 And I'm telling the D.A. I'm like, yeah, I gotta be so sorry mother to sit up here and know if I got a song saying I got money, I got weed and crack. Every month we're gonna say they bought dope for me. How was your music? Like when you end up getting locked up, how was your music at that time? Like how was it? Was it when you on you had some popping in the streets? When you end up having to go sit down? That's when I had just that old clip. We don't have I did I got money first. 2003, you know, it's still rock the date. And then after that, which the project came out, 2003. But you know, that joke will last me about two years flat on the radio. Hot, you know, and then we came back with Oakville. That's my hood in the same instance of the two year from 2005. Roll on over to, you know, saying 2006 or whatever. But at the same time, I was about to think it did with Universal. Yeah, yeah, that's good. I mean, I was already, you know, saying, but, you know, the fish grab and they like, what's yours go do with that money from the, you know, saying from the deal? It's just they try to, you know, saying the fish, their job is to make your make your monster, man. Even though you might not even be that monster, you know what I'm saying? They'll make it to where you are, what they try to figure out. If you don't, you know, you know how much power you got to get people killed or knocked off or they hear stories about you. Then that's what they believe. See, on the cool to feed some sorry motherfuckers. You feel them saying? Because I don't think they do a sit back and wait for a motherfucker to tell them something instead of getting off their ass doing the persegating. You feel them saying? And then once they do look up and grab a motherfucker, you and the fees, niggas have come out of anywhere to testify on you to go home. So what do you think you're going to do? That's real. See, I didn't even be talking about they tough. Now, I ain't copying that nigga. You copying that nigga? Because you ain't finna sit up in that bitch and get 30 when you don't got to get 30. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So you sit up in the bitch and get 30 because you tough. Now, I mean, I don't get whatever you go getting. Get on out the way. Because if not, you go get up and up with the way out. By the time you get, by the time you get out of your, your shit will burst, you know, done 25 years on the 30. That's real. That's real. So I mean, I want no fool. I had a whole, I had a whole witness sheet of motherfucker come testify on me. And I'm telling the D.A. I'm like, y'all got to be sorry motherfuckers to sit up here and know if I got a song saying I got money, I got weed and crack. Every motherfucker will say they bought dope for me. And I got money. I got clothes. I got bitches. I got hoes. I got brand new. I done, I done, I done did all 500 shows. I don't been on a million posters. I don't shit been on the radio all over the place. You think anybody gonna say they know me when they only know of me? They only heard of me. Well, tell me, I was going to ask you this, like Greg Street, like during that time he was in the city. Like how you, how did you and him meet and how was he when your music was moving? Man, Greg Street, the real one, though, on the cool, like Greg Street, the real one, I took that I got money to where we first of all, we went to K1O4 to do an interview on this on our time to shine. And everybody just the video, we was having a blast. And I mean, I was sitting back like I always do. Just letting everybody had it fun. And Greg Street was like, man, let me know. He's like, man, let me, let me, let me tell you something. I was like, what? He said, first thing I want to tell you is this is rapper dude coming out of Atlanta, Georgia, named Young GZ. Man, give me 3,500, get a verse from him. And I was like, man, fuck GZ. I don't know who that nigga is. Like I'm trying to get this money. I ain't trying to get my money away. Damn. So you didn't, you didn't, and you can't buy him because he didn't have none at that time. He might have had that. But you don't know if, but, but by, by Greg Street being a DJ, he can hear something, but not only that, though, Greg Street, probably breaking the nigga record, too. Who knows? That's right. Because you in Atlanta, you feel what I'm saying? But I wasn't looking at it from that perspective. I'm looking at it like I don't need this nigga. You feel what I'm saying? But later on, that verse or two could have gave me longevity to put out another hit song or one or two. You feel what I'm saying? I got money. You see what I'm saying? So all that could have been on that same album. You know what I'm saying? And so, and so the second thing he told me, he said, bro, you wasting a lot of money on all these artists to make the world know who they is. Like, bro, people, you gonna spend more money trying to make them known than anything. He was like, I'm gonna give you an example. He said, everybody know you. The streets know you. The dope boys, the girls, the community, everybody. You