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.