2 Chainz Talks Weed, Intuition, and Becoming Himself

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:01Speaker 02

  You started stepping back when I lit this weed up. It bothered you?

• 1:04Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I'll pip if you do.

• 1:05Speaker 02

  I don't think you need it. Come on, bruh.

• 1:10Speaker 02

  It's not lit. You gotta light it.

• 1:11Adam Friedland?

  I know. I understand. I've smoked weed before.

• 1:14Speaker 02

  This ain't from New York. Baby knows guys on the other side. Selling some... There you go. That's it. I was waiting on that punch. One more, man. One more pip.

• 1:25Adam Friedland?

  I'm good. I'm good.

• 1:26Speaker 02

  One more pip, bro. You gotta do at least three, bro. You ten. Nine.

• 1:31Adam Friedland?

  Oh, my words.

• 1:32Speaker 02

  Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. His glasses fogging up. Two. One. Yes, sir.

• 1:44Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 1:45Speaker 02

  Fucked around and found out, huh?

• 2:15Speaker 04

  Hello and welcome to a very special episode of The Adam Friedland Show. I'm Adam Friedland.

• 2:20Speaker 05

  My guest this week is Grammy Award winning rapper and newly minted author Two Chains. I won't lie to you, audience, this was one of my most challenging conversations of my entire life. Mr. Chains was immune to my charms as an interviewer. He deftly dodged each query as I scrambled on my back heel to find a way in. I sucked. I sucked up. I copycat-ed. I even tried to ingratiate myself to him via shared use of psychedelic drugs.

• 2:54Speaker 05

  This interview changed me, and I'm sure you'll see that. And maybe not for the better, I don't know. I'm still figuring that out. So please enjoy my conversation with Two Chains.

• 3:07Adam Friedland?

  Ladies and gentlemen, his new book, The Voice in My Head is God. Everyone, please welcome Two Chains.

• 3:19Adam Friedland?

  I can't believe it. I cannot believe it, sir.

• 3:22Speaker 02

  What's up?

• 3:23Adam Friedland?

  Nice to meet you.

• 3:24Speaker 02

  How you doing?

• 3:25Adam Friedland?

  I'm a big fan, I really appreciate it. Not to complain or take it, I complain a lot, but like, you're 6'5" already, and then you have these

• 3:37Speaker 02

  Big furry Balenciaga boots on.

• 3:38Adam Friedland?

  I know, but it's giving you maybe like 6'7", 6'8" right now.

• 3:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm 6'5" and then with these shoes on, I might be about 6'7".

• 3:45Adam Friedland?

  I think it's a little egotistical, perhaps.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  No, I mean, I love myself, what can I say?

• 3:51Adam Friedland?

  You grew up playing ball, that's right.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, I did a little balling.

• 3:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. What was your, what was your like game? You were a guard?

• 3:58Speaker 02

  I think I was a great passer, a great playmaker.

• 4:03Speaker 02

  I have a really, really beautiful looking jump shot, it's pretty.

• 4:08Adam Friedland?

  What's your, what's your NBA comp?

• 4:11Speaker 02

  Oh, a comp for me probably would be currently, currently in the league right now. Let me just think who was in the All-Star game.

• 4:23Speaker 02

  For me.

• 4:23Adam Friedland?

  Steph.

• 4:24Speaker 02

  Not Steph. Steph, he has the range. I'm more of a flamemaker. Uh, who are, who do are, who think, hey, look, this is an all-star?

• 4:35Speaker 02

  Ant-Man?

• 4:37Speaker 02

  Ant is something.

• 4:38Adam Friedland?

  You know who's got like?

• 4:39Speaker 02

  Ant is nasty.

• 4:40Adam Friedland?

  You know, oh, he's the, and he's also like, happens to be the most, the funniest guy. Like, he has that Chuck thing where he's like, he could, he's funnier than any comedian.

• 4:48Speaker 02

  Well, Ant is, you know, from Atlanta, we just have great personalities.

• 4:54Adam Friedland?

  Did you see that clip of him meeting Obama?

• 4:58Adam Friedland?

  Ant was like, "I will cook you." Like, he didn't care that it was the president?

• 5:02Speaker 02

  He don't.

• 5:02Adam Friedland?

  He's like, "Any place, anytime."

• 5:04Speaker 02

  Competitive.

• 5:05Adam Friedland?

  "I will snatch your soul."

• 5:07Speaker 02

  Competitive nature, man.

• 5:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Uh, I actually, I watched a clip of you saying you're, you're, not that this is pertinent at all to the interview, but saying you're top five, and we have an identical top five, uh, in NBA.

• 5:20Speaker 02

  Really?

• 5:21Adam Friedland?

  For the NBA, yeah.

• 5:22Speaker 02

  What, what is it?

• 5:22Adam Friedland?

  Cause I put Shaq and Steph in the top five.

• 5:25Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 5:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 5:25Speaker 02

  And what else? We got Kobe?

• 5:26Adam Friedland?

  Bean, Braun, uh, MJ, Shaq and Steph.

• 5:30Speaker 02

  Okay, we got the same.

• 5:31Adam Friedland?

  We have the same.

• 5:32Speaker 02

  That's cool.

• 5:32Adam Friedland?

  Same, same kinda guy.

• 5:33Speaker 02

  That's cool.

• 5:34Adam Friedland?

  LeBron, uh, produced an album for you.

• 5:37Speaker 02

  Not produced. Produced would mean he would've actually made the tracks.

• 5:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I know.

• 5:41Speaker 02

  He was an executive producer.

• 5:42Adam Friedland?

  Executive produced. He was like the Shug Knight of your.

• 5:46Speaker 02

  No.

• 5:46Adam Friedland?

  No. Well, he not, I'm not saying he dangled anyone from a, by their, anyway, I'll stop talking.

• 5:52Speaker 02

  Nah, nah. LeBron is a great friend of mine, a great friend of the family, and.

• 5:57Adam Friedland?

  Friend of mine as well. UTA, uh, Clutch Sports Family is my agency.

• 6:01Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 6:02Adam Friedland?

  Uh, no.

• 6:03Speaker 02

  Shout out. LeBron.

• 6:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 6:04Speaker 02

  He came to the crib in LA, and he is a huge, like, we always see him on Instagram, like, playing artists' music, right? Like, supporting artists, and we haven't seen any other basketball player, to his greatness, do that. Not Jordan, rest in peace Bean, none of those people. So, him being the biggest, um, basketball player in the world, sitting in the back of the Maybach, supporting different artists' music, it was something that I took to, I had him come over, I played about. I don't know, over 20, 30 songs. And then him and I kind of narrowed down the album. And that's how he was a part of my album. Now.

• 6:38Adam Friedland?

  There's a famous clip of that. Of LeBron inventing the deluxe album.

• 6:44Speaker 02

  Oh, man.

• 6:45Adam Friedland?

  You've seen the clip.

• 6:46Speaker 02

  I mean, you know what? During that time, people really weren't doing it. I mean, deluxe had started and they fade. Just like anything, they fade away, come back and all of that. So at that time, I don't think he thought he invented it. I just thought he was coming up with a good idea at that particular point in time.

• 7:02Adam Friedland?

  I would say he invented it and he also dominated in the dead ball era. The three ball era and invented the deluxe album. Let's give it up for LeBron James.

• 7:13Adam Friedland?

  No, but I grew up a big Kobe fan. I'm a Laker fan, so.

• 7:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, I love Kobe.

• 7:16Adam Friedland?

  And I know that, I know that.

• 7:18Speaker 02

  Love.

• 7:18Adam Friedland?

  Were you guys the same class, like in high school? Like, were you?

• 7:21Speaker 02

  Nah.

• 7:21Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 7:22Speaker 02

  Nah, but I just. Just like with anything else, his, um. Mamba mentality, that whole, his aura was just like. On the court, off the court, you know, I saw him off the court a few times. He just was someone that automatically just. Demanded that attention, man. Very detailed.

• 7:43Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 7:43Speaker 02

  From me being around him, just even talking basketball with him. I remember having a full. You know, a conversation about hooping with him like after a game. So rest in peace to the GOAT.

• 7:55Adam Friedland?

  I saw that you, maybe this isn't true, but that you did AAU growing up. Uh, and did you play against Sharif Abdurrahim?

• 8:05Speaker 02

  I know Sharif.

• 8:06Adam Friedland?

  That was, because that's a streets we'll never forget, like guy who I think is overlooked a lot. In terms of just like an absolute killer.

