He feeling himself right now.
He got two records of the top 10 radio right now.
I need to come immerse myself in this beautiful culture, so I'll be back very soon, my dude.
This shit was wavy.
We had a good night.
Shout out to Rosé.
Shout out to Fritz Martell.
Now you was up there partying, bro.
You was partying.
I had a good time.
I love being an underdog, man.
There's a certain feeling when you wake up, you just gotta prove them wrong again.
And tomorrow they might get me to do a Versus against Jesus or something.
So I can show them that I'm nice.
When I met French Montana he was on his.
I can only imagine how many mixtapes he had out at the time, but that's when I knew.
He came to Miami and that's when I knew homie gonna be a legend.
Fuck your skills when your hustles speak for you.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is a special edition of the Rap Life Review.
We are in LA.
I am Ebro.
We got Nadeska out here with Nick and Eddie and joining us from Compton.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm honored, I'm honored, oh my gosh.
It's my first time meeting the young legend, Jordan.
Insane, my OG, for real.
Oh damn, I'm grown up now.
Legacy complex, the new gen yeah, this is good, it's beautiful, it's beautiful looking.
We're coming off versus uh, and so we all joined in.
La, we just finished watching versus uh, rick ross, french montana, so we decided, you know what?
Let's cut a special episode uh, to keep the conversation going around.
Uh, this month's verses.
How did you feel Nick, about French Montana and Rick Ross?
Let's just get right into it.
Man, just the camaraderie, bro, the energy between them, bro.
We never knew there was going to be any kind of bad blood shit talking, no super competitive energy.
They came out, it was just the best of friends playing all the songs. we love, man.
It couldn't get no better than that.
So it was what I expected.
It was fun.
It was lighthearted.
You know, I'm a fan of both of their catalogs.
So it was like a Rick Ross, French Montana concert.
Nadeska, what about you?
So wait a minute.
Does this mean we're not grading or rating the shows that was happening?
I don't even know if I could pick a winner.
I'll be honest.
I don't know.
I mean, I hit low key.
You know, low key is going to pick a winner.
I mean, guess who low key picked?
I mean, Ross.
I mean, he gave a whole explanation like in his defense.
He just felt like what he said, he's like, you know, French has a great amount of records.
I shake the clubs and the radio.
But he said like tonight he felt like Ross's ear for production.
His selection of beats and his sequencing really helped him out tonight.
You know what?
Lo loves sequencing.
When Logan's an album review, you just wait for you guys and be like all right, at some point he's going to bring up sequencing.
Sequencing is actually important.
It is very important.
It's super important and I think, even though they weren't necessarily competing, there were times where it felt like French was trying to answer Ross's records, though right.
So it was like oh, you played that one, let me go play this, or let me steer it back in my direction, right?
Because there's a lot of times French was like, no, this is a club anthem night.
He was trying to make sure this was a club anthem night, and Ross just had other plans.
He's like, now we back to the lady records now?
Okay, but jordan, how'd you feel?
You know it was funny, because i felt like i liked the french records.
I definitely came in more of a ross fan and i feel like the ross antics were so organically interwoven within each record.
Even even when he did tears of joy, which i will say, i feel like i played a part, I feel like I played a part.
But even that, and a girl's looking at him in the crowd and he was like I thought we were doing some deep stuff right now, but you just made me go a whole other direction.
That just, I think Ross is one of the funniest rappers alive, facts.
And I think you saw that tonight.
Now Jordan, you was up at the dressing rooms, kind of going in and out of the dressing rooms before Versus kicked off.
Tell us that story.
So yeah, I went in there on some pre-game locker room in the tunnel, talking to the players.
I go talk to friends, you know, Max, everybody chilling, vibing.
And friends came in on some underdog mentality.
He felt like, you know, I've been counted out.
I'm counted out right now.
So I'm just going in there to have fun, which was right.
He was definitely underdog for sure.
And they were vibing.
I go to Ross's dressing room.
He's playing Al Green, just sitting in the director's chair.
I go dab him.
You know, when somebody's chilling they give you like that, a gentle dab that he hit me.
One of these.
You know what I'm saying?
You know the gentle dab, right?
I'm chilling.
Yeah, he went, you know, love, love.
And I was like, how you feeling?
He was like.
Stupendous.
I was like, yeah.
And that, I think, set the tone for what we saw the rest of the night, you know what I mean?
