The 2 Chainz Episode

Don't get it twisted on code and me and danceing for no buttament biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces in the building collectively hard to get old boys loaded, reloaded with another episode of information and instructions to help us out today, the one and only two changes in the building. Yeah yeah, man. You know what, man, when I when I think of you, that the first thing that comes in my mind more than anything is intelligent man,

your shop dude, bro. And I know a lot of people, a lot of people they don't get it because they hear the music and they just think, oh, he's just another rap. And I told him a long time ago. Man, when Chain's first came out. I'm sorry when Titty Boy came. When he first came, but I kept telling I say, Man, don't get it fucked up that nigga can wrap. Yeah, yeah, I wish you nigga would like a kitchen cabinet. Man. What what came first? Man? The rapping out of basketball?

Oh no, definitely basketball, man, still my favorite thing to look at and participate in. I've been playing ball since I was about seven years old. Started that, uh And Man, okay, just like a lot of in the city kids. You know what I'm saying, you could probably beat me up. No, I can't with you. Man, I probably beat you in basketball. I know you got hands with the boxing. Now I'm talking about basketball. Too small to fight, you know right now. Fun Now, I got a good jemes playing and I

know how to get away with it. But like I was saying talking to uh, now, yeah, I love basketball and then but basketball kind of set me up for the It definitely set me up for a rat because you know, the person that that gets the ball or has the ball the majority of the time is you know who people look at. And I started you know what I'm saying using that correlation with the microphone, like you know what I'm saying, you got to my everybody gonna look. And I enjoyed that attention. I enjoy you

know what I'm saying, the whole entertainment aspect. So it became second natural for you know, you put on the l of the motherfucking show, right, thank and we and and and you're not like a kid, but you got a lot of energy. And watching you on stage make me tired. Yeah. Man, Well it's important um in my field of work too. Give the promoter and yeah, and

give the fans something to look at. So when it's time to think about booking another show, thinking about doing something else, that I'm that I'm a name that pops up in the conversation and that in turn, um puts money in my pocket, that put food in my my family's mouth. So I get that, you know what I mean? So I can't I don't care if it's forty or forty thousand, I have to go on the show because it's always somebody famine. And people that watch it on

the internet, they don't know that. You know, a lot of us really as entertain as we feed off the energy. But I have to psych myself out sometime and just bring it. Bring my on you dope, bro. Man, I've been knowing you since the nine nine or not. Like no, it's probably maybe like two thousand, two thousand one something. You were doing def Jam South and I was with Luda them. It was probably later let me go to I gotta go with Louda. Um everything, well, I see

him occasionally, you know what I'm saying. He's doing real well in life. How they go. When you were with dt P oh oh yeah, So I was selling we Goddamnan and U. They were working on the radio. So I used to be serving like rappers they came to the city. You know what I'm saying, He's come to the city. They used to call me to serve them. Um my little crew, you know I'm saying. We were getting a few little bags, and so we decided to

put like a little mixtape together. And when when um it was Chris and Poem that was on the radio. When they heard the mixtape, they they were fucking with a nigg and so they already knew what I did in the streets and they knew what apartments man. Yeah, like you know, they always got me man. I always ask you, man, what the fund is apartment? Up slacking by the department part our apartments, apartment it called apartment. Yeah. We always teach me the off. But yeah, so anyway,

I started wrapping with them, titty boy. Um you know a little rough around the edges. You know what I'm saying. It is always dope to me, Man. I always appreciated your work. And then when you went out and uh, the it was a duffel bag boys that your first yet went the funk off on that and he was on ship. It's a song that you had, Man, it was you and another kid. Uh, I'm gonna find it. I got it in. I got it in my yard, my thing. But when you don't want to be listening

to your ship and they'll be jamming hardest fuck. You know. I text you when you do. Yeah, you do, text me some line that makes me feel real good. I told him a long time ago, Man, do not get it funked up? Yeah, get your asking that Stu. You if you work with him, Man, you gotta listened to it. You know, you gotta listen to it. But I'm a fan, bro, and I appreciate everything you did, bro. You know, I I saw the come up. You know, it's different when

you meet the motherfucking he already up. But I watched you'll come up, man, and I just congratulate you man on every move and and and what you're doing. Bro. You know, man success, Bro. Much love to that. We appreciate you coming up and thank you. I'm very appreciative of that. Uh, you know what I mean. You guys know, y'all ledgerds, I'm at I'm at Bill before you know in Atlanta. Don't tell Willie that ahead. Yeah when you get off that ship. What do you mean, stop that ship? Man,

stopped doing ship like that? Yeah? Yeah, y'all been on the roads and what y'all y'all st we've been on the road in your early twenties. Now we were teenagers. I was a way teenager, Willie Might y'all went on the road as teenagers, right, I was, and Willie y'all want roll together like out of town together. No man, really share the room in the beginning, and then you know, it got to a point where you know, really was just sucking. Like I was like, you know what, man,

