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22:29Tony Yayo:Yo, I can't wait till he goes on a big ass tour and he's gonna be like, yo, Rocket, call the phone. I'm staying in Switzerland, man. I'm not leaving here, man. Nah, I'm coming to you. I'm telling you. You gonna get there? I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie to you. You gonna get there? I'm gonna tell you the truth. I've been a thousand places in the world. Ain't no pussy like Detroit pussy. Oh, shit. I don't know about that, but. I'm telling you, I'm going home. I'm going home. Well, if Detroit pussy can fly to Switzerland, you catching a stunt. To me, I just love touring overseas. Yo, where that slogan Detroit versus everybody come from?

23:10Because they was going hard with that. That's how Detroit is. It's just how Detroit is. We ain't like, if I see a nigga I'm beefing with out of town, and some out of town niggas get on him, I'm damn near getting on the out of town niggas because it make Detroit look bad. You ain't know that, Merck?

23:23Tony Yayo:Detroit fight, they fight each other, but once they go out of town, it's them together. They together. They gonna get you. It gonna make Detroit, it make Detroit as a whole look bad. Like, I don't gotta be cool with a nigga to make my city look good. Like, I ain't have to be cool with Doug, but if some out of town niggas get on Doug and I'm right there, I ain't saying I'm jumping in a nigga beef, but if I'm right there and out of town nigga get on Peasy or Vezo or Ray or anybody. I got to protect home. You know what I'm saying? That just is what it is. Them niggas ain't got to be my friends. It's just Detroit versus everybody.

24:00That's our culture. I can't even, I don't know who, that's just how we was raised for real. I ain't going to be out of town, even if I don't like it. Certain niggas I just absolutely don't like at all, but I'm never going to be out of town telling the business. I'm never going to be saying, Like, I don't like, you would never know.

24:18Tony Yayo:Let me ask you a question. You think Detroit niggas and New York niggas started the Cartier wave? Detroit niggas for sure. I'm going to say that because I'm biased and that's what I really think. I thought New York niggas had the Cartiers first. That's what I think. I thought it started it too, if I'm not mistaken. We wear buffs though. No, but buffs, Cartiers, you know what I'm saying. No, we don't really do like Cartiers. What do you consider buffs? The wood on the side? The white buff. White buffs. The wood on the side or no? No, white is supposed to be genuine buffalo horn. But I thought it was just Cartiers, period.

24:45Tony Yayo:every Cartier. Nah, we wear buffs. We wear buffs. Some niggas wear wires and woods, they did back in the, but we - Wires and woods. We wear boots. We wear buffs like - Nah, they heavy on the Cartiers out there. Like that's - We like white buffs though. Like you gotta have the whitest buffs. Genuine Buffalo horn. Nah, Detroit, y 'all get fly. Y 'all got the glasses. The jewelry game is crazy in Detroit. You go to Detroit, everybody looking like Mr. T out there, motherfucker, man. Everybody think they a celebrity in Detroit. And they was pimping hard in Detroit. That was like hard. I ain't know no pimps.

25:20You ain't know no pimps in Detroit? My mama told me it was pimps in Detroit. I ain't even know that, though.

25:23Tony Yayo:Gentlemen, gentlemen, this is a sponsored show. I don't know anything about that. Fuck all that shit, man. They was pimping hard in Detroit, man. Mama Love was right. They was pimping hard in Detroit, nigga. I'm talking about the jewelry game. I know. I was talking about the pimps. So, yo, after you got shot, you went right back outside, like, maybe two, three days later? Maybe five days? Yeah, I don't be wanting nobody to think they... they got nothing over me. The nigga ain't gonna think he stopped this show. Crazy, man. I don't like niggas thinking they got power over you. Like, I did that because I wanted to let a nigga know, like, yeah, you don't stop nothing.

25:55Like, you don't stop no show. You got to really stop the show. I wasn't raised like that, though. Like, I swear to God, like, my pops would have told me, man, get your ass up. Like, I had a pops that was born in 46. So he gonna, man, if a nigga hit you, Hit them back.

26:13Tony Yayo:I just want to see all my young boys get the money before they dead or in jail, man. That's really it. Because we get excited. Y 'all making way more money than we did way back. So it's like, for me, I just get excited. So when I see young niggas fuck up the bag, that shit kind of make me tight. Like, damn. Niggas making Chef G, Sleepy Hollow. You know what I mean? Free the Gaza. But like, dudes is... Y 'all missing out on serious bread. But I ain't really in tour with niggas off shit I did. Like, there's not no shit. I ain't in tour with niggas. I'm off. I be in tour with niggas off family shit.

26:51Like, I'm a soldier. So, like, I'm my mama only boy. So, I don't want to put too much shit. It be just be like, I'm in tour with niggas because my mama had one boy. And I just happen to be frontline for this shit. So, that's just what it is. Like I'm dying about that shit. Like I don't really care about, I'm dying about my respect and my family. That's one thing I'm jumping in front of bullets. I'm doing whatever. Like I'm going to come get you about that shit and everything. I don't want no problems with nobody. I never go outside. You see me outside. I never wanted a problem with nobody, but for my family and for my respect and people I love, my friends, all that shit, I'm standing front line about this shit.

