INTERVIEW: Key Glock Talks 'Glockaveli,' Returning To Music, Young Dolph, Mother's Incarceration + More

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club ft. Key Glock

Episode Title: INTERVIEW: Key Glock Talks 'Glockaveli,' Returning To Music, Young Dolph, Mother's Incarceration + More
Release Date: April 25, 2025
Host: DJ Envy, Jess “Just Hilarious” Giddings, Charlamagne Tha God
Guest: Key Glock

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1. Introduction to Key Glock and 'Glockavelli'

The episode opens with DJ Envy introducing Key Glock as the special guest, highlighting the anticipation surrounding his upcoming album, 'Glockavelli,' set to release on May 2nd. Just Hilarious comments on the album's hype, referencing Pitchfork's praise, while Charlamagne Tha God adds humor by calling it potentially more "devilish" than anticipated.

Just Hilarious [02:56]: "Somebody said that this was one of the most anticipated albums of spring 2025."

2. Meaning Behind 'Glockavelli'

The conversation delves into the inspiration for the album title, drawing parallels to Machiavelli—a nod to Tupac's influence.

Charlamagne Tha God [03:16]: "So what is it then?"
DJ Envy [03:19]: "It come from Machiavelli for sure, but it's not. I didn't like all the Way Copy Pac style."

Key Glock probes further into the title's significance, seeking clarity on its connection to Young Dolph and personal influences.

Key Glock [03:15]: "Like Machiavelli. Is it a playoff? Of course. Pac's Machiavelli or. Nah, little bit, maybe."

3. Maturation in Music and Personal Growth

Key Glock observes a shift in Key Glock’s music towards more mature themes. DJ Envy confirms this evolution, attributing it to his personal experiences and growth.

Key Glock [04:08]: "So what do you mean, more mature? What are you talking about?"
DJ Envy [04:18]: "It's just like everything is brought to the light more now. Everything is bolder."

DJ Envy shares that taking a break to focus on his personal life, including fatherhood, has influenced the depth and maturity of his new work.

DJ Envy [05:19]: "I took a break last year and I was just taking care of everything, like, far as my personal life and at home."

4. Balancing Fatherhood and Career

Charlamagne Tha God brings up DJ Envy’s role as a new father, prompting a heartfelt discussion on balancing fatherhood with his career.

Charlamagne Tha God [05:19]: "Was it because you was a new father? Cause, what, your daughter's, what, three now, right?"
DJ Envy [05:26]: "It was taking time to be a father, man. Being a great son, you know what I'm saying?"

5. Legacy and Influence of Young Dolph

The hosts reflect on the profound impact Young Dolph had on Key Glock’s career and personal life. They discuss Dolph’s mentorship and the foundational values he instilled, such as loyalty and strategic thinking.

Charlamagne Tha God [10:43]: "I saw you signed with Republic Records, right? Did you think about Dolph when you did that?"
DJ Envy [10:59]: "If anything go left. Like, if anything happened to me, take Glock to Republic, to the major."

DJ Envy emphasizes that signing with Republic Records was a decision made in line with Young Dolph’s vision, honoring his legacy.

DJ Envy [10:31]: "Like, a week before he passed in Memphis, him, Daddy O and a couple of more of our circle had a roundtable talk."

6. Trust, Loyalty, and Family Dynamics

A significant portion of the interview focuses on the themes of trust and loyalty, both in personal relationships and within the music industry. DJ Envy shares his struggle with trust following the loss of Young Dolph and the importance of loyalty over mere expressions of love.

DJ Envy [12:43]: "You can't prove love. Like you can tell somebody all day, but you can show your loyalty."

Key Glock and Charlamagne probe deeper into how these values shape DJ Envy’s interactions and decision-making processes.

Key Glock [13:05]: "How old are you?"
Just Hilarious [13:07]: "I'm 33."
DJ Envy [13:08]: "Young as hell."

7. Dealing with Family Challenges and Incarceration

DJ Envy opens up about his challenging upbringing, including his mother's incarceration and its emotional toll. He recounts how these experiences influenced his music and personal development.

DJ Envy [19:02]: "I was an angry kid only because my pops weren't in my life. My mom, she was already incarcerated away from me."

