Rap Radar Rewind: DJ Esco

The COOLest. What do you get when the coolest podcast on the net meets the coolest DJ on the planet? An amazing conversation! Fresh off his Made In America performance, Future’s DJ Esco, recounts his 56 nights in a Dubai prison, residency at Magic City, hip-hop origins, dating rumors, and success of DS2.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rap-radar--6128701/support.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's no better time to save on temper Pedic than
during Mattress firms Black Friday sale. For a limited time
save up to six hundred dollars on select temper Pedic
adjustable mattress sets plus get three hundred dollars in bonus cash.
Do it towards your choice of sleep accessories. And no
one has more temper Pedic than Mattress Firm. So don't
wait to take on the most highly recommended bet in America.

(00:20):
Feel the comfort of tempera peeding yourself at Mattress Firm
off dog with qualifying purchas restricching the point I ought
to participating matations over for up detail for the Mattress
Firm dot Com question everything. Hey, yes, yes to bank.
Hey Selly Wilson, rap right off and me and my
partner Beat Miller, And you know we got the premiere
website out there, rapp right on dot com And now
I'm about to take over the podcast game. We're gonna

(00:41):
sit down with the coaches most important voices, give you
that news and information at opinion, the only opinion that
matt is may hear rap right off. Listen up here
we go, Yeah, rap Ratear Podcast Yo, Ellia Wilson, Ryan
Bata Miller, this is gonna be a spect one Vita excited.
I'm still drunk from Made in America America. Man, what

(01:05):
a week? Do you say so yourself? Yes, yeah, you've
never seen dot until he's in that unlimited access to
do say, mold, I really wasn't that bad? Yo? Come on, man,
you know you're funked up before sundown. I've been worse.
Ye are you getting worse? Do you still do a
thing when you like pass out and then you still
have a second win you take a little nap. I've

(01:27):
never seen you do. I never seen nobody do that
be that can't do this thing when he parties and
like he'll get so drunk he'll literally pass out. You
think he caught the l Like he'll be not on
the couch and you think he's done for the night,
and then he'll get like a good baby without a
half hour nap or something twenty minutes you need a
little little He's back at it like that n happened,
like you never left, but I had no naps this weekend. Man,

(01:49):
that was a great So you've been have you been
all the main in America? Maybe I missed the first one,
but yeah, I like this one. I think this is
up there with the first one. I enjoyed it. I
mean I was working, as Jay told you, right, oh man,
I'm working, Yeah, I said, I said, Jay, Man, you
got Elliott working. Yeah, he gotta work. Said all right,

(02:11):
he said the whole podcast that should be these one
liners that jay Z says to people that just the
funk with you. Because he met Big Homie for the
first time. Yes, jay Z, I introduced him. He's like,
I said, uh, big Homie, come meets This is Paul Donal,
who's one of our bloggers. Yeah, I said, yo, big
HOMEI meet Big Home. We know I'm Big Homie, but

(02:31):
you know Jay's over here. So basically, he thinks all
the rapper that guys just stold his names be dot
big Homie. Don't have to tell you that story. You
tell the people that story. Okay, So we're on the ride.
Let me tell you all. So Daniel said that she
thinks she's totally wrong and you definitely took the name
from Jake. Oh my god, So why would you even
deny that? She don't even understand while you with that.

(02:51):
So I'm on to rise, so he come here right quick.
It's him and Mike Kaiser from Atlantic Records. It says
ak little Burger. Yes. She says he was a big
fan of podcast tell us. Yeah. He says, yeah about
that name. You know when you get that from I said,
J had since I was like fourteen, you know, I
gave him a backstory. He's like, yeah, he got that
from me. And then you know, ka is laughing and stuff.

(03:15):
I'm like, Yo, you guys have had this conversation. It's like, Yo,
when you was fifteen, you couldn't come off the porch.
I'm like, Jay, what do you I was, I was
in high school. What are you talkingt do I stay
your parents? Nah? Then he got at me because the
Daylight Soul and he's like, you you know about Daylight Soul.
I'm like, I'm not a really big Daylight so fan.
And now that you get out of here, I love

(03:35):
Daylight Soul and my festival, I said, I said, I
said that was what I said. That was a keep
it real move. I don't do keep it real moves.
And then at that moment I had to walk off.
I said, you know what he kept I didn't get
this section because I was working, but you keep it entertaining. Man.
It was a lot of good moments. And then we
had a Nicki Minaj moment. We have to talk awkward

(03:58):
moments with rappers. Yeah that I read it for FAB
like a fabulous We gotta get an interview. I think
I was drunk at this time. Then we came out
of a little bit more aggressive. You should apologize to
Fab of the podcast. I came at Fab aggressive because
what was it? Because he thought was he assulted because
we asked if he could do it with Lenny s right.
I don't know. I don't think he knew that we
reached out to him. He said whatever I told him.

(04:19):
We wanted him to do it when we were saw
him at the title of press conference. Remember that that
said we were starting to a podcast. But you don't
don't remember being this heavy doc Knight Dog Knights in
the building too, rap right off family um beat us
on this mission. Man. He's so proud of his podcast.
He used to be rolling doing good like you ready
to do a podcast? What's up? Maybe we're doing this ready?

(04:41):
Podcast was good? You're ready to get going to this
like anybody was like hot be that just run up
on you all crazy talking about let's get this podcast.
But when when we saw Nikki, she was going rested
the book. She was going outstairs with nobody guard. I say,
we said hi, Nikki, she just pretended we didn't exist.
Nikki curved us. It was so sweet. I'm like, damn,
you know, man and her Man. You know, he may

(05:02):
not be feeling us, Man, you know, but I was
feeling a lot of the sets during Made in America,
you know, the future set was really I think he
killed it, man, I think he owned Made in America
this week. Wait before we that's a great segue, but
I want to go off that because first we have
to talk about we didn't talk about the last episode,
which is mac miller talk about the last time. Even
though that would have been a great segue, let's try
it again. I could go back and edit that, but

(05:24):
I think we talked about the previous episode because we
also changed our strategy with this too, which I want
to talk about. It was really your fault, what's your idea?
Because he was like, well, what happened was we had
did mcmiller, we had taped it on a Friday. This
is before the big labor day weekend, and actually that
morning I woke up and I was like, I saw
the Rosenthoughts had mc miller as a guest that was
gonna come out next Tuesday. And I was like, you know,
if the Homies, it's the real and I was like, damn,

(05:48):
Like we're gonna go head to head on this. Like
I was like, you know, sometimes you gotta figure out
that you want to go ahead the head or not
beat us, Like fuck it, I got questions, We're doing it.
I'm like, all right, so let's do it. So we
did mcmillery. We had this great interview and then we
lef and I think you emailed me and he was like,
so we're just gonna wait to put it out on Tuesday.
And I'm like, I mean, I was like, you're right.
I was like, we should just put it out. We're

(06:09):
seth steps like on vacation, we should put out of something.
But doing live, what do we have seth We have
Brian the other Brian Bryan Well, he says lit the
coursing Brian corson, we have Pat Pats shoot all and
we hit the big wings of CBS and we said, hey,
can we put this podcast out earlier and they all
had this back they said, of course, and then boom

(06:30):
it was out on Friday, like we have recorded it,
and then we're hitting dark night like we're your photos
families like, oh I was, I'm not my home. Man't
to put the photos out. So we love that. Man.
We have the freedom to just you know, put stuff out.
We want and be aggressive in terms of beat that
being aggressive and booking being aggressive and how he wants
to launch episodes. Man, you just a competitive They think
I'm a competitive monster. Beat that. What's up with you? Man? Man,

(06:54):
that's bea SMO is the only thing he didn't work on. Man,
that's true, right, Yeah, this guy doesn't do any interviews. Man,
this is a very special podcast, very rare. This guy
don't do interviews. Man, I haven't seen when I try
to do my research, and it just does a lot
of powerful moves. Man, I don't want to give nothing
away if I say something, so I mean the people

(07:14):
are watching in the which they had a camera because
this guy's fucking visual baby, the visual kitty. Right now,
I don't want to give it away. Man, It's about
to be the coolest podcast in the world, the coolest
podcast to Bay. Yeah, I wish we had sound effects.
Real groovy. Man, let's go, let's go. Don't do no interviews, man,

(07:35):
I don't do interviews, fun interviews. But you know it.
Elliott Wilson, I'm like skinning like you. I did a
little documentary with Future that did a little made a
little noise. Man, we made noise with that. Man. Thank
you made a lot of noise. You made a lot
of noise from me. I appreciate that. Man. That was
like a really big thing. Um. I didn't realize how

(07:57):
much people were into that, you know. Yeah, and uh,
because people don't know the story, didn't know the story,
you know. And then the Magic City thing came out
at the same time. So it's like Chomania likesomania. Man,
it's a blessing to get out from prison. And are
you going We're going right there, We're going right there.

