French Montana Interview

So that's about it, just staying out the way. You're back into because you know, you gave up liquor, you gave up that life. Yeah, you still gave it up. Are you still away from that? I'm still drunking high from from from before. Yeah, I'm still drunk high Friday something something someone loose. But yeah, but you know I had to. My body couldn't take them while I did it, I couldn't take them one. I think that's like, you know, you know, I just took a little break trying to

get something real, some real money got you. Did you feel better now that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, for a million times better. You know. I feel I feel that, you know, I feel the accomplishments I feel the losses. I feel everything, you know, at one hundred percent back then, you know, you just anything happening. You know, we're celebrating every day. You just take a shot to go to the next

celebration for the next up. Yeah, especially like in LA and New York, because like every day somebody is celebrating something every day. You know, you'll come through here. You know, I just dropped my cologne. Come through here. I just dropped my water, you know what I'm saying. So it was back to back, So you haven't slipped up at all. Nah, that's good. That's amazing testament to willpower. I saw you a celebrating your album released with our mayor Eric Adams.

Shot Yeah, shot the Mayor Eric Adams. I think I'm the first one in New York to ever have the mayor come to the album listening to party. I wouldn't have to second that. I think so too. I haven't heard a si thing. But he also has to been mayor that long either any mayor. He's the mayor of New York City. Shot the Eric. You know what I'm saying.

He's you know, he's he's a cool dude, man, He's and he's trying to make a difference, you know what I'm saying, and um, and you know, just just for everything that he's been doing so far and just having like the right people, you know what I'm saying, and supporting the right people that influenced the the youth. I think that's very important. Did you tell to him about not using lyrics to indict people? Yeah, definitely definitely brought

that up, he said. He I mean, he said he's gonna make everything, you know, I mean, he's one of us, you know what I'm saying, He's one of us. So he's definitely trying to, you know, try trying to help the kids. Here's want to make sure that the kids is not going to do the same thing again. Now, are you still sign a bad Boy? No? No, no, no notice on the bad Boy? You just I mean, I'm sure your contract was something you just I think I'm the first one to complete a contract with bad Boy.

Shot the puff Man, Shot the puff He was definitely, you know, a mentor. He's still a big brother. Love him to death. Now, No, I said, I think it was in the Blue Chail song you said that you passed up that beef with Did he and Drake. Um,

I think I think it was. It was something going on, Like I didn't really know exactly the details of it, but I know, Um, I had a birthday party that Iggy is earlier two for me on a boat and um, when I got there, Drake was there waiting for me, and and Puff Hack came in his own little boat and that was the first time they met. Um after it was going to Yeah, but I was already talking to Puff before that. I was like, whatever y'all got going on, y'all need to that that. You know what

I'm saying. They're both like my best friends, so I'm like, y'all need to det that. So I'm glad that they didn't even know that each other was coming to the party when they came to just spent the whole night talking to each other. And I was like, see, like you know what I mean. I think that's better anyway, because when when you're planning to meet somebody, yeah, a bunch of people, but if it's just a night out, you might come in one or two and then you

could actually have a conversation without people around you. Yeah, I didn't tell Drake Puff was gonna be there, and I didn't tell puff Drake was gonna be there. So I waited until they got there, and you know, and there was and it was good, you know, good friends before that. So when they got there, they just sat down and they just you know, spoke the whole night. And I'm like, you see, that was best friends to

start with. And as you squatch a lot of your beefs that you've had it and throughout the last couple of years, because it was with a gym and cam and fifty and so why do you think you had to do that? Now? Was you just over it or what made you say, you know what, let's just let it go. Um. You know, it's just like when you beefing or you feel handicap, you can't hand do nothing. You can't you know, you can't move here, you can't do this. It's like you feel like, you know, you

stuck to a little space. And I'm saying I wanted to expand autumn beefed my whole career since you know me, since you know me, I've been beefing whatever these kids is doing, whatever's going on, I don't did it. I don't ran circles around it. I didn't did it. Ten times, you know what I'm saying. So, so I know what beef could bring you. But then I know what talent and what you know, longevity could bring you, and what's showing love could bring you know what I'm saying. So

