EP 137 The Compton Menace Interview

to the world real soon. Man. Man, it's definitely man gonna be epic. Man. This is gonna take things to a whole another level and share lighting waves. Man. A lot of cats previously didn't even have an understanding of it. It's just a beautiful thing. Man. And you know I mean you to sit down, man and come together man and be able to shed light for a lot of cash man, so that they could have a different level of looking at the world, of looking at things around them. Man.

On so many different assets and facets, man, you know, yeah, without a doubt, with without a doubt. Man, you know what, Um, you're coming home man after ten years man, and uh, you know the federal prison system, Man, it definitely has opened your mind up to a whole another different level

of thinking. Yeah, man, I mean being there, man, was a terrible thing because all of the different things that I had to, you know, struggle with being away from my family and my loved ones and losing my liberty.

But being there was a watershed moment for me. It was an AHA moment due to the fact that I was able to open my mind to something that was different and previous, previously hidden from me on so many different levels of understanding on world views and literature and philosophy and religion and you know, all of those things man, that previously I never made time for or I never just gave mine fully you know, attention to, just never just sat myself down and just opened my mind up

to something different. I was just so used to being in a one way, one set mind frame for so long, so to be able to do something just totally different, man, just sit down and study and reading, be around different dudes, you know that have a a different type of way of thinking about things, and you know, so that just really just put me in a whole different mental space and me coming home just now, I my mind is open to so many different things on so many different levels.

So yeah, yeah, well you know the biggest thing is right now, well we have going on as good as the Internet most things. Man, it's a really a tool of distraction if you're allowed to be. Yeah, it definitely could be a tune of distraction. Man. I mean so many people, man, are just and dated with so much stuff that's going on right now. When you're looking at all of the social media sites, whether it be Facebook, and whether it be in Instagram or snapchat or ticktop,

you know, pretty much they dumbing themselves down, man. And so to be able to have an outlet and in a way where you know, people can really, you know, just really sit down and become you know, one with themselves and reflect on things, and to be able to look at things outside of the current circumstances or just the regular, you know, repeated cycle of I hate to say that word BS, but yeah, man, just to be able to look at things outside of that, man, it's

not only I opening, but it's liberating. Bro. Well, it definitely is about a BS and that's the right term for it. That's the correct term because let me ask you this, which you're just coming home and the Internet was around before you went in, but it wasn't being utilizing in the manner of what your deals. Now, what do you think about the current system? I think man,

the earring system. Man, it's a blessing and it's occurs because you have certain people that live in a lower mind frame, and then you have those who create content that's degregated and degraded. And then you have those who are well learned who is able to spread the message and open people up to a different way of thinking and be able to inform them. So at the same time, it's a blessing and it's a curse, and it's whatever we give our energy to and whatever energy we take

from it. You know, there's an old parable. You know, an Indian said, you know, there's two dogs, and so there's an old Indian parable. And you know, the Indian was asking a little boy and you know, you have two dogs and they were to begin the fighting, which one wins? And he said, you know, I don't know which one wins. And so he said, ultimately, it's whichever one you feed the most, whether it's dark or light, positive or negative, whichever dog you feed the most. And

so that's how I look at things. So we can look at it with the glass half empty, or we could look at it with the glass half full. It's just two different viewpoints. Yeah, well really the main thing is right now. That's why I always tell our audience people to be open minded on things, but take stuff with a cream and salt and do your own exactly. Man.

And when you have social media sites and you have so many different people competing to create content, you know, that's a good thing because you know that there's there's that one percent of people that create content, there's nine percent that engage with it, and then there's just nine who's just consumers of the content. And a lot of people are that. So you you have to understand what it is that you're taking in and what it is that you're looking at. Prior to me going to prison,

there wasn't on Facebook or Instagram. It was just on the virgins, on the on the precipice of something different. You know. So I come home and it's totally reshaped, you know, the social you know, status of everything that you look at, whether it be from financial literacy, the pop culture to everything that you could think about. Social

media has reshaped it on every aspect of life. And so now, you know, me coming home and seeing this, I didn't really understand how powerful of a twol you know, social media has become, and so a lot of people don't realize, you know that they just their recipients of negative, negative, negative, negative information and its feeding them negative, negative information. And then there's other people that's out there that's creating other

types of content. So I mean, at the end of the day, man, you know, it was it was an eye opener, man, it definitely was eye open. Well, I'm definitely excited about the stuff that me and you have going on. Man. I think, um, you know, we might as well loot to count the bag. Me and Gorilla Black. We're doing a podcast called Revelations, and it's gonna be really your mind bending journey and it's going to be the educating the foreign people it is. It's gonna be