The hosts explore how these hardships have been transformed into creative expression and personal resilience.

Charlamagne Tha God [19:23]: "So did you ever resent your mom for that? Like, get mad at her?"
DJ Envy [19:29]: "Yeah, of course. Cause I was young. I was like, it's your fault that you not with me."

8. Future Projects and Visuals

The discussion shifts towards DJ Envy’s plans for visual projects and short films, inspired by Young Dolph’s own ventures into filmmaking. He expresses a desire to create his own content rather than relying on others.

Just Hilarious [25:14]: "Did you ever think about doing short films? Just, like, movies, anything like that?"
DJ Envy [25:20]: "Yeah. I think I'm gonna have to write my own. Do my own shit. Cause I ain't finna wait on nobody."

9. Protecting Young Dolph’s Legacy

DJ Envy underscores the importance of safeguarding Young Dolph’s legacy through his artistic and personal choices. He aligns his actions with the principles Dolph instilled in him, ensuring that his mentor’s influence remains integral to his work.

DJ Envy [14:18]: "We think the same way. Like, before I even do certain stuff, I ask myself, what would bro do?"

10. Closing Remarks and Album Launch

As the interview concludes, DJ Envy teases the release of his new single, "The Grinch," and reiterates the album launch date, encouraging listeners to engage with his upcoming projects.

DJ Envy [28:28]: "So make sure you pick up the album, pick up tickets, and it's the Breakfast Club. It's Key Glock."
Charlamagne Tha God [28:42]: "Wake that ass up early in the morning."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Just Hilarious [02:56]: "Somebody said that this was one of the most anticipated albums of spring 2025."
• DJ Envy [03:19]: "It come from Machiavelli for sure, but it's not. I didn't like all the Way Copy Pac style."
• DJ Envy [05:19]: "I took a break last year and I was just taking care of everything, like, far as my personal life and at home."
• Charlamagne Tha God [12:43]: "You can't prove love. Like you can tell somebody all day, but you can show your loyalty."
• DJ Envy [19:02]: "I was an angry kid only because my pops weren't in my life. My mom, she was already incarcerated away from me."

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Conclusion

In this heartfelt and candid episode, DJ Envy opens up about his personal struggles, growth, and the profound influence of Young Dolph on his life and career. Key Glock engages thoughtfully, drawing out stories that highlight themes of loyalty, resilience, and the transformative power of mentorship. Listeners gain an intimate look into DJ Envy's journey, setting the stage for the highly anticipated release of 'Glockavelli.'

Transcript

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[Charlamagne tha God]

Wake that ass up early in the morning.

[Key Glock]

The Breakfast Club Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Key Glock, ladies and gentlemen.

[Just Hilarious]

What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Yo.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yo, how you doing, my brother?

[Key Glock]

How you feeling?

[DJ Envy]

Chilling. I'm chilling.

[Charlamagne tha God]

New album, Glockavelli, May 2nd.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How you feeling? First of all, I ain't gonna lie.

[DJ Envy]

I'm anxious, okay. I'm ready just to hear what people.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Say about the music or.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, just overall, I'm ready to put it out.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Somebody said that this was one of the most anticipated albums of spring 2025.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think Pitchfork said that.

[DJ Envy]

Pitchfork, yeah. For sure. More devil, I think, of the year, though.

[Key Glock]

Like lachavelli. Is it a playoff? Of course. Pac's Machiavelli or. Nah, little bit, maybe.

[DJ Envy]

Maybe.

[Key Glock]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Key Glock]

So where the title come from?

[Charlamagne tha God]

So what is it then?

[DJ Envy]

It come from Machiavelli for sure, but it's not. I didn't like all the Way Copy Pac style.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You mean the actual Machiavelli? You were studying that?

[DJ Envy]

No, I didn't study it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Pac did. Like, a lot of people don't even know about the Prince Machiavelli, but I know about it. Cause I knew about Pac. I read about Pac.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, you have a personal connection to the Dear Mama song because your mom was in jail. Okay, so we hear about that in Galactavelli. Or no.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, you ain't heard about that.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, so it ain't really over.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Nah, not this song.

