This is who we beat talk the music the artist culture. This is who we are is who we be your DJ sensex boy, Montana. Hey, yo fish after tearing down who would be live killed that as usual that you know what bro night like you wouldn't do anything but the catalog a little different it gets bigger and bigger every time Sharla, but it's good to see you. Again, man. Yeah the CO2 bro, and I got savor every time I see you you get younger Bell chiming learn all them trucks from puff, you know again the right with the right doctors getting right vitamins in my body. Wow, after a while it now listen like I could put pictures of it from when we've connected and then if you don't like every time like the glow up, yeah diamonds get brighter you get younger is crazy. I'll be looking at Old footage even when we first met like, you know, you will me and change this to come out here was just it was just like I just look at my face like this puffed up this and that but you know, like when you grind and you're not really caring about, you know, all that Vibe is like Cheyenne to that paper. Yes you out there hustling hustling I'm saying now you like the more you grow the more you like, you know what my body said notice and they start talking back to you write you back. Amazing one like on you still going strong. It's crazy to see like like the levels from where you came from to what you're doing. But what wanted to do today and who would be podcast is like give people an insight into how you came up right now. You got to where you got to because it's - it's an inspiring story. Yeah, man. I mean, you know born in North Africa came here when I was 13 to the US. Yes for the state. Yeah the bunks and as like I can I could tell it was God playing because they brought me like right like a next door from Slick Rick like Karis one down Street Davis. Yeah, right in the South Bronx where wrap started, you know and me just got going there and just I mean, obviously I you know, I speak English coming straight from Africa. My father just happened to get some visas for whatever because he was locked up when I was born. So I already knew he was like into some more on the kind of robbed. So the game Um visas to get us out of the country. So we left the country. He just couldn't take the lifestyle. I was going on he went back because he was living like a king there but and when he came to New York is like, you know. Rhyming is like not even about being grimy. Just like you got to have a hustle in his house was based out there and he went back. So when he left my mother didn't know English, my little brother's didn't know English and I barely knew English so I became you know, once the father leave guess who becomes the Father the oldest son. So I became a father before I was even 20 years old. I mean New York City is the coldest see like is unforgiving is you know, there's no love whatsoever like How do you how do you survive in New York City around that time when you could just about speak English that algae get by. Honestly at first it was just just you know, had I had to get with it or get lost people don't wait for you Tom. Don't wait for you the house were going to wait for you nothing with you and I'm saying are you going to get with it? You know I'm saying I guess on my father's side he can't get away with it. So he just left he left me in the middle of the tornado. No, but honestly, I want to give all the respect of my mother because he was like, I'm about to leave and I'm not leaving I'm staying here with my kids. They never gonna have our To like this in Africa and she's right is if you look at Africa, I'm the biggest artists in Africa right now at Africa not a country a continent. Hmm. You know I'm saying that's why every chance I get I go back there and shine light on it because I know there's better better Talent than me. I know there's do you know I'm saying there's all kind of talent that He overshadowed so every chance I get I go back and help I go back and try to shine the light on the on the play that try to keep it dark, you know people always Is steal everything from Africa but never get back to Africa. What was the craziest thing that happened to you? Like this is before French Montana. What was the correct like me like we're getting shot in the back of my head and surviving and I could be more crazy than that bleeding to the hospital and the same God took you to the hospital was the one that set you up to get shot or like you want to get like you want to get into more details. Yeah, like yeah, not seriously though. I'm not saying the reason why is because people hit a hits They turn up and you know, they know human forgettable and that's why I'm saying there's another side as you getting shot. And yeah in the person that set you up drove you to the hospital. Why don't you just send the passenger seat bleed the new just thinking this is the goddess helping you and he's got to set you up. That's how New York was that's like something out Sopranos all the wire. Did you think he was gonna die real stories real stories of my life then from Max be going to court with Max being Yes. Seeing him get 75 years in front of me and in just as soon as the judge at the ham, I turn around again his mother and just like how can you even like things like that or losing the chinks? You only your best friends and you don't even know who to hit was for everything was in the dark until we find out. This is the real situation. This all we got stories, you know real life stories. And also when it comes to the music is just it's just that's why that's why we able to