Love & Respect with Killer Mike
Big Boi
Season 1 Episode 2 | 27m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
Big Boi from the rap duo Outkast sits down with Love & Respect host Killer Mike.
Outkast co-founder and hip hop legend Big Boi joins Killer Mike to discuss his life and career – both in and out of music.
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Love & Respect with Killer Mike
Big Boi
Season 1 Episode 2 | 27m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
Outkast co-founder and hip hop legend Big Boi joins Killer Mike to discuss his life and career – both in and out of music.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO LOVE AND RESPECT.
I'M MICHAEL RENDER.
TONIGHT, A CONVERSATION WITH HIP HOP LEGEND, BIG BOI.
HARD TO BELIEVE IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE OUTKAST BURST INTO THE SCENE AND PROPELLED SOUTHERN HIP HOP INTO THE FOREFRONT OF MUSIC.
BIG BOI TONIGHT, ON THE CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF OUTKAST, AND HOW HIS GEORGIA ROOTS HAVE IMPACTED HIS LIFE AND HIS CAREER.
THANKS FOR JOINING US.
A CONVERSATION WITH BIG BOI, COMING UP RIGHT NOW.
- [VOICEOVER] LOVE AND RESPECT WITH KILLER MIKE, IS MADE POSSIBLE BY... - GINA APPROACHES THE ALL ELECTRIC CADILLAC LYRIQ, IT'S A SUNNY DAY.
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♪♪ ♪♪ - LOVE AND RESPECT WITH KILLER MIKE AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE GUESTS AND FRIEND, MENTOR, A BIG BROTHER, BIG BOI.
- MY DOG.
- MAN I CALL TWAN.
- YEAH MAN.
- ANTWAN PATTON, YOU CHANGED MY LIFE.
I WOULD NOT BE HERE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR GETTING A RECORD DEAL WITH YOU AND FOR THE LAST 19, 20 YEARS OF MY LIFE BEING INVOLVED IN ENTERTAINMENT.
SO FIRST JUST LET ME SAY, THANK YOU.
- MAN YOU ALWAYS SHOW GRATITUDE, MAN.
YOU JUST DOING WHAT THE LORD WANTS YOU TO DO.
- ABSOLUTELY - I ALREADY KNOW THAT.
- SPEAKING OF DOING WHAT THE LORD WANTS YOU TO DO, WE ARE ENTERTAINERS.
WE SING AND DANCE FOR A LIVING AND PROVIDE JOY AND LAUGHTER AND GOOD TIMES FOR PEOPLE.
AND FOR THE LAST 20 MONTHS, I HAVEN'T DONE MUCH OF THAT AS MY GROUP WAS DOWN MAKING A RECORD, AND THEN RIGHT WHEN WE WERE ABLE TO ROLL OUT FIRST VIDEO AND GETTING READY TO OPEN FOR RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ON THE WORLD TOUR, PANDEMIC HAPPENS, THE WORLD SHUTS DOWN.
SOMEHOW, YOU GO THROUGH 2021 PROVIDING ENTERTAINMENT, YOU DON'T STOP.
FIRST OF ALL, WHY ARE YOU THAT BRAVE AND WHAT DID YOU LEARN OUT OF THE LESSONS OF GOING AROUND MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY THE LAST YEAR?
- YOU KNOW, I WALK IN HEAVY FAITH FOR ONE AND I MEAN, - YEAH.
- AND I'M JUST A FIRM BELIEVER AND JUST, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE LORD SAY.
AND YOU KNOW, WHEN IT CAME TIME TO GO OUT AND LIKE YOU SAID, MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS SADNESS AND DESPAIR, AND THE TEAM WAS LIKE, LET'S GO, YOU KNOW, CUT MATT SWIVEL.
LIKE WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET OUT OF HERE?
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
EVERYBODY TRYING TO GET GOING OUT THERE AND GET TO THE BACK.
SO I WAS LIKE, ALL RIGHT.
I MEAN, I COULD'VE SAT HOME TO 2030 AND BEYOND, BUT MY TEAM WANTED TO GO.
SO WE GOT THERE AND DID IT.
PLUS A LOT OF STUFF WE DID WAS LIKE LIVE STREAMS TOO.
LIKE FROM STANKONIA WHERE CORPORATION PUT IT UP, WE WOULD GO AND THEN JUST ROCK OUT FOR HIM.
SO IT WAS STEADY.
- SO LIKE THAT'S THE, LIKE THE VR STYLE SHOWS BECAUSE YOU DID ROLL THOSE OUT.
- AND WE WERE JUST WEIRD.
I MEAN, I THINK WE DID ONE FROM MICROSOFT, CARVANA, WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT ONES, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING.
- I WAS JUST WATCHING IT AT HOME ON THE SOFA, IT WAS COOL TO GET STONED AND WATCH IN MY BOXERS.
I DIDN'T HAVE TO GET ALL DRESSED UP TO COME.
- BUT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S FUNNY THOUGH.
CAUSE IT'S LIKE, IT'S NOT A CROWD.
- YEAH.
SO THE ENERGY.
- YEAH, IT'S LIKE LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW.
- SO WHAT WAS IT LIKE GETTING, I JUMPED ON A STAGE WITH YOU AND THAT WAS WHEN THEY HAD EVERYBODY KIND OF SECTIONED OFF LIKE, LITTLE ANIMALS ON A SAFARI.
- YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, BIGS NIGHT OUT.
- YEAH, BUT IT, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS GOOD TO BE BACK IN FRONT OF A CROWD.
YOU WERE ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE BROUGHT ME BACK OUT IN FRONT OF A CROWD.
WHAT'S THE ENERGY LIKE CONNECTING WITH THE CROWDS?
- WELL THAT ONE RIGHT THERE.
IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS A PLUS AND A MINUS.
THE MINUS IS, CAUSE EVERYBODY WAS SEPARATED.
