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JUICY J Tells All In New Book, Addiction, Navigating Hollywood, Mac Miller, Gangsta Boo & More
Sep 5, 2023
If you're a fan of Juicy J, then you know his name is synonymous with the top-tier hip-hop community. From his robust music career to individual music projects, not to mention his production efforts under Three 6 Mafia, Juicy J has undoubtedly made his mark in the music industry. His new book, Chronicles of the Juice Man: A Memoir, is revealing his narrative and is garnering critical acclaim and excitement. In this blog, we'll take a closer look at what Juicy J had to say about his new book, what it delivers to its audience, and why it is a must-read for creatives everywhere.
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JUICY J Tells All In New Book, Addiction, Navigating Hollywood, Mac Miller, Gangsta Boo & More
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one of the most pivotal persons that
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have ever come out of our culture
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representing Memphis Tennessee get this
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man a round of applause for so many
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reasons he's a singer I mean excuse me a
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rapper record producer he's an executive
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a songwriter yeah
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I think he's a creole of sorts because
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of what he talks about in this book and
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in his music and when you think about
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his career and then you parallel all the
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different Milestone moments that happen
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in his career behind the curtain is what
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you're going to find out when you read
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his book I'm talking about Academy Award
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winning the one and only Juicy J thank
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you it's here thank you hold up Juicy J
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[Applause]
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that still goes hard yeah that still
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works
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I remember when you won the 19 I want to
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say 1991
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um Oscar the Academy Award right was it
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91 it was in no it was 2005 excuse me
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2005. I'm I'm going somewhere deeper in
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2005 the 2006 somewhere around yeah
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somewhere around that time I remember
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all the success that you've had in your
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career
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I remember when y'all did the reality
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show because you live right around the
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corner from King Tech and me yeah and
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you may not have realized that
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um the beginning of this book starts off
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with the beginning of Juicy J's book I
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was high as a [ __ ] as I was
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stumbling through this party I looked
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around people were [ __ ] over there
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cocaine was over here
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but this coke was different a waiter
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looking guy wearing a vest and with his
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hair slicked back came up to me with a
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wood grain box he opened it and said you
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want some
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he said as if he was offering a drink I
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looked in the Box have to be and I saw a
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blue yellow cherry watermelon and cotton
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candy flavored cocaine
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at this party
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I never seen anything like it no matter
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where I looked it seemed like people
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were snorting all kind of stuff it
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seemed like velvet was everywhere I
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declined the Coke and walked into a
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bedroom girls were in the bed just
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waiting maybe for Me Maybe for someone
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else
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this is a day in the life of this man's
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life when he was living in L.A this this
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this scene that you were in was so
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dysfunctional and toxic it forced you to
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call the woman that you were seeing at
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that time and yeah and you told her to
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come get you before you ended up killing
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yourself and you didn't want to die that
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way no no what point of your career did