live through all these years and and get respect from from the realest and I'm not just a mother stopped by rappers actors. And now it's about from Pee Wee Kirkland said to the no.2 the real deal, you know, because we live by the code is only thing that we know we didn't have no no choice we had to live by Rules we had to survive by the rules. We had I couldn't wear no funny kind of here. I couldn't dress no kind of way I can't do no kind of way like I had to go and just be me and live with it and I'm saying to make the best music and I hope hope I got enough faith and patience and to be able to wait to be able to survive through this. We don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. It was Jungle rules for up. Shoot suck. Yeah, when did hip-hop come into your life my whole life? Well when I was in Africa only Once was I just didn't understand that's why my hooks are so crazy. Right because every time I do hooks, I'll never do it from trying to make, you know, make him make sense. And I kind of vibe which out I got the best of both worlds to get them melodic and to get the words but back in Africa. I never when I used to like music when it before like Wu-Tang, for example, I should be young aren't running around singing Gangsta Paradise, you know. I'm gonna all I'm hearing is that Lana then you go to La Bouche like lalala out here. So like when I do hooks, I don't even know what they were saying not as poor all that and just like a melodic and put the words with it. And that's why Unforgettable such a global health. So we sold 25 million around the world because I put myself in the sand and that same shoe that kid as an African like is an Australian I kid isn't Barcelona Somalia wherever they are because all the inherent ism is is Melanie. Hmm. What made you pick up the microphone and start vaping inspired you to do that. Um, I mean besides music being my you know, like my favorite thing to do as far as listening like my therapy like, you know, everything besides that I played basketball. I went to school after my father left a shot to go to college. And while shot to go to college there was like you can go to college even though I got recruited by all kind of D1 D2 D3 now try to go there like you can't go cause you don't have your papers. So now I can't go to college. I can't get a job because I don't have no social security. I'm an immigrant. Like I live The Immigrant like for real what every door was blocked. So now I can what can I do what I mean? I start selling drugs that I caught. Then I was just like I'm already don't keep going down this route and I believe my mother that sacrifice all that and my two little brothers and you know, I'm saying do all this I say, you know what I think that God had a plan for me and I believe in that all the signs lets me doing this mine and he also got only show you signs and you got to read between his eyes. If you don't then, you know, you're going to get all discombobulated and between your hustle your dreams your faith everything. So he pushed me to that corner like this what you need to be doing and I'm saying then I started doing music and I followed his vision for me. It just blew up. He's growing up in the bunk South Bronx. Karis ones down to vote left blastmaster care as one legendary MC. One of the best freestylers of all time. Also, next door to Slick. Rick could say is the first ever UK rapper to pop off like animal who's about to get deported. He got caught he got caught with a gun charge and and he fought through that and you know understand that's why no status was so like so special for me because I felt like, you know, we was all immigrants out there and he paved the way that's why would like, you know, even like when Trump thing this is not be like we create a culture like as far as hip-hop and I'm sure other immigrants created all kinds of platforms to Showcase all kind of whether it's business or there's this one that is that you know, so which is the Viper that you heard like, which is the hot the rapper that made you put pen to paper, you know Rhymes that was it was just me who is me, but it's not one that and say why aren't you in there was a cocktail of just like all kind of all kind of like because everybody give you something different like I used to listen Illmatic. It was rant I get a different vibe. It was rain was my one my favorite items and not ever did before that telematic. I like it was ran by like even though I like, you know certain a lot like like I really love certain tracks on automatic like represent like, you know, like everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah couple it was ran. He was just more growth and more from the Lauren Hill to You know to the I'm the guns and the message when he was about to pop to the it was more records to you have more, you know saying, you know, Illmatic was 10 right solder joints, then when you got all eyes on me double disc, then you got life after death. Double disc is crazy. Then you got you know, I'm saying it was just like right that that moment of hip-hop 36 Chambers. Yeah, you know, they don't just like it was just so much. So much thing that you get from different artists at the time, but I know so I felt like back then it wasn't like one specific thing. Everybody was just on the top of their game and that's what motivated me I get it the mid 90s hip-hop. That's that's an eclair Jenny. I feel sorry for anybody in this town and you never know. What you missed out. Exactly. It's definitely how did you connect with Happy Food first connected with Harry Fraud, but 10 10 to 15 years