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Tory Lanez On Being Unapologetic, Independent, Talks Allegations, Hair Restoration + More
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wake that ass up in the morning The
Breakfast Club
morning everybody it's DJ Envy Angela
Yee Charlemagne the guy we are The
Breakfast Club we got special guests in
the building I'm out this Friday Tory
Lanez what's up Sir how you doing you
tired [ __ ] nah I'm tired I've seen your
tweet I got to sleep in three hours I
have to do The Breakfast Club in the
morning yeah that [ __ ] was about three
hours ago I was at stylist no he was out
I think it's a tradition that every time
I come here I go to Starbucks first and
then come here so I just had to do that
what was happening at starlets last
night a regular [ __ ] yeah how much you
spent last night installers
nothing crazy what's nothing crazy to
Tory Lanez I'm like three thousand
dollars and nothing crazy it was mad
late it was like literally 30 minutes
left I didn't even get to spend the
money okay now sorry for what now that
your new album first of all you are you
signed into a major or are you
independent I'm independent fully
independent um One Umbrella records you
know we distribute through create but
for now and that's how you want it yeah
for sure I've always wanted to be
independent and um you know be able to
touch the money that the labels touch
just being an independent artist so yeah
one thousand percent so you prefer the
independency over of course it's a lot
more freedom you could do whatever you
want drop whenever you you can't get
canceled you ain't got to worry about
somebody telling you what to do you know
you're good you're able to just kind of
move freely and I think uh just for me
being such like an Eclectic artist an
artist who's just like kind of all over
the place musically that's good for me
like you know what I'm saying to be able
to move and do what I want to do
musically whenever I want to do it now
let's start off with the title of the
album sorry for what what is the title
expressing and talking about
um I think uh for me you know
I've always been a very Unapologetic
person when it comes down to my craft
and to the things that I enjoy and the
things that I love and I feel like um
when we was creating the album and
creating the album titled you know and
listening to the music and how it sounds
it sounds Unapologetic but it also gives
you that like resilience that that that
uh standing in the wind when it's
blowing you know and and
um I feel like it's just about staying
tall and you know staying true to you
and you know being unapologetically
yourself so I called it sorry for what
now recently uh you got into an alleged altercation
altercation
but an R B artist August Alsina
look man I'm like I said I'm here to
just answer about the album yeah I've
been putting his hand out well is there
an open investigation with the LAPD
because I saw they said they were
looking into it again couldn't tell you
don't know
but you know like I said I'm here for
the album and positivity I know you know
and don't get me wrong I'm always here
to answer all the questions and stuff
but I'm really just here just preaching
positivity today like you know I'm saying
saying
everything that's been going on in my
life and the things that's been going on
around me I just try to keep positive
you know so no disrespect but I'm just
not here to talk about just one last
question now we've seen that you walk by
each other and he put his hand out did
y'all did you ever knew that y'all had a
problem because I'm sure if y'all if you
knew there was a disagreement you
wouldn't put your hand out no I mean
just generally speaking regardless I
don't have a problem with anybody and I
wrote for him before this this and we
you know it's not it's not one of those
oh so you petting stuff for his projects
and stuff like that well for um Meek in
August the record they did I did that oh
okay yeah okay that's probably why
because I guess he had an issue with the
freestyle that you did talking about the
situation again and sometimes I like I
like I like how we're doing this but
like I said I'm here to talk about um I
do you ever have like um you know you've
been through a lot like you said
recently and now you're trying to do all
positivity but do you ever feel like if
there were people that were not in your
corner Lane are you forgiving of that as
you know as time passes the thing about
it is it's like I can never be upset
about someone's opinion
you know and um when there's people who
have opinions it's like
whatever they thought at the time was
just whatever they were filming at the
time and I know that you know a lot of
people's opinions have changed up and
down about me and you know it's not of
me to be a judge or to be God or to be
playing God's role and judging people I
forgive everybody you know I don't
forget but I forgive so you could work
with somebody who might have said
something negative about you of course
and then I'm not a I'm about this money
you know what I'm saying like I'm about
getting to the money I'm about getting
to the business I don't hold negative
feelings about anything anybody said
about me like I said I don't forget that
you said it but not to you know to not
forgive you it's just bitter and I'm not
a you know a better hearted person
during the uh I didn't say during that
time during this time of course you know
people took sides and nobody knows the
truth and I'm sure we'll never know the
truth until it comes out in court
