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Joe and Jada - Lefty Gunplay talks Kendrick Lamar, Grammy win, rehab & building Black-Latino coalition
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You all been nominated, but not. It's hard to win one of them things. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for Lefty Gunplay. Thank you for having me. Sup, my brother, Man. Brother, it's an honor to have you, man. We in la. Yes, sir. And we said, they don't get no more la. The Gunplay, Lefty right now at this moment. And my brother game. And so we touched the story. We not, you know, this is the Joe and Jada Show. We about the culture, and we said, let's bring our brother on. What's crazy is I didn't see the Grammys. My wife saw this. She called me. She was like, yo, this Latino guy screaming Latino on the Grammys? Yeah. He went, it's my wife calling me, telling me that you won the Grammy. So you win the Grammy. What's so important about you saying, yo, Kendrick, put a latito on? I just want the homies to understand it. He gave me a platform. And it's been something that's so hard to do in Los Angeles to, you know, break into the rap game as a Latino. And, you know, Kendrick really, you know, black and brown unity at his finest right there. It don't get no bigger than that. And I appreciate him for giving me that platform. I got the bar and I'm running with it. I ain't looking back. That's right. You know, one of the living legends. So many kids that look like me in the hood, you know, and just. I'm glad to represent the people in the right way. There's one of the Latino legends from out here one time, I don't want to say his name because he's beyond a legend, but he come and I take him to the Bronx to hang out with me. You know, we in the Bronx, so it's very different. But this is what I want to talk to you about so people can visualize and understand what's going on. Very different in the west coast, unfortunately, between the Latinos and blacks. Like in New York, everybody's a mixed, baby. Everybody's black and Puerto Rican. And so he comes with us, and I'm just showing him a good time. We at Jimmy's Bronx Cafe. And he asks me, yo, you fuck with the black people? And I looked at him like. Cause I might as well be black. I don't know how to explain it to you any other way. So I looked at him, I said, yo, what you mean? He said, out west, we don't fuck with the black dude. I said, well, I can't fuck with you no more, my man. Cause that's not what we on here, right? And I didn't even understand that's dojo time or some shit like that. I think I know who you're talking about. Well, it don't matter. Yeah, he's a legend. But he told me, yo, we don't fuck with the black dudes. I said, well, I can't fuck with you. That was the last time I ever rocked with him, even though he is a legend and he's a pioneer and somebody who started it. But that's when I started to realize that there's parts of the country that Latinos and blacks ain't connected like that. Yeah, you know, and so that's what you meant when you went up there. You said, yo, this brother gave me a chance. Let's unify. Yeah. Stronger together. And you ain't gonna get nowhere and rap if you ain't cool with no blacks, you know, it's their culture, you know, and they allow me to, you know, make money off this and more. Homies are following in my footsteps, you know, And I appreciate everything Kendrick Lamar did for me. He changed my life. You know, I always said that the biggest rapper on earth is going to be a Mexican rapper if he finds a way to let. I always tell you that. Steve. Steve Lobel's here. The biggest rapper on earth is going to be a Mexican American rapper that fucks with black people, fucks with everybody, and just makes music for everybody. He's going to have the whole world. Yeah. In the sand. You leading that in the footsteps. And, you know, we already got that, you know, Big Pun, his song was Baldi Quora. And that means Latinos and blacks together. So I've always been about that. You paid the way. Good looking, brother. Tell me about the Mexican experience in la Ball Park. A lot of gang, gang. You know, I got drunk into my neighborhood when I was 13 years old. Juvenile hall, prison. Live a real life, you know, really about that life. And I was sitting in Pelican Bay and I'm like, man, you know, it's just a revolving cycle. I was in cork and shoe. Pelican Bay, sue. And I seen Ogz He's a rapper out here. I said I could do that. And