Episode 148: Rappers Gunna, Young Thug hit w RICO

stuff is a rapper. I think you're just generally trying to tell stories about stuff that you've seen, stuff that you've heard just pretty much, you know, you're pretty much just making um, making tales of the hood, you know what I mean, the neighborhood. They really starting to hold cats accountable for that. Now. Well, well, hey, ain't that freedom of speech when you I mean, like I said, like I was staying earlier. Um, I've told tales from the hood. Um, stuff that I've witnessed, stuff that I

might have or might not have participated in. Um. But you know, when you look at it as as being on record or writing a book or doing a movie, it's supposed to be freedom of speech. But I guess they're trying to associate this y s AL click Young Slime Life to criminal activities. You know, nigga's claiming the faction and then going out doing dirt. So now they're anybody who's tied to y s L, They're they're bringing

them in. It happened to be one of the one or two of the you know rappers uh with Young Thug happens to be affiliated with YSL. So Um, freedom of speech has always been questioned because it seems to me only certain people can say what they want to say. Getting Yeah, I mean, that's just it. Um. You can try to use the defense of I'm just telling the tale. You get me just because I said on record the nigga got his wigs split and they used the draco

and he got shot five times. You know, they're now trying to see if we probably had some murders where nigga got popped with a certain gun and got shot five times. So that's how they're trying to make connections as to you know, a nigga having freedom of speech and you can say fuck the police or fuck this or fuck that if you want to. Well, I see when they do it like like young Dog, like mo three. These catch is rapping about these murders and they actually happened.

Then they're going back on social media and they're talking about it. So they put theirselves in the trick bag. Because the police surfed this ship here. They they watching everything that's going on. This is how they know what's going on with these dudes. So you basically put yourself in a situation every time you get on social media, every time you own a platform, doing something in your songs.

So it's pretty much, you know, they thought that they're getting caught up like that because they're putting it out there to the world, letting them know how they're getting down. So that take away from freedom of speech. You know, I don't know, and this is what they're saying. I guess. On May Knife Young Thug was arrest that at this crib. They came this crib and they had a fifty six

count gang indictment. According to the indictment, the rapper and twenty seven other people, including Gunner, allegedly conspired to violate the Georgia Criminal Racketeering Law. The government claims that ys L Young Thugs rap collective and label also known as Young Stoner Life, is a criminal gang with ties to the National Bloods organization. Specifically, the twenty eight people named an indictment are all charged with conspiracy to violate the

State's Raggeteer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO. That's Jordan's version of the federal law originally designed to fight organized crime. Under this statute, persecutors must prove that the defendants committed to least two specific offenses within the ten year period that were part of a raggeteering scheme. It found guilty. Penalty RICO include up to twenty years in prison,

a monetary find or both. Young Thug is also charged with participating in the criminal street gang a state violations, also carrying a potential prison sentti the twenty years Gunna's charged. The only under RICO charges against others names in the indictment stand murder, attempted murder, robbery, assault, car jacking, and theft, along with possession of drugs and firearms. You know, with Young Thug, the prosecutors claim he co founded y sl See this is the set of President right here. Because

what they're doing that sounds like a rap crew. Young Slime Life you know, you got we may have a rap crew called the Gangster Chronicles Life or whatever. That don't mean we out there committing crimes. That's just the name of a crew. But but they're doing is they're using all this stuff too pretty much put people in the Greeks. What they're doing is when they see that type of activity, they put a task force on it and down they're watching them. Now, they're tapping them. Now

they see that he might be supplying the hood. And I think we talked about this one time before eight when you was in the hood and niggas's accent, YadA YadA. But no, I ain't getting down like that. I'm I mean, you're making money. So these guys believe that when when when you out of here and you you get successful and making a lot of money, you supplying the hood with weapons, drugs and all this other ship speaking of the police. So now they got a task force on you.

Now they're linking you to all different types of ship. You don't just go get twenty eight motherfuckers and say y'all working together. It just don't happen like that. So they're watching these cats, they're looking at these videos and they dissecting that ship. So now we got a problem, am I right, I'm a I'm all right, No, you have a you have a huge problem, because this is what I think right here, right, they're telling these cats

pretty much, let's say they got a homeboy. You know, all their homeboys ain't rappers, right, if they got any homeboy, it might be just one cat in the neighborhood. They're selling dope, you know, it might be selling a little bit of weak. Because we ain't legal on the national level. They're still locking people up in Georgia behind marijuana. So if you got a home be up at this pushing a few pounds of weed, probably on shout a couple

of niggas. All of that stuff spans under that one organization, so you don't really have nothing to do with them. Uh and gonna it's whatever, homies, they got this doing something wrong. Whatever. And that's what I explained to my key, is like you're quite explaining to your sons. The company you keep can get you through when the grease is well, yeah,

the motherfucker yeah, And that's what it is. But the moment they start locking up to see eight, you had some pretty profound lyrics back in the day so show. And if they start really and this ain't the first time. Remember we had Macminister on the show. I think they used this song his rap lyrics to kind of throw him, you know, to indict him on murder too. If they start doing this, eight's to stop them from going to go dig up your old archives and digging up old

because they ain't no um. It ain't no um statue with limitations on the body. Now, I'm I'm to see that was the thing about me when I wrote songs. Yeah, I might have participated in a little corner slanging, you know, And of course I told it me a strap and you know, but I'm not gonna turn around and and go killing nigga last night and then turn around and right a rapt today and put it out on a

record that's not for one of them. I'm I know enough and and seen and then in and no niggas who pulled dry byes and killed niggas and shot niggas that I can come up with tails from the hood. You get me. But I'm not dumb enough to know. Last night I went motherfucking sold two keyloads of motherfucking dope and tomorrow I'm gonna put it on record and

rap about it. Or last night I hooked up with so and so and I had to shoot a nigga because he was coming at me with the faux fIF and woomthy womb knowing I carry a forty five around. And last night I got into it with a nigga over some dope and I had to shoot him. It's just but but but the youth today, and I don't want to say all but some want to prove that

