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♪ ♪

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LIL BABY:
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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(engine revs)

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(engine rumbling)

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♪ ♪

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DJ ENVY: It's crazy 'cause we seen...
we seen the growth.

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(engine revs)

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

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(engine rumbling)

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

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MAN 2:
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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-(siren wailing)
-WOMAN: 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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DJ AKADEMIKS:
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.
-(snapping fingers)

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(crowd cheering)

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

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(crowd cheering)

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CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD:
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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BIG BOY:
Those numbers are impressive, man.

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Do those numbers
kind of trip you out, though?

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YARA SHAHIDI:
And the BET Award goes to

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-Lil Baby.
-(crowd cheering)

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ARI MELBER: Do you know why that is?
Do you know why you blew up quickly?

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-Do you think about it?
-MAN 3: 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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PIERRE THOMAS: Your breakthrough
come from your sacrifice.

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♪ ♪

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MAN:
Baby's coming down. Speed cameras.

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LIL BABY:
Them dreams I had...

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...it was like something
that could actually be real.

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♪ ♪

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(boys chattering indistinctly)

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JASON:
Papa? Papa, you here?

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-Papa?
-Papa?

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-Papa, where you at, Papa?
-(babbling)

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Dada?

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-Dada? Dada?
-Dada? Dada?

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JASON:
Papa?

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-(babbling)
-I'm not leaving you.

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(playfully):
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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(babbling)

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Open. Say "open."

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-(babbling)
-(chuckles): Say "open."

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Say "open."

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"Thank you."

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-(babbles)
-(chuckles)

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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?
-(grunts)

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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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-LIL BABY: Yep.
-What?!

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LIL BABY:
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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LIL BABY:
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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(engine starts)

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You're too big to fit in this.

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LIL BABY:
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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(shouting playfully)

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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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LIL BABY: 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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LIL BABY:
He like, "I want to do what you do."

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-(grunts)
-(chuckles)

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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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(both grunt)

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I thought I was gone, boy.

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Thought I was gone!

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LIL BABY:
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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(engine buzzing)

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LASHAWN JONES:
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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LASHAWN:
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." (chuckles)

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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?
-(kids chattering)

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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... (babbling)

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But me eight, oh, Lord.

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-You eight?
-(stammers) I mean...

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

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-GIRL: Nine.
-Michelle is nine.

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-LASHAWN: 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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LASHAWN: 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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LASHAWN:
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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-(fussing)
-Don't cry, Dominique.

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(indistinct chatter, laughter)

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LIL BABY:
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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MAURICE HOBSON:
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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NEWSMAN: Locally, it was
the city of Atlanta's big day.

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HOBSON:
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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(crowd cheering)

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HOBSON:
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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NEWSMAN: 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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HOBSON:
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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LASHAWN:
Oh, Dominique, put your coat on.

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HOBSON: 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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(playful chatter)

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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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(laughter, playful chatter continues)

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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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♪ ♪

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(siren wailing)

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(indistinct chatter)

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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!
-(excited chatter)

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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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(excited chatter continues)

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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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(indistinct chatter)

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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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LASHAWN: 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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00:13:28,518 --> 00:13:31,104
LIL BABY:
They ain't on no bullshit.

249
00:13:31,187 --> 00:13:33,106
They like grown men
handling they business,

250
00:13:33,189 --> 00:13:35,441
so it's like I had to get on
what they was on.

251
00:13:35,525 --> 00:13:38,695
I started hanging around them.
I started wanting to hustle.

252
00:13:38,778 --> 00:13:41,781
They was hustlers.

253
00:13:41,864 --> 00:13:43,825
They took me in.

254
00:13:45,493 --> 00:13:47,704
♪ ♪

255
00:13:53,418 --> 00:13:56,087
(birds chirping)

256
00:13:56,170 --> 00:13:58,881
MAN: Y'all see what's going on.
Shit, y'all see--

257
00:13:58,965 --> 00:14:01,050
This-this the hood.

258
00:14:01,134 --> 00:14:02,677
MAN 2:
Niggas done made it out of poverty

259
00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,262
-round this motherfucker.
-Yeah.

260
00:14:04,345 --> 00:14:05,847
Straight up, though.

261
00:14:05,930 --> 00:14:07,890
Straight up.

262
00:14:11,019 --> 00:14:14,022
Y'all got my mic good right here
and get what I say.

263
00:14:15,356 --> 00:14:17,317
Baby used to come spend
the night over here, too, man.

264
00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,445
Like we say, we-we all kind of,
like, hustled out of here,

265
00:14:20,528 --> 00:14:22,363
spent the night, you know what I'm saying,
grew up here.

266
00:14:22,447 --> 00:14:25,408
A lot of stuff went down right here,
all type of things.

267
00:14:25,491 --> 00:14:26,743
Feel what I'm saying, man?

268
00:14:26,826 --> 00:14:28,578
But it's basically
where everything started.

269
00:14:28,661 --> 00:14:31,456
♪ ♪

270
00:14:33,291 --> 00:14:35,960
I mean, trying to get out of poverty

271
00:14:36,044 --> 00:14:39,547
always hard when you don't know
the best way.

272
00:14:42,050 --> 00:14:44,510
This was our best way,
you know what I'm saying,

273
00:14:44,594 --> 00:14:47,180
of being an entrepreneur was,
you know what I'm saying,

274
00:14:47,263 --> 00:14:48,681
try to get us some money.

275
00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:54,979
When Baby hopped out when he was 15, 16,

276
00:14:55,063 --> 00:14:58,316
it's like, he had to pay bills, basically.

277
00:14:58,399 --> 00:14:59,859
He ain't-- he-he really ain't
have the chance

278
00:14:59,942 --> 00:15:01,361
to kind of, like, be a kid almost.

279
00:15:01,444 --> 00:15:04,322
He was just like--
he had to provide for his family.

280
00:15:04,405 --> 00:15:07,116
That's-- basically, that's all
we was trying to do, provide.

281
00:15:15,208 --> 00:15:17,126
♪ ♪

282
00:15:17,210 --> 00:15:19,087
(indistinct chatter)

283
00:15:23,383 --> 00:15:26,552
MAN: Without money,
who is a person without money?

284
00:15:31,391 --> 00:15:35,103
In this society right now,
how long would it take a person

285
00:15:35,186 --> 00:15:38,856
who going to work to accumulate
10,000 in profit money?

286
00:15:44,779 --> 00:15:48,032
How long would it take you to make 10,000?

287
00:15:52,745 --> 00:15:54,872
Lil Baby might be walking around
with 10,000 on him,

288
00:15:54,956 --> 00:15:58,000
going to school, eighth, ninth grade.

289
00:15:59,877 --> 00:16:02,213
That's what I'm telling you.
It got that serious.

290
00:16:02,296 --> 00:16:04,298
(indistinct police radio chatter)

291
00:16:13,266 --> 00:16:14,809
YOUNG THUG:
I always knew him, though.

292
00:16:14,892 --> 00:16:18,312
I always knew him from, like,
probably like ten, 11 years old.

293
00:16:18,396 --> 00:16:21,524
We went to different schools,
but we-- I used to-- we used to, like,

294
00:16:21,607 --> 00:16:24,444
skip school and go to each other's schools
and shit, you know what I'm saying?

295
00:16:24,527 --> 00:16:27,280
And it was like, well, we just started
hanging like, "This my brother."

296
00:16:27,363 --> 00:16:29,365
♪ ♪

297
00:16:30,825 --> 00:16:33,119
He was always the guy
that everybody loved.

298
00:16:33,202 --> 00:16:35,204
Always, from a kid to now.

299
00:16:37,123 --> 00:16:40,960
He was always verified
'cause he always kept good business.

300
00:16:41,043 --> 00:16:43,796
He always did everything the right way.

301
00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,882
He a real hustler.

302
00:16:46,883 --> 00:16:48,593
He always was a money getter.

303
00:16:48,676 --> 00:16:51,220
So with or without rap,
he was gonna get some money.

304
00:16:51,304 --> 00:16:52,972
Like, he was fucking up
millions of dollars

305
00:16:53,055 --> 00:16:55,141
before he made one song.

306
00:16:55,224 --> 00:16:57,101
He was fucking up millions of dollars.

307
00:16:57,185 --> 00:16:58,728
♪ ♪

308
00:17:04,192 --> 00:17:07,278
LIL BABY:
I never wanted to be a rapper.

309
00:17:07,361 --> 00:17:09,322
I was already young
and turnt in the streets.

310
00:17:09,405 --> 00:17:11,616
(excited chatter)

311
00:17:11,699 --> 00:17:14,786
I just knew I had it all figured out.

312
00:17:14,869 --> 00:17:16,913
I felt like I already made it.

313
00:17:16,996 --> 00:17:20,583
I had money, girls, cars.

314
00:17:24,587 --> 00:17:26,589
(lively chatter)

315
00:17:28,758 --> 00:17:31,928
I was at the top of the top.

316
00:17:32,011 --> 00:17:34,096
I was having a blast.

317
00:17:34,180 --> 00:17:36,182
But shit was starting to get crazy.

318
00:17:36,265 --> 00:17:37,350
(siren wailing)

319
00:17:41,771 --> 00:17:45,525
YOUNG THUG:
We had a lot of fucking serious moments.

320
00:17:45,608 --> 00:17:46,901
He ain't used to like to talk to me 'cause

321
00:17:46,984 --> 00:17:48,402
I'm-a talk to his ass
for two hours on the phone,

322
00:17:48,486 --> 00:17:51,113
and I'm-a tell him what he do wrong like,
"Nigga, you doing dickhead shit.

323
00:17:51,197 --> 00:17:53,908
You stupid."

324
00:17:53,991 --> 00:17:56,828
But he never listened to nobody.

325
00:17:56,911 --> 00:18:00,164
He was gonna get some money,
no matter what.

326
00:18:00,248 --> 00:18:03,000
I always was mad at him like,
"Nigga, listen.

327
00:18:04,085 --> 00:18:06,796
"Nothing come out of what you doing
but prison or death.

328
00:18:06,879 --> 00:18:08,548
"Nothing else.

329
00:18:08,631 --> 00:18:13,010
It's no such thing as you made it
with the way you doing it."

330
00:18:16,806 --> 00:18:20,226
(sirens wailing)

331
00:18:20,309 --> 00:18:22,103
(sirens stop)

332
00:18:22,186 --> 00:18:24,814
(cell door slides, slams)

333
00:18:24,897 --> 00:18:26,232
(camera clicks)

334
00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:28,317
♪ ♪

335
00:18:53,175 --> 00:18:56,387
You ever heard of the saying
"make you or break you"?

336
00:18:57,805 --> 00:19:01,142
Like, it's either gonna
make you or break you.

337
00:19:01,225 --> 00:19:02,977
And meaning, like, make you,
make you into something

338
00:19:03,060 --> 00:19:04,103
or break you down.

339
00:19:10,443 --> 00:19:13,195
You have to be strong
to just sit in this motherfucker.

340
00:19:13,279 --> 00:19:14,280
Just sit here.

341
00:19:14,363 --> 00:19:15,781
And niggas yelling.

342
00:19:15,865 --> 00:19:19,785
He banging on the door.
He running around. He--

343
00:19:19,869 --> 00:19:21,495
It's a whole nother world.

344
00:19:22,538 --> 00:19:25,958
In prison, you spend a lot of time alone.

345
00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:29,629
You have a whole lot of time
to think about

346
00:19:29,712 --> 00:19:32,214
what's going on around you.

347
00:19:35,217 --> 00:19:37,970
America has a system in place.

348
00:19:39,430 --> 00:19:44,060
JOE BIDEN: It doesn't matter whether
or not they were deprived as a youth.

349
00:19:44,143 --> 00:19:47,313
It doesn't matter whether or not
they had no background

350
00:19:47,396 --> 00:19:50,441
that enabled them to become socialized

351
00:19:50,524 --> 00:19:52,568
into the fabric of society.

352
00:19:52,652 --> 00:19:56,238
It doesn't matter whether or not
they're the victims of society.

353
00:19:57,823 --> 00:20:01,661
LIL BABY: And the system's been around
for a long, long time.

354
00:20:01,786 --> 00:20:04,747
(clock ticking)

355
00:20:04,830 --> 00:20:07,750
And it's designed for us to fail.

356
00:20:07,833 --> 00:20:11,796
They must be taken off the street.

357
00:20:14,632 --> 00:20:16,926
LIL BABY:
I ain't want to be there, period,

358
00:20:17,009 --> 00:20:19,720
but I had to be there,
but I won't let my mind be there.

359
00:20:19,804 --> 00:20:22,640
And my body a lot of places
that my mind never go.

360
00:20:22,723 --> 00:20:25,559
I force myself to do that.

361
00:20:25,643 --> 00:20:28,062
For good and for bad.

362
00:20:28,145 --> 00:20:31,023
And I learned that the most in prison.

363
00:20:38,990 --> 00:20:40,658
All right, appreciate it, bruh.

364
00:20:47,248 --> 00:20:49,750
THOMAS:
I'm Pierre Thomas.

365
00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:52,086
Everybody call me P.

366
00:20:52,169 --> 00:20:55,006
I'm the CEO of Quality Control Music.

367
00:20:55,089 --> 00:20:57,925
(indistinct chatter, laughter)

368
00:20:58,009 --> 00:21:00,636
I'm from the Southwest side of Atlanta.

369
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,346
♪ ♪

370
00:21:02,430 --> 00:21:04,640
(barking)

371
00:21:04,724 --> 00:21:07,101
Baby was already like family.

372
00:21:07,184 --> 00:21:09,895
We already knew each other.

373
00:21:09,979 --> 00:21:12,398
We been around each other
since he was like 15.

374
00:21:15,860 --> 00:21:18,446
I know Baby from walking in trap houses,

375
00:21:18,529 --> 00:21:20,698
and...

376
00:21:20,781 --> 00:21:23,325
he was in there...

377
00:21:23,409 --> 00:21:25,661
with things I can't speak about.

378
00:21:30,249 --> 00:21:32,293
It's like a jungle
out there in them streets.

379
00:21:35,129 --> 00:21:38,966
When I was coming up, you know,
when you come out your door,

380
00:21:39,050 --> 00:21:43,095
the person that you see with a nice car
is a, is a drug dealer.

381
00:21:43,179 --> 00:21:46,348
When you poor,
people can't even afford to, like,

382
00:21:46,432 --> 00:21:49,060
go travel and go see the world
or whatever,

383
00:21:49,143 --> 00:21:51,604
so your neighborhood--
that's really your world.

384
00:21:51,687 --> 00:21:56,275
And if the only people you see
that have money or nice things

385
00:21:56,358 --> 00:21:58,235
is the drug dealers, then that's--

386
00:21:58,319 --> 00:22:01,906
it's just natural that that's
what you gonna look up to.

387
00:22:03,324 --> 00:22:04,450
(camera clicking)

388
00:22:04,533 --> 00:22:05,868
I been there.

389
00:22:05,951 --> 00:22:08,245
I done that.

390
00:22:08,329 --> 00:22:10,790
I survived that.

391
00:22:10,873 --> 00:22:12,333
Everybody around me like,

392
00:22:12,416 --> 00:22:14,668
"Yo, bro, you want to see
your kids grow up.

393
00:22:14,752 --> 00:22:16,754
You want to grow old."

394
00:22:16,837 --> 00:22:18,923
So I was trying to get
in the music business

395
00:22:19,006 --> 00:22:21,759
as a way to just try
to get out of the streets,

396
00:22:21,842 --> 00:22:23,761
you know what I'm saying,
get away from that life.

397
00:22:25,471 --> 00:22:27,098
(sirens wailing)

398
00:22:30,059 --> 00:22:34,605
I started the label
along with my partner Coach K.

399
00:22:36,357 --> 00:22:37,733
COACH K:
Coach K.

400
00:22:37,817 --> 00:22:40,194
I'm cofounder of Quality Control Music.

401
00:22:40,277 --> 00:22:42,154
I managed Gucci Mane.

402
00:22:42,238 --> 00:22:43,906
Before that, Jeezy.

403
00:22:43,989 --> 00:22:46,534
Me and P got together.

404
00:22:46,617 --> 00:22:49,370
When we started this company,
we was dreaming really big.

405
00:22:49,453 --> 00:22:51,705
Our first act was the Migos.

406
00:22:51,789 --> 00:22:53,707
Soon as we signed them, we went right in.

407
00:22:53,791 --> 00:22:55,459
What's up, man? It Quavo's time, man.

408
00:22:55,543 --> 00:22:58,921
COACH K: During that time, man,
we was really creating history.

409
00:22:59,004 --> 00:23:01,841
How many number one singles
y'all got now? As QC?

410
00:23:01,924 --> 00:23:04,385
COACH K:
I mean, Quality Control is culture.

411
00:23:04,468 --> 00:23:06,220
(cheering, applause)

412
00:23:06,303 --> 00:23:07,972
That's kind of the philosophy, man.

413
00:23:08,055 --> 00:23:09,807
It's like, originality

414
00:23:09,890 --> 00:23:11,433
and there's a story attached to that.

415
00:23:11,517 --> 00:23:13,394
Kind of have, like,
a-a little secret sauce

416
00:23:13,477 --> 00:23:15,062
or kind of like a program.

417
00:23:15,146 --> 00:23:18,858
Find talent,
the diamond in the rough talent,

418
00:23:18,941 --> 00:23:23,487
and develop it to become
some of the biggest artists.

419
00:23:23,571 --> 00:23:25,656
♪ ♪

420
00:23:27,783 --> 00:23:30,327
THOMAS:
If I just see the potential in them,

421
00:23:30,411 --> 00:23:32,705
then we can develop it.

422
00:23:32,788 --> 00:23:36,083
It's the smallest things
that catches us, you know.

423
00:23:36,167 --> 00:23:40,296
It's like we can see a star
before it shines.

424
00:23:46,218 --> 00:23:48,220
(birds chirping)

425
00:23:52,892 --> 00:23:54,894
-(indistinct chatter)
-(basketball bouncing)

426
00:24:02,318 --> 00:24:04,570
THOMAS:
Baby was always around.

427
00:24:04,653 --> 00:24:07,281
He used to hang at the studio every day.

428
00:24:07,364 --> 00:24:09,366
He just wasn't no artist.

429
00:24:09,450 --> 00:24:10,784
MAN:
Oh, you can keep going.

