Episode 230 "Bowwow"

a studio. Don't do what everybody do. You know what I'm saying. I don't want your to come like, make it more intimate. And we're in Atlanta. Of course my mom's closed the store Taste. She right in midtown. Yeah, she's right in the hard of the city. If you're staying in one of the nice hotels or any hotel downtown and the Metro Atlanta, just pull up, you know what I'm saying, Go get you something next door, some food next door. But I wanted to bring out of

my home. I watched the show and you know, BT always even the crib my house, like I gotta go to a gonna go film and I'm I was like, everybody always had the desk there. I don't know, they probably want to get the fuck out the studios. Yeah, thank you for getting this out here. Hey, but look I appreciate you pulling up because you know ball alert and bow wow at all? What happened that? Um, We'll be right back, stay tuned with more of the baller alerts, y'all.

I just go back to if you don't if you don't like me, I don't like you need Was it because we were reporting something? Yeah? Because sometimes the ship that blogs supposed to be false, right challenge no, no, this way before that, Like this is like I always felt like, I don't know, like they just always fucking me. But why do you feel like? I don't understand why do celebrities get mad at the media. I'm getting mad. It's like I don't remind you porting the news that's

public or something happened. It's nothing like I could do about that, right, Like you take that with a grain of salt. It is what it is. It's gonna be reported. But a lot of times it can just be like, you know, maybe they always picked the wrong pictures. Maybe you know what I mean, right, or maybe the girl that I was meeting with was my agent because she's a hot agent, and then you report this is about I was a new bull and that ship is so false and she's losing all Texas from like forty girls

talking about you walking out with nigga alert. It's all the alert and it's like, what nah, I mean just or however it just gets I'm not just saying just fall alert. But there's millions of you know what I'm saying. Blogs. I hear that report stuff, and there are some things that are false. There are stories that get reported with or some truth, and there's some ship that comes out and it's like he's motherfucker's way wrong, and you know,

but that's me. It's not just this is anything like I'm so it was just something that probably was falsely probably comments like crazy. These niggas never report the like none of the good ship. But I think that's any any celebritors say that, right, Like even in sports, like Kevin Duran's a good friend of mine. He'll tell Jarles Barkley and hate each others what I'm saying, but that but not actually entertaining. They actually entertained the first take.

We love first taken undisputed. They do the same thing that the media does in our culture to the sports world. So it's no different than when you see Katie clapback at Charles Barkley when Dane gets at get bait us on Twitter. That that's there, that's there in Charlotte, that's their ball alert. You know what I'm saying, gonna you know what I'm going with it? So and I think that you just that defensive mechanism that lives within It's like,

all right, my nigga's only song. Let you play with me and then we're gonna start pulling up or we gonna start. We're gonna get to the common ground and why you always be on my ass for certain shit? Certain shit is self inflicted, but sometimes shit be left. But listen, we don't we're not talking about it. We don't pump Yeah, yeah, we listen. I'll write about Listen, like show me when all the bottles come out, when they bring out the ball, the black card and all

that shit. You know what they mean, they have the ball alert that don't never post that with me. We Robin, we don't make that half. I'll be in the section. We'd be it'd be bt know how to pull up, he says. We'd be outside outside. They never post side outside. They don't post when the fireworks and all that post that. We just spent sixty thousand and twenty minutes on bottles. You want to know why. If you want to know why, they don't want that. Don't don't the clicks and the

likes and the comments. I don't like that, but it's called baller alert. I mean, but the average person wants to be in your business. The Apple listenis this. This is what's wrong with celebrities and celebrity at least six of them taking to I'm definitely doing that. But celebrities, I don't understand the average folk that's watching this right now. They don't care about your lavish lifestyle. We don't care about what you drive or anything. They want to care

about zea beyond side. Yeah, they want to know, they don't want to. They don't want to know Z how sign that Yeah at home where he should be? You know, yeah, like stuff like that stuff. It's just so weird to me, Like I'll never get that part of the game. But you're just talking about how invested Joe fans are. I don't know that's true, but I get like that's probably the only thing that's weird to me because even before I was famous, I've never been invested in no one's

life but mine. First of all, you've been famous whole life. That's not true. This wasn't easy, man. Um. Well, I'm born in Columbus, Ohio, so it all started theory. Um, you gotta think I didn't pop off until I was thirteen. I met j D at like eleven, and I set for two years. We did a song and while that

soundtrack didn't go nowhere. Before that, of course, it was my death row days, you know, from six to maybe like nine, and then went back home to Columbus and then you know, my mom's came on the football field, like yo, we gotta go to Atlanta, we gotta go meet this god? Like who is it? At the time, I don't even I never heard of Jamie at the time.

So um, but that's pretty much how it was. But growing up, like I said, I played football growing up, said got all my trophies storage, all my trophies that I had it at at the old house. Yeah, like I had I had a normal childhood, like went to regular school like anybody else did. Um. It's funny because I always get told like, you've been famous your whole life shit, and I'm like, no, I didn't get payments

until I was like thirteen. But if you want to consider that my whole life, and I understand that's most of the times are actually gonna remember life. I don't remember when I was absolutely did you have the intention on wanting to be famous? No? Um, I would just recite music around the house, entertain my mom's guests. And you know that that red and yellow blue Fisher Price set with the mic, I don't know. I know it's

a lot of people watching. I had it, you know, I'm talking about the table record that was like my everything. So I would always tell jokes. I was supposed to be a comedian. First, my mom contested that I was. I wanted to be a comedian. You were supposed to be a comedian. Yes, I was not supposed to be a rapper, but being at but being and I wanted to be a comedian so bad. I believe that me imitating people and doing all that type of stuff led

me to be able to imitate rappers. Because my mom would always listen to rap music, so I would emulate in what I saw on the TV. That's what I would do. I would just redo it, robber brush, and that was just all a part of it until I got it and I was like, Okay, put all together. It's like she saw something and you would kind of dedicated her life to helping you be like kind of like what Beyonce Dad did. More yeah, more of like

right place at the right time type of thing. First of all, when I tell this story, people always say, how did your mother because your mama held you up like simba. Yeah. But but it's crazy because when I tell the story, people be like, like, how did you even get in there? But I don't think it's an age of stritching on concerts, is it? I mean I don't know. I don't look at him. Yeah, not most cup but if you but if you're going too a

Snoop Dogg concert, man, this is I think. I mean, this is this is when, Yeah they were, this is yeah. I don't think so neither man. I must have went because there was no babysitter. I think I don't know why, but I went, but Mama t so you held them up like like Simba, and you said, pick my baby to come up here and wrap She said, bastar rapping. Yeah, I started wrapping that forward. That's when I started learning

how to put words together. And so went to the Chronic Tour and then you know, A. J. Johnson got rest in Peace for those I don't know. That's Easail from Friday. He was the host or the whole tour of the Chronic Tour. This is like a ninety three the Chronic Tour for him to be on stage or not at all. Oh, Mama said, that's the plug right there. Welcome to ball Alert. This is my mother's new book. This quick ad, real quick mixture. You guys, get a

copy of this book right here. I once was heard by my beautiful mother to Teracha carl Well, a lot of women in empowerment, A lot of things you could learn, and you can learn about her journey and hopefully you can bust on those things in your life in follow the same path. Yeah, if you really want to know what happened a K. He don't really know the truth because he was so young. That's what I'm saying, the truth.

It was so young. You're talking about chronic. You know, it's a lot of that was atenous because if we didn't know no about it, Like, it wasn't like we had to hook up to you come to the show, we won't get you back. It was it was regular general mission, get a ticket, and oh we've picked people out of the the audience who want to come up here. And it's I'm like the only kid out of seventeen thousand people. Okay, but don't tell the full story. Let's

let them read. Let them read the book. But you know what I want to know is that you were signed to death Row and you posted that you signed a death Row, and everybody thought that was fake. I mean, it's just crazy to imagine, honestly, Like I could not ever envision a child being signed death it was it was other kids. I was signed Jamal, which illegal, yeah, illegal, It was hard thought. Um I got the other kid name, but Jamal and oh and Malik who you here on

