Two uniquely personable MCs, from two different generations, go deep on their come-up, fighting hate with love, and that time Pharrell got too high and left Snoop alone to produce Stevie Wonder.
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00:00 Y'all don't even know Snoop on set,
00:01 so you ripped me out the flash.
00:03 - Yeah, 'cause I'm acting brand new.
00:05 (screams)
00:06 (upbeat music)
00:08 - First time, me and Rolling Stones had an encounter.
00:18 - It was.
00:19 - It was Jimmy Iovine that was getting at me
00:20 and Dr. Dre about being on the cover, right?
00:23 So at the time, I'm a hip hop artist,
00:26 so I'm gangster with this shit.
00:27 I'm like, "Man, fuck the Rolling Stones.
00:29 "I wanna be on the motherfucking Source Mike, Jimmy."
00:32 Jimmy was like, "No, no, you just don't understand
00:34 "that Rolling Stones is just biggest shit ever.
00:37 "You guys are like Keith and Mick."
00:39 I'm like, "Who the fuck is Keith and Mick, nigga?"
00:42 So I end up doing this shit, right?
00:44 So the day I do it, I put my shit in some pigtails,
00:47 like on some stupid gangsta shit.
00:49 Like, "All right, so y'all want me on the cover?
00:50 "I'm gonna be a real nick on the cover."
00:52 Pigtail, some G shit, take a little quick little picture.
00:56 When that shit come out, a week later,
00:59 my record sold a million more fucking copies.
01:02 - No cap, he just told me this.
01:03 - To a whole different demographic.
01:06 So I had to go tell Jimmy Iovine, "I'm sorry.
01:10 "What other cover would you like for me to take?"
01:12 - Yep, no cap, 'cause we come from a different world,
01:15 and now you got my mama, white lady from Ohio.
01:18 That's my celebrity crush.
01:20 (laughing)
01:22 - That's what the Rolling Stones did.
01:23 - No cap.
01:24 - She didn't discover me in no motherfucking Source Mike.
01:26 - No cap.
01:26 (laughing)
01:29 I wanna tell you how I discovered you.
01:31 I told you this off camera,
01:33 but you my mama's biggest celebrity,
01:35 not even biggest, only celebrity crush since a kid.
01:39 So I got put onto you as like my mama's celebrity crush,
01:42 and then I'm like, "Wait, hold on,
01:43 "this a whole ass legend, like, wait, hold on, ma."
01:47 What you know about me?
01:49 - I thought your mama put you up on the dog.
01:50 - You feel me, mama put me up on you, for sure.
01:52 - That's gangsta shit right there.
01:53 - Mama put me up on you.
01:54 - You gotta love it, shout out to Misty.
01:55 - Yeah, Misty.
01:56 - Mama, what's happening?
01:57 - Misty, and then my daddy was like,
01:59 "Hold on, let me put you down,"
02:00 'cause my daddy like a hip hop head.
02:01 So, and he love, oddly enough, he love West Coast.
02:05 He from Ohio, so maybe like Midwest.
02:07 - That's Midwest, yeah.
02:08 - Yeah, West Coast, they be like, you know.
02:10 - That's a big issue.
02:11 - But yeah, he put me down.
02:12 - So he listen to her too?
02:13 - Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah.
02:15 - That's G-shit, so you was grown in this hip hop.
02:17 - UQ, Dre, Pac, them like his like, yeah.
02:22 - The GOATs.
02:24 - Mm-hmm, them his GOATs, for sure, them his GOATs.
02:26 That's how I got put on.
02:27 - How I got put up on you was Greg Street.
02:30 - Greg, that's my dog.
02:32 - I had heard--
02:33 - It's six o'clock.
02:34 - Yeah, exactly.
02:35 - It's time for Greg Street to rock.
02:36 - Exactly, and Greg Street was like, he was like,
02:40 "Man, I've been knowing her since she was a little kid.
02:41 "She used to perform at talent shows."
02:44 He like, "Man, she been a star."
02:46 And so I started, you know, discovering your music,
02:49 and I was like, I like your style.
02:51 - I appreciate it.
02:52 - I like your approach.
02:53 - I appreciate it.
02:54 - You're a gangster, you know what I'm saying?
02:55 Like, that shit is fly.
02:56 - They don't know I'm really a gangster.
02:58 - No, I hear it, I hear it.
