Rap Radar Rewind: Young Dolph

the Role Model project. Like you know, I know you've been You've been flooding the streets for a minute, but something about this project feels real special, Like you know, what, what's your take on it? Like why do you think this one? You know, it's such a solid body of work. What was your approach a little different on this one? And like it wasn't but it was at the same time I think I was in the middle of like completing it. I probably was like done with it. It's

a certain field that we're missing from it. It's like I know exactly what I'm looking for, So it's like, yeah, so like I recorded um, I recorded um what was it or still schmill like it? And I recorded lipstick and I recorded black Queen intro, so it gave me it finished the feeling. You know what I'm saying, That exactly what I wanted. That's crazy because there's a lot of different emotions, like you feel all those pieces of women, Like what do you think those songs captured? That was

that was missing the intro? You know what I'm saying, Like I just want my intro just just to be like phenomena, you know what I'm saying. And then Black Queen like that's the most Like you don't get no better than that, you know what I mean? Like if you know me and keep up with me, like you know my history and my history with my parents, especially my mom, So wrapping over the piano with my mom

and playing it, it's just legend. There is it hard to like or you know, to talk about these vulnerable moments in your music because you're like really opening honest, even on Black Queen, I'm talking about your mom and things like that. You ain't not really you know what I'm saying, because just keep it. One Hunters, Like all these feelings and all these emotions like this what made me go so hard? That's what really keep it all the way. One Hunting, not even that ain't what made

me go so hard. That's would make me still even go so hard, you know what I mean, Because it's like and the ship just don't stop, like slow down. You work so hard, you you like you just enough, ain't never enough for you? You know what I'm saying, Like you you just don't you don't stop, you know what I'm saying. And it's just it's like, man, once I heard my dad to say this ship when I

was a little I was a little boy. I heard it like he was saying that he was serious but not serious but playing around but seriously at the same time. So it's like me as a kid, though I took the ship all the way serious. It was around somebody the birthday or a holiday or something. I just heard my dad and said, well, we ain't going over there, like I ain't got no manner ship we pop. I

got ain't buying no, you know what I'm saying. So I was like, damn, like that ship just that ship just hit me somewhere like I like, damn, we funked up like that, you know what I'm Yeah, So it's like it's just everything just started right then, you know what I mean, Like twelve years talking to myself how to cut hair. I ran up my first couple of thousand. I was doing that ship and just it's like I

just didn't never. I just ain't never stopped. Brother. Once I started when I was youngest here, I ain't never stopped. You know what I'm saying. They said he started shooting dice at six, started smooking for they'd become. My mom and daddy had a years. You know what I'm saying, Like my mom and dadd screamed. My mama taught me how to shoot dice, talk my little brother how to shoot dice, and she talked to me and my brothers

how to shoot the dice. You know what I'm saying, Like my mom and dad in the house was the spot. You know what I'm saying, Like my mom and dad. It's like people that look I looked up to, people that raised me. It's like one of my songs like preach like my son that this legendaryybody to know before that really broke me to preach and the song I said, free my nigga yo did it Like there's one of my partners from my hood, like he older than me.

You know what I'm saying, it's just he was one of the one of the dope board friend of hood. You know what I'm saying. It's older than me that you know that you just look up to, You just funk with you know what I'm saying. So it's like them and everybody in the category, like all of them funk with me a certain kind of way because like all of them like, oh damn, bro, like your dad arrased me, your mama raised me, like your dad arrased me.

Like even though my mom and dad was that being sucked up, but it's like they just still had the streets respect and they just like this ship is just in it. I'm just sucked up. Like and even with the title role model, I remember on one track you Want said like l Chopper was your role model? But did you look up to people growing up? Was it like your right hand up to a lot of people growing up? M Boston Jewels. That was my biggest influence to keep one hunter. What I'm saying, like, looking at

that movie, the ship changed a whole lot. What about like it locally and here in Memphis, Like was any specific people really the people that I really looked up to? It was like my family member was like my uncle and my big cousin. Your grandma was close. What I'm saying like the person that gave me how my game is my grandma. The reason why I'm riches because my grand The reason why I'm on top of game because of my grandma. Reason why don't trust nobody because of

my grandma. And the reason why own I own. I'm private and keep ship separate, like my business in family, it is because my grandma. Like all this ship is the confidential ship. It's from my grandma, she said. My grandma told me when I was six, the ain't no such things, No damn Santa Claus, ain't no such thing. Is no damn friendship. You know what I'm saying, Like

