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YFN Lucci joins Greg Street to talk about the new album, 'ALREADY LEGEND.' and more.
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00:00Live from the People's Station, V103, another Odyssey exclusive with my partner, Ray Ray
00:08from Summerhill.
00:09It's poppin'.
00:11And now you know on this new project, on this side, you know you hear the King George line
00:15on it, you say, I can't stay too long.
00:19That's my mama's favorite song.
00:22She like that, keep on moving.
00:24Yeah, yeah, yeah, she stay saying that, can't stay too long.
00:27The guy can't move.
00:30What's up, mama?
00:31We love you, mama.
00:32Hey, mama is, mama is the realest, man.
00:35Nah, for sure.
00:35Mama and Tony.
00:36Nah, for sure.
00:38Liberty and Justice.
00:40Oh, yeah, you ain't, yeah, I posted my son, Greg, you ain't like him either, he mad at you.
00:45I'm gonna tell Justice, he got this time for him to go anyway.
00:48Hey, Liv!
00:50What's up to the whole team, man?
00:51Listen, we talking this new project, like, when you listen to the album, too, it's like
00:56you never really missed a beat, but you had so many songs before you went in.
01:00Did you record all these new songs after you got out?
01:02Yeah, all those songs on this, on their, no, one song was old, used to it, on the Jay-Z
01:08sample, on the song Crying.
01:09Yeah, that was an old song.
01:11Who was the girl?
01:13Dang, man.
01:14You don't even know who the future is?
01:16I gotta go in there, I gotta get my shit together.
01:18No, she ain't got her paperwork done.
01:19I gotta get my, nah, she, she got her paperwork done, she was, she was compensated.
01:25I like that song, too, that was, that was a banger, you got a lot of bangers on this
01:28project, though.
01:29No, for sure.
01:29It's gonna be a project that's gonna live a long time, but it's like, I was paying attention
01:35to, like, what G Herbo just did a few months ago, how he dropped two projects, then he went
01:39back and made the first project he dropped, actually, the project that he was working.
01:42So it's like, it's not, it's almost like you guys' fan base is so big, it's like, it's
01:50not even about the mainstream, it's about having just one project, working one project
01:53by project.
01:54Yeah, because, you know, with this, you know, with the New Day, the fans, they want music
02:00so fast, like, what else you dropping, what else you dropping?
02:04And they ain't really let the first, the first album sink in, you feel me?
02:08And so, it probably started singing, and he had went back to it, you know what I'm
02:13saying?
02:15That's how we be stressing, we be like, man, we ain't gonna get caught up in all that, drop
02:20a new, new album that fast, but even if I want to, but we still gonna work this album
02:25because there's so much you can do, man.
02:26There's so much you can do?
02:27It's 21 songs, you got, you drop an album with 21 songs, there's so much you can do,
02:32you feel me?
02:33Video, content, every, you ain't gotta shoot a video to every song, but you can still,
02:38do content to every song.
02:39Exactly.
02:40You feel me?
02:41And video, content is now the new videos.
02:44Nah, for sure.
02:45That is the new videos.
02:46If you drop a, remember, you used to drop a video to a single on YouTube, and you're
02:50looking at the views now, you can get that, you can get more views than that, especially
02:54from an artist with a following like you, you can get more views than that on just dropping
02:58a one, two, one minute, 30 second, one minute, two minute content video.
03:03Nah, you're right.
03:05That you spent less money to produce.
03:06I'm sure.
03:07Really, you can just do it with your iPhone.
03:09Go country Wayne on them boys.
03:11Just turn the camera on.
03:13No edit.
03:15So you're gonna be creating content to all the singles, all the songs on the project?
03:19I'm, majority of them.
03:21Yeah, majority of them.
03:24I like working, bro.
03:25I like, I like shooting videos.
03:27I like, you know, I want you to be able to sit, instead of just listening to the music
03:31on YouTube, if you got something to watch with it, it gonna make you love the song even more.
03:36Love it more.
03:37Yeah, yeah.
