1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:18,018 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:26,485 --> 00:00:28,571 LIL BABY: I dreamed about this shit as a kid. 5 00:00:33,826 --> 00:00:37,496 I could zone out for hours and just be in a fairyland. 6 00:00:40,666 --> 00:00:42,710 I'm-a be a real millionaire. 7 00:00:45,838 --> 00:00:47,131 Like... 8 00:00:47,214 --> 00:00:49,550 boss, like, take care of everybody, the leader. 9 00:00:55,222 --> 00:00:56,766 That's what I was aiming for. 10 00:01:01,479 --> 00:01:03,439 I ain't know how. 11 00:01:04,565 --> 00:01:07,693 Man, ain't no telling what I would've did. 12 00:01:07,777 --> 00:01:10,488 But I was gonna get there. 13 00:01:12,531 --> 00:01:14,074 No matter what. 14 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:29,381 (engine revs) 15 00:01:29,465 --> 00:01:31,926 (engine rumbling) 16 00:01:32,009 --> 00:01:34,053 ♪ ♪ 17 00:01:34,136 --> 00:01:37,139 DJ ENVY: It's crazy 'cause we seen... we seen the growth. 18 00:01:37,223 --> 00:01:40,017 (engine revs) 19 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,103 ROB MARKMAN: It's not like you came up wanting to rap. 20 00:01:43,187 --> 00:01:45,731 (engine rumbling) 21 00:01:47,066 --> 00:01:49,235 MAN: If you wasn't rapping, what would you be doing? 22 00:01:49,318 --> 00:01:51,111 MAN 2: One foot in the street 23 00:01:51,195 --> 00:01:53,823 and one foot trying to learn music. 24 00:01:56,367 --> 00:01:58,494 Rapping is something that's new for you, 25 00:01:58,577 --> 00:02:01,372 and now you in this industry. 26 00:02:02,456 --> 00:02:04,291 -(siren wailing) -WOMAN: You got all these meetings. 27 00:02:04,375 --> 00:02:06,627 You got to show up. You got to do these interviews. 28 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:10,256 I don't think people realize how much work you've put in, right? 29 00:02:11,924 --> 00:02:13,300 DJ AKADEMIKS: When you're on such a run-- 30 00:02:13,384 --> 00:02:14,635 in the last two years, we're putting out 31 00:02:14,718 --> 00:02:16,512 -hit after hit. -(snapping fingers) 32 00:02:17,555 --> 00:02:19,056 (crowd cheering) 33 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:22,309 Here with the song "Yes Indeed," Lil Baby! 34 00:02:22,393 --> 00:02:24,478 (crowd cheering) 35 00:02:24,562 --> 00:02:26,438 CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: You come from a certain environment... 36 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:31,026 ...and now you a mega rap star. 37 00:02:32,278 --> 00:02:34,947 An artist with the number one album in the world. 38 00:02:35,030 --> 00:02:36,782 BIG BOY: Those numbers are impressive, man. 39 00:02:36,866 --> 00:02:38,951 Do those numbers kind of trip you out, though? 40 00:02:39,034 --> 00:02:41,370 YARA SHAHIDI: And the BET Award goes to 41 00:02:41,453 --> 00:02:43,539 -Lil Baby. -(crowd cheering) 42 00:02:43,622 --> 00:02:45,916 ARI MELBER: Do you know why that is? Do you know why you blew up quickly? 43 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,126 -Do you think about it? -MAN 3: Do you feel like 44 00:02:47,209 --> 00:02:48,294 going forward, you still gonna always feel like 45 00:02:48,377 --> 00:02:49,378 you got something to prove? 46 00:02:49,461 --> 00:02:51,714 PIERRE THOMAS: Your breakthrough come from your sacrifice. 47 00:02:51,797 --> 00:02:53,799 ♪ ♪ 48 00:02:56,176 --> 00:02:57,845 MAN: Baby's coming down. Speed cameras. 49 00:03:06,854 --> 00:03:08,689 LIL BABY: Them dreams I had... 50 00:03:17,781 --> 00:03:20,659 ...it was like something that could actually be real. 51 00:03:23,454 --> 00:03:25,873 ♪ ♪ 52 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:45,392 (boys chattering indistinctly) 53 00:03:47,478 --> 00:03:50,648 JASON: Papa? Papa, you here? 54 00:03:54,568 --> 00:03:56,862 -Papa? -Papa? 55 00:03:56,946 --> 00:03:59,239 -Papa, where you at, Papa? -(babbling) 56 00:03:59,323 --> 00:04:00,783 Dada? 57 00:04:01,825 --> 00:04:04,870 -Dada? Dada? -Dada? Dada? 58 00:04:04,954 --> 00:04:06,121 JASON: Papa? 59 00:04:06,205 --> 00:04:07,665 -(babbling) -I'm not leaving you. 60 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:09,333 (playfully): I'm not leaving you. 61 00:04:09,416 --> 00:04:12,002 I'm not leaving you. I'm not leaving you. 62 00:04:12,086 --> 00:04:13,170 I'm not leaving you. 63 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:15,214 I'm not leaving you. I'm not leaving you. 64 00:04:15,297 --> 00:04:16,632 (babbling) 65 00:04:16,715 --> 00:04:18,217 Open. Say "open." 66 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:20,511 -(babbling) -(chuckles): Say "open." 67 00:04:20,594 --> 00:04:21,679 Say "open." 68 00:04:21,762 --> 00:04:23,222 "Thank you." 69 00:04:23,305 --> 00:04:25,015 -(babbles) -(chuckles) 70 00:04:25,099 --> 00:04:28,268 -It's cold out there. -Cold. I know it. 71 00:04:28,352 --> 00:04:30,562 Gonna have to put on like two layers of clothes. 72 00:04:30,646 --> 00:04:32,147 Two layers of...?! 73 00:04:32,231 --> 00:04:34,483 -Are you serious? -(grunts) 74 00:04:36,402 --> 00:04:37,861 Let's go get layered up. 75 00:04:37,945 --> 00:04:41,782 Did you just say I got to put two pants on, 76 00:04:41,865 --> 00:04:44,076 two shirts, two jackets? 77 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:46,537 -LIL BABY: Yep. -What?! 78 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:50,791 LIL BABY: Family more important to me than anything. 79 00:04:50,874 --> 00:04:53,502 I don't never see me leaving my kids. 80 00:04:53,585 --> 00:04:56,922 Like, I don't want to be no holiday dad 81 00:04:57,006 --> 00:04:59,174 and I just talk to you. 82 00:04:59,258 --> 00:05:01,552 Put your jacket on. 83 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:03,971 LIL BABY: My dad kind of stayed out of town. 84 00:05:04,054 --> 00:05:06,181 He was like, uh, I see him every now and then, 85 00:05:06,265 --> 00:05:08,600 couple times a year. 86 00:05:08,684 --> 00:05:12,271 I can't really say to this day the situation him and my mama had, 87 00:05:12,354 --> 00:05:18,068 so I don't just have that father-son relationship that I would want. 88 00:05:18,152 --> 00:05:20,279 Or I feel like that I should've had. 89 00:05:20,362 --> 00:05:22,364 (engine starts) 90 00:05:25,242 --> 00:05:28,287 You're too big to fit in this. 91 00:05:28,370 --> 00:05:30,622 LIL BABY: My son ask me stuff like that, like, 92 00:05:30,706 --> 00:05:32,249 "You used to do this with your daddy?" 93 00:05:32,332 --> 00:05:34,334 And my answer's like, "No." 94 00:05:37,004 --> 00:05:39,465 I really want him to understand that, like, 95 00:05:39,548 --> 00:05:41,633 everybody don't be having that growing up. 96 00:05:41,717 --> 00:05:43,093 I ain't have it. 97 00:05:43,177 --> 00:05:45,512 (shouting playfully) 98 00:05:48,265 --> 00:05:49,558 Turn the wheel. 99 00:05:49,641 --> 00:05:52,019 -Huh? -Turn the wheel. 100 00:05:56,023 --> 00:05:58,942 He a hell of a five-year-old. 101 00:05:59,026 --> 00:06:00,944 Hey, pull up. We'll try it all day tomorrow. 102 00:06:01,028 --> 00:06:02,738 So, in the morning, you'll get it faster and faster? 103 00:06:02,821 --> 00:06:04,406 Come on. Yep. 104 00:06:04,490 --> 00:06:06,617 I want it faster, faster, faster, faster, faster. 105 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:08,452 You want it to be a little bit faster? 106 00:06:08,535 --> 00:06:10,621 No, I want it to be fast fast. 107 00:06:10,704 --> 00:06:15,084 LIL BABY: He tell me that, "I want to do everything you do." 108 00:06:16,543 --> 00:06:19,046 Hit the brake, hit the brake, hit the brake. 109 00:06:20,089 --> 00:06:22,716 LIL BABY: He like, "I want to do what you do." 110 00:06:23,884 --> 00:06:25,719 -(grunts) -(chuckles) 111 00:06:25,803 --> 00:06:27,554 And that means the most to me. Like... 112 00:06:29,556 --> 00:06:32,392 I take that shit serious. 113 00:06:32,476 --> 00:06:34,103 (both grunt) 114 00:06:34,186 --> 00:06:36,396 I thought I was gone, boy. 115 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,024 Thought I was gone! 116 00:06:39,108 --> 00:06:41,985 ♪ ♪ 117 00:06:42,069 --> 00:06:44,613 LIL BABY: I got so long to go with him 118 00:06:44,696 --> 00:06:47,491 that I got to be on my shit, you feel me? 119 00:06:50,953 --> 00:06:53,330 I could fuck up and he could be like me. 120 00:06:58,127 --> 00:06:59,753 (engine buzzing) 121 00:06:59,837 --> 00:07:01,421 LASHAWN JONES: All right, Dominique! 122 00:07:01,505 --> 00:07:03,340 -Look at me go! -You having a merry Christmas? 123 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:04,758 You having a merry Christmas? 124 00:07:04,842 --> 00:07:06,135 I'm having a good merry Christmas. 125 00:07:06,218 --> 00:07:08,137 Ooh, you go, boy. Uh-oh. 126 00:07:08,220 --> 00:07:10,347 -Merry Christmas. -You go, boy. Merry Christmas. 127 00:07:12,474 --> 00:07:13,934 LASHAWN: What's your name? 128 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:18,564 -Dominique Armani Jones. -Dominique Armani Jones? 129 00:07:19,606 --> 00:07:22,192 His teacher once told me, she said, 130 00:07:22,276 --> 00:07:25,154 "Dominique hasn't been in my class in 60 days. 131 00:07:25,237 --> 00:07:27,656 "I gave a test. He show up. 132 00:07:27,739 --> 00:07:29,700 He the only one passed this." (chuckles) 133 00:07:31,034 --> 00:07:32,911 And that was economics. 134 00:07:34,037 --> 00:07:35,581 Very smart. 135 00:07:35,664 --> 00:07:37,207 Genius, basically. 136 00:07:37,291 --> 00:07:39,334 -Do you have any siblings? -(kids chattering) 137 00:07:39,418 --> 00:07:41,503 -Deja. You know her, don't you? -I sure do. 138 00:07:41,587 --> 00:07:43,005 Oh, you know how old Deja is. 139 00:07:43,088 --> 00:07:44,631 Oh, Deja's 11! 140 00:07:44,715 --> 00:07:46,508 All right, that's a blessing. 141 00:07:46,592 --> 00:07:49,636 Oh... (babbling) 142 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,722 But me eight, oh, Lord. 143 00:07:51,805 --> 00:07:55,058 -You eight? -(stammers) I mean... 144 00:07:55,142 --> 00:07:57,019 -Oh, my goodness. -Michelle is-- I mean... 145 00:07:57,102 --> 00:07:58,937 -GIRL: Nine. -Michelle is nine. 146 00:07:59,021 --> 00:08:00,397 -LASHAWN: Oh, okay. -Excuse me. 147 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,982 You ain't in my conversation. 148 00:08:02,065 --> 00:08:03,901 -And how old are you? -Let's pull the curtains down. 149 00:08:03,984 --> 00:08:04,985 -Dominique? -Hello. 150 00:08:05,068 --> 00:08:06,570 And I'm seven years old! 151 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:08,447 -And I am a... -Put that, uh, thing back, honey. 152 00:08:08,530 --> 00:08:10,657 ...muscle man! 153 00:08:10,741 --> 00:08:14,286 LASHAWN: Me, him and his sisters have always been close. 154 00:08:15,662 --> 00:08:17,831 It's always been the four of us. 155 00:08:19,208 --> 00:08:21,919 Well, I was really just struggling with them 156 00:08:22,002 --> 00:08:23,545 and just being a single parent. 157 00:08:23,629 --> 00:08:26,840 What are your parents' names? 158 00:08:26,924 --> 00:08:29,760 Well, I really don't, you know... 159 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:31,345 Oh, Lord, don't tell me no... 160 00:08:31,428 --> 00:08:32,846 ...have any. 161 00:08:32,930 --> 00:08:35,557 -Because, you know... -Put that down. 162 00:08:35,641 --> 00:08:39,436 Times tough. My mother broke up with my father. 163 00:08:42,189 --> 00:08:45,067 LASHAWN: When he left me, he left them. 164 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:48,320 That's basically how it went. 165 00:08:48,403 --> 00:08:49,655 Oh, Dominique, 166 00:08:49,738 --> 00:08:51,615 don't cry. 167 00:08:51,698 --> 00:08:54,451 -(fussing) -Don't cry, Dominique. 168 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:56,787 (indistinct chatter, laughter) 169 00:08:58,830 --> 00:09:00,540 LIL BABY: Growing up, 170 00:09:00,624 --> 00:09:03,335 I ain't have the picket fence and the silver spoon. 171 00:09:04,795 --> 00:09:06,797 My mama was a single parent. 172 00:09:09,466 --> 00:09:13,387 A lot of times, she couldn't afford to pay our rent, so we got evicted. 173 00:09:14,471 --> 00:09:17,224 So we just got to, like, try to make ends meet. 174 00:09:22,354 --> 00:09:24,481 MAURICE HOBSON: My name is Maurice Hobson. 175 00:09:25,774 --> 00:09:28,026 I am a political historian, a civil rights historian 176 00:09:28,110 --> 00:09:30,445 and Atlanta scholar. 177 00:09:30,529 --> 00:09:32,155 Black people are not monolithic. 178 00:09:32,239 --> 00:09:35,909 There are all kinds of Black folk who have all different ideas and values, 179 00:09:35,993 --> 00:09:37,703 but the one thing that Black people, 180 00:09:37,786 --> 00:09:39,871 and particularly Black people in the American South, 181 00:09:39,955 --> 00:09:43,458 all share is that oppression has been overwhelming. 182 00:09:43,542 --> 00:09:47,004 NEWSMAN: Locally, it was the city of Atlanta's big day. 183 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:49,339 HOBSON: On September 18, 1990, 184 00:09:49,423 --> 00:09:54,261 Atlanta, Georgia, is chosen to host the 1996 Olympic Games. 185 00:09:54,344 --> 00:09:55,804 Atlanta. 186 00:09:55,887 --> 00:09:57,639 (crowd cheering) 187 00:09:57,723 --> 00:10:00,225 HOBSON: Once Atlanta wins the bid, 188 00:10:00,309 --> 00:10:03,645 the city has to be franchised for world consumption. 189 00:10:03,729 --> 00:10:05,939 They have to do an infrastructure shift. 190 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,778 Leading up to this, the city administration 191 00:10:11,862 --> 00:10:15,157 creates a militarized police force called the Red Dog police 192 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,702 to clean the city up for the Olympic Games. 193 00:10:18,785 --> 00:10:22,247 And it is a war that attacks Black people and brown people. 194 00:10:24,875 --> 00:10:28,503 Federal funding for housing was cut by 75%, 195 00:10:28,587 --> 00:10:31,131 and we see ordinances that are passed 196 00:10:31,214 --> 00:10:34,092 that disfranchised and displaced poor people. 197 00:10:34,176 --> 00:10:37,262 NEWSMAN: They could call for the demolition of the housing project 198 00:10:37,346 --> 00:10:39,806 and relocation of the residents elsewhere. 199 00:10:41,767 --> 00:10:44,686 Why should they tear it down just for three weeks for the Olympics? 200 00:10:44,770 --> 00:10:47,939 Put all these people out of housing just for the Olympics? 201 00:10:48,023 --> 00:10:49,524 HOBSON: Walls that are built on the side 202 00:10:49,608 --> 00:10:52,611 of the interstate so that the poverty could not be seen, 203 00:10:52,694 --> 00:10:55,238 because it was important for Atlanta to be seen 204 00:10:55,322 --> 00:10:57,783 in a particular kind of way in the world. 205 00:10:59,242 --> 00:11:02,204 While Atlanta does play a role in being 206 00:11:02,287 --> 00:11:05,457 a place where Black people have been successful, 207 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:10,504 it also has been a place that has... 208 00:11:11,922 --> 00:11:16,093 ...been somewhat damaging to it-its poor people. 209 00:11:17,135 --> 00:11:21,973 And one of the major communities that sees this is the West End. 210 00:11:22,057 --> 00:11:24,559 LASHAWN: Oh, Dominique, put your coat on. 211 00:11:24,643 --> 00:11:27,187 HOBSON: If you're born in this city and you're born poor 212 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:30,690 or if you live in one of the neighborhoods that has been destitute 213 00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:32,692 or been starved out, 214 00:11:32,776 --> 00:11:36,321 it's been difficult for you to move forward. 215 00:11:36,405 --> 00:11:39,616 What Atlanta is overwhelmingly known for is, 216 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:42,577 if a child is born in poverty in this city, 217 00:11:42,661 --> 00:11:46,373 most likely they'll remain in poverty their whole life. 218 00:11:47,416 --> 00:11:48,583 (playful chatter) 219 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:49,835 Go! 220 00:11:49,918 --> 00:11:51,294 I'm it, y'all. 221 00:11:51,378 --> 00:11:52,921 Everybody, clap your hands! 222 00:11:53,964 --> 00:11:56,216 (laughter, playful chatter continues) 223 00:11:56,299 --> 00:11:58,218 If I wasn't stressing money, 224 00:11:58,301 --> 00:12:01,680 I'd probably be in college, had got a great job type of shit. 225 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:05,600 But it's like money the root of all evil. 226 00:12:05,684 --> 00:12:07,561 That's what deterred me. 227 00:12:10,105 --> 00:12:12,065 ♪ ♪ 228 00:12:12,149 --> 00:12:14,151 (siren wailing) 229 00:12:24,286 --> 00:12:26,121 (indistinct chatter) 230 00:12:26,204 --> 00:12:28,498 All the dudes who I hung with, 231 00:12:28,582 --> 00:12:30,750 they way older than me. 232 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:35,172 At the time, I'm 15, 233 00:12:35,255 --> 00:12:38,341 maybe they 23, 24, so I'm really a baby. 234 00:12:38,425 --> 00:12:39,759 -Hey, hold up! -(excited chatter) 235 00:12:39,843 --> 00:12:41,261 Y'all ain't gonna cheat me. Hell nah! 236 00:12:41,344 --> 00:12:42,721 -How y'all been playing? -Hey, not so loud. 237 00:12:42,804 --> 00:12:45,474 How y'all been playing? How y'all been playing? 238 00:12:45,557 --> 00:12:46,850 (excited chatter continues) 239 00:12:46,933 --> 00:12:48,977 I really ain't have nobody to hang with but them. 240 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:52,522 Like, them was the only niggas around. 241 00:12:53,565 --> 00:12:55,150 (indistinct chatter) 242 00:12:59,404 --> 00:13:02,199 Dudes who was my age, all them went to jail 243 00:13:02,282 --> 00:13:04,409 or dead or some other shit. 244 00:13:10,123 --> 00:13:13,502 I just started being Lil Baby, like, "You the little baby out the crew." 245 00:13:13,585 --> 00:13:15,295 What the fuck you talking about?! 246 00:13:15,378 --> 00:13:17,547 We ain't down with a motherfucking rat, nigga! 247 00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:23,345 LASHAWN: He started even looking up to the drug dealers because it's the streets. 248 00:13:23,428 --> 00:13:25,347 "I could be making some money." 249 00:13:25,430 --> 00:13:28,391 I think that was his process. 