0:00 It's Boo Shista. I'm here with Double XXL Big B. I'm feeling good, man. I'm feeling like, you know, a lot of mixed feelings. Happy same time, like excited. You know, it's a couple different mixed feelings. Yeah. I feel like it's a lot of pressure, but same time like it's a lot of like anticipation for real. You know, FDO like I had to come with this particular song because it's like the message, you know, it fit like around a I'm back type of vibe. You know what I'm
0:46 saying? the thought process on it like I really like was getting it together as I was in there doing my time but I couldn't finish it because I'm getting new experiences and I'm going through new things and so like I wrapped it up first day in the studio with everything the whole coming home experience and like I couldn't rap in the song on uh how my my uh welcome was when I came home yet I couldn't put it in her in there so I did it when I came home I mean, everything just hit me and it came out perfect. My producer TP been with me from the start. His first song, my first song was his first beat. So, you know, it's the chemistry. Said, "I ain't fumble The whole world been waiting on this."
1:32 >> I can't fumble The whole world been waiting on it. >> You got You got disbelievers and you got strong believers, you know? Like, they've been counting on me. They already knew. Like, when people doubted, they knew like this little dude for real. like he who he is. So I'mma produce every time. I can't formulate. I can't form. Couple dudes like that was like, you know, help me with my whole like start and how I think and how I look at the music game. So like I mentioned Durk in there, I mentioned Gotta in there, mentioned a couple dudes in there. With this song right here, it's like anticipate the whole like the new like revised pushist. Like this how we coming. Just the energy, the aggression turned up. You know, we
2:18 dropping more. Going to hit the ground running 100% to coming like we ready to push, take back over. [Music] The new me for people who may not know is like the new and improved, the more clean version, like the more focused Bruce, clearer vision. I can see clearer now. Like I got it. It's my second run. like a second chance for real. The new energy I'm coming with this new music is like it's like way more turn like I ain't really trying to bring nothing back but I say like authenticity like we just going to stay authentic and keep it original one of a kind type of like cadence and flow. Most definitely. I'm
3:04 gonna cater to my fans and my day one supporters, but same time, you know, I'mma support the struggle. Like I'mma I'mma touch bases on every bar I spit. You going to be able to like I feel that or I went through that or he talking about me on this song. But same time, we getting more versatile. We switching it up. We going big. If it's a rock song, I'm trying to do a rock song. It don't matter like country, whatever. Like we touching all bases. Like we going global. My motivation for this piece of work right here was like I'm g say you know the struggle for sure like the doubts and the hard times. That's one you know like every time I feel like somebody like you know or I'm going
3:50 through somewhere I feel like I'm getting counted out or losing hope. That's really motivation for me. I like the hard times or with me going in a in like a different type of environment in jail like being in a hole or whatever. Like I use that as like my best type of time cuz I'm by myself alone. I got all day, no distractions. So that's one. And two is new music. Like I keep up with music like from whoever it is. Like I've been doing this my whole life like with listen to music. So the new music, new type of flow, the younger artist, the faster ones, smarter ones, you know, that kept me going too.
