 A lot of the talk that's really been going on is his YBN on Mighty J situation. He was jumped off and then we had J Prince of Chai Man and here's some people up online, which I thought was a little strange, just, you know, J Prince is J Prince and he has his reputation and I didn't even think of it until I heard other people chime in and say it but he did kind of speak on something a little crazy on the internet which you really wouldn't expect from, you know, somebody at that tier of street respect. Well, he went online and he pretty much added a whole bunch of rappers people and he pretty much said, you know, if anybody knows what's going on or whatever like he pretty much warned everybody like and it was it was kind of seen as snitching, you know what I'm saying, which, you know, so I think that was that was an interesting conversation because I really didn't think of that until I was seeing it be said and I was like, hmm, you know, that's pretty interesting. How do you feel about that whole debacle? Yeah, I go back and forth in terms of this snitching only because I think I heard Joe Budden or somebody talk about it, but they were basically saying, I mean the boys are already like out there bragging about it. So it wasn't like they were snitching, you know what I'm saying, right? They were just shouting out they were already on the ground bragging about it. So that part, I don't know about the snitching part that might be a reach and that's that would be extremely out of character, obviously, but it's also how to character for putting on the gram. As a matter of fact, not just J Prince for how he moves, but just to be somebody his age, right, and ever to the gram is like out of character to move in general. So that part was a little weird, but first, I understand like just the young dudes, man. I just I hate that they don't understand something, not all of them, obviously, but they don't understand the culture to respect. Like when you see, obviously that chain didn't mean anything to them. And I get it. It's from a different area, right? But at the end of the day, when there is no line of respect on both ends, when you come to your city, I mean, we come to your city, you come to our city and all that kind of stuff. It starts to mess with the money. And that was like the hip hop has been doing a good job at getting away from that. But back in the day, like, rappers did not tour a lot at all, like at all, and only the bigger, bigger acts like heavily got a chance to tour. And that's because like people didn't really want to book people because like we're afraid, you know what I'm saying? Like, like, we don't want the insurance policy. Like that was one of the problems when it came to even 69. He was huge, obviously. So people, like there are, you know, people paid the bill and all that stuff, and he was able to overcome certain things at the same time. Like you have, if you have a hell of a insurance policy, just because we think some violence or something like that might come. So I don't like the fact that some of the money's being messed up. But Jay Prince at the end of the day, yeah, I don't know how to feel about that situation. I can't really speak much outside of the fact that it was odd to me. It was unexpected. That's for sure. Yeah, I think I agree with you, man. It really does mess up the money. And I think that's like the main thing. Like a lot of people don't really take that into consideration with 69. Like that killed his money, bro. You know, not being able to do shows nowadays. Torn is the only way you you you really amped. Like back in the day, the East Coast, the West Coast War, the fact that New York artists felt like I can't go to LA, that was crazy. Like that was a lot of money, a lot of publicity, a lot of promotion that just had to be missed out on because I can't go over there. So it's like, Yeah, man, that's that's like a huge thing. And I even look at like violence on a higher level, like, look at all like biggie and Tupac's old friends and then look at Jay Z's friends, like Jay Z's friends is all rich, because he was able to live and continue being Jay Z, you know, but versus when you die, that's a lot of money. That's a lot of money that's not being generated. And it's just a lot of people that it affects. It's just it's bigger than just the one artist. It's a lot of it's a whole family, a whole label, employment staff, all types of jobs, laws, violence, you know what I'm saying? So when artists get killed or artists get brought to jail, it's it really does involve more people than just the person that the general public sees. And you know what I'm saying? And it's this is a business at the end of the day. So when you take away artists, that's a whole entity. That's a whole brand. That's like Nike being taken away. You know, if Kanye went away right now, it be like Nike gone. Anybody will work for Nike out of a job, figure it out. You know what I'm saying? Like, so it's like, yeah, man, I think, you know, all of that, all of that is wack and we got to get back to like really understanding, respecting and all of this type of stuff. Because Jay Prince, he really not the guy to be fooling around with, you know what I'm saying? All that? You know, I mean, like, from everything I hear, you know, I'm saying like everything I've known about him, he's not that dude, you know what I'm saying? Not trying to fool around with him. So yeah, I don't know how this situation is going to be resolved. But in fact, let me like that post though, because he this is the post was like, I want to take this time to clarify my message to the people I tagged in my previous post. Oh, he like, so he came back and tried to clarify, actually. So he explained, did you see this? No, I