Buju Banton DEBUTS “Butterflies” + talks Jamaica’s hip hop roots, dancehall history & summer tour w/ Stephen Marley

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30:38You got Chinese Jamaicans and big DJs out there in Jamaica, right? The Chin family, I believe they are. Like, so tell me how they become Chinese Jamaicans. Like they, over the years, Jamaica's always been a place where various people migrated. So no doubt this was a family that migrated. However, that's not important to me in the grand scheme of things. What they did to me is more fundamental. They were visionaries who saw that the talent had the potential to be greater than just talent in the community. Hence they invested, ran this record shop and they record in studios and they invest in the talent, they invest in the culture.

31:27And so we can't take away anything from them because they saw an opportunity and seized the moment. That's why they're still here today, even on Jamaica Avenue. I mean, a lot of people want to knock them, but do good business and you have a problem. You have a standing. So So where I'm concerned, I have to give them props because they were visionaries. Now, truth be told, our former prime minister, Edward Siag was also a musical producer who owned even a pressing plant, Beverly Music, Enniso, operator, or something like that. And then you have P.J. Patterson, our former prime minister again, who used to be the manager of the Claridonians.

32:04And we have our current minister who's very much involved in youth sports and other kind of things, Grange. so we have a long history of working with the leader and the top echelons of the country as it concerns development of music as well but with the level in which the teachings contributed their time effort money for the development of a music that could be here no one exposed a lot of our young people but that was before at the same time we had Duke we were about the same time we had Duke Reed who was another producer Clement Cox and Dad who was another producer Winston Riley King Tubby's and these were producers who were just making music.

32:47When Lee Scratch Perry, the Gang them, Bob Marley's them, P.D. Tosh, Peter Tosh, these guys were just making music from the ear, from the heart. Yeah. Excuse me. So we went through an era where the gentleman had to distinguish what was the music business and what is the business of music. failure to do so will render your poor forever. And we can take a look and turn the pages of history to see who was able to separate the two. I stopped there. So you go, Budgie, you go away. Music business and what's the business? You go away. Yeah, that's a Jadakiss line back there. That's a Jew right there.

33:28You come back, they show a picture of you in the airport just walking. Like, it was like Budgie we followed every second when you came out. Like, I remember I was on a flight and they said, look, butchers. Remember Joe? Yeah, it was like, you're butchers. We were viral everywhere. Even in bondage. I think I spoke to you a couple of times while I was in bondage. Yeah, so the pain was real, yet pain, weeping man do for a night, but joy do come in in the morning, right? So that joy was undeniable. It was not forced. It was a real natural joy and a joy expressed not only by the will of the people, but by the will of the Most High God, because the vice of the people is the vice of a true unliven God.

34:11No, I was able to catch a remix when he got it. Yes. We did it. Bless. Tell them that we bless. Yeah. We had a case where he was able to. So right now, in this dispensation, the new world that's coming to the forefront of the musical arena is this new album by Bojo Banton for the year 2026. Coming to you this summer. I won't give you the title of the album as yet, but my first single is called Butterflies. Now, Butterflies, it's not psychopathic or crazy. It's more something for the ladies then. Because I find that our music primarily speaks to a demographic's way. They feel like it's all about being a gangster and a rude boy, but there's the ladies over there with this love and affection.

35:02They need to be reminded that they're a part of our community and a very integral part of our life. So butterflies aim to ignite and reignite that passion. You follow me? Yeah. So I don't know the selector can't play. You want to bust it for them. So today release a butterfly. Bust the tune. Butterfly. Bust the tune. Bo, bo, bo. Selector, you have it. Put your back on, ponder that tongue, you know? Pretty lady My baby Come in and be scared Well, when you young You make a feel butterflies I'm gonna love you for life I see potential I see potential I'm gonna love you for life Don't move down Don't move down Don't move down Don't move down Put your mouth Turn it on Gargamel Thunder and Storm So this one This one is called Butterflies.

36:04Brand new from the brand new album.

