 Yeah, you Jay-Z, but when I get in the room, I'm trying to take your head off now. It's like, we competitive with it. You know what I mean? DMX, rest in peace. Like when I met DMX, we battled for two hours in my room, for two hours. Cause I told him, I said, bro, I'm the next one. I don't know what you tell him about. You know what I'm saying? They kept telling me about DMX with Scott. It's like 96, 97, like, but I'm in my hood. I'm rapping, I'm number one in my hood. So my man Locke bring DMX to my neighborhood cause he had always been talking about, I'm like, yo, whenever you bring him around here, just let him know I'm gonna eat his face. You know what I'm saying? Rest in peace. You know what I'm saying? Get out of here, dog. Yeah, they just wanna fill us in. Get out of here. We on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah, we gon' talk. You know what I'm saying? That was my whole drive. Did the pop comparison, did it help your career or did it hurt your career? I think it helped me. You know what I'm saying? It's time to compare to the greatest. You know what I mean? You compare to the greatest. It helped you. When did Kobe not wanna get compared to George, dog? I get it, I get it. You know what I'm saying? When your idols become your rivals. You know what I'm saying? If pop was alive, we would be battling. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm the type of person. Yeah, I'm gonna give you your props. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you Jay-Z, but when I get in the room, I'm trying to take your head off now. It's like, we competitive with it. You know what I mean? DMX, rest in peace. Like, when I met DMX, we battled for two hours in my room for two hours. Cause I told him, I said, bro, I'm the next one. I don't know what you're talking about. You know what I'm saying? They kept telling me about DMX. So this guy's gonna, it's like 96, 97, like, but I'm in my hood, I'm rapping. I'm number one in my hood. So my man Locke bring DMX to my neighborhood cause he had always been talking about. I'm like, yo, whenever you bring him around here, just let him know I'm gonna eat his face. You know what I'm saying? Rest in peace to DMX. What was the outcome? He went down like that? We battled, we battled for two, we had battled for two hours in my room. And he was like, yo, you nice kid. You're nice, you know what I'm saying? Like, give me two years, you be ready. I said, two years. He crazy, nigga, I'm ready now, nigga. Fuck you, me two years, this 97, 99, that anywhere shit dropped. Oh, dang, that was your hit. He was right. He was right. He was right. He said, two years, you be ready. But imagine, I'm ready right now, what you mean? Like, I just rapped two hours with you back and forth. But he was just like, two years, you be ready. Rest in peace to DMX. That boy told the truth. He was right. Man, and that's, ain't this something? But people don't know that, man. But those are things that like, make me who I am. The fact that I know I battled DMX for, and I wouldn't say battled like, He's still a big homie, right? Like, yeah, I wouldn't say battled like, dissing each other. It was more like, you kick around, I kick around, you kick around, I kick around. All my neighborhood friends is there. They like, yo, like, I'm telling this story. That's empty. I'm telling this story and this 13 people that are still alive that can say, y'all is dead. Y'all ain't even recorded, man. Nobody had no phone back then. Nobody had nothing back then. I was only, I was only like, They had the big phone. Bro, I was like 16. I know, I know. I heard the year you said it was. Yeah, I'm 16. It's like, 97. Yeah, 96, 97. Ain't nobody had, you barely had all this stuff that everybody had. He only had Get At Me Dog out. He had one song out. You know what I mean? But he was bigger than life. And you knew he was gonna be the next one. But here I go, I'm like, man. So what in a little while, and all those guys, man, I know you dealt with them, come up around the same time. Same circles, man. So, I mean, you felt like, okay, when you see it, was it anybody? You was like, oh yeah, he doing, he making his run right now for to make my run. Or how did you, I'm talking about in the rap game. You know what I'm saying? You know what? I always, I always just liked the way that they did, you know what I'm saying? I just liked the fact that, you know what I'm saying? How he had that Jermaine shit. Yeah, that was dope. That was dope. You know what I'm saying? That's one thing I always knew and I respected about them. That's how they just kept that whole thing. You know what I'm saying? And with me it was never like that though, man. You just go for what you know. I'm a hater, bro. I'm so confident in what I do, bro. No, no, no, I get it. I just, you know, I just, you know, I would see them, congratulate them. You know what I'm saying? Maybe sometime I would seem standoffish because I'm so like a, I'm an introvert, bro. I'm like, I'm the coolest person who walked up to me, but I like my space. So I might not come up to you like, yo, yo, let's get in the studio, boom, boom. Cause niggas do that shit to me all the time too. I like it. I like it to naturally happen. So a lot of these artists have felt like before, I mean they probably thought I was standoffish because, you know, I'm just, I'm letting you have your space, nigga. You know what I'm saying? Like, but now it's like, I'm a little bit more different. Now I see it, nigga. I'm like, what's up, nigga? Skin the lap, nigga. Cause just so I know I said it. So I know I said it and it's like, nigga say, let's go right now. I'm like, let's go right now. But at least, you know, you said before, I'm like, damn, I never know if it was gonna be cool cause I didn't say nothing. Damn. So no, no, no one intimidates you. No one intimidates me. It's just more like, I'm so humble that I'm like, yo, I'm not going to bother him while he's eating. I'm not going to bother him while he's eating. I'm not going to bother him while he's, but now I'm just like, yo bro, what's good dog? You know what I'm saying? Now it's just, now this time around is just like, you know, not missing that opportunity and just, you know, and just knowing that, you know, clothes mouth don't get fed. True. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. One on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.