Club Shay Shay - Club 520 - DJ Chose Interview: Producing for Megan Thee Stallion & Kevin Gates

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

We're back with Season 2, Episode 9 of Club 520 where Jeff Teague and the guys are joined by rapper and producer DJ Chose to discuss all things rap, music, and pop culture. He shares stories from his ...collaborations with rappers such as Megan Thee Stallion, Kevin Gates, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again. #Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:23 Listen to the Insiders podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Volume. All right, we back. Another episode of Club 520 Podcast. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wells. Special guest to my left, we're going to introduce my man's last,
Starting point is 00:01:42 but to my far left, we got my dog, Bishop No Greenleaf, my boy be here out the prayer leaves how you what cool and nasty let's get to it you got your hat he got the triple black on today he might rob us see cho you understand that's the uniform that's not that's not no special occasion that's how he wake up every day black Black Forces is dangerous. Shout out to the McQueenies. I fuck with them too. Man, niggas rock Black Forces really raw. I've been killing niggas, man.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Oh, dog, nigga. I'm a holy nigga. I love the Lord. Nigga, we good. To my right, my dog. Yo, Nacho, yo, T, yo, Jeffrey. How you feeling today, man? He already started, bro. He already on that?
Starting point is 00:02:21 Nah, I'm cool, bro. I was chilling today, bro. I hate these shoes but nah for real i got a little statement called bottle dough so we always wear kicks i'm in the sneakers so i always got heat on today i ain't putting no heat on my fault i apologize he's just cool dj got on the top five braun for sure oh yeah yeah but last night To my left You know what I'm saying The man in the city Getting this money
Starting point is 00:02:47 On tour Producing Performing All the above DJ Chose Appreciate you pulling up To the net my dog How you feeling man
Starting point is 00:02:53 Man I appreciate y'all intro I appreciate y'all hospitality Love Man this nigga right here Ballin' He's the coolest nigga in the world Talk about it This nigga remind me of
Starting point is 00:03:02 Nick Cannon Of Love Don't Cost a Thing Right now I'll take that What's up with you nigga in the world talk about it this remind me uh nick cannon off uh love don't cost me hey that's crazy that's crazy you gotta call me nick cannon okay i'll with that crazy you gotta call me nick hannon okay i'll with that oh this is gonna be a little cost of thing caught it that's the episode oh man oh we started running back bro jones you know you got a lot of bangers we're gonna get to your origin up but what's one song or one artist you feel like you missed out on like you had an inside track on you should have been on the song you could have produced it and it slipped away from you still tight about oh man that's crazy whoo there's a couple of them but uh oh there's a camera right there uh I'm gonna say I'm gonna say one of the first people that I was locked in
Starting point is 00:03:59 with did a song with them and I never it I never i never put it out don toller damn yeah we used to record in my house but by the time i never put it out just because of um i was helping break the music so sometimes when you break it and you seeing it grow you don't want to just drop the record right away but i learned my lesson i should have dropped all three of them records that month you know but by the time he got uh with cactus jack and travis scott you know it's just it's it's so many it's so many like once you up there certain things you can't do so but me and me and him still tight i just uh i was out there working on this project and stuff so we still cool but i should have dropped them three records we did right away. Oh, God, bro, because he's on his way to superstar the money now.
Starting point is 00:04:48 He the nigga. He the nigga. For sure. Yeah. I seen him in concert. Who was that? With Future, right? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:04:53 Yeah. Don Toliver, that nigga, bro. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Obviously, you know, saying H-Town representing, you got a little bit of Ohio ties, too, so you know a little bit about the Midwest, too, man. Tell them about it. Yeah, yeah. I grew up in Youngstown when I was I did like five years there my mom used to you know she had a
Starting point is 00:05:10 little boyfriend I does so man that shit was I ain't gonna lie when I when we got here this feel good but back when I was in Youngstown that shit like you in the country a lot of niggas were in there in Youngstown there ain't too many of these niggas hold on Youngstown is more like Terre Haute he don't know what Terre Haute is I heard about Terre Haute the girl at the gas station just told me about Terre Haute the girl tell you about Terre Haute is crazy it's not a definition
Starting point is 00:05:41 nah but what age were you in Youngstown though I was probably like 10 to 14 type shit. Oh, so you got to experience it for real. Yeah, yeah. Nah, I used to. It was real grimy. Like, where I'm at in Texas is hood, but we ain't grow up as fast as we did there. Like, when I got to Youngstown, I was still like a little kid, and there used to be girls trying to fuck me.
