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2 Chainz: Why "The Voice In My Head Is God" Changed Everything | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Mar 13, 2026
Hip hop legend 2 Chainz joins the show to dive deep into his spiritual evolution and his brand new book, THE VOICE IN MY HEAD IS GOD. From his early days as a basketball player and trapper to becoming a global superstar, he reveals the inner compass that has guided his journey through music, business, and fatherhood. This conversation explores the power of intuition and the importance of listening to the divine guidance we all possess.
In this exclusive interview, Tity Boi opens up about the difference between ego and divine intuition. He shares raw, personal stories ranging from a near-robbery in his youth to the heartwarming way a long commute helped him bond with his son, Halo. You will also hear a chilling account of a supernatural encounter that provided 2 Chainz with undeniable proof of life after death. This is not just a talk about rap; it is a masterclass in awareness, reflection, and finding your own path.
KEY TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO
EXPLORING THE INNER COMPASS 🧭
2 Chainz breaks down why he believes our gut feeling is actually a divine connection. He discusses how he transitioned from his early career to a more conscious, evolved version of himself.
PARENTING AND LEGACY 🏀
Hear how investing time in his son Halo basketball career led to unexpected rewards and a deeper family bond. 2 Chainz explains why putting children in a position to be great is a parent primary responsibility.
THE SUPERNATURAL AND GRIEF 🕊️
A deeply personal look at the passing of his father and the mysterious security footage that captured a spirit in his home on the day his son was born. 2 Chainz discusses how he handles loss and what he believes about the afterlife.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro and the Evolution of 2 Chainz
3:15 The Concept of The Voice in My Head is God
6:40 Intuition vs. Ego: Learning to Listen
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0:00
Amazing.
0:01
And I tell you, man, we've been watching
0:03
this man's trajectory for
0:05
>> [applause]
0:06
>> for the decades have to be. And
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every time I see him, whether I see him
0:11
on stage,
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uh
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whether I see him in in different
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spaces, whether I see him speaking about
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finances and about health and about
0:20
business, I see him on on a platform
0:22
with his son, you know, creating new
0:24
legacies and
0:27
opening up about his family, man.
0:29
There's something about him. I've been
0:30
attached to him since his early days,
0:32
uh Rich Nice days, you know.
0:35
The Disturbing the Peace days. And to
0:38
watch to watch him evolve, man, I look
0:40
at it
0:41
and I look at the Based on a T.R.U.
0:44
Story debuting
0:45
on number one on Billboard. Get that man
0:47
a round of applause for that. Multiple
0:50
Grammy nominations. Get that man a round
0:52
of applause for that.
0:53
>> Keep clapping.
0:54
>> Most Expensive Vest Show that he host.
0:58
Give him a round of applause for that.
1:00
The list keeps going on. Then this new
1:02
book, Two Chains: The Voice in My Head
1:05
is God. Now we're starting to experience
1:07
a lot of our peers who are who have have
1:10
ascended, I like to say, and have have
1:13
grown, have evolved, and over the
1:16
decades have have learned words, have
1:19
learned the language on how to express
1:21
what it is they felt and what they saw.
1:24
Some of the things we experience we at
1:25
the time we experience it, we don't have
1:27
the words, we don't have the language.
1:29
>> Yeah.
1:30
>> You know, to to to attach to those
1:32
experiences. So when someone like this
1:34
man
1:35
is sharing
1:37
who he was before you even knew him as
1:39
an MC, when he was just a basketball
1:42
player and and a trapper.
1:45
You know, and to for him to share and be
1:47
open and vulnerable in a book like he
1:49
has, and he has such a great concept in
1:51
doing it. I want to commend him and
1:53
welcome him back to the show. Give it up
1:55
FOR TWO CHAINS.
1:56
>> YEAH.
1:59
>> OH, GIVE IT
2:00
>> PIP PIP!
2:00
>> COME ON.
2:01
>> YEAH, YEAH.
2:01
>> The voice in my head is God.
2:04
>> That's right.
2:05
>> Man, bro. First of all, how you been?
2:07
>> I've been good. I've been good. This is
2:09
my first time in this
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>> in this
2:11
>> studio, right?
2:12
>> in this studio.
2:13
>> Yeah, how it feel? We going to
2:13
>> I graced the other one many a time. It
2:15
feels good. It feels good.
2:16
>> You know,
2:17
you ain't seen nothing like
2:18
>> like it? How you like it?
2:19
>> I love it. I love it here. It's a lot of
2:21
windows, you know, in New York we're
2:23
kind of closed in and boxed in a bit,
2:25
but there's something about the energy,
2:27
just being able to look out and see the
2:29
sky.
2:30
>> Yeah, letting God in.
2:31
>> Letting God in.
2:32
>> Letting God in, right?
2:34
Um
2:35
I'm curious about this concept, you
2:37
know, of the voice in my head is God.
2:41
We hear voices in our head from a young
2:43
age and we try to identify, well, what
2:46
is that? You know, I mean, I'm I'm
2:48
talking now, but there's a voice in my
2:49
head while I'm talking. Right? Um when
2:53
did you
2:54
identify that as God speaking to you? At
2:57
what age did you come to grips with
2:59
that?
3:01
>> So,
3:02
let me just go back to what you just
3:04
said. I'm
3:06
not aware that everybody has this.
3:09
>> Okay. Okay.
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>> Um yeah.
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>> So, my angle of the book is to
3:15
speak on that
3:18
that inner
3:20
compass, that
3:22
divine guidance, that voice, that gut
3:25
feeling,
3:25
>> Mhm.
3:26
>> um intuition is the the you know, and I
3:29
wanted to
3:31
discuss
3:33
what that means to me and how much it
3:36
means to me, right?
3:38
Now,
3:40
the voice
3:43
is something that I as a creative, I
3:45
don't know if it's a creative thing, I
3:46
don't know if it's a everything
3:48
everybody thing, but
3:51
I have
3:53
This is This book is based off
3:55
experience. You have to live long enough
3:57
to write a book like this. You know what
3:58
I'm saying? Like this book I couldn't
3:59
wrote this book at 25 years old. You
4:01
know what I mean? I I wasn't that tapped
4:03
in.