I know both. But it doesn't mean that you know, you're gonna let anybody you know, say whatever they want. But it's just you know, you rather pick the money and pick you know, the love. Yeah, what about did you ever get a chance to talk to a th because I know your thug were going back and forth at one time. Um yeah, definitely me and Thuugh Me, Me and Thu, got no problem. That's watched it out too. Yeah yeah, definitely free wise, self free, free gun up

for everybody. Yeah, and you also survived the Kardashian curse. You talk about that. Not too many people survived that Kardashian curse. I was I was basically saying that, like, you know, there is no curse. That's why I'm still doing my thing. I think that's I think that's what I was saying in the song. I was like, there's no curse, so I'm doing my thing and Travis doing this thing. You know, I just feel like you know

um and and shout out to them. I just feel like when you go out with them or have a relationship with them, with anybody out there caliber, I feel like that, um, you know, the media start picking up on your relationship life and forget about you. You know, your talent life, you know what I'm saying, your music life, you're acting life, or whatever it is. If yeah, it overshadows everything you come this reality start. Well, that's not really the goal, you know what I'm saying. It could

be playing basketball or do whatever it is. It takes away from your game and they'd be like, Yo, this guy is now this this because he go out with this this. You know what I'm saying, So that label just changed. This used to be funny to see you on the Kardashians that I'm not gonna lie always French, you never changed. He used to be bad, funny, like Yo Franchis on Yeah, I might be tied two, He's

not two, man. Honestly, I just I just feel like, Um, I can't give whoever it is the time they want because I'm just so focused on doing what I'm doing. You know what I'm saying, And I know and I know some of them be like, nah, you know you need somebody to ride with you and be there with you until they right there with you, and you'd be like, yo,

I gotta go on these thirty days. You know what I'm saying, shows and this and that after club it's like it's it's hard and you want to give somebody you all when you go out with them, and I don't feel like I'm I'm in that space right now. You think you've ever been in love? Um, yeah, I've been love before. Heartbroken, Yeah, of course, plenty of times. Yet breaking nah, because you know you gotta go through

that early because if you go through that late. You know, I'm saying, you don't want to be going through the heart breaks after after you're thirty, Like you ain't gonna know how to handle it. I feel like you're the heartbreaker. I can't now, I really don't. I really don't. They know. I mean, they know what it is, you know what I'm saying. Usually just just be you know, a little

a little tap kids and I'll keep going. Now. Now, you usually play with with with music and sounds on your albums, whether it was one of the first to do the afrobeat sounding records or one of the ones to sound to do the drill sounding records before I heard other New York artists with Drake and Beyonce and a bunch of people changing the direction a little bit with with house sound and music. Are you dabbling and

dabbling with that as well? Um? I think that was something that me and Max be started, you know what I'm saying. Like with me and Max, me was doing it from back in the day, since Kolke Wave, you know what I'm saying. And it's just like you know, as soon as Max heard Drake, he was like, yeah, it's my swack, you know what I'm saying. I think that that that that sound you know from we used to grab Britney Spears song and and and and redo

them and do a whole bunch of stuff. I think it's it's it's it's a Jersey DC vibees and you know it's just a wavy vibe I think. And Drake could do whatever he wants, you know what I'm saying. He could do whatever because he he playing this week, could drop proudly, you know, a rap album right after. He always do it right, Yeah, I mean he did that with Um with the controller and all that at that one point when he just tested the music. You know what I'm saying, But yeah, I think it's definitely

something different. Max. When we spoke to you, I think a while ago we was was praying for good news. You said Max might be released soon. Yeah, we're here in the camps now, so that's that's that's a step down, you know. But you know Bergen County, when you give you seventy five years, they don't want to they're letting you write out. So yeah, so so he fighting free, Max b Have you ever healed fully from you know,

