Speaker 1: What help is your bore Armyan Pentagon family. Catch me
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Speaker 2: Man special guests in here, my guy, my man waits
Speaker 2: my chair too high? Is it going down slowly?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: It is mean? Is here?
Speaker 1: W Bro? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Yes, Cirtain new album is out.
Speaker 1: It's out Mean Yes, which means what mean is really
Speaker 1: what everybody calls me. Obviously know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: very autobiographical. But I also figured it'll be an acronym,
Speaker 1: you know, manifest everything avoid negativity really because I like
Speaker 1: manifested this project, you know what I'm saying. First of
Speaker 1: all is produced by Scott Storge, all of it, all
Speaker 1: of it. Well, to be technical, there's two songs on
Speaker 1: there that Scott Storge didn't do, but he oversaw the
Speaker 1: whole process. It's fifteen songs, two bonus tracks, and then
Speaker 1: thirteen records with the last two is not Scott. Shout
Speaker 1: out my boy Pyro who did that. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: basically produced by Scott Storge. I work with him the
Speaker 1: first time. It was like, I want to say, twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen or something. We just did like one joint you know,
Speaker 1: through Steve Lobell and stuff. Steve shout out to Steve
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, he might be the one,
Speaker 1: you know. I was looking for that like that production.
Speaker 1: And I left that session like, Yo, this guy. Don't
Speaker 1: know how I can get him to do a whole
Speaker 1: album because he ain't cheap, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, Yo, this is the guy for me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I feel like he has
Speaker 1: that balance. Obviously he's a gold producer. Long story short,
Speaker 1: it happened, you know what I mean, like a year
Speaker 1: and a half. Two years later, we kind of reconnected
Speaker 1: through like my new partners and everything, and they had
Speaker 1: a great relationship and they kind of reintroduced me to
Speaker 1: Scott like Yo, let's not just sell us a beat,
Speaker 1: like this is really our guy, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: in our community, to Armenian and they're like, Yo, this
Speaker 1: is really our guy. We got his back and like,
Speaker 1: let's work, and one thing led to another. We did
Speaker 1: the whole project.
Speaker 2: Do you have to pay for all the beats?
Speaker 1: Not? Well, no one works for free, right, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, but it's like we gave him
Speaker 1: a fee love. We gave him a fee and just like,
Speaker 1: let's work. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You didn't you got you got the homie rate, super
Speaker 2: homy rate, super homie because he is Scott Storge. Beats
Speaker 2: ain't cheap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's my dog. Thank you, Scott. I appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he he also got excited though. Once we
Speaker 1: started working. He's like, oh, okay, like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We started really having records. Once I finished
Speaker 1: like the French Joint, he was like, bro, you have
Speaker 1: a smash on your hand. Then I brought Nos to
Speaker 1: the studio. He's like, hold on Nos coming to the studio.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So once we started working,
Speaker 1: he started seeing like what I'm doing and you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, how I'm putting everything together, and he
Speaker 1: started respecting it more and more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because only the album you got nas, you got Quavo,
Speaker 2: you got Offset.
Speaker 1: Right, it's a ridiculous track list. I got Nas, Quavo, Offset, YG,
Speaker 1: metha Man Kebbacca, Pyramid shot to myth. Hell yeah, shout
Speaker 1: out to Meth. That was the easiest one. There's just
Speaker 1: one DM And two weeks later it was in my
Speaker 1: in my inbox. He always showed me love, but I
Speaker 1: didn't you know, I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, j Wheremiah French?
Speaker 2: You put the Lebron record on the bonus?
Speaker 1: Yeah? To the two bonus tracks is King James with
Speaker 1: Jeremiah and the yallab with French. I call it bonus
Speaker 1: because I mean they were made during that process, but
Speaker 1: we had alread dropped them, so you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of put them as a bonus. But that King James
Speaker 1: joint is still my highest stream It don't stop.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like it. I feel like it's
Speaker 2: it was. It's like a sync record for like the
Speaker 2: playoffs and ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Last last year ESPN synced it. Yeah, was playing it
Speaker 1: during the games. You know. It's always like a time
Speaker 1: lit it. They licensed it for like three months.
