21 Savage says he’s confident he would’ve become a millionaire even without rap fame.
“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.”
Watch the conversation in the video below.
The clip spread quickly across social media, and fans immediately started clowning 21 — pointing out that if he ever tried to steal 500 bricks, he wouldn’t be alive to talk about it. Their main argument: only cartels hold that kind of weight, and cartels don’t play.
“Buddy think this gta who u just taking 500 bricks from w no repercussion,” one X user joked. Another added: “A n***a I went to school with got killed over a few pounds of weed & this nigga talking about 500 bricks.”
A third person chimed in: “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 that same interview, 21 also gave a heartfelt nod to his late best friend, Johnny, who was shot and killed 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.”
He also doubled down on his belief that Atlanta “grooms” kids into a certain lifestyle, saying the city shapes children early on.
“This is how I really feel… Atlanta is really, goddamn, what’s the word? Atlanta really a pedophile,” he said before quickly walking the word back. “‘Cause Atlanta really groomed us, bro, since we was kids.”
On Friday, 21 dropped his new album What Happened to the Streets?, packed with A-list features including Young Nudy, Latto, Drake, GloRilla, G Herbo, Metro Boomin, and Lil Baby. The project arrives after 2024’s American Dream.