36:30love you for life i'm trying i see potential in all your eyes let me love you for life oh Tell me this girl, how your skin a glow So your supercalifacial is based Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up Operator

36:55This one's called the Butterfly, you see How does them? Love them, you see Pull up, pull up, pull up

37:10potential in your eyes I want to love you for life what you do what you do I love you for life potential in your eyes let me love you for life no dawg tell me this girl how your skin are gross how your supercalifacial is BSB all it do Well, if yours are crushed, then your body get flushed. Very curious, it tell me what I feel you touch. Love you with passion, tell you so convictious. Tell you what my chanted, clearly it's obvious. And can you sense a humour but never ridiculous. Give me that love with a sense of purpose. Anyhow you make a fee but a fly, I'm gonna love you tonight. You are down.

38:01I say, but I'm dry. All right, all right, all right. We love you for life. All right, all right, all right. All right, all right. All right, all right. Bow, bow, bow, bow. So this is the first single produced by Super Dupes. You know, Super Dupes, you're talking about. Super Dupes, again, is another brethren with Chinese heritage from the Jamaican community. We invested this time because they have a song named Black Chiny that was very popular in Jamaica. So they merged and played in the sound system to make it beats in the studio. So this is super. They have done many famous works. No doubt. Super Dupes is very acclaimed, you know?

38:38Yeah, but you know that sound like budger bant. Well, this next album... That's budger bant, Tom. This next album is 100 % dance style, you know, sometimes. Wow. You know what I mean? I'm on start out, you know, the dance style, but through the passage of time, we have to give the people the music that, you know, grow with them because you have life and you have experience. But you have to go back to the roots that time. and not only go back to the roots, but to teach a generation because no one has any respect nowadays now. And if you want to go out and flag everyone that's a whole lot of flagging, you just use one belt and beat everybody.

39:15One belt, man. So you have to set that foundation. So 20 or some now a generation will emerge and say in 2009, 2010, 2020, 2025. this was reggae music and this was dancing music this is the history of it no someone has to remind because it's hard work a lot of people realize they're lazy what it takes for us to make a proper song to come forward it's not easy work some people want a quick fix and get the glory but true work that's standing the test of time starts with hard work it's hard work it's a lot of concentration a lot of hard work a lot of dedication a lot of dedication a lot of resilience a lot of time and shit is it just, you know, some people, they just...

39:59Blood, lucky. And what? Threat the tears. Right. When you want to do that, right? Because Bujavonton never been whack in his life. I never heard a whack song in my life. Well, not if I'm making it. That song right there... It's out the park. That song right there sound like we just opened a CD of Bujavonton's greatest hits and that just came on. like that record right there is out of here. Well, the whole entire album promises to be exciting, ranging from love, togetherness, you know what I mean? In our style. You know, hardcore, root boy, dance style. So this album, look forward to it. Excuse me, because it promises to be dynamic, exciting, fulfilling, rewarding, and above all else, musical.

40:53Wow, I love it. You're going to hit some arenas? at the draft. Well, right now we're planning on going on the road this summer. Butch Bant and Stephen Marley hit the road. Wow. You know, two lions, you know, in an effort to bring back the love that the music industry have and should have. And we're going out here in the month of June. June 18th we should be on the road. And also to make sure that the masses get a whiff of this new record. By then it should be all the whole entire project should be released. He's going to fuck the summer up. That record is... Well, this summer shall be lit. Put it that way.

41:28Shall be lit. It's out. Shout out. Steven Marley, a hell of an actor. Rock him off in. You know what I mean? Come on in. Come on in. Come on in. No, no, no, no. Who's... Shatis. Come on in. Come on in. Yo, fucking Kamani, man. He should have did a bunch of more movies after that, man. Like, he... That shit... Shatis is a classic. Without a doubt. So that's the next avenue of our exploration as a concern, curating the culture and film. You know, maybe that's the next era we need to start looking to seriously before it is swept from on our feet. There's a lot of culture vultures. Oh. So, you know, the ties are changing where you can speak up for your people from the Latino person.

