Hi guys, thank you for tuning into the really good podcast. My name is Bobby Altoff and I'm here today with my guest Can you introduce yourself, please? My name is Tiger. That's your government name? My government name? What's your real name? Michael. You know what it means closest to God? It means what? Closest to God, Michael. Michael does? Yeah. And what does Tiger mean? Thank you God always. Okay. So I spelled T-Y-G-A. That makes sense. Yeah. When did you come up with that name?
When I was like maybe 13? 14? How old are you now? 33. So a few years ago? A few years ago. Yeah. 13, 15. I don't know. My math is kind of off. So you're a singer? Um, rapper, artist. Mm-hmm, a rapper. Don't let the animal touch your drink. Just keep eating. Um, corn. Do you like corn? Um, it's okay. It doesn't have to for the body. That's true. Do you think it does anything for his body? I mean, the way he's killing it, it's just so interesting. Like, it's a poor you've got to hear.
That these acts are so awkward. What are we doing here today? We're here because my name is Tiger, right? And you wanted to be funny? What do you mean? Like? Because you're like tigers. There's no tigers here. I know, I know that. Well, me. You're not a tiger. Tiger? Yeah. No, that's not why we're here. How do you know Drake? Um, we were signed to the same label. Right now. Not anymore. We were though. Okay. Through Lil Wayne's label. Young money, cash money. How did you see it?
Did he tell you before that post came out? Where did you just say? No, I just seen it. I just see on Instagram. You just tagged you. I just told you. It was funny because I seen your page. You did an interview with Funny Marco. I just thought it was hilarious. And I followed you from that. No, you didn't. I did, no. No. I feel like I did. I feel like you didn't. I think I did. Pretty sure I did. I'm pretty sure you didn't. Well, I followed you in a span of... Yeah, no, you didn't then.
Seven days. But you were like, oh, now if Drake will do it, then I guess I will be on. But I wasn't cool enough before. Um... So you wrote that song, that Drake played? Yeah, I wrote that song. I wrote that song, that Drake played. Rack City? Yeah. Long time ago when I was like... How long ago? When I was... 20 maybe? I was 21 or... You were writing... I didn't write it. I just like... Oh. I just freestyled it. What does that mean? Well, like, I kind of just threw the beat on and I just like...
Mumbled a few lines and then like... Can you mumble them right now? But Rack City? Mm-hmm. Like the lyrics? Mumbled a few lines right now. I need a beat. Okay. Can you make a beat at the same time? Uh... No. I have a son. He likes like juices like that and stuff. You let your son have juice. It's really bad for him. Really? Mm-hmm. It's not good for me either, but I like to live life on the edge a little bit. It's better in a soda. Well, yeah, he doesn't need. He just needs water.
What do you want to talk about today? Um... I don't know. I'm an open book today. It's like an open conversation. There was one thing that you wanted people to know about you. What would it be? I don't know. I don't know what I want people to know about me. I feel like I like the mystique sometimes. The what? Mystique. I've never heard that word before. Mystique? Yeah, I've never heard that word before. Like the mystery of like, not knowing so much about somebody.
So you don't want people to know anything about you. Um... Are you a nice person? I think I'm a nice person. I like the tension. I have good intentions. Okay, what's your favorite game to play? My favorite game? Yeah, a board game. Bored game, monopoly. Why? No one likes that. No one enjoys playing monopoly. Did you make that up? That's because I win all the time. People don't like it because they don't win. No one finishes the game. Like I never lose them in that play.
Who do you make play that with you? Whoever. When people come over to your house, you're like, let's just play monopoly right now. A group of friends or for like... On a trip, vacation or something? Mm-hmm. You like get drunk, play monopoly. It's a long game, though. So most of the time people quit. Yeah. That's why I like it. So that's why you win. I just want people to quit. People quit. Sad. That's fun, though. What's your favorite game? Scrabble.
