G9ngstab9by Tells Her Life Story (Full Interview)

Now, what is your opinion on adlibs in a song? - They're important in a song. I feel like adlibs are very important in a song. A lot of times my adlibs bring my song more to life. - Now, when it comes to your adlibs, do you have a strategy at all? When you implement them in your music? - No, it's not strategy. I just listen and I go, feel it. - And be that as it may, even with that description, you just presented, do you have a signature adlib by any chance? a main headlit. And are those two separate adlibs where you do them together as well? Now, for those in the audience here that have heard you say these adlibs before in things that nature, but don't quite know the meaning when you implement them. Is there a meaning perhaps to either of these? No, not at all. And were you the first recording artist here to do this adlib? I feel like that's me hundred percent, that's me. I feel like I heard some highs, but they don't go hard like my high. Now, okay, especially the eye one, right? That you do. Do you recall how that started? Maybe the first song you started implementing that song. Big, big. Bitch, I don't love you. I lied to you. I, I, I, it's kind of like a feeling and then I ran with it. I just ran with it. And what's been the reaction from maybe, you know, fans, followers, supporters that hear these adlibs? Do they also, do they ever say it to you in comments like on social media and things that nature too, or is it just more so when they see you type of thing? Now, when it comes to collaborating with other recording artists, which you've done, have you ever added your adlibs to another artist's verse on the same song? Yeah. I just did it the other day, actually. For a song that's been released or song unreleased. And how does that work exactly? Do you just voluntarily do that or does the other artists ask you to do that? Got it. And what about this last question here or last topic on the subject of adlibs? A little bit of a different twist. What is your opinion on adlibs on a song from an artist, but no hooker verse from them on that song? It's just their, it's just their adlibs. Excuse me, sprinkled throughout the track. No, lurs, just adlibs all the way through. No, there's lyrics. It's from other artists. It's just not there. So I'll give you an example. Give you an example. Kanye West has a song called Can't Tell Me Nothing. Okay. GZ adlibs throughout the song. No hooker verse. Somebody else is adlibs. No hooker verse from GZ on that song. That's hard. Actually, I think my brother did that to me. I think my brother adlibs. What song is that? I don't know right now, but he done that. No hooker verse from him, just his adlibs. No, he did my adlibs and took shit on his own. And are you able to explain how that happened? So again, was it something that he just, you ask him to do that here? Yeah, I think I asked him to do that. Okay. Well, ask you a variety of questions here just on the subject of adlibs. Is there anything else you want to mention about adlibs while we're on it? No, but I'm good enough for me to say about their stuff. Bitches need to start trying to steal my adlibs. Let me do my adlibs by myself. Don't try to come do my adlibs, dude. I be here and there she is. Now, how do you handle something like that? Do you call these people out publicly? Do you call them out privately by, you know, messaging them or reaching out? A lot of times I don't say nothing. I be feeling like maybe it's like an inspiration thing. You know, like maybe she really loved my musical style and she redid it or whatever, but sometimes it be too much. Now, so just for clarification here, you have privately called out some people over this or publicly and have they stopped when you did reach out and confront them. Yeah. Okay. Just curious there. You know, artists feel differently about that sort of thing. You're the type of person to confront. It sounds like if necessary. There's some that, you know, they look at it like it's flattery. They don't they're kind of passive about it. Yeah. Because it's not like you saying, hey, hey, hey, like I do that. It's not you saying that. You're going to like you know, that's me. So copying it verbatim is a no, no, but maybe some sort of variation of it. Putting their own sauce to it is different. It's a difference between your inspired and you like them. I want to make this my own and I'm ready to just like you. It's different. Got it. Now, okay, when it comes to your music catalog at this point, what would you say is been your biggest song so far in that catalog of yours? My biggest song right now, probably AI. Yeah. Yeah. Probably AI. I would say AI. Now, if you go on YouTube, it's going to say big bad is over AI. AI just dropped ten months ago. And big bad is over AI right now on my channel. But then when you go to AI is hit millions on Facebook, million on TikTok, almost a million on Instagram is, you know, so AI is my biggest song, but