430
00:24:10,868 --> 00:24:12,411
I know that shit ain't gonna never go in.

431
00:24:12,494 --> 00:24:13,954
THOMAS:
When you get out, just come up here,

432
00:24:14,038 --> 00:24:15,122
you know what I'm saying?

433
00:24:15,206 --> 00:24:16,373
That nigga can't hit it from the front.

434
00:24:16,457 --> 00:24:18,292
LIL BABY:
Put your money down, dawg.

435
00:24:18,375 --> 00:24:19,877
-MAN: I bet a hundred.
-Whatever.

436
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,337
THOMAS:
"Just pop up on us

437
00:24:21,420 --> 00:24:22,421
when you get out."

438
00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:23,797
That's what he did.

439
00:24:27,009 --> 00:24:28,928
(indistinct chatter)

440
00:24:29,011 --> 00:24:30,512
MAN:
Hey!

441
00:24:30,596 --> 00:24:34,808
COACH K:
He was young, but he moved like a O.G.

442
00:24:34,892 --> 00:24:37,311
He caught my eye.

443
00:24:37,394 --> 00:24:39,146
He's like, "You'll just see
a nigga just do one move,

444
00:24:39,230 --> 00:24:41,023
"and it's like,
'Okay, you're a superstar.'

445
00:24:41,106 --> 00:24:42,483
You just-- you know."

446
00:24:42,566 --> 00:24:45,444
Lil Baby's naturally different.

447
00:24:45,527 --> 00:24:47,154
In all his Instagram posts, he used to--

448
00:24:47,238 --> 00:24:49,365
all his captions and shit used to be fire.

449
00:24:49,448 --> 00:24:51,408
I'm like, "Damn, this hard.
Who said this?"

450
00:24:51,492 --> 00:24:54,203
I done called him before like,
"Hey, who the hell said this?

451
00:24:54,286 --> 00:24:55,788
Wh-Where-where that caption come from?"

452
00:24:55,871 --> 00:24:57,039
He like, "I just thought of it."

453
00:24:57,122 --> 00:24:58,707
He could just write a song

454
00:24:58,791 --> 00:25:01,168
with just fucking 60 captions,
just all captions.

455
00:25:01,252 --> 00:25:02,461
That's a song.

456
00:25:02,544 --> 00:25:05,130
I was like, "Man, Baby,
you need to rap, bro."

457
00:25:05,214 --> 00:25:07,675
He was like, "Man, you crazy.
I'm a street nigga, man.

458
00:25:07,758 --> 00:25:10,302
I don't... um, I don't do
none of that shit."

459
00:25:10,386 --> 00:25:12,137
I said, "For real, man." I said, "Bruh."

460
00:25:12,221 --> 00:25:16,558
I said, "You respected around the city.

461
00:25:16,642 --> 00:25:18,477
"Most of the rappers, you know,

462
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,479
"the street guys is really
who they look up to.

463
00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:22,398
"I don't know why you won't do it.

464
00:25:22,481 --> 00:25:24,400
"Most of these guys telling your story.

465
00:25:24,483 --> 00:25:26,986
You know, your story real."

466
00:25:27,069 --> 00:25:28,904
He just laughed.

467
00:25:29,947 --> 00:25:33,951
Just think if he rapped and

468
00:25:34,034 --> 00:25:35,494
it didn't work.

469
00:25:35,577 --> 00:25:37,871
Now your street credibility's fucked-up.

470
00:25:37,955 --> 00:25:40,249
He was so respected as a dope boy,

471
00:25:40,332 --> 00:25:44,169
as a street cat,
he didn't want to tarnish that.

472
00:25:44,253 --> 00:25:46,547
THOMAS:
It's hard to tell somebody

473
00:25:46,630 --> 00:25:50,718
to stop making money, right-now money.

474
00:25:50,801 --> 00:25:53,178
You know, you still got to pay bills.

475
00:25:53,262 --> 00:25:55,139
You still got family.

476
00:25:55,222 --> 00:25:56,890
I ain't want to see him just

477
00:25:56,974 --> 00:25:58,934
get caught back up
and go back to prison, you know?

478
00:25:59,018 --> 00:26:02,563
YOUNG THUG: I used to pay this nigga
to goddamn stay out of the streets.

479
00:26:02,646 --> 00:26:05,190
"Nigga, you can have my money.
Just relax."

480
00:26:05,274 --> 00:26:09,653
I really will sacrifice anything
because I see that it can happen.

481
00:26:09,737 --> 00:26:12,072
"What you finna make today?
20,000? Okay, here.

482
00:26:12,156 --> 00:26:13,490
"20,000. You don't even owe me.

483
00:26:13,574 --> 00:26:15,409
Hey, go home."
I used to tell him to go home.

484
00:26:15,492 --> 00:26:16,952
"You don't even got to go
to the studio," like.

485
00:26:17,036 --> 00:26:19,371
I'm like, "Okay, you don't got to rap.
Here, bruh, go home.

486
00:26:19,455 --> 00:26:22,458
Get the fuck out of the block, bro.
Go chill with your son, nigga."

487
00:26:26,170 --> 00:26:27,421
He could've said,
"Give me a million dollars,"

488
00:26:27,504 --> 00:26:30,299
I would've gave it to him
to stay out the street.

489
00:26:36,096 --> 00:26:38,098
♪ ♪

490
00:26:42,061 --> 00:26:43,437
LIL BABY:
It's a cycle.

491
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,147
(engine buzzing)

492
00:26:46,940 --> 00:26:50,736
You go to jail, you get out,
but you keep hustling

493
00:26:50,819 --> 00:26:52,363
because you don't know nothing else.

494
00:26:52,446 --> 00:26:53,614
MAN:
You are recording.

495
00:26:53,697 --> 00:26:55,199
-The red light's on.
-LASHAWN: Yeah.

496
00:26:56,241 --> 00:26:59,578
LIL BABY: When they call that shit a trap,
that shit really a trap.

497
00:26:59,661 --> 00:27:01,580
MAN:
All right, on your mark!

498
00:27:02,623 --> 00:27:04,792
LIL BABY: Your mind trapped,
your brain trapped, your body trapped.

499
00:27:04,875 --> 00:27:06,001
You in a trap.

500
00:27:06,085 --> 00:27:08,128
MAN:
Get set!

501
00:27:09,588 --> 00:27:12,883
LIL BABY: Not knowing it's a whole
nother world only two streets over.

502
00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:14,468
MAN:
Go!

503
00:27:14,551 --> 00:27:16,637
LIL BABY:
You don't know. I ain't know.

504
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,972
-LASHAWN: Come on, Dominique!
Come on, Dominique! -(clapping)

505
00:27:19,056 --> 00:27:20,599
(laughter, whooping)

506
00:27:23,227 --> 00:27:25,437
LIL BABY:
I couldn't go back to prison.

507
00:27:26,688 --> 00:27:28,607
I had to at least try.

508
00:27:31,235 --> 00:27:33,237
♪ ♪

509
00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:42,287
When I first tried rapping,
I didn't know what I was doing.

510
00:27:43,455 --> 00:27:46,166
I was self-conscious.

511
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:48,585
Then I started playing around
in the studio

512
00:27:48,669 --> 00:27:51,004
with my buddy Marlo.

513
00:27:51,088 --> 00:27:55,217
Marlo was also in the streets,
and he was trying to rap, too,

514
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:58,303
so it gave me a better sense of direction.

515
00:28:02,057 --> 00:28:04,393
Marlo.

516
00:28:04,476 --> 00:28:05,811
Come on.

517
00:28:05,894 --> 00:28:07,020
♪ See my dawg brain laying on the street ♪

518
00:28:07,104 --> 00:28:08,397
Play, play the whole verse over.

519
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,441
-♪ That shit scarred me ♪
-(music stops)

520
00:28:11,442 --> 00:28:14,027
♪ See my dawg's brain
laying on the street ♪

521
00:28:14,111 --> 00:28:15,779
♪ That shit scarred me ♪
Come on.

522
00:28:15,863 --> 00:28:18,407
♪ See my dawg brain laying ♪

523
00:28:18,490 --> 00:28:20,909
♪ See my dawg's brain
laying on the street ♪

524
00:28:20,993 --> 00:28:22,286
♪ That shit scarred me ♪

525
00:28:22,369 --> 00:28:24,163
I made my first song with Marlo.

526
00:28:24,246 --> 00:28:25,747
Keep that.

527
00:28:25,831 --> 00:28:27,291
Play it. Let me know how it sounds.

528
00:28:27,374 --> 00:28:29,668
It was kind of hard,
so that's why I kept rapping.

529
00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:31,837
Marlo was a big influence on me rapping.

530
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,213
("I Remember" by Marlo playing)

531
00:28:33,297 --> 00:28:34,882
♪ And kept them real niggas around me ♪

532
00:28:34,965 --> 00:28:36,300
♪ I remember sitting
right there on the block ♪

533
00:28:36,383 --> 00:28:37,885
♪ And I remember
nights I couldn't get right ♪

534
00:28:37,968 --> 00:28:39,636
♪ I remember shit wasn't adding up ♪

535
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,263
♪ I remember having my pistol tucked ♪

536
00:28:41,346 --> 00:28:43,056
-♪ When 12 ride by... ♪
-(song fades)

537
00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:45,726
THOMAS:
Instantly, I started brainstorming.

538
00:28:45,809 --> 00:28:47,644
Marlo was running with Baby.

539
00:28:47,728 --> 00:28:49,730
Him and Baby was cool.

540
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:54,026
If this his partner
and he trying to rap, too,

541
00:28:54,109 --> 00:28:56,570
then I could just push them together.

542
00:28:59,698 --> 00:29:03,160
So I just told Marlo, I was like,
"Yo, I'll sign you, too."

543
00:29:04,453 --> 00:29:06,288
You know, this shit working for me,

544
00:29:06,371 --> 00:29:09,875
and I'm sort of figuring it out,
so let me, let me empower them.

545
00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:12,211
Let me show them how to get in this game.

546
00:29:12,294 --> 00:29:14,838
♪ ♪

547
00:29:14,922 --> 00:29:17,799
COACH K:
Once Baby decided he wanted to rap,

548
00:29:17,883 --> 00:29:19,843
it was like the perfect storm for P,

549
00:29:19,927 --> 00:29:23,013
'cause P was like, "Oh,
I'm ready to put everything into you."

550
00:29:23,096 --> 00:29:24,890
THOMAS:
Like, I know Baby.

551
00:29:24,973 --> 00:29:28,101
We done been through
some things before music,

552
00:29:28,185 --> 00:29:30,229
so it was personal to me.

553
00:29:30,312 --> 00:29:32,231
PILOT:
A very full flight today.

554
00:29:32,314 --> 00:29:34,274
(over P.A.):
We do appreciate your cooperation.

555
00:29:34,358 --> 00:29:36,026
Your flight to LaGuardia, New York.
Once again...

556
00:29:36,109 --> 00:29:38,487
THOMAS:
I'm in this grind with y'all.

557
00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:40,739
I got to do what I got to do
to get this dude.

558
00:29:40,822 --> 00:29:42,866
You know, I'm trying to break this dude.

559
00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:45,035
(line ringing)

560
00:29:45,118 --> 00:29:48,163
This ain't no one-hit-wonder shit.
These niggas gon' keep coming.

561
00:29:48,247 --> 00:29:49,331
-(elevator bell dings)
-AUTOMATED VOICE: First floor.

562
00:29:49,414 --> 00:29:50,499
MAN:
What up, B? Nice to meet you.

563
00:29:50,582 --> 00:29:54,002
I know you 'bout to be the next big thing,
so I got to...

564
00:29:54,086 --> 00:29:55,462
I said, I'm hands-on with this.

565
00:29:55,546 --> 00:29:57,214
I said, I'm-I'm on the ground with this.

566
00:29:57,297 --> 00:29:59,299
I'm personally touching this.

567
00:29:59,383 --> 00:30:01,009
Lil Baby, do you see this email?

568
00:30:01,093 --> 00:30:02,594
You don't even understand how big this is.

569
00:30:04,137 --> 00:30:06,056
(horn honking)

570
00:30:08,058 --> 00:30:09,226
DJ ENVY:
Morning, everybody!

571
00:30:09,309 --> 00:30:12,020
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Charlamagne tha God.

572
00:30:12,104 --> 00:30:13,522
We are The Breakfast Club.

573
00:30:13,605 --> 00:30:15,607
We got some special guests
in the building!

574
00:30:17,901 --> 00:30:20,487
CHARLAMAGNE:
My name is, uh, Lenard McKelvey,

575
00:30:20,571 --> 00:30:23,782
professionally known as
Charlamagne tha God.

576
00:30:23,865 --> 00:30:26,660
MAN:
Charlamagne tha God interview, take one.

577
00:30:26,743 --> 00:30:28,120
Soft stick, mark.

578
00:30:28,203 --> 00:30:30,330
The Breakfast Club is just
a nationally syndicated radio show

579
00:30:30,414 --> 00:30:32,207
that comes on in over a hundred markets.

580
00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:36,295
Think we got like 4.5 million
listeners a week or something like that.

581
00:30:36,378 --> 00:30:37,713
Or daily. I don't know.

582
00:30:37,796 --> 00:30:40,465
I just-- it's a, it's a,
it's a pretty big deal.

583
00:30:40,549 --> 00:30:42,134
-Jay-Z. Yes.
-Jay-Z, ladies and gentlemen.

584
00:30:42,217 --> 00:30:43,260
Gucci Mane.

585
00:30:43,343 --> 00:30:44,344
-Snoop Dogg!
-What it do?

586
00:30:44,428 --> 00:30:46,305
What's happening, Breakfast Club?

587
00:30:46,388 --> 00:30:47,931
Artists come on Breakfast Club,

588
00:30:48,015 --> 00:30:50,642
immediately their followers
grow on social media,

589
00:30:50,726 --> 00:30:53,645
immediately their streams go up.

590
00:30:53,729 --> 00:30:57,399
People that may not have known
who these individuals were before,

591
00:30:57,482 --> 00:31:00,444
now they gravitate towards them
a little bit more.

592
00:31:00,527 --> 00:31:02,029
A lot of cases, you know,
Breakfast Club is

593
00:31:02,112 --> 00:31:06,116
their first, like,
"mainstream" look, so to speak.

594
00:31:06,199 --> 00:31:08,201
(indistinct talk radio chatter)

595
00:31:15,042 --> 00:31:16,543
WOMAN (over radio):
...refreshing wintry vapor

596
00:31:16,627 --> 00:31:18,754
and a ceramic wick for a flavorful...

597
00:31:18,837 --> 00:31:20,172
MAN:
Two, four.

598
00:31:20,255 --> 00:31:21,423
Come on, man, let me go to sleep.

599
00:31:21,506 --> 00:31:23,342
Get you some rest.
Yeah, I'll get you some rest.

600
00:31:23,425 --> 00:31:24,635
I've been at it.

601
00:31:24,718 --> 00:31:26,053
COACH K:
Baby is closed in.

602
00:31:26,136 --> 00:31:28,180
Like, he's not all on social media.

603
00:31:28,263 --> 00:31:29,890
He don't do a lot of interviews.

604
00:31:29,973 --> 00:31:32,392
Shit, we had to pull--
we have to be pull his--

605
00:31:32,476 --> 00:31:34,561
"Come on," you know, to do interviews

606
00:31:34,645 --> 00:31:37,022
because he-he's just
kind of a private guy.

607
00:31:37,105 --> 00:31:39,149
Ready when you guys are.

608
00:31:39,232 --> 00:31:41,193
-What's up? I'm P.
-And I'm Lil Baby.

609
00:31:41,276 --> 00:31:43,111
Watch me tomorrow morning
on The Breakfast Club

610
00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:44,780
only on Revolt TV.

611
00:31:44,863 --> 00:31:47,574
MAN:
One more time, just a lot louder, please.

612
00:31:47,658 --> 00:31:49,117
-What's up?
-Absolutely.

613
00:31:49,201 --> 00:31:51,536
Lil Baby, what's happening?

614
00:31:51,620 --> 00:31:53,622
CHARLAMAGNE:
A street nigga transitioning.

615
00:31:53,705 --> 00:31:55,957
You know what I mean? (chuckles)

616
00:31:56,041 --> 00:31:58,919
A brother from the hood,
for real, for real,

617
00:31:59,002 --> 00:32:01,338
who's just making the transition.

618
00:32:01,421 --> 00:32:03,465
DJ ENVY:
He started rapping a year ago.

619
00:32:03,548 --> 00:32:06,051
-Yeah. -CHARLAMAGNE: Why you
didn't want to rap, Lil Baby?

620
00:32:06,134 --> 00:32:08,845
I wasn't really into rap,
you know what I'm saying?

621
00:32:08,929 --> 00:32:11,723
How hard is the transition
from the streets to the, to the,

622
00:32:11,807 --> 00:32:13,433
-to the music industry?
-Super hard.

623
00:32:13,517 --> 00:32:16,520
A lot of stuff I got to do, like,
I don't really care to do, but...

624
00:32:16,603 --> 00:32:19,064
-DJ ENVY: You got to do it for free.
-Know what I'm saying? I got to do it.

625
00:32:19,147 --> 00:32:20,315
ANGELA:
And you do this Breakfast Club interview.

626
00:32:20,399 --> 00:32:22,567
CHARLAMAGNE:
What's the motivation, then?

627
00:32:22,651 --> 00:32:25,070
When you sit him down
in front of a microphone

628
00:32:25,153 --> 00:32:27,572
and you got cameras rolling...

629
00:32:27,656 --> 00:32:28,865
That be the hard part for me.

630
00:32:28,949 --> 00:32:31,326
Like, we got to drive six hours for a show

631
00:32:31,410 --> 00:32:34,079
and I pick up 2,500
on the back end or something.

632
00:32:34,162 --> 00:32:38,083
Somebody might be happy to get on the road
and drive ten hours for 2,500,

633
00:32:38,166 --> 00:32:40,460
but me, I'm like, "Man, I ain't--
I don't want to go."

634
00:32:40,544 --> 00:32:42,629
Appreciate you, bro.

635
00:32:42,713 --> 00:32:44,256
THOMAS:
There was a few times in the beginning

636
00:32:44,339 --> 00:32:45,841
it was really difficult.

637
00:32:45,924 --> 00:32:47,884
He was like, "I ain't with this."