is what it is? You think that's what makes it hard for you to sit with these vacud labels and say, hey, Dolf, let's sign this and let's part it up and trust us, Dolf, We're gonna make some things happen. No it ain't. They ain't gonna make it hard for me to do to deal with them. What it did make it hard for me to do was just like I ain't good at keeping the fake with a lot of entstry ship, you know what I'm saying, Like it's like my body language and my face and ships like it's gonna kind of

give me away, and it's like it ain't. It's just kind of hard for me to do. So it's like about me knowing that. It's like I ain't never put myself in the space in a situation where I got the goddamn it, Like my success determines on how fake I keep it and good with the fake ship with interested people back because I did a deal. So now I'm if I ain't if I don't do this ship right,

it's just all I'm on the shelf on them. Just it's no dolt what I'm saying, Like, hell now I'm gonna control of Dolf Dolfin determine doctor drop Doltin spent all the money on Dolf. I can't think of one person then gave me a dollar coin, you know what I'm saying. But I can tell you planning people that got them in doubt and me planning people that got damn They like what I do, loove what I do. Was just hate the niggtive is doing it. You know

what I'm saying, like all of that. So so when they're offering you things that you yourself taking these meetings and as it face to face meetings, like what's this process been like, George Georgia The meetings like, oh my career, like it's been me taking because it's like I know what I want, I know it on worth, and I know what I'm gonna do, and I know whatever. I know what all I'm doing right now, so I know exactly what predicting the world situation I'm being next year

in two years from me. So you can't talk to me about all like some money right now, and it's like it's like I don't know, bro, Like my mind just geeked up crazy as hell, and I see ship before it happened, and I know exactly what I want. You said. Through the years, you said, uh eleven, they offer you three million, offered you five million, offer you ten million. That's been reported that you've been off for twenty two millions, two millions. You gotta keep in mind

it's like Dolve getting a bag for these shows. I don't even want to say that knowing, bro, because I don't even want to make certain rappers commit suicide. What I'm saying, like people hit records, don't get the type of bag that you're getting out here. Listen, I ain't never did a deal. I ain't never did no deals. I ain't never even put I ain't never even signed

the least paper at the end of my name. But so you know what I'm saying, It's like you know that, you know you feel me like I ain't never did no deal with nobody before, you know what I mean. So it's like, if I can do all this ship on my own, you know what I mean, I can figure out this ship out and I can spend my paper and don't give a damn about spending my paper because I'm confident in it and I know I'm going to work hard and put in the work what it takes.

The behind spending the money. You got people to come into this game with money, but that ship don't mean nothing. You got people to come in this game with talent, but that ship don't mean nothing. But the gang that ran to the wrong nigga. You got talent, you got a niggative schmart, and you got it's a young nigger, and you got the young nigger with a team. So the guy ain't got trouble. The guy ain't got help. You can't give me nothing. You can't offer me nothing.

It's like it's like, don't nothing mean nothing to me? No? Nothing, don't nothing, No, None of this ship means ship to me. Money don't mean ship to me. You know what I mean. It's like, it's more about to understand. There's more about the value in division. Now, how did you How did

you learn how to navigate in this business? Because people say, well, you know a lot of times artists have to get jerked to and I'm gonna keeping one hundred if you was to ask jay Z the same question about me, like like why do you think young dolts sudden such suddenly such? You know what I mean. I think he can answer that question. I ain't even got to answer that question. He would tell you why because of a hustler. Pussles travels day. The best ones they like the day

the coach on. So you think like most of us just be stuck though, like some of my homeboy like Nigga's just be stuck in the hood. You don't, you know what I mean. It's just luckily I've been always a traveling person since young you know what I mean. When I was thirteen years oh, I used to go out of town, catch the bus, catch on the greyhound just to go shopping in Chicago. That's why I was boring it. So I go back and forward Chicago just to go shop, get back to mentors. Just killed niggas

at school, just get fresh. And they couldn't get those in that image, and that was my reputation. It was like, there's dolfs first, there's cool, you gotta be right last day. But how were you able to create this leverage? Because I ain't gonna lie when I first heard about twenty two minutes to get the hell out of here. Man, it's a labeled deal, you know what I'm saying. It's it's a labeled deal, dog, you know what I mean. And it's like Dolph ain't never did a deal before.

So that deal of me doing it with anybody's going to be very, very valuable and it's going to like be big, you know what I mean, any record company with coming sense and sense no there always we can't go young Dolf with no bullshit money? So is that the exactly you've had good means with it? You actually like them? But maybe you don't. Even the deal with the twenty two mill and was a super good deal. I just didn't do it, you know what I mean.