off the chain. Definitely. I think it's something. Man. If you know, one thing I always wanted to do, man, still, no matter what it is, I wanted to be someone who contributed not to the culture, whether it was you know, through you know, me doing music or whatever it may be. But I think that on this journey man, and on this on this level of you know, place it where I'm at right now mentally, Man, I really want to

open people mind up to some different things. Man. And I think that this man, this platform, Man, I think that this is gonna be something that where people can go to and they can really learn some things that they previously didn't learn or no. And we that's why, you know, we we want to call it revelations, man, because we're gonna reveal what was hidden. We're gonna open up you know, a lot of different subjects and a lot of different things that people you know from our

culture really don't talk about a lot of things. You know, it's a different thing. We could be inundated with who got the biggest chain or what kind of car he pulled up in. But at the end of the day, life is a lot bigger than the chain in a car. Um So there's a lot of things. And so when you look at things, man, you know, our history as

black people. You know, the other day, we were just having a conversation about Moosa Mansa and we were talking about how this man ruled over the Mali Empire and you know, on his travel to Mecca, this man took with him twenty two kilogram of gold. This man gave away so much gold that he dropped the price of gold for a whole decade. Literally, And this is an African king, a king. Now just think about that, not to cut you off black, but klograms of gold. What

would the monetary value of that be today? Man, billions of dollars, bro billions of dollars. Imagine the amount twenty two hundred kilograms of gold is what he took to be exact hundred kilograms of gold. So just imagine this. It dropped the prices of gold for a whole decade

throughout the world. So this is an African king. Man, So we want to talk about some of the things man, you know, our people have done and what we've done other than just musical but on the financial level, you know, when you know historians look at his wealth, it would be two times the amount of Jeff Bezo. So if Jeff Bezo today is presently worked a hundred and ninety seven billion dollars, then mussa Mansel would be easily worth

over four hundred billion dollars. So he would be almost halfway to being a trigger there, correct correct, and I think that would make him one of the richest individuals in the world, if not the riches. So I mean, when we talk about look at our black colleges, this man was the first person who started in college in tim Buck two with twenty five thousand students. And we're not talking about you know, we're talking about in in in in the thirteen, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. So just

imagine this. This man had so many books of Masked and tim Buck two that it doubled the amount of the books that we're in Alexandria and each of So, I mean, this is a king man that really believed in educating his people on a whole different level. It's spread and well oth and you know, in bettering these people,

you know. So yeah, man, yeah, that's dope. Man. Well I'm definitely I'm definitely man looking forward man given this, but we've created to the people man, and you guys, um we had the first episode of Revelations is dropping another week or two, so we look forward to giving that to y'all. So we go get them get into this complimented interview. I'm on you, black. I appreciate you, brother, man,

I love you my man, definitely, let's do it. Look you too, Bro, the complimented interview, yolls against the chronicles. What's the word minutes? What's that? What's that with it? Oh? Man? Just chilling man, just chilling man. Glad hen you won't hear Man. I appreciate you're having me Bro for shore so that we could go back to the game. Man.

When he was a little kid, I was in showerhood man, man, Like I tell niggas all the time, like even coming up in a neighborhood that I grew up in, like I was blessed to have like the older niggas in my in my life and ship like that because there wasn't enforced to do a lot of things. I wasn't forced to do no bad ship. I played sports and they forced me on a on a good path. Grew up with my parents. He feeling pops in and out the house. Mom's was on the trailers. It's a typical

hood ship. So that's what I could say, Like, you know, really, man, how did that impact you? Man? Having a mother that was on frogs, that was seffering from frogly ditch man Like I was just raised different. You get what I'm saying, so I didn't really look at it like my mother was a crackhead. And then I looked at it just like she had a problem. She has a function and attict. So she would be breakflets, lunch and dinner on the table,

the house to be clean. But nighttime then that's what she you know, turning to go do what she do. So I didn't never have like a a bad feeling about somebody that did truiler. I just felt like it was natural to me realistically for sure. So you said he played football, Yeah, play pop Warner and the whole line. I started playing, Um, yeah, I played pop Warna. I played pop Warna for a couple of years. When you played for Compton's nah, I think it's the Titans at

the time. Yea, yeah, the Titans. And then I had went to a middle school called the NFL Yet Center, responsible by the NFL. It was right there in Compton on Central and Womanton. I want to say, yeah, so that was a good thing too because we got to really meet people. That was like doing different ships give me. So sports was a really big part of my life.

