Killer Mike Lives The Atlanta Way | expediTIously Podcast

Constantly check yourself because no one is above the feeling of envy, but you have to review your actions to come with it, that is actually examining - tomorrow - exactly what you have to do the moment you listen to yourself. saying why not to me the moment you catch yourself going whoo-hoo, stop and talk to yourself. I've seen a lot of people in Europe confer between PSE members, two people who were on labels you're trying to help. I have seen them succumb. to why not me, right, and at any moment of our friendship I felt why not me hmm, I would have controlled myself, you know me because that is something cancerous poisonous and it is something that you have to check, it is something when you see your friend . at the awards ceremonies you see your friend winning you see your friend dominating the club at the theater you see your friend why don't I try to infiltrate yeah, well, enemies, hell, don't try to talk to you absolutely, you just have to have to do it.

I don't accept that. I celebrated you every step of the way because I saw you suffer. I see you suffer unjustly. I said you suffered when the face didn't understand you and tried to turn. I knew they wanted you to go. I saw you have the nuts. on the wrist to release a mixtape series I watched you walk away from a generous bad boy offer to build something on your own I watched you resist the temptation to take money and put it back on the streets and throw it at a construction company I watched you do so many things that They were selfless and had nurtured me along the way Oh man, how do you feel about the new college me, king of the savages, okay, like you say?

That's my mate, he made up the title used on King's self, but She's going to try to win over the crowd. I will do it. You see, we have the last three teen zones for B. I had been so tested by fire that it made me a better human being to cheer up my friend while I discovered that I liked it. He gave me the opportunity to discover who he was and who he wanted to be in one of the most special moments of my life. He was walking into a trap. Museum because you tell me what was there and the first two things you looked for, there have been months of anger and who invented trapped music, trap music in this and you know, and I respect myself, I have love for all parties that were involved in that subtle discussion, but the beginning. of trap music is the DJ tune, yes we knew that, but right below you said that 2003

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Mike drops a monster, the first attempt at a conscious trap album, and that's exactly what the monster.

Marshall was a college-educated kid who wasn't. I was supposed to be doing what I was doing, who knew that, who was living and with anxiety and stress smoking a pack of Newports today drinking drugging a thug because I didn't want to do that and you have it there mom I don't want to sell drugs, no . More disco than cute, his song is true about him and the fact that my friend recognized that that man only wanted to lie. He hadn't even told you that world for me, you know, because I've never even sought to recognize that space of that place, but that.

It was such an honest description, you know? So I'm glad I didn't even succumb to accepting the voice of why not me? I'm glad our friendship showed me that success was possible because if you have successful friends and you stick around. In that circle, success will not be far away, that's right, it will just come to you. We know. Look, Duvall was who he was for 20 years. This is true and you know he has made music. I've known this for at least ten years. thirteen, so when I saw him and he never changed, he never changed, no matter the success, no matter how many people received it the way he wanted to receive it or how many people didn't receive it the way one of the received it . he never changed he always stayed consistent absolutely true to what he stood for that's the secret I remember man when you me and the people what people don't know what people do know he's not one of all these people who can say that I'm an associate and I feel like we've done it with the family and with Grand Hustle because when I said again in four ways okay, I want to release tapes in a bigger way again, you gave me a chance by bringing me on the field too. and I remember saying, you know, my wife had told me before that you'd just lean in and I was like, man, she's had enough with him, like I was trying to break up with artists.

I don't want to be another burden and I'm here throwing out the grind sign, try me because like you peel, peel, it went to gold with MMG's pitfall trap, the boring ham had a short stint there because it was currently mass appeal. I remember you saying we did it. Andrew Young had you watching at the YMCA and we talked. some kids together, yeah, and I was like, man, you know, I think I want to put our three players, but I don't want to do it with just SMC and Empire. I wish you knew how to grant us to be a part of and he said, man, we could have done it.