02:59 When you tell me your daddy and your mama
03:01 raised you on this shit, I mean it's--
03:02 - Yeah, you feel me?
03:03 - It's not on you, it's in you.
03:04 - It's in me, it's in me.
03:05 - Straight up, it's in your DNA.
03:07 - It's in my DNA.
03:08 - Say that.
03:09 No, do it make you trip out when people know your music
03:13 that you wouldn't expect?
03:15 - Yes.
03:15 - That's like the biggest thrill, right?
03:16 - Yes, that's the biggest thrill.
03:18 That, and then like, my favorite things is like,
03:20 full circle moments like this.
03:22 Like, me being able to reconnect stuff,
03:25 not shit, stuff, stuff to my childhood
03:29 that make me feel like accomplished.
03:31 And then like, being able to like, spoil my family.
03:33 Like, that's, yeah.
03:35 - Let me give you one of my secrets.
03:36 One of my secrets is that I remain
03:39 the biggest kid in the room at all times.
03:41 - You know what you was telling me before the cameras on?
03:42 You was like, have fun, just have fun.
03:45 - That's the kid in you.
03:46 'Cause the kid in you can't believe that
03:48 look at where you at, look at what you doing.
03:50 - So continue to be that kid
03:52 so you can keep making it about fun.
03:54 - Yeah.
03:55 - And having fun.
03:55 - And somebody told me, they was like,
03:56 whenever you not having fun no more, stop it.
03:58 You gotta figure out what's stopping your fun.
04:00 Like, stop it, take a chill break,
04:02 and figure out what you gotta change
04:04 because you supposed to have fun.
04:05 We blessed to be able to like, do a job that's like fun.
04:09 I'm feeding my family off of like, having fun.
04:12 - There's two funds that's the most important funds
04:14 in the world.
04:15 The funds that you make off of the fun that you have.
04:19 - Funds.
04:20 - That you make off of the fun that you have.
04:23 You hear what I'm saying?
04:25 - If you could go back and change anything that you did,
04:29 what would you change?
04:30 - Honestly, I've been asked that question probably
04:33 about 50 times and the answer is always the same.
04:36 I wouldn't change a motherfucking thing.
04:38 - Really?
04:39 - I love it the way it is.
04:40 - Yeah.
04:40 - The good times, the bad times.
04:41 - 'Cause it's all a part of you.
04:42 - All that shit, it made me who I am.
04:44 It sculpted me into the man that I became.
04:47 See, I'm in my head, like I'm like,
04:49 oh, I wish I would've did this.
04:51 I wish I would've, I need to like more just bask
04:54 in the moment and just appreciate that.
04:56 - But how did you get where you got?
04:57 You didn't get where you got with that attitude.
05:00 - Right.
05:01 You know, you know like, once you hit a new level,
05:04 it just be new level, new devil.
05:06 - I say it to you like this.
05:07 If you're doing what you supposed to do,
05:08 niggas supposed to hate.
05:10 - Yeah.
05:10 - That's just come with the territory.
05:12 And when you ain't doing shit, you have nothing to hate on.
05:15 But the hate shit inspire you to do great.
05:17 - Yeah, you mean you're doing something.
05:18 - Yeah, and the only way you can beat hate is with love.
05:20 - Mm-hmm.
05:21 - You can't match their energy and try to,
05:23 I'm gonna hate you back.
05:24 No, I'm gonna show you some love.
05:26 I'm gonna show you how to do what I do.
05:27 That's how I've been able to prevail for 30 years
05:30 in this music industry.
05:31 Because there's been times where I've been approached
05:33 with hate and negativity.
05:35 - Yeah.
05:36 - Sometimes I've dealt with it on some gangster shit.
05:37 - Mm-hmm.
05:38 And sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
05:40 - Yeah, I was expectual a couple of times.
05:42 - Yeah.
05:43 - The business was more important.
05:44 - Yeah.
05:45 - It was a part of it.
05:45 Nowadays it's more like talent isn't involved anymore.
05:49 They moving talent out the way
05:50 because it's overnight successes that they can make.
05:52 That's why when you really do have talent,
05:54 you should hone your talent.
05:55 You should be great.
05:56 You should study the greats before you
05:58 to see how you can stay here for a long time.
06:00 'Cause you've been around for a while
06:01 before you was making records.
06:03 What happened to your favorite rappers in the 90s?
