Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: How can home decor improve your living space?
Yeah, yeah. Woke up in the morning and to God be the glory. Thankful for another day to tell my story. Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit. I'm from the dirtiest soul with a dirty mouth. Might need orbit. Miss, thanks. You don't know what they got on them, right? Yeah, exactly. You know what I'm saying?
You don't want to leave that shit in your house, especially not your family, though. Yeah, and then I think, for me, like, the first few guests... was people that was just like fans of the show. So even if they had a name attached to them, they was really tapped in where it was like, all right, they got good, they got good vibes. I'm cool when I'm coming over here until I find a spot.
But like once it started getting to the point where people was reaching out to me, like all the time, like I want to be on the show. I want to come do this. I want to come do that. It started getting to a point where I was like, hell no, we got to outsource it. And Ferg was like the third person to reach out, like offer me a space for real.
And then it would just start with like, we was doing what, for maybe like a guest a month, something like that. So like now we be in this bitch, every, yeah. Yeah, this spot dope. Yeah, we here, you know. Yeah, this spot dope.
You know, this my neighborhood, right across the track. Go across the train track, you in my hood. Yep. Mason Avenue. I'm over here, I'm like two lights away, I'm in Pullman Yard.
Oh yeah, Pullman Yard, yeah, that's right in Kirkwood, on Roger Street. Yeah, I think for me, it was just like, I ain't never wanna outsource my shit. Cause I don't come from like no media background. I don't come from no entertainment background. So I already know like Arthur Mussel, you gonna whack me. I don't have no resume. You know what I'm saying?
So ain't nobody going to really show no love like that. And if anything, like you saying you got a podcast, like saying you're a rapper now. Facts. You know what I'm saying? Worse. It's worse. Because now you, because like, shit, you could be fire music and not really be a conversationalist.
or really not have nothing to say for real but you good with the music this shit is like predicated on what you got to say so did you did you do something with Charlamagne though he don't hate me about this shit so you end up doing yeah we did the breakfast club no I'm talking about like the black and fed shit we in negotiations it's you know back and forth this shit from the start of the negotiations to now it's a totally different world yeah you know what I'm saying oh you're saying like from when you first started yeah yeah
Them folks ain't got no money over there, though. But nigga might as well take whatever they talking about because there ain't no money in audio, period, right? Unless you already got your numbers up in audio.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges of starting a podcast?
You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying? You know? That's hard, though. We do. But... Everybody know what the background is. Of course, growing up in Atlanta, you done seen this shit change three, four times over. But- Me. Yeah. So, before we get to the duct tape, talk about what life was like pre-Atlanta with the real Atlanta, what they'll call it, towards what it is now.
So, you're saying before the Olympics, basically. That's what... So, this is a big cat hole thing, too. Where your mama from? I don't know. Yeah. So he like, bro, it was really the Olympics.
That's what I'm trying to tell you is the Olympics. Yeah, because people, I don't think people, it was more, it was just, before the Olympics, it was Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? After the Olympics, it just turned into Atlanta. ATL. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
It was Atlanta at first, then after the Olympics turned to ATL because a lot of people came in and saw this city and seen that it was like, you know, like black Hollywood or whatever. So shit, nigga was like, shit, I can move down now. And we so welcoming, so, so soft-hearted, free-hearted, we let everybody in. Yeah. And shit, you know,
I think once the internet hit and seeing other people, we started adapting to other people's culture and we lost the culture of Atlanta. That's what I think. But before the Olympics, it was shit, hustling. Wasn't no tricking. All that tricking shit came later when niggas come out, they just spend money on bitches and all that. We wasn't doing that. You know what I'm saying? It was like shit.
And you couldn't... You had to really be somebody to be known. To be somebody. Back in them days, you had to really be somebody. Like, it'd be thoroughly checked. Yeah. Like, who is this? Dante who? Who his people? Like, your people got to be somebody for you to be somebody. You get what I'm saying? Like, they got to run in you. You can't just pop up out the blue light.
Nigga pulling them car facts, for sure. Yeah, yeah. You just a UFO now. You that nigga. Nah, bro.
What?
Where you with that nigga at before you with that nigga right here?
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Chapter 4: How has Atlanta's culture evolved over the years?
The only excuse a nigga needed to get out of the library, that nigga tried me, bro. You don't even need to know what capacity it's in. If you told me a nigga tried you, you good. It's a valid reason.
But we got to figure out what's actually trying you. Niggas make anything trying you. I know that nigga seen me. He didn't say what's up. He tried me. How? I probably didn't see you. You saw me.
Why you ain't say what's up? Why you ain't say nothing? Yeah. It's shit crazy. It be a lot of shit where it's like our ego. You know what I'm saying? Everything. Yeah.
And these bitches too. It be these women too. They need to be followed up by these women. It's an unfortunate part of the game.
