Gangsta Music (Young Jeezy) The Play It Loud Podcast S3E9 (Audio) Now Ya Talking Network #jeezy

Dive into a nostalgic exploration of Young Jeezy's 2004 hit "Gangsta Music" on the Play It Loud  Podcast. Host J.Solo and his guest Willie Black candidly discuss the song's lyrics, their teenage experiences listening to it, and how they've navigated criticism, aggression, and maintaining a healthy competitive spirit over the years. This thought-provoking conversation covers topics like self-care, conflict resolution, and balancing personal and professional life - offering valuable insights for personal growth. While the content touches on mature themes, the hosts provide a unique perspective on the era and their own journey. This episode is a must-listen for fans of classic hip-hop and those interested in honest, relatable discussions on life lessons.

Transcript

Um, I'm here now. You old news. Got a couple Porsche trucks, couple old schools. Yeah. What up, y'all? Welcome back to another episode of the Play It Loud Podcast. I'm your host, Jsolo. And on this episode, we got a song from back in my high school days with the 2004 album from Young Jeezy, Thug Motivation 101. Let's get it. And the song we got off of that album is gangsta music. Let's get into it. All right, y'all. So, to help me bring in this episode, I got my boy and my brother, willie Black, and we doing this song because this is his number one song and his playlist, the most played song, most repeated song in his playlist. Man, what up? Ain't nothing, man. Ain't nothing. Come on, hit up there. You see what y'all got going. Let's see what you got going on in this bad boy. Before we get into the lyrics, let's talk about 2004 and where we was at and what we was doing. Uh, listening to this. Had no business listening to no music like this, dog. I'm gonna say we had no business. It came around that era. You all right? I would say like this, but think about it. We need 2004. What? We 16. Thanks. So, yeah, we 16. I mean. I mean, you're right. No business. But then again, that's the era. Else is more crazy. Yeah. Everything. Yeah. We had no choice but to listen to it. I mean, I hate to say. I mean, we don't know, thank God that we wasn't, you know, out here. I need to like it, you know, at least we're just listening to it a little. I'll take that. It's a couple people got caught up in the era, man. Of course. Of course. As I broke down these songs with these lyrics, we had no business listening to this shit, man. All right, so let's get it. Let's get into the first line of opening lines. Where he coming, that thing talking all you hating ass niggas with your sneak dissing, sneak diss nigga. I see you. I see that. You don't get your own. It's gonna get you hurt. Like, that's the opening line before he even start rapping. Well, they're just gonna say, he didn't even start rapping. He getting straight to it, though. So the question they go with is, black, how do you handle criticism or negativity from others? And what self care practice help you stay confident? I mean, it just depends on the criticism. It depends on what, you know, I could take as you know, damn, I did. You know, I deserve that criticism. It just depends, you know, if it's criticism, I don't think that I don't like, or I just think that, you know, I, uh, don't agree with them. Like, nah, fuck that. You know. So I was like, I don't mind taking criticism, but shit, you know, it is what it is. I ain't nothing get criticized, but if it's something that I believe I'm 100% right, and I would truly believe I'm 100% right, I ain't trying to hear that. How do you handle it, though? I don't pay no attention. If it's like, especially if I know if I'm 100% right, I'm like, fuck that. Nah, y'all know, and I'm gonna defend myself. You don't be like, yo, so you trying to tell me, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, come on now, how would you. But hold on. Let me break it down to you. Let me tell you why I said this. You trying to tell me that you wanna do the same thing in my situation, this and that? Yeah, I coulda did a little bit different, but, you know, put myself in your shoes. You trying to tell me you wanna do the same? I wish it all. I'm definitely, if I'm on the side of 100% right, like, I gotta defend myself. I gotta let you know, like, you a thousand percent wrong, dawg. And you gotta give you a reason, you know, so why you think. Let me give you the reason why. I'm gonna give you the reason why. Give they reasons of why they criticize me. They just go off of what they think is not right. But don't give you no answer, of no input why they say you wrong. Yeah, that's now, that's it. My thing is the new shoes are crunching up on them. Like, why did you think that? But you want to tell me you want to do the same thing? If you know damn well if you say, God forbid, if your kid acting up, you try to tell me m you want this manual, kid. If they took something from the store, and you know damn well you can get in trouble, like you trying to. Oh, no, they just, kid. Nah, that shit would reflect until they get older. Nah. And speaking on that, I hate to my boy like this, hey, mad Jay, don't come in that shit, man. Don't tell me not coming through my boy. So my son ain't even gonna put him out there, but he got to see this for the future. So my son walked out the stove. Uh, what? He had tails. Cause he liked sonic and tails. He had a tails little stuffed animal. So he's walking around the store with it the whole time. And it might have been my fault, because when we go to the store with them, I tell them, don't pick up nothing. If you pick it up, we walking around the store with it the whole time. That's whether you pick up a basketball. You pick up anything. The longest we in here, you gonna walk around with it. So he picked that tails up. He remember what I said? I can't put it down until we leave the stove. So I looked down. We at the corner, I looked down, I was like, you still got. Still got it. Damn. You're like, dad, you told me that I couldn't put it down. So it's kind of my fault. And I take the criticism for it. Yeah, I