(08:18):
That's insane. I'll wake up and think about that every day. Wow,
that's insane. Yea said that somebody saw somebody hit you
on Twitter and they were saying that about that, Like,
you must feel great going through that situation and coming
out so strong, and you said somebody, you smile all
the time. Now, yeah, man, i'd be smiling. I'm dancing.
That's why it's hard to yeah, you fuck that ship.

(08:41):
This guy wasn't jelling dudy forty six nights True story.
Like the American Citizen and the American Citizens stuff. I'm
not only American. They're telling them to get all these years,
you know what I mean. So you just don't know
what's gonna happen, and you just pray, if you pray,
if you're into that, and you just pray that if
you ever could get out of this man did you
to go so hard? And you're not even gonna care

(09:03):
with the one things because they're not gonna understand what
you just went through, the motivation. You don't even understand
how happening I am and why I'm smiling so much.
You would never be understanding. But it still it wants
a party you that doesn't fully understand it. Like I'm confused,
you know what I'm saying, Because it's like I look
at it as it was a sacrifice. If somebody would
have told me, oh, you're gonna go to h You're

(09:24):
gonna be the only American you're gonna be in Dubie
sitting in the prison and the worst conditions in human possibility,
and you it's gonna be worse than your worst nightmare.
But you're gonna go for fifty six. Now you gonna
get out, and you're gonna turn up. It doesn't happen
like that. You know what I'm saying. You're in there
and you don't even know you're gonna get out at all.
Were you ever locked up prior to that, dude? I

(09:48):
never even spent the night in jail. Wow, So my
first night was I'm trying to find somebody to speak English, right,
But like, we're here man with turn fifty six and
came out and made a success. Everybody wants to know
about the hard drive. We got the hard drive, the
hard drives back car? How did you keep the hard drive?

(10:09):
How did you How did you maintain that? I was like,
fuck it, man, the only thing, just make sure the
hard driver is here. Don't try to send the ship
back to America. Just if I don't get out, then
it's just gonna stay here. But if I get out,
and where was it? They had it locked in this thing?
I thought it was lost. But they take you back
all in these doors and then there's all this ship

(10:31):
from where everybody has left their ship. And then I
was panicking. And then they had this big as hard drive.
They didn't even know what it was. And you said,
you couldn't do anything for the first twenty four days, right, Oh,
you can't do ship like you just gotta suck it up.
It's like you go on, well, when you go, you
think you're gonna get out. That's the funny thing. And

(10:51):
he was like, okay, I'll pay the fine. Well. Actually,
taking back to set the picture, let's take on tour
with Future Monster Tour World Monster. We're in Europe. We're
in Europe only Europe. We're not supposed to go to
the u A. It was a European tour and it
was the end of the European tour. So it's there
in the European tour and we're celebrating because we're scorpios.

(11:15):
We're all scorpios. Me Future b K Manager manager. Ye're
the secret weapons, secret weapons, so we're all celebrating scorpios.
Ended in the Amsterdam. Of course, I'm the weed smoking king.
Youreak of it now, sir, I want to speak you

(11:35):
know what I'm saying. Welcome New York City, so welcome
to New York City. Man, Yes, and uh but no,
um for real, I really did you know? Just you
at the airport, at the airport, coming from Amsterdam, fresh
off Amsterdam, fresh off a birthday, and I'm really like, okay,

(11:56):
in the tour, we're kind of celebrating to go back
to America also futures back again. He's hotter dropped. We
dropped Monster and then left to Europe. We didn't even
get to come celebrate Monster in America. So the whole
time we took off while y'all was in Europe, was
telling me he left doubting, like I'm not sure, you
don't even know. It's just going to really connect with
the people. And Commas took off there on European tour

(12:18):
doing the whole time. Me and Metro we sat down
and did the whole Monster and right we released it
and I left the Europe me in future and we're
just sitting there like and so the plan was to
get back and celebrate, but I never came back. Crazy.
So you're in the airport, I'm in the airport, and
we got like a hundred bags because it's everybody's bags

(12:40):
from the europe tour. Because we're going back to America
with all our things from before we got the Europe
and whatever we picked up while we was in your
we got a whole bunch of ship and we got
bags and said carry all that ship. Right. But I'm
walking through the airport and then no man is just
thinking nothing of it, not realizing how much we were
being watched because we was so different kind of a profile.

(13:03):
I mean, you stand out in general. I'm not already
looking crazy over here and where they're in Dubai, it
was like a red flag and I had a million bags.
Everyone had gone ahead. I kind of stayed back to
get the bags and so um oh. Ironically it was
a cameraman behind me and he was shooting film. He

(13:26):
was shooting me, bloggers shooting me, shout out the shooter.
He was shooting out shooting. He was sooting me push
all the luggage out, like we're leaving with compared Dubuy.
I'm almost you're doing the turn up exit right, I'm
gonna turn up. As I'm looking at the curb and

(13:47):
I see the security he says like real sternly, like
cut the camera, no comera. So I turned around and
look like fuck turning the camera off. It's a it's
a big gass no camera sign, a bove us big
no cameras allowed sign. So he sees the camera, he
looks at shooter and he looks at me to try

(14:10):
to put it together, like what the fund are you
feeling him for? Like you somebody famous? Now something's going on.
You see what I'm saying. Now he's looking at me like, Okay,
what's up with you? Let me see your passport? But
he was just being a dick off. Rip. He wasn't right,
and you're talking to him. That camera really set him

(14:30):
off because he was intrigued. And then I got my
I had my hair down like Bob. Yeah. So they're
looking like, yeah, something's going on. So they make a
long st show. They go through my badge for like
a couple of hours. They went through everybody hours. It
took a couple of hours. It took so long that
the co workers came to get him, like, leave him,

(14:53):
been here for over an hour, haven't found anything, Let
him go, leave him alone, Like it's over. He was like, nah,
I'm finding something, man. They found one speckle of green,
and the whole airport turned sideways. That's when I knew
this ship is gonna be a problem. So they take

(15:16):
you to like the jail, or is it like now?
At first they take me, they just take you away
and they start telling They tell you like, uh, well,
you can't come here, so we're gonna send you back.
So I'm thinking, okay, I'm sending I'm back on the
next flight. Fuck it, I missed the last show in
over here aber da, Oh well I did. We did
the year to anyway, this is extra. So we go

(15:39):
and it looks like I'm going back home, and then
I get in this goddamn van and they sent me
somewhere else the other side of the airport. So you're
going there, no food, no water. They throw you in
this little last cage. I was in there for two days.
I didn't know what was going on. Then they take

(15:59):
you out the cage. They took me back to the airport,
and I really thought I was going home, But then
they took me to the airport to take me to
this airport prison. That's when the underground Dubai begins. And
so when I came up in I had my bag,
all my clothes are like I am now just regular
clothes and uh, security is looking at me like, yeah,

(16:20):
you might want to bring like an extra pair of
pants or second. And I was like for what, Like
I'm out, like gonna be out in the morning, like
I only need nothing. He's like, now you might be
here a couple of days. I was like, what, what's
a couple of days? He's like, he said again, like
a couple of days. Then I walked in the cell.