42:15I can speak up from a small demographic for those who I am able for. You know what I mean? eventually the whole purpose is to come together and farm our total into the community and become investors in our own arts. That is just music, films, whatever, whatever, whatever, because this is how other nations did it. We don't really figure out the blueprint here because we still want to be better than the next person. Think not figuring it out together. We can all be better. Yes. Talk slow to them, man. Talk slow. Meaning to everybody, if you didn't catch that, is that everybody could be successful.

42:49You need to be happy for your brothers and your sisters that are successful. This ain't all a straight competition. I got to be better than you or better than that. You know, be happy for everybody because the more of us that's winning, the stronger we actually are as a culture. And so a guy I'm a fan of from Jamaica's Busy Signal. Good guy. This man, would you? For a long time, they no letterman in America. and they let him in and he went on that Bobby Condis and rapped for like an hour straight. I had to pull a car over. He fuck up the place so bad, budja. I had to listen like, yo, this guy's doing this shit.

43:36Yo, this guy's crazy. He's a big, I never met him. I'm a fan. I heard that business signal come from the old school, just like, yeah, yeah, it's the old school. When last have you been on the highway, I hear the radio lit from that angle. Nah. Because first and foremost, I realize that the beats, they're not being utilized. So I'm asking myself, is it a situation where the beats are not being utilized because they cannot be utilized or because they cannot be written? I just think that people are lazier now. What we're doing, we're losing a part. All right. There are certain beats when it comes on, it does something to you.

44:15You automatically want to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jack, listen, this new beat, this kid Nick from Jamaica, it's a doubly YFL, YFL-like rhythm, the one I just played earlier when I just came to San Francisco. That's me, man. You want to bust it for me? Bust it for me. Bust it for me. Lope and talking. Great. Big up P.J. Mack. Bust the one there. What? X-ray tape. So, we want music to make us feel and come alive no matter what we're going through. That's how we escape. And if it keeps us trapped, we're not escaping. It's always about the music. is always about the beat. You know, they say, yo, Joe, why you rapping so good?

44:51The beat is great. The beat speaks to you. Now, if you doing a whack beat, then you'll be in there like, come on, everybody, want to do that conga? You stuck like a motherfucker in that beat speaks to you. So these are some of the songs we're coming forward with, you know, to reignite a passion musically and, you know, not to try to outshine to outdoor because whoever would be in the sun, nevertheless, that's LLAs of our ways, make sure that the road's still paved, be smooth and shovel-free and the music flow consistent. That's right. I'm not in the fray, but I'm not totally away. But that way.

45:32Yeah, you have to leave the youths them to do them thing, you know. That's LLAs and OG. Some time I've been through them I'm born too, you know. Yeah, they know when the OGs step up, they know who got it yes education purpose only it's true because the youth they say alright that's the bon ton you know they're not crazy they grew up their whole life listening to the bon ton trying to be the bon ton you can't be the bon ton so it's like you know just take the take the experience yo budgie let me tell you something you know we always want somebody come home from jail say Max B did 18 years. We expect them the first day to sound just like the Max B that we lost 18 years ago.

46:22So Budja come out, you make great music and everything, but this project right here, you marinated it enough since you've been out to where this is Budja Bonton. I want to hear music and I can't hear it, so I'm going to make the music I want to hear. Wow. Talk slow. wow oh oh oh wow and that's like you because every time I bump into this guy on the road he's playing the good music and but they don't make that kind of music no more so I hear him he's pumping on it he's pumping this he's talking I'm like yo man what happened to that fucking good music man to the fucking legendary music and they just don't make it like that no more.

47:16So you know what? You got to make it yourself. You know, do me a favor. James left the computer, huh? We can start with Biggie. Rest in peace. Jamaican. We can do Busta Rhymes. I need somebody to Google what artists are Jamaican. Heavy D. Heavy D, F-I-D. Oh, my God. Biggest Rhymes. Biggie Smalls. Yeah. Busta Rhymes. You know? Um... Slick Rick the ruler. Sean Paul's a... He's Jamaican. Like, he's... Joey Badass? Who? Salt-N-Pepa. Bovadoop? Salt-N-Pepa? Salt-N-Pepa, Cool Hurt. The foundation. Foundation of hip hop. Bobby Smurda. Bobby Smurda? Yeah. Triple S extension. Triple extension. Yeah, shout out to his moms.