Not saying nothing was wrong with the people, the staff, you know what I'm saying, nothing wrong with the contract. No, nothing is just that that's not what I want to do at the time, you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying, Like that ain't what I want to do at the time. So it's like I felt like it wasn't no wrong decision. I could have did it and it would have been a good decision, or I could have chose not like I did, and it's still a good decision because either way it go, I'm

going up. As long as I'm going up, Hey, I'm good. So each time you was offer these things that you get, you give a serious thought. And for whatever he's definitely give a serious thought, you know what I'm saying, Like, but when I think about it, I'm breaking this ship down way to the tent, you know what I mean. Like I ain't breaking up, I'm not breaking it down to the the pounds the pounds ground. Like I'm breaking

this ship down to the tent. You know what I'm saying like, I just know I'm smart enough for that twenty two million that ain't shipped with the money I don't think gay to make. And it's like up front of money over the money'm accumulating the next eight teens or twenty four months. So why do that? You know what I mean? I can keep my own percent of everything and wait out the twenty four months eighteen months and ship do this ship And hey, I don't know, man,

it's just I just I'm just different. When you see like someone like the Ron like put your join g and coach signing, I guess in some sense that also just raises even more awareness and raises your value, right, because it's to know that your music, now what it, dude is just let me's like, it's just let me know that I'm doing something right. If you let me know that are you on something? And let me know, I'll bro you hard. Let me know are you talent it,

let me know everybody paying attention. Let me know a bro you like you wanted the ones? You know what I'm saying like it, let me know like ship Nig's like Lebron is like Lebron fun with me, just like I fucked with him. Yeah, I mean like I rocked with Lebron, like I like Lebron. That's my like funk with Lebron. You know it sounding hard, you know what I mean? He fun with Me's just just even harder. Hundred Grant and Lebron though one time, right, No, I

don't lost two hundred. It's all good though to give him that money going another money that's going. You talk about that on the entry, say stashed a million and you forgot all about it and let it rot. Right, that's a fact, right, How the hell you stashed a million dollars and you forget about it? Though, It's like, I don't forget about the ship. We just put the ship there. Just that the ship, just the ship just got wet. I'm gonna keep one hunter. Like three hundred

thousands of that ship was my partner's money. So it's like I had to give him like I had to give him like I had to replace a hundred fifty like, but I can't give you the whole three hundred back, bro, I'm gonna give you a hundred fift like because it was my funk up. Oh goodness, So you opened a BAK account the next day, or why shopping so much your passion? Like even on no Mistake you talk about

and that's about accident. He's like you just drop fort k and not even realize you're spending that type of money. Like why why is that so much your passion? I don't know, but I think it's just like it's like some feminine ship. I was just into ask some ship like from my uncles and aunties like when I was young, Like it's just you know what I'm saying, Like, it's just it's just in me, bro, you know what I'm saying.

Like I said, like when I was in middle school, like I used to go out my way to get to Chicago, get to like just go to the city just to shop. You know what I'm saying. Just it's like it's like a it's like a uh inside of motivational things like what it's called it like a confidence. It's like it's just it's just some ships you like to do for yourself. You know what I'm saying. Me, it's like you feel like how you look and it's just always have felt. You know what I'm saying, It's

like you look like money. People want to spend their money with you. You look good, bro, people know not to play with you. It's like you ain't looking like ship. People want to pay you a like you ain't looking like yeah, you know, like make every pression like the first impression like that's what like my big hums and like talking like everything and when New York. Now, New York is one of the places you'd like to shop the most, Chicago, New York l A. Yeah, you'd like

to keep a lot of money on you too. I mean you said one time that the d A stopped you at the airport and took a hundred and fifty thousand off you. That was alone town slick really don't even want to talk about it, man, but re memberies. Man, it's like a money treatment two thousands like in l A. Wow. So you feel like you're talking at times now that ship was old like two thousand ten, like they took some money from me. It was just that a man, you said talking about the hustler part of it, that

you feel like that's your advantage. And the music buses because you, like you said, like like a jay Z, you come from the crack game to the rap game. Like people don't know nothing, No crack nothing that's j Z like that ship ain't even in my book. That ain't like no no, like my mom and dad was on this ship, like I ain't never in my life now one time wanted to say a crack I thought about sending crack none of this ship. That's something like you never had to worry about me doing selling no crack.

