Fresh & Fit - Waka Flocka On Overcoming The Streets, Rise In Rap, & MORE!

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00:02:37.000 What up, my boys?

00:02:39.000 Welcome to the podcast, man.

00:02:40.000 We're happy to have you.

00:02:41.000 Thanks for having me, my boy.

00:02:42.000 So, we know who you are.

00:02:43.000 Legend of hip-hop game.

00:02:44.000 But some of the audience may not know.

00:02:46.000 Can you introduce yourself to the people real quick?

00:02:48.000 They call me Waka Flocka Flame.

00:02:50.000 I'm an entertainer.

00:02:51.000 That's just about it.

00:02:52.000 And I just hustle.

00:02:54.000 I just hustle.

00:02:55.000 I just use music as a trampoline.

00:02:57.000 I just hustle.

00:02:58.000 Fair enough.

00:03:00.000 Go ahead, first.

00:03:01.000 You want to kick it off?

00:03:01.000 Yeah.

00:03:02.000 So, obviously, speaking of right, we know Waka Faka from back in the day, you know, from the streets, made a name for himself, met a bunch of artists as well, came up.

00:03:09.000 But what was life like in childhood back then?

00:03:12.000 For example, growing up with your family, school, what was it like for you?

00:03:15.000 Life like for me?

00:03:16.000 Yeah.

00:03:17.000 Fun.

00:03:18.000 Fun?

00:03:19.000 My whole life was fun.

00:03:21.000 My whole entire life was like literally being in a big-ass party. 0.95

00:03:29.000 It was definitely a big ass party.

00:03:32.000 It always felt like somebody was watching me every day of my life. 0.93

00:03:36.000 So mom and dad, pretty much regular school life?

00:03:39.000 Nah, it ain't regular school life.

00:03:41.000 My father was just a different human being.

00:03:44.000 I couldn't tell people who my dad was when I was younger.

00:03:48.000 But everybody knew me from my mother. 0.98

00:03:51.000 So it was kind of weird and shit. 0.70

00:03:54.000 So my family was, I was like the kind of kid that'd be in a wrong neighborhood. 0.97

00:03:58.000 They'd be like, oh that's such and such son, or such and such nephew, let him go.

00:04:01.000 Like that kind of vibe.

00:04:04.000 What'd your dad do?

00:04:05.000 He's just a good neighborhood guy.

00:04:08.000 Well known.

00:04:09.000 Good neighborhood.

00:04:11.000 Cool.

00:04:11.000 Did you grow up with him in your life?

00:04:13.000 Nah, my pops was in jail.

00:04:14.000 My pops was my hero though.

00:04:16.000 Because my pops went to jail basically trying to support us. 1.00

00:04:19.000 And not in the most pleasant way, but shit. 0.99

00:04:22.000 To me, I always idolized that. 1.00

00:04:24.000 Because I was like, damn. 0.99

00:04:27.000 Being a man, I idolized that. 0.99

00:04:28.000 Excuse me.

00:04:29.000 As a kid, I despised it. 0.99

00:04:30.000 It's like, God damn, you left us? 0.99

00:04:32.000 What my mother liked? 0.99

00:04:33.000 But growing up, to see a man at risk, his whole entire freedom, that was his only way of doing it.

00:04:38.000 To provide for us, to me, I idolized that.

00:04:40.000 I see, yo, the shit I'm going to do in life, I never risk my freedom and leave my family. 0.96

00:04:44.000 No matter... 0.97

00:04:45.000 No matter what's on the plate, no matter how much money, how big of the opportunity it is, no matter what it is, me selling myself or selling out for some cash is me leaving my family behind.

00:04:55.000 So I always stuck to that.

00:04:57.000 I learned that from my pops.

00:04:59.000 Okay, so you've got to learn from his mistakes.

00:05:01.000 Definitely a strong guy.

00:05:02.000 Muslim guy, strong guy.

00:05:03.000 Okay.

00:05:03.000 Did he convert when he was in?

00:05:06.000 I'm not sure.

00:05:06.000 He's definitely Muslim outside of that.

00:05:08.000 Okay.

00:05:10.000 So growing up, where are you from originally?

00:05:13.000 Originally, I'm from Jamaica, Queens, New York.

00:05:15.000 Okay.

00:05:15.000 And how long did you live there?

00:05:17.000 I stayed in Jamaica, Queens.

00:05:18.000 I was in fifth grade.

00:05:19.000 I left.

00:05:20.000 Went to the Swats in Atlanta by Camden Road next to Allison Court.

00:05:26.000 They called it Brickwood.

00:05:27.000 When I got near, it was Park at Lakewood.

00:05:29.000 I moved from Brickwood to Clayton County.

00:05:32.000 I lived in the Swats for like a year and a half, two years.

00:05:35.000 Then we left and moved to Clayton County in seventh grade and up.

00:05:38.000 I was raised in Clayton County.

00:05:39.000 What was that like transitioning from New York to being in the South?

00:05:43.000 It felt like I jumped in the time machine.

00:05:46.000 Going backwards?

00:05:47.000 Yeah, I really felt like I was going backwards because us as fifth graders in New York...

00:05:52.000 What year was this, roughly? 0.99

00:05:53.000 Shit, I'm 37. 1.00

00:05:55.000 I'm 37. 1.00

00:05:55.000 So you could go backwards. 1.00

00:05:57.000 I'm class of old four.

00:05:59.000 Okay.

00:05:59.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:06:00.000 So you go backwards.

00:06:01.000 So this is like the late 90s?

00:06:02.000 Yeah.

00:06:03.000 Yeah, it was late 90s.

00:06:04.000 Late 90s.

00:06:05.000 Definitely.

00:06:05.000 It's like 92s.

00:06:06.000 Because I'm 33.

00:06:08.000 It's like 92s, 93s.

00:06:10.000 Yeah.

00:06:10.000 Anywhere from 92 to 95.

00:06:13.000 A fifth grader then, we had them there like high school.

00:06:16.000 Yeah.

00:06:16.000 In Georgia, like eighth grade is a high school.

00:06:19.000 Yeah.

00:06:19.000 So we was way more hip.

00:06:20.000 We was way more equipped.

00:06:21.000 We was self-sufficient.

00:06:23.000 By the first time when I got to Atlanta, kids still was like depending on the family.

00:06:27.000 They would stay outside playing.

00:06:29.000 Yeah.

00:06:29.000 It was like a vibe.

00:06:30.000 I'm like, oh shit, they got teen clubs. 1.00

00:06:32.000 Motherfuckers. 1.00

00:06:34.000 I'm like, yo, I call my cousin like, yo, this shit is crazy. 1.00

00:06:37.000 I'm staying down here. 0.99

00:06:39.000 So you liked a lot better than New York? 0.67

00:06:41.000 Yeah, the second time, the first time, I was on my extra New York show, like, yo, I'm out, nigga.

00:06:46.000 I was like, WooWear was coming out then. 0.98

00:06:48.000 I'm like, nigga, I'm about to rock my WooWear shit. 0.98

00:06:50.000 My Uncle Bim, he was getting all the free rapper stuff. 0.98

00:06:53.000 So all the industry stuff was always coming to our family.

00:06:55.000 So I was getting all like, you know, I was one of them, just outside.

00:06:58.000 But then I ended up coming back to Georgia and freak Nick Poplar.

00:07:03.000 I came back.

00:07:04.000 I almost fainted.

00:07:05.000 I had a...

00:07:06.000 Oh, my nose was bleeding the second time I came. 0.99

00:07:08.000 It was that fucking hot. 0.99

00:07:09.000 I had a big-ass woo-woo shit on with Timberlands. 1.00

00:07:11.000 I just seen girls, like, shaking ass. 1.00

00:07:14.000 It's like, yo, that's the male right there. 0.99

00:07:15.000 I'm like, what?

00:07:16.000 It was just crazy.

00:07:17.000 It was bliss.

00:07:19.000 So you left, so you come down in fifth grade, and then you left, and you went back to New York, and then you came back again?

00:07:25.000 No, I left this summer and went a little bit into fifth grade of the school year, and then I got into a little problems, and I just moved back to Georgia with my mother.

00:07:33.000 Okay, so you went back to New York, got in trouble, and then came back again the second time.

00:07:37.000 Back then, do you have a job at all?

00:07:38.000 Job.

00:07:39.000 Back then?

00:07:39.000 Or did you want to work at all back then?

00:07:41.000 Yeah, my job was just, it was my odds.

00:07:46.000 It was my ears.

00:07:47.000 I got paid for that.

00:07:51.000 What does that mean? 1.00

00:07:53.000 Shit, use your brain. 1.00

00:07:54.000 Okay. 1.00

00:07:55.000 I know what he means by that.

00:07:57.000 Okay, so you graduated high school in 2004.

00:08:01.000 No, I didn't graduate high school.

00:08:03.000 You didn't graduate?

00:08:03.000 No, actually, I was one of them people like, I never skipped class, by the way.

00:08:08.000 To me, people that skipped class were just the dumbest motherfuckers in her. 1.00

00:08:11.000 I'm like, why the fuck come to school if you don't skip class? 1.00

00:08:13.000 It's dumb. 1.00

00:08:14.000 I never came to school high. 0.99

00:08:16.000 I never came to school drunk. 1.00

00:08:17.000 None of that shit. 0.99

00:08:18.000 Because I still, I was just, my mother and my grandmother embedded the adult fear in me. 1.00

00:08:24.000 I was just so scared to disrespect an adult because my grandmother came to school and whooped my ass before. 1.00

00:08:30.000 And my mother is not the one. 0.99

00:08:31.000 I'm telling you, bro, my mom would knock. 1.00

00:08:32.000 If you're a son, she'll knock your ass out at the lunchroom. 1.00

00:08:36.000 Well, I'm dead serious. 1.00

00:08:37.000 So to me, to have respect was different.

00:08:40.000 And plus, I know I wasn't living the most pleasant lifestyle at the time.

00:08:43.000 So I was like, oh, anything I could take attention off of me, I'm with it.

00:08:46.000 So I was one of them.

00:08:47.000 So did you end up dropping out?

00:08:50.000 Yeah.

00:08:50.000 Okay.

00:08:51.000 I got kicked out.

00:08:52.000 You got?

00:08:52.000 Yeah, gang stuff.

00:08:53.000 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:08:54.000 Okay. 1.00

00:08:54.000 You got, like, gonna fuck somebody up, or they just were, like, associated with these people? 1.00

00:08:57.000 I was just the affiliation, and I was just fucking up people's face cards for, like, my nephew in this school, and it was just bad. 0.96

00:09:06.000 I was going to school, like, gang jeans. 0.99

00:09:08.000 I put fucking Hit Squad on my jeans. 1.00

00:09:11.000 Like, fuck y'all, niggas. 1.00

00:09:12.000 Like, I'm coming. 1.00

00:09:13.000 I was just bugging up.

00:09:14.000 What started Hit Squad?

00:09:15.000 Huh?

00:09:15.000 What started Hit Squad?

00:09:16.000 I don't know, man.

00:09:17.000 It's just a whole bunch of neighborhood friends.

00:09:19.000 It's a neighborhood thing.

00:09:20.000 Okay.

00:09:21.000 Cool, happy guys.

00:09:22.000 So you dropped out of high school and then what at that point?

00:09:25.000 You're what, maybe 15, 16 at this point?

00:09:27.000 No, this is the problem with what happened in high school.

00:09:30.000 So in school, like the first week I was about to play the game, like I'm suited up.

00:09:35.000 I was about to play ninth grade basketball.

00:09:36.000 Okay.

00:09:37.000 I get into a fight.

00:09:38.000 Okay. 1.00

00:09:38.000 Damn. 1.00

00:09:39.000 This is when these guys damn near trying to jump me. 0.99

00:09:41.000 My brother jumped in.

00:09:42.000 People didn't know I had a brother.

00:09:44.000 So I got suspended a week before the two-week break.

00:09:47.000 Okay.

00:09:48.000 So that mean I damn near lost a month out of school work.

00:09:51.000 So by the time I get back to school that following week, I got to miss that week too.

00:09:55.000 So that's four weeks. 0.99

00:09:56.000 So I'm like, fuck. 0.99

00:09:58.000 I'm like, I missed all this course. 1.00

00:09:59.000 Like, it's all good.

00:10:00.000 Why can't you still play? 0.99

00:10:01.000 And I had to do suicides and push-ups and shit. 0.99

00:10:04.000 I was with it. 0.99

00:10:05.000 I wanted to be outside, man.

00:10:07.000 I ain't gonna lie.

00:10:07.000 I wanted to be outside.

00:10:08.000 I gave up.

00:10:09.000 I didn't have it.

00:10:12.000 I didn't believe in myself. 1.00

00:10:13.000 I believed in the streets because that shit was right then and there. 0.99

00:10:16.000 Plus, my mother was doing like foundation stuff. 0.99

00:10:18.000 I barely see my mother.

00:10:19.000 She got to cook dinner damn near on her way from her. 0.95

00:10:22.000 She used to work. 1.00

00:10:23.000 She used to have this one job, then work at Dollar General part-time, then work for the city doing like child services and shit. 1.00

00:10:30.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:10:30.000 So when she come home for a part-time job, she's already cooking dinner and shit. 0.99

00:10:34.000 So for me, my mother is my God. 0.99

00:10:36.000 That's my hero.

00:10:37.000 So it's a big difference.

00:10:38.000 So I'm on a podcast like this, but to me, nigga, a woman is God to me.

00:10:42.000 My mama, she's God to me.

00:10:44.000 This is a woman I've never seen.

00:10:45.000 I've never seen her drink in my life, smoke in my life.

00:10:48.000 I've never seen her lay in a bed with men in my life.

00:10:51.000 I've never seen her, like, complain. 1.00

00:10:53.000 I've never heard my mother say, I got too many fucking kids. 1.00

00:10:56.000 I can't take care of, like... 1.00

00:10:57.000 I just seen a...

00:10:59.000 That's the first part I seen with a gun, a million dollars, a fast car, a jury, a boss, everything.

00:11:06.000 How many siblings did you have?

00:11:08.000 I got four brothers, one sister.

00:11:10.000 And y'all were all living together at the time?

00:11:11.000 Yeah, periodically, yeah.

00:11:13.000 But all my brothers, we definitely lived together.

00:11:15.000 Alright, so going back, just so people kind of get an idea.

00:11:17.000 So, ninth grade, you got suspended?

00:11:20.000 The idea of it.

00:11:21.000 In elementary school, we live in elementary school.

00:11:24.000 My mother left New York because that's back when she got shot, basically.

00:11:29.000 Lifestyle was real. 0.99

00:11:30.000 She's like, fuck, I'm going to change my life. 1.00

00:11:32.000 So, while she moved to Georgia, my grandmother kept us. 1.00

00:11:35.000 So, she got her life together, and now we moved back down there.

00:11:38.000 So, that's how that happened.

00:11:40.000 So she was stabilized by the time y'all went down to Georgia.