• 8:14Speaker 02

  Sharif is, uh, he's definitely a killer. Sharif is, uh. You know, with the G League, he's involved with the G League. He's, he's, he almost runs the G League. I'm not sure what his, I don't want to get his title confused or messed up. But I literally just ran into him. I was walking out the restroom, he's walking in, at one of the College Park Skyhawk game, Skyhawks game in Atlanta, like, I don't know, not even a month ago.

• 8:42Adam Friedland?

  You're an owner, right?

• 8:43Speaker 02

  I'm a minority owner of the Skyhawks in Atlanta, yes.

• 8:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and that's your, that's your neighborhood that you grew up in?

• 8:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. How's that feel?

• 8:50Speaker 02

  It feels wonderful, man, being, I don't know, five miles from my high school, not even, I don't know, maybe five, six miles from my high school, me being from the area, the owners of the Hawks, you know, noticing that, realizing that, involved me into something new and refreshing for the city. So, yeah, it just, you know, it feels like I was at the right place at the right time.

• 9:12Adam Friedland?

  There's no reason to have a lot of money unless you have your own squad. That's my, that's my, like, take in life. If I ever-

• 9:19Speaker 02

  That's what most billionaires, that's how they think.

• 9:21Adam Friedland?

  If I ever have enough money, like, if you're just a billionaire and you don't have your own team, you're just, I don't know, what, trying to-

• 9:28Speaker 02

  I didn't look at it like that, but I'm sure as a billionaire, it's something that you have to do, like, a subtle flex to let them know, like, I'm a, I'm a billionaire billionaire.

• 9:35Adam Friedland?

  I really, I want to get into your book. Tell me about, like, what growing up in College Park taught you, and like, you know, how, like, what it, how it molded you, I guess.

• 9:44Speaker 02

  College Park molded me in many ways. It taught me resilience, it taught me some independence. I did most of my adolescence growing up in College Park. I got there, you know, early ninth grade.

• 10:00Speaker 02

  Built a lot of relationships.

• 10:04Speaker 02

  You know, I got a lot of my social bandwidth from College Park, so it just means, you know, it means a lot.

• 10:13Adam Friedland?

  How, how did, what was it like seeing Atlanta become Atlanta in terms of, like, national profile when it came to music? Because, like, for, for a while, like, when I was younger, it was pretty coastal. Then I remember, like, there was OutKast and Goody Mop, but like, prior to the, like, beyond that, like, Atlanta kind of, there was no concept, like, I think maybe Lil Jon or something, or like-

• 10:35Speaker 02

  No, we had, you know-

• 10:37Adam Friedland?

  Crunk, Crunk and like, and Ludacris, maybe.

• 10:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, Ludacris is after.

• 10:43Speaker 02

  Outkast and Goody Mob.

• 10:44Adam Friedland?

  No, that's what I'm saying, like, the only concept anyone had beyond Outkast and Goody Mob, they didn't really have a concept of music from Atlanta until you saw like Def Jam South, I would say.

• 10:57Speaker 02

  You had, you had T.I., you had Jeezy, you had, even before Organized Noise, you had Kilo. We were listening to Kilo getting ready.

• 11:06Adam Friedland?

  WAP.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  Today. Gucci, yeah, I mean, so you just, you know, Atlanta has went through different, different periods and different eras, but for the most part, it's been sustainable and it's like we keep passing the torch to the next. And that, and that gives us like a lifeline too, but I mean, Outkast is when I think they won an award and Andre said about South had something to say.

• 11:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 11:33Speaker 02

  And then it started being more intentional as far as what we were doing, but Atlanta has always been like a city for like growth and creativity musically.

• 11:42Adam Friedland?

  Have, have you seen music become less regional? Like, for instance, like Too Short, like went platinum and he, I think he sold like, like 500 records on the East Coast.

• 11:52Speaker 02

  At his time, yeah.

• 11:53Adam Friedland?

  Music could be.

• 11:53Speaker 02

  On the West Coast.

• 11:54Adam Friedland?

  On, on the East Coast. I think on the West Coast, he's, he went platinum.

• 11:57Speaker 02

  Oh, okay.

• 11:58Adam Friedland?

  So, but it was like so regional that, you know, like in the Bay, he was, like, were you famous and like a known quantity in Atlanta for a while before you became nationally famous?

• 12:09Speaker 02

  I think I, excuse me. I was known in Atlanta, not necessarily for my music, though. I was known in Atlanta because I'm like, I was, played basketball, I hustled, I'm from the streets, so I would be outside, I've had a, I've, I've had nice cars my whole, since I've been driving, you know what I'm saying, I've been presenting myself in a nice, you know, way far as attire and all that, so a lot of people already assumed that I was doing something, going to do something or going to be something early on. You can kind of see my trajectory coming up.

• 12:41Adam Friedland?

  You had three cars in college?

• 12:43Speaker 02

  I did.

• 12:43Adam Friedland?

  How did you like get them there?

• 12:46Speaker 02

  I drove one.

• 12:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 12:48Speaker 02

  It was in Alabama, so I would ride home with somebody else because Alabama's two hours from Atlanta. And people would literally go, almost dating, you know what I'm saying? It was two hours and it was an hour behind, so you would lose an hour.

• 13:01Adam Friedland?

  That's not bad.

• 13:02Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know, you're leaving.

• 13:04Adam Friedland?

  This is a question I had when I was reading the book, I was like, how the hell did he get the three cars up and down to Alabama?

• 13:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, I know you thought I took a tow truck, but I didn't, it's literally like people, it's like, how did he do this? Another rap guy lying, no, I had a Cadillac, I had a Chevy, I had an Expedition. I just want to, I just want to let you know, I'm really, I've really been having it like that.

• 13:21Adam Friedland?

  You're a division one athlete, you weren't a rapper.

• 13:23Speaker 02

  And I was division one in the streets too.

• 13:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 13:26Speaker 02

  So I pull up Expedition with the TV and with the beat, wham.

• 13:28Adam Friedland?

  Eddie Bauer?

• 13:29Speaker 02

  Pull up with the, not the Eddie Bauer, just a regular black Expedition, I'm not gonna lie, I didn't have an Eddie Bauer, you know what I'm saying? Mine had the, Eddie Bauer had the leather, mine didn't have leather on the inside, but once again, I'm in college.

• 13:38Adam Friedland?

  You had the XLT.

• 13:39Speaker 02

  I had the XLT, come on, man.

• 13:41Adam Friedland?

  Come on, you know my family had that.

• 13:43Speaker 02

  Come on, man, I had the XLT, man.

• 13:44Adam Friedland?

  My family had that Expedition.

• 13:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, I had that, and I, wham, wham, wham, watching.

• 13:49Adam Friedland?

  You had the Firestone tires? Do you remember that the Explorer had those tires that kept exploding?

• 13:55Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, mine never exploded.

• 13:57Adam Friedland?

  No, no, thank God.

• 13:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then I had a, I had a, um, I want to say like a ninety-three Cadillac Sedan DeVille, it was, it was blue.

• 14:09Speaker 02

  Navy blue, black, in there with the rims, with the gray leather, and then I had a, I say maroon, some people say burgundy, but I had a maroon.

• 14:21Adam Friedland?

  You're psychotic.

• 14:22Speaker 02

  Box Chevy, on rims, and on Monday, you know, Wednesday and Friday, I swapped cars and then between Tuesdays and Thursdays, because I was staying off campus, I'm like, but yeah, yeah, that was me.

• 14:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, Volvo, Volvo.

• 14:36Speaker 02

  Volvo?

• 14:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, my cousin Gerard had a Volvo, no, he had a Saab, he had a Saab.

• 14:40Adam Friedland?

  Those are nice cars.

• 14:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 14:41Adam Friedland?

  They discontinue them.

• 14:42Speaker 02

  The Volvo and the Saab were like cousins.

• 14:44Adam Friedland?

  Swedish, yeah, yeah.

• 14:45Speaker 02

  They looked, they were.

• 14:46Adam Friedland?

  But they sold Volvo to the Chinese, now everything is a.

• 14:49Speaker 02

  Really?

• 14:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but I won't get too political with you, right? Let's, let's focus on the book for a second, what is the thesis you want to get across? Like, like what do you want people like to take away from this book?

• 15:01Speaker 02

  This is my first.

• 15:04Speaker 02

  Piece of literature that I'm putting out for the world to see and to consume. It's called "The Voice In My Head Is God." The book is not so much a religious book. It's about intuition.

• 15:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:17Speaker 02

  It's about me using intuition as a sixth sense.

