Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Yo, it's effective immediately. I'm DJ Head.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: What up, Hip Hop Nation? It's your favorite homegirl, Genie Views.
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Yes. We have a living legend in the building, my brother, T.I.
[00:00:12] Speaker C: What'S happening? What's happening? How y' all doing, man?
[00:00:15] Speaker A: I've been waiting for this for a long time, man. I know we've been, you know, tapped in for a minute, but I ain't never had a chance to sit and chop it up with you. And my apologies if we get cut short, because I know you gotta go and so do I. But, bro, like, I'm just keeping it a buck, bro. Like, I'm a huge TI Guy, man. Thank you.
Also, I would be remiss if I didn't shout out to my bro, DJ Tune.
[00:00:36] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: First and foremost, I want to get into Let Them Know and the final album and all that, but I got to go back because you.
Who would you consider to be the founding members of trap music? Because I had this argument with a lot of my brethren, and it's always you, it's Toom. And then there are other names that are interchangeable when. As far as. When we have this debate.
[00:01:03] Speaker C: I mean, you saying, like, founding members.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Who'S credited as putting trap music in the forefront of the community?
[00:01:12] Speaker C: Myself, Jeezy, Gucci, probably. Yo Gotti, Boosie.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Okay, Bet. All right.
Hey, you said it. So I guess I wanna know is why the final album as TI Fans, like, we didn't wanna hear that shit.
[00:01:30] Speaker C: I feel you, but it been 25 years, you know what I'm saying? I just feel like it's time, you know what I mean?
God gifts us with many, many talents and things that, you know, we have to offer while we're here on Earth.
I don't wanna just spend all my time on Earth doing just this one thing. And there's so many.
So it's like, you know, I've had my run and let's let somebody else get a turn.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: I remember being a kid, I was introduced to you from Bring Them Up.
[00:02:13] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: And I remember watching a music video, and a snippet of you don't know me was part of the video. And I used to be standing in the living room trying to master your hand movement.
[00:02:22] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: You may never understand, but you don't know me.
[00:02:28] Speaker C: What made you do that? Like, as far. How old were you?
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Was that 2004?
[00:02:33] Speaker C: Nah, it was.
Yeah, five, maybe 2005. Four or five.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: I had to been about eight or nine years old.
[00:02:40] Speaker C: What?
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:41] Speaker C: Needed your ass whooped.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Was that intentional, like. Cause throughout the whole. Every time you say it, you do the head thing.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it was intentional.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: It was intentional. And then even now we seen you rocking the. A hat to the side, tilted to the side. Was that an intentional fashion statement or that's just how y' all wore the hats back then?
[00:03:01] Speaker C: Nah, that was intentional for me.
I got a partner, my oldest partner, man. My oldest partner. I got an 80 year old partner.
That's a blessing. Yeah, his name's Schlem.
He just came home from prison and he, you know, back when I was a kid, you know, I grew up watching him coming and going and he used to have a Jerry curl. He used to wear like them trucker hats that had the little, the little crest on it. Used to wear and wear it to the side just like that, barely hanging on with the Jerry curl, you know, hanging out. I was like, man, that's cool as hell. You know what I'm saying?
And so when I got my time, I just, you know, kind of absorbed and adapted the styles of other cool motherfuckers that I had been exposed to throughout my life.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: I always wanted to know, what was your initial reaction when you heard Jay Z, Kanye, and who else is on swagger like us? Jay Z, Kanye, and Lil Wayne's verses? What was your initial reaction?
[00:04:07] Speaker C: I was like, I can't believe we did it. You know, I can't believe. I just, I never thought that the record would, you know, would happen. When it was introduced, it was me and Kanye at first, and I was cool with that, you know what I'm saying? And my A and R at the time, G. Roberson, he said, nah, you know, it'll be dope if I can get Jay and Wayne on there. I was like, man, that ain't gonna happen.
And when he got it, I was like, he fucking did it.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying?
[00:04:37] Speaker C: But that was, you know, that was my first thought and I was just kinda just happy to be a part of something that I knew instantly was gonna be a monumental record.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Was there ever any conversation to shoot a music video?
