink but I'm going to bring a couple people with me and the other son that got a drink I want to drink. I'm a bad but I ain't going to come do a party in your club for bottles of liquor and I don't drink. I'm the most likely have my cup with me. That costs more than your bottle. I'm going to have mine but I got to entertain the people that are with me so I come back and spend the money but I don't move for liquor. You ain't going to wake me up for liquor. I can't pay my bun with liquor. I can't put gas in my car with liquor. I can't go outside the club and sell the bottle. Give me something that will make me come while you can't even work for that. You came for the money. Okay so why you want me to come for free? Real talk. No I get it. I get it and I agree with it. If you do something for me for free I do something for you for free. That's where it goes. We're going to be in those types of relationships. We're going to work out relationships and no money. I'm with that. You know the way it started is kind of how it rose. You know that right? And the person character is going to show his flowers right up front if you pay attention. You know what I'm saying? If he ain't real he can't be real. That's right. Real recognized. Real kicks in at some point. They can only say real things. They can't do real things. So tell me about the new project that you're working on right now. The one I'm working on now. I just recently lost my mama but I'm sorry. I had been doing music in transition of her getting clean back in 2018. So I was converting that music over to rapping about her being clean. And I found a couple songs that I was really rapping about like her, that and it was the way she passed and it just scared me so I was like I'ma name my nicks. Take mommas boy. Cause like if anybody know me like my mommy and my heart I don't kill like growing up if I gotta adopt it I probably go to school five days in the new school but on the weekend I'm telling whoever I'm adopted to like I'm going back to be with my momma. If she can't come I'ma run away. I'm telling you I'm gonna run away. How old was she? My momma. She was 61, she was 20 when she died February 17. Young. She was 60. Wow. Yeah I lost my momma like 40 something so I get it. You can't never replace that man. Yeah we know why I'm happy cause I'm 32 and I spent every day of my life with my momma. You have those memories. From the day she was doing drugs to the day she got clean like I got all the memories so I ain't afraid of life. Do you have kids? Yeah you said yeah. I don't want my son I said 16. So he got the opportunity to also spend time with her as well. Yeah and he just, my baby momma just lost her momma. Wow. Life. Like a week ago on 721 my momma died 217 her momma died 721. Wow. So it was like he with me right now so I just got him with me as being a dad he gonna grieve, he grieve different he's strong, I ain't gonna lie he he cried when his momma momma passed cause he lived with her basically a lot but he stood strong for me so I had to just tell my baby momma let him stay with me like I gotta be there for him like he need that and I I respect my son he don't smoke, he don't drink, he don't do none of that like he ain't no sneaker of 16 y'all. Freak it with him. Freak it with him. I would believe that sons need to have their dads in their life to show them how to be a man. I gotta do it, I can't you know I'm gonna say this I can't say my dad wasn't around see I was just about to ask you about him any time I did call my dad or his brother my dad he'll send something through if him and my momma didn't get along he ain't never just like he'll be like I'm 15 minutes away, stay by that payphone right there, if my momma was right there he was gonna give me some money and he'll pull past and give me a little like meet me down on the street for them one day I just asked when I got older like why y'all don't talk and I made them talk for the first time I put the picture on Instagram like I made them talk for the first time in like 20 years and he was like they're my first time talking to your momma but he was just telling me things that she wouldn't tell me my momma was stubborn stubborn oh no don't go her way fuck you did you get that from her? me and my momma started talking for like 3 months she wouldn't tell I know some of the trades gotta go come down I'm your momma I didn't tell him where to do, shouldn't have made it be seen, I heard, they were my favorite lines so let me ask you this so when you um going back to bank roll fresh when you and him were working together cause y'all was working together a lot once he passed how did that kind of deal dealing with your career how did that push things one way or the other? I want to stop I figured that I wanted to stop but then you know like like I said fresh from my brother so therefore his momma is my momma my momma is his momma so therefore it's a real life thing not just an endless thing we've been together since we were like 3-4 so you gotta think these real years of our life like kids like real baby so when I got the call I wasn't even future show okay purple rain 2 on that line were like 3-4 and then I was like I got the call he got grades so I walked back in the club then I got another call but the person who called me when he called it's like he go to sleep at 8 o'clock if he call you at 11 o'clock something wrong yeah yeah you knew that if he call you at 11 o'clock something wrong but we was in honest with my where my