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this happen uh it was
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the year could have been I believe it
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was 2008 and I would just um I was been
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going through so much man just so much
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party I was tired of it and um
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that same party I had alcohol in my cup
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I pulled the alcohol out I was just like
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really [ __ ] up and I just pulled it
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out and I said man you know what [ __ ]
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this I'm not going out like this I'm not
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down tonight you know I'm saying I'm
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gonna get the [ __ ] out of L.A you know
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it's too many parties too much of
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everything how close you thought you
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were you could be to dying I I mean you
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know you never know I mean not just just
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partying and just going so hard I mean I
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didn't know exactly I can't say when or
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how I just felt like if I didn't get out
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in enough time who knows what could have
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happened man you know the group was
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breaking up everything was just falling
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apart it was it was [ __ ] up did it
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feel like a spiritual experience almost
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because you said you just poured it out
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and called somebody to say come get you
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like that just sounds a little bit
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deeper than the average I'm I'm ready to
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bounce
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yeah uh I would say most deaf you know
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it through my whole entire career my
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whole life I always had like I would get
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these talks in my head like I remember I
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was at the Playboy Mansion I jumped in
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this pool with this um porn star and um
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you know she she got butt [ __ ] she
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jumped in I got butt naked I jumped in
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and then just
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this voice in my head was like hey what
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are you doing
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and I like and then it's like you know
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you don't have rubber you know you don't
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know this girl you just we gotta just
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had all this success you can just throw
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it away you know you can get this chick
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pregnant she could have a disease you
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know you don't you don't know
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so immediately I jumped out of the pool
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I was like you're right you know what
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I'm saying and it's a lot of times in my
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life certain circumstances I'm getting
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ready to do something crazy and this
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voice will just come in my head and be
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like yo and same when I was at that
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party this voice was in my head like yo
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you want to die tonight you're drinking
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all this alcohol you know you're popping
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Xanax you sipping lean look at all this
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cocaine around here look at all these
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crazy people like somebody could you
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know who knows what the [ __ ] happened
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in this party you know what I'm saying
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police could have ran up in that
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[ __ ] who knows you know so uh it
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was it was just telling me like it's
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time to go you probably need to pour
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that drink out and so I poured that [ __ ]
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out called the Chick Up and she can't
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pick me up you moved out of L.A get the
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[ __ ] out man I had to you moved
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everything given the Rolls Royce
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everything man I drew uh I believe I
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drove the Rolls-Royce back if I I think
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I did I know I remember driving a U-Haul
