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fighting this case has really just took a big toll on me I haven't released music in the past 3 years and I just

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decided to you know set everything in God's hands I feel good to be from Nashville now I ain't going to say it

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felt like this 20 years ago but no it didn't it's pretty crazy when you look at the amount of talent that was born in

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the greater Nashville area that's true but back then when you started there was nobody coming out of Nashville you know

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back then when I first started man you had to fight to even get a record spent on the radio y it's not a light poll in

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this city I haven't hung a poster up exactly this city made me before me

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becoming a part of gunit I had a dream that like I got this big record with Taylor Swift that's that's always been

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something big of mine that to to be able to share a stage with a yellow wolf jelly roll Taylor Swift and me that'd be

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great I think we old Nashville something like

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that yo Buck yes sir welcome to the podcast hey man glad to be here man glad

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to be here Nashville Legend man hey man we both are oh man I don't know about me

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I know you are though no man definitely uh definitely a staple to the city I've played my part still playing my part and

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it feel good to be from Nashville now it I ain't going to say it felt like this 20 years ago but no it didn't it feel

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good now you know I feel like it's like a big town 20 years ago not quite a city yeah yeah exactly we was uh well like

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like I was telling you earlier with us being natives we done seen the skyline go from you know that big to to where we

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at now you know what and still growing crazy so I think the city deserved it you know it's a lot of uh gentrification

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and stuff going down around here and uh a lot of it was needed you know what I'm

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saying a lot of the uh you know inner city ghetto areas is is now turning into

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uh half a million dollar homes right there in the middle of the hood so it's just

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like you know you gotta changes something you got to adapt to yeah man this this whole area was you

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know pretty rough 20 years ago it was man it really was yeah you got uh I

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think that's what is that South eight projects over there yeah and uh just on this whole East Nashville has just did a

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a full 360 you know and uh shout out to the city shout out to the mayor yeah

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he's really hands on I like our miror that we have right now man he's really yeah I interviewed Freddy did a podcast

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with him good guy man he is you know we have some disagreeance uh on a few

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things but what I like about him is you can talk to them exactly and that's all

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you can really ask for and and you know what that's that's that's about as much

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as you can ask for from a mayor yeah you know to see him uh you know really

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indulge with the people yep I really appreciate having a miror like that that really gets out here and puts puts his

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feets on the on the ground with the people and you know in our trying times good times whatever it's like he's he's

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right there so yeah shout out to Freddy man keep doing your job you know Freddy uh he went to school here in Nashville

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too his mom was a teacher at Overton uh you know what I've heard that I also found out that he was a DJ recently

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yeah once he did the uh the uh New Year's Eve uh thing and uh I had reached

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out to him was like man don't forget me man they didn't put me on the show he was like yo I got you you know so and I

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think he gave me a shout out that was it was a lot of love but I definitely would want to follow up with that one next

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year get on that stage you know for sure for sure yeah he was doing stuff with uh

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uh jelly roll too he went to that toy drive Jelly D yep yep shout out to jelly Ro jelly R been really really holding it

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down for the city and just killing it all over the world so and uh jelly Ro one of them guys where you know we grew

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up together uh in his rap era he was really making noise even in the rap side

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so for him to find you know the love that that he you know is really prospering from which is

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the country music it's just great to see him blow because he's one that was really there and really a part of you

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know the streets you know really a part of the the the local rap scene and just

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trying to make it and he made it you know he did man he did the amount of uh

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adversity that he's overcome it's been incredible you know it is man and it's not an easy job so I I really take my

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hat off to him I also feel like you know jelly R he he has he knows how to speak very

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well you know about certain things in regards to the city that I really like

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the way he articulates his s in the presence of so quote unquote these uh

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high power politicians and stuff you see him at the Senate I did like to see him uh I love to hear

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him talk man for real man that speech was just right on point man yeah and um we're actually going to the Grammys on

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Sunday oh yeah so I was like I cannot miss jelly roll at the Grammys so oh man he I'm he deserve it and I'm sure he

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going to he going to bring the house down again with one of them speeches that the world needs to hear you know

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what I'm saying for sure yeah it's been incredible to watch I like I like that when he goes to different cities like we both been locked up before and exactly

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exactly he he walks the walk you know he goes in he motivates the the prisoners

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he you know gives them hope exactly I've seen him doing that and that's something that I'm uh in the future looking to do

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as well especially with me experiencing prison you know I went to uh yazu Federal

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Penitentiary um and uh I think what was that 20 12 2014 or

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whatever I was sent this 18 months for uh possession of a felling in possession

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of a firearm which uh at the time I never possessed a firearm there was no

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fingerprints no DNA or none of that it was just a gun that was found in my home

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and uh you know somehow he landed me in prison you know uh just dealing with

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that da at the time you know he was kind of uh hellbent on you know getting

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cooperation out of me in regards to other individuals that I had no idea about what they had going on and once I

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didn't cooperate you know he told me I'mma send you to prison and and he did you know I wasn't I wasn't um going to

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try to fight that system yeah it's tough you know it's it's a tough system and found myself in a situation down within

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s the county that is just ridiculous like um I I'm sure a lot of people's

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already familiar with it was all over the news and stuff like that but uh a

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female that I used to have a relationship with uh she became a l ir raate and shot a weapon a couple times

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and uh I I wasn't hit thank god um I didn't physically put my hands on this

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lady or none nothing like that that was life-threatening uh somewhere in the

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midst of it you know she became my R enough to fire the weapons and uh you

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know I was never arrested there I was able to pull pull away and get you know pull off and get away but somehow uh I

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guess when the police were well it was all captured over the ring camera across the street from the neighbor's home mhm

7:44

and then that's a picture that they have in the media where it shows her finding a weapon and me backing out of my truck

7:52

and stuff so why they coming after you I mean that's a good question but somehow they uh well in the beginning I guess

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they had uh they were looking to do a wellness check to make sure I wasn't wasn't shot or

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anything and then out of nowhere I think the following day I was being charged

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with felling in possession of a firearm based on the fact that you know I used to stay in the home so I still had mail

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coming to that address since when I got out of jail I didn't have no other addresses to send anything to so they

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searched the home and of course I'm sure she probably let them know who I was but she also stated you know he has nothing

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to do with these guns you know she retrieved the firearms from a lock box and I had no idea about none of that and

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um somehow I guess my DNA or whatever was found on the home with me using to live us using to be uh live at the home

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you know my DNA is probably all over the house you know what I'm saying I'm not really familiar where they even you know

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got the guns from but uh yeah man it's a fight man it's some the county so I I I

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I just uh I just pray about it you know because I understand me being a big fish

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in a small pond I don't know if um they're focusing on the fact of me

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having a a prior case where I went to prison and looking at me as guilty or or

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thinking because even at my uh General Sessions appearance the judge was like

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well do you know you're going to jail for this and I'm like what how can you tell me this you don't even know my case

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and what what do they charge you with they charged me with felling in possession of a firearm and um it's so

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crazy man in that whole situation because uh within 30 to 60 days they

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dropped her entire case h and she actually shot the gun at me I'm the victim MH so it was like they found out

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it's Young Buck and it's like we going to do whatever we got to do to get this conviction against this guy so that's

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the fight I've had an ankle monitor on my ankle for three years man oh man Man Three Years bro they haven't moved

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forward with the charges no man February 8th is a a settlement date for me in

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some the county where I'm actually I can't settle for they offer me 10 years

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to serve Man 10 years to serve and then they came back and told me if I plead guilty to the charge and take 12 years

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of community correction I'm like what I I I just pulled up to get some clothes

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you dig got you know little argument and stuff occurred and you know I th I I was

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charged with vandalism as well but I threw a can of paint and broke something that I bought you know what I'm saying

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which was a TV but no physical harm was done to me or her and uh and the girl

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saying it's not your gun of course she's I mean she's being honest when she's saying that she she's even letting them

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know like you know he he has nothing to do with no weapons like you know I I

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retrieve the guns all of this is in in um in the media already her statements

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and stuff she's letting them know like you know I retrieved the gun from a lock box which Lord knows I ain't had no

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access to or codes and none of that I like I say I just don't understand a lot

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of these things that they doing but I think it's just based off of uh you know me being a big fish in a small pond and

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a lot of times a lot of people I've realized with my life they uh it's hard