Snoon first album. He was a kid on Pump Pump. Oh. So it's a couple of a couple of guys. Deah, yeah, yeah. So what happened was being at that dads was the one who really grabbed me and brought me to the back. Das is so talented. Yeah, Dads is the one. Like a lot of people don't understand. They don't really give Dashes props like das one of, if not the best rap album all time. All Eyes on Me, that's Dash production. Like people think like that's that's draped because it was

around that time. But Dass was the one who did that album, which it ain't no fun. Yeah, I could say the dads like, and don't take this the wrong way. But the reason why I say this because if you strike, you hit the lottery one time you set and Quincy hit with Thriller, and I feel like Dash hit with all on Me, like he is like the West Coast like because he has that one and he don't got to do nothing else. Ever, again, I got a question. I always wanted to ask you this question. Yeah, I'm

so was that beef? Was there ever real beef between you with Little Romeo? No? It was never. It was never real beef. Were you guys like cool or Yeah? I remember years ago like All Star Weekend in La like we kicked it. I think like me him and like Raven Simone, like you know, the the Hollywood click

like we. Rome would always be around We always played ball at UCLA, UM, myself, him and you know mister Jordan, Michael Jordan's sons Marcus and Jeffrey, who are like really close friends of mine, and so we will always be around each other. I think it was more of the outside people. Was the media that's kind yeah, of course, because it's it's like like I said, it's like sports. It's just it's him out during the versus. Yeah, Soldier brought him out during the verses and you know, which

was a cool moment for him. He gave everybody they roses. And you know what I mean, I think Rome he catches a lot of slat and you know, if you know him, uh, you'll know that he's a really really good dude, very dude, doesn't bother nobody, very smart and like I said, he's always stayed out the way. But we had that one on one conversation and we just felt like it was just outside people that wanted to

see that. And you know when I came out, I'm krip walking and I'm doing my thing and Mickey mount Chainey got the buzz Bunny Chainey hard, I'm shaking like me and and until he just told me, like, you know, I took it like as a form of flattery because once he explain what was going on from from his mouth, I respected it. You know. It's like, yo, bro, I

looked up to you. That's just what it is, all right, Like you were my favorite growing up, Like I couldn't help that I looked up to you and I wanted to do what you did, like you made it possible for all of us to believe that we can all rap, you know what I mean. And I was like, damn, I never really thought about it like that. So it was never this when we said eighteen. That line was not for Pete Man. When I heard that line, I was like, and I felt like it was it was.

It was um, it was messed up because a lot of times our situations get a lot of times people throw themselves in situations and make it something like that line eighteen. That was stunting on any young nigga that I hate on Bath like nigga, I'm it's the truth, nigga, I made more than your daddy. Nigg I'm eighteen with

eighteen year old you know, show me your daddy. So that was for like all that that was that I didn't feel like it wasn't like that was more of that is just to the general pop. I'm just letting you know. I'm so did you you always all crap and all throughout your records. Anyway, if I'm gonna say something'm gonna say a name, like I'm not gonna shy away from me. If I'm gonna say some I'm gonna

say the name. I don't really believe it. I always thought he was talking about Romeo over that because at the time it was that you know, whoever it was, took that opportunity and said this is it. So listen, I want to know this. You've been on tour with everybody. You've been on two tours in the past twelve months. The next tour, what is it? What is it? Who's somebody tour that you have and toured that you always wanted to go on tour with? Man, I'm too layal.

I like I like making I like making money with my with my bros. And they are like a Marion and pleasure p or nah. You know you know what I think would be a good tour? What do you think? But I want Chris Brown, Yeah, that's all about to say Bros for Life, that would that would be a good tour. We need to do the Bros for Life tour. You know, I think it'd be dope because my mama saying, oh snoo oh, yeah, no, definitely dog but but but but but that's my mom in the back. Um, she

wasn't gonna miss it. Yeah nah. But the only thing is I toured already with Dog, like even though I tore a brown too, but I toured with Dog and Dog is so busy like his. That's what I was going to ask you about the revenge in about because it seems like Snoop has reinvented himself over and over over again. Did you see Snoop Dog at Rustlemania? Man? I loved it, elbow when he hit them, bro, I don't even think he touched the role. Loved it, man. But that's why they get hurt. But I who think,

oh hit the ropes? Yeah, but that's why that's why they love him though, you know what I'm saying. That's why they love him because like you know, he don't got to be the best rass's the fact that he out there doing it and it's and it's comical and is entertaining. But yeah that's my dog, like I love, I love, but they smoked were snoop dog. I've tried and I have failed one man, I hit I hit them, but I'm but I'm gonna reader. Yeah I brought you man, Yeah all I hit that. I'm get him in trouble

and ball trouble on the radio. We can say whatever smoke, we ain't never see it now, but uh now I tried to hit that. We brought him to the studio one time and I said, I said, now you don't like the smoke, but nigga, you gonna it was like that's sitting out of Friday. I I want to see you then unk when we when we go through the we go in the studio. We went in there and of course Unk for like whoever I come in the studio way they smoke because not you know what I'm saying,

because I'm a little snooped. So yeah, he I'm just casually talking. He just passed BT. BT look at it like damn, I really don't want to hit it, like it's snooped off inside of Snoop do. The inside of BT was saying, I don't want to hit definitely, was like, I don't want to hit this ship. When he hit it, BT was out of there. I think we left something the airport. You left it. Something happened after we left it. Something got left. That's that's what I remember. We was.

We was filming grown up hip hop. Well you and Snoop was filming the scene, and I remember we was all having a conversation. He passed battle but bout pass it back to Snoop. Snoop pass it over to me, And in my mind, I'm thinking, like, I can't tell Snoop dog Yeah you got man, I hit that blood when I tell you. When he was feeling that scene, I was just looking and I forgot where I was at, and I was like, why am I here? Ye, I'm like, oh,

hell no, won't need to be smoking that ship. Yeah, man, BT, that lived a magical life, man, B. I must say this man were in my business man, This dude where y'all say, yeah, we appreciate you putting your arms around him. Yeah, man, BT, that lived the amazing last six years. He's done seen a lot of shit because you kind of stole him from you. I ain't gonna lie I you kind of stole him from it. I hated BT that I didn't like hill met BT had this booking right, and it

was in Charlotte. We men in Charlotte up and he's on the mike. He's hosting, so you know, typical host. See his side of the story. I'm gonna tell you the real the real side, the typical hole shit. Right, So, Mike, you're doing this thing. It's packed, it's crazy. He comes over my sextion like cool. Cool. He's like, yo, you got You're gonna come to the stage when when you go before, I'm like, Nigga putform, Like Nigga ain't about

to putform. I'm like, I ain't doing that. He like, man, but you got too, man, And they got to you know, in North Carolina. I'm sure I have been to Chlotte plenty of times. You know they keep the bottles in cages. You can't touch the bottle. Yeah, that's the craziest thing in the world. You can't touch the bottle. So I'm already mad about it. That's coming from Atlanta. Um already right.

So I'm like he over there talking to somebody. I'm like, man, I'm not getting on the stage there was some more too it, and then I eventually took some shots and got my black ass on the stage. No, he's seen how it was rocking, because this is what I told him. I said, listen, I was hosting. So I'm like, first of all, the party was crazy. I'm like, damn, this shit is crazy. You want to be over there in the corner. Can't nobody even see you? You know, something

going over there? And he's just like, oh man, uh man, I can't even touch the bottles. Now what type of shit is this? And then I was like, bro, this is their law. Like oh, I can't do nothing about this. He was like, man, we'll tell them to open up the bottles so we can drinking party. And so they got the ship locked up. So then I'm like, man, this dude don't ripping a damn asshole and this shit is packed and he want to be here in the

corner and hide from all the people. So then I remember it was just starting to get crazy, and then I was like, hey, man, you might want to drop here. I was like, hey, you might come. It was we put him in all the four so we dropped. All the cards are from Atlanta, Ros. Everything we went stupid up there. But that's that's what we meant. I do remember because he came back to the Atlanta he was like, hey man, I was hanging out about all weekend. That's okay,

that was up. The next thing I know, he ain't hanging out with me no more. He hanging out with you. Yeah. Man, you still my friends too, You still you still all my friends. But it's all good. Why aren't people so surprised when Drake gave you your flowers and Drake was on Instagram giving you such big problems? Why would people like why is Drake doing that? I just feel like people do not give you the respect you know that you have earned, you know, throughout your career. Why do

you think that is? It never bothered me, but but then the past fire years I've been getting it. So I ain't even been tripping. You know what I'm saying. I do believe that you have the earn yep, Like now there's all out you know, there's all out here? Now? Is did you legend wherever you go? You know? You like? And I don't know if once again it's that conversation that dude had with me, it's it's me taking back

what's mine. You know what I'm saying that when you stop the bullshit and you go to work and you just and you get back on track and they see you winning, all you're throwing out this damn he doing arena tour. Damn he do? He coming right back the next year with the same arena tour. Then they doing arenas again. Then you know what I'm saying, It's like, you just go to work. That the easiest way to kill shit is go to work. That's all you gotta do. Shut up and go to work. And um and and

that's and that's really all I did. So after I did Versus and cats saw the Body of Work, like, damn, damn, we forgot about Damn that one too. Damn. That's the okay, Nah, it's it. There's it. And when I watched I watched All Versus All we watched this morning, everybody was in the in the what did you call it, the comment comment thing? Yeah, that when y'all was lie showing my age. I'm not back. Yeah, that thing. I'm about to say the chat room. I was about to say the chat room,

but nah, yeah, the comment section. Like I rely watched something like Drake in here Drake telling Soldier, why didn't you call me? I would have came out and I would have did my mom and I'm sorry, I don't know. You're not on the radio. You can cuss. Oh ye don't want curs from my mama though, But I don't like I'm such a competitor. I'm such a competitor that I wouldn't have cared at all if he did. If Drake did come out, because me being at me and Soldier had this you know, we we was in cahoots.