• 15:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:24Speaker 02

  The voice in this title speaks to my conscience, my intuition. And then, when I say "God," it's me giving credit to someone much higher than myself. Me giving credit to something higher than my ego. In this book, I talk about how the voice in my head, which is, I assume is intuition. I assume that it's God, because they say, "God is inside of you," and, you know, blessings come from within. So, this is just my presentation to the world, and hopefully it helps someone make decisions, helps them make decisions based on their own divine guidance.

• 16:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, trust your gut, basically.

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Bam, you get it.

• 16:10Adam Friedland?

  I mean, that's like becoming a man, basically.

• 16:13Speaker 02

  You get it, bro.

• 16:14Adam Friedland?

  You have like one too many relationships with the girl who's like, "I cheated on every boyfriend I ever had." And you're like, "This time is different."

• 16:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, you're right, right, right. Bro, you, you, you get it, damn.

• 16:24Adam Friedland?

  "I'm different."

• 16:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly, that's exactly what this is.

• 16:28Adam Friedland?

  When bigger rappers would come through Atlanta, like, you would serve, like, is that what you were doing prior to rapping?

• 16:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Actually, can I, can I show you something?

• 16:41Adam Friedland?

  I have this weed dealer who wants to-

• 16:45Speaker 02

  Is that what is ashtray here? What is ashtray here?

• 16:47Adam Friedland?

  The ashtray is kind of a classy, kind of like 1960s kind of vibe. I mean, you could, you could do weed if you want.

• 16:53Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 16:55Adam Friedland?

  Can you, I mean, if you want it.

• 16:57Speaker 02

  Okay, cool, okay.

• 16:58Adam Friedland?

  I'll pimp with you, dude. I'm not really, honestly, I don't smoke weed, I just feel bad for this guy, so I still buy weed from him. Cause he's had a tough time. What?

• 17:08Speaker 02

  What?

• 17:09Adam Friedland?

  I give it to, I give it to the homeless.

• 17:12Speaker 02

  That's a good idea. So, I've done that before too. I've, I've, they- So they want something, and they done grabbed that, they done grabbed my joint and went on about the business. So I've done that before.

• 17:25Adam Friedland?

  Well, you smoke like doinks and then you like, uh, you like, I saw your ashtray. I saw your ashtray where it's, it's very wasteful unless you give it to the homeless.

• 17:34Speaker 02

  I'm starting.

• 17:35Adam Friedland?

  Your roaches are like this long.

• 17:36Speaker 02

  I think I should start doing that, though.

• 17:38Adam Friedland?

  Well, I mean, it's just like, I mean, you're a wealthy gentleman and I'm not gonna, if you, if you're. Put a towel under the door. So what, Jonah, put a towel. Yo, can I?

• 17:50Speaker 02

  You don't own this building? You like, you could own this building. Your parents own this building, right?

• 17:54Adam Friedland?

  No, my, my parents, uh.

• 17:56Speaker 02

  I wanna be sarcastic, like, this is like something your parents own, right? Your, your parents own something like this.

• 17:59Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, no.

• 18:00Speaker 02

  Tell me, come on.

• 18:01Adam Friedland?

  I, I, I have literally like, I literally got no benefits from Jewish.

• 18:06Speaker 02

  No, I'm not going for that.

• 18:07Adam Friedland?

  It's like, it's a waste of Jewish, to be honest.

• 18:09Speaker 02

  I would never believe that.

• 18:10Adam Friedland?

  I swear to God.

• 18:12Speaker 02

  You, you.

• 18:12Adam Friedland?

  The only person that's ever helped me out was an anti-Semite named Nick Mullet.

• 18:18Adam Friedland?

  Anyway, so my weed dealer, his name's Ari Stern.

• 18:22Speaker 02

  Well, this, this, well, I guess it's.

• 18:24Adam Friedland?

  He wants to be a musician too, and I, I wanna, if I could play it for you, can you tell me like, uh, whether or not I should keep encouraging him?

• 18:31Speaker 02

  Uh-uh, I don't wanna hear that shit, bro.

• 18:33Adam Friedland?

  No, I think you do wanna hear this shit.

• 18:36Speaker 02

  I don't wanna hear that shit, bro.

• 18:38Adam Friedland?

  I think you might wanna hear this shit. It's very, it's very.

• 18:41Speaker 02

  That wouldn't, hey, let me tell you, that what people need to hear.

• 18:44Adam Friedland?

  It's a song.

• 18:44Speaker 02

  Some people not, not ready for that. Some people need to hear.

• 18:49Adam Friedland?

  I'm just saying.

• 18:50Speaker 02

  Let me tell you this.

• 18:50Adam Friedland?

  He asked me if I could play 2 Chainz, his song about, uh, losing his son in custody.

• 18:58Speaker 02

  What the fuck's so funny?

• 18:58Adam Friedland?

  Well, maybe.

• 19:06Adam Friedland?

  Should I tell him to keep going for it?

• 19:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, it sounds like you got.

• 19:17Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry to disobey.

• 19:28Speaker 02

  You know why I think it could work? Cause somebody can relate to it.

• 19:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, cause you like, uh, cause a lot of people get divorced. Yeah.

• 19:34Speaker 02

  Well, nah, motherfucker. It's people get they child. You don't have to be divorced for your, you don't have to be married to have kids.

• 19:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:41Speaker 02

  Some people just lose.

• 19:41Adam Friedland?

  You know any guys that are like really too upset at like, uh, about at family court?

• 19:47Speaker 02

  No, I don't know.

• 19:48Adam Friedland?

  Gilbert Arenas, he used to tweet all this, or Instagram all the time about, I'm the king of this family court shit.

• 19:56Speaker 02

  I like, I like, uh.

• 19:57Adam Friedland?

  But now his kids go league.

• 19:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, I like, I like watch it. Yep. His kid is like, well, he, he has a couple kids that's like that.

• 20:04Adam Friedland?

  Woo!

• 20:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I like, I like watching him talk about basketball.

• 20:07Adam Friedland?

  Is, is, we gotta get, are you, are you doing Project Kobe?

• 20:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, Halo will be going to the league till he's 10 years old. He'll be going.

• 20:15Adam Friedland?

  Is he tall, like his father?

• 20:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think he's tall.

• 20:17Adam Friedland?

  You're going to the league, young man?

• 20:20Speaker 02

  Say it so he can hear you.

• 20:22Adam Friedland?

  Say, "I'm going to..." Yeah, okay. What's your game? What's your like? You're a pastor?

• 20:30Adam Friedland?

  Oh, he's humble. He's humble like his father.

• 20:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, right. He's not, he's not humble. He humble, but he pop it too.

• 20:39Adam Friedland?

  Are you good at 2K?

• 20:43Adam Friedland?

  I'll fry you, I'll fry you immediately.

• 20:47Adam Friedland?

  Wait, so I also.

• 20:48Speaker 02

  He got his game up here in the room. He ain't just like talking like, he take his game everywhere.

• 20:52Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna say no to this?

• 20:53Speaker 02

  Man, where's my lighter? Cause you messing with my nerves.

• 20:56Adam Friedland?

  Get him a lighter and put a towel. Get him a light.

• 20:58Speaker 02

  You got me listening to doing A and R and shit. We supposed to be talking about my name.

• 21:01Adam Friedland?

  I'm saying this guy lost his kids and he wants to make a.

• 21:04Speaker 02

  Man, I don't care. I got mine.

• 21:07Adam Friedland?

  Here's a song, so.

• 21:11Speaker 02

  This is just dropping out.

• 21:13Adam Friedland?

  Alright, alright, alright, alright.

• 21:15Speaker 02

  Alright, go ahead. I'm sorry you lost your kiss. I'm sorry.

• 21:17Adam Friedland?

  It's not me, it's the weed dealer lost his kiss.

• 21:19Speaker 02

  I'm sorry that the weed dealer...

• 21:21Adam Friedland?

  And I don't know if I should tell him to stop.

• 21:23Speaker 02

  Nah, tell him to keep going.

• 21:24Adam Friedland?

  Because here's the thing, in white, in the white community...

• 21:26Speaker 02

  I sold weed and I talked about...

• 21:28Adam Friedland?

  In the white community, if your drug dealer wants to become a rapper, that sounds like the worst thing ever. It sounds like he's the worst, like...

• 21:36Speaker 02

  Oh, see, I didn't look at it like that.

• 21:37Adam Friedland?

  You gotta hang out with him, and then he wants to play you his music, and it's just a punisher.

• 21:42Speaker 02

  It looked like you started stepping back when I lit this weed up. It bothered you.

• 21:44Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, I'll piff with you, dude.

• 21:46Speaker 02

  No, no, don't worry about it.

