2 Chainz Gets Emotional About Father & Lies to Drake & Reveals Star-Studded Album — Transcript

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1. 0:00It feels so amazing right now because I
2. 0:03get to see you and it's been too long.
3. 0:05Two chains.
4. 0:06>> Wow.
5. 0:07>> My long lost friend.
6. 0:08>> That's right. And you know what? I'm a
7. 0:10little upset with you. I feel like
8. 0:11you've left us way too long.
9. 0:13>> That's That's cap.
10. 0:14>> Come on.
11. 0:15>> No. You know, you like you just I
12. 0:18now in today,
13. 0:22>> you know, atmosphere, I feel like I need
14. 0:24a reason to like
15. 0:26>> get out that
16. 0:27>> pop out sometimes. Like I just don't
17. 0:28need to just be coming up here like I
18. 0:30don't work up here. You know what I'm
19. 0:31saying? Oh my god.
20. 0:32>> But now that I have a project and I'm
21. 0:34promoting and
22. 0:36>> trying to bring awareness to some
23. 0:38things. I feel like I do need to
24. 0:39>> That's right.
25. 0:40>> to get back out here. We were just
26. 0:42talking about your evolution before you
27. 0:44came and I am proud of you and I love
28. 0:46this and like I feel like we've all
29. 0:47grown with you and you are
30. 0:49>> you know even with your new album
31. 0:51Players Only Live Once I feel like you
32. 0:53hear the maturity the evolution and I
33. 0:56would hope that would happen
34. 0:58>> after all these years. Can you imagine
35. 1:00if you were still like stuck back then?
36. 1:03Which, hey, no shade to anyone who might
37. 1:05be in that phase. But it's nice to see
38. 1:08that cuz it feels like we get to grow
39. 1:10with you.
40. 1:11>> Yeah. I I believe in prosperity and
41. 1:15turning the page and this project
42. 1:19embodies
43. 1:20>> a lot of growth and evolution.
44. 1:23Um, it talks about the journey. It still
45. 1:25has this
46. 1:26um boisterous moments that that rap,
47. 1:29>> right?
48. 1:30>> You know, lives lives on and lives by.
49. 1:32But but the most part, man, I have
50. 1:36>> great great production by Static
51. 1:37Selector who did the whole project. I
52. 1:40went out to the West Coast and sat down
53. 1:42with 1500 or nothing with like Rance and
54. 1:45Mars and had them play some live
55. 1:46instruments on top of that.
56. 1:48>> So musically and sonically wise, it's
57. 1:51just eargasm, you know. Mhm.
58. 1:53>> And then on a lyrical aspect, this is
59. 1:55like me and some of the features that I
60. 1:57put on some of these records is just
61. 2:00>> it's just high levels is expensive taste
62. 2:03to say the least.
63. 2:04>> I mean, makes sense. Absolutely. High
64. 2:07taste. Speaking of your team has been
65. 2:10very, you know, extra protective over
66. 2:14the details about your album. How many
67. 2:17songs will be on the album? Because it
68. 2:19doesn't come out until December 4th. So,
69. 2:21we're getting ready for the holidays.
70. 2:22December 4th, we're going to get this
71. 2:24new Two Chains project. But
72. 2:27>> how many songs are going to be on the
73. 2:28album?
74. 2:29>> It's 18 songs.
75. 2:31>> 18.
76. 2:31>> That's a lot.
77. 2:32>> 18 songs. I have features from Mary J.
78. 2:37Bl.
79. 2:38>> Ti.
80. 2:40>> I have a song with Macy Graham, Westside
81. 2:42Gun. That's one of my favorites. I have
82. 2:45a song with Ron Eley and the Dream.
83. 2:49I have a song with Big Sean.
84. 2:51>> Okay.
85. 2:51>> So, I got I got some heavy hitters on
86. 2:53there and it's all like in the right
87. 2:54place. It's not,
88. 2:56>> you know, it may sound like it's
89. 2:58oversaturated, but these voices or
90. 3:00instruments that I feel are in the right
91. 3:02slots.
92. 3:03>> Is it completely done? The album at this
93. 3:04point?
94. 3:05>> Yeah, it's turned in.
95. 3:06>> Oh, it's done.
96. 3:07>> Yeah, it's in the clouds. [sighs]
97. 3:10>> How do you feel now? Listen, I mean
98. 3:12obviously we know your success, your the
99. 3:14career is, you know,
100. 3:17>> what a blessing.
101. 3:18>> Yes.
102. 3:18>> Right.
103. 3:19>> Yes.
104. 3:19>> But do you still get excited for these
105. 3:21moments? I do.
106. 3:22>> Do you? I do.
107. 3:23>> Okay. Yeah.
108. 3:24>> I just had to perform some of the
109. 3:26records for what platform I do? Vivo
110. 3:30this morning.
111. 3:31>> Uhhuh. [snorts]
112. 3:32>> And I just when I got through per I
113. 3:34performed a record called Highlight Real
114. 3:36that's on my project and I performed a
115. 3:37song called Kenmore. And when I got
116. 3:41When I finished performing highlight
117. 3:43reel, I I legit wanted to just run down
118. 3:45the street.
