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I dreamed about this shit as a kid.

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I could zone out for hours
and just be in a fairyland.

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I'm-a be a real millionaire.

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Like...

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boss, like, take care of everybody,
the leader.

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That's what I was aiming for.

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I ain't know how.

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Man, ain't no telling what I would've did.

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But I was gonna get there.

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No matter what.

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It's crazy 'cause we seen...
we seen the growth.

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It's not like you came up wanting to rap.

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If you wasn't rapping,
what would you be doing?

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One foot in the street

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and one foot trying to learn music.

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Rapping is something that's new for you,

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and now you in this industry.

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You got all these meetings.

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You got to show up.
You got to do these interviews.

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I don't think people realize
how much work you've put in, right?

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When you're on such a run...

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In the last two years, we're putting out

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hit after hit.

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Here with the song "Yes Indeed," Lil Baby!

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You come from a certain environment...

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and now you a mega rap star.

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An artist with the number one
album in the world.

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Those numbers are impressive, man.

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Do those numbers
kind of trip you out, though?

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And the BET Award goes to

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Lil Baby.

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Do you know why that is?
Do you know why you blew up quickly?

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- Do you think about it?
- Do you feel like

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going forward,
you still gonna always feel like

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you got something to prove?

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Your breakthrough
come from your sacrifice.

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Baby's coming down. Speed cameras.

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Them dreams I had...

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it was like something
that could actually be real.

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Papa? Papa, you here?

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- Papa?
- Papa?

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Papa, where you at, Papa?

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Dada?

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- Dada? Dada?
- Dada? Dada?

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Papa?

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I'm not leaving you.

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I'm not leaving you.

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I'm not leaving you. I'm not leaving you.

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I'm not leaving you.

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I'm not leaving you. I'm not leaving you.

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Open. Say "open."

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Say "open."

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Say "open."

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"Thank you."

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- It's cold out there.
- Cold. I know it.

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Gonna have to put on
like two layers of clothes.

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Two layers of...?!

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Are you serious?

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Let's go get layered up.

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Did you just say
I got to put two pants on,

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two shirts, two jackets?

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- Yep.
- What?!

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Family more important to me than anything.

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I don't never see me leaving my kids.

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Like, I don't want to be no holiday dad

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and I just talk to you.

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Put your jacket on.

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My dad kind of stayed out of town.

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He was like, uh, I see him
every now and then,

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couple times a year.

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I can't really say to this day
the situation him and my mama had,

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so I don't just have that
father-son relationship that I would want.

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Or I feel like that I should've had.

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You're too big to fit in this.

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My son ask me stuff like that, like,

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"You used to do this with your daddy?"

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And my answer's like, "No."

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I really want him
to understand that, like,

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everybody don't be having that growing up.

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I ain't have it.

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Turn the wheel.

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- Huh?
- Turn the wheel.

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He a hell of a five-year-old.

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Hey, pull up.
We'll try it all day tomorrow.

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So, in the morning,
you'll get it faster and faster?

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Come on. Yep.

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I want it faster, faster,
faster, faster, faster.

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You want it to be a little bit faster?

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No, I want it to be fast fast.

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He tell me that,
"I want to do everything you do."

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Hit the brake, hit the brake,
hit the brake.

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He like, "I want to do what you do."

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And that means the most to me. Like...

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I take that shit serious.

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I thought I was gone, boy.

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Thought I was gone!

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I got so long to go with him

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that I got to be on my shit, you feel me?

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I could fuck up and he could be like me.

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All right, Dominique!

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- Look at me go!
- You having a merry Christmas?

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You having a merry Christmas?

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I'm having a good merry Christmas.

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Ooh, you go, boy. Uh-oh.

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- Merry Christmas.
- You go, boy. Merry Christmas.

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What's your name?

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- Dominique Armani Jones.
- Dominique Armani Jones?

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His teacher once told me, she said,

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"Dominique hasn't been
in my class in 60 days.

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"I gave a test. He show up.

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He the only one passed this."

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And that was economics.

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Very smart.

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Genius, basically.

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Do you have any siblings?

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- Deja. You know her, don't you?
- I sure do.

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Oh, you know how old Deja is.

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Oh, Deja's 11!

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All right, that's a blessing.

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Oh...

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But me eight, oh, Lord.

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- You eight?
- I mean...

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- Oh, my goodness.
- Michelle is... I mean...

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- Nine.
- Michelle is nine.

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- Oh, okay.
- Excuse me.

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You ain't in my conversation.

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- And how old are you?
- Let's pull the curtains down.

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- Dominique?
- Hello.

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And I'm seven years old!

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- And I am a...
- Put that, uh, thing back, honey.

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Muscle man!

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Me, him and his sisters
have always been close.

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It's always been the four of us.

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Well, I was really just
struggling with them

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and just being a single parent.

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What are your parents' names?

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Well, I really don't, you know...

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Oh, Lord, don't tell me no...

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have any.

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- Because, you know...
- Put that down.

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Times tough.
My mother broke up with my father.

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When he left me, he left them.

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That's basically how it went.

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Oh, Dominique,

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don't cry.

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Don't cry, Dominique.

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Growing up,

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I ain't have the picket fence
and the silver spoon.

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My mama was a single parent.

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A lot of times, she couldn't afford
to pay our rent, so we got evicted.

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So we just got to, like,
try to make ends meet.

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My name is Maurice Hobson.

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I am a political historian,
a civil rights historian

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and Atlanta scholar.

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Black people are not monolithic.

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There are all kinds of Black folk
who have all different ideas and values,

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but the one thing that Black people,

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and particularly Black people
in the American South,

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all share is that oppression
has been overwhelming.

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Locally, it was
the city of Atlanta's big day.

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On September 18, 1990,

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Atlanta, Georgia, is chosen
to host the 1996 Olympic Games.

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Atlanta.

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Once Atlanta wins the bid,

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the city has to be franchised
for world consumption.

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They have to do an infrastructure shift.

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Leading up to this,
the city administration

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creates a militarized police force
called the Red Dog police

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to clean the city up
for the Olympic Games.

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And it is a war that attacks
Black people and brown people.

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Federal funding for housing
was cut by 75%,

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and we see ordinances that are passed

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that disfranchised
and displaced poor people.

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They could call for
the demolition of the housing project

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and relocation of the residents elsewhere.

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Why should they tear it down
just for three weeks for the Olympics?

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Put all these people out of housing
just for the Olympics?

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Walls that are built on the side

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of the interstate so that
the poverty could not be seen,

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because it was important
for Atlanta to be seen

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in a particular kind of way in the world.

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While Atlanta does play a role in being

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a place where Black people
have been successful,

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it also has been a place that has...

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been somewhat damaging
to it-its poor people.

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And one of the major communities
that sees this is the West End.

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Oh, Dominique, put your coat on.

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If you're born in this city
and you're born poor

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or if you live in one of the neighborhoods
that has been destitute

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or been starved out,

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it's been difficult for you
to move forward.

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What Atlanta is
overwhelmingly known for is,

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if a child is born in poverty
in this city,

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most likely they'll remain
in poverty their whole life.

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Go!

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I'm it, y'all.

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Everybody, clap your hands!

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If I wasn't stressing money,

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I'd probably be in college,
had got a great job type of shit.

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But it's like money the root of all evil.

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That's what deterred me.

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All the dudes who I hung with,

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they way older than me.

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At the time, I'm 15,

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maybe they 23, 24, so I'm really a baby.

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Hey, hold up!

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Y'all ain't gonna cheat me. Hell nah!

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- How y'all been playing?
- Hey, not so loud.

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How y'all been playing?
How y'all been playing?

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I really ain't have
nobody to hang with but them.

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Like, them was the only niggas around.

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Dudes who was my age,
all them went to jail

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or dead or some other shit.

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I just started being Lil Baby, like,
"You the little baby out the crew."

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What the fuck you talking about?!

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We ain't down with
a motherfucking rat, nigga!

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He started even looking up to
the drug dealers because it's the streets.

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"I could be making some money."

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I think that was his process.

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They ain't on no bullshit.

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They like grown men
handling they business,

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so it's like I had to get on
what they was on.

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I started hanging around them.
I started wanting to hustle.

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They was hustlers.

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They took me in.

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Y'all see what's going on.
Shit, y'all see...

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This-this the hood.

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Niggas done made it out of poverty

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- round this motherfucker.
- Yeah.

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Straight up, though.

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Straight up.

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Y'all got my mic good right here
and get what I say.

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Baby used to come spend
the night over here, too, man.

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Like we say, we-we all kind of,
like, hustled out of here,

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spent the night, you know what I'm saying,
grew up here.

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A lot of stuff went down right here,
all type of things.

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Feel what I'm saying, man?

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But it's basically
where everything started.

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I mean, trying to get out of poverty

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always hard when you don't know
the best way.

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This was our best way,
you know what I'm saying,

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of being an entrepreneur was,
you know what I'm saying,

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try to get us some money.

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When Baby hopped out when he was 15, 16,

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it's like, he had to pay bills, basically.

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He ain't... he-he really ain't
have the chance

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to kind of, like, be a kid almost.

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He was just like...
He had to provide for his family.

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That's... basically, that's all
we was trying to do, provide.

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Without money,
who is a person without money?

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In this society right now,
how long would it take a person

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who going to work to accumulate
10,000 in profit money?

253
00:15:44,736 --> 00:15:47,989
How long would it take you to make 10,000?

254
00:15:52,702 --> 00:15:54,829
Lil Baby might be walking around
with 10,000 on him,

255
00:15:54,913 --> 00:15:57,957
going to school, eighth, ninth grade.

256
00:15:59,834 --> 00:16:02,170
That's what I'm telling you.
It got that serious.

257
00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:14,766
I always knew him, though.

258
00:16:14,849 --> 00:16:18,269
I always knew him from, like,
probably like ten, 11 years old.

259
00:16:18,353 --> 00:16:21,481
We went to different schools,
but we... I used to... we used to, like,

260
00:16:21,564 --> 00:16:24,460
skip school and go to each other's schools
and shit, you know what I'm saying?

261
00:16:24,484 --> 00:16:27,284
And it was like, well, we just started
hanging like, "This my brother."

262
00:16:30,782 --> 00:16:33,076
He was always the guy
that everybody loved.

263
00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:35,161
Always, from a kid to now.

264
00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,917
He was always verified
'cause he always kept good business.

265
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,753
He always did everything the right way.

266
00:16:43,837 --> 00:16:45,839
He a real hustler.

267
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,550
He always was a money getter.

268
00:16:48,633 --> 00:16:51,177
So with or without rap,
he was gonna get some money.

269
00:16:51,261 --> 00:16:52,941
Like, he was fucking up
millions of dollars

270
00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,098
before he made one song.

271
00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:57,058
He was fucking up millions of dollars.

272
00:17:04,149 --> 00:17:07,235
I never wanted to be a rapper.

273
00:17:07,318 --> 00:17:09,279
I was already young
and turnt in the streets.

274
00:17:11,656 --> 00:17:14,743
I just knew I had it all figured out.

275
00:17:14,826 --> 00:17:16,870
I felt like I already made it.

276
00:17:16,953 --> 00:17:20,540
I had money, girls, cars.

277
00:17:28,715 --> 00:17:31,885
I was at the top of the top.

278
00:17:31,968 --> 00:17:34,053
I was having a blast.

279
00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:36,139
But shit was starting to get crazy.

280
00:17:41,728 --> 00:17:45,482
We had a lot of fucking serious moments.

281
00:17:45,565 --> 00:17:46,917
He ain't used to like to talk to me 'cause

282
00:17:46,941 --> 00:17:48,419
I'm-a talk to his ass
for two hours on the phone,

283
00:17:48,443 --> 00:17:51,130
and I'm-a tell him what he do wrong like,
"Nigga, you doing dickhead shit.

284
00:17:51,154 --> 00:17:53,865
You stupid."

285
00:17:53,948 --> 00:17:56,785
But he never listened to nobody.

286
00:17:56,868 --> 00:18:00,121
He was gonna get some money,
no matter what.

287
00:18:00,205 --> 00:18:02,957
I always was mad at him like,
"Nigga, listen.

288
00:18:04,042 --> 00:18:06,753
"Nothing come out of what you doing
but prison or death.

289
00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:08,505
"Nothing else.

290
00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:12,967
It's no such thing as you made it
with the way you doing it."

291
00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:56,344
You ever heard of the saying
"make you or break you"?

292
00:18:57,762 --> 00:19:01,099
Like, it's either gonna
make you or break you.

293
00:19:01,182 --> 00:19:02,993
And meaning, like, make you,
make you into something

294
00:19:03,017 --> 00:19:04,060
or break you down.

295
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,152
You have to be strong
to just sit in this motherfucker.

296
00:19:13,236 --> 00:19:14,237
Just sit here.

297
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,738
And niggas yelling.

298
00:19:15,822 --> 00:19:19,742
He banging on the door.
He running around. He...

299
00:19:19,826 --> 00:19:21,452
It's a whole nother world.

300
00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:25,915
In prison, you spend a lot of time alone.

301
00:19:27,458 --> 00:19:29,586
You have a whole lot of time
to think about

302
00:19:29,669 --> 00:19:32,171
what's going on around you.

303
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:37,927
America has a system in place.

304
00:19:39,387 --> 00:19:44,017
It doesn't matter whether
or not they were deprived as a youth.

305
00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:47,270
It doesn't matter whether or not
they had no background

306
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:50,398
that enabled them to become socialized

307
00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,525
into the fabric of society.

308
00:19:52,609 --> 00:19:56,195
It doesn't matter whether or not
they're the victims of society.

309
00:19:57,780 --> 00:20:01,618
And the system's been around
for a long, long time.

310
00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:07,707
And it's designed for us to fail.

311
00:20:07,790 --> 00:20:11,753
They must be taken off the street.

312
00:20:14,589 --> 00:20:16,883
I ain't want to be there, period,

313
00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:19,677
but I had to be there,
but I won't let my mind be there.

314
00:20:19,761 --> 00:20:22,597
And my body a lot of places
that my mind never go.

315
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,516
I force myself to do that.

316
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,019
For good and for bad.

317
00:20:28,102 --> 00:20:30,980
And I learned that the most in prison.

318
00:20:38,947 --> 00:20:40,615
All right, appreciate it, bruh.

319
00:20:47,205 --> 00:20:49,707
I'm Pierre Thomas.

320
00:20:49,791 --> 00:20:52,043
Everybody call me P.

321
00:20:52,126 --> 00:20:54,963
I'm the CEO of Quality Control Music.

322
00:20:57,966 --> 00:21:00,593
I'm from the Southwest side of Atlanta.

323
00:21:04,681 --> 00:21:07,058
Baby was already like family.

324
00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:09,852
We already knew each other.

325
00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:12,355
We been around each other
since he was like 15.

326
00:21:15,817 --> 00:21:18,403
I know Baby from walking in trap houses,

327
00:21:18,486 --> 00:21:20,655
and...

328
00:21:20,738 --> 00:21:23,282
he was in there...

329
00:21:23,366 --> 00:21:25,618
with things I can't speak about.

330
00:21:30,206 --> 00:21:32,250
It's like a jungle
out there in them streets.

331
00:21:35,086 --> 00:21:38,923
When I was coming up, you know,
when you come out your door,

332
00:21:39,007 --> 00:21:43,052
the person that you see with a nice car
is a, is a drug dealer.

333
00:21:43,136 --> 00:21:46,305
When you poor,
people can't even afford to, like,

334
00:21:46,389 --> 00:21:49,017
go travel and go see the world
or whatever,

335
00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:51,561
so your neighborhood...
That's really your world.

336
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:56,232
And if the only people you see
that have money or nice things

337
00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:58,192
is the drug dealers, then that's...

338
00:21:58,276 --> 00:22:01,863
It's just natural that that's
what you gonna look up to.

339
00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:05,825
I been there.

340
00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:08,202
I done that.

341
00:22:08,286 --> 00:22:10,747
I survived that.

