big boy alrighty now future welcome to the neighborhood bro what's going on maintain him I want to tell you straight up when they first said that you were gonna get on my schedule you know I thought they were lying right you know why because you live on stage and you live in our screens you don't see and as many times as I've seen you you always being good worried but I think this is the first time we sat down with each other well they said man you gotta do interviews it sounds bad what you say
they say I told him I wanted to do big boy show Thank You Man thank you brother so you know my work no G in the game thank you bro Thank you Thank You Man well is there anything you want to ask me before we get the end to the interview and like is there anything that's memory I know it's been a passion of yours to come is there anything you want to ask me that's on your bucket list like okay okay we talked about a person let's talk about you right now now first off
man we gotta say once again just congratulations on all the success and you are in nothing but competition with yourself you don't know saying so what what's going down 20:19 I mean we wake up and there's always a project what's going down with you right now what a night see my album coming out January 18th so that's first and then a documentary coming out January 11 yes I'm just dropping the music and what is the documentary as well the documentary is about me as they've been following me for like seven years Wow Wow seven years
the cameras following me like my kids they like one-years-old me seven and nine right now did you know when they were following you that you were doing a documentary or was it more just like a person up it's like a series and then they started going on after they followed me for like two years and they followed me on another tour I first started on I forgot my first tour it was like the purple ran to an end of her from Rancho I went on like summer 16 a father-son 16 did another summer 16 is
follow me on nobody safe so after that it was like we just make it into something is it crazy to see that have you have you seen it and its entirety yet I've ever seen it Oh a lot of like any of the clips seem to fit I seen the clips a long time ago does it change your perception on your journey thus far I just help me to stay focused because even then I didn't know I was gonna be here once you have that tunnel vision so many things that come along and where so
many just come and just try to stop you from going to the next level or going to the next step or whatever you have to do but you just got to keep going how do you do that when when when we're now in got your mold we're now in want to see everybody burn and destroy yeah how do you not get so caught up in there for when your social media you fight back not even me trying to fight back to just me being me because if you try to do something that you think is
cool and then everybody in are back in a backfire on you and the wrong way then you put yourself in a bad position but anytime I speak out I'm just speaking out being myself I speak from a good place I always have all have ill intentions with no one I know anything that I do so I know God in my but he recognized that so he always put me in great positions even when it's a bad position right right yeah it is there's always a different or way you can have an outcome that you like
I learn from that that's tuition to the school of experience you can learn from different situations it's not you make like you could be careless sometimes you know but at the end of the day you know how to maneuver you know how to get past are you heavy on social media like do you read into any of the if there's any comments or comments and you yeah so okay so you see when I was trying to get at you and it's like Indians like hey man we need to do a song together future yeah like
somebody do that I got friends like my best friend she actually had my Instagram so she had everything my Instagram whatever whatever but at the end of the day I don't read come as his eye it's not why not I just never did yeah so long as you want to get caught up in it lane you know that I would think that and not that you'd like I don't read comments as well you know those ham blades they're gonna say whatever you want them to say but you look a lot better than I do I
don't read them because I don't want to see what people are gonna be saying about me there's a there's a total difference about me but it is no matter what they say because y'all think about it it's people that said wherever they it I don't know them they don't know me you know understand my life so why might just be Santa coming coming back at 19 because speaking on people that aren't that they probably know me they trying to say certain things about me that's not true and I'm speaking for my right you know me
with the album on its way who can we expect to hear on this album oh really have features okay due to the Prada like one feature there was a rumor that it was Drake is that true not would you tell us if it was yeah it's okay okay could we go we go way back now go ahead love how do you select who you collaborate well you say that who gives a feature it just depends on how to feel of the album you know I'm saying do you get a lot of people even when you
