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Boosie Badazz is back and he is pulling no punches in this deep dive into his life, career, and the state of the hip-hop industry. From his battle with cancer to his status as an independent powerhouse, Boosie shares the unfiltered truth that has made him a legend in the South and beyond. This is a conversation about legacy, family, and what it really means to stay ten toes down in a changing world. 🎤
In this exclusive interview, Boosie discusses his latest album and why he considers it the best project of 2023. He opens up about the challenges of the independent grind, his thoughts on AI technology in music, and his dream of building community centers to keep the next generation off the streets. We also get a rare look at his personal life as he talks about his mental health journey, the impact of therapy, and how he navigates fame while raising his children. 🏠
Things get even more personal as Boosie reflects on his relationship with the late Pimp C and the emotional experience of seeing DMX perform live. Later in the show, his son Tootie Raw joins the stage to talk about carving out his own path in the music industry and what it is like having a legend for a father. From heartfelt fan calls to deep discussions on street politics and the song Black and Beautiful, this episode covers it all. 💎
Chapters
0:00 Intro and Boosie’s Legacy
3:15 The Billion Dollar Goal and Community Centers
6:40 AI and the Future of Music
9:12 The Freedom of Being an Independent Artist
12:45 Health Update and Being Cancer Free
16:20 Mental Health and Therapy
19:55 Teaching Kids About Fame
22:15 Stories of Pimp C and Trill Entertainment
27:30 Dominating the South and Stage Presence
31:10 The Emotional Impact of DMX
34:40 Staying Real in the Industry
38:20 Why the Truth Makes You an Outcast
41:50 The Inspiration Behind Black and Beautiful
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yeah
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it's been a couple of moments I have
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with this man
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that kind of stick to my my database
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Tracy G that's right always admired this
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young man I always like the way he's
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sticking moves you know he's always
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stood on his own ten toes he's never
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been in integrity
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he's never he's never slided on his
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morals you know he never held his tongue
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you know this man is uh somebody you
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watch he he puts it all out in the open
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utilize his social media he doesn't he
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doesn't withdraw how he truly feels this
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man is a rapper he's a songwriter he's
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an actor he's a producer he's a father
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he's a provider filmmaker he's a film I
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was gonna get to that we talked about
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the films I thought I was supposed to
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get written into one but it never
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happened still time and still time
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though he's a filmmaker you know we look
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at the incredible success that 50 cents
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has had when you look at the success
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that ice cube has had you can start
1:01
putting him in this conversation when
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you look at the success that Master P
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has had
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um just stepping out of the music
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industry and doing other things
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expanding that creativity he's done that
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right this man goes viral every single
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week for one reason or another he does
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that too
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but he does it well all right I want to
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know album best album of 2023 is out
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today give it up for the one and only
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Boosie is here man Boosie
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hey man how you been I've been good man
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I've been working man trying to stay
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focused man trying to stay focused stay
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focused man what do you what do you folk
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when you stay focused what are you what
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do you focus on I was watching hustling
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hustling keeps me focused okay when I
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sit down I get bored man
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I'm just a hustling dog man yeah my mama
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said it the other day you're like
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sit your ass down so my mama told me
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like sit down like
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I don't know bro I just like to go get
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it man I just like to be
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I don't know but do you don't get
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satisfied is that a problem though like
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it might be because you can make a
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billion and not be satisfied right at
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this right and I said that was my goal I
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said at a billion I was gonna just
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but they say if you get one you own two
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yeah but I think of being knowledge I I
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mean
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I can do so much with a billion dollars
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and help so many people yeah what would
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you do with it like how would you help
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I would uh I would uh I would get
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community centers and all the ghettos
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yes and Quest clubs like we had when we
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was coming up we always had something to
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do yeah everything was involved the
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churches was we involved everybody would
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take us places I would take all the kids
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and be taking them places to keep them
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out the street yeah
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yeah if you ain't got nowhere to go
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you're going to the streets yeah
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man bruh the YMCA is that she used to be
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I used to beat it in the basketball at
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the wife
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that's what that that's what I start
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with I start with getting these kids off
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the streets with these with these
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programs these Sports
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and all that that's where I started
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would you also like because that's been
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a dream of mine too coming up in Oakland
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to build we used to have where I grew up
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in my neighborhood in East Oakland they
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had something called Manzanita Community
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Center like in everything that was I
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grew up on 23rd Ave if you do the
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research you know that was one of those