see that. I see that. He's been out a boogie Cardi B, all these people. So let me see what he said. He said, let me make myself. I was never asking any of y'all for help in any capacity. I don't need you. I don't know you or trust any of y'all to do anything concerning this streets me. She's okay. With that being said, I witnessed the clown campaigning bragging and snitching on himself on a public video about robbing industry people in your backyard. So I took it up by myself to alert the ones I have respect for. It is clear to me that went over some of y'all heads. Just for more clarity, I've been having ties in the Bronx. I've been having ties in the Bronx and throughout New York for a long time. And now it's gotten even stronger with my youngsters. So don't give any of the people I tagged credit for what others earn because all they strength, because they all strangers to me, other than music. Yeah, he goes on man, like Oh, yeah. He's one of them guys. I feel like just from like reading, listen, reading his book and stuff like that. I feel like he's one of them guys where like, you know, he from the south. And he's generally a respectful person. Like most people from the from the south. But if you cross him, man, he's he's going to make you regret it. That's that's pretty much that's pretty much like what I got from the book. He was one of those guys where he nice until he senses that you you you're trying to do him wrong. And then he's just gonna he's just gonna do what's necessary. You know what I'm saying? And I really would would would lead out alone. If you a rapper from the Bronx, I will really stay away from anybody that's trying to antagonize that situation at all. Oh, well, he said he said to all of you so-called gangster clowns, there's a time and a place for everything. And I'm going to give you what you ask for. And that's the most that's the most respectful way I've ever heard anybody threaten somebody. Yeah, man. He said to all of you trying to narrow down my message to me wanting a chain like the death of understanding that real street dudes have. Alright. So, uh, yeah, it's more than that people. Yeah, I had not seen this. I noticed. Sheesh. Yeah, man. Hmm. Well, well, uh, let's stay tuned for that situation. Let's put it that way. Yeah, man. And then another artist that I feel like, you know, his name kind of blew up off of a story related to violence. But I feel like actually, like he's actually not coming across like that type of dude at all is the baby. You know, I think yeah, the story of the violence was definitely an interesting point to get us all to turn our heads. But I think that, um, you know, just the more I I see the type of person he is through social media and just, you know, every day stuff actually seen him perform last month. So I don't know. He just comes across like like a like a real genuine artist. He doesn't come across like someone that's trying to promote, um, you know, violence as a way to get to the top, even though that's been a part of his story. And I don't know his come up. It's been fun to watch, man, just from a digital marketing perspective. I think he's really doing some things that a lot of artists should tune into and kind of just keep a close eye on him and you know, stuff like that. I didn't know you went to one of his performances. How was that performance? All right. So to clarify, I really wasn't exactly a performance. He came to, um, UMG into the album playback. So, uh, playback is kind of like, it's kind of, it's like an internal show almost. You play the album. You don't exactly perform. You kind of just dance around. Not, not so much like, it's like that Bobby Schmurder shit that they play back. I was about to jump in and say, not so much like that. That was an extreme case scenario. That's not, that's not a good look. That was indeed a, a playback, but this one wasn't, that was a very extreme version of that. They were in a conference room. This one was in the lounge. That one, he's jumping on conference tables. That was a little extreme. Um, yeah. Well, I do, I agree with you, man. Like, everything I've seen for him so far, it seems pretty authentic, but you know, some people, when it comes to shootings and just violence and all that stuff, sometimes you might wonder, are they using this to come up or are these stories even real? Everything seems to be real. Everything seems to check out, but he doesn't seem to be promoting it himself. You know what I mean? Or about pushing that in that way, which I can respect because his whole image, although he's from where he's from, it's not that do. You know what I mean? It's more, I'm here to have a good time. You know, obviously, if you, if you want to turn it into another type of time, then we can make it time for that too. But, like, for the most part, man, like, I love that, like, he's running around in a diaper, right? Like, he has that knack for, like, I'm just, I'm going to take advantage and get some attention. He's always, he's doing a lot of things to get attention, but his music backs it up. Like, first time I heard about him, like, was literally just, I was on YouTube one day and this song called 21. This video had this beautiful chick in it. That might have been a part that took my, got my attention at first, but I was listening to it and I played that song back and I played it back and I looked it up on Spotify. I rocked that song heavy. Yeah. But that video was just a catchy tune and then I started hearing all this violence and stuff like that. And, matter of fact, something real interesting about the baby that maybe I got to look into, because that song 21, I swear it dropped like last year, it was a minute ago and the video and everything, I heard about that, I