[Just Hilarious]

What can we expect different from this album?

[DJ Envy]

I ain't gonna lie. It's like. It's more mature. It's like I made more mature music this time on this album than just fun YM music.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

So we got some mature features.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, I ain't got that, though. We ain't got that yet. Not yet.

[Key Glock]

So what do you mean, more mature? What are you talking about? You talking about more about your life more what's going on?

[DJ Envy]

Lesser clubs. It's just like everything is brought to the light more now. Everything is bolder.

[Key Glock]

You had a crazy couple of years. Are you bleeding that into the music of everything, your feelings and all that that your fans?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, for sure. On this tape. Yeah. It's gonna be a lot of that. It's gonna be a lot of that.

[Key Glock]

Was it difficult to do? Cause you don't talk that much, so you don't really express your feelings. We know your music, we know your cars, we know your jewelry, your sneakers. But we don't know Key Glock unless he, you know, fills us in Only reason was.

[DJ Envy]

Well, the only reason why I made songs like this on this tape is because I took a break last year and I was just taking care of everything, like, far as my personal life and at home. And like, I couldn't do that by being on the road and in the studio the whole year all the time. So I had to take a pause, like on music and get myself together. So while I was getting myself together, everything was just hitting harder. So. Yeah, so you said.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Was it because you was a new father? Cause, what, your daughter's, what, three now, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, she three. She just turned three.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So you was taking the time to be a father. What you was.

[DJ Envy]

It was there. It was taking time to be a father, man. Being a great son, you know what I'm saying? A loyal friend. Just everything I had to just tighten up, basically.

[Key Glock]

But you did that break when your record was at its peak, like, well, let's go. Was. Was really. You kind of took a break because it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, let's go to.

[Key Glock]

I feel like it was just. It just kept going. It never stopped you sitting on some paper too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

If you could take a year break.

[DJ Envy]

Bro, take a two year break.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what's up. So you said you. This, this is more mature. So obviously you're. You did some. A little bit of deep diving. Because on the song Grinch, you say, I've been running wild since the JIT. 14 turned into the Grinch. What happened in your life around 14 that influenced that?

[DJ Envy]

I just thought I was grown. I just. That's when I really was like, full blown in the streets. I thought I was grown already. I was 14, but I thought I was like 24.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Key Glock]

I always wanted to ask, right? And God rest the dead, when you put a bat to Dolph's.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Cause God bless the dad.

[Key Glock]

God bless the dad. Was that real or was that y'all just doing it? Cause you broke his windows. I'm like, nah, cousins and no cousins, family. No family owe me five minutes after it was real.

[DJ Envy]

But it's like when you having fun, like, with money, it's like. And money just a material to us. Like, we don't idolize this shit. We don't too much care for this shit. Like, we know how to make it. We know it's gonna come back.

[Key Glock]

So, bro, you took a baseball bat and broke his windows?

[DJ Envy]

That wasn't nothing, bro. Trust me. It might look like it was. So I know you got a lot of cars, too, but I know how.

[Key Glock]

Much windshields cost and the windows Cost.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You looking at Instagram like, I'm going to get my bat one day and take the journey.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, he ain't gave me no reason to.

[Just Hilarious]

That's the shit y'all just laugh about.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we really do. It's a lot of stuff that just go on that don't even be on camera. Like, we. It's just. It's just tough love. Me and all my homeboys.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, we had Ryan Coogler up here last week. You know, he's the guy that just wrote and produced Sinners, Movie, Creed, Black Panther, and both of us out. Like, for the last at least month, I've been on Dolph so heavy. I've just been listening to Mad Dolph music. And he was on the same wave. And I was just like, what is going on? Energetically, that just People on Dolph now.

[DJ Envy]

Bro just had a good spirit. And it's like, when you got a good spirit like that, no matter where you at, no matter if you here or not here, it's like your spirit is gonna live on through people. So that's why I feel like that.

[Key Glock]

You feel like people credit Dolph and Pre for what they've done for artists and definitely for the sound of Memphis. Doing car shows with Dolph and the family in Pre, you get a different experience. Cause you see the inside workings on how they move and how they're. So as a unit. Do you feel like people don't get to see that as much?