Scrabble. Yeah. Okay. Are you good at spelling? Mm. Sure. Spell porcupine. Oh shit. It's tough. Try. Sound it out, poor. P-O-R. Q. Why can't I spell porcupine right now? Is it porcupine or porcupine? I think there's no Q. I think it's a CU, PI, NE. Right? I... Porcupine. Porcupine. Porcupine. I'm not gonna lie. That's pretty hard one. I know how to spell that. That's a hard one. You think he's gonna eat this whole bowl? By the time we're done? Yeah. You should stick your finger right there.
Just see what he does. We should stick your finger. No. See what he does. What's on your finger? Where? The ring. The tattoo or ring? The ring. This one? Mm-hmm. It's just a tongue, like rolling stone tongue. How much was that? Um... That's a... Not too expensive. What's not too expensive to you? Might have been like... 40 grand or something like that? That's not too expensive. It's custom. And it says lick it on the inside of it. Why would it say that? Because it's a tongue.
I just thought it would be funny. It's custom. You want to a designer and you're like, I want a tongue that says lick it. You're like, okay. Here give it to me. 40,000 dollars and you gave them that. Sounds pretty dumb, right? Yeah. Yeah. Can I have $40,000? To do what with? I just want $40,000. Do you have a lot of money? Um... I feel like I have a fair amount that I work hard for. Yeah. You know? You know, I paid $1800 for us to do this here. Okay. Do you want me to reimburse you?
That would be nice. Are you offering? Okay. Okay. That would be nice. That's fair. That's... That's really nice of you. You don't have to do that though. Because I know that it's my podcast. But I just know that you have a lot of money. And I put it on a credit card? You like money a lot. What's that I learned from you last interview? Yeah, well, I don't have any. You live in Newport Beach though, right? I live in Laguna Beach. Oh, Laguna Beach. I spend 100% of the money I make on my rent.
Okay. And I put everything also on credit cards. Do you have credit cards? Yeah. You do. Yeah, let's just keep him... And you're going to put... And you're going to put out an album. Yeah, I'm doing a joint album with it. What an artist called... Artists YG. Okay. I've heard of them. YG? Yeah. What does YG stand for? I have no idea. What do you think it stands for? I give. I give. I give. I give. I give. I give. I give. I give. I give. I give.
I say, you know, shipping website you sold earlier like Yeah, it just depends like sometimes if it's like a festival or like a one-off show. What are you doing? I'm trying to fly everywhere. It's flies. I don't see any. Something's like spotted on me or something. It's probably the sloth. Do you wash your own clothes? No, dry cleaner. You dry clean all of your clothes? Do you drive them to the dry cleaners or do people? No, they pick them up. It's like a weekly thing.
They come and pick them up and wash all of your clothes for you? Yeah, so that way they don't shrink. You know what I mean? Yeah, no. I have to wash my own clothes. I just have to deal with them shrinking. I just don't want my shirts and certain things that I like. Jean, Sibie, ruin it stuff. Yeah, when I have a lot of money, I'll probably do that too. You don't have to have a lot of money to dry clean. It's not expensive. Go ask anybody without a lot of money if dry cleaning is expensive.
You're going to have a lot of money real soon, so. I hope so. I think so. Why do you think so? I think you have a bright future. Did you? Yeah. How much are you going to give me money? No, I just think like things are good things are going to happen for you. That's very nice of you. Yeah. You think good things are going to happen for me? For you? Yeah. I think you've already had a pretty good life. What else could happen to you? That's good. I think I feel like you can always like.
You can always have more, right? More what? Just like everything. Happiness, success. I'm trying to feed him not a plant. It's so hot. It's not that hot. Please stop saying that. Are you complaining about it? It's so like. It's what? My tattoo is peeling this one. Is it new? Yeah. Why? I just wanted to update you. You can't tell. What? Why would you do that? Because most of my tattoos I got when I was like 16. He's eating my phone. Huh? I think he's eating my phone. Hello.
