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I gave him the CD.

Green heard a beat on there and said, man, if a 16-year-old made this beat, I need to meet him.

And that's how I met Green.

And Green would just have me as his little man around him.

I'd be around him as he was making beats and shit.

And I was always rapping, but I was a kid.

So he didn't really pay attention to that.

You know what I mean?

Wasn't until I was 19.

And he put me on the spot one time with Smack DVD and a bunch of rappers was on a session in a station.

He liked how I handled myself.

When I left that, he was telling motherfuckers I was his artist.

He was introducing me as his artist from that day.

See, I like that you said that because that's very important.

Like when you are...

ushered into certain rooms with certain people, the way you handle yourself and the way you conduct yourself in those environments, especially when you're young, it translates and it goes a long way.

A lot of people get opportunity like, yo, come on, come with me over here.

And then they just blow the opportunity because they're in there doing too much, talking when they're not supposed to, overextending themselves.

And it's like, you got to understand how to just be cool in certain moments, observe more than you talking,

listen and just understand it's a privilege to be here.