342
00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:12,290
Everybody around me like,

343
00:22:12,373 --> 00:22:14,625
"Yo, bro, you want to see
your kids grow up.

344
00:22:14,709 --> 00:22:16,711
You want to grow old."

345
00:22:16,794 --> 00:22:18,880
So I was trying to get
in the music business

346
00:22:18,963 --> 00:22:21,716
as a way to just try
to get out of the streets,

347
00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:23,759
you know what I'm saying,
get away from that life.

348
00:22:30,016 --> 00:22:34,562
I started the label
along with my partner Coach K.

349
00:22:36,314 --> 00:22:37,690
Coach K.

350
00:22:37,774 --> 00:22:40,151
I'm cofounder of Quality Control Music.

351
00:22:40,234 --> 00:22:42,111
I managed Gucci Mane.

352
00:22:42,195 --> 00:22:43,863
Before that, Jeezy.

353
00:22:43,946 --> 00:22:46,491
Me and P got together.

354
00:22:46,574 --> 00:22:49,327
When we started this company,
we was dreaming really big.

355
00:22:49,410 --> 00:22:51,662
Our first act was the Migos.

356
00:22:51,746 --> 00:22:53,664
Soon as we signed them, we went right in.

357
00:22:53,748 --> 00:22:55,416
What's up, man? It Quavo's time, man.

358
00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,878
During that time, man,
we was really creating history.

359
00:22:58,961 --> 00:23:01,798
How many number one singles
y'all got now? As QC?

360
00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,342
I mean, Quality Control is culture.

361
00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:07,929
That's kind of the philosophy, man.

362
00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:09,764
It's like, originality

363
00:23:09,847 --> 00:23:11,390
and there's a story attached to that.

364
00:23:11,474 --> 00:23:13,351
Kind of have, like,
a-a little secret sauce

365
00:23:13,434 --> 00:23:15,019
or kind of like a program.

366
00:23:15,103 --> 00:23:18,815
Find talent,
the diamond in the rough talent,

367
00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:23,444
and develop it to become
some of the biggest artists.

368
00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:30,284
If I just see the potential in them,

369
00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:32,662
then we can develop it.

370
00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:36,040
It's the smallest things
that catches us, you know.

371
00:23:36,124 --> 00:23:40,253
It's like we can see a star
before it shines.

372
00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:04,527
Baby was always around.

373
00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:07,238
He used to hang at the studio every day.

374
00:24:07,321 --> 00:24:09,323
He just wasn't no artist.

375
00:24:09,407 --> 00:24:10,741
Oh, you can keep going.

376
00:24:10,825 --> 00:24:12,427
I know that shit ain't gonna never go in.

377
00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:13,911
When you get out, just come up here,

378
00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:15,079
you know what I'm saying?

379
00:24:15,163 --> 00:24:16,390
That nigga can't hit it from the front.

380
00:24:16,414 --> 00:24:18,249
Put your money down, dawg.

381
00:24:18,332 --> 00:24:19,834
- I bet a hundred.
- Whatever.

382
00:24:19,917 --> 00:24:21,294
"Just pop up on us

383
00:24:21,377 --> 00:24:22,378
when you get out."

384
00:24:22,461 --> 00:24:23,754
That's what he did.

385
00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:30,469
Hey!

386
00:24:30,553 --> 00:24:34,765
He was young, but he moved like a O.G.

387
00:24:34,849 --> 00:24:37,268
He caught my eye.

388
00:24:37,351 --> 00:24:39,163
He's like, "You'll just see
a nigga just do one move",

389
00:24:39,187 --> 00:24:40,980
"and it's like,
'Okay, you're a superstar.'

390
00:24:41,063 --> 00:24:42,440
You just... you know."

391
00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:45,401
Lil Baby's naturally different.

392
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,111
In all his Instagram posts, he used to...

393
00:24:47,195 --> 00:24:49,322
All his captions and shit used to be fire.

394
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:51,365
I'm like, "Damn, this hard.
Who said this?"

395
00:24:51,449 --> 00:24:54,160
I done called him before like,
"Hey, who the hell said this?

396
00:24:54,243 --> 00:24:55,803
Wh-Where-where that caption come from?"

397
00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:57,055
He like, "I just thought of it."

398
00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:58,664
He could just write a song

399
00:24:58,748 --> 00:25:01,125
with just fucking 60 captions,
just all captions.

400
00:25:01,209 --> 00:25:02,418
That's a song.

401
00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:05,087
I was like, "Man, Baby,
you need to rap, bro."

402
00:25:05,171 --> 00:25:07,632
He was like, "Man, you crazy.
I'm a street nigga, man."

403
00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:10,259
I don't... um, I don't do
none of that shit."

404
00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:12,094
I said, "For real, man." I said, "Bruh."

405
00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:16,515
I said, "You respected around the city."

406
00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:18,434
"Most of the rappers, you know,

407
00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:20,436
"the street guys is really
who they look up to.

408
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,355
"I don't know why you won't do it.

409
00:25:22,438 --> 00:25:24,357
"Most of these guys telling your story.

410
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,943
You know, your story real."

411
00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:28,861
He just laughed.

412
00:25:29,904 --> 00:25:33,908
Just think if he rapped and

413
00:25:33,991 --> 00:25:35,451
it didn't work.

414
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,828
Now your street credibility's fucked-up.

415
00:25:37,912 --> 00:25:40,206
He was so respected as a dope boy,

416
00:25:40,289 --> 00:25:44,126
as a street cat,
he didn't want to tarnish that.

417
00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:46,504
It's hard to tell somebody

418
00:25:46,587 --> 00:25:50,675
to stop making money, right-now money.

419
00:25:50,758 --> 00:25:53,135
You know, you still got to pay bills.

420
00:25:53,219 --> 00:25:55,096
You still got family.

421
00:25:55,179 --> 00:25:56,847
I ain't want to see him just

422
00:25:56,931 --> 00:25:58,931
get caught back up
and go back to prison, you know?

423
00:25:58,975 --> 00:26:02,520
I used to pay this nigga
to goddamn stay out of the streets.

424
00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:05,147
"Nigga, you can have my money.
Just relax."

425
00:26:05,231 --> 00:26:09,610
I really will sacrifice anything
because I see that it can happen.

426
00:26:09,694 --> 00:26:12,029
"What you finna make today?
20,000? Okay, here.

427
00:26:12,113 --> 00:26:13,447
"20,000. You don't even owe me.

428
00:26:13,531 --> 00:26:15,366
Hey, go home."
I used to tell him to go home.

429
00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:16,969
"You don't even got to go
to the studio," like.

430
00:26:16,993 --> 00:26:19,328
I'm like, "Okay, you don't got to rap.
Here, bruh, go home."

431
00:26:19,412 --> 00:26:22,415
Get the fuck out of the block, bro.
Go chill with your son, nigga."

432
00:26:26,127 --> 00:26:27,437
He could've said,
"Give me a million dollars,"

433
00:26:27,461 --> 00:26:30,256
I would've gave it to him
to stay out the street.

434
00:26:42,018 --> 00:26:43,394
It's a cycle.

435
00:26:46,897 --> 00:26:50,693
You go to jail, you get out,
but you keep hustling

436
00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:52,320
because you don't know nothing else.

437
00:26:52,403 --> 00:26:53,571
You are recording.

438
00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:55,156
- The red light's on.
- Yeah.

439
00:26:56,198 --> 00:26:59,535
When they call that shit a trap,
that shit really a trap.

440
00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:01,537
All right, on your mark!

441
00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:04,808
Your mind trapped,
your brain trapped, your body trapped.

442
00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:05,958
You in a trap.

443
00:27:06,042 --> 00:27:08,085
Get set!

444
00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:12,840
Not knowing it's a whole
nother world only two streets over.

445
00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:14,425
Go!

446
00:27:14,508 --> 00:27:16,594
You don't know. I ain't know.

447
00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:18,929
- Come on, Dominique!
- Come on, Dominique! -

448
00:27:23,184 --> 00:27:25,394
I couldn't go back to prison.

449
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:28,564
I had to at least try.

450
00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:42,244
When I first tried rapping,
I didn't know what I was doing.

451
00:27:43,412 --> 00:27:46,123
I was self-conscious.

452
00:27:46,207 --> 00:27:48,542
Then I started playing around
in the studio

453
00:27:48,626 --> 00:27:50,961
with my buddy Marlo.

454
00:27:51,045 --> 00:27:55,174
Marlo was also in the streets,
and he was trying to rap, too,

455
00:27:55,257 --> 00:27:58,260
so it gave me a better sense of direction.

456
00:28:02,014 --> 00:28:04,350
Marlo.

457
00:28:04,433 --> 00:28:05,768
Come on.

458
00:28:05,851 --> 00:28:07,037
♪ See my dawg brain laying on the street ♪

459
00:28:07,061 --> 00:28:08,354
Play, play the whole verse over.

460
00:28:08,437 --> 00:28:10,398
♪ That shit scarred me ♪

461
00:28:11,399 --> 00:28:13,984
♪ See my dawg's brain
laying on the street ♪

462
00:28:14,068 --> 00:28:15,736
♪ That shit scarred me ♪
Come on.

463
00:28:15,820 --> 00:28:18,364
♪ See my dawg brain laying ♪

464
00:28:18,447 --> 00:28:20,866
♪ See my dawg's brain
laying on the street ♪

465
00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:22,243
♪ That shit scarred me ♪

466
00:28:22,326 --> 00:28:24,120
I made my first song with Marlo.

467
00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:25,704
Keep that.

468
00:28:25,788 --> 00:28:27,248
Play it. Let me know how it sounds.

469
00:28:27,331 --> 00:28:29,625
It was kind of hard,
so that's why I kept rapping.

470
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:31,794
Marlo was a big influence on me rapping.

471
00:28:33,254 --> 00:28:34,839
♪ And kept them real niggas around me ♪

472
00:28:34,922 --> 00:28:36,316
♪ I remember sitting
right there on the block ♪

473
00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:37,901
♪ And I remember
nights I couldn't get right ♪

474
00:28:37,925 --> 00:28:39,593
♪ I remember shit wasn't adding up ♪

475
00:28:39,677 --> 00:28:41,220
♪ I remember having my pistol tucked ♪

476
00:28:41,303 --> 00:28:43,013
♪ When 12 ride by... ♪

477
00:28:43,097 --> 00:28:45,683
Instantly, I started brainstorming.

478
00:28:45,766 --> 00:28:47,601
Marlo was running with Baby.

479
00:28:47,685 --> 00:28:49,687
Him and Baby was cool.

480
00:28:51,147 --> 00:28:53,983
If this his partner
and he trying to rap, too,

481
00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:56,527
then I could just push them together.

482
00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:03,117
So I just told Marlo, I was like,
"Yo, I'll sign you, too."

483
00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:06,245
You know, this shit working for me,

484
00:29:06,328 --> 00:29:09,832
and I'm sort of figuring it out,
so let me, let me empower them.

485
00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:12,168
Let me show them how to get in this game.

486
00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:17,756
Once Baby decided he wanted to rap,

487
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,800
it was like the perfect storm for P,

488
00:29:19,884 --> 00:29:22,970
'cause P was like, "Oh,
I'm ready to put everything into you."

489
00:29:23,053 --> 00:29:24,847
Like, I know Baby.

490
00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:28,058
We done been through
some things before music,

491
00:29:28,142 --> 00:29:30,186
so it was personal to me.

492
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:32,188
A very full flight today.

493
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,231
We do appreciate your cooperation.

494
00:29:34,315 --> 00:29:36,042
Your flight to LaGuardia, New York.
Once again...

495
00:29:36,066 --> 00:29:38,444
I'm in this grind with y'all.

496
00:29:38,527 --> 00:29:40,696
I got to do what I got to do
to get this dude.

497
00:29:40,779 --> 00:29:42,823
You know, I'm trying to break this dude.

498
00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:48,120
This ain't no one-hit-wonder shit.
These niggas gon' keep coming.

499
00:29:48,204 --> 00:29:49,288
First floor.

500
00:29:49,371 --> 00:29:50,515
What up, B? Nice to meet you.

501
00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:53,959
I know you 'bout to be the next big thing,
so I got to...

502
00:29:54,043 --> 00:29:55,419
I said, I'm hands-on with this.

503
00:29:55,503 --> 00:29:57,171
I said, I'm-I'm on the ground with this.

504
00:29:57,254 --> 00:29:59,256
I'm personally touching this.

505
00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:00,966
Lil Baby, do you see this email?

506
00:30:01,050 --> 00:30:02,730
You don't even understand how big this is.

507
00:30:08,015 --> 00:30:09,183
Morning, everybody!

508
00:30:09,266 --> 00:30:11,977
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Charlamagne tha God.

509
00:30:12,061 --> 00:30:13,479
We are The Breakfast Club.

510
00:30:13,562 --> 00:30:15,564
We got some special guests
in the building!

511
00:30:17,858 --> 00:30:20,444
My name is, uh, Lenard McKelvey,

512
00:30:20,528 --> 00:30:23,739
professionally known as
Charlamagne tha God.

513
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,617
Charlamagne tha God interview, take one.

514
00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,077
Soft stick, mark.

515
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,347
The Breakfast Club is just
a nationally syndicated radio show

516
00:30:30,371 --> 00:30:32,164
that comes on in over a hundred markets.

517
00:30:32,248 --> 00:30:36,252
Think we got like 4.5 million
listeners a week or something like that.

518
00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:37,670
Or daily. I don't know.

519
00:30:37,753 --> 00:30:40,422
I just... it's a, it's a,
it's a pretty big deal.

520
00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:42,150
- Jay-Z. Yes.
- Jay-Z, ladies and gentlemen.

521
00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:43,217
Gucci Mane.

522
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,340
- Snoop Dogg!
- What it do?

523
00:30:44,385 --> 00:30:46,262
What's happening, Breakfast Club?

524
00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:47,888
Artists come on Breakfast Club,

525
00:30:47,972 --> 00:30:50,599
immediately their followers
grow on social media,

526
00:30:50,683 --> 00:30:53,602
immediately their streams go up.

527
00:30:53,686 --> 00:30:57,356
People that may not have known
who these individuals were before,

528
00:30:57,439 --> 00:31:00,401
now they gravitate towards them
a little bit more.

529
00:31:00,484 --> 00:31:02,045
A lot of cases, you know,
Breakfast Club is

530
00:31:02,069 --> 00:31:06,073
their first, like,
"mainstream" look, so to speak.

531
00:31:14,999 --> 00:31:16,500
Refreshing wintry vapor

532
00:31:16,584 --> 00:31:18,711
and a ceramic wick for a flavorful...

533
00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:20,129
Two, four.

534
00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:21,439
Come on, man, let me go to sleep.

535
00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:23,343
Get you some rest.
Yeah, I'll get you some rest.

536
00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:24,592
I've been at it.

537
00:31:24,675 --> 00:31:26,010
Baby is closed in.

538
00:31:26,093 --> 00:31:28,137
Like, he's not all on social media.

539
00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:29,847
He don't do a lot of interviews.

540
00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:32,349
Shit, we had to pull...
We have to be pull his...

541
00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:34,518
"Come on," you know, to do interviews

542
00:31:34,602 --> 00:31:36,979
because he-he's just
kind of a private guy.

543
00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:39,106
Ready when you guys are.

544
00:31:39,189 --> 00:31:41,150
- What's up? I'm P.
- And I'm Lil Baby.

545
00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:43,073
Watch me tomorrow morning
on The Breakfast Club

546
00:31:43,152 --> 00:31:44,737
only on Revolt TV.

547
00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:47,531
One more time, just a lot louder, please.

548
00:31:47,615 --> 00:31:49,074
- What's up?
- Absolutely.

549
00:31:49,158 --> 00:31:51,493
Lil Baby, what's happening?

550
00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:53,579
A street nigga transitioning.

551
00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:55,914
You know what I mean?

552
00:31:55,998 --> 00:31:58,876
A brother from the hood,
for real, for real,

553
00:31:58,959 --> 00:32:01,295
who's just making the transition.