do you always do you look who you work
with depending on that like for instance
right and I'm gonna bring up August out
I'll say no but not not to do with you
but when the thing happened with August
everybody made jokes right everybody
talked about it everybody threw a line
in the rap everybody thought but it was
the culture right something happens to
Angelie something happens to me
everybody's gonna have jokes of course
something happened with you everybody
has jokes but now when it gets down to
it it goes to the music making process
how do you decide who you want to work
with who I'm not going to work with or
is it just like I don't care it is what
it is I mean yeah like I said like
musically and business business-wise like
like
I'm about whatever makes sense you know
what I'm saying and whatever feels like
it's the thing that I should be doing I
don't discriminate per situation or you
know whatever's going on I just I still
reach out to everybody and you know some
people will will be either ready to do
it in a moment or some people won't or
for whatever reason and sometimes it's
not even always the reason that you
think sometimes it's other reasons you know
know
um but
nah I've never I've I've I I don't I
don't look at people like that it's just
kind of like
you know if you want to make something
and it makes sense and it's going to
make us money and we can get to the
business let's get to the bag why not
you know and I was also going to say
when it came to it you know you had
people picking sides or whatever and not
knowing the real of what happened right
and some of these people you were
friends with you know I mean how does
that affect your relationship moving on
when it comes to it I mean I feel like
at least in my mind because a lot of
those people you've done things for
before I wrote a lot of a lot of these
six songs but I will say this I will say
this you know the way the way it's
painted in the media you know they would
have you thinking that like nobody [ __ ]
with me but like I I talk to everybody
that I've spoke to before you know and
even throughout this um there was
moments when it was a little bit more
like crucial to go out in public and do
certain things because you know and it
wasn't that people had an issue with me
it's just people didn't want to backlash
coming from something that you know they
weren't involved in or whatever the case
is in I think that just for me like
I've always been a guy that's been good
at kind of obsessing the situation and
kind of seeing like you know who moves a
certain way and like I said it all falls
down to this it's like I forgive but I
don't forget so it's like
again I can't base no situations off of
how you moved in the past or whatever
you know what I'm saying and how did you
not fold right and everybody can say oh
I'm not a fold I'm strong I'm Gonna
Stand 10 feet downs but that's that's
[ __ ] when it comes to most things
right and the reason I say that is
because I mean you know they you know
they you know try to ban you DJs From
playing your records they trying to and
who knows who they is but you know they
tried to make sure that your record
wasn't spending on radio they try to ban
you from clubs and venues and you know um
um
performances so so how do you not fold
when all that's going into play I mean
because it was a time when Nicky was not
[ __ ] with Tory Lanez yeah and it was
that like meantime but you you got a
buckle I I always kind of felt like the
world didn't [ __ ] with me before that so
it's like you know I've
I never that has never affected me
um but I will take you into my world for
a split second right um
you know you know when you do something
[ __ ] up before you do that you can't
say the world and [ __ ] with you right
pandemic no I don't mean I don't I don't
like I don't mean like something in the
pandemic that the world [ __ ] with of
course of course yeah definitely I mean
I was I you know that was a solid like
two three months that was which was
which was amazing like you feel me
um but I'm just saying like just in the
overall like um
um
you know when like you have a day that
something happens on the internet and
like you said you know a bunch of people
will start making memes and laughing and
da da da and you feel like oh my gosh
it's the end of the world you gotta
understand like I've I've learned to
live over there like
a million people that are hating on you
or imagine that for two and a half three
years straight it's like you get to a
point where it's like
it's kind of normal for me like you know
what I'm saying and I know artists are
always like yo I'm not you know I'm not
scared of the comments or I love my
haters I I I they see three four five
ten comments saying the same thing you
look at it and you're like damn like as
an artist I need to pay attention to
whatever it's like if you post a picture
right now and you got 2 000 comments but
20 of those comments that are like back
to back happen to be like yo envy your
nose is big as [ __ ] bro you might look
in the mirror and be like yo is my nose
really really big and [ __ ] let me see but
but
but over a period of time
of a million people telling you this
every single day you start to be like
well if my nose is big
so be it I'm not tripping on that you
know you start to accept
whatever flaws that people are trying to
pick and pick at you and then it gets to
this point where you really actually
don't care about like the hatred or
whatever the cases I kind of live over
here I'm not allowed to