48:12Yeah. We know them. So many people contributed to the hip-hop game. Uncle Lucas is part Jamaican as well. CJ Alamo from Brand New Me. Wow. Alamo is your whip, mate. Bootcamp Kip. All of them. That's why they was fucking with all that Jamaican music. KRS-One. Ha. KRS-One. Let me tell you something. What's his name? Cannabis. What's his name? Cardinal LaFishaw. Cardinal LaFishaw. Legend from Canada. My brother. From Canada. Yeah. Cardinal LaFishaw. Legend. Let me tell you something. Toronto.

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53:03KRS-One. See, when you was talking all that shit earlier, all I could think of was KRS-One. You say, kings lose crowns, teachers stay intelligent. This and everything you were saying, I heard it in my head in a KRS-One verse back in the day. and KRS, he attacked the Juice Crew. At this time, the Juice Crew was like Sizzler, Bougie Bonton, everybody together. These guys are like the Avengers. Like, it's just, and they had the Monopoly because their DJ ran the radio, Marley Ball. So if it wasn't coming through them, you was not hearing it on the radio. So they had that shit like, rest in peace, Tulak, Fly Ty Williams.

53:55So KRS-One gets into a beef with them. Me, who's a Bronx fan, I'm the biggest KRS-One fan. I said, there's no way he could win. Like, I'm like, there's just no way he could win. And I'll never forget, it's winter. And this is the first time I heard reggae music. It's winter. And DJ Red Alert says, brand new KRS-One, the response to the juice crew. And that shit came on and that shit said, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. When I tell you he went like this, like the whole, the hip hop game never even, the way he came, the bridge is over, the bridge is over, the bridge is over, the bridge, hey, hey, I start running around my projects.

54:48It was like below zero. Are we all? Yes, we won. I'm running around the whole projects. And so Karras, one, introduced a lot of us into the reggae game at that time. Like, it was like first time we really heard that like that. And, but, you know, he was Jamaican, so he knew DJ. That was, wow, 80-something. 85, you're the irony. in 1985 86 we in Jamaica was just getting into bebop break dance was a thing in Jamaica in those days where yeah we used to have um fets like schools used to keep events they call them fake and various high schools used to keep um guys used to farm a circle and go break dance wow we used to have this there was this particular mixtape Sleek Rick that's the first favorite store

55:56Teddy Riley produced six minutes six minutes six minutes Michelle Meila so we grew up just locking in in those days so nine eight five nine so just start locking in so it's so funny you should say that so it's proved to me that at the same same time, in two different locals, the same thing was happening. Same thing. Same thing. Same thing. Same thing was happening. Because I can also recall in 1985, I was watching a music video when it was Major Mackerel, Shabarangs, and they were in Biltmore Ballroom. Biltmore room. There was this Major Mackerel that Dan Man. I'm Jamaican. Dan Man. Yes, sir. It's important to know that, yeah.

56:48You know, shout out Jamal Ski. He was Jamaican to a MC out here. He was fucking shit up for the Jamaicans. Jamal Ski was a legend out here. He was, around that time of KRS-One, he was killing the fucking place. Rapping with all the rappers, but in Jamaica, Jamal Ski. Light-skinned brother. but yeah that time let's talk about one person because it's very hard for us to have a legend like you no I don't know we have Mad Lion fucking destroyed the game out here take it easy I'm in this video what you gotta take it easy what he was now Chris right too many suckers and not enough time anyway that make more fucking that shit Mad Lion Mad Lion do you know Mad Lion I know Mad Lion Mad Lion that was a Brooklyn yeah um um what's his name also but I want to say one thing because we never hear about this right and it's similar in reggae tone but I got one thing to say Lady Saw she ran the females forever tell me about Lady Saw tell me about her contributions to the game.

