 Everybody get in your places, quiet on the sex, quiet on the sex. Most exclusives and shit. Hey man, well first of all, welcome back to the 85 Shot Show. I feel like we TV1 today. Because we so behind the music. Oh man, behind the music. You see how I said behind the music. Behind the boards. Behind all of that. We got a real one here today, Clayman. I'm talking about this man got a hit record for every letter in the alphabet. Literally, yeah. And it's not just one, no, no, no. It's hits. Hits. Like they hit hard. You need one though. You ain't got nothing with disease. I'm working on that. Okay, okay. You're right. I wrote one called Zanzibar the other day just because I like I ain't got no Z. Alright, let me finish this answer. You're right about that. That's crazy. Hold on, I gotta finish this answer. I gotta Google Zanzibar. Come on. Over 100 million records. So one of the coldest niggas in the music game ever. Produced with Michael Jackson. TLC. All your favorite. All the music with the black people in it. Black people in it. He had something to do with it. All that shit in jail. All the shit that went. The shit that you love. Your mama love. The people after love. He got a hip for everybody in the house for the kids. They got a hip for everybody bump on your face. Come on. Watch your face nigga. None other than Mr. Dallas Austin. We can say a lot more and that still wouldn't be enough. They still wouldn't get it. The impact. Everybody who has come on this show and sat on this couch has brought your name up. I was seeing that man. That's when I was like, damn. That's like, of course, Gip and then Buster. I was like, I want to go on that show. I was like, hi, get on there. I saw you on Instagram. Don't act like it's hard when it's you. You could have showed up. Niggas would have rallied up. I would have came to get you. I love this show. It's one of my favorite shows. I'm gonna cry and shit. I'm gonna cry and shit. Like when it comes to Atlanta and the influence and making the landscape what it is, man. You have definitely was one of the people who had the foresight to look at the city and say, this is that. This is what it's gonna be. This is what it could be. Man, it's just an honor to have you in here with us. It's an honor to be here, bro. It's been crazy. It's been a long time. Coming from College Park and then looking around now to even like, you know, passing. The things you can do in Georgia is why I stay in Georgia. You know, because I'm not only me here for one. If I go to California, I'm another producer, right? Yeah. But, you know, we, we started this thing. We started out running the Greenbrier on skating the jelly beans, dressing the kids from another bad creation at the mall while we were just doing records. Like just trying to then organize noise had they had their studio inside jelly beans. Right. So I'll go there and go skating and be playing the records I'm working on. And then they had the actual studio that they gave them inside the skating ring. So that's what organized noise because they were dancing. Like most of them was dancing and guests dancing. Some of the dance crews, Pat Rico. And then yeah, they ended up having a when I first saw Rico wait, it's crazy. Because he's the first one I've ever seen with a dope wet phone. Like one of the prongs that was in the bag. In the bag. Like the big bag. Yeah. He's standing up in this game ring on the phone. I'm like, what is that? I wonder who he was talking to. It had to be somebody on the house phone. He wasn't talking to nobody. That's the crazy part. Then nobody else had a boy. You couldn't even really hear shit. Yeah, man. It's crazy how everybody, you know Atlanta, we seated it, you know. So to see us all grow and all of us do what we've been doing. It's just been amazing. So what was in the skating ring? Organized noise. Yeah, their first studio was in jelly beans. I want to ask you this. Like what was it like? What did you see in Atlanta that early to make it the same? You know, to what it is today. They're like all the talent that's in this city. It was crazy because everybody was just like, when I met JD, we were like 17, I think. I met him at a car wash. I knew him because of the silk times leather, some of the other stuff he had going. But he was like in a little white, herby love bug. Get up because he was like, you know, going through the silk times leather phase. I was going in the mental BBD phase and it's crazy how we lived around the street from each other then. Now we live around these three from each other in St. and Springs, but it started off in this college park and me going to his house, making beats at his crib. Before we even did TLC. Before we even really did another bad creation and all that. Let me tell you my another bad creation story. My teacher took my ABC tape and kept it the whole school year. I'm talking I had that shit when it was the time to have it. I'm talking about I had it early enough to stunt. And then I used to just play the instrumental and the instrumental was on the other side. Because I had it in school when she was hating. She wanted to listen to that. I'm telling you, that's what that was. She was big hating because I had the cassette single. The ABC was huge. They didn't realize that they blew up before boys demand. And so when they were going to Linux and people start freaking out, they would just start crying. They were like five years old, five to nine and 12. They would start crying. Yeah, because they were freaking out at people running at them. Damn. Imagine you're five-year-old being Lil Dave and ABC. Imagine you're seven and you're eight, nine-year-old being Rick. Mark. And GA being about eleven. And the bitches that was coming at them was probably grown too. Full grown titties. Come at me. No. I see two Nintendo things. That was cool. They'll never get the credit they deserve. Bruh, jealous girl? Yeah. Like I said, they were big before boys demand. Boys and the men was opening for another bad creation. They were like a phenomenon. Hold up, what? Boys and the men was opening for another bad creation. Yeah, but the kids took off fast because of the men Aisha and I made them a little poison. So it made them just be cool. It made them from God be rolled. But then, you know, when I first saw the kids, they were like, they had them in like the drop crouch, like the hammer pants, like the, because they were trying to be like no addition, doing any hard work. I was like, no man, we got to make them a little BVD. And we just started flipping them, you know, and so it was so exciting when kids saw it, it was caught on like wildfire. Because the shit they were saying in the saw was, look kids, we play Nintendo. That shit you was doing. Yo, I had this thing and these little niggas were just fighting deep in go-karts in every way. Was you the first ball fucker to flip the Indians' little flute shit? Yeah, man. And I wanted to be in public enemy so bad when I was little. Like Hank Shockley, I used to listen to the Bomb Squad. And like, Atlanta, we was trying to find ourselves, we had Kilo, we had like Raheba Dream, you know what I'm saying? And stuff like that, maybe SOS Man, Peebo Bryson. But we were like the first tipping point of like cool, young music being able to be made. You know what I'm saying? We just made it where that tipping point, like even from another way of creation up, I knew everybody that's ever made it out of here. That's what's insane, you know? Ludacris when they had the show, him and Chris. I funded the first video show for them when they were DJs. They were doing like a video DJ show. Like Arnell Starship? It was like Arnell Starship, but it was supposed to be like Dre from MTV, yeah, Love and Dre. And so that was even before Chris started rapping. He started breaking me his records first before we even got to Def Jam. So all of it's like, Sierra, Monica's little brother's girlfriend. What? Yeah, this was like, everybody that's not a person that's from Atlanta that hadn't been through dark, because I opened that studio so long ago and then I made it so that it was about having people come in and congregate, come in and work in each room. You can hear what somebody's working on in the lounge so you can make yourself better. I always wanted to know how the producers were rocking, because I was in bad contracts before that, so I didn't want to do that shit with nobody else. You always busted down and like opened the whole platform up, man. How would you say that that impacted all the business? Because when you could have just been a star by yourself, did you later put on two, three hundred people? Yeah, it's crazy, because we didn't even know what we was doing then. When I first got Rowdy, I didn't really want to label. I was just hanging out in Masquerade, I was slam dancing, I was K-L-F, I was hanging out with, I was just alternative as hell. But I was doing I just did ABC and Boys Them Men and all that, and so when LA and Clive came to me, they were like, oh, you should have a label. Nah, man, I don't want no label, bro. I'm just getting my shit off. I was like, I'll just make it a division of the face. So I was like, alright, that could be cool. Like, sign the skateboard kids you're hanging around, sign the rock bands and shit. Alright, cool, so that's how I started Rowdy. It was one office inside the face. But it was supposed to be the hip-hop label, so to speak, you know, and rock label, and then next thing you know, I got full-on staff in New York. 23 staff members. And I'm like, because all they was like, we gotta move it, we gotta, if it's a label like that, it needs to be in New York. And I was so Atlanta at that point, I was just like, man, alright. So I would go up to my office in New York, full-on staff, everybody, marketing department, publicity department, everybody. I'd just go back to my office, open the window, and smoke a joint. And be scared as hell. I'm like, I'm in New York. We don't mess with these New York diggers. That's how we thought about it when we was around. So I was really, you know, I would go up there every day and do the same shit. There's no music, open my window, smoke some weed. And one day, one of the A&R ladies came and she said, I'll talk to you for a second. I said, yeah, she said, do you like anybody out here? So what you mean? Why is there needles? Because they think you don't like the staff, because you don't ever go talk to nobody. I said, oh, she said you might want to have a staff meeting. What's that? She said, where everybody get together you meet everybody? That's how green I was. I was still like... And you got the lab. I'm full-on the president, but I still ain't had a staff meeting yet. But you got everybody shook. Everybody worry about this. He won't look at me. But you just going in there, your own label. I'm 21. Like, 20, 21 years old. And from Atlanta. You could have been putting your joint out on somebody for him. What? And you wouldn't. And they would have took his stroke. I left opening the window at my label. Thank you. I wish the fuck y'all wouldn't crack a window in this bitch. I was like, what are the windows? Yeah. You got to go upstairs and go outside to find that. That's crazy. My fucking nerves was bad. I was in New York. I was like, I'm too cool. Like, calm. I'm in Atlanta. You know, I'm like, yeah, I'm easy. Walk around. I'm up, working, starting shit on little five points. I'm getting New York. That shit was just like everything's frantic and everybody's just going crazy and fast. And so I had to settle in at that for a minute. Yeah. And by the time I did get settled in, I did the king and I did flip mode with Buster. Buster's helped me settle in a lot. Okay. That's how that whole story came about, because I was like uncomfortable and hanging around anybody up there because I didn't really have no squad. My staff was a staff. So that was cool. We don't trust New York. We couldn't. If you're good with Buster Ryan to New York, you don't got to hang with nobody. This is the most diabolical motherfucker to ever put his hands on a motherfucking keyboard. And you niggas, and you niggas don't want to fucking be around greatness. This nigga bite your fucking baby. Produce a little baseball. Don't ever try this. What's crazy is that he would come to me. We first started, he would come to me in the studio and he'll be like, he didn't want to go solo. It was Charlie Brown that wanted to go solo. He understand he wanted to be in the leaders, but he was getting out of the tension. So when he first started, I was like, he played me song after song after song and everything was just, it was so much. You just couldn't catch it for a record. And so he would do that all the time, all the time, all the time. And I'm just like, man, that's good, but it's just like jazz, man. And it was like, and then he'll play the records and I'll be in there nodding off, smoking down frontal leaps and shit with him. That's too strong for me. And then at the end, he will always do this. He will wait until I'm telling you 20, 30 records and he'll play me Wu Ha. And I'll wake up and be, ah, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all. What the hell is this? He played the album from the back to the front. Then again, now I'm in New York. Every time he put out a record from that point, he had to come play records for me and get my penises. So we'll do it again. I'm in New York. He's playing me song for song. Now I did a little better. You know, they ain't as complicated, but it's still song for song for song. I'm smoking a frontal leaf. I'm falling asleep again. I'm out. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. You know, like, what the fuck is that? I'm like, well, you make me sit through all the records to get to the one. This nigga put you to sleep to wake you up. Yo, I got the most evilest shit I'm gonna play him last. But as we after, like, 20, 30 songs, we do this all night long, man. And then he'll pull that one out. He'll pull that one out all the time. And so that's how we really, you know, work with him in flip mode. He was like, he was my dog. That's what I was running with. And at the same time, that's when we was hanging with Gunny Marvin, everybody in Atlanta. Man, hey. Because we got pieces of the story from different people from them being on the spot and just to see how, like, it ended up being... Like that's what I'm saying. Every piece connects back to you. You literally did everything. You the template, you the movement. That's when I was watching them going, oh, shit, that was then. Oh, shit, that was then. Oh, shit, that was then. And Dallas Austin, the first nigger that wore biker shorts. I was like, what the fuck? I remember that nigger came up to Green Blouse. The nigger had on some biker shorts. And he had his motherfucking tank top tucked in. So Dallas, that's what we doing. He was like, yeah, and everybody did it. That's after that. Bro, I said, everybody did it. Then he said that you was just showing us that you just danced this nigger's like, who don't sound? And we'll just start dancing. Taking niggas' girlfriends, skating backwards and shit. You ain't heard this part of this shit. It's another side of the game. Niggas' credit you for everything. And they're like, look, Dallas Austin invented lemon pepper wings. It was Usher's ninth birthday. But niggas showed up with lemon juice and pepper and said, put it on the way. But Austin, you literally deserve at least an exit in Atlanta, bro. You did so much shit first. I'm trying to get a street of the statue while I'm living. Come on, what? This is not an interview. We just came to, we wanted you to come. Niggas, this is really the statue plan reveal. This is all this is about. We appreciate everything you're telling us. But we know you the shit already. We just wanted you to come in this bitch so we can be like, we selling this bitch for a million dollars. Austin came in here. He sat on this couch. You're my nigga J.O. in here in the music business. If you want to change that nigga life, that's up to you. Come on, man. Man, the nigga code. I ain't want to really like start off playing no shit. I know you be playing. One of the code is making music. You probably don't want to hear shit, but like some silence and some claps. We got some nice instrumentals and shit. We was going to make this a hit record. What would you do to this? We got a board for you to actually do it. They got to pay for this portion. This shit is special. We can't necessarily pay you to do it, but if you was going to do it, what would you do to it? Really, really on that, it's about who you put on it and what they do on top of it at this point. I got it. I'm about to show Anthony Hamilton. Oh, yeah. I'm putting him on there first of all. You can hit it right in the head though. For some reason I want Lizzo on here. I just want her to be. I want her perspective on this. After the end, Lizzo on the same track. Let me see. They ain't never heard that. They can sing both of them now. They got the track rocking anyway, so that'll be like something nobody ever heard before. Hey man, you was working with one of the probably the best musician in the history of the world. When I say that, I'm talking about Michael Jackson. How hard was it to produce music for Michael Jackson? Man, that shit was so crazy, bro. When I first went out to work with him, then he would show you stuff like he would beatbox it. That shit had to be cold as fuck. I still got beatboxes of him because he would go in the room and be like, that's something like this. He goes straight to Michael Jackson. Like a nigga in jail? It sounded like all the other kind of Michael Jackson records you heard. Can you just like drop some of that on Instagram or something? Man, Michael Jackson. Man, that shit going to get auctioned off at the Louvre. We got Michael Jackson beatboxing tapes. Can I get 100,000? 