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T.I. talks Tiny Lawsuits, Kids becoming Rappers & Boosie drama | Funky Friday with Cam Newton | Cam Newton | YouTubeToText
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and one of my favorite songs on the Libra album bro was with you and your son yeah
that's my favorite song ever listen you know your kids are your kids around you
but then when they had start having cameras on them I started to learn yeah a lot about them
one thing I'ma say it again I'm not gonna play into the hands of the enemy
I understand we're being done I don't know if everybody involved understand what being
done you see that that that platform is is meant to dissect divide and watch [Music]
it is what it ain't what it could be what it should be what it would be
Cam Newton the song Mr Boogie at all and I'm here with another episode of funky Friday now this
ain't no regular episode you feel me like it's not you feel me I I feel like my Atlanta lingo gotta
come out proper but you know I'm saying enough so you know I'm saying to be relatively Exquisite in
my Approach as I as I take y'all through this one this is a very special one today we have
the CEO and founder of Grand Hustle Music Grand Hustle films entrepreneur businessman husband
father the list goes on and as he will call it it's the king yeah what's happening player TI
my black what's going on man I can't call it man what's the what's the plan man listen bro give me
some fly I can try you know what I'm saying I'll tell you this bro being in this industry as long
as you've been in this industry right how you've been able to evolve businessman philanthropist
um different genres of music uh actor producer you know what I'm saying and the list goes on comedian
um what's the what's the what's the T what that mean the t is then like tell me how tell me how
you was able to do it so I'm like what's the secret well one thing at a time you know uh
I think all the things I do they all are born from a vision you know and I just always had
like visions of even when when I was surrounded by uh the environment that we come from I still just
saw better for myself I just saw more for myself right uh I could I would watch lifestyles of the
Richer famous and I remember that the Eddie Murphy episode came on I cried you know what I'm saying
because I just knew I was supposed to beat up you know what I'm saying and uh my grandma used to
tell me you get something on your mind you just won't let it go you know and I just you know I
also everything comes from a vision I had a vision that led me to music that I had a vision led me
the acting I had a vision that you know led me into all of the things that I'm doing everything
that I'm doing is born with a vision right so with that being said you've been a staple or or
a direct representative of what Atlanta's as we call it now trap music one of the forefathers of
it you know what I'm saying I would say Obviously yourself the Jesus of the world the Gucci's of the
world uh in just the name of a few especially when I was growing up you know what I'm saying
do you like where the state of music is right now um well I think the state the state of music
is always including in my time period and you know it's always the best of times and the worst
of time right y'all we had something that was completely uh forward thinking that was pushing
the envelope and and just blessing that side of the expectations right of of greatness then you
had what that was more than the generation before right so every generation gets better
and the book will be worse you know what I mean and both sides of that spectrum is you
know gonna lead to it being the best of times and the worst of time so even as we talk about this
music industry you have your children in this industry how does how does the balance of me
being an athlete right and I'm toil between the two where it's like bro y'all really don't got
to play football yeah I needed to play football you needed to rap you know what I'm saying you
you became a TV personality uh uh a rapper an Entertainer all off of a better life for them
sure so for you how is that as you see distinct values or distinct talents in your children do
you push towards it or you just let it happen uh well for one I really hate that they chose to be
in this industry not that not that I hate that they chose music that I hate that they they are
passionate about music I hate that they chose this industry because I know all the treachery
and the deceit and and I know the the dastardly nature not the destiny yeah I mean it's it's
they take me through it like it's full of Thieves and Crooks you know what I'm saying it's full of
people who you know who want a smile in your face and then operate under different principles behind
your back people who you know hide they hold hold their tongue you know and and people who can't
wait to get you in the moment well you know they could leverage themselves against you to oppose
you uh and I just didn't want to introduce them to nothing like that but I guess you know I'm saying
that's a part of the world we're living in and it's only so much Sheltering right that can't be
done but speaking of Sheltering bro and I don't I I was excited to get you on off of this whole
thinking and Theory I've seen obviously one of your sons uh in the Waffle House situation yeah
right yeah but coming from a parent yeah your explanation was perfect but at the same time
me having seven children of my own right right teenagers one teenage male one teenage