IT WAS JUST KIND OF FELT DISTANT.
SO EVERYBODY WAS IN THEIR OWN LITTLE PART JAMMING, I MEAN, ONE THING THAT THEY DIDN'T DIDN'T REALLY COMMEND US FOR WAS LIKE, HAVING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN CENTENNIAL PARK WHEN YOU KNOW, NO SUPER SPREAD OR NO, NOTHING, KEEPING EVERYBODY SAFE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
EVERYTHING WAS, WAS ON THE UP AND UP.
SO WE DID THAT.
AND AFTER THAT, I MEAN, WE WAS LIKE, HEY MAN, I NEED TO KEEP ON GOING.
- SO MAN I GOT TO SAY, YOU TRULY BEEN A BROTHER AND A BIG BROTHER LIKE FIGURE IN MY LIFE IN TERMS OF ADVISING ME THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I REMEMBER BEING ON THE ROAD AND ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND AT THE TIME LOSING A CHILD.
AND YOU LITERALLY, YOU KNOW, AFTER SOME SADNESS IN THE BACK OF THE BUS, PATTED ME ON THE BACK AND SAID, FINISH THE TOUR, GO HOME AND TRY AGAIN.
AND THEN OUT OF THAT MY 19 YEAR OLD, PONY BOY WAS BORN AND HE JUST GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL.
SO SHOUT OUT MAN, - MAN THAT'S HARD.
BUT YOU ARE THE REASON I WENT HOME AND TRIED AGAIN AND IT WORKED.
- I JUST TRY TRYNA BE THERE FOR YOUR BROTHER.
- BUT, PEOPLE ASSUMED I WAS YOUR, WE LOOK SO SIMILAR, I GUESS, THAT OUR EYEBROWS POINTING UP THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT I WAS YOUR LEGITIMATE BIO BROTHER.
- RIGHT.
- BUT I'M NOT.
- BUT I MET YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR BROTHER, JAMES AND THE CEELO AND ME AND NICK AND ROCKY.
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT US MEETING AND WHAT MADE YOU GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY?
- ABSOLUTELY.
SO I MEAN, AS WELL, THEY DON'T KNOW, BUT MY BROTHER AND Y'ALL AND YOU AND THE CEELO AND OUR LITTLE SQUAD FROM BACK THEN ALL WENT TO THE AUC AND ALL WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER AND MY BROTHER WOULD JUST ALWAYS COME TO MY HOUSE WITH CD ALL THE TIME.
IT'S JUST ALWAYS HAD KILLER MIKE CD AND JUST LAYING AROUND THE HOUSE.
ALL HE LIKE, MAN, HE LISTENED TO MY BOY.
I'M LIKE, NOT YET.
I'M GONNA CHECK IT OUT.
HE WAS LIKE, CHECK HIM OUT.
SO I LISTENED TO IT AND I WAS LIKE, OH, THIS JAMMING.
SO I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WELL I WANT TO MEET THEM.
SO WE HAD A STUDIO SESSION, FIRST STUDIO SESSION.
I INVITED YOU TO, WE WAS WORKING ON THE CRIMINAL ALBUM, SNAPPING AND TRAPPING.
AND I'M JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW ME?
I'M LIKE, THEY CALL ME THE KING AGAIN, THE SHOT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
ASK ANYBODY.
I'VE PUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ON.
SO YOU JUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY.
SO I TOLD KILLER MIKE, WHATEVER YOU CAN WITH IT, THAT'S HOW YOU START THE SONG OFF.
HE SET THE TONE AND SET THE VIBE FROM THE, BEGINNING.
AND FROM THAT POINT ON, IT WAS A WRAP MAN.
I MEAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT, I TELL PEOPLE, IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU DO IN A SITUATION LIKE YOUR DRIVE AND YOUR HUNGER AND YOUR PASSION.
AND ONE THING ABOUT YOU IS YOU WANTED IT.
AND TO THIS DAY, I MEAN, I'M SITTING IN MY TRAILER THAT YOU RENTED FROM ME ON THE SET OF YOUR NEW TV SHOW.
I MEAN, COME ON MAN.
- IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME TO USE YOUR TRAILER TOO, BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A VERY ASTUTE BUSINESSMAN.
I FEEL LIKE.
SO I WAS A FAN FIRST.
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I JUST GOT TO SIT AROUND YOUR HANGOUT.
GOD BLESS THE DIG AND YOU'RE AUNT RENE.
- YEAH - SHE WAS LIKE A STEWARD TO ALL THESE WILD LITTLE BOYS.
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD EVER SMOKED LIKE LEGIT MARIJUANA, NOT JUST THAT MED THAT WAS COMING OUT OF EAST HAMPTON.
I REMEMBER AS WE GOT SO STONED IN THE BOTTOM, IT WAS HER BIRTHDAY.
WE WAS SUPPOSE TO GO UPSTAIRS AND SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HER.
WE COULD BARELY WALK OUT OF THERE.
- YEAH.
AND YOU WERE LETTING ME HEAR ATL (INDISTINCT) IN LIVE, HEARD SONGS, AND LONG FORM THINGS ABOUT YOU I COULDN'T REMEMBER THE CAMARADERIE, BUT WE WENT UPSTAIRS, HAD A GREAT TIME.
BUT I LEFT THERE INSPIRED THAT I CAN DO THIS.
YOU WERE IN A GROUP.
AND IN THAT GROUP IN THE FIRST TWO ALBUMS IN PARTICULAR, YOU WERE A DRIVING FORCE.
IN TERMS OF NARRATIVE OF RECORDS, YOU WERE BRINGING THE HOOKS OLD SCHOOL, JUST VIBE-Y HIP HOP HOOKS THAT PEOPLE LOVE FROM KAST.
YOU WERE DETERMINING CADENCES.
YOU REALLY WERE A STAR, BEFORE WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT A STAR WAS.