06:04 - How you know that?
06:06 - What happened to your favorite rappers in the 90s?
06:07 Where they at?
06:08 Most of them gone.
06:09 - Yeah.
06:11 - I'm probably the only one that's still around.
06:12 - Yeah.
06:13 - But I'm saying it's because of the things that they did
06:15 or the business opportunities that they didn't capitalize.
06:18 So you gotta be a smarter business woman and say,
06:20 "Okay, the women are winning right now
06:22 "in the music industry."
06:23 This is a first for the women to be the foreground.
06:26 - Yeah, I was gonna ask you about that too.
06:27 Like how you feel about that?
06:29 'Cause I know that wasn't the same thing.
06:31 Like my era is like, females is like--
06:34 - You're the first era to actually dominate--
06:36 - Be in my role, yeah.
06:37 - You're correct.
06:38 - Right?
06:39 - You're correct.
06:40 But to me, it's, you guys have to understand
06:41 that here's where the bullshit comes in.
06:44 They gon' make y'all fight each other now.
06:47 Because that's what they made us do.
06:49 They didn't want us to join hands and say,
06:51 "Hey, East Coast, West Coast, down South."
06:53 - It's too powerful.
06:54 - "I love your music, you from the South.
06:55 "I don't give a fuck if I ain't from there.
06:56 "I love your shit.
06:58 "Why I gotta hate you 'cause you from down here?"
07:00 That's what they'll put into y'all Kool-Aid.
07:02 - And we fought for it.
07:03 We fought for it.
07:04 We fought for the trap.
07:05 I ain't gonna lie.
07:06 - Somebody gotta be sharp enough to say,
07:07 "You know what?
07:08 "It's a business."
07:10 - People don't know that.
07:11 This not like a trend for me.
07:12 I ain't just like, "Oh, you know,
07:15 "I wanna wake up and rap."
07:16 I been rapping since I was eight years old.
07:19 Full blown, getting picked up from school,
07:21 doing my homework in the studio lobby,
07:23 passing out mixtapes like, "Shit, give me five dollars.
07:26 "Give me five dollars."
07:27 Finesse with me and Pops.
07:28 It's really a growing process for me.
07:30 So right now, I'm in a mode where I got the mic
07:34 in the room, not in the booth.
07:35 I got it in the room.
07:36 - Like with everybody.
07:37 - Yeah, with everybody.
07:38 I wanna be with everybody.
07:39 I'm like, "Y'all fuck with that?
07:40 "If I say this, you know what that mean?"
07:42 I might FaceTime my sister.
07:43 Like, "If I say this, do you get what I'm saying?"
07:45 So I'm in a very, I'm taking opinions
07:48 and I wanna just go in there and have fun.
07:50 I be sitting right there talking, drinking, smoking.
07:54 (mumbles)
07:56 My little baby blunts, smoking.
08:00 And then I just hit the mic,
08:02 just step right to the mic
08:03 and just let it all out right there.
08:06 I be going through my little motions though.
08:08 How you be?
08:10 - You know, when I started, we didn't have no studio.
08:13 We had like fucking rooms.
08:15 - Yeah.
08:16 - We never had a closet.
08:17 - Oh God, that's, my first recording experience
08:21 was in a closet.
08:22 I was recording in my daddy's closet.
08:24 - Clothes and shit.
08:25 - Yeah, yeah.
08:26 (laughs)
08:28 Oh God, oh God.
08:31 - I've learned to like, to adapt to any environment.
08:35 So like, let me give you this for example.
08:36 At my studio, I got a room called the mothership.
08:40 - Okay.
08:41 - It's like a spaceship.
08:42 - Okay.
08:43 - I like it real dark and moody and like just,
08:46 you know what I'm saying?
08:46 - Okay, very dark.
08:48 - But when I go work with Dr. Dre,
08:50 this nigga got a microphone right here,
08:54 everybody in here, like you just said.
08:57 So nigga, you got to rap with everybody right here.
09:00 - In front of everybody.
09:01 - You say some wack shit, if it ain't right,
09:03 nigga, you gonna know right now.
09:05 It's pressure.
09:05 - Yeah.
09:06 - I want to be challenged, 'cause I've done so much.
09:08 - Yeah.
09:09 - And I've, you know, recreated myself
09:11 so many different times.
09:11 - Mm-hmm, that you have.