119. 3:46>> Oh my, that makes me so happy.
120. 3:49>> I was that excited. I was geeked. I was
121. 3:51that my adrenaline was like, I'm like,
122. 3:54[laughter]
123. 3:55you know, [snorts]
124. 3:56>> you know what? I love that you still
125. 3:58love this. You love the game. You love
126. 4:01making music. Was there ever a time in
127. 4:04your extremely successful career that
128. 4:06you wanted to walk away from making
129. 4:08music?
130. 4:08>> Never. really
131. 4:10>> no I have really good ideas still and I
132. 4:12feel like ideas is one of the highest
133. 4:15forms of currency
134. 4:17>> and so it's like I won't be brain dead I
135. 4:20guess if you got brain dead I had no
136. 4:21inspo no selfm motivation I can see you
137. 4:23like want to take the that road
138. 4:26>> but for me it's not I've been in New
139. 4:28York I don't know how many days it's two
140. 4:30or three days but as long as I've been
141. 4:32in New York I got more songs than that
142. 4:34because I've been in the studio
143. 4:35recording since I've been here too so I
144. 4:37probably got four or five songs to go
145. 4:38along with me being here. So I ain't
146. 4:40just up here wasting my precious time
147. 4:43and oxygen.
148. 4:44>> Yeah. Well, I was going to say, what
149. 4:45inspires you to still make music?
150. 4:47>> I'm my ideas.
151. 4:48>> Just your idea
152. 4:50are currency. If you look at it like
153. 4:52that, then you just like be rich with
154. 4:53all this like stuff that's that you just
155. 4:56got to get out and bring to fruition. So
156. 4:58whether that be a lyric or a song or
157. 5:02whatever it may be, a product, whatever
158. 5:05it may be, that's what is my motivation.
159. 5:07I just got these like light bulbs and be
160. 5:10like, "Damn, that [ __ ] fresh."
161. 5:11>> What was the last light bulb that you
162. 5:13got and it turned into something crazy?
163. 5:18>> I mean, other than everything, but like
164. 5:20something something that you're just
165. 5:21like, man, I didn't think it was going
166. 5:23to like turn into it cuz it was like
167. 5:25such an out there idea,
168. 5:27>> but it really did turn. They I just I I
169. 5:29mean I can't think that some of the
170. 5:30ideas haven't been brought to fruition
171. 5:32yet. So I don't want to let the cat out
172. 5:33the bag. But for the most part
173. 5:35>> most of the stuff that you that you see
174. 5:38like most of the stuff you see even like
175. 5:39if I think about like cuz I um I was
176. 5:42just with somebody else and they was
177. 5:43talking about pretty girls like trap
178. 5:44music. Like that whole thing there was
179. 5:46like an idea I had in my head
180. 5:48>> with the pretty girls wanting like how
181. 5:51how the prettier girls would want like
182. 5:53the opposite that they kind of want a
183. 5:54hustle a street a street person and then
184. 5:57you know having it pink
185. 5:59>> and having a house all that was my
186. 6:01everyone all that was my idea. So I but
187. 6:03I I I saw it in my head before you guys
188. 6:06saw it.
189. 6:07>> Sure.
190. 6:07>> And so
191. 6:09>> that's just an example that I feel like
192. 6:10people can gravitate they already know
193. 6:13what I'm talking about as far as that
194. 6:14project. So that's that could be one in
195. 6:17what what I explained like ideas being
196. 6:19currency. I think that was a good idea
197. 6:21concept conceptually with the title and
198. 6:24then if you nail it I don't always nail
199. 6:25it right. I don't always nail it. I can
200. 6:27tell you that.
201. 6:28>> But we learn from those moments.
202. 6:29>> Yeah. But when you do nail it and
203. 6:31everything else just the success kind of
204. 6:33follows a little bit easier in my
205. 6:35personal perspective.
206. 6:37>> Speaking of static, you know this
207. 6:39connection happened. He's originally
208. 6:41from Boston. I know he's been in New
209. 6:42York for a very long time. You're from
210. 6:44Atlanta. Whose idea was it to work
211. 6:46together and why was that important for
212. 6:49you?
213. 6:49>> It was my idea. We've been working on
214. 6:51this project for a long time. We have a
215. 6:53great rapport. We were doing a song here
216. 6:55song that just really stacking up the
217. 6:58samples
218. 7:00>> to one day have to go through this
219. 7:01sample clearance process. And if you
220. 7:03know, you know.
221. 7:04>> Like a nightmare.
222. 7:04>> If you know, you know.
223. 7:06>> But you know, ultimately, I put out a
224. 7:08project. Um, my last project I put out
225. 7:11was called Life is Beautiful with
226. 7:12Alchemist and Larry June. And you know,
227. 7:15I received a lot of rave reviews on
228. 7:18that, but I was already confident
229. 7:20>> in the output that I put on the project.
230. 7:23>> And I from that idea, I said, I want to
231. 7:26do a project, just one producer.
232. 7:29>> Now, that could be with anybody because
233. 7:31I'm from Atlanta. We got
234. 7:33>> Oh, yeah.
235. 7:33>> the best producers in the world in
236. 7:34Atlanta.
