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sacrifice hustle P the price want a. slice got the roll of dice that's why. all my life been grinding all my life. all my life been grinding all my life. sacrifice the price want a slice like. the roll of dice that's why all my life. been grinding all my. [Music]. life hello welcome to a special edition. of Club Shay on the road I am your host. Shannon Sharp I'm also the proprietor of.
Club Shay and the guy that's stopping by. for a great conversation he really. doesn't need any introduction but I'm. going to give him some of his flowers. right now he's a multi-talented music. producer a well-renowned DJ Grammy. award-winning Mega producer. multiplatinum recording artist a music. industry Visionary a global figure pop. sensation Bonafide hit maker New York. Times bestselling author he has a star. on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a. motivational speaker a guru a positivity. a philanthropist now he's a god ER actor.
entrepreneur record label executive. radio personality Innovative influencer. The Anthem King the Quincy Jones of Hip. Hop and RB none other than DJ Calli call. man that's an intro that the intro you. like that you like that call man I'm. like sitting here I'm like man this feel. good man first of all I love you brother. I'm a big fan of you thank you um you. know you a legend but I just love. everything you do man it's the energy. you put out there and when I got invited. on the show today I was so excited you I. had to get a haircut when you pulled up.
you know I was getting getting right so. I appreciate the love and thank you for. coming to Miami man thank you for having. me man when I reached out man when I DM. dm' you and asked you would you be. willing you like bro are you serious. right and and and and I told people I. was sitting on to do this interview with. you it's like what's he like I said what. you see on social media positively I'm. talking about bless up brother hey. congrats I appreciate everything that. you've done so thank you for allowing me. and my team to come down and do this. interview anytime anytime and I'm really.
excited about this I told um my queen I. was doing this and everybody's just a. big fan of you man you for the people. man we love you well thank you for I. don't know if you drink or anything but. I appreciate you this is my this is my. drink okay to you and all your success. and many more years of success. appreciate you bless up. brother Let's Get It Started Let's Get. It Started little cappuccino what's the. name of this drink this is lorier by sh. this is my own knac it tastes great with. cappuccino too I'm telling you.
so you GNA be up all day that might be. might be the thing that's what I'm. trying to tell you you hear that. cappuccino right that's right let's. start with the golf tournament first yes. what made you decide started your. foundation what does this Foundation. represent it represents the Young World. the kids uh the community um but also. bringing awareness with the golf. bringing awareness to golf more. diversity but uh the foundation the. heart of it is to help the kids um give. them scholarships.
uh get involved in everything in the. community I have a team that we work. seven days a week nonstop every day we. have to do something right to uplift the. kids and give back to the kids you got. to understand I come from you know being. on the radio Community radio 99 jams in. Miami so I've been part of the Miami. Community from day one I started with. Luke on the radio station 99 jams and. just all the beautiful things that we do. in Miami and Miami one thing we do we. Community Driven we Hometown we support. each other so when you know more.
blessings came in my life I made it a. priority and my wife as well made it a. priority to give back to the kids and. it's not just the education we're doing. stem programs we're also touching the. people we're going in the community and. we're also collaborating with other. Charities to uplift the community right. and this right here to collaborate with. Michael Jordan wow yeah that's big you. know how much Community work he does and. to do this Golf Classic what I love. about the Golf Classic is it brought us. all together yes Unity to do things for.
the young world every single day that's. the priority the kids what made you. decide to take up golf okay so I used to. play golf well I didn't play I used to. um mess around my friend used to live on. a golf course okay um and we used to go. to his house before went to school and. we just messed around and had a natural. swing that was in Middle School right um. but then um about pandemic time my. people and my friends and my neighbors. like y go golfing and and I went the. other day two years ago and I I swung. the drive and I had that natural swing.
in me and you know we the best yes so. everything we do we the best at it you. know that's what God bless us with you. know what I'm saying so of course I I I. caught the bug and not even just that um. it helps me mentally spiritually um. brings me more joy uh it cleanses my. vision mean has a no distort there's a. lot going on in the world cor so when. you're on the golf course you just feel. at peace and that Zen but at the same. time it's one of the hardest sports in. the world so you're out there fighting. yourself like Michael Jordan I heard him.
on an interview saying it's like. fighting yourself on the golf course get. better right so every day I'm getting. better and better what I love most about. is it's like life it's not easy but it's. beautiful did you approach the game of. golf like you did everything in your. life say I'm going all in I'm going to. get the most knowledge that I possibly. can surround myself with people that can. teach me this game help me understand. this game so I can be good at this game. like I am at all things in my life so. you know one thing about coward is if I. love something I don't know how to do it.
halfway okay so I want to go. pro you know what I'm saying like no I. want I want to go pro I want to go pro. and um that's just basically saying the. heights of the uh dedication the. ambition and the passion that I put into. golf just same way I put it into my. music career I love golf that much where. I play seven days a week some people. yoga some people exercise some people. run some people jog I play golf yeah. that's saying that's thing right and the.
thing is that God put me on that golf. course because you know I'm starting to. I'm I'm happy I look beautiful God bless. me but now I'm starting to carve my. greatness you Shing That Thing Up. shaping it up so uh two months ago I was. 287 okay today I'm 268 wow and that's. just from you know walking the core. swinging swinging but that's like every. day and and and golf helps me skip a few. meals because I'm So Into the game so I. might skip breakfast once in a.
so I'm feeling healthy but at the same. time you know that. addiction what's that word. uhor endorphins like it's I get all that. yes but then I come home and and then. when you eat that cheeseburger it tastes. different cuz you on the golf course all. day you know especially when that toast. is like it's a little crispy and then. that fresh lettuce and you bite it it. just tastes di right um and then when I. go in the. studio I just after I get out the shower. I go in the studio I put put some Jordan. shorts on and a white tea and some.
flipflops and I just go in there and I. just feel so refreshed and relaxed and. so focused and then being around my. family my kids love it and my wife is. happy and you know it's just a blessing. man like golf really. um bless me you know what I'm saying. where are you more at peace now on the. golf course or the. studio man that's like that's like like. you know what I'm saying you trying to. like you got to choose one of the kids. it's like which kid do you like yeah. yeah um I mean to be honest with you I.
would say both and that's just the. honest truth um the golf. course I'll tell you a story like one. day I got done playing golf and I was in. my living room and I'm chilling and I. got a call and like like obviously that. person wasn't on the same energy right. I'm I'm in a great place I'm I'm vibing. like you like and the blue skies I'm. like man like and it wasn't nothing. crazy about like let me do do me a favor. I'm going to call you right back I. actually ran to the golf course just to.
sit in the the thing because that's. where I feel like yo I'm telling all my. people around me if you not coming with. this protect your blessing and this this. vibe to go to the next level um that's. where I'm at my life and my life right. now it's going to the next level and. that and by doing that you have to. protect your blessings right right and. I'm protecting my happiness because I. have to be happy because I have. beautiful boys and I got a beautiful. queen and my job is to make sure they're. happy right so I got to feel good to.
make them happy so if somebody comes. around Cali with negativity oh no I tell. them out the gate and it ain't even. being rude I especially it's somebody I. love and sometimes they don't even. realize it I pull them inside y bro I'm. in a different place okay w i gol every. morning right call me if you want to. golf right you know call me if you want. to um take things to the next level call. me with some great I don't I I'm I'm. trying to explain to everybody I'm in. peace you know there's a point in your. life that and and and I I you might get.
what I'm saying but in my life I'm at a. place where I'm at. peace you know I represent love but at. the same time I'm just like really at. peace you know and I want to protect. that and I want and I it's because you. know with joy people think that um you. know for me joy is showing gratitude to. God okay and when you show gratitude to. God you know and you be grateful it it.
it turns into Joy with your activities. and the things that you put your mind to. and do you know the way you talk the way. you speak the way you move the way you. eat everything got to change if you want. to level up and I'm protecting these. blessings as far as energy you know this. world is a lot going on it's just a lot. going on and um I got to protect my my. energy because you know I guess golf. also helps for me mental health not. saying that I have have some mental.
