I'm a bonafide hustler and I'm a workaholic.
And I'm spitting facts, so they can't deny the music. Know what I mean?
Track Gordy produced this track.
He's like a in-house producer. He's out of Memphis, Tennessee, too.
When he sent the beat to me, I was thinking of something else.
And then I was like, “Hold up, hold up. Hold up.This joint kind of deep. I gotta get deep on this joint, right quick.”
A lot of decisions and choices that I made on the come up.
A lot of people weren't satisfied with them.
So it accumulated a lot of hate.
I was going to them, beefing with niggas in the city. It was crazy.
I had a show down in Mason, Tennessee, right?
They let me perform and everything.
So once I came off stage and I make it to the van, they draw down on us.
Got the dogs and everything.
So they end up taking us to jail, like,
"28. They got some dope and guns," and all kind of stuff.
And it's a lot of other stuff that was tied in, but we can't talk about.
I just came down there to do a show. They tried to pin it on me.
I want to shoutout to God because I've been blessed up.
And I been booked up for like two years since I had my first breakthrough.
Nonstop.
The new paper like the shows coming in, features,
all kind of money when you in the spotlight come toward you.
So that's what I mean by new paper
‘cause the old paper we don't want to have nothing to do with no more.
In the street.
See, I be wanting to get physical, but I just know...
When I say that, I mean I be wanting to take it physical, but I know the position I'm in
and I know what I'm trying to do. So, man it be so hard.
Especially when you know the person or when you know these people.
Like, “Dang you gonna say this towards me and I already know what's up with you?”
I ended up having a concert and somebody got shot at and they died.
So it just was like my face on some news clips about all kinds of stuff.
They saying all kind of foul stuff about me.
Loose lips.
You know what I mean?
I got a lot of people depending on me.
And most definitely my homeboys because they was with me in the struggle before the success.
Of course my kids.
If you a man and you got kids you gotta take care of them.
It's crazy ‘cause at the beginning nobody didn't even believe it.
None of my family members, none of that, they ain't even believe that I was gonna be what I am today.
A lot of people like Boosie.
Listening to their music, that real struggle music.
That raw, gutter trap music.
That's what gets me through my days.
I didn't know them personally,
but I just felt like they were my OGs just by me listening to them through the music.
Elo my Brother.
It's tatted right here. His name, Elo, and the date he died right here tatted on me.
He used to be one of them people.
I was in the car with him every other day and he was like,
"Man don't give up on this little bro. I'm telling you, you got something special.
God blessed you.
You know how she can play basketball, he can do this and that, he can play football?
God blessed you to be an artist. You talented, bro. You got a special gift. Stick at it."
Do you want to stay broke? Or you want to take care of your folks and better your life?
Which one you want to do?
And it felt like if I get with Gotti, the vision I was seeing, he can get me there.
He could take me there. But if I don't, I would still...
If I’m trying to please some people down here, I'ma still be broke.
Now I'm hopping on jets to go to these shows.
I'm that much in demand that they want me in two places at one time.
Right behind each other.
First jet ride. It was love.
When that person hear that, when they heard that bar they knew who it was because it was perfect timing.
The mixtape dropped on time.
Every time.
She gonna know.
She know who she is.
Same situation.
Just like he do, she know.