YOU WERE THE FIRST PERSON I SAW WERE THROWBACK JERSEY FLIP-FLOPS AND SOCKS.
AS A TREND STARTED BEFORE YOU, HOWEVER, LIKE KANYE WEST WAS SAYING, WHEN HE ACCREDITED YOU WITH STARTING THE THROW BACK JERSEY PHASE.
YOU'VE BEEN UNDERRATED, LIKE A LOT OF GREAT PLAYERS.
YOU'VE BEEN, OVERLOOKED AND NOT IN A, NOT IN A BAD WAY CAUSE MAN, EVERYONE FROM KENDRICK LAMAR TO LIL WAYNE IS USED YOUR PATTERNS.
I'VE USED YOUR PATTERNS, BUT IN BEING UNDERRATED.
BUT SO TRENDSETTING, EVEN DOWN TO BEING ONE OF THE FIRST RAPPERS TO BE WITH THE ATLANTA BALLET, YOU PERFORMED A WHOLE SHOW WITH THE BALLET.
THIS IS PRE HAMILTON.
THIS IS PRE JIM JONES BROADWAY, - YEAH.
- WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE SO AHEAD OF THE TIME THAT PEOPLE, A LOT OF TIMES DON'T REALIZE IT TILL THEY'RE LOOKING BACK.
- THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE A SCALE TO RATE ME, MAN, I'M OFF THE SCALE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
AND WHEN YOU'RE SO FAR AHEAD OF PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS AND THE WAY THEY THINK IN PERSPECTIVE, LIKE A LOT OF STUFF, THEY DON'T CATCH TILL YEARS LATER, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
AND, I PREFER TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
THEY DON'T HAVE A SCALE TO RATE ME, LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
LIKE, I MEAN, THEY KNOW I'M LIKE, THE RAP BOOGEYMAN, THEY KNOW, AND I MEAN, THEY KNOW, AIN'T NOBODY CALLING ME, MAN.
WE NOT DOING THAT, YOU KNOW.
- THEY DEFINITELY NOT ROCKING WITH YOU, BUT YOU, YOU TRULY HAVE SET TRENDS THAT - YEAH.
- FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE, DISTANT REPLAYS AS A COMPANY IN ATLANTA EXPLODED.
CAUSE OF YOU.
MITCHELL AND NESS, IF YOU LOOK AT EBBETS FIELD NOW THAT STARTED FROM A HOUSTON ASTROS JERSEY AND A VIDEO.
- YEAH.
- IF YOU LOOK AT FLIP-FLOPS NOW, GUCCI SELLING THOSE SAME ADIDAS FLIP FLOPS, WE USED TO BUY FOR 20 BUCKS FOR TWO, 300 BUCKS, YOU STARTED THE FLIP FLOPS AND SOCKS MOVEMENT, BUT BUSINESS, YOU HAD A BUSINESS ACUMEN YOUNG, YOU STARTED A DOG KENNEL, EARLY, YOU WERE SELLING PURE BRED PIT BULLS, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT ATLANTA RAPPERS HAD NOT DONE.
ATLANTA RAPPERS HAD COME OUT, BUT YOU BROUGHT SOMETHING, I'VE ALWAYS FELT FROM THE ORIGINAL TOWN YOU WERE FROM IN SAVANNAH, YOU BROUGHT A CERTAIN HUSTLE, - RIGHT.
- WHAT DID SAVANNAH GIVE YOU IN TERMS OF A HUSTLENESS IN HONOR I'M WEARING SAVANNAH STATE TODAY.
- YEAH I SEE IT.
- YEAH.
WHAT DID FRAZIER HOMES, WHAT DID, WHAT DID, CLOVERDALE GIVE YOU THAT YOU BROUGHT TO THIS CITY THAT YOU SEEM TO HAVE INJECTED A CERTAIN COOL, A CERTAIN BUSINESS, THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE HAD WITHOUT YOU?
- I THINK IT'S THAT GULLAH GEECHEE, WEST SAVANNAH WHOLE WHAT THEY SAY "DRIP?
", THAT WHAT BE SAYING DRIP?
- DRIP, - DRIP, SWAGGER, WHATEVER THEY WANT TO CALL IT, BUT THAT, IT'S JUST, IT'S ALL ON ME.
YOU KNOW, I COME FROM A FAMILY FROM MY GRANDMOTHER, OWNED DOWN AS YOU KNOW, STRAIGHT HUSTLERS, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
AND THEY GOT IT EVERYWHERE THEY KNEW HOW TO GET IT.
YOU KNOW, WE WAS IN FRASER HOME, 605 B WEST WIND THAT COURT IN THE PROJECTS.
- YEAH.
- YOU KNOW, UNTIL I MOVED TO ATLANTA AND I JUST SOAKED UP GAME FROM A YOUNG AGE.
I WAS LIKE THE FIRST GRANDCHILD THE FIRST NEPHEW, AND SO, YOU KNOW, USED TO TAKE ME WITH THEM ON RUNS AND STUFF LIKE THAT AND I MEAN, TO THIS DAY, I'M JUST THANKFUL THAT I GOT A CHANCE TO REALLY EXPERIENCE THAT BECAUSE IT JUST, YOU KNOW, SHOWED ME LIKE MY UNCLE TRICK FROM OPENING UP THE CAR WASH TO THE RIB SHACK.
I'M SEEING HIM MAKE MOVES.
I'M JUST LIKE, "OKAY, I WANT TO BE LIKE HIM."
- YEAH.
- UM.
AND YOU KNOW, WHEN IT CAME TIME, LIKE WITH THE DOGS, I JUST LIKE, "OKAY, WE, WE GOT THESE DOGS AND UM..." WE WAS INTO IT BECAUSE WE JUST LOVED THE DOGS ANYWAY.