I'm gonna get my own ship. Dog say, first of all, since you see when you do ship like that, I'm just playing, motherfucking go in. I'm gonna go off where you show off your show, come and take this guy. Damn spanking. So the reason why he has his own he started getting his own room, was because he likes the far, the lot, all that ship. And yeah, you gotta I wanta stop lying. I won't lie. Stop that line now, man, with the bottom line is that man,

we grew wet, we grew. The group got only you know that we got we got more money and that's what really happened. Yeah, but you know, I don't want to get too far away from the basketball man, because I'm actually fascinated by your game, bro, like that your skills. I mean watching you play like I'm looking at you like if I was watching you two damn like. Well, I know that guy went to Lee and you know

obviously you didn't go to the league. You pursued. But how how strong was your desire yet to become an NBA player? Okay, So the thing with the with me is when when the when the teacher asks kids what they want to be when they grow up. Obviously I used to say basketball, because I never pictured myself being a doctor, just having a nine of five all. I never pictured myself sitting in traffic in the morning on

the way to work or coming home. Just from a personal perspective, I don't knock anybody who does that, but I never saw myself doing that. It was never an differ for different folks. There was never an ambition of mine. So I was also I've also been um trapping or you know, selling drugs since I was in the seventh grade, you know what I mean. So I got locked up in my ninth grade year for selling no, I'm sorry,

my tenth grade year for selling I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, my tenth grade year for possession of cocaine, and sophomore year for for selling week I mean not my senior year of high school, I'm sorry for selling we And so that messed up a lot of my scholarship opportunities playing ball young bucks. Listen listen, yeah, and I'll definitely listen. But I can always tell you, like, if you live long enough, you can see like another side to it.

So a lot of the mistakes that I made earlier, although I felt like they were very dark times for me, um, and I can go into depth by a lot of things, but I'm just trying to use this time wise. I end up using those experiences to be you know what I mean to just I learned from them, you know. And that's that's the main thing about when they say living and learn, it's a lot of cliches that that, uh,

I feel like I can I can relate to. So I made some I used to love basketball, but when I played basketball as a kid, I still was was literally hustling me and um one of my homes named Shy. We used to take turns whooping, Like one day here stay at the trapp and then I go hooping and the next day, um, it will it will switch out, you know what I'm saying. So I wasn't all the way dedicated with whooping. I had natural skills and I

played ball like god given talent. And I played ball and you know what they say about hard work, beach talent and all of that stuff. So I was one of those talented people who if somebody was hooping more to me than then they were probably um get a higher skill set because I was taking days off this time now when this music feeling my lap when I

first started doing music, it wasn't consistent. I kind of was one ft in, one foot out, the same thing, hustling making music, going on the road, slip looking for a plug. When I was you had given up on basketball. Yeah at this point, Yeah, I wasn't into basketball like that anymore because I have found a new love doing music,

you know what I'm saying. So when I was able to go on the road and travel, like I asked you all about traveling, my whole thing going to cities was trying to find out who had work, you know what I'm saying. Like, I still hadn't really like turned that part of me off. And then I went on tour with with Wayne during Duffle Bad Boys, and I basically saw what he did every night, and I started membericking that. From that point on and my whole career

in life, everything has changed. So I've always kind of attributed Bro for doing the record Duffle Bad Boys. And also, you know what I'm saying, opening up my eyes to what I need to do to be a successful rapper in a time. Yeah, that's a beautiful thing because I've seen so many people that have a great talent in the hood who lose those opportunities because they don't want to get out of the streets. You know, they want to go and do be the regular dude, take the

easy way. I can try to sell drugs at Jackson. Somebody still huh, really that's not that easy. Well, I think it is because anybody can do it. You know, a five year old can still five year old can shoot you. You know a five five year can sell drugs. I don't believe that. Well, I've seen it, so I

believe it. I've seen I've seen it firsthand. And you know, and you've you've heard stories about five year old shooting people you know, and and and being used and being used to sell drugs, you know, five year old rock up no dope will Well, I don't know, man, these five year olds today, bro, I would not estimate them. And I'm so detached from the dope game until you know, it's just far fast for me to believe ship like that. But you know, if you say you've seen it, you know, yeah,