female uh-huh that life that they live you try to protect them as much as you possibly can but also
give them the freedom to be a man or a woman sure you feel I'm saying and it's not fair to them who
share your last name because they will get perks because of oh man that's tip Son bro let him in
oh man T.I man that's it something man it's gonna be both sides you're digging I'm saying yeah so in
a situation like that happens in in the media as a father it's like oh my God take me through it
well it's kind of like my daughter and I was having this conversation my youngest dog and um
she was you know I guess she she's going to school for the first time uh she's in first grade she did
homeschool Pre-K okay she in third grade now she wanted to go to real school by her own request
and and so she's she's beginning to socialize and and and and she's learning people right
so she told me that this you know that this one young lady in her class was passing that
popsicle and gave her the one that she know she didn't like and she said but she said she know
I don't she know and she like she doesn't mind this flavor so I just said no give me that one
and she said well I would but I already had my hands on it she said but you didn't even
open it and I said nah that's too much listen you see this she did that on purpose she meant
for you to have the one that you didn't want say well why would she do that I said because that's
all she can do to affect you at that moment you know um and I just told him man when you leave
at this house don't nobody really care about you for real right the people who care about
you gonna be in this and gonna be right here under this roof right outside that though don't
expect no favors or no no love or appreciation for from nobody if you get it assume it's fake
um and if you find that it's real appreciate it but don't believe it you know what I'm saying
that's that's a that's a proverb right though I mean um that's just kind of how I I deal with it
and it's been that way especially for my kids all coming up through school um and a lot of times the
I guess the spoils that come with having your same last name or being attached to they aren't
ready to navigate themselves access yeah what to receive the discernment that come that is
necessary to to navigate through what may come to them uh so at times we have to try and do that for
them you know what I mean but we see you ain't got this you ain't gameed up enough yet right you're
overly exposed especially with with social media correct yeah overly exposed and you ain't gamed
up enough to know you know what to receive and what to reject right so I kind of have to be the
intermediary there as much as possible um but the world don't want that the world wants you
to let even though they overexpose even though you know they ain't ready you can't intercept
it let it happen right it's kind of like how the world works you know what I'm saying as a parent
we're Shackled to society's standards no matter what our child may need you know
what I mean like even if our child need that we're Shackled to society
so that but you know so either I have to you know I I read a quote from nip uh at least that's why
I heard it he said he read it from somewhere else but I got it from him uh he said would you rather
be a war with the world and at peace with yourself or and what would yourself and at peace with the
world you dig what I'm saying and you know I chose the form right but I'll say this and this is a
this is a public service announcement for anybody that's giving away something I don't know no black
person that like any yellow rapper anything I'm guessing she probably got the yellow popsicle
I like the yellow pops [ __ ] give us the pink the red purple maybe red yeah we don't like the
yellow Starburst we don't like the yellow laffy taffies we don't like it yellow actually like
the yellow left no no I don't like lemon I like banana you see what I'm saying I don't like lime
but I like green apple hey man I said you ain't never seen no person in class trying to bypass
class trying to pick the yellow or Skittle I ain't saying buddy yellow none I give a pass
to The Laffy Taffy because I with them to you but as far as yellow that ain't necessarily it
one thing that I commend you on too bro is just the the honesty and the realness you know you
you you are one of the few people who made it out of the reality TV kind of phase and still
stay relevant though like as an impactful look it comes off of me saying reality TV
is still acting well I don't even think that you know at least because I mean for lack of a better
title for it I feel like it were more like a family follow documentary yeah I mean um it didn't
seem like reality tv as much maybe when it became friends and family hustle it was a little more
you know production right and you know there were times where there was tension and we probably had
to act like it wasn't as much tension that we had to produce some things around that tension
uh uh but for the most part man we were pretty much being ourselves the whole ride you know so
much is is so that that I didn't know my children had that much personality like you know what I'm
saying like you know your kids or your kids around your specialty major right right you know they
present themselves one way around you right but then when they had start having cameras on them
right when I wasn't around I started to learn yeah like a lot about them right and you know
to be honest with you man that's the dopest family photo album yeah it's always man you said man look
at this knucklehead right here [ __ ] he was in the womb and then all of a sudden boom you know
