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That's why Boss Talk, the number one syndicated podcast out of all of them because none of them do this right here, man. I got my boy Bad News and special guest, Pokey Bown here for the first time. Big Pokey Bown, big Pokey Bowns in the house, man. Well, it's been a long time coming, man. Long time coming. Awesome, bruh. It's been a blessing, man, y'all. I appreciate the love I get from all the people around the country, you understand me? What we doing, everything. What's about bad news right now, you feel me? Man. I mean, everybody be on point. You understand what we doing right now with this JSP situation, you feel me? Man, it's the bad news, man. You know, me and you, we talk all the time. We talk a lot. Like family, man. Man, I ain't gonna lie, I be watching you and I don't know who that little old lady is with no back that you had on that video. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Hey, she the infamous bad in nobody. She the infamous bad. Look, she the infamous crooked. They call her crooked. Infamous crooked. Man, look, look, look, look, look, look. I've been looking for her. I can't find out what I'm paying for. You told her for me. That's why I can't find out. I first seen her. I said, what the hell, bad news right here. Didn't even get to pull the move on, man. Can you make it a roll? She do dancing. Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll. Man, I have a good time, man. Just basically watching that fun and energy y'all boys were bringing. And after that, she kept going. Because I'm back. Yeah, she ain't gonna stop, man. She's all the time, man. What the hell is she looking for? What's she doing? I said, fly out of there, man. You learned the game. Yeah. Everybody know her. A lot of people. She's famous. When you read them comments, everybody, oh, that's Miss Cricket. That's Cricket. I'm like, hey. Man, everybody know her, bro. Everybody know her, bro. Everybody know her, bro. I said to myself, who the hell is this woman? I said, this boy ain't got a woman with no back. Just straight up coming up to her. And then she gone flex on the shit. She gone, she see what she dropped to the front. Her whole back hit the ground and she back up. I said, where you been, bro? Man, y'all different, man. Like I said. Like Poked, I was told, man, you got to sell yourself, man. You got to sell it, man. You got to sell it. You got to sell yourself, man. You got to sell yourself. You got to sell it. Man, you guys have, y'all come together for a lot of different things. But I know I'm a wife. And you want to know a little bit about him? Yes. Yes, yes. OK. I know a lot about him, but I know a lot about him. We know my band. He was his family, bro. We don't know where he's from. We don't know. You've been to learn today. Poked. Where are you from? Poked Bears, bro. I'm from Pine Grove, Louisiana. Hey! Love is out of there. I am. I'm from the Oscars of Baton Rouge. You feel me? And I'm a country boy. You know what I'm saying? Man, sorry. Lay back. You know what I'm saying? I don't do nothing. You know what I'm saying? I'm just all about my music. You know what I'm saying? I love the blues. And I love Southern Soul. I love rap. I love all that. You know what I'm saying? Even coming to music, you're dealing with Poked Bals. So where did you love music from? Did you get it from your mama, daddy? Who inspired you to love it? I think it kind of started in church. Church? Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm from. You know what I'm saying? So you had to go to church? You got to go to church. OK. And Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we were preparing for Sunday. So we had revivals. We had all kind of stuff. That's why I got the music into my veins of what I like to do. And I always wanted to be a vocalist. I mean, you know, I could have played keyboard. I could have played drums. I could have played anything. But that never thrilled me. I always wanted to be the one on the mic. Me and singing. Nothing else mattered to me. I just wanted to be on the mic. So you did a lot of solos in church? Of course I did. Of course I did. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. It kind of led. So when I went to high school, when I got to high school, OK. You know, you do the, you know, the talent shows and stuff like that. So my thing was, I got to kill the talent show. Hmm. The other song was, I got to kill the talent show. We had to do it. And I kind of got into that. And then once I got out of high school, I had a church. I could have went to Southern University for four years. I had a scholarship. And my music was working so well at that time, I was like. Scholarship for music? Yes. OK. No, no, not for music. Well, what did you get a scholarship for? Just to go to school. OK. And, you know, but I started doing music and they started liking me then. And I got an opportunity to go to L.A. Who reached out to you? Do you remember? The person that reached out to me. Dornell Jones. Oh, wow. He reached out to me at that time. And no, Stada Meyer. I'm so sorry. Not Jones, Stada Meyer. He reached out to me and I went to L.A. Which I already had my auntie stand out there. So that was kind of like a scapegoat. So I ain't have to worry about it. Hotel or no one to say. OK. So once I came out there, my people didn't even know about it. I never told them. And I went out there and I went in the studio and I done my thing and it was terrible. Really? You bombed. It was I bombed. Because you were nervous. No, I'm going to be on business. It was terrible. I thought my career was over. I said, I ain't even got no career. I'm going to be all the way to L.A. I'm stuck out in L.A. This is going to be the dumb way. I ain't no way. This is going to be the dumb way. I'm going to go to school and I'm going to turn down the Pell Grant all that shit. You ready? I'm sorry. So you were about 1920. Yeah, I was 18. 18 at a time, okay. So I stayed there and I was a rapper. I was hip hop. So I kept going and I met different producers and nothing ever worked in L.A. I tried it, I tried it over and over again and it just never worked in L.A. How long did you stay? I stayed in L.A. eight years. Wow. Stayed that long trying and nothing popped off. South Central L.A. Gardena L.A. West Side L.A. East Side L.A. Poké Bay. Y'all remember me? So you didn't get drawn up in all these gangs and stuff? I got fortunate. God keep blessing me through all the turmoil and all that. I want to know what you keep guiding your life. You going to learn. I love that. I'm just saying. What happened was I used to work security for strip club. And they had rap shows doing the thing. So the guy, the owner, he told them Poké can, he can kill it. And they were like, what am I talking about? So I did a show there at the strip club. At the strip club? Hell yeah. I didn't rap, I sung. Oh. What did you say? What the hell did you say, Poké Bay? I'm not saying this. What is this radio? I saw something and no people was like, he ain't no rubbing. All right. Now all this time, I've been trying to be a rapper. I wanted to be like, run DMC, LL, QJ, and all the guys that's in my show. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I didn't realize that I was saying. That night you did. But that night, that particular night, I'll say. And I sung, y'all wouldn't believe it. I sung R. Kelly's song. Which one? Step in my room, play a play, nigga, we're out of here. Oh. Bumpy guy. Bumpy guy. R. Kelly's song. Slow jam. Get out the party. Get out of here, nigga. Hey, Mr. DJ. I said R. Kelly's song. It's a strip club, right? Yeah. So I'm all in the movement. Because you know the dance, you couldn't sing it without the dance. You got the dance, so. So you giving the whole show. Good. I done. I done it some. Ever since then, everybody been trying to give me the studio. That's all. But at the same time, I was going through personal situations and I ended up moving to Denver, Colorado. Denver, Colorado, out of all places. Denver. Yes, I did. Before we were legal. I moved. Denver, Colorado. I was 20, 20 by 25, 26. But is there a most now there? No. I went out there, you know, with my girl and stuff. Oh, with your girl. Yeah. I was doing good. We were doing good with my little music, doing the little local clubs. And I was just singing other people's songs. Oh, OK. And I wanted to be more than that. I'm like, I'm tired of singing. You know, saying these other people's songs. I want to sing other. I want to sing your own songs. But what are you writing at that time? I started writing, you know, two. No, no, 19. I'm going to 19. 19, don't do that. 19 was some good years, right? This is a whole new six. Oh, that's that's. Oh, OK. That's when I started writing. And I came on my first time, I called it. My first time was to kill you. My first time, I was. I wasn't Pocky Bear again. Yeah. What was your first name? I called myself Big Pocky. Big Pocky! And when I done that album, it was like, it was straight rap, no singing or nothing. Straight rap. And in Colorado, they was more like on the East Coast. You know, it was like, they liked the East Coast rap. So it was like, man, I'm from the South. No, I don't rap like that. So I had to compete with those guys. And it worked out. They liked it because it was different. But at the same time, it didn't sell. It was like, no one wanted to pick me up because I was different. Wow. And all that what I'm saying right now is what I'm telling y'all, God is good, y'all. Let me change something. I did all that traveling and struggling and going out there to different states, trying to make it big. I didn't make it until I came back home. That's hard, man. When I came back home. I had a particle of sun. So Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had never stayed there before. I told you I'm from Pine Grove. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I went to Baton Rouge, it was like Baton Rouge City. What year was that? 99. OK. And I went out there and I had never heard their music. Like I said, they don't play that in Denver. So when I came to Baton Rouge, it was like. Different. How you do that there? You know what I'm saying? Who's here? Who is? I'm like, who? What's that? I love that. What's going on here? Ah! So I was like, yeah, OK. So when I got to sing it, I was like, OK. It wasn't all that. I had to sing it. So I said, OK. This is my path right here. I'm going to do singing. But that's when my first dose took, Southern Soul Blues. Who was it? How did you end up in Southern Soul Blues? Southern Soul Blues, Jackie Neal, the Neal family, embraced me and brought me in, man. And Jackie Neal passed away over a bad situation. Her nephew took, you know, he took him down his wing. And I've been singing Southern Soul ever since. Ever since. Let me, that's why you and this dang bad news get along so good, because you used to rap. So you used to rap. Yeah, so you see this now, you're like, OK, OK. That's it. I don't rap no more, but I like this, this and that. I don't like this, this and that in here. We're going to make it work. We're going to make this work. Don't worry about it. We're going to make this work, make it work. This is an entertainment business. And one thing about entertainment business Southern Soul and Blues has been stretched out so much to where now you have a lot of artists coming out and basically following my path. And yeah, yeah, I don't I don't complain. I'll take it as it comes. But at the same time, I feel that this Poké Bear brand, what I'm bringing now is the different. It's a difference. It's showing you a different path. It's showing you about love, showing you about hate, showing you about cheating. Show you about winning. Show you about losing everything. But when it comes to my music, it's all about something you can relate to. I don't sing about me. I sing about what I see. I sing about the people that that lost their daddy or lost their mama or someone that went to prison that you know, that took care of his family, but he had to go to prison because of a situation he couldn't. I talk about the people behind the walls that can't stand here behind his mic behind me right now. You know what I'm saying? I talk about all the people behind the walls because I've been behind the walls. So I let people know it's real. I chill. Being black in America, it's a situation. I just did a show last weekend for black rights, you know what I'm saying? For the people in Georgia, man, that went through the black Holocaust. Yeah. You understand me? And when you go out there, you really get a different perspective on what's really going on, you know? And every time I go on that stage, I try to set an example for a young man that is just disturbed and don't know what to do. He see me and be like, if he can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I got to ask you about this banger, man. Are you feeling me? Yes, y'all. That's why I say y'all come together. Are you feeling? When I met Baddoo, I told Baddoo, you're a rapper. I don't really deal with rappers. And he let me in. I said, I'll say, let me again. I said, let me do the hook. I gave him how some will give you a hook right now. But you're going to have to sell it. Well, what's the first thing I told you? Anything we do, what you got to do? You got to sell it. You got to sell it. It's not, we can do anything in the studio. It could be a plant in the middle, in the studio. But can you sell it? And you got to be in a relationship while you're selling it. And build them relationships. And once he took that, he's an Uncle Pro guy, I got you. So you gave him the, are you feeling me for it? I gave him nothing. That young man paid for it. No, no, no, no, no, don't talk about the hook that you gave me. The young man ain't come here stuntin'. He really wanted, he was really serious about his craft and he was trying to do it. And he asked me for help. I told him my price. He paid it. That's all I gave him what he asked for. OK. But when you gave him the hook, what did you can just, are you feeling me? And then he went, I'm you feeling me off of what he had already shown me. OK, OK. So I'll tell you, they gave him a little bit. No, this young man had already had the song. OK. I just put some flavor to what he already had. Got it. You understand me? And it ended up being something we never thought. We end up doing a video in Florida. In Florida. How was that? How was that? Let's talk about it. That was awesome. It was lovely. That was awesome. It was bite week too. It was all on the scooters. And everything. We had fun. You know what I'm saying? Got a little water. Got a little water in it. It was awesome. And that was your vision for it. It came out exactly. No, it didn't. Everybody just came together. Oh, wow. That's the same time as someone down. I'm getting booked, isn't it? I'm working. So we was, it happened to be in Florida. I said, let's do the video. He has camera, man. I say, go to work. We went and got to rent a real thing. Because you're going to rent. You know how Florida, you rent all that stuff. Yeah, and all that stuff around. The rigs, everything. So it was just all on the fly. All on the fly. And we did the video. And after that, we dropped that a week later. It was on there. And I think we got about 21,000 views in about eight days. Wow. That thing moved fast. And we were just messing around. It was just like, we was just doing something just to see what would happen. Yeah, it ain't your candy that was lying. It wasn't like we planned for it or, you know, rehearsed for it. It was just like, let's do a video. And it came together. How long did it take you to come up with the song? Yeah, about 20 minutes. About 20 minutes, man. Don't take me back. 10 minutes to write a song. I don't write. I don't write. See, and he don't write. So he got to do a finish. I don't write. He's just going in. I don't write music. I'm going to let all you artists know right now. If you got to put something on pen and pad, you got some hustling to do, young man. I don't write on no pen and pad. I play the beat. And I'm going to sing. And he's going to sing, yeah. And proof of the word, I got video to prove this. I never write on paper. But how long does it take you, like, when you go and you had to be? Don't take me about last song. About 25 minutes, 30 minutes. Really? Because after that, we worked together. We was working as a team. I said, OK, man, he said, what did you do? You like, pay that back or like that? No, no, no, I do the work. And I do the work. He did it with that? Yeah, I don't write on paper. If I got to write on paper, I don't like the song. How did you come up with Side Piece? Yeah, let's talk about that. I love that song. That's a big song. Like, how in the hell did you come up with that Pokébag? Who went through that? Who went through that? You a bad higger. Listen, that song right there said all. I'm going to tell you about something. Mom, when I grew up, my grandfather, he was a monster, bro. That's what it was about. My brother was a pop boy LC. Pop boy LC was a monster, bro. Dave, bro. And I got a lot of cousins. How the hell is song coming about, man? But this young rapper came to me. Coach Rankard, he was doing rapping also at the same time. And he brought me this song. He said, I got a song. And Heavy was the producer at the time. And he was like, we got to rap song. We want you to sing the hook. I was OK. So when I heard the song, I was like, I don't think that's. I don't think that's going to work, man. Ain't nobody going to buy that, man. I said, man, I need to sing the song. I was already doing such a song. I'm like, bro, let me do my thing on it. And you tell me what you think. He said, OK, I'm going to try that. It took me about 25 minutes. It took me I had to do two eights, no, two 16s. I did two 16s. And after I done the two 16s, I see, check this out. And when they heard the first verse and the second verse, it was like, kill the rap. You got to give me a little piece of that side piece. Side piece was actually. Side piece was actually a rap song. Yeah, because that's a hell of a song. Yes, it was a rap song. I know, y'all converted. They had already released it. It was already out and it didn't do anything. So they try to come back to me like, we need to sing. I'm like, no, don't need to be like that. And when we did it my way. That blew up. And I'm not going to blow up. It that song. Bob. How long did it take? About a month. Because we like to say it was a bad and rude small town. But after that month, I got booked to everything. I'm talking about I'm getting booked out because everybody loved that song. You can believe it. I was like, whoa, it was like. I was at your biggest song. I already had a hot song. They call me Poki. That was hot. I'm in love with the older woman. That was already hot. But when I done side piece. That's the biggest. That whole shunt the world. That's how he was. And he took me to everyone. I was like, whoa, it caught me off guard. But it was all in the focus of what I was trying to do. But I didn't think that. You ain't going to think it happened like that? I don't think it happened like that. People ain't going to do no songs. I'm like, you know, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. But when I done it, it's the way you say it. But everybody can do something amazing. But just like you said, things that you sing, somebody out there can relate to it. Yeah. Well, when he asked me to do it, sometimes people say, okay, first thing I thought about was my grandfather. And I'm like, okay. So I got to sing it in a way of what I know. So when I say, I must have got it from my daddy. Cause it's all in my jeans. See, I'm addicted to put none there. And you know what I mean. You see a rat with one hole. He's a poor rat, poor rat. But I ain't willing love, love. I ain't going out like this. And that's what I'm about to do. Yeah. I'm about to go