Raq baby Breaks Down "I NEVER GAVE AF" Album, Trinidad James, Junior, Momager (Full Interview)

Now, at this point, what genre of music do you consider yourself? Um, pop music. That's what I think. Rap, shit, I don't even know. Rap ain't rap. I'm a pop star. But when you do rap, what is your opinion on ad-libs in a song? I don't do it. I don't do ad-libs at all. I hate repeating myself anyway, but I feel like it depends. Ad-libs do make the song pop, but everybody don't know how to do ad-libs. Ad-libs is a gift. That's what people don't know. People can't just go in there and say anything behind what you said. You'll fuck up the song. I've been doing good without doing anything. The world ain't never noticed that, that I ain't never had no ad-libs. So I'm like, I just be listenin' to that motherfucker. You know what's crazy? I know how to do ad-libs and make 'em sound good. I just don't do it. I just feel like it take away from the song sometimes. But, it really, it been songs that I didn't put ad-libs on that before. But, I don't do ad-libs on that before, but not a lot, not a lot. Hell no. They probably have. I probably never noticed it, but now that I know, I'ma get mad as fuck. I don't even want that shit on my shit. Don't do no ad-libs. Just curious there. Well, moving forward on the subject of music, I wanna do a deep dive on this brand new project of yours. And, uh, get into that at this point. Now, can you explain to the audience everything they need to know about "I Never Gave" AF? You know, I feel like it really explains itself. I don't give a fuck about nothin'. At the end of the day, you shouldn't. I shouldn't. We should. Get it? The world don't give a fuck about us. So why do we give a fuck, brother? Just live it. Now, this mentality that you have, was this something you've always had, or was this something you grew into? Like, was there a time when you did give an F about things? Yeah, yeah. Everybody had a time when they gave a fuck. It's like, when you done givin' a fuck, you gotta have a reason behind it. You gotta have a reason behind it. You can't just be. It depends on what's going on in your life, for real. I done had a lot of hiccups and shit. It's like, me saying I never gave a fuck is just my way of saying I'ma keep pushing, no matter what be going on. You know what I'm saying? And at what point in your life did you realize that you were gonna give a fuck? Yeah. At what point in your life did you realize that you were gonna give a fuck? Yeah. It's like, when in your life does that mentality start to transition into that? Was it an age? Was it a grade in your life? Maybe it was a particular hiccup when you kind of switched gears there? Oh, God. I was young, though. My fault. I was young, though. About, like, 14, 15. 13, probably. Now, when it comes to this body of work, how do you describe it? I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. Is this an album to you? Is this a mixtape to you? What do you consider it? This is a fuckin' side project, you know what I mean? Like, this shit is somethin' crazy. This shit ain't no, this shit is somethin' you can't put together. Only one man can put it together, probably. Somebody oughta help you put this shit together. And speaking of putting it together, when it comes to that title, once again, was that a title that you came up with, or maybe someone coined for you? For this project? Man, I ain't comin' up with shit, I'm comin' up with that. And when you came up with this title, at what point during the creation or recording process do you name this project? So for example, do you come up with this title and then start creating and recording the songs for it? Are you just creating and recording songs and this title comes to you at some point? That will happen. Okay. You know, I made a song first. Not that I'm talkin' too much shit. Yeah. It's like I don't get no fuck, you know what I'm sayin'? Now were there any scrap titles for this project? Titles you were thinking about naming this, but ended up not choosing them? No. It'd probably be shit somebody else threw out there, but I don't be throwin', when I throw somethin' out there, brother, it deal with me, that's what I'm gonna go with. Nobody gonna make me change it. Now let's discuss the artwork. Can you break down this artwork a little bit further? Can you shed some light on what's going on in this artwork here? Why does it look the way it does? Is there any meaning behind it? So on and so forth. Well, you get the meaning behind that shit. It's the same shit that what, you know what I'm sayin', with the arm, with the title of the album, that give you that same vibe. It's a whole 'nother damn table suckin' my dick, shit like that, like, niggas eat wings and shit, watch on, watch on the counter, boss shit, I got a goddamn belt jacket on, belt wash shit, shit like that, man. And were those some random wings, or were those actually your favorite wings on the table there? They was not my favorite wings, fuckin' hell. When it comes to wings, is that one of your favorite things to eat? Or that was just for the artwork, more or less? Uh, it was really like, what you mean, like, it was my idea to put the wings on there? Yeah, like, are you into wings, so you wanted to incorporate that there? 'Cause I'm sure you could've put anything there, really. Yeah, real shit. Shit like that, yeah, I did that. Could've put a filet mignon, a steak, uh, lamb chops. Wings, that's what I'm gonna go to, though. Well, speaking of wings here, let's just sidestep with that conversation. Yo, you talkin' about, like, you got some wings in one of these bitches, I'm like, I'm gonna fight. I don't have any wings for you, but I am curious, when it comes to all the wing locations you may have ever experienced, who's got the best in your opinion? When you're craving wings, where do you go? In what states are you talkin' about? 'Cause I done had some wings all over everywhere. Where's your favorite state for wings, your favorite city for wings, your favorite location in that city or state, perhaps? My favorite city for wings is Atlanta, Georgia. Okay. So let's break down Atlanta. What's your favorite spot for wings in ATL? Long as I rest. And when it comes to this location, is there just one location of this establishment, or are there multiple? I don't think there's multiple, but I'm a young man. I go right there. Whitehall, all that shit right there. Okay. And how do you order your wings? How do you like them prepared? I order my wings. Yeah, you go to Wings R Us, what's that order? How do you do it? Everybody like honey hot. They be dick riding each other sometimes. I don't want weed. I ain't with all that. I'm a hot lemon pepper type of man. I like hot lemon pepper sprinkled dry, all mixed on a joint. Shit like that, you know what I'm sayin'? I sauce up my own fries and shit. I don't need to do none of that type shit. I like sauce up my own fries and shit. Drums or flats? I go, it don't matter. It's meat. Ranch or blue cheese? Ranch. I don't know. Like, blue cheese ain't nasty. 