health problems or nothing no but I I. could tell you right now my I'm more but. it keeps you in a great place right and. that's a and and that's a that's a a. beautiful feeling when you have that. feeling you want to continue that. feeling right you're the king of anthems. another one bless up keep going we the. best God did God did of all the anthems. that you started and created and you. hear everybody saying them what's your. favorite. Anthem ah man. um my favorite one. I can't give you that favorite one.
because it's so many yeah um but you. know you have records like all I do is. win man they play they still play that's. never going away that's a Winner's. national anthem we can't I have to say. that you know then you got records like. wild thoughts and then you got records. like me and Drake Ross and Lil Wayne I'm. On One yes you know then you got records. where like every chance I get you know. with me little baby and little dirt it's. so many you know I don't know if you. know I have 13 albums in the can like I. put out 13 albums right I'm working on.
my 14th album and I'm proud of myself. and and and the reason why I'm saying. that CU I want the Young World to hear. this because in the game that I'm in yes. some people can't make it past their. first song right or their first album or. make it past their sophomore album I'm. working on my 14th album and and. everybody wants to work with you Ked I. mean and I want to work with them you. know what I'm saying and you know the. blessing is that people know when you. walk in a room with me you know I'm I'm. a hard worker the energy got to be right.
in the studio that's the only way I. would work and I work with like how can. I say like my records I tell artists all. the time when you make a CA record not. only do I want it to be an Anthem you. know if you listen to the radio you go. to the club or you listen to some music. on your phone and you and you'll hear. music and you're like this I want my. record to be like this right it stands. out um and if you listen to my anthems. it has that card it's it's a card thing. and you can get it from C right you know.
what I'm saying I'm speaking in third. party but I have to do that because I'm. representing myself right now but at the. same time it's like it's a blessing to. be able to work with all my favorite. artists and all the new artists too um. coming up in the game and meeting them. and showing each other respect it's just. a blessing because I love making music. and when you love what you do you go all. out well I can't say this about you is. that your records will stand as test of. time because like you said all I do is. win God did the one you did the with.
Kanye when you go into the studio are. you thinking this got to St this has. this is khed on it yes it's got to be. khed approved yeah yeah I mean when I go. into the studio what I do is I start we. we make the music first okay uh the. production if it's me or me and my team. or if it's me in collaborating with. other great producers um I just focus on. the sonics the sound of the way I want. my album to sound or the records to. sound musically and then I start getting. into some concept and ideas before I.
call an artist to do any vocals cuz I. like what the way I do work and you can. ask artists when they walk in the studio. and I play a. record that's it that's the one okay. like it ain't nothing to talk about. right okay that's how I I make sure that. right like I'm not here to experiment. I'm not here to like maybe no if I call. you that's the one yeah and I'm blessed. with the artist to feel that energy that. I'm presenting to them but at the same. time know that's the one right you know. what I'm saying so it's a blessing man.
because if you think about it like God. did we turn the Grammys into the Holy. Grail closed out the gramys my brother. Jay-Z did like a eight minute verse on. there with little Wayne Rick Ross uh. Friday and John Legend when I made that. record Not only was it sent from God you. know what I'm saying to get H to do that. was such a blessing for him to do the. song and to perform it he doesn't even. do that for himself no I mean you know. this this I'm not making this up like.
guys like I pinch myself when I pray and. I think I I'll text Jay-Z out of out of. nowhere and just say thank you a hundred. times a month just because I know this. is like I like when we was at Backstage. before we got on stage and we in the. suits and I'm like oh you looking around. I'm looking around like yo you know what. I'm saying you see what's going on so. those. blessings I know my fans appreciate it. and that's what keeps me going right my. fans expect me to perform at the highest.
level and expect me to deliver once I. delivered so many times so consistently. throughout the years my fans like right. now summertime haven't dropped the. record yet and they know I'm you do I am. you do know what I'm saying it could be. winter and I could turn it to Summer. right that's what K does so I'm about to. drop some new music soon but my fans I I. I I hear him out there and I see them. they tell me they screaming let's go. golfing they also screaming Cal where's. the anthem cuz I know you coming. I'm coming you know what I'm saying that.
my fans is what keep me going you know. what I'm saying as far as the music when. you did God did yes did everybody come. up with their own lyrics did Wayne do. his own thing do his own thing you just. said the beat yeah so God did. was my man Friday okay sent me just the. chords okay and him saying God did. obviously I already put in the universe. you know if you me on social media they.
don't believe in us God did like yes so. he came and sent me a thing with chords. and he was singing The Hook of God did. okay so I'm like oh man this this is. dope so originally I was going to keep. it as an interlude just like that with. nothing then I started listening to it I. was like nah let's put let's make this. into a song so I start we put me. streetrunner we put drums on there and. you know you know music and just turning. into like a with no voal on it besides. Friday just turning into like a.
masterpiece a musical Masterpiece so now. it's just the beat and now we got drums. on it now we got instruments on it with. Friday's chords and with him singing on. it so I sent it to Ross uh oh yeah. because you know Ross is my 305 brother. and that's my that's my brother you know. we go way back you know what I'm saying. I sent it to Ross and Ross know if I. sent him something you know C it up to. something yeah but also Ross will send. it back that same day that next morning. like.
that my whole career you know Ross has. been in every single album of mine same. with Wayne yes so I sent it to Ross I. was in the Bahamas he sent the verse. back and when he said something. something put me with the. shars um God did when he got into that. mode you know I'm losing my mind I'm. losing no I'm losing my mind right like. I'm losing my mind running around I'm. just blowing speakers so I hit Wayne I.
hit MCM I like man MTM I need Wayne you. know Wayne is family to me and um he's. like send it through so I sent it to him. Wayne sent it back the next morning I. get Wayne's verse I'm like oh my God so. you know you got you I'm like I'm like I. got something yeah the man talking he. talking he so many bars on that I'm like. wow right I'm losing my mind H Wayne. hitting Ross I'm so excited so now uh oh.
I said hold. up you could keep it like this or and. you can win big or you could do what you. do. c so I took a jet I flew to New York I. found out ho was in New York you know. Ho's my brother's family I told him I. need to see him told him I need five. minutes of your time um The Blessing was. I had a few hours of his time but asked. for five he gave me a few hours I come. see him I said I would love to play you.
my album and I would love for you to. pick my album cover I had like three. options of album covers and I wanted him. to pick it I was happy with all three of. them and I was like I want to play you. my album so the first song I played was. Drake No. Secret I set it off like that he's like. oh that's crazy and then it went into. God did uh oh so now so while while God. did his playing.
I'm looking at. him I ain't ask him to get on yet I'm. looking at him okay and I was like you. know I'm trying to tell him like and. he's listening to it so now he hearing. and then the beat coming and Ross coming. and he. like then Wayne coming like that and. then I purposely left a open verse just. the beat yeah so now the beat is playing. and I see him doing this look and then I. started hear him like like rapping so. boom when we turn turn the record off he. already had like four or five bars.
already out the head saying already. spitting some of the Ryme so I was like. yo I really need you you know what I'm. saying so I was being cool so I continue. to play the album right and he's like oh. this is not he was just loving the album. loving the album then we went back to. Goden okay he kept listening to that so. now we popping. champagne you know what I'm saying all. you asked for was five minutes yeah yeah. yeah five now we popping champagne I'm. standing in the room with a cigar he. lighting a cigar he doing this like you.
know he ain't confirmed nothing yet we. just it's just a Vibe okay so boom make. a long story short on the the on me me. leaving the. room he's like yo send me um God did. send it to me like I know what that. means like you know like send it to him. so I'm looking at Lenny s like you know. you know I got to be cool now you I got. to show my excitement but I still got. okay yeah we we sent it to him and I.
never forget he text me and goes yo D at. book Studio I think it was like book. Studio at uh six o'clock or seven. o'clock or something like that I only. got like an hour because I got to catch. a helicopter to the Hampton so I'm. thinking like book The Studio he G he. gonna do it but he gonna get to it like. you know it might take it you know I. don't know right but I'm going do I'm. excited he said book Studio that means. something about to happen so we booked. Studio he face me now remember he said. he got an hour and he got to catch the.
