WEBVTT - Episode 564 | Armani Caesar 0:00:35.310 --> 0:00:37.730 Welcome to a new episode of the new Rory and 0:00:37.750 --> 0:00:39.670 Maul podcast. I am Maul. 0:00:39.820 --> 0:00:40.239 I'm Rory. 0:00:40.820 --> 0:00:42.380 Rory, today we are joined by someone this is a 0:00:42.380 --> 0:00:45.360 perfect time to. Got cursed out a couple months ago. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.140 Rightfully so By my good brothers Got cursed out You 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.599 getting cursed out In the comments right now too Getting 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.000 cursed out now Currently Cursing me out Jokingly though That's 0:00:55.020 --> 0:00:59.940 my brother Today we are joined by A female MC 0:01:00.460 --> 0:01:02.860 Somebody who I've been Paying attention to For the last 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.560 Few years And I'm happy she's here today To talk 0:01:05.580 --> 0:01:08.180 some shit with us Got a new project Coming soon 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.819 First lady of The Griselda family The Liz Armani Caesar 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.920 Is in the building today Let's do it Let's do 0:01:15.060 --> 0:01:19.729 it hi so i'm gonna start right with it armani 0:01:20.410 --> 0:01:23.809 so i'm listening to the new joint today right so 0:01:23.950 --> 0:01:25.550 i'm on the way to the city i'm like okay 0:01:25.590 --> 0:01:28.870 let me see what armani talking about i'm hearing and 0:01:28.890 --> 0:01:30.850 i'm like okay so i already heard a couple of 0:01:30.870 --> 0:01:32.289 the joints you put out the video what was it 0:01:32.310 --> 0:01:33.950 the uh symphony. 0:01:33.850 --> 0:01:36.400 The list the list symphony the foreign abuser just. 0:01:36.300 --> 0:01:38.140 Dropped so i heard those two joints seen the videos 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.520 listening to the project so the last song baby love 0:01:43.060 --> 0:01:46.330 i'm like okay This shit got a bop to it. 0:01:46.370 --> 0:01:49.230 Imani sound good singing on the hook. The melody. I'm like, 0:01:49.290 --> 0:01:52.180 Imani might need to sing more. Yeah. She only gave 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.850 us one verse. and then it cut you was letting 0:01:55.870 --> 0:01:58.210 us know how you felt going through mother congratulations on 0:01:58.230 --> 0:02:01.290 motherhood congratulations thank you thank you so you gave us 0:02:01.330 --> 0:02:03.750 that how you felt in that time and you know 0:02:04.310 --> 0:02:06.370 it was like okay Imani was really getting into like 0:02:06.550 --> 0:02:09.290 talking about being a mom away from the rapping and 0:02:09.310 --> 0:02:11.529 the trapping we know what you do with that you 0:02:11.550 --> 0:02:13.950 talk slick with that but hearing you speak as a 0:02:14.030 --> 0:02:17.880 mom I was like oh this sounds beautiful okay but 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.690 why only one verse Well, I just. 0:02:20.610 --> 0:02:22.010 Waited to the last minute to add it. 0:02:22.530 --> 0:02:23.790 Oh, you just added that song? 0:02:23.810 --> 0:02:26.720 Well, I just added that song, but I also, I 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.840 did like finish the verse. 0:02:28.940 --> 0:02:31.030 I just, it ain't out yet. 0:02:31.660 --> 0:02:32.000 Okay. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.280 All right. So you still, okay. All right. As long 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.489 as there's another verse on that. 0:02:37.510 --> 0:02:38.570 Yes, there's another verse on that. 0:02:38.590 --> 0:02:38.690 Okay. 0:02:38.710 --> 0:02:40.549 All right. Cause I just didn't know how it was coming. 0:02:40.590 --> 0:02:43.169 Like I, you know, again, I don't, you know how 0:02:43.190 --> 0:02:45.350 I'm used to giving it up. I'm a pop it. 0:02:45.690 --> 0:02:47.340 And this was kind of the first time I really 0:02:47.410 --> 0:02:49.579 like with this record was kind of letting people into 0:02:49.620 --> 0:02:51.420 my business and being more personal. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.060 But that's why I liked it so much because this 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.800 was like the, this was a whole different, uh, perspective 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.299 of Armani. This was like my Armani. You know what 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.800 I'm saying? So I was like, why are you laughing, Rory? No, 0:03:01.900 --> 0:03:03.850 it was clever. Yeah, no, that was my Armani. 0:03:03.889 --> 0:03:04.589 He kind of ate that. 0:03:04.630 --> 0:03:08.859 Yeah, that was my Armani. So I was like... No, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.600 but it was. It was more money. It was like, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.020 you know, I was like, OK, this is a different side. 0:03:13.139 --> 0:03:14.040 You've never seen. 0:03:14.100 --> 0:03:15.990 But you didn't get the metaphor. There's only one verse 0:03:16.030 --> 0:03:18.430 because she's a mom. She's so busy. You can't two verse. 0:03:19.050 --> 0:03:23.610 I like that. You're a dad, so you understand. I understand. 0:03:23.770 --> 0:03:24.470 I have no verse. 0:03:24.510 --> 0:03:25.950 Yeah. 0:03:25.970 --> 0:03:28.310 OK. All right. So but there is another verse. Yes. 0:03:28.470 --> 0:03:28.750 Yeah. 0:03:28.889 --> 0:03:30.070 I wasn't going to leave it like that. 0:03:30.460 --> 0:03:32.740 Yeah. Cause it just felt incomplete. I was like, nah, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.360 she can't do that to us. And that was the 0:03:34.380 --> 0:03:35.700 only grape I had. Cause I told you when you 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:36.940 walked in, I said, I got a bone to pick. 0:03:37.340 --> 0:03:38.700 That was the only bone I had to pick. But 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:39.400 how are you feeling though? 0:03:39.580 --> 0:03:41.119 I feel good. I got a grape with you. 0:03:42.930 --> 0:03:44.150 Seems like that's running in the family. 0:03:44.590 --> 0:03:47.369 Yeah. First, first wet got a grape with me. Then 0:03:47.410 --> 0:03:49.270 he got a grape with me. All right. So now 0:03:49.290 --> 0:03:50.690 I'm on it. What's the grape? What'd I do now? 0:03:50.710 --> 0:03:51.410 I'm on it. What did I do? 0:03:51.610 --> 0:03:52.320 Where my crowns at? 0:03:53.470 --> 0:03:55.610 Your crowns? Yes. What you mean? 0:03:55.630 --> 0:03:56.910 You used to be leaving like. 0:03:56.940 --> 0:03:58.040 Oh, money bags? Oh, the money bags. 0:03:58.140 --> 0:04:00.660 And my money bags too. My emoji is the crowns, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.540 but I ain't got no crowns. I ain't got no 0:04:02.580 --> 0:04:05.400 money bags. I ain't got no... Was it the pregnancy? 0:04:05.900 --> 0:04:05.980 No. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:06.780 I think that's what it was. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:07.880 Oh, shit. I think that's what it was. 0:04:07.930 --> 0:04:09.070 I think that's what happened. 0:04:09.090 --> 0:04:10.010 That's what happened. 0:04:10.830 --> 0:04:14.930 Yeah, they started editing, like, because he used to come 0:04:15.010 --> 0:04:16.169 flooded with the money bags. 0:04:16.210 --> 0:04:18.190 Then he used to be like, then it came like 0:04:18.390 --> 0:04:19.150 a few of them. 0:04:19.170 --> 0:04:21.339 You wanted to respect everything that was going on. 0:04:21.339 --> 0:04:23.539 You understand? So when you became a mom, it's like. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.120 She had none of that on her IG, by the way. 0:04:26.100 --> 0:04:27.600 I didn't know you had a kid until I listened 0:04:27.620 --> 0:04:28.440 to the record. 0:04:28.460 --> 0:04:30.000 No, she did. Yeah. 0:04:30.020 --> 0:04:32.550 Like I drop her, but I feel like I know 0:04:32.589 --> 0:04:35.990 my demographic and I know how I am. Like if 0:04:36.210 --> 0:04:38.630 I follow somebody, even like before I got pregnant, like 0:04:39.089 --> 0:04:41.190 if it was people that was going through life changes, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.679 whether it was weddings, marriages, or babies, it was like, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.040 I can't really relate to this. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:46.900 So I'ma just. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.980 Cause I know, I know women y'all do this thing 0:04:50.020 --> 0:04:53.890 where y'all will stockpile photos of right before y'all get 0:04:53.910 --> 0:04:56.490 before y'all start the show i didn't. 0:04:56.190 --> 0:04:59.190 Actually but i feel like i stockpile photos anyway just 0:04:59.210 --> 0:05:01.029 because i be so in a moment with a lot 0:05:01.050 --> 0:05:03.450 of stuff by time i get the post and everything 0:05:03.510 --> 0:05:05.210 and then you know too like i'm from the hood 0:05:05.250 --> 0:05:08.510 so we never really post in real time anyway just 0:05:08.529 --> 0:05:10.750 for safety reasons so i think a lot of the 0:05:10.770 --> 0:05:13.660 times i just had pictures that you know but a 0:05:13.700 --> 0:05:15.300 lot of the pictures i was pregnant i just wasn't 0:05:15.339 --> 0:05:16.580 showing at the time How. 0:05:16.500 --> 0:05:19.560 Was how has it been with motherhood now as far 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.430 as like, you know, you're scheduling and trying to still 0:05:22.490 --> 0:05:25.490 record and get projects done and meet deadlines? Like how 0:05:25.589 --> 0:05:26.310 tough has it been? 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.719 Um, it'd be tough sometimes because I've never been like 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.660 a structured person. I've always kind of been fly by 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.440 the seat of my pants type of, you know, vibes. 0:05:36.620 --> 0:05:39.520 And with a kid now you can't just wake up 0:05:39.540 --> 0:05:41.870 when you want to. You can't just like wait till 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.200 the last minute to leave or. 0:05:43.170 --> 0:05:43.750 Anything like that. 0:05:43.810 --> 0:05:45.970 You have to be a lot more structured. So it's 0:05:45.990 --> 0:05:49.070 taught me that. Um, and then just even with balance, 0:05:49.170 --> 0:05:52.669 like balancing instead of just spending all this time over here, 0:05:52.770 --> 0:05:55.510 like maybe like, you know, spending more time with yourself. 0:05:55.290 --> 0:05:55.710 Or, you. 0:05:57.170 --> 0:05:59.849 If you write in it, you got to, like, live 0:06:00.029 --> 0:06:01.430 and experience certain things. 0:06:01.570 --> 0:06:03.690 You threw that in there. If you write in it. 0:06:03.860 --> 0:06:08.039 I mean... Now, hold on now. You slid that under the... 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.719 The message was beautiful, but you made sure to get 0:06:10.779 --> 0:06:12.020 that if you write in it. 0:06:12.100 --> 0:06:14.070 Well, because, like, you know. 0:06:15.690 --> 0:06:17.320 People don't be writing. We can say it. 0:06:17.330 --> 0:06:19.580 Yeah, it's not a secret. People don't be writing their stuff. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.900 But I think that you have to live and experience 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.020 life in order to be able to say what you're 0:06:26.100 --> 0:06:29.200 about to say with conviction. So I think with me, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.330 in my experience, I do have to kind of be 0:06:32.370 --> 0:06:34.289 in a space where I want to create. 0:06:34.410 --> 0:06:35.130 And sometimes. 0:06:35.610 --> 0:06:37.390 You'd be so busy living life that you don't really 0:06:37.430 --> 0:06:40.890 have anything to create. Sometimes you're still processing things. Sometimes 0:06:40.910 --> 0:06:43.540 you're still going through things and you don't even know 0:06:43.580 --> 0:06:45.500 how to say it. And then, like I said before, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.540 I'm getting used to being able to talk about my 0:06:49.580 --> 0:06:53.000 life in real time and real personal things. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.680 And so I think.... 