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Wiz Khalifa Talks 10 Years of 'Rolling Papers', Business, Nipsey, Drake, J. Cole, Kendrick & more
May 31, 2021
10 Years ago Wiz Khalifa dropped the classic, Rolling Papers project. in celebration of a decade of this classic, Wiz checks in with the Sway In The Morning team. He talks about the re-release of the album, plus all of his other business ventures in the cannabis and liquor space.
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Wiz Khalifa Talks 10 Years of 'Rolling Papers', Business, Nipsey, Drake, J. Cole, Kendrick & more
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you got your oakland a's on you repping
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the colors you repping the town baby i
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see what you doing
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no pull up on my guy one time
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okay okay uh what's up man good to see
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you wiz
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we was just you know tracy g here um db
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with us
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um heather b will be chiming in you know
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man i i have to say to start off this
0:21
interview with the oakland
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this ain't even an interview by the way
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it's just a conversation we're just
0:25
catching up
0:25
you know but with the oakland a's cap
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man it just took my pivot into a whole
0:30
different direction now man i
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you know your relationship with the town
0:35
man can you speak to it burner
0:37
you know talk about the town in your
0:39
relationship over the years
0:41
man that was like one of the first
0:43
places i smoked really good weed
0:44
uh uh you know that's a bomb as we
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uh mr fav actually pointed me in the
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direction
0:52
of a big burn and that's how we got
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locked at home take his bong rip
0:56
okay take your time take your time all
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right
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that's that uh khalifa yeah yeah the
1:02
double k
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kk for show so yeah um i met burner
1:08
through mr fab and bernard just been my
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brother
1:11
ever since you know he put me in the
1:12
weed game showed me a lot about just
1:15
brandon and opening up businesses we
1:18
traveled the world together
1:20
and a lot of other artists from out that
1:21
area too uh sue
1:23
mm-hmm
1:30
when you say he taught you about the
1:32
game see people think the game is all
1:34
about the flower
1:35
you know what i mean but you know you
1:37
indoles now you're a big player in the
1:39
game now
1:40
what else did you learn outside of the
1:41
flower that makes
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you know yeah this industry what it is
1:45
burger taught me
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everything about uh the genetics and
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uh crossing and just how to brand
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branded and
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the different uh different grow
1:56
different
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ways to grow different things to look
1:59
for when you're uh when you're when
2:01
you're shopping and when you're you're
2:02
naming these streets and stuff like that
2:04
uh i've seen them you know start cookies
2:07
from from
2:08
the ground up not just the tree but you
2:10
know the actual store
2:12
the clothing line uh you know burners
2:16
all over the place and now he's got
2:17
stores in on
2:18
miami he's got stores and he started in
2:21
the bay of course but he's got stores in
2:22
l.a
2:23
on melrose which is crazy uh vegas
2:26
now he's on collins in miami uh we're
2:29
going to the uk
2:30
as well so it's big business man that's
2:33
that's big boss burn
2:34
come on man and that's you know i this
2:36
wasn't the direction i was going to go
2:38
but
2:38
you know we are are celebrating the 10
2:40
year anniversary of rolling papers so i
2:42
feel like it's all in the conversation
2:44
you know uh because we've been having
2:46
these conversations how weed is still
2:48