helicopter to go to the Hampton right. you know I don't know how that works. over there jum the helicopter H it's a. whole thing right and I guess it cuts. off I don't know right so he facetimes. me and the song is playing in the. background he's rhyming so I'm listening. to him he's smiling and I'm listening to. it and I'm hearing him spit I'm like oh. my God but the problem is after a minute. end up being two minutes end up being. three minutes end up being four minutes. end up be like five minutes I'm like. looking at him he's like and I'm like.
what so I I I forget me trying to hear. this soong I'm trying to figure out. what's going on I just keep hearing his. voice for that long like I'm not. expecting that right so he says I got to. go catch the helicopter he's ex you know. like like I did it for you so Guru sends. me the song so now he sends I running. the studio now I'm putting a blend to it. and I'm losing my mind because there's. so many quotable so many bars but not. even just that I felt like he told cuz. I'm Jay-Z fan yeah I felt like he.
put his whole career of flows and and. and and life in one verse right you know. like the the book of ho like you know H. did because you know God did and then we. was in when we was when I put in the. record we I was like yo tell them what. hve. did and and he did you know so it was. the biggest blessing in the world to get. the song done that was one thing and it. was a it it the culture went nuts right.
but to be able to get the opportunity to. perform it at the Grammys Yeah man they. shut it down right but the thing is for. him to say yes was bigger for me than. just the performance right right. because I've never seen him really do. that for himself he did that maybe a. long time ago right you know what I'm. saying and I like you know that thing. you don't want to abuse the love yeah. right right you know what I'm saying. like even though I know it's love but. it's like some things is so great right.
he felt what I felt we had to do that. for hip hop right we had to do that it's. 50 year anniversary but not even just. that we got to do that for hip hop it's. bigger than us and we did that right so. he told you he had a minute he ended up. giving you eight. minutes did you like I gotta put all the. I I can't cut any of this I got to put. all this on here let me tell you Wayne. and Ross and ho those are my brothers. for real not my rap friends no these are.
my brothers family like we I've known. them so long and like we really have. real stories together real moments. together and those are my brothers they. would they never told me no right it's. it's we and I would never tell them no. right um but I've worked with artists. they might want to hear especially when. you got a Hove on there yeah yeah they. want they might want to go. fix they might but they know if it's. call call I don't like calling people. saying my records to get on as a feature.
you know I had to tell somebody the. other day cuz I'm working on my new. album and I said nah my records ain't. features uh uh you get on the feature my. records are. moments you know what I'm saying like. these are anthems these are these are. they're gonna talk about this forever. our records when we work together they. play Forever the ESS or moments when we. come together that's a moment so the. when they found out that hope was on his. when had to clear the record meaning. through their lawyers yes or their. management right so I'm sure like yo C.
got hve on there you know what I'm. saying so I'm expecting like yo I want. to have some more stuff to It Or Nah and. everybody was just excited about it and. the first time they heard it is when the. world heard it see I work different. Shannon I work different and some of the. new artists that's working with me now. they learning how I work because some of. them don't understand that because I. like to keep even the person that's on.
my record excited right I I don't like. people taking my record after after we. record they actually take it home right. I I I I usually if you do it's because. of the circumstances I had to work in. your studio or something but when you. work with me I don't like to let nobody. have a copy of my record right but I. don't want it to leak cut down leaks and. I want you to stay excited because if. you listen to it every day I might not. come out for another six months right I. don't know I work off a God God tell me. when to come right so I do that for our.
protection and to keep us excited so. when the record do come out you're. excited as much as the fan is excited. with your own work you know I'm DP yo. Chan there people and there scard I'm. Different like you know how you got the. jacket you jacket I got a jacket in the. music world you know what I'm saying. like like this how I'm working on I'm. trying to the message that I'm going to. put out there and it's like you're. getting like really exclusive because I.
haven't told nobody I was working on a. new album yet right but I am working on. a new album wow some of the message I'm. going put out there is that we have to. learn to appreciate each other we have. to appreciate each other as brothers and. sisters and because if it's gone don't. appreciate it then right too late. appreciate it when you got when you got. it you know what I'm saying because what. we giv these people it's not regular. right what you doing is not regular it's. not right it's not like there's a lot of. people do what you doing right now they.
ain't doing what you're doing they ain't. coming with the yellow linen and you. know the glasses like that with the talk. you know what I'm saying with the pearly. whites they ain't doing it no I'm just. telling you we different yeah right and. I just want people not to take nothing. for granted because I don't you know. what I'm saying I don't take life for. granted I pray to God every day I don't. take my friends for granted I don't take. the music I've made for granted I act. like I just started today cuz I know. it's special you know what I'm saying I. know when I'm doing something special. and I know when I see something special. and I know when I hear something special.
so I'm going to make sure that I love it. and I treat it and I show my. appreciation and this ain't no. excuse my language this real life this. who I am and when I make this music I go. all out for the fans not just the fans. that go out go out all out for the. artist that's on my records right so. that's why I keep working so. consistently with the biggest artist in. the world because they know how. passionate and how much I love this you. know what I'm saying when I when I work. with a Jay-Z or a drake or a little.
Wayne or a Ross or a little baby or. future I go all out not just making it I. go all out to make sure the world can. hear it I go out there and campaign for. us I do everything I'm not these other. guys I'm not I'm sorry let me ask you. this I just I just you got me we love it. we love the energy but let me ask you. this I heard the story that Michael. Jackson what drove him to what he did is. that he kept trying to make Thriller. Thriller was once in a generation it was. once in a historical event a lot of. times historical events only happen once.
that's what make them historical so how. does DJ C. says okay if I did 15 million whatever. yeah if I don't do 15 million on this. one it ain't as good if it doesn't do. diamond if it doesn't do this if it. doesn't do that how do you guard against. that Cy well you know I you know I never. worry about the numbers um what I care. about is the impact oh okay you know say. some is what's so beautiful about music. some records um the impact is so big.
that you get all the uh blessings in. abundance from the numbers from the. impact and then some records is just. impact in a different way where it comes. from right here and then it just starts. doing this it just goes everywhere and. it just becomes massive I care about the. impact of it right um that's what I do. when I make music like like I have I. tell other day I was in with this artist. and I said yo I don't make that go pop. you know what I'm saying my records They.
just go pop because they the biggest. like when you start trying to make a pop. record that means it's not like it's. like you're you're making we create over. here I'm going to be me and I'm gonna. make sure I be true to myself and true. to my music and you love it so much that. it explodes where everybody love it even. if you don't listen to hip-hop right you. love it that's the type of Records I try. and put my energy to make you know what. I'm saying and that's why they become. anthem you know what I'm saying even if. you wasn't listening to to our music you.
heard it right you know what I'm saying. like so that's the blessing I think I. think when you start worrying about. going diamond is when you don't go. Diamond okay I think you go in there and. you put your best effort and you uh work. so hard and you pray that it connects. with the people and then there's no. limits after that right but you have to. work hard as a artist too you can't just. think that you that cool not me I don't. do that I work I work I'm I work as I. sit here and listen to you you don't say.
well I got Jay-Z I mean I got hve I got. bab I got little one I got Weezy I got. Ross I got Drake oh it's gonna do this. you go in like hey I might have the best. players but we gonna put this thing we. got put this time in we got I got to put. the time in and another thing too is. it's not about getting the best players. it's about making the best record the. great record a lot of people might get a. feature and get I know I know a lot of. Records where they got some of the. biggest artist doesn't mean it's the hit.
doesn't mean it's go no it's about. making the great record right you know. what I'm saying every time I'm in the. studio with with the greats listen I'm. I'm just listen I'm good at what I do. you know what I'm saying and even the. greatest artist I try my hardest to push. more greatness out of them the same way. they would do it for me right because. when we're in the studio I'm pushing so. much greatness out of them and they. doing the same thing to me you know what. I'm saying so that's the blessing and. and my goal is to continue to work with.