[00:04:51] Speaker C: Yeah, we talked about it. We just couldn't get everybody's, you know, everybody's times aligned.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: There is a moment, I don't know what award show it is, but you guys are all on stage together performing it. Grammys, all in this Grammy season. What was that moment like?
[00:05:05] Speaker C: It was a blessing, bro. I can't even.
I think I still have footage from the rehearsals and, you know, it was like an All Star Game.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it looks like. Even looking back on it, listening to the song, I didn't realize how important that moment was as a child.
[00:05:26] Speaker C: I mean, for some reason, I think I knew.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:29] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, I think I knew I had like a dark cloud looming over me because I had to go turn myself in shortly after, but that was still a moment that I enjoyed and held on to.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: You think we'll see something like that again?
[00:05:48] Speaker C: I ain't got no crystal ball, but you know what I'm saying, if it could happen, then it could happen again.
I mean, I don't know if.
I don't know who the four people would be.
[00:06:03] Speaker B: That's what we've been talking about.
Being that you got like. We was just having this debate on our show because being that, like, Wayne's dropping album, you about to drop an album, and how the artist, the legendary artists from back in the day is still space for you guys to perform, and it's still like the fans still want you guys to perform.
[00:06:24] Speaker C: That's a blessing.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: And I was asking him if he remembered. During you guys introduction to the game, was there a space for the older rappers, the legends back in before y' all time. Was it a space for them to, you know, drop, like how you guys are doing right now?
[00:06:37] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. Of course it was. I mean, of course with the. With the Internet and with direct to consumer platforms, more resources now. Yeah, you know, the space has expanded.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel that, man.
First, it's so much shit I want to talk to you about, but when it comes to let them know you said. I mean, me and you were talking before we got on the air, but you knew immediately, as soon as you heard the track, you knew what it was.
[00:07:10] Speaker C: I did.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Do you feel a pressure to do the beat justice when you feel like that? Because what you know about that was one of them ones. I think whatever you like was monumental.
It was one of them records. And I didn't like it because to me, it's a trend of like, I had to like outperform the next man to impress the women.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: No, you have to outperform yourself. You have to outperform your present best man.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Tell the women that, man.
[00:07:39] Speaker C: Cooking up all the time.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: So when you heard the song initially, I mean, when you heard the beat, were you in there with Pharrell cooking up, or did you get. You got a pack from him or.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: How did I. Nah, we was on a boat, actually, when he.
So the first day we worked on the boat. Well, it was A little boat that brought us to a bigger boat.
And we worked on some records that day. And then the next day. The next day was kind of complicated because I went and got my boat. I went and got myself a boat.
And then.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: I was trying, okay, that's regular Tuesday.
[00:08:19] Speaker C: I was trying to link my boat with his boat.
And I couldn't quite. You know, every time we get to a location, they had moved to another location. So then they had to send the little boat again to get me. And so I got off my boat, got on the little boat, and then went back to the studio. Boat.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Studio boat is crazy.
[00:08:41] Speaker C: And as soon as.
And as soon as I got there, I was finna talked to him. Hey, man, I was right over. And he was like, hey, listen to this.
And you know what I'm saying? And as soon as I heard it, we got to work.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: That's what's up. Yeah, has there ever been any talk to y' all doing a whole project like before?
[00:09:02] Speaker C: I mean, man, you know, it could happen. We have enough music.
I have not had a specific conversation with him about it, but, you know, I guess again, it could happen.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: People try to talk shit to me because they said I articulate myself in the way that you do. And they say, that's not why we.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: Talk shit to him.
[00:09:25] Speaker C: But guess what?
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Fuck them.
That's not why we talk shit to him.
[00:09:29] Speaker C: Okay, well, why is it?
[00:09:30] Speaker A: Because of the way I pontificate myself?
[00:09:32] Speaker B: That's that bullshit I'm talking about. Cause all he had to say is the way I talk.
He fit these big ass words here for no reason.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: Hey, man, I think. Hey, man, I think, you know, some people have a love for fashion. Some people have a love for hairstyles. Some people have a love for sneakers.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: Some people have a love for gaslighting.
[00:09:53] Speaker C: Love for vernacular.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: I love vernacular.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Yeah, man, ain't nothing wrong with that. You know, the only thing that separates humans from the savage beast is the ability to articulate our thoughts into words. And the more thoughts you have, the more ways you need to articulate.
