Birdman Recalls Buying 50 Cars For ‘Everybody That Had A License’ In New Orleans Projects

Bryan "Birdman" Williams is the "#1 Stunna" for a reason since he's probably the only person in New Orleans who can say they bought cars for their neighborhood.

Bryan “Birdman” Williams is the “#1 Stunna” for a reason, since he’s probably the only person in New Orleans who can say they bought cars for their neighborhood.

The Cash Money co-founder appeared on Jalen Rose’s Renaissance Man podcast where he opened up about the origin of his “#1 Stunna” moniker. It was after a friend told him about the stunts on the 1980s television series MacGyver that Birdman decided he was going to be “the number-one stunna” of his community.

Once he started making money from music, Birdman sought to share his success with the neighborhood that raised him.

“Back then, we ain’t really have sh*t,” he recalled around the 22:30 mark. “I said I’m about to change our identity of how we look at […] We might’ve had one car, with no AC, you know, n****s riding with the windows down. I didn’t understand why we had to have one car, one house.”

It was after taking a trip to New York City and seeing people driving around in luxury cars and big jewelry that Birdman decided he wanted to bring that energy back to his city.

“In New Orleans, we ain’t know nothing about none of that,” he said. “We ain’t know nothing about Rolls Royces and foreign whips. We wore Dickies suits, dope boys… that was normal for our city.”

He continued, “Honestly I went to New York and seen them n***as in foreign cars and all that sh*t […] rocking big chains and I’m like, ‘Man, I’ma bring that sh*t down bottom.’ We ain’t never seen this sh*t down bottom, and that what influenced me, bro.”

The “Still Fly” rapper set a maximum budget of $15,000 per car and purchased “50 whips” for people in his hometown.

“I bought 50 whips for everybody. $15,000 was the maximum [I spent] for some of them, but a couple of my partners, I spent a little more, but yeah, everybody in the project that had a license, I bought them a car,” he shared.