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for them to separate Young Buck M the artist from David Brown the person Yeah man so

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you know my music is very uh Street driven you know what I'm saying and and

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I speak about a lot of things that I come from I've dealt with I'm dealing with things that I see that's going on

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within the ghetto that I come from yeah and um I just think a lot of times they

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uh they're overlooking that I'm just as human as them you know what I'm saying well I I think you know a lot of the Das

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you know they got to put put themselves in the other people's shoes of course there's victims there's no victim to this crime but like you know put

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themselves in in your shoes and um you know this is the second time that that that's happened in a similar situation

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where it wasn't your gun exactly so um exactly man you know you got to ask why they want to push it so hard have you

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ever uh been to prison for some violent no man I've only went to prison my first

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gun charge in my entire life I was sent to federal prison got you I've never had

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had uh any drug charges or anything no violent no violent charges or nothing it

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was just that was the only thing that sent me to prison and even then you know

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uh the felony that I had was behind uh a case that I had caught in Los Angeles at

12:46

the award show in regards to Dr Dre uh a individual had uh physically put his uh

12:53

hands on Dr Dre and somehow somebody became stabbed out of the situation so

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was the one that was given the charge to saying that it was me that stabbed the

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guy and I'm letting them know no I didn't stab him man I had a fork which they sent a forensic team in and somehow

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found the fork that I had yeah so that that attempted murder charge was dropped

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and it was uh it was it was uh it was dropped down to I think a simple assault

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mhm so my attorney at that time had to go and um he was supposed to go after my

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threee supervision was unsupervised probation was up he was supposed to go

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get it removed off of my my record so at the time it read I was still a felon

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even though I completed you know the supervision part of it it was six years

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after Y and he had fully forgot about it once I caught that first case so even

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then I was trying you know I had reached out to the attorney and was like yo that the felony that I got is what they're

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using from this can you go get it removed he went and got him removed but the judge was like Hey it read you was a

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felon at the time we're going forward with this case so a lot of people really just don't know my situation of even

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having to go to prison the first time it wasn't me being caught with a weapon or riding with a weapon or any other things

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of that it was a weapon that was found in my home and the home was in my name how did they go getting the home though

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with uh they came in my home in regards to uh the bank I was going through a bankruptcy at the time I see and they

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had a RIT which is just as well as a warrant but it was based on them coming and getting the belongers out of my

14:43

house to be able to auction it off and in the process they found the weapon and

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even then when they showed me the weapon I was like oh that's my security that's you know that's my tour manager's gun to

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be honest M and um you know they did nothing they just took the weapon but 8

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months later they indicted me uh they found a I think a bullet that didn't even match the gun that they found and

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charged me fell it in possession of ammunition as well man in the home so it

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was just like man I I'm like I've never touched this gun no fingerprints no DNA I never had nothing

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I just felt like it would it would go away yeah but um the da had he he was I

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don't even want to say his name all good he's a tough guy bro he was like like I

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say it was more more to my situation than just them finding that gun because

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he he was just you know more or less trying to get me to cooperate with individuals that he had had pictures or

15:45

pictures with me being on and I'm like I take pictures with all kind of people I'm a celebrity that don't mean I know

15:51

what they got going on so I can't I can't even conversate with you about nobody you know what I'm saying and uh

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you know he he said okay you don't want to cooperate I'mma send you to prison and uh I could have possibly fought it

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but honestly he scared me enough to take them 18 months because I didn't know what he may do get a lot

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more man you know so yeah they have da have so much power man they do man it's

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just like and you know like you took a plea um because if you didn't you could

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have been possibly facing a lot more time exactly drw some other chares possibly exactly and um it's tough man

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the system I mean I when I got arrested I was uh 20 years old uh conspiracy to

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cell schedule one it was ecstasy and I was facing 15 years in federal prison

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and so uh dies the bullet yeah man well we uh my parents mortgaged your house we

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had to uh pay a fine or donation or whatever they called it

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to uh the drug task force M and then they dropped it to a eight-year State

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felony so wow uh with uh and I had a sentencing hearing so um the judge could

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have sentenced me to 8 years prison or no time uh and probation so I ended up

17:19

getting eight months at that sentencing hearing and uh I it was it was the riskiest thing I've ever done because in

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the in the the break of the sentencing hearing the da came and offered me three years but I had already opened my

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martial arts school and my clothing line I knew if I took that I had to go in that day and not be able to appeal it

17:39

exactly and so I said no I turned that down facing and it went back in the judge you know he sent us me to eight

17:46

months to serve uh eight years probation uh like I think 500 or th000 hours

17:52

community service a lot of community service and then I appealed that the judge like why are you appealing you just got a you know uh re he he did give

17:59

me a reasonable deal I wasn't upset with him but I was like I got to open my martial arts school I just opened my martial arts school wow and I don't want

18:06

to like have it closed I want something by the time I go in something to come back to exactly and so after I went to

18:12

the appell court I apped to the Supreme Court and lost both of those rightfully but it bought me time to build those

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those businesses exactly and and and that's the luck of the Gods that's right

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man that's a blessing man yeah man some of the counties just like I say man I've never seen nothing like this in my in my

18:33

life I've it's not like I'm just a barrel of trouble and been in so many

18:39

different courtrooms I haven't you know experienced a lot of that but to see you

18:44

know how uh how hard and how you know aggressive that the da is being in my

18:51

situation because in the very beginning they were looking to just throw it out yeah you know my lawyer was like uh you

18:59

know okay I got it worked out they're going to you know drop the gun charge and you you you'll be free to go and out

19:06

of nowhere he said that the arresting officer comes in and starts reciting my

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music to the da oh man which was crazy and just really got this mind uh you

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know I think kind of tried to create a picture of me as being you know

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some uh drug dealing gang banging individual you know based off of the

19:33

music that I speak on at times and stuff like that and uh you know the da took

19:39

the deal off the table and I've been fighting ever since man every for for the past three years like I say with an

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ankle monitor on my ankle for three years paying $250 a month for the ankle

19:50

ankle monitor and uh it's just unfair man I just feel like it's very very unfair what I'm going through I'm a man

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of responsibility I take responsibility for my actions and it's just one of these

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situations where with me being a victim I I just don't understand it's

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clearcut and then the biggest thing is that you know you guys dropped this lady's charge you know what I'm saying

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three years ago her charges was dropped so you can kind of see uh in my

20:25

situation why they're actually going after me I think more than anything is because uh you know it's Young Buck and

20:33

but young buck is the the man I'm am today is not the man I was yesterday

20:38

yeah man as well so it's just like man I'm my mind is so beyond uh my younger

20:45

years and when you're young you know I can't act like I'm perfect I made a lot of mistakes and you know probably pissed

20:51

off a lot of people and you know I just wasn't as mature as I am and really

20:57

understanding even in the rap business and just business itself you know so uh

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I'm just trying to grow with my city man I I I help build this city in in a lot of areas you know uh so I just want to

21:10

be a part of this city as much as possible you know jump on podast like with you with the great people other

21:17

City natives of individuals who and just you know just grow to become in the the

21:23

the the artist and the man that I am now and be respected for that not for the individ ual and some of the things that

21:30

I may put in or have put in people face to make them even feel like that like get a chance to know me and just be fair

21:37

yeah and be honest you know well I mean you think about you know you were pretty young when you had your first success

21:43

yeah and you know if you you know and your high school years were pretty wild you were saying I they were man I uh I

21:51

ne I never graduated for many high school here um me and you the same age

21:56

we we we share common ground you say you graduated from Overton I used to go to Overton yeah uh I went to Hillwood I

22:03

went to Whites Creek I went to a all of these different high schools with in a oneyear span you know uh I didn't I I

22:12

dropped out of school in the ninth grade but I got my GED in federal prison you

22:17

know and came home with that and uh started to um get off into a few college

22:24

courses as well and haven't followed that up but I'm in the process of following them up as well so um you can

22:32

you know you can take a bad situation and turn it into a good one I've learned that you know yeah man well I me your

22:39

past doesn't Define you exactly I mean I've expect I've been a felon now for 22

22:44

years you know so people say you know uh you know you shouldn't talk about I'm

22:51

like I don't care man my past is my P if you're going to judge me for who I was when I was 20 years old that's on you