4:04
When I'm writing this book and I'm
4:06
trying to find my angle on
4:09
a book releasing out You know me, I want
4:12
to be different. I don't want it to be
4:13
as cliche as I feel like another rapper
4:16
would be looked at. I'm sure people
4:17
would have thought of it being an
4:19
autobiography or something like that.
4:22
I wanted to be able to tell my stories,
4:25
but not just about
4:27
the struggle and the pain. This book is
4:29
to try to educate, teach. And it They're
4:33
all from my life experiences.
4:35
The The word God
4:39
in this book is not so much like this
4:42
book is not like a religious book. It's
4:43
more about like reflection and
4:45
awareness.
4:47
But when I The voice in my head is God.
4:49
When I talk about the voice, I talk
4:50
about my conscience. I talk about my
4:52
intuition.
4:54
And And the reason I use the word God is
4:56
I'm giving credit to something much
4:58
higher than myself and my ego. You know
5:00
what I'm saying? Like I ain't no way
5:02
Ain't no way it could be from me. You
5:04
know what I'm saying? So, this is what I
5:06
believe in. This is what I've been
5:07
knowing. You can say the voice in your
5:08
head is whoever you believe is higher
5:10
than you, but for me it's God. And you
5:13
know, at first the publishing company
5:15
like they might put you on a religious
5:16
thing. It was a whole thing. They
5:18
almost wanted me to just change the
5:20
name, but I didn't know I didn't want to
5:21
say like the voice in my head is like a
5:24
higher power. I just wanted to stand on
5:26
what I felt like it was, right? And you
5:27
hear all throughout upbringing, you
5:29
know, you made in the image of God and
5:31
God is in you and blessings come from
5:33
within and I You just put all that
5:36
together. It kind of starts to make
5:38
sense, right?
5:39
Because you know, we have voices that
5:41
tell us to do some some messed up stuff,
5:43
too, right? But what I tell you is that
5:45
God is love. And if it's not
5:49
in the space of love, then that voice
5:51
could be another voice. I've heard that
5:54
voice, too.
5:55
And so, it's more like
5:57
you know what I'm saying? Me just
6:00
teaching a method that I've been using
6:02
for a while. It's almost like my
6:05
friends, my close friends, like, "Bro,
6:06
how you keep doing this?" And it's like,
6:07
"Man, let me just put this out
6:10
and hopefully one person tries it and it
6:12
changes the trajectory of their life."
6:14
>> Mhm. I know that two chains, man. Um and
6:17
in the way you put it out
6:19
maybe you know what, man? Maybe I'm
6:21
being presumptuous. Maybe everybody
6:23
doesn't I don't know, you know.
6:25
>> but you tell me you're I mean, when but
6:27
when you have these conversations, you
6:28
hear people Some people say, "Oh, yeah,
6:30
man, you know, something told me." You
6:32
know, cuz I'm trying to tell you like
6:33
you keep you keep saying something told
6:34
you. Like, I'm trying to trying to put
6:36
you down like I feel like the something
6:38
is this. Yeah. When something tells you
6:40
like, "Man, something told me like don't
6:42
go out none this week. Something told me
6:43
to just" You know, these things that we
6:45
say
6:46
unconsciously, I feel like they have
6:48
more weight on it. So, I just kind of
6:50
like highlighted some stuff. But like
6:51
you said you you tell me about Tell me
6:54
about the voice in your head. Yeah.
6:56
>> Uh
6:58
uh
7:00
uh
7:01
since I was a child
7:03
is when I I start uh realizing
7:08
um that I have
7:10
uh I I possess a certain intu-
7:12
intuition.
7:13
>> Okay.
7:13
>> Something that's innate in me as well
7:16
that led me down a path that most people
7:19
in my peer group that I grew up with
7:21
it was just different. And I learned to
7:24
listen to it, but I think
7:26
you know, I had some training. You know,
7:28
I had a great auntie and a great uncle,
7:29
Auntie Lucy and Uncle Murph uh uh Uncle
7:32
Silas Murph
7:34
and my Auntie Lucy
7:36
um
7:36
used to
7:38
train that voice in me.
7:40
>> Mhm.
7:40
>> She used to tell me, "Well, what is what
7:42
is what is it say? What do you feel on
7:44
the inside?" Oh, wow. Yeah. And I would
7:46
say, "Well, I feel like this." Follow
7:48
that feeling cuz that's coming from
7:50
within, you know? And at an early age, I
7:54
didn't always do it and when I didn't do
7:56
it, [ __ ] would happen, right? You got a
7:59
chapter in your book called Shoot 'Em in
8:00
the Stomach and Let God Decide.
8:03
And you had a moment where
8:06
in this chapter you talk about wanting
8:08
to buy some rims at a young age when you
8:11
were in college and as you were getting
8:14
closer to that destination
8:16
>> [laughter]
8:17
>> The voice getting loud.
8:18
>> The voice is
8:20
talking to you saying the rims aren't
8:21
going to be there.
8:23
You know, now if
8:26
you weren't properly trained cuz you
8:28
didn't listen to the voice that day,
8:29
right?
8:30
>> I listened to it because
8:33
prior to going to get the rims, I put
8:34
the money in my sock and in my crotch.
8:36
So, so something told me something told
8:39
me something, right? But on the way
8:41
there when I say there's no rims there,
8:42
you we do this all the time with stuff
8:44
that we can't see. You know, we just you
8:47
know, it be that mess around and find
8:49
out thing, right? So, instead of
8:51
listening to say, "Hey, man, turn
8:52
around, man. I don't think the rims
8:54
there." I got to What if they are there?
8:55
You know what I'm saying? And this is
8:56
you know, so I get there, you know, the
8:59
guy's up a tool and and and they looking
9:02
for money, but they can't they not they
9:03
didn't search my sock or or anywhere
9:05
else. So, they never got the money. So,
9:07
it was more like an attempted robbery.
9:08
But something told me something the
9:11
whole time. And so, in this book you'll
9:12
hear these stories about like when I go
9:15
back and relive these stories, how I
9:17
either ignored the voice or paid
9:19
attention to the voice and then
9:21
essentially how my consciousness just
9:23
let me take success once I started
9:25
locking in like, I'm just doing this.
9:27
I'm just doing Oh, okay. Now, I'm doing
9:29
this now. I'm like, I'm I I go to a spot
9:31
and all of a sudden, I just I'm ready
9:33
I'm ready to go call the car.
