 It's a hat and a little nigga up on the ramp. Okay. Now go back to that, man. You switched it? Nah, that's perfect. Nah, they hit me. Bro, you shoulda just looped that. That woulda been the perfect shit to bring Chance to rap more, to the show too. That woulda been some great shit to do an introduction to. They won't fight you though. You feel me? You fuckin' with me? You fuckin' with it? Don't fuckin' with me. You sayin' we ain't made it? Well, I'm fuckin' with you. Nah, you ain't fuckin' with it. Hey. Shit, I'm fuckin' with you. Shit, if I had that one right there, it wouldn't even be fair. I would probably go three times platinum in a fuckin' year. Probably say some shit that you would really like to fuckin' hear. Something you can smoke a blunt to and drink a fuckin' beer. Probably be up for artists of the year. And the people be like, when you gon' drop somethin'? My dear, hey, I'm just chillin' on some other shit. It was me, my brother, and my other brother, bitch. And we done rolled to the liquor store. And we done got a few backwood. My turn to roll. I'm on the backseat, big booty freak. I met her last week. She done already ate the meat. That's how my life go. I spent the night with a nice hoe. And she even made breakfast, gave me head in the kitchen while she was cooking, but nigga, what a god, I ain't told a lie yet. Got the chick, but I ain't got fly yet. You can stop me when you think that I'm lying. These niggas think they better than me and I ain't even tryin'. Comin' off the head. Like your girl. She do it. She's it. She put the neck with the sad work. She stuck dick till her neck hurt. Alright, man, it's your turn. Do somethin'. First of all, these ain't no booty shop. Listen, these ain't no booty shop. Listen, these ain't no booty shop. Listen, these just so cool. Hey, hey, hey, hey. These ain't no booty shop. These just so cool. They went crazy. That shit went crazy. That shit went crazy. She wanna get a job. That's a lot on that bitch. That's a lot of her. She got one eye. That's a lot on that. You ain't about to talk about the black history, man. That's black history, man. That's black history. Alright, I'ma tell you, I'ma tell you, that's a chance shit. That's some chance... Let me rap my freestyle. Yeah, I'm with my nigga DC. I'm rappin' on your TV. Come on. I'm on your computer And I'm with my fucking shooters I'm with all my homies and we came to play And I ain't come to play I do this every day What's today? Wednesday? On them it's Thursday Shit, it's my birthday It's my birthday I'm at the end Shout out to Chinggy back when He made the song about being at the holiday end But we at the king of diamonds I'm sorry, that shit closed Okay, it's open Yeah, you know I be joking No, but I'm really smoking And I'm with Carlos in I would say Chico, but he left out Where that nigga at He was supposed to be here But it's cool I'm with my other friends And we at the Yeah Hey man, welcome We were just nominated For the number one Blackest TV show That's not on TV No cap We wear an award every time we drop some DC, we got a very special guest In the trap with us This nigga is presidential It's about Nine more for the escalator That's for one nigga Right And everybody in the trap They just pulled up half the toll here On some real shit though Snigger than one All the awards Rock Obama be really listening to him And know his lyrics Just ain't got a Kit Kat commercial That sold nine trillion Dollars worth of new era hats With a three on it Overalls Mushrooms All the festivals I just know one thing though I know if one more nigga Try to stop Man, he's gonna be a whole bunch of Niggas who dreads in the life No cap Ever since he said that Everybody in the record industry Knew not to play with this nigga Really from Chicago Really Took a chance with this shit Chance the rapper Come on We always talk about this shit on the show We feel like the black entertainers Don't get enough of appreciation And we like to appreciate When people stop through the trap And fuck with us You really watch the show and you really be posting Shit that you watch from the show Appreciate that Now I'm fucking strong man The show is amazing And congrats on going strong for so long Y'all did the tours and everything And like got a space Y'all finna get another space It's time now We almost in there We got a whole studio Coming for those Named the studio yet Should we throw it out to the fans And do some kind of contest And let them name the studio Y'all finna get no equity No We got some options on the table But yeah First of all how you been I mean good man I been working Doing a lot of music stuff Traveling Just got back from West Africa How does she feel over there It's beautiful y'all I went my first time In January And it was like a crazy experience Learned a lot about Not just there but about like global blackness How we all connected You know the efforts That took place like since the You know really since the fifties and sixties That's when like all the African countries Started getting their independence And then that was the same time That we was going through civil rights over here So like a lot of that stuff was interconnected And I ain't know a lot about that stuff Cause I got to learning And I just went back with my friends And me and Vic brought some kids out there too It was just like a real You know it inspired me actually To organize this concert Me and Vic are putting together A big black Concert festival I want to be watered When you say Vic you mean big men Big men so yeah We been down man We grew up and wildin' out And just take ten episodes Meet up for two weeks He just fuck with What he fuck with like that He a cool nigga though Nah the show is like I always say like That's our like You know Saturday Night Live That's like our like space to like Really see so many comics that like You know like Nah but like Y'all seriously like Build something crazy over there and it's like It grows so many stars It grows so many like musicians and artists And it's just like I don't know it's one on one Appreciate it my boy It has one of the most viewed episodes That uh that season finale That he did That's one of the first times we ever seen You know the people who Really run shit called the show And was like just keep fucking going Like let him go For a long time I wish y'all would do like Just like the shit that gets cut from the episode Just like how y'all film so much Yeah it's just so much funny like People don't know like when you an artist and you go up there You really just have fun Like you really just like Cracking jokes and hanging out and getting drunk Really like I don't know if I can say that No you're getting wasted You know I love how they Purposely getting you drunk as hell And then you just have a good time They over there like damn Me that tore it up Cut that cut that You get a lot of people coming in Some people be shot as hell until they get You know You know you can say something to us They be like I don't know what to say Same the fuck you feel Why I look ugly They don't follow ugly hair Nah that shit is fun though man Especially you know the lab takers and shit Nah they can't Cause it's like at this point we know pretty much What they ain't gonna play So when we watch the shit we be like Oh they letting motherfuckers rock this time This shit lit up Hell yeah What's up y'all this is your girl XP And it's your girl Draina Cole And we will be in the city that never sleeps That's right NYC We're coming to you August 27th At the town hall Yeah and they definitely So make sure that y'all get y'all tickets At poormines.com The show starts at 7 p.m. Yes 7 p.m. and y'all know I know y'all seen the clips y'all never know Who gonna pull up when I tell y'all It's going stupid Dumb Get your chopped cheese and show up at the dome Okay maybe not with the chopped cheese But we'll see y'all soon But see I know you're deep into the music game But like what started you What was your motivation Man I feel like I started out doing poetry To be honest I used to do it like in Chicago They have like this thing called Young authors projects where every year When you were a kid you had to like make a book Like you had to make like a story About like niggas was writing about dinosaurs and shit like that And I was making little books of poems I don't know why I was doing that I was writing poems in it And they was really good For me to be like 6 years old They was pretty fine And I just kept doing that And then I felt like It was around like 3rd grade 2nd and 3rd grade I started like listening Like getting my own CDs and getting in the hip hop And I was like I'ma just rap And yeah I don't know I feel like most people have like a cool ass origin story Like man I was tired of being on the streets But I just genuinely like Making a rap Like that's just like my swag I don't know No cap It was like Wait I hate to below this that was a good take Now you didn't grow up struggling And shit like that I feel like it's a common Like Trope you know That it's like Music is one of the options But it's like in reality It's a art form like anything else Like there's people that are Just really really good at it You know what I'm saying it's not just You know like I feel like us As black folks we Have like An understanding of what is wrong What is like good Art period But still in like creating Everybody got funny friends But not everybody could do what y'all do Where it's like where rap it's like You know There's a story to tell that I feel like A lot of people want to hear but at the end of the day Like how you tell it how your voice Sounds like your tone like You're like it's an art form you know what I'm saying Maybe snapping on some music though On some other shit We just listening to the action Man you really Killed that fucking track man on the feature Oh yeah Do people be like Kind of like scared to ask for a feature Cause they know you're gonna go crazy I don't know that's a good question I feel like I feel like when I get on songs I try and like I don't be trying to get on it Like I'm finna kill this nigga Right right I don't I feel like I really just be Doing What's most true to me on the track And then That was just