22:57

man that's on you that's not who I am the day I've made plenty of mistakes and I'm grateful for it actually I'm

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grateful for all that adversity because it you know adversity molds you into you can either become a little [ __ ] or you

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could step up and exactly do good things and and I you you sound like me I tell I tell my partners all the time I was

23:15

talking with Charlie P and I said man you know honestly he was like man I don't know how you how you handle all of

23:21

this bro like you know in regards I do get down you know fighting this case man it's it it takes a toll on me it's

23:28

taking toll on me my children just my life and in general and sometimes you

23:33

know I go through my motions and Charlie P is like you know outside of just being management to my career he's one of my

23:40

best friends so he was like one I remember I'm saying like you know man I don't know how you how you do it yeah

23:47

and and how how you making making it through all of this man it's a heavyweight waiting for the outcome of

23:55

exactly the S it's like it's it's hard for people even understand what that's like until you never been through it man

24:01

it's heavy it's it's a heavy load man and just the the thought of being away from your L ones your children and

24:07

things like that man it's it gets it gets real heavy but you know I've always looked at it like God ain't going to put

24:13

nothing on me that I can't carry that's right so you know I've been through the worses

24:19

and still here so he got I I'm here for a reason absolutely so finding my

24:25

purpose is what what my direction is I love music mus but I've always looked at music as a stepping stone to help me get

24:32

off into other things like I want to do movies uh I just love business man real

24:38

estate you know I want to open up a few uh few bars and restaurants around here

24:44

because I'm I love the night life I like the party you know what I'm saying so it's it's just a few things that where

24:51

I'm where I'm growing to mhm where I've grown to actually uh want to do

24:59

different from you know for my city and things like that you know going through

25:05

these these things like that kind of hinders you at times because you just don't know what what the outcome what's

25:11

going to happen right now you can't make plans when you can't make plans when you ain't going bracelet on and exactly

25:17

three years is too long to drag it out too it's like torture they should give you those three years back exactly I'm

25:22

the same way I'm thinking the same way I'm like was that enough is this enough like this should be enough man y I done

25:29

had this on my ankle for three years and and um you know honestly man I I just I

25:36

put it all in God's hands I know um I know I'll be all right you know and look

25:42

at it that way I mean so looking at you know the last 20 years from when you were first successful to now what do you

25:48

think the biggest lesson you've learned uh over those years is uh it's

25:54

understanding the business before you put your John Handcock on anything you know I've made a lot of mistakes in

26:00

regards of not knowing the business but I've always coming from Nashville especially on the rap side of things

26:07

that was once upon a time now it's growing and become bigger we have a lot of artists and stuff that's growing and

26:14

blowing and doing their thing but it was a point of time in this city where rap wasn't you know uh relevant you

26:23

understand what I'm saying so I started focusing on opportunity more than the

26:29

business in the beginning and I you know I had a lot of big opportunities in

26:34

front of me that kind of took me away from understanding or trying to learn the business you know my younger years

26:40

the first guys I met in the game uh was UGK and then uh rest in peace to pimpy

26:48

and shout out to Bun B but I met those guys I met pimp uh first Pimp C and he

26:55

was good friends with uh person that raised me with by the name of priest

27:01

rest in peace to him he just recently passed away but uh they were good friends and you know I've

27:08

always loved to rap so he was one of the ones that was telling pimp like yo man

27:14

my my my my my my young one right here he love to rap you know what I mean and

27:19

he heard me and he was like yo bro you know you got it and that was even when I

27:25

was a kid he was like man if I could do something for you I would but I'm going through the situation with ja just you

27:32

know uh take your time and make sure you learn the business and I heard him but I

27:37

didn't yeah you know what I'm saying well you only know what you you're learning as you go too you're learning as you go how old were you when uh you

27:44

got I guess did you get signed for the first uh was it was it signed when you uh when I after I met ug K uh I never

27:53

signed with them and then that's when I met Cash Money uh with uh with uh with

27:59

baby and Lil Wayne and uh BG Turk and uh juvenile those guys I met them at a

28:06

young age and um never actually got into the contract part but I did move around

28:12

with them for years and just growed up and learned a lot of the the not the business but music with them as well and

28:21

uh I end up kind of branching off and rocking with juveniles label UTP and I

28:26

never uh signed a contract in those in those years but I was a part of it like

28:32

I say the opportunity was what I was just I knew if I took advantage of the

28:38

opportunity it would get me to where I needed to go but I felt like I'll learn

28:44

the business along the way y not calculating in the mistakes that that I

28:50

would make you know uh contractually once I did get a contract uh I think I

28:56

was what 20 going on 2021 and that was with gun gunit was the first and only

29:02

contract that I've ever been it was my first contract but end up being my worst contract what was that like cuz I I

29:09

remember when you blew up it was like that song what was it uh uh let me in a shorty want to ride with ride want to

29:16

ride with me that's still taking me around the world to this very day bro I've just booked two or three shows this

29:23

morning good you know but yeah man so you were 21 or so when that came out

29:28

yeah what was that like cuz you had to be like all of a sudden you're a star man out of Nashville he

29:35

was man like I say I did everything I should have did and everything I shouldn't have did you dig what I'm

29:41

saying financially I had no I had no uh experience of even what taxes was you

29:47

know I found myself filing bankruptcy uh then you know what I'm saying because uh

29:54

like I say once I got a holder my living conditions was at the worst as my mom was was right up the street in sa at

30:00

that time and uh I bought my mom's a house bought myself a house bought myself a few cars and jewelry and all of

30:09

that and by the time it was the the end of the year it was like Uncle Sam wanted his and I'm like who oh what's that what

30:16

is that who's Uncle Sam I thought he was just the guy you know that you see on

30:22

the fourth of July witho you know what I'm saying but yeah man and uh at that

30:27

time me and 50 uh we was uh we was not on the best of terms you know what I'm

30:33

saying because he disagreed with a few things in regards to he said my actions

30:38

of kind of communicating with individuals that he didn't see eye to eye with so I was kicked out the group

30:46

and uh at that time uh you know uh my business management was his business

30:51

management my lawyer was hired through his lawyer I come up under this umbrella

30:56

that was kind of cre ated over there with them at that time and uh you know

31:02

once he kicked me out the group he uh of course stopped everything yeah so

31:11

so you had to build back up I had to build back up at that time and then uh in the midst of that is when I caught

31:17

the gun charge so now I go to prison so so the time frame so from when you

31:22

signed with gunit and uh you know had a lot of success to kind of like the

31:28

Fallout with 50 Cent how long how long was that from the time I signed with gunit

31:35

was in 2002 2003 and then we fell out around

31:43

200 10 maybe 2010 through up to 2012 I

31:48

see and the gun charge was 2013 yep yep 2013 yeah so you were just like going

31:54

through it man yeah man and and it's it was just like back to back to back yeah and um you know outside of the

32:02

bankruptcy as well I lost you know my mom's home my own home all my kids stuff

32:07

and stuff like that and then found myself in prison so damn you know what I'm saying and I didn't go do no

32:14

protective custody time you know what I'm saying uh they know me at yazu

32:20

Federal Penitentiary 20669 075 was my Penitentiary number okay you tend to it

32:27

stay with you for the rest of your life if you get one but yeah um you know my

32:33

that my experience in prison was like you know really The Rebirth of me

32:39

because I I I had a lot of respect from individuals in regards to you know just

32:45

being there the way I carry myself I uh there a lot of talent in there so I used to get a get uh get with the group of

32:53

guys who who was off into the rap music and the ward no paid me to be able to do

32:59

a concert in the prison so we had a whole concert at uh on the on the

33:06

basketball court never for I never forget it the whole entire prison was out that's cool and u a lot of guys that

33:14

had Talent was able to Showcase their talent and me doing my thing and like I

33:19

say prison was uh it was a almost like a recharge or restart for me I had a lot

33:26

of older guys that had been there forever and was you know blessed enough

33:31

to kind of really take me under the wing and be like yo man this ain't the place for you when you get back out there yeah

33:38

and uh they started to implement have you ever started ever thought about you know getting back with you un un 50 is

33:45

is like y'all Powerhouse together bro and I started really paying attention to

33:52

my wrongs M instead of just looking at the things that was done wrong to me man

33:59

you know what yeah what you're saying with you that's actually the key to success is figuring out how we can take