I was like, what am I? I don't want to bother you, he said, man, all you had to do was ask, like a lot of people have taken that away from you because that's what you're conditioned to. now, but friendship really is important. I remember telling my wife that he said she's like yeah, a fool, that's your friend, all you had to do was know that you have something to prove to myself and at that point I'm still trying. to show that he is the big boy, I can see it, but I will say that the time I was away from the big boy in particular taught me to appreciate him more and that is friendship because I did not understand how much heavier the head is that wears the crown that I saw.

You and him in particular take 20 to 30 people and I don't mean taking care of, I mean giving them the opportunity to have jobs and create commerce, you don't know that at all, that's something I always admired about you and some of my My fans calm conflicts all the time. That's the thing about having a big group of people that you're responsible for, but they'll naturally coalesce into two separate groups, yeah, one group, yeah, so it's like you know Grand Hustle has always been like that. the Grand Hustle, right, Grand Hustle F, yeah, it's always been multifaceted in its own way and it had a kind of duality because in the early gray house you had Jason Clay, yeah, Hanna, yeah, snake, yeah, okay, and then you also had the Series A, Katie feels like you are.

Matt Boni and for some reason I always found myself in the middle trying to mediate the problems between Jason Hanna Clay and Snape and feeling Syrah Katie and Matt Boni now that Dell, as well as creating opportunities in addition to just you know how to do what he does. It's needed to keep the business going, the psyche like anxiety just gets on your nerves to a point where it becomes difficult to be creative, yeah you know what I'm saying because you love both, you love both groups, yeah and I never really understood why you all can't just understand that you don't like the juggler, so what is it?

You know what I'm saying and I feel like a group may have felt that maybe they were too senior in a more executive place to have to work shoulder to shoulder with people who should have been mentored, yeah you realize that and I don't know what that was. and then I'm and then from the other side I think Matt Boni the dog Ciro feeling them felt that well, listen, we do the same as my job, we own the front line, like everyone else, we deserve the same opportunities and they both have points valid, yes, so eventually you know all those things worked their way into it, but conflict, it never fails when you deal with us in our people, yes, but I will say this in regards to knowing everyone involved, a resident piece for brag to Dad, everyone has since moved to Stuart.

Acity Steel does business with you somehow and you can still do business with us, yes absolutely, that's the ultimate lesson. I like people to tell them where I am. Yes, easy, you are the leaders, babies, many times you play as leaders in the boat. true leaders, man like you know, I mean, I remember a great saying, you know, man, I want you to know that you know he's like a big brother, so he doesn't even accept apologies. I mean, you know, when we had our kind of breakup, which he doesn't acknowledge is, I don't know, she tells everyone else it's okay, we're fine, you know, I mean, I didn't understand how difficult the task you had was, I didn't understand. make the payroll, I didn't understand, you know, even I myself went on the road for the whole tour, you come home, everyone else gets paid and you go home with us exactly, you see, she did it, she had the mercy that led, you know, but they paid me for it, but I went on my way and that's what you didn't know for me, man, my friendships are just being built around people, I admire people, I respect myself, one of those people, he's one of those people, he's telling her that he was like he was starting to see gang graffiti in the suburbs and how she liked, oh, you know, I'm starting to see it in the man, like in the taxi , like something was wrong and there was an ATF woman, a director of something, a black woman, a white man that was with her and all she wanted to know was What she was talking about was that it was the year that you They arrested before us before I took the story because I told you and I remember after I told Alice, my mentor and friend from the shoemakers' day, I said no.

I'm going, I'm not talking angry, no, I said, I'm trying to tell them that it's a wave of violence and crazy, she comes, I said, she keeps asking about my partner, she just made me feel uncomfortable, you know, I mean, yeah, and I did it. Don't worry about that when the firearm charge occurred in a hitch. I remember the white guy who was with her called me to apologize and said Mike. I'll just tell you that this was it. I'm sure I know she asks you a lot of questions, but we didn't know, we just got to the sign, so, so, so, and I just remember, man, just thinking about you, a lifetime up, like I'm here trying to leave it and now we look at Atlanta, we do indeed have a gang problem, but under which gangs are inevitable no, no, we know we don't like this, so stop, I couldn't stop there, they couldn't, we could have addressed it Otherwise, we could have involved young people.