classified as a certain level drug and
2:51
you know in some states you could grow
2:52
some states you can't federally you
2:54
can't do this you can't
2:55
you can't do that what are your thoughts
2:57
about that do you think we just
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i just don't everything is changing um
3:02
where we are you know
3:04
this year we're gonna be in a totally
3:06
different space next year
3:08
um everything's on the up and up and uh
3:11
they just made it recreational here in
3:12
new york which is crazy
3:14
uh i i love that i'm in new york right
3:16
now
3:19
but uh yeah it's recreational here and
3:21
it's like
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you know i would have never seen that
3:24
coming this is like one of the one of
3:26
the roughest places when it comes to
3:28
comes to weed and it was like a real
3:30
thing for me like i'd be like yo i can't
3:31
spend too much time here because they're
3:33
gonna
3:33
freaking you know bust me but um
3:36
now that laws are loosening up and of
3:38
course i got khalifa kush
3:40
and we're gonna be putting in different
3:41
markets and things like that i'm looking
3:42
forward to
3:43
to the future of a wii game
3:46
i like it man khalifa kush man where's
3:48
khalifa is here tracy go ahead get in
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there i know you're probably getting
3:51
high
3:52
you probably can't contact off this
3:53
convo through the screen
3:56
absolutely wiz i'm so happy to see you
3:58
boy it has been such a damn long time
4:01
like at least we have wi-fi
4:03
yeah we'll have like some flesh and hugs
4:05
but
4:06
thinking about how your entrepreneurial
4:08
spirit has just like
4:10
extended throughout the years and i
4:13
gotta say
4:14
you may think that i'm just saying it
4:15
for [ __ ] sake but
4:17
i have mcqueen and the violet fog and
4:20
that is the best
4:21
gin i've ever tasted and it had me
4:24
thinking
4:25
like with hindsight when you first came
4:27
out how would you
4:28
grade the younger wiz khalifa in terms
4:32
of his business acumen compared to the
4:35
present wiz
4:36
it was uh always destined to be for me
4:40
it was just a process of going through
4:42
and finding the right way to do it um
4:45
i never got into anything to be like a
4:48
billboard for it
4:49
so i said no to a lot of things early in
4:52
my career because
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they're not organic and not real for me
4:55
and if it's not the best
4:57
for me business-wise i don't need to
4:59
attach myself to it
5:01
so and uh you know i learned a lot from
5:04
snoop too because
5:05
snoop literally told me like straight up
5:07
or like don't stand next to nothing
5:09
unless they give it to you
5:10
so if they want you to sit next to a car
5:12
you gotta own that car
5:13
they want you to roll up you need to own
5:16
the weed if they want you to pop the
5:17
bottle you need to own the company
5:19
so i kind of just took that whole mind
5:21
state and just ran with it
5:23
to the point where i've been setting up
5:25
and you know buying into companies
5:27
since the beginning of my career it's
5:29
just uh some of them were uh
5:31
you know on up and up and they just now
5:33
going public and selling now
5:35
some of them took a lot a little bit of
5:36
time to develop
5:38
from three to five years so people
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wouldn't even know i was working on them
5:42
until
5:42
they actually came out and then a lot of
5:45
things
5:46
now is just everything's changing so
5:49
a lot of the business models are
5:52
changing i have a um
5:53
online only restaurant stuff like that
5:55
didn't exist before
5:57
so you know you just have you definitely
5:59
got to move with the times
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as well as um you know put your foot
6:03
down for the things that uh
6:05
that are part of my lifestyle
6:08
has your decision making changed as well
6:10
like looking back are there certain
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moves that you made and you're like i
6:14
would never do that again
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no i'm happy with every decision that i
6:18
made um
6:19
there's there's definitely some things
6:21
that are more successful than others
6:23
but if i if i take my time and put the
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energy into it
6:27
then it's something that i believe in
6:28
and it's something that i would never
6:31
you know uh want to get straight out of
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unless it's not going to work and
6:35
you know you just got to cut ties with
6:36
some things and keep it moving
6:39
but uh i think that's what makes any
6:40
successful business person is to just