34:05

responsibility especially for if if you're cleaning up a relationship because there's it's it's a two-way thing you know and uh so yeah if you

34:13

were you know if you if you could take responsibility for it you can then many times you know you can get it get it get

34:20

it to work and then that's exactly what I did I got out of prison uh and uh I

34:26

had a couple guys that was uh around the crew of gunit that was pushing for the

34:31

reunion of us getting back together uh shout out to DJ hook kid and Coach PR

34:38

and um you know they pushed it enough to the point where I think 50 started to

34:45

see the big picture of Us coming back together and he greenlighted everything and the reunion started and uh you know

34:52

we was looking to uh looking to move forward and from

34:58

there everything was going well and out of out of nowhere you know start dealing

35:03

with different issues and different things and he was having different issues with different individuals within

35:09

the group and it all fell apart again you know and at this point you

35:17

know I just look at it as if like it was a it was a a phase in my life that that

35:23

that I could never take away I'm grateful for because 50 gave me the opportunity to give my music to the

35:30

masses to the world and uh it was my talent that made me you know nobody

35:36

wrote my music for me ever I've always wrote all my music and you know some of

35:44

theirs too some of his too let me say that speaking in regards to 50 c I've

35:49

wrote records for him where he's actually uh recited my music word for

35:54

word but he's never wrote anything for me uh I'm an artist I'm way more than

36:00

just rap so I I can make country music and all of these I'm just I love music I

36:06

can do anything with the music what's your relationship right now with uh 50 it's not good at all we I haven't spoken

36:13

to 5050 in years okay you know we uh we just don't see eye to eye you know what

36:18

I'm saying and it is what it is it's just one of them situations where uh a lot has been said and done from my end

36:25

as well as his we've never had the chance to sit down and talk like men face to face uh 50 does a lot of things

36:34

you know social media wise so it tends to uh you know put us in a compromising

36:42

position where the fans have to pick siid they really don't know the truth they're coming up with what they think

36:47

it is and he has a bigger platform so if he says this then it seems like

36:53

everybody immediately oh he's he's right you know what I'm saying without him but it's

37:00

just one of them situations where uh I don't got no ill will I ain't got nothing negative to say in regards to us

37:07

at this point I had a great run uh could I come back to gunit uh and and tour or

37:15

get money together yeah I'm open for that uh in regards to me signing to the label and stuff like that I think that

37:23

that that's a little bit farfetched right now I'm focused on Cashville record y'all make sure y'all get my clothing

37:29

line in there you dig yeah yeah so yeah you can go tap in and get you some

37:35

Cashville gear but yeah I'm focused on my own label and uh got a couple artists

37:40

that's been rocking with me from day one one by the name of Trey eight one by the name of OSI and they got a real big

37:48

local Buzz so I'm just trying to get them off the ground and uh got a few

37:53

little movie opportunities and I'm about to drop some new some new music mus oh nice in the next up up and coming weeks

38:00

as well so I've been excited about that and um I've been I've been in talks with

38:06

a couple uh couple couple major labels and stuff is reached out in regards to looking to

38:14

try to give me an opportunity couple couple major artists as well as reached out looking to you know see see if I

38:21

would be interested in coming joining what they got going on as well and I'm

38:26

I'm just you know in a place where I'm just trying to figure it out grind make my next move my best move Yeah man so I

38:33

can give me a mansion like you hey you know you know what it takes man it's all

38:39

the same [ __ ] you just got to grind and overcome adversity not lose enthusiasm

38:45

it's all the same I mean with cash flow records though here's the thing you're 42 now Y and you've learned from your

38:51

mistakes exactly how much more prepared now uh are you compared to you know 10 20 years ago man it's like a whole 360

39:00

you know it's I look back on a lot of the things that I did do and a lot of

39:06

things mistakes I did make it was like man if I if I knew then what I knew now

39:12

you know what I'm saying and uh uh you know a lot of people I've always had to support of

39:19

Nashville and Cashville um I've I've also experienced

39:25

a lot of the local artist is feeling like I you know I ain't did this or I could have did

39:31

this they almost use this gatekeeping word in a sense like I'm kind of uh keeping them from being successful and

39:39

it's like I I can't determine your success no you're on your own grind too you're on your own I'm on my own grind

39:44

and I could write I could write you know 30 artist's records for them and it

39:51

doesn't doesn't mean that they're going to actually blow it's I've always realized that Success is Not only based

39:59

on the individual but it's based on a man upstairs a high powerered God right

40:05

so he makes the last decision the first one too yeah so it's like if it what's meant for you is is going to be there

40:11

it's not too many local artists that I haven't did something for sure you know

40:18

whether it uh worked out to be them uh still amongst me or us still having a

40:23

great relationship I've always been a helping hand and always been humble and

40:28

genuine with a lot of guys and a lot of a lot of things that I've realized is uh

40:34

when things don't go a lot a lot of times when things don't go artist's way they they tend to make up and blame

40:40

reasons and blame you for that's said not taking responsibility I the thing is like we make our own path exactly like

40:46

as good people we try to help as many people as we can but we're not responsible for other people's success exactly and so it's hard for for me uh

40:55

like you had a bunch of call texts I want to text every I can't text every back exactly you know it's like it's

41:00

it's and people don't really understand that until they've been in that position position it's not like you don't care

41:06

about them don't want them to be successful that you only got so much energy you're dealing with a case for three years exactly you know a bunch of

41:12

bunch of [ __ ] and uh and trying to you start starting your label got some artists got your own record it's like

41:18

you gota you got to take care of yourself ain't got kids that I'm trying to grow my relationship with I've missed

41:24

so many years out of my children life I I haven't been the best father yeah you know but I also realize that it's never

41:32

too late so I'm trying to get my life back in place even from that end as well

41:38

uh like I say taking responsibility for your own actions I can't blame nobody I can't blame I can shout out my baby

41:45

mothers y'all did a great job without me I was all over the place you know what I'm saying I'm just trying to fix

41:52

everything you know and kind of that's why I named this next tape that I'm dropping the renovation

41:57

kind of like what you're doing you know what I'm saying the renovation is is uh

42:03

is is is the name of my next EP that I'm about to drop in the the up and coming weeks so uh what's it what's it uh what

42:10

would you say it's mostly about well it's more or less touching bases on

42:16

everything uh that I've been through I haven't released music in the past three years just going through so much and uh

42:27

you know of course the fighting this case and and things like that has really just took a big toll on me and I just

42:33

decided to you know set everything in God's hands and quit stressing so much about the outcome of things so that's

42:40

what's brought me to this place where uh dropping music again is is definitely my

42:46

biggest Focus right now and the renovation I just felt like it was a perfect title was like uh I'm I'm

42:53

renovating the the the the building that I built has already been there it's already there but the the vision of

43:02

things that I see has changed so now let me renovate this building because I

43:08

built this building Cashville baby now I see a lot of things different so I want

43:14

to you know Implement everything that I that I've been through uh the future of

43:21

me and um just touch bases on Where the streets is at right now too is well well

43:27

and also address a lot of this [ __ ] that they that they talk about and say

43:34

about and you know like I say I've always had to I've always felt like I was an

43:41

underdog um a lot of people try to try to uh compare music to age if you

43:48

understand uh oh you too old the rap or whatever man talent talent doesn't have

43:53

a limit on it so it's like for me it's just like uh I respect this this new generation

44:00

and everything that they doing I try to support as much of the the uh the up the

44:06

the upand coming and new artist uh as much as possible but I most definitely

44:11

want to also keep and stay in the mix with these guys not take away from them but rock with them you know where would

44:18

you say the streets are right now in Nashville we're in a we're in a a

44:23

turning point you know the things that we used to do in the streets you cannot do now it's not going to [ __ ] happen

44:31

for you you're going to find yourself in somebody's penitential or somebody's grave if you're not smart so I think

44:37

that uh we in a growth spur we have to grow up the streets is in a growing up

44:42

place I think uh of course you got the younger generation that's out there that's basically probably running and

44:48

doing the things that how we were when we were young but far as guys my age or

44:53

artists that's been Pioneers are considered Legends or whatever to the city and any type of thing we're in a

