You know what it is.
It's the boy, Mike Zombie the humble genius.
The rebel without a cause.
The silver surfer and I blew a bag.
You may know me for Drake "Started from the Bottom."
♪ Zombie on the track ♪
♪ Started from the bottom, now we're here ♪
♪ Started from the bottom, now my whole team here (bleep) ♪
♪ Started from the bottom, now we're here ♪
Mike Zombie "616", Jhene Aiko "Overstimulated",
DJ Khaled "They Don't Love You No More."
♪ We the Best Music ♪
♪ Zombie on the Track ♪
♪ Another one ♪
So before it all popped off, I was going to
Full Sail University.
Life was lit, but it was also slow at the same time
because I'm in college
and you know when you're in college you are broke.
It was a creative school, so it was a lot of dudes there.
They called it full male.
I stayed in a two bedroom apartment
with my mom's friend's son.
His name was Ryan, and we didn't talk at all.
Literally we didn't talk at all. And I used to just be my room,
just making music, making music, making music.
I used to get noise complaints after noise complaints,
and they hated me. One day she left me a note.
It was so, so, so mean,
but pretty much she was like, you need to stop.
Pretty much said quit type thing.
I'm like, damn, that hurt my feelings.
So I'm in school, everything is going haywire.
I gotta make something happen.
And finally I get in contact with Drake
through my boy, Hollow Da Don,
shout out to Hollow. It's like, "Yo, this is Drake.
Who's Mike Zombie? I like your beats."
And I'm just sitting there and I text Hollow
at 5:30 in the morning or whatever time it was,
and I'm like,, "Yo, who's playing on my phone?"
We're texting back and forth, texting back and forth.
And I'm like, I didn't tell anybody yet.
And I'm just like, "I can't wait to tell somebody."
I didn't even know who to tell first.
So I called my brother, I'm like,
"Yo, I think it's him did it."
I'm texting Hollow, I'm waiting on it.
I'm just waiting. And I text my, mom.
I'm like, "Mom, I might be texting Drake right now."
She's like, "Boy, get off the phone."
She don't even believe me.
So when I talked to him, he was like,
"Yo, I want to fly you out.
I'm going to sign you, Yada Yada, Yada."
And I'm like, this isn't real.
Yeah. I got on the call with him. He flew me down to Atlanta.
This was the first time I've ever been chauffeured anywhere.
There was a black truck at five o'clock in the morning
in front of my mom's house. I'm like, this is crazy.
So when we went to Atlanta,
my mom was with me and Drake and Future,
and we we all went out
and talked about everything we were about to do
and we went out to the studio after that, my mom fell back
and you know there's going to be a different vibe there.
But when we got back to Willingboro, New Jersey,
you shout out to the 609 nine and all that,
I came back to the house and on my street I see all these cars.
I'm like, "Okay, they're about to throw me a surprise party.
I'm not slow."
There's never been as many cars in front of my house.
We turn the lights on it's like surprise.
I'm like, "Oh shit." And then I'm seeing everybody,
every single one of my friends, it was so dope.
And then as I was going through to my mom's kitchen,
I'm going and I'm like, "Hollow, what?"
They went all the way to Brooklyn to go get him.
I was like, "Yo, that's so dope."
And that was the first time I met Hollow.
When I got my first big check,
I was at a checkup with my daughter and her mom
and we're just sitting there, I'm playing with her,
you know the doctor's in and out the room
and I'm just talking to Future.
He's like, "Yo, we just sent you over something
just so you could get things going."
I'm like, "Oh, okay, cool."
And I'm sitting there looking at my phone,
I'm looking at my bank account. I'm like, "Wait, what?"
I was like, "My bank account ain't never seen over ..."
It had never even seen a comma before.
So I'm like, this is crazy. So the first thing I did,
I called my mom and I was like, "Mom, this is a lot of money
and I don't know what to do right now."
And she was like, "Okay, I'm going to help you.
Just come home and we'll talk about it."
I was like fire.
Even when I was at my party, I was like ...
I didn't even really know how real things was about
to get financially until I was at this party.
And everybody ... Like people I didn't really ...
with like that were telling me like,
"Yo Bro, I don't think want nothing."
And I'm like, "Why do you keep saying that? It's weird."
So anyways, I'm at this thing and I get home to talk to my mom
and she just telling me all the things to do.
And the first thing I did that was the best thing I ever did
was I bought my brother a lawyer who was locked up,
shout out to [inaudible]
cause he's out now and we out here.
So that was the first thing I did.
And I think the first ignorant thing
I did with my money, was when I came out here
Grammy weekend and I was just balling.
When I bought two pairs of shoes,
I went in the store, I bought some Jordan's
that I already had on my feet and threw the other ones away.
I stayed at the Lowe's for a week.
What's the movie?
Blank check where he's just buying all this dumb shit.
We had a microwave brought up from the lobby, Jenga, Twister.
Everything.
I went to Supper club when Supper club was open.
I bought two bottles of Don Perignon and Hennessy
for my bros and grammy weekend.
I probably did like 30, just 30, just a 30 banger.
You know what I mean? That was the worst. Oh my God.
I done ran through eight pairs of grills. Real estate.
I bought two houses, sold those, bought a car, cash.
Should have did credit but can't go back into it again.
