The Goodie Mob wasn’t immediately accepted when they stepped into the hip hop scene. The rap group was born and bred in Atlanta, Georgia and from the start, they were met with resistance because they were going against “slow” Southern grain or the gangsta rap scene. Goodie Mob member Khujo recalled those early days in a recent interview with Vlad TV and said that despite some pushback, the group received an overwhelming amount of support from the West Coast.

A fellow artist who was apparently a superfan was the late Tupac Shakur. Goodie Mob met the “California Love” rapper at The Source Awards and immediately connected. “Just to see that man’s energy,” Khujo remembered. “You were able to touch him. He wasn’t [the type] to say, ‘Don’t touch me.’ He wasn’t that type of person. So, we met him that time and the next thing you know, we up in the studio with him.”

The group of rappers was in the studio by the next day and Goodie Mob didn’t know they were the first to hear Tupac’s infamous diss track “Hit Em Up.” Khujo said, “We just walkin’ into the studio and Tupac is in the booth and all I hear is him saying, ‘My n*ggas Goodie Mob in the house. Get them what they want, man. Y’all want some Hennessey or whatever.’… I didn’t even know history was being made at that time.”

There was a point, according to Khujo, that Tupac and the Goodie Mob were talking about uniting, “I was thinking, ‘Is Tupac finna be in Goodie Mob?’ That sh*t gon’ be hard.” Khujo said Tupac felt a “brotherhood” with the Southern rap group. Check out Khujo taking us all on a walk down memory lane below.

Big Boi, most notably known for his work with Andre 3000 in Outkast, is getting ready to hold his first-ever festival in his hometown of Atlanta, GA. The KryptoniteFest joins a long list of festivals that are already enjoyed by fans and artists alike. Many of the festivals on this list are well-established brands that have been putting on shows for years, however, artist-thrown festivals have been growing in popularity over the years as well; OVO Fest, Camp Flog Gnaw, and Yams Day to name a few.

We're expecting Big Boi's festival to join the likes of these powerhouses soon, as it will likely be a hot-spot for Atlanta's already thriving music scene. Atlanta superstars will gladly represent for their city and grace the stage for a well-respected "OG" like Big Boi.

For many rappers who enter into the music industry, the end goal is to become rich and famous. They want to enjoy all of the luxuries of life with a never-ending bank account—but for others, solidifying themselves as power players in the business world is the ultimate goal. It’s common to see artists move between being in the spotlight and the boardroom, including Waka Flocka who recently revealed his motivation behind finding new streams of revenue outside of hip hop.

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“Imma be honest with you,” Waka told Everyday Struggle. “In 2012, 2013, I had $30 million. At that point in life—I’m being, real, on my dead brother—why was I rapping? I’m rich. I wanted to be rich. So, from that time to right now, I wanted to figure out how can I become a billionaire and a multi-millionaire off of business. Because I did it with rap. I was a wack rapper, like I knew I was wack, but I was real. See what I’m saying? My realness overcame my wackness.”

Waka went on to list his favorite emcees including DMX, Nas, KRS-One, and Goodie Mob. “I can’t rap like them folks,” Waka said, adding that if he were to get in the booth with Kendrick Lamar, K-Dot would out-rap him. “For me, this is just me talking for me. This is me. I’m a Gemini so my only friends gon’ be me,” he said. “I’m a wack rapper but a hell of an entertainer.” Check out Waka Flocka’s appearance on Everyday Struggle below.