I've seen it. I've seen it firsthand, man, And I couldn't even think, who why wouldn't just push him down and take a dope. Well, that's that those type of things happened sometimes, but a lot of times you know that that that the kid is being used as a conduit. So that kid he don't know, that kid don't know, uh, But what that person on the other end knows is that that kid got protection. I'm gonna tell you. I'm

gonna tell you this though. I'm gonna tell you from this perspective because a lot of people feel like, um, you know, man, I don't please don't take this other context that hustling is. Um, there's a choice when a lot of the times you know it is a choice. But I look at it like this, look at I want you to just try to fathom this. I've definitely done some things that I regret. So just listen to this. Like you stay in a neighborhood, right that Okay, I'm

not I'm not from l A or California, right. And when I was younger than from the South, I did not understand um concept of gangs. I didn't even understand you know what I'm saying, Why are they know what I'm doing this? But it is really based when they get older, like their neighborhood, this is where they're from. This is like a brotherhood. They start blah blah blah whatever you want to make it out to be, whether good or bad. Right, Um, you go to Denver, Colorado. Right,

this is like the whole neighborhood. They know how to ski, right because they've raised on slopes and stuff like this. Right, you go to Hawaii. Right, you know what I'm saying. Does everybody know how to surf? You know what I'm saying. They know how to surf. Whether it's a good thing or what. This is what they do. Right, you go to Atlanta, or you go to these apartments, the whole partment seal drugs or trout. Now you what happens in these cases is you automatically pick up your sack too.

But it's always somebody you see talent in that you try to prevent them from doing that in this certain neighborhood. But nine times out of ten, this has looked at as a norm, a way to take care of your family. And it may sound like bullshit, it may sound like I don't know what it may sound like two people. But if you come up and this is all you see,

this is all you know. I'm not sure what the main thing in Houston or whatever, but if this is all you know, like where I come from, then it takes a minute for you to snap or for you to plug up into reality because yo, you know Mama, your daddy, bro, Yo, everybody doing this on everybody look at like the whole neighborhood missing antenna's because jays smoking in front of you, like this is what you used to the hallway full of crack, bro, Like you know

what I'm saying, this is what's going on. You know what I'm saying. So it's not like you don't get the ride through Beverly Hills until you get you ain't never been on a plane before, so like all the other ship just on TV. So for people who have went through these different things, and it might be a set up from the man or the government, where the hell they're be saying, But like when you come up in a certain area for a long period of time and this is all they do, then it becomes so

natural for you that you gotta break the cha. You gotta break it yourself and get going to go to jail or really on your listen. And that's kind of what happened in my In my instance, I just did until I woke up one day and just went cold turkey. I didn't want to have a case. I didn't want to have anything going on to make me pressed stop. I just did it. My mom. To answer your question changed,

I think that the dope game was national. I think that the same uh, the same way that y'all played in Atlanta, they played in Chicago, and they played in in in Houston, and they played in d C. Like the plague of of crack cocaine when it hit in the mid eighties early eighties, you know that that ship spread it like this fucking pandemic that we have going on right now now. I was I was the same kid that you were in a sense, um, because I sold the same I did the same thing. Okay, um

my uncle's and I didn't. I and my ship was so fucked up until I didn't give a funk who I sold too. You know, I saw I sold to my uncle's, my friends, my my, my friends, Mama isn't ship. I didn't give a fuck. But that that that that crack plague, man just really uh set us in uh a space in life where we did more harm to ourselves than we got money on it. You know, we didn't do good. You know, I feel fucked up about the ship that I did growing up, but I was thirteen, fourteen,

fifteen years old. I think we're all We are who we are by conditioning. You know, if if you grew up in a household where education is stress, then nobody's going bad an eye when you drop out in the eighth grade because it's expected. You know. Uh, if you grew up in the household, uh, where education is a big deal, then uh, nobody's gonna bat an eye when you graduate high school. You graduate high school, nobody's gonna be like going crazy losing their minds when you graduate