237. 7:36>> But I just want to do something
238. 7:36different for me and my fan base. And
239. 7:38you know, I feel like this is some of
240. 7:41what the game has been missing.
241. 7:44>> And do you what do you think people are
242. 7:45going to take away after they listen to
243. 7:47your album? Or what are you hoping they
244. 7:49will take away?
245. 7:50>> Well, I hope they take take away a sense
246. 7:52of um
247. 7:55a sense of like self, you know what I'm
248. 7:58saying? a reflection to be able to be
249. 8:00like, yo, this change 10th album,
250. 8:02>> you know,
251. 8:04>> and just about
252. 8:07extending your own personal
253. 8:10expectations.
254. 8:11>> That's what this project is. It just
255. 8:13highlights,
256. 8:15>> you know what I'm saying? Me as the man
257. 8:17I am now, far as a family man,
258. 8:19businessman, you know, we going to talk
259. 8:21about the struggles, but we going to
260. 8:23highlight some of those celebrations and
261. 8:25some of those wins as well. So, the
262. 8:27project embodies all of those emotions.
263. 8:30>> The title, Players Only Live Once. Why
264. 8:33this title? What does it mean for you?
265. 8:35>> Well, like coming from Atlanta, you
266. 8:37know, during the late 90s and 90s
267. 8:38period, we were all rocking polo. And
268. 8:40then the acronym for polo was Players
269. 8:42Only Live Once. [laughter] And so, the
270. 8:45title was nostalgic and something that I
271. 8:47felt like I can add to this landscape,
272. 8:49this piece of art that I'm doing, it has
273. 8:50a lot of nostalgic like sounds and
274. 8:53samples in it. And so,
275. 8:56um, the details is in the art piece, not
276. 8:58so much the title. So, once you get the
277. 9:01music, you'll be able to, I think,
278. 9:04attach a lot of what you hear to the
279. 9:06title, if that makes sense.
280. 9:07>> Oh, absolutely. The song, A Week in
281. 9:09Paris, I'm assuming, is based off of a
282. 9:12real experience of you in Paris for a
283. 9:15week.
284. 9:15>> Yes. Yes. It drops tonight. You should
285. 9:18have it now, though. Now,
286. 9:19>> I mean, they've been real. They've been
287. 9:21real.
288. 9:21>> I think you should have it now. Now, we
289. 9:23only got Pops. Well, that's cuz
290. 9:25>> she looking like I ain't got it. I need
291. 9:27you to tell whoever is out there.
292. 9:28>> Tell whoever it is
293. 9:29>> that y'all need the record. Like,
294. 9:31>> I want to hear it. And so, we were like,
295. 9:33"Can we please hear it?" But I get it
296. 9:35cuz you know what? Leaky music.
297. 9:37>> No, I don't. No, we No, we're not doing
298. 9:39that. [laughter]
299. 9:41>> It's me.
300. 9:42>> Yeah, we're not doing Yeah. Yeah. This
301. 9:44is not that. I'm not like this, you
302. 9:45know? I'm me, y'all.
303. 9:47>> Let's see if we can get it, though, cuz
304. 9:48I do want y'all to hear it.
305. 9:49>> I want I not just hear it. I want you to
306. 9:51to play it. Yeah. A week in Paris. What
307. 9:54is this song? Why? And like what
308. 9:56happened in Paris that made you
309. 9:58>> I was at fashion week and and I was
310. 10:00having it on every day and enjoying
311. 10:02myself and hanging out and going to
312. 10:03different
313. 10:04>> cafes and eating different.
314. 10:06>> Oh, did you
315. 10:08>> trying to find different food to eat?
316. 10:09Cuz that's the thing when you go out the
317. 10:10country, you're trying to find something
318. 10:12that your stomach would agree with,
319. 10:14>> right? [laughter]
320. 10:16>> And sometime it take two or three days
321. 10:17for that. So
322. 10:20>> it gets rough sometimes. just going to
323. 10:22eat this hotel food. You be eating
324. 10:23breakfast all day like 6:00. Y' ain't
325. 10:25got no eggs. [laughter]
326. 10:26No. Like, damn. Chicken fingers and some
327. 10:29stuff you just can't mess up. Fries.
328. 10:31>> Fries is
329. 10:32>> French toast.
330. 10:33>> Fries the goto.
331. 10:35>> Fries. You some some some some countries
332. 10:38you just can't mess this up. You just
333. 10:40>> even when it comes to water, like
334. 10:41bottled water, it's like it's, you know,
335. 10:43I mean,
336. 10:43>> no, no, no. It is. You have to people
337. 10:46people people who haven't traveled
338. 10:48outside the country. It's a true
339. 10:49challenge because I've seen people like,
340. 10:50"Oh, there's a KFC."
341. 10:52>> Well,
342. 10:53>> or McDonald's. And it's just like it's
343. 10:55not the same.
344. 10:56>> You know, their taste buds don't
345. 10:58actually
346. 10:59>> Yes.
347. 10:59>> know how to like they don't know how to
348. 11:01relate to that overseas. You know what
349. 11:03I'm saying? So,
350. 11:04>> and your stomach may have a little bit
351. 11:05of a challenge.
352. 11:06>> Yeah, man.