45:01

place where uh we're more I think we're more held accountable to God in the

45:08

right direction versus then uh trying to lead these youngsters down down some of

45:13

the rough directions that we've been through it's just just like a 360s like you know do what you can to educate them

45:19

you can't make nobody do anything right but it doesn't hurt to you know give

45:25

positive energy I'm I'm I'm putting more positive energy into my life and my

45:31

career than I've ever done because I dealt with a lot of negativity coming up

45:38

so that seems like all I was given and honestly a lot of that has got me in the

45:44

I feel like in the position that I'm I'm dealing with even with the case is like they they they hadn't been able to

45:51

separate Young Buck uh you know like we like you said like the past yeah to the

45:57

present you know what I'm saying and uh I just feel like uh we the streets is in

46:03

a in a place where uh we have to learn to adapt to change you know oh yeah

46:09

adapting to change uh who was it was Darwin uh uh so it's not the strongest

46:14

uh it's not the strongest that will survive but those that can best adapt to change I you know I never know that but

46:21

that's the truth you know you you can be the toughest roughest and all of that but don't mean you going to survive you

46:28

can adapt to change you can you can kind of add a few more years to your life out here and uh you be all right I just like

46:36

I say I love my city I love Nashville I love what we're becoming yeah I love to see artists Thrive and grow and blow you

46:44

got so many different artists that live here now yeah uh not just in the music it's

46:52

actors and everything that's around that that lives here now and stuff like that turn that phone off

46:58

bro yeah man so it's like cuz they need to hear us this is dope interview bro

47:06

but it's so many different people here bro uh that's that's just outside of

47:12

music man it's so much opportunity in Nashville right now it's crazy man well you think about like um giving back and

47:20

your Jelly's doing a good job of what you're talking about is is is giving back it's one of my goals too I'm

47:27

thinking about like my estate planning like how do I how do we give it like I'm really think how do I give it away all

47:32

the city if something happens to me to make the biggest impact that's big and um you know I look at the the kids

47:39

growing up without dads exactly and I think that might be the biggest problem we got for the streets you know what you

47:48

saying that is the absolutely Tru you know I got to look at me as a

47:54

father and the type of Father I've been into my children which was I I consider

48:00

it horrible because I wasn't there throughout a lot of my children's life I got four girls and two boys you know uh

48:08

I've been there you know financially at times when I could but I I wasn't you know it does being a father is way more

48:16

than being able to send money here and there and give that you know to actually

48:21

be in that kid's life and to be respected as a father from that child

48:26

takes it takes work as a man and and as a parent I'm in that place I came up

48:32

without a father my mother was my father my I I had to be the the become the

48:39

father of my household you understand which led me to the streets because it

48:44

was such a struggle for my mother trying to raise me and her sister children she

48:50

has custody of the of her sister kids to this very day and um you know I think

48:55

that's a big part and giv him back in in that way is uh in

49:02

my eyes is kind of led by example yeah in the sense as well well like you know

49:07

what you're saying like grew up without a father and you know you've been

49:12

learning this entire time exactly so like you know we can see young buck who had a tremendous amount of success and

49:19

was a star and those type of things and that's a Persona that's like exactly not

49:25

exactly the real person exactly you know and so uh the real person has been learning how to figure

49:32

all this wild [ __ ] out the entire time exactly man and it ain't that easy and a lot of times we'll put people on these

49:37

pedestals and um you know you're just doing the best with what you've been taught I'm just doing the best with what

49:44

I've been taught right and now you're 42 had a lot of experience now you're like oh this is how it works exactly nobody

49:50

told you that's how it works you're just kind of going on what you what you're seeing and doing the best at the time with what you've been taught and with a

49:57

lot of success and that's exciting and you can make some mistakes when you have that that much success young I mean you

50:03

know putting a lot of crazy situations I mean it and uh I know I mean it man and

50:09

you know it's uh you know but but now 42

50:14

I mean it is it's like a renovation like you're saying it is man it's like a renovation the house is already built

50:19

yeah the house is built and uh you know it's just about going in and uh you know

50:27

changing the picture yeah you know I want to I paint these walls this color you know let me make this ceiling with

50:35

the stars shining in you know what I'm saying absolutely just just really just getting it getting it together and um uh

50:43

like I say um accountability is big uh

50:48

with with me taking accountability for for whatever wrongs that I have done I've always been a man of that and uh

50:56

just is just moving forward with a with a real fresh start in a sense you know I'm

51:03

going to be honest with you you know who I had a dream man and I and I'm only

51:11

this the first time I even spoken on this bro I had a dream that I have I

51:16

it's like I got this big record with Taylor Swift honestly bro and and most of the

51:24

time I've had these kind of dreams they came true so I'm interested to see if

51:29

God going to do the same thing with this one because honestly like I've seen interviews where she uh where she spoke

51:36

on me and gave me props and stuff because she's a fan of the shorty want to ride with me and she was saying how she used to ride by my home and stuff

51:44

like that and uh look at my cars cuz she from Hendersonville I used to live in

51:49

Hendersonville uh back in the G and um now I'm thinking uh [ __ ] I need to be

51:55

riding by your house looking at some cars but yeah man I did man I had a dream that we were on the stage rocking

52:03

out crazy I don't know what where it came from but it's a dream and I feel

52:08

like let me speak on this you know what I mean you think about this man like you know with all the success that that you

52:14

had you know what it's like when all of a sudden you're in the middle of that success it's like whoa you how many

52:22

times did you dream of things before that they came true and if you're not dreaming like that you're not I be

52:29

like that's that's one of the keys to success you got to work really hard but you better have Big Dreams you do man

52:36

and and and those dreams when they come big I've

52:42

noticed those are the ones that you pursue the most y the biggest dreams

52:48

that you have pertaining to whatever especially if something pertaining to your career or life the things that seem

52:56

like that Out Of Reach yeah be the closest to you sometimes and um you know

53:03

like even with with me in gunit you know I had a dream of being amongst

53:08

Eminem before I even ever signed a contract to gunit you know I was with I

53:14

was with uh uh my kid's mother uh my first two girls mother and she was

53:20

pregnant with my second child my first child to be honest yep my first child

53:25

and uh I sit in in the living room and that's when Lose Yourself record was big with Eminem the video had came on and I

53:32

turned around and I told her I said I'm going be around him one day and she was like whatever get out of here you know

53:39

what I mean and just maybe a few months later of course I was with gunit but I

53:45

was right there with Dr Dre Eminem and 50 c and Eminem embrac me with love he

53:52

actually mixed uh the first record I was ever even heard on

53:57

which is blood hound on 50 cents get rich at D Tron album so things can you

54:03

know dreams do come true yeah and I've learned when you dream on those things like that you have to pursue it that's

54:09

why I spoke on it m you know it's like that's that's always been something big

54:14

of mine to to to be able to share a stage with a Taylor Swift jelly roll in

54:20

young book that'd be great that would be something just like crazy I can't leave yellow wol F right that's my guy you

54:28

know what I mean because he's just as much nashvillian as we are you know what I'm saying he's here as one of my

54:35

closest friends but to be able to share a stage with a yellow wolf jelly roll Taylor Swift and me I think we owe

54:44

Nashville something like that I I'll be there I mean it man like come on y'all

54:49

let's get together bro let's do this bro send a message out you know let's make

54:54

this happen Mr Mayor Freddy make this happen the C the the city wants to see

55:01

something of that you know gigantic type

55:06

of situation is not only for you know Nashville but for the world because we

55:13

got some of the most talented individuals that is right here in nille just coming out of coming out of

55:18

Nashville you know the originals it's it's pretty crazy when you look at that uh you know the amount of talent that

55:24

was born in the greater Nashville area that's true you know it's finally we're finally seeing it you're the biggest

55:31

rapper um I mean that's been I mean that was and you were kind of if I I'm just

55:36

remembering correctly so I haven't thought about this in a lot of years but back then you had pistol yeah yeah

55:42

pistol Hast stack yeah Hast stack yeah who else was coming up we had pistol we had Hy stack we had uh Boogie okay we

55:50

guy by the name of Boogie uh I mean now we even got you know you got your uh you

55:56

got of course uh staro yep uh it's so

56:01

many different artists right now City paper yeah now it's like a whole I mean it's it's it's it's gotten credibility