I have a lot of thoughts same.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: He's on bullshit.
I remember the Ti versus Tip promo.
[00:10:22] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:10:22] Speaker B: It was a commercial of you talking to yourself, like battling. It was a self reflection too. Internal battling. At this point in your career as a father, actor, comedian, musician, are you still having internal battles all the time?
[00:10:36] Speaker C: All the time. We had a battle about what outfit to put on today.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: You know, we had a battle.
How many? How many people?
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Because you look like Rashad right now.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: I Mean, they have learned to collaborate, okay. You know, peacefully.
They've learned to collaborate. I think.
I think both of them have had too much tip leads to trouble, and too much TI leads too far into the rabbit hole of Hollywood. You know what I'm saying?
So they need each other. It's balance.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: How did you end up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Like, how did that happen? As a fan, I just want to know, man.
[00:11:22] Speaker C: Brian Cher had heard about it, and we went and kind of found out who was gonna be the director, who was producing it, started having meetings, went read for it, and got it.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Oh, you had to audition for it?
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:43] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: I do wanna know, how were you getting so these, like, it was iconic roles early in your career? American Gangster.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: What was it? Takers. Yeah, Takers is fire, obviously. Atl. That's different. But how are you getting those roles? It's so early in your career and with limited accuracy.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: I did for all of them.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Really?
[00:12:03] Speaker C: Yeah. I had to go. I had to go kill the audition for all of them now. I mean, of course, my ability to put asses in seats probably, you know, aided and assisted, but that was still, like, several auditions.
I had to get wait for callbacks and all that type shit. And then that was the whole.
The alignment of scheduling. You know, I had to figure sometimes I had to decide whether I would tour or do a movie.
So, you know what I'm saying, it all kind of just worked out in God's timing.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Were there any roles that you passed on?
[00:12:48] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
Tropic Thunder.
Tropic Thunder. I think Brandon T. Jackson, his role.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Oh, really?
[00:12:58] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. It was a part in there where, you know, he was posed to.
So they thought they were gonna die, right? They thought they were gonna die. And I guess they were having a coming to Jesus confession moment.
And the character was supposed to confess how, in specific, meticulous detail.
Oh, shit. He had to confess how he longed for the scent of a man or some sh.
And so I passed immediately.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Scrapped the whole roll.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I passed immediately.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: No revisions on the script. Just scrap it.
[00:13:45] Speaker C: I mean, I just said, nah, you know what I mean? And then that was the first audition. I didn't do that. I got a call back.
I got a call back and it was Ben Stiller. And, you know, the producers in there and they called me and I go in there, I was like, hey, you think we could change this part? Cause I was like, man, they don't need me to go. And, you know, Brian Shell was like, man, just go, man, you Know what I'm saying? You never know. They might be willing to change it. So I asked him and he was like, man, you know what? We think it'll be funny. How about we just get you to read it? Just do. I say, nah, nah, I ain't doing that. I can't do it.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: I just.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: I ain't got it. I ain't.
I ain't. I just.
That is a.
That's a part of humanity I cannot replicate.
And so, yeah, that's one I passed.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: On 20 years later. What do you think Rashad and Nunu's relationship status is?
[00:14:50] Speaker C: I think one of them's married and one of them's single. And that's all I'm gonna say about that.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Okay.
Are we gonna find out more?
[00:15:01] Speaker C: Potentially.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: I wanna give you props for two separate reasons. One of them is a little, you know, personal, but I just want to give you your credit. One is I was there when you were working the chitlin circuit doing the comedy shit. I saw you at the haha. I saw you at D Ray spot on Mondays. I saw you literally outside working the circuit, like, two, three nights a week. I mean, I know you was out more than that, but I saw you personally with my own eye. You was at the haha, like, in north, doing, like, working the scene, like. And I was just like, damn. Like, that level of dedication is.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: To be.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Is admirable. Right, man.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: It's fun, though, bro. You know what I'm saying? It's easy to work hard at something that you enjoy doing.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: And then the other thing is, it's about rhythm and flow. Me and we did rhythm and flow together.
And I never told this story really publicly, but I just wanted to give you your props because it taught me something as a man, as a professional in the entertainment business.