Starting point is 00:06:04 You feel me? I used to be like damn you touch my private parts Shout to the Midwest They had babies at like 16 Girls had kids when I was in middle school For sure bro Yeah Shout out to the baby fat jackets But that makes sense though Niggas When I be going to tip
Starting point is 00:06:28 Like damn My friend like Damn though None of y'all got kids How y'all niggas Touching all these girls Like And they got no kids
Starting point is 00:06:35 That's crazy That shit crazy You got to get your baby mama in that It's guaranteed At our age I'm so glad I didn't live here When I was like Growing up
Starting point is 00:06:44 Yeah You's one of the few. Man, I got out of here. You was definitely supposed to be a statistic. Yeah, I was supposed to have three kids. No, definitely. Damn. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Child support is real. Great tweet. Great tweet. They hear you straight, though. You good at money, man. You good in Texas, though. I heard in Texas, you only can pay $2,500. Is that right?
Starting point is 00:07:01 Or they made that up? Shit. That's bull shit. Homie, they said nah, nigga. We had a thing like us. It was a dude that hooped named Roddy Boobwa. He had a girl pregnant and she tried to move to
Starting point is 00:07:11 California, but they said the baby was conceived in Texas so the max she could get was $2,500. That's crazy. That's true, bro. $2,500 a month? That's the child support rules aligned with where the baby is born, no matter the state. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:07:26 What I been tripping on, then? So you get a girl pregnant in Youngstown, but y'all can move to L.A. You still got a Youngstown bill. I know that Youngstown child support probably about $1,200. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real modest. Real low. Real EBTs.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Respectively. That's probably how it is in that. I don't know, boy. It's a woman's thing now, bro. I don't know. I don't know. I ain't worried about it. Shout out to the volume.
Starting point is 00:07:50 I'm going to be married before I have a kid, though. I'm going to do it right when it's time. I said that, too. Oh, yeah, don't do that. That's trash. Have a kid before you get married. Oh, you don't got no kids? I be feeling, though.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Yeah, I ain't got no kids. Oh, good shit, bro. Me and him both. Yeah, good shit. Yeah. Stepdad is out of pocket. He ain't got no kids. Nah. Yeah, yeah. Nah, step daddy out of pocket he ain't got no kids yeah yeah nah step daddy's out i said that last night in my segway at the show and i asked the women like who had kids and i told them like i'm a i'm a hell of a step daddy because it's true like i'm at that age now where i'd rather
Starting point is 00:08:20 take care of something if you if if we can do that then we can have something but i gotta practice with your kids i like your style for me you got the same type of mindset all right cool so you have to you have the show you know i'm saying you're getting your off you're like i'm sad daddy now what's the limit on them kids though when she come with them them digits what's the step day like because you ain't hopping in the in the full court 505 situation nah nah nah nah nah it might it might the limit be like two, but you got to be able to control two. I love one. I can take one.
Starting point is 00:08:51 But if you can't control two, like I know this one girl who got a child and she raised so well. Like it fucked me up sometimes. It'd be like the little girl smart smart the little girl respectable like when she the little girl be calling me mr i can't say my real name she be calling me by mr she yes ma'am no ma'am yes sir no sir and that be she read the bible sometimes i'd be like man i'd be like man that's the type of woman i would like to have kids with because she gonna raise my children she'd be teaching that and and i'm like man women don't take the time out to have kids with because she going to raise my children. She be teaching and shit. And I'm like, man, women don't take the time out to do that shit with their kids no more.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Them women type. That's true, bro. That's true. But it always be the fine ones that got the badass kids. Like you, Trevor. Shout out to my wife, man. We got both. It's a lot of wholesome women that take care of women too.
Starting point is 00:09:44 But we got a bunch of Sexy reds too out here Where's he on No I'm saying though It's him bro I'm saying though It's a bunch of I'm trying to get a remix Of sexy reds
Starting point is 00:09:54 Like your song Yeah me and Boosie It won't be no Sexy red slander In this city Nah we Nah we fuck with sexy red Sexy red is the president
Starting point is 00:10:03 Okay But you was early On sexy red though Yeah I was see sexy one of them people too we never did a song but i did a lot of songs for her with her in the studio and but i never just dropped the verse but i you know a real disclaimer that nobody know i never got paid for none of the songs either so when i look at life i'll be like i just love that i never got paid because i'm like man that makes the relationship even better yeah yeah because somebody owe me a favor i don't know who yet but whoever the orchestrated that session hey man i was a believer early it was just you and G Herbo
Starting point is 00:10:45 That was it I might have been before G This was 2020 And I was like You know what's crazy I had to ask my manager And this is how y'all know a nigga be really in a Good mind space
Starting point is 00:10:59 This is 2020 I had the biggest record At the time I was on Billboard Hot 100. Then I had like a Fred O'Bain and Lil Durk record that was super crazy. Top. Yeah. And I was in a studio with Sexy Red that nobody knew. And that's what I call humble.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Because every time I think of that situation, I used to wonder like, damn, bro, I really be going do shit? But I be seeing the future. I be seeing I be seeing the future I be seeing the vision But a lot of people don't A lot of people be like I used to get people like Why the fuck
Starting point is 00:11:31 You in the studio Like I would get Around that time It would be people That are popping In Miami And they be like You in Miami
Starting point is 00:11:38 And I'm like yeah And they be like Pull up to my session And I'm like nah I can't I got a session With Sexy Red And at the time Bitches be like Who the fuck Nigga come to my session I'm like nah i can't i got a session with sexy red and at the time would
Starting point is 00:11:45 be like who the come to my session i ain't gonna say no names but uh and they was they was a group and they was popping so when i go to the studio with sexy red lock and get it done everybody like why the you ain't skip that to go to that and now i look at life and i'll be like man i'm glad i make sound decisions bro yeah bro and that's real and that's what we talk about all the time here's like when you networking are you working it's really about the people around you and below you because the people above you is very rare you get to catch them but the next wave of people is always your peer group and the people coming up so you always want to take care of the people around you because them going to be the people that you're dealing with. Just like on some school shit.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Yeah, you might not fuck with this dude in school. It might be weird, whatever. But you got a decent relationship because you grow up. He going to be the motherfucking owner of that business that you're going to have to have a relationship with. You're never going to catch them executives. Leroy Cohen ain't never going to come down to our level. But the next level of people, you showing love shit. Like you said, that back favorite pocket. Bro, I love the way you think.