to the bar. I'm about to go to the bar. I've done that song in 25 minutes. It was done. I think the hook is where that catch me. That's that hook. Man. Hello. To my grandpa left home a minute ago. And my papa, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we got. That's how we was raised. It's a country, man. That's all we got. So how you didn't fall in that footsteps? I'm fortunate to be in a situation where when I grew up, it was all about education. So I had to get my education together. Once I got my education together, I had to make a charge to go to college or do you. I decided to do me. So I took my education that I got from high school and I took to California. I went to electronic college in California and it just wasn't, it was teaching by computers and stuff like that. That wasn't my thing. So I quit. Wow. And I quit and after that, I got me a job. And I've been working ever since. I got a question. I know that like earlier you were talking about that everything that you write, you write about other people's situation, things that people talk about. I wrote about things that naturally happen. But, okay, for rappers though, a lot of rappers always say, a lot of things that they rap about is always about them, what they've been through in their situation. They don't rap about, it's like they feel like they're rapping about somebody else's situation and they're being fake. That's true. So how do you like, the things that you rap into? I brought my stuff to that. Yeah. No, I'm talking to bad news. Bad news. How do you like? Yeah, but so the things that you rap within the Southern Soul, Southern Blues, when you're mixing it, is everything that you're rapping about, about you, because if you're adding pieces to what he is in his part, it's not really about you. No, like me, my rap is different. See, my rap ain't the gangsta rap. See like the gangsta rap, you tell me you got a hundred bricks, a hundred million, all that, my rap about making a woman feel good. I'm trying to talk their panties off. And I can do that very well. So I'm rapping about me and a hundred other dudes out here. Anybody got a woman, anybody got a side piece, or anybody that got a little fling, you know. And don't get it confused now. He is fortunate enough to be with a person that I told him, don't isolate yourself. You're not in no, see, they like to put you in a box. And they put you in this box and they categorize you and say that you're this type of person. When my nephew came to meet with dad, I was like, no, if that's what you wanna do, we gonna do it. I don't call it his version of music. I don't call it blues. I call it music. It's different. And we're balancing it in between those two different situations, R&B, Southern Soul and Blues. Because if you listen to all the other artists that's out right now, listen to it. Categorize it all you want to. They sound the same way, but they can't do it like what we're doing. We're doing something different. We're keeping that Southern Soul blend. And then my nephew coming with that rap that sounded just like any other rapper that do all the do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. We don't do that. Yeah, we don't do that. We talk about love. Yeah. We talk about problems. We talk about families. We talk about real life. We talk about all that. We talk about real stuff. So we don't like to categorize our stuff. When you talk about bad news, I don't want you to look at bad news as trying to come into blues and check. No, no. He's come into blues showing his style because the other market ain't open. You understand me? Yeah. That's how it works. So we got to have an opening and guess who gave him the open big poke and bow. Well, well. As long as my nephew keep breathing, he gonna always have an outlet with me. Me in that world that you heard that. Me. Me. Sorry. Poke and bow, how'd you come up with good foot? Good foot, baby. Good foot. James Brown? What? James Brown, baby. Oh, this is damn sure dead. You better do this. Yeah, sure dead. I said, well, shit, I'm up. No, he got to solve. I said, I'm gonna have to come like James Brown. I'm gonna have to come like James Brown on this one. They say, what you mean, poke? I say, turn to y'all then push the button. And I get on the good foot. Hey. Get on the good foot. Hey. Break it down on the scene. Hey. Like you a sex machine. Hmm. Baby. Get on the good foot, we. Get on the good foot. Break it down on the scene. Like you a sex machine. Baby. Man. Big poke bag. Big poke bag. You gonna learn today. Listen, man, I entertain all of them. I got more cuckoos in a little bit. Boy, you learn today, boy. Say, man, I'm telling you, my Ken folks say, man, you have to talk to poke bag. I said, yeah, I talk to poke bag. Hell. She say, for real? I'm like, man, I don't damn well if woman ain't crazy. Oh, poke bag. You have a lot of females that be crazy all over you. I'm not a damn male. Female. Yes. And 30% of my fans are kids. That's crazy. I'm a big kid. Sinking my soul. They love it. They love it. But how does a, okay, cause most Southern soul artists cater to females and I've seen on certain Instagram posts and stuff like that, when some of them be on stage and you actually see some males jumping up, singing your songs and do, how you feel when you have the males doing all of that? I love it. I love it. I actually love it. I don't, when a male jump up and show me respect, said, man, I love you, bro. Man, my wife, your number one fan. And he shake my hand, man, man, it's nothing like that feeling, man. Let me tell you something. When it comes to poke bag show, these people come out here to see me cause they know I'm a real, I'm a real brother, bro. I don't, I don't, I ain't with all that faith. You know what I'm saying? It's all about love with me. You know what I'm saying? I throw the L's up everywhere I go. Everywhere I go, I throw L's up. And that L don't stand for no gang, ain't in no gang. The L stands for love. Man. And Louisiana. Hey! You understand me? So everywhere I go, male, female, I don't care. What y'all? You come to see me, I'ma show you love. I swear you have never heard no confrontation with me with no fans. Because the fans come here to see who that. Poke bag. Poke bag. Hey! Mama, there go that man. Sounds like a marching band. Sounds like a marching band. It gon' poke it. And I, and I, and I, and I, and I, when I do my show, I tell all my fans, I say, I don't do this for me. I do this for you. Because it wasn't for you. Wouldn't be no me. Man! They gonna learn the labor. Man! Thank you. So listen man, you see a lot of people doing the trail rides and stuff. Like, that's a lot of the people that follow the Southern Soul market. Do y'all think it's gon' be as strong as summer, and this, oh my goodness. You gon' be as strong as summer. What did you just say? Is it gon' be as strong as it's been, man? Man, we don't matter. If I don't be on the BETO board. Woo hoo hoo hoo, you telling the truth too. Bye. I'm gon' burn that old damn thing down. I swear to God. Give it a go. Y'all play with me. Cause ain't nobody selling out, look at my numbers, boy. Look at all my numbers. Ain't no one can stand with me. All you rappers, everybody that's doing your thing, look at my numbers. I got five number one albums. Five, never been nominated. Man, that's cool. Feel me. And I'm still comin' with his. Play with me. No one has done what I've done. And I've not got my credit, but guess what, I don't complain. I just keep working. And you get to. Learn the day. You get to fulfill me like from the people. That's how the promoters eat. That's how the promoters eat. Yeah. How you think the promoters eat. Cause if people love him, they gon' keep bookin' him. Yeah. Put me on the ticket, baby. Soul out, baby. All Soul Out shows. I ain't never done no un-Soul Out show. Learn the day. Poke it, pal. Poke it, baby. You gon' learn the day. Never. Mama, that's the old damn man. Everywhere I go. I booked a show the other day. I had four days to do it. Cause they cancel my show for the weekend. Guess what? Soul it out. Soul it out. Learn the day. The fire department came out. I told the fire department, you want some of these? No. No. You want some of these when you were on it, bro. That's it, huh? You gon' learn the day, bro. You want some of these? You want some of these? We're kiddin' the game, bro. That's a different world. We're kiddin' the game. They love it. They love it. But you talkin' about BET Awards and stuff. How many time BET Awards recognized Southern Soul? I don't know what. I don't know why. They gon' take guys like me to force the issue. That's why I deal with the hip-hop artists. That's why I deal with the other people because they're in markets that I can't reach. So guess what? Now I'm reaching those markets. So now when I reach those markets, I promote what I'm doing to promote to other guys that are just as hot as me. And we can get it. Like me and King George, we can kill the game right now. Ain't nobody in RB dealing with King George right now. I'll put that on everything. You put one up to him. He can't mess with him. But I got it. But the next thing- I'm not gonna say it. I don't compete. That's real. I don't compete. I just treat. We go out here. We work our butt off. And we don't get the consideration of these other guys. They get all these big ass hoes and all this stuff because the kids, one thing is about, they solitude our stuff. They block our stuff. They see the numbers we're comin' with. They try to block their arenas. They try to block those things for our thing because they feel that we are not capable of doing what we do. But anyway, so show we go to, we don't have no problems. We don't have no fights or nothin'. Look at that shows. Fights. Peek and kill. Peek and kill. What, what, what, what? Come on now. That's real. Let's talk about it now. It ain't lying. Let's talk about it now. You ain't nobody on the sort of zone. Nobody gets shot at. What's going on? So my thing