Max and Chinks? And I heard one of the songs now was like you still feel it to this day? Have you feel healed fully from any of that? Because you got you gotta think about it. Me, Max, b Um, Chinks, even Zach my brother, like we always just you know, the same clue making music, you know, so you go through it, Max speaking seventy five years, Chinks die, my little brother get deported. It's like I'm the only one making music. So it like it wasn't feeling the same,

you know what I'm saying. So you know, definitely, I mean I don't. I don't feel like I don't probably get my time time to heal about it. I mean from from from from the thing. I don't think I get myself the time. What makes you still want to do music going through all of that? Because music, music is something that I do to get away from my job, which is music. So I kind of making music about making music. It's like, you know, that's why I find,

you know, my sanity. That's that's like, you know, that's my therapy. So you know, it's like that's that's what keep me, you know, going, and that's what gave me longevity. To the love from music. I think none I could take that away from me. I don't know. I don't know what else I would be doing. Blue Chairs. It seems like a very therapeutic song for you. Yeah, so when when you wrote that, like what was going on with you at that time? Um Man shot to Harry Fraud.

It's just everything came back full circle and everything was going back to that, you know, to that sound. I feel like, you know, I feel like I went I went down south to Atlanta. I heard nothing but Atlanta music. I went to La I heard nothing but music that had the g funk sound in it. Then I came back to New York and I was sounding like I was in London, and I was like, nah, like as me being one of the pillars in New York. I'm like, yo, like, let me try and know what I'm saying. I'm bringing

that wavy sound back with Harry Fraud. And when I went in the studio, it's just, you know, I just I just spoke how I felt at the time, and I'm saying everything that I went through, everything that happened for the past couple of years, and I put it and you know, put my pain to the music. Do you ever missed that twenty year old a twenty two year old French Montana from the Bronx with you wasn't a huge star. You could still move around and you

could enjoy life a little better. Do you ever miss that? No? Because I would have been shot or killed. You know what I'm saying. You know I would have been shot and killed. Rest in piece pop smoke, rest of the piece nipsy. You know for sure, you know what I'm saying. You know, um, we're praying for a little t J. It's like I would have been you know, I would have been shot because I felt like everybody loved me. I felt like everybody loved me. I wasn't moving on defense.

I was moving on offense. I was you know, I thought everybody was happy I made it, and it was. It wasn't that. It was the other way around, you know. And your greatest threat come from the inside, you know what I'm saying. And I'm glad that you know, I moved to LA for a little bit, you know what I'm saying. I'm glad I did. I did certain things because I could have protected me from something, you know.

But yeah, but I'm I'm glad I learned the game and just and just you know, now, now when I moved, even though I don't know problem with nobody, I moved on, I got a problem with somebody. Me having me having be for people kind of helped me, you know what I'm saying, because I was always on point. I was

going to ask that, you know. I was talking to Jim, and Jim says, you know, probably one of the toughest jobs to him is being a rapper because you're always on target, like you're a targeting It's like everybody knows where you're gonna be right. If you're on a club promoter flyer, if you're at a party, if you're performing, if you're at a concert, whatever it may be. Do you feel that way and how do you make sure that you're not that target? What do you tell some

of these younger artists out there? Um? I know this, I know this, this said um Um twenty one Savage said that Jay Z said get a chef, get a lawyer, and get something else. I think he spent all your money on security. I think that's the number one thing. You know what I'm saying. I think that's security. I mean when they caught Pop smoke and have no no security with him, you know what I mean? And I think all the young artists just need to know you

need security. You need like you need like one of those it's gonna take a bullet, you know what I'm saying. And honestly, and I do mean your homeboard's neither because when you have your homeboys with you and you're thinking that's security, that's not. That's just the case. Who are going to happen? You know what I'm saying. Like, and you don't want you know, you don't want that Burger on your back. What about when it comes to women. You know, as you said, you were to tap two snipers,

but you have to be careful with that too. Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. I mean we targets. We targets from every aspect, from every angle. All the women are looking for bags. Some of them that they think that's the way they get paid. You know, some you know, some people, you know, they've been taking their whole life. You know what what I'm saying. Robbers we come from you know, you come from there. I come from there where you know,

people have been robbing their whole life. And you know if you look sweet, they're gonna grab you, you know what I mean. Some people, you know, they just push the limits something. I call them suicide bombers, but they don't really care. What was your biggest mistake? You'd have to say, in this industry, what's the one thing you said there? I shouldn't have did that. My biggest mistake was not forcing Chinks to stay with me in La.