00:11:43.000 She had some stuff set up.

00:11:44.000 You said she had a couple jobs. 0.69

00:11:45.000 For the most part, you know, the Section A's, the government assistance, the food stamps.

00:11:50.000 She just made it look good, my boy.

00:11:52.000 But I couldn't even point out, like, but one job. 0.55

00:11:54.000 Everything else was just a hustler.

00:11:56.000 Like, she's gonna get it.

00:11:58.000 Like, it's no...

00:11:59.000 My mother never told me, yo, Walker, go make money today.

00:12:01.000 Yo, Walker, go to school, make money.

00:12:03.000 To this day, I never in my life heard her say that.

00:12:06.000 I don't think we promoted that.

00:12:08.000 She got an ill way of showing love. 1.00

00:12:12.000 She don't tell you I love you. 1.00

00:12:14.000 She fucking show you. 1.00

00:12:16.000 You wouldn't even get love confused. 1.00

00:12:18.000 So for a nigga like me, I know what love is. 0.99

00:12:20.000 That's why I really don't complain about shit because I know what it is. 0.98

00:12:25.000 So you get suspended from school for that month and then you decide, you know, I'm just going to drop out because you were gone for a month. 0.99

00:12:31.000 I'm like, fucking, I'm gangbanging. 1.00

00:12:32.000 That shit was fun too. 1.00

00:12:34.000 Are you 14 at this time? 1.00

00:12:36.000 15?

00:12:36.000 Yeah, I was like 15, 16.

00:12:38.000 It was just fun.

00:12:39.000 The streets was fun.

00:12:41.000 I wasn't even in the streets for all the money.

00:12:44.000 I wanted respect. 0.99

00:12:45.000 My shit was just straight respect. 1.00

00:12:48.000 And it was fun as a motherfucker. 1.00

00:12:50.000 It was just fun. 0.99

00:12:51.000 And reality kicked in.

00:12:53.000 How important is respect in the streets?

00:12:55.000 How important is respect in the streets?

00:12:58.000 As important as the spinal cord in your back.

00:13:00.000 Without that, you're done.

00:13:02.000 But with respect, you gotta have brain.

00:13:04.000 So a guy who wants respect first is a guy that's smart enough to know that.

00:13:08.000 So you gotta have brain power first.

00:13:11.000 So you said the streets were fun and then reality caught up to you.

00:13:15.000 How did that reality kick in?

00:13:17.000 Man, I see reality kicked in like when, probably not even like, probably the drugs.

00:13:27.000 I had a partner named Jon Jon.

00:13:29.000 Jon Jon was on Xanax.

00:13:33.000 Jumped off a moving truck.

00:13:35.000 Oh. 0.99

00:13:35.000 Yeah, when folks, when people were going to visit him, he didn't know nobody's name, but he's stable now, funny as fuck, but that fucked me up. 0.99

00:13:42.000 I had a younger homie named Trav. 0.99

00:13:45.000 He got killed.

00:13:47.000 The person that killed him was on ecstasy.

00:13:49.000 So, like, a lot of, like, for me, drugs did it for me.

00:13:53.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:13:54.000 Like, I had another friend that killed two of our other friends.

00:13:57.000 He was in the backseat, blew their brains out, killed them. 1.00

00:13:59.000 So it's just like, what was he, like, it's just shit like that. 1.00

00:14:02.000 Like, it was too much. 0.98

00:14:04.000 I'm just, I can't cross a friend up. 0.98

00:14:06.000 It got to a point where I was going to start killing my friends.

00:14:09.000 You know what I mean?

00:14:10.000 And I'm going to be 100 with you.

00:14:11.000 I ain't had a heart to do that.

00:14:13.000 I ain't never in my life punched somebody in the face that I called my brother. 0.93

00:14:16.000 Like, I'm just not that kind of nigga in life. 0.86

00:14:18.000 I'm just keeping it funky with y'all. 0.62

00:14:20.000 So I had a choice, like, yo, I'm not raw.

00:14:23.000 Like, I had to tell myself, like, and rap showed me that.

00:14:25.000 Rap actually showed me, like, nigga, Walker, you ain't cut, bro. 0.98

00:14:28.000 Like, this you tripping. 1.00

00:14:29.000 Like, nigga, I'm not with that double-crossing shit. 1.00

00:14:31.000 Like, I never was in the streets to be a street nigga. 0.99

00:14:35.000 I was in the streets to learn, to capitalize, to make it, to have brotherhood.

00:14:39.000 That's why I was pushing whatever I was pushing outside. 0.83

00:14:42.000 I never did it to snatch a purse, bully a nigga. 1.00

00:14:45.000 He had a different color, wrong set, shit like that. 1.00

00:14:47.000 It was never that. 1.00

00:14:48.000 It was respect, money, organization.

00:14:51.000 That's what I was on. 1.00

00:14:52.000 But when that devilish shit started kicking in, when you're backstabbing each other, sleeping with each other with girlfriends, and there's too much conniving shit, I had to back up. 1.00

00:15:00.000 I just see my life ending in the wrong route. 1.00

00:15:03.000 How old were you when you came to this realization?

00:15:05.000 I was young.

00:15:06.000 I was like 18.

00:15:07.000 Okay.

00:15:08.000 So you've been in the streets for like two, three years at this point.

00:15:10.000 I was in the streets my whole life, my boy.

00:15:12.000 Okay.

00:15:13.000 Literally.

00:15:13.000 But I mean like after high school, I mean.

00:15:15.000 Nigga, literally. 0.94

00:15:16.000 After you left high school? 0.91

00:15:17.000 Nigga, literally. 0.97

00:15:17.000 I was around niggas that was... 0.97

00:15:19.000 Literally.

00:15:20.000 So it's just...

00:15:21.000 That's that.

00:15:22.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:15:22.000 It's a difference.

00:15:23.000 I wasn't in the streets.

00:15:24.000 I was born in it.

00:15:25.000 It's not like a...

00:15:27.000 It's not like a thing of choice.

00:15:29.000 This is the only lifestyle. 0.99

00:15:31.000 I never knew how to live life outside of street shit until I arrived. 1.00

00:15:36.000 Nigga, I never thought about no fucking... 1.00

00:15:39.000 Real estate or no financial literacy or no fucking taxes. 1.00

00:15:43.000 Like, who gives a fuck about taxes? 1.00

00:15:45.000 I'm in the streets. 0.99

00:15:46.000 Nigga, we don't pay taxes.

00:15:47.000 So it's a difference in who's teaching us, like, just being 100, right?

00:15:51.000 So it was that vibe.

00:15:52.000 I'm just real to who I am.

00:15:54.000 Like, I'm not trying to be...

00:15:55.000 That's just who I am.

00:15:56.000 But you know what's not about to me?

00:15:57.000 The whole time you were in the streets, you had integrity.

00:16:00.000 And I carried you through the whole process.

00:16:02.000 That's powerful, man.

00:16:02.000 I couldn't wait to get out.

00:16:04.000 I was the kind of guy that, I was the nigga that, when I get out, I'm going. 0.97

00:16:07.000 Like, I'm not coming back to smoke three blunts with y'all niggas and preach that I'm a real nigga. 1.00

00:16:11.000 No way. 0.98

00:16:12.000 That's not it.

00:16:13.000 Then I had people that were saying they OGs.

00:16:15.000 It's different.

00:16:16.000 I was born with my OGs.

00:16:17.000 So, my mothers, my uncles, like, they legends to me.

00:16:20.000 But in the streets, you still got other OGs. 1.00

00:16:23.000 And I started thinking, like, damn, these niggas brown and fuck. 1.00

00:16:26.000 Like, this nigga nigga got an LLC. You know what I'm saying? 1.00

00:16:29.000 Like, just being real, bro.

00:16:30.000 Like, I ain't know about bank accounts until I was 23.

00:16:33.000 It's not because my mama couldn't teach me.

00:16:35.000 She ain't got time to teach me. 1.00

00:16:36.000 My grandmama got an eighth grade education. 1.00

00:16:39.000 That shit stuck with me my whole life. 1.00

00:16:42.000 Like, Walker, you made it already. 1.00

00:16:43.000 Nigga, your grandmama got an eighth grade education. 1.00

00:16:45.000 Y'all good.

00:16:46.000 So if I got this far, I imagine what the next kids will do.

00:16:49.000 So that's how I think.

00:16:50.000 That's dope. 0.93

00:16:51.000 Okay, so you're 18 at this point and you realize, hey, this isn't for me because you see your friends backstabbing each other.

00:16:58.000 I've been seeing it wasn't for me.

00:17:00.000 16, 15, I've been seeing it.

00:17:02.000 I've been seeing this, but it's a difference, right? 0.98

00:17:05.000 I always hear people on the internet talk about people on the streets and they stupid and they this, they that. 1.00

00:17:10.000 See, y'all motherfuckers talking from a bird-eye view. 1.00

00:17:13.000 It's different. 0.99

00:17:14.000 See, people that's talking about it overstand it because they're looking over it. 0.95

00:17:17.000 These niggas are stuck in it. 1.00

00:17:18.000 This is where they eat breakfast at.

00:17:20.000 Lunch, dinner, think.

00:17:21.000 So it's different.

00:17:22.000 Like, when you're in it, you're like crabs in a bucket, basically. 0.99

00:17:25.000 You're like, nigga, I cannot wait to get something to pull me the fuck out. 1.00

00:17:28.000 Like, that's how it was. 0.99

00:17:30.000 Was rap your way out?

00:17:31.000 Rap was the only way I got out.

00:17:32.000 How'd you get into rap?

00:17:34.000 My mother.

00:17:35.000 I got locked up.

00:17:37.000 My mother was doing, like, Ludacris Foundation at the time. 0.99

00:17:40.000 It was Chris Love-a-loving shit on the radio in Pune. 0.99

00:17:43.000 I got locked up. 0.99

00:17:45.000 I was looking at, uh, I was looking at, uh, like, it's like a 5-10.

00:17:51.000 And my mother's like, I know somebody down there in the city.

00:17:54.000 I'm like, alright, my mom, just call me when you got something. 1.00

00:17:56.000 Because I was already in my mind, like, I'm going to jail, fuck it. 1.00

00:17:59.000 Let me just lock in. 1.00

00:18:00.000 What'd you get locked up for?

00:18:01.000 Uh... 0.99

00:18:04.000 Something dumb. 1.00

00:18:05.000 Saw it all shot. 1.00

00:18:06.000 Okay.

00:18:08.000 But they can look it up.

00:18:09.000 They do everything. 1.00

00:18:09.000 Fuck it. 1.00

00:18:10.000 But my mother, of course, like, walk a lie. 1.00

00:18:12.000 All right, let me talk to you. 1.00

00:18:14.000 I'm about to do, she said, you know how you talk to your parents and I throw your mind off shit? 0.99

00:18:16.000 She said, I'm about to do another community event. 0.99

00:18:18.000 I'm like, oh, she's like, well, Gooch and Jeezy. 1.00

00:18:20.000 I'm like, oh, go to Gooch.

00:18:21.000 And that's how it happened.

00:18:22.000 She's like, yo, I want you to go on the road.

00:18:23.000 I just want you to learn.

00:18:25.000 So I know if you're on the road, my mind is good.

00:18:27.000 Because I'm always, you call me every night, like, you all right?

00:18:29.000 You okay?

00:18:29.000 Like, I used to worry the fuck out of her.

00:18:31.000 So when I went on the road, I seen that my mother had a fresh breath of air.

00:18:34.000 This is right after you got out.

00:18:36.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.99

00:18:36.000 When I got out, so to me, I looked at, like, Goose, like, fuck it, we gotta become best friends. 0.99

00:18:41.000 So we became, like, damn near friends, like a big brother, little brother shit until we seen eye to eye with each other once upon a time. 0.99

00:18:47.000 But I just, I seen it as an investment for my mom, so I had to protect the investment. 0.99

00:18:52.000 And I just learned Like the game.

00:18:55.000 Because your mom knew that if you stayed in that environment, you wouldn't grow.

00:18:59.000 Nah, she didn't know that.

00:19:01.000 She learned me by being in that environment. 0.99

00:19:04.000 She didn't know half the shit I was doing. 0.99

00:19:06.000 Like, I'm going to see it. 1.00

00:19:09.000 She's like, what the fuck? 1.00

00:19:11.000 Like, you was doing this in my house? 1.00

00:19:12.000 Yeah, definitely. 1.00

00:19:14.000 Oh, damn. 0.99

00:19:15.000 So she didn't find out that you were doing all that stuff until you went to jail? 1.00

00:19:18.000 Yeah, until she hid shit. 0.99

00:19:19.000 One time a friend came like, hey, your son shot my house up. 1.00

00:19:21.000 It was like all kinds of shit. 1.00

00:19:23.000 Sporadically things, yeah. 1.00

00:19:24.000 I just don't like bragging about shit, my boy. 0.99

00:19:26.000 I'm a kind of nigga, if you don't believe it, don't believe it. 0.99

00:19:28.000 Thank God. 1.00

00:19:30.000 Damn. 1.00

00:19:31.000 So you go to jail. 1.00

00:19:33.000 How much time did you spend in there?

00:19:34.000 Zero.

00:19:35.000 It was not prison.

00:19:35.000 Don't worry.

00:19:36.000 Okay.

00:19:36.000 I don't know.

00:19:37.000 It was county jail.

00:19:39.000 I was just fighting.

00:19:40.000 Okay.

00:19:40.000 Yeah, I was stuck in there for like a couple months.

00:19:42.000 Okay.

00:19:43.000 So you're fighting your kids in the county jail? 1.00

00:19:44.000 Wow, that shit's real. 1.00

00:19:45.000 And then? 1.00

00:19:46.000 I got locked up the...

00:19:48.000 Like, yeah, it was just real.

00:19:50.000 It ain't worth shedding light on that part. 0.99

00:19:51.000 Yeah, the county jail sucks, bro. 0.99

00:19:53.000 Jail in general sucks. 1.00

00:19:55.000 Who the fuck wanna go to prison? 1.00

00:19:56.000 I don't wanna go there and come back diesel or smother. 1.00

00:20:00.000 Fuck outta here. 1.00

00:20:00.000 I sit free and read a book, nigga. 1.00

00:20:02.000 I'm not about to go to jail to read. 0.99

00:20:04.000 Hell nah.

00:20:05.000 Alright, so you were in there, and then your mom put you up with Gucci Mane.

00:20:10.000 Yeah, she told her to put me on the road.

00:20:11.000 What was that like meeting him the first time?

00:20:14.000 Um...

00:20:15.000 My first time, me and Gucci was at a club.

00:20:18.000 He was performing at a club.

00:20:21.000 He had a good local song that niggas that Rob loved. 1.00

00:20:25.000 We just loved their record.

00:20:26.000 It was our anthem.

00:20:27.000 You know what I mean?

00:20:27.000 Me and my partners.