BUT THE BUSINESS SENSE TO ME WAS LIKE, "OKAY, UM THEY ADVERTISING STUFF INSIDE ALBUM COVERS WELL LITTLE DRE.
LET'S PUT US SOMETHING IN THERE."
AND SO, YOU KNOW, DRE DO THE PAINTINGS AND I WAS SELLING THE DOGS.
SO I MEAN, YOU GO BACK AND YOU LOOK IN THE BOOKLETS, YOU GOT TO PIT BULL KENNEL'S BACK THEN.
NOW WE'RE DOING, OF COURSE FRENCHIES.
AND... - YES.
HOW MUCH DO THEY SELL FOR?
- I CAN'T CONFIRM NOR DENY THAT.
BUT YEAH, YOU GOT TO CALL HER LITTLE BROTHER, JAMES, BUT NOT FOR YOU.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
BUT YEAH.
THEY JUST GO FROM ANYWHERE.
THEY START, THEY START AT THREE.
- OKAY.
- START AT THREE, - I COULD BUY A USED CAR?
- YEAH, A SALTDOG LEG WITH NO RIMS ON IT, THEY START AT THREE AND THEY CAN GO, THEY CAN GET PRICEY LIKE RIGHT NOW, THE CRAZIEST IS, THE FLUFFY FRENCHIES THAT LOOK LIKE LITTLE TEDDY BEARS.
AND I THINK THEM ACTUALLY, BOB MARLEY'S SON ROHAN REACHED OUT TO ME AND HE WAS LIKE, "I WANT A DOG LIKE THAT."
HE TALKED TO MY BROTHER, "BROTHER, THOSE WERE MAYBACH PRICES."
I THINK THEY GO ANYWHERE FROM LIKE 60 GRAND, 80 GRAND.
MY, MY BROTHER SAY THEY'RE PAYING A HUNDRED, $200,000 FOR THESE DOGS.
- MAN, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE PRICE OF ROHAN'S COFFEE?
- NO.
- HE AIN'T NO SWAP, AND NO SWELLING, HE AIN'T CHARGING NO CHEAP TRUCK, NO CHEAP COFFEE.
I'D AT LEAST HAVE HIM THROW IN A UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI JERSEY TOO.
- HE SAY, "HE GOING TO GET THEM JANUARY."
- YOU, YOU MENTIONED YOU AND DRE, UM, AND, AND A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE THINK OUTKAST, THEY THINK APART NOW, - RIGHT.
- BUT, BUT OUTKAST NEVER BROKE UP AS MUCH AS DRE GOT TIRED OF THE LIFE.
RIGHT?
IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A BRUTAL LIFE.
I DID 123 SHOWS AND PUT MYSELF IN THE HOSPITAL TO COME UP WITH THE DEHYDRATION AND EXHAUSTION.
SO WE ALL UNDERSTOOD A NEED FOR A BREAK FROM THE LIFE.
BUT YOU AND DRE HAVE NEVER STOPPED, IT'S NOT BEEN A BREAK IN FRIENDSHIP, A REAL BROTHERHOOD.
- NEVER.
- YOU GUYS HANG OUT, GUYS, STILL DO THE COOKOUTS, KICK IT TOGETHER AND ENDED UP AT AN OREGON DUCKS GAME TOGETHER.
WHY WERE YOU AT AN OREGON DUCKS GAME TOGETHER?
- BECAUSE YOUR NEPHEW CROSS IS, YOU KNOW, IS A RUNNING BACK FOR THE DUCKS, NUMBER 22, P AS IN PATTON, UM.
SO DRE, I CALLED, I CALLED DRE ON A WEDNESDAY.
WELL LET ME JUST START OVER.
WE GO BACK TEMPORARY IN HIGH SCHOOL AND A LOT OF TIMES, EVEN WHEN IN TODAY, IF PEOPLE DON'T SEE IT, THEY DON'T THINK IT'S HAPPENING.
- YEAH.
- SO A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STUCK ON THE FACT OF LIKE, WHERE'S THE MUSIC?
WHERE'S THE MUSIC?
WHERE'S THE MUSIC?
BUT I MEAN, WE, WE, WE DONE, DONE ALL THAT, WE DONE, DONE IT ALL.
I'VE GOT, WE'VE DONE IT.
AND SO ONCE YOU'VE MASTERED SOMETHING AND YOU WANT TO GO ONTO SOMETHING ELSE, YOU STILL DIBBLE AND DABBLE, LIKE ME.
I LOVE PERFORMING.
- YEAH.
- AND THAT'S WHY I STILL MAKE RECORDS BECAUSE I LIKE TO SEE THE PEOPLE SINGING THE NEW SONGS THAT COME FROM THESE THOUGHTS THAT I CREATED AT A, A CREDENZA AND STANKONIA, AND JUST KEEP MOVING IT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
BUT LIKE, MY MAN, LIKE DRE, DRE, LIKE HE COOL MAN.
BUT AS FAR AS OUR FRIENDSHIP, WHEN PEOPLE SAW US AT THE GAME, IT WAS LIKE, "OH MY GOD, THIS WARMS MY HEART THIS MAKE..." I MEAN, CAUSE WE LIKE EVERYBODY, LITTLE BROTHERS, UNCLES, WE STARTED 16, 17, WHEN YOU KNOW, YOU GOT RAPPERS GETTING ON NOW, 20 SOMETHING 30, IF THEY'RE GIVING ME THEIR REAL AGE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
WE REALLY STARTED OUT YOUNGSTERS WANT SOME REAL JEDI...
SO THEY NOW BE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, LIKE, MID-FORTIES, STILL HANDSOME, STRONG, WITH GOOD SKIN AND A STRONG BACK AND WE CAN WALK UP AND DOWN THE BLEACHERS AND SHARE OUR SONS, OH ACTUALLY, SEVEN, DRE'S SON IS MY GODSON, HE CAME TO THE GAME AS WELL TO SEE HIS GOD-BROTHER PLAY.