554
00:32:01,378 --> 00:32:03,422
He started rapping a year ago.

555
00:32:03,505 --> 00:32:06,008
- Yeah. -CHARLAMAGNE: Why you
didn't want to rap, Lil Baby?

556
00:32:06,091 --> 00:32:08,802
I wasn't really into rap,
you know what I'm saying?

557
00:32:08,886 --> 00:32:11,680
How hard is the transition
from the streets to the, to the,

558
00:32:11,764 --> 00:32:13,390
- to the music industry?
- Super hard.

559
00:32:13,474 --> 00:32:16,477
A lot of stuff I got to do, like,
I don't really care to do, but...

560
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,080
- You got to do it for free.
- Know what I'm saying? I got to do it.

561
00:32:19,104 --> 00:32:20,332
And you do this Breakfast Club interview.

562
00:32:20,356 --> 00:32:22,524
What's the motivation, then?

563
00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:25,027
When you sit him down
in front of a microphone

564
00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:27,529
and you got cameras rolling...

565
00:32:27,613 --> 00:32:28,822
That be the hard part for me.

566
00:32:28,906 --> 00:32:31,283
Like, we got to drive six hours for a show

567
00:32:31,367 --> 00:32:34,036
and I pick up 2,500
on the back end or something.

568
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:38,040
Somebody might be happy to get on the road
and drive ten hours for 2,500,

569
00:32:38,123 --> 00:32:40,417
but me, I'm like, "Man, I ain't...
I don't want to go."

570
00:32:40,501 --> 00:32:42,586
Appreciate you, bro.

571
00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:44,213
There was a few times in the beginning

572
00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:45,798
it was really difficult.

573
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:47,841
He was like, "I ain't with this."

574
00:32:47,925 --> 00:32:51,136
I used to be sending Baby out
on promo runs

575
00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,514
and, um, you know, just all the stuff

576
00:32:53,597 --> 00:32:55,641
that a-a developing artist got to go do.

577
00:32:57,434 --> 00:32:59,019
He used to be calling me back like,

578
00:32:59,103 --> 00:33:02,064
"Boy, I ain't making no money.
It's three people in the crowd."

579
00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:05,275
Where my
Lil Baby fans at in this motherfucker?

580
00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,736
We finna turn this motherfucker up, bro.

581
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:09,321
Lil Baby in your city right now!

582
00:33:11,281 --> 00:33:12,408
What you say?

583
00:33:12,491 --> 00:33:13,992
♪ I can't be toting no handguns ♪

584
00:33:14,076 --> 00:33:15,679
- ♪ Unless that bitch come with a 30 ♪
- What?

585
00:33:15,703 --> 00:33:17,180
♪ I can't be fucking these dog hoes ♪

586
00:33:17,204 --> 00:33:19,373
♪ Unless that bitch come with a buddy... ♪

587
00:33:19,456 --> 00:33:22,501
I used to be like, "You got to go do this."

588
00:33:25,087 --> 00:33:28,424
"Don't think about money right now.

589
00:33:28,507 --> 00:33:31,301
"Just think about putting yourself
in front of a crowd of people."

590
00:33:32,886 --> 00:33:34,972
"Your breakthrough
come from your sacrifice."

591
00:33:35,055 --> 00:33:38,767
For Baby, the sacrifice was

592
00:33:38,851 --> 00:33:42,354
giving up fast money that you getting
every day in the streets...

593
00:33:44,606 --> 00:33:47,151
for a rap career...

594
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,865
that it ain't guaranteed
you gonna make it.

595
00:33:58,454 --> 00:33:59,997
We make sure we doing that.

596
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,666
That way, when you bringing him out...
Like, if I'm, uh...

597
00:34:02,750 --> 00:34:05,878
if I'm, uh, in the crowd,
I-I'm learning with you.

598
00:34:05,961 --> 00:34:07,671
I say "Lil," y'all say "Baby."

599
00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:09,381
Lil. "Baby." Lil. "Baby."

600
00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:11,842
You know, and then by the time
it's time to bring him out,

601
00:34:11,925 --> 00:34:13,719
- it's already a vibe.
- It's already a vibe.

602
00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:17,848
Some of the stuff I'm-a... I'm-a mute it,
'cause I'm-a let you go over the crowd.

603
00:34:18,932 --> 00:34:20,100
Like, yo.

604
00:34:20,184 --> 00:34:22,579
I got to learn how to talk to the crowd.
I don't talk to the crowd.

605
00:34:22,603 --> 00:34:24,247
- Yeah, that's-that's his problem.
- Like, I don't talk to the crowd.

606
00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:25,665
- Like, he really don't.
- I don't say shit.

607
00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:27,500
And even like, like I told you,
some of the shows

608
00:34:27,524 --> 00:34:29,794
- that is there, he walk off.
- I swear to God I don't say shit.

609
00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:31,570
I get... I walk straight off.

610
00:34:31,653 --> 00:34:34,490
Now, he might be like,
"Thank y'all for coming," and walk off.

611
00:34:34,573 --> 00:34:36,492
Yeah, like, why don't you stay
and talk to them?

612
00:34:38,994 --> 00:34:40,430
They the crowd right there.
Y'all gon' get hype.

613
00:34:40,454 --> 00:34:42,164
- I'm-a talk my shit.
- Go on, talk it.

614
00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:43,999
We gon' run through it.

615
00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:46,376
- So... -You can't be scared,
'cause I'm scared already.

616
00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:48,170
Both of us can't be scared.

617
00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:50,693
When I first walked on the stage,
you can see it in the video.

618
00:34:52,633 --> 00:34:54,551
I froze up. I was like, "Oh, shit."

619
00:35:04,812 --> 00:35:08,524
He was given that opportunity
and took a chance.

620
00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:13,153
♪ Yeah ♪

621
00:35:13,237 --> 00:35:15,280
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

622
00:35:16,907 --> 00:35:18,826
I remember one night

623
00:35:18,909 --> 00:35:21,161
and he sent me a song.

624
00:35:21,245 --> 00:35:23,664
And I opened it up and I listened to it,

625
00:35:23,747 --> 00:35:26,333
and I was like, "Oh, shit."

626
00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:28,710
He's got the one now."

627
00:35:28,794 --> 00:35:30,554
You ready, Baby?
Put your headphones on, man,

628
00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:31,856
so you can hear what's going on.

629
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,966
Man, we on the radio.
It's about to go down.

630
00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:36,093
- What song is this?
- Gonna be "My Dawg."

631
00:35:36,176 --> 00:35:37,511
- "My Dawg"?
- Yeah, "My Dawg."

632
00:35:37,594 --> 00:35:39,263
♪ Niggas having pressure 'bout a bitch ♪

633
00:35:39,346 --> 00:35:41,390
♪ I got all my cases dismissed ♪

634
00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,475
♪ I don't go back and forth
on the Internet ♪

635
00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:45,394
♪ Real niggas don't get into that ♪

636
00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:47,197
♪ I'm trying to get
in her mouth, for real ♪

637
00:35:47,271 --> 00:35:48,939
♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth ♪

638
00:35:49,022 --> 00:35:50,691
♪ Me and my dawgs, me and my dawgs ♪

639
00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:52,401
♪ We trying to run in your house ♪

640
00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,361
♪ We want them bricks, we want the money ♪

641
00:35:54,444 --> 00:35:56,363
♪ You can keep all of the pounds ♪

642
00:35:56,446 --> 00:35:57,841
♪ I can't be fucking
these little bitty bitches ♪

643
00:35:57,865 --> 00:35:59,700
♪ 'Cause they be running they mouth ♪

644
00:35:59,783 --> 00:36:01,076
♪ I'm really running H-Town ♪

645
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:02,786
♪ Franck Muller watch for my wrist ♪

646
00:36:02,870 --> 00:36:04,997
♪ Nother 30,000 in my fit ♪

647
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:06,248
♪ Codeine all in my piss... ♪

648
00:36:06,331 --> 00:36:09,293
When I made that song,
I knew it was the one.

649
00:36:09,376 --> 00:36:12,921
I was telling people like,
"This gonna be the one. This the song."

650
00:36:13,005 --> 00:36:14,590
It was like he had found his swag,

651
00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:16,508
and you could hear it all in that record.

652
00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:17,986
- ♪ That's my dawg, for sure ♪
- ♪ My dawg ♪

653
00:36:18,010 --> 00:36:20,178
- ♪ That's my dawg ♪
- ♪ My dawg ♪

654
00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:21,531
- ♪ That's my dawg, for sure ♪
- ♪ My dawg ♪

655
00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:22,890
- ♪ That's my dawg ♪
- ♪ My dawg ♪

656
00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:24,683
- ♪ Me and my dawg ♪
- ♪ Me and my dawg ♪

657
00:36:24,766 --> 00:36:26,852
- ♪ We gave 'em two in a row ♪
- ♪ Two in a row ♪

658
00:36:26,935 --> 00:36:28,562
- ♪ Me and my dawg ♪
- ♪ Me and my dawg ♪

659
00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:32,357
- ♪ We gave 'em two in a row ♪
- ♪ Two in a row... ♪

660
00:36:32,441 --> 00:36:33,942
It was a anthem.

661
00:36:34,026 --> 00:36:38,155
If every person can sing it, rap it,
and they feel like that's them,

662
00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:40,115
those are the type of records that go.

663
00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:42,075
♪ Niggas having pressure 'bout a bitch ♪

664
00:36:42,159 --> 00:36:44,119
♪ I got all my cases dismissed ♪

665
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,455
♪ I don't go back and forth
on the Internet ♪

666
00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:48,373
♪ Real niggas don't get into that ♪

667
00:36:48,457 --> 00:36:50,250
♪ I'm trying to get
in her mouth, for real ♪

668
00:36:50,334 --> 00:36:51,793
♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth ♪

669
00:36:51,877 --> 00:36:54,129
♪ Yeah, me and my dawgs, me and my dawgs ♪

670
00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:55,756
♪ We trying to run in your house. ♪

671
00:36:58,842 --> 00:37:00,969
All right, cool.

672
00:37:01,053 --> 00:37:03,972
When Baby was first emerging on the scene

673
00:37:04,056 --> 00:37:06,600
was when I was first becoming
a journalist.

674
00:37:06,683 --> 00:37:08,143
And my boss was like,

675
00:37:08,226 --> 00:37:09,394
"Yo, QC's coming through

676
00:37:09,478 --> 00:37:10,747
"and they're bringing
this artist Lil Baby.

677
00:37:10,771 --> 00:37:12,411
I want you to come down and just say hi."

678
00:37:13,649 --> 00:37:15,567
I spent a couple hours with him.

679
00:37:15,651 --> 00:37:17,361
I guess, put it, like, right in between...

680
00:37:17,444 --> 00:37:19,655
Lil Baby was not media trained.

681
00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:21,156
He was still very, very raw.

682
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,879
Uh, if we could get a little more blue...

683
00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:26,453
But what I will say is that
sometimes the best artists

684
00:37:26,536 --> 00:37:28,872
create stuff that you don't understand.

685
00:37:28,956 --> 00:37:31,458
And Lil Baby was creating art
that I didn't understand.

686
00:37:31,541 --> 00:37:35,504
It was so hyper-local to him
and everything that he was going through.

687
00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:36,898
♪ Shout-out my label, that's me ♪

688
00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:38,382
♪ I'm in this bitch with TB ♪

689
00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:40,008
♪ I'm in this bitch with 4-Trey ♪

690
00:37:40,092 --> 00:37:41,510
♪ I just poured up me an eight ♪

691
00:37:41,593 --> 00:37:42,970
♪ Real nigga all in my face ♪

692
00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:44,304
♪ 500 racks in my safe... ♪

693
00:37:44,388 --> 00:37:48,183
In those first, uh, videos
like "Freestyle" and "My Dawg,"

694
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:51,561
he's creating this persona
that is distilling

695
00:37:51,645 --> 00:37:55,023
everything that people know
about him in Atlanta:

696
00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:57,275
that's he's-he's
this prolific drug dealer,

697
00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:59,987
that he's this amazing gambler,

698
00:38:00,070 --> 00:38:02,364
that he's respected in the streets.

699
00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:04,366
♪ They ain't my niggas no more ♪

700
00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,827
♪ Hold it down for the four,
in the nine with the woes ♪

701
00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,578
♪ Marlo my dawg, that's for sure... ♪

702
00:38:08,662 --> 00:38:11,331
And it introduced me to a world that

703
00:38:11,415 --> 00:38:14,793
I knew existed, but the way
he was telling those stories,

704
00:38:14,876 --> 00:38:16,253
I was, I was blown away.

705
00:38:16,336 --> 00:38:18,296
♪ Hardly ever in the city ♪

706
00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:19,965
♪ They just know I'm getting bigger ♪

707
00:38:20,048 --> 00:38:21,633
♪ They just know a nigga busy ♪

708
00:38:21,717 --> 00:38:23,969
♪ I been running up them digits, yeah. ♪

709
00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:26,013
- Yeah, that hard. Yeah.
- Yeah. -

710
00:38:28,223 --> 00:38:29,933
If you look at those mixtapes

711
00:38:30,017 --> 00:38:32,144
that he was doing sequentially,

712
00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:35,480
Baby was not that great of a rapper
on that first mixtape.

713
00:38:35,564 --> 00:38:38,066
And within two to three mixtapes,

714
00:38:38,150 --> 00:38:41,111
he's one of the best rappers in his city,

715
00:38:41,194 --> 00:38:42,821
and soon after that, he's one of

716
00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:44,281
the best rappers in the country.

717
00:38:44,364 --> 00:38:46,700
And that only happens
if you wake up every single day

718
00:38:46,783 --> 00:38:49,786
and you're like, "I'm going to the studio,
and I'm just gonna rap."

719
00:38:49,870 --> 00:38:53,165
He just put in way more raps
than everybody else around him.

720
00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,351
♪ When you're rich like this,
you don't check the forecast ♪

721
00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:56,877
♪ Every day, it's gonna rain, yeah ♪

722
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,604
♪ Made a brick through a brick,
I ain't whip up shit ♪

723
00:38:58,628 --> 00:39:00,672
♪ This pure cocaine, yeah ♪

724
00:39:00,756 --> 00:39:02,483
♪ From the streets,
but I got a little sense ♪

725
00:39:02,507 --> 00:39:04,547
♪ But I had to go coupe,
no brain, coupe, no brain ♪

726
00:39:04,593 --> 00:39:06,446
♪ I ain't worried 'bout you,
I'm-a do what I do ♪

727
00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:07,888
♪ And I do my thing, do my thing ♪

728
00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:09,323
♪ Bought her brand-new shoes,
told her... ♪

729
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,476
When you're looking at,
like, the evolution of Baby,

730
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:14,352
I look at something like "Pure Cocaine."

731
00:39:14,436 --> 00:39:16,813
The rapping that he's doing on that
is so elastic.

732
00:39:16,897 --> 00:39:18,774
He's fighting with the beat.

733
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:20,859
He's zooming in and out of pockets.

734
00:39:20,942 --> 00:39:23,236
It's amazing.

735
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,864
Listen to, um, "Close Friends."

736
00:39:25,947 --> 00:39:27,616
That's a ballad. That's an R&B ballad.

737
00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:29,260
You could give that song
to any R&B artist.

738
00:39:29,284 --> 00:39:30,952
Would've been a hit.

739
00:39:31,036 --> 00:39:33,205
- ♪ We started off as close friends ♪
- ♪ Close friends ♪

740
00:39:33,288 --> 00:39:35,540
♪ Somehow you turned into my girlfriend ♪

741
00:39:35,624 --> 00:39:37,000
♪ My girlfriend ♪

742
00:39:37,084 --> 00:39:38,311
♪ We used to tell each other everything ♪

743
00:39:38,335 --> 00:39:40,003
♪ Everything ♪

744
00:39:40,087 --> 00:39:41,606
♪ I even went and bought her
diamond rings ♪

745
00:39:41,630 --> 00:39:43,006
♪ Matching earrings... ♪

746
00:39:43,090 --> 00:39:44,716
I'm the type of person,

747
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,552
I always love expecting the unexpected.