27:34I don't care how rich I get. I don't care. But how you help get them out that situation so you ain't got to put yourself in that situation. I moved them. I moved them, but this just happened to be a situation that happened before I got rich. You know what I'm saying? Before I was in a position to move my family, shit happened and shit, I just had to stand frontline for that shit. Even if I got to stand by myself, I'm standing on that shit regardless. I'm never gonna apologize for being a good man to my family. Like I'm not never doing that shit. And if I gotta go against a whole village of people, I'm doing that shit.

28:08About my village, you know what I'm saying? Even about y 'all, I'm going that way. Like, if I see a nigga, like, I'm a person that, if I seen a nigga disrespecting y 'all behind y 'all back, I'm standing on it, cause I look at y 'all like my big brothers. Appreciate that. So if a nigga also. Man, yeah yo, murder, no. Y 'all got, I'ma call y 'all. Man, y 'all heard what Dawg said about y 'all? Tell him.

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29:56and I was just, I was really fighting myself. Like, I was like, all right, boom, I could go do this and be in a situation like other people or I could try to figure this out and do it a different way. So then I just happened to be with the president of A &R, my label, and he was with Warren Campbell, which is Erica Campbell's husband. And he produced a lot of records, gospel records. he produced like 17 songs on All Lives on Me all type of shit dog a beast so he also he a pastor

30:33Tony Yayo:so I was talking to him and he was like I'm fighting between like I want to do bullshit and he was like you might not be fighting right and wrong like it might be the right thing to go do some bullshit but it might not be the wise thing which is what you son like so he like you might be fighting right and wise like you might be right like your intentions might be right everything but is it a wise thing to do so hey since he said that to me and i felt like he wasn't judging me i was just locked in with him because it was like another person would have been like man the bible says don't do this this this and that i'm judging you of you and he was like, you might not be right, or you might not be wrong.

31:21Is it wise, though? And I had to really think. And that helped me with my album process and everything. I was just sitting in there thinking and shit, and that shit really kept me out of a lot of trouble. Yeah, Bryson Tiller, Chris Brown,

31:33Tony Yayo:hit record, one of the biggest records in the world. Talk about that, man. How do you even get in a room with these guys? Well, I met Chris Brown through Tee Grizzly. That was hard, like a few years ago. No, I met Chris Brown through Sada, baby, when I was hanging with Sada all the time. Shout out to Sada, baby. Then, shout out to Sada for show, big bro. Then I got with Tee Grizzly, and he took me to his rehearsal. Then I locked in with Chris Brown. So over the years, I've just been seeing him and shit. And every time he see me, he show me love. Then one time I was at a show with Bryson Tiller, and Bryson Tiller told me he fucked with my shit.

32:09So then, shout out to Hitmaker because I was working with Hitmaker. He like, boom, I got this record. So Bryson Tiller and Chris Brown wasn't on the record the first or nothing. So then we were just figuring it out. I just did my verse on the record. I had wrote my verse and shit. And then I was like, I told him who I wanted on there. So then Bryson Tiller wasn't even the first person I wanted on there. I said, Chris, he was supposed to do the hook on the shit. But then Bryson Tiller ended up doing it. and we ended up somehow getting Bryce Tiller to do the hook. I was like, I still need Chris on this bitch because Bryce and Tiller gonna take me to the top.

32:50I need to go over the top. We need to blow the roof off this bitch. So then I just kept seeing Chris. I really ain't had the courage at first cause Chris my man, like I just fuck with him. I don't be fuck with niggas for records or fuck with niggas just to for them to do something. Then I just seen him a few times and I built up the courage. I'm like, damn, can you do this for me? So I was like, yeah. And eventually he ended up doing it for me. He just called me and Hitmaker on the phone and motherfucking with the verse and shit. That shit was like, I was like, man, because it's really like, as an artist, it's hard to get.

33:27The hardest people that get to do stuff for you is rappers. It don't be the singers and the R &B niggas and the biggest niggas in the world. They just be genuinely fucking with you. I done heard rappers tell me 250, all type of shit. Like, and it's like, man, you might be working, but it's just like, I like working with people that is genuine love. Like I don't, we do the same thing. So I don't want to have to buy you. Like, I mean, I will, I'll do the business if it makes sense, but I just rather it just be genuine and just genuine CB like dog, dog one of the coolest people I met in the industry for real.

34:07right it's genuine with dog he he genuinely on what he own he not he unapologetically is self every time it don't matter if it's 100 in the room whatever in the room he's shaking my hand the same way he's standing on that with me so i just with bro same thing with 50 like it don't matter who around he showed me the same love same thing with y 'all y 'all show me the same love it don't matter. Motherfucking president could be in the room. So that's why I just, I'm a genuine person like that. So I valued it. You know what I'm saying? So that type of shit, I just love. I can most of my records on it, like all my records on his album was like that.

34:47Like it was just genuine and organic.

34:49Tony Yayo:How was the collab with Wiz Khalifa? Heard the records fire. That was on the movie. That was on the movie set. When we did the movie set for Moses the Black, Wiz Khalifa just was cool as hell. He stopped me before the movie. Dog was like, he said something, and he was like saying something about my music, and I was really being quiet around him, because I'm like, this is Wiz. He stopped me and said something, I'm like, damn, Wiz know who I'm is? That shit fucked me up. Then the whole movie said we was just kicking it and chopping it. Then I just, like, I got a record for you, and he really did that shit in like a week.