638
00:32:47,968 --> 00:32:51,179
I used to be sending Baby out
on promo runs

639
00:32:51,263 --> 00:32:53,557
and, um, you know, just all the stuff

640
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,684
that a-a developing artist got to go do.

641
00:32:55,767 --> 00:32:57,394
(rap music playing)

642
00:32:57,477 --> 00:32:59,062
He used to be calling me back like,

643
00:32:59,146 --> 00:33:02,107
"Boy, I ain't making no money.
It's three people in the crowd."

644
00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:05,318
MAN (over speakers): Where my
Lil Baby fans at in this motherfucker?

645
00:33:05,402 --> 00:33:07,779
We finna turn this motherfucker up, bro.

646
00:33:07,863 --> 00:33:09,364
Lil Baby in your city right now!

647
00:33:09,448 --> 00:33:11,241
("All of a Sudden" by Lil Baby
and Moneybagg Yo playing)

648
00:33:11,324 --> 00:33:12,451
What you say?

649
00:33:12,534 --> 00:33:14,035
♪ I can't be toting no handguns ♪

650
00:33:14,119 --> 00:33:15,662
-♪ Unless that bitch come with a 30 ♪
-What?

651
00:33:15,746 --> 00:33:17,164
♪ I can't be fucking these dog hoes ♪

652
00:33:17,247 --> 00:33:19,416
♪ Unless that bitch come with a buddy... ♪

653
00:33:19,499 --> 00:33:22,544
THOMAS:
I used to be like, "You got to go do this.

654
00:33:25,130 --> 00:33:28,467
"Don't think about money right now.

655
00:33:28,550 --> 00:33:31,344
"Just think about putting yourself
in front of a crowd of people.

656
00:33:32,929 --> 00:33:35,015
Your breakthrough
come from your sacrifice."

657
00:33:35,098 --> 00:33:38,810
For Baby, the sacrifice was

658
00:33:38,894 --> 00:33:42,397
giving up fast money that you getting
every day in the streets...

659
00:33:44,649 --> 00:33:47,194
...for a rap career...

660
00:33:47,277 --> 00:33:48,987
(camera clicking)

661
00:33:49,070 --> 00:33:52,908
...that it ain't guaranteed
you gonna make it.

662
00:33:52,991 --> 00:33:54,993
♪ ♪

663
00:33:58,497 --> 00:34:00,040
MAN:
We make sure we doing that.

664
00:34:00,123 --> 00:34:02,709
That way, when you bringing him out--
like, if I'm, uh...

665
00:34:02,793 --> 00:34:05,921
if I'm, uh, in the crowd,
I-I'm learning with you.

666
00:34:06,004 --> 00:34:07,714
I say "Lil," y'all say "Baby."

667
00:34:07,798 --> 00:34:09,424
Lil. "Baby." Lil. "Baby."

668
00:34:09,508 --> 00:34:11,885
You know, and then by the time
it's time to bring him out,

669
00:34:11,968 --> 00:34:13,762
-it's already a vibe.
-MAN 2: It's already a vibe.

670
00:34:13,845 --> 00:34:17,891
Some of the stuff I'm-a... I'm-a mute it,
'cause I'm-a let you go over the crowd.

671
00:34:18,975 --> 00:34:20,143
Like, yo.

672
00:34:20,227 --> 00:34:22,562
I got to learn how to talk to the crowd.
I don't talk to the crowd.

673
00:34:22,646 --> 00:34:24,231
-WOMAN: Yeah, that's-that's his problem.
-Like, I don't talk to the crowd.

674
00:34:24,314 --> 00:34:25,649
-Like, he really don't.
-I don't say shit.

675
00:34:25,732 --> 00:34:27,484
And even like, like I told you,
some of the shows

676
00:34:27,567 --> 00:34:29,778
-that is there, he walk off.
-I swear to God I don't say shit.

677
00:34:29,861 --> 00:34:31,613
I get... I walk straight off.

678
00:34:31,696 --> 00:34:34,533
Now, he might be like,
"Thank y'all for coming," and walk off.

679
00:34:34,616 --> 00:34:36,535
Yeah, like, why don't you stay
and talk to them?

680
00:34:36,618 --> 00:34:38,954
(singing gibberish)

681
00:34:39,037 --> 00:34:40,413
They the crowd right there.
Y'all gon' get hype.

682
00:34:40,497 --> 00:34:42,207
-I'm-a talk my shit. (laughs)
-Go on, talk it.

683
00:34:42,290 --> 00:34:44,042
We gon' run through it.

684
00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:46,419
-So... -You can't be scared,
'cause I'm scared already.

685
00:34:46,503 --> 00:34:48,213
Both of us can't be scared.

686
00:34:48,296 --> 00:34:50,715
When I first walked on the stage,
you can see it in the video.

687
00:34:50,799 --> 00:34:52,592
(stammers, laughs)

688
00:34:52,676 --> 00:34:54,594
I froze up. I was like, "Oh, shit."

689
00:34:54,678 --> 00:34:56,680
♪ ♪

690
00:35:04,855 --> 00:35:08,567
COACH K: He was given that opportunity
and took a chance.

691
00:35:11,361 --> 00:35:13,196
♪ Yeah ♪

692
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,323
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪

693
00:35:16,950 --> 00:35:18,869
-I remember one night
-(slapping hands)

694
00:35:18,952 --> 00:35:21,204
and he sent me a song.

695
00:35:21,288 --> 00:35:23,707
And I opened it up and I listened to it,

696
00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:26,376
and I was like, "Oh, shit.

697
00:35:26,459 --> 00:35:28,753
He's got the one now."

698
00:35:28,837 --> 00:35:30,589
MAN: You ready, Baby?
Put your headphones on, man,

699
00:35:30,672 --> 00:35:31,840
so you can hear what's going on.

700
00:35:31,923 --> 00:35:34,009
Man, we on the radio.
It's about to go down.

701
00:35:34,092 --> 00:35:36,136
-What song is this?
-Gonna be "My Dawg."

702
00:35:36,219 --> 00:35:37,554
-MAN: "My Dawg"?
-Yeah, "My Dawg."

703
00:35:37,637 --> 00:35:39,306
♪ Niggas having pressure 'bout a bitch ♪

704
00:35:39,389 --> 00:35:41,433
♪ I got all my cases dismissed ♪

705
00:35:41,516 --> 00:35:43,518
♪ I don't go back and forth
on the Internet ♪

706
00:35:43,602 --> 00:35:45,437
♪ Real niggas don't get into that ♪

707
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,230
♪ I'm trying to get
in her mouth, for real ♪

708
00:35:47,314 --> 00:35:48,982
♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth ♪

709
00:35:49,065 --> 00:35:50,734
♪ Me and my dawgs, me and my dawgs ♪

710
00:35:50,817 --> 00:35:52,444
♪ We trying to run in your house ♪

711
00:35:52,527 --> 00:35:54,404
♪ We want them bricks, we want the money ♪

712
00:35:54,487 --> 00:35:56,406
♪ You can keep all of the pounds ♪

713
00:35:56,489 --> 00:35:57,824
♪ I can't be fucking
these little bitty bitches ♪

714
00:35:57,908 --> 00:35:59,743
♪ 'Cause they be running they mouth ♪

715
00:35:59,826 --> 00:36:01,119
♪ I'm really running H-Town ♪

716
00:36:01,202 --> 00:36:02,829
♪ Franck Muller watch for my wrist ♪

717
00:36:02,913 --> 00:36:05,040
-(screaming)
-♪ Nother 30,000 in my fit ♪

718
00:36:05,123 --> 00:36:06,291
♪ Codeine all in my piss... ♪

719
00:36:06,374 --> 00:36:09,336
LIL BABY: When I made that song,
I knew it was the one.

720
00:36:09,419 --> 00:36:12,964
I was telling people like,
"This gonna be the one. This the song."

721
00:36:13,048 --> 00:36:14,633
COACH K:
It was like he had found his swag,

722
00:36:14,716 --> 00:36:16,551
and you could hear it all in that record.

723
00:36:16,635 --> 00:36:17,969
-♪ That's my dawg, for sure ♪
-♪ My dawg ♪

724
00:36:18,053 --> 00:36:20,221
-♪ That's my dawg ♪
-♪ My dawg ♪

725
00:36:20,305 --> 00:36:21,514
-♪ That's my dawg, for sure ♪
-♪ My dawg ♪

726
00:36:21,598 --> 00:36:22,933
-♪ That's my dawg ♪
-♪ My dawg ♪

727
00:36:23,016 --> 00:36:24,726
-♪ Me and my dawg ♪
-♪ Me and my dawg ♪

728
00:36:24,809 --> 00:36:26,895
-♪ We gave 'em two in a row ♪
-♪ Two in a row ♪

729
00:36:26,978 --> 00:36:28,605
-♪ Me and my dawg ♪
-♪ Me and my dawg ♪

730
00:36:28,688 --> 00:36:32,400
-♪ We gave 'em two in a row ♪
-♪ Two in a row... ♪

731
00:36:32,484 --> 00:36:33,985
COACH K:
It was a anthem.

732
00:36:34,069 --> 00:36:38,198
If every person can sing it, rap it,
and they feel like that's them,

733
00:36:38,281 --> 00:36:40,158
those are the type of records that go.

734
00:36:40,241 --> 00:36:42,118
(crowd rapping along):
♪ Niggas having pressure 'bout a bitch ♪

735
00:36:42,202 --> 00:36:44,162
♪ I got all my cases dismissed ♪

736
00:36:44,245 --> 00:36:46,498
♪ I don't go back and forth
on the Internet ♪

737
00:36:46,581 --> 00:36:48,416
♪ Real niggas don't get into that ♪

738
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,293
♪ I'm trying to get
in her mouth, for real ♪

739
00:36:50,377 --> 00:36:51,836
CROWD:
♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth ♪

740
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,172
♪ Yeah, me and my dawgs, me and my dawgs ♪

741
00:36:54,255 --> 00:36:55,799
♪ We trying to run in your house. ♪

742
00:36:55,882 --> 00:36:57,300
(song ends)

743
00:36:58,885 --> 00:37:01,012
All right, cool.

744
00:37:01,096 --> 00:37:04,015
CHARLES HOLMES:
When Baby was first emerging on the scene

745
00:37:04,099 --> 00:37:06,643
was when I was first becoming
a journalist.

746
00:37:06,726 --> 00:37:08,186
And my boss was like,

747
00:37:08,269 --> 00:37:09,437
"Yo, QC's coming through

748
00:37:09,521 --> 00:37:10,730
"and they're bringing
this artist Lil Baby.

749
00:37:10,814 --> 00:37:12,273
I want you to come down and just say hi."

750
00:37:13,692 --> 00:37:15,610
I spent a couple hours with him.

751
00:37:15,694 --> 00:37:17,404
I guess, put it, like, right in between...

752
00:37:17,487 --> 00:37:19,698
HOLMES:
Lil Baby was not media trained.

753
00:37:19,781 --> 00:37:21,199
He was still very, very raw.

754
00:37:21,282 --> 00:37:22,909
MAN:
Uh, if we could get a little more blue...

755
00:37:22,993 --> 00:37:26,496
HOLMES: But what I will say is that
sometimes the best artists

756
00:37:26,579 --> 00:37:28,915
create stuff that you don't understand.

757
00:37:28,999 --> 00:37:31,501
And Lil Baby was creating art
that I didn't understand.

758
00:37:31,584 --> 00:37:35,547
It was so hyper-local to him
and everything that he was going through.

759
00:37:35,630 --> 00:37:36,881
♪ Shout-out my label, that's me ♪

760
00:37:36,965 --> 00:37:38,425
♪ I'm in this bitch with TB ♪

761
00:37:38,508 --> 00:37:40,051
♪ I'm in this bitch with 4-Trey ♪

762
00:37:40,135 --> 00:37:41,553
♪ I just poured up me an eight ♪

763
00:37:41,636 --> 00:37:43,013
♪ Real nigga all in my face ♪

764
00:37:43,096 --> 00:37:44,347
♪ 500 racks in my safe... ♪

765
00:37:44,431 --> 00:37:48,226
HOLMES: In those first, uh, videos
like "Freestyle" and "My Dawg,"

766
00:37:48,309 --> 00:37:51,604
he's creating this persona
that is distilling

767
00:37:51,688 --> 00:37:55,066
everything that people know
about him in Atlanta:

768
00:37:55,150 --> 00:37:57,318
that's he's-he's
this prolific drug dealer,

769
00:37:57,402 --> 00:38:00,030
that he's this amazing gambler,

770
00:38:00,113 --> 00:38:02,407
that he's respected in the streets.

771
00:38:02,490 --> 00:38:04,409
♪ They ain't my niggas no more ♪

772
00:38:04,492 --> 00:38:06,870
♪ Hold it down for the four,
in the nine with the woes ♪

773
00:38:06,953 --> 00:38:08,621
♪ Marlo my dawg, that's for sure... ♪

774
00:38:08,705 --> 00:38:11,374
HOLMES:
And it introduced me to a world that

775
00:38:11,458 --> 00:38:14,836
I knew existed, but the way
he was telling those stories,

776
00:38:14,919 --> 00:38:16,296
I was, I was blown away.

777
00:38:16,379 --> 00:38:18,339
♪ Hardly ever in the city ♪

778
00:38:18,423 --> 00:38:20,008
♪ They just know I'm getting bigger ♪

779
00:38:20,091 --> 00:38:21,676
♪ They just know a nigga busy ♪

780
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,012
♪ I been running up them digits, yeah. ♪

781
00:38:24,095 --> 00:38:26,056
-Yeah, that hard. Yeah.
-Yeah. -(laughter)

782
00:38:26,139 --> 00:38:28,183
(excited chatter)

783
00:38:28,266 --> 00:38:29,976
HOLMES:
If you look at those mixtapes

784
00:38:30,060 --> 00:38:32,187
that he was doing sequentially,

785
00:38:32,270 --> 00:38:35,523
Baby was not that great of a rapper
on that first mixtape.

786
00:38:35,607 --> 00:38:38,109
And within two to three mixtapes,

787
00:38:38,193 --> 00:38:41,154
he's one of the best rappers in his city,

788
00:38:41,237 --> 00:38:42,864
and soon after that, he's one of

789
00:38:42,947 --> 00:38:44,324
the best rappers in the country.

790
00:38:44,407 --> 00:38:46,743
And that only happens
if you wake up every single day

791
00:38:46,826 --> 00:38:49,829
and you're like, "I'm going to the studio,
and I'm just gonna rap."

792
00:38:49,913 --> 00:38:53,208
He just put in way more raps
than everybody else around him.

793
00:38:53,291 --> 00:38:55,335
♪ When you're rich like this,
you don't check the forecast ♪

794
00:38:55,418 --> 00:38:56,920
♪ Every day, it's gonna rain, yeah ♪

795
00:38:57,003 --> 00:38:58,588
♪ Made a brick through a brick,
I ain't whip up shit ♪

796
00:38:58,671 --> 00:39:00,715
♪ This pure cocaine, yeah ♪

797
00:39:00,799 --> 00:39:02,467
♪ From the streets,
but I got a little sense ♪

798
00:39:02,550 --> 00:39:04,552
♪ But I had to go coupe,
no brain, coupe, no brain ♪

799
00:39:04,636 --> 00:39:06,429
♪ I ain't worried 'bout you,
I'm-a do what I do ♪

800
00:39:06,513 --> 00:39:07,931
♪ And I do my thing, do my thing ♪

801
00:39:08,014 --> 00:39:09,307
♪ Bought her brand-new shoes,
told her... ♪

802
00:39:09,390 --> 00:39:12,519
HOLMES: When you're looking at,
like, the evolution of Baby,

803
00:39:12,602 --> 00:39:14,395
I look at something like "Pure Cocaine."

804
00:39:14,479 --> 00:39:16,856
The rapping that he's doing on that
is so elastic.

805
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:18,817
He's fighting with the beat.

806
00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:20,902
He's zooming in and out of pockets.

807
00:39:20,985 --> 00:39:23,279
It's amazing.

808
00:39:23,363 --> 00:39:25,907
Listen to, um, "Close Friends."

809
00:39:25,990 --> 00:39:27,659
That's a ballad. That's an R&B ballad.

810
00:39:27,742 --> 00:39:29,244
You could give that song
to any R&B artist.

811
00:39:29,327 --> 00:39:30,995
Would've been a hit.

812
00:39:31,079 --> 00:39:33,248
-♪ We started off as close friends ♪
-♪ Close friends ♪

813
00:39:33,331 --> 00:39:35,583
♪ Somehow you turned into my girlfriend ♪

814
00:39:35,667 --> 00:39:37,043
♪ My girlfriend ♪

815
00:39:37,127 --> 00:39:38,294
♪ We used to tell each other everything ♪

816
00:39:38,378 --> 00:39:40,046
♪ Everything ♪

817
00:39:40,130 --> 00:39:41,589
♪ I even went and bought her
diamond rings ♪

818
00:39:41,673 --> 00:39:43,049
♪ Matching earrings... ♪

819
00:39:43,133 --> 00:39:44,759
CHARLAMAGNE:
I'm the type of person,

820
00:39:44,843 --> 00:39:47,595
I always love expecting the unexpected.

821
00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:50,223
The way he was putting out mixtapes
and putting out verses,

822
00:39:50,306 --> 00:39:54,477
I meant that from the way
he was getting better so fast.

823
00:39:54,561 --> 00:39:56,396
(indistinct chatter)

824
00:39:56,479 --> 00:39:58,148
Like, y-you could hear it
on "Drip Too Hard."

825
00:39:58,231 --> 00:39:59,732
Yeah, where y'all DJ?

826
00:39:59,816 --> 00:40:01,943
("Drip Too Hard"
by Lil Baby and Gunna playing)

827
00:40:02,026 --> 00:40:04,195
CHARLAMAGNE:
The flow,

828
00:40:04,279 --> 00:40:06,281
the voice, the cadence, the lyrics,

829
00:40:06,364 --> 00:40:09,242
but it was just something happening.

830
00:40:09,325 --> 00:40:12,996
Every time you heard a Lil Baby project,
every time you heard a Lil Baby verse,

831
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:15,415
I'm like, "Hold up.

832
00:40:15,498 --> 00:40:17,667
"Lil Baby can rap.

833
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:20,837
"Like, nah, Lil Baby snapping.

834
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,922
Like, he's spitting spitting."

835
00:40:23,006 --> 00:40:24,465
MAN (over speakers):
Put your fucking hands up!