I said, man, I'm gonna break the cycle. I'm gonna be a rapper. Fuck it, you know? And then the rest was history. I manifested everything. I seen it in my head. I ran with it, you know, but just, you know, real Latino neighborhood. La Puente Ballpark, West Covina, El Monte. You know, just ain't nothing coming out of there. Just gang banging, you know, try to make a change. Do you see that? You influencing the young Mexicans to start rapping and start trying to definitely change and be positive? Yeah, definitely, man. Follow your dreams. Anything's possible. That's real talk. Not only did you win a Grammy, you won it after getting released from prison. Yeah. How does that feel? What kind of space did it make you wanna. Man, it's a dream come true. It's a trip. It still hasn't really hit me yet. Nah, it's amazing. You look great that night, too. Boy, you threw that shit on. It is threw that shit on, boy. Yeah, I appreciate y', all, man. Yeah, I've been. In the last six months, I've been in rehab. Shout out to the Hayden Detox, Frank sit in Carrillo. I've been right there getting my mind right, you know, last six months. How hard is that? Right? Like, how long you was on drugs? And I'm glad you're not ashamed of that. Cause that's how you really inspire it. Yeah, as fuck music, fuck all that. That's your real purpose, to turn that shit around. Somebody like Jelly Roll, you see how he ain't scared to say, yo, I was fucked up. I was using drugs. And he inspired so many people. And now he the biggest in the game. You gotta realize more people relate to that. Like, I lost the brother to drugs. He wouldn't get off drugs. When did you start? How did that come about? And when did you finally say, yo, I'm a. I gotta stop doing this? Man, I've been doing drugs since, like, I was 13, just in that gang culture. It's just something that's always around in county, in prison. And I became dependent on it. And, you know, ever since I got sober. But I was blowing everything. I was blowing all this opportunity. I got in a car crash, got into a lot of trouble. What kind of drugs? Everything. Everything. Crystal, heroin, coke. What's more addictive? Crystal, heroin, heroin. Nah. Yup. Liquor, Balance it out. I was just blowing all my opportunity. Everybody's all like, man, you got a once in a lifetime opportunity. You throwing it Away. I was at a chingy concert. It was a chingy Eid Jaru concert. And I was talking to all of them, and I told them, you know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna go to rehab. And then I called Top Dog and Kendrick Lamar and they said, that's the most gangster shit you ever said, you know? So I flew out to rehab in Miami, you know, stopped cold turkey, knowing that I was Grammy nominated. Popped up like the boogeyman. Everybody tripped out. Nobody thought I could change my ways, but I did. A day at a time, brother. I'm mailing you for that. The hardest thing about it is trying to write now, sober. Like, I'm very trying to. I'm. I made all my hits sober. All the lean backs, making reigns, all the way ups. Any fucking hit you ever heard in your life, sober. Don't let nobody tell you you gotta be high to write. Not true. If you can do it, I can do it. Yes. You got this. That's what I'm saying. That's exactly what I'm saying. It's gonna take a minute, but then once you get it. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's the truth. Sitting here with you guys. I was just bumping that New York last night. Oh, no, that's love. Yeah, that's love right there. I told you on west side, Terror Squad, man. West side, Terror Squad can't change, man. Get him a change that motherfucker. If you saying that, then you bought that life, nigga. Cause we bought that life. Shout out. Steve will tell you. Shout out. I think of you. Cause you Mexican. I think of hip hop, you know. Of course, Cypress Hills inspired me and Pun. Yeah. They the first ones to inspire us on a major level. Shout out to Free Will. Send all them. Mr. Cartoon. Yeah. Do you know Mr. Cartoon? Legendary. Yup, yup. Shout out to Mr. Cartoon. What a fucking legend. Mr. Cartoon. Hell, yeah. West side. You know, me personally, every time I came to la, you know, I was more towards Inglewood. Shout out. You know, Mac 10, I do believe. And this is something that everybody could argue with me. But we had something to do with the east coast, west coast connection connecting. Cause it was at the time Biggie Pac died, it was a couple of more New