Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Its way up with angela Ye, and I made way
Speaker 2: up and this person sitting next to me is for
Speaker 2: sure the definition of way up.
Speaker 3: Skill of Baby's here.
Speaker 2: How are you doing? Look at you looking like an actor.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling though, Skill A baby, I'm good.
Speaker 2: You've been going so viral like over everything real. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know you have Stafford. It's a music, it's the acting.
Speaker 2: It's also I feel like the random interactions with fans,
Speaker 2: you know, and I like to see it because I
Speaker 2: think it's very genuine. Like I've seen people posting things
Speaker 2: that you may never have told anybody about, but that
Speaker 2: they're grateful for things that you've done, you know.
Speaker 3: Like I saw Sean Cotton from Say Cheese.
Speaker 2: Talking about you and how you know you just he
Speaker 2: was asking you for like a verse for an artist
Speaker 2: that he had, and you gave him two and didn't
Speaker 2: even charge them. He was like, he helped me out
Speaker 2: so much. I'll never have nothing bad to say about him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean Kint, that's my guy.
Speaker 3: M hm. So let's talk about where you are and
Speaker 3: life right now.
Speaker 2: We're getting ready for the Price of Fame to come out,
Speaker 2: and it has been very expensive in many ways, right,
Speaker 2: So talk to me about how you even said, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what the project is going to be called.
Speaker 4: I came up with that just think about all the
Speaker 4: sacrifices that I too and everybody else have to go
Speaker 4: through to be successful. And I was just think about
Speaker 4: everything I've been through financially, spiritually, emotionally, physically, everything, and
Speaker 4: just put it into a project.
Speaker 3: You think it's worth it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, only because I feel like everything I've been through
Speaker 4: changed the trajectory of my family, so it's worth What.
Speaker 3: Do you think? I mean?
Speaker 2: There was a period of time you also very athletic.
Speaker 2: Did you ever think you would be a professional athlete
Speaker 2: or was it just I.
Speaker 5: Did for a very short period of time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, until I started seeing what goes into that, I
Speaker 4: didn't want to really do it, like working out every
Speaker 4: day or having somebody monitor my life. I just so
Speaker 4: I think that was like it was disappointing to my
Speaker 4: family that I didn't do sports, but I found a
Speaker 4: other avenue.
Speaker 2: So were you super passionate about it though for a
Speaker 2: period of time, like, cause it is it does take
Speaker 2: a lot of dedication. I was talking to somebody about this,
Speaker 2: like when your parents push you to do something that
Speaker 2: you're good at, because a lot of successful athletes they
Speaker 2: did have people behind them that were kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes it's like, do I try to force
Speaker 2: you to do something that you have a talent at?
Speaker 2: Or is it okay to tell kids sometimes you ain't
Speaker 2: got to worry about it.
Speaker 4: I mean I was forced into it and then I
Speaker 4: loved it. So like from six seven years old all
Speaker 4: the way up till I was like fifteen sixteen, I
Speaker 4: played basketball and football. But then when I didn't have
Speaker 4: that motivation no more, when my dad passed and stuff,
Speaker 4: it just was like life life hit me and it
Speaker 4: was cool, Like I just I knew I had to.
Speaker 4: It was more so take care of my responsibilities, then
Speaker 4: do what I love for.
Speaker 2: I saw your interviewing yourself talking about why you know
Speaker 2: why your name is skill?
Speaker 3: A baby? So is this going to be a real
Speaker 3: series of you asking yourself.
Speaker 1: Questions every Friday?
Speaker 3: Every Friday? What made you decide to do that?
Speaker 4: I just just how I made the album. The first
Speaker 4: thing I looked up was some of my favorite album rollouts,
Speaker 4: so I had, like before I had the music, I
Speaker 4: had the rollout on my album, Like in my notes
Speaker 4: and everything I wanted to do. Some things I couldn't do,
Speaker 4: but a lot of stuff I knocked down. So I
Speaker 4: just wanted to stay consistent with my rollout in the
Speaker 4: theme of my project. So I just wanted to everything
Speaker 4: I do to be fun and creative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so do you have like it's going to be
Speaker 2: one question every Friday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that you answered, I had a whole interview.
Speaker 4: But I feel like it'd be more fun for me
Speaker 4: if I just strung it along a little bit and
Speaker 4: just let everybody get one question at a time then
Speaker 4: trying to force a whole, big, long piece of content.
Speaker 4: I feel like it'll live better if I did one
Speaker 4: question at a time and made people want more.
Speaker 2: It feels like everything you decide you want to do
Speaker 2: is something that you kind of study, Like now that
Speaker 2: you're acting. I see you took acting classes and a
Speaker 2: lot of people will try to just you know, you
Speaker 2: have a name for yourself and you can get into
Speaker 2: some roles, but you took it seriously enough to say
Speaker 2: I'm going to take these classes. Yeah, And it feels
Speaker 2: like that's a skill of baby thing. Like anytime you
Speaker 2: decide you want to do something, you go really hard
Speaker 2: at it. What was it like for you taking acting classes,
Speaker 2: because it could feel a little weird to try to
Speaker 2: like jump into character and have to you know, I
Speaker 2: want to know what that was like.
