MT: A lot of stuff is happening in hip-hop. I've noticed you're very close with Meek Mill, because you posted his album on there on Instagram. Do you ever give these artists advice on how to go about things? Also what's your take on ghostwriters?
BB: You know I love you for that, right? And I hope that whatever I say, gets published. Or hit the mainstream, because I love Donald Trump. I don't like some of his views, but I love him. The person that can say what he says because the world has become so PC - politically correct. Meek is my brother. Ghostwriters, or ghostwriting, at the end of the day what is it all about? It's about the music. It doesn't take, at the end of the day, your boss man tells you I don't care what it takes for you to get it done as long as you get it done. Right? When we were listen to a great body of work, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Big Sean, Future, if it's a great body of work it's a great body of work. Some are fortunate to create a great body of work in its entirety, and some of those are great enough to bring other ideas from other people...
As long as you give people the credit, like I give God the credit God is my ghostwriter. But when I start saying that I did it, I did it, I did it, and take all the credit then that's not correct. But I get what Meek meant. I don't agree with it, because that was a form of snitching, and that's my brother. So if Meek can tell me that he's never had any help on creating a body of work, then he's one of the few that can create a body of work by himself. If Drake has ghostwriters, so what? By the time he put it out, the masses love it.
And the bigger problem I have with the Meek and Drake situation is, it's the people around him. I ain't even going to say yes men, I'm just going to say people who stand on certain principles. In this game of entertainment, things shift and move so fast that you don't start...you stand on real principles but when you're not around them, when you move to different atmospheres, then we kind of get...everybody wants to be No. 1. Everybody wants what they can't have. So it should have been a number of things, I shouldn't even speculate why all of a sudden it became an issue.
So, bottom line what I feel about the Meek and Drake thing is: I hate it because there's going to be a loser. And the fact that me and Meek - because me and Drake, we're cool. I met Drake, I've given Drake - that's why I love you. Because you said, when you're around these artists do I give them my personal [opinion]. Every artist. If and when they win the Bay Bay, it's on a plateau to their lives.
You're from the streets and you know the no snitching rule and that you don't pull the cover from up over. Because if you do it to somebody, somebody's going to do it to you. And we've got to stop that, we've got to stop being motivated to expose people so quickly. People feeding their families, people feeding themselves. So that's the only part of it I didn't like.
MT: Do you think it's like a popularity thing between them two?
BB: It's definitely become a popularity thing. You mean exposing people? Let me tell you something, Meek is really the winner. Although Drake didn't tweet the album out, look how much he gained. If he put out an album right now, people are going to do something to it. I don't care if they go buy it, bootleg it, stream it, Meek has the attention. Until now, Meek has everything that he had at first and he has a percentage of...he's winning that category. But at the end of the day, how many fight Floyd Mayweather just for the check? They don't fight to win, they fight for the check. Number two ain't all that bad.