58:10I felt like there would never be another female to touch the mic in reggae music. Mumasa is a legend in her own right. I forgot Sister Marianne Hall because of respect because all I would get is for two people according to what I chose. So Sister Marianne Hall, she played a pivotal role coming up in the industry where she was a male-dominated industry. We only had like like 10 females, Lady G, Lady Anne, Lady P, Sister Nancy, you know, and then you have Junie Ranks, Lady Junie, yeah, you have Shelly Tunda, Shelly Tundun, you have Mama Liza, but Mama Liza was from a time, an era when she and Kojak used to do it, Kojak and Mama Liza, So from that time to the time when the ladies became assertive, there was a toss-up between Lady G, because Lady G was a top DJ.

59:10Lady G used to be with Papa's son. And she was one of the baddest at the time. So after Lady G, you come, Mumasa, seeing Marianne. And she bring it in a different level. She bring it in a total different level. She opened the Pandora's box and she never looked back. and you know what I mean her team's solid and the Nia Blanche give her life to the church and to the true and living God so we can't respect her and thank her for her contribution as well we got one the Evie Queen the Evie Queen ran the whole reggae tone forever like Lady Saw and then finally now you got you know the Carol G's and all those girls that's rocking now so now you got a whole new resurgence of the females There's a new resurgence of female in Jamaica from the era of Spice Stem to Shincere.

1:00:05Shincere, yeah. A whole new era. And this is what the music is. You always need new life to keep feeding it. But you have to always bring a piece of what makes it the music with you. That's what we're missing. Tell it you. You know, shout out to Rihanna. Rihanna not from Jamaica, but she had a sound. I remember what that shit. What was that shit she had? I had to kill him. What was that record, that Rihanna record? Rum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum. I might have listened to that shit 10 million times when that shit came out. I'm blasting that shit in the car. But I had to kill him. Man down rum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum.

1:00:50The music grows, Joey. And as you and I both know, it's not easy for music from the Caribbean, and especially Jamaica dance and music now within the last 4, 5, 6 years we must give thanks because doors has been opened and has been closed in our face perpetually and with that being said now you hear music like from Dancehall and At 97 WBLS and viewers at a section but let's speak the truth they were also forced because music is everywhere now on your phone everyone playing on TikTok whatever you want everywhere now yes you know gone are the days of having a real gig My daughter's 19. She starts singing songs that came out in the 80s and the 90s.

1:01:29I'm like, yo, what's up? She's like, yo, that's the number one on TikTok now, dad. I'm like, what? She be like, yeah, that's the number one. Like, that's how the kids are learning. So no one's shooting to a radio station anymore? Hit the bar, but find out the Jamaican pad. Your phone is everything. I need the name. Your phone is the radio station. The phone is the radio station. Y 'all care? I like that one. I like that. But you ain't lying. Now they don't understand that. Before we used to, look, he said he had to wait to hear Run DMC and tape it at three in the morning. Back in the day, we had no, it wasn't like now you could just pick whatever music you want on your phone.

1:02:10At 97, in the cold, everybody got to be like this, standing close. Yeah, that's right. Waiting on your segment to go upstairs. Yeah. Everybody, you know, we had a shout out because he reached out to me. I got to talk to him. Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito, they had an underground station out here where you went there and Jay-Z was waiting online and Nas was waiting online and Biggie Smalls is waiting online. And Fat Joe's waiting online. And Big Pun's waiting online. The biggest guys you ever seen in your life waiting online to get up on there to bust a rhyme at three, four in the morning. These kids now, the type of access they got now, they don't even realize.

1:02:53Like, the things you fought for has been taken for granted. Wow. I said, another Jew. Yes. All the things we fought for. Yes. Yeah, everything we fought for right now is like, yeah, it's a regular degla, you know. It is what it, what Rich the Barber said? Huh? Taste right beef patty in Miami. It's the best beef patty. Where did it go? No. No. Oh, Tastewrite, I challenge anybody. Listen to me. On the planet Earth, anybody that show me a better beef patty, Jamaican patty, than Tastewrite in Miami. Uh-uh. Want to put some money on it? I got money on it. Don't do that, budger. Wrinkly and booze. No, no, you ain't got a better one.