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too as in the U-Haul and um I probably
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[ __ ] the Rolls-Royce back but I remember
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the U-Haul and I had a personal
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assistant driving the U-Haul this is
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post Academy Award when this was like
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took place right yeah right right out
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there as soon as you know right after we
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partied hard for almost like a year the
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longest Oscar party in the world and
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then I was like
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partied hard for a year yeah see this is
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why I find it interesting because I was
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there Heather was there we were there
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you seen it I was interviewing you
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during the time did you see this [ __ ] I
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saw this [ __ ] it was crazy because I've
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seen you before when I came to Memphis
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and we did our thing with yeah remember
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that yeah my block you have my block yep
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I've seen the growth so I'm often
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wondering when do people gonna tell the
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behind the curtain stories because you
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could be successful but be miserable and
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depressed yes at the same time and when
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you
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you know you you also spoke about in
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this book that even after the Oscars
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after all of that party and the other
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thing that happened is three six mafia's
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music fell off yes and you felt like
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y'all y'all were making music trending
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music it wasn't music that was
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groundbreaking and yeah and that for you
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was your biggest depression because you
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couldn't make the music you wanted to
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make what was that like man it was it
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was hell man I I lost everything you
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know my creativity you know I'm saying I
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couldn't I'm usually just coming up with
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a song boom boom boom but living in L.A
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it was just like different things were
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playing on the radio and then you know
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it's a whole different scene so I wasn't
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really used to that and I just felt like
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I just lost everything I couldn't you
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know I could make some beats but it
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wouldn't sound it wasn't relevant I'm
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still making stuff that that was like
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maybe like two three years old you know
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like my brother Project Pat would come
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to my house all the time be like man
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y'all beats ain't hard no more your
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brother would say that too yeah he would
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say hey man y'all ain't popping no more
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he would tell me this stuff be like man
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what y'all doing y'all are just getting
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high and partying y'all ain't y'all
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ain't trying to put out no mixtapes and
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I like mixtapes he's like yeah that's
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what [ __ ] doing now y'all man yo you
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ain't paying attention what's going on
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man like y'all ain't popping man I'm
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just being real with you Jay man you
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know what I'm saying your brother told
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you that I'm just being real like people
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tell me that all the time now I get mad
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be like what what you need [ __ ] what
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I'm just telling you [ __ ] I ain't
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hearing y'all music in the club y'all
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ain't got that hand based on y'all beats
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no more that [ __ ] ain't that [ __ ] ain't
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hot I'm in the clubs you in the club you
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are in Hollywood so what did you do like