He doesn't like the food that they brought him. Why don't you try? He wants that juice. I'm telling you. Everybody loves juice. Why didn't you take the carrot when I tried to hand it to you? I want to see what happens when you feed it first. You didn't even acknowledge that I tried to hand it to you though. That was kind of rude. Do you want me to try to feed him next? Yeah. Well, you try because he's not actually listening to me. Maybe he doesn't want to care.
Maybe he wants to try something else then. Corn or something else? Can you do that then? Offer him something better. See what this is. What is this? Let's see if he wants this. Okay. I don't know what this is. He's accepting your offer. Maybe. What is this? Is this like a... Oh, it's a potato. Oh. All right. I just want to give it to you. I think he wants you to hold it the rest of the time. What's going to fall? Okay. What were we talking about? I don't know. You like to talk about money a lot.
Yeah. Don't make me feel like we're weird about that. No, I'm not. Yeah. I'm sure before you had money, you also thought about money a lot. Yeah. Money is money, but you know. Makes life easier. Yeah. Yeah, obviously he doesn't want this food anymore. They need better snacks. Goodbye. What's that? Oh, yeah. Are you going to do that right now? Can I? It's really hot. Are you going to hold a fan? Huh? You're going to hold a fan. Thank you. Sounds good, right? I'm good. Okay. Oh, you wanted to.
That was really nice of your friend. How much did you pay him to do that? He just did it at the kind of his heart. That's the type of people we are, you know. That's really hot, though. Thank you. I feel the pink. Oh, can you stop doing that now? Okay. I'm going to just call my body down here. It's cool down. Is that doing anything? I feel like you just went right back to whatever temperature you are. I don't know. I feel like I did.
I messed up the audio of my podcast so you could clear yourself down for two seconds. It's really hot. You can sit and discomfort for a little bit of time. I know you don't have to do that a lot, but maybe for a second. I'm here for you. I just know like any minute this is off is going to try to like grab my shoulder or something. Follow me, cut blinds. No, I don't want to be attacked by a slough. It might make you money. And you maybe can buy a private plane. That would be nice.
You're going to make a lot of money, though. I know. I'm going to make a lot of money for you. Yeah, me too. It's going to be good. Yeah. Are you a nice person? Am I a nice person? Yeah. Yeah, I can't be for sure. Yeah. Definitely. I can't tell when you were texting me if you were nicer. I'm not a good texter. Okay. Really. Yeah. It's just a pen, you know? Yeah. I was like, I don't know if he's going to be nice or mean. I still can't tell, but...
I'm pretty very like reserved in two of this, so I'm like... You want to keep messing up the audio and do that again. Maybe next time you could hold it closer to the microphone so that it's just... That's all it picks up. But now it can't hear you. I was a talking. What type of girls are you attracted to? What type of girls? Yeah. Do you have a girlfriend? A wife? A husband? Wait, what? Do you have a husband? A girlfriend? No. It's complicated. But what type of girls I'm attracted to?
Definitely like somebody that's like down the earth. I like... I'm attracted to beauty, of course. You know? Somebody like gives me like peace of mind. Somebody that's like real chill. But like a little bit of crazy. A little bit of crazy? Just a little bit. Like what type of crazy? Like... If you don't text her back she might. No, not like crazy. But just like you know somebody like that's still going to like bring excitement. But not be like 2oD you know? Yeah. 2 what?
Oh D. What's the thought? Like over like... It's overdoing it. Like overdose like. Why'd you say 2oD is like this? Yeah. Yeah. Would you say you have high standards or no? High standards? Yeah. Just will you date anyone? Do they have to be famous? I don't have to be famous. I've ever dated someone that wasn't famous. Yeah. Yeah for sure. Both. Huh? Yeah. I have. Yeah. Would you put a picture of my face on your next album? Yeah. No. Why? That's weird. I didn't think you'd say no that fast.
I thought you would like nicely say it maybe like you'd be like oh. Well I would have to ask maybe my team if that was okay. You could have said that nicer though. There's definitely a more gentle way of saying that. Really? Maybe like... No. Maybe like what? Huh? What? What's so funny? It's just so hot. Okay well thank you so much for this interview. I'll let you ask me a few more questions and then we can go. How are you? I'm 25. Oh yeah. And you grew up in Corona? Mm-hmm.