York and West coast beefs going on. And me and Mac Tim met each other and we became brothers. I came out here and shot a movie with him called Thicker Than Water in Inglewood. Okay. And then he came to my hood. And what's crazy is I never knew there was bloods in New York, when I grew up, it wasn't Bloods, it wasn't Crips. It wasn't none of that. He came to my projects, and when I tell you, all them kids started running outside with the red suits on and hats, and they was like, yo, OG OG that's when I knew we had Bloods in New York. I didn't even know it. And I was in the street. So I brought him to my projects, and everybody running out the building like, yo, G. O, G, OG I was like, oh, we got Bloods. New York. Yeah, I've been in New York. It's a trick. The trenches out there, just projects. They tell me, whatever you do between that, don't walk between LA and here, man. Out here, every. Every block's gang, you know, Pretty much every block's gang. You be somewhere nice right here. You make a right, you know, you be with some Crips, some Blood, some essays, you know, I'm a slango, so, you know, I'm a Southsider out here. I represent. But yeah, New York, they. They drove me around the projects and shit. Towers don't walk up in here at midnight, Lefty. I said, for sure. You know, looking out was so fucked up that if you was on drugs, you would walk up in there anytime to get the drugs. Yeah. So when you on drugs, you in the most dangerous neighborhood. You don't give a fuck. You gotta get the shit. You're right. It's the same thing with places like, oh, Miami, too. Miami, you could be a South Beach. You make a left turn, you in Pompano. Pompano, you in Pompano. But that's when you in Liberty City. All that shit all over town. Yeah, Liberty City, man. Yeah. I live. My last crib was 50,000amonth, a penthouse. I went walking two blocks. I was in Overtown, nigga. They was out in the middle of the street. It's so crazy how you got places that look like paradise, but you make the wrong turn, you. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. I feel that. Plus, I'm out in balancing states right now in Texas and Cali. So I've been doing the right thing, trying to stay focused, you know, Finding a gun, charging, fighting some shit in Texas. I learned my lesson. I don't mess around in Texas no more. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to my brother, Baby Bash and Frankie J. You heard of these guys? I know Baby Bash. I met him personally. Sugar, he gets so fly. Sugar, he gets so. Those are my guys. And every time I went To Texas, man. They showed me the best time in the world. These are beautiful guys. Yeah, and they Mexican, man. They put down for the Mexicans. Legendary, those guys. But Texas is weird because you got a gun charge, but I don't think you need a license for a gun charge. So is it because you're a felon? Yeah. Fresh out of prison. When they said that, you was like, yo, everybody can have a gun. And then they like, not you, my man. Yeah, so snatch me a basap. At this point, I don't think. You think. You're nine to five, right? You thinking rap? You thinking. Yeah, rap, rap. Rap entrepreneur. Get money, get this, get that. So invest. Did you think about taking your tattoos off your face at all? Never. Never. But that's why they stopped you in Texas. Yeah. It's the story of my life, though. What, bro? You ever thought about. You ever thought about a cop? We so criminal minded. We never think about the other side. The other side. Driving in Texas, he seen him. That's how he knew he had the gun. He seen the tattoos. He said, hold up. This nigga from the other side of town, let me pull it. Yo, my man, what you got there? Right? So it's part of your image. It's part of everything. It's a disadvantage every day. Yeah, Legit. You gotta get him real security and then a couple of dollars. Yeah, we got real security. The real guys with the real guns and lead. You okay? No, my guys shoot your face off. Okay, thank you, Steve. Shoot you. But that's how you gotta move, you know? You got security, you got legit security. Be legit that way. Because if you bring the crew, they thinking they impressing you. They shoot the place up, done play Lefty on the news. It happened to me. One million times I've been to jail because of this rap shit. D1. I've been in jail maybe 30 times for shit I didn't even do. They was just like bringing all the homies. Fat Joe. He's right, Joe. I really ain't me. When you bring the