353. 11:07>> Wait. For in your career, do you
354. 11:09remember the first like trip you took
355. 11:11out of the country? Like your very first
356. 11:14trip, was it on a I'm assuming maybe
357. 11:17tour or invited somewhere?
358. 11:19>> Oh man. Many years ago.
359. 11:23Oh my god. I remember I I remember a
360. 11:27I remember a trip I went on many Let me
361. 11:30see.
362. 11:32>> And it was lifechanging. You're like,
363. 11:33"Wow,
364. 11:35I love it. I love traveling."
365. 11:38you know, going [sighs and gasps] I've
366. 11:40been going in Paris, you know, is one of
367. 11:43the places going going to Africa, you
368. 11:45know, London, some of those places,
369. 11:47>> you know, I'm not even sure right now at
370. 11:49this point which one I went to first,
371. 11:51but just knowing that you're in another
372. 11:53time zone,
373. 11:55>> another country around
374. 11:58>> people who are raised raised totally
375. 12:02differently from the way that you were
376. 12:04raised is always like it's always like a
377. 12:06thing for me. is always something that I
378. 12:08try to it's hard like hard for me to
379. 12:10wrap my head around some of those
380. 12:11concepts. You know what I'm saying?
381. 12:13>> And then you'll see somebody you be like
382. 12:15and they'll look just like you. You know
383. 12:17what I mean? But they just
384. 12:19>> different world.
385. 12:20>> Yeah. Be from a different [snorts]
386. 12:21world.
387. 12:22>> And then does it surprise you when
388. 12:23they're singing along and they're
389. 12:25rapping along?
390. 12:25>> It used to. But I get that that music is
391. 12:27a universal language. So I get it. Yeah.
392. 12:29You don't have to like I get it. And
393. 12:30it's the same thing with with us like a
394. 12:32lot of people like with Afro beats or
395. 12:35whatever. there certain songs that
396. 12:36pierce us that we're able to when the
397. 12:39artists come over here and they're like,
398. 12:40"Damn, these people are singing my stuff
399. 12:42word for word." So, I think it it it
400. 12:44goes both ends.
401. 12:45>> Absolutely. That that's the power of
402. 12:46music and really I was going to go to
403. 12:50this part, you know, the power of music
404. 12:52and what it can like bring out of us
405. 12:53like especially when I'm listening to
406. 12:54your song Pops.
407. 12:57>> Yeah, that's a deep one.
408. 12:59>> That's why I put the song last. I
409. 13:00couldn't put it before any other song
410. 13:02because it just like I I I was when I
411. 13:04was doing the
412. 13:06>> [sighs]
413. 13:06>> I was trying to put this thing in
414. 13:10in sequence. It was just like I could
415. 13:12not put a song after the pops cuz it's
416. 13:15like
417. 13:16>> [ __ ] wiping their tears and
418. 13:18stuff. Like I have real friends cry when
419. 13:20I play that record. So
420. 13:21>> she did earlier today.
421. 13:22>> Yeah.
422. 13:23>> And then I was like don't make I can't
423. 13:24do this cuz I got all this makeup and
424. 13:26fake lashes on right now. I was like 2
425. 13:28we can't do this. But that's my
426. 13:30emotional that's my most emotional and
427. 13:32one of my
428. 13:33>> it was this I explained that record as
429. 13:35my one of my most easiest
430. 13:38>> yet hardest records to write in my whole
431. 13:42life.
432. 13:43>> Did you cry making it?
433. 13:46>> No.
434. 13:47>> Really?
435. 13:49>> But listen to it. I get certain like
436. 13:50chill bumps and feelings and stuff like
437. 13:52that. I probably hadn't listened to it
438. 13:53over 10 times. It's been and it's been
439. 13:55recorded. It's like I got I just it's
440. 13:58like
441. 14:00I don't know. I just closed it up,
442. 14:02>> put a lock on.
443. 14:03>> It's so emotional. Obviously, it's about
444. 14:05your father who's no longer here. Rest,
445. 14:08you know, his soul
446. 14:09>> and just hearing you talk about your
447. 14:11relationship with him, what you learn
448. 14:12from him. And of course, like it's
449. 14:14complex as most relationships are.
450. 14:17>> We don't go through it or have to go
451. 14:18through it or will go through it.
452. 14:22Now after it and just where you're at
453. 14:25today, do you have a different
454. 14:27appreciation for your father that maybe
455. 14:29you didn't really appreciate when he was
456. 14:32here?
457. 14:32>> No, actually I'm I'm very jealous of
458. 14:34people who have their fathers.
459. 14:36>> Yeah. If I see people like especially
460. 14:38like men,
461. 14:40>> not women, but if I see men men like
462. 14:42like my a if they around my age do what
463. 14:46I do
464. 14:47>> and they bring their father around,
465. 14:50>> I'd be like, damn, man. [clears throat]
466. 14:52Y'all look like y'all having fun. Y'all
467. 14:54like Cuz I I would definitely be like
468. 14:55that with my father. So I know like I
469. 14:59saw a lot of a lot of artists have been
470. 15:00around me or been to my establishments
471. 15:03and and and brought their father and I
472. 15:06be like damn because I own a strip club.