748
00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:50,180
The way he was putting out mixtapes
and putting out verses,

749
00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:54,434
I meant that from the way
he was getting better so fast.

750
00:39:56,436 --> 00:39:58,164
Like, y-you could hear it
on "Drip Too Hard."

751
00:39:58,188 --> 00:39:59,689
Yeah, where y'all DJ?

752
00:40:01,983 --> 00:40:04,152
The flow,

753
00:40:04,236 --> 00:40:06,238
the voice, the cadence, the lyrics,

754
00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:09,199
but it was just something happening.

755
00:40:09,282 --> 00:40:12,953
Every time you heard a Lil Baby project,
every time you heard a Lil Baby verse,

756
00:40:13,036 --> 00:40:15,372
I'm like, "Hold up."

757
00:40:15,455 --> 00:40:17,624
"Lil Baby can rap.

758
00:40:17,707 --> 00:40:20,794
"Like, nah, Lil Baby snapping.

759
00:40:20,877 --> 00:40:22,879
Like, he's spitting spitting."

760
00:40:22,963 --> 00:40:24,422
Put your fucking hands up!

761
00:40:24,506 --> 00:40:26,508
♪ You can get the biggest
Chanel bag in the store ♪

762
00:40:26,591 --> 00:40:27,860
♪ If you want it, I gave 'em the drip ♪

763
00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:29,511
♪ They sucked it up, I got 'em on it ♪

764
00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:31,739
♪ I bought a new Patek,
I had the watch, so I two-toned 'em ♪

765
00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:33,950
♪ Taking these drugs,
I'm gon' be up until the morning ♪

766
00:40:33,974 --> 00:40:36,202
♪ That ain't your car,
you just a leaser, you don't own it ♪

767
00:40:36,226 --> 00:40:38,204
♪ If I'm in the club, I got that fire
when I'm performing ♪

768
00:40:38,228 --> 00:40:40,480
♪ The back end just came in
in all hundreds ♪

769
00:40:40,564 --> 00:40:42,166
♪ Vibes galore, cute shit,
they all on us ♪

770
00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:44,276
♪ I'm from Atlanta,
where young niggas run shit ♪

771
00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:46,736
♪ I know they hating on me,
but I don't read comments ♪

772
00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:48,613
♪ Whenever I tell her to come,
she coming ♪

773
00:40:48,697 --> 00:40:51,408
♪ Whenever it's smoke, we ain't running ♪

774
00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:53,451
♪ Drip too hard, don't stand too close ♪

775
00:40:53,535 --> 00:40:55,453
♪ You gon' fuck around
and drown off this wave ♪

776
00:40:55,537 --> 00:40:57,539
♪ Doing all these shows,
I've been on the road... ♪

777
00:40:57,622 --> 00:41:00,333
I think, with Gunna,
when those two came together,

778
00:41:00,417 --> 00:41:02,857
that was one of the first real moments
where I think everybody

779
00:41:02,919 --> 00:41:06,381
collectively was like,
"Lil Baby is the center of Atlanta now."

780
00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:08,109
♪ Every other night,
another movie get made ♪

781
00:41:08,133 --> 00:41:10,719
♪ Every other night,
another dollar getting made ♪

782
00:41:10,802 --> 00:41:12,679
♪ Every other night
started with a good day ♪

783
00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,806
♪ I feel like a child,
I got boogers in the face ♪

784
00:41:14,890 --> 00:41:17,076
♪ Diamonds dancing in the dial
like this shit is a parade... ♪

785
00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:18,560
We showed brotherly love.

786
00:41:18,643 --> 00:41:19,895
Like, we showed, like,

787
00:41:19,978 --> 00:41:22,397
how two niggas can
come together and get it.

788
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,648
Like, we showing, like,

789
00:41:23,732 --> 00:41:25,168
our younger generation,
like, we can do it.

790
00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:27,527
♪ Drip too hard, charge it to the card ♪

791
00:41:27,611 --> 00:41:29,821
♪ Designer to the ground,
I can barely spell the name ♪

792
00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:31,656
♪ Drip too hard, caution on the floor ♪

793
00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:33,050
♪ You gon' fuck around and drown ♪

794
00:41:33,074 --> 00:41:34,302
♪ Trying to ride a nigga wave ♪

795
00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:35,994
♪ Drip too hard, don't stand too close ♪

796
00:41:36,077 --> 00:41:38,371
♪ You gon' fuck around
and drown off this wave ♪

797
00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:40,335
♪ Doing all these shows,
I've been on the road ♪

798
00:41:40,373 --> 00:41:42,253
♪ I don't care where I go,
long as I get paid. ♪

799
00:41:43,668 --> 00:41:45,003
London, make some noise

800
00:41:45,086 --> 00:41:47,672
for Baby and Gunna one time!

801
00:41:48,924 --> 00:41:50,467
History in the making.

802
00:41:52,052 --> 00:41:53,178
History in the making.

803
00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:55,597
Like, we young Black kings.

804
00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:04,248
Me and my motherfucking brother,
we doing festivals and shit.

805
00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:05,833
You know this shit. Know what I'm saying?

806
00:42:05,857 --> 00:42:07,835
This shit like a dream come true,
you know what I'm saying?

807
00:42:07,859 --> 00:42:09,152
Niggas ain't doing this shit.

808
00:42:09,236 --> 00:42:11,571
♪ Do this all the time,
this ain't no surprise ♪

809
00:42:11,655 --> 00:42:13,657
♪ Every other night,
another movie get made. ♪

810
00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:25,543
Growing up in the hood,

811
00:42:25,627 --> 00:42:28,838
you never imagine being able
to really see the world.

812
00:42:33,677 --> 00:42:35,637
How have you found the U.K. and Europe?

813
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:36,960
At first, I ain't want to come.

814
00:42:37,013 --> 00:42:38,348
I ain't want to come.

815
00:42:38,431 --> 00:42:40,243
I tell Coach, like,
"I ain't going over there."

816
00:42:40,267 --> 00:42:42,269
- Why?
- Once I-I... you know, just...

817
00:42:42,352 --> 00:42:45,230
I never been before,
so, you know, I'm kind of like...

818
00:42:45,313 --> 00:42:47,816
I ain't really that fond
of trying new things.

819
00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:51,278
Did you ever think
you'd be this successful?

820
00:42:51,361 --> 00:42:52,988
To the point we're playing your songs

821
00:42:53,071 --> 00:42:54,197
nonstop in the U.K.

822
00:42:54,281 --> 00:42:58,076
I always thought we would be big,
but I didn't even know what big was.

823
00:43:04,874 --> 00:43:06,293
We get to London,

824
00:43:06,376 --> 00:43:10,422
then I took him to the hood
so he can understand, like,

825
00:43:10,505 --> 00:43:12,549
all hoods are the same;
they just look different.

826
00:43:12,632 --> 00:43:15,719
Or the language barrier might be
a little different.

827
00:43:15,802 --> 00:43:18,638
We went to Amsterdam, same thing.

828
00:43:18,722 --> 00:43:21,641
We went to Paris, same thing.

829
00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:26,247
As we were moving around,
he started seeing it like,

830
00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:29,357
"Oh, man. It's kind of like

831
00:43:29,441 --> 00:43:31,776
the same situation that's
going on back in the hood."

832
00:43:31,860 --> 00:43:33,778
I'm like, "It is, man."

833
00:43:33,862 --> 00:43:36,781
"It's just, you know,
people might look a little different,

834
00:43:36,865 --> 00:43:39,159
"and their language might be
a little bit different,

835
00:43:39,242 --> 00:43:40,952
but it's the same thing."

836
00:43:41,036 --> 00:43:44,122
And I said, "Your story and your music",

837
00:43:44,205 --> 00:43:47,917
it cuts through to all these people."

838
00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:50,920
Everybody, put your hands up!

839
00:43:51,004 --> 00:43:52,922
Put your lights up like this,

840
00:43:53,006 --> 00:43:54,883
and I want the lights off.

841
00:43:54,966 --> 00:43:57,844
Put your lights up if you're ready
to go crazy right now.

842
00:43:57,927 --> 00:43:59,721
Let me hear you say, "Baby!"

843
00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:01,765
Baby! Baby!

844
00:44:01,848 --> 00:44:05,685
Baby! Baby! Baby! Baby!

845
00:44:05,769 --> 00:44:07,562
Baby! Baby!

846
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:09,481
Ladies and gentlemen,

847
00:44:09,564 --> 00:44:15,278
all the way from ATL, I give you Lil Baby!

848
00:44:24,788 --> 00:44:26,706
It's easy to-to hear all the great things

849
00:44:26,790 --> 00:44:28,750
that people say about you.

850
00:44:29,793 --> 00:44:35,256
They'll tell you you're the man one day,
and the next day, opinions change.

851
00:44:36,508 --> 00:44:37,967
You just got to just keep working.

852
00:44:38,051 --> 00:44:42,389
You can't really acknowledge,
uh, how well it's going.

853
00:44:42,472 --> 00:44:44,265
You're gonna have to get better, right?

854
00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:47,227
That's... that's just how the shit works.

855
00:44:47,310 --> 00:44:48,895
You have to get better, right?

856
00:44:48,978 --> 00:44:53,608
I think, as far as, you know,
the legacy of music goes...

857
00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,735
Forget hip-hop.
Let's just talk about music, right?

858
00:44:55,819 --> 00:44:58,363
'Cause really that's how
we all want to be remembered.

859
00:44:58,446 --> 00:45:01,741
Hip-hop and rap is great,
but it's just a genre, you know?

860
00:45:01,825 --> 00:45:04,577
There's plenty of other artists
that have done

861
00:45:04,661 --> 00:45:08,081
the exact same things,
if not more, in other genres.

862
00:45:08,164 --> 00:45:11,000
If you're really about this shit,

863
00:45:11,084 --> 00:45:13,753
then you want to be remembered
in the legacy of music.

864
00:45:15,797 --> 00:45:18,133
It's a pivotal moment for him.

865
00:45:19,342 --> 00:45:21,719
It's just time to keep pushing forward.

866
00:45:32,605 --> 00:45:34,941
♪ Yeah ♪

867
00:45:36,359 --> 00:45:39,737
- ♪ When I see you ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

868
00:45:39,821 --> 00:45:42,049
♪ How these niggas follow the leader,
I'm in the lead, though? ♪

869
00:45:42,073 --> 00:45:44,051
♪ You could've been quiet and silent,
what you agree for? ♪

870
00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:46,303
♪ You 'posed to be having your money,
but now you need me ♪

871
00:45:46,327 --> 00:45:48,455
♪ I ain't ever turn my back
on a real one ♪

872
00:45:48,538 --> 00:45:50,683
♪ Sipping all this purple,
I'm hoping it make me feel better ♪

873
00:45:50,707 --> 00:45:52,810
♪ I don't want a problem with bitches,
so I don't deal with them ♪

874
00:45:52,834 --> 00:45:55,020
♪ He did got away for the moment,
but we gon' still get 'em ♪

875
00:45:55,044 --> 00:45:57,630
♪ They ain't ever taking it from me
'cause I'm a real nigga. ♪

876
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,555
My name's Ethiopia Habtemariam.

877
00:46:05,638 --> 00:46:09,517
I am the chairman and CEO
of Motown Records.

878
00:46:09,601 --> 00:46:11,811
You know, inside of
the music industry or whatever,

879
00:46:11,895 --> 00:46:16,649
you still have people
who didn't really understand Baby.

880
00:46:16,733 --> 00:46:18,651
- Lil Baby!
- Another completely

881
00:46:18,735 --> 00:46:21,779
unspectacular voice on this record
has to be Lil Baby,

882
00:46:21,863 --> 00:46:24,699
whose continued popularity
just boggles my mind,

883
00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:29,287
as he's maybe one of the most nondescript
rappers out there right now.

884
00:46:29,370 --> 00:46:31,307
They didn't understand
what he was saying in records.

885
00:46:31,331 --> 00:46:34,101
You know, you deal with that a lot
sometimes with Southern hip-hop artists.

886
00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:35,335
Lil Baby?

887
00:46:35,418 --> 00:46:37,212
I have no idea what he's saying.

888
00:46:37,295 --> 00:46:39,005
I have none.

889
00:46:39,088 --> 00:46:41,966
Some people are elitist,
some people are, like, real hip-hop heads,

890
00:46:42,050 --> 00:46:44,552
or some gatekeepers just don't see it yet.

891
00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:54,395
They don't see it
until there's a big album.

892
00:46:57,398 --> 00:47:03,196
It was towards the end of 2019.

893
00:47:03,279 --> 00:47:05,198
He was on the road,

894
00:47:05,281 --> 00:47:07,575
working all the time
and creating new music.

895
00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:12,455
We set up these listening sessions

896
00:47:12,539 --> 00:47:16,543
to preview the music that was on My Turn.

897
00:47:16,626 --> 00:47:19,003
Thank you for taking time
out y'all day to come here today.

898
00:47:19,087 --> 00:47:21,631
Baby 'bout to drop his album.

899
00:47:21,714 --> 00:47:24,551
Been working on this album
for over a year now.

900
00:47:24,634 --> 00:47:26,928
How y'all doing?
I appreciate y'all for coming out.

901
00:47:27,011 --> 00:47:28,846
He gon' play some records for y'all,

902
00:47:28,930 --> 00:47:31,224
hopefully one of the biggest albums
of the year.

903
00:47:31,307 --> 00:47:33,560
You know he always gon' deliver
on his end with the hits.

904
00:47:33,643 --> 00:47:37,939
We just need the support
from the partners to... amplify it.

905
00:47:42,318 --> 00:47:44,320
♪ Cook that shit up, Quay ♪

906
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:47,865
People just got really excited.

907
00:47:47,949 --> 00:47:50,076
He had some shit on there,
and everybody knew it.

908
00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:53,288
That's a statement.

909
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:54,914
"It's my turn now."

910
00:47:54,998 --> 00:47:56,398
here to celebrate his new album.

911
00:47:56,457 --> 00:47:57,667
It's called My Turn.

912
00:47:57,750 --> 00:48:00,503
This guy drops a album
that everybody's just,

913
00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:02,046
unanimously across the board, like,

914
00:48:02,130 --> 00:48:04,173
"That's... that was, that was it."

915
00:48:04,257 --> 00:48:05,675
I fucking knew it.

916
00:48:05,758 --> 00:48:07,319
"Back when you was saying
you couldn't sing

917
00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:08,845
"and how I do this shit,

918
00:48:08,928 --> 00:48:10,722
nigga, you knew."

919
00:48:10,805 --> 00:48:14,183
Patiently waited his turn, and, pow,

920
00:48:14,267 --> 00:48:15,810
showed them what he knew.

921
00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:17,312
Another level.

922
00:48:17,395 --> 00:48:18,980
You could do 200 first week.

923
00:48:19,063 --> 00:48:20,773
You got to care about numbers
a little bit.

924
00:48:20,857 --> 00:48:24,068
Everywhere I went,
it felt like a Lil Baby world.

925
00:48:24,152 --> 00:48:25,695
And it was because of My Turn.

926
00:48:25,778 --> 00:48:29,282
Baby came in with his own thing,

927
00:48:29,365 --> 00:48:31,576
which is just, like,
picking the hardest beats,

928
00:48:31,659 --> 00:48:35,038
finding the craziest pockets,
melodies, anthems.

929
00:48:35,121 --> 00:48:36,706
We got the number one artist

930
00:48:36,789 --> 00:48:38,629
in the fucking world
in the building right now.

931
00:48:38,708 --> 00:48:40,209
What's up, DJ?

932
00:48:40,293 --> 00:48:42,021
Now you'll hear someone's song
and you'll be like,

933
00:48:42,045 --> 00:48:43,504
"Ah, that sounds like Baby."

934
00:48:43,588 --> 00:48:46,090
My Turn just went double platinum!