[DJ Envy]

It's like they know, but it's like they don't see it as much. But I ain't gonna lie. The way the type of person Dolph was, he made sure every year, like, far as Thanksgiving or back to school, if he wasn't doing it, I was doing it. If I wasn't doing it, another artist was doing it. So it was like it was all the same thing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I saw you signed with Republic Records, right? Did you think about Dolph when you did that? He was like, okay, what would bro do right now? Like, would he want me to sign the Republic? Would he want me to stay independent? Cause I remember you also said you didn't want to sign until you accomplished a lot independently, right?

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So what were the things that made you solidify? You know what? Now's the time to sign the Republic.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't gonna lie. Don't nobody even know this. I'm gonna drop a bomb on y'all. The week. The week before Daw passed in Memphis, him, Daddy O and A Couple of more of our circle just had, you know, just. Just regular talk. Just had a roundtable talk. And she was so crazy. Dog says, like, if anything go left. Like, if anything happened to me, take Glock to. You know what I'm saying? To Republic, to the major. Yeah. Cause there was always me and him in talks anyway. Like, I never wanted to be the biggest independent artist. This was his thing. Like, it was his stilo. I never wanted to take that away, but we always knew how much money we could make with a major, so this why I really kind of did it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, so you already. In your mind, you already had his blessing? You already knew what it was?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah. It was gonna happen anyway. It just wasn't rushed or forced. Like, it wasn't even needed now. It just was. Okay. I know Bro wanted me to do this. Like, he didn't. He didn't say it for no reason. And it. Like, it wasn't no coincidence. He said it, like, a week before. You know what I'm saying? So. Like that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And it's still. It's still Paper Route, though. You saw it?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So you did. Is it a label deal with Paper.

[DJ Envy]

Route Partnership got you for sure. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What does the paper route family like this mean to you?

[DJ Envy]

What you just said? Family.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. It ain't just a business. It's really deeper than rap, bro. Yeah, deeper than rap.

[Key Glock]

Yeah. I think most people don't know, even when. When you talk about family, even when you're an extended family, when you. When you out with them, it's like, if. If one get in the problem, they all get in the problem. If one's spending money, they all spending money. If one's eating, they all eating. And that's one thing I don't think people really see that I got a chance to see now with this album. Charlamagne was talking about this record, and I didn't hear this record. What is Nigga Balls?

[Just Hilarious]

I heard Diddy's on that. What?

[DJ Envy]

He said what is who?

[Just Hilarious]

He said, who's on it?

[DJ Envy]

Hold on. What you say the song called?

[Just Hilarious]

Man, that nigga said Diddy on Nigga Balls.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, I ain't even hear the Diddy part.

[Key Glock]

I heard it says trackless songs that are available. No sweat. The Grinch, 3am in Tokyo and Balls.

[Just Hilarious]

And then. And then they said he on Constipated Balls.

[Key Glock]

There's no song called.

[DJ Envy]

He Laughing Too Hard.

[Key Glock]

You set that up.

[DJ Envy]

You had something, dude, he ain't got.

[Just Hilarious]

No song on there called Constipated.

[DJ Envy]

Poor Ball Joe he laughing too hard.

[Just Hilarious]

This nigga is an idiot.

[DJ Envy]

I see.

[Key Glock]

I said, what the is about?

[DJ Envy]

I said, this don't even make sense.

[Just Hilarious]

I said, oh, he taking a different route. When he said, more mature, that's what I was.

[DJ Envy]

Man, y'all getting out. Hold on now. Hello.

[Key Glock]

You set this up?

[Just Hilarious]

CEO, you set this up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you did.

[Just Hilarious]

You look at his dumb ass.

[DJ Envy]

I got something for y'all, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I ain't had nothing to do with that. Oh, my God. I do want to expound on something you said, though. Like, you said that loyalty is an important value for you. And you prioritize that over love. Can you explain it?

[DJ Envy]

You can't prove love. Like you can tell somebody all day, but you can show your loyalty. You can prove your lords. That's real.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, like, with actions.

[Key Glock]

With actions, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, for sure. By the way you move.

[Just Hilarious]

How old are you?