how it comes out But I feel like I'm always down to collab with people And I like to collab with artists that aren't always Like necessarily just In rap Like I be working with artists that make all types of Different music and shit cause Who you had to work with that you ain't did one with yet This show damn near be connected man This my time Tell it nigga tell it Stevie Wonder if you're listening right now You know he watched this shit Every episode of this show Man You laughing Stevie Wonder do watch this shit It be me I just said I wanna work with Stevie Wonder I also wanna work with He watched this He's seen a lot of these episodes Stevie Wonder You know what I mean stop playing I also wanna work with Y'all gonna fuck it up I'm trying to really get that Stevie I'm trying to get I'm trying to get a track with Damn who's I just about to say I don't know You know who I wanna work with That I haven't worked with yet And I'm cool with it but I just need some I just need some of the time I'm trying to work with K-DOT I wanna rap with K-DOT Kendrick Kendrick what Oh TDE they know they fought with you Those are my people It's just always schedule stuff I definitely would love to work with Kendrick You gotta be a fool Would you wanna already have something planned Or you just be like let's just start from scratch I feel like I probably Come to him with some tracks like these The tracks but I feel like Kendrick is such like a musical person That you would wanna like build something Cause he's like a I don't know he's into a lot of different genres of music He's just a He's very artistic But he'll fuck around and jump on all of them shit What's about whatever I'm gonna I'm gonna take your advice and bring 7 tracks No sometimes you just have to say that shit If you know how this entertainment shit is Soon as they hear that Why you ain't say something That shit might have been motivating him like me But the big play did You give him no 7 tracks And you come in and be like bro we can do some scratch All angles how you wanna do it I got music on red I'm just ready to work bro give it He probably got 7 I don't want to get you on No cap It be like this sometimes how you see like scheduling He probably won't do the same Yeah I feel like it's probably like Like you right if I hit him up I'm gonna just say it's gonna happen now Why does he hit each other up Or is that not a thing Artists hit each other up Artists also like change their numbers all the time Artists also be not working on music sometimes You know what I'm saying So I feel like he just dropped out But I definitely got a track for him to get on So I'm gonna go with the 7 tracks And be like let's make something from scratch And then if he be like I'm not really trying to make nothing from scratch I'm gonna be like well I got these 7 tracks Safety net Safety net you know what I'm saying Right and I'm first I'm gonna just say I got one track So if you don't like that I'll be like I got another until I get to 7 He already know you got 7 tracks I'm gonna hit him up tonight Is this live? We live We live right now If you watching it Right now Hey man welcome back to the We're looking up this Kendrick Lamar feature Like just speaking it And Stevie Wonder Bang it won't Steve I ain't gonna be happy If I need you in Steve Alright who else One more feature Damn I gotta use that's like a third wish I'm gonna think of the Right on this Reached just through Pharrell out there I was thinking of Pharrell out there I just like he had great music And people who do music together You know who I wanna work with I definitely wanna work with AP that's my homie And Pharrell I wanna work with Lauren Hill I swear Have you listened to this I would love to work with you I swear Before you said Stevie I was gonna say Lauren but you know you gotta Allow a nigga to think I swear Yeah That's crazy Please I'm just saying What the heck That'd be crazy You oughta get Dylin on the track Stop fucking playing man Dylin could rap man I never said that he couldn't I'm just saying then you're Dylin Why are you holding him He's somebody to bring him in the game again He did go crazy I didn't know what he was saying though But he was going crazy Making the band We should come out and make it a band I ain't gonna make you go walking With no cheese cake though You trying to put a band with him You gonna walk in a pile of cakes with a red belly But not no cheese You gonna put a band together How many people in it About 36 Cause you gotta even out That's a lot of motherfuckers That's six opportunities Are they a group or a band See they a band but one thing A band gotta understand There's six different instruments You have to stand out regardless So they singing They singing and playing instruments Whatever you gonna bring to the band You are a part of the band You gotta be able to play organ You don't wanna fuck around there You don't wanna play organ You play piano How you gotta play piano How you gotta play organ That's piano You ain't gotta use your feet Look out for your hands So the list is Lauren Hill Stevie Wonder And Kendrick Lamar That's five Lauren Hill, Stevie Wonder Kendrick Lamar All on one joke Where that shit That might Creeping up a portal Blackness That we have never seen Just like a blackness portal open up All the ancestors walk out We are here For what the concept Everybody bye bye Yeah, yeah Now that'll be a smooth track We gotta take it back The career music is back in style for real Music, you have no choice If you just listen to music Or listen to like the Pandora You ever just catch on, you fuck with it And you don't even know who them niggas is I gotta go fuck with y'all But who this is They monthly listening 400,000 Somebody listen to these niggas I just wasn't You gotta understand how deep the music game is But real music comes back in style When did it go out of style? It went out a long time ago What you mean? Long, long time ago You had access to actually Listen to like thing about Spotify and all that You gotta know about it Your favorite song So you was only listening to what you bought Niggas You listen to everything You didn't know you liked everything I know But now I got a free subscription I got a subscription You gonna change this shit I got a subscription Every time I hear this shit I gotta add that to the motherfucker What? I can be a DJ What? I know so much music That's what I'm saying I think that's just a small fraction of the shit People really listen to People listen to all kinds of shit It ain't nothing It's this dude, he make these videos When he go around And he fire people who got headphones on And he ask them what they listen to And then he'll play the song Why the fuck are people listening to just Cartoon intro songs You be surprised What next time you see the motherfucker What you listen to It's gonna be some shit you never expected Beethoven's Symphony 119 It's the one everybody hates But I like it I can listen to T.D.J You do? Sorry, man It's on the Spotify Got that nigga's catalog And it ain't a DJ I listen to T.D.J So I don't have to do it He didn't do it I feel like he be knowing what niggas be going through He be saying shit that don't like It ain't be like directly to niggas But it can relate to every situation Where you just sitting there scrolling Facebook Next thing you know T.D.J Pop up, don't text me back I'll get used to it Don't call my phone I'll get used to you not being there See when somebody gets used to you not being there And then he be like How does he know Whatever He profile I know he ain't lying cause he's sweating too hard He's sweating too hard He got to be telling the truth That motherfucker be able to sweat I don't know if I see you in a lot of lights in his church though You know he got a big ass pool pit And he go from corner to corner like He walk and talk, he get everybody in his conjugation to be That might be sweating about how he turn around No, one of them serving to T.D.J's Has some Yeezys on Yeah I know T.D.J's are real niggas now Yeah You ever see his Instagram pictures that be going viral Even having them old ass office seats on Killing these young boys You ever hear the besides the straight on And they put them on the picture with D'Amigo No That thing going viral man We got to get T.D.J's to come on the show man No cap That'll be alright T.D! You got a call OG He put me in one of your movies For real? Brought us to A.D.Movie You did a movie A while ago where you was a zombie That shit that came back out I don't know The little picture that show the preview of the movie Is just your ass sitting there I'm talking to the zombie Where I got beat I'm talking to the zombie Like can you make a zombie I'm like yeah I can make a zombie That shit was fun Yeah it was off the screen Man I do fuck with Agnes It's a lot of like waiting and stuff Like when you have to I don't know I like behind the camera stuff I like cinematography I like I like direction I feel like the last time At this movie show I was like on a I was in like a trailer for a long time Because they be having to like change stuff I don't got the patience I think that's the problem My only thing I hear when they keep knocking on my door When I'm in the trailer You hear them come up the steps Bitch what is it? You just knock on them all fucking ten minutes though They need you for wardrobe They say you about to change In two ways It's a hundred and ninety eight degrees outside Tell them to bring my clothes in here Hold me a little Don't you all sit With the clothes you got on I just let you choke your head to change I love it though We come with the gang They come knock on that door until you fire me And it's fifty fucking time I don't know what it is About the It's like also like when you're a rapper Or like a public face type shit It's harder to I feel like Like I respect acting Like the idea of getting into a role In a movie dope And it's also like movies It's like a team sport Like so many different departments making a movie happen So if you the actor you got to like Go hard to like carry your weight So I want to do that but then if I'm chance The rapper the whole time So I like character actors You know like I just had a vision Chance the