100,000? We got 100,000. Can we get 140,000? They going to sell that shit? At least let me see it. What was crazy though is I got swimming crazy stories with him. When we started working on the project, I saw Jimmy Jam and Taylor Lewis. When I saw them, I walked right past Michael because I was like, Jimmy Jam, oh shit. I wanted to be in the time, you know what I'm saying? I know when I played get it up. He had to be like, oh yeah, that's Michael. Michael, how you doing? Yo, Jimmy Jam. So, Michael was over here. Michael didn't think I was hyped enough on him, right? So he convinced the taking us to this little like, you know what you have your recording alone time in the studio, you have your own room with your records and all your shit in it. He just started putting in video tapes. He was the first one wearing a mask. And he started putting on tapes. And he was like, this is me and Charlie Chaplin. So it's him and Charlie Chaplin dancing together. Charlie Chaplin. He did video integration. Wait a minute. I think it's on the smile thing he put out, right? But that's how I'm feeling. I'm like, God damn. And then he'll be like, oh yeah, this is me when I was in Africa and everybody, 300,000 people trying to get in and 300,000 people inside. Michael, Michael. And every time he put another tape, I'd start being like, shit, that's him. That was the nicest way of saying don't ever try me like that. It was working because this is what killed me right here. So then don't ever get it fucked up. This is what took me over the top. I'm him. He put a video in, right? And he's sitting at this piano and he's singing I'll Be There. It's kind of like the round, after a minute of time stuff, right? Got Tink Top on, Ponytail, Curtains are gone and he's singing I'll Be There at this piano, right? And then he keeps hitting another I'll Be There in the background. He keeps looking over his shoulder. He starts singing again. And he look over his shoulder again and this little Michael standing there in a little brown outfit with the afro. And he looked back at him and by that time I was just like oh shit how did you do that? And he said that's a Pepsi commercial. I just shot that as a demo. That's something we might use, might not. By this time I'm like okay, I'm through the roof now. He got me. I'm like that is Michael Jackson I'm sitting next to in here. I'm like this is crazy. So then I think once he got my attention and then we start working on stuff he said that's when he said to me, I did this song this time around and he goes you know what's crazy is he sent us to the Museum of Tolerance. I don't know if anybody ever went there before in LA. That was his stimulation around being around him? That shit was crazy because I don't know why he sent us there but when you walk to this museum and it calls you names it shows you everything. Nigger, Fat Soul, Hunky, Cracker all this shit. And you're in the same room with everybody. And you're like it's like a disrespectful house. Fuck Nigger? So by the time I get back to the studio I'm like why didn't he make us go this shit was sad? Like everybody's crying, they throwing babies out in the windows or holocaust is going on in there and they're showing you all the stuff. He's like well he wants you to understand the world what's happening in the world because this attack he feels like it's a world attack. I like how this nigga think he's like if you don't understand this you don't know. Yeah bro. So when we started working on the record he said I want somebody to rap on the song Dallas I need somebody really good to rap on the song so I'm thinking let's get treachery. Hip hop raise, commercial they ain't too hard. I need somebody harder. Somebody a little bit harder than that. That's when I said what about Biggie? Yeah, like him. So I called Puff Michael Jackson on Biggie to come rap on the song. He's like shit he out the now. He out the now Nigger he left. He ain't even here right now. I'm not here either. This is actually reported. So me and Biggie sitting in the car smoking outside the studio listening to the song over and over I mean over why he's rapping and he's saying damn this is crazy. He's like this crazy I can't believe I'm sitting in the car with you writing a song for Michael Jackson this is crazy right? I'm like yeah this is he start rapping the rap. Listening I got taps on the phone motherfuckers making a cop seeder. I'm a killer nigga I ain't joking endo smoke got me smoking I'm like oh shit I don't know that might be too much. He gave you a Biggie verse. I'm like Oh what he saying what about because I know you know it. That's how it's called and we ain't never go here. What he saying I'm a killer nigga I ain't joking endo smoke got me talking. I was like okay I don't know let's let's let him hear it you know what I'm saying Michael's gonna say you know what I don't know if I could say this I don't know if I could say that I don't know I mean his shit is going down he hears that shit and he goes oh my god I love it that's exactly what I'm saying that's exactly what I'm trying to say see Mike wanted somebody to say all this shit he couldn't say that's his own fuck you know he didn't curse so he'll be like dude who had gorilla that's what he that's what he call it I would complain to him I would complain to him about the engineer sometime like yo man this engineer I can shade he man oh he's horrible he's stinky such a stinky man he's horrible he's such a stinky monkey stinky man such a stinky man he's horrible he's stinky that's horrible but he would not say cuss words he didn't like anybody that said cuss words he would that's my last good story for you I'm sitting in the studio one day like this right and then he said well Dallas you know I built hospitals in Africa and I did all this great stuff but look what the United States says you showed me a newspaper it says Michael Jackson thinks Africa stinks because he got his hand over his nose he had his mask on and he said so I got some friends coming by today that's just coming from Africa to pay homage right but I promise you exactly what I tell you happen just like this first secret service shows up looking up then these girls start coming and dropping red rose petals on the floor right yeah driving red petals on the floor that shit amazed him and then he couldn't hold it in that came out automatically they come in they got the lion head on the did like the king and the queen showed up and they came to say Michael we all seemed like what the fuck Michael we come to thank you for what you've done you've done such a good job in Africa with the schools and with the hospitals and with the this and the other we just had to come over and give you a gift and they're like what the fuck is happening right now like and after they left I mean every day we would look around like like say if we sit in this room right you all of a sudden the red streak will go by and then you look at me like did you just see that I'm like did you see that see it that's Michael in red shirt red streak so I feel like he was like he was magical he was that man wait a minute hold up bro you tell the story wait a minute so you're gonna sit here and jump and Michael Jackson was magic and they just want me to just it's magical man so he could literally just the monkey was there going crazy one day we're in the lounge the monkey just flying everywhere Michael was in there right and me and my man was like what the fuck this monkey going crazy Michael comes in the room this dude jumps up on him and puts his thumb in I looked at us like nothing ever happened with his thumb in his mouth on Michael like this I was like what the hell that little monkey was going crazy he walks in everything goes calm he draws he paints like if you see some of the paintings Michael Jackson had done it looked like if I still do this shit like he was just he was incredible he was insane people I think seen one part of him but not like the art and oh the business mind his business mind was incredible it was crazy yeah let's wait a minute you saying he could just over there like over there me and you would look at each other and say did you see that me and my engineer they were like so he didn't really walk just over there he was gliding I don't know what he was doing I just know I saw a street but he was after all that stuff he was showing me I was super impressed at just everything of course it's Michael Jackson I'm fucked up right now cause all the shit that I've ever heard people say nobody ever mentioned that part nobody tell the real shit man I gotta get my life together cause I don't want my fucker to think I was just out here walking around I don't man there's a lot of walking around there it's me basically it's about to pick up the pace how did he get for a place to play you just heard what he said he said over there over there back over there and over there and there ain't nobody we be like did you see that shit did you see that shit exactly you didn't see him walk over there you didn't see him run over there you saw he basically just throws Michael Jackson you saw emotion he lives inside of all of our hearts he ain't gone he was never here he was never here stop it stop it I'm too high for this I didn't know that was in there he wings and shit Dallas I don't know what do you think of this one you got a food tester bro you got a food tester they'll make that food and somebody else test it first man this was the most important person there ever was I'ma hit eating food by myself I gotta have the first bite I don't feel important I don't feel an important word for fuck whatever I thought I had going on with this little operation Michael Jackson wouldn't approve of but you might fuck with it though like you said he might he was a lot of show he would I knew he was a real one I didn't even know you had heard about it oh yeah y'all like y'all what you think y'all ain't large nah it ain't that we're just so humble yeah that's the south man we knew it wasn't shit I saw y'all was down in Columbus Columbus, Georgia when I saw that yeah they love us down there that's where we was performing in that haunted ass theater I had to get away from down there so we went down there and did this spot nobody wanted to do the show with and they was like man we appreciate y'all coming down here and fucking with yeah that's your hometown man me and Kim Porter and kindergarten together down there Frank Thomas all this from the hospital yeah come on man yeah man Columbus is crazy because this is his own consolidated government you know give this open and give goodies down there they got together okay let's go it's his own consolidated government so it don't really abide by Georgia laws because of Fort Benin yeah so my dad used to run the segregated parts down in Columbus when in the late 60's like when Ike and Tina Turner and James Brown all those people would come to town they had to perform at my dad's place and stay at the little party houses and then on this block it would be like prostitution houses it would be like a game and all the black military guys would come down there to hang out it would sound funny good fish sandwiches good food left and right good music I'm a dick sub and a boy wiser and a fish sandwich what more can you offer that big hamburger was $2 less than that price $1.5 that was black man's favorite number back then you can get you a big hamburger plenty of fries and a drink for $1.5 that's like my mom's restaurant my mom's restaurant oh yeah she had a soul food restaurant down there my bell okay man look this man Carlos Miller and I know I can tell you you're probably tired of wearing the same thing over 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ain't been no hope and no development down there I've been trying to see how they could push something to get those people down there that's why I was asking if you went how was it they didn't get no entertainment mad love down in Columbus man especially down there after five they been doing comedy and after five the sports bar down there due to Brown they got a live comedy scene they show a lot of love when we do anything down there get you a house down there how much house did you go? $17,000 $17,000 about a couple of blocks and we knew it they're old though they're stupid houses they'd be like one and a half bathrooms and then you get like two and a half bedrooms what the fuck is a half bedroom half bedroom that's when the bed would come out the wall the kitchen in the living room as soon as you walk in the house you're already in the kitchen but now if there's some shit down there like he said then the houses there wasn't shit the value is going to increase there's a factory if there's something they don't have some hope down there drumline was about me being in the Columbus high school marching band that's what that's about shout out to Nick Cannon what up Nick what made you pick me up because Nick when we were doing the movie you're trying to find characters that's close to you and how you worried at that time you can't move at a whole different perspective yeah it was a high school story Zoe said I was down to play Kim I mean Kim was Zoe basically kind of was growing up because she was like my best friend but she played bells and so when I told the story to Fox I was just I just pitched it one day I was young so I was like man I got a movie idea you know some musical what about a marching band it was like the Macy's Day Parade marching bands and I came and filmed a battle of the bands and they were like what is that and they were playing the lead so I was like and I just told them my story while I was in there I was like yeah it's about this kid that couldn't be music in a marching band really my brother he was in the marching band first and he was a section leader right so by the time I went into coming in as a freshman he was leaving out as a senior and everybody was waiting on my ass to come in he was a section leader so now the new section leader would rough me up that's why you got the problem with doing the movie because he would bring the drums home every day you know what I'm saying I would practice with his march with his drum line all the time as a kid so I just knew on my shit I was so by the time I got to a marching band I played better than everybody but I couldn't read shit I still can't read shit you can't read music oh hell no my nigga you live it though hell no they asked me to do this thing one time for Quincy Jones he said Quincy Jones wants you to be the music director for this thing they're doing in Washington DC he wants you to M.D. the band all right cool there ain't no problem I can do that who's the band who's the band I show up it's them Herbie Hancock Greg Phillyngaines like a Bobby McFerrin he was just making all his and it was a tribute to him and it was like all these great musicians and I'm like I cannot they don't know I cannot read music how am I going to tell these people what the place one, two, three they're going to the song then the Herbie Hancock said let's go to G7 minor major I was like okay one, two, three and when they start playing my ears good enough they'll pick up I'm in there now we got it let's go we can play thriller let's go change it again what if we play it doesn't seem right bring it down 12 steps one, two, three hold on man hold on I said 12 man it went to the very end when I looked over and told Herbie Hancock after it was all over and done and all this shit it was having a jam section and it turned because I was turning the sheet music when I was playing like I was hahahaha hold on hold on so you didn't went to the whole book on what song yeah man I used to do that shit in marching band that drum line I was doing the same shit in the morning in the first period band and dude looked over and they said I just need to read the music and I was in the section and he was like you got to read the music can you read the music that shit yeah of course not to play that shit hold on let's play you hook up them you put that sheet music in front of me that's Japanese that shit is like that's crazy so I still can't read do not learn man anybody who try to teach you to learn that shit slap the shit out of there what was I thinking nah cause your shit work you own it some motherfuckers just see that shit and know how to I don't know brains work crazy your computer different bro old nigga boy listen whatever that shit is you got it don't learn how to read that shit man you already good I ain't never learn how to read shit and look where I am look at what he did for me a hundred million that's when people used to go to the restaurant hahahaha that's damn straight that's real talk what did you say when you told him you couldn't read the music we knew man what you mean you couldn't read the music I was like I can't read none of that he just started laughing he did a great job I had to do that with Prince one time too hold up bro wait a minute hold on man no you're not about to fuck me up again you got to you can't if you don't know who this is this is Mr. Dallas Austin he has had the most awesome life that a black man has been allowed to have I'm telling you man this man whatever you do or not this man already did the young producer in Atlanta with the popping ass place before you tell that story do you think your car in the principle spot yeah M.D. Collins because I was so happy this is white BMW 528 that's so disrespectful the principle could be half one the principle was pulling up in a U-Go you don't even know what that is because I saw Rico away with the phone now the car used to smoke like a motherfucker it would leave a blue trail of smoke going down the highway but I just wanted to BMW that shit was fresh I just wanted to pull up in school to it you know what I'm saying girls like it so I decided I had to get a phone though because Rico had a phone so I got to have a phone in this bitch you know what I'm saying to top it off so me and my cousin decided we would go steal one so we go to all apartments all apartments on Dobby Road and on Riverdale we go up in there and we push it on the windows to see what window first you got to see who got a phone in the car they got one we don't condone none don't do the tiger woods on me took a brick right throw the brick bam shit one break because Mercedes had two fly windows we didn't know that so we go right high go back around there bam that one didn't break so then we found a truck this truck got one through it through bam here we go we got it get up in there get the phone we out here next day I'm like this shit is dope and I gotta take it to cartoons so they can hook it up for me so it'll work so I go to cartoons and I told him I need to get my phone hooked up he said okay no problem he looked at it so I got the phone he goes where's the rest of it I said what you mean he said all the stuff they go in the trunk the base the whole system was in the truck you just got the phone right here so I'm like oh shit where did you get that phone from uncle gave it to me he said tell your uncle you need the rest of it it won't work that's just the phone so from that point I just double stick glued that shit in the car and every time I pull up to the crystal I thought the story was over no it gets even better I'll pull up that screw like this in that motherfucker parking in the principal spot on that fake ass phone just like get me down and then I worked in the jewelry store in the mall at the time you know intrigued they stopped all the gold chains and so what I would do is don't do this at home this ain't good for y'all to go do but tips what I would do is I would put the chains in the garbage take trash out so then I'm going to do some school from M.D. Collins like Bear and R.M. would show up don't say their name sorry about that it's private I don't know man what the fuck man hey hey that's you not me baby hey my wife heard that shit now I'm in the church I gotta go talk to that lady that lady I gotta go down there and talk to them people when I would go to school with all this gold I would take all of my arms I would have like jewelry all of my arms chains all on that would have black on coat on some holy jeans as a football cleats and my keyboard would be in a bag instead of my books so what I would do is just sell them bitches at school all day long $100 for a handball I got you $100 all day long taking McDonald's checks all day and now I got a stack and that's how I end up having the BMW and starting to get my first keyboards and stuff up here I don't do that at home but I had to get that jewelry bro you've been an entrepreneur your whole life hey man that's a genius ass plan he was doing some thievery shit he probably replaced the shit with fake necklaces too like real jewel thief nigga this nigga if you was on old national where the shit used to be if you was ever on old national godby road and that was your stomping ground you was just doing devious shit it wasn't nothing else to do but try to do some music and do some devious shit down in there hold up you act like we're going to ignore the fact that you was just wearing football cleats ain't never played football you know in Atlanta you had a little part of that back then like me and divine, stevens will be at vote right instead of wearing polo we want to look like the polo man you know so we got the cardigans and you got your boots and the boots tucked in you come to school with the whip the turtle neck on and the blazer they skip the class you just stand out in the hallway so when everybody out there then that's when you start dying the tree torn the match the tree torn sweaters so everybody just start going out to linux and stealing shit and taking it back get some better shit and lose that school just fly it out me and divine used to be out there Willie wear the deft Willie wear long coats and just fly it out just be in the you know in the hallway a lot of it was like that you said to act out the whole part or whatever bring the tennis rack in the school with the tree torn and the tennis rack so love fungus don't know where the shit if you get it even done it bruh I think you say he want the dress like the polo like the polo man I don't want a dress like what they put on the mannequin I want to put what's hearing about the polo bruh you making me think I've been facing this whole life shit wrong we re-evaluate everything I have never thought huh oh we going back to Prince this was all leading