21 Savage believes he would still be a millionaire even if he wasn't living the life of a superstar rapper.
"I know we would’ve hit a lick for about 500 bricks or something that would’ve just still made me a millionaire," he said on a recent episode of the Perspektives with Bank podcast. "I was gonna be a millionaire in the street, regardless."
Check out the conversation in the video below.
The clip made the rounds online, prompting fans to clown 21 and essentially say that if he stole 500 bricks, he would be dead, because the only people who have that much product are the cartels — and cartels are notoriously vicious.
"Buddy think this gta who u just taking 500 bricks from w no repercussion," one X user wrote, while a second said: "A n***a I went to school with got killed over a few pounds of weed & this nigga talking about 500 bricks."
A third social media user wrote: "Only drug cartels be having that type of inventory not some n***a driving a 750 BMW wit a Rolex on his wrist still stuntin in da hood n***a high as hell they woulda whacked his whole family behind dat better be glad he made it rapping and STFU."
In the same interview, 21 also tipped his hat to his late best friend, Johnny, who was fatally shot during an attempted robbery on the rapper’s 21st birthday.
"If Johnny didn’t die, I don’t think I would’ve been no rapper. So I probably wouldn’t have pictured all this shit."
During the same conversation, 21 said he thinks the city of Atlanta is grooming children, suggesting that Atlanta grooms children into living a particular type of lifestyle.
"This is how I really feel… Atlanta is really, goddamn, what’s the word? Atlanta really a pedophile," he said, before walking back the word "pedophile." "'Cause Atlanta really groomed us, bro, since we was kids."
On Friday, 21 released his new album, What Happened to the Streets? featuring an A-list roster, including Young Nudy, Latto, Drake, GloRilla, G Herbo, Metro Boomin and Lil Baby. His new project follows 2024's American Dream.