＂Half A Billion Late＂ - Rick Ross CONFRONTS His Correctional Officer Past
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with one of the greatest rappers of all time, Juice WRLD. We talk about his early life growing up in the streets of LA, how he got his start in the music industry, and how he became a multi-millionaire.
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Who's the first big name that targeted you when you started getting momentum?
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Because, you know, there's a lot of beef in rap,
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He just posted my new book that I just released for me.
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Yeah, I mean, so do you think there's a lot of that going on in hip-hop?
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It may be a little bit of it, but it'll be a lot more success.
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It'll be a lot more wealth if they was really focusing the way they should.
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I mean, there's a lot of fucked-up things going on.
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But most definitely in hip-hop, we see people going to prison every day.
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I was talking about getting to the money for their laws of power,
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So you have a rare combination because early on, a lot of, you know,
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when the story came out, you were a correctional officer for what,
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the 18 months or whatever you did, 16 months, 17 months, 18 months?
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But whatever the story was, that shit, they're half a billion late, man.
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But you have a street life and you have a little bit of that.
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There's not many people that can understand that.
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I think I actually can because there's an element of understanding the law if you go to it.
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I mean, look, I read somewhere that you were making $23,000, $28,000
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as a correctional officer, so it's not like it was paying very well.
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And, you know, that's how hustlers respond to that.
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I'm letting you know that's how hustlers, a boss like myself, respond to that.
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now what they could do is listen to the music they could read the books and just close their
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eyes and just imagine what it was like oh man what it most definitely got it and and how how
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important is the game of hip-hop i came up in la i lived in la 20 something years so for me my
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Hip-hop was R.B. El Posse, Rappin' Forte, Too Short, Master Ace.
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I don't know if you remember Master Ace, the I&C ride, right?
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It was who's the first Mexican rapper that got a half a million dollars from
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It was Lighter Shade of Brown, if you remember Lighter Shade of Brown.
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And there was almost, how big of a role does it play that you have street credit,
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um i think first and foremost the music is the most important part because these you know the
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i can only imagine i don't see really a lot of street in the ones that's making the music
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they could discuss it you know speak on behalf of their where they from their city this or that but
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now what goes on behind the scene and how you move,
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Are you really, you know, strong enough to be able to make these moves
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So the street accepts the street credit or not?
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the streets for me will most definitely play a role in um streets you understand the streets
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gonna play a role in the streets and as if you are artists first and foremost your music your
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craft and your gift is what's most important how far you go after that that's between you and the
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streets uh rose who did who did you meet in the game because you give me the vibes of a very driven
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competitive guy facts yeah who did you meet in the game where you said these are the five real
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og players these are the guys i'll be competing with the next couple decades you know for me and
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the way i move i i necessarily don't even pit myself against or competing against the i the
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legends so to me that's like me saying i would compete against big i would never do that i don't
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see you as i would never compete against park i would never compete against jay-z i would never
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compete against you know luke records in no kind of aspect because that's where i got the game from
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you know what i'm saying that's the love and the respect that i have but um anybody else
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It's not really nobody that's on my level for me to go against.
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The ones who raised me, the ones who showed me the game.
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Yeah, the ones who I really absorbed the most game from.
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when I just announced yesterday that Scarface is performing at my car show,
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but Scarface and Tupac, they most definitely did it.
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Rob, can you pull up the song Scarface did with Tupac?
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The moment I hear the lyrics, I know which one it is.
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So, would you consider yourself a fan of the game as well?
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Who are people that you listen to that maybe they're even current players?
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So, from the West Coast to the East Coast, of course, all down south.
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But, like, did you listen to Andre 3000, Outkast?
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That album was just, it's another one of those Sade ones that you just play it.
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Just let it go, and you can listen to every song.
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My playlist jumped from, you know what I'm saying?
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I don't even know if it's producers that know that.
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Remember the guy, the skateboard guy with this guy.
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I don't know if you know which one I'm talking about.
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He's drinking the grape juice, or what drink was he drinking?
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Yeah, Phil Collins just, didn't he just turn 80?
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I just saw something about Phil Collins turned 70 or 80, something like that.
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Yeah, this is what I'm smoking and riding to on the way here.
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So the Rosé playlist is, my musical acronym is different.
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Big Pop, Jay-Z, Trick Daddy, 305 Miami, without a doubt.
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Do you put Nas in there or do you put Andre in there?
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I'm going to put – I'm happy to say Nas without a doubt.
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Yeah, and when I say Nas, Nas spoke for that militant street,
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He was fly with it, getting to the money young.
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So it's a lot of things that go with when I say top five.
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And when I say it, my top five used to change every week.
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when I'm smoking good and what I'm feeling like.
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Do you have a top five 80s, not even rap, just 80s music?
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When you go EPMD, when you go Rakim, it's so difficult for me
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