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places you know that'll take you off
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your path but that was our refuge like
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we would just go up in the center and be
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there for a couple of hours in the day
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and before we knew it it was time to go
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home and you're out of trouble and
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you're out of trouble that's how we had
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Jimmy Swaggart Jimmy Swagger yeah the
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preacher yeah man Jimmy Swagger used to
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send 10 buses to the hood bro Feed Us
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take us places take us on trips bring us
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back home bro like that's what's missing
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bro if them kids ain't got nothing to do
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they're gonna find trouble they're gonna
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do you
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Boosie is here man would you teach them
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like a lot of people I'm curious because
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you you've done really well of staying
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in the Forefront of Technology you know
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the way you utilize social media
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um the way you utilize your platforms AI
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is a big topic right now people talk
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about artificial intelligence and how
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people are using it to create songs with
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maybe a Boosie Badass voice you know
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somebody could make a song Hey I could
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write out the lyrics similar to yours
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and creative vocal just like yours
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okay I don't like that it's getting in
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our way
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let us be us I don't I don't like this
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[ __ ] I just feel like it's
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[Laughter]
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I mean am I gonna get rich off oh that
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ain't part of your hustle man
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you can just take my voice and I mean
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I'm not gonna get nothing compensated
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you feel that's fair what you think Mike
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Mike is here
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um so no it's it's not fair at all and
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so the challenge is going to be is
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having the um record execs uh and the
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artist and the union such as ass cap and
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BMI really talking with the dsps like
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title Spotify uh here here on Pandora to
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make sure uh that they don't stream
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those songs that get generated by AI
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because that time make a profit you
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can't stop a Creator from creating using
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ad in your voice but the moment it
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becomes monetized then they have to
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allow you to participate in in the share
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of publishing and revenue that they have
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and so it's going to come upon the
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artists and the musicians to really work
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with the record execs to really make
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sure uh that places like YouTube and Etc
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don't Place those songs on those
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platforms
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yeah they're gonna find a way they're
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gonna find a way to make it happen and
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they're gonna slide Us in and give us a
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weak percentage that's how I go they
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don't find a way to make it happen you
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got this album out and um
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and so now that makes me curious because
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I saw Snoop talk a couple weeks ago at a
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conference while he was talking about
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streaming and not even knowing how it
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works like how does this money come back
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who's making all this money right you
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don't think about that now you got this
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new album coming out is is your deal
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different like how does it work now I'm
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not with a major until you independent
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okay come on let's get it
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that's great I'm independent men connect
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we independent yeah yeah all but 100 but
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people say they're independent but they
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still use somebody else's distribution
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this is all you now I use connect
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distribution you know what I'm saying
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did you realize you had to learn even
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more about the business because you're
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not utilizing other team members that
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maybe would figure things out on behalf
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of you yeah it's a much it's a much
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harder yeah it's a much harder Grant
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right what are some of the things that
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is sweet it's worth it it's worth it
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what are some of those challenging new
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um information or roles uh it's just you
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going against the majors okay you know
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they don't want to be they don't a lot
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of them don't like to clear they all
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this stuff okay you know uh
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and I be feeling because I went through
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that [ __ ] but you know like they don't
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want to clear it because I'm gonna make
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more money than them
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because they 40 percent getting spit up
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three four different ways you know what
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I'm saying so it's just a lot of stuff
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with the majors and that they be trying
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to stop the independent move but I gotta
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I got a following that's coming with me
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like they coming with me like I gotta
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I got a following that
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that's loyal to me yeah man and uh I
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don't need a major you know I don't need