brother's been drunk like 11 because we was gonna go to pre-vay we had a session and pre-vay that night for future party after party and I could make it and I was like damn but then when I got there it didn't hit me cause man fresh we wasn't seeing out of eye that's why I made the song out of eye mm-hmm our pride got in the way yeah he was around people I didn't want to deal with I was around people that he felt like should've been around him but I was just telling him like we both working on two different things yeah you working right here you got two chain here for you I got a future here for me we together still I still street money is your company I don't have nothing in on it but you my brother I'm gonna rep it to the end so when you see me in a future video and I got on a street money shirt I'm branding us when you see Lil Wayne in that double XL magazine long time ago when I'm standing behind him I got on a street money hoodie I'm branding us look at it like that don't look at it as like we not together we working on two different platforms where we working for the same thing you doing you I'm doing me we doing us look at it that way don't look at it like we not equal and you got and you got to share that with yeah we somewhat we on that type of time like his son I kids graduations I'm gonna be honest I don't miss like two birthdays of just me being me stubborn but his son I love him if he call me right now I probably cut his shop to go do what I gotta do with him if he need uncle quick trip when he when he DM me or whatever we do that his son over and over to understand me and his mama talk everything it ain't no it ain't no flowering that that's big bro I don't have nothing negative to say about him that's big bro whatever we went through it was like brothers yeah your brother your sister a lot a lot not really don't talk like y'all you know it's something that happened in family my brother me he takes me this morning happy birthday that's it we ain't talked in sick bro your birthday by three yeah by three months maybe a birthday yeah thanks man been three months maybe four months my sister two years like this something that families go through we don't talk about it but it's certain times when you might be on this and they may not be on that and you get older you get grown you know you got kids of your own you can outgrow people yeah you can outgrow family so and it's and it's a hard thing and you want to see everybody when you want to see everybody on the same level you don't want to leave nobody behind especially your brothers and sisters you know what I mean but if they ain't trying to work with you to go to the next level then you gotta leave cause they gonna be trying to pull you back down you gotta get to the next level of life I don't kill what you say listen I look at it like this pet man if you can have the same care since every boy why you can't take them all with you you know some die yeah beat the board some come wow new people gonna come in your life like you can say day one day one day one day one and a day two can come in and change your whole life they can see things different in your day one cause your day one just see things to wait they see it yeah yeah outsiders gonna see it from their standpoint your standpoint and the next level sometimes you can block your blessings thinking day one's are the right one it's cool to go out come in and go out the same way with the same people but where the whole people don't see what you want to the next level what you hold that's like me taking the pack of dirty clothes on the tool yeah no no real talk where did the name quick trick come from don't get me in doubt I wanna know nah guess what this is the truth I got a friend here named sweet D and I got another one just got named Natron they used to call me cutie with a QP playing like off weed so but I ain't say a weed back then as I got older I used to always say QT and for the black man quick trip so then my friend Samaya she like a sister to me and she was like I made an Instagram and she like well I'm just calling you quick trip and I was like alright so my first Instagram was quick trip 0829 I lost the password like my birthday at the end I started quick trip myself and I'd be outside everybody be saying quick trip quick trip quick trip when I'm just like like when I'd be feeling that on live for hotels and I'd be doing my shit by traveling I might be on there to ever put quick trip or did it was like your name or whatever it's crazy stuff by real name for real I'm like I'm trying to get used to that because everybody is like you know to come to here and introduce themselves and I'm still trying to say my real name because I'm used to that instead of saying Mr.Maker practicing to say Mr.Maker all the time yeah yeah yeah it's something about the name too it's importance in that name man so top 3 artists of all times man did a lot top 3 we do it every episode top 3 did a lot any genre alright number 1 2 pop number 2 wow wow that's crazy man there are my 3 influences I like the bass for his style I like the 2 pop for his lyrics and I can relate to GZ wow I can relate you said my top 3 that's the top 3 it could change you know so being in the business for as long as you have you've had a lot of ups and downs and you overcame some obstacles what is the biggest obstacle that you had to overcome and how did you overcome it I didn't overcome it yet okay what is your biggest obstacle losing my mom wow I get it I've