I talk in cryptic code.
Some people, it goes right over their heads.
A lot of time I'm in there with Ye, and he's like, "Man, what does that mean?"
To other people in the street, it's like, "Oh my God, he's speaking the language, he's
speaking directly to me!"
If you're in touch and in tune with the life, then it's gonna mean the world to you.
So if you know, you know.
Me and Kanye were just in the studio.
He made the beat.
He felt my first four bars were super strong.
He stripped the beat down and that's why you hear this amazing acapella almost, first four
to eight bars, and then the track just comes in crashing.
It seems like right now that's a trend in hip
hop, the “running off on the plug line.”
You know, they got songs about running off on the plug.
It seems like the cool thing to say.
Don’t run off on the plug, please.
Keep it thorough.
Keep it business.
Keep it honest.
Throw them D’s is a song by Rich Boy.
He was awesome.
Rich Boy was like... had an amazing record.
I remember being at All Star weekend.
It was his year though for that record.
It really turned the club up.
That's just me living in today's time and hearing different prices in raps.
And I'm just like, "That's really not true."
"That's not even the number."
Those prices were like 10 years ago and it was.
But... right now it's really not that.
I look at myself as a person who definitely has made it out.
I look at myself as an artist who has weathered the storm on so many different occasions.
Even pre-career, just weathered the streets and made it through.
People know my story and they know how many close calls and things, and people next to
me have been fell victim to incarceration and so on and so forth.
We all, you know, in the streets, all looked at Puff like, “Man. He's the man."
"He’s really that guy.”
Every street guy wants to be part of music and wants to be able to propel his team to
some level of stardom and success.
He’s definitely the ultimate street dream.
I would have to say that.
Oprah give everybody everything.
I'm saying, "You all get a bird from Oprah."
“You get a car!"
"You get a car!"
"You get a car!”
It was a staple to have outside, a tennis ball that was basically hollowed and you could
open it, put whatever you needed inside of it, and walk camouflaged with a tennis ball.
9 times out of 10, it's usually off hinge a little bit.
The dashboard, the center console's a little off or crooked, or whatever, and that's how
you could recognize it.
If you caught a rookie cop or something, he may look past it.
It's also a play on words.
We're talking about wet weight, then you're talking about weighing the odds of like
"Hey wait a minute, do I go to war with you, or do I chill out?"
I think if I could ask a genie for two wishes…
One would be able to see the future, to be able to see the future.
The next one would be able to pick up on when somebody is lying to you.
This huge party that Big Meech had years ago.
I believe it was called Meech of the Jungle.
At this party they had elephants, tigers, all type of wild jungle animals.
The party basically went down in history.
Plenty of rappers and R&B artists have tried to replicate this party in Atlanta numerous times.
For guys like myself, to hear about the party, it was such a motivation to be like...
Man, this is what we trying to be out here.
We trying to live this large.
I look at myself as a guy who's still in touch with the streets, who he's made it out.
I look at myself as an inspiration.
You know, let you know that it's possible.