I'm that motherfucker that I'm talking about. You get me, So I don't just want to hypothetically tell you a tale from the hood when I'm saying that nigga's we ran up on nigga's ski mask and I dumped on nigga woomthy womb. These young niggas is doing that ship and then they're going to the studio and they're rapping about it. They're not thinking, I don't know, I don't know if if if they're so naive to think like, oh,

they can't use that ship against me. It's just a record. No, but you're telling you're talking about a criminal activity that really happened that the one times is investigating, and if I could go grab your stone and play it and hear you describe to the t of what the funk I'm investigating, I'm gonna come get your dumb ass and I'm gonna put the song up in court and go, look a nigga was shot and killed with a forty five. This nigga on his record said I shot and killed

the nigga with a forty five. You get me. That's the dumbness of it, instead of hypothetically like you know, some niggas came through and you know you can't put

yourself in that. Even in that arena. We can go rap about something else, go go rap about something else, but don't have the balls in the audacity to go out commit a crime last night and then run to the studio and go, yeah, we just came off a hundred and something something street and we had the draco and the nigga jumped out and shot two niggas and you at the studio making the songs about it, and like I said, that's the young that's the young ship, though, James,

you feel me, because the old ass nigga ain't gonna pull no ship like that. First of all, I ain't gonna take a nigga with me if I go go do some ship. So there's what I don't know what the funk is going on, Okay. And the second of all, I ain't gonna be dumb enough to get on fucking record and start rapping about some ship I just pulled three hours ago. It's like a nigga papa nigga and then go let's go to the studio and make it

so good, right. And the cold thing about it is when you go to court, the jury don't know you. The jury really don't know this gang like you really don't know this wrap life, and automatically they as soon you're guilty anyway because they don't understand it. But all they hear is what you're saying in these songs, man, and they find you guilty because, like I said, the majority of the white people don't live this world, don't

live this life. And you're guilty already if you're trying to go you're trying to go to court against a motherfucker who's still mad at Snoop Dogg and niggas for saying bitch on record thirty years ago. You get me, and then you want to get in to stand what a motherfucker talking about. You popped the nigga forty five and killed tean and I did this and we jumped out on the nigga wound, and you think you're gonna

get man. Man, Please no, because you know you can sell as much dope as you want to on a record, right and it may have been some stuff you was doing fifteen, twenty years ago, twenty five years ago, so they can bring that back up on you. But when you talk about taking a life years old and somebody it's ever especially if you're damn mass go to the studio or rap about it. Like I said, hypoth hypothetically telling the tale from the hood. I mean we've lost

the tales from the hood. You know a nigga who does shot the nigga. I know a nigga who does shot a nigga. I know a nigga who got his ass beat by the police. I know it nigga who was selling dope. Nigga. That's aw hypothetical ship, that's tells from the hood. Let me tell you what happened to the homie who sold dope and got caught. Let me tell you that what happened to the homie who did a drive by and got caught. Let me tell you

what happened to the nigga who did this. You get me to do that all day, but I'm not gonna be like, yeah, nigga, we hit the block nigga with the Fox five and shot two niggas and one got rookie whoop and his name was Teddy ted nigga and block Block Blop and your homeboy little Fred got killed. That the bus stop and moved people that ship is taking it to before and then nick that nigga rapping

a lot. You know what I'm saying. For nigga who just supposed to be a rapper, You showed telling a lot of in detail ship about a situation that happened a month ago exactly. Now this is what threw him in the grease, I guess. In January two thousand and fifteen, the um young man Donovan Thomas Jr. Was shot in the Atlanta barbershop and a suspected drive by shooting five of young thugs alleged WI Sales associates, including another wire cl rapper, yet Gotti, whose real name is the Diamante

Kendrick are now charged with Thomas's murder. Yet Gotti and the four the People are also charged with the attempt to murder two others three days before the Legs murdered. The indictment asserts young Thugs rented the Silver Infinity sdan that was used in the killing. The indictment claims that Thomas was a rival gang member. Now see young Thugs involved in the conspiracy. Now he might have really rented

that car. Doubt young thug is dumb enough to say, I'm gonna go rent a car and y'all you have to go shoot this nigga. It sounds like he was giving one of his little rappers, one of his little proteges or whatever, one of his little hangers on the car that he was driving. He would and killed him again. So now that automatically in dykes, young thug in it. Now this is where the difficulty is gonna come in

on this. At right, young thug is making a lot of money right now, Gunn is making a lot of money. He's looky is He's making millions of dollars? Dog, Do you think he's going to want to leave that lifestyle to go take one for the team? No? I wouldn't. But I mean the way they think today, they've proven that they with it. They're proven that they down with the circle they hang with. Show you get caught up at the end of the day because you ain't thinking,

You ain't thinking about that ship. You just the home. You just see you with it, You rent it, goddamn card, and then somebody get killed. That motherfucker's on your in your name, give me my association as a motherfucker. But you don't want to get caught up like that. So why would the little honies putting in a situation like that? You know what I'm saying, that's some that's some cold ship right there. Now he can lose the rest of

his life. Money don't matter if you're in the penitentiary, but the rest of your now, no, I damn should don't. Now you remember the look of the cat that's from down there, from Atlanta, the YF and Lucie cat. Hey, yeah, you know he got his own charts. He's in jail right now. You know he's in jail because his own reco indictment. Right they're saying that the UM I guess young Thugs crew stabbed him, had him shanked or whatever like that. So they're bringing up all this right now. Bro.