We put this whole thing together and started with us with the verses. It would have done nothing but just made that whole entire verses even more of an experience and even more legendary. The fact that, you know, one of the best rappers out right now can't pop up for his own verses or probably wouldn't do his do a verses, but he came off a biwa Soldier, you know what I'm saying. And that just shows you the time that we came in and the work that we put in. Like a lot of these rappers grew up

on us. Like I just seen someone with Wiz was like when he was in school, he looked like me or his brave wanted to be bad. They called him bay out at school, you know what I'm saying. And I'm older than wids like so it's like, you know, Drake giving me his flowers. That's this ain't just me, but Drake is a fan of just the culture. I am a really big fan of you the actor. One of my personal favorites was when you didn't see a side, appreciate to see aside series Yeah yeah, yeah, I was

a big fan. And then the season went away and you know what happened. Yeah, see, so we got the season two. Um Season one, I was going back and forth from LA to New York. That was a crazy transition for me because I was hosting one on six full time. He was doing that as well, and I was flying to LA to be on set the shoes here side got slight bro. I was doing this shit twice a week every week, like taping three episodes and a day every day, then taking a flight out to

LA and doing that. So season one was crazy. And then I'm gonna admit this right now, like that was the hardest acting I've ever done in my crez. Like that was the Harvard Law acting like shows like Law Order and so I like the monologues and the fucking the I mean just everything about shows like that are so tough. If you can do a show like that, you can do anything, Like I don't give like you can do any So they need to put some respect on Ice tea name most definitely, like those shows are tough.

They're tough. The dialogue, I mean, just everything to dialect, the pronunciation of certain words. You know what I'm saying. We were from where we're from, you know what I mean? So you do that type of shit like data. Some people say data. It's like they have a certain way, Like we was getting fucked up on words like that on set, Like nah, I actually thought that was gonna be your like Ice Team moment, Like everybody did, you

know what I mean. I just think that when you have a show like that or like a Law and Order, and you know it's been on for twenty plus years and then you try to do spinoffs from the original, um, it could become a lot. It's something that we've already seen before. So I was just I was fortunate enough that I got a chance to work with Patrick Shark.

K was an Oscar Award winner. Um, you know what I'm saying, and just being around everybody and and and and working with you know, the whole CBS and CS family. I mean, it was just dope to be a part of it. For me to even get casted for because I got the role was I was literally in my dress room at BT and they called me like Yo, I'm like set trying to bright, Yeah, like this is it. I wait, don't stop there, I'll like getting at older.

Let me stop up in that CBS. Wait, you've had lead roles and big movies like this is not just like you're not just a regular person. So I'm just trying to I really want to play your flowers, bro, Like you really did some big movies. One of my favorite movies you did acting it was Lottery. Appreciate it every thanks, thanks, But how do you differentiate you know, the music, because I started seeing you when you're doing the acting. I'm over here like okay, you're doing music again. Yeah.

I was like more of a fan of the actor. Yeah, even though you made the music. I was like, Yo, this is it right here, this is the you know what's crazy role. A lot of people always ask me, like what do I like better? Or when when's the music coming with? When are you doing another movie? And it's so crazy because when I look at it, I'm like, damn, I really started them both at the same time. So even I'm understanding why people put the acting thing on me.

So toub, I never really realized that I felt more of a rapper. I think it's just such a great actor that people you did really could be that. But I also think, like I just thought about it, So I'm like, damn, my first movie was like Mike and I happened right after my first album. I don't even dropped my second album yet. So which one made you the most money? Which I mean, which one makes more

money new? I mean, of course, depending on how much input you put into the game, if you're putting on new material or if you got that shit that just lasts forever. It's just classic shit where you ain't even gotta drop new ship and you're just already stamped. Then yeah, you're doing them festival, You're gonna running up a couple

meal throughout the summer, you know what I mean. So yeah, it can it can get crazy, But for me, I love things that are organized in the structure of Hollywood and in the movie businesses show structured the way it's like a nine to five. It's some shit that as a musician were not accustomed to. You know what I'm saying. You get a schedule, you know what you're doing. You

know when you get paid paid on the same day. Man, I was pulling up to the CBS lot on my day off, Like we got paid on Fridays every Friday, and I wasn't on schedule night all day. I was free from set down on the Friday. Like, I'm pulling up. I want to see that mother. I'm look. I've never been a take up a check nigga. I always direct deposit or I'm picking up the bag. So I you know, I'm pulling up on the rolls on the CBS lot. I'm pulling up. Good look, and I'll take it right

to the atam and deposit that mother. Man, every week you're getting it. So it's like when you see that, you're like, damn, I fucking lock this ship. We're going to syndication. It's over. I'm about to retire off. See. It's like that's what I'm not, you know, that's the that is the goal. When you're doing a television series on sitcom, you want to hit five episodes. When you hit five and they say this is the final season, just know that a lot of a lot of them

still do have to work. But for a lot of them, man, it's a rat. Like once you do five, it's over. What do you mean about it? You get five episodes? That said, I think you get like six seasons. That's like the standard when you get that. Like you see our snow Fall, I believe this is the fifth or sixth so um final season, right, So once you get to that, it's it's a rap. Like now you're gonna start seeing on another networks and syndicated. You know, so Pallet for the rest of his life, he'll get it

checked from the Snowfall. Yeah, for the rest of his life. It was getting like a million dollars an episode on Friends. Jennifer Anderson Like, that's serious, I'm saying again, like that you get to sit back and enjoy life. Yeah, yeah, it's the best. It's the best shit in the world. But then as a rapper, you feel like, damn, I've been so detached from the culture, you know what I mean, that's the that's the other side of it that people

don't understand. It's been so many times where I'm on a movie setting, I feel like I'm the coldest rapper ever, Like I'm just i just feel like no one knows me because I'm want to lie. I'm on a set for three months. I'm not traveling. I'm not hitting other cities. I'm not I'm right here, and I love it because I can. I get a chance to do due exactly. But um, it's tough too. It can play mind tricks on you because you're like, damn, I don't hear something radio.

I don't. I don't got any concerts. And then you gotta wait till the movie and the show comes out. It takes like a year or two. It's like a mind fuck because you gotta tell you stuff. It's like an investment. It's like, all right, I might not be all right now, but watching his motherfucker watch three months. Yeah, y'all see this fast Yeah all right, so damn yeah it goes up. So, um, you got any new things

coming up? Yeah? Well, Fast Centers is great to come out. Um, I'm not in that one, but there is gonna be one more after that. So we're hoping. And we just did nine, which is the latest one before the one is about to come out, which had all of us and it me Luda the Home and Tie Gang for the first time. So that's what the fans wanted to see. They wanted to see all of us come together on some like Avengerce type of shit. So I believe, um the last one, the last final one, will have all

of us back again. And there's some more good things that they're doing too. But as far as the act of stuff, absolutely um BT just had to read with me not too long ago say what it was, but it's you are with us every week and t he read like he read, we be like that really sucks, but he's my brother, so you know I had to. I had to do it. Do you have an acting coach? No? Never. Never. I feel like it's just something that's got to be

in either you got it or you don't. Um it can be taught, but I think even before you get to schools like Juilliard and all of these performing art schools and acting schools and all of this, don't be giving these rappers any ideas. And everybody can Young Miami's role and being somebody asked me that, and I wanted and I wondered why people were asking me this. And

I'm a big fan of the BMM show. But it didn't bother me, like I just it didn't bother me because it's it's young Miami and she's branded, like I know her accent. It's only so like you know what I'm saying. So that's why I accepted that. I don't. I don't look at her as you know, as I would look at you know, um, a Megan Good or someone that's had a history or a long you know, some some acting background. So of course I'm sure she got the role because of her influencer, because of who

she is. She's popular. People are just hating on her because she actually yeah, I mean it's on the show. Let's see them do it. Acting is tough, yeah, but you know that's that would be my response about it. Sorry, let me see you get your your ass up here and do this shit and remember these lines. Remember you're mark. You know what I'm saying. Remember all the little lingo that goes on on set when filming. I mean it's tough.

I see cats that are naturally gifted, but put them in front of on a set and it's time the bang, It's like, oh shit, they not who oh damn, that's crazy, Like I'd have seen that. That's what I was asking about the acting coach because I was gonna ask if you suggest that or if you don't, But you said if you don't, you got it. If you don't, I mean you can learn, anybody can learn. You could not have a good jump shot, but if you spend a lot of time in the gym with a coach, the

SHOT's gonna change. You should be able to get better. So I think any anything you do, if you put the time into it, you're gonna become good at it. But for me, shit was just natural. Like all the roles that I've got, they just came to me at the right moment in my life, which made it ease for me to just pull that shit off. So like you know, fancies roll bounce. I was sixteen going on seventeen, cut all my hair off. I was in a you know,

becoming a man thing. Me and my mom. You know how that is grown up, even famous mothers, we still go through that whole becoming a man, becoming up age thing. So I was in a dark spot living in Chicago, all by mysel no homies with me, my own apartment in the middle of Chicago, and you know, it was just a dark spot. Me and j D fell out again. I was probably with the third time, maybe, like you know what I mean. So I was in a hole.