35:28That shit was fire. Shelton Wiz, I'm a big fan of Wiz Khalifa. I mean, the first time I went with Miz Khalifa, I was in Atlantic Records, man. He was just walking by, smoking, in the label. Nigga walked in the room, was like, oh shit, Muriel, what's up, I fuck with you. Gave me a dab of smoking his blunt, just kept walking out. Dude, I was in that jean, I'm like, what the fuck? I'm like, yo, y 'all smoking? You're like, well, Wiz is smoking here. I was like, oh wow, just walking around the building. to smoke everywhere. Where's your snoop smoke everywhere? Where's your snoop smoke everywhere?

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40:14the last two years. Rocket put me in that shit. Shout out my nigga Sam, too. He linked me with Rocket. That's how I got cool with Rocket. I was seeing him and passing that shit. My nigga Sam linked me with Rocket, and Rocket really was just chopping it with me at first, and then I was like, no, I really want to do this shit. I was like, you really want to do this shit? We got to do acting class. We ain't going to get no roles for like four years, three years. I told his ass, man. like i'm i wouldn't know something like i'm skillet baby shit i was on some like you don't know me like i'm a nigga that when i put my mind to do something i'm gonna blow past everybody so he ain't really know i was gonna lock in i was doing like class like three times a week that shit was like 150 every time i was just doing that shit that shit was just like and i started falling in love with the shit so then we ain't even tell 50 like he like we ain't even gonna tell 50 we just gonna show him.

41:14And then one day we just, he was like, yeah, dog been in acting classes for like, like six months or some shit. He told 50 and he like word, blah, blah, blah. Just keep working. And then nigga just kept working. There wasn't no intent to like, make somebody notice I was working. So then 50 just called one day, like, man, take him to IAG, which is on the agency and shit. but it was also Yayo in the midst of that shit. Yayo was like, man, you need to this before the acting class. Don't give that nigga no props, please, man. Damn, man. I'm gonna appreciate he's here today. Skillet, finish the story, man.

41:56I gotta tell the truth, dog. Yayo like, man, you need to do this, this, and that, though. He was saying that shit. Like, man, you need to get on that shit. What the fuck is you waiting for? He ain't talking to me like that. What the fuck is you waiting for? Like we at shows and shit. Like we at A Boogie shows and shit. He still says and shit like, man what the fuck is you waiting for? You see the nigga Michael Rady. He like, you see the nigga Michael Rady? He like, you see the nigga little Meech man? Look at him man. This nigga acting and shit. Nah man. So I told you how much them checks was and shit like that.

42:30He still said, oh, okay. I'm like, this shit making sense. And then I was like, yeah, I'm kind of decent at this shit. So I just kept working and shit. and then like I started just keep working and kept working and I was getting all I actually text 50 like man I'm feeling stagnant and rapping shit like man this shit like like because you know as a rapper like y 'all rappers and shit so you know it get to a moment a point like it don't matter how successful you will this shit be feeling the same like yeah I'm just feeling the same off this shit like man this shit getting boring but you write hits so shit will be boring

43:08Tony Yayo:for you but i had texted that nigga and he was he was like word i'm gonna have something for you soon next week he had me an audition for one of the biggest shows in the world like and i ain't get it but it was just like damn niggas don't even get to self-tape for this show like i couldn't i I don't even want to say it. Cause I don't want niggas to be thinking like, like I know how many oops I be getting. Like that was a crazy, he threw me a crazy. Like that's why like a nigga can't say nothing wrong about y 'all to me for real. Niggas know that. Skills pay the bills man. Skills pay the bills man.

43:48Tony Yayo:Nah facts. Cause I look at it like this, to me, like you could have bars, but to me it's like melodies and dope hooks is, that's it. Once you got that, it's different to me. I just told Rocket that yesterday. You could spit, but when you hear Thick One, so many bitches, so many bitches, I just want Thick One. That shit. Video's crazy. Mm-hmm. And Rocket's telling me about all these videos that you want to do. When I watch Thick One, it's like, where do you pick the girls from, too? That's the number one question. I didn't pick the girls for that one. You had some things in there, the visuals, crazy.

44:25Tony Yayo:It was just sick video. You directed that yourself or? No, I didn't direct that one. I helped a little bit while I was on set, but my new videos might gonna be out of this world. My new inspirations is from old movies and hip hop moments in hip hop. So I wanna recreate moments in hip hop in my videos and old movies. So you played a part with the creative process with these new ones you're talking about? Yeah, for sure. Okay, got you, got you. they all start with me like what i wanted to do we get somebody to get a treatment and i i like curated and like make it to what i wanted to be but it all started with my idea like i want like all older movies that girls like you know all hip-hop moments that make like some nostalgic moments that make like because i got a i got a real rap album coming out so i want like real hip-hop heads and people that have been listening to rap for a long time to be like all right when i see this moment i was right here back in the day in 96 i was here in 05 i was here when this movie came out i was there how was how was it working in the studio with naz man i mean when you know that was something different for me i'm like you know i know you good at the hooks and stuff like that and i know you got bars because i know you be on the gram spitting and shit but i just was like damn me in the studio with naz what the fuck but my president shout out dad she he linked us, cause I'm supposed to get Nas on my shit too.

45:57But he linked us and Nas just took a liking to me. Out there was talking about Nas album and shit and me helping with Nas album. I helped him with some ideas. It was cool. Like that was fire. And then he was telling me stories from back in the day and shit like, that's why I like kicking it with the O. That was dope. Hearing them stories like, I can't, I went here in 96. So like, I be wanting to hear shit like, man in 95 this was going on, like with your favorite person. Like man. 95, 96, that was like the biggie, the Jay-Z era and all that shit.