up to that oh okay okay please don't let me leave that out okay that's the one oh yeah so Prince so I grew up on Prince like everything I've ever done all the music I've ever made I would just sit and learn Prince records over and over and over and I copied the address to page I mean off the back of a Warner Brothers record when I was like 8 I sent the demo to Warner Brothers off the back of a Prince record 8 years old yeah they sent me it was like Casio I just copied that shit and mailed it and they mailed back we do not accept unsolicited material but I had Warner Brothers letterhead so I was like Mom look at this and she's like what are you doing I got this from Prince you know I was thinking I got it from Prince I didn't know too much but I wanted Warner Brothers so then as I fast forward through my life as I started doing TLC and I would do interviews and say stuff about Prince like I grew up on Prince so one day he tells me in LAV come to Pageley Park he had just finished building Pageley Park and he had changed his name for the symbol and you know he was early on the internet and so we go there and I see him walking down this long corridor and I'm like holy shit that's him like my idol like he's walking he's got this cane he's like got this pimp walking he's coming down this corridor so he was actually walking he got a cane but he was pimp walking he pulled up on me and he just put the cane in my face like this and said Michael Jordan should make his own Nike and I was like huh that's not the first thing he said to you the very first thing my idol ever said to me but then he goes come here and now I'm just like now we're going to like Wonka Lane he takes me in a room with all these clothes and he's like see everything in here that's all mine we make everything in house everything's in house see this you gotta make your own stuff Michael Jordan should have made his own Nike so then we go in another room he's sitting at the console singing he just sits down and starts singing and he's putting himself in different harmonies and I'm just looking at this dude it's insane he gets up come on let me show you this he's walking me around Pageley Park showing us all the stuff so he goes you know what man I'm going to do a concert for you because I was just talking about all his songs and I know every record sister party everything besides and so he's like you come back tonight I'm going to do a concert for you I'm like shit okay so me and LA Lee we come back later on that night we go into what is like the glam the big studio he has like in graffiti bridge and so now he's called about maybe 25 people from being on the internet at that time he had this whole glam slam thing so just us sitting there and all of a sudden lights go off boom smoke comes off he's on a moving sidewalk playing 1999 he's coming in this moving sidewalk lights being full on concert right so I'm like whoa shit then he starts to go what do you want to hear next she's always in my hair he goes one two three four what do you want to hear next Razz Baby Ray like he would go into him that fast like with his band right so then he goes and starts jamming and he starts playing this song I did called Black People on the Highland Place Monsters record the United States played it the other day thank you Dnice by the way play it out of place I love you Dnice so he starts playing this song Black People and he goes I got one of my favorite producers in the house Dallas come to the stage oh no no no no I'm not going to say it with Prince like he's gonna outplay you he always battles people he always challenges people like he did this shit to Lenny and I saw what he did to Lenny on that he called Lenny Crabs and so did Lenny started doing the think of the kinky he started killing this shit so I'm like I'm not going on the stage well a security guard comes up and says boss wants you on the stage I said no no man I'm good man he said no no I gotta take you to the stage you gotta tell him you're good shit Dallas come to the stage on the mic yeah full on white playing Dallas come to the stage is he saying it like Prince Dallas I know these musicians are incredible they're like okay I can play some stuff I play some instruments yeah but they play all day that's all they got to do 24-7 is be ready for when Prince say one two three play this right so I'm gonna fuck I'm not going near a guitar that's for sure so I go with a keyboard guy come on Dallas let's play it so now he's playing a guitar at the time so he's thinking the key I got this I go get over the keyboard check that I'm playing with him like this yeah it's good I look back for two seconds I look back over him this nigga wouldn't put on a big ass keyboard one of these the shit you can carry around and he comes back to me come on get some what not the key talk but it's big it's like bigger than here he's just wearing my ass out he is fucking wearing my ass out and this is louder than mine too so I'm not standing the chance I just turn my shit around turn it down turn the whole volume off and go crazy chillin the shit yeah but you the smartest motherfucker I gotta do that at least one time man nothing better than going to the stage with somebody just turn that shit down and watch how good this shit is you ain't worry about making no mistakes you just rocking out you can beat him then he came to Atlanta one time I was talking to him on the phone and when D'Angelo did how does it feel I was like man you should take your name Prince back really why it's kinda missing this dude's got the record sound like you it's kinda make you feel like Prince come on man this is crazy cause we used to talk a lot of times about masters I had labels for so long that that's why I like the guru of it cause I've been through all the fires so I started having an independent record company myself at 20 years old and from that point on from that to free world everything so that's embedded in his head when he talks to me and he was always like $300 million you know they own the slaves when they own the master you're a slave that was shit they gave you $300 million what are you then it's all for either this or that but he was really hash brown about doing that so as I'm talking to him on the phone about taking his name Prince back his fax is coming through free TLC free TLC I'm like is that you you tell LA Reed when he frees TLC I was like that's it you tell LA Reed this so then when he shows up this night and he comes to Atlanta to play a Prince concert I'm like he can't be playing a Prince concert you know he would call and say guess what I'm playing a Prince concert so showing up I go down to the concert and he has a room full of people sit around like this and he's trying to make them play his records because remember they banned playing his records cause when you were at Warner Brothers we had a label like that worst thing you can do is have a catalog that big that will beat you with your own catalog so once he left Warner Brothers and called all the records and said fuck that I'm gonna go be Prince and the symbol and the sign and all this they said okay go ahead go attend to him we're gonna put out all your shit and it's gonna kill everything you're doing so they put out all his B-sides remember that set they did had everything the B-sides, the this, the that, the others but he came back this night trying to get people to play his record and he had all the radio people in Atlanta sitting in a room like this now Dallas is here now we can really get down to it get down to what? I'm telling all them slaves in here cause they can't play my record they listen to the masters of the radio station the program directors are mastering their slaves right Dallas? I'm in Atlanta I live with these people I can't be saying a shit like that you know so finally he got his hair flip like the Prince cover he got the little khaki raincoat on so I keep looking at him like is he gonna play be Prince for real tonight and I say nothing he gonna just kinda keep going off on them like he gonna use so yo I got a new record coming out you can't play my record without your program director right and you might be like well I played a couple times see slave you and I'm just over there like whoa one guy goes you can't play my record right cause I got a new record coming out what about you? he says I got a gospel station I sing to God I'm a slave but then he clears it all up he goes downstairs and we go to watch the concert and I keep thinking he comes out playing with Uptown he comes out with a snare drum he gonna play this whole fucking Prince show sure enough he came out with a snare drum he came out full on Prince full on trench coat, first guitar, hair, red bandana playing head, sexuality all the Prince shit right so about halfway through the show turn the lights up for a second turn the lights up and he goes still going to the master slave thing again you know if they're on your masters that makes you a slave therefore I got a new record coming out and if anybody want to get my record Dallas got it, go talk to Dallas I'm like what lights on bright light in the house gotta get it from Dallas one, two, three, four so I get it done gotta get it from Dallas Dallas got the music Dallas was there my studio bro it was a lot of cars lying down the street the phone's going off all day long I don't know what's going on I have no idea what he's talking about Dallas, about this Prince record I called this people I said Charlotte's my assistant gotta call them and ask them what's going on they called him boss said how many pieces you want it's me how many pieces I want he said don't you got a record company a record store I said no man I got a record company that's a different story I don't have a record store he said oh he thought you wanted to buy his records and put them on the record store I said no man but y'all got a bunch of people out here that want to get this shit he was just the baddest to me he was the baddest person to ever hit the planet man that's the crazy shit you got his record I'm the record store and didn't tell you shit about I ain't even heard the record I don't know what he's talking about you can't even ask him about the record what's over there what record you want something from me too slave what is this slave slave at least I have everything on the side of his face you can ask him questions whatever the answer is slave amen I saw a piece of an interview that Tani did and she said you told him they sung too loud would it escape yeah well I mean well he said the shit when they they all sung out they all were singing full voice so they were singing full voice when we were doing TLC it was just different that's what made them appeal to people because they were singing out like that everybody was singing from here and maybe that's why they were getting it too because everybody was singing from here somebody softer, somebody harder, somebody singing loud all of them were singing from here and that was just like new in that sense even in vocals singing softer and different in the tones than escape if you listen to escape stuff so it wasn't just loud it was like really singing from the gut which makes you sing louder bro that shit was so funny that shit you got the best goddamn outlook on how it landed and changed what's the biggest difference oh man well it was crazy it was like in the early 90's we were going to jelly beans it was always big dope boys back then the Miami boys was here it was always like dope it was a little bit crazy it was always killing them and then we saw Atlanta go through a phase where music came in and I think I said we could do that and so all that started to change into a whole music focus like once I did another bad creation then Jermaine did Chris Cross and then the rest of the development came we started covering these different spectrums like the south that started making us have our own shit going on you know what I'm saying cause we were always like when New York came accepting us California accepting us we got to make our own shit and that was the first wave of us starting to get like our own amalgamation cause we were pulled from everybody we like Hank Shockley, we like Dr. Dre we weren't scared to be like I like everybody we want to sound like everybody so it was interesting because we didn't really know we just wanted to get to this point at some point but first it was about riding around listening to that shit in your car on 285 or like dressing the act putting the pictures to it making the music, being like oh shit and then we just ride out listening to it and then when people started getting successful we changed into the late lawyers started to get everybody started to get record company this shit is popping we need a record company we need a record company so it opened up the gates for a lot of talent to go through also and then New York and LA they used to call us like what do y'all know down there that we don't know what is going on y'all got something crazy going on y'all are selling record records because other people wasn't selling records like that like them in the Marys and New York records 10-12 million records like our first thing if a record was coming out we would be like damn man how many we going to sell the first week 500,000 or 700,000 92 up shit, 7 92 all the way up to like Napster and everything else because our record range was like distribution back in the day meant that you had trucks and you had the print it from somewhere and the trucks had to take it to Walmart wherever it was going and if you were in different territories like if you were in London or wherever you are in the world it wasn't like now you can hit a button and it goes everywhere they had to literally print them up over there and ship them over there and all this so the record sales was different and it was like $20 for an album $16 for an album so we were making so much money and it was enough for everybody because it was so much money crammed into that CD cost back then and then it wasn't that accessible so you sold, you sold there was no other way to get it somebody went to go get that somebody went to go get it you said that about the shit I got to go get it I got to go get it the new guy coming out I got to go get that I got to be out the first one to get it so seeing that transformation and then we went through where we were selling so many records down here and that was making us sustain to this point because we sold so many types of records out of Atlanta so many types of artists you started to see people sprout up they'll come to the studio one day singing a song like Aaron Hall or 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sweepstakes work but go sign up use the promo code I'm telling you it's too good to be true but it's true because I talked to the people over there and they told me make sure you tell them to sign up to win some of this money that we're giving away and I was like just give it to me and they was like no sign up so I even went and use the promo code trying to wait and see if I want some but that don't stop me from telling you because they got enough money for all of us use the promo code so we can win as a team 85% let's do it I wouldn't lie to you unless I won $55 million let me tell you this story Aaron Hall right he was performing, they performed after this comedy show we had this nigga Aaron Hall singing this song sound exactly like the seed this nigga was singing wiped his face and didn't even fuck up the song I was like this nigga ain't real bro that shit sound exactly like the shit like this nigga was playing this nigga was singing that shit land that's cause there was no autotune back then if you can sing you had to be able to sing bro matter of fact what invented autotune if people going like even when we did TLC they should be like don't y'all got that thing on their voice like it ain't no thing to have on their voice you just gotta keep doing that shit until you get it right and so people kept thinking about stuff that isn't something magic box that fixes it like when I was doing another bad creation I would sample it a whole verse and fix it with a pitch wheel on the keyboard cause it was five you had to have a guideline singing and then try to fix it like this but I think that's one of the biggest differences today is that you had to be able to have talent cause they had to spend so much money on you to record you like half of the shit you hear right now more than half of it we never got signed ever because you had to spend money on this shit so if somebody came in your room and they're going when that whole shit was going on where everybody's singing on lean I'm like what the fuck is this like going up on a Tuesdays and those kind of records are coming around and people I was sitting at BMI one day and I was sitting with some of the country people and he was performing that record and I was like if this song walked into your office in the country in Nashville what would you say about it what the fuck is going on because it takes so much money I'm not going to spend my money on you user generated content came in let's say around the time of Soldier Boy where it meant that you can make your music on a computer upload your music and distribute it at my space right so now you're going to cut out the distributors you're going to cut out the talent gate you're going to cut out everybody who can say no and it's only up to the consumers now most of the consumers you got can't sing can't rap you can't do none of that either either right so that's why some of the most simple shit that you wonder why is that making it you can't rap either so that's easy for them to say that easy for them to sing along to that and when that flood gate opened instead of it being like hey I want to sing as great as Whitney or I want to sing as great as performance great as this person or Michael whoever they started being like oh my caliber is down here cause that shit I can do what he's doing so I just want to do and so that opened up this gate of user generated content that really like go through like for us I spent so much time playing keyboards and playing over songs and learning how to write songs in my life it was just I don't even know how many hours it's been cause I ain't do shit else it wasn't as easy as let me turn on my Mac and it's going to do it for me or here's the 808 sound so that's half the songs already so it wasn't we used to search for drum sounds like how do I find a snare drum how do I find a hi head that Jermaine ain't using our sounds was like our grill now it's like wait about to get my sounds you can have them nigga slapping shit out somebody by the sounds nigga I heard that goddamn drum pattern before mother fuck you nigga you will get fucked up over them sounds what the fuck is wrong with this nigga man oh oh you thought I wasn't going to say shit so so you saying those not my symbols so they're not my symbols nigga you ain't never using triangle in your mother fuck that life okay you ain't never using triangle since when do niggas since when do niggas come in on the xylophone I tell you since when since we were getting there mother fucker this nigga played a harmonica I used to be mad damn they took my snare drum I had my one snare everybody at some point have your sound that you like I would always just be away and anytime something got popular I would go try to do some whole other shit so if I did enough over here and I'm like well let me go do pop rock let me go do pink and grin stuff funny and Anastasia and Duran Duran and all this kind of stuff cause I grew up on a lot you know I grew up on all that shit wanting to be them and watching them on MTV like with the keyboards with the names on the back and I just wanted to have one keyboard that I could afford with my name with corg or rolling or something on the back of that shit you know and my mom my brother financed it for me in Columbus and it took it was like $1,200 it took five years to finance this shit it was broke broke broke broke you know and I was like I gotta get the fuck out of here and this is gonna be my saving grace it took the keyboard with you yeah