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musically at that point did you did you
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devote yourself to trying to find what's
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hot or
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I just kept smoking weed and kept
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popping drugs and uh you know sooner or
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later sooner or later I got online he
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said get on get on the internet get on
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the internet look see what's hot go on
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go on YouTube he's like y'all [ __ ] so I
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saw going on YouTube and looking at
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things and listening to a lot of
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different new artists like um like Gucci
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man I was listening a lot of Gucci okay
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and um it's a lot of different things
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um Rocco
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um what else just everything you had you
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had a great relationship you revealed in
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this book with Mac Miller yes yes where
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did that start
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um I met Mac Miller
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um um through Wiz and I met the manager
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Benny
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um uh actually I can't remember his name
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I think I got his name wrong will will
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was actually not the manager it was um
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can't remember his name but he was cool
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the manager I can't remember the name so
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excuse me but anyway
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um I met him through Wiz and through the
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management and um he did a concert in LA
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and I came out on stage I was shocked
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though I was like man look at all he's
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like a lot of young kids like 15 13 yeah
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14 year old kids and I rap Slob on a
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knob but I was so kind of like man these
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kids he was rapping Slob On My Knob with
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the kids
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let me finish I wrapped Slob on up but I
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was I was I didn't say the cuss words
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okay I'm like Slob On My like corn on
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the cob check it with me you know what
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I'm saying and like Mac Miller was
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laughing so hard he's like I can't
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believe you man you really actually give
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a [ __ ] about the kids man that's cool
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you know what I'm saying and um Mac
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Miller became uh my friend and um
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I threw a birthday party for him his
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18th birthday party at the studio I got
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in LA and um we had a lot of fun man it
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was it was turned up man you know what
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I'm saying Mac was a good dude man real
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good yeah
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wrestling power in the Homer Omaha hung
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out with Mac yeah he got me to come to a
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party that I shouldn't have been at I
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felt like a chaperone when I got there
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had the big kids were so young
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um I find your story really interesting
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all the way through the entire book I
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wonder what kind of conflict did you
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have as an artist
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um after having these experiences and
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hearing these voices and knowing that
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I'm going down this dark path but a lot
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of your lyrics still you know uh rap you
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wrap around drugs and take the use of
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drugs and then we'll talk about Mac
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Miller somebody lost his life to drugs
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yes you know did you have
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um Gangsta Boo you know did you did how
9:40
did you Rectify that as an artist still
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rapping about those same things or did
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it was it ever a conflict I didn't want
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to come I mean I was doing a lot of that
9:48
[ __ ] you know yeah no sipping that lane
