 Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. You know, so me, I was born in Yonkers, New York, moved to Atlanta, and I was like four. Did your parents ever tell you why you moved to Atlanta, out of anywhere else, just why Atlanta? Yeah, we were, actually, you know, my dad started like, you know, he was hustling out there. And I think it was a shootout or something. Like, it was in a shootout or something. My brother's, it was like a, I don't really remember it like that. But it was in a shootout in the park or something that they found me like laid over my brother. You know what I mean? So that, from that day, they was just like, yo, it's time to pack up. I think, like, they told me they moved like the next day. So, boom, that happened. Shootout, we moved to Atlanta. And then from like, you know, five until I was probably like 21, I lived in Atlanta doing music, went to school in Atlanta, raised in Atlanta, elementary, junior high, you know, high school. So Atlanta's like where, if someone asks me where I'm from, it's like Atlanta's where I'm from. How old were you when you found the love for music? Oh man, love for music. The first song I ever learned was Before I Let Go by Frankie Bevely. That's the heavy right table. Yeah, Before I Let Go by Frankie Bevely and Maze, Whitney Houston, my mom, all those songs, those classic songs my mom used to play while she was cleaning up or something. That's how I grew up on music. So Frankie Bevely and Maze, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown. So she had the love for music, not your dad as much? My mom and my dad, like just really, none of them did mute. My dad writes though. I think I get my poetry from like my dad because my dad got over like 10,000 pounds, you know what I'm saying? So he was a writer for sure. I got my name from Zane Gray to the writer Zane Gray. Okay. Yeah, so I think names are important. Very important. My grandma named my dad after Zane Gray. I mean after Zane, you know, the writer. He ended up being a writer, you know, not a professional writer, but like if it's funerals or anything, they're like, yo, big Zane writes something. And he's big Zane. Like that's my, that's not my stage name. Like Lil Zane is really like, if you had, if you was, if you had, if you was your dad's name, Larry, you know what I mean? You Larry, you Larry Junior. So they call you Lil Larry. Yeah, I'm Lil E. Yeah, I'm Lil E. Yeah, they might think it's a, like no matter how your dad's still alive. I know he passed away, but I'm still, I'm still Lil E when it comes out of that. See, we can relate that. Yeah, no, no, but hold on. But you've told me when I tell him, I say, you still, you junior. He's like, no, I'm not junior no more. I'm senior now because he's passed away. I am senior, but I'm still like that. I feel like that. A lot of people say, well, you know what I'm saying? Lil Zane, why you change your name? Boom, boom. But I'm like, it ain't no stage name for me. Like in my house, you got to say, like, big Zane, Lil Zane, you got to say one of those because both of us have come down to stage name. That's it. That's it. And now I have a son named Zane. Hey. But he's the third? No, he's baby Z. So I change, he doesn't have the same exact, he's Zane Jeremiah Copeland. Okay. That's still dope. Yeah, I'm saying Rudolph Copeland. I got the fucked up. I wasn't trying to do that to him. You know what I'm saying? Did you ever get teased about that middle name? Did I? Oh my God. Every Christmas come around as well. But I hate it. I hate Christmas. Don't sing that shit. Rudolph the rare. Give me a fuck out of here with that shit. Yeah, well, that's crazy. So, you know, I changed my son's name up just so you have his own identity. So, but growing up, people always say, well, I ain't changed your name, whatever. It's like, I feel like it was like Big Zane is, till he passed, till if some Lord forbids him, I don't really feel comfortable saying, oh, Big Zane, no matter how much money I got, how much shit I did. It's like, you always Lil E. I'm always Lil E. And I respected him to the day that he died. And I respect my dad to the fullest. I don't play with that. Like, I never- And I don't play with it, yeah. No cursing, no none of that. I was respectful, man. I don't play like that. You're right, you're right. And he passed away, but still, I know that, you know, I did what I was supposed to do. I can sleep at night. You know what I mean? That's real, man. Like, and that's the funny you said that, because me and my pops ain't really seen it out of eye right now. Like, you know- I've went there with mine too for years, but it ain't too late. But yeah, but lately I've been reaching out and stuff like he just had a birthday on Thanksgiving. So I just been reaching out because like life is so short, man. It is. You know what I'm saying? It is. You don't want to get that call or, you know what I'm saying? You just like, damn, I shoulda. Yeah. Boom, boom, boom. And like you said, I got so much respect for him. It's like, how can you say you got so much respect for him? And still- I had to- Even when they wrong, dawg. They still right. I be feeling like my dawg wrong sometimes, but I be like, just because I have so much respect, it's like, damn, I gotta- Oh, you gotta do what's right. You know how dad is. Like, dad, they ain't gonna call us, bro. No. Because they got that- They pride. They got that pride, like, because they know they was there for him. That's right. They know that was there like- I broke my leg and my dad still didn't even come to the hospital. We hadn't spoken a year or something. And I was hurt behind that. My stepdad was in the hospital. I was like, dude, where'd my dad at? I was really pissed. But I knew we wasn't seeing our die when it had happened. But at the end of the day, he eventually came to see me. But they got this thing that you disrespected the god, Nick. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And especially when they know they've been there for us. Exactly. It's like they're gonna matter what I did, what I said. That's it. I was there fucking 20. How was you now, Nick? I'm still there. I was there when you was born. Wow. That's the part where you forget, because you can't remember that. Wow. But they was there. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.