just walk in that I say man we need to work together how do you pick and choose who you work it is it's just that feeling or you know like it just happen organically you know I mean might be in the same city at the same time and we at the same studio and we just get a chance to work is there anyone that you don't have to say the name but is there anyone that's been hitting you up to work with you and you say like and I'm not gonna work with that person okay
okay I was gonna tell you to see it now we're gonna tell you to write it down how is it you know so is it different going into into your projects now being that we do have a catalog from future is it is a competition with yourself are you just kind of still definitely competition with myself you know I mean they're just trying to uh but even with competition with myself which is like the work already been put in now just about me maintaining you know I'm saying I already got everything is already set for
me raised a bunch for myself even for myself I took it to love with it I I didn't expect so this point you know I'm selling it's my last album out of my last deal just a deer that I started he's my last finish so what do you do once you get out of the so called record label situation is it all just future after that I already had another deal playing so it's kicking right right after this deal stop so even with that is already sick so whatever I do I'm already got it's like
guarantee money I got a basketball country yeah oh okay so you're gonna be do the thing it's a different country but I don't work for it you know I've been in the game for ten years I didn't did seven albums just like my seventh album so when they made a deal when we get we did a deal it was a great deal speaking of just being in in ten years and seventh album like we're in the business now where you're kind of here today gone tonight how do how did future how does one not get
caught up in the you know I'm done with that person cuz we're real fickle but now chasing the height you're chasing that high I want to beat a man out of time you know I'm saying just wait for your time to come back around and just keep working but you got your own lane to you know what I'm saying like like and it's crazy because when you hear future I know that that's future and even when I felt like like you know there was future sound-alikes you don't know saying like there just a sound that
you have that should be untouchable you know saying and I think that that's why you're in a position where we only get one mm-hmm you know saying and every time we go to the wheel we got to go to go to your well to drink it yeah I mean and even with the music the tempo cuz I was just to the tempo and I was scared it's put crushing out on his life he had a tempo crazy but like you saved me having my own lane it helps it so when I put it out the
music just shift towards me not everybody want to do this kind of sign why did you do that because I just want to see can I do it like am I am i that like am i dead untouchable like you said do I really have that power do I really am I really that do you just just stand I don't have my own way my own substance of music my own way of doing things so if I doing my own way they gonna gravitate to what he calls it for you when when fans don't want
their favorite artist to grow or evolve or try new things don't frustrate me because they're just people were just having their opinion everyone happened to have pain but that's why I say you gotta have tunnel vision one thing things might be not going right for you today because you know it's the end of the light like you got to think about four months from now so all your move they can't see your moves right away so it's 2018 they don't see what I'm doing for 2019 so like man what is he doing what he's doing
they don't mean make a move just because you can't ants in the people are just not patient enough if you make the wrong move you got to wait you know as patience was there any pressure on you as an artist being that you grew up around the dungeon family and how did that have an influence on you I cross branded myself where I didn't brand myself as a family again because everybody was gonna be like only reason here because cuz yeah I just made my own name and done your family just something that adds with
the repertoire it took a minute before I even knew that Rico wait like it wasn't like oh presents you know I'm saying like or did you get you get assured in you know nothing I wanted to be a success story like something that build up and it just getting new every time you talk to me something new you find out something new about me instead of when you first come into game you get everything on the plate do kool-aid and cats from the dungeon family they look at you right now and be like god damn
yeah yeah we gonna wave it just like he like a father figure to me yeah and it's my cousin that's my blood cousin but in the day we'd have we haven't even worked on music I don't know how interesting my daddy knew there's new deals coming to he this new deal is coming like he always supported me he always there he in the studio he came to the studio listened to the music he always died like so he's deaf whenever I need her the best advice that he's given you uh man you just said Sammy's
keep doing you light state knowing you no matter what good or bad hmm it's working yes it is Johnny L is working you know Z and I I've got to figure out how things are gonna start working for me you know cuz we in a new year Rico and I was yeah a long time yeah yeah but you don't even I've been in radio 25 years I'm celebrating sale right here I was a baby yeah yeah man and it took me this long I had to wait around and get this interview back in the days
