Waka Flocka On Overcoming The Streets, Rise In Rap, & MORE!
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1 hour and 13 minutes
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On this episode of the Fresh Fit Podcast, we have a special guest in the house, Waka Flocka Flame. Waka is an entertainer, rapper, producer, and author. He also happens to be the son of a former South Carolina State Police Officer. We talk about his life growing up in a tough neighborhood, how he got into the game, and what it was like growing up with a family in prison. We also talk about the Murdaugh murders and how he dealt with it as a young man growing up. Waka also talks about his new book, "Why Women Deserve Less" which is out now! If you want to learn, become better for yourself, and be a better man, join the network, see your network, and become a better human being, let s go as well! and if you wanna learn more, join our network, join up on the network and learn how to be a good human being. Let s go and learn and grow! . FreshFit Podcast is a community of likeminded people who are willing to do whatever it takes to make a difference in their life and become the best version of themselves. , no matter what it takes, no matter how big or small. We are all in this together! We all have the same goals and we all have to start somewhere, so we can all grow together. -Flocka -Tune in and get better! - Let s keep it real, stay connected, stay safe, stay strong, and keep moving, stay positive, keep pushing, keep moving forward, and stay strong! Stay strong, keep up to the next week! -FAST FOLLOWING FOOD, FOLLOWUED, FOOTY! -TALKIN' FOOD! -Let s get it real! -BOOST FOOD!! -FOLKE! -PODCAST! -FLOKE - - FOOD + FOLLOW, FOOD & FOOD AND FOOD - WELL FRIENDS! -THAT'S OUT! - FOLLOWED! -GOT IT'S OKAY! - LET'S DO SOMETHING GOOD! - WE'LL GOT IT? - PODCAST, GOT A JUICY? - WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT? - LETS TALK ABOUT IT! - & MORE!
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But without further ado, we got a special guest in the house, man.
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Can you introduce yourself to the people real quick?
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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.
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For example, growing up with your family, school, what was it like for you?
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My whole entire life was like literally being in a big-ass party.
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It always felt like somebody was watching me every day of my life.
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So mom and dad, pretty much regular school life?
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I couldn't tell people who my dad was when I was younger.
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So my family was, I was like the kind of kid that'd be in a wrong neighborhood.
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They'd be like, oh that's such and such son, or such and such nephew, let him go.
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Because my pops went to jail basically trying to support us.
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But growing up, to see a man at risk, his whole entire freedom, that was his only way of doing it.
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I see, yo, the shit I'm going to do in life, I never risk my freedom and leave my family.
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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.
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Okay, so you've got to learn from his mistakes.
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Originally, I'm from Jamaica, Queens, New York.
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Went to the Swats in Atlanta by Camden Road next to Allison Court.
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I lived in the Swats for like a year and a half, two years.
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Then we left and moved to Clayton County in seventh grade and up.
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What was that like transitioning from New York to being in the South?
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Yeah, I really felt like I was going backwards because us as fifth graders in New York...
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A fifth grader then, we had them there like high school.
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In Georgia, like eighth grade is a high school.
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By the first time when I got to Atlanta, kids still was like depending on the family.
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I'm like, yo, I call my cousin like, yo, this shit is crazy.
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Yeah, the second time, the first time, I was on my extra New York show, like, yo, I'm out, nigga.
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I'm like, nigga, I'm about to rock my WooWear shit.
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My Uncle Bim, he was getting all the free rapper stuff.
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So all the industry stuff was always coming to our family.
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So I was getting all like, you know, I was one of them, just outside.
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But then I ended up coming back to Georgia and freak Nick Poplar.
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Oh, my nose was bleeding the second time I came.
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I had a big-ass woo-woo shit on with Timberlands.
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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?
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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.
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Okay, so you went back to New York, got in trouble, and then came back again the second time.
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No, actually, I was one of them people like, I never skipped class, by the way.