So when I got a chance to express it through a craft like acting and beat the car up and cry and all that, all that shit was real emotion and real pain that I was going through, you know what I mean, my dealing with my first publicized girlfriend at the time and just dealing with so much shit, and it was like, you know, for real, I really felt like that was like a comeback, like damn, I gotta find myself and get back before I moved this

shit type of shit that was. That's what kept getting repeated in my mind's I don't I don't know if I'm gonna ever be dow I again. And that was like on my third album. So question, why do you and j D keep falling out? Um? I just explained this to somebody. Well, first of all, we had a conversation not so long ago, well not even comment. Well, yeah, we did have a conversation. I'll keep that was it good there? I'll keep that there. You know, just know

the world can know. I pulled up. Yeah, I was like, BT was there. BT's always there. BT's a good friend. He never tells us that happens to you. You know that friend because he works for a ball alert. He could be telling us. But listen. That's why. That's why I feel like I am able to be in certain rooms, because I have seen other platforms be denied and getting a certain question. We spoke, We spoke our peace not too long ago, face to face. Um, and then he

did a ball alert not a ball alert. I'm sorry he did the breakfast and um, I saw that I meanly hit him. No, man, I'll say that we made a little pat that we ain't even gonna speak on us. We ain't even gonna. We're just gonna But why why do you even like when he said something about you on a breakfast cut? Because I feel like JD did a great job deflecting the question. It's like this, fuck it. I told him to his face, I said, you're a fan of Star Wars. You love Star Wars. We notice

if you know Jad, he's a fucking fanatic. When it comes to Star Wars, and I'm like, you know the story very well. It's like Obi Wan and Anakin. That's me and him. It's the the o G who know it all, been through it all, got the years, you know what I'm saying, got you know, all the recognition. And then Anakin, who then turn the Darth Vader later was the young protej Obie always do want ready to get out there and get it cracking. Then Obie always like no, no, no, no, no, no, you're not ready yet,

you know ready, but hold up. But listening, isn't it? It really be know what you're talking about. And they always but heads because they so much a light. It's like Obie raised any you know what I mean. So then the heart brain comes when he comes Darth Vader, Obie state the good guy, and then then you go, that's the That's pretty much like the story of me and Jade. Same type of person, different outlooks of certain things, but you know we just were just better apart. Did

he agree with that? Oh yeah, most definitely, most definitely. I can appreciate that stance on both of y'all. But but I'm a preest of everything, and and I told him It's like I'm a priest of of everything that he's done. Um, and I feel like Brat has it always reminds you of that every time like he has done, always got to jump in him and and motherfucker's besiness bradges being No, I got I got a hell of

I got hell of love for Bratt. I love y'all relationship. Yeah, that's why I'm responding to her when she when she came out, and you know, Brad gonna always be there and defend. Um. I don't know about all that, but I just congratulations to it. You know what I'm saying. I'm really like at peace where I'm at, Like I feel like even when me and even when me and dude was close and even you can attest to this. Yeah, even you can attest Jady, Even you can attest to this.

You know what I'm saying, It was moren hanging out and kicking it don't work involved. So when people be like where I'm like, I mean, me and me and that man ain't work together. And over no years, like I don't need JD when I'm acting, I don't call him when I'm reading my script. I'm going off for an audition. I ain't got to do with music. You know what I'm saying. When I'm doing CSR, when I'm you know what I'm saying. Yeah, that was it, like and and and that's all it really was, you know

what I mean. So I wish I'm nothing but the best, But I don't think. I just think that we better off doing our whome thing. I don't agree with that. I think that you gotta changed that. Eventually. You guys are gonna you know, you gotta let the family come together when it's time. And that's why you said, like, even though I've been around these heated discussions and all those things, and I can't and keep it to myself

because I don't believe in picking anybody's side. I always see j D. He was just saying to j he was just winning. Uh. A couple of weeks after at the concert, what did you go to concert? Yeah? I did go to the Division concert, but yeah, it's always

love with j D. Man. I just you know, I just don't like people picking side because I feel like even with the with the Birdman and the Wayne situation, when they was going through what they was going through, its kind of like you just gotta be like, hey, man, they're gonna eventually get together, So you over here picking this person's side and picking this person's side. When they get back together, they're gonna they gonna remember all the

people that was pinning them against each other. Yeah, And that's why I always say man bound j D. Many people ask me, man, they go they would be back together because they so seeing it. They so he used to seeing it and they used to get back. But now thirty program. Yeah, Like now that I'm thirty six and where I'm at, my life is kind of like like I don't I'm a father. I don't even know. I don't only need that guy as. No, I don't need that like I'm four or forty. You know what

I'm saying, Like I'm good, I'm cool. I appreciate everything that he's done. I'm able to sell out arenas still back to back year where we did two arena tours and just based off all the work that we did collectively for that time. So it was good for that time. But now it's just time for niggas the ex to excel and do big and better things and just keep it quick. Like he got a whole album with with

currency that here doing move in a direction. I'm over here doing my business stuff and torn and I'm getting ready for lovers and friends and all type of other shit. So what's kind of like we all doing our things, just people ain't seeing it together. But I'm at peace. We always talk about the good stuff, you know, Instagram is always good. We live having a good time. What about the bad stuff that has been through? Because I'm a big mental health advocate, how did you overcome the

transgressions that you've been through? Like did you ever go speak to a therapist? Did you ever like when whenever you were in dark moments? Um, Chicago was no Chicago Chicago when I lived there. It was just I didn't even I was so young. I wasn't even thinking about finding I think I was more in a becoming a man thing like this shit is weird, Like I'm really okay, this is how this feels, or you know, more responsibility type of thing on. It really wasn't nothing mentor or

anything like that, um so to speak. But for me, Um, I'm a real woman. I get at the I get at the puff puff puff. Put it in perspective for me, I was in la um before all of that ship, I was in La and uh it was me Snoop nell Leave was all kicking in at the crib and he just put me to the side. And I said, this ship too is it's it's out for people to look up. But he put me to the side and sim when you gonna get that clown ass ship that

you're doing. I'm like, wow, Like put me really like yo, Like put me just like nigga all that clown ass shit you're doing. Like Nigga, you know you know who you be around like Snoop raise you, nigga. I'm big homie like you around all of this success, all this shit, and you think we're gonna allow some clown shit around us. Like when you're around us, Nigga, you stamped as one of them, Nigga, like you one of them, Like they all seeing you coming from a kid to now like

you are battle. Wow, you need to look in the mirror and understand who you are. Stop playing with your brand and started playing with your name and get on a ass and stop fucking playing around. You don't need no fucking attention. You're getting attention to your whole fucking life. I like it that right, there was the all right that say least and a lot of this ship that I'll I've done throughout my crisband self afflicted. You ain't seeing me out crazy walking out the club, stumbling and

biting outside of the club. Nobody knows until you say it. You feel me like, I ain't never been out there like that. My should have just been self afflicted. You know what I'm saying, just bullshit, like do that? Why would he do that? He don't need that challenge? Yeah, tired of getting calls being around a man, Listen, I'm tired. Hey man, I'm tired of getting all these calls and I can't get mad at it if it's something that

I did. So she even with the Baba challenge Jordan, you know, just anything on me running with the hood like all of that, and mind you, that was my first introduction until like the social media getting dragged because I was dead too serious. That's the day people, I don't listen. I get anxiety, Like if it's a lot of people around and like there's like, yall can't see my homies that's around, Like I do, I'm a weird person and I don't want to say like a weird celebrity,

but I do the weird and shit. Like I will walk if I'm by myself and I'm picking up something and I see like three girls I know that could potentially be boy our fans or I know they ain't gonna react to a certain way. I will get on my phone and not be talking nobody, and I would just start talking like hello, ye just so like I would just man, I think all the celebrities be doing, I'd say, you're on the blank phone talking to y'all.

Just doesn't depend on your move because is there is there is there times where maybe you will interact with fast all the time all the time. Um, I'm very approachable, like I'm not one of those guys that's not right now where you know, the only time I do that is if if I'm with my kids. That's probably the only time. But I'm gonna still get to it though, like I'll just ask them nicely like yo, just wait, time we get to need I got y'all take care

of you. But I'm very approachable, like I'm real cool. I think you know That's why I'm able to move, move and gold places and you know, just have fun with this this thing that I've been working for my whole life. You know, it's the world is beautiful. I can't be one of those guys that I can't go. I can't go to that city. I watch out. You know. You know what that you had? Oh your tours? So funny when when you had a fan that you know, I'll remember, I'll know you remember what she jumped on you?