46:35Tony Yayo:95 was definitely a good year. That was, you know, the get money era. Niggas still getting money in the 90s. I want to hear how Timbaland was putting up to the club with all that shit. But you gotta understand, for me, them moments like I remember like shook ones coming on like you ain't a crook son. When that first came out niggas get robbed. Niggas get punched in they face. Eight balls getting jacked. Pele Pele's back then. You know what I'm saying? Rob Markman Yeah certain records come on in the club back then. It was just - Rob Markman It was just - Rob Markman I ain't even gonna lie. Like even with Onyx.

47:06Tony Yayo:I remember when Onyx like - Rob Markman Everybody waiting for Sticky Burks. Rob Markman They had to throw their guns in the air. Niggas was buying their first guns. Little two fives or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Throw your guts in the air. Like it was just, it was crazy back then too. Just like he always say, it just wasn't no cameras. Same shit was going on. I kind of wish I was back then though. I would've been that thing back then. I ain't gonna tell you, no cameras. Yeah. Dude, Y-N's is fucking everything up. Y 'all fucking everything up. Like niggas don't want to go party. Like it was different because think about it.

47:37Tony Yayo:Think about this. It was no Instagram. Niggas that have a phone, maybe a flip phone in the 90s, in the 80s, you know, 90s niggas really had beepers too. You know what I'm saying? Then the Omni points and all that shit came out. Feel me? But nigga, I was in jail when camera phones came out. 205, yo, yo, they got the camera phone out now. Know what I'm saying? I was in jail. Niggas ain't have all that shit. So when you go to a party, niggas is dancing. DJs is killing the shit. She used to be crazy, bro. backyard parties, block parties. Them shits really ain't get shot up like that. Now, shit totally different.

48:14Tony Yayo:You can't really even - Now, parties got shot up back in the - I mean, they did. Some niggas - No, no, parties got shot up. No, no, I know, no, they - He just got shot the fuck up. Trust me. No, no, but what I'm saying is - He trying to blame much. No, you know what I'm saying? You know what's crazy? Look, more shit happened back then. You think so? That's why I was about to tell you that. I'm not saying - I was about to tell you that. More shit happened. You know more murders in Detroit back in the day than I. Way more, but you know what it is? Nowadays, we got social media, so things get highlighted more.

48:46That's all it is. Okay, I agree with you.

48:47Tony Yayo:She was getting shot up, but back in the days, right? Drug dealers had bus trips. Donnie Park. You right about that. They did do things. What that got to do is little niggas being violent. That's how he tried to throw it off. Hold on. You say he tried to throw it off, right? Oh yeah, there was more shootings, but the drug village didn't have bus trips. No, we took - You talk about old niggas with 20 bodies and shit. You ain't never heard of none of these young niggas got 20 bodies. These niggas had 20 bodies, serial killer. When you say the 80s and 90s, this is what I'm trying to say to you. It's a classic time, and I'm going to tell you why.

49:26Tony Yayo:Before BET, you know BET, right? Before MTV, right? Before - So you just asking if he know what BET is? Nah, he's young though. He telling me I ain't black. Yo, Jay is crazy. He telling me I ain't black. Yo, son, you is crazy. I'm bugging on that. But nah, I have to say, BET was back in the days. That was 205 when he was on that shit. Yo, yo, yo. Yo, I be trying to tell people my man is crazy. My man is crazy. Look, what year you was born? 98. He was born in 98. He know about Akul. OK, thank you. But he was like six watching us on that shit. He was six watching you. I was watching your though.

50:04Tony Yayo:Yeah, now look. You see, you're making me think about training the thorns. No, but look. Now look, when you think about the good old days, right? The only place you could watch, like niggas don't give this man his props, but Ralph McDaniels is a big part of hip hop because when we was kids, it was only video music box. That shit, come on.

50:27Tony Yayo:That shit, come on. You gonna see Run DMC. You gonna see MC Light. You gonna see Queen Latifah. There was no other channel. That was the beginning of hip hop for me. Niggas with the big change. And they was just copying the drug dealers because the drug dealers had that shit too. So the big change, that's why I always say Queens. I love Brooklyn, but Run DMC, hands down, my favorite group. Seeing them motherfuckers on that shit. Walk This Way with Bon Jovi. That's the first group to be on MTV as a rap group. Run DMC from Queens. Shout out to Brooklyn, but from Queens, no beef. Rob Markman - Okay, all right, go ahead.

51:04Tony Yayo:Rob Markman - But that's why I get excited when you say, yo, I want to do shit from the 80s and the 90s, you know what I'm saying? Shit like that. I understand because for me, that's a nostalgic time. The MVP, niggas started getting the drop top benzes, you know what I'm saying? When Big said to drop three and a quarter, I seen niggas coming through my block and that, three and a quarter. I'm like, oh shit, drop top three. that's why I like the drug dealers no not to glorify it now they was our heroes they was my heroes back in the day drug dealers no for sure that's all that was in Detroit like for a long time that's how we measured success though it was the most successful people we knew of course I had Maserati Rick all kinds of niggas out fucking get money in Detroit that's a get money place and it's a rough place to live but niggas always gonna look nice have some some money jewelry girls gonna have their hair done Detroit clean up nice You know what I'm saying?