03:37And every video ain't gotta be like, you right there rapping.
03:40It can be, you doing shit, like with the family or however your day go.
03:45Being creative.
03:46Yeah, fast.
03:47Connecting to the audience.
03:48Connecting to the people.
03:49For sure.
03:49But like, doing the videos, how do you feel like when you put a record out and it just
03:54really goes stupid viral and all the people, all the fans, the consumers start making videos?
04:00That's when you know you got that one.
04:03That's when you know you got that one.
04:05But, you know, sometimes I can call it.
04:08I be knowing which one's gonna be that one.
04:10Like, watch the one.
04:10That one drop.
04:11Like, everybody's finna be on this one.
04:13Well, you're in the streets for real.
04:14Nah, for sure.
04:15You play it for a few people and you can tell by their response by pretty much what
04:19the rest of the world is gonna, how they're gonna gravitate to it.
04:22Like, it's what they call, in the corporate world, they call it focus groups.
04:25Well, okay.
04:26They don't understand us.
04:27We be knowing these things because we in focus groups every day.
04:29Nah, for sure.
04:30You know what I'm saying?
04:31It ain't like a whole project.
04:34You know, we have to arrange all this, these different situations and sit the people down.
04:38We with the people every day and we gonna, and if you're real about what you're
04:41doing, I know you are real about what you do.
04:43You got people around you that's gonna tell you the truth.
04:46Yeah, yeah.
04:48Yeah, they better.
04:49I'm gonna kick their ass out the studio.
04:51I know if it's some bulls**t.
04:53So, you ain't gonna tell me some bulls**t hard.
04:55Nah, they hard.
04:56Nah, that's some bulls**t, bro.
04:57And you some bulls**t.
04:58I'm gonna kick you out.
05:02Name a song that you actually played for some people and they went crazy over it and you
05:07put it out and it just became like one of the biggest records.
05:10Wet, for sure.
05:13Um, The Key to the Screeks, for sure.
05:17Every Day We Lit.
05:19Sound 6, too.
05:21Um, damn.
05:23There's a couple more.
05:25But, yeah.
05:26There's a couple more.
05:27You know it's that one.
05:28You play it one time, they be like, that's s**t hard.
05:31I be like, I already know it.
05:33But how you connect to your fans is like, it's really like, it's a few artists that do
05:39it, but it's just really so organic.
05:43Like I always tell you this story.
05:45Me and Waka Flocka was talking one time when you had first came out.
05:47And we was like, man, Waka was like, man, out of all the youngsters, that boy Luchi is
05:52the one.
05:54Like his songs and what he be talking about be like, it be all there.
06:00Yeah, because I made s**t.
06:02Well, first off, I talk about s**t that I go through.
06:05You feel me?
06:06And I know it's a lot of people in the world that going through s**t, so they can relate
06:10to that s**t.
06:11It's relatable.
06:12All my music is relatable.
06:13I ain't just getting on those songs, screaming or rapping about this.
06:16Nah, I don't talk about songs.
06:18You feel me?
06:19And that's what connect with the people.
06:21People want to hear a story, man.
06:22People want to be able to feel you.
06:23You feel me?
06:25And that's how, that's just all I know.
06:30How do you feel about thinking like, real, like, when you think about connecting to the
06:34people, real life stories connect so much better than just like the fantasy world stories?
06:41Because if you talking about something and it's real, and I be like, damn, I'm listening
06:49to the song, and I'm like, damn, I just went through this s**t yesterday, it gonna make
06:54you f**k with the song even more than you listening to a fantasy song.
06:58So, and, like, I can't even, I don't even know how it feel to go through whatever you
07:04talking about.
07:04I never went through that.
07:05I like how it sound, though.
07:07It sound good and s**t, but it ain't gonna connect with me.
07:10It ain't gonna hit right here.
07:11So, the s**t that you make, that's real, and people don't, like, damn, man, I just went
07:16through that.
07:17I was just going through it the same way.
07:19It's like, it gonna hit different.