836
00:40:24,549 --> 00:40:26,551
♪ You can get the biggest
Chanel bag in the store ♪

837
00:40:26,634 --> 00:40:27,844
♪ If you want it, I gave 'em the drip ♪

838
00:40:27,927 --> 00:40:29,554
♪ They sucked it up, I got 'em on it ♪

839
00:40:29,637 --> 00:40:31,723
♪ I bought a new Patek,
I had the watch, so I two-toned 'em ♪

840
00:40:31,806 --> 00:40:33,933
♪ Taking these drugs,
I'm gon' be up until the morning ♪

841
00:40:34,017 --> 00:40:36,186
♪ That ain't your car,
you just a leaser, you don't own it ♪

842
00:40:36,269 --> 00:40:38,188
♪ If I'm in the club, I got that fire
when I'm performing ♪

843
00:40:38,271 --> 00:40:40,523
♪ The back end just came in
in all hundreds ♪

844
00:40:40,607 --> 00:40:42,150
♪ Vibes galore, cute shit,
they all on us ♪

845
00:40:42,233 --> 00:40:44,319
♪ I'm from Atlanta,
where young niggas run shit ♪

846
00:40:44,402 --> 00:40:46,779
♪ I know they hating on me,
but I don't read comments ♪

847
00:40:46,863 --> 00:40:48,656
♪ Whenever I tell her to come,
she coming ♪

848
00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:51,451
♪ Whenever it's smoke, we ain't running ♪

849
00:40:51,534 --> 00:40:53,494
♪ Drip too hard, don't stand too close ♪

850
00:40:53,578 --> 00:40:55,496
♪ You gon' fuck around
and drown off this wave ♪

851
00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:57,582
♪ Doing all these shows,
I've been on the road... ♪

852
00:40:57,665 --> 00:41:00,376
I think, with Gunna,
when those two came together,

853
00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:02,879
that was one of the first real moments
where I think everybody

854
00:41:02,962 --> 00:41:06,424
collectively was like,
"Lil Baby is the center of Atlanta now."

855
00:41:06,507 --> 00:41:08,092
♪ Every other night,
another movie get made ♪

856
00:41:08,176 --> 00:41:10,762
♪ Every other night,
another dollar getting made ♪

857
00:41:10,845 --> 00:41:12,722
♪ Every other night
started with a good day ♪

858
00:41:12,805 --> 00:41:14,849
♪ I feel like a child,
I got boogers in the face ♪

859
00:41:14,933 --> 00:41:17,060
♪ Diamonds dancing in the dial
like this shit is a parade... ♪

860
00:41:17,143 --> 00:41:18,603
We showed brotherly love.

861
00:41:18,686 --> 00:41:19,938
Like, we showed, like,

862
00:41:20,021 --> 00:41:22,440
how two niggas can
come together and get it.

863
00:41:22,523 --> 00:41:23,691
Like, we showing, like,

864
00:41:23,775 --> 00:41:25,151
our younger generation,
like, we can do it.

865
00:41:25,235 --> 00:41:27,570
♪ Drip too hard, charge it to the card ♪

866
00:41:27,654 --> 00:41:29,864
♪ Designer to the ground,
I can barely spell the name ♪

867
00:41:29,948 --> 00:41:31,699
♪ Drip too hard, caution on the floor ♪

868
00:41:31,783 --> 00:41:33,034
♪ You gon' fuck around and drown ♪

869
00:41:33,117 --> 00:41:34,285
♪ Trying to ride a nigga wave ♪

870
00:41:34,369 --> 00:41:36,037
♪ Drip too hard, don't stand too close ♪

871
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,414
♪ You gon' fuck around
and drown off this wave ♪

872
00:41:38,498 --> 00:41:40,333
♪ Doing all these shows,
I've been on the road ♪

873
00:41:40,416 --> 00:41:42,210
♪ I don't care where I go,
long as I get paid. ♪

874
00:41:42,293 --> 00:41:43,628
-(song ends)
-(crowd cheering)

875
00:41:43,711 --> 00:41:45,046
MAN (over speakers):
London, make some noise

876
00:41:45,129 --> 00:41:47,715
for Baby and Gunna one time!

877
00:41:48,967 --> 00:41:50,510
GUNNA:
History in the making.

878
00:41:52,095 --> 00:41:53,221
History in the making.

879
00:41:53,304 --> 00:41:55,640
Like, we young Black kings.

880
00:41:55,723 --> 00:41:57,725
(crowd cheering)

881
00:41:59,978 --> 00:42:01,896
(indistinct chatter)

882
00:42:01,980 --> 00:42:04,232
Me and my motherfucking brother,
we doing festivals and shit.

883
00:42:04,315 --> 00:42:05,817
You know this shit. Know what I'm saying?

884
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:07,819
This shit like a dream come true,
you know what I'm saying?

885
00:42:07,902 --> 00:42:09,195
Niggas ain't doing this shit.

886
00:42:09,279 --> 00:42:11,614
♪ Do this all the time,
this ain't no surprise ♪

887
00:42:11,698 --> 00:42:13,700
♪ Every other night,
another movie get made. ♪

888
00:42:13,783 --> 00:42:15,702
(gunfire sound effects playing)

889
00:42:15,785 --> 00:42:17,954
-(song ends)
-(crowd cheering)

890
00:42:23,835 --> 00:42:25,586
LIL BABY:
Growing up in the hood,

891
00:42:25,670 --> 00:42:28,881
you never imagine being able
to really see the world.

892
00:42:30,633 --> 00:42:32,635
♪ ♪

893
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:35,680
TIFFANY CALVER:
How have you found the U.K. and Europe?

894
00:42:35,763 --> 00:42:36,973
At first, I ain't want to come.

895
00:42:37,056 --> 00:42:38,391
-(Calver laughs)
-I ain't want to come.

896
00:42:38,474 --> 00:42:40,226
I tell Coach, like,
"I ain't going over there."

897
00:42:40,310 --> 00:42:42,312
-Why?
-Once I-I-- you know, just--

898
00:42:42,395 --> 00:42:45,273
I never been before,
so, you know, I'm kind of like...

899
00:42:45,356 --> 00:42:47,859
I ain't really that fond
of trying new things.

900
00:42:47,942 --> 00:42:51,321
Did you ever think
you'd be this successful?

901
00:42:51,404 --> 00:42:53,031
-(chuckles)
-To the point we're playing your songs

902
00:42:53,114 --> 00:42:54,240
nonstop in the U.K.

903
00:42:54,324 --> 00:42:58,119
I always thought we would be big,
but I didn't even know what big was.

904
00:42:58,202 --> 00:43:00,204
(crowd cheering)

905
00:43:00,288 --> 00:43:02,290
(indistinct chatter
and shouting over speakers)

906
00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:06,336
COACH K:
We get to London,

907
00:43:06,419 --> 00:43:10,465
then I took him to the hood
so he can understand, like,

908
00:43:10,548 --> 00:43:12,592
all hoods are the same;
they just look different.

909
00:43:12,675 --> 00:43:15,762
Or the language barrier might be
a little different.

910
00:43:15,845 --> 00:43:18,681
We went to Amsterdam, same thing.

911
00:43:18,765 --> 00:43:21,684
We went to Paris, same thing.

912
00:43:22,810 --> 00:43:24,479
(siren wailing)

913
00:43:24,562 --> 00:43:26,230
As we were moving around,
he started seeing it like,

914
00:43:26,314 --> 00:43:29,400
"Oh, man. It's kind of like

915
00:43:29,484 --> 00:43:31,819
the same situation that's
going on back in the hood."

916
00:43:31,903 --> 00:43:33,821
I'm like, "It is, man.

917
00:43:33,905 --> 00:43:36,824
"It's just, you know,
people might look a little different,

918
00:43:36,908 --> 00:43:39,202
"and their language might be
a little bit different,

919
00:43:39,285 --> 00:43:40,995
but it's the same thing."

920
00:43:41,079 --> 00:43:44,165
And I said, "Your story and your music,

921
00:43:44,248 --> 00:43:47,960
it cuts through to all these people."

922
00:43:48,044 --> 00:43:50,963
MAN (over speakers):
Everybody, put your hands up!

923
00:43:51,047 --> 00:43:52,965
MAN 2:
Put your lights up like this,

924
00:43:53,049 --> 00:43:54,926
and I want the lights off.

925
00:43:55,009 --> 00:43:57,887
Put your lights up if you're ready
to go crazy right now.

926
00:43:57,970 --> 00:43:59,764
Let me hear you say, "Baby!"

927
00:43:59,847 --> 00:44:01,808
CROWD (chanting):
Baby! Baby!

928
00:44:01,891 --> 00:44:05,728
Baby! Baby! Baby! Baby!

929
00:44:05,812 --> 00:44:07,605
Baby! Baby!

930
00:44:07,688 --> 00:44:09,524
MAN 3:
Ladies and gentlemen,

931
00:44:09,607 --> 00:44:15,321
all the way from ATL, I give you Lil Baby!

932
00:44:15,405 --> 00:44:17,407
(cheering fades)

933
00:44:24,831 --> 00:44:26,749
DRAKE:
It's easy to-to hear all the great things

934
00:44:26,833 --> 00:44:28,793
that people say about you.

935
00:44:29,836 --> 00:44:35,299
They'll tell you you're the man one day,
and the next day, opinions change.

936
00:44:36,551 --> 00:44:38,010
You just got to just keep working.

937
00:44:38,094 --> 00:44:42,432
You can't really acknowledge,
uh, how well it's going.

938
00:44:42,515 --> 00:44:44,308
You're gonna have to get better, right?

939
00:44:44,392 --> 00:44:47,270
That's... that's just how the shit works.

940
00:44:47,353 --> 00:44:48,938
You have to get better, right?

941
00:44:49,021 --> 00:44:53,651
I think, as far as, you know,
the legacy of music goes--

942
00:44:53,734 --> 00:44:55,778
Forget hip-hop.
Let's just talk about music, right?

943
00:44:55,862 --> 00:44:58,406
'Cause really that's how
we all want to be remembered.

944
00:44:58,489 --> 00:45:01,784
Hip-hop and rap is great,
but it's just a genre, you know?

945
00:45:01,868 --> 00:45:04,620
There's plenty of other artists
that have done

946
00:45:04,704 --> 00:45:08,124
the exact same things,
if not more, in other genres.

947
00:45:08,207 --> 00:45:11,043
If you're really about this shit,

948
00:45:11,127 --> 00:45:13,796
then you want to be remembered
in the legacy of music.

949
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,756
(YNW Melly's "Take Kare"
instrumental beat playing)

950
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,176
It's a pivotal moment for him.

951
00:45:19,385 --> 00:45:21,762
It's just time to keep pushing forward.

952
00:45:21,846 --> 00:45:23,848
(freestyling lyrics to beat,
audio muffled)

953
00:45:32,648 --> 00:45:34,984
♪ Yeah ♪

954
00:45:36,402 --> 00:45:39,780
-♪ When I see you ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

955
00:45:39,864 --> 00:45:42,033
♪ How these niggas follow the leader,
I'm in the lead, though? ♪

956
00:45:42,116 --> 00:45:44,035
♪ You could've been quiet and silent,
what you agree for? ♪

957
00:45:44,118 --> 00:45:46,287
♪ You 'posed to be having your money,
but now you need me ♪

958
00:45:46,370 --> 00:45:48,498
♪ I ain't ever turn my back
on a real one ♪

959
00:45:48,581 --> 00:45:50,666
♪ Sipping all this purple,
I'm hoping it make me feel better ♪

960
00:45:50,750 --> 00:45:52,793
♪ I don't want a problem with bitches,
so I don't deal with them ♪

961
00:45:52,877 --> 00:45:55,004
♪ He did got away for the moment,
but we gon' still get 'em ♪

962
00:45:55,087 --> 00:45:57,673
♪ They ain't ever taking it from me
'cause I'm a real nigga. ♪

963
00:45:57,757 --> 00:45:59,759
(song fades)

964
00:46:02,762 --> 00:46:05,598
ETHIOPIA HABTEMARIAM:
My name's Ethiopia Habtemariam.

965
00:46:05,681 --> 00:46:09,560
I am the chairman and CEO
of Motown Records.

966
00:46:09,644 --> 00:46:11,854
You know, inside of
the music industry or whatever,

967
00:46:11,938 --> 00:46:16,692
you still have people
who didn't really understand Baby.

968
00:46:16,776 --> 00:46:18,694
-MAN: Lil Baby!
-MAN 2: Another completely

969
00:46:18,778 --> 00:46:21,822
unspectacular voice on this record
has to be Lil Baby,

970
00:46:21,906 --> 00:46:24,742
whose continued popularity
just boggles my mind,

971
00:46:24,825 --> 00:46:29,330
as he's maybe one of the most nondescript
rappers out there right now.

972
00:46:29,413 --> 00:46:31,290
They didn't understand
what he was saying in records.

973
00:46:31,374 --> 00:46:34,085
You know, you deal with that a lot
sometimes with Southern hip-hop artists.

974
00:46:34,168 --> 00:46:35,378
MAN 3:
Lil Baby?

975
00:46:35,461 --> 00:46:37,255
I have no idea what he's saying.

976
00:46:37,338 --> 00:46:39,048
-(laughter)
-I have none.

977
00:46:39,131 --> 00:46:42,009
Some people are elitist,
some people are, like, real hip-hop heads,

978
00:46:42,093 --> 00:46:44,595
or some gatekeepers just don't see it yet.

979
00:46:50,851 --> 00:46:54,438
They don't see it
until there's a big album.

980
00:46:54,522 --> 00:46:57,358
♪ ♪

981
00:46:57,441 --> 00:47:03,239
It was towards the end of 2019.

982
00:47:03,322 --> 00:47:05,241
He was on the road,

983
00:47:05,324 --> 00:47:07,618
working all the time
and creating new music.

984
00:47:09,829 --> 00:47:12,498
We set up these listening sessions

985
00:47:12,582 --> 00:47:16,586
to preview the music that was on My Turn.

986
00:47:16,669 --> 00:47:19,046
THOMAS: Thank you for taking time
out y'all day to come here today.

987
00:47:19,130 --> 00:47:21,674
Baby 'bout to drop his album.

988
00:47:21,757 --> 00:47:24,594
Been working on this album
for over a year now.

989
00:47:24,677 --> 00:47:26,971
How y'all doing?
I appreciate y'all for coming out.

990
00:47:27,054 --> 00:47:28,889
THOMAS:
He gon' play some records for y'all,

991
00:47:28,973 --> 00:47:31,267
hopefully one of the biggest albums
of the year.

992
00:47:31,350 --> 00:47:33,603
You know he always gon' deliver
on his end with the hits.

993
00:47:33,686 --> 00:47:37,982
We just need the support
from the partners to... amplify it.

994
00:47:40,318 --> 00:47:42,278
("Heatin' Up"
by Lil Baby and Gunna playing)

995
00:47:42,361 --> 00:47:44,363
♪ Cook that shit up, Quay ♪

996
00:47:46,282 --> 00:47:47,908
People just got really excited.

997
00:47:47,992 --> 00:47:50,119
He had some shit on there,
and everybody knew it.

998
00:47:51,829 --> 00:47:53,331
COACH K:
That's a statement.

999
00:47:53,414 --> 00:47:54,957
"It's my turn now."

1000
00:47:55,041 --> 00:47:56,417
...here to celebrate his new album.

1001
00:47:56,500 --> 00:47:57,710
-It's called My Turn.
-(cheering)

1002
00:47:57,793 --> 00:48:00,546
This guy drops a album
that everybody's just,

1003
00:48:00,630 --> 00:48:02,089
unanimously across the board, like,

1004
00:48:02,173 --> 00:48:04,216
"That's... that was, that was it."

1005
00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:05,718
I fucking knew it.

1006
00:48:05,801 --> 00:48:07,303
"Back when you was saying
you couldn't sing

1007
00:48:07,386 --> 00:48:08,888
"and how I do this shit,

1008
00:48:08,971 --> 00:48:10,765
nigga, you knew."

1009
00:48:10,848 --> 00:48:14,226
Patiently waited his turn, and, pow,

1010
00:48:14,310 --> 00:48:15,853
showed them what he knew.

1011
00:48:15,936 --> 00:48:17,355
Another level.

1012
00:48:17,438 --> 00:48:19,023
-You could do 200 first week.
-(Angela laughs)

1013
00:48:19,106 --> 00:48:20,816
You got to care about numbers
a little bit.

1014
00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:24,111
Everywhere I went,
it felt like a Lil Baby world.

1015
00:48:24,195 --> 00:48:25,738
And it was because of My Turn.

1016
00:48:25,821 --> 00:48:29,325
DRAKE:
Baby came in with his own thing,

1017
00:48:29,408 --> 00:48:31,619
which is just, like,
picking the hardest beats,

1018
00:48:31,702 --> 00:48:35,081
finding the craziest pockets,
melodies, anthems.

1019
00:48:35,164 --> 00:48:36,749
MAN (over speakers):
We got the number one artist

1020
00:48:36,832 --> 00:48:38,668
in the fucking world
in the building right now.

1021
00:48:38,751 --> 00:48:40,252
What's up, DJ?

1022
00:48:40,336 --> 00:48:42,004
Now you'll hear someone's song
and you'll be like,

1023
00:48:42,088 --> 00:48:43,547
"Ah, that sounds like Baby."

1024
00:48:43,631 --> 00:48:46,133
-My Turn just went double platinum!
-(whooping)

1025
00:48:46,217 --> 00:48:48,511
He becomes the only artist
in 2020 to do so.

1026
00:48:48,594 --> 00:48:49,887
DJ CARISMA:
Only one. Only one.

1027
00:48:49,970 --> 00:48:52,098
My Turn from Lil Baby

1028
00:48:52,181 --> 00:48:55,059
was the highest selling album
of all of 2020

1029
00:48:55,142 --> 00:48:57,603
in the entire music business.

1030
00:48:57,687 --> 00:48:59,980
Over, what, 12 billion global streams.

1031
00:49:00,064 --> 00:49:01,232
I don't even know what that means.

1032
00:49:01,315 --> 00:49:03,359
-How many zeros is that?
-WOMAN: A lot.

1033
00:49:03,442 --> 00:49:05,820
DRAKE:
He just continued to evolve.

1034
00:49:05,903 --> 00:49:08,739
This guy's the truth, you know?
Like, his work ethic is-is up.