00:20:28.000 He had some shit called In The Black Tee. 0.99

00:20:30.000 Like, yup, In My Black Tee. 0.99

00:20:31.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:20:32.000 So this is...

00:20:33.000 Oh, wow.

00:20:33.000 I'm trying to remember.

00:20:34.000 This is what, like 2007?

00:20:37.000 Yeah.

00:20:38.000 2007, 2007.

00:20:39.000 Okay.

00:20:40.000 And I see he was on stage back then.

00:20:43.000 And I... He's like, yo, man, yo, I got to perform.

00:20:46.000 You popping out.

00:20:47.000 I'm like, where you at?

00:20:47.000 He's like, trap.

00:20:48.000 I said, I'm here already.

00:20:49.000 I got a hundred niggas with me. 1.00

00:20:51.000 He's like, what, man?

00:20:51.000 I got a hundred niggas with me.

00:20:53.000 This is before he even know. 1.00

00:20:54.000 He think I'm like a mother's boy and shit. 1.00

00:20:56.000 I hang on my mother. 1.00

00:20:57.000 So we get there, and we got on stage, and we just was lit.

00:21:01.000 Like, people from Clayton County, where I'm from, do what I do. 0.99

00:21:03.000 Like, headbanging, treading, shaking, pushing, fighting, like, just on some gangsta shit. 0.99

00:21:07.000 It just go down. 0.99

00:21:09.000 And Goot seen that where it showed the next day.

00:21:11.000 My mother called me. 0.99

00:21:12.000 She's like, yo, Waka, what the fuck happened at the show? 1.00

00:21:14.000 I'm like, oh shit. 1.00

00:21:15.000 She found out what happened in the parking lot. 1.00

00:21:17.000 I'm like, oh shit. 0.99

00:21:18.000 I'm like, what? 0.99

00:21:19.000 What happened?

00:21:19.000 Ma tell me.

00:21:20.000 She was like, yo, they love this show.

00:21:22.000 They say, yo, Gucci new hype, man.

00:21:24.000 And him?

00:21:25.000 It's lit.

00:21:26.000 I'm like, hype, man. 0.99

00:21:27.000 The fuck is? 0.99

00:21:28.000 I didn't even know what the fuck there was. 1.00

00:21:29.000 And she was like, hype, man? 1.00

00:21:30.000 I'm like, bitch, I'm doing it. 1.00

00:21:31.000 I'm gone. 0.99

00:21:32.000 To me, I was gone. 0.99

00:21:33.000 I didn't give a fuck. 0.99

00:21:34.000 I'm like, you know what I'm saying? 1.00

00:21:35.000 In my mind, Shit, boy. 1.00

00:21:36.000 He was starting to meet. 1.00

00:21:37.000 We gone.

00:21:38.000 Okay.

00:21:39.000 So at that point, you knew.

00:21:40.000 That first show, you were there on stage with him.

00:21:42.000 Hey, I'm like, oh, y'all like that?

00:21:43.000 It's over.

00:21:43.000 We gone.

00:21:44.000 It's over.

00:21:45.000 What happened in the parking lot, though?

00:21:48.000 Fireworks.

00:21:49.000 Fireworks. 1.00

00:21:50.000 He got kicked out that motherfucker. 1.00

00:21:52.000 Yeah, that shit's crazy. 1.00

00:21:53.000 All right. 1.00

00:21:54.000 So y'all turned it up.

00:21:54.000 And then, so you went on tour with him right after that?

00:21:58.000 Yeah, we just started going on the road.

00:21:59.000 We just came like best friends.

00:22:01.000 Locked in.

00:22:02.000 Every day.

00:22:03.000 What was that like?

00:22:05.000 I really never even had a best friend in my life. 0.98

00:22:07.000 I was really like the first person I ever kicked shit with. 0.89

00:22:09.000 It was different because for once, life for me wasn't about me. 0.99

00:22:15.000 I was like, shit, let me let it be about y'all. 0.98

00:22:16.000 So it was really my mama and Gucci dream I'm living. 0.99

00:22:19.000 So it wasn't, people got it fucked up like Walker and Gucci. 0.96

00:22:22.000 Nah, I was living my mama and Gucci dream. 0.98

00:22:25.000 Then it turned into my mama Gucci and Young Juice dream.

00:22:28.000 Then it turned into my mother Gucci, Juice, Woo and Frenchie dream.

00:22:31.000 So it's like I'm watching them. 1.00

00:22:33.000 So that shit was just kind of better. 1.00

00:22:36.000 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:22:37.000 I escaped my life. 1.00

00:22:38.000 Like, damn, I'm gone from that shit. 1.00

00:22:41.000 Like, three, four, five, six months. 1.00

00:22:42.000 My mouth dry shit. 1.00

00:22:43.000 I was gone. 1.00

00:22:46.000 I was away from basically the gangster shit. 1.00

00:22:49.000 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:22:50.000 Six months. 0.83

00:22:50.000 I come back, nigga's like, oh, you rich. 0.83

00:22:52.000 I'm like, rich? 1.00

00:22:53.000 What the hell?

00:22:53.000 I only got 2,000 in my pocket.

00:22:56.000 Tripping.

00:22:57.000 Did you ever think scanning that moment with Gucci would change your life?

00:23:03.000 Um...

00:23:05.000 Nah, you know what's crazy?

00:23:06.000 Because when I got with Gucci, I seen him just like me.

00:23:09.000 I think if I never met Gucci, me and I probably wouldn't be alive.

00:23:15.000 Honest to God, true.

00:23:17.000 I think for me to even creditize anything, because there's a lot I did, it's a lot he did, right?

00:23:23.000 But the biggest thing I learned...

00:23:26.000 Over the years is, we needed each other to go forward. 0.98

00:23:31.000 It's a lot of shit that I protected him from that unconsciously that he don't know. 0.99

00:23:38.000 And it's a lot of shit that he unconsciously did that he don't know. 0.99

00:23:42.000 You know what I'm saying? 0.99

00:23:43.000 Like, would he be this healthy?

00:23:45.000 Would I be this person?

00:23:47.000 Like, it's just a difference.

00:23:48.000 I've seen a lot.

00:23:49.000 I just feel like I endured more, though. 1.00

00:23:52.000 So I got to see, like, the effects of shit. 0.99

00:23:54.000 I still stay in contact with some people that we had shit going on with. 0.99

00:23:58.000 And I always thought to myself, I'm like, yo, every number one need a number two. 0.97

00:24:02.000 I kept saying that in my head. 0.99

00:24:03.000 I'm like, damn, if he could be Jordan, fuck it, let me be Scottie Pippen. 1.00

00:24:07.000 Right. 1.00

00:24:08.000 Because I don't rap anyway. 0.99

00:24:09.000 I don't give a fuck. 0.99

00:24:10.000 Right. 0.99

00:24:10.000 I just don't, I just, to me, I think everybody that call themselves number one need to find them a number two that want to learn. 0.99

00:24:17.000 That's a difference.

00:24:18.000 Don't find a number two that want to be you.

00:24:20.000 Find a number two that want to learn.

00:24:23.000 And you never know what that person evolving will become, but everybody need a number two.

00:24:27.000 And in corporate world, they call it an assistant.

00:24:30.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:24:31.000 On the streets with you on the blade, they call it an assistant pimp.

00:24:35.000 You know what I mean?

00:24:36.000 I've seen one of your interviews before, and you had mentioned how when Gucci was blowing up and he was really growing and people were starting to really catch on, that you kind of took it like, yo, our job is to make sure that he's good.

00:24:49.000 Like, he doesn't carry any bags.

00:24:51.000 We're going to make sure that he shines and he does well.

00:24:54.000 And I thought that was very interesting, that loyalty.

00:24:56.000 Where did that come from?

00:24:58.000 That's in me right now.

00:24:59.000 That's just what you sign up for.

00:25:02.000 This is just what it is.

00:25:05.000 I don't know, my boy.

00:25:06.000 I can't work with you and you be like, yo, you sick. 1.00

00:25:08.000 I'm like, all right, call me when you get healthy. 0.98

00:25:09.000 Nah, my nigga, yo, let's go to doctors, yo.

00:25:11.000 Come on, let's go to therapy. 0.99

00:25:12.000 My nigga's up. 0.92

00:25:13.000 That's just what it is. 0.58

00:25:14.000 I just...

00:25:15.000 I'm just not the person to be embarrassed.

00:25:17.000 Like, I never could stand next to y'all and be like, they see me too. 1.00

00:25:20.000 Man, fuck that. 0.99

00:25:20.000 I'm doing my job. 0.99

00:25:21.000 Hey, y'all watch out.

00:25:22.000 Hey, let them shine.

00:25:23.000 Like, a lot of artists today don't even have that guy.

00:25:26.000 Yeah.

00:25:26.000 A lot of artists today don't have a number two.

00:25:29.000 That's why they losing.

00:25:30.000 A real nigga today, I don't know what hood they from or anybody rapping, but if you got some real partners, I'd be like, bro, look, bro, you ain't gotta be spinning nowhere, nigga. 1.00

00:25:39.000 We need you free, nigga. 1.00

00:25:40.000 We trying to get up out of here. 0.95

00:25:41.000 Yeah.

00:25:41.000 I just had real partners like that.

00:25:44.000 Even though I'm going, my buddies is going too.

00:25:47.000 They're like, hell nah, we got this, bro.

00:25:50.000 Hell nah.

00:25:51.000 So I've really had those kind of partners, and we've really grabbed each other for it.

00:25:55.000 Like, I see how a lot of people are losing people today, but we really never lost anything.

00:25:59.000 So it's just different.

00:26:01.000 It's funny, because before we even met, right, I had people asking about you, about doing a podcast, stuff like that.

00:26:06.000 They say Waka's a genuine person, and that goes a long way.

00:26:09.000 So that's true, bro.

00:26:10.000 If you're genuine, you can try that to yourself as well. 0.99

00:26:12.000 Oh shit, I gotta shout out. 0.99

00:26:14.000 For real. 1.00

00:26:16.000 Okay, question brother.

00:26:17.000 So you got an AP on right now, right?

00:26:18.000 Yeah.

00:26:18.000 Plain Jane AP, no iced out, no chin right now.

00:26:21.000 I'm just curious.

00:26:22.000 Let's say, look, right?

00:26:23.000 I want to get into the rap game.

00:26:25.000 I want to shine, look the part.

00:26:27.000 How would you say you should come to the rap game through and through, like from the very beginning?

00:26:30.000 Shining, chin out.

00:26:31.000 How should you come to the rap game, you would say?

00:26:33.000 Depending on your style.

00:26:34.000 I think it's all in your style.

00:26:36.000 I think today, rappers who first get a single go get an iced out watch.

00:26:40.000 I don't think they should do that.

00:26:42.000 Start it back.

00:26:43.000 Yeah, slow down, my boy.

00:26:44.000 Put that dirty ad t-shirt on.

00:26:46.000 You know what I mean?

00:26:46.000 Put them local designers on.

00:26:48.000 Don't be jumping in Dior right out the box.

00:26:52.000 Because how your fans go graduate and grow with you.

00:26:54.000 So that's just the way I see it.

00:26:55.000 I think it fit the image, though.

00:26:57.000 What made you, like, just kind of, like, torn off of that, like...

00:27:00.000 Me toning down...

00:27:04.000 Excuse me. 1.00

00:27:05.000 It's a lot of shit, bro. 0.99

00:27:06.000 It's like people I've seen struggling. 1.00

00:27:08.000 And then I kept calling myself the boss.

00:27:10.000 I'm the CEO. Until I found out the CEO wasn't the boss.

00:27:15.000 I found out everybody was tricking me.

00:27:17.000 I never even monetized my YouTube channel because Warner Brother took it. 0.99

00:27:20.000 Damn. 1.00

00:27:21.000 Right now, held it hostage like on some black ball shit. 1.00

00:27:23.000 So I was banned from 20 plus states in America when I dropped. 0.99

00:27:26.000 I couldn't exceed.

00:27:28.000 So it's different.

00:27:29.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:27:30.000 So for me...

00:27:30.000 You're banned from 20 states?

00:27:31.000 Oh yeah, the music was crazy.

00:27:33.000 So it's just a different vibe with me, bro.

00:27:36.000 It's just a whole different vibe. 0.98

00:27:37.000 I had to go a whole different fucking route to be here. 0.96

00:27:40.000 What was the grounds that they, like, did they say, like, the music would, like, get the crowd too hype? 0.99

00:27:45.000 Just violent.

00:27:46.000 Too violent? 1.00

00:27:46.000 It was on some CB4 shit. 1.00

00:27:48.000 Wow. 1.00

00:27:48.000 Like, cannot play Sweat from my ball. 1.00

00:27:50.000 If you play, you're going to jail.

00:27:52.000 Wow.

00:27:54.000 That was a different vibe back then. 1.00

00:27:55.000 Fuck hard to pay. 1.00

00:27:57.000 People just stuck on, like, it was shit that was just, I had a song called, like, Mexicans. 1.00

00:28:02.000 They don't want to see us make it. 1.00

00:28:04.000 Blacks. 1.00

00:28:05.000 They don't want to see us make it. 1.00

00:28:07.000 Fuck the police. 1.00

00:28:08.000 That shit was about to, like, go crazy. 1.00

00:28:10.000 They're like, hey, did that. 1.00

00:28:11.000 Yeah.

00:28:12.000 But I didn't know. 0.99

00:28:13.000 That's the shit I was feeling. 1.00

00:28:14.000 I felt like they was, like, making Mexican and black people fight. 1.00

00:28:17.000 That's just my opinion.

00:28:18.000 That was back then, though, bro. 1.00

00:28:20.000 I was on shit like that. 0.99

00:28:21.000 That was saluting me and shooting me 2.5 before Hardin' the Pink. 1.00

00:28:24.000 Wow. 1.00

00:28:25.000 So I was talking this fly shit. 0.99

00:28:26.000 I'm talking right here. 0.99

00:28:27.000 Back then, my mind just...

00:28:29.000 Didn't develop.

00:28:30.000 I had no experience talking about that.

00:28:33.000 So, going back real quick to the Gucci stuff.

00:28:35.000 So, you guys were touring, making music.

00:28:38.000 You were his hype man.

00:28:38.000 Y'all were killing it.

00:28:40.000 Being in music videos, everything at that point.

00:28:42.000 So, is that when you really started getting money at that point? 0.99

00:28:45.000 Fuck no. 0.99

00:28:45.000 Nah? 0.99

00:28:46.000 I didn't make no money.

00:28:47.000 All respect to Gucci.

00:28:48.000 I didn't make nothing.

00:28:49.000 I'm getting $200 a show. 1.00

00:28:51.000 Damn. 0.99

00:28:51.000 And I didn't even want that. 0.99

00:28:53.000 I used to give that shit back to my boy. 1.00

00:28:55.000 I throw all the money in the club. 1.00

00:28:57.000 I'm like, bro, I ain't even with you for no money.

00:28:58.000 I'm good, bro.