ago and I remember we did playing when we did a New York minute was my first record Shot the Jadakiss I was I remember I was playing on boycott was like in the middle of the projects. I was just like doing cocaine City DVDs not playing him New York minute. Harry Fraud did it. He was like yo your Jadakiss on Jadakiss did his verse? Didn't makes had disappeared for a minute there like it was getting makes on it to make sure I'm going out and ever since then me and Harry for husband like Scotty and John like just like well, I know if each other you know, and it was just like so special to see that we still doing the same thing and still, you know, every year again bigger fuss, you know, like he's still, you know, being the best producer can be and I'm getting better better and better every year. I like always been one of them people that I Make a hundred million dollars and ten years then to make it a one year but as long as I make one dollar more next year than I made this year. I feel like it's growing. I feel like you know, I'm prospering so you can kind of rush it now. It's I love that Marathon life. My specialty is like it was like, you know, four best friends Max me doing 70 75 years Chase died and rest in peace my brother and and Penthouse speeds of 130 is about to come home any day. You know I'm saying so So I never really liked follow other people did but I was stood by them. You know, I'm saying so always follow this like this like slowly but surely thing. You know me sometimes too much money could be the worst thing that could ever happen to you sometime too much Fame to be the worst thing that ever happened to you. You know, I feel like yeah, you just gotta like, you know, follow your own your own path and and I chop preach that to a lot of people because my life stop it just stop Yeah, that's impacting. Sometimes people try to go so fast. They don't actually appreciate what's going on. Yeah, you know, there's also much because that is almost like drugs and I'm saying like once you start taking like you don't want to stop you want to keep that same feeling you get you want that every minute. You know like you don't practice giving it a break then coming back to it, you know, a lot of people don't like, you know, it takes music I'll be telling people is 20% of everything that's going on with the business in the music and everything. Like you gotta be why you think I don't see the same rappers and like every like it's so hard to stay in the game. Hmm all kind of obstacles and it's because with the tissue is make great music and guess what? What happened to anybody? This is making great music not me. That's why the only 2 Jay-Z Nas the the even Fab shot the fat lot of people don't pay respect to him. Like, you know saying he's somebody always float like this, you know, you gotta learn and just you know, just pick your lane just saying it when you and happy for like talking a few years, but I'm looking at it from the perspective of being on the radio and playing your joints like How he he kind of always kind of got those throwback hip-hop moments back to the mid nineties and stuff. What was the one giant would you say that really popped up for you? Then when you're like yo, this is real like this is all malevolent. I remember we had the chopper down right and that was around the time when I wouldn't when I did New York minute, but then I was like, all right. I got to New York. Now, how do I get the rest of the country? Right? And sometimes you gotta give them what they know until they know you. So I went down south and that's where the chopper chopper down with me and Gucci and Wiz Khalifa and isn't that Pittsburgh? This is now as I went on my own tour that I ain't even know how I made it through that. It was like, you know, just like you just like thinking you could do a tour like you're not allowed Nation on the like not nothing. It's nothing so you just basically like throwing the Hail Marys up and I'm sorry, but that's how much faith in this how much you know ambition. I Then I'm about came back and me and flex was talking and I was like, I'm gonna do a freestyle for you. So I did the shot caller. That was the first old school beat that mean fraud went back and grab and me and fraud. You know me a frog work. That's why I love it because we always have like a sample battle who got the ls samples in this and that so we always been like that, but you know, she always think he got he got like better samples I wasn't got but so we just picked the best one he make the beat so shot caller was literally a freestyle. Of a funk Flex one verse but I'll drop the tape Casino life. I remember going to a strip club with the Heavy Hitters with easy enough in them camello shots at them and they just press play and just looked at me and said, you know just like nobody was never taken old-school samples, right and really like bringing them back and bringing a new field to it because it got thinking about everybody loved hip-hop The Hip Hop in And nobody take that take that risk. Yeah. So that was the one that really took me from here to there then right after that then it was become the big bazooka pop that man, you know, but shot caller was just me by myself just happy, you know show people like this what it is because I heard you you was making so much money and getting so much heat of mixtapes like the labels clone the standard you was really ahead of your time in terms of yeah. This shows you is getting and you know, yeah even over here that the man few I hear is like is Easy, you know definitely about I mean, um, I'm blessed. I'm