0:06:55.770 --> 0:06:58.430 With that, the balance for that is still something I'm 0:06:58.470 --> 0:07:02.339 figuring out. But I talk about before or just like 0:07:02.380 --> 0:07:04.440 a lot of just getting in a gym and being 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.140 consistent with that and then letting that like ethic bleed 0:07:08.220 --> 0:07:10.970 off into how I record, how I like set stuff 0:07:11.050 --> 0:07:12.700 up and just being consistent, just showing up. 0:07:13.110 --> 0:07:15.420 So being a mom put a different type of structure 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:16.210 in your life. 0:07:16.300 --> 0:07:20.020 Oh, 1000%. Like it made me like, oh, okay. Like 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:20.740 I got to grow up. 0:07:20.780 --> 0:07:22.320 Life is real. Yeah. 0:07:22.380 --> 0:07:24.240 I got to like grow up a lot. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.360 Yeah. That's dope. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.990 How was that like presented to Griselda? Because it is 0:07:29.020 --> 0:07:30.250 still a business at the end of the day and 0:07:30.270 --> 0:07:35.170 there's no like maternity leave structure for the music industry. 0:07:35.370 --> 0:07:35.750 Yeah. 0:07:35.890 --> 0:07:38.150 So what was that process like telling everyone that you 0:07:38.190 --> 0:07:40.970 work with? Like, hey, just to let you know, I 0:07:40.990 --> 0:07:42.210 might be out of commission for a little bit. 0:07:43.390 --> 0:07:45.630 They found out on social media. 0:07:49.420 --> 0:07:49.780 All right. 0:07:49.820 --> 0:07:50.400 Hold on. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.800 Hold on. Hold on. So you didn't tell the guys. 0:07:55.060 --> 0:07:57.030 I was scared. Of what? 0:07:57.510 --> 0:08:01.310 Because like, I look at them like my big brothers. 0:08:01.390 --> 0:08:02.990 And so it was like, I didn't really know how 0:08:03.030 --> 0:08:03.870 to say that. 0:08:04.090 --> 0:08:06.830 Like, I know how to tell them. I was even like. 0:08:08.070 --> 0:08:11.640 Dealing with anybody, let alone, you know, telling them like, oh, 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.820 and by the way, I'm pregnant. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:14.739 Surprise. 0:08:14.820 --> 0:08:17.450 So it was just kind of a thing, like not 0:08:17.510 --> 0:08:19.370 even intentionally, but just like. 0:08:20.310 --> 0:08:22.190 You know, everybody had their own stuff going on. I'm 0:08:22.210 --> 0:08:23.130 still processing it. 0:08:23.210 --> 0:08:25.520 I'm still trying to figure out like what I'm going 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.500 to do and how I'm going to like function myself. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.180 So it was a thing of like them finding out 0:08:30.260 --> 0:08:31.420 kind of when everybody else did. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.119 I mean, I did. I waited a long time to 0:08:33.140 --> 0:08:33.760 tell my mama. 0:08:34.179 --> 0:08:34.819 Like, really? 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.439 Yes. I just I don't know. 0:08:36.750 --> 0:08:39.370 What did mom say? How did she say? I'm sure 0:08:39.410 --> 0:08:39.870 she was happy. 0:08:40.010 --> 0:08:42.010 She was happy. Like, my mom been wanting me to 0:08:42.050 --> 0:08:44.670 have a kid for the longest. She been, like, training 0:08:44.690 --> 0:08:47.750 for grandma for forever. Like, even with my dogs. Like, 0:08:48.050 --> 0:08:49.860 I would get a dog and then I would just, like, 0:08:49.910 --> 0:08:51.120 send it up to New York with her. 0:08:51.140 --> 0:08:51.220 Yeah. 0:08:51.580 --> 0:08:53.660 Like, and she'd be like, this my grand puppy. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:53.960 Right. 0:08:54.100 --> 0:08:54.740 Like, so. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.950 Which really means... hurry up and give me a grandchild. Yeah. 0:08:58.330 --> 0:09:01.970 But I'm like, you got grandchild money, you got grandchild time. 0:09:02.050 --> 0:09:03.310 Like that's, it's a lot. 0:09:03.350 --> 0:09:03.650 Yeah. 0:09:03.770 --> 0:09:05.050 And I'm the only child, so. 0:09:05.390 --> 0:09:07.470 Oh, so, oh yes, she was definitely waiting for that. 0:09:07.530 --> 0:09:08.189 Yeah. 0:09:08.230 --> 0:09:10.170 She was definitely waiting for that. So how did the, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.040 how did the guys, like what was their initial reaction? 