00:00âIn Nellyville's old folks home searching
tip drills."
00:03I hope he's saying he's watching TV, looking
for tip drills as opposed to being in an old
00:09folks home looking for tip drills, because
that's a little out there.
00:15It's your man Nelly, and I'm about to break
down these lyrics on âBetween the Lines.'
00:21Anytime anybody shows you appreciation
00:24you should
always take that as a blessing.
00:28I mean, as a fellow artist, I do it.
00:32In Hot in Herre, I had a reference to Jason
Kidd.
00:35I said, "I'm just kidding like Jason."
00:38I remember my first time bumping into J. Kidd,
and I think he made some type of remark also,
00:43like he finally made it, something.
00:45The guy's a 10-time all star, one of the greatest
point guards to ever play the game.
00:51And here he is telling this little kid from
St. Louis, yo, I finally made it.
00:56I knew he was joking, but it felt great as
hell.
01:00"Excuse Me Miss" Jay-Z
01:02"Who else you gonâ run with?
01:04The truth is us, only dudes moving units,
Em, Pimp Juice, and us."
01:09Probably one of my best shout outs that I've
ever had.
01:14Shout out to the homie Hov.
01:16At the time I think, I mean, you basically
statinâ in the truth that at this time,
01:21the three people that was probably at the
top of the sales, the album sales at the time
01:26was me, him, and Em.
01:28And it pretty much explains itself.
01:30And if you know anything about Jay, he kind
of gets straight to it.
01:34Well, for all those who don't know, the reference
of Pimp Juice comes from the 2002 album Nellyville.
01:41And that's what a lot of people referenced
me as at that time, and still to this day.
01:46A lot of people call me Pimp Juice, and Hov
was one of those.
01:50The late great Pimp
C used to call me Pimp Juice and Nellyville
01:53At that time, if you were pretty cool with
me, you kind of referenced me by Pimp Juice.
01:57âProblemâ - Young Thug
02:00"Getting money, of course, blat!
02:02Cooking white like the Porsches, shout out
to Nelly Air Forces."
02:07I'm a fan of Thug's.
02:08I think Thug is dope.
02:10I think Thug brings a definite energy to the
game that you can see a lot of youngsters
02:21Obviously we did not invent Air Force Ones,
and we weren't the first ones wearing Air
02:27But it's kind of like Michael Jordan jumping
from the free throw line, right?
02:31Michael Jordan wasn't the first one to jump
from the free throw line in a dunk contest.
02:35But he made it look the best.
02:37And at that time, the proof was in the numbers.
02:40When we did it, Air Force Ones went from basically
$59.99 to $100 in a year.
02:47The same year that we put our song out, the
same year that they went 700 times percent
02:54of selling this shoe.
02:56Even though I made majority of Country Grammar,
wrote it here in St. Louis, I recorded it
03:02in New York, and I was in New York every day.
03:05I was in Harlem almost every day.
03:07I used to go up to Penalty Records.
03:10They didn't put me on Air Force Ones because
I was already wearing them, but the white
03:15ones we weren't wearing like that.
03:18Now, what happened was I was in New York and
I ran out of Reeboks and I couldn't find anything,
03:22and my man Cardi and Suga J and them was like,
"Yo, get you some Ones."
03:26I was like, "Yeah, but I don't really dig
the white ones like that.
03:30They look like medical shoes."
03:31You know what I'm saying?
03:32Because the only time we would see them would
be in the hospital.
03:38But I was like, "You know what?
03:41And we started rocking them and things like
that.
03:43And the whole reason we was buying two pair
because they were so cheap.
03:47They were just so cheap.
03:48We was just like, "Yo, give me two of them
then."
03:50âSplatterâ - Tyler, the Creator.
03:52âDope enough to snort crack and sit the
fuck still in Nellyville's old folk's home
03:58searching tip drills.
04:01Very, very talented brother.
04:04What he's saying, I think he's saying he's
chilling.
04:08I think he says he's chilling in a crib that's
maybe not the newest.
04:13I hope he's saying he's watching TV, looking
at tip drill as opposed to being in an old
04:19folk's home looking for tip drills, because
that's a little out there.
04:24But then again, it is T, so you know?
04:28Because the whole thing of going in with âTip
Drillâ is the dopest video countdown that
04:34would come on, came on at like 1:00 in the
morning.
04:39And it was âBET Uncut.â
04:40I mean, I didn't care who you was.
04:42You watched âBET Uncut.â
04:43If you was the cat in the hood, all the way
to me, 50, Snoop Dogg, whoever you was, you
04:51We was just like, "Okay, we're going to do
one to put on here.
04:55We shot it at my man Ray Buchanan's house.
04:57He used to play cornerback for the Falcons
at the time.
05:02And before you know it, all hell broke loose.
05:06The outtakes were not made for TV, and I don't
think they're ever going to come out because
05:10a lot of these people have families now.