you know live in that place where
artists live where it's like yo if I
just keep doing something good and you
know people are just gonna love me and
da da da da it's more so like
whatever I'm doing [ __ ] Gonna Hate It
regardless but I I'll keep on going and
my mindset is so Tunnel Vision on that
that nothing really bothers me and I was
gonna ask you know with the with the new
project in all your music do you feel like
like
no matter how great the music is right
how great the the records you make how
well it does it'll always get blocked
out from the other stuff
I mean for now while I'm in the
situation that I'm in and you know for
any artist again I'll bring you into my world
world
you know the artist you get to be
excited yes I make this [ __ ] like this
[ __ ] is fire I made that [ __ ] it's like
I'm making [ __ ] that's fire annoyed like
yo this is not getting playlisted it's
here's the difference right good is that
my my mind and my hustle and my drive is
so deep and the people around me care so
much about us just popping and getting
our stuff done that
I don't run into situations where it's like
like
well damn this is going to slow me down
now I'm like well all that means is I
just need to do double what the artist
is doing I need to do double the amount
of volume to to reach what they're
reaching because they're doing it
through an algorithmic playlist
I'm getting these numbers now
organically so now what artists are
getting from these editorial playlists
I'm actually touching organically you
gotta you understand like I got uh
16 point something million uh monthly
listeners on Spotify
when I'm looking at other artists
and I'm talking about like popping
artists when I'm looking at other artists
artists
they don't have the same it's not even
like it's like half of what I have but
it goes to show you that the volume the
dedication the amount of times I'm Gonna
Keep striking I'm not gonna stop and I'm
gonna keep making hot [ __ ] I'm not a one
hit wonder I'm someone who knows how to
make music so to me it just gives me
extra drive it's like all right cool I
just gotta work triple times the average
artist but that's never been an issue
for me it's like no matter what you put
in front of me
I'm lionhearted you know what I'm saying
I'm a Leo uh my mom always told me I was
a wolf and she said you know wolves we
we fight in packs and and at the end of
the day
you know a wolf's always gonna bring it
back home to the pack and like that's
just kind of how I look at it like it's
a lot of people who depend on me my
family my my friends you know my team
and I always want to make sure that they
know that through any any weather
through anything through any storm I'm
gonna bring it back you know what I'm
saying like that's that's that's what I
kind of pride myself on is like I'm
going to be resilient through anything and
and
yeah when you make it when you make
music yeah I was I was going to ask you
you tweeted out that a boogie was the
only um feature on the project but he
was also the only person you reached out
to yeah well and my brother my brother
Yoko gold he was also the only feature
on uh Day star the the album that came
out but um but yeah they're the only two
features and I I didn't even reach out
to him he was actually recording
in a studio that was like across from
our studio one called Camp David which I
used to record all my records in I still
do some time time but he was in there
and then he came inside the studio
and I hadn't seen this in the game mad
long like like mac can I get some of
this water yeah that show us [ __ ] lips
dry [ __ ] um
um
but I hadn't seen the [ __ ] in Mad long
and when I seen him it was just so
refreshing because I hadn't heard like
new music from him and stuff like that
either in a while and just seeing him
you know he's like you know he had a
tattoo on his face he was like this new
guy like you know what I'm saying and he
was just so ready to work and it was so
refreshing just to see somebody that in
my times of working who's always been a
partner with me like when we work
um just to see him so motivated and just
ready to go he's just like all right I'm
I'm gonna do this one song with you I
was gonna lead a project like how it was
but you know I'm Gonna Leave You on
there and I'm gonna put my brother on
there and then that's that's it like you
know I was gonna ask you know what what
with your music and your songs and I and
the reason I'm asking is you know we're
artists now
it seems like every judge D.A prosecutor
goes through their songs to try to
connect something you have to be careful
what you write in your song because
you're like oh they might try to use
this to say this is concerning to this
especially for somebody that doesn't
know our culture
um I don't really I don't really say wow
[ __ ] in my music like that to that point
I'm I'm more concerned about what I
gotta say on Twitter like I gotta you
know what I'm saying like and that's
another thing I know you know time after
time there's there's always a time when
a story will come out about Tory Lanez
and then the narrative will be wild
y'all gotta know like as much as I would
like to like love to tell y'all [ __ ] a
narrative I can't I'm not allowed to I'm
in an open case until that's done you're
there's going to be a couple narratives
that you're just not gonna get because I
can't speak about them so it's like you
know why I don't I don't play around or
dance around those lines or try to play
with those people over there it's like
nah so when you see it I mean like you