09:13 - Yes, what challenge am I up to now?
09:16 Like who can produce me and make me better?
09:19 To where I don't have to think of everything
09:20 or say everything, but just sit back and let you produce me.
09:23 - Yeah, I'm getting into that now too.
09:25 I'm like building my little team, my comfort zone,
09:28 like people who bring out the best work of me.
09:30 - Mm-hmm.
09:31 - Yeah.
09:32 - Your inner circle, you're supposed to always have
09:33 people around you better than you.
09:35 - Man, what?
09:36 - That way you can continue to get better.
09:37 - I'm learning the importance of that now too.
09:39 - Right, and everybody's feel they should be the best.
09:42 I seen your GLAAD squad, let me give them a shout out.
09:44 (laughing)
09:46 Got your shit on 10/10.
09:47 - They don't play, Shanti Melly, you know.
09:49 - Hello.
09:50 - Hello.
09:51 - They got it together, you know what I mean?
09:52 So shout out to them.
09:53 - That's important though.
09:54 - But that's one of the steps to being a superstar.
09:57 - Mm-hmm.
09:58 - My routine is I like to listen to good fucking music.
10:01 - You told me that too, you told me that.
10:03 - You were on my playlist.
10:04 - You told me that, and I ain't believe
10:06 till you started singing some songs,
10:07 you ain't post a note.
10:08 I'm like, hold on, I ain't know that, I ain't know that.
10:10 - If I got a bunch of girls about.
10:11 - He talking about fuck the club.
10:11 - Yeah, if it's a bunch of girls,
10:12 I got dancers that be twerking.
10:14 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:15 - When they in my dressing room, I gotta put that on.
10:18 That ratchet shit, they put on some ratchet.
10:20 I'm like, fuck the club.
10:22 (laughing)
10:23 All right, well fuck it then, who cares?
10:25 - Oh shit, that right.
10:27 - I gotta have good music before I go on stage.
10:30 - I feel like mine's be, I pray every time
10:33 before I go on stage, I be like,
10:34 Lord, please don't let me bust my,
10:36 free from injuries and mistakes, Father.
10:40 - Say that.
10:40 - Okay, I pray.
10:42 - But you be really performing though, you really be.
10:44 - No, I perform, I perform.
10:46 And it's so crazy, it's so crazy,
10:48 'cause I used to be like, nah, I don't do all that.
10:50 I used to be telling them like, nah, I don't do all that.
10:52 But I taught myself like,
10:55 don't put no boundaries on yourself.
10:57 'Cause now I be up there dancing, I swear to God,
10:59 I told them I ain't have no rhythm in my bones, baby.
11:03 I ain't have no rhythm.
11:04 Now I be up there really doing my little thing.
11:06 - It's a feeling.
11:07 - Mm-hmm.
11:08 - Your music makes you feel good.
11:09 - Oh yeah, what?
11:10 - You wanna see what it makes you feel like,
11:11 'cause you the one who made it.
11:12 - And don't let me get out there in the crowd
11:14 giving me the energy I need, what?
11:16 Don't make me feel like I'm a girl.
11:16 - I see you running out there with no shoes on.
11:18 - What, oh I'm going, what?
11:20 Hey, I'm calling my desk like,
11:22 somebody get these heels off of me.
11:24 - I'm watching you, like go ahead now.
11:26 - No cap.
11:27 - That's when you ain't playing.
11:28 - Mm-hmm, in my comfort zone, like really just,
11:30 I be making the stage my home, like just feeling comfortable.
11:33 - It has to be, those are your people.
11:35 They love you, so you have to know that.
11:37 - And they pay my bills.
11:39 - Right, but they love you, all of you,
11:41 so give them all of you every time you up there,
11:44 'cause you never know when it's your last time up there.
11:45 - Nope, you gotta let me know what your favorite memories is
11:50 or like your best, just experience,
11:53 like around your first like breakout, first album,
11:57 first show, first everything.
11:59 - Well I had just did The Chronic with Dr. Dre, right?
12:03 So that was his record,
12:04 but it was like the biggest record in the world.
12:07 So everybody was waiting on my shit.
12:09 So for me to be able to go to the studio and do it,
12:12 and then he brought LL Cool J one day
12:15 to hear one of his songs,
12:17 and it fucked me up because I was like,
12:20 fuck, LL Cool J is the greatest motherfucking rapper
12:23 in the world, he's out here listening to my shit,
12:26 and he liked it.