Because he was with me in La. We were supposed to go to it was supposed to go to um Coachella. I remember I was, I mean, I was still going out with Chloe and he was and he was um and he was with me and Maliko was there, and he was we were supposed to go together, and I kept on telling him like, yo, let's go, let's go. She wants you to go, like you know, let's trying to put them together. And I'm saying, hooked them up. And he was like, na, I gotta go home. I

got my daughter, this, this, this and that. You know. He came back and that happened like two days right after that, the day after that, So that was my biggest mistake. I should have just forced him, but we was all drunk and I not let my you know, my pride and might eagle to all you want to stay over me? All right? Fuck out there, you know what I'm saying. So he came back and it was just like a sad situation. What do you think is the smartest decision you've made? The smartest decision I made

was rapping, start rapping, pick up a mic. I think that was a smart decision I made. And let me ask you this. So you also recently were a type of a conversation because the Basketball Wives, right, DJ Duffy is on this show. Yeah, and she had a baby she's engaged, and she was saying that she might take some time off from being on the road. Yeah, and you were like, all right, you can't come back then. Yeah, so let's talk about that for a second, because I

saw that was a big topic on social media. Yeah, I think that. Um, you know, when you come into this game, a lot of people don't understand that it comes It doesn't come with your own schedule. It comes with sacrifice in order for you to be the best DJ, will be the best artist, will be the best basketball for basketball players and you know they're on the road for most of the year, you know what I mean, Like, you have to you have to be able to make

certain sacrifices. If not, then you can't be in this game. Say you can't just come in, come in the game and just expect to make all this money, to get all this fame, be this, you know what I'm saying. Then you just want to stay home. It don't happen like that. Fine, fighting, you gotta sacrifice. But if somebody's like, okay, I just need like you know six, especially a woman who had a baby, yeah, which she did have to take time off because yeah, yeah, yeah, you know of

course that time, then I can come back. No, that time she had to take off, but she was taught about she was going to retire, right, Yeah, she was like, she was like, you know, I want to, I want to, you know, I'm confused. I'm don't be confused because there's people that want to be in their position, right, don't be confused. That's the crazy thing about that is is you know, and this is when you start people getting upset. Right. The new generation feels like, I feel like a lot

of times things should be given right now. Maternity leave is totally different. Right you have a baby, Absolutely you deserve maternity leave. Some fathers out there paternity leave. But I think we lose the grind, right. You figured, like if we look at French and we've seen all the stuff that French did, the sacrifices. French was was taping, you know, taping you know what was cocaine city stuff, and he was at the clubs, he was traveling. He grinded,

didn't sleep, just to any other. So now when somebody says, hey, you know, I'm gonna take a couple of months off to see if I'm a retire or not. If you take if you take that time. If you leave me while I'm working, I gotta find a replacement. I'm not gonna find a replacement for a week or a month till you figure out what you want to do. I'm gonna find a replacement to replace you. I don't think

there's anything wrong with that, do you. Well, I just think it's I think he was honest about it, you know, because somebody could have said, do what you gotta do and then they get replaced anyway. Yeah, and so, but I also feel like you never know what could happen. He could have got somebody else and then she could have been ready to come back, and he could have felt like, man, she was better, and you know, you never know what had happened. Yeah, but it's still up

in the air to me. But I do think that's an honest thing to say to somebody, because yes, you do still need to have Yeah, of course, man, you gotta let them like when you tell them that, that's when they have to make a decision. Do I really want this? You know what I'm saying That decision have to be made one at one point in your career, because if you don't love whatever you do, you're gonna get tested, You're gonna go through certain levels. Then we're

gonna be like, man, do I really love this? Because I can't. I can't take it no more when But I know for women in particular, it's different when you have a kid and you have that connection and they're really young, and then you leave and you miss your baby so much. But then she missed work a lot too, so it's a harder balance. I feel like when it's women, yeah, definitely.