[00:15:58] Speaker C: What was.
[00:16:00] Speaker A: Was about your. I think your sister. Can I talk? Can I speak?
[00:16:03] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: Okay. So the day when we were filming Rhythm and Flow, I think you had got the news that your sister had passed.
And I remember you took a moment and we were all on set, and you took a moment. You was in your trailer, and you literally came out and just did the show. And no one ever knew. I didn't know. Nobody could tell that you might have had a break. No one even knew what you was going through. Nobody on set.
[00:16:24] Speaker C: Right.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: But we found out later that that's what was going on. And just as a man in entertainment business, it taught me the show gotta go.
[00:16:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? If you agree to do Something. You do it. And you spoke on that at some point. I don't remember what you said, but it was to. That. It was to that effect. Like, you gotta. You gotta deliver what you say you gonna deliver on no matter what, what life deals with you. And I just thought that was very admirable.
[00:16:47] Speaker C: I appreciate it. I mean, I think that, man, I've dealt with death so much, you know what I mean? It's.
It kind of like, it's.
It's a part of life, you know?
Now, if there would have been something that could have been done, I might have. I might have left, you know what I'm saying? Like, if it was, you know, still fighting and hanging on or something like that, I might have left or come say your final word type. But if.
If the number. If her number's been called, then she already. Where I'm at right now.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Touche.
[00:17:34] Speaker C: You know what I'm saying?
Once she has transitioned from the physical form to the omnipresence of the spiritual realm, she's right there where I am. There's no need for me to have to travel anywhere.
So.
Yeah, that's.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: I appreciate that. But what made you agree to do rhythm and flow? Cause I know what made me do it. But what made you agree to do it?
[00:18:03] Speaker C: I think it went to cash, man. I think, like, ultimately, I think the cash did it. You know what I'm saying? But.
Nah. But this here, though, when I found out who the other the panelists were and of course, the producers, I'm long time friends and supporters of, it just felt.
It felt like a good fit, you know what I mean? It felt like something that I think the culture needed and something that we could present in such a way that would make it iconic and important.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: I spoke to a couple of the homies and rappers, and obviously they cut from the same type of cloth you cut from. And they always talk about how they regret doing certain things that they feel like hurt their career. And I remember having a conversation about. I think it was family hustle.
[00:19:02] Speaker C: Yeah. Mine was prison.
I regret doing that.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: I'm not turning.
[00:19:11] Speaker C: That's hurt my career a little bit.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Okay, so you wouldn't have turned yourself in if you're going back. You would have just went to Mexico.
[00:19:18] Speaker C: Choice.
[00:19:18] Speaker A: Right, right.
[00:19:19] Speaker C: You know what I'm saying? Nah, I just think, man, you know it. But you know what? Get what? The first time wasn't that bad.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: The first time.
[00:19:28] Speaker C: The first time wasn't that bad. The second time. Yeah, man, that shit took the wind out of me. A little bit.
[00:19:36] Speaker A: Do you. Do you think that doing the Family Hustle show hurt the TI brand at all?
[00:19:42] Speaker C: Nah, I don't think that. I think it expanded the TI brand. I think opened us up to a new. A household market.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: You know what I'm saying?
We went from fitted hats and sneakers to, you know, paper towels and bottled water. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, you could sell anything. Book bags and pencils, you know what I'm saying?
So I just think it expanded the brand and I'm proud of it. You know, I don't. I take issue with, you know what I'm saying, the way the situation was handled at the end. Dud, I take issue with that. That hasn't been resolved. But fuck it.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: It hasn't been resolved.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: No, no. But as I say, fuck it.
But I will never take lightly. All of the time I had recorded with my children in stages of life, I never get to see again. You know what I mean?
[00:20:50] Speaker A: It was documented.
[00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah. That's our family photo album.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: Well, thank you for giving us Domani. It's been a long time since I've been delusional over R and B, hip hop collab. And I love what he does with the girl records.
[00:21:04] Speaker C: That's what's up.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: What is it like for you to listen to his music as a father?
And it's good.
Cause a lot of the child, you know, he's great.
[00:21:13] Speaker C: It sucked at first.
It sucked at first, but he.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: Did you tell him?