What was we had? Man? We was in Atlanta, right, Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was in Atlanta. That girl jumped on you, humping me? Yeah, yeah, she started humping you. And I was like, I was like this what celebrities go through it Meet and Greece because I've never seen a Meet and Green before. No, No, it's it's wild, yo, Like you know, and you gotta think too, like these girls they grew roub with us, and you know, like you look at me or Chris Brown, and you know what I'm saying. Our fans are now

you know, me and Chris we thirty. We in our thirty So our fans are younger, very well they've been because they got multiple kids. They bring their kids now to the millennium, you know what I mean. And the state chance it's like, yeah, you know, I was your posts. Now you're in front of me. What's happening all that year?

You talking on the records like they're a little bit defferend you know it, it'd be some crazy fans because we we had a couple of out the parties and it was a couple of fans that just kept following from city to city to city. No, I have a stalker. I think I have a real like a stalker man, like no games, Like it's a girl who literally, you know, will catch the greyhound. Yeah, to like every city I'm in. I've met Chicago. I'm like, what the f she's right there.

Go to Philly, she's right there. I go to uh anywhere, New York, New York right there, authorities or report No, But like now it's it's talking like now it's no, no, no, no, no no no no no no no no no no. It's crazy because like she'll go online and and go on her lib and will tell people like y'all needs to see him. I have to get to him, and people send their money. Oh my gosh, she gets to me.

It's like it's it's yeah, soon has the hive? Right, what do your people call I'm just kidding you called what I wouldn't take that, but I'm out to give a percentage or whatever. What now, I don't call him nothing like you know, I don't. I don't know because the only people given has to be one of my

fans started that. But I don't know. You know what, you know what it is being at black Twitter and how social media comes up with, like even with the Bible Wilward thing, like they came up with that, like the Internet. The Internet not as much as a lot of other these rappers. Well used to challenge Soldier Boy getting Soldier Boy, but he's such a good job at playing into it, like he's such a you know, a character with Draco and you know, you know, because sometimes

can a little bro go off the end? Sometimes that's my brother. I love them the death we had the mom yes, but that's my yeah. But for him, he knows how to hand of that shit like he's he's hilarious, like he don't care. It's it's hard to beat Soldier with the Internet, like this is impossible. It's something that he's one of the pioneers of this whole thing, so it's hard to beat the creator of something you know

what I mean. But for me, um, not like none of that stuff really like ever really get to me or none of that like as long as the bags, the roll and the lights. How do you protect your kids from all that? Because I feel like I've seen some comments online where people feel like, you know, your daughter dances like her mom. Her mom is a professional dancer, and people will be like, oh, posting that little girl that's like three years old making them faces and be

doing all them dances. You know I'm talking about You've seen that little girl you don't talking about? Right? Yeah? Um, First of all, my daughter is be twelve years old and her mom is a professional dancer, you know what I'm saying. So, um, all this suther she does is pretty much like all the TikTok stuff. It's you know, and she's with her mom. I'm doing it, you know,

and we make sure what she wears is appropriate. Like you know, I'm one of those dads like I don't play, like Sean knows, I don't play, and and and I you know, I hate to say it, but she's built like me, Like she will straight up be like they don't bother her, and she don't see that on her gram and I think it all starts with what I do. And that's why the past, like you said, it's been

a long time since people play with me. Because after that conversation, like I said that, it kind of hit home and I kind of had to rill it back in. So I'm like, damn, I really have a responsibility now. At first, I mean I did, but now that I got my own kids on the earth, now I gotta be cast on what I do because if I do something dumb, y'all gonna report it. And then she got to go to school with her friends, and then all the grown ups could slide over her place like yo,

daddy is yo dad? And she got to read that, so I'll make sure I'm supposed to do what I'm supposed to do. So she never even got to endure that type of ship. And so far, so good, yep, coming you know, as far as you come in your journey to Now, what are some of the things that the life lessons that you've learned that's far that you wish you would have knew back then. Don't post everything.

Don't post everything, simple, don't post everything. Um, my life has been so peaceful these fasts six and a half years. I don't post nothing. Yeah, because you got you got close friends. Yeah, every celebrity should have a close friend. And I have a group chat. I think, honestly, you really wanted to answer while I like, bou ain't been trolled, while ain'tybody been playing me these past a couple of years. Because I have a croup chat. Somebody introduced me to

the group chat steam. My god, we gossip more than y'all do. Like it's like the place where the dumb ship that I know y'all would report if I said it, I say it there and no one season about the home And it's like, yes, why don't I do this eight years ago? Like this is the best thing. But for me, don't post everything. You know what I'm saying, And because everything is it's like you said, everybody's in everybody's business. That's the era we live in now. I'll

respect and I totally get it. I'm a part of the culture. I totally understand it. But you know, I set a lot of slaveries get mad with a certain to shake it out because it it beat us. You know, I move different. I moved you know, you know what I'm saying, and you know, I avoid it. I've been famous, like you said that morning, half of my whole life. So I'm at a point to where now I'm I'm I want to live way out in My neighbors have sheeps and no one else is out there. You know

what I'm saying. I'm I'm moved out way for it. I'm don't really care about the club like that. I'd rather bring it to me. I don't really want to go outside and do it. And then I'm you know what, I'm man, and then y'all got me go. I'm balancing the clone, his shirt off, waiting around. I don't got too many videos like I'm not doing it. I'd rather while out in the cover of my home, my security, there no phone, and we all having a good time,

you know what I'm saying. So I learned how to preserve a lot of things that I would put out there that everybody would repost. And I've now look back at it. I'm like, yo, I like a shock ass, like I like a whore, Like I was gonna ask you that, because don't you think that comes with an age? Because I would. I would also say the same thing I used to be outside lit wild and baby mamas all that. Now. I stayed thirty five minutes out. I

don't know my neighbors. My neighbors don't know me. I go to the go to the grocery store on the I love it. I like it. You having more control and and like you said, being more private, is that kind of why you haven't you know, come out with you know, pictures of your son and stuff like y'all won't do it. I won't do it, you know what I'm saying, just because it's like why, like he just goes back to like a weird factor, like when I see celebrities. Not saying it's some problem with it, but

it's like I don't see pictures of y'all kids. I'm not saying like I'm not I'm not saying like, well, if you don't sew yall kids, I ain't go so y'all. It's just like if I wasn't about y'all, wuldn't get to your control in the situation exactly like my son go, well, we're gonna see him though in real life. Well, I mean you think it would be a little different if like the lead up to it was like not so dramatic, right, No, I still want to know, and you know what, it's

not even about design. It's just like I don't understand why, like Poe's boy, all right, might blow this, all right, let me put this up here, all right, let me see what they're saying about my boy. Okay, something that sound when you break it down like you and his mom say, you know what, Nona, because if my son got it, listen, and then then you know the mom gonna do it. It's her baby too. So of course my son has an Instagram. Okay, he has? He has.

Your son definitely got Instagram. Is he like a star like his sister? Nah, he gonna be different? Is he more chilled? He's an incredible kid. He's calm. He's about to be three, so he's calm. He's cool. He's a sweet kid. For him to be about to be three. The way he talks, it is like you can't talk to him like no three year old. You gotta talk to him like he five or six, because he that boy can talk already. So it's amazing, you know, trying to articulate the words. Yeah, he knows, he knows what's

going on, for sure. But now I just always like it's just I don't know, man, I just have a sense of like real this in my brain where it's just weird. I don't feel like like when I go on my Instagram, it's about bow wow, Like that's the celebrity, that's the artist, your brand. Yeah, you're gonna get the brand, you know what I mean. I'm not trying to put personal out there. Yeah, like I'll just just like it's weird.

But you're active, was shy on there? So is there ever this thought that like maybe he'll grow up and feel like, why wasn't not part of this part of his life? No, I'd rather I'd rather not force it on, rather him to choose it. If he grows up and he sees all of his friends doing and is TikTok, daddy sees dagger as well, Okay, cool, Now turn out out you're flying my little man. You know we're gonna come on. I'm not gonna keep him in clothes. He's not even in closes now. It's just that he with

me all the times. In fact, they ain't no cameras around and ain't nothing popping. But I think people are kind of curious too because of you know when you kind of denied it at the beginning. Yeah, that was me, not one people in my ship. Okay, it was just so you never actually truly questioned whether he was your child or we did a show, right, yeah, a reality TV show? Right up? What I said on the reality TV show there was your kid? Yeah, I took the test on the show, and he was excited about it.