blessed to do the cocaine City DVDs. I just 16 of them. I'm so blessed to be able to be somebody to watch every one of them an executive produce it and to see if we have 20 artists on this DVD by time. Will you do next one 17 of them going to have a career in Omaha? so I was able to study the game but I don't want to go into class and being able to realize that visuals is more important than making music because you can make a thousand songs and somebody could walk right by you in the streets some like a see you on one seen on TV and like they never get you every time I see so it's just like experience and information always going to take you to a higher, you know, operational platform you mad connected like you you got You up - smells. Like if you just look through the some of the features and even now what you're saying about your hooks with Gucci with I was like this is this is like Nationwide. It's not just one state one city or anything. So how did pop that come about because that's again just a monster. That's that's you I straight Gloss Lil Wayne on the same track pop that rest in peace checks out and I was saying this earlier somebody I was like the way we used to work was it? Me and asked to be the whole Coke Boys every time we're in the studio. It was just like whoever got the project coming out. Will you all give them the records whenever I got project coming out Max give me rock his chains. Give me right to the old play be see each other like we work like a family, you know, so change this happen to have that pop that beat shot the leader producer and he just played it for me. I was like, yo, I'm taking this. I need this now look. All right. Well, I'm willing to go see Ross. Ross did a verse to me about some of the Drake heated he did his verse of London sent it back. I'm Berlin Wayne sent his verses day before he was about to drop it and he just sent there and he was like, you could not drop this without. Wow, like this is my error is Uncle Luke. This is the snapshot the Uncle Lou to you know, 2 Live Crew for even creating a good film music. Mmm. It's a monster in the clip as well. Just pounds like you're selling so yeah more than those times bigger than the neck. We're clear. All I do is crazy. So some pop that you know, what will happen next. What was the next stage? Um pop that I dropped anywhere by now. Yeah that I drop the freaks record with Nicki Minaj then I mean, it's just every year from be kept on getting bigger and bigger. What is this? You got like a Super Saiyan on the background was it just you select on the job honesty is me. I'm the best energy. I'm saying you have because I love music. I grew up with music. I'm around music. I'm around you knows that I'm in the club's I'm like, I just know I'm sorry. There's no like some things you just gotta feel I followed a rush as I told you. Like. I'm the best blessing ever had was for me to be somebody on the outside and inside to know that that balance right? You know, I'm saying and for unforgettable 10 years later to be my biggest rocket. I mean you could put probably 90% Songs they still not bigger than forgettable. How did how did you get Unforgettable my I've heard different stories but like yeah, this isn't a studio. Me and Jeremiah was working and he just play me the song but he's got the kept on playing the other rankings. I said not go back to that one, but the song wasn't like that. It was a the beginning was like that. But as soon as like I'm 30 seconds passed by turning to Slow Jam rocket I said I crazy that's same a seconds 30 Sighs Loop it no, I had the structure to hold them sound structure. And so I'm shot the Swahili, you know, he's just you know, he's a young rock star and he just carried that beat sometimes I always tell people there's moments special moments that are as can catch in the studio that when the beat voice energy. You know sad everything just meat is just like hitting a lotto ticket. And when that when that meat and somebody listen to it it just ding ding ding ding just like that's it and I'm satisfied those moments of really special, you know, and and just like when Tupac caught it on California Love and big you don't hypnotized and you know and and and 50 on in the club puffing Benjamin just like certain Almost just going to catch them. You know the kind of magic. You know like Gregory Hines the stepping on stepping all over the beat and you don't feel it because you know the music and going out if you get that certain Rush, that's why people listen to me is going to work out. I saw some people listen to music when it crying music is is the only language that people everybody speak worldwide. Do you ever have that fear that you can't match the previous record because the my hat honestly I had that fit, you know, no Stiles just went go. Wow, you know I'm saying is like it when girls before Everyone go. Wow. So that was my worst fear was to master something. I was close to that and you know proms of like, you know, just hit right back. How did no styling come about No Styles came about me being like the bridge between old school and new school and a lot of old-school artists. Don't feel appreciated for what they molded the culture to be as far as Slick Rick being the first one for 30 chains on as far as KRS be the first one to build certain things the MC Shams that cold Crush Brothers the you know, there's a long list then you have all these young cats say fuck the old school because they really Don't know what happened also because now became something as so marginalized to be for anybody that can do what I'm saying and