00:28:59.000 I never was a... 1.00

00:29:00.000 If he throw on what the niggas was wearing, oh, Maury's and shit. 1.00

00:29:04.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:29:04.000 I'm like, nigga, I'll wear that shit after you done. 1.00

00:29:07.000 I'm not famous. 1.00

00:29:08.000 You are.

00:29:08.000 Yeah.

00:29:09.000 Like, that's in my mind.

00:29:10.000 But I was a white tee.

00:29:11.000 Levi, Cortez, Atlanta Brave hat wearing it as well.

00:29:15.000 So it's like...

00:29:16.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:29:17.000 Yeah.

00:29:17.000 I had Capricio.

00:29:19.000 I was acting my age.

00:29:20.000 You see what I'm saying?

00:29:22.000 That's all.

00:29:22.000 I was just acting my age.

00:29:23.000 I made money when I rapped myself. 0.98

00:29:27.000 That's when my life changed.

00:29:28.000 My life then, I didn't, you gotta think, like, we didn't have no money coming up.

00:29:33.000 We lived with my mama.

00:29:34.000 Me and him. 0.99

00:29:35.000 Shit of Jack and Jill. 0.97

00:29:36.000 Tell us about that first time you got in the studio and started actually making music. 0.95

00:29:39.000 How did that start?

00:29:40.000 Did Gucci tell you, hey, you need to start rapping too?

00:29:42.000 By the way, he was in jail when I started rapping.

00:29:45.000 So Gucci was locked up a year, six months into his bed when I started rapping.

00:29:49.000 By the time Gucci got up, I already did 100 shows.

00:29:51.000 This is what year now at this point?

00:29:52.000 Probably 08.

00:29:53.000 08.

00:29:54.000 I'm trying to remember.

00:29:55.000 Was it for the gun charge?

00:29:57.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:29:58.000 It's just like some rap shit. 0.99

00:30:01.000 You know, probation has a rap. 1.00

00:30:03.000 It's tough.

00:30:03.000 It's temptation.

00:30:04.000 It's all kind of shit. 1.00

00:30:05.000 So he was in jail. 1.00

00:30:06.000 You start rapping.

00:30:07.000 Take us through that.

00:30:09.000 He got locked up.

00:30:10.000 He probably was like four months in. 0.99

00:30:11.000 I'm like, damn. 0.99

00:30:12.000 Like, I can't do nothing in the streets. 1.00

00:30:14.000 I'm hot as a motherfucker. 0.99

00:30:15.000 Like, I feel famous at this point. 1.00

00:30:18.000 Like, this shit is crazy. 0.99

00:30:19.000 And one day, I just went in the studio, bro. 1.00

00:30:22.000 I had zero dollars. 0.96

00:30:23.000 And I made, I fucked my money up. 1.00

00:30:25.000 I came back to engineer, produce that shit. 1.00

00:30:28.000 Made that shit sound like a record. 1.00

00:30:29.000 I'm like... 1.00

00:30:31.000 What was the name of the song?

00:30:32.000 The name of the song was Oh Let's Do It. 0.96

00:30:35.000 Before that song, I made a dumbass song called Ring, my phone going berserk. 0.53

00:30:40.000 Ring, I need some work because I'm in the traffic. 1.00

00:30:44.000 That shit, my very first song was We On The Way. 0.99

00:30:48.000 My second song was Dreads and Golds. 1.00

00:30:51.000 My third song was like The Ring.

00:30:53.000 Yeah, it was The Ring.

00:30:54.000 So you literally went in there with no money and you were able to record it and your engineer just did it for you.

00:31:01.000 I was giving my boy like $50.

00:31:02.000 Wow. 1.00

00:31:03.000 Whatever he charged for studio shit. 1.00

00:31:04.000 Okay. 1.00

00:31:05.000 You don't need all that extra cute ass studio shit. 0.99

00:31:07.000 Yeah, so you record the record. 0.99

00:31:10.000 When did you drop it?

00:31:12.000 Immediately.

00:31:13.000 Immediately?

00:31:14.000 Immediately.

00:31:14.000 Okay.

00:31:15.000 What happened then when you dropped it? 0.99

00:31:18.000 It just went dumb. 0.98

00:31:19.000 Radio? 1.00

00:31:20.000 Dumb, bro. 1.00

00:31:21.000 People just... 1.00

00:31:22.000 The people, bro.

00:31:23.000 I put zero marketing dollars.

00:31:25.000 We put zero dollars into it.

00:31:27.000 The people, bro.

00:31:28.000 That's all.

00:31:29.000 People could cheat algorithm all day to day, bro. 1.00

00:31:32.000 People fuck with you. 1.00

00:31:33.000 The algorithm can't fuck with it. 1.00

00:31:35.000 The algorithm gonna make algorithm off what people doing for you type shit. 0.99

00:31:39.000 What did... 0.98

00:31:40.000 Did you get to talk to Gucci while he was in jail?

00:31:42.000 When the record started hitting?

00:31:43.000 Nah.

00:31:44.000 You know what I mean?

00:31:44.000 Gucci's done.

00:31:46.000 It's in the past.

00:31:47.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:31:48.000 It's a new era.

00:31:50.000 Hell yeah.

00:31:51.000 Probably catching when the kids get old.

00:31:52.000 No, but I meant like back then.

00:31:54.000 Like when that record started to hit.

00:31:56.000 And he was in jail.

00:31:57.000 Did he, like, you talk to him?

00:31:59.000 Like, hey, this record.

00:32:00.000 Yeah, we was kind of beefing then, too.

00:32:01.000 Oh, yeah.

00:32:02.000 Okay.

00:32:02.000 At that point.

00:32:03.000 Okay.

00:32:04.000 What did you learn in the rap industry that made you stronger, a better person, you would say?

00:32:09.000 You know, I learned millions of things. 0.99

00:32:11.000 I just learned, like, the lifestyle I was looking towards as a kid was bullshit. 0.99

00:32:18.000 For me. 0.98

00:32:19.000 Not the lifestyle in general. 0.98

00:32:21.000 Why I say it was bullshit because the idea was smaller than a rock. 0.99

00:32:26.000 I'm like, damn, that's all you want to be? 1.00

00:32:27.000 Cars, clothes, jewelry, fly around, fuck holes, blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:32:30.000 I said, nigga, no. 1.00

00:32:31.000 I think it's boring. 0.99

00:32:32.000 Hell nah.

00:32:32.000 I said, you can't grow unless you do business, A, as a man.

00:32:36.000 So every man that sits on a podcast, a woman that talks about women or what the fuck women don't got or don't do, nigga, you can't talk unless you got a business. 1.00

00:32:44.000 Nigga, period. 1.00

00:32:45.000 Because guess what? 1.00

00:32:46.000 You wouldn't give a fuck what nobody said because you're a man. 0.99

00:32:48.000 See, that's the difference. 1.00

00:32:49.000 People got the whole man theology shit fucked up. 0.99

00:32:52.000 Because real man is built like rocks. 1.00

00:32:55.000 No matter what words, no matter what anything you say, it cannot fuck with me because I'm the strongest on earth. 0.99

00:33:01.000 I'm a man. 0.99

00:33:02.000 There's nothing stronger than that. 1.00

00:33:03.000 So if you think that way, why would you even let shit... 0.99

00:33:06.000 That's how I thought in rap. 0.99

00:33:07.000 So that was rap for me. 1.00

00:33:09.000 In rap, it just showed like, nigga, this is bullshit. 0.99

00:33:12.000 Like, I grew up around real... 1.00

00:33:14.000 I just hate saying shit like this, like street motherfuckers. 1.00

00:33:17.000 I'm talking about, but I'm watching niggas do TV shows off that shit right now, off the people I grew up around as a kid. 1.00

00:33:24.000 And to get in rap and see everybody coming together, smoking weed, talking behind each other's back, trying to get the same girl and this. 0.98

00:33:31.000 And I was young seeing this, so it's different.

00:33:33.000 I watched friends cross each other, rap friends for a girl. 1.00

00:33:37.000 Like, I just seen all kind of sucker shit. 1.00

00:33:39.000 Shady stuff. 0.99

00:33:40.000 So when I say I'm a rapper, I say I'm coming in with nothing but my niggas. 0.78

00:33:43.000 That's why I was so deep.

00:33:44.000 Because I didn't want a rapper to be able to come over here and feel comfortable. 0.84

00:33:47.000 I wanted him to be uncomfortable.

00:33:48.000 I just wanted him to be like, what's up, Flop?

00:33:50.000 Hey, alright, bro.

00:33:51.000 You know what I mean?

00:33:52.000 If you want to be friends with me, you got to meet all my friends.

00:33:54.000 Right.

00:33:55.000 So that's why I always had a lot of people.

00:33:57.000 You know, I've heard that many times with other people as well.

00:33:59.000 The industry is pretty fake.

00:34:01.000 And unless you're a real person, you won't really see what's really happening behind the scenes.

00:34:04.000 Yeah, but then again, I'm going to contradict myself, right?

00:34:07.000 Because that's the way I came up in rap.

00:34:10.000 See, you look at it from another point of view. 1.00

00:34:13.000 Nigga, I just was paying attention to all the fake shit. 1.00

00:34:16.000 It was a lot of good shit going on. 1.00

00:34:17.000 So me watching the artist's careers right now that's blowing up, the moves they making and letting me know, like, yo, Walker, you was feeding in the dumb shit. 1.00

00:34:25.000 That was all the devil distractions. 1.00

00:34:26.000 That shit was whack. 1.00

00:34:27.000 I shouldn't even give a fuck about it, and I didn't give a fuck. 1.00

00:34:30.000 That's why I jumped past all the fights and shit. 0.97

00:34:33.000 I'm sorry. 0.96

00:34:34.000 Now I got way more better, like, you know what I'm saying?

00:34:36.000 But back then, I couldn't take it. 1.00

00:34:37.000 You could be like, yo, bitch, boom! 1.00

00:34:40.000 That's just how life was back then. 1.00

00:34:42.000 So, rap happened.

00:34:44.000 You learned a lot from rap.

00:34:45.000 And then, drastically, it had to change where you went to EDM. This is what rap told me.

00:34:50.000 Yeah.

00:34:50.000 Rap, let me bring that back.

00:34:52.000 Let me really answer that. 0.64

00:34:53.000 Stop dicking around.

00:34:54.000 Okay, Google.

00:34:54.000 Rap gave me the experience I don't think nothing in my life would have ever gave me without it.

00:34:59.000 Rap showed me the art of thieves, the art of love, the art of trust, the art of hard work, the art of discernment, all that shit. 0.99

00:35:08.000 That's what rap showed me. 0.99

00:35:09.000 And man, I've been cheating my whole... 0.98

00:35:11.000 It was so crazy, my nigga. 1.00

00:35:14.000 I saw me swear this shit. 1.00

00:35:16.000 The most solid person in my whole career was my mother. 1.00

00:35:20.000 And it's crazy that I'm saying this, right? 0.99

00:35:23.000 And it's cliche as fuck. 0.99

00:35:25.000 But everybody stole from me, bro. 0.99

00:35:28.000 Like, everybody. 0.91

00:35:30.000 And I was such a real nigga that I was afraid to say people were stealing because it made me be weak.

00:35:37.000 So while people glorify me at the same token, I'm learning. 0.75

00:35:41.000 So this is why people be like, yo, this nigga walking so smart. 0.99

00:35:44.000 Shit, you might be right, but nigga, I was being smart to save my own life. 0.99

00:35:48.000 To keep the show on the road. 1.00

00:35:50.000 So while people got down celebrating the show, I'm skinning down to keep the show going.

00:35:54.000 So a lot of niggas had to get booked for shows. 1.00

00:35:56.000 I had to pay to book myself sometimes. 0.97

00:35:58.000 Nigga, I was banded.

00:35:59.000 I give the credit to me and my team, not just me.

00:36:02.000 Like, literally.

00:36:03.000 So it's a big difference.

00:36:04.000 Like, I don't be getting mad when niggas be like, oh, walking this and this. 1.00

00:36:07.000 I'm like, bro, y'all niggas don't got no idea what this shit took. 1.00

00:36:10.000 And I'm not even going to complain, but my whole career until recently as a man, because I had full control of my life, 100% control, that I ain't got to fight no more. 0.99

00:36:20.000 Like, bro, that shit crazy, bro, to go to sleep with 10, 15, 20 million dollars and still scared to be broke. 0.98

00:36:26.000 Wow. 1.00

00:36:27.000 How the fuck do you do that? 0.99

00:36:28.000 How do you go to sleep with two, three million dollars in your pocket and feel broke? 1.00

00:36:32.000 Like, bro, just right now as 36-year-old man, bro, 37-year-old man, bro, could go to sleep at night and be at peace without having to hold a girl, without having to watch a movie, without having to take a melatonin pill, without shit. 0.99

00:36:46.000 Like, actually, I could go. 0.98

00:36:48.000 My door's unlocked. 0.99

00:36:49.000 I don't live in a gated community, my nigga. 0.68

00:36:51.000 The mailman can knock on my front door and say, hey, walk out, can I get some waffles?

00:36:55.000 So I'm that calm. 1.00

00:36:56.000 I could go the fuck to sleep. 1.00

00:36:58.000 Like, it's just, and that's what I wanted, my nigga. 1.00

00:37:00.000 Like, when I rapped, I just wanted to learn the truth.

00:37:02.000 I got tired of everybody flexing.

00:37:04.000 Like, it ain't even work.

00:37:05.000 The flexing, the reason you ain't got a dance floor in the club.

00:37:08.000 You know what I'm saying? 1.00

00:37:09.000 That flexed shit went too far, bro. 0.99

00:37:11.000 That's why I just... 1.00

00:37:13.000 You said earlier that people were stealing from you and you had to, you know, basically pay it back on your own.

00:37:18.000 Who's...

00:37:19.000 Are we talking like record labels?

00:37:20.000 People that were close to you?

00:37:21.000 But everybody, man.

00:37:21.000 Oh, definitely.

00:37:24.000 At the end of the day, my nigga, like, what could you do? 0.76

00:37:27.000 Right? 0.92

00:37:27.000 Yeah. 0.92

00:37:28.000 Who could help me?

00:37:29.000 I never seen nobody around me successful the right way.

00:37:33.000 Mm-hmm.

00:37:34.000 I never in my life met a merger and acquisition lawyer.

00:37:38.000 I never in my life met a CPA, a business manager.

00:37:41.000 Ever in my life.

00:37:42.000 I never had those in my family.

00:37:44.000 I just didn't know.

00:37:47.000 And I learned the hard way.

00:37:49.000 Oh, you found out later that they were stealing?

00:37:50.000 Nah, I learned during because I was hands-on in the very beginning of my career.