0:09:13.670 --> 0:09:16.810 You know how they be. They be like, oh, word. 0:09:17.170 --> 0:09:19.360 Why do we all act the same way? We all 0:09:19.380 --> 0:09:22.020 the same way. We all the same way. That's crazy. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.200 That's crazy. Yes. You having sex? You having sex? 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.100 Like, what you doing? 0:09:27.140 --> 0:09:27.420 Yeah. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:28.200 Yeah. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.699 So everybody just thought I would just be in a 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:31.560 booth all the time. 0:09:31.580 --> 0:09:32.040 Yeah. 0:09:32.330 --> 0:09:34.850 Or, you know, at work. And so, I don't know. 0:09:34.870 --> 0:09:35.990 It was good, but it was love. 0:09:36.130 --> 0:09:37.130 Yeah. Yeah. Naturally. 0:09:37.830 --> 0:09:39.069 You know, it's love. 0:09:39.179 --> 0:09:42.610 And now I understand like how much like because Wes 0:09:42.650 --> 0:09:45.870 is very family oriented. Like so I understand now like 0:09:45.910 --> 0:09:47.609 where he's coming from, where it's like he bring the 0:09:47.630 --> 0:09:50.390 kids with him on trips. He'll have those times where 0:09:50.410 --> 0:09:52.809 it's just like I'm locked in on family. So now 0:09:52.870 --> 0:09:54.150 I totally understand that. 0:09:54.230 --> 0:09:57.530 Yeah. So now you're from Buffalo originally, born and raised. Yeah. 0:09:57.590 --> 0:10:00.090 And then you moved to the carolinas. 0:09:59.670 --> 0:10:02.690 Yes i went to school in durham initially north carolina 0:10:02.710 --> 0:10:04.190 central university and. 0:10:04.190 --> 0:10:06.100 Educated yeah right what did. 0:10:06.050 --> 0:10:08.480 You study um so when i first went in i'm 0:10:08.500 --> 0:10:11.000 not gonna lie i um me and my friends had 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.220 a pack like we was all gonna be nurses okay 0:10:13.260 --> 0:10:16.920 but i am horrible at science and math so once 0:10:16.980 --> 0:10:18.580 i took the entrance exam for that i was like 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.800 oh yeah hell no i'm not doing this So then 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.250 I just went in as a CIS major because at 0:10:24.290 --> 0:10:26.770 the time I was like, OK, well, like I used 0:10:26.809 --> 0:10:29.120 to know how to do my MySpace page real good 0:10:29.220 --> 0:10:31.439 and stuff like that. So I could code. And that 0:10:31.460 --> 0:10:37.319 was like. A different language. And so then I remember 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.800 going to my advisor, like once it's time to pick 0:10:39.820 --> 0:10:42.200 your classes and stuff like that. And he was also 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.480 my marketing teacher. And he was like, you can sell 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.260 ice to Eskimos. I feel like, you know, marketing is 0:10:47.300 --> 0:10:48.920 good for you because if you can market yourself, you 0:10:48.940 --> 0:10:49.540 could do anything. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:49.880 Right. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.720 And then once I did that, it was like maybe 0:10:53.260 --> 0:10:54.839 a year and a half. I was like, OK, bye. 0:10:55.380 --> 0:10:56.579 I'm about to go market myself. 0:10:56.850 --> 0:10:57.140 Yeah. 0:10:57.260 --> 0:10:58.630 Were you rapping at all at this point? 