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and
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turned up every day and taking Xanax and
9:53
drinking alcohol and waking up don't
9:55
know where the hell I'm at you know you
9:56
would pass out when you do that kind of
9:57
[ __ ] and you know like what's crazy when
9:59
Mac Miller first came to La I was
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telling him I was like man be careful in
10:02
L.A man you know what I'm saying
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like only thing that I I just really was
10:07
stressing about was cocaine to everybody
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yeah because I like you know I pop pills
10:10
and clean but I was like man that
10:13
cocaine is just like that's a different
10:14
kind of that's a different Beast right
10:15
there that [ __ ] makes you crazy you know
10:17
what I'm saying when you coming up that
10:18
high you get angry and you know I don't
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know if you ever did it before but um
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I've never done a juicy tray I would
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tell you if I had good good good so it's
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it's a crazy drug so um you know I was
10:29
just telling more people about that I
10:30
was like you know I said some lean you
10:31
know proper zambo it's like that cocaine
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is crazy though that should make you
10:35
lose your mind did anybody warn you
10:37
about these things because you you said
10:38
you know a couple times that you were
10:40
talking to people about don't do this
10:41
don't do that and the warnings of being
10:42
in LA in the party scene but did anybody
10:44
come to you early on in your career and
10:46
be like hey man you might want to take
10:47
it easy nobody really came to me man and
10:49
told me that you know um I always felt
10:52
like I was invincible like you know I
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couldn't
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um fall in the hands of drugs I was like
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man you know
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be good I ain't you know what I'm saying
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it's just like one time I was in New
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York I I forgot my Xanax and left them
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in the room I would take a sentence
11:07
before I go on stage and I look at him
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and I was on my way to the show and I
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was like damn I don't feel right you
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know I started feeling like jittery and
11:15
[ __ ] I'm like man I feel crazy and I was
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telling my uh my cousin my manager rails
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like man
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you know I didn't take those hands today
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I was like man I just feel I don't you
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know what I'm saying I feel tired I feel
11:24
about
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aches and pains and [ __ ] and I was just
11:28
like anxiety crazy you know what I'm
11:31
saying I'm on stage I'm sweating hard as
11:33
a mother I'm like trying to rap and then
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when I get back to the room I took the
11:37
Xanax I was like she's wow you know what
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I'm saying I thought and then that's
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what I knew I had an addiction like the
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next time I did a show in Atlanta I
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tried to I caught myself like man I
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ain't gonna do them Xanax man [ __ ] them
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I left them [ __ ] went to the club I'm
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off that tweak and I'm shaking and [ __ ]
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I'm like man I gotta get out of here I
11:54
gotta hurry up I don't have my zen I was
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telling Mike Will I was like man I
11:56
didn't take my Xanax today he said oh
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[ __ ] I know you gonna do it I said yeah
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man
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I [ __ ] need the [ __ ] to
12:02
function and then I started that's my
12:04
news I was [ __ ] up and then Ray had
12:06
took me to this doctor you know he told
12:08
me how to get off the [ __ ] and um what'd
12:10
he tell you [ __ ] you got to share that
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well he told me to take half he said you
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know you're taking all the whole thing
12:16
just take half and he'll gradually just
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wean yourself up so I started taking
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half and you know I slowly get off so
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now I'm cool I'll never be addicted to
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Xanax um get that man a round of
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applause man that's an ongoing thing
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yeah that's an ongoing journey man and
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you're not perfect but I love that you
12:34
sharing this information
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um because it's a whole generation of us
12:38
on pills and and yeah you can't you know
12:41
you gotta be careful like a lot of it is
12:43
Recreation it ain't you know prescribed
12:45
to you uh and then your body reacts to
12:47
it it's a chemical reaction to it
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biological reaction to it yeah I'm
12:52
wondering did you get it did you and
12:54
Gangster Boo ever talk about
12:55
um