473. 15:08I would I
474. 15:09>> that's one of the things I would like to
475. 15:10do with my pops is
476. 15:13we went to the strip club when he was
477. 15:14here but like it wasn't mine. But God
478. 15:17God doesn't make mistakes cuz if this
479. 15:19was mine and this man would be alive
480. 15:20ain't no telling what the hell he he
481. 15:22would [laughter] have me what kind of
482. 15:23trouble I would be in. So now that I'm
483. 15:25thinking about that, but just for the
484. 15:26most part, man, you just be wishing
485. 15:30cuz you know, I became my dad was on
486. 15:33this little oxygen breathing thing. I
487. 15:37played my first album for him when he
488. 15:39was on this little breathing [ __ ] I was
489. 15:40like, I just put it on this um
490. 15:44put these headphones on on him. It was
491. 15:46actually it was actually one of my
492. 15:49friends idea. He was like, "Man, you
493. 15:50ought to just play the album for him." M
494. 15:52>> it was actually Chris idea
495. 15:55>> and then I did and I don't you know I
496. 15:59don't know if you heard or not and then
497. 16:00you know but that was like that was my
498. 16:02first album I'm on album 10 or how much
499. 16:04you done missed you dig what I'm saying
500. 16:07>> I can't even tell you what first country
501. 16:09I went I'm on my third passport I'm
502. 16:11sitting up here trying to think was it
503. 16:12Africa was I don't know what you know
504. 16:14just had just a crazy run
505. 16:17>> you know I mean I know he's with me
506. 16:19spiritually but like just like being
507. 16:21right here would be be be cool.
508. 16:24>> In your memoir, I know you you talked
509. 16:26about how your father was your best
510. 16:27friend and you know again like the it's
511. 16:30complex like all of us, but what do you
512. 16:32understand about your father now that
513. 16:34maybe you didn't understand when he was
514. 16:35here?
515. 16:39>> Had a couple bad breaks
516. 16:41>> and been able to learn from those
517. 16:44mistakes. I've been able to learn from
518. 16:45that like how life can just
519. 16:50it can it can just go for a turn. You
520. 16:52know what I mean? Life is just
521. 16:56life is life is life is super duper
522. 16:58precious. So you can
523. 17:00the unexpected can happen and it can
524. 17:02change your whole you know life man. And
525. 17:05I mean it can be less than you know less
526. 17:08than a minute. Think about 60 seconds
527. 17:10changing
528. 17:11your whole entire life, you know?
529. 17:15>> So, I'm someone that's conscious of
530. 17:16that. I try to think twice before I make
531. 17:18one decision. But me, too, man. The the
532. 17:21human side of me, I done dropped the
533. 17:22ball a couple times. I made some
534. 17:24mistakes.
535. 17:25I pray they don't hunt me.
536. 17:28>> You know what I'm saying? I pray like
537. 17:29that. But I'm I am conscious of
538. 17:3260 seconds changing your whole life. I
539. 17:34am conscious of that.
540. 17:36What would you say has been your biggest
541. 17:39mistake in all of your businesses?
542. 17:40Because you're a businessman. Yes, we
543. 17:42know your music and all these things,
544. 17:43but I mean, you have a laundry list of
545. 17:46businesses.
546. 17:46>> Biggest mistake in business is trusting
547. 17:48people, period. That's just it. You
548. 17:50trust people. It's going to bite your
549. 17:52ass. Trust people just be
550. 17:54>> weird.
551. 17:55>> People be [ __ ] up, man. You know, and
552. 17:57it's just like Yeah. It's just like, you
553. 17:59know, and that's what it is. It be it's
554. 18:01trust, man. You know, it's really trust
555. 18:04cuz
556. 18:06I'm not in a position to say like I
557. 18:07wouldn't do this if I was in certain
558. 18:08people position, but like just taking
559. 18:11advantage of people is like it's at an
560. 18:13alltime high right now.
561. 18:14>> Oh, absolutely. I was going to ask you
562. 18:17has that happened to you and like what
563. 18:20was the loss looking like? I'm assuming
564. 18:22they took money.
565. 18:22>> Yeah, I've lost millions.
566. 18:23>> Millions?
567. 18:24>> Yeah, I lost millions. Yeah, I've lost
568. 18:27millions. I've lost millions.
569. 18:28>> Hurts right now.
570. 18:29>> I've lost millions. I invested in um
571. 18:32Pineapple Express is a dispensary in
572. 18:35California. I would like to always bring
573. 18:37attention to their scam and sh
574. 18:40>> But it all goes in trust. That's all
575. 18:42like the same theme of trusting and like
576. 18:45if you make like let's say a mistake
577. 18:47like that because you are very
578. 18:48successful when it comes to investing
579. 18:50like right.
580. 18:51>> Yeah. I've had some wins, but I like to
581. 18:53let let people know I have some cuz
582. 18:55sometime I think you know especially in
583. 18:56interviews and period it's like IG you
584. 18:58be like showing the highlights. So I
585. 19:01think it's my it's really my duty too to
586. 19:03let people know I've taken losses too.