I feel like in Faith it's inevitable simply because we can't be everywhere all the time. I don't think the goal should be to stop games like in my program. I think they got that the goal should be to get the tribal eyes socialized and steer them in a direction where it could come back more brotherly, so I wasn't talking about anything, nothing more than our new gang members having already been here. I thought we should start things now to engage these young people, but I can remember. The white boy came in and when you came out I told you the story and you said it was the funniest thing in the world.

Like the old man, you say "well, damn, I wish you'd told me it was like you know, never since." even if I hear a wolf on the street or anything I might say, man, you know, look, I'll be honest because I understood at that moment that there was a target on our back who we work for, like when I say this is a rapper who broke up in an email from Hillary Clinton in a wiki leak, you know, years later, so technically you and I probably, whoops, say that

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Mike didn't get the message and then I printed it on a t-shirt that I made a lot. about money I didn't understand the message that well, there was a time when I said something in your campaign and I appreciate that you used all your press agents against me to try to contaminate me, what happened to tell us about it because no No I know Oh Jane, delegate who was a woman Jane Elliot.

I know Jane knows it's a statement that she wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton simply because she was a woman in the way she said it was just one way. a woman should say well, she didn't repeat it without words, it caused a stir in controversy, it was really no big deal. I made a joke about it. You know what I am saying? Yeah, I'm joking about it and I'm onto something. problems, yeah, I've never really cared, I don't care if you're a man or a woman and then I was just joking, it's so serious, but it's necessary to cross in front of the public, is it good, you know, campaign parents, sure ? well, and when Julian Assange let WikiLeaks continue, um, WikiLeaks showed up, this guest murderer guy, Mike, didn't get the message all over me, just like people do like when they protect you by essentially trying to cut off a girl's head. snake.

I pressed that shirt, I hit my he made sure it was legal for the president, we pressed it up and called him the murderer Mike, I don't check the messages on the shirt and mention a lot of money, so I definitely want to thank the DNC who always we have done. You came out of nowhere Sam, a lemonade man. I think that largely attributes to where we come from. Yes, that's what you do. So you and I connected, yes, as brothers and business partners to release your record. three years, the third installment of the engagement, yeah, there, there, no ID was presented, yeah, he hit me the other night playing, he jumped on an elevator and I was playing and said, "I take this as a sign, so don't hit, so she and I thought that."um that video was cool too the video was stupid don't scream Marty Matt no the vine I said yeah God bless the dead I think the man died you're after the stings too the family He still has a sword there, it was a dog.

It looked like what and what was cool, does it look like the old mafia movies when they're in the back being really real and what we did was burning there like the horror movie Murphy, yeah that was a big beast. that was all rap music, okay, rap music was ridiculous, it came out of William Street Grant Hustles, so that's when Jason DeMarco. I remember when Jason came to a meeting with you mm-hmm and after that meeting, Jason came out and said, "Hi, we're here." I'm relaunching William Street Records um and I'd like you to make a record there, essentially do your America's Most Wanted and you say whatever you want and you're like her, of course, you know, you know, do it and we're done. with rap music, that was the first album that Ella and I worked on together and it was called a classic, he produced everything for sure, next thing you know one of Jule's happened and run the Jews is a masterful revival, yeah, for the murderer Mike. music yes and run the jewels is not just a rap group but a movement yes and a true testimony that music is the universal language yes it combines us but unifies us instead of being the divisive tactic that can tear us down and separate us man like that You and L are very unlikely partners.