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keep
6:43
keep it pushing big facts yep after you
6:46
hear this wiz
6:47
this thing this ain't young wisdom right
6:49
here this is wins right here
6:52
this this after welcome to pennsylvania
6:54
you hear his vernacular hey
6:56
i hear it what's up brother how are you
6:59
i'm good
7:00
i'll see you in a minute how you been
7:02
i've been great you've been good i'm so
7:03
excited for you so happy for you
7:05
congratulations with everything like
7:08
just reading about all the stuff that
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you're doing now and all the stuff
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that's happening
7:12
i was wondering um and tracy asked a
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great question too
7:15
but i was wondering were you nervous
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about any of the things at first like
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i'm not so sure this is when it's gonna
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work out but it's something in my spirit
7:23
that's telling me to go for it
7:25
a lot of the business stuff that i do i
7:27
have meetings with people i have a whole
7:29
team and i've been with these people
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since i was 16 years old
7:33
so um when we go into things there's
7:35
there's a couple tech companies that
7:37
have approached us and apps that we
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invested in
7:41
and um i never was really nervous but
7:45
knowing that some stuff works and some
7:47
stuff doesn't it
7:48
it makes you a little bit cautious that
7:50
you don't jump straight in on everything
7:53
and it has to it has to look right it
7:55
has to seem right it has to feel right
7:57
and if it doesn't work then we're all
7:58
collectively responsible for it it's not
8:00
like anybody
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uh made me do
8:02
[Music]
8:06
i think that's what makes our team just
8:08
so strong and like confident in moving
8:10
forward
8:11
is we have you know trim the fat and
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kind of just only keep the the real
8:15
important stuff
8:16
yeah did you always have like a lot of
8:19
patience
8:20
because you know when it comes to
8:22
conversations about millennials or gen
8:24
z oftentimes are described as being very
8:27
impatient
8:27
of being addicted to instant
8:29
gratification and even when we're
8:31
thinking about like
8:32
wealth you can go on instagram and you
8:34
see a lot of people trying to scam you
8:35
into some really quick stocks
8:37
but who don't really have the knowledge
8:38
because the long
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game of money is long
8:44
and a lot of people even come into hip
8:46
hop because they're like nah i can see
8:47
this as a way to get money really fast
8:50
right yeah did you always have this
8:52
patience or did you develop it
8:54
blessed to be able to you know my
8:56
situation kind of
8:58
pushed me into having a strong mind and
9:00
knowing that
9:01
you know a real business plan is like
9:04
you said the long game it takes
9:06
years so um
9:09
i developed that thick skin and just
9:11
knowing um
9:14
it's going to take a little bit for it
9:15
to happen it took me nine
9:17
ten mixtapes before i really popped off
9:19
like you know cushioned orange juices
9:21
in the later stage i had a lot going on
9:25
before that it's just people don't see
9:27
the
9:28
the grind and you know leading up to
9:30
that but
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um that's why i say i feel like i was
9:32
fortunate because
9:34
uh you know it taught me a lot and it
9:36
definitely helped me to wait it out
9:38
and to just you know keep hustling and
9:40
uh and
9:41
stay down and during the process and i
9:44
don't blame a lot of the kids now
9:45
because like you said it's because of
9:47
instagram
9:48
and that really like it distorts your
9:51
your brain like you look at
9:52
something on here like let's take name
9:55
brand clothes like designer clothes
9:57
everybody wants to wear designer but
9:59
that's not realistic you know what i'm
10:00
saying like a thousand dollars for a
10:02
pair of jeans is not realistic
10:04
so people's reality is a little bit
10:06
crazy
10:07
and it's just the world we live in right
10:09
now
10:10
you know when i was watching um behind
10:12
the cam you said something that i
10:13
thought was really interesting in the
10:15
piggyback of what tracy is saying
10:17
when you talk about the instagram and
10:19
how it's programming kids minds and
10:21
you know it's kind of dictating how we
10:23
see things it's even shaping the mode in