00:37:56.000 Like, credit to my mother, but my mother, you gotta think, I'm her son. 0.96

00:37:59.000 So she not finna do all that extra shit she did with Gooch and all on for me. 0.98

00:38:02.000 Hey, nigga, you my son, you supposed to know this. 0.99

00:38:04.000 That's her vibe with me. 1.00

00:38:05.000 So I'm like, what the fuck? 1.00

00:38:07.000 So, that shit was crazy. 1.00

00:38:09.000 A lot of trials and tribulations. 1.00

00:38:10.000 So what did you, did you ever, you said you didn't say anything about it.

00:38:12.000 Did you end up getting rid of those people that were stealing from you?

00:38:14.000 Of course.

00:38:15.000 Okay, you just did it silently.

00:38:16.000 Yeah, most of them got kids, so crushing their practice, they take away from their kids.

00:38:21.000 So I just pray to God that they learn something, man. 1.00

00:38:26.000 God just take away that gift and give them another one because they miss using that shit. 1.00

00:38:30.000 Just being 100, bro, I've always just been a real nigga, bro. 1.00

00:38:33.000 So for me, I don't give a fuck. 0.98

00:38:34.000 I'm not flawed. 1.00

00:38:36.000 I'm not none of that shit. 0.98

00:38:37.000 So I'm not going to think about anybody saying it. 0.99

00:38:39.000 So for them people, one thing I'm good at, though, One thing I'm great at, fuck good at, I'm so good at people goddamn thinking I didn't see or don't know. 0.98

00:38:49.000 Right? 0.98

00:38:50.000 So they don't know that you know?

00:38:51.000 Nah.

00:38:52.000 But the way they stole from me was my college courses. 0.99

00:38:56.000 Because I figured out what the fuck they did, and I figured out what I did. 0.97

00:39:02.000 So now... 0.98

00:39:02.000 Your college courses? 0.98

00:39:03.000 Oh, God.

00:39:03.000 It was like college courses for me.

00:39:05.000 Watching how people stole from me.

00:39:07.000 Learning, excuse me.

00:39:08.000 Yeah.

00:39:09.000 I love Ebonics, by the way.

00:39:10.000 High-class Ebonics is what I talk, because that's our language.

00:39:13.000 That's something nobody can take from us. 1.00

00:39:15.000 So I love shit like that. 1.00

00:39:16.000 So when you hear these words, you better kick in third gear or some shit. 1.00

00:39:20.000 But when people stole from me, I got to see their habits and how they did it, how they pinched, and how they got... 0.99

00:39:27.000 How was they able to do that legally and illegally?

00:39:31.000 How can they be in trouble?

00:39:33.000 And with me learning all that, I was kind of like, Sorry for them. 1.00

00:39:39.000 Because I'm like, yo, they dumb as fuck. 0.99

00:39:41.000 Like, they buy some money that's actually bringing in over a quarter million dollars a weekend, and you stealing from them? 1.00

00:39:47.000 Yeah.

00:39:47.000 I would be like, yo, let me invest three million in that for you.

00:39:51.000 Like, I could build a portfolio just from knowing you.

00:39:54.000 I could build me a million dollar portfolio just from you putting two, three credit cards on mine.

00:39:59.000 So that's how I know I wasn't with the right People. 0.98

00:40:02.000 So that's why I ain't take shit to heart. 0.99

00:40:04.000 And then I start calling people thieves, this, that, and the third. 1.00

00:40:08.000 I start looking at myself like, damn, what the fuck they seeing me that's stealing from me? 0.99

00:40:12.000 I got to tighten up. 0.99

00:40:13.000 So when I start tightening myself, I start seeing them come a million miles coming.

00:40:17.000 In every form of my life, from girls to business, to family, to everybody.

00:40:21.000 And I'm telling you, bro, I'm just like a master yogi.

00:40:24.000 Like a ghetto little master yogi. 1.00

00:40:26.000 Excuse me, a yogi.

00:40:27.000 I'm not a master yet.

00:40:29.000 It just made me just be cool. 0.99

00:40:32.000 That's interesting, because other people, they would probably corner them and be like, hey, what the fuck? 0.99

00:40:38.000 Or maybe even attack them or whatever. 0.99

00:40:39.000 So you just saw it, and you're just like, you know what?

00:40:42.000 Yeah, but that's not a godly thing to do. 0.90

00:40:44.000 I'm a street nigga. 1.00

00:40:45.000 I already know that's some street shit. 1.00

00:40:47.000 I look that shit like that as street shit. 1.00

00:40:50.000 So in my brain, I program like that street shit, Waki, you can't do that. 1.00

00:40:53.000 Like, they expect you to be gangster for them to call the cops and you act irate. 0.99

00:40:58.000 When did you make that transition?

00:40:59.000 I've been like this, my boy.

00:41:01.000 I've been like this, my boy.

00:41:02.000 I'm just grown with experience and I can do grown man moves.

00:41:05.000 And now I'm out of talk because I experienced this. 0.99

00:41:08.000 I promise, bro, just go back in all these little cameras and shit. 0.92

00:41:10.000 Bro, I've been talking like this, bro, where you see all, like, the soft music behind people conversations. 0.96

00:41:15.000 I was doing that in 2013 on Instagram.

00:41:18.000 I'm serious, bro. 0.99

00:41:19.000 So I'm not trying to take credit for this shit, but this shit I wanted to be. 0.99

00:41:23.000 So I was fighting to become that. 0.99

00:41:24.000 I felt stuck, bro.

00:41:26.000 It's different.

00:41:26.000 A lot of people want to be famous.

00:41:28.000 I felt stuck in fame.

00:41:30.000 But what I'm asking is, like, at what point did you say, you know what?

00:41:34.000 There's no point.

00:41:35.000 So you never, ever resorted to, I guess, violence or attack or confronting somebody for stealing from you?

00:41:42.000 If I did, we'll never know.

00:41:46.000 Just to answer everybody's questions.

00:41:48.000 So how should someone pick their friends, you would say, to be successful?

00:41:52.000 Because obviously you've seen through the bad, the good, the ugly, but how should someone pick friends to be in their circle, you would say?

00:42:00.000 That's a scary question.

00:42:02.000 To go off this blueprint, I just say, man, your friends are going to be who you are on the inside of you anyway. 0.98

00:42:09.000 So if you're a nasty, grimy, dirty person on the inside, you're going to always get nasty, dirty, grimy-ass people on the outside, especially from my perspective in life. 0.98

00:42:19.000 So I'm going to be real, my boy. 0.99

00:42:21.000 I never just fought with people like that. 0.98

00:42:25.000 Like, I know who grind me and shit, right? 1.00

00:42:27.000 I can't hang with no nigga that kill people every day. 1.00

00:42:30.000 Or goddamn, just steal and rob all day. 1.00

00:42:30.000 Right. 1.00

00:42:33.000 I can't fuck with you, bro. 1.00

00:42:34.000 You don't play video games? 1.00

00:42:34.000 You don't play basketball? 1.00

00:42:36.000 Like, you don't like cartoons? 1.00

00:42:37.000 Like, what the fuck? 1.00

00:42:39.000 You're just a monster. 1.00

00:42:41.000 Like, I wasn't a monster. 1.00

00:42:42.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:42:43.000 So, I always, like, I don't know if I'm a gangster nerd, bro. 1.00

00:42:46.000 I just like nerd shit, too. 1.00

00:42:48.000 Bro, I just like nerd shit. 1.00

00:42:48.000 Enemy? 1.00

00:42:50.000 I don't want credit for none of it, bro.

00:42:51.000 I don't want to be on a game and in that play. 0.99

00:42:54.000 I like that shit actually make me feel good, bro. 0.99

00:42:56.000 Like, it's crazy. 1.00

00:42:57.000 I love that shit. 1.00

00:42:59.000 So you would say work on yourself first. 1.00

00:42:59.000 Okay. 1.00

00:43:01.000 That's when you're a better person.

00:43:02.000 Oh, you have to.

00:43:03.000 Y'all folks better work on y'allself.

00:43:05.000 Y'all niggas better stop blaming people. 1.00

00:43:07.000 You better look in the mirror, my boy.

00:43:08.000 That's my for real, for real life.

00:43:10.000 That's how you're going to get to where you got to get.

00:43:11.000 I swear to God, all that.

00:43:13.000 Hey, man, think good.

00:43:15.000 Strategize. 1.00

00:43:16.000 All that bullshit, man. 1.00

00:43:17.000 You better look at yourself and say, hey, I'm wrong. 1.00

00:43:19.000 I fucked up. 0.99

00:43:20.000 You better do it quick, too. 1.00

00:43:22.000 You don't want to be no old-ass man and then taking accountability, man.

00:43:22.000 Accountability.

00:43:26.000 That shit could probably be devastating. 1.00

00:43:27.000 Being old as fuck and then forgiving yourself. 1.00

00:43:30.000 Oh, no. 1.00

00:43:31.000 Do it right now.

00:43:32.000 Right now.

00:43:34.000 That's good.

00:43:35.000 So, at what point did you say, you know what, man?

00:43:38.000 I'm going to turn into crazy jewelry, the flex in the cars.

00:43:43.000 My friends kept dying.

00:43:45.000 My friends died and damn near all my chains.

00:43:47.000 Never was robbed from either.

00:43:49.000 So, it's just like...

00:43:51.000 I don't know, man.

00:43:53.000 I was just...

00:43:55.000 I just, I wanted to just start over. 0.99

00:43:58.000 I mean, I got all that shit to flex on, niggas, to show them that we get money. 1.00

00:44:02.000 So your friends were attacked for wearing your jewelry? 1.00

00:44:05.000 I don't know.

00:44:06.000 That was just their lifestyle. 1.00

00:44:08.000 I just, that shit just fuck with me, my boy. 1.00

00:44:10.000 I've been shot for a chain. 1.00

00:44:12.000 I'm like, man, this shit's crazy. 1.00

00:44:14.000 Who are you, Walker? 1.00

00:44:15.000 I feel like I was losing myself.

00:44:17.000 I was hiding in items.

00:44:19.000 I feel like items made me become Popular.

00:44:23.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:44:23.000 I want to be popular for me.

00:44:25.000 Not for what I wear.

00:44:26.000 Not for what I drive. 0.96

00:44:27.000 That's why I stopped giving a fuck about clothes. 0.98

00:44:30.000 That's why I stopped giving a fuck about getting shapeboards. 0.99

00:44:31.000 I stopped giving a fuck. 0.99

00:44:32.000 I'm like, if I'm Waka Flocka, right? 1.00

00:44:35.000 Let me see if I'm Waka Flocka without all this shit. 0.99

00:44:38.000 Without an album. 0.99

00:44:39.000 Without a single.

00:44:40.000 When did you make this transition?

00:44:42.000 2012 is when you said...

00:44:42.000 2012.

00:44:44.000 That's why I was like, fuck it. 0.99

00:44:45.000 I was like, if I could go another 10 years, I'll start back rapping. 1.00

00:44:50.000 Literally.

00:44:51.000 I said, if I could do this in 10 years, I wanted to learn business, bro. 1.00

00:44:54.000 I just had to learn that shit before I'm 40. 1.00

00:44:56.000 I'm like, bro, I'm going to work hard and fuck until I'm old and just ball. 1.00

00:45:01.000 It's a Rolls Royce look better than a 52-year-old man than a 25-year-old man. 1.00

00:45:06.000 Who look better than a 52-year-old player?

00:45:08.000 He ain't a Rolls Royce, man. 1.00

00:45:10.000 That shit just look way better. 0.99

00:45:11.000 I just was that kind of person. 1.00

00:45:13.000 Ocho Cinco did an interview recently.

00:45:15.000 You brought up, for example, saving most of his money and not buying designer, buying a chain and stuff like that because his brand name is Ocho Cinco.

00:45:22.000 So if you meet him, he's the brand, not what he wears.

00:45:25.000 That's a very good point that you brought up.

00:45:27.000 He extreme.

00:45:28.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:45:29.000 He like a vegan that got down.

00:45:30.000 Throw paint on the mink coat. 1.00

00:45:32.000 That shit crazy. 1.00

00:45:33.000 I'm not that extreme. 1.00

00:45:35.000 I don't know the name of nothing, but if I like it, I'm going to get it. 0.99

00:45:35.000 I'm going to put that shit on. 0.99

00:45:39.000 I'm not that weird-ass, not calling bro weird. 0.99

00:45:42.000 I'm not that weird-ass natural guy. 0.86

00:45:45.000 Oh, brother. 0.99

00:45:47.000 All that's when I'm pattering ass clothes. 0.99

00:45:49.000 I'm still going to put that shit on and do what I want, but you got to elevate. 0.99

00:45:54.000 Sometimes you got to stop to evolve to see how far you came. 0.99

00:45:58.000 It was one of those moments, brother. 1.00

00:46:00.000 So to answer your shit, it was just one of those moments like I had to take that motherfucking jewelry off. 1.00

00:46:04.000 I had to, like, I just had to. 1.00

00:46:06.000 What'd you do with all of it?

00:46:06.000 Do you sell it back?

00:46:07.000 Do you still have it?

00:46:08.000 Do you give it away?

00:46:09.000 It's in a safe.

00:46:10.000 It's in a safe?

00:46:11.000 Okay, so you still have it, you just don't wear it no more?

00:46:13.000 I'm never wearing it in my life of a living.

00:46:15.000 Is it like a trophy now? 1.00

00:46:16.000 So if I'm just going to redo it, I'll live my life and put that shit on. 1.00

00:46:20.000 Wow. 1.00

00:46:21.000 I'm good.

00:46:21.000 Then I know what energy holds.

00:46:24.000 Like gold and copper hold the most energy out of all metals. 0.94

00:46:28.000 Imagine how much fucking negative energy them jerry got on. 0.99

00:46:31.000 I was on all kinds of pills and lean and shit, sweating in that jerry. 1.00

00:46:36.000 I don't need that shit. 1.00

00:46:36.000 I'm good. 1.00

00:46:37.000 Melt that shit. 1.00

00:46:38.000 When did you give up the lean and all the other stuff? 1.00

00:46:41.000 Uh, I probably said when I was like 26, 27.

00:46:44.000 It is like, Waka, you might as well say you're like a type 2 or type 1 diabetic. 0.92

00:46:49.000 Oh, wow.

00:46:50.000 It's like, so we about to start giving you a coolant shots and blood thinning pills.

00:46:53.000 Hell no.

00:46:54.000 They was gearing me up for it.

00:46:54.000 So I was taking it.

00:46:57.000 I'm like, damn, bro, I don't need to get hard. 1.00

00:46:59.000 This shit crazy. 1.00

00:46:59.000 I'm over it. 1.00

00:47:01.000 And I ain't saying nothing to anybody, but it was fucking with me, bro. 0.99

00:47:08.000 When they say shit like that, bro, I can just think about my daddy, bro. 0.99

00:47:08.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:47:11.000 I see my daddy, like, damn near this death bed. 0.97

00:47:14.000 Like, he's skinny, like, in the bed. 0.99

00:47:15.000 So I keep, kept thinking about shit like that. 1.00

00:47:17.000 And it just, it started triggering me going to hell. 0.99

00:47:21.000 And I just went right into it.

