One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Rock and liquor. No doubt a nigga biz.  My bed is a bed for a kid in that victim. I love it. J-O-N. Let's go original, man, so we can get spotted, man. Play me one of them J-O-N tracks, man. They don't nobody even know about. Yeah, it's some skin. Yeah, this some father sensual workers right here. We back. We back. What you been? We back. We back. We back. Come on, man, this is going to be all that gangster grills next thing you have. We back. Spot that tongue. Oh. We back. Oh. Oh. Oh. What are you? This one's what I was waiting for. Yo. We back. Yo. We back. Yo. We back. Yo. We back. Yo. We back. Yo. Let's go.  I'm hand up. He with y'all fools. Tom. Who this is? I hear a voice. Yeah. Look. I hear some noise. Yeah. Mr. Thanksgiving.  Do it one more time. You ready? Do it one more time. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Mr. Thanksgiving. Go. Uh-huh. We living. Could you know why? Uh-huh. We got. Mr. Thanksgiving. Hello. We back. I mean like a spy. If I said that we was leaving there, you know that I'm lying. Uh-huh.  But one thing I can say with shit, they all was mine. Okay. You done so.  Uh-huh. We ain't looking. You don't like a nigga. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. D-throw. D-throw to a whole nother man. Yeah. He thought that she was faithful till he found her only friend. That ain't my business. That ain't my business. Uh-huh. But she was doing it when I was gone. That ain't my business. $399. How much was it? $399. How much was it? $399.  She ain't know that. But you're $399.  That's right. Damn.  Uh-huh.   I like the gunshot on the mixtape. Yeah.  Y'all know y'all ain't opened up. You a project baby. This nigga's open to chip like he was smacking some map. You want him off? No. That's a new car. There was a part in my life where all the music in my car was against the grill CD. Me too. I made an actual CD.   Like, all the niggas had one. Everybody wanted to listen to before they dropped the album.  Hold on. So it's like today, the trap, the trap going platinum. We got no break. All the way. Yeah man, cause this is not a episode. It's a mixtape. We got the one and only. Mr. Thanksgiving. No.  What's up y'all? It's the only way.  It's a honor. It's a honor, man. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming, man. Appreciate you, man. Love. Man, this is what you did for the streets. Nah, good looking.  I'm talking about when it, like, when it made a whole another. You had a holla at him. I'm talking about change the game. It wasn't official. Like, it wasn't invented, but it was like he reinvented the whole mixtape game.  You feel me? Like you took, you took the attention off an album for so long. Like niggas money been trying to drop an album. They needed that mixtape. You don't get the strength to listen to earth ball.  Right.   Like, they go into jail for CDs. For music, man. For music, bro. That's crazy. And change the game, man. So we honored to have you here. Come on, man. Let's go. Okay. Let's go. DJ John in the building. Now, pleasure to be here, man. Pleasure to be here, legends only. Is it fair to say, like if I ask y'all, is Gangsta Grill is the most important mixtape series of all time?  Right.    I didn't know.  You know what I'm saying? I started over. Did you press the button? Did you press the radio? I'd be telling people sometimes because then, you know, like the no DJ version became a thing and everything. And I've seen people say, like, you know, I want to hit like mixtape without the drops. And there's a couple mixtapes out there without the drops, but it's just not the same feel.  Like, you know what I'm saying? Even for the battle, he was just trying to get the songs together. But GZ called me like, yeah, you got some of them songs, like we could play without the drops. I was like, niggas don't want to hit them. Shit's without the drops. You did? Yes, I did.  Yeah, you what? You know what I'm saying? I tell you what.  I mean, but I think so. I think it's in that class. I'm talking about all the way back to, I mean, the old in the 80s, DJ Red Alert and all them types of mixtapes. Like it's in that class where it's a period in time where you couldn't hear no music without hearing DJ drama or somebody saying, when are you going to get a DJ drama against your brother? Yeah. Two of my favorite against the grill mixtapes that I felt like was the two most slept on after the whole series. Okay, slept on means it's not one of the ones. Yeah, I'm saying that it's not like, it wasn't the one that ground but like. It wasn't popular to the most kind. And break the artist to the next platform, I think, but they were still two of the dopest ones. Motherfuckers, slick puller. Four four day was hard. Oh, here in big country. Shout out to the country. Shout out to all my gods. Old beauty. Yeah, old beauty. That was my game. Drone did his motherfucking thing. If it wasn't for tip, really I don't know if gangsta girls would be what it was because, you know, he was the, like when me and him was coming up, it was because of him understanding and you know, that ground hustle like getting it. So we hooked up and did the first tape where it was literally all tip. Like that was like, I was like, okay, finally here's somebody make the type of project I wanted to make with. And we could, you know, do this whole project together because everything pretty much followed that. You know what I'm saying?  So what was your vision? When you say, okay, whatever you do, and this is what you was going to do, your stamp, what was the vision that you said? Like, all right, this is what I got to do for these people. A lot of my vision was really just about, like, was about branding, to be honest. Like, even when I was doing them early, like when I started with the tapes, or just even in my career, like from early on, I always wanted to make it seem like, I watched how people respond to DJs or the music and things like that. And the thing I always hated, like listening to the radio going to a party was like, I don't want anybody to leave here and just say, yo, the music was good. Or the DJ on the radio is doing good. Like, no, DJ drama did his motherfucking thing. So even with Gangsta Girls, I was like, all right, if I can make this brand strong, I can kind of create a platform for myself to even kind of get on and everything. So, you know, on the early tapes, like, nobody knew what I looked like.  Like, people used to tell me all the time, like, we thought she was dark-skinned and fat. Like, when we heard two voices. It came out, light it here. Isn't that nice of you? Yeah, it is. All that DJ drama, that's you? Yeah, it is.   You got this Shalemaw face. You say you don't drive in DJs, right? This the Gangsta Girls shit? Shalemaw member. A Shalemaw member. Yeah, a Shalemaw member for real. So then, you know, and then outside of that, it was just really going against the grain.   Watch how this goes. So, I literally applied a format that people said wasn't going to work.   So I was like, oh, I'm on to something here. That was crazy. It definitely caught. Like, you, the talking on the mix tapes, like you and, I'd say, bigger ranking. Yeah, yeah, bigger. You got to know the streets. Bigger ranking? You can feel it. You can feel the soul. Yeah, definitely. The streets don't love nobody though.    But you know what? I feel like you, you are the one who kind of, like, definitely started that. You know what? I'm not going to allow them to skip the song. Well, I'm going to tell you, yeah, for sure. I'm going to bring, I'm going to play it. Matter of fact, I'm going to let you all get to the hook and guess what I'm going to do?   Read a book. We listening to a book. Let's go crazy.  I remember even on Dedication 2, there's a part where I play a song, I'm like, nah, it's too early for that. Right. And make niggas go to another song and then come back to that song.  And one thing I feel like I brought to the table. I knew that. I felt that. Yeah.  I can't wait to do this motherfucker.  I said that. Like I could just do whatever. Like that.  They would have just listened to it and would just sound like a regular mixtape, but you amp it up. And I felt like, like I remember before me, mixtapes, like there's always been DJs on mixtapes and you know, shout outs and saying things and everything.  Play the four. Right. You already know. Play the game.  You know, if I'm on top of the music, how do I make it where I'm really adding something?  Every rapper ain't a street nigga. But if you figure it out, you know, That was so cold.  Niggas have to get together. I'm not just talking about real niggas. I'm talking about real street niggas. Facts is how it came into just like that. So, you know, with that, I think that that's one thing that people liked.  Like, it's just different. Hey, you originally from Philadelphia. Originally from Philadelphia. So, what was one of the really neat. Did that mixed shape influence, like you said, just having that background of being up north. Right. When you came down here, was it hard for people to, did you have any resistance and people accepting that type of, you know, DJing? A thousand percent. I mean, I never, to be honest, I never felt, you know, Atlanta's the type of city where it's just, you know, anybody that comes here or moves here, you understand the level of Southern hospitality or love. So, one thing I learned early on coming from Philly, I always had gotten embraced or, you know, when I moved here to go to Clark Atlanta. So, even in my early years, you know, I met people that were doing similar things that I was doing and, you know, always offered a helping hand. So, I was like, it's just different from Philly. First of all, we don't have as many outlets. And then, you know, it's just a different energy in a city where you don't, you might not have a vibrant city like Atlanta with, you know, so many black people getting so much money at young ages and everything. So, that was different. But never like, you know, I always felt like, damn, it's really love that I'm, you know, I'm a kid from out of town, even though I had lived here for some time, but getting embraced by the city, you know, by the music and everything. So, really knowing resistance I've had to say anything was like with DJs that we were, you know, in a competitive sport, but even that was, you know, that's just a competitive nature of it. DJs really debriefing.  