rapper Chance the actor When you go into that mode I could get there mentally Mentally I could be chance the actor But it's like my face It was like you said it's like my face is like Very like That's what I want I just don't want like a star role I'll be like a nigga that just says a few things Like a mystical character That's like got all types of prosthetics on And shit Say something that's inspirational And then disappear and nigga's like two years later Like that was chance the rapper he killed that shit I don't want to be like Professor Clumps And just say a speech Sort of like Professor Clumps Heavy prosthetics Heavy prosthetics That was you as Thurgood Marshall That's what I'm saying Exactly Like fully dive deep into a role But it's Thurgood Marshall in a movie About somebody else Not the Thurgood Marshall Movie A nigga that just Like one scene It's like you got to talk to the janitor And then the janitor is me but you don't know it's me And then I inspire my fuckers dad Message that person specifically I would actually kill that shit Also if niggas is casting directly Let me find out you Mr. Claw got lean on me That was you chance So who are you now I'm trying to be in a movie also Like where I'm like Like I don't want to say a bad guy I would love to be a villain in the movie Cause I want to call the house I ain't going to say you probably know you can I just want to call the house and then they show that little scene Where you be talking shit You have to use that bogus accent Tell your boyfriend That I'm going to kill you And then just hang up Yeah I'll be the terrible one Nigga we were talking about brother Keanu Reeve The nigga playing John Wick He don't say shit In none of his movies He don't say nothing brother Nigga had a whole conversation with a lady At the coffee shop for about three minutes Nigga was like Alright She was talking about Nigga Dawg Like how he can't kill nobody in the company She was like they're happy with you John Nigga draw some water Nigga was like Alright I was like alright Let me get paid for all his action movies Cause he do all that shit for real And Vin Diesel I don't know about that I don't know about that But he's going to be talking about He's going to be speaking about you in none of the Fast and Furious That's what I'm saying He be saying some bullshit You like when they get in the car They always give him some bullshit to say Be some shit that fuck the whole movie up You don't remember in Fast and Furious That man got dead ass serious And looked over his shoulder Flexed his muscles and said I live my life a quarter mile at a time Who the fuck Wants to hear some bullshit like that This shit been good The whole pretend What did he say love I live my life a quarter mile at a time He was in the car The fuck does that even mean man Fast and Furious didn't get ridiculous I liked the first one when they were still in shit You know just on the hope and the prayer Now these motherfuckers out of space I ain't even gonna lie, they're gonna lie Fast and Furious He did man He had Fast and Furious They did the little racing He had that purple car Y'all can stop playing with him No cap Why? Because he never did baby boy 2, 3 and 4 No cap Boy that shit had so much potential Him and Yvette get back together They son is a fucking All around athlete Nick a cold air football player Man a basketball player And he run track 2 Jody then got the business Booming, he done went from clothes To like work outfits and shit Not him and Melvin Done blew the lawn service up They tight and get money Man that shit coulda been No, they mama then opened up A beauty supply store too And she sell juices At the other side Man that nigga, you talking about his partner Aw man this nigga Here done started a youth football program With Snoop Dogg Got the hood, him and Snoop done linked up Aw man, he know me with the internet They ain't the only niggas that They knocked out in the park All them niggas got D1 football Offers after that Man All the niggas knocked out in the park DnP, old boy Who was staying with his mama He ended up having a Having a baby with an old girl His son like 14, the coldest little rapper And they little part of California DnN3 DnN3 like his son Go off to college but it still like It go back to Jody and then he start remembering Who he was and then like it's a love story Kind of like, so why did that get Married tight shit and then he found out That she was cheating the whole time It's crazy So do Yvette give us that cry That she did in the car He don't love you no more Do we get that same cry? No, she cold in that movie It ain't about all that crying and shit Now she more like cooking from empire Her feelings didn't get hard She's the one that's scorned You know once a good girl's gone bad What about the auntie that stayed in the house With Pety She the mood Atlanta She the mood Atlanta She the mood Atlanta She out with her It's supposed to be a series Is all I'm saying, I mean I'm not a writer But I got ideas I like it, I'm used to like Way more like trauma and like conflict And pain in the movie sounds like everybody was good Now I'm just saying black people we didn't evolve Yeah, I like that movie a lot With your poems like that though Well I'm trying to remember like What it was about, I feel like they was like I don't even know What I was making poetry about They wasn't dark though, they was like It was just rap but just quiet They was like Is that poetry quiet rap? Yeah basically I feel like they was like love poems and like Little shit about like You know what you write, I think they was rap Some of the poems was about how good I was And making poems which is basically what rap is So I feel like it was like I don't know Also I was like 7 years old Don't even try to remember that You know when you saw everybody snapping It wasn't that kind of poetry It was like written down poetry, it was slam It was like poetry poetry I was a little boy Yeah, I mean that's their poetry Don't give a fuck if you're reading off a paper I'm still saying shit You said my fuck was reading that That's what happened A 6 year old wrote this I go to sleep When you wake up Poetry really deep though Poetry poetry Poetry ain't number of motivational speeches Most of it ain't deep It's just said in the atmosphere What shit is supposed to be Serious Some of that shit do be deep though Some of it don't Man some of that shit don't be like Some fake deep shit They'll come out and be like Peace and blessings to the room All the kings and queens I wrote this piece It's unfinished but it's Something I just want to try out tonight Is that alright? I said is that alright with you? It's time for us to make a stand We can do What the black woman Can't We got to hold down These sisters not hold down These sisters Be better masters Be better brothers Protect each other From the others That's an unfinished piece Y'all can get that on my CD though I got the whole version I'm selling my CD tonight You ain't never got a CD of poems CD of poems CD full of poems So it's a track with another poem on it Oh brother That's the beautiful part about it Half of it is my poetry and the other half is my album Yes You flip it over it's the album in the poetry Oh it's too sad to see you You ain't no label on it You can see right here in the middle It's just the center of it I got my Myspace, my Instagram, Facebook Everything is all under the same name Mystic blue You got to spell it out Mystic blue It's M-Y-S-T-I-Q-U-E Blue It's B-L-E-W-W Mystic blue Mystic blue Soundcloud Reddit Fortran What inspired that one line One more nigga try to stop me There'll be some dreary Niggas in your lobby I feel like that was personal Yeah I was going through a lot of things At that time I was trying to book a lot of festivals I was kind of coming up Out of a space of Acerap which my second mixtape Was kind of like The point where That's an album though I'll take it It was a time When I was looking For deals right Like 2012 In the middle of 2012 I just dropped A mixtape about me being Suspended from high school That was around the time that Keith came out Third came out, a lot of people Was flocking in Chicago So I started taking memes around that time Right after I dropped my first tape And then Right before I dropped Acerap It was costing a lot of money for the lawyers It was really one lawyer When I looked at contracts I was feeling right I'm paying a nigger to say no to people So I stopped getting contracts I told him don't send me anything else So I dropped Acerap And at that time I was Opening up for Mac Miller And once my tape dropped It took me up In a different direction I wasn't really trying to sign At that time So when I was Making a coloring book When I was about to drop a coloring book It was like A little weird political shit With shows I was supposed to headline Or TV spots Trying to get Features back I felt like it was Kind of just on some I didn't sign them Trying to tweak them I just made the song Funny to say it wasn't a direct threat To anybody that I've met But it was really just like some I don't know, some empowerment shit It felt good to sing that shit too For a long time And then for that shit to go number one at radio For that shit to win a Grammy I felt good though That Grammy shit though Yeah man Grammy though Not Grammy naming me Winner Three times Three times So Grammy winner, Grammy winner, Grammy winner This was just me Speaking into existence I feel like it was a It was a crazy time Also like when the Grammy show was going on Because it was such a big conversation When I dropped ASSERAP Because it was like some low-key Cultural shit It wasn't as big as coloring book Underground I was like traveling on some real like Fan shit and there wasn't really nothing In the market like that at all Straight fan driven Not even like wheat paste In a street team shit But just niggas was listening to the tape And after it came out I got approached by different people Telling me that if I sold the project If I put it for Even if I just sold one copy If I set up like an IRS C code That I could get nominated Wasn't nominating people unless they sold They shit and I was on my makeshift shit So I end up Saying no to that