05:12âHell's Kitchen,â my homie J. Cole,
05:15âMy next album flop, then I'm goinâ pop
like Nelly.â
05:19Basically, he's letting you know if it don't
hit over here, I'm going to go over here and
05:23make it happen, which is definitely a Nelly
philosophy.
05:29I just like having number ones.
05:31I don't really care where the number ones
sit, on what chart it sits on, who, what,
05:35when, where, any of that.
05:36My goal was to be number one.
05:38Obviously, I am hip-hop.
05:40I live it, I eat it, I breathe it.
05:42But there's no reason that a hip-hop artist
cannot top all of the charts. and I get what
05:49This is like, "Yo, if my next album don't
work here, I'm going to get it over here,"
05:53and that's just a hustler's mentality.
05:55âWho Killed Hip-Hopâ - Joe Budden.
05:58"And I ain't believe my ears when niggas try
to tell me that KRS-One had a rap beef with
06:05I guess this is one that could be interpreted
many ways.
06:07I would feel the same way as Joe.
06:09Like, why is KRS-One having beef with me?
06:12And I'm a KRS-One fan.
06:14âLove's Gonna Get'chaâ is one of my best
songs, and what I didn't understand when KRS
06:21was coming at me, my thing was he called me
commercial.
06:28But he had the commercial.
06:31I didn't have a Sprite commercial.
06:32I didn't understand that, I was just like,
"Yo, isn't he the one with the commercial?â
06:37I kind of took it as a challenge, but I wanted
to also let him know like, "Yo, I ain't scared
06:44of you." You know what I mean?
06:46I definitely respect you, I definitely love
you and I definitely know you are a GOAT.
06:50And that was just my thing.
06:51It's like, "Yo, homes, I'm from the Lou and
I don't know what to tell you, but we don't
06:58We just don't go away."
07:00You know what I'm saying?
07:01Youâll walk over, but youâre limping back,
definitely.
07:04I'm just going to blatantly say it, the OG
hurt my feelings, man.
07:10âThe Bridge Is Over?â
07:11You know what I mean?
07:12What are we talking about right here?
07:16"Shorty had them Apple Bottom jeans, boots
with the fur.
07:20The whole club was looking at her."
07:22Hey, Apple Bottoms was through the roof already, but he put us back on the ceiling.
07:29He's like a brother to me.
07:31I enjoy creating with Pain.
07:33He is absolutely one of the most underrated
talents in music, period.
07:39If you ever get a chance to be in the studio
with Pain, see him work, see his creativity.
07:45If you're a writer, like I'm a writer, so
to see other writers, you're like, "Yo."
07:52"Startender,â A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.
07:55âI'm number one like Nelly, and my crib
all white like Belly."
08:00Crib, all white like âBelly,â I mean,
if you've seen âBelly,â you know what
08:04When you have artists mentioning you now and
maybe your records came out when they were
08:09kids, because it was the same thing for me
as when I shouted out Too Short, in âBorn
08:14to Mack like Todd Shaw.â
08:17You know what I mean?
08:18âBorn to Mackâ came out, what?
08:21Way, way earlier than âCountry Grammar,â
and I think it's when you grow up, I think
08:27that influences a lot of artists when they
start sending shouts out.
08:30It's what they remember growing up, and what
has the type of influence on them.
08:34âPoor Lil Rich,â - 50 Cent.
08:36"Fresh up out the slammer, I ain't no fucking bammer, I'm from New York, whoadie, but I know
08:44The Country Grammar is basically all about
the breakdown of the pronoun, more so.
08:52It's the who, what, when and the where.
08:56You know what I mean?
08:57So, who? Who you talking about?
09:00What? Me? You know what I mean?
09:02It's the where. Over there, it's the when, when are you talking about? Right now.
09:07You know what I mean?
09:08With âCountry Grammarâ being 20 years
later, it's a lot of great, lot of good and
09:14just a smidgen of damn.
09:16We have a virtual show that we're about ready
to come out with.
09:20I'd call it a 20th anniversary virtual jam
session.
09:24The great is so far outweighing everything
because you could have never imagined yourself,
09:30not only being able to be in the game 20 years,
but to have the type of impact that you were
09:36able to have because when you're not from
Cali, you don't have the palm trees and the
09:40beaches, or you're not from New York where
you don't have the city lights and the bright
09:45lights, you can kind of feel like you're not
relevant sometimes.
09:50For us to do that, man, it just meant a lot.
09:55To be mentioned in anything right now is a
blessing.
10:00You know what I'm saying?
10:01At any time other artists that you appreciate,
and that you love, that you have respect for,
10:05get a chance to mention you, I think that's
something that you wish for, and you should
10:12I try to give as many blessings back as I
can, too.
10:16Yeah, I get lost out here sometimes.
10:18It's crazy, I was just at home for three months.
10:23So it's amazing how everything comes back
once you get around people and everything.
10:26And when I'm out here in LA, I have to kind
of take it out because people don't fucking
10:30understand me half the time I'm talking at
the gas station.