what I'm saying you see it happen for a person who has had his pretty much you know multiple decades
in the game evolving from personal struggles we've seen you go to prison came back dropped a dope
album and just picked up right where you left off you don't seen your fair share of uh uh uh bus in
the music industry yeah but you've still been able to evolve over time you know sure uh man I think
I think more than the music it's the story of this selling I think people have kind of you
know every every artist has a story and uh mine is one I feel that you know is one of evolution
you did um even though I started I came in trap music opened up the door
and ushered everyone else in right and made it mainstream um
my Evolution was imminent I knew that I were capable of doing other things
um I would just always like how can I say not astute for some not astute enough for some
you know what I'm saying you was ignorant to astute for others right right he was too ignorant
to to not know what you couldn't do but ambitious enough to know what you wanted to do absolutely
but the thing I'm saying is like in certain crowds of people right you know what I'm saying like
let's say if you take it to you know just the the elites if you will right they might consider me
too ghetto you know what I'm saying but if you take me to the ghetto and then do that too yeah
you know is it too goddamn uh sadity or whatever that [ __ ] yeah he too thank you too smart you
know so I was always kind of stuck in the middle you know what I'm saying so I just kept my
I just catch my catch my waves and my rooms of people and and kind of I would kept my
circle kind of small and I don't really I hadn't I've been known as a person that didn't really
mingle whale introvert I mean I guess I am an introvert I kind of create my environment where
I feel like I can be an extrovert life is in this place right here I'd be very social yeah
people that I already know people like and you know I'm saying that I feel like I understand
what I can expect from everybody in here I'm very extroverted in that but then you take me somewhere
where I don't know nobody right you know what I'm saying then I'm watching and you know so I think
I've always been in that position but that's that's what that's what Atlanta has taught us
you feel me like for for the longest a lot of people didn't even know I was from Atlanta
because I had I went to three different colleges I went to obviously University of Florida went to
dream College in Texas and then uh you know the height of my career in college was in Alabama
obviously Auburn but as I'm mingling around I'm I'm taking what I'm learning from Texas you know
I'm saying learning about little Kiki Bun B Pimp C all that going to you know I'm saying Florida
at that particular point in time Plies was the man around there right and you know just being
hip to a whole different yeah culture the coach those are very rich cultures yes sir coming from
Atlanta going to Texas then Florida and Alabama those those are very rich cultures right with
four because you started in Atlanta right and then you kind of learned and and and I guess
integrated those cultures into what you already knew and by the time you finish not to mention
when you went to the pros yes sir that was the bulk of you did really my manhood you feel me
in in the Carolinas right so you're pretty much had a southern gumbo you ain't missing number
yeah so right now to hit you with a switch up right I'm gonna play a game which okay
in this segment and it's called tip of the tongue oh oh okay right so I'ma give you
I'm gonna give you a word or a stanza or a whatever I say tiny hairs and then boom you gonna
give me a word that comes the first word that comes to mind yeah you're digging I'm saying we
got one minute okay to play so whatever comes to your mind first that's what you're gonna rock and
roll with right is you ready yes Cascade skating ring ATL LeBron's new scoring record legendary
blueface and Christian rock question mark Brianna at the Super Bowl
it's amazing Lauren London's return to Acton
inspiring now I'm expecting these and whereas to be a little bit more than
one vowel but needless to say next one uh TI's performance in the film fear
short
these words the save room Taxi Kyrie Irving in the Nets separated Donald Glover series Atlanta uh
is in his final season
Will Smith slap at the Oscars
gangster takeoff's Legacy oh man Godly Holly Bailey as The Little Mermaid
it is last but not least Kim and Ray J's sex tape ploy who what what'd you say what you saying say
it again Kim and Ray J's sex tape ploy billions but did they make it though who who you say you
keep saying they which they we done but I'm saying that they make billions one of them did
so I don't know if you talking about like but but but in our fairness both of them
are better off now than they before you know I ain't gonna say better off with it
necessarily because I don't know what kind of emotional strength financially yes financially
uh it seems like everyone that you mentioned in that is kind of elevated Propel themselves yeah
from that uh level leveled up you know or gotten surpassed yeah you know as I was reading my notes
you know getting prepared for this man excited to even announce uh the potential new album that you
got killed the king Take me through it uh kill the king is my final album my final studio album
um I think at every person's time in their life don't get me wrong I love making music
and I will still make music uh but I don't think that that cause upon all of the gifts