'Cause now that I done grew into it back then, that shit used to be over there. It just stink, bro. Blue cheese stink bad. And, uh, when you, uh, sauce up your own fries and things like that, you know what I mean? Yeah. Do you, in that nature, care to share with the audience how you do it or what you do to them? Uh, look. They what I do. I got down, I put, they got, um, I just put, I just put a lil' sea salt on my shit, for real. I don't do all the extra lemon pepper and shit. Like, that's what all the bros, the bros are my best friends, they be doin' their shit. They don't be doin' their shit. Put they got down lemon pepper and shit on there, and you got all that. And it looks like, uh, you were working. You were wearing a straight jacket, or a form of a straight jacket. No, in the wings. On that album cover, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that your idea as well? Was there any meaning behind that in particular? Yeah, that wonderful, kind jacket, man. It was supposed to be me just sendin' it. They know what was goin' on. I came up with all that shit. The belts. I was really supposed to be scrapped up, but I didn't do it. 'Cause I, I feel like somebody had it. I already did that shit. So I was like, you know what? I ain't even gon' do that. If I was upside down, scrapped up, hangin' for some shit, ooh. I ain't gon' give y'all nothin', but ideas, man. Check that out. Check that shit out, man. Now, what about the release date here? This project was released on September 10th. Was there any meaning behind that release date for you? September 10th? Yeah. September, the month of September, yeah. It was just the month of September before it was about to drop. A lot of shit happened in the month of September. Not this year, though, but last year. September 10th is close to September 11th. Were you going for that date at all by any chance? I was. And how do you look back on how everything turned out? Do you wish you would have still released it on September 11th, or were you okay with the September 10th date? It was really cool, though. It was cool. I didn't really want to change. I just wanted to get shit out. I wanted to drop it on the day I wanted to drop it off. Now, as much press and media coverage you've done thus far, are there any unknown facts or stories in regards to this project that's never been publicly mentioned before? I don't know. They brought that shit. They bring those shit that ain't never happened. So, shit. I'm not telling what they got in the bag. Any secrets, any tea, so on and so forth. In regards to the project. No one knows. I don't got no real secrets, for real. Shit. But, it is some shit that I won't tell you. Maybe somebody else know about it. And got to ask you this now. It's 2025. Was there any AI technology used in the creation of this project at all? AI technology used in my project? Yes. You talking about in the videos or what? Yeah. In the videos or in the cover art. It could be anything here. It could be mixing and mastering tools. It could be the graphic design. It could be, yes, the music video. Oh, did you see AI? Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out here. Was anything that you used in particular AI? Did you use any AI software? No, I'm not talking about it. Okay. Yeah, I know. Didn't chat GPT any lyrics or anything or help with your bars or? I don't know. Got to ask. It's 2025. This stuff is happening. They doing that type of shit? Some people are, yes. I don't know about the chat GPT, the bars thing, but yes, there's different facets now where AI technology is being used in the music industry. Didn't know if you had tapped into that at all. If you were, was curious as to what, but sounds like this was all done by humans here. Yeah, I know. Now, what about as far as the length of this project? It's 18 tracks. Why that particular? The particular amount for it, because could have gotten more, done 21, 25, could have gotten a little less, 12, 15. I was trying to get out there about 30 of them, bitch. Yeah. I was trying to get a nigga about 30. They didn't want to let me do it. Who is they? Who was holding you back from this music here? The higher power. Higher power, as in your record label here, I didn't know. My damn mama, your mother stopped you from the 30 songs. Yeah, well, curious here before you ended up with these 18, how many did you have to choose from? I mean, I had to choose from before you wanted it down to the million. I made so many down. So I had to choose from everything. And what was that narrowing process like for you? How did you do it? How long did it take? How long did it take to do what? To go from a million songs to this final 18 here. I'm not trying to get something out of my back. I don't think I'm digging, man. I'm trying to get something out of my back for you, brother. Go ahead. Take your time here. Yeah. But go ahead. What'd you do? What was your narrowing down process like to go from like a million tracks to the final 18 here? Yeah. How did you do it? How long did it take you to narrow down? Was there a process for you in particular on how you did it? It should be a process every time. I feel like if you could think for your goddamn, if you could think about your album in one day, bro, I don't know what the fuck going on. You ain't making no hot shit. In my eyes, shit. It's songs like that we couldn't throw on this one, but was so hard, it's gotta go on the next one. It's like shit like. It be shit like. It be shit like that. And when you say next one here, are we talking a deluxe version of this project or a whole new project in and of itself? Probably not a deluxe. Probably like some whole nother album shit. It be songs for certain albums. I'm saying for certain things. Some songs gotta go on the album. Ain't no mixtape, deluxe, none of that shit. Some songs gotta go straight on the album, brother. Now, who put this track on the album? Who put this tracklist order together? Me. And what was that process like for you? How long did that take? It was the same shit. Got down with a long time. Probably like a month. Probably took us a month. If you think about it, she put it together like 30 days. And sonically, how would you describe the strategy of this tracklist here? So, for example, some recording artists will have a rollercoaster sound, almost like one song up. One song down. One song up. One song down. For some other recording artists, it's a vibey tracklist. So, it might be two, three songs, similar vibe. Then another two, three songs, similar vibe. And then for others, it's like a story. It takes you from beginning to end. Let me explain this. I don't fucking lose. I don't lose. I don't lose. I mean. I make hot shit. It's all I know how to do. I don't buy another nigga's shit. I don't do nothing of that. You know? Dick ride on nigga to the top. Nothing of that, brother. I make hot shit. That shit in my soul. So, I sacrifice a lot of shit for this shit. So, you know. Me. I'm not losing. I'm not doing no losing. I'm not losing. I'm not losing. I'm not losing. I'm not losing. I can't drop. I don't have no hot garbage for no nigga. I don't have that. I go in there, my fucker, and talk like a baby. It ain't about what you're saying. It's about deliverance. And we got to think about that. Like, everybody want this lyrical shit. Lyrical, dirical. No nigga ain't doing all that. You know? Like, no disrespect to the lyricist. All the good niggas that know how to put the word. I can do that. I can do that. I can do that. I can do that same shit. Everybody can do that same shit. But I just don't talk like that. You know why? Because that ain't the life I'm living. He looking like, oh yeah, he rapping. Goddamn nigga like goddamn Nas in them. They can rap the gangster shit, but they rap about like brighter futures and shit like that. And my shit ain't got bright. Don't get me wrong. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got bright future and all that shit, but we living in today's society. So, like, a nigga talking, basically, like, future referencing, I'm talking for now. That's all I'm saying. So, when they be like, oh, I wouldn't want to hear that young, hot garbage. Y'all not out here in this shit. So, that's why you ain't going to feel that shit. Everybody come up with new shit. It's going to be something new. All the time, bro. It's going to be some shit new. Ten years from now, niggas in our generation ain't going to understand. We're going to be like, fuck, we weren't doing that shit. But, who the fuck are you to be trying to perfect something for? We don't care. Just do it. You know, everybody care too much. That's what I said. That's why my album never gave a fuck. But you can see that it's genuinely me not giving a fuck. I ain't even just bringing it back up. It just all go together. I don't give a fuck, gang. Everybody got to stop. I don't give a fuck. Stop caring. It'd be too much going on. Now, curious here. This response that you just gave about how you describe your music and maybe the difference between you and Anaz and things of that nature. Right. Is this something you've been getting criticism for? Like, or for lack of a better phrase, like OGs or old heads criticizing your music and what you make? Or is this just a debate you're kind of. I'm speaking for the one. Ain't nobody really ever. Came and told me, you know, shit like that. But I know. I speak on shit that I don't go through because I know somebody else going through it. So I just. I'm speaking for all the young people at the moment that like the shit that we like. I don't like everything that these niggas nowadays liking. Everybody got their own preference of shit. But I'm just speaking for a nigga, like, just in case the other generation don't understand what the fuck going on. You know what I'm telling y'all? Like, in order for you to understand. Wow. with me for the days that I'm walking through. That I'm going through these things that I'm going through and see if you'll understand then. And just asking here, because that is a hot debate. There are, you know, some older people in hip-hop that do criticize and critique the current generation's music. And then there are some that, you know, are okay with it. So you giving out your thoughts and your perspective from where you're at is very interesting because this is a current debate. So just curious. I didn't know if you were kind of replying to critics here or you were just kind of just philosophically talking just out in the open. Now, you mentioned sacrifice here. You mentioned you, and I'm paraphrasing you here, but, you know, you sacrificed a lot for this stuff. What do you think's been your biggest sacrifice so far? In regards to where you gotten to be positioned at now, musically? Friends. I ain't gonna lie, before I say friends, don't think I'm sacrificing my damn friends or whatever the hell you're thinking. I don't know what the world you're thinking. See, there they go with that shit. They're like, let somebody die, make sacrifices. Bring baby, soul to soul. Y'all bitch ass up. And if I did hit, nigga. See what I'm saying? But look, this all on time. Made a lot of sacrifices for this shit, man. Friends, family, a lot of niggas ain't here no more. See what I'm saying? Around me. Ain't talking about dead or none of that locked up, none of that. I'm talking about ain't around me no more. Certain shit you gotta sacrifice. Certain shit that you don't want to. Cut off certain shit that you don't want to do no more. All that. You gotta put it to the test, brother, because you're gonna fail if you don't cut all that shit out your hand. It be sad, though. Nigga be thinking about certain people like, damn, I miss them, nigga. But like, fuck them. They ain't got nothing right right now. When they get right or whenever they come to their, you know what I'm saying? Right, sense it, they'll be back around. But what I'm chasing, what I'm chasing, sacrifice that shit. Cut that shit. Cut that shit off. And speaking of chasing, what is the end goal for you out of all this stuff? Man, to be richer than all you niggas. It ain't even being richer than all you niggas. It's just, shit. I don't want to spend a million dollars on nothing. Like, and what I mean by nothing is like shit that y'all bust y'all ass for. Houses, cars, shit like that. I don't want to wake up and just spend a million on that shit, give it to my juniors. Give it to my mama. Shit like that. I done had the fast cars. I done had the big crills. I done had all that money. I done got all that. But you know what I mean? I'm still getting money every day, no matter what a nigga think. Every day, man, we getting fucking chicken. You hear me? And it's crazy. This is going to be a good year. This shit's all going to see from me this year. It's going to be wild. I ain't going to lie. They're going to be like, "That nigga really getting money." - And speaking of junior here, is this in reference to Baby Rack? - No. Y'all got to understand. I just say my junior, because that's my son. Junior is a whole different person. So when they like, just like that song "Junior" I just dropped, this song is about two people. So I still be thinking about junior. Sometimes I want to cry. That's a whole different person than my cousin. But now that I know I got a junior and need no one on my side. That's what I was saying. So people be thinking my son ain't junior. No. Nah, he's fucking. - And how many kids do you have at this point? Just to be clear. - 20. Yeah, one on the way. So there's 21. - And you're only 20 years old. - I'm only 20. - And just in case there's some misinformation online about you. - All right. Try to share your, your birthday while you're at it. The month and the day, perhaps. - The month and the day? - Yeah. - July 17th, 2023. - Okay, you're trolling here. You're trolling. You don't want to give it the, give us the- - Man, I was just born two years