10:25
our opinions
10:26
but behind the cam they take you back
10:29
when
10:29
you first started doing twitter and they
10:31
show a clip of you saying when you first
10:33
entered twitter
10:34
and you was telling your whole team man
10:36
this is the wave of the future this is
10:38
gonna blow this is how we gonna do it
10:39
talking directly to our audience
10:41
things have changed since then how has
10:43
your your relationship
10:45
with social media has changed how do you
10:47
how do you deal with it differently or
10:49
if is it the same
10:50
i still uh i look at it as
10:53
a tool and um it helps me connect with
10:57
my fans it helps me to learn what
10:58
they're into and it helps me to express
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myself
11:02
um definitely as time went on things
11:05
got more narrowed down you can't do as
11:08
much as you wanted to do back in the day
11:10
like i used to just make freestyles and
11:11
put them on twitter and they will go out
11:13
and you know that's how the blog started
11:15
hearing about it and that's how things
11:16
really gain
11:17
the attention but now things have been
11:20
narrowed down when you have to go to
11:21
these outlets and you have to be on
11:23
streaming services you have to do this
11:25
so it kind of it took the it took the
11:28
the power from the fans and from the
11:30
people and it kind of just made it
11:32
this this fake thing that everybody's
11:34
trying to get at
11:35
so it's cool it's whatever but i don't i
11:38
don't look at it like the same
11:39
as i as i used to do too it's definitely
11:42
changed right
11:43
i find i saw you talking with bootleg
11:46
kevin you were talking about
11:47
the mixtape game and that pif.com and
11:50
how
11:50
you know it's a lot of kids out here you
11:52
know they they think it's
11:54
easy just to put your music out you
11:55
gonna get on these dsps and get exposure
11:57
but you put your music out and nothing
11:59
happens
12:00
right have you noticed what have you
12:02
noticed like how is that gonna affect
12:04
how you roll out music in the future
12:05
what have you learned from
12:07
recent times it's just it's just staying
12:10
staying busy and staying moving
12:12
and um the power should be in the in the
12:14
hands of the artists and the dj's and
12:16
the
12:17
and the the fans and things like that so
12:19
it's
12:20
it is discouraging to you know only have
12:23
like
12:24
playlists and and weird [ __ ] like that
12:26
it kind of throws the game off
12:28
but my creative side and just from the
12:30
era that we come from
12:32
we never let anything stop us we never
12:34
let none hold us back we'll look at
12:36
whatever is in the way and we'll just
12:38
figure out how to like move around that
12:40
[ __ ] or go under
12:41
it or you know what i'm saying so yeah
12:43
that's all that's happening right now is
12:44
they just put some [ __ ] in the way and
12:46
it's like man
12:47
like that they're just trying to figure
12:49
out how to maneuver around that [ __ ]
12:50
that's
12:51
all hey heather you see his hat we won't
12:54
you know
12:55
i'll just go keep you there oh gosh you
12:58
see the hat
12:59
db you want to jump in yeah i want to uh
13:01
i want to go back to uh when you were
13:03
talking about business ventures because
13:04
i'm looking at this list
13:06
of talking points that you have in
13:07
addition to rolling papers 10-year
13:09
anniversary i mean you got
13:10
the docu-series that's what i just
13:11
mentioned you got the saga wiz khalifa
13:13
you got big pimpin
13:14
you got a wiz weed farm you got
13:17
duncanville and dickinson
13:18
rolls a voice animated that you did i
13:20
mean i could keep going on and on but
13:22
the reason i bring up
13:23
uh the business venture is because
13:24
you're invested in a professional
13:26
fighters league
13:27
and which kicked off the new season last
13:29
month and i know you're heavily invested
13:30
and you represent the company
13:32
and the popularity of that league is
13:33
growing uh rapidly so
13:35
um i i wanted to know about uh we were
13:37
talking this morning about j cole he's
13:39
playing basketball
13:40
in in the african league which i'm sure
13:41
you know about and there are some people
13:43
who feel like he's taking spots away
13:46
from someone who's just a basketball
13:48
player who's working their way into the
13:50
league
13:50
versus you know a guy who's got
13:52
popularity and a fan base and he just
13:54
came on board and they think that he
13:55
just kind of
13:56
you know snuck his way in i guess you
13:58
could say and then rick ross was
13:59
defending him saying
14:00
why should he not chase his dreams and
14:03
you know being somebody who's had his
14:04
you know so many things and that you're
14:07
