INTERVIEW: BigXThaPlug Talks ‘Better Over Time,’ Dealing With Fame, Depression, Losing Friends.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:05)

We gon finish or y'all done?

DJ Envy (0:08)

Morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. Lala Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:17)

Yes, indeed.

DJ Envy (0:18)

BigXThaPlug, he's back. How you feeling, brother?

Jess Hilarious (0:20)

What's up?

BigXThaPlug (0:21)

I can't complain, I can't complain at all.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:23)

Man, I'm blessed black and holly favored, man.

DJ Envy (0:25)

I feel that.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:26)

I've been watching the interviews that you've been doing, man, listening to the album, and the only thing I keep thinking is like, man, it's like the success you've been praying for finally came.

Jess Hilarious (0:34)

Yeah.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:34)

But it doesn't feel like it fixed everything you thought it would.

BigXThaPlug (0:39)

I mean, it fixed everything I thought it was gonna fix. Financially, it has. Financially, but not the other stuff. Yeah, nah, that wasn't the stuff that we was thinking about, though. We thinking about just providing, so we're able to do that.

DJ Envy (0:50)

What was the most difficult part, then? About what it didn't fix.

BigXThaPlug (0:56)

I mean, life. But at the end of the day, life on life. I don't think living can stop that. That's why I'm at a realization. You know, that's why I realized that life on life. So I'm trying not to trip about it. Just keep moving.

Jess Hilarious (1:07)

On the song, I finally get it. It's like that. It's like you are like, okay, I understand. I see the chessboard now.

What was that the first time where you had to sit back and be like, oh, okay, like, I can't do this for this person.

BigXThaPlug (1:25)

Really, just kind of like recently. You know what I'm saying? Just sitting back, realizing like, you know, just me being in the situation that I am within myself and just seeing that people still asking, people still doing, people still, and ain't nobody really, you know what I'm saying? So I just, hey, everybody life is gonna keep going. It's just like when you in jail, you in jail, but everybody else life still going.

So I'm in the situation I'm in, but everybody else life still going. Life is gonna keep going, so I can't, you know?

Charlamagne Tha God (1:55)

These are the people, the people you talking about are the people that you even have living around you, because I saw you say that you bought this whole compound.

BigXThaPlug (2:02)

Yeah, man, it's people around me, people that I'm trying to, you know, it's everybody, it's life.

DJ Envy (2:09)

The last time you were up here, you said you bought a, like Charlamagne said, a compound where you had everybody there, right? But that could get overwhelming too, because now you don't have that space to breathe.

Lala Rose (2:18)

So everybody continue to ask.

BigXThaPlug (2:19)

I got the house. I just bought the land to start the compound. Okay. Yeah, but I got a house out, every woman in my life staying in it, my mom and my granny, my sisters.

But now it's like, I'm getting them calls from my auntie, my cousins on both sides, you know what I'm saying? So just, you know, try to eliminate those extra calls, that extra stress and just put everybody on the same land. Now you can't really count on too much.

Charlamagne Tha God (2:46)

Does that put a lot more pressure on you?

BigXThaPlug (2:49)

But it's much pressure that I feel like it'll put on me to take off a lot too, because it's like, instead of paying the mortgage, you know, I'm already doing everything, so we ain't really got to worry about those calls.

Lala Rose (3:00)

Who do you talk to about that? Like, who do you go to? You're the provider for everybody, but who provides you with like peace?

Charlamagne Tha God (3:07)

Who is the Plugs plug?

Lala Rose (3:08)

Yeah, who?

DJ Envy (3:08)

Yeah.

BigXThaPlug (3:11)

My peace is really come from being around like stuff that I was around before I was famous. So that's why like you're gonna see my same friends from before I was rapping. You're gonna see just everything that I indulge in is always the same as before I was rapping, because that's what make me feel, I guess more comfortable, you know what I'm saying? Like, as far as a woman, I never really get to give my heart to another woman because I don't trust. As far as a new friend, I didn't try that.