Speaker 4: Lady had me jump around like a kangaroo or a
Speaker 4: time doing jumping jacks.
Speaker 3: I need to see that video.
Speaker 4: Like acting classes is a lot like my teacher wasn't
Speaker 4: playing like she was just make you get down to
Speaker 4: do push ups if you don't do it right, make
Speaker 4: you perform your lines while doing jumping jacks, all type
Speaker 4: of stuff. Just getting into a row. And that was
Speaker 4: like that was like when I first got in class.
Speaker 4: It was on Zoom and I was at the Jurys though,
Speaker 4: and she was mad at me and she wouldn't take.
Speaker 3: Me cause you're not taking it to you at the
Speaker 3: jewelry store. You're supposed to be in class.
Speaker 1: But I really know what it was like.
Speaker 4: All the class in tilled, so I just was like
Speaker 4: Rocket actually had me on there and I got on
Speaker 4: Zoom and they like, where are you at? I actually
Speaker 4: went to the back of the jury store, had to
Speaker 4: stop what I was doing and everything, But it was
Speaker 4: fun like just seeing where I started and where I'm
Speaker 4: at and just looking at myself tapes and tapes I
Speaker 4: did in class to where I'm at now.
Speaker 1: It was it was a lot. It was fun.
Speaker 3: So you did in person classes too? Are they all
Speaker 3: were on zoom?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I had to fly to LA and do in
Speaker 1: person classes.
Speaker 3: Was it just you? Yeah, okay, it's private.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I've seen some like other artists that
Speaker 2: have taken classes with other people in it. It's always
Speaker 2: funny to hear their stories.
Speaker 3: What it's like.
Speaker 4: I went one class it had people in there and
Speaker 4: they had to perform and stuff. But she liked doing
Speaker 4: my stuff private, so it was cool.
Speaker 3: What was that type of feedback that she was given
Speaker 3: to you during that time?
Speaker 1: It depends on what day.
Speaker 4: At the beginning, she just had a lot, a lot,
Speaker 4: a lot of feedback or what I had to like,
Speaker 4: you know, like if you jump into something, you come
Speaker 4: to radio, you learn how to do drops or whatever,
Speaker 4: and you learn how to speak properly on what you
Speaker 4: can and can't say. I had to learn everything about acting,
Speaker 4: so I had to learn my marks. I had to
Speaker 4: learn camera angles, close up shots, why shots, what I'm
Speaker 4: supposed to do, how my body language supposed to be.
Speaker 4: So it's so much I had to learn and just
Speaker 4: my first part was the tech technicalities of it, like
Speaker 4: marks and stuff like that, different shots and verbage. And
Speaker 4: then you got into act acting.
Speaker 3: And so you love that. Now this is a lane.
Speaker 4: Acting is a thing where like all the actors love
Speaker 4: it because they did it as a child. I love
Speaker 4: it because I can show my range and people be
Speaker 4: so shocked to see I can act. So it's only
Speaker 4: fun for me when I'm playing a role that people
Speaker 4: can Actually, I don't want to be an extra or
Speaker 4: anything like that.
Speaker 2: I remember early on meeting you and I was like,
Speaker 2: he's so shy, like just and things have changed so much.
Speaker 3: Just you feel like you've overcome.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm matured a little bit. I learned
Speaker 4: who I am as a person, I think, so I
Speaker 4: feel like I just grew.
Speaker 2: So I want to ask you this because you know,
Speaker 2: there's common phrases like money can't buy happiness. People always
Speaker 2: say that, right, but money can't buy happiness, but it
Speaker 2: does change how you experience it. And you've talked about
Speaker 2: just basically being happy to be in this position. Obviously
Speaker 2: the price of fame has been expensive in many ways,
Speaker 2: emotionally financially for sure, and the sacrifices that you've had
Speaker 2: to make. But when you think about it, people tell
Speaker 2: you money can't buy happiness. Do you think that that's
Speaker 2: true or do you think some people say more money,
Speaker 2: more problems.
Speaker 1: More money, more problems.
Speaker 4: But sure, I think money can't buy you happiness, but
Speaker 4: money can fund your happiness. I think money is necessary.
Speaker 4: I think like in the world we live in, everything costs,
Speaker 4: and everything you love to do cost So money is
Speaker 4: not the happiness, but it's a tool to happiness if
Speaker 4: you use it the right way. So I don't think
Speaker 4: you could buy someone's happiness, but you could fund it
Speaker 4: like you can. And it just depends on what you
Speaker 4: what makes you happy though, Like I'm happy as when
Speaker 4: people around me are happy. They happiest when they can
Speaker 4: do what they can do, like they love to do.
Speaker 4: For me, to help them do what they love to do,
Speaker 4: have to have money.
Speaker 2: So I saw you buy a house for our family.
Speaker 2: Can you just share to me, like what happened? Like
Speaker 2: what was going on in your head? You know you
Speaker 2: saw them, Like, just explain what was behind all of that,
Speaker 2: like the full story.
Speaker 4: We actually do that a lot though, It's just that
Speaker 4: timing got broadcasted because we partner with the mayor. But
Speaker 4: I didn't put girls through college, did everything. Just what
Speaker 4: I like to do with my money, I'll try to
Speaker 4: give back. If I make a lot of money, I'll
Speaker 4: try to give a little bit or something back to
Speaker 4: the community because they helped me come up. So I'd
Speaker 4: just rather do that every year at least two three
Speaker 4: times a year.