12:27 So that was like a moment for me,
12:30 and then just being able to like have my own record.
12:33 Like as a kid, I dreamed of having a fucking record
12:37 with me on it from top to bottom,
12:39 doing the skits, the rapping, the talking, this,
12:43 and just to be able to do it with my family,
12:45 I had my cousins, I had my homeboys, I had Dr. Dre,
12:49 I had my best friends, it was just the best feeling
12:52 in the world, the niggas that I started with,
12:54 that when I didn't know how to rap good.
12:56 I started off as a songwriter.
12:58 - For real?
12:59 - Yeah, writing for Dr. Dre and writing for myself
13:02 on the Chronic album.
13:03 Deep Cover was the first song that I wrote,
13:06 and then G-Thing, Dre Day,
13:09 on and on and on and on,
13:13 but it was like being a writer first.
13:16 Like, I want you to win, you the star.
13:21 And then it was like, shit, it's your turn for your album.
13:23 So it immediately turned for me writing for someone else
13:26 to like, I gotta write for myself,
13:29 better than I wrote for him.
13:32 But the level that I wrote for him is so fucking high,
13:35 I'm gonna really have to like, do what I do.
13:38 - Put that in the work.
13:39 - Yeah, I went on a mission, like,
13:41 what kind of songs have never been written before?
13:44 What kind of songs in hip hop have never been remade?
13:49 I was the first rapper to actually remake
13:51 another rapper's song, "Lottie Dottie."
13:54 Slick Rick and Dottie Fresh.
13:56 Remade that, put that on my record.
13:59 Then Dr. Dre was bringing in instrumentation.
14:01 It was a lot, like, I would listen to '70s music.
14:04 So I'm like, I want funk in my shit.
14:06 I love players and pimp movies.
14:08 So I want all that shit in my shit.
14:12 And it was all a part of me, like,
14:13 I have to write this so you can see what I wrote,
14:16 project it.
14:16 So give me your first album.
14:19 - Okay, my first album.
14:21 My first album was me.
14:24 I'm not gonna lie, it was a little different for me.
14:25 I'm like, I'm what, 20, 21 maybe?
14:30 Figuring it out, like, I'm like, okay, boom.
14:32 Just signed my first major deal
14:34 in the midst of pandemic and stuff too.
14:36 So that was like crazy.
14:37 I'm recording a debut album and the studio saying,
14:41 "Oh, only two people can be in the room."
14:43 And I'm like, shit, that's me and the producer.
14:45 What about, you know, my sister, my people?
14:47 Like, you know what I'm saying?
14:48 So in the midst of all that,
14:50 like trying to figure out my sound,
14:52 choosing beats without the producers being there
14:56 'cause there ain't enough room,
14:57 like capacity, they like tripping, whatever.
15:01 It was fun, but it was a lot of restrictions.
15:04 So, you know, beauty in the process, I guess.
15:09 I'm learning, like, the importance of energy
15:12 and just feeling like you that girl.
15:14 So when you get in that booth,
15:15 the confidence is just breathing through the--
15:18 - Man, what?
15:19 - We can hear, we can feel it.
15:20 We're supposed to feel how confident she is
15:22 when you sing.
15:24 Real shit.
15:25 - Real shit.
15:26 You got one favorite studio session?
15:28 - I got so many.
15:29 - Yeah, see, I feel like it'd be like a,
15:31 it ain't one standout thing, like--
15:33 - Well, one that stand out to me is when me, Pharrell,
15:36 and Stevie Wonder was in the studio.
15:38 - Sheesh.
15:38 I ain't met Stevie, but I met P, and he P.
15:42 - He P. - He pushing P.
15:43 (laughing)
15:44 He pushing P.
15:45 - So, you know, I smoke, like I be smoking.
15:47 - Yeah.
15:48 - We in a little ass room.
15:50 Stevie Wonder come.
15:52 Pharrell sit next to me.
15:53 He didn't got high, he got a second hand smoke.
15:56 - Yeah.
15:57 - Now Stevie in the booth.
15:59 So he in there, I'm like, "Whoa, whoa."
16:02 And Pharrell ain't saying shit.
16:04 - Yeah.
16:05 - So Stevie and them were like,
16:06 like trying to figure out what to do.