Like, it's competitive.   Wait, wait, wait. So, so, okay, okay.  Come on, I'll take your turntable. Okay, let's live. Now, you a DJ now, can you break down the difference between a DJ they just have a laptop and the ones they used to scratch or the ones that hosting on a mixtape. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, it's a lot of different, like, DJing is like a tree with a lot of branches, like anything, especially like now, all these years later, after literally you could pick up your computer and you know, you could technically become a celebrity DJ if you not already have it. I've been trying. I don't drive it. That's hard. I salute y'all, nigga. That's hard.  You can rock in front of a crowd of people, you know, I salute you. You know what I'm saying? I'm glad I come from the era where I really had to carry crates and I was the last nigga in the club and like if you ain't had no real friends, you had to carry all them because them shits as heavy as a motherfucker. Like, and we said like, have like five, six, seven, eight, nine. If you had your whole record collection, you had a lot of crates. So, you know, like this era of DJs it's a lot more women. Yeah, you had to, you had to have an SUV or something with a trunk, a trunk in it or else you wasn't getting around. I remember when I first started getting money, the first car I had was a Benz and I was like, I'm never going back to SUVs like because of that.  Did you have any DJs who you had to carry their crates for them that you get like ushered into the game that way? I never technically carried any crates for anybody, but I had different DJs during my career that like, definitely showed me the way. When I was an affiliate it was a DJ named Ghetto who was more like a scratch type DJ.  So I was into that just as much. I was never that good. That's why I was focused on the mixtape. But then there was a DJ, you know, shout out to DJ Mars who like, used to really be moving around in Atlanta a lot. Yeah, Mars my god. So you know, when Mars did the Super Ghetto in the early 2000s, like he took us under his wing in some ways and I definitely learned some of the game from him and everything. And I remember a time when I was, I didn't think anybody was going to ever correlate DJ drama to me because I was like, that word is just too popular of a word. Other people using it ain't nobody going to think about me when they think of that. And Mars was like, nigga don't change your name for nobody. And then, you know, I never forget that advice because I didn't. I was like, nigga don't change his name. So yeah, so Mars was an early influence for me. DJ Shaquem who used to DJ for Bow Wow.  So, so yeah, but I definitely would salute Mars for, you know, help show me the way and things like that. What do you think is the most impactful not the necessarily best one, but the one that had the biggest impact on the game? I think it's two. My argument is between Trabada and Dedication 2. There you go. I was about to say, Dedication. Dedicated. And Dedication is a series as a whole as another phenomenon because it's literally six, seven of those, you know, compared to like Trabada as a stance still. But to me, Dedication 2 was the best one and then I was just like Trabada.  Like, that should change the game, you know what I'm saying? Like, look at where we are now with the effects of GZ and that influence of that time.   And they had just put a project out called Come Shop with Me. And, you know, anybody from that era will tell you, The old GZ, Come Shop with Me, Van, used to ride around the city and everything. So literally, uh, Young used to come to my crib before the gangster grills, and I used to make him show tapes. Um, when he used to come to the fourth ward, I used to just like put freestyles on there for him, charge him a couple hundred dollars and boom, boom, boom. So that's how we first got, um, introduced. And then he, you know, he, he pretty much like, like, so, not Trabadabra, the tape we did before that was called Our Streets is Watching. That was our first tape. That was literally the first mixtape I ever got paid for. They gave me like a thousand dollars at the time. And like, one thing about, about Young is that he always had a vision. Like, you know, he knew where, like, he had it laid out in a sense. And I was like, you know, I mean, I, I don't think at the time, I can definitely admit like, I never saw it becoming what it became. But, you know, gangster grills was already a brand in motion.  So after we did the first tape, and then, you know, like it just caught like that. Like I just started seeing the reaction and my man told me like early on, you know, this is around, this is when T.I. is like on top of the world. You know what I'm saying? And my man walked up like, yo, that, that GZ tape you did, that's the best gangster grills you ever did. I'm like, the new nigga, like, where? And he was like, I'm telling you so. And then I started going on a roll with them just during the Chitlin circuit days and seeing the response and the reaction from the tape and everything. So by the time we got to trap a die where we was about to do it, you could already, you could feel in a sense the energy, especially obviously in the city and everything. But when we did that tape, like I, I, I didn't, I didn't see it becoming that. Like it was, it was life changing. It was everything. Every city I went to, I used to be on a roll with them.  Like, you know, I think that, you know, just, just to this day, my nigga, I see people all the time that tell me how many years they did behind bars and what gangster grills meant to them in there and how they listened to them and those tapes and everything. Like it just was, it just was special. Like, and I, I believe in the universe playing a role in a lot of those things.  So that's the universe point blank period.  Hell yeah. Coach got the game in the head last time. Yeah, for sure. 80. And has been for some time, man.  You know what I'm saying? Shot, okay. He always had the game. Oh yeah. So you get to a point where you got the trapper, the, the gangster grill, the trap of doubt. Like, did you, at that point, did you say, all right, this is, this is what the move is, the gangster grill series? Like, what made you say, you know, I'm going to make it this instead of just going, calling the different shit? Like you had the Streets is Watching before and not Streets is Watching. Well, I was always still under the gangster grills umbrella, but I knew by that time that gangster grills was the thing that was going to take me through there.  Like, because I, before those tapes, I was still, there was basically regular compilations like mixtapes, which is, you know, songs from everybody. So by the time I started getting to that space where, you know, you know, guys are coming in and we're doing whole projects. Like I knew I was, that, that was going to take me in the direction that I wanted to go in with my career and everything. And I was just telling somebody this early today, matter of fact, I was talking to Hitmaker Youngberg and he was just, he was going back, he's going back talking about, he, you know, I didn't remember this. He said I tried to, I charged him like 30 grand for gangster grills. And I was like, yeah, I was out of my mind. I was, I was just going, I was getting, I was getting, so I was going crazy. I was motherfucking 30,000. Mr. Thanksgiving. You guys hearing that, it would have echoed. But Turkey's in the hood. Yeah, I feel you. Bruh, I always wanted to see Kirk Franklin against the dude. That would have been. That'd be great. That'd be crazy. Raise the roof for Jesus. There wouldn't have been no song. You think you can hear me? All the old bitches in the front go, raise the roof for Jesus. There wouldn't have been no songs. You wouldn't have had to check as soon as he heard it. Me and him would have been.   But God already knows my time and the time to get down. That would have been, that would have been dope. Who's somebody that you wanted to do one with that you never got to work with? Who's somebody I wanted to do one that I never did? Yeah, y'all. You want to do a dance with us? I would. You would? Yeah.  He basically saying we got to do our solo first. So you want to do some comedy see? Then we can double back. You want to do this real quick. God, serious. No, he sent me some reviews. But he knows what I'm at, though. So I don't know if he's real about it. What do you mean, Mom? We've been having this conversation for two years. That's the name of the gangsta grill. I don't know if you're real about it. Hey, I am the label. That's kind of hard to know. You hear me? Yeah. You hear me? I'm about to treat you. I am the label.  I'm going to know if you're real about it. I am the label. This is the DC mixtape. DC know what I'm at? Nick ain't never put a dollar in me. I am the label. That's hard. You hear me? Um, let me think. What's the charge? Don't say it. I'm going to charge you often. Yeah. Oh, I heard him before. He said it on the phone. You just going to pick up the phone? Yeah, no, I'm not. You're not going to pick up the phone for free money. When he's free? We want to make, it's bad. It's ways to make money. I think he got it on tape now. I just keep- Because that's really good. I see the two of us over and over again. Remember these days?  