see some of these blogs be like well
Tory said this is the song You must be
concerning you must be advising to this
you you're like oh here I go again I'm
gonna get in trouble for something I
ain't even do well well nah I just go
well there's another story I can't talk
about but he's like all right whatever
the narrative is that they're saying I
gotta run with it and I gotta wait till
there's a time when I can talk about it
so now that this album's coming out this
Friday and you're kicked off the tour I
hold on I'm just joking I want you to
explain it now we're not going to get
into this deep but I was never on a tour
you did three days I did that was it two
dates two dates they called me for this
for the third one but we canceled
it wasn't enough money I'm not being
funny and I love rock you know I'm
saying it's not one of those things like
where I'm trying to disrespect or
whatever cases but if we're just being
like honest I do real tours like I I
really sell tickets like for real for
real by myself so you did two shows I
wouldn't be on an r b tour with a comedy
thing I just I liked the way that they
did it I thought it was dope like yo you
do these two shows I did it I wasn't
really contracted to do a tour yeah and
it was two songs each each yeah it
wasn't supposed to be some set like nah
they could only afford two songs I mean
like you gotta understand like like if
I'm gonna go for 30 30 40 minutes it's
gonna cost somebody around 150 something
like that if it's a full set 60 minutes
it's gonna cost you around two two something
something
you're asking me for you you got 40
grand for me like it's gonna get you two
songs so you did two songs
were supposed to be on the third date
and you're not on that tour you are no
no I didn't even know that was a tour I
just thought it was a weekend that they
were doing you know which which again
there's always a time when there's a narrative
narrative
and like I said I gotta watch it and be
like ah even me like talking about it
now I'm not trying to wake nobody up and
start something new or whatever you know
what I'm saying I just be trying to stay
out the way like you know are there ways
that you feel like you should move a
little differently being that every time
something happens like I saw the article
in Madame Noir it's like mute Tory Lanez
after the August Alsina incident but do
you feel like okay you know there's this
like aggressive aura that people are
saying this is how Tory Lanez is and so
being that you have some open cases
there's no aggression things there's no
aggressive order about me there's
aggressive narratives
that are never that are only told by one side
side
but there's there's
anybody who really knows me or seen me
or is around me is like one of the most
gentle nicest people in the world and
and I say that just because like
I'm a [ __ ] who plays too much like how
I'm always laughing I'm always joking
around I don't I'm not a guy who's like
just tough interior I never portrayed to
be a gangster I never portrayed To Be A
Thug I never betrayed to be any of those
things I stand on business and I stand
on positivity but I stand on what's
right at the end of the day the
difference is you know in the last two
three years is that
it's not that Tory Lanez has gotten more aggressive
aggressive
it's that stories come out and Tory
Lanez can't explain himself no more Tory
Lanez is a very outspoken person
I'm very outspoken I love I'm always
there to be like nah no this is what
happened stop
I'm always there to be outspoken I'm you
know I'm an outspoken artist but
I'm not allowed to do certain things
certain things correlate to this than
that and then people that don't need to
be looking into this start looking into
that and this and then it turns into
something you know but again like it's
not that that Tory Lanez has gotten more
aggressive is that the narrative has
gotten more aggressive since other
narratives have been aggressive about me
and it's like let's just pile these on
while he can't talk I see you still got
that Playboy earring on so let me ask
you you're still a Playboy exactly you
have a song on the album right where
it's called this ain't working and I'm
like does Tory Lanez want to settle down
and get married and have a bride but
then you have other songs where you're
like I send you a picture with some
people out and about too then you have
other songs where you're you know just
being a
the guy running around doing him and
[ __ ] her and her friends and
everybody else so what does Terry Lane
I'm 30 years old like can I imagine
no it's 20 songs on the album so we get
both of those things yeah is that
something that you struggle with within
yourself like on one hand maybe I want
to be
I don't know if I'm like
super great with like commitment in relationships
relationships
um I've seen you in five pictures now
five pictures with the same person it's
starting to feel like it's almost a relationship
relationship
I mean hey
I mean like like you know whatever if
you got your your opinion on whoever
you're seeing me with but I mean like
I'm just talking about my real personal
life like I think that I have an issue
sometimes with commitment I mean why is that
it's hard to find somebody who matches
my speed
you know I'm a real like rock star and
sometimes like the things that I do
are just like really spontaneous and I I
don't think I found like
like
you know my
person that's like exactly like me
you know what I'm saying and maybe it's
not maybe I'm not supposed to be trying