young calves don't know what they doing. Okay, so don't feel appreciate it. So I was trying to bring that slick works the camera on this and on this side then bring the other cast the Rockies this that when this side sort of when I when they watch that video they could be like, oh, oh, oh and I was that so I was trying you know help as far as the culture but then I also did it because everybody don't have a stylist, but they dress better than rappers. You don't feel like he and he might have stars when I was I was when I was styled. I know he definitely got to stop he's clicks a doctor and I was like, you're like, you know people think like you got to have a stylist and all this like got a gorgeous fashion weeks and still all these weirdos and I hate I hate that to the max. There was always about them Dope Boyz II slang or somebody that worked hard and go and spend their last money on this on the out. That they love when you step out you feel limbs at and that's what I know Styles is about like the people are just like really spending Less on I remember spending my last buying a fitted or sweat or whatever like I'm saying people. I don't need a stylist. So, how'd you get Drake on the track like that? I actually flew me out to work with him on Scorpion. Right so we did Elevate. All right, and um, I was like y'all got a bunch of joints because I was starting to get like like a little you know skeletons and shit for my album. So I stopped playing him everything and my little brother played him. No Stiles. He was like y'all was my favorite like a friend's got right now and Drake heard it went crazy. I gotta get on that well, but you know me and him just like, you know, like one of my best friends and we just like, you know, making music is just something that just come along, you know, like this what we do like when we having fun and I would like a record that when I play I'm like when I perform that I would die be like they love that more don't forget about I'm like, wow the energy just came across So using that be typing and it got bigger response to an unforgettable. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, I'll perform the post Malone over there. I will die with you went crazy when I performed it with dragon Atlanta went crazy. We just like, you know, I go off I don't go off like all this internet and this and who is behind a desk as drinking green juice and fucking wearing open-toed sandals tongues. You know, I like it. I'm go off when you go play it in real places and them cars you hit going by going back to the hood and people hitting you in the right people here and you buy music. That's what counts to me good. You know, I'm saying so not perform that I was like torpedo you ever get moments where you think about where you came from to where you're at now, you know and stage and I would that be on stage in London and who would be alive and you see the crowd like reciting. It's not even singing a long time these site and your lyrics well forward. Man, I appreciate the process and sometimes think about it. It's just you know, I feel like you know, I went through a lot of growth not to have the people that used to motivate me to make music or the people that used to be with me in the studio and this and that and me still having, you know, having a get that out of my mind and make new music and and then keep the wave alive and and make sure everything is straight and And take that away just like a have a hundred percent on the music. It's kind of like crazy. Because you know a lot of these rappers like I'm sure like they great artist but when it comes to the to the lifestyle and reliving behind this the cold and living doing this now for like, you know, nobody can top or so we've been a one since they negative 1 I was doing my show a couple of months ago. And then yeah, I got a news in it about Mac Miller and I was like, he's d right at that muscle cut you up when you found out. Yeah, of course, of course, I'm here because I remember just you know, I shall I put the video up on me and him when I was telling him. I say, oh you're going too fast. Let's go back to that when you get that feeling from that high. You don't want that feeling stop and a lot of people don't know how to do that, you know, and and honestly, it was a beautiful person and rest in peace came forward to is just one God. We know when God called for you as your time is your time. Be anything, you know. We've lost a lot of rappers recently and you've experienced a lot yourself personally, but even in the space of like a couple of years like the new guys coming to be a peep extent a.cian and you know six nine is not passed away, but he might not be around for a minute. It's is it's crazy right? It's like that's why I said I said people think is always about the music. It's not I've been dealing with Hip Hop Police throughout most of my career. They try to trap me up like that 2 million and one times well of course million one time but I was saying that I like the other day like and I didn't really like explaining the right. It was like he remind me of Max B. I'm not saying music, you know, I'm not saying six miles out talented by know like on a Max be level. It's dangerous. I'm gonna come to town and I'm saying Max. He's like a legend before its time. You know, but I feel like that from the BBS bells to the perm to everything. I feel like you know, he reminded me of Max B, sometimes when I watch him just going at people, you know, I'm saying because like they funny watch Max beat his head out the way he'd be laughing and just rolling like body. I