Speaker 2: Do you have an organized like nonprofit or how do
Speaker 2: you determine that or.
Speaker 1: You just like I don't come.
Speaker 2: We gotta get this together, right because you got to
Speaker 2: do that, because then at least, like.
Speaker 4: I donated like a million dollars, like donated like all
Speaker 4: over the years, probably over a million dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't got no, no, I don't do.
Speaker 2: It for that, I know, but I think that like
Speaker 2: we were just talking about money, but I'm non proper.
Speaker 2: You don't have to still be like public about it.
Speaker 2: But I think also for your own taxes, you might
Speaker 2: as well, you know, be able to benefit from that.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It'll be the smart thing to do, for sure, But
Speaker 4: I just I just I don't be planning to do it.
Speaker 4: I'll just be winging it. So like if I buy
Speaker 4: five hundred pair of shoes. I'm just bound fire hundred
Speaker 4: pair shoes if I do a gun by back. I
Speaker 4: just thought it that day, and I just donated to
Speaker 4: the city. I don't be looking for like anything in return.
Speaker 2: From I'm just trying to say like an organized You
Speaker 2: understand you're talking about financial literacy and also making sure
Speaker 2: that it's just because I love the fact that it's
Speaker 2: what you're passionate about and what you want to do
Speaker 2: in real estate and investing and helping people and education.
Speaker 2: But I do think like having that initiative, and then
Speaker 2: at least the more you say off your taxes, the
Speaker 2: more you can give. I would always rather give people
Speaker 2: my money than give it back to the government, for.
Speaker 4: Sure, And that's the smart way to go about it.
Speaker 4: My managers tell me that all the time. I just
Speaker 4: haven't invested in my mind into doing that. I really
Speaker 4: need to though, I really do need to do that.
Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about the trailer that you did with
Speaker 2: fifty cent for this project. So you and fifty cent
Speaker 2: have gone really cool.
Speaker 3: So you're doing power Origins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in power Woo.
Speaker 3: That's a big deal. That's listen.
Speaker 2: I cannot and First of all, you know, I watch
Speaker 2: all of the whole Power universe, so I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to seeing that. So what's your role on Power Origins?
Speaker 4: I'm I don't want to give it away because I
Speaker 4: don't even know if I.
Speaker 1: Could do that.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I didn't know if it was you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't do that about you, though.
Speaker 3: I always got it. Yeah, how did you do in?
Speaker 3: Fifty gets so cool? Though?
Speaker 4: Oh, me and fifty got cool just in passing over
Speaker 4: the years. I think the first time I met fifty,
Speaker 4: I was in Vegas somewhere, and no, the first time
Speaker 4: I met fifty, my guy from New York introduced me
Speaker 4: to him.
Speaker 1: His name TV TV, a good friend of mine. Real
Speaker 1: cool guy.
Speaker 4: TV introduced me, like, skill it, I want you to
Speaker 4: beat fifty like he introduced me to fifty at NICKI
Speaker 4: Minaj and fifty was somebody from Detroit, his pops. And
Speaker 4: then we just got to kicking it. The next time
Speaker 4: I seen Fifty, I was with Little Meach And then
Speaker 4: the next time I seen him, I was it was
Speaker 4: Super Bowl and then we just kept building and building.
Speaker 4: Then I got with Rocket. We started doing the acting thing.
Speaker 4: I started going to acting classes. For like a year
Speaker 4: and a half Dan records like, yeah, I'm gonna just
Speaker 4: tell fifty out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Then fifty is like huh.
Speaker 4: He started sending myself tapes and stuff, and that's how
Speaker 4: I got into acting, and me and fifty just been
Speaker 4: closer since.
Speaker 1: So it's been like.
Speaker 4: Two three years. So we've been building connection over the
Speaker 4: past two three years. And it don't have to be
Speaker 4: broadcast because it's just that's like one of my mentors,
Speaker 4: just like any of these guys like I just I
Speaker 4: value with their opinions, Like you want a person like that.
Speaker 4: It don't have to be no financial gain or anything
Speaker 4: like that. I just really cherish his friendship.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people have compared like certain
Speaker 2: situations you've been in two fifty cent and felt like
Speaker 2: he because I also thought that too. I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's been giving you, like some advice because
Speaker 2: he's lived through a lot of things as well, and
Speaker 2: it's a blessing. And I know, I want to say
Speaker 2: that when I saw what happened to you, I just
Speaker 2: am happy, Like we were honestly up here like this
Speaker 2: is wow, this is crazy, but we saw that you
Speaker 2: did that prayer and then a few days later there
Speaker 2: was an incident where you know you were shot, but
Speaker 2: thank God you're still here with us. But a lot
Speaker 2: of people feel like that prayer is kind of something
Speaker 2: that maybe did play a part in saving you. Did
Speaker 2: you think that too, like because you posted it online
Speaker 2: and that came up afterwards.
Speaker 4: I mean, I pray every day, so I don't think
Speaker 4: one prayer or another was like more valuable than the other.
Speaker 1: I try to pray every day.