it might look like big. Now, you mentioned a variety of social media platforms here like YouTube, Instagram, things that nature even said, your channel. For those in the audience, getting to know you here for the very first time, care to share your official screen names, user names, handles on all these social media platforms because there could be some fraud or scammy pages of you so to speak. It's always going to be gangster, baby, gangster, that baby. But the A's are nine. So once you type man, G nine, I probably won't pop up, but G nine N G S T A that B nine B one. Now, are you able to break down this stage name of yours? Break it down. Yeah. The spelling of it. Why the nines are there replacing the eight that just the whole synopsis there with that. So nine stands for new individual needs, everybody. That's what I stands for. And I ain't no, a lot of people can't stand on their own when they body cell. A lot of people depend on people and only act up when they wear people or only so no individual needs everybody else. And I'm going to be the same way with my niggas, what else might they'll matter. So we put the nine in a lot, you know, in the name, gangster baby came from when I was a kid and I was running around. It needs to be like, baby, gangster. But I switched it and put gangster, baby, gangster. Now back in those days, the first person that referred to as baby gangster, do you recall who that was? Who first called you that or coined that? Yeah. This was one bell and when I first thought he and I remember the first person that implemented that. I don't know. This was probably like eight years ago. Now you've already pronounced your name here, gangster, baby. Of course, it's got the nines in it and things of that nature. Do people mispronounce this stage name of yours by any chance though? No, they never mispronounce it. Sometimes people forget the nines and try to put it a and, you know, but no, they never miss. So there might be some misspellings there. And then also two on DSPs seems like there's a misspelling as well, because there's a version of your music that's under gangster, baby, with no space. And then there's a version of music from you with a space between gangster and baby. Yeah. DSPs digital streaming platforms like Spotify, title, Apple music. So I'm thinking people that drop features and stuff with me probably type my name and stupid. And that's very well. But the official name is no space between gangster, baby. It's just one word. Yeah. And just asking for those that might be confused with that as well. Now, because people do misspell this stage name of yours, has there ever been a thought on changing it perhaps? No. And also, aside from, you know, correctly pronouncing your name, do you accept any abbreviations of this name by any chance? Something shorter. You're okay with people calling you by. Do people ever say G9? Do you have a preference between any of those abbreviations of this stage name? Okay. Just curious there. But would you rather have zooming out? Sounds similar question. Zooming out. Would you prefer people call you by your full stage name in its entirety or maybe one of these abbreviations here? My full name, baby. And when it comes to your Instagram, wanted to see if you could break this down a little bit. There's some items here that wanted to ask you about. Like in the bio, for example, all right. Gianna leaf, I'm pronouncing that right. With a lip emoji there, okay? So that answers that. Breaking down some of this bio a little bit further, you have the number 20 lip emoji again, and then a Libra sign. - I'm 20 and I'm gonna leave it. - Now, speaking of that, can you share your birthday as well? The month and the day, perhaps. - I don't know. They're like, they won't try to do some witchcraft for me as well. (laughs) But right now I'm sober though. I sobered up one, two thousand, four. - Okay. Now, you had no problem revealing your age here, right? There are some recording artists asking the same question. They pass on that answer. Why no problem sharing your age? - Because I'm young, I'm so young. They probably need older, and that's what I'd be like. - Got it. Okay, three other phrases here. I wanna break down on this Instagram of yours. R9GM. Are you able to break that down at all? (laughs) - I don't know what that means, I don't know what it means. - Okay. Big bad. Also, it's two in that bio. Is that a reference to that? - Yeah, it's like I'm big, big. Like I bitch, it's like yeah, I'm big, or whatever. I know I'm big, big, and I made that my song that was my first video drive. - Got it, so you first were saying the moniker, I had the moniker, and then create a song for it, or does the song get creative first, and then the nickname kinda sticks. - I was saying it first, and then I dropped the song, and then it's like my thing. - And then last one here, the gorgeous op. - 'Cause I'm gorgeous. - Now, is this something that people called you, or is this a-- - No, I