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French Montana On ‘Montega’ Album With Harry Fraud, 3-Years Sober, Work In Uganda, Drake & Diddy
Jun 23, 2022
French Montana is ramping up for the release of his new project ‘Montega’ which is completely produced by Harry Fraud. He stopped by Sway In The Morning with a new philosophy on life. He spoke of the great work he is doing in Uganda and much more.
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French Montana On ‘Montega’ Album With Harry Fraud, 3-Years Sober, Work In Uganda, Drake & Diddy
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[Applause]
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yo man i [ __ ] damn it
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i was gonna do something different with
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this one but i'm just gonna come from
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come from the heart man like i i've been
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talking about coke boys i've been
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talking about this man's rise
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i've been talking about all the stuff
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he's faced the adversities and i'm not
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even talking about we we
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know you've been shot you know and and
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um
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we know about your beefs and uh we know
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about all of the losses yeah that's come
0:28
through your career we don't have to
0:29
regurgitate those things right um
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i party with french before
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where we're at which time
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wow all right um
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south beach like south beach i'd live
0:44
okay
0:45
you took your shirt off
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well french almost had me i felt so much
0:49
good prince might not even remember this
0:51
[ __ ] but uh
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okay great good good that means it was
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good good good good
0:55
that's a good night but it was good for
0:57
me
0:58
because this i don't remember how many
1:00
years ago but it was
1:02
it was right at it was at the apex you
1:04
know what i mean like you you just was
1:06
stringing the long hits after hits after
1:08
hits it was a good ass time yeah and i
1:11
came in with you um i don't remember why
1:14
it might have been a revolt thing or
1:16
something i don't know um and you said
1:19
sway come hang out so i hung out on the
1:21
bleacher with you or somewhere in the
1:22
stairs or whatever liv is right by the
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uh right by the dj
1:26
and i stood right kind of behind you and
1:28
just observed yeah
1:31
and i learned what it's like to be a
1:33
rock star
1:36
okay okay i was like i've never been a
1:38
rock star what are the abcs of that you
1:41
got to have a lot of beautiful people
1:43
around yeah french had a lot of
1:44
beautiful people around him they was
1:46
playing this music let's keep it real a
1:47
lot of beautiful ladies beautiful ladies
1:49
ah you know okay that ain't got to be
1:51
beautiful there wasn't a whole lot of
1:52
guys
1:53
and they were there to accommodate you
1:55
and and i walked away going yo that man
1:57
is living a a really
1:59
explosive life yeah
2:01
as he should
2:03
then i bumped into him in london okay um
2:06
and i was hosting the vma the ema's
2:09
european music awards
2:11
and i saw him and sway lee
2:14
uh perform um
2:16
unforgettable
2:18
and then another i had another pic for
2:21
me like i
2:23
french is out here doing stuff that
2:25
they're not doing back in the states
2:26
okay
2:27
right with unforgettable was that not
2:29
but by the way french montana is here
2:31
citizens
2:32
montana's here what's up he's here
2:38
i start studying you at that because i
2:40
was like okay he's smart
2:42
like he's not settling and he's not
2:44
sitting on his ass while things look
2:46
good in the states what's unforgettable
2:48
yo
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was that the song that made the biggest
2:51
impact you feel like on your career well
2:53
that that song just went diamond the
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other day wow wow
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that's that's the way to answer that
2:59
question that's crazy i mean you know
3:02
i'm probably i think i am
3:04
the first african-born artist to go
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diamond in the states
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and probably the first the first artist
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to go diamond at the mecca of hip-hop as
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a male artist from the bronx
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so
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damn wow
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[Laughter]
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so when
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[Applause]
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we have to
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so sort of answer your question yes yes
3:30
that's what you're telling us okay so
3:31
proceeds of that help go to uganda yeah
3:34
it's a hospital
3:35
i mean that that song changed a lot of
3:37
lives that's why i would consider it my
3:39
biggest song because it's just you know
3:41
we went from
3:42
you know making making health care in
3:44
certain parts of uganda as as a right
3:46
not a privilege
3:48
you know we went from taking kids from
