- My name is 24 Heavy, and I blew a bag.
(hip hop music)
You may know me from Sacrifices, Safe Mode,
Blood Diamonds.
You might know me from Lil' Baby, Harder Than Ever Tour.
You might know me from the north side
The east side, the west side, Vine City,
Simpson Road, The Bluff, Four Seasons,
Tumbleville, Mechanicsville, Pittsburgh,
Lander, or Simpson road.
(upbeat hiphop music)
My last regular job was...
My momma had put me onto this job.
She owned her own concession stand,
at Turner Field Braves Stadium.
I was working the beer porter.
You have to actually be a certain age
to work the beer porter.
And I didn't supposed to be at the beer porter.
Someone was actually doing a favor.
They give you these pouches.
One person to pouch, to take care of
the whole fifteen cool beer porters.
The beer porters are the ones that you push.
They have beer that you can, you know,
serve to the fans that's at the games.
And the beer porter...
There's one person that controlled 12 to 15 people
with funds financially, and that one person
pass out the funds, this particular person
happens to be moi.
I didn't pass out no funds.
I got the money and ran with it.
I had, I couldn't even go home, 'cause my momma,
she turned me on to the job,
and you know, she was mad as hell.
I came with her.
I put like, $15,000 dollars up under her rug.
I ain't even go back home 'bout a week.
I was probably like 17 or 18 then. No I didn't go to jail.
They gave me a payment plan.
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I was getting heavy into music.
Finding myself in the music game.
And then, I end up getting caught up being incarcerated.
I went to prison for 6 years.
I had a 10 due seven in the state,
and I had a six year sentence in the Feds.
But a concurring sentence, which means that
my state sentence and my federal sentence
would be ran together.
And I just served one sentence in total.
When I left the streets, I had a family behind, you know.
My nephew and nieces, they looked up to me
like I was their only hope to becoming successful
or becoming somebody important to the hood
because, even though I did a lot of wrong in the hood,
and went to prison for it, you know.
I've been incarcerated for majority of the things
that I've been, you know, blamed for doing.
But, I always looked out for the hood, you know.
I ain't never do nothing to nobody
that was in the hood, you feel me.
I was like the rival hood.
I took from the rich and gave to the poor,
you feel what I'm saying.
So, that's my way of, you know,
saying that prison changed me,
because it took that.
For me to be sitting in a cell for, you know, 50 months.
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When I got out, on the things that I did to prepare myself
was I always did a lot of reading in prison.
So, you know, that was just to get myself mentally
prepared for, you know, whatever may come along
throughout this journey,
because I knew I had myself set,
like fuck that, I ain't going back to prison.
I'm finna do music, this it.
Ain't no other options, you feel what I'm saying.
Like, I knew I was determined.
Like, this is what I was gon' do.
It wasn't nothin' else I could do,
so I got myself mentally prepared by reading books.
So, after I got out of prison,
my uncle helped me get this gig with construction work.
Because my parol officer was kinda like,
why are not having a job,
or why aren't you in school.
And you know, at a time, you know,
I wasn't tryna go back to school at the time,
because you know, my mind wasn't prepared for that.
My mind was prepared for music.
So when I came home, I knew what I wanted.
I knew what I was gonna do.
I ran into some people that I knew
from back in the days.
And my best friend was out.
He was like, bro, you don't do with the music no more?
And I'm like, hell yeah, I just you know,
I'm dealing with the music.
But at the time, I had a job with the construction work
tryna keep the parol people off me.
And you know, I'm telling him like, bruh I need some help.
You know, and he was like, look, I'ma turn you on
to my people, you know, I'ma turn you on to my people,
with it in Canton.
So, you know, I'm like, bruh I don't wanna deal with nobody
that ain't been through nothing.
You feel what I'm saying?
'Cause like when we was growing up,
I like to deal with people that been through something.
Been through the struggle or some type of situation
that you know, it makes me safe, it makes me feel safe.
Because I feel like, okay, this person done been through
something so they know how to hold
they self, when time come,
if time come no matter what situation.
So, when my friend turned me on to these people, I'm like,
okay, I'ma go on and check 'em out.
And I talked to 'em and they was like,
shit you ain't got no music ready?
So I was like, nah ain't got none yet.
I'm like, well shit, I'ma take my music
myself and do it, you know what I mean.
And he was like, nah, nah, nah
just be patient man, just be patient
I'ma put it together for ya.
And then like a week after that, shit, we had a date.
We was rapping everywhere my first project.
From coming home from prison.
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But...