56:08

you know back then when you started there was nobody coming out of Nashville no I use kind of started that whole you

56:14

know energy towards that yeah I mean like I say uh pistol Cool Daddy Fresh

56:20

those guys those guys came before me and I've always had the utmost respect for them I had just seen a interview

56:26

recently where pistol was kind of speaking on some of the things that I had said and done when I was a younger

56:34

individual was kind of crazy what you gonna do man I mean you know what I'm saying but uh yeah man just to see uh

56:42

just to see all of these different artists start to start to get what they deserve is is a good feeling for me

56:50

because like you said you know back then when I first started being uh you know

56:55

or looking to make make a name for myself in this game you know it was no it man you had to fight to even get a

57:02

record spent on the radio yep you know and I it's probably not a light pole in this city I haven't hung a poster up

57:10

exactly you know so I was hanging I was always hands on with everything like hanging on my own posters and just being

57:16

a part of of of the independent scene of the city I was always a staple to that

57:23

you know what I'm saying this city made me forever a gunit or me becoming a part

57:29

of gunit I was always a legend to this city before I even moved in that

57:35

direction and still is so shout out to Cashville man for always supporting me man and supporting you know the artist

57:43

we have to support our local artists we have to support uh all our artists if if

57:49

we want to really see us achieve that high level of success you know absolutely you know what's what's

57:54

interesting because you know now Nashville has gotten so big but at least from my experience like

58:02

what I appreciate is kind of the Nashville Spirit when we're successful when locals are successful like we're

58:08

all happy for them exactly you know what I'm saying like exactly this year I bet you

58:13

2023 one of the biggest highlights of my year was jelly being successful I'm like

58:18

it's It's amazing And it it's amazing to watch and it feels good just to know an individual y you know and what what they

58:26

come from and to watch them you know live out their dreams you know what I'm saying the same way that they had to

58:32

watch you live out yours and and and some may been supportive and some may

58:37

not me personally I choose to be positive and support even the ones that wasn't even possibly or probably even

58:44

supportive of me doesn't mean that I'm going give you that same energy because sometimes you know a good deed can

58:51

change a bad heart that's right you know what I'm saying a person can look and say well

58:56

man and you know and take accountability man I was wrong when I did that kind of like how I'm I'm having to do with

59:02

certain issues like man man I was wrong when I shouldn't have said that you know what I mean man you got we've got to

59:10

take responsibility for our mistakes we got to apologize we got to mean it and

59:16

um it's up to the person whether they want to accept or not exactly but you know a lot of times people just want us

59:22

to acknowledge like what they were thinking like how he messed up like you know what I did this like yeah man you know like okay exactly

59:30

I can I can forgive you for that but that that's really the key you know I think like right now uh the victim mentality is is

59:38

ruining people it's true you know I feel like we're in the oppression Olympics you know like I'm more oppressed no I'm

59:44

more oppressed like no that's right though and it's got to be a setup because you can't be successful being a

59:52

victim not at all can't do it no way why are they telling people in the world oh you know be a victim be oppressed be be

1:00:00

these things you think about this in the in the hood like if they keep telling

1:00:05

people that they don't have an opportunity that they they don't have a chance oh there's no way you can come up

1:00:11

the whole systems against you if you really believe that like you're never going to get out of it nope you're going

1:00:17

to stay in this caged in place that they put you in yeah and you have to be able

1:00:22

to it's that's that's a wonderful way in being able to relay it is to say like um

1:00:30

you have to get out of the box think out the box live out the box yeah don't let nobody put you in the box that's right

1:00:36

you understand what I'm saying and and that's where my success came from because you know I realized from the

1:00:43

beginning that you know I'm in a room full of people from all over the place

1:00:48

or whatever and then I say I'm from Nashville and at that time you know we wasn't as big of a city where we are now

1:00:55

so you say Nashville the first thing coming to mind is country music yeah exactly you thinking cowboy hats and so

1:01:02

it's just one of them things where it was like I I realized how I had to uh

1:01:08

you know not allow individuals put me in the Box y but also create my own lane as

1:01:14

well and that's where Cashville came from I love it you know Nashville is definitely the home and forever Music

1:01:21

City is is what it is but Cashville was to represent the other side of the city

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that was kind of like not being understood in a sense it was like it's this this is more or less the uh the uh

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you know it's two sides you got country music we got all kind of genres of music but you also got uh people who The Have

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And The Have kns you know what I'm saying so I come a part of the half kns

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but I've always felt like I was just one out of a bubble that made it out cuz

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it's just it's so many more artists that's just as Talent as me or or or or

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more Talent than I am and uh you know if you don't get out that bubble yeah then

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then well I just think if you would have think if you would have believed them when they said you can't do X Y or Z I

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mean we are what we think so like if you believe that [ __ ] [ __ ] that's what I'd like to get get you a message I

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like to get out to people just in general I talk about this a lot is like yes you can don't believe them now is it

1:02:28

going to be you're just going to think it it's going to happen no you got to be willing to work hard you got to be able to take personal responsibility exct and

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then don't believe the [ __ ] hey don't believe the [ __ ] and go for it hard work pays off it most definitely

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does I mean look at yourself bro you got one of the biggest homes in East

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Nashville period if not the biggest we're sitting in you know and I know I

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know life ain't been easy for you like like I've heard you even speak on the fact that you've been uh overcoming and

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had to overcome adversity and dealing with uh you know a case and things like that in your life and and and if you

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didn't have that that willpower to you know to to fight for for yourself you

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know what I'm saying and to create your own lane and even you wouldn't be here today so I commend you too as well you

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know what I'm saying because adversity is real it and a lot of times uh uh the

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anx iety keeps people from actually being able to conquer adversity that's right

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and I know because I've had multiple anxiety attacks about things well see you're talking about this so like most

1:03:38

people you know they see they're see you on a pedestal yeah and they think oh well he doesn't experience those same

1:03:44

things we all experience ex you know sadness anxiety some depression you know

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like that's life it's real and so how do you think like

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uh younger kids coming up how can they relate to that what would you say to get

1:04:01

them to understand that that that's like a normal thing well it's I would I I would start by saying it's okay to make

1:04:07

mistakes M you know don't don't don't allow your mistakes to make you you know

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if you you you you don't know everything you're going to make mistakes but don't allow this mistake to take so much toll

1:04:21

on your life or your your your way and thinking that it it it it gets you off

1:04:26

court so you don't see the big picture you understand what I'm saying so uh you know be prepared for the mistakes and be

1:04:33

prepared to correct the mistakes that you make it starts from making mistakes I had to get out here and bump my head

1:04:39

so many times you understand to the point where I'm like damn that hurt I ain't doing that no more oh [ __ ] bro

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where that come from oh man I'mma have to make sure I don't you know you know it's just just it's just being out here

1:04:53

making mistakes but also taking account of ility to the mistakes that you do make so you can you know find out the

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right way because success to me there's no there's no no

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individual uh Road you have to go down to become successful like people say you have to

1:05:13

do this you have to do that everybody success comes different bro so it's like you know you you might it's it's like a

1:05:20

roller coaster just because this person had this way doesn't mean that's going to be the way your success comes for you

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yeah so I would say just get out here and and try things and and and and kind

1:05:32

of create your own lane you know absolutely yeah I see see guys get uh

1:05:37

like a little weed charge or something and it's all ah the the system is like man look you've got to accept that

1:05:43

responsibility whether it's legit or not or you know yes it's probably [ __ ]

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but exactly that doesn't matter cuz you're in the system and if you let that hold you back that's you letting it hold

1:05:55

let you not the system holding you back now I do think marijuana needs to be legalized absolutely are you kidding me

1:06:02

let's talk about it I think that Nashville and Tennessee in general we are we are really missing out a lot in

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regards to uh legalizing cannbis at this point in my life I feel like that uh it

1:06:17

could it could do a lot for the city and I'm also uh I I also feel like uh you

1:06:24

know we need a casino right you that be hard I mean this Bible built

1:06:29

thing I'm not I'm not really sure about the politics and how those things work but I just feel

1:06:35

like Nashville is is a full-blown City or even becoming a full-blown City so

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let's offer the things that offer some of the other cities

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offer here's the thing like the the the marijuana thing um that's not a city