made that up for myself. - Okay. - And they ran with it. - Got it. - And now, aside from your Instagram handle, you also are on TikTok as well. And I wanted to ask you about something you have in your TikTok profile too. Erbo. - Oh shit. That's a herbal. That's another nickname I had in the city, in Baltimore, musical on the herbal. - Got it. Have you ever had a chance to meet someone like G. Herbo yet? In real life? - Herbo. - Yes. In how your celebrity? - Well, have you met G. Herbo period? - No, I haven't met G. Herbo. - Okay, just curious there. Now, um, okay, aside from your name, I do wanna ask you these sets of questions here too. Now, care to share your race, ethnicity. - Italian, black, and Spanish. - Got it. - My mind was Italian and Spanish, my body was 100% black. - And what's the main language you speak at this point? - English, I don't know Spanish. - Or Italian? - No. - None of that stuff. (laughs) Now, be that as it may. Have you ever took a foreign language class in school, perhaps, of some sort? - Uh-uh, they did it like in high school. Yeah, I dropped out of school in 8th grade, and then made that. - Never made it to high school. Now, what was that reasoning for you to make that decision? - Oh, Lord, please. I had to get put out of school. It was just too much, too much. They gave me a hard time in school. Not the kids. The adults gave me a hard time in school. And I had a problem with authority in listening. And I felt like a lot of shit was pointless to listen to in the first place. Don't wear a hood. Like, they just wanna tell you something. That's how I felt. It's not, you know, I'm fine. I'm not hurtin' myself, I'm not hurtin' nobody. I got on a hood. Leave me, you know, so it used to be a lot of conflict. I got expelled from a vanguard, beaten up a substitute teacher when I was in sixth grade. It's a lot of school, that was all okay. I didn't get a bunch of alternatives to schools. I gave up, I gave up, it was too much. - How many times were you actually expelled? - Obviously the one time there. - Probably just three, like three. - And care to share the reasons for the other expulsions? - Fighting. - And what were these fights over back then? - I don't remember stupid shit. I was a kid, I don't know. I remember the one thief, the thief bitch, trying to steal my, I had like some cute little cat ears. It's like a headband that we used to wear. What the care there's one is. He tried to steal my cat ears, I don't know what part it is. I got a spell for that, her mother tried press charges on me. That's why I was on probation when I was like eight years old. They just a lot, they just gave me a hard time. School is very difficult for me. - Probation at eight years old? That's not an exaggeration? - No, not exaggeration. - What is probation at eight years old like? - Exactly, but. - I honestly don't remember, they didn't make me do much. I think it was like, I don't know what the fuck they wanted me to do. Like, I don't really remember. I just remember getting in trouble at home and yeah, yeah, no. - And just asking because there's some kids that never get into fights or may avoid fights in things that nature. So just curious maybe what, you know, some of that sort of thing stemmed from for you back then. - I feel like, people be playing, people be playing. Then I'm brighter, she ate, life's killing. I feel be playing, they be thinking I'm so, that's what I went through. And then I moved to so many schools, so often I had to fight so much because then I made this school and then I got proved to myself. I'm not sure if I get like two people, nobody else will want to fight you no more. But every school you go to, you gotta prove yourself that I got a new school, proved myself. Now I gotta go to a new school. So it just never ends. - Now when it came to, you know, dropping out at eighth grade, what was your parents' reaction to that? Were they okay with you not furthering your education or stopping school at that time? - My mother wasn't okay with it, but it didn't, I mean like, she can't drag me to school and stay there with me, you know? Like, she gotta go to work, she there work. She can't drag me and sit in the class and make sure I sit there. Was there a thought on maybe like online schooling, online classes, things of that nature? - I was thinking about getting my GD. I was just thinking about the age of GD. Thought just came about right three months ago. - So that could be something in the future for you. And if you do obtain that GD, why even go for that? As high as you're climbing on the success ladder with music. - Just because I can say that I did it, right? I want children, I love children. I can lie to my kids, you know? I'll be like, yeah, I've finished school, go to school. I did it, you could do it, but I did it, do it. So, I don't know, I feel like I should do it though. Especially before I, my kid. I have kids and he get older and, okay. - Got it. Now, speaking of kids, did any of your classmates end up becoming well-known or famous themselves? - Nope. And, you know, when kids grow up, sometimes they have aspirations of what they want to be when they grow older, what they want to do when they grow older. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. For you, did you have any aspirations back in the day of what you wanted to be, what you for saw yourself to be? - I did, I did, since I was a little, well, first I was thinking when I was a little girl, so like, it's video to me eight years old, thinking and rapping to. So, I feel like that's what I always wanted to do, but when you asked me what I wanted to be when I was older, I never said a thing or a rapper, but I always sang and I always, you know? So, I always loved music. - So, did you have an occupation at all that you wanted to do or be when you grew older? - The truth. Honestly, when I was a boy girl, I don't know if I should say that. (laughs) You know what I'm saying? Did I say that? So, when I was a little girl, I wouldn't say I was fast, but I don't know. Me and my own girls all said, when we turn 18, we want to be strippers when we turn 18. So, with me as a little girl, whenever, like yeah, we gonna be strippers when we turn 18, yeah. By the time I turn 18, I was like, oh, fuck it. You know, I'm never doing that. You know, you get older, you might say change. But back then I was like, yeah, we're gonna be strippers, girl, wait till I break the weights are 18. Hell no, by the time I was like 15, 16, I was like, oh hell no. - And just curious, what even gotten to your brain to even have that thought of that lifestyle? - I don't remember, I just remember, me and my own girl making a, we like, yeah, we're gonna do this. Like talking about us as adults and stuff, and what we was gonna do. Watch a crazy SID, and then you get older, you be like. - Yes, some things work out for some people and some don't. But, you know, as you have a variety of questions here, just on, you know, the education side of things is for you and you know, you're upbringing up to that point. Is there anything else you want to mention just in regards to your education? education and your schooling days and things of that nature. - I would tell y'all to stay in school. And I would, I mean, the rules are dumb, like very dumb, important, but it ain't gonna last long. It's not gonna last long, you're gonna be done. I only had, how many years left? Like, I should have finished that, I should have. And it might not work out for you. Like, I left school after the ass. It looked like it's working out right now, but that shit might not work out for you. - You know, and that is life, isn't it? Because, you know, there's some people that will even get a master's degree. And they're not doing what they got that master's degree in. And that's them going all the way with school. And then there's people like yourself that drop out and are able to stain, excuse me, sustain a huge amounts of money and make a career living off of, you know, something that they weren't learning in school and things of that nature. And they were gay, McDonnell's. - So yes, we've all seen those headlines of these different synopsis and summaries to people's different lives here. So, different strokes for different folks. But let's get the origin story from you here and dive a little bit deeper with your upbringing. Now, just for those in the audience that are not familiar with you yet and getting to know you here, for the very first time, care to share where you were born exactly. - I'm born in Baltimore, Maryland. I was raised on Beller Road, half my life, most of my life. Yup, I got, I'm the only girl and I'm the youngest kid. I got all the big brothers. - And care to share where you reside these days. - These days, I'd be allotted, please. I'd be in Cali, I'm in Atlanta now. I'm just in New York, I'd be allotted there. - And what age did that traveling start for you? - About like two years ago. - So about 18, give or take? And the traveling started because of music, solier, okay. And just to clarify, Beller Road is that considered East Baltimore as well? Okay. Now, when it comes to your upbringing, what was that really like for you? Growing up in East Baltimore. - What does that mean, Baltimore? - You kind of already hinted a little bit with it, about your schooling days and the fights, the expulsions, the probation at eight, but-- - Outside wasn't even, you know, rules outside. I didn't have, I didn't have much problems outside. Now, did I, you know, you know, you know, but no, it wasn't, it wasn't terrible. It wasn't terrible at all. Actually, it was fun, I was a kid, so. - What do you think the top point for you was during your upbringing in East Baltimore? What was your highest point or most positive moment growing up in that environment for you? - The most positive moment growing up, and East Baltimore, you know. - If there was one for you. - I don't even know, I don't know. - Would