51:56Tony Yayo:They know how to get to the bags You know what I'm saying? So the hustle remind us of New York. Every time I came out there Nah, Detroit niggas, a lot of Detroit niggas can rap and get money It reminds me of New York It's a little more grimier You think Detroit more grimier than New York? Yeah, y 'all like number two on the murder capital, Memphis number one I come visit y 'all on the BP or something, bulletproof It's grimy everywhere New York grimy New York is grimy, man. For one, New York is grimy. Y 'all niggas play with knives and shit. Like, man, I got time for that. New York is grimy, but Detroit is like blocks where you...

52:32Tony Yayo:I done been on blocks in Detroit. I went to Detroit, right? Niggas took me to a bodega. Like, bodega. It was like some movie shit. Went to the bodega. Know what I'm saying? A-Rap nigga came back. He was like, yo, man, I seen some black niggas, man. I was going to shoot y 'all down. He was cool though. He was cool with all that. I was going to grab the AK. Moms was cooking in the back. Mad Pounds. That shit was like some training day shit. Like, yo, what the fuck kind of shit going on over here? Like, Detroit is different. Whole nother world. So, y 'all ain't got that going on here. Nah, in the back of the bodega, but that shit was just crazy out of that shit.

53:06Tony Yayo:Shit be going on everywhere. But Detroit, like, certain blocks, there ain't no lights. Like, you know how block is lit up? Nah, it's dark. You go on them blocks, shit's dark, nigga. You ain't seeing police or nothing. That's because y 'all ain't really got houses here and shit. Like, we got houses. We got houses, nigga. Yeah, but y 'all got like - This nigga bugging. Now he tripping. No, I'm saying like our projects is like townhouses and houses and shit. Got you. Y 'all got buildings and shit. We don't really live in buildings. Like, I don't know too many people live in apartments. I know like, that's why my first thing was a big ass house I purchased because I don't want to live in no condo or nothing.

53:48I want to live in a house. That's what I grew up in. Like y 'all got buildings and shit. So you would be beefing with a nigga on the 12th floor. We beef with niggas from around the corner. So you gotta get in the striker and go spin a nigga block.

54:02Tony Yayo:No niggas beefing with a nigga on his floor. He's old shit used to be, yeah now yeah shit crazy. Niggas beefing with a nigga on the same floor nigga. Y 'all coming around the hallway and shit. We come around blocks. We gotta go spin a nigga block and really get put feet on land. and y 'all do too, but y 'all in buildings and shit. Like y 'all ain't gotta go buy a car and go do all this shit. Y 'all niggas pull it right up to the building. Yeah, we can run, yeah, yeah, yeah. Staying outside all day till a nigga come outside, surprise me. In front of their building, we go to the next building to go creep on niggas, vice versa, shit like that.

54:35Go poke a nigga up while you walking past. We can't do none of that shit.

54:38Tony Yayo:No, I don't know about none of that gentlemen right now. I know we getting too blunt. You know what I mean? I'm not advocating none of that y 'all right here. Shout out to the volume. Podcast. Man, we more than, man. Rob Markman, we put in pain too man. Rob Markman, podcast ain't your different. Boom. There you go, yeah. Yo. Gotta change, you gotta have that pain talk too sometimes. It's all good, statue of limitation. Nah, you know. He just told niggas I got Swiss cheese on. He just said my man got Swiss cheese, you got shot. Then when niggas talk about shooting the opps, you want to say hold up.

55:13Tony Yayo:It just got crazy a little bit. Y 'all know what I mean? That nigga told me what was I thinking when the bullets was coming through the - So what was you thinking when the bullets was coming through the car, Skillet? But now you want to say, hold up gentlemen, shout out to Hard Rock Betten. I'm saying, y 'all went to poke in the north and you know - Shit happens, this is real life. That happens, man. It's all good. It happens. We smoked up in Morocco. Stop funny. You hit this guy. Shit, we ain't always in Morocco, nigga. You know we right here in the hood. Take it from the guy that got a pool in his backyard.

55:45Tony Yayo:This is bullshit, man. I love the pool. Yeah, fucking Marvel and Gwynny. So you used to be doing a lot of them, the freestyles in the car too, rapping on the grave. You used to go get back to that a little bit? Yeah, I'm working on my album right now. Yeah, I'm just trying to be like a little bit, take some access from people a little bit. Gotcha, okay, be exclusive right now. So I can just focus on my album and shit. Me and Sonia, how you say professional, like on movie set, like what have you learned? Like what advice can you give the youngins out there about being on movie set, like on time and all that shit?

56:22Being on time is important. Having a good attitude, being a team player, making everybody comfortable. Always bringing good energy, positive energy. Leave all bullshit at home. Don't come to work with nothing from home like far as attitude or wearing that on your, So just make everybody feel comfortable and let everybody do their job and do your job. Don't try to do everybody. Everybody is important. It don't matter what role they is. Like cast, crew, production, lights, the driver. Everybody is important. DAs and just make everybody feel like they of importance and they somebody on set. Like that.

57:05Because they are really. So like everybody makes shit work. Facts. Everybody goes into making this film a success, whether it's a movie or a TV show. So you just come with professionalism, courtesy, and shit like that. And then you will be good, for real, because a lot of this shit, like everything be politics. So you might be a less, you might not be Denzel Washington, but he might not be Denzel Washington either. But y 'all both ain't Denzel Washington, but he's an asshole and you not. They're going to pick you. You know what I'm saying?