(16:42):
He shut that door. He opened the door when I
came in the door. This ship is fucking amazing, like
the people in that prison. Everybody stopped talking. It was
like a real movie. Everybody's stop talking, everybody stopped moving,

(17:02):
everybody stopped walking. It was and everyone just looked at me.
And I walked and everyone was looking and I looked
like I put my hands out in the air and
I was like, what up? That's say? Ain't nobody saying that? No, no,
But in my head I was like, this is gonna

(17:22):
be bad. It's like big is its smallest small. It's
like a hellhole. And how many people are like it's
probably like three. And no one's speaking English, right American.
So as soon as I got in, it was like
Egyptian cat you know, I couldn't tell the difference now,
but now contell the difference. But he was in Egyptian
and he welcomed me with open arms. No one would

(17:42):
talk to me. He walked up to me, ship my hand.
He knew a little bit of English. He said, uh,
you need a calling card. I was like, yeah, I'm
gonna need the call. And then it took like three
days for me to find that figure out how to call,
because easy and all that stuff. You gotta call then
embassy man, Fuck the embassy because you said that they

(18:03):
weren't really being cooperative. Man US embassy man, you know what,
they're disappointed me. But it's all good man, fun the
US Emassy And then you basically have to befriend the warden, right, Yeah,
I had just clicked the other side because it's not
a black and white thing over there. It's a Muslim
Christian thing, and I'm going in a Christian country. It

(18:29):
doesn't even matter what I believe, and it's what they believe,
showing every since that's the thing you have to learn
about culture. You have to learn about them to survive. Course,
it's vice versus. You gotta think they've never even met
American before they've just seen him on TV, and the
TV they see is fucking Jerry Springer. You feel what

(18:50):
if you dropped it the vodka in Atlanta, you know.
So it's like we don't know shit about Afghanistan in
real life from this point for seeing in perspect you
know what I'm saying. But when you go over there
and you realize this ain't seeing it? This ain't we
seeing it? Crazy? Like how did you say? Like how

(19:10):
did you get sleep? Like with no sleep fifty six nights?
And he's a vegetarian and I'm a vegetarian, so I
lost a whole bunch of weight and I'm already skinny.
I love you get like something probably you know what
I mean. But it was our mental man. I just
got on my own schedule work out this like fucking

(19:32):
Rocky ball ball or something. Ship But was ever the
point would you even though ball the coolest left game?
But you get like institutionalized. Used to come to the
point where you just gave a pope like you know
what is never gave up, Never gave up because you
gotta be like are you a positive dude? Overall? Yeah?

(19:53):
You gotta break your spirit. You gotta be able to
come up and be like, cave hell out, I say,
how you doing? Arabic ain't supposed to know that? How
you said? So it's like everything is in Sharla and
it's it's you gotta you gotta respect their religion. And
because that's what it is, and it ain't no Bibles

(20:15):
in there, you can there's no Bibles, there's no Holy Bibles.
You can't have your own books. I asked for books
from America and they denied all of them. And they
gave me a Koran and they gave me learning to
study Mohammed, prophet Mohammed. So like, that's what's going on
in there. So I could have been like fuck that

(20:37):
and then really been in there still. Yeah, I could
have really just adapted to the culture and embrace what
was going on and learned and then figured it out.
So how did you perform the relationship with the warden
which ultimately helps you get out? I think I'll relate
my um my relationship came in the warden through the

(20:59):
security guard. The guards like me because I was talking.
I was trying to figure it out. I was trying
to learn some some ship in Arabic. I was trying
to figure out how not to be so American because
their way that they're not they have a negative aspect

(21:19):
towards American. So I'm trying to make sure I don't
rub off the wrong way. American rich and all that. Ship.
They don't know I'm a DJ over there. They don't
know I make money, they don't know I do concerts.
They don't know ship, they don't even know I'm black.
As you said that, you know what I'm saying. African Americans,
they don't respect it the same. I'm in there with Africans.

(21:41):
It's two signs of the prison. It's African side and
which really African varies because Egyptians and Africans and it's
different Africans. But the black Africans what they were calling
when they were when they say black people in there,
they meant like Ghana, you know what I mean, from
the continent, people from the continent. And so they looked

(22:05):
at me like where are you from? Like you're American?
Where you really from? And since we don't have a history,
we don't have history like that. It fucked me up
because I really don't know where I'm from. I can
tell you I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. That's just saying some
ignorant nigger ship. You know what I'm saying. If you

(22:25):
really want to break it, nobody, but they do, and
they feel prideful about that, that that we know where
we come from, and the fact that you don't. We
know where you come from makes us feel like we
have we know our roots. And you don't know what
I'm saying. And I feel like I didn't when I
was in there, because I was just clear. I wasn't white,

(22:47):
black and nothing. I was clear the Arabs they didn't
see me as being black, and the blacks didn't see
me as being an Arab. So I was in the middle.
And that's how I gravitated to both side. I could
walk on both sides of the respect, I could take
a shower on both sides of the jail. Nobody would
saying nothing. Wow, How did you keep a contact with
everyone from back home? Because they know that, They said,
you've gotta did it. Wow. So I talked to my mom,

(23:13):
I talked to my dad, and I talked to b
came in a couple of times. I didn't talk to
the future, not one time. I want that's crazy. Why
why not? Have been too much. Yeah, well you gotta.
I didn't want to talk to the the future or any
friends because they made it harder, Like, uh, it should

(23:41):
give me emotional because I can think about it. You
can think about being on the jail on the phone
and dubaid, you're the farthest person from prison. Nobody's as
far away from home as me. So you've got people
to have visitors every week, visitors, family members coming in
from other countries. It's just on this side of the
continent that could come and visit, but nobody's coming from

(24:02):
the western hemisphere, you see what I'm saying. So it
ended up being better that way because I would watch
people get hyped up for their family all week long
and then leave an hour later sad because now they
got to walk away from him the emotional roller coaster.
So I was kind of like, you know, what funk this?

(24:22):
How many how much time do you think I got? Well,
that's what I'm doing. If you think I can get
out there six months, then I'm not gonna talk to
nobody for six months because I don't even want just
hearing someone on the phone say, oh, we're over here
eating steak. I don't even eat steak. But it's just
the fact that you eat. The freedom is the freedom.
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to
hear about how to show win the Magic City went on.

(24:45):
I don't want to the next concert. I don't want
to hear the concert went well, or if it did
went well, I don't want to hear about the next Mitch. Yeah.
So it's like, you gotta really, I really, I can
look myself in the mirror and I know exactly who
I am. All right, let's hop to we gotta get
out of jail. Man ward the warden. So when he

(25:06):
started showing love and saying he's gonna look out for you,
when did it become a reality? And did you ever
think that? And then talk? I respect him to the fullest.
The warden kempt inside because he kept his word. We
were in the office just like we are now. And
the lawyer. I bought a lawyer for a whole lot
of money, and a lawyer. He looked me in my face,
he was like, man, the fact you're gonna get out

(25:28):
of his two years damn. So I was kind of
just sitting in my chair just like this, just going
back and forth and the warden was sitting behind you
like he is right there, and he was just listening
and uh, I was like kind of just taking it
in and that's all you can do. And he's just

(25:50):
looking at my lawyer looking at me like yeah, like
that's like that's good. And so he got up and
he walked up the office and I I stayed in
the seat for I wanted to say. I was just like,
I'm gonna take a minute. You felt like Nomin captain
was like, you know what, hold on, he come in
by my government, he said, hold on, He said, hold on, William.