people used to tell me like man when are you gonna be the interview with everyone in the game but I know but I would tell people they would say baby right interview with Grandmaster Flash but you know it's crazy I would tell people they say man what's the one interview you haven't gotten yet and I say man Oprah Winfrey mmm in future I got future you know if we did an interview it wasn't sit-down it was real quick you don't have seen like I remember the cally thing when we were out on the boat you
know what I'm saying I remember dad we went to the show took pictures together you don't and so so taking that picture with me future that wasn't like a moment for you your free wishes foundation why is that something that's important for you it's always good to give back because I feel like any time you're in a position when you have success just giving back you just like it's a charity thing I love it it's something I want to do is come from my heart it ain't nothing like somebody have to force me to do
it's something I want to do I want to do it I take pride in doing it I just think that as so many people don't get to see that side of many artists you know a lot of people like to talk about all the bad stuff and never look into like what they do and giving back to their communities but those are not the people that is paying you some of this don't even matter that's why I say like the comments and things and certain things people are just so into it they don't you don't
matter because once you give him back that person understand they hear that that's the life you're trying to change ain't trying to give I don't want to give something to you and spreading the big boy to be happy about right right right do do you feel like because some people they do kind of say I did it I made it out I'm good you know today as opposed to continuing to turn back was there was there any time growing up that you seemed like not either assistance or you saw somebody who's like man like that
that person really came back for us to just like it was there somebody that was instrumental and and making sure that you were good as well because you touch a lot of people you don't know saying and growing up with me I touch a lot of people now but also growing up for me you know we were homeless we had to go to food programs you notice hand or just being cut from a certain cloth you just see that people continue to need you yeah like but I'm just like from from what I'm when I
grew up my uncle used to take care of me my uncle is my grandmother it was hustlers you know they always take care of me made sure I was good I have new shoes or you know I'm sounds like my uncle when he went to jail my shoes probably my shoe game fell off all you got you might get a friend of some pillow give you some shoes or whatever but when he got back when he got out of jail he always kept me fresh and I got like 13 he was like man you gotta
hustle on your own yeah how did you how did you when you did hustle how did you not get extremely caught up because we know because even with me you have you up foot in in and out you know enough you know saying I was a screaming - cutter mmm I was a screamer carpet caught up at one time one point of my life no I'm sending when it just it stopped it didn't happened anymore so I just moved on had you always being musically inclined like he had you always enjoyed it I always enjoyed
your music you just had a passion for music did you know that you were going to be an entertainer I didn't know I was gonna be entertain I didn't know I thought I was going through something being like just do something with passion I just have my own store I always wanted to just the owner of my own store what did you do before we knew future you know what I'm saying like like we know future now it's like oh man we know the catalog we know the hits we know the tours what about was
there any other jobs that somebody could say oh I worked at Foot Locker with here Mars man when I was 14 for the summer time I had I was sneaking in and I had I was a lot about my age that I was 16 said I was and I was on a bad boy damn grocery store yeah yeah yeah you you figure like yeah sing it - I did it for like three weeks and then I made my money and I wanna go flippin work future when you go to record do you hear the hit
before we hear the hit it just happened as I go along when I'm making a song because I'm usually just freestyling it's just here to beat it's going long did you know like let's say like mask off five times platinum and Counting do you know that that records gonna be what it is we didn't I didn't know mask off was gonna be a hit because we wasn't gonna put it on average damn how did he get on the album man I didn't know after that out there was already like number one that's when I found
out oh so y'all kind of released it as just now here he's put it on the album because it was the only album it was it was the only song on my album that was a that didn't have the track out version so we was picking out my and I he was telling me he was like we're not gonna put any songs on the album if it's not tricked ya damn right I never know it wasn't tracked out and we found out it had a sample in it oh god it was gone for real yeah