[DJ Envy]

How old are you? Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, damn. You're young as hell. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

What that mean, you young?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm 33.

[DJ Envy]

Young as hell. Young as hell.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's something that Dolph told you? That didn't hit at the time, but it makes all the sense in the.

[DJ Envy]

World now, man, we can't rush and put this music out. I never understood this shit. Like, my first two, three years in the game.

[Key Glock]

He was strategic with his.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I never understood it at first. Cause I was recording so much. As soon as I record this shit, I'm ready to put it out. But I didn't understand the industry at the time like I do now. Yeah, now.

[Key Glock]

They said you got a lot of records with him before he passes. They had planned to do a.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Please, man, I need some. I need some. What's the plan for all that.

[DJ Envy]

Is in route? I'm just let y'all know. It's in rap. It's in route.

[Key Glock]

Full project, full album.

[DJ Envy]

It's in route. It's in route.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How do you know when.

[DJ Envy]

Really, it ain't. It ain't up to me. You ask me, I drop a tape every month. That's how music I. That's how much music I got. But you just gotta. You just gotta be strategic with stuff.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How do you protect, you know, Dolph's legacy in the decisions you make now, musically and personally?

[DJ Envy]

We think the same way. Like, before I even do certain stuff, I. I say to myself, I ask myself, what would bro do? Or I just go with my gut. Because nine times out of ten, it's this God let me know. So I ain't gonna go against it. So I'd be straight. Yeah, I'll be straight.

[Just Hilarious]

The fact that you have a three year old daughter, how does that impact the music for you? Cause she, I know she talking now. She's starting to talk. Well, of course she talking now. And you know you breaking things down, so I know she daddy's girl. How does that impact your music?

[DJ Envy]

I ain't gonna lie, it don't affect my music too much because like my lifestyle is gonna always be my lifestyle. And I don't want her to just know her daddy is all the way is like Glock basically. She know I'm an artist or whatever, but she don't, she don't know what I'm rapping about right now. You get what I'm saying? So it's like, it's just, it's just all fun of her. She don't even know I'm a celebrity. She just. I'm dead at. So, yeah.

[Key Glock]

When you're moving around, do you feel, you see everything that's going on? Especially in Memphis and anywhere really Louisiana and Atlanta? Do you feel safe being an artist?

[DJ Envy]

I ain't gonna lie, bro. Ain't nowhere safe. You gotta be on point wherever you go. Like, even if you in Denver, Colorado, you can't let your guard down nowhere. You just never know, even if it's not meant for you. Just happened. Nowadays, like world crazy happening. Churches, movie theaters, schools, it don't matter. So like just, you just gotta be prepared. All I can say, does Memphis.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Does Memphis feel like. And like you said, no place is safe. But does Memphis feel like home still?

[DJ Envy]

Does it feel like it's always home? It's like. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It's nothing. I just know when like for me to go down there is really no reason, you know what I'm saying? My family ain't even there no more. If I go down there, it's strictly for business.

[Key Glock]

To give him back or. Give him back.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, business. Yeah, for sure.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So you got everybody up out of there?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I've been gone. I don't know what people be thinking. Like when I graduated, once I got out of high school, that next year, Dolph asked me to come to Atlanta with him and that's what I did. So like I, I've been out of Memphis. I just, I just don't let everybody in on my business. Basically.

[Key Glock]

You feel like Memphis is a place where they don't like to see their own.

[DJ Envy]

Oh yeah, we, we crabs in the bucket for sure. Until you get to a certain extent, you know what I'M saying.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, that's interesting you said that, because I always see people give you props for having a great ear for beats that fit into, like, that Memphis trap sound.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So how do you maintain that being that you're not there no more?

[DJ Envy]

It's. It's really in me, bro. I ain't gonna lie. This. This. I got years of. Of music in me, like, from my grandma, uncles. It's just like, all type of music, all type of sounds just. Just stuck with me. That's why I got, like, just a good ear for this. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And when you say you making more mature music, what is that? What is that look like?

[Key Glock]

What does it sound like?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it's not as. It's not as young no more. Like, it's. It's the things that I'm talking about. I'm not just talking about materials as much as I like how I did at first, basically. Yeah. All right.