ago, man. - Okay, you're trolling again. - I'm trolling. You want to know my birthday, man? Look, July 17th, 2023. - More trolling. - Okay. Okay, now speaking of hot. - Yeah. - What's your favorite song out of these 18? - Out of 18? - Yes. - Damn. - What's Rack Baby's favorite song? - The one that I just dropped? It's going to be like, "Oh My God, Dude." That's my favorite. Yeah, oh my, Dirty Dan. Dirty Dan, that's my shit. If I know you out there, someone you up to, give me that pat, little dude. All you rap niggas by my side, give me that bat, little dude. See how I have the fun, she can't pull off this shit on flat, little dude. Now, speaking of biting, have you caught other rappers biting your stuff? Yeah. How do you deal with that? This guy done come up with some new shit. You see, I like, look, listen to this beat. Listen to this beat. Give it a look, give it a look, give it a look. That little bopping, you see what I'm saying? Chicago, Illinois, nigga, we started that. You hear that little tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, in the back. Yeah, we started that. Y'all niggas want to come down here and put all that shit in y'all. I was the first nigga making them type of song with the bopping beats. All the futuristic shit, all that brought to the, I brought all that shit to them. Nigga was just yelling, you see what I'm saying? You got to think about that. Nigga was just yelling to the back of they fucking brain. Ain't nothing wrong with it, but don't jack my shit. Don't jack my shit. That's what I'm saying, nigga. Stole my shit. But it's cool, brother. A lot of niggas be stealing my shit. Floor, all that. Nigga be rapping on my type beats, all that. It's cool, though, brother. Now, you seem real calm about that sort of thing. There are others that feel very territorial, very possessive about their flows and their, you know, the way they do things, so on and so forth. You know, there's some that call people out privately or publicly. Make it a big deal, a spectacle. For you, have you ever done that, or you just keep it cool, calm, and collected, knowing that people. I ain't keep it on like that, because I ain't going to be like no cap-ass nigga and sit right here like I don't be mad about this shit. I'd be mad. I don't even be mad. I'd be mad at the fact a nigga don't like to pay you your homage. You see what I'm saying? Nigga don't like to pay your respect, your dues, when you started some shit. Niggas don't want to do that. Niggas don't want to do that type shit. Niggas will be trying to act like they started some shit on their own and all that. Niggas ain't do. They'll have a verse, nigga. Any one of these rappers. But niggas don't even be saying shit. Niggas don't even be understanding what I be saying in my songs. Niggas talk about drilling, killing. It's the way you talk about it, though. You know? Everybody doing their same shit. All that drilling and killing, nigga. Everybody doing their shit, nigga. Like. You yelling it in the mic ain't going to make you a good rapper. Or like you got them. Stealing another nigga's shit ain't going to make you a good rapper. Nigga can't. Nigga on that song with the same flow from that one. Same flow from that one. Nigga going to go on that bitch. Just like that. And be thinking like J-Paul to be. But these do be the best rappers in the world that everybody be. Niggas come on that bitch and say a bunch of shit. And they just be the best shit out. But I don't never hate on no nigga, though. Look, at the end of the day, you did what you did to get down. Get where you got. Me. I'm spitting real hot shit, bro. I ain't got time for none of that. We going through this shit in real life. Like, real shit. I don't know about everybody else. Who put out games and everybody that be playing out here. Living this shit and shit. Nigga ain't with all that, bro. You'll never understand. I don't want no nigga music. I don't be feeling none of that shit. If I don't feel your music, I just feel like it ain't there. That's what I feel like. I just feel like it ain't there. Or I probably just can't relate to what the fuck you talking about. Real shit. But nigga be bluffing. Now, just for the record here. Was there ever a time when you did call out people at first? And then now, you know, you have this. You might remember when I called out a nigga. About some music shit. Like a nigga stealing my Apple or something. Personally, no here. I was just asking. Just out in the open. Were you one to be possessive of your music and call people out at one point? And then now you have this mentality where you just let it slide? I wanted to, but. But you got to think about it. When you create a wave, you want them niggas to bite your shit. Just to show how powerful you are. Now, on the opposite end of the spectrum, have there been people that have privately or publicly paid you homage in regards to your flows and cadences and things and so on and so forth that you just described? Samples. All that, hey, niggas didn't came to my DM like, yeah, bro, you started that. You did all that. But that's the shit I respect, though. You don't got to broadcast that I started this shit. That ain't what I'm going to be. Everybody be aiming for different shit. I don't want the world to know I started this shit, but I'm not forcing the world to know. If the world going to know, the world is going to know. But I'm not going to be like, oh, look, post on Instagram saying that you got this shit for me. It ain't with all that, bro. I really appreciate it. Pay your respect. Check me. What you going to do? I ain't got that. Go for now. That's it. I'll just be one of my little dudes, pay. That's it. Just like I do for another nigga. A nigga made some shit. A nigga started some shit. Nigga, we going to got. I'm going to give you flowers. Now, curious here. You mentioned something like, you know, Rack Baby type beats and things of that nature, right? I'm sure that exists. I'm sure that it's out there. Have you ever rapped on something that started out as a? Mm-hmm. I overly. I buy the beat, and I don't want to hear y'all niggas rapping on my shit. You will get sued. That's what it be. I buy the beat. I rap on it. Buy it. Cancel everything else. Whoever like this bitch wrote to it, delete it. Simple. We ain't doing none of that. Tell them about the home. Tell them how much it is. That's how much it is. My fault. No, you're good. Take your time here. Favorite or not, what's your most honest song out of these 18? My most honest song? Yes. Man, Collette Calls. Can I name a couple of them? Sure. Shit, Collette Calls, my side of the story. Shit, goddamn. Fell out of the bunk bed. Them three songs like that. Y'all need to go listen to them, bitch. Real message in them songs. They don't need to be listening, bro. For real, for real. They got to go listen. And speaking of songs here, one last question in regards to the 18 songs. One song is titled Trinidad James. Yeah. Have you received any reaction from