entourage and something happens. Yeah, it's all left, you know, no matter how you cut. How about you don't even bring the entourage? You're in the wrong place. You in the soul house and you run out of here, they'd be like, lucky lefty beat everybody up in here. Yo, this, this. You're always gonna get the blame. Guess what? We was talking about a story behind the scenes. You know, we had Shamgaard and Jalen Rose, you heard? Also Jalen Rose last Night. He was with Jalen last night. So I asked my man Shamgard, right? There's a guy, you know, I used to coach basketball in the Rucker. One of the big. The best coaches ever. Actually, the best coach of all time. Yeah. Six chips and I get to talk to Shamgaard and I bring up a player. So there was a player who was in high school that was going to the NBA from New York City. Who. I don't know if I should say that right now, because I don't want to say. He's in. I don't know. I'll say his name. Richie Parker. Oh, Rich Parker. Rich Parker. One of the best basketball players out of New York. He's supposed to go to the. To the NBA. There was no question, no doubt that he was going. Some girl allegedly got raped by some guys he knew. And because he was the star of the basketball team, allegedly, she accused him almost like some Tupac shit. Tupac ain't raped that girl. But some guys, they might have did something too much. And then he caught the blame. So this is what I mean, that, you know, people could do shit. And it's always our fault if we're famous and we on the forefront. And one day it's crazy, because how about. I never met a better gentleman in the street basketball league or in the park than Richie Parker. I never met a nicer guy in my life. And his mother was a fan. She come to all the rocker games. And I remember one day, I sat next to her, I said, your mama. I said, how you doing? This and that. I'm still watching the game. And she just looked up and she was like, I'm supposed to be, bitch. I said, her mama, she said, we supposed to be. She ain't do that. We would have been in that. Could you imagine? We'd have been in masses. We'd have been with. Yo, that shit hurt me when that lady. Yeah, I thought that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And so, you know, that's why it's so important that we gotta move. Militant life happens. I wasn't signing with otr. Oh, man, I signed with them my first week out of prison, you know, they gave me the money. And in the beginning, I thought they were stupid giving me that money because. Oh, you ain't the only one. Yeah, we all felt like that. Yeah. Like, shit, I'm about to go back to the pen. And then I took that money, and next thing you know, I'm right here. Grammy nominated, one of Grammy blowing up, you know, through the roof. So I'm getting my contract situated right now. But, yeah, it's bigger things ahead. You know what happened when I signed a Terror Squad deal with Atlantic Record? I tell you, it was $10 million. We negotiated all night. Yo, Steve, why you lie laughing? Because we negotiated all night. They wouldn't let me leave. It was like, you can't leave. Leo Cohen's outside. Every other record label exec is dying for Fat Joe to come outside. Cause I had just put out Big Pun. He's going double platinum. They like, yo, this nigga got the Latino explosion. Yeah, we gotta sign whatever Spanish got. Like. It was like that. So they wouldn't let me leave. We wind up getting $10 million. Showed it. I felt like I stuck that nigga up. Like, you ain't never seen your life. I was like, yo, me and Raul was up in there. I thought we stuck him up. The man gave us that money and jumped on a subway train like nothing. He walked in the subway. I'm like, yo, this gave us this paper. Walked on the subway 12 midnight. But I know the feeling because you've been doing shit so much for a dollar. Yeah, or two dollars. Motherfucker give you a real check. You feel like, who did we borrow? Like, what do we gotta do? What's going on? Cause ain't nobody giving us no shit for nothing. Legitly in the hood. I was riding around the hood with, like, 200 bands in a duffel bag. Straight 50 Cent moment. Went to the car place, looking in the Maybach cash. First week out, pushing the Maybach in the hood. Straight out the trailer park. Yeah, that's gangster. Yeah, clap it up for that. You know, that's what we all. We all about. Big life. Yeah, we all about celebrating life. We all about. Let me tell you something. Ain't nothing like that feeling