4:35 I was doing a lot of writing while in there. So like I got a lot of like notepads, notebooks, raps, anything I can rap on an envelope, a shot incident report, a napkin. I got wraps on whatever. So, but like my first like my first three years of me being in there, I had all my property. Something happened with me having to get shipped to another facility and it went missing. So, call went missing. So, I did have a first day out before this. That's what motivated me to be like, I can't make a first day out and I ain't got out yet. You know what I'm saying? I had to start all the way over. I had to start all the way over and I was just getting pieces of songs from her. piece of song from here putting it together or however it
5:22 came but I had to get out to make this first day out so that made me motivated too. The fan mail I love the fan mail especially like I told you like with the environments it is in jail like if I'm somewhere else more secluded like I'm counting on that Monday through Friday to come through it just keep me going. And it just remind me of like you him or we love you over here and we listen to you out here wherever is at UK. You know what I'm saying? Like it be be hard to believe it sometimes until you really see it because of where we come from. So yeah, that kept me going. I love my fan mail. Oh yeah, I got all my fan mail. I got all it go everywhere I go. See, one thing about like all my wraps and
6:07 things, my property that got lost, they can't they really wasn't supposed to touch my personal papers, but they most definitely didn't touch my mail cuz there's no there's no limit on how much you can have. So, I got every letter from when the first person wrote me, you know, and I read all of it. I plan to doing I plan on doing something with it in the future, you know. Just got to stay tuned. my relationship with God in there, it strengthened me and kept me going because like like my my relationship my past relationship with him, you know, it's like I came closer with him, you know, and everything I was thinking of talking about or I prayed about it came to the light like right here in my face. So it
6:52 made me more of a stronger, you know, and all my people prayers, all my supporter prayers, all the accountant. And I know it work for sure cuz things could be all bad. I'm back here. I'm back out. Got a second chance. It's a blessing. While in there, I never knew for sure that I had a second chance, but I always kept faith once again. Like and I always told myself like you making it home like you getting back to your people and your mama to where county is. So I never got like caught up in politics or whatever like no everyday jail antics I never really got caught up in. I stayed focused kept writing my music. Stayed on the bigger picture. A lot of rappers that supported me and you
7:38 know tapped in during them hard times. You got uh Little Baby you know he wasn't missing a beat. Dirt. Free Dirt. Dirt one missing a beat, you know. Whatever it is he got to do. Call my people, whatever, you know. Uh 42 Dubo Gotti reached out. Gucci of course. Done Tripping Staro. Co- Cash Memphis artist. Key Glock reached out. ESTG RO Rodriguez. I can go on and on. They was like, they was tapping in just letting me know like giving me a country reminder of That ain't what's up in there. You know, we out here with it. Get back out here. Yeah. It's like another motivation. Same time. Like I said, like a country reminder of what I got to do. And you
8:25 know, it's a it's a roller coaster. It's going to go up and down. Get number bad news, bad phone calls, bad letters, and problems. So, got to keep your head screwed on straight. A lot of good habits I picked up in there. Yeah, some I got to tighten up some more, but you know, for sure. Like working out, that's one. Never worked out before. Never. But working out, that's one. Uh reading. Reading. I was just too much of a fan of picking up books, but I read all day long, but uh reading. I got my reading game up in there. uh knowing how to like choose between rational and irrational decisions, you
9:11 know, just decision making and thinking before I act, working on my temper. It's a lot of knowing how to communicate. I learned how to communicate better. It's a lot of good things, you know. You can see the good in situations. Always some good. moving forward like I was saying like just on moving better in life like I try like to steer away from them same type of like scenarios. It's like seeing now like I didn't saw that one before like I ain't I don't already watch that movie before. I ain't I'm already cool on it. You know what I'm saying? So I try to change up my people places and things. You know, change up the way I move. I always put like the importance
9:56 first, like who I am and what I got ahead of me and who I do it for and them situation to where now on my whole left side of my brain all I can think about is, you know what I'm saying? The unfortunate for you know what I'm saying? You get what I'm saying? But yeah, we can't go back there. We It's real easy to go back. It's super super hard to get out. So they just stay on my mind all the time. and the hard times and the nasty food and the you know what I'm saying like I keep that the sale my back hurting and yeah like it's real so I stay I I just stay looking forward and you know be conscious of everything try to think before I do
10:42 [Music] I remember like getting a magazine I remember getting a magazine you know I got like incarcerated like right after we did it So my mind was on how I look, how I'm coming, like what the what the reaction was, what the people say to it, what the you know, at the same time I couldn't really talk, but I could get mail. So I remember like yesterday when uh the CO came around and slid the magazine, slid my mail under the door for the day and I'm looking at it and like I knew that was me on there so I tried to give it to myself first like you can go and look at it. So boom, I guess somebody else on the range was looking at it too and they were trying to ask her this. We want to see a copy and they sent it. They still sent it. So he ain't know that it was me. So they