And that's that's that's the funny thing about it, because it's almost like if you if you're not posting what you're doing people it's a problem. Then you like, like, you know what I'm saying. And even then now sometimes I'll tell BT, I watch this now. You know. We just did the episode where I just said, right now, I watch this dumb I'm gonna sure how dumb people be. And then people just running a narrative and I was just playing to it, trolling, like when I was like,

I'm listening to Billy Jan cleaning up. I'm just trolling just to clear that up, because I know people were speculating about that that the funny part is that that his sun was always over there at his house. Why he was on the internet saying that it was denied because he because he'll be like he'd like, B two you want you won't know how dumb the internet is say anything at all? But it was, but has to grow up and see it now. But I never said the boy, I never publicly saying and shit like that.

But um, at the same time, it's a documented on KIM, So it's more of like how dumb can you be? The questions of ship When I took a test on live TV and was excited, Do you want more kids? No? What not? Not even like did you get married? I got lucky man like I got no. I would never get married in my life. Wow, never get married. I don't want to. I'm not even to the girl who hops on the greyhound to see you from state to state? But why why are you? Why why do you gets marriage? Um?

I just learned that marriage is for everybody. You know? Um, Like I said, I'm I'm kid. You almost got married a couple of times, but we only know the second one. I'm gonna tell you the first. Y'all gotta do something. Who was the first one? We ain't gonna get on that. Check this out. I've been engaged twice. I've been engaged twice. I've been engage twice. I's not gonna say, well who, but I've been I've been engaged twice. But um, marriage is now, it's who they're gonna find it. Just get

cough feet about it. It wasn't even cofeet like I knew I wasn't gonna do it. Damn, I don't know from you know what, I don't know. Your mom's in the road. I don't listen. Listen, I gonna do it. Listen. I think my mom might be happy to man, but but check it. I know I'm listen. I was told right by a famous rapper. I'm not gonna say his name, possibly one. I'll give you out this possibly one of one. He's one of the greatest rappers of all time and

no so uh he told me. I'm like, yo, man, Like he's like, man, you gotta get you gotta just give him a ring, man, just a ring. And I'm like, I was like what I said, No, it ain't just drink drink no, no, but because ice full of engagement. But it's one of the greatest rappers of all time on facts. But that wasn't my intention though at that time, though, um, you know what, I'm saying with Erica or whatever, like you know, I was in love with it, and you know,

hopefully I was at that time. I wanted to get to that point. But um, I just start saying it not happening being you know, once we start going through a little rif raft and things kind of unfolded. Um that it was what it was. But speaking on marriage, just for me, it's just something I know I can't handle. I know how I am. I like my space. I love being at home, being at home alone. I love um and don't ladies, I know, don't jump me when I say this. When I say the word option, I

don't mean options as far as like many women. I mean options as far as the world is big. I like to wake up and have my options of doing whatever it is I want to do. Like I'm a little unconventional, so it's like, you know, I don't want to and that's just me, right, I got the like options too. Yeah, I like to just live free. I want to wake up and you know, I don't like breakfast. I like to go strike the lunch. But if my wife from my girls here, she might be like, we

can't eat Popeyes. Now I was only eleven thirty world, that's what I don't want to ask. I don't answer to people now, so it's like I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear. Yeah, I don't want to argue. I don't like that. And I felt like I just told somebody this. I forgot who it was, but I felt like God put great women in my life and I messed that up, you know what I'm saying.

And I feel like I won't not saying I'll never meet somebody, but the ones that were in my past life, they were the ones I know that anyones that will take back no, because there's so much time that had passed, but in my mind and I've come to live with that, probably until I die, that I've met the ones that I should have been with it. I feel like Angela was the first engagement I wasn't not at all, never

never close, never close. We've always been friends, like everybody always thought it was born and something, but we've always remained friends. And I think, you know, if she was here right now, I should tell you like that. I was always an advocate of me being happy finding somebody, So seeing where she's at right now, um, with Goddy, Like it's amazing, Like she she needs that me knowing her and the type of guys and she's dated. I I love it, Like I'm I'm happy she got her

real like a real one. I like got it, you know what I'm saying. So uh yeah, like if you can see it in my face, I'm extremely happy for her because I understand, Yeah, that's my dog, like you know, like and I think a lot of people didn't know what it was. It was confusion between us, but it's always remained a balance of friendship. I mean, she's known me for damn that half my life. So I definitely wish her the best of luck. But to exs now, it ain't no no no, I take that. What did

you learn from your last public relationship? Um? To stay single? If she was say right now, she she would be like this, he's crazy. But just to say single, I'm in a good like she got a password on your laptop? Wait the last time on that growing up hip hop episode with that crazy girl? How did you get away from her? Um life life? But I will say this, I'm waiting a crazy girl, the one on a bike ride or something. Oh oh oh, talking about the one forgot she had a baby. Congratulation to her too, she

had a she had a baby recently. Congratulation. How did you she's a sweetheart on talking about Cory Cory sweetheart. Okay, I like the lot. Yeah she was. She was you know, I think it was her though. Honestly, like as far as like the show, I just think that wants the cameras on and you've never done to you before. The extra kind of gets put yea. So she really wasn't like that. It was just a little extra for the cameras, not by producers doing, but you know something you could

put the camera on them a person. They just felt they got activate. Yeah, it's not act and they feel like even after cameras are off, they still gotta be like in But she didn't hang out. She didn't tell me if I let you hit it, you mind. Yeah, she was definitely like that boy she brought that. I was like, I was like, you know what, didn't like you know, she in the city still like in Atlantis yourself.

I told you passing nah nah, no me and everybody's like, yo, she cold cold, Like I'm like Dune, I always get the cold. I see her out and I text, I said, Damn, I said man, I said, I said, man, that one girl that was on the show Man, she up here in the club and she's looking good. Man. That's what I'm saying. So like, like right, that's what I'm saying, bro. Like, I felt like I'm so lucky to like, all right, I haven't had one cocky moment this whole time, but

I'm gonna happen right now. Come on, I'm sole sighted, right, I'm so happy to be me and endure this ship that I've endured. When it comes to women that I am good like I feel like i've been when all the girls out of wo be with I feel like that it's just extra. If there's anything out now, it's just extra. But I'm so content on where I'm at. I'm at peace. I'm you know, I'm in it. Just conversations and kicking it, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm in I might I might fly. Girl don't want

to say in the same room as me. I might put her in her own room. Like just different type of ship. Like you know what I'm saying, I'm just attacking it just way differently. Now. But yeah, I'm I'm good man, I'm a lucky guy. God damn, how did your daughter change your life? Because it seemed like when you became a father, I started seeing the shot moss more than the bow. Wow, correct me if I'm wrong. No, I was lit turning shit up. That's why I want you know, Um I mean, or how did she change

your life? Then just putting I would say certain things in perspective, as far as like I never had patience, so that was something that you know when you have kids, Um, you learn to You learn about patience fast if you don't have any. So that was one thing. And then just women in general, just watching you know, her go from a little girl to now a preteen and watching with women. This is my first time seeing when a woman goes through from one to groan like it's it's

a weird process. But for me, it's just I think on my relationship with women in hogh go by women. You know what I'm saying. Just the whole patience thing and being I talked to her every day all day. I mean, BT, ain't know she beating up BT and all types of stuff. But it's just I would say nothing really dramatic. I think I probably became more fun and like more lit. She'd be running now. Yeah, I mean she tried. She's a little like scammer. Y'all, y'all

really liked the same person. Yeah, it's it's crazy, like like right now, she's in this money phase, you know, money, money and yeah stuff. I just asked my mom to day. I'm like, yo, where where the fuck is this ship coming from? She's like me, I'm like, yeah, I know, yeah, and then she doesn't. The crazy thing is she doesn't even want my money. She wants everyone else's money. What you mean she's scared to ask me. Oh, she asked everybody as my mama. She'll call my mom and say

I need to fifty. Then she'll call my aunt and then she say I need to fifty, and then she'll call her mom. My money like three hundred, she almost had a thousand, and then she'll call me and be like dad. Her favorite places Target. So I was getting with the Target bill. I need three hundred. I want to go to Target. Of course I'm do it for she's a straight a student. She'd be you know what I mean, she'd be she'd be doing the stuff. So you look up twelve ye over like fifteen hundred pocket.