mean, on that one. On that one, too. I can't really blame you either. It's like, I see what you meant. The people didn't even say that neither. That's what I'm saying. Because they give it all sometimes when people, they think, oh, yeah, he brought that toe in. So it's like, at the same time, like, it was. It was a truly a accident. Yeah, it was accident. Um, yeah, like, dad, I really wanted this toy. You said no, so I took it. You know, dad. And he's like, oh, you took something. Yeah, that's different. That's different. That's different. At the end of the day, though, you gotta be confident in what you talking about, man. That's all that comes down to. Be confident in what you talking about. Cause if you criticize for something and you change your mind, now you just being tricked and being a sucker on what you believe in. Uh, be confident in what you talking about. Shoot, man. Announcement, though, black announcement dog, black and solo podcast is coming soon. I don't know when. We don't know when. We just need to dot some t's and some I's. But it's damn showing the worst. Let's get these people a sample of what's to come. Let's get them one of our, uh, alternate universes. Cause that's gonna be a subject that's gonna be on every episode of, uh, alternate universe. Major Payne. When Tyga came in there and woke up, major and say, the monsters are, ah, back in that closet and on to the end of us. You know how crazy that movie was? You know, Major Payne trying to make his point. You know, the kids are trying to get him out of there. Cause they ain't like him. So, God forbid, what if one of the kids, or any kid, was pretty much in the closet when he shot out? The closet? The clip in the goddamn closet, dog. If you a, uh, hater and you know it, you damn non rapping ass, don't say be worried. Fuck you, nigga. Damn. We had no business listening to this, dog. Hey, I ain't gonna lie, but it was that jam, though, boy. It was, dog. I'd rather listen to your instrumental now. See that line right there? Damn, that's tough. Just. Damn. I'd rather listen to your instrumentals, nigga. Non rapping ass nigga. What trick your anger or aggression. And how do you manage those emotions? It just depends on if I think that if it's a situation I need to pretty much deal with or something, that I'm like, you know what? Let me just brush it off, you know? But if it gets a point and I'm triggered, like. So I give you example. How do you deal with you out? You and your family or you and, uh, you and your wife and somebody just come up and clearly disrespect y'all, right, now I disrespect her right in front of you. How do you handle that? Oh, no, no, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna take it up a notch. Which means you wanna disrespect. Do you want to do something like that? Now, I'm at a hundred already, so now I gotta disrespect you. Now I gotta let you know. Cause I can't have you disrespect me in front of my family or my family to me in front of my face and thinking that shit gonna slide. That's negative. You know, at the end of day, that's my family. You know? My family. All them got my last name, married, got my kids. Nah, you're not gonna disrespect me. I'm not gonna have them see that. Let another man disrespect me or disrespect my family. You know? You're not gonna do it. I'm not gonna even let my wife look at me. By the time you look at me, I'm gonna be handling situation. Now, you're not gonna want yourself. Next time you do that. I, uh, knock the shit out. You don't care if I get in trouble? Yeah. Damn that. You know, my wife may be like, yo, chill. No, now look here. You watch it, or I swear I'll punch you. Shit. Right now, the bail money is at your house. And if he come at me a certain way after I say that. Now, if you come out, well, no, nigga, I'm just saying. No. Uh, no, you better do it. Look here, I got shoes on. I got shoes on. So you back up right now before we. Before I lay your ass out. Like, don't just rent, you know, like, you're not finna just do that. Is there any other ways to handle that situation? Cause we did this on the previous episode, and I believe it was the James Brown. So the other way I could talk to him, like, yo, why would you do that? You see, I'm here with my son. Why would you do that? You know? Damn why? I got my wife, I got my kids. You know, why would you say something disrespectful? Do you want me to do something to you? Like, I could easily downgrade the situation, except when it's disrespect. Ain't no way I'm gonna take it, especially with the family, the kids. I can't. I don't know if I can even downgrade it. It's the curveball for you, though, blood. What about the dudes that be doing them damn pranks and shit in the stove? Because me personally, I be looking forward to that shit. So I could just fuck up everything that's going on. You gotta see, that's what the pranks. I wanna break the camera. I'm fucking the dude up, the girl. No, no, no. Because by the time. But see, then again, I like the pranks, because sometimes you see dudes jack their ass up. Yeah. They'd be like, oh, it's a prank. As a prank. It's like, yo, it's still asking out of here. So it's like, yo. Yeah, so that's why you gotta. So then I gotta switch up a little bit. And I hate to say it after that, I'm gonna be like, yo, y'all boys, nobody gotta try this with the wrong person. This is gonna get y'all the whole. No, exactly. No, no. Straight up like it. Shit goes south. It is who it is. I may tell you afterwards. Damn, my bad. But then again, it's like, bro, you can see why I'm like, prank can get your ass hooked out here. Like, you better be careful with the wrong person. Yeah, you can't be sitting here, you know, say you dumping something on my head and running, nigga. No, that's not gonna work. You gotta chill out, m. You gotta chill out for real. I'm taking it too far. I'm taking it too far. Cause when you do that shit, I walk it away. I mean, m too far. God ain't done working with me, though. I'm trying to get better at this type of shit, but I'll be looking forward to somebody with the inner stove pranking me at Walmart. Well, please