Starting point is 00:12:43 My whole career. Like you said, that back favorite pocket. Bro, I love the way you think. My whole career. Like, when I think about who I am today, my whole career was built off people that nobody gave a fuck about. And I had to sit there. And, like, when I. This is my number one thing.
Starting point is 00:12:58 I got a partner that did a song for Drake, right? Mm-hmm. And I got more partners that did songs for, like, Nicki Minaj. And when they get to flexing on me, they be. They always compare us. Who got the most hits? You or him? You or him? You or him?
Starting point is 00:13:08 Who, who the most influential producer? And I always look niggas in their eyes and I be like, you know, y'all really don't count because y'all accidentally got a Drake placement. I made Drake's.
Starting point is 00:13:20 We different. Yeah. And I was fucking with niggas below me. And they got diamond songs like fuck with you talk about y'all got niggas who had diamond songs already that was gonna continue being diamond I'm a niggas who was dirt diamond and they still going diamond and I didn't made a couple of them because when you plan down here you can make a couple but if you study shooting for beyonce jay-z drake man you might have two songs that that you get out of them because you
Starting point is 00:13:51 know that's just how the world work but i always tell young producers man y'all niggas need to play down here man like it's gonna be another one and it's easier to get to them so i like the way you think wake up with football every morning and listen to my new podcast, NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal. Five days a week, you'll get all the latest news, previews, recaps, and analysis delivered straight to your podcast feed by the time you get your coffee. No dumb hot takes here, just smart hot takes.
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Starting point is 00:16:55 Because I know you produce, but what made you kind of step out of like, nah, this is going to be mine? I've always been an artist. Since I was a kid. I was rapping. But, um, somewhere down the line, I had an A&R convince me to write songs. And he was just like, bro, what do you care about?
Starting point is 00:17:14 You care about you want to be famous or you want the money? And at the time when you broke, it used to hurt to know, like, man, I wrote this, and that nigga's shining, and nobody knows I did that shit. And I got the check. I got a plaque. But he convinced me successfully to worry about the money, and I started making money. But when I got to, like, when I seen my first M, it was like, okay, this is God telling me that I've done my job, and I need to figure out how to make sure people don't forget that I'm talented as well. So that's how I end up getting my first hit.