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a major fool what they be giving and
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taking away that's what I feel
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absolutely I didn't I didn't let them
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they took away from me forever so
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you learn from that you learn from that
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you grow from that Boosie badasses here
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you still like badass yeah okay okay all
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right all right I'll still say it
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uh let me say this too man you cancer
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free right yeah man come on man
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come on man
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that's amazing man you know we all you
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know I'm older than you but a lot of us
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getting up in age now what advice like
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we starting to see a lot of people came
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from our culture you got to check it you
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got to go get yourself checked up bro
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and and work out you gotta you once you
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get older man you gotta you gotta get
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yourself checked by me having had cancer
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uh I go every I gotta go every every
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year and get my annually check up and uh
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I'd be nervous but uh you know it's just
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I pray for I go in there everything I
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was straight but my doctor died right
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okay yeah man that that hurt me from my
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cancer doctor me and him was
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it was like that and he passed away you
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know but how did he pass
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uh something on his brain or something
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something happened to him bro and I
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found out when I went there I'm waiting
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on the doc to come through and they came
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in with the news like I'm like damn bro
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yeah so I got good news and bad news at
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the same time that was a beautiful
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tribute you gave him online though yeah
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man that was my boy yeah what kind of
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things he said to you though that that
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made you change your way of doing things
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uh he made me comfortable okay my doctor
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made me comfortable he's always tell me
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how many shows you didn't did it be like
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five to Five Hundred he said I did 1400
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series
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[Laughter]
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because when I got in there for the
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surgery I had tears in my eyes you know
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because
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I'm gonna get put to sleep you know I
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ain't I ain't I was scared of cancer I
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was feeling like [ __ ] man yeah yeah I
10:30
was I lost like seven
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pounds in two weeks bro 30 and a month
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and a half
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so that stress was taking me out bro
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like I felt like I could fight anything
10:43
else you could bring anything else to
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boost it I could fight it and come on
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top but
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this cancer was kind of heavy on me
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three of my ints and died from cancer
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two of my uncles so it's like a family
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thing so I was I was I was scared yeah I
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came out
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yeah you are shining right there man if
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you go to therapy yeah yeah how often
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you go to therapy uh probably
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once every three months
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can I get personal with the therapy a
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little bit
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yeah yeah when you
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go to therapy
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um do you have I've had do you ever
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discuss like
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for you Bootsy you've been in headlines
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a lot and people have painted you as a
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villain right right uh for some of the
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things you say and what you believe
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right you know
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um does that ever weigh on you to the
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point where you discuss that in therapy
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like I don't like the way people are
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seeing me because I'm speaking my truth
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do you do you discuss that sort of stuff
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that's not really my therapy thing our
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most therapy thing is uh
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my paranoia okay my uh
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my uh
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what I've seen
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my past uh
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because a lot of people don't know man
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when you when you lost a lot of people
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bro you
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your brain ain't all the way right
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neither you need somebody to talk to bro
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and when I talk to my therapist
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I feel better bro like I feel more
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grateful yeah for my for everything and
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it just it just just get me out of place
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because you know like
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bro I've been through a lot Bros yeah
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you know
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I found myself still watching my back
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like you know this trying to get off
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that you know all that Louisiana [ __ ]
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I'm in the country
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I don't forget every time I look I'm
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still in the mirror you know what I'm
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saying yeah
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police ain't even [ __ ] I go to you
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know see the police
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I'm getting better with that you know
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and and things like that and he helping
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me out that's powerful yeah but I love
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you sharing that man get this man a