And I'm gonna tell you between social media rappers, do you know how many times I kind of the other day how many times I heard somebody threatened people's life online. I kind of one day and I heard like seventy five threats that can really get somebody locked up. People online telling people I'm not tripping on him. I killers dude, I kill that person. When did that start becoming so prevalent? When do people start really talking about what they planned

to do? Were in crazy times? Right now? Bro, people been talking about what they did due to a motherfucker from the beginning of the time. Though it's nothing new. Now they're just speaking out on this ship, you know what I'm saying. And it hasn't been escalated to the fact that social media, Uh you know, it escalates a lot of ship. You know what I'm saying, because, yeah, nig I'll be at the house, you know, man, I heard only they got problem and I'll shoot the I

shoot that, my fucker. I ain't worried about that nigger. Like you said, Nigga's been telling niggas from from day one about what they're gonna do a straightforward motherfucker. Ain'ty nigga your grandma telling nigga, I shoot that motherfucker. I

ain't worried about their motherfucker's. I shoot the motherfucker's so like you said, it's being it's just now that it's so up up front in your face with just like it's just like everybody from from a kid, to the to the to the white boy next door, to the to the to the stripper coming out the club, to the to the to the average joe, you get me, The average joe will be on social media right now be like I kill that motherfucker, you get me? And

it's so glorified now. It's like social media glorifies everything. It glorifies. Why do you think social media allows us to get on these platforms and just speak free like that, because now they use this as a tool for the police, use this ship as a tool to come and get your motherfucker's. How can you be on the motherfucking run? How can you be on the run and you on you on Facebook telling everybody but you? He said, how

can you be on the run? But then you on Facebook live showing that they where you at up here at the spot chilling ship what they're doing. So you know they're thinking that they slicking and they have got away. But hey, I'll give a funk and they can tell you live without posters. Some ship cut, he'll go. He'll give the police of the world after he got to stop and make a post and be like, hey, y'all, check out where I'm at right now. Lobsters and ship.

Ain't that nigga? Ain't ain't the fans looking just like a perfect example. Gunna right, was supposed to been running from the Feds already. He's supposed to turn to self in for some ship. And he said, funk that I'm a part of the sovereign society and I don't believe in the government. He's supposed to ben turned to self in. That's why they arrested him when he jumped off that plane. Where he went? Was he in Detroit or wherever he went? Oh? No, forty two dug that's who that was. Forty two dug

Um was was on the run. Was supposed to turn himself in for something. But how are you? How are you on the run? And you had basketball games. I've just seen this on on the line that's the dude. He's got forty five years. No, I don't know if he I don't know how long he got. But one of days supposed to be and turned their self into a gun charge or something he had, and he's supposed to turn to self in like six months ago, and he didn't turn himself in. But you wanted the you're

a popular rapper right now? How are you on the run from the marshals? And you like like then you got songs on on on Madden and and in in video games and and you got national fucking albums out and you're sitting at a fucking basketball game, Like I don't understand that, ship, Like, how are you on the run?

But like I said, niggas who the world is different now as far as with Internet and posting and like like I used to I used to think it was crazy for motherfucker's who just want to sit down and get ready to eat and they just want to start taking pictures of their food and posting it because like you want to let them mother know what you're eating, Like god damn man, Like like if if everything is so extreme now with with social media and it glorifies

everything to where it's like that tale of of of the motherfucking killer who wants the attention You get me, I want I want motherfucker's no that I strangled eighty bitches, and you get me, and I want them to broadcast it, and I want you to fucking I want you to broadcast my manifesto and ship like that, like you killed eighty motherfucker's and you want to be a Hollywood star like it's the craziness behind it because some of us come from the era of I want my ship to

be quiet on the set. Yeah, I don't want the motherfucker to know where I live. I don't want the motherfucker to know what I got, what I do, none of that. Fuck it. If you want to think I'm broke as a motherfucking joke, ain't it. If you want to think I'm a bum and I got nothing and I'm broke and I'm living off of welfare and all that, that means, that means you don't know a goddamn thing about me, And I love it. You give me. I've never been a nigger who wanted to be like, Yeah,

I'm from the center. Yeah that's me. I'm over here today and tomorrow I'm over here, and then next week I'm over here, and then we got this, and then we're doing this, and I got all of this, and I got stacks to this and just hey, everybody, look at me. I never want to be that dude. Yeah, exactly. Now listen to this and this all kinds of stuff. So this means that they gotta be taping these cats, right,

because I guess. On February, two other young thugs other associates discuss how to get young thugs permission for a second murder attempt on the incarcerated wife and Lucy. The indictment is one of the two wives. The other associates sought young things permission to murder wife and Lucci, and then they got another one where they attempted murder on the Atlanta police officer. See these dudes is in the whole bunch of stuff man. First of all, who go

out plot and he hits the murdering officer. Like I said, it's been from the beginning of the time, Bro, It's just different. Now they're broadcasting and ship. They're putting it out on this ship. It's different now, but back then, same ship. It ain't the first time motherfucker talked about hitting the police officer or whatever. But I'm just saying the way they conduct business today is fucked up. It's fucked up. So you know, that's one thing about ship.