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To me, people that skipped class were just the dumbest motherfuckers in her.
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I'm like, why the fuck come to school if you don't skip class?
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Because I still, I was just, my mother and my grandmother embedded the adult fear in me.
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I was just so scared to disrespect an adult because my grandmother came to school and whooped my ass before.
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If you're a son, she'll knock your ass out at the lunchroom.
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And plus, I know I wasn't living the most pleasant lifestyle at the time.
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So I was like, oh, anything I could take attention off of me, I'm with it.
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You got, like, gonna fuck somebody up, or they just were, like, associated with these people?
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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.
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It's just a whole bunch of neighborhood friends.
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So you dropped out of high school and then what at that point?
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No, this is the problem with what happened in high school.
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So in school, like the first week I was about to play the game, like I'm suited up.
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This is when these guys damn near trying to jump me.
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So I got suspended a week before the two-week break.
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So that mean I damn near lost a month out of school work.
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So by the time I get back to school that following week, I got to miss that week too.
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And I had to do suicides and push-ups and shit.
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I believed in the streets because that shit was right then and there.
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Plus, my mother was doing like foundation stuff.
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She got to cook dinner damn near on her way from her.
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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.
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So when she come home for a part-time job, she's already cooking dinner and shit.
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So I'm on a podcast like this, but to me, nigga, a woman is God to me.
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I've never seen her drink in my life, smoke in my life.
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I've never seen her lay in a bed with men in my life.
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I've never heard my mother say, I got too many fucking kids.
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That's the first part I seen with a gun, a million dollars, a fast car, a jury, a boss, everything.
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And y'all were all living together at the time?
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But all my brothers, we definitely lived together.
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Alright, so going back, just so people kind of get an idea.
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In elementary school, we live in elementary school.
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My mother left New York because that's back when she got shot, basically.
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So, while she moved to Georgia, my grandmother kept us.
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So, she got her life together, and now we moved back down there.
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So she was stabilized by the time y'all went down to Georgia.
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For the most part, you know, the Section A's, the government assistance, the food stamps.
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But I couldn't even point out, like, but one job.
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My mother never told me, yo, Walker, go make money today.
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To this day, I never in my life heard her say that.
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That's why I really don't complain about shit because I know what it is.
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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.
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I wasn't even in the streets for all the money.
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So a guy who wants respect first is a guy that's smart enough to know that.
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So you said the streets were fun and then reality caught up to you.
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Man, I see reality kicked in like when, probably not even like, probably the drugs.
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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.
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So, like, a lot of, like, for me, drugs did it for me.
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Like, I had another friend that killed two of our other friends.
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He was in the backseat, blew their brains out, killed them.
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So it's just like, what was he, like, it's just shit like that.
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It got to a point where I was going to start killing my friends.
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I ain't never in my life punched somebody in the face that I called my brother.
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Like, I had to tell myself, like, and rap showed me that.
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Rap actually showed me, like, nigga, Walker, you ain't cut, bro.
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Like, nigga, I'm not with that double-crossing shit.
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Like, I never was in the streets to be a street nigga.
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I was in the streets to learn, to capitalize, to make it, to have brotherhood.
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That's why I was pushing whatever I was pushing outside.
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I never did it to snatch a purse, bully a nigga.
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He had a different color, wrong set, shit like that.
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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.
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How old were you when you came to this realization?
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So you've been in the streets for like two, three years at this point.
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I never knew how to live life outside of street shit until I arrived.
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Real estate or no financial literacy or no fucking taxes.
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So it's a difference in who's teaching us, like, just being 100, right?
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The whole time you were in the streets, you had integrity.
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I was the kind of guy that, I was the nigga that, when I get out, I'm going.
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Like, I'm not coming back to smoke three blunts with y'all niggas and preach that I'm a real nigga.
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So, my mothers, my uncles, like, they legends to me.
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And I started thinking, like, damn, these niggas brown and fuck.