you say the singing in rapping talent? - It could be. - Now, you mentioned previously that you also sang at once upon a time, and rapped also, which came first for you historically speaking? Singing or rapping? - Singing first. That was a little girl, I just sang, sing, sing, sing. I used to play the guitar, I used to play a piano. I was just a little pleased, I was singing now. - When it came to like guitar and piano, did you have any sort of formal training or that was just experimentation? - That was me, my mother made a piano for like 50 years, like she had always had that piano, and then I believe who brought me that guitar? I might brought me a guitar when I was a little girl, I don't know where it came from, but. - And you recall the first genre of music you were introduced to way back when? - Probably hip-hop. - Now, he is still singing today, or is it strictly rap at this point for you? - I play around, it's mostly rap, but sometimes I play around and try to create music. I create music. When you can write music, when you write your own music, you create all type of music. - And when it comes to music, okay, it's one thing for a person to listen to music and be a consumer of it. It's another for them to get in the microphone booth and record their own voice. Hear their voice on a mic for the first time. What got you over the hump, so to speak, from just singing it to yourself or to others or rapping to yourself or to others, but then to actually record this stuff, 'cause not everybody goes that far. - At first, I was raping all my brothers and my mother, she liked that. And then I said it was good, but it's just about your family telling you it was good, it's like, you know, okay, I didn't know I was as nice as I was for a long, long time. I felt like your family is gonna be supportive of all this. I see people who post music is ass and you got hell of firemongers this year on the day. That's the causes of shit, like they're their uncles and shit. Yep, so I, my first rap video, I was just all my phone in a car listening to an instrumental and I'm just rapping in my phone, freestyle, post it. They did that for probably like a few months. I just were rapping in a car and posted it and they probably like a few months later. Then I started getting some views on them. So now I got 20,000 views and I'm happy. But then it turned to 50,000 views. Then it turned to 100,000. Then it turned to 500,000. That boosted me up. This is way before I even went to the studio. I didn't go to the studio, yeah, I'm making a song. These like gon viral, just me sitting here rapping. Like did the big bad, I've read the big bad, on the phone and like make this a song, make this a song. It gon viral. I took my time though, I didn't know. I took my time to make it a song. But after I finally went and made it a song, I feel like, no. I recorded probably twice before I did, before big bad. But I never, it never went anywhere. I never did anything with it. You never released it or you released it. It just didn't do anything. I never get gangster shit. And it's probably like right before big bad. We put that out. No, I was recording, I still got some old songs. No, I wasn't recording. So just for clarification, songs that you released or songs that are unreleased. Unreleased in one release. And the big bad was released? Yeah, big bad was released. Yeah, I know you said one song was released. Was that the big bad you're talking about? Or was it a different song? It's called Gangsta Shit. Got it. And that was probably like right, probably like a year before big bad. But that was like, that wasn't on my chain. I didn't, that's on my brother chain. So a lot of people probably haven't even seen that before, so yeah. Well, you've given them some homework then during this interview. And OK, also when it came to the genre of music, you mentioned hip-hop, was probably the first genre of music you were introduced to. Do you recall maybe any prominent artists or songs when you were first introduced to hip-hop? Any names or songs that stick out to you? It's a song all the time when I was a kid. And I can't think of it for you now. The gangsters in the club, hey, baby, hey, baby. That was my shit when I was a little girl, a little kid. I heard a king Chris, hey, baby. OK, yeah, that song, that was my shit. My mother would be talking all the time. He'd start running around the house. Why, folks, gangsters in the club, that was my shit. And it was probably, yeah, that's what I could remember. And what led this to end up becoming a career path for you? Was it just the views and the trajectory and things picking up, or maybe something else here? Pretty much. Once I thought of getting more traction, it made me want to write more, and it made me want to work harder. And then sometimes your views might drop down a little bit. But you know what you can do. So now you stuck, working, working, working. You won't get them numbers back. So that's what it was. It