when you get that first whip from rapping and you on the freeway and you just by yourself. Like, man, this is my shit. Like, good, good. You know, for me, that was like. When I caught that vaccine for Covid, I was stuck in that house for a year and a half. And when they gave me that vaccine, I was like, looks like we made it. I thought I was gonna die. Niggas was dying in the hood so much when they gave me that vaccine. I ran over there so fast, I had my hand out the sunroof. Like, looks like we made it. But I know the feeling. And there's nothing like doing something legit. Yeah, there's nothing. We all made money, you know, illegally. But Legit. It's nothing like it feels good. And you and your car and you feel like damn. And that's what life's about, man. Breaking off my mom and my grandma. 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Best overall Mobile Network Performance U.S. 2nd Half 2025 All Rights Reserve must provide recent consumer mobile bill in the name of the person redeeming the deal. Additional terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Yeah, let me tell you something. I did a lot of things I just told you. And I'm not bragging about a $10 million check. I used to fly private planes like it was a tax. Like I used to be like, we want Puerto Rican food, let's go to Puerto Rico. Like it was a joke. I'm just spending all kind of money. 40 niggas with me, lobsters and steaks. Buying 30 niggas. Trucks, cash. This, this. I did all that shit when I caught the tax problem and I had to sell everything and I had to do whatever I had to do. I had to give the government back millions of dollars and pay my lawyer. There was one thing. Untouchable. It was called my mother's house. I would have sold every piece of jewelry, every art, every house, every sneaker, everything. You ever seen the fucking toothpaste to pay them back. Don't talk about my mother's house. And my mother's house wasn't even that special, guys. It was a nice little regular house that I bought for my mother and my father. But I remember every single time I pull up to my mother's house, I felt like even to this day, my house is mad big, right? And I used to pull up to my mother's house just last year. Cause she passed away. And I felt like that was the biggest house, the biggest shit I ever did in my life. I would sit in front of the house and be like, wow, my mom's got a house. You know what I'm saying? That's the biggest. Praise God. You bought your mother and father some. Yeah, Just bought him a condo. He screamed at you for buying it for him. He's his accountant. You for buying it. But okay. Thanks for the key, son. Yeah, I saw love. You know what I'm saying? Lefty, I seen you in the studio. Yeah, Crazy Bone. I was just with Game last night. No doubt. Shut up. What's your process like in the studio? I like to write from scratch. Like to hear the beat right from scratch. I've been in the studio with Mike and Keys. Fresh Scott Storch. Problem? Yeah. Just write from scratch. Write my story. What can we expect? So, man, I'm dropping soon. I got enough songs for an album. We're gonna go to New York for you right now. Nobody gonna give you that shit like Scott Storch. Nobody. Not for what you want. Not for that. Lady, that's still Dre. He remained me the big all that. His. This is how we do. Scott Storch did that? Yeah. He remained me the big Eagles beat. He did all that, huh? Yeah, he's a James. That man gave you that. Oh, if you got that, Scott, store's gonna be right in the pocket for you. I'm telling you. That's. That's. We got studio time with him tomorrow. Oh, that's a no brainer. That's. That's right there. He gonna give you that. Yeah, they just hit me from the studio. Was Roddy Ricz and Scott storage. Roddy Ricch is a motherfucking beast. Yeah, Roddy called me. He's all like, man, you're doing it for the culture, bro. Like, you gotta link up. I'm like, for sure. Roddy Ricz don't do that. Roddy Ricc. Hit them shits out the park. Yeah, yeah. Roddy Ricc, he's. He's a fucking incredible guy. He's a genius, man. You know, shout out Roddy Rich. So that should be great. You, him and Scott Storch. I see you. You put Storch with Roddy Ricch. I seen him in the studio with him the other day. That's great, man. Yeah, that gonna make them gangster. They gonna hop to that, boy. Like, he gonna give you that. That documentary. Listen, he said all that. Nobody's gonna get you that. Nobody gonna tomorrow. We got hit boys, Custod