Rihanna Beyonce Jay Drake Little Wayne. little baby future TRNA all the people I. ever work with the goal is to continue. to work with because if you continue to. work with him that means you did a great. job the last time you work with them yes. you know I'm saying right so obviously. we have a connection and the fans love. it have you ever had to tell someone. they needed to do a verse over. um or you Let It Rock CU you deal hold.
on now Kylie Kylie you dealing with the. best to the best now you know the bigger. the guy the bigger the ego well well. well I'm I'm not going to name names but. I've been in situations where you asked. them to do it over no I asked them not. to take when it's more than a subliminal. and it's not and I'm a I'm I'm a guy. that puts people together right that can. usually people that usually don't work. with together that usually can get them. to work together because of they know. it's coming from me it's almost a way of. saying it's peace right and it's love.
right so I make sure I tried my hardest. because it's still hip hop and you still. gota just like as a football player you. still gota you know yeah and still talk. that trash that's just part of the gay. right and you got to respect that but at. the same time as I try to make sure it. doesn't go to another dimension right. because of who I am and what I'm about. you know what I'm saying so I love. everybody so I I've been I've been. behind the scenes I can tell you this.
you know if I ever put a documentary out. there'll be a lot of great stories of. CID putting brothers and sisters back. together that was never talking to each. other had big problems and I was one of. the guys. that behind the scenes I don't brag. about it I don't you know what I'm. saying if there's ever a dock and they. want to talk about it they can right but. I've been somebody always that so as far. as somebody change their verse I usually. get the best out of them um we had maybe. tweaked some things because the song got.
greater in time so I've been I've been. blessed to get the best when you let's. just say for the sake of argument do you. ever say tell who you have on or you. just go ask somebody you do you say wee. it I got Drake I got Ross I got hve on. this one or do you ever say or you like. hey I'm asking you to be on it yeah I. usually I'm asking you to be on it and. sometimes you one of the artists might. hear two or three people on it already. because it's at that stage right okay. but sometimes you got to understand I. have to come to you.
and I have this vision and I have and. you might be the first person to get on. at first but I'm playing you a hit. you're excited so I I got to finish the. vision they find out usually later right. like when the video treatment comes or I. might bump into him like yo by the way. song done I got blah blah blah and we. all excited right they know it's going. to be an event right but sometimes sit. but see normally they know you got some. heavy weights on there so they got to. come with their best they got to do got. to be their best biggest and brightest I. promise you that's one thing they know.
they know that we got to we got to get. it in right we got to get it in and. that's the blessing it's like my my. album is like the allstar game you know. what I'm saying like yes you know what. I'm saying yes yes matter of fact ho. said that and he said yo C's albums is. not easy you know what I'm saying it's. like like like uh like you know it's. like the all stars right and then you. know what ho said he said it on his own. and it touched my heart because I don't. be saying but he said it's not easy. because you deal with a lot of. personalities yes and I don't be saying.
that people don't realize that's hard it. is because a lot of times the All-Star. games we say the allstar games don't. live up to expectations we look at the. basketball Allstar we look at baseball. the football allstar game and even. though that's the biggest and brightest. stars that we have to offer you're like. uh L something to be a lot to be desired. it's not easy so and then and and and. the part it's not easy is the beautiful. thing is that when people work in the. studio with me we leave all our egos out. and I'm not saying we got wrong egos but.
when you're the best you're the best. yeah yeah we we work and every chance I. get I'm trying to show you I'm the best. like I I be in the studio sometimes with. artists and they playing and stuff and I. love it right no I like literally a fan. and I love it I'm like this yeah and I'm. like when is it my turn to play. something I do it all the time and I sit. there for hours and let you no and I. love it right but when is it my turn to. play something I got oh yeah yeah no I'm. just I'm just telling you and that's the.
thing about look what we talking about. it's so much behind the scenes that. people don't know that's the love of it. you know is creating this music and the. things that we put in into it as far as. presentation is key you know if I know. if I'm working with an artist I feel. like presentation is so important. because you know when they first hear it. and know the vision that's the if they. locked in from that moment you good. right you know what I'm saying right. football season is well underway the. baseball postseason is here new. basketball and hockey seasons are pun us.
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in in Miami 30 Years Day County 305 I. live Miami I breathe I bleed and I rep. Miami to the fullest day County. 305 I was born into hip-hop culture okay. I was born into it mean as in the minute. I know what life was I was listening to. hip-hop um collecting vinyl records and. break dancing you know from you know. cardboard yeah you doing you know. windmills and suicides and head spins.
and you know uh I remember buying my. first turntable and cassette tapes and. and speakers so I was born into hip hop. I also was born into like dance hall. music and Ray Reay music and soul and. Funk and Jazz from James Brown to Funk. andelic to Bob James to Michael Jackson. Rea Franklin to Stevie Wonder the Azie. Brothers to Run DMC krs1 biggy JayZ F. show. you know I remember my. childhood and in Hip Hop we.
one that's what I love hip-hop and the. culture were one right and so when I was. coming up I was led but remember I loved. correct you gotta you can't be loved. without loved so I love people and I. represent one love so to answer your. question I was loved um but yeah you. know you meet people here and there. that's that do ignorant stuff that's but.
that's light um and it's and I'm not a. person that will entertain anything. that's not a great energy right that's. just who I've been my whole life you. know what I'm saying and um that's what. got me where I'm at today what got me in. this chair talking to you is by me. staying focused on the path and people. around me growing up they always my guys. always protected khed let's protect. Khaled because we want him to win like. you know like when you have somebody as. a basketball player football well they. did that for me in the streets like like.
my guys like yo C our guy we love him. make sure he focus and and and let him. accomplish his dream and his goal. because he's a beautiful man I was. blessed to have them type of friends. around and I'm here to acknowledge and. praise them because you know that's a. beautiful thing where you could. protect negative energy to to to to uh. disturb the goal and the vision you know. what I'm saying like a brother like fat. Joe you know co-sign.
me over two decades ago yeah two decades. ago say my name on records let me DJ for. him put me down with TS go on tour with. him I'm the Godfather of his daughter. that's my brother um and then everybody. know you can't play with Joey crack no. that means you can't play with DJ cavy. you know what I'm saying I don't mean it. in no crazy way I'm just telling you is. that I was always well-respected with. love but at the same time don't take our. kindness for weakness that's all I'm.
saying is cuz a lot of people they might. take your love and kindness for weakness. I want them to take it for greatness. right you know what I'm saying so I say. that because I'm always going to love. but don't you know pump some people like. y there's no way call could be that. positive oh yes it can yeah I'm a father. right I got two boys oh yes it can and. guess what it's going to stay like that. right because I'm not going to let. nobody interrupt that thing so to answer. your whole question is you have to love. to be loved right your dad came here.
with $20 in his pocket yes sir every. country has their dream we have the. American dream I'm sure Germans have the. German dream whatever that dream is is. that I'm sure your parents told you what. the American dream was but then you get. here and you see your family struggle. you're like what damn is that dream. really possible so you know the. beautiful thing is my work ethic and my. grind came from my mother and father I. give them all the credit obviously God. and my mother and father I remember as a. kid my mom and dad would sell clothes. out the trunk in the flea market okay.
and they used to put the fanny pack on. my and so if they sold a shirt they put. the money right there but I was a little. kid and they put the money in my thing. so I was around the hustle right so I. remember them selling stuff out the car. then eventually get to a shopping center. they end up getting a store in a. shopping center then I remember them. getting a store in a shopping center end. up being to a a mall and then they. actually blew up meaning as in they. started making some real money right but. then also so when I was like 15 years. old it all got toen away from them wow.
what happened I think it was some. auditing you know that stuff you know. what I'm saying and it all got tooken. away when I say all like I remember I. remember the coming the story wrapped. everything up and take the whole story. away I remember see so the TA so tax man. did that type Stu took everything so I. had a man up at 15 16 years old and. remember I'm in my music career you know. I started like 13 12 years old but I was. in uh Florida then it it hit hard on. them so they went back to New Orleans.
and I was like can I stay in Florida to. fulfill my music career remember I'm. young right and they love me so much my. mother and father they love me so much. whatever made me happy they wanted. supported me like you know when the. neighbors said the music was too loud. they built the garage into a studio you. know like them things that I remember as. a kid they didn't say stop no they said. we love you keep doing what you do they. support my music it supported hip-hop. and um I remember like 1819 I had a man.