shit and not selling it And then when I did coloring book It was like a part of like my whole You need a business now I was like fuck them They got to change for me And I fucked them because I still want to win more Grammy But it was like I'm trying to do this shit Specifically my way and so then I ended up being the first Mixed tape to win a Grammy first project That wasn't so no physical copies First mixed tape to win a Grammy So they changed the rules I think In like that September So once my project came out in May I would say like six months After they did that But it was like a whole thing where People that worked for me And people that knew the situation And I was like you should just make Some CDs and just sell the CDs Like you say So that you can make sure that you Work could get recognized this time And I think just like The way I be operating And thinking about everything I do In music like I'm always trying to Figure out ways to do it Different to like create more Space for us because I know As artists like especially musicians Like we want people to Experience our music in different ways We want people to experience our music For different reasons sometimes Money's not the thing sometimes We just want to share art with people And so I'm always like trying to figure out Different ways that I could like Directly connect with the people That need to hear that music Put that shit out for free Put it out on SoundCloud Put it out on streaming service At the time that shit wasn't even Really like that We were all like kind of like in a war Trying to get you know niggas to subscribe to that shit So it's like Capitalize on that time And just still be an artist and be in your Artistry and like make what you want to make But like capitalize on the moment And make sure as many people can get it As possible you know That's lit You just gotta let that type of information Just sit for a second You really just put them up on some game Like to go through that whole process Cause a lot of people don't want to do the free The free situation But there's nothing to the consumer to buy To listen to For free Look how fast I'm gonna fucking listen to it For free versus no spending $5.99 Trying to listen to your shit Not for real And we still Grammy nominated Yeah you gotta take a chance with this shit man Damn And the crazy part about it Those platforms are still there That's the crazy part about it I think this shit gonna Still just keep evolving That's what I was gonna ask you After going through that, what's your method now Everybody, you want to hold another level You out the stratosphere bro Even if you stay independent You still Have already Reached the motherfucking Shit I think like What I've been trying to do is figure out ways To tap directly to somebody That's like Cause that's what it's like I think it is for all artists You get told to try and Blanket people in Cast a wide net Go to spaces that are Big public spaces Late night tv On the radio or whatever But it's stuff like this Y'all own show where y'all got your direct fans And it's like Excuse me, you stuff like that When you like I just did something with the last track With the highs and the lows, I did something where I found like an old mailing list From years ago My OG fans, just people that just bought a sticker Or something on my website Just like random emails And sent them the track the day before it came out Direct message with a little Personalized voice Note to them, just like Yo, I fuck with y'all People love that shit They love to get something that's just for them And feel like they're in conversation with an artist Cause artists are high communicators That's like a comedian or a writer Or a painter, like with high level Communicators Communicate different emotions, different situations And like the most beautiful Or funny or like Just cool ways And so when a fan feels like Not only can they hear you but they feel like They're in conversation with you Like how you got that forever bond That's how you have like somebody that You know, stay supportive Man, you say you were trying to book the festivals And shit, and then you did all of them Like Now we're gonna do our own That's what we're talking about I'm there I can't fucking Wait, I'm staying right by you though We are I'm gonna walk a little bit No, it's it It's gonna be like It's such a crazy thing To experience cause I feel like When you going out there even like Some people just trying Like, I don't know, it's like a distance That's just like there It feels like it's so hard to get there And like, I feel like most of the people in this room How many people here have been to the continent? Anybody been to Africa? It's a few You just came back from Africa with me Put your hands down No, I'm just saying it's like a thing where I didn't go until January this year And I've been traveling forever I toured everywhere Like I've been everywhere Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South America, Central America All over Europe And small markets too And that's not, it's like by design Like they want like You know, you start to come up They like this where the money is This is where we want to send you But I'm telling you Joe When you get off the plane as a person Of your stature, you know Like your fans are there And they was there before you was on Wild'n Out Like we have real connection Because it's culture That transcends, you know what I'm saying So like We have this like This needed connection even Not for just artists, just for people Ghana is a country that was like Literally founded on global blackness And like the idea that we all Supposed to be, you know Connected, like when they president Like into colonial rule and stuff Like he like made it a like a basically Like the country's mission statement To have a free Africa And connect all the people of the diaspora So it's like When you go there, it's because It's founded on that because this is the It's the one country with like The White House has an office of diaspora and affairs Like it's like a thing where they want So hard to explain and so much information But they want you to They want you to come, they want to help you They want like, they want connection And like that's what we all need globally Not just like Americans there But like, you know people in the islands People in South America, it's black people everywhere Like literally everywhere And so it's like This is like a, I think a crucial time Just like in the Climates and every space, like any place That you look in the world Black people, like we're in need Of something, and at least like connecting I feel like it's going to give us a better Sense of what we need in a better community To get it done, so Trying to get as many motherfuckers to pull up As many Ghanians that already live there To pull up, like it's going to be It's going to be one of those, like that's one of those I can't fucking wait Let me know, so I can plan it out January 6th of next year January 6th, yes, 2020, 2023 I might have to miss this one What about the next one? January 6th, what are you going to be on January 6th? I don't know, I think I got some shit booked, man Alright, don't say that on the camera Be like, yeah, I'm going to pull up to Africa We're going to pull up, I'm going to pull up Y'all know what's up going on Pull up to my native shit, nigga We're going to fucking beat it, I'm going to make a video I'm going to beat it out No, we got all the Ghanians I got what they call Ghanadians Ghanians, I'm going to call them Ghanadians Ghanadians, Ghanadians I didn't know I thought Ghanadians were shit Now the Ghanadians are going to watch this shit and play Fuck us, huh You don't know about the Ghanadians Ghanadians, Ghanadians, all the Ghanadians Pull up Those are the people from Ghana who live in Canada The Ghanadians Ghanadians I don't know, I'm trying That's going to be one of those though It's going up January 6th at Black Star Square Hey man, what baroque up are we going to bend up to? I don't know man What are you talking about? I don't be seeing Baroque Obama Who's like Chance? That's not even good That's not even good at Baroque He's like Tim Digg and then Tobin Do it all the way, like do like Tim Weier and then Baroque Okay, we'll do the Baroque You don't fuck up a confident My Baroque Tobin doing good All right, hello Chance? Chance I heard the rap I didn't know that you were the Grammy nominated No, Grammy winner three times Is that a go? That was good That's a good baroque personation Your Keanu Reeves impersonation was good as far as that But he couldn't think of anything to come to Then to what I say, oh, he ain't good I don't know I don't know I said, he ain't good I said, no John Don't kill him It's funny watching him Do anything after he did Bill and Ted Oh, yeah, well, that's what I'm saying Bill and Ted was the stupidest mother fuckers I know that shit was way before your time Was they time traveling in that movie? Yup They had Bill and Ted, Excellent Adventures I think that's I've seen those called like bogus journey Man, like two or three of them. Yeah. Bill and Ted. Bill and Ted. That was probably when he realized I didn't need to do all action moves. That's the crazy thing about it. It's just been the same motherfuckers for like the last 30 years, man. They got budget for this shit, though. Think about how much wind capacity you got for them, how much money they did. How many movies can people do before this shit ain't believable no more, like you said, though? Like this nigga again? Like sometimes you just do some shit so good. You can't really do shit else. Did you know how many people in the world that like you said it? Terminator is Terminator in everything. He got a Terminator crowd. They love to see this nigga terminate some shit. That's real. He is a Terminator in kindergarten cup. Damn, I used to. That's some of his best work right there. Oh my God, I'm like, how about that shit? I remember this shit. That's some of his best work right there. Can't read, man. I'll put it with that nigga, man. Straight shit. We ain't even make good shit like that anymore. Like kindergarten cup? Yeah. I think niggas is just too, like, privy to that shit. Yo, yo, yo, what's going on? It's your boy DC on Fly. In case you haven't heard, we at the 85 South Show have launched our own independent streaming service called Channel 85. And for our loyal supporters, we are currently offering 20% off for six months just used code 85 per center. Right, spread it out. Code 85 P-E-R-C-E-N-T-E-R. Once you sign up, you'll get access to the podcast a whole day earlier than everyone else. All of our new live shows, independent specials, new shows, like Five on it, 85. And even get your special offers and discounts for 85 South merchandise and the shows. It's only $8.50 a month for $85 for the whole year. 