16:09 - Yeah.
16:10 - I'm like, "Pharrell, produce this nigga."
16:11 - Yeah.
16:12 - I'm like, "Nigga, produce this nigga."
16:15 This nigga so high.
16:16 (laughing)
16:17 - He leave Stevie Wonder in the booth
16:18 and don't give him no direction.
16:20 - He's stuck.
16:21 - And I'm trying to tell Stevie what to do.
16:22 I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
16:23 - He's stuck, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
16:25 - I told him, "Nigga, just play anything."
16:27 - Yeah.
16:28 - When we finished, Pharrell took all of the good shit
16:30 that he played, 'cause it was very harmonic
16:32 and singing shit.
16:33 - Mm-hmm.
16:34 - And it ended up working, but it was like funny to me
16:35 that this nigga been around me this long.
16:38 - Yeah.
16:38 - Today, he finally gets so high, he leaves me.
16:41 - He done left.
16:42 - They left the nigga in there
16:43 where he had to walk out by himself.
16:44 - Stop playing.
16:45 - He was walking out like--
16:47 - Stop playing.
16:47 - I can't help you, shut up.
16:48 (laughing)
16:50 - That's what's up.
16:51 Y'all ain't had no camera in there?
16:53 - Hell no.
16:53 - Aw, man, y'all supposed to have a camera.
16:55 - It was right here.
16:56 - Yeah.
16:57 Oh, Lord.
16:58 P-Player, P-Player, I did a session,
17:03 a week of sessions with him in Miami,
17:06 and I just kept telling him,
17:08 "What made you wanna fuck with me?
17:10 "I got the call, you want me to come to Miami
17:12 "and work with you, but why me?"
17:15 And he was just like, "I'll fuck with you."
17:17 I love meeting, which y'all don't know,
17:20 is someone new stepping into the scene.
17:23 It feel, it's like, it's undescribable, indescribable,
17:26 whatever the word is, to be embraced by people
17:29 who have already made it in your lane,
17:32 like people you aspire to be like.
17:34 So, like that.
17:35 - You know, the beauty of that is that
17:37 the same way you feel about us--
17:39 - It's vice versa.
17:40 - Yeah, when I came in,
17:41 when I came in, it was people like James Brown.
17:44 - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
17:45 - Shirley Wilson.
17:46 - Mm-hmm.
17:47 - Ron Ives.
17:48 - Mm-hmm.
17:48 - Roger Troutman.
17:49 These is people that embraced me.
17:51 George Clinton, Bootsy Collins.
17:53 - Mm-hmm.
17:54 - They like embraced me the way we embraced you.
17:57 - Mm-hmm.
17:58 - And it was strange to me, 'cause it's like,
17:59 I grew up off of that music--
18:00 - Man, what?
18:01 - Trying to be them, and all of a sudden,
18:03 they know who I am.
18:04 - Yeah.
18:05 That be like a real full circle moment,
18:08 like mind-blowing, where you gotta like,
18:10 damn near pinch yourself, like it is really happening.
18:13 - Look, I sat down with James Brown for about three hours.
18:16 - Crazy.
18:17 - So James Brown is telling me,
18:19 this is like, maybe 20 years ago.
18:24 He telling me, "Snoopy, you gonna be the hardest working man
18:29 "to show business, you gonna be this, you gonna be,"
18:31 he just telling me all this shit right on the script.
18:34 Most important shit he said to me was,
18:36 he said, "Snoopy, your hair is your script."
18:40 - Yeah.
18:41 - "Whatever you do, don't you ever cut your hair."
18:43 - Yeah, that's you.
18:45 - This what James Brown told me,
18:46 he telling me, "As long as your hair grow,
18:48 "as long as you gonna be in this game."
18:49 - Yeah.
18:50 - But he telling me this shit, I'm listening to him talking,
18:52 I can't figure it out.
18:53 - Yeah.
18:54 - While he's saying it, but as he passed away,
18:56 and I seen me become the hardest working man
18:58 in the show business.
19:00 Doing all of the great things that he said
19:01 I would be doing with the kids, with positive work,
19:04 creating opportunities, branding, marketing,
19:07 all this shit that he said, it's like I was touched.
19:11 Because he embraced me, just like I'm embracing you.
19:14 - And not just me, I be seeing you embrace people,
19:17 and that shit mean the world to us.
