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- Hey everyone, this is BET Talks.
I'm Parris Rose, and I've got Key Glock here with me today.
How are you feeling?
- I'm good, how 'bout you?
- I'm feeling great.
- For sure.
- So, we are celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop,
which is wild, a major accomplishment.
But, I want to know, do you actually remember
the first time you heard a rap song?
Can you think back?
- As far as I can remember?
Probably like 6 years old.
- Do you know who it was?
- Project Pat.
- Project Pat, okay, you had to think about it.
- [Key Glock] Yeah, it was Project Pat.
- Was that the moment that you were like,
"Yeah, this is what I want to do for a living, too."
6 years old?
- Nah, that wasn't the moment.
I ain't gonna lie, nah, not yet.
- [Parris] When did it hit you?
- It hit my senior year of high school.
- Okay, from there to now,
how did you make this transition?
People are dying to be in your position.
How did you get here?
- Really, it was the people around me.
It was my environment, and the feedback I was getting.
- What was the moment that you realized,
"No, I'm good. I got this?"
- Probably when I recorded my first song.
'Cause I wouldn't have recorded it,
if I ain't feel like I was, you know what I'm saying?
- The first song already, you were like,
"Yeah, I'm about to blow up."
- I'm just super confident in myself like that, yeah.
- I mean, how do you stay confident?
Because now, with social media, everyone's commenting
how they feel about you.
There's no secrets.
How do you keep your confidence?
- Yeah, I'm so laid back.
I be in my own lane, in my own world,
like I don't see nothing, or nobody.
- So, I have to ask a question
that always leads to a debate,
and I don't see why.
Who is your personal top 5 rappers?
It doesn't have to be the greatest of all time,
you just love these 5.
- Dolph, Glock.
Glizock.
Doe B.
And Wayne.
- Okay. - [Key Glock] Yeah.
- Alright, I respect that, I respect that list.
- Yeah.
- Alright, so do you have a certain song,
or album of yours that you're super proud of?
You're like, "This is me as an artist."
- All of 'em.
- All of them?
- Real talk, yeah.
- So that confidence is, it's up there.
- All of 'em.
- All of your favorite? You're proud of them all?
- All of 'em.
I ain't even got no favorite.
- So, I know you have a new album.
It just dropped, right?
It's already out.
- Yeah, last night.
- What was your mindset going into this album?
Like did you have a vision for it?
- Yeah, I got a vision for everything that I do,
and I just execute it.
But, with this one it, it really almost didn't happen.
Like I said, the people around me.
- No, you gotta give details.
Why didn't it almost-
- Like, my fans.
- No, why didn't it almost happen, though?
- 'Cause I wasn't in the mood for it, right now.
Like, I'm all about timing.
I ain't gonna never force a rush on nothing I don't feel.
- Like what advice would you give to someone
who's trying to come up right now?
It's so hard, it's so competitive.
- Don't worry about the next person.
Don't look at what the next person doing,
and try to compare it with what you got going on.
Just be you, and go with your gut.
- So, you're so like calm, cool and collected,
but have you ever had an embarrassing moment
like performing, in the studio,
maybe forgot your lyrics?
- Nah, I ain't no goofball like that.
- That's not...
I mean, it's human.
- It is, but that ain't Glock.
- Alright, so you've made such good collabs with people,
is there someone that you are hoping to collab with soon?
- Not right now.
- No, you're just all about yourself right now?
'Cause even when you-
- It just ain't what I'm focused on,
I don't even really care about it, really.
- Collabs.
- I'm doing a great job in what I'm doing right now.
- You for real are,
and you're so deep in the industry, like-
- [Key Glock] Nah.
- You are!
And you're on your way up!
You're definitely in the rooms.
So, is there something about fame, about success,
about making money that surprised you?
'Cause everyone has these ideas of how it's gonna be.
But something that you were like,
"I thought it was gonna be like this, and now I see,
it's different."
- Nah.
You really just gotta focus on the money.
Everything else, like you said, the fame stuff,
that gone' come with it.
You can't chase the fame and thinking money
gon' come with it.
Yeah, so, that's how I look at it.
- What's more important to you?
Making the money or the fame?
- Making the money.
- Making the money, okay.
Some people just care about the fame,
like that's all that matters.
So, in the next 10 years, where are you hoping to be
in your career?
- I don't know, I'm gonna be somewhere
with a billion in my account.
- Okay. - I don't know.
- Would you try to branch out?
Get into fashion, get into acting, anything like that?
- Yeah, why not?
- All of the above?
- Yeah.
- You're down for it? Have you tried acting before?
You kind of act in your music videos.
- Yeah, but I ain't...
I ain't took like-
- [Parris] Classes?
- Yeah, not yet.
- But it's something you would do?
I could see-
- I don't think I need classes.
- Oh, you think you just got it?
- I got it.
- I believe it.
I mean, there's confidence there.
I think you got it.
- I believe it.
- Okay, alright.
Is there anyone you would want to act alongside?
I don't know, you want to be with Denzel, or something?
- Yeah, that'd be hard.
Who wouldn't?
For sure.
- Okay.
Alright, so as I was saying, we're celebrating
50 years of Hip Hop.
There's been such major accomplishments
in these 50 years.
What are you hoping for the next 50 years?
'Cause you're gonna be apart of that.
- I don't know, probably more unity.
That's the only thing I can think of right off top.
- What's the first step in that? Because...
- I don't know. - Right.
- I'm speaking for everybody else,
I ain't speaking for me.
- You feel like you're unified already?
- Yeah, I'm good, I'm solid.
- Okay. Alright, so like I was saying,
I was talking to you before and you said
you haven't really gotten to celebrate
any of the BET events, or anything like that,
'cause you're in the studio.
So, can I ask what you're working on?
Or is it secret?
- It is, it's a secret.
- No, it's not!
I should not have said is it secret.
- Yeah, you shouldn't have, but it's a secret.
- Oh, my God.
Is there a timeline that we'll be seeing this?
- Probably like 3 months, 90 days.
- 90 days? - [Key Glock] 90 days.
- Alright.
90 days, I'm gonna check back,
and I better see something going on.
But, I really want to say thank you so much
for coming and speaking with us today.
Congrats on your success, and continued success.
- I got you, appreciate it.
- But you got it, you already know you got it.
- Straight up.
Yeah.
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