935
00:48:46,174 --> 00:48:48,468
He becomes the only artist
in 2020 to do so.

936
00:48:48,551 --> 00:48:49,844
Only one. Only one.

937
00:48:49,927 --> 00:48:52,055
My Turn from Lil Baby

938
00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:55,016
was the highest selling album
of all of 2020

939
00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:57,560
in the entire music business.

940
00:48:57,644 --> 00:48:59,937
Over, what, 12 billion global streams.

941
00:49:00,021 --> 00:49:01,248
I don't even know what that means.

942
00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:03,316
- How many zeros is that?
- A lot.

943
00:49:03,399 --> 00:49:05,777
He just continued to evolve.

944
00:49:05,860 --> 00:49:08,696
This guy's the truth, you know?
Like, his work ethic is-is up.

945
00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:10,380
♪ I'm the one from the bottom who sold ♪

946
00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:12,909
♪ All my partners them pounds,
used to drive in a Buick. ♪

947
00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:30,802
I wish he had really got to see
the effects of his music.

948
00:49:30,885 --> 00:49:32,136
Stay at home.

949
00:49:32,220 --> 00:49:35,348
That is the order tonight
from four state governors,

950
00:49:35,431 --> 00:49:37,558
as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.

951
00:49:39,894 --> 00:49:41,854
We were supposed to go on tour

952
00:49:41,938 --> 00:49:45,274
in all the festivals
and all the clubs and just...

953
00:49:45,358 --> 00:49:47,151
I almost feel for him in a sense

954
00:49:47,235 --> 00:49:52,240
because I wish the world
was open, um, for him to...

955
00:49:52,323 --> 00:49:54,158
to experience what that should've been.

956
00:49:55,702 --> 00:49:57,912
It's like...

957
00:49:57,995 --> 00:50:03,167
the hardest year maybe in human history
that we've ever been through.

958
00:50:03,251 --> 00:50:06,963
Forget music, just as a,
as a, as a people.

959
00:50:07,046 --> 00:50:11,884
Like, the hardest time to ever
connect with people, relate to people.

960
00:50:14,846 --> 00:50:18,057
It was clearly the biggest
rap project of the year,

961
00:50:18,141 --> 00:50:21,018
and what a tough time to deliver that.

962
00:50:30,611 --> 00:50:35,032
Being in quarantine
made me think about what really matters.

963
00:50:38,745 --> 00:50:41,122
I had the biggest album in the world,

964
00:50:41,205 --> 00:50:43,207
but something still felt empty.

965
00:50:44,917 --> 00:50:47,128
It made me look inwards.

966
00:50:47,211 --> 00:50:51,299
It made me realize all the awards,
all the numbers,

967
00:50:51,382 --> 00:50:53,384
it don't mean anything.

968
00:51:12,612 --> 00:51:14,614
Demonstrators gathering in Minneapolis

969
00:51:14,697 --> 00:51:16,699
to protest the death of a Black man.

970
00:51:16,783 --> 00:51:20,870
Video shows one officer kneeling
on Floyd's neck for several minutes,

971
00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:23,289
even after he pleaded
that he couldn't breathe.

972
00:51:23,372 --> 00:51:24,499
What began as a crowd of...

973
00:51:24,582 --> 00:51:27,251
This ain't something that's new to me.

974
00:51:27,335 --> 00:51:29,420
It wasn't my first time seeing it.

975
00:51:29,504 --> 00:51:31,214
I done seen the worst of the worst.

976
00:51:31,297 --> 00:51:32,590
Reportedly fired tear gas...

977
00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:36,219
I done been in real physical
altercations with police.

978
00:51:36,302 --> 00:51:38,095
I been to prison.

979
00:51:38,179 --> 00:51:40,556
You know, they do you any kind of way.

980
00:51:42,725 --> 00:51:44,185
No justice, no peace!

981
00:51:44,268 --> 00:51:45,728
No justice, no peace!

982
00:51:45,812 --> 00:51:47,063
Being Black is not a crime!

983
00:51:47,146 --> 00:51:48,815
Same story every time!

984
00:51:48,898 --> 00:51:51,234
Being Black is not a crime!

985
00:51:51,317 --> 00:51:54,195
Don't shoot! Hands up!
Don't shoot! Hands up!

986
00:51:54,278 --> 00:51:56,239
Don't shoot!

987
00:51:56,322 --> 00:51:59,867
Hands up! Don't shoot!
Hands up! Don't shoot!

988
00:51:59,951 --> 00:52:02,286
Hands up! Don't shoot!

989
00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:05,373
No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!

990
00:52:05,456 --> 00:52:06,916
No justice, no peace!

991
00:52:06,999 --> 00:52:09,293
Being Black is not a crime!

992
00:52:09,377 --> 00:52:13,130
I think I got the same role
as every other Black person.

993
00:52:15,591 --> 00:52:18,469
Stick together, stand up
for what we believe in.

994
00:52:18,553 --> 00:52:21,389
And you got to voice it and speak it.

995
00:52:48,416 --> 00:52:52,670
I try to make sure
I put real life in my music.

996
00:52:52,753 --> 00:52:54,922
We are tired.

997
00:52:55,006 --> 00:52:57,550
We are tired of being beaten by policemen.

998
00:52:57,633 --> 00:53:00,803
We're tired of seeing our people
locked up in jail over and over again.

999
00:53:12,690 --> 00:53:17,570
We've been going through
the same shit decade after decade.

1000
00:53:17,653 --> 00:53:19,572
Dramatic videotape
obtained by Channel Five...

1001
00:53:19,655 --> 00:53:23,451
Obviously, we feel the, uh, evidence
warranted a conviction.

1002
00:53:23,534 --> 00:53:26,454
The violence erupted after
the acquittal of four white policemen

1003
00:53:26,537 --> 00:53:28,831
in the beating trial
of Black motorist Rodney King.

1004
00:53:28,915 --> 00:53:30,833
No justice, no peace!

1005
00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:36,797
I'm just the new generation
to experience it.

1006
00:53:40,426 --> 00:53:42,720
The grand jury would not...

1007
00:53:42,803 --> 00:53:44,680
Grand jury declined to bring charges

1008
00:53:44,764 --> 00:53:49,977
against a white police officer
in the death of an unarmed Black man.

1009
00:53:52,104 --> 00:53:54,774
Surveillance video of
Ahmaud Arbery just before he was shot...

1010
00:53:54,857 --> 00:53:56,293
The man told the officer,
"I can't breathe."

1011
00:53:56,317 --> 00:53:57,944
No one has been held accountable.

1012
00:53:58,027 --> 00:53:59,445
This is injustice.

1013
00:54:03,115 --> 00:54:04,825
With my music,

1014
00:54:04,909 --> 00:54:07,662
I want to show people
what's going on in our world.

1015
00:54:13,501 --> 00:54:15,711
And what's continuing to go on.

1016
00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:20,925
I can't breathe!

1017
00:54:21,008 --> 00:54:22,551
I can't breathe!

1018
00:54:22,635 --> 00:54:24,637
♪ Trade my four-by-four for a G 63 ♪

1019
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:26,097
♪ Ain't no more free Lil Steve ♪

1020
00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:28,100
♪ I gave 'em chance
and chance and chance again ♪

1021
00:54:28,182 --> 00:54:29,326
♪ I even done told them please ♪

1022
00:54:29,350 --> 00:54:30,869
♪ I find it crazy
the police'll shoot you ♪

1023
00:54:30,893 --> 00:54:33,396
♪ And know that you dead
but still tell you to freeze ♪

1024
00:54:33,479 --> 00:54:35,082
♪ Fucked-up, I seen what I seen,
I guess that mean ♪

1025
00:54:35,106 --> 00:54:36,750
♪ Hold him down
if he say he can't breathe ♪

1026
00:54:36,774 --> 00:54:39,127
♪ It's too many mothers that's grieving,
they killing us for no reason ♪

1027
00:54:39,151 --> 00:54:42,297
♪ Been going on for too long to get even,
throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas ♪

1028
00:54:42,321 --> 00:54:43,840
♪ I went to court
and they sent me to prison ♪

1029
00:54:43,864 --> 00:54:45,759
♪ My mama was crushed
when they said I can't leave ♪

1030
00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:47,469
♪ First I was drunk,
then I sobered up quick ♪

1031
00:54:47,493 --> 00:54:49,221
♪ When I heard all that time
that they gave to Taleeb ♪

1032
00:54:49,245 --> 00:54:50,997
♪ He got a life sentence plus... ♪

1033
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,165
Like throwing an ice-cold
glass of water on somebody.

1034
00:54:53,249 --> 00:54:55,292
You didn't expect that, like, "Oh, shit."

1035
00:54:55,376 --> 00:54:58,146
So now you got to wake up to Lil Baby,
but also you got to really pay attention

1036
00:54:58,170 --> 00:55:00,148
to what Lil Baby's saying
because it's him saying it.

1037
00:55:00,172 --> 00:55:01,441
♪ Every colored person ain't dumb ♪

1038
00:55:01,465 --> 00:55:02,925
♪ And all whites not racist ♪

1039
00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:04,635
♪ I be judging by the mind and heart ♪

1040
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,387
♪ I ain't really into faces ♪

1041
00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:08,764
"Bigger Picture" is one of
those time stamp records, man.

1042
00:55:08,848 --> 00:55:10,182
Like, you gonna hear that record,

1043
00:55:10,266 --> 00:55:12,226
and you gonna remember
the pandemic of 2020.

1044
00:55:12,309 --> 00:55:14,871
You gonna remember how Black Lives Matter
was flooding the street.

1045
00:55:14,895 --> 00:55:16,856
♪ Every video I see on my conscience ♪

1046
00:55:16,939 --> 00:55:18,458
♪ I got power,
now I got to say something ♪

1047
00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:19,960
♪ Corrupted police been
the problem where I'm from ♪

1048
00:55:19,984 --> 00:55:22,069
♪ But I'd be lying
if I said it was all of them ♪

1049
00:55:22,153 --> 00:55:23,588
♪ I ain't do this for the trend,
I don't follow them ♪

1050
00:55:23,612 --> 00:55:25,132
♪ Altercations with the law,
had a lot of them ♪

1051
00:55:25,156 --> 00:55:26,800
♪ People speaking for the people,
I'm proud of them ♪

1052
00:55:26,824 --> 00:55:28,760
♪ Stick together,
we can get it up out of them... ♪

1053
00:55:28,784 --> 00:55:30,161
I don't think you get that record

1054
00:55:30,244 --> 00:55:34,331
without those five projects
coming out prior,

1055
00:55:34,415 --> 00:55:36,751
'cause his pen was sharp,
you know what I mean?

1056
00:55:36,834 --> 00:55:37,960
Like, his pen was sharp.

1057
00:55:38,044 --> 00:55:40,171
He was just, like, just focused.

1058
00:55:40,254 --> 00:55:42,054
His energy was different.
You could just tell.

1059
00:55:42,089 --> 00:55:43,424
He was just looking at the world.

1060
00:55:43,507 --> 00:55:45,926
He was like, "I'm-a write about that."

1061
00:55:46,010 --> 00:55:48,012
"I done, I done did all the street stuff.

1062
00:55:48,095 --> 00:55:50,014
I'm-a write about that."

1063
00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:51,265
Wow.

1064
00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:53,934
Sign of a true artist, man.

1065
00:55:54,018 --> 00:55:55,311
I can't breathe!

1066
00:55:55,394 --> 00:55:57,063
I can't breathe!

1067
00:55:57,146 --> 00:55:59,231
I can't breathe!

1068
00:55:59,315 --> 00:56:01,984
Still gonna be tied
to that kind of movement

1069
00:56:02,068 --> 00:56:04,403
for the rest of my life.

1070
00:56:04,487 --> 00:56:07,031
This ain't gonna be the last George Floyd.

1071
00:56:09,909 --> 00:56:13,204
It already happened so many times since.

1072
00:56:20,795 --> 00:56:22,588
When it comes to these big moments,

1073
00:56:22,671 --> 00:56:26,550
a lot of times, artists like Baby...
Where he's from, what he's rapping about...

1074
00:56:26,634 --> 00:56:28,219
Get shut out.

1075
00:56:28,302 --> 00:56:29,942
There are these things like Rolling Stone

1076
00:56:30,012 --> 00:56:31,931
and The New York Times and Billboard

1077
00:56:32,014 --> 00:56:35,351
and all of these traditionally white
publications, where,

1078
00:56:35,434 --> 00:56:38,896
hey, working there,
it's so hard to convince people, like,

1079
00:56:38,979 --> 00:56:42,149
"No, this is the most important
artist right now."

1080
00:56:42,233 --> 00:56:46,153
But when you do see
a Black artist cut through,

1081
00:56:46,237 --> 00:56:47,696
that means something.

1082
00:56:52,660 --> 00:56:55,496
I just went in there like
a blank slate of being like,

1083
00:56:55,579 --> 00:56:57,456
"I just want to know
what Lil Baby's like."

1084
00:56:57,540 --> 00:57:00,626
I had no idea what the story
would be at that point.

1085
00:57:01,919 --> 00:57:06,257
Coach picks me up, I go to QC,
and when Baby gets there,

1086
00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:08,467
one of the hardest interviews
I've ever done.

1087
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,864
I'll remember that day forever because
I had a really, really good conversation

1088
00:57:12,888 --> 00:57:15,141
with a very, very interesting artist.

1089
00:57:15,224 --> 00:57:20,479
And I captured this moment
where it's just, like, two Black men,

1090
00:57:20,563 --> 00:57:23,983
similar in age
but different in every other way,

1091
00:57:24,066 --> 00:57:27,403
trying to talk about one of the most

1092
00:57:27,486 --> 00:57:32,283
chaotic, brutal, devastating moments
in American history.

1093
00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:34,201
This is a look now at the scene

1094
00:57:34,285 --> 00:57:36,954
where Rayshard Brooks
was fatally shot Friday night.

1095
00:57:37,997 --> 00:57:43,294
The death of Rayshard Brooks
was still very, very recent.

1096
00:57:43,377 --> 00:57:48,591
And when I'm riding through Atlanta
with Lil Baby,

1097
00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:52,052
you're realizing Lil Baby's
childhood neighborhood

1098
00:57:52,136 --> 00:57:54,138
is five minutes away.

1099
00:57:58,184 --> 00:58:01,228
When I went to the Wendy's,
it was, it was a raw emotion.

1100
00:58:01,312 --> 00:58:05,232
I was just like, "This is eerie."

1101
00:58:05,316 --> 00:58:07,401
And Lil Baby said something
to the effect of, like,

1102
00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:11,405
"Yo, somebody's died
everywhere we've gone today."

1103
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,324
There was a distance that he had.

1104
00:58:16,327 --> 00:58:20,164
Because Rayshard Brooks
is not the first Black man that

1105
00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:21,665
Lil Baby has heard of being killed.

1106
00:58:21,749 --> 00:58:23,083
Uh, not the tenth,

1107
00:58:23,167 --> 00:58:25,127
it's probably not the hundredth
or the thousandth.

1108
00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:26,253
This is his life.

1109
00:58:28,047 --> 00:58:31,008
And I think that's why
I wanted to profile Lil Baby,

1110
00:58:31,091 --> 00:58:34,553
not just because of the success
that he was having as a rapper,

1111
00:58:34,637 --> 00:58:37,014
but because, when he comes out
with "The Bigger Picture,"

1112
00:58:37,097 --> 00:58:38,807
of course it cuts through.

1113
00:58:40,559 --> 00:58:42,811
He comes from a disadvantaged background.

1114
00:58:42,895 --> 00:58:44,355
He's a former drug dealer.

1115
00:58:44,438 --> 00:58:49,318
He's somebody that a racist system
would be very, very quick to profile.

1116
00:58:49,401 --> 00:58:52,488
He's the perfect person
to talk about that moment

1117
00:58:52,571 --> 00:58:54,615
because he's lived it.

1118
00:58:56,617 --> 00:58:59,370
And I don't think "The Bigger Picture"
is a protest song.