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Like, this nigga nigga got an LLC. You know what I'm saying?
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Like, I ain't know about bank accounts until I was 23.
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Nigga, your grandmama got an eighth grade education.
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So if I got this far, I imagine what the next kids will do.
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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.
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I've been seeing this, but it's a difference, right?
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I always hear people on the internet talk about people on the streets and they stupid and they this, they that.
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See, y'all motherfuckers talking from a bird-eye view.
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See, people that's talking about it overstand it because they're looking over it.
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Like, when you're in it, you're like crabs in a bucket, basically.
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You're like, nigga, I cannot wait to get something to pull me the fuck out.
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My mother was doing, like, Ludacris Foundation at the time.
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It was Chris Love-a-loving shit on the radio in Pune.
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I was looking at, uh, I was looking at, uh, like, it's like a 5-10.
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And my mother's like, I know somebody down there in the city.
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I'm like, alright, my mom, just call me when you got something.
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Because I was already in my mind, like, I'm going to jail, fuck it.
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I'm about to do, she said, you know how you talk to your parents and I throw your mind off shit?
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She said, I'm about to do another community event.
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I'm like, oh, she's like, well, Gooch and Jeezy.
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So I know if you're on the road, my mind is good.
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Because I'm always, you call me every night, like, you all right?
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So when I went on the road, I seen that my mother had a fresh breath of air.
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When I got out, so to me, I looked at, like, Goose, like, fuck it, we gotta become best friends.
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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.
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But I just, I seen it as an investment for my mom, so I had to protect the investment.
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Because your mom knew that if you stayed in that environment, you wouldn't grow.
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So she didn't find out that you were doing all that stuff until you went to jail?
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One time a friend came like, hey, your son shot my house up.
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I'm a kind of nigga, if you don't believe it, don't believe it.
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Yeah, I was stuck in there for like a couple months.
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So you're fighting your kids in the county jail?
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I don't wanna go there and come back diesel or smother.
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Alright, so you were in there, and then your mom put you up with Gucci Mane.
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He had a good local song that niggas that Rob loved.
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And I... He's like, yo, man, yo, I got to perform.
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So we get there, and we got on stage, and we just was lit.
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Like, people from Clayton County, where I'm from, do what I do.
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Like, headbanging, treading, shaking, pushing, fighting, like, just on some gangsta shit.
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And Goot seen that where it showed the next day.
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She's like, yo, Waka, what the fuck happened at the show?
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She found out what happened in the parking lot.
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That first show, you were there on stage with him.
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And then, so you went on tour with him right after that?
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I really never even had a best friend in my life.
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I was really like the first person I ever kicked shit with.
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It was different because for once, life for me wasn't about me.
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I was like, shit, let me let it be about y'all.
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So it was really my mama and Gucci dream I'm living.
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So it wasn't, people got it fucked up like Walker and Gucci.
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Then it turned into my mama Gucci and Young Juice dream.
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Then it turned into my mother Gucci, Juice, Woo and Frenchie dream.
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Did you ever think scanning that moment with Gucci would change your life?
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Because when I got with Gucci, I seen him just like me.
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I think if I never met Gucci, me and I probably wouldn't be alive.
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I think for me to even creditize anything, because there's a lot I did, it's a lot he did, right?
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Over the years is, we needed each other to go forward.
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It's a lot of shit that I protected him from that unconsciously that he don't know.
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And it's a lot of shit that he unconsciously did that he don't know.
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I still stay in contact with some people that we had shit going on with.
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And I always thought to myself, I'm like, yo, every number one need a number two.
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I'm like, damn, if he could be Jordan, fuck it, let me be Scottie Pippen.
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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.
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And you never know what that person evolving will become, but everybody need a number two.
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And in corporate world, they call it an assistant.
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On the streets with you on the blade, they call it an assistant pimp.
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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.