250 00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:31,061 LIL BABY: They ain't on no bullshit. 251 00:13:31,144 --> 00:13:33,063 They like grown men handling they business, 252 00:13:33,146 --> 00:13:35,398 so it's like I had to get on what they was on. 253 00:13:35,482 --> 00:13:38,652 I started hanging around them. I started wanting to hustle. 254 00:13:38,735 --> 00:13:41,738 They was hustlers. 255 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:43,782 They took me in. 256 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:47,661 ♪ ♪ 257 00:13:53,375 --> 00:13:56,044 (birds chirping) 258 00:13:56,127 --> 00:13:58,838 MAN: Y'all see what's going on. Shit, y'all see-- 259 00:13:58,922 --> 00:14:01,007 This-this the hood. 260 00:14:01,091 --> 00:14:02,634 MAN 2: Niggas done made it out of poverty 261 00:14:02,717 --> 00:14:04,219 -round this motherfucker. -Yeah. 262 00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:05,804 Straight up, though. 263 00:14:05,887 --> 00:14:07,847 Straight up. 264 00:14:10,976 --> 00:14:13,979 Y'all got my mic good right here and get what I say. 265 00:14:15,313 --> 00:14:17,274 Baby used to come spend the night over here, too, man. 266 00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:20,402 Like we say, we-we all kind of, like, hustled out of here, 267 00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:22,320 spent the night, you know what I'm saying, grew up here. 268 00:14:22,404 --> 00:14:25,365 A lot of stuff went down right here, all type of things. 269 00:14:25,448 --> 00:14:26,700 Feel what I'm saying, man? 270 00:14:26,783 --> 00:14:28,535 But it's basically where everything started. 271 00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:31,413 ♪ ♪ 272 00:14:33,248 --> 00:14:35,917 I mean, trying to get out of poverty 273 00:14:36,001 --> 00:14:39,504 always hard when you don't know the best way. 274 00:14:42,007 --> 00:14:44,467 This was our best way, you know what I'm saying, 275 00:14:44,551 --> 00:14:47,137 of being an entrepreneur was, you know what I'm saying, 276 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:48,638 try to get us some money. 277 00:14:51,057 --> 00:14:54,936 When Baby hopped out when he was 15, 16, 278 00:14:55,020 --> 00:14:58,273 it's like, he had to pay bills, basically. 279 00:14:58,356 --> 00:14:59,816 He ain't-- he-he really ain't have the chance 280 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:01,318 to kind of, like, be a kid almost. 281 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:04,279 He was just like-- he had to provide for his family. 282 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:07,073 That's-- basically, that's all we was trying to do, provide. 283 00:15:15,165 --> 00:15:17,083 ♪ ♪ 284 00:15:17,167 --> 00:15:19,044 (indistinct chatter) 285 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:26,509 MAN: Without money, who is a person without money? 286 00:15:31,348 --> 00:15:35,060 In this society right now, how long would it take a person 287 00:15:35,143 --> 00:15:38,813 who going to work to accumulate 10,000 in profit money? 288 00:15:44,736 --> 00:15:47,989 How long would it take you to make 10,000? 289 00:15:52,702 --> 00:15:54,829 Lil Baby might be walking around with 10,000 on him, 290 00:15:54,913 --> 00:15:57,957 going to school, eighth, ninth grade. 291 00:15:59,834 --> 00:16:02,170 That's what I'm telling you. It got that serious. 292 00:16:02,253 --> 00:16:04,255 (indistinct police radio chatter) 293 00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:14,766 YOUNG THUG: I always knew him, though. 294 00:16:14,849 --> 00:16:18,269 I always knew him from, like, probably like ten, 11 years old. 295 00:16:18,353 --> 00:16:21,481 We went to different schools, but we-- I used to-- we used to, like, 296 00:16:21,564 --> 00:16:24,401 skip school and go to each other's schools and shit, you know what I'm saying? 297 00:16:24,484 --> 00:16:27,237 And it was like, well, we just started hanging like, "This my brother." 298 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,322 ♪ ♪ 299 00:16:30,782 --> 00:16:33,076 He was always the guy that everybody loved. 300 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:35,161 Always, from a kid to now. 301 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,917 He was always verified 'cause he always kept good business. 302 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,753 He always did everything the right way. 303 00:16:43,837 --> 00:16:45,839 He a real hustler. 304 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,550 He always was a money getter. 305 00:16:48,633 --> 00:16:51,177 So with or without rap, he was gonna get some money. 306 00:16:51,261 --> 00:16:52,929 Like, he was fucking up millions of dollars 307 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,098 before he made one song. 308 00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:57,058 He was fucking up millions of dollars. 309 00:16:57,142 --> 00:16:58,685 ♪ ♪ 310 00:17:04,149 --> 00:17:07,235 LIL BABY: I never wanted to be a rapper. 311 00:17:07,318 --> 00:17:09,279 I was already young and turnt in the streets. 312 00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:11,573 (excited chatter) 313 00:17:11,656 --> 00:17:14,743 I just knew I had it all figured out. 314 00:17:14,826 --> 00:17:16,870 I felt like I already made it. 315 00:17:16,953 --> 00:17:20,540 I had money, girls, cars. 316 00:17:24,544 --> 00:17:26,546 (lively chatter) 317 00:17:28,715 --> 00:17:31,885 I was at the top of the top. 318 00:17:31,968 --> 00:17:34,053 I was having a blast. 319 00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:36,139 But shit was starting to get crazy. 320 00:17:36,222 --> 00:17:37,307 (siren wailing) 321 00:17:41,728 --> 00:17:45,482 YOUNG THUG: We had a lot of fucking serious moments. 322 00:17:45,565 --> 00:17:46,858 He ain't used to like to talk to me 'cause 323 00:17:46,941 --> 00:17:48,359 I'm-a talk to his ass for two hours on the phone, 324 00:17:48,443 --> 00:17:51,070 and I'm-a tell him what he do wrong like, "Nigga, you doing dickhead shit. 325 00:17:51,154 --> 00:17:53,865 You stupid." 326 00:17:53,948 --> 00:17:56,785 But he never listened to nobody. 327 00:17:56,868 --> 00:18:00,121 He was gonna get some money, no matter what. 328 00:18:00,205 --> 00:18:02,957 I always was mad at him like, "Nigga, listen. 329 00:18:04,042 --> 00:18:06,753 "Nothing come out of what you doing but prison or death. 330 00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:08,505 "Nothing else. 331 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:12,967 It's no such thing as you made it with the way you doing it." 332 00:18:16,763 --> 00:18:20,183 (sirens wailing) 333 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:22,060 (sirens stop) 334 00:18:22,143 --> 00:18:24,771 (cell door slides, slams) 335 00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:26,189 (camera clicks) 336 00:18:26,272 --> 00:18:28,274 ♪ ♪ 337 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:56,344 You ever heard of the saying "make you or break you"? 338 00:18:57,762 --> 00:19:01,099 Like, it's either gonna make you or break you. 339 00:19:01,182 --> 00:19:02,934 And meaning, like, make you, make you into something 340 00:19:03,017 --> 00:19:04,060 or break you down. 341 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,152 You have to be strong to just sit in this motherfucker. 342 00:19:13,236 --> 00:19:14,237 Just sit here. 343 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,738 And niggas yelling. 344 00:19:15,822 --> 00:19:19,742 He banging on the door. He running around. He-- 345 00:19:19,826 --> 00:19:21,452 It's a whole nother world. 346 00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:25,915 In prison, you spend a lot of time alone. 347 00:19:27,458 --> 00:19:29,586 You have a whole lot of time to think about 348 00:19:29,669 --> 00:19:32,171 what's going on around you. 349 00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:37,927 America has a system in place. 350 00:19:39,387 --> 00:19:44,017 JOE BIDEN: It doesn't matter whether or not they were deprived as a youth. 351 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:47,270 It doesn't matter whether or not they had no background 352 00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:50,398 that enabled them to become socialized 353 00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,525 into the fabric of society. 354 00:19:52,609 --> 00:19:56,195 It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society. 355 00:19:57,780 --> 00:20:01,618 LIL BABY: And the system's been around for a long, long time. 356 00:20:01,743 --> 00:20:04,704 (clock ticking) 357 00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:07,707 And it's designed for us to fail. 358 00:20:07,790 --> 00:20:11,753 They must be taken off the street. 359 00:20:14,589 --> 00:20:16,883 LIL BABY: I ain't want to be there, period, 360 00:20:16,966 --> 00:20:19,677 but I had to be there, but I won't let my mind be there. 361 00:20:19,761 --> 00:20:22,597 And my body a lot of places that my mind never go. 362 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,516 I force myself to do that. 363 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,019 For good and for bad. 364 00:20:28,102 --> 00:20:30,980 And I learned that the most in prison. 365 00:20:38,947 --> 00:20:40,615 All right, appreciate it, bruh. 366 00:20:47,205 --> 00:20:49,707 THOMAS: I'm Pierre Thomas. 367 00:20:49,791 --> 00:20:52,043 Everybody call me P. 368 00:20:52,126 --> 00:20:54,963 I'm the CEO of Quality Control Music. 369 00:20:55,046 --> 00:20:57,882 (indistinct chatter, laughter) 370 00:20:57,966 --> 00:21:00,593 I'm from the Southwest side of Atlanta. 371 00:21:00,677 --> 00:21:02,303 ♪ ♪ 372 00:21:02,387 --> 00:21:04,597 (barking) 373 00:21:04,681 --> 00:21:07,058 Baby was already like family. 374 00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:09,852 We already knew each other. 375 00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:12,355 We been around each other since he was like 15. 376 00:21:15,817 --> 00:21:18,403 I know Baby from walking in trap houses, 377 00:21:18,486 --> 00:21:20,655 and... 378 00:21:20,738 --> 00:21:23,282 he was in there... 379 00:21:23,366 --> 00:21:25,618 with things I can't speak about. 380 00:21:30,206 --> 00:21:32,250 It's like a jungle out there in them streets. 381 00:21:35,086 --> 00:21:38,923 When I was coming up, you know, when you come out your door, 382 00:21:39,007 --> 00:21:43,052 the person that you see with a nice car is a, is a drug dealer. 383 00:21:43,136 --> 00:21:46,305 When you poor, people can't even afford to, like, 384 00:21:46,389 --> 00:21:49,017 go travel and go see the world or whatever, 385 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:51,561 so your neighborhood-- that's really your world. 386 00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:56,232 And if the only people you see that have money or nice things 387 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:58,192 is the drug dealers, then that's-- 388 00:21:58,276 --> 00:22:01,863 it's just natural that that's what you gonna look up to. 389 00:22:03,281 --> 00:22:04,407 (camera clicking) 390 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:05,825 I been there. 391 00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:08,202 I done that. 392 00:22:08,286 --> 00:22:10,747 I survived that. 393 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:12,290 Everybody around me like, 394 00:22:12,373 --> 00:22:14,625 "Yo, bro, you want to see your kids grow up. 395 00:22:14,709 --> 00:22:16,711 You want to grow old." 396 00:22:16,794 --> 00:22:18,880 So I was trying to get in the music business 397 00:22:18,963 --> 00:22:21,716 as a way to just try to get out of the streets, 398 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:23,718 you know what I'm saying, get away from that life. 399 00:22:25,428 --> 00:22:27,055 (sirens wailing) 400 00:22:30,016 --> 00:22:34,562 I started the label along with my partner Coach K. 401 00:22:36,314 --> 00:22:37,690 COACH K: Coach K. 402 00:22:37,774 --> 00:22:40,151 I'm cofounder of Quality Control Music. 403 00:22:40,234 --> 00:22:42,111 I managed Gucci Mane. 404 00:22:42,195 --> 00:22:43,863 Before that, Jeezy. 405 00:22:43,946 --> 00:22:46,491 Me and P got together. 406 00:22:46,574 --> 00:22:49,327 When we started this company, we was dreaming really big. 407 00:22:49,410 --> 00:22:51,662 Our first act was the Migos. 408 00:22:51,746 --> 00:22:53,664 Soon as we signed them, we went right in. 409 00:22:53,748 --> 00:22:55,416 What's up, man? It Quavo's time, man. 410 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,878 COACH K: During that time, man, we was really creating history. 411 00:22:58,961 --> 00:23:01,798 How many number one singles y'all got now? As QC? 412 00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,342 COACH K: I mean, Quality Control is culture. 413 00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:06,177 (cheering, applause) 414 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:07,929 That's kind of the philosophy, man. 415 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:09,764 It's like, originality 416 00:23:09,847 --> 00:23:11,390 and there's a story attached to that. 417 00:23:11,474 --> 00:23:13,351 Kind of have, like, a-a little secret sauce 418 00:23:13,434 --> 00:23:15,019 or kind of like a program. 419 00:23:15,103 --> 00:23:18,815 Find talent, the diamond in the rough talent, 420 00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:23,444 and develop it to become some of the biggest artists. 421 00:23:23,528 --> 00:23:25,613 ♪ ♪ 422 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:30,284 THOMAS: If I just see the potential in them, 423 00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:32,662 then we can develop it. 424 00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:36,040 It's the smallest things that catches us, you know. 425 00:23:36,124 --> 00:23:40,253 It's like we can see a star before it shines. 426 00:23:46,175 --> 00:23:48,177 (birds chirping) 427 00:23:52,849 --> 00:23:54,851 -(indistinct chatter) -(basketball bouncing) 428 00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:04,527 THOMAS: Baby was always around. 429 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:07,238 He used to hang at the studio every day. 430 00:24:07,321 --> 00:24:09,323 He just wasn't no artist. 431 00:24:09,407 --> 00:24:10,741 MAN: Oh, you can keep going. 432 00:24:10,825 --> 00:24:12,368 I know that shit ain't gonna never go in. 433 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:13,911 THOMAS: When you get out, just come up here, 434 00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:15,079 you know what I'm saying? 435 00:24:15,163 --> 00:24:16,330 That nigga can't hit it from the front. 436 00:24:16,414 --> 00:24:18,249 LIL BABY: Put your money down, dawg. 437 00:24:18,332 --> 00:24:19,834 -MAN: I bet a hundred. -Whatever. 438 00:24:19,917 --> 00:24:21,294 THOMAS: "Just pop up on us 439 00:24:21,377 --> 00:24:22,378 when you get out." 440 00:24:22,461 --> 00:24:23,754 That's what he did. 441 00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:28,885 (indistinct chatter) 442 00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:30,469 MAN: Hey! 443 00:24:30,553 --> 00:24:34,765 COACH K: He was young, but he moved like a O.G. 444 00:24:34,849 --> 00:24:37,268 He caught my eye. 445 00:24:37,351 --> 00:24:39,103 He's like, "You'll just see a nigga just do one move, 446 00:24:39,187 --> 00:24:40,980 "and it's like, 'Okay, you're a superstar.' 447 00:24:41,063 --> 00:24:42,440 You just-- you know." 448 00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:45,401 Lil Baby's naturally different. 449 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,111 In all his Instagram posts, he used to-- 450 00:24:47,195 --> 00:24:49,322 all his captions and shit used to be fire. 451 00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:51,365 I'm like, "Damn, this hard. Who said this?" 452 00:24:51,449 --> 00:24:54,160 I done called him before like, "Hey, who the hell said this? 453 00:24:54,243 --> 00:24:55,745 Wh-Where-where that caption come from?" 454 00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:56,996 He like, "I just thought of it." 455 00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:58,664 He could just write a song 456 00:24:58,748 --> 00:25:01,125 with just fucking 60 captions, just all captions. 457 00:25:01,209 --> 00:25:02,418 That's a song. 458 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:05,087 I was like, "Man, Baby, you need to rap, bro." 459 00:25:05,171 --> 00:25:07,632 He was like, "Man, you crazy. I'm a street nigga, man. 460 00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:10,259 I don't... um, I don't do none of that shit." 461 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:12,094 I said, "For real, man." I said, "Bruh." 462 00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:16,515 I said, "You respected around the city. 463 00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:18,434 "Most of the rappers, you know, 464 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:20,436 "the street guys is really who they look up to. 465 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,355 "I don't know why you won't do it. 466 00:25:22,438 --> 00:25:24,357 "Most of these guys telling your story. 467 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,943 You know, your story real." 468 00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:28,861 He just laughed. 469 00:25:29,904 --> 00:25:33,908 Just think if he rapped and 470 00:25:33,991 --> 00:25:35,451 it didn't work. 471 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,828 Now your street credibility's fucked-up. 472 00:25:37,912 --> 00:25:40,206 He was so respected as a dope boy, 473 00:25:40,289 --> 00:25:44,126 as a street cat, he didn't want to tarnish that. 474 00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:46,504 THOMAS: It's hard to tell somebody 475 00:25:46,587 --> 00:25:50,675 to stop making money, right-now money. 