11:27 just talk and then you know but they was happy that I was on her like cuz you know they was like criticizing who all else was on her and you know how it be. So they like man he deserve it. So boom, I said would let him know like bro this my selling. So it was it was a good reaction. I was proud. I liked it. It, you know, I think it was good. It's like a milestone that, you know, I checked off in life. My cipher, I really couldn't get to see it until I got out. So, I'm really just now watching it. Like me and Cara just sitting down one day, we going through the ciphers and relooking and just re, you know, we just reminiscing for real. My first time looking at it like, you know, of course, I felt like it's five years later. So, I
12:13 felt like I want to do it again. I wish I could have did that jump over like but it was good though. It was hard though my exercise to stay sharp in my music like normally I freestyle. So being incarcerated I had to switch back over to the pad and pin you know and it was like I got used to a capella type of flow. Like I was just telling my producer like I ain't did no ad libs in so long. Like it feel funny doing it. I don't even really like you know what I'm saying? So um yeah, I normally was writing. So when I was writing I would like write a couple different verses to the same song and I might just play with it and see which one fit the best or was
13:00 hard or get somebody reaction off of. Now like I told you like before I was freestyling and then I had to go to writing. When I first started, I was writing. I wrote my first song. And now it's like a mix of both. Like one day I might just go in there and just freestyle, just catch it. Another day I might just write some or all I need. It's to the point now all I need is words. Like I feel like I like if I tell you to give me some words while I rap, I feel like you'll run out of words before I mess up my rap. That's how I feel right now. So if I give you a word right now, >> try me. >> I'm just going to throw out rock. >> Rock in the sock. In jail with a lock in the sock. I'm just I can just go. You
13:48 know what I'm saying? I can just go like give me another word. >> Fireplace. >> Fireplace with this Draco. You try to run, you can't escape. Ain't no way. Ain't no games. Ain't no playing. I'm a man. I'm a grown man. I stand on business. Aiming with precision. Glock on me, shoot till it's empty. Glock on me, shoot till it's ticking. Richard a millie. You know what I'm saying? I just can go. Like it just it just a mindset thing. It took a lot of practice though. Then you got me laughing. So we was serious. We would have did something else [Music] in hip-hop right now. What I'm excited about like mostly like like how open it is right now. You know what I'm saying?
14:33 It's like it's just so up for grabs even though it's by default like you know what I'm saying but it's up for grabs right now and I feel like this the perfect time like what a time to be a slime. That's why I always say that a lot of people coming home too. At first it was just everybody getting locked up. So now it's like got a lot of people coming home or on the way home like especially people that got them tens back in the day and got like you know certain amount of time little fives 10 15s it's like this that time you know 2022 going to be a good year. Memphis rap scene right now like I'm proud of where it's at for sure. like we got it. Like, and it's hard to know like
15:21 and hold it in without everybody else knowing that like we got it. No brag, no bo. You know what I'm saying? But it's lit, man. We got a lot of new artists, a lot of new talent. You know what I'm saying? Got that good food down there. You know, everybody just putting on, you know, they doing big things. This music is going crazy right now. Like, we're going to bring more of their energy. You know, we all trying to like keep it like Memphis. Like, this what we pushing. this what's going to come first before anything. So, got a lot of collaborations on the way. A lot of big ideas and a lot of big plans to do. You know, we coming hard 911 M town [Music] back in blood going eight time platinum.
16:06 Like how I feel how I feel to have that accomplishment like it just crazy cuz like eight so close to you know what I'm saying? It's platinum like that ain't being done every day. Like it's a lot of people from where we from that you know that go far. But this right there is like you know that's crazy. That's a big that's a big that's a big deal right there. And um made a lot of people proud. You know what I'm saying? Like it still get hope. You know I want something else that can be like eight times platinum again. And it's crazy cuz how this son did like we ain't expect it but same time we knew this was the one and come from I'm coming from police walking past you know big uh push on really sh you know what I'm
16:54 saying like it just funny like it's good like that's a big that was a big point in life right there that's a hit right there a memory I got a little dirt like from that video shoot from the back and blood video shooter. It's like this was my first time being in Chicago with him too. So how he move and like how he is around like his people and how they love him and you know how they do for him. I love that. Like a lot of people don't know like that side. You know what I'm saying? Like how it is with being like that deep in the trenches and the respect level so high. It was no incidents involved. No like no altercations or none of that. And we like 150 deep out here. We so deep out