to find a person that's exactly like you
know maybe you're supposed to be like
climbing to the top Rafters of the clubs
performing anymore I know I am oh boy oh
I am oh I am I just uh you know things
things change I do I do look at you know
certain things differently um just as I
get older and I do see myself settling
down though don't get it twisted like I
don't feel like I'm gonna be a a
bachelor Playboy my whole life or some
wild [ __ ] like that I know I'm you know
eventually going to start getting up
there and so my thing is it's like I
just want to find something that that's
my speed and I think that you know um
when it happens it'll happen who is this
ain't working about then because you use
a little Lauren Hill Cadence on that X
Factor um
a lot of the songs there's no there's
there's not like a bunch of songs on
here that are like all about the same
person this
I always draw from all of my exes
anytime I talk about like toxic [ __ ] or
whatever the case is or I always draw
from like just things that I went
through you know with girls or whatever
the cases and so like it's no one
specific that I'm talking about on that
special is toxic when it comes to
relationships nah I'm not the toxic one
I I don't ever feel I know what toxic
guys say you know what I feel like
though I feel like and and all people
who've been in a relationship can can
relate to this in some sort of way I
feel like I have a problem with trying
to fix people and then I end up in some
toxic [ __ ] like for trying to fix this
person like you know what I'm saying or
trying to be with a person that
it's like you know what I know that they
just they just don't get it because
someone never really told them the right
way I I I'm one of those people and then
I realized yo I'm in some wow
you would want to fix somebody no I just
thinking I feel like sometimes when I
meet people who
uh don't have enough love in their life
or they're just like lonely or like
super like uh not confident like I hate
when I meet a beautiful girl who's not
confident it makes me just want to be
like yo let me just take you out of the
town and just show you who you are like
you know what I'm saying but then you
wound up hurting them all because you
take them out on the time they fall in
love with the guy but you're not ready
to settle down nah but you know what I
think it is is I think in the process of
of uh me trying to give that extra arm
of support and love or whatever it is that
that
a lot of times people are not ready for
it and it's like the reaction to it
because it's something that they never
got sometimes is
is like you know it's like a shock to
them or something like that like you
know what I'm saying yeah because
usually that stems from somewhere and if
you can't work on that and someone's
just trying to say here this is what you
deserve this is what you need but you
still don't feel that because of
whatever yeah there's no way you can
accept that like I'm uh what What's the
word empath where you feel like what
everybody like when uh when I when I
talk to people and this could just be
regular people too like even if I see a
bum on the street or if I see a homeless
person on the street or something like
that and they tell me yo
um yo I'm really they've genuinely give
me a story that's like and I just be
like them like I really feel for that
person and I think that that'd be my
problem in relationships is that
sometimes I I feel too deep into
people's like past and I want to help
them change they you know they Outlook
but it's like that's some some things
are just not of you that they're for you
know other people to kind of get over
themselves you know what I'm saying and
for other people to go through
themselves do you feel like you're
underrated or you don't get the amount
of love and respect that you should as
an artist
um I think I think people would say I'm
underrated I rate myself I rate myself
10 out of 10. as you should you know and
I think that at the end of the day as
long as I feel that way the realization
of the world will come there was a time when
when
uh you know I didn't think that I was
rated enough to be on The Breakfast Club
or I didn't think that I was popping
enough to be here it's been like four
times I'm sorry I'm saying there was a
time but before my first interview here
you know what I'm saying I used to be
watching this like yo when I get to that
point I'll be popping enough to do XYZ
but if if I ever stuck on that thought I
would have never got here so
um just the thought of like being
underrated to me is not a real thing to
me I'm I I I want to denounce that away
from me you know what I'm saying I'm not
underrated you know my time is Gonna
Come when it comes and that's just it
got you you know now when the baby did a
song with you uh years ago you know
people got mad at the baby for doing the
song then they released the song uh the
boogeyman recently and now you know
everybody hits the baby again what was
your thoughts when he releases music and
he talks about his life although people
do it all the time everybody hates the
baby well they're upset with him for a
recording release and be messy today
it's asking some questions that's all I
don't think everybody hates the baby I I
think um I think again that's the way
that they paint things and I think that
you know you got to realize that
there's people out here that spend money
to push narratives into your face and
make you feel a certain way if I spend
ten thousand dollars on a post and I'm a
major label or if I'm a major
corporation and I spend a hundred