You went to high school, college, in Corona. And then go to college. Just high school Corona. I was too stupid to go to college. I didn't go to college. Were you too stupid or you just didn't want to go? No I just... Could you get into college? Could I get into college? Yeah. With your grades. I'm pretty sure if I wanted to. I couldn't. If I like applied myself but I was already doing music. But then I was signed when I was like 17. I wasn't doing anything before this podcast.
I was not really doing anything with my career. It was good. Yeah. Do you feel like now it's like you feel like you have more purpose now? Yeah I definitely have more purpose. I feel really good about myself. That's good. I think that's what it's about. Yeah. Not so much about the money. Because the money comes right? Yeah. But if you feel like you have like purpose and you're applying yourself. Yeah I had no purpose like a week ago. A week ago. Why don't we go to bed? I really did.
Have no purpose. That's good because things like sometimes things just fall in line. You know? It's all about timing. Yeah. I haven't heard these parics. He said one thing like the whole interview. Don't they usually like talk if you like something? I just did over there. Is that hello? There you go. He said it for you. Did you hear that? Yeah. Because you wanted to do this in a zoo and probably going to get come home with so many bites on me. Yeah. It's a lot of fun.
Maybe you should think about that the next time someone's like oh let me interview you and you're like we do it as a. Well you wanted to do it at a zoo. No. Yeah you was like like this might sound crazy but what about a zoo? And I was like. I said a zoo question mark. Don't add words. Huh? I said a zoo. You said where should we do it? I said a zoo question mark. You said you wanted to do it at a cool place. Yeah but it was your idea. And I actually do want to know whose idea it was?
Oh. Drakes. Yeah. Is that you should interview Tyga to zoo? No he said it. I said where is a place I should do it and he said a zoo. And I was like that's crazy. I don't know if I can happen. It's random. It's awkward but I guess. Well don't call it awkward. We're here. Don't call it awkward. Why? We can cut that part. Okay. Just say like something nice about it like oh it's it's. We're here. We're here. Yeah. I feel like when you look. I feel like when you look at people. Uh huh.
Like you're looking at them. Mm hmm. It's like giving them a signal. Like you're trying to add this conversation. Oh no I'm just like looking for like. I'm just looking for like engagement or just like you know. Just like energy. You're supposed to pretend they're not there. You shouldn't be trying to engage with them. Oh. I don't know. Nobody told me prior. But you shouldn't look at them. Please stop doing that. I could try. I'm just like naturalist. Like you know. Look at your homies.
Like you know. Like. I haven't looked at my friend one time. Why not? Because. You should always check in on your homies. Like. Not during the middle of an interview. You don't think so? I might annoy you because I keep looking back and forth. It just feels like you're trying to signal that you want this to be over. I'm just. You seem really afraid of everything. I'm not. Are you tough? Would you describe yourself as tough? No I'm not tough. I'm just me. What type of card do you drive?
Um. Right now I drove a Mayback here. I thought. A Mayback? Yeah. It's like a Mercedes like an extended version of a like. Did you drive it or you have a driver? Um. Not my sister drove. Did you pay her to drive you here? Pay him. Hmm. Well it's just part of like the job description. I felt like right. To drive you places. No I mean you know. It's just like whatever to get the job done. You know. Do you have an assistant? No. One day. You probably get one probably soon. One. I say like.
What's in a month? Wow. Yeah you get any an assistant. Okay. Do you want to be my assistant? No. Why? Because I'm not an assistant. I don't think I'd be a good assistant. I think you good. I can like. Maybe I can be like a good advisor. But. You could be a good assistant. I don't think so. Anyone can do whatever they want. True. Do you want to be an assistant? I don't want to be an assistant. Why? That's why I won't be an assistant. You don't want to be an assistant. But you'll be mine.