I mean she had the time with the baby. Now, Like it wasn't like I was gonna ask you one one time the conversation was versus, Yeah, would you do versus? Would you be willing to do? Versus um? I didn't one with Tory Lanes. I blew a sockshall that that was That was the earlier was earlier. It was the first ones that started versus um because versus and I told Swiss that Swiss on me a check. I swear I hit him. I told me you gotta give me a check, and he did. He said it to my lawyer. Yeah, yeah,

he sent me paperwork like yo. You know, because the first time it was, it was they were just beat battling. I remember saying, I called Swiss and I called I called timber Land. Up. I'm like, y'all need y'all to judge this joint. We're about me and me and Tory Lanes because he had the quarantine radio and I was like, yo, but instead of me just going on your quarantine radio and doing that, let's just do it a versus. He was like, oh, nah, you an't got me. Nah. I'm like, yo, bro,

you gotta stop playing with me. Man your catalog and even you know what I'm saying. So we did it. We was talking back and forth. I remember then I had um timber Land and Swiss beats on the on the thing and everybody would judging it. And after that they just took it and just like you know, to you know, to the next level. You know, all up to them. But as far as me, it is whoever know. One time, Jim, it was supposed to be you and Jim, which I think would be great because y'all had problems

before y'all squashed it. I think that would be a good one. Yeah, I think because you and Jim, Jim, Jim got records. Nah, Jim, if you're watching this, don't do it. I think I think that you both told is so. I think if it would be really really entertaining, really really good, I don't think you don't think so. Nah, Why now Jim got records? No, he do? All right? After Balling, go go against pop that right, let's just say Balling and pop that had the head were you

gonna go next? Jim got, Jim got Baby Girl, Jim got uh summer in Miami, Jim got all the dip set records, Jim got, Jim got records, all right, Jim got records. But yeah, But honestly, though, I think I think, you know, when it comes to versus, you could just go twenty for twenty or anybody just because it doesn't matter what else you got. And know what I'm saying, you can just pick those twenty records and just go against you know, just like how Drake go against jay Z,

even though jay Z got a longer catalog. It's the top twenty records. But you choose and what you put against exactly whatever record exactly. Now for this new album with Harry Fard, he did the whole album, right, yeah, the whole album. I want to ask you this, You think that people have a certain expectation of you, like they expect more of the party songs now nowadays, because those are the ones that have always been really big

as of late. Um well, I'm you know. I became the first African born artist to go diamond, and I became the first male artist from the Bronx, from the mecca of hip hop, to go diamond, you know what I'm saying. And I got four albums, three even platinum.

So at the end of the day, for me, I accomplished everything I wanted to do, and now it's time for me to make music for me and for my core audience, the people that helped me get here, the people that started listening to me when I made Shot Caller and New York Minute and Mac and Cheese mixed Saves and this and that. So I felt like me and Harry Fraud, we never gave it a full push as far as my you know, my music, so we

always just did a one offs. We did the Shot Callers, we did I'm a coke boy who did this, but we never did a full project. So I just wanted to get back full circle to the essence of hip hop and just like you know what, that's what I want to make. I want to make a full rap album, same way Hydrick has made it damn album. I want to make a full rap album. And what I'm saying, I came in with Harry Fraud and it's our first

project together that's fully produced by Harry fardds. It's something you just felt like, this is what I want to do. It don't matter. I accomplished so many things and this is the music I feel like I want to do. Yeah, definitely, because because at the end of the day, when you talk about rest in peace for the Guard's side, you know he said it. He's like, you know, when you talk about top five mcs, it don't matter what you do,