1035
00:49:08,823 --> 00:49:10,408
♪ I'm the one from the bottom who sold ♪

1036
00:49:10,491 --> 00:49:12,952
♪ All my partners them pounds,
used to drive in a Buick. ♪

1037
00:49:13,035 --> 00:49:15,705
(rhythmic breathing)

1038
00:49:15,788 --> 00:49:17,707
(song fades)

1039
00:49:17,790 --> 00:49:19,792
♪ ♪

1040
00:49:27,341 --> 00:49:30,845
DRAKE: I wish he had really got to see
the effects of his music.

1041
00:49:30,928 --> 00:49:32,179
ERIN BURNETT:
Stay at home.

1042
00:49:32,263 --> 00:49:35,391
That is the order tonight
from four state governors,

1043
00:49:35,474 --> 00:49:37,601
as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.

1044
00:49:39,937 --> 00:49:41,897
DRAKE:
We were supposed to go on tour

1045
00:49:41,981 --> 00:49:45,317
in all the festivals
and all the clubs and just...

1046
00:49:45,401 --> 00:49:47,194
I almost feel for him in a sense

1047
00:49:47,278 --> 00:49:52,283
because I wish the world
was open, um, for him to...

1048
00:49:52,366 --> 00:49:54,201
to experience what that should've been.

1049
00:49:55,745 --> 00:49:57,955
It's like...

1050
00:49:58,038 --> 00:50:03,210
the hardest year maybe in human history
that we've ever been through.

1051
00:50:03,294 --> 00:50:07,006
Forget music, just as a,
as a, as a people.

1052
00:50:07,089 --> 00:50:11,927
Like, the hardest time to ever
connect with people, relate to people.

1053
00:50:14,889 --> 00:50:18,100
It was clearly the biggest
rap project of the year,

1054
00:50:18,184 --> 00:50:21,061
and what a tough time to deliver that.

1055
00:50:21,145 --> 00:50:23,147
(rap music playing faintly in distance)

1056
00:50:30,654 --> 00:50:35,075
LIL BABY: Being in quarantine
made me think about what really matters.

1057
00:50:38,788 --> 00:50:41,165
I had the biggest album in the world,

1058
00:50:41,248 --> 00:50:43,250
but something still felt empty.

1059
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,171
It made me look inwards.

1060
00:50:47,254 --> 00:50:51,342
It made me realize all the awards,
all the numbers,

1061
00:50:51,425 --> 00:50:53,427
it don't mean anything.

1062
00:51:12,655 --> 00:51:14,657
NEWSMAN (over TV):
Demonstrators gathering in Minneapolis

1063
00:51:14,740 --> 00:51:16,742
to protest the death of a Black man.

1064
00:51:16,826 --> 00:51:20,913
Video shows one officer kneeling
on Floyd's neck for several minutes,

1065
00:51:20,996 --> 00:51:23,332
even after he pleaded
that he couldn't breathe.

1066
00:51:23,415 --> 00:51:24,542
What began as a crowd of...

1067
00:51:24,625 --> 00:51:27,294
LIL BABY:
This ain't something that's new to me.

1068
00:51:27,378 --> 00:51:29,463
It wasn't my first time seeing it.

1069
00:51:29,547 --> 00:51:31,257
I done seen the worst of the worst.

1070
00:51:31,340 --> 00:51:32,633
NEWSMAN:
...reportedly fired tear gas...

1071
00:51:32,716 --> 00:51:36,262
I done been in real physical
altercations with police.

1072
00:51:36,345 --> 00:51:38,138
I been to prison.

1073
00:51:38,222 --> 00:51:40,599
You know, they do you any kind of way.

1074
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:42,685
(crowd shouting)

1075
00:51:42,768 --> 00:51:44,228
CROWD (chanting):
No justice, no peace!

1076
00:51:44,311 --> 00:51:45,771
No justice, no peace!

1077
00:51:45,855 --> 00:51:47,106
Being Black is not a crime!

1078
00:51:47,189 --> 00:51:48,858
Same story every time!

1079
00:51:48,941 --> 00:51:51,277
Being Black is not a crime!

1080
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,238
Don't shoot! Hands up!
Don't shoot! Hands up!

1081
00:51:54,321 --> 00:51:56,282
Don't shoot!

1082
00:51:56,365 --> 00:51:59,910
Hands up! Don't shoot!
Hands up! Don't shoot!

1083
00:51:59,994 --> 00:52:02,329
Hands up! Don't shoot!

1084
00:52:02,413 --> 00:52:05,416
No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!

1085
00:52:05,499 --> 00:52:06,959
No justice, no peace!

1086
00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:09,336
Being Black is not a crime!

1087
00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:13,173
LIL BABY: I think I got the same role
as every other Black person.

1088
00:52:13,257 --> 00:52:15,551
(chanting fades)

1089
00:52:15,634 --> 00:52:18,512
Stick together, stand up
for what we believe in.

1090
00:52:18,596 --> 00:52:21,432
And you got to voice it and speak it.

1091
00:52:23,225 --> 00:52:24,685
(police radio crackles)

1092
00:52:24,768 --> 00:52:26,770
♪ ♪

1093
00:52:48,459 --> 00:52:52,713
I try to make sure
I put real life in my music.

1094
00:52:52,796 --> 00:52:54,965
We are tired.

1095
00:52:55,049 --> 00:52:57,593
We are tired of being beaten by policemen.

1096
00:52:57,676 --> 00:53:00,846
We're tired of seeing our people
locked up in jail over and over again.

1097
00:53:03,807 --> 00:53:05,559
(crowd clapping)

1098
00:53:12,733 --> 00:53:17,613
LIL BABY: We've been going through
the same shit decade after decade.

1099
00:53:17,696 --> 00:53:19,615
Dramatic videotape
obtained by Channel Five...

1100
00:53:19,698 --> 00:53:23,494
Obviously, we feel the, uh, evidence
warranted a conviction.

1101
00:53:23,577 --> 00:53:26,497
NEWSMAN: The violence erupted after
the acquittal of four white policemen

1102
00:53:26,580 --> 00:53:28,874
in the beating trial
of Black motorist Rodney King.

1103
00:53:28,958 --> 00:53:30,876
No justice, no peace!

1104
00:53:34,254 --> 00:53:36,840
LIL BABY: I'm just the new generation
to experience it.

1105
00:53:40,469 --> 00:53:42,763
NEWSMAN 2:
The grand jury would not...

1106
00:53:42,846 --> 00:53:44,723
NEWSMAN 3:
Grand jury declined to bring charges

1107
00:53:44,807 --> 00:53:50,020
against a white police officer
in the death of an unarmed Black man.

1108
00:53:50,104 --> 00:53:52,064
(crowd chanting)

1109
00:53:52,147 --> 00:53:54,817
NEWSMAN 4: ...surveillance video of
Ahmaud Arbery just before he was shot...

1110
00:53:54,900 --> 00:53:56,276
NEWSWOMAN: The man told the officer,
"I can't breathe."

1111
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:57,987
WOMAN:
No one has been held accountable.

1112
00:53:58,070 --> 00:53:59,488
This is injustice.

1113
00:54:03,158 --> 00:54:04,868
LIL BABY:
With my music,

1114
00:54:04,952 --> 00:54:07,705
I want to show people
what's going on in our world.

1115
00:54:07,788 --> 00:54:11,083
-(crowd chanting)
-(sirens whooping)

1116
00:54:13,544 --> 00:54:15,754
And what's continuing to go on.

1117
00:54:17,047 --> 00:54:19,299
("The Bigger Picture" by Lil Baby playing)

1118
00:54:19,383 --> 00:54:20,968
CROWD (chanting):
I can't breathe!

1119
00:54:21,051 --> 00:54:22,594
I can't breathe!

1120
00:54:22,678 --> 00:54:24,680
♪ Trade my four-by-four for a G 63 ♪

1121
00:54:24,763 --> 00:54:26,140
♪ Ain't no more free Lil Steve ♪

1122
00:54:26,223 --> 00:54:28,142
♪ I gave 'em chance
and chance and chance again ♪

1123
00:54:28,225 --> 00:54:29,309
♪ I even done told them please ♪

1124
00:54:29,393 --> 00:54:30,853
♪ I find it crazy
the police'll shoot you ♪

1125
00:54:30,936 --> 00:54:33,439
♪ And know that you dead
but still tell you to freeze ♪

1126
00:54:33,522 --> 00:54:35,065
♪ Fucked-up, I seen what I seen,
I guess that mean ♪

1127
00:54:35,149 --> 00:54:36,734
♪ Hold him down
if he say he can't breathe ♪

1128
00:54:36,817 --> 00:54:39,111
♪ It's too many mothers that's grieving,
they killing us for no reason ♪

1129
00:54:39,194 --> 00:54:42,281
♪ Been going on for too long to get even,
throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas ♪

1130
00:54:42,364 --> 00:54:43,824
♪ I went to court
and they sent me to prison ♪

1131
00:54:43,907 --> 00:54:45,743
♪ My mama was crushed
when they said I can't leave ♪

1132
00:54:45,826 --> 00:54:47,453
♪ First I was drunk,
then I sobered up quick ♪

1133
00:54:47,536 --> 00:54:49,204
♪ When I heard all that time
that they gave to Taleeb ♪

1134
00:54:49,288 --> 00:54:51,040
♪ He got a life sentence plus... ♪

1135
00:54:51,123 --> 00:54:53,208
Like throwing an ice-cold
glass of water on somebody.

1136
00:54:53,292 --> 00:54:55,335
You didn't expect that, like, "Oh, shit."

1137
00:54:55,419 --> 00:54:58,130
So now you got to wake up to Lil Baby,
but also you got to really pay attention

1138
00:54:58,213 --> 00:55:00,132
to what Lil Baby's saying
because it's him saying it.

1139
00:55:00,215 --> 00:55:01,425
♪ Every colored person ain't dumb ♪

1140
00:55:01,508 --> 00:55:02,968
♪ And all whites not racist ♪

1141
00:55:03,052 --> 00:55:04,678
♪ I be judging by the mind and heart ♪

1142
00:55:04,762 --> 00:55:06,430
♪ I ain't really into faces ♪

1143
00:55:06,513 --> 00:55:08,807
"Bigger Picture" is one of
those time stamp records, man.

1144
00:55:08,891 --> 00:55:10,225
Like, you gonna hear that record,

1145
00:55:10,309 --> 00:55:12,269
and you gonna remember
the pandemic of 2020.

1146
00:55:12,352 --> 00:55:14,855
You gonna remember how Black Lives Matter
was flooding the street.

1147
00:55:14,938 --> 00:55:16,899
♪ Every video I see on my conscience ♪

1148
00:55:16,982 --> 00:55:18,442
♪ I got power,
now I got to say something ♪

1149
00:55:18,525 --> 00:55:19,943
♪ Corrupted police been
the problem where I'm from ♪

1150
00:55:20,027 --> 00:55:22,112
♪ But I'd be lying
if I said it was all of them ♪

1151
00:55:22,196 --> 00:55:23,572
♪ I ain't do this for the trend,
I don't follow them ♪

1152
00:55:23,655 --> 00:55:25,115
♪ Altercations with the law,
had a lot of them ♪

1153
00:55:25,199 --> 00:55:26,784
♪ People speaking for the people,
I'm proud of them ♪

1154
00:55:26,867 --> 00:55:28,744
♪ Stick together,
we can get it up out of them... ♪

1155
00:55:28,827 --> 00:55:30,204
CHARLAMAGNE:
I don't think you get that record

1156
00:55:30,287 --> 00:55:34,374
without those five projects
coming out prior,

1157
00:55:34,458 --> 00:55:36,794
'cause his pen was sharp,
you know what I mean?

1158
00:55:36,877 --> 00:55:38,003
Like, his pen was sharp.

1159
00:55:38,087 --> 00:55:40,214
He was just, like, just focused.

1160
00:55:40,297 --> 00:55:42,049
His energy was different.
You could just tell.

1161
00:55:42,132 --> 00:55:43,467
He was just looking at the world.

1162
00:55:43,550 --> 00:55:45,969
He was like, "I'm-a write about that.

1163
00:55:46,053 --> 00:55:48,055
"I done, I done did all the street stuff.

1164
00:55:48,138 --> 00:55:50,057
I'm-a write about that."

1165
00:55:50,140 --> 00:55:51,308
Wow.

1166
00:55:51,391 --> 00:55:53,977
Sign of a true artist, man.

1167
00:55:54,061 --> 00:55:55,354
CROWD (chanting):
I can't breathe!

1168
00:55:55,437 --> 00:55:57,106
I can't breathe!

1169
00:55:57,189 --> 00:55:59,274
-I can't breathe!
-(song ends)

1170
00:55:59,358 --> 00:56:02,027
Still gonna be tied
to that kind of movement

1171
00:56:02,111 --> 00:56:04,446
for the rest of my life.

1172
00:56:04,530 --> 00:56:07,074
This ain't gonna be the last George Floyd.

1173
00:56:09,952 --> 00:56:13,247
It already happened so many times since.

1174
00:56:18,210 --> 00:56:20,754
(siren wailing)

1175
00:56:20,838 --> 00:56:22,631
HOLMES:
When it comes to these big moments,

1176
00:56:22,714 --> 00:56:26,593
a lot of times, artists like Baby--
where he's from, what he's rapping about--

1177
00:56:26,677 --> 00:56:28,262
get shut out.

1178
00:56:28,345 --> 00:56:29,972
There are these things like Rolling Stone

1179
00:56:30,055 --> 00:56:31,974
and The New York Times and Billboard

1180
00:56:32,057 --> 00:56:35,394
and all of these traditionally white
publications, where,

1181
00:56:35,477 --> 00:56:38,939
hey, working there,
it's so hard to convince people, like,

1182
00:56:39,022 --> 00:56:42,192
"No, this is the most important
artist right now."

1183
00:56:42,276 --> 00:56:46,196
But when you do see
a Black artist cut through,

1184
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:47,739
that means something.

1185
00:56:47,823 --> 00:56:49,241
(camera clicking)

1186
00:56:52,703 --> 00:56:55,539
I just went in there like
a blank slate of being like,

1187
00:56:55,622 --> 00:56:57,499
"I just want to know
what Lil Baby's like."

1188
00:56:57,583 --> 00:57:00,669
I had no idea what the story
would be at that point.

1189
00:57:01,962 --> 00:57:06,300
Coach picks me up, I go to QC,
and when Baby gets there,

1190
00:57:06,383 --> 00:57:08,510
one of the hardest interviews
I've ever done.

1191
00:57:09,803 --> 00:57:12,848
I'll remember that day forever because
I had a really, really good conversation

1192
00:57:12,931 --> 00:57:15,184
with a very, very interesting artist.

1193
00:57:15,267 --> 00:57:20,522
And I captured this moment
where it's just, like, two Black men,

1194
00:57:20,606 --> 00:57:24,026
similar in age
but different in every other way,

1195
00:57:24,109 --> 00:57:27,446
trying to talk about one of the most

1196
00:57:27,529 --> 00:57:32,326
chaotic, brutal, devastating moments
in American history.

1197
00:57:32,409 --> 00:57:34,244
NEWSMAN:
This is a look now at the scene

1198
00:57:34,328 --> 00:57:36,997
where Rayshard Brooks
was fatally shot Friday night.

1199
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:43,337
HOLMES: The death of Rayshard Brooks
was still very, very recent.

1200
00:57:43,420 --> 00:57:48,634
And when I'm riding through Atlanta
with Lil Baby,

1201
00:57:48,717 --> 00:57:52,095
you're realizing Lil Baby's
childhood neighborhood

1202
00:57:52,179 --> 00:57:54,181
is five minutes away.

1203
00:57:58,227 --> 00:58:01,271
When I went to the Wendy's,
it was, it was a raw emotion.

1204
00:58:01,355 --> 00:58:05,275
I was just like, "This is eerie."

1205
00:58:05,359 --> 00:58:07,444
And Lil Baby said something
to the effect of, like,

1206
00:58:07,527 --> 00:58:11,448
"Yo, somebody's died
everywhere we've gone today."

1207
00:58:11,531 --> 00:58:13,367
There was a distance that he had.

1208
00:58:16,370 --> 00:58:20,207
Because Rayshard Brooks
is not the first Black man that

1209
00:58:20,290 --> 00:58:21,708
Lil Baby has heard of being killed.

1210
00:58:21,792 --> 00:58:23,126
Uh, not the tenth,

1211
00:58:23,210 --> 00:58:25,128
it's probably not the hundredth
or the thousandth.

1212
00:58:25,212 --> 00:58:26,296
This is his life.

1213
00:58:28,090 --> 00:58:31,051
And I think that's why
I wanted to profile Lil Baby,

1214
00:58:31,134 --> 00:58:34,596
not just because of the success
that he was having as a rapper,

1215
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,057
but because, when he comes out
with "The Bigger Picture,"

1216
00:58:37,140 --> 00:58:38,850
of course it cuts through.

1217
00:58:40,602 --> 00:58:42,854
He comes from a disadvantaged background.

1218
00:58:42,938 --> 00:58:44,398
He's a former drug dealer.

1219
00:58:44,481 --> 00:58:49,361
He's somebody that a racist system
would be very, very quick to profile.

1220
00:58:49,444 --> 00:58:52,531
He's the perfect person
to talk about that moment

1221
00:58:52,614 --> 00:58:54,658
because he's lived it.

1222
00:58:56,660 --> 00:58:59,413
And I don't think "The Bigger Picture"
is a protest song.

1223
00:58:59,496 --> 00:59:01,707
I just think it's a song

1224
00:59:01,790 --> 00:59:05,210
that's about Lil Baby,
and Lil Baby quite easily

1225
00:59:05,294 --> 00:59:09,131
could've been any of the people
that were murdered that summer.

1226
00:59:10,173 --> 00:59:12,175
(line ringing)

1227
00:59:14,970 --> 00:59:17,055
JASON (over phone):
Mm-hmm?

1228
00:59:17,139 --> 00:59:20,767
LIL BABY:
You know that man who died, George Floyd?

1229
00:59:20,851 --> 00:59:22,769
JASON:
The one who couldn't breathe?

1230
00:59:22,853 --> 00:59:25,689
LIL BABY:
Right, the one who the police killed?

1231
00:59:25,772 --> 00:59:26,982
JASON:
Mm-hmm.