is this. If you're gonna criticize or if you're gonna show somebody love as black people, if you're in a position to help people, why don't you do it? My thing is this. I could be in Beverly Hills right now. Kelly Badges, boy. You're standin' me. I could be there right now. But get what, I take my money and I put it back in the hood. I take care of my family. I make sure all my people straight. My grandsons, all my stepdaughters and my kids, I got four kids, you understand me? Lost one over the years, God bless you. But at the same time, all my money go into taking care of my family. And then I do my music. But other than that, if I can get the bag that these niggas gettin' that ain't taking care of their family, learn today. Listen, they call me Poked Bear remix, is that 28 million views, man. These views are sick, man. Poked Bear, excuse me, one of those is millions of views. Millions, and you know how to nominate this guy? And that's the same thing. PMC said the same thing, like it's somethin' bout Boosie, all the southern artist period. That's what I was just about. That was just talkin' bout Boosie, you know what I'm sayin'? What was just talkin' bout Boosie? It's a southern thing, it's a southern thing. They don't show southern, if you don't establish that relationship with those people, it's nothing. I got guys out the east coast that I, when I did Buffalo, New York, I did Atlanta City, when I went out today, he said, we want you around here. I'm like, well, we waitin' on you. That hard to find. And that was just all makeup. My thing is this, you go out there, you turn this city out, and it's like, here they come out with a new artist. And you're like, that's what I've been dealin' with lately. That's crazy. Because when I first came in, when I was, even though I was, at my age, I'm 53 years old, you feel me? You look good. Yeah, I'm 53 years old, but at the same time, these young artists that come in now, it's like, and they're gettin' more views, than certain as me. And I'm like, I pay my dues. I done my show, I almost killed myself on the stage one day. What? In New Orleans. Whatever. I saw that. I fell off the stage. How did that happen? Y'all never asked me about it. How did that happen? Let them think. The speakers used to step on the speaker. Right. I went to step on the speaker. I saw that. And my, you know, we're goin' forward. And the speaker moved, and I went all the way down, bro. And God. God had to be there with you there. Oh, boy. He had to be. The security guard. Big ol' guy. I ended up landin' on him. And I was able to spit around him, and land on the floor. Well, I could land on my head. Head, yeah. Head, yeah. You could land on his head. Yes, sir. That's the same thing that, I don't know if it's the older entertainers who just feel that way about the speakers and stuff, because the same thing, Jennywine, did he, did he fail too? I don't know, I don't know. He jumped, he jumped down. Well, he'd be doing a lot of extra stuff, bro. I don't know. He jumped down, too. Oh, he jumped down one level, and he had failed on the other level. Yeah, and kept singing. And you hadn't even seen him. He failed down. Uh-huh. He tried to hold on to that, the guy who was doing the signage. You know, the same thing happened to me. Same thing happened to me. Yeah. I was going, I was going great. Did you keep going with the show? Yes, sir. Jumped on him. Me, too. Me, too. Me, too. Me, too. I was going to say, I'm sorry. You got up there, y'all. They got the whole video. I got up, cause everybody thought I was, they thought I was gone. And the comments, people loved it. What made me feel so good, when I seen the video, what made me feel so good? You could hear the crowd. Oh, is he okay? Go get him. You could hear women screaming like, oh, go get him, no, no. Like they're crying. They care about you. Bruh. They care about you, man. And when I got up, they were like, everybody was like, you should read the comments. I was like, whoa. Can't believe it. But that was after the show. I'm doing the book, you know. I was just. But did you hurt yourself at all? No, no, ma'am. I was. He had a show to do at night and said it all the way. I went to The Texas. I did Dallas, Texas the following day. Yep. Get a whole full show. A whole show. The first thing I said, I went and I showed it. I went out and I saw that video, right? Y'all seen that video? Y'all thought I was dead. That was. It turned me so out. Yeah. It turned that dog off. Thank God. That was awesome. Do you think, what do you think would happen if somebody came up in the South and started doing their own award shows? I was on Friday. I don't get it. They tried it. And it didn't work. Well. Just didn't keep the award. Award shows. I mean, I do. Jackson, Mississippi. I do the award show. I've been nominated for Arts of the Year. Three, three different things for them. They do it in Jackson. But I'm talking create one as big as big and try to get as big as BET and just that one. That's the one I thought will take it there, but it didn't work. It never happened. You think it's the city that they hold it in? I don't blame them. You know what I mean? I don't blame them. I think they're, you know, only some. How can I explain this? When you're... Politics. When you're dealing with people that put you in different situations to where you know you're successful and you know you can do the same things the other guys do, and you present it, and they deny it. It's kind of hard to tell artists like Poker Bear, hey man, you can only, I'm like, what? Why we not in Los Angeles? I mean, why we not in, you know what I'm saying? Las Vegas, I mean, I mean. That's me. We're selling more tickets than these guys. I mean, I got rap artists that I love. They call me Uncle Poker every day. Yeah. And I be like, what you doing this weekend? Nothing. Nothing. And I'm booked. And you're booked. And it's crazy. I'm like, what? I mean, y'all not even working like me. I'm working my butt off and I'm trying to create something for future. I'm like, I told you I'm 53. I cannot be doing this for the rest of my life. So my plan is, this is my plan. I started my own company now. So now I'm trying to help out others. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do this last, this is my last album. After I do this last album, it's going in straight promotion. I got my company, I'm gonna promote other artists. What's the name of your company? But I'm a JSP. JSP. JSP, Josephine's son, Poker. And I'm doing that company out of faith of the people that I don't be a relationship with. And after I do this, I'm doing, I'm not just doing songs. We doing movies. I'm doing my next movie by the pop-out right now. You know what I'm saying? What's the name? Mama. What's the name of it, Mama? Mama can't sleep. Got it. Mama can't sleep. And I'm doing that. And then once I do that, once I do the movie, I'm going into other things. And hopefully I can hook up with other guys in bigger lanes that can take my stuff to another level. I'm gonna talk to Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, Boosie. Yeah, I saw you had a picture with him the other day. Well, that's my nephew. I basically did with him, but he's so busy. I reached out to other R&B artists that I, you know what I'm saying? Urban Mystic. Me and him got a single for them to come out. Are you gonna make it happen? You've been in this business too long for it not to. Yes, I got a lot of stuff in the come out. I just let everybody know in the world that, you know, just wait on it, it's coming. I got, in the next few months, you're gonna hear a lot of stuff from PokéBear and a lot of collaborations with other artists with my boy Bad News. We just dropped one, it's so sick. We just dropped one, y'all. What's the name? We killing the game right now, man. Name is on. Why you play with me? Hmm. Why you play with me? It's a song about the industry, how you take advantage of a person. Really? It's hard. You make me go, I definitely gotta go ahead. What a loyalty, what a loyalty. You take advantage of a person and it's lowest. You take advantage of a person that is the lowest and you use that for your access to benefit for you. Which I don't know. It's very common in this industry. It's common. And then after the facts and you see what's going on and you realize that you couldn't stop anything and you realize why you can't work with me no more, you will understand this song. And I directed this to a lot of people. A lot of people. You will not know who I'm talking about cause I ain't missin' no name. It's a good one. It's a good one. It wasn't your ass. It was not your ass. If you know me personally, you're gonna know exactly who I'm talking about. What is it? Bad News, I'm gonna ask you about Good Times in Detroit. Oh yeah, man. I wanna know what inspired you to go up there and do your thing. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna tell you the craziest part about that, man. Shadow of Big 50, you know, she got my music in her movie, Big 50 Story. So she always making the DJ. You know, she gotta pull, she like the queen pin of Detroit, the real trap queen. She go on these folks' spot and send her workers in there and make them play my music. Wow. So it just so happened it got to a radio station. These people call me and they're like, man, we don't know you, but your name buzzin' in Detroit. We wanna fly you out. We wanna shoot your video. We're gonna put you in an Airbnb and we're gonna pay you $1,500. I said to shoot my video, you know. I said, so what y'all gettin' out of there? You're like, man, we just love the song. We just wanna be a part of the video. Thank God, man. So I get into Detroit. That's God. D4 got a whole, you know, they big on them bicycle routers out there. Man, they had a whole like 80 people, a whole bicycle group out there. They cookin' me food, man. They got me three, four balls. They said that's a ball of Hennessy for every day. Wow. They said, you got your big ball every day. They cook for me every day. And the name of the song, you know, good time, you know, Grandma Macaron. Yeah. You know what I'm sayin'? So they cookin' the macaron, the collard greens, just about family havin' a good time, like back in the days, you know what I'm sayin'? Love ya. You know when you were comin' up, man, you'd have family reunions. You know what I'm sayin'? You know what I'm sayin'? You don't get that no more. But these guys. You know what I'm sayin'? The kitchen table and eatin' no more. They watchin' their phone in the little room, eatin' and came forward. Yeah, real time. The telephone took over, man. I mean, them guys knew they were gonna have a good time. Man, we had a problem. Just dealin' with you. Man. That's crazy, right? And I got out there and go back to like he said, I built relationships. I did Seven Shoes of Detroit last year alone. Wow. Seven Shoes. That is crazy. Alone, they about 12 months in a year. That, man, that is crazy. Yeah. And Poké Barret, I mean, which is that defining city for you that you know they love Poké Barret? Like, everywhere is just the same for you, ain't it? You like, you, you ain't every damn city. Every damn city, I'm in that whole, every city at home. I cannot say that, bruh, they. They love you. Anywhere I go, man, I came goin' Walmart, bruh. I go Walmart, tryin' to be low-key, man. And it won't be like, you look just like, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, that's my brother, that's my brother. I can't go to gas stations, I can't, it's getting ridiculous, you know, I'm feeling Michael Jackson status right now, you feel me? Understand me. You understand me, but at the same time, at the same time, I mean, I appreciate the love cause the people love me so much they know what type of person I am. And I take pictures with them. You might got pictures of me right now at the Walmart. Right now. I don't go to gas stations or wherever I was caught at is a picture. I don't discriminate, I don't, you know, that's just how I am. And my people love me cause I love them. Have a fan ever touched you where they walked up to you and was like, something you sang or something you said really affected their life, affected them and what did they say to you? I just done, let me show you something. I just done a young lady called me her son. Yeah. She said, brain surgery this morning. Wow. And she called me cause she said that he wants to talk to me. Wow. And you don't even know him. A kid. A kid. Right. How old is he? She said eight. Hold on to that. Let me get this text message right here. That's crazy. That's big Poke Bear. Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. Check this out. Read it, baby. Wow. He just wanted to meet you. What did he say? They bought to FaceTime, you know, he going in the surgery this morning. Look how little he is. Played a video. He just wanted them to see it. He saw me in the video every night. Saw him in the video? Yeah. And you didn't. Yeah, I just, I called him right before surgery. And spoke to him. He was so happy, probably. He listened to that Poke Bear. He was, and he's singing and dancing. He said he's number one song. And what did he have to say to you? He loved me. About to. What you got over there? Let me see that. He went to surgery and everything. Wow, they see him after surgery. Yeah. That's crazy. Read that, man. So he went through surgery. Yup. Man. Okay, so this is today. This is the time of people I reach. It says, thanks y'all so much. He's super excited. He got to see his favorite blue singer. I'm so happy you made one of many of his wishes come true. Can't send pictures of you two together. Today, if possible, we're going to do a collage. But that is so great. Well, that's touching, man. How did it make you feel? It's about to. Six one. I never thought I'd touch kids. I can imagine. But it show you that, to me, it show you that you have a purpose. You have a greater purpose on this world. We don't always know what our purpose is, but God have a plan for us. And it's good that you're able to see your purpose right now. You know what I mean? When you can touch kids to this point where you're able, you don't know. Thank God he came out of surgery and he's doing better. And when he come out of surgery, they call him immediately. Because they reach out to Poke Bear because at the end of the day, he inspires this kid. This kid's four, three, four years old. That's crazy, man, because you just never know. You never know, bro. You never know who you're gonna touch. Behind these microphones, on these stages, every time you look around, man, you don't know what your purpose is. And I know you got stories yourself, but it's like God has a backdoor purpose that you don't even know about to go down. And then you wonder how your unexpected blessings come up. Yeah, yeah, there you go. I treated like this. I'm like, I touched a lot of older people to be sick. It'd be a lot of older people too, but they reach out to me and ask me to perform on the phone. You've had that happen to you before. Is this when they're about to pass away? Yes, man. Wow. I lost three of four. Wow. Died the next day. And as you fan, the first time you've... And they just want to talk to Poke Bear. They had done just the scenes before. One woman came from Aberkirkie to my show. She said, I came to your show. My mama wanted to come. I had a ticket, but she passed away the other day. Wow. And she just wanted to save me. I was like, oh, what the... I just wanted to see him. I just wanted to see him. I just wanted to talk to him. Right. You know, that was my... And you know that's crazy. She did, bro. Because you never know. You never know. She did, bro. You never would have knew. It like the day, man, we pulled up at a stove. Okay. It was a man hanging out his truck. We didn't know what was going on. He fell. He fell. We ran to help him. An old man. I ran up that man, I'm like, you all right? He's like, I just need help getting up. I picked him up, put him in his seat. You know what I'm saying? The other people with two, three people running just to... Look at him. Look at that. That's the difference between y'all, man. I ran up that, picked that man up. You know what I'm saying? That man was sitting in his seat. That was a gas station. We was at a gas station. So he was like, my legs are not the same. I'm okay. I said, you sure? Don't we want you to try? He was okay. She had a bless as comes. Let me tell you something. When it comes, one thing about this music, I'm forgiving me for getting softer. No, you're fine. But I got a heart. No, we got a heart. When it comes to music, bro, I choose it out later to keep me out of trouble. Yeah. Yeah. I used to do all the wrong things, you know. If you see my documentary right now, you'd be like, sure, I know what you're saying. Yeah. Exactly. I know I was gonna go home. You want me to be honest with you? You wanna go home? Be honest. But God had put me in a position to, who Lord? I never thought I'd be in a position to be, people actually look up to me. So blessed right now to get the relationships I have with people. I ain't know this dude from Adam. I mean, he didn't have to like me. Yeah, y'all linked up. Y'all linked up. He reached out to me. The first thing he said, uh-huh, I said, uh-huh. What the fuck is that? Now y'all ain't gonna do it. They gonna do it. They gonna do it. They gonna do it. They gonna do it, uh-huh. They gonna do it. That uh-huh, who's into this? I think Scoob. I think Uncle Lubella did Scoob. Scoob, oh, Scoob. Scoob. Uncle Lubella did Scoob. But once we met and everything, I was like, this is cool, y'all, man. And he was under somebody else, so I didn't wanna, that's what I was saying, but if you're gonna do it, what are you gonna do with me? Mm-hmm. You call me up? We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. I don't have no friends. I don't like no stunt with me. I don't like no stunts. Anybody that work with me, they know I'm 100. I'm 100. If I call you my boy, you're my boy. That's how I work. Females included, that's why I work. I got a lot of female fans and business partners that I deal with to help me with my situation. I have my nephews that work with me. I've never had a security force because I'm surrounded by family. Never needed to. I've never went to a venue where I had to have security because I'm surrounded by family. When I step on the crowd, I say, I don't need no background. I say, who my background say this to y'all? Bam. Paulie Brown, let me ask you a question because I keep thinking about you in this movie driving this bad regal. This nigga had, come on, my regal? That old clean? I'll take you out of that. That wasn't a real old cut. Man, that thing was so clean. What year is it? I got 79 cutters. 