up officially you know 15 16 now got a. man up so I had to take care of them and. me right you know what I'm saying so so. who did they leave so when they went. back to New Orleans you stayed here in. Miami with who I um I've been with my. wife for like 19 years before that I had. a girl before her so it was a a friend. of mine I mean A girlfriend of mine I. came to Miami with right and you know I. used to stay at her mother's house and I. used to stay in uh sleep in the back of. the h cic and then sometimes I would. find a hotel um and stay in I didn't.
have a really we didn't have a really. place to stay and when I did I kept. getting kicked out of the evicted I. couldn't pay the apartment note or the. music was too loud and had to keep. getting kicked out right I used to make. like $100 a week I remember driving down. this road where I live now and I. remember saying I'm going to live here. one day um I started at Pirate Radio. underground radio out here then I end up. doing uh the big radio station with. Uncle Luke he gave me my opportunity on. 99 jams after his show he went on tour I. end up doing my own show there I end up.
being big on radio while I was on radio. I was producing music Brothers Like Fat. Joe kosami and the and it's the love and. respect of uh me in Miami seven days a. week working it just Bloss him and then. the success I'm telling you in a short. form it just started right I grinded so. much so to answer your question is we. come from the mud what to now Limestone. and Marvel fors and we put in that word. right just like you did and everybody. else did that's why I'm sure everybody. got a story does it make you appreciate. what you have this now even more knowing.
how your parents immigrated here knowing. how the struggle knowing you had lost it. all and recaptured it tfold every day I. I take a shower and I and I look on the. floor and it's Marble I said I don't. never want to do this marble floor I'll. be taking a shower like oh no I ain't. crazy I got to stay focused I don't take. nothing for granted and I got this one. thing too is I tell everybody I ain't. going to argue about no. blessing like you know sometime we don't.
realize we getting arguments and Biggers. over blessing yes I'm like yo you see. this view we sitting on right now we. shouldn't even we should be like what's. the discussion what are we talking about. you heard that. bird like you know what I'm saying like. right like you see the cappuccino with. the KAC. like like are you all right like but see. it take it takes somebody to say it for. somebody to realize you know what right. right see I'm not afraid to get in the. middle of a conversation say yo ain't no.
clouds outside it's a blue sky you can't. be tripping right now right I have to. remind. myself and there's nothing wrong CU I. enjoyed every moment of my hard times. yes I enjoyed it makes you appreciate. good time I enjoyed it was so it was. hard to get where I'm at now it was hard. but it reminds me how hard it was that's. why I make sure i' never ever not give. thanks for it you know what I'm saying. saying because those trials and. tribulations is what makes us yes you. know what I mean and makes us a better.
person and makes us appreciate when we. do get something yes you know what I. mean yes that's it you mentioned that. you watch your family your mom and dad. struggle make it selling cold at trunk a. car and then get a strip mall and go to. the big mall and then making some real. money and get taken away get it all. taken away that shaped you because I. read where you personally pay everything. I don't nobody handle nothing I pay. everything and I and that's the biggest. blessing you anybody that's watching.
this take care of your mother and father. take care of them even if they don't. need to be taken care of them take care. of them you you you pay all their bills. you work for your family you have kids. you work for your kids you have a wife. you work for your wife that's the number. one thing you got to do my mom and dad. like right now my mom text me right now. think she went to go to um Tallahassee. and they could have drove like no I'm. going to send you a car service so you. you and Dad don't have to drive enjoy. the ride you don't need to drive by. yourself wow you know what I'm saying.
like little thing oh I love you son Bo. yo uh uh my mom go yo whatever you need. um I bought a beautiful house that was. the best feeling in the world I remember. buying my dad a car and I remember them. buying me a car right you know what I'm. saying you know that that that's and I. got kids you know what I'm saying I tell. my kids everything is for you but I. teach them the same way my my mom and. dad taught me hard work and they made. sure they took me to work so I could see. that but they also showed me 100% love.
while they was working so I got to see. the work and them being the best mother. and father you know what I'm saying so. they taught me to be a mother and father. they taught me how to be a man and they. taught me how to stay focus but you pay. you pay the electric bill the gas bill. you you person you don't have you don't. pass that off to nobody Kelly I don't. believe in no accountant I don't believe. in what's the thing called money. manager all that that's your. business K had LW his I I pay the grass.
the car wash man the guy that's cut my. hair the electric bill the car note the. mortgage I I I have a rule where my bank. got to tell me even if I tell them I. approve it don't listen to me no no I'm. not making I want you to inter I'll give. you my banker's number and ask him I. said do not listen to me and because I. you on an email or text I approve I do. that but they have to get a verbal yeah. you a got to call you talk me talk me. FaceTime yeah cuz it's AI out there now.
okay you got to see me sh I don't make. nothing up this is the truth and because. this I have a rule right and tell me you. agree you you might I don't know how you. do your thing but I have a rule if you. pay for everything. yourself you notice you're paying too. much for stuff right and you noce you. you know you got to balance it go like. this all the time I got a rule the. balance got always go like. that so if I touch that that means it. got to be replaced that hour no more.
than two weeks right okay that's just a. rule in my life wow now if I notice I'm. paying so much if I let somebody else. say oh to pay the bills you're not going. to notice it in real time because it. gives you a harder time to fix it right. while I'm paying all these bills. traveling vacation my mom's bills my. house bills you know shopping the chef. the kids you probably help your wife. family everybody. like and I'm happy but I feel it and. while I'm feeling it tells me book that.
gig book that gig um yep I'm going over. there oh I said no to that I changed my. mind not are we keeping it real or not. you keep it we can we could talk all. this big business manager no and no. disrespect to All You Beautiful business. managers out there I don't want to mess. up your hustle but I've heard a lot of. crazy stories right okay and there's no. way in the world I'm letting somebody. have the power to touch the hard work. right no way what what is it about.
garages because you said when you. growing up and and and the neighbors. said the music was too loud you they. gave you put you in the garage and made. it like sound so they they couldn't hear. you see Amazon was started in the garage. Microsoft was started in garage Google I. remember I posted up a picture you know. they always have like that you know the. picture of like how Apple started yeah. yeah yeah yeah I put a picture of me in. the garage how I started. too like what's the difference like. being I'm just keeping it real so you. know the garage for me is it was always.
my my room my studio everything I put in. there all my vinyl records so the garage. you know I always like I tell my team. I'm in that garage mode right okay to. let them know I'm in that mode like I'm. in that hustle and my garage was like my. my penthouse suite because I would sleep. there I would make my music there I. would have all my Bob Marley Jay-Z. posters hanging up Nas all my favorite. rappers it was just my you know when you. was growing up your room but it was a.
garage because we built it into a studio. and even when I started making a few. dollars I I built um my first house ever. bought I built my garage and made in. studio just to give it that feeling. right um and then in time you know It. upgraded it just became a better garage. right but it's just that garage you know. Apple Amazon that what about we the best. we started in a garage too I'm saying. that's what I was just saying let me ask. you this how do you get your two boys. you saw your family lose everything and.
you immigrated your boys only know this. so how do you give them that work ethic. when they see all the cars one of 150 of. Virgil blow may mayb I call that the. cappuccino the cappuccino okay the. cappuccino they fly private they don't. know what it's like to be in an airport. right so how do you treat your boys to. have that kind of work ethic like their. dad in a situation where all they know. is lavish I have the answer I make sure. they they're around me and I tell them. and remind them because they always say. Daddy um can we do I said Daddy got to.
work they see me right here Daddy got to. work dad Studio but to be the honest. truth have you met my wife. yet I did see out the corner of my eye. your son was sitting back there she. motioned for him to come he got up she. keep she keeps us all on our toes yeah. you know what I'm saying like I'm the. one that says yes yes yes yes you want. this yes yes yes and she's like no no no. no not in a bad way you got to learn to. work like you say so you got to have a. balance but when you're around just the. same way I was RA when you're around.