1232
00:59:27,065 --> 00:59:29,318
LIL BABY:
His daughter, she's turning six years old

1233
00:59:29,401 --> 00:59:31,737
and she's having a birthday party.

1234
00:59:32,738 --> 00:59:35,282
I'm gonna pay for her birthday party.

1235
00:59:35,365 --> 00:59:38,660
So you and Loyal, we just gonna
show our face and then come back.

1236
00:59:38,744 --> 00:59:39,953
JASON:
All right.

1237
00:59:40,037 --> 00:59:42,456
All right, I'll be home in a minute.

1238
00:59:51,465 --> 00:59:54,051
(lively chatter)

1239
00:59:54,134 --> 00:59:56,094
("Just the Way You Are"
by Bruno Mars playing)

1240
00:59:56,178 --> 01:00:01,391
♪ Just the way you are ♪

1241
01:00:01,475 --> 01:00:03,894
-♪ And when you smile... ♪
-(song fades)

1242
01:00:03,977 --> 01:00:05,979
(lively chatter continues)

1243
01:00:11,610 --> 01:00:14,071
LIL BABY:
I feel like I have a responsibility

1244
01:00:14,154 --> 01:00:15,697
to keep fighting

1245
01:00:15,781 --> 01:00:18,116
and make sure the world is a better place

1246
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,535
for the generation I'm gonna leave on.

1247
01:00:29,002 --> 01:00:31,755
(kids and adults chattering
indistinctly in distance)

1248
01:00:37,844 --> 01:00:39,846
(indistinct chatter continues)

1249
01:00:46,061 --> 01:00:47,771
(cell phone ringing)

1250
01:00:47,854 --> 01:00:49,439
MAN:
What's up, now?

1251
01:00:49,523 --> 01:00:50,690
MAN (over phone):
What's going on?

1252
01:00:50,774 --> 01:00:52,025
How you living?

1253
01:00:52,109 --> 01:00:55,612
HOLMES:
For Lil Baby, music got him out.

1254
01:00:55,695 --> 01:00:56,947
MAN (over phone):
Doing all right, though?

1255
01:00:57,030 --> 01:00:58,865
Hell yeah, I'm all right, man.
I can't complain at all.

1256
01:00:58,949 --> 01:01:02,411
Man, I'm just happy to be around,
be able to do what a nigga doing.

1257
01:01:02,494 --> 01:01:04,162
Man, I can't complain.

1258
01:01:04,246 --> 01:01:07,541
HOLMES: The sad part is, like,
there's a million Lil Babys in America,

1259
01:01:07,624 --> 01:01:11,294
wishing they could escape a system
that doesn't want them to escape.

1260
01:01:12,337 --> 01:01:14,214
Each one. Count it.

1261
01:01:14,297 --> 01:01:18,385
Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50,

1262
01:01:18,468 --> 01:01:20,929
60...

1263
01:01:21,012 --> 01:01:23,432
70, 80,

1264
01:01:23,515 --> 01:01:25,100
90, 100.

1265
01:01:25,183 --> 01:01:26,476
-100,000.
-Well, that's 100.

1266
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:29,479
That's 100,000,
then this 100,000, how much it is?

1267
01:01:29,563 --> 01:01:31,982
-200,000.
-200,000.

1268
01:01:34,234 --> 01:01:36,695
-Mental math.
-Mental math.

1269
01:01:37,696 --> 01:01:39,322
HOLMES:
Not everybody explodes.

1270
01:01:39,406 --> 01:01:40,949
Not everybody can.

1271
01:01:44,911 --> 01:01:48,582
You can see in, like,
Lil Baby's early music,

1272
01:01:48,665 --> 01:01:50,625
there's Marlo.

1273
01:01:50,709 --> 01:01:52,252
MAN:
Run it back from the top. We're rolling.

1274
01:01:52,335 --> 01:01:54,004
-MAN 2: Let's get it, man!
-We're rolling. We're rolling.

1275
01:01:54,087 --> 01:01:55,630
-We're rolling.
-Let's get this now.

1276
01:01:55,714 --> 01:01:57,299
MAN:
Look in the camera. Talk to the camera.

1277
01:01:57,382 --> 01:01:59,342
-♪ Bitch, wait, fuck a mixtape ♪
-Let's get it.

1278
01:01:59,426 --> 01:02:00,927
♪ I got plenty cake... ♪

1279
01:02:01,011 --> 01:02:02,471
HOLMES:
One of the first projects

1280
01:02:02,554 --> 01:02:05,140
that Lil Baby came out with,
Marlo was on it.

1281
01:02:05,223 --> 01:02:07,225
♪ She done sucked me up
for them brand-new J's ♪

1282
01:02:07,309 --> 01:02:08,977
-♪ Trap nigga, six phones... ♪
-MAN: Lil Baby.

1283
01:02:09,060 --> 01:02:10,353
Give me a good one. Give me a good one.

1284
01:02:10,437 --> 01:02:13,648
HOLMES:
But rap money is a very slow road.

1285
01:02:13,732 --> 01:02:16,151
For Marlo, it didn't happen as fast.

1286
01:02:16,234 --> 01:02:17,360
(song fades)

1287
01:02:17,444 --> 01:02:20,614
And I think that,

1288
01:02:20,697 --> 01:02:23,825
unfortunately, Marlo ended up becoming...

1289
01:02:24,993 --> 01:02:26,912
...a cautionary tale.

1290
01:02:26,995 --> 01:02:28,997
♪ ♪

1291
01:02:36,087 --> 01:02:37,881
(radio static crackling)

1292
01:02:37,964 --> 01:02:39,841
NEWSWOMAN:
Yet another shooting in Atlanta

1293
01:02:39,925 --> 01:02:42,761
late last night, as the city
is working to investigate

1294
01:02:42,844 --> 01:02:46,806
a wave of violent crime
since the beginning of 2020.

1295
01:02:46,890 --> 01:02:49,059
THOMAS:
When Baby made it rapping,

1296
01:02:49,142 --> 01:02:51,478
he was able to get out of the trap.

1297
01:02:53,271 --> 01:02:55,273
Marlo was right there with him,

1298
01:02:55,357 --> 01:02:58,777
but his career just didn't
take off the same way.

1299
01:02:58,860 --> 01:03:01,071
He was still in the street.

1300
01:03:01,154 --> 01:03:03,532
NEWSWOMAN:
The incident occurred on I-285

1301
01:03:03,615 --> 01:03:07,202
at approximately 11:30 p.m.
Saturday evening.

1302
01:03:09,829 --> 01:03:12,332
He usually always pick up the phone for me

1303
01:03:12,415 --> 01:03:15,335
on the first ring.

1304
01:03:15,418 --> 01:03:18,463
I called it like three times,
and he ain't answer it.

1305
01:03:23,802 --> 01:03:26,721
I just started trying
to make some phone calls,

1306
01:03:26,805 --> 01:03:31,518
and they told me
there was a car on the highway

1307
01:03:31,601 --> 01:03:33,270
shot up.

1308
01:03:35,313 --> 01:03:37,732
And it looked like it was his car.

1309
01:03:40,694 --> 01:03:43,196
And they think he was in it.

1310
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,282
(siren wailing)

1311
01:03:48,076 --> 01:03:50,036
NEWSWOMAN:
Several reports have emerged

1312
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,957
that the victim was
rising Atlanta rapper Lil Marlo.

1313
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,084
He was 30 years old.

1314
01:03:59,087 --> 01:04:02,382
THOMAS: I think he was
pronounced dead on the scene.

1315
01:04:03,633 --> 01:04:07,053
We was just standing on the bridge
just speechless.

1316
01:04:14,060 --> 01:04:16,813
That... that was a tough one.

1317
01:04:18,773 --> 01:04:20,817
♪ All I needed was a chance ♪

1318
01:04:20,900 --> 01:04:23,111
♪ Show the world who I am ♪

1319
01:04:23,194 --> 01:04:26,031
♪ Watch me run me up them bands. ♪

1320
01:04:26,114 --> 01:04:27,407
Marlo.

1321
01:04:27,490 --> 01:04:29,492
♪ ♪

1322
01:04:41,338 --> 01:04:44,049
You just see your man
slumped on the expressway,

1323
01:04:44,132 --> 01:04:45,842
you kind of feel some type of way.

1324
01:04:45,925 --> 01:04:47,844
But...

1325
01:04:47,927 --> 01:04:50,263
if you know the situation
and you know what's going on

1326
01:04:50,347 --> 01:04:53,516
and you know in the back of your head,
you know they still come with it,

1327
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,186
that's a, that's a part of the streets.

1328
01:04:56,269 --> 01:04:58,688
Some people get killed.

1329
01:05:03,568 --> 01:05:06,196
I know that that come with
being in the street already.

1330
01:05:06,279 --> 01:05:07,822
It ain't like Marlo got killed
and I was like,

1331
01:05:07,906 --> 01:05:09,824
"Damn, boy, you could
really get killed out here."

1332
01:05:09,908 --> 01:05:10,992
I know this.

1333
01:05:11,076 --> 01:05:12,869
This ain't nothing I don't know.

1334
01:05:12,952 --> 01:05:14,954
♪ ♪

1335
01:05:19,042 --> 01:05:21,503
Marlo a real case of, like,

1336
01:05:21,586 --> 01:05:23,755
the streets and the rapping...

1337
01:05:27,217 --> 01:05:28,843
...two whole different world.

1338
01:05:28,927 --> 01:05:32,555
And he more so got caught up
in the streets than the rapping.

1339
01:05:33,598 --> 01:05:35,517
THOMAS:
He was always supportive, man.

1340
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:37,602
He was always happy for Baby.

1341
01:05:39,020 --> 01:05:41,981
"Bruh, even if I don't make it,

1342
01:05:42,065 --> 01:05:44,109
if you make it, all us done made it."

1343
01:06:00,166 --> 01:06:01,751
(engine revving)

1344
01:06:10,552 --> 01:06:14,514
HABTEMARIAM: You know, I think about
how you don't get to pick or choose

1345
01:06:14,597 --> 01:06:16,933
the family that you're born into.

1346
01:06:22,439 --> 01:06:26,484
Right? You don't get to pick and choose
the environment that you're born into.

1347
01:06:26,568 --> 01:06:28,570
♪ ♪

1348
01:06:36,870 --> 01:06:41,958
You can either become
a result of that environment...

1349
01:06:45,253 --> 01:06:49,841
...or you can be the antithesis
of what you've seen and experienced.

1350
01:06:56,473 --> 01:07:01,102
Not only is he a survivor
but he's gone through hardships,

1351
01:07:01,186 --> 01:07:04,647
learned lessons and grew from it.

1352
01:07:09,277 --> 01:07:11,821
(indistinct chatter)

1353
01:07:13,990 --> 01:07:15,784
LIL BABY:
Y'all don't got no coats?

1354
01:07:17,952 --> 01:07:21,247
No, I don't have no coat.
No, I don't got no coat.

1355
01:07:21,331 --> 01:07:23,833
Y'all don't got no coats?
You don't got no coat, little man?

1356
01:07:25,710 --> 01:07:26,961
Hey, Rashad!

1357
01:07:27,045 --> 01:07:29,714
♪ ♪

1358
01:07:34,886 --> 01:07:37,639
HABTEMARIAM:
A second chance at life.

1359
01:07:39,349 --> 01:07:41,226
The willingness to go after it.

1360
01:07:43,686 --> 01:07:46,606
(indistinct chatter)

1361
01:07:46,689 --> 01:07:48,858
Baby represents the American dream.

1362
01:07:55,824 --> 01:07:58,201
Hey, what-what's your son,
what's your son name?

1363
01:07:58,284 --> 01:08:00,119
What's your son name?

1364
01:08:00,203 --> 01:08:02,163
-What's my what?
-Your son name.

1365
01:08:02,247 --> 01:08:03,957
-Brandon.
-How he doing?

1366
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:05,124
Fine.

1367
01:08:05,208 --> 01:08:07,043
I used to go to school with him at Brown.

1368
01:08:07,126 --> 01:08:08,253
-Yeah?
-He used to be...

1369
01:08:08,336 --> 01:08:09,504
Or Britain. Brandon and Britain.

1370
01:08:09,587 --> 01:08:11,005
-Britain. Britain.
-Britain, not Brandon.

1371
01:08:11,089 --> 01:08:12,507
Britain is in the Navy.

1372
01:08:12,590 --> 01:08:14,551
-For real? He-- I could see him
in the Navy, too. -Yeah.

1373
01:08:14,634 --> 01:08:16,135
-I could see Britain...
-He went one year

1374
01:08:16,219 --> 01:08:17,679
at Georgia Southern, but he's in the Navy.

1375
01:08:17,762 --> 01:08:19,097
-I could see him in the Navy, too.
-Yeah.

1376
01:08:19,180 --> 01:08:20,807
He doing good.
He's a air traffic controller.

1377
01:08:20,890 --> 01:08:22,308
Tell him, um, Dominique asked about him.

1378
01:08:22,392 --> 01:08:23,393
-Dominique?
-Yeah.

1379
01:08:23,476 --> 01:08:24,477
-What's your last name?
-Jones.

1380
01:08:24,561 --> 01:08:25,562
Jones?

1381
01:08:25,645 --> 01:08:26,813
He gonna know who I am, though.

1382
01:08:26,896 --> 01:08:29,315
Okay, Dominique Jones.
Okay, I'm-a tell him.

1383
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:31,651
♪ ♪

1384
01:08:41,619 --> 01:08:44,622
LIL BABY: Ain't nothing like where
you come from, you know what I'm saying?

1385
01:08:46,749 --> 01:08:48,793
But I get the chills
from that type of stuff, though.

1386
01:08:48,877 --> 01:08:50,545
You know what I'm saying?

1387
01:08:52,422 --> 01:08:55,133
I-I got more love than anything.

1388
01:08:55,216 --> 01:08:57,093
I done helped some of them
with their businesses.

1389
01:08:57,176 --> 01:09:00,555
They... it's like check-up, like...

1390
01:09:00,638 --> 01:09:02,724
"What you doing? What you been up to?"

1391
01:09:02,807 --> 01:09:05,184
Or I see, like, the people I grew up with,

1392
01:09:05,268 --> 01:09:07,854
I used to be bad as hell,
now I ain't seen them in a minute.

1393
01:09:10,481 --> 01:09:12,984
Niggas I go to school with...

1394
01:09:13,067 --> 01:09:15,695
they been to prison,
who out of prison, like...

1395
01:09:15,778 --> 01:09:17,697
I could've went that route,
I could've went this route.

1396
01:09:17,780 --> 01:09:19,365
This could be my reality.

1397
01:09:19,449 --> 01:09:21,534
That shit give me the chills,
you know what I'm saying?

1398
01:09:31,461 --> 01:09:33,087
JOE:
I came from the trap.

1399
01:09:33,171 --> 01:09:36,257
Raised right here in the trap,
three blocks up.

1400
01:09:36,341 --> 01:09:38,301
Baby driving the hood,
riding around the hood.

1401
01:09:38,384 --> 01:09:39,886
Everybody know Baby.

1402
01:09:39,969 --> 01:09:42,472
(laughing)

1403
01:09:42,555 --> 01:09:43,890
I ain't seen nobody left.

1404
01:09:43,973 --> 01:09:45,975
I seen them pass away.

1405
01:09:47,352 --> 01:09:49,646
I ain't seen nobody left.

1406
01:09:49,729 --> 01:09:51,105
I haven't.

1407
01:09:54,525 --> 01:09:56,110
What Baby saying is

1408
01:09:56,194 --> 01:09:59,489
that regardless what you came from,
whatever, y-you don't have to be that.

1409
01:09:59,572 --> 01:10:04,160
There's other methods and ways
and things you can do to make money.

1410
01:10:06,329 --> 01:10:07,538
He the best rapper.

1411
01:10:07,622 --> 01:10:09,082
He the best rapper ever.

1412
01:10:09,165 --> 01:10:11,584
I never heard lyrics
come from a rapper like that.

1413
01:10:11,668 --> 01:10:15,964
He don't just talk thug,
gangster, pow-pow-pow.

1414
01:10:16,047 --> 01:10:18,591
Each one of his songs got a meaning.

1415
01:10:19,842 --> 01:10:21,886
And I can rap them all.

1416
01:10:21,970 --> 01:10:24,389
(laughing)

1417
01:10:24,472 --> 01:10:25,723
I'll sing it, too.

1418
01:10:25,807 --> 01:10:27,058
(laughing)

1419
01:10:27,141 --> 01:10:28,726
And I know them all.

1420
01:10:28,810 --> 01:10:32,313
("Catch the Sun" by Lil Baby playing)

1421
01:10:33,856 --> 01:10:36,275
♪ Seems like I been running out of time ♪

1422
01:10:36,359 --> 01:10:39,821
♪ Yeah, we still so young
and got so much to find ♪

1423
01:10:39,904 --> 01:10:41,656
♪ We can't never let 'em break our mind ♪

1424
01:10:41,739 --> 01:10:45,410
♪ We got to stay strong,
conquer and don't divide ♪

1425
01:10:45,493 --> 01:10:48,079
♪ I come at peace,
my heart already set on fire ♪

1426
01:10:48,162 --> 01:10:49,497
-♪ If it ain't color ♪
-Ooh!

1427
01:10:49,580 --> 01:10:51,165
♪ What's the difference
between you and I? ♪

1428
01:10:51,249 --> 01:10:53,876
♪ I'll let you decide or come up
with some repeated lies ♪

1429
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,295
♪ I'm just tired of my kind
got to be the one to die ♪

1430
01:10:56,379 --> 01:10:59,424
♪ Looking in the sky,
I know you with me, I can't cry ♪

1431
01:10:59,507 --> 01:11:02,176
♪ Standing what I stand on,
I can't never switch sides ♪

1432
01:11:02,260 --> 01:11:05,096
♪ Sometimes I just wanna
pop out on 'em, flip by ♪

1433
01:11:05,179 --> 01:11:07,974
♪ But I put my head on,
I pray I stay from off that route ♪

1434
01:11:08,057 --> 01:11:10,852
♪ Thinking 'bout my niggas,
I ain't seem 'em in a while ♪

1435
01:11:10,935 --> 01:11:13,396
♪ Thinking 'bout my son,
I just had another child ♪

1436
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:16,399
♪ I been thinking back on bro like,
"What the fuck we gon' do now?" ♪

1437
01:11:16,482 --> 01:11:17,775
-♪ On this road to redemption ♪
-(cheering)

1438
01:11:17,859 --> 01:11:20,153
♪ This shit get rocky and it's wild. ♪

1439
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,082
(song fades)

1440
01:11:42,091 --> 01:11:43,092
(horn honks)

1441
01:11:45,011 --> 01:11:47,513
So we're gonna start here in this chair.