476 00:25:50,758 --> 00:25:53,135 You know, you still got to pay bills. 477 00:25:53,219 --> 00:25:55,096 You still got family. 478 00:25:55,179 --> 00:25:56,847 I ain't want to see him just 479 00:25:56,931 --> 00:25:58,891 get caught back up and go back to prison, you know? 480 00:25:58,975 --> 00:26:02,520 YOUNG THUG: I used to pay this nigga to goddamn stay out of the streets. 481 00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:05,147 "Nigga, you can have my money. Just relax." 482 00:26:05,231 --> 00:26:09,610 I really will sacrifice anything because I see that it can happen. 483 00:26:09,694 --> 00:26:12,029 "What you finna make today? 20,000? Okay, here. 484 00:26:12,113 --> 00:26:13,447 "20,000. You don't even owe me. 485 00:26:13,531 --> 00:26:15,366 Hey, go home." I used to tell him to go home. 486 00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:16,909 "You don't even got to go to the studio," like. 487 00:26:16,993 --> 00:26:19,328 I'm like, "Okay, you don't got to rap. Here, bruh, go home. 488 00:26:19,412 --> 00:26:22,415 Get the fuck out of the block, bro. Go chill with your son, nigga." 489 00:26:26,127 --> 00:26:27,378 He could've said, "Give me a million dollars," 490 00:26:27,461 --> 00:26:30,256 I would've gave it to him to stay out the street. 491 00:26:36,053 --> 00:26:38,055 ♪ ♪ 492 00:26:42,018 --> 00:26:43,394 LIL BABY: It's a cycle. 493 00:26:43,477 --> 00:26:45,104 (engine buzzing) 494 00:26:46,897 --> 00:26:50,693 You go to jail, you get out, but you keep hustling 495 00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:52,320 because you don't know nothing else. 496 00:26:52,403 --> 00:26:53,571 MAN: You are recording. 497 00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:55,156 -The red light's on. -LASHAWN: Yeah. 498 00:26:56,198 --> 00:26:59,535 LIL BABY: When they call that shit a trap, that shit really a trap. 499 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:01,537 MAN: All right, on your mark! 500 00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:04,749 LIL BABY: Your mind trapped, your brain trapped, your body trapped. 501 00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:05,958 You in a trap. 502 00:27:06,042 --> 00:27:08,085 MAN: Get set! 503 00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:12,840 LIL BABY: Not knowing it's a whole nother world only two streets over. 504 00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:14,425 MAN: Go! 505 00:27:14,508 --> 00:27:16,594 LIL BABY: You don't know. I ain't know. 506 00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:18,929 -LASHAWN: Come on, Dominique! Come on, Dominique! -(clapping) 507 00:27:19,013 --> 00:27:20,556 (laughter, whooping) 508 00:27:23,184 --> 00:27:25,394 LIL BABY: I couldn't go back to prison. 509 00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:28,564 I had to at least try. 510 00:27:31,192 --> 00:27:33,194 ♪ ♪ 511 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:42,244 When I first tried rapping, I didn't know what I was doing. 512 00:27:43,412 --> 00:27:46,123 I was self-conscious. 513 00:27:46,207 --> 00:27:48,542 Then I started playing around in the studio 514 00:27:48,626 --> 00:27:50,961 with my buddy Marlo. 515 00:27:51,045 --> 00:27:55,174 Marlo was also in the streets, and he was trying to rap, too, 516 00:27:55,257 --> 00:27:58,260 so it gave me a better sense of direction. 517 00:28:02,014 --> 00:28:04,350 Marlo. 518 00:28:04,433 --> 00:28:05,768 Come on. 519 00:28:05,851 --> 00:28:06,977 ♪ See my dawg brain laying on the street ♪ 520 00:28:07,061 --> 00:28:08,354 Play, play the whole verse over. 521 00:28:08,437 --> 00:28:10,398 -♪ That shit scarred me ♪ -(music stops) 522 00:28:11,399 --> 00:28:13,984 ♪ See my dawg's brain laying on the street ♪ 523 00:28:14,068 --> 00:28:15,736 ♪ That shit scarred me ♪ Come on. 524 00:28:15,820 --> 00:28:18,364 ♪ See my dawg brain laying ♪ 525 00:28:18,447 --> 00:28:20,866 ♪ See my dawg's brain laying on the street ♪ 526 00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:22,243 ♪ That shit scarred me ♪ 527 00:28:22,326 --> 00:28:24,120 I made my first song with Marlo. 528 00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:25,704 Keep that. 529 00:28:25,788 --> 00:28:27,248 Play it. Let me know how it sounds. 530 00:28:27,331 --> 00:28:29,625 It was kind of hard, so that's why I kept rapping. 531 00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:31,794 Marlo was a big influence on me rapping. 532 00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:33,170 ("I Remember" by Marlo playing) 533 00:28:33,254 --> 00:28:34,839 ♪ And kept them real niggas around me ♪ 534 00:28:34,922 --> 00:28:36,257 ♪ I remember sitting right there on the block ♪ 535 00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:37,842 ♪ And I remember nights I couldn't get right ♪ 536 00:28:37,925 --> 00:28:39,593 ♪ I remember shit wasn't adding up ♪ 537 00:28:39,677 --> 00:28:41,220 ♪ I remember having my pistol tucked ♪ 538 00:28:41,303 --> 00:28:43,013 -♪ When 12 ride by... ♪ -(song fades) 539 00:28:43,097 --> 00:28:45,683 THOMAS: Instantly, I started brainstorming. 540 00:28:45,766 --> 00:28:47,601 Marlo was running with Baby. 541 00:28:47,685 --> 00:28:49,687 Him and Baby was cool. 542 00:28:51,147 --> 00:28:53,983 If this his partner and he trying to rap, too, 543 00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:56,527 then I could just push them together. 544 00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:03,117 So I just told Marlo, I was like, "Yo, I'll sign you, too." 545 00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:06,245 You know, this shit working for me, 546 00:29:06,328 --> 00:29:09,832 and I'm sort of figuring it out, so let me, let me empower them. 547 00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:12,168 Let me show them how to get in this game. 548 00:29:12,251 --> 00:29:14,795 ♪ ♪ 549 00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:17,756 COACH K: Once Baby decided he wanted to rap, 550 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,800 it was like the perfect storm for P, 551 00:29:19,884 --> 00:29:22,970 'cause P was like, "Oh, I'm ready to put everything into you." 552 00:29:23,053 --> 00:29:24,847 THOMAS: Like, I know Baby. 553 00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:28,058 We done been through some things before music, 554 00:29:28,142 --> 00:29:30,186 so it was personal to me. 555 00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:32,188 PILOT: A very full flight today. 556 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,231 (over P.A.): We do appreciate your cooperation. 557 00:29:34,315 --> 00:29:35,983 Your flight to LaGuardia, New York. Once again... 558 00:29:36,066 --> 00:29:38,444 THOMAS: I'm in this grind with y'all. 559 00:29:38,527 --> 00:29:40,696 I got to do what I got to do to get this dude. 560 00:29:40,779 --> 00:29:42,823 You know, I'm trying to break this dude. 561 00:29:42,907 --> 00:29:44,992 (line ringing) 562 00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:48,120 This ain't no one-hit-wonder shit. These niggas gon' keep coming. 563 00:29:48,204 --> 00:29:49,288 -(elevator bell dings) -AUTOMATED VOICE: First floor. 564 00:29:49,371 --> 00:29:50,456 MAN: What up, B? Nice to meet you. 565 00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:53,959 I know you 'bout to be the next big thing, so I got to... 566 00:29:54,043 --> 00:29:55,419 I said, I'm hands-on with this. 567 00:29:55,503 --> 00:29:57,171 I said, I'm-I'm on the ground with this. 568 00:29:57,254 --> 00:29:59,256 I'm personally touching this. 569 00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:00,966 Lil Baby, do you see this email? 570 00:30:01,050 --> 00:30:02,551 You don't even understand how big this is. 571 00:30:04,094 --> 00:30:06,013 (horn honking) 572 00:30:08,015 --> 00:30:09,183 DJ ENVY: Morning, everybody! 573 00:30:09,266 --> 00:30:11,977 It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne tha God. 574 00:30:12,061 --> 00:30:13,479 We are The Breakfast Club. 575 00:30:13,562 --> 00:30:15,564 We got some special guests in the building! 576 00:30:17,858 --> 00:30:20,444 CHARLAMAGNE: My name is, uh, Lenard McKelvey, 577 00:30:20,528 --> 00:30:23,739 professionally known as Charlamagne tha God. 578 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,617 MAN: Charlamagne tha God interview, take one. 579 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,077 Soft stick, mark. 580 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,287 The Breakfast Club is just a nationally syndicated radio show 581 00:30:30,371 --> 00:30:32,164 that comes on in over a hundred markets. 582 00:30:32,248 --> 00:30:36,252 Think we got like 4.5 million listeners a week or something like that. 583 00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:37,670 Or daily. I don't know. 584 00:30:37,753 --> 00:30:40,422 I just-- it's a, it's a, it's a pretty big deal. 585 00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:42,091 -Jay-Z. Yes. -Jay-Z, ladies and gentlemen. 586 00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:43,217 Gucci Mane. 587 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,301 -Snoop Dogg! -What it do? 588 00:30:44,385 --> 00:30:46,262 What's happening, Breakfast Club? 589 00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:47,888 Artists come on Breakfast Club, 590 00:30:47,972 --> 00:30:50,599 immediately their followers grow on social media, 591 00:30:50,683 --> 00:30:53,602 immediately their streams go up. 592 00:30:53,686 --> 00:30:57,356 People that may not have known who these individuals were before, 593 00:30:57,439 --> 00:31:00,401 now they gravitate towards them a little bit more. 594 00:31:00,484 --> 00:31:01,986 A lot of cases, you know, Breakfast Club is 595 00:31:02,069 --> 00:31:06,073 their first, like, "mainstream" look, so to speak. 596 00:31:06,156 --> 00:31:08,158 (indistinct talk radio chatter) 597 00:31:14,999 --> 00:31:16,500 WOMAN (over radio): ...refreshing wintry vapor 598 00:31:16,584 --> 00:31:18,711 and a ceramic wick for a flavorful... 599 00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:20,129 MAN: Two, four. 600 00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:21,380 Come on, man, let me go to sleep. 601 00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:23,299 Get you some rest. Yeah, I'll get you some rest. 602 00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:24,592 I've been at it. 603 00:31:24,675 --> 00:31:26,010 COACH K: Baby is closed in. 604 00:31:26,093 --> 00:31:28,137 Like, he's not all on social media. 605 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:29,847 He don't do a lot of interviews. 606 00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:32,349 Shit, we had to pull-- we have to be pull his-- 607 00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:34,518 "Come on," you know, to do interviews 608 00:31:34,602 --> 00:31:36,979 because he-he's just kind of a private guy. 609 00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:39,106 Ready when you guys are. 610 00:31:39,189 --> 00:31:41,150 -What's up? I'm P. -And I'm Lil Baby. 611 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:43,068 Watch me tomorrow morning on The Breakfast Club 612 00:31:43,152 --> 00:31:44,737 only on Revolt TV. 613 00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:47,531 MAN: One more time, just a lot louder, please. 614 00:31:47,615 --> 00:31:49,074 -What's up? -Absolutely. 615 00:31:49,158 --> 00:31:51,493 Lil Baby, what's happening? 616 00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:53,579 CHARLAMAGNE: A street nigga transitioning. 617 00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:55,914 You know what I mean? (chuckles) 618 00:31:55,998 --> 00:31:58,876 A brother from the hood, for real, for real, 619 00:31:58,959 --> 00:32:01,295 who's just making the transition. 620 00:32:01,378 --> 00:32:03,422 DJ ENVY: He started rapping a year ago. 621 00:32:03,505 --> 00:32:06,008 -Yeah. -CHARLAMAGNE: Why you didn't want to rap, Lil Baby? 622 00:32:06,091 --> 00:32:08,802 I wasn't really into rap, you know what I'm saying? 623 00:32:08,886 --> 00:32:11,680 How hard is the transition from the streets to the, to the, 624 00:32:11,764 --> 00:32:13,390 -to the music industry? -Super hard. 625 00:32:13,474 --> 00:32:16,477 A lot of stuff I got to do, like, I don't really care to do, but... 626 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,021 -DJ ENVY: You got to do it for free. -Know what I'm saying? I got to do it. 627 00:32:19,104 --> 00:32:20,272 ANGELA: And you do this Breakfast Club interview. 628 00:32:20,356 --> 00:32:22,524 CHARLAMAGNE: What's the motivation, then? 629 00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:25,027 When you sit him down in front of a microphone 630 00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:27,529 and you got cameras rolling... 631 00:32:27,613 --> 00:32:28,822 That be the hard part for me. 632 00:32:28,906 --> 00:32:31,283 Like, we got to drive six hours for a show 633 00:32:31,367 --> 00:32:34,036 and I pick up 2,500 on the back end or something. 634 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:38,040 Somebody might be happy to get on the road and drive ten hours for 2,500, 635 00:32:38,123 --> 00:32:40,417 but me, I'm like, "Man, I ain't-- I don't want to go." 636 00:32:40,501 --> 00:32:42,586 Appreciate you, bro. 637 00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:44,213 THOMAS: There was a few times in the beginning 638 00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:45,798 it was really difficult. 639 00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:47,841 He was like, "I ain't with this." 640 00:32:47,925 --> 00:32:51,136 I used to be sending Baby out on promo runs 641 00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:53,514 and, um, you know, just all the stuff 642 00:32:53,597 --> 00:32:55,641 that a-a developing artist got to go do. 643 00:32:55,724 --> 00:32:57,351 (rap music playing) 644 00:32:57,434 --> 00:32:59,019 He used to be calling me back like, 645 00:32:59,103 --> 00:33:02,064 "Boy, I ain't making no money. It's three people in the crowd." 646 00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:05,275 MAN (over speakers): Where my Lil Baby fans at in this motherfucker? 647 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:07,736 We finna turn this motherfucker up, bro. 648 00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:09,321 Lil Baby in your city right now! 649 00:33:09,405 --> 00:33:11,198 ("All of a Sudden" by Lil Baby and Moneybagg Yo playing) 650 00:33:11,281 --> 00:33:12,408 What you say? 651 00:33:12,491 --> 00:33:13,992 ♪ I can't be toting no handguns ♪ 652 00:33:14,076 --> 00:33:15,619 -♪ Unless that bitch come with a 30 ♪ -What? 653 00:33:15,703 --> 00:33:17,121 ♪ I can't be fucking these dog hoes ♪ 654 00:33:17,204 --> 00:33:19,373 ♪ Unless that bitch come with a buddy... ♪ 655 00:33:19,456 --> 00:33:22,501 THOMAS: I used to be like, "You got to go do this. 656 00:33:25,087 --> 00:33:28,424 "Don't think about money right now. 657 00:33:28,507 --> 00:33:31,301 "Just think about putting yourself in front of a crowd of people. 658 00:33:32,886 --> 00:33:34,972 Your breakthrough come from your sacrifice." 659 00:33:35,055 --> 00:33:38,767 For Baby, the sacrifice was 660 00:33:38,851 --> 00:33:42,354 giving up fast money that you getting every day in the streets... 661 00:33:44,606 --> 00:33:47,151 ...for a rap career... 662 00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:48,944 (camera clicking) 663 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,865 ...that it ain't guaranteed you gonna make it. 664 00:33:52,948 --> 00:33:54,950 ♪ ♪ 665 00:33:58,454 --> 00:33:59,997 MAN: We make sure we doing that. 666 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,666 That way, when you bringing him out-- like, if I'm, uh... 667 00:34:02,750 --> 00:34:05,878 if I'm, uh, in the crowd, I-I'm learning with you. 668 00:34:05,961 --> 00:34:07,671 I say "Lil," y'all say "Baby." 669 00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:09,381 Lil. "Baby." Lil. "Baby." 670 00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:11,842 You know, and then by the time it's time to bring him out, 671 00:34:11,925 --> 00:34:13,719 -it's already a vibe. -MAN 2: It's already a vibe. 672 00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:17,848 Some of the stuff I'm-a... I'm-a mute it, 'cause I'm-a let you go over the crowd. 673 00:34:18,932 --> 00:34:20,100 Like, yo. 674 00:34:20,184 --> 00:34:22,519 I got to learn how to talk to the crowd. I don't talk to the crowd. 675 00:34:22,603 --> 00:34:24,188 -WOMAN: Yeah, that's-that's his problem. -Like, I don't talk to the crowd. 676 00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:25,606 -Like, he really don't. -I don't say shit. 677 00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:27,441 And even like, like I told you, some of the shows 678 00:34:27,524 --> 00:34:29,735 -that is there, he walk off. -I swear to God I don't say shit. 679 00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:31,570 I get... I walk straight off. 680 00:34:31,653 --> 00:34:34,490 Now, he might be like, "Thank y'all for coming," and walk off. 681 00:34:34,573 --> 00:34:36,492 Yeah, like, why don't you stay and talk to them? 682 00:34:36,575 --> 00:34:38,911 (singing gibberish) 683 00:34:38,994 --> 00:34:40,370 They the crowd right there. Y'all gon' get hype. 684 00:34:40,454 --> 00:34:42,164 -I'm-a talk my shit. (laughs) -Go on, talk it. 685 00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:43,999 We gon' run through it. 686 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:46,376 -So... -You can't be scared, 'cause I'm scared already. 687 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:48,170 Both of us can't be scared. 688 00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:50,672 When I first walked on the stage, you can see it in the video. 