[00:21:17] Speaker C: Yeah, of course.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: Okay. I'm just. I'm just.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: What's that conversation like?
[00:21:22] Speaker C: Man, get this shit outta here.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Straight up.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Yeah, get this shit. You gonna get beat up.
Nah, he ain't bullshitting. Cause he was rap.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Beat up is crazy.
[00:21:31] Speaker C: Nah, nah, for real. Cause he's a kid. He was a kid. He about eight, nine years old. And he rapping about, you know, spending money at the mall and buying ice cream. And I said, why you gonna get beat up?
Kids did not want to hear you ball in their face like that. Man. You gotta realize people is hungry out there. Talk about stuff that you have in common with people.
And he took, you know, he took the necessary steps and accepted the challenge of expanding his.
Not just his production of music, but expanding on how he viewed the world.
And, you know, he came back with something that was undeniable.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: I guess. I wanna know from your perspective, why has the south ran hip hop for so long?
[00:22:26] Speaker C: I mean, talent.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: I don't. Talent is everywhere, though.
[00:22:32] Speaker C: I mean, is that. Is that. Well, Is it.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: I mean, is it Coast Guard, yo. Yeah, we. Yeah, we got talent for show out here.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: I'm just saying, y' all got y' all shit going.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: I'm just saying, like, talent could be found multiple places. I want to know, like, if there's a secret sauce, if there's.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: Atlanta is a magical place.
Is a place that, you know, literally anything can happen, good or bad.
It is a place.
It's a place of cultural abundance.
Like, you can literally experience any and everything.
You could come to Atlanta for a year and experience any. You can come for a week and experience any and everything. And we're all, as human beings, we are a culmination of our experiences.
And as an artist, we share those experiences with the world.
So the results of your experiences will lead to the creation and the curation of your art.
And I think that people in Atlanta have had so many experiences of.
That was just lit, you know what I'm saying? Like, man, you could be in school one minute and then cut school, get on the bus, get off, end up at an apartment, at a party, and leave there and find yourself as a high schooler in Club Nicky's, you know? And then go back to school and don't feel the need to tell nobody where you was or what you were doing. Cause, man, it was just a Sunday, you know what I mean? I feel like, man, that's the Atlanta experience. So when you have had that level of exposure, access to the world, it just gives you a different perspective to speak from.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: Did you expect the word expeditiously to become a part of your brand after you said it?
[00:24:49] Speaker C: No, I didn't.
I actually didn't.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: It almost felt like the world didn't know that the word existed until you said it.
[00:24:55] Speaker C: That's crazy.
That's crazy, man.
But, nah, I didn't have no idea. I had no idea at all.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: It's almost like when Jada Pickett said what she said.
[00:25:08] Speaker C: Situationship. No, no.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Entanglement. Entanglement. Yeah.
[00:25:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
I mean, man, hey, some things you can't. You can't create something. You just gotta kinda respond to em in a timely manner. Mm.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: With this being your last album, does that mean you're retiring from music or will we still get features?
[00:25:29] Speaker C: I mean, I will do what I feel like doing.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:25:35] Speaker C: And I still.
If I can help talent that needs to be seen, if I can help usher talent into the world, I will.
I just don't feel the need to do no complete projects no more.
[00:25:51] Speaker A: Okay, My last two questions.
I know people Ask you about the verses all the time. Have you had any conversations about that?
[00:25:59] Speaker C: I mean, we be talking, man, but I don't see nothing, man.
Okay. It gotta be. It gotta. It gotta be. It gotta be worthy.
You know what I'm saying?
[00:26:11] Speaker A: Everybody wants you and Wayne.
[00:26:13] Speaker C: I would love to see that. You know what I'm saying? Wayne on the album. I'm gonna probably see him later this week. I would love that. You know what I'm saying? I pick it. Brain. See what he thinking.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: That's fire.
[00:26:23] Speaker C: I mean, but I. Hey, Wayne don't really want to do much, you know what I'm saying?
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Wayne be on Wayne time.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Speaking of Wayne.
[00:26:31] Speaker C: And I respect that. Cause that where I'm headed right after we drop this album.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: When you heard the we taking over verse, right? Cause y' all did the Khaled record We taking over, and that's now an infamous. One of the most infamous song probably in modern hip hop at this point. Because it was like everybody started taking Wayne Serious on a different level after.
