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2 Chainz: Esco Bar's Success Was Not Driven by Pablo Escobar's Likeness
“And so to say that we became successful off Pablo Esco Bar's name was so far from the truth. We were like, okay, you talking about this picture? Let's take this picture down. And we put my picture up, and business has been just moving, just how it always has b…”
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2 Chainz: The Pink Trap House was one of the most visited US sites
“Like, once upon a time, it was one of the most visited, you know, sites in the United States”
Opinion
2 Chainz: Children should unashamedly leverage their parents' fame to get ahead
“I'm trying to get that in my little nepo babies. They don't want to say my name. Like, you should, Totally use my name to. To the best of your ability to get whatever you need.”
Disclosure
2 Chainz: Negotiated Deal to Reclaim His Music Master Recordings
“I bought them back, but they don't, they literally can't give them back to you for I don't know if it's seven or twenties. I don't know the date, but yeah they're supposed to revert back to me, you know, some, but yeah, I did that.”
Disclosure
2 Chainz: Bought Three Downtown Atlanta Buildings in Castleberry Hill
“I bought a couple of pieces of land in downtown Atlanta and this historic place called Castle Berry Hill. I had like three buildings.”
Disclosure
2 Chainz: Esco Restaurant Has Under Nine Locations and Is Franchising
“We have maybe a little bit under nine, but we should, because we're franchising now. Memphis, the Memphis ESCO is doing really well. We have one in Dallas.”
Insight
2 Chainz: Celebrity affiliation automatically inflates vendor and service prices
“If someone finds out in, in, in my line of work, if they find out that I have something to do with it, then the price automatically goes up.”
Disclosure
2 Chainz: Bought a $300K+ studio tour bus before signing record deal
“It had a stove on there, it had a bed, it had a studio. So, that's everything I need, whether I had a hotel or not, I could really, like, make it work from there. So I bought that, I bought the bus, I don't know, it was maybe 300, a little bit over 300,000, yo…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
2 Chainz: Airport Masking Halved His Private Jet Spend By Providing Anonymity
“When people started wearing masks in the airport, I was able to cut my jet bill by more than half because I was able to, because I would get, I don't really get anxiety or nothing like that, but sometimes people just yell my name in these crazy places, and the…”
Disclosure
2 Chainz Discloses Co-Owning Atlanta Strip Club Candyland
“I have another business partner by the name of Joe. He's running my adult, I have a strip club in Atlanta called Candyland. Be open three years this year.”
Assertion Contradicted
2 Chainz: 1993 Atlanta Ban Created a Market for Grandfathered Club Licenses
“So in, in Atlanta, I don't know about anywhere else, in Atlanta, the license to have alcohol and nudity They put that in, out of commission in like, 93. So you have to get grandfather, and you have to actually buy that from somebody else.”
Disclosure
2 Chainz: Most lyrics reflect past experiences rather than present life
“Yeah, and a lot of my music is, I reminisce a lot. I use past tense. I used to, I had, a lot of it is me, like a reflection type of thing to a lot of my music. I used to, you know, so I'm not like saying I'm doing it right now. I'm not like, I'm not lying in a…”