9:34
>> Mhm.
9:35
>> It it don't even be
9:36
nothing nobody finna shoot up the spot.
9:38
Ain't nothing finna It's just time for
9:39
me to go. It's just, you know, something
9:41
something's telling me it's time to get
9:43
leave, whatever.
9:44
>> And you follow that, right? You follow
9:45
that.
9:46
>> Yeah.
9:46
>> Um you just I never forget the time if I
9:49
always remind you of this when I was We
9:51
was at the Super Bowl in New Orleans and
9:52
I was couldn't get a taxi and I'm
9:54
walking in New in New Orleans by myself
9:56
and 2 Chainz
9:58
>> [laughter]
9:58
>> 2 Chainz
9:59
>> What is that? What is that?
10:01
>> pull up in the van
10:03
Let see you out there.
10:04
>> I'm by myself.
10:06
>> Walk off the corner.
10:07
>> [laughter]
10:08
>> and pick me up and What are you doing,
10:10
man?
10:11
>> What are you doing, man?
10:12
>> But let let me ask you this.
10:13
Um
10:15
something told me
10:18
to call MTV back after the third time.
10:22
You know.
10:23
>> Yeah.
10:23
>> I wasn't listening the first two.
10:25
>> Mhm.
10:25
>> And after the third time, I felt like,
10:27
well, I might not hear this again.
10:29
And that led to me moving to New York
10:31
and having
10:33
a very successful, powerful, impactful
10:36
um journey rocking with MTV, right?
10:39
>> And that was one of those times I
10:41
listened and I and I was rewarded some
10:43
of the ga- greatest game.
10:45
Can you tell us a time that that voice
10:48
told you you should do this?
10:50
And what was that greatest game that you
10:52
got from hearing your voice?
11:01
>> Oh, man. [sighs]
11:03
Oh.
11:06
I mean, the voice it it could be
11:10
overwhelming to some. I'm I'm I'm used
11:12
to it, but you know, relationship
11:14
advice, business advice.
11:15
>> Yeah.
11:16
>> You know, we all have like somebody to
11:17
talk over things with, whether it's a
11:18
friend or manager. But internally for me
11:23
Oh, man.
11:27
It's so many thing And then look, like
11:28
some of the stuff is so small it's like
11:30
you can't be serious, but I listen to
11:31
like
11:32
the smallest thing. I mean, it's so
11:34
small. I mean, I literally like my boys
11:37
would be like, "Put them other glasses
11:38
on." It's so small that I just do it.
11:40
You know what I mean?
11:41
And I know a situation um
11:45
Big got horse out there was just talking
11:46
about my son Halo and um
11:49
his basketball journey, right? And I
11:51
remember
11:53
being the dad that wanted
11:56
to take him somewhere close, like
11:57
somewhere around the house, like don't
11:59
want to really like just want to Anybody
12:00
around the neighborhood training and
12:02
doing all this and uh
12:04
I had a friend I got a friend uh
12:07
he's a part of my management team. He
12:08
has a son that plays football. He like,
12:10
"Bro, sometimes you got to take him
12:12
you got to take him far if you want to
12:14
get certain results, you know what I
12:15
mean?" And I
12:17
I'm like, "Man, how So, I get in touch
12:19
with somebody." They like, "You know, we
12:20
do it out here." As far as a I don't
12:22
know how far it is. Yeah. It's like an
12:24
hour, right? So, I started going and
12:27
started getting in traffic.
12:28
I start
12:30
almost
12:31
being irritated and I I I think like I'm
12:33
in traffic, but you know, I'm in a
12:35
Maybach. What am I complaining about,
12:36
right?
12:37
>> [snorts]
12:38
>> And I take him to the facility and
12:40
you know
12:42
uh it's far, you know, man. It's you
12:45
know, it's like I say far as hour so
12:47
there hour so back.
12:49
>> It's an inconvenience for
12:50
>> It's an inconvenience. He got school. He
12:52
got to get rest.
12:54
And a year after me doing that, my son
12:57
became
12:58
ranked in the nation, right?
12:59
>> Wow.
13:00
>> Now,
13:01
did the voice the the
13:04
the voice told me, you know, try. You
13:06
know, because what kid the
13:09
A lot of most of kids success is from
13:11
the parents, right? And kids can't drive
13:12
or anything, right? So, it's our
13:14
responsibility to
13:15
put them in position to be great. And
13:19
so, that that was one of the things that
13:21
popped in my head because it was
13:22
something I did not want to do. Yeah.
13:24
But when it came across my desk,
13:26
I said, "You know what? You know And
13:28
then another thing that happened that I
13:30
I would not I would have never known is
13:33
that it built a much closer relationship
13:36
with with him and I cuz we talked for an
13:38
hour. I pick him up from school. He
13:39
like, "Dad, let me tell you what
13:40
happened." It switched I mean, we
13:42
already had a cool relationship, but now
13:44
we like together for like an hour. I'm
13:46
watching him training and we leave for
13:47
like an hour. Like we just and
13:51
this simple concept of maybe taking them
13:54
far to train has brought me closer to my
13:57
my son. You know what I mean? So, it's
13:59
stuff that happens that you won't even
14:01
put two and two together. But then when
14:03
I think about it like, man,
14:05
just how just how cool we are and that's
14:07
just it's because of this long-ass ride.
14:09
You know?
14:09
>> Yeah. Yeah. He ranked number one he was
14:11
number one in the country?
14:12
>> No, he's not number one. He's in the top
14:14
25.
14:14
>> Top 25.
14:17
>> Salute, nephew. Salute. Can't wait for
14:19
him to get that contract. I'm showing
14:20
up.
14:21
>> got What what business do you have
14:22
there?
14:22
>> dad for decades. I don't I don't have my
14:24
rights. [laughter]
14:27
>> Tracy G and uh Mike News over in New
14:29
York. H, do you want to holler?
14:30
>> I do. Um
14:32
thanks for being here and thank you for
14:34
having the disciplines and and
14:36
discipline and obedience, I would say,
14:38
to write this book. Um
14:41
I'm from the school where I believe
14:43
everyone has a has that voice.
14:45
>> Really?