the actual Trinidad James to this song? Man, I wish he do see that shit. I was talking that shit. So just curious there. Do you have any link or relation to him at all? Do you know him personally by any chance prior to this song? No, I don't know him personally. Just curious. That'd be a goddamn. That'd be crazy, though, if I meet him. He's still big, though. He's still a name around these bitches. That's what's crazy. When Trinidad James pop out, everybody still fuck with him. Shit like that. Y'all don't got to drop no music or nothing like that. They just fuck with dudes. Would you want him on a remix to that, perhaps? Shit, let's do it. In Trinidad, shit, let's do it. Trinidad James remix featuring Trinidad James. James. Yeah, sound about right. Now, speaking of features, you have three on this body of work. Do you have a favorite feature out of the three? Favorite feature? Um, hell no. Hell no, I ain't got no favorite feature, but. Now, you have three. Right there. So what do you matter? Now, you have three features on here out of 18 songs. Was there a thought on maybe having no features and just 18 songs all you? Nah, you know, it's crazy. I thought this time, I thought about it this time. I was like, I'm gonna give him a couple features on this bitch. But I don't do features for real. I just, I don't do features for real because niggas be dick riding, bro. This industry full of bubble guppies. I don't join it. I ain't, look, I ain't with none of that shit. Y'all bubble guppy ass niggas, man. Sucking each other. Riding this bitch to get to the top. And they ain't with all that, bro. I don't want to be cool with no nigga, no, none of that. I ain't cool, bro. You want to be cool, you be cool. I ain't gonna approach you and be like, look, bro, I want to dick ride you and be all in your face. Like, we've been with each other, been locked in for years and shit. I'm not with all that. That's what these niggas do. So how did these three features get you? Were these fans requesting to hear both of you on the same track? Were these personal features you wanted? Personal artists that you were fans of their music or always wanted? I'm a fan of everybody. Look, I'm a fan of everybody that's popping, bro. I'm gonna say that now. Because motherfuckers is fans of me. I don't want people to be fans of me. I'm not, you know, I'm not hanging on no nigga. What they got going on. Even a nigga I don't like. I'm a fan of you, bro. We all winning. We all doing what we do. No matter what circumstance we got on the outside of music. So, like, I don't want to say that shit first game. But the niggas I just did these pieces with, them people that genuinely, you know, fuck with me. Like, I had conversations with them. Shit like that. Sat in the rooms, talked with them. Shit like that. Niggas know my mama. All that type of shit. When it came to these three features, who knocked out their feature the quickest for you? That was all spot on. I just sent it, and they sent it back. They was all spot on. Okay, winding down the questions here on this project. What have you learned about yourself through the creation and release of it? Man. Looking back on how everything's played out, what'd you take away from this? Learned about myself. Yes. One thing, first, I ain't nothing to play with. That's what I learned about myself. I seen how. Where I can take shit. When I let my emotions get involved, I know where I can take shit. So I learned how to stop letting my emotions take control of me at the moment. I'm still learning how to do that shit. That's a hard thing to do, brother. I ain't gonna lie. That's a hard thing to do. Like, one hard thing to do, brother. That shit ain't easy for nobody. Especially somebody that got, like, a hell of anger just built up over the years. That's why I just go on that bitch and rap like that. That's why everybody be like, like, he ain't missing, bro. I'm angry as fuck. I ain't gonna lie. It's gonna be a long time till that nigga just woosah. All that shit built up. And everything ain't about that dollar. Like, everybody be thinking, like, okay. Wouldn't dream for millions of dollars. I didn't dream for millions of dollars. I got it. That shit. That shit ain't do nothing. But just put some money in my pocket. That shit ain't really help me. Or, like, what I got going on in my head. That type of shit. I don't know what it's gonna take to help that shit, but. I'm gonna get that shit together. Now, mentally speaking here, have you had any sort of professional help with that sort of thing at all? Man, I don't be with all that professional help shit. You gotta think about it, man. I'm professional. I ain't never been through shit we going through, bro. Anybody who got a license to talk to us, bro, I ain't feeling that shit. All I got, you know what I'm saying, like, bro, especially a nigga that's young as fuck, bro. Bro, give me an old nigga to talk to, bro. Give me an old nigga, because there ain't no telling what an old nigga done been through before he got that license to talk to a nigga or some goddamn therapist. Whatever he became. Ain't no telling what he done been through before that. Ain't no telling what a young nigga done been through, but I just feel like I ain't gonna learn shit from no young nigga that. I feel like they ain't going through what I'm going through, especially not no women. I don't want to talk to no women. No disrespect to the women, no disrespect to none, because as a man, we go through so many more different obstacles than y'all. Like, and the way we get punished harder than y'all, everything. Y'all can pull up and beat my ass, and I swing back one time, I'm going to jail. But the bitch who just pulled up and beat me up ain't going nowhere. So, like, y'all got to think about the women got different privileges than us. All that. Bitch that had you, you that had a baby with a bitch, a bitch can, instantly just tell you, I don't fuck with you, I don't want you to be around this baby. And you can't force yourself around this baby, no nothing. You got to really go through court systems and all this, and all this extra shit. Because they not finna just instantly believe you. We're going to ride with her until we see she wrong. That's what's going to happen. I done seen this shit happen a million times before I done had a baby. I ain't going through no shit like that, though. My baby mama cool, we cool, we cordial, that's my, you know what I'm saying? That's my rock. She ain't got no, she ain't no no country ass shit like that. For the people who do go through shit like that, I be knowing, I be knowing what that shit be like, because I be seeing that shit. So it sounds like one child here, one baby mom. 20. More trolling, more trolling. Well, see if you control these last two questions here about this project. Can you give the audience five, Five reasons. to listen to this project? Five reasons. Yes, maybe someone here in the audience, first time hearing about you, seeing about you, maybe