 You got Rich Homie Kwan on the show. New music drop in tomorrow. Can't wait to get into it. All things Atlanta, next. Woo! Welcome back to the Up and Atom show. Let's do it. We've got a very special guest. He is an award-winning rapper, an Atlanta native creator of a new label, What? Taken over with Rich Homie Entertainment. He's got a revamped album, Family Moolot Reloaded, dropping tomorrow. The Ad Lib King, Rich Homie Kwan. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. How are you feeling? I'm good, I'm good. Congratulations. How are you feeling? You have new music tomorrow. Kwan, what are we getting? And congrats on the release. What are you getting from the new music and a lot of storytelling? More Ad Libs from the Ad Lib King, of course. Yes. Me still feeling some type of way about a whole lot of new things, new stories. Basically, Kwan E. Barber on Atlanta Down South, 808 Hardhead Instruments. Okay, we love that. I know, you are Atlanta. You are Atlanta. And I know, I know, Kwan, that you bleed Falcons. But why do I keep seeing interviews where you are repping or talking about your love for the Chiefs? Are you a Chiefs fan? What's up? Oh, I love the Chiefs. I love the Chiefs. See, I'm a fan of winners. I'm from Atlanta, so Atlanta's just sending a lot of Falcons to dub. We'll be winning like that. So, you know what I'm saying? We'll be winning like that. And I'm always, you know, I love them. I was just at the falcon game a couple of weeks ago. Kyle Pitch is my man. Corey Patterson. Nice, yeah, of course. Yeah, so I love the Falcons. But the Chiefs are just something different, man. Especially when they get in play-off mode. So the Chiefs in the war is just different in the play-offs. Who's your favorite Chief? Who's my favorite Chief? Uh-huh. My homes? Of course, everybody loves Pat Myhomes. Like, number 17. What's his name? Hardman, yeah. Yeah, that's my doll right there. He's a good Georgia boy. Yeah, you see the relation? Yeah. So that's okay. As long as he's from way of Georgia to the Chiefs, that all makes sense and nobody's gonna ask anybody else. Yeah, so it makes sense why I ripped him the way I did. It's true. You've seen a bunch of NFL players over the years put out their own rap albums. Yes, ma'am. Levy on Bell. We saw Antonio Brown, Melvin Ingram. How do you feel about players doing that? Be honest. To be honest, I think it's dope, you know what I mean? I don't think the people, the fans take it as serious because they're already quote unquote solidified. But I've heard some talented athletes, it's like Dame Lillard, for example, dope bar. Okay. Dame can really spit. Even like the song I think yesterday there was a class on Instagram, KD and LeBron had a song. And I mean, I thought KD bars, I feel like KD could rap if he was to pursue that. You know what I'm saying? LeBron bars felt like a more like old school, run DMC, but I felt like KD was on some, you know what I'm saying? He could hang, you know what I mean? So I don't have nothing against you. I don't have nothing against her. I think it's dope. But like, but you're not going out there trying to route fools up or you're not going out there trying to pretend that you can be an NFL player. It doesn't bother you at all. Like what you think it's so easy LeBron, you can just come in here and just, you know, this takes a lot of work to be the AdLib King. Yes, it does, it does. And like I said, of course I'm not trying to go out there run no routes or shoot any walks. But I think it's very rarely for, it's very rare that you just see an athlete just break out for music. Only because like, some of them think it's so easy and it's so much little stuff that we have to do. There's so many tiny things we have to do. Interviews, follow up on relationships and with them guys being in the gym and working on that, you know, that crap. There's no off days in music. Just like it's no off days in sports. So it's kind of hard to try to juggle it to. Yeah, now Atlanta's obviously home to so many talented R&B, hip hop, rapper artists over the years and you yourself one of the greats from Atlanta. Now in sports where I work, we love lists. We love top five quarterbacks, top five teams, top five. You know, I know this is tough but I want to hear your top five artists from Atlanta ever. Top five from Atlanta ever. That's crazy, like nobody's ever asked me that. What? I would give myself number five and this is no particular list but I would definitely include myself in there. Top five ever. Oh, we gotta throw T.I. in there. So there's two Gucci man. I would definitely say future. Wow. Outcast. Okay, outcast. No, no. Outcast is two, like it's one, it's one, it's one. Yeah, so that's my five out. So that's five, no young GZ. Not today. I just knew I knew I was talking in the control room before the show. I go, he's going to put himself first. No, no, I would never put myself first. Not first, but yeah. I usually don't even put myself on a list but like over a hard time, I gotta be on it a little. Yeah, and you should be. You got new music dropping tomorrow. New music probably. Reloaded. Your love for Atlanta while we're talking about it, I know that it runs so deep and the music world continues to mourn the death of takeoff and I'm so, so sorry for your loss. What was it like to have all of Atlanta come together like that? It was amazing to have Atlanta to come like that for takeoff loss. It was, but it was sad that we had to come together in that type of situation. I