don't be nowhere. Where? It's in the milk aisle. Chill. Aisle. I'm busting all that shit, and you go to the tail. I always said this shit. You gotta be careful who you play, because people ain't in the mood for that shit. You gotta overhear, man. Just a joke, man. I'm trying to get content. Not today. I seen the prank with the dude. Straight up, put out a gun on the dude. And I was like, oh, man. As soon as I seen. I said, see, that's what you get. You can't. I don't think I'm gonna go that far, though. I don't think I will go that far. Listen, warning to the. To the prank people, please listen. I'm looking forward to y'all. Uh, I, uh, promise you it'll be your last prank. And I'm gonna tell you just like this, good luck. Because you can do it to the wrong person. And you gonna get straight up and somebody go sling your ass around my store, boy, better be careful. Cause then I'm trying to tell you, I don't got time for it. I don't mind joking around when it's time to joke, but, you know, you can tell what? Somebody ain't got time for that shit. And when I see some of my people like that, my friends or family, no, I ain't time to joke. I know we got time for that. So that. Take me to the next line. I'm, um, here now, you old news. Got a couple push trucks, couple of old schools. Yeah. I line your ass up, push your tape backwards. Damn, Mandy, what defines your success? And, ah, how do you stay forward focused? What define my success? I'm still trying to get there to where I really, you know, where I really want to go. But for right now, amen. Look, I got a roof over my head. Family, their cars is paid, you know, kids is good. I can get them anything they want. Still, my success is just coming home, making sure they happy, making sure wife is happy, and, you know, just being. Just being a shit. I had to say the family, man. I'm doing better than others. And I hate to really even say that, you know, I'm doing better for my family pretty much, you know, and I don't even. Yeah, because I like, uh, you I had doing the head you got to do for people you responsible for. You can say that shit, dog. Like, take pride of saying that shit, dog. No, no, because it's. Because there's some people out there, you know, now I'm gonna say that, but there's some people out there that, they take stuff for granted. Like I said, I don't take nothing for granted. Look, I'm blessed to wake up every day, you know, my kid. I'm able to go out there to make your stuff happen for them, make sure they, like, I say make sure. Of course they're happy, but let them know, ain't stuff given to them. You gotta earn it at the end of day, man. Look, I'm out here doing my thing and I'm happy and, you know, of course, like I said, I wish I was doing some other stuff that I'm currently trying to do. Yes. But for right now, I'm happy and I couldn't ask for nothing more. I'm with you, dawg. Uh, you know me, shit, black, we been nigga. 7th grade. I had to develop the whole taking the small victories and shit. Cause I don't be paying attention to that shit a lot though, because I don't look at it as accomplishments. Cause I just take that shit as like that's something I'm supposed to do. Like all the stuff you just named, taking care of the house, the kids and all that, that's being the man of the house. Yeah, that shit, that's just, I feel like comes with it, but I don't, I don't uh, take those little, small victories sometimes though. Cause I be on the next thing you know me, I'll be 100 mph, I'll be having a conversation. I'm thinking about some shit I'm trying to put together down the line. So. Yeah, yeah, man, uh, taking the small victories, dog. Taking the small victories. Appreciating the small things though. Uh, because, but you know, tomorrow ain't promised everybody, dog. Uh, yeah, gotta appreciate this shit while you hit all. Yeah, people gotta realize that, you know, tomorrow ain't promise, you know, you can, man, tomorrow really promise. I want to give no ideas, but tomorrow ain't promise. Well, you gotta try to go out every day, be grateful and try to make, try to do thing, you know. Of course, you know, every day gonna be great, you know. You know, you go, some days you go, you know, everything will be great. But to wake up every day, no one, you know, blessed to wake up again. The kids waking up, wife waking up, man. Um, but get to it, man. You got the hustle. Take care of shit you supposed to be taking care of, man. Let's get it to the next one. I line your ass up, push your tape backwards. Cause I'm a real naked. What values do you stand for? And how can you assert yourself authentically without diminishing others? Basically do your thing without disrespecting other people. You know, hold yourself accountable. You know, what you value, what you like in your friends, family, you know? Of course, if you don't see them going the direction you a tall, tall. But unfortunately, if they not heading, there ain't no sense of. You keep digging at it and digging at it. Friends, family, you know, I treat them all the same. Yes, families a little bit better. But, I mean, you try your best to, you know, rub off on others the best way you try to, you know, yo, you could be doing this, you know, once I say that one or two times and I realize, you know, that ain't something you want to do. I ain't gonna keep pushing it. We talk about that shit all the time, dog, all the time. Um, so let me. Let me answer the first part of it, dog. Values. Uh, it's simple, dog. Do what you say you gonna do. Be a man of your word, woman of your word. At this point, you gotta say people of your word with the them, them, they and all them. Do what you say you gonna do. Look out for other people, though. Don't sit here and see somebody getting taken advantage of and don't say nothing about it. Oh, you know what I'm saying? Have some principles, man. Stand. Have something you believe in. Stand on some real stuff, dog. And back to the, uh, part you said, though, man, far as trying, uh, to put people, trying to introduce people to certain things, you know, trying not to, uh, make them feel some type of way or feel like