14:45
>> I absolutely. And I think that dependent
14:48
on
14:49
how you hear it and how you experience
14:52
it is how you choose to be obedient or
14:55
not. I think sometimes the voice and
14:58
voices can be so overwhelming, we choose
15:00
to self-medicate. Sometimes our egos are
15:04
so big and it's not according we're
15:07
going according to our plan rather than
15:09
tapping in to God's plan that we choose
15:11
to ignore. So, we listen to the other
15:14
voice. We We We listen to the voice that
15:16
self-serves us at that time.
15:18
And so, that's why I thank you for your
15:20
obedience to write this book because it
15:22
takes so much discipline and to stand on
15:24
that word God is obedience to change.
15:27
That's obedience. And I think sometimes
15:30
this conversation can be uncomfortable
15:32
because it will make you think about the
15:34
times when you heard certain things and
15:36
you didn't follow through and this could
15:38
be something very small. It's how I got
15:39
into radio. I was struggling in a time
15:43
in my life and I was struggling for a
15:44
few years and God said communicate.
15:47
Period. It was no other word and it
15:49
wasn't radio. He said communicate and I
15:53
had to be obedient when it was times
15:55
when it was no money attached to it,
15:57
when no time I thought wasn't attached
15:59
to it and even arguments in my own
16:01
family
16:02
about doing radio. This particular show.
16:05
Um, in this particular building. So, we
16:08
have to be steadfast on what we stand on
16:11
especially when we know that it comes
16:13
from God and I think this book will open
16:16
up a lot more conversation because I
16:19
agree you have to have the experiences
16:21
even to speak on what you're talking
16:23
about. This is not a light conversation.
16:27
It's a spiritual, but thank you for
16:29
that. Thank you.
16:30
>> appreciate that. Yeah.
16:32
Yeah. So, it's about, you know, tapping
16:34
in I guess if we were just, you know,
16:35
having slang it's just about, you know,
16:37
tapping in.
16:38
>> It's uncomfortable to tap in sometimes
16:40
and that's that's where I think it could
16:41
get tricky.
16:42
>> So, the the way I decipher it because I
16:44
I have a chapter here called the [ __ ] it
16:45
voice and we've all said done something
16:47
and said [ __ ] it. And sometimes the
16:49
outcome has been good, sometimes it's
16:50
been bad, you know, it doesn't always
16:52
when you say [ __ ] it and do some crazy
16:54
stuff.
16:55
>> Mhm.
16:55
>> You know, it doesn't like you say [ __ ]
16:57
it jump out of plane it don't mean you
16:58
going to die. You just like, "Ah, [ __ ]
16:59
it I'm you know."
17:00
>> Mhm.
17:01
>> But,
17:02
the way I decipher the voices because we
17:05
all have them.
17:07
And we all a lot of us self-medicate.
17:09
But, when I say God is love if you take
17:11
the is away
17:13
and put a equal sign
17:14
>> Mhm.
17:15
>> and put
17:17
like cuz this is So, doing doing this
17:19
book, I'm find Like, while this book is
17:21
open, right? I'm finding stuff like
17:24
Like, I found letters from 2003 that my
17:26
pop wrote around Thanksgiving from
17:28
prison. And it reminded me that all of
17:30
his letters, every one of them, every
17:31
time he wrote, he put God is love,
17:33
right? God is love. I don't even pay no
17:34
attention. I mean, I believe in God. I'm
17:36
just reading the letter, but it's just
17:37
God is love, God is love. Then I'm like,
17:39
"Oh!
17:41
He don't told me where God is."
17:43
>> That part.
17:44
>> I'm tripping. It's
17:47
Like, if it ain't got love in it, then
17:49
it can't be God. Like, it's not like
17:52
it's not as hard as we try to make it
17:53
seem. So, if something in your voice
17:54
telling you to do something that ain't
17:56
got love in it,
17:58
then you know it ain't coming from from
18:00
that source.
18:01
>> There you go.
18:01
>> That's how I
18:03
differentiate
18:04
>> Mhm.
18:05
>> when differentiate something cool from
18:08
crashing out.
18:09
>> Hey, Tracy G, you want to dive in?
18:11
>> Yeah, absolutely. 2 Chainz, I think this
18:14
is one of your greatest creations, this
18:16
book. And I really Yeah, I truly do. And
18:19
I appreciate your approach to it as a
18:22
manifesto. I want to talk about the year
18:26
2015.
18:27
2015 is when Halo was born, and you tell
18:31
this very chilling story, um how 3 years
18:35
prior to that was the passing of your
18:37
father. But on the night that Halo was
18:40
born, a house alarm went off for no
18:43
reason. And you checked the security
18:46
camera footage, and you saw a slightly
18:49
blurry figure moving throughout the
18:51
house. Um and when you looked closely,
18:55
you saw your dad's face.
18:57
And you saw that this figure was moving
18:59
like your dad. And every time you tried
19:02
to show someone this image, it would
19:04
disappear, or something wild would
19:06
happen. But you mentioned that you
19:08
believed that your dad didn't cross over
19:11
fully until Halo was born.
19:15
I would love to know more of your
19:19
I guess philosophy understanding of
19:22
purgatory and the afterlife as well as
19:26
what you can say to those who are
19:28
tremendously terrified of spirits. As a
19:32
culture here in the states particular, I
19:35
feel like, you know, ghosts are
19:37
something to be feared, not to converse
19:39
with, not to accept. But when you shared
19:42
the story, it was it felt like the most
19:44
natural thing in the world. So I'd love
19:46
for you to expound on it a bit more.
19:49
>> Okay, the clear part of the story just a
19:51
just a little bit. Everything is true
19:53
up to the point. All right, so we we
19:56
Halo was born on 10 14 15. He's born
20:00
October the 14th, 2015. I have my mom
20:02
and my daughters at home while my wife
20:06
and I are in the hospital
20:08
and she's giving birth. When she gives
20:10
birth, the alarm goes off. Of course,
20:12
you get a you get the message on your
20:14
phone and then my mom is calling me to
20:16
ask me
20:18
what the code is for the alarm. And I
20:21
and then she's also telling me like I
20:23
don't know why the alarm went off. We
20:24
ain't we ain't nobody. So somebody is at
20:27
home at the time. So when I'm looking at
20:29
my phone, I'm looking at around the
20:32
doors. I'm trying to see if any doors
20:33
are open or whatever. So
20:35
I don't see any footage at that time of
20:38
anybody in there, okay? We have the we
20:42
have Halo, we come home. I don't know,
20:44
man, maybe four or five days later
20:47
um because of the alarm going off, the
20:49
alarm will send you snapshots of the
20:52
motion detection where the motion comes
20:55
from.
