 And 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 ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, that ain't nothing. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. Got that confirmed by Mac Man. Also got that confirmed by Birdman and Slim because they actually tried to sign me a little bit after that song came out. I remember, I heard something about that. I didn't agree with you on it, but. You thought I should have signed to them? I think so much bigger than certain people. You know what I mean? When I say certain people just, I think different, man. Like, I really feel like you special. God got you in a position for a reason. You know what I mean? And I don't think people understand the gist of the natural man versus the spiritual man. Just cause one may be older than you and seem to be wise and richer. They still not be in the spirit to ram. You're totally something different. So you're a big brother. You understand what I'm saying? So I felt like these are opportunities where somebody can get saved and helped because you're that powerful. So do you understand where I'm coming from? I totally understand. I tell it so. That's all I'm saying. Not in a bad way. I know you did it and God put you in different situations where you've been able to help a lot more people. But at the end of the day, I just think that a lot of times, it was a couple of situations where I researched and I was like, man, they need this guy. So here's the thing. Can you have a relationship without being in business with somebody is the question. Yes. And that's the part for me that I was just like, yo, I don't mind having a relationship, but in terms of having to be signed, like I'm not really feeling the idea of being signed because, truthfully, most of the people that got signed to them didn't blow up. Well, I can't go there with you. When you think about, you talking about Drake? Drake blew up. You talking about Nicki Minaj? She blew up. You talking about Juvenile didn't blow up? He blew up. But you see what I'm saying? I mean, it ain't really about for me blowing up because that's the physical of it. You know what I mean? I think far as the paperwork, that's something when you do sign up for something, you got to stand on what you signed up for. So I don't know the situation far as the paperwork, but spiritually, it's a different world for me. That's all I'm saying. You get it? So I get it what you're saying. I know physical opportunity is going to definitely be there, but spiritual is way more important than I think people don't give that it's just. Yeah, yeah. But like I said, you could have changed a whole, cash money might be something totally different because of the power when you, that's all I'm saying. So I'm going to say this too. One of the things I pride myself on is God has uniquely positioned me to be as bold as I am about being a man of God and having this message and my music and my whole mission vision movement is all about being real righteous and relevant. But at the same time, I got that authenticity that speaks to people who might currently be in a whole different headspace in their life. I'm going to show you this right quick. Like this is, this two days ago. You know what I mean? Oh yeah, for sure. You know? Yeah, that's all. That's all. And that's him reaching out to me. Send that to me. Yeah, I send it to you. That's him reaching out to me. Like, you know, I don't mind saying it in the interview. That's me and Kodak on FaceTime, Kodak Black. And when we talking on FaceTime for like 30-something minutes, just running it, you know what I mean? It ain't about no, it ain't even about no business. That's it. It's about some, it's about love. You see that smile, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm thankful, bro, that like- That's powerful. Yeah. And the relationship here different when you don't want anything from these people. That's true. 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. I try to figure it out, right? I'm trying to figure it out right now. By the grace of God, I gotta figure it out, my brother. That's 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 the 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, so the opportunity for me to inject something in them, they'll never get, and it's not gonna be forced on them. There you go. You who I am. There you go. And that's the part right there. So 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, and just, just gave me that, bro. So when you around that type of money back then, keep in mind the 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. I used to have to work about almost a whole month to make $3,000 as a teacher. 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 wanna plant 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. Because 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 10 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. Just because we grew up and it was mass marketed to us and people was like, man, these, these, these the people that's the spokesman for y'all city and all that, all right, cool. I could pull out the good from anything, but ultimately I'm not idolizing nobody and I'm not calling people legends at this point who when you really break down with their legend of, it's like, man, that contributed to more of what's wrong with my generation is that we grew up looking up to some of this. That's real. Like cash money, masterpiece, no limit. We've been campaigning to get them in the same room in the same setting. You know what I mean for us? Just to try to, try to, just to look. It doesn't, well, is it going to change? Is it just like Jeff Ford and me talking about Larry Hoover, Junior's dad, Larry, who ate breakfast together. Certain things just need to be done symbolically. I mean something could save one life and that's powerful. You see what I'm saying? So the thing is, I always look at these opportunities and these platforms and these ways that we're able to deal with these people. Not today, if D1 gets this opportunity to deal with cash money or to deal with whoever, it's a whole another mature level of who this guy D1 is. You see what I'm saying? So I get it, I understand it. And I know, but I just know you're a powerful, powerful brother when you come down to influence. Look who you got on the phone. I could see you with a NBA young boy the same way. I could see you with a, with a- Fred O'Bain. Fred O'Bain is my left student. I was his teacher. Okay, Fred O'Bain, you know what I mean? I hear things. I think, yeah, Fred O'Bain's locked up right now? No, no, no, no, no, no, Fred O'Bain locked up. He out of work. Fred O is out of Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge, no. I was talking about, who's the boy out of Little Rock, Oregon, South? Trap boy, Freddie? No, no, no, no, no, he out of it. What's his name? Bankroll Freddie. There you go. He locked up. Yeah, we on boss talk, one-on-one, one-on-one. Yeah, we gon' talk.