Baby (Cash Money) new ahh interview

[Elano]

AllHipHop.com: Last month, President Obama addressed the statistics that are out there for young Black men. At the same time, he was encouraging young boys to remember that that doesn’t mean you should give up on your life too early. How much influence towards the opposite do you think you have on your young listeners, not only because of the subject matter you discuss, but the fact that some people could say that you affiliate yourself with a gang and you’re real open about it? How do you balance the message you’re putting out there?
Baby: I don’t think we glorify gangs. I don’t feel the same way other people feel. I love red. Red is what I do. That’s my blood, that’s my neck of the woods, that’s my neighborhood. And I don’t feel like I was put here to raise other people’s kids by my music and how I live. I think that comes from home. I don’t even know your children to raise them. Even in my household, music didn’t raise me. I was raised in the streets.

AllHipHop.com: But at the same time, 40-50 years ago… we don’t even have to go back that far. Let’s say 30 years ago, being an musician wasn’t really something that African-American children saw as a model of success, as something they could grow up to be. You could also say that the doctor, astronaut, fireman, or even President Obama aren’t here to raise your kids, but the reality is that they see you, they see what you’re doing, you’re successful…

Baby: I mean, I don’t think it’s nothing wrong with wanting to be successful and wanting to rap and do those things. But to speak about how you live and how you done lived, that’s cool to me. I mean, I looked up to people before I became who I am. That’s just a part of life.

AllHipHop.com: How do you feel about the fact that, in his speech, the two names President Obama specifically said were…
Baby: Lebron [James] and Wayne.

AllHipHop.com: On one side, that definitely shows the level of success you’ve had. But do you feel like it’s also going to draw more criticism for you?
Baby: Criticism been with us since we started. [But] I don’t know how he said it or what he meant by it.

AllHipHop.com: What he said, essentially, was that just because they might have a good jumpshot or a nice flow, all of our sons don’t need to aspire to be Lebron or Lil’ Wayne. “I want them to grow up to be a Supreme Court Justice, or a scientist, etc.”
Baby: Believe that.

AllHipHop.com: So you agree with him?
Baby: Yeah. There’s more to life than just… everybody not into just basketball and rap. You got people that’s into other things, but [who] still love music and still love basketball. Obama, he into Wayne and Lebron. So, to me, it’s a lot of other things that we gone get into. Like my little nieces, they wanna be a lawyer so they can join in and help out.

AllHipHop.com: To this day, there are still great signs of the effect Hurricane Katrina had on New Orleans. Talk to us a little about home to you right now. Have you been back recently? Are you back a lot?
Baby: Yeah, I’m back a lot.

AllHipHop.com: But you’re not back living there.
Baby: I mean, I’m back and forth. I go there though. I’m not living there, I live in Miami.

AllHipHop.com: Do you see yourself going back permanently?
Baby: I never left, to me. We just had to move on to do other things. But that’s where I’m gone be buried at, so I don’t think I ever left. My house is back up. I love my city. I’ll never leave it.

AllHipHop.com: What’s going on there now as you see it? Do you feel like the city is on track to get back to where it used to be?
Baby: Nah, not at all. Corruption, just the town how it’s been. Ain’t nothing ever changed, now just people get to see more of what’s going on. But it’s gonna take more than what we can do to even help any kind of way. It’s just gonna take a lot. I don’t think nobody paying attention. I don’t even think nobody give a f**k. It is what it is. We gotta live with it. Other people can feel our pain, but ain’t nobody living it and going through what we went through and what we’re going through. For a muthf***a to visit, they could be like, ‘Oh, that’s f***ed up.” But to live it, it’s real f***ed up.

AllHipHop.com: With you being one of the people that’s lucky enough to be living it from a distance..
Baby: I’m always living it, because my people living it. I feel the pain of what we lost. And what we lost, we never can gain. That’s scar ain’t never going nowhere.

AllHipHop.com: So what can you do to help? Do you think there’s anything that you can personally do?
Baby: I mean, try to help as much as you can, or who you can. But it’s bigger than what we can do. We tried to do what we can with our foundations. I like helping the kids out, sponsoring them with sports and things; tryna help the schools out. But it’s bigger than what we can do. But like I say, don’t nobody give a f**k, so we just got to live with that.