It's very persistent though. As much as like That be my thing with niggas, too, is just like, as much as y'all are down-top women and y'all act like y'all don't give a fuck about women, you'll crash about one of them. What? And don't kill. And you'll feel justified. And then go right back to talking like, fuck a bitch. Like, bro, you just crashed behind. You in jail now because of one.
And it ain't had nothing to do with her. It had something to do with you tripping. You know what I'm saying? And she still out here doing the same shit. Worse, sir.
Worse-er. Real shit. She got a burden on her.
She got a weight on her shoulders now. She's super loose. I'm good now. Shit, I'm brand new. Nah, real shit. With the duct tape thing, how did you... Was that your way of kind of transitioning out of bullshit? It's like, I'm going to go legit as far as creating a company. But also...
giving people opportunities to speak their piece in the street from a perspective that might not be good for your traditional record label. Because a nigga like Olive Boy, a nigga like Trouble, they wasn't necessarily going for the whole industry shit, but they still needed an outlet because they saying some of the realest shit that I know for me at that time, I could relate to.
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Chapter 5: How did Big Bank maintain momentum for his artists?
I know he official. So this is where everything in one bubble. And then we had, he had trouble, I had trouble ready too. Then both of these niggas got hot, but it's up. So by the time Ali get out, he go, sign the Atlantic, go up. Trouble come out like a year or two after that, go right up. You know what I'm saying? Because we kept the momentum going. You get what I'm saying?
You had paid away for the shit still. But it's also like a testament to you as a leader and like as an entrepreneur, like shit. Dope. The shit that's going to make us the money, it's gone. I got to make something shake. Facts.
Chapter 6: What challenges did Big Bank face in his music career?
And then you done made it, but you done made it shake in the craziest way, though. Because, like, who think they finna... Honestly... It's not, there's less than 1% of niggas on earth who can say, I ain't no rapper for real. I went in the studio and made a fucking hit and piped my shit all the way up.
And the crazy part about it is, bro, I recorded the motherfucker at Candy House. Because AJ, long little AJ, him and Candy was, you know, They had their thing going. So I was over there. She had a studio in the back. I recorded. And I went to the club. I went to Crucian. Gave the CD to DJ MLK. Shout out to MLK. MLK kept the CD.
Chapter 7: How has Big Bank's perspective on fame and success changed?
I was like, let me get that CD back, bro. This shit ain't missing. He was like, but I'm keeping this. So that was the first sign of, damn, this motherfucker must be hard. I told you your diss back. You don't throw me plenty of disses back up, nigga shit. You're like, no, I'm keeping this. It was just one verse. It didn't even have a hook on it. I mean, it was just a hook and a verse.
It didn't even have a candy verse or nothing. So I went back over there. I was like, man, they fuck with that shit. I was like, nigga, that's a hit. Let me get on it. She got on it. That shit took two weeks. That motherfucker was gone.
Yeah. Yeah.
Chapter 8: What lessons does Big Bank share about personal growth and parenting?
And that's at the time, too, like... The DJs in Atlanta is like some of the most slept on A&Rs ever. Like they'll really turn your shit up. Right then and there. Right then and there. Like because of what go on in the clubs in Atlanta, it's like you can literally be at the club before you get to the club.
Because you can go turn on 1079 and whatever club you going, if you going to the club and they playing, they playing that shit on the radio too. So it's like, shit, I'm already catching that vibe. Like I'm fucking with the DJ another night. That shit used to be just like, Blue Flame, Magic City, same shit. It's just like certain spots, certain DJs, they have something to pull.
If they play your shit and people fuck with it, you got a hit.
I'm going to give a shout out to the radio too, and I ain't even ever did. This shout out to J1. J1 was the first one. He called me. He was like, Bro, I just heard the song. I'm putting it in. I'm putting it in rotation. For sure. This ain't no payola, no none, no none. He called me. Like, bro, I'm a PD. I get to put in a song for him to put this one in. I'm putting it in rotation.
After he put it in, I think he was at 107.9, one of them spots, Grand Street, and I'm putting it in. And this person put it in. For you to know, I'm on all three stations, top 10, in less than a month. You was going crazy, bro.
I'm telling you, I remember that shit vividly. But I never did embrace it. Because you didn't want to be no rapper. Period. But at the end of the day, it's also a good thing, too. Because... you didn't get caught up in the hype where it did what it did, but it didn't keep you stuck there. You was able to keep going.
So, like, it probably, I ain't no big fans if you still trying to do the 10-year anniversary of Try It Out. Oh, hell no.
But I hate, get with it, that shit's so cringing with me, bro. When I be playing, they be playing the song, I be like, bro, that ain't even me no more, bro.
So, when you go into a spot and, like, niggas know you there, they'll try to throw that bitch in the mix.
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