79, wasn't it? Yeah, it is. I do. Don't you sleep on me? Man, that old clean. When did you see my bourbon? When I dropped my bourbon, my bourbon dropped, what, another? What movie is that, though? Hit movie, Side Piece. Side Piece. Side Piece. I watched it the other night. What is this new movie? Now I'm finna do my Denzel Washington. Oh, you finna go here? Boy, you better learn that. All right. I'm going in with my Denzel on this. Because I'm older now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it. Let it play. Let it play. So hold on. Give me a little piece of it. Give me a little piece of it. Oh, he's an actor now. No, I want to see it. I want to see a little bit of Denzel right now. So you said you don't want to... You don't want to be a part of this? Now you know who built this, huh? Who built it? Say it now. See if I built it. And I put the portraits on it. Who's the captain? You or me? Man! What's up, man? What's up, man? You're going to learn a lot today. Man! That movie is going to be about... It's going to be about... So shit, bro. I'm going all the way back. I'm going back to my kid thing. I got some... I got this young man. He's going to do the acting for my kid thing. And I got another guy that's going to the... Middle age. Middle age. It's all about how I grew up. I told him from Pine Grove, Louisiana. I grew up in a country. And I grew up with cows and hogs and... Man! It was nothing but a city. What is that coming out? When is it coming out? I'm doing it now. It's going to take us... It's going to take us a full day. I don't know. I think about next year. 24. Okay. They said 24. Poked Bear, man, you're a damn star. You're a damn star. I don't feel like a star. I don't give a damn what you say. I didn't interview you. You didn't say nickel? I didn't interview the law on the nickels, man. I told him I said... They're even bad, man. I said Poked Bear ain't me over there, man. He like, huh? Like, yeah. I told him. I said, what? I said, he said Poked Bear. I said, Nicky, you know how long I've been trying to get Poked Bear? I got to get Poked Bear. But you know what Poked Bear told me when he wasn't coming over here? He said, man, I ain't coming over there. I bought myself, man. They coming. He was like, man, I got something going, but I'm coming. I knew... I knew how God worked, man. I did it with y'all. I'm too nitty. I'm going to end up at the house eating barbecue and eating steaks and niggas. I ain't coming niggas. I'm family, nigga. No sir. You know what I'm saying? Right. No sir. When News said he was out here, I said, what you got going? He said, you're going to... I said, I got your bag. I'm going to go over there. See, that's one thing about building relationships. That's it. When you're building relationships, you don't burn your bridge. Not at all. I'm always going to be there. Man. But if you burn your bridge, you better stay over there. Let me tell you something. It ain't never... And I got Pokébar number in my phone. You better go back to that song and play with me. I got Pokébar number in my phone and I promise you, every time I called him, he answered and talked to me and told me what was going on. But believe it or not, man... He told me what... If he wasn't here, he's going to say, I'm over here, man. I always a calling and asking where he at. Yeah. Anyway. And it don't never... Me and Pokébeer together 20 times. We might go to the studio twice. It don't always be about music, man. It's just about building relationships. You just want to be regular, man. What I want to do for him is to set up for... He can have a market. He can work when I'm not around. Yeah. So once we did that and we got that a step to the video... Once we did that video, I said, go ahead. You got it. You got it. He said, now you got to go say it yourself. Man, I like that. He been working every since. Every since. Every since. Every since. Every new now. I didn't have to call him and ask him what he doing. I was like, where you at? I said, I'm in Birmingham. Where you at? I'm in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta. I told you. Beer like silk. Let me tell you something, bro. In this business, it's not what you know. It's who you know. Who you know. Who you know. And I'm not trying to say I'm better than anyone else, but when it comes to this business of Southern soul and blues, it's kind of hard to go past me. And I've been telling all these people this for a long time because every time they go past me, they got to come back to me. And I'm like, God damn. Where you at? What took you so long to get back? I don't know why you went that way. You know what I'm saying? So I then got to a business where I don't peel my capital. Yeah. My capital up there. So now my capital up there. So now I'm like, okay, she is. 53. 55 I'm retired. I told you. That's what I was wondering. 55 I'm retired. And I'm going to run my own. Establishment with blues. And I'm taking it overseas. Everywhere. Learn today. I'm setting that up right now. You heard it from me. Big poker bell. It's going down. Man. Lean that. I'm doing stuff right now. I build a relationship with people that's going to put me in positions that I need to be in. And a lot of people try to keep you in this box. I keep telling people about this box. And I said, nigga, you can't keep me in no box. It's a different thing. I do music. I said, nigga, I do gospel. I do a church tomorrow. I do gospel, too. I do gospel, army, country. Believe me. Man, from Sir Charles Jones, y'all. Every time I see y'all, man, it seems like y'all just growing. That's how it'll be going, man. Well, y'all just always look like you're having a good turn, though. Sir Charles been, yeah. He been here. Sir Charles been, yeah. How did you and him even meet? Does he know? How did y'all meet? You already know me and Sir Charles. It was like we were brothers at first. First time I met Sir Charles, Sir Charles said, God damn, man. Your head's smoking. And you know what he always tell me? Look, I did a show. I know you a good guy. I did a show. I did a show. It was cold. But it was outside cold. Well, I did my thing. Killed him. When I come out the show, Steve was coming off my head. No, it wasn't. Sir Charles said, he never made no deal. Steve's coming off my head. What do you think he's ever seen? He never seen no deal. Hey, man, they love the show. I know it. Sir Charles said, I ain't never seen no artist to do that. He said, boy, you're the next thing. That's when I first started. Really? They call me Poked. Hey! Big Poked bass. Come on. I started. Yeah. The only song I had. You know, Older Woman and... What was it on my head? Can't... No, no. I wasn't even out yet. No, no. I did... What was the other one I did? Do people ever request you to sing those first songs that you did? Yes. When I go to shows, they be like, can you sing this one? And I got my sit set up right now. When they asked me for something, and I got time, I do it for them. Wow. For you to be like one of... You're name is going down in history no matter how you look at it. To be on TV like that, bro. I just tell them, bro. I'm being stupid like that. Bro! Bro! Bro! Bro! Bro! Bro! Bro! Bro! Listen man, listen man, listen, your name is going down in history man, what, what do you want people to remember you by I put it in the post? I want them to remember me that I was a fun person to be around, never hated on no one, humble, I just never going, never, never burning bridges, I don't burn bridges, even when I'm getting messed up, I mean I got screwed out a lot of money, you know what I'm saying, but I never burnt the bridge, because I, God do things for a reason, you can't go against God, so my thing was, you know, you ain't got the money, you can't even fight them anyway. I've learned to accept things that I, mistakes I've made and the games I've made, and I take it as one man, I'm gonna be the same person from beginning to end, I will never be different, no matter how much money I got. I love the way how you hold on to God, no matter what. I love my Lord, Lord Jesus, I pray to the Lord every morning, every morning I wake up, I do this, I take my shower and I look up at the Lord and I pray to Him, thank You for everything You got for me, my house, my cars, my grandkids, my babies, everything, my, come on now, my still living 83 years old, 83 years old in my house right now, my friends that I met and I just take it as, I take it again because a lot of people ain't in that position. They ain't in that position, same thing to you bad news, like what, in this journey man, like people see you, they see the move, they seen you do something no other rapper has ever done to go over in the southern soul and live and be successful in it, like what do you want people to remember you by when they think about you and your legacy? I just don't really, I don't really want to remember you by now, I just want to know anything is possible. Don't give up man, don't matter what nobody tell you, can't do it. What God got playing for you man, no man can stop. You know how much I get criticized about it, but I'm booked every week, so everything I'm doing something right. Exactly, when I get calls about the criticism that he gets, I tell him to keep pushing because if they ain't talking about you, they ain't doing it. You ain't doing it. You ain't doing it. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's what you were, that's what you were. That's when you were. I know they talk about me all the time, he a drunk, he don't do it, he don't do it all, he fell off the stage all, you see, he fell off the stage. I told you it was on drugs, I told her. Next show pool. I know if they do the calculation right now, the most talked about blues artist is big, I do everything and they see me different places, they be like, he was boozy, He was Rick Ross, he was with Snoop, he was with, how the hell did he do that? Big Polk back in your relationship. It's funny, you say that cause Snoop, man, how did you end up running into Snoop? I don't know, they didn't run into him, he ran into me. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Big Polk, get back in there. They're not the beat, nigga. I don't look for now. Now, nigga. They come looking for me. So where, where was you at, Tommy? Where they found you at, man? I actually have never met Snoop personally. Okay. But he went live, and me and him looking at each other on the phone like, hey, Polk, I love what, man? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I'm trying to get it. I love the Polk, I love the Colby. What? Man, I do what I let you know, boy, keep doing what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing. Oh, this is so cool. But it's big, man. That's big. You get deep, man. You get deep, boy. He knew exactly who you was. He ever said that. I'm gonna answer my call. Ha, ha, ha, fuck it, man. Go to keep it real. Fuck it, man. Don't give it why. It's not somebody's fault. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Hey, Snoop, you better answer the call. I heard it today. Ha, ha, ha. I'm not being done with you, man. Say, hey, I don't want to talk to you. When I went to Rick Ross, I did his baby. He got a soonies. I did Rick Ross. Mama birthday party. Oh really? Yes. Yes, at the mansion. We at the mansion, and Rick was sitting there, I'm like... Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I'm a hand down nickel. No! I'm shaking my ass. Yeah! Don't be the clown! I'm not gonna do it! I'm a hand down nickel. Yeah! Yeah! He said he's gonna remember you. I'm like, come on, man. Daddy, you learned it! The next day, I was like, okay, it's gonna be a good day tomorrow. The next day, I was like, okay, it's gonna be a good day tomorrow. Yeah, I'm walking around here, making sure... The van is in the van. The van is in the van. Oh no! It went viral! It went viral! It went crazy! So I'm like, okay. Yeah, waitin' on the car like, okay, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. No car. What the hell? Good. I'm gonna hit you with that. I ain't got a cold shit, but you're like, why me? But I didn't, but he made me. Hold on. I ain't saying I'm mad. I ain't saying I'm mad. I'm not saying I'm mad. But you killed it! I know you killed it! Did I kill it? I know you did! The man had a broken hip, he was shaking so hard. One way at a time, he was saying, I ain't gonna love you. When I watched that episode, I was like, God, thank you. And I'm like, okay, here's gonna be a little ticket. Here it comes. Here it comes. It all comes. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. No, nothing, nothing, nothing. I swear to God, boy, I put that on my, I tell him in his face, nigga, you know you did that. And then he was gonna go viral the next day, doing my video, saying, I'm willing to make sure my mama ain't gonna poke a bag. I said it was, I said it was a poke-a-bag sass. I said it was a poke-a-bag sass. He got poke-a-bag and got him. What he saying, what he saying, what he saying, what he saying? I'm like, what he saying the next day, what he saying? He's like, hmm, look around him up, make sure. Poke-a-bag is still. My mama, poke-a-bag is a poke-a-bag right now. Come on, here, I'm looking. And I'm like, I'm like, man, what the problem? He's like, yeah, poke-a-bag, whatever. I'm like, okay, okay, what's all the problem? Poke-a-bag, see that? I'm like, hold me, I'm like, hold me, I'm like, I'm like a sass, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, you call me like, yeah, nigga, you ready? M figured. Name, name, name, name. One, two, three! Take that and go with it. I'll say that there. I'm out of here. I'm just, I'm like, all right then. I'll take one more. I'll never give you bitches. I'm going to turn that bitch off. When I come back, that bitch is coming up, I'm driving through that mother. I mean, fuck, the hell no. I was like, what? I did all that, nothing. Then it broke your hip. Like I said, he paid me. Don't worry about it, guy got you. He paid me. He paid me my money, so I'm good at what I was expecting. Lord, it's off the middle of the aisle. If it'll blow, you're hoping it'll blow. It can't hold it. It can't hold it. It can't hold it. If it'll blow. I know you got to call and do his mama part of it. That's what I knew. It ain't easy. It ain't easy. It ain't easy. It ain't easy. It ain't easy. It ain't easy. It ain't easy. God, it ain't easy. God, it ain't easy. You tell all these others. You can meet them all day. It ain't easy. Boy. Boy. It's not easy. I work my ass off every weekend because I do everything and everybody tell me, I have you so good. You all good. I'm like, what the hell? What the hell? That's it. What the hell? I'm bad. What the hell? I want to be on Z back. That's where she do it. Put your fuck ass up there. That's it, man. You got to be doing that. I'm out of this shit, man. You got to be bored, man. Everybody got to be paying. Everybody got to be paying. Man, that's crazy. What else do I have to do to prove that I am the man? The man. Did you ever do that, did you ever do that boosted bass with y'all that one where y'all be going on there? Uh, uh, uh, uh. Can you just say boosted bass? That boosted bass. You be going, don't you? Yes, I've done the boosted bass. You don't do the boosted bass. You ain't the, ain't nothing you ain't done there, bogey, big bogey done did it all. But then when he told me a while ago, I knew it ain't easy. You know? You love some boosted? Yes. That's your boy. That's my boy. That's his nephew. Nephew. Nephew, man. He looked out for me. Boosted Realms did the show for him. And mom showed up. I met all the family. All the family. And, uh, like I said, that's who we's on now. But I just said, yeah, he's on now. Ooh, going down there. He's going down. You ain't got nothing to show me. Yeah, he's going down. He's going down. He ain't been a helper. No happening this time. All I seen was madebacks and all that. Believe in it. Believe in it. You ain't got nothing complex. I'm in my goddamn top. No, I was in my Cali Escalade. I'm in my Escalade, like, uh, are we going with this? Or what? You're going to follow this or what? Yeah. So they gone, right? So I'm like, what the fuck going on here, man? I'm painting, I'm good. But I'm like, I thought we were going to do them. Thermal. You sound. Last time I see a boosted, I went out to Atlanta. I went to his house. Oh, yeah, that's what he's after, y'all. That's my nigga. When we go to his house, I go to his house. He saw me, he grabbed a shoe, boom, boom, boom. That's it. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Wait on it. Wait on it, bro. I'm a type of brother like this. I mean, I respect every man and everything you do. But one thing I do love, I love me some me. Yeah, yeah. And I think I be a little cocky with that idea. I ain't lying. No, you ain't lying. I'm not lying. So when a person showed me that, I'd be like, I'm so humble for real. Man. Oh, shit, man, look, man, I'm good. Man. I don't ask nobody for shit. Everything I got for paid for, nothing. I don't bother nobody. I don't need nobody to help me. I can do my own shit. But I would love to have that collaboration. But at the same time, don't treat it like, like, you know, like, I'm out here, scratching, I'm like, I ain't doing nothing. Man. I ain't gonna, I'm gonna wrap this up. I have one more question. Okay, go ahead. But you got, who you got, who you got? I'm really good. This question is for both of y'all, because it's more of a current situation that I see what's going on right now. I see a lot of people are doing veneers nowadays and getting rid of their goals. Oh, they put them on white TV and they're about to teach. I'm also doing white, man, on me, man. So what y'all think about that? I'm from Alabama, I'm from the South. I love gold. I let them do the woman, I do me. That's what we do from the South. We're at gold. If I take these, I'm gonna get some more gold. Are we really gold? Yeah. Can I see people talking out there? They'll be changing it up, too. But see, they follow the new trend. I set my own. I'm old school, I'm old school. Okay. I've been rocking golds for the last, for 10 years. I don't, I don't rock, no. They come with the plan and all that. I don't do that. And no white TV, they cool. My old back goes for you dad. My grandfather had gold for you dad. The two golds, a little. The two fight, y'all get a fight. You remember them? I remember them. That's what you're saying? Uh huh. My mama had the one gold. Uh huh. Remember that one gold? Right there, right there. But what I said on good time, mama, mama rocked one gold. One gold. I had no shit to do with it. No new shit they do or none of some new shit. I never rocked with that. When I got my gold, my nephew said, my nephew said, Huh? He's a gold. Now I talk to him, he's gonna get passing up. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, don't get that. Don't get that gold. Gold. He said, he said, I said, Women rocked golds ever since. He had them before me. Hold on, we better look at a new set that way. Yeah. It's gonna happen to you. It's real. We'll get a new set. But you know exactly what I'm talking about. You see how the people getting that. Everybody getting that right now. I love my gold. Because some people say them gold's messed up their teeth underneath. So they had to take it out. That's what I heard some people say. They need to get real gold. Yeah. And they need to get real gold. You see them vanilla, they messing them up. Like something over there. Them four teeth be bigger than block, man. You got a sick teeth. Like you got better. That's big. You got a sick teeth. They got the home, the back tooth. The back tooth. Yeah. You got a sick teeth. How you see that big, man? I see the nigga, he got a block. Just recently, like he been killing it. Like a horse teeth. Like, yeah, yeah. Man. Let me tell you something. Man. I'm old school. I will never change. I wouldn't give a damn if they come out with a jugnail. I wouldn't have a jugnail. I know what I'm saying is, I'm old school. And when I was a kid, my uncle had a gold teeth. So I grew up, I wanted to have a gold teeth. Like for my dad, it was the bridge. He had a mouth full of gold. My bro was 16 with 26 gold. He was like a natural pig. He was like. My baby's 16 with 20 gold. He's 16, you look like 20 gold gold. Gold. Gold. Man, I got to ask you this, man. And I asked both of y'all this, but Big Cloggett man, who do you listen to? Like when you listen to music. What's that? Rap. Yes. What is it? What's your top three artist of all time? Oh. Top three. Top three. Top three. Top three. Top three. Top three. Top three. Number three. Number three. Number three. Number three right now. Your top three right now. Your top three right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. Gigan chain. Lil Baby. Lil Baby? Lil Baby's my hottest artist right now. Your, your, your, your money, for my, for Memphis, your. Money bag, yes. Money bag, yo. That nigga Bayard ain't even right. Love your money bag, yo. And my new favorite artist. I think I know what you're gonna say. Oh, Lil Durk. Yeah. You like Lil Durk? You love Lil Durk. You love Lil Durk. Why? Just somebody