like he sees me up late hours sometimes. he'll wake up to go to school and. Daddy's still in the studio or Daddy's. in the office um when we go on the road. like you know Mommy's taking him to a. water park I'm in the uh hotel room and. I made one of the rooms into my office. in the studio or I'm doing a photo shoot. or I'm making music and he knows that's. my love but he also knows that's what. Daddy does right so he understands that. but at the same time I want to give. props to my wife and my queen she keeps. all of us on her toes so and Shannon I'm.
sure you there's times that you might be. feeling yourself you like you know I'm. Shan and Sh I came home got done. watching uh you you had the King James. watching the basketball game you wore. the fly sneakers you know you was. looking fly you got the number one show. you know you feel it's all right to feel. good for like a day right yes my. wife she remind me out the gate I I. can't even have a chance to feel that. for a second because she keep me on my. toes and in a positive way not in a bad. way like yo don't get it twisted and I.
love it yes you know what I'm saying and. that's what I love about my family is we. we we real we pure and she keeps me on. my toes so I can never start feeling. myself and and you know it's all right. to do it for a second but I I don't have. that time to do that right you know what. I'm saying the reality is we bless let's. keep going stay focused. a lot of you guys started off as DJs I. look at ludicrous look at you a lot of.
these other Dr Dre Swiss. beats Timberland what what well the DJ. you know what's so beautiful about the. DJ and and and and bless up all the DJs. out there the. DJ man we have an opportunity to wear. all the. hats because we play the music and we. have to move the crowd and I was a. special type of DJ Not only did I cut. and scratch and blend and I was a DJ and. an artist because when I performed I. didn't just play the records yeah I play.
the records but it's the way I played it. it's the way I brought it in it's the. way I was on stage it's the way I made. you put your hands up so I started. turning into an artist but every DJ is. an artist but you have to be able to. take it to the next level then that love. and that passion for music it taught me. how to make records that's why my. records if you notice you the way they. start the way they end the way the hooks. it's because I know um what makes the. people move and what makes people put.
their hand up or that feeling you know. what I'm saying your job is to keep the. people on the floor right and when I. used to work remember I used to be on. the radio right so you know radio number. one rule is play the hits only right. that's just the way radio like the job. is play the hits but now if you don't. they'll turn off right so imagine me in. the. studio I just took all that mentality. said c make the hits you know what I'm. saying and but hits are in different. forms I can make a a slow jamming could. be a hit right I can make something with.
uptempo looking hit I can make it. something with energy be hit I can make. something that make you cry could be hit. there's different hits there's different. emotions when it comes down to making. music and a DJ has to learn all that. because say I'm in a club and I got to. turn up but say I'm at a wedding I got. to turn up but also set the mood yeah. yeah you got to be able to play um. little baby but find a way to play uh. Before I Let Go you know what I'm saying. like you got to be like k a PRI you know.
he he he's somebody I looked up to as a. DJ you know he used to come to a party. have it ripped down then he'll go into. like to be real he'll say like he'll be. going to that but then go right into uh. hypnotize you know you got to know how. to transition and that's part of being. an artist but that's also when you're in. the studio and become a producer you. take all that knowledge and start making. this incredible music but I mean you. came out the gate and you had I mean. very few people can come out the gate.
and get the biggest stars on the album. you did that from the joke well you got. to remember I've known Little Wayne you. know I was there when Little Wayne met. Birdman I used to work at the record. store a record store in New Orleans. called Odyssey Records and Little Wayne. used to go to the record store and I. used to DJ at the record store that's. how much I love I worked at a record. store and I found a way for the owner to. let me DJ while customers come in right. and Birdman them used to pull up to the. record store and out their trunk bring. cassettes at that time this back when. they this before they had their deal.
right and they would sell the tapes and. I remember was like a BG tape and then. like a juvenile and and record companies. used to call all the time saying is this. really selling that much and I'm like. yeah you would drop it off and it would. sell in five seconds like it would sell. out the Wayne I'm just trying to show. you how I work with the biggest I've. known them for so long we all came up. majority of the biggest artists that we. all love out here I came up with them at. that time I was either younger or we was. grinding at the same time and we end up.
just building this relationship so when. you see a Ross or Wayne or future I. remember meeting future before future. was future you know what I'm saying like. and then you know you blessed to build. this relationship but at the same time I. might be on a promo tour or we might be. doing a show together we keep bumping. into each other we just respect each. other because we grinding together we. trying to make it and at the same time. as we end up getting the studio together. right so the beginning of in my career. yeah I was around all the greats but. they were becoming the greats right you.
know what I'm saying right that's how it. just it's just God made sure that Not. only was I a sponge of greatness was I. was I. was you know that saying I was there. yeah I was there right where are you on. this AI technology because we we see I. mean you mentioned it that hey they can. take and make and do DJ khed boy they. can basically do What DJ khed do without. DJ. yeah I you know it's scary for me um. because I just don't want people to use. it the wrong way right you know what I'm.
saying so that's that's the scary part. but um I really don't know too much. about it to give you the full answer but. I am scared of it when I say scared of. it like this is like a little too much. right but I'm not going to be the guy. that's a dinosaur right you know you. know you got to embrace the new world. and the new technology if AI is the way. to go DJ and and it's not just the AI. I'm saying I'm not going to make music. with AI but I'm saying this but just. like when the iPhone came out just like. right now when I was getting dressed I.
looking at my Instagram they telling me. they just F they just approved the first. flying car like I'm like stop yeah like. this is getting out of control now like. you know what I'm saying but I don't. know if I'm looking at some fake page or. something but it said just approve the. first flying car I'm like okay you GNA. get it too and I got you but no no what. I'm saying so what I'm saying is we got. to embrace the new generation we got to. brace the new world and we cannot be. caught up in the dinosaur world right we. have to move but as far as AI I it's.
scary for me I I've been seeing too much. stuff that it's not I didn't hear I. didn't see nothing positive yet out of. it show me what positive can come out of. it right I haven't seen it yet where. where are you on sampling I love. sampling um I think that's part of uh. hip-hop culture I love it and what I. love about it is that. um like the records that say I've. sampled a Michael Jackson record or uh. Aussie brothers or a James Brown or.
whatever what I love about sample and. that's how hip-hop that's how it started. we sampled records we looped them and. what I love about it is that the music. that we sample and it just shows you the. power of music how timeless it is right. but what I love about today's time you. now you can sample records that was 20. years ago that you would have never. sampled because we was always busy. sampling the 70s the 80s and some of the. early late 60s what I'm saying now we. can now people are starting to say up.
with the '90s and the early 2000 correct. which is super dope because those were. like some special records and like wild. thoughts yes you know what I'm saying I. always wanted to do that but I waited a. certain amount of time before I felt. like it was okay to do it and the new. generation might have never heard the. original right so I love sampling I. think sampling is incredible and I. encourage anybody that make music always. sample and and make some new stuff too. cuzz sampling you got to be creative to. make it still sound great right it's.
part of producing right yeah it said. Drake dm' you on MySpace you ignored him. so so Drake told me I I'm sure Drake. remembers this but Drake told me a long. time ago that he used to hit me on. MySpace and I didn't know how to work. that Myspace stuff and I'm saying myself. oh my God if I had an opportunity to. sign a drake or work with Drake before. Drake was Drake you know what I'm saying. um but it just shows you that he had. love for me as a producer DJ and as an. artist the music I was making he had.
love for me right and that's so dope. because you know it's one of the biggest. artists in the world and he's my family. and he's my brother but just to know. before he exploded he was listening to. DJ khed too wow and and I hear those. stories all the time like K remember. when you put out I'm So Hood and the. person that's saying is like the biggest. artist in the world yeah you know what. I'm saying so I'm like man it's crazy. and but I don't never get caught up um I. felt like I made that yesterday cuz if. you notice my career I come out every.
year with music and I'm just so. consistent that I never get caught up in. time I get I just make sure I keep going. right you know what I'm saying that's. why I feel like that's that's the beauty. it's like in in sports you you can't. take a few years off and expect to play. the same no so I'm just keep gota be. consistent now don't get twisted you. know there's guys like us that just we. just rare and we one of one we unicorns. and we Timeless we special um like if I.