AND IT WAS JUST, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, MAN.
LIKE FLEW OUT, I THINK DRE MIGHT'VE BEEN AT THE HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS.
CAUSE UJ AIN'T GOT THAT MANY HOTELS.
I HAD TO RENT A CAR, PICK THEM UP, WENT TO THE GAME, JUST HAVE FUN, MAN, LIKE WE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
- JUST REGULAR DAD.
- COOL MAN, COOLING.
- WHAT'S COOL WITH ME IS I KNOW SOMEWHERE YOUR AUNT RENEE AND SOMEWHERE HIS MOTHER IS, ARE WATCHING BECAUSE THEY REALLY WERE STEWARDS OF THAT FRIENDSHIP AT THAT MOMENT.
I KNOW THEY'RE WATCHING LIKE PROUD.
- RIGHT, EXACTLY.
YOU KNOW MS. MS. B AND MY AUNT RENEE WERE LIKE OUR FIRST MANAGERS.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
SO UM.
WHEN MS. BE WAS TELLING ME, "ANTOINE, YOU GONNA PAY YOUR TAXES," WE WAS DOING SHOWS LIKE, HIS MOM WAS OUR ACCOUNTANT, BOOKKEEPING AND EVERYTHING "ANTOINE, YOU GOING PAY YOUR TAXES."
I'M LIKE "I GET IT NEXT TIME."
"ALL RIGHT."
YEAH.
SHE ALWAYS MADE SURE DRE PAID HIS TAXES.
I'M TALKING ABOUT, ABOUT, IT MIGHT'VE BEEN ABOUT THREE YEARS WENT BY.
"ANTOINE PEOPLE WANT YOU."
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED?
"YOU AIN'T PAID SON."
I WAS LIKE, "OKAY.
YEAH."
YEAH.
I HAD TO HAND MYSELF IN.
- SHE WAS THE, YEAH, I KNOW.
- INCREDIBLE.
I NEVER...
BUT YOU LIVE AND YOU LEARN, CAUSE I NEVER DONE THAT AGAIN.
- WHAT IS THE MARKER IN TERMS OF, WHEN YOU LOOK BACK TO SAY "I WAS 18, 19 YEARS OLD ATL AND 25 YEARS, STEAK ONLY 20 YEARS AGO, 4 CLASSIC RECORDS.
WHEN WE MADE "RUN THE JEWELS," IT WAS PREDICATED UPON, TO BE A REAL GROUP LIKE LED ZEPPELIN, LIKE ELITE PMD, LIKE OUTKAST, WE HAVE TO HAVE FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS.
SO RUN THE JEWELS, ONE, TWO, THREE AND FOUR ARE IN BIG PART INSPIRED BY THAT.
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO LOOK BACK NOW AND SAY, "THIS IS WHAT I DID 25 YEARS OLD OR THIS IS WHAT I DID 20 YEARS AGO."
AND THIS IS HOW IT STILL AFFECTS THE GAME BECAUSE WHEN YOU LISTEN TO, IN MY OPINION, KENDRICK'S FIRST MAJOR RELEASE, YOU CAN HEAR A DIRECT OUTKAST INFLUENCE.
WHEN YOU HEAR WAYNE'S BARS, AS HE GOT MORE ADVANCED AND BECAME THE GOAT OF HIS TIME, YOU CAN HEAR THOSE PATTERNS IN THERE.
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE LOOKING BACK AT THAT YOUNG MAN AND WHAT WOULD YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO HIM?
- I JUST, I BE IN AWE SOMETIMES MAN.
I TRY TO THINK BACK TO WHEN I WROTE CERTAIN SONGS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I KEEP ALL MY PADS, I GOT ALL MY PADS STILL TO THIS DAY WRITE LEGAL PADS.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
YELLOW LEGAL PAD, THE LONG, CAUSE I GOT A LOT TO SAY.
SO I, I'M LISTENING TO VERSES I GUESS, MATTER OF FACT, COMING UP HERE, WE WAS LISTENING TO "RETURN OF THE GANGSTERS", JUST CAME ON SHUFFLE.
THERE WAS, LOUD MUSTANG TRYING TO RACE ME WHEN I'M LISTENING TO SOME GANGSTER MUSIC MAN I JUST LOOK AT HIM LIKE HE WAS CRAZY, BRO.
BUT JUST, THE, I WAS JUST LIKE, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
IS THIS A YOUNG MAN?
I WAS LIKE, "MAN, I MEAN, YOU REALLY WAS BUILT FOR THIS AND THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE MADE FOR, YOU WERE BORN TO DO IT."
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
AND, BUT EVEN WITH ANYTHING THOUGH YOU, YOU STILL, YOU GOT TO EVOLVE AND BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF.
SO THAT'S WHY WE STAY RECORDING, MAKING JAMS, I MEAN, YOU GOTTA STAY ON TOP OF IT.
IF YOU DON'T USE IT THEN, MY THING IS YOU LOSE IT, OR YOU JUST DON'T GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
SO YOU WANT TO KEEP GOING.
- YOU ARE NOW, I'VE SEEN YOU IN MY LIFETIME.
I'VE SAW WHEN JORDAN WAS BORN.
- YUP.
- BAMBOO WAS BORN, CROSS WAS BORN.
SAW YOU BE A HECK OF A ROLE MODEL IN TERMS OF BALANCING, BEING AN ENTERTAINER AND A FATHER, HAVING AN AUBURN GRADUATE SOON TO HAVE AN OREGON GRADUATE.
- YEP.
- UM.
BAMBOO, WHO'S AT NYU.
- HE GO TO, THE NEW SCHOOL IN AH, IN NEW YORK, ARCHITECTURE, YEAH - HE HE'S GOING TO SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE, BUT MADE A PIT STOP AND HAD A, HAD A SON.