(26:13):
That's why I got that sound bite at the beginning
fifty six Night It's a real sound bite. It's a
really recorded from his voice. He called me when I
got out in America, and I recorded his voice and
I put that on the beginning intro fifty six Nights mixtape.
This is his real voice. So I say crazy, he said, William.
He called one of the officers and he said they

(26:33):
started speaking in the language and I see him. He
was talking good vibes and looking at me and he said, well,
I got kind of good news. I might can help you.
This guy right here he deals with your your prosecutor often,
he said, and he might can get some leniency from you.
He said, it's not in my job discrepancy, discrepancy, but
I'm gonna do you. And and I'm gonna I'm gonna

(26:55):
call your your prosecutor. It's none of my business. I'm
not supposed to do that. I'm just awarding. I have
nothing to do with your prosecution and all that. But
i'm gonna I'm gonna call you. He's like, give me
ten minutes. Go back to yourself. I'm gonna call you.
He's like, I'm gonna call him. He's like maybe he'll answer, maybe,
but I'll do that for you. He's like, give me
ten minutes. I didn't have no hope for that. That

(27:16):
was just like make me feel better. I walked back.
He just told me. I walked back to the cell.
I called my mom. I said, Mom, it's not looking
so well. I was like, uh, it's probably gonna they
sound talking two years so I didn't even want to
really hear her voice, her deep breath. And while I
was on the phone with her, they called my name

(27:37):
in the front. It was less than ten minutes, so
they're like William, William some hold on my mom, they're
calling me. They're calling me to the front. So I
hung up with the phone. So Captain comes out. He's like,
I got good news. He was like, I made a
phone call. You'll be going home within the next week.
That's crazy wow. So I just gave him a big hood.

(27:57):
I probably started crying. Probably started crying. I went back
to myself. Now, I went back to myself, got another calling, car,
went back to the phone. I was like, Mom, you
ain't gonna believe that ship. So we started getting the
booking and all that, the tickets ready, and then ship
I was waiting on that week. But I didn't tell

(28:20):
nobody in the jail because nobody's getting out, so you
can't be like I'm about to get out. You're just
sitting there like and just low. And then the day
I got out, everyone went crazy, the whole jail. Everyone
from the both sales, both sides, every single person came
out their sale just to shake my hand. They formed

(28:40):
the whole line like a line for me. The alleywate
me and come down, walk away. Every one ship my
hands starts singing Arabic songs. I don't know what they
were saying. But it was straight out of Dubai and
how you nervous at the airport though? He was like,
you got some cookies, some ice cream? And I'm telling
you I got some. The first thing I did I
bought some headphones. I went to the music store about

(29:01):
some headphones, and the first time I played was March Madness.
Oh Man, that song. And now when they do a lot,
you play the skit like you said, you played that
part before. Why why? Why is that important to do
that in a lot, just to sort of reminder of
every year? It was just a reminder everything. Man. I
was on the plane, I listened to March Madison rep.
I don't think I even turned it off on the

(29:22):
eighteen out of flight. Do you still know the words?
I ain't some of us all the words. Ever. So
when I got out, it's like it's time to go
to work. My family was like, okay, you should chill,
take some time to get your mind together. Things that different.
I was like, fuck, no, future Future put out that

(29:44):
beast ship behind my back like it was cool. The
future told me that. He was like, because you know,
I had a hard drive, so it really wasn't even
it was I didn't take it for I had a
hard drive future. He told me. When I got back,
he was like, honestly, man, I didn't even know what
to do because I didn't know how long you were
gonna be going. And I was just like, I'm gonna

(30:04):
put out some music. I just gotta do something. I
did it before. I'm pretty sure I could make a
mix tape. It might not be like, let's go make it,
but it's gonna get me. That's like it's like a
guy us through and be Smo end up being his
own nice piece of work. And then we got back
to fifty six nice and then we have from Rolling again.

(30:24):
Well let's go before that, because it seems like he
credits you like obviously and know the meaning you talk about,
like you know you put out he puts our honest right,
and it does well, but it doesn't reach you all expectations, right,
And then there's a little bit of a backlash on
him personal life, all these type of things going on,
like talk about those conversations and going on this run
of making these mixtapes and what your role was in that.
You know, I tried to you know, I'm the positive guy.

(30:47):
So I'm a hip hop history junkie. I don't know
no one who loves music more than me. We could
argue about that forever. Yeah, you want to be our
co host, you gotta not smoke the weeds so much,
and you have to come here every Thursday and Friday
Thursday in the budget. Alright, so Manna, But now, but

(31:11):
back to what we were saying. Your hip hop that
you knew her Man wasn't where you needed to be
right now. Yeah, it was like, you know what I did.
I took it as this. I was like, you know
what it is, It's just a sophomore slump. Everybody has that.
Let's go through the history of everybody had sophomore slumps.
You have a lot of it across all music, not

(31:32):
even just hip hop, across music. Everybody's hard to recreate
that first. So now that we know what it is,
it's a sophomore slump, and let's face a mirror, look
in the mirror, face to facts, and let's get back
to work. Because you're the dopest artists. So as positive
as you were, you feel like you wouldn't want to
kind of have to keep it real and say that

(31:53):
to him or saying to well at the time. It
was at the time, the future was living in l
A at the time, so we were as day to
day as we normally was. You know what I'm saying.
And that's cool because you know he was that's another
part of his life he's living. I got my part
of life. I'm living. We can't always be together, you
know what I'm saying. But no disrespect to l A.

(32:14):
But you can go out to l A and kind
of get get get detached from what people are really saying,
the real really saying, especially people in Atlanta. Atlanta is
one of those cities. They got to see you. They
want to see your ass, and they want to say
we saw your like we saw we just saw you've

(32:36):
seen him. It's one don't seen him in months, then
you haven't seen it. So Atlanta is one of those cities.
You have to stay coming by Atlanta. He's such a
product of that. He came from that. Your relationship though,
like how long if you know the future, Like how
does it go back? Because he seems like he's trust you. Yeah. Man,
we go back to probably like two thousand eight nine,
probably two thousand and eight, and then we really started

(32:58):
locking in two thousands nine and it was just you
know what it was. It's because I was so straightforward.
I think that's what made us go together. Our birthdays
are like seven or eight days apart. And when when
we met, I told him some ship that no one
had ever told him before, and we were instantly connect.
He had me a mixtapes were hosted by DJ Scream.

(33:20):
No disrespect to Scream, he's the hummy. But we were
in Magic sitting in the parking lot and I was like, dog,
I don't really funk with no CDs with niggas talking
all over with the levels off, like who does that?
But I just I told him straight that's how we met,

(33:41):
like on some music ship. Future looked at me. So
he looked at me, turned it inside. He was like, damn,
he's kind of looked. He said, Man, no one's ever
told me nothing like that before. And this is so
I gave my email right there. He said, But he's

(34:02):
the hot DJ from Magic City. The song was called
Yeah Yeah at the time, it was on one thousand.
Then we watched this. You know what I mean, how
long you've been a Magic City? Like the same time.
He just didn't yesterday all right, cracks the stop last night,
Labor Day Monday was cool. He's like, I can't turn
down labor. Then we had like a hundred some scrippers

(34:22):
in their dancing. Wow. Do you a lot of strippers
that's going? Do you can't say the strip I love
it just so much around you. I love them. Do
you have a soft spot? Do you do you connect
with them on the like I connect with the strippers
on all from the ratchet to the booshee. You know why,

(34:42):
because they keep it real, honest converence. They'll say some
ship like, they'll say some ship down the judgea like,
I fun that nigga last night he and shipped. You
know you ain't even supposed to say that with a
straight face. You know that. And I'll just be telling
that y'all out of really coming back all these cities

(35:04):
and you go around. Some people are fake, some people
are real. It's always really majest city downstairs. They don't
get give a dance? How does that? How did that
club stay? Like? You know how clubs fall? Like? How
do they keep that? Keeps it hot? It's just hot? Man,
It's something about this club man. We got the girls.
It's the Monday. Why are we partying on the Monday.