If I text you tomorrow and I'm like hey. Can you have someone come pick up my dry cleaning? What will you say back? You probably won't text you back. Until like a day later and be like. You know what's up? That's not. I'm going to do that. I was just like ignore the text and just like say something else. But if I say hey, it's really important. Can you please feed my dog? What are you going to do? I just feel like L.O.R. Because I know you're just going to let it die.
Because my dog is at home right now and it doesn't have any food. And it just text you and I said hey. Can you please feed my dog? I know you wouldn't be serious. I know you wouldn't be serious. I'm going to be so serious. I'm going to leave my kids at home. I say hey, can you please arrange someone to come watch them? You have a dog. We're kind of dog. I was just I was not I'm talking about my kids now. So you don't have a dog. So I text you and I say hey, my kids are. You don't have a dog.
Well, but I. Okay, I had I text you tomorrow. I'm going to text you and I'm going to say hey, my kids are home alone right now. Can you please get. Send someone there right now. You're going to send someone or no? No. Okay. Just wanted to know what type of person you are. My kids are home alone. Send someone. Why would they be home alone? Well, they're about to be. I'm about to leave. You have time though. If you want to pull some strings to get a babysitter there.
Or you mean like can you find a babysitter like a nanny? Yeah. Yeah, I could probably like help you find a nanny or a babysitter. Well, then okay. So you are my assistant. I just wanted to like get clarity about relationship. No, I'm a resourceful person. So I can like be resourceful. And I'm not a assistant. I think assistants are resourceful. Yeah. So I think that you could be my assistant. I'm thinking about this as your new.
I just want to see where our relationship is going to be after this interview. We'll see. We'll see where it goes. Yeah. I think that you could be like a friend slash assistant to me. Can you give me some water please? No, you get the water. You're my assistant. You want this one? I drink out of it. Oh, but no. I don't know what you have. I don't have to have something. You can have your water. I don't actually need water. Okay. I'm sure. I think it's no more juice in there.
Okay, well, you get this video edited when it's done. Well, I what? Got this video edited for me when it's done. Just make sure. Do you do not understand that word? What edited it? Do you want me to say it again? I edit this video. I edit it. Yes. Why would I edit it? Because you're a park cat. Why are you forgetting that? I'm a guest of you. Why do you keep forgetting that we just discuss this? I'm not an assistant. You're my assistant. I'll be your assistant. Okay, thank you.
Let's see how it goes. Okay. And I'll do everything in my part to get fired. I'm not going to fire you. Okay, we'll see. You're going to be not fired. I'm going to be the shittiest assistant ever. And you're going to be like, I'm going to fire you. I'm going to do everything in my part to get fired. So I'll be your assistant and start in today. How much do you want to be paid? What are you offering? $5. But you can get a small percentage of my brand deals. Like 5%.
So it's almost like a management thing in a way. No, you're my assistant. But you're just working on getting it. Because eventually I'll have money. But if I get a percentage of your brand deals, I kind of like a manager. There's a lot of people who get percentages. It doesn't make them your manager. True. Yeah. All right, well, you're not going to get fired because I'm not going to let that happen. And I look forward to seeing where our relationship goes. Thank you. Yeah, we'll see.
Yeah. Have a good day. Okay. Are we done? Mm-hmm. Okay. Are we just taking like a break? You want to laugh right now, right? Mm-hmm. I think you're breaking character. No. I don't say breaking character. What do you mean? Does that make sense? Thank you for coming today. Thank you for having me out of zoo. Say my name. Do you know my name? Bobby. No. No, I, right? Yeah. Thank you. All right, bye. Why aren't you like taking that as an invitation to get up and leave?
I just, it doesn't feel like a good closing. What could then go ahead and close it? You can say what you want. You'll have the final sentence. I've even put my mic down. I'm not going to pick it up anymore after this time either. Okay. This was fun. I'm Tyga. Thanks for having me out of zoo and Bobby. And I hope our friendship grows. And I hope you make a lot of money. And so you can be happy forever. And um... Yeah. Thanks for having me. Don't forget to send me the $1800.
Thanks a lot for giving over you the couple, too.