19:19 When you coming in, especially now,
19:21 it don't be, at least from my perspective,
19:24 it don't be the same, where everybody's just open arms.
19:28 So that type shit will really keep you going,
19:31 that be real motivation to come into somebody else's world,
19:34 and they like, "Yeah, you doing your thing, I know you."
19:37 Motherfucker be acting like they don't know who you is,
19:39 or they don't know your song, whatever.
19:41 That shit alone, like you singing my song, rock my world.
19:45 - But that's what you did, you put that work in.
19:47 You made it that good to where I had to check it.
19:50 - And one day, I hope to have longevity like you.
19:53 - Your hair growing.
19:54 - Hey, Batman, I ain't coming.
19:56 I ain't coming.
19:57 - Let it rise.
19:58 (laughing)
20:00 - I went overseas for the first time this past summer.
20:04 I was over there for probably like, what,
20:06 maybe like a month.
20:07 Yeah, I was over there for like a month.
20:10 While I'm signing butt cheeks, butt cheeks,
20:14 like pull the pants down, G-string on, signing butt cheeks.
20:18 Like I really got lost.
20:19 I was finna put a kiss print on the butt,
20:21 and I'm like, "This is raw ass.
20:22 "You cannot put your lips on raw ass."
20:24 - Like you was so into your fans.
20:26 - I was so into my fans, and I'm like, "You just don't."
20:28 Yeah, they was into me, and then I was just,
20:31 I was getting lost in this.
20:31 So I was like, "Whoa, pump the brake, really bad,
20:34 "really bad."
20:35 Yeah.
20:36 - No matter how fucking excited they get.
20:38 - Yeah.
20:39 - You have to be in.
20:40 - You have to be you, 'cause I was finna put my--
20:42 - So you see any shit, you have to,
20:43 because they will pull you in,
20:45 because you be like, "I can't believe you love my shit
20:47 "that much, for real, you really--
20:48 - For real, I'm ready, what you want me to do?
20:50 I'm ready, no, no.
20:53 I was finna kiss that butt.
20:54 I said, "I'ma sign it."
20:57 I said, "Hm, hm, hm."
20:59 - It's crazy how they showed up for you though, right?
21:01 - No cap, I'm like, I'm going over there,
21:03 I'm like, "They don't know who I am."
21:04 - How many sold you had?
21:05 - I had like a 30, 40 minute set.
21:07 - And they was with you?
21:10 - What?
21:11 And then I just did some K-pop songs,
21:15 I just did some Afrobeat songs.
21:17 - That's what I noticed about you.
21:19 That you don't give a fuck.
21:21 - Oh, I don't give a fuck.
21:22 - You got that ratchet shit, but the Calvin Harris shit.
21:25 - Exactly, exactly.
21:28 - He don't fuck with everybody.
21:29 - He don't, he don't.
21:31 - His shit go big, like, don't worry
21:33 about what they do over here.
21:34 - Yep.
21:35 - They're not gonna recognize you.
21:36 - It's bigger than what we know.
21:37 It's bigger than what we know.
21:38 - The craziest shit that be happening with me
21:40 is that these motherfuckers be knowing
21:42 everywhere I'm fucking going without me even knowing.
21:44 - Yeah, yeah.
21:45 - So, I take private planes, I don't fly regular.
21:48 - That right, that right.
21:50 - Sometimes niggas be like, "All right, we gonna leave at,
21:53 "we gonna leave in three hours, nigga,
21:55 "we gonna go fly here."
21:57 Why when I land, it's a hundred motherfucking Snoop Dogg fans
22:00 with a bunch of shit, like, nigga,
22:02 how you niggas know I was coming and nobody--
22:04 - How you even at the clipboard?
22:05 How you know where the clipboard at, baby?
22:07 - Like, my fans is like, super, super--
22:09 - Yeah, they don't play.
22:10 I don't think you had your crazy fan moment yet
22:12 'til you meet my mama.
22:14 Oh, my mama--
22:15 (laughing)
22:17 - Misty, don't do it.
22:18 Don't do it, mama.
22:19 - Listen, that long for the Rocco world, you don't know.
22:22 Oh yeah, she gonna, she gonna, yeah.
22:24 You gonna have your crazy fan moment when you meet my mama.
22:26 - All right, I'm gonna brace myself for this, baby.
22:29 (whooshing)
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