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- Master P Talks Rap Feuds, Conscious Parenting, Owning Black Superheroes
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- In this episode of “Allison Interviews,” Master P talks about his days being the opening act for the late Tupac Shakur early in his music career, how owning a Black superhero film franchise is on his bucket list, dangerous rap feuds, and the feud between Kanye West and Drake, fathering and raising 9 kids, following in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie footsteps ala “Kindergarten Cop,” and his upcoming film, #Unknown,” dropping exclusively on Amazon Prime October 1st.
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Master P Talks Rap Feuds, Conscious Parenting, Owning Black Superheroes
- Life Events
- God
- Kids and Family
- Been Able to be Blessed
- Family Man
- 9 kids altogether
- Hobbies
- Noes
- I don’t Drink
- Nor Smoke
- Noes
- Turning Events
- Kids
- More to live for
- Want to be around and be around them
- Grandfather
- Mind your business, and stay out of other people’s business
- Kids
- Mind Set
- Best of
- Having Nothing
- Growing up knowing don’t have nothing
- But, then what you have, you have to make the best of it
- Pandemic
- Especially, right now, living through this pandemic
- Having Life
- You never know when is the last time you are going to see someone
- Blessing
- Knowing every day is a blessing
- It pushes me
- It motivates me
- Negative People
- I know I should not be around negative people
- Even in poverty, I realize if I am going to be successful, I had to cut the negative people off around me
- They are holding me back
- The hate ended up being more important than the positive
- The envy
- Envying other people
- Celebrate People
- I started celebrating people
- When I was living in poverty
- I started being happy for people who were doing good
- When I see people that have a nice car, nice house, I started being happy for them
- Blessings
- Blessings started coming to you
- Knowing that you can be happy for other people success
- When angry and jealous
- When you start being envious and jealous, you are never going to get anywhere
- Because you are putting your energy and time into negative things
- I tell people all the time, everybody wants to get into the bag
- You have no time to get into the bag when you are being envious
- Pride
- Pride took the devil out of heaven
- And, the devil took one-third of the Angels with him
- We have to get out of that pride
- And, say let me invest my time into something positive
- Invest
- Invest time in positive
- Invest that time into me being positive
- Best of
- Survival
- Mind your business, and stay out of other people’s business
- Have Life
- Time Management
- Everybody has 24 hours, make it count
- Celebrate People
- Basketball
- You did not start out in music, you started out doing something else
- Started out in basketball, was music your “Plan B”
- Basketball Injury in College
- You may think you are going in one direction, but God will get you in another direction
- You may take it as bad and be sad about it
- When I got hurt playing basketball in college, I felt like I had failed everybody in my family
- “I was supposed to go to the Pros and help everybody in my family”
- I thought to myself “I am on my way, I am going to take care of everybody in my family”
- “I was supposed to get them out of the ghetto”
- I tell everybody “Let your failures take you to the next level“
- “Let your failures take you to being great”
- I used that failure
- Grandfather
- After my injury, my grandfather pulled me aside
- Grandpa said “Look Son, don’t sit around and keep worrying about what had happened, go make something else happen“
- I had to go find something else
- God opened up a bigger door
- Most of the friends that I was playing with at the time that ended up making the NBA did not play long enough in the league to match the money I ended up making
- College
- What I was able to do was unheard of
- By me going to college and educating myself
- I could have still been in music, but I don’t think my mindset would be what it is today
- Digging Heels In
- Allison
- So many people if they think things are going to go one way, and it doesn’t, they dig their heels in
- They say this is what I said I was going to do when I was 18
- They do not realize that the universe is trying to take them in a different direction
- It does not mean failure
- Master P
- It is not a loss
- It is a lesson
- Sometimes God will put you on a different trail
- Don’t be afraid to take the journey
- That is what I did, I said let me take this journey and see how far I can take this
- Allison
- Record Label
- Allison
- Everybody that I asked about you said the same thing
- They said you were never owned by a record label
- They said you owned your owned music
- That is the Number 1 thing they said about you
- was that part of the plan too or was that because you were never signed to a record label
- Master P
- GrandPas was in the war
- Grandpa did his time in the military
- when he came home, they were supposed to give him money to build a house
- He was supposed to have been given $10,000
- Unfortunately, he never got it
- I knew
- I had to be independent
- If I was going to build something for my family
- Grandfather
- Grandfather instilled in him, I was not going to make it in their system
- He said go build your own system
- Own my own master
- Put my people in
- Start your own business
- You are not going to make it in their system
- We have to build our own
- Stuck
- That just stuck with me
- Allison
- Household – Size of the family unit
- House full of people
- I cannot make it on a paycheck
- I live in an apartment with 16 people
- In a three-bedroom apartment
- I had so many people
- So many mouths to feed
- I realize I can not do it with a regular paycheck
- I had to own this
- Owning
- When you look at African Americans and Latinos we do not own anything
- That was my mindset, to change that narrative
- I wanted
- to own my own masters
- place people I know in jobs
- to build executives
- I did not want to go into a company and say I want a job
- I wanted to build business relationships
- Money, Knowledge, and Information
- My education helped me define that goal
- We search and Seek for money, but we do not pray, search and seek for information
- K knowledge and Information
- It is searching for information that will get us to our destiny
- Praying
- Allison
- I pray with my son every night
- We don’t ask God for things
- Because “Thank You” is the most powerful prayer
- Allison
- Blessing Others
- ServantHood
- People say to me what is your my important job
- well my most important job is being a servant
- I believe in being a servant
- Served
- Being able to serve my community
- being able to serve Underprivilege kids
- Being able to serve the elderly
- Being able to educate the next generation
- I think that is my most important job
- ServantHood
- Lucky
- Your kids are lucky to have you
- And, I am lucky to have them too
- Tupac Shakur
- Allison
- You were opening for Tupac Shakur at the beginning of your musical act
- What was that like?
- Master P
- It was crazy
- Because everybody wanted to see Tupac they did not care about me
- One Fan
- One fan was going crazy for me in the audience
- I said I am going to turn that one fan into a million
- 100 Million records
- To be able to sell a hundred million records is just incredible
- Allison
- Working Hard
- knowing if you believe
- Southern slur
- I had a southern slur
- I outworked those guys
- I stayed in the studio
- Tupac Shakur
- In the end, Tupac started liking my music
- Rap Today and Crossing the Lines
- Worldly Ills
- I don’t think people realize they have all these fans
- Some of the fans might be a little crazy
- There is a lot of selfish people in the world
- It is a lot of snakes in the world
- Young Artists
- There are many young artists losing their lives
- we got to take this thing as a blessing
- To myself
- I am just saying this to myself, we have to have people giving us better advice
- You got to hang around better people
- Critic
- You got to be your own critic
- You got to do what is right
- You got to hold yourself accountable
- Self Accountable
- You got to look at what you say
- You got to look what at you do
- And, you wouldn’t want other people doing you the same way
- You wouldn’t want that to be happening to you and your family
- Other things
- I just think that there are too much other things going on in the world than for us to be focused on this negativity
- when everybody is making money, we should be happy right now
- Rat & Snakes
- Me personally, I will rather sit and eat cheese with a rat than be in a nice restaurant and drink champagne with a snake
- That is what a lot of us are doing, we are sharing our wealth with the wrong people
- Those people are going to come back and bite you because you can not see it
- Appreciate
- We have to start appreciating what we got
- If you get to that level of the game
- why lose what you have, once you get killed or go to jail, there is no turning back
- Worldly Ills
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