My breaking point was like,
when people start gravitating to sacrifices,
like the streets pit sacrifices and like...
The people in the streets know my struggle.
I come from the struggle with them.
And I still run the streets with them everyday.
So they kind of like, they understand my pain.
They know me and what I'm saying is true
and what I'm speakin' on are facts.
So, it makes kinda like, make them like they a part of me
because they grew with me.
When sacrifices hit the fan, shit.
Came back with Safe Mode.
That's where the fire started coming.
Then I started getting a lot of features
with a lot of people.
Like Thug, 21 Savage, Lucci, YSL Duke.
Just getting features with a lot of people.
That's silent that I speak for, or I vouch for on my level.
You know what I mean?
Because I don't get into what other people got going on
with other people, but I know I keep it silent
within the ones that I deal with, you know what I mean?
(upbeat hip hop music)
When I started buzzing off Safe Mode,
I got my breaking point.
Then I dropped a project called Safe Mode.
Where I come from, the streets,
I ain't never knew nothing about no damn bank account.
So, now that I know what, check your accounts,
I check my account.
And it was like, overload, it was on overload.
It was on overload and I was like,
damn man PJ really blessed me.
I'm very thankful, you feel what I'm sayin'?
P was the first one that gave me my first big check.
Feel what I'm sayin'.
Without even signing the paper yet.
He gave me a check without even signing the paper yet.
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My first big purchases was,
Oh, I bought, they just bust down,
feel what I'm saying, 41 millimeter.
I paid like $32,000 for this,
through Wafi, Unlimited Jewelry.
Like, this first thing I bought myself.
Feel what I'm sayin,
after I got my first load in.
I already had this piece,
before I had one of those, right here.
I got this piece right here, was a gift,
on the Harder Than Ever Tour,
from my management, and my label,
this Safe Mode piece.
This was my first ever gift.
This is my first piece, I actually purchased myself.
I paid $12,000 for just this piece alone.
These are 20 a piece,
each one of these links right here.
Mafuckin' 20 a piece.
In one day, I spent $20,000 cash,
on me, my sister, my sister kids,
me, my sister kids, my sisters,
and I only had one child at a time.
I spent 20,000 cash,
on clothes and shoes, for Christmas holiday,
because I have 26 nieces and nephews,
and four sisters, and I'm the only boy.
So, Christmas had to be big.
And my sisters, each have like, six or seven kids a piece,
expect one, one have eight.
So, we gotta go hard for Christmas for the kids.
The shit I do.
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I had bought this Luis Vuitton jacket.
I think I paid like $2600 for it.
Like, it was like, this suede like,
y'all prolly seen it on my Instagram,
now look, check this out, don't judge me though.
So, I paid like 2600 for the fuckin' jacket.
I go to L.A. to shoot a video.
After I purchased it, I was like, man,
aint no way in hell I just
spent $2,600 for no fuckin' jacket.
And then again, I'm like, you what I did.
So, I regretted it off the muscle,
I was like, man I shouldn't have did that,
I know I shouldn't have did that.
But, hold up, wait.
I bought a skullcap to go with this jacket.
A Luis Vuitton skullcap to go with this jacket.
Now, I'ma tell y'all how I got out, how I got away.
So I buy, but, I purchased it,
but my hat wasn't in my bag.
My management called Luis Vuitton when we got to L.A.
She called Luis Vuitton,
she was like, hey, the hat is not in the bag,
so they said they would call,
and run the cameras back, and stuff.
So, they ran the cameras back.
When they ran the cameras,
they see that the hat literally wasn't put in the bag.
So, I got a free wear out of that jacket,
because I called they ass back and said,
I don't want the jacket,
because you aint got the hat in the bag.
So, I got me a free wear out of, a $2,600 jacket.
(hip hop music)
My kid's life is gonna be way different,
because I'm workin' on finding different,
you know, things that will help them in the long run.
Like, openin' accounts, trust funds.
Feel what I'm sayin'.
'Cause I want my kids to be straight.
I don't want them to want nothin'.
You know what I'm sayin'.
(upbeat hip hop music)
Black Hearted is on the way.
Safe Mode is out right now.
Blood Diamonds is out right now,
featuring Lil' Keed and Mali Meexh.
Set trees on fire.
Heavy World is out right now.
I'ma be on tour with a lot of different people
this year, feel what I'm sayin'.
I'ma be maneuvering' around,
feel what I'm saying, all your local spots.
I'm pullin' up on you.
Just wait for me.
I'm on the way.
(upbeat hip hop music)
My name is 24 Heavy, and I blew a bag.
Let's get it.