12:56
you know substance abuse and and um what
13:00
are your thoughts on her passing
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man that [ __ ] told me up man yeah I
13:04
gotta text that morning from Chad it was
13:06
just like Boo did I just like I I it's
13:08
stuck in my head you know I'm saying um
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the last time I saw gangster blue was a
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couple of months before she passed and
13:13
we talked about a lot of different
13:14
things we talked about life and my mom
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passing uh we hugged and we talked about
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old times and it you know I noticed
13:21
something about her at the time she was
13:22
she was doing coke at the time and she
13:25
was very very high you know I'm saying I
13:27
can tell when you had that coke face and
13:28
she was sniffing and stuff like that and
13:29
I ain't gonna lie man like this is just
13:31
real [ __ ] it's scary but it's real [ __ ]
13:33
when she walked off something had was
13:36
telling me like she gonna die you know
13:38
what I'm saying
13:40
and and and and I don't know where that
13:42
came from but I was just like looking at
13:44
her like because I knew she'd been doing
13:45
she's been doing it for a long time so I
13:47
was like damn man like you still doing
13:49
cocaine and I wanted to say something to
13:51
her to talk to her about it like back in
13:53
the day back in the day I would pull it
13:54
to the side like Boo like man put that
13:55
[ __ ] up you know what I'm saying we got
13:57
work to do but you know I hadn't seen
13:59
Boone in a long time
14:01
and so you know she's a grown woman so I
14:03
wasn't trying to be all in her business
14:05
be like yo you know what I'm saying back
14:06
in the day you know I was you know Three
14:07
Six Mafia so I had to you know but like
14:10
I said I hadn't seen in a while so I
14:11
just I wish I could have said something
14:13
bro I ain't gonna lie yeah like I'm like
14:14
[ __ ] you know what would you say like
14:17
how you know what would you man I would
14:20
just pull it to the side and try to and
14:21
gave him my number like look you need
14:23
some help with somebody to talk to you
14:24
know what I'm saying like
14:26
you know I see you still doing the coke
14:28
let's talk about it let's try to yeah
14:30
get some help like I tried back in the
14:32
day I would take man I remember going
14:33
over Louisville's house and picking him
14:35
up I would take them try to take them to
14:37
the rehab I would be like yo you know
14:39
and I was [ __ ] drunk on alcohol doing
14:41
this [ __ ] you know what I mean drunk as
14:42
a [ __ ] headaches but I would
14:44
still be like no we got to get off this
14:45
coke we got to stop doing this hang
14:47
around you know I'm saying we got to
14:48
stop doing this [ __ ] you know with this
14:49
[ __ ] the group up is it's breaking
14:51
[ __ ] up I'm trying to keep everybody
14:52
together and hold everybody down but you
14:55
know [ __ ] was wild man was a wild ass
14:57
group yeah yeah I party with y'all yeah
14:59
but it's crazy you'd feel like that is a
15:03
Crux of what broke up the group was it
15:05
the substance abuse yeah I would
15:07
definitely say the drugs and just a lot
15:09
of different things man we would just
15:11
everything happened so fast man you know
15:13
what I'm saying like it was slow on a
15:15
come up but when when we started getting
15:16
the name for ourselves and people
15:17
started noticing who we were [ __ ]
15:19
started moving fast man we won that
15:20
Oscar man things just just changed that
15:22
Oscar you know and all of us had egos
15:24
like I'm sitting like yeah we went
15:26
Hollywood like people say man you want
15:27
Hollywood we was Hollywood I was
15:30
Hollywood you know what I'm saying I was
15:31
like man telling my lawyer like [ __ ] 500
15:34
000 and up I ain't picking up the phone
15:35
[ __ ] everybody you know what I mean yeah
15:36
I was just like angry because I felt
15:38
like so many people had doubted Three
15:39
Six Mafia people slammed doors in our
15:41
facing you know disrespected our name
15:43
and stuff so I like [ __ ] once we once we
15:45
did that like we can do anything you
15:47
know what I'm saying I was like man [ __ ]
15:49
we in Hollywood I drove down the street
15:51
saw a house
15:52
paid 2 million cash for it I was like
15:53
[ __ ] it you know what I'm saying I was
15:55
just him Riding High you know I didn't I
15:57
didn't really give a [ __ ] about anything
15:59
um
16:00
or anybody what anybody said I didn't
16:02
give a [ __ ] I had a had a crazy uh go
16:06
get a lawyer he went [ __ ] he was
16:08
like a bulldog you know what I'm saying
16:10
shots out to Aaron Rosenberg and like we
16:12
got a lot of things accomplished man
16:13
like we was getting that cash we was
16:14
getting that money man and um
16:16
I don't know man it just it just it was
16:18
good but it was bad it was good and bad
16:20
good bad at the same time because you
16:23
know when you when you having all this
16:24
money and fame girls coming at you and I
16:26
would go to the club
16:28
height so many women it get to your head
16:31
man you get the big head if you're
16:32
thinking like you're invincible and you
16:34
know you can't be touched you know what
16:35
I'm saying and then sooner or later that
16:37
devil come in and take that [ __ ] away
16:39
from you you know what I'm saying you
16:40
know you get rocked to sleep that's why
16:41
brother talk about it all the time man
16:42
you [ __ ] getting rocked to sleep out
16:44
here in L.A you know what I'm saying
16:45
y'all high and [ __ ] y'all not paying
16:46
attention what's going on we got rock to
16:48
sleep y'all got rocked to sleep you know
16:49
what I'm saying man Ice-T says it a lot
16:51
too yeah Project Pat the Oracle
16:55
we got Pat up here before too HB what
16:58
are your thoughts on this no I'm just
17:00
glad like thank you just for being your
17:02
transparency it's important and and I
17:05
think all of us whether we want to admit
17:07
it or not but to your point you hear
17:08
those voices sometimes and you ignore
17:10
them or you decide to just be obedient
17:14
maybe that's the word that followed
17:16
through and it's those life-changing
17:18
decisions sometimes where you don't know
17:19
had you not listened where would you be
17:22
right now so thank you and thank you for
17:24
the book you know because I know this is
17:26