Speaker 4: I got a timer on my phone to pray, So
Speaker 4: I think that prayer I only put it online because
Speaker 4: I feel like God wanted me to do that, Like
Speaker 4: something in my heart was like put this prayer online.
Speaker 4: People need to be prayed for it, and they need
Speaker 4: they needed from a voice from my perspective of young God.
Speaker 4: That's I'm a street guy, but I'm in irrelevant, Like
Speaker 4: I'm a relevant guy and people look at me in
Speaker 4: the light where I'm cool. So I feel like kids
Speaker 4: and everybody else needed that voice to make this a
Speaker 4: cool thing and like not shy away from a relationship
Speaker 4: with God.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that prayer. Maybe that.
Speaker 3: Online and that's what it was.
Speaker 1: All my prayers saved me.
Speaker 4: I think The thing I loved the most about after
Speaker 4: I got shot was all the prayers that people sent me, Like,
Speaker 4: you know, like I had a DM full of probably
Speaker 4: a million dms of people just I just felt loved
Speaker 4: and appreciated and people felt like they was part of
Speaker 4: the situation. And it's like I hated who did that
Speaker 4: the skill and praying prayers up for skilling people sending
Speaker 4: me passages and from the Bible, and it just it
Speaker 4: felt really good, like I fell loved.
Speaker 2: And then a couple of days later you popped out
Speaker 2: at four two Doug and they went crazy when you
Speaker 2: went on stage. How do you get rid of like
Speaker 2: anger over a situation like that, because that's hard too,
Speaker 2: like to move to a place where you're like everything
Speaker 2: I have going on is too valuable, and because I can't, like,
Speaker 2: you know, the first thought I'm sure is when you
Speaker 2: come out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I I don't think my My my thoughts was
Speaker 4: like everything I have too valuable.
Speaker 1: I felt like.
Speaker 4: People don't realize just the hardest part about going through situations,
Speaker 4: whatever it is, getting shot, getting into it, people anything,
Speaker 4: it's walking away. People think it's easy to walk away.
Speaker 4: Like as a man, my pride is everything so walking
Speaker 4: away was actually harder than not walking away, like I
Speaker 4: could easily do something to somebody. I'm not a scary person.
Speaker 4: It's just like walking away that took everything.
Speaker 5: I agree with that, So.
Speaker 4: People don't understand that. People look at you like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you just type of way you're scary if you walk away,
Speaker 4: I'm really not. I'm really just taking everything out of me.
Speaker 4: This was the biggest thing I could do. This is
Speaker 4: the biggest, the hardest choice I could make. So I
Speaker 4: feel like it was a hard choice for me to
Speaker 4: remove myself from certain situations, but I felt like it
Speaker 4: was beneficial for more than.
Speaker 2: Just me because on the trailer for the Price of Fame,
Speaker 2: you talk about feeling like you lost everything at a
Speaker 2: certain point and that people really gave up on you
Speaker 2: in your life. And the thing is, from the oyside
Speaker 2: looking in, we wouldn't think that right because I've always
Speaker 2: felt like skill a baby gets a lot of love,
Speaker 2: even from like you said, behind the scenes, things that
Speaker 2: aren't publicized. There's people that they meet you and they
Speaker 2: take a liking to you. I think automatically just your
Speaker 2: whole demeanor. You know how you are, and you're talented
Speaker 2: as an artist, so of course people would want to
Speaker 2: be around, but there was a period of time when
Speaker 2: you felt like you were deserted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably like inside out not outside. Then I always
Speaker 4: get love from people that don't really know me. It'd
Speaker 4: be like certain situations from people that know you, or
Speaker 4: it be situations that you'd be like somebody had judge
Speaker 4: you for a situation and they know you, so you
Speaker 4: will look at them like, you know me, why you
Speaker 4: know I wouldn't do this, But it's something to talk
Speaker 4: about or something like that. Like if I say Azelau
Speaker 4: was doing this, but I know you're not like that,
Speaker 4: but it's conversational piece. People will keep talking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like it's more gossip if I say she did the
Speaker 4: wrong thing and the right thing.
Speaker 1: So there's more stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know, when you talk about how hard it is
Speaker 2: to walk away. I think it's so important to stress
Speaker 2: something like that for everybody, right, because a lot of
Speaker 2: time our egos do get the best of us in
Speaker 2: situations and we want to prove things to people who
Speaker 2: then you prove something and then now then they start
Speaker 2: calling you dumb for making a move to retaliate against
Speaker 2: somebody who did something to you and at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you got to like move and do
Speaker 2: like it's chess like thinking long term, and like you said,
Speaker 2: that is I think the strongest, hardest thing to be
Speaker 2: able to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I think like in certain situations with me,
Speaker 4: with fifty, with anybody that I'm around, anybody that doesn't
Speaker 4: like us or has something against us, it hurts them
Speaker 4: in the long run because you can't come in no
Speaker 4: room that I'm in, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like it.
Speaker 4: Hurts others to try to do like be against me.
Speaker 4: It hurts them worse because if you want to do
Speaker 4: the same thing that I do, you can't because everybody
Speaker 4: loved me. So I think it's just killing what she says.
