00:00 they never said William was easy some
00:04 people can't handle success I can
00:09 dj khaled welcome my brother my brother
00:12 everything good everything is great I
00:14 felt like this was appropriate because I
00:15 look at your snapchat and I see how you
00:19 beautiful day every chance I get just
00:21 what I love doing watering my plant
00:23 that's more wins more blessing
00:25 I'm forward ly odd what I want to do
00:29 here today is tell the evolution of the
00:32 eunuch Ali I'm very interested in the
00:34 first moment that inspired you to be a
00:36 DZ when it clicked and said I was buying
00:40 vinyl without being a DJ from Michael
00:43 Jackson to Sam Cooke to Isley Brothers
00:46 to Peter Piper or I would have the
00:49 cassette tapes and I would even try to
00:51 like DJ on tapes and you know everybody
00:54 knew that you come to me when they
00:56 needed a song you know it all happened
00:58 you're saying this turntable is your mic
01:01 drum machine when to make beats make a
01:04 long story short I went back to New
01:05 Orleans because my family was over there
01:07 ice needed some help to get back on my
01:09 feet I worked at a record store called
01:10 Odyssey records I blocked turntables in
01:13 I used to DJ at the record store and
01:15 sell tapes and CDs something very
01:17 special hip-hop history happen in
01:20 Odyssey records what's so crazy about
01:22 the whole Odyssey record thing was
01:23 Birdman and slim they used to come to
01:26 the record store and like an old
01:28 Mercedes and summons like back in the
01:30 day they would come drop off takes the
01:33 minute Birdman would leave and slim lead
01:35 like an hour later the tapes to be
01:37 completely sold out it was amazing
01:39 because all the phone calls record
01:40 companies would call the record store to
01:42 say is this really happening and I pick
01:44 up the phone like yeah it's really
01:45 happening at the same time I was
01:47 networking like I got to see beginning
01:49 of cash money as a fan that somebody
01:52 working behind a record counter I even
01:55 got to see master P ice to work with his
01:58 producers I think it was his grandma's
02:00 house and I used to let me use a studio
02:02 I was making beats of some local rappers
02:04 so I would save my money up in the
02:06 record store I moved back to Florida to
02:08 fulfill my career in my dream Miami's my
02:11 by me what I read you know is this when
02:16 you met on two guys by the name of own
02:18 Andre Christopher Lyon Marcello
02:20 darlings I know I should take the
02:26 tri-rail in Miami and Carrie literally
02:28 25 crates they finally gave me an
02:30 opportunity to play and I played after
02:33 cooling Dre show so I'm walking in the
02:35 corn great show by the shine off and I'm
02:37 bothering set my stuff up at that time
02:39 nobody would bring an MPC to DJ right I
02:41 brought it because I have my sound
02:43 effects in there my artist drops in
02:45 there I was like yo my name is Kayla
02:46 boom boom buddy come on
02:47 they showed me love matter of fact I
02:49 never forget I had like a little kin
02:50 vinyl that was a promo and I showed it
02:52 to my oh you got that I got you know I
02:53 got you know DJ's talk that
02:55 so y'all bonding over every song and
02:56 reviving you know when they left I got
02:58 their timeslot and when it came back
03:00 nine months later you know dj khaled the
03:03 hottest thing in the streets then we're
03:06 popping on being DJing and making beats
03:09 I started turning into a full producer
03:12 so I was called beat novocaine he
03:14 novocaine you ain't got to tell me my
03:16 novocaine go sugar it a lot of Fat Joe a
03:19 lot of her squad I would be no bad
03:21 Ludacris and then this goes on Claude
03:27 you can find him on the radio in music
03:29 videos and in the club with DJ calyx not
03:31 satisfied until he's got you nodding
03:33 your head as it puts it down on the
03:34 turntable but ten years ago 2006 you
03:36 take your career in a new direction and
03:38 you drop your debut album listen listen
03:43 you see that you'd be nine albums deep
03:46 for a DJ to have nine albums in a
03:48 10-year career at that time it was