Shoot would change his phone number every goddamn week. He wouldn't change phone because he knew their motherfucker's that when they was investigating death roll, you knew. So it's a certain way to be. But you can't quit what you're doing. What you gotta tighten it up a little bit. The average Joe couldn't call so you can talk about no streets ship. So these dudes are just careless man, These little cats out here loving the world, living it, running

around here taking pictures with stacks of money. I just goddamn phone and the females is feeding off of that ship,

and they just loving the ship. They loving attention. They want the whole world to know, you know, a rich motherfucker ain't gonna show you a rich I think it's just it's just the ego of the generation of what's you know, what's what's trying, what's controlling As far as what we know is hip hopping in that in that in that side, you know, the youth control a lot these young cats, you know, you know, they got a

lot of ship that that are growing. Motherfucking teenager and kid fantasize about fantasize about having you know, uh, it's a dream to wear fucking thirty platinum change with diamonds and you know, ride around and rolls races with guns and you know, uh, like I said, I got a fucking seventeen year old son. He loved that ship. You know, I want what if I'm taking him to football practice or school or whatever. All he playing is Papa Nicka, Papa Nicka. I got a shot at nigga dropping nicka

fucking nigga up. Then I tell your bitch, fuck that bitch, funck that whole nigga. I papa peel and feel and I don't. I don't. I just sit there and listen to it because it's what it's what's it's what's ruling right now. It's what's ruling. So try to explain to him the music and the lifestyle he listening to. The song he glorifying can potentially be a problem for him.

If he liking it like that, one day he might be in a situation that type of ship pop in your head what you should do when you in a situation. So you gotta explain to him that, man, these guys are just rapping. These guys most guys ain't real gangsters that rapp Let's see. It's it's crazy because the dudes you're talking about are getting indicted and they're in prison and they're just getting let out of prison. And they

that's all he listened to. He listens to he loves, he loves some NBA young boy, and we know that that that that that little that that that's my son right there. He's been through some some some a lot of ship, you know, the fads, d O J and all this ship he rapping about and he in to it with everybody and nigga. Every other song is I shot a nigga, shot a nigga, popa nigga, popa nigga, fucking nigga, nigga. I don't like this nigga, I don't like this, and he named niggas by name, Fuck this, nigga,

fu this nigga, Fuck this nigga. And my son we rode the school in the morning and that's it with he with this time for football practice. That's what he playing. I shouted, Nigga, I shot at nigga, popa nigga, fucking nigga, Nigga got dumper, Nigga killing nigga. Don't run upon me. I hit you with that this, and I hit you with that that, and I just look at him and

I pay attention to the music. But then I think my son knows that if any situation came down, I think he knows I would take the blunt of a lot of ship, so he doesn't have to put himself in a situation that the music might influence him to get into some stupid ship, because I think he already know any stupid ship that came his way, I would me take the blunt of it. All right, Hey, I'm gonna read some rap lyrics back Knees from nine and

ninety three. I believe I want to know if these rap lyrics get you and died at the day, I'm in too deep. I don't kill the motherfucker, and I just can't sleep. One time is trying to do a smooth creek, and on top of that, Nigga's after me for fucking one of the hood rats. I ain't got time for the fucking bitch story. Niggas want me gotta come in my territory, and they know you can get the fist niggas coming, they go get done in their own risk. What is it all about? Should I leave it?

Should I stay because I don't want to punk out? Or what should I do? The homely stay the hoods where it's good? Homeboy? I thought you knew so in the process to show the hood my best. No time to react. Caught too in the chest. Now who's looking down? I guess I'm finished. I'm going out like a straight

up minute. Yeah, Okay. Those lyrics basically are speaking to you in the hype up that to conform if you see, if you if you look at if you listen to it, none of those lyrics actually tell you yesterday we went and killed the nigga, or it doesn't name a specific situation. Okay, we popped the nigga with a with an a K on this block. Your homie from six five got killed

with the motherfucking you get me. It's a difference. And then the way the story is like it's being like a story being told, is that I'm trying to show you. And then it's already being mapped out because it's from a movie and a story that I'm trying to tell you. So it's a hypothetical it's the thought process that I'm trying to wrap to you in the thinking or in the form of what a nigga in that situation might do. You feel me, I'm not actually trying to pump up

the fact that I'm beefing with a nigga. I'm basically telling you a hypothetical story. You know why, because you just got through watching this movie. You just got to watching this movie. So now I'm trying to put you in the sense of this character from this movie and what he's having to go through living in this lifestyle. You get me, so that it's a difference of as far as what you're saying today. Niggas ain't on phones talking about me wrinten cars and I'm going to do

dry bis. You get me. Niggas ain't no niggas in my lyrics. Uh, when I'm saying I can't sleep, I have killed the motherfucker. That's the hypothetical movie I'm building because, like I said, you just watched this movie, okay, And as a sense of la last week a nigger that we got beef that that I'm gonna put it in a hypothetical like this, me and another rapper is beefing, right,

mm hmm. This other rapper gets shot last week. I put out a song today describing this rapper getting shot to a t and then you catch the niggas on the phone talking about how eight sent us to shoot this rapper. Yeah, they're gonna they can indict me for the lyrics all day. Yeah, you know what, it was crazy. The reason I bought up that song eight is because I know it's talking about a movie, right, But was dangerous is about the day, is that a different attorney