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That's better H-E-L-P dot com slash 85 South. Motherfuckers, they're lost. They done stopped taking chances in Hollywood because when I was growing up, they made all kinds of bullshit movies. Y'all don't remember that fucking Tom Hanks movie, Turner and Hooch? Tom Hanks was the fucking police and he had the fucking big ass Saint Bernard as his partner. You don't remember that dumbass movie, Harry and the Henderson? White people that moved in with Bigfoot? You don't remember this shit? That's a real concept. They had a movie and a TV show, Harry and the Henderson, and white people that went in the woods and moved in with Bigfoot, man. Wrote them all to the fucking store and everything, man. He spent the whole summer with a white family. They tried to make him leave, and my fucking turned around. He was crying and shit. They was like, go, go, Harry! You remember? Man, Bigfoot then moved in with a white family in like 1988. Look at that. And they still live in Bigfoot. If you think I'm crazy, look up Harry and the Henderson, man. We used to have all kind of bullshit ass movies. I think we'll stay downstairs. You remember the motherfucking Bill Cosby ghost dad? Come on, man. That shit wouldn't work. Now these kids don't believe in ghosts. I mean, you have been here before everybody on this room, shit. No, it's some niggas that hit over there, man. But I ain't gonna tell you who they are. What about the food, man? 19, 20, something. You feel that, man? Now that was the first fucked up one. This niggas think he young, man. You 32, man. You 32, man. Honey, I tried to keep it. No, but you were grown-up too, man. You ain't young no more. You just fly in there. Yeah, you young. You just, you see. You just fly, you just started 32. You're young, man. You have a, Sid, that grew up, Sid, like 22. I'm like, man. Man! I don't know if I remember what Sid had to braces. You don't remember Sid? When he grew the fuck up, he was like, I don't know. I don't know. When I magnified that, he was like, that nigga burnt his ass. You know that nigga is crazy, man. You grew up on that? What? That's not her. That's her, yeah. She showed you that white folk crazy dude. I was already taking bitches to the movies when they came out. God damn, my boy. You don't tell that. I was six years old. Oh, that nigga, oh, nigga, you young. Fuck this all the time. Who didn't tell you that? Grew up on that iPad and shit. My bad. No, it's all love, man. Keep doing your thing, bro. I'm just saying. No, but I'm just saying. What about, uh, Flebby? You remember Flebby? Hey, Flebby was weak as hell. Flebby was weak as hell. Y'all ain't done. They will watch the green, little jello pudding, the whole woods. Wait, it's Flebby. I ain't watch that bullshit. You ain't watch Flebby? I don't fuck on Flebby. You was a kid. That wasn't. That nigga, Flebby got there, and see how he did it. Yeah, get the hell off. See, that's what I'm telling you, bro. Our generation grew up different. We had shit like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I fuck with the Roger Rabbit. But wait a minute. Think of the concept of this shit. That shit was so cold. Wait a minute. This shit was so adult. This whole movie is about a cartoon character who got framed for a murder. And they wanted kids to go see this shit. These motherfuckers was pulling out cartoon guns on each other and shooting each other with radioactive bullets that erased cartoons. No cap. That movie was fucked up. His wife was a prostitute. Everybody was trying to fuck Jessica Rabbit. The humans was trying to fuck up all the cartoons. Wanted to fuck her? Come on, man. Why a cartoon need big tinnies and a fat ass? Fat ass. The fattest bitch in the cartoon. Even the real police officer was like, look, look, look, look. I was just saying, we grew up on a whole different type of bullshit. Your generation grew up with some baby chasing reptiles and shit. Boom. You can't. Come on, man. Now I like progress. I know, man. I know. I'll go real real early and research. Stop playing with me. That's what I'm saying. Recess was decent, too. Yeah. I was already through with that shit. I was working on some math or something about that. You remember Wayne's? You remember that shit? Yeah. That was Wayne's. Yeah. Wayne's, Wayne's. So now you're talking about niche cartoons and shit. Kid and Play had a cartoon, too. What? When? Yeah, that was Lula. Kid and Play, no, they had a fucking, they had a cartoon. MC Hammer had a cartoon called Hammer Man, where he was a superhero. And when he put his fucking dancing shoes on, he turned into Hammer Man. He was Stanley in the daytime, and then he was Hammer Man when he was out, like, saving motherfuckers from shit. Look it up. I fucked with Doug, but they had a fucking hairball. First cartoon character with a necklace. You don't make the nigga blue. Steve Urkel had his own cereal, too. You don't make the nigga brown, man. You turn the nigga blue. Did y'all know that? Shut up. Urkel had his own cereal called Urkel O's. Urkel O's? Everybody eatin' them shit. Shit. He did. He eatin' them shit. Look it up. Little young guys, don't know shit. New face. You got every fucking time, man. You got some Urkel O's on there. Do you remember Pro Stars? Pro Stars? Michael Jordan, Wayne Grisken, and Bo Jackson had a cartoon together. Never know. You said Michael Jordan had a cartoon? Michael Jordan, Wayne Grisken, and Bo Jackson. They played the Pro Stars. There was three different professional athletes, and they used to go around the world with all these, like, like, Wayne Grisken have, like, a fucking hockey puck that he can hit in his shit, go in this guy, turn to a satellite, tell him exactly where it is. Michael Jordan put this suit on, and he can fly. Bo Jackson put his suit on, he fucking turns super strength. He can run through the walls and shit, like Juggernaut. It was crazy. One of those, we grew up off Kim Possible, my wife. I don't tell. Like, you hear me? I'm only aware of space jamming. I ain't even know. Theme song, you hear me? Kim Possible called me, beat me up. If you want to reach me. Doesn't matter where, doesn't matter where. Doesn't matter where. You hear me? Oh, you was trying to act like we didn't have shit that was better than that. When you talking about a cold-ass theme song, that would never be a theme song better than Alvin and the Chipmunks' nigga. That nigga, him and his brother suddenly own theme song, three little black dudes who live with a white man who had that... What was he talking about? And he knew that they had talent, because they were the best singers in their whole fucking state, and they let them do their thing. They had my fucking customized T-shirt with matching hats, and they shoes, matching T-shirt, Alvin had the ribbon with the anchor, he was the lead singer. And then Simon, that was his brother who was smart, and then Theodore, he was talented as hell, he could play but he was shy, he liked to eat, and he was fat and insecure about it. Little firm nigga, they knew all those tunes. They would be like... Where are the Chipmunks' niggas? That shit used to go crazy. Alvin, Simon, Theodore... Niggas, they needed behind the music. They probably was this close to signing the Motown. They was going to pick up where the Jackson Five left off, and y'all don't remember the girls. It was Britney and the other girls. They was the girl version of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Y'all think it's too young to even be talking to me. I thought we had a maniac, my wife. And a maniac. And a maniac. We wrecking shit. That dark wing duck? Okay. Dark Wing Duck, what's the name? They have the theme song, bro. Okay, since you're going to bring up Dark Wing Duck. Dark Wing Duck. Dark Wing Duck. Man. What? That's something there somewhere. Now it's the first acknowledge that Launch Pad was the hardest working duck out of all them ducks. Launch Pad was on full-fledged shows, man. He was on DuckTales too. He was on DuckTales, and he did a few guest appearances on The Old Man. The shit with the two Chipmunks that was detectives. Chippendale? Rescue Rangers. Tailspin. Launch Pad was on everything. Shot it with a goat. Really? Shout out to Uncle Scrooge. He was trying to teach us financial freedom way back then. Captain on the move. I don't need that. The fuck are you talking about? Stop trying to feed everybody. Uncle Scrooge might do some shit to India by his goddamn self to get all the gold out of Cade. He don't even know his nephew and them to snuggle on the plane and help him the whole time. We have some fucked up cartoons, man. You expect the gadget? What about the other one? Run or Steppy? Really Steppy? Give him some butt head. They were on cocaine. I ain't fucked with, uh, South Park. To this day, I can't get this shit. I don't know why. I can't get it with this shit. Well, that's some of the funniest shit ever. I can't do it. That shit's just stupid as fuck. The little boy kill itself every show. Every time. Then he come back to life. Like, that ain't how this shit go. That whitey kid think they can come back? They say that's he kill it. Come back officer. That ain't how this shit go. Man, time to do change. You got to watch what your kid looking at on this channel. I remember we used to watch motherfucking lonely tunnels and shit. Bugs Bunny used to do all kind of shit now that I know as an adult was fucked up to see as a kid. What do you do? Man, Bugs Bunny used to do shit like jump out the hole, stick two fingers in the hole, and stretch the hole