• 21:47Adam Friedland?

  I'll piff. I piffed on Saturday night. I'm getting back into it.

• 21:50Speaker 02

  Is that what the, that's what the Jewish brothers say?

• 21:53Adam Friedland?

  No, no, New York, New York, bro. It's a dead-ass New York style to say piff.

• 21:57Speaker 02

  Dead-ass?

• 21:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, it's dead-ass New York.

• 21:59Speaker 02

  Dead-ass.

• 22:01Adam Friedland?

  What did you say? I don't want you to have no part of this, okay?

• 22:05Speaker 02

  So they got...

• 22:06Adam Friedland?

  We want you in the NBA, okay?

• 22:07Speaker 02

  They got the butt weed up here, that's what he's saying, they got them.

• 22:09Adam Friedland?

  I don't want you, I don't want you going down this path that your father and I are on.

• 22:13Speaker 02

  Don't want it out. They don't want it out.

• 22:16Adam Friedland?

  For me, for like, one of the most like incredible moments that I ever witnessed, was that like generational run that like Wayne was on, like 2005 to 2008, right? Like dedication, drought, like everything going up to the corner, right? And the first time I heard you was when he did the hook on Duffle Bag. And, you do...

• 22:38Speaker 02

  Can I, can I get a... You wanna hit it? You wanna piff it?

• 22:41Adam Friedland?

  I'll piff, yeah.

• 22:43Speaker 02

  I don't think you need it.

• 22:44Adam Friedland?

  Come on, bro.

• 22:47Speaker 02

  It's not lit, you gotta lit it, light it.

• 22:48Adam Friedland?

  I know, I understand, I've smoked weed before.

• 22:52Speaker 02

  This ain't from New York.

• 22:53Adam Friedland?

  So like, you tell a story about like when you first met him, right? Was it that you sold Baby to Zips? And, and what happened after that?

• 23:04Speaker 02

  Nah, so yeah, I was in the studio, recording and Cash Money. Baby and those guys were on the other side.

• 23:13Adam Friedland?

  Don't look.

• 23:16Speaker 02

  Oh no, you hitting them over. I see, go ahead. That's right, you know what you doing? Alright, so anyway, um, I was selling some, there you go, that's it. I was waiting on that punch. Good old punch, you got it.

• 23:28Adam Friedland?

  I'll be king of the jungle, yeah.

• 23:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. One more, man, one more Piff.

• 23:34Adam Friedland?

  I'm good, I'm good.

• 23:35Speaker 02

  One more Piff, bro. You gotta do at least three, bro. You can't just do like two, two, two is two chain, you gotta do three. For Adam, you gotta do three.

• 23:42Adam Friedland?

  I'm Teddy Boy, dude.

• 23:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, come on, hit a real one, man. Hold it, hold it, hold it, put it, man, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it. Ten, nine.

• 23:49Adam Friedland?

  Oh my word.

• 23:50Speaker 02

  Eight, seven, six, five, four. Three, his glasses fogging up. Two, one, yes sir.

• 24:03Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 24:03Speaker 02

  Fucked around and found out, huh?

• 24:05Adam Friedland?

  I used to, I tried so hard at being a stoner.

• 24:10Adam Friedland?

  And, uh, I took like a month off, and I realized, and I tried Blaze again, and I realized I, I was like, I'm tripping on weed. Like, all my, uh, all my tolerance had gone away. And I was like, I became like a fourteen year old again.

• 24:25Speaker 02

  What about now, how old do you feel like you are?

• 24:27Adam Friedland?

  I'm back to fourteen, dude, yeah, yeah.

• 24:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, it looks like it, yeah.

• 24:29Adam Friedland?

  You know the J-Boys, we, we loved Piff.

• 24:32Speaker 02

  The J-Boys?

• 24:33Adam Friedland?

  The Ju- Jewish.

• 24:34Speaker 02

  That's cool, um, is that, that's cool to say?

• 24:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can say it. I'll give you the pass.

• 24:39Speaker 02

  I'll never say, I'll give you the pass, nah, I ain't going for that.

• 24:43Adam Friedland?

  You can say the J-Boys, it's cool. No, we used to love, we used to love to, to Piff and then listen to rap. We put on Mitchell and Ness, we burnt, we put one in the air.

• 24:54Speaker 02

  We put on Mitchell and Ness.

• 24:55Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 24:55Speaker 02

  It's insane.

• 24:59Adam Friedland?

  No, uh, let's go back to it, though, like, uh, like...

• 25:02Speaker 02

  This Mitchell and Ness, when y'all put on these jerseys, like, one of y'all dad be owning the team or something like that?

• 25:07Adam Friedland?

  No, I got no benefits of J. I'm telling you.

• 25:11Speaker 02

  I'm not going for that.

• 25:13Adam Friedland?

  What do you think I am, the, the Rothschilds?

• 25:17Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, I, uh...

• 25:18Speaker 02

  Why's you holding the lighter?

• 25:19Adam Friedland?

  Why do you think I'm doing this?

• 25:20Speaker 02

  Let me see the lighter, bro, you got it so tight, you know, you...

• 25:22Adam Friedland?

  Alright, alright, alright.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  Alright, go ahead.

• 25:24Adam Friedland?

  Uh, so wait, let's, let's go back to the story. Let's go back to the story about... Wait, what happened?

• 25:37Adam Friedland?

  Oh, the bathroom. Yeah, it's around the corner. So, wait, so Cash Money comes to Atlanta.

• 25:44Speaker 02

  You remember. I thought you forgot, because I thought you forgot yesterday. I was gonna let that story go by.

• 25:49Adam Friedland?

  But it's a very funny story.

• 25:50Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 25:51Adam Friedland?

  It's like a kind of an anecdote. We clip, we'll say like true, like Two Chainz's true story. We put like a, like lo-fi.

• 25:59Speaker 02

  I don't want to tell it, Dan.

• 26:00Adam Friedland?

  Come on, dude.

• 26:01Speaker 02

  We'll find some.

• 26:02Adam Friedland?

  Can I tell the story for you? So he's, so he sells two ounces of marijuana. Young man, I don't...

• 26:11Adam Friedland?

  Stick to, never mind, okay. And then a baby doesn't pay you for it. And then they're like, "We're going to Atlanta," or, "New Orleans." Fuck, I am high. Okay, we're going to New Orleans. And you're like, "Fine, I'll ride with you." And then you first met Wayne there, in a indoor swimming pool. You piffed. And then, at a certain point, you were like, "I really do need that $900." And then he pays you.

• 26:41Speaker 02

  That's a great story.

• 26:42Adam Friedland?

  Thanks, bro.

• 26:43Speaker 02

  That's great.

• 26:44Adam Friedland?

  Let me tell you another story. Uh, no.

• 26:50Adam Friedland?

  When it, like, I guess, like, what was the first moment you knew that you were a known entity, like, outside of your home city? And like, how did it dawn on you?

• 27:02Adam Friedland?

  Oh, man. I'm so high.

• 27:10Adam Friedland?

  I'm interested.

• 27:11Speaker 02

  Nah, nah, nah. When I knew I was, you know... I think it was when I started to...

• 27:21Speaker 02

  It was before... It was probably before I got my record deal, honestly. Because I was so hot in the streets doing like mixtapes and just touring the chitlin' market. I would go to different cities, the Carolinas, Tennessee.

• 27:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, people would just be, would fan out, man. You know, people, before I even got my record deal.

• 27:47Adam Friedland?

  They knew the words.

• 27:48Speaker 02

  They would knew the words, they, they knew the vehicles. They would try to follow the vehicles on side of like real fan stuff.

• 27:54Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 27:55Speaker 02

  I was having fan experiences prior to getting my record deal. And I started realizing that this was something that was gonna be a little bit larger than I expected.

• 28:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Was that Dante, or were you ready?

• 28:08Speaker 02

  I prayed for it, so I believed it could happen.

• 28:10Adam Friedland?

  You believed?

• 28:11Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 28:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. You retired your, your moms?

• 28:14Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. My mom hadn't worked in, I don't know how many years. My mom hadn't worked in a long time.

• 28:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Are you, you're close with your mother?

• 28:21Speaker 02

  Yes, I am.

• 28:21Adam Friedland?

  That's the first name before 2 Chainz?

• 28:24Speaker 02

  Titty Boy, yeah.

• 28:24Adam Friedland?

  Titty Boy.

• 28:25Speaker 02

  Name from the family, you know? Nothing derogatory towards women, got it from?

• 28:29Adam Friedland?

  No, it's sweet.

• 28:30Speaker 02

  Like being a spoiled brat. Titty Baby, like.