Do you see the two of them next to each other? I don't think they can find two more countries, really, yeah, yeah, they're going to think I'm insecure, how did that come about, man? when Jason suggested well when Jason and I decided like this is how cool rap music is. Rap music was titled because I saw Maurice Garland, who is a writer and cultural curator here in Atlanta. He has written about both of us. You know he's one of the best. You know, culture guys in town, he put music from rebellious African people on his Twitter and I hit him and told him not to put that anywhere else.

I'm using it um and I posted with that title because that's really the vibe of Rap music it's like we're rebels you know it's a percussion system of African origin but it's true so it's not just black people it's music from the people, which means it's from the salt of the earth, you know, what I say, and after having the title Jason and I talked about having producers and originally it was supposed to be like three four producers, but I went into the studio with Al first and I remember Hanna telling me that you were filming a video at Magic City Hall while I was sitting there, okay, and I was four. millionaire with me and I was passing by and I remember calling to say hello, I'm coming by.

I want you to know that our boy. I have a guest with me, but he would know Polly cam. I don't know how well they were getting along. get along or not, but I showed up on set and the camera was with me while I was cameraing and co-producing kryptonite, him and Nicki Reefer and me he was like I don't know what my man really writes, what am I saying? I know until he's with me You know normally he'd shoot, you did and I was just saying even our friendship stayed intact, like he wanted you, he's you for the day, you don't know, say that's it, okay, but I was only supposed to do three songs, right?

I ended up doing a big piece first, that's the one you and Bun got, oh okay, we made that record, we made two more records that day and I remember calling Jason to say, Hey doll, why do I have to do it? Jason's do and why: I said a lot of whites. I reached the hole. I had really found the sound, but I said the Magic City thing when he brought the community because Hammer told me that day. I said Mike, you got everything you take, you rhyme your ass off. You got personality, dummy, she said it's just a beat, you just pick bad beats and hammer it.

Everyone knows she's a Korean sister, her careers are like the Decatur black, although yes, she from Decatur likes that they fry great fried chicken and drink whiskey. and talk, that's my whole free run, it's not just her, yeah, but her from the day she just said: "you have to improve a little, be style, you know what I say, and L was the best pace, he was my sound, very much like when you want." connected sure how does it make a sound when you were C gotta connect for the sound what made you call oh guys we made them oh call your group run the old school jewels Cool J line put your hands up keep it up run your jewels look and that was just a way of saying you're wrong you know how you jump the martyr trying something sure so I'll run this one like lightning now what the corridor jewels became culturally with something much bigger than us.

I remember myself as an L running. I am happy to be doing good to between three and five hundred people. I really had a place where I fell on my ass and then you get into the mixtape market, you know, thanks to companies like Empire and stuff that you can start. walking away because my wife is taking my Empire girls off all my mixtapes and I remember handing them to her and telling her that in case the worst happens, you'll always have them anywhere. Now we were running around doing these rooms and then we left. to the big ones to see rooms of a hundred people and what we started to see was that a group of children would come to see the murderer Mike, I'm sure he knew me from my prime and a group of people because he used to be the owner of a successful company. called Def Jux which was independent, the term independent comes from that company, so there was a group of people who come to CL now I group people our age, so I'm a little bit younger, kind of old and true, and then there .

It would be this other group of people, these kids, and the key thing I knew was that the kids had jewelry. so I go out killing my fans. Don't know. It will come out with all the band's material. You do. I'm cool and these kids were going to say, Yeah, that was cool. It was ok. I heard if we came back. draw if I sweat, put some on, don't put on another black t-shirt, come on, I just ran the jewelry and the kids would lose my right like ah and we tripped, new, I transformed and that's when I understood that we had.

Magic and I remember coming off that tour and my manager was like, "What are we going to do?" Okay this is just a reminder for everyone to calm down quickly so all your expeditions come up and if you don't know how to spell it look it up it's the information age quickly that car of yours to make tea yeah captain . not cute