1119
00:58:59,453 --> 00:59:01,664
I just think it's a song

1120
00:59:01,747 --> 00:59:05,167
that's about Lil Baby,
and Lil Baby quite easily

1121
00:59:05,251 --> 00:59:09,088
could've been any of the people
that were murdered that summer.

1122
00:59:14,927 --> 00:59:17,012
Mm-hmm?

1123
00:59:17,096 --> 00:59:20,724
You know that man who died, George Floyd?

1124
00:59:20,808 --> 00:59:22,726
The one who couldn't breathe?

1125
00:59:22,810 --> 00:59:25,646
Right, the one who the police killed?

1126
00:59:25,729 --> 00:59:26,939
Mm-hmm.

1127
00:59:27,022 --> 00:59:29,275
His daughter, she's turning six years old

1128
00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:31,694
and she's having a birthday party.

1129
00:59:32,695 --> 00:59:35,239
I'm gonna pay for her birthday party.

1130
00:59:35,322 --> 00:59:38,617
So you and Loyal, we just gonna
show our face and then come back.

1131
00:59:38,701 --> 00:59:39,910
All right.

1132
00:59:39,994 --> 00:59:42,413
All right, I'll be home in a minute.

1133
00:59:56,135 --> 01:00:01,348
♪ Just the way you are ♪

1134
01:00:01,432 --> 01:00:03,851
♪ And when you smile... ♪

1135
01:00:11,567 --> 01:00:14,028
I feel like I have a responsibility

1136
01:00:14,111 --> 01:00:15,654
to keep fighting

1137
01:00:15,738 --> 01:00:18,073
and make sure the world is a better place

1138
01:00:18,157 --> 01:00:20,492
for the generation I'm gonna leave on.

1139
01:00:47,811 --> 01:00:49,396
What's up, now?

1140
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:50,647
What's going on?

1141
01:00:50,731 --> 01:00:51,982
How you living?

1142
01:00:52,066 --> 01:00:55,569
For Lil Baby, music got him out.

1143
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:56,904
Doing all right, though?

1144
01:00:56,987 --> 01:00:58,882
Hell yeah, I'm all right, man.
I can't complain at all.

1145
01:00:58,906 --> 01:01:02,368
Man, I'm just happy to be around,
be able to do what a nigga doing.

1146
01:01:02,451 --> 01:01:04,119
Man, I can't complain.

1147
01:01:04,203 --> 01:01:07,498
The sad part is, like,
there's a million Lil Babys in America,

1148
01:01:07,581 --> 01:01:11,251
wishing they could escape a system
that doesn't want them to escape.

1149
01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:14,171
Each one. Count it.

1150
01:01:14,254 --> 01:01:18,342
Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50,

1151
01:01:18,425 --> 01:01:20,886
60...

1152
01:01:20,969 --> 01:01:23,389
70, 80,

1153
01:01:23,472 --> 01:01:25,057
90, 100.

1154
01:01:25,140 --> 01:01:26,433
- 100,000.
- Well, that's 100.

1155
01:01:26,517 --> 01:01:29,436
That's 100,000,
then this 100,000, how much it is?

1156
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,939
- 200,000.
- 200,000.

1157
01:01:34,191 --> 01:01:36,652
- Mental math.
- Mental math.

1158
01:01:37,653 --> 01:01:39,279
Not everybody explodes.

1159
01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:40,906
Not everybody can.

1160
01:01:44,868 --> 01:01:48,539
You can see in, like,
Lil Baby's early music,

1161
01:01:48,622 --> 01:01:50,582
there's Marlo.

1162
01:01:50,666 --> 01:01:52,266
Run it back from the top. We're rolling.

1163
01:01:52,292 --> 01:01:54,020
- Let's get it, man!
- We're rolling. We're rolling.

1164
01:01:54,044 --> 01:01:55,587
- We're rolling.
- Let's get this now.

1165
01:01:55,671 --> 01:01:57,256
Look in the camera. Talk to the camera.

1166
01:01:57,339 --> 01:01:59,299
- ♪ Bitch, wait, fuck a mixtape ♪
- Let's get it.

1167
01:01:59,383 --> 01:02:00,884
♪ I got plenty cake... ♪

1168
01:02:00,968 --> 01:02:02,428
One of the first projects

1169
01:02:02,511 --> 01:02:05,097
that Lil Baby came out with,
Marlo was on it.

1170
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:07,182
♪ She done sucked me up
for them brand-new J's ♪

1171
01:02:07,266 --> 01:02:08,993
- ♪ Trap nigga, six phones... ♪
- MAN: Lil Baby.

1172
01:02:09,017 --> 01:02:10,370
Give me a good one. Give me a good one.

1173
01:02:10,394 --> 01:02:13,605
But rap money is a very slow road.

1174
01:02:13,689 --> 01:02:16,108
For Marlo, it didn't happen as fast.

1175
01:02:17,401 --> 01:02:20,571
And I think that,

1176
01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:23,782
unfortunately, Marlo ended up becoming...

1177
01:02:24,950 --> 01:02:26,869
a cautionary tale.

1178
01:02:37,921 --> 01:02:39,798
Yet another shooting in Atlanta

1179
01:02:39,882 --> 01:02:42,718
late last night, as the city
is working to investigate

1180
01:02:42,801 --> 01:02:46,763
a wave of violent crime
since the beginning of 2020.

1181
01:02:46,847 --> 01:02:49,016
When Baby made it rapping,

1182
01:02:49,099 --> 01:02:51,435
he was able to get out of the trap.

1183
01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:55,230
Marlo was right there with him,

1184
01:02:55,314 --> 01:02:58,734
but his career just didn't
take off the same way.

1185
01:02:58,817 --> 01:03:01,028
He was still in the street.

1186
01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:03,489
The incident occurred on I-285

1187
01:03:03,572 --> 01:03:07,159
at approximately 11:30 p.m.
Saturday evening.

1188
01:03:09,786 --> 01:03:12,289
He usually always pick up the phone for me

1189
01:03:12,372 --> 01:03:15,292
on the first ring.

1190
01:03:15,375 --> 01:03:18,420
I called it like three times,
and he ain't answer it.

1191
01:03:23,759 --> 01:03:26,678
I just started trying
to make some phone calls,

1192
01:03:26,762 --> 01:03:31,475
and they told me
there was a car on the highway

1193
01:03:31,558 --> 01:03:33,227
shot up.

1194
01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:37,689
And it looked like it was his car.

1195
01:03:40,651 --> 01:03:43,153
And they think he was in it.

1196
01:03:48,033 --> 01:03:49,993
Several reports have emerged

1197
01:03:50,077 --> 01:03:53,914
that the victim was
rising Atlanta rapper Lil Marlo.

1198
01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:56,041
He was 30 years old.

1199
01:03:59,044 --> 01:04:02,339
I think he was
pronounced dead on the scene.

1200
01:04:03,590 --> 01:04:07,010
We was just standing on the bridge
just speechless.

1201
01:04:14,017 --> 01:04:16,770
That... that was a tough one.

1202
01:04:18,730 --> 01:04:20,774
♪ All I needed was a chance ♪

1203
01:04:20,857 --> 01:04:23,068
♪ Show the world who I am ♪

1204
01:04:23,151 --> 01:04:25,988
♪ Watch me run me up them bands. ♪

1205
01:04:26,071 --> 01:04:27,364
Marlo.

1206
01:04:41,295 --> 01:04:44,006
You just see your man
slumped on the expressway,

1207
01:04:44,089 --> 01:04:45,799
you kind of feel some type of way.

1208
01:04:45,882 --> 01:04:47,801
But...

1209
01:04:47,884 --> 01:04:50,220
if you know the situation
and you know what's going on

1210
01:04:50,304 --> 01:04:53,473
and you know in the back of your head,
you know they still come with it,

1211
01:04:53,557 --> 01:04:56,143
that's a, that's a part of the streets.

1212
01:04:56,226 --> 01:04:58,645
Some people get killed.

1213
01:05:03,525 --> 01:05:06,153
I know that that come with
being in the street already.

1214
01:05:06,236 --> 01:05:07,839
It ain't like Marlo got killed
and I was like,

1215
01:05:07,863 --> 01:05:09,823
"Damn, boy, you could
really get killed out here."

1216
01:05:09,865 --> 01:05:10,949
I know this.

1217
01:05:11,033 --> 01:05:12,826
This ain't nothing I don't know.

1218
01:05:18,999 --> 01:05:21,460
Marlo a real case of, like,

1219
01:05:21,543 --> 01:05:23,712
the streets and the rapping...

1220
01:05:27,174 --> 01:05:28,800
two whole different world.

1221
01:05:28,884 --> 01:05:32,512
And he more so got caught up
in the streets than the rapping.

1222
01:05:33,555 --> 01:05:35,474
He was always supportive, man.

1223
01:05:35,557 --> 01:05:37,559
He was always happy for Baby.

1224
01:05:38,977 --> 01:05:41,938
"Bruh, even if I don't make it,

1225
01:05:42,022 --> 01:05:44,066
if you make it, all us done made it."

1226
01:06:10,509 --> 01:06:14,471
You know, I think about
how you don't get to pick or choose

1227
01:06:14,554 --> 01:06:16,890
the family that you're born into.

1228
01:06:22,396 --> 01:06:26,441
Right? You don't get to pick and choose
the environment that you're born into.

1229
01:06:36,827 --> 01:06:41,915
You can either become
a result of that environment...

1230
01:06:45,210 --> 01:06:49,798
or you can be the antithesis
of what you've seen and experienced.

1231
01:06:56,430 --> 01:07:01,059
Not only is he a survivor
but he's gone through hardships,

1232
01:07:01,143 --> 01:07:04,604
learned lessons and grew from it.

1233
01:07:13,947 --> 01:07:15,741
Y'all don't got no coats?

1234
01:07:17,909 --> 01:07:21,204
No, I don't have no coat.
No, I don't got no coat.

1235
01:07:21,288 --> 01:07:23,790
Y'all don't got no coats?
You don't got no coat, little man?

1236
01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:26,918
Hey, Rashad!

1237
01:07:34,843 --> 01:07:37,596
A second chance at life.

1238
01:07:39,306 --> 01:07:41,183
The willingness to go after it.

1239
01:07:46,646 --> 01:07:48,815
Baby represents the American dream.

1240
01:07:55,781 --> 01:07:58,158
Hey, what-what's your son,
what's your son name?

1241
01:07:58,241 --> 01:08:00,076
What's your son name?

1242
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,120
- What's my what?
- Your son name.

1243
01:08:02,204 --> 01:08:03,914
- Brandon.
- How he doing?

1244
01:08:03,997 --> 01:08:05,081
Fine.

1245
01:08:05,165 --> 01:08:07,000
I used to go to school with him at Brown.

1246
01:08:07,083 --> 01:08:08,210
- Yeah?
- He used to be...

1247
01:08:08,293 --> 01:08:09,520
Or Britain. Brandon and Britain.

1248
01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:11,022
- Britain. Britain.
- Britain, not Brandon.

1249
01:08:11,046 --> 01:08:12,464
Britain is in the Navy.

1250
01:08:12,547 --> 01:08:14,567
- For real? He... I could see him
in the Navy, too. -Yeah.

1251
01:08:14,591 --> 01:08:16,152
- I could see Britain...
- He went one year

1252
01:08:16,176 --> 01:08:17,695
at Georgia Southern, but he's in the Navy.

1253
01:08:17,719 --> 01:08:19,113
- I could see him in the Navy, too.
- Yeah.

1254
01:08:19,137 --> 01:08:20,823
He doing good.
He's a air traffic controller.

1255
01:08:20,847 --> 01:08:22,325
Tell him, um, Dominique asked about him.

1256
01:08:22,349 --> 01:08:23,350
- Dominique?
- Yeah.

1257
01:08:23,433 --> 01:08:24,494
- What's your last name?
- Jones.

1258
01:08:24,518 --> 01:08:25,519
Jones?

1259
01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:26,829
He gonna know who I am, though.

1260
01:08:26,853 --> 01:08:29,272
Okay, Dominique Jones.
Okay, I'm-a tell him.

1261
01:08:41,576 --> 01:08:44,579
Ain't nothing like where
you come from, you know what I'm saying?

1262
01:08:46,706 --> 01:08:48,786
But I get the chills
from that type of stuff, though.

1263
01:08:48,834 --> 01:08:50,502
You know what I'm saying?

1264
01:08:52,379 --> 01:08:55,090
I-I got more love than anything.

1265
01:08:55,173 --> 01:08:57,093
I done helped some of them
with their businesses.

1266
01:08:57,133 --> 01:09:00,512
They... it's like check-up, like...

1267
01:09:00,595 --> 01:09:02,681
"What you doing? What you been up to?"

1268
01:09:02,764 --> 01:09:05,141
Or I see, like, the people I grew up with,

1269
01:09:05,225 --> 01:09:07,811
I used to be bad as hell,
now I ain't seen them in a minute.

1270
01:09:10,438 --> 01:09:12,941
Niggas I go to school with...

1271
01:09:13,024 --> 01:09:15,652
they been to prison,
who out of prison, like...

1272
01:09:15,735 --> 01:09:17,713
I could've went that route,
I could've went this route.

1273
01:09:17,737 --> 01:09:19,322
This could be my reality.

1274
01:09:19,406 --> 01:09:21,566
That shit give me the chills,
you know what I'm saying?

1275
01:09:31,418 --> 01:09:33,044
I came from the trap.

1276
01:09:33,128 --> 01:09:36,214
Raised right here in the trap,
three blocks up.

1277
01:09:36,298 --> 01:09:38,258
Baby driving the hood,
riding around the hood.

1278
01:09:38,341 --> 01:09:39,843
Everybody know Baby.

1279
01:09:42,512 --> 01:09:43,847
I ain't seen nobody left.

1280
01:09:43,930 --> 01:09:45,932
I seen them pass away.

1281
01:09:47,309 --> 01:09:49,603
I ain't seen nobody left.

1282
01:09:49,686 --> 01:09:51,062
I haven't.

1283
01:09:54,482 --> 01:09:56,067
What Baby saying is

1284
01:09:56,151 --> 01:09:59,446
that regardless what you came from,
whatever, y-you don't have to be that.

1285
01:09:59,529 --> 01:10:04,117
There's other methods and ways
and things you can do to make money.

1286
01:10:06,286 --> 01:10:07,495
He the best rapper.

1287
01:10:07,579 --> 01:10:09,039
He the best rapper ever.

1288
01:10:09,122 --> 01:10:11,541
I never heard lyrics
come from a rapper like that.

1289
01:10:11,625 --> 01:10:15,921
He don't just talk thug,
gangster, pow-pow-pow.

1290
01:10:16,004 --> 01:10:18,548
Each one of his songs got a meaning.

1291
01:10:19,799 --> 01:10:21,843
And I can rap them all.

1292
01:10:24,429 --> 01:10:25,680
I'll sing it, too.

1293
01:10:27,098 --> 01:10:28,683
And I know them all.

1294
01:10:33,813 --> 01:10:36,232
♪ Seems like I been running out of time ♪

1295
01:10:36,316 --> 01:10:39,778
♪ Yeah, we still so young
and got so much to find ♪

1296
01:10:39,861 --> 01:10:41,613
♪ We can't never let 'em break our mind ♪

1297
01:10:41,696 --> 01:10:45,367
♪ We got to stay strong,
conquer and don't divide ♪

1298
01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:48,036
♪ I come at peace,
my heart already set on fire ♪

1299
01:10:48,119 --> 01:10:49,454
- ♪ If it ain't color ♪
- Ooh!