Man, I want to try to go. Ain't no job, man. I've been out here hustling. What do you need? Need a rumor? I am the label. I answer to no one. So, so Gushi and Drake was going to do one together. Word? Yeah, that was going- That was going- We need to, we need to, we need to put that in the- Oh, you know what? I've never said it. I've never, I never told this stuff. So the Be Me Up Scotty, the Nicki Minaj. Shout the holiday. That's my brother. But originally, Nicki had hit me about, that was, that was going to be her gangster grills. That didn't happen. You know? So that didn't happen. Damn. That was Drake though. Yeah, I've been Drake. Travis Scott before the rodeo. Okay. That was going to be a gangster grills. It's a couple, it's a couple of projects out there that I might, you know- That's a cool, good, another question. Do you have to be a gangster to get a gangster grill? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. And that was one thing early on with the brand, even when the direction I was going, I was like, I don't want to, I'd never wanted to necessarily be pigeonholed into that per se. So I remember when I first did like a tape with like Pharrell, I did one with Lil Brother. Like, I remember people being like, I mean, they don't, that's, how are you going to do it? Gangster girls with Lil Brother, you know what I'm saying? But I was like, watch this. And I just, I knew that, you know, the brand was where I would be able to take it. So I think I've stepped out enough with it that you ain't, no, it ain't about being, I mean, being the gangsters up here, clearly so. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah.  They go, Mr. Biggs, gangster girl. That was Ron Isley. Some of my best ones is, is like R&B ones. The Jeremiah Late Night Gangster Girls is fire.  Like, y'all done this some good ones with some that, that don't even come in the form of me having to scream over them. Now you, you know, a lot of people might not know this, but you, the feds came and got you. Like, can't you talk about hola, hola, hola. It's over with now, yeah.  You straight? Nah, I'm good. Yeah, the time, enough time has passed. All right, man, turn them on. So what, how did that happen? I mean, was it because you was, what was the reason behind that? To be honest, I don't know if I ever found out the real reason behind it. I mean, somebody, somebody was in a position, they was back in the day when they would have like music stores and everything. I think it was a peppermint, was in a, in the mall. What's the mall? I said, Morrow. What's the mall was out there? Oh, that's South. South what? South Lake. South Lake is out there. So it used to be a chicken, South Lake mall. They used to have like one of them stands in the middle where she used to sell mix tapes and everything. And I guess she was booming. So peppermint called the cops on her like, yo, it's a lady out here selling bull eggs or whatever. So then when they came to her, she was like, nah, these not bull eggs. Like, these is good. I get these from DJ drama. So I guess they looked into it and then, they like went to, they like went to my website. They started doing some like research and everything and like, you know, I ain't, you know, at the time I was like the mix tape king, I was on top of the world. So 90 million years that I have to think about something like that or that, that was even possible. You feel what I'm saying? I'm about to say, how did that possible with your music?  And like, so, you know, one, one fateful morning, they just, they came to the door with the M16s and them guns drawn and the black tie holds up on the, on the porch with the helicopters outside. For your music? My nigga for music, bro. For music.  For the CDs, bro. Nothing. They melodies. They are called melodies. They told me, so then they told me, they told me, I was, they was booking me for the Rico. So, you know, this is all.  The Rico, they got me for the Rico. Oh, what Rico? Bro, the next day when I got out and I was, I was on the phone, somebody was, was like, yeah, you checked your bank account? And I was like, nah, for what? I mean, they could check your bank account.  Took it. Oh, they took everything. Oh, my God. They took it. And that was the first time I used, I had ever seen no real money.  Right. Just look at the numbers. Just like this.  I'd crowd my little heart out. But I still be crying.  Right. They put me in a sense of, faster than I was already going. They made me a martyr to the game.  You know what I'm saying? So, you know, I just, that was my thing.  You know what I'm saying? So, but it was a hell of a time.  But you know, now, I mean, it's for, for some things that literally, like we're talking about, like, that is the name of the game now. You know what I'm saying? Like everything we're doing was literally what we have been doing at that time. And the law that they actually got me on was some shit they called the true name law, where they said, if you make a CD, you have to put an address on the back of it. So you remember how the mixtapes used to be? It was a black case. So it wasn't no back. So that's what they technically. So how did you bounce back from that?   So, and then, you know, it was like, I still, it garnished me a lot more attention. Like they put me on the cover of Billboard after that situation. So it was like a newfound fame in a lot of ways. And then I had, I had yet to put out my first album on Atlantic. I was about to put my debut album out. So, you know, Atlantic was hype at the time. I'm like, oh, you can't pay for this publicity. Like, let's, let's, let's use this. Yeah. So that out and came out. Get him out of the job. Yeah. So that's how they came. And then, you know, so, so yeah. And never, you know, I, even when I would do interviews, I remember thinking like, this is only a chapter. Everybody who goes do anything faces adversity. So, this ain't nothing. You know, God is great. You overcame adversity and look at you. You hear me. You hear me. You talk about you hear me. What some damn melodies, man. What is like after that? 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After going through that and seeing what it did for the culture, do you feel like, like, I don't know, like it could have, like you was chosen for that to push this forward or, or what? Or a victim of whatever they thought or what?  So, you know, if I had to be the one for that, like, I guess I'm thankful for that because of my outlook and never knowing that, you know, we're going to rise from this. Like this, this ain't nothing, you know what I'm saying?  Like I love it. So for me to be here and to think back about that and think about like, you know, it's a whole, it's a whole part of people who might know me and never even knew that should happen. But saying that's just, I never knew that should happen. Yeah. You know, that's just a, that's, to me, that's a pattern on the back of the things I've accomplished since then. You feel what I'm saying? So, you know, I look at it like that. You know, I put, I put everything in context. Albums, how does that work? Like I always see the DJs, you DJ Khaled. Yeah. Like, and you have all these artists on the album and I'm thinking this shit got to cost so much money to make because you got all these, Is the budget bigger for a DJ album? Or do you just based like, is all this a phone call?  Right. It gotta be, bro. I think about my albums and the names on there. So yeah, a lot of it is based on relationships. I mean, there's definitely money involved. But, you know, my budgets have been fair.  But when you do an album like that, at that extent, you know, labels or whoever you, whoever your business partners is, know you're going to have to call in some favors because that should, that's just a pretty penny. You feel what I'm saying?   That's a good question. Damn, that's a good question. Oh, no. All right. Think about that.  I feel like it's a little underrated to this day. You want to fire anyone? I can't. That's just, I never heard of that. I'd be able to fire.   But, you know, when I was pretty much coasting on them and nobody knew who they were per se. So I guess, you know, everything, I'm a part of my label in a sense. I don't want to say it's slept on, but, you know, I catch it from an early point and then just to watch from, you know, those days to where it's become, you know, I think just today, like, Uzi tweeted, Jay-Z said he's like Prince. So now they're going to call him the new little Prince. And I was, you know, the nigga is like, he's different. Did you see that when you first saw Uzi? No, I didn't see this. Like, I didn't. Like, he was always very confident and always had a vision and a path. I don't know if anybody can see this, though.  Like, he's another planet rock star, you know what I'm saying? So, I'd be lying to him. Snoop, Uzi, what's up, Nings? I'd be lying to sit here and say that I saw that, but, you know, we knew he was special. He's here, got them diving in his head. He's crazy, man.  That's what it is. But like, being from Philadelphia and Uzi being from Philly, like, did you ever feel like being as though you came to Atlanta? Like, all right, I got a responsibility to go back home and get some wine now because I done did all my work down here. I owe it to the city. Yeah, for sure. And I did, I feel like I did that through the years. And one thing about Philly is like, niggas took it like, no, nigga. What have you done recently, though? Like, you know, it's just... You got to be getting somebody every three months. Oh, man, yeah, man. Come on, man.  Come on, man, just build it, man. So, yeah, I mean, I felt that through a lot of times in my career, but, you know, obviously, for me and Cannon, like, you know, having Uzi as an artist and then, you know, coming out the gate with it and his success and him being from the career, like, yeah, that was special.  