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We're going to make sure that he shines and he does well.
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And I thought that was very interesting, that loyalty.
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I can't work with you and you be like, yo, you sick.
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I'm like, all right, call me when you get healthy.
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Like, I never could stand next to y'all and be like, they see me too.
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Like, a lot of artists today don't even have that guy.
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A lot of artists today don't have a number two.
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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.
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Even though I'm going, my buddies is going too.
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So I've really had those kind of partners, and we've really grabbed each other for it.
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Like, I see how a lot of people are losing people today, but we really never lost anything.
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It's funny, because before we even met, right, I had people asking about you, about doing a podcast, stuff like that.
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They say Waka's a genuine person, and that goes a long way.
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If you're genuine, you can try that to yourself as well.
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How would you say you should come to the rap game through and through, like from the very beginning?
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How should you come to the rap game, you would say?
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I think today, rappers who first get a single go get an iced out watch.
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Because how your fans go graduate and grow with you.
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What made you, like, just kind of, like, torn off of that, like...
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I'm the CEO. Until I found out the CEO wasn't the boss.
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I never even monetized my YouTube channel because Warner Brother took it.
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Right now, held it hostage like on some black ball shit.
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So I was banned from 20 plus states in America when I dropped.
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I had to go a whole different fucking route to be here.
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What was the grounds that they, like, did they say, like, the music would, like, get the crowd too hype?
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People just stuck on, like, it was shit that was just, I had a song called, like, Mexicans.
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I felt like they was, like, making Mexican and black people fight.
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That was saluting me and shooting me 2.5 before Hardin' the Pink.
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Being in music videos, everything at that point.
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So, is that when you really started getting money at that point?
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I'm like, bro, I ain't even with you for no money.
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If he throw on what the niggas was wearing, oh, Maury's and shit.
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I'm like, nigga, I'll wear that shit after you done.
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Levi, Cortez, Atlanta Brave hat wearing it as well.
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My life then, I didn't, you gotta think, like, we didn't have no money coming up.
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Tell us about that first time you got in the studio and started actually making music.
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Did Gucci tell you, hey, you need to start rapping too?
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By the way, he was in jail when I started rapping.
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So Gucci was locked up a year, six months into his bed when I started rapping.
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By the time Gucci got up, I already did 100 shows.
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Before that song, I made a dumbass song called Ring, my phone going berserk.
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Ring, I need some work because I'm in the traffic.
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That shit, my very first song was We On The Way.
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So you literally went in there with no money and you were able to record it and your engineer just did it for you.
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You don't need all that extra cute ass studio shit.
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People could cheat algorithm all day to day, bro.
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The algorithm gonna make algorithm off what people doing for you type shit.
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Did you get to talk to Gucci while he was in jail?
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What did you learn in the rap industry that made you stronger, a better person, you would say?
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I just learned, like, the lifestyle I was looking towards as a kid was bullshit.
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Why I say it was bullshit because the idea was smaller than a rock.
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Cars, clothes, jewelry, fly around, fuck holes, blah, blah, blah.
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I said, you can't grow unless you do business, A, as a man.
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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.
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You wouldn't give a fuck what nobody said because you're a man.
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People got the whole man theology shit fucked up.
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No matter what words, no matter what anything you say, it cannot fuck with me because I'm the strongest on earth.
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So if you think that way, why would you even let shit...
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In rap, it just showed like, nigga, this is bullshit.
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I just hate saying shit like this, like street motherfuckers.
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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.
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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.
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And I was young seeing this, so it's different.
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I watched friends cross each other, rap friends for a girl.
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So when I say I'm a rapper, I say I'm coming in with nothing but my niggas.
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Because I didn't want a rapper to be able to come over here and feel comfortable.
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If you want to be friends with me, you got to meet all my friends.
00:33:57.000
You know, I've heard that many times with other people as well.
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?
00:34:10.000
See, you look at it from another point of view.