Starting point is 00:17:49 I had spent like, man, that was crazy. I had my niece and my girl. We were sitting in my little house at the time and I used to make them get on TikTok and we would like we would broker TikTok videos all day. We would literally send messages messages get little kids to do videos for 30 to 40 and we did that for like three weeks and blew the song up i probably spent like eight bands everybody think i spent the world of money i spent the world of money on keeping it going but the initial impact of blowing that record up i probably spent like eight bands and that's crazy because people don't understand investing in yourself don't always mean spending a ton of
Starting point is 00:18:29 money it may be a ton of time because we don't know about the tick tock i know what it is we're on there and stuff but in that time period you talking about 2019 2020 you was early in the landscape and who knew that the world was about to shut the down right so you it's like you getting stock in a company that shot the up you just have to put your product in it but then also like you said you had to spend money in your record because people don't understand you do not get those billboard placements you not get those radio spins off your song just being good hell nah hell nah you gotta you gotta drop the bag and i tell people even one that's better if you actually do it yourself it'll be more cost effective
Starting point is 00:19:05 Like a lot of times people I mean every Every nigga with money can attest to this There's a lot of times you can hand somebody some money But you realize that they don't give a fuck About your money so they don't wake up everyday And fiend for making That shit back they don't
Starting point is 00:19:20 It's not no desire to make your money make money But when you doing it yourself You gonna lose sleep until you get that bag back. So, I mean, at that time, it just checked out. And when it did, it was so crazy because my little niece ain't never, you know, she ain't never, she don't even know what money look like. You feel me? But she's like 13 at the time. As soon as it went, when it went gold, I broke off and she was just like she was like as a kid you know there's a lot of red type what you enjoy more performing or uh making a record i like
Starting point is 00:19:52 performing because um i want to be more the reason why my name is dj chose because i feel like god chose me and when i look at music i think of influence and like power so I know as a songwriter I'm effective because I can like seed a message through the airways but I like when I can actually influence the world because I feel like I got um good intentions and I feel like there's a lot of people that influence the world and they got so much power but man they don't give a fuck about the next person I do you feel me every night after i perform i go to the merch table i shake hands kiss babies do all that
Starting point is 00:20:29 shit so because you weren't the only producers for real like i fuck with your shit bro and i ain't just saying it because you're here but that you actually own records like you got anthems i just told c-hole y'all doing a little georgia street tonight but i told him like you can rock the crowd nigga you can perform and play yeah I told him like you can rock the crowd nigga you can perform and play spend your shit like you know what I mean
Starting point is 00:20:49 you got at least I ain't short chance you but I'm like nigga at least can go for an hour or two with that bitch non-ass shaking music yeah that's Paul's up
Starting point is 00:20:58 with the ass shaking music though for real cause you got no babies for sure for the whole you gotta check out nah nah don't
Starting point is 00:21:05 think you like that you see the black forces sometimes sometimes you be in there ah man you say if you dance sometimes sometimes so you gotta watch it oh yeah bro come on there shout out to the jabberwalkers you feel me but i ain't one of them but now you like one of the only producers for real now i ain't discrediting nobody that know you perform and get behind the scenes for sure your records and had the video band like it was uncut how was that your biggest like when your biggest song at the time period you just like damn i'm going crazy with the video they want to see it and they're like nah you can't post this homie yeah yeah nah they uh they uh took my they be banned in my videos sometime but man I just look at it like now I'm trying to clean up my image.
Starting point is 00:21:49 I miss so much money with having a song, having videos that do like 52 million, 100 million views and shit. And I can't make money because it's unmonetizable. You two got lines. Yeah, so I'm learning my life. And now where I'm at, I'm just more like, y'all fit on clothes. Like, I don't even want to shoot the video if y'all ain't going to wear no clothes. Obviously, your H-Town influence, man. The Screw Type era, like, that type of music hit heavy in Indianapolis crazy
Starting point is 00:22:16 because we fuck with that type of music, those type of mixtapes. You think mixtape eras could ever be like that again with the way that they do, like, regulations for us for monetizing for music? Nah, I don't think we should either. Damn, for real? Nah. I don't think that, like, because right now the world is like a mixtape. If you look at how much music come out, and I don't know why, but we can't keep up with it.
Starting point is 00:22:40 Like, do you feel like, let's be honest. Like hell no, do you feel like let's be honest y'all remember when we used to consume music as kids Like we literally used to consume music week for week and we still love the people we consume. Yeah right now I swear it's like only room for one you get a sexy red Or like when sexy red came she replaced somebody I don't care what nobody really or like when sexy red came she replaced somebody i don't care what nobody got really and that i didn't say that you did but it's the fact though okay so if that's how y'all feel in the neck goes wait as a playable character or the music he's out of pocket but nah well he was saying this yeah So We don't have the capacity Right now To consume
Starting point is 00:23:26 Like much music But when we was kids I'm sorry If If Fucking Lil Wayne Chameleon Air
Starting point is 00:23:36 Mike Whoever Anybody liked If they dropped Power Whatever We would consume All that music
Starting point is 00:23:43 And we would never We would have comparison conversations, but you loved who you love. You weren't changing who you was fucking with just because they ain't put out no music in a week. Yeah. And we would play them for months though. I would play a Lil Wayne CD for months.
