So once I got rid of those bad vibes, once I cut my hair man, I’m a whole new person all around. I wanted to put myself back in that mindframe. That was one of the reasons I cut my hair. When I cut my hair, that’s just when it all came. Say Rolex.”ĭo you feel as though you’ve gone through a transformation?
I just do regular things.” He tidies up the house while showering his kids with affection, teaching them how to pronounce the names of luxury watch brands he intends for them to own one day: “Say Audemars” he sounds out. “I’m only Rich Homie when I got a microphone in my hand,” he stresses. In person, Quan is exceedingly gracious and humble, going out of his way to make sure I, a stranger, am comfortable. What this could mean for the pair collaboratively remains to be seen. I wish him the best and he wish the same for me." On the day of our interview, Young Thug had posted a video to his Instagram account in which Quan’s voice appears to be playing in the background, captioned with the title of Thug’s upcoming singing album, E.B.B.T.G. Whenever he wants to press play, I want to press play. As for their relationship now, Quan says, "It was never no bad blood, it was just on pause. “I think we was in the studio for like 45 days straight working on that,” Quan recalls. The label situation followed what appeared to the public as a falling out between Quan and Young Thug, with whom he created what many believe to be some of their best work, the 2014 mixtape entitled Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt. “They let me be an artist,” he says, which he has learned to separate from the business-minded side of himself that he says he has since sharpened.
You’re just seeing Rich Homie and you seeing these numbers.” Eventually, Quan settled on Motown/Capitol, where he saw the urban department as unsaturated, such that he could really take over that lane and get the attention he needed. We’d all get in this one room and they’re saying ‘Ah, ah, Rich Homie we love you.’ No you don’t.
But when I went in those buildings everything felt like it was on a paper and they were reading off a teleprompter. “That situation, it scarred me because, like, you gotta think you giving your all for all these songs, but you not being compensated for your all? So now you contemplating like, ‘Give my all again? Why?’ That’ll mess with your mind.”ĭuring the months of litigation, Quan started to talk to other labels. “I just wasn’t grubbing.” Though he says he appreciates the risk that was taken on him in the first place, he felt his efforts were not properly reciprocated. “I was eating,” he says of his former label partnership. This was accompanied by a $2 million lawsuit in which Quan claimed underpayment from TIG Entertainment, the label for which all these releases served as platform.
The mixtape series ended somewhat quietly near the end of 2015.