- DECOVIS, DECOVIS.
- YEAH, YEAH, THE CO... - DECOVIS - YEAH HE WAS CUDDLING ME DURING THE COVID, - YEAH, LIKE... - AND YOU ARE A GRANDPA NOW.
- I'D LIKE TO SAY POPPYSAN, - POPPYSAN, PAPA - POPPYSAN I CALL MYSELF THE RAN DADDY, - THE RAN, RAN DADDY, - THE RAN DADDY, THE RAN DADDY YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
- WHAT'S YOUR, WHAT'S THAT FEEL LIKE?
AND BECAUSE YOU'VE PAID SO MUCH ATTENTION TO FINANCIAL LITERACY AND FREEDOM, YOU HAVE A REAL LEGACY TO LEAVE.
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE, TO BE, TO BE A MAN?
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO KNOW THAT THE YEARS OF WORK I PUT IN, SINCE I WAS A CHILD ARE BENEFITING BEYOND MY CHILDREN?
- I AIN'T EVEN GONNA LIE, MAN.
IT IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
AT FIRST I WAS LIKE, "MAN, WHAT WHAT'S GOING ON?
OR WHATEVER, LIKE, OH MAN," I ALWAYS BE LIKE, "I DON'T WANT TO BE NO OLD LAG GRANDDADDY" BECAUSE OF A KID BE LIKE, "F...YOU DAD," I WANT TO GO SLAP, OUTTA HIM, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
LIKE, I CAN, I CAN CHASE HIM, - WE STILL ON PBS - OH DAMN MY BAD.
SO I CAN STILL CHASE HIM, I CAN YOKE HIM UP AND ALL THAT.
BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, TO BE YOUNG AND THEN HAVE MY BOY, AND THEN MY OTHER BOY AND MY OTHER BOY, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
TO LOOK AT IT AND LIKE, UM EUNICE, THAT'S HIS NAME, AND, IN HEBREW, IT MEANS "THE DOVE," YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
- EUNICE, IT MEANS "THE DOVE" - BUT HIS NAME IS ANTOINE EUNICE PATTON THE THIRD, - THAT'S ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.
- YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
SO HE IS LIKE, I THINK MY WIFE WAS LIKE, SHE SAID IT MAN, SHE'S LIKE "THAT BABY GONE MADE YOU NICE.
"(LAUGHS) SHE SAY "THAT BABY, DONE TURNED YOU BACK INTO A NICE PERSON."
I'M TALKING, I'M JUST IN THERE DOING ALL KINDS OF SILLY BABY, MAKE A BABY VIDEO.
- I'VE BEEN SEEING ON YOUR INSTAGRAM.
YOU MAKE A GOOFY FACE, YOU COOK IT.
- COOK IT, YEAH (BOTH TALKING) - IT'S FIRE MAN, I LEARNED HOW TO COOK MOSTLY THROUGH THE COVIDS.
LIKE, I JUST, BESIDES SITTING IN A SAUNA AND DOING, YOU KNOW, BANDS TO KEEP MY CHEST, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING RIGHT?
THE AIR FRYER AND I'VE PERFECTED MY LOBSTER RECIPE, BUT YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING THE KIDS AROUND AND BARBECUING EVERY WEEKEND WITH ROB THE BARBER AND JUST HAVING FUN, MAN, HAVING FAMILY TIME, EVEN DOING BIBLE STUDY AT HOME WHICH HAS BEEN COOL, MAN.
- YOU TRULY BECOME A PATRIARCH.
BESIDES FAMILY THOUGH, WHAT I'VE SEEN YOU DO, AND I REMIND PEOPLE ALWAYS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I TELL PEOPLE GETTING ON A RECORD WITH YOU AND YOU AND DRE WAS ALWAYS A CHALLENGE 'CAUSE YOU'RE NOT GON' OUT SMOOTH DRE, AND YOU CAN'T OUT COOL YOU.
YOU KNOW, I GOT A LINE WHERE I SAY "I'M COOL AS PENGUIN PUNANI ON A POLAR CAP PENINSULA."
AND AS GOOD AS THAT LINE IS, IT IS JUST AN ATTEMPT TO BE AS COOL AS SAYING "I'M COOLER THAN A POLAR BEARS TOENAILS."
OH YEAH.
WHEN YOU SAID THAT LINE I CAN JUST REMEMBER MY BRAIN EXPLODING.
LIKE ONE DAY YOU HAVE TO DO THAT, RIGHT?
BUT YOUR CONTINUATION OF MUSIC HAS KEPT MANY PEOPLE EMPLOYED.
IT HAS KEPT ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST DJS, DJ ENVY AND DJ SWIFT.
IT HAS KEPT THE BAND AND THE PLAYERS AROUND YOU, IT HAS KEPT THE PRODUCTION CREW, IT HAS KEPT A STUDIO OPEN.
YOU HAVE BEEN PUSHING FORWARD WITH NOT ONLY YOUR CAREER, BUT HELPING ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE SIMPLY BY BEING YOU.
AND HERE YOU HAVE ANOTHER NEW ALBUM COMING CALLED THE BIG SLEEP OVER WHERE YOU AND YOUR MENTOR, SLEEPY BROWN OF ORGANIZED NOIZE PRODUCTION, RICO WADE, RAY MURRAY AND SLEEPY BROWN, NOW HAVE MESHED THE WHOLE NEW SOUND.
- YUP.
- I'M ON THE ALBUM A COUPLE OF TIMES, - YEAH, THREE TO BE EXACT.
- THREE TIMES, AND YOU'RE DROPPING ANOTHER RECORD.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE DROPPING A NEW RECORD IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, WHAT'S IT LIKE TO STILL BE REVERED AFTER SO LONG, AND WHAT KEEPS YOU EXCITED TO MAKE NEW MUSIC?
- YOU BEING THERE WITH ME.