that I have I have been blessed with right and I don't think that the way is set up right now
I don't think that I could like move within my purpose or answer the call of my purpose
focusing solely on that right uh placing a lot of my primary efforts and energy on that
just on music Alone yeah yeah yes I mean you know um I'm going to to produce a finer album
and it's called kill the king I like that man one of my favorite songs on the Libra album
bro was with you and your son yeah that's my favorite song ever listen bro the banter that
y'all was going back and forth it was it was the side of your son that I kind of felt like
he was his gift was his curse and I felt like he wanted to prove to you that bro I'm a man so I
moved out you know what I mean or whatever and even though just the stigma that comes with ah
man UTI son you can rap that held his own I heard I heard like some of my semi J Cole jig like some
say he you know he bodied me definitely some may say but but I wasn't expecting it though that's
the thing because you know sometimes it'd be like handouts like bro I'm gonna put my you know be
making music or they have a joint album with guys that I'm like bro they're not even supposed to be
on this song right they're not supposed to be on this album I see what you did you're trying
to put your people on but they devalue that that song sometimes but that track right duh
it was a beautiful kind of Melody of of father-son moment and I tapped in with
him after that you know what's up man you know what but if I made I I I'll kind of share with
you why it may feel like that um so my oldest son Messiah he did the beat right so messiah's
playing for me and the money playing like you know a lot of this beats that he's doing right and uh
I picked that beat and then I left the room and I guess the money had picked the same beat
and and you know we were just he the body came to me said you don't really want this one do
you yeah yeah I said yeah yeah yeah I was gonna use it but he say I always get Beats and don't
never do nothing with them so he was like yeah all right then I said man I'd be right back I
got to run somewhere so I left and came back he had done did a verse I said oh he tried to
take he trying to take the song for me it's a challenge so then I got on there I did my verse
so then he got on it again so we just you know we were going back and forth uh and you know what I'm
saying because I did choose it first yeah you know I ended up keeping it for my project man
that was what's up bro I think those problems I finally have a friend I finally have a favorite
song usually I always say you know the songs are like my children but this this song actually
features my one of my children produced by one of my children so that's officially my favorite
song just speaking of favorites take me through your your own kind of where you was in life and
the creation of paper trail or your favorite mine you know what I'm saying just the king
TI versus t.i.p like [ __ ] like talk to me through it give me your three best bodies of work
my three best bodies of work are not necessarily my three
favorite times in my life you know what I'm saying I think that turmoil conflict and turmoil makes
for for greater artistic material you're going through something though yeah yeah
yeah yeah so I feel like my greatest body to work uh I'm serious urban legend um
trap music yeah I mean not to take anything away from paper trail or King
I got a discography of of healthy um you know it ain't just no bro you got a body work with
no skips like you just let that garage and then boom it's there but you know what that's
because that's what okay so and it's such a blessing because I always compared myself
to the that I like to listen to so like my favorite albums let's say before I came into
uh the world of TI before I'm serious my favorite albums were all eyes on me riding dirty uh
southernplayalistic Atlas uh uh uh Scarface my diary yeah uh man but a lot of that that's not
it as as I'm hearing the artists who created these they're not necessarily you mean you name one that
was from Atlanta yeah well you know I was a fan of the game you know what I mean yeah I'm from
Atlanta I was a fan of the game you know I bought everything I used to buy everything yeah you know
what I'm saying food sneaking brand new beans Onyx uh Wu-Tang man I bought every Craig Mack
about everything I used to spend the summers in New York and I used to get you know what
I'm saying the used to go and buy the bootleg uh from 125th Street and we could walk down Broadway
and just you know they had a little man with the blanket up you know selling the little tape yeah
yeah yeah I used to go down there and buy all this the wrong G tapes the DJ Clue tapes you know what
I mean and and I would just submerge myself in in in hip-hop you know what I'm saying uh but I
Love Too Short you know it's just certain albums that are like embedded in my head because I fall
asleep listening to that yeah yeah wake up get dressed to go to school Adrenaline Rush yeah yeah
yeah Goodie Mob soul food like I I just remember these albums from top to bottom because you know
they just became an incredible part of my life so as when I started making music I was comparing my
submissions right to these like you know how does this compare right to
uh adrenaline rush you know I'm saying how does this compare to coming out hard yeah you know what
I'm saying eight by MJG how does this compare to riding dirt yeah you know and that's just the way