No matter what was going on, I always had that team atmosphere always, you know, between sports and hip hop mansa you know, so helped me a lot for cutting you up. But even from like going to different schools because the good schools was Crypt schools. He feeled me, so I had to go to Crypt schools too. So just sports helped me build real relationships before it was game banging on each other and ship like that and going to the school of the year. After that, building

relationship it was. It wasn't no, it was easy for me. It f for me. It wasn't like I had a blood problems against the Crypts and nothing like that. They just made sure I was straight and it was a family. It gave me. So sports was a big, big thing. That's dope. Man, When did you start getting a hip hop? But when did you start getting book? Want to wrap an n see my ankle? A lot was sports ain't really I wouldn't into like school like that, so I

didn't funk around it. I didn't take no s a T s and ship like that, so I didn't get to do what I wanted to do. So I was just doing the you know, the regularly outrage this ship and I really it was a dude name that went to comp to high school and his name was Michael Hunt. Already here's some se the block and he was real close with the game when they started pop. I was a streeting. I was just like really stilling cards at

this time and like that. Yeah, and I would call Mike to come, you know, help me out when this time that you know, chopping business part. So he ran around with Game and he's like, man, my boy game rapping, like you should come out with us. You feel we were starting to go out with a lot of niggers, want a lot of real niggers with us and ship like that. So I'm like, all right, code And I was just really a street and that I wasn't really into music, so you wasn't really into it, but you

just got around the vibe and started. I got around the vibe and I got to see like like Dann like somebody from the city did this ship like a game that we did this ship and I really fell in love with music around two that was for this dope man. And at that time, Chuck was blowing up like he was the man. Yeah, he was the biggest thing ever. I was, Yeah, I u K at that time. Man of traveling back and forth between here in the States and even over there. He was huge, you know,

So you start doing that. Do you remember the first song you laid down? Man? Yeah, I do. I think it's called for My Niggers. And it was a good thing because we had recorded that's song and I think the same the same studio that Too Pod got shot in in New York. So just that whole energy and all that ship wasever. That was a cool b that's crazy man. So how did the game like responding you rapping and stuff? Because you didn't leave him on the premise of being a rapper. How did he respond to that?

It was just like it was like laughing for he like then' gonna wrap. It's like a laugh. It wasn't like a you can't do a type of thing him. He showed me that he was interested in gave me that, you know, the courage to push on with him. I can say that for sure. So when did you know When did you first know that she was only something like as far as being the MC, When did you

start like seeing some results from your work? I would say, Um, I always had a I always had a good relationship with like little Wayne So when little Wayne had dead blood niggas with him, and it was at a time like right before he was going to jail, and he called me like, hey, I'll be in l A. You're trying to shoot the video. I'm like, hell yeah, that's dope.

That was a big thing right there for me at the time, because that's when I first beginning first trying to learn myself from feeling, Yeah, that record, man, that like blew up on the underground level, like that, that record being good for you. Yeah, for sure, that for sure that after that, nigga stopped saying Wayne wasn't fake blood too, if you notice, Yeah, that's crazy. You know, let's talk about that for man, because I don't know where cats get there from speaking on cats that they

don't know. We was talking about that off air because when I was in New Orleans, Wayne had a bunch of real niggas with him. He had a bunch of real blood niggas that was from his turf, that was from his city down there, and he had been claiming that hood for a long time. In fact, you know what I'm saying, he's and he's one of the you know, outside of the gang shipping everything Wayne is genuinely one of the just better people on this plane. Well ain't

the real nigger, bro. He did countless stands for me that you know. Half, I ain't Ashford, And you know, he's just a good nigga feeling and it ain't about uh no straights, it ain't about none of that. He's just a good hearted nigger. Yeah, he's a really good herded then, so you know, and we can bounce something. So you run with game now during this time y'all doing your thing, when did you decide that that wasn't

for you no more? What the street like just as far as like the street ship and everything like that, when did you decide like when you when did you cut all that loose? Really ship? When I got into like really after after I really got into the business of the music, and then I kind of put in my own head that is set up to be a safe way for us to that. That's how it said it for a ship to generate. But and the streets is still beyond in the streets, you know what I'm saying.

But the beef and all that ship sales, you know what I'm saying. So that's why probably recently ain't gonna lie to you, probably a couple of years ago, a couple of years ago, because I was always still like I wouldn't. I won't say like a street nigger. I'm not no punk though, you get what I'm saying. And I ain't gonna like you. I ain't gonna let too

much ship that I'm not comfortable with slide. So I just got a different mentality, Like a couple of years ago, I would say, bro a couple of years ago, a couple of years ago. It's just maturity, man. As we get older, man, we should be evolving, you know, doing the same ship we was doing in nineteen twenty years old. You know, so you're running with game. Now. Did you ever officially signed a Black Wall Street? No, I wasn't

like that. We was just a movement. I would say, We're just a movement, a group of real niggers that was moving tough. You know, ship, tour, buses, cars, you want to go, you wanna go, We're moving, showing the world of the city. And you know, he gave a he gave everybody opportunity to make something of themselves. Yeah, it seemed like he was a hustler man because I used to see you in the road when I was out there with the glass. I said, I told you

one that. I said, man, that can't go be somebody everywhere. Well, I think I at that mentality just from the hustle game. You get what I'm saying, knowing how to move around with a product, and I kind of took that and use it as the same way to be had to be the right place at the right time. You just had to do it. And that's how I did. And we took all money and did that. Yeah, for sure.