But do y'all think it's because he spent so much time before this actually preparing that?
Once he comes here he can just kick it and be cool?
This is also his second versus though, right?
He's been down this road before.
He's a vet, so it's like not much.
When I asked him like, you know, what's your game plan?
He was like listen, i'm letting dj um nasty nasty, i'm letting dj nasty just play whatever, really.
Yeah, he was like i don't know what the set list is.
That's why i told dj nasty to pull up and i was like dj just sneak tears of joy in there.
He's like i'm gonna figure out what i could do and that's how i went down.
You know what I mean.
So you was really maneuvering this thing the whole time.
I told you I was sneaky.
Jordan just pulling the strings here.
You know what I mean?
This is behind the curtain.
Do you feel like it was executed to the Jordan standard?
Yeah, he, because the whole time he had like backing vocals on.
And also there's other LA legends in the building right now.
DJ Ahead, Gina Views.
Oh, Gina.
Yeah.
Gina, Gina, Gina.
What up, family?
You can't like her out.
Come on, y'all.
I am so happy to meet y'all.
What's happening?
I'm like a super fan of all of y'all.
Yeah, go look it up.
All right no, no bull, she finna cry.
I got tweets about you.
I'm going up watching everyday struggle like i love you.
Listen, how did you enjoy it tonight?
Hey, how did you enjoy the verses ross and uh french yeah um, shout out to my dude french, first and foremost.
There, you go right there, but I feel set up.
Y'all just about to talk shit.
Hey, don't spill nothing on the equipment, man.
Come on, man.
That's our new Stu Max.
BiggerVale, how'd you feel tonight?
I respect equipment.
Tonight was epic.
And it was a building full of specimens.
Gorgeous specimens at that.
French, how'd you feel in there versus Ross?
I heard you give him flowers at the end.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I heard you big him up.
Was you concerned about his discography going into this?
Nah nah, hell.
No, you know, rose was was somebody that you know.
When i was coming up, i was studying him because he knew how to make them club anthems.
You got to think about it when i, when i first came out, bmf was out, mc hammer was out, so i was learning from.
No, that's why we even got the horns and shot caller and all that because it was just a sound.
When he met Lex Luger, it was just like a moment in hip hop that a lot of people sleep on it.
But it was just a sound.
And I always tell people that when anybody ever took over hip hop, it was always a sound, whether it was Dipset, whether it was me and Max, whether it was fucking G-Unit, whether it was whoever WMG you know.
But we did our thing out there, man, you know.
No, it was a good time.
Now, Big Lavelle, you don't get to L.A. much.
No, I don't.
No, I don't.
And how did it feel?
You on stage with your brothers.
Y'all got a number one record.
Talk to them.
I'm upset a little bit because every time I come out here for like one day, two days, I don't really get to immerse myself in this beautiful culture.
He feeling himself right now.
He got two records in the top ten radio right now.
I need to come immerse myself in this beautiful culture, so.
I'll be back very soon, my dude.
This shit was wavy.
We had a good night.
Shout out to Rosé.
Shout out to French Montana.
Now you was up there partying, bruh.
You was partying.
Man, I had a good time.
And just want to say for not coming out to LA all that often.
Between Mixin' Miami Flip and between the Smokin' Part II Flip man, y'all brought a lot of LA energy tonight, right.
French play, Don't Panic, the Mustard Bee.
Y'all represented for L.A.
Oh, yeah.
I almost didn't play that record.
Man, I'm glad you did.
Yeah, I know.
It was like, you in L.A., you better fucking play that.
DJ Head, you was having something to say about the versions before French and then walked in.
We got to get back into it, bro.
Talk about it.
French is my guy.
He's open to critique.
First of all, I missed the whole conversation.
What was y'all talking about before I walked in on that?
Jordan, what's the record that you believe Ross performed because of you?
I said Tears of Joy.
When he comes in here, he will corroborate that statement.
But yeah, I think Tears of Joy.
Because I was telling him when I pulled up on y'all, it was a chill vibe.
Everybody was lit, having a good time.
And I told French this.
When I pulled up on Ross, he playing Al Green.
I was Like, what's going on in here?
But that's why I performed Sanctuary.
When I heard Tears of Joy, I was like, okay, I got to pop one of those out.
So you were changing your set list.
You didn't stick to a set list.
You changed things.
I had a set list, but as soon as we started, I just started freestyling.