Starting point is 00:23:56 You're still playing it now. On my mind. I played Dedication 2 yesterday. I played nothing. I consume a lot of music. Like 2012. I don't play nothing.'ll stay up to date with shit bro I'll take that back what you saying as a whole like a world are goddamn it microwave yeah absolutely microwave but I think I'll say tap in with everybody I'm gonna tell you why I'm saying what i'm saying i feel like back then this is the
Starting point is 00:24:27 trick y'all back then you could market yourself without an algorithm so so when you can come out the trunk or if let's just say a nigga had a show at a concert um let's just say kevin gates boom he just had his concert let's say we in a world of cds kevin gates could reach his audience every day if he wanted to if he just wanted to go on tour and out the trunk sell cds right now you can't give a motherfucking nothing you couldn't i couldn't give a motherfucker a coupon for a new car they would literally be like thank you and drop it you didn't know what it was so i think now that we depending on algorithms and things like that it's not that people don't stay up with things it's just like if sexy red is running things then sometimes it's hard to
Starting point is 00:25:19 see glorilla like you would say so i think think technically it's about whoever is manhandling the moment. That's who's important. Like Drake is manhandling the moment. Y'all know what made me say, damn, Drake. Y'all want to know what made me forget about Drake's album and Drake's tour? What? When Kevin Gates spitting that big mouth. I was like, damn damn I don't care
Starting point is 00:25:46 about the Drake album right now all I care about is Kevin Gates spitting in someone's mouth now that's what you was obviously on tour who was that yeah did you see that library you see afterwards right I saw a lot I was actually the crowd I was what was you because we was that shit was hilarious uh yeah I gotta understand Gates is my dog. A lot of people are scared to talk about him in podcasts and stuff. We really like this, so I don't care about speaking on things. When I think of Gates, I think, I don't think what people think.
Starting point is 00:26:22 A lot of people are going to turn it into some different shit, like, ah, he demonic. He this, he that. I don't see what people think A lot of people gonna turn it into some different shit Like ah he demonic he this he that I don't see it that way I just see it as Someone who understands He understands When you know what the world is on Man he get it I just feel like some people get it some people don't
Starting point is 00:26:42 And if I had that kind of power I wouldn't have did it how he did it. I like how he doing it now when he doing the champagne and he spitting in their mouth. See, the first day, I feel like all of our show was kind of like we was just having a good time. We was doing what we planned to do. And nobody knew nothing about this. I ain't going to lie. That's true.
Starting point is 00:27:02 That wasn't a production meeting. Y'all played this? I never knew nothing about that. I'm saying, like, the That's true. That wasn't a production meeting. Y'all played this? I never knew nothing about that. I'm saying, like, the way I planned my show, that's how it went that day. However his show was, that's how it went. For me, the second day, I doctored my show a little bit. I'm not saying he planned that at all. But what I will say is that the second show, I like how he doing it now,
Starting point is 00:27:23 where he sip the champagne and and he you know i'm saying and that's just really for me that's what i call like um i want to say like power and influence like when you know these fans or when you know someone loves you that much and you can give them that kind of experience these are the same women that want to want to kiss them but he was the first nigga too that really made eating booty cool publicly when he said that shit the internet went up in the up and i was gonna say i ain't gonna hold you he um he introduced me to gates a long time ago he's an early guy oh yeah i'm a fan yeah he with guys tough he's one of the ghosts bro i'll look at brossey don't do that you know that intro used to be yo i like games
Starting point is 00:27:59 okay don't start fixing don't start up your posture Don't start fixing it. Don't start fucking up your posture, nigga. Yeah, it won't be no Kevin Gates slander. We ain't doing that. My little brother love Kevin Gates. Nah, move, dog. Shout out to Moe. Shout out to Brad.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Yeah, niggas was around. Like, Kevin Gates is gone. But I'm saying, like, I just think now the internet was, when he said to eat the booty shit, it went crazy. But the internet just so crazy now. I think what I'm trying to say is I think I like Gates because he's always ahead of the culture you feel me the he doing is is literally some been doing facts but no like not like a lot of now it's going I'm telling you any
Starting point is 00:28:41 that had a problem with that situation watch what I tell tell you. I'm about to go do it. As soon as I get off tour, I'm finna fly my queen. I was about to say my bitch. I'm finna fly my queen to some foreign country. I'm finna pop some fucking, I don't know what, because I don't drink. But I'm going to do it that day. I'm going to pop it. I'm going to sip the champagne.
Starting point is 00:28:58 And I'm going to make her tilt her head back and say, if you love me, you're going to let me spit this in your mouth. And she's going to say, I love you. And I'm going to spit it in her mouth. And I might go viral that day. But he be leading the culture. And I hate to say it because women behave me for not being against the things he do. But it be like, you bitches going to do it anyway. Y'all just going to do it in five years.
Starting point is 00:29:20 He's just doing it today. The spitting in the mouth is crazy. I think the spitting only thing I got his teachers on but just shout out to you freaky chose hey man I'm just telling you man hey I'm a nigga who used to watch like extreme tube you feel me and i don't know if you know this he do i told you my computer got banned for that shit it took my computer because of that shit hey man they've been spitting miles on the stream too that's empty over there not facetime that's freaking teague over there it took my computer i love gays the only thing i gotta be for gays with i don't believe that
Starting point is 00:30:03 he fixed that girl car with her bare hands. Stop saying that. He fixed her battery. Yes, he did, Charles. I need footage, bro. I don't believe Will scored 100. I don't believe that Gates fixed her with his bare hands. Charles, talk to that nigga.