1442
01:11:47,597 --> 01:11:49,057
BRITNEY DAVIS:
We are in L.A.

1443
01:11:49,140 --> 01:11:52,310
He is shooting because
Grammy nominations come out on Tuesday.

1444
01:11:52,393 --> 01:11:54,645
So he's doing a photo shoot,
and then he's also doing

1445
01:11:54,729 --> 01:11:57,315
an interview that will go out
to all the Grammy voters.

1446
01:11:57,398 --> 01:12:00,109
♪ ♪

1447
01:12:00,193 --> 01:12:02,570
DRAKE:
I think he's already cemented himself

1448
01:12:02,653 --> 01:12:08,242
as a super important part of this time,

1449
01:12:08,326 --> 01:12:09,869
this generation.

1450
01:12:11,579 --> 01:12:13,122
(indistinct chatter)

1451
01:12:13,206 --> 01:12:18,127
This guy's just, like, in a zone
that, like, you have to respect.

1452
01:12:20,379 --> 01:12:24,008
We were working really hard
and strategically to make sure

1453
01:12:24,092 --> 01:12:26,677
there was enough awareness on Baby

1454
01:12:26,761 --> 01:12:28,679
and doing everything we could to make sure

1455
01:12:28,763 --> 01:12:31,682
the Grammy voters
were able to read articles

1456
01:12:31,766 --> 01:12:33,601
and key newspapers, et cetera,

1457
01:12:33,684 --> 01:12:36,354
to understand how impactful the album was.

1458
01:12:38,189 --> 01:12:40,108
There's been a lot of conversation

1459
01:12:40,191 --> 01:12:43,569
around having music
that's reflective of the times,

1460
01:12:43,653 --> 01:12:46,656
coming from a-a place of truth,

1461
01:12:46,739 --> 01:12:49,367
and I think that that's
what Baby's been doing.

1462
01:12:49,450 --> 01:12:51,619
And then, I guess
the last question here is:

1463
01:12:51,702 --> 01:12:53,955
Could you tell--
and you can talk to the camera--

1464
01:12:54,038 --> 01:12:55,248
what it means to be heard?

1465
01:12:55,331 --> 01:12:58,417
And, like, what it's like to help
other people's voices be heard.

1466
01:13:08,886 --> 01:13:10,805
COACH K:
There wasn't no doubt in my mind

1467
01:13:10,888 --> 01:13:13,933
that he was gonna be up for
Rap Album of the Year.

1468
01:13:14,016 --> 01:13:17,270
We were fighting, you know,
for Album of the Year.

1469
01:13:21,107 --> 01:13:22,984
HABTEMARIAM:
As an artist,

1470
01:13:23,067 --> 01:13:27,947
you do want to be recognized
for the work that you've put in.

1471
01:13:30,241 --> 01:13:32,118
It was early in the morning,

1472
01:13:32,201 --> 01:13:35,621
and I was on the live feed watching.

1473
01:13:55,266 --> 01:13:57,310
Turn that TV off.

1474
01:13:57,393 --> 01:13:59,395
(upbeat music playing)

1475
01:14:00,646 --> 01:14:02,231
(turns music down)

1476
01:14:07,486 --> 01:14:09,739
All right, so let's talk about
the Grammy Awards

1477
01:14:09,822 --> 01:14:11,574
and some of the nominations that came out.

1478
01:14:11,657 --> 01:14:13,242
Did you hear-- did you see
some of these nominations?

1479
01:14:13,326 --> 01:14:15,536
Uh, yeah, I saw some of
the fuss on social media.

1480
01:14:15,620 --> 01:14:21,292
It's the largest selling album
of all genres of music

1481
01:14:21,375 --> 01:14:23,961
for 2020.

1482
01:14:24,045 --> 01:14:25,838
I don't understand what the problem is.

1483
01:14:25,922 --> 01:14:27,632
DJ ENVY:
Best Rap Album.

1484
01:14:27,715 --> 01:14:29,008
Yeah, I just feel like
Lil Baby should've been there

1485
01:14:29,091 --> 01:14:30,218
-with My Turn.
-Lil Baby definitely should've been there.

1486
01:14:30,301 --> 01:14:35,848
In order to properly appreciate
what Lil Baby has done and is doing,

1487
01:14:35,932 --> 01:14:38,559
and to properly appreciate Lil Baby's art,

1488
01:14:38,643 --> 01:14:40,811
you got to understand
that slum that he came from.

1489
01:14:40,895 --> 01:14:42,688
You got to understand that hood
that he came from.

1490
01:14:42,772 --> 01:14:46,067
You got to understand how hard it is
to make it out of a place like that.

1491
01:14:47,610 --> 01:14:49,904
White America will never understand that

1492
01:14:49,987 --> 01:14:52,823
'cause they don't even understand
the world that Lil Baby comes from.

1493
01:14:52,907 --> 01:14:54,450
This isn't right.

1494
01:14:54,533 --> 01:14:58,788
This isn't reflective of,
you know, where music is,

1495
01:14:58,871 --> 01:15:00,414
his impact in music.

1496
01:15:00,498 --> 01:15:03,292
I'm frustrated with the Grammys,
you know what I mean?

1497
01:15:03,376 --> 01:15:05,753
It's been a ongoing conversation
for so many years

1498
01:15:05,836 --> 01:15:09,590
about them being out of touch,
and they have a lot of work to do.

1499
01:15:13,719 --> 01:15:15,888
You go back to the '80s,

1500
01:15:15,972 --> 01:15:18,975
and you remember how
they overlooked Michael Jackson.

1501
01:15:19,058 --> 01:15:20,434
(DMX vocalizing)

1502
01:15:20,518 --> 01:15:22,812
And then DMX in the '90s.

1503
01:15:22,895 --> 01:15:25,231
He had two number one albums
in the same year

1504
01:15:25,314 --> 01:15:27,650
and didn't receive any nominations.

1505
01:15:27,733 --> 01:15:28,943
(crowd cheering)

1506
01:15:29,026 --> 01:15:30,820
PHARRELL WILLIAMS:
And the Grammy goes to...

1507
01:15:30,903 --> 01:15:32,405
HABTEMARIAM:
And of course Kendrick's loss

1508
01:15:32,488 --> 01:15:36,284
really just cemented how
out of touch the Grammys are.

1509
01:15:36,367 --> 01:15:40,454
What is this system that's been created,
and why do we give it so much value?

1510
01:15:40,538 --> 01:15:44,959
We're talking about
popular culture and rap albums

1511
01:15:45,042 --> 01:15:47,878
and what's deserving,
they-they missed the mark.

1512
01:15:49,380 --> 01:15:51,299
And I think, after some time went on,

1513
01:15:51,382 --> 01:15:55,303
there were some conversations
about what to do,

1514
01:15:55,386 --> 01:15:57,596
you know, because there was
an offer for him to perform.

1515
01:16:00,933 --> 01:16:03,060
THOMAS:
When I seen the shit, I was sort of like--

1516
01:16:03,144 --> 01:16:07,565
We been working so hard,
and for you to not get

1517
01:16:07,648 --> 01:16:10,901
nominated for the album, I feel like...

1518
01:16:10,985 --> 01:16:14,280
you got the biggest album of the year...

1519
01:16:14,363 --> 01:16:16,157
I don't really want to do this shit.

1520
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:18,117
-I ain't really like it.
-COACH K: You got the stats.

1521
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:20,619
You deserve it. You put the work in.

1522
01:16:20,703 --> 01:16:24,206
Man, shit just-- it's fucked-up, really.

1523
01:16:24,290 --> 01:16:27,001
And for them just to skip over that,
that shit like a--

1524
01:16:27,084 --> 01:16:28,627
it like a slap in the face to me, bro.

1525
01:16:28,711 --> 01:16:30,129
I'm just like--

1526
01:16:30,212 --> 01:16:31,380
You know, that's just how I feel.

1527
01:16:31,464 --> 01:16:33,466
Ultimately, it's your decision.

1528
01:16:34,508 --> 01:16:37,386
I'm saying, so you saying
you feel like don't perform there?

1529
01:16:37,470 --> 01:16:40,139
Yeah. That-that how I feel.

1530
01:16:40,222 --> 01:16:42,475
We "look up to" this shit
like it's supposed to be--

1531
01:16:42,558 --> 01:16:45,686
this is the-the reward
for all the hard work that you put in.

1532
01:16:45,770 --> 01:16:48,022
It's supposed to be the biggest award.

1533
01:16:48,105 --> 01:16:51,275
But I'm-- I was like "fuck 'em"
because that...

1534
01:16:51,359 --> 01:16:54,737
that shit don't really determine
who you are and what you do.

1535
01:16:54,820 --> 01:16:56,155
-You know what I'm saying? And-and...
-Right.

1536
01:16:56,238 --> 01:16:57,239
-When we bigger than that.
-Right.

1537
01:16:57,323 --> 01:16:58,449
You see what I'm saying?

1538
01:16:58,532 --> 01:17:01,327
LIL BABY:
That how I feel, but I feel like...

1539
01:17:01,410 --> 01:17:04,955
I be feeling like
a performance bigger than the award.

1540
01:17:05,039 --> 01:17:07,708
You feel me? Like, I feel like if--

1541
01:17:07,792 --> 01:17:10,336
because it's such of
a big award space or whatever

1542
01:17:10,419 --> 01:17:13,672
and I got a chance to perform,
I'd rather perform, then.

1543
01:17:13,756 --> 01:17:17,385
'Cause I care about a performance
more than an award. I-I, like--

1544
01:17:17,468 --> 01:17:19,553
It's something that you gonna
never be able to forget.

1545
01:17:19,637 --> 01:17:22,390
You gonna keep being able to replay it,
especially like with streaming.

1546
01:17:22,473 --> 01:17:24,016
I got people in prison who want to see it.

1547
01:17:24,100 --> 01:17:26,102
My little kids who can't be--

1548
01:17:26,185 --> 01:17:27,686
Like, versus just me getting an award.

1549
01:17:27,770 --> 01:17:30,022
Like, I ain't really into the award part.

1550
01:17:30,106 --> 01:17:33,442
Like... like, versus just,
like, I'm-a be mad

1551
01:17:33,526 --> 01:17:35,486
that I ain't get me an award,
so fuck it, I ain't performing.

1552
01:17:35,569 --> 01:17:36,904
I ain't one of them type of artists.

1553
01:17:36,987 --> 01:17:38,906
I really don't, like...

1554
01:17:38,989 --> 01:17:41,534
And I get how you saying you feel,
you know what I'm saying?

1555
01:17:41,617 --> 01:17:43,911
Like, it's like almost a slap in the face,

1556
01:17:43,994 --> 01:17:45,830
like you deserve this,
you don't get what you deserve.

1557
01:17:45,913 --> 01:17:48,958
But, you know, where I come from,
shit, I'm-a perform at the Grammys?

1558
01:17:49,041 --> 01:17:50,126
Shit, I ain't really trippin'.

1559
01:17:50,209 --> 01:17:52,044
I don't got to win or get out.

1560
01:17:52,128 --> 01:17:54,588
Some shit you just said to me
right there, it goes so far.

1561
01:17:54,672 --> 01:17:57,466
You like, "My guys that's in prison,

1562
01:17:57,550 --> 01:17:59,427
you know, they get to see me
on the big stage."

1563
01:17:59,510 --> 01:18:00,970
Yeah, my grandma,
she don't want to go out of town.

1564
01:18:01,053 --> 01:18:02,680
-She don't want to get on
no plane and shit. -Right.

1565
01:18:02,763 --> 01:18:04,849
Shit, well, P, go make the call.

1566
01:18:04,932 --> 01:18:07,268
Yeah, tell them I'm-a do it.
Shit, I'm-a do it.

1567
01:18:07,351 --> 01:18:08,853
A'ight. Okay.

1568
01:18:08,936 --> 01:18:10,521
-I call Jesse?
-Just got to make that

1569
01:18:10,604 --> 01:18:12,189
the biggest shit ever, like,
"That boy deserve--

1570
01:18:12,273 --> 01:18:13,691
-that boy should've had got..."
-COACH K: And-and they,

1571
01:18:13,774 --> 01:18:15,109
and they got to play, they got to play

1572
01:18:15,192 --> 01:18:17,111
on our, on our playing field
and what we want to do.

1573
01:18:17,194 --> 01:18:19,363
-And then another thing, too...
-And what-- his vision.

1574
01:18:19,447 --> 01:18:21,657
Right. Make them feel bad,
the people who work there, like,

1575
01:18:21,740 --> 01:18:23,159
"Why didn't he get a Grammy?

1576
01:18:23,242 --> 01:18:24,910
This guy here,
why didn't he get nominated for--"

1577
01:18:24,994 --> 01:18:26,078
Know what I'm saying?

1578
01:18:26,162 --> 01:18:28,122
-Yeah.
-However it go.

1579
01:18:29,290 --> 01:18:31,333
A'ight, say no more. I'm-a call Jesse.

1580
01:18:31,417 --> 01:18:33,919
Y'all figure it out.
Let me know if the plan change.

1581
01:18:34,003 --> 01:18:35,337
(chuckles)

1582
01:18:35,421 --> 01:18:36,755
Nah, we good. We locked in.

1583
01:18:36,839 --> 01:18:38,299
-Shit. -Nah, we locked in.
I'm gonna make it happen.

1584
01:18:38,382 --> 01:18:39,925
We just got to make them see our vision.

1585
01:18:40,009 --> 01:18:41,260
I'm with it.

1586
01:18:41,343 --> 01:18:43,345
(plane rumbling softly)

1587
01:18:47,475 --> 01:18:49,477
("The Bigger Picture" playing)

1588
01:18:54,356 --> 01:18:56,192
♪ Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us ♪

1589
01:18:56,275 --> 01:18:57,902
♪ While they go home at night,
that shit messed-up ♪

1590
01:18:57,985 --> 01:18:59,653
♪ Knowing we needed help,
they neglect us ♪

1591
01:18:59,737 --> 01:19:01,238
♪ Wondering who gon'
make them respect us ♪

1592
01:19:01,322 --> 01:19:02,907
♪ I can see in your eye that you fed up ♪

1593
01:19:02,990 --> 01:19:04,783
♪ Fuck around, got my shot,
I won't let up ♪

1594
01:19:04,867 --> 01:19:06,535
♪ They know that we a problem together ♪

1595
01:19:06,619 --> 01:19:08,245
♪ They know that we can
storm any weather ♪

1596
01:19:08,329 --> 01:19:09,663
♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪

1597
01:19:09,747 --> 01:19:11,373
♪ It's a problem with
the whole way of life ♪

1598
01:19:11,457 --> 01:19:14,543
♪ It can't change overnight,
but we got to start somewhere ♪

1599
01:19:14,627 --> 01:19:16,170
♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪

1600
01:19:16,253 --> 01:19:17,838
♪ We done had a hell of a year ♪

1601
01:19:17,922 --> 01:19:19,673
♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪

1602
01:19:19,757 --> 01:19:22,134
♪ God is the only man I fear. ♪

1603
01:19:22,218 --> 01:19:23,344
(song stops)

1604
01:19:23,427 --> 01:19:25,846
WOMAN:
Get that in there.

1605
01:19:25,930 --> 01:19:28,307
So you'll get that in.
Let's go from the top.

1606
01:19:28,390 --> 01:19:30,226
From the top, fellas.

1607
01:19:31,268 --> 01:19:34,605
I think she just want to make sure, like,
in certain moments you just have, like...

1608
01:19:34,688 --> 01:19:37,066
you passionate in the moment
of performing, you know...

1609
01:19:37,149 --> 01:19:39,360
I'm telling her, like, though, like, you
don't even got to tell me that 'cause...

1610
01:19:39,443 --> 01:19:41,820
-Because you already know what to do.
-This is like... (laughs)

1611
01:19:41,904 --> 01:19:43,781
-I already know what it do.
-I'm serious about this.

1612
01:19:43,864 --> 01:19:45,616
-Exactly. For sure.
-Like, I'm telling her I'm gonna...

1613
01:19:45,699 --> 01:19:47,535
I'm gonna be there on the floor.
Everything.

1614
01:19:47,618 --> 01:19:49,745
-I got it. I'm gonna goddamn perform.
-Yeah.

1615
01:19:49,828 --> 01:19:52,164
She's like, "You better perform."
I'm telling you.

1616
01:19:52,289 --> 01:19:54,041
Because this is one of them moments.
It's a big moment.

1617
01:19:54,124 --> 01:19:56,794
-You know what I'm saying?
-Yeah. This is gonna be like...

1618
01:19:56,877 --> 01:19:58,587
-a moment.
-Yeah.

1619
01:19:58,671 --> 01:20:00,965
It's a different platform.

1620
01:20:01,048 --> 01:20:04,552
Like, it's gonna be on
some whole other shit.

1621
01:20:04,635 --> 01:20:08,222
Like, some of these people
not even heard this song before,

1622
01:20:08,305 --> 01:20:10,808
and it's gonna be on some--
"What the hell is this?"

1623
01:20:10,891 --> 01:20:13,352
(indistinct chatter)

1624
01:20:13,435 --> 01:20:16,272
LIL BABY:
No question. No question!

1625
01:20:16,355 --> 01:20:18,732
-THOMAS: You going leather again?
-LIL BABY: Leather again.

1626
01:20:18,816 --> 01:20:20,401
-Ah.
-Give me leather again.

1627
01:20:20,484 --> 01:20:22,111
(laughs)

1628
01:20:22,194 --> 01:20:24,655
I'm in a good mood today. I went shopping.

1629
01:20:28,033 --> 01:20:30,202
They killing all the rappers,
so I wore a vest.

1630
01:20:30,286 --> 01:20:31,870
-THOMAS: I'm telling you.
-WOMAN: Oh, Lord.

1631
01:20:31,954 --> 01:20:34,123
LIL BABY:
They killing rappers, so I wore a vest!

1632
01:20:34,206 --> 01:20:35,958
The vest too big, though.

1633
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,588
Man, I could perform in this, Britney.

1634
01:20:40,671 --> 01:20:43,632
I mean, that's--
you-you could perform in it, bro.