can get a hero of parass or his ass. Look at you and go to the song that you wrote that you might just be talking about some ships you don't sing, and the just using your imagination as an artist, and then you can actually probably tie you with some ship dog. Yeah. But then I got the evidence to go back and go watch the movie. I'm described all now. If that movie had never happened, then you're talking a

different story. Because if I get on record and tell you I didn't kill the nigga last night, and I can't sleep and Woopy wound and comes to find out a nigga got killed last night. Even if that song was in the eighties, if you played that song today with the technology and all this ship, these taskboards, they're

gonna look into it. I'm going to if I'm living that lifestyle and I'm claiming that I'm still this active ass nigga, and I have the and I have the balls to put on this record that last that I can't sleep because I didn't killed the motherfucking the one time was creeping on me. Of course, I gotta know that they're gonna listen to this song you give me. That's the dumb ship behind it, because knowing they're looking at me, you give me, I already know. You can't

be that still like that. That's the beauty of this ship. You can't be that dumb to know you're not getting watched. Can you be that fucking stupid and naive to know that you don't pull some ship and you're not getting watched? But you still I don't think these young cats know that the police got a task for task force with maybe twelve motherfuckers sitting at the desk, going through YouTube, going through Facebook and just searching and serving these dudes.

Once they see one thing, that's just like the task force that that can fun with the Taliban that knows um when when terracest is coming to the United States, you broke fouled. So once they put you in that data, everything that you say, potentially for anything pretending to killing, raping or whatever, it's gonna pop up. Now they own you. Come on, they've been doing this ship from the beginning

of the time. They've been doing this ship, so it's not brand new, and these young cats don't know that they're doing this just because if if, if, if I'm still active in the drug game, do I want to make records about me selling drugs? Probably not, it's something to talk about it. And that's what they're doing. You get me because like like like you said, in this day and age, with technology, you're making it simple for motherfucker.

You get me making a simple for him. I could kick back as a motherfucking one right now, just sit up on Instagram and go through my whole neighborhood of where I'm patrolling, because all these niggas got Facebook and Instagram pages, and one of these niggas gonna slip up. Somebody gonna be showing the pistol. Somebody's gonna do a video showing the pistol. Somebody gonna do a video showing some dope or some ship. They're making it easy. So if you put yourself in them situations like yeah, yeah,

ship nowadays, we used to fight that ship. Oh, you can't use that ship. I'm just wrapping thirty years ago. You can't use the fact that I was talking about a nigga getting killed and then now you've got three young kids who went out and killed the motherfucker because they say, remember, oh, I killed the nigga because I was listening to eight or I was listening to Tupacle, I was listening to the scar face and they told me you had a popper motherfucker before he popped you.

So I popped the motherfucker. You didn't the first forty eight And I said, just all these your cats, look at the first fourty year hours. That's how they're getting them. They probably know who you are. All they do is go to your Facebook page, look at you and see all this ship, guns and everything else, and they come get you. Yeah, they don't even got to know your name. What's the nicke street name. What's his nickname? Oh, his name is Little something something. They go right up, pull

up Little something something. They go through your ships grow and then black. Look is that a full five he got? Is that an a K forty seven right there? Is that? What was the murder weapon used in the cald Oh it was what it was a Fox five and the a K. Look, there's the two murder weapons right there. They make it so sick. And like I said, everybody nowadays is a rapper, right so, all you gotta do is go to Facebook or Instagram. One of them got

a YouTube page. You're gonna go to YouTube. You're gonna pull up the video and then they describe in the whole murder right there. We pulled up in that thing. We jumped out with that thing. We hit that nigga with the They even describing the murder web with that photy coal and that too three or that drake go or that WOOTI womb. You even telling what pistol you used.

Do you feel like sometimes you like with the new rappers the day that that you played a big part in these cats wrapping the way they wrapped, because your wrapper is totally different. The way you do it is totally different the way uh Ice team. I used to wrap all right now, because rap rap wouldn't have been

rapper what I rap wasn't around. So what are you gonna say then that influenced you the gang bang and carry your rag in a strap and claim your neighborhood and all that, Because it wasn't Wrapped that made me want to do that ship. Well, it's not just Rapper's movies. You know, a lot of guys no matter that. It wasn't a movie that made me want to claim the neighborhood.

It was the niggas I saw every day on the block getting money and what I went through as a as a kid whose mom struggled, who didn't have a father around, no older siblings to guide me in the right direction. I didn't see no movies about black niggas gang banging or motherfucker's whatever. I saw that ship on the block every day when my mama took us to school, and I saw niggas out there with fresh ail caminos and Dayton's and motherfucking bitches and all that. That's what

influenced me to gang banging. It wasn't a movie or it was what I saw every day and waking waking up like damn, man, damn, you give me that. That's what made me want to turn it. It wasn't a record or a movie I saw or none of that, because to me, that's it would make believe. You get me records and fucking TV and movie. That's was make believe. I could stand out on my porch right now, look two houses down and see the freshest new cars. Could