20:56
So when my wife gets the email, she like
21:00
look at this. You know what I'm saying?
21:01
Look, bro, this is like
21:04
>> [snorts]
21:04
>> and I look and
21:07
it's just like at the top it's like you
21:09
see 10 14 15 but I buried my father July
21:12
4th, 2012. I remember it very vividly
21:15
cuz I was just very hurt.
21:17
And uh
21:18
I get this picture.
21:20
I get this image, right? It's two
21:21
images. In in one image is you know you
21:23
could tell he walking but they all
21:24
snapshots. It's not like something that
21:27
that is just running. It's snapshots.
21:29
But my dad used to walk around the house
21:30
with like no shirt on. He was you know
21:32
he was pretty fit to be in his 70s or
21:34
whatever. He used to walk around his
21:35
house with no shirt on and so you know I
21:38
showed my mom who's very spiritual and I
21:40
said you see anybody? Mom like yeah yeah
21:42
yeah. Well
21:43
I'm like Mom this happened tonight. So
21:45
she so she kind of joked about it like
21:47
you know your dad always [ __ ] with
21:49
me. Probably came to [ __ ] with me before
21:51
he crossed over to the like that was her
21:53
joke like crossed over. So I was like
21:54
well he's you know and then
21:57
you know obviously Halo's 10 now and he
22:00
is so much like my dad is not even
22:02
funny. You know what I'm saying? And so
22:04
I get this screenshot and now only show
22:07
people that
22:08
knew my dad and know how I feel about
22:10
him. So I go to my friend.
22:12
I say man look at this. You see anybody?
22:14
Like hell yeah. I see it right there. I
22:15
like yeah.
22:17
I'm like [ __ ] who that pop? I'm like bro
22:19
look at the date, bro. Pop been gone. He
22:21
like dropped the phone man what the hell
22:22
going on? You know what I mean? Boom. So
22:23
I do that for like
22:25
I do that for like three people and then
22:27
I I
22:28
I get I'm close with my management. So
22:30
one time I was like man I just want to
22:32
show y'all cuz they knew my dad too. I'm
22:33
like I want to show you something man.
22:34
Tell me if you see something.
22:36
I show it to him. He like yeah.
22:38
So one of them was like man that's
22:40
really cool. Like I I felt like ghosts
22:43
were real and then
22:44
you know they looking and they like man
22:46
you they really saying I'm lucky.
22:48
>> Yeah.
22:49
>> Like man you lucky that this happened
22:51
and you got proof that it happened. You
22:53
know what I'm saying? And so
22:57
anytime I would try to show people my
23:00
dad's very sarcastic and I just blame
23:02
his spirit for this, but when I would
23:04
try to show people, sometimes I could
23:06
not find it. And I would say I know
23:09
exactly when the date was. I It's not
23:11
like I'm like trying to remember. I know
23:13
exactly when it happened. I go back you
23:14
can just go back to the date in your
23:15
phone and I just couldn't find it,
23:17
right? Just couldn't. I say I give it to
23:20
my my wife. I said, "Bro, hold I sent
23:22
her this picture when I finally get it."
23:23
I said, "Hold this Hold this for me
23:25
because pop be being sarcastic and
23:27
sometimes when I try to show people it
23:28
make me look like I'm crazy cuz I can't
23:29
find it." We go to Florida one day and
23:32
this is no [ __ ] She gets out of
23:34
boat and then like her phone literally
23:35
looks like it crawls out of it like it
23:37
look like it landed and it look like it
23:39
crawled in the water. I look I saw it.
23:41
My wife is like she not even thinking
23:44
she not even thinking what I'm thinking.
23:46
I'm like, "Damn, she know she got all
23:47
kind of stuff in the phone about the
23:48
kids and all I'm thinking is man, you
23:50
know, pop the picture [laughter] the
23:52
picture in there." I'm like
23:54
And uh so okay, boom. I fast forward cuz
23:57
every so every now and then I go try to
23:58
look for it. Then I found it again. And
24:01
then I got my cousin who travels with me
24:03
everywhere. So I said, "Hey cuz here
24:06
you get this picture. You hold this
24:08
because sometimes I can't find this
24:10
picture."
24:11
He like, "I got you."
24:14
I go over yay house one day and uh we're
24:16
just talking about the afterlife,
24:19
ghosts, you know, all of this stuff,
24:20
right? And I'm like, "Bro
24:22
this may sound crazy, but my daddy came
24:25
back the night I had Halo, you know what
24:27
I'm saying? I have proof."
24:29
So just like my dad, when I go looking
24:32
for it in front of a table full of
24:34
people
24:35
I can't find it, right?
24:37
So I got my cousin with me in the other
24:39
room. I yell his name, "Yo cuz, come
24:40
here. Please come here so I won't sound
24:43
like I'm crazy, you know what I'm
24:44
saying? Can you show me the picture of
24:46
pops?" And this is when my pop gets
24:49
involved in my personal opinion. It's a
24:51
table full of food. It's a pitcher of
24:53
lemonade. I'll never forget this. I'm
24:55
the coolest player in the world. I don't
24:56
trip. If I were to trip on stage, y'all
24:58
I'll just start doing push-ups. I don't
25:00
fall. I'm not clumsy. I'm a real player,
25:02
right? Yeah.
25:03
Man, my cousin hands me the phone, bro.
25:05
I reach to get the phone, knock the
25:06
whole picture lemonade on everybody.
25:09
Like this is me. I don't do stuff like
25:11
that, right? So, in my as soon as I get
25:13
I say this this is my dad, bro. He be
25:15
[ __ ] with a [ __ ]
25:17
You know what I mean? So, everybody get
25:19
up, move back. Woo, you know, chairs go
25:20
back. Sure, you know, you wiping it up.
25:23
But, I had it.
25:24
>> Had it?
25:25
>> it. And so, I would I had it and I'm
25:28
like, now that all this is over like,
25:29
bro, this is you know, let me show you.