my brother I was down there playing Get It Up in Columbus Georgia right and my mom's down and we we went in the hood in the house was a little crooked and the restaurant was connected to it and and that's how she had the soulful restaurant but I was playing Get It Up over and over and over again on this keyboard and he bought me that I just died to have a rolling GX3P right and he came in and mom said clean up mom said clean up you know I ain't paying attention to it he picked the keyboard up and throw it and it breaks into like a million pieces and shit so I'm like I go in the shock right now I just have a knife fetish when I was a kid because everybody's bigger than me so I just get knives and play boom boom boom right you know your brother used to hold you down and put the knees and chest, put the Charlie and chest and shit yeah because I was the youngest one so they would do all that shit so I had a knife thing so I went downstairs got the biggest knife I could find out the kitchen my mom was like where you going I broke my keyboard ran upstairs the knife and tried to get my brother and mom was like where you doing so I made a big ass deal out of him and said fuck that just do broke my keyboard Greyhound bus station is next door from my house like three doors down I packed my shit up and went to Greyhound I'm going to Atlanta I was like 12 and my mom was like so it was night time too I've been crying all day and shit just broke my keyboard so I used to sleep with the keyboard I started with a Cassio and I was like mom every Christmas get me a bigger keyboard you know Sam and so I got now to some shit that I can actually be in bands with and sound like the shit on the radio and now you're bucking my shit up so she came out of Greyhound bus station and she was like yo what are you doing I'm going to Atlanta still Monty Clara I can't make it down here this thing broke my keyboard and she was like are you serious she's like you know you're just mad I know you're mad just come on back home and like we'll talk about it and tomorrow you still feel that way then I'm looking at my keyboard all night mad as shit I get back up next morning pack my shit take some money out of the cash register because you know we got our own little soul food restaurant get some money out of the cash register there you go hey it's a motherfucking game I tell you what I'm out this bitch I'm going back to the bus station I'm sitting there this day time now so I'm ready I'm waiting on that Atlanta bus to come out my mom was like yo what are you doing you really leaving me huh I'm like he broke my keyboard I can't not be a big record producer down here this dude broke my shit she said I'll tell you what if you're that serious give me some time to sell that restaurant I'm going with you you ain't leaving me down here she said give me three months sell the restaurant I'm going to Atlanta with you I gotta find a job whatever but give me the time you had the time to go we're going she left we came up and she started working at Pope folks on Old National she was doing that I was in Charlestown like this all day long wires went into the bathroom niggas recording like the chip and some dudes in the neighborhood come singing recording all the time she coming home with flour on her face mad as hell my brother selling dope up and down we just had a full on going on all day that's why in ATL my uncle George then the movie was real and we used to get locked in there was a safeway on Old National something like that and clean up at night and we were going to skate every Sunday and during that time it was like it was just amped up bro it was just like everything you could have going down dope deals all day long dope deals going in the Pope folks part of the line everything is about here he come back to the one he just jumped the show yeah he really ate you up uncle George that's my uncle George we just got this safeway this shit is regular to you you fucking my whole life up first of all first first and foremost my joint needs to make its own Marcus come here you understand about the film hey I'm listening to this shit and you like but we don't have none cause they slave they slave food that is that is slave yo with everybody from to even JT Money JT Money y'all that was one of my favorite people of all time people don't realize that Tricky Stewart did who that right they don't know who they think they did who that but that's Tricky Stewart and bro we just found that you produce must be the money oh shit you are the infamous producer by hand must be the money Dallas Austin must be the money oh you trying to do that yeah he did this this is your work come on man hold on hold on hold on hold on let me tell you now this is a good one alright so Shug Knight is at my studio that's a good one now that's exactly how a good Stewart is gonna be me and Shug Knight me and Shug Knight he had the studio right I had a group illegal making Jamal so he was trying to get work from Dre and from Colin Wolf so he's there one day and he says Dallas do you understand this once you do a song on him you know we got him on death row now he wants you to do a record on him my initial response was like nah man I mean he's a football player I love DM he's great the goodest club all that but singing a song no man he want to rap a song I want you to do it I'm like Shug man I'm talking to Shug by the way so I'm like shit I'm in this instance right now what do I do you know what I'm saying nah man it's just I don't know if I can do that bro I don't think that's gonna work out I'll be right back he come back in he got a photo album full of cards he's a pick a car Lamborghini's his Rolls Royce's it's all pick a car man whatever car you want I get to you go ahead take care of that for me with DM think of myself I cannot take a car from this nigga that's gonna make me go like he gonna be really indebted I can't do this it's like I know the street game you know what I'm saying give me a ride and I got you I'm like I can't do that either so he goes God didn't talk to DM he come back he said DM really want you to do the song man now I'm feeling like there's this nigga about to be like you gonna do it yeah you got one more chance he said though I'll tell you what he just want you to do must be the money for music man I give you $250,000 to do that right now I said you want me to take must be the music you want me to do that now for $250,000 I'll get you right now I got the record in the back my nigga let's go I went straight back to the back went through my records put up oh yeah must be the music I love this record let's go put it together boom boom that's the most money I've ever got paid for one song like at one time like that shout out to Suga must be the money Dallas Austin produced shout out to Deon too because nobody knew I didn't think Deon was going to go through all the way with it by the time they did it he was full on he did it all the way nobody knew I did that record either because I was like oh man you have done so much music with everybody who's good Madonna oh yeah that's the freakiest nigga in the world I just want you to know what he's saying that's the freakiest nigga in the world right there Dallas you know how every crew got a nigga that's him he got an ankle fetish he's like just ankles to be out the nigga remains the same temperature no matter the season yeah man it was crazy because with Madonna it was more like you know again I'm Atlanta to death I got like dreads down in here I'm at my studio like I'm just in my own shit and I ain't really like too you know shaken by anybody but then they call and say okay she called the studio and my security guard called me don't mention Madonna on the goddamn phone I'm like yeah alright somebody said Madonna on the phone so I'm like huh I told them I knew it wasn't her but they didn't call like one or two times or something like that so I'm like and this wasn't in back day when you had the text and all that so it was like alright so then they called again he's like you want to take this call and I said yeah and then I played the phone she goes Dallas I'm like holy shit this is Madonna ain't it cause you wouldn't expect her to be calling the studio but her manager had talked to mine before and gave him a number so she's like I want to come to Atlanta and come have a meeting with you and so I'm like alright I'm gonna go to Atlanta to death bro back then I didn't talk at all I wouldn't speak to talking to nobody I was just like chillin so she came in and then we started to she's like y'all with my record to sound like what you do I love your records I love this and then the other and so she said so we hit it off good and she goes well I got I'm gonna be in California I want you to come out to Miami and California come meet the people we working with so I'm kind of like on a little Madonna tour first stop is gonna be LA and then I'm gonna go to Miami right and meet her out there so I go to LA and she got this she has this castle right it's the castle that I think Al Capone or somebody used to live in but she painted the shit burgundy and yellow stripes the whole castle what right bro ain't that like wait a minute this nigga said I'm gonna borrow a castle this was a castle bro painted but this what she had told me about the castle right I'm gonna put this weed down she said because the shit you be saying the shit he be saying is so regular nigga McDonald got a castle the shit was a castle but she painted the shit striped right like burgundy and yellow or something shit that was the big shit about it so I go to the go to the house she ain't there the housekeeper was there but she had told me already and I was talking she goes you know I got a ghost so what you mean so I got a ghost in my place in LA and I could tell it's a woman cause she throws my shoes around sometimes I buy something like a carpet or something I come in the room so I'm like alright I know so for real right so I go to this house and she's not there I'm supposed to be there in LA but she's like go stay at the castle you know so me and my man day gates we grew up in there and we were like shit look at this fucking castle like we're just like this is a throw long castle tables big castle doors like we ain't never seen nothing like that being from Atlanta either so I go in the room and so we jumped on the bell and like shit let's turn on BET so we were like watching TV like sitting there drinking beer like smoking cause it's just me and day there you know what I'm saying and the housekeeper's downstairs right so this wall like when you walk out the door it's like see how those doors against those walls right there they flat the castle doors huge just flat against the wall right so we've been in there just tripping like I'm just like bugging like my daughter fucking rolled like you know get ready walk out to go to my meeting that damn castle door slam so hard bro it just went huge out so I was like what the fuck Dave was like what the fuck was that cause it was impossible for the door to do it right housekeeper was coming up the steps she was like oh yeah that's the ghost she was just mad y'all was in the room I still got the garage to open it cause I left I was supposed to go back that night so I had the gates open and they said that shit slam so hard it was insane and then by the time we started working together I was hanging on my man I was hanging with my man Jack I was hanging with him when I started working with Madonna and that's how they got their you know the two-part Haitian Jack Madonna connection all of that shit started going on at the same time but well you are the square root of black history it's just like it's like Martin Luther King was like hey we got you got Atlanta bruh we came up in an era where like everything was just like I think it was the verge of everything you know us starting everything and then it was a fresh the city started just rolling the city started just being like everybody just became interested in us everybody from everywhere and it just became that time when everybody was just rolling like the east coast west coast battle started here right down at the Jaguars right at the club here all of us in that JD's party it's like so much stuff has happened all of us in the spot and there's Puffin and there's Shug and there's the beef in the club everybody's all tense and shit and the next thing you know go outside his boy get popped across the street man here we go and it kept going but it all started right out here it's crazy man yeah it was a product everybody and then you know for me doing that time I was just working with everybody Mick Jagger and Stevie Nicks and every big kind of rock star I started bringing into town kind of just rolling around Atlanta with people like that and then it's taking them taking them to MJQ like taking Janet Jackson to MJQ you did know you was fucking people up when it was a national late night bro it was fucking Dallas Austin and Mick Jagger and that bitch get some lemon pepper wings and the motherfucking pros next I swear to God bro it was Dallas Austin Bobby Brown Bobby McFair and motherfucking Michael McDonnell it was JT Money a nigga with a yellow suit on Dallas Austin he wasn't talking to nobody because you know he hear the music in his head so he can't that's one thing you just say bro bro Dallas don't be talking because he hear music in his head man I was you still getting motherfuckers trying to get your fuck without me I was just I was I was I was I think it was a trip because I was really just shy as shit and so I would have my shades on all the time cause I didn't want to be fucking with my body right but then it was like oh that was how cool it is I was just going to go home I don't want no class ring I don't want to do none of that shit I don't want to go to prom I just want to go to crib like I was always that dude and so it just kind of came along with the territory of doing so much shit at the same time man you just knew what to do when the fuck to do it like your whole life your timing is impeccable yeah this motherfucker ain't miss none of the shots when it was time like he knew when it was time to go but I'm going to sell that restaurant sell that restaurant get the fuck out of McDonald's get out of the fuck I promise you when McDonald's canceled I'm fucking a ghost she gonna get mad that's the party left out he stayed one night before the fuck to round like McDonald's fuck me and McDonald's I know I can't and McDonald's ain't shit believing you in a haunted town with a ghost with a ghost she ain't even timed her own ghost man Dallas stay in my house and see if the ghost is there the people down there they got them ghosts gonna be mad she got them niggas up there in that big you know that ghost don't like black people they don't even watch Mike Tyson and shit on HBO you got damn bills just passive aggressive old white bitch nigga nigga I wish you would leave you gotta tell my ass twice I think I'm out of there don't make it to your neighbor damn man ghost gotta work the other way too though you gotta hunt the shit out of white people you gotta be some black ghost fucking with them niggas you know somebody gentrified a crack house nigga in the middle of the night the stove just cut on hey are you boiling water babe can you see my wallet every morning I wake up it's twenty dollars babe I know I'm there tripping this 80 bucks this week did you put this baking soda on the counter you slap the food out of your mouth wait I keep tapping the meatballs that was crazy you gotta go both ways niggas getting revenge out there just unhooking the cable slowly on their favorite shit I don't know why it keeps going to BET I'm sick of why the baby boy the TV just pop on in the middle of the night oh man it used to be a point where in Atlanta we didn't really mess with New York people at all so it got to the point that even when puff people wanted to come down here niggas started calling each other like big boys started calling you know Queen Latifah they were trying to buy land we're going to let them do that shit I don't know dawg they were trying to buy land over there we're going to let them do that shit I don't know man what y'all think what you think this shit is country we protect that shit because so many people ran in here and either fucked us over or ran out or took the culture ran out so we always been gipping them was the worst about it gipping them was just like oh no no no oh god god god god god coming down here oh come down here trying to steal all the culture man you know man but then when I left I had Rowdy in New York and L.A. was supposed to have Rowdy been the rap label but then L.A. somehow always sounded outcast to the face and I'm like hold on it's supposed to be the rap label oh man I think you really like them like that you didn't think I like outcast I'm from Atlanta what you talking about they just said you why the real motherfuckers been doing this because you know what it is they just you know players wall took off from being a record that was a Christmas song it was the Christmas song right and when it took off they needed something to take off because the face at that point was just getting that went through a lot of acts that spent a lot of money and stuff like that before they really started making money again and so then I got mad I was like you know what I'm up here in New York don't want to be up in this motherfucking the first place and then you're going to sign outcast to the face I'm out so I went to class I got to go to Atlanta I don't want to be up here and so he was like alright well because I thought he was going to be like okay we're going to close the label down he's like no no no no take it with you let's start over like just you know if you want to go to Atlanta I understand and at the same time Puff had got into it with Andre and was getting fired for Uptown so he called me and was like dude I don't know what to do you know and so I flew up to New Jersey I was like dude you should have a label why don't you start your own shit too when he was starting he had already been doing records with Uptown we had I had like two labels at the time Rowdy and I had another one called Lemp and I said you should start your own label dude just move do your own shit so then we took him to Arista did a deal with Clive I said another thing he said take my offices because I want to go home so he took those offices the Rowdy offices and the bad boy offices and then I moved Rowdy down you know Marietta Street and took a floor Marietta Street and South Monica there's too much information man that was like history I wasn't going in the I was like like at one point I was like you know that shit should be a movie but then you would tell a story and I was like oh nigga that is the movie that's your movie but you got even more shit that need to be a movie unless you're going to tell me this movie at the end of this one too so you gave your office the plug yeah and he turned them into the bad boy offices and then I got an office down now this is the crazy part my office down town on Marietta Street there's a full floor across from the newspaper right and you know who the parking like guys was Alex and them Alex Gea Alex Gea I heard A.G. Entertainment he was the parking like guys they were going to collect them tickets for the for the all the clubs yeah he shot out to Alex he started with us long before you know long time ago but like just to see everybody evolve into what they've evolved to shock up being at a spot of fire now like everybody's just evolved into you know grown as people I guess we don't even know it hey man what can you say what can you say I'll come back to like whatever you I'm telling you man T.L.C. don't ask him damn fuck this cause I'm sure he did especially if she is up there freaking age it's over don't even ask him let it go who's having a blast back then let it go he didn't even talk to him he didn't even talk to him he didn't even talk to him do you like me man T.L.C. man they was right here in Atlanta it was funny when I when I went to have a meeting with them I knew T.B.B. from the skating ring like