not easy if this is a process in itself
17:28
in a project in itself so thank you for
17:30
this thank you and when I was writing
17:32
this book my mom was diagnosed with
17:33
cancer and everything you know I talk
17:35
about a lot of mental mental health in
17:37
this book a lot of um if you read the
17:39
whole whole thing but I talk about like
17:40
mental health you know mental health
17:42
issues like I had those those situations
17:44
and I talked to a therapist and stuff
17:46
like that and I think it's very
17:47
important uh for people to talk to
17:49
therapists and get some help because I
17:50
man I can't say the names but I've been
17:52
on the phone in situations where people
17:54
have called me you know I'm saying close
17:56
to me man I'm about to kill myself you
17:57
know you know what I'm saying I have to
17:58
talk him out of there and talk her out
17:59
of it and um you know I had to deal with
18:02
so much stuff like that you know I mean
18:03
you know
18:04
for me it's been crazy and like it's
18:06
just like uh just growing up and going
18:08
through that I feel like everybody that
18:10
your environment makes you what you is
18:13
today and you know sometimes it can
18:15
damage your mind you know even growing
18:16
up in North Memphis I've always had a
18:18
gun on me looking over my shoulder and
18:19
running with all these crazy people and
18:22
hiring out these most craziest [ __ ] of
18:24
all times with security and just [ __ ]
18:27
on the side to do whatever the [ __ ] like
18:28
that [ __ ] it'll drive you [ __ ] crazy
18:30
man you know what I'm saying [ __ ] your
18:32
mental health up and then you get drugs
18:34
involved and then money and fame I'm
18:35
sorry go ahead no no unfortunately we
18:37
have a thing in common
18:39
um I lost my mom to cancer as well and
18:42
watching I'm sorry about your loss as
18:44
well but watching that
18:46
it does something to you mentally I I
18:48
still don't have the words to put down
18:50
what it does to you was that the thing
18:52
that made you actually write the book or
18:54
had you started writing a book prior to
18:56
your mom's diagnosis yeah I started
18:58
writing it and then she got the
19:00
diagnosis and I was like and I knew she
19:01
was sick you know even when I was
19:03
writing it but I didn't know exactly
19:05
what was wrong because she wouldn't tell
19:06
same thing you should just keep
19:07
everything until I call the hospital I
19:09
was like yo this Juicy J from three six
19:11
mob yeah I need to know what's wrong
19:12
with my mom she's not telling me
19:13
anything can you tell me and she's like
19:15
she got on the phone she said brace
19:17
yourself your mom got five to six months
19:20
to live and I was like what
19:21
like damn man like you serious so um
19:26
I didn't tell my family I just kind of I
19:28
told my brother and my dad but I didn't
19:29
tell my sisters I was just like you know
19:31
I was man
19:37
yeah that's hard yeah yeah that's so
19:39
hard
19:40
um Juicy J is here man we we're actually
19:43
celebrating this man's journey and the
19:45
fact that he's sharing it with us today
19:46
yes and some of these topics are hard
19:48
but you you chose to talk about them
19:50
because not only I'm sure they're
19:51
therapeutic for you but it's gonna help
19:53
a lot of people for other people yeah
19:55
yeah when you go ahead I mean that's it
19:57
that's what that's what I want I want
19:58
people to understand that um you know
20:00
uh you don't have to take your life or
20:01
do anything crazy or take somebody
20:03
else's life shoot up a school and then
20:04
you know we gotta stop that [ __ ] man
20:05
[ __ ] [ __ ] with these kids um
20:08
you can get some help for that [ __ ] man
20:10
you can get some help for it and we all
20:12
dealing with it you know especially in
20:13
Memphis we see the the lives of being
20:15
taken in Memphis it ain't been easy in
20:17
Memphis for a long time y'all told me
20:19
that before before some of these younger
20:22
artists who has lost their lives or lost
20:23
their lives what do you see what's the
20:25
what's the because listen this book
20:27
isn't just about hardships it's about
20:28
triumphs because the fact that this man
20:31
could talk about these stories made it
20:33
through and he's here today I want to
20:35
make sure we remember that you did win
20:37
an Oscar yeah yeah yeah thank you
20:39
you did win an Academy Awards yes you
20:43
have made top 40 singles you have been a
20:45
top charting artist you have produced
20:48
big hits for big artists you have been
20:50
on songs with Katy Perry
20:52
you know you have done all of these
20:55
things throughout the adversity that you
20:58
faced in your life growing up in Memphis
21:00
and see when you try to tell people
21:02
famous hard they don't want to hit it
21:04
because they ain't never been through it
21:06
no and so I've been trying to tell folks
21:09
on my smaller level of celebrity hey hey
21:11
hey when these when you see famous
21:14
people doing [ __ ] you think is crazy you
21:17
got to know the context yeah what's
21:19
behind the story yes before you saw the
21:22
end result what was Juicy J going
21:24
through you know what I mean those
21:27
things are important when you won the
21:29
Oscar you didn't get not everybody was
21:31
in your corner right no no it was weird
21:34
man it was the it was a weird experience
21:36
I ain't gonna lie bro like when I went
21:38
to that Vanity Fair party I was totally
21:40
shocked by that why because it's like
21:42
it's real [ __ ] all it seemed like can
21:44
say everybody it seemed like a lot of
21:46
the black people were hating on us and
21:48
all all the white folks like hey
21:49
congratulations what's up man Steven
21:51
Spielberg was like hey man what's up
21:52
light up the cigar John travolt a lot of
21:56
the black folks in there like actors and
21:57
[ __ ] would look at me like they wanted
21:58
to kill me man and John Cena's like you
22:00
feel that hate you feel that hate John
22:02
Singleton caught it yeah he told me that
22:04
he probably might say Hey you feel that
22:06
hate he said they just mad cause they
22:07
ain't got one man enjoy I was like damn
22:09
wow really rest in power yeah man yeah
22:14
you know what I'm saying that how did
22:16
that uh shape you did afterwards
22:19
I I ain't gonna tell you something I'm
22:21
from Memphis so I just was like man [ __ ]
22:22
these [ __ ] you know what I mean
22:24
[Laughter]
22:39
standing next to me and she had this
22:41
beautiful dress on and she was talking
22:42
to me about blood diamonds or something
