How did the 'Weatherman' collaboration with Kodak Black come about? We knew hustling together could be something special. It's about aligning yourself with the right hustlers and I feel like, from both of our perspectives, we aligned ourselves with the right hustlers. The talk started about hustlers and respecting each other's hustle and music. He's a businessman first and I think he respects my hustle. I most definitely respect Jay Z hustle and everything he built. Was that in any way influenced by the success of The Art of Hustle or having your first number one song this year? You recently partnered with Roc Nation for management. But on this project, we only had nine days so you had to get it right the first time. I recorded The Art of Hustle album three times because I had the time to do it.

I'm a perfectionist so i can overthink it. But it's still the same feel to it putting everybody in the same house, all the energy, and producers, and my homies. I just wanted to challenge myself to do the project in nine days and do it from inside of a house, even though it was a mansion and not the houses we grew up in and recorded at. How did that time constraint influence your creativity? You had a deadline to finish the tape in nine days. So that was the creation of it-create my own series that just as popular and creates the same demand so i could release my music whenever I felt like it. I never wanted to be waiting on somebody else's brand to do my tape. All the DJs that had strong brands of doing mixtapes. Yo Gotti: You know mixtapes back then was the thing to do so I was looking at the brands like Gangsta Grillz and Southern Smoke at the time. What were you trying to accomplish that you couldn't with an album? Noisey: When you first started the Cocaine Muzik series, you'd already had successful albums.

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