But man, when do you feel like it started making sense, though?

though?I feel like, I feel like it started making sense.

It made, it started making sense real quick to me.

I went from in the projects to, the next week I was on a LA rooftop having a meeting, fresh from the projects.

I was on a, on a tour with The Lox, and when that tour finished I went home to the projects.

So, like, it made sense for me, like, right after I got off that tour.

I'm like, "Damn, you know, this shit real." Know what I'm saying? And then next week I, uh, basically, like, moved to Atlanta with Wes.

Mm-hmm.

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Where, where did that start from?

Man, that started, like I said, it started from the, from the, from the hood.

You know what I'm saying? It's like we, we from them, we from them hoods where, where they do that.

Our, our older homies, you know what I'm saying? Not glorifying it or nothing, but I be really explaining this to people.

It's like, it's almost tradition where we from.

You feel what I'm saying? And, you know, and it's almost, like, not a surprise to people from our hood when they see us.

Maybe to other people in the city, but people from our hood, it's like, you know, okay.

... you been in the game for a minute, so how do you feel about the state of hip hop right now?

That's right.

And he was fucking actually mad, like, "What you mean? You ain't ..." "Me, dog, when I finish this work right here, I'm not gonna get no more." [laughs] And he, he, he couldn't really understand it then.

He ended up going up north after.

Mm.

He came out, I was lit.

Took him to Atlanta, All Star, Jeff Hamilton, all that shit you saying, lobsters and steaks, and, and then he understood.

He like, "Yo, remember that time I was mad you said you wasn't hustling no more? But now look at all of this."

That's right.

And he was fucking actually mad, like, "What you mean? You ain't..." "Nigga, dog, when I finish this work right here, I'm not gonna get no more." [laughs] And he, he, he couldn't really understand.

It...

Then he end up going up north after.

Mm.

He came out, I was lit.

Took him to Atlanta, All Star, Jeff Hamilton, all that shit you saying, lobsters and steaks and, and then he understood.

He like, "Yo, remember that time I was mad you said you wasn't hustling no more? But now look at all of this."