they've heard about you, saw about you, but haven't ever pressed play on any of your music. Five reasons they should press play right now. Five reasons. You don't got to listen to my shit at all, baby. I ain't talking about that shit. Tell me you don't want to know what type of niggas, baby. You listen to my shit or you don't. It's a message you're missing, not me. See what I'm saying? So, like, take that how you want to take it. Five reasons and shit. I'm fucking your bitch already, so just listen to it. Goddamn. What? You're from the trenches, I'm from the trenches, brother. To all the niggas that's in the trenches. Another thing for all the white boys and all the goddamn, you know what I'm saying, all my suburbs kids. Rock with y'all too. Go listen to it. That's why y'all need to go listen to it, because I'm coming to every end of it every six and pushing this shit. That's why. And are there any plans for a deluxe to this project? I don't know. We working. We got to see what's next. Got to be unpredictable. Very well. Okay, couple of personal questions here. That was just a music segment and just breaking down that body of work, but I have some questions here I've been wanting to ask you for a while. I haven't seen anyone else ask you these questions, so maybe I thought I'd be the first one to do so. And if I am asking you something that's already been asked, then we'll skip it and move on to another question. But there's a mirror beside you if you need it. But how many face tattoos do you have at this point? Damn. I don't got that many, though. Like, how you think? I got like. There's one, two, three, four, five, six. I got six face tattoos. Care to share the meanings? Break any of these face tattoos down for the audience here. They've seen a lot of pictures of you. Maybe you can't discern what some of these face tattoos actually are or what they mean. A lot of shit, man. Really tell you what all this shit about. Yeah, let's do a tattoo tour while we're at it. I'll go with the first one. This is Joan. They say Joan Haynes. This is my grandma. They don't say Joan Haynes, but they say Joan. That's her name. Did loud mouth cry later. I figure that shit out tomorrow. That's the type of nigga I am. I'm going to go through this shit for right now. Figure that shit out tomorrow. Do the hard part tomorrow. You know? Yeah, man. This spider web don't get caught in this shit. That's what that mean. You ain't going to get out. This ain't toy yet. This my mama. This right here is the infinity sign. Me and I be forever rolling. Sometimes can't put this five long little baby hat. Ain't got something to do with him too. This is my baby mama and I ain't. Just say it cold. Do you want to break down the arms here as well? You got the sleeves rolled up. Professional backstabber. Me, triple cross man. I got a knife on me. It's me. It's really like a dagger type shit. You can see you got a helmet. You can see me shit on it. Yeah. I like to cross people sometimes. If they cross me. I ain't doing nothing. You can't be no fucked up fucked up person. You just be crossing people. Yeah, this shit don't get more triple crossing than that. That's all I be telling you. I don't be backstabber. Goddamn. Dude, you know what this mean. Everybody know what this is, bro. This shit's a knife of rock, bro. I'm going to shout out to the A, man. This my block. This my A. I'm going to get my block on the A. In the A, man. On my own. And then I got them. This is Rubey. They for Rube now. Rube 5, my little brother, man. He died today before I got out of jail. Fucked me up, but. You know. It's going to be all right. And any other tattoos you have? I mean, even if you don't have tattoos, you don't have tattoos. Even if it's covered up, you could just point to it and they'll see a picture of it, I'm sure. Yeah, I got a lot of shit. I got, you know, they say Caprice with a dove on it. Caprice. That's Junior's sister. I got a microphone right here. You know, for my rock shit. You know, I love rapping. I got a broken heart right here. It's for Junior. They say Junior on top of it. On top of the broken heart. You know, it's for Junior. Like, a lot of y'all niggas are not worth going to jail for. I would just open hand one of y'all niggas, bro. Like, real shit. Like, slap the dog shit out one of y'all. I ain't finna keep letting y'all niggas piss me out to the point where I feel like I'm finna got down, I do something to you, lay in your bushes or something, man. I'm finna just pull up on you. I don't want to have a comment. Let me slap the fuck out of you. Now, speaking of crossing, you described this dagger and you mentioned something like, you know, I'll cross someone, I'll quit to cross someone if they cross me. Is that a rule for you? You only cross someone if they cross you or? I'll cross your ass if I see it coming. That's the rules of the game. I'll cross your ass if I see it coming, baby. Ain't no lie. I'm just crawling to cross him, though. Like, that's it. That's it. That's it. You don't want to be no snake out here. You got to get the message, brother. You don't want to just be no snake out here, brother. But you don't want to go for shit either. A lot of shit can be out of the way before it even happens. Sometimes you got to play the triple cross, dude. Sometimes it be a good way. It don't be always bad. Sometimes doing something bad don't always be bad. It be for something good. Do you want to give an example? Yeah, we give a lot of examples like shit. How about this? July the other day. I ain't even going to put that out there. Because that was really too much information. What did happen the other day. But that's exactly what I was getting at. Let me put it in another way. Take your time. All right, say that okay like. Say you wrecked the car. You were doing a little speeding, but like, say like, okay, cool, you got down, running the yellow light. Like, you know you're supposed to slow down in the yellow light, but a nigga might do a little speed up, but somebody coming. Like, they finna run, they really like to go across you, you know what I'm saying, and they hit your shit, you know what I'm saying. You be like, oh shit, I was supposed to slow down anyway, like that's some bad shit, because I sped up, you know what I'm saying. But the whole time, but it ain't wrong anyway, so you finna get a check. Regardless, because buddy just fucked up. He wasn't even supposed to run the light, so he's definitely, even if you might have to pay for something else, you're not finna have to pay for his car. That's what I'm saying. They might have to, you might have some tickets or some shit, or some shit going on at court after that, but he finna have to pay for your new car type shit. So even though that was a bad thing to do, look at you, got a new car. And it's better shit than what you was, you know. Because he done fucked you up in the back, bro. All type of shit, he done got a little money off of this shit. And finally, I want to ask you this