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round of applause man I appreciate you
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sharing that you put everything out
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there too man you don't have no quarrels
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with that huh like
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[Applause]
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do you have to give you know we all
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worked in this business for years or our
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family our family is in the business
13:27
whether they want to be or not you know
13:30
our kids are definitely in the business
13:31
if you hit a headline your kid gonna go
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to school and he gonna be a part of that
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headline I've had that happen with my
13:37
kid you know and always wondering now
13:39
how do I teach my daughter about
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celebrity and how to cope with it how to
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navigate it how do you teach your kids
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did you you know celebrity ain't easy
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it's fun but it ain't easy
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uh
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uh I try to make them feel like they're
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not celebrities okay you know that's
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that's what I try to you know they know
13:57
they celebrities people ask them but I
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try to keep them as normal as possible
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because uh
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kids gonna be ready for that frame yeah
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you know like teenager Fame I had
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teenager Fame
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makes you crazy it makes you what does
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it do to you like to be famous as a
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teenager uh it makes you disrespectful
14:20
it makes you
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feel you're a man when you ain't really
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a man yet you know what I'm saying but
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teenage thing with me was the best thing
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yeah it was better than all this getting
14:34
all this stuff I had because your first
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Fame me first hearing myself on the
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radio as a 15 year old like that was
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everything for me bro like you know me
14:44
getting the girls that I couldn't get at
14:46
one time teenage Fame was everything to
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me like
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I missed it
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needing PMC like
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come on man how old were you when you
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first met Pimp C I was 17. did you go up
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to Pepsi or he came up to you no I was
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in jail on the uh I was in jail I was 17
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I was in jail on a pistol trip no not a
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pistol truck I was in jail on the stolen
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car charge I had a remain
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and uh for 90 days you know
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you can't get me out of jail I don't
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know how it happened but wait Pimp C
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came and got you out of jail yeah Angel
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status and you didn't know him what no
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but my mama called I called my mom my
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mom like
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some guy named Pimp C and these boys
15:33
they trying to get you out of jail boy
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you know Pimp C I'm like yeah
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a couple days later I don't know they
15:42
pulled some strings and got me out there
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bro really I did like 60 some days they
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got me out
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the rest history bro what y'all do when
15:50
they first came and got you y'all went
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in eight or uh we went roll around eight
15:55
smoked some weed
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[Music]
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chill out talk to me and when the studio
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made a couple songs
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wow
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did he ever tell you like why he decided
16:07
to do that
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nah see the whole point about it is Pimp
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C was the decoy uh-huh
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I thought I was signing the PMC I've
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never thrilled entertainment right yeah
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I thought he was the CEO by him
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being so you know tight with them I
16:22
thought he was the big dog because it's
16:23
true entertainment yeah trillism yeah
16:26
so uh they come to find out he wasn't in
16:30
the paperwork but he
16:32
I thought he was my CEO the whole time
16:34
the whole time that's why you did it
16:36
yeah this is hip-hop50 we celebrating 50
16:38
years of hip-hop man what can you say
16:40
about Pimp C's contribution to the game
16:42
as far as you see it uh Pimp C was real
16:45
bro come she was
16:47
people come she was real all of them and
16:49
he was so talented bro yeah to be make
16:52
to make BT
16:54
all that singing you hear on himself
16:55
it's Pimp C that ain't no woman yeah all
16:59
of them all that's singing you here on
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that stuff that's Pimp C bro that's not
17:03
no woman because she was a talent bro
17:06
Pepsi was a and an outspoken Talent yeah
17:08
he was you know if Pimp C was here right
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now we'll be beefing with everybody
17:19
she got she got problem with everything
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bro
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oh man I love it I got a chance to
17:26
um when he was still before the last
17:29
time he was locked up you know I got a
17:31
chance to take the cameras in the
17:32
institution down in Texas oh yeah and
17:34
sit with him bro from on the other side
17:36
of the way on the other side of the
17:38
glass and interview him from the inside
17:40
the prison uh well inside the residence
17:43
okay you know what I mean he was a a
17:46
resident there when I when I think about
17:48
you my family from West Carroll Parish
17:50
uh Louisiana
17:52
um that to me in hip-hop there's
17:55
there's a unit parallel universes that
17:58
take place right so when I was growing
18:00
up we had Grandmaster Flash on the show
18:03
last week a couple days ago and I was
18:06
explaining to him when I was growing up
18:07
as a kid in Oakland
18:09
the first thing I was seeing was why
18:11
movies like wild style and um uh Star
18:13
Wars and then beat street all these
18:15
early hip-hop movies and we started
18:17
acting accordingly at the same time so a
18:20
lot of people don't realize that while
18:22
LL Cool J was one of my favorites was
18:25
how you know where Run DMC or Houdini or
18:27
UTF all those early groups that's how it
18:29
was stuff happening in the midwest there
18:32
was stuff happening on the west coast so
18:34
on and so forth we all got different
18:36
Heroes right so uh I'm curious to you
18:39
from bootsy's lens
18:42
who were those artists who would be the
18:44
top five artists that made the biggest
18:46
impact coming from the south you think
18:48
in the game that have been most
18:50
influential to you or impacted the game
18:54
um
18:57
from the south uh
19:01
and even people we may not realize like
19:03
you like a lot of folks didn't know how
19:06
big and impactful bootsy's career has
19:09
been on the south they don't know on you
19:11
know they may not know on the west or
19:13
the East back in the day at least
19:16
like bro it's nobody uh
19:21
nobody bigger than me down south okay I
19:24
respected yeah
19:27
uh uh uh uh I'll get most shows than me
19:31
I don't know like I'm a
19:33
I'm a factor bro like you know
19:37
the biggest dudes in the game I'm
19:38
opening up for them every weekend yeah
19:41
they need my energy
19:44
speaking of energy I know right that
19:46
