 I mean, I already had a deal. I already resigned to Warner Brothers. Oh, damn. And I was jazzing for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, you were used to all of that, yeah. Yeah, I had stayed fresh out here all of those shows already. So he did that show enough and all that. He was doing that on your stuff. Ladies and gentlemen. Stay back and enjoy the ride. We on Boss Talk 101. 101. Yeah, we going to talk. We'll jump right into it. I just want to ask about just how in the hell did you link up with P. Diddy? How the hell does that happen, bro? When Boz and her hood first came out, Kim is the one who took us to Diddy. The lady he was married to at the time. OK. Yeah, so from the beginning, y'all would just like to my surprise. When y'all first came out, was y'all, it was just you by yourself or how did y'all even? How did Kim find you? That's what I'm, that's what I'm saying. No, her and Block was kind of cool. You know what I mean? OK, God. Block, let her hear some music that we had. We had recorded and shit. So she took it to Puff, and that was the first time she ever took Puff some music at all. So when he heard it and he knew that she thought it was dope, he just flew us out there. He listened to it and shit, shit went from there. It was like that. How old were you? I was probably like 19, 20. I was like just turning 20. How did you feel? I mean, I already had a deal. I already was signed to Warner Brothers, brother. Oh, damn. With Jazz and Faye and Sean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, you was used to all of that, man. Yeah, I had stayed fresh out here all of those shutouts already. So he did that show enough and all that. He was doing that on your stuff. Ladies and gentlemen. I was already on Trey and Slim Thug. He was already on that. No, I don't think he was already doing songs and shit. We was hot back then, though. It was a hot time for you, sir. It was just about the, y'all were just about to be. That's right, for to get real. How old were you when you started in this business? I was 18. I was like just turning 19. Oh, so everything just started going back to back to back. Yeah, it just happened. Because at the time I came, the only, who was out then? It was like real music. Like real, real music out then. So you just couldn't just rap to be rapping. You had to have some telling and you had to be, you had to be about what you were talking about. You know what I mean? So I just came at a time where niggas needed some new shit like some new young niggas. It was a time when, this was a time when you had the Pharrell, you had them brothers. The brothers up there, Pharrell and them two brothers. The little niggas, all of them. This is the time, I'm just going back in my mind. Niggas, I know. I'm an old nigga, I think right back to it. It was not only them, it was some more, it was even Timberland was hot and popping back then. I'm gonna be honest with you. Everybody was out then. Missing and selling, all that. It was a hot time. Outcast and all these people was out then. Drake was still doing it. Shit was popping. The young blues, Lil John, all this. Them niggas were solid then. We were just about to take over. Like this one in the south was when the religious started to pop this shit off. This is where niggas live off of, that era. The rappers who rap today who niggas say who, all this whole shit. It's from that era. You know what I mean? Like niggas still living off of that shit. That's how big it was. It was real. There was some real shit going on. And it was a different kind of time. You know what I mean? Niggas was really trying to keep it real. No, no, no. It was a real movie. It was a real movement back then. I was just happy for the entrepreneurship. I'm a smart nigga. So I'm happy niggas getting money. Niggas just getting money now. A whole lot of money. A whole lot of money. It wasn't getting that before. And that's why the old rappers really got mad. The ones who didn't get to get it. Some of them old rappers, they called to it. The LLs and all that, they called to it. But a lot of them couldn't figure it out. And you seen that too. You still got to be a hustler though, bro. Like you got to know how to get to the money. No matter what you're doing, you got to know how to get to the money. And keep the motherfucker out your pocket. By the way, how they doing it nowadays compared to the way how they did it. Everything was more hands on back then. Now everything is more digital. Yeah, way more. So is it easier now than it was back then? Or is it harder? Of course it's easier. It's way more easier. But it's more watered down though. So you made it easy, but you took away what it was really meaning. We were standing for a year, you know what I mean? You got to get out here and earn a shit, man. You just can't turn the phone on. That's the one thing people be looking at us and be like, how y'all growing so fast and stuff like that. And I would always say, and I correct me if I'm wrong, but I would always say, I would always say, because we out here giving out cards, we out here talking to people. We still on that grind like what it used to be. But we still capitalizing on the social media and trying to get people online to do that. So why not do both? A lot of these younger people are just straight internet. They don't know how to talk to people face to face. We out there on the grind. Y'all, you come from it. That's what I am. That's all you know, exactly.