00:00 Fans run up on me, "Bruh, you helped me get through my bed, nigga.
00:03 I did 19 years, nigga.
00:04 I did eight years."
00:06 Even the young life, they be like, "Bruh, your music raised me, bruh."
00:10 I just know what other people's music did to me.
00:12 Rest in peace to Jack.
00:13 I know what DMX shit did to me.
00:15 I know what Pac shit did to me.
00:17 And so I'm just trying to reciprocate the love.
00:20 We wouldn't have "Children of the Slums" without this song.
00:29 This song kind of gave me the direction.
00:31 You know, I just came home, and so I know they expecting that rah-rah, you know, that
00:36 celebratory situation where, you know, fresh out, nigga, we finna bite down.
00:40 I think this song right here is them that with the game beat missing, and just that
00:45 vulnerability.
00:58 You hear me?
00:59 That's where a lot of training came from.
01:01 You know, "Granny" a different type of loss.
01:04 That's your hero.
01:05 That's the one you do it for.
01:07 So, yeah, that couch do something to me.
01:09 I got a lot of people talented in my trenches, man, and they was doper than me.
01:25 If they would have got the opportunity to showcase they talents, they'd be bigger than me.
01:29 A picture of Lil Tim.
01:40 Red dreads, front of a scraper, Buick Century or something like that.
01:45 Fake animated.
01:46 I wouldn't be him without Lil Tim.
01:48 Shit brazy, we really made it.
01:50 Square footage outrageous for this location.
01:53 Overly spacious.
01:55 Forgiato sitting under the spaceship.
01:57 Pure motivation.
01:58 I think my pure motivation is my children.
02:01 I just wanna make sure they financially legitimate.
02:03 They ain't gotta pull no desperate skits, you know what I'm saying, me to pay rent.
02:07 That's a motivating, if not the biggest motivating factor for me.
02:17 It's like you still gotta deal with the heartache of this shit.
02:20 We lose a couple niggas every year.
02:22 Niggas that we done spent 20 plus years with.
02:25 And so, when you take a good nigga, it just feel like, damn.
02:29 And we know who responsible is the streets.
02:31 I had to ask the streets, "Why you breaking?"
02:33 You know what I'm saying?
02:34 It ain't just one individual.
02:36 It should have been going on for a lifetime.
02:43 When you lose someone you love and nigga you just heartbroken and you head down, fuck with your mentality.
02:50 But you gotta shake that shit off and get back to work.
02:53 I got kids.
02:54 I'm raising kids.
02:55 And I'm dealing with heartache.
02:57 I'm at my lowest, 'cause I done lost somebody that I love dearly.
03:00 I still gotta be little Tim to them kids.
03:02 I still gotta be there.
03:04 That's what I mean by "Hell my head high even when I'm incapable."
03:07 To see how far we take it, gonna continue to hustle.
03:10 Strength and growth is birthed through continuous struggle.
03:13 Hey, look what we endured and we still ain't crumbled.
03:16 Still ain't fumbled.
03:17 I know they waiting for that.
03:18 I endured the beautiful struggle.
03:20 I told you.
03:21 I been making music for a lifetime.
03:23 Niggas wasn't tapped in on my shit.
03:24 They didn't give a fuck about my shit.
03:26 And I was the dopest back then.
03:28 At my lowest, I kept writing.
03:30 And nigga, that shit paid off.
03:32 Nigga, we been here for 10 summers with this rap shit.
03:35 We still present.
03:36 We still relevant.
03:37 When that judicial system lock in, they can't do nothing to save me.
03:49 Rest in peace, Trayvon Martin.
03:51 My grandmother used to always warn me, "You a target."
03:54 Young life.
03:55 I didn't understand what she was talking about.
03:57 And during the harassment of the peace officers, that's when I realized,
04:00 "Okay, this is what she was talking about."
04:03 Ain't say nothing about them skits on my gangsta in tact.
04:05 Two broke the league, feel like I was chained to the trap.
04:08 Disappointed whole time we raising a rack.
04:11 Missing my nigga, ain't trying to talk to the sky.
04:13 We was just making plans to live right before blood died.
04:16 We was just making plans to live right before blood died.
04:19 It's still a gangsta party.
04:21 He ain't making it to the gangsta party.
04:23 We going on tour.
04:24 All the little overseas trips.
04:27 This what we was making plans to do.
04:29 Run it up.
04:30 I'm just putting on time.
04:31 That's what I tell the homies in the pen that be mad that I won't answer for weeks.
04:35 Like y'all remember times when I was broke and I hit you niggas phone full of put on,
04:39 you ain't answer for me?
04:40 Damn it feel good finally land on my feet.
04:43 Damn it feel good finally stand on my feet.
04:46 As a man should.
04:47 I feel like I finally landed on my feet in 2015.
04:51 And I came home and life was different for me.
04:54 Labels tapping in.
04:55 You feeling like big dog status because you turning shit down.
04:59 Nah we broke.
05:00 I'm missing granny fried chicken with the canned goods.
05:03 It be the streets that prepares for our manhood.
05:06 It be the streets that prepares for our manhood.
05:08 But I've sent them down.
05:10 Or you know they running the streets.
05:11 So nigga that's who teach you how to.
05:13 I'm saying bruh little bruh you gonna get burnt you don't strap up.
05:16 You better still don't.
05:18 Come on get it together.
05:19 You hear me?
05:20 Had to squabble up just making sure our hands good.
05:23 Yeah never hold me down the way that aunt would.
05:25 Nah niggas will never hold me down the way that aunt would.
05:28 That was my thug.
05:30 You know he jumping the line of fire for a nigga.
05:32 I'm talking about we go back like 20 plus years.
05:35 Always been the same way.
05:37 Stuck in a gang related mentality.
05:39 Political mentality.
05:41 My fans fuck with me heavy.
05:53 And that's why you know that's why I was even able to versus them against my brothers.
05:57 Cause they love me like that.
05:59 And them fans though they love you wrong or right.
06:02 It's like they right for you.
06:04 See these rap niggas man they able to get on documented paperwork nigga and still be the niggas.
06:09 You hear me?
06:10 That's that fan base.
06:11 Yeah I come from that Coke, whitey, blue jean, Nike era.
06:17 You know what I'm saying that Jabot era.
06:19 That Mitchell and that Stoback.
06:21 You know what I'm saying?
06:22 Yeah them full booze and Johnny Blaze hoodies.
06:25 You know what I'm saying?
06:26 We ain't wear the dot eyes though.
06:27 Shout out Chris Webber.
06:28 We weren't fucking with the dot eyes.
06:29 The hyper flights was like that.
06:31 Ken Griffey's.
06:32 Oh you sleep.
06:34 You sleep.
06:35 [laughs]
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