(35:24):
What are y'all doing? What is going on? Start your
week up? Man? It's it's magical. But it's something about
that spot because, like a lot of the records from future,
you test out there. Yeah, hell yeah, it's the industry spot.
It's the spot to be right because it's like where
else are we gonna go? Everyone's gotta be here. Starts
the week up, so before you even get to the

(35:44):
weekend music. I started it off on Monday for the
DJ can't get to it for his Friday Saturday said, Monday,
how long does it take for a record to break
the Magic City? You think for it to become what
it is? It could be one night. Really damn, that's
an example. Remember a great moment time I just played
I was one night, one crazy incredible night radio. You

(36:12):
know you know what? That's what makes magic City match
City never hit the radio. Tony Montana is bigg as
it is. It wasn't even on the radio. Wow, it's
funny that you say that because I always have this
ongoing argument of all the New York DJs. I always
say the clubs are the incubator for hip hop records,
but a lot of people want to, you know, go
on SoundCloud and things like that, just aly on the internet.
But it's all that ship. Man. But you know what,

(36:36):
I ain't nothing wrong with that, that SoundCloud and all that.
But bro, like I said, I'm gonna hip hop historian junk.
If you don't have your ship playing, there's some underground
ship growing from some roots, growing some fans for some
routes where they can go in there and say that
ship is getting played down in there. They love that

(36:57):
ship down there. I've seen it. When they walk again,
they go crazy. You can email ship all day, told
you listen, you can zip foul and lot inbox all day,
but still walk in You ain't working as hard as
you think, right. I love this guy right now that

(37:23):
goes he knows what he's talking about. But that was
because you're such a student of the game. Like talk
a little keep saying what, man, give us a little
bit of your background, like how did you get how
did you first start even get into hip hop? You
know what my sister I used to when I was
growing up. I think like when I was a kid,
it was we said well this is what you yeah,
like say eighty eight seven nineties and early nineties, not

(37:49):
not need to define West Coast. Dr Dre snooped off
DJ Quick. See it's gonna like that. I'm just like
on that DJ Quick. That's my wife. My wife's like
DJ Quick strong Side. Yeah, I was on that ship.
You know what I'm saying. I like Dog Pound. I

(38:11):
used to love Nate Dog and all that ship. You
know what I'm saying. The West Sound was the first.
I love the West. And then my sister, she was
East Coast, so she was listening to the Wood Tang
and and I didn't even know nothing about. She was
listening to the Lost Boy. She's the Lost Boys, nori
Aga these people is the So now I didn't. Now

(38:37):
I've grown up listening to the West Coast as kid.
My sister kind of brought that East Coast on me.
And but I'm raised in the South, so that's gonna
come nat. So I grew up on the Goody MAVs
and the and the Andre three. That was the outcast,
of course, you know what I'm saying. But then the
booty music is like crazy booty shake ship when we
do up down that like Kilo Allis and NaNs dancing. Yeah,

(39:00):
you know youah, me that talked to me. So it's
um the young bloods. Yeah, the little John run and
then Shotty Lows and then you know what I mean, Gucci,
if Atlanta has had these moments, how did that for
the last time? Yeah? You know what this is? This

(39:25):
is I need to say this. But because DJs be,
you tweeted about it. Yeah, okay, look man, all right,
that's a little everything DJ man. I love all DJ
I salute all these I respect DJ but but I
am a real DJ and I taught myself how to

(39:47):
do this ship. So that's why I asked some way.
I act like I didn't join the DJ group because
I felt like when I decided to become a DJ
and I was the only couple of DJ people I knew,
they didn't help me, and I was like, damn, is
this how the game is gonna be? When I started
to become a DJ, and I didn't know what to do,

(40:08):
Like what do I get? What am I supposed to table?
I don't even know what to do. One DJ helped me,
DJ Princess Cut. It was a girl named DJ Princess Cut.
I knew her through my homeboy he was dating her
at the time, and I was like, yo, can you
make me a Christmas list? Of Like if I was
going to become a DJ, what to buy was like

(40:29):
no price limit, just what you would get if you
could get it. And I went and bought all that
ship that same day and hooked it up. And I
was at my mom's house in the basement and I
figured out how to hook all this ship up and
I just started playing with it in the basement every day.
No one I didn't. I have no one to call.
No one was like, come do this, come mix this?
How you bland? No one taught me how to bland

(40:50):
or what bpms and tempos or I just figured all that.
But was there someone that made you want to DJ?
Or we just did you? Try to raps? The greatest
DJ of all time? Who was that que from the
movie Juice? He was good? That was good back to
the early nine you see what I'm saying. I grew

(41:11):
up and saw Juice, the Queu the movie. Oh my god,
that was a DJ. That's the coolest ship in the world.
He just went on the set and winning the club,
killed it, made a mix. Everyone in the streets like
tapping him up an you running around with the street niggers.

(41:37):
But he ain't really got to be a street That's me.
I was gonna say something. Growing up, you always like
you have a very eccentric style, like you You've always
been that way, like yeah, man style, tattoos, the fashion
wears all that. I've been always like a little left field.
But it's like right now I'm on my print ship.

(41:59):
So you don't like to make fun with me. Yeah,
I'm gonna make make prints. Shot up, guy, I just
do history, man. I'm like, I'm listening to the vinyl
at my house. Man, I just bought nineteen ninety nine
Prince Man. I've been listening to that Purple Rain checking
him out. Purple Rain, Man, that's pretty good that prints. Yeah, man,

(42:24):
I listened to Dead People. Well, ironically, the guy next
to you was like the hottest guy live right now.
If I'm not listening to the future in the car,
which usually I'm not listening to current future, I'm usually
listening to advanced future. So I love that Made in America.
You drewing like we played my whole you play class.

(42:47):
That was slick, Like I don't like that, and m
I am like why but but you ain't even know
about when he had when when the guys did the
New York show Urban, what was it highline? Yeah, the
Highline for room said he Escho came out and I
was like, yo, Eschol has a DJ. The DJ has
a DJ. He's like that, let's go, Hey, we gotta

(43:09):
turn up. You're like, we gotta da shout out the
DJ Ron for Chicago. He's flying in right now. He's
going to come up here. He's on the way here
to do much to do. I gotta show tonight. I
got a DJ too, because this is what happened. We
gotta do something that's never done before. We're rock starting

(43:32):
out here. Man, we got a DJ. DJ the Future
he DJs for me. I come out and do a
little set before Future comes out. But I gotta dance,
so it's hard for me to get all my dance
moves off, you know what I'm saying, And so I
gotta keep my dance moves out then go back to DS.
Ain't for Future, but first I got DJ Ron speaking
of dance at the six K for walks, bit don panic, panic?

(43:56):
What is that move? Man? What is that? You did?
You know it's gonna be classic moment. The video moment
of the year. I can't I can't even lie. I
did not know that was gonna get classic step. You
gotta see this video. I'm gonna show you what. He
leaves safety for a walk through and went crazy and
I was really just really doing the market. Is that

(44:17):
the walk was walking through like stiff over, like he
does like like this, like so fast. It's like a
demendingly jack. It's a lot of hand movement and work.
It has to be on the beat, you know, it's
so fast. You even retreated some of the fans making
the stuff. I like to have fun with it. I

(44:39):
don't take it personally. I like when the fans have
fun with it. They're having fun with it. I'm having
fun with it, you know what I mean, because that's
where the hip hop is. You gotta be different. Sometimes
people see something they never seen before, and they might
take it a different way because they've never seen it.
People are scared of different ship. I'm different. But even
in Mad America. Remember he didn't have a warm of
DJ for you down this work. But remember he came
out and he's setting up and the crowd pop was like, like,

(45:02):
well out so the stage guy, I know the main
stage guy forget his name. He comes round to me
like he go on to he go out and I'm like, no,
DJ setting up. He thought the Future had jumped the
gun and went up stage. I was like, wow, the
crowd already was showing him love to that that. It
was so loud. Master j was like, they recognize you
now with that. That's what you see how you just

(45:23):
said that. Those are the conversations and Future have chair
Master J run DMC Eric b rock him and that's
lost now. The DJ Jazzy Jeff like that was ill
to see them together, like j Jeff Fresh Prince Will Smith.
That was dope. Hip hop, hip hop. Let's do that right,

(45:46):
you know what I'm saying, and never break up, that's dope.
I was talking about your maide An American experience because
I think that you guys probably had the biggest reaction
out of it. I'm keeping it out. Hey, whole family,
shut up that Beyonce because she actually did a six
yeah oh yeah, and that was hot. That's dope. That

(46:08):
was hot. Shout out to be because she can dance
better than me. That's the parents through stage to cry
with the right. Yeah. But no, man, you should have
had that rocky stage because you tore that liberty down man.