So so you kind of was able to use the Black Wall Street situation as a condoment to get into other places like you met Wayne, you met Baby and all those guys to him. Yeah, I made Wayne for the first time on a roadway game and I had to use the bathroom and find the bathroom. So I just went back to the tour. But and Wayne getting off his bus and I'm walking by, what's up with it? What's up? What's up? What's up? What you're doing? Compliments?

I just hope the whole game. But I wouldn't even rapping at the time as a whole game down here, take my never fucking if you're in the city. I got see for sure. Then we've been locked in every since. Ain't it funny? Wayne? Just a real niggle like that? Like and at that time he was one probably the biggest star on the planet, though he was the biggest story of the planet. This time, it was crazy to me, like from watching this nigga been a fan of them too,

like right here calling me, you feel me? So it was kind of like m hm. A couple of times he called I was in the hood, like, oh, ain't calling blood, hold up? You get me like that? It was it was crazy and you're feeling at the time, and he was just reaching out to you like that. So so tell me this right now, because you eventually wound up signing with Cash Money Records, right and you and Wayne had a really good relationship, and you see that you have signed the Cash Money at the time

where Baby and Wayne weren't get alone. How was that for you? Well, just me and all my guys we are were fun with both of them, agrily. You give me. So I really just told everybody like this, manya business and stay out of ship because I know once them guys get cool again, they're gonna they're not gonna forget like niggas was acting funny and something that they really didn't have nothing to do with. It would be like niggas choosing size type of ship like women, and that

ain't that any how. We was raised at all and we love them both. So I just said, we're gonna stay out of the way. That's real man, that's real man ship. You didn't get involved and didn't have nothing to do with you. So who approached you that bird man? Just come up to you one thing and say, hey, man, I want you down this family. Mm hmm. I think I was doing the show. I think I was doing the show with Khalifa and burd man Um. We're walking through passion like doorhead door here and it's like the

hall way area. I'm coming through this way, you're coming through that way. We had a little brief come and says, he let me know he wanted sunk with me, gave me his number and then walked out. He looked back like hey, says and ask you about their business and like for show, and we linked in. He taught me a lot of ship. He taught me a lot of ship Before we even got any business done. He did let me know, like we need more bosses in this game.

Everybody want to wrap, everybody want to do this, Everybody want to do that, and you know where are you at? Where you're at with it? I'm telling him like I got people that that's artists around me that I believe in the ship like this. You know, I'm not a selfish person. So that's kind of the role that I took. And he didn't let me know like this love, you feel me like we can take you take your time with this because when that business get involved, ain't no

loving that business. He let me know that for a show. So I took my time with love, you know what I'm saying, before I got that business involved. Yeah, for sure, he just told you some real ship man, because in the rep game, it ain't no love. It's a very cool business and ain't no friendships ship in English, it's all business. It ain't personal at all. Money, you know what I'm saying. So you officially did you officially get down on paper with them, officially officially signed take cash money?

And how was you How long was your teenure over there? Um? I was only over there for a project. I was only over there for a project. But like me and Burgman got so close. He told me how to fucking read paperwork, read contracts to the point where I had got him a situation. So when they're doing business, he's like bringing the bringing the contract like here, and he's like, ship, read it. He said, read it, make sure it's right, bring it back to me, sign it. Read that motherfucker's

about two hours squibbled on ship. What do this mean? What did this mean? You know, rearranged ship. Take it back to him, Let him rearrange it. I mean, took it back to the people that you know, recontracted out. Took it to him. He said, it's a good I said, yeah, he signed it. You feel meself. That was showing me that he was trying to see where I'm at with it, if I learned, if I'm you know, growing. But that's

that's type of pressure here put on you if you're teaching. Yeah, he's he's a good dat He's a good dude, good cat man. I fun with bird Man. So you were over there with them, and in the midst of that, you're doing a lot of things. You just you just emotion. Your career is emotion. You float and everything. What was

your next ventuy after the cash money thing. Um, this time I had three percent and m Spiderello to the blunts, I had three percent and their company and I was I had a job as UM Marketing had a marketings out for him. So I kind of used that to be able to move around, you feel, men, and be able to promote myself and be able to promote what was doing too. So that's how it was on the road a lot of times too at that time. That's dope, man.