I'm like I had a sample but it was already another one record by the time explained to to me what tracked out means as far as is that it's like you got the snare you got it all checked out like on separate tray so it almost didn't make it it almost hit me crazy so who has the final like okay it's on or at a time that was my you know he had the final say so he just put it on yeah I didn't know and then now do you die hey come here oh thank
you don't think I'm too much though you don't we don't wonderfully we know the size everybody you know people always feel like when they get credit they feel like that was your life do you know how many hit records you got man masks all boy but at least you acknowledge you know those in at least you acknowledge is that I just say don't give too many don't give them too much you know does am but I knowledge everyone because I know the work I put in here saying and you just give credit when credit dude
how much do you enjoy being future it seems fine it's wow yeah explain Wow it's wild explain what what does that mean you only just go with you it's a lifestyle there's not lifestyles craziness is like being misunderstood 50/50 50/50 like 50 percent people of people misunderstand me basically damn that 75 percent they come some totally different way than I am you know I'm saying I'm perception enough image and at time I embraced it because it was like I didn't want to change a perception of me I just got to embrace it and become because
I become I become I fear and I want to fear anything so anytime you fear something you just want to become you're gonna get over your fears so I embraced the people with that person that you might think I am because I feel like that's was just gonna carry me on I'm like Danis crazy way to think but it just like door so I was like real sisters and I am down time like you got two sisters at the same time you got these girls girls girls girls girls anybody down become their image by guys
that's what you love about me if I say I'm in love know like I hear you are you in love right now no okay no no it's just like you gotta grab it say you got a if you do you got to do it and they gotta understand this real mm-hmm you did say though that you sacrificed true love to live the lifestyle that you could never thought you could imagine do you think that one day you will be able to fall in love though one day one day it's just so hard right now with
me and my my career my life my career now is like everyone have a motive you know I can pick a girl I want it I could pick a regular girl and be like I wanna be with her she already got a motive because I always like me reaching going back I go back a step you might be going starting your career my career I already started so now everything that you do in your life automatically becomes I have to take care of it I gotta do this I gotta do this so it's just like
do I want that for my life you know I mean or do I just want to take care of me and just say whatever I do is whatever I do you know I'm saying because anybody that I be with I'm have to do the same but then even if you date someone that has such a high profile in itself the world is so involved in that relationship you know like a high profile I wouldn't even I want even be interested in and it's the came to me yeah they can't send me then it's cool but
I don't just go and look for it like oh that's a girl I like I'm gonna go try to see what part you like I'm not chasing because I understand when I want something real I want this fake like all the time we have fears when we post pictures yeah yeah we happy is when people come in and like when the cameras off y'all mad at each other take it from a man that's extremely happily married extremely but take take this advice don't do it don't do I'm extremely happily married yeah I gotta live through
you you know I'm living life but you live in the best life yeah I'm living the best life now this is my life this is my only life this man I come from nothing I'm enjoying this yeah as you should man continue to throw your dick a party to you know Xena I got a stop you gotta stop don't you gotta start me I got my I got a retire you how come because like I say every girl every girl be having that different motive meiotic is key you know I'm saying every girl have different
Moto's man you like it's crazy yeah you're right to be tricked into something you hurt your face yeah man to have to cry when you when you were you in a just caught up in the lights the cameras in you probably look high yeah he wants someone who is like I want you to like me because I'm funny or because I'm like sweet or it's like I already look good but I really don't even care about that at this time yeah she doing I just like I just like but I like you know I'm saying
and at the time it was my bad oh man you just had another child congratulations do you see yeah but I'm talk about today I'm looking at his number six just see I heard that so you got you a little Brady Bunch damn brother oh girl oh shoot me do girl bliss is Hendricks the last or you think I got a I gotta have more kids what else no it's totally different when we raise them babies huh I got one girl why do you think you you would want more me and my boys we like
best friends like yeah just watching you if I put 7 seconds on the clock could you name all your kids in 7 seconds yeah but you know what I come from a family of 7 you don't have seen and we don't have families like that inside you know what I'm saying like like and it seems like you enjoy you enjoy your kids yeah I enjoy my kids I'm building my legacy like our hustle for my last name you gotta understand when you have a girl to give away your last name my my son's I'm just