just came on right there damn okay they
19:49
need your energy so like I'm over enough
19:51
for the big dogs Brandy
19:54
I'm bringing the crowd out not only am I
19:56
bringing the crowd I'm giving you a hell
19:57
of a performance
19:59
and them young [ __ ] they love that
20:01
crowd like that before I come home so
20:04
bro like I'm a I'm a top dog not only in
20:07
the South anyway bro like nobody bigger
20:10
than boosting though East Oakland
20:11
Oakland you know Milwaukee nap town it's
20:15
every place in Carolina's like bro
20:18
I could do shows in Florida the rest of
20:20
my life and never go nowhere
20:22
wow how has yours that's a big statement
20:26
that was a stunt right yeah
20:28
[Music]
20:30
damn over all these years Boosie how was
20:32
how has your um stage show evolved
20:36
because you know initially when folks
20:37
get into the game you realize all right
20:39
I have a skill called rap
20:40
but then you can go out on tour and hit
20:43
that stage and you're like oh my gosh
20:44
I'm missing the skill called Showmanship
20:47
uh you just know how to you have you
20:49
have to know how to control a crowd
20:52
see I talked to the crowd up
20:55
I'm Different like you know I I really
20:58
you gotta know how to control the crowd
21:02
you can't expect your music to control
21:04
every crowd because you don't know what
21:06
you're going into sometimes
21:08
you know what I'm saying you got to be
21:10
able to control the crowd you gotta be
21:12
able to turn that [ __ ] off and
21:13
go straight acapella right
21:16
so you'll make changes even in the midst
21:19
yeah yeah it's Different Strokes for
21:21
different folks like I might have these
21:24
songs I'm going playing but when I when
21:26
I go and look at that crowd I'll switch
21:29
them all the way up oh these straight
21:31
it's a radio crowd hmm wipe it out
21:34
independent
21:36
you see what I'm saying but if I'm going
21:39
in the gutter
21:40
this is a mixtape Vibe I'm gonna I'm
21:43
gonna take it I'm finished I'm finna go
21:44
crazy so it's Different Strokes for
21:47
different folks right when I when I'm
21:49
performing I ain't gonna give everybody
21:51
the same thing
21:53
wow man who do you think had the most
21:55
electrifying stage show you ever
21:58
performed on the same build with that
22:00
made you go oh [ __ ] uh
22:07
I don't know I mean best person I ever
22:09
saw performance DMX DMX he made me cry
22:14
he made you cry I was 14 years old I saw
22:17
him performing
22:18
Jay-Z opened up for him
22:21
I saw him perform It's A Hard Knock Life
22:23
tour in Jacksonville Florida
22:25
the Hard Knock Life that was the one
22:27
that Jay-Z and DMX were on the hardest
22:28
life tour Jacksonville Florida bro
22:31
DMX made me cry bro when he said that
22:34
prayer at the end yeah
22:36
me and my me and my cousin was holding
22:39
hands
22:48
so I had to go live with my people in
22:51
Jacksonville and my and my uncle took me
22:54
to the to the concert bro yeah and DMX
22:58
bruh I never seen nothing like that in
23:00
my life
23:01
wow DMX huh had you holding hands in
23:04
tears a crack crying wow what's your
23:07
man's wow
23:10
I'm talking about crying 15 year crying
23:13
bro like this dude
23:15
I'm glad I got to see that yeah man
23:17
Boosie badazz Badass as hell he got a
23:21
new song called please hold me down yeah
23:23
dedicated to you folks man
23:27
say you gonna hold me down but get into
23:29
scenarios and then you switch up yeah
23:32
yeah that's what's going on in the world
23:33
your friends colleagues family members
23:37
this is a message to you I'm gonna play
23:39
this and we're gonna open up the phone
23:41
lines it's brand new please hold me down
23:43
the album is the best album of 2023
23:45
we'll talk about that title it's out
23:47
today 888
23:49
742-3345 hold me down man not just when
23:53
I'm up on top
23:57
not just when I'm shining Mike news and
23:59
I got money falling out my pockets you
24:01
gotta hold me down when the pockets are
24:03
empty too yeah yeah oh man in all
24:06
seasons when I can't get you in the club
24:08
no more you still gotta hold me down you
24:11
gotta make songs like that after all
24:13
these years bro yeah man I'm trying to
24:15
I'm trying to I'm trying to push the net
24:17
yeah I'm trying to push the narrative
24:19
you know stay real stay silent you know
24:22
if you follow it you know that's that's
24:24
what that's that's what you're supposed
24:25
to be you know we go to Jazz Memphis to
24:28
be in jail so we're gonna be dead you
24:30
know know if that's what people gotta
24:33
understand you know like when you when
24:35
you go into prison it's meant for you to
24:37
be in prison speak what you mean like I
24:39
just feel like it's meant for you to be
24:41
in prison uh because like if you're a
24:43
review if you're a real gangster bro
24:45
you're going to prison are dead it's no
24:49
other way yeah are you gonna be a one
24:51
percenter who make it out but uh
24:55
all right let's it's either way bro
24:58
there's no other way people go to prison
25:00
because God really saving your life bro
25:04
you be saving your life so uh
25:06
people need to accept that that's real
25:08
people need to accept that you know stop
25:10
stop bringing people down with you bro
25:12
yeah because you got caught because you
25:15
got caught that was that was God making
25:17
it that way somebody got away you might
25:19
get caught later
25:20
but he got away this time
25:22
let him go
25:24
he jumped the game faster than you [ __ ]
25:27
except accept it accept it bro people be
25:33
I don't I don't be respecting people
25:35
doing all this uh this stuff they be
25:37
doing and uh especially entertainers the
25:40
rappers man it's gone confusing though
25:42
we preaching not to do that yeah but
25:44
it's it's a mixture of I mean can can we
25:47
have the rap industry now without the
25:50
street politics
25:51
you know at one point you kept them it
25:53
seemed like they were separate but now
25:55
it feels like it's so intertwined
25:58
it's different it's a new world yeah
26:01
it's a new world bro and uh
26:03
I like the opportunities it presents
26:06
with a lot of ways to eat but I just
26:09
don't I just don't like a lot of stuff
26:10
that goes on in the world and that's
26:12
just me you know
26:14
and
26:16
when I speak I was starting to seem like
26:18
I'm an outcast
26:20
but that's the new world that's the new
26:22
world the truth is the outcast now
26:25
the truth is enough the truth is the
26:27
outcast how do you decipher Boosie the
26:31
difference between your truth and your
26:34
opinion
26:35
uh
26:37
uh because my truth is my truth you know
26:40
I'm a
26:41
I stand on business because
26:43
this is how I was raised this is what I
26:45
believed in this is how my family raised
26:48
me
26:48
uh that's how I raise mine I mean uh
26:53
in my opinion in my opinion in my in my
26:57
and when I talk it
26:59
it's Millions others opinions right you
27:02
know it might seem like it's only me
27:04
saying it
27:05
but you got even other rappers when they
27:07
see me Boosie I ain't lying I feel the
27:09
same way you exact boost I feel the same
27:13
way
27:14
you know so uh they just ain't got the
27:16
message like me there it is you know
27:18
what's up Lucy has there ever been a
27:20
moment where
27:22
you've thought back to say I wish I
27:24
would have phrase it differently I wish
27:26
I would have said something different uh
27:27
yeah it come out kind of you know it
27:29
come out kind of crazy sometimes but you
27:31
understand what I'm saying
27:35
I might go see it all the way right but
27:38
you know exactly what I'm trying to say
27:42
that's what my mind I don't see it right
27:44
yeah sometime I see it a little
27:48
I don't know how I see it but I need to
27:51
get better with my word
27:54
is that your form of therapy though
27:56
because it's such an emotional response
27:57
I feel from you sometimes on social
27:59
media uh I get upset sometimes I get
28:03
upset with the
28:06
I get upset when sometimes I wait for
28:09
other people to say so you know they
28:11
have people with way bigger platforms
28:12
than me sometimes I sit back
28:15
like ain't nobody gonna say nothing
28:17
everybody quiet
28:20
ly look ain't nobody gonna say nothing
28:30
to finish me all them tweets that is me
28:34
that's you ain't nobody grabbed my phone
28:36
yeah it's me
28:39
let's see if it's a responsibility to
28:40
communicate oh I feel like it is now
28:42
because they didn't left me out the
28:44
draft yeah
28:46
yeah the whole world left me
28:49
out if everybody agree with
28:53
on sway you agree with me
28:56
do you really agree with me
29:01
so the
29:02
I feel it's my duty to speak up on all
29:06
this crazy stuff that's going on in the
29:08
world
29:10
because I can
29:12
load people tell me Boosie don't let
29:14
them shut you up two people in the New
29:16
York airport baby don't let them shut
29:18
you up they wanna shut you up they want
29:21
me quiet
29:22
if I stop talking about all this [ __ ]
29:24
going on who gonna talk about it
29:27
I'm waiting it almost feels you yeah you
29:31
waiting for an answer
29:34
who gonna say so maybe 2D Ross gonna say
29:37
something nah
29:40
he's gonna lay back
29:44
you don't care I'ma say something I I
29:48
it's my duty now they stuck me out here
29:50
who's who is the who that you're looking
29:52
for to say something
29:53
I'm not looking for somebody I just I
29:56
just feel like I just feel like it's too
29:59
many people with platforms these big
30:01
platforms even when they talk about all
30:04
black people it's too many damn people
30:06
with platforms who don't say a damn
30:08
thing when way more followers than me my
30:12
13 million followers been gone I got
30:13
here 800 000.