Shuffling.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, here we are on Rap Life Review.
We came out here to do a special episode because we are at Versus.
But what they were saying, though, I didn't hear what you were saying.
Oh, hey, go ahead.
He never got into his thoughts.
Yeah, I walked in.
That's why I was like, I was about to say, I think Rosé got it, but...
I know that's not what it's about, but I will say this.
I did see you game planning in the middle of that.
I didn't see him do that.
I felt like, I don't know what happened, but I did see you arguing with Holiday about dunking.
We got that on video for sure.
And me and Gina was talking about this shit on the radio, like, was it last week?
We were talking about this on the radio last week.
Like, if he don't play Don't Panic, it's a miss.
So I'm glad you added that.
You think so?
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
I did argue with him about Don't Panic.
I saw y'all niggas arguing.
You didn't want him to play?
Nah, it's not that.
I had different vibes.
I had off the rip.
I didn't play.
I had a bunch of records that I didn't play.
But I was going for those before I went for that.
I didn't even play Bad Bitch.
I didn't play a lot of records.
Hey, talk about that Strafe set it off flip, man.
What made y'all pick that beat, man?
I absolutely love that record.
That was max.
That was max.
Sure, do another one.
How would you approach it differently?
What would be the difference?
Change the lineup.
Come on, baby.
We got catalogs to play with.
Let's go.
No, call somebody else.
Who you want next?
Call somebody else.
We definitely got another 20, 30.
And maybe even change the location.
And just mix tape cuts.
All that sexy shit, we just need a part two.
We calling for it now.
Rematch.
It was that nice.
Rematch with just mix tape cuts.
Hold on.
It was that nice.
Really do something like that one time?
Now you can come back.
Ross did it twice.
Let's do it bigger.
Let's get more specimens in there.
Let's do more music.
More time on the clock.
I don't think nobody had more fun than you tonight out there on that stage, Max.
That's an 032.
I saw that 42 you had back there, too.
You was on the champagne and the 42.
Scary.
Wow.
You only in L.A. once.
You got to go hard.
Mixed them?
What happens in L.A. stays L.A.
Now, French, you and Max on stage together.
Is there an official tour going out for y'all?
Because you're about to drop a new album.
Yeah, yeah.
We're working on everything right now.
Tour, shows, overseas.
I'm trying to get him to go overseas right now.
Trying to get the word, man.
Get that visa right.
On that next week, baby.
Oh, you good?
I'm on that, baby.
You were just on vacation, right?
I'm on that, baby.
Just chill.
Well, Puerto Rico you could go to.
You don't need a visa.
Before you know it, y'all going to be seeing me on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Oh, my God.
Are there rules, French, when you're on the road with Max?
How do you keep him under control?
By not keeping him under control.
You can't have him climbing the iPhone overseas.
Things get a little dicey.
Gotta be careful.
He gotta have fun, man.
He gotta have fun.
Not too much fun, Max.
Nah, man.
Max is Max.
I'm telling you.
You try to control him, you ain't gonna find him.
He gon' go high for a minute.
Now, Eddie, we never got to you and Versus tonight.
You're a big Rick Ross fan.
He's a very Rick Ross guy.
How did you think French held up first Rick Ross?
Listen, bro, we already know the deal.
Like, we got the cheat sheet up on Apple Music right now. if you look before you even know, you're like, I think the issue with French, I think people forget.
Do you feel like people forget?
Because with the two records, you keep saying it, you got two records, top 10 on radio.
Most people don't do that.
Most people don't have.
Like what a 15 year-ish career you know.
Chill for a minute, do all the things you do outside of hip hop and then come back with two bangers.
So are you feeling like you're having a resurgence of a kind of your career?
Is it a new battery in your back since Max got out?
Yeah, I just feel like my boy came home.
I got my energy back.
I just feel like this.
We do everything with passion, you know?
So, like when you got the passion behind it, it's just you got a battery.
You know what I'm saying.
Like when, when you're doing something just to have hits and do that, i mean, after a while, just get boring.
But in the game, what we started, like 2010, when we really started dropping records, he got locked at what?
2009, oh yeah, yeah.
2009 2009, 2009.
So from 2009 to 2026, you get.
You get bored.
You know what i'm saying.
But when he came home, it was just like i'm doing everything all over again.
Does it feel like vindicating, though?
Like, you're like, yeah, y'all probably counted me out, but look, we're right back where we left.