689 00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:52,549 (stammers, laughs) 690 00:34:52,633 --> 00:34:54,551 I froze up. I was like, "Oh, shit." 691 00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:56,637 ♪ ♪ 692 00:35:04,812 --> 00:35:08,524 COACH K: He was given that opportunity and took a chance. 693 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:13,153 ♪ Yeah ♪ 694 00:35:13,237 --> 00:35:15,280 ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ 695 00:35:16,907 --> 00:35:18,826 -I remember one night -(slapping hands) 696 00:35:18,909 --> 00:35:21,161 and he sent me a song. 697 00:35:21,245 --> 00:35:23,664 And I opened it up and I listened to it, 698 00:35:23,747 --> 00:35:26,333 and I was like, "Oh, shit. 699 00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:28,710 He's got the one now." 700 00:35:28,794 --> 00:35:30,546 MAN: You ready, Baby? Put your headphones on, man, 701 00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:31,797 so you can hear what's going on. 702 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,966 Man, we on the radio. It's about to go down. 703 00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:36,093 -What song is this? -Gonna be "My Dawg." 704 00:35:36,176 --> 00:35:37,511 -MAN: "My Dawg"? -Yeah, "My Dawg." 705 00:35:37,594 --> 00:35:39,263 ♪ Niggas having pressure 'bout a bitch ♪ 706 00:35:39,346 --> 00:35:41,390 ♪ I got all my cases dismissed ♪ 707 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,475 ♪ I don't go back and forth on the Internet ♪ 708 00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:45,394 ♪ Real niggas don't get into that ♪ 709 00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:47,187 ♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth, for real ♪ 710 00:35:47,271 --> 00:35:48,939 ♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth ♪ 711 00:35:49,022 --> 00:35:50,691 ♪ Me and my dawgs, me and my dawgs ♪ 712 00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:52,401 ♪ We trying to run in your house ♪ 713 00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,361 ♪ We want them bricks, we want the money ♪ 714 00:35:54,444 --> 00:35:56,363 ♪ You can keep all of the pounds ♪ 715 00:35:56,446 --> 00:35:57,781 ♪ I can't be fucking these little bitty bitches ♪ 716 00:35:57,865 --> 00:35:59,700 ♪ 'Cause they be running they mouth ♪ 717 00:35:59,783 --> 00:36:01,076 ♪ I'm really running H-Town ♪ 718 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:02,786 ♪ Franck Muller watch for my wrist ♪ 719 00:36:02,870 --> 00:36:04,997 -(screaming) -♪ Nother 30,000 in my fit ♪ 720 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:06,248 ♪ Codeine all in my piss... ♪ 721 00:36:06,331 --> 00:36:09,293 LIL BABY: When I made that song, I knew it was the one. 722 00:36:09,376 --> 00:36:12,921 I was telling people like, "This gonna be the one. This the song." 723 00:36:13,005 --> 00:36:14,590 COACH K: It was like he had found his swag, 724 00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:16,508 and you could hear it all in that record. 725 00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:17,926 -♪ That's my dawg, for sure ♪ -♪ My dawg ♪ 726 00:36:18,010 --> 00:36:20,178 -♪ That's my dawg ♪ -♪ My dawg ♪ 727 00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:21,471 -♪ That's my dawg, for sure ♪ -♪ My dawg ♪ 728 00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:22,890 -♪ That's my dawg ♪ -♪ My dawg ♪ 729 00:36:22,973 --> 00:36:24,683 -♪ Me and my dawg ♪ -♪ Me and my dawg ♪ 730 00:36:24,766 --> 00:36:26,852 -♪ We gave 'em two in a row ♪ -♪ Two in a row ♪ 731 00:36:26,935 --> 00:36:28,562 -♪ Me and my dawg ♪ -♪ Me and my dawg ♪ 732 00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:32,357 -♪ We gave 'em two in a row ♪ -♪ Two in a row... ♪ 733 00:36:32,441 --> 00:36:33,942 COACH K: It was a anthem. 734 00:36:34,026 --> 00:36:38,155 If every person can sing it, rap it, and they feel like that's them, 735 00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:40,115 those are the type of records that go. 736 00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:42,075 (crowd rapping along): ♪ Niggas having pressure 'bout a bitch ♪ 737 00:36:42,159 --> 00:36:44,119 ♪ I got all my cases dismissed ♪ 738 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,455 ♪ I don't go back and forth on the Internet ♪ 739 00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:48,373 ♪ Real niggas don't get into that ♪ 740 00:36:48,457 --> 00:36:50,250 ♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth, for real ♪ 741 00:36:50,334 --> 00:36:51,793 CROWD: ♪ I'm trying to get in her mouth ♪ 742 00:36:51,877 --> 00:36:54,129 ♪ Yeah, me and my dawgs, me and my dawgs ♪ 743 00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:55,756 ♪ We trying to run in your house. ♪ 744 00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:57,257 (song ends) 745 00:36:58,842 --> 00:37:00,969 All right, cool. 746 00:37:01,053 --> 00:37:03,972 CHARLES HOLMES: When Baby was first emerging on the scene 747 00:37:04,056 --> 00:37:06,600 was when I was first becoming a journalist. 748 00:37:06,683 --> 00:37:08,143 And my boss was like, 749 00:37:08,226 --> 00:37:09,394 "Yo, QC's coming through 750 00:37:09,478 --> 00:37:10,687 "and they're bringing this artist Lil Baby. 751 00:37:10,771 --> 00:37:12,230 I want you to come down and just say hi." 752 00:37:13,649 --> 00:37:15,567 I spent a couple hours with him. 753 00:37:15,651 --> 00:37:17,361 I guess, put it, like, right in between... 754 00:37:17,444 --> 00:37:19,655 HOLMES: Lil Baby was not media trained. 755 00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:21,156 He was still very, very raw. 756 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,866 MAN: Uh, if we could get a little more blue... 757 00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:26,453 HOLMES: But what I will say is that sometimes the best artists 758 00:37:26,536 --> 00:37:28,872 create stuff that you don't understand. 759 00:37:28,956 --> 00:37:31,458 And Lil Baby was creating art that I didn't understand. 760 00:37:31,541 --> 00:37:35,504 It was so hyper-local to him and everything that he was going through. 761 00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:36,838 ♪ Shout-out my label, that's me ♪ 762 00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:38,382 ♪ I'm in this bitch with TB ♪ 763 00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:40,008 ♪ I'm in this bitch with 4-Trey ♪ 764 00:37:40,092 --> 00:37:41,510 ♪ I just poured up me an eight ♪ 765 00:37:41,593 --> 00:37:42,970 ♪ Real nigga all in my face ♪ 766 00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:44,304 ♪ 500 racks in my safe... ♪ 767 00:37:44,388 --> 00:37:48,183 HOLMES: In those first, uh, videos like "Freestyle" and "My Dawg," 768 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:51,561 he's creating this persona that is distilling 769 00:37:51,645 --> 00:37:55,023 everything that people know about him in Atlanta: 770 00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:57,275 that's he's-he's this prolific drug dealer, 771 00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:59,987 that he's this amazing gambler, 772 00:38:00,070 --> 00:38:02,364 that he's respected in the streets. 773 00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:04,366 ♪ They ain't my niggas no more ♪ 774 00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,827 ♪ Hold it down for the four, in the nine with the woes ♪ 775 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,578 ♪ Marlo my dawg, that's for sure... ♪ 776 00:38:08,662 --> 00:38:11,331 HOLMES: And it introduced me to a world that 777 00:38:11,415 --> 00:38:14,793 I knew existed, but the way he was telling those stories, 778 00:38:14,876 --> 00:38:16,253 I was, I was blown away. 779 00:38:16,336 --> 00:38:18,296 ♪ Hardly ever in the city ♪ 780 00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:19,965 ♪ They just know I'm getting bigger ♪ 781 00:38:20,048 --> 00:38:21,633 ♪ They just know a nigga busy ♪ 782 00:38:21,717 --> 00:38:23,969 ♪ I been running up them digits, yeah. ♪ 783 00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:26,013 -Yeah, that hard. Yeah. -Yeah. -(laughter) 784 00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:28,140 (excited chatter) 785 00:38:28,223 --> 00:38:29,933 HOLMES: If you look at those mixtapes 786 00:38:30,017 --> 00:38:32,144 that he was doing sequentially, 787 00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:35,480 Baby was not that great of a rapper on that first mixtape. 788 00:38:35,564 --> 00:38:38,066 And within two to three mixtapes, 789 00:38:38,150 --> 00:38:41,111 he's one of the best rappers in his city, 790 00:38:41,194 --> 00:38:42,821 and soon after that, he's one of 791 00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:44,281 the best rappers in the country. 792 00:38:44,364 --> 00:38:46,700 And that only happens if you wake up every single day 793 00:38:46,783 --> 00:38:49,786 and you're like, "I'm going to the studio, and I'm just gonna rap." 794 00:38:49,870 --> 00:38:53,165 He just put in way more raps than everybody else around him. 795 00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,292 ♪ When you're rich like this, you don't check the forecast ♪ 796 00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:56,877 ♪ Every day, it's gonna rain, yeah ♪ 797 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,545 ♪ Made a brick through a brick, I ain't whip up shit ♪ 798 00:38:58,628 --> 00:39:00,672 ♪ This pure cocaine, yeah ♪ 799 00:39:00,756 --> 00:39:02,424 ♪ From the streets, but I got a little sense ♪ 800 00:39:02,507 --> 00:39:04,509 ♪ But I had to go coupe, no brain, coupe, no brain ♪ 801 00:39:04,593 --> 00:39:06,386 ♪ I ain't worried 'bout you, I'm-a do what I do ♪ 802 00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:07,888 ♪ And I do my thing, do my thing ♪ 803 00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:09,264 ♪ Bought her brand-new shoes, told her... ♪ 804 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,476 HOLMES: When you're looking at, like, the evolution of Baby, 805 00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:14,352 I look at something like "Pure Cocaine." 806 00:39:14,436 --> 00:39:16,813 The rapping that he's doing on that is so elastic. 807 00:39:16,897 --> 00:39:18,774 He's fighting with the beat. 808 00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:20,859 He's zooming in and out of pockets. 809 00:39:20,942 --> 00:39:23,236 It's amazing. 810 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,864 Listen to, um, "Close Friends." 811 00:39:25,947 --> 00:39:27,616 That's a ballad. That's an R&B ballad. 812 00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:29,201 You could give that song to any R&B artist. 813 00:39:29,284 --> 00:39:30,952 Would've been a hit. 814 00:39:31,036 --> 00:39:33,205 -♪ We started off as close friends ♪ -♪ Close friends ♪ 815 00:39:33,288 --> 00:39:35,540 ♪ Somehow you turned into my girlfriend ♪ 816 00:39:35,624 --> 00:39:37,000 ♪ My girlfriend ♪ 817 00:39:37,084 --> 00:39:38,251 ♪ We used to tell each other everything ♪ 818 00:39:38,335 --> 00:39:40,003 ♪ Everything ♪ 819 00:39:40,087 --> 00:39:41,546 ♪ I even went and bought her diamond rings ♪ 820 00:39:41,630 --> 00:39:43,006 ♪ Matching earrings... ♪ 821 00:39:43,090 --> 00:39:44,716 CHARLAMAGNE: I'm the type of person, 822 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,552 I always love expecting the unexpected. 823 00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:50,180 The way he was putting out mixtapes and putting out verses, 824 00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:54,434 I meant that from the way he was getting better so fast. 825 00:39:54,518 --> 00:39:56,353 (indistinct chatter) 826 00:39:56,436 --> 00:39:58,105 Like, y-you could hear it on "Drip Too Hard." 827 00:39:58,188 --> 00:39:59,689 Yeah, where y'all DJ? 828 00:39:59,773 --> 00:40:01,900 ("Drip Too Hard" by Lil Baby and Gunna playing) 829 00:40:01,983 --> 00:40:04,152 CHARLAMAGNE: The flow, 830 00:40:04,236 --> 00:40:06,238 the voice, the cadence, the lyrics, 831 00:40:06,321 --> 00:40:09,199 but it was just something happening. 832 00:40:09,282 --> 00:40:12,953 Every time you heard a Lil Baby project, every time you heard a Lil Baby verse, 833 00:40:13,036 --> 00:40:15,372 I'm like, "Hold up. 834 00:40:15,455 --> 00:40:17,624 "Lil Baby can rap. 835 00:40:17,707 --> 00:40:20,794 "Like, nah, Lil Baby snapping. 836 00:40:20,877 --> 00:40:22,879 Like, he's spitting spitting." 837 00:40:22,963 --> 00:40:24,422 MAN (over speakers): Put your fucking hands up! 838 00:40:24,506 --> 00:40:26,508 ♪ You can get the biggest Chanel bag in the store ♪ 839 00:40:26,591 --> 00:40:27,801 ♪ If you want it, I gave 'em the drip ♪ 840 00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:29,511 ♪ They sucked it up, I got 'em on it ♪ 841 00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:31,680 ♪ I bought a new Patek, I had the watch, so I two-toned 'em ♪ 842 00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:33,890 ♪ Taking these drugs, I'm gon' be up until the morning ♪ 843 00:40:33,974 --> 00:40:36,143 ♪ That ain't your car, you just a leaser, you don't own it ♪ 844 00:40:36,226 --> 00:40:38,145 ♪ If I'm in the club, I got that fire when I'm performing ♪ 845 00:40:38,228 --> 00:40:40,480 ♪ The back end just came in in all hundreds ♪ 846 00:40:40,564 --> 00:40:42,107 ♪ Vibes galore, cute shit, they all on us ♪ 847 00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:44,276 ♪ I'm from Atlanta, where young niggas run shit ♪ 848 00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:46,736 ♪ I know they hating on me, but I don't read comments ♪ 849 00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:48,613 ♪ Whenever I tell her to come, she coming ♪ 850 00:40:48,697 --> 00:40:51,408 ♪ Whenever it's smoke, we ain't running ♪ 851 00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:53,451 ♪ Drip too hard, don't stand too close ♪ 852 00:40:53,535 --> 00:40:55,453 ♪ You gon' fuck around and drown off this wave ♪ 853 00:40:55,537 --> 00:40:57,539 ♪ Doing all these shows, I've been on the road... ♪ 854 00:40:57,622 --> 00:41:00,333 I think, with Gunna, when those two came together, 855 00:41:00,417 --> 00:41:02,836 that was one of the first real moments where I think everybody 856 00:41:02,919 --> 00:41:06,381 collectively was like, "Lil Baby is the center of Atlanta now." 857 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:08,049 ♪ Every other night, another movie get made ♪ 858 00:41:08,133 --> 00:41:10,719 ♪ Every other night, another dollar getting made ♪ 859 00:41:10,802 --> 00:41:12,679 ♪ Every other night started with a good day ♪ 860 00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,806 ♪ I feel like a child, I got boogers in the face ♪ 861 00:41:14,890 --> 00:41:17,017 ♪ Diamonds dancing in the dial like this shit is a parade... ♪ 862 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:18,560 We showed brotherly love. 863 00:41:18,643 --> 00:41:19,895 Like, we showed, like, 864 00:41:19,978 --> 00:41:22,397 how two niggas can come together and get it. 865 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,648 Like, we showing, like, 866 00:41:23,732 --> 00:41:25,108 our younger generation, like, we can do it. 867 00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:27,527 ♪ Drip too hard, charge it to the card ♪ 868 00:41:27,611 --> 00:41:29,821 ♪ Designer to the ground, I can barely spell the name ♪ 869 00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:31,656 ♪ Drip too hard, caution on the floor ♪ 870 00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:32,991 ♪ You gon' fuck around and drown ♪ 871 00:41:33,074 --> 00:41:34,242 ♪ Trying to ride a nigga wave ♪ 872 00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:35,994 ♪ Drip too hard, don't stand too close ♪ 873 00:41:36,077 --> 00:41:38,371 ♪ You gon' fuck around and drown off this wave ♪ 874 00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:40,290 ♪ Doing all these shows, I've been on the road ♪ 875 00:41:40,373 --> 00:41:42,167 ♪ I don't care where I go, long as I get paid. ♪ 876 00:41:42,250 --> 00:41:43,585 -(song ends) -(crowd cheering) 877 00:41:43,668 --> 00:41:45,003 MAN (over speakers): London, make some noise 878 00:41:45,086 --> 00:41:47,672 for Baby and Gunna one time! 879 00:41:48,924 --> 00:41:50,467 GUNNA: History in the making. 880 00:41:52,052 --> 00:41:53,178 History in the making. 881 00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:55,597 Like, we young Black kings. 882 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,682 (crowd cheering) 883 00:41:59,935 --> 00:42:01,853 (indistinct chatter) 884 00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:04,189 Me and my motherfucking brother, we doing festivals and shit. 885 00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:05,774 You know this shit. Know what I'm saying? 886 00:42:05,857 --> 00:42:07,776 This shit like a dream come true, you know what I'm saying? 887 00:42:07,859 --> 00:42:09,152 Niggas ain't doing this shit. 888 00:42:09,236 --> 00:42:11,571 ♪ Do this all the time, this ain't no surprise ♪ 889 00:42:11,655 --> 00:42:13,657 ♪ Every other night, another movie get made. ♪ 890 00:42:13,740 --> 00:42:15,659 (gunfire sound effects playing) 891 00:42:15,742 --> 00:42:17,911 -(song ends) -(crowd cheering) 892 00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:25,543 LIL BABY: Growing up in the hood, 893 00:42:25,627 --> 00:42:28,838 you never imagine being able to really see the world. 894 00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:32,592 ♪ ♪ 895 00:42:33,677 --> 00:42:35,637 TIFFANY CALVER: How have you found the U.K. and Europe? 896 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:36,930 At first, I ain't want to come. 897 00:42:37,013 --> 00:42:38,348 -(Calver laughs) -I ain't want to come. 898 00:42:38,431 --> 00:42:40,183 I tell Coach, like, "I ain't going over there." 