30:15
you know how many people got platforms
30:19
to speak for our Injustice
30:22
on everything that's going on in the
30:24
world
30:26
but they don't
30:28
so now you leave me out here
30:31
speaking what I speak and I look like
30:33
I'm an okay they go boost that what they
30:35
say there you go over there you go again
30:39
but if everyone if if somebody was to
30:42
stay real and follow suit it would be
30:44
law
30:46
you see what I'm saying so [ __ ] them
30:49
you're gonna keep doing it I'm gonna
30:50
keep doing it Boosie badazza says that
30:52
you got the song Black and beautiful
30:54
which I think is an amazing song
30:57
that's one of my favorites on the album
30:58
that's yeah that's an amazing song
31:00
that's so old to black women right right
31:03
right yeah I want to cater to the black
31:04
talk about that
31:06
well I just wanted to cater to the black
31:08
women because you know
31:10
it seemed like all the mixed women and
31:11
everything getting all up the
31:13
commercials like bro the movie roles
31:16
yeah yes I wanted to cater to my black
31:19
one because I'm I'm a southern baptist
31:21
you know I gotta step out with a black
31:23
one you know I like I like my black
31:26
absolutely Grandpa was a preacher we
31:29
can't even bring that yeah to the to
31:31
Grandma out you know unless you go and
31:34
play with that somewhere else but as far
31:36
as you know not up front nah nah so you
31:39
not
31:40
I won't cater to my black women it
31:42
seemed like you know
31:44
a lot of people looking over our black
31:46
women absolutely yeah yeah so I love
31:49
black women and that's why you made this
31:52
song it's a powerful song I could play
31:54
it for my grandmothers uh my mothers my
31:57
sisters my mama love it yes she proud of
32:00
this one thank you for making this song
32:03
We gonna play this song man we
32:04
appreciate you for making this I think
32:06
it's uh extremely necessary it's called
32:08
Black and beautiful Boosie Badass his
32:10
son is here too uh 2D raw badass I added
32:13
that on the I'm telling of it he's here
32:15
too all right
32:18
888-742-3345
32:19
it's an amazing song
32:22
wow who's singing on that me that's you
32:26
yeah oh [ __ ] yeah yeah that's that's one
32:29
of my favorites duh black women loving
32:31
it too they they loving it thank you for
32:33
that man yeah you could keep making
32:35
songs like that Tootie raw what up with
32:37
you man
32:39
what up what's up baby what's up
32:41
welcome to the show man give it up for
32:44
2D raw all these shots you know I see
32:45
you on Instagram and
32:47
in headlines and [ __ ] you know
32:51
what's this journey been like for you
32:53
man when did you first discover how
32:55
famous your dad was bro
32:57
[ __ ] proud and I was like when my daddy
32:59
got out of jail that when I really knew
33:01
he was really famous which which time
33:03
though like when you got out um I want
33:05
to say in 14 is when we did our sit down
33:08
right two thousand about that time yeah
33:10
when he got out um from doing a couple
33:13
years uh-huh that's not really sorry my
33:15
dad was really famous yeah wow you just
33:17
saw how the people reacted to him yeah
33:20
when I like I used to go to shows and
33:22
shoot them uh-huh and I just see how the
33:24
people react did you get the bug at that
33:27
time at an early age and knew that that
33:28
was something you wanted to do yeah yeah
33:30
right just that's all when I see to see
33:33
my dad downstairs I knew there was
33:34
something like that I was going to do
33:35
for real damn man I feel like a proud
33:37
dad hearing this right here man come on
33:40
man what's the first time you wrote a
33:41
rhyme did you go like you saw him on
33:43
stage it's like man I'm about to go spit
33:45
some bars
33:46
nah I don't know when the first time I
33:49
really rode around
33:51
probably when I was just in the studio
33:52
just probably playing and just ended up
33:55
recording a song for real it was the
33:58
first song that was it what was the
33:59
first song that blew up for you or did
34:01
well for you
34:03
um
34:06
uh Penthouse is doing real good for me
34:09
right now that's one of my biggest songs
34:10
that's one of your biggest songs you rap
34:12
like a man some of the stuff you rap
34:14
about um like a man who done did a lot
34:16
of things you know they've been through
34:19
a lot of situations right uh when you
34:23
hear him rap what do you think of his
34:25
lyrics
34:26
uh
34:27
uh they don't let me help them with
34:29
their lyrics none of my kids
34:30
hmm really they'll even let me be in the
34:33
studio you don't let your dad you got on
34:36
the studio though you built on the
34:37
studio I don't know bro it's my daughter
34:39
my daughter my my son I mean
34:43
they don't let me
34:45
don't let me help them create why is
34:48
that
34:51
shh like they make
34:53
cause some TV on
35:04
[Music]
35:24
hey man why not though your dad like
35:27
done it all man like you ain't got to
35:30
take everything but why not tap into
35:31
that man I do it I do what I don't for
35:35
real I do sometimes but sometimes him
35:38
and my daughter bro they don't let me go
35:41
ahead daddy it seems like coming to they
35:43
could be recording they coming to my
35:45
door go ahead Daddy they don't want
35:47
nothing
35:51
that's what I'm going through with it
35:53
like they'll they'll help they'll let me
35:55
help them bro you putting them out on
35:57
your platform on your label yeah okay
35:59
okay well that's where you're gonna help
36:01
them
36:04
you really want to like distinguish
36:06
yourself separate from your father and
36:09
have like your own path yeah okay that's
36:13
what all of them want to do but I can
36:15
help that path
36:37
I think they just won't be they
36:40
don't know we're gonna do it but just
36:42
not right now not right now yeah not
36:44
right now damn the kid just gave you a
36:46
little a little what do you call a
36:48
little carrot right there for his dad
36:49
that's some psychology right there gave
36:52
him a little pacifier don't Daddy we're
36:54
gonna do it not right now though
36:59
have you learned uh things from your son
37:02
and your daughter that you didn't know
37:04
about through their through their wraps
37:05
uh uh
37:10
not really not really uh I learned from
37:14
their life from their life more than
37:17
their music
37:18
from what they doing in their life
37:20
that's what I learned more from them
37:22
like I told you like I'm like out of
37:24
pocket with the
37:25
with the music I'm out of when you hit
37:27
when when y'all here
37:30
I hear okay damn y'all some cold piece
37:33
of work boy
37:35
songs from now but when the album come
37:37
out when I hear it
37:41
and I let them create like that because
37:43
I feel like they're in a better space
37:44
you know I don't want to be getting on
37:46
nobody damn nerves yeah yeah I want help
37:49
and I don't want to be like you know you
37:50
don't want to be that parent yeah
37:52
you know how they yeah they don't feel
37:54
like Daddy help me write anything he
37:56
didn't help me yeah that's crazy though
37:58
yeah my daughter you know the same they
38:00
don't want to they don't man we worked
38:02
hard to get this [ __ ] too man
38:04
you know um what if you learn um to be
38:08
raw about the game I've seen you you got
38:10
into a lot of headlines a lot of social
38:12
media trouble if you will
38:15