Friends, Bank Rogatti are like four producers in one studio. Yeah. Not an expectation. You gonna give me that? That is Black Psycho Maniac. That's right. My mom's Latina. My mom's Mexican. Guatemalan. My dad's white. But he left me when I was 2. He moved to Florida. And recently I was in Florida the other day, and he came and come visiting me, and I didn't even recognize him, you know? But. So you think after you got successful, we came to visit you? Yeah, because ever since I've been successful, I've been out of jail. So I've always been in jail my whole life. Did you forgive him for leaving you at 2 years old? Yeah, I passed it up, you know. Yeah. I feel like every boy, every man needs their dad. Like anybody who tells you that you don't need the dad, huh? About the girls. Yeah, the girls too. But what I'm saying is you need a father figure man to straighten you out, to make you go the right path, to be there for you when you need a man in your life. That's why I joined the hood, because I didn't have one. I looked at the homies for that good job. You know, that shit felt good getting in front of homies. So that's why I was putting in so much work, you know, Good job, good job, good job. You know, chasing a father figure, that's what led me in the gang banging so much. And I realized, you know, I gotta do something different. Are they happy for you or the homies? In the beginning, like my second day out of prison, the homie gave me a strap. Boom. You know, gave me some money. And he's like, come on, let's ride. I'm like, now I'm gonna stay right here. You what? I said, I'm gonna stay home real quick. I was too embarrassed to tell him that I'm gonna be a rapper, you know? And then, like a week out, I told my homie, I'm gonna be a rapper. He's like, you gonna be a rapper? I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna be a rapper. He's like, man, you fucking tripping, bro. Like, you. You. You a lo in the hood, you know, you one of the ones. And I was from my hood, but I followed my dream. And then once it worked out, they seen it, you know, and now they embrace it, you know? I feel like I'm the first Latino they really opened the door to. For Latinos out here in LA to think that rapping is cool. And I do it my own way. Like, I don't use the N word. Like, you know, just out of. Out of respect, you know, for the culture and, you know, I'm paving my own way, you know, respect that. You know, what's crazy is I started rapping. I got a famous album. I sold 2 million records with this cause, jealous one, still envy. And I was out here probably with Steve Lobel. We started a promo tour. This was Flo Jo, my first record. And we did Arsenio hall, okay? Arsenio hall was the biggest shit in America. America. Shout out to Stretch Armstrong. He invited me there. Al City hall was like, yo, we got Fat Joe in the house. So I went up there and I performed. I quit the whole promo tour to get back to my block because Arcenia was to be. Just to be with my boys and be like, yo, I did it. So I remember I went back to New York the very next day, I pull up to my block in the cab, and it's five of my best friends that I grew up since kindergarten. I'm looking this way, and I jump out the car, yo, and I'm jumping up and down. And when they turned around, three of them had a jealous face. The other two were jumping up and down like me. And three of them was looking like fucked out of. That's the first time I ever experienced jealousy. And that's where the name of that album, Jealous Ones, Envy, a jealous one still Envy came from. Because this game, it come with a lot of envy. That hood shit gonna get you killed. And I know that, you know, I realize that. So you gotta find a balance between it. But I see through all the fake love, you know, now since I'm successful, there's there's some of them that are happy of me, and there's some of them I know. They be talking shit, you know, beside you showing with success, my thing is, who cares, right? God chose you. You sober, you can see. Yeah, if Fat Joe was to get high, I'd be dead broke right now. I'm not kidding you. I'm not lying. And the direct correlation between guys who make it and become successful and guys who don't is drugs. And that's the difference. So when I look at Netflix and I see a new documentary by Eddie Murphy, and it starts in a $90 million mansion, and he's sitting in there with shit to the sky and this and this and that, you look at him and say, yo, I never got High. They