you preaching to them and all that. Uh, we do that shit all the time, dog. Uh, we do it all the time. And it gets to the point where that shit get tired. You get tired, dog. Cause it's like, we believe in you can do much better than what you doing right now, but you don't want to. And that shit, to me personally, if I fuck with you, dog, and I'm putting you on something, and you don't even peak interest or, uh, anything, it's like, dog, why do I even fuck with you? For real? Yeah. And that's it. Uh, it might sound harsh, but it's like, it is what it is, though. I'm giving you a blueprint of exactly what I did, and you don't even want to look at it. Cause you don't do stuff like that. Yeah, I don't understand that shit, too. I mean, and people don't realize, like, when you say that shit, like, man, should I even fuck with this person? Oh, no, man. He just don't want to go. But it's like, damn, you know, he could be. And he right there. So I get a little push to you to do your own, you know, to do what you could do. But like I said, some people don't want to be comfortable where they at. And that's what I tell people if you comfortable with you at cool, you know? But I'm probably saying, damn, I could be doing this, too. And it's like, hang on, bro. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to hear about it. We just talked about this. Like, what you mean? Like, I already. We had the long conversation about this, bro. You said you didn't. It was good. Now all of a sudden. Nah. All right, bro. Hey, you better sure go down, then. I mean, I already told you. I, um, mean, you got kids and wife does. I'm responsible for people. I done ran out of patience with that shit at this point. I'd have ran out of patience with it, man. But this is what it is, though, and that ain't this, and this ain't that. And, bitch, I'm scrapped. Yeah, run with real niggas that cut your throat. And they don't drink Pepsi. They just sell coke. We ain't had no business like this in 2014 all. And then you walk around thinking you part of that shit sometime. Uh, this shit is hard. Like we say, that ain't this, that ain't this, and this ain't that. And it's just you be wanting better for people, dog, but it'd just be a different situation. How do you navigate conflicts or, uh, disagreements with others and what resolution strategies work best? Try not to take it personal. I know. Sometimes I can, you know, and I don't wanna do that. Cause sometimes, you know, you stick it to your guns, you know, you like, hold on. I don't believe that shit. You know? Like. Yeah, but that shit, that makes you you, though. Yeah. You try not to argue with them. Um, you know, it's like you don't wanna argue, you know, just because they got their own opinion, you know? Or, like I said, the disagreement. But then again, it's just conflicting with what I'm saying or what I believe. And it's like, I'm sorry, I gotta stick to this shit. So the problem I got with that shit, dog, and I gotta shot, I gotta plug another episode. I said the same thing on, uh, the Nina Simone episode. You know? What the fuck you talking about? You didn't research, you didn't live your experience? You didn't got information from older people, your parents that then gave you all this real life experience for somebody to come out and just completely disagree with everything you said, like we said in the first question, without a why or, uh, any valid information to go against what you said. Man, fuck them. People talk. Yeah. You're not coming at you. Not if you're not saying. They're not making a lie. Yeah. You're not giving a point. You just, no, I don't think that's right. But, man, why you said. I mean, why you don't think it's right? Well, you don't really have to do that. And it's like, yeah, nigga, dawg, this is what. Yeah, you really got to do that. Like, you don't want, you know, you don't see it, but you not. You're not seeing from what I see it at you. You're not even giving me a valid fucking conflict. You just saying, nah, uh. You know, and it's like, why not? Yeah, yeah. Just, you can. Nah uh. Fuck that, man. My strategy is dealing with that shit. I just changed the subject. I switched that shit into something that I know they passionate about to change the whole conversation because I don't even want to waste my time and going down the line and disrespecting them, um, on what they believe in. So I just changed the whole conversation, though. That's what I did. And that's the best thing to do. Cause then you'd be sitting here, you could be arguing, you know, and it's like you go get into a real disagreement with them. Like, hold on. So you trying to tell me that, you know, I was trying to do this, or even if you knew about it, you know, it could have helped me or I'm trying to do this, and why the hell, you know, why you not agreeing? What I'm trying to do? I'm trying to better myself and, you know, better example. It's election time. You know, nobody, you know, nobody agrees with. Who do you let who to vote for, who not to vote for? People got strong opinions about what the situation is. I changed the subject, dog. Yeah. And at the same time, I'm starting to see why people say, you know the two worst of evils. Pick your point. You just don't know it just hoop like, damn. You just sit there like, God damn. I don't want to vote for neither one of these damn people. You try to give your best, your best option, but people will cuss you out and disrespect you if you not picking who they pick. I changed the subject, dog. Uh, listen, all I do is talk, blow. It's like my brain on drugs. You see me out, nigga, I do my thing in clubs, dog. You like that transition? Yes, sir. Stupid dog question that go with this black. How do you balance your social life and personal well being, and what practices help you stay grounded in high energy environments, though? Uh, this is so important right here. You gotta balance that shit, man. Like, I tell people when I do m work, man, that shit, uh, is done. I leave work, get on the phone, talk to my fellas, come home, you know, first thing, I'm with the kids. How you doing? How was your