watched it, it was rocking. But then, when I tried to look at, find it again, it says that it only dropped a month ago, the video. So, I don't know if he, like, took it off, some kind of label situation, but that, I think that's what I'm looking to. I wonder if he got certain things going on in the background as far as change of business or something. Yeah, he definitely signed the Interscope. My homegirl signed them. When he signed? I want to say October. I want to say October, he signed. So, it's been a minute now. It's been about six months. But one thing I think is interesting and it's kind of like a theory that I have as far as just like artists and careers. It's really using outside events to really accelerate what you have going on. So, for the baby, I think what was critical for him is that, you know, signed in October. Yeah. You got November, December, January, buildup, buildup is now accelerated. And then, ever so conveniently, you get an event like All Star Weekend in your hometown of Charlotte. And I think that was a nice weekend for him to really go from for real. And I think this, I think this happens more than people take note of it. You know, like even in Rick Ross's career, I always tell people like in 09, Rick Ross had a really good year. And then 2010 was like his coming out party as far as like really being one of the hottest rappers in the game. Yeah. Even ever so conveniently, he drops Teflon Don in July of 2010, some summer 2010. But ever so conveniently a week before or a week after, I believe it was LeBron James and Chris Bosch come to his hometown. Yeah. And I really believe that that put a lot of momentum in Rick Ross's, you know, not his come up, but his his his his rise to like really controlling the game and being one of them, one of them figures that was just at that particular time. I'll meet you on that. I feel like that's what winners do anyway, man. Like you gotta be able to take whatever energy is popping anywhere. There's always when those opportunities, some shit gonna happen that you didn't expect. Yup. And you should be able to flip that in 2010 for yourself. So that's real. I'll see you sometime. Yeah. And I think that was like a big a big reason because then like seven months later he signs Meek Mill and Waale. And then they always in Miami was never like niggas were in Philly or D.C. They were always in Miami. You know, I think there's more reasons. The same reason LeBron was there, you know. Yeah, man. So I do believe that, man. And I think that happens, you know, in the game where real life events will really just control like even even like I always tell people Thriller ain't the number one selling album because it's the best music. It's the number one album because it came out at a time when artists where it was video was becoming the thing. And it started moving from a musician to an artist, a music artist, a pop star. Like I feel like before I feel like before the early 80s star power wasn't even the term that was thrown around like that. I think Madonna and Michael and Prince and these 80s people, they really are what made the celebrity the celebrity. And a lot of that was because MTV was coming of age. And MTV's coming of age is less about just how the music sounds. It's about who's a star. What is the video? What is the what is the and Michael was the best at that when it came to that. He gave us Thriller at a time when video was was coming of age. And I think that is the trickle down. Thriller is the trickle down you get from technology meeting its prototype. You know what I'm saying? As far as just Michael being such an amazing dancer, such an amazing performer. And then taking music videos to heights that are barely reached today. You know what I'm saying? That's real. Yeah, I can get with that take because at the end of the day, like Michael his videos are just synonymous with him in general. And that played it whatever his music did and would do by itself. His videos was definitely still they were definitely steroids to whatever else was going on. And he's like he is the like the pop star. He's like the first like for real. Like he was a kick-a-pop but because he he basically created pop. You know what I mean? There was a few other like you said bandanas and all that stuff but they together they really created pop-pop like music. Like he was doing this rock and roll style and stuff. He did some R&B style and stuff. He had a little soul here and there. You know he already had a pre-established career that people knew him for. And like you always have these figures that once they establish it and they reach such a height. Everybody's trying to copy Michael Jordan. I mean Michael Jackson but in the same way with Michael Jordan, right? He was the first one like before NBA, right? You got it was dad and Magic and Larry Burr brought it back and they became stars but he was the only one to be just one person and take it to a new height. And now you're always trying to say that's why they're like who's the next Jordan? Who's the next Jordan? Or is it Kobe? Kobe wasn't really playing that media game like that. They rock with LeBron because LeBron is a marketer. That's what he's been like basketball is arguable but he's the first like his contribution is marketing and politics. That's what LeBron really does. Like no other athlete though. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah and a lot of people have different perspectives. I don't know if you heard one time Stephen A Smith was kind of going in about that saying LeBron ain't really at the level of like because I guess he felt like Skip was like giving him too much credit and he was kind of just like man you know this dude he's okay but compared to Muhammad Ali compared to this guy compared to that guy he named a whole bunch of people I was like ah man I never thought of that. Muhammad Ali is a whole another monster man. That's a whole different monster. That's a whole different monster. That dude sacrificed his life in the way he just the way that dude talk man like that yeah that's that's a whole another game man you can't you can't repeat that LeBron is doing his he got his own space he's carving that out but yeah Muhammad Ali is a good guy it will like that's what I try not to do man but like them trying to dim other people's life by comparing them to somebody else great where it's like they really don't have no business being compared to in the first place and that's really it and I think that's really like one of the problems with hip hop everybody wants to like compare something to something we've already seen before and a lot of times that's what that does it'll diminish you know what we're looking at because people will look at an artist and they'll say oh well he's not he's not doing what this person's doing or eating a cell or Drake sold you know I'm saying stuff like that and it's just like well you know everybody's not in it for the same things everybody's not here to accomplish the same things like we need an artist that sells X amount and takes work hip hop globally and then we also need an artist who can like motivate people to get out the hood and usually that's not the same artists like they have to talk about they have to approach hip hop completely differently to accomplish these two things you know what I'm saying so it's just like let let these guys let people do what they do best you know what I'm saying yg isn't going to do Drake numbers you know what I'm saying nipsey isn't going to do Drake numbers because they're accomplishing something different just like drake isn't really going to motivate many people to to to get out of another Drake don't really like I'm sure like what he represents for Canada there's probably some motivation there you know I'm saying I'm so excited that like across in the US or for black people Drake doesn't represent much in terms of like emotionally motivating which is interesting like like Kendrick and jaco they can move people you know like call them out like let's vote like that type of thing but I but I respect that drake seems to know that and and place his land he doesn't try to be everything even though he tries to be everything musically and from an artistic standpoint he doesn't he he does not he doesn't connect with people on a real level there's me he can move like we love your music and maybe if I'm long with some relationship shit maybe you know but and we can have a good time to this but yeah you ain't gonna remind me who my black heroes are you have the knowledge of it you know I'm saying like if there's something going on in politics we're not gonna call you you know no I think I think I think for me I really um I really lost a lot of like I guess my fanship form I really lost a lot of that like around like 2015 when like that it felt like that that racial tension was just at the highest point it was like when Trump was running and like the Michael Browns and all this was happening regardless was happening and it's like everywhere and like right when Kendrick dropped to pimple butterfly and right before that if you remember Drake dropped if you're reading this too late and when I first seen out I'm like yo I know he's gonna talk about something real on this I know it this is the time this is it yeah and he had like one bar on the last song where he was like oh niggas is killing each other and going to the movies and I he said something so vague and like so like that's it like that that's it yeah and then Kendrick comes out two months later with the blackest most like it just sounded like any bit of frustration and rage that we was feeling at the time so I don't know if he feels that I don't know if he connects with that same in that same way I guess I don't know if that's like because he's truly canada thing because he doesn't he doesn't I could say he said like racism he didn't he didn't grow up or feel it the same way I saw something that where he said that I don't know if that was true because I'm sure racism exists within Canada in some ways or colorism but it made it seem like he didn't have that experience fully even though he did experience something like you know what because I think Canada I'm not too versing in like Canadian culture but I know it is completely different it's not America I don't even think they had slavery the way we did like if they if they ever did like I think it was a totally um different situation and that makes the whole culture different you know what I'm saying versus America where we well versed on racism like whether you want to be there not like you try not to be if you aren't man like I think but once again like I don't I don't discount rate for that though I just but I actually honestly respected if he doesn't feel like his place to say or he just doesn't have anything to say I rather that than somebody use it in troll like and use it as a way to promote themselves forward like I rather him take certain music like how people say he's a cultural version of people's music I rather him do that with music than do that with actual like race you know what I'm saying so you know he makes good hits Drake will be all right but I do for real one is understand like more of his personal background I would like to hear that in music like more from struggle but maybe he just doesn't have it he don't he might not have them experiences that we got that we can connect with in that way and that just might be what it is nah that's a fact man it's a whole fact but yeah man