1635
01:20:44,675 --> 01:20:45,926
Yeah.

1636
01:20:46,927 --> 01:20:50,598
Yeah, you know I'm grateful
to be here today, man.

1637
01:20:50,681 --> 01:20:52,975
Could be somewhere selling dope.

1638
01:20:53,058 --> 01:20:54,518
(laughter)

1639
01:20:54,602 --> 01:20:56,854
I got my acceptance speech.

1640
01:20:56,937 --> 01:20:59,982
I'm grateful to be here.
I could be somewhere selling dope.

1641
01:21:00,065 --> 01:21:01,483
(laughter)

1642
01:21:01,567 --> 01:21:03,068
You are not gonna say that.

1643
01:21:03,152 --> 01:21:04,778
-Hey, man...
-Why are you playing with me?

1644
01:21:04,862 --> 01:21:06,655
...I'm grateful to be here.

1645
01:21:06,739 --> 01:21:09,325
I could be somewhere selling dope,
know what I'm saying?

1646
01:21:09,408 --> 01:21:10,576
Straight up.

1647
01:21:10,659 --> 01:21:13,370
Oh, the Grammys said they want him there?
They said they want him there?

1648
01:21:13,454 --> 01:21:15,122
-Yeah. Yeah.
-On the... on the day?

1649
01:21:15,205 --> 01:21:17,916
Well, that must mean
that they gon' give him...

1650
01:21:19,793 --> 01:21:21,837
-...an award.
-I-I think you're gonna win.

1651
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:23,130
Like, I don't see them doing it.

1652
01:21:23,213 --> 01:21:25,966
But they got some kind of crazy voting,
and whoever...

1653
01:21:26,050 --> 01:21:29,470
whoever their board is,
it-it go off of their board.

1654
01:21:29,553 --> 01:21:32,640
It ain't going off, like,
popular vote, so...

1655
01:21:32,723 --> 01:21:34,224
I don't... I don't know
it be tricky with...

1656
01:21:34,308 --> 01:21:37,311
Your performance is
the only one that's outdoors.

1657
01:21:37,394 --> 01:21:40,230
We're closing L.A. Live
and Staples Center down.

1658
01:21:40,314 --> 01:21:41,815
Like, it doesn't really make sense.

1659
01:21:41,899 --> 01:21:43,901
I'd be very surprised if you didn't win.

1660
01:21:44,943 --> 01:21:46,195
(chuckles):
I wouldn't.

1661
01:21:46,278 --> 01:21:47,738
I wouldn't. Shit.

1662
01:21:47,821 --> 01:21:50,574
Don't be surprised if I don't win.

1663
01:21:57,456 --> 01:22:00,209
("Allegations" by BIG30
and Pooh Shiesty playing)

1664
01:22:00,292 --> 01:22:02,753
♪ The plug say he gon' stop
sending the bows ♪

1665
01:22:02,836 --> 01:22:04,963
♪ We keep stressing his friend,
well, little do he know ♪

1666
01:22:05,047 --> 01:22:07,091
♪ His ass next soon as we meet again ♪

1667
01:22:07,174 --> 01:22:08,467
♪ Jason hit my phone like ♪

1668
01:22:08,550 --> 01:22:10,552
♪ "They just booked me
for 'bout 20 racks..." ♪

1669
01:22:10,636 --> 01:22:12,388
(music continues faintly in distance)

1670
01:22:12,471 --> 01:22:14,723
(grunting)

1671
01:22:14,807 --> 01:22:17,518
(mechanical rattling)

1672
01:22:17,601 --> 01:22:20,145
(voice vibrating):
I'm surfing.

1673
01:22:27,277 --> 01:22:29,279
(indistinct chatter)

1674
01:22:42,292 --> 01:22:44,294
♪ ♪

1675
01:22:44,378 --> 01:22:45,921
Come here, Jason.

1676
01:22:47,256 --> 01:22:50,175
(Jason babbling playfully)

1677
01:22:58,559 --> 01:23:00,436
-Oh!
-(water splashes)

1678
01:23:00,519 --> 01:23:03,063
My phone done dropped through
the goddamn floor. (chuckles)

1679
01:23:03,147 --> 01:23:05,023
JASON:
It's okay. You're rich!

1680
01:23:06,024 --> 01:23:07,693
LIL BABY:
Okay.

1681
01:23:07,776 --> 01:23:09,445
I got a little game. All right?

1682
01:23:09,528 --> 01:23:11,238
COACH K:
My guy!

1683
01:23:11,321 --> 01:23:13,907
-How you doing?
-A'ight. Good to see you.

1684
01:23:13,991 --> 01:23:15,993
(lively chatter)

1685
01:23:19,747 --> 01:23:21,123
(noisemaker honks)

1686
01:23:24,126 --> 01:23:26,920
LASHAWN:
There's somebody there.

1687
01:23:27,004 --> 01:23:29,757
♪ ♪

1688
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:30,966
-(camera clicks)
-(babbling)

1689
01:23:31,049 --> 01:23:32,468
LASHAWN:
Look at the camera.

1690
01:23:35,846 --> 01:23:36,972
-(camera clicks)
-LASHAWN: Come on, Dominique!

1691
01:23:37,055 --> 01:23:38,390
-Come on, Dominique!
-(clapping)

1692
01:23:40,809 --> 01:23:41,977
(camera clicks)

1693
01:23:47,858 --> 01:23:49,026
(camera clicks)

1694
01:23:49,109 --> 01:23:51,028
LIL BABY: Know what I'm saying?
I said, "Kim, I'll go with you."

1695
01:23:51,111 --> 01:23:52,279
LASHAWN:
Yes, baby, I think--

1696
01:23:52,362 --> 01:23:53,864
-They didn't tell me.
-Kim, did they say...

1697
01:23:53,947 --> 01:23:55,407
(overlapping chatter)

1698
01:23:55,491 --> 01:23:56,909
DAVIS:
They been sending the call time...

1699
01:23:56,992 --> 01:23:58,202
KIM:
They've been sending the call time.

1700
01:23:58,285 --> 01:23:59,828
-They want you on time.
-No, no, no.

1701
01:23:59,912 --> 01:24:02,080
-They trying to show my face when I lose.
-Nah, listen.

1702
01:24:02,164 --> 01:24:03,665
-(laughter)
-DAVIS: You know what?

1703
01:24:03,749 --> 01:24:05,334
We need positive energy in here.

1704
01:24:05,417 --> 01:24:06,668
-(overlapping chatter)
-Hey, hey!

1705
01:24:06,752 --> 01:24:08,462
They'll play the hell
out a nigga here, man.

1706
01:24:08,545 --> 01:24:10,088
They want me sitting in the spot

1707
01:24:10,172 --> 01:24:12,925
so they can show my reaction
when I lose, man.

1708
01:24:13,008 --> 01:24:14,468
I'm-a do like that. Shit.

1709
01:24:14,551 --> 01:24:16,011
(overlapping chatter)

1710
01:24:16,094 --> 01:24:17,596
Soon as somebody else win, I'm like that.

1711
01:24:17,679 --> 01:24:18,972
KIM:
But I don't want him waiting around.

1712
01:24:19,056 --> 01:24:20,224
They've been asking where he is.

1713
01:24:20,307 --> 01:24:21,975
(indistinct chatter)

1714
01:24:25,020 --> 01:24:27,064
(man shouting in distance)

1715
01:24:27,147 --> 01:24:29,608
-Where my, where my car at?
-MAN: That'll be in front.

1716
01:24:29,691 --> 01:24:31,693
♪ ♪

1717
01:24:46,583 --> 01:24:48,585
♪ ♪

1718
01:24:55,968 --> 01:24:57,553
I'm going on TV, Britney.

1719
01:24:57,636 --> 01:24:59,388
You gon' kill this shit.

1720
01:25:03,058 --> 01:25:05,018
-(Velcro ripping)
-Make it tight.

1721
01:25:05,102 --> 01:25:09,106
HABTEMARIAM: He's so aware
of his influence and his power now.

1722
01:25:12,192 --> 01:25:15,362
And he doesn't take
that responsibility lightly.

1723
01:25:20,701 --> 01:25:24,538
COACH K:
Here's a kid that wasn't dealt...

1724
01:25:24,621 --> 01:25:26,081
all aces.

1725
01:25:29,418 --> 01:25:31,753
All them little guys
from his neighborhood...

1726
01:25:33,171 --> 01:25:35,549
...he gives all those kids hope.

1727
01:25:45,851 --> 01:25:50,689
MAN: Here performing "The Bigger Picture,"
please welcome Lil Baby.

1728
01:25:50,772 --> 01:25:52,649
(crowd cheering)

1729
01:25:54,067 --> 01:25:55,444
♪ Trade my four-by-four for a G 63 ♪

1730
01:25:55,527 --> 01:25:56,945
♪ Ain't no more free Lil Steve ♪

1731
01:25:57,029 --> 01:25:58,906
♪ I gave 'em chance
and chance and chance again ♪

1732
01:25:58,989 --> 01:26:00,490
♪ I even done told them please ♪

1733
01:26:00,574 --> 01:26:02,075
♪ I find it crazy
the police'll shoot you ♪

1734
01:26:02,159 --> 01:26:04,077
♪ And know that you dead
but still tell you to freeze ♪

1735
01:26:04,161 --> 01:26:05,621
♪ I seen what I seen, I guess that mean ♪

1736
01:26:05,704 --> 01:26:07,205
♪ Hold him down
when he say he can't breathe ♪

1737
01:26:07,289 --> 01:26:09,958
♪ It's too many mothers that's grieving
for no reason ♪

1738
01:26:10,042 --> 01:26:12,210
♪ Been going on for too long to get even ♪

1739
01:26:12,294 --> 01:26:13,629
♪ Like dogs and hyenas ♪

1740
01:26:13,712 --> 01:26:15,172
♪ I went to prison, my money was quoted ♪

1741
01:26:15,255 --> 01:26:16,798
♪ My mama was crushed
when they said I can't leave ♪

1742
01:26:16,882 --> 01:26:18,425
♪ First I was drunk,
but I sobered up quick ♪

1743
01:26:18,508 --> 01:26:20,302
♪ When I heard all that time
that they gave to Taleeb ♪

1744
01:26:20,385 --> 01:26:22,095
♪ He got a life sentence plus ♪

1745
01:26:22,179 --> 01:26:24,056
♪ We just some products
of our environment ♪

1746
01:26:24,139 --> 01:26:25,599
♪ How the ... they gon' blame us? ♪

1747
01:26:25,682 --> 01:26:27,100
♪ You can't fight fire with fire, I know ♪

1748
01:26:27,184 --> 01:26:29,853
♪ But at least we can
turn up the flames some... ♪

1749
01:26:29,937 --> 01:26:31,980
The whole world like,
"Oh, my fucking God, this is--

1750
01:26:32,064 --> 01:26:33,315
Who is this guy?" And it's like,

1751
01:26:33,398 --> 01:26:35,150
I knew who this boy was.
This boy one of the ones.

1752
01:26:35,233 --> 01:26:36,401
I knew this.

1753
01:26:36,485 --> 01:26:38,737
THOMAS:
Seeing him get smarter,

1754
01:26:38,820 --> 01:26:40,906
asking questions,

1755
01:26:40,989 --> 01:26:43,075
it just make me happy and proud to see him

1756
01:26:43,158 --> 01:26:46,453
make that transition
in being to where he at now.

1757
01:26:46,536 --> 01:26:48,288
♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪

1758
01:26:48,372 --> 01:26:50,040
♪ It's a problem with
the whole way of life ♪

1759
01:26:50,123 --> 01:26:52,751
♪ It can't change overnight,
but we got to start somewhere ♪

1760
01:26:52,834 --> 01:26:54,753
♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪

1761
01:26:54,836 --> 01:26:56,505
♪ We done had a ... of a year ♪

1762
01:26:56,588 --> 01:26:58,215
♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪

1763
01:26:58,298 --> 01:27:00,717
♪ God is the only man I fear ♪

1764
01:27:02,386 --> 01:27:03,762
♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪

1765
01:27:03,845 --> 01:27:05,639
♪ It's a problem with
the whole way of life ♪

1766
01:27:05,722 --> 01:27:08,892
♪ It can't change overnight,
but we got to start somewhere ♪

1767
01:27:08,976 --> 01:27:10,435
♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪

1768
01:27:10,519 --> 01:27:12,187
♪ We done had a ... of a year ♪

1769
01:27:12,270 --> 01:27:13,772
♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪

1770
01:27:13,855 --> 01:27:16,775
♪ God is the only man I fear. ♪

1771
01:27:16,858 --> 01:27:18,860
-(song ends)
-(fireworks popping)

1772
01:27:21,530 --> 01:27:24,408
(indistinct chatter)

1773
01:27:30,288 --> 01:27:31,707
It's a wrap!

1774
01:27:33,041 --> 01:27:35,502
-(cheering, excited chatter)
-Congratulations!

1775
01:27:35,585 --> 01:27:37,587
♪ ♪

1776
01:27:40,382 --> 01:27:42,551
LIL BABY:
Coach and Ethiopia, P,

1777
01:27:42,634 --> 01:27:45,178
they know the benefits
of winning a Grammy.

1778
01:27:45,262 --> 01:27:47,055
This shit new to me.

1779
01:27:53,395 --> 01:27:56,565
I don't really understand all that yet.

1780
01:27:57,899 --> 01:28:01,319
I'm just happy I'm getting
my message out there.

1781
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,002
(engine revving)

1782
01:28:22,215 --> 01:28:24,217
♪ ♪

1783
01:28:31,349 --> 01:28:33,810
Trying to show the youngins
that it's bigger.

1784
01:28:35,812 --> 01:28:37,814
I'm living proof.

1785
01:28:45,113 --> 01:28:47,032
COACH K:
Lil Baby is a-a name,

1786
01:28:47,115 --> 01:28:49,910
a brand that he built.

1787
01:28:51,912 --> 01:28:54,206
Dominique is who he is.

1788
01:28:55,207 --> 01:28:58,794
I think Dominique is
the essence of Lil Baby.

1789
01:29:02,714 --> 01:29:04,591
LIL BABY:
Dominique is...

1790
01:29:06,134 --> 01:29:08,720
...the owner of Lil Baby.

1791
01:29:08,804 --> 01:29:11,598
And Lil Baby is an artist.

1792
01:29:12,766 --> 01:29:15,310
Dominique is a businessman.

1793
01:29:18,230 --> 01:29:19,981
One day, there gonna be no more Lil Baby.

1794
01:29:20,065 --> 01:29:22,067
How could it not?

1795
01:29:24,611 --> 01:29:26,613
♪ ♪

1796
01:29:35,163 --> 01:29:37,582
LASHAWN:
That's my child. I know his potential.

1797
01:29:38,583 --> 01:29:40,377
Very proud, especially with all the people

1798
01:29:40,460 --> 01:29:43,630
who didn't believe he was
gonna amount to anything.

1799
01:29:44,673 --> 01:29:46,508
"Oh, you know,
he gonna probably just end up

1800
01:29:46,591 --> 01:29:49,553
like the rest of the hood."

1801
01:29:49,636 --> 01:29:51,763
I smile knowing that
that's him on the radio.

1802
01:29:51,847 --> 01:29:54,349
Their kids listening to him.

1803
01:29:57,310 --> 01:30:01,481
Little Dominique Jones
who never came to class.

1804
01:30:01,565 --> 01:30:03,150
-Say, "Blast off!"
-Blast off!

1805
01:30:03,233 --> 01:30:05,318
Blast off! Ah!

1806
01:30:05,402 --> 01:30:07,112
(laughter)

1807
01:30:07,195 --> 01:30:08,572
Y'all, y'all, share.

1808
01:30:08,655 --> 01:30:10,282
Jason, you can't be doing all that.

1809
01:30:10,365 --> 01:30:11,658
Come here.

1810
01:30:11,741 --> 01:30:13,743
(indistinct chatter)

1811
01:30:19,833 --> 01:30:21,001
(exclaims)

1812
01:30:21,084 --> 01:30:23,003
See it there?

1813
01:30:23,086 --> 01:30:24,588
See it?

1814
01:30:26,423 --> 01:30:27,841
Want to go over there?

1815
01:30:32,888 --> 01:30:34,890
(indistinct chatter)

1816
01:30:37,475 --> 01:30:41,021
LIL BABY: I can see my plan,
what I'm trying to do, it's gon' work.

1817
01:30:42,022 --> 01:30:44,024
(indistinct chatter)

1818
01:30:48,278 --> 01:30:50,155
I'm-a have a full legacy.

1819
01:30:50,238 --> 01:30:52,908
Like, it's just gon' be started from rap.

1820
01:30:54,701 --> 01:30:57,162
'Cause I took it to this point
in three years.

1821
01:30:57,245 --> 01:30:59,789
I plan on living
to at least, like, 60, 70.

1822
01:30:59,873 --> 01:31:02,667
That's a long time from now.

1823
01:31:05,253 --> 01:31:06,671
Even though I got to this point

1824
01:31:06,755 --> 01:31:08,632
where it's damn near
you can ask a question like

1825
01:31:08,715 --> 01:31:10,008
"What do you think your legacy
is going to be?"

1826
01:31:10,091 --> 01:31:13,595
'cause I done built a legacy where
if I stop right now I could leave it.

1827
01:31:14,930 --> 01:31:16,890
It's already a full one
if I stopped today.

1828
01:31:19,809 --> 01:31:21,937
But, man, you got to just imagine
what I'm finna do.

1829
01:31:23,188 --> 01:31:25,774
Now that my brain is untrapping.

1830
01:31:28,151 --> 01:31:30,153
I'll never be trapped again.

1831
01:31:32,697 --> 01:31:34,491
I'm just getting started.

1832
01:31:34,574 --> 01:31:36,576
(jet engine whooshing)

1833
01:31:43,083 --> 01:31:46,086
("All In" by Lil Baby playing)

1834
01:31:47,170 --> 01:31:49,089
♪ Cook that ... up, Quay ♪

1835
01:31:49,172 --> 01:31:51,174
(song continues as instrumental beat)

1836
01:32:21,204 --> 01:32:23,206
♪ ♪

1837
01:32:53,236 --> 01:32:55,238
♪ ♪

1838
01:33:25,268 --> 01:33:27,270
♪ ♪

1839
01:33:48,625 --> 01:33:50,627
(music fades)