You know what I mean?
The day that "Started from the Bottom" came out
I remember I was at my boy Chris house.
He woke me up, he like, "Yo bro, yo Bro, wake up."
He's like, "they dropped it."
I'm like, "Dropped what?" I'm [inaudible]
He's like, "They drop Started." I'm like, "Oh shit."
So we go and drive in to Willingboro
and literally I'm driving down the highway,
everybody is blaring it out of the car
and I'm like, "Oh shit, I cannot believe this."
And I just go round up everybody,
we go to my mom's house, we about to go celebrate,
and when we go to the liquor store
we get pulled over cause we so turnt in the whip.
And I remember the cop was like ...
We were like, "Yo, we're just hyped.
My song is on the radio.
Listen, listen. It's on right now.
Look, they driving by there, they're playing it.
And he's like, "All right, cool, relax,
go have fun, chill out, stop
whiling, get inside the car while you're driving."
And I'm like, all right. So we go to the liquor store
on every body's still playing this song.
I felt like the man, everybody's like,
"Yo that's you? Yo that's you?" I'm like yeah ...
I was in New Jersey and I'm just chilling.
You know what I mean?
I was actually working on some stuff in my room
and my manager at the time called me.
He was like, "Yo, I got Khaled on the other line,
he wants to speak to you?"
And I'm like, "Why does he want to speak to I?"
So Khaled is the most ...
This is before Snapchat had came out.
So he's like, "Yo, Zombie, I got this, this crazy opportunity.
I heard your stuff with Drake. I want to work with you.
I got the opportunity to get a
Hov on one on one of my songs."
I'm like, "So what you want me to do?"
I was like ... He was like, "Yeah."
He was like, "I need that fire,
I need something that's going to shake the club, shake the room."
All right. So pretty much he had me hand pick
and to his desire make him "They Don't Love You No More."
And I did it perfect. Sent one beat and he picked it.
I'm at my best friend Jazz's his house
and we're watching something on TV
and I'm on Instagram scrolling and DJ Khaled's
Instagram it said the tracking for
They Don't Love You No More,
but it didn't have the producer in there.
It said Fresh Montana, Meek Mill, Rick Ross,
Jay Z, DJ Khaled.
I'm like, damn, whoever produced this is crazy.
So I text the same dude who I'd seen in LA and I'm like,
"Yo, who produced this new Khaled track?"
He's like, "Zombie on the track."
I was like, "Stop ... playing. He was like, "No, I'm serious."
So Flex is going crazy.
Like, "Yo, I got a bomb to drop. I got a bomb to drop."
I'm like, "Yo." I'm still telling him,
"Yo stop playing me." He's like, "No, I'm serious."
I'm texting him the whole time like, "Yo stop playing me."
So we all getting a car, I download the Hot 97 app.
And I'm like, yo, I hear the beat and I hear my chords.
I'm just looking at everybody like oh shit.
They he's playing a song and every time
we would come to Jay's verse he was like ...
And then he would cut it off
and it would go to commercial it would be like, "Oh shit."
And we were just in the car screaming.
So I was having all this major success and at the same time
I'm dealing with, you know, my daughter's mother
and what she felt like I should be doing
and what I felt like she should be doing.
And mind you, we had just broken up,
and I'm getting all this attention.
And I ain't gonna lie,
I was one of those people who would always want to help.
If I went to the strip club with you,
I don't want you sitting next to me
if you're not throwing money, just because get money for you
just so you can throw it with me.
It was a lot for me as well,
and I was getting a lot of attention
and it's not that she didn't like it,
but she felt like it was girl jealousy.
You'll be surprised the shit people ask you when you got a
little change.
I remember one time, my boy still,
my dog shout out to you, this ...
asked me for $900 when I done bailed his ass out of jail
and he's still ain't paying me back from the last thing.
I was like, "What is you doing? DO you think I'm about to ...
No, no, no, no, no."
Still my dog though. But he knew, he tried it.
He tried it. But no, I wouldn't let that shit go.
It's really dope for me and my family and my mom especially
because I mean it feels good on Christmas
when you could just pull up with a little diamond bracelet,
you know what I mean?
A nice little purse for her, you know.
And aside from my mom, you know what I mean, it's super fire.
I'm super like really into this that I can go back
and help my community.
I do a celebrity basketball game back in my hometown
every single year.
This year is going to be my fifth annual.
So since I've started,
that was another thing that I put my first bag into.
Really trying to give back
and show the kids that they can do this too.
And it could be right here doing what I'm doing.
So after my 3 million and however many trips to LA
and coming out here, getting in the best hotels
and getting in the best car that everybody is ...
That I could get my hands on
and just spending money in a club
and you know, buying girls drinks
and buying clothes when I wanted to and, you know.
And I got back and finally my mom
is the one who just grabbed me and she sat me down.
She was like, "Listen, you're trippin',
you know, you need to get it together."
To this day, you know, just did that new fresh situation
with Artistry Records, you know what I mean?
And dropped that Blue Faces,
just dropped that 20GREATEEN last year.
So in the future y'all can look out for me on Sweetie's new EP,
The Game's new album, Young MA's new album.
Torii Wolf, shout the Torii Wolf,
I'm doing her whole next album, producing everything.
Mike Zombie, man. Humble Genius, Silver
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