when it comes to your tattoos. You mentioned the Chicago to Atlanta connection. Yeah. So I want to pose this question to you. When it comes to Chicago, what is Chicago known for food-wise? What is Chicago known for food-wise? Man, look, we got some good ass deep dish pizza, I'll tell you where it's at. We got that. Man, look. I'm going to just tell you the restaurants. Fuck all that. You want to know something? We got good. You ever heard of Maxwell's? We got Polish's on joint. Fries, mouth sauce, chicken wings. Nigga, we got the best of everything. Hot dogs, whatever you want to put it. However you want to put it, my nigga. Corn. Nigga, we got the best, what they call it? Elote. We got the best, all that. We sell our shit on the corner. Migos on the corner, working the block. Corn, man. You hear me? Not even a corn man. Corn lady. Corn. Corn sister. Fuck them out. Well, the reason why I asked you that question and set this question up this way is because there are some franchises of Chicago-established restaurants, food spots, that are now in Atlanta. Herald's. That's one. And I wanted to see if you had the opportunity to try any of them that are in Atlanta and able to compare it to the ones that are in Chicago. So, yes, there are Herald's in Atlanta. There's also JJ's. JJ's in Atlanta. There's Shark's in Atlanta. No, the fuck it ain't. No, it ain't. Shark's ain't in Atlanta. Shark's Chicken and Fish. Yes. 6629 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, Georgia. There's one fucking Shark's. Just one Shark in Atlanta. That shit far as hell. You know how Jonesboro is not Atlanta? You ever thought of that? Well, the Atlanta area. Oh, okay. That's not an Atlanta area. And soon coming to the Atlanta area is Portillo's. I'm waiting on it. And that shit ain't going to be like how it is in the red. Ain't nothing out here that's all starting, coming out here, bringing, is going to be like the red. So the Herald's in Atlanta does not taste like the Herald's in Chicago. No, sir. The mild sauce is different. The chicken is different. All that shit is different, buddy. All of it. They ain't even cooking that shit in the same fryer. They ain't going to taste the same. The rat got 80 fucking, fucking 80 years of fucking fried grease in them bitches. In them same fryers. 20 plus years, 30 fucking plus years. Y'all bringing this shit out here five, six years ago and thinking this shit is going to be the one. And no, there ain't no grease on that motherfucking fry, nigga. There's somebody really different down here cooking that shit, bro. That's it, bro. That's it. You got to send something out in front of the rat. Doing this shit. Okay, winding down the questions here. Your jewelry. You are sporting some jewelry during this interview. Yeah. I wanted to see if you could break down the meaning behind this pendant upon your neck. All right, look. This a goddamn, this a, this a crock with some wings on it, really. It's just like, it's just showing a nigga that a nigga still believe in Jesus and God. I hear ya. Now, do you follow? Do you follow religion by any chance or just the belief in Jesus and God? No crazy. I don't believe. I'm not no Christian. None of that. I just believe in higher power. I do believe a nigga. I hear like, you know, like me is being, not controlled, but like being guided. Being guided through somebody else that's not walking this earth no more. Now, is this your own thoughts here? Your own mentality on this? Or were, was this how you arrived? To follow a higher power? I don't want to raise this like shit. See, I said I ain't no Christian. I don't believe in the Bible at all. Somebody written, you know what I'm saying? Written that shit. In my eyes, brother. I don't want to spark up none of you Christians. And you make y'all mad. None of that. I'm just saying, I don't believe in the Bible. I'm not going to sit right here and read all these pages of this shit either. From my head, like a nigga that's written, written this shit. If God himself did not write this shit and hand this shit to you, why is he following this shit? But shit do be happening, like. Like, this shit do be happening as I know God got something to do with it. You know? Like, certain type of blessings, certain type of shit that be going on. Be knowing God. I might speak some shit up and that shit might really happen. You know? That's when I feel like God coming in and I'm like, yeah, he doing it. There ain't no way that shit just happened from the power of my mouth. No way. Power of my tongue. No way that shit ain't doing it. I'll be kidding you. And what about the watch here? Care to share what kind of watch this is? It's a G-Shock. Man, you might try to snap my shit. No, just asking for those in the audience that are wondering. What these items you're wearing currently are. Now, care to share the jewelers behind any of these items here. Man, yeah, yeah. Sonny, y'all niggas tag y'all jeweler. Broke-ass bombs. Sonny, man, I go more on the wrist, man. I go Sonny on the chain. Nigga, I just bought this tool. I go more on the chain. Tenor chain again. I'm saying five. I don't go, I go VVS with my shit. Like, I don't go, I don't do none of that pussy-ass shit. I go real, I'm saying thanks for my shit. Ain't nothing wrong with VVS. None of that shit. I get VVS diamonds, too. I got VVS diamonds, too. All this shit real, blessing. Don't matter. You don't get no Cubic, Zirconium, or no Moisture. You get them, too, I ain't rocking with you. I can't fuck with you, brother. I can't. I can't. I can't fuck with the Moisture Demons. I can't, brother. We're too real to put some fake shit on our body. Y'all got to think about that, too, bro. Niggas be all there. It's just jewelry. It's just it. And don't put on that type of image. Then when somebody come up to you and be like, where your money at? Niggas be feeling some type of way. Everything is not about money, bitch-ass nigga. You got all these jewelry, these chains on and all that, like you having money. You can't do that. That's what somebody's going to think. So you rocking Moisture and shit like that, if you're going to do all that type of shit, make sure you chasing the bag, though. Don't just want to look rich. Be rich, brother. These niggas out here with a lick of nothing, they got more money than niggas with everything on them. That shit don't be mean to nothing. Like, I don't got that jewelry and all that shit. That shit. be mean or something, but it don't, it ain't going to do the shit but make the bitches like it, I don't want to fuck, that's it, the bitches that ain't got no morals, I pay attention to all you bitches, you know what I'm saying, like, and even after I say all this, they still going to dick ride me, you know what I'm saying, like, even after I say all this, they still going to, oh, he got changed, so, I went fine before I had all these chains and shit on, bitch, don't play with me, play with somebody else, you know what I'm saying, like, but it is hoes out here