But anyway, but the hustling ship, that's what made it was. You know what I'm saying, Like that crack error though

that ship was just dangers and fucked up. Yeah, you're saying the cracker because when you put out a rich crack baby, that's how to itself just sounds so powerful, you know what I mean, Like it's such a powerful statement, right, you know, so that that it's just me just embracing my folks, re embracing my history, embracement when I come from my family tree, Like he's like, man, I don't know if y'all knew, bro, Like, well, I come from it's like my family tree fucked up, you know what

I mean, Like dadd inside everybody fucked up, you know what I mean, Like his cousins everybody, like go to Chicago and it's like funked up. Like that's what basically my whole family in Chicago, you know what I'm saying, Mama's side of the family and folks sucked up like the cracked cracked epidemic. I mean cocaine of alcohol. That ship wiped my family out, you know what I'm saying. So it was like it was on us, like the young niggers, Me and my cousin like to switch that

ship up, like like no, you know what I'm saying. So, like that's what motivated me, Like rich crack baby, I just took that ship round with it, you know what I mean. Like when I was young, I was doing some ship, being hard head or something, being like my grandma was on my ask about something. I remember what it was, but it was something and she was it man, she was just She's like, crack baby. That was the first time I heard of so I was heard like the ship. It hurt my feelings. But I was thinking

and wondering about this at the same time. You know what I was like, I can't blame it, can't knocker work. She was mad as a motherfucker. I was being bad as a motherfucker. But it's just something I just take that ship round with it, you know what I mean? Turned negative to a positive. Go back to black me for a second. So how did it come to beat it? Your mom was gonna play piano in the song? Like how did you a casse? I want you to play? Like? How did that come to be that that's what he

was gonna do for that song? I just knew what I wanted to do, like this something I'm gonna give you the Rundown, the ship ky roll Mother, the album bound my Mam a little Shnoop, you know what I'm saying, Like my mom to be like, yeah, they love Shnoop.

My mama loves snoop, So I would like I had to get Snoop on here because I just looked up to him a boy, them funking with him so hard a by me growing up and like Schnoop just they're like that's the first CD I'll remember just straight just really going into and at listen to when I was a little a little as hell, you know what I'm saying. So it's like yeah, like it's like I was like,

my gotta get Snoop on her. I did that, and U like my mama being she being just going in that like doctor, like they're getting up in age and ship. Now she's been having a little leg problems, need problems, like just lit life ship, you know what I'm saying,

Just dealing with ship, you know what I'm saying. So I've been just like, man, it's like I just been having more fun and enjoying this ship and let my people enjoy the ship I got going on, you know what I'm saying lately, Like this is all I've been focused on, Like just let my folks enjoy this ship and like really enjoyed. And I know that, right. I noticed she like this's a thing like playing them Like that's where I get it from, you know what I mean.

Like the music, like my mom a little music, like she loved that ship. Like she gets to having some drinks. I sunking around, pull up and go to my mom's house, right, and I go to Memphis and she's been having some drinks to betwing the moment she had a radio blasting my dadd and mad. You know what I'm saying. It's just it's just here, is what it is. So I just want to get that vibe, you know what I'm saying.

Let me do something special for my mama. Like I didn't even let them know, as I want you to play the piano. Got to come to the studio and play the piano for me because at a certain point, even like the fifty second mark, so she switches the whole tempo of it too, right, and you just kind of go with it. Was that plan that I was just kind of how y'all was vibing. No, it wasn't playing. It wasn't it wasn't playing or nothing, like we just I just told her to play like she just we

just did that ship that she like how it came out. Yeah, yeah, what about even the Snoop feature because I was listening to it and it seems like the song is done almost a then it just picks back right back up from where he left and there's one of my favorite songs. Just crazy like that. That ship was Snoop on the one of my favorite songs on there. What was it

like finally working with him? He just he's dope. It was super dope, you know how you Like I was saying about the industry and all of this ship is like you meet certain people and be like, damn man, that ship. Any what I thought, is like like what I thought, you know what I'm saying, Like Schnoop it looked up to it. Yeah, it was just it was just dope, you know what I'm saying. It Like he real,

you know what I mean? And he's passionate about it to work, like he's super super, super professional about the ship, like schnoot want to know all the other words and syllables, don't want to mess up nothing. It is like he just he's just Snooper, real artists. But it's not that you did connect with Snoop. You know, someone that you looked up to, and it seems like you have no

problem giving people their problems. I saw that you tweeted, you know, in the passive and mac Miller like how you feel like people are fake when it comes to Uh No, it ain't even that about people just fake. It's just that it's like people get so much glorification,

so much praise when they die. Bro, It's like, come on, y'all and like the game wasn't showing you can fit to present all that little glorification when he was alive, and like, let her nigga know how great day is when they alive, when they know what I'm saying, like, come on die, like that ship is just bullshit. It's also because you with your background, you come from a

serious background. You've been through incidents, You've been shot at and stuff and shot and all that stuff like that life is precious and that's important that we acknowledge these things when people are here this. Do you think you have even more different perspective because you've been through real, hard, real life situations. No, I just think it's just real is real and not real. It's not real, you know

what I'm saying, Like basically right. And he seems like you have like a love hate affair with like social media, he said, like social media devil dog. She said, it's the whole world, aim as fuck it, did you know what I mean? It's like you tell me when they've been cool for anybody to walk upon anybody when they phone out like a bro, like what's your phone? Is? Just like you can be you can be like you can be rushing your mom and to the hospital or something.