1:06:52

thing that's a state so you know the the State uh legislature is is very

1:06:59

conservative when it comes to drugs exactly and um man I I hate to watch it

1:07:04

I I don't I hate to see The Divide especially the state level uh because I

1:07:09

know some of those guys and they're good people yeah but it's like they are stuck

1:07:15

in the past exactly it's like look exactly I heard the the senate senate

1:07:20

majority leader I think he Senate Majority Leader uh MC MCN um you know just was talking about uh felons getting

1:07:27

their voter rights restored he didn't think a felon should get their voter right restored I'm like what is what are you even thinking man that's crazy you

1:07:33

make a mistake 20 years ago when you're a kid exactly and you can't your whole life your whole life that's how I feel

1:07:40

about the gun laws yeah because also you you know you have a situation say let's

1:07:46

use my own situation where I've went to prison for you know uh fell in in possession of a firearm and federal

1:07:53

prison and with that being said i' I've had to sign that paper that says I will never possess another weapon in my life

1:08:00

well you know um I just feel like uh to be able to protect your life should be a

1:08:06

decision that you're able to make you know not because uh and here it is I had

1:08:11

nothing to do with even the gun that I went to prison for but I'm held accountable to the point where if I

1:08:17

wanted to go get a gun license get locked up again I'll be locked up again or get caught with another weapon or

1:08:23

around another weapon I'm locked up you know what I'm saying so I don't think that's fair for people to be able not to

1:08:29

be able to protect the rest of their life no based on the fact that you were caught or considered caught with a

1:08:36

weapon that that's not that's not fair at all yeah the the the system it's like once you do once you serve your time you

1:08:44

served your time exactly like do they know what that's like no well it's it's set up to where you serve your time but

1:08:51

exactly how they can give you ultimately a life sentence based on off of you know

1:08:58

it's you served your time you did your time and so you know I think the governor actually in Tennessee is pretty

1:09:04

good on the this subject yeah to where he's done a lot of work in in those type of reforms and wanted to make a

1:09:10

difference with it and um you know not necessarily with guns but uh you know

1:09:16

with giving people Second Chances and those type of things ex yeah yeah we got a great Governor a great governor and a great mayor I I just really feel like

1:09:24

Now's the Time For Us to be able to uh you know expand on some of the laws that

1:09:31

that or at least being able to try to go and and and uh you know get some of

1:09:36

these laws passed that that would not only benefit a lot of people's lives but

1:09:43

if we look at it from a financial place it will bring a lot of capital for sure to to to nasville Cashville you know yes

1:09:52

yeah that's that that is that is the thing you know you think about the the weed laws so many people have actually gone

1:09:59

to prison for this exactly it's like you know you want to relieve stress off of

1:10:06

certain parts of the population that are disadvantaged like exactly you don't to L like I think they should be hard on

1:10:11

violent crimes personally I mean I like they've been they've been somewhat loose lately in the city but like when you

1:10:18

look at like the drug crimes you I understand fentel and those type of things that's a whole another level a whole different ball game you know when

1:10:24

it comes to weed stuff like that like come on why why why put this on somebody

1:10:30

for a long time and and if they're already in a difficult situation why put

1:10:35

so much pressure on they might not be able to come out well also what are y'all doing with in y in y' uh life away

1:10:44

from being a politicians oh yeah some of them have experienced I'm pretty sure

1:10:50

what it's like to uh smoke a blood or something you know what I'm saying

1:10:55

they didn't go get you know they're still right there able to dictate the law so just respect just respect you

1:11:02

know uh your own actions as well too yeah it's pretty hypocritical you're G to put

1:11:09

somebody in jail for something that that you yeah you're doing that you're doing you you send somebody to jail for 10

1:11:16

years and you just smoked 10 blunts that's not cool you dig so it's like yeah man it's pretty but I think I hope

1:11:25

so at least sometimes in my years on Earth that I did I'd be able to see the state of Tennessee legalized marijuana

1:11:32

man yeah I think uh I think it'll happen but I'm not sure when you know I mean

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it's uh it's like the it is because you know how the house is controlled yeah um

1:11:44

you know they're a different type in many ways a different type of Republican man I just I get frustrated and I'm not

1:11:51

saying either side but I get frustrated with how they represent uh how they represent their

1:11:58

rep republicanism per I'm more of like a Libertarian you know I think that we

1:12:03

should have a lot less laws and a lot more freedom and you know that's good when libertarian I think I might I might

1:12:10

rock with that because I'm kind of like right there with that you know what I'm saying like I I couldn't consider myself

1:12:15

you know a Republican or a Democrat or none of that I just you know like I say

1:12:21

I I agree with certain things on both sides you know what I'm saying saying so

1:12:26

it's one of them situations where I very rarely even talk politics and things like that sure uh you it's difficult to

1:12:34

do in especially in today's society where exact everything can be taken out of context exactly but um you know what

1:12:40

are you thinking uh you know you're were talking about the new record um what is

1:12:45

your vision for the next 10 years what like you know you said Taylor Swift what else is the the vision where where you going with it I see myself in these

1:12:52

movies man I'm really really big on uh you know trying to get off into the

1:12:58

acting side I'm actually about to start uh acting school just to kind of get get

1:13:04

a little bit uh familiar with you know the way that works you know

1:13:09

um also I see myself having running a successful label uh I still got so much

1:13:15

to give on the music side I've only been able to release uh two solo projects

1:13:21

worldwide which was straight out of casville and uh my other project

1:13:28

uh Buck the world so um you know I still feel like I got so much music to give to

1:13:35

the world I'm actually working on a project as well uh that's coming out and it was produced by DJ Paul from 36 mafia

1:13:44

uh it's called unexpected so I'll be releasing that project as well um in the next 10 years

1:13:51

man honestly man I see myself being a business owner here M you know have a couple bars a couple

1:13:57

restaurants uh something that's big enough you know tourist attraction is big around here

1:14:04

I'm a household name to the city so I definitely want to do something that brings all nationalities together not

1:14:10

just you know a bar in the hood you know I want to have a bar in the hood a bar

1:14:16

downtown possibly Broadway you know um just just really just uh being

1:14:23

successful through business businesses outside of just the music yeah you know is where I I kind of see myself 10 years

1:14:30

on down the road what do you see like uh for for the artist uh right now with the cash flow records uh who do you have

1:14:37

right now like what do you see for them I see them blowing up you know within

1:14:43

the 10 years I I think that at least the two artists that I got I think they'll carry the flag or or be able but they've

1:14:50

been so Hands-On with me I've had a chance to groom them in a lot of different areas in regards to my artist

1:14:56

Trey and OSI um they from Nashville yeah they both from Nashville one is from

1:15:02

South South a projects the other one is he's from East Nashville as well so it's just one of them situations where like I

1:15:09

say they got a couple local records that's really really big and um I can

1:15:14

see them uh they've experienced so much by just being amongst me the things that

1:15:20

I go through don't just affect me but it affects the individuals that's around you so seen me you know and the ups and

1:15:27

downs that I've had throughout my career which I feel like give them uh a good

1:15:32

good lesson on what what not to do and what to do so I just and and outside of

1:15:38

them just having that pure talent I think that they they they definitely going to be

1:15:43

uh be able to carry the the Cashville flag I should say you know what I mean

1:15:48

do they have uh any music on on Spotify or anything yeah yeah they got a couple projects out right now um OSI he's just

1:15:56

recently dropped a project uh they drop you know they drop a lot of lot of different tapes and stuff they to the

1:16:02

point where I can't even keep up with them all that's good you know just staying relevant in just different songs

1:16:07

different videos and that's what jelly did too remember how jelly was just dropping stuff crazy right Beast I mean

1:16:14

and then his catalog I tell people like and that's a process that I'm going through now in regards to dealing with

1:16:20

this bankruptcy that I'm I'm about to be discharged from um you know I had to I

1:16:26

was I was dealing with a situation in regards to being signed the gunit where

1:16:31

uh 50 made this claim that I owed him you know $250,000 or whatever the case may be and

1:16:38

I knew it was bogus you know what I'm saying but at the same time he made that claim and uh it never uh it never came

1:16:47

out the mean to nothing or or nothing like that in regards to uh my case so uh

1:16:55

that kind of did away with my contract with gunit as well but in the midst of

1:17:00

it uh to pay my actual debt off I had to basically relinquish my catalog that I

1:17:06

have you know what I'm saying and it's something that I didn't want to do if I knew what I knew now if you know what