0:10:59.130 --> 0:10:59.510 Yes. 0:10:59.590 --> 0:11:04.330 So I got we were in a group called Buff City, me, 0:11:04.390 --> 0:11:07.329 Conway and Benny with DJ Shea. 0:11:07.950 --> 0:11:09.090 And so rest in peace DJ Shea. 0:11:11.130 --> 0:11:13.650 Um and so i used to be in school and 0:11:13.670 --> 0:11:15.130 i used to come back and forth to buffalo so 0:11:15.150 --> 0:11:16.770 we used to do shows or like i used to 0:11:16.790 --> 0:11:20.180 get on songs i did my mixtape and also ninth 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.580 wonder was my um hip-hop and context teacher so then 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.980 like i remember bringing him my mixtape bath and body 0:11:26.020 --> 0:11:28.880 work and i ain't gonna lie it was very raunchy 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.160 it was at a time where it's a great title 0:11:31.179 --> 0:11:35.070 for a project though bath and body fire that is fire. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.729 And then the marketing behind that. 0:11:36.490 --> 0:11:40.100 Yeah so like um He was just like, you know, 0:11:40.260 --> 0:11:42.790 you can spit. Like, you are a spitter, but, like, 0:11:43.050 --> 0:11:45.350 as your teacher, I can't really do nothing with this 0:11:45.429 --> 0:11:45.770 right now. 0:11:45.850 --> 0:11:47.670 But, like, you just keep working or whatever. 0:11:48.190 --> 0:11:51.860 And so, like, I was always doing it, but being 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.679 in North Carolina now, and I'm from Buffalo, and I 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.120 don't know nobody, I had to kind of, like... run 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.300 up my own like kind of like brand so just 0:11:59.370 --> 0:12:01.350 going to the studios where I knew like everybody would 0:12:01.370 --> 0:12:04.110 be at and like blocking out studio time like so 0:12:04.190 --> 0:12:06.370 everybody would be like well damn who in here you 0:12:06.410 --> 0:12:08.929 know but not letting nobody come in my studio sessions 0:12:09.390 --> 0:12:11.310 or just even going up to the radio stations like 0:12:11.390 --> 0:12:13.270 you know here go my record play my record or 0:12:13.650 --> 0:12:14.920 you know how much it's gonna cost to get it 0:12:14.980 --> 0:12:16.740 on the radio or on the mix shows and stuff 0:12:16.780 --> 0:12:19.319 like that like I had to literally build my own 0:12:19.380 --> 0:12:24.080 brand from scratch down there. And so that's how, you know, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.980 Armani Caesar kind of was built. And then once West, 0:12:27.020 --> 0:12:30.420 Benny and Conway started, you know, Griselda and they needed 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.620 a first lady, it was like, it's only right we 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.000 go get this. Cause you know, she, we already know 0:12:35.020 --> 0:12:37.310 that she spit her own shit. We already know that she, 0:12:37.450 --> 0:12:39.550 you know, she got the look, she got it. She 0:12:39.570 --> 0:12:42.230 really bought her bag. Like it only makes sense. 0:12:42.290 --> 0:12:45.939 So. No, it definitely, you know, made sense. And obviously 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.180 all y'all being from Buffalo. Yeah. Talk about just coming 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.839 up in Buffalo. And what's one of the biggest misconceptions? 0:12:53.020 --> 0:12:57.240 Because you've obviously moved to the Carolinas and traveled. What's 0:12:57.300 --> 0:13:01.040 one of the biggest misconceptions about Buffalo that you've felt 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:01.990 or like kind of seen? 0:13:02.750 --> 0:13:06.530 People just think that it's country like, oh, it's up north. 0:13:06.590 --> 0:13:09.990 It's not really New York. And granted, it's not like 0:13:10.030 --> 0:13:10.790 a big city. 0:13:11.250 --> 0:13:15.319 It's just like a big hood divided up into smaller hoods. OK, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.040 but it ain't like the country. It ain't like no 0:13:17.059 --> 0:13:18.400 cows out there or nothing like that. 0:13:19.970 --> 0:13:22.690 People be thinking like they be sleeping, but Buffalo is like, 0:13:23.210 --> 0:13:24.730 Buffalo is kind of like, you know. 0:13:24.890 --> 0:13:27.830 Yeah. No, it gets crazy. It turns up in Buffalo. 0:13:27.970 --> 0:13:28.490 Oh, for sure. 0:13:28.490 --> 0:13:28.550 1,000. 