that's why you know if you hear albums that I have with no skips it's because I was comparing them to
albums because I knew didn't have no skills and what types of songs the flow right that man look
is the mixtape is mixtapes dead um I don't know I might do Luke but I'm saying I say that because
we now I feel like mixtapes is now the deluxe versions of albums the it's like the throat and
and I have to monitor the the choice of words that I say but it's not like the throwaways
it's the additions I'm like I remember yeah okay I'm saying I remember a time when artists will
come out with mixtapes and the mixtapes then uh of the city up that was an album right duh yeah
you feel what I'm saying right uh just a whole that was a whole different portfolio of music that
we don't necessarily see now right because cats are just drop albums they'll drop albums they'll
drop a deluxe to the album and then it's like bro what about you know I'm saying like we still
waiting for years for something to happen when in years past when I was in high school TI mixtape
Jeezy mixtape like this was just as impactful Lil Wayne mixtape like this this was just bodies of
work you dig what I'm saying absolutely uh I think what we were finding ourselves in
was a time where we were beginning to be straight direct to consumer a direct to Consumer industry
um you know being on a major record label and getting ready to put an album out especially at
that time were kind of like making a U-turn and a MARTA bus right you know what I'm saying right
tough you got you know it's back up you did stop the traffic whereas the mixtape allowed us to move
with more agility you did what I'm saying we could record them but then we could put it at on Monday
Tuesday whenever we wanted to yeah with the push of a button um so I think that was the beginning
of that time uh right now if I if I'm correct I think playlists are more important because
they so people don't really listen to full bodies of work unless you like you know for my generation
right right now they just want to change that playlist right and and and you ain't even got to
put the playlist together if you search an article they gonna take you straight to everything it's
not inspired by featuring you know they best work they it's it's more of an algorithm that I think
I think the algorithm is probably in replace that that's what replaced the mixtape now while we're
on this topic of creating music just recently seen in in uh the news that you and Boosie had
a joint album coming up but I don't know where it went left don't even know where it went
right is it happening is it not where I had no indication of anything but a sort would be made
um take me through it Keep It Funky now I mean it ain't really much to say um I think um
more so than anything else uh it's a
it's a disappointment you know what I'm saying I think the platform in which
this interview of these comments of this right right this this this uh Epiphany was made public
yes sir you see that that that platform is is meant to dissect divide correct but even
if it ain't intentional it's been known career to to separate to to poke to poke to separate
brother from Brother neighbor from neighbor and and watch look alone and laugh along with
the Enemy you know what I'm saying not to say that they are the enemy because I don't know but
it might look like them right so uh so to see that happen and to see
my main thing yeah man I don't wanna I don't want to play into the enemy's plaque as you should
you feel me so so so the simple answer to that question is no that's not coming up no no it's not
um and it was dope too but no and I think that the thing that made it make the most sense for me
was because it was an opportunity to speak life into and educate
people that probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to hear the kind of information that
were being spoken but I but I say it like this and even from man to man I see this happen from afar
so many different times because I'm like what if Young Thug and Rich Homie never beef what if Jesus
uh not tip but Gigi and Gucci yeah didn't didn't have any beef what if Luda and Two Chains would
have you know what I'm saying except and I'm like I'm seeing something happen and as a man I'm like
this can't be talked about I mean you know the thing is I could see it too I could see it too and
I'm and I'm just as I see it as I watch it play at as a chess player and a thinking man [Music]
I ain't gonna play into it too much of course how can I say the nucleus of it right I understand
it's false right as it pertains to me you know the Catalyst the thing that's driving
the conversation the fuel you know absolutely there are facts their effects documented facts
that could disprove that particular piece of logic however the suspicion of that made public and the
position that we're taken it kind of poisoned the opportunity to put forward in the same spirit and
I'm speaking I'm speaking from a person like bro I'm a fan of of creativity you feel me like I'm
not trying to be messy by no means but at the same time I'm saying to myself it's like bro
of questions you're doing a good job but listen like if we was on the field I had to bleach you
whether I like come on now hey hold on tip the mic tip them out let's slide to him hey if he
come now you got it hot now that's right you know what I mean it's just it's just that though but I
I before I sit up here and and not speak on something when I know it's like bro I with
everybody I it ain't I'm a one-man Army you feel me and before I sit up there and condone
messiness I would try to unify the situation I mean it ain't really to be honest with you bro