involved with i just wanted to know like
14:08
do you feel like
14:10
just because you're popular or you're a
14:12
celebrity or you're famous
14:13
that you should i guess think about
14:16
think twice
14:17
about the things you're going to be
14:18
involved with because it may take away a
14:20
spot from somebody else who's
14:22
you know not as famous doesn't have the
14:23
fan base or the demographic and that
14:25
sort of thing
14:26
nah um i think that we should all have
14:28
appreciation for each
14:30
other uh whether it's trying something
14:32
new or whether it's
14:33
you know going into something that's not
14:35
necessarily your field
14:37
um if the shoe is on the other foot and
14:39
you know
14:40
the homies wanted to leave the
14:42
basketball league and rap
14:43
like we can't tell them like no don't
14:45
rap just stick to playing basketball
14:47
so it's like it's the same thing like if
14:49
the homie want to go do something he
14:50
should be able to go do it
14:51
and even with me you know uh fighting
14:54
and all of that
14:55
of course people are going to look at me
14:57
like oh he's a celebrity so he's
14:59
probably not blah blah blah but
15:00
if i put in the work and if i put in the
15:02
time and if i really get out there on
15:04
the mats and i show you what it's
15:06
hitting for
15:07
then you can't really deny it and that's
15:09
the thing is like i
15:10
i really hustle i really work hard i'm
15:12
in the gym five days a week
15:14
so um it really doesn't matter what
15:16
somebody's opinion would be because
15:18
i'm putting in the work and that's what
15:20
i would expect for anybody who's like
15:22
trying to pivot
15:23
or do anything that's not necessarily in
15:25
their field is
15:26
people are going to talk [ __ ] but you
15:28
just got to keep putting in the work you
15:29
got to out grind them
15:30
and let that be what makes them upset
15:32
and like even with me
15:34
you know having different companies like
15:36
say my liquor company
15:37
um it's successful because i put in the
15:40
work
15:40
it's not just because i'm with khalifa
15:42
and i just sit there with a bottle
15:44
and get faded all day i'm up in the
15:47
morning you know
15:48
doing zoom calls with distributors i'm
15:50
doing drops for different uh liquor
15:52
stores i'm doing you know
15:54
[ __ ] uh saying happy birthday to the
15:57
nephews and you know what i'm saying
15:58
like putting in the work to really make
16:00
them want to buy the product
16:01
and ship it out and you know what i mean
16:03
do it do so as hard as i go in the
16:05
studio
16:06
i go hard everywhere else so you can't
16:08
really deny it
16:10
sway is super jealous that you're in the
16:12
gym five days a week work it out
16:14
i don't believe him i need to see it i
16:17
believe him
16:18
secondly that's all videos i saw you you
16:22
put a filter on that last one
16:24
secondly db and whiz it was breaking
16:27
news that uh j
16:28
cole has now left the uh basketball
16:30
league in africa
16:31
he's left because of family obligations
16:34
so he's no longer playing in that league
16:35
that just came out
16:36
broke news about an hour or two ago so
16:39
he's no longer with the um
16:41
with the organization and then thirdly
16:43
whereas i keep hearing you talking about
16:45
work work work when are you sleeping and
16:47
not passing out in the studio when are
16:49
you eating good
16:50
food and getting hung up on never
16:54
my mom is out in l.a right now she comes
16:57
out to see me
16:58
she makes sure i'm good she hold me down
17:00
uh now i don't sleep much at all
17:03
uh especially with with with having bash
17:06
um i'm full time with him so i'll snag a
17:10
couple z's whenever i can but this is
17:12
just
17:12
it's just that time for me to hustle and
17:14
put in that working
17:15
you know i mean it's definitely going to
17:17
pay off later and i'll be able to just
17:19
to sleep some other time all right you
17:22
know i i but you know what
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i think part of the the hustle too comes
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from bash
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because i co-parent my daughter and when
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she was growing up
17:30
and around bash bash's age and i i saw
17:32
you talk about
17:33
and behind the cam how once he came you
17:36
know it kind of tightened you up all
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around
17:38
everything and i'm so all that
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responsibility he wasn't used to i'm
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sure as a young man with a kid and i
17:44
remember the same thing
17:45
it forced you to learn how to pay the
17:47