17:40 here like it's crazy. So to see that and the love and how they showed me love, you know what I'm saying? How he treated me and kept me on his help and you know watched out and you know it's just like oh yeah I mess with him like for sure is it's deep. I spoke to Dirk but unfortunately it was like under the circumstances that where he we can't really just talk like that cuz in a minute he'll be able to talk more. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I reached out for him. I he up. Told her she can ask me whatever she need. You know what I'm saying? Tell brother to call me any time. Like I'mma pick up the phone for sure. Whatever it is, you know. Yeah. Talk to a couple of his partners. Motivational words I got for him while he while he been away like in the same type of predicament. I was just
18:25 in I know he at the beginning of his case like way before he got his time before he going to court. So I just want him to know like just stay focused. you know, keep all the distractions. The main scra main his main focus right now should be like getting back out here like, you know, stay in that book, order you some books. I remember I I recommend one called Busted by the Feds. So, he need to get that book for sure. You know what I'm saying? I wrote him a letter. I wrote him a letter right before I came home. Like just like basically on this topic like that's crazy that you that you uh ask me that question, but you know, keep his head up, stay motivated. He got the whole world out here. Like he was just winning Grammies before he left. Like come on, get you some more Grammys. Like stay focused. Like it's
19:11 easy to get caught up in there. [Music] Okay. So, a couple words of wisdom from somebody that been in it. You know what I'm saying? And know it firsthand. That ain't what's up in there, bro. all the image and the facades and the faking and the street notori come is not worth it. Ain't nothing worth leaving this and going in there and ain't nothing worth not leaving dead and there come back out here. You know what I'm saying? So let's stay focused man get this money and keep working and take care of this opportunity that we got to provide for all our people. the way Gucci came home and like that motivated me too because
19:56 like you know I took notes from there like how he switched it up how he toned up you know got fit got his mind healthy like took notes in that every way so they motivated me to move how I'm moving like towards today too so like he showed that it can be done like all you got to do is want it got so up you know what I'm saying we got a lot of the similar traits because I realized that he woke woke up when he was in there. You know what I'm saying? Like he really woke up and he wasn't just in there playing or, you know, not taking it serious. Another thing he told me too was like, shy, you 20 years old going to go see what I saw at 35 years old. You know, you had a you
20:42 got a head start long as you got this out the way first. You know, fortunately, it had to happen, but it happened, bro. It is what it is. So you got to get this out the way early. You know what I'm saying? It might be it could have been too late for me if I would ever came out and played it right. So take advantage of that too. You know what I'm saying? So that stuck with me. [Music] CMO is the brand, you know. That's what we pushing. That's what we represent. You can see this. It's carved in on my face. You know, can't miss opportunities. We taking advantage of all opportunities. And you know, we trying to be bigger and better in all aspects, you know. So like, and we focus on rebuilding like community, rebuilding
21:28 like the youth, giving them a chance, show them ways that most people want to show them, you know, get them traits or jobs or scholarships, whatever it got to be. We just like want to help the people for sure. And, you know, take advantage of all these opportunities. One word to describe me is unstoppable. Of course, because I can't be stopped. You know what I'm saying? CBLW type You know what's going on. So, like that's a that's a big word for me. You know, because it's like it got two words in it if you pay attention. Like it's unstoppable. Like, so I'mma get that tatter. I'm get that head across my belly, have pock thug like, and I'mma break it in half. So unstop I might have all like my bullet wounds and you know what I'm
22:14 saying chains on me and you know what I'm saying cracking a little bit and able on able I'mma have my Richard Millie my paddic my rack a you know form you know what I'm saying you just got to stay tuned is always a method behind the madness but that's my word man I'm unstoppable my current position in life right now is you know I'm done with the inside I'm done with house I just left the halfway because now I'm on an ankle bracelet. So, like I said, I was like 75% free. You know what I'm saying? You know, but this all part of the plan though, you know, after this this bracelet come off and I'm able to travel and get back to touring and you know, this all part of the plan. It's just a process that, you know, you got to trust the process for 2026 with this music.
23:02 I'm trying to like take over on all platforms. Climb back up these charts. Put it back in their FaceTime 10 and keep dropping it. Stay consistent and just keep putting it out there. Giving the fans what they want, what they think they want. I ain't ready for this type. You know what I'm saying? But I got them though. Outside of music, of course, I want to be way more business oriented and, you know, get all my buns back and my relationship back with, you know, people I miss and people, you know, we done lost connections or got a little dispersing, you know. All right. So, boom. Right now, we wrapping the double XXL interview up, which went real good, but we got to go to this video shoot. FDO, you know, is on the way. You know what
23:47 to be expecting is car a lot of money. We putting it on. We popping it. Times 10 way harder. You know, stay tuned. It's still a shy season. Big brother.