899 00:42:40,267 --> 00:42:42,269 -Why? -Once I-I-- you know, just-- 900 00:42:42,352 --> 00:42:45,230 I never been before, so, you know, I'm kind of like... 901 00:42:45,313 --> 00:42:47,816 I ain't really that fond of trying new things. 902 00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:51,278 Did you ever think you'd be this successful? 903 00:42:51,361 --> 00:42:52,988 -(chuckles) -To the point we're playing your songs 904 00:42:53,071 --> 00:42:54,197 nonstop in the U.K. 905 00:42:54,281 --> 00:42:58,076 I always thought we would be big, but I didn't even know what big was. 906 00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:00,161 (crowd cheering) 907 00:43:00,245 --> 00:43:02,247 (indistinct chatter and shouting over speakers) 908 00:43:04,874 --> 00:43:06,293 COACH K: We get to London, 909 00:43:06,376 --> 00:43:10,422 then I took him to the hood so he can understand, like, 910 00:43:10,505 --> 00:43:12,549 all hoods are the same; they just look different. 911 00:43:12,632 --> 00:43:15,719 Or the language barrier might be a little different. 912 00:43:15,802 --> 00:43:18,638 We went to Amsterdam, same thing. 913 00:43:18,722 --> 00:43:21,641 We went to Paris, same thing. 914 00:43:22,767 --> 00:43:24,436 (siren wailing) 915 00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:26,187 As we were moving around, he started seeing it like, 916 00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:29,357 "Oh, man. It's kind of like 917 00:43:29,441 --> 00:43:31,776 the same situation that's going on back in the hood." 918 00:43:31,860 --> 00:43:33,778 I'm like, "It is, man. 919 00:43:33,862 --> 00:43:36,781 "It's just, you know, people might look a little different, 920 00:43:36,865 --> 00:43:39,159 "and their language might be a little bit different, 921 00:43:39,242 --> 00:43:40,952 but it's the same thing." 922 00:43:41,036 --> 00:43:44,122 And I said, "Your story and your music, 923 00:43:44,205 --> 00:43:47,917 it cuts through to all these people." 924 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:50,920 MAN (over speakers): Everybody, put your hands up! 925 00:43:51,004 --> 00:43:52,922 MAN 2: Put your lights up like this, 926 00:43:53,006 --> 00:43:54,883 and I want the lights off. 927 00:43:54,966 --> 00:43:57,844 Put your lights up if you're ready to go crazy right now. 928 00:43:57,927 --> 00:43:59,721 Let me hear you say, "Baby!" 929 00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:01,765 CROWD (chanting): Baby! Baby! 930 00:44:01,848 --> 00:44:05,685 Baby! Baby! Baby! Baby! 931 00:44:05,769 --> 00:44:07,562 Baby! Baby! 932 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:09,481 MAN 3: Ladies and gentlemen, 933 00:44:09,564 --> 00:44:15,278 all the way from ATL, I give you Lil Baby! 934 00:44:15,362 --> 00:44:17,364 (cheering fades) 935 00:44:24,788 --> 00:44:26,706 DRAKE: It's easy to-to hear all the great things 936 00:44:26,790 --> 00:44:28,750 that people say about you. 937 00:44:29,793 --> 00:44:35,256 They'll tell you you're the man one day, and the next day, opinions change. 938 00:44:36,508 --> 00:44:37,967 You just got to just keep working. 939 00:44:38,051 --> 00:44:42,389 You can't really acknowledge, uh, how well it's going. 940 00:44:42,472 --> 00:44:44,265 You're gonna have to get better, right? 941 00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:47,227 That's... that's just how the shit works. 942 00:44:47,310 --> 00:44:48,895 You have to get better, right? 943 00:44:48,978 --> 00:44:53,608 I think, as far as, you know, the legacy of music goes-- 944 00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,735 Forget hip-hop. Let's just talk about music, right? 945 00:44:55,819 --> 00:44:58,363 'Cause really that's how we all want to be remembered. 946 00:44:58,446 --> 00:45:01,741 Hip-hop and rap is great, but it's just a genre, you know? 947 00:45:01,825 --> 00:45:04,577 There's plenty of other artists that have done 948 00:45:04,661 --> 00:45:08,081 the exact same things, if not more, in other genres. 949 00:45:08,164 --> 00:45:11,000 If you're really about this shit, 950 00:45:11,084 --> 00:45:13,753 then you want to be remembered in the legacy of music. 951 00:45:13,837 --> 00:45:15,713 (YNW Melly's "Take Kare" instrumental beat playing) 952 00:45:15,797 --> 00:45:18,133 It's a pivotal moment for him. 953 00:45:19,342 --> 00:45:21,719 It's just time to keep pushing forward. 954 00:45:21,803 --> 00:45:23,805 (freestyling lyrics to beat, audio muffled) 955 00:45:32,605 --> 00:45:34,941 ♪ Yeah ♪ 956 00:45:36,359 --> 00:45:39,737 -♪ When I see you ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪ 957 00:45:39,821 --> 00:45:41,990 ♪ How these niggas follow the leader, I'm in the lead, though? ♪ 958 00:45:42,073 --> 00:45:43,992 ♪ You could've been quiet and silent, what you agree for? ♪ 959 00:45:44,075 --> 00:45:46,244 ♪ You 'posed to be having your money, but now you need me ♪ 960 00:45:46,327 --> 00:45:48,455 ♪ I ain't ever turn my back on a real one ♪ 961 00:45:48,538 --> 00:45:50,623 ♪ Sipping all this purple, I'm hoping it make me feel better ♪ 962 00:45:50,707 --> 00:45:52,750 ♪ I don't want a problem with bitches, so I don't deal with them ♪ 963 00:45:52,834 --> 00:45:54,961 ♪ He did got away for the moment, but we gon' still get 'em ♪ 964 00:45:55,044 --> 00:45:57,630 ♪ They ain't ever taking it from me 'cause I'm a real nigga. ♪ 965 00:45:57,714 --> 00:45:59,716 (song fades) 966 00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,555 ETHIOPIA HABTEMARIAM: My name's Ethiopia Habtemariam. 967 00:46:05,638 --> 00:46:09,517 I am the chairman and CEO of Motown Records. 968 00:46:09,601 --> 00:46:11,811 You know, inside of the music industry or whatever, 969 00:46:11,895 --> 00:46:16,649 you still have people who didn't really understand Baby. 970 00:46:16,733 --> 00:46:18,651 -MAN: Lil Baby! -MAN 2: Another completely 971 00:46:18,735 --> 00:46:21,779 unspectacular voice on this record has to be Lil Baby, 972 00:46:21,863 --> 00:46:24,699 whose continued popularity just boggles my mind, 973 00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:29,287 as he's maybe one of the most nondescript rappers out there right now. 974 00:46:29,370 --> 00:46:31,247 They didn't understand what he was saying in records. 975 00:46:31,331 --> 00:46:34,042 You know, you deal with that a lot sometimes with Southern hip-hop artists. 976 00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:35,335 MAN 3: Lil Baby? 977 00:46:35,418 --> 00:46:37,212 I have no idea what he's saying. 978 00:46:37,295 --> 00:46:39,005 -(laughter) -I have none. 979 00:46:39,088 --> 00:46:41,966 Some people are elitist, some people are, like, real hip-hop heads, 980 00:46:42,050 --> 00:46:44,552 or some gatekeepers just don't see it yet. 981 00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:54,395 They don't see it until there's a big album. 982 00:46:54,479 --> 00:46:57,315 ♪ ♪ 983 00:46:57,398 --> 00:47:03,196 It was towards the end of 2019. 984 00:47:03,279 --> 00:47:05,198 He was on the road, 985 00:47:05,281 --> 00:47:07,575 working all the time and creating new music. 986 00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:12,455 We set up these listening sessions 987 00:47:12,539 --> 00:47:16,543 to preview the music that was on My Turn. 988 00:47:16,626 --> 00:47:19,003 THOMAS: Thank you for taking time out y'all day to come here today. 989 00:47:19,087 --> 00:47:21,631 Baby 'bout to drop his album. 990 00:47:21,714 --> 00:47:24,551 Been working on this album for over a year now. 991 00:47:24,634 --> 00:47:26,928 How y'all doing? I appreciate y'all for coming out. 992 00:47:27,011 --> 00:47:28,846 THOMAS: He gon' play some records for y'all, 993 00:47:28,930 --> 00:47:31,224 hopefully one of the biggest albums of the year. 994 00:47:31,307 --> 00:47:33,560 You know he always gon' deliver on his end with the hits. 995 00:47:33,643 --> 00:47:37,939 We just need the support from the partners to... amplify it. 996 00:47:40,275 --> 00:47:42,235 ("Heatin' Up" by Lil Baby and Gunna playing) 997 00:47:42,318 --> 00:47:44,320 ♪ Cook that shit up, Quay ♪ 998 00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:47,865 People just got really excited. 999 00:47:47,949 --> 00:47:50,076 He had some shit on there, and everybody knew it. 1000 00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:53,288 COACH K: That's a statement. 1001 00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:54,914 "It's my turn now." 1002 00:47:54,998 --> 00:47:56,374 ...here to celebrate his new album. 1003 00:47:56,457 --> 00:47:57,667 -It's called My Turn. -(cheering) 1004 00:47:57,750 --> 00:48:00,503 This guy drops a album that everybody's just, 1005 00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:02,046 unanimously across the board, like, 1006 00:48:02,130 --> 00:48:04,173 "That's... that was, that was it." 1007 00:48:04,257 --> 00:48:05,675 I fucking knew it. 1008 00:48:05,758 --> 00:48:07,260 "Back when you was saying you couldn't sing 1009 00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:08,845 "and how I do this shit, 1010 00:48:08,928 --> 00:48:10,722 nigga, you knew." 1011 00:48:10,805 --> 00:48:14,183 Patiently waited his turn, and, pow, 1012 00:48:14,267 --> 00:48:15,810 showed them what he knew. 1013 00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:17,312 Another level. 1014 00:48:17,395 --> 00:48:18,980 -You could do 200 first week. -(Angela laughs) 1015 00:48:19,063 --> 00:48:20,773 You got to care about numbers a little bit. 1016 00:48:20,857 --> 00:48:24,068 Everywhere I went, it felt like a Lil Baby world. 1017 00:48:24,152 --> 00:48:25,695 And it was because of My Turn. 1018 00:48:25,778 --> 00:48:29,282 DRAKE: Baby came in with his own thing, 1019 00:48:29,365 --> 00:48:31,576 which is just, like, picking the hardest beats, 1020 00:48:31,659 --> 00:48:35,038 finding the craziest pockets, melodies, anthems. 1021 00:48:35,121 --> 00:48:36,706 MAN (over speakers): We got the number one artist 1022 00:48:36,789 --> 00:48:38,625 in the fucking world in the building right now. 1023 00:48:38,708 --> 00:48:40,209 What's up, DJ? 1024 00:48:40,293 --> 00:48:41,961 Now you'll hear someone's song and you'll be like, 1025 00:48:42,045 --> 00:48:43,504 "Ah, that sounds like Baby." 1026 00:48:43,588 --> 00:48:46,090 -My Turn just went double platinum! -(whooping) 1027 00:48:46,174 --> 00:48:48,468 He becomes the only artist in 2020 to do so. 1028 00:48:48,551 --> 00:48:49,844 DJ CARISMA: Only one. Only one. 1029 00:48:49,927 --> 00:48:52,055 My Turn from Lil Baby 1030 00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:55,016 was the highest selling album of all of 2020 1031 00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:57,560 in the entire music business. 1032 00:48:57,644 --> 00:48:59,937 Over, what, 12 billion global streams. 1033 00:49:00,021 --> 00:49:01,189 I don't even know what that means. 1034 00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:03,316 -How many zeros is that? -WOMAN: A lot. 1035 00:49:03,399 --> 00:49:05,777 DRAKE: He just continued to evolve. 1036 00:49:05,860 --> 00:49:08,696 This guy's the truth, you know? Like, his work ethic is-is up. 1037 00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:10,365 ♪ I'm the one from the bottom who sold ♪ 1038 00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:12,909 ♪ All my partners them pounds, used to drive in a Buick. ♪ 1039 00:49:12,992 --> 00:49:15,662 (rhythmic breathing) 1040 00:49:15,745 --> 00:49:17,664 (song fades) 1041 00:49:17,747 --> 00:49:19,749 ♪ ♪ 1042 00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:30,802 DRAKE: I wish he had really got to see the effects of his music. 1043 00:49:30,885 --> 00:49:32,136 ERIN BURNETT: Stay at home. 1044 00:49:32,220 --> 00:49:35,348 That is the order tonight from four state governors, 1045 00:49:35,431 --> 00:49:37,558 as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. 1046 00:49:39,894 --> 00:49:41,854 DRAKE: We were supposed to go on tour 1047 00:49:41,938 --> 00:49:45,274 in all the festivals and all the clubs and just... 1048 00:49:45,358 --> 00:49:47,151 I almost feel for him in a sense 1049 00:49:47,235 --> 00:49:52,240 because I wish the world was open, um, for him to... 1050 00:49:52,323 --> 00:49:54,158 to experience what that should've been. 1051 00:49:55,702 --> 00:49:57,912 It's like... 1052 00:49:57,995 --> 00:50:03,167 the hardest year maybe in human history that we've ever been through. 1053 00:50:03,251 --> 00:50:06,963 Forget music, just as a, as a, as a people. 1054 00:50:07,046 --> 00:50:11,884 Like, the hardest time to ever connect with people, relate to people. 1055 00:50:14,846 --> 00:50:18,057 It was clearly the biggest rap project of the year, 1056 00:50:18,141 --> 00:50:21,018 and what a tough time to deliver that. 1057 00:50:21,102 --> 00:50:23,104 (rap music playing faintly in distance) 1058 00:50:30,611 --> 00:50:35,032 LIL BABY: Being in quarantine made me think about what really matters. 1059 00:50:38,745 --> 00:50:41,122 I had the biggest album in the world, 1060 00:50:41,205 --> 00:50:43,207 but something still felt empty. 1061 00:50:44,917 --> 00:50:47,128 It made me look inwards. 1062 00:50:47,211 --> 00:50:51,299 It made me realize all the awards, all the numbers, 1063 00:50:51,382 --> 00:50:53,384 it don't mean anything. 1064 00:51:12,612 --> 00:51:14,614 NEWSMAN (over TV): Demonstrators gathering in Minneapolis 1065 00:51:14,697 --> 00:51:16,699 to protest the death of a Black man. 1066 00:51:16,783 --> 00:51:20,870 Video shows one officer kneeling on Floyd's neck for several minutes, 1067 00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:23,289 even after he pleaded that he couldn't breathe. 1068 00:51:23,372 --> 00:51:24,499 What began as a crowd of... 1069 00:51:24,582 --> 00:51:27,251 LIL BABY: This ain't something that's new to me. 1070 00:51:27,335 --> 00:51:29,420 It wasn't my first time seeing it. 1071 00:51:29,504 --> 00:51:31,214 I done seen the worst of the worst. 1072 00:51:31,297 --> 00:51:32,590 NEWSMAN: ...reportedly fired tear gas... 1073 00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:36,219 I done been in real physical altercations with police. 1074 00:51:36,302 --> 00:51:38,095 I been to prison. 1075 00:51:38,179 --> 00:51:40,556 You know, they do you any kind of way. 1076 00:51:41,557 --> 00:51:42,642 (crowd shouting) 1077 00:51:42,725 --> 00:51:44,185 CROWD (chanting): No justice, no peace! 1078 00:51:44,268 --> 00:51:45,728 No justice, no peace! 1079 00:51:45,812 --> 00:51:47,063 Being Black is not a crime! 1080 00:51:47,146 --> 00:51:48,815 Same story every time! 1081 00:51:48,898 --> 00:51:51,234 Being Black is not a crime! 1082 00:51:51,317 --> 00:51:54,195 Don't shoot! Hands up! Don't shoot! Hands up! 1083 00:51:54,278 --> 00:51:56,239 Don't shoot! 1084 00:51:56,322 --> 00:51:59,867 Hands up! Don't shoot! Hands up! Don't shoot! 1085 00:51:59,951 --> 00:52:02,286 Hands up! Don't shoot! 1086 00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:05,373 No justice, no peace! No justice, no peace! 1087 00:52:05,456 --> 00:52:06,916 No justice, no peace! 1088 00:52:06,999 --> 00:52:09,293 Being Black is not a crime! 1089 00:52:09,377 --> 00:52:13,130 LIL BABY: I think I got the same role as every other Black person. 1090 00:52:13,214 --> 00:52:15,508 (chanting fades) 1091 00:52:15,591 --> 00:52:18,469 Stick together, stand up for what we believe in. 1092 00:52:18,553 --> 00:52:21,389 And you got to voice it and speak it. 1093 00:52:23,182 --> 00:52:24,642 (police radio crackles) 1094 00:52:24,725 --> 00:52:26,727 ♪ ♪ 1095 00:52:48,416 --> 00:52:52,670 I try to make sure I put real life in my music. 1096 00:52:52,753 --> 00:52:54,922 We are tired. 1097 00:52:55,006 --> 00:52:57,550 We are tired of being beaten by policemen. 1098 00:52:57,633 --> 00:53:00,803 We're tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again. 1099 00:53:03,764 --> 00:53:05,516 (crowd clapping) 1100 00:53:12,690 --> 00:53:17,570 LIL BABY: We've been going through the same shit decade after decade. 1101 00:53:17,653 --> 00:53:19,572 Dramatic videotape obtained by Channel Five... 1102 00:53:19,655 --> 00:53:23,451 Obviously, we feel the, uh, evidence warranted a conviction. 1103 00:53:23,534 --> 00:53:26,454 NEWSMAN: The violence erupted after the acquittal of four white policemen 1104 00:53:26,537 --> 00:53:28,831 in the beating trial of Black motorist Rodney King. 1105 00:53:28,915 --> 00:53:30,833 No justice, no peace! 1106 00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:36,797 LIL BABY: I'm just the new generation to experience it. 1107 00:53:40,426 --> 00:53:42,720 NEWSMAN 2: The grand jury would not... 1108 00:53:42,803 --> 00:53:44,680 NEWSMAN 3: Grand jury declined to bring charges 1109 00:53:44,764 --> 00:53:49,977 against a white police officer in the death of an unarmed Black man. 1110 00:53:50,061 --> 00:53:52,021 (crowd chanting) 1111 00:53:52,104 --> 00:53:54,774 NEWSMAN 4: ...surveillance video of Ahmaud Arbery just before he was shot... 1112 00:53:54,857 --> 00:53:56,233 NEWSWOMAN: The man told the officer, "I can't breathe." 1113 00:53:56,317 --> 00:53:57,944 WOMAN: No one has been held accountable. 1114 00:53:58,027 --> 00:53:59,445 This is injustice. 1115 00:54:03,115 --> 00:54:04,825 LIL BABY: With my music, 1116 00:54:04,909 --> 00:54:07,662 I want to show people what's going on in our world. 1117 00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:11,040 -(crowd chanting) -(sirens whooping) 1118 00:54:13,501 --> 00:54:15,711 And what's continuing to go on. 1119 00:54:17,004 --> 00:54:19,256 ("The Bigger Picture" by Lil Baby playing) 1120 00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:20,925 CROWD (chanting): I can't breathe! 1121 00:54:21,008 --> 00:54:22,551 I can't breathe! 