Man, I love being an underdog, man.
There's a certain feeling when you wake up, you just got to prove them wrong again.
And tomorrow they might get me to do a versus against Jesus or something.
So I can show them that I'm nice.
It's like, you know, they always try to throw you off.
Now, speaking of forgetting, the catalog is crazy.
I know your publishing checks are crazy, French.
We hear about your world travels and all of those things.
Did Max B also give you?
You said your energy's back, but it feels like also you want to compete again in a different way.
Right?
Like, is there something to also Max being home?
You got your Chinkz shirt on.
You always taking care of his family.
Yeah.
Right?
You taking care of Max.
You know what I'm saying?
Now that he's home and y'all can really build, talk about that energy as well of just being competitive in this hip-hop space.
I think it go both ways.
You know what I'm saying?
I think he keep me grounded and I keep him grounded.
I feel like it's, and even with Chinks it's like we got a circle that you know, we in the studio, it's just how you hit me up.
Like, hey, bro, that's a hit.
But man, that 88 coups.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
He's the same way.
If it was up to him, I wouldn't have did none of the hits.
He's telling me to do it.
Yo, do that with Mac and Cheese 3.
Yo, do that with Montana.
I wouldn't have did nothing.
Ross would have just slammed me up there.
You know what I'm saying?
But that's why I love Max.
That's why I love Chase.
That's why, you know, they was always keeping me on feet in the streets and just making that music.
Because once you make that hit and you see what type of money you can make off of it, you're like man fuck everything else.
That's what I'm chasing.
But when you, you know what I'm saying?
When you're back in the lab with your brother, they're like no, we gotta make a hundred of these.
Then make one of those.
So.
I keep the balance though. hold each other creatively accountable.
What was those conversations like when Max, when you was locked but still talking to French all the time, were you still able to get in his ear and be like hey man, maybe you should go this route, go that route.
Has that changed over the whole time?
Yeah, we always be bouncing off.
I was always writing.
You know I had my studio in there so we always was tapping in writing talking discussing, so we was in tune.
Cosmos rose, may 21st.
Whose idea was it to sample snoop?
Use that snoop b?
What's wrong?
George clare?
Well, the george clinton.
But you know that that new record did that in.
Oh nine, That gentle dab what I said.
Brown bag legend.
The Al Green dab.
The brown bag legend.
Rosé.
My brother was...
How you feeling tonight?
First of all, great job up there.
Y'all did a great thing tonight.
Much love.
Thank y'all for just loving hip hop and wanting to just put on something for fans of not only yourselves but just for Versus, the culture and Apple Music, the whole team, everybody out here.
So first of all, thank y'all brothers.
And give a round of applause for French and Rick Ross.
You know what I mean?
Just putting it on.
Now, my second question, what is this on your finger?
Is that some sort of injury or what do we have going on here?
What is this?
No, that was something I spent a mail ticket on just to motherfucking have it when I motherfucking threw that bitch clean.
Fuck you.
I wanted to make it when I throw that bitch up, bitches know what it was.
That's a rich fuck.
Yeah, that's what it was.
French was giving you your flowers up there on stage.
Talking about how much you inspired him with the hit making and the club records.
But a lot of people don't even know your pedigree as far as just being a songwriter and people forget how long you've been making records, even before you decided to be an artist.
Uh, i wanted to give you space and give you your flowers for that, because you've been putting on for this hip-hop thing and this music thing for a long time.
So i just wanted to give you some space for that.
How much it means to you.
It mean a lot to me.
You got to realize ricky rose was writing records for other artists When I met Kanye.
Kanye was a young producer selling beats for 2500.
I remember when I chose one of Kanye beats when I was writing records for Trina at the time.
And we was.
We ended up in the studio and it was just one of them things where we zoned out and was thinking about us know, trina had her thing going.
She was on fire at the time.
We met in on that vibe.
I said homie, how much you selling beats for boom.
So when i said on that record, devil in the new dress, i made yeezy before he got his jaw wired.
I was talking about us linking up in the studio, him being a young producer, me being a young writer.
When it wasn't about the dollar signs, it was just about us making progress.
That's what it was about.
And at the end of the day homie, that's what i think about.
When i met french, it wasn't about What I felt his value was, it was about how he was moving.
You understand?
When I see a hustler, I know a hustler.
That's just what it is.
