00:06:11.160You know, I mean, you can't, I mean, I give a fuck about people as a whole, society, you know, I give a fuck about humanity, but like individually, I can't, I just can't, there's too much bullshit out there, there's too much bullshit out there.0.99
00:06:26.600Now, once I have found a reason to care, once I have been made to acknowledge, okay, this is what this person is going through, this is this person's honest experience, okay, now I can care.0.99
00:09:07.980You kind of have, I guess you can run the gambit of rappers successful, significant, you know, and you guys chose to have us here, so we appreciate that.
00:09:18.820I was always told by people outside of the rap world, people that I've talked to from Atlanta, that you are the actual king of Atlanta.
00:09:30.780Well, I'm the king of the South, you know.
00:09:33.100I mean, I would feel, I would say Gucci Mane is the king of Atlanta.
00:09:36.900you know okay okay i'm more like the king of the overall southern eastern region yeah yeah you know
00:09:43.520and parts of the midwest but mainly the southern you think you think gucci i mean you know i a lot
00:09:49.640of people i think that outside of i don't know future you know i think that gucci is the is like
00:09:57.160the the elder statesman that introduced the new era grandfathered in yeah you know what i'm saying
00:10:03.320And I feel like even Gucci kind of, you know, ushered in some of Future's mixtapes and shit.0.86
00:10:10.520And I think that, you know, Gucci had a hand in kind of introducing a lot of acts and artists that are still significant right now here today.
00:11:50.780You know, thanks to people like Dro and, you know, other people that I've had an opportunity and a blessing to spend time around and learn from.
00:12:03.240And on the other side of any kind of tragedy or on the other side of any kind of turmoil, there is like wisdom and there is, you know, just a level of intelligence.
00:34:29.660And, like, they'll contact my wife, they'll DM her, they'll DM one of my white friends, they'll DM my partners in the Ha Ha Mafia, some of my comedian friends.0.63
00:34:39.600And they'll just talk to them about me, like, as though they shouldn't be around me for whatever reason.
00:34:45.960And every time people come and say, hey, man, the person, you see the person?
00:40:53.200The only difference in us and Kane is we weren't on camera every moment.
00:40:59.620And it wasn't documented and, you know, and posted to be, you know, brought up and put in our faces every step of the way.
00:41:11.780I feel like, you know, he's beginning to learn and now he's beginning to see for himself that a lot of the things that, you know, older people had been advising him of, he's seeing kind of for his for himself.
00:41:27.260oh okay i see how that happened and um and he's you know he he's he's becoming
00:41:34.720more mature he just had a son himself so he becoming more mature and wiser and more selective
00:41:43.100about how he how he shares himself with the world and it and in a weird way too like
00:41:48.860he almost went through like the attention era right grew a social media following which in a
00:41:56.720in a similar vein is is kind of what him and his brother did they pissed a lot of people off
00:42:02.960they create created a ton of controversy walked out of it on the other side with a million you
00:42:08.740know millions of followers he's got i don't know probably close to a million on instagram now i
00:42:12.580think he lost the page and had to start over oh it started but regardless like now you know if
00:42:18.180you survive that time like in the public eye like survive the sentiment you can come out on the other
00:42:23.580side start making better decisions and then corral that audience in a positive way because
00:42:27.260you're growing up together yeah yeah because at first you have the audience that's following you
00:42:31.860because they support the the the the mayhem you know what i'm saying because they they they they're
00:42:38.640in a period of mayhem themselves and then you have the people who look down and shun the mayhem
00:42:45.720because they either have never been courageous enough to exist within the mayhem they've been
00:42:51.660afraid of it or they've evolved out of it and they know what's on the other side and don't like it
00:42:57.540for you. All right. So as you grow up, the, the, the younger crowd that is supporting you for
00:43:03.520mayhem, eventually they're going to grow out of it as well. And they'll grow either by your example
00:43:10.140or you will just both grow out of it, you know, just subsequently together. And the older people
00:43:16.540will begin to be prouder of you you know I'm saying so it's gonna grow it's good the the it
00:43:22.420will expand and people will follow you and support you for different reasons like as he's young people
00:43:28.480like yo I'm supporting him because I want to see him get it right I want to offer him some advice
00:43:34.980to get it right and as he you know evolves beyond it it's like man I knew he could do it and now I'm
00:43:41.300going to support him because you know he's gotten it right uh but as a father it's just to me it's
00:43:49.240a blessing and an honor to be a part of a journey that i can see from beginning and transition
00:43:58.820and even on the other side i haven't made it to the other side yet but i can see it i can see the
00:44:06.480But I think like the whole, I think like the whole time, like everybody was watching it through the lens of, cause I remember when a lot of it was going down and it was, you know, there was so many different storylines and like, was he trying to be like pops?