1:03:48You don't have a better one. Jamaican, right? I don't care. I don't care what they say. Tastes right. Are you recording? Yo, listen. He living my anything. Any money. Listen, Budja,$1. I need a number. Listen,$1. Listen. I need a number. Budja, when you go back to Miami, I'm going to send you a box. But it's better while eating hot. This tastes right Jamaican beef patty. you can bring me any kind of beef patty you want. You're not beating this. I do not eat beef patty, but I know beef patty, that would be every other beef patty you're talking about. You got to bring a beef patty either, Paul. Have you ever had taste?

1:04:34Listen, listen. Listen, listen. I'm not even going to tell you. Listen. Listen. Where's that? Where's that? I have flops off. Listen. Joey. Joey. you ever heard of Tasty's beef patty? Where's Tasty's at? Jamaica. Oh no no. You ever heard of Tasty's patty? All the people who are watching now. I'm not knocking the patty place you spoke about. No respect to them. And to all entrepreneurs. You know what I mean? But no one can taste Tasty patty. Maybe Tasty is original and they... Listen. and I don't use patty. Philly Cheesy. Okay? No, no, no, no. So this is the number one patty. And listen, I'm going to go through the lane to make sure a box get to you in America.

1:05:25I believe you. So you can have that experience. I believe you because taste right sound like they caught the tasty salad. It's it, yeah. Right? The title? Listen. Taste right sound like they caught the... Taste right must be really tasty. Reggae, reggae tone.

1:05:46he might be right. Listen, my brother. When you in Miami, you go to Taste Right, they don't even know I buy from there. I sit in the car. Enough respect goes out to Taste Right, butch bantan on Fat Joe, bigging you up, I'm bigging up your establishment, black progress every time. Right, that's right. They got lines for the boys right there, but we go to the studio, you know, get my sugar up, you know what I mean? Get my sugar up. You know, I eat a couple let them bathe patties. My shit go. So when last have you gone back to Jamaica? Man, I haven't been to Jamaica in a while. How's the progress since the hurricane build up?

1:06:24The hurricane has done a number on the island, but my people are strong. My people are resilient. We have faced a lot of stuff throughout time on that island and we managed to bounce back. And this shall be no different. We shall bounce back stronger, better, and bigger. I seen no kind of AI ship with sharks in the street. That was all AI, right? Absolutely. Sharks in the street. The motherfucker, I said, God damn, this shit going down in Jamaica. Look at this shark pun, Irene. The motherfucker swimming in the pool. I'm like, yo, this AI shit. AI is crazy. Yeah, AI is crazy. This is the red...

1:07:00Disneyland is an illusion. You told me 20 years ago, Disneyland is an illusion. Joey, it's not a coincidence. Because now the lines are blurred. and you don't know if it's real or if it's fake. Yeah, I don't know. So AI, I've entered a conversation to create doubts. So even if it's real, there's going to be doubt circulating. It might be AI. You understand? So what is real and what is fake? No, it's very questionable. Wow. Another joke. All the way up, though. That statement you just said is all the way to the top. We don't know. What the fuck going on? Like, I don't know what's real, what's fake, what's happening.

1:07:50What's like, this shit is crazy. This is what I was talking about earlier, and you think I'm fucking playing. Yo, I'm looking at the phone. I don't know what's real, what's fake. Everything is blurred lines. You right. It's in here. It's not in here. So he's saying right now, if Jadakiss top five dead or alive, you dick, you pussy, your cousins, we would be questioning that worldwide if you even said that shit at Versus. Because right now they got AI. Huh? Not like you that bought a ticket and was there in that building. So it can't be AI. You saw it. But you want to hear the huge difference now?

1:08:35back in the time when someone came to see Jada or see Joey, they were there with us in the moment. Ah, fast. And do you think our fans are in the moment with us these days? They all over the moment. They all... Now, let me tell you something. It's real. This Sunday... I'll let you stop it, Jules. This Sunday is New Edition, Boyz II Men, and Tony Braxton. And I'm not going to lie to you. Them people don't get... They don't respect. They didn't say Fat Joe, the icon, wants to pull up with his wife, give him a front row seat. They saying they don't give seats. My people are like, you're going to buy a ticket?