A.T.L. was supposed to be called Jellybeans by the way and so Laura London kind of plays T.B.B.'s character like where she we wasn't dating them but she was like she was a real tomboy like she'd be at the skating ring with a hat down like this and she dancing and she yeking with everybody she you know you know so she was part of me, Rico, T.B. all of us knew each other divine we would be all at the skating ring and we would be a group and so I wanted to meet with them I'm like by the time I was like okay come on everybody wanted to be a group in Atlanta now because everybody started popping up with acts acts up black girls or this or that everybody was just popping up with acts and so when I sat with them I'm like oh shit y'all are going to be a group too and they was like yeah you know I don't know what to do with them so they performed like one of the Teddy Raleigh songs and I was like I know what to do with them you know and then I started like that in the first place we were just young and wild and making records about what we were doing for real and then all this shit started happening like the Hubble started putting the thing on them with the girls was really insecure about seeing them she was big hating the movie that movie was the lifetime but you know what's crazy is people just didn't understand it wasn't telling the truth it wasn't about what was happening now it's like you don't tell them the truth one thing about me and my artists I'm going to tell you in this year you're going to do that we're going to do this you're going to do that that's this that's that that's how it is they didn't do that back in the industry back then it was more like what you didn't know is what made the money and instead of what you did know so you know if somebody came to you right and said hey well your video is going to cost two and a half million dollars your this is going to cost that your this is going to cost that your balance is going to be right here do you want to go ahead and move on with this what's expensive it all is and look at the books and you say you know this how much money we spent on the project they just didn't understand on that you know and so that's sometimes ignorance is bliss like the way that they got their deal is they kept saying I remember they kept saying man J. Blyce got this much money and we ain't got that much and it wasn't true they just heard that in the streets man J. Blyce got this so much we didn't know so they was just like man J. Blyce got two hundred million dollars I don't think she got two hundred million dollars like this was on a second album so them not backing down off of that and then them going up to Arista and taking them girls from Techwood they took a whole crew of girls from Techwood and put them in the car Techwood and they drove straight to New York these girls don't know about nobody at all they just know Techwood they took them to Arista them girls went up in their puffers on the phone they went up in the office on the phone from Puff TLC need to talk to Clive Davis Clive Clive like this two big old girls like Techwood girls two behind like this and they was like we want to know what our country said L.A. said you got the money you say L.A.'s got the money we want to know who got the money so we ain't even to we find out who got the money while they doing that the other girls is going up and down Arista taking down plaques off the wall to take home oh shit we in Houston oh shit TLC taking the plaques off the Arista walls like that's all and they wouldn't they wouldn't leave until L.A. and Clive got on the phone on speakerphone and said whatever it was in front of them and that's how they got their deal kind of got their deal worked out you know but if somebody he's just back then in that day so much money was being spent and nobody's telling you all these chargebacks you got and if they did tell you what you was getting charged for you got it right so you still what they did the same thing is just that not having information and everybody's going to always come out like the bad guy on the other side of not showing you the information you know that's the that was the real key to it everybody's been through that same scenario if you've been into the record business because recoupment it takes a minute for you to recoup the money you know how you putting in me though that's how it is ask him no no ask me he was right there no no ask him I was going to look away no matter who you is you do not want a mother book asking you for 20,000 dollars what what are you doing now what's going on come on now what's going on you know Atlanta's the king of the flip though we didn't have the best round of dudes coming out of the streets there's been dope boys before they flipped into real viable businesses to employ other people that's the tip because back then the dope boys just went to jail they got to the point where I think even the people in Atlanta know they knew being there running around and taking out billboards and dumping money out helicopters and doing all the shit they do in the city didn't know what big states and everybody ever could have out and that was breaking them so they really took that street mentality and flipped it back in the day it used to be gangsters doing it anyway like the Tommy Matola's and other kind of gangsters but seeing that happen in Atlanta where you know the real hustle became how do we flip these records you know how do we turn these records into hard boys back in the day and that was one of the first Roy C. D. M. was one of the first kind of rap groups out of here to try to you know defy what was being done here already that's what I'm saying it don't matter how far you go back he right there carry the ones put that there I remember James Brown was working on his album that's crazy James Brown too well my stuff dad played you never leave it you never leave it oh that's okay I'll tell you funny as James Brown story right so I went on I used to go in a row with them when I was a kid them and the J.B.s right my stuff dad who plays all the guitaries Jimmy Nolan so I wake up in the morning in third grade smoking he's a joint with him right and play those licks like he played all those licks you hear on James Brown so we get up in the morning nobody knew how smoking we eat at third grade then what the fuck with your pops yeah I just hit a little hit bro you have had the best life I have ever seen a black man have your pops got it James Brown right so we on this tour this summer tour summer with the J.B.s and so they line up in the hallway and you know we talking smoking you know him to come out this dressing room right they got the light blue tuxedos on and they talking shit and smoking cigarettes I'm standing next to my step pops and so James comes out of the room he comes out fired up he walks by and slaps the shit out of everybody I'm terrified I'm fucking terrified and what is this about grown grown ass men he's like the fuck out of all of them pow pow pow pow pow that's the number of men I just remember taking I hope he don't fucking hit me but so I got after it was over I got back on the bus with them and it was talking to them like oh shit you know this bad show like they didn't even pay attention to him why he hit y'all like that he didn't want us to mess up he said to get our attention to make sure we paying attention you know so if he see us out there like that he's like yeah and he's like so we don't fuck up I can't play good after you slapped me after you slapped me I'm all fucked up I'm all fucked up people do shit like leader man if one person fuck up like they'll play in the Bahamas one time one person fuck up he's leaving everybody y'all can find your way back and he ain't played after he was just like that's how he kept them tight but yeah that shit scared the hell out of me now fast forward Captain Brewton she's the head of BMI that all of us love very much she's going into BMI just one year and she goes you know I think I want to start an award ceremony BMI awards and the first thing I want to do is I want to honor James Brown and I want you and Pharrell and Rodney Jerkins and Chad to be the J.B.B.s so I'm like holy shit this shit's crazy he had a plans back ain't nobody's slapping me tell that nigga put that in my contract if J.B. Brown slapped me I'm sweating I didn't even think this month I didn't even think this dude remembered me because of how long it was ago but I guess through music and stuff everybody kind of the word got out whatever so here I am on stage James is performing what it is is what it is and I'm playing I'm playing drums and I'm like this shit's crazy I'm like this is whoever thought I'd be playing the same shit behind James Brown and my stepdad taught me to play with James right and after we finished playing he goes now where's Jim and Nolan boy at I'm like oh shit and I'm like he's like they come and grab me and I'm like y'all know how long I know this boy and then because I used to be on the sweet child's organ when they would be practicing I'd be on the sweet child's organ like chilling and he bought it and he's been on the sweet child's organ and I was like and he bought that flashback up too I was like that's the same day he slapped the shit out of everybody hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahah can't play a circle hahahah damn hahahah I remember that day hahahah I remember that day I was like you know these days you never forget them shit something scary like that you just be like that's just crazy me hit them that hard he slapped them straight there was nobody laughing no more hahahaha they was geeking they was geeking hahahah hahahah that didn't exist hahahah hahahah see what's going on hahahah hahahaha hahahah I didn't know what was happening but good times when that nigga came out hahahah hahahah James Brown slapped the phone at them next time hahahah hahahah hahahah hahahah hahahah hahahah hahahah that dude's who worked it up man like I looked at it like y'all gonna watch Mr. Dynamite watch Mr. Dynamite that's a good that's a good documentary about James and you'll see all that stuff some of that stuff in there not all that hahahah that's the whole documentary just about James Brown slapping people hahahah it ain't got shit to do with music hahahah hahahah I knew he would fuck them up but they messed up nah I gotta do it ahead of time what you mean you get fucked up really fucked up that's what you never get and you don't get right hahahah hahahah he was slapping them forehand damn man hahahah hahahah hahahah it's been it's been so many I mean I know y'all heard um when Buster was on here he was telling y'all about everybody being at the studio alright but George Clinton what he had did is he came in and I've seen I haven't seen the mother ship land when I was little in Columbus right cause my mom's restaurant is down the street from the Coliseum right so I've seen all this shit when I was little the mother ship land cause everybody come eat soul food and go play so I would take my my elementary school snare drum and sneak me in the back of the concert cause he'd be like yo I got snare drum for Zach Rogers drummer and then there we go boom we in backstage hahahah this is the tradition all the time right and so I've been able to do one of the things that's been a trip cause I've seen all these people as a kid that I would just see the tour bus sitting outside the restaurant they go to common doors tour bus sitting inside the restaurant and there's George Clinton so as I started to get you know from music I started to work with all these people I work with Lionel I work with George and when George started coming to dark and he's just one weekend he came in there on a Friday or something like this I went to use the studio sorry dude you got it I left him in our town and came back I'm sitting I got a room in my studio I'm sitting there two or three o'clock in the morning George just comes out of one of the rooms do do do do do smoking weed so dude you been here this whole time so yeah man I ain't leaving this motherfucker so then if you surround that with at the same time I had diamond D two short Buster Eric Sermon an outcast a goodie we all used to be at dark and we used to hold these forums and George would sit down and tell us about the Bajola Hip-Hop Horsebook like they're saying and he would tell us shit like yeah you're going to see it flood in places you've never seen it flood before and then they're going to come on TV and say hey we're FEMA we'll give you flood on this insurance and we're like really they're going to make it flood yeah they got weather machines and they're going to make it rain it's going to flood everywhere so he kept telling us all the shit that started to happen he was telling us in these sessions and then all of a sudden one day people are rowboating by the top of their houses in Chicago I mean in Illinois or Milwaukee you know like the rowboat but over your roof you got much water than it is so and then the commercial come on we're FEMA we're the only ones can give you I'm like this dude all this shit the checks the checks turning into cash cars all this stuff he told us a long time ago and he was telling us all in this room and that's when when a goodie mob started doing self-therapy and stuff and he's New World Order forums in the studio but look at that group like two short Diamond D Buster Eric Sermon Illegal all of us will be in this whole little squad and every day we hold a forum like this and George just download us with crazy shit like NASA sending a person on the road with them when he was talking about spaceships all the time because anything you play with with space NASA want to know they don't care if you're joking or not anything you talk about the mother ships on the road with them but they were so hot they didn't even know who the person was for a long time who the fuck you buddy who the fuck you buddy I thought he was you too maybe I thought he was you too this new club I'm new to you man he may have the last 37 shows he's like 13, 20 people hey man we'll be up in the morning make yourself useful maybe like 20 people on the stage so they didn't really know who was with them or what you know and so he would just download us with all the stuff and one day I'll pull up to the studio in the short man George and all of them they're standing outside and everybody's looking up in the sky like this and I'm like what the fuck are they doing and I'll pull up and shorten like yo nigga we just seen a fucking UFO and I'm like what like and it's like afternoon time it's like it ain't dark yet it's like it's still like afternoon time and all of them literally pulled inside me all of them out back they're just like yo we just saw the fucking UFO all of us did they're like what was the light and they're like it had lights going like this in the V and it was sitting over the damn studio I said that's what y'all was looking at when I pulled up they're like nigga yes like y'all niggas is high for real like really but everybody was saying it so I couldn't understand if it was like one or two people you know he's always been that guy but all of us basically sat in there just pulled all kind of energy from those sessions that he would do and and it started like everybody's just kind of doing that amalgamation of working together like working all in different rooms and you know two shows was doing getting in Georgia's producing that but it was like it was you know I feel like there's a lot of goals out for you going in so everybody has a sense of respect about each other and love for each other and all that so I just feel like where to see it come from those kind of days and then to see it going to you know everybody really shooting each other and everybody really taking it to the next level was like okay everything's going to for Atlanta was really about the collectiveness that we bought together Atlanta's really about cash and like that difference is what makes us really Atlanta so I think that that's really now what I miss the most about it that has gotten really linear when it used to be so creative it used to be like and this is the place where you push your creativity to the max like I'm bringing the football please back you should you should you should you know that's why Andre 3000 had the football shoulder pain because he said you with the cleanser said that's why I did playing a flute now it's different he don't need to do nothing is that a flute I think it's like a type of flute I thought it was an oboe or some shit is it a flute or oboe maybe it's it's a collected kind of it's a woodwind though like a combination of the two of them but I thought it was a joke at first but he really like it might be a bassoon it might be a bassoon I know it ain't a regular flute because you be holding it like this yeah no whatever the stretched out saxophone is I don't know you know the music gonna be don't get me in here to lie about shit I'm still tripping that the motherfuckers are spacious are you telling us this is a chance our partner FABO was not lying when he said he was starting to see his spacious so you fascinated by the shit that was in the air nigga Michael Jackson go from right here to over there come over and ain't nobody seen shit just a shirt whatever colleen had on what if he didn't even have on a red shirt that's exactly what I was thinking crazy shit you'll see him driving down ventura in the van itself driving himself to the studio and we were walking on the street man do you know how many people would wreck Michael Jackson's a red shirt same hat whistled down black van had rims and everything on it and he was sitting in the red like if I think of the L.A. but we would be walking to the studio like going to get something to eat and he would be sitting in the red like we're like this thing is like crazy Michael's riding but he had to be strapped though right I just think that it's L.A. so L.A. is like that you would never if that's really that's not him that's like all these other people that look like him probably like riding down the street like you know they probably just didn't think twice about it that's cold as hell it's so it's so crazy cause like even if you saw that man in the van like you alright man go on bro let me put this shit down let me put this shit down ain't no way in the fuck it's stupid it doesn't look like Michael Jackson bro if you had that light though and you hitting the blunt and it's that long light and you look look at this couldn't go say shit couldn't go say shit you know what I'm saying that man that's some wild shit it is yo hey man I can't believe you came through the trap just to talk a little shit with us like that man and put us up on all this game that's all we needed man anytime bro that's what we that's what we gotta do that's what keeps us in Atlanta no we ain't kicking you out you see that James Brown slapped the shit out of everybody everybody before the show you making me think I'm pursuing this whole entertainment shit room we got a room with iron fish but you didn't say so much shit you gotta start slapping people and pointing your cane at motherfuckers and being addressed about the situation yes before y'all too so I just launched DAD for everybody who didn't know it trying to get my distribution company going I really got you know always one of the distribution companies in the first place but after me seeing like I felt like artists really talented artists was starting a place trying to finish in the ocean because it was nobody to guide them I know distribution companies ain't supposed to be about they're supposed to be I just upload this shit and you figure it out but at DAD it's different because you do get you know a person to help you navigate especially if you're somebody who knows the lingo and you're an artist enough to know what you're talking about and if you're an artist enough to have already built yourself up some then you need somebody to point you in directions or some shit and it's exciting because it's a different story now because I get to hear music from everywhere you know all over the world people can load up load up their