thinking about man we got our last name is gonna be huge yeah when I like fifty years sixty years from now you're gonna speak of me you gonna speak of my legacy and that's what you do what this is what I work for why would you work have all this and have all this assistance to leave with one kid and then something happened then you just is no more young you gotta keep making hit records though I mean I got it that's why I have so much music right and so many businesses and so much
going on for myself it's just building my foundation up building my legacy up but also building my kids up remaining they keep they keep keep everything going future is your oldest my oldest son 16 ok so he know like right he know pops like yeah my oldest son 16 I had him when I was 17 okay so but he know like he showed the power of his dad yeah he'd know the power but he like he understand that you got to make your own way like you 16 you still gotta make our A's and B's
and snare and I didn't go to school I hate but I still want you to go to school yes and like that's just it is what it is like I was in the street so how much of the Benny's yeah I don't want you to like I didn't you didn't have to you don't have to you came up spoil you get everything you won't like you know I'm saying you imma buy your car bought my first car so it just like you live in a different lifestyle but you still gotta understand it so much that
you got to carry on like I built this up you got to make sure you prepare for it so I'm trying to prepare you for it if you're not prepared didn't just go to the next kid there's no favoritism is all about aids and B's schoolwork and just to make sure you can keep this legacy going what if he wants to go into the music and show any of your kids they wanna go in the music industry he probably had to do it on it he probably had to do it on his own and me
take him serious for me to take him serious would you be offended if they like didn't if they wanted to fully distance themselves with from you and like or change their name or not I don't know just like change anything like so just so that people don't put that on them the shadow like we see LeBron I love my kids and they name but don't change but they'll I don't feel like my kids you got to understand my kids carrots they're not going to change their name no yeah here you already named yeah where did
you get the name future from just me being around older cats and they were just calling me future lotto you the future you the future I was the youngest did you ever have any other kind of name before we do settle on future now you know I grew up as meat like everybody from my neighborhood oh yeah everyone have a nickname right you're not from the hood of your have a name future when it comes to trap who is right now no so you say yeah now mmm-hmm wow I don't know what you mean by
who to go now who is the go and trap right now what you mean from what the music our money music oh music man I give it to the baby no baby will you consider yourself up there yeah of course my already did what I did right now a them dues you know I'm sayin aid again they posed to be David Nix do to get the new deals the new money that new it is to do that like whatever they're coming towards them you know I'm saying pose behind a new R&B chick the new baddest
chick in the game to do I don't get all that face what they doing dropping jewels like like ain't nothing like a you get caught up in chasing a higher I'm not chasing the same how they chase what will they have to do to keep the long to have the longevity that you've had let you continue to stay focused and stay in the studio stay working stay grounded stay humble keep making money and stack it high as you can stack it no matter what anyone around you say is there a next plan for you man
the next plan is just managers continue to uh my next player religious to make business deals outside music yeah yeah that that that's that uh in your sleep money to do you wear the same thing twice I give it away to my neighborhood every you know life everybody from my hood you go to my hood you're gonna see Balenciaga goes on everybody gonna see Gucci on everybody whatever name-brand designers you gonna see it on everyone in my neighborhood how important is the look to you don't know him because when we look at you I know
that that's future it always been a look for me even when I stand on the block on fresh go here now he's go to school when I was a first what do you hear the most when people see you in person they meet you for the first time when you thought about that yeah when you came in I was like man how tall are you could always you're sure yeah yeah yeah like not me yeah not me no get in here future thank you for coming to you today hanging out with us man you gotta
come and hang out with us again you notice Han let's not make it another 10 years sure all right what you doing tomorrow tomorrow I gotta take a flight I'm going to dinner all right birds are done virtually having a dinner all right well yeah just stop by tomorrow morning before you get on the plane man about whites please I'm having a permit tonight I know but a documentary I leave it dr. mundo I'm heading personally invite me leave it you got a car okay I beat the hole doesn't sound as precious now everyone be
having their own agenda so it's cool if you can't show up all right thank you anyway all right there it is man future in the neighborhood big boy hey boy [Music]