You were very intuitive, dude man, for you to be able to take these situations and spending too a marketing career as well, because that was that's big right there. They still yeah, yeah, they're still cracking. I think, um, I don't want to say that, but acrim I think that he had I think he had to go do some time for something, you know. But I learned a

lot of ship from him too. But my whole thing with that was too, I didn't want to note they give rappers ship, they give rapper ship, you feel me. I didn't want that. I knew what I could do, I knew my relationships, I knew what I could do for the company, and I kind of attacked it like that and they fucked with it. That's dope, man, that's dope that you took that she was able to manipulate these six situations in the manner of your world. Um,

and then you start getting more opportunities. One of those opportunities you wound up being in the really big movie Discs Facts. How did that come about? That came about to um? Uh, got a couple of good friends, friends from my neighborhood too. He actually friends will ever give you Gray, give you a grade? Tell him to reach oil to me because he just feels like he won me in a movie. He just like my he liked my energy and he just see me in the movie and he wanted works something out to give me in

the movie. Yeah, that was big too. Like I came up with the O G two tone name most of the dialogue. You know, it was a big thing for me. That's a real big opportunity. And people realized that music notoriety is one thing, but when you go on that silver screen, it's a level. It's another level of things. How did you deal with it? I bet you have people coming to you every day. Two Yeah, fact like OG two tone definitely bigger than compliments, for sure, definitely

bigger than compliments. But that's a good thing too, because even the big celebrities that that I look up to and looked up to, that was like something for them like give me my gave me my coodos, my my my, my cheer, feeling that they was in tune into something of my work. That's real dope, man, Yeah, that's real. What's the weirdest thing that happened to you man on the Hollywood side as you did the movie. I know You've got some fans stories and somebody that just really

believed that you O G two tone. Now, niggas believe I'm from cranschho Manfia. For real, niggas believe from Crunshaw Maffia. So I'm not from crushow Mafia. That's that's how I got something to do with the copyrights to the name of crunshow Manfia. That's why that's always in the movie. So I'm not from Crunshaw Markea. But I just get a lot of love, bro, I get a lot of love. Ain't nothing like too crazy happened. That's That's that's real dope.

Because I'm doing a lot of times, man, you would be surprised that the people are king different yet you're playing a role in the movie versus you being a real, actual person. Yeah. Now I feel but like I feel if somebody else would have played that road, that they would have had different problems. Yeah, I feel like we have had different problems. But I feel that role went perfect with my image and what people know of me.

So I feel like that's why it was more acceptable. Well, it was the perfect role for you, man, because it was it was authentic. It was all think and everybody in there, no one love you. I ain't never heard about nobody seeing I don't like comfortent minutes. I think everybody. Yeah, you get a lot of love from that because everybody was prob Like. When I saw that, I was like, that's the homio. Even different cryps and different people from out the town like they was happy about it. It

was happy to see me. And you feel what I'm saying. And I'm pretty sure that road right there opened up a lot more opportunities for you there. I got a bunch of ship after that. I did um and ship that we find started back working on. Now that's based on the O G two tone roll off of the out of that movie I did um for tal Well, y'all would say fatal Hillary Swaine, Michael Elie, Tyler Turner directed by Dian Taylor. Um, I did Snowfall. Shout out

to m Hinna Singleton John Sigerson. Actually the first time he called me, I didn't know who he was for me something talking to him and telling me you got the movie for me? Mere telling me I don't I got the part? You think I should go to do some more acting classes and ship like that. I'm like for self for sell, I cut off the phone. And when I tell my brother Kay like, I'm like, who is John Singleton? Thet my my big come with Chili Dead went out for me like, you're stupid motherfucker. You

don't know child single to this nigga. That's more. That's more. This. I was like, oh, Shi said he wanted to do a movie that do you know what's crazy? Man? God's really shining his flight on you, bro, because you're getting opportunities that some people have to work years for and they never get them, but they keep falling and too you. So that means you got a call. And I think some people are really chosen to do the things that they're doing life. I think that everybody get the same

my opportunities, but most people don't. I think more people most people take pauses and give up before they get to see you know, and me, I never gave up. I never took a pause. So I feel like that's why, you know, you get to see a lot of good things happened for him. That's dope, man. So let's talk about complementister. Man. You're married, You've got children, man, right and you know this world we're live in here right now, we're living a really crazy and chaotic times. Man, Right now,

what do you think about society in general to day? Man? I just think, um, I don't think nothing changed, really. I just think it's if you get to see it more, that's that's all. I think. You get to see it more. I don't think nothing change. I think the world was way worse than sneaky years ago. So I think right now, man, like you said, I think we're in the day and age man, and where everything is broadcast. You know, we

got the internet, man. Everybody is on the phone. And I was with my kids the other day and we're sitting and eating dinner. You know, my daughter got her phone out and got his phone out, and I'm like, man, can we put our phones up and just talk, like, let's talk? You know what I mean? Because I'm guilty of that. Sometimes. You know, I'll be sitting there, I'll be checking the scores of game. I might be looking

at the football game. I'm supposed to be out of dinner with my wife, you know, And so I don't learn to put that phone in my pocket. You know, that just happened to I was had at my kids at the house that sept my oldest sign. He wasn't there, But I'm called myself watching the movie with these little motherfucker's. I look around. They all on their phone, watch watching

something else. Ain't that crazy? Man? It's crazy? And then you gotta because they could see anything on there, so you kind of gotta monitor money what they're doing, monitor with money what they're doing. So, yeah, it's crazy. That's the That's another thing I would say that's different right now because we didn't have no phones. Like my kids, I get them the phone when they get eight years old. We didn't have no phones back then, and there we had to be in the house to use the phone.