been there I ain't overcoming it's still to like you know like me and my mom we had a friendship so if I be with a girl she don't like to say she old brother and the girl would think I'd be playing like I tell her to say that and she'll be going along with it for so long and be like nah I'm here mama but you'll think I tell her I'm gonna say you my sister no she just play like that wow I play with her I call my mama Tittis so at the front row when we was closing the casket the man like you wanna help me close the casket I'm like I wanna do everything that need to be attended to her today she need to know from zero to 32 I did everything with you I'm gonna touch her so we was closing the casket and he was screwing a thing I ain't know that at the front row I never paid attention to how they let they let you down it's a lot go to everything you do so as we took her in I touched her Tittis this nigga say I really say you a sick motherfucker I say why you just touch your mama Tittis I say listen I wouldn't be me if I didn't do it yeah yeah yeah we play like that me and her like I can call my mama at four or five o'clock in the morning and play with her and she be like what you want to do motherfucker what you doing Tittis you play too much my mama about her money though were you the baby how many brothers and sisters my dad got well for your mom me and my sister anyone that been know me and my other brother were to survive she said she was through she had a boy and a girl how are you sister handling it my sister she ain't taking it too well cause she her and my mama had a best relationship you know women once you get to that age women gonna get that but you know my sister like she a team player my sister been in and out of jail like I ain't afraid of that I don't hold a doubt every bitch she ever had but you know like she don't feel like they were just getting that connection of daughter and mama the real way and mom passed my mama got actually got clean today my sister got jailed last night March to um 5th 2018 that was the day she got clean so she was clean for three years wow the thing I look at is pressure those memories I got a lot of different people that you know all these people man that's effective man so and I asked mr. leaders when I was the one out of I was like how do you deal with going in processing the music after somebody's gone like you was talking about that song you got with bankroll right like to go in and now listen to the stuff that they done how did that affect you like to hear their music and their voices guess what I ain't gonna like I don't play for you you won't even listen to it I don't play it when I'm with people okay I gotta be by myself to play it that's what I'm that's the part right there I ain't gonna lie I get emotional it's a certain song that sent me to certain people like that Drake when you hear me playing Drake in future use it is I'm thinking about my brother the money wow that song came out on the day he died and it's like when you hear me playing that Wiz Khalifa I'm thinking about my auntie and fresh like I did music and I also wallo used to be with me every day in the studio man wallo used to be in the studio every day so when I lost wallo it was like why me music is your own right you know like you get that type of talk from family he did because of you that hurting me more but knowing like I didn't kill nobody I wasn't the one that pulled no trigger these guys are mad at words people like to throw stuff out that they can't dish in and then when you say you know like I don't gang bang so I ain't no gang I ain't in that so certain folk do things for clout some folk do things for rank I don't understand I'm like me I grew up on an old fist fight I carry a gun cause I gotta protect myself I know these guys can't get knocked out in front of these girls and still be the same guy I can wear a head whip and then go back outside with a black eye cause I'ma laugh it off I'ma play I know how to laugh it off most folks can't do that they can't take a head whip no more yeah I was reading did you get shot or never so people be putting stuff out there you know I'm saying like you can't go by this internet cause they'll tell you he ain't hearing no more and you know before what's name died it was a Bismarck he died before he died you go back and look you see you like damn he dead they're gonna always say something so it's always the internet that's why I ask that cause I know when you see it it be like is this really real I know we always do that but one thing I want to tell you hold on to those memories because your life is not your own you're going through a certain time but by you being transparent and telling people how you're overcoming it, how you're dealing with it they're your support system but you could help someone who is even being silent who is not actually I get those type of DMs I get those type of DMs like people be like how you post this and say that and do this and that and I be like I ain't afraid of what you're gonna I ain't afraid of what you're gonna write on my pay I ain't afraid cause it's me, I don't care what you say about me you'll catch me on my shirt off, dance and play I like to have fun I make myself happy like me like me lately like the last three weeks I've been sending my house all day I ain't been driving or going nowhere like unless I go out at night I ain't been in the studio cause my tape done and I know when I put this tape out I want that energy to be able to