That's what she do. She huss and spends it all in Target. Look now, now all the parents is watching this. They are yeah, it's gonna be set. How they getting hustled? Yeah, oh no, that's exactly how it goes. They go to multiple family members, you know what I'm saying. They just add it up, so they got a bag on them. So my daughter always she stayed with a bag. But now I'm teaching her like money management. You know, she

was with me the last time. I'm like, look, I'm seeing the Target with two hundred, come back with like, don't spend it all. Come back with at least like fifty. And she's like, Dad, that's in powerland. Know it ain't impossible, you know what I'm saying. You know, she'll go out with her friends and be like she'll Apple pay me a request and be like five honey, And I'd be like,

what the fuck are we have a sushi? But it's her and all her friends, and I think her I'll be telling like, you know, your friends might know daddy is, so you got to be cautious. So when you at dinner with your girlfriends and y'all hanging out everybody. Yeah, are you trying to pay for everybody you went with? Because I think that's what's going on sushi first of all, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They probably like yeah yo yo yo, dad gotta have

you have you? Or she just like I'm so now so now I got her in this solo money man, it's been phased that that I'm that I'm teaching her. So how's the acting going? I know that you know, you got her into acting classes, you know what. I felt like she would have enjoyed it more if I live in La was with her more, because you know, her first gig probably would have been with Dad, so

it would have been easier. Um, But for her, it just felt it was a lot for her, you know what I mean, Like she tried it, she loves it,

she likes it, like she'll still do it. But I think she really wants to do it with me, like she don't want to want to do it with nobody else and um, and I think she just had like a you know, bad apple out the buns for her first rodeo, the auditioning and then have a homework and then going to acting classes and having to pass a test tomorrow school and then I'm watching her calling me crying, and I'm like, you know what, you know you want to be that too, You want to be that it

didn't tell you like daddy, I'm stressed, like you imagine like a twelve year old calling you're telling you that. So I'm like, I'm like, listen, you know you're not forced to do this, like you already know, Like just because Daddy do it and you around it don't mean you gotta do it, you know what I mean. You can catch onto this later on in life, you know what I mean, Go to school, be a kid, and and have your fun, because those are the things that I didn't have. I was gonna ask, how do you

navigate her? You know, being that you have already been in this business for so long, I mean it's easy. I mean, you know, being it. I lived it and I'm still living it. It's really easy to you know, keep her away from certain things. And you know how I am, even even though how I run my I G or my social media's like before she was born, it's like Noah's barred. Now that she here and she runs her own Instagram now that it's like I gotta be careful I gotta be weary, I gotta put everything

on close friends. So it's like it's just like I like you that in you know what I mean. So it's like it's it's it's different, but I mean she's she's protected though, like from her mom to me, to grandparents, like everybody does. It's bigger than just me and what the media and the block she and she goes viral

with mama with dad. It's it's a good like that though, because I always always wondered that, uh, you know, us being friends, like do you like your daughter being famous or do you wish that you guys kind of actually like help her out of the public eye. And it's gonna be tough. You know, she is a star. Appreciate it again, Yeah she is. She is a star. It's it's um, it was inevitable, I think, whether y'all trying to keep her from it or not. Man, I mean, yeah,

it's tough. And being that she's the first, you know what I'm saying, because you know, I got my son, So it's like being that she's the first and living in a social media era that is just whatever the fuck we call this shit. It's like she's that she's the new era era what's to come? Souse, she was already on TICKTI. It's like it's yeah, it's it's hard. Like she got more followers and like some of these celebrities that's like ultra famous, like yeah it's yeah, yeah,

she famous. But she like she she does good with it now, but before she hated it, Like she go to the airports like, oh my god, dad, like I wish they talking to me, like they just like they know that they want picture. I'm not taking a picture, like y'all weird, though I don't. That's so weird. Like people bothering celebrity kids. It's like they will. But she's a celebrity kid with talent. Yeah yeah, like she got some talent. But I was gonna ask, how is the

co parenting? Oh that's lovely. I have no baby mama drama, not anymore. No, not anymore. But a lot of my baby mama drama was like self inflicted because you was around it, like a lot of you. I'll put it on myself and like my my like deal with no, it's just no, he's just not really hard to do it. I can create, I can make something out of like nothing. I can turn some shit into what it shouldn't even be,

you know what I mean. So I'm blessed and I'm lucky to have like two wonderful um you know baby mothers. I hate saying that word though, Um you know what I'm saying, because like I'm blessed that you know my son's mom. I don't even think she has a fucking Instagram, So ain't gonna you ain't gonna find this, Like she's really off the fucking griding, like you know that, Like she's super chill, she's quiet, she doesn't care about none of this. She gives you peace, man, and the same

thing with joy with with Shah's mom. You know what I mean. We had a point in our life, but we like be homies for real, Like you don't argue you Like I don't even know the last time we had to argument. Like she called me. If it's something that she needs, she needed to take care of, it gets done right on the spot, vice versus. Like we're

a team team. And I think once you come, when you get to that point, you allow the other person, whether it's the baby, daddy baby, to go about there where I think pieces ends everything when when both parties is happy. Everybody happy. So that was something. You know, I watched one of my ogs do it, and I kind of took a page out of his book and I'm like, damn, this shit really does work. So yeah, I don't got no baby mama dumped that up. So it was cool when she was on Diddy's boat and

all that. No, I mean she she knew better than you know what I mean, We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert show. For me, it's more of a man thing, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know, me and her, we had our discussion about that. Trust me, that might have been the last time. What about the video, Um, that was cool. No, I wouldn't even like all of that shit really didn't hit like that, Like it took me because BT was with me. It took me like a couple because you know, I don't

give a fuck type of person, like no shit bothering me. Yeah, and he don't really be watching the media too, so it'd be a lot of of a lot of stuff he don't even being about la. So for me, it's like, oh, once I say okay, cool, let me just get on the phone and just hollow. So we had our little rap and then of course me and dude, we definitely had our rap. I'll keep that between us, you know what I'm saying. We had our power while you feel me and um we handled out how Blue was supposed

to handle it, and that was just that. But all men know, it's a certain conducting colde you go by. You know what I'm saying, the certain things it's off limits, and everybody knows wives and baby mamas and just some shit that you know, you stay clear from. You know what I mean. I mean, I'm a I'm a savage, but I do savage fuckery ship to niggas. I don't really give a fuck about or if I don't know you, are you and didn't even friends like that to be worried about it. Um, I mean, like I said, we

spoke face to face FaceTime. You know what I'm saying. Was on the phone for like an hour I think when you have the man, y'all was on the phone loaner than that. Yeah, it was a majority of me talking. But but like I said, we we spoke about it. Um, I've seen him since, you know what I'm saying, And for me, it's kind of like there's things that I've done. It's like, even though this might sound kind of crazy, but Snoop game Snoop raised me. Man. So when it

comes to certain should that be crazy? None don't really phase me. So it's like, I know sometimes I could be it. I ain't shit ass nigga. I thought, I ask nigga, I get off the drink. It's up. I don't get around everybody that nigga girl gonna start looking good. He So it's like player respect play it like it is what it is. But I'm not gonna say why I think it could could maybe I could have had something that belong to here a long time ago. Okay, you know what I'm saying. So it was like player

respect the game. So I was just respecting the game. It is what it is. I mean, if it's player respect the game, then it's like why you even addressed the matter, you know what I mean? Like if y'all are together. Yeah, And that's another thing to him Number one, I think a lot of men, and there's a lot of men that do this shit just because you have a kid. I'm looking at the camera, says, because you got a kid with a woman. Don't mean she belonged

to you, you know what I'm saying. A lot of cats be feeling like that's my baby, mama, And I still got like that's property, that's mine still like nigga, no nigga go not together, y'all just a team now, Like you know what I mean here, there's certain boundaries and things that you don't cross. But at the same time, she not yours, you know what I mean, She's gonna move on and get married. Then she probably another kid or you know what I'm saying. Something life goes on.

So that's how I look at it. I keep it moving. Can't no fun up the bag, so I don't. I don't get out of line. I got one more question. How have you stayed relevant for so long? Wow? Um? The culture that's me coming in at the at the right time. Um, the early two thousands was just like a golden era. Man, it was just a moment in history. That music film you just had to be a part of. And I think because of that era and not saying that, you know, everybody has man, because there's a lot of

cats with here big when I was out. Now they know where to be found. But I credited that the music going into the studio not wanting to make a hit for radio or make a hit for the club, is how can I make something that's gonna last? And we stand time, you know what I'm saying. So it's records like like You that will never die. It's movies like Role Bounds that will play forever because it's a seventies piece in VH one airs that they played almost

every week. Or you know, just making sure you pick right things, right, job, right opportunities that you know are gonna last forever. Like I don't. I don't step into nothing if I know for a fact this won't last. You know what I mean? And I think if you think short term, it's gonna be short. If you stretch it out, then you know it's gonna last. But you're gonna go through it. You're gonna hear the falloff part. I give them how hot you are when you come out.

You're gonna battle to the sophomore album Jeeks. Excuse me, everybody goes to the sophomore album Jinks. And you know you're gonna make it once you pass to he fell off part, or he's supposed to fall off apart, right, Everyone hits like a little moment in their career, which is normal, that happens. But it's all about how you come about that, motherfuck and if you can come up about that motherfucking keep going, which I did, and I did that right around the time I dropped my third album.