bills it forced you to learn how to be
17:48
on time how to pick up after yourself
17:51
when to eat when to sleep right and so
17:53
how did that just being a father you
17:55
think helped to
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help you in the business world it helped
17:58
me so much because all i really knew was
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just
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grinding and hustling and being on the
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road and living out of a suitcase and
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structure because i've been doing music
18:11
since i was a teen
18:12
so it was acceptable you know what i'm
18:14
saying for me to kind of just
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eat leave [ __ ] or somewhere and somebody
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else is gonna pick up after it or be in
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the studio all night and not really give
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a [ __ ] about what's gonna happen the
18:22
next day
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because i didn't have too many
18:24
responsibilities so this
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it was a he's a blessing because he made
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me
18:29
value my normal life there's times where
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i don't go to the studio
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i mean and i would have never done that
18:35
before but it's like
18:37
if he's like yo daddy i want you to read
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stories to me or i want you to watch a
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movie with me boom i'm shutting the
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studio down i'm not going to tell him
18:44
like yo
18:44
i have to do this or you have to do
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there's times where it goes back and
18:47
forth where there
18:48
are sacrifices but i would never want
18:50
him to think that
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you know my time with him isn't that
18:54
important to me
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and um just having that pride in that
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and loving that and
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being able to tell the homies like nah
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y'all go do what y'all doing i got my
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kid like you know what i'm saying like
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that feels good i think i take a lot of
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pride that's really dope
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yeah man you know oftentimes like
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when a man has a daughter and we've
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heard some of your peers in the game
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they'll say wow it took having a
19:18
daughter for me to like understand
19:20
women or to see through a woman's eyes
19:22
and now hearing you speak so
19:24
beautifully about bash i'm wondering if
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you thought about masculinity
19:27
differently
19:28
when you have to teach it you know what
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i mean because i imagine as a parent
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you're like oh
19:33
your awareness just like triples when
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you're seeing that someone else is you
19:38
know kind of reflecting your actions
19:40
your attitudes
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right i was raised by my dad and my
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mother but
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i got a really solid dad and he always
19:47
showed me love we
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hug each other we tell each other we
19:50
love each other and he taught me how to
19:52
be solid how to be
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tough too but my main thing
19:56
for bash is we grow up and we're growing
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he's grown up in a totally different
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time
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um bullying is a little bit different
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because he's on
20:04
the game with his friends and they're