music what kind of shit you like to listen to anything that's great bro like what's crazy you gotta be great already yeah it's some great shit that you don't like the people the most great shit is discovered like you hear it and you be like man I remember when I heard the rest of the development the first time and it's like speech played it for me before it came out you listen to this stuff right here man tell me what you think and I was just like God damn they got harmonicas and slave shit going on and African shit going on and it was just like when that nigga who used to just be the best and he was like doing it so it was like a game of horseshoes a game of horseshoes you know what I'm saying I'm excited about finding new music and like just seeing people like we had this kid in Birmingham to sign up and when you actually see they face when you pop up when the who pops up on the screen talk to them and they manage it for a while boom so what you got going on you got any more songs just that little bit right there kinda helps real artists so it's really for real artists that's really been like getting the door shut on them and shit like they know they're talented they're super fire they play, they sing they do all this whatever going for them but nobody's really giving them any any outlets so what advice do you give talented people if you're really talented it's like it's a weird obsession you know it's one of those things that it just dies you die and just they just aggravate you all the time to do it and in that case you're gonna the light gonna hit you at some point if you're just doing what you're supposed to be doing always that's how you're having every one of us around here period like that's where I would see somebody pop up like you remember me I was in the group they came to dark a long time ago like the light gonna shine it's not a person to tell you the truth it's not a person that came through my studio that didn't make it not because of me but because maybe it was an opportunity for them to record in there or whatever it was but I don't care if it was 112 that since the time I made it it's not a person in Atlanta that I haven't seen do it in a light that shined on them in some way like even like a coach K with coach at Hollywood and the stuff he was doing at MJQs and all this like there's plenty of times coach could have stopped there when something wouldn't happen or whatever but the reason he's coached that he is now is because he didn't and he's doing what he's been doing that whole time back then all the way up to now so I feel like that's happened with everybody period that I've seen put effort into what they're doing in the city in the same way exactly because I was just about to say man our OG called you the OG you get what I'm saying like Zoo he showed us a whole lot about the comedy games Zoo was doing running around over there and yeah Highland Place Monsters and when I was really the masquerading all this stuff he was a part of all that back then and it was the crow all these dudes that was just like the fabric that made Atlanta different to where it is now it gave us the right to be that way you know what I'm saying so that man we love where it's headed we love where it's going we'll keep expanding it keep growing it and I think keep giving opportunities you know what I'm saying so we got Rowdy back up D.A.D. I'm just a back for the opportunity and for the difference are you back in the game you about to flip the game again yeah man we got to so you tell me you about to show up and take 700 new motherfuckers with you yeah it's time man I got to row this squad me, John this time really go crazy have a nigga that juggle yep we got some people who do plants and shit I don't know if you need some flint this time we going full circle with it we got some niggas make gumbo real good I had to go out and attack I had to go attack I feel like Edgewood was getting left out I had to go I got JY's I went down to Edgewood I said it before I started I was like man soon enough I'll pop Rowdy back up I'm going straight to Edgewood I'm going straight to where cause I hang out down there I would go down there all the time and be at sound table and other places and taking out Kevin of Atlanta and I was like I'm going to bring this shit back up and this is what I want to elevate right here this cultural element right here is where I want to start off and so and I met JY's I was like yo we going to get this thing plugged in and you already got the filter through the playlist academy he was doing we did a pop up on there and we saw like 60 damn acts in like two days and so out of those 60 acts I was like alright let's just start getting this rolling we started with Johnny cause I knew that like the difference got to be cracked and I was like we got to shut the fuck up I was like we got to go with Johnny Paula we got to go and why had nobody heard of the fucking bonfire and why had nobody heard of this other underground shit in Atlanta that's happening that you see black people doing like these incredibly creative positive things you know what I'm saying the only thing that was getting shown is his Luchy and them fighting here's somebody shooting that thug here's somebody shooting that this here's somebody still super creative you know but that's what it's about is being the difference here so rowdy I'm open for I'm open for the difference I'm open for all that shit that we right here and that we did and it's got to be the new culture of kids like that that need that that outlet so we back man we back to be crazy yep that's crazy bro like so we take some questions from the fans from the audience oh shit maybe go to Monica that's what was crazy the other day what's nice is man I don't even know we even had a on the couch when it wasn't it was yeah for the awards yeah we did have Monica she came through I heard what you heard oh what you hear I heard somebody stole on somebody oh that that was mean oh back back and yeah but you know what's funny though if y'all watch the verses yourself I have to say nothing else like everybody saw what shade was being in and out of there like you see people on there did she just throw shade oh that's why she be oh that's why Monica be like oh that's what it's just the it's just the difference in being from LA at the time from Atlanta at the time period this is period Monica one thing about her was she's always been very like starting up where she's just tough as hell she was mad a lot of times like she was just like mad at maybe her pops what was going on the environment she was in and so she was misstaying for real she was coming in just be rollin' the eyes all day long and like wearing a bunch of little damn change from greenbrier flea market and a bunch of little sweatsuit always in a sweatsuit and when she started calling me dad real young when she first cuz and her mom said look I hope this don't bother you cuz I'm just glad that she was just roll roll roll roll roll hang up man put it in your what cuz you wouldn't see it come out of it she be like yeah dad I'm ready let's do another part but it would come out of her in other ways like she would be fights against violent with you know if somebody she would snap fast you know and she went through a whole lot of shit like coming up like just always in Lila Valley you know always taking care who she was wittin' the project at some point she would do something else like we shot the first don't take a personal video down check us down on Old National next day after we shot she got a hair down in here she got on jerseys on that next day I see her hair cut all the way off and I'm like we just put shot a video they're not gonna think you're the same person let's shoot another one so we shot the one in black and white and by the time we got to the next day you know she got a tattoo she was 14 so we put the band on on so everybody was like oh Monica got a band on on that's cute she's hiding a tattoo she shows up she shows up one day to studio and she got see murder in the car yeah this is my boyfriend I'm like okay and see murder he's ready to go he's mad that day he's going to do something we gotta go attack somebody I'm like okay honey pick his man to buy while somebody so honey he's like you gotta get better bro it's going okay first of all she called you dad your shit is dead you know what's funny dudes around there they've been probably dating a ladder for a long time like even a big boy in there my guess is you know it's one of those things where he's like dad you know and plus I used to sit and talk to everybody about shit like if you got any contracts you can go on through if you got any names come talk to me man let me tell you what I went through first like let me help you not make the mistake I made because if I made it you know what I'm saying now me and New Face gotta figure out what the fuck Bow Wow did to make C murder something we gotta start a whole hip hop investigation you know what it was I think that it was either he said they said something about Lil Romy or maybe it was a rap with Lil Romy you know it was something like little shit like that but it was it was he was mad at we had no idea no idea then C murder with a rope see what was happening Lil Bow Wow Dallas you can't be having a date somebody named murder because he looked at Monica like his Whitney he looked at especially in coming up singing for you I will and all the pop songs he started to go there and then we got to the second album Street Symphony and the Boys Mine and stuff and he's like Dallas no no no you have to talk to it you can't be dating somebody named murder it's not good for an image I'm like well he just wrapped on the street symphony so why are you gonna tell her that that shit ain't going now cause she ain't sweet why are you talking to her about that she's got two diamonds put in her teeth right here too Monica would just come back different every time oh she was full on she had one time one time she had a Lincoln continental bro round with a rag top and sitting on like 35's or something and I would notice she pulled up to the studio cause the trunk was rallying like the legend growl bro like we thought Monica was who we thought she was but she we know she's even more a Lincoln on some 35's shit's like yeah that's why she you know I'm proud of what she's turned she's turned into exactly what her songs are so grown for her like when she was singing why I love you so much or like you know Angel of Mine these songs like she sings them now and now they really make sense cause she's grown enough to be singing them so when you go to one of her songs she was singing these at 13 and 14 years old so it's great that she could grow into her songs she sounds the same more control but when you hear the songs now coming from her from a grown up standpoint it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like yeah her song was able to care she didn't rely on and she's doing it she's doing her thing I'm proud of yeah we love her here at the 85's office man we always have her we always have her we love her we always have her man that shit is crazy you didn't really sit here and fuck me up today Dallas hey man can we just we got a Michael Jackson a friend James Brown Madonna Madonna's gold sure night love daddy monkey bubbles he has a name George oh man Quincy Jones Quincy Jones he's like Quincy he I'll tell you when I was going to get drumline made it was it was taking a long time right it took me 10 years to make drumline by the way I stuck with that shit for 10 years just just trying to get it right trying to get it if you don't make a movie on Hollywood they can all of a sudden say hold on we ain't going to make it but we don't want nobody else to make it either so we're going to keep it and turn around so you can't get it back to go making it nowhere else and then you can't make it with them so that happened in drumline so I go to Quincy and I said man no I got this marching band movie that's stuck how do I get this unstuck man like what did you do he showed me Oprah Danny Glover they look like they came out of the western mall they had on like Oprah had on like beach sweatpants like lime green flip flaps and hair all over the place Danny Glover I mean they look just like they were hanging out in the western mall and then it's theater and he's recording and they're doing the color purple they're acting out like test runs for the color purple right he goes to me he says who you think holding that camera I said you I said nope I said holding the camera corner he said yeah you got to get somebody Jewish you want to get that movie made so I said really he said yeah he said you got to have somebody Jewish inside to really get it made like you want to get it made so at that time I was talking to EMI Sony and Jody Gerson as who was talking to me right so I called her I said yo Quincy said I need to find somebody Jewish to make this movie she said well I'm Jewish she said can I co-produce it she just came off as far as going for cash the way so I go back in the fox and I say hey I got Wendy find them and I'm going to make drum line and she's like they're like yeah right you got her you got her you can do whatever you want so she called she looked at me the lady said I have no idea what this movie is about I have no idea what a marcher van is but I think you do so I'm just going to fork you out so you can go make the movie I'm probably going to I think when I was making drum line everybody thought I was I don't know what they thought I was doing I got the hook up was out and some kind of beat I think snow in the bluff you know it was out so I think the people thought I was making some other shit I don't think nobody expected you I was about to say you got enough money not to do that shit I would have been mad with you I couldn't get people in the movie I wanted I'd be like yo man Luda man can you do this rap part for me oh no man we might be like so then the movie went from 13 million to 18 million because they didn't realize I had to record the marching bands right write songs for the marching bands record them in the warehouse and then have them for playback so it became a lot of a lot of it came with money and so they called me from Fox and said yo this movie is going from 13 to 18 put white people in it so I said okay well how many white people because if I don't get this right the white people ain't going to like it you know what I'm saying this is a marcher band movie so we don't care put white people on over so I'm saying I gotta figure this out I go to the AU center and they're having a step show right so five eight five eight a sigma comes out and they got this dude I think I thought he had on a mask because I thought he was on the Eminem you know everybody got their gig and whatever they got all purple suits on and they got this white kid blonde hair when I was sitting there I swear it's a mask I think he's going to take it off so I'm like oh shit this is a white kid this kid that lived down the street from the AU center he always wanted to be a drum major and he had red hair and freckles too and he would play the hell like the Simms or Morris Brown so then I'm like okay we can figure this out they said no we want white bands so I actually put Georgia Tech Georgia State whoever had white bands I put them all in drumline but it was fucking atrocious because imagine that imagine seeing them standing there going da da da da imagine fucking like the tune of anybody else the Jackson State so you're like you can't do this to the schools you know what I'm saying fam you by the way fam you we ain't getting in there because we can't lose yeah that was the story they said they refused they refused to lose he's like we're not getting we're not getting that to lose so what I did was made a fake school right I make Atlanta A&T it don't exist it's a fake school so that nobody had to lose to another school right I wasn't going to be on the Camerson fam beat so make a fake people are still like we're not losing to them either we definitely we definitely we're not losing to some fictitious school I got a shit in this so school you made up they rapping in zero in zero no it's not us baby yeah that's fucked up I wanted to see us in there but it's cool it worked out and stuff was the cab is most of the band Atlanta A&T and most of the high school band so we just call ourselves up everything then people start coming to Atlanta looking for the school whatever they want to go there like that's in North Carolina, bro. You started getting applications. They said you can get me into the band program. Hey, bro what's happening then, bro? Him and all girls, you know what? It's just good. Damn. That's crazy as hell. Oh man. I wish I had got like 2% of every movie that come here because I had to go to pass the film bill, right? So I went before the state of Georgia and tried to pitch, hey I need y'all to like make a film bill for us so I could film ATL here. They wanted to send me to New Orleans to shoot ATL and I'm like how am I going to shoot a skate rink movie with all my friends in it that I skate it with in New Orleans? It's like it's cheaper to shoot it out there so get ready to shoot it out there. So then I went to, you know, I went to start lobbying down here going to Sonny Perdue and then we're going, yo man we got a film bill I want to shoot ATL in Atlanta and so I was just kind of talking shit. I was like, yeah, tell the governor if you want, because they said, well Sonny Perdue want to talk to you about this. So yeah, right. Tell him you want to talk to me, come to my house, right? So I was just talking shit, obviously, right, because he's Republican and I'm Democrat. It was so far away from that happening I thought that would never happen in my life. But I was suddenly having a thing in my house like this little Maybach event or something they were doing and then this little Maybach, I think it was introducing a car or some shit. They introducing a car? Yes! They brought it to your house to introduce it. They shit wasn't good enough to introduce it. They said we cannot show the people where we made this motherfucker, we have not cleaned up. Hold on, where you at in life when the Maybach is the little car shit they doing in my house? Not a Mercedes event, not the 350. This little Maybach shit they doing in my back. Who was in Atlanta too, because this is like I just got out of my house, it took me like six years to build my house or whatever, right? I just finished it. My shit was built with my mother. Ain't that crazy? I already built my fucking hand in there to be living in that bitch. The nerve of these things. Can you believe that I bought a used house. I wish the fuck somebody would host anything in my yard. This little Maybach shit. They can stow the fruit out of my yard. He worried about this little Maybach shit. I don't know where to pitch it. You got fruit things. Man, that's a different part of it. No, no, no, this isn't something to do with my house. And my sister said, yo, the governor's coming, he's coming here. I was just talking shit. What am I saying to do when he came here? I don't know, but he on the way. So my thing was I would put the kids in white polos, give me my white polo shirt and we going to do this thing, right? So he comes in, I white polo it out. There's people, there's some party going on in there. So he's like Dallas, I don't know what to do. Can you go speak at the G8 summit and help us get it? I'm just not familiar with what this takes. So I'm like, yeah, I'll go to G8 summit. I got this shit, I'll speak on it. I got it. We're going to do this here. Yeah. Now, keep in mind, and I'm lobbying for this. Going to pass this bill and all this shit. So I'm thinking, here it is the night before the G8 summit. Now, the G8 summit is in Sea Island, Savannah, right? I'm up. Now we know where the shit is. We've been in the go lobby, bitch. Smoking, right? I'm working the night before. I'm making beats. My man keep going, you know, you got to do this shit. I'm like, yeah, nigga, we going out to the fucking summit. I got this shit. I'm thinking it's the fucking G4. You know that channel