That was the only album that I dropped. It only sold like seven hundred thousand and we Can Go, And that was my low point. That was right when around the time when I was doing Role Bounds, like we said. But how I got about that whole was I told jayd either we get backracking or I quit. And next you know, that fourth volbum came and ask wh y'all gotta like you let me hold you fresh some men and then it was out of my system and flirt and I'm Ann Flint and all the other things just

start coming up to that. So I think that's really it, man. It's just doing good work and and trying your best to do things that you you believe in and things that are going to withstand. Tom. You know, if you knew that, you'd be like, well, we appreciate you so much and I'm just you know, grateful to meet you. And I'm glad you came on here. Despite what happened in the past, we can start a new No, it's all good man. Like I said, I'm different now. Man,

I'm thirty six, I'm grown. I don't really be tripping to understand. This will come with the game. I signed up for it, so I take the good and the bad. But you know, it's no beloved Battle Alert. Like I said, I'm in so many nightclubs hosting and getting my bag every time my bottles come out. I see Battle Alert. It's a black card, it's a it's a it's brandy, it's everything. Y'all got the club on smash. So it's done beloved, Yeah, y'all, and y'all the culture, you know

what I mean. So anything that's that's that's that's moving the culture forward. And you know, it's a place where we can go to and get our news. And I understand everybody want to be nosy and all that, you know what I mean. So I told you you're handling it though I've been doing it too long. So it's like it's like flowing water to me. And I'm just so proud of your growth. You're doing it right there.

That were lovers and friends coming up. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta do that when your lovers and friends coming up. That's gonna be crazy. That's gonna be really crazy. Bro. That is the dopest R and B line up I think I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I think. I think. Honestly, I'm not just saying it's because we all own it, but I really feel like, you know,

this might be the biggest one of the year. I think because of the theme of it is, you know, the like not saying the one that has talent now days, but you get what I'm saying. From the two thousands up. This is the this is the man, judge. I'm gonna be out to come like a fan. Mean, you got fifty, you got Chris, you got Usher, Mariah, you got Missy Man. Absolutely, and then of course you know we got the we got the documentary coming out, we got the movie coming Um.

I just like it's time. Now, what's the documentary? I was mine, It's the it's the bow Wow story. It's it's gonna be crazy story. Um. I don't have a name for you, but the trailer's been shot. I'm sure it's crazy. It's it's unlike anything else, and you gotta think, like I have such a unique story that it just has to be told. And I'm not the type of person to be waiting until I'm fifty. Like you know

what I'm saying. Like I already said, I'm like BT, like y'all give me, give me my give me my award achievement, and give me mine now, like I already don't want to order him, give me mine now while I'm young and I can do what I do. Yeah, and if you think about it, I've done twenty plus years. That's that's you know. I just did it at a young age. So they a lot of times they don't want to give it to you too because of the age thing. But it's like like, BT, give me my flaps,

give me my flowers. Yeah my mind now fore, like go ahead and give me all that. So we got the documentary coming, UM's look, no, I don't think I'm gonna do a book. Why not, m That's what I got the documentary for. I know, But you can't put it in the I'm a I'm like a visionary. But you can get somebody to write it for you. You could just tell I wouldn't even read it. I'll be like, oh my god, I can't read this. Ship I know, I gotta. I like the vision things. I like to

watch stuff. No, no, I agree, I love I love documentary, So I'm a documentary buff. Yeah. Like, I just had a girl over and she brought her Bible over into my house. That's how you know I'm getting this. How you know I'm getting very comfortable with y'all. And she trying to read me some scriptures and I told her, I said, so you're on your phone while I'm trying to read the script I said, Look, it's not that I'm like hearing you. It's just that you're reading it

to me. If you put TD Jakes on this big ass hundreds TV, I would sit here and watch them for two hours. But but that's how I receive it. I receive it that way. You know what I'm saying. It's like it's hard me to You could have looked at her while she was reading. Yeah, but if she was like can you read? Then she was like, you read this that part. And it's if I read too much, I get sleepy. I agree with that, Like, I'm only

reading if i'm in the mood too. But for the most part, I'm watching something get sleepy like I get sleepy reading Instagram, like reading left It right, It's like it hypnotizes me and I just those off yo that yo. That documentary is gonna be crazy excited about it. So you got the doc coming? What else you got coming to any comedy shows? Because you said would you ever call the comedy I would definitely dream out, Um no, no side quest nah, but I would tell you what

I do love enjoy doing. I love my branding, like all my businesses with you know, red by kissing of course, kiss colors, I'm killing them. I'm like, get into that business. My mother, my mother came to me presenting an idea. At first, I thought like, here we go, they're gonna meet me again. I'm thinking about like, okay, what and

then um, I really didn't. I really wasn't taking this serious at first, and my mother was just on it, like believing in it, and I'm all right, let me just buy X. You know, my mom always comes to me and stuff and I'm always like half ass, and so let me buy in, let me see what's going on. And then it clicked in. I'm like damn, Like hold up, like dude, Rax has been a part of the culture forever and it's always be random asks people on a due racket that you don't know you know what I'm saying.

And I'm like, damn, I had braids, waves fade like videos all my vide I'm wearing due rags. I'm like, why wouldn't I take the opportunity to go in business with the biggest hair product, hair accessory company in the United States of America is probably worldwide. And I'm like, all right, let me start taking this thing serious. And I started seeing once we started working together and we started, I started to see the product and how fast they would move in and I'm like, oh, this is for real.

And then I'm driving Bob in New York. I see my face on the thing I want to get America from my brober here in Atlanta, and hopped out my card and I just see my face right there. I got it Beariers. I'm like, goshit because it was like a beauty supplister. Because I was trying to be low key, I was blumming that I don't want nobody know bat alert with the picture me bumming, you know, so but

I'm having so much fun with that. And like now you know, with with the other side of the company, with Kiss Colors and care, we just ink the deal with Walmart. So now not only are we in all the beauty supply stores everywhere, but now I'm in every Walmart too, So half of that wrestling contract too. Yeah, like yeah, see, everybody was something about the wrestling thing too, And you know, now you see a lot of people diving in the wrestling, but hopefully the opportunity, the opportunity

is still hanging there though. Um, because you was there in Miami when when AW came to to the Millennium Tour and I met those guys. It's a whole different fan base. And I grew up all wrestling, so a lot of the things are gonna see me get into it and get involved with. Um. Like when the wrestlers they came came about and went everywhere, it was just like a I mean it everywhere. But that's something that is a part of me that people don't know. My childhood,

you know, wrestling played a big part. You know, even when I go on tour, if you go to my concerts in any city I go to, when it's my tour. If it's a millennium tour, bow out tour. You see the production, it's all based of wrestling. You know, a lot of artists still from the artists. They get inspired by artists. I don't. It's not an artist that inspires me. You know, I might look up to someone, but you

don't inspire me like wrestling. In the production aspect of how they put it together, it's probably some of the best production in the entertainment business you will ever see in your rock Stone call and I and I, um yeah, so I definitely take for those guys. But shout out to the aw don't mean we definitely gonna make some things pop and it should have been happened, but I had to go on tour in Australia and top of January so we could make it happen. But UM, holler

at me, Jad this on the table. It ain't it ain't gonna wear any new music. I know you had the of the the the album or EP that you were going to do about all your exes. Wherever happened on Dad, I was drunk, I was I was okay, that's not ever happening. That would never happen. I was going through and face see what love makes you do? You see what I'm a single. I was in a relationship and it was so toxic and chaotic that it made me really go to the studio and sit there

in front of the mixed boards. You knew what I'm about to write a whole album about all this shit I went through with my exes, each song about each girl, and I knew what that was gonna do, especially in the social media, that it would have been like the biggest But you know, players don't tell. You know what I'm saying, Players don't tell. So that's why a lot of times you even here, I'm like old girl or

not saying no names, but players don't tell. But I would never Yeah, I was in a dark moment and I was drinking. How do you get out of her dark moments? I asked you that earlier. You deflected no, no, no. But it wasn't like no mental thing. I was just like a break up. You know, you're going through some toxic shit. You just you think with your heart, you think with your emotions. Yeah, in the bottom and the liquor didn't help, not at all. It was coming all

out I was ready to just tell everything. At one point, I quit, So you don't drink anymore? No, no, no, no, no. I had my birthday. Run was too much from me. I think thirty six is catching up to the boy, and I felt that Philly took me under. I think, okay, I think I might have had one shot right in moderation. It's been very accurate. Moment. No, I said there's no alcohol at my house, like you know, I just yeah, there's no He just ain't went to the liquor store.

I can't do it, so smoke say that. Yeah, I do my thing. Okay, all right, listen, man, you gotta give people some motivation. Man, you've been in the business for twenty plus years. I want you to look at that camera right now. Give people some motivation because now it's time for a pelertone. All right, this is the part I'm post to save my name. Yep. But I'm not gonna say because y'all know the face. So I'm just gonna go ahead and get straight to the motivational part.

But now, anything in life you want to do, pursue it. You know what I'm saying. Let nobody say that you can't do nothing and when when you can? You know what I mean. Just just stay focused on the task at hand, Stay away from knuckleheads, stay focused, keep it going, keep moving, stay positive, and go for what you believe in. And that's all I gotta, that's all I stand on the I safe sex, wrap it up. I can't get

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