57:39Tony Yayo:how was it working with omar apps on moses oh that was hard i learned a lot of game from bro and he i was thinking like he's gonna be one of them actors that was like standoffers and shit he was real like cool and was talking to us and gave me game about acting so that was cool working well my all i think about is juice when i see him for sure juice i'm loving basketball basketball bags love it that's one of my favorites so i just i asked him about the movies just like when I see them in see, you know, old dog. Old dog, my God. We still calling them old dog. Classics. Them classic movies. And he was telling me like, he ain't make that much money off them.

58:17But just like, so that was cool to know. Niggas biggest movies, they ain't even make that much bread off of. But after you put in that pain, like you know what I'm saying? People put you in other shit and you make money. So just knowing that the longevity is, is what we, we, we striving for. that was like what I learned through like acting like it's longevity it ain't about just getting in it and getting out of it like you gotta want to do this for like you could rap to you 40 30 whatever you could act to you 100 you know I'm saying it's always a role for somebody you could be a granddaddy you could be a court justice you could be anything so you could do acting forever and as long as you build up your brand and your resume you will keep getting paid more and more

59:04Tony Yayo:Rob Markman You know what I like about your music? It's like, your music is like, I wouldn't just say it's just for the females. So when I'm in a club, I'm rocking to it too. The beats is crazy. The hooks is crazy. The bars is crazy. So like on Thick One, I'll fuck with that. I'm bumping that in the club. Rob Markman Because you want the Thick One too. Rob Markman Of course. Rob Markman Of course. It's not like you just rapping just for the ladies. I feel like any rapper that could make music that guys and girls like, I think that that's that make you crazy. Like a Scissor for instance. We'll listen to Scissor.

59:38Tony Yayo:I fuck with Scissor. You know what I mean? I fuck with Scissor though. Like she make music, Shout out to Scissor. She'll make music for the women, but dudes be feeling it too. I fuck with Scissor. I ain't gonna frisk. Sexy Red like that too. No she hurt. She had Sexy Red. I had a, I had a, I had a, like a phase where I would play all Sexy Red. I ain't gonna like. Sexy Red. You heard that Sexy, you had my boy playing all your shit. See, for me, for me, I'm gonna keep it real, it's the beef. So what's her producer name again? Tay Keith. Tay Keith. Yeah, that nigga. Whenever he make a beat. Yeah, it's not even what she's saying all the time.

1:00:14It's how she make a nigga feel on that bitch. Like, hyper seal. It's simple.

1:00:19Tony Yayo:I like Sexy Red, but with Tay Keith, when he make a beat, it's just, you know what I mean? That's like Greg John with Chef G in them. What's your favorite producer? What producers you use, by the way? Cause you always got crazy beats. I use all the type of, I started off with JC from Detroit. He's like a hidden gem. Hitmaker, one of my favorites right now. Boogs the Beast work with Kanye. He hard. Go Grizz, Crazy Beats. I got this one nigga from Florida. His name, Zay, hard to sell. Hell of a hard. I be fucking with a lot of people. I be trying to make my shit sound different every time. so I don't be trying to just like I lock in with my producers, but I got to like have different sounds.

1:01:05So, but now my new process, I want you to come to the studio and build this bitch from scratch though. Like how I did my album, I want to do all my music like that. I got to build this bitch from scratch. Like I got to produce on it too. Like I got to, I'm a, I got to be a producer on it because I got to tell you how I'm feeling and what I want to go into it now. So you want to be there with the producer picking out the sounds and all that. So like for sure. Got you. Got you.

1:01:33Tony Yayo:And you got to think about he got, he got music that is not only just for radio. It's like all the women when they do their reels, they play his music. Mm hmm. So every time you go up on Instagram, you just hear him, you hear him, see, you know, beautiful women. Oh, oh, you know. Everywhere just like, oh shit, playing his records, like everything is just like a hit, a hit. My song with Mary Mary Gonna change the world Mark my words I just said that Cool My shit gonna change the world That one For sure Thousand percent It's not like People ain't gonna expect that one It's not like A hip hop record With a gospel person on it And it's not like A gospel record With a hip hop Person on it It's like a real record Like It's a real collaboration It's not Real life record Reality was going on Yeah it's got like One of them we are the world meanings to it like feels and vibes like you got one of those to where like when you hear it you gonna automatically feel like happy you gonna feel relieved all type of stuff like it's one of those for sure what made you wanna do a record like that?

1:02:45before I even met her I had did the record I was just searching to make one I was just getting inspired by a lot of stuff and then I was searching to make a record like this and then I finally had got a beat that inspired me to do this shit and I had like a theme for it and shit and then I just was writing a little bit at a time I wrote a verse uh I liked it then I put the choir on it then I just kept adding pieces to it took some pieces off kept working it kept working it and then I got it to where I liked it. Then we got in the studio, I played it for my label. And that's how, when I was telling y 'all, I got with Erica Campbell and her husband and stuff.

1:03:32And I went through that situation. They was like, damn, Erica Campbell can't get on this. And then when she got on it, she just made it. She brought it all the way together with the party. Everything made sense, look at that.

1:03:44Tony Yayo:How's it working with Interscope? Shout out to Interscope. You know I love Interscope when we was there. We had a good time over there. Interscope is one of the best labels to be at because you got a lot of resources at your hand. There's a lot of big artists over there. And it be Interscope good for me because it might not be good for artists that just come in and trying to be here by day, gone by night. like what if you really want to work to be something you probably want to go to interscope because they not gonna really work your shit until they really see you ready to work your shit so like right now interscope ready to take me through the roof like i'm saying take me to the moon because they see me putting the work in so interscope one of the records where you got m over there fifth over there um kendrick lamar over there drake was over there all type of all type All types of people was at Interscope or big artists and medium artists, little artists.