G4? They got the games and shit, right? I'm thinking I'm going to the G4 summit, right? So I'm on the plane. I'm on the way to the plane like this. This nigga's like, you crazy? What are you doing? I'm like, man, we're going to be ready. I get on the plane. I'm drinking Bloody Mary's. All right? So now, Savannah ain't that far, right? So we started flying to Savannah. I started looking down. I see tanks, like military tanks everywhere. I'm like, what's going on? He's like, you going to speak at the G8 summit? I'm like, yeah, but why do they got tanks? He's like, where do you think you're going? I said, you know, the video games. You know shit? You talking about entertainment? You know stuff? He's like, no, my man, you're going to speak with George Bush and Tony Blair. All the world leaders are there. All the world leaders are there. And I'm landing. I'm seeing hummers and tanks. I'm like, shit. So I got a speech this lady wrote for me. I ain't even look at this yet. Because I thought I was going to this place. I was just going to wing it, you know? Yeah, I like games, nigga. I'm going to take the PlayStation. That shit is a butterfly, man. Drop the new Xbox Expeditions. I'm sitting here, man. Man, I get up there. I'm nervous as hell. I walk up in the room. All you can see is suits and flags from the United Nations and all these different countries and shit. And you smell like weed. Oh, man. I smell like something. Relative Marys or something. Because I've been drinking the whole time when I got them playing. And I had to leave there. I went into a bathroom and washed my face off and shit because I didn't know where I was going. Tried to get my little shit together. And then I get there. And I haven't looked at this speech. And I opened the speech up at the podium. And it's every big word you ain't never seen in your life. I'm like, oh, shit. And I'm just looking. I'm just like... It says on behalf of the congressional state of Georgia is how I start off. And then everything else I'm just like, too big. I'm just looking around the room, sitting there in all suits. So I just bawled the shit out. I'm like, man, okay, check this out. I'm from College Park, right? And I'm trying to make this movie here. And it's from Atlanta, by Atlanta. We should be making it here. Why are y'all trying to send me to New Orleans? This place could be the Swiss Alps. It could be any place. Georgia could be anywhere. It could be this, that, and the other. There's just so much money you're missing. So much stuff here. We got to keep our economy here. These kids are going to school in Georgia State and all these art schools. And they can't go out here to work. No, they got to go to Hollywood. You're missing the whole industry. By the time I finished, well, they had a standing ovation. And everybody behind me was going. And like Dallas said... And we appreciate that. Like Dallas said... What? Yeah, that one right there. I still have one with the stunt. Whatever you said opened up the floodgate because it came through. We can not issue more shit here in Atlanta than they should in Hollywood. Yep. So yeah, they opened the floodgate, bro. That was safe. So I'm trying to get a big statue. We're going to like a statue, a Liberty Statue. Get that big statue, a statue. What's wrong? You want to be keyboard? Even if they had you doing some shit on the statue that you didn't even do, it could be outside of Philip's arena and you dunking on the market. Oh, it don't fucking matter. Oh, I got one. Go ahead. We're going to have to redo Storm Mountain. You got to put him up there. Oh, yeah. We're bidding for outcasts to go up there. They're going to never let us go up there. Man, come on. Crazy part about Storm Mountain. Maybe it's you outcast and then it's like a little Mount Rushmore because it ain't everything that came back to the one. They used to burn, I used to see in our textbooks, they used to have pictures of Storm Mountain with crosses burning on top of them. So I was always, I always get to go to Storm Mountain. Yeah. I've probably been there one time. They ain't do that shit back in the day either. They built the shit when it was clearly racist. Oh, yeah. That shit was finished in the 70s and shit. They had to lie about what the fuck they was building. Who did it? Oh, that's all. Well, we got to figure out this time. John Wayne. We got to figure out Buckhead. Like somebody, you got to figure, somebody, you got to, I don't understand. Like, can't be niggas from Atlanta because nobody's getting shot in the South DeKalb or in the regular Greenbrier. It's all at Linux. So I feel like that is just getting crazy out here. And at some point on the police, the mayor, somebody had to do something about it. It was really getting out of control. And I feel like Atlanta, for the dudes that said, like some things we just like two chains were saying, we don't really stab people in the club. You know what I'm saying? We don't do, it's just, it's just weird that it's taking this toll. And they got to really flip this shit up down here and get us, get us safer. Don't go to Far Roll, by the way. If you can't go to Far Roll, if you don't watch it, what is the ATL school? Well, you can sit there and watch it. That should not be scared to go everywhere. So don't look at that. Because I don't find myself, this nigga got shot at the corner of this. It'll bust out everybody's windows. Like even coming down here, I got my gun in the car. I don't love cars on the road. Why are you saying that? Because, man, I'm just taking, I ain't know where I'm going. He said the West End mall. He didn't even tell me I was coming to the creative spot. He said, hold here by the West End. By the West End. You even looking at ATL school? I got my slingshot on me, too. Don't fuck around. No, man. I don't let anything happen to you, man. There's too much good shit that you do out here in the world, bro. Look at all the shit that you said tonight. I'm protected by the Lord, man. And Michael Jackson, man. And Michael Jackson. Bro, he can go from... Shut up. All right. Shut up. You got to give the Lord his credit. Give the Lord his credit to give the Michael Jackson the sacred. Another big thing, one more big announcement to make that I think everybody should be proud of from Atlanta is that we are getting out on Walk of Fame, like the start walk in Hollywood. So you will like... And they're going to put it... I thought they would try to make us stick it on Martin Luther King, which has been fine, too. But it was like, no, no, no. We got to be over there at the stadium. You know, we need to be right where everybody walking out of soccer games and, you know, they coming out of the Phillips Arena. Oh, yeah. You know. We got to keep pushing, y'all. How many spots they got? I think, well, it's... They're expensive. So you do start with the first 10 and then do... How much do the spots go for? About 30, 40,000. 30, 40,000? I mean, I can do it with a payment point. Let me get on yours. Let me get on yours. Let's do what? Together. Have you? Have you? Lowering the service. Lowering the service. But I ain't lowering it. So you can get both of them in there. We'll be definitely just up on that bench. Towards the end. Towards the end. Towards the end. The one toward the end. We'll be the last one. We'll be down a little by with the uptown. Last step. All right. We'll be way down. You know you're at the end when you see Carlos and Clayton. You're almost out of there. So you see Carlos and Clayton make a right. He's going to take that on straight to the inner circle. That's what's cool about it though. It's the entertainment walk. So it will include y'all. It will include actors. It will include sports. It won't just be music. You got to be a... You got a statue. You got a square. I got to ask one more thing. What was the wildest night in Atlanta? In Atlanta in general? The deadest Austin's wildest night in Atlanta. Oh boy. Damn. Really? I was a popcorn. So it's me, Whitney Houston, Jackie Chan, and Steven Seagal. We're an old nation. Why you keep taking that front of the old man? They're a frozen family. Well, you know, we had that wave that kicked in by the Y2K, where everybody was on ecstasy. The Y2Ks came in and they met some bee sheeps. That's when it first hit Atlanta, like the real fun epidemics. Everybody was wild. Everybody was out and happy as hell and going to the MGQs and shit. So me and Sleepy Brown and Joy and Gip and... all of us just all hanging in our own little pack, in our own little squad. So I think it was like Christmas or something like that, but all of us have been like... they're named the MGQs and we just thought it was a good idea to like, you know what? We got to go to a Christmas shop in the mall, you know what I'm saying? Why don't we just stay up and go to the mall? You know? So... That makes sense. That makes sense, right? I've been there especially if you took a miss a bee sheep. Oh man. Oh yeah, it makes sense, right? We haven't been going to the malls though, but all of us then decided we should all about matching sweatsuits. Right? Me, Sleepy, all of us starting to cap our sweatsuits with the chicks on the sleeves. So now all of us are switching to those in the mall. Now we're in a whole another world because we just sit down and join. But by the time we all look around the shop, and he's sleeping on the counters and riches, like sleeping in between, sitting here and then and all that. But Karma, Karma the nightclub used to be our wildest days because we used to go underground and we didn't go out until 2 in the morning. Like nobody went out at 9, 10, 11 o'clock. That wasn't that thing to do. Like 1, 2 o'clock. You just stay out. Come out, come back home. The daylight's out. You know what I'm saying? And then Karma, that was just like a whole another like, I don't know, it might have been, it might have been this, I don't know how sinister, it was just sinister. It was, it was, it was fun. But it was dark because it was downstairs and I think across from where they had the federal, the federal building that. So he's got slaves across the street basically. Yeah. So he got this real eerie feeling going on with everybody in the whole place. Yeah. And that was the, to me, that was the, to me though, that was the funnest time until the, until the ecstasy started going in the after hours. Oh yeah, the after hours. Yeah. So when ecstasy started turning into after hours, like where, like, cause that wouldn't really for that. It was more like, hey, we're gonna hang out with the white kids, we're gonna hang out and get mixed and go to the mjq's and go there. But when it started really moving to the after hours and to the the black kids and that era was like, to me, the funnest era. Because it was, I think it was new. It wasn't, it didn't feel dangerous. It felt like fun. People listen to music and you go around and it was just something new to everybody. And you could tell when a new person would try it. Cause they were gonna walk through the club and they'd be like, oh shit, this is where everybody at. Oh yeah, god damn. Why ain't nobody called me all these dancing? Let me know if we ain't here. Fuck it, it's it. You know what, we didn't know they were with the glow sticks and the little baby bottles and stuff. You be like, we're not letting niggas know this shit's going on out here. Everybody's feeling good. You know what I'm saying? You don't let niggas go, one, two, or this way our motherfuckers be at. Niggas way out there. But yeah, it was an era, man. I feel like that it's, I don't know really now like when I look at when I look at that and I look at people even in the scenes and being out, it's a whole different city. You know, it's a lot, it's gone a lot more metropolitan. You got your belt line and then you got like, it's a lot more culturally significant than we were before. We're the most culturally significant place on the down planet right now. You got a lot of spots. Well, just in everything, like in music and culture and that and everybody, if you look at it loud, it's a lot of people from everywhere else. But like the culture that really resides from being from here, white out on his glasses. Right. You know, it's always something new and it's always some other trend and culture. And I always say to kids here, you don't understand that they've been that long that you guys couldn't go to the same bathroom. Like they would have put the dogs on you and sprayed you down right here on the edge with 60 years ago. That ain't no long time ago. So what we've accomplished during this time of being here, we've accomplished just way more like when you see dudes like, I wonder what Martin Luther King and them thing about like the Migos, like when they see dudes with so much jewelry and cars and cars and jewelry that went just like bad and bullshit. You know what I'm saying? Oh, run it back. I want to hit Quavo. This was all about the economy. They didn't want you to get rich. He wouldn't like that shit. But you look at little, you know, look at little baby, look at these dudes. He said, he's gonna get so much loot. They got money stacked on their ears. They got cars and stuff for days. And this was about the economy. They wouldn't let you have green. That's what this was about. It wasn't about black and white. It was about, we don't want you niggas to make no money. Martin Luther King and the drug store owners, the drug store man, the men, all these people saying, yo, these things, they're gonna take over our shit. So as business owners, they didn't want you to have the green. And when we kind of kicked through, like, I remember when we first started making money, like me and JD around Atlanta, the countess was weird. Everybody was weird. Like, what y'all doing? Like, how do you get money like that? Because it was no legal way that they knew to make money without going to school or counting, lowering or whatever. So we doing music and they don't understand if a check comes in, it's like $500,000 or something like that. They're like, what are y'all doing? How does this end up? They didn't want to give you loans for shit because you're still like, yo, black, you know what I'm saying? You can't get no loan for no house. Like, I got money in the bank. Well, how do you get money in the bank? How does royalties work? What is that? How does that? So we educated the city. You had to teach these niggas how to account. You had to teach the accountants. Yeah. You didn't count. I would be so. Niggas, you don't get to count. Got me in here counting my shit. Man, that is some crank Lucas ass shit. You see, you had to teach the accountants. How to account. Yeah. Because nobody knew about royalties and then you young black kids got checks coming in with money. And like, no, every six months. So like, sometimes my money and then six months go by, they don't see no money coming in. And then it's another period where royalties coming in again. So they just didn't understand how that worked. And when they figured it out, they was like, we got to get, we got to, we got a goldmine going here because it was, it's reoccurring, you know, it's a reoccurring cycle. The artist is out now and the artist is going to be out and the artist from now is still out here right now coming up. You know, so it's always going to be the cycle around Atlanta that just keeps going that. Philosophical. Geographical. You understand what I'm saying? Historical. Man, I don't know. I'm missing something. Spirit. Spiritual. Thank you. I'm still missing some more. But bro. Bro, this dude got his own. You're the reason I'm missing something. Spiritual. Thank you. I'm still missing some more. But bro. Bro, this dude got his own. You're the reason every letter in the alphabet. Literally. Yeah, that took me out. I didn't know, I didn't really know. I was just doing a, I had to do something one day and it was like, go to your Wikipedia and look at the songs and list them out for us. And I'm like, damn, you got to click them to A. But we were doing album projects too. So it was like, I was doing so many songs, man. So yeah, you got to click on the A and go to the A songs and B, go to B songs and C, go to C songs. And it was like that for so many years. Like even with D nice was playing another night. That's why I was tripping. I was in tears because I'm like, oh shit. Where did he get this from? You forget your shit? Oh, all the time, bro. I'll be listening sometime on the radio and I'm like, did I do this song? And then I examine or something. I'm like, I did do this song. Hold up. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Big foot A. Yeah, man. But all this songs come on the radio now. I have to say, did I do that? You have to examine it or something deeper? You have to hit shazam? And be like, oh yeah, it is. When I got deeper, I got deeper, you got to get deeper because it's better than shazam because you got to go and see who really did shit. So yeah, like plenty of times I'm going to sit there and do this song or did I not do this song? Oh yeah, that's makes it great. I did do that song. Hey, you did so many songs. You don't even know the songs that you did. You ever heard this shit and been like, man, this ain't me. Yeah. And then you looked and you was like, damn, this was me. Yeah, I did a whole I did a whole Mason Gray album, but I didn't know it was me until I was like, because some of them sound the same, you know, like when you work with artists and like, I know I worked with Mason Gray and then you had to be like, and then I was just like, oh yeah. Those are my symbols. They got to. I know my goddamn symbols. Yeah, man. So, I've been blessed. So, you know, now it's about me helping out everybody else and you just got to you supposed to have your own stuff as a man. You supposed to be like, that's my house. That's my desk. That's my desk. Take care of my mom. But like when you do that for other people and you got a whole bunch of people with that going on, then that's when you like that's when you did something like when you responsible for everybody else's houses and everybody else's cars and everybody else's kids going to school. Hell yeah. That's what I said. Man, you brought at least 300 motherfuckers with at least. Oh yeah. So about this little when do they come out? Cause they don't send me no email. They just use it for like the show. After this, I just hope by the summertime maybe everybody got things back under control. I think it'll be next summer. But at least we're on the right track to like going back. I don't think, I don't know what happened in Atlanta though. I don't get it. Cause I don't think Atlanta was shut down. You look at compounds a thousand niggas on top of each other. It's like, so I don't know if it's herd immunity. I don't go up around I heard. I ain't got it. I heard. They ain't going to either. What you heard but listen to yourself. I heard this shit still out here. I tried to say separated. You're going to be a vaccine? What's your thing about the vaccine? I've been taking it this whole time. That's what this is. This something that good old vaccine. I don't know. I don't know about this shit just yet. I don't want to say yes or no. I'll just stay safe. Stay in the crib. I need to know what's in what's the ingredients. Real. I'm allergic to a bunch of shit, man. I heard patrol killer sit off though. So I'll be drinking that every day. Patron. Patron get it up off. Yeah. The corona can't hang with the liquor, the weed. Like rockstar lifestyle. Yeah. That's tough. That's going to be done. That's going to leave on the next knee. Yeah. We can hope. We can do it too much. Each apple this week. Chop. Yeah. This chopper weed is your weed. This is my weed. Oh, shit. Yeah, chopper. This is smoking like tree. Exactly. I'm just smoking switchers. I smoke a joint. I get high as hell. I get sitting at the green light high. Well, I just be sitting there. Yeah, this some of that. Oh, you man. What shit, man? What more can you say, man? That is Austin in the trap. 85 chopper show. What are you? The door. Do you look them in? Door. Follow you. Anything. Anything coming up in a primord. Yeah. Any more of this great shit you got going