and move the hole and shit. Like, I ain't know what he was doing until you never seen the episode of that nigga jumping the hole and move the hole. Or he was just like, boo, and stretch the hole. I'm like, man, that's some different type of shit and why he used two fingers. What does that mean? Bugs Bunny used to do shit like like he'll see a girl rabbit or something shit and he'll just throw the cowboy hat on, roll the cigarette real quick. Why does nigga get so much swag so fast? Right. He's a swarovan nigga, man. We were slow back then, too, man. We used to watch Tommy and Jerry, but these niggas ain't seen shit. We watching these motherfuckers run around the house all day. But he's gonna never kick that mouse. Did he ever kick that mouse? He caught that mouse every fucking episode. That's how much you forget that this shit was all a trick. That nigga caught that mouse three, four, five times an episode. All he had to do was eat that nigga. He never went to? It wasn't about that. What was the mouse? Sometimes it'd just be beef. It's like brothers. I ain't gonna kid you, but I'll show you that. I'll take it there and then I'll let you go, but it's still on site beef. You know what I'm saying? It's on site every time. And then I think they had a little agreement, like made the people think that it was more than one mouse. Mmm. You feel me? He made it. Exactly. But that nigga was smarter than you think. Think of the shit that the cat was doing when he wasn't chasing the mouse. This nigga was sitting in the chair reading newspaper and shit. I'm thinking about you the entire time. Right. So he's like, this come outside. I'm reading my little paper here. But these cartoons had a message though. Right. Like Tom and Jerry just was just showing you like no matter what the fuck you do in life, somebody's still gonna be on your ass. You'll never get comfortable. That was the message. That was Popeye. Popeye the sailor man. Now that shit was so powerful. Because think about this shit. He fuck with olive oil every episode. Right. Every episode he got it in the beginning, right? Right. Every one to this other nigga come around. Then olive oil get to acting brand new. Brand new. Like everything. She love this new nigga, right? He just walk like, whoa, whoa, whoa. She love this nigga. He bigger than Popeye. He's like stronger than Popeye. He go off the street. Then he want some of that pussy. Soon as he get up by himself, he start kissing on the neck. What she say? What Popeye's stupid ass do? Olive. Olive. Olive. Brother this dumb ass something. Guess what he get every time he run up there. The other nigga put him in a terrible position. The other nigga fuck him up. He don't just beat him up. He beat him up first and then he do some shit like time up in a real world with a bone on his chest. Right. Popeye can't do shit. Popeye fucked up. He done whooped the shit out of him. Olive oil washed the whole thing. Turned her nose up and left with this nigga anyway. Damn. Then set him up. That nigga got to use the bottom of his pipe to cut the spinning joke You know what he can't whoop this nigga without he wish he didn't need this business. Go over there every time and don't eat this business and get his ass tore the fuck up. I'm through fucking with them cartoons though man. Hey man, I don't know if you still here here but we just chilling in the trap today with chance to grab a good night. Talking about the fucks in the downs. Mostly up. That shit got to feel good man to do shit your way and still win though. That's exactly why we keep this show right here going. You want some pizza or something? I'm straight, I'm straight. You don't eat this regular shit. I don't, I don't understand my nigga if I want to drink it. No I just look at it kind of different because I've been eating pizza and it was Domino's but I wasn't going to actually say I'm Domino's. I told that nigga all he know God damn. Ask the nigga to eat Domino's. Nobody came in with 12 Domino's cases. I was like, these niggas love Domino's. Bruh, anybody who would tell you no, you're not doing a podcast for real if you don't have no pizza on set. No, you gotta have the pizza. I mean, that's the official food of podcast. Eat for a bus and know who these is. Domino's motherfucker. You crazy as hell. I told you nigga, we convinced Domino's though on the shit. I didn't see Domino's. So Domino, y'all gotta keep putting pizza for black folks. Yeah, that's a, that's a little design. Yeah man. Domino's was the first job that got me out of poverty. Domino's. You got nigga first positive? Nah, I said, well, that's the first job that actually got me out of poverty. You ever have a job where you ain't broke no more? That was the first job I had where I wasn't broke no more. So I'ma always fuck with Domino's for real. No, it wasn't that they was there for me. They provided an opportunity and that's where it really showed me how to expand my hustle because it's like the jobs, the jobs like the way that they break down is like you can make as much money as you want to. It's all in about your need and desire because once I figured that part out, I was a fucking dog. I was a dog because I was like you mean to tell me I can write my own shit. Let me do this then. Fuck y'all shit because I'ma get me one every time I come in here to you. You feel me? How do they hide me? I know man, you know, that really just We need help sign. Yeah. Hey man, the message. The message. Every time I come up here they need help. No, that's the thing. Domino's is one of the places that's always harrowing because most of their business is delivered so they always looking for the turnover rate on delivery drivers. Yeah. I'm glad they didn't hide me because I was in the drive-in at 7-E. Man, I tell anybody who got some sense of where you live at to go deliver some pieces because you can make a hell of money. Every stop you go through, you can always say hey, you know we're smoking or something. No, and it's one of them jobs where ain't nobody on your ass because you going all the time. You go in there and deal with them folks for 5-10 minutes at a time, then you right back outside with it and then you can come back when the fuck you want to. Yeah, because Pizza Man was getting robbed but you got to have some like sauce on you. Nick's like, I'm not on a ride, he a cool one. That's the thing about the fucking piece of community. You think they don't know where all the robbers and shit be happening in there. Let them all fucking get robbed. Nick will deliver the piece and be like, hey, we ain't coming over there, meet me up the street at the gas station. I'm not coming over there, ain't no fucker. You be a car, yo, hey, this delivery driver. Y'all got any dogs? Nick is outside? All right, I'm on my way. I ain't coming over there. I ain't ever gonna have no job like that. I always hit quiet in these streets. Here you go. I ain't one of two, bro. I sold dope and then I just started liking it. I just said a dope cause I wanted to go out here and say no more fucking dope. He got the worst excuses about this dope shit. But I don't need crap, man. The fuck is this, man? You take a look. This is bad for me, man. If I had taken this shit, man, I wouldn't play ball, man. Now, when you think about this shit, that takes some nerves of steel, bro, to sell crack. Cause you have to deal with crack heads. And most of them motherfuckin' look like monsters. Like the type of shit that I would see when I closed my eyes at night would give me nightmares. When the motherfuckin' trying to hang you that dirty ass crack money and you see that open, you don't know me. He know the money. You want me to pull my tooth out? Give me that hot pulling my fuck out right now. Don't fuck out right now. Fuck no. Man. That's what I'm saying. That's too much. It's too much to deal with. It ain't no copper, copper gold. Copper gold. You gotta get your shit renovated all over again. What you need, copper? What? I ain't gonna lie, everybody. I took crack head. He had a can full of copper. Yeah, that white man had copper. Man, that white man might get him in. Throw that dog. They had like three pounds of copper, man. That shit cheap. They know what they be doing. They be resending that copper, bro. I'm thinking about giving him copper. Nope. Because you know when people be rehabbing houses and shit, they always try to put the copper in last because motherfuckin' will come in instead of all shit and shit. They ain't talking about stripping shit. Fuck strip nigga. So reserve flu. Staking it out. Ain't it crazy that motherfuckers is still on drugs, though? Yeah. Like after all this time, it's still new motherfuckers getting on drugs every day. I don't crack head. I was treating that copper like it would work. They be like, yeah, I got two jobs tomorrow. I'm like, two jobs? Oh, you got two thieves? You just gonna go thieves? You gonna be a theft? Oh, they think he had a trigger. What's the name of the festival, man? Black Star Line Festival. The Black Star Line Festival. The Black Star Line Festival. Oh, I'm at January 6th. January 6th. So look, Africa, right? Random game. You ever heard of Marcus Garvey? No, tell me about him. I'm saying it for the camera. Is that the man that invented gravy? Marcus gravy? Marcus... Who you saying it? So Marcus gravy. Marcus Garvey. No, Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey. Right? In the early 1900s, like 1919, he developed a shipping company. He bought these... he crowdsourced this money in New York and around like the East Coast. Like $5 a share. So people could buy this old ship, right? From the government. He ended up having a fleet of ships and used them to start a cargo company that made trade from the U.S. to the islands, to the continent. And eventually he started like making passenger trips. So like taking people, you know, that would train in different trades around and like creating like a network of black folks from all over and shit. And then in 1922 the U.S. government framed him for mail fraud and deported him. They shut down this ship. But the shipping company was like iconic to a lot of people because they would see these big ships coming in the ports. They would see people from all over the world. And you know they were niggas on that boat. Yeah, Nick! Marcus sent this bitch off! Black sailors, you know what I'm saying? First-time Jonah Cruz. So it's like we're trying to like this is like my first time joining a crew. It was like the essence festival before it was it was lit. You know what I'm saying? You know what they pulled up and saw all the niggas on the dock they just can't, all came out big plants and drank. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? But nah, go ahead. It's basically inspired by the Black Star Line. Yeah. The idea of having a network and being more connected with the platform. We just trying to create connectivity. It's like it's not even about getting my fuckers to move places or like I think or always travel. It's really just about creating an interconnectedness. Being able like this space right here that y'all create like have a community having conversation like that's what makes us strong. That's what makes us able to mobilize. Yeah. So it's like having moments like that mass demonstrations it's like it's important for our strength as like a as a as a people and our people is a global thing. It's not just a thing that's just here. We going through it everywhere. Yeah most definitely. Maybe saying some real shit. The mobile. Mobile. Did they tell you what trap you were from when you went over there? I was crazy as I still never did like know like we had 23 and me. We was just talking about that shit. I still don't do that shit. I don't really want to do anything. I did. Everybody come for me. Not you. But I got Caribbean in my blood. Tied in what you make no cap. You tie me all the way down to the parish and everything. Clarendon. I want people to start sending me pictures that look just like me and shit but send me some pictures. Tied in. For real? Can't wait to go to all the land. Can't wait to go. I'm coming. Oh I just did that. I'm coming. How long are you going to be out of those? Wouldn't that be like a week before? Like maybe a week and a half before. It's like it's a lot of stuff that's popping at that time of the year out there. I'm going to go there. I'm going to probably be there a little bit after the 6-2. I'm going to definitely be there before the 6-2. You ever heard of Afrochela? Shout out to Afrochela. It's like a festival that takes place in West Africa that's like people that's actually gone in and Nigerian to put it on. It's like a lot of artists from the continent. It's like a big thing that happens at the end of the year every year. So I'm going to go slide over to that too. You know what I'm saying? That's the weekend before. You want to jump on some Afro beats? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I feel like... I've been in a space where I've just been making a lot of music so I've been collaborating with a lot of different artists. We just dropped a song with this artist where an artist just dropped a song that was featuring me and Vic last week. His name's King Promise. And he's from Ghana but it's like I don't even want to call it Afro beat. You know what I'm saying? It's a different vibe but... I don't know. With a bunch of artists, we just need we need connection, you know what I'm saying? Collaboration, conversation, connection. And as much as possible talk about real shit, you know what I'm saying? People think it is hard. It ain't hard. You just got to just stretch your hand out. The pride, shit. The motherfuckers saying they scared to say I need help. I look you dead and your motherfuckers and tell you I need some help. You gonna fuck with me or not? We're gonna get you some goddamn help You're crazy. But it's gonna get done. Whether you're a part of it or not it's just the principle that it's the spirit in me to reach out to my fellow brother and be like we're stronger when we're together. Straight up. Because once we do what we do what side you gonna stand on? I was supposed to pass this to you? No. We got a lot of blunts and shit. We knew you was coming. I think my shit might be refrigerated to perfection. I'll put this from that black box one more time. That's my first time of tasting something so delicious. You don't fuck with Domino's though. That's that delicious piece of Domino's. Personal pan oven hand tossed. That's how y'all should make all y'all goddamn pieces. Even if it ain't personal. Even the big ones. Make a personal pan oven tossed. They tasting like this. He don't get it man. I ain't never seen y'all this guy soulin' pick out one of the box like that white box. That shit thing here. It ain't got no meat on it. It ain't got no cheese on it. This shit look like it came from a piece of bone. Give me one piece. Look at this white box. That's cheese piecing. Come on my nigga. Come on man. Come on man. This big got two more in it and everything. Let me tell you what that is. This shit man. If they were the last people one of you gonna take. When you hand tossed some of them. That was my favorite piece. That's just hand tossed. That's the pan that he and that's hand tossed that he left. I was deep in them piece of streets man. For real? Yeah. I never really like rocked with the piece of that was by my crib. It used to be a piece of hut. Right on 79 by my crib. What year was it? Were you a part of the whole you don't want no piece of hood between nothing. It's not 20 something but like 2,000 and is that still too late? Man if you had some piece of hood between the years of fucking 88 and I'd say maybe 97. That was prime piece of hood years man. I'm gonna have to smell it this shit. When you used to go in piece of hood you couldn't wait to get your fucking piece. Every piece of that came up in that motherfucker you was like Fuck! Shit! That shit smells so fucking good. What made you do that? That change. That change. That change. You didn't do anything. No. I didn't go for it. I didn't ask to work for it. I didn't ask to work for it. I didn't ask to work for it. I'm telling you. This eight boxes of dominoes right in the motherfucker's head. 20. I wanted 20 pieces every episode. I'm telling you. I didn't ask them to work for them. They were like seeking me out. They was asking around the city about me bro. That's how much swag I had. I had that much swag. They was asking everybody about me cause they kept seeing me around. I was riding too good and I was just living life and I was too happy. And they was like man we seen you come through here man we seen you ride back. We been trying to get you to work up here. I was like for real. That's how I ended up in my mind. I was like this is my city. I know every nook and cranny even where a nigga granny live. So then I started putting it together and I went up there and I talked to Mike and Mike was like shit you already hired you ain't got to do shit. I worked up there and then I did the paperwork later on I was already making money I was seeing what it was. I was like nigga I'm in that bitch. I'm in it. I made money the first night I was in it. You knew that was it. I love it. I love it. The shirt going straight in the washer. By itself. By itself. I got to do this again. I'm going to do it like this every time. I'm going to make more. She ain't did nothing. I'm just riding around looking at the whole two and the whole see me seeing them and they like business. You were driving. Come on bro. I'm in the whole college right here. Everybody home. Wait so is this during the time when they still had like the Pizza Hut sign on the car? Oh man I had the magnetic sand and everything on the bubble shimmy. I had the bugger shimmy. Cars that said Pizza Hut on it. Just a car would come to you. No it was a magnetic sand bro. We hit the light out shit up too. I'm outside. What the hell you talking about? What? Hey dumb little coming through. Police see it. Police see they got damn sad. Let them through. Park it anywhere. Shit. You got privileges when you got the food. You can pull up right to the door. You can. I got to get out. You want me to find a parking spot my boy? We need to move the car. Hell yeah. I had a ball doing that shit. People be seeing strange ass shit all the time. Like every delivery you go you see some strange ass shit. People be leaving little notes and requesting shit. Hey walk around the back and leave the pizza on the floor. Don't knock me. My dog's deaf. The doorbell gives a man time. Because he can feel it but he can't hear it. He can't hear it. He can't hear it. People be strangers hell man. Let me tell you. Let me get my dog beside it. This is crazy. See y'all had it good. Then you tell me you had a job and quit that job to go work another job. My shit didn't work like that. Then I tried to find a job. I always tried. I went to job.com. I did all this shit. All this shit was online. I don't feel like all the applications. I would have been every applicant. I just said maybe if I just get in the building I just need to get in the building. I don't do what the job is. I just need to get in. I really couldn't see you being a good employee though. Who? I was the best. Now you probably was the most fun to work with. You probably was the most fun to work with but I don't really see you doing a lot of shit. This is me. I would work hard but try to come up with a plan to not do it. Y'all don't like how you work. I get close. You ain't even gonna work me to death. Don't worry about it. Fuck you man. You want me to take over? I wouldn't love to. I'm not doing shit. That's the thing about it. I think people get jobs and do too much work. Sometimes you just gotta do your job. Like stay in your fucking lane. When people go to work and they start doing too much shit. You know what I'm saying? That's what you get fucked up at. Once they see that you can do this shit shithead you always gonna be shorthand. If you come to work and you doing too much and you the fucking cook and then you trying to take order too they gonna put your ass in there by yourself. Do your fucking job. They just fire me. I can see. They like oh little butter on the fry and take an order. This is your last day my boy. You got some hating ass jobs. It wasn't that I was trying to get to the boss. I was just trying to be great. Like you want me to stack