I'm talking about nigga. I grew up in Spooktown, so motherfucker, the nigga's over there had that nigga. It was on and cracking. So I got to see ship and that was influenced me to won't be game banging, sell dope now wrapping made me want to be a rapper. Limousines and fat gold chains. I didn't think that ship was gonna come. I don't know. I didn't cross the two. Maybe I was too young, but I didn't cross the two as that coming from the dope ship. I looked

at that. That's coming from being a rapper. So I wanted to start making records. It didn't influence me because I was already game banging when the music ship started, you get me, So I felt like I need to tell tales about the neighborhood because I don't know shit else. You get me. I didn't know nothing about party in or you know, growing up like the Fresh Prints or wrapping like Young MC or Tone Local. It was just party, party, let's have fun modele nah because all my block niggas

was coming through shooting every day. When I grew up at niggas was selling crack, making money. So that's all I knew the rap about. I didn't know how to rap about. You know, a party tonight over here, grab you a girl and LISZT dancers. I didn't know that. I knew that tonight somebody canna come down the street and blast, or tonight somebody gonna go down to jail because they got dope on the corner, or tonight somebody

finna get killed or that's all. That's how I started rapping because I just saw a ship that went on in the neighborhood every day, and at that time, for us on the West Ols, that's what our music was. So I didn't get influenced by that. But being me and then being a kid in another state like a Texas or Kansas or whatever, and listen to m C eight on record and m C A talk about how you know Compton it is and they was cripping and

blood and niggas was selling dope. Yeah, I might be influenced by that ship a kid from who who just from out of town, And yeah, m C A might influence me to start gang banging because I'm looking at his videos and khaki suits and seeing low riders and ship like that. That ship might influence me to gang bang and pick up a strap and start claiming the neighborhood I ain't never been from. Because influences a motherfucker.

You're right, you know. I think these guys got a big roblem when when they make money, they think they got to go back to the to the neighborhood and show the homies that they made it. I don't see why you'll be worth twenty million and think that you gotta go back to the hood. Twenty million means you

made it out of the hood. You you made it out of the struggle some niggas, James, But can you answer this, do you feel that some niggas were never that from the hood and these niggas go off and make the twenty thirty million, and then they want to come back and prove that they are significant from the hood because they got money and fame. Now, yeah, I mean we have certain individuals in our neighborhood that made it and come back to the hood. See, it's different,

it's different levels to to being in the hood. You got the game, since you got the shooters, you got the good dresses, you got the the homies that know how to sell dope and say any money is different shipped to it. You got those that that wasn't with it, it it ain't about it, but wanted to live the life of the big homie because I respect it. So by coming back to the hood you got money, everybody's gonna respect you because they want to be around you

because they know what's worth. They know what they know you're worth. And there now you you giving and help and everybody. But what they got to realize is that day you stop looking out for one homie, he's gonna be mad. Now he's plotingum. And they don't understand that part. I don't think I can make or be worth thirty million and go back to the hood, to the hood

and get into that type of activity. Uh, because it only takes one person to say all the big homie he buying all the homies, guns, all the homies, you're prying all the dope. This is how these catches getting caught up because they want to be a part of the hood, and you know should be told the hood is all we got. You know what I'm saying. If I struggled and I went through it and I did my time in prison, I don't owe nobody nothing. I don't old the hood nothing, so I don't have to.

I don't feel like I gotta go back to the hood to prove to them and they got still got yall. What was unia is that when I was in prison, nobody sent me no money, but I think I got to be there. Yeah. A lot of diggers. A lot of diggers don't want that question you did you get me, James. A lot of niggas don't want that question of how uh how valuable they were to the So a lot of niggas go back to buy that motherfucking uh that

that that authentication you did me? Uh. A lot of niggas, like you said, for a nigga who felt like I paid my dues, and I don't want nobody ship, So I'm gonna go where I go. If I move out the hood, I'm gonna set up and I'm gonna do something I don't feel like. I gotta come back and toss money and buy dope and gun because that's what

the level becomes anyway. You know it ain'tbody can nigga tell you, nigga, come help me get an education from the hood, or come help me get a job, or most of the time, niggas, you slide me some some some heat, or slide me some dope. You get me the reasons why I say I'm gonna come back to the hood and with those that told me get the bunk off the blood like you had homies that told

me that this ain't but you go do that. I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna make sure those catches right because this is one of the reasons why I am why, because you told me to get the off the block. You don't want to see me on the blood. You're gonna want my asks if you see me hanging out that type of ship exactly. Will come back to those cats, now, you know what. Height While we don't

rap lyrics before we go, before we check out. I gotta ask you this because this would always wonder Now you and Quick is the y'all cool now your friends. Now you know, y'all, that's old stuff. You know what I mean, y'all as kids, But at that time y'all was doing it. You was hanging around some pretty crucial people. Y'all. Y'all was out there doing y'all thing, and Quick had

his crew. It could have possibly got dangerous. Do you think at that time, man, that the lyrics that y'all both are talking about, do you think that could have ended up being some bad stuff back then? Oh? Definitely. I mean ship it did, and the dude lost his life behind it, and you know, Quick made a song about it, you know, the fight at the l A. I mean, that's what they came down to, um, And that's why I used to tell people that it was. It was critical. A lot of people, you know, do

ship for records or for amusement or whatever. But when you grow up in a situation like we did as far as growing up in Compton and gang banging was everything. You give me funk a record, funk whatever. Bangings in Compton in that time of my life. That ship, nigga, it was critical to niggas. Like so it got to a point like niggas said, yeah, nigga lost his life and motherfucker's had to start thinking about that because it

could have been way more than that. You get me, It could have been way Niggas knew where Tree Top was, niggas knew what track New Park was, it was nothing. And then, like you said, we were still well. I was. I was one of those niggas who felt like I needed this stay in the hood. You didn't know I was even though I was making records and I was on my third album and I had a house in