day? Like, you know, she makes me out of work. I tell her, but when I'm out, man, when I'm done, you gotta learn how to balance it. At the end of the day, you gotta learn how you can't, you know, bring your work, say your work struggles home, and take it out on your family. Or same thing, vice versa. Take the family, you know, all the stuff you see, struggling, whatever, and take it to work. That shit ain't fair. You gotta learn how to balance it, learn how to keep it, you know? Understand you may be struggling and you're going through stuff. You need somebody to talk to, but you can't let it affect you like that. Cause people be like, damn, I don't know what the hell wrong with him. Like, damn, I just said, what's up? The man even that me up today. Like, I think I'm classified as an introvert. I just like fucking with who I, uh, like, you know what I'm saying? The people that I'm comfortable with, I have a great time with the people I'm comfortable with. Uh, I don't. And this is why I don't like going to clubs. I don't like going to spots like that, dog. Cause that shit just gives me the wrong energy, dog. You don't know. I can't be completely comfortable in the club. Yeah. And then you got the same people that does that. Just looking at you a certain way, you know, it's like, damn, I'm in here. We all here trying to chill, whatever, Levin. Yeah. Uh, I don't know. You gotta be careful how you put yourself in situations too, man. You know? You can't sit here and say, I'm going out to, you know, I'm going out. I need to go out. Like, you don't need already go out. You go somewhere to go to. I ain't going out. You can go somewhere. Yeah, you don't have to go to no damn club now. You can go out somewhere. I don't have to be no club. But that's the way people just see it. I just have to go out. I don't know. You don't? I rather rent a building. How we used to do. We used to do the music back in the day. Shout out to aob. Got on the beach back there. I'd rather rent a whole building. And everybody we rock with just come there and we have a good time. I'd rather do that than going, uh, to the new club, the new brunch that you don't know nobody and you don't know nobody. Yeah, I would rather just. Hey, I would just, like you said, 100% ready to get a small building. Hey, it'd be 30 of us, 40, whatever. Hey. Ah, we all know each other. Catching up. Single food. We have food, playing, dancing, chilling. Catching up. Ain't nothing better than that. You know, you go into the club sometimes, people you all know, you know, then you start to jealousy. Damn. You know, just. I'm good. Uh, I don't blame you on that. Even to the point to where, especially when this type of music was out. If a nigga turn around and start saying these lyrics to your face, straight up, it's over. It's over. Thanks. Come on. To you think about the jamfing now. Saying, I'm here now, you old news. Like, man, it's a route. Uh, all right, let's get it to the next one. Mandev. Uh, this the hook right here, though. All the gangsters, they gonna ride to this, they gonna grind to this, they gonna shine to this every. This is gangsta music. Yeah, that was my favorite part right there, boy. He said, uh, he go to hustler music. That's my favorite part. So we rarely do this because we really like to focus on, like, personal growth questions and all that with the podcast. But this recently just came out. Uh, it was circulating on social, uh, media. Young jeezy. Gangsta music or 50 cent. What up, gangsta? What you taking? I just. I just think I don't like the comparison. Cause 50 cent, what up gangsta is an intro track. Jeezy. Intro track is pretty much spelled motivation 101. That's the intro. So they're to compare those two, I'd have been like, okay, damn, that's a nice. It sound, uh, it sound like it could have been an intro had that big. Come on, dog. Yeah. No, no, no. Um, as much as I love, um, um, on, uh, gangster music, that, what I'm gangster, man, that should come on that, that. You could play that shit everywhere. Just boom, boom, boom, boom. What do you nick, what it just, if you've never experienced what up, gates, the live. Yeah, you go, I would just say that. And she hit, boy, I'm talking about that shit that changed the whole mood of everybody. Cuz I went to the, uh, amphitheater and he did like all the classics late. He did all the, all this hit songs, but he did like a run of all the classes late and people was getting tired. But when that what up, gangster came on, man. You see this is wiping they eyes, somebody. Oh, um, yeah, man, I gotta go. Yeah. And trust me, I was leaning towards gangster music. And I'm like, that's my shit. That's. I, like I say, I frequently play gangster music at least once a day. It's like, hey, if I'm on the way home, on the way to work and I'm trying to come in blast and music, you know, I'm that, that gangster music. Tough strap. But that whatever, gangster, man, I would have gay. Like I said, every time I see 57, if I see him performing like, online, especially when he first came out, I was like, damn. The crowd just went. People go crazy. People lose their mind. Well, let's get back into this jeezy, man. Yeah, we'll talk on the phone because it might stick. Gotta play for Steven Mike. Uh, dirty birds. We playing with the falcons. Know some niggas. Falcons. Why was we listening to this in 2000? We grew up in the environment. We knew some dudes was moving bricks and birds and all that. But in high school, what we, it's, uh, uh, sophomore year. Yeah, that's all for you, man. But it just, like I said, you just, you know, everybody know what Jesus was when he came out, that shit was fine. People was wearing the snowman t shirts and the school teacher told you they banned it. They banned it. They had to slip it inside out or whatever. They did not play that shit, boy. You can't have a snowman t shirt. They will tell you turn you can wear outside of school, but like, onto the football games. But you cannot wear that shit to school at the football games, if you wore to the games. Remember, they were trying to enforce dress code at the football games and the