thousand dollars on a post
that's like yo this guy is wrong over a
period of time you're going to be
bringing while you keep seeing that [ __ ]
you're going to think like you said well
everybody hates this guy everybody
doesn't hate that guy everybody doesn't
hate whatever person they're saying I
feel like when you go outside into the
world and you see how people react with
you there's a big difference between the
internet and people and like
there's a ratio thing that I always do
and I think that the world needs to do
when you start thinking that everybody
hates somebody you need to look at the
ratio of the numbers right
a lot of artists you'll get Maybe let's
say let's look at the artists like the
baby since you brought them up right yep
I see he'll post a picture
get say like maybe 500 000 likes on
something and let's say it's one of
those days where like you're saying
someone's upset at him and a bunch of
comments are in his comments he'll
probably have like three thousand six
thousand comments
maybe a thousand of those or 500 of
those are like yo [ __ ] you whatever
they're saying but then when you look at
the ratio it's like yo 500 000 people
like this picture right true
one thousand of them [ __ ] is talking [ __ ]
[ __ ]
who really is greater
that's why it's like I don't I can't go
off of
yo everyone's saying that no everyone's
not saying that a couple of comments
that you've seen are saying that gotcha
go out into the world it's a big place
now aside from music what are some other
things that you are dipping your
finances into um
um man
man uh
uh
I don't want to fully say it
but I am definitely in the medical field now
now
in a major way and I think in a major
way that's going to affect our culture
and our community
um just for years upon years and
generations after this um
um
I uh when I was in this situation that I
was in I started looking at things like
you know if they were to ever be able to
take this from me
but just in case you know what I'm
saying just in case let me make sure you
know I'm being smart I'm being an
entrepreneur and it woke up this energy
in me that I've I've never
I've never experienced before um
um
I think one of the greatest things that
I did you know we owned on taboo with
with Corey Todd
um and Shamara Todd from uh Jamaica I
don't know if you guys ever been to
Taboo in Jamaica but it's like you know
the biggest Club in Jamaica there's
three of them uh in the West Indies and
then we got two of them in Miami so the
two in Miami about taboo yeah yeah for
sure for sure that's the hottest club in
Miami I'm not even saying that because
we're I'm here I promise you like you
know what I'm saying you come all the
time it's literally yeah you and you
know me I'm not going anywhere doing it
but the vibe is just so great
um best food in the city past 11 o'clock
there's nothing to eat out there like
after a certain period of time so it's
like you gotta depend on which club's
gonna be right for you we got the best
food in the city and there's two of them
so there's taboo Miami and taboo 826
um and I own both of those with Corey
and Shamara so
um that's another thing that we were
doing it's just a there's a lot of
little different like little business
plays and stuff like that but
ultimately you know I care about the
music That's My First Love and you know
the most important thing to me so you
know I'm always on that oh also I'm
doing this TV show too
okay I've been shooting this TV show
what's it about
um it's actually based off this song
that I had uh called pieces and it's
like a story about a girl who got raped
by her uncle and um she turns into to
like the street and like a lot it's just
like a lot of different stories that
kind of come into one that's like
different pieces of the story but
um I just wanted to be able to do
something that was dope and show off my
acting skills because you know I got
tired of like not getting the rules for
some of these big films like I would be
like auditioning yeah what's the biggest
what's the biggest role now I was
auditioning for big stuff I did the uh I
I almost got the role for um was it King
Richard the Will Smith movie uh what
part for the for the I was supposed to
be the the the aggressor the doodoo got
shot up at the corner store okay they
had me read for his parts and um every
time I've done like a power I was
supposed to uh I was supposed to do uh
Joey Badass part okay you know amazing
job now he does he does an incredible
job I um but like that type of character
every time I've always like read I I've
always get I've always gotten called
like multiple times like a nice guy or
something to change this whole narrative
the art is all right you know what I'm
saying because it's like
you're accomplished no now you're going
in front of people
I look at things that that exact way I'm
not Tory Lanez I don't expect no special
treatment but because of that I always
had incredible self tapes like
incredible they they brought me back for
that part about three times don't get it
twisted a power one yeah they brought me
back they made me talk to the main lady
and like you know what I'm saying but at
the end of the day like I said I feel
like my time with my time will come
you're gonna see me on screen and be
like yo I ain't gonna lie he could have
played that role too but my thing is
it's like you know like I said like the
time will come and and like everything
that I never got I always just taught
myself how to do like when they told me
oh I I you I'm not singing on your song