00:34:13.000
Nigga, I just was paying attention to all the fake shit.
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.
00:34:27.000
I shouldn't even give a fuck about it, and I didn't give a fuck.
00:34:30.000
That's why I jumped past all the fights and shit.
00:34:34.000
Now I got way more better, like, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:45.000
And then, drastically, it had to change where you went to EDM. This is what rap told me.
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.
00:35:16.000
The most solid person in my whole career was my mother.
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.
00:35:41.000
So this is why people be like, yo, this nigga walking so smart.
00:35:44.000
Shit, you might be right, but nigga, I was being smart to save my own life.
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.
00:35:59.000
I give the credit to me and my team, not just me.
00:36:04.000
Like, I don't be getting mad when niggas be like, oh, walking this and this.
00:36:07.000
I'm like, bro, y'all niggas don't got no idea what this shit took.
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.
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.
00:36:28.000
How do you go to sleep with two, three million dollars in your pocket and feel broke?
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.
00:36:51.000
The mailman can knock on my front door and say, hey, walk out, can I get some waffles?
00:36:58.000
Like, it's just, and that's what I wanted, my nigga.
00:37:00.000
Like, when I rapped, I just wanted to learn the truth.
00:37:05.000
The flexing, the reason you ain't got a dance floor in the club.
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.
00:37:24.000
At the end of the day, my nigga, like, what could you do?
00:37:29.000
I never seen nobody around me successful the right way.
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.
00:37:49.000
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.
00:37:59.000
So she not finna do all that extra shit she did with Gooch and all on for me.
00:38:02.000
Hey, nigga, you my son, you supposed to know this.
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?
00:38:16.000
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.
00:38:26.000
God just take away that gift and give them another one because they miss using that shit.
00:38:30.000
Just being 100, bro, I've always just been a real nigga, bro.
00:38:37.000
So I'm not going to think about anybody saying it.
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.
00:38:52.000
But the way they stole from me was my college courses.
00:38:56.000
Because I figured out what the fuck they did, and I figured out what I did.
00:39:10.000
High-class Ebonics is what I talk, because that's our language.
00:39:16.000
So when you hear these words, you better kick in third gear or some shit.
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...
00:39:27.000
How was they able to do that legally and illegally?
00:39:33.000
And with me learning all that, I was kind of like, Sorry for them.
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?
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.
00:40:04.000
And then I start calling people thieves, this, that, and the third.
00:40:08.000
I start looking at myself like, damn, what the fuck they seeing me that's stealing from me?
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.
00:40:32.000
That's interesting, because other people, they would probably corner them and be like, hey, what the fuck?
00:40:39.000
So you just saw it, and you're just like, you know what?
00:40:50.000
So in my brain, I program like that street shit, Waki, you can't do that.
00:40:53.000
Like, they expect you to be gangster for them to call the cops and you act irate.
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.
00:41:08.000
I promise, bro, just go back in all these little cameras and shit.
00:41:10.000
Bro, I've been talking like this, bro, where you see all, like, the soft music behind people conversations.
00:41:19.000
So I'm not trying to take credit for this shit, but this shit I wanted to be.
00:41:30.000
But what I'm asking is, like, at what point did you say, you know what?
00:41:35.000
So you never, ever resorted to, I guess, violence or attack or confronting somebody for stealing from you?
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?
00:42:02.000
To go off this blueprint, I just say, man, your friends are going to be who you are on the inside of you anyway.
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.
00:42:27.000
I can't hang with no nigga that kill people every day.
00:42:43.000
So, I always, like, I don't know if I'm a gangster nerd, bro.
00:42:54.000
I like that shit actually make me feel good, bro.
00:43:10.000
That's how you're going to get to where you got to get.
00:43:17.000
You better look at yourself and say, hey, I'm wrong.
00:43:22.000
You don't want to be no old-ass man and then taking accountability, man.
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.