1122 00:54:22,635 --> 00:54:24,637 ♪ Trade my four-by-four for a G 63 ♪ 1123 00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:26,097 ♪ Ain't no more free Lil Steve ♪ 1124 00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:28,099 ♪ I gave 'em chance and chance and chance again ♪ 1125 00:54:28,182 --> 00:54:29,266 ♪ I even done told them please ♪ 1126 00:54:29,350 --> 00:54:30,810 ♪ I find it crazy the police'll shoot you ♪ 1127 00:54:30,893 --> 00:54:33,396 ♪ And know that you dead but still tell you to freeze ♪ 1128 00:54:33,479 --> 00:54:35,022 ♪ Fucked-up, I seen what I seen, I guess that mean ♪ 1129 00:54:35,106 --> 00:54:36,691 ♪ Hold him down if he say he can't breathe ♪ 1130 00:54:36,774 --> 00:54:39,068 ♪ It's too many mothers that's grieving, they killing us for no reason ♪ 1131 00:54:39,151 --> 00:54:42,238 ♪ Been going on for too long to get even, throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas ♪ 1132 00:54:42,321 --> 00:54:43,781 ♪ I went to court and they sent me to prison ♪ 1133 00:54:43,864 --> 00:54:45,700 ♪ My mama was crushed when they said I can't leave ♪ 1134 00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:47,410 ♪ First I was drunk, then I sobered up quick ♪ 1135 00:54:47,493 --> 00:54:49,161 ♪ When I heard all that time that they gave to Taleeb ♪ 1136 00:54:49,245 --> 00:54:50,997 ♪ He got a life sentence plus... ♪ 1137 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,165 Like throwing an ice-cold glass of water on somebody. 1138 00:54:53,249 --> 00:54:55,292 You didn't expect that, like, "Oh, shit." 1139 00:54:55,376 --> 00:54:58,087 So now you got to wake up to Lil Baby, but also you got to really pay attention 1140 00:54:58,170 --> 00:55:00,089 to what Lil Baby's saying because it's him saying it. 1141 00:55:00,172 --> 00:55:01,382 ♪ Every colored person ain't dumb ♪ 1142 00:55:01,465 --> 00:55:02,925 ♪ And all whites not racist ♪ 1143 00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:04,635 ♪ I be judging by the mind and heart ♪ 1144 00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,387 ♪ I ain't really into faces ♪ 1145 00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:08,764 "Bigger Picture" is one of those time stamp records, man. 1146 00:55:08,848 --> 00:55:10,182 Like, you gonna hear that record, 1147 00:55:10,266 --> 00:55:12,226 and you gonna remember the pandemic of 2020. 1148 00:55:12,309 --> 00:55:14,812 You gonna remember how Black Lives Matter was flooding the street. 1149 00:55:14,895 --> 00:55:16,856 ♪ Every video I see on my conscience ♪ 1150 00:55:16,939 --> 00:55:18,399 ♪ I got power, now I got to say something ♪ 1151 00:55:18,482 --> 00:55:19,900 ♪ Corrupted police been the problem where I'm from ♪ 1152 00:55:19,984 --> 00:55:22,069 ♪ But I'd be lying if I said it was all of them ♪ 1153 00:55:22,153 --> 00:55:23,529 ♪ I ain't do this for the trend, I don't follow them ♪ 1154 00:55:23,612 --> 00:55:25,072 ♪ Altercations with the law, had a lot of them ♪ 1155 00:55:25,156 --> 00:55:26,741 ♪ People speaking for the people, I'm proud of them ♪ 1156 00:55:26,824 --> 00:55:28,701 ♪ Stick together, we can get it up out of them... ♪ 1157 00:55:28,784 --> 00:55:30,161 CHARLAMAGNE: I don't think you get that record 1158 00:55:30,244 --> 00:55:34,331 without those five projects coming out prior, 1159 00:55:34,415 --> 00:55:36,751 'cause his pen was sharp, you know what I mean? 1160 00:55:36,834 --> 00:55:37,960 Like, his pen was sharp. 1161 00:55:38,044 --> 00:55:40,171 He was just, like, just focused. 1162 00:55:40,254 --> 00:55:42,006 His energy was different. You could just tell. 1163 00:55:42,089 --> 00:55:43,424 He was just looking at the world. 1164 00:55:43,507 --> 00:55:45,926 He was like, "I'm-a write about that. 1165 00:55:46,010 --> 00:55:48,012 "I done, I done did all the street stuff. 1166 00:55:48,095 --> 00:55:50,014 I'm-a write about that." 1167 00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:51,265 Wow. 1168 00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:53,934 Sign of a true artist, man. 1169 00:55:54,018 --> 00:55:55,311 CROWD (chanting): I can't breathe! 1170 00:55:55,394 --> 00:55:57,063 I can't breathe! 1171 00:55:57,146 --> 00:55:59,231 -I can't breathe! -(song ends) 1172 00:55:59,315 --> 00:56:01,984 Still gonna be tied to that kind of movement 1173 00:56:02,068 --> 00:56:04,403 for the rest of my life. 1174 00:56:04,487 --> 00:56:07,031 This ain't gonna be the last George Floyd. 1175 00:56:09,909 --> 00:56:13,204 It already happened so many times since. 1176 00:56:18,167 --> 00:56:20,711 (siren wailing) 1177 00:56:20,795 --> 00:56:22,588 HOLMES: When it comes to these big moments, 1178 00:56:22,671 --> 00:56:26,550 a lot of times, artists like Baby-- where he's from, what he's rapping about-- 1179 00:56:26,634 --> 00:56:28,219 get shut out. 1180 00:56:28,302 --> 00:56:29,929 There are these things like Rolling Stone 1181 00:56:30,012 --> 00:56:31,931 and The New York Times and Billboard 1182 00:56:32,014 --> 00:56:35,351 and all of these traditionally white publications, where, 1183 00:56:35,434 --> 00:56:38,896 hey, working there, it's so hard to convince people, like, 1184 00:56:38,979 --> 00:56:42,149 "No, this is the most important artist right now." 1185 00:56:42,233 --> 00:56:46,153 But when you do see a Black artist cut through, 1186 00:56:46,237 --> 00:56:47,696 that means something. 1187 00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:49,198 (camera clicking) 1188 00:56:52,660 --> 00:56:55,496 I just went in there like a blank slate of being like, 1189 00:56:55,579 --> 00:56:57,456 "I just want to know what Lil Baby's like." 1190 00:56:57,540 --> 00:57:00,626 I had no idea what the story would be at that point. 1191 00:57:01,919 --> 00:57:06,257 Coach picks me up, I go to QC, and when Baby gets there, 1192 00:57:06,340 --> 00:57:08,467 one of the hardest interviews I've ever done. 1193 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,805 I'll remember that day forever because I had a really, really good conversation 1194 00:57:12,888 --> 00:57:15,141 with a very, very interesting artist. 1195 00:57:15,224 --> 00:57:20,479 And I captured this moment where it's just, like, two Black men, 1196 00:57:20,563 --> 00:57:23,983 similar in age but different in every other way, 1197 00:57:24,066 --> 00:57:27,403 trying to talk about one of the most 1198 00:57:27,486 --> 00:57:32,283 chaotic, brutal, devastating moments in American history. 1199 00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:34,201 NEWSMAN: This is a look now at the scene 1200 00:57:34,285 --> 00:57:36,954 where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot Friday night. 1201 00:57:37,997 --> 00:57:43,294 HOLMES: The death of Rayshard Brooks was still very, very recent. 1202 00:57:43,377 --> 00:57:48,591 And when I'm riding through Atlanta with Lil Baby, 1203 00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:52,052 you're realizing Lil Baby's childhood neighborhood 1204 00:57:52,136 --> 00:57:54,138 is five minutes away. 1205 00:57:58,184 --> 00:58:01,228 When I went to the Wendy's, it was, it was a raw emotion. 1206 00:58:01,312 --> 00:58:05,232 I was just like, "This is eerie." 1207 00:58:05,316 --> 00:58:07,401 And Lil Baby said something to the effect of, like, 1208 00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:11,405 "Yo, somebody's died everywhere we've gone today." 1209 00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,324 There was a distance that he had. 1210 00:58:16,327 --> 00:58:20,164 Because Rayshard Brooks is not the first Black man that 1211 00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:21,665 Lil Baby has heard of being killed. 1212 00:58:21,749 --> 00:58:23,083 Uh, not the tenth, 1213 00:58:23,167 --> 00:58:25,085 it's probably not the hundredth or the thousandth. 1214 00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:26,253 This is his life. 1215 00:58:28,047 --> 00:58:31,008 And I think that's why I wanted to profile Lil Baby, 1216 00:58:31,091 --> 00:58:34,553 not just because of the success that he was having as a rapper, 1217 00:58:34,637 --> 00:58:37,014 but because, when he comes out with "The Bigger Picture," 1218 00:58:37,097 --> 00:58:38,807 of course it cuts through. 1219 00:58:40,559 --> 00:58:42,811 He comes from a disadvantaged background. 1220 00:58:42,895 --> 00:58:44,355 He's a former drug dealer. 1221 00:58:44,438 --> 00:58:49,318 He's somebody that a racist system would be very, very quick to profile. 1222 00:58:49,401 --> 00:58:52,488 He's the perfect person to talk about that moment 1223 00:58:52,571 --> 00:58:54,615 because he's lived it. 1224 00:58:56,617 --> 00:58:59,370 And I don't think "The Bigger Picture" is a protest song. 1225 00:58:59,453 --> 00:59:01,664 I just think it's a song 1226 00:59:01,747 --> 00:59:05,167 that's about Lil Baby, and Lil Baby quite easily 1227 00:59:05,251 --> 00:59:09,088 could've been any of the people that were murdered that summer. 1228 00:59:10,130 --> 00:59:12,132 (line ringing) 1229 00:59:14,927 --> 00:59:17,012 JASON (over phone): Mm-hmm? 1230 00:59:17,096 --> 00:59:20,724 LIL BABY: You know that man who died, George Floyd? 1231 00:59:20,808 --> 00:59:22,726 JASON: The one who couldn't breathe? 1232 00:59:22,810 --> 00:59:25,646 LIL BABY: Right, the one who the police killed? 1233 00:59:25,729 --> 00:59:26,939 JASON: Mm-hmm. 1234 00:59:27,022 --> 00:59:29,275 LIL BABY: His daughter, she's turning six years old 1235 00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:31,694 and she's having a birthday party. 1236 00:59:32,695 --> 00:59:35,239 I'm gonna pay for her birthday party. 1237 00:59:35,322 --> 00:59:38,617 So you and Loyal, we just gonna show our face and then come back. 1238 00:59:38,701 --> 00:59:39,910 JASON: All right. 1239 00:59:39,994 --> 00:59:42,413 All right, I'll be home in a minute. 1240 00:59:51,422 --> 00:59:54,008 (lively chatter) 1241 00:59:54,091 --> 00:59:56,051 ("Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars playing) 1242 00:59:56,135 --> 01:00:01,348 ♪ Just the way you are ♪ 1243 01:00:01,432 --> 01:00:03,851 -♪ And when you smile... ♪ -(song fades) 1244 01:00:03,934 --> 01:00:05,936 (lively chatter continues) 1245 01:00:11,567 --> 01:00:14,028 LIL BABY: I feel like I have a responsibility 1246 01:00:14,111 --> 01:00:15,654 to keep fighting 1247 01:00:15,738 --> 01:00:18,073 and make sure the world is a better place 1248 01:00:18,157 --> 01:00:20,492 for the generation I'm gonna leave on. 1249 01:00:28,959 --> 01:00:31,712 (kids and adults chattering indistinctly in distance) 1250 01:00:37,801 --> 01:00:39,803 (indistinct chatter continues) 1251 01:00:46,018 --> 01:00:47,728 (cell phone ringing) 1252 01:00:47,811 --> 01:00:49,396 MAN: What's up, now? 1253 01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:50,647 MAN (over phone): What's going on? 1254 01:00:50,731 --> 01:00:51,982 How you living? 1255 01:00:52,066 --> 01:00:55,569 HOLMES: For Lil Baby, music got him out. 1256 01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:56,904 MAN (over phone): Doing all right, though? 1257 01:00:56,987 --> 01:00:58,822 Hell yeah, I'm all right, man. I can't complain at all. 1258 01:00:58,906 --> 01:01:02,368 Man, I'm just happy to be around, be able to do what a nigga doing. 1259 01:01:02,451 --> 01:01:04,119 Man, I can't complain. 1260 01:01:04,203 --> 01:01:07,498 HOLMES: The sad part is, like, there's a million Lil Babys in America, 1261 01:01:07,581 --> 01:01:11,251 wishing they could escape a system that doesn't want them to escape. 1262 01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:14,171 Each one. Count it. 1263 01:01:14,254 --> 01:01:18,342 Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50, 1264 01:01:18,425 --> 01:01:20,886 60... 1265 01:01:20,969 --> 01:01:23,389 70, 80, 1266 01:01:23,472 --> 01:01:25,057 90, 100. 1267 01:01:25,140 --> 01:01:26,433 -100,000. -Well, that's 100. 1268 01:01:26,517 --> 01:01:29,436 That's 100,000, then this 100,000, how much it is? 1269 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,939 -200,000. -200,000. 1270 01:01:34,191 --> 01:01:36,652 -Mental math. -Mental math. 1271 01:01:37,653 --> 01:01:39,279 HOLMES: Not everybody explodes. 1272 01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:40,906 Not everybody can. 1273 01:01:44,868 --> 01:01:48,539 You can see in, like, Lil Baby's early music, 1274 01:01:48,622 --> 01:01:50,582 there's Marlo. 1275 01:01:50,666 --> 01:01:52,209 MAN: Run it back from the top. We're rolling. 1276 01:01:52,292 --> 01:01:53,961 -MAN 2: Let's get it, man! -We're rolling. We're rolling. 1277 01:01:54,044 --> 01:01:55,587 -We're rolling. -Let's get this now. 1278 01:01:55,671 --> 01:01:57,256 MAN: Look in the camera. Talk to the camera. 1279 01:01:57,339 --> 01:01:59,299 -♪ Bitch, wait, fuck a mixtape ♪ -Let's get it. 1280 01:01:59,383 --> 01:02:00,884 ♪ I got plenty cake... ♪ 1281 01:02:00,968 --> 01:02:02,428 HOLMES: One of the first projects 1282 01:02:02,511 --> 01:02:05,097 that Lil Baby came out with, Marlo was on it. 1283 01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:07,182 ♪ She done sucked me up for them brand-new J's ♪ 1284 01:02:07,266 --> 01:02:08,934 -♪ Trap nigga, six phones... ♪ -MAN: Lil Baby. 1285 01:02:09,017 --> 01:02:10,310 Give me a good one. Give me a good one. 1286 01:02:10,394 --> 01:02:13,605 HOLMES: But rap money is a very slow road. 1287 01:02:13,689 --> 01:02:16,108 For Marlo, it didn't happen as fast. 1288 01:02:16,191 --> 01:02:17,317 (song fades) 1289 01:02:17,401 --> 01:02:20,571 And I think that, 1290 01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:23,782 unfortunately, Marlo ended up becoming... 1291 01:02:24,950 --> 01:02:26,869 ...a cautionary tale. 1292 01:02:26,952 --> 01:02:28,954 ♪ ♪ 1293 01:02:36,044 --> 01:02:37,838 (radio static crackling) 1294 01:02:37,921 --> 01:02:39,798 NEWSWOMAN: Yet another shooting in Atlanta 1295 01:02:39,882 --> 01:02:42,718 late last night, as the city is working to investigate 1296 01:02:42,801 --> 01:02:46,763 a wave of violent crime since the beginning of 2020. 1297 01:02:46,847 --> 01:02:49,016 THOMAS: When Baby made it rapping, 1298 01:02:49,099 --> 01:02:51,435 he was able to get out of the trap. 1299 01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:55,230 Marlo was right there with him, 1300 01:02:55,314 --> 01:02:58,734 but his career just didn't take off the same way. 1301 01:02:58,817 --> 01:03:01,028 He was still in the street. 1302 01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:03,489 NEWSWOMAN: The incident occurred on I-285 1303 01:03:03,572 --> 01:03:07,159 at approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday evening. 1304 01:03:09,786 --> 01:03:12,289 He usually always pick up the phone for me 1305 01:03:12,372 --> 01:03:15,292 on the first ring. 1306 01:03:15,375 --> 01:03:18,420 I called it like three times, and he ain't answer it. 1307 01:03:23,759 --> 01:03:26,678 I just started trying to make some phone calls, 1308 01:03:26,762 --> 01:03:31,475 and they told me there was a car on the highway 1309 01:03:31,558 --> 01:03:33,227 shot up. 1310 01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:37,689 And it looked like it was his car. 1311 01:03:40,651 --> 01:03:43,153 And they think he was in it. 1312 01:03:43,237 --> 01:03:45,239 (siren wailing) 1313 01:03:48,033 --> 01:03:49,993 NEWSWOMAN: Several reports have emerged 1314 01:03:50,077 --> 01:03:53,914 that the victim was rising Atlanta rapper Lil Marlo. 1315 01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:56,041 He was 30 years old. 1316 01:03:59,044 --> 01:04:02,339 THOMAS: I think he was pronounced dead on the scene. 1317 01:04:03,590 --> 01:04:07,010 We was just standing on the bridge just speechless. 1318 01:04:14,017 --> 01:04:16,770 That... that was a tough one. 1319 01:04:18,730 --> 01:04:20,774 ♪ All I needed was a chance ♪ 1320 01:04:20,857 --> 01:04:23,068 ♪ Show the world who I am ♪ 1321 01:04:23,151 --> 01:04:25,988 ♪ Watch me run me up them bands. ♪ 1322 01:04:26,071 --> 01:04:27,364 Marlo. 1323 01:04:27,447 --> 01:04:29,449 ♪ ♪ 1324 01:04:41,295 --> 01:04:44,006 You just see your man slumped on the expressway, 1325 01:04:44,089 --> 01:04:45,799 you kind of feel some type of way. 1326 01:04:45,882 --> 01:04:47,801 But... 1327 01:04:47,884 --> 01:04:50,220 if you know the situation and you know what's going on 1328 01:04:50,304 --> 01:04:53,473 and you know in the back of your head, you know they still come with it, 1329 01:04:53,557 --> 01:04:56,143 that's a, that's a part of the streets. 1330 01:04:56,226 --> 01:04:58,645 Some people get killed. 1331 01:05:03,525 --> 01:05:06,153 I know that that come with being in the street already. 1332 01:05:06,236 --> 01:05:07,779 It ain't like Marlo got killed and I was like, 1333 01:05:07,863 --> 01:05:09,781 "Damn, boy, you could really get killed out here." 1334 01:05:09,865 --> 01:05:10,949 I know this. 1335 01:05:11,033 --> 01:05:12,826 This ain't nothing I don't know. 1336 01:05:12,909 --> 01:05:14,911 ♪ ♪ 1337 01:05:18,999 --> 01:05:21,460 Marlo a real case of, like, 1338 01:05:21,543 --> 01:05:23,712 the streets and the rapping... 1339 01:05:27,174 --> 01:05:28,800 ...two whole different world. 1340 01:05:28,884 --> 01:05:32,512 And he more so got caught up in the streets than the rapping. 1341 01:05:33,555 --> 01:05:35,474 THOMAS: He was always supportive, man. 1342 01:05:35,557 --> 01:05:37,559 He was always happy for Baby. 1343 01:05:38,977 --> 01:05:41,938 "Bruh, even if I don't make it, 1344 01:05:42,022 --> 01:05:44,066 if you make it, all us done made it." 1345 01:06:00,123 --> 01:06:01,708 (engine revving) 1346 01:06:10,509 --> 01:06:14,471 HABTEMARIAM: You know, I think about how you don't get to pick or choose 1347 01:06:14,554 --> 01:06:16,890 the family that you're born into. 1348 01:06:22,396 --> 01:06:26,441 Right? You don't get to pick and choose the environment that you're born into. 1349 01:06:26,525 --> 01:06:28,527 ♪ ♪ 1350 01:06:36,827 --> 01:06:41,915 You can either become a result of that environment... 1351 01:06:45,210 --> 01:06:49,798 ...or you can be the antithesis of what you've seen and experienced. 1352 01:06:56,430 --> 01:07:01,059 Not only is he a survivor but he's gone through hardships, 1353 01:07:01,143 --> 01:07:04,604 learned lessons and grew from it. 1354 01:07:09,234 --> 01:07:11,778 (indistinct chatter) 1355 01:07:13,947 --> 01:07:15,741 LIL BABY: Y'all don't got no coats? 1356 01:07:17,909 --> 01:07:21,204 No, I don't have no coat. No, I don't got no coat. 1357 01:07:21,288 --> 01:07:23,790 Y'all don't got no coats? You don't got no coat, little man? 1358 01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:26,918 Hey, Rashad! 