We went and we use the fucking the the phones that you had to put a changing like that. We was young, you know, yeah, so that what were so accessible for them to see right now, we didn't get to see that unless you know, he was just there are he was into that type of ship. So it was kind of a hidden thing, like the homosexual a thing for what I'm saying, like it's open now you see more people doing it, and now it's a thing, but it was a lot of homoseexes always been. Homo

sexes are right, yeah, always, yeah, they always have. You know, they're a powerful group of people. They pretty much run Hollywood. You know. Now it's they don't have to be Now it's not a bad thing. Before it was a bad thing. Now they say it's not a bad thing. But people don't have to hide who they are anymore. And I think that's you know I mentioned earlier. I'm really big on people living their truth. Be whoever you are. That's your right as human being. Just be who you are.

Don't front only you know, because I have no issues with who somebody chooses to love, Like, I don't care if it don't bother me at all. Don't hold no barrier what I do as a man. So you know, we talked about being kids man and you being an entertainer. How do you different agate? Like, how do you deal with that with your kids? Man? Because your kids may say what Dad? You know what? It's almost like one of them things your daughter for your son is fifteen,

he said you smoking weed every day? And he come up, I want to smoke weed too. How do you handle a little different dynamos? Man, I just be direct with my kids. I'd be direct with them, like just because I do it. I mean it's good, you know. I know they're gonna probably experiment with different things. And I'm still I'm not gonna say like I'm gonna let my kids do drugs and nothing like that. But I want them to be really open with me. I want to know what's going on. I don't want them to be

hiding anything from me. So I'm really direct with things like that. They know it's not a good thing. They call it the grown up story when they see the weed shop or something like that. They're not dumb as people think they are. You know, kids are gonna be kids are really smarter than those are because of those things that they they learned faster. They learned probably even faster than we do. It's like you said, we didn't

have cell phones, gonna let back then. Now they have cell phones, you can google and the thing you wanted, you let your kids cause us curse. You know what, man, I don't make as big as the deal of it as I see it, because to me, they're just words at the pens up. It depends on what they're doing. They come in there and call me a motherfucker. We

have some problems. But if I hear my daughter in a room and she said, oh ship, I dropped something like going there and trip on like I'm a browne ass man, I'm old though it was in fact that my mom still a smack me and my mom if I say damn in the house. You know. So I was raised a certain way, and I'm a little bit different with my kids. I think I think I'm a lot more liberal because, like you said, I want my kids to have a relationship with me. I don't want

my kids that have the high ship, you know. I want to know what's going on with them. Guys. Man, So you know, you like you have a certain level of maturity to you know, I noticed because back in the day, you had little issues with people and stuff. But she was always a cool dude. I was always a cool dude. But you know, you can put any You can put a mouse in the corner, and the mouse is going to try to get out of that corner.

And that's just nature parent and that's just a lot of the things that I that I was put up against. And I know, you know, back in the day, used to have a little disagreements with Forty Glock. I said, disagreements y'all had a wrestling match thing I was looking at the one time. Because I gotta give forty is props. Forty Glock is the richinal Internet nigga. He had everything. He did not your trip out on that he used

to walk around with a camera for. He got you be sitting on the ball, thirty million dollars writing on dog. He's sitting on a whole bunch of money, man. And I heard recently, and this was something that made me feel good because I'm all about unity and peace. You and Forty made amends. Yeah, I wasn't Vegas. You know, we got a spot out there. Shout out to mis rit ja he um president of test self right now, you know, shout out to Misty Jack and my older shot out there. So we always in Vegas a lot.