high school. You know, like if you ever watch people who who who graduate who go to these that that come up in these households where education and stress, when people go to the graduation, uh, they're like this, it's very you know, like yeah, yeah, you know that's what you know why we're clapping like this because I'm sitting there for thinking college next. I ain't h yeah, yeah, like it's the end, Like over we made, ain't doing

all that ship. I'm like, yeah I got the one guy next college or next this business, this business thing we're about to do. We're about to blow. You know, That's how it is. And so it's like path laws law. We are who we are the process of conditioning. And if I don't give damn who you are, like you were saying positive or negative or however you want to look at it in different we are who we are

by process of conditioning. But the thing is that ultimately, one thing that I knew growing up in the hood, just like everybody in this room, I understood early on that I was gonna be held accountable for my actions. I knew that because I went to jail and ten great. I mean when I was ten years old, so I for burglary at ten years old, I was in juvenile I'm on the rectors downtown, you know. So I knew early on that I was going to be held accountable

for whatever I did. And ultimately, nobody really gives a funk. And so if I go out there and do something, I'm not gonna be able to use where. You know, my mom was an alcoholic, my daddy was abusive. This happened, and I ain't got no money whatever, and people don't give a damn. So ultimately I have to give a damn about myself and care more about myself to make sure that I don't walk into those traps and I don't allow these clowns to capture me and do me

dirty because the traps are set for us. They don't give a damn about us. We know that. So if we know that, then I feel I feel like it's incompet up on each of us to say, you know what, I'm not gonna let you motherfucker's fool me. You're not gonna get me. Like if we know these mothers out here trying to do us dirty and they're trying to capture us, you know, like we got to do it. At some point we have to say, you know what, this is on me, it's on me. You're not gonna

get me. Yeah, I mean, you know you know what. We're gonna try to ask smart to anything that I put in front of us. But I mean, it's just hard for me to go against it, to be so contracted when I know where I came from, when I know what I you know, did, and it can't undo. And I got reasons that maybe it may be pathetic or they may make sense to some people. Don't you want to be feel like getting just today? But you know what you know for the most most part, I'm

I'm a better person that I was yesterday. So I've been thinking like that for years. You know what I'm saying, and and it takes conditioning. You know what I'm saying. And even when I was hustling, I enjoyed going to school, I enjoyed wearing nice things. I enjoyed, you know, being a social butterfly, talking, engage and meeting new people. And you know, I went to college. I have a college degree. I did all. You got a college degree in what

college for? Yeah, well, when you know better, you do better. To your point, when you know better, you do better. And you knew at some point you knew better and you started doing better. All I'm saying is that ultimately, like we all come from the same thing. I mean I did, I did my dirt. But I think that one of the issues with us uh as as o g s is that a lot of times o gees feel like, because we have a past, and you know

that past is checked, we did some dirty things. We feel like if we speak against it, we're being hypocrites. And that's not so because it takes that wisdom to being parted on the youngsters in order for them to get it. We can't sit back and withhold that information. We don't have that luxury, you know. I I youth reaching out. They're screaming for a guidance. And if you notice any time and you really talk to the youngsters, they always receive it because they respect who is coming from.

But you gotta be careful with the youngsters too, because you know, we're always young too, and a lot of times it ain't about what you did in the past. So you gotta watch how you tell somebody how you was and how you moved in the past, because it would be hard to respect sometimes, specially if if the receipt they're looking at now don't look like all the stuff you've been talking about. So, you know, a lot

of young kids, I just man, I got something. I got a lot around me, and the preaching don't really work. You gotta kind of just show them how to move and how to articulate and how to speak to people, and just being the room full of women and not mean mug and just I got a lot of young casts. I'm just like just trying to show how to move just by having them with me. But it was just like preaching to them, like they just kind of got to hear about some of the stuff that you did.

It's crazy how they got to hear. You know. It's just like man, but but coming out of your mouth like boy, I used to do this. Boy you it's funny, man, because they just don't average twenty one year old They just don't think they should just think. You know what I mean, and you know what I mean. And it's a lot on that show is to prove that they would the gangster ship, you know what I'm saying, if that's where they come from, if they're from the streets.

So it's just like I just be on, I just be sleep wanting you young players around mean not to play themselves off the streets, whether they be cemetery or penitentially, Like if you could just like dish those things you can make and if you you know what I'm saying, it's a if you make a mistake and go to the penitential, you may get a chance. And if you make a mistake and go to the cemetery. So so

what's going on with uh College Park Scott Hawks? Yeah, so Scott Hawks is uh, it's aligned with the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA. It's a yeah, it's a G League team. I'm just in my city that I come from College Park, Georgia. I am a minority owner of the team. Yeah, we we They did a bubble last years well for the G League, but we didn't participate in it. What the NBA did this year was they added, uh, three extra players to the roster, so now it's eight team.