03:51 telling me no DJ's will support another
03:53 DJ they won't play DJ records on radio
03:55 and guess what it probably was right
03:57 because it was hard but I couldn't I
04:00 couldn't listen to that it's kind of
04:01 hard to ignore records like holla at me
04:04 baby you got a right for his be [Â __Â ]
04:06 big record all I do is win come on when
04:11 we take it over I'm so hood brown baby
04:13 back I wish you would for free I got the
04:16 keys I got I got nine albums now we
04:19 talking about career evolution how do
04:21 you approach this album differently you
04:23 remember where you were with listen the
04:25 album listen the album and a major kid
04:27 like you definitely evolved like you've
04:30 gotten better you improved this is my
04:31 first number one album I went all out so
04:34 talk to me about I got the keys right
04:38 with this record I got the keys I went
04:41 to go see hole I was like man I want to
04:43 play you something I said I know you
04:45 ain't got no speakers here come I see
04:47 jay-z hain't got no speakers in his
04:49 office he's like no no I got speakers
04:51 and he had some big speakers to make
04:55 sure come on and then rapes on trade
04:57 clubs are seeing bobbing his head like
05:01 this and then I got the keys so you know
05:04 I'm trying to play it off and be all
05:05 smooth about so I'm like peeping my eyes
05:07 yeah what are you doing and I seen him
05:10 hearing what future saying on the hook
05:11 the instrumental part come on and I hear
05:14 him like mumbling he starts to mumble
05:16 right away he's like man leave that for
05:18 me the next day I wake up what hole was
05:21 like you ready I'm thinking I'm getting
05:25 the problem is start rapping another
05:28 verse got a battery loads like [Â __Â ]
05:30 charges under the courtroom I said I
05:32 said oh I see what I see what this is
05:36 the reason why I held it because I said
05:38 if I would let it go soon I would never
05:41 got the video to lost the moment I know
05:43 in his head is like counting that this
05:44 [Â __Â ] go yet calve it up some
05:48 for free you say you said you had the
05:50 record since January but Drake obviously
05:53 was busy with views and there was a big
05:55 event when you finally got the Drake
05:56 vocals on snapchat and you went crazy
05:58 there was a celebration Felix you the
06:00 Drake vocals come in yet so I'm shooting
06:03 Drake Texas me with the second verse
06:06 I even snapped and said I think I said
06:09 the drug vocals came in and that's the
06:11 lion and the lion when I had my first
06:14 two singles was traking jay-z and future
06:16 it's unbelievable who came up with the
06:19 title nas album done me amazing title
06:23 I was nervous that's like somebody
06:24 saying Kyle is out and done title and
06:27 not tell me but you know when he sent me
06:29 the verses and you know what the rule on
06:32 live sample are like man only people
06:35 like a rap on this is is the biggest
06:37 well you got to be like the top five
06:38 ever scenes period I was like boom he
06:41 showed me the record finally de chambre
06:43 de Bonita mami meter he was whipping it
06:45 when the second verse come in still
06:48 underestimated heavy mistake a lesson
06:50 mercury retrograde and then boom he said
06:53 I put my Alamo whole something something
06:55 something so I got you Kelly called me
06:57 when I was an album oh so I put the
07:00 album on hold for major key Callie
07:02 called me while I was an album oh so I
07:04 put it on hold when I heard that I was
07:06 in a back of a rose Royce with stars in
07:08 the room if you think they want you to
07:10 have a four-door with stars in the who
07:12 couldn't believe it when I heard that
07:14 line I was like like this is all behind
07:17 the scenes nobody know and I know I
07:19 can't sleep that night
07:21 because this is unbelievable so I was
07:25 like you know I'm gonna call this NAS
07:27 albums done and the way I wanted to do
07:30 it was I wanted when the tracklist that
07:32 came out I wanted people to see it
07:34 without hearing the whole song and it
07:37 says nas I'll be done they're gonna like
07:39 what the [Â __Â ] is that
