 I get up I get on the phone. I said, what's up? He said, listen to this You know he's trying to play some music that he playing in this room. Yeah, and I can hear I hear my name I didn't really hear it. Yeah. Yeah. He's gonna worry about a nigga. I'm on the slab on my way to you He said just left the studio doing his song. Wow. We walked out. We're on my way to you So he came here in Leroy. Yeah, they drove all the way down the Dallas Just to let me hear the song Went to my apartment and met me in my apartment. We played that song probably 80 times They slept on the floor And on the couch and got up the very next day and went back to Houston All he came here for to show you was to let me hear that song stuff like that got me through it Come on. Did you cry when the first time you're here? Oh, yeah. Come on, man I can imagine. Yeah, it was a trip. What he said was so dope The way he said it was so real Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one one-on-one. Yeah, we gonna talk I came back to Dallas. It was uh, my little boy birthdays and it was in october Okay, so I celebrated that five-year birthday with him and you know two months later december the fifth That's when that happened. Yeah, it was what he was with his mother or something bro. He was at He was at his at his mom's house. Okay, and which was his grandparents. Yeah, you know, so it was I don't know a lot of people don't know this before children died Okay, four children died four for four babies the oldest one being eight. They were his probably cousins and those were his cousins Yes, those were his cousins. Did they ever find out what happened? Yeah, they it was electrical. See the the father Was a um Contractor, okay a damn good one a good one. He had added on to the house. Yeah in the electrical Yeah, you know and they had been there for a long time You know, you know when it was all on the news and everything they were trying to blame it on christmas lights And all kind of yeah, but it it ended up being faulty wiring faulty wire. So the adults weren't there. Was there any adults now? Yeah, but at the other part of the house and where this how this house was It was like, you know ideas when you add on to your houses You come out the back door and boom, you're in another room the other room and they had built an upstairs part So they in that other part of the room upstairs And then when the fire broke out in that section of the house this probably this side of the house Don't even know what's on fire. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I'm just I'm trying to play my mind. Yeah, so You know Once I got the car. It was already over. Yeah, it was over when I just sat down From work when I got that phone call. Wow, and it was a probably about a 10 minute drive. I drove there and Yeah, it was it was the mom there at a time when it happened. Yeah, but uh All I remember them telling me was that The mom's dad Was was trying to get him. He was trying to get to a meeting. He got hurt trying to get trying to get to him Yeah, the flames prevented him from reaching him. So yeah, he you know, he had scaled You know some outside. Yeah, trying to get to him. Yeah, which is which is quite natural. That's what you would do It's nothing. It's nothing like seeing a four smile. No, no, ain't nobody trying to see it It changed you for life. It changed you and I know that had to hit you and how did how did you affect him? The father because if he was trying to get it's different like You weren't there, but this person him was there trying to get to the kids and let me let me explain something to you about this guy This guy it's kind of like same situation with my wife. There was a age difference between he and his wife Yeah, you know I'm saying so he was an older man But he was still working. Yeah, when I say older, this was like a 70 year old man Still working, you know for a gray beard and everything just cool, you know, just a cool man and I was just gonna get there. I'm pretty sure it affected him. Oh, yeah I never talked to him. I never talked to him about that. That's a good question. Yeah When you're there and you're trying to help somebody especially with kids, yes, you know that They have to affect you. That's all that you and you know back in nobody was talking about mental No, they wouldn't nobody's talking about mental health, but they were going through it. Oh, yeah Especially for a man, you know, man's supposed to be tough. Yeah, you know, we kids. Yeah, I'm in my 20s How did you how did you uh move forward? well a lot of stuff, I mean family You know, I can remember leaving that scene Me and the mother we went over to my parents house I called Chad Told him Because he knew him, you know, he knew my whole family my home and everybody and I can remember him crying like a baby. Wow. It was And so Fast forward, you know, Reynolds over, you know, we're trying to live our life And I can remember being on Greenville Avenue At Good Eats. Okay. And then this is the story I tell you my people go off I'm eating and the people go off and I see his chat I say I'll call him later and he beat me again 911 Yeah, we used to do that, you know 911 say comment right now. I get up I get on the phone I said, what's up? He said, hey nigga Listen to this, you know, he's trying to play some music that he's playing in this room. Yeah, and I can hear I hear my name I couldn't even hear it. Yeah. Yeah. He's don't worry about a nigga. I'm on the slab on my way to you He said just left the studio doing this song. Wow. We walked out. We're on my way to you So he came here in uh, Leroy. Yeah, they drove all the way down the Dallas Just to let me hear the song We went to my apartment. They met me in my apartment. We played that song probably 80 times They slept on the floor and on the couch and got up the very next day and went back to the extra All he came here for was to let me hear that song stuff like that got me through it Come on. I went the first time you hear. Oh, yeah. Come on, man. Oh, yeah I can imagine. Yeah, it was a trip. The what he said was so dope The way he said it, it was so real And let me tell you what kind of vision he has Leaving the studio In the car on the phone first thing out is my this the first song on the album That's how it go And the album was nowhere near to being completed. He said this will be the first song on the album