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from from uganda giving them visas to
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come here
3:53
from performing locally to perform in
3:55
front of almost 300 million people i
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mean we changed lives with that song
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yeah it changed my life
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it changed your life how so
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um
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it just it just just changed my life
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because you know
4:06
do through helping you heal yourself you
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know i feel like
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i feel like helping you know how
4:12
you know helping people sometimes you
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know god will help you even more
4:15
french has been sober for three years
4:18
right come on yeah yeah
4:19
he ain't had a drink or smoke weed yeah
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yeah what about that stuff you offered
4:24
me a club live
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no nothing
4:27
[Laughter]
4:36
you know i did the courtesy to mac
4:38
miller courtesy you know
4:39
to the people that
4:41
you know and it's just like
4:42
you know nowadays record labels again
4:44
life insurance or artists man it's it's
4:46
the scary times that we live in
4:47
so you gotta yeah you gotta be mindful
4:49
of that and you gotta take care of your
4:50
health they invested in your death yeah
4:53
they're investing you're definitely more
4:54
than your career
4:56
oh god it's like money in that
4:59
stomach
5:00
yeah
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um what's been the
5:03
easiest part about being sober
5:06
um just enjoying every high of the
5:08
moment what i'm saying you know like you
5:11
know really really feeling the rush when
5:12
you win and really feeling the rush when
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you lose
5:15
really feeling the real experience of
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life you know
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how how it was meant for us to feel it
5:21
you know what i'm saying and you know i
5:23
mean i'm still hiding drunk from when i
5:24
stopped you still there yeah
5:28
i want to get in my coffee get them a
5:29
coffee
5:32
it's so funny yesterday we had a
5:34
comedian and writer and artist sam j
5:36
here and we were talking about names and
5:38
so
5:38
she asked sway where did his name come
5:40
from how did i get heather b how did
5:42
tracy get trey hover and mike muse
5:43
that's just he got a fly name because
5:45
that's the name he was born with yeah
5:46
then your name came up this morning we
5:48
were like damn where did the name french
5:50
montana come from he's like well [ __ ] we
5:52
gotta ask him where did you get that
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name from well i came i came from africa
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when i was 13.
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um from morocco and morocco we speak
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french is our second language
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yeah and
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when i came here and when i came to the
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bronx there was a lot of africans in the
6:08
bronx around elizabeth and um
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and i used around each stream on i used
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to speak french to them so everybody
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from the block used to call me bonjour
6:17
first then they started calling me
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french oh yeah damn but and and then the
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montana came from when i came from
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africa i came into visa
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so i i didn't really have the privilege
6:27
that americans had for the american
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dream i had
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you know i could i couldn't go to
6:32
college because i didn't have no
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scholarships i couldn't get a
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scholarships i ain't have no work papers
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so i couldn't get no job
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i couldn't really do nothing that a
6:41
regular american do so i was basically
6:43
like an alien so the only way i was
6:45
gonna make a dollar will start hustling
6:47
and i'm not talking about hustling
6:48
anything i mean you know just hustling
6:50
and you know that's where montana came
6:52
from montana so uh uh tony montana
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yeah because he was a hustler
6:57
yesterday i guess that [ __ ] ain't that
7:00
simple french
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yeah
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you remind you in an interesting
7:09
position and that this just dawned on me
7:11
when you said the first african-born
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artist i remember reggae tone
7:14
start hitting big you know and i give
7:19
i think it was nori
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you know um
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who made reggaeton you know really
7:25
become a global thing you know and i
7:27
think people forgot that
7:29
you know nori got that background right
7:32
dude and then reggaeton artists i met a
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lot of them done omar yeah
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um i met everybody you know um