Corona and was chilling wooty wound. Nick I got on the ninety one Freeway every day and went to track New every fucking day, pulling up with Rolex watches, own and diamonds and all that fucking hundred thousand dollar cars and all that. And I'm pulling up in trag New every day because I'm still hanging out at the car wash on motherfucking Compton Boulevard and motherfucking and Palmer Block. You know, I did ship like that because I was one of those niggas who grew up in Compton and

just gang banging was everything. You know, it was the hood. It was hanging out in Conton. I don't think i've I don't think until I started rapping and going on tour, I didn't even venture out of the city limits of Compton. I didn't go to l A, I didn't go to Hollywood. I didn't do none of that. Ship. All I did was go to track New Park every day. So yeah, I was one of them niggas who felt like, yeah, I'm going to the hood today and I didn't give

a fuck. So, nigga, it was traps. And then now you're making records, so now you got a little entourage and now you know, you know, you wrote and I'm like I said, I'm still in the city. So it wasn't like we didn't see them and they didn't see us, and it was signed stone up and gestures and all kinds of ship. It could have been treacherous back then, man, that the city of Compton back then was treacherous, but to us. But to us it was cracking. That's how

we looked at it. It was cracking that back then other motherfucker's would have been petrified to live in the city of Compton because niggas was getting shot killed and niggas hit every day. And we looked at that ship, is hey, this is the fucking way of life. It's the fucking way of life, So fuck it. And to be able to pull up out of that motherfucker and look up and be like, fifty years later, niggas like, man, please think that they could have had that ship. But

you and you're Quick as though something totally different. Yeah, we're on something. We're on something. Like you said, we're on some grown as man ship. I mean, you know, I mean it was It was just it was just the naive situations of two young niggas growing up in two different neighborhoods in content. You didn't know. Hey, do y'all realize the impact y'all had? Impact we had because niggas, because niggas was cripping and niggas was blood and and like you said, the city was on fire when me

and Quick was beefing. It was some prompting ship and it was crack And like I said, it didn't even have to be tree top or track. Knew it didn't matter. It was like it was just some cripping blood ship. It was some cripping blood ship. So took sides, and the blood took sides. Even then, maybe we could have had beef. We I could have had beef for the cript said, and it didn't matter back then. You chose your side when me and Quick was beefing. And that's

how it went down. And the city of Compton was hot when it started happening. But like I said, it's something we went through, Lord Willing, we was able to, you know. Unfortunately, you know, people got hurt, somebody lost their life behind it, and we were able to, like you said, we was able to grow up. Because when you're able to grow up and mature, you're able to think differently, and you're able to see ship different you know what I'm saying. And then when you got shipped

to live for man, it's just something different, right. You know. I'm on in motherfucking streets no more. I wasn't in trying New Park no more. I was in Corona, chilling in the house. I'll be swimming in the pool. What the funk I want to be gang bang beefing for with a nigga? You get me? Why do I want to get off the freeway and have to look every fucking corner and check every fucking stop light and stop sign because I'm wrapped beefing with a nigga for some

dang ship. So you know, once the nigga grew up and mature and niggas was like, man to fucking my beef. So what you from tree Top? I'm from Trag Nigga. Here hit this motherfucking blunt And that's basically how it happened. You know, ship here, nigga. You everybody knows where you're from. Everybody know where I'm from. Now what you give me? Now what? Well, why do I got a problem with you?

Now what? Because y'all was kind of the first ones to put it up there, Like to be honest with you, before you always kind of assumed that Rappers was from certain neighborhoods, right, nobody ever actually said it. I think it was one of the first. Quick was one of

the first people to say he was. You didn't really cross the line of letting you know, because if you if nigga already knew where he was from, if you grew up in Compton, you went to school and all that ship, Um, We didn't do that ship for record purposes because we didn't want the sense of being banned or not being played if we was yelling out tree Top or trag New or you know, the mob or whatever.

But it started getting acceptable to the record labels. They started not giving the fun, especially when niggas was beef and it was making records sales that ship. We don't give a fuck. But at in the beginning epic wouldn't be caught me dead saying crip or trig New on the record, man please, They would have snatched that motherfucker so quick. They was already petrified of niggas. Now we're gonna put the record. Then you claiming a second talking

what you're cripping and on Oh my god. Their motherfucker's would have had a heart attack, had an heart attack. They did already wanted. That's why Nigga didn't get really that much promotion and all that ship back then when we was coming up, because their motherfucker's were scared to Nigga's. But they moved. That ship was making money, but they didn't know how to deal with us. Nowadays, they don't

get a fuck. Nigga, claim your hood where your rag, nigga, you could throw up your sad, throw up your side. We don't give a fuck. Just cut us our portion. But back then, hell nah, James and motherfucker's was petrified and nigga's gang banging and you was really ignorant at that time, James, I was very ignorant, very ignorant. Did you take a side? Oh yeah, yeah, Ship, I was

ryd with Quick all day. You know, I'm on this side of and I tell everybody in your story I'm going up rose class and get shot at because I'm I'm bumping the Quick Ship. So somebody was lurking and heard it and popped at me. You know what, This is stupid as a motherfucker back But like I said, it was versa and niggas was like nigga, I wushed them niggas. Would you know you're playing a song nigga niggas shooting at your car, digg that's something crazy. Ship

we had copped on fire. Like how they identify you? That song identified you? If you was playing Quick we knew you was a blood. Yeah. If youmw nigga that niggas and then nigga, you crip and nigga, you didn't have you, nigger. That's it. All we have to do is here coming from your cars. Now you're throwing up and you chasing niggas and you literally chasing niggas. Man, it was it was. It was the fucking car chases and not with the police, nigger. It was Compton was