(46:29):
Yeah yeah, that liberty is crazy, man. But now we
had a great show man Future. The reaction of Future
is like, yes, so we got off that to the
run of the mix tapes to take us to how
do you get to Monster? And like his point where
he's slitting like before that, I mean, we know about
it with DS two is we'll get to that. But
in trusting like you and Metro and a few people

(46:49):
to like pretty much guide what records make the cut
that ship man, me and Metro. That's it because we're
taking it back man to how it used to be,
like you know when it was many fresh he only
did cash money and you know that's what he's doing.
You know what I'm saying, Like Metro, he is me,
Metro and his future. That's what it is. Like, no

(47:10):
much going to break this up. That's the recipe future.
Make as much music as possible and then let me
and Metro go in like it. It's like Tupac. I
was watching Tupac I think it was Resurrection or thug
Agel or something, and he was just like, I want
to make as many songs as possible. Just let me record,
y'all fix the ship later. I want to make songs,

(47:31):
like make songs you want to then you want to
change the beat up? Do that ship later. I got
to get this out. Just get it out, and that's
how we want to treat Future. Just get it out.
Do with many songs. That's the thing. I try to
explain who you are. It's like to say you're as DJ.
That's doesn't really explain how vital you are to it.
So what do you like? Executive producer and A and
R like. It's like it's like an R thing because

(47:52):
you don't make the beat yourself. I don't beat myself.
We let Metro make the beats, and then we'll pick
out the beats and we'll use Future of HOTB on
the beats and then we'll figure it out from there
what to do with the song. Sometimes Future already knows
what to do with the song, and sometimes Future is
just going freestyle and we'll we'll figure out what to

(48:12):
do with song. You know what I'm saying. But your
ear is probably the strongest thing that look at it
from a perspective that you're not rapping or you're not
making a beat, but you're you're thearing what catches, you'll
out your ear and arrangement wise, I'm gonna pick out
the songs. There ain't gonna be no song we're not
gonna pick out. So every time you hear song, pick out.
I picked the song out and then I put it
in order. So when you see thought it was a

(48:34):
dropping number one, I thought it was dropping number one
for it's not no, this ain't no fucking We're not
just throwing it up like we know what we're doing,
you know what I'm saying, and we're winning with it
with our formula. It might not be for y'all your formula,
but it works for us, you know, because even comments

(48:55):
like that was a different part and you guys decided
to put it in the front, right, and that was
future that I you know, sometimes future I have our
idea like try to put that in the front and
be like, oh, that's dope, you know what I'm saying.
But sometimes he just nails it on the first drive,
don't even have to do anything. So did you know,
like fifty six nights and d S two, we're gonna
be these monsters? No pun intended that they have become

(49:16):
monster I knew Monster was out of here. It was
gonna get him back to where you needed. And why
what were some of the songs that you knew that
people sessions that you knew like this is okay? You
know it wasn't the songs. It was I knew this
is the attitude they want. That's why I like, let's
put Monster out first. I'm a monster on these holes.

(49:38):
I'm uster because they think you're so caught up in
love and all this soft ship, nigga, you come from this,
so Monster on these holes. It wasn't even like Monster
is gonna be a smash. It was like Monster and

(50:00):
now let's make a body of work around that and
they're gonna love it. That was also to go back
to take the game from l A back to Atlanta. Right,
So yeah, so you went back back to Atlanta and
did that ship. It didn't take time for him to
get back in that mode when you got back to
Atlanta or a little bit. Yeah, because but it takes
that because you know, when we do, uh we come
up with the mixtape, say we come up with a

(50:21):
title fifty six Nights, it might take you a while
to get in fifty six night mode. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. But he got in Monster Molde. I
knew when he did at Tupac and Mad Love, and
I knew its is gonna be crazy. The hope for
the Six Nights brandons like you've kind of made that
into your brand. Was that a strategic decision or was
it like something hard to embrace? Yeah? First, that's why

(50:43):
I do no interviews. They might talking about this ship.
I'm gonna keep talking about this ship, motherfucker's and never
know what I was because you really set it off
from jump though. Is that surprised you, like, because it's
so it's so impactful to you, it just comes out.
It just came and come out. Yeah, because it is
like when I first got out, I didn't know what happened,

(51:03):
why I did what I went through, why I went through.
But now starting to come clear, and there was a sacrifice,
I can see through the success of it, So now
I can talk about it more freely, more open, And
for a minute, I was like, man, maybe we shouldn't
have told anybody, because for a while, nobody knew why.
We didn't know till the end, right, we didn't know
why he was in there. Sometimes like you just thinking back, Man,
maybe I should have just told nobody. Maybe I should

(51:26):
have just came back like, man, I was just I
was on shroom. But it's dope because like twenty three
is with Jordan, Now you look at fifty six, it's
almost like you're you're the second person said that. They
was like, yo, fifty six, the number isn't the same
number that used to be Joe Domacio, Right, how then

(51:50):
do you how do you put that impact on the
number How the fun you make an impact on the
number five? It's been here for billions of year, he's
the number fifty six? How does that it changes in mind?
That's crazy? Well, I want to get the d S
two though, because here's the thing that people don't even know.
When we were doing a documentary, I didn't even know
what the next album was gonna be. I didn't know

(52:10):
the concept. Y'all were secretly cooking up this thing, Dirty Sprite,
which we knew the name itself. I was so tempted
when like, I mean, I wouldn't have did it, but
I was like, if people know that, like they think
the album is gonna be whatever, not only is it
not that by calling the ship d S two, which
is the classes, and even in the dock you said
dirty Sprite in it, and we kept that part and

(52:31):
I was like, I'm so glad everything that we kept
made sense, Like I knew it was happening. Seems like
those breaks my way had no clue, had no clue.
And then Sylvia Won showed me the artwork and it
was like the purple thing that I was d S two.
I was like, fucking Dirty Sprite two a sequel. I
had no idea the whole thing was created. That So,

(52:52):
talking about putting that record together while you guys were
actively still on tour to um, that was one of
them ones where we were like, okay, this is it
coming off a free peat man. Okay, if this ship
don't work back to the track. Back to the track,

(53:18):
we were like, we're doing it our way. We tried
it the other way twice. Now we got to try
our way, or even count the first album that way.
Don't compromises this time, because you know what I'm saying,
Like those first two times it was rough, and but
when you're trying new things, you're trying to let some

(53:40):
of the other people guts you the right way and
it's got el a read to put out the album.
It says I don't track one of the album number one.
So we did it our way. Third album at work man,
we had to be ratchet. I was like, no, that's
how I thought it was a drop to so I
said Metro. We was just me and Metro. I said, Metro.

(54:04):
The first thing they have to hear him say on
this album, I just fucked your bitch and some Gucci
flip flop going track the track I'm going because if
he says that first, then you know it's now. He
doesn't live the loudest that people yell Gucci flip flops,

(54:25):
Like you can't even find Gucci flip flops yourself. Win up,
I don't win in three stores. They only got the
throng one. They don't have that. Yeah, they don't have
the one, the real one. I served the base. I'm
going to track by track with Yeah, I said the base.