• 28:33Adam Friedland?

  It's about breastfeeding from your mom.

• 28:36Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. And in this case, just being up under her so much, like.

• 28:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 28:40Speaker 02

  Not giving her a minute to do really anything. And that was kinda what I was known for early on.

• 28:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, me too. I was the mom of this boy.

• 28:47Speaker 02

  Really?

• 28:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I was breastfeeding until like 18, 19 years old.

• 28:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, you look like it. You got any siblings though, for real?

• 28:52Adam Friedland?

  I do. I have a younger sister.

• 28:54Speaker 02

  Younger sister?

• 28:54Adam Friedland?

  We have the same birthday, four years apart.

• 28:57Speaker 02

  Swear?

• 28:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. What prompted you to like rebrand, reinvent yourself?

• 29:03Speaker 02

  Me looking at business and me having mentors in the business space and noticing how big businesses rebrand every three to five years. So, I treat the 2 Chainz brand as a business. So, every two to three years, if it's not logo, it's something I'm doing to adjust the marketing. It's something I'm doing to just bring new light to me and what I have going on.

• 29:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Was also like Titty Boy, like you couldn't say it on like the news or something? At the time, now you can.

• 29:33Speaker 02

  Nah, yeah, at that time you couldn't, but I would go to the radio and, and because when I got my record deal, I just was like, ah, I guess I'm titty, tit, whatever, you know, people would, you gotta think, a lot of people automatically go into situations thinking negative. And you have to make them.

• 29:49Adam Friedland?

  Well, I just thought it was that you were fat, growing up.

• 29:51Speaker 02

  Nah, I never was fat.

• 29:52Adam Friedland?

  I thought it was like a fat kid with ti- with titties. And then I was like, oh, it was about like that you were close with your mother, yeah.

• 29:58Speaker 02

  Not landing.

• 29:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, nah, I wasn't saying it as a bit, I literally thought that, because we had friends, I had friends like that growing up and we all.

• 30:05Speaker 02

  Nah, I've been, I've been slender, I've been slender a long time, it just was the point that I was an only child, see, that's why actually did you have siblings, because I, that's why I was an only child.

• 30:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, no, I mean, for sure, like, when I found out you were a division one athlete, I assumed you weren't titty boy, or perhaps that's how you stopped being titty boy, by getting incredible at basketball.

• 30:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, I don't know. Nah, I guess.

• 30:30Adam Friedland?

  We're high, dude.

• 30:31Speaker 02

  You're high.

• 30:32Adam Friedland?

  No, you're fucking, you're off your rocker right now.

• 30:35Speaker 02

  Man, I do this for, I literally, you know, I smoke just, I smoke casually throughout the day, now you?

• 30:41Adam Friedland?

  I'll smoke you on the table.

• 30:42Speaker 02

  You leaning back, you bouncing in a chair, you got one leg up.

• 30:44Adam Friedland?

  I can't, I'm not, I'm not comfortable being like this on the camera right now and I'm getting a little self-conscious.

• 30:49Speaker 02

  Legs crossed, you tweaking, you scratching your face.

• 30:52Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I'm fine.

• 30:52Speaker 02

  You damn took something else. You know this shit don't amplify whatever you took.

• 30:56Adam Friedland?

  So you got straight A's in high school?

• 30:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, did you?

• 30:59Adam Friedland?

  You did.

• 31:00Speaker 02

  Did you, though?

• 31:00Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 31:01Speaker 02

  Really?

• 31:02Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 31:02Speaker 02

  I assumed that Jewish people just had good grades in school.

• 31:05Adam Friedland?

  You, you're putting your foot in it right now accidentally.

• 31:07Speaker 02

  Nah, I just would assume, I assume that, that Jews, I just, I just, I assume this.

• 31:12Adam Friedland?

  My, uh, I guess we did.

• 31:13Speaker 02

  It's, it's assumed, it's like, I'm assuming this.

• 31:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, there are a lot of harmful stereotypes like that, like getting great grades, being.

• 31:20Speaker 02

  You dropped out of school?

• 31:21Adam Friedland?

  Uh, no, I went to college, but my whole thing was, because my parents wanted A's, I would try to finesse it to like, doing the least amount of work to get an A. I wasn't like, I didn't, I didn't think of school as like, you learn there, I was like, it's like a game. Yeah, we used to do cheat, we used to cheat. We used to like, yeah.

• 31:41Speaker 02

  Really?

• 31:41Adam Friedland?

  Me and my friends would game the system. We were also smart. Yeah. We were just like, it's like a cost benefit analysis. We're like, we could, and I, we'd still do well on the exams at the end of the year. But like, uh, it was like out of, it was like trying to beat the system a little bit. That's how Jews, uh, it's called white collar crime. Yeah. It's like, that was my first experience. Yeah. At the end of the year, you do it, uh, it's not important. Why are we talking about? At the end of the year, you do a test called the advanced placement test.

• 32:11Speaker 02

  We're talking about the system, brother. And how people get around the system. We're talking about how people get around the system, brother.

• 32:18Adam Friedland?

  If you didn't tap me there, I'm gonna die.

• 32:21Speaker 02

  We're talking about the man and the system.

• 32:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. No, exactly.

• 32:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, okay.

• 32:25Adam Friedland?

  No, it's like, we're like, uh, I mean, when Jews came to America, they were just criminals. They were just, yeah, they would cheat.

• 32:32Speaker 02

  Really?

• 32:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, of course. Yeah. They were like, uh, doing petty crimes.

• 32:37Speaker 02

  Really?

• 32:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and the, yeah, and organized crimes as well.

• 32:40Speaker 02

  Really?

• 32:41Adam Friedland?

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• 33:22Adam Friedland?

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• 34:30Adam Friedland?

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• 38:06Adam Friedland?

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• 38:25Adam Friedland?

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• 40:33Adam Friedland?

  Going off, going back to you realizing you were well-known. Like, something about you that I think is so resilient and the reason I think you're, if you trust one man's opinion, is that like, your skill and your presentation seems like both effortless and not lazy, you know? And that's, was that your style throughout? Or did you have to like find your style to begin with?

• 41:03Speaker 02

  No, I've always been like this.

• 41:05Adam Friedland?

  So you knew your voice, like you're, like you've never like tried other, like, other styles, I suppose. I'm so blessed, dude. It's crazy. It's so embarrassing. But answer as if I'm not.

• 41:18Speaker 02

  But you asked for it.

• 41:18Adam Friedland?

  They're not listening, dude. They're not listening.

• 41:20Speaker 02

  But you asked for this, though.

• 41:22Adam Friedland?

  I know, cuz I thought.

• 41:23Speaker 02

  You asked for this experience, you know, you a fan, you smoke with, you smoke with Tony, man.

• 41:27Adam Friedland?

  I used to be great at smoking weed, dude.

• 41:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:29Adam Friedland?

  When I saw "There Will Be Blood," I, I, to, to the face.

• 41:34Speaker 02

  What's your take on shrooms? You ever tried shrooms?

• 41:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, I have, certainly, yeah.

• 41:37Speaker 02

  What you think, what you think about that?

• 41:39Adam Friedland?

  Uh, if you do like an eighth of shrooms and do a proper, like, trip, I always like, sometimes will feel like, uh, uh, everyone in my life hates me and then when I leave a room, uh, they all start making fun of me.

• 41:52Speaker 02

  That's how you think.

• 41:52Adam Friedland?

  But if you do a little bit of shrooms, I've found that it's, it's kinda pleasant and nice and you're not, uh, you're happy and you laugh a lot.

• 42:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, an eighth is crazy, too, though.

• 42:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, in college, we used to, uh, I did shrooms in college and, uh, Mission Impossible, the scene where like, he's like on the wire, and it was, uh, one of the most afraid I've ever been in my entire life.

• 42:13Speaker 02

  You were afraid.

• 42:14Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, for Tom, for Ethan Hunt.

• 42:16Speaker 02

  You was afraid for Tom Cruise.

• 42:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I didn't want him to get, get in trouble. I wanted him to cheat.

• 42:20Speaker 02

  Well, yeah, it's crazy.

• 42:21Adam Friedland?

  Uh, anyway, but like, going, going back to you, like, like, are you, to what extent are you like, uh, aware of the concept that like, you've been on songs with like, the biggest rappers of your time and you've kind of killed, a lot of the time, killed it harder than them? Does that register or are you like, I'm just, I'm on the team?

• 42:43Speaker 02

  No, I, I know, I'm, I'm fine, I'm like that, you know, I, I get that.

• 42:47Adam Friedland?