587. 19:05Like of course you can see some of the
588. 19:06wins and some of the
589. 19:07>> the runs I've had with Esco and even
590. 19:10with Candyland even with the pizza spot
591. 19:12some of these like ESCO has been open
592. 19:13for 10 years. It was once upon a time
593. 19:15where the passive income that that was
594. 19:17kicking out was was taking care of my
595. 19:21lifestyle in a whole another state,
596. 19:23[gasps]
597. 19:23>> you know. So, it was just like certain
598. 19:25things that I've been a part of been
599. 19:26some super duper great runs and still
600. 19:28still is. But I have had those things
601. 19:31where you meet somebody and they say the
602. 19:33right thing or
603. 19:35>> you know put on a suit. You know, you
604. 19:36got to watch them [ __ ] in suits.
605. 19:38That'd be the cap.
606. 19:39>> They're the ones.
607. 19:40>> [ __ ] put a suit on.
608. 19:41>> That's it. Don't trust them. They say
609. 19:43you anything, boy.
610. 19:45>> Immediately, don't try.
611. 19:46>> Put a suit on, boy. [laughter] I got
612. 19:48this one story before I get out of here.
613. 19:50Get out of here, man.
614. 19:52>> My homeboy, he know who he is, right? He
615. 19:54used to be like, he's doing good. He
616. 19:56used to like be a driver. Then he
617. 19:58started running his own fleet. That's
618. 20:00how he'll know exactly what I'm talking
619. 20:01about. [laughter] And we had, it's a
620. 20:04Super Bowl in LA. You know what I'm
621. 20:05saying? Me, him, and my security. You
622. 20:07know what I'm saying? And man, the man
623. 20:09had on a suit, had the fresh had the
624. 20:12fresh ball head. You know what I'm
625. 20:13saying?
626. 20:15Do you know this man snuck in the Super
627. 20:20Bowl?
628. 20:21That's when I knew the suit cap was the
629. 20:24highest for this man walked in with me
630. 20:28[laughter] without a ticket
631. 20:30>> like he belong. He I got him. I'm going
632. 20:32to make sure he get to he he capped his
633. 20:35way all the way. And when the first
634. 20:37quarter was over, dog, this is no cap,
635. 20:40Nessa, the man like eight rows in front
636. 20:43of me. I almost want to tell ON THE MAN.
637. 20:45[laughter] I'M LIKE, HELL NO. WHAT YOU
638. 20:47DOING DOWN THERE?
639. 20:48>> OH MY.
640. 20:49>> HE DOWN HIM. He look at me like, boy,
641. 20:50I'm in this [ __ ] [laughter] So, if you
642. 20:53don't learn nothing from this show,
643. 20:54learn that players only live once. It's
644. 20:56something that you need to have.
645. 20:58>> That's right.
646. 20:58>> And two, watch the suits.
647. 21:00>> And watch the suits.
648. 21:01>> Watch the suits, [laughter] man. Watch
649. 21:03the suits.
650. 21:04>> Okay, really quick. when we think about
651. 21:06your incredible like look of course the
652. 21:08legacy the incredible journey but I want
653. 21:10to talk about that 2011 through 2013 run
654. 21:13cuz I felt like it was just two chains
655. 21:15on repeat all day every day on every
656. 21:17single radio station it was all on
657. 21:19rotation right spend it mercy bees in a
658. 21:22trap no lie birthday song I'm different
659. 21:25problems I those are just some out of
660. 21:28all of those songs that I listed what
661. 21:31would you say is your favorite studio
662. 21:33session
663. 21:35When Be's in a trap, she needed it back
664. 21:37like
665. 21:39>> ASAP. But I I had a studio on my tour
666. 21:42bus, so I was like, "All right, when I
667. 21:43get done with this show, I'm going to do
668. 21:44that." No lie. That was interesting. I
669. 21:47told Drake that I had a song for him,
670. 21:50>> but I didn't. But I I had literally
671. 21:53seen, I got something for you. Like send
672. 21:55it to him like, "Oh,
673. 21:57all right. Bet." I'm like, "Okay, got
674. 22:00you." I go, I run straight to the bus.
675. 22:02Oh, we got to come up with something
676. 22:03right now. We And [laughter] I came up
677. 22:05with it.
678. 22:06>> I smoking on that gas. I did. Yeah. So,
679. 22:09yeah, I had I have some pretty cool
680. 22:12studio experiences being in the studio
681. 22:14while for real May Fez is watching. I
682. 22:16enjoyed
683. 22:18>> that. You know, anytime I'm working with
684. 22:20like Yay. It's It's a great experience.
685. 22:23>> Wayne is one of my favorite artists to
686. 22:26work with
687. 22:27>> ever of all time. Like for you. What
688. 22:30what is it with the chemistry? Like what
689. 22:32is
690. 22:33>> you know from your experience? How would
691. 22:35you describe you know that
692. 22:39>> experience something that we don't know
693. 22:41about Wayne? You know what I mean? Cuz
694. 22:43like he seems like this it's Wayne
695. 22:46>> and we only know what we know. But for
696. 22:48you there's a chemistry. What is it
697. 22:50about him that makes it so special
698. 22:53and something we don't know? man, we've
699. 22:55known each other, you know, 20 years.