wanted to stop today I know that the. blessing that God gave me I can give you. something I'm not saying that would give. you the amount of body of work I would. usually do but the blessing is I know. I'm one of them you know what I'm saying. you know what I mean like you know. you're one of them yeah I feel good cuz. you know I DM you you hit me back I. wrong you hit me back you like yo my man. sh he just. look he hit me up that's how we got this. interview done I D he like bless up bro. I would love to anytime brother so you.
mentioned your queen yes love her how. did you know she was the one when we met. uh I just got a house right and it was. my first house had no furniture it was. just records all over the floor you know. nothing in the refrigerator but I was. just excited I got the house right you. know at that time somebody told me you. could put $30,000 down and you can get a. house for $500,000 I'm like huh I. couldn't believe it well that was a.
special time matter of fact after I got. it the recession. hit 2008 yeah around that time exactly. that was my first house exactly um but. she came and man she started cooking for. me and she she gave me a pillow and some. sheets and um obviously she's beautiful. but her her uh not just the beautiness. but her heart and her soul and the way. she cared for me like like you know she. introduced me to Cocoa Butter you know. you know she like yo baby you ask you. need some cocoa butter you know she.
introduced me to Dove so like I might. have used a different one it's just the. little things and it was just the care. and I never had that care only from my. mother right you know I'm out here. hustling I'm out here grinding I was. washing my own clothes so it' be like. it'd be crazy you know what I'm saying. she came in to show me that love but I. call her my spiritual advisor um and. she's not a a spiritual advisor because. she's tough and I love it and when I say. tough meaning as in she just like the.
other day like say if I'm I'm like your. M you know what I'm saying you know. that's a lot you know what I'm saying. you know I'm human well I'm not human. I'm special human I was just telling her. like M it's a lot you know what I'm. saying that's a lot on me boom boom and. she's like you got. this immediately I was like you're right. that's all I needed to hear right you. know what I'm saying so she was my not. only my lover my best friend right you. you know and. um she gave me my two beautiful boys and.
I told her we. forever to hear you talk I had Steve. Harvey on about two months ago and he. mentioned how Margie helped him level up. it put him in a different frame of mind. that she gave him the positivity to. think that he he was Superman that's. what she does for me and to hear you. talk do that and I didn't know he he. said that and I know that feeling. because sometimes I be like your mind. like it's like like come on and she like. got this in so many ways and I'm like.
man you right and I get it done she get. me like she make sure I keep my head up. high my chest up high and let's get it. you know what say you know what cie she. came into this and saw how hard you was. working absolutely so now that you. working hard she don't say well baby you. don't have any time for me and the boys. you she understands 100% that you got to. work to maintain and to she tells me all. the time cuz you know there's a there's. times where I don't want to go out of. town right you know I'm like you know. I'm chilling and I'm and I'm still. working right um but she understands.
like we we love you we got you you know. we know you know you know what you're. doing but she'll keep me going because. sometimes and I'm sure everybody goes. through it you know we got that time. where like we don't feel like doing. something Yes and she'll give me that. extra push to go get it done and I'm. like man thanks for pushing me because I. really needed to get that done you and. Ross y'all are really big because you. guys I mean you allow your fans inside. your life through your point of view you. held the camera you don't have you know.
you hold the camera you talk directly. you go IG live and you do all that. things you guys had some you had I think. a jet ski incident and Ross tried to do. one thought it was Greg ners yeah yeah. what why how can you like make lie to. yourself and keep it moving well what. happened was I lived on one part of. Miami and he live on the other part okay. so I had my jet ski and I was like you. know what he just got his big you know. how Ross do it yeah Ross he show you. every day how he do it yeah so he got. his new house on the water boom boom. like I'mma pull up on you on a jet ski I.
ain't realize how far it was I'm just. like so I'm riding riding riding and. this is late afternoon so I get there. with no problem I go to his house we in. the backyard he show me his new boat you. know Ross with no shirt on Kelly you. know what I'm saying like the whole. movie we chilling so now I'm leaving and. it's. like close to seven so I'm riding I'm. realized and it's getting dark and you. know I'm far like I no I'm not even. making this up I drove too far on a jet.
ski and it was to a point where it's not. just that one strip where his houses and. then you see lights it goes into the big. ocean and then you got to go under this. bridge and then get back to the strip to. where I need to go so I went to the big. ocean it got dark so I finally found a. way to get back and it was so dark that. I got lost you know what I'm saying. remember this is like me going out there. for fun not realizing so now my Snapchat. um I'm snapchating and I'm telling. everybody I have a code that people know.
around I call my my my queen zy yo tell. ZZ you know what I'm saying like because. I'm you know I'm texting everything but. I'm sending messages because hopefully. somebody see in a positive way yo tell. zisy come check me like you know what. I'm saying I'm keeping my cool because I. don't want to panic you know I'm I get. some anxiety attacks I've had panic. attacks I didn't want to have one on the. water so I'm riding and it's pitch dark. oh yeah no it's pitch dark so the flash. on my phone was my light so I was. Snapchatting on Instagram the whole time.
to keep the light and I knew my. battery's eventually going to go right. you know what I'm saying so now I'm like. an hour on the ski I'm just completely. lost and um the blessing is you know we. end up um I end up finding you know see. some lights it was it was real scary I. wouldn't recommend nobody jet ski at. night time it was never a joke it was. real thing you can't jet ski at night. there's a reason why and even if you had. lights it don't make no sense or I. wouldn't even go on a boat at night but. he lived too far right and I'm thinking. it was just that easy because I was just.
so excited to be jet ski right and it. end up being like uh end up hitting the. news in Miami and um Coast Guard. everything it was a real thing I just. made I kept my sense of humor so I. wouldn't have a panic attack right you. know what I'm saying right I get panic. attacks I can't lie when I fly I get. panic attacks stuff like that right so. now you have all this you've accumulated. all this what's next for DJ khed I mean. what's next is just to continue to be. great conquer more categories conquer.
more dreams and goals but it's not about. me right everything's for my kids so I'm. at a point I said earlier in this. interview I'm at a point where I'm at. peace and when I say I'm at peace I'm at. peace to know that I'm happy and I'm. blessed it's time for me to go to the. next level right and by going to the. next level is that means I have to. conquer more goals and dreams right and. to continue what got me here at its. highest level and to me that's what we. do naturally right so now I'm about to. say t we about to get real disrupted.
over here in a good way and let's take. over this and you're going to see what I. mean in in in in the months to come that. you're goingon to see the progression of. khed as an entrepreneur okay I'm opening. a new store on South Beach we the best. Snipes Superstore first time ever uh. right there in sth and Collins that's. opening August 3D our foundation is. growing so much we we putting 24 hours 7. days a week into the foundation my wife. and Ana and the whole team doing amazing.
with that I'm about to one day conquer. the television and film world like I'm. I'm I'm coming I yes I've been in it I. do it but I'm coming I'm coming to the. same way I came with my music and. everything I'm I'm coming for that. camera right you know there's so many. things that I'm going be doing and. that's what I mean by going next level. at one point in your life you have to. tell yourself you want to continue to do. the same thing and win which you do. great at or do you want to do that and. that you want to challenge yourself yes.