Used to be like fifth team and so the three people that So with G League teams, you have something that play on. You should have something to play both to get more experience. You got like rookies or whoever you draft that played for the NBA team and then they'll come down to the G League kind of like baseball with the minor league. Actually this is what it is, the same concept and so you'll have two way players is what they call them. And so uh with the G League we have um I had one player from

the G League actually signed with the Dogs. So that was like my dream come true too because it's still like an extension of me whant to play in the NBA out and you know, I ain't put nobody in the NBA, but like it was a I had something to do with you know what I'm saying. You know, Do obviously worked and got down his own but yeah, just being on the team where it's in my community, I'm able to be get back to my community. I'm able to um just initiate certain things. It's just a

big thing for me. And then it makes me feel like I'm one step closer to build owner up an NBA team or something like that. You know what I mean, I'm getting my feet with that really would see me. Well, Um, I'm partners with the actual owners of the Atlanta Harker. So, man, it's just a lot of love. You know. Wow, congratulations. That's called diversifying. Man. You know, you get you get the opportunity to make a power move, man, and you make the power move. You know, it's a lot of

people that are stuck at a standstill. Man. They see the power move and they're looking at it, but they won't push the button. Man. That means you, and we commend you for pushing that button, man and taking your career to the next level. Man. You went from the basketball to the music that was just a springboard, and now you're going from the music to actually owning the team and tell me about like you're selling merch and concession ship like that. You've got a little stadium set

up and everything. Well, so the arena's own by UM Georgia World Congress Center. But I do have UM you know shirts that I designed for the team. My son actually picked out the mascot. So it was like four or five mascots that choose from. So my son, you know, I had him in the meeting and he shows with mascot. He thought, you know, we you know, let a kid pick it. So he's five years old. Yeah, he's very articularly, very intelligent and just like its father. Man, you're a

smart dude, man for real. Yeah I watched it, Yeah, man, I watched it. Just happening, Man, a lot of goods, having a lot of business lining up, my my boy toldment is called UM Divine Alignment because because because every day I get a different email about a partnership or something dealing with equity or something on the ship for just some blessing, you know what I mean, They're just like coming. So I think I'm gonna just continue doing what I'm doing. This is working. Whatever I'm doing. Want

to push the button, don't slow down. I think one of the things is working for you and your favor, you know, besides being talented and having the dry that you have, is that you're a likable person. You know, I don't really know, I haven't not really, but I haven't heard anybody really saying anything like like projecting any

type of negative energy on you. So I think that has a whole lot to do with it, because you know, I see a lot of things going on and hip hop and you know a lot of our losing a lot of our artists, you know, um you know, to to gun violence and and a lot of it. If you if you look at a lot of the people that have been affected, it is directly related to the energy that surrounds there. And so it sounds like to me, that seems like to me at least you put you

know yourself around and get energy. You know, we tried to, you know what I mean. We we all enjoy where we come from, so we be hard to disconnect. You know, there's your mature and get wife and kids. You start trying to see what that you know, what all do families got going on and start just thinking different, especially with the kids, man, especially with me being attached to the kids, just trying to, um, not let them down. You know, that's that's the main thing for me, not

not let them down. Not embarrass your family, barsh your wife, embarrass your mom, bearsh your kids. So you know, I'm be be having to think twice before you make one one decision. That's all that is, be able to think twice before you make one decision. Yeah, what was that show? Changed Most Expensive? Yeah? That show? They were just smoked. How much was that we smoked? Man? I smoke weed every show. Man. I've had different episodes, but they don't

gave me gold. They gave me all type of fucking ship and got me high right there on the spot. Like I'm like, like as a microwave. But um, the show it's called Most Expensive, as I've done for years, I started on YouTube, somebody picked up the show and yeah we were on vice Land right before. You know, obviously COVID here when people con't travel. But the the

it's it's basically improv you know what I'm saying. It's based on people to have something so expensive that other people don't see the value in it or don't know why they have, and I actually meet them on camera. That's the show. Like I don't know their name, I ain't seen I don't even know what they're selling. So I come out damn like, yo, willing d I got a hundred thousand dollars boxing glove, and I'll be like,

