You know what it is.
It's the boy, Mike Zombie
the humble genius.
The rebel without a cause.
The silver surfer
and I blew a bag.
You may know me for Drake
"Started from the Bottom."
♪ Zombie on the track ♪
♪ Started from the bottom,
now we're here ♪
♪ Started from the bottom,
now my whole team here (bleep) ♪
♪ Started from the bottom,
now we're here ♪
Mike Zombie "616",
Jhene Aiko "Overstimulated",
DJ Khaled
"They Don't Love You No More."
♪ We the Best Music ♪
♪ Zombie on the Track ♪
♪ Another one ♪
So before it all popped off,
I was going to
Full Sail University.
Life was lit, but it was also
slow at the same time
because I'm in college
and you know when you're
in college you are broke.
It was a creative school,
so it was a lot of dudes there.
They called it full male.
I stayed in a two
bedroom apartment
with my mom's friend's son.
His name was Ryan,
and we didn't talk at all.
Literally we didn't talk at all.
And I used to just be my room,
just making music,
making music, making music.
I used to get noise complaints
after noise complaints,
and they hated me.
One day she left me a note.
It was so, so, so mean,
but pretty much she was like,
you need to stop.
Pretty much said
quit type thing.
I'm like, damn,
that hurt my feelings.
So I'm in school,
everything is going haywire.
I gotta make something happen.
And finally I get in contact
with Drake
through my boy, Hollow Da Don,
shout out to Hollow.
It's like, "Yo, this is Drake.
Who's Mike Zombie?
I like your beats."
And I'm just sitting there
and I text Hollow
at 5:30 in the morning
or whatever time it was,
and I'm like,,
"Yo, who's playing on my phone?"
We're texting back and forth,
texting back and forth.
And I'm like,
I didn't tell anybody yet.
And I'm just like,
"I can't wait to tell somebody."
I didn't even know
who to tell first.
So I called my brother,
I'm like,
"Yo, I think it's him did it."
I'm texting Hollow,
I'm waiting on it.
I'm just waiting.
And I text my, mom.
I'm like, "Mom, I might be
texting Drake right now."
She's like,
"Boy, get off the phone."
She don't even believe me.
So when I talked to him,
he was like,
"Yo, I want to fly you out.
I'm going to sign you,
Yada Yada, Yada."
And I'm like, this isn't real.
Yeah. I got on the call with
him. He flew me down to Atlanta.
This was the first time I've
ever been chauffeured anywhere.
There was a black truck
at five o'clock in the morning
in front of my mom's house.
I'm like, this is crazy.
So when we went to Atlanta,
my mom was with me
and Drake and Future,
and we we all went out
and talked about everything
we were about to do
and we went out to the studio
after that, my mom fell back
and you know there's going
to be a different vibe there.
But when we got back
to Willingboro, New Jersey,
you shout out to the 609 nine
and all that,
I came back to the house and on
my street I see all these cars.
I'm like, "Okay, they're about
to throw me a surprise party.
I'm not slow."
There's never been as many cars
in front of my house.
We turn the lights
on it's like surprise.
I'm like, "Oh shit."
And then I'm seeing everybody,
every single one of my friends,
it was so dope.
And then as I was going through
to my mom's kitchen,
I'm going and I'm like,
"Hollow, what?"
They went all the way
to Brooklyn to go get him.
I was like,
"Yo, that's so dope."
And that was the first time
I met Hollow.
When I got my first big check,
I was at a checkup
with my daughter and her mom
and we're just sitting there,
I'm playing with her,
you know the doctor's
in and out the room
and I'm just talking to Future.
He's like, "Yo, we just
sent you over something
just so you could
get things going."
I'm like,
"Oh, okay, cool."
And I'm sitting there
looking at my phone,
I'm looking at my bank account.
I'm like, "Wait, what?"
I was like, "My bank account
ain't never seen over ..."
It had never even seen
a comma before.
So I'm like, this is crazy.
So the first thing I did,
I called my mom and I was like,
"Mom, this is a lot of money
and I don't know
what to do right now."
And she was like, "Okay,
I'm going to help you.
Just come home
and we'll talk about it."
I was like fire.
Even when I was at my party,
I was like ...
I didn't even really know
how real things was about
to get financially
until I was at this party.
And everybody ...
Like people I didn't really ...
with like that were
telling me like,
"Yo Bro,
I don't think want nothing."
And I'm like, "Why do you
keep saying that? It's weird."
So anyways, I'm at this thing
and I get home to talk to my mom
and she just telling me
all the things to do.
And the first thing I did that
was the best thing I ever did
was I bought my brother a lawyer
who was locked up,
shout out to
[inaudible]
cause he's out now
and we out here.
So that was the first thing
I did.
And I think the first
ignorant thing
I did with my money,
was when I came out here
Grammy weekend
and I was just balling.
When I bought
two pairs of shoes,
I went in the store,
I bought some Jordan's
that I already had on my feet
and threw the other ones away.
I stayed at the Lowe's
for a week.
What's the movie?
Blank check where he's just
buying all this dumb shit.
We had a microwave brought up
from the lobby, Jenga, Twister.
Everything.
I went to Supper club
when Supper club was open.
I bought two bottles of Don
Perignon and Hennessy
for my bros
and grammy weekend.
I probably did like 30,
just 30, just a 30 banger.
You know what I mean?
That was the worst. Oh my God.
I done ran through eight
pairs of grills. Real estate.
I bought two houses,
sold those, bought a car, cash.
Should have did credit
but can't go back into it again.