basketball games. Yeah. Uh, you still on school grounds? I'm like, hold on. You can't tell somebody else. So you can't put on that t shirt because, like, hold on. That's the case. I'm coming in here free. Cause I go, fuck y'all talking about. For real? All right, question that. Go with that one. How do you prioritize discretion and security in your personal and professional relationships? And what boundaries do you set to protect yourself? That's a helpful question. Don't tell nobody shit that they ain't asked. I mean, yeah, I mean, do you, axe? I don't know. I don't know nothing. Even if you ask miss, uh. Go ahead, go ahead. Especially with somebody like you don't mess with actual question like that. Like, oh, yeah, I don't know, man. You know, then you got to think about that. I'm lying. I can't give a shit about. I haven't been in that underworld, um, like that. But I live my life, dog. Like, I'm like, I got bricks in this bitch. No. I don't tell nobody nothing, especially if you didn't ask. I don't know who got it. I don't know what you talking about. I don't know anything, dog. I live my life like, I'd have been in these streets. Cause it ain't my business. It ain't my business, first of all. And that's the best thing people need to do, is mind theirs, you know? You see, nah, I ain't seen nothing. For real, then. That's crazy. Uh, all right, man. You know, like you said, change the subject on them. Yeah, man. How you doing, though? You go, oh, yeah, but, man, you know. Yeah, man, you take. How your mama. You know, they'll let your boy. Yeah, just. I don't even give out phone numbers. I don't even give out people phone numbers, dawg. Man, I know you and Tony been rocking. What's Tony number? I'ma call him. I ain't even got Tony number. You ain't got Tony and I ain't. This is my other phone. Yeah, yeah. I never was like that. I was never like that, man. You got his number? Nah, I don't got. Nah, call that person a. Such as looking for your number. Is it cool if I give it to them or not? If you say no, they not getting it straight up. Because then you do that and call because you know the first person go do when they contact him, man, I seen it told, man. Um, um, he gave me a number, man. Like, how is everything, man? Like nigga Tony gave you. Okay, I'm cool, man. Hold on. Right, man, call me. Why do you get that thing in my. No, man down, man, but not on me. I dash you. We got somebody that we know personally. Names rouse with ill that got everybody phone number somehow. He better have my damn phone number. I tell you that. Everybody phone call. He better not have my phone number. He better not have my damn phone number. Damn that. He better have my. Well, yeah, at the end of the day, you gotta, you got, you can't be out here just soliciting people. Uh, information, dog. Like, I don't be with that. Another thing too, though. Don't just show it to my house. Yeah, I don't care who you are. My parents even called me and be like, hey, we gonna come to the house. I don't play, yo. I don't never. I don't care if me like me and you brothers. I'd be damned if I just pull up. Yeah, man. It don't matter, man. Look, nah, yo, um, I'm down to see y'all good. I was gonna pop off. Y'all need me to. No, I will never. Hell no. I never thought that. Never, man. Because my pops always told me, taught me that. Like, look, you better call them before you go right there. You don't just pop on the nobody damn house. All right, then. Didn't know that until, like I said, got broke down. You don't show up. You show up. You don't know what that person got going on, though, if he won't. Don't want to be left alone with. He chilling with his girls by himself. They don't want to be bothered. What if the nigga cheating? You don't pull that round, that bitch his napal. You and that man put yourself in a whole different. Sit. Now you look at them, uh, now it's like, yo, what? Now you seen it. And somebody, you was there. So now you, man, no, don't even down. You see some shit go down, you know, slap. Slap somebody. You know, man. Ah, look, like I said, 100% agree on that. Protect yourself. Don't give out people information. Don't show the people houses, dog. Show me some respect, dog. No, and that's. I would say that just. I'm out of respect. Like someone, uh, young. Niggas hungry, they eat your whole plate. Jeezy place the order. Niggas, eat your whole face. How do you maintain a healthy, competitive spirit while avoiding destructive or toxic behavior towards others? We done known each other since got down 7th grade. When it's basketball, we fucking throws. We ain't gonna play dirty, but we finna play like we know each other. And I think that's what's missing in the NBA and competitive, um, sports. Totally. Yo. And that's why I think they be too much concerned about, damn, you know, maybe I shouldn't do this person like that, man, look here. When me and you plug into each other, me, you bring it basket. I'm ducking on you. I don't know. We go right in the car and be quiet until we get home. Um. Or you. Or you cross me up and hit the game with her. It's like I'm gonna be celebrating after that. Let's go next gorge. You know, but it might know it. I don't never take it personal. Like, I know the name of the game. Like, bro, we play. If I don't have that competitive, when I lose to take it or when I went to love it, we don't have that arm. Um, excuse me. We don't have that now on anything. Even in the car game, you playing cards, you up there winning. You put somebody else. They getting all that when the fuck you down? Hold on down, bro. I can't beat you again, man. Like, bro, that's the impediment. That's the. I won. I'm allowed to celebrate. Yeah, I didn't lose. You won the first two games. I ain't saying nothing. I won the last three. Why you could, like, what the hell? Like, so I got. I got a winner store. I got a funny story. I heard this phone. I heard this from one of our mutual ogs. He said he was working at a factory doing, like, some temp work to make some extra money on the side, right? So he talking to the dude that's working on the line with him, and the dude was