700. 22:57Just understanding each other as um
701. 22:59human beings first before before artist,
702. 23:02you know,
703. 23:03>> um he's my real friend, like real
704. 23:05brother, you know, so he my best man in
705. 23:07my wedding, you know, he don't even do
706. 23:08stuff like that, you know.
707. 23:10and I'll do anything for him and just
708. 23:13what he has done for me and not even
709. 23:15hinted at or noticed or maybe even
710. 23:19care which is like have changed the
711. 23:21trajectory of like
712. 23:23my family and quality of like life
713. 23:26around you know what I mean?
714. 23:27>> Wow.
715. 23:27>> With the stuff that we've done. Yeah. So
716. 23:30I just always be appreciative of him and
717. 23:32always kind of
718. 23:34>> give him the high praise I feel like he
719. 23:36deserve. But he's like a friend of mine.
720. 23:37So I do understand what people be like
721. 23:39cuz it's a lot you people don't see or
722. 23:42don't know about him or whatever. But
723. 23:44>> that's not my place to discuss. It's
724. 23:46just my place to express,
725. 23:48you know, um just, you know, how much I
726. 23:52appreciate just my love and admiration
727. 23:54for the for the guy. Mhm. And you know,
728. 23:57it's I'm always so curious because
729. 24:00the chemistry obviously there, but
730. 24:02hearing that you guys are real friends,
731. 24:03it all makes sense and we get to see it
732. 24:05and we get to enjoy what comes out of
733. 24:07it. But that's a it's a beautiful thing,
734. 24:09especially in this industry. We know
735. 24:11>> we know there's a lot of suit energy.
736. 24:13I'll say
737. 24:15>> there's a lot of suit energy.
738. 24:16>> You're right. That's [laughter] you're
739. 24:17right.
740. 24:17>> That's a lot. When you when you look
741. 24:19back at your entire career and just your
742. 24:21journey, what do you hope people
743. 24:23understand about you that they, you
744. 24:25know, wouldn't necessarily understand
745. 24:27from a song or your entire catalog?
746. 24:30>> What they don't understand about me?
747. 24:31>> Yeah.
748. 24:32>> Um,
749. 24:34I'm an only child. I had to figure out a
750. 24:35lot of this stuff on my own. Like no big
751. 24:37brother or nothing, you know.
752. 24:40>> Um, nature versus nurture definitely
753. 24:42applies to me because I'm like this I'm
754. 24:45the only child. me and my mom super
755. 24:47close, but I was I was outside a lot.
756. 24:49>> I was outside a lot. Um
757. 24:54uh I I
758. 24:57I
759. 25:00you know,
760. 25:02I went to juvenile at 15, but I have a
761. 25:04college degree. So, it's like that
762. 25:07spectrum alone, I think,
763. 25:09>> can kind of sum up like my whole life
764. 25:13like it's all about like getting back
765. 25:15up. Mhm.
766. 25:16>> You know what I'm saying?
767. 25:18>> Crawling, walking, run that whole
768. 25:20flying,
769. 25:21>> you know? So, I think this is like I've
770. 25:23been trying to be pretty transparent. Of
771. 25:25course, I'm private and don't want
772. 25:27everybody to know all my business. I
773. 25:28won't be like streaming anytime soon or
774. 25:31anything.
775. 25:31>> Well, but your podcast with your son,
776. 25:33which is great by the way, I was
777. 25:34surprised initially
778. 25:37when you know you launched it. I was
779. 25:39like, "Wow." Because you are so private.
780. 25:41>> Yeah. But that's me trying to show Mhm.
781. 25:46>> The relationship of a black man with his
782. 25:49son in today's
783. 25:52society and atmosphere is me trying to
784. 25:56show what I actually feel is a lack of,
785. 25:59you know, and these are conversations
786. 26:02and then I feel like Halo is mature
787. 26:04enough and just somebody that at the end
788. 26:08of the day I was just tired of bragging
789. 26:09on him to other people. I'm like, "Let
790. 26:10me just make a platform. We can just
791. 26:12talk and people can see it and decipher
792. 26:14it for themselves." And he started doing
793. 26:15the podcast at 5. He's 11 now.
794. 26:17>> Yeah.
795. 26:18>> And you know, somebody was like, "Man,"
796. 26:22somebody came on the show. They like,
797. 26:23"Man, I wish I'd have been on camera
798. 26:24with him when you was six." He was like,
799. 26:25"Bro, [laughter]
800. 26:27I ain't six no more. Stop saying that."
801. 26:29You know what I'm saying? But I'm like,
802. 26:31"Bro, shut up." You know what I'm
803. 26:32saying? I'm setting you up for this NIA.
804. 26:34I'm setting his life up. Like, for real.
805. 26:36>> Just doing the ultimate. You going to be
806. 26:37going you hooping.
807. 26:39>> Yeah. Yeah,
808. 26:39>> you have a your own media platform. You
809. 26:42got shoes, you got cologne, you got
810. 26:46charisma, you got confidence, and you
811. 26:48got me and you got God. So, that's the
812. 26:50main thing. It's going to work out. It's
813. 26:51going to work out. Everything going to
814. 26:53work out.
815. 26:53>> And your daughter, can we brag about
816. 26:55her?