felt like nobody could have did it better than Max speaking. Somebody's finally trolling people like him. I'm not talking about music. Hmm you Was there like I'm not like, you know, cuz I people like how you can you compare them to Max be he's a legend and I'm not going to play the music I'm talking about as far as the approach you taking but no one the consequences that come with it. You know, I'm saying because when you when you make yourself that hot as far as far as bringing all that bad energy to you bad energy going to follow and that's when the fans come that's when the police come that's when I'm courthouses maximum used to go to the courthouse come out. And performed a song called Dead solvent front of the courthouse. Wow, and he's fighting a murder charge. Well that goes to show you you know saying how crazy Max was hmm, you know and it's unfortunate to see somebody like that talented like both of them go down that route, you know, because it's like you and you get to enjoy the money enjoy the fame. Enjoy your life. Enjoy what it is, you know, and this is a situation by pray for both of them. You know cuz even once Akash is six-nine like once I saw the feds pick him up and shot. Everybody knows that that's going through the same situations when I would like the feds don't come until they got the whole case, right? It's just, you know, we're in the UK and from people like around the world. So if it was like the police thing that would be different but the feds is like a Next Level, so I'm wrong when the feds come get you they're not just like coming to get you like They don't come get you in to take out the whole the whole case where you going to be at like you got the whole file. They got evidence. They got like I don't know nobody like that really beat them from the start. You always got to go in there and just Just beat them like towards the end. Like I know a couple people that beat the fast but you don't happen that fast, but well lets you know, what your John Cochran up. Wow, you know like is the feds ain't no joke. You know just to see somebody, you know, just see somebody go through that is like a sad situation. Let's time we connected we talked about what was going on in America, you know things was going on and everything else and I think I think we've yourself with Unforgettable blowing up and I seen you get involved with look the whole Global citizen initiative. How's it feel to see like some of the stuff that's going to set about this Caravan of people, you know, he's like as it made its like it's a army of people coming from trying to invade the Mexican border and everything else and That you you know, you came from another clone see how they feel to see that kind of talk going on. Yeah, my um, as far as things like that affect me more because I got real family members affected about the Trump law and I'm not just down with like the the whole the whole blast in the guy and going through all this like, I have like real family that's like affected by the laws of the immigration law. I told you if he would if he was in during the time when I was here as an immigrant. I might have got the point, you know, so it's like they closing in all the people that put the United States only back and help built. It not feel like if you were leading usually by love as first thing, you know, and only and you don't take away programs like DACA program that kids that went to school they whole life and trying to go to college to do. Them better to help the country. You take away their education. Now you got thousands thousands of kids that can't even go to college and they can do nothing then they break. No rules. No crime. No nothing and you just taking my school. Why because they're from another country. Nobody. Nobody nodded States from the United States like except for the Indians. And there's just like the Congress and the way they just mold and everything to be like it supposed to be the land of dreams. I'm a walking I'm walking sample of that. You know, it's just like coming from somewhere. We're just Faith and Hope and hard work and hustle and just not knowing if I could let me if I want to be the present I could have been present whatever it is, but that's what that land is known for. Equal opportunities for everybody. It don't matter where you come from and the moment you take that away from that lines become like everywhere else. you know I'm saying so as far as as far as that go like with the whole the whole United States, I don't like getting into politics. I don't like but when you when you affected by it I'm saying it hurts more. You're the working American Dream actually. Oh big time coming from from Africa like not even a dollar in your pocket your father. Did you know English? I remember one day. I walked in the side chicken place on my mother was working because she knew the Arabic got And I walked to the back and I opened the door and she was just making Salat. She was crying. You know, I'm saying it was just like all the not all this guy stop here. And I pray to God everything I thank him for letting me so all them drugs that are sold and I get caught. Well, I got caught one time two times but you know, it was like one more chance is like, you know, you're gonna get the part. I'm just all that picture is her sacrificing, you know, I'm saying it's just all this stuff so that push Me to make the best music and become the person I am today, and I'm so happy that he left because I would never been a man. I am saying you got big moral Club records bangers made me look good as a DJ and I met a club at a festival