was sniffing coke in front of me. They was doing whatever. I ain't do that. That's why he's in a $90 million mansion. And then when you see motherfuckers, you be like, damn, man, this guy was the greatest. This guy was the best. This guy, he ain't got shit. Not how you started. It's how you finish. How you finish. Yeah, but what I'm trying to tell you is this. We got a guy. We got one of my idols, right? In salsa music. I think the best salsa singer of all time is called Hector Lavo. Hector Lavo, the cantante. They made a movie about him called a cantante. JLo and Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony, who probably is the second greatest salsa singer ever of history. Shout out to Martin. Say the first. Yeah. One day I happened to bump into him, and the man said, yo, he was going to. He was doing the movie. Hector Lavo was still alive. So he went to his apartment in Spanish Harlem and said that. The man was like, yo, I had it all. Apartments with three floors, gold plaques on the wall, Cadillacs, this, this, that. Look at me, I don't have nothing. Marc Anthony was telling me this story with tears in his eyes. He's like, yo, this was my idol, and he was fucked up. And he was telling me that he used to be that nigga used to have that house that he used to have that. But when he got on heavy drugs, it was over. Yeah. So just know that anybody. I'm gonna keep it a buck and I could get backlash for it all I want. Don't let a woman gas you into using drugs again. Just don't. Because you're some of the greatest. Scott Storch lost $90 million because a girl who's the most famous girl in the world he was fucking with brought a girl with him, another famous girl, and said, yo, we gonna Minaj who But sniff this. Who? I can't. But Scott Store say he took that sniff and it his whole life up. He lost $90 million with that. He got it back, though. Same thing. No, same thing with. He got about six. What's the Baldwin brother that this whole up? I think he's Haley Bieber's father. Alec Bone. No, Alec Baldwin. He shot the guy. That's another ball with the handsome one. He used to hang out with us in the Bronx, the Jimmy's. This guy went on cnn, you could Google it, and said he was fucking with Madonna. I'll give you that one because he said it. I don't Want that? Stephen Baldwin used to have cnn, huh? Used to come to Jimmy's. Used to be Jimmy's with us every week. Fly nigger. Original Jimmy's Bronze Cafe in the South Bronx for him. He obviously was busy around that time. I don't know, but he was. Yeah, Steve, he got the same name. He's invited him for me. He tells a story. He was hanging out with Madonna. Same thing she told him, you want to take this cocaine and to his whole life. And out of all the Baldwin brothers, he's supposed to. You sure about that? It's on cnn. Google. I just got to protect you. I was with Danny Trejo yesterday. No, two days ago. Danny Trejo. And he's a legend. He a gangster. He was telling me, like, you got the world in your hands. You know what's going to happen if you go this way, and you know what's going to happen if you go this way. So I don't want to be riding you in Pelican Bay, you know, so I've been going to recovery meetings with him, you know, putting in work for the community, trying to get back. Yeah. Beautiful. What's the name of your album? You look at? You got a name yet? Fountain Blue. Fountain Blue. Why? Why? Fountain Blue. That's the name of my trailer park. Kind of like 8 mile, no doubt. You know what I'm saying? That's fire. He puts a world on, too. Yeah. What's the one thing you want people to remember and know Lefty Gunplay for? For being one of the ones. Open the door for the Latinos, you know, putting off of the culture. Black and Brown, unity. Hopefully I get my own Grammy and my own name and just keep giving back, you know, like Nip. You know, the way Nip did. I really want to get back to the people, you know, I think. I don't think I'm better than nobody, you know? I want to get back to the city and all the kids and make a difference out here. Make some noise for that. Just know that this ain't that. That ain't this. Cracking Kiss. Make some noise for Lefty Gunplay, baby. Thank you. Appreciate you. Any new music on all platforms, get it. Anything he does, make sure you support him. Breaking boundaries in that space, baby. We out there doing the right thing. We gotta support him. Yeah. All of la, it can happen. 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