817. 26:55>> Yeah, I have two daughters. I have one
818. 26:57in college and I have one that just
819. 26:59started high school this year. Both of
820. 27:00them are very beautiful and intelligent.
821. 27:03It's hard to merge the two sometimes,
822. 27:06but I was able to do that with with
823. 27:09obviously with the help of their mom. Um
824. 27:12they doing good. I talk to them every
825. 27:14day. Me and my daughters have a great
826. 27:15relationship. People be like, "Man, why
827. 27:17you do that for your daughters?" But
828. 27:20this platform that I did was it was
829. 27:24intended for my son,
830. 27:25>> right? And and everything works out the
831. 27:27way it's supposed to. But like seeing
832. 27:28again the growth and you in front of our
833. 27:31eyes, we are seeing your career. And
834. 27:33while you obviously have had so much
835. 27:35success from it, we also have learned
836. 27:38along the way as well. What has
837. 27:39fatherhood taught you and how did it
838. 27:41change your life?
839. 27:44>> This talk that you're taught me that
840. 27:46that you're ultimately responsible for
841. 27:48someone else's life.
842. 27:50>> Oh my gosh.
843. 27:51>> And it never goes away. By the way,
844. 27:53since [snorts] the last time I saw you,
845. 27:55I'm a parent now. I have a toddler.
846. 27:56>> I did not know that.
847. 27:57>> I have a daughter. She's four. And wait,
848. 27:59she bullies me.
849. 28:01>> They will bully you. You have to you
850. 28:02have to you have it has they will do it.
851. 28:05>> I get bullied
852. 28:06>> and so four turns to 14.
853. 28:07>> Yeah, I know.
854. 28:08>> And you need to like I'm telling you now
855. 28:10and the girls are booted.
856. 28:13>> She checks me and I'm like and I'm like
857. 28:15okay. And I'm like wait what's going on
858. 28:17here?
859. 28:17>> Yeah, man. Congratulations. But yeah,
860. 28:20that's so I'm happy for you before.
861. 28:22>> Thank you.
862. 28:22>> They are the girls. They're so um
863. 28:26if I had to describe them through a
864. 28:28taste bud they spicy. Oh,
865. 28:31>> they be spicy when they be four.
866. 28:33[laughter] You know that little
867. 28:35>> that sp they be spicy, man. They sp them
868. 28:38girl be spicy.
869. 28:39>> Give me give me some advice. Give me
870. 28:41some parenting advice. Anything that
871. 28:44>> Be a parent.
872. 28:46>> Be a parent. I'm cool. Like me me and my
873. 28:48kids, we talk we we we
874. 28:51>> we might talk like friends sometime and
875. 28:52all that, but ultimately it's it's it's
876. 28:54definitely a respect level there that
877. 28:56they like I when I say this, it's not
878. 28:58like we're not playing tennis and going
879. 29:00back and forth. It's a understanding. So
880. 29:02it's a respect level there. But we joke,
881. 29:05we play, we talk about things, we My two
882. 29:08daughters got Instagram. We send each
883. 29:09other stuff.
884. 29:10>> Yeah.
885. 29:11>> That I think is funny or pertains to
886. 29:12them. But it's still that level of of
887. 29:15respect that I feel like a parent has to
888. 29:18have or a kid will run over you. You got
889. 29:20to think about when we were kids, if
890. 29:22nobody if we if it was a house that we
891. 29:24can go to to do whatever we wanted to
892. 29:26do, that's the house
893. 29:27>> that we would go to. But it only just
894. 29:29makes sense. It only makes sense to know
895. 29:31that.
896. 29:32>> Man, I it's been too long since I last
897. 29:34saw you. But I'm always proud. I love
898. 29:37the evolution. I just I love seeing, you
899. 29:41know, your journey. the successes and
900. 29:44you willing to share the failures along
901. 29:46the way. But I just, you know, I don't
902. 29:49feel like you get the credit you
903. 29:51deserve. That's me personally.
904. 29:53>> Thank you.
905. 29:53>> But I I appreciate you and I'm thankful
906. 29:56for you and I'm, you know, for all the
907. 29:59years that you've given us music
908. 30:01consistently, but also shown us how to
909. 30:04grow, right, just as a person and to
910. 30:08evolve and saying like, "Yeah, I
911. 30:09invested here." and and and just
912. 30:11expanding like giving us that confidence
913. 30:14that we can expand and we can grow too
914. 30:17and become a parent and still do our
915. 30:19career and pop out when we want to pop
916. 30:21out and to have this conversation with
917. 30:23you now it makes me so grateful and
918. 30:25thankful for you.
919. 30:26>> Thank you. Thank you for having me. I
920. 30:27appreciate you. Great conversation.
921. 30:29>> Yes. Your album Players Only Live Once
922. 30:32December 4th and we are going to get it.
923. 30:34We're going to run the numbers up and we
924. 30:36need the song right now.
925. 30:37>> I'm about to get it from you.
926. 30:39>> Okay. They sent it. [laughter]
927. 30:41>> I love it.
928. 30:42>> Oh, they can't they can hear me out
929. 30:43there. Okay, let's go.
930. 30:44>> Let's go.
931. 30:46[music]