where you at, what's going on. When you talk about the top five, the number one thing is gonna be his bars, you know what I'm saying. So you know we're going back to the essence. I'm here to make history and leaving my mark. I did everything, you know what I'm saying. Like, there's artists have been in the game three you know, three times the lymp I've been

in the game and still haven't won diamond. Jay Z haven't won diamond Snoop haven't won diamond what I'm saying, But they have way more other things, you know what I'm saying. That's that's more than what I got. As far as me leaving the legacy, I want to get back to this now. You feel like because you name all your accolades, some of your accolades, and I think people forget about a lot of the stuff that you do.

Do you feel like they don't respect French as a rapper or as a lyricist because of some of the other things, because of the relationship with the Kardashian and Trina and some of the other ones. You step down, it's more about French is personal life and less about the lyrics um because the fact that you went diamond, and that's that's huge, Like, yeah, you've got a lot of artists have never gone diamond. Yeah, but you know, we don't talk about French going diamond, which is crazy. Yeah,

that's what I'm saying. I feel like it's the same thing with Drake. Drake kar rap better than other artists, you know what I'm saying, But they don't want to get it to him because he's still smelling as flowers. You know what I'm saying. That's a nice way to say it. Yeah, you're still smelling your flowers. People ain't gonna put the light on you while you're still smelling your flowers. It's like, you know, they you know they got Drake is different though, Yeah, And I think what

Drake is because Drake is busy. He could, he put together songs, he's lyrically, he could. He will body a lot of most rappers out. Yeah. But I think which gives Drake the little asterix is when he went back in that beef and it was like, Drake, they'll write his own rhymes. Yeah, that gave him a little astric and he never discussed it. He never spoke about he never came out. I was like, nah, that's you know what it is. And I think that gave him the asterix.

But if that astric wasn't there for hip hop, he's by far one of the best ever. But after this album, we're gonna get back to that topic, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, after this album, I'm gonna get back to that topic. I just think, you know, and that's and that's that's the lane I'm going down, you know what I mean? Because that's bro Like I came from them, like I came from, like if Chicago Bulls or nine, like ninety six Michael Jones was playing, That's where I

was at in the Bronx. That's the mecca of hip hop, like Big Pun down the street, you know, the Carrots one down here, like you know, you know, um, everybody was right there. Yeah, everybody slicked the rule of everybody. So to make it out of there. The time that I was there, it was like, you know, it was mission impossible, and and we had to battle, like like literally like you would take five bands, you take your re up money fifteen grand, you will go here, you

will go ahead, go to every projects the battle. So we come from hip hop rapping. I had to wrap the get on. All my music is wrapped, you know what I'm saying when when I got on. But you know I had to try to, you know, accomplish. You can't accomplish too much. Was just too much rap. Like you've seen jay Z always had dem my bars down. What was that line that he's at. I had to dem my bars down in the money came Yeah, So

that's the same thing. Jay Z switch his whole style up when got to the back, then came back to the rap. How much time you spend in New York nowadays? Would you say I live here? You do? Yeah? Okay, I always look at you like friends live in La. No, no, no, I live here. No, I live in here. But I got a spot in La and the spot in Vegas. You know, we we branched out. Do you record differently when you're in New York? Like? Is it a different type of vibe for you? Um in New York? Here?

Definitely in New York it's more. It's more, it's more of the hip hop vibe. You know what I'm saying. I think you just it's just something about that breeze when it hits you, that winner, you know what I'm saying. It's just, you know, you just gotta get it off your chest. You're getting chance to enjoy New York with everything so crazy out of here, seemed like New York is just so wild right now? Do you get a chance to enjoy it all? New York been wild for

me the whole time I've been in the yard. Might have been wilder before. Yeah, New York definitely was wilder before. Remember I went through all that, you know, so it's like New York always been wild for me. What about acting? So now you've been doing your acting thing, and so is that something that you feel like you want to pursue, Like I want to be in some more feature films.