So I'm out there with my boy Bob when the studio and forty block is a friend of his. So he like, man, what's up. You'll niggas need to squash that ship. Guy, I'm like laying called for they glack right now, called him chapter that before. I said, that's dope. After after a conversation, man, And that's what I tell people. I say, Man, you can't always just assume the worst with people, because if you ever actually sit down, we don't do enough for that. As black people, we're gonna

sit down and have conversations. We just assume this dude over here is the ops. So I'm bumming on him as soon as I see him, and that dude might mess around to be one of your best friends. If you actually say I don't have a conversation, he said, that's crazy. Man. Do you ever see any um. I don't never. I don't even know what you in game situation was, if it was one. Do you ever see

yourself making amends with game? Man? Game don't have a problem that's dope to here, man, Game don't have a problem. It's it's like I really I feel like like I've grown, like I'm not. It's not like Game in a Black Wall Street no more. You feeling like it's compliments now. So it's like I've did everything I could do with the Black Wall Street and with that, I'm a different entity now. So it's kind of like us coming together doing business. That's dope. Is where we are. That's dope

right there. So you have your own label and everything right now, what's the name of your label? We got Money Hug Group and we got oh hustle no feelings. Oh that's no feelings. That's dope. How you come up with that? Well, that's no feeling. That's a part of the ship with man, my god, Mouse, that's real. That's real dopes. Money Hug Group. That's something we've been standing on since I came in and ship let's before Man, it's gonna you know, keep on going after me. That's dope. Man,

How big is your roster? And I got a couple of dope artists right now, and we um we stretched out all of it, we guys. But yeah, I think I'm a good challenge, scout feeling, and I got good relationships with these, with the people that that that's on a roster. And so we got ko he Gota Miami. We got Mike Bigangelo, he had the d C. We got side of that side of inside of James. She from Cleveland, but she out here right now with shout shout out to Cleveland. She that was a motherfucker too.

We got gr six Sony from out here. You gotta a little Timmy real t really here on Arraster and um, I said, right now, that's real dope. So what's your overall vision for the future? Man? What do you see you doing with all your little different enterprises? Man? Man, Like, I love everything I do realistically, so I'm gonna always do it. But my thing is just to create more for other people. You feel me like, I love teaching,

I love giving opportunities. So me, I'm always ain't no telling brom I could never be the word that they say successful. I can never be that because I'm always wanted more. I'm always want a bigger house, I'm always on a new car, I'm always want some more money you're giving, So I can't even tell you I'm gonna be at the teen years because I can't project that big. That's the dope. That's the dope thing out of man.

The longer you keep striving and achieving for more, Man, it ain't no ceiling to it, you know what I mean. I ain't. I ain't no successful when you got to get it, do it again when you could lose it or something like that. You get what I'm saying. So I'm gonna just I'm gonna keep going whatever come my way. I'm gonna take advantage of it. Yeah, So let me ask you this, man. I asked a lot of weird questions.

So if you don't get mad, man, you know, we're in a situation right now, man, that where the economy it all bubbled up for a lot of people. You know, everybody was out there getting They had the unemployment scams going, they had the P P P loans going and everything and all that money drive up. Right now, Man, where would you say, man, if if you've got named to be the president of the United States today, Man, what would you do different? Man? Man, y'all want to hear

that from me? Yeah, we do. That's why I asked questions all the time. I'm curiously, what's on your mind. I would stop a lot of ship. You feel them Americans as lazy as a motherfucker from Americans just lazy, I would I would put more into people having to go out and work and take more out of people have been taken care of. Yeah, because that's what happened with that. You know, the whole thing with unemployment stuff.

You had a whole bunch of people, man, that was getting unemployment manager never had they never had real job in the first place, and so it's kind of the people up the deed had real jobs that they exactly. You got people that got Section eight that that that is that don't need it. You've got people that's you know, if people just take advantage of anything that they could get. So I would kind of make it. I would kind of make it a way to where you really have

to you gotta work for it. I always thought it should be that way. Man. Don't get me wrong. I don't want nobody custom me out oft there, but I've always thought did a lot of people, especially are people we use welfare for a crunch? Yeah, you know, you got everything child's a poor welfare everything that we could

get for free. We don't take advantage of it. That's why people come from different countries and get MS and billions about this motherfucker because they have a different mind frame what they come here for when they come out of the line, when they come here to get especially where they come from. That's the difference. We could just get government assistance, we could do that. They don't have. We don't have their mind frame. We could go to school for free. We could get loans and can't get

you know, loan, We can't get loans for houses. Were couna get school grants. It is more than houses. They're like, it's backwards for us to be funked up out here. That's why were That's what I would change that. Well, you know what the whole premise like you just said some whole premise of school. I'm a big proponent of education, man, but I also believe that everybody is not meant to go to a for a year universe. You got some

dudes that's good with their hands. Maybe we have need to bring those programs back, like the trade programs back for people that want to be carpenters with people that want to be plumbers and stuff like that. And that's a big thing in mind, man, because right now, you've got a lot of people that wind up going to school because that's what their mom and their daddy telling they can do. So they wind up going to school, wasting four or five years and getting the dead on

top of that. So now not only do they not have a degree, or even if they do to get a degree, it's some ship that they don't really want to do, sitting that, you know what I'm saying. So they're just sitting there, and I think we got a big problem. And I'm glad that you say that because you're younger than me. Man, it's a lot of really lazy people out There's a lot of lazy motherfucker's out there, dogs that don't want to get up and go to work.