00:43:58.000
I mean, I got all that shit to flex on, niggas, to show them that we get money.
00:44:02.000
So your friends were attacked for wearing your jewelry?
00:44:27.000
That's why I stopped giving a fuck about clothes.
00:44:30.000
That's why I stopped giving a fuck about getting shapeboards.
00:44:35.000
Let me see if I'm Waka Flocka without all this shit.
00:44:45.000
I was like, if I could go another 10 years, I'll start back rapping.
00:44:51.000
I said, if I could do this in 10 years, I wanted to learn business, bro.
00:44:56.000
I'm like, bro, I'm going to work hard and fuck until I'm old and just ball.
00:45:01.000
It's a Rolls Royce look better than a 52-year-old man than a 25-year-old man.
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.
00:45:35.000
I don't know the name of nothing, but if I like it, I'm going to get it.
00:45:49.000
I'm still going to put that shit on and do what I want, but you got to elevate.
00:45:54.000
Sometimes you got to stop to evolve to see how far you came.
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.
00:46:11.000
Okay, so you still have it, you just don't wear it no more?
00:46:16.000
So if I'm just going to redo it, I'll live my life and put that shit on.
00:46:24.000
Like gold and copper hold the most energy out of all metals.
00:46:28.000
Imagine how much fucking negative energy them jerry got on.
00:46:31.000
I was on all kinds of pills and lean and shit, sweating in that jerry.
00:46:38.000
When did you give up the lean and all the other stuff?
00:46:44.000
It is like, Waka, you might as well say you're like a type 2 or type 1 diabetic.
00:46:50.000
It's like, so we about to start giving you a coolant shots and blood thinning pills.
00:47:01.000
And I ain't saying nothing to anybody, but it was fucking with me, bro.
00:47:08.000
When they say shit like that, bro, I can just think about my daddy, bro.
00:47:11.000
I see my daddy, like, damn near this death bed.
00:47:17.000
And it just, it started triggering me going to hell.
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?
00:47:32.000
I probably eat candy six, five times a year for that.
00:47:37.000
I just went on hell and natural, so I put more nutritious stuff in my body.
00:47:46.000
And now I started finding out there's no such thing as a disease.
00:48:11.000
He's the littest right now on Holistic Medicine.
00:48:31.000
So you run, but you eat fairly healthy now, drink a lot of water?
00:48:44.000
If I put the pants on, I'm like, God damn, big boy.
00:48:52.000
Nigga start feeling big, but I like it though, man.
00:48:59.000
I want to be on front of Men's Health Magazine.
00:49:04.000
I want to be in front of Men's Health Magazine.
00:49:13.000
Because I'm sure there's a lot of people watching right now.
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...
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.
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.
00:50:40.000
Like, yo, I need you to live so I can live kind of shit.
00:50:43.000
Like, literally, she's the first human on Earth to make me feel like it.
00:50:46.000
So that right there, that was like the fucking nail in the whole coffin.
00:50:50.000
That was a transition point when you had your daughter.
00:50:53.000
So, giving up the lien, giving up the jewelry, the drugs.
00:51:09.000
Like, people get the words misconstrued, right?
00:51:12.000
You can never change nothing that already happened.
00:51:17.000
So, what I started doing was I started learning the habits.
00:51:22.000
Actually, she's like, Waka, yeah, you were saying this, this, you did this.
00:51:32.000
Yeah, I should tell people, hey, yeah, we're going to do that.
00:52:24.000
If we, people like me, stop talking, you have no money.
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.
00:52:42.000
And a lot of people in these positions, we can't forget that part.
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.
00:52:58.000
Yeah, guys, come on over to YouTube or Rumble, either or.
00:53:01.000
We're going to be live on Rumble and on YouTube, so come on over right now.
00:53:12.000
Don't get stood up like Dick and don't waste your life like Harry.
00:53:21.000
Michaka goes, I go hard in the motherfucking paint.