like, yeah, man, I'm very competitive. You know what I'm saying? So I really don't be, you know, playing games with people like that. I'm real. I'm real competitive. So he told the dude, so you super competitive. But you working here at this temp agency with me. I don't understand the competitive nature, doll. You should be better off in life. Have you this f. Yeah, that what, you can't work in society and you get this competitive? How you at a temp agency working that shit? Supposed to translate through all forms of life, if you super competitive. I was trying. You ain't that goddamn competitive, nigga. You got the tip. Agency. I don't know. How competitive are you? They looking for anybody at this job. Like, what do you bring up? That's why they call it a temp agency. What the. You know, I'm pretty competitive. I avoid competing with certain people because I know after, uh, I master this game, I'm running this shit into the ground. So I avoid. I avoid certain games and competitive shit with certain people, dog. Cause I already know they're gonna start looking at me different and looking at me crazy, dog. Uh, so I just avoid. That's why I don't play spades. I, uh, avoid card games because all the, you know, my uncle Dreet and watching them play back in the day, all that talking crazy and all that, I can't handle that shit, especially if it's just a car. So I avoid the conversation. Yeah, that car shit used to get real. I used to watch my man, I used to watch my pops uncle. All of them played out car shit. And man, I love the spinning cards. Yo, hold on, yo. I'm trying to tell you, yo, man, that. That spades and some people, like you said, playing that car, that shit just get ridiculous, man. Like, that beat your ass, man. Like, beat your day on spades. I'll beat you like, hold on, bro. Spades, you got it. In this basketball court. I don't get forgotten. I'm gonna beat your ass in the basketball game. You better stop. All right, let it go. I'll pull these shoes. I'm trying to tell you right now, but I'm gonna be asking this court, you know, I just say avoid it, though. Cause, yeah, the shit go get, it's gonna turn toxic. It's gonna turn into something else, but also depends on who you play with. Like, like I said, if it's me you like, but, see, if it's me you like some people to cook, I don't mind it. Just like I said, we talk this shit, you know, sometimes you right. No, y'all gonna lie to you? I ain't even gonna throw no, no sample. But it's different energy. Like, people be throwing this alpha male shit around. No, it's just regular male energy. Like, nigga, uh, if it's me, you and whoever. I'm not finna go crazy with what I'm saying. I'm just talking shit about the car game itself. I throw personal shots and all that shit, cuz that ain't gotta do with the game and you. And that's the thing is, people don't realize too, they bound to throw them personal shots. Like, hold on, bro. He's begging my ass in the game. We'll just talk about that. Why the hell you gotta bring up your paycheck? Join shit going rough, you know? That's why you don't. That's. Thank you. That's why you should have beat your kid. Every day it's like, oh, um, what the fuck? Like, why you brought that one. Tommy tried you and it's like, home. That's why you get a ride here. I still gotta take you home, right? You keep talking shit, you can walk your ass home. They go, okay, now let's change the subject and just play the game and focus on the game. Like, yeah, watch your mouth. Like, I don't know. You got me, mister. All up, jump out, hit the switch, light your ass up. Goes into this. Following the same thing. How do you handle miscommunication or misunderstanding? And what strategies do you use to avoid escalating situations? Miscommunication is probably my biggest thing that I like doing, you know, and I try to make sure me and, uh, YC is pretty much on that when it comes to communication. Um, miscommunication. I hate it with a passion. Um, I don't like it at all. I like being on point, because then if you're not on point, you know, then it's like, hold on. I thought we were doing this. No, hold on. Check your messages. I totally was doing this. You said, yeah. Oh, I thought you meant like, nah, I like to be jail at our pace. I like the agree on it before. You know, I don't like to come home and then it's a whole different ballgame that we agreed upon and stuff like that. So I don't like. I love the communication part. I hate miscommunication because the shit will get me mad. I'm not gonna lie. And it's like, it's like I don't. I don't want to be arguing about something petty. See, y'all don't. People that's tuned in. This motherfucker was my point guard. This thing, it's the same shit on the court, off the court. This motherfucker will organize shit that's already organized. This motherfucker gets my nerves, dog. Yeah, dog. You be on that motherfucking structure shit sometime because certain situations that I don't even be giving a fuck, he'd be like, nah, dawg, we can't do it like that we said we was gonna do it. Uh, I don't even give a fuck at this point. I'm gonna just say, like this. It'd be hard. It'd be hard as hell. I ain't gonna lie to you. Be like, man, I should just say. I should just say, fuck it, too. But I'm like, oh, uh, damn. You know, just, no, I ain't gonna lie. I show up to half the shit. I check and see if you going first. Have you gone? I'll be there then. I I ain't gonna lie. I don't, I don't even wanna go to shit. Um, um, the miscommunication, misunderstanding. Shit is definitely, uh, important. Definitely in the relationship, man. I'll be going through the same shit with the wifey, man, um, sometime. Shit. Shit happens, though. Sometimes we just get unsync. Shit, just. And you can't be like, as much as I like to be in communication sometimes, it just happened. Now, if it just happened, I'm like, you know what? Damn, I, uh, you gotta own up to that shit. You know, just, oh, me or her, like, me. I'm like, damn, if I messed up. Like, you know what, Dan? I fucked up. You did say, get this on the way home, or you did like, damn, now I gotta run out. Hold on. Let me go