You'll be rushing your look your next for your kids, anybody to the hospital or like anything. Like folks are gonna be so focused on the picture of that video and know what I'm saying a lot not like it's like, but you could have just saved the life, you know what I'm saying. Or you probably like I ain't like this, ain't gotten hing to do with it. But while I was just on the Spressway like two weeks ago, not camouflies all my cars, right, I gotta it's gang of cars.

I camouflies down, all of them own the Spreashway. So car over my far left lane. Man, I see the car snoring down. I don't see it. I'm just watching that motherfucker. It ain't no other cars around it. I'm just watching it. And motherfucker lose control, fall to the side, hit the wall, bounce out the wall, come all the way back, crossed the Spressway, hit this other car, go back towards the wall. Damn man, they did all that ship trying to video my car. Wow. You know what

I'm saying. It it's slick. It made me feel bad. Like it's like when I say this ship the del because it's like people really doing everything based on because they want some lights and views. Don't let that ship determine your dog whether you wake up tomorrow or not. All Right, you know what I mean, Like that's what I'm saying, like for real, for real, Like you gotta use this ship for what it's fun. It's like you're using this ship to contact and sting in contact and

find people from school and all that. That's cool. Do this ship do your Facebook thing? You know what I mean? You're using this ship for It's like it's like this ship powerful and people don't really know how powerful it is. Yeah, because you see you limit your posts, like you known on Instagram, so you take down a lot of things. You only got like a couple of posts up there, like you just don't part taking that regularly where a

lot of artists are doing. Now I just took I just took the ship down, you know what I mean. Like it really wouldn't even know reason I just took this ship down. You said one time, I think it was the record. While you here, you say, you know you got a son, you know you got watching watching you Like are you more conscious of like how you moving your image and things like that, you know you

have a child. Yeah, But now at the same time, because Brock can't have from me and me, he's like, I'm gonna only be me you know what I'm saying, Like I'm not gonna have me, you know what I mean, I can be the bitch me. I can be though,

m right, you know what I mean. It's like it's like it's like them parents that they got everything, and you try to do this, like try to do this fake ship around your kids and not let them see you doing this or not let them know that you do this, and just trade this image, this little fake rolling and just ship and make them portray a little fake and roll. Then what happened, Oh they started going

and trying and doing experiment every damn thing. Now, just keep it real with them, just be their parting, to be their friend, you know what I'm saying. Like, that's how I feel about it. Talk about your artists a key lock, right, Like you guys are related to like my little brother, my little brother, not my blood brother, you know what I'm saying. But that's my real that's my little brother, you know I mean, like I love him like a little brother and the man. I want

to see him go through the roof. I love want to see him super successful, like him a little brother, but he my little could though. Okay, you know what I'm saying, how it happened, I don't know, playing rap rap right now. He wasn't even like that, like it's

just ship just happened, you know what I'm saying. Like he younger, so it's like two years ago, he's just started to coming around me and getting around me like that, you know what I mean, when he was like seventeen, because he was just got up in age enough where it was appropriate where I felt like, Okay, you can come around me now and whatever you're doing, bro, your mama and your grandma name, they can't be mad. I ain't.

I ain't got you doing this ship like you're doing this ship on your own, Like this is what you're doing. What I'm saying, like I was doing what I was doing the out there, and I ain't want to have motherfucker like oh yo, you you trying to do. You influenced him to do this, and you did this and you're the reason why he was like no, you know what I'm saying, Like he came around me smoking weed.

He came around me like all that ship, you know what I'm saying, So like okay, you're doing that, bring your little ass over here, brotherlet me show you how to do this. So you know what I mean, you might look, I'm gonna let the streets trick you out the streets or like on't going to show you how to do this ship. You know what I'm saying. Instead of you're guessing how to do it, I'm gonna show you how to do this ship. You know what I'm saying.

I'm gonna tell you how to do this ship. You got to be colder than me, you know what I mean. You got to be colder than me. You got to have more than me. Is like all this ship if you ain't mad, you wanted to be like that major record man, I got the first on that major jo. Sure to God, Glock wasn't never, he wasn't even on that song yet first, you know what I mean. I put him on the zone because I knew what I was gonna do with the zone, you know what I mean.