[Just Hilarious]

So does this sound familiar to you? I got balls, yeah I'm so bold Running through the town Look, I'm not ready ain't playing your face look at this.

[Key Glock]

It's all genius.

[Just Hilarious]

This is you balls like it's soon as it pop out.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Glocking this.

[DJ Envy]

That's a edit.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, that's a edit. Oh, so they ain't even make that.

[DJ Envy]

Some y'all did that.

[Just Hilarious]

How the I do this?

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Just Hilarious]

Genius.com is not.

[DJ Envy]

I know y'all some genius. He can't even keep his smile in over here.

[Israel Gutierrez]

Smile.

[DJ Envy]

His man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He the time to set it up.

[Just Hilarious]

Yo, this will take a lot of time for me to do. I ain't do this. He's the type to set it up dumb.

[Key Glock]

Wait for somebody to ask a question. He's that type.

[Just Hilarious]

I would not play with you like that. This probably did. This.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Be so stupid if he said what. Let me say so put ball there.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody else but you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I like the single the Grinch, right? Was there a period where you were feeling like that? Like, you was feeling, like, I guess just bitter and disgruntled and angry?

[DJ Envy]

I was an angry kid, bro. I was an angry kid only because, like, my pops weren't in my life. Like, I knew him, but he wasn't being the father. And my mom, she was already incarcerated away from me, so I was raised by my grandmama and my great grandmama. So it's like, only so much they can teach me. You know what I'm saying?

[Just Hilarious]

So did you ever resent your mom for that? Like, get mad at her?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, of Course. Cause I was young. I was like. I was like. I don't even know what she did at the time. I think I was like nine. I was like. I was like, it's your fault that you not with me. Like, I'm just. I was just basically just growing up and maturing, but I was still, like, pissed off a kid, you know what I'm saying? So I'm like. I'm having football games. I got shit at school. I'm seeing niggas, mamas and daddies pulling up, you know what I'm saying? And supporting like, I'm one of the star players and shit. But, like, my. It's cool how my grandma pulling up, but it's like, I wanted that. That feeling of my mother to see this shit, like, you know what I'm saying?

[Just Hilarious]

So where are y'all relationship today?

[DJ Envy]

Best friends backbone.

[Key Glock]

I see. I good now.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

[Key Glock]

So you forgave her? You understood?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, of course. Of course. I was just. I was just young, bro. I didn't understand. I didn't understand.

[Key Glock]

How long did that take? To forgive her? To understand? When you had your first kid or.

[DJ Envy]

I was like 13 or 14. I didn't know about no state and feds and stuff. At that young of an age, bro, I just knew I had to go visit her every. Every week or every other week. This building with barbed wire everywhere. My grandma taking me, and we gotta go through metal detectives. And, like, I remember shit like yesterday.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What did they tell you? Did they tell you that you was actually visiting her in jail? Did they say something like, oh, she's just.

[DJ Envy]

No, I wasn't like, we're going to see your mama.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I ain't say nothing about no barbed wires. I really didn't.

[Just Hilarious]

Really didn't know.

[DJ Envy]

I wouldn't know. I wasn't studying that shit.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Your mind, you're like, why you rather be here than with me at home?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. It's like once I got older, it start registering. It's like something ain't right, you know what I'm saying?

[Just Hilarious]

Did she ever have a conversation with you like, this is what I did to be taken away from you?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

How old were you?

[DJ Envy]

13, 14.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

And if you don't mind, basically when I could start understanding more. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

If you don't mind me asking, what did she get locked up for?

[DJ Envy]

You seen set it off. Yes, it was. It was some shit like that. Okay. Two of her friends and our cousin.

[Just Hilarious]

They banged the bank.

[DJ Envy]

They did some robbing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's Hard.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You ever thought about that? You should make a movie.

[DJ Envy]

They already did.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Not from the Memphis perspective, though. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, for real, though. She writing a book, though. She writing a book right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Did you ever feel that same type of anger when. When Dolph was tragically taken from us?

[DJ Envy]

Man, I'm still mad. But I'm good, though. I ain't gonna lie. I never. I never get older, but I'm good. I learned how to accept it, though.

