Ferg Talks About His New Album, Love For Flip Phones & Being A Forefather of Grillz
Ebro in the Morning Podcast
HOT 97
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Ferg discusses the inspiration behind "Flip Phone Shorty," including a unique take on the Y2K era and a surprising connection to Lil B. The conversation also delves into the artist's passion for flip phones and a surprising origin story for their grillz.
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| 0:00.0 | WQHT and WQHTHT, H.T1, New York. |
| 0:02.9 | Ebro in the morning with Laura Stiles and Rosenberg. |
| 0:06.0 | Hot 97. |
| 0:07.8 | Just don't call it a podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Hebrew in the morning with Laura Stiles and Rosenberg. |
| 0:17.4 | You shouldn't be saying that on the air. |
| 0:19.9 | No, ladies and gentlemen, I am Ebro. |
| 0:23.3 | That is Rosenberg, and that is our friend Asap Ferg. |
| 0:26.2 | Longtime friend of the show, and he's dropping a new project called Flip Phone Shorty. |
| 0:32.0 | Strictly for the streets, baby. |
| 0:33.7 | Strictly for the streets. |
| 0:34.6 | Strictly for the streets. |
| 0:36.6 | Yo, on this, you got mad features bro |
| 0:39.3 | You got a C-Lo |
| 0:41.3 | Little B then came out the woodworks |
| 0:44.3 | How'd you find little B bro? I don't even know how I found him to be |
| 0:49.3 | honest like I'm actually my boy snap god |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you to snap god we was just geeking over Little B, like, just his music and just that era. And he was like, yo, I'll be talking to him all the time. I'm like, how? He's like, look, I'll text him right now. He put me on a group text with him. And it was simple, that simple. But it it was like I was hanging out with Denzel |
| 1:11.7 | Curry in the studio he playing Lil B and I'm like yo he's like we got a line on him |
| 1:16.7 | his boy never connected me with him and then SnapGuard wound up connecting me with him so |
| 1:23.9 | shout out to snap God that's very Snap God by the one to just be like no i'm talking to little b right now |
| 1:28.7 | that feels right |
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