If you can't look at Ricky Rose and understand I was a hustler before this, you kind of slow.
And I'm glad you brought this up, because Devil In A New Dress, that's my favorite Ross verse of all time.
Like you've done a lot of verses.
I don't know if you in your mind have your favorite or you rank any of your own, but like where would that land for you?
No, I appreciate it.
When Ye called me and said, homie, I'm out in Hawaii, will you come out in Hawaii?
I'm like, Hawaii?
Nigga, these two bitches in Hawaii.
What the fuck are we doing?
That was boot camp for that album.
And when we went to the studio, It was a McDonald's right across the street from the studio.
And I remember when we went to McDonald's and nobody noticed us.
I was like, yo, this is the first time niggas ain't know.
You didn't have this expensive finger piece, that's why.
That would have turned heads.
We standing in McDonald's and they don't know us.
I see why you in hawaii and what it was was we really zoned out about?
It was about music.
It wasn't about the parties.
It wasn't about the clubs.
It wasn't about women.
It wasn't about any of that.
It was just about let's make it something that was amazing.
And when we did devil in the new dress we actually did maybe five or six records over that week and Devlin in the new dress when I did the first verse he came back and was like Rose, you killed that shit.
But I just would love if you went back.
And I was like, damn.
You the first motherfucker ever asked a challenge, Rosé.
And I'ma go back in.
And 30 minutes later I wrote and recorded another verse and came back and played it for him.
And no ID.
And he was like, damn.
There are moments when it's not about videos, it's not about bitches, it's not about money, it's not about jewelry, it's just about being amazing.
And when you tap into that zone, That's when you get these type of relationships.
When I met French Montana he was on his.
I can only imagine how many mixtapes he had out at the time, but that's when I knew he came to Miami and that's when I knew homie gonna be a legend.
Fuck your skills when your hustles speak for you.
That means more to me than your talent.
I done met so many talented people that just refuse to be amazing.
Cause to be amazing, you gotta go and tap into another level.
You can't just be amazing and think you lay a verse and I'm amazing.
Boy, they going to shit on that shit, boy.
You too.
I knew Montego was going to be an artist.
Man, that was going to be here many years later, and here we are.
Here we are.
I'm proud of you, my brother.
Man, thank you, my bro.
For real.
Yeah, that sort of seems like this whole thing was a celebration of both of your music.
It wasn't a versus.
I know that's the name of it.
But is that how you guys both approached it?
Because, you know, everyone knows you guys have a lot of records together.
So how did you guys approach it?
Was it collaborative between the two of you?
Like, how did you guys go about it?
You got to understand.
When they say Versus, I totally respect it because the challenge is what brings the best out of any MC.
Fuck being dope.
Nah, everybody's standing around you.
It's a crowd standing around you.
You got to do or die.
That's what the Versus represents, and that's why I love Versus.
But tonight it was most definitely about me and my brother just really tapping into when we was at the crib.
When we was at the crib, before we had any budgets, before it was anybody else there, when we was just like yo, it's just mixtapes.
We not getting paid for this shit.
We doing this for the love.
If we get the love, that's the compensation.
And that's all we really want.
And we did that for many years.
And here we are now, so to look over at my brother right now.
I ain't gonna lie.
When it was like you going against Rosé, I just thought about them.
Six to ten years he had before me.
I had to go back and look at the catalog like, hold on, man.
I can't lie, you know, but I'm just glad that I learned the hustle and I learned how to make music and learned it fast and I was just able to make it out of it consistent and persistent and just was able to catch up.
And it was a proud moment to be up there and go record for record.
You know what I'm saying with my brother.
Because a lot of artists that's in my generation didn't want to do it.
Couldn't do it.
They couldn't do it.
That's what I'm saying.
So they had to match me up with my brother, my teacher.
You know what I'm saying?
So it was a beautiful moment, you know what I'm saying?
A beautiful experience.
I ain't gonna lie.
Shout out to my brother Ricky Rosé.
This next record.
That's how I met my brother, Ricky Rosé.
I was dropping mixtapes and I dropped this record right here and he called me over to the crib.
And he was like, hey man, this is one of my favorite records.
He did a verse and this hustlin' motherfucker took me to the backyard and shot the video in the same hour.
That's when I said this man is different.
Now, Ross, I need you to substantiate a claim.
Here we go.
Too easy.
I can't wait.
Our friend Jordan here from Complex.
Y'all met each other earlier.