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.
00:53:43.000
What was it like filming that and that record in general?
00:53:45.000
That record really created our lifestyle and our era.
00:54:01.000
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.
00:54:12.000
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?
00:54:27.000
I was on the road four or five days out the week till today.
00:54:36.000
Like, even in the first month my tape came out, I was doing features and shit and walked in.
00:54:52.000
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.
00:54:59.000
If it wasn't for Greg Street, I don't even think No Hands would be a hit.
00:55:03.000
It wasn't for DJ Greg Street for just grabbing the record and dropping it without us.
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.
00:55:28.000
Like, yo, look, bro, if you play that shit, my nigga, yo, we might fight.
00:55:31.000
That fucking, excuse my language, that fucking gas song, bro.
00:55:38.000
What the fuck I look like singing on stage, bro?
00:55:44.000
As I turned back around, the whole crowd going crazy.
00:55:47.000
But we played that shit three times, back to back.
00:55:58.000
So once I played No Hands, I'm like, oh, this shit lit.
00:56:04.000
But I couldn't rap about girls because I never went on a date.
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.
00:56:14.000
So I never knew what to rap, but shake that head, bitch on track.
00:56:22.000
Was it, at that point when that record hit, did you know, like, yeah, I fucking made it?
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.
00:56:34.000
Like, fuck the money, like, I was, bruh, I was, like, fucking ten, uh, seven mixtapes in.
00:56:44.000
The album just made me stand up next to A-list artists.
00:56:48.000
At the time, they was all banding and shit like, oh, that music is whack.
00:56:53.000
Who want 808s and kicks and hi-hats talking about gang violence and this, that, and the third.
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.
00:57:13.000
So it was basically like, shit, all right, watch the next generation.
00:57:16.000
I knew they were going to have problems with them.
00:57:18.000
I only rapped for the younger generation in mine.
00:57:30.000
Wonder Wonders goes Waka Flaka say Brick Squad.
00:57:46.000
Okay, Bradley goes, we've always said that Flacavelli is freaking gospel and karma and lurking.
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.
00:58:13.000
He goes, Flock, are you still going to try and be president?
00:58:29.000
Michael Meestroke, number one podcast in the universe.
00:58:32.000
Dudley De Niro goes, salute to Fresh and Fit Gang.
00:58:45.000
Squad, Bamiyan's is an Afghan-based restaurant.
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.
00:59:17.000
Also Naruto or DBZ. This liquor got the best of that.
00:59:26.000
Ness, go and see Waka at Dreamville Fest in Raleigh, North Carolina.
00:59:33.000
Waka, when you made Love Them Good Gun Sounds, I changed my life and started going to church.
00:59:46.000
But respectfully, I'm going to need that back tax, my guy.
01:00:05.000
Waka is the only celebrity I know that walks to Chicago with no problems.
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.
01:00:16.000
I feel, bro, I feel, I really feel like that shit Clayton County.
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.
01:00:56.000
Used to live down the street from Waka Flocka in Georgia.
01:01:03.000
And then, you know, from this point forward, guys, we've got almost 8,000 of y'all in here.
01:01:07.000
IRS, you better be using my tax money for good uses and not super chat.
01:01:13.000
B Dirty Dollars says, Waka, what the fuck going on with L Lass?
01:01:41.000
Waka, do you remember turning up with the sign language lady a couple years ago at your show?
01:01:48.000
Kat, and we definitely have a movie coming out.
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.
01:02:04.000
Been great watching you influence the world for the greater good.
01:02:12.000
And then Corey says, Yo, Waka, long hair, she don't care.
01:02:18.000
Hey, Fresh, go ahead and spit some bars from your viral hit, High Value Man.
01:02:42.000
Lex Luger old videos put me on to the Florida Studio Legend Trapaholics.
01:02:56.000
That bar inspired me to turn into my Demon Time with the ladies.