on. Roddy records in the building. Johnny Apollo. Each apple. Duce Meenow. We got a whole squad. Tripped the hit major. Oh, yeah. You see this? Oh, yeah. That's popular demand. That's our new record is out right now. Go check the record. That whole chop record. All the way around town. You know, you might want to get one of these trades. It's just nice. That's trades coming that bag. That's all some nice trades. You know, oh, yeah. We got the whole set up. You got the whole set of routing. Right now, but yeah, we dropping records. Everybody check out. Go to go to Spotify. Look at the rowdy records playlist. We've been dropping records all year. We're gonna drop a lot more this year. You just, you know, we're trying to get moving, man in the time it's a pandemic. It's a little harder, but yeah, we need a VX and Z. So you can have a song forever. Let it now. A VX and a Z. A VX and Z. I got work to do. I'm going through the crib. Yeah. Listen to three of those. Yeah. I gotta go back now. I got something. I got to go like focus on this bro. But celebrate. Yeah. It's me. Pink. C.L. From C.L. Smooth. Exactly. Exactly. What we got? What they done set up? Mike. What is this? Oh, okay. Hey, Dallas. Anytime you want to come through here and kick it and bless the game. This is only one ninety ninth of all the shit he has done. Anytime you need to come through and put us back up here. Oh, man. I was thinking about this. I was thinking about this. I was thinking about this. I was thinking about this. I was thinking about this. I was thinking about this. I wanted this. Look. Look at this. I thought I had a gift of this. And then come up what I have done. So now I got to go ask some more songs to the alphabet, you know. I can't be slackin' over here, like three or eight. I'm like Tiger Woods, y'all watch the Tiger Woods documentary? The end of it? That made you really, really feel like- I would've never came out and said nothin' about my hoes. I would've never came out and said nothin' about that, but the victory story in that guy, I think he gonna get to the 19, I think he gonna get to that, that Jack Nicholas now that- This motherfucker broke his foot and kept playin'. He broke his back three times. He done had back surgery three times, he ain't done been like, he went through the craziness, all that, and now he done bounced back out again in one of 2019, so. Now he did some shit where he hit the club with a lesser club, and he hit it further than the other dude did, like he just done it on- Yeah, he ain't watch this shit, watch this shit, it's a bitch, he done went through a lot of shit with that- Yeah, and he ain't say shit, that's the gangsta shit about it. It's so much, he took way more shit than the average nigga woulda took, cause he would've been in a snuff right now. Goddamn camera, my fucking face, he ain't did none of that shit. Dallas woulda slapped all them niggas like James Brown told them, that shit would just come out when the shit went wrong. Tap, tap, tap. With a silk shirt on, one button, button, just that little bottom button. Dallas tell us, get that guy. Sprink some glitter on him, it's just how we live. I got my outfits at the crib too, if I'm gonna try that on one day, I got the sex machine outfit, with the hole in it right here and the hole in it. What? James Brown? Yeah, I got a lot of clothes and shit out there. Dude, stop telling people shit like this, nigga. What the hell is a national treasure? Wait a minute, don't tell nobody where you live. It's gonna be some groupie bitch trying to wear this shit out. I brought it. I brought this shit when I came in here. My brother, you understand if I had some shit like that, it don't just seem like I got company. I'm coming downstairs. Man, what the fuck you got on? Nigga, this is the original shit. Living in America. Who on Ruffus? Man, it's 2 and a half minutes. I didn't ask you what that was. This nigga can't get downstairs that bullshit you're not. With a James Brown jumpsuit and some Ruffin boots. Oh, shit. You got this boy, hey man, New Face, he got you, bro, probably. He probably got you down. New Face, what you green, man? Look, you know New Face, of course. New Face got all the shit. He got all the shit. He got another one. Oh, yep. He probably got your demo tape. Damn. Damn. This thing, autographed by yourself, a monitor as well. Already got all your records. And over 5 million sold. Damn. He sure did. Damn. Shit. Looking at cassettes, like you ain't seen a cassette. I know, man. Damn. I told you, watch out, New Face should be having a little shit in there. Old Exorcist will fall out there. Mr. Bishop will fall off in your lap. New Face, what is that, man, don't look. Hey, give it back. Hey. Close it up. Damn, this is crazy. This is a trip. Oh, these little niggas are the baddest niggas ever in life. I quit the music business out there for a while. That shit was crazy. They made you quit the music business? These little niggas won. They were like 12, 11, 13. And like, they left out trick me. She told me, she's like, yo, I got the baddest little rap group you ever seen. When she bought them niggas around, I was like, little red man. I mean, little treks, right? And they were like finishing each other's sentences. And they were like, you know, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, these little dudes are cool. So left, I was like, I got to go on tour. I'll be back. I mean, she brought them to me and they literally left the next day, right? I did not know these little niggas were like little tyrants like that, bro. First thing they did is start stealing the engineers' cars. They would put pillows on the, because there was two little, so they would put a pillow in the seat. Steal the engineers' car, right? Then the first time they brought it back, they told the police that their mom was drunk or some shit, and they took the car because to go help her out. Anyway, they got the police to bring them, escort them back to the dark. Well, then they made it back to the studio. But on the studio, you have to go down the side like this to park in the back. They scraped this car up the whole fucking way down the back, right? All right. So then one day I get a call. Do you have a son named Lamar Edwards? I'm like, no. I'm like, well, this is the Clayton County police. We got your son down here. I'm like, I don't have a son. Like, what about Malik? Tell them it's Malik. Tell them it's Malik. I hear him in the background. What did he do? Well, we found him in a stolen chair key, and he crashed into a house on Riverdale Road through somebody's living room. He had a pistol in the car and weed. I'm like, okay. So they were constantly doing shit like this, and then we checked this shit out. I sent them on a promo tour, right? The kids were great. They were like, you know, everybody was like loving them because they were just bad as hell. They cussed like a motherfucker. They write their own raps. They like just the ultimate little two kids, right? I take them, they're supposed to go on a promo tour, and we start this $500 promo tour. A half million dollar promo tour. They go to LA, the first stop, and never left. They got to the first stop, and got with Snoop, and Ray, and sugar, right? They go like, God damn it. They got with sugar, and then Snoop and Ray. And of course, Ray and Snoop was out as hell. So they wanted to be up under Ray and Snoop, and then so they stayed there and stayed there. And the BMG was like, this supposed to be in Seattle tomorrow. They're telling the people, we're gonna hit you in the head with a hammer. You try to make us leave, y'all. And so the ladies like, they threaten to hit me in the head with a hammer. I can't be on this tour no more with them. So I'm like, shit. Well, now they're really staying out there. Now it's been like two, three weeks. Now Clive Davis is like, Dallas, you got to go get them. I got to go get them? From Death Row? I'm not going to get them. Dallas, they're stars. You have to go get them. So I'm like, all right. So yeah, I am going to Death Row, and I get off the elevator, right? Plus, I get off the elevator there. It's just Death Row. Big niggas everywhere. Ain't no furniture nowhere. Ain't no furniture in there. Big niggas sitting on big niggas. Big niggas sitting on big niggas. Big niggas sitting on big niggas. Ain't no furniture. They like, I'm like, whatever they doing in here, they fucking around. Just like, there's a foldout table, foldout chair, and a red Death Row big rug. And so I'm like, you know, so I go in there and go talk to Shug. Shug like, man, we should do these gifts together, man. You know what I'm saying? All right, the same loyal. You know how that is, Dallas. They got out here. They got around Dre and Snoop. Now they want to be on Death Row. So why don't we just do Death Row rowdy? I was like, won't you just keep them little motherfuckers? Like, just give me a shit for what I've spent on them. And you just have them because this thing will get it. You know? And then he said, all right, man, well, you know, we'll work somehow. You know, that's what you know. They have good hands. You know, like, I'm like, you know, let me, I just got to get out of here. Safe. And so then I see the kids. They come in. They are like, oh, man, it ain't me. It's him. It's him. It ain't me. It's him, man. So I'm like, all right, I'm going back to Atlanta. I'll catch you all later on, right? By the time I get back to Atlanta, right? Malik show up a few days later. And he's like, yo, man, you know, I can't be fucking with this nigga out there. Like, fuck that, man. I want to be solo. I'm like, you want to be solo? Like, they started the solo shit on early. I'm like, you can't just finish the group first, whatever. But he got convinced that, that somebody put something on him, like roots or something. Malik, he's like 13. Like, man, I think somebody put some roots on me, man. I just want to be back in Atlanta. I think he just went getting his way out and went in LA. He saw a chance for him to come back out here. And by the time they got here, bro, they had everything so set for the kids, but they was so wild and so bad and with the shit at the whole time that we couldn't, you know, they would have been huge at this point because it was right. And the rhymes are like 12 years old and just cutting niggas legs off with the rhymes. Like you don't want to, big niggas didn't want to battle wrap them because they literally outwrap you. And but they got stuck out. This was the crazy part. So they didn't work they're supposed to do. This all makes sense. But they missed the whole promo tour. Right? So now the billboard awards come up for that year. Right? So now these are the categories. These are the, this is who's up for it. Rap record of the year. Diggable plan is cool like that. Yeah. Hip hop parade. Naughty by nature. Yeah. You know, he's going, yeah, song after song. Illegal. We gets busy. Everybody say, who's that? Because, you know, in the way Clive had planned out the politics, I mean, Whitney Houston got like 13 billboard awards that year. So it was an Arista thing, you know, it was like an Arista thing. And it just, that they didn't fill the glass up. So it just looked, it didn't, it kind of like, well, how do we, you know, I see them for it. But there was the most talented little kids, man, that like, it was bad as fuck. But after that, I needed a, I took a rap break. I took a rap break. I took a rap break. I took a rap break. I took a rap break. I took a rap break. I took a rap break. I had to take a little rap break. Because they were just like, shit. They sound like it, man. They young. So you can't do nothing with them in here. Because they too young. So what they were, it was like 13, 14. Yeah. If Shug would have killed them little niggas, let them while they eat one of them little niggas, you would have been responsible. They would sign the routing. I ain't mad. I can't believe you left some kids with Shug. And all the shit you said, that's the most irresponsible shit. They went. They were supposed to be on tour. You take my time. I'm gonna get you Shug in the corrupt. I'm gonna get you Shug in the corrupt. You said they were barbecuing with corrupt. They got barbecuing with corrupt and dashing. They didn't want to come back out here. And I'm like, how you going to sit me into the nines, Dan, to go get them? Shit. Damn. Man. Full of history. Wow. Full of history. I'm sure that tape brought back memories. It did. I was just like, damn, man. You got your other artists over here too? Jamal. That's crazy. That's crazy. He's like, he was always like the, that's, he's the rowdy one in the first place. So he always wanted to fight in boxing. He was like, I'm leaking and get it because he wanted to be all smooth and Jamal was just straight up filly out of control. He went with Death Squad for a long time. Both of them, man. Like, I would, it's, I would like to see kids as talented as they are, as talented as they were. I feel like the, I don't know, all the access and all that shit is weakening everybody. And what they're hearing is what they, what they got to live up to is so low. Where they was trying to live up to, you know, rappers and MCs. They was like trying to battle rap people and learn how to rap better and have more skills and all that kind of stuff. So I feel like just now, you know, the bar is low. It's not hard to do it. You know what I'm saying? What everybody doing is just like, oh, I can do that too. Right. Man, that shit was like crazy. I can't believe these cassettes, bro. They look so little. Was it a little like this, like that? Yeah. Man, they so, bro. Because A-Tracks was the fat ones. That shit would look like a VHS. Yeah, man. That's deal. TLC fan mail. This was crazy because we, like we, that shit was, DL killed this cover. When we first did, we first finished fan mail, you know, left out and quit the group doing the whole record. She was like, I ain't, y'all ain't doing my ideas and I'm quitting. And so I had to create the virtual Vicky to rap in all the songs. And so I would take the Macintosh, take each word, like you listen to Silly Ho or any of those songs, most of the songs you hear the robot rapping, you hear the computer rapping in it. And I had to take it and put it in keyboard to make it rap on beat. So you know, you can't get it with this. One, two, three, four. You can't get with this. One, two, three, four. Yeah. Yeah. And so I was like, I'm like, you can't get with this. One, two, three, four. You can't get with this. One, two, three, four. You can't get with this. One, two, three. You can't get with this. Yeah. You can't get with this. Find out who to give it up. Like, because she told me like she's not fucking the group. So that we got to make a virtual version of her. And so most of the records is like me making the computer rap in the songs. Because she was just like, I'm not doing this shit no more. I quit. I ain't going back, I'm really not going back now. That is ma'am, he cool. He cool, he ain't feeling this shit. I need to be impressed now. Coming back, talking about spirits and shit. Let me hit the jug. Damn. What if Sugar was boozing them? Tell them you don't want to be over there no more. But I do. But I'm going to go back home. Can we call Dallas? Put that goddamn phone up. Don't make me get them big niggas outside who can stand outside all day. That's why they were so ready to fight because they had been standing up for a hundred years. Hey man, let's just lean back to back like Boris got me. Why you think Sugar's gonna buy no chairs man? You think we're just going to come back here every day and be gone? He's like to keep us angry. If your feet work, make your hands hurt. Who ain't that goddamn chick? Them niggas are so crazy they will out do everything. I'll play your basketball, I'll rap you, I'll gamble you, I'll hustle you. It's still your keys. Take your car and drive to North Carolina. Why you in a session? Niggas out of control. These niggas in a little pit, boy that's crazy. They stole somebody's car from North Carolina. You confirmed. They was wild. They were wild. They were wild. That's who taught me how to roll a blunt. They taught me how to roll a blunt. When I first, after Lisa left the next day, little Malie looked at me and said, Yo, where do we eat at? I was like, little nigga, I'm not smoking no weed with you, you little kid. He said, all right, let's put his own shit out. And then he took a blunt and he took this shit and he was standing there opening it, dumping the shit. I said, what the fuck is that? He said, little blunt, nigga, what are you doing? I'm rolling it. You take the stuff out. You see, you take this out, you're good. All right. There it is. Hey, there's so much black history. And that was the first one. Play this shit again in February. Just play this the whole model group. I'm so fucked up right now. Just finding out that Michael Jackson was an emotion. Everything you said after that fucked me up. He's able to transcend time and space. Just being from over there to over there. Now I'm wondering, will he come back or did he ever lose? Where is he going now? Don't you think it's just insane that no matter who comes into this world, they're going to sing and love Michael Jackson? I don't care. It's never been a child who came into the world, a baby, a kid, whatever. How do you still know this? Don't tell me he's taking prints like that or Elvis and nobody else, but every kid going to have a little time with it. So I feel like his spirit. If they see it, little kids would be watching. People are still dancing like Michael. I feel like all artists, when everybody passes, the stuff just gets more valuable because they can't get to you no more. But I feel like that, him as an artist, just resonates in a way and seeing nobody really do like that. It's crazy. I've seen Mickey Mouse with people like characters do it, but you haven't really seen a person that resonates their whole life. They just stayed one person that whole life. Now I gotta go home and watch some Michael Jackson shit, just to be like, there you go. You saw it. You saw it. You saw it. No, I'd rather say this nigga can go. That was the word, right? Damn. I want to just title this shit Michael Jordan should just make his own nikes. Michael Jordan gonna get this shit and he might have to come over here and then he can tell us why. Michael Jordan? Yeah. He gonna charge us $250,000. To come over, he ain't gotta come. Who might it be? I gotta put something in now. I'm not putting nothing in here for that. I tell you that. MJ. I watch you all in the game. They talk about MJ on the Tiger Woods. He started hanging with MJ and Charles Barkley. He said he ain't know what to say. He said, what do I tell the women? And Michael Jordan was like, tell them you Tiger Woods. Stupid. That's the part he do that about. Big dummy. He talk to that nigga like friends. Big dummy? Go over there and get you some pussy. What are you doing over there? Hey, watch your pro. Hey, Michael Jordan. Dallas Austin. You named after two places in Texas. Oh, man. The name's gonna be, you gotta take over two Texas cities. What's that what I'm saying? That's the weed. You know you named after two places in Texas, man. The name's after this doctor named Dr. Dallas Moore. A word? Like a spiritual who-do doctor. What? It's like Donaldson Bill Georgia. Like it's like a, look him up. He'll scratch you with a chicken foot. He'll turn into a serpent. Not a snake, a serpent. That baby's gonna be a boy. Trust me on that. What baby? That one? Okay. Okay. Look, look here. Put the TLC up. You got the TLC on that. Put the goddamn TLC up. TLC up. Look here, man. We ain't gonna hold you hostage in here. We damn sure appreciate you starting the 30th Trail. This has been too real. Thank you. I hope you saved the last time. I'm a fuckin' legend. Hey, man. Dallas Austin. Dallas Austin. 85 count show. We out of here. Let's go. Appreciate you, bro. Man. We appreciate that. It is, man. Appreciate you. Appreciate you, dude. Appreciate you. Let's give a picture right quick. To him. Let's get a photo. Somebody. Washington. Is this Washington? Call the Zoo, man. Miller.