1:04:50Tony Yayo:Yeah, TDE, Kendrick. Yeah, so it's all types of people up there at your resource if you really put in the work and practice or craft and stuff. Definitely, yeah, we definitely had some good times at Interscope. I remember one time having lunch on - I just stole some of y 'all merch. Oh, no, definitely. Yeah, I did not rock it. I stole some of their merch. Stole some of y 'all merch from back in the day. We're glad to have you on the show. In the scope, I know, you know, because you're from Detroit and you on a Cali team, but I had a good time over there. Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Eminem, you know, me, Banks, 50, you know, that shit.

1:05:29Tony Yayo:Game 2, you know, Buck. You can't leave them out because it was just a good time. The moments was just crazy for us. For me, coming out of jail. What's y 'all favorite moments in hip-hop, though, like that y 'all went through like? My favorite moment is always gonna be Free Yale cause I was on Rikers Island. So, you know, they kept the name alive while I was locked up. So, I mean, for me, I felt like, me in jail, I felt like Tupac on the island. Cause it's only a couple of niggas that got to do interviews on the island. I think probably just me and Tupac. I don't know who else, but I got to do an interview on Rikers Island and the shit was crazy.

1:06:05Tony Yayo:Like everything was moving so fast. 50 did a million his first week. I'm in jail. I'm like, damn, it's crazy. You know, I get the call from Shady Records like, yo, watch the Grammys tonight. You know, I ain't want to get stabbed over the TV or nothing. I ain't in PC. You know, Spanish niggas want to watch Caliente. Other niggas want to watch basketball and sports and all that. You know how that go. Because you know, when you locked up on the island, stay away from the newspaper, the phone. You just got to play the games, politics in there. You know, you be in New York. So basically they call me, say, yo, Eminem gonna do something at the Grammys.

1:06:40Tony Yayo:I ain't know what. He wore the free A.O. shirt. That shit had me hype. Word. I'm a C73, too low. Hyped as a motherfucker. So I'm like, damn, niggas is blowing up crazy. Because we had the streets on lock with the mixtapes and then it was just crazy. Because that's what I like about niggas that can write hooks, because I felt like Fifth always could write the hook. the hook is really the song. It's really the song. You know what I'm saying? You can spit bars and then how you put you know bridges and stuff in there. I like that creativity. That's why I'm like damn like it's like you don't miss when you put out a record.

1:07:21Tony Yayo:Like the last year with Doug crazy. And you put out the other record that's bubbling up. So it's like I just know like when your album come I know you gonna have number one hits on it, you know what I'm saying? I already know, bro. You know that CB shit gonna be the number one hit. Yeah, CB, Bryson Tiller, like that's - That's gonna be a smoker right there. Hands down, you know what I'm saying? Cause I know you a nigga that don't like to lose. I seen you play basketball, Shreveport, you know what I'm saying? Like, you didn't get the MVP? No, they gave it to Bud. Don't Bud, don't Bud got it. It was a little political on me.

1:07:55Y 'all made the game though. You was cooking Gilly too. You was cooking Gilly. Yeah, Gilly couldn't check me. He was cooking Gilly. I slept on him too. I slept on him too, but he was cooking. Him and Gilly. Which one of y 'all? Oh, Yayo told me I couldn't hoop.

1:08:10Tony Yayo:Nah, because I was like, I know Gilly nice. Yayo told me Gilly was going to cook me. I told him, man, a 50-year-old nigga ain't never going to cook me. Yeah, but we got the switches too. I'm like, damn, we just talking about basketball. Detroit niggas, my nigga. Detroit niggas, they be on time. Yo told me Gilly was gonna cook. We whoop Gilly in there man, Streetport. You dropped like what, 25, 30? Yeah, I had something like that. Yeah, you was cooking. I had a good time in Streetport, man. Shout out to them. That was a good time, man. Y 'all had it going in Streetport, I ain't gonna lie. What happened in Streetport stays in Streetport.

1:08:47Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go, Streetport.

1:08:50Tony Yayo:We supposed to be doing one in Vegas, so we see how that work out. Shout out to 50, you gotta come out to that. So with the origin powers, you just in like one episode or they got you in a couple episodes? They got me in a few of them. Okay, fire. And I'm gonna show my ass, they gonna put me in more. Okay, okay, that's what I'm talking about, fire. Shout out to Power of Origin, shout out to the director Rob Heard. There's a shout out to 50, all of them. I don't know, they really showed me love too. Like, and I don't be over there on no skillet baby stuff. They all call me Trayvon and stuff by my real name.

1:09:24Who the fuck is Trayvon? That's me. That's me. Who the fuck? That's his real name.

1:09:30Tony Yayo:Nah, I never heard his government. I'm glad he said it, because you know - That nigga shit is Marvin, all right? Why you saying Marvin? I'm just letting my nigga know. Your shit is Leonard. I'm just like, all right, it's cool. I'm just letting my nigga know. Why you letting niggas know? I'm just letting my nigga know. Skilling my niggas gonna steal my social security out here. I'm just letting my nigga know, man. Come on niggas know my government, nigga. I'm just holding my nigga's skillet down. What the fuck is going on, man? Leonard, Leonard. That's what I'm letting it quit. It's all good. Fuck.

