OG Cuicide On Making People Cry, Soft White Under Belly & More!

Published: June 12, 2023, 5:35 p.m.

b'Sharp and OG sit down for an in-depth conversation about OG\'s upbringing, family life, life choices, values, being sh*t, relationship with hosts who left and more.\\nMake sure you check out OG\'s channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ogcuicideint...\\n-----\\n00:00 Intro\\xa0\\n01:21 OG on making people cry on his podcast, Sharp says he should have tissues on deck\\xa0\\n02:45 OG says he makes sure his podcast is a safe space and wants to hear the journey of each guest\\n03:55 OG shares about his adoptive mom\\xa0\\n05:09 Sharp on OG opening up the phone lines for people to reach out\\xa0\\n06:15 OG will never change his phone number to keep helping people\\xa0\\n06:55 OG started to give his number after trying to work at a helpline\\xa0\\n08:30 Sharp brings up Amanda\'s story from Soft White Underbelly\\xa0\\n11:38 OG remembers a time when someone\'s word was everything and being real was crucial\\n13:35 "You can\'t put an age on solidness, if you\'re solid, you\'re solid!\\xa0\\n21:07 OG doesn\'t do the fake sh*t, he won\'t shake your hand in public if he\'s not cool with you\\xa0\\n21:56 Sharp was moved the first time he watch OG\'s interview with Adam\\xa0\\n22:48 OG\'s childhood story, born a "cr*ck baby", OG was abandoned, few days later social services took him\\xa0\\n24:25 OG was 18 months when he got to Mrs Price\'s home, calls his birth mom "that lady"\\xa0\\n26:23 Where are you from? - Classified\\xa0\\n27:06 OG was old he was adopted at 13 when he met his birth mother\\n29:32 The rest of his birth mom\'s family all lived nearby the whole time\\xa0\\n30:19 OG had a learning disorder, held back in school a couple times, then special ed, OG used to cry about it, teachers was telling Mrs Price: "He\'s never gonna amount to anything"\\xa0\\n32:52 Mrs Price started getting ill and OG was bringing drama to the house\\xa0\\n33:53 OG was kicked out of Mrs Price\'s home coz he was trouble\\xa0\\n34:58 OG got into the street life, bangin, by that point Mrs Price had Alzheimer\'s and couldn\'t recognize him anymore\\xa0\\n36:22 OG tried to take his own life in December 1991 because he was too sad and devastated about his life\\xa0\\n38:06 OG felt like a failure for "not being able" this go through with it: "I felt bad for still being alive"\\n38:49 When he left the hospital, OG went back to being homeless, people mocking him\\xa0\\n39:22 Mrs Price came to the hospital to see him, she passed few months after in 1992\\xa0\\n40:45 Mrs Price was everything to him, OG still thinks about her dearly, every single day\\xa041:52 OG says it\'s a blessing to be alive, having kids and grandkids\\xa0\\n45:26 OG found music to try to change his life, but he couldn\'t read or write\\xa0\\n46:50 OG picked up a dictionary one day and taught himself how to read and write\\xa0\\n47:50 Took his music to his godfather Leon Haywood who was signing artists at the time, he taught him everything about the business\\xa0\\n49:44 Music saved his life, that was his medicine, at the time he was supposed to be on meds that made him sleep for days straight\\xa0\\n51:17 The psychiatrist was not helpful either, he stopped going and stopped taking the prescribed pills\\xa0\\n52:27 "Imma teach myself how to write, Imma teach myself how to spell, and I did that!"\\xa0\\n53:06 OG then wrote his life story in his lyrics\\xa0\\n53:49 OG tried to link with his little brother Willy, his birth mom still on dr*gs, meanwhile, his older brother Laverdus hated on OG for his lyrics\\xa0\\n57:20 OG confronted his older brother for disrespecting him\\xa0\\n59:14 OG tried to have a relationship with Lil Willy but it phased out, he wouldn\'t even talk to him now\\n1:00:36 OG remembers his birth mom telling him she loved him: "You never came back to get me, stop lying!"\\xa0\\n1:04:08 People telling him he should forgive coz his family was on dr*gs, OG says that\'s a poor excuse\\n1:04:58 OG says he has 2 birthdays, his born day and the day he survived his S attempt\\xa0\\n1:06:52 OG\'s first baby mom kept his first kid away from him coz he was homeless\\xa0\\n1:08:54 OG has a live podcast show coming up June 25 in LA\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'