I ain't took no position I I I you know bruh one thing I'ma say it again I'm not
gonna play into the hands of the enemy I understand we're being done I don't know if
everybody involved understand what being done but I understand we're being done I can see it right
um and just speaking about the subject at hand I also understand the sensitive nature of it
right and why it's so important and impactful to our people right um for one trauma as I've
learned is passed down through DNA um you feel me yes sir and law enforcement as I've learned
of its origin was purpose is purpose was to kill capture and collect slaves
so in the days of slavery the first niche with the person who would Point their hair determining
the people who were getting ready to run so if you was a person who was getting ready to run
hit the not already ran and almost got away and you find out that somebody told on you and then
somebody looked just like you right right that's true that's traumatic that's lifelong trauma that
lifelong trauma will be passed down through your DNA of your sperm regeneration and degeneration
and the same goes for the brothers and sisters and aunts and mothers and children who saw that
right right and who were affected by that uh so I understand that but I also understand how it
being played against us yes sir it's being it's being is being used it's being weaponized against
us if you notice there's always something about our leaders black people yes sir whenever black
people have leaders there's always some always an excuse It's always one reason or something why
I guess people are saying that you shouldn't follow them but they shouldn't be some type
of dirt and it's always something it's always something you find the black leader that's in
existence that they haven't threw mud on that they haven't used some or another it's always something
whereas look at the white leaders [Music] they got tons of dirt on them and they nobody used it as a
reason not to follow right or not to elect you see what I'm saying right so I mean I understand it
but I also I'm not a surface level thinker yes sir and I know that a lot of these opinions are coming
from surface level thinkers [Music] um a lot and a lot of us are so traumatized and we've been so
brainwashed I mean brainwashed and also manipulated right that we are afraid of being
tricked and automatically we think somebody no no you talking too small at you trying to treat it no
no no okay all right so fine didn't make it too much sense must be a lot yeah you feel what I'm
saying you know what that's the white man talking you know what I'm saying so so I understand what
I'm dealing with so I I I I I try my best not to to allow any emotion to come from it but I
gotta treat it as it is right I mean like man the more than anything over like that whole situation
because the situation came back and it was being used by the enemy trying to go
against me and I understand that right it's so many of our people being used
by the enemy I don't know if they know it or not I don't know if they volunteering for it
I don't know if they're being misguided or manipulated into it but it's so many of uh
brothers that are are strong-minded and they have so much great potential to lead but they've been
manipulated by the enemy because the enemy knows that I mean they know that and and uh man so that
had already been you thrown out there but I ain't really into clearing up nothing for strangers for
right it don't even waste your your time because you damned if you do damn you did you like if you
get a flag on the field you're not gonna go talk to the people in the stands about how it's a bad
call you know what I'm saying especially if you're the away team exactly so so so
I never addressed it because there's no I know the truth and there's no need to but that is
somebody that I know somebody that I welcomed in my home somebody that I consider right an
ally right had did that like that was like whoa yeah okay damn right I guess I guess they they
did what they wanted to do yeah I mean and I would disappoint it more than anything right
I could do it I'm sure similar things must happen in in football you have no idea it's starting to
play out a little bit you know what I'm saying we saw the uh Tom Brady and uh AB yeah you know what
I'm saying you know I mean I I I'm outside I don't know hell I don't know either but it you know bruh
bruh OG told me bro you can't expect your morals and principles to be on somebody
else's that's true instead of saying like I know what type of person I am bro I love
hard and that's what my partner that's with my my my my woman that's what my homeboys that's
what my family that's real you see what I'm saying so before I sit up there and
thrust myself and say nah bro I got you the the biggest fear for me is rendering my time
and effort to a person and then you find out like bro you wolf and sheep clothing dude like yeah it
just made me wonder like you know and then when I'm going through things like this even though
it's trapped on my phone so if I don't pick up my phone I don't see it right but it made me paranoid
yeah like being around people you know like man which one of you it's somebody else and somebody
in there some bad to say that yeah yeah yeah and I never know you know what I mean and it it it
makes me a recluse it makes me want to go to a space where only the who had no love and and can
can't can't I guess anticipate their actions somewhat right or anticipate their principles
somewhere thank you so much Toya okay Toyota you're a dog thank you so much