Speaker 2: Now, you also are known as the ladies man, and
Speaker 2: the girls love skill a baby, and even the guys
Speaker 2: like listening to the music and the songs. You know,
Speaker 2: that's a vibe for even man to be able to
Speaker 2: relate to how you rap about women. I think that's
Speaker 2: a good space to be in because it's like I
Speaker 2: saw you do the freestyles over a Leah then the.
Speaker 3: Bryceon Tailor Chris Bown song.
Speaker 2: But I did also see you post a young lady
Speaker 2: the other day and it went viral, saying that's his girl.
Speaker 3: So was that a real thing?
Speaker 1: A few days ago, I was promoting my song.
Speaker 3: Okay, just asking for the ladies listening. They might want
Speaker 3: to know. I was promoting my song, okay, So it's hard.
Speaker 1: I always promote my song.
Speaker 3: I mean it looked a little close. You know.
Speaker 1: It was just promoting my song.
Speaker 3: And that's it. You know.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you traveling around the world, like
Speaker 2: you have the song and listen, they haven't sent us
Speaker 2: the album because it's not coming out till August, right,
Speaker 2: but everything is done, it's ready to go.
Speaker 3: You do have this song called London Ting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so what happened in London that made you
Speaker 2: say we got to write a song about this.
Speaker 1: I've never been to London. You haven't.
Speaker 3: You just did a song so London gets love and
Speaker 3: you've never been there.
Speaker 1: It was motivated. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: Now you have to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta go.
Speaker 4: But I wrote that song because I was listening to
Speaker 4: Drake and Centrucy. Okay, London one of my places that
Speaker 4: I really want to go, and I like I like
Speaker 4: their lingo, I like or accent and it just I
Speaker 4: was motivated in the studio. Just I be motivated by
Speaker 4: other artists and music a lot. So like I listen
Speaker 4: to somebody music and I'd be like, I want to
Speaker 4: take some of the elements of what they did and
Speaker 4: making my own put my own toys on it.
Speaker 2: All right, So that's got to be on the bucket
Speaker 2: list of places that ladies are gonna go crazy in
Speaker 2: London when you get there too. That's so funny because
Speaker 2: when I saw this, I was like, I got to
Speaker 2: see what this London story it is for you?
Speaker 3: Now. You also started off with the prayer baptism Sunday?
Speaker 3: Was that something?
Speaker 2: And like you said, you do pray all the time
Speaker 2: and you've been really open about it. But I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say that's normal, you know, like a I don't want
Speaker 2: to use the word normal, but I wouldn't say that
Speaker 2: it is as popular for artists to be as open
Speaker 2: about that. Did it take you, Like, how did you
Speaker 2: feel about getting into the space where you felt comfortable
Speaker 2: to be able to post that online and talk about it.
Speaker 4: I used to be very like I wouldn't say comfortable,
Speaker 4: but I usual to be scared to show my faith
Speaker 4: because I didn't think, like it's not the coolest thing
Speaker 4: to do when you are an artists or somebody in public.
Speaker 2: Like, but.
Speaker 4: I feel like what would be obedient of me when
Speaker 4: it comes to faith, you know, So it's not about
Speaker 4: being cool. Your faith is about being obedient. So if
Speaker 4: I feel like God telling me to do something, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do it. And like I always say, I'm not
Speaker 4: passing judgment on anybody, I'm just showing my faith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm leading by example.
Speaker 4: So it's not really a thing where I'm trying to
Speaker 4: prove this to anybody or do that. I'm just doing
Speaker 4: what God. I think God is telling me to do,
Speaker 4: being obedient.
Speaker 2: I remember I had the Detroit Youth Choir up here
Speaker 2: and they were talking about they were so excited that
Speaker 2: you did a song with them. I feel like stuff
Speaker 2: like that makes it's so organic. But I also feel
Speaker 2: like it's something that you love to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like I like helping kids. And I was
Speaker 4: always taught when I was a kid that we was
Speaker 4: the future. So when I see the future, I just
Speaker 4: I try to put my hands on it and and
Speaker 4: enhanced whatever day got going on and support it.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're also in Diarra from Detroit this season, and
Speaker 2: I know that's about to come out, so congratulations on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny cause I met Deiara and I
Speaker 2: was saying and they actually sent me an email cause
Speaker 2: she's planning to come.
Speaker 3: Up here too.
Speaker 2: But I had told her, I said, you should put
Speaker 2: skiller Baby on the show, and she sent me an
Speaker 2: email she.
Speaker 3: Was like, guess what, we got skiller Baby on here.
Speaker 4: She's such a beautiful person. She was she the day
Speaker 4: I got on set, she was just even when she
Speaker 4: wasn't in the scene, she was coming supporting me, making
Speaker 4: me like sure I was comfortable and everything else. That
Speaker 4: was a great set to be on. And that was
Speaker 4: like my first major set. So and they actually thought
Speaker 4: I did a great job. I'm like, this is my
Speaker 4: first set I'm on. But they was like, you're doing
Speaker 4: a good job.
Speaker 1: That made me happy.
Speaker 3: Were you comfortable when you were like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was comfortable.
Speaker 4: But my first scene they jumped me right in. They
Speaker 4: had me doing the intimacy scene.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well that's not bad.
Speaker 1: Did you that's just crazy for us. Did you have a.