a maga. Compton was hot man, goodness them days was fired. But like I said, when I told you about a year ago, who would have thought MC eight and and and Mob James will be on the podcast together. Who would have thought that eight and Quick settled day differences and now they're in the studio kicking and be hitting big blunts. I mean. And we had killed each other. We didn't even know each other, but we had killed each other just because of the association of being a

blood or crip. You feel me. These young cats ain't understanding that now y'all holding enough to make money, Now y'all making money together. They don't get that part. Man. It's it's it's crazy. But yeah, like somebody said, it's crazy what motherfucker's do to put themselves in the position of fame nowadays. And it don't matter where it comes to Uh, if I got to tell a nigga about me popping the nigga last night, fucking I'm gonna put

may put it on record. It's just the amount of what niggas will do for fame nowadays, to be famous or become that next celebrity or whatever. So you gotta be really because like I said, you can live your life like I'm cool with everybody. I don't have an issue with now motherfuck on his planet Earth. But for some reason it's motherfucker's who got issues with you? Yeah, with me, And that's just the about it. Money is a different way of making money. It's a different way

of selling selling drugs. This ship here is a different way to pay your bills. Half of us black men don't want to get up and go get a real motherfucking job. Now, let me ask you all this right by everybody growing up pretty much and developing now, I think a lot of people are gonna be lost, James, because see this is gonna set of president and they've been doing it right. First of all, half the cats out here making these records is lying like a motherfucker.

They're lying. They're just talking about ship. They got active as imaginations. Right now, we bring the police into it. They're out there looking at people online and stuff. It's gonna be a lot of people going to jail, bro. Yeah, there's gonna be a whole lot of people going to jail, bro. And it's it's really some sad ship dog. But do you slow down doing what you do because it als a gangster you know what I mean? But you can actually clean it up. Nor you don't have to put

certain things out there in your songs. You have to clean it up and and and I can say this, Look at eight, he's still going on tour. He's not out. I'm just learned how to transition ship into you know, I don't know if you want to call it a grown up form, but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tell niggers I'm still on the block trying to hustle and and serve um. You know, I ain't got beef. I'm not riding in my car creeping looking for niggas with the Faue five and ship like that. You know.

My thing is now is to tell niggas to try to keep hustling, try to come up um. You know, Uh, yeah, you're gonna run across situations that you know you might have to you know, watch yourself in. But the main goal is to try to be sustainable, make money and watch out for your people, you know, um, because that's what really at the end of the day. Everybody want to be successful, have a little money in their pocket,

and live good. So I feel you can transition that into what I came from as far as you know it still got the hood mentality and still know how to talk to niggas and come from the block. But you know, I can't be telling niggas, you know, to go on the block and serve you and shoot out a nigga and just because you're a cripp and he

a blood or vice versa. That's just you know. But h I don't try to motherfucker's skull and nigga either, because like I said to young, I used to be nineteen eighteen to myself and you couldn't tell me ship as an eighteen nineteen year old kid, um kang banging was everything. The hood was first, Uh, we get money and fuck everybody else. And that was the mentality because you think, you know, you think like, hey, I'm invincible

at that age, you know, nobody can touch me. When I got a couple of the homies around me and he got a strap, I gotta strap and we out here making money. Then we fucking a couple of bitches and got a couple of ends. You know, Nigga. Think nigga would have need it, you feel me? Ye? Really speaking of whisk before we go to because you never talked about your stuff. Eight You got a new single though, right, Yeah, I got a new project out, a little ep out

nine Stones. It's called Revolution and Progress, you know, just more of that ship. I was just trying to talk about just some simple to keep the fans going, you know, because a lot of you know, we still have a lot of fans from my era, and they still want to hear music of from that era, and and they want to hear what you know, a nigga transitions to from going through a lot, from seeing a lot on the streets and being able to tell the story of being a young eighteen year old and being a grown man,

a father now and a person with responsibilities. So to be able to still represent Compton and come from the streets and talk like that, Uh, that's why I just continue to make music now. To be, you know, not to monetize ship. But you know we all work and there ain't nothing free. But I just make music because you know, they're still true fans out there of of my generation of hip hop that wants to hear my generation of hip hopping. Here what we got to say?

And uh, you know, we still to make good music, some of us. So I just put out a new project, Revolution and Progress. If you won't go pick that up, stringing on that all platforms, download, whatever you do, I appreciate. Are we about to put the link at the bottom of the description, So y'all go to jam that right now, as soon as y'all, as soon as y'all pressed up on this show, go hit that link at the bottom of description and bang that Revolution of Progress. See, ain't

that that's low ki some some gangs bangs. That's some gangs of ship right there. Revolution and Progress, Yeah, it's but it's it's it's meant to aim at just trying to be like progression. You get me. And then niggas look at us as far as gang banging or whatever and think niggas be stuck in the time for up and think niggas can't you know, transition and the beautiful and better ship. So the title is in itself, it's a revolution in progress because we all trying to get

to the next level of success. So that's the progress we're trying to do. And that's for crips. Bloods essays. Anybody on a positive note, man, that's where I'm at. You give me a lot of negative ship that gone and we got enough of it. And as a nigga, who the made it this far? Man, I'm just trying to see progress. I ain't trying to see nothing else. Videos for that, I got to I got a video with Corrupt I'll call double that. That's the that's the first video. It's been out for a minute right now.

It's floating real good. Y'all go check that out and we'll be shooting another video probably next week to the next single off of the song. It's called That's Factual, So y'all be on the lookout for that. We we have all that description and we out of here. Well we're going, fella, let's do it again. Rio song all the time, all right for sure? Yeah eight, I'm gonna drop all them links down there.