because you're not a big enough rapper I
taught myself how to sing I sucked at
singing before I taught myself how to
sing when a video guy wouldn't shoot my
videos I taught myself how to shoot I
taught myself how to edit when a
producer wouldn't produce my music I
taught myself how to produce on Fruity
Loops when they wouldn't record me I
bought Pro Tools and learned it myself
so when he told me I'm not going to get
the road for these Will Smith movies and
these I'm going to do it myself okay so
now I'm on you know I'm on set playing
five jobs being director editor and and
actor but the hard worker is going to
pay off because at the end of the day I
believe in myself oh and I believe in
anybody around me you know what I'm
saying you're already filming this yeah
yes I got nine minutes of it I'll show
it to you when we get off the you know
what I'm saying would you want to sign a
major label deal if somebody came at you
or are you feeling like you're making
too much I know you've said that but
have things changed somebody might come
at you but some type of person they
offered you a wild check a couple of
years ago they offered me a wild chat
but y'all gotta understand
while everybody was saying uh uh was
saying like yo he's who's gonna sign him
and who's gonna I gotta understand that
year what was that 2012 21 there was 20
or 21 20 28. it's the end of 2020. I
signed probably the biggest deal that
year like as far as just distribution
and on a distribution independent arm
like [ __ ] that no one's seen my [ __ ] my
[ __ ] was 18.7 million dollars that I
signed for 22 months
of distribution not of major label
I don't need to play this game with
y'all like you know what I'm saying I
don't need to I don't need to play this
game with y'all cause I'm silently gonna
do what I do you know what I'm saying
and and and and I'm never like yo um
um
let me break down a gem for y'all real
quick go and for any artist they they
really need to hear this off this show right
right
look at this
when I was with Interscope right and I
want artists to really pay attention to
this when I was with Interscope
and we made music
let's say I didn't drop music for a
solid year a year and a half
Tory Lanez
solidly or
whatever it is make sure that his
streams were about three million streams
like with all the music three million
streams a day
off 1 million streams
our artist gets five to six thousand
dollars every Friday or every other
Friday right so that means that when I
wasn't dropping [ __ ] and I was at home
some label was sitting on their ass
collecting fifteen thousand dollars a day
day
off of Tory Lanez music
but that music
if it was made by me then I would be
sitting at home scratching my ass
[ __ ] making fifteen thousand dollars
a day
if I'm popping and I'm making songs
then it's I'm probably gonna do around
like seven million streams six million
streams a day right just with all my
music in general let's just let's call
it five million streams let's just say
that just make it easy right
that means that someone's making 25 you
know thousand dollars a day
off of my music
so in four days they made a hundred grand
grand
like guys let's do the numbers guys like
how how long are we gonna let this [ __ ]
just rape us like it do you think though
without endoscope you wouldn't be as
um popular as you are because sometimes
people first and foremost I want to let
y'all know this I love endoscope for
everything that they did for me because
at the end of the day
they are the people who take the chance
but I want y'all to know something right
here right
it's at that moment
when a label comes to sign you that
you're usually really popping you're
popping enough that people are looking
at you and they're probably starting to
kind of pay you for things and they get
you at that point and usually artists
signed for four to five albums
and when you sign for those four to five
albums by the third album
we don't want to really hear you no more
because we heard everything that you've
got to give it's very rare for artists
to be able to get out of that situation
in the first place but then to get out
of the situation and still be relevant
enough to go independent you're never
going to have it so all your best songs
are made during that period of time all
of our favorite artists best songs are
made during like
unless you're like you know the Drakes
and the people who really went on longer
but like a lot of our favorite artists
who didn't like go far far far but
they're like you know I just love that
album I love that artist their best
songs came out in the majority of time
that they were with the label so all
that money of all that creative stuff
that you're doing it just went straight
to a label now at that point when you're
about to sign
you're popping enough to just keep going
it's just you just gotta learn how to
use everything that the label uses the
label doesn't
hire people that they employ or whatever
cases they Outsource people that you can
employ right right and once you learn
that it's like the world is yours but so
I guess some people might be in
financial situations where they're not
but like you said if you're popping
enough then you should have money coming
in you're in a you're in a financial
situation because you're not independent
right all of that money it doesn't
matter now when I break it down and I'm
saying you a million dollars a day or a
million plays a day is this much money
that doesn't mean that Johnny over there
from the Bronx is gonna make that maybe
he might get 50 000 plays but that's