  You know when you've bodied everyone?

• 42:48Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 42:50Adam Friedland?

  You won't say the songs though, right?

• 42:52Speaker 02

  No, it's just, that's how I'm coming.

• 42:54Adam Friedland?

  Mercy a little bit.

• 42:55Speaker 02

  Mercy?

• 42:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 42:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, I had the best.

• 42:58Adam Friedland?

  You know you did.

• 42:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:59Adam Friedland?

  You'll say it?

• 43:00Speaker 02

  Did I say I had the best?

• 43:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, cuz that's like a legendary.

• 43:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, of course I had the best.

• 43:06Adam Friedland?

  And what was it, Yeh was like very good to you very early on, is that correct? How did you guys meet? Like, what was your?

• 43:12Speaker 02

  Um, I was

• 43:17Speaker 02

  making noise in the streets, putting out mixtapes, and...

• 43:20Adam Friedland?

  What year was it?

• 43:22Speaker 02

  Man, this is a good one. I would say

• 43:26Speaker 02

  maybe either 2010 or 2011.

• 43:30Adam Friedland?

  So after graduation?

• 43:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, before my first album.

• 43:33Adam Friedland?

  808, actually, what is it?

• 43:34Speaker 02

  This is before my first album.

• 43:36Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 43:36Speaker 02

  My first album came out in 2012, so we met way before. So probably 2011 or late 2010 or something. To where we built a rapport, and it was through the music that I was putting out in the streets, through my mixtapes. Started building a rapport, talking on the phone, bouncing creative ideas.

• 43:55Adam Friedland?

  What did he teach you? He's a genius.

• 43:57Speaker 02

  A lot, bro.

• 43:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:58Speaker 02

  I don't think you can just name something he taught you, just by being around him, he has a very high level of um, everything from architect to engineering, not just music, you know what I mean? So it's just like art.

• 44:11Adam Friedland?

  Also just as a producer.

• 44:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, all of that, so just, you know, I'm definitely, and then I'm someone that tries to learn something indifferent when I'm around the Wayne era or whoever I'm around that has more knowledge in that particular department or more experience. I come with my eyes and my ears open.

• 44:34Adam Friedland?

  That's what Kobe used to do, right? With like legends.

• 44:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 44:39Speaker 02

  That's what you, I think you should study him. I don't, I do less talking when I'm around certain individuals or more listening.

• 44:46Adam Friedland?

  Kanye is like my favorite. I like, I think it's not said enough, but he could very well be the best producer, you know, ever. People like talk about him, his rap career is like so, like massive, but like the beats that he's made, just like throughout his career, like I think the best.

• 45:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think he's really dope at curating.

• 45:08Adam Friedland?

  He convinced you to up your fee for featuring?

• 45:12Speaker 02

  For my feature?

• 45:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 45:14Speaker 02

  Maybe he did.

• 45:16Adam Friedland?

  What did he, what did he tell you to up it to?

• 45:19Speaker 02

  I don't know, this was when I was doing a lot of features at the time and

• 45:24Speaker 02

  I would come in studio sessions with him and then like go to another room and I got this feature. So it started being something that was not getting in my way, but it was something that I was doing so common. And so, I think his idea was just to put a high number on it, so it would just

• 45:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 45:44Speaker 02

  limit.

• 45:45Adam Friedland?

  What's the most features you've done in a week?

• 45:47Speaker 02

  In a week?

• 45:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. In your life?

• 45:50Speaker 02

  Man, I don't know, man, I

• 45:57Speaker 02

  I don't know, probably 10 or 12 or something.

• 45:59Adam Friedland?

  Times that by 100,000.

• 46:10Adam Friedland?

  10 or 12?

• 46:11Speaker 02

  Yeah. I mean, yeah.

• 46:12Adam Friedland?

  He made 1.2 billion dollars.

• 46:15Speaker 02

  Oh yeah, he wanted me to Yeah, but yeah, I was charging, but that was when because what happens is you work with artists that you're one fans of and that you plan on working with, so sometimes when you do that, you just do swap outs. You'll just swap it out. You'll be like, you know, whenever you need me. But then it became a point where you just charge because you're not gonna swap. And even now, I have, I don't know how many swaps. I don't know, maybe two years ago I did like the update to see how many people actually owe me verses, and some of that, some of the people know this, I don't even want nothing, I don't even want a verse from them.

• 46:52Adam Friedland?

  Jason Derulo.

• 46:54Speaker 02

  Jason Derulo.

• 46:55Adam Friedland?

  He owes you a verse.

• 46:57Speaker 02

  Did I charge?

• 46:58Adam Friedland?

  I don't know if you charged it, but you were on a massive song.

• 47:00Speaker 02

  But you know what, that song is almost diamond, that'd be my, so I had to figure out like that, it worked.

• 47:05Adam Friedland?

  Does it sound like Jewish to you a little bit?

• 47:08Speaker 02

  Does what sound Jewish?

• 47:09Adam Friedland?

  That song.

• 47:13Adam Friedland?

  It does, kind of. That was my reference point at least. I was like, what is this?

• 47:19Speaker 02

  I don't know, I don't, I didn't, you know, musically, what is the Jewish background of music?

• 47:24Adam Friedland?

  Klezmer.

• 47:26Speaker 02

  Lesberg?

• 47:26Adam Friedland?

  Klezmer.

• 47:27Speaker 02

  Klecksberg?

• 47:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, kind of.

• 47:30Speaker 02

  One more time?

• 47:30Adam Friedland?

  Klezmer.

• 47:32Speaker 02

  Klezmer.

• 47:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. You wanna hear it? It sounds like Jason Derulo, Talk 33.

• 47:37Speaker 02

  Play it.

• 47:38Adam Friedland?

  Alright, I'll put it on. You wanna hear this, but not my weed dealers reggae song about family court?

• 47:44Speaker 02

  What you about to play is a Jewish artist?

• 47:46Adam Friedland?

  No, this is a style. It's like, uh...

• 47:51Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I think it's kinda not bad. It's kinda like Radiohead a little bit. I can't believe I just said that. That's so embarrassing, Hunter. Did you hear me say that? It's kinda like Radiohead? I'm so lit. Okay. Uh... I'll put like, uh, I guess, I don't know.

• 48:09Speaker 02

  That's the style of music.

• 48:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 48:12Speaker 02

  That's what you and your boys was piffing to.

• 48:14Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no. We were listening to Paul's Dropout, Black Album, Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint. Yeah, yeah.

• 48:22Speaker 02

  Oh, y'all, y'all listen to our music?

• 48:24Adam Friedland?

  Yes, of course. We're Jewish, Jewish boys. It's like this.

• 48:30Adam Friedland?

  Like Jason Derulo.

• 48:31Speaker 02

  No, that's not it.

• 48:32Adam Friedland?

  It does sound like that.

• 48:38Speaker 02

  What instrument is that?

• 48:39Adam Friedland?

  I think, uh, clarinet. You know, Woody Allen plays clarinet.

• 48:46Adam Friedland?

  Anyway. Uh... It's kinda fire, though. You could get the reference to Jason, the Jason Derulo track. You do get it, though, right?

• 48:55Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:56Adam Friedland?

  Am I bodying this, or am I bombing this right now?

• 49:01Adam Friedland?

  Uh, wait. So, I, like, uh... What I would suppose is like, uh... Do you ever like, have a feeling if you crush it on like, another person's track? Like, you're like, it's, ugh. Like, uh, I'm giving them, like, a great song.

• 49:18Speaker 02

  Yeah. I have thought about that before. Like, I should say this verse for me. This is a great song. I mean, this is a great verse, or something like that. I have said some dope stuff on other people's song, but ultimately, I'll think of something else dope.

• 49:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Or if you're like, on a song, I imagine with like, other killers, you just wanna kill the hardest.

• 49:34Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 49:34Adam Friedland?

  Right.

• 49:35Speaker 02

  It's like

• 49:36Adam Friedland?

  It's like Glenn Gary Glenn Ross. The, this movie, where it's like, all the best actors.

• 49:40Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 49:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. I don't know why I said that. We should watch it together, though.

• 49:45Speaker 02

  I'm not watching the movie with you.

• 49:46Adam Friedland?

  Jack Lemmon.

• 49:49Adam Friedland?

  Good work! Adam, Murd, keep up the good work. Alec Cheeto. Uh, Alec Baldwin.

• 49:55Speaker 02

  The movie sounds good, but like me and you watching the movie is crazy.

• 49:58Adam Friedland?

  It's like Mercy. It's like you're on that track with the other best rapper.