you might want to Nuke that no that heat coming from that yeah I want them get a second
um but but Times Like These man they also
man they also challenged me to to be the ultimate thinker you know what I'm saying they challenged
me to manage my emotions they challenged me to present myself as God intended and not as much as
I intended right yeah I mean uh so you know I'm saying it's our ego improvado like what we want
you know I'm saying every man is starting in his own action movie career you know what I'm saying
we have Bruce Willis and die hard every all of us you know and um you know for us to have to take
that vulnerable moment you know even in Die Hard when he answered the phone and and the hijackers
got his daughter it's like oh whatever yo yo yo you don't want to admit that they got you you know
what I'm saying yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you did so it kind of it brings it brings it brings a
certain calm and a resolve right and a humbling sensibility that allows me to see things much
differently man listen before before anything bro I want to give you your flowers to just
you came I was like wait a minute I'm sorry I also want to read to you a text that I received
and I hope you don't mind I ain't gonna let me see he probably gonna
so he's one of my it's one of my my my good partners who I went to elementary
school with no way yeah he just happened to be a legendary Grammy award-winning
songwriter composer producer singer whatever and and and he he sent me this
I suppose in light about going on you say remember and never forget the space isn't the space where
we come from you're so blessed that when people around you stop long enough to see what you have
and notice they don't have it they become jealous rarely but sometimes the world does us a favor
maybe you bigger than you were trying to be in my eyes at least and this is the part that got me
trees don't hang around with the grass even though they all started from the same place
I would have cracked my damn phone I dropped up that bill was high amen that was prolific yes sir
but even then bro like you sold multi-talented and and to my point of giving you your flowers
like bro like what you've created and it's coming up on its 20th anniversary in the
Trap music museum highlighting genres of music that didn't exist or didn't have the light right
you feel me right but you've done a good job with educating people that look like me and you about
the history of trap music right Museum you know what I'm saying going from not just the TI's of
of the world but every single individual right and as a businessman as an entrepreneur taking
so when you talk about evolving I see it you know I'm saying I I I've always admired that
type of person to say bruh I was dealt this but I'm gonna make a book out of something
you see what I'm saying and uh so for you to be able to have 20 years in the track Music
Museum man well see now this is the thing it's 20 years of trap music the Trap music museum
is going on its fourth year Well I said that wrong no but it's cool bro it's cool uh a
lot of people get them you know what I'm saying but that's what you did though you see what I'm
saying it was a collective effort and that's both that's both trap music and the trap music museum
was all a collective effort trap music was born in my eyes you know of course there were other
artists hip-hop has always been the voice of the community you know the way that we kind of
highlight the things that that we endure in our environment and showcase It sharing it with
others outside of that environment who aren't necessarily always from that and can't come to
that environment absolutely uh so that's always happened from don't push me cause I'm close to
the edge from that you know to the police you know to to you know Dope Boys in the trap now
there have been other artists that you know rapped about
the lifestyle from Master P uh to Sammy Sam to damn shame there were other artists that
precede me that rapt about certain things uh but putting it together
combining the word trap with the word music to describe a sound
that didn't happen until 2003 when trap music was released
um and the the purpose of it to be honest was just to share me my homeboys all my partners
where we came up in Atlanta because I noticed that the way we were living as we were listening
to Goodie Mob we were listening to outcasts you know we were listening to Little John
um but they didn't necessarily speak to the the the grind and the grit it
just wasn't quite there you know what I'm saying although there were parts of
it there and they came from that career uh but they it just it just wasn't completely
on topic in a way that represented what we were going through career so I wanted to make
something for us right you know um and and I I learned that the demand was there because
on my first album I'm serious the most popular song on there was still ain't forgetting myself
and dope boys and trap right so I so you like dope boy as a trap then I forget okay I'm gonna
do a whole album of this correct I'm calling it trap music correct and dope boys in the Trap was
like okay so nobody would play that song on the radio but Greg Street nobody would so that just
shows you kind of like and even the clean version right Dough Boys in the Trap like
nobody would play that on the radio but Greg Street so that shows you like how
I guess have filtered mainstream radio was right you know what I'm saying um but after that
there's a little more a little became a little more lenient a little more lenient a little more