going to equivalate to whatever it
equivalates to and he's going to get
that every Friday you know what I'm
saying like it's gonna come to his
pocket every Friday it's going to land
in his bank account Faithfully like a
job and all all Johnny from the Bronx
has to do is keep dropping music and
it's going to keep stacking
so why would you not save your best
songs and your best stuff for that
moment for yourself in that moment
you're gonna make all that money it's
just that artists don't understand how
much money there is out here and that's
why it's like you know I've always been
one to to to kind of take those steps
for people like you know um it's times
that I can't do certain things and I'm
not able to do certain things and I
gotta call on people that you know will
help me do certain things and help
certain things shout out to my uncle
Speedy too you know what I'm saying
that's my dog he's helped me through a
lot of this in just this independent
route and taking it there but like you
know anything that you can't do you can
learn how to do and if there is somebody
who can help you do it you can Outsource
them and pay them the same money that
the label is paying you know it doesn't
it doesn't it doesn't it's not really
expensive and then think about it you're
an artist
this is for artists signed to the label
you're an artist you're already signed
to label you're going you're doing shows
you're getting money start looking at
your money and realizing like [ __ ] me
buying this chain right now if I take
this hundred thousand dollars and I put
this into this department this
department this department and find out
who these [ __ ] are hiring the guy in
the digital Department doesn't cost 20
grand he costs three thousand dollars to
do whatever it is that he's talking
about the guy on TV costs seven thousand
dollars the guy on it doesn't you know
it's it's it's things you can put your
money into that's gonna really
change your life and as an artist you
got the money to do it so do it sorry
for what are you good at apologizing
if I have to yeah and I know when I when
I need to apologize I'm not a [ __ ]
I'm not somebody who you know can't
apologize or like doesn't know when he's
wrong like you know I know when I'd be
wrong and and when I'm wrong I can take
up for it for sure and I gotta ask this
how's your hair holding up I was gonna
say you gotta apologize to our camera guy
guy [Laughter]
[Laughter]
I do apologize
but because I was so sincere when I was
telling him like yo you come over that cabinet
cabinet
nah but but all up now but it's good
um I'm actually you know it's crazy
Angela like I'm trying something brand
new right now and it's it's not into
full form for like fermentation but it's
not a full form but
for a long time guys right we've always
been like yo Tori the guy right hey the
guy with the with the hair and the daughter
daughter
for a long time I've been dealing with
these things but I've been dealing with
them for a reason because me I am going
to be what is like the Messiah of black
people and colored people getting their
I'm not in a good hair day right now I
still need to brush I woke up and just
came here but look
check this out I'm gonna grow my hair
right I promise you but I'm doing it
with a product that I've created like
you know what I'm saying I went I talked
to the African ladies the Haitian ladies
and the Dominican ladies everything and
I and I've learned that all of the
things for your hair that you need like
naturally for your hair to grow are in
the earth right like you know what I'm
saying and it's really just a concoction
that you create in order for you know
for an Elixir for your hair or for
things that need to grow I promise y'all
I don't know the name for it yet it's a
game changer but I promise you guys I'm
coming back with the uh with the with
the with the cream in this in the stuff
that's gonna make your hair come back
and it's gonna you're gonna know it's
authentic because y'all seen y'all seen
the patch head y'all seen the [ __ ] that
I had to go through you feel me it'll be
good for our edges too I know you like
the edges everything that's the whole thing
thing
and I believe it it's gonna work for
Charlemagne and that's that's insane
because he's tried everything yeah he
tried everything he got like the RoboCop
I got him who's here like the Georgia I
got him okay I got him and you know what
else is crazy that that's another thing
I wanted to say on the medical side
um the doctor that did that did my hair
originally and showed me like you know
yo you can do hair restoration and stuff
like that I'm actually gonna team up
with him and we're gonna bring hair
restoration down in Miami to the medical
stuff that I was telling you about okay
um so yeah so I'll be like one of the
first uh hip-hop artists to bring hair
restoration like in real reality like
with the machines and the doctors and
and actually yeah like how people really
get their edges back without their cream
and stuff like that you know what I mean
the cream of these secondary it's a game
changer for a lot of you guys I'm trying
to tell you I'm trying to tell you it's
like a BBL for men
um I don't even know what you want to
get into hey whatever you want to play
the a boogie one the one broke call with
a boogie okay well let's get into it
right now it's Tory Lanez we appreciate
you for joining us the album's out
tomorrow thank you bro all love thank
y'all and it's The Breakfast Club good morning
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