So whatever I'm doing, whatever dolf In on whatever major ship dog got going on? Hey yeah, block, come on, women, is that part of like your character is because like even on the record on God, you always say like you're always giving, you don't want nothing back from it. It's just that who you as you are as a person, always just trying looking out for the next man. I just thought that that ship posed and go. You know what I'm saying, Like, I guess that's why I always

get blessed. You know what I'm saying over blessing and you're always cheating death. Man. I was listening to the King of Memphis and you said he almost died in a car crash. It flipped over like three times. What happened was do you remember? Yeah? I remember it was ship. It was a while ago back. It happened to me and my partner, me and my best friend really like. We were driving in Chicago. We had a court date.

It was a charge like pista charge, like a facing like I forgot what the fucking world like ten years or some ship we were latest. Fuck. The court was the next morning. We had to get there. I was driving me and him pick up truck. About four in the morning. I felt ashleep doing about eighty Oh you were behind the wheel, yeah, driving fell ashleep, woke up something that I woke up that it was too late.

That's when we started flipping, flipped over the hell back over the railtors the road flip finally stopped landed upside down ship. I thought I killed those guys, damn. And then when it stopped, when I realized I wasn't dead, Like I just know my partner dead because we just did all just flipping this ship and this nigga keep four hundred fifty pounds, So damn, I even killed my partner. Damn. You know what I'm saying. But ship, God bless me again. I cut up the inside of my mouth and he

cut his ear. We walked away from that ship. Were you wearing a seatbelt? No seatbelt? Walk away? While that's crazy? That's crazy. Strength do you feel like? It's these kind of things make you feel like I don't have religious you all, but like you have a purpose here, Like how do you make sense that I definitely got a purpose? I don't. I ain't just super super religion like that, but I do got a super super super like relationship

with God. Though you know what I'm saying, Like I ain't gonna trying to like telling nobody else had to live they life, but like, you can't fool me. I know what's going on. And you think another nigga can make you can call and they can be like, bro, go make another world. Go make some human beings and the sky clouds and rain drops and trees and oceans and all this. Ain't gonna make one of them, you know, a nigger. They can make one of the mother you can call them. Let me know, tell him I want

about the world that ye like. So that's how I look at it, though, you know what I'm saying, I hadn't been through so much ship from what I was born into, just before I even gotten into all these other extra extent ship, like just why I was born into bro Like, it's just I don't fop my way up out of that ship. You know what I'm impact you though? Does it make you feel less? Does it? Does it harden you? Like? How does it? How do

you think it's affected you tell you personality? Just I think that ship it made me kind of nun lunt to life, and it makes me kind of hardist. I guess it kind of means the same thing. But the ship just it make me nune lunt about a lot of stuff, And it's kind of a bad thing because it's like people feel like I don't. It's like somebody to give you someone like I had. My girl made me realize like somebody to give you something, you need

to really act like you appreciate it. And know what I'm saying, like like people be like maybe one you to appreciate their stuff, like just they just be happy that they're giving you something. No, I'm saying, and I'm like, I do be happy. She'll be like your face, your expression, and your your body language was like you need to like you need to think about it, you know what I'm saying that, Like, damn, you're right, you know perspectives. Yeah,

that's um. Earlier today. I don't know if you heard about it, but you know, the person behind the shooting that you're involved in, the Charlotte was sentenced to a decade in prison. You heard about all that? I ain't heard anybody. Oh yeah, I really don't don't give a damn, but like take it the shoot, you know what I'm saying, because I just I just don't. I only give a

damn bout it. You feel like you're passing any type of this beef for any future beef, like rap beef, Like what is that pass all of this ship because it's it's small, like all of the everything about it and everybody they're connected to it all the little niggas. They little niggas, They shrimps, you know what I mean. Like they shrimps, every last one though them put together, like they can't you can't compete, you can't win, you can't stop me, y'all shrimps. Mhm, like he went to jail.

All he here here. I don't give a funk. I don't, girl, you know what I mean? Like, Oh, I'm in d C and the show to night. He on the shoulder, like I hope he on the show, and not like I don't give a damn. So it's like you're telling me that I ain't know about it, but I'm not saying that to you. I don't give a damn, but I don't give a damn. You do like the ladies, though not the Segway like these songs man, and I

think it's funny. Do you speak about like women from other races like you have no problem telling about let's from Greece, a lot of three his exoticness? How do you get down in real life? It's the young Dolph. Look at me, man, you say you're getting the rest of to with seventeen. I guess that's the right now. No, no, no, no no, but having fun, you enjoyed mingling with ladies from different back having fun. I just it's all for promo. Baby,