25:32
And you know, we had a conversation
25:33
about it. So,
25:34
um recently on uh so, you're somebody
25:36
that I I'll share it with, but I shared
25:38
it with Charlamagne on the on the
25:40
morning show the other you know, the
25:41
other day or whatever, but I'll I'll
25:43
share it with you because I have a high
25:44
respect for you and I know that you you
25:47
dwell on a higher frequency than a a lot
25:49
of other people. But, it was
25:51
it was
25:54
it was
25:55
it almost didn't make the book, right?
25:57
Because it's
26:01
You you know, you like you must be
26:02
tapped in for real. You saying ghost or
26:04
whatever, but it's hard to explain. I
26:05
don't even tell this to people. So, I
26:07
feel like, man, you put something in a
26:08
book, it's there. If they find it, cool.
26:11
So, what what I want to tell you
26:13
thank you.
26:14
Thank you for getting to that part.
26:16
Thank you for even asking me about that
26:18
question.
26:20
You know, I still have some things I'm
26:22
working on. I'm working on it through
26:24
like
26:26
writing books and stuff like that,
26:27
right? I hadn't sat down with anybody to
26:30
to really unpack a lot of stuff, but
26:34
it happened. It happened on my son's
26:36
birthday.
26:37
I got a picture of my pop walking
26:38
through my house. It's just Wow. And
26:41
it's like
26:43
Yeah, man.
26:44
>> Confirmation.
26:45
>> Yeah, but I I I got it since I've been
26:46
out here promoting my book cuz I'm like
26:49
>> You know, I've You to see it now,
26:50
though.
26:51
>> got you, fam. I got you.
26:53
>> All right.
26:53
>> want to show it to me while we live?
26:55
Yeah, man. Show that to me while we
26:57
live.
26:58
Don't trip and fall.
27:00
>> [laughter]
27:02
>> There's no water in this video, right?
27:04
>> Can HB see it? So, what Yeah, I got So,
27:07
what I started doing is every time I get
27:09
I just be trying to email it
27:11
to myself.
27:12
>> You can't find it?
27:13
>> No, I am. I'm I'm finding it. Hold on.
27:14
>> Okay. Okay.
27:16
This is interesting. We're talking with
27:17
2 Chainz, man. He has his um new book.
27:19
It's called The Voice in My Head is God.
27:22
It's available everywhere. Barnes &
27:23
Noble, Amazon, Target, or you can go to
27:25
his platform and get it direct. And
27:27
Mike, I'mma let you close with the last
27:29
question while he looks for this um
27:32
uh uh uh
27:33
if he can find it. Yeah, let's see if he
27:35
can find
27:35
>> My cousin with me though. So, every time
27:37
you do this, I got something for it. I
27:38
got something. Man, my I When you know,
27:40
you know. If you know this person,
27:42
then don't you Hey, Cat.
27:44
>> [laughter]
27:46
>> Tell Cat to bring me that.
27:47
>> Okay, he got the phone out already.
27:49
>> [laughter]
27:49
>> Yeah, he's having Every time I try to
27:52
Oh, no. Every time I try to show
27:54
somebody, bro, he ain't Bro, I went
27:56
straight to it. Look, I even got it
27:57
listed as Pop. I go to it. You got the
27:59
picture, Pop?
28:01
>> [laughter]
28:03
>> Cat don't want to do it. He like
28:05
Cat came in, "Nah, man. Again?"
28:07
>> Not again.
28:08
>> Mike News, while while while um we find
28:11
this Oh, he got it. Hold on. Let me see
28:12
it.
28:14
>> How come his phone work faster than 2
28:16
Chainz's phone? That's crazy.
28:18
>> No, it ain't that mine don't work. My My
28:21
prop up just
28:22
>> Yeah, just
28:22
>> Take it out my phone.
28:23
>> phone. Yeah, he'll just take it out for
28:24
you.
28:24
>> Let me know if you see anybody in the
28:26
picture, and then
28:28
we go from there.
28:29
>> I see that right here.
28:31
>> Yeah. Yeah, that's him coming through
28:33
the kitchen right there. No shirt on.
28:34
That's how I used to walk around.
28:35
>> Gosh.
28:36
>> Yeah. That's it.
28:38
>> Wow.
28:39
Crazy.
28:41
You see it for real? It's way
28:42
>> Cuz I
28:43
No, I'm seeing it for real.
28:44
>> Describe it in your words.
28:49
>> It's uh it's
28:51
uh
28:52
it's very obvious, number one.
28:54
>> Okay.
28:55
>> Uh that you see a figure there. You see
28:57
a it look like a topless
29:00
man there.
29:01
Um he's in a hallway. He's in a door it
29:04
look like a doorway.
29:05
>> Yeah, that's a doorway. That's a hallway
29:06
to the kitchen and it
29:07
>> [clears throat]
29:07
>> it seem like walking through, yeah.
29:08
>> Yeah. Yo, that's
29:11
And it and it looks supernatural.
29:13
>> Yeah.
29:14
>> Wow.
29:14
>> You want to see that? Come here.
29:16
>> Go ahead, HB.
29:17
>> Come here, HB.
29:17
>> HB, have you Sometimes I I have
29:19
energies.
29:20
>> [laughter]
29:21
>> That's why I want her to see it. That's
29:23
why I wanted to see it.
29:24
>> like DMing 2 Chainz like you know what I
29:26
got a message for you.
29:27
>> Hey, okay.
29:28
>> Oh, absolutely.
29:29
>> She gave them on the phone back. Why you
29:30
throw it at them?
29:31
>> I didn't throw it at
29:31
>> Okay, but it looked like you threw it at
29:33
them.
29:33
>> No, no, no, no, no.
29:34
>> You don't even want to
29:35
>> I it
29:36
Look If you
29:39
If you know, you know. And like if
29:41
you've had those type type of
29:42
experiences before, you know, you either
29:45
comfortable with the energy
29:47
or
29:48
you know, you know, but and you and you
29:50
honor that energy. It's it's not a a
29:52
scary thing or
29:53
>> a scary thing.
29:54
>> not, but you know how to honor it, you
29:56
know, um we pay
29:58
respect and reverence to our ancestors
30:00
and and and it's important that we do
30:02
that and it's important that we keep our
30:04
spaces a certain way. It's important
30:06
that we keep our mindset a certain way
30:08
because of our ancestors and so
30:11
God bless
30:12
>> something? Did you see something?