00:47:22.000 Like, next thing you know, I ain't have to take the pills no more.

00:47:25.000 What are some steps you took to improve your health?

00:47:27.000 Well, I just let go of the sugar.

00:47:29.000 I cold turkey candy.

00:47:32.000 Okay.

00:47:32.000 I probably eat candy six, five times a year for that.

00:47:36.000 Okay.

00:47:37.000 I just went on hell and natural, so I put more nutritious stuff in my body.

00:47:41.000 Okay.

00:47:41.000 It wasn't like no perfect regimen.

00:47:42.000 That's when Sebi was out and shit like that. 1.00

00:47:44.000 I just was following it. 0.98

00:47:46.000 And now I started finding out there's no such thing as a disease.

00:47:48.000 Your body had a disease state.

00:47:50.000 I started finding out it's a fungus first.

00:47:52.000 What do a fungus need first?

00:47:54.000 I just stopped doing that and just like... 1.00

00:47:57.000 I just learned this shit. 0.98

00:47:58.000 The information is right there. 0.99

00:48:00.000 And there's nobody that can heal you.

00:48:01.000 There's no secret pill, no secret tonics.

00:48:05.000 It's you taking the tonic.

00:48:07.000 It's you taking the pills.

00:48:08.000 It's you believing in it.

00:48:10.000 Shout out to Yaki Awakening.

00:48:11.000 He's the littest right now on Holistic Medicine. 1.00

00:48:15.000 Yaki, little brother, is the fucking goat. 1.00

00:48:19.000 You start going to the gym too? 1.00

00:48:20.000 I barely go to the gym.

00:48:22.000 Okay.

00:48:22.000 Barely?

00:48:23.000 I just run.

00:48:24.000 I don't want to be all... 1.00

00:48:25.000 I'm big as fuck, bro. 1.00

00:48:26.000 So if I come out of this bitch like... 1.00

00:48:27.000 I ain't gonna wipe my ass, bro. 1.00

00:48:29.000 This shit would be crazy. 1.00

00:48:30.000 Yeah, walk us super tall, man. 1.00

00:48:31.000 So you run, but you eat fairly healthy now, drink a lot of water?

00:48:36.000 I ran.

00:48:36.000 I don't run today.

00:48:37.000 You don't run no more?

00:48:41.000 I just had an outfit, right? 0.99

00:48:44.000 If I put the pants on, I'm like, God damn, big boy. 0.99

00:48:47.000 If I can't eat, if I can't eat, come on. 0.99

00:48:52.000 Nigga start feeling big, but I like it though, man. 1.00

00:48:55.000 I'm about to get it in.

00:48:56.000 I'm about to do a 90 to a 120 fit day.

00:48:59.000 I want to be on front of Men's Health Magazine.

00:49:02.000 That's a grown man goal I have.

00:49:04.000 I want to be in front of Men's Health Magazine.

00:49:05.000 Trim, slim.

00:49:07.000 I'm trying to have a little boxer line. 0.92

00:49:09.000 Get my groan on, my boy.

00:49:11.000 How'd you get over...

00:49:13.000 Because I'm sure there's a lot of people watching right now.

00:49:15.000 We got almost 8,000 people in here.

00:49:17.000 How'd you get over the drug use?

00:49:18.000 The drug use?

00:49:19.000 Yeah.

00:49:20.000 I love my life.

00:49:21.000 Okay.

00:49:21.000 Yeah.

00:49:22.000 It's no secret.

00:49:24.000 People want to get these magical...

00:49:27.000 I literally love my life, bro.

00:49:28.000 I love God.

00:49:30.000 There's nothing...

00:49:31.000 I don't know, dawg.

00:49:33.000 I just...

00:49:34.000 I don't know. 0.97

00:49:35.000 I just ain't no weak-ass nigga. 0.96

00:49:36.000 I can't... 1.00

00:49:37.000 There's no way in the fuck a plant can make me be, like, consumed to dying or dispose my body and shit, like... 1.00

00:49:45.000 I don't know, bro. 1.00

00:49:46.000 That shit's just corny to me. 0.99

00:49:47.000 It's like blaming people all day. 1.00

00:49:50.000 Like, I don't know, dawg.

00:49:52.000 I just can't.

00:49:53.000 I don't know, my boy.

00:49:54.000 I really just can't be that guy.

00:49:56.000 I just, hell nah.

00:49:57.000 A drink?

00:49:58.000 And then lean? 1.00

00:49:59.000 That shit died. 1.00

00:50:00.000 Cavity? 1.00

00:50:00.000 My shit, fuck. 1.00

00:50:01.000 What the hell? 1.00

00:50:02.000 That shit heroin. 1.00

00:50:03.000 Like, I'm a heroin addict, bro. 1.00

00:50:05.000 Like, what the fuck? 1.00

00:50:06.000 I'm a fresh-ass junkie. 1.00

00:50:08.000 In real life, I've seen myself selling whatever I had to sell to turn around and go spend money with another nigga to buy drugs. 1.00

00:50:14.000 We all drug addicts. 0.95

00:50:16.000 I'm just the best looking drug addict. 0.75

00:50:18.000 Like, bro, hell, I had to get rid of that. 0.54

00:50:20.000 Then I had Charlie.

00:50:21.000 Charlie was a big, my daughter was like a huge, huge factor inside of me, changing health, life, my daughter.

00:50:29.000 She the first person that made me feel like Literally famous.

00:50:32.000 She's the first person that literally made me feel like a superhero.

00:50:36.000 She's the first person that made me feel literally like a somebody. 0.99

00:50:40.000 Like, yo, I need you to live so I can live kind of shit. 0.98

00:50:43.000 Like, literally, she's the first human on Earth to make me feel like it. 1.00

00:50:46.000 So that right there, that was like the fucking nail in the whole coffin. 0.98

00:50:50.000 That was a transition point when you had your daughter. 0.99

00:50:53.000 So, giving up the lien, giving up the jewelry, the drugs.

00:50:58.000 And even giving it up, just...

00:51:00.000 Not even give it up.

00:51:01.000 Just evolve, King. 0.94

00:51:03.000 Like, you ain't got to goddamn change nothing. 0.96

00:51:05.000 Evolve. 0.95

00:51:06.000 Like, it happened.

00:51:07.000 You can't change something that happened.

00:51:09.000 Like, people get the words misconstrued, right?

00:51:11.000 They start fucking up the definition.

00:51:12.000 You can never change nothing that already happened.

00:51:14.000 You can evolve from it.

00:51:16.000 And I just wanted to evolve.

00:51:17.000 So, what I started doing was I started learning the habits.

00:51:20.000 So, I started asking my wife at the time.

00:51:22.000 Actually, she's like, Waka, yeah, you were saying this, this, you did this. 0.90

00:51:25.000 I'm like, what the? 1.00

00:51:26.000 Fuck, you stay with me? 1.00

00:51:28.000 I was just like deep shit. 1.00

00:51:29.000 So I just start seeing my... 0.99

00:51:30.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:51:31.000 You made a change.

00:51:32.000 Yeah, I should tell people, hey, yeah, we're going to do that.

00:51:34.000 Yeah, we're going to do that.

00:51:34.000 And I want to do it, but I don't remember it.

00:51:36.000 I was hot.

00:51:37.000 Oh, I wake up.

00:51:38.000 I got $50,000, $20,000.

00:51:40.000 Whatever in my pocket, I wake up, I got $200. 1.00

00:51:42.000 I'm like, boy, that shit was lit. 0.99

00:51:44.000 Like, that's bad, though. 1.00

00:51:46.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:51:46.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:51:47.000 I don't even know where the money went.

00:51:48.000 Not really.

00:51:49.000 I just don't remember.

00:51:50.000 Like, it's crazy.

00:51:52.000 So you made a change for the better.

00:51:54.000 I evolved.

00:51:55.000 I did it for my daughters, man.

00:51:57.000 I did it for the people watching me.

00:51:58.000 Like, I never did it for the industry.

00:52:00.000 I never had a cosign in my life but my mother.

00:52:04.000 I just, it's fans, my boy.

00:52:06.000 Like, I'm only here because of fans.

00:52:07.000 I don't pay for nothing in marketing.

00:52:09.000 People do it.

00:52:10.000 Like, people got me right here. 1.00

00:52:12.000 So I can't do the butt fuck with people. 0.99

00:52:14.000 Even when people are like, oh, Walker, girl. 1.00

00:52:16.000 Walker, don't say this.

00:52:17.000 You should never do this. 1.00

00:52:17.000 I'm like, I fuck with the people, though. 1.00

00:52:19.000 Y'all niggas never put me here. 1.00

00:52:21.000 Don't tell me what the fuck to say. 0.99

00:52:22.000 You just own a platform we're talking on. 1.00

00:52:24.000 If we, people like me, stop talking, you have no money. 1.00

00:52:27.000 Shut the fuck up. 1.00

00:52:28.000 Let me talk. 1.00

00:52:29.000 Cut everybody else off, not me. 0.97

00:52:30.000 So that's when I start learning. 1.00

00:52:32.000 People, fuck with you, bro. 1.00

00:52:33.000 You have to tap into people and don't let 10 people, 5 people, or 30 people make you say, fuck the people that made you who you was. 1.00

00:52:42.000 And a lot of people in these positions, we can't forget that part. 0.99

00:52:46.000 That's facts, though.

00:52:47.000 Yeah, I get some of these chats.

00:52:50.000 And then, guys, come on over to YouTube.

00:52:51.000 We're going to kill the Twitter, Twitch, and Facebook stream, so come on over to YouTube right now so y'all can continue getting the sauce. 0.98

00:52:57.000 Chris, can we kill him? 0.99

00:52:58.000 Yeah, we can. 0.99

00:52:58.000 Yeah, guys, come on over to YouTube or Rumble, either or. 0.99

00:53:01.000 We're going to be live on Rumble and on YouTube, so come on over right now.

00:53:07.000 Okay, so we got here, the Grim Reaper.

00:53:09.000 Remember, don't get embarrassed like Tom. 0.55

00:53:12.000 Don't get stood up like Dick and don't waste your life like Harry.

00:53:14.000 Free to taste. 0.97

00:53:15.000 Absolutely.

00:53:15.000 Shout out to you, man.

00:53:16.000 That's from the book.

00:53:16.000 Go get it, guys.

00:53:17.000 Michael Meastroke, $1 super secret.

00:53:19.000 Thank you. 0.99

00:53:21.000 Michaka goes, I go hard in the motherfucking paint. 0.99

00:53:23.000 Brick squad. 0.99

00:53:25.000 Omar Gray goes, peace, bros.

00:53:27.000 Brick squad, bow, bow.

00:53:28.000 Okay.

00:53:29.000 And then we got Nathan goes, my buddy self-deleted over three or four and I wish we had this content.

00:53:33.000 He had put me on to No Hands by Waka when we were younger.

00:53:36.000 Wow.

00:53:38.000 Yeah.

00:53:38.000 Hey, that record went crazy, man.

00:53:42.000 Tell us about that.

00:53:43.000 What was it like filming that and that record in general?

00:53:45.000 That record really created our lifestyle and our era.

00:53:48.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:53:49.000 Man, that shit was fun, bro. 1.00

00:53:51.000 That whole video, it was a big-ass party. 1.00

00:53:53.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:53:54.000 On the top floor.

00:53:55.000 Yeah, in Atlanta. 1.00

00:53:55.000 Yeah, that shit was lit. 1.00

00:53:57.000 It was just a party. 1.00

00:53:58.000 Yeah.

00:53:58.000 To me, that'd be the best video shoots.

00:54:00.000 Is that when you...

00:54:01.000 Because that song had a lot of mainstream success.

00:54:04.000 I mean, to this day, it still gets played in the club a lot.

00:54:06.000 And the club still plays today.

00:54:06.000 It still plays to this day.

00:54:07.000 Booby Trap.

00:54:08.000 Yeah.

00:54:09.000 You know what I mean?

00:54:09.000 Live.

00:54:12.000 What was it like, I guess, on the tail of that, like, touring after and everything else?

00:54:16.000 Would you say that's when you, like, really broke into mainstream?

00:54:20.000 I was in there, bro.

00:54:21.000 Yo, I'm telling y'all, bro. 1.00

00:54:23.000 This shit sounds crazy, bro. 0.99

00:54:25.000 My first CD dropped four months later. 1.00

00:54:27.000 I was on the road four or five days out the week till today.

00:54:30.000 Wow.

00:54:31.000 Like, I don't know.

00:54:32.000 It took me four months to get out.

00:54:35.000 Probably before that. 0.92

00:54:36.000 Like, even in the first month my tape came out, I was doing features and shit and walked in.

00:54:40.000 So I never, like... 0.98

00:54:43.000 Bro, No Hands, just like, just shut them up. 0.57

00:54:46.000 Wale, Roscoe?

00:54:48.000 Yeah.

00:54:50.000 That's it, right?

00:54:50.000 That's it.

00:54:51.000 Yeah.

00:54:52.000 I mean, to this day, they still play that record, man.

00:54:55.000 I just felt like, it was just a good combination.

00:54:58.000 Shout out to Greg Street.

00:54:59.000 If it wasn't for Greg Street, I don't even think No Hands would be a hit.

00:55:02.000 Really?

00:55:03.000 It wasn't for DJ Greg Street for just grabbing the record and dropping it without us. 1.00

00:55:08.000 He's like, this shit is a fucking hit. 1.00

00:55:10.000 I'm taking it. 1.00

00:55:10.000 Fuck that. 1.00

00:55:11.000 And left the studio. 1.00

00:55:12.000 That's when Gucci just came home.

00:55:13.000 He's like, I'm out.

00:55:14.000 This is the hit. 1.00

00:55:15.000 Fuck everything. 1.00

00:55:16.000 And left. 1.00

00:55:16.000 Boom. 1.00

00:55:17.000 And then I went on the road.

00:55:18.000 I guess he was talking to DJ Love De Niro from Queens.

00:55:21.000 And Love was like, I'm playing this in your set tonight. 0.98

00:55:23.000 I said, Love, I swear to my mother, my nigga. 1.00

00:55:26.000 You know that word to mother shit pop out. 1.00

00:55:28.000 Like, yo, look, bro, if you play that shit, my nigga, yo, we might fight. 1.00

00:55:31.000 That fucking, excuse my language, that fucking gas song, bro. 1.00

00:55:35.000 Don't play that shit. 1.00

00:55:36.000 Nigga, I want some gangster shit, bro. 1.00

00:55:38.000 What the fuck I look like singing on stage, bro? 1.00

00:55:40.000 So he played the shit. 1.00

00:55:41.000 I threw the fucking water bottle at him. 1.00

00:55:44.000 As I turned back around, the whole crowd going crazy. 1.00

00:55:47.000 But we played that shit three times, back to back. 1.00

00:55:49.000 I said, oh, this shit a hit. 1.00

00:55:51.000 Because I never had a girl record. 1.00

00:55:52.000 I always had gangsta shit. 0.99

00:55:54.000 And all my fans was girls at the time. 1.00

00:55:56.000 Just every show would be always girls. 0.99

00:55:58.000 So once I played No Hands, I'm like, oh, this shit lit. 0.99

00:56:02.000 I didn't fucking learn how to do this. 0.99

00:56:04.000 But I couldn't rap about girls because I never went on a date. 0.99

00:56:07.000 I never, like, had a girlfriend.