why you got you know what I'm saying. Yeah, And so it was just like anybody else I want to like, So my thing is like, why why you love bits and so much? You know, spent a hunter on some glove and you're trying to tell me got a C on the inside and it fucking resists whatever, and um like I'm either going forward on that. I mean, man, stop, let's cap I'm saying, you know. And so that's that's And it's just like it's just imagine me anybody for the first time on camera, anybody hey how you know,

just like it's somebody film that you know. And so it seems to connect very well. And uh, we're trying to see if we're gonna crank it back up and where we go. You know, the traveling was prohibitors, so it put it completely to a halt. But I get somebody, you know, says something to me about the show every day, So it did what it was supposed to. Super dope. Yeah, I heard I read somewhere where you switch you died to like sometimes plant based lifestyle or something I've been.

I was doing intimated fasting. No, I don't eat plant but I talked to Chris paul a lot, He's on plant based and actually sent me some stuff. I don't eat beef for pork. I hadn't eate beef for pork since before it became a trend. I hadn't ate beef of pork. My dad used to tell the school I was allergic to pork, so I never really engaged in pork.

And then I stopped eating beef early on when I was getting out of the departments, getting out the department, and then, um, so really I'm gonna seafood lover And then occasionally I'll eat a turkey burger, maybe some lamb chop. But what I do is I work out three or four times a week, and I work out, um from maybe three to four, sometimes in the afternoon, so I won't start my first meal to around five, and from five I have an eight hour window to eat. And

let's call intimated fasting. And I've been doing that sometimes, so before I going to gym, I don't really eat anything. I might do a smooth or something like, and then after that I eat an eight hour one door and kind of just keep me at least fit. I ain't shape enough. I'll just be looking all crazy on stage and ship my clothes fit right and everything. I can't do it. You see my ship falling off me? Now, Man, I see you over there looking like looking at you

like you're ready to take you some magazine picks. Man, I've been ready to take me some fucking steroids so I can be back up. But none. Man, I gotta say, Chance, I'm so proud of what you do. Man, what you did now, you did it, Bro, It's just this is amazing to see it. You know it's amazing. It's amazing to witness. Bro. That's fucking super dope. Man. Well it wasn't the making. Man. You wanna you think you're gonna

record some more on your record every night? No ship And he said he's gonna send me some beach man, But be really, I maybe maybe I know you still got it man, Like when you like, when you ramp up, you get talking to and get the other boys. When you get the ramping up. I don't ramp up no more. Man, Willy don't like that, Well, you don't like it. I don't like what when I ramp when? I don't ramp up no more because I don't wrap and ship I mean, I mean ship. I don't like that exactly. See, let's

talk about let's talk about tah'd alps. You know, like we we know, you know, we touched a little bit on you know, high school and stuff like that, but like really like what type of kid when you man like you know, and you said you found your your basket basketball stroke it around seven, say seven years old? Yeah, oh more, I'm only child. I'm an old child' my mom's boy. That's where the boy came from. Just being

in front of my mom was life coming up. Um. My father he was an army before I was born. And then when he got my mom, Uh, I just know, I just know you hustled. That's all I know. That's all I know. You hustle. And then they had dropped me off with my cousins when I was younger. They said I need to be tough, and my cousins raised me for a couple of years and then I started just like you know, getting back with them and getting

back to my mom. We had a few issues going on in the household, but everybody it was essentially blessed right now. My father passed and Twitter part I dropped my first album. Um all my partner too. I picked him up for PRIs and to move the man with me, so we were best friends. Uh, he was a diabetic. I got probably got trust issue like everybody else. But I ain't trying to. I don't know bad kid and I like that. I just hustled and kind of um people personal. Like I said, hustling. It was like I

guess the darkest things I did. I wasn't like, um, really into robbing and nothing like that, like you know, it's a couple of people in neighborhood, like that was a motor. I wasn't really to rob and I like stealing. I ain't really stealing, although I stole cars or hunt with the crew to store cars. Um that really. I always thought that was like the craziest thing, like trying to steal a car because I I didn't see a

lot of money and stealing cars. It's a lot of money dealing card I didn't see it I didn't see the money anything. And I didn't see I mean maybe the whole car and getting the ore, but it just just swap shops type money like I couldn't see it. And also you know inside of a car to steal that car, to break it down, to break that column and and and get that jump that thing, you know,

Like to me, I just looked at that. It's very risky, like why you and now somebody can walk up to you and blow your head off, and me, you gotta concentrate on what's what you're doing? Wow, you know, you know, I'm just I'm just thinking like that they're going out getting cause that's a whole another conversation man. But um once again, I just it just it just who you around. Man.