wish we could come together without it having to be a death. You know, I wish we could come together just because it's win state, you know? And the death hit me not kind of hard, but it hit me hard only because like takeoff, the Migos, our career started like at the same time. I remember sitting in Gucci's man studio on the couch before any of us have a dollar sign name before any of us know anything about entertainment, lawyer or just the music business in general. So that went a little hard, like it hit me hard. What was the one moment from the memorial that sort of stayed with you or stood out to you? I would definitely say when Offset spoke, Offset's speech, it was very emotional. And you could tell it was heartfelt. It was heartfelt. It was heartfelt. It was nice to have Justin Bieber sing it. And like it was pandemonium. Like he waited probably like three minutes before he even saw like a Michael Jackson moment. And with him doing it at the state farm arena, I think that was dope to send him up out of here the right way, you know? So I'll rest in peace and take off. Of course. And I bet it gave you a lot of perspective. You're mentioning you came up with Migos while you don't even know what an entertainment lawyer was. And now I'm looking at you and you recently became an independent artist. Hold up. You are now your own boss. You started your own label, Rich Homie Entertainment. That's the dream. Yes, it's the dream, but it comes with a lot of work too. And at the end of the day, like it's something I've always wanted, but with me being in the game for 10 years, I've been through a lot of adversity. I've learned a lot. I've definitely seen every side of the sword, but the independence out of the sword. So it was something new for me. I was excited to take it. And I feel like I'll be able to stretch the surface. And this is my time to, you know, really get my flowers and really get what's rightfully due to me if I do it the right way. It's really true. And I know that, you know, you're not just an inspiration in that way in the musical community. I looked it up because when I saw that, there are 17 players acting independently on there. Just 17 as their own agents. Lamar Jackson, of course, a huge one. He's due, he wants his contract. So what you're doing is inspiring other people to sort of take things into their own hands. But you inspire, you inspire, you know, lots of athletes, of course. People are singing and having you, you know, you in their airpods for the game. I thought it was very cool. You're featured on a YG song, of course, that Deion Sanders has since made his anthem down at Jackson State. What is that like to you to see what Prime is doing? Oh man, it's crazy to see what Prime is doing. Especially for like Prime, and this before he's coached Prime. So, you know, this is more Deion Prime time. You know what I'm saying, Prime time. Well, I have a picture painted of him in my house. Like this before, like, he was a big inspiration as far as me playing sports. Wow. Growing up, I played baseball and football because of Prime. You know, so he was a big inspiration to me. But what he's doing for the HBCUs, I think it's truly, truly inspirational, motivational. And like it took a leap of faith to do that. So like it just showed me like he's fearless, he's fearless, he's still motivating me off the field. So man, I love Coach Prime, I'll be here to meet him. I'll be here to meet him. Coach Prime, we got to make that happen, man. With that being a song, Coach Prime, this is what you told me, you know, reaching up, man. Let's walk out to the real thing. So, you know, my header, man, it's still the right way, Coach. Yeah, I have the template you've never met him. That's wild, but there's so much mutual respect. I remember back in 2013, that Michigan State team, that you were at the Rose Bowl, you're cheering them on, you're celebrating in the locker room, they adopted your song. That must feel so cool to have a team carry that with you. And there's so much mutual respect there. Now, give me really quickly the one song off of Family Moolot Reloaded, which is Out Tomorrow, new music from Rich Home and Quant. Give me the one song that Chief should adopt from that album, from the new music for their 2022 Super Bowl run. I would say, me too. I would either say Legacy or Spin. And I say Legacy because what they're creating right now, it's almost like a whole new, like, you know, back in the day, like, the Chiefs. I haven't looked at the Chiefs since they had, like, Dante Hall returning, you know what I'm saying? Throw the X up, Dante Hall, so it's almost like, they're creating a new Legacy down there. And the other song I would definitely say is Spin, because every time they pull up on there, trying to spin the block on whoever team they play, shout out to Andy Reeves, the offensive guru, you know what I'm saying? Definitely shout out to Andy Reeves, man, keep calling them plays. I just pray that everybody stays healthy. That's, you're amazing. Congrats on the new music. Congrats on the label being an independent artist. Live in the dream, and you have so much perspective and we just appreciate you stopping by. Congrats, everybody. Check out the new music. The album, Family Moolot Reloaded, Out Tomorrow. Rich Home and Quant, everybody, thank you. Thank you. So good to see you and to meet you. We got to get that. He's never met Prime. We got to get, we got to make that happen. Not we, I mean, I have no pull on.