07:43 holy key features Big Sean Kendrick
07:46 Lamar and then Betty right
07:48 most people sample petty right we
07:51 actually went to get her to perform I
07:54 for 32 in the morning I need you in the
07:56 studio and I need you in the studio
07:58 now she's like - mother - like how do
08:03 you text me 4:30 in the morning I like I
08:05 gotta do what I had to
08:07 I always knew I wanted Kendrick on it I
08:12 was in LA at the basketball games and I
08:14 sat beside Kendrick and we had the game
08:16 I'm like yo Kendrick I got this racquet
08:19 he trying to watch the game exactly we
08:23 are you English I go I love what you're
08:24 doing right now send it through so i'ma
08:27 tell you the true story I ain't sending
08:28 record for like three months I just was
08:31 stressed out because I wanted to make
08:33 sure the right record Kendra don't do
08:36 too many features and if he agrees to do
08:38 a feature that means he want to do it so
08:41 I finally woke up I'm like you know what
08:42 it's the record and I know it's the
08:44 record boom I sent it to him you know
08:46 schedule is busy but you say you got me
08:48 I had like a week left you try my album
08:51 and I hit him with a cloth talk I text
08:54 him with some so much cloth let me
08:57 inspire my brother how do you inspire
08:58 telling your mother I said I just got
09:01 done watching you jumping on stage
09:02 beside Beyonce rapping in the water
09:05 two days later he sent me the first
09:07 everything had touched me just in the
09:09 greeting so I hit Kendrick Matt is so
09:11 far over so remember Big Sean Kenneth
09:14 they're going all there's no hook I
09:16 called Betty Ryan I gave her my ideas
09:17 and she loved it in she did the whole
09:20 padam don't ever play yourself letters
09:23 so we have fabulous we have Jadakiss we
09:25 have Fat Joe we have Busta Rhymes all
09:27 Italians and we have this newcomer Kent
09:31 seen a lot of single shot on the doctors
09:33 who set these guys up because I said I
09:35 said nobody up he can produce he can
09:39 sing he can vibe he can do wave he went
09:43 back he was trending topic on Twitter
09:45 for like three four days straight they
09:47 saying he got one of the best verses of
09:49 album never play yourself don't ever
09:51 play yourself don't ever play yourself
09:53 or ever play yourself congratulations
09:55 you played yourself Father forgive me
09:58 will Meghan Trainor
09:59 you're not rapping but I feel like this
10:01 might be one of the more personal songs
10:02 we got you gotta remember even if not
10:04 rapping it's my vibe I make my albums
10:08 around the title at that moment and if
10:11 you notice this whole album major key
10:12 it's a lot of cloth talks special cloth
10:14 the birds go and play yourself the keys
10:17 all my you're saying because where I get
10:19 with the artist I get with them and I
10:21 put them in my world and they and and we
10:23 mix our worlds together with their
10:25 talent in my talent my greatness in
10:30 I'm on one of my biggest records thank
10:33 you for making it number one well
10:34 Caliban I just want to thank you man I
10:37 always say the most to valuable things
10:38 we have with people is time and energy
10:40 and you're giving us both men a big
10:42 gracious man so I just appreciate you
10:44 coming the civil genius to talk about
10:45 this major key now we do it my brother
10:48 yeah man since we're in Brooklyn Botanic
10:49 Gardens man I see your appreciation foot
10:52 foot for the plants in your backyard I
10:54 just wanted to bring you and share some
10:56 of this knowledge of this plant life we
10:59 got somebody who's gonna walk us around
11:02 I like that that's a go he's amazing Rob
11:07 where we at Brooklyn Botanic Garden well
11:09 we are broken botanic garden okay I like
11:13 what's this called that's a maidenhair
11:15 fern over here we got even more ferns
11:18 okay push your favorite favorite I don't
11:21 have a favorite I love
11:22 like I love all clans I like matter what
11:25 their I love our do plants there they
11:29 all need this back kick you when you
11:39 down but they want to kick it with you
11:42 when you all stop stay focus