[Key Glock]

How does it feel every time it pops back up in the news? It feels like it gives you a chance to kind of release it.

[DJ Envy]

I just hate. I hate seeing this shit. I just hate seeing it. I ain't gonna lie. I just hate seeing it. Yeah. That's all. Cause it's like this shit didn't even supposed to happen. This get me so. So up, like, you know what I'm saying? Give me dark in a way, but I try my best to just stay off of this shit.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What do you mean when you say it wasn't supposed to happen?

[DJ Envy]

It wasn't supposed to happen. It wasn't supposed to happen.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Have you ever thought about mentoring somebody the way Dolph mentored you?

[DJ Envy]

Would that even be possible? I don't look at it like mentoring. I just tell people what's right, and it's up to them to listen or take heed to it. Can't make nobody do nothing already. Shit, bro didn't even make me do nothing. It just. He told me a lot of shit, but I only did, like, most of the. That I wanted to do. You know what I'm saying? That worked out for me, basically.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And y'all was actually family, though. Y'all was cousins, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah. So it would be hard for you to even have that kind of relationship with somebody else anyway?

[DJ Envy]

Kinda. Kinda, yeah. Kinda.

[Charlamagne tha God]

If.

[DJ Envy]

What would you. I'm not. I'm not too, like. I'm not too quick to, like, recruit or, like, have a new homeboy or buddy or partner. You know what I'm saying? Cause, like, time just so different now. And I don't put shit past nobody.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Is there anybody you truly trust?

[DJ Envy]

I just. I. Not really, bro. I ain't gonna lie. I can't even say it. Cause I can't even halfway trust nobody. Like, if you halfway trust, you really don't trust them? Yeah, so. Not really.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Just Hilarious]

So you.

[DJ Envy]

I need to be the same way. I took out some. Damn.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. No, no. You're damn right I don't trust nobody. But did it bring you any sort of relief to see that, you know, when his killers were sentenced? At least a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

I don't even want to speak on it. Okay, yeah, yeah, I got you. You gonna do it?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I totally get it. Do you put a lot of that in the music?

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Just the frustration, the anger.

[DJ Envy]

Like, I probably did on one or two songs, but it was probably, like, one line. I ain't just go all the way in on it. Yeah. Cause this, like, y'all just don't know this shit. Drive me somewhere else, bro. Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Have you. Have you tried to grieve properly, though? Have you given yourself a chance to. Is that part of the year? Taking off the year, too?

[DJ Envy]

I ain't gonna lie. I'm agreed for life. Like, I done accepted that. I already know that. But it's not gonna, like, deteriorate me or make me. You know what I'm saying? Do some. Do something that I'm gonna regret, Basically, yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Are we. Should we be expecting any visuals? You know, your visuals go crazy. Like, on a movie tip, cinematically. We gonna expect any. I'm actually expecting any visuals.

[DJ Envy]

Think about dropping one tomorrow. I'm just waiting on this final to come through, but, yeah, I'm planning on dropping one tomorrow. The Grinch.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. Oh, okay. Did you ever think about doing short films? Just, like, movies, Anything like that?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I think I'm gonna have to write my own. Do my own shit. Cause I ain't finna wait on nobody. Come reach out.

[Just Hilarious]

Mm.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Dolph had. He was doing movies. He was about to do a movie. And. Yo, this is the craziest thing, going back to what you said about him creating opportunities for people. He had. He had literally hit me up and asked me to be in a movie that he was about to make, bro.

[DJ Envy]

With you?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, man. And I. I really, really would have loved to. To do that. That's something that you. That you really been thinking about doing. Getting into that. Yeah. So she wants you to continue.

[DJ Envy]

I know how to talk. Right. Like. Got you.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

I got you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Is there other things that y'all had on y'all?

[DJ Envy]

Y'all.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Y'all bucket list that y'all wanted. That y'all wanted to check off, that you gotta check off.

[DJ Envy]

I need a diamond record. I gotta give me a diamond record. I got everything else. I gotta go. Diamond? Yeah.

[Key Glock]

10 million.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. It's gonna happen.

[Just Hilarious]

Hell, yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Are you making them?