go do whatever that's why I want to shop call me like 2.30 in the morning I need you to interview me like you better call and remind me I'll be on that server he called me at 2 and he like man you here early I say shop if I didn't come now I promise I won't make it at 3.30 so we just sat outside and talked for an hour 30 minutes or whatever and came in 15, 20 I wasn't gonna make it I know it I get sidetracked so fast like it just mean but I be trying to make everybody happy that you know you cause that's a lot of people's failure they always make excuses and don't really know who they are that's my win I accept my losses that's good wow I take matters into my own I know how to accept what I did my leadership role anything in life and accept my chances of failure success I'm gonna hear myself accountable on a lot of things like if I go somewhere and something happen what I be done told myself happen then you know what I get back in the car saying I said well I be seeing things for what happened and I know how to do what I might be we might be at a park bunch of girls out yeah we like to be around then I might just see some going different I might tell my friend let's go you're an observative person yeah definitely that's what keep me safe hold on but knowing your shortcomings are you trying to improve on those always you always want to be a better you definitely because some people that's accepted that's just how I am you're gonna have to accept me for who I am you got always trying to be better right you try to be a better man like that's why I don't folks be in jail with no way out that's true who I am so let me ask you so I can people get a hold of you if somebody trying to fan out how do they read you quick trip on instagram quick trip on twitter facebook do you really be on twitter I ain't been on twitter in a minute I ain't either I got a lot of people I check my twitter I ain't the it's like texting to me yeah I can do it I can not you know just say you know text messages get thrown out of proportion yeah they do that's why a lot of folks being trouble from their tweets yeah I always believe in verbally speaking because I know how to improve and see it but I know how to translate it better with talking then my text so you like to go live on instagram yeah then my phone I don't know why they call my phone on small phone my phone dumb soon I mess up with us spelling I got a friend named Boucher she always take me say you just don't care about spelling do it I'm like man you know what I'm trying to say she's like yeah but you do I still be big on when I get my music mixed and I be on messed up a word and my engineer be like go and say this word I like leave it like this like they didn't know it's failure in the music too I like it it's failure there's no such thing as perfection I want you to get the real me I don't like to be animated when you animated too much you can't deal with certain things so then I'm gonna be really worried about that I'm gonna give you me already say man thank you man I love man we love hard bro you family now you can't get away from us bro and when you were in Texas you better come see me you just told me that you got to but even so we got people asking us to come back out here like quarterly or whatever and I'm gonna be like I'm like hit you up like hey man I love you in town man we leaving tomorrow I wish I could stay man I told her I said we might stay if something big enough come through if something big enough come through who would be a nice person to get y'all to stay who y'all trying to touch with it's up to her I don't I say Gucci I can't get that call GZ GZ ain't here I tell I can call too guess what that's a mentor to me you call him and we can we'll stay tomorrow if he in town I can call what do you think would be a good idea yeah no I like T.I. a little T.I. T.I. was one of the one like he gonna tell you the truth like that's my that's one of the real mentors I can say if I call Tipper he missed the call he gonna call back if he got his phone in his hand he gonna pick up right then hey quit you with me you need me for something I need to highlight you guys until I be in the studio at this time come on who you with who you with don't bring a thousand people you know I don't got my kids here if he got his kids they gonna tell you if he by himself Tipper and Lumbie Ken you call 2,000 people longer they respect him he's always been a respectable person I've met him so many times he helped me get through a lot of a lot of that tough times like I call and talk to him you know he lost a couple people on the road and I know he probably got blamed but now I always just ask him how he get through it and he always gave me real answers who you think would be a good person for us like a big person you know who I deal with I think Rich homie like he got he having a comeback he having a comeback and that's somebody who really support me like that's my dog corn you call him I'm here if you can get him today we'll do it tonight we'll work late 10 o'clock corn probably tell you how to come to his house though that's the house person we'll pack it up and take it over there say man check it man we gonna shut him down right man it's been another great segment hey man thank you y'all got folks on him look I'm gonna tell you I want how much for an interview I told you I didn't know interviewing so long they asked me how much for an interview man check it man this is the segment of boss talk 101 and we out