You still got Chris Brown over Usher?

What?

Of course.

Pause that too.

I don't like that.

There you go.

All my life, been grinding on my life, sacrifice.

Hustle paid the price, want to slice, got the roll of dice, that's why all my life.

I've been grinding on my life, look, all my life,'s why all my life. I be grinding all my life. All my life. Been grinding all my life. Sacrifice. Pustle paid the price. Want a slice. Got the roll a dice. That's why. All my life. I've been grinding all my life. Hello. Welcome to another episode of Club Shethe. I am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the

proprietor of Club Shaysay. Stopping by for conversation and a drink today, he sold over 100 million

records and has billions of streams. He's an award-winning, highly sought-after super producer, a Grammy

award-winning songwriter, a multi-platinum selling rapper, a creator of anthems, a chart-topping

artist, an industry veteran, a multi-talented musician, versatile star, and an executive extraordinaire. He's gone diamond as an artist and a producer, a pivotal figure in shaping today's music scene with soundtracks of our lives. He has the Midas Touch. Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, hip maker. What's up, bro? I'll see you, huh? Man, thank you. How you doing? Man, I'm blessed, man. Thanks for having me. So I always ask my guest this, when you hear the accolades that I read off in such a short time, what goes through your mind? Well, when I first heard it, I'd be like, damn, I sold 250 million records. Not just a 100. But man, just the journey, man. I think that a lot of people skip over the journey and don't really appreciate the journey. And I'm going to be honest. At times I did it myself because when you sew boots on around and just going and going and going, you're going take time to reflect. then shit, look at me now. And I ain't, all them accolades, I ain't got no kids, no wife, no nothing. So shit, it's time to figure it out. Well, let's go ahead and toast. That's coming. I mean, you've had all the success, you mentioned, $250 million a record sold, all the billions of billions of streams. And now, because you got

caught up so caught up in it, and people that get caught up in their careers, they understand

exactly what you're talking about. So who, bro? Cheers, my brother. I know what you think. I've been

waiting to get that shay-shay. It's smooth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's smooth.

You're from Chicago.

Yeah.

What is it about Chicago? Why many of you guys from Chicago? I think it's because, like, the environment, you know what I'm saying? It kind of builds you to be, like, tough. And then deeper than that, for me, it's just more so like, we didn't have a way out.

People, like, I'm older now, so I'm about to be 40.

So everybody else, like the younger guys, they don't see it like that because it's the Chief Keyes, the Little Dirk's, the Jehobos, whatever. But when I was coming out, it was literally common, twister, do-a-die, psycho drama, crucial conflict, and Kanye. That was it. So it was like, you didn't have an opportunity to be like, man, like, if I was in New York, I would sit outside the death jam building 24-7 and wait for Jay-Z to come out and rap for him and shit like that. Like, that ain't really the opportunity. So I just think the music, it's a real musical city, though. I mean, I gonna be honest, like my next door neighbor, like for a while was buddy guy, you know? Really? Yeah. Okay. So, like, the music is in the city and it's just on us. Like, it's a real soulful town. So I think that that's where it really come from. What do you think's been the key to your longevity? The work. Like I love the work bro like i don't like to do nothing like people this around the time a grammy's and that thing i'm nominated for gramees for

other producers that i work with in situations but i hate partying i hate phony kicking it i'm not

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