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davido or where's kim devito where's kid
7:44
yeah um all of these artists uh whether
7:47
it's a nasty sea or you know all these
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different people that come from africa
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do they come to you and say man thank
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you for some of the doors you may have
7:55
busted open or do they see you as an
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african artist um
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i don't i mean i don't know i don't i
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don't i don't expect a thank you from
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nobody uh-huh i'm just here running my
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own race okay you know i don't look i
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don't look for thank yous i don't look
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for acknowledgements i don't look for
8:09
awards i don't look i just do guys work
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and i make great music and i just you
8:13
know stay in my path i learned that i
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learned that a long time ago in the game
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okay but do they acknowledge you as an
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african artist is what i mean huh i mean
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i mean i was born there so i don't i
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mean i don't
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i don't i don't know
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yeah but you know ain't nobody more
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african than me
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i was born and i lived there for 13
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years and i'm into my
8:35
put it like this the only person that's
8:38
here in the united states out of my
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whole family is me
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so they're gonna get them more african
8:43
than that and everybody's still loving
8:45
the content my father my uncles my aunts
8:48
everybody my mother just said cause she
8:49
sacrificed with me so shout out to her
8:52
first
8:58
with the status that you have friends
9:00
you've been able to enjoy so much and
9:02
like i was thinking about this even more
9:04
when i saw um that new york city mayor
9:06
eric adams yeah was at your album party
9:08
and i was like wow that's a different
9:09
type of stunt to have a mayor but it
9:11
also just made me curious like because i
9:12
was thinking to myself dang what would i
9:14
say if i was standing next to the mayor
9:16
does it ever get like tricky engaging in
9:19
conversations with people who are of
9:22
such a high social status ever by the
9:24
way i'm the first one in new york city
9:26
history to have demayo album listening
9:35
you know party no but definitely man
9:36
he's he's he's a great guy
9:39
um you know he's a great guy and we're
9:41
just talking about how can we help the
9:42
youth you know that's what i'm about you
9:44
know trying to help the youth
9:46
because you know it's sad what's going
9:48
on when you know in the game especially
9:51
now when they're using your lyrics
9:52
against you yeah when when when the
9:54
whole story of hip hop was was painted
9:56
by the pillars
9:58
of the music which is nas that made
10:00
songs from his window because he's a
10:01
narrator and people that was making
10:04
music now narrating with what they see
10:07
the drug dealers do what they're seeing
10:08
you know the real people that suffer the
10:10
consequences and that's what we did
10:11
cocaine city back in the days
10:13
because we had the real drug dealers in
10:15
the beginning we had the artist at the
10:16
end and the artist was rapping about the
10:18
drug dealers and we try to show people
10:20
it's not the life that you want to live
10:22
but nowadays they're making the artist
10:24
the drug dealer yeah and the killer and
10:27
everything you know and um and it's sad
10:29
and it's sad for hip-hop so in order for
10:31
us to make a change
10:33
we got to embrace people like eric
10:36
and people that's in the higher position
10:37
like that that can help see the vision
10:39
and help help these kids because we
10:40
don't have no help out here
10:42
you know what i'm saying
10:44
from pop smoke little tj look what
10:46
happened this morning yeah i just
10:48
brought that up yeah yeah it's sad you
10:50
know what i'm saying it's sad we don't
10:51
got as many artists as it is probably
10:53
like five artists in new york right now
10:55
did you know him before he was the mayor
10:57
did he before he became the mayor did
10:59
you know eric adams i i knew of him okay
11:02
yeah but i didn't know him until uh
11:05
jennifer lopez we got the um the lead
11:08
song for jennifer lopez documentary so
11:11
so he so he came to the party with j.lo
11:13
and i met him there and there was
11:14
nothing but love that's dope i said a
11:16
bronx thing right there yeah
11:18
yeah bronx stand up little tj man were
11:20
you cool with him did you uh yeah yeah
11:22
you guys were real right yeah yeah i was
11:23
yeah i was trying to sign a little tj
11:25
when he first came out so we got a
11:27
relationship with him yeah i mean tj is
11:29
you know he's he's a little bro so uh so
11:31
when i heard that this morning it just
11:33
you know it went right back to we need
11:34
help as artists how do you you you've
11:37
been an artist who've
11:38
gone through the full gamut but your
11:40
mindset is you're rewired now you're not
11:42
thinking like you like young french you
11:44
know
11:45
what what
11:47
how do you reach how do we reset our
11:48
mindsets you know in our communities is
11:51
it possible or do people just got to go
11:53
through the fire to get to this place