Speaker 2: Conversation with the person that you had a scene with like,
Speaker 2: did y'all have to know each other first or did
Speaker 2: you just jump in?
Speaker 3: Didn't speak to her prior?
Speaker 4: We spoke a little bit, but that was part of
Speaker 4: the acting classes they teach you. You you make sure
Speaker 4: somebody's comfortable, y'all both talk with an intimacy coordinator all that.
Speaker 1: So I was prepared. I was really prepared.
Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure she was comfortable and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. But it was just like my first scene
Speaker 4: on the act.
Speaker 2: We can't wait to see this posting this, I think
Speaker 2: when does it shows that the twenty ninth I think
Speaker 2: the new season starts. So do you have other role?
Speaker 2: I know you're doing Origin, but do you have other
Speaker 2: roles lined up? Is this something that you're like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I My agency kicks out so many self tapes
Speaker 4: to me. They're really a good agency. Shout out to IAG.
Speaker 4: They're a really good agency.
Speaker 1: And I have roles.
Speaker 4: I've been auditioning for some roles we turned down, but
Speaker 4: it just doesn't make sense for my career at this point.
Speaker 4: But I have other roles that I'm supposed to be
Speaker 4: getting into.
Speaker 3: What would be something that doesn't make sense for you
Speaker 3: at this point?
Speaker 1: Just stuff that I'm not mature enough for.
Speaker 3: Okay, are there roles that you're like, I wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to play a police officer, doesn't matter. Okay, I want
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 4: More romance, funny stuff. But some stuff I'm just not
Speaker 4: mature enough for. I go over with management and may like,
Speaker 4: you're just not mature enough for it, And we talked
Speaker 4: to the agency. Let them know and it'll be cool.
Speaker 3: So you like the love scenes, yeah, it'd be cool.
Speaker 4: Like I think a lot of my some of my
Speaker 4: favorite movies are love movies, like Pretty Women.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that, like you took it way back?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like older movies. I don't really like how
Speaker 4: newer movies are shot. I like the old school VHS
Speaker 4: type of feel like older cameras, Like I think that
Speaker 4: was cooler.
Speaker 2: Mmm, we could do a modern day Pretty Women. It
Speaker 2: could be gonna spend.
Speaker 3: That, No, it might go listen.
Speaker 2: But you know what, though, what I love is the
Speaker 2: way that you're spending that, like you said, is helping
Speaker 2: women go to college. And just do you keep in
Speaker 2: touch with people that, like you're giving them money to
Speaker 2: finish school and all that, Like, do y'all stay in communication?
Speaker 3: Are you just here?
Speaker 4: It just be here and I go about my life
Speaker 4: for real, I'll just be wanting people to I want
Speaker 4: to help out and move out the way I don't
Speaker 4: want to be because I don't want to be the
Speaker 4: center of attention.
Speaker 1: It's not my goal. My goal is to help you as.
Speaker 4: I can, But I can't really, like I don't want
Speaker 4: to stay in contact with everybody because I have other
Speaker 4: people to.
Speaker 3: Help, yeah, because then they might be like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's time to buy books again.
Speaker 1: Not even that.
Speaker 4: It just like I gotta focus on everybody. I want
Speaker 4: to help everybody, and not if I just had everybody
Speaker 4: on my phone that I helped. I have a thousand contexts.
Speaker 2: Calling me okay here, So we're gonna you gotta we're
Speaker 2: gonna plan this out. You gotta get this set up
Speaker 2: in a nonprofit way. But I also think what will
Speaker 2: help is to get like, have a fundraiser, because then
Speaker 2: you can really have donations from corporations and then even
Speaker 2: be able to help more people. So you can do
Speaker 2: something where we have the gala. What's the name of
Speaker 2: your foundation? We're coming up with it right now. What
Speaker 2: would be the name of your foundation?
Speaker 3: Come? What is it called?
Speaker 1: Change the World?
Speaker 2: Okay, Change the World scale of Baby, Change the World Foundation.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna have a gala, and let's see,
Speaker 2: should we do it in Detroit? You think, yeah, you
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: And so what I'm envisioning is that people are gonna come,
Speaker 2: They're gonna donate money. We're gonna get the Pistons, are
Speaker 2: gonna donate money, We're gonna have the Dan Gilbert Foundation.
Speaker 2: I'm putting it all together in my head of how
Speaker 2: you can do this, and then you're gonna actually be
Speaker 2: able to get millions of dollars raised so that you
Speaker 2: can help with housing, with education, with necessities.
Speaker 3: For every day.
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be amazing. And then I
Speaker 2: think you should document the process of setting this up.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm just thinking about, like.
Speaker 4: This part of this interview would be on it if
Speaker 4: I did like the intro. Yeah, like she killed me
Speaker 4: with this.
Speaker 2: Now let's talk more about this album. Like I said,
Speaker 2: we haven't had a I know two songs off the
Speaker 2: album that we heard g Y s M. Of course
Speaker 2: get You Some Money and Face Card love that song.
Speaker 2: And you know the ladies love Face Card, but no tears. Now,
Speaker 2: they did send me some of the lyrics from off
Speaker 2: of the album and I'm dying to hear this one,
Speaker 2: And you talk about have you ever been around so
Speaker 2: much violence and death?
Speaker 3: It just made you numb?