What's been your fastest turnaround on a mixtape? As far as putting it together from start to finish. Um, ooh, that's a good question, too. I was... When I used to have to do dedication, I was, um, I think, like, I didn't have a lot of time. Like, I think the deadline was in a couple of years or something. Which one? The first one. Has there been an artist that requested you be in the studio the whole time they doing this shit? They asked for that, but I don't do that. Niggas, you got to be here. I need you to do it. So, you do it without them? No, it's your process. Yeah, I like that. So, do you listen to the song first? 100% all the time. The whole back and forth. I go into the songs, I listen to them, and I think about what I'm gonna say. You don't think it's a better process? I mean, why not be there, though? Does that not help the process? If you're there, when the song is ready? I don't mind being...  We wanted it ready or not.  I had just read in Time Magazine or something. It was about sleep. And the tape was Dream Chasers, so it was, like, perfect timing.  I don't know. I just like to be in my own zone, pretty much.  You ain't got a name in the nigga. That's the hard one. That's the hard one. Music. Like, man, you get it, you get it. You know where you're gonna write everything.  I can't try to get on this. You know what it is?    From one to ten.  You niggas ain't up on this. Yo, that's classic.  That is grand.  Yeah, right here. Hey, all right, y'all.  All right, y'all. Get down to the show. Put down what you got. All right, y'all.     I gotta hear that.  Let him cut the car off my niggas. That's hilarious. What he say? Never mind what he say. Cut the car off my niggas.  Play your song.  Play your song. Yeah. Just let it run. All right. Just let it run. Is that ever happened to you? Ever had that happen to you? Yeah, I think I could count on two hands. I've probably done 500 to 1,000 games a year. I probably can count on two hands at times.  So how do you, how do you, how do you? Damn. It's like 500. How do you spread it out? Because I know you have an intro. You might see it go over every song if you like. Nah, I don't want to do that. I don't like doing that. Right, right. You had a song. So when you do the intro or middle, then again. As time went on and the game changed, I started going on less and less songs. Right, right. But definitely the intro, definitely something at the end. And then where it fits accordingly. I never, I don't be one, like, I never want to be overbearing. I want to blend in with the music, you feel what I'm saying? So yeah, yeah, that's important. That ain't crazy, bro.  You know what you gotta do, though? Where? You gotta do a GPS, though. GPS? Ooh, nigga, you're killing it as the GPS. That's hard. Make a left! Yeah, that's fine.  Yeah, that's fine. Nigga said you weren't gonna make it, but look at you! You already did! That's fire. Nah, really. That's hard. That's fast. It's hard. Yeah, that's hard. You haven't thought about expanding to the North every shit? Oh, of course. Absolutely. You'd be like Siri on the set for fire. Your voice is famous now. Yeah. You're gonna have to branch off, man. Nah, I would let it do that. I would let it do that. You're letting me answer your question. And this nigga, what it do? You're like, aw, nigga, I'm just trying to figure out this song. That's one of mine right there. That'd be dope, bro. GPA is crazy. That's hard. Don't go up there. The police to the left. You got three pounds in the car. Bust them right. Hold up. It's another police nigga. Just paw. DC, you start staying a little bit. He's coming in. As soon as you get over the speed limit, yo, nigga, stick the police ain't out here. I'm talking about the real GBA. Slow down. Your transmission's slipping. All right. Thank you. That is all. That's genius. Legendary. It'll be dope. All the DJ niggas. That'll be dope. Figure out what that is.  My dog. I see you on your way. Don't slow down. The streets don't love nobody, dog. That's how I'm going. That's what it is. Have you ever thought about expanding in that capacity, though? I play around with it because I know my voice is like, you know, epic and no now.   I get a real good, baby. Yeah, I do some cartoons and everything. It had to like stop your DJ voice. You're like, what up, man? What up, my nigga?  I be ready to talk normal more than anything. That's funny.   Like that was just me doing myself. You wouldn't just make it and say, damn son, where'd you find this? I don't know who that is. Who is that? I don't know who that is.  You know who the gangster girl drop is, right? And he will go. Lil John, right? Right, so the gangster girl drop is Lil John. You know who the, on the canon, you know that voice is? That's from the John Madden game. So who does the voice for Madden? Steps back. That's the guy Pat Summerall. That's Pat Summerall's voice. Yeah, that's Pat Summerall. Because Cannon was playing a video game and he made a character on the game and he was like, Cannon, steps back. Take three, man. Cannon. Oh, that boy cold. Why Cannon? Not all on this. Oh, because of Cannon. DJ Cannon. Yeah. Don Cannon. I get it. Trendsetters. Yeah, you see what I'm saying? Them shits, them little drops. Like, do we do, you make your own or is it like? Yeah, everybody makes their own. Everybody make their own. Everybody makes their own. So what you got new coming out? I know you got some. Man, you know, a lot of artists. Yeah, a lot of artists. And you know, the label's been booming. The energy is good. So Jack Carlow just dropped out. That's what they all say. That was cold. Yeah, Jack Carlow was coming out.  Early, early, early. Remember, when we did that, when we did Wild'n Out, I don't think, I think he had made what's popping. It's on. No, not out. But we, it wasn't even moving. We did it a few times. Oh yeah, I mean, he did do it. The first time was sure. It was actually pretty early. You know what I mean? The second time he had started to pop at that first time. But still was, yeah. He had the SoundCloud. Yeah, that's what it was. So that was early, you know what I'm saying? And then got a new artist, Settie Hendricks. Settie. Yeah. Yeah. Go Crane. Go Crane. Nice little D-Ball. Dice and Bill. Dice and Bill. Crane. D-Ball. Settie is crazy. How do you find your artist? Like, do they find you or do you find them? Sometimes they find me. I feel like Settie found me. I think that was, yeah, because he was at the studio. He said he wound up sneaking in, like a couple of times before that. So he found me. He snuck in the studio? Yeah, he snuck in. Well, he got a mogul. Oh, wait, man. I didn't even say he got a mogul. How do you do that? Settie, how do you sneak in the studio, nigga? It's in here. David. Come here, nigga. Oh, say that, say that, say that. Settie hit Whispering. Oh, this is the artist right here. Settie Hendricks and the motherfuckers. Settie! We don't have to have Settie! Let's hang in. Let's hang in.  You ain't got it. I snuck in it.  I'm a son. Yeah. Do it again. I bet. I snuck in the studio. I went through an engineer named David. You feel me? He from Jacksonville, too. But after that. Oh, so he ain't either inside? No, he kind of told me he was like, listen, once before we went to the studio. I'm going to be just getting the story the first time now. He had done that twice already, and I'm at the house and I'm like, you know what, bro? You not just going to be telling me you going to DJ Drums Studio the third time. I'm going. And he's like, nah, I'm like, I'm going. So he say, all right, when I go or not go in, I don't know you. I say, cool. So I go in and motherfuckers. When I walk in, you know what I'm saying? He go his way. I sit on the couch, meet this one dude. Feel me? Oh, as soon as I see him, you know what? Da-da-da-da-da-da. Right. Oh, let's go. But let me hear your music real quick. I play him these songs, molded me. He gave me the whole, the usual, yeah, yeah. Gave me a card. Never heard from him again. Right. I come back. He feel me? I meet Willie Joe. You know what I'm saying? Willie Joe is like, he heard playing him the same songs.  He put me in the studio. Let me hear some right songs, ONBPs that bring me to a video shoot. Then I meet him. Willie Joe. And then Drone heard my music. And it was like, all right. I want to see if you do it again. He heard some more. And it was like, I want, I need him. It's rap. It's rap.  Stay down.  Pull it back up. You get it?  Go back in there. I thought what you said, snuggled in the studio like a nigga laying on the wall and waiting on the door to include a snuggled foot in there, bitch. Motherfucker. Now, a nigga would have seen that.  I know, man. I know. I know. I know. It did sound like that, right? Right, right, right. You put your ear to my phone. That would be the hell of a story if it didn't happen like that. And I signed the nigga off that? Yes. We had people with the door at all the time. Damn nigga. But see, when you see a drummer, when you see a drummer, you see they pummel. Oh, yeah. You stop and pummel. Yeah. You're like, I can't. I got to stop and pummel. You know? I know he in there, though. He in there. He somewhere. He pummel. I like how you brought up Willie Joe because that's black history, right? That nigga Willie Joe looked out. What? That nigga Willie Joe drew. His name is Willie Joe. He come from a long history of niggas that looked out.      Willie Joe. Willie Joe. The history of Willie Joe. That's hard. Hey, like so what do you have to hear? Like all of music you did, you sing to the thousands, they say to, what do you have to hear to say, that's it? That's it. Yeah, for sure. I feel like as much as I gotta trust my ear, I don't trust my ear. So if that makes sense, all right, so boom, you say, what do I have to hear? Like I'm not fucking, I'm not the know it all be all.  