00:44:19.720Was he, was he, you know, trying to do like, what was he trying to do exactly?
00:44:23.140But everybody was always focused on like, what does T.I. think of this?
00:44:34.400I think, but, okay, so what I had to acknowledge and hold myself accountable for was the person that I am now, giving him the advice that I'm giving him today, is not the person that I've always been.
00:44:54.000You know, like there were moments in time where he has seen me respond instinctively in certain environments that may, you know, may have stuck with him even more than my advice would.
00:53:38.480My actions sometimes suggested otherwise.
00:53:42.900Yeah, but that was because I didn't have, now, what he's, you know,
00:53:47.760His objection is valid, because when I met Dro, I did not see, I had no, and you know how people look at Atlanta as this, it's like this epicenter for success in music and entertainment.
00:59:41.520The overall score, not the one-year score, right?
00:59:44.720He's been in the other position as well, though.
00:59:46.800Like, you know, to the point where, like, you know, he won a battle or something.
00:59:51.260something if you're if you're mike if you're mike tyson if you're mike tyson and you're one of the
00:59:55.340greatest boxers all the time or whoever whoever you want to use if somebody hits you hard you
01:00:00.440you respect the shot you'll be like you know you you turn you might look at him and say you know
01:00:05.100what you got me you got me that's what i would think that depends on where they are with their
01:00:09.040emotions you would like that's you would assume but that's logical it depends on where mike is
01:00:13.860with his emotions how much he got his emotions and do you want to convey that yeah he does
01:00:18.220nowadays trust me Mike's real in tune with his emotions nowadays there are times you might get
01:00:23.760your ear bit off that's very true that's very true yeah I mean now I think now like for the
01:00:29.340past couple months Drake has had to go back and look at what the support looked like for the
01:00:34.060record who's he still friends with you know and we'll see how we'll see how it all how it all
01:00:39.240spins out yeah I mean you know I guess that's the best part about being in the audience yeah you
01:00:44.540can just get to watch and you've you've collabed with one of the two right both of them oh both of
01:00:49.380them yeah i remember when they both came in both of them i had the pleasure and the honor of of
01:00:55.760being introduced to them when they were just stepping into the game you feel me um and i've
01:01:03.000had the opportunity to work with them uh at that moment in their careers you feel me um
01:01:10.660I worked with, I met Drake, you know, when he was probably right, was it probably right before he dropped, Best I Ever Had, you know what I'm saying, yeah, so, and I've had the pleasure and honor of, you know, watching, watching him evolve into the legend, the legendary artist that he is today.
01:01:36.640uh and and same for kendrick i met kendrick when i was j getting out of prison um i think this is
01:01:44.580like this is this is before good kid mad city this is like mixtape maybe section eight yeah yeah you
01:01:52.940know right in there and um him him top uh a few a few of the cats uh from uh top dog they they came
01:02:03.480through, I think they had like a tour that they was on.0.99
01:02:06.700They was out here promoting and working their shit.0.98
01:02:10.100And they came to Tree Sound, which is where I was recording.0.99
01:02:14.800And he sat me down and let me hear, you know,