30:14
>> I saw a lot.
30:15
>> Did you feel something? Did you feel
30:17
something?
30:18
>> let Mike ask his question so we could
30:20
[laughter]
30:21
>> Okay. All right.
30:22
>> Leave me. Thank you for Well, well,
30:25
thank you for sharing though.
30:26
>> Yeah.
30:26
>> Thank you for sharing because that's
30:28
very um
30:30
spiritual and and personal.
30:32
>> Yeah, I almost called you your first
30:33
name after seeing that.
30:35
>> [laughter]
30:36
>> I almost called a lot of things.
30:39
>> Mike Will, take us home. Be careful.
30:43
>> [laughter]
30:44
>> You going to put this on Mike? Wow.
30:46
>> 2 Chainz, this has been a really a
30:47
really great conversation and thank you
30:49
being for so open to discuss this type
30:51
of dynamic that a lot of us are just
30:53
afraid to to do. I've shared similar
30:57
traits and gifts with you
30:59
as well regarding voices and gifts and
31:01
intuition and spirits and energy. And so
31:03
I'm just curious,
31:05
what is your relationship, I know you
31:06
just discussed it, your father's dynamic
31:08
and transition, but what has your
31:09
relationship been like with death and
31:12
passings and those who have crossed
31:15
over?
31:18
>> That's that's a good one.
31:22
I've had
31:24
a lot of a lot of friends and family
31:26
pass over. The closest person to me
31:30
would be my my my father. And now and I
31:32
was there when he passed. Like I saw him
31:34
like I was in the hospital when he was
31:36
when they was trying to
31:38
you know, when he was flatlining.
31:40
So that [snorts] experience alone was
31:46
uh
31:47
hm
31:50
Do I want to say it's hard or beautiful?
31:52
I don't know. As I grow, as I
31:55
continue to grow, it's like
31:58
you know, I was I was there when he when
32:00
he left here. But I don't I don't know,
32:02
but I you know, when that happened, I
32:05
started
32:08
When my father passed in front of me, it
32:10
it it definitely crushed me. But at the
32:13
same time,
32:16
the whole the whole experience of him
32:18
passing
32:20
crushed me, right? Because
32:23
my dad was in prison
32:27
the majority of my life.
32:29
The way my father passed, he was on a
32:32
I really did still don't know how he
32:33
passed, but I know he he ended up being
32:35
on like a a breathing
32:38
like They had
32:39
>> ventilator
32:40
>> Uh well, they had something going down
32:41
his throat. I guess is that you know
32:43
what I mean? Like a like a life support.
32:45
No, it wasn't life support. He was still
32:46
alive, but it was like you could see his
32:48
chest like it was helping him breathe.
32:49
And then like so the the night
32:51
So, I had a show
32:53
The last night I talked to my dad, I
32:54
stayed with him like a week in the
32:55
hospital. And my dad is super like I
32:57
said I told y'all he's sarcastic. And so
33:02
I'm asking him I'm telling him I got a
33:03
show in Savannah. Savannah, Georgia is
33:05
not, you know, out far outside of
33:07
Atlanta, Georgia. So, I'm like I'm
33:08
telling him I got a show. I had already
33:09
sent my friends down there. I'm like I
33:12
got a show. I can stay here with you.
33:14
So, my dad said a couple of things that
33:15
I never forget. He First thing he said
33:17
was the dope man my [ __ ] role
33:18
model. When I looked at him say that cuz
33:21
I had a song on my mixtape called role
33:22
model and it was that was the hook. Dope
33:24
man my So, that was one like level of
33:26
sarcasm. When he said the dope man my
33:28
I'm like, man, you straight, you know
33:30
what I'm saying? Boom. And then he said
33:33
he put his fist out and he said do it
33:36
big, Elps. We fist pumped. Boom. My last
33:39
name Elps. And then he said, "Go on and
33:41
go to Savannah. I ain't about to die no
33:42
time soon." So, I said, "Cool." I go to
33:45
Savannah. I turn around after I get off
33:48
stage. I don't go to no hotel room. I
33:50
don't do nothing. When I get back to the
33:51
hospital, he on this breathing [ __ ] So,
33:54
I'm asking what the [ __ ] happened in
33:55
that in that window. They like, "Man,
33:57
his [snorts] oxygen level's low." I'm
33:59
still like tripping.
34:02
So, what happened was this is what
34:04
really kind of [ __ ] with me is if you
34:06
take the
34:09
the the tube that's going down your
34:10
throat, they say if you take it out, you
34:12
could die. If you pull it out. But it's
34:14
natural for you to pull want to pull
34:15
that out because there's something in
34:16
your throat. So, they handcuffed my dad
34:18
to a bed. Okay, boom. Now, this is what
34:22
I can never get out my head. He
34:24
breathing, but he looking right at me
34:26
while he doing it. And in my opinion,
34:28
he's saying
34:29
how do these folks take these
34:30
[ __ ] handcuffs off me, you know
34:32
what I mean? So, I say, "Nah, man. You
34:34
know, he he don't want to be I know he
34:35
don't want to be here. Let's take these
34:37
handcuffs off." I do that four times.
34:40
Take them off. He try to take it off.
34:41
Now, I'll put No, no, no. Put the
34:42
handcuffs back on.
34:44
No, no, no. Take them off. I do that
34:46
four times. And then I try to And every
34:48
time you take the handcuffs off, it's
34:50
like he's trying to take this [ __ ] out
34:51
and tell me something. But they said if
34:52
he take that out, he could die. So, now
34:54
I'm trying to hold his arms. So, I do
34:56
that for like, I don't know, man, a
34:58
couple of days. You know what I'm
34:59
saying? Like, bro, let this be. You know
35:01
what I mean? And so, that whole
35:02
experience
35:05
made me almost angry, right? Because I
35:07
was really there by myself. I'm asking
35:09
my mom like, "Where were you last night?
35:10
Why you didn't come?" I'm asking my
35:12
girl. I'm just, you know what I mean?
35:13
So, I really
35:14
I'm angry at the hospital.
35:16
You know what I'm saying? I'm just like
35:17
angry. I'm just I'm angry at the nurse.