was like a-- I don't know. It was kind of like a game. It's like a game. How many views can I get? How can I do other-- and then it became the career now? Got it. Now, when it comes to the rap side of things for you, right? Do you write or freestyle in punch-in? Both. Right. And historically speaking, how did it start for you in the beginning? Were you writing it first? Just freestyle in punching in? Yeah, I was writing it first. I was writing-- I felt like I was writing it in freestyle in around the same time. I used to play games with myself and with my friends and shit. Just-- I said, you said where they were. I said, you said where they were, and that would make me better. Because I would hit-- I don't know. It just made me-- it made me better. Putting on beats and just saying, Ryan. They don't make sense, but around that's what make you better. They don't matter what you're saying. If you're wrong, that made me better. - Now, if there was a circle chart of 100% here, what percentage would you say writing versus freestyling and punching in for you at this point? - I would say I freestyle more than I right now with these. 'Cause a lot of stuff be like minute, I'll be, you know? - And what do you think's been the biggest song in your catalog so far? We mentioned it in a previous conversation, but just for this portion of questions, for them tuning in. And it's called AI freestyle, right? So was that truly freestyle? Or was it writing involved with that? - So it was mostly freestyle. Like four bars, I probably already had four bars in the cut, but the rest of it was freestyle. - Now, how do you decide whether you write or freestyle these days? - I feel like I freestyle when I'm just more talking shit, 'cause that's easy to do. I feel like I talk shit for these. And I write when it's more like I'm expressing my feelings, like how I'm, it's better to sit and write kind of like a vent, like I'm venting. So if I'm just talking shit, doing some party shit or the, I could just freestyle and go, but if I'm sitting there like I try, so I'm gonna try. I'm gonna write it down. - And do you notice any difference sonically in the actual music, whether you write versus freestyle? - I feel like. - Like can you tell a difference? - I feel like it's more deep when I write. - I feel like it's more deep. - And because you were a writer at first or writing at first, well, I think you answered this question that I was gonna ask. So never mind, I'll back that up. Okay, got it. So, okay, now I wanna ask you this in terms of your upbringing. Okay, so we talked about your highest point, your most positive moment, and maybe that was the talent of music for you. Okay, out of all things considered. And maybe that can change when you look back at this interview. Ah, I forgot to say this, you know, but on the opposite end of the spectrum, what was the bottom point for you during your upbringing? What was your lowest point or most negative moment, growing up in East Baltimore? - It's a lot of negative. It's a lot of negative and terrible shit that I went through in child. - But was there one that was just the worst? - It's so terrible. Shit, it's so terrible. I only be wanna talk about shit, like, I feel like I've moved past a lot of shit, and I've grown from a lot of shit, and then I'm like taking myself backwards. - Totally understandable. And I respect your answer there. But zooming out, how are you able to survive that upbringing in Baltimore? Because there are some that don't make it. - I don't know, I was having fun. It was fun, bottom was fun. It is fun. It's a lot going on, you're going to get in trouble. You can't really beat it, for real, you can't beat it. I don't know, I was fine, I had big brothers. They protect me, you know, I have a great mom, you know. - And I want a side step here for a second, because, you know, something that you mentioned in the early stages of this conversation was like, you're the only girl, you had brothers. - And care to share how many siblings you actually have in total? - I have two big brothers. - And same mother and father for all three of you? And with the youngest position there, being the only girl out of all the siblings, what was either of those feelings like? - It was fine. I always wished I had a sister and stuff, but I had a sister and an elder, you know. I've created my whole family. But it was fine. I got big brothers, you know, I was good. - Because, you know, you had two big brothers and only girl of the siblings, did you take more like a tomboy look? Did you kind of hang with the guys in the bro? Was it kind of like that type of thing growing up? - I feel like that, that is it. I got way more homeboys than I got homegirls, you know. I never really, I didn't care about, right, now I'm trying to get more into, I didn't wear makeup, none of that shit. Like, you know, I'll get into that shit, you know, being more girl. - And has that ever posed a problem for you in like romantic relationships, the