[00:26:50] Speaker C: For real?
[00:26:51] Speaker A: Yes, because, well, it was Carter.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: It was the Carter who didn't take Wayne serious.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: Let me speak from.
[00:26:58] Speaker C: I'm asking as a hot boy fan, who did not take Wayne, what year was that?
[00:27:02] Speaker B: 2008. 2007.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: No, I'm talking about the mainstream industry.
[00:27:05] Speaker B: We taking over.
[00:27:06] Speaker C: Yeah, we taking over. That was What? That wasn't seven.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: That was 2000.
[00:27:09] Speaker C: That was five. Six.
[00:27:11] Speaker A: 2007.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: 2007.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: About five or something like that. I'm not saying that they didn't before. I'm saying mainstream media was like, oh, my God, Wayne is the guy. And I'm like. It was like literally eight bars.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Like, it was that when he said, iu rappers.
[00:27:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: No, I'm a beast. Feed me rappers or feed me beats.
[00:27:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it was a dope verse.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: Did you. When y' all did that song, how did y'.
[00:27:30] Speaker C: All.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: Were y' all together when you did that, or did you hear it when everybody else heard it?
[00:27:33] Speaker C: I think I heard it when everybody else heard it maybe a little bit before.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:27:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: So did. Has anybody ever made you reconsider your verse ever in your career?
[00:27:41] Speaker C: In my career. I've reconsidered several verses in my career.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Based on someone else's verse or just.
[00:27:48] Speaker C: Based on my performance and what I felt like I could do to make it better? Like, usually when I go in, I go in and I lay something right then that day. Then I listen to it. As I listen to it, I probably say, you know what? I could have said this different. I could say that. And so usually, like, right before the song is about to be mixed, I go in and I say, okay, let me be serious now.
You know what I'm saying? That's just, you know, that's my method.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: I feel you. All right, we got a wrap.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Do you think your legacy gets the respect it deserves?
[00:28:20] Speaker C: I don't really care about the respect of, you know, commentators, you know what I'm saying? I care about the respect of the people that actually spend time around me. People that actually get to observe me and share my space.
Like, if you've never really spent time around me, you're not even an accurate judge of my character or what I mean to people around me, or you don't really.
You can't get people with the least amount of information, the most consideration. Like, they don't really have anything to speak from.
And then whatever it is, their respect would be at the level of an opinion.
So I, you know, I don't really.
Other people's opinions of me are none of my business.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: I think we was all shocked to know that you was funny.
[00:29:14] Speaker C: What you mean?
Why?
[00:29:17] Speaker B: Because you seem so serious.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: What you mean? I mean, I'm. I mean, I am serious when it's time.
But, man, you can't go through as many things that we've experienced in life without finding laughter somewhere.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Agreed.
[00:29:30] Speaker C: You did.
So I think that's just a part of life. And again, people having a preconceived notion about who I am or how I am, it really comes from what they have been exposed to, you know, or what I have allowed them to see of myself. I haven't shared certain things, certain gifts with the world. You probably didn't know I could cook, did you?
You see?
[00:29:56] Speaker B: Well, I do wanna know what you be eating. Cause your skin look good.
Yeah, your skin. Is it a face routine? You just drink a lot of water, you mind your business.
[00:30:05] Speaker C: Jet water.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: What is it?
[00:30:06] Speaker C: Jahat water?
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Hot water?
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Yeah, just hot water.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: No toner.
Toner serum.
[00:30:12] Speaker C: Are you serious?
I mean, serum. Yeah, but it's natural, okay? I have a natural serum.
My wife produces it.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Face produced by.
[00:30:27] Speaker C: I apply it daily.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Hilarious.
[00:30:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: I thought she had a skin line.
[00:30:34] Speaker A: I mean, that's what you want to call it, you know what I'm saying?
You know, God is good all the time.
Hey, thank you for coming through, bro.
I really want you to come back whenever you, you know, get it. Get a second so we have more time to chop it up.
[00:30:49] Speaker C: But, man, Anytime, man.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: Appreciate you.
[00:30:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:51] Speaker A: The Legend is here. The King of the South.
[00:30:53] Speaker C: Appreciate you, man.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: T I P.