11:55
yeah i mean
11:57
man i'm some of us blessed enough to go
11:59
you know go through the fire and make it
12:01
out of it you know what i'm saying and
12:02
when you i mean when you make it out the
12:04
fire you got no choice but to make a
12:05
change yeah because then then you
12:08
believe that god gave you that chance
12:10
no means to make the change because if
12:11
not you're just slapping your luck in
12:13
the face
12:14
what difference you making
12:16
we don't did all the gangster [ __ ] we
12:17
done did all of all the beef and we done
12:19
did everything we can do we came from a
12:20
full life of just [ __ ]
12:23
so it's time for us to make a change and
12:24
become an example
12:26
i think i think that's what it is
12:28
i think you just have to be chosen by
12:29
the man upstairs to make an example if
12:31
you're not chosen then i can't expect
12:32
you to make the example because he
12:33
didn't choose you to make the example
12:37
french montana mike go ahead get in
12:39
there
12:40
i need to just hold your hand
12:42
yeah
12:43
um one i'm enjoying this conversation
12:44
congratulations on all the first that
12:45
you've done right uh i'm just thinking
12:47
about this conversation right now which
12:48
is you asking about the mayor adams
12:50
thinking about you being the global
12:50
citizen
12:52
i'm thinking about you and immigration
12:53
and challenges you had and then the
12:54
success that you had with that are your
12:56
peers now
12:58
more open to getting in front of policy
13:01
being more comfortable getting involved
13:02
with politics of philanthropy there's
13:04
always been this hesitation because
13:05
people in entertainment athletes fear
13:07
their brand would take a hit do you feel
13:09
that's changing now seeing how much
13:11
issues in particular uh the assault that
13:13
hip-hop is under right now uh for
13:15
individuals to say something and to do
13:17
something i mean i mean i always look at
13:19
it like this and this is sum it up it's
13:21
people when you die people don't come to
13:23
your funeral for what you did for
13:25
yourself they come to your funeral for
13:26
what you did for them so
13:28
so so so that's the way i look at life
13:30
so if you're not helping if you're not
13:32
helping whether it's your peers or or or
13:35
or helping immigrants that
13:37
you know that deserve the same chances
13:39
that everybody's getting out here like
13:40
you talk about the immigrant thing i
13:42
stepped in when it when they took away
13:43
the daca program
13:45
this this this country is built on
13:47
dreamism but it's built on american
13:48
dream for every kid that comes from a
13:50
different country especially somebody
13:52
that's not committing crimes and doing
13:53
all these things so when you go to
13:55
school your whole life and they just
13:56
pull you out of college and they'll be
13:58
like look you don't have the right
13:59
you know i'm saying the right paperwork
14:01
this and that that's not fair to to
14:03
somebody that you know that didn't
14:05
commit no crimes they didn't do nothing
14:06
all because
14:08
they came from another country you know
14:10
what i'm saying so i'm glad they they
14:11
brought that back
14:12
and yeah man i just i just love to help
14:14
i feel like you know helping is part of
14:16
my therapy
14:18
french montana yeah oh man we got jabari
14:20
on the line from toronto jabari rise and
14:22
shine what up what up jabari
14:24
yo what's good tracy g sway has to be
14:28
what up baby
14:33
yo first off i want to say salute to
14:35
everything you're doing for the
14:35
immigrants but that same thing happened
14:37
to a good friend of mine from kenya
14:40
because i'm from the a i'm living up in
14:41
toronto my girl she actually is a huge
14:44
fan of you bruh she's she's a fan of all
14:45
the old coke boys tapes and all that
14:48
[ __ ] appreciate it when i first came to
14:49
toronto she was bumping that [ __ ] i'm
14:51
like you listen to the [ __ ]
14:54
yeah bro from yo salute to you i just
14:57
want to know real [ __ ] like when you
14:59
gonna get back to
15:01
the real cook like the classic coke boys
15:03
tape some [ __ ] it's time little well i'm
15:05
glad i'm glad you brought that up
15:06
because me and harry frog dropping the
15:08
tape
15:09
tomorrow there you go
15:17
this is why i'm up here with suede to
15:19
let the world know
15:21
french montana and harry fraud is back
15:24
to the og coke boy sound for this
15:25
mixtape this is this is the first oh
15:28
this is the first album me and harry
15:30
fraud ever made together as a
15:32
full-length album he was always part of
15:34
my sister things in the past yeah with
15:36
that shot caller i'm a coke boy playing
15:38
in the wind all that everything that the
15:40
people love
15:41
was me and harry fraubo we only did a
15:43
couple songs here and there this time
15:45
we're doing a full-length album and this
15:47
drop on on june 24th another thing you
15:50
hear that jabari who's featured on it
15:52
um ross
15:54
um we got um um rick ross estg
15:58
baby face ray
16:00
we got jada kiss on there we got benny
16:02
the butch on there we got we got butcher
16:04
we got chinks on there oh really yeah
16:07
that's dope yeah we're gonna go through
16:08
a couple records while we're here yeah
16:10
let's do it come on i'm ready matter of
16:12
fact
16:13
thank you jabar are you a citizen a sway
16:15
in the morning bruh what about
16:17
what i was uh
16:19
played this one back a couple of times i
16:21
thought man i think tracy came in this
16:23
morning talking about the record i said
16:25
we might as well do a lyrical a lyrical
16:27
breakdown on it french i don't know if
16:29
we've done a lyrical breakdown with you
16:32
let's do a lyrical breakdown we got
16:33
french montana's here 888 888-742-3345
16:38
and today's featured song mike muse
16:41
will be a song called blue chills
16:45
i don't get it
16:46
what exactly don't you get breaking down
16:49
the lyrics you may not understand what
16:51
the hell did you just say it's the
16:53
lyrical breakdown i can break it down
16:56
like whatever you want on sway in the
16:58
morning
17:00