Too easy.
He claims he A&R'd a portion of your set tonight.
Talk about it.
Jordan, would you?
Ross!
Ross, Ross, don't do that for all these people.
Ebro, finish your statement.
Finish your statement, Ebro.
Let it finish.
All I was gonna say was, Jordan, tell your story.
He's a Nazi right here, too.
Listen Ross, when I came into this group, when I came in there and you were playing that out in green Sippin' your chamomile tea.
And I said, when I say you nasty.
Nasty, what did I say?
When I say nasty, you ass.
Hang on, Nasty.
Let's get it.
Be honest.
Jordan walked in the room and claims that he had, what's the song, Jordan?
I said, I came up to both of them.
I said, y'all got to play Tears of Joy.
All right, so Nasty, the legend, DJ Nasty.
No, I'm no legend.
I'm just a little fat guy.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
No, no, no, no, listen.
Let us give you your flowers, brother.
I appreciate that.
Listen, you've been putting on on the radio in Miami forever.
Killing it at 99 Jams, holding the city up.
99 Jams, putting it on for that city for a long time, brother.
But go ahead on now.
You claim cap as well?
Yeah, it's a big cap.
I ain't gonna lie to you, I'm gonna give it a buck.
He came in the room and he asked, Hey, is Tears of Joy going to be on the set?
No, he made his request.
He made his request.
Thank you, Ross.
He made that.
No, no, no.
I made the request.
Because you did.
Okay, okay, okay.
And I said, I don't know.
I clearly said I don't know.
So Jordan phrased it like he made a suggestion.
You're saying he asked.
No, he asked.
Oh, that's different.
He said, hey, guys.
That's different.
You know what?
You want to be trained?
It's my favorite song.
I would love for it to be.
Are you gonna do it?
I don't know.
I got this on camera.
Oh no, it's on camera.
Oh no, it's on camera.
And by the way, I know Ross a long time.
I did Jordan Dirty because first of all, I knew Ross was never gonna give him that.
I don't care what happens.
Go ahead, French.
Big time.
My brother Max B got to go.
Hey, yo, give it up, Big O' Man.
Give it up, Big O' Man.
This is what I want to say right before Max B go.
We're not switching the vibe, but this is what I want to let niggas know.
I want his hat.
You could be a nigga, you could be somebody that's facing 75 years, 700 years.
Whatever it is, don't you ever give up.
Max B is an example.
We love you, boy.
Of somebody that the streets or the game, they count it out.
And my brother here, he's shining.
God is great, my brother.
Yes, he is.
Hey, Max, I ain't going to lie.
Can I get that Panama Jack hat?
He went to Puerto Rico and got that hat.
Don't give it to him.
Hold on to it, man.
Hold on.
That's it.
That motherfucker, that bitch famous.
He getting ready for summertime New York City with that joint.
He ready for Puerto Rico and that parade.
Bat the joint.
Bat the joint.
Bat the joint.
Man.
Now Ross, the internet will likely make try to make something of you being like hey, play that joint without the drake vocals.
I want y'all to sing a little man right, they gonna make some of it.
But you constantly play your records that you collab with drake on and you encourage the fans to sing.
So that's not trying to make be messy, that's you.
I'm trying to put on a show, let me.
Let me tell you some Me, being a boss, you got to understand.
This French Montana right here, this my brother.
Drake, if you listening to this, homie, listen to me.
My nigga, shine.
I don't want to see you lose.
No real nigga want to see you lose.
That ain't what niggas about.
This culture, this game, this rap shit, this ain't what it's about.
I don't wanna see you lose.
Real niggas just wanna see real niggas shine together.
Real niggas come up together.
You understand?
When I was the number one nigga in the rap game, I showed niggas love.
When French was on fire, he showed niggas love. when other niggas get their turn.
Hold on now, we still on fire.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, don't get it fucked up.
I said it tonight.
I said something tonight and it touched me because I said it.
I said, damn, I signed a six album contract for a $30,000 advance.
I flew in on a $50 million jet.
We never complained.
We never cried.
Never.
We hustled our way out of any situation.
One million percent.
You understand?
One million percent.
Nigga, don't hate on no nigga.
And when I said that on stage, my nigga, I let DJ Nasty call that shit out.
Whatever we gonna do, DJ Nasty, you let me know.
Okay, we doing Aston Martin minus the Drake vocals.