um at an early time at an early age you
38:18
know what have you learned about that
38:19
because a lot of younger artists use
38:21
social media to speak their minds and
38:22
then it might lead you in two situations
38:24
might be legal situations you experience
38:27
that too what what if what have you
38:30
learned from it though like moving
38:32
forward
38:33
I learned that down there
38:35
the mo the more as I get the more I get
38:38
and [ __ ] the more I gain the more haters
38:41
I'm gonna get so I just really be
38:44
blocking them out for real yeah
38:46
blocking them out meaning like I'm not
38:48
gonna respond to them publicly no more
38:50
I'm just gonna do what I do yeah I ain't
38:52
doing no I ain't responding to you I
38:54
don't see you you just say what you say
38:56
I ain't saying nothing back to you how
38:58
old are you now 19 19 man what a
39:01
beautiful time man yeah that man a round
39:03
of applause
39:05
so you've experienced some things early
39:08
on already that you ain't got to
39:10
re-experience in your 20s
39:12
I like that man maturity man we got 2D
39:16
raws here we're gonna play something by
39:18
YouTube we're gonna end the show with
39:19
yours and then we got Boosie here uh
39:21
it's a lot of people on the line so
39:23
we're gonna start with Tiffany from
39:24
Charlotte go ahead Tiff hey Tiff what up
39:26
Tiffany
39:28
what's up man
39:33
you've been waiting for me 22 minutes 22
39:36
minutes
39:37
oh my God I love you so much she's been
39:40
on hold for 22 minutes oh Tiff
39:58
what's your question
40:02
I would be more
40:04
hey Tiff you got a question
40:08
um I don't have a question I just want
40:10
to tell Lucy that I love him okay I love
40:13
you too baby
40:16
I'm in Baltimore tomorrow
40:25
in Baltimore today so she don't know I'm
40:28
not in Baltimore but look I'm a stripper
40:32
they don't mean anything
40:39
I used to go until then
40:46
real quick I don't think we can do all
40:48
that you gotta you gotta you gotta send
40:50
it to my DM what's your Instagram send
40:52
it to my DM
41:04
all right
41:12
you know
41:14
yes Tiffany the stripper
41:24
she said she love me too yeah yeah oh
41:26
[ __ ] well like send me some videos
41:31
send me some shots too Tiff will you
41:34
send it to Boosie put us on the same
41:36
chain yeah she say she gonna send this
41:38
way we waiting on we waiting on you tip
41:40
you a super simple matter of fact I'm
41:41
gonna get you now I'm gonna get you off
41:43
the phone so you can yeah yeah
41:47
hey baby
41:48
who is this what
41:52
okay Tiffany I gotta go right now just I
41:55
gotta go tip all right I gotta go go to
41:58
work Tiff all right you're a Citizens
42:05
hey Vanessa you want to say something to
42:08
Boosie yeah Vanessa
42:10
yes hi hi boots y'all listen to your
42:13
music because my kids turns me on to you
42:15
yeah I love your content I mean it's
42:17
it's a little far out there but I still
42:19
love it you know what I'm saying and we
42:20
were just talking about what you're
42:21
saying about people speaking up about
42:24
what is going on in the world if we
42:26
don't have you standing sir I don't have
42:28
Instagram I don't have Snapchat I don't
42:30
have all that I have Facebook I'm old
42:32
school and I just believe that if you
42:35
keep speaking don't you shut your mouth
42:36
don't you shut your mouth you keep
42:38
speaking right into US you keep speaking
42:41
lighting to us because we need you baby
42:43
we need we need our black men and we
42:46
need our we need our black men we need
42:47
our black women we need our black kids
42:57
[Music]
42:59
18 years
43:01
my little niece was 18 years old I'm
43:03
going to a funeral today she was messing
43:06
with this grown ass man
43:08
he was 30 he was 38 years old she was 18
43:12
years old as they was 18 years old this
43:14
man took her
43:19
then he took her and he shot her in her
43:21
face wow
43:25
so baby what you doing is really it
43:29
really helps because people don't they
43:31
don't understand black people don't
43:32
understand once they get up to that
43:33
level to where they can speak and
43:36
somebody can hear them
43:37
then they carry down
43:39
you know what I'm saying do you have
43:41
people out here that listen to your
43:42
music and they really believe the things
43:45
that they're hearing that's what these
43:46
kids are believing that they can take
43:48
percocets and they can shoot somebody 50
43:50
times and not get away and get away with
43:52
it and then kill the laws because that's
43:54
what they're hearing they're not hearing
43:56
nothing else kids are like sponges
43:59
they gravitate to everything funny thing
44:01
is have fake kids or sponges and I know
44:04
I go a long time but the funny thing is
44:06
is that my grandson is three years old
44:07
and he was over to the house and I was
44:09
messing with my chickens and I said
44:11
[ __ ] and he said it behind me
44:13
his mom called me today and said he
44:15
called his sister that yeah I felt bad
44:18
because I was like oh my God if I hadn't
44:20
said it in front of him he wouldn't have
44:22
said it behind me
44:24
and that's where I believe black people
44:27
are dropping the ball anybody that's 70
44:29
years old is below we dropped the ball
44:32
because we went from
44:35
oh Charlie trying to learn how to read
44:37
and write yeah
44:39
after learning how to read and write we
44:41
got that we got that right to learn how
44:42
to read learn how to write to learn how
44:44
to go to school to be in the public we
44:46
got that right but then we went from
44:48
that
44:49
to separating the family separating the
44:52
black family home uh-huh well Vanessa
44:55
thank you I appreciate it no no hold up
44:58
Vanessa what is your what is your
45:00
niece's name
45:01
my niece's name is uh
45:04
oh [ __ ] hold on
45:06
I'm so no
45:11
is my niece
45:13
just just recently I don't
45:16
know what is his baby name hold on let
45:18
me find it
45:19
okay let me find it I'm sorry you know
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her first name
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her first name is Elena okay say it
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three times
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Elena Elena Elena okay we signifying her
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spirit and we're going to send prayers
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to strength to you and your family uh
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for what took place that man is a
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monster and when you say we're dropping
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the ball Boosie is showing you that the
45:40
ball is still bouncing okay so the ball
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is still on court I'm glad we picked it
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up
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the game the ball still bouncing you
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know we we dropped the ball but it's
45:50
still bouncing okay love you make sure
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you get a blue album best album of 2023.
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okay got you you're a Citizens
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wow man it's kind of fans you got bro