now y'all know france was a battle
17:01
rapper
17:02
uh huh
17:04
just before i get into these lyrics
17:05
would you ever consider going back if
17:07
somebody called you out for a battle or
17:08
that g beyond that
17:10
um you never know
17:12
if that bag is right
17:18
because that requires time that requires
17:20
time it requires time to sit there and
17:22
write it and you know remember it and do
17:24
this do that yeah it requires time and
17:26
that's three verses at least minimum
17:27
right yeah three but three like bazookas
17:29
like you can't it's not just like six
17:31
scenes
17:33
gotta be 112.
17:35
you ever lose a battle
17:37
um
17:38
almost then we stopped it
17:42
so you didn't have to lose
17:44
[Laughter]
17:48
that's funny as hell yeah
17:51
i think yeah i think we was in fight
17:52
club i was battling somebody in fight
17:54
club for like 15 grand
17:56
and we was like you know but in there
17:58
like what dudes like was doing they
18:00
would bring their whole click with them
18:02
so they could start making noise okay oh
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yeah so i remember me mdot cam's car
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everybody that was with me was like
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everybody chipped in for the battle it
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was like you got as soon as it looked
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like they cheating
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you better hit somebody
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you know the fight broke out like on the
18:17
second round oh my gosh
18:20
they stopped it then we got our money
18:22
back it was like all right cool
18:25
to the next one but he was serving you
18:26
was the dude serving you a little bit we
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was going back and forth but they was
18:30
making more noise okay okay i'll see
18:31
what you mean yeah all right so this
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song is called blue chills what why blue
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let's talk about the title blue chills
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blue chills man it's the blues it's like
18:41
you know is that is that wave sound
18:43
that's the best way to explain it you'll
18:44
get the goosebumps
18:46
okay don't play it yet tom um i'm gonna
18:49
go over these lyrics i can't do them
18:51
like friends friends you really
18:52
developed your own style over there yeah
18:54
i noticed your timing yeah yeah i peeped
18:57
game like you got a uh distinguished i
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know a french montana verse and record
19:02
whenever i hear it this first verse
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first goes wave boys back at it gotta
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flood the streets
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had to pass drake and puff back after
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the little beef
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yeah i mean um you know drake and puff
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they're both my best friends and it was
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going through a little something and i
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remember having a birthday and um
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inviting both of them what i'm saying
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and they came together
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and it was you know it was it was it was
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good times you know i don't like i don't
19:28
like when i know two people and they
19:30
beefing they don't feel good right yeah
19:31
yeah they're awkward especially uh two
19:33
people as important as them was that the
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catalyst to them kind of bridging
19:38
whatever gathering yeah yeah it happened
19:39
at my birthday party wow i remember
19:42
iggy azalea had through a birthday party
19:44
for me on the boat
19:46
we went over there and drake was there i
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i don't think he knew puff was coming
19:49
then puff came then they just spent the
19:51
whole night talking that night what a
19:53
great gift that's beautiful
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scorpios
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[Applause]
19:57
all three of us yeah yeah that's a lot
19:59
of freaky yeah it's freaky amigos i beg
20:01
your party
20:02
scorpios the scorpios aren't right
20:04
that's what y'all brag about that's a
20:05
stereotype oh that's not good
20:07
people at depth
20:09
and the line the line after that damn
20:12
montana why ain't rapping like the old
20:13
montana that was exactly what just
20:15
happened right now when the caller
20:17
called that he just said the same thing
20:19
that's right exactly what happened so
20:21
that's so that's that was the answer
20:23
right there okay okay give a [ __ ] about
20:25
them diamond plaques yeah the streets
20:27
want you back yeah you say les i've been
20:29
depressed they took chinks and my dog
20:31
and my dog max all black you in therapy
20:35
i noticed you said giving back is a part
20:37
of your therapy that's that's part of my
20:38
therapy okay yeah and just just being
20:41
you know
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you know keep pushing the envelope for
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my brothers i feel like
20:45
you know that's that's that's that's
20:47
what's healing the process but we can
20:48
never heal you know what i'm saying all
20:50
we could do is it's it's trying to you
20:52
know become better people
20:54
i love where french is that man and i
20:56
like reading your lyrics um
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gave you
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gave you known for 30.