0:13:28.530 --> 0:13:31.170 It definitely turns up in Buffalo. But I feel like 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.840 most small towns is like that, though. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.679 When you travel, and I talk about this all the time, 0:13:35.700 --> 0:13:39.200 when you travel, no matter where you go. Mm-hmm. It's 0:13:39.220 --> 0:13:42.740 like you can see the similarities. Like, oh, okay, this is... Yeah. Like, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.760 I'm from New York, and this feels like Brooklyn. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:46.099 Yeah. 0:13:46.220 --> 0:13:48.900 Or this feels like, you know, the Bronx and Queens. Like, 0:13:49.370 --> 0:13:52.190 we all have the same... Especially when we all from 0:13:52.210 --> 0:13:53.050 the culture of hip-hop. 0:13:53.130 --> 0:13:53.830 Yeah, for sure. 0:13:53.850 --> 0:13:55.150 We kind of like, you know, we listen to the 0:13:55.190 --> 0:13:58.890 same things. Slang is different. Accent is a little different. 0:13:58.910 --> 0:14:01.290 But essentially, the hood is the hood. 0:14:01.490 --> 0:14:02.030 Exactly. 0:14:02.110 --> 0:14:02.530 So, you know. 0:14:05.350 --> 0:14:08.410 I want to get into like when you first, the Liz, 0:14:09.670 --> 0:14:12.410 the first, was it the first project? 0:14:12.410 --> 0:14:12.569 2020? 0:14:12.570 --> 0:14:15.609 2020. Yeah, 2020. And that was a year me and 0:14:15.630 --> 0:14:18.089 Roy would talk about during the pandemic. We got a 0:14:18.190 --> 0:14:19.770 lot of great music that year. Yes. 0:14:23.380 --> 0:14:25.120 Mall, Boost Mobile has proven that you do not have 0:14:25.140 --> 0:14:27.900 to overpay for great wireless. Unlock the savings right now 0:14:27.940 --> 0:14:30.870 with the $ 25 a month forever unlimited plan. 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The 0:15:11.410 --> 0:15:13.630 merch that you dropped, the hoodies was crazy. 0:15:13.750 --> 0:15:14.230 Thank you. 0:15:14.270 --> 0:15:15.330 Thank you. 0:15:16.490 --> 0:15:17.390 Yeah, girl took my hoodie. 0:15:18.460 --> 0:15:19.500 Yeah, they couldn't wait to get that. 0:15:19.540 --> 0:15:21.480 That was like the number one on the list of 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:22.620 hoodies I'm going to steal. 0:15:22.660 --> 0:15:24.480 Yeah, I had the black one and the white one. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:25.720 I think I had the blue one, too. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:25.880 Yeah. 0:15:25.900 --> 0:15:27.400 I think the blue one is still wrapped up. That 0:15:27.420 --> 0:15:28.040 shit been gone. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.250 Do a re-up so I can buy another one. 0:15:30.260 --> 0:15:32.610 Listen, I need to do a re-up so I can 0:15:32.630 --> 0:15:34.230 get one because I don't even know where my Liz 0:15:34.250 --> 0:15:34.950 hoodies is. 0:15:35.110 --> 0:15:36.850 Like, I only got the Liz, too, now. 0:15:37.350 --> 0:15:39.210 Now, you had one, I think, when y'all did, I 0:15:39.410 --> 0:15:42.910 think you did SOBs. Mm-hmm. You had one hoodie that... 0:15:43.340 --> 0:15:45.360 That was crazy. It was like, it was like cropped, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.460 I think. I was looking at that shit all night. 0:15:48.500 --> 0:15:49.870 I was like, I ain't gonna lie. She put that 0:15:49.900 --> 0:15:53.810 down anywhere. That's going to grow legs. That's going to 0:15:53.830 --> 0:15:55.150 grow legs. No, for real. 0:15:55.210 --> 0:15:57.609 Every time people come over, they always in my closet. Like, 0:15:57.770 --> 0:15:58.600 I need a hoodie. 0:15:59.010 --> 0:16:00.740 Did you have any, now we know Isaac, shout out 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.280 to Isaac. He actually, he did this, but did you 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.020 have any input on... the artwork at all? Or this 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.710 was something you just saw and it was like, oh, no, 0:16:08.050 --> 0:16:08.610 let's run with that. 0:16:08.770 --> 0:16:10.150 No, that was Wes. 0:16:10.390 --> 0:16:13.090 That was Wes like seeing a vision with like calling 0:16:13.110 --> 0:16:16.750