Yeah.

And, um, I just wanna know like, what, what is it? Like, what is it? Because when Nip was alive, that was the homie.

It's all love.

Like, I did what I did for Nip, and he went on and did his thing.

You know what I'm saying? Nip had asked, you know, about, you know, signing.

You know what I'm saying? What's up with Black Wall Street? I was like, "Man, you gonna do your own thing." Because I wasn't never the, you know, the Birdman or the, the Hov, the Rock- I wasn't never that type, bro.

I never signed a artist.

... for a person that came from different means to be able to do that for your children, and especially for your daughter?

So d- during this time, during high school, were you getting in trouble, getting arrested at all? Or were you just mostly just focused on school and basketball?

Um, so I've been to, I went to jail twice, uh, as a teenager, and the other times I think I just got lucky and, and, and slid through, um, wit- without detection.

Um, I think that for me, I was known as like the, um, I was known as like the intelligent, intelligent gangster, you know what I'm saying? I always thought out every mission.

I always thought out everything that I did.

I thought out, you know, selling drugs and, and the way that I would, you know, distribute or the way that I would run with homies.

If we was gonna go get at somebody, it would be all me on the strategic side making sure that everybody got in and they got out alive.

Um, so I was just, um, I n- I, I just went under the radar for, for most of the, you know, the heinous shit that, um, I participated in.

Tell me about the situation.

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Where do you feel like you've grown the most lyrically in music?

I think the pockets that I'm in, the way that I'm i- the way that I'm i- uh, the way that I'm able to get in and out of these pockets on beats now.

It's like you, um, you know, you got a lot of rappers, right, where, a- and not to, you know, taint, you know, what they do, but they ...

You got a lot of rappers that sound exactly how they're gonna sound every single time you hear them.

Bro, it ain't no beat I can't rap on.

It ain't no style I can't go into and out of.

And I mean, I can do everybody else, but everybody can't do me.

Mm.

Somebody should've fixed that.

'Cause at this time, 50 just, he was the biggest nigga on earth.

We go, and, um, Dre from Cool & Dre told me that 50 was holding something that was gonna change the trajecty- tra- trajectory of what we were doing together.

He said, "50 already put, you know, the hook on it.

You just gotta go slide in the parts that he have for you." And so when, when 50 say, "I wrote...

I gave Game these records," he did give me those records.

What I'm saying to 50 on Joe and Jada, or anybody that's listening, who thinks that my pen is lazy or some shit, that if 50...

Mm.

It was one of

the times I flew to New York.

There was one time you didn't get me.

Capo got me this time.

He dropped me off at the W.

That was my spot.

I loved it.

That's what I'm trying to explain.

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Somebody should've passed that to 50.

Resentment brings on people wanna do things to you.

Yeah, we had several shootouts, um, during, uh, the process where, when the documentary was out.

We had a lot of shootouts.

But it was normal to me.

I was already...

I remember one specific time, the one that changed...

Uh, there was two incidents.

Why, why are we, "we" us like that?

Mm-hmm.

You know? Um, he's also a very, very talented guy that is changing a lot of people's lives, man.

He giving a lot of people motivation, inspiration.

No matter what we, we older OGs feel about it, man, NBA YoungBoy is one of those guys that has a lot, um, a lot to live for.

Um, as far as, uh, you know, again, the tweet, man, I would just say pour into yourself, man, and whatever you gotta do, um ... 'Cause I'm assuming that's either it ...

Like, it has to be about a woman.

Any time that I wanted to kill myself, it was probably about a woman.

You got put in some bad situations.

Yeah.

You were trying.

You know what? I wasn't 24.

I was 18.

Okay.

I was 18.

My girlfriend at the time, bro, listen, we were laying in bed, chilling at my mom's house.

He didn't want to be kiki-kiing in some guy's face knowing that...

Because

he powerful.

Yes.

And so he spoke to me and I was like, yeah, well, that ain't it.

I can't just go out and like, you know, start a war with white people because how I feel.

Right.

So I went over.

Why are we, we, us,

Well, there's a interesting story that you told about the first time Nipsey tried to give you a CD.

Yeah.

I used to, uh, I used to get on the, I used to get on the 110, um, you know, and, uh, take the 110 to the 105, and I'd take the 105, and I'd get off on Crenshaw.

Because I was going to Melrose, but instead of, uh, you know, going the, the easy, taking e- the freeway, the freeways around and then getting off on Wilshire going down, I would just, like, get off on Crenshaw and take Crenshaw down because, you know, I would probably see, you know, some bitches or, you know, I was young and wrapped, and I had this, you know, white Range Rover.

And, you know, you just taking the streets, riding through the streets of LA.

And, uh, this one particular day, I was behind this fucking ...

Like, I was trying to make it through this light, 'cause, you know, I'm rolling through the 60s.

Was this one of the hardest things you dealt with?