Birdman

Really? So

Birdman put the money up?

Well, it was a group effort.

It was me.

Who gonna be young? Nigga, everybody on that bitch.

I'm definitely putting Birdman on there.

Got to get Bonecrusher on there.

Birdman going on there.

Bonecrusher going on there.

Bonecrusher definitely going on there.

So the reason why I start off with the state, the status of hip hop is because I believe Drake is definitely a student of the game.

Some would say he's very good at assimilating and maybe being a little culture vulture, if I was to be a Drake hater, of course, the word I would use is he's definitely a student and he assimilates really well to different cultures and he respects them to the point where the certain figures from that specific genre give him the cosign to continue forward, whether it's a Bad Bunny in reggaeton, whether it's a Karol G in reggaeton, whether it's a Ella Langley and country, whether it's even towards the beginning of time, whether it's J Prince and Birdman, as far as hip hop and black culture, people always wonder how did a Canadian who.

Whose mom was white, grow so big in hip hop.

It's because the cosign really matters as far as from people who are respected into the game.

So you have OVO Republic, right? This is basically the Drake label that he has like Party Next Door and some other artists, things of that nature, right? Back in the day, he didn't have all that.

He had a bunch of hands in the pot and let's just say it was no OVO.

It was Birdman's O.

It was give money to Birdman expeditiously.

I get to rub my hands

together like Birdman.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Ironically, I think out of No Limit and Cash Money, if we take...

Most of the people, and I'll say most, not all, but if we take most of the people on both labels and put them together, the person I've been knowing longer than anybody else is Birdman.

Okay.

I've been knowing Birdman since I was about eight years old.

His family lived in my neighborhood.

And by consequence, I also know BG.

Yes.

Bishop Paul Martin's church is about four blocks from my junior high school, four and a half blocks from Magnolia Project where Birdman, Brian Williams, and all the guys grew up.

My junior high was there.

I'm from another ward, 17, right? So I went there.

You still gotta go back to the people at Universal that cut the checks.

You still gotta talk to Birdman and Tez and Slim and this one and that one, and then budgets and radio.

And in the midst of all of that, Drake about to come out with Take Care.

Hold on for one quick second.

It's like Wayne and his crew, his peoples, his assistant, his road manager, and whatever artist he bringing around at that time.

Uh, and then when we got, when we started being in Miami more, or when I started being in Miami more, they probably was already in Miami, but I used to come, be in Atlanta and go back to New York and fly back and forth.

So when I started being in Miami more, that's when I would notice, oh, you know, HitFactory got this side and that side, and Birdman would be in this room and Wayne would be in the next room.

So it's like, you'll be in there, Wayne'll be in there, smoking, recording some shit, and then he'll go in the room, Stunna was good.