What's what's with that? Um? Well, well, um, we're dropping the My documentary is coming out this year, as you know, about about the whole story with me coming from Africa and you know, starting to wrap and you know and like you know and being immigrated here and my pop sleeping and my mother getting a welfare and Max b and Chinks dying and me having to get through all that and um, you know, I showed it to jay Z, I showed it to Drake, so me and Drake is

executive producing it together and it's it's it's gonna be real dope as far as in film and in theaters. This year we're doing a Larry Davis series from the Bronx. We're doing that, So that's but definitely films. I mean I started with Cocaine City DVD. So the film was always a way for me to you know, it was it was it was a platform that I always you know,

it was in love with before music. I feel like you don't tell those stories about yourself that often either what made you decide now was the time to do it? Um because people because people just know the music, and people never really got a chance to see how hard it was to make it, you know, because we make it look easy every day, so people be like, Okay, cool, he's just rapping. He getting lucky with all right, he lucky again, he lucky again. But luck don't. I mean,

what's what's an artist's career span? Anything to sleep three to five? Three to five, but lucky. Yeah, but now like a microwave right now, it could be a couple of months, it could be a year. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So for somebody at last fifteen years, you gotta you gotta give them the blueprint. That's how you do it. Everybody think it is luck. That's what I had to go through. Now, I tell you also reference your your baby mama tripping and my son. How it

is called parenting going for you? Is it getting better? No, No, it's better. It's better. Definitely, it's better. You know, they're always going on some money, but it's better. Man. Yeah, shot that she's doing a great job. We've never been in the media and I respect everything should do for my son, you know, and you know it's it's it's it's hard out here, you know, you know, raise kids what we do it well. French's albums out today. What do you want? You want to play off the album

right now? Monegger um you could play the one with me Jada kiss Benny the Butcher and you can play one with me estga problem And I gotta think for every time you. First of all of French has never changed his number from I don't even know how long there's number is still the same since he was swear And anytime I ever called him, no matter what it is, he never says no. So first I was doing my car show and French had a Bugatti and I was like, you know, now, Bugatti is about one point five to me,

not the cass you call him. You ask somebody for a Bugatti nine times and they're gonna be like, ah, well big to my people. French didn't say that at all. He was like, yo, just put on the trailer and bring it and it was not a problem. Then I'm in Africa year and the DJ before me, so I was supposed to play the hip hop set and the DJ before me played the hip hop set and we're in Africa, so it's like vibes and I'm supposed to

play the hip hop SI. I was like, I gotta think of something to do to outdo the kid that played the hip hop set. So I called French and I'm like, Yo, French, when I perform. True story, I said, Yo, when I perform, I'm gonna have the camera on the FaceTime and I'm gonna call my people from New York and bring New York to Africa. And French was one of the ones that picked up. It was French, Fat, Joe, Buster Rams, Jim Jones, and Fat, but y'all all picked up for me. So I was all, just you know,

always appreciated. Always, Yeah, definitely, bro. Always. Is it weird for you being in the club now that you don't drink? No, I got used to it. I'm feeling because it was the party animal. His whole intention when you're in the club with him is to get you drunk. I remember one night we were in Vegas. It was my birthday. It was me, you and Kevin Hart and he would not I don't even know how I walked back to

my room. He just kept going and then he had me performing with him on It was the weirdest thing, but you were performing, he was performing with virtual stage. Oh my god, ken, I hope no. Probably goodness probably, but but but back to what you're saying. You know, people don't go to your funeral for what you did for yourself. They always go to your funeral for what

you did for them. I live by that coach, so I'll be trying to whenever my peoples or whatever it is, somebody can help, I always do that, you know what I'm saying. So when you hit me from Africa, it was like five in the morning. In the morning. Yeah, you've had no problem where you at here like Africa? He said, you good? You all right, new FaceTime crops here all right. Well there you have it, French Montagu and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.