that are still like you, like, probably would have been liking you before you had all that, it just, I pay attention to ones that, like, you know, I know what you want to, I just seen a bitch the other day jump off her boyfriend's back to tell me I was the best rapper alive, I said, look, one of my bitches do that, we ain't even, you can't even get in my car, I'm not going to take you home. Fuck you think this is, baby, like, you can say all that, you jumped off of my back to go run up to another rapper and touch all on him and get a picture and say how you just love him, like, you just love him, cherish him more than your goddamn nigga, you know what I'm saying, but single bitches, ain't nothing wrong with that, y'all, y'all keep doing y'all thing, y'all bitches that know y'all be in a relationship, y'all got to start doing them boys that love y'all like that for real, man, that's what make us cheat, y'all always talking about it. Shit, this and that, this and that, y'all make us do shit, because a dick around that hoe see some shit like that, she got down one of these big rappers and shit, got down, ready to salt their dick faster than you were doing mine, I ain't with all that, man. So five for the tennis, do you want to share the price on the pendant and the chain holding that as well? Yeah, pendant, like $4, ain't that big, dime, I pay with dime for real. I got 10, so the whole thing, probably like 10 on this whole little thing, with the whole little set up, little get up. And the watch? On the watch, this a G-Shot, it's a G-Shot, probably like $4, $5, I can't be, I don't be keeping all this shit out there. That's about 20 right there. Damn, I already got 20 of them. Now, there are some items, there are some items you're not sporting during the interview, just curious. I'm curious if you have those items as well, or you're into them, but you're just not. I lost my Rolex, and my chain on the road in Houston, my baby chain, man. I lost all this shit, bro. Goofy shit, I ain't good with jewelry, this shit blowing me. God, I done lost a fucking jewelry, I done lost two rollers, that's my second roller I done lost. Nigga ain't took shit. I lost two rollers, though, bro. Did you have any insurance on those items there? I got no insurance, I know Mo gonna be mad at me, bro, I ain't never even told him. I ain't my second roller, I know I lost, bro, Mo gonna be mad at him. And when you say Mo, is that in reference to Icebox? Hell no, I'm pulling up that Icebox. Shout out Icebox, but you can charge me, tap me like a rooty-poo, that shit don't need me costing that much to do all that, which I be trying to do, bro, real shit, and I be getting that, and I got real diamond, real shit. And what about rings? Are you into rings? Are you into rings at all? I ain't no pimp, so I feel like all them rings and shit, I just don't see pimp shit. Bracelets? Are you into bracelets at all? I fuck with bracelets, shit like that, I get on the bracelet, I buy little rings or something like a little, little big ass ring, but I ain't really like overly, I don't know, overly ringed up shit. Earrings? Are you into earrings at all? Yeah, I'm into earrings, I lost one, I lost one in Boston. Ah, there's the other one there, yeah. I lost one in Boston, I gotta go get it, I gotta go get some more. Do you know who did that one in particular? That earring? Me, I really broke it, I really broke the earring, the back of the earring, I stumped onto my shit, I think I stepped on my earring or something, bro, trying to get down, pick it up on the ground. You know how you lose some shit on the ground, you looking for it, but you end up stepping on the shit. I stepped on a fucking earring and smushed the back of that bitch. And what about the jeweler behind that particular earring you have left? Do you know the jeweler behind that? I don't even know where my mama got this shit from, my mama got this shit, but I know the real, where the diamond test at, man, where that at? Next interview, next interview, we will do that. And last question here, in regards to the jewelry, teeth, no grill, no pull-outs, no perms, are you into that at all? That shit already, that shit be for your teeth, bro. That's what I heard. Not permanent, I wanna do permanent. I don't want to do permanent. I guess pull-outs. Pull-outs, though, look real. I don't fuck with it. I can't do it. That shit be for my teeth, bro. My teeth are already fucked up. Cavities and shit, I gotta fuck with it. That shit. I gotta go get it. I gotta go to the dentist and shit. Teeth pulled, all type of shit. Okay, and just doing an outro here, just to tie any loose ends. Now, when it comes to your followers, your fans, your supporters, so on and so forth, what do you refer to them as? My fucking dog, and my family, and my baby Spill. Before this interview ends, is there anything else you were not asked they really want to know? I don't know. You know something? Well, I asked you a lot of questions here that they might not have known about. But with this interview, is there anything else you want to add on to what you said before you leave? Is there anything maybe you want to subtract from what you said before you leave? You know, anything I say, I mean, and shit, bro. Any last words? Nigga, you got any last words? I ain't one of those type of niggas. I don't got no last words. Nigga never ask me no shit like that. My last word, fuck you. Remember that? Remember that? But every nigga ever get me on my last word, nigga, is fuck you. You hear me? But any last word for y'all, nigga? Man, nigga life, man. Fuck me a hoe, man. Go to college. Or don't. Don't matter. That shit don't really mean shit. This motherfucker didn't went to college for 10 years. Still dumb as a damn rock. Wouldn't matter. You can go to college or not. Fuck some hoes. Get money, man. Put that gun down. That's what I got to tell some of y'all. Put that gun down, broke ass. You shoot somebody today, you don't know how you're going to bond out tomorrow, bitch. Put the gun down. Put the fucking gun down, brother. Put it down. Put it down, bro. I just spent. You talking to a nigga that just spent like. I just spent about $100,000 on my case alone, bro. Like, I spent $30,000 to get out. I spent $30,000 more for my lawyer to even just start the two court dates. Man, nigga, this shit, man. Look, this shit calls money, bro. You want to be a killer? You want to do all that, bro? You want to ride behind niggas? You want to go out there on the floor? What nigga you want to do? Make sure you got your boots on, bro. This shit get rough. Don't throw a nigga under the bus when you get caught. You hear me? Be a real one. And just a follow-up question here. This case that you're referencing, that's over and done with? My case, yeah. My shit over and done with. Something you beat? Shit, not all of it. Not all of it. Do you want to shed any light on that? Yeah, look it up. I'm not going to shed any light on that. I'm not going to shed any light on that.