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bro I got I got fans bro like
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they come cry to me bro yeah like it's
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different bro
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70 of people come up to me they You
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Raised Me
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use my daddy
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straight up you raised me [ __ ] my dad
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was gone I learned how to talk to women
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from you I learned what Carter ride in
46:24
from you I learned how everything from
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you and it's a difference
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then somebody come and saying they go I
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like your song that's what they do to
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everybody else I like your new song
46:34
there's a difference no You Raised Me
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[Music]
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um what is your goal with this rap stuff
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what would what would you hope to see
47:05
where would you hope to see yourself in
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three to four years
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[ __ ] big ass house couple million
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dollars
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a couple car
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Living For Real yeah business owner yeah
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business owner give me a couple business
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spots you still get allowance from your
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dad or how does that works
47:32
y'all little together yeah I see you
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online right yeah yeah well he paying
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rent nah he ain't paying rent but he
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finna be in a minute
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what do you tell you
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pay rent
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[Music]
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[Music]
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to swing my
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safe sex now though
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um
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[Music]
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he have Rebels
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he like I used to be don't use them
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in your pocket yeah that don't mean it's
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going on there
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he just happened to show off from his
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uncle yeah like he doing something no no
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no you wouldn't have been getting them
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scared
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and then wipe it off
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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that's why they call you wrong
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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let's get it make it black
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bro I've seen you a lot over the years
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man it's great watching you grow up man
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it's great watch you grow up you got a
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lot at your disposal very fortunate your
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father has so many resources tap into
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them trust me bro like I said I try to
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tell my daughter that all the time like
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it's like damn your dad be popping like
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yeah we got it let's use it it's gonna
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help you get there other other
51:37
communities do that with their kids and
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their parents you know it's almost like
51:42
you know they call it nepotism but to me
51:44
it's just a natural order of things that
51:47
if I made a bunch of stuff I gotta here
51:49
daughter take all that you need but let
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me teach you about it as you get it
51:54
right and then you rock with it how you
51:56
will that makes him proud that's why he
51:58
was like damn I just want to help my
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kids right that's what that is really so
52:02
much spoiling yeah tap into it take
52:04
advantage of it I know you do really
52:06
already but 2D raw man get that man a
52:08
round of applause good to have you on
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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from what I heard you know
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and what I've been hearing you know
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ain't been no [ __ ] but it's been all
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right yeah yeah and uh the product I
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just dropped
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I don't think nothing nothing can fade
52:41
that this year coming
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uh every song has a meaning yes it's not
52:47
it's an album like you know like my
52:50
album's album every song has a different
52:53
meaning nothing sounds the same with the
52:56
same beat and the same rhyme on it it's
52:59
versatile
53:01
every topic is a different topic
53:04
you see what I'm saying
53:06
it's not a money CD yeah
53:09
it's all in it's all in one it's
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motivation is
53:13
struggle is
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truth on what's going on it's
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telling you to hold me down it's a
53:21
classic bro like 16 songs of classic you
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like the album truly raw yeah yeah yeah
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yeah
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what do you rank your dad as a rapper
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uh a legend there you go that's a
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beautiful animal like we're gonna end on
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that though I'm gonna play your song
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