07:21You feel me?
07:21Because it gonna feel it.
07:23It's a real connection.
07:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:25You got out, you lay low for a minute, you put a song out, then you, um, you've been
07:34out almost a year.
07:36Yeah, almost.
07:37Almost a year.
07:38Yeah.
07:38But you put a song out, but then to really show how connected you are to the fans, I
07:46wouldn't even call them, I don't even call them fans, I call them family, people that
07:49really rock with you no matter what.
07:52No matter if you got an album out or don't have an album out.
07:55Y-Fan, Luchi, and Friends sold out show at State Farm Arena.
07:59How did it feel?
08:01Man, before I went to jail, I was doing club.
08:06You know, of course, I do, like, some arenas, but it'll be on, it'll be with other people.
08:12You feel me?
08:13So, to get out and announce State Farm and sell that s**t out and then announce no other
08:20artists.
08:20You know, that major, that show like, damn, E4 f**k with me.
08:24You feel me?
08:25And they came out word for word that every song I perform, it's a whole nother feeling.
08:32You feel me?
08:32Because I ain't never did that.
08:33That was my first time.
08:35So, that s**t definitely will be it.
08:37Shout out to Day Day and the team, man.
08:38They put a whole lot of work into that, too.
08:40Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:41They went crazy with that one.
08:43I'm already knowin'.
08:43Live Nation Loochie.
08:46Live Nation Loochie.
08:49So, are you going, is there a Live Nation deal in the mix for your tour?
08:54They were sending some, you know, I've been getting, I've been getting offers from a lot
08:58of people, so I don't know.
09:00I'm just sitting back, trying to figure it out and see which one's going to be the best
09:04deal.
09:05AG, they've been sending me a lot of tour routes and s**t, too, though.
09:10So, I don't know.
09:12Who?
09:12Shout out to Alex and the AG crew.
09:14Now, album was number one on Apple Music for rap.
09:17For sure.
09:18Shout out to James.
09:21Say it again.
09:22Shout out to who?
09:23James.
09:23James?
09:24Yeah.
09:24Who was James?
09:25AG.
09:26Oh, James.
09:26Oh, yeah.
09:27AG.
09:29Album, Alex and James.
09:32Album number one on Apple Music on the hip-hop charts.
09:36First week.
09:37Big.
09:38Super big.
09:39No, for sure.
09:42I guess that just, that's just a reward for all the hard work I put in, you feel
09:46me?
09:46Because, like, I really, I went in that booth and spilled it all out on the album.
09:52And it just showed that people s**t with it, they can relate to it, and they can see
09:57that I took my time with it.
09:59I ain't giving no bulls**t, you feel me?
10:01And, you about to be on top of this Billboard 200 this week, too.
10:07Think so?
10:08That's what I'm hearing.
10:09That s**t gonna be crazy.
10:12Hit that Billboard 200.
10:14R.E.L.Legend, T.I.G.
10:18Oh, yeah, they're gonna be crazy.
10:19I'm waiting on that.
10:20It's gonna be a problem.
10:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:23YFN, Luchi, and the Ben, we celebrating a brand new album.
10:25Don't forget, DBS Sounds has the physical copies of the CD for all the real fans.
10:30JBS Sounds has them.
10:31Mood Music has them.
10:33Hit Luchi on IG.
10:34He might send you one.
10:35You never know.
10:36He might have one in the car.
10:37He might pull up to your crib and drop it off.
10:40Signed and everything.
10:41Signed and everything.
10:42I remember when you was locked up, you put an album out.
10:43I went by the office one day, and they had these stack of CDs that they was mailing
10:49out that you had signed.
10:51Yeah, I had signed them.
10:53And I signed them all.
10:54I signed them in court.
10:56Wow.
10:57So you did a CD signing in court?
11:00In court.
11:00I signed them all in court.
11:01How did you do a CD signing in court?
11:03Because that was when I could see my lawyer and be right there.
11:07And I just signed a CD right before we started.
11:10Wow.