• 50:02Speaker 02

  I understand everything you're saying. I think even listening to Mercy together for me and you is crazy. Like, we shouldn't be doing none of that. We shouldn't be watching the movie. We shouldn't be... We shouldn't be... We shouldn't be...

• 50:13Adam Friedland?

  We'll see how you feel in thirteen minutes.

• 50:17Speaker 02

  How do you feel?

• 50:18Adam Friedland?

  I feel great, honestly. This is one of the funniest things I've ever done, dude.

• 50:21Speaker 02

  What would you do after this?

• 50:22Adam Friedland?

  I'm impaired right now.

• 50:24Speaker 02

  I know.

• 50:24Adam Friedland?

  I have to go back to work. I have to edit the Gavin Newsom episode.

• 50:28Speaker 02

  Oh, you had Gavin promoting his book? He came on here?

• 50:30Adam Friedland?

  He's... Yeah, you're the second book promoter.

• 50:33Speaker 02

  Did you?

• 50:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 50:34Speaker 02

  I feel like...

• 50:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 50:36Speaker 02

  I feel like...

• 50:37Adam Friedland?

  I don't know why I'm in this position in life right now.

• 50:39Speaker 02

  Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.

• 50:41Adam Friedland?

  Okay. We're totally gonna watch the movie. I feel like it's turning.

• 50:45Speaker 02

  No, you're crazy.

• 50:45Adam Friedland?

  I think we are.

• 50:46Speaker 02

  You had Gavin Newsom on here, right?

• 50:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he's gonna be the president, maybe.

• 50:51Adam Friedland?

  Look at him. I mean...

• 50:52Speaker 02

  Alright, so listen.

• 50:57Speaker 02

  You was acting like that when he was up here by his book?

• 51:00Adam Friedland?

  I didn't piff, dude. I was alright before the piff. You have to admit it.

• 51:05Speaker 02

  You was helping him sell... You gotta sell... Look, bro, you... Use your network. That's why I'm on here. Use your network.

• 51:12Adam Friedland?

  No, this is a independently-produced, uh, kinda punk rock-style place you're at right now. We're outside the system. Kinda selling it out the trunk, if you will.

• 51:26Adam Friedland?

  He... I got him. I got him finally. Do you have any advice for me, young man?

• 51:32Speaker 02

  Woo, get... Get security.

• 51:34Adam Friedland?

  Chill out?

• 51:34Speaker 02

  He needs security.

• 51:35Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god, having a kid told me to chill out from smoking weed?

• 51:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, you don't need... It's not...

• 51:41Adam Friedland?

  I'm gonna have to trade now.

• 51:41Speaker 02

  It's not for everybody.

• 51:43Adam Friedland?

  I know, dude.

• 51:44Speaker 02

  See, that's what I'm saying. It's not for everybody. My kids probably need to see that, cuz they know that. Man, I definitely ain't gonna mess with nothing like that. Man, that's a trip.

• 51:51Adam Friedland?

  I'm only doing this for him right now.

• 51:53Speaker 02

  No, you ain't doing that for him.

• 51:54Adam Friedland?

  I'm doing it for the future.

• 51:55Speaker 02

  You ain't doing that for him.

• 51:56Adam Friedland?

  He's the future of this country.

• 51:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 52:00Adam Friedland?

  He matters more than us.

• 52:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 52:02Adam Friedland?

  What was it like, um, having... Your kids are, like, rich?

• 52:06Speaker 02

  My kids are rich?

• 52:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, like, by proxy of, like, you know, you being rich.

• 52:09Speaker 02

  I teach my kids to really be rich from the inside out, so they got a good foundation inside, and they not really like... I mean, they're spoiled to the fact.

• 52:18Adam Friedland?

  Do you worry about them being spoiled?

• 52:19Speaker 02

  You just be cutting people off.

• 52:21Adam Friedland?

  No, I was gonna ask that. Do you worry about them being spoiled?

• 52:24Speaker 02

  I mean, yes and no, but at the same time, you don't want them to experience what you experienced. So they're gonna have a higher level and more experiences than you did coming up. So I think my wife and I did a good job of putting them in a certain light, right? But, you know, as they get older, we'll take our hands off the steering wheel and kinda, or take the training wheels off and let them learn on their own as well.

• 52:45Adam Friedland?

  That's lovely. I can tell you're great parents.

• 52:47Speaker 02

  Hey, man, talk about my book, cuz I know to get, I'm gonna look at the Gavin Newsom episode. I'm gonna see how you try to do me.

• 52:52Adam Friedland?

  This is a completely different thing.

• 52:54Speaker 02

  Talk about my book.

• 52:55Adam Friedland?

  I'm a fan of yours.

• 52:56Speaker 02

  Talk about my book.

• 52:57Adam Friedland?

  I got it. Okay, so, wait, you mentioned your grandmother, like, shot at the police? And then you never followed that up?

• 53:06Adam Friedland?

  Can you tell us more about that story?

• 53:06Speaker 02

  Cuz I wasn't there, bro. I heard this story from like my mom.

• 53:08Adam Friedland?

  Wait, so what's the story, though? I just wanted to know more.

• 53:11Speaker 02

  My grandmama sold bootleg liquor and...

• 53:14Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 53:15Speaker 02

  And this is before, I guess you could get liquor. And I guess the police was coming to ask or something. And from my assumption, she shot at them, shot at them pulling up. So the voice, I'll do it.

• 53:31Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 53:32Speaker 02

  Sit back, bro. I have a book that's very important to me.

• 53:35Adam Friedland?

  Wait.

• 53:36Speaker 02

  It's very, very, very important to me. I'm the author of this book. It's called The Voice In My Head Is God. It took me over two years to write this book. It's very introspective and it's very detailed as far as my life experiences and my journey. It has the title "God" in it, but it's not necessarily like a religious book. I don't have like scriptures in it. I do have stories of the times that I either left a relationship, meaning business or whatever, or stayed in one too long. I just let people in on the way that I think, the way that I move. And I think that this piece of literature can help my community navigate through their daily experiences

• 54:19Speaker 02

  by listening to the divine guidance that they have inside of them. And it can help you from everything, through business decisions, heartbreak.

• 54:30Speaker 02

  What shoes you should wear? Everything from top to bottom, so. Yeah, that's how you do that, bro.

• 54:35Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 54:35Speaker 02

  That's how you do that, bro.

• 54:36Adam Friedland?

  For editing, can we be like, so tell me about the book?

• 54:39Speaker 02

  That's cap.

• 54:40Adam Friedland?

  No, no, we, we, just, just let's get it clean? So, tell me about the book?

• 54:49Adam Friedland?

  Oh, wait, I, I wanna, were there stories that, uh, didn't relate or that didn't make the book?

• 54:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 54:56Speaker 02

  Of course, yes.

• 54:57Adam Friedland?

  What, what?

• 54:58Speaker 02

  I think I have a lot of stories that just didn't make the book. This, the...

• 55:03Speaker 02

  Ultimately, the book... Ultimately, the book is me telling stories through the lens of this voice in my head and how something told me, if you've ever said, something told me to do something, to say something, something told you to... Something, what told you to, what told you to do this?

• 55:24Adam Friedland?

  I thought it'd be cool, I thought you, I thought it was a slam dunk.

• 55:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, so something told you to do that.

• 55:31Adam Friedland?

  We're both gonna be high.

• 55:32Speaker 02

  Alright, so sometimes the voices, sometimes, sometimes the voice could be off.

• 55:35Adam Friedland?

  I thought we were gonna watch a movie afterwards.

• 55:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes you, and sometimes the voice could clearly be off depending on who you are, so you have to like, you know, man.

• 55:44Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, when I blaze, I, I think about everything I say throughout the day and I'm like, you suck. Yeah.

• 55:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:51Adam Friedland?

  I go through my entire day.

• 55:53Speaker 02

  But I think you say stuff and you don't fear the consequences because...

• 55:56Adam Friedland?

  I'm delusional, yeah, yeah.

• 55:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, because you know your family got money, right?

• 55:59Adam Friedland?

  No, they really don't have money. I bought my dad's house, yeah.

• 56:04Speaker 02

  So the Jewish kids can't, like, support their parents?

• 56:07Adam Friedland?

  No, it's, well, yeah, no, it's...

• 56:10Speaker 02

  I'm just, I'm, I'ma learn it at this point.

• 56:11Adam Friedland?

  They're not plugged, they're not plugged, yeah.

• 56:13Speaker 02

  Why not? But don't you like have like friends of the family that like, help?

• 56:18Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, cuz we're not from America, yeah.

• 56:22Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 56:22Adam Friedland?

