And then it opened back up, I started going back outside and I changed what it was gonna be. Like I started recording during the pandemic and I was gonna put out one thing.

Honestly it changed a couple different times. you dropped 'Untrapped.' Moving on from that, how did you approach this new body of work? So I think of it like a good warm up record. It's a lot of things I wanted to put out. I don't think I thought that deep about it as like, 'This gonna be the lead single.' It was more of a message, you know what I'm saying? If you listen to what I'm saying in the record, it's a lot of things I wanted to say. What was the approach to putting that out first, as a lead single? The salt flats to the city in a chopper is an elite flex. I gotta ask off top about this 'For The Record' video, man. This shit just energy, you know what I'm saying? Inspiration. to be able to work close with Dez, and I mean just the whole vibe of the office, man. I love this energy that's in the building. I work out of here, you know what I'm saying? I work out of the Roc Nation office whenever I'm in town. How often do you come through to Roc Nation? For press shit primarily? This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

The double-sided project dropped last Friday, accompanied by an opportunity for fans to record, upload to streaming services, and make money off their own versions of his album track 'Dolla Fo' Dolla.' We also got into the success of Gotti's record label, CMG Records, and its roster of signed artists, including his fellow Memphis natives Moneybagg Yo, Blac Youngsta, and BlocBoy JB, along with Detroit's 42 Dugg and Louisville's EST Gee.įollowing the interview in November, Gotti pushed the album back several months.

Ahead of the projected release of his new album, ' CM10: Free Game,' Gotti and I spoke in the executive boardroom at Roc Nation's Manhattan office about the making of the album his business partnerships with Jay-Z, Roc Nation, and Interscope his connections to the billionaires Michael Rubin and Robert Kraft and his co-ownership in the Major League Soccer team DC United.

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