11:11YFN, Luchi, had a CD signing in court.
11:14The TIG family took the CDs and mailed them out to all the fans who purchased the CD.
11:19For sure.
11:19For sure.
11:20And I appreciate everybody who supported me while I was locked up.
11:22Now, for 2025, we only got a few months left, fourth quarter.
11:27What are we expecting?
11:29Man, I can start moving around after October 24th.
11:32So I'm finna start doing some shows, moving around, getting back active.
11:37So you ain't been able to leave the city?
11:40No, I couldn't leave Georgia.
11:42Yeah, I couldn't leave Georgia.
11:44I'm surprised they didn't put together a Georgia tour.
11:45It's a few cities around here.
11:47Young King, what are we doing?
11:50And we could have snuck across the border to Chattanooga.
11:53Nah.
11:53Shot to Birmingham.
11:54Nah, we ain't doing that.
11:55We ain't doing that?
11:56Nah.
11:57We ain't doing no sneaking across nowhere.
11:59No sneaking and geeking.
12:00Now, on the project, you talked about this, too.
12:06You talked about, I was locked up.
12:08I ain't lose nothing.
12:09You saved a lot of money when you was on the street.
12:11Nah.
12:12When you was working.
12:13Yeah.
12:14You said, hold on.
12:15You said I saved a lot when I was on.
12:17Oh, yeah, yeah.
12:17When you were working.
12:17Yeah, for sure.
12:18Before you got locked up.
12:19Yeah, and I was still getting paid, though.
12:20I was locked up, too.
12:21But how important is it for young rappers to understand financial literacy?
12:25How important it is to understand the value of money?
12:28Too important.
12:29Y'all don't want to be out here making all that money, then you look up and you ain't
12:32got s***.
12:33You done blew it all on s***, damn drugs, people that don't give a s*** about you.
12:44Now, you talk about girls, and you talk about cars and stuff a lot in songs.
12:48So, you got to break it all the way down.
12:50I'm talking about break it down to the windshield wiper blades.
12:53How important it is for young rappers to really understand financial literacy.
12:57Because, you know, like you saying it, but you also, you also tuck it in the way.
13:04Yeah.
13:04Yeah, because, no, I ain't taking, I ain't, what you mean?
13:07Saving.
13:07Oh, yeah, hell yeah.
13:08Because, look, I'm going to play with, the money that I play with, it going to be like,
13:13okay, I ain't really going to play with my show money.
13:16But if I go do a feature or something, I can go play.
13:20I can go to the script club, s*** off a little bit.
13:24Or I can go buy their watch.
13:25Or I can go do this.
13:26You get what I'm saying?
13:28But when I first got my deal from Warner, I spent half of my check on the condo.
13:36And I paid cash.
13:37And I looked at it like, s***, and I'm putting my money up.
13:40I ain't just spending it, because it's still going to be my money.
13:43Because it's going to grow.
13:44So, we talking about buying them apartments or something.
13:46And I sat down for four, five years.
13:50And when I came home, the price of my s*** I bought doubled.
13:54You get what I'm saying?
13:55So, now, it's like you got to invest.
13:58You got to put that money up and put it in the sun that are going to make you money.
14:03A lot of assets are appreciating assets.
14:05Nah, for sure.
14:05That's what you're saying.
14:06Yeah, hell yeah.
14:06Like, a lot of people don't understand, like, them, um.
14:10Because people look at rappers, they see cars, they see jewelry, and they be like,
14:13damn, I want that.
14:14Man, f*** that.
14:15That s*** don't matter.
14:16That's just for the image.
14:18You got to want f*** down.
14:20What they call it?
14:22Generational wealth.
14:23Generational wealth, residual income.
14:25Nah, for sure.
14:26And all about understanding some of this stuff that I'm buying.
14:29It's like a bank account.
14:31Hell yeah.
14:31Like, even, like, with some of my cars, like, I don't just buy all type of cars.
14:35I bought the C50, um, made back, um, coupe.
14:39That s***, I just paid, like, what, like, three-something for that s*** worth, like,
14:43something right now.