35:19
When when he go to flatline, and they it
35:21
take them four times. I He wake up.
35:25
Then he go out. And the And the nurse
35:27
tell me say, "You know, we done broke
35:28
four two of his ribs. And he'll be He
35:31
won't have the same, you know, you got
35:33
to let it go." And it just was not that
35:35
easy for me.
35:36
So,
35:37
I I use that example because
35:40
I was crushed but my pops was also like
35:42
sick that I could see. So, I wasn't like
35:45
fully surprised. I was just hurt and
35:47
angry. Now, when you have somebody that
35:50
may die in a car wreck. They were fine.
35:52
Something happens. You get a call.
35:55
Something that just It just happens out
35:57
of the blue.
35:58
That kind of death to me seems to hurt a
36:02
little more, right? Because you like, "I
36:04
just had I just talked to this It's like
36:06
those kind of deaths."
36:08
>> Yeah.
36:08
>> So,
36:09
you got the somebody sick over some
36:12
time, getting old death that kind of
36:15
preps you. And then you got the
36:17
"What you mean?"
36:18
>> Yeah.
36:19
>> The snatched away.
36:20
>> "What you mean?" You know what I'm
36:21
saying? Like, "What you mean?" And I've
36:22
had that happen with a close friend of
36:23
mine. Like, "What what What happened?
36:25
How? He drive too good to have an
36:28
accident. You start being like, "No. No,
36:30
man. Homey ain't had no You know what I
36:31
mean? So,
36:33
um you know, as far as my beliefs and
36:35
how I handle death, I think it just
36:38
depends on that type of case, right? I
36:40
think it depends on if it's just
36:42
something sudden
36:44
or something that we knew was
36:45
inevitable. And inevitable, I think for
36:48
me would be uh somebody that's aging,
36:50
right? Not like somebody that's living
36:53
on the edge. Like, even somebody living
36:54
on the edge and you can kind of see them
36:56
going down the wrong path. You still
36:57
don't want to hear that something
36:58
happened to So, you know, my beliefs on
37:01
death and spirit is it's probably not
37:05
really definitive right now. I'm not
37:06
really sure. I just know what has
37:07
happened to me in my life, so I can kind
37:09
of speak on that. Like, my my dad really
37:12
thought it was cool to come pop up in my
37:14
house.
37:15
>> Yeah.
37:16
>> And and [ __ ] with us while I'm having my
37:18
son, but then my son says stuff and acts
37:21
like he has been here before.
37:24
>> Mhm.
37:24
>> You know, a lot. We have the podcast
37:27
together and I we don't even We never
37:29
had a script. We just go out there and
37:30
just improv that. We've been improv for
37:32
6 years, you know what I mean?
37:34
>> too, bro.
37:35
>> Like, you know, so yeah, I I I don't
37:37
know if that answered it, bro, and I
37:38
probably zigzagged a lot, but death is
37:40
not easy for me to answer.
37:42
>> No, that's the answer into itself. There
37:44
really is There never is a right answer
37:45
with that. Just wanted to hear your
37:46
thoughts on that. So, you you answered
37:48
it as the energy let you to answer.
37:51
>> Well, I want to say thank you
37:55
um to our friend
37:56
>> Yes.
37:57
>> uh for coming in today and and and
37:59
sharing with us
38:01
two chains.
38:02
>> [applause]
38:03
>> Um
38:04
>> Mhm.
38:05
>> Thank you, brother. This is um we we
38:08
It's it I mean, I love it when you can
38:10
be around somebody for years and you
38:12
just constantly learn more and more and
38:14
and you share what you learn with each
38:15
other
38:16
>> Yeah.
38:16
>> as we go.
38:18
This is a great addition
38:20
um to your legacy and to ours, you know?
38:24
And so,
38:25
personally, I want to say thank you.
38:26
There's so much in this book that I can
38:28
relate to. Some stuff I'll share with
38:30
you off air.
38:30
>> Mhm.
38:31
>> Uh, when you shared me that picture with
38:32
me. And that picture is something else,
38:34
man.
38:35
>> Yeah, it is.
38:35
>> Yeah, I saw you I saw you I saw you get
38:37
a little watery eyed, but it's it's
38:39
it's a real thing, man. And
38:41
I don't just go around showing other
38:43
people either.
38:43
>> You can't
38:44
>> I don't think you should either.
38:45
>> can't do that.
38:46
>> Yeah, but if you ever want to just drop
38:48
the phone like, "Here, take this thing."
38:50
>> I didn't throw it. I didn't throw it,
38:52
but
38:53
>> You got to know yeah.
38:54
You got to know.
38:55
>> She'll be texting you.
38:56
>> Nah, she
38:58
>> I ain't going to
38:59
text him. Swae don't take my texts and
39:01
he don't want my dreams, my
39:03
>> Man,
39:05
dreams I talk about dreams, too. And
39:06
then you cuz before I get out of here
39:08
though but like you remember they I'm
39:09
sure I'm from the Southeast have like
39:11
these dream books.
39:12
>> Books, absolutely.
39:12
>> Yeah, that you that you that you
39:15
My aunt them used it to play the
39:17
numbers. Yeah.
39:18
You know what I'm saying? You'll be
39:19
like, "I had a dream about a cow. What
39:21
that mean? Go to cow."
39:22
>> Go to cow.
39:22
>> 463. [laughter] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's
39:24
play that number. So,
39:25
>> Or snake. A snake is in your dream?
39:27
>> Oh, man. A fish or somebody pregnant.
39:29
Which one is fish? Which one is the
39:31
pregnant?
39:32
>> You That's I'm sure I know some people
39:34
listening like black people crazy.
39:36
>> [laughter]
39:36
>> But in a black household you'll be like,
39:38
"I had a dream about a fish." "Somebody
39:39
I
39:40
Somebody pregnant."
39:41
>> Somebody pregnant.
39:42
>> Yeah, man. So, it's it's that it's that
39:44
it's that kind of tapping, y'all. I
39:45
appreciate y'all for having me on the
39:46
show. Thank you, man.
39:48
>> Thank you, brother.
39:48
>> And uh, yeah. Man, it's always love and
39:50
respect. Love you, too, brother. Yeah,
39:52
appreciate you, man. 2 Chainz.
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