They don't want them. They think somebody is supposed to just give them something. I'm pretty sure you know, speaking on that, I'm gonna get to this point right here. How many friends have you lost, man, because they want you to take care of the countless countless? Like I've had friends like really had conversations with me like what it's working for you, it's not working for me. Type

of ship for me like it's just crazy. So and in that aspect, I just you know Rick Ross saying, instead of beefing with you, instead of beefing with your homies, just give us some distance. That's what I'm into. I'm not in there being mad at the nigger. No how they feel, are they energy and not. I'm gonna just stay away from them at this point. That's it. That's why I'm at with it. That's the best thing to do, man, because I tell everybody man when they first that's from

my son's own up to just my homies. I'll tell them. As soon as they took some money, I say, man, you better learn how to say no. Tho was the most powerful word in your vocabulary. And just say no. Don't get no explanation, no reason behind it. You don't have to say my compliance, not a longingly to do this, just telling motherfucker no. They only hurt for a couple of minutes to be a real nigked And and sometimes and sometimes I'm gonna tell you another secret you ever had,

Old Nickel, tell you can buy a nigga out your life. Yeah. Sometimes, man, giving the homely that five hundred thousands of that rack dog you don't want to be bothered with that motherfucker. No, we're going to give him that money. You never have to worry about dealing with him again, to keep it red with him, you know what I'm saying. So what's next on the rising man for complent minutes? Man? What you got coming up next? Dog? I can't say the

album tier right now, but we're dropping an album. Nice project. West Coast look gonna look like some brand new nineties ship and feeling from from every aspect from the clothing to you know, there's all original natural ship. That's dope. I always think nineties proceeces. That's like, that's the ear I came on and I was a young niket back then. I was running the streets. Man, I'm nicing ship for you too, before you lay too. Oh for sure, my

damn should want to hear. Let me ask you this man you're being from company, who was your favorite rapper coming up? My favorite rapper coming up? My parents were older, so I was listening to older ship when I was coming up, like Marvin Gaye rather Franklin and all that ship. That's the good ship. Though my dad had a Bucky joint, so magic all the cigarette smoker and and and newspapers

and ship and loud music and drinking going on. I'm running around that motherfuckering playing pool or you know that that was my environment. Have old appearances and motherfuckers had I had a step pops. Man. I don't know what my mama had going on. Man, but he was a good nigger. He actually gave me his last name and everything, Willie Still. He was probably like twenty years older than my mom. Years old than my mama player think it,

rolled around with a cigar on. This had the two piece leasures all the time, Cadillac right and being raised by older person give you a different perspective and stuff. You know, he was from Mississippi, man, you know what I'm saying, rest in peace, Pops. But man, I appreciate you coming on and I want to give me some of that good music. Man, I got you, and you know what I'm saying, get the people, man, your socials

and everything. Oh yeah, so everything compliments And they said, y'all check it out, Um, make sure you'll follow O G. Two tona movie on Instagram. We're working at right now. Make sure y'all shout out the best of mine. Too, but should working with me on this project. Shout out the DJ seal, Shout out the mouse, Shout out to all the artists that's on it. Uh, this is a lot coming. Man. Just funk with us, funk with this channel. Let's do it. Hey, you know what, Man, let me

ask you one more question. I gotta ask you about this, and I knew I can't talk too much about it. O G two tone? Man, is it gonna be a prequel? It's gonna be it's a series. It's gonna be a serious and then we're gonna do something big to follow up after that. That's dope. Ma, I'm seeing man, that's dope.

I'm gonna be checking for that one right because I always thought your character I was hoping, like when I saw your character in that movie, I said, oh, ship man, like this is you know an O G two tone? I guess was the person that they just embellished to put in the movie just have a cool scene. It was a real person. Came up with that, You came up with the whole thing. Yeah, I came up with that because I felt like it's a dude. I know that too tag from Bunny As you know, he had gainst,

but he liked it. He had gainster, but he like he gotta he could tell a story. You get what I'm saying. The part of telling that story is implementing while you're at action, so per se, Like we're walking into my neighborhood when I'm younger, we see some enemies walking by. We let's say we put out a strap on him with something and we ain't gonna beat him up, and then we just went embarrassing. Really, take off your plants to run across the street naked before we shoot

you and something. Then we go to the hood like, yeah, we just saw this bust. That's nigga, made him whit running across the street naked, bitch ass nicket, this and this right, so we're gonna laugh about it, but there's some gangster shit in it, right. That's that's the type of ship that I would get from too tag feeling. So that's why I named him to Tom. That's dope man, that's dope man. That's a crazy man. Well we got to hear y'all appreciate y'all check it out