But I'm also 42 going on 43. Like I'm not supposed to. So if that's not for my ear, yeah, let's rock with that. Let's see where that go. You see what I'm saying? And like he said, I wanted to hear it again and get an understanding.   There was no, he made the type of music I listened to. But there's other artists that per se, like that are huge right now that I remember the first time I heard it. And I was like, eh, but I was, I was open enough for myself to understand, like, you know, growing. Yeah, everybody. That's what I was about to ask. What's more important, the music that they're currently displaying or the star power, that some of them, they might not be where they need to be musically, but they are certified stars. Right. Well, I think that's interesting because what a star is now is different from what it used to be. Like what we think a star looks like or sounds like or how a star comes in that form. So, you know, that in a sense is, that makes it in different when you hear people's music because there's a lot of musicians now in 2021 or even the last couple years that people might not say look like a star off top. You know what I mean? Like, or just how they come in. So, you know, the music speaks volumes in a sense at itself. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, look at our, like Cardi, for an example, like, you know, like from where she started as, you know, Instagram and her personality, like she had the personality of, right, a star. Exactly. A star period, but it wasn't, the music wasn't attached to it. So, in her sense, you know, that work where the star power overpowered enough to where the music kind of caught up per se. But it was somebody you missed on, somebody that you heard and had the opportunity to jump on to you. Like, I don't see it, but it's a couple. It happens. It's a couple?    I really wanted to sign Tory Lane's. And, you know, me and Tory got a great relationship. But I also don't know if I feel like things work out, how they're supposed to work out. So, so yeah, so, you know, that was before we kind of had Generation Now kind of move in and, you know what I mean? So, it worked out how I was supposed to. Generation Now, what did that name come from?  And then I was like, damn, like we work with this guy. This ain't gangster grill, we call it something else. And me and Kenny was like, damn, so Kanye West is hosting the tape, the new nigga.  So the first Generation Now has Kanye and Joe Button on the cover. That was a mixtape we did in like 0304.  You know, Kanye West, that was the new nigga, damn. Generation, the first Generation Now mixtape we ever did was hosted by Ye.  So the name literally comes from his movement of what he was, what I envisioned at the time, and you know, just Generation Now, like this is what's up next, like this is right now. And then I literally, we sat on the name for years until it was time to like start the label. And it was like, you know, Generation Now is perfect for what we represent. You lost a lot of music, right? Yeah, at times.  Yeah, when the raid happened, yeah. Hell yeah.  Going in the wind, some Wayne verses. Damn, what songs? It was a couple songs, but on the other side, what I didn't have at the time was the outcast record.  We were supposed to do an outcast against the Grills. And then they got kind of busy, but they was like, yo, we'll give you a record for your album. And I was like, all right, best. So I started sending Dre like beats literally from everybody that was anybody in the game. And he was like passing on them. So then after the raid happened, I went to Canon and I was like, yo, can you, well, Canon had made this beat for me that was kind of similar to something else that was out by Jim Jones at the time. So I went to Marsha and Brosos. I was like, listen, I need a hook. That's going to be like, yo, nothing can stop us. Like we can't be stopped. Like, you know, we're going to still be here.  And I sent her the three stacks.   And it was like, I just, you know, then that's my favorite group of all time. Like, you know, Andre 3000 is literally the goat. Outcasts are the goats. So, you know, just to have them on my record, my debut album and for that song to come out, it was like, this shit's crazy. The universe again. No, it's crazy. It's probably some FBI agent son rapping. That's the shit, right? All unreleased Wayne verses. Never heard this, bro. Get in the car, bro. Get in the car, bro. I got something I never heard, bro. Thanks for grills, bro. It's done. It's done, bro. It's done. Hey, bro, are you listening to rap? Take these. That's funny. Black guy, man, I know what. That's funny. So, what was that surprise?  Well, they ain't that hard to say. That came to you. I'm saying, like, motherfuckers like, what? You?  Um, I mean, I know this is probably like a literally, this is not politically correct right now, but when Kel's called to do a gangsta grill, that was, I was like, this nigga R. Kelly wants to do a gangsta grill. He didn't want to do a gangsta grill. Yeah, that's the one that had that sex Olympics on it. Yeah, I remember that sex Olympics. That was one of my favorite.  What?  I ain't gonna hold it. You know what I'm saying?  Was that the limit?  Yeah, it was fire. Yeah, that definitely was one. Like, when you get those songs from them artists that's legendary already, and you get them, and now it's up to you to put your spin on it and put your flavor on it. Is it more pressure when it's a legendary hot? Oh yeah, 100%. That's a lot of pressure. But I also know they come to me for that reason. Like, you know, I mean, they reach out because they know I'm the bells and the whistles. Like, my kitchen is better than everybody's kitchen. Like, I'm Chef Roy Ardram, you feel what I'm saying? Like, they come with the chicken.   Like, my season is impeccable, you know? So when I deliver it, they're like, oh, this is burnt, this is what I want.  They can do it all. GZ mixed tapes. So every time me and GZ would do a tape, I was so used to him. Like, whatever intro I did, I know he was going to come to me and be like, yo, you got to come harder. You got to come harder. So what? So a couple of times, like... That's great. We ain't got no inshirt.  So a couple of times when we did tapes, the first time I would do it, I wouldn't give my all, because I knew I was going to have to do it again.     You like that. Hold up. I really want to do something else. Yeah, I kept it.  Say that one then.  Like, or you already had that, you know, that, that major influence or want to just be great or do that motivate you more? Bro, this nigga snuck in the studio. You think he, you think he feels any pressure? I ain't even worried about it.   He asked for this life. Exactly. Like, I knew what came with knowing that, um, especially coming from Jacksonville, Florida, like I already knew what I was sounding up for. Like I, you know what I'm saying? I knew to separate myself.  Like, if I was going to come with him, trying to sign it, I was about to come with it. You know what I'm saying? And know that. You feel me? He doesn't believe a lot of people. That moment was like, all right, this is it. This is all I work for. I have to go crazy. We in the studio and Joe, like, matter of fact, Joe, Joe, Joe. We in the studio. We in the studio. We in the studio. Hey, that's a new video, Joe, man. We in the studio. Stop all with it, Joe. We living up to the name. We in the studio. Then Joe in there, like, hey, he feeling me. John supposed to be popping in. He feeling me, da, da, da, da, da. So just, you know what I'm saying? He feeling me, gave me a little prep. So I'm not even, we got the camera in there, HD facts in there. I'm not even, we just played a song. I'm just finishing the song. He busting in the B-room. He just walk in. Like, what's up, bro? Now at first, this with John. I don't know that I peeked by the door. At first, he ain't feeling me. He that bad, body up. He see me. He, what's up, bro? Oh, gave you the tasteful. Yeah, like, what's up? So I, I bet, get away before, wait for Ronan. Hit me with the boom. Yeah. Yeah, I say, all right, back. But he had music, like, let me hear some music. Yeah, some music. Go crazy. He automatically rocking with it. Yeah, I don't. Hold the mic. You know, don't make it real. Oh, my fault. You got that blowing going on. What's up? Yeah, man, he, tomorrow, I bet. He, uh, yeah, though. He heard music first time, just like, man, I'm on it. Yeah, man, it's cold. From the very first time you heard it, you heard it. First time? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so they want, so they like, my favorite, like, and rap.   That's dope. That's dope.  How old you ever? I just turned 25. You ain't read a 20. Traitor. I'm born in 1996 or something. That was a 90 baby. 90 baby doing that thing. Can you hear it? Let me ask you this. What's up? Somebody might be watching this, that ain't never heard none of your music. Like, why do they need to hear it? So for reality, street music. Okay, right. I represent, I represent. You gonna learn something? I'm gonna drop some jewels. I'm gonna get you through something. You feel me? You gonna be able to relate to me. And whether we talking about the ladies, whether we talking about the streets, whether we talking about what's going on in the world. Ladies in the street. I'll learn. Okay. If you said you had to have one song for all those people who don't know you, what song would be the song that you're directing to the listen to first to give them that vibe of what you're talking about? Hands down. Hands down. Hands down. Then what's next? Floor of the Nights. Floor of the Nights.   Floor of the Nights go on.  Floor of the Nights. Yeah. Or me and she. I think you'll like more than I do. She just said to me.  Okay, okay. So you in the game now. Now you in the game and you there. Let's rap. Who do you look at as like motivation? It'd be like, I want to work with, just on the artistry, the aesthetics of it. You feel what I'm saying? Right now. Right. I'm gonna keep it up, honey.  