1:17:13

I'm saying then I don't think I would have got that deep into to the point where I I'm I'm having to get rid of my

1:17:19

catalog but I'm also looking at it as a fresh star you know what I'm saying like uh you know got so much more music to

1:17:26

kind of rebuild another catalog as well and then who knows I'll probably go by

1:17:31

buy back the catalog that that I'm using to kind of restart with anyway so it's

1:17:37

just it's it's one of them situations where uh speaking on Jelly Road like his

1:17:43

catalog is so enormous I know he's loving the fruits of his labor he is you

1:17:49

know being at that position where he's at now and then having so much music out and giving the people so much uh music

1:17:56

before you know once you you know catapult and get to that level people start to go and revisit and buying all

1:18:04

of your your music that you had before you made it to this place and uh a lot

1:18:11

of that is you know as long as you maintain owners and owning your publishing and stuff like that those

1:18:17

chicks did he did it that's how you get those big checks those checks can look like something you know what I'm saying

1:18:22

so yeah yeah a lot of people learn from from what jelly did because he did it in a different way he did it in his own way

1:18:29

he did he overcame a lot of adversity obviously and um uh it's it's been just

1:18:36

awesome awesome to watch when save me came out this is why it was his first song I text him something to the fact I

1:18:43

saw the text and he didn't have a record label yet oh I said I think you might win a Grammy for that song and look at

1:18:49

him he's he's up for Grammy for that song He's got to win it they got to give him a Grammy for that song that song is one of the most

1:18:56

you know relevant songs in regards to any genre of you know going through

1:19:04

anything in a sense you can turn that record on and and kind of find motivation into that record that's one

1:19:10

of my favorite records from jelly R yeah and um like I say man I'm really proud of his success man and just watching him

1:19:18

you know grow and bigger and bigger it seem like he's doing something bigger and bigger every every other day you

1:19:25

know what I'm saying and you know and like I say he owes nobody nothing no

1:19:32

just something that I want to make sure that people understand in regards to artists and things like that I've heard

1:19:38

individuals already start to oh man he ain't did them no what have you done you

1:19:44

know he what are you doing you dig what I'm saying it's one of them things where

1:19:50

he owes nobody nothing but himself and and he owes what he choose to feel like

1:19:57

you know what helped him and what's there for him so I I just hope he continue to uh bless others like he's

1:20:05

been blessing others man and he'll he'll be blessed forever you know well yeah you look at like what he's done you know

1:20:10

talk about some people might be upset uh which is just all [ __ ] exactly but

1:20:16

like he doesn't you're right he doesn't know anybody anything nobody and this guy's got he's one of the biggest stars

1:20:21

right now in the world exactly um he is you know everybody wants a piece of him

1:20:27

everybody wants to talk to him everybody wants to you know and like he can't possibly there's no way be there for

1:20:34

every single person no way and you know it's uh yeah people don't understand that though because I've had a lot of

1:20:40

friends get do really well in country music and you know they get really really busy and it's hard for them hard

1:20:47

for you hey you don't ever worry about responding like don't even worry about it we're good when we see each other

1:20:52

it'll be like old time but you got to handle your business at the moment it's all good exact and so for those yeah

1:20:58

giving jelly a hard time they need to you know chill out yeah man chill the hell out man dude don't ow nobody nothing he owe his the success that he's

1:21:06

having yeah and let's support and let's keep pushing jelly to go to the Moon if

1:21:11

you can get there you know what I'm saying I mean this guy's testifying it's Senate who's doing that nobody man it's

1:21:17

I ain't even accomplish that you know what I'm saying and I might have been you know uh you know kicking the door

1:21:24

down the rap scene but it's still levels that I got to go to that I've watched this man you know get to and not only

1:21:31

get there but handle it well and and probably better than I would been able to handle it I'm just being honest as

1:21:38

good as anybody could do exactly good as anybody it's really good I'm giving you your flowers jell bro you deserve it

1:21:44

that's right man real he does he does but um you know who also uh I really like his struggle and he's overcome a

1:21:51

lot of adversity too he's been through it struggles been through it Str I think struggle's done time too as well

1:21:58

struggle is a real dude you know what I'm saying struggle got real music and I love their music because it's it's you

1:22:04

know as successful as they are they're not forgetting to to actually keep that pain in there yes because a lot of

1:22:11

people are still experiencing you know that pain and and they they they they

1:22:16

make music that that that's more or less uh for me I I I hear the pain still in

1:22:22

the music the hunger is still there M struggle struggle deserves everything that he's getting right now for sure

1:22:29

he's definitely been through the the ringer man the ringer bro he did a podcast probably I don't know three no

1:22:36

it was three or four weeks ago maybe a little longer yeah and you know really digging into his story yeah his story

1:22:43

real man I mean my God his story is real man for real for real man he's one of them dudes like I say I got the utmost

1:22:50

for struggle the utmost respect for struggle and uh like I say him and jelly

1:22:55

they they they like a they like a dynamic duo type thing you know what I'm saying it's like they've been rocking

1:23:01

with each other for so long I respect their relationship amongst each other and things like that and you know real

1:23:07

friends is hard to come by so it's like when you do get them you hold on to them and you know both of them guys man is

1:23:13

definitely deserving of of the blessings that that they've been receiving man and I I I sent them nothing but love man and

1:23:20

many more blessings you dig yeah man it's uh it's been cool to watch them both you were saying you're really close with

1:23:26

uh yellow F too yeah man I probably go get up with yellow when I leave here to get uh in the studio he he's been really

1:23:34

really on the on the working mission right now he's been in that studio every day and as well as myself but uh we

1:23:40

definitely got some some good music together that's that's looking to come out and hit the streets is crazy that's

1:23:46

awesome yellow wolf has always been one of my favorite rappers super talented super talented man and it's just like um

1:23:54

he uh matter of fact I I first came to your mansion with yellow wolf on Fourth

1:24:00

of July biggest party bro it was man I can't you doing it again this year right well we're doing a renovation right now

1:24:06

so when that's done it's going to probably be like next a year or so before done but it's going to take a long yeah you got a lot of house you re

1:24:13

renovating the whole thing the whole main Mansion yeah this is this is the guest house this just not but yeah yeah

1:24:18

it's crazy but you to come by and yeah I definitely will bro it was a crazy party man a lot of people a lot of great

1:24:24

people here too I met that night yeah some good ones it was live a lot of fine women beautiful women man beautiful

1:24:30

women out here bro so yeah man I defin I got I got a girlfriend now oh but yeah

1:24:36

she's all good with it she she likes she she doesn't like get jealous or nothing hey man listen those the best

1:24:41

girlfriends to have y mine's the same way you know what I'm saying she ain't she ain't getting jealous she's going to

1:24:48

party with him too you know what I'm saying so that always helps right it does man I tell yeah man it does I've

1:24:55

had some uh I've had a lot of great girls I've did it over the years but like you know finally finding somebody

1:25:01

that's just super cool and just lets me be be myself and you know what I'm going

1:25:07

to respect you no matter what if I you know if it seems to disrespect you I apologize but exact she doesn't like rub

1:25:13

it in you know exactly and and I think I I think I kind of fall in that equation

1:25:20

with mine as well that's good it's one of them situations just like that and and it works you know finding that one

1:25:26

that really respects you and not only that you respect her y for what she does

1:25:32

and how she does it that that's that's key to I guess a strong relationship

1:25:37

that is for sure now that we're realizing that we're growing up experience you did I agree oh well

1:25:45

man thanks so much for uh coming on here man it's a good time talking to you it really was man and whenever you need me

1:25:50

out here man or want me to come back on the show I'm always open bro this was a great great uh interview man just I

1:25:58

think people really really going to enjoy you know hearing a lot of the

1:26:03

nashvillian stories and the nashvillians the native nashvillians get together and

1:26:09

be able to say like this Davidson County baby yeah man yeah well come on anytime

1:26:14

man it was awesome having you and uh keep up the good work I appreciate it man hey yo make sure y'all check my label out I mean uh my clothing line out

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1:26:28

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1:26:33

stuff coming bro on the merchandise side make sure you check me out I'm gonna get some today man yes sir thank you man

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