 When you went viral, you made this song, right? About the rappers, J-50 and White Weezy. If I grew up listening to all of y'all, from the black it's hard to get rich, to blueprint, how about it all? We on Boss Talk 101, 101. Here we gon' talk. Check it, man, it's Boss Talk 101, man. We in the building, man. We got a very special guest today. This guy here needs no introduction. This guy's from Lou's Anime, but this guy really, this guy different. I really, really, really am intrigued by this whole movement. D1 is in the building. I don't look like what I've been through, amen. When I ain't have outside money, I stay there. One of the coldest ones I seen to do it when it come to lyricism, man. If I grew up listening to all of y'all, from the black it's hard to get rich, to blueprint, how about it all? Yes, sir, thank you. It's going down. Thank you, baby. Thank you, I appreciate that for real. Man, thank you for coming on the show. A lot of times when you try to talk to people about God, they look for like the most extreme example of something to go against what you're trying to tell them. Oh man, God has a purpose for all of our lives. And their first thing they'll say will be, well, what about a baby that died when they three months old? And I love that response because that takes wisdom to know that God can indirectly bless people. He used babes. Yeah, even through a non-traditional way, even through death, and the relationship here different when you don't want anything from these people. At that time, bro, my whole life wasn't what it is now. So with the cash money situation, it was like, I get it. Yeah, bro, it was like, man, I, like I know, I'm trying to figure it out right now. By grace of God, I got to figure it out, my brother. That's it, no, I get it. We living good right now. I figured that. When I seen it, I was like, he was younger, but I just know that God got some special in you because of stuff like that. That's powerful, man. Like, many people are not gonna be able to reach to people me and you gonna talk to. That's what this is all about. And I've told you that, you know what I mean? Like, and when I get that opportunity, it's a opportunity for me to inject something in them. They'll never get, and it's not gonna be forced on them. There you go. It's just gonna be who I am. There you go. And that's the part right there. So for that, for that, what you have to be in the midst of a certain group of people, no matter who it is, it's gonna change things. Absolutely, sir. You know, so that's what I've been doing, man. It was hard to say no to it though, bro. Like one time Slim, I was sitting down meeting with Slim in his hotel room, and man, we was talking and I had a show that day, but when Slim called and told me he was in town and he wanted to meet with me, I was like, dang, I don't wanna miss out on this meeting with Slim, but I had this show I was supposed to go do. So man, that's the only time in my career I ever like last second backed out of doing a show to go meet with Slim. And I told him this when I met with him and he was like, how much you was gonna get paid at that show? And I told him, right? It was a few racks at the time. Man, he went in his pocket and just gave me that, bro. So when you around that type of money back then, keep in mind that back then where I was coming from making 39,000 a year as a teacher. And I'm just like, management just gave me like three Gs just like that. Like it's nothing, you know? I used to have to work about almost a whole month to make $3,000 as a teacher, you know? When I'm seeing that, it's hard to say no to that stuff, man. But hopefully people feel me on this. Sometimes you could be focused on planting seeds in life and letting God use you. God, I got all these seeds I want planted all around the world, but you gotta recognize that some of the soil that you're trying to plant those seeds on, some of that soil is infertile. So no matter how many seeds you plant on that soil is infertile. And it's like, are you gonna waste your life just trying to plant seeds where you wanna plant them at? Or you're gonna be like, man, God is like organically opening all these doors for me to reach all these people and plant all these seeds. And for me, that was, that's what I chose. And I think that's the best decision I could have made as a young brother coming up in hip hop is not to be selfish with my gift. Cause yeah, all my partners, man, that's cash money, man. What you mean we grow up looking up to them dudes? But that's the difference. We grew up idolizing them dudes, but idolizing somebody is actually a sin. Definitely. You know, that's going against the Ten Commandments. We grew up looking at these people as legends. Now that I'm older and wiser, I'm like, we gotta watch that word legend, bro. When we throw that word out there, it's like a legend of what? If you're a legend at poisoning our community and making negativity sound good because you lyrical and because you got a fire flow, I don't want to call that legendary anymore. When you went viral, you made this song, right? About the rappers J-50 and White Weezy. I grew up listening to all of y'all. From the blackest, how to get rich to blueprint, how about it all? Which is crazy to me. You know what I'm saying? Like what made you do it? And cause you said courage, like, you know, you had to be a confidence up. Some had to trigger in you to say, I'm going to make this song. Yeah. So I was a middle school teacher when I made that song. So at night I'd be hitting the studio when I was a rapper, but by day, and I'm in the trenches with six graders, eight graders. And as I'm teaching them, I'm seeing how influenced they are by rap music. And I'm seeing how miseducated they are being by rap music, you know what I mean? I'm seeing middle schoolers come in school with tattoos and they don't even know what the tattoos mean. Middle school, MOB, tatted on his arm. One of my students. I said, man, MOB, you know what that mean, bro? Money over, all member of the bloods. Right. It's one of the two. And he looked at me and he was like, no, sir. I said, no sir, what? I don't know what it mean. I said, well, why you got it? Because Lil Wayne got it tattooed on him. Wow. And that was his favorite rapper. It's moments like that. It's moments like one of my students who really I didn't get along with, man. All my students love me. They had this one dude. I just could not crack the code on how to get through to him. And dude actually wanted to fight me one day. You know what I mean? And I finally, man, I had to block the exit to my class. I let everybody else out of class. I say, it's just me and you in here, bro. I say, you're not leaving this class until we talk, bro. Like, I love you. I got nothing against you. Like, let me know what's up, man. You always got a boot in your lip. Like, you look like you ready to put hands on me. Like, what's going on? Stayed in that class for almost an hour with him. When it finally, you know, came down to it. I realized this brother had issues with submitting to male authority figures because his mom had some dude around him that, you know, I guess whoever she was dating at the time, that was trying to get him to sell dope. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, you want some new Jordans? You want that? Huh, go move this for me, you know what I mean? Like, and he going through this at home in terms of just like being conflicted. Like, eh, is this what the definition of real manhood is? And if it is, then cool. What I'm seeing from Mr. Augustine in the classroom, I ain't feeling this way. You know, I'm feeling this way because this dude putting money in my pocket and that like this just, this seemed like was cool. And I'm trying to deconstruct, you know, what he was like exposed to every day and telling him, yeah, dismantle his thinking. And that's tough. Cause cognitively, a middle schooler is sitting there like you going against what's feeding me right now. You know, going through that type of stuff, bro, and seeing that all the music that they'll recite, like that, I can't get you to learn your multiplication tables, but you know all the lyrics to Little Booth's song, like for real, that that's what led me to make that song, bro. So I was like, let me address three of the rappers in the game, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Lil Wayne, who I know they are smart, regardless of what they're rapping about, they're smart enough to know that they ain't living that life anymore. You know what I mean? And I'm like, if you're smart enough to know that you came from that life, but you had to all the way separate from it cause now you've elevated, I wish y'all were smart enough to know how much you impacted these kids. And now to tell them something different in your music, I have a problem with you not living that way anymore, but you still glorifying that lifestyle, you know? And that's what I saw in all of their music at the time. Keep in mind, this is back in like 2009, 2010, 2011. So that's why I did that song. And I always say it's not a, you know, in rap, when you say somebody's name, it's automatically implied like, oh, we beefing. You called me out by name. It just ain't no subtle, subliminal that you threw. I say, yep, I'ma call y'all out by name, but it's not a diss song. It's a real song and accountability does not have to be looked at as an attack.