Rob Markman: You mentioned Mike Will, he's a guy, a friend of mine, somebody that I know
for a long time and been a fan of.
In the midst of him having records on the chart, Rae Sremmurd, “Black Beatles” Beyonce'
records, Rihanna records, anybody you can think of, the biggest of the big, he gets
on my line so excited about Trouble, you know what I'm saying?
And the work that he's doing with you so, you know when the homie talk, I listen.
You know if he sound excited I'm like something must be coming.
What lead y'all to linking up for real? Because obviously y'all have known each other for
years.
Trouble: Me and Mike been rockin' for years, you know what I'm sayin like on a cordial
level and been buddies like you know what I'm sayin?
He never had to be that best of bud ass shit, he up under my ass chasin me or me up under
his chasing him about no nothing, but besides him being partner, he always believed in me
doin’ it before.
Him and nigga like Future don’t end up going to the top of the game ‘bout shit.
Because during them same points I was around, and Mike would actually be on my line, like
bro “pull up to the studio, pull up to the studio.”
They be goin’ there like a mother fucker.
But at the time I'm playin, one foot in one foot out.
Really not even believin' in that shit.
Man, fuck that shit.
You just reach, you just end up running across, that gay ass shit you gotta do in the goddamn
game.
Not in the literal sense of being gay, but just fugaze and shit that I didn't really
want to deal with that at the time and I didn't know how to without end up god damn taking
my frustrations out on somebody about something.
'Cause I take everything to heart.
So, if I’m gonna run into a fuck nigga that I thought was real and I’m in the studio
I’m gonna speak on how I feel about shit.
It will be problematic.
So I like to stay away from a lot of that shit.
So when Mike called me one time like “bro, come to the studio” I be like “well, fuck
that shit.”
I actually blocked him at one point in time like, stop calling.
You call so goddamn much to talk about some studio, fuck outta here.
But then, him actually standing down on his ground, cause he always been that same ambition.
I told him like “yeah, you would of been a nigga bro, like, you just full of ambition,”
he already on that shit, fuck that shit.
Let’s do it and ready to make some work.
He gone be out in everybody’s face like fuck that, he at it.
So I can respect that on his game, but for me, I’d add a whole 'nother one.
It’s the same thing, but I ain’t into rap at the time.
So then as I'm sitting back though and I start just watching, I’m like damn he goin’
to the top of the mother fuckin totem pole, I’m just salutin’ from afar, you feel
me?
I never jumped on his line like “Why y’all just went number one? I need one of them!”
You feel me?
Not one time I called that phone about shit so, I don’t know where he was coming from,
but he flew in one day from a whole 'nother state and end up callin’ my line.
We were choppin’ like what goin’ on?
I was like I been doing a lil something but it ain’t fuckin with it like that.
So he just get to tellin' me like how he believe in me, how he fuck with me, which he always
has done.
Like “fuck that, you gotta lock down, bro."
"Come on out here, I'm at the studio.”
I know in my head it the same far ass studio.
I'm like “where you at, bro?”
He like, “I'm at Tree Sound.”
There it is, 30 minute drive.
But I was like fuck it, we chopped it for a minute and I ended up being like fuck it
and drove out to that motherfucker.
End up choppin' it up about an hour at the studio, jumped out my box, he start playin'
beats, you know I do about 5 songs that same night.
He was like, “That’s the shit I'm talkin’ about right there."
"We need to go all the way there with it.”
These folks’ eyes on you and shit.
Got the same backing, ain’t nobody left you.
Let’s give it to ‘em.
And it just really made me believe ‘cause I was able to see, from where a nigga could
take it from. Like from the turf, to being all the way up there now.
Then these folks still on my line like, “Bruh we can give you a chance at this shit too
‘cause we still believe.”
It gave me a extra drive, like aight cool.
Let’s do it.
Rob Markman: What was the first song that y'all did when y'all pulled up?
Trouble: First song?
“Bring it Back” was actually the first song.
Hell yeah, that “Bring It Back” motherfucker.