22:44
but I'm just like wow
22:46
oh [ __ ] Salma Hayek no she wasn't trying
22:49
to talk to me no no no she was not
22:51
trying no she was talking about my
22:52
diamonds she's like where'd you get
22:53
those diamonds she's like those blood
22:55
diamonds stuff like that she wasn't
22:56
trying to talk to me now oh no it was
22:58
rid of killing you but yeah for wearing
23:00
the diamonds yeah she was on my ass
23:01
about that like you know those diamonds
23:03
are you know she was talking some real
23:04
[ __ ] but I was just like looking at how
23:05
beautiful she was I was like wow I was
23:07
like Salma Hayek is talking to me man
23:09
this is crazy you know what I'm saying
23:11
yeah he was off at the moment yeah I was
23:13
like Wow yo man what what what
23:15
um because I know you got a book signing
23:17
today right yes yes it um Barnes and
23:20
Noble 555 Fifth Avenue and 30 minutes
23:23
Juicy J will be there which means I have
23:25
to wrap this interview because I'm
23:27
feeling what you felt in that uh room at
23:30
the Vanity Fair Park party with your
23:32
handlers they I feel like I'm feeling
23:34
that same cold shoulder over here let's
23:36
wrap it up let's wrap it up two things
23:40
what's your message for Memphis moving
23:42
forward stop the violence stop the
23:45
violence
23:46
and I think they need to um as far as
23:48
the politicians down there they need to
23:49
figure out a way to um give people
23:51
better jobs
23:52
um raise the pay whatever you're doing
23:54
whatever kind of job it raise the pay
23:56
and get these people because people in
23:57
Memphis are smart man you know what I'm
23:58
saying very musical talented um cool
24:00
people I just think they need more
24:02
opportunities they don't have
24:04
opportunities in that City and so it
24:05
just it just turns into everything's in
24:07
a rage you know what I'm saying so
24:09
that's my thing man and um hopefully man
24:11
like you know later in my life I was
24:13
thinking about I'm still thinking you
24:14
know later in my life maybe when I
24:15
turned 65 or whatever and I'm dumbly rap
24:17
or done with music period I might run
24:19
for a senator office or something just
24:21
try to help clean up the city man
24:22
because um Memphis been going through
24:25
hell you know since I was born and it's
24:27
even worser now you know saying people
24:29
are getting killed every day and kids
24:30
are getting killed and stray bullets and
24:32
you know they got these crazy crooked
24:35
police officers out there you know they
24:36
killed that guy Rest In Peace So like we
24:38
got to clean that up man we gotta you
24:39
know we gotta stop that man you know
24:40
what I'm saying um Memphis is a
24:42
beautiful city man like you know I'm
24:44
saying it's beautiful people there it's
24:46
people that want to have some things but
24:47
it's just so ratchet yeah that it turns
24:51
you into a street [ __ ] it turns you
24:52
into a gangster you ain't a gangster you
24:54
live in Memphis you're gonna turn
24:55
they're gonna make you into a gangster
24:56
they're gonna make you pull a gun on
24:58
there because they gonna keep [ __ ]
24:59
with you rob your ass talk [ __ ] whatever
25:00
the [ __ ] they gonna they're gonna make
25:02
you tough so that's my thing man I just
25:03
wanna I wanna um definitely do something
25:06
like that and um run for office and
25:08
maybe I can get in there and try to help
25:10
clean things up and get people paid and
25:12
get better jobs and better opportunities
25:13
and so they can have more hope because a
25:15
lot of people in Memphis don't have hope
25:16
I love that Juicy J for office don't
25:18
wait till you're 65
25:21
from this book this is a great book I
25:24
didn't want to and it's a great album
25:25
mental thrilledness is out now and yeah
25:27
really great interludes on dpd that's
25:30
dependent personality disorder
25:33
um emotional deficits
25:36
um you you have some tremendous
25:37
interludes that in citizens if you're
25:39
fighting with something you're going
25:40
through something it's it's in your head
25:42
it's personal you're waking up you're
25:43
not sure why you're not feeling right
25:45
yeah you need to hear something that's
25:47
gonna sometimes I hit Heather
25:49
I might text her or just hit her hey I
25:51
just need your energy right now yeah
25:53
yeah right yeah this album has that
25:55
energy for you like the interludes are
25:58
incredible the songs the interludes go
26:01
from song to interlude but the song is
26:03
kind of touching on what the interludes
26:05
are touching about thank you you know
26:07
and so what do you hope to accomplish
26:09
with the book in the album what do you
26:10
hope people take away man I want to
26:12
inspire people man and just uh you know
26:14
let them know they can keep moving
26:15
forward even if they have success even
26:17
if they have success and lose success or
26:20
haven't just regular class working
26:22
people you know what I'm saying like you
26:24
know you can listen I mean you can
26:25
listen to the audio or you can read the
26:27
book and you can learn something for it
26:28
because it touches everything it's not
26:30
just music yeah mental mental health uh
26:33
relationships everything uh is in this
26:35
book and um I just want people to
26:37
inspire people man want them to check
26:38
this book out and the book is out today
26:40
as well right they book us out today man
26:42
and if you're in the tri-state area go
26:44
to Barnes and Nobles go there now five
26:45
five Fifth Ave there it is shout out to
26:48
Three Six Mafia DJ Paul Crunchy Black
26:50
rest in peace Gangster Boo rest in peace
26:51
coopsy [ __ ] Lord Infamous
26:54
shout out to Memphis yep I love y'all to
26:56
Memphis Crunchy Black tell crunchy black
26:58
man send my love to all your family man
27:00
okay Juicy J get this man a round of
27:03
applause Anthony and Yonkers Drew and
27:04
Carson Harry in Chicago James and North
27:07
Carolina one on Charles
27:10
tweet or DM juicy Jack you got comments
27:13
he'll hit you back if you mentioned Sway
27:14
in the morning right thank you yes sir
27:16
at Juicy J yep okay and the real Juicy J
27:20
on um
27:21
X or whatever it's called man love you
27:24
brother hey man I love you too good to
27:26
see you man that's what I want to have
27:27
you up we ain't seen each other in a
27:29
minute yeah we got to keep doing we've
27:30
been in this [ __ ] A Long Time come on
27:32
Jay let's go let's go baby let's do it
27:34
all right
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