It's like that's why they be. That's why some people are surprised when they be like on this kid from Compton went to Stafford, but this kid from they'd be so surprised because people from the areas don't go to these areas. These areas are already filled with people who come from a certain cloth or so to speak. You know what I'm saying. It was generalized a long time ago.

We actually breaking the mold right here, and I face you're actually seeing people break the mold and take chances and doing things that are un characteristic but like normally coming up man, from wherever you're from, Like whatever your hobbies are. You know what I'm saying when you talk about boxing, like I followed, Like I followed, I followed you boxing, you boxing, j print boxing, Like you know

what I'm saying, It's got to be a thing. You know what I'm saying, Like, clearly they got a boxing culture. You know what I'm saying. It's just like it just be like it really be like where you're from, bro, I'm telling you, it's a real thing. And that's why when you go to college and you be around a lot of people from different areas, you actually learn different It's actually a good thing to do that being like a diverse place, you learned stuff from people. That's why

I really started learning when I went to college. I was like, damn, he's folks from New York and just just really you pick up on slang how people you know, I tire you everything, man. So that's why, Man, I'm right in the middle of where I want to tell people. Man, I think you shouldn't be doing this. That's a stupid thing to do. But I'm sure that the people they're around all doing the same thing. And that's not to say you should be following them. But it's just hard

to break that mall. It's hard, you know that one kid that don't drink or smoke to be around all the piers to drink is smoke. He it don't exist. And if you do, he driving it down something. But it really like everybody smoking, everybody. It's just crazy how that ship go. Its just it's just real. That's what it is in my personal paint. Yeah, we hang around ship. Everybody I know smoke and if somebody was like, I'm sorry, I can't, then they probably want to be in the

car with us. The driver. We don't switch driver since we've been down here. The driver couldn't take smoke. You got to go. We smoked, so that's all it will. It was no disrespect to him, but I'm paying this company to you. They called somebody need to bear to take this in the cut or yeah, I've been smoking before they started putting names and flavors on. I wish they had. I wish they was this scientific. I was

getting them bad as bags. And I could sold it to any one of these niggas who want to print a little little little album covers they're printing up now. But I like, uh, somebody at that last, I like um to get high. You love to get hot. I like it. Look, I like to get how how do uh? And then we can we can we can cut it off, man, But all day long, you just be high. Dog. No, I'm functional, you know what I'm saying. I'm no, but yeah, I smoked for I came in here. I ain't eightning.

You had a little smooth. I smoked for breakfast. I'm smoking up up. You know what I'm saying. And it just it just it just it just it's for me. I'm not trying to compens nobody else that should try. You don't need to smoke. You need to just got day. You know what you need to do, man, some pencil and a piece of paper may get to jot down your ideas and your deliverates. Jack, you know what you need to man. We appreciate a chain, all right. The the the smoking thing, right, I can tell you don't

smoke words. I can tell you, man, I'm ready for you. Come on, come on, come on, right for you, Jack? Actually, actually, I don't have problems. I don't smoke, but I don't have I don't have a problem with smokers. I really don't, um I. But what I wanted to ask you about was that, I know you probably had people, uh come at you about perhaps starting your own strain at something. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm I got a couple of things

in the works with that and dispensaries and everything. I'm really trying to and not in the Liana yet if they got medicinal, but recreational. But yeah, I'm trying to do that on the business side. I'm trying to do that on the b in the side. Man. And uh yeah, what about the n f T you got that. Yeah, I'm working on n f T s as well. Listen, um educated myself on cryptocurrency as well. Be talking to the man. Yeah, yeah, I've been. I've been invested in

crypto for probably about six years. I was an early invest in dog coin. Really yeah, rich mother sit up when they just got some months sitting up the out looking at rich motherfucker. Yeah. Man, I hit a lick early, man, you did earl earlier. So yeah, yeah, man, you know, and Nipsey. Me and Nipsey used to talk crypto. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that ship. Yeah when nip I was when when nip got in, I can't remember the name of the crypto that he got into, but he partnered with some people.