in the schools, everybody know you broke. It's easy for you to drop an album. So why you won't drop an album? And I was like, shit, I ain't just, I didn't feel like I was just the best rapper on the label. You know what I'm saying? But now I realize you don't have to be the best rapper. You gotta be the most likable nigga on your label. That's real. You see, you know what I'm saying? Fuck the best rapper. You gotta be the most likable nigga. And you the most likable nigga, you gonna get away with something. You know what I'm saying? So I took, I took heed of what he was saying and I instantly started working on my solo project. You know what I'm saying? But I didn't actually put nobody else's project on freeze. You know what I'm saying? I just went directly working on my, you know what I'm saying? What were the clubs during that time? Was it, was it, was that, that's baby time, like strip clubs, spot? What, what club? We had, we had club diamonds. Diamonds. Or GGs. GGs for sure. Park Avenue. Park Avenue. Stamies. Yeah, yeah. We had all of them. RJ by the lake. That was a little bit before that. Wait, wait, wait. Club blue? Club blue. Yeah, we had everything. Yeah, I think that's, that's just sets the timing of where, you know, where everything was at during the time. Yeah, we had everything. That's hard, man. Like, and so. And street with that, I'm gonna tell you what street did though. Street motherfucker, he don't give a damn what the radio people say at some point. That motherfucker play, I got money for the top 88. He played that bitch eight times. Damn. But that's love. See, do you, do you think they get love like that now around the city like that? No, I'm not saying they get love like that because it's easier now. Okay. It's easier now. You ain't need the radio now. Yeah, but a lot of people still utilize it. Because you know why though? Why? Because it's still an avenue that you need. Meaning people gonna be like, oh, I heard that on the radio. The radio make you like a motherfucking song that don't even sound good. I know how to say it before, man. Do you find yourself signing the fucking song? Yeah, song. So, so the radio player, player, player, it play a role. Real significant role. Yeah. It really does, you know what I'm saying? But I'm saying the outlet is now where you got so much social media. This is me how I look at it. So I'm working on a project. Use the old tech to enter new tech. And just go ahead on and put it out, man. I'm gonna win regardless. Because I'm not gonna get away from, nowadays a lot of odds lazy because they don't get up in. They don't gotta move around no more because there's so much social media and technology. They don't gotta move around. Now I'm gonna be still hitting the road, still hitting the street, still popping up doing my shit. The same I done before. So I can't lose. Well, let me ask you like, when you got, when you came home, how was it transitioning back into a society and just trying to get things back rolling just for a guy that might be getting up, coming home? I mean, actually, I worked on myself while I was locked up. Yeah, yeah, that's hard. You know what I'm saying? Meaning that, I mean, I'm not a perfect person, man. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm more considerate now of people. You know what I'm saying? How they might see a situation. You know what I'm saying? But I'm gonna hold myself accountable. Just a little bit. I'm gonna hold myself accountable. I'm gonna hold myself accountable for the things that I do or the things I don't do. You know what I'm saying? First and foremost, but also I used to take the blame for everything that go wrong between me and somebody. But I had to realize that that somebody did something wrong too. You know what I'm saying? But do they, do they hold their self accountable or accept that they being wrong in the instance that I had to accept it? You know what I'm saying? And know that I did wrong. You know what I'm saying? So that's how I became with the, you know, like the growth to everything because I had to lick it and like, man, this shit just don't work your way. You can't just see it your way. You know what I'm saying? You got to understand that my way may not be the best way. Listen to somebody else. You know what I'm saying? Like, man, you can be sitting here talking. And I can be like, man, my head be like, man, if you don't shut the fuck up it's just gonna let me go. But it came to a point. Like when I got out, I actually had to be like, okay, man, listen to what he got to say. You know what I'm saying? He might be on to something. You don't know everything. So that was the point that I became. It was one of the things that I worked on, you know what I'm saying? Because that's something that people need to do because a lot of people, they be, what they call it, they have tonal vision, you know what I'm saying? Because they only see stuff for how they see it and how they want it to be. But it's not always like that, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.