AllHipHop.com: But you really are in a position to bring this to more people’s attention. Like you said, for an outsider, obviously the minute something else happens in the world, they’re gonna shift their attention. So for a lot of people, Katrina hasn’t crossed their minds in the last three years at all. Do you think bringing it back to the forefront would help the people of New Orleans?
Baby: Maybe, maybe not. I mean, everybody know. Who don’t know? We had a f***ed up President when it happened. To me, don’t nobody give a f**k. They know all the homicides going on too, n****s getting killed on the regular. That’s just something we gotta live with. To me in life, I don’t think crying about it gone solve anything. It ain’t gonna make a n***a bills get paid. So we just gotta go for what we know and live it how we get it. It ain’t just [getting] like that, it been like that. So we gotta do whatever we gotta do to support our family.

AllHipHop.com: What would you say to someone who would say that you guys left and you’re not involved with what’s going on in the city?
Baby: That’s they opinion. Everybody entitled to their opinion. You gotta live yours and I gotta live mine.

AllHipHop.com: Outside of the music and running the label, do you find time to have something else going on in your life? When you need to get away, what do you do?
Baby: The pleasure of my life is spending time with my kids; my son Wayne, watching him do what he do, that’s goals for me. That’s my reason for living. I got grandchildren now. I wanna make sure they have everything in life. Imma spoil them as much as I can. I want my children to live the life. I want them to be better than me, do better. I’m good with that: if I can just see my children on my off time when we ain’t doing nothing. Because, [when I had] my children, we was young, and I didn’t really get the chance to grow up with them like I wanted to, because I was running with this music s**t. So at this point in my life, I wanna spend a lot of time with my children and my grandchildren.

AllHipHop.com: So if you grandchildren decided to go into music, would you support their decision?
Baby: Of course, my godchild into music and my daughter, which is Wayne daughter Reginae and my daughter Bria. My son not really into it, he into music. But anyone in our bloodline who wanna do this, Imma definitely do it for ‘em. Imma help ‘em out.

AllHipHop.com: When it’s all said and done, do you think you’ll ever put Baby and Birdman to the side and go back to being Bryan?
Baby: Of course.

AllHipHop.com: What will it take for you to feel like you’ve accomplished enough to go back?
Baby: I wanna be a billionaire, that’s my goal. And I see an opportunity to do that in music, with a lot of other ventures. That’s one of my goals in life. I don’t wanna be 50 and 60 and 70 years old and still doing music. And still in the buildings like some of these old heads that be in these buildings and still tryna negotiate with a youngster 20 years old. Man, I ain’t got time for that. In my latter days, I just wanna live my life and be around my family and my kids man, help them explore life. But I don’t wanna be no old man in a building, working with no company. Nah, I’m not gonna do that. Some of these [guys], they 70, 80 years old and they run the buildings. I don’t get that. You been there for so long, you been doing it 40 years.

AllHipHop.com: So you feel like you’re gonna get to a point where you’ll pass it off to someone else and that’s how it should be?
Baby: Of course. I’m not gonna be they age still doing that. I’m not gonna be old, still tryna do deals with n****s half my age. I can’t do that. ‘Cause I wanna do better than all them old heads done did before me. All of them. I wanna do more numbers than them, I want my contracts to be bigger, I wanna do bigger deals, I wanna out do all of them. And I’m in a position to out do them and get more money than they ever did get. That’s my goal. They did it in they time and we doing it in modern time, through a recession.

AllHipHop.com: How long do you think the Cash Money brand will continue once you’re gone? What do you think the legacy will be like?
Baby: The brand gonna be around forever. Our children gonna eat off it while we dead. From the accomplishments: the sales, the numbers; I want our doings to speak for us. Look at our records, look at our sales, look at our ringtones. I don’t think it’s a company that ever did it better than what we doing it. And we still young, my son 26. His track record with music gonna be super long. I studied this s**t before I got in it. I watched Russell, I watched Diddy, I watched Eazy, I watched the Jermaines, the James Smiths, the Tony Drappers, all these dudes that I looked up to. And I just felt like I could do it better than them, but I knew that it would take time to accomplish what we tryna accomplish. ‘Cause I felt like we had the music to do the s**t. We was brand new. And our thang just been going forward since I started. Our goal was to reach where they was at, and then take it farther.