00:56:08.000 So I never knew but hang with freaks at the time.

00:56:11.000 Like, I never, I don't know, I just wasn't, I had no game. 0.99

00:56:14.000 So I never knew what to rap, but shake that head, bitch on track. 1.00

00:56:18.000 You don't know, like, you don't got no jazz. 0.99

00:56:21.000 Right. 0.94

00:56:22.000 Was it, at that point when that record hit, did you know, like, yeah, I fucking made it? 0.95

00:56:26.000 Uh, bruh, with no hand, yeah. 0.92

00:56:29.000 Yeah.

00:56:30.000 I don't know, bruh, I might try and care, bruh, I was already loaded, bruh.

00:56:33.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you already had money at that point. 0.99

00:56:34.000 Like, fuck the money, like, I was, bruh, I was, like, fucking ten, uh, seven mixtapes in. 0.99

00:56:41.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:56:42.000 My dick is around be going crazy by then. 0.99

00:56:44.000 The album just made me stand up next to A-list artists. 1.00

00:56:48.000 At the time, they was all banding and shit like, oh, that music is whack. 0.99

00:56:51.000 That sound is whack. 0.99

00:56:53.000 Who want 808s and kicks and hi-hats talking about gang violence and this, that, and the third. 0.99

00:56:58.000 I'm like, yo, nobody ever did shit like this. 0.99

00:57:00.000 I'm like, yo, calm the fuck down. 0.98

00:57:03.000 I was just fighting for it. 0.99

00:57:05.000 You know, that next generation came because they were listening to that and killed it.

00:57:09.000 And that's when, like, the next generation was like Chief Keef's.

00:57:11.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:57:12.000 So they listened to my shit. 1.00

00:57:13.000 So it was basically like, shit, all right, watch the next generation. 1.00

00:57:16.000 I knew they were going to have problems with them. 0.99

00:57:18.000 I only rapped for the younger generation in mine.

00:57:21.000 I wasn't rapping on the older generation.

00:57:23.000 I'm like, y'all niggas grew up off boom back. 1.00

00:57:25.000 I can't compete with that.

00:57:26.000 I can't even rap. 1.00

00:57:27.000 Fuck that. 1.00

00:57:28.000 Hell no. 1.00

00:57:29.000 Fair enough.

00:57:30.000 Wonder Wonders goes Waka Flaka say Brick Squad.

00:57:34.000 Alright, Dr.

00:57:35.000 B84. Brick Squad!

00:57:43.000 Dr.

00:57:44.000 Michael Meastro, thank you.

00:57:44.000 B84, we got you.

00:57:45.000 Shout out to Waka Shish. 1.00

00:57:46.000 Okay, Bradley goes, we've always said that Flacavelli is freaking gospel and karma and lurking.

00:57:52.000 Still my favorite Waka Flaka songs ever.

00:57:54.000 Okay.

00:57:56.000 Frozen Gilly goes, thoughts on using life insurance for being your own bank and getting an IUL, Index Universal Life Policy?

00:58:02.000 That's a good strategy for wealth creation as well.

00:58:05.000 Well, depending on what you do in your life that way, nigga, you're smart. 1.00

00:58:09.000 Exactly.

00:58:09.000 He knows the game.

00:58:09.000 You read it.

00:58:10.000 I like that.

00:58:12.000 What do we got here?

00:58:13.000 He goes, Flock, are you still going to try and be president?

00:58:16.000 I think the country needs you, bro.

00:58:17.000 It's time for WACA 24.

00:58:19.000 Make America lit again.

00:58:22.000 Okay.

00:58:23.000 Ayo Zay goes, Clay Coe in the house.

00:58:25.000 I reversed the slave route.

00:58:26.000 Went from up north to down south.

00:58:28.000 All right, cool.

00:58:29.000 Michael Meestroke, number one podcast in the universe.

00:58:31.000 Absolutely.

00:58:32.000 Facts.

00:58:32.000 Dudley De Niro goes, salute to Fresh and Fit Gang.

00:58:35.000 Salute to LeBron, Flocka, James.

00:58:36.000 Keep leading from the front, fellas.

00:58:37.000 All right, cool.

00:58:38.000 Jigsaw goes, shout out to Damian Cabal.

00:58:42.000 I think this is...

00:58:43.000 Oh, Bamiyan Kebab, you're right.

00:58:45.000 Squad, Bamiyan's is an Afghan-based restaurant.

00:58:48.000 It's a family-owned restaurant.

00:58:50.000 I'm part of that family as well.

00:58:51.000 Wow.

00:58:52.000 It's one of the top two, if not the number one restaurant in Canada.

00:58:56.000 It got over 15 locations, and we come into America.

00:59:00.000 Shout out to Bamiyan's.

00:59:01.000 My whole Afghan family.

00:59:02.000 Bamiyan's. 0.93

00:59:02.000 Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. 0.93

00:59:03.000 Wow.

00:59:04.000 Okay.

00:59:04.000 There you go.

00:59:05.000 Good food.

00:59:06.000 Manja Singtor goes best rap line of all time. 1.00

00:59:10.000 Fuck 5-0. 1.00

00:59:11.000 I make my own rules. 1.00

00:59:12.000 Shit my Dragon Balls. 1.00

00:59:14.000 Bitch, call me Goku. 1.00

00:59:15.000 Suck my Dragon Balls. 1.00

00:59:15.000 Oh, suck my Dragon Balls. 1.00

00:59:16.000 Bitch, call me Goku. 1.00

00:59:17.000 Also Naruto or DBZ. This liquor got the best of that. 1.00

00:59:23.000 We own way different.

00:59:25.000 In the house.

00:59:26.000 Ness, go and see Waka at Dreamville Fest in Raleigh, North Carolina.

00:59:29.000 Let's go.

00:59:30.000 Cool.

00:59:31.000 NL Forever Guild.

00:59:33.000 Waka, when you made Love Them Good Gun Sounds, I changed my life and started going to church.

00:59:38.000 I knew the streets wasn't it for me.

00:59:41.000 Okay.

00:59:42.000 IRS. Waka Flock. 0.96

00:59:43.000 I love the music.

00:59:43.000 Harden to paint.

00:59:44.000 And no hands remain on my gym playlist.

00:59:46.000 But respectfully, I'm going to need that back tax, my guy.

00:59:49.000 Yo, shout out to the IRS, bro.

00:59:52.000 I just worked out a payment plan. 1.00

00:59:54.000 That shit real. 1.00

00:59:56.000 Yo, they don't play, bro. 1.00

00:59:59.000 IRS. I can't wait to pay them. 0.51

01:00:00.000 Why wouldn't you want to not pay them?

01:00:02.000 True.

01:00:02.000 They got us lit.

01:00:04.000 It's true.

01:00:05.000 Don, five bucks.

01:00:05.000 Waka is the only celebrity I know that walks to Chicago with no problems.

01:00:09.000 Okay.

01:00:09.000 I love Chicago.

01:00:10.000 I'm sorry to say this, but Chicago, to me, I know it's hardcore, but bro, that shit home, bro. 1.00

01:00:16.000 I feel, bro, I feel, I really feel like that shit Clayton County. 0.99

01:00:20.000 The love is incredible. 0.99

01:00:21.000 Bro, Chicago, bro, it's leaving my top three cities in America to party in.

01:00:26.000 You know, I've heard that from- If not top two.

01:00:28.000 Yo, Chicago, all right, that's a whole lot. 1.00

01:00:29.000 That's my shit. 0.99

01:00:30.000 Chicago and what are the other two? 1.00

01:00:33.000 Atlanta?

01:00:34.000 You gotta say Miami.

01:00:35.000 No, Arizona in general.

01:00:37.000 I'd say for me right now, I like Texas.

01:00:41.000 Atlanta don't count.

01:00:42.000 That's home.

01:00:43.000 That's a guarantee.

01:00:44.000 I say Texas, Arizona, and Chicago.

01:00:46.000 Okay.

01:00:48.000 Any cities in Texas?

01:00:49.000 Because you got Dallas, you got Houston.

01:00:51.000 No, Texas.

01:00:51.000 Anywhere in Texas.

01:00:52.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

01:00:52.000 You would think I'm from that motherfucker. 1.00

01:00:55.000 Chris, 20 bucks. 1.00

01:00:56.000 Used to live down the street from Waka Flocka in Georgia. 0.97

01:00:58.000 He's a good man.

01:00:59.000 Happy you found your way to Fresher Fit.

01:01:01.000 There you go.

01:01:01.000 My dog.

01:01:03.000 Michaca.

01:01:03.000 And then, you know, from this point forward, guys, we've got almost 8,000 of y'all in here.

01:01:06.000 20 and up.

01:01:07.000 IRS, you better be using my tax money for good uses and not super chat.

01:01:11.000 And that's from Michaca.

01:01:12.000 Okay. 0.99

01:01:13.000 B Dirty Dollars says, Waka, what the fuck going on with L Lass? 1.00

01:01:17.000 L-A-4. 1.00

01:01:18.000 Oh, L-A-4-S-S. Bros, a backstabber and a lame. 0.96

01:01:21.000 I'm happy you separated from him. 0.91

01:01:22.000 Continue to shine and get in the paper.

01:01:24.000 Stay up, Waka. 1.00

01:01:25.000 Who's that?

01:01:26.000 It's the hardest I had signed out of St.

01:01:28.000 Louis. 1.00

01:01:28.000 We just Fuck, man. 1.00

01:01:31.000 That old nigga was nice. 1.00

01:01:32.000 He's just the streets. 0.91

01:01:33.000 Nah.

01:01:34.000 Couldn't leave?

01:01:35.000 Man, I ain't... 1.00

01:01:36.000 Fuck it. 1.00

01:01:36.000 I just chalked up as a loss. 1.00

01:01:38.000 Damn. 0.99

01:01:38.000 Fair enough. 0.99

01:01:39.000 Jay, five bucks.

01:01:41.000 Waka, do you remember turning up with the sign language lady a couple years ago at your show?

01:01:45.000 That video still goes foul to this day.

01:01:47.000 You a real one.

01:01:47.000 Yo, shout out to Ms.

01:01:48.000 Kat, and we definitely have a movie coming out.

01:01:51.000 It'll be on Sundance.

01:01:52.000 We bring it to the film festival for the deaf community.

01:01:54.000 Her name is Kat, and I love the deaf community.

01:01:56.000 Shout out to all of us.

01:01:57.000 Alright, fair enough.

01:02:00.000 Fishbowl Family, $20.

01:02:02.000 Got your book on Amazon.

01:02:03.000 Just finished reading.

01:02:04.000 Been great watching you influence the world for the greater good. 1.00

01:02:07.000 Keep going hard in the motherfucking paint. 0.98

01:02:09.000 Keep building up the men. 0.99

01:02:10.000 Stay focused, Kings.

01:02:11.000 Alright.

01:02:12.000 And then Corey says, Yo, Waka, long hair, she don't care. 0.99

01:02:15.000 When she walks, she gets stares.

01:02:16.000 Okay?

01:02:17.000 Corey, man of God.

01:02:18.000 Hey, Fresh, go ahead and spit some bars from your viral hit, High Value Man.

01:02:22.000 Bow, bow, bow.

01:02:23.000 What's good, Waka? 1.00

01:02:23.000 Alright, man. 1.00

01:02:24.000 I made a song, right, bro?

01:02:25.000 But they don't like it.

01:02:26.000 How about the action?

01:02:27.000 Do you got a record?

01:02:28.000 I do, but you want to hear it?

01:02:29.000 After the show.

01:02:31.000 Don't laugh at me, though. 1.00

01:02:32.000 I don't want to hear that shit, bro. 1.00

01:02:34.000 Bro, that's the next two of us. 1.00

01:02:36.000 Okay.

01:02:37.000 G. Sabo, Sauce Guy.

01:02:39.000 I miss the Waka Flocka and Lex Luger era.

01:02:41.000 Shout out to y'all, though.

01:02:42.000 Lex Luger old videos put me on to the Florida Studio Legend Trapaholics.

01:02:46.000 Cool.

01:02:48.000 Demon Time Mo.

01:02:49.000 Fruity Loop Studio.

01:02:50.000 Keep my bleep hard and keep me smoking.

01:02:53.000 You'll get bills free.

01:02:55.000 Shardinos joking. 0.99

01:02:56.000 That bar inspired me to turn into my Demon Time with the ladies. 1.00

01:02:59.000 All right.

01:03:00.000 Goat King.

01:03:01.000 I always donate five bucks, but today I'm donating ten for bringing a real G on the show.

01:03:05.000 Waka been always trying to put people on game. 0.96

01:03:07.000 W host, guest, and chat.

01:03:08.000 We got y'all, man. 1.00

01:03:09.000 Leon, fuck this industry. 1.00

01:03:11.000 Big dog classics. 1.00

01:03:12.000 Shout out to Waka.

01:03:13.000 All right.

01:03:14.000 And then Kieran, yo, Waka, let me get a chain if you ain't gonna wear it.

01:03:18.000 You got it.

01:03:20.000 Shout out to Waka, Deb, and Bimmy. 1.00

01:03:21.000 All legends.

01:03:22.000 Big W. Cool.

01:03:23.000 And then...

01:03:25.000 Are we good here, Chris?

01:03:26.000 Or these came in from before?

01:03:27.000 Before.

01:03:28.000 Okay.

01:03:29.000 Flaccavelli is a vinyl-worthy album.

01:03:31.000 Fair.

01:03:32.000 And then Ayose, go stop playing Flacca.

01:03:34.000 He'd been hot before.

01:03:35.000 No hands.

01:03:36.000 He was doing Dubstep by 2010.

01:03:38.000 Yo, tell us about Slim Duncan.

01:03:39.000 Oh, God, man.

01:03:40.000 I miss that.

01:03:41.000 And then...

01:03:42.000 Miss you, don't.

01:03:43.000 Squat.

01:03:44.000 Flacca, have you ever since Shorty Bust Shorty?

01:03:47.000 Short Bust Shorty? 0.92

01:03:48.000 Have you ever?

01:03:49.000 Short Bust Shorty. 1.00

01:03:50.000 I love Short Bust Shorty.

01:03:51.000 It was a cartoon from...

01:03:52.000 Oh, it was a cartoon?

01:03:54.000 Okay.

01:03:55.000 What made you get into the EDM? Because you did transition to EDM for a little bit.

01:03:59.000 Oh, my God.

01:04:00.000 I like the new fans, man.

01:04:01.000 I say that.

01:04:03.000 You know, like, on my first record, it was like an EDM kind of record on Flock of Ellie all through my career.