Speaker 2: And that is something for people to think about, because
Speaker 2: I feel like also with online too, we are getting
Speaker 2: really desensitized to things going on, Like we're watching stuff
Speaker 2: on social media and it's just too much.
Speaker 3: Do you ever feel like you have to detach? Yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure from all of that.
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 4: Right before I had got shot, I had like took
Speaker 4: a real long break from social media. I deleted all
Speaker 4: my social media's only because I felt like it's normal
Speaker 4: to see stuff online and you will compare yourself to it,
Speaker 4: and you will compare your success to it. And I'm
Speaker 4: successful in my own right, but I, like, I don't
Speaker 4: want to get distracted by somebody else's destiny, you know.
Speaker 4: So a lot of times I deleted because, like, and
Speaker 4: it's normal for everybody to get jealous and envious. It's
Speaker 4: just how you act on it. So I'm a human,
Speaker 4: So I get jealous and envious about stuff, and like,
Speaker 4: I would never act on it, but it's only because
Speaker 4: I'm distracted because it's.
Speaker 1: In my way, Like it's in my face.
Speaker 4: So if it's not in my face, I won't think
Speaker 4: about it for real, and I'll just move in my
Speaker 4: own pace instead of somebody else.
Speaker 2: I think that's your because social media also always shows
Speaker 2: like the highlights of what people have going on, and
Speaker 2: not necessarily what it took to get there, or even
Speaker 2: sometimes it's not real, like people are showing things off
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, dang, how they got a yacht and
Speaker 2: they got X, Y and Z, and you know, I.
Speaker 4: Can borrow your car keys and stand in front of
Speaker 4: your current act like it's mine. It's cool, you know, So.
Speaker 3: I think you're current probably nicer than mine, though.
Speaker 4: I probably, I don't know, like not. You've been successful
Speaker 4: for a long time, so.
Speaker 2: I feel like the trade though that's motive city. Y'all
Speaker 2: be flexing more out there here. I took the train today.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, have you been on the people moving?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I used to get on the people moving around
Speaker 1: as a kid. But here I'll travel on the ferry
Speaker 1: for real.
Speaker 3: With the ferry, we fiery guys from Jersey or from from.
Speaker 4: Jersey, from Jersey get on the ferry instead of taking
Speaker 4: the tunnel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you remember what it was like when people
Speaker 2: first started realizing who you were, because there's always that
Speaker 2: process of when you can move around and be like,
Speaker 2: you know, low, but then there's a period of time
Speaker 2: now where everybody sees you.
Speaker 3: And knows who you are. Do you remember when that
Speaker 3: switch happened?
Speaker 4: Not really, I don't remember when it switch happened, because
Speaker 4: it gradually happened. Because you know, I used to run
Speaker 4: around with Sader, Like Sad was like the biggest thing
Speaker 4: in Detroit.
Speaker 3: So we InterVID you guys together around lift service. That
Speaker 3: was a funny interview.
Speaker 4: Sat was like the biggest thing in Detroit. So everybody
Speaker 4: loved Sader. So I just was getting a little noticed
Speaker 4: with him. But then I don't know, I think I
Speaker 4: made a song TAPEV style and everybody, just like in
Speaker 4: the Middlewest, just knew who I was, and that was cool.
Speaker 4: I started getting booked for shows and stuff, like I
Speaker 4: seen my first fifteen thousand dollars show.
Speaker 1: I was so happy.
Speaker 3: I bet you were. That's nice. What's the plan for
Speaker 3: this As far as touring.
Speaker 4: I'm with my touring agency, Like I said, iag they
Speaker 4: were putting together a plan for that and really routing
Speaker 4: it and doing it.
Speaker 1: The right way.
Speaker 5: So we just seeing what makes sense and then we're
Speaker 5: gonna come up with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the album cover is reminiscent, it's channeling Tupac, and
Speaker 2: you have a Dear Mama song on here as well,
Speaker 2: So Tupac was a big inspiration to you also.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tupac was an inspiration behind a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: I've done just in my career period though, Like he's
Speaker 4: an inspiration behind me acting and everything.
Speaker 1: So and we.
Speaker 4: Wanted everything I do to be creative and be a
Speaker 4: conversation piece. So we just wanted everything to be nostalgic
Speaker 4: and create a conversation. And I don't want anybody to
Speaker 4: think I'm comparing myself to Tupac, because I'm not, because
Speaker 4: he's the biggest and what he's doing, and I just
Speaker 4: want to pay homage for real.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: It's interesting the nostalgia part of it to me because
Speaker 2: you reference pretty women a lot of people like younger generation.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they've all you know, Kayla, have
Speaker 2: you seen pretty women?
Speaker 3: Do you know? Okay?
Speaker 2: I know every time I'm not sure what people know,
Speaker 2: like the disconnect, I ask Kayla because she's only twenty
Speaker 2: two years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I just always be curious.
Speaker 2: What are some other movies that you would say are
Speaker 2: some classics that are favorites of.
Speaker 4: Yours favorite movies? Wow, my favorite ghetto movie is Killing Season.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's funny. Okay, I like.
Speaker 1: That for you Leave it to Beaver.