1359 01:07:27,002 --> 01:07:29,671 ♪ ♪ 1360 01:07:34,843 --> 01:07:37,596 HABTEMARIAM: A second chance at life. 1361 01:07:39,306 --> 01:07:41,183 The willingness to go after it. 1362 01:07:43,643 --> 01:07:46,563 (indistinct chatter) 1363 01:07:46,646 --> 01:07:48,815 Baby represents the American dream. 1364 01:07:55,781 --> 01:07:58,158 Hey, what-what's your son, what's your son name? 1365 01:07:58,241 --> 01:08:00,076 What's your son name? 1366 01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,120 -What's my what? -Your son name. 1367 01:08:02,204 --> 01:08:03,914 -Brandon. -How he doing? 1368 01:08:03,997 --> 01:08:05,081 Fine. 1369 01:08:05,165 --> 01:08:07,000 I used to go to school with him at Brown. 1370 01:08:07,083 --> 01:08:08,210 -Yeah? -He used to be... 1371 01:08:08,293 --> 01:08:09,461 Or Britain. Brandon and Britain. 1372 01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:10,962 -Britain. Britain. -Britain, not Brandon. 1373 01:08:11,046 --> 01:08:12,464 Britain is in the Navy. 1374 01:08:12,547 --> 01:08:14,508 -For real? He-- I could see him in the Navy, too. -Yeah. 1375 01:08:14,591 --> 01:08:16,092 -I could see Britain... -He went one year 1376 01:08:16,176 --> 01:08:17,636 at Georgia Southern, but he's in the Navy. 1377 01:08:17,719 --> 01:08:19,054 -I could see him in the Navy, too. -Yeah. 1378 01:08:19,137 --> 01:08:20,764 He doing good. He's a air traffic controller. 1379 01:08:20,847 --> 01:08:22,265 Tell him, um, Dominique asked about him. 1380 01:08:22,349 --> 01:08:23,350 -Dominique? -Yeah. 1381 01:08:23,433 --> 01:08:24,434 -What's your last name? -Jones. 1382 01:08:24,518 --> 01:08:25,519 Jones? 1383 01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:26,770 He gonna know who I am, though. 1384 01:08:26,853 --> 01:08:29,272 Okay, Dominique Jones. Okay, I'm-a tell him. 1385 01:08:29,356 --> 01:08:31,608 ♪ ♪ 1386 01:08:41,576 --> 01:08:44,579 LIL BABY: Ain't nothing like where you come from, you know what I'm saying? 1387 01:08:46,706 --> 01:08:48,750 But I get the chills from that type of stuff, though. 1388 01:08:48,834 --> 01:08:50,502 You know what I'm saying? 1389 01:08:52,379 --> 01:08:55,090 I-I got more love than anything. 1390 01:08:55,173 --> 01:08:57,050 I done helped some of them with their businesses. 1391 01:08:57,133 --> 01:09:00,512 They... it's like check-up, like... 1392 01:09:00,595 --> 01:09:02,681 "What you doing? What you been up to?" 1393 01:09:02,764 --> 01:09:05,141 Or I see, like, the people I grew up with, 1394 01:09:05,225 --> 01:09:07,811 I used to be bad as hell, now I ain't seen them in a minute. 1395 01:09:10,438 --> 01:09:12,941 Niggas I go to school with... 1396 01:09:13,024 --> 01:09:15,652 they been to prison, who out of prison, like... 1397 01:09:15,735 --> 01:09:17,654 I could've went that route, I could've went this route. 1398 01:09:17,737 --> 01:09:19,322 This could be my reality. 1399 01:09:19,406 --> 01:09:21,491 That shit give me the chills, you know what I'm saying? 1400 01:09:31,418 --> 01:09:33,044 JOE: I came from the trap. 1401 01:09:33,128 --> 01:09:36,214 Raised right here in the trap, three blocks up. 1402 01:09:36,298 --> 01:09:38,258 Baby driving the hood, riding around the hood. 1403 01:09:38,341 --> 01:09:39,843 Everybody know Baby. 1404 01:09:39,926 --> 01:09:42,429 (laughing) 1405 01:09:42,512 --> 01:09:43,847 I ain't seen nobody left. 1406 01:09:43,930 --> 01:09:45,932 I seen them pass away. 1407 01:09:47,309 --> 01:09:49,603 I ain't seen nobody left. 1408 01:09:49,686 --> 01:09:51,062 I haven't. 1409 01:09:54,482 --> 01:09:56,067 What Baby saying is 1410 01:09:56,151 --> 01:09:59,446 that regardless what you came from, whatever, y-you don't have to be that. 1411 01:09:59,529 --> 01:10:04,117 There's other methods and ways and things you can do to make money. 1412 01:10:06,286 --> 01:10:07,495 He the best rapper. 1413 01:10:07,579 --> 01:10:09,039 He the best rapper ever. 1414 01:10:09,122 --> 01:10:11,541 I never heard lyrics come from a rapper like that. 1415 01:10:11,625 --> 01:10:15,921 He don't just talk thug, gangster, pow-pow-pow. 1416 01:10:16,004 --> 01:10:18,548 Each one of his songs got a meaning. 1417 01:10:19,799 --> 01:10:21,843 And I can rap them all. 1418 01:10:21,927 --> 01:10:24,346 (laughing) 1419 01:10:24,429 --> 01:10:25,680 I'll sing it, too. 1420 01:10:25,764 --> 01:10:27,015 (laughing) 1421 01:10:27,098 --> 01:10:28,683 And I know them all. 1422 01:10:28,767 --> 01:10:32,270 ("Catch the Sun" by Lil Baby playing) 1423 01:10:33,813 --> 01:10:36,232 ♪ Seems like I been running out of time ♪ 1424 01:10:36,316 --> 01:10:39,778 ♪ Yeah, we still so young and got so much to find ♪ 1425 01:10:39,861 --> 01:10:41,613 ♪ We can't never let 'em break our mind ♪ 1426 01:10:41,696 --> 01:10:45,367 ♪ We got to stay strong, conquer and don't divide ♪ 1427 01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:48,036 ♪ I come at peace, my heart already set on fire ♪ 1428 01:10:48,119 --> 01:10:49,454 -♪ If it ain't color ♪ -Ooh! 1429 01:10:49,537 --> 01:10:51,122 ♪ What's the difference between you and I? ♪ 1430 01:10:51,206 --> 01:10:53,833 ♪ I'll let you decide or come up with some repeated lies ♪ 1431 01:10:53,917 --> 01:10:56,252 ♪ I'm just tired of my kind got to be the one to die ♪ 1432 01:10:56,336 --> 01:10:59,381 ♪ Looking in the sky, I know you with me, I can't cry ♪ 1433 01:10:59,464 --> 01:11:02,133 ♪ Standing what I stand on, I can't never switch sides ♪ 1434 01:11:02,217 --> 01:11:05,053 ♪ Sometimes I just wanna pop out on 'em, flip by ♪ 1435 01:11:05,136 --> 01:11:07,931 ♪ But I put my head on, I pray I stay from off that route ♪ 1436 01:11:08,014 --> 01:11:10,809 ♪ Thinking 'bout my niggas, I ain't seem 'em in a while ♪ 1437 01:11:10,892 --> 01:11:13,353 ♪ Thinking 'bout my son, I just had another child ♪ 1438 01:11:13,436 --> 01:11:16,356 ♪ I been thinking back on bro like, "What the fuck we gon' do now?" ♪ 1439 01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:17,732 -♪ On this road to redemption ♪ -(cheering) 1440 01:11:17,816 --> 01:11:20,110 ♪ This shit get rocky and it's wild. ♪ 1441 01:11:31,037 --> 01:11:33,039 (song fades) 1442 01:11:42,048 --> 01:11:43,049 (horn honks) 1443 01:11:44,968 --> 01:11:47,470 So we're gonna start here in this chair. 1444 01:11:47,554 --> 01:11:49,014 BRITNEY DAVIS: We are in L.A. 1445 01:11:49,097 --> 01:11:52,267 He is shooting because Grammy nominations come out on Tuesday. 1446 01:11:52,350 --> 01:11:54,602 So he's doing a photo shoot, and then he's also doing 1447 01:11:54,686 --> 01:11:57,272 an interview that will go out to all the Grammy voters. 1448 01:11:57,355 --> 01:12:00,066 ♪ ♪ 1449 01:12:00,150 --> 01:12:02,527 DRAKE: I think he's already cemented himself 1450 01:12:02,610 --> 01:12:08,199 as a super important part of this time, 1451 01:12:08,283 --> 01:12:09,826 this generation. 1452 01:12:11,536 --> 01:12:13,079 (indistinct chatter) 1453 01:12:13,163 --> 01:12:18,084 This guy's just, like, in a zone that, like, you have to respect. 1454 01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:23,965 We were working really hard and strategically to make sure 1455 01:12:24,049 --> 01:12:26,634 there was enough awareness on Baby 1456 01:12:26,718 --> 01:12:28,636 and doing everything we could to make sure 1457 01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,639 the Grammy voters were able to read articles 1458 01:12:31,723 --> 01:12:33,558 and key newspapers, et cetera, 1459 01:12:33,641 --> 01:12:36,311 to understand how impactful the album was. 1460 01:12:38,146 --> 01:12:40,065 There's been a lot of conversation 1461 01:12:40,148 --> 01:12:43,526 around having music that's reflective of the times, 1462 01:12:43,610 --> 01:12:46,613 coming from a-a place of truth, 1463 01:12:46,696 --> 01:12:49,324 and I think that that's what Baby's been doing. 1464 01:12:49,407 --> 01:12:51,576 And then, I guess the last question here is: 1465 01:12:51,659 --> 01:12:53,912 Could you tell-- and you can talk to the camera-- 1466 01:12:53,995 --> 01:12:55,205 what it means to be heard? 1467 01:12:55,288 --> 01:12:58,374 And, like, what it's like to help other people's voices be heard. 1468 01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:10,762 COACH K: There wasn't no doubt in my mind 1469 01:13:10,845 --> 01:13:13,890 that he was gonna be up for Rap Album of the Year. 1470 01:13:13,973 --> 01:13:17,227 We were fighting, you know, for Album of the Year. 1471 01:13:21,064 --> 01:13:22,941 HABTEMARIAM: As an artist, 1472 01:13:23,024 --> 01:13:27,904 you do want to be recognized for the work that you've put in. 1473 01:13:30,198 --> 01:13:32,075 It was early in the morning, 1474 01:13:32,158 --> 01:13:35,578 and I was on the live feed watching. 1475 01:13:55,223 --> 01:13:57,267 Turn that TV off. 1476 01:13:57,350 --> 01:13:59,352 (upbeat music playing) 1477 01:14:00,603 --> 01:14:02,188 (turns music down) 1478 01:14:07,443 --> 01:14:09,696 All right, so let's talk about the Grammy Awards 1479 01:14:09,779 --> 01:14:11,531 and some of the nominations that came out. 1480 01:14:11,614 --> 01:14:13,199 Did you hear-- did you see some of these nominations? 1481 01:14:13,283 --> 01:14:15,493 Uh, yeah, I saw some of the fuss on social media. 1482 01:14:15,577 --> 01:14:21,249 It's the largest selling album of all genres of music 1483 01:14:21,332 --> 01:14:23,918 for 2020. 1484 01:14:24,002 --> 01:14:25,795 I don't understand what the problem is. 1485 01:14:25,879 --> 01:14:27,589 DJ ENVY: Best Rap Album. 1486 01:14:27,672 --> 01:14:28,965 Yeah, I just feel like Lil Baby should've been there 1487 01:14:29,048 --> 01:14:30,175 -with My Turn. -Lil Baby definitely should've been there. 1488 01:14:30,258 --> 01:14:35,805 In order to properly appreciate what Lil Baby has done and is doing, 1489 01:14:35,889 --> 01:14:38,516 and to properly appreciate Lil Baby's art, 1490 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,768 you got to understand that slum that he came from. 1491 01:14:40,852 --> 01:14:42,645 You got to understand that hood that he came from. 1492 01:14:42,729 --> 01:14:46,024 You got to understand how hard it is to make it out of a place like that. 1493 01:14:47,567 --> 01:14:49,861 White America will never understand that 1494 01:14:49,944 --> 01:14:52,780 'cause they don't even understand the world that Lil Baby comes from. 1495 01:14:52,864 --> 01:14:54,407 This isn't right. 1496 01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:58,745 This isn't reflective of, you know, where music is, 1497 01:14:58,828 --> 01:15:00,371 his impact in music. 1498 01:15:00,455 --> 01:15:03,249 I'm frustrated with the Grammys, you know what I mean? 1499 01:15:03,333 --> 01:15:05,710 It's been a ongoing conversation for so many years 1500 01:15:05,793 --> 01:15:09,547 about them being out of touch, and they have a lot of work to do. 1501 01:15:13,676 --> 01:15:15,845 You go back to the '80s, 1502 01:15:15,929 --> 01:15:18,932 and you remember how they overlooked Michael Jackson. 1503 01:15:19,015 --> 01:15:20,391 (DMX vocalizing) 1504 01:15:20,475 --> 01:15:22,769 And then DMX in the '90s. 1505 01:15:22,852 --> 01:15:25,188 He had two number one albums in the same year 1506 01:15:25,271 --> 01:15:27,607 and didn't receive any nominations. 1507 01:15:27,690 --> 01:15:28,900 (crowd cheering) 1508 01:15:28,983 --> 01:15:30,777 PHARRELL WILLIAMS: And the Grammy goes to... 1509 01:15:30,860 --> 01:15:32,362 HABTEMARIAM: And of course Kendrick's loss 1510 01:15:32,445 --> 01:15:36,241 really just cemented how out of touch the Grammys are. 1511 01:15:36,324 --> 01:15:40,411 What is this system that's been created, and why do we give it so much value? 1512 01:15:40,495 --> 01:15:44,916 We're talking about popular culture and rap albums 1513 01:15:44,999 --> 01:15:47,835 and what's deserving, they-they missed the mark. 1514 01:15:49,337 --> 01:15:51,256 And I think, after some time went on, 1515 01:15:51,339 --> 01:15:55,260 there were some conversations about what to do, 1516 01:15:55,343 --> 01:15:57,553 you know, because there was an offer for him to perform. 1517 01:16:00,890 --> 01:16:03,017 THOMAS: When I seen the shit, I was sort of like-- 1518 01:16:03,101 --> 01:16:07,522 We been working so hard, and for you to not get 1519 01:16:07,605 --> 01:16:10,858 nominated for the album, I feel like... 1520 01:16:10,942 --> 01:16:14,237 you got the biggest album of the year... 1521 01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:16,114 I don't really want to do this shit. 1522 01:16:16,197 --> 01:16:18,074 -I ain't really like it. -COACH K: You got the stats. 1523 01:16:18,157 --> 01:16:20,576 You deserve it. You put the work in. 1524 01:16:20,660 --> 01:16:24,163 Man, shit just-- it's fucked-up, really. 1525 01:16:24,247 --> 01:16:26,958 And for them just to skip over that, that shit like a-- 1526 01:16:27,041 --> 01:16:28,584 it like a slap in the face to me, bro. 1527 01:16:28,668 --> 01:16:30,086 I'm just like-- 1528 01:16:30,169 --> 01:16:31,337 You know, that's just how I feel. 1529 01:16:31,421 --> 01:16:33,423 Ultimately, it's your decision. 1530 01:16:34,465 --> 01:16:37,343 I'm saying, so you saying you feel like don't perform there? 1531 01:16:37,427 --> 01:16:40,096 Yeah. That-that how I feel. 1532 01:16:40,179 --> 01:16:42,432 We "look up to" this shit like it's supposed to be-- 1533 01:16:42,515 --> 01:16:45,643 this is the-the reward for all the hard work that you put in. 1534 01:16:45,727 --> 01:16:47,979 It's supposed to be the biggest award. 1535 01:16:48,062 --> 01:16:51,232 But I'm-- I was like "fuck 'em" because that... 1536 01:16:51,316 --> 01:16:54,694 that shit don't really determine who you are and what you do. 1537 01:16:54,777 --> 01:16:56,112 -You know what I'm saying? And-and... -Right. 1538 01:16:56,195 --> 01:16:57,196 -When we bigger than that. -Right. 1539 01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,406 You see what I'm saying? 1540 01:16:58,489 --> 01:17:01,284 LIL BABY: That how I feel, but I feel like... 1541 01:17:01,367 --> 01:17:04,912 I be feeling like a performance bigger than the award. 1542 01:17:04,996 --> 01:17:07,665 You feel me? Like, I feel like if-- 1543 01:17:07,749 --> 01:17:10,293 because it's such of a big award space or whatever 1544 01:17:10,376 --> 01:17:13,629 and I got a chance to perform, I'd rather perform, then. 1545 01:17:13,713 --> 01:17:17,342 'Cause I care about a performance more than an award. I-I, like-- 1546 01:17:17,425 --> 01:17:19,510 It's something that you gonna never be able to forget. 1547 01:17:19,594 --> 01:17:22,347 You gonna keep being able to replay it, especially like with streaming. 1548 01:17:22,430 --> 01:17:23,973 I got people in prison who want to see it. 1549 01:17:24,057 --> 01:17:26,059 My little kids who can't be-- 1550 01:17:26,142 --> 01:17:27,643 Like, versus just me getting an award. 1551 01:17:27,727 --> 01:17:29,979 Like, I ain't really into the award part. 1552 01:17:30,063 --> 01:17:33,399 Like... like, versus just, like, I'm-a be mad 1553 01:17:33,483 --> 01:17:35,443 that I ain't get me an award, so fuck it, I ain't performing. 1554 01:17:35,526 --> 01:17:36,861 I ain't one of them type of artists. 1555 01:17:36,944 --> 01:17:38,863 I really don't, like... 1556 01:17:38,946 --> 01:17:41,491 And I get how you saying you feel, you know what I'm saying? 1557 01:17:41,574 --> 01:17:43,868 Like, it's like almost a slap in the face, 1558 01:17:43,951 --> 01:17:45,787 like you deserve this, you don't get what you deserve. 1559 01:17:45,870 --> 01:17:48,915 But, you know, where I come from, shit, I'm-a perform at the Grammys? 1560 01:17:48,998 --> 01:17:50,083 Shit, I ain't really trippin'. 1561 01:17:50,166 --> 01:17:52,001 I don't got to win or get out. 1562 01:17:52,085 --> 01:17:54,545 Some shit you just said to me right there, it goes so far. 1563 01:17:54,629 --> 01:17:57,423 You like, "My guys that's in prison, 1564 01:17:57,507 --> 01:17:59,384 you know, they get to see me on the big stage." 1565 01:17:59,467 --> 01:18:00,927 Yeah, my grandma, she don't want to go out of town. 1566 01:18:01,010 --> 01:18:02,637 -She don't want to get on no plane and shit. -Right. 1567 01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:04,806 Shit, well, P, go make the call. 1568 01:18:04,889 --> 01:18:07,225 Yeah, tell them I'm-a do it. Shit, I'm-a do it. 1569 01:18:07,308 --> 01:18:08,810 A'ight. Okay. 1570 01:18:08,893 --> 01:18:10,478 -I call Jesse? -Just got to make that 1571 01:18:10,561 --> 01:18:12,146 the biggest shit ever, like, "That boy deserve-- 1572 01:18:12,230 --> 01:18:13,648 -that boy should've had got..." -COACH K: And-and they, 1573 01:18:13,731 --> 01:18:15,066 and they got to play, they got to play 1574 01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,068 on our, on our playing field and what we want to do. 1575 01:18:17,151 --> 01:18:19,320 -And then another thing, too... -And what-- his vision. 1576 01:18:19,404 --> 01:18:21,614 Right. Make them feel bad, the people who work there, like, 1577 01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:23,116 "Why didn't he get a Grammy? 1578 01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:24,867 This guy here, why didn't he get nominated for--" 1579 01:18:24,951 --> 01:18:26,035 Know what I'm saying? 1580 01:18:26,119 --> 01:18:28,079 -Yeah. -However it go. 1581 01:18:29,247 --> 01:18:31,290 A'ight, say no more. I'm-a call Jesse. 1582 01:18:31,374 --> 01:18:33,876 Y'all figure it out. Let me know if the plan change. 1583 01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:35,294 (chuckles) 1584 01:18:35,378 --> 01:18:36,712 Nah, we good. We locked in. 1585 01:18:36,796 --> 01:18:38,256 -Shit. -Nah, we locked in. I'm gonna make it happen. 1586 01:18:38,339 --> 01:18:39,882 We just got to make them see our vision. 