That never been me.There's a reason why Cindy Crawford was dubbed "Baby Gia" when she first hit the modeling scene. So I would be a fool not to ax your big homie, you know what I'm saying, "Yo, what you think about this, or how you feel about this, or how this go?" Some people too prideful to ax for help or ax for answers. They already inquired different things and experienced these things years ago that I'm experiencing now. You get what I'm saying? So I gotta double check and triple check these things, and having a partner like Jay and Roc Nation, they already been through these ropes before. Like I ain't at the point in life where I'm trying to incur mistakes. So, Jay, Roc Nation, the whole family, big part in a lot of the moves you see me making, a lot of the vetting behind the scene and making sure I ain't doing the wrong things, I ain't making mistakes doing it. So, when it come to certain things, I'm gonna make sure that I'm sending it down the right channels to make sure it's the correct moves that I'm thinking of or making. You know what I'm saying, like, I'm a team player and I believe in strategic partnerships, even my partnership with Roc Nation. You know, different business inquiries, I'm always sending through Roc Nation to vet it and make sure I ain't going down the wrong roads, per se. I always get Jay opinion or advice on a lot of the bigger things I do. what has Jay-Z's experience as a label head meant to you? What has he imparted to you on that front? I'd be remiss to not ask, since we're here at Roc Nation.
Yo Gotti and Jay-Z at the 2018 Roc Nation brunch in New York City. 'Cuz it's like, in one sense, "I feel like I supposed to be here." Right? But then in another moment you feel like, "Damn, I'm hurr."
They the surreal moments, but real moments. But, you know, first and foremost, I'm a project kid, right? That I never imagined being in these type of rooms at some point in my life. And I already accomplished a lot of things. At the end of the day, man, I'm a respected entrepreneur now. I was just inspired, you know what I'm saying? By the house itself, the party itself. Shoutout to Michael Rubin for the invite. On the album, you got a track related to the "All-White Party" that Michael Rubin threw in the Hamptons. Meek Mill, Jay-Z and Yo Gotti at Michael Rubin's Fanatics Super Bowl Party in Miami in February 2020. We still was trying to get out of the same thing, you know. So no matter what city you in, we still face the same thing. Going back to what I said, having similar backgrounds, all them guys you just named, we all come from the street, where we all face the same struggle at one point or another. When you talk about from a creative standpoint, I think you talking about from a real life standpoint. are there differences there that are fruitful to ideation, or is there common background and that allows for creativity? So that's how we try to have an open table policy.Īnd you got EST Gee from Louisville, Dugg from Detroit. Like you could give me some information that I don't have, that I could use. we have an open table policy, meaning like, just 'cuz you younger don't necessarily mean I have all the right answers. I don't know if the age itself play a part in it, more so than the fact that we can relate and understand each other and respect each other. You know, I'm an advocate on sharing information, giving out game.
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And then we went back on lockdown, and then it changed again, you know what I'm saying? So it kinda like went from one thing to another one, but I'm glad it did over time because it ended up scoping into being "CM10: Free Game," which is my overall message that I always say anyway. And then it opened back up, I started going back outside and I changed what it was gonna be. Like I started recording during the pandemic and I was gonna put out one thing. Honestly it changed a couple different times. you dropped "Untrapped." Moving on from that, how did you approach this new body of work? So I think of it like a good warm up record. It's a lot of things I wanted to put out. I don't think I thought that deep about it as like, "This gonna be the lead single." It was more of a message, you know what I'm saying? If you listen to what I'm saying in the record, it's a lot of things I wanted to say. What was the approach to putting that out first, as a lead single?