cones but it's something I gotta do after I stack these cones. What is it? I'll tell you too when you come back. That ain't how it works. Give me my list so I can work. You got me to do it. Come back here. Do it. Come back here. You know my boy, if that's our 10th rare give me the our 10th rare sir. If I'm gonna be the employee and I gotta make the burgers don't be over my shoulder. Grab me. Hey brother. I worked at Burger King too. You did? You don't know how to tell. You gotta stop telling all the truth on them applications. How do I lie? I ain't gotta let us to say our state. I got one address. This is the number one thing people do especially like fast food people. High school age motherfuckers. The number one thing they say is like they ask for your availability. If you go in there and tell them motherfuckers you available every day they ain't gonna take you seriously. I am though. No you're not. This should say full time. It's like part time when you do it every day. To them they look like it's too good to be true. Now you gotta lie on one day at least on Thursday I can't be I'm not available from 3 to 5. Act like you got something else to do. I'm desperate as fuck on these applications. They can smell desperation. I thought they say answer to the most honest you can be. Why would I say I'm busy on Thursday and I can make money with them on Thursday? I'm not busy. You can negotiate that later on. They just seen a hard one. They might just interview you just to see why you ain't available Thursday. You can just come over there and say I build boats too. She ain't had it been tempted. I was working at this steakhouse where the shit was way down in the woods and we used to get to work like an hour early. They told you be here at 6 and then you get there at 6 and then everybody just getting hired so we can start working at 8. This is strange. They ain't never gave a fuck. They told me how to make a creme brulado. I don't want to talk about it. Because the shit I had to go through to learn it it ain't worth just telling motherfuckers for free. It's an experience. Man, meet me, my boy. You had a job, bro. I had some random... Can't make no creme brulado. No, I will rap. I'll put you up on go. Stop making my peanut butter jelly in front of you. I see what's going on. I see how you do it. I see what's going on. I see what's happening. What jobs you had? I'm thinking I had a job at this place called Kennicott Park in Chicago. It was like a radio. It's weird. It's a weird thing. It's hard to describe. It was like they was teaching us how to do radio. But we was never actually on the radio. It was like a weird... A radio voice. That's what they were supposed to be doing, but we weren't really doing that either. This sounded like a trap. So you were getting paid to learn how to be on the radio. But this is a joke. This was like a program at this place called Kennicott Park. It was like we were going to teach y'all how to do what was called Teen Talk Radio Theater. That's what just came back to me. That fight. It was like a thing where I used to go there for one summer, and I remember I was rapping in that bitch. That's really the main thing I remember was I was in that bitch and I was like, yeah, I'm rapping. I was rapping every Friday. Just in front of my co-workers, I guess. I don't know. And then co-workers are hype your ass up if you got some people that you work with that fuck with you. They'll be believing in your dreams like a momma. Bro, you gonna go do the rap shit? I ain't work for you. You don't work for it? Take your ass up there, bro. You got to be there. You have a nigga. One of them got a nigga out there. You got to be in the kitchen, bruh. The nigga in the kitchen are hearty mo' I was just telling my nigga about you, bro, that shit you spit all day. Yeah, man. Everything will be on your side. For real, for real. I ain't never had no jobs, so I ain't had no co-worker friends. Damn, DC. I ain't never had that type of support. That used to work with this old white man that just looked like Hulk Hogan. I used to work with this old white man that looked just like Hulk Hogan. What happened? I used to work with a white man that looked like Hulk Hogan. I've seen a lot of strange motherfuckers, but we had this one white dude work with us for the fucking longest, bruh. In the middle of the summer, he used to always wear like a long-sleeve shirt under his fucking domino shirt. And we were like, why the fuck you keep wearing these fucking undershirt? He said that motherfucking came to work. This nigga had all devil worshiping tattoos. Everybody was like, what the fuck crazy shit ever, man. This nigga had the devil tattooed on both of them. On both of them. Yeah, all types of crazy shit. They be like, man, you got to cover that shit up. I was like, I don't want to work with that motherfucker. They fired him. Hey, man, I don't even know if they fired him. He just stopped coming. I'ma got all the pull. I don't want to work with this nigga. They didn't even fight. Oh, it had this one girl. It was, you'll never believe it. The funniest, weirdest shape lady you ever see. Just a funny looking woman. Bruh, she had, she started working that delivering pizza, right? So she had got with this dude who was like, he was like sneaking and geeking on the meth. But he had got insecure. So he used to always like, he wanted to go on every delivery with her. So they had a meeting. Right, we had a crew meeting. And he was at the crew meeting. And they were like, yeah, you don't work here. You ain't supposed to be here. He went out and sat in the car. But that was the whole meeting was about that she was like dropping him off and picking him up on every delivery. Because he just didn't trust her by himself. By himself, it was just. That's what he said. Man, all right, brother. I don't like her going, you know, delivering a piece of the mean. He was really tripping over her, man. And it didn't get bad. Now, she did. They hired her back once they broke up, though. Oh, so they worked together? Oh, they was together? Like, yeah, it was her dude. And he was like, fuck that. He was like, fuck that. And then, like, the first time, like, she wasn't happy. She was pulling back up and he was just sitting in the car. He was supposed to be watching the little boy while she was at work. So, like, a couple of times, they ain't said shit. And then, like, it was every time. So they were like, you got to quit doing this shit. So, UberLuv, before you could have somebody with you, UberLuv, he was already doing this. He was in the car with her while she was on the delivery. One way dude got fired because he had his dog in the car. They told him, stop bringing his dog to work. And he was like, no, my dog's gonna work. My dog's gonna work. My dog'll go everywhere I go. And he's like, no, man. You can't do that shit. He was the craziest motherfucker ever. Like, you know, at the end of the day, they throw all the pieces away, right? He'll come to work early and just get all the pieces out the dumpster and eat it. For real. Him and the dog? Yeah, he was just eating it. And what part of men's stupidity was it? Bro, tell me. He's gonna get mad at me when I say it, when I say it. No, it didn't. He's got a damn story. My dog's like, rich is my dog, but nothing. You know, for real. We got to wrap this shit up, man. We can't talk about Domino's all night. You know, but ain't this shit a little bussing. I don't care. See, chance, man. What you got dropping next? You just dropped. I just dropped the highs and the lows. You just dropped. Don't get that. Don't get that highs and the lows. You know what I mean? Shout out to the artist. That's the piece right there. That piece right there. We opened it up at Art Basel. Now that's lit. Now Miami was Switzerland. And Switzerland. And Switzerland. Flex on these names. Say it again. You know what I'm saying? So that piece opened up at Art Basel, Switzerland. Come on. So I've been working with different artists. So this is a printout, obviously. Which I appreciate y'all making these joints. But these are real pieces that people either painted or that's a photographer from Gabon, West Africa. The one below is Niko Washington. That's a small version of a 12-foot painting by Nilo Pionga. But I've just been working with black artists from all over the globe. It's like one thing. It's like what you were saying. We all need each other's help. We all need each other just like doing random little cover art. I'm like having discussions with artists. I'm like working on tracks from the ground up and then doing the film part myself doing the music videos and shit. So definitely listen to the highs and the lows but also go watch, you know what I'm saying? Go see the highs and the lows. And the Stevie Wonder feature is coming. The Lauren Hill feature is coming. The Kendrick. Kendrick gonna do all seven of the tracks. Thanks. You got to put the albums on the list. Yeah. You're not excited, my boy. Yeah, they see you, Philly. I was just saying, it is just Stevie. No, but can I do something? You are the first... Hold up. Take your time. Take your time. Take your time. You are the first Grammy winner to have the album on the 85 South Shore Award. Come on, man. No cap. Go back. Look, man, we know this your first time in the trap. But don't let this be the last time. You know where we at now but we about to move and we gonna tell you where we going. No cap. What you got for him? Well, I got for him. These ain't booty shop. These are booty shop. But now, man, we appreciate you. Keep God first. You know what I'm saying? Forever be God's favorite. Keep leading. Even when you think people ain't watching, we watching, my brother. I think that's the thing people don't understand that. When you see people walking and talking, like just being in Africa and all that. Keep going, brother. Keep going. Because not only do you know that, you're uniting people and my boys want to get into that space. So keep talking. Keep doing what you got to do. Just stay working. Love y'all. Let's take a photo, man. Fix your shorts. Fucking joists. I ain't never ain't no fool got man a person to pay for. I knew you like this shit better. You just be careful.