that's just the music promo. It's robbing like you see me with some girls, look like we're having too much fun. It was just promo, role modeling stories right now, SAPs all platforms right now. But if you do have a lot of music though, I always wanted to know, like being that you're such a prolific artist, do you feel

about oversaturating the market with so much music? Hum like that it's different now, like this ain't the same error with from Jaz Blueprint master P, No Limit, True Tru you tube to the game to probably like it's a different error, you know what I mean. It's like you got this ship called a telephone, and when people play their whole CD, they're flipping their motherfucking they're pulling up another CD somebody else, so ship, like can't it be another one of my CDs? They pull it up like

it's never enough music? You know what I mean? Because people they like this, it ain't no all that damn looking for the CD case in your car, No mo, find the CD cases in the back of all this ship like now it's like people this that like you know what I mean. It's like I call it like supplying your fans, like feeding your fans like they fun with you, they fun with you, you know what I mean. If you got it, you got it. If you don't,

you don't need to drop their bullshit. What do you think of the focus being more and more on Tennessee and with Memphis specifically, like with the table we went down to the interview take Keith the other day and like the movie you're making like so much now the spotlight of hip hop is really looking at Memphis, Like what do you make of that? It's hard, that's super hard,

Drake showing so much love Black Boy JB. Like that song I'm Major, you sort of us this cadence a little bit in the opening verse on on Major, Right, this ship just sounds like that because we all got the same, We got the same what you call the ship accent. Yeah, it was like trying to do that. It was not so it's like when no, when you got it's like when you you hear New York niggas like to us, yeah, you hear New York niggas on the radio, you hear New York niggas like ship all

sounded like it's similar. Yeah, you know what I mean, because they accent and what they talked about, you know what I mean, Catty niggas, it sounded like New Orleans niggas. It sounded like, you know what I mean. So it's like, now you've got all these different Memphis artists is just popping up, so you're hearing more Memphish music. So you're like, damn, this is that like like you see a lot of it on the internet. Memphi nigga sounded like because we're

from Memphis. Our acc into sign no ship, you know what I mean. But it's like that ship, that ship. That's good ship though. But you know where they're coming from though from You know why Memphis popping right now? Why is that? Know what started? They're training by Memphis? You know? Man, tell me it's dumb. Come on, what about that? When you do that's like a fell off, like when you do different acts, like different cadences, when you like emphasize something lives man, yeah, lives. Man, they

said you got the best at lives in the game. Man, they up there. I can't knock them. You know what I'm saying, Like one thing for show on, don't sound like nobody everybody looked the sign. Everybody wrapped the sign, everybody sounded sign. Everybody weren't the same Cuban links where they fake a real majority nigga that ship. But everybody weren't Cremer diamond chain ap your buzz down the roads. Like everybody looked at sign all they like, it's just

the whole rap grains, just brothers. Everybody got the same mom and dad and he's just one big, one big ass family. You know what I'm saying, That's why I went't spent one fifty on the Blue roll Lix. What back is? Everybody got them five point stars and everybody just training. I know you've been seeing them ship. That why I got a Blue seas point star. You know what I'm saying, That's why I got a big ass

blue guy dawmn paper around funk on me. You know what I'm saying, Like, that's why I got this blue ship going on. You know what I mean? Because you're like, I just don't like looking like everybody. I don't like feeling like I'm in the in the pool with everybody. I can keep up out their motherfucker goes get in

the hot tool. But even with your rap style, like Elliott mentioned, like like it always increases, like you started off slow and then you just enunciate, you know, the focal point, the focal bar, Like how did you develop that style? Like did you I just just come from like me just recording, you know what I'm saying, development and my craft over a period of time. You're like, it's like my partner called it up here. I wish

he was in here to describe the ship. It's something he said you every time I'd be laughing at this ship. But it's kind of true, like it's something he called it. It's something ship, but I forgot what it is. But that's what it's called on the dots, dolts some ship, Like I don't like it is what it is. Do you feel like you're getting better as an artist? Like, yeah, I'm cold as a motherfucker. I ain't gonna ain't nobody to fucking with me right now. I ain't nobody to

put it like this. I ain't nobody in the history of picking up microphones fucking with Dolf Dog. I'm just keeping the real lot of people know what I'm saying, I don't get a lot of makes up there. Put the mic down, real ship, Like it's like it's just great, real, you know what I'm saying, Like everybody rapping it intending y'all about dishing about that, about thishing about that, about this and about that. But all them niggas don't sign

them three record deals too. So damn all that this and that they're talking about, How true is that ship? Why you gotta take their money day money, day mind and day money and they minded? Then Oh damn he finally he finally bro he finally popped off. He finally got his big shot. No, I'm sitting right here with Elliot Wilson right now, all this blue ship on. But what's interesting about you is that a lot of times you see all this, they have that big quote unquote