1300
01:10:49,537 --> 01:10:51,182
♪ What's the difference
between you and I? ♪

1301
01:10:51,206 --> 01:10:53,833
♪ I'll let you decide or come up
with some repeated lies ♪

1302
01:10:53,917 --> 01:10:56,252
♪ I'm just tired of my kind
got to be the one to die ♪

1303
01:10:56,336 --> 01:10:59,381
♪ Looking in the sky,
I know you with me, I can't cry ♪

1304
01:10:59,464 --> 01:11:02,133
♪ Standing what I stand on,
I can't never switch sides ♪

1305
01:11:02,217 --> 01:11:05,053
♪ Sometimes I just wanna
pop out on 'em, flip by ♪

1306
01:11:05,136 --> 01:11:07,931
♪ But I put my head on,
I pray I stay from off that route ♪

1307
01:11:08,014 --> 01:11:10,809
♪ Thinking 'bout my niggas,
I ain't seem 'em in a while ♪

1308
01:11:10,892 --> 01:11:13,353
♪ Thinking 'bout my son,
I just had another child ♪

1309
01:11:13,436 --> 01:11:16,356
♪ I been thinking back on bro like,
"What the fuck we gon' do now?" ♪

1310
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:17,732
♪ On this road to redemption ♪

1311
01:11:17,816 --> 01:11:20,110
♪ This shit get rocky and it's wild. ♪

1312
01:11:44,968 --> 01:11:47,470
So we're gonna start here in this chair.

1313
01:11:47,554 --> 01:11:49,014
We are in L.A.

1314
01:11:49,097 --> 01:11:52,267
He is shooting because
Grammy nominations come out on Tuesday.

1315
01:11:52,350 --> 01:11:54,602
So he's doing a photo shoot,
and then he's also doing

1316
01:11:54,686 --> 01:11:57,272
an interview that will go out
to all the Grammy voters.

1317
01:12:00,150 --> 01:12:02,527
I think he's already cemented himself

1318
01:12:02,610 --> 01:12:08,199
as a super important part of this time,

1319
01:12:08,283 --> 01:12:09,826
this generation.

1320
01:12:13,163 --> 01:12:18,084
This guy's just, like, in a zone
that, like, you have to respect.

1321
01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:23,965
We were working really hard
and strategically to make sure

1322
01:12:24,049 --> 01:12:26,634
there was enough awareness on Baby

1323
01:12:26,718 --> 01:12:28,636
and doing everything we could to make sure

1324
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,639
the Grammy voters
were able to read articles

1325
01:12:31,723 --> 01:12:33,558
and key newspapers, et cetera,

1326
01:12:33,641 --> 01:12:36,311
to understand how impactful the album was.

1327
01:12:38,146 --> 01:12:40,065
There's been a lot of conversation

1328
01:12:40,148 --> 01:12:43,526
around having music
that's reflective of the times,

1329
01:12:43,610 --> 01:12:46,613
coming from a-a place of truth,

1330
01:12:46,696 --> 01:12:49,324
and I think that that's
what Baby's been doing.

1331
01:12:49,407 --> 01:12:51,576
And then, I guess
the last question here is:

1332
01:12:51,659 --> 01:12:53,912
Could you tell...
And you can talk to the camera...

1333
01:12:53,995 --> 01:12:55,205
What it means to be heard?

1334
01:12:55,288 --> 01:12:58,374
And, like, what it's like to help
other people's voices be heard.

1335
01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:10,762
There wasn't no doubt in my mind

1336
01:13:10,845 --> 01:13:13,890
that he was gonna be up for
Rap Album of the Year.

1337
01:13:13,973 --> 01:13:17,227
We were fighting, you know,
for Album of the Year.

1338
01:13:21,064 --> 01:13:22,941
As an artist,

1339
01:13:23,024 --> 01:13:27,904
you do want to be recognized
for the work that you've put in.

1340
01:13:30,198 --> 01:13:32,075
It was early in the morning,

1341
01:13:32,158 --> 01:13:35,578
and I was on the live feed watching.

1342
01:13:55,223 --> 01:13:57,267
Turn that TV off.

1343
01:14:07,443 --> 01:14:09,696
All right, so let's talk about
the Grammy Awards

1344
01:14:09,779 --> 01:14:11,531
and some of the nominations that came out.

1345
01:14:11,614 --> 01:14:13,259
Did you hear... did you see
some of these nominations?

1346
01:14:13,283 --> 01:14:15,493
Uh, yeah, I saw some of
the fuss on social media.

1347
01:14:15,577 --> 01:14:21,249
It's the largest selling album
of all genres of music

1348
01:14:21,332 --> 01:14:23,918
for 2020.

1349
01:14:24,002 --> 01:14:25,795
I don't understand what the problem is.

1350
01:14:25,879 --> 01:14:27,589
Best Rap Album.

1351
01:14:27,672 --> 01:14:29,024
Yeah, I just feel like
Lil Baby should've been there

1352
01:14:29,048 --> 01:14:30,234
- with My Turn.
- Lil Baby definitely should've been there.

1353
01:14:30,258 --> 01:14:35,805
In order to properly appreciate
what Lil Baby has done and is doing,

1354
01:14:35,889 --> 01:14:38,516
and to properly appreciate Lil Baby's art,

1355
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,768
you got to understand
that slum that he came from.

1356
01:14:40,852 --> 01:14:42,705
You got to understand that hood
that he came from.

1357
01:14:42,729 --> 01:14:46,024
You got to understand how hard it is
to make it out of a place like that.

1358
01:14:47,567 --> 01:14:49,861
White America will never understand that

1359
01:14:49,944 --> 01:14:52,780
'cause they don't even understand
the world that Lil Baby comes from.

1360
01:14:52,864 --> 01:14:54,407
This isn't right.

1361
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:58,745
This isn't reflective of,
you know, where music is,

1362
01:14:58,828 --> 01:15:00,371
his impact in music.

1363
01:15:00,455 --> 01:15:03,249
I'm frustrated with the Grammys,
you know what I mean?

1364
01:15:03,333 --> 01:15:05,710
It's been a ongoing conversation
for so many years

1365
01:15:05,793 --> 01:15:09,547
about them being out of touch,
and they have a lot of work to do.

1366
01:15:13,676 --> 01:15:15,845
You go back to the '80s,

1367
01:15:15,929 --> 01:15:18,932
and you remember how
they overlooked Michael Jackson.

1368
01:15:20,475 --> 01:15:22,769
And then DMX in the '90s.

1369
01:15:22,852 --> 01:15:25,188
He had two number one albums
in the same year

1370
01:15:25,271 --> 01:15:27,607
and didn't receive any nominations.

1371
01:15:28,983 --> 01:15:30,777
And the Grammy goes to...

1372
01:15:30,860 --> 01:15:32,362
And of course Kendrick's loss

1373
01:15:32,445 --> 01:15:36,241
really just cemented how
out of touch the Grammys are.

1374
01:15:36,324 --> 01:15:40,411
What is this system that's been created,
and why do we give it so much value?

1375
01:15:40,495 --> 01:15:44,916
We're talking about
popular culture and rap albums

1376
01:15:44,999 --> 01:15:47,835
and what's deserving,
they-they missed the mark.

1377
01:15:49,337 --> 01:15:51,256
And I think, after some time went on,

1378
01:15:51,339 --> 01:15:55,260
there were some conversations
about what to do,

1379
01:15:55,343 --> 01:15:57,553
you know, because there was
an offer for him to perform.

1380
01:16:00,890 --> 01:16:03,017
When I seen the shit, I was sort of like...

1381
01:16:03,101 --> 01:16:07,522
We been working so hard,
and for you to not get

1382
01:16:07,605 --> 01:16:10,858
nominated for the album, I feel like...

1383
01:16:10,942 --> 01:16:14,237
you got the biggest album of the year...

1384
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:16,114
I don't really want to do this shit.

1385
01:16:16,197 --> 01:16:18,074
- I ain't really like it.
- You got the stats.

1386
01:16:18,157 --> 01:16:20,576
You deserve it. You put the work in.

1387
01:16:20,660 --> 01:16:24,163
Man, shit just... it's fucked-up, really.

1388
01:16:24,247 --> 01:16:26,958
And for them just to skip over that,
that shit like a...

1389
01:16:27,041 --> 01:16:28,584
It like a slap in the face to me, bro.

1390
01:16:28,668 --> 01:16:30,086
I'm just like...

1391
01:16:30,169 --> 01:16:31,397
You know, that's just how I feel.

1392
01:16:31,421 --> 01:16:33,423
Ultimately, it's your decision.

1393
01:16:34,465 --> 01:16:37,343
I'm saying, so you saying
you feel like don't perform there?

1394
01:16:37,427 --> 01:16:40,096
Yeah. That-that how I feel.

1395
01:16:40,179 --> 01:16:42,432
We "look up to" this shit
like it's supposed to be...

1396
01:16:42,515 --> 01:16:45,643
This is the-the reward
for all the hard work that you put in.

1397
01:16:45,727 --> 01:16:47,979
It's supposed to be the biggest award.

1398
01:16:48,062 --> 01:16:51,232
But I'm... I was like "fuck 'em"
because that...

1399
01:16:51,316 --> 01:16:54,694
that shit don't really determine
who you are and what you do.

1400
01:16:54,777 --> 01:16:56,171
- You know what I'm saying? And-and...
- Right.

1401
01:16:56,195 --> 01:16:57,256
- When we bigger than that.
- Right.

1402
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,406
You see what I'm saying?

1403
01:16:58,489 --> 01:17:01,284
That how I feel, but I feel like...

1404
01:17:01,367 --> 01:17:04,912
I be feeling like
a performance bigger than the award.

1405
01:17:04,996 --> 01:17:07,665
You feel me? Like, I feel like if...

1406
01:17:07,749 --> 01:17:10,293
Because it's such of
a big award space or whatever

1407
01:17:10,376 --> 01:17:13,629
and I got a chance to perform,
I'd rather perform, then.

1408
01:17:13,713 --> 01:17:17,342
'Cause I care about a performance
more than an award. I-I, like...

1409
01:17:17,425 --> 01:17:19,545
It's something that you gonna
never be able to forget.

1410
01:17:19,594 --> 01:17:22,394
You gonna keep being able to replay it,
especially like with streaming.

1411
01:17:22,430 --> 01:17:24,033
I got people in prison who want to see it.

1412
01:17:24,057 --> 01:17:26,059
My little kids who can't be...

1413
01:17:26,142 --> 01:17:27,662
Like, versus just me getting an award.

1414
01:17:27,727 --> 01:17:29,979
Like, I ain't really into the award part.

1415
01:17:30,063 --> 01:17:33,399
Like... like, versus just,
like, I'm-a be mad

1416
01:17:33,483 --> 01:17:35,502
that I ain't get me an award,
so fuck it, I ain't performing.

1417
01:17:35,526 --> 01:17:36,920
I ain't one of them type of artists.

1418
01:17:36,944 --> 01:17:38,863
I really don't, like...

1419
01:17:38,946 --> 01:17:41,491
And I get how you saying you feel,
you know what I'm saying?

1420
01:17:41,574 --> 01:17:43,868
Like, it's like almost a slap in the face,

1421
01:17:43,951 --> 01:17:45,846
like you deserve this,
you don't get what you deserve.

1422
01:17:45,870 --> 01:17:48,915
But, you know, where I come from,
shit, I'm-a perform at the Grammys?

1423
01:17:48,998 --> 01:17:50,142
Shit, I ain't really trippin'.

1424
01:17:50,166 --> 01:17:52,001
I don't got to win or get out.

1425
01:17:52,085 --> 01:17:54,545
Some shit you just said to me
right there, it goes so far.

1426
01:17:54,629 --> 01:17:57,423
You like, "My guys that's in prison",

1427
01:17:57,507 --> 01:17:59,384
you know, they get to see me
on the big stage."

1428
01:17:59,467 --> 01:18:00,986
Yeah, my grandma,
she don't want to go out of town.

1429
01:18:01,010 --> 01:18:02,696
- She don't want to get on
no plane and shit. -Right.

1430
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:04,806
Shit, well, P, go make the call.

1431
01:18:04,889 --> 01:18:07,225
Yeah, tell them I'm-a do it.
Shit, I'm-a do it.

1432
01:18:07,308 --> 01:18:08,810
A'ight. Okay.

1433
01:18:08,893 --> 01:18:10,478
- I call Jesse?
- Just got to make that

1434
01:18:10,561 --> 01:18:12,206
the biggest shit ever, like,
"That boy deserve...

1435
01:18:12,230 --> 01:18:13,707
- "That boy should've had got..."
- And-and they,

1436
01:18:13,731 --> 01:18:15,125
and they got to play, they got to play

1437
01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,127
on our, on our playing field
and what we want to do.

1438
01:18:17,151 --> 01:18:19,380
- And then another thing, too...
- And what... his vision.

1439
01:18:19,404 --> 01:18:21,673
Right. Make them feel bad,
the people who work there, like,

1440
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:23,116
"Why didn't he get a Grammy?

1441
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:24,927
This guy here,
why didn't he get nominated for... "

1442
01:18:24,951 --> 01:18:26,035
Know what I'm saying?

1443
01:18:26,119 --> 01:18:28,079
- Yeah.
- However it go.

1444
01:18:29,247 --> 01:18:31,290
A'ight, say no more. I'm-a call Jesse.

1445
01:18:31,374 --> 01:18:33,876
Y'all figure it out.
Let me know if the plan change.

1446
01:18:35,378 --> 01:18:36,712
Nah, we good. We locked in.

1447
01:18:36,796 --> 01:18:38,315
- Shit. -Nah, we locked in.
I'm gonna make it happen.

1448
01:18:38,339 --> 01:18:39,939
We just got to make them see our vision.

1449
01:18:39,966 --> 01:18:41,217
I'm with it.

1450
01:18:54,313 --> 01:18:56,149
♪ Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us ♪

1451
01:18:56,232 --> 01:18:57,918
♪ While they go home at night,
that shit messed-up ♪

1452
01:18:57,942 --> 01:18:59,622
♪ Knowing we needed help,
they neglect us ♪

1453
01:18:59,694 --> 01:19:01,255
♪ Wondering who gon'
make them respect us ♪

1454
01:19:01,279 --> 01:19:02,919
♪ I can see in your eye that you fed up ♪

1455
01:19:02,947 --> 01:19:04,740
♪ Fuck around, got my shot,
I won't let up ♪

1456
01:19:04,824 --> 01:19:06,492
♪ They know that we a problem together ♪

1457
01:19:06,576 --> 01:19:08,256
♪ They know that we can
storm any weather ♪

1458
01:19:08,286 --> 01:19:09,680
♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪

1459
01:19:09,704 --> 01:19:11,390
♪ It's a problem with
the whole way of life ♪

1460
01:19:11,414 --> 01:19:14,500
♪ It can't change overnight,
but we got to start somewhere ♪

1461
01:19:14,584 --> 01:19:16,144
♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪

1462
01:19:16,210 --> 01:19:17,795
♪ We done had a hell of a year ♪

1463
01:19:17,879 --> 01:19:19,630
♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪

1464
01:19:19,714 --> 01:19:22,091
♪ God is the only man I fear. ♪

1465
01:19:23,384 --> 01:19:25,803
Get that in there.

1466
01:19:25,887 --> 01:19:28,264
So you'll get that in.
Let's go from the top.

1467
01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:30,183
From the top, fellas.

1468
01:19:31,225 --> 01:19:34,562
I think she just want to make sure, like,
in certain moments you just have, like...

1469
01:19:34,645 --> 01:19:37,023
you passionate in the moment
of performing, you know...

1470
01:19:37,106 --> 01:19:39,376
I'm telling her, like, though, like, you
don't even got to tell me that 'cause...

1471
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:41,777
- Because you already know what to do.
- This is like...

1472
01:19:41,861 --> 01:19:43,797
- I already know what it do.
- I'm serious about this.

1473
01:19:43,821 --> 01:19:45,632
- Exactly. For sure.
- Like, I'm telling her I'm gonna...

1474
01:19:45,656 --> 01:19:47,492
I'm gonna be there on the floor.
Everything.

1475
01:19:47,575 --> 01:19:49,702
- I got it. I'm gonna goddamn perform.
- Yeah.

1476
01:19:49,785 --> 01:19:52,121
She's like, "You better perform."
I'm telling you.

1477
01:19:52,246 --> 01:19:54,057
Because this is one of them moments.
It's a big moment.