14:44So, down there, everything I buy, that s***, we doubling and tripling.
14:48Well, you know, a lot of us in our community who don't understand financial literacy, we
14:54think all multi-millionaires just got millions of dollars just sitting in the bank.
15:00That's how we think.
15:01Oh, you're right.
15:01As a people, we think, oh, he rich.
15:03They don't even understand.
15:04Most millionaires can't even go put their hand on $50,000.
15:08Because they got it all working.
15:09Yeah, they got it all working.
15:10They got it working, you know what I'm saying?
15:12This account making eight, nine, ten percent.
15:15You know what I'm saying?
15:16I bought this car for $100,000, but I know it's worth $300,000.
15:20I bought this house for $500,000, but I know it's worth $1.5,000.
15:23You know what I'm saying?
15:24I bought this watch.
15:25Because I know.
15:26It's going up.
15:27It's going to go up, yeah.
15:28The value is appreciated.
15:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:30People don't understand, like, a lot of rich people's money is in assets.
15:34Not for sure.
15:34And it got to be.
15:36Or you're going to end up back where you started.
15:39You got to make it work.
15:40Not for sure.
15:41All ready, legend.
15:42YFN Lucci.
15:43Now, pop-up show.
15:47Pop-up show, yeah.
15:48We had the pop-up show yesterday at Domain.
15:51It was a good turnout.
15:53You feel me?
15:53It was lit.
15:54And we just working, man.
15:57We trying to get that platinum.
16:01Let me rewind a little bit.
16:06For people watching,
16:07the experience that you had going through what you went through,
16:12what was the biggest life lesson from that?
16:15Man, never take for granted.
16:18And, like, I've been in my kid's life before I got locked up.
16:23But when I was locked up, I was like, man, I got to make every day count.
16:27But, like, family is the only thing that really matters.
16:31You feel me?
16:31My kid, I can't never be taken away from them again.
16:35And time.
16:39Like, time is the biggest thing.
16:40You can't lose time.
16:41Because when you lose time, you can't get that back.
16:44You feel me?
16:44No matter how much money you make after or before or whatever you do after,
16:50you can't make up the time that you lost.
16:52You feel me?
16:52And I never lose that time again.
16:55So you're like, once I get out of here?
16:56Yeah.
16:59On a day-to-day basis, like, on those mental thoughts,
17:03what was it like?
17:04Man, when I get out of here, I'm going to...
17:07Go hard.
17:08I'm going to be locked in with my music.
17:10I done seen so many artists just, like, elevate so much.
17:16It's like, damn, bro, I got to do this same shit.
17:19And I'm just sitting in here, like, I'm sitting in jail.
17:22It's crazy when I'm supposed to be out there doing this.
17:24So when I get out of here, I'm hitting the ground running.
17:27You feel me?
17:28And I ain't going to never miss no time for my kid.
17:34You feel me?
17:34That was the main thing that was on my mind, like, work and kid.
17:39Work and kid.
17:40When I get out, work and kid.
17:42I heard you in the lyrics on one of the songs where you was referencing
17:46how you really have learned something that me and you even talked about
17:49before all this happened, the value of different people around you
17:55and understanding that everybody around don't have the same value.
18:00And it's not that I think I'm better than them.
18:01I'm better than somebody.
18:02It's just, like, some people just don't get it, and they in the way.
18:06And they'll never get it.
18:08And I had to learn that, too, though, because I have everybody around thinking I can bring
18:13everybody with me, but it's like, they're going to have you up because you're going to be
18:18taking care of everybody.
18:19You got to have folks around that get the assignment, man.
18:22Like, man, I got to bring something to the table.
18:25And not saying I got to bring money to the table.
18:27I just got to bring value.
18:29If I can help you with this, I'm going to help you with this.
18:32I ain't just going to bail around trying to smoke, get high, kick it.
18:35Hell, no, I want to work.
18:37I want to what you need me to do.
18:39Or I can do this for you.