fact that you have more guy friends or surrounded by guys than girls? - Men usually don't like, but you'd have more male friends. But when you see how I move and what I'm doing, then, you know, it's not the same. I'm not the same as the girl that's outside. Brother, brother, don't you know. It's not the same for me. It's not. My brothers and homeboys actually like, it's different, they call it niggas brother, they won't even make sure they good. They won't even know it's, it's way different. Way different. - Now there are some people who say things like, don't know if I'll make it to see the age of 18, 21, 25, things of that nature. Have you ever had those thoughts yourself, was there a certain age you might not quite see, you thought at one point? - No. - And why not that line of thinking there for you, like some others? - Firstly, the time is very powerful. Without a say, I'm not gonna make it to 22. I'm not gonna make, why the fuck would I keep with this? No, no, no, no. 'Cause you're not gonna make it to 22, you keep talking like that. You're gonna, you're a track with energy that you put out. I'm not putting on no shit like that and God is not gonna let me die or die or something, man. You don't have to hang my time. - Now be that as it may. Knowing what you know now, hypothetically speaking here, what would you have said to your younger self, back then, if anything? - I'm gonna tell myself that I was pretty in debt. Not to, I was always mean, like I was always an asshole. So I would tell myself that I was pretty, I would have just gave myself who, I would have told myself stay in the house, you know. I became a de-activities with myself. You know, when I was a little girl, I wanted you so much and good, I wanted to dance. I couldn't do that, I wanted to be a cheerleader. Couldn't do that. Couldn't do nothing. - Was it a financial thing? Was it a strict thing? Was it a. - Yeah, kind of strict thing. Couldn't do. So that forced me to be a tall boy. All the girlish shit I'm gonna do is a kid. They said no. No. - Now just curious here, was your mother girly girl herself? - Yes, it was my father, that felt like you can do this. You can't do that. You don't be a cheerleader. It skirts too small. Which did make sense now, it don't make sense now. But, they didn't, they didn't. - Did that ease up? As you grew up, did some of that stuff kind of go out, you know, sometimes when kids get older, some of those type of guidelines go down the window, or go out the window. - So, my father was in my life until I was 20 years old. Never seen him since, you know? I did kind of go wild. - Once he left? - Yeah. - Once he was out the picture. - I feel like, yeah. He restricted me from so much. That's why I'm not going to be like that with my kids. Because now that I'm up age, I'm doing every day. I keep going to jail. I'm all over the place. I'm talking about 13 years old. My mother got come pick me up, because I'm locked up. I'm calling her 14 years old, it's her birthday. I'm locked up with her birthday. Call her. Wow. I went, I went. All the shit I couldn't do, I did everything plus more, plus more, plus more. Like, can't be strict with your kids. Like not like that. I feel like, that's why, well, I don't really want daughters. I want more sons, but I got nieces and shit. I want them to be able to do all the girly girls stuff. They want to do, you know, all of them? Because I didn't get to experience that. Yeah, I went wild. Talk about belly shirts for two years straight. I ain't wear a full shirt now once for two years Real belly shirt for two years straight. I ain't own now one full shirt Everything I'm gonna do Now I share a lot of questions here about this upbringing of yours. Is there anything else you want to mention just in regards to that? Nope. I don't. And All right. When it comes to your father, I do want to ask you this though. Do you want To have that relationship mended? It's been too long. Yeah, it is. Just curious what your outlook was on that. Damn, he is. Oh my god. You don't know me. You don't know me. You don't know nothing about me. You don't know my favorite color or no shit. What the fuck am we doing? Got it. Now moving forward here. Who or what motivates you at this point? I know everything that I want and everything that I want for not only myself people around me and that motivates me. Me saying artists. They don't go as hard as me. Actually doing something. I'm like, oh, I know I just got you. It don't make sense. That motivates me. Now circumstances could be different for everyone, but there may be someone in the audience who need some motivational words or encouragement themselves right now. Can you give them any? I was saying life is very short. Life is very short. Like I swear I was just 14 last week. I swear I was 14 last week. You can't waste but so much time. That's what I was saying. I don't know how anybody couldn't be motivated especially in this economy and especially everybody living