YOU KNOW IT KEEP ME INSIDE, RAPPING WITH YOU, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
LIKE YOU SAID ABOUT THE PUSH, LIKE, THAT'S HOW ME AND YOU, THE CHEMISTRY IS LIKE FROM KILL JILL TO THE WHOLE WORLD TO ANY OTHER RECORD WE HAVE DONE, LIKE WE PUSH EACH OTHER, MAN.
IT'S LIKE LUKE SKYWALKER DARTH VADER WITH THE LIGHTSABERS JUST GOING BACK TO THE FORTH AND THAT GOING TO BE JAMMING THAT MUCH HARDER.
HENCE WE GOT LOWER CASE, SUCKA FREE, RETURN OF THE DOPE BOY, I MEAN WHEN PEOPLE ASK ABOUT THE ALBUM, THEY'D BE LIKE, 'YEAH, SO WHO ALL Y'ALL GOT ON THE HOUSE?'
'KILLER MIKE.'
(LAUGHS) 'WHO ELSE?'
'KILLER MIKE'.
WE DON'T NEED NOBODY ELSE, MAN.
- I AM A PART OF THIS NEXT QUESTION.
I TELL PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, IF I'M IN A ROOM WITH YOU AND YOU SAY I'M THIRSTY, I'M NOT GOING TO LOOK AROUND I'M JUST GOING TO GO UP AND GET YOU SOME WATER.
AND THE REASON I DO THAT IS BECAUSE YOU TRULY HAVE BEEN A LEADER IN MY LIFE AND I CONSIDER MYSELF A PART OF YOUR LEGACY.
SO, I WANT TO REPRESENT THAT LEGACY WELL.
WHAT OUTKAST DID, WHAT ORGANIZED NOIZE DID, WHAT THE DUNGEON FAMILY DID, AND WHAT YOU PERSONALLY SHOWED ME BY TAKING ME UNDER YOUR WING.
WHAT IS YOUR LEGACY PAST MAKING AN AMAZING RECORD, HAVING AN AMAZING SOLO CAREER, OR WHAT DO YOU VALUE MOST ABOUT YOUR LEGACY AND WHAT IS IT?
- I THINK IT'S ALL ABOUT INTEGRITY, HONOR, RESPECT AND UPLIFTING OUR PEOPLE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT THE UPLIFTMENT OF OUR PEOPLE AND IN A SENSE, YOU KNOW, BEING FROM A SINGLE PARENT HOME, I WANT IT TO BE AN EXAMPLE TO MY KIDS TO BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL GOT A MAMA AND A DADDY AND TO RAISE THEM UP AND HAVE THREE KIDS AT THREE PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES DOING GREAT, AND THEN I GOT MY GRAND BOY NOW, WHICH HE HAS ME AND HIS DADDY IN THE HOUSE WITH HIM.
SO HE GOT TWO STRONG MEN, AND GOT GRANDMAMMAS AND GREAT GRANDMAMMA'S YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
MY MOM IS A GREAT-GRANDMAMMA NOW.
- I CAN'T BELIEVE, SHE STILL LOOKS- - YEAH.
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
YEAH.
YEAH.
YOU CAN'T CALL HER THAT THOUGH.
- [KILLER MIKE] (LAUGHS) - BUT, JUST THE LEGACY IS JUST, YOU KNOW, TO ACTUALLY SECURE THE BAG, IS THAT WHAT THEY SAY?
- [KILLER MIKE] YEAH.
- WEALTH ACCUMULATION AND THE PRESERVATION OF WEALTH.
- WHEN PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF A CITY, ATLANTA WAS ALREADY A CONVENTION CITY.
- RIGHT.
- WE HAD CONVENTION HALLS, WE HAD A BUNCH OF HOTELS, BUT YOU GUYS REALLY BROUGHT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HERE WITH, IN TERMS OF LAFACE HARBORING YOU GUYS, WITH TLC, OUTKAST, WITH YOU GUYS COMING HERE THAT BROUGHT OTHER PEOPLE HERE, A WEALTH OF TALENT, AND IT BUILT WHAT FORBES MAGAZINE CALLS THE NUMBER ONE CULTURAL EXPORT OF AMERICA, HIP HOP AND R AND B, THE CORNERSTONE OF IT NOW RESTS FIRMLY IN ATLANTA.
SO TWO 17 YEAR OLD KIDS FROM TRI CITY HIGH SCHOOL ONE HAD TO GO TO NIGHT SCHOOL, ONE FINISHED ON THE ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL.
YOU GUYS HAVE CREATED, ESSENTIALLY, A CORNERSTONE IN INDUSTRY THAT HAS BECOME A MULTI BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY AND THEN OUR POLITICIANS GOT SMART AND SAY, 'MAN, IF THESE TAX CREDIT THINGS WORKING IN CALIFORNIA, MAYBE WE NEED TO DO IT AND TO GET THE MOVIES HERE TOO.'
SO IN AN OFFSHOOT WAY, EVEN YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING MOVIES HERE TOO, BECAUSE YOU'VE SHOWN THIS STATE THAT WE CAN MAKE A LOT MORE MONEY WITH ENTERTAINMENT, NOT JUST PECANS AND PEANUTS AND COTTON.
- THAT'S THAT TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT, MAN.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
YOU NEVER REALLY NOTICED IT UNTIL TIME GOES BY AND THEN YOU START SEEING ARTICLES AND READING, AND THEN THE, FACTS YOU JUST BROUGHT UP NOW, THAT'S REAL, MAN.
- WHAT ADVICE DO WE GIVE?
OR DO YOU, I KNOW WHAT ADVICE YOU GAVE ME.
YOU KNOW, YOU TOLD ME THAT TO TAKE CARE OF MY BAG, TO WATCH MY FINANCES.
- YUP.