[DJ Envy]

Kind of.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Are you making those kind of records?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Hell, yeah. You ain't listening.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, but I'm Talking about, like. I guess I'm talking about the. I want to say pop. Yeah. I don't want to say no.

[DJ Envy]

I never go out of my box.

[Key Glock]

Nah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah. She rushing it like, two times, three times, but let's go do same. It's like it two times, but this all independent, though.

[Key Glock]

That's true, too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, that's why you can take a year off. God damn.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he said yeah, pretty much.

[Key Glock]

Let's get into a record. I don't even know if none of these records are really recorded. The rest of these records. What you want to play?

[DJ Envy]

The Grinch play with you? Nah, don't play what you want to play.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They keep talking about that song. I don't know what they talking about.

[DJ Envy]

I think you said it. Put it on.

[Just Hilarious]

With this, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And constipated, like, what?

[Key Glock]

That's what it says on the list.

[DJ Envy]

I really do got something. I constipated, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, okay.

[DJ Envy]

It's not on the tape, though, but. Oh, I got one.

[Just Hilarious]

This was an archive. This was something that you've been made. Okay. This is before the maturity. I told y'all. All right, cool.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So he looking up baller. He trying to find that on his screaming platform.

[Key Glock]

Yo, it's crazy, cuz. It's on genius, which is the wall is together.

[DJ Envy]

I think you genius.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, you might need to do a song about balling. Do a song about balling and just call it comma. Balls.

[Key Glock]

See, he give you your ideas, bro.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, like, no, yo, please don't.

[DJ Envy]

Y'all got put sh in the boo. Where is that sh? The God.

[Just Hilarious]

I got my girl.

[Charlamagne tha God]

DJ Envy.

[Key Glock]

You know what? Key Glock, ladies and gentlemen, let's get to the Grinch. The album comes out May 2nd.

[Charlamagne tha God]

In May? Yeah, starting May 21st.

[Key Glock]

That's right. He's in Oklahoma City, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Birmingham, Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville, Baltimore, and New York. So make sure you pick up the album, pick up tickets, and it's the Breakfast Club. It's key Glock.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wake that ass up early in the morning.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club.

[Israel Gutierrez]

I'm Israel Gutierrez, and I'm hosting a new podcast, Dub Dynasty. The story of how the Golden State warriors have dominated the NBA for over a decade.

[DJ Envy]

The Golden State warriors once again are NBA champions today.

[Israel Gutierrez]

The warriors dynasty remains alive in large part because of a scrawny 6 foot 2 hooper who everyone seems to love.

[Charlamagne tha God]

For what Steph has done for the game.

[DJ Envy]

He's certainly on that mount.

[Israel Gutierrez]

Rob, come revisit this magical warrior's ride. Listen to Dub Dynasty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[DJ Envy]

We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Just Hilarious]

We just kind of knew from the.

[DJ Envy]

Beginning that we were family. They showcased a sense of love that.

[Dan Roth]

I never had before.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, he's not only my parent.

[Dan Roth]

Like, he's like my best friend. At the end of the day, it's.

[Key Glock]

All been worth it.

[Just Hilarious]

I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[DJ Envy]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more. Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council Ever wonder.

[Dan Roth]

What it would be like to be mentored by today's top business leaders? My podcast this Is Working can help with that. Here's advice from Google CMO Lorraine Tuhill on how to treat AI like a part partner.

[Just Hilarious]

I see AI as an incredible co pilot.

[DJ Envy]

You may use different tools or toys to get the work done, but AI is just the latest flavor of that. You're still the judge of what good looks like.

[Dan Roth]

I'm Dan Roth, LinkedIn's editor in chief, on my podcast this Is Working Leaders Share Strategies for Success. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bob Pittman]

Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to share my podcast with you. Math and Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing this week I'm talking to the CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bonsell, about how he led his team through unprecedented times to create, test and distribute a COVID vaccine, all in less than a year. It becomes a human decision to decide.

[DJ Envy]

To throw by the window your business.

[Bob Pittman]

Strategy and to do what you think.

[DJ Envy]

Is the right thing for the world.

[Bob Pittman]

Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math and the ever important, important creative spark, the magic. Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.