stop. He reminds me of my nephew. I don't know, he just. What am I NBA young boy? You get, oh. Oh. Let me change the subject. I will never. Oh. Ever ever. Stand for that. I love Baton Rouge. And I think, to me, he's putting a bad image on the kids that are growing up in Baton Rouge. We do not grow up like that. And he is putting a situation where you don't do that. But he's winning. He winning. I can't get mad at him. They love it. They love it. But as in me, we're growing there in mind. You gotta keep it going. You ain't finna tell me, you finna slap me, you finna do this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That, the beef he has, he need to shut that shit down. He need to get shit together and build families instead of destroy families. Cause a lot of kids follow him. And they do the shit he do. They do the shit he say. He ain't good. He seemed like he was gonna be cool with the dirt. He doesn't cool about that. He does this to him again. And I ain't give a, I ain't give a nothing no goddamn promises either. He can get it too. Nah, he can get it too. He can get it too. Let me tell you something. They both gotta get it together, man. Cause it's all about the future. I don't, I don't choose sizes, but my thing is, I told you I like little dirt cause I like that new song they got. I don't like no NBA Young Boy. You know why I don't like NBA Young Boy? Cause we talk about bub-bub-bub-bubbub-bubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbubbub. I don't like that, I want my kids to listen to that shit, man. And I'ma tell you to your face. I like real rappers that could talk about truth, that could talk about building, talk about what's going on in the world, talk about what can happen and we can do it better. I don't wanna talk about the nigga that talk about how we gonna kill somebody or how you dealing with this other guy that we don't know who the hell you're dealing with. And now we go, we gonna get on your side, we gonna be for them too? No. We ain't doing that. Man, that's why I throw the hell everywhere I go. Louisiana. Love. We don't do no battling, shooting people, killing people and represented on record, man. I wanna ask- That would make it look bad, because the police, they listen to that. They charge you with that. That's real. And you got niggas in jail right now behind your motherfucking ass and you ain't never stood up for that. In your life. No asses sitting there, in your goddamn room. Woo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. Fuck outta here, boy. Me ain't that word that you heard that. Man, I gotta ask y'all about the fitting on thing. Oh, man. I got to ask you about it. Out on self-drug. Listen. Out on self-drug. No, I'm talking about the people that die. Out on self-drug. People that died on this fitting on, man. How did we help these people to stop them from dying on this? Because they addicted. They addicted, man. So they ain't gonna stop. It ain't gonna get worse, man. No, you can do something. It's gonna get worse. It's been a mess city. It bad a mess city. You said that time you want to. They die every day from that thing. That thing you can do about the situation. But as much as you addicted to something, if you see everybody around you who's taking the same thing you are taking and they dropping like flies, why would you keep taking it? See how you look, right? Well, we're addicted. See how easy it was for her to say that? Guess how easy it was for them to say. Ah! It ain't over. It ain't over. It ain't over. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. And be looking for some more. They won't do that. Where did that? Who said that? They both said, hit that old. And look at your L.A. Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit. Hey, they gone, baby, they gone, man. It's over. It's over. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're gonna stop it. It's over. We're in our age right now to where, no, like I said, I lived in L.A. for eight years, you know. I went through the crack epidemic. And I actually be drug dealing myself. So I'm not ashamed to admit that. But I'm really ashamed of what I did in my past and what I see now. In my past, it was more respect. It was more about you deal with the people you know that did it. Right. Now, no. No respect. It doesn't change now. When you went into problems back in the day with that game, it was more like a situation, different hoods, did a different thing. You can't mess with, you can't do that. Now it done got to a point. Now they got these phones and stuff in the social media, bro, and people show your location, bro. It's over. Done. You're done. Oh my God. I mean, it's ridiculous. And it's the game of change. And a lot of people, I don't really thought, I won't be honest with you. I don't think that Go game is over. I ain't doing that shit no more. Me, I was saying, folks, see this phone in credit. I wasn't doing it, me, I wasn't doing it. No, I ain't nobody doing this shit no more. I went home and seen a girl, a girl put on like, what? She pulled up and stole. I thought that shit was over, I thought it was over. I said, man, you were gone when I thought, I ain't gonna have your deal. But I ain't think it was over. And then I see it now, man. I'm like, whoa, man. We did. We got new drugs now, bro. That shit killing people, bro. They taking it one time and Lord. It's over, you dead. It's over with. I seen a brother and sister die. Oh yeah, it happened. Together. It's real bad, man. They found them both dead together. Damn. In my family, bro, it was real tough, bro. That's what I'm saying. I seen a lot of shit. You don't realize that. Let me tell you something, bad and real is a milk part for that dope, bro. Real tough, real tough, man. Right now, we're in an emergency situation because now it's like, it's uncontrollable. And there you go. It's a murder in Baton Rouge every two days. Damn. Yeah. Every two days. Every two days, somebody get shot. Boy, I tell you, man. It's crazy. And it's a small city. It's everything's combined. Yeah. And it's really terrible, bro. It's really, we're really in a bad situation to where guys like me, they're trying to step up and speak. It's like, it's... Let me ask you something. And I want to listen to this. As far as I know. I got to ask you, you know, back in the day, they'll have a Stop the Violence tour or they'll have a, they'll come together and make a We Are the World. They don't do that no more. Hold on. They don't own that money. They do it. We in. They do it. Five people get shot at the God damn God damn thing. They don't have it. They ain't like that. It's that bad. They can't even get together and try to stop the violence. LSU trying to do a championship. Four people got shot. That's to me, man. It's real. I just want it. You gonna learn a day? That's crazy, man. It's crazy. Drugs. They ain't even trying to stop. They ain't got words. They try to keep it a black. They ain't no black. They ain't white. They ain't two. Because the LSU students, they ain't gonna learn a day. They ain't. Man, thank y'all for coming on the show, man. I know people, how can people get a hold of your bad news? They're trying to get a hold of you. Amen. Bad news 334 on all sides of News Williams. Instagram, bad news, you know. Bad news 334, let's work. Big poker barrel. They the same thing. It's big poker barrel everywhere. JSP too. JSP. They in that. Y'all already know how to get along with me. You understand me? Big poker, bad JSP. Joseph B's son. Poké. Man! Who gave you the name Poké? Oh, you gonna get it, mama. I've been poker since I was a kid. I know, but who gave it to your mama, daddy? My mama. They say I used to, this is what they told me. They say I used to poke in the crap. Put shit in my life. Oh, wait a minute. Poké. Fuck it, man. It ain't right. That's what they say. I used to be picking the shit and putting it in my mouth. It ain't right. So they call me Poké. Poké, bam, man. From everywhere. Y'all get ready, man. My new video about to drop my queen difference. DJ reached 100,000 streams on Spotify. Man. The video started nearly Tiger Trevyn. So we working, man. Man, I'm sorry. My queen difference. Yeah, you got a pretty good shit. My queen difference, man. Your queen difference. You damn right. Yeah. Oh, shit. I've had so much fun with y'all. Aw, man, we kicked it. We do this every time. I ain't feel bad. I ain't even gonna take a picture of me and cry. Man, but it's not how you do it right now, man. I didn't even love it over here. We be kicking it, man. Everybody come here, man. They ain't gonna lie. We have a good time. We eat. If you catch us, you'll cook you some meat. We know you coming. Oh, no. What I'm saying is whatever we can do for the station. Man, keep coming back and supporting us. Man, you're sending people over here, man. I'm gonna bring these new albums coming out. We got the new album, the new movie. Everybody stream me. We poking back JSP. Don't go if there's not a blue check. Don't go on that page. We got a lot of fake pages. We got a lot of fake pages. If there ain't a blue check, don't mess with it. But nowadays people buying blue checks. Yeah, buying blue checks. I'm trying to have the money. Damn. I'm trying to have the money. It's not a long work, man. Yeah, but it still makes to where they real name on there. So we know it's a real page. They know my page. Yeah. Man. But at the same time, I appreciate everything y'all done. Let me have a little bit of that side piece before I get out of here. I want a chorus. You just playing. Can't play? No, you don't even have to ask me. We want it live. I ain't live. You're just gonna play. Give me a little bit. I want a chorus. You can't have a chorus. It's a side piece. A side piece. You gotta sneak up on you. Oh. I love home, baby. To be with my side piece. I love home. To be with my side piece. Oh, yeah. Oh, baby. Oh, yeah. Man, dang it, man. Been another great set with a false talk. One on one with a false intro, man. And we out. Man.