on a fucking phone. You know what you see when you get on your phone money, money, imagine, srts how you're not motivated. And my last topic for you today here because I know you got the 230 right 230. Okay, last topic for you here. Juicy J. Okay, when it comes to juicy J. What's it really like working with him? He's very caring. He's funny. Of course great idea. He actually listens to my ideas like what I want to do and what I think. Great. The great deal. Now what's a studio session with him like? It depends. It depends. There's going to be fans before fans. You know, he like a mixture of serious and playful, playful wins. Now out of all of his characteristics, what do you enjoy the most about him? Would I enjoy the most at this point? Well, I enjoyed how Karen he is. I can't like him at all. He called me. He's staying out of trouble. And just to be fair here, we're all about transparency. On the opposite end of the spectrum. Is there a characteristic of his? You can't stand. We have a head. No. We have a bunch. He's not one. And what's he used? Got it. And again, just asking. So, you know, it's fair for both sides here. But what's the best advice you've received from him so far? Or most important thing you learned being around him? Most important thing that I've learned from being around him will probably be a lot of shit. If he didn't want to help me, it shouldn't have my image. You know, I get pissed off there. And I might feed him to some shit. Or I might feel some type of way. I might, that's not important because that's not, you know. That's the most important thing. Now, I believe if my calculations are correct and you correct me if I'm wrong here, I believe there's three songs publicly of collaborations between you and Juicy J at the moment. How many is there unreleased of you two together? There's two songs. I don't know how many, but there's four songs. And has there been any discussion about a project of just you two together? No, but now we're probably will be now. I never thought about it. Just curious there. Anything else you want to mention about Juicy J here? Well, excuse me. Well, we're on the subject about him. Nope. He is a good dude. He believed that he met me. He brought me in his world. And do you recall how that even, this bond between you two even took place? Instagram. So he was listening to my songs. I guess when Instagram, I didn't know that. And I reached out sitting with him. He was like, hey, hard. Make a song. With the L.A. Was it a song in particular of yours that he really enjoyed at the time that might have kind of sparked this? Good question. I don't know. I don't know which song it was. I don't remember. Because sometimes people are fans of someone's song. And then, you know, they listen to the other material. But you probably heard a few songs. Just curious there. Well, you know, I have some more questions for you. But I know for the sake of time you have to jet. So we'll just do a little outro here. Just in case there's anything else you want to mention before you dip. But I do want to ask you this, when it comes to your followers, your fans or supporters, what do you refer to them as? Gangsta baby in G9. So gangster babies is more. I'm leaning more towards the lady in G9 is more towards the male. Now, was this a name you dubbed them? Or was this a name they dubbed themselves? I let them pick. So they're saying, um, why we don't have no name? I mean, like a poll and I put like five different things and I let them pick. And whatever the one they got the most clicks is. So say those two names one more time in G9s and gangster babies. Okay, got it. Now before this interview ends, is there anything else you were not asked? The gangster babies or G9s want to know? Um, got an answer for that. You want to say great because I don't do many interviews. And I know they're going to watch all the end. I don't have many, you know, and this is more. More than they need. Some of them probably knew a little bit more. I do run my mouth. Especially on live. I'd be yapping for like air was not be yapping with them. But they definitely like something. And with this conversation, is there anything else you want to add to what you've said? Is there anything you want to subtract from what you said, perhaps? Nope. You know, something did just come to mind here. You did mention God during this interview. So I want to ask you this if you're able to share an answer. Do you follow a religion by any chance? Okay. So my grandma is a Christian. My mom is a Christian. Me. I'm a Christian because of how I, you know, around me. I haven't really gotten a chance to really read up on everything myself. And I probably do that later on in like 20 years or so. But yeah, I would say Christianity. And for you, does it get any more specific than that? Like, you know, sometimes there's branches under Christianity that get a little bit more specific. Okay. Any last words before you leave? Nope. I love you. I love you.