(54:46):
That's my favorite track beat the Metro to keep your
loves that and that's dope because Andre two thousand said
he loved that. That's his favorite too, really love that beat.
I was at stink only throwing Jesus thing and uh
when as soon as he walked in real Sisters, that's

(55:06):
only kept talking about I was. I was like, yo,
that's the only thing he kept murmuring. That's crazy saying
future ship because three stacks the most quotable Atlanta like Atlanta.
He's like almost like God in Atlanta, like three thousand,
Come on there, I said. The basic my favorite track

(55:28):
beat that he did on that's raw. I feel like
black and white, kind of like when jay Z did
that ninety nine problems and it was just raw and
it was just like who cares? Besides you're dancing. That
was fun? Man, Well, yeah, I knew that was fun.
That was the tempo setter. Um Me and MITCHO was

(55:50):
talking about it like this is gonna be the tempo
of DS two. This hot, this fast hop, It's gonna
be the tempo we knew where it was gonna be fun,
trendy Drake cop Drake wanted to hop on It was
last minute. Yeah, it was last he want to hop
on something. The day before we turned it in. You
know you have to wait. You know why that he
want to make sure nobody else is on the like

(56:14):
the next day that that's why there's gonna be no
features because everything else been no features, nice, no features,
be smoke, no features. You know, Scooter on the team,
we had Juvenile Classic, one feature, we had Wayne, one
feature on Monster. We only had three features, Project Groupies,
Ratchet but True on steroids. Because you know, now all

(56:42):
of us are single. Okay, we're the party. Sometimes futures
features in this relationship. Then I'm singing, then he sing
So we can't never really just party. Now we can
just party fucking rock stars of the One. I like
that sleep It's a sleep one album, right, Little One's

(57:08):
a sleeping man. Anybody who's ever shot at a K
forty seven loves this song. Speaking of which, nothing what's
greater than stick Talk? Howd it comes in? I know that? Man?
We changed? I changed. I need Dr pel Esco. Man,
we friends, You need that? You know what? That you
played that on the Escot woman that man that water

(57:35):
going up. Stick Talking is on pace to be a classic.
These songs are just arrangement. How do you guys sign arrangement?
We did that together? Um, you said make it as
loud as possible in the beginning, like Future Future one
of his ship up loud on the album here, But yeah,
I remember Metro. We was like, you gotta come in

(57:56):
with I took a shot of hit me because it
came in a different way. It kind of like graced
its way in. We're like, no, you gotta hit so
who's our idea was to put the thumb in your buttline?
Let's to leave that in That was you know, okay,
you know what it was gonna be worse than that down.
We actually had dropped the whole being and made that

(58:18):
whole part acapella. And they were like, wait a minute,
we don't want to highlight it. They'll highlight it on that.
Just keep it beat going, they'll catch it. We're gonna
make you catch like stop the beat on. That might
be too much, really emphasize featuring that part right now.

(58:39):
It's too much free cold free code. Speaking of which,
free coach, you know, you know, I gotta have some
magic play that magic. It does what it does nice
city girls go crazy on the pole. That is snack
pack the yeah he yeah man Freaks is a chier

(59:02):
club banger. Both rotations. How your guys living out being single?
For these ladies in rotation? Put these ladies in rotation.
You got the blocks talking about the nick out here.
Now there, you got me? You want light skinned beef here?
Chris Brown got down. You know what, he's gonna be

(59:24):
all up when your I you know what's crazy? No, man,
I think Chris Brown. I think he Bartley more cooler
than that. Man. I never really met I never met
Chris you know, w whatant to know? What's funny? I
never even met Carucci. We met for like two minutes.
That look like a little party shot right like you
take a quick She wasn't even nothing, you know what
I'm saying. We came in. I'm like, damn, we came

(59:46):
to a point A man can't even meet a woman. Now, fuck,
I just got that. I went in. We went in
and um, they told me Crucier at a party of
I'm going to meet her. You know what I'm saying.
We met, She seemed cool. Don't even We didn't even
really get to talk. It's a card as a club.
It's cool. We met. How you doing? Nice to meet you.
We took a picture that might even not even took

(01:00:08):
more than one picture. It might have been one, maybe
two pictures. And now damn, I went back to my
section and she stayed doing her thing. I did my
thing and left. I wouldn't even probably in the cup
thirty minutes. It was weird because it was like sources
and Futures Camp say like, yak this podcast and oh yeah,

(01:00:31):
I'm alone and now I'm a loner. I'm alone. I'm
a lonely nigger. I wrote with him. But all the
guys you metioned, you don't see me with BK. You
don't see me Metro, you don't see the future by myself.
I came to the club by myself. So it's like
sources say, man, that's bad man, But that shows I
hourt you out here. Man, that's cool man. There's no

(01:00:53):
love loss. Hopefully niggas won't be getting emotion a little
about it. But it's funny you have those talk about
those kits about like people Instagram and a social media
like I talk to about that. That's your idea, like
a fifty times to put those skits together. You're doing
the voice. Yeah, Well, it's me and a guy named
stay Fresh, me and my partner Stay Fresh. He's from
the hood Atlanta and uh, he's just one of the hood.

(01:01:15):
That's just you gotta get those friends because he's like
got it all. He's got it all and he's also
um mafia character we do together, Me and him do
all the characters together and so um he just he
acts like this in real life though, So we do
the skits. I'm a skin, Which one is you? Liking
the pictures? Yeah, that's that's okay. Which one was you?

(01:01:38):
I'm Polly and and the old man the don so
you got but stay fresh. He does this thing. Man,
we do all kind of carrey. We got a whole
bunch of more characters coming up. But that was part
of the skits. Like when I go back and listen
to the first Snoop Dog and like the Old Biggie,

(01:01:58):
they had skits, like skits a part of the album,
Like that's what made outcast. They had skits, so like
we have to have skits. Nobody does skits no more
or take the time to do him all right, slave master,
you gotta get through this album. Man. You got to
get a nice track to get him twelve. You're good, right,
slave slave Masters? That feels good, man, jump out a

(01:02:20):
new whip, feeling way better. The album came out. Just
brought my new car. So and then it's pretty man,
shout out and tell about you to love Future first.
It took this strong time to understand you. Listen, I'm
going to I've been on the record. I hated Future
for the longest, but I always said he always had
that one record. What was the first one? Itching was

(01:02:42):
the first. It was a little bit before I was like,
same damn Time. Was like, man, that was like to me,
a future hat like Itching? And then same damn Time.
And then it started like but he always had that one,
but then he had chosen one and and that's the
she didn't saying that time. And that's the beauty I

(01:03:02):
think of artists like, no matter if you like them
or not, they always going to come back with the record.
And you don't even know what the Bugatti's those records
through like people did. That's crazy because I'm a slave master.
That's what he did it for, for people like you
who like was them on the fence. I don't know
about Future. That's why the first thing he sounds slave masters.