Speaker 3: That's really old saying lot do you know? Leave it
Speaker 3: to she? Don't know none of these? You know Killer Season,
Speaker 3: that's a throwback to her.
Speaker 5: I think I think everybody should watch the Imitation of Life.
Speaker 2: Though, the imitation of Life? I have anybody seen that?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: Everybody should watch it. I think that makes If a
Speaker 4: grown man watched that, he gonna cry.
Speaker 5: The imitation of life?
Speaker 3: What is the imitation of life?
Speaker 1: You gotta watch it.
Speaker 5: I'm about my past made me watch that movie.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. That's interesting. So that was your household?
Speaker 1: Was like going on Mississippi? Damn?
Speaker 3: Oh you know when? Okay, I love that for you?
Speaker 3: What do you watch now?
Speaker 1: Law and Order?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: You said that so fast? Like that's your show? So
Speaker 2: nothing like none of these. You don't watch Love Island
Speaker 2: or nothing like that.
Speaker 4: I ain't really into reality Like I don't watch reality TV.
Speaker 4: I watched TV and movies not based on trying to
Speaker 4: perfect my craft. So I'll watch a lot of Raisin
Speaker 4: Caine in the Power Universe. I'll watch Law and Order.
Speaker 4: My favorite actor, Jim Carrey. So I just watched Denzel Washington.
Speaker 4: I'll just fall in a rabbit hole or watching.
Speaker 3: Internal Sunshine into that.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I want to do I want to ask
Speaker 2: you in Power Origins do you have love scenes on there?
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking you what your character is, but do
Speaker 3: you have I know you.
Speaker 1: Said that about that. I can't talk about.
Speaker 3: That, okay, all right, No, I'm trying to get me fired. Okay, No,
Speaker 3: that would never happen.
Speaker 1: You're trying to give me fired.
Speaker 3: Oh come on, I don't do that.
Speaker 5: Now, you're making me feel that's some number one on
Speaker 5: the course.
Speaker 3: She stuff like, oh, you're not like to talk about nothing.
Speaker 1: Like number one on the carse sheet.
Speaker 4: They get like they get like scootered around in the
Speaker 4: in the private truck, like I'm really a starving actor,
Speaker 4: Like I like I got a ride on the sprinter
Speaker 4: to work.
Speaker 2: That's not so bad. You get a ride to work
Speaker 2: at least, Yeah, But some people gotta I.
Speaker 4: Gotta build my way there I have to build my
Speaker 4: way up in there. Like I treat acting like I'm Trayvon.
Speaker 4: I don't treat it like I'm skilling baby. So that's
Speaker 4: a whole separate sector of me. So I don't go
Speaker 4: to work like I'm skilling or anything.
Speaker 3: I go to work humble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I dressed in casual attire.
Speaker 4: I want people to know I'm taking what they love serious,
Speaker 4: like they craft. So I don't go there with no
Speaker 4: attitude or anything. Anything they ask me to do, I
Speaker 4: try to do.
Speaker 2: That's true because I think as a rapper, there's this
Speaker 2: stigma that like, oh all these rappers slash actors just
Speaker 2: trying to step into this and not taking this craft
Speaker 2: as seriously as they share. So sometimes people judge you
Speaker 2: way more harshly because of that.
Speaker 4: For sure, That's why I go to set. I try
Speaker 4: to make everybody comfortable. I speak to everybody. I don't
Speaker 4: want anybody to think I'm trying to be handed anything.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna work from the bottom up. I really be
Speaker 4: in my head, I be thinking like like every other
Speaker 4: actor that's like on the higher on the call sheet
Speaker 4: than me, Like that's my opponent. Like I'm trying to
Speaker 4: show you out every time, Like, if you crying, I'm
Speaker 4: crying harder. If you're making somebody laugh, I'm laughing harder.
Speaker 4: Like that's how I really feel like they my friends
Speaker 4: after the camera turn for sure?
Speaker 3: Can you? So, how is it making yourself cry?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: On what do you have to think about?
Speaker 4: I think everybody just think about different stuff. I got
Speaker 4: my own little tactic. I try to walk away and
Speaker 4: just figure it out, but different things.
Speaker 2: Has this changed your approach to music, taking these acting classes,
Speaker 2: even as far as music videos or just how you
Speaker 2: approach an album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it make me.
Speaker 4: It put me in a different creative state of mind.
Speaker 4: So I think of like angles of my videos.
Speaker 1: I think of.
Speaker 4: Being intentional on my album, what I'm gonna say when
Speaker 4: I'm talking about this, what my video gonna look like,
Speaker 4: skits on my album, the storytelling, making everything be cohesive
Speaker 4: top to bottom. So I feel like that was really
Speaker 4: big with that.
Speaker 1: It helped a lot.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, listen, I know you've got a lot
Speaker 2: going on. So what's the release date for Price of Fame?
Speaker 1: The Price comes August twenty first.
Speaker 3: August twenty first. You feel good about it?
Speaker 1: I feel great about it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I'm.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to hearing that. You know, I've been a
Speaker 2: fan of yours since I first heard you and since
Speaker 2: we first met, and I just want to say I'm
Speaker 2: happy for you with everything that you've been accomplishing. Thanks,
Speaker 2: and we're always going to be in your corner cheering
Speaker 2: you on. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you more, all right, Skill a baby