21:02
i just want to rap
21:04
baby mama's tripping she just want to
21:06
check is that why y'all broke up you
21:07
know everybody mama want to check
21:11
that's just general
21:12
oh my gosh yeah
21:16
but she's a beautiful mother though hey
21:18
man there you go
21:20
yeah there you go shout out to all the
21:22
mothers out there oh yeah there you go
21:24
ain't no ain't no wrong little money
21:26
yeah man hey
21:28
you know what it is man the
21:30
the kids mama see you living a certain
21:32
way and they want to well [ __ ] why can't
21:34
we live that way too kids start asking
21:36
questions sometimes
21:37
all right okay
21:39
the um
21:40
the greatest threat is always from the
21:42
inside yes
21:45
yes sir they put staples in my head
21:47
[ __ ] they been tried
21:50
the greatest threat is always on the
21:51
inside so there was somebody inside your
21:53
crew
21:54
that set you up
21:56
that led to you being shot yeah the
21:58
person that that got me shot drove me to
22:00
the hospital so the greatest threat was
22:02
always from the inside
22:04
of you to the hospital yeah the person
22:06
that set me up the one drove me to the
22:07
hospital so your greatest threat always
22:09
come from the inside they put staples in
22:11
my head [ __ ] they've been tried so that
22:13
when you found out that was the person
22:15
how did y'all communicate from there
22:17
right there was no communication yeah
22:19
that was gonna be yeah yeah okay
22:21
all right um yo this might be one of the
22:23
realest [ __ ]
22:28
that's why this is that's why this is my
22:30
best shape out the gate too
22:32
harry fought in french montana man it's
22:33
the best duo since
22:35
since prodigy and have it since snoop
22:37
and dr dre
22:39
you going there snooping dre yeah
22:41
prodigy and having this this our first
22:43
project
22:44
yeah harry frye french montana
22:47
shorty want to rag me and throw me up on
22:49
shade room or killers want to bag me or
22:51
come see me in that in that day room
22:53
shorty want to rag me and throw me up on
22:54
shade room
22:56
you know it's hard being a sniper
23:02
scorpio [ __ ] i'm retired
23:09
they just feed my they just freed my dog
23:11
penthouse outside the fence told them
23:13
keep the crown in your heart not on your
23:15
head
23:16
i like that
23:17
yeah so penthouse is the one um that i
23:20
was rapping about on state scheming with
23:21
rick ross
23:22
like the gay max 7-5 he gave p another
23:25
30. so um penthouse in the 30. so
23:28
basically it was it was a friend of mine
23:29
that did a lot of time and he just came
23:31
home from from from the feds
23:33
i told him keep the crown in your heart
23:34
not your head
23:37
that's where it is uh i'm a skip
23:42
i'm letting life unfold and i'll be the
23:44
last thing you see
23:46
yeah
23:48
like that gun hole trapping out of
23:49
merlin with monroe
23:53
explain that dude i know i didn't read
23:54
that right right
23:58
damn swag
23:59
man i'm telling the way he wrapped it
24:01
though i'm trying to
24:02
uh
24:09
and if your enemy ain't talking good
24:11
about you you ain't working hard enough
24:13
uh-huh if your enemy ain't talking good
24:15
about you it don't matter what type of
24:17
problem you have with somebody and
24:19
they're not if
24:20
every time don't your name don't come up
24:22
then they'd be like damn he doing his
24:24
thing even you know then you're not
24:26
working hard enough um has your
24:27
motivation changed over the years you
24:29
know how there's a lot of folks on
24:30
twitter or on instagram that'll be like
24:33
they're doing it so you know success is
24:35
the greatest um
24:38
form of revenge
24:39
you know what i'm saying do you think
24:40
about like haters or doubters that
24:42
anyone that you had an issue with and
24:44
that kind of brings a smile to your ego