01:04:09.000 I think it was time for me to evolve in my career at the time, but the label didn't want me to. 0.82

01:04:14.000 They wanted me to stay with this hardcore gangster shit, but I'm like, my nigga, I did 30 CDs. 0.92

01:04:20.000 Like, I'm sorry I only like two or one of them. 0.99

01:04:24.000 And the label was being sneaky. 0.96

01:04:25.000 They was letting me drop 30 fucking tapes because it was in my deal at the time. 0.99

01:04:29.000 Really, they should have kept dropping it. 0.97

01:04:30.000 So I felt like I was at a point in my career was about my friends, fans, and family.

01:04:35.000 So I was transitioning into international music.

01:04:39.000 Yeah.

01:04:40.000 So to me, I want to move on electronic stand bass because I actually really learned it from go-go music in D.C. And people in Chicago was playing a little dubstep.

01:04:49.000 Yeah.

01:04:50.000 That's like dubstep originally from.

01:04:51.000 EDM is from Chicago, by the way. 0.98

01:04:53.000 But when you start learning, I'm like, God damn, this is the grown folk music. 0.99

01:04:57.000 Because, you know, I had the ratchet-ass music, like the killer music. 0.99

01:05:00.000 My shit couldn't go in Greenhouse back then and Story and South Beach. 1.00

01:05:04.000 So I'm like, fuck, if I could get on that international level. 1.00

01:05:08.000 Man, I was doing shows. 0.99

01:05:10.000 I used to see Lil Jon and Ying Yang Twins. 0.99

01:05:12.000 Yeah, go to Ultra and shit. 0.98

01:05:13.000 I'm about to do that. 1.00

01:05:14.000 So I brought that shit to our generation. 1.00

01:05:16.000 I'm like, let me do that. 1.00

01:05:17.000 Okay.

01:05:18.000 I feel like you made it cool to go to that stuff from guys in the rap industry.

01:05:21.000 Yeah, they thought it was corny.

01:05:22.000 Exactly.

01:05:23.000 They couldn't say nothing to me, though. 0.98

01:05:24.000 How the fuck are you going to say? 0.99

01:05:25.000 I'm corny. 1.00

01:05:25.000 You gangsta. 1.00

01:05:26.000 You can't say that.

01:05:29.000 It's fun, though.

01:05:30.000 It's fun.

01:05:31.000 Are you doing Ultra?

01:05:33.000 This year?

01:05:34.000 Yeah, it's like next week.

01:05:35.000 Yeah.

01:05:36.000 I don't deserve...

01:05:37.000 I don't deserve to do like Ultra and Coach Elliott. 0.99

01:05:39.000 I'm gonna put out some new shit. 0.99

01:05:41.000 I did not deserve that. 0.99

01:05:42.000 I think it's for these young guys.

01:05:43.000 But I honestly think that y'all artists should take it more serious.

01:05:47.000 I think in these festivals, artists should never bring their friends.

01:05:51.000 I think, in my opinion, this is game for y'all.

01:05:54.000 Don't never...

01:05:55.000 Y'all niggas that's already on. 1.00

01:05:57.000 Game to stay on.

01:05:58.000 Y'all should not bring no friends.

01:06:01.000 Y'all should invest a lot of money into your stage set.

01:06:04.000 And why do I say this?

01:06:05.000 Because this is the time that y'all get more eyes probably than y'all ever had in y'all career to stage new music. 0.99

01:06:11.000 Or if you are artists that never toured, this is your opportunity right here to show touring companies or booking agents that you're tour worthy, meaning that you could put on a fucking set. 0.98

01:06:21.000 Don't smoke before the set. 0.99

01:06:23.000 Don't drink before the set.

01:06:24.000 Don't pop nothing before the set because your vocal tone is live and people hear you.

01:06:29.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:06:29.000 So you want motherfuckers to get the real you. 0.99

01:06:32.000 And I just think artists should just tie deep into that. 0.99

01:06:35.000 I did that. 0.99

01:06:36.000 That shit helped me out my whole career. 0.99

01:06:38.000 Like, it took me to levels that, like, a TV can never fail. 0.99

01:06:42.000 And it's funny.

01:06:43.000 Those clips of you going to those festivals, right, go viral.

01:06:46.000 And it's like, wait, walk us at these festivals?

01:06:48.000 That's crazy.

01:06:48.000 So let's say, for example, your music died on a little bit.

01:06:51.000 Those clips make it go viral again.

01:06:52.000 So you're right.

01:06:53.000 I was doing like Warped Tour.

01:06:55.000 Like a lot of rappers wouldn't even make it in Warped Tour. 0.99

01:06:58.000 Damn. 0.99

01:06:59.000 Hell no, I doubt it. 1.00

01:07:00.000 That's like Machine Gun Kelly got his shit from. 1.00

01:07:03.000 Legend. 1.00

01:07:04.000 That's fire.

01:07:05.000 So I just learned something there.

01:07:07.000 I didn't know that, that as an artist, you're responsible for the set on that show.

01:07:13.000 Nah, you're not.

01:07:14.000 With getting your own dancers or getting the background.

01:07:15.000 Of course you are.

01:07:16.000 You want to add that to your set.

01:07:18.000 They call you like, hey, what's your stage set?

01:07:20.000 Okay.

01:07:20.000 So you got to pay for it, not them.

01:07:22.000 Nah, I guess they whatever. 0.99

01:07:24.000 However you work your shit out. 0.99

01:07:25.000 Every artist is different, right? 0.99

01:07:27.000 But I feel like, nigga, why not spend your money? 1.00

01:07:31.000 This is like a new record you're about to drop. 1.00

01:07:33.000 Nigga, see if you can drop firecrackers on this motherfucker or something. 1.00

01:07:36.000 Make that shit big. 1.00

01:07:38.000 And plus you giving back to your fans. 1.00

01:07:40.000 I think that shit should be a fucking money grab. 1.00

01:07:43.000 It's like a fan appreciation. 1.00

01:07:46.000 Thank y'all, bro. 1.00

01:07:46.000 Let's celebrate with this shit. 1.00

01:07:48.000 I'm telling you, people love you for shit like this. 1.00

01:07:51.000 Okay. 1.00

01:07:52.000 I didn't know that.

01:07:53.000 You know who does very well at sets?

01:07:54.000 Swayley and Jimmy.

01:07:56.000 Oh yeah, definitely.

01:07:59.000 And then last one's here, right?

01:08:01.000 Yeah, Guillermo goes, Waka, have you ever read that one?

01:08:05.000 Juan De Niro, 20.

01:08:08.000 Appreciate that.

01:08:09.000 And then I Am, Super Sticker, 20.

01:08:11.000 Appreciate that.

01:08:12.000 So you talk a lot now about putting the jewelry home, the fancy cars, everything else like that.

01:08:19.000 I'm putting jewelry on.

01:08:19.000 I got jewelry.

01:08:20.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:08:21.000 I just don't be wearing that shit on him. 0.99

01:08:23.000 I'm just acting my age, bro. 1.00

01:08:25.000 Yeah.

01:08:25.000 That's it.

01:08:26.000 This nigga's so woke in transition. 1.00

01:08:28.000 Nigga, I'm acting my age, bro. 0.99

01:08:30.000 Like, they can see they act their age.

01:08:31.000 So you're more into investing and starting business now?

01:08:34.000 But I'm into rap, too, bro.

01:08:35.000 I'm into going to parties.

01:08:36.000 I just party three, four nights straight.

01:08:38.000 You see what I'm saying, bro?

01:08:39.000 I go do shows, do three shows a day.

01:08:41.000 Like, I'm still that person.

01:08:43.000 I'm just, that's not a focus.

01:08:45.000 My focus is, like, business.

01:08:47.000 Like, because that's what I should be focusing on.

01:08:48.000 Can you tell us about that a little bit?

01:08:50.000 Yeah, just for me and who I am in life, right?

01:08:54.000 I could just do anything I want to do.

01:08:59.000 If I want to start a mic company, I know how to do it.

01:09:01.000 If I want to start a desk company, if I want to do real estate, I know how to do it.

01:09:04.000 If I want to start milk, I know how to do it.

01:09:06.000 I go buy a farm, farm-raised, marketed, branded, blah, blah, blah.

01:09:11.000 Next thing you know, I'm getting distribution and everybody in the world is drinking my milk now.

01:09:15.000 So it's just like I know how to be a business guy.

01:09:19.000 If you don't mind sharing, what are you investing in right now?

01:09:25.000 Real estate.

01:09:27.000 What I'm banking on is something.

01:09:31.000 I'm not investing on nothing.

01:09:33.000 I'm banking on something.

01:09:36.000 I just say get with the block and hollow chain.

01:09:40.000 Find out what hollow chain is.

01:09:41.000 Find out what blockchain is.

01:09:42.000 That's where my investment is.

01:09:45.000 Crypto.

01:09:46.000 Are you in real estate too?

01:09:50.000 Yeah, but from a different level.

01:09:52.000 From a whole different perspective.

01:09:54.000 Commercial?

01:09:55.000 Residential?

01:09:56.000 I'm gonna go past that level.

01:09:58.000 Oh wow.

01:10:00.000 Keeping it private.

01:10:02.000 That's fine.

01:10:03.000 Only because I'm not in nobody's lane.

01:10:06.000 It's like me going to a neighborhood creating a pizzeria instead of partnering with the mom and pop pizzeria to help that franchise.

01:10:16.000 That's the mindset I'm at today.

01:10:19.000 So you partner with other people you don't want to...

01:10:21.000 You're kind of like an angel investor.

01:10:24.000 Yeah.

01:10:25.000 Okay.

01:10:25.000 Where you put money behind things, but you don't necessarily disclose.

01:10:28.000 Yeah.

01:10:29.000 All right.

01:10:29.000 Fair enough.

01:10:31.000 Anything else, Chris?

01:10:32.000 Yeah.

01:10:33.000 Okay.

01:10:33.000 And then Lord Enzo goes here.

01:10:35.000 Sheen, boogie for president.

01:10:37.000 Fair enough.

01:10:38.000 And then last thing for me, brother.

01:10:40.000 What is up for Waka Waka next?

01:10:42.000 What's the next evolution you would say for you?

01:10:44.000 And we'll close out there.

01:10:47.000 Kids.

01:10:49.000 And me selling this company for multi-millions.

01:10:51.000 Shout out to a new company I just joined too.

01:10:54.000 I'm part of this company.

01:10:56.000 It's called Slide.

01:10:57.000 It's like when social media and party meets one.

01:11:00.000 One thing I always had a hard time with is Slide is spelled S-L-Y-P-E. Oh, excuse me.

01:11:07.000 S-L-Y-D-E. Excuse me. 0.83

01:11:10.000 Think about all this shit. 1.00

01:11:11.000 And... 1.00

01:11:12.000 Why I love slide?

01:11:13.000 Because it's just like when I hit the cities, I want to know what's popping. 0.99

01:11:17.000 So to me, that shit about to be a bubble. 0.98

01:11:20.000 It just helped my life out way better. 0.99

01:11:22.000 So slide is dope.

01:11:23.000 Slide is from a young little brother from Russia. 1.00

01:11:28.000 He's just smart as fuck. 0.99

01:11:29.000 When he was younger, I just believed it. 1.00

01:11:30.000 I'm like, bro, you'll be smart as fuck. 1.00

01:11:32.000 I'm just going to fuck with you. 1.00

01:11:33.000 Don't worry. 1.00

01:11:33.000 I don't want nothing. 1.00

01:11:34.000 I do so with hundreds of kids, by the way.

01:11:36.000 And they always pop.

01:11:37.000 So I just be like, yo, your idea is beautiful, bro. 0.99

01:11:39.000 And it's lit as fuck. 0.97

01:11:40.000 And then for once, if I'll call you, I'm like, bro, where you at? 0.99

01:11:44.000 He'll be like, I'm in a club with 24. 0.99

01:11:45.000 I'm like, fuck it, let me pull it up. 1.00

01:11:47.000 I'm like, fuck it, let me pull it up. 1.00

01:11:48.000 Then I look at the thermometer and 2,000, 3,000 people in there like, yo, this shit lit. 1.00

01:11:52.000 I call you, be like, yo, this shit busting. 1.00

01:11:54.000 I look in the thermometer and be like, There's a lot of girls in there. 1.00

01:11:58.000 Or people in my contacts, I can see where they partying at.

01:12:01.000 You know what's funny?

01:12:02.000 You text your friend like, yo, bro, where you at?

01:12:04.000 Oh, I'm at Club Live. 1.00

01:12:06.000 That shit lit. 1.00

01:12:07.000 Yeah, bro, it lit. 1.00

01:12:07.000 But on Slide, though, Slide will show you the whole shit. 1.00

01:12:10.000 And inside of Slide, I can text people. 1.00

01:12:12.000 So people in the club, I can text you FaceTime, you shit like that. 0.99

01:12:15.000 So it's our own world. 1.00

01:12:16.000 It's a party world.

01:12:17.000 That's dope. 0.93

01:12:17.000 I love it. 0.93

01:12:18.000 That's dope. 0.93

01:12:19.000 And then, guys, you can find Walker on his YouTube as well.

01:12:22.000 Yeah, all his links are below.

01:12:24.000 Yo, sorry, y'all.

01:12:25.000 I'm about to refresh my YouTube in 30 days.

01:12:28.000 Everything about all my profiles, excuse me, 45 days.

01:12:31.000 Everything about all my profiles is going to be changed, updated.

01:12:34.000 I'm about to start just...

01:12:35.000 I'm about to get on YouTube, bro. 0.99

01:12:37.000 I might as well just start, like, fucking around. 1.00

01:12:40.000 There you go. 1.00

01:12:41.000 But not on no podcast shit, because I like these podcasts. 0.98

01:12:44.000 I ain't gonna ever try to get in y'all lane. 0.97

01:12:46.000 Nah, we appreciate it, bro.

01:12:47.000 We don't mind.

01:12:48.000 I guess last word for the people.

01:12:50.000 Anything last you want to say to the audience before we end this?

01:12:54.000 Words of wisdom?

01:12:56.000 Words of wisdom. 1.00

01:12:57.000 Fuck yeah. 1.00

01:12:59.000 Man, just shit. 1.00

01:13:01.000 Fuck it. 1.00

01:13:01.000 Just live life, man. 1.00

01:13:02.000 Experience, man. 1.00

01:13:03.000 All this shit is is an experience. 1.00

01:13:05.000 If you're not experiencing, you're not living. 1.00

01:13:07.000 Period.

01:13:08.000 Thanks.

01:13:09.000 Fair enough.

01:13:09.000 Alright guys, we'll catch you back here with some lovely ladies, man.

01:13:12.000 Don't forget to like the video, subscribe to the channel.

01:13:14.000 We'll catch you guys in a little bit.

01:13:16.000 Peace.

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Waka Flocka On Overcoming The Streets, Rise In Rap, & MORE!

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