Who?  No, you didn't. I said it right. That's it, correct? Yeah, yeah. I think it's, yeah.   The way it moves, like the way he move with it. Right. The way he even off from Instagram to the way he's, he push himself like everything. He lay, yada, you don't know how he coming, but you know he coming. He coming.  That's how I been moving my whole time in the industry. I peaked that in him. So, you know what I'm saying? That right, too. Okay. If you could do a song with one legend, who would it be? Michael Jackson. There you go. Hell yeah. Bruh, Michael Jackson would pull this motherfucker down. I was gonna say two pop, but you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Michael Jackson, you know what I'm saying?  I don't like it.  I don't like it. Why, Mike, I just don't do it again. How you want me to say it? Be you. That's what I was looking for. Hey, Dirty Diana. Mike needed both, man. Dirty Diana, one of the hardest teams ever. DJ Trouble, how am I gonna do this? Can you talk your talk, DJ Trouble? You'd love to do it, Mike, but that's the gangsta group. Oh, my God. Yo, Mike. Tito Jackson. Tito's been coming up out to do it himself. Yeah. I might have passed on the Tito one. Yeah. I'm out of Tito. Tito got him.   Tito got him.  I'm like, then it's only four. Is there any, like, speaking of artists, like young artists, like, do you have to tune out your own personal liking and music to get into the young people? Should I hear a lot of guys who've been in the game a long time say that, like, I can't get into that shit? Like, so how do you get into those? I mean, I don't know if it's because I'm a DJ or what, but I feel like I've navigated gracefully through music in a sense where, you know, it might not be what's from my golden era per se or what I listen to, but I love new shit.  I always have been so, and I'm thankful for that because it keeps me feeling fresh and vibrant and, you know, like, and, you know, I ain't, like, they keep me young. You feel what I'm saying? So I don't got to run around and try to be 21 or 25.   It might not all be from my ear, but I get it. You know what I'm saying?  I sit in the music business. I feel like you have to if you don't. Like, this ain't it for you. Yeah, the game will pass you by. Hip-hop is a young man's sport, so it's just different.  You feel what I'm saying? If you go look at all the history. Every time.  See, so we got to, we is in that time right now, but we just got to embrace it. Yeah, I don't like that. Look, I'm Carlos Miller, co-host of the 85 South Show. 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Why they yelling shit?  They hurt?     They make the same type of music, niggas make, they just sound different, man. Same concept. They got the strip club music. Girls, girls, girls.  Pour some sugar on the air. If you want some of that. That's ours. That's our rock and roll community.  Rock and roll hard.  Yeah, they do. It's just in a whole different... It's in an up-tempo. It's real fancy.  You ever want to do a rock and roll game for drugs? I think I did one. Me and Kenny did one. I forget the name of this group. Lincoln Park? Nah, I forget the name of the group. But they kind of know now. I gotta ask Kenny about that. What genre would you jump into if you could? One that you haven't done that you think would be dope for you? Definitely in the Latin genre. Techno. You do some techno? I don't think techno exists in here. In the cuban? She looks like a Puerto Rican. Daddy Yankee. Yeah, okay. One of them Daddy Yankees. Techno, the old nigga version of EDM? Yeah.  I don't think they hurt the motherfucker. Gasolina, nigga. Who that I got? Sully. No, no, no, nigga. Say it in English. Yeah, I ain't did none in the Latin world. In the Latin world? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we putting that out there. All the Latin raps. Reggaeton. Reggaeton, it'll be a dope. That gangsta girl, man. It's a legendary series. Come get you one. They got this Latin rapper. He blowing up right now. What's his name? Nah. He's on fire. One Jay-Z just gave up. What's his name? J Balvin. Oh, J Balvin?  All right, go on, let's do it. J Balvin is huge.  So I think it's his big. That's what it is. Well, shit, man.   Just leave, nigga. Get in your car.  Right. It's not that the history is just exclusive. 500 to 1,000 gangsta girls. What's y'all favorites? Dickies. It's y'all, man. Damn. That's R. Kelly. That's one of mine. Dedication. Dedication three. Dedication three is hard. Dedication three. What's the one with the red? And he was leaning on the car. Black or white? He got red anyway. He leaning on the car. They all got red. I think, I don't know. Big-eyed pants on that long-haired belt hanging on. Like that. I told you mine, too. I was like, slick. And then the one with T.I., uh, with T.I., where he said that line. He said, uh, I'm Huey Newton with a, uh, where he said, I'm Huey Newton with a Ph.D. Or maybe Martin Luther King with a G.A.T. That's one of the hardest lines. I think that was that one. L-butt, nigga. Let me see them sweatsuits. I got some sweatsuits for y'all, too. Welcome back. Yup. Yup. We need to borrow some clothing. Hell, yeah. Hell, that's how I ain't nobody ever borrow no clothes. What you got? New faces. New faces. Actually brought some gangsta girls. That's Willie Joe, by the way. Willie Joe. Willie Joe. Willie Joe. Willie Joe. Hey! That's where your knicker, Willie Joe. Actually brought some gangsta girls. Hey! Some real old J.O.U. Yeah, man. I want that one, man. Yeah. Oh, that's a lot. My brother, yeah. That's my guy right here. I know he a classy. You should have spoke about this moment, right? Woo!  Oh, it's on magazine. Yeah, this after they, uh... We talked about before it was the gangsta girls. Yup. Welcome to the Shiver Gang. You should have said he got paid for it. This tape, I was still moving them on campus myself when I did this one. Huey Longwell. That's one of my ones, too. Yeah. That's a good one. There's a good one. Oh, yeah. Run around the lot, bitches. Hey, ball, M.L.G. Oh, yeah. That's my first album. One new favorite. We're going to get you in the museum. Willie Joe, all right? Hey, Willie the Kid.  Willie. Willie the Kid. Yup. And Willie the Kid. That was our first artist. What Willie the Kid from? He from Michigan. Buck. I thought Willie the Kid was from St. Louis. Nah, he from Michigan. He's a man of snowmen. Classy. Jesus, snowman. This is where I came in. I went a time on my registry. That's where I came over with Mr. Thanksgiving on now. Watching the state patrol, the state patrol, the state. Look at that, bro. But, bro. Man, how you ain't got no dust or nothing on these motherfuckers, man? The bird friend. The bird friend. Oh, the bird friend was classy. Oh, yeah. That's classy. Damn, look how long my shirt was. Yeah, look how long the chain was, nigga. Fuck. What year that was? A billion snickers. It's like 07. He had made 2007. Was this the beef? They was giving them out of measurements. Oh, damn. This one, it was beefy? Yeah, probably so. Who? We're losing it, too. Yep, I was around that time. Yes, sir. Oh, you did both of this track, didn't you? Nah, I just was, I was rock. I was grand hustle at that time. Right, right, right, right. I was, damn, it's classy.  Oh, yeah, go ahead. What does it feel like to see all this work? Like, just putting in perspective, boys, of how much work you to lay down? Yeah, it's pretty humbling and inspiring and just, you know, I'm appreciative. But it's like, I was telling somebody even back in, I remember thinking like, all right, you got here. How you stay here? Because by this, it's the product. Right, real. Some of the bootlegs. It's okay. Well, I mean, that's the way. The bootlegs, by the way, is right around the corner.  Some of the bootlegs are actually the real copy. That's what I'm saying. Like, how did that work? I would let them rock.  Because the more bootlegs this meant, the more people they wanted it. So for me, it was like, man, the more the merrier.  That's good stuff. So I used to always, anytime I used to see bootlegs, I would get excited. I'll be hype. Well, we'd be crazy to help with it and ask you, what advice would you give somebody who's trying to get into the music business?  Honestly, man, I just think, I think everybody should just trust the process. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, we all. Stay the course.  You know, and when I say good, I don't want to put too much definition on that because good can come in a lot of different ways.  And I just think it's important to have real people around you in some form or facet. And nobody does it alone. You know, know that you're going to have missteps and know you're going to have ups and downs and everything. But I just think in today's day and time, like it's, you know, there's so many different, we have so an abundance of so much, but it's also a blessing.  So over the net, I just had to wait till the next time. Like we have everything. We have y'all podcasts. We got other podcasts.  So with that being said, it's just, it's, you know, there's no reason why you can't create opportunities or find, find creative ways or anything.   But, but yeah, man, more than anything, I just say, like you said, walk the course and trust the process, you know, and do it because you love it. And then, you know, make something with, it means something to you. Like I think about so many things, just sitting Atlanta alone, like Atlanta is such an amazing city of how many people have come from this city just really trying to impress their neighborhood. And it turned into like global stars and made these, these records that like, you feel what I'm saying? Like I think about a record like swag surfing all the time. Like in a million years. Travis Porter. They ever think like that was going to become what it became like to the extent and represent what it represented. So, you know, Tom will tell them. That's a little to you for having a hand and all of that. You played a major part in all of this coming together. And this is, this is like, you know what I mean? See, I just know for me seeing all of these CDs and just remembering, you know, the CD case and riding and going through and then you get that new, that new gangster grills, man.  