You know what I mean?
The day that "Started
from the Bottom" came out
I remember
I was at my boy Chris house.
He woke me up, he like,
"Yo bro, yo Bro, wake up."
He's like, "they dropped it."
I'm like, "Dropped what?"
I'm [inaudible]
He's like, "They drop Started."
I'm like, "Oh shit."
So we go and drive
in to Willingboro
and literally I'm driving
down the highway,
everybody is blaring it
out of the car
and I'm like, "Oh shit,
I cannot believe this."
And I just go
round up everybody,
we go to my mom's house,
we about to go celebrate,
and when we go
to the liquor store
we get pulled over cause
we so turnt in the whip.
And I remember
the cop was like ...
We were like,
"Yo, we're just hyped.
My song is on the radio.
Listen, listen.
It's on right now.
Look, they driving by there,
they're playing it.
And he's like,
"All right, cool, relax,
go have fun,
chill out, stop
whiling, get inside the car
while you're driving."
And I'm like, all right.
So we go to the liquor store
on every body's
still playing this song.
I felt like the man,
everybody's like,
"Yo that's you? Yo that's you?"
I'm like yeah ...
I was in New Jersey
and I'm just chilling.
You know what I mean?
I was actually working
on some stuff in my room
and my manager
at the time called me.
He was like, "Yo, I got Khaled
on the other line,
he wants to speak to you?"
And I'm like, "Why does
he want to speak to I?"
So Khaled is the most ...
This is before Snapchat
had came out.
So he's like, "Yo, Zombie, I got
this, this crazy opportunity.
I heard your stuff with Drake.
I want to work with you.
I got the opportunity
to get a
Hov on one
on one of my songs."
I'm like, "So what
you want me to do?"
I was like ...
He was like, "Yeah."
He was like, "I need that fire,
I need something that's going to
shake the club, shake the room."
All right. So pretty much
he had me hand pick
and to his desire make him
"They Don't Love You No More."
And I did it perfect.
Sent one beat and he picked it.
I'm at my best friend
Jazz's his house
and we're watching
something on TV
and I'm on Instagram scrolling
and DJ Khaled's
Instagram it said
the tracking for
They Don't Love You
No More,
but it didn't have
the producer in there.
It said Fresh Montana,
Meek Mill, Rick Ross,
Jay Z, DJ Khaled.
I'm like, damn,
whoever produced this is crazy.
So I text the same dude
who I'd seen in LA and I'm like,
"Yo, who produced
this new Khaled track?"
He's like,
"Zombie on the track."
I was like, "Stop ... playing.
He was like, "No, I'm serious."
So Flex is going crazy.
Like, "Yo, I got a bomb to drop.
I got a bomb to drop."
I'm like, "Yo."
I'm still telling him,
"Yo stop playing me."
He's like, "No, I'm serious."
I'm texting him the whole time
like, "Yo stop playing me."
So we all getting a car,
I download the Hot 97 app.
And I'm like, yo, I hear the
beat and I hear my chords.
I'm just looking at everybody
like oh shit.
They he's playing a song
and every time
we would come to Jay's
verse he was like ...
And then he would cut it off
and it would go to commercial
it would be like, "Oh shit."
And we were just
in the car screaming.
So I was having all this major
success and at the same time
I'm dealing with, you know,
my daughter's mother
and what she felt like
I should be doing
and what I felt like
she should be doing.
And mind you,
we had just broken up,
and I'm getting
all this attention.
And I ain't gonna lie,
I was one of those people
who would always want to help.
If I went to
the strip club with you,
I don't want you sitting
next to me
if you're not throwing money,
just because get money for you
just
so you can throw it with me.
It was a lot for me as well,
and I was getting
a lot of attention
and it's not that
she didn't like it,
but she felt like
it was girl jealousy.
You'll be surprised the shit
people ask you when you got a
little change.
I remember one time,
my boy still,
my dog shout out to you,
this ...
asked me for $900 when I done
bailed his ass out of jail
and he's still ain't paying me
back from the last thing.
I was like, "What is you doing?
DO you think I'm about to ...
No, no, no, no, no."
Still my dog though.
But he knew, he tried it.
He tried it. But no,
I wouldn't let that shit go.
It's really dope for me and
my family and my mom especially
because I mean
it feels good on Christmas
when you could just pull up
with a little diamond bracelet,
you know what I mean?
A nice little purse for her,
you know.
And aside from my mom, you know
what I mean, it's super fire.
I'm super like really into this
that I can go back
and help my community.
I do a celebrity basketball
game back in my hometown
every single year.
This year is going to be
my fifth annual.
So since I've started,
that was another thing
that I put my first bag into.
Really trying to give back
and show the kids
that they can do this too.
And it could be right here
doing what I'm doing.
So after my 3 million
and however many trips to LA
and coming out here,
getting in the best hotels
and getting in the best car
that everybody is ...
That I could get my hands on
and just
spending money in a club
and you know,
buying girls drinks
and buying clothes
when I wanted to and, you know.
And I got back
and finally my mom
is the one who just grabbed me
and she sat me down.
She was like,
"Listen, you're trippin',
you know,
you need to get it together."
To this day, you know, just did
that new fresh situation
with Artistry Records,
you know what I mean?
And dropped that Blue Faces,
just dropped that 20GREATEEN
last year.
So in the future y'all can look
out for me on Sweetie's new EP,
The Game's new album,
Young MA's new album.
Torii Wolf,
shout the Torii Wolf,
I'm doing her whole next album,
producing everything.
Mike Zombie, man.
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