 How did you end up linking with Gunplay? I was, I was trying to figure out, you was hanging with Rick Rawls and Gunplay, and then I'm down there some kind of way? Nah, um, I was like the Nate Dogg of Florida. Let me ask you about the rap. You brought it up a little bit. So let's get into it. I seen you, man. I seen, not only a rap, it seemed almost R&B-ish. Yeah, R&G, ready to be gangsta. Yeah, yeah, cause I was like, I said, damn, he going in. Cause at first I looked at it and I seen Gunplay on there. I'm like, I'll even go in. You know, then when I listened to it, we started listening. I just let it play in, cause it kept going after you better not play this. And it's always about the ladies. Yeah, so, what, what, um, how did you end up linking with Gunplay? I was, I was trying to figure it out. You was hanging with Rick Rawls and Gunplay, and then I'm down there some kind of way? Nah, um, I was like the Nate Dogg of Florida. Okay. So I was a street dude, but I sang. So all the hooks with Heisberg and Briscoe and, you know what I mean? Anybody had something coming out? Time G, all the different Florida rappers, Papa Duck, you know, I was a guy that was giving hooks and, you know, singing about the gangsta shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So did you, how long did you do that though? Cause when I looked, it was like in 2010 or something like that. So how long did you stay in there? I got signed in 2010 to slip and slide records. But before I was on the, yeah, Ted Lucas shot to my big home. Ted Lucas gave me a, and Julian and milk, all them guys down there. But yeah, that was my family. I signed with them in 2010, but I had been doing the, cause I was, you know, I was hustling before that and I got a name in the state and they came up to Mobile, you know what I'm saying? From Miami and I drove from Pensacola and performed in front of them, in front of the crowd. And it was like, oh yeah, fly down to Miami tomorrow. I flew down to Miami, but the, the contract at the time, I was, you know, getting street money. They was trying to give me this contract. And I'm like, a lot of much as country. You did that on the skits. I was like, yeah, this ain't going to work. So I didn't sign, but then, you know, man, on my mom transition, I just like lost myself a lot. And how old were you when she transitioned? 29. Yeah. I was about 23. 29. I, my place got my, both my business got repo, my townhouse got, I got evicted. I had like my credit score, everything went, cause I stopped living. You know what I'm saying? I was homeless before I knew it. And then when I called, I was trying to get back on my feet, trying to get back moving again once, you know, after about a year or two, and then the guy I called, the DJ I called, he was like, yo, DJ Smalls. Okay. Yeah. DJ Smalls, shout out DJ Smalls. Shout out DJ Smalls. He don't even know, but that conversation we had, he was like, he changed my life cause he was like, man, I said, love, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm about to get it going. Not mine. You're on broke. I'm living in the 97 Toyota Corolla. This, I'm thinking I'm hiding in the city. You know, I ain't got no damn money. I'm like, what's up? Y'all, they like broke in. Mike, Mike, come on. Eddie Cana, thought I was killing him. I think they don't know. They knew and he was like, man, Mike, I was trying to give him to do a mixtape for me for freaking out on money. I said, bro, I need you to host a mixtape for me. I'm going to jump back out. He's like, Mike, and I told him a real situation. He's like, bro, you ain't got the money to push this mixtape. If I do it for you, you can't be out here selling CDs by yourself. It's that's not it's not like ain't going to work. He was like, you need to cost him a slide and see if they still want to sign you and take the deal. So that's what I did. Roy Jones Jr. I had a you know, I had a case. Shout out Roy Jones Jr. Roy Jones. That's my bro, man. That's one of my first mentors in the entertainment industry. How'd you know me? Man, when I got to Florida, I skip us. Did I skip something we ship for to go into that? I needed to go into. No, I want to hear about Roy Jones, man. Oh, yeah, I'm a big Roy Jones fan. I at his at his just pinnacle of where he was at, man. I'd have put him up against anybody in his weight class. I was going to ride with him here dog. Roy is a different human being. I thought I was a tough that month. Wasn't Roy Jones like Jamaican apart? Jamaican or something like that? Here we go. Every episode. I want to be surprised. He put a rooster. He'd be hanging with you. I got a story about Roy, man. Roy ain't no punk. How'd you meet him? I met Roy. How did I meet them? I started coming around when I moved to Florida coming around in the labor they had body head. And I was like, you know, I was like, yo, I was carrying bags. I just want to be a part of it. And Roy, he took to my honesty, you know what I'm saying? Same thing with Wayne. Like, you know, when you got a guy that's taking care of everybody, people tend to just they always kissing their ass. You know, they want to hear and I would I told Roy something one time that I ain't gonna share, but something I had disagree with that happened. And I wouldn't like trying to check him in there because I was a little bro. Yeah. But he peeped that, you know what I'm saying? And I remember he just he just took to me, you know what I'm saying? He'll be like me and I and I learned so much from him. He was a he was a good dude, man. Took me in a role with him. Wow. Yeah, good, real good dude. So he was at a lot of those fights. I didn't go to a lot of the fights. I was on the use on the use on the body. That must have forgotten all that. Yeah. I was on the videos. Wow. I got to go back, man. I got to weigh in the back. I'm not going to see me. I'm going to get him back like, yeah, man. I'm going to be in the shadows. So like when you when you for how did you meet country Wayne? I got to get into that too. And and hold on. What did you want to do as a kid growing up? Is this because you went from martial arts to boxing to rapping to like, what is it that you wanted to do? Entertainer. Just entertainer. Just entertainer. I'm like Sammy Davis. You always wanted to do that. Mm-hmm. I was a kid. I just want to be a famous singer. I just wanted to be a I want to be an actor. You just talked about the arm of your right. You done? Slim listen, I'm just asking for some respect. Brother, that's all, man. You think you're the only killer around here? I want to put you on t-shirt. I want to be I just want to entertain. Because it was different back in the days than it is now. Like back in the days people only wanted to be like an actor or a singer or this now is like you have to be an artist which is everything all in one now. That's it. Yeah. So it's different. Yep. So the can I get into the country? One question. Let me say this. That's why when I went and saw Ted, he told me he said Mike, when I signed you, I knew you was a star. Wow. I just didn't know what to do with you because you did too much. I got a guy like that. I love him. I don't know what you, he's like you telling jokes on your page and you singing to your rapping to your boxing. He's like, I knew you was a star. But he said, bro, I didn't know what to do with you. Damn. So like the time now is my it's like everything is coming just to full circle because it's like, oh, now this is this fits in.