24:46
i feel like i i feel like when they come
24:48
to me i i passed that stage yeah so it's
24:51
kind of like i'm just doing things
24:52
fulfill you know fulfill my legacy and
24:55
fulfill what i want to be remembered as
24:57
but that's why i was bringing it up
24:58
earlier like the diamond and platinum
25:00
albums this and that that was what i had
25:02
in my bucket list
25:03
but now that the bucket list is over i'm
25:05
back to what made me french montana i'm
25:07
back to the essence of hip-hop
25:09
i'm back to dropping you know my best
25:11
music i love it
25:15
what a great place to be the project is
25:17
out tomorrow yeah
25:19
hey let's play that blue chills yes 888
25:23
742345 french montana's in here let's
25:26
get it listen to the lyrics sway kurt
25:28
you heard that kirk from atl kirk rise
25:30
and shine we got france montana in here
25:32
what up kirk kirk
25:33
kirk yo yo
25:35
what's good what's good what up
25:37
yo
25:38
hey hey man yo french i didn't even know
25:40
you was african bro
25:43
wow
25:47
it's only been that all his life but
25:49
definitely yeah i'm driving i'm john
25:50
yeah i'm dropping a documentary at the
25:52
end of the year because i feel like a
25:53
lot of people don't really
25:54
know the real story
25:56
yeah so so definitely gotta get it
25:59
let's call for um
26:00
for khadijah okay yeah it's for my
26:03
mother because she's the one that
26:03
sacrificed wow that's beautiful yeah
26:06
yeah kurt you got something you want to
26:07
say to french
26:09
yeah yeah man i want to see him you know
26:12
i'm from buffalo new york man so i want
26:14
to see him work with benny the butcher
26:16
west side gun
26:18
i want to see him work with him
26:20
yeah i ain't gonna lie because
26:22
everything that everybody calling is
26:24
saying is what i'm doing right now i'm
26:26
about to play a song with me and benny
26:27
the butcher right now
26:29
that's on the project that's coming out
26:30
tomorrow that's crazy
26:32
i like how french do it like let's get
26:34
to my music though like these questions
26:36
is cool like it's coming right fooling
26:38
me yeah yeah it's like this because this
26:41
is what the people really want to hear
26:42
yeah yeah yeah this is me benny the
26:45
butcher and jadakiss okay so kurt we're
26:47
gonna play the song i'ma put you on hold
26:49
and then you give us your instant review
26:51
all right me late for work play this
26:53
[ __ ]
26:54
kurt hold on i'm gonna get your insta
26:55
review come on man french montana
26:57
montego's
26:58
montega is the name of the project out
27:00
tomorrow
27:01
[Applause]
27:04
yeah so that that that song is out right
27:06
now okay me jada kiss benny the butcher
27:09
harry fraud break some bags
27:11
go get that now the album is out
27:13
tomorrow the album's out tomorrow kurt
27:14
what'd you think of that
27:16
kirk you stood up man yo man
27:18
yeah that was dope man that's what you
27:20
was talking about that was your request
27:22
yeah that's that buffalo new york
27:24
hip-hop you good
27:26
yo that's that real that's that real
27:28
hardcore yeah kirk don't even know what
27:30
to do with it man
27:31
kirk got a listening session with press
27:33
montana you don't even know what to do
27:34
it looks like magic all right hey kirk
27:36
thank you man support this man you're a
27:38
super citizen all right
27:40
hold up let's play one more track before
27:42
we jump off there real quick man yeah
27:44
see one more one more you want to hear
27:45
something mike yo the vibe is crazy yeah
27:47
i'm three's a charm yeah i'm trying to
27:48
just keep french here no no let's do it
27:51
this next one is keeper real mean estg
27:54
okay here it is you got it first right
27:56
here
27:57
even if you didn't y'all said you did
27:59
shave
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