And when I said that, my nigga, wherever home you at, look, Montana still fuck with you on 1,000.
Yeah, shout out to Drake.
Listen to me.
It's all love.
Montana done came to me.
Nigga, we done had conversations.
Nigga, listen, I'm not on no disrespectful shit.
Montana a real nigga.
Ricky Rosé, you know me.
You know I love to be disrespectful.
That's what I am.
But my nigga, listen, it's deeper than rap.
It's deeper than rap, homie.
This the first time I said this.
Montego, fuck with you the long way.
You understand?
Ain't no funny shit on this side.
It's 1000.
And when I play records, I perform records, my nigga.
Ricky Rosé was the biggest nigga in the game, nigga.
I had motherfucking John Legend and all the biggest niggas in the game on speed dial ready to do albums with me.
We collaborated with the niggas all my homies wanted to.
We never said niggas weren't qualified.
But homie, what we were saying was, at the time niggas were speaking for you.
Niggas have the biggest niggas in the game on speed dial.
But nigga, the niggas in the studio, Montana like, call my nigga Drake.
Cool, call me, before I knew him.
Just on some 1000 shit.
I would love to throw him right now, that's when you had the big nose, but we ain't gonna go there.
Shout out to Drake, man.
You was doing good.
You was doing good.
No, no.
You was doing good.
This is the first time I'm going to say this.
You was doing good.
This is the first time I'm going to say this.
Shout out to homie.
Yeah, shout out to Drake, man.
We're with you, man.
Montana rhyme for you, nigga.
You got real niggas on your side rhyming for you.
And when you got real niggas rhyming for you, my nigga niggas gonna respect it.
I'm not gonna disrespect it.
Renaissance of a boss, the new Rick Ross book.
The New Rick Ross book.
What I'm talking about right here is being 20 years in the game and still waking up every morning and letting niggas know to go and get it.
We don't wake up crabbing.
We don't wake up sad.
We not waking up crabbing.
No, that ain't what we do.
I got to step my shit up.
I come see him.
He got five products on the table while we're doing the interview. at all times.
I ain't got nothing but my phone.
No, no, no.
When Montana come to the crib, my nigga's real motivation.
This ain't no fake shit.
All that fake rap shit, niggas, we ain't talking about that.
Montana crib, really, 30 million, nigga.
You go out that nigga backyard, you really see the beach, nigga.
You really look far enough, and if you on shrooms, you gonna think you see Bahamas.
This Rose tell you, am I lying?
Funniest rapper alive.
Montega, am I lying?
Funniest rapper alive.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's very few niggas that's in this circle.
And my niggas, it ain't nothing but love.
Rose, I don't harbor hate for no nigga.
It ain't no nigga right now if you tell me Ricky Rosé, who you hating the rap game?
It ain't no nigga I hating the rap game.
We hustling.
We getting to the money, nigga.
We hustling.
Yeah, I wouldn't hate on nobody if I had a $100 million house and a $50 million plane.
Who am I gonna hate on?
And that's what me and Montego talk about.
It ain't in us.
I just told you about two things.
There's a $100 million house and a $50 million plane.
I ain't counting nothing else.
Hold up, hold up yo crib 30 million.
I'm proud of you, i'm proud of my homie.
You know what i'm saying ebro, you've been the day one i'm talking about before my record was number one.
I'm talking about this back in 06.
Yeah Nigga, your beard was still black, nigga.
And they should have had you number one on that list.
Oh, thank you for that.
I appreciate that, but I'm happy to be in the game.
I appreciate you.
No, no, no.
It's just real niggas just saluting real niggas.
That's all it is, homie.
That's all it is.
That's what the culture and the game is really about.
Real ones saluting real ones.
When you hustling and you going hard, you deserve everything that you come across.
Real niggas shouldn't cross their nuts on that.
And that's what the game is.
You know what I'm saying?
When motherfucking Ebro got up and posted, he wasn't with whatever nigga.
I ain't even know what radio station it was.
Bros, I ain't even care.
The nigga you was, I didn't know where the fuck you was.
I thought you was on the West Coast somewhere doing some shit.
So when you ended up on the East Coast, I didn't know that.
It don't matter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know the nigga you was before we got on.
That's right.
And that's the only thing that matters.
That's what's up.
And for any nigga that's hustling and grinding, nigga, you already know, wave guards, Montego.
Yeah.
That's what it is.
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