Like I got to ride around for a little bit because I got to hit us in the car. Like, and that's amazing, man. Salute to you brother. Good luck in your office. You and DJ M if you talk. Yeah, that's my guy. All right.  We go up there.  Yeah, man. You know, when you and DJ Travis, you know, we always gun. Yeah, that's my guy.   Man, we was wrong, man. Okay, I'll talk about it. So like I said, we're right into it.  No, but let me tell y'all for, and congratulations to y'all and salute to everything that y'all are doing in the car. Thank you, brother. You know what I'm saying? Kudos. I know skies are limits. You know, incredible things, man. You know, we supporters, we fans, whatever y'all need on our end, for sure. Amen, close us out. Just as well for you, man. Come on, close us out. One time. Hey, yo, listen, man. Once again, man, it's the 85 South Show.  Shout out to SETI Hendricks Generation now. It's here. Loso. We out this week, brother. BC. You did. You know what I mean? What you want to tell them? What I want to tell them? What I want to tell them? Shit, nigga. We got the motherfucking international gangster grills coming. Feature a DJ drama, whoever come and me.   She gone. She gone.   We gone. And we gone. And we gone. Ow! Hey, we going to win this, nigga. Oh, I wish you got it, bro. No, I appreciate it. I appreciate it, bro. I appreciate it, bro. My nigga. My nigga.     Dang! Come on, shawty. All right. Motherfuckers, these niggas.  Huh? Shawty, all right. What's up? What's up? She ain't here. Come on. You know, I don't really, I don't really appreciate it. That's all you, that's what you do.


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Okay, good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo, the stock solution. I tried to do a Skype with Galahad and it failed. It failed miserably. I think I have to uninstall it and reinstall it and Kathy's unfortunately unavailable, so here I am. So what I'm gonna do is Galahad's gonna talk of the room and we will, let's first go over Lula. Let's do this first. Did you see this before I emailed you? The Lula? Is this happening live? It's gapping down at 6.46. Just wondered if you looked at it before I sent you the email. Yes, very nice. Okay, what did I say this afternoon in the trends class? Go. What did I say? And I'm just gonna read Galahad's words because we're having a problem with the microphone and Kathy will have to help us later and her father died unfortunately so she's gone for a few days until next week. You did see it and what? Did you read it yet? I didn't read it, but what did I say in the trends class? I said it will most likely drop. I said it in an ideal world, Lulu drops and drops big time breaking the area which it's doing and what? So you didn't read it. Yeah. Well, let's just go back and look here. So when Lula closed today and I'm just going back to the people, 66.30. Wow, this is insanity. The stock has dropped more than $10, almost 12 from the close. Do you like this as a short Galahad yes or no? Do you have 100% conviction? Yes or no? Go. All right, you have an answer. You don't have time. The trade setting up. Yes, okay. So based on this, your approximate target for Lulu would be, gosh, man, this is, it's so early too. I mean, by 9.30, by the market open, this could be anywhere, anywhere at all. I think it breaks 54 before the open. It could be 54, 53, 52. So, I mean, it's hard to say. What do you think the realistic target is on Lulu? If this gap open tomorrow around here, what, what do you think? Man, this is good. I said it, I said it, I said it. I should have done an option call on this beforehand. I should have done a put, but I just don't want to do that anymore. I really felt like it would gap down. Gosh, darn it. What do you think this would, what's the target here? If it opens tomorrow morning at 54.60, what? Finally, a good one. It's been such a slow week, two weeks actually. Galahad's running in the room, his target. We'll see if he's right. Put my arrow on the screen. Here's the gap, but I think it collapses more and more and more and more before the open, but in an ideal world, let's just say the stock would open here. Where do you think it's gonna go? Realistic target, dream target, go. And I didn't rate this yet. I mean, I'm too tired, but I, it's gonna work. So, unless something ridiculous happens tomorrow morning. Here, here, 50, 52. 44, my Lanta. You learned nothing from me in here for the last month. 44, this is 44, what? This is not going to, hold on. Reverse, rewind.  I'm not gonna be able to concentrate. This stock is not going to 44, but tomorrow. I'm just, don't drop $10 on the day. If it does, I'm gonna risk $1 million, but that's not gonna happen, so no one should do that. I wanna realize, I'm not gonna be able to think straight. What is a realistic target in Lulu? I had it, I had it right here, 52. At my chart, you don't need your chart, look at mine. It's at 54.70, the stock isn't gonna get a 44 between now and 9.30, or between now and tomorrow at the end of the business at four o'clock, or between now and Friday, it's not gonna drop $10. Okay, 52, realistic.  I did say that I thought this was good in the trends class. Gosh, I should tape everything I say. I didn't even tape it. The people that were in that class are wonderful. The people that were in the trends class this afternoon will have 150% conviction of Lulu to short it tomorrow because what did I say? I said, that's what I thought, and I even gave the numbers what I wanted to do and it did it. So you have a preset. You say, if this does this, then it's good to do, whether it's short or long, and it did it. And I gave the numbers if it rallied up and gapped up, but it didn't, so. What's nuts, the train? It's nuts to think it's gonna go to 44, but I think that we're gonna get a really good move in this tomorrow. So what are you gonna risk in this tomorrow, Gallagher? Before we go over your option trade, what? Go, write it in the room. What are you gonna rate that you're gonna risk in this bearish gap tomorrow morning if it rates more than 20 points, which we don't know because it's too soon. It's not even 9.30 if it holds, and it opens here, what? 500 bucks. So if it goes to 52, you should make between 1,000 and 1,500 dollars. That should be good because it's been a slow week. All right, good night everyone. Have a great night. Look at Lulu tomorrow. Gallagher is in a frantic, frantic panic because he thinks Lulu is going to 44 and maybe I will call that as an option trade. I don't know. We'll have to see what acts tomorrow. I'll play it on through and we'll see how it ends up being. But Lulu is definitely lower and I did predict this today in the trends class and the people that did the trends class didn't know what the gap would do and neither did I. But you know, it's just amazing how I can see kind of what this is gonna do and this stock has collapsed. So it closed today at 66.30 and right now tonight, it's not seven o'clock. It's at 54.60 something and it doesn't look good for Lulu. And I love Lulu. I really love the Lulu store. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. Email me at melissa at thestockswitch.com for more information.


Welcome to the lecture on objects and classes. So far, every time we learned something new, all we did was build upon what we learned before. And this new topic of objects and classes is no different. If you think of it in that terms, you're just building on what you already know. Make sure you know what we've done so far and this additional piece of knowledge and the additional tool in your arsenal of writing programs using the C++ language will not be difficult to learn. Data types, we know about data types, we know how to use them, we know how to declare variables to be of a particular data type and we know what that does for us. Objects and classes are no different, literally no different because the fact of the matter is that in C++ a data type is just a class and a variable is just an object. The difference is that for the most part, up until now, we've been using classes that are built in or have been predefined for us instead of creating our own. We've been declaring variables to be on those data types when really what we've been doing after we learned this lesson and we'll know that what we've really been doing is creating objects to be instant associations of these classes. Yes, instant associations, very big word. I'm going to leave that in here so you can see that it's okay not to say things exactly right. The same way we've been working with data types in float care, we're creating objects on those data types like declaring N to be of type integer. Now what we're going to be doing is creating our own data types. We call them classes and we're going to learn how to do that. And then once we've done that, when we write main or some other function in our program, we're going to be creating or declaring objects to be of those new types. So if you just think of everything you already know about data types and transfer that knowledge now to classes and everything you already know about variables and transfer that to objects you'll realize that you already know 50% of what we're learning in this lecture. Most of the rest of it is just syntax. The beauty of this is just like the wonderful thing about being able to create our own functions. We're extending the language. We can customize the language for our own particular application. Create classes that are unique that are specific to our application instead of only having to