AllHipHop.com: Do you have any regrets?
Baby: Nah, I don’t live life with regrets. If I made a mistake, I made it. I’m human. That’s just life, we all gone make them. We can’t take them back if we made them. I started this at 18. I was 20 years old with $40 million, straight out the projects. You liable to make mistakes growing up in this business where nobody showed you nothing. You went for what you thought was right or wrong. But it all paid off in the end, and I think we got this s**t down pat, I don’t think it’s another company that ever been done or did that done the s**t we tryna do. We tryna do that Michael Jackson stuff over here.

AllHipHop.com: But of course, the difference is, when Michael had people taking shots at him, it wasn’t in the same realm. And you don’t see beef in any other genre the way you do in Hip-Hop. With you guys, it seems like a new person every other month is taking shots. How do you deal with that?
Baby: [Laughs] I really don’t be giving a f**k. As long as it ain’t no threat to my family and my son and our health is good, I don’t care what people say. I can’t live for everybody and how they feel. That’s just they emotion. I can’t worry about that. That can’t bother me.

AllHipHop.com: You know, some people that come forth, it don’t always be about emotion. Sometimes it be money.
Baby: I mean, that’s life too. It be like that sometimes.

AllHipHop.com: So what was behind the whole lawsuit with Drama?
Baby: I think Drama just got caught up. [BCD Music Group] was selling mixtapes, made a few million dollars off of it, which is illegal. We never do mixtapes to sell ‘em, period. We give mixtapes away. We believe in giving music away, staying fresh and letting people hear it. I didn’t appreciate them selling that s**t, and when I found out the bulk that they sold, I [couldn’t] see them take nothing from me. Y’all doing that illegal. I coulda fed my family. That don’t work for me. They lucky I ain’t entertain they ass.

AllHipHop.com: Did the situation affect your relationship with Drama?
Baby: Me and Drama one "hunned." That ain’t interfere with our relationship. Drama got caught in that, I made sure we took Drama out of that. I spoke with Drama a few times, and his attorney talked to my attorney, and I made sure he was out of that equation.

AllHipHop.com: While we’re on the topic, what’s your relationship with Manny Fresh?
Baby: I talk to him constantly, once or twice a week. I call him, he calls me. Me and Fresh really bonded again real tough after his sister got killed. ‘Cause you know my sister died a year before that. When he lost his sister, even when I lost my sister, I think that kinda really threw all that s**t out the window. Everything. It made me feel life is short. And I raised them n****s, I brought them in this s**t and I would like to see them be as successful as possible. I probably will bring Lil’ BG back though. We’ll work with him again.

AllHipHop.com: Do you see a return to your original roster?
Baby: I wanna do that, ‘cause that’ll bring closure on a lot of bulls**t for me. They definitely a Hot Boys album, whenever Wayne get a minute to do it. They already done recorded some songs. But for me, that’s something I wanna do. It’ll complete a piece of my little puzzle.

AllHipHop.com: Are we gonna see another Big Tymers album too?
Baby: I don’t know if we’ll do another album, but Imma work with him on music. I think Fresh [is] a great producer. With all the acts we have, I’m definitely gonna work with Fresh again.

[A1]

"all of a sudden little wayne saying he bang/since the kiss i dont see him and baby the same" -  Spider Loc

[Elano]

"all of a sudden little wayne saying he bang/since the kiss i dont see him and baby the same" -  Spider Loc

spider who ?

[OchoCinco]

heres the thing elano, i dont got a problem with your on here but u really dont need to post every fuckin interview and shitty article you see. The fact is that noone gives a fuck about most of the artist you post shit by. Relax, you dont need to copy and paste everything you see.

[Elano]

heres the thing elano, i dont got a problem with your on here but u really dont need to post every fuckin interview and shitty article you see. The fact is that noone gives a fuck about most of the artist you post shit by.

sure....boot camp m.o.p. and big boi for example are wack.
its better to see 25 threads about the slaughterhouse album 
and i don't post every fuckin interview,believe me............................................................................

[A1]

"all of a sudden little wayne saying he bang/since the kiss i dont see him and baby the same" -  Spider Loc

spider who ?

Loc ... im sure i spelt it right the first time!!...prehaps you dont read to good.