1:09:55Leonard. You talking about his shit is Martin. You talking about. Marvin, but no, he's laughing at that shit. There's a lot of famous.

1:10:01Tony Yayo:How many famous Leonard's you know, nigga? I don't care. You my man DiCaprio? You know what I mean? That's Leonardo. It's not Leonard, nigga. Fuck outta here. You got a bright future though, man. Yo, it's crazy how like, I look at your situation similar to 50, cause it's like - Cause he got shot. Yeah, cause 50 got shot. Yo, I can't. Yo, come on. Go ahead, finish this stuff. This thing is crazy. Go ahead. Go ahead. They not getting you. See, he never let me finish. Yo, give me the bottle of the drink. Go ahead, finish this stuff. He never let me finish. You got to let me make a point. No, because you got shot.

1:10:36Tony Yayo:I'm not saying getting shot is a good thing. Nobody wants to get shot. Know what I'm saying? You got shot, and it's like you and him got shot, and y 'all turned a negative thing into a positive thing. because listen to the music, the aggression, he's acting. It's like everything turned up when you did that. And it's like sometimes when somebody's going through pain in music, I always tell you that. I've seen 50 go through that. When you go through pain and you come back and it's just like, yo, this nigga's like Superman. Know what I'm saying? Like this nigga just whatever, he just acting now. Fucking real estate nigga motherfucking moving crazy.

1:11:17Tony Yayo:Bulletproof trucks now. He got all that shit now. You know what I'm saying? With motherfuckers. What? I'm just being real. You know what I'm saying? Bulletproof trucks now. Niggas moving. Like, how the fuck do you, like, how the fuck do motherfuckers do that? Could take a negative and turn that shit into a positive? What gave you that drive? I think that shit just be in you though. Like, getting shot either put you up or turn you up. Like, that shit. Like, it's two different type of people in life. Like, you got fight or flight senses. So like that type of shit that make you want to go like, like that shit.

1:11:51I got in the gym after that shit early and everything. Like started working on my body, praying more, doing all types of shit. So I ain't going to lie. Me and Rocky be saying that like, that's like one of the best bullets I caught. Like, and it's like, it ain't funny, but it really is. Like that shit changed my life mentally. Physically, I'm better and bigger. Like it's everything. I'm more focused. So I turned the negative to a positive, like you said, but I wouldn't want, I wouldn't recommend nobody getting shot. This is my situation and how I turn my situation into this. And it just show me, like you said, how to move better.

1:12:31And maybe other people, I be saying, I'm like God's guinea pig though. Like I be feeling like God be putting me through shit to show other people. Cause I'm big and young people life and stuff, kids and shit and like i ain't really trying to preach at no kids i really just be trying to show kids i went through this you don't have to go through this you know what i'm saying right like you can use because i'd use a lot of that people went through to avoid situations too so since i'm gonna be in kids life and i ain't gonna make the choice for them but i'm gonna show them two choices like and i think that's what god do for us like he'll show you the door on the left show you the door on the right nigga you can't go through this door and it might be the same to get to the same spot but nigga this fire on this door nigga and it steps on this door and a nigga might like it might be a little bit of fire and it might be the goal right here but it might be a lot of steps and the nigga might not want to go up all them steps but if you go up all them steps you come in you come through clean you know what i'm saying you're just a little tired you go through this fire your your ass gonna be burnt.

1:13:39You know what I'm saying? So I feel like you just show like even with the kids, I'll show you the fire and I'll show you the steps. You don't have to go through the fire. You could go through the steps, but nigga, I got you regardless, I ain't judging you. You know what I'm saying? Everybody bumped their head, but I'm just here to show you the options. You know what I'm saying? So I think God do that for me a lot. A lot of times I do choose the fire because I'm just a knucklehead. You know what I'm saying? but you still have it. But you making better decisions now. You making better decisions now.

1:14:11For sure, I take the steps now.

1:14:14Tony Yayo:You talked about giving back. Do you want to start a foundation or do you have one? Yeah, I have. Cause you talking about giving out what, 500 pair of sneakers you said or something like that? Yeah, I just gave a lady a house for Christmas and shit. Oh wow, wow. Gave her one of my houses and shit. But I do that all the time. I don't have a foundation because I was just so caught up in like - Rocket, get on it. How did that come about though? You giving the lady a house? That's what you selected, you picked, you had like a... I be working with the mayor and stuff and then when certain people be having situations, they call me.

1:14:44Okay, gotcha. So they call me and I help. Like I did a gun buy back last year, like I told y 'all. Gave them like 50 ,000 towards buying all the guns off the streets. I be doing a lot of shit and it don't be like, I be wanting to be rewarded or no recognition for it. It's just because, like I said, I used to look up to the dope man when I was little. And that's the type of shit. the older dope man used to do. Like nigga, when the ice cream truck, everybody got ice cream. When this house on the block ain't had water, he paid the water bill. Like it just, it was shit I seen growing up that inspired me to do it.

1:15:18Got you.

1:15:19Tony Yayo:Thank you, man. Thanks for having you on the show, man. What's the name of the album? What's the name of the album? The Price of Fame. The Price of Fame. The Price of Fame, man. Live from Detroit. You know what it is. Make some noise, man. Skillababy, whoa. Appreciate you, dawg.

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