Starting point is 00:30:13 I fuck with Gates, but I'm nothing. I got to see it. Let me tell you this, dog. Wake up with football every morning and listen to my new podcast, NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal. Five days a week, you'll get all the latest news, previews, recaps, and analysis delivered straight to your podcast feed by the time you get your coffee.
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Starting point is 00:33:11 I was like, it's true. Not about the car. Hey, but it's a lot of, bro, I ain't going to lie. It's a lot of shit that I don't, like, I am, the one thing y'all don't get is I am the number one look gates in his eyes and really really try to like tell him he didn't do something like I'm the guy I would look him in his eyes be like man stop lying and he will like he'll laugh and he'll like show right but in this case one day I seen and I'm not supposed to talk about it Cause he told me to speak nothing of this
Starting point is 00:33:45 Speak nothing of this But today I'm I'm gonna speak something of it It's been a long time So it's But I literally seen Him do something one time That blew my mind
Starting point is 00:33:55 And I ain't gonna speak on how he did it But he literally He um He let He let somebody punch him in the chest right He, he was like, uh, he was like, punch me right here, and he let him punch him in his chest, like, 20 times, and he just stood there and was like, and this nigga was big, and he was like, yeah, I can't feel a thing, and I was like, I'm sitting there like, what the fuck? So, we in the studio.
Starting point is 00:34:25 I'm thinking he about to call me next. So, I'm like, at the time, I'm like, nigga, you know I'm not finna do it. Because I'm the kind of person, when I'm around him, I'm not the person who, you know how you got them friends that try to play too hard? And, ah, yeah, if he doing it, I'm going to do it. Like, if Gates lift 200 pounds, I'm not going to lift 200 pounds. I don't got shit to prove. And that's why we with each other he know that i'm the that if i don't get with something i don't get with it you feel me respect but this particular day the guy that was in the studio was one of them who didn't know how to say no to gates
Starting point is 00:34:59 i know how to say no so he was like hey come here i'm finna show you i'm finna show you this and he he whatever he did whatever he did he did it right and gates was like now stand right there and you stand right there i promise you ain't gonna feel a thing and he hit him in his chest man you know he big boom but bruh didn't move he took that and then he was like now stand right there and bro was like i didn't feel it boom he was like you feel that no man i didn't feel it and it me up and these are stories that i wasn't supposed to speak nothing up but i i hope you don't get mad at me. But I'm just telling you. Yes, we're sorry, bro.
Starting point is 00:35:46 When we talk about that car battery, I believe it. Because whatever the fuck he knows, he might know how to start a car. It's Cleo Cross or Gase Kawaka. No cap, bro. No cap. I got to respect the testimony. I got to respect the testimony. I was there.
Starting point is 00:36:04 I got a question for you. Who was you growing up like producers? Who you grew up like? Did you have anybody you wanted to be like or any sound you was like, damn, if I could do that, that's what I want to do. Man, all the time. I definitely used to love Paulo Dund when he was having his run. Of course, everybody wanted to be like Timberland.
Starting point is 00:36:29 Who else? any hometown influences man it's a guy named uncle hyme who did like a lot of stuff and when i was a kid i got to work with him and and he just raw you know he an older man but he be in the club when i see him in the club now he be i think uncle harmy like 55 60 he be in the club just y'all know that old man and be in the club now he'd be i think uncle harmy like 55 60 he'd be in the club just y'all know that old man and be in the club dance with the young girls and open shirt oh sorry whatever and he really gonna get loose and i mean his energy like when i meet good producers from back in the days like jazzy fayton they be just livid they be like they used to make beats with their body they didn't just make a beat They used to feel it first And then they And then Now like
Starting point is 00:37:08 These internet niggas They think about it They click it in They delete it They don't make music with they You feel me Sometimes if you hear like a top That sounds super soulful
Starting point is 00:37:17 I was making a beat with my body bro You feel me Yeah shit like that I'm really in that bitch I feel like music is a feeling. Yeah. And I like the older guys who used to have that feeling. Like right now, so many songs just feel the same way that they not trying to explore new
Starting point is 00:37:35 feelings. You feel me? But that ain't no Nox right now. I love what we doing right now, too. I got a question for you. Who's one artist or what was a group of people that if you had your dream list of people you could produce a song for who would it be um drake first i would love to work with drake um drizzy jersey for show um good placement man i'm i'm actually happy with my current list
Starting point is 00:38:01 like nice i wouldn't change kevin gates for nobody i wouldn't change fredo bang for nobody i wouldn't change megan estallion for nobody like nba young boy for nobody when i look at my life in 10 years they gonna say i worked with two pockets generation like when you really look at life between kevin gates young boy and megan i didn't already did everything i needed to do that's a real triple curl i gotta hold on i want me to cut you off did you work with nba young boy in the studio or you just sent him the record i've been with you know what i did work with nba young boy in the studio but no smoke was not in the studio but i did the whole um fed babies with money bag young and young boy and i not in the studio, but I did the whole Fed Babies with Moneybagg Youngboy.