They gave him some some crypto and you know, so that he could uh you know, um, you know, basically promoted for them. And then I started turning them onto the other coins because most times people most people don't even know about anything other than big coin, indulge corn. You know. For a long time, people just heard about

big coin, but they didn't know the functionality ever. But dolge coin came along and then it started like introducing people to people started getting introduced to other coins, like, oh damn, that's another coin out there besides big coin. But those other coins out there, uh you know, you many of the other coins out there are more risk here, but you have a greater chance of ex scene than you have with big coin. Because big coin has such a large market cap. A lot of people when they

think crypto, they try to buy the cheapest. Oh this is just a penny, you know, but they're not looking at the they're not looking at the cap the market cap, it might be a penny, but if the market cap is already at let's say, you know, a hundred billion, then it ain't like it's gonna go all the way up to to you know, a trillion dollars, two trillion dollar. It may get that, but it will take a while

to get that way. As other coins that are that have lower market caps, uh, they have a greater chance of exing because there's so much room to grow. So yeah, man, you know you can. It's like gambling to me. I like to get It's beautiful, man, I I jumped on. You know, the Ellen corn is crazy, right, so, uh you know they got ellen Gate. This is a corn that's that's a pro Elon Musk coin, right, So they got e lien Gate, they got uh fuck Ellen, and

then they got another corn called stop Ellen. So there's two anti Elon Musk coins and then it's one uh pro right, I'm investing it all of them, so I'm gonna get them coming and going. So it's people that hay Elon Musk and so so they're betting against him, and they're they're putting their money, investing their money into those coins that where they hate them, and then there are people that rolling with them and they're investing in

the e lien gate. I'm investing in all three of them because all three of them are gonna basically hit. In fact, I already hit on the line corn once. Yeah. I think I put up like ten racks and within twenty four hours I hit them for like a hundred and eighty. Yeah. The people that invest they know, so when I said, they know they had the dates up. But yeah, I not the head out for real quick and then and then re up, do it again, do it all over again. That's amazing, man. I'm not gonna

play with the big coin. You see the guy in Australia that took all the money cut like two billion dollars, like called it this a at the airport. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta be very careful man. Yeah. A lot of that stuff is unregulated, so you gotta be very very care for and you got to do your research. But sometimes you just kind of take a chance, even on some of these corns that they're like joke coins, but you take a chance on it, like Okay, you kind

of do a little preliminary research or whatever. Some coins people just invest in just because the name sounds good, the name is catchy, right. And say, for instance, you have a group of people who are let's say their cat lovers, right, like those corners, like has a meme a dog on it, right, So somebody put out a corn let's say they're cat lover and they call it,

uh cats going on one or whatever? Me all right, the cat levels who are going to invest in that coin simply because they feel a certain sense of community. So so I I messed with all of them, though. I messed with the low caps, the high caps, and I'm with you. We do that. We're gonna do that one weekend instead of going to Vegas. Yeah, I do. Now, I do black jack a little brute. I'm a dice sho to play play poker, play poker, right, Yeah that boys smart. But you know I have to take that

back now, everybody I know play poker smart. I'm goin to go. I got to go, Yeah, I gotta go to But you're smart. You're a smart one. I used you shot up though, dog you Brad Jordan, You're a bad man, man man, bad man. Better know that ship, better change hand man, appreciate you. That's gonna wrap us up for that. Hold on, hold listen, no, no, we got address this really quick. Okay, change say it right here. And I tried to give my left hand. He said,

right hand, right, what's wrong with the left hand? Respectful? I'm left handed. Respect I'm just disrespectful. Watch now, watch this. If you where to get your left hand cut off, how much would you miss that left hand. I do a lot of shot in my little hand. I do a lot of stuff my love hand. It's not that we're just um as far as hand, be devastated if you lost your left hand, I lost anything. No, no, no, no, no talking about the left hand. We're talking a anything,

you know. I'm not like I'm gonna tell you now. I'm gonna get cool now. Yeah, it's gonna be my left that just man. You know, universally, it's disrespectful. It's like when you go to a place like Qatar, you can't have your feet up on people's furniture. Just what they can see the soul of your feet. It's a disrespectful gesture. So you can't have your feet all you know, up in there. That's crazy. Man. When you go to different like countries and the people have different cultural expectations

and stuff. Well at least when I want they definitely was like, where anyway, it's over that, all right, ladies and gentlemen, to change, Yes, change, Thank you man, I appreciate you. This episode was produced by Aching and brought to you by The Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Radio