Speaker 2: Is that like the best way to make money off
Speaker 2: the actual song outside of streaming is that.
Speaker 1: I've had some good money off Like the ESPN on
Speaker 1: was cool to be honest, but like commercials. You can
Speaker 1: get your ship in a commercial that like plays a
Speaker 1: few Netflix like TV shows and stuff I've had too
Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah, that not only like the money
Speaker 1: they pay, but it just brings awareness, you know, like
Speaker 1: people that shit pops up on one of your most
Speaker 1: streamed songs because people she exam it and you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Have you ever done any ghostwriting for anybody?
Speaker 1: No? No, not really? Would you ever do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: People songs? Yeah, I feel like local people, but I
Speaker 1: don't really but not really.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not not like super like Yeah you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I kind of haven't really focused on that.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's been mentioned to me multiple times,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, that might be
Speaker 1: a thing to look into.
Speaker 2: Especially for these a lot of these rappers you need
Speaker 2: help with the verses. Man.
Speaker 1: It's just weird. Though, if you're like an m c
Speaker 1: MC then usually I'm sure people do, but it's kind of.
Speaker 2: Weird if it's not weird anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I guess I'm from that cloth
Speaker 1: where like.
Speaker 2: You could write a song for like Coiler Ray.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, but that wouldn't be like bars. They
Speaker 1: would be so cool. Yeah, shout out the Coiler Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never met her. She's fan, she's she's fire.
Speaker 2: She posted a great photo on the on the graand
Speaker 2: today did she Yeah, she had the yeah, my guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised she didn't get check it out. Community guidelines
Speaker 2: yanked that thing down. I'm surprised anyway. Yo. So the
Speaker 2: Armenian genocide anniversary date was recently recently, it's on April
Speaker 2: twenty fourth every year.
Speaker 1: You know, I always been super involved in that, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, you know, every Armenian kind
Speaker 1: of grew up learning about this, about how it's not recognized,
Speaker 1: and you know, anything unrecognized, you basically give people the
Speaker 1: right to do it again. So history repeats type of thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So this is something that
Speaker 1: you know, we all in our households have been really taught.
Speaker 1: So from early on, I was at protests and things
Speaker 1: like that, you know, And then when I started rapping,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I was kind of, you know, the
Speaker 1: first Armenian to really rap. I literally was the first.
Speaker 1: Now there's obviously more people, but no one yet at
Speaker 1: this level. But I was like, yo, I gotta tell
Speaker 1: the story of my people, you know. So I did
Speaker 1: a song called open Wounds, and then you know, we
Speaker 1: printed these shirts that said our wounds is still open
Speaker 1: and award in the video it was actually the ten
Speaker 1: year anniversary this here for that of that shirt of
Speaker 1: the whole thing at a video to shirt. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I see those shirts everywhere everywhere, So.
Speaker 2: I feel like in Glendale or Burbank, you see those
Speaker 2: shirts and the stickers and all that everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it became really I mean, someone one time
Speaker 1: told me, it's like the biggest logo in our community.
Speaker 1: Like there's one like coat of arms type thing that's
Speaker 1: like a national Armenian thing, you know that everybody gets tatted,
Speaker 1: and the second one is that our one is still
Speaker 1: Sits crazy. That was an honor, but for me it
Speaker 1: was really a way to kind of like encourage first
Speaker 1: of all the youth of my own community to like,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, keep that spirit alive and
Speaker 1: care about shit like that basically, but also obviously spread
Speaker 1: the message to like people like yourself and other you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, other races to know about our history.
Speaker 1: So that's just really hip hop to me, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, share real your people.
Speaker 2: You see the most famous Armenian like Kim Kardashian become single,
Speaker 2: right do you like you trying to you know, bring
Speaker 2: over back home.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I mean if I could get
Speaker 1: in the room.
Speaker 2: To mine. You know what I'm saying, because I just
Speaker 2: saw a clip somewhere of like I think it was
Speaker 2: her mom was like trying to like hook her find her.
Speaker 2: That's like an old I know it's old.
Speaker 1: It's old, like keeping up with a card. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: her mom was trying to hook him up with my boys,
Speaker 1: the Platinum Brothers or one of them, you know, Platinum
Speaker