1478
01:19:54,081 --> 01:19:56,751
- You know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. This is gonna be like...

1479
01:19:56,834 --> 01:19:58,544
- a moment.
- Yeah.

1480
01:19:58,628 --> 01:20:00,922
It's a different platform.

1481
01:20:01,005 --> 01:20:04,509
Like, it's gonna be on
some whole other shit.

1482
01:20:04,592 --> 01:20:08,179
Like, some of these people
not even heard this song before,

1483
01:20:08,262 --> 01:20:10,765
and it's gonna be on some...
"What the hell is this?"

1484
01:20:13,392 --> 01:20:16,229
No question. No question!

1485
01:20:16,312 --> 01:20:18,689
- You going leather again?
- Leather again.

1486
01:20:18,773 --> 01:20:20,358
- Ah.
- Give me leather again.

1487
01:20:22,151 --> 01:20:24,612
I'm in a good mood today. I went shopping.

1488
01:20:27,990 --> 01:20:30,159
They killing all the rappers,
so I wore a vest.

1489
01:20:30,243 --> 01:20:31,827
- I'm telling you.
- Oh, Lord.

1490
01:20:31,911 --> 01:20:34,080
They killing rappers, so I wore a vest!

1491
01:20:34,163 --> 01:20:35,915
The vest too big, though.

1492
01:20:37,917 --> 01:20:40,545
Man, I could perform in this, Britney.

1493
01:20:40,628 --> 01:20:43,589
I mean, that's...
You-you could perform in it, bro.

1494
01:20:44,632 --> 01:20:45,883
Yeah.

1495
01:20:46,884 --> 01:20:50,555
Yeah, you know I'm grateful
to be here today, man.

1496
01:20:50,638 --> 01:20:52,932
Could be somewhere selling dope.

1497
01:20:54,559 --> 01:20:56,811
I got my acceptance speech.

1498
01:20:56,894 --> 01:20:59,939
I'm grateful to be here.
I could be somewhere selling dope.

1499
01:21:01,524 --> 01:21:03,025
You are not gonna say that.

1500
01:21:03,109 --> 01:21:04,795
- Hey, man...
- Why are you playing with me?

1501
01:21:04,819 --> 01:21:06,612
I'm grateful to be here.

1502
01:21:06,696 --> 01:21:09,282
I could be somewhere selling dope,
know what I'm saying?

1503
01:21:09,365 --> 01:21:10,533
Straight up.

1504
01:21:10,616 --> 01:21:13,387
Oh, the Grammys said they want him there?
They said they want him there?

1505
01:21:13,411 --> 01:21:15,079
- Yeah. Yeah.
- On the... on the day?

1506
01:21:15,162 --> 01:21:17,873
Well, that must mean
that they gon' give him...

1507
01:21:19,750 --> 01:21:21,794
- an award.
- I-I think you're gonna win.

1508
01:21:21,877 --> 01:21:23,146
Like, I don't see them doing it.

1509
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:25,923
But they got some kind of crazy voting,
and whoever...

1510
01:21:26,007 --> 01:21:29,427
whoever their board is,
it-it go off of their board.

1511
01:21:29,510 --> 01:21:32,597
It ain't going off, like,
popular vote, so...

1512
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:34,241
I don't... I don't know
it be tricky with...

1513
01:21:34,265 --> 01:21:37,268
Your performance is
the only one that's outdoors.

1514
01:21:37,351 --> 01:21:40,187
We're closing L.A. Live
and Staples Center down.

1515
01:21:40,271 --> 01:21:41,772
Like, it doesn't really make sense.

1516
01:21:41,856 --> 01:21:43,858
I'd be very surprised if you didn't win.

1517
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:46,152
I wouldn't.

1518
01:21:46,235 --> 01:21:47,695
I wouldn't. Shit.

1519
01:21:47,778 --> 01:21:50,531
Don't be surprised if I don't win.

1520
01:22:00,249 --> 01:22:02,710
♪ The plug say he gon' stop
sending the bows ♪

1521
01:22:02,793 --> 01:22:04,980
♪ We keep stressing his friend,
well, little do he know ♪

1522
01:22:05,004 --> 01:22:07,048
♪ His ass next soon as we meet again ♪

1523
01:22:07,131 --> 01:22:08,424
♪ Jason hit my phone like ♪

1524
01:22:08,507 --> 01:22:10,509
♪ "They just booked me
for 'bout 20 racks..." ♪

1525
01:22:17,558 --> 01:22:20,102
I'm surfing.

1526
01:22:44,335 --> 01:22:45,878
Come here, Jason.

1527
01:22:58,516 --> 01:23:00,393
Oh!

1528
01:23:00,476 --> 01:23:03,020
My phone done dropped through
the goddamn floor.

1529
01:23:03,104 --> 01:23:04,980
It's okay. You're rich!

1530
01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:07,650
Okay.

1531
01:23:07,733 --> 01:23:09,402
I got a little game. All right?

1532
01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:11,195
My guy!

1533
01:23:11,278 --> 01:23:13,864
- How you doing?
- A'ight. Good to see you.

1534
01:23:24,083 --> 01:23:26,877
There's somebody there.

1535
01:23:31,006 --> 01:23:32,425
Look at the camera.

1536
01:23:35,803 --> 01:23:36,929
Come on, Dominique!

1537
01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:38,347
Come on, Dominique!

1538
01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:51,044
Know what I'm saying?
I said, "Kim, I'll go with you."

1539
01:23:51,068 --> 01:23:52,236
Yes, baby, I think...

1540
01:23:52,319 --> 01:23:54,079
- They didn't tell me.
- Kim, did they say...

1541
01:23:55,448 --> 01:23:56,866
They been sending the call time...

1542
01:23:56,949 --> 01:23:58,218
They've been sending the call time.

1543
01:23:58,242 --> 01:23:59,785
- They want you on time.
- No, no, no.

1544
01:23:59,869 --> 01:24:02,097
- They trying to show my face when I lose.
- Nah, listen.

1545
01:24:02,121 --> 01:24:03,622
You know what?

1546
01:24:03,706 --> 01:24:05,291
We need positive energy in here.

1547
01:24:05,374 --> 01:24:06,625
Hey, hey!

1548
01:24:06,709 --> 01:24:08,429
They'll play the hell
out a nigga here, man.

1549
01:24:08,502 --> 01:24:10,045
They want me sitting in the spot

1550
01:24:10,129 --> 01:24:12,882
so they can show my reaction
when I lose, man.

1551
01:24:12,965 --> 01:24:14,425
I'm-a do like that. Shit.

1552
01:24:16,051 --> 01:24:17,612
Soon as somebody else win, I'm like that.

1553
01:24:17,636 --> 01:24:18,989
But I don't want him waiting around.

1554
01:24:19,013 --> 01:24:20,293
They've been asking where he is.

1555
01:24:27,104 --> 01:24:29,565
- Where my, where my car at?
- That'll be in front.

1556
01:24:55,925 --> 01:24:57,510
I'm going on TV, Britney.

1557
01:24:57,593 --> 01:24:59,345
You gon' kill this shit.

1558
01:25:03,015 --> 01:25:04,975
Make it tight.

1559
01:25:05,059 --> 01:25:09,063
He's so aware
of his influence and his power now.

1560
01:25:12,149 --> 01:25:15,319
And he doesn't take
that responsibility lightly.

1561
01:25:20,658 --> 01:25:24,495
Here's a kid that wasn't dealt...

1562
01:25:24,578 --> 01:25:26,038
all aces.

1563
01:25:29,375 --> 01:25:31,710
All them little guys
from his neighborhood...

1564
01:25:33,128 --> 01:25:35,506
he gives all those kids hope.

1565
01:25:45,808 --> 01:25:50,646
Here performing "The Bigger Picture,"
please welcome Lil Baby.

1566
01:25:54,024 --> 01:25:55,460
♪ Trade my four-by-four for a G 63 ♪

1567
01:25:55,484 --> 01:25:56,902
♪ Ain't no more free Lil Steve ♪

1568
01:25:56,986 --> 01:25:58,906
♪ I gave 'em chance
and chance and chance again ♪

1569
01:25:58,946 --> 01:26:00,447
♪ I even done told them please ♪

1570
01:26:00,531 --> 01:26:02,092
♪ I find it crazy
the police'll shoot you ♪

1571
01:26:02,116 --> 01:26:04,094
♪ And know that you dead
but still tell you to freeze ♪

1572
01:26:04,118 --> 01:26:05,637
♪ I seen what I seen, I guess that mean ♪

1573
01:26:05,661 --> 01:26:07,222
♪ Hold him down
when he say he can't breathe ♪

1574
01:26:07,246 --> 01:26:09,915
♪ It's too many mothers that's grieving
for no reason ♪

1575
01:26:09,999 --> 01:26:12,167
♪ Been going on for too long to get even ♪

1576
01:26:12,251 --> 01:26:13,586
♪ Like dogs and hyenas ♪

1577
01:26:13,669 --> 01:26:15,188
♪ I went to prison, my money was quoted ♪

1578
01:26:15,212 --> 01:26:16,815
♪ My mama was crushed
when they said I can't leave ♪

1579
01:26:16,839 --> 01:26:18,441
♪ First I was drunk,
but I sobered up quick ♪

1580
01:26:18,465 --> 01:26:20,318
♪ When I heard all that time
that they gave to Taleeb ♪

1581
01:26:20,342 --> 01:26:22,052
♪ He got a life sentence plus ♪

1582
01:26:22,136 --> 01:26:24,013
♪ We just some products
of our environment ♪

1583
01:26:24,096 --> 01:26:25,556
♪ How the... they gon' blame us? ♪

1584
01:26:25,639 --> 01:26:27,117
♪ You can't fight fire with fire, I know ♪

1585
01:26:27,141 --> 01:26:29,810
♪ But at least we can
turn up the flames some... ♪

1586
01:26:29,894 --> 01:26:31,937
The whole world like,
"Oh, my fucking God, this is...

1587
01:26:32,021 --> 01:26:33,301
"Who is this guy?" And it's like,

1588
01:26:33,355 --> 01:26:35,166
I knew who this boy was.
This boy one of the ones.

1589
01:26:35,190 --> 01:26:36,358
I knew this.

1590
01:26:36,442 --> 01:26:38,694
Seeing him get smarter,

1591
01:26:38,777 --> 01:26:40,863
asking questions,

1592
01:26:40,946 --> 01:26:43,032
it just make me happy and proud to see him

1593
01:26:43,115 --> 01:26:46,410
make that transition
in being to where he at now.

1594
01:26:46,493 --> 01:26:48,245
♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪

1595
01:26:48,329 --> 01:26:50,056
♪ It's a problem with
the whole way of life ♪

1596
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:52,708
♪ It can't change overnight,
but we got to start somewhere ♪

1597
01:26:52,791 --> 01:26:54,710
♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪

1598
01:26:54,793 --> 01:26:56,462
♪ We done had a... of a year ♪

1599
01:26:56,545 --> 01:26:58,172
♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪

1600
01:26:58,255 --> 01:27:00,674
♪ God is the only man I fear ♪

1601
01:27:02,343 --> 01:27:03,778
♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪

1602
01:27:03,802 --> 01:27:05,596
♪ It's a problem with
the whole way of life ♪

1603
01:27:05,679 --> 01:27:08,849
♪ It can't change overnight,
but we got to start somewhere ♪

1604
01:27:08,933 --> 01:27:10,452
♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪

1605
01:27:10,476 --> 01:27:12,144
♪ We done had a... of a year ♪

1606
01:27:12,227 --> 01:27:13,747
♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪

1607
01:27:13,812 --> 01:27:16,732
♪ God is the only man I fear. ♪

1608
01:27:30,245 --> 01:27:31,664
It's a wrap!

1609
01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:35,459
Congratulations!

1610
01:27:40,339 --> 01:27:42,508
Coach and Ethiopia, P,

1611
01:27:42,591 --> 01:27:45,135
they know the benefits
of winning a Grammy.

1612
01:27:45,219 --> 01:27:47,012
This shit new to me.

1613
01:27:53,352 --> 01:27:56,522
I don't really understand all that yet.

1614
01:27:57,856 --> 01:28:01,276
I'm just happy I'm getting
my message out there.

1615
01:28:31,306 --> 01:28:33,767
Trying to show the youngins
that it's bigger.

1616
01:28:35,769 --> 01:28:37,771
I'm living proof.

1617
01:28:45,070 --> 01:28:46,989
Lil Baby is a-a name,

1618
01:28:47,072 --> 01:28:49,867
a brand that he built.

1619
01:28:51,869 --> 01:28:54,163
Dominique is who he is.

1620
01:28:55,164 --> 01:28:58,751
I think Dominique is
the essence of Lil Baby.

1621
01:29:02,671 --> 01:29:04,548
Dominique is...

1622
01:29:06,091 --> 01:29:08,677
the owner of Lil Baby.

1623
01:29:08,761 --> 01:29:11,555
And Lil Baby is an artist.

1624
01:29:12,723 --> 01:29:15,267
Dominique is a businessman.

1625
01:29:18,187 --> 01:29:19,938
One day, there gonna be no more Lil Baby.

1626
01:29:20,022 --> 01:29:22,024
How could it not?

1627
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:37,539
That's my child. I know his potential.

1628
01:29:38,540 --> 01:29:40,334
Very proud, especially with all the people

1629
01:29:40,417 --> 01:29:43,587
who didn't believe he was
gonna amount to anything.

1630
01:29:44,630 --> 01:29:46,465
"Oh, you know,
he gonna probably just end up

1631
01:29:46,548 --> 01:29:49,510
like the rest of the hood."

1632
01:29:49,593 --> 01:29:51,720
I smile knowing that
that's him on the radio.

1633
01:29:51,804 --> 01:29:54,306
Their kids listening to him.

1634
01:29:57,267 --> 01:30:01,438
Little Dominique Jones
who never came to class.

1635
01:30:01,522 --> 01:30:03,107
- Say, "Blast off!"
- Blast off!

1636
01:30:03,190 --> 01:30:05,275
Blast off! Ah!

1637
01:30:07,152 --> 01:30:08,529
Y'all, y'all, share.

1638
01:30:08,612 --> 01:30:10,239
Jason, you can't be doing all that.

1639
01:30:10,322 --> 01:30:11,615
Come here.

1640
01:30:21,041 --> 01:30:22,960
See it there?

1641
01:30:23,043 --> 01:30:24,545
See it?

1642
01:30:26,380 --> 01:30:27,798
Want to go over there?

1643
01:30:37,432 --> 01:30:40,978
I can see my plan,
what I'm trying to do, it's gon' work.

1644
01:30:48,235 --> 01:30:50,112
I'm-a have a full legacy.

1645
01:30:50,195 --> 01:30:52,865
Like, it's just gon' be started from rap.

1646
01:30:54,658 --> 01:30:57,119
'Cause I took it to this point
in three years.

1647
01:30:57,202 --> 01:30:59,746
I plan on living
to at least, like, 60, 70.

1648
01:30:59,830 --> 01:31:02,624
That's a long time from now.

1649
01:31:05,210 --> 01:31:06,628
Even though I got to this point

1650
01:31:06,712 --> 01:31:08,592
where it's damn near
you can ask a question like

1651
01:31:08,672 --> 01:31:10,024
"What do you think your legacy
is going to be?"

1652
01:31:10,048 --> 01:31:13,552
'cause I done built a legacy where
if I stop right now I could leave it.

1653
01:31:14,887 --> 01:31:16,847
It's already a full one
if I stopped today.

1654
01:31:19,766 --> 01:31:21,894
But, man, you got to just imagine
what I'm finna do.

1655
01:31:23,145 --> 01:31:25,731
Now that my brain is untrapping.

1656
01:31:28,108 --> 01:31:30,110
I'll never be trapped again.

1657
01:31:32,654 --> 01:31:34,448
I'm just getting started.

1658
01:31:47,127 --> 01:31:49,046
♪ Cook that... up, Quay ♪