20:06
talking [ __ ] to each other and they're
20:07
saying what they're saying
20:08
and just regular stuff that that when
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you're a kid you don't realize
20:13
you have to be programmed to cope with
20:15
this stuff and that's mainly what it is
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is me just trying to
20:19
not tell him what to do or what not to
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do but just
20:23
program how to how to deal with it if
20:24
he's upset all right you you're allowed
20:27
to be upset you're allowed to cry you're
20:28
allowed to feel bad because those are
20:30
real feelings
20:31
but how are you going to deal with it
20:32
are you going to let it affect you in a
20:33
way where
20:34
all right maybe you don't want to play
20:36
with that kid no more if you're that
20:37
pissed
20:38
that he's going to make you cry just
20:39
stop playing with him or
20:41
make him feel the way that you know
20:42
there's different ways to to like
20:44
it's just all about the situation and
20:47
just being really really sensitive and
20:49
aware
20:50
that their feelings and what they're
20:52
telling you is freaking true
20:53
and that's all i do with him you're very
20:57
soft-spoken with him too and
20:59
i love it you know uh the way you
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communicate with him
21:02
i watched that i i noticed it it was so
21:05
um
21:05
exceptional in my opinion um i want to
21:09
talk about this is a 10-year anniversary
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right
21:13
a rolling papers and by the way thank
21:16
you for i saw the direct
21:18
the clips of rap fix on the behind the
21:20
cam and
21:21
us posing me yo you dug up a picture of
21:23
me you and saigon bro that i've never
21:25
even seen before
21:27
i was like whoa first episode i think
21:30
yeah that was in the first episode and i
21:32
was like wow
21:33
because you never know how people the
21:36
way y'all positioned that and
21:37
and how things start picking up for you
21:39
after say yeah and
21:40
you know you was going through a
21:41
transition and y'all will become an
21:42
independent i remember that time
21:45
you know i remember you coming up to mtv
21:47
and us sitting and starting to cover
21:49
you know who is khalifa is yeah um
21:52
after cushing orange shoes and all of
21:54
this stuff start happening but that was
21:55
a really
21:56
explosive time lupe had lasers schoolboy
22:00
q
22:00
had setbacks i think kendrick had
22:03
section 80.
22:04
drake had take care cole had a cold
22:06
world project
22:07
you know well paint the picture what was
22:09
it like back then what was running
22:11
through your mind then did you see
22:12
yourself as a competitor were you happy
22:14
at the time this album released
22:17
the blog arrow was crazy it was fun it
22:20
was happy
22:20
i was happy to be a part of it and um
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you know we we all jammed each other's
22:26
music at that time that was the dope
22:28
part
22:29
we were all listening to each other and
22:32
kind of gaining inspiration but just
22:34
doing things from our own perspective
22:37
and that's what the fans were into
22:39
because they had
22:40
a lot of variety it wasn't even really
22:43
about where you were from at that time
22:45
it wasn't it wasn't regional at all it
22:48
was just like
22:49
if you was fired and you was he was fire
22:51
and
22:52
the way to like stay you know in it was
22:55
to compete it was a competition so
22:57
if you hear somebody do this you're like
22:59
oh man i gotta do a freestyle i gotta do
23:01
that
23:01
and then [ __ ] start teaming up like me
23:03
and currency started blinking and
23:05
started seeing the wave kind of change
23:08
and you know some of us had jewelry some
23:10
of us didn't some of us had louis some
23:12
of us didn't
23:13
it was like it was up and down and it
23:16
was it was a really fun time and like i
23:18
was saying too
23:19
we were all really really lyrical you
23:21
know what i'm saying none of us
23:22
were were compromising uh
23:26
what we were trying to say for the
23:28
popularity we were just
23:30
everybody was just inviting everybody
23:31
into uh our world
23:33
our beat selection the way we dress the
23:36
the music that inspires us the movies
23:38
that inspire us
23:39
and it and and it built a whole you know
23:42
it kind of spawned a whole
23:44
you know little little baby generation
23:46
and they've grown up now too
23:47
so that's all good it was a beautiful
23:49
era bro it was a beautiful era peep this
23:53
as being on the side out on the media
23:55
side you know really on the culture side
23:57
you know i'll be quite honest with you
23:59
