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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
