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Payroll Giovanni on Doughboyz Cashout, Signing to Jeezy, Juggalo Gangs & More

No Jumper

No Jumper

Entertainment News, Music, Music Interviews, News

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Payroll Giovanni talks about his influences, his upbringing, the Detroit scene, YG, and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 Payroll Giovanni on being one of the best rappers in Michigan 1:20 Being influenced by Street Lordz and being able to spot someone from Detroit in a crowd 4:00 Growing up with young parents selling dr**s and getting his house raided 10:05 Giovanni’s friend RJ had to convince him to having dreams of being a rapper 12:10 The creation of Doughboyz Cashout and rappers getting k*** over a pair of Cartier’s 18:30 T.I. and Young Jeezy reaching out with a record deal and how record labels have changed 21:45 Signing to Jeezy, moving to Atlanta and becoming a walking lick 26:00 Beefing with Team Eastside, the comment section instigating and picking sides 28:55 Icewear Vezzo not f'n with Eminem for allegedly not working with Detroit artists 32:40 Juggalos allegedly being a g*ng and what ICP is up to nowadays 38:25 Tension meeting Peezy after squashing the beef, Giovanni’s influence on Tee Grizzley and GTA V 43:00 Making a group album with YG, Warren G, Jeezy and Cardo 44:25 Fans paying homage to Giovanni’s music and the nightclub scene getting old 49:30 Enjoying family time, Giovanni’s son becoming a rapper and being sneaky on Snapchat 51:30 Dropping a new track, interviews being messy and clickbait titles 53:30 Getting stuck in a box artistically and being a genuine person ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

No jumper coolest podcast in the world.

0:02.1

I'm very, very honored to have payroll gene vani in the building.

0:06.1

Yes. How you feeling, man?

0:08.0

Can't complain, man. You know, working, grinding.

0:11.6

Ever since we started interviewing Detroit rappers a couple years ago, we really started, you know, get in the mix.

0:19.4

You're like probably top top to maybe top three of artists that people just hit me and are just like, yo, if you really want to tell the story,

0:30.1

you got a tap in with payroll.

0:32.4

Yeah. Yeah.

0:33.6

So when they told me payroll gene vani's down to doing interview, I was like, okay, this is perfect because, uh,

0:39.3

you know, there's like a, there's a lot of history that was laid, you know, 10 years ago, however long ago that sometimes people who are into like the whole new wave of Detroit and Flint shit, they kind of miss out on, right?

0:49.9

Right. Right.

0:51.5

Yeah. Definitely. So it's right.

0:52.7

Always been like his own scene.

0:54.5

Right.

0:55.5

But it feels like there's like a certain street era, if you will.

0:58.6

I don't know if there's a better word for it that kind of got ushered in by you and a few other people, maybe like 10 or so years ago.

1:05.6

Even like before us, it was, uh, before us, you had street lords, right bottom, East Side Cheddar boys.

1:12.4

Like they kind of to, to my generation, they laid the blueprint, you know, those groups before them to go back to the 80s and all of that.

1:19.4

Right.

1:19.8

Most wanted.

1:20.8

But was that your primary stuff that you were listening to when you got into music?

1:25.0

I was listening to street lords heavy and East Side Cheddar boys.

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