get me. Go figure out my bad. Or you just fucked up in general. You just, you know. You know what? I fucked up. I completely forgot. I ain't even paying no attention. I mean, can we be honest, uh, here for a second, and they probably go see this shit? Women crazy, dog. Sometimes they expect us to be psych. We ain't no goddamn psychics. We don't know better. Tell me you didn't know. Else I would have grabbed it. You want to keep going? You will move m forward. No, man. All right. We can move on. We can move they ass crazy, though. Carbon fiber with the honey round drum. Got plenty for any nigga that think he wants some. We don't leave them at the house. We bring them out. My chain for your life. We can swap it out. This shit. I'm. I'm so glad that this didn't really, uh, um, take over our lives. I'm so glad this didn't take over our lives. And I'm pretty sure some people that got affected by this dog and really took this trap life. Shout out to ti with the trap museum and took this trap life to a whole nother level, though. I shout out our parents. I do it for both of us. Shout out our parents we knew goddamn well we weren't finna do no stupid ass shit like this, dog. Straight up. Hey, line bunk. That shit. This crazy, man. How do you handle your feelings of aggression and hostility? And what coping mechanism help you deescalate potential volatile situations? Um. Damn, I struggle with this to this day, though. Uh, I was just gonna say, I mean, I'll be going straight to violence. I would just understand. My thing is, it just depend on the situation. I mean, you know, cause different situations, different results pretty much. And you could cope a little bit different, you know, but, you know, coping when you mad, sometimes there's no coping when, you know, when it's. Wait. Yeah, we simple down. Ain't no coping when you mad. If you get to a point. I know, okay. You don't fucked up. Bet you with somebody else that I know that took it, that's already known to take it to a different level. Huh? I don't even get involved. I'm just like, you know, shit, I'm not helping. I'm not even gonna try to break up or manage a situation. I'm. Mmm. I'm not. I'm not even gonna put myself in that. Like, you made them like that. You're. Y'all. It's tough, though. It's tough, man. Um, and that's. That's like, part of why I created this podcast and turned it into this type of lane dog, because that shit hard, man, especially, you know what I'm saying? I'm speaking for both of us. Uh, we don't fuck with people like that. We have a good time. We don't fuck with people to the extent of where the shit is harmful to them. It's hard because I scrape, mentally, I scrape. Go to the. To the dog side. I'm ready to fuck somebody up immediately on site. But what I do now, I just play the shit over my head. I play it over my head. If I fuck him up, what is the consequences? Who's gonna be affected by it? Because I'm definitely fucking him up. For real. Yeah. So I. I just play this shit out of my head. Uh, it'd be tough, though. It's tough sometimes. And sometimes it's hard to walk away. It's hard to be like, you know what? Yeah, let me just leave this shit. Because I know if I stay, he says something else to me, or if they say, my most likely to you, I'm going, this is what happened. So, you know, let me just leave. And, uh, you know, who, you know, who else knows? We don't play like that. Cause the whole was love by voice. Make this noise certified g in on the gates. This choice. Yeah. Oh, stupid. Uh, man, how can you channel your confidence and charisma to build a positive connection and respectful relationship? I'm going to speak for both of us. We know who we are. We know what we stand for. When we say some shit. We know what we talking about. We stand on it, we believe in it. And I don't know if it creates positive or respectful relationships, but women are attracted to that shit, dog. Uh, what you said is they like you to be firm, honest and straight up. If you're that three right there, firm, honest, straight up. They're like, damn, motherfucker. Like, he just straight up, like, told me, like, yo, this is what I do. Bam, bam. This what we gonna do. We riding out. They're like, well, damn, you know, we ain't even gonna give you no option. Like, yeah, this the way it is. No. And then they end up in the bathroom checking their underwear. This nigga hit it. Made me stupid. Stupid. But, no, you're 100% right now, you gotta stand firm on what you say or what you believe, you know? You gotta stand firm. Oh, we gonna do this. This is what I say. This is what I like to do, you know, and go from there with that shit. I mean, ain't nothing better than that than being firm and honest with them up front. And just straight. Straight to the point. Yeah, and try to. Try to keep a respectable, uh, dog. Cause, you know, we married men out here in these streets, dog. So, you know, I like when I kind of get over a cold. That should be having my voice raspy as hell, though. And I don't know about you, though, but I get a lot of play when I be talking with my voice. Be raspy in the house, dog. Yeah, yeah. I can't confirm that shit. I get a lot of play, dog. You want some honey? Nah, uh. Fuck that. With my voice just like this. I get a lot of play in my house. With my voice like this, though, around this bitch sounding like the bass singers from back in the day, in my mind. I get a lot of play in my house, dog. Uh, they love my boys. Uh, it's a game in the rap game, taking niggas clientele, white ones. Like the powder that I used to sell. Yes. Uh, how can you make your money, make your living without exploiting people or harming other people? Basically what they saying is, how do you sell drugs? How do you sell white without exploiting people? Bye bye. Damn. We productive citizens, man. We ain't out here in these streets like this, though. Uh, straight up. But anyway, that's it. Uh, appreciate y'all tuning in, man. This is another episode of the Play Aloud podcast. Black. Appreciate you for coming on this, boy. Yes, sir. Black is solo. Podcast is coming soon. Make sure y'all look out for that out of here.