or whatever a great year. Thank you. But there's a lot of pain behind those tracks. Is this crazy hearing your story. Of course, that's why there's the the strike like Sanctuary. There's like as I'm saying, Like people are like laughing with became like until French Montana after Unforgettable and after pop that they don't know. I got like 16 our projects. Like I got a whole album or Three 6 Mafia like like I got mac and cheese series. I got the casino life series. I got the Coke Wave series on me and Max B, you know, I'm saying like me and chinks like there's like just going like that pen for going like if you really want to hear what French Montana case Well, you know, so I'm just glad I'm still here and doing better. It's kind of cool you a new artist. Yeah, it was my second album is my second. I won't but put me next to anybody. I don't care who they are putting me. Give me an hour on stage. Give them my own stage. I'll blow their head off. No, I'm saying a lot of these artists, you know, I had to fight with my righteous. No not until I had to make it out the slums in the middle of the mecca of Hip Hop. And you've always shown love to the UK as well. Love the language. That's London language a host. Love you guys. Yeah, its just oh, yeah. I love that and I love like, you know, you know, you know, you know, the best part that I love is when I do a record with new Arts like see how they were Stefan Don that that hurt. I love that, you know, because I know that feeling when I was coming up and I call my first I can see how the only thing I remember was me and Jadakiss, New York Minute. I love that. I love being a part of her history, you know, and I felt that and I was like, I'm first I want to really go gold the platinum and everything, you know, it's just love the moment is dope as well as why does Festival earlier this year? Like you play did you see shout out us, you know, he's going through some things at the moment. So it felt like, you know people there's a fake. This is is it's a fake made-up word over here. We live in when it comes to this industry the moment. You hit it left everything disappeared like dust fall down. You know, I just feel like you know, sometimes very important to remind people with spark the brain of the people and supposed to be real to stand behind the people that kept it real. Well if you got lined up what's coming next no styles for now almost came from Dubai have the GQ on first time GQ ever. Did it through covers and one. You know just working on an album right now and ready too much. I'm trying to focus on that. How's that coming along? I'm trying to make the best project in my life again, and I'll but this one I feel like this this one feel like it's just gonna be the movie, right? Yeah, maybe if you're not doing any come by the studio, listen some Vibes. Yeah, definitely definitely and then someone tell me what you think, you know you looking to connect to any of you kayaks. Me and Deena just got ahold of one of my favorite groups out of here jungle. I mean if me and gigs, you know, we got a project that we just don't know how I'm going to put it out. I'm serious. Yeah, we just did a personal stylist him and gashi. So, you know to go listen to that. I have a record out there was stuff along Dawn for my album is so crazy. I just love like hearing new sounds like, you know, it's really searching for it. His find a new thing. You probably know more than me by some of our studio. You play me some Vibes. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a street you in the club's out. Are you see what's going on? Going to move to Cloud give the people what they want and all of that. So why is it stop mode? Most of the you come with? Yeah, you know you are my bro. So but thanks for taking the time out to do this brother forever. Always good to see you as always, you know, and in anytime you're in London like thanks for having me Beverly Hills again. Thank you for watching. We always the same love since day one. I appreciate all the love. We common strong this year the show may come with the movie and everything it nice good man. You got it. No stylist as well as popping off. Okay. Definitely. We got more as I'm saying like if you freaking by Studio, this is all about play some joints. All right, let's do that. Love my bro. All right.
Fresh after headlining Who We Be Live and literally shutting down Alexandra Palace, DJ Semtex connects with French Montana for an exclusive in-depth talk. Semtex has interviewed French Montana several times throughout his career, he has witnessed his evolution from mixtape artist to a global citizen in every sense. Born and raised in Morocco, then emigrating to the US in his teens, French always had an international overview, but as he has grown, so has his understanding of his own responsibility and where he came from. We hear the hits, we see the crowds go crazy, and we stream them worldwide, but most of the time we know little about how they came about, or the pain that inspired them. After 20 mixtapes and 2 albums, it’s safe to say that the process of releasing his global multi-platinum smash ‘Unforgettable’ has changed him. This is a very different interview to what DJ Semtex conducted with French Montana a year ago in Los Angeles, and almost light years apart from when they first connected back in 2012\. French Montana has a greater outlook on world events, a deeper understanding of his role, and is actively participating in initiatives to change the lives of people within his Homeland. This is a very different artist with a very different perspective. 