it was a beautiful time to be sitting
24:01
and talking with y'all
24:02
yeah you know what i mean like all the
24:04
energy that was happening right there
24:06
big sean you know uh crit crit had a
24:09
project
24:10
you know and uh violent too like none of
24:13
us
24:13
fought each other words
24:21
damn that's crazy now i heard drake talk
24:25
you know congratulations to drake for
24:27
getting that artist at the decade award
24:28
right
24:29
and he says something really interesting
24:31
about thanking his peers for keeping him
24:33
up at night
24:34
guessing what should he do next being
24:35
inspired by them are you still
24:37
inspired by that same group of people
24:40
that you can't you know that you kind of
24:41
got known with
24:42
yeah absolutely i'm hella inspired uh
24:46
i don't think you you ever get tired of
24:48
that like i feel like we all
24:51
branched out and to have done different
24:53
things
24:54
but if we ever decide to get back in
24:56
that pocket is
24:57
is like you just gonna feel the same way
24:59
it's gonna be that same love
25:01
and even with everything that they do
25:03
now or even new people
25:05
i just love music so much i love the
25:07
energy of it i love
25:08
seeing people come from you know nothing
25:11
to something and i get excited when i
25:13
see that or like even drake winning the
25:15
award
25:16
that that's motivation because it's like
25:18
in the next couple decades who
25:20
who's the artist of that decade going to
25:22
be you know what i'm saying
25:23
i was like i haven't won a grammy yet
25:26
you know what i'm saying but i watch
25:27
weekend [ __ ] have this many grammys
25:30
and he was coming to my shows you know
25:32
what i'm saying so it's like
25:34
that's awesome to me i love that and it
25:36
does motivate me and it's like
25:38
i still got work to put in you know i'm
25:40
not done you you said that to me man
25:42
when we were at the
25:43
dmx listening you know one of the things
25:46
that stuck out you didn't say hardly
25:47
nothing
25:48
i mean by the way man you kind of you
25:50
kind of took over that listening party
25:52
with that kk
25:53
oh oh nevermind
26:02
you looked at me you said man i'm back
26:04
at work i'm back at work
26:06
what did you mean by that what what
26:09
what you mean what did you mean when you
26:10
said man i'm back at work it sounded
26:12
like you were saying i know i've been
26:14
gone
26:15
but you ain't really been going i
26:16
haven't been hard
26:18
i just think like with the world being
26:21
like freezing
26:22
i'm one of the last ones to kind of get
26:25
back moving i've seen people
26:26
on flyers and in strip clubs and they're
26:29
on jets like that was my
26:31
first flight that i took the whole time
26:34
was to come here and was to like you
26:36
know
26:36
get back in the mix and just start
26:38
[ __ ] with people like i know hella
26:39
people were surprised to see me in there
26:41
because it's like damn what the [ __ ] is
26:43
doing here
26:44
but it's like i am a real person and i
26:46
do [ __ ] with hella people so it's like
26:48
if i need to pop up to remind [ __ ]
26:51
go to the studio show up tap in whatever
26:54
whatever i'm gonna do that as well as
26:56
you know make dope ass music
26:58
come out with crazy uh visuals and
27:00
content
27:01
and it's just gonna all you know be a
27:03
natural flow
27:05
of um you know like i said me getting
27:06
back to work
27:08
okay man where's khalifa brother um man
27:11
i want to congratulate you on it all man
27:13
all the businesses
27:14
um this the this you know
27:17
the re-release of rolling papers you
27:20
know we we got a nipsy hustle verse we
27:22
didn't have
27:22
is that correct yeah yeah yeah yeah when
27:25
did he record that
27:26
that was the original version uh-huh
27:29
yeah that was supposed to be on rolling
27:30
papers but his label
27:32
at the time that he was with they didn't
27:34
clear the record
27:35
but um you know we were all so close we
27:38
all messed with each other so much
27:39
we had just come off of uh you know the
27:42
double xl thing and
27:44
nick was doing his thing and that was my
27:45
first album like my first
27:47
major release so i'm like i gotta use my
27:49
platform to
27:51
you know to get my guy out there okay
27:54
all right man any you guys got anything
27:56
else you want to say to whiz
27:58
we love you guys love you guys too love
28:01
you too and i want to see you are you
28:03
thinking about being in how high three
28:04
i want to see you with red and beth yes
28:06
yeah i'll definitely be at how high
28:08
three shout out to raider man then this
28:09
is the ghost for show
28:11
okay cool man hey wiz we love you
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brother man
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