1587 01:18:39,966 --> 01:18:41,217 I'm with it. 1588 01:18:41,300 --> 01:18:43,302 (plane rumbling softly) 1589 01:18:47,432 --> 01:18:49,434 ("The Bigger Picture" playing) 1590 01:18:54,313 --> 01:18:56,149 ♪ Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us ♪ 1591 01:18:56,232 --> 01:18:57,859 ♪ While they go home at night, that shit messed-up ♪ 1592 01:18:57,942 --> 01:18:59,610 ♪ Knowing we needed help, they neglect us ♪ 1593 01:18:59,694 --> 01:19:01,195 ♪ Wondering who gon' make them respect us ♪ 1594 01:19:01,279 --> 01:19:02,864 ♪ I can see in your eye that you fed up ♪ 1595 01:19:02,947 --> 01:19:04,740 ♪ Fuck around, got my shot, I won't let up ♪ 1596 01:19:04,824 --> 01:19:06,492 ♪ They know that we a problem together ♪ 1597 01:19:06,576 --> 01:19:08,202 ♪ They know that we can storm any weather ♪ 1598 01:19:08,286 --> 01:19:09,620 ♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪ 1599 01:19:09,704 --> 01:19:11,330 ♪ It's a problem with the whole way of life ♪ 1600 01:19:11,414 --> 01:19:14,500 ♪ It can't change overnight, but we got to start somewhere ♪ 1601 01:19:14,584 --> 01:19:16,127 ♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪ 1602 01:19:16,210 --> 01:19:17,795 ♪ We done had a hell of a year ♪ 1603 01:19:17,879 --> 01:19:19,630 ♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪ 1604 01:19:19,714 --> 01:19:22,091 ♪ God is the only man I fear. ♪ 1605 01:19:22,175 --> 01:19:23,301 (song stops) 1606 01:19:23,384 --> 01:19:25,803 WOMAN: Get that in there. 1607 01:19:25,887 --> 01:19:28,264 So you'll get that in. Let's go from the top. 1608 01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:30,183 From the top, fellas. 1609 01:19:31,225 --> 01:19:34,562 I think she just want to make sure, like, in certain moments you just have, like... 1610 01:19:34,645 --> 01:19:37,023 you passionate in the moment of performing, you know... 1611 01:19:37,106 --> 01:19:39,317 I'm telling her, like, though, like, you don't even got to tell me that 'cause... 1612 01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:41,777 -Because you already know what to do. -This is like... (laughs) 1613 01:19:41,861 --> 01:19:43,738 -I already know what it do. -I'm serious about this. 1614 01:19:43,821 --> 01:19:45,573 -Exactly. For sure. -Like, I'm telling her I'm gonna... 1615 01:19:45,656 --> 01:19:47,492 I'm gonna be there on the floor. Everything. 1616 01:19:47,575 --> 01:19:49,702 -I got it. I'm gonna goddamn perform. -Yeah. 1617 01:19:49,785 --> 01:19:52,121 She's like, "You better perform." I'm telling you. 1618 01:19:52,246 --> 01:19:53,998 Because this is one of them moments. It's a big moment. 1619 01:19:54,081 --> 01:19:56,751 -You know what I'm saying? -Yeah. This is gonna be like... 1620 01:19:56,834 --> 01:19:58,544 -a moment. -Yeah. 1621 01:19:58,628 --> 01:20:00,922 It's a different platform. 1622 01:20:01,005 --> 01:20:04,509 Like, it's gonna be on some whole other shit. 1623 01:20:04,592 --> 01:20:08,179 Like, some of these people not even heard this song before, 1624 01:20:08,262 --> 01:20:10,765 and it's gonna be on some-- "What the hell is this?" 1625 01:20:10,848 --> 01:20:13,309 (indistinct chatter) 1626 01:20:13,392 --> 01:20:16,229 LIL BABY: No question. No question! 1627 01:20:16,312 --> 01:20:18,689 -THOMAS: You going leather again? -LIL BABY: Leather again. 1628 01:20:18,773 --> 01:20:20,358 -Ah. -Give me leather again. 1629 01:20:20,441 --> 01:20:22,068 (laughs) 1630 01:20:22,151 --> 01:20:24,612 I'm in a good mood today. I went shopping. 1631 01:20:27,990 --> 01:20:30,159 They killing all the rappers, so I wore a vest. 1632 01:20:30,243 --> 01:20:31,827 -THOMAS: I'm telling you. -WOMAN: Oh, Lord. 1633 01:20:31,911 --> 01:20:34,080 LIL BABY: They killing rappers, so I wore a vest! 1634 01:20:34,163 --> 01:20:35,915 The vest too big, though. 1635 01:20:37,917 --> 01:20:40,545 Man, I could perform in this, Britney. 1636 01:20:40,628 --> 01:20:43,589 I mean, that's-- you-you could perform in it, bro. 1637 01:20:44,632 --> 01:20:45,883 Yeah. 1638 01:20:46,884 --> 01:20:50,555 Yeah, you know I'm grateful to be here today, man. 1639 01:20:50,638 --> 01:20:52,932 Could be somewhere selling dope. 1640 01:20:53,015 --> 01:20:54,475 (laughter) 1641 01:20:54,559 --> 01:20:56,811 I got my acceptance speech. 1642 01:20:56,894 --> 01:20:59,939 I'm grateful to be here. I could be somewhere selling dope. 1643 01:21:00,022 --> 01:21:01,440 (laughter) 1644 01:21:01,524 --> 01:21:03,025 You are not gonna say that. 1645 01:21:03,109 --> 01:21:04,735 -Hey, man... -Why are you playing with me? 1646 01:21:04,819 --> 01:21:06,612 ...I'm grateful to be here. 1647 01:21:06,696 --> 01:21:09,282 I could be somewhere selling dope, know what I'm saying? 1648 01:21:09,365 --> 01:21:10,533 Straight up. 1649 01:21:10,616 --> 01:21:13,327 Oh, the Grammys said they want him there? They said they want him there? 1650 01:21:13,411 --> 01:21:15,079 -Yeah. Yeah. -On the... on the day? 1651 01:21:15,162 --> 01:21:17,873 Well, that must mean that they gon' give him... 1652 01:21:19,750 --> 01:21:21,794 -...an award. -I-I think you're gonna win. 1653 01:21:21,877 --> 01:21:23,087 Like, I don't see them doing it. 1654 01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:25,923 But they got some kind of crazy voting, and whoever... 1655 01:21:26,007 --> 01:21:29,427 whoever their board is, it-it go off of their board. 1656 01:21:29,510 --> 01:21:32,597 It ain't going off, like, popular vote, so... 1657 01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:34,181 I don't... I don't know it be tricky with... 1658 01:21:34,265 --> 01:21:37,268 Your performance is the only one that's outdoors. 1659 01:21:37,351 --> 01:21:40,187 We're closing L.A. Live and Staples Center down. 1660 01:21:40,271 --> 01:21:41,772 Like, it doesn't really make sense. 1661 01:21:41,856 --> 01:21:43,858 I'd be very surprised if you didn't win. 1662 01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:46,152 (chuckles): I wouldn't. 1663 01:21:46,235 --> 01:21:47,695 I wouldn't. Shit. 1664 01:21:47,778 --> 01:21:50,531 Don't be surprised if I don't win. 1665 01:21:57,413 --> 01:22:00,166 ("Allegations" by BIG30 and Pooh Shiesty playing) 1666 01:22:00,249 --> 01:22:02,710 ♪ The plug say he gon' stop sending the bows ♪ 1667 01:22:02,793 --> 01:22:04,920 ♪ We keep stressing his friend, well, little do he know ♪ 1668 01:22:05,004 --> 01:22:07,048 ♪ His ass next soon as we meet again ♪ 1669 01:22:07,131 --> 01:22:08,424 ♪ Jason hit my phone like ♪ 1670 01:22:08,507 --> 01:22:10,509 ♪ "They just booked me for 'bout 20 racks..." ♪ 1671 01:22:10,593 --> 01:22:12,345 (music continues faintly in distance) 1672 01:22:12,428 --> 01:22:14,680 (grunting) 1673 01:22:14,764 --> 01:22:17,475 (mechanical rattling) 1674 01:22:17,558 --> 01:22:20,102 (voice vibrating): I'm surfing. 1675 01:22:27,234 --> 01:22:29,236 (indistinct chatter) 1676 01:22:42,249 --> 01:22:44,251 ♪ ♪ 1677 01:22:44,335 --> 01:22:45,878 Come here, Jason. 1678 01:22:47,213 --> 01:22:50,132 (Jason babbling playfully) 1679 01:22:58,516 --> 01:23:00,393 -Oh! -(water splashes) 1680 01:23:00,476 --> 01:23:03,020 My phone done dropped through the goddamn floor. (chuckles) 1681 01:23:03,104 --> 01:23:04,980 JASON: It's okay. You're rich! 1682 01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:07,650 LIL BABY: Okay. 1683 01:23:07,733 --> 01:23:09,402 I got a little game. All right? 1684 01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:11,195 COACH K: My guy! 1685 01:23:11,278 --> 01:23:13,864 -How you doing? -A'ight. Good to see you. 1686 01:23:13,948 --> 01:23:15,950 (lively chatter) 1687 01:23:19,704 --> 01:23:21,080 (noisemaker honks) 1688 01:23:24,083 --> 01:23:26,877 LASHAWN: There's somebody there. 1689 01:23:26,961 --> 01:23:29,714 ♪ ♪ 1690 01:23:29,797 --> 01:23:30,923 -(camera clicks) -(babbling) 1691 01:23:31,006 --> 01:23:32,425 LASHAWN: Look at the camera. 1692 01:23:35,803 --> 01:23:36,929 -(camera clicks) -LASHAWN: Come on, Dominique! 1693 01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:38,347 -Come on, Dominique! -(clapping) 1694 01:23:40,766 --> 01:23:41,934 (camera clicks) 1695 01:23:47,815 --> 01:23:48,983 (camera clicks) 1696 01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:50,985 LIL BABY: Know what I'm saying? I said, "Kim, I'll go with you." 1697 01:23:51,068 --> 01:23:52,236 LASHAWN: Yes, baby, I think-- 1698 01:23:52,319 --> 01:23:53,821 -They didn't tell me. -Kim, did they say... 1699 01:23:53,904 --> 01:23:55,364 (overlapping chatter) 1700 01:23:55,448 --> 01:23:56,866 DAVIS: They been sending the call time... 1701 01:23:56,949 --> 01:23:58,159 KIM: They've been sending the call time. 1702 01:23:58,242 --> 01:23:59,785 -They want you on time. -No, no, no. 1703 01:23:59,869 --> 01:24:02,037 -They trying to show my face when I lose. -Nah, listen. 1704 01:24:02,121 --> 01:24:03,622 -(laughter) -DAVIS: You know what? 1705 01:24:03,706 --> 01:24:05,291 We need positive energy in here. 1706 01:24:05,374 --> 01:24:06,625 -(overlapping chatter) -Hey, hey! 1707 01:24:06,709 --> 01:24:08,419 They'll play the hell out a nigga here, man. 1708 01:24:08,502 --> 01:24:10,045 They want me sitting in the spot 1709 01:24:10,129 --> 01:24:12,882 so they can show my reaction when I lose, man. 1710 01:24:12,965 --> 01:24:14,425 I'm-a do like that. Shit. 1711 01:24:14,508 --> 01:24:15,968 (overlapping chatter) 1712 01:24:16,051 --> 01:24:17,553 Soon as somebody else win, I'm like that. 1713 01:24:17,636 --> 01:24:18,929 KIM: But I don't want him waiting around. 1714 01:24:19,013 --> 01:24:20,181 They've been asking where he is. 1715 01:24:20,264 --> 01:24:21,932 (indistinct chatter) 1716 01:24:24,977 --> 01:24:27,021 (man shouting in distance) 1717 01:24:27,104 --> 01:24:29,565 -Where my, where my car at? -MAN: That'll be in front. 1718 01:24:29,648 --> 01:24:31,650 ♪ ♪ 1719 01:24:46,540 --> 01:24:48,542 ♪ ♪ 1720 01:24:55,925 --> 01:24:57,510 I'm going on TV, Britney. 1721 01:24:57,593 --> 01:24:59,345 You gon' kill this shit. 1722 01:25:03,015 --> 01:25:04,975 -(Velcro ripping) -Make it tight. 1723 01:25:05,059 --> 01:25:09,063 HABTEMARIAM: He's so aware of his influence and his power now. 1724 01:25:12,149 --> 01:25:15,319 And he doesn't take that responsibility lightly. 1725 01:25:20,658 --> 01:25:24,495 COACH K: Here's a kid that wasn't dealt... 1726 01:25:24,578 --> 01:25:26,038 all aces. 1727 01:25:29,375 --> 01:25:31,710 All them little guys from his neighborhood... 1728 01:25:33,128 --> 01:25:35,506 ...he gives all those kids hope. 1729 01:25:45,808 --> 01:25:50,646 MAN: Here performing "The Bigger Picture," please welcome Lil Baby. 1730 01:25:50,729 --> 01:25:52,606 (crowd cheering) 1731 01:25:54,024 --> 01:25:55,401 ♪ Trade my four-by-four for a G 63 ♪ 1732 01:25:55,484 --> 01:25:56,902 ♪ Ain't no more free Lil Steve ♪ 1733 01:25:56,986 --> 01:25:58,863 ♪ I gave 'em chance and chance and chance again ♪ 1734 01:25:58,946 --> 01:26:00,447 ♪ I even done told them please ♪ 1735 01:26:00,531 --> 01:26:02,032 ♪ I find it crazy the police'll shoot you ♪ 1736 01:26:02,116 --> 01:26:04,034 ♪ And know that you dead but still tell you to freeze ♪ 1737 01:26:04,118 --> 01:26:05,578 ♪ I seen what I seen, I guess that mean ♪ 1738 01:26:05,661 --> 01:26:07,162 ♪ Hold him down when he say he can't breathe ♪ 1739 01:26:07,246 --> 01:26:09,915 ♪ It's too many mothers that's grieving for no reason ♪ 1740 01:26:09,999 --> 01:26:12,167 ♪ Been going on for too long to get even ♪ 1741 01:26:12,251 --> 01:26:13,586 ♪ Like dogs and hyenas ♪ 1742 01:26:13,669 --> 01:26:15,129 ♪ I went to prison, my money was quoted ♪ 1743 01:26:15,212 --> 01:26:16,755 ♪ My mama was crushed when they said I can't leave ♪ 1744 01:26:16,839 --> 01:26:18,382 ♪ First I was drunk, but I sobered up quick ♪ 1745 01:26:18,465 --> 01:26:20,259 ♪ When I heard all that time that they gave to Taleeb ♪ 1746 01:26:20,342 --> 01:26:22,052 ♪ He got a life sentence plus ♪ 1747 01:26:22,136 --> 01:26:24,013 ♪ We just some products of our environment ♪ 1748 01:26:24,096 --> 01:26:25,556 ♪ How the ... they gon' blame us? ♪ 1749 01:26:25,639 --> 01:26:27,057 ♪ You can't fight fire with fire, I know ♪ 1750 01:26:27,141 --> 01:26:29,810 ♪ But at least we can turn up the flames some... ♪ 1751 01:26:29,894 --> 01:26:31,937 The whole world like, "Oh, my fucking God, this is-- 1752 01:26:32,021 --> 01:26:33,272 Who is this guy?" And it's like, 1753 01:26:33,355 --> 01:26:35,107 I knew who this boy was. This boy one of the ones. 1754 01:26:35,190 --> 01:26:36,358 I knew this. 1755 01:26:36,442 --> 01:26:38,694 THOMAS: Seeing him get smarter, 1756 01:26:38,777 --> 01:26:40,863 asking questions, 1757 01:26:40,946 --> 01:26:43,032 it just make me happy and proud to see him 1758 01:26:43,115 --> 01:26:46,410 make that transition in being to where he at now. 1759 01:26:46,493 --> 01:26:48,245 ♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪ 1760 01:26:48,329 --> 01:26:49,997 ♪ It's a problem with the whole way of life ♪ 1761 01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:52,708 ♪ It can't change overnight, but we got to start somewhere ♪ 1762 01:26:52,791 --> 01:26:54,710 ♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪ 1763 01:26:54,793 --> 01:26:56,462 ♪ We done had a ... of a year ♪ 1764 01:26:56,545 --> 01:26:58,172 ♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪ 1765 01:26:58,255 --> 01:27:00,674 ♪ God is the only man I fear ♪ 1766 01:27:02,343 --> 01:27:03,719 ♪ It's bigger than Black and white ♪ 1767 01:27:03,802 --> 01:27:05,596 ♪ It's a problem with the whole way of life ♪ 1768 01:27:05,679 --> 01:27:08,849 ♪ It can't change overnight, but we got to start somewhere ♪ 1769 01:27:08,933 --> 01:27:10,392 ♪ Might as well gon' 'head start here ♪ 1770 01:27:10,476 --> 01:27:12,144 ♪ We done had a ... of a year ♪ 1771 01:27:12,227 --> 01:27:13,729 ♪ I'm-a make it count while I'm here ♪ 1772 01:27:13,812 --> 01:27:16,732 ♪ God is the only man I fear. ♪ 1773 01:27:16,815 --> 01:27:18,817 -(song ends) -(fireworks popping) 1774 01:27:21,487 --> 01:27:24,365 (indistinct chatter) 1775 01:27:30,245 --> 01:27:31,664 It's a wrap! 1776 01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:35,459 -(cheering, excited chatter) -Congratulations! 1777 01:27:35,542 --> 01:27:37,544 ♪ ♪ 1778 01:27:40,339 --> 01:27:42,508 LIL BABY: Coach and Ethiopia, P, 1779 01:27:42,591 --> 01:27:45,135 they know the benefits of winning a Grammy. 1780 01:27:45,219 --> 01:27:47,012 This shit new to me. 1781 01:27:53,352 --> 01:27:56,522 I don't really understand all that yet. 1782 01:27:57,856 --> 01:28:01,276 I'm just happy I'm getting my message out there. 1783 01:28:14,957 --> 01:28:16,959 (engine revving) 1784 01:28:22,172 --> 01:28:24,174 ♪ ♪ 1785 01:28:31,306 --> 01:28:33,767 Trying to show the youngins that it's bigger. 1786 01:28:35,769 --> 01:28:37,771 I'm living proof. 1787 01:28:45,070 --> 01:28:46,989 COACH K: Lil Baby is a-a name, 1788 01:28:47,072 --> 01:28:49,867 a brand that he built. 1789 01:28:51,869 --> 01:28:54,163 Dominique is who he is. 1790 01:28:55,164 --> 01:28:58,751 I think Dominique is the essence of Lil Baby. 1791 01:29:02,671 --> 01:29:04,548 LIL BABY: Dominique is... 1792 01:29:06,091 --> 01:29:08,677 ...the owner of Lil Baby. 1793 01:29:08,761 --> 01:29:11,555 And Lil Baby is an artist. 1794 01:29:12,723 --> 01:29:15,267 Dominique is a businessman. 1795 01:29:18,187 --> 01:29:19,938 One day, there gonna be no more Lil Baby. 1796 01:29:20,022 --> 01:29:22,024 How could it not? 1797 01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,570 ♪ ♪ 1798 01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:37,539 LASHAWN: That's my child. I know his potential. 1799 01:29:38,540 --> 01:29:40,334 Very proud, especially with all the people 1800 01:29:40,417 --> 01:29:43,587 who didn't believe he was gonna amount to anything. 1801 01:29:44,630 --> 01:29:46,465 "Oh, you know, he gonna probably just end up 1802 01:29:46,548 --> 01:29:49,510 like the rest of the hood." 1803 01:29:49,593 --> 01:29:51,720 I smile knowing that that's him on the radio. 1804 01:29:51,804 --> 01:29:54,306 Their kids listening to him. 1805 01:29:57,267 --> 01:30:01,438 Little Dominique Jones who never came to class. 1806 01:30:01,522 --> 01:30:03,107 -Say, "Blast off!" -Blast off! 1807 01:30:03,190 --> 01:30:05,275 Blast off! Ah! 1808 01:30:05,359 --> 01:30:07,069 (laughter) 1809 01:30:07,152 --> 01:30:08,529 Y'all, y'all, share. 1810 01:30:08,612 --> 01:30:10,239 Jason, you can't be doing all that. 1811 01:30:10,322 --> 01:30:11,615 Come here. 1812 01:30:11,698 --> 01:30:13,700 (indistinct chatter) 1813 01:30:19,790 --> 01:30:20,958 (exclaims) 1814 01:30:21,041 --> 01:30:22,960 See it there? 1815 01:30:23,043 --> 01:30:24,545 See it? 1816 01:30:26,380 --> 01:30:27,798 Want to go over there? 1817 01:30:32,845 --> 01:30:34,847 (indistinct chatter) 1818 01:30:37,432 --> 01:30:40,978 LIL BABY: I can see my plan, what I'm trying to do, it's gon' work. 1819 01:30:41,979 --> 01:30:43,981 (indistinct chatter) 1820 01:30:48,235 --> 01:30:50,112 I'm-a have a full legacy. 1821 01:30:50,195 --> 01:30:52,865 Like, it's just gon' be started from rap. 1822 01:30:54,658 --> 01:30:57,119 'Cause I took it to this point in three years. 1823 01:30:57,202 --> 01:30:59,746 I plan on living to at least, like, 60, 70. 1824 01:30:59,830 --> 01:31:02,624 That's a long time from now. 1825 01:31:05,210 --> 01:31:06,628 Even though I got to this point 1826 01:31:06,712 --> 01:31:08,589 where it's damn near you can ask a question like 1827 01:31:08,672 --> 01:31:09,965 "What do you think your legacy is going to be?" 1828 01:31:10,048 --> 01:31:13,552 'cause I done built a legacy where if I stop right now I could leave it. 1829 01:31:14,887 --> 01:31:16,847 It's already a full one if I stopped today. 1830 01:31:19,766 --> 01:31:21,894 But, man, you got to just imagine what I'm finna do. 1831 01:31:23,145 --> 01:31:25,731 Now that my brain is untrapping. 1832 01:31:28,108 --> 01:31:30,110 I'll never be trapped again. 1833 01:31:32,654 --> 01:31:34,448 I'm just getting started. 1834 01:31:34,531 --> 01:31:36,533 (jet engine whooshing) 1835 01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:46,043 ("All In" by Lil Baby playing) 1836 01:31:47,127 --> 01:31:49,046 ♪ Cook that ... up, Quay ♪ 1837 01:31:49,129 --> 01:31:51,131 (song continues as instrumental beat) 1838 01:32:21,161 --> 01:32:23,163 ♪ ♪ 1839 01:32:53,193 --> 01:32:55,195 ♪ ♪ 1840 01:33:25,225 --> 01:33:27,227 ♪ ♪ 1841 01:33:48,582 --> 01:33:50,584 (music fades)