Starting point is 00:38:48 I was in the studio, and them two fell out. But I was in the studio two days before they fell out. But that whole week, we was in the studio. And these are moments you can't get back. And I forgot. I got records with Moneybag bag that's gold and i never speak on them i'll be forgetting but shit like that like that's far i can't i can't make that was a tough flex bro that was tough no it's fine it's respect though that's not what i was saying
Starting point is 00:39:15 but i i really can't make up um the like when i say when you catch the these were people that at the time was just like they just they was just getting like five ten k a show you feel me but when i look at what i done off early things man i don't even it's like the people that i missed it'd be like man you just y'all like y'all on separate sides Of the tracks Y'all not like Different like Maybe Beyonce Or some shit But everybody else man I'm kinda in line
Starting point is 00:39:49 With myself Now wait Hold on You was saying YB is the Tupac Of the generation right I mean If I ask my
Starting point is 00:39:55 My nephew My nephew You can ask me too Oh so you would say that Yeah I don't fuck with Tupac But I feel I get the
Starting point is 00:40:02 Okay so I get the lining though He fuck with Youngboy What I'm saying today Is if Youngboy die tomorrow Ah yes sir Also I'm
Starting point is 00:40:10 I'm They gonna look back And be like Who did his first hit And I would be the equivalent Of the person who made What's the biggest Tupac song
Starting point is 00:40:21 Um Damn you You dashed Dillinger then Hit him up I may hit him up young boy I made I would be that kind of guy and then when I look at even with top for Freddo I made a very influential song with somebody who when you think about young boy and Freddo and how they be for us right I showed the world it don't fucking play with me because I made Fred O'Bain first hit to I give you
Starting point is 00:40:51 that you hang on like I'm I'm tapped in bro now we can talk Fred O'Bain was big right on the on the on the ghetto niggas like me, underground. Right, right. When you gave him that top record, you helped him put him in them ranks. Like, put my nigga on stage at that big show. I love that. That's a fact. That's what I love about him.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Because he was big. Right. But you definitely, with that record, you helped surpass. Like, get my nigga out of the radio. He can really hit these goddammit summer jams for sure nah for sure you go there for that that's what that's the part that when i look at like that's the part that made me be like i ain't gotta chase everything no more only because of those situations that i look at nobody else could do no other producer was out here bridging gaps other than
Starting point is 00:41:46 like Dr. Dre and whoever else like they was making shit they would go you know diddy them they was doing some shit that was like very very gap bridging and I feel like my generation that I never get respect because people don't look at music that deep like they used to I'm gonna give your respect on some real on the because i'll be tapped in with the kids but on the underground level you was the diddy because that biggie and pox it was mainstream but don't understand how big that nba young boy and fredo bang beef and you're the only to give both of them two big records for sure so i'll give you that appreciate that even outside of that i mean not to make it a mainstream but you got two crazy songs i mean a lot of people cannot say that yeah like
Starting point is 00:42:30 at a time period where she was ascending she wasn't there yet she was on the way up and it was kind of iffy but those are two big songs in her catalog that you did you know what i'm saying so like your versatility with that and the hometown like that's that's easy respect for you seeing a lot of people don't know like me and me like this like she used to I used to shoot her music videos I wouldn't just a producer I was actually one of her biggest viral free styles a shot outside my house at the time and I was staying also that was you you know me yes crazy cuz everybody know that freestyle yeah it's that a freestyle that's at my house like I literally just Took my camera at the time I had a Sony
Starting point is 00:43:06 Took that bitch outside Shot a video Because at the time I felt like You We almost We close And we was working a lot
Starting point is 00:43:15 But I'm like we close We just need them visuals now So Man it's just When you look at life That's how I end up getting thick though Because I knew I knew she ain't forgetting
Starting point is 00:43:24 None of that shit It's just She's so big now You know it's harder it's so many channels and i don't i don't believe in channels if we talk i need to have your number yeah but just be talking to this person and that yeah you was there before all that goofy and hit my mind i need to talk to your people now because before then you was at my house. Right, right. But when she did the feature, I knew like, ah, Meg ain't changed. It's the same Meg. You feel me? That bitch so hard, though, bro. That's why I'm like, nigga, you came on that bitch and you get the crowd going and then
Starting point is 00:43:56 she come with the bars and shit. That's a perfect record for sure. She did that shit for sure. So, nigga, I can dance to that song. Oh, yeah, nigga. You want to dance to Meg? Is that what you're saying? He's a fuck nigga for that.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Hey, fuck what you talking about. I dance to Meg. I ain't doing no twerking. Yo, come on, man. Don't do that. Don't side with him. Nah, I fuck with Charles, nigga. You see the fit.