  We're not like connected, yeah, yeah. But now that I have agents, since, you know, obviously they're Jewish. Yeah, or managers, yeah, yeah, but I've like earned it through whatever this is. Through being great at, uh, asking questions.

• 56:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, you absolutely, you're the top, you're the top. You're the top, man.

• 56:41Adam Friedland?

  Wait, wait, can I ask a good question then?

• 56:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, let's try that, let's try a good one.

• 56:47Adam Friedland?

  Come on, bro.

• 56:48Speaker 02

  Let's see what you got.

• 56:49Adam Friedland?

  What is this, this is one of those shows, dude, this is like getting along and being best friends and then watching a movie afterwards show.

• 56:55Speaker 02

  He just laughing at this.

• 56:59Adam Friedland?

  Thank you. Your wife is, uh, she's.

• 57:02Speaker 02

  That's how we watch comedy, so we laugh at two different things.

• 57:05Adam Friedland?

  What's your favorite comedy? That's not, that's not my question.

• 57:08Speaker 02

  I don't know, man.

• 57:10Adam Friedland?

  How do you mark like evolving and growing as an artist? Like, you obviously want to top yourself each time, right? Uh, so like, what are your markers of like, uh, progression? And like, is there a moment where you're satisfied? Or is there a moment where it's like, I'll never be satisfied?

• 57:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think it's hard to put a glass ceiling on passion.

• 57:31Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 57:33Speaker 02

  I think when you just love something, it's hard to really,

• 57:38Speaker 02

  you know, find that end all, you know, for me at least.

• 57:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 57:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, so you always, you know, you wake up every day thinking, you know, you could take it up a notch, you can go up a level. You're, you're delusional when you're a creative. You just, you know, you, you, you, you wake up and then you,

• 57:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 58:00Speaker 02

  you hope that that day brings you an idea that you, you know, that you can reap the benefits off of, so.

• 58:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 58:11Adam Friedland?

  When, when did you consider you fully, like, accepted?

• 58:17Speaker 02

  Tapped in?

• 58:17Adam Friedland?

  That God was, that God was.

• 58:19Speaker 02

  I feel like I've been tapped in for, you know, it's not been a very long time, but I can, it, I think it took life, experiences, and the outcome for me to come to a conclusion that this voice in my head has helped me navigate through some of the toughest times and turmoil in my life.

• 58:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. And it got stronger.

• 58:41Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 58:41Adam Friedland?

  Right? You learned how to trust it.

• 58:42Speaker 02

  It got clearer.

• 58:44Adam Friedland?

  Clear. Yeah. You think that's what like, uh, maturing? Like, that's the point of it?

• 58:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 58:51Adam Friedland?

  I think so too.

• 58:52Speaker 02

  I kind of wrote a book like that at twenty something years old.

• 58:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 58:55Speaker 02

  I go through some stuff.

• 58:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. You seem remarkably like grounded for like, uh, someone as famous as yourself.

• 59:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 59:04Adam Friedland?

  Like, uh, is this the method and means of you maintaining like a level? An even keel and?

• 59:11Speaker 02

  I think it could have some secret sauce in that book. I think it could.

• 59:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 59:15Speaker 02

  I think I could be, and who knows, you know? This is my opinion, this is my personal belief.

• 59:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 59:21Speaker 02

  So I think what works for people is whatever they believe in. This is what I truly believe in. This is how I truly be operating. So ultimately, you know, it changes the way one person.

• 59:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 59:35Speaker 02

  Navigates throughout their day and they pay more attention to that something told me voice.

• 59:41Adam Friedland?

  Have you said it to any like, uh, any people you know? You're like, I think you might. Have you said it to any baby bros? Maybe to tell them to keep their heads straight?

• 59:53Speaker 02

  Oh, man. I think.

• 59:57Speaker 02

  I've definitely sent out some advanced copies. I've also had this conversation with people before writing the book.

• 1:00:04Adam Friedland?

  So that's what gave you the idea?

• 1:00:06Speaker 02

  Well, yeah.

• 1:00:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. All right, last question. Is there a sneak diss perhaps?

• 1:00:11Speaker 02

  A sneak diss?

• 1:00:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, in that book.

• 1:00:13Speaker 02

  No, this is.

• 1:00:14Adam Friedland?

  There's one line where the one guy on earth reads it and he knows. He's like, oh.

• 1:00:19Speaker 02

  Nah, man.

• 1:00:20Adam Friedland?

  You're rent free.

• 1:00:21Speaker 02

  This book, this book about positive vibes, man, uplifting.

• 1:00:25Adam Friedland?

  Well, I, I think it's, it genuinely is a great thing you've shared.

• 1:00:30Speaker 02

  Thank you, man.

• 1:00:31Adam Friedland?

  With people. And I, I think it's like the, I know you're saying it's just your opinion, but I think it's pretty universal to learn how to like, accept your, your intuition and, uh, and accept that you're, like, life is kind of lucky at certain points. And so you have to like, trust your gut.

• 1:00:47Speaker 02

  Trust your gut?

• 1:00:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. What is the biggest inflection point like that in your entire life? Where you, it could have gone one of two directions dramatically different?

• 1:01:00Speaker 02

  I've had a couple of those crossroads, bro. I've had a couple of them that, that, you know, at that particular time, it probably led me somewhere that I felt was dark. Ultimately, leading me to the light. And then I've made decisions based off just.

• 1:01:18Speaker 02

  Uh, good night's rest and this is what I'm gonna do. So I've had a few pivots throughout my life that have came.

• 1:01:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:26Speaker 02

  You know, through that process.

• 1:01:29Adam Friedland?

  I got it together.

• 1:01:31Speaker 02

  You're not together, but it's okay.

• 1:01:32Adam Friedland?

  I got it together at the end there. You gotta give, you gotta give me a prop.

• 1:01:37Speaker 02

  Okay, cool.

• 1:01:37Adam Friedland?

  Am I saying it's, no, no, you gotta cosign. You have to tell the people that you're like, I'm impressed by the, by the tenacity and the.

• 1:01:47Speaker 02

  All right, all right, how many hands I got?

• 1:01:49Adam Friedland?

  You have two hands?

• 1:01:53Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:01:53Adam Friedland?

  You don't have visuals from weed.

• 1:01:56Speaker 02

  I'm just trying to make sure.

• 1:01:57Adam Friedland?

  It is exotic. I will, I will attest to that.

• 1:02:01Speaker 02

  This is okay.

• 1:02:02Adam Friedland?

  But.

• 1:02:04Adam Friedland?

  You look like a.

• 1:02:05Speaker 02

  Man, when I leave, you gonna be punching, you gonna be punching yourself, man. You be like, damn, I got high as hell in there. I'm already knowing how you finna be with it.

• 1:02:11Adam Friedland?

  For me personally.

• 1:02:12Speaker 02

  Who's that, Hunter?

• 1:02:13Adam Friedland?

  Let me tell you how.

• 1:02:14Speaker 02

  You and Hunter right there. Me and Hunter.

• 1:02:16Adam Friedland?

  Let me tell you how like, uh, like, uh, delusional I am. I'm not even gonna do that. I'm gonna be like, that was awesome.

• 1:02:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're delusional.

• 1:02:25Adam Friedland?

  Seriously.

• 1:02:26Speaker 02

  You're delusional.

• 1:02:26Adam Friedland?

  I know, out of my mind.

• 1:02:28Speaker 02

  All right, my guy.

• 1:02:31Adam Friedland?

  I got, honestly, bro.

• 1:02:32Speaker 02

  Clap for, clap for him, man.

• 1:02:34Adam Friedland?

  Honestly, bro, that is, that is going to cut together so fun. What an unmitigated disaster. One of my personal heroes, Two Chains, hated my guts. And to make matters worse, I was high on illegal marijuana. I had to get out of there. I ducked out of the studio. My head was full of dangerous, negative self-talk, horrible, unspeakable things that I was telling myself. Like, you stink, things like that. And it all went black.

• 1:03:05Adam Friedland?

  Where was I? What, what had happened?

• 1:03:09Adam Friedland?

  You know, before technology like the cellphone or the mailman were invented, carrier pigeons used to be used by humanity to communicate for thousands of years. These pigeons don't know that they're carrying a correspondence for a general or a star-crossed lover. All they know is that they need to go home. They're unaware of the magnets in their heads guiding their path or the sun serving like a compass. Pigeons only know one thing. No matter how far.

• 1:03:40Speaker 05

  They started. They could always find their way home. I'm Adam Friedland. And I'll be back next week. I promise. Stronger than ever.

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