1:09:15Of course I am. I love these guys. I love their music. I have to be there. I have to be in the moment. I have to support. They don't want to. It's no problem. Buy front row. but some people look at me right because they're so into what's happening now like just last week two weeks ago I went to see Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis I don't give a fuck if I love you I'm showing up some people who still trying to be in the mix is like yo Joe you going to that old school shit I'm like yo bro this is the music I grew up on this is the music I love these are the people I look up to I don't give a fuck I'm front row and I'm having the time of my life.

1:09:59And so people need to get out there and don't take your icons and your legends for granted. When they come through, buy your ticket, throw on your outfit, and go in that motherfucker. Don't let nobody convince you otherwise. I don't give a fuck. We know what's popping. They don't make them kind of music no more, brother. No. That train been left. Ooh. That train left already, which you told Jane. That train is out of your days. That train left. Yo, listen, Budjabon time, man. I love you in another whole... Butterflies. When is dropping? The 17th of April. Look forward to butterflies. 4-17. That's April 17th.

1:10:44You can get that Butterflies. You can get it on April 16th at 12 midnight. Yes. Well, no respect. No respect. and I'm so proud of you, proud of Steve, about doing something great. And I mean, I only hope that for the culture, the brothers in the culture know how important this is, not only to have a voice, but to have a voice that we control the narrative, have a voice that we can really actually sit among our peers, instead of people trying to prime to a level we don't know from anywhere in a hole in the world, or the city of being so uncomfortable because it's like interviewing, it's a big story and all the bullshit.

1:11:20Yeah, like in the irrigation. Man and man, there's a reason now we can talk about past experience and we just chill. So this is important for the culture to have legends like the Isle, because remember, once upon a time, we look at those who are ahead of us as elders. How fucked up it is that now we are the elders. Mmm. So we have to make sure that the accessibility stays in the community and access stays in the community for our community, because once you line up to have things like this done, Now I come sit on the couch with people who are in the same industry as I am. And we can talk, we can relate.

1:12:00Because I'm not saying something that's far-fetched. And I'm saying that you can relate and you're saying that I can identify because we're in the same industry. And you're not sitting there trying to hurt me. And I hate being an asshole to make you look stupid. But the further what we're both doing, so this is a win-win situation. And the fans see the yeet and the camaraderie. And the dingo. You want to do a flask? Fuck, I want to throw the whole shit, the pillow. That was real. I hope I was fucking listening to that. Throw the whole fucking pillow. I hope you heard everything you said. Rappers call us up.

1:12:31Cleanly. Thank you very much. I invite you. Rappers call us up. I really appreciate you, budgie. Rappers call us up with this concert. The rappers call us up. Guys that we know, we friends. They got beef with other rappers. Yo, I want to sit on the couch. I want to shit on. We don't do that here. This ain't the house. This is the house of love, of culture, I've spread it They want to come in here Talk shit about the other rapper That's not what we do here There's an opportunity To create what we grew up on From a BT perspective Where cultures are We're young people Express Sell the product Talk to the fans Direct communication With the fans We don't need to muddy the water Let's keep it clean That's it Butterflies 417 You want to know what's crazy 416 and 12 million Remember Hold up But let me tell you something rappers who call us for the controversy you know we know them brothers they call Jadakas they call me yo I want to sit on the couch I want to shit on this guy I want to say my story like this and we say yo we not with that I see them go and do their interview with the same people who gatekeep the industry and been spreading all that bullshit forever and they sit down with them and I look and I said look at this shit They found their way to these motherfuckers who were getting us to kill each other forever.

1:13:53And they sit down right back at that couch. When the guys like us say, nah, we're not doing that. We staying positive. They go right back to the guys who started all this shit. But it's OK. Listen, this ain't that. No. This ain't that. That ain't this. This crack and kiss makes some noise for Javon. Javon's on the dark side. No respect. No respect. No respect. No respect. Put your bond time. What do you feel like? I'm not the king.

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