18:41Let me do this.
18:42And then it just make, you know, teamwork make the dream work, shit.
18:47So if everybody working, shit, everybody going to eat.
18:51Everybody going to win.
18:51Everybody winning the point.
18:52Yeah, yeah.
18:53Oh, yeah.
18:54They like basketball.
18:55Everybody can't be the point guard.
18:57Everybody can't be the shooting guard.
18:59Everybody ain't going to start.
19:00So you just got to play your position.
19:02I need people to block shots.
19:04I need people to make sure I'm on time.
19:06Getting rebounds.
19:06I need people to hit my line, make sure I did this, did that.
19:09Just, like you say, value.
19:11Understand their value.
19:12And a lot of us don't understand the value in the journey of what we're going
19:17or what we're trying to accomplish.
19:19You know what I'm saying?
19:19And it's like there are some people in your circle right now that don't even
19:24understand that they blessing and they calling is really bigger than yours,
19:28but they don't understand what you mean to them for them to even reach that.
19:33I'm for sure.
19:33You know what I'm saying?
19:34Like a lot of people just don't, they miss that whole thing.
19:36I'm for sure.
19:37But I ain't going to lie.
19:40When I got, when I went away, a lot of people, they started getting it.
19:45Like, damn.
19:47We needed that boy.
19:49Not like just like financial-wise, just period.
19:53Like, because he was showing us something.
19:55And now, a lot of them ain't taking this shit for granted either.
19:58Everybody got their hands in it.
20:00Like, man, I want to work.
20:01I'm going to do this.
20:01I'm going to do that.
20:02Yeah, I know you will.
20:04Because we can't get this shit back.
20:05We got one more shot at this shit.
20:07You feel me?
20:08We got to make it count.
20:09Got a shot to make it big.
20:11Yeah, yeah.
20:12And make it last a long time.
20:13Not for sure.
20:14Longevity.
20:15Like you said, teamwork make the dream work.
20:17Sima YFN Lucha, R-Ray Legend, is out right now.
20:20Get the project.
20:21We're going to tell you again, DBS Sounds on the south side,
20:25Moves Music and JBS has the physical copies of the CDs for the real fans.
20:30We know you're streaming.
20:31We know you're downloading.
20:33But you got to put this piece in your collection.
20:36To celebrate the life of everything Lucha has experienced
20:40and went through to get to this point.
20:43Nah, for sure.
20:44You got to go get one of them hard copies.
20:47Put that on your wall or something.
20:50Because we already legend.
20:52And for people who are watching this,
20:53how can they tap in and make sure they tap into the merch?
20:56www.alreadylegend.com.
20:58Make sure y'all go tap in right now.
21:00Get all the merch.
21:01I got the bootlegs on YFN Lucha.
21:02Nah, no bootlegs.
21:03I got the bootlegs on YFN Lucha.com.
21:06That come to my Shopify.
21:09Yeah, yeah.
21:09We're going to sue.
21:10We're going to sue Streetify.
21:11Streetify.
21:11We're going to sue Street.
21:12You know what?
21:13Hey, we got to have some money to have a lawsuit.
21:16You can't fight over nothing.
21:18Nah, you're right.
21:20We're going to bust the bag.
21:22This family, man.
21:22YFN Lucha.
21:23Shouts to the family.
21:24Everybody involved in this project, man.
21:27We don't need luck.
21:28We got prayers.
21:29We got prayers.
21:30We got people praying for you always.
21:32I pray for you all the time.
21:33Talk to you all the time when you doing your thing.
21:36But glad to see you saw that thing too, my boy.
21:39Nah, for sure.
21:40I'm glad I did too.
21:43How much money we saving this year?
21:45Shit, all of it.
21:4880% of it.
21:5080%?
21:50Yeah, I got to fuck out 200%.
21:52I still got to have fun and live.
21:54A little bit?
21:55Yeah, but we got 80% getting put up.
21:58Well, Justin said it's time for you to go.
22:02YFN Lucha exclusive from the People's Station, V103.
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