01:03:01.000
I always donate five bucks, but today I'm donating ten for bringing a real G on the show.
01:03:14.000
And then Kieran, yo, Waka, let me get a chain if you ain't gonna wear it.
01:03:44.000
Flacca, have you ever since Shorty Bust Shorty?
01:03:55.000
What made you get into the EDM? Because you did transition to EDM for a little bit.
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.
01:04:14.000
They wanted me to stay with this hardcore gangster shit, but I'm like, my nigga, I did 30 CDs.
01:04:20.000
Like, I'm sorry I only like two or one of them.
01:04:25.000
They was letting me drop 30 fucking tapes because it was in my deal at the time.
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.
01:04:40.000
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.
01:04:53.000
But when you start learning, I'm like, God damn, this is the grown folk music.
01:04:57.000
Because, you know, I had the ratchet-ass music, like the killer music.
01:05:00.000
My shit couldn't go in Greenhouse back then and Story and South Beach.
01:05:04.000
So I'm like, fuck, if I could get on that international level.
01:05:18.000
I feel like you made it cool to go to that stuff from guys in the rap industry.
01:05:37.000
I don't deserve to do like Ultra and Coach Elliott.
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.
01:06:01.000
Y'all should invest a lot of money into your stage set.
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.
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.
01:06:24.000
Don't pop nothing before the set because your vocal tone is live and people hear you.
01:06:32.000
And I just think artists should just tie deep into that.
01:06:38.000
Like, it took me to levels that, like, a TV can never fail.
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
So let's say, for example, your music died on a little bit.
01:06:55.000
Like a lot of rappers wouldn't even make it in Warped Tour.
01:07:00.000
That's like Machine Gun Kelly got his shit from.
01:07:07.000
I didn't know that, that as an artist, you're responsible for the set on that show.
01:07:14.000
With getting your own dancers or getting the background.
01:07:18.000
They call you like, hey, what's your stage set?
01:07:27.000
But I feel like, nigga, why not spend your money?
01:07:31.000
This is like a new record you're about to drop.
01:07:33.000
Nigga, see if you can drop firecrackers on this motherfucker or something.
01:07:40.000
I think that shit should be a fucking money grab.
01:07:48.000
I'm telling you, people love you for shit like this.
01:08:01.000
Yeah, Guillermo goes, Waka, have you ever read that one?
01:08:12.000
So you talk a lot now about putting the jewelry home, the fancy cars, everything else like that.
01:08:31.000
So you're more into investing and starting business now?
01:08:47.000
Like, because that's what I should be focusing on.
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.
01:09:06.000
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?
01:09:36.000
I just say get with the block and hollow chain.
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.
01:10:19.000
So you partner with other people you don't want to...
01:10:25.000
Where you put money behind things, but you don't necessarily disclose.
01:10:42.000
What's the next evolution you would say for you?
01:10:49.000
And me selling this company for multi-millions.
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.
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Because it's just like when I hit the cities, I want to know what's popping.
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Slide is from a young little brother from Russia.
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So I just be like, yo, your idea is beautiful, bro.
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And then for once, if I'll call you, I'm like, bro, where you at?
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Then I look at the thermometer and 2,000, 3,000 people in there like, yo, this shit lit.
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I look in the thermometer and be like, There's a lot of girls in there.
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Or people in my contacts, I can see where they partying at.
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You text your friend like, yo, bro, where you at?
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But on Slide, though, Slide will show you the whole shit.
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So people in the club, I can text you FaceTime, you shit like that.
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And then, guys, you can find Walker on his YouTube as well.
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Everything about all my profiles, excuse me, 45 days.
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Everything about all my profiles is going to be changed, updated.
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I might as well just start, like, fucking around.
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But not on no podcast shit, because I like these podcasts.
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Anything last you want to say to the audience before we end this?
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Alright guys, we'll catch you back here with some lovely ladies, man.
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