(01:03:22):
Brooklyn ride with us, got my jeweler, ride with me. Yes,
we was doing yeah and one we was we was
in Brooklyn that we ain't just did this show and
got love and he was like, damn, we did a
show and got loved right Yeah, yeah, soue like we're
getting love and Brooklyn Brooklyn ride with us, got my

(01:03:44):
children ride blottle Bag, blow back, Oh, I blow a bag.
That's fun, man, just putting it out, trying to put
that first look out there. Yeah, just you know, because
it's it's let's have fun, you know what I'm saying.
Let's not get too serious right now. That's that fun.
It was summertime. You take this out before that with
the news or something come in news or something, man,

(01:04:05):
we need that, man. Yeah, news or something was one
of those things. It was like ship was going on
in the news for real, with the Baltimore, the Ferguson.
There's a lot of ship, a lot of police ship
going on. And we already dropped March Madness. So it
really was no room for news or something because it
didn't fit what I had for the criteria of DS
two when it was Dirty Sprite. I didn't wanna bring

(01:04:29):
the that kind of track in the Dirty Sprite. I
wanted it to be more news or something was its
own thing. If news or something could have been on
fifty six nights, yeah, you know what I'm saying. The
colossal Cupay told him that's just the classics. Zay. I'm like,

(01:04:49):
we can't have dirty sprite too without Zay Toven on
this motherfucker. So I went through all his Toven's everything
him in the future did was they told him, and
it's that Peak cold like play some of the all
the Peak coats and the and uh lay up and
all that. So it's like it was like it's a

(01:05:11):
big book of z Toban, So I had to pick from.
It's hard man, you could hit factory and all that
Colosso that was dope. Rich sex, that's how you're moving
right now. A lot of rich sex going on. Rich
sex sex. Rich sex is my I know you're not
rich sex is my favorite song on here. He just

(01:05:33):
said something beat I started it basically my favorite track
like the beat, but my favorite actual song put together
from top to bottom is rich sex. It's crazy blood
on the money. But we still count it. See that's
got a little that's got a little political blood on
the money. I still count it because you know what,

(01:05:53):
it was supposed to be the last song. Okay, but
everybody bought the deluxe problem, we thank everybody for buying
the Deluxe. So Blood on the Money end up being
like number thirteen right there. And what makes Blood on
the Money unique is Metro. We put say Tobn in

(01:06:20):
like halfway through the track. So if you listen to
the beat blow It on the Money, you listen to
the first verse. After when you get to the second verse,
you're gonna hear his Atobn's tag and then you're gonna
hear these keys come in. It's never been done before.
Like co producers, they produced together. You might have a
Metro producer with a Tobin track and they just together,
but you're not gonna have Metro half of the track,

(01:06:42):
and then the second halfs they Tobin comes in with
his tag. It was like we made a movie with that.
It's the first time ever done. So he's kind of
featuring on Blood and the Money. If you listen to
the second verse, you're here's a Toldn come in and
then the keys come in. I'm gonna listen to this
album crazy to watch. How did you say which songs
we're gonna make the album that were previously of fund

(01:07:03):
the mixtapes Trapped Niggas, Real Sisters and what was the
other one? Commas comments, of course, well, yeah, because one.
If you come from each mixtape, went from each Max
tape exactly Trapped Niggas could have easily been March Madness.
You think it should have been now March Madness. Are
you surprised Mat Maddison his own life now like it's

(01:07:24):
as big as ever right now? Dope? Because like I said,
when I got off the plane from Dubias, the first
time I knew it was something special about that song,
I didn't know it's gonna get this big because in
my brain it wasn't a club track. Sony put it
out now on iTunes, the Esco version of Yeah. I
see those things on those iTunes, they go they go

(01:07:46):
up and down real fast. It's a crazy game, you
know what I mean. We got to click those fast
they might go away. But March Madness we had like
some legal she was about some of the sounds, so
we couldn't put it on the album. So now I
couldn't use that in the doc. That's how the Doctor
was supposed to start. William with the skin and he

(01:08:08):
does Martin the dirties on They're going to the hotel
like that up level, so you already know. So that's
what happened with March Madness, but it became its own classic.
So now fifty six Nights is March Madness, that's what
it comes up with it. This is I get this
probaty that comes up and we just gonna call ship
the Percocet and Stripper. I love that song. That song,

(01:08:29):
it's like when you're driving, you thinking about exactly what
I want to try. For the first I felt good,
you know. It was one of those vibes. I was
the South Side did to beat. That's an amazing track,
and I got a West Coast field from it. I
think they did it in the l A. He did
it in l A. So it had like a West
Coast feel to it, and it just had that ride.

(01:08:51):
I was riding in the car on repeat. I run
on repeat. I don't, I gotta, I gotta physically ain't
the song. I was gonna go start over no matter
what it is. So I had a purpose set Strippers
on repeat for like a few days, and that was
like a good one. Finally know the meeting man, I
gotta read Kine to me. He said, they think you

(01:09:14):
washed up? You can go back in. Show these niggas
who the one we're going back in? As soon as
we get off tour. He had my job on him
when he caught the case, when he took him in
the custody, they took my life away. Did you cry
when you heard that man saying? Man, I got to
snap my fingers. It's crazy man, you know what, It's
funny because he don't I'll be there for all these

(01:09:40):
nig I ain't wrapping this while you When did you
do this? Right? Man? But that glory tear? Yeah? Right,
he did that one time. You know what? One time
he did that. We were making Monster. The last two
songs he made a monster was I think Tupackets Savages

(01:10:00):
and he was in l A and he sent me
to Blacking Savages. And I remember he had said if
Esco would have jumped ship, you know what I'm saying. Um,
he said like an Esco line on there, if Esco
ain't loved me, would have been done jump ship. And
he said that line. I remember hearing it. I was like, damn,
that's deep savages And so he was like, oh, I

(01:10:22):
remember he called I didn't never say nothing about the line.
I was just thinking that's dope. And I remember me
called me like you don't funk with it, and I'm like, damn,
I do for it. I just didn't. So now I
feel like people probably thinking that when he mayn't know
what the meaning like, man, I ain't even gonna I
ain't even gonna tell him now he just made it
on his own. I wasn't even there. I heard I
was blowing away and so, um, that's what happened, like

(01:10:48):
where we just said, you know what I'm saying, Like
I pulled him. We had a conversation when you said,
who your ma right here? Man shout out. He's gonna
being around and he's he've been around for years, free
band since day one. The first time I ever went
to New York, New Jersey, I met him. But he um,
and actually they run away from Magic City. He used

(01:11:10):
to come to Magic City. Uh, people come, everybody come
to Magic City. But man, Future and we talked. It
was back to that sophomore slump and it was just
I was in Atlanta and it was to the point
where I was at Magic and I was having a
hard time finding records to play in future. He was like,
I'm like, Nigga, I'm playing Boo gott it. You're forcing

(01:11:31):
this ship old you know, what I'm saying. And I
was like, I was like, man, like Future, Like, you're
like the best friend I got. Like, you're the dopest
artist We've been around. Every artist I've been around so
far I've ever met, You're the dopest artist ever. Like
all you gotta do is tap in. It's like a

(01:11:52):
basketball player, like when he's in the gym and the
coach ain't watching, he might shlack off, like no nigked
be Jordans. Jordan ain't gonna slack off. It was a
coaching watching and that you can beat Jordan's you know
what I'm saying, Like you had the potential to Jordan
and Ship, just go do it. What I'm saying, Yeah,

(01:12:14):
So how did it feel like? You know that number one? Ship?
Don't feel like it? Wow? We feel like we're going
up here, but we could see the top. I mean
you know what I'm like, we feel like the other
day somebody said, man, how does it feel to be
the hottest DJ in the game? They asked Future, how
does it feel to be the hottest artists in the game?

(01:12:35):
And we leave each other like this would it feels
like wow? Because I don't feel it because we got
some work to do. That's why we're gonna make another
album by the end of the year. Music. Man, you
keep going right, we gotta make more music because y'all.
If y'all think this is something, then we got we
got more work to do, we got more ship to do.

(01:12:58):
I think we ended on that, man. I appreciate you. Man.
Let's go do it. We didn't even get into that.
I do only want to end the podcast because I
want to take photos. Let's go dance and do stuff
like that. How did how did that come about? Dad? Man?

(01:13:18):
And with that Damn Davis in Atlanta ship? You know
Atlanta always make up dance about. You got show stuff
to dad? Move before we go gonna get Yeah, double
double dad, he a double dab CBS local man, that's

(01:13:48):
what it is. Let's get it man, Let's go keeps
Baby Elliott Man, thank you all for Let's Go podcast.
Podcast