big record, that big radio record. But but the scary thing is that there's twenty two million on the table. You don't even really have like those type of records yet, per sect, I got paper round Empire. Yeah in his mind, you know what I'm saying, but that I got another twenty two million on the table. I got this, nigga, I got this nigga name Dolf he cold, already cold, and I got this nigger name. I got this nigga name,

and key Gud he like skinny dangerous. Yeah. I think that young nigger got him McLaren and I think he got some kind of other faces as being struck. And he got about about almost a meeting dollar worth for Jerry and he ain't got them about two mixtapes out the little nigga glout. How the hell he doing all that ship I wrote with paper problem. Niggas got money, man, I don't know what they got going on, but but I seem like a hundred shots. I think you have a gold plaque. But is that part of it too?

Do you feel like you want to have that? Are you trying to make that big record like that? I ain't trying to make it a bit record, you know that ain't want Tom trying to do. I'm trying to have fun with it. I'm trying to like make history. I'm trying to Like all the young niggas did feel like they're trying to out her, trying to get it, and they wake up every day and it's like they got her. Like man, they're gonna ain't ship gonna stop

them from becoming successful. Goddamnit. Like that's making the music for you know what I mean, I'm making the music for the little nigga got Damn. They're like, man, he wished he can got down to have some George's to water school, but he got just sell off for these little week a rebox did his mom and I'm trying forward. You know what I'm saying. It's like it's like that's making that ship. I used to beat them little niggers.

You know what I mean is you're like when you look at the COVID, that road out of COVID, it's one of them little boys on that. I think he in the red shirt. If you're looking like that ship was stage like the pictures this ship from a video shoot when we shot Major actually you know what I mean. And it was a photo and I was like, damn, I gotta use that for the cover. You know what I'm saying. It's like Screak Loan just based off a

little dude in that red shirt. I was like, Damn, bro, they used to be me, you know what I'm saying, Like you see how you're looking at me and like it's crative, but because they used to be me. You know what I mean of your success as the audience connected to that, like you being so self made and watching your evolution on your turn like a super high percentage. I was watching some of your footage of your crowds of your shows, and the crowd is going crazy. We're

signing your joints word for world, which ones? Like which songs are you? I guess are the most popular? Like the fan favorites at the DOLF show. I got my favorite this new to this new CD, not just in general. But I can't keep up with that ship. Man, Ah, I can't keep up with I can't keep I don't know. It's like you I had to let you pick a song and I just tell you, yeah know so like Preach of Course and special I would assume and get paid ot Genesis cut it. I forgot you that cut it?

How did that come together with with dude? Because actually, um yeah, hit me on Twitter. He was like, when I play your music here, like when I play He was like, I play a song without my shows if I come out bro, and like I love your ship. You're like, man, we gotta get one in, Like I gotta record like my funk women. She told him send it to him me and I like it with and sent it back to him. But it's not easy to

get adult feature. I would think, right, No, it's like he had that cold Co record and this was the time. It's like I know it. Like everybody was like, what's his next song? Was it? Because he was new and he had this song and it kind of had the internet blow up to it and big because of the Internet, so the whole industry every where I go around and just all the talk was about was his next song?

Was his next song? So I'm like, oh, then sent me a song and then what I clicked on their version like that and it's like here they industry let him eat that up. I had to eat it. I lost the bet to his a and all because of the cut it cut. It was so I thought Cocoa was going to be what it was and then dropped and it was so undernive. I was like, funk, I

gotta yeah, cut it. It's one of them. Yeah, And then Beyonce also took a liking too it she was performing at on last was the Formation tour during the in between the sets too, So yeah, the dance thing. I guess it's about that role model right now, man, you get out of here. Man, right now, what's the next dolf everything? You know, what's some of the guys from Empire? Man? Why why are you like making place with those guys? Like, what's what's your situation currently with them?

They feel me, They you that they see my vision and they see that I know what don't work and they see that I know what I'm doing, you know what I mean. And the thing with me on the other stick, the other end of the stick, is like I see what they're doing. You know what I'm saying, Like, I see that they ain't They ain't the traditional record companied by the books, single foul line, standing in line and ship Like you know what I'm saying, Like they're different,

They're different. Is something with them? They sucked up? Like me, I'm different. I'm sucked up. They got they geeked up another kind of way on geeked up another kind of way, and you put us Together's like and like we just get work done. You know what I'm saying, We'll look forward to more work. Man, We finally got this working. It's fact, man. Role model right off podcasts,