rely on the built-in classes for the primitive types or even for the more structured types like strings and arrays. We're going to see how that works very soon. When we learned about data types, we learned that a data type has two portions, a static portion and a dynamic portion. The data type describes what the data looks like, that's the static part and it also describes how the data behaves, what operations that we can do, that we can perform on data of this type. That's the dynamic part. And of course, classes, since classes are data types, are exactly the same. In a class, when we define our own class, we're going to define what objects in your head think variables for now, what objects of this class will look like. In other words, what characteristics does it have? And also, what operations can we perform on objects of this class? Or in other words, what are the methods that objects of this class have to work with? So the characteristics, the what does it look like part, are called attributes. Attributes are member data of a class. And that's very similar to a record and it's very, very similar to a struct, which is the way we implement records in C++. But then in addition to just the static data, the way the object of this class looks, we've also got the dynamic portion, how it behaves. Those are the methods and methods are just functions that belong to a class. Every time we declare an object to be of a particular class, there is space set aside for the attributes, the data that it should contain, and for the member functions. It has all of the member functions that it needs in order to behave as a member of this class. One way of looking at this is that a class is just a description of something that might be called into existence at some time. We didn't think of it that way, but a data type is exactly the same thing. A data type like int might describe integers and what we can do with integers, but they don't exist until we have a variable declaration to be of type integer. And that's exactly the same thing with classes, because classes and data types are, as we know, exactly the same. So the class is just a description. It's like a template. It's like a blueprint. Nothing really exists until a declaration, until we declare an object to be of that type, to be of that class. An object does exist. It takes up space and memory. It has attributes. It has behavior. It maintains a state. The state is the collection of values in the variables, in the attributes, the member data. We say an object is an instance of a class, which is just another way of saying the same thing. An object is real. It takes up space. A class is not real. It's an idea. It's a notion. It's like a blueprint of a building as opposed to the building itself. As we saw, a method is just a member function of a class, and all objects of the class will have those functions. That's the way objects of that class behave. That's the behavior of the class. How do these functions get called? How do they get invoked? Actually, it's called sending a message. A message is a request sent to an object saying, please call that function that you own. That's a part of your definition. I'll give you an example. If you were writing a payroll program, you might have specified an employee class. You might have an object, an employee of that class, call that variable employee1 or employeecurrent, and that's a variable or an object. That object has all the data attributes, potentially, that any object of that class could have if they have values. Whatever the values of those attributes, that's the state of that object, and it has several functions. Now, let's say one of those functions is a Calculate Pay function. When some other part of the program, let's say Maine, has a call to that method using, we'll see the syntax shortly, to that particular method of a particular object. It's the same as telling this employee object, hey, employee, calculate your own pay. Over the next few slides, we're going to develop what we need for a new class that doesn't exist yet unless we put it into our program called Fraction. What does a fraction have to have? Well, a fraction has to have two integers, one for the numerator, one for the denominator. A fraction might have to have several functions to work with that, with the fraction. It's kind of nice to have a data type called Fraction at your disposal. We've got integers, we've got float, we've got double, we've got characters, we've got strings, we've got arrays, structure types. Well, how about a type fraction? That's what this class does for us. There you see the class definition, that's the interface, it's the what. We don't see the details of how this was implemented. We don't see exactly the code in the different functions, in the member functions, but we shouldn't have to. If the class was designed well enough, including good names for these methods, we should be able to figure out what they do and how to use them. So let's take a look at that. There's a private section and a public section. When you first start writing programs with objects in classes, you may want to start out by putting everything in public just to see if it works. But that's when you're really a newbie. What we really typically tend to do is we start out putting all the data, the attributes, into private. We declare them as private. Private and public are access specifiers. What kind of access do other programmer users have to these pieces of the class? And functions are considered public. The third access specifier that we're not going to get into, and that's protected, that's only used for inheritance, and we're going to do inheritance later on in the advanced course. In fact, this slide, this section is titled defining a base class. A base class just means this is a class on its own. It's not created to inherit from anything else. We don't have to worry about inheritance. At this stage, if you don't know anything about inheritance anyway, saying defining a class would be about right. So let's see what we have. We've got two private data objects that are members of the class called numerator and denominator shortened to nom and den, and they're both integers. We always try to call our data private to build a wall around it. This is the principle of encapsulation and information hiding or data hiding that we're going to learn more about later on, but we're trying to protect the data from inadvertent change. Well, sometimes we want to work with the data, and that's where the member functions comes in, the methods. We get these methods can be called from other functions, from elsewhere, from other functions, from other objects, because they're public. The data can't be accessed. The only way anything private can be accessed is by objects of this class. But anything that's in public can be accessed by other objects and by other functions such as main. Let's take a look at main and see how that works. Okay, now we're playing with this class. Here's main. We still don't see the implementation of the class, the actual code of the functions that belong to members of this class, to objects of this class. That's okay. We shouldn't really need it just yet, but we will take a look at it pretty soon. So the first thing that happens in main is an object x is declared to be of class fraction. It looks exactly like any other variable declaration you've ever used, except that we haven't seen a data type fraction yet. The reason we haven't seen it is we just created it. A fraction is a class, x is an object, and the declaration of an object to be of a certain class type is exactly like the declaration of a variable to be of a certain data type. Once we create x, x exists, it has everything that any object of the fraction class will have. It'll have two pieces of private data, a numerator and a denominator, and it'll have those methods that we saw before, one of which is a sign. Now, since the data is private, we're using a public function in order to assign values to the numerator and to the denominator. And we're using the dot operator, like we saw in structs, in order to burst open the x object, the structured x object, and be able to get to to access one piece of it, in this case the assign function. So we've got x dot assign, and then the parameters and parentheses, constants, so they're obviously value parameters, the constant 22 for the numerator and 7 for the denominator. We send something to C out. You can see your output, x equal, and then just the display, x dot print will just display the fraction, 22 slash 7. But then the next thing we do is actually convert. So the x dot convert method converts the 22 divided by 7 into decimal. Oh, that looks familiar. Maybe we should have called it something other than x, like, oh, let's say pi. And then a little bit later on, we invert the fraction, which we wouldn't be doing with pi, and now it's 7 over 22. And here's the code for those methods that we saw before in the class definition. We've got the assign function. It has two parameters. They are indeed value parameters. And all they do is take in values and assign those values to the private data of the object. We've got the convert function, which returns the result of the expression numerator divided by denominator. That's what we thought it would be. We've got the invert function, which is just a swap. It swaps numerator and denominator. And then we've got the print function that sends things to C out. As we've seen, we can specify pieces of the class in the class definition as public or private, or, as we didn't see yet, as protected. For now, we're just going to be using public and private. And private members are only accessible by functions that are part of the class. So only objects that are declared on this class can access anything that was declared as private with the private access specifier. We'll continue this lecture in the next set of slides.