lenient a little more than that Percocet Percocet Molly Percocet now not to say that's a good thing
or a bad thing or what have you but the thing is due to the environments we come from Everybody Has
experience with drugs some way shape form or fashion indirectly or Direction I don't care if
you yo yo daddy Soul did your mama used did your uncle went to jail for it your friend got shot
trying to sell it something happened to you you know what I mean right shape form of fashion uh
and and everybody is kind of enduring and sharing in these same experiences right so when I put out
trap music that was my experience that was my installation and then shortly thereafter you
know I mean that was easy yeah with his okay it's my submission correct you know what I mean and
Gucci here's my submission Yo Gotti here's mine so on and so forth and it just sound completely
different Complete because we have in a completely different experience you feel me correct but
the reason these all of these projects and all of these people all these artists are
important because we let the rest of the world know that they weren't going through it alone
um you feel me the ones at the bottom was we saw it as the bottom you know what I'm saying yeah
well it's probably yeah yeah it's definitely the bottom but I'll tell you this bro coming
from where I come from bro like you're the Mount Rushmore of of of music and I'm not
I'm not saying that I'm not saying that just because you're here I'm saying that because
when I was listening to the headphones and I had to keep my CD player still because that
was skill or the tape the cassette player when I was beatboxing you know I'm saying dope boy's in
the Trap look like wait like all that that's what I grew up on you know what I'm saying I
was raised in the church so I had to sneak and listen to the music but there all my partners
all my like they was listening to it and they was if you see me in this city I'm like okay cool boy
like what this is like what this sound is so that morphed me into the person that provided so to
speak yeah you know what I'm saying and I and I thank you for that you know I mean and for us we
live in a time where we live in a town where we don't we don't give people the appreciation that
they need so before you leave this damn set or this Earth You know bro as a person growing up
in Atlanta seeing not just the the musician or the musical artist but also ATL is has impacted
everything you know what I'm saying I appreciate it that too and it's a blessing to be involved
uh and really just a part of the journey to to be allowed to make a contribution like I told you man
I grew up as a fan I bought everything whether it sucked or not I don't care I just wanted to
hear it right you know what I mean and to be that from that person listening to others just hoping
for an opportunity to one day be you know on the same playing field going from that to now you know
having a discography of stuff that people who are more famous than me can remember that they could
say okay I remember where I was when this came out when that came out that to me just lets the
little kid that I was let's that little kid know that you did you you was on the song yeah yeah
you feel me and a lot of people say you know trap music even after 20 years they like yo let's just
it's just glorification of felonious activity it's just people you know making light of of
people selling drugs well I I I I I say to that this if you look at us differently don't look
at us as drug dealers drug use was a form of drug deal look at us as refugees from the War on Drugs
a war that was waged against the Citizens in this country that looked like us crack with dropped off
in our communities these sentences Were Meant to to take us away remove us from being able to be
fathers brothers mothers cousins uncles aunts just break down the family Dynamic right and
and from there we we found the silver line and we took with the government for bad allowed God
to use it for good turned it into philosophical presentation set to music called it trap music
and changed the course of living for our families forever and nothing else has been
able to do that for us outside of throwing a ball yes sir catching through and shooting
through hey I mean ain't nothing else really that has been able to do that as much as this has and
no one would say that an alcoholic who drank liquor for 20 years got clean in 2003.
and been clean for 20 years but still can recall how alcohol tastes still can recall
the last time they threw up still can recall all of the hardships and all of the things the pain
that came with it and still can recall how they overcame that and made sacrifices to live a better
life today that's their testimony no one could take that away from them and they all use them
as but they use that testimony to share with other alcoholics to let them know that they too can one
day get clean yes sir nobody should be able to take their ability to share that testimony with
the world and that's how I see trap music that was beautifully explained so as we end things here
we're going to start in unison with this camera then we're gonna go to that camera together and
then we're gonna finish to our camera right here in the middle okay you're gonna go one finger
one pinky one thumb one love okay then you're digging I'm saying
tell cowabunga yeah Hakuna Matata yeah something appreciate you bro
appreciate you man love and respect man I appreciate you appreciate this yeah man [Music]
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