Starting point is 00:44:18 That's not a nigga you might want to side with. Nah, nigga. Me and Charles rock the stage together, nigga. Let me MC that bitch tonight, Charles. Yo, if he go to your St. of Black Horses, he might stick up that whole front row. Man, he going to go grab something. He going, come here. Strong on him.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Straight off the front line. Real KG. Let me punch your chest. Let me show you something. And it's going to be the last of Club 520 podcast. Be here and catch some assault shots. We're going to have a boy. I got a question, though.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Like, what was that first song that you think, like, really, like, took your career from, like, here to here? Like, not mainstream, but, like, when you first got that, like, buzz. Like, yeah. Got you. As a producer or as an artist? Yeah, producer, producer. First song.
Starting point is 00:45:04 One that really changed everything was time for that by Kevin Gates that was the first song that it all it was weird I don't know nobody know this story this is crazy one day I got flew to Atlantic Records to work on some records they never told me who that was for that day I did 23 songs Damn I was in the studio This one you ain't got I stayed in the trailer house I had nothing to lose And I'm like
Starting point is 00:45:30 I'm in the studio at I think I got there at 12 I leave at like 5 in the morning But everybody talking about how I mean Like intergenerational You like yo you don't You know you did about 10 already bro
Starting point is 00:45:44 You don't have to go this hard They're not tripping You can leave go do it at the time nigga I ain't got no hoes I'm broke I'm ugly um whatever you want to call I'm dirty I'm whatever nigga I'm I'm in LA though so and my trailer house ugly as fuck and my brother stayed there with his three kids and I got an air mattress I'm staying in the studio all night Nigga I love the way this shit look This is a movie So I I stay
Starting point is 00:46:09 I do 23 songs Three of them bitches go platinum Fire So And the crazy thing is Gates was down the hall that day So And at this time
Starting point is 00:46:21 Me and Gates Ain't like me and Gates Now Gates is This is Gates that Was sipping syrup, doing drugs, and crazy as fuck. So, Gates come in and listen. And at the time, he like, he hear like a little melody. I'm not thinking nothing of it. He don't talk.
Starting point is 00:46:42 He not talking to me. He come in. He lean against the wall. And he like, I wish I could get to me he come in he leaned against the wall and he like i wish i could get on this wall but he leaned against the wall he's sitting down he like he's looking back at the wall i'm like what the he looking at he looking at the wall though he like he looking he mugging the wall i'm like man this nigga losing He literally up and down in the wild I'm a little scared He don't say nothing he just leave He leave
Starting point is 00:47:10 Go down the hall The next day I wake up I got three Kevin Gates songs from the A&R Like yo listen to these three songs He like taking Little melodies or whatever he like From the song and taking it to another level. And then the album, I'm not thinking then because I'm not signed yet.
Starting point is 00:47:30 So I'm not thinking it's going to come out. I want to say two months later, his album dropped. They all on the album. And a year later, everything had went black. And I was like, I'm chosen. I don't care what nobody got to say. But Time For That was the one that was like the leader like I'm chosen I don't care what nobody got to say but time for that was the one that was like the leader because none of them were singles they they had at the time they had
Starting point is 00:47:51 every single that they needed and to this day time for that is one of his biggest songs so it just showed me like man you ain't when you making good music you don't even need to be the single you just gotta be you gotta be out you feel so that was the one that made me know like man God God ain't make no mistakes with my career I'm well need to be on where I should be right now it don't know like that we got to wrap it up chose to shake you sliding on us my boy my brother hey man i love the energy for sure you know what it is having me my brother love love but before we get out of here new music promo man i got a album out right now called egg symbol it came out two weeks ago yes sir the hardest thing out um i trust me my new music hard i'm on tour right now if y'all go look at the tour dates, pop out at a show, come rock with me.
Starting point is 00:48:47 Do y'all want to come to the show tonight? If so, let me know. I'm going to get y'all on my list. Chose. Put me on the list. See the Black Forces. Put me on the list. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:55 I don't need a mic, but if you give me a mic, I'm going to get you. If you see me here at the show, walk the other way. Get them freaks on that stage nigga I know how to pick them out That's why we need you tonight Go pick them out god damn We need a little That report about to be
Starting point is 00:49:16 About to be some tough crowd Y'all don't trust the judges I'm going to say you're going to have a hell of a show That's what I'm saying One more time for Cho Shout out to the volume I'm going to say you're going to have a hell of a show. That's all I'm saying. That's what's up. One more time for Cho. Shout out to The Volume. Shout out to the Patriot Gang. We appreciate y'all. Club 520.
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