I am I'm at that I'm at that point in my. life and then I'm I remember my Idols is. Jay-Z right you know I'm saying uh shout. out to Puff Daddy shout out to Quincy. Jones Dr Drake you know Michael Jordan. um this all the greats and you think. about like Jay-Z look what he did look. where he came from and look how many. categories he accomplished from. Foundation to Rock Nation to Super Bowl. to um being one of the biggest you know. artists to being Beyonce the Queen the.
the uh being a beautiful father then and. then uh uh management and you know the. spirit. brand you know you know if you watch me. I always scream we the best all. categories well he's been doing that yes. you know what I'm saying and he shows. that that it's possible right when. somebody shows you it's possible me I. get inspired right and I praise it you. know and and I think and that goes back. to I said we have to learn to appreciate. each other because a lot of people want.
to hating on each other when all you. need to do is be inspired and appreciate. it and embrace it because that means you. can do it too right you got to want to. do it I got two questions I want to get. you out here on this Dr Dre and I heard. him say that he had an opportunity he. said no to Michael Jackson and no to. Prince I know I just seen that is there. anybody that DJ C would say no to. um because it's tough because if the. record don't come out well I know where. Dre was coming from I definitely know. what he was coming from because I've had.
opportunities to work with a lot of. greats that um besides on my project and. I just want to be able to give them what. I would give myself okay um and so what. I've done is I I I thank for the. opportunity and I just tell the person. um give me a second let me let me see if. I can give you what what you're looking. for because I know what you're looking. for right cuz you asking me because of. what I've done with me right so let me. give you me but I have to be in that. place to give you that so I understood.
what Dre was saying but that you know. Dre's a goat and he's he's he he he's. he's one of the best that ever did it. but I respected what he said that's why. that's why I love Dre because by him. answering that and saying that I was. like man you know how humble you know. what I'm saying he was and for Michael. Jackson and Prince and he was just like. yo they the goat and meanwhile he's the. goat you know what I'm saying yeah but. that's why he's the go right and that's. what I want the young world to know out. there that's why he's the go because he.
said that now could he did it of course. he could have but I understood you know. what I'm saying last one Tony yo was on. drink shamp yeah yeah he said he came. down here said he said he thought. everything was cool so he showed up at. the studio then all of a sudden you. ain't shake his hand had your friend in. the corner with that fire on him yeah. yeah well I don't know I don't know. about all that I just know I know about. the shaking hand part okay um I don't. know about all that other stuff okay you. know what I'm saying but um I am the. definition of loyalty okay um anybody.
that know coward I'm a loyal friend and. if you're loyal to me I'm loyal to you. but also a loyal meaning as in it's it's. not just the word loyalty it's family. yes right I be uncomfortable knowing. that you and this person are not getting. along and I know it's serious right I'm. uncomfortable acting like everything is. cool when I'd rather just be at peace. and walk away from it yeah yeah so at.
that time you know I work at a radio. station everybody's welcome at a radio. station correct so you can never involve. them type of situations correct and I. understood that and I've always been. somebody that showed love but and when. he was when they told me he was coming. up I was like wow like oh you you I was. like no I was just saying to myself like. really you know him and my man don't get. along and I was like damn and me and my. man cool yeah no not he's my brother. yeah like for real though and I was just.
saying to myself this is going to be. hard for me because I said if I would. have completely embraced them I probably. wouldn't be able to sleep at night yeah. cuz your brother G look at you sideways. and if I did I would have called him. immediately like yo this what just. happened and I would have been trying to. explain myself that's how much I care. right you know what I'm saying um would. I done things differently now I probably. would have did the same thing but I. would have tried to put myself where I. wouldn't had to be in that room yeah you. took the day off of work yeah I would. have took but I didn't want to do that.
cuz I knew cuz it I wanted you know it. would have looked like I was you know. what I'm saying it look like you was. dodging him so if you want to know if. the story is true yeah let's talk about. the handshake okay the handshake true. the hand you didn't shake his hand by. the way it's all love now we good now. everybody's all love now yes uh Fat Joe. I have nothing but love for everybody I. have no problem with nobody I want to. make that clear I love everyone we know. that was when we was younger um he did. come shake my hand I told him I can't do. that you what you do yeah I just told.
him I couldn't do it I couldn't do it so. what he so what did he. say he feel some type of. way man like like like you know what I'm. saying if I ever put a documentary out. it's G to be interesting like you know. what I'm saying like wow and the thing. is that what's so beautiful is that we. we're able to talk about it now and have. a laugh and a smile about it um and um. you know when he told the story and I.
heard him and he said he respected me um. and he understood right and that was. love I'm saying that was love him saying. that and I appreciate that yeah I I just. couldn't shake his him at that moment. right and and Joe will tell you I was. the guy Joe will tell you I want you to. ask him this I was the guy saying we. don't need no problems with those guys. right we don't need no problems with. nobody correct you know what I'm saying. it's it's or anybody not the particular. guys I was always the guy like why are. we having problem I'm like why why I'm a.
kid I'm going why like I used to go to J. why like tears of love like why don't no. we love everyone but that's just you. know it's life well see we needed this. DJ khed in the mid 90s so they it would. have broken the piece between the East. agree with you it well yeah that was. deep but um but this situation I was. that DJ C now it's just the only. difference is I'm a true friend too yeah. you know what I'm saying I didn't go in. there trying to be cause a problem right.
I just couldn't you probably would have. caused more of a problem doing it the. way right exactly I said I could I don't. know how to be fake correct that's the. thing right say I have a say it mean you. forget that situation say any situation. it could be about um we might agree on. something and I see you in public I'm G. come to you not to cause a problem I. pull you inside like yo I just want you. to know I you know I just don't know how. to be fake right you know what I'm. saying and I think by me being like that. can make things better because you know. it's it's coming from a a good place and.
I don't know how to be fake and I'm sure. a lot of people don't know how to be. fake not everybody's like us but it's. just that's how it be sometimes you know. like um take off the P the tragic. passing of takeoff quo and offset has. some differences but to see them get. together those are brothers you know I. love all three of those Brothers those. Brothers one of my favorite groups uh. take off. man God bless him man one of the most. beautifulest people yeah no when I tell. you. like he's so kind just a beautiful man.
and quo and offset the three beautiful. brothers so to see quo and um offset. together that was beautiful and they and. and a it's for their brother not even. that that's what we want you know is. that love um and that's the only way for. me I'm always going to love them and I. want them to love each other and I think. the world and the universe you know want. nothing but love for them you know what. I'm saying and we love take take off God. bless you brother okay there's been a. lot of speculation Dame Lillard wants to.
be traded that's what been circulating. we know you made the Leon message you. was on IG live talk welcome in Leon. message if the heat came to khed say. Khaled we think we can get him but we. need you to give the best sales pitch in. your life I got us I got us how you get. D I'm Dame L make me come to. Miami D is nothing to think. about um congratulations you're going to. win four rings in a.
row um do you want your house on the. water lot or do you want it on the. corner water lot overlooking the whole. Ocean or do you want one looking over. the city right you want a ring how about. four of them um you want the best coach. we have it it's nothing to talk about. let let me let me break this down right. somebody asked me when LeBron made his. decision right you know LeBron's my. friend yes I remember when he say I'm. taking my tal to South Beach somebody. interviewed me the other day say khed um. when he made that decision how do you. feel I'm saying uh he's a.
genius what you think he was gonna say. this is Miami you can't be serious right. this same rocket scientist I'm not going. to let nobody like fool me like there's. a reason why no ain't no overthinking. this is Miami the most beautiful city in. the world uh so much culture our. basketball team we have banners you know. the AC you know they blow in the sky. they they they hanging yeah we've had. from Tim Hardway to Shaq to King James. to Ray Allen dwade D way about to be um.
what they about of Fame the Hall of Fame. you know what I'm saying like our team. look what we did this year look what we. did the other year we've always been. doubted but Pat Riley and our coach they. know how to take players from one. Superstar and and form a whole team. around one Superstar to create new new. Superstars imagine if we did get my man. D imagine right he know already the ring.
is and I and I don't want to you know. nothing's guaranteed in life of course. it. is stop like you know what I'm saying. like let's stop so Dam if you're worried. about you want to bring a ring to your. old team LeBron did for Cleveland yeah. there's nothing wrong with you go back. go back yeah go back after three four. years come get it come come get this. come and Dam my you know I haven't seen. him in a while but we got love with each. other yeah and mean you going to be. chilling man you goingon to be in the.
backyard living it up and we gonna play. some basketball and you gonna have some. rings come on there's nothing I think. about I think I think he on the same. page they they're gonna make it hard. yeah because it's it's too good to be. true right it's gonna happen though. appreciate it ah my man DJ K ladies and. gentlemen all my life sacrifice hustle P. the price want a slice got the roll of. dice that's why all my life I've been.
grinding all my life all my life gring. all my life sacrifice hustle P the price. want a slice not the roll dice why all. my life beening all my. [Music]. life.