- YOU TOLD ME NOT TO CHASE TRENDS IN TERMS OF MUSICALLY OR WITH JEWELRY AND CARS, 'CAUSE YOU KNEW I WAS A CAR NUT, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU LET ME KNOW, YOU KNOW, AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH A PRE-OWNED 'TIL YOU GET ON.
- RIGHT, RIGHT, FOR SURE.
(LAUGHS) - WHAT ADVICE DO YOU GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE?
- FIRST, AS FAR AS YOUR CRAFT, I THINK YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EVOLVE.
I'M GOING TO KEEP SAYING EVOLUTION, LIKE, ALWAYS BECOME A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF EVERY TIME, DON'T NEVER GO BACK.
I MEAN YOU CAN KIND OF STUDY YOUR PAST AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING, BUT ALWAYS LOOK TO WHAT THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE.
PUSH YOURSELF, AND DON'T BE RECYCLING YOUR OWN LINES, I DON'T LIKE THAT.
FINANCIALLY WISE, PAY TAXES FIRST, GET YOU SOME KEY INVESTMENTS, MY MAIN THING RIGHT NOW IS REAL ESTATE.
I'M A CAR GUY TOO, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
EVERY WEEK, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
I MEAN, I STILL GOT ALL THAT, BUT, APPRECIATING ASSETS LIKE REAL ESTATE.
THEY AIN'T ABOUT TO MAKE NO MORE LAND.
SO GET YOUR HANDS ON THAT, EVEN IF IT'S JUST DIRT AND HOLD IT, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
THAT'S GOING TO APPRECIATE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
I'M STILL STUDYING THAT CRYPTO GAME.
- [KILLER MIKE] YEAH.
- I GOT INTO SOME GOOD STARTUPS, I GOT IN ON LYFT AND RING REAL EARLY, SO.
WITH CEELO, AND A SHOUT OUT CAMINO AND THE CEELO, WE GOT, WHAT, ABOUT 70, 80 COMPANIES WE IN RIGHT NOW.
- [KILLER MIKE] YEAH.
- AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY, MAN.
- [KILLER MIKE] YEAH.
- THAT'S FOR REAL.
- I JUST GOTTA SAY, MAN, YOU HELPED ME IN UNDERSTAND TRULY THE SPIRIT OF LOVE AND RESPECT.
YOU AND I HAD A BUTTING OF HEADS AND DISAGREEMENTS, WASN'T BAD, - IT WASN'T EVEN, IT WASN'T YOU AND I, IT WAS- - THE PERCEPTION OF YOU AND I, 'CAUSE WE THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE.
BUT I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER CALLING ME SAYING 'THIS IS NOT RIGHT, MAKE IT GOOD.'
I REMEMBER JOHN LEWIS CALLING ME AND SAYING, 'THIS IS NOT RIGHT, MAKING IT GOOD.'
BUT THE MOST EFFECTIVE 'I THINK THIS IS NOT RIGHT, MAKE IT GOOD' CAME FROM CROSS AS A LITTLE BOY, HE MIGHT'VE BEEN ONE OR TWO YEARS OLD, BUT HE SAYS, 'DADDY, YOU AND KILLER MIKE ARE MAD AT EACH OTHER, I DON'T LIKE THAT.'
- YEAH.
- AND THAT LED US TO MEET IN A PARKING LOT, TALKING UP AND PUT US BACK ON THE PATHWAY.
AND I SAY THAT AT RAP, BECAUSE THIS SHOW WAS STARTED WITH THE SPIRIT OF LOVE AND RESPECT.
WHAT RETURNED US TO A PATH OF TRUE BROTHERHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP WAS PUTTING OUR EGOS ASIDE AND GETTING ON THE PATHWAY TO LOVE AND RESPECT.
AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR CHANGING MY LIFE, AS I WRAP THIS SHOW, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF WHAT A MUSICIAN AND A MAN CAN BE, AND I'D LIKE TO LOVINGLY AND RESPECTFULLY SAY, I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU ALWAYS FOR THAT.
IT'S BEEN A HELL OF A TIME.
- I LOVE YOU, MAN.
- I LOVE YOU.
- HEY MAN, KEEP DOING YOU, MAN.
KEEP DOING, YOU, KEEP DOING YOU.
ONE THING I CAN SAY, MAN, TWO OF MY MOST PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT IN MUSIC WAS SIGNING YOU AND SIGNING JANELLE MONáE.
- [KILLER MIKE] ABSOLUTELY.
- THE POTENTIAL IN WHICH I'VE DONE FOR MUSIC, LIKE IN THE WAY YOU EXPANDED THE THINGS FROM DOING YOUR SOLO TO RUN THE JEWELS, AND NOW YOU SHOW LOVE AND RESPECT, I TOLD YOU TO DO EVERYTHING.
- YOU DID.
- DO EVERYTHING.
SWAG SHOP AND PHILLIPS ARENA, WE GON' BE THERE TOMORROW (TOGETHER) OPENING NIGHT.
WE AIN'T GOTTA GET NO HAIRCUT, WE'LL BE AT THE SNACK BAR.
- ABSOLUTE.
- KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
- LOVE AND RESPECT.
- [BIG BOI] APPRECIATE IT, MAN.
- [ANNOUNCER] LOVE AND RESPECT WITH KILLER MIKE IS MADE POSSIBLE BY: - GINA APPROACHES THE ALL-ELECTRIC CADILLAC LYRIC IT'S A SUNNY DAY.
- NAH, A STORMY DAY.
- CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS.
- UH MMM BRASS BAND, NEW ORLEANS.
♪♪ - SHE DRIVES HANDS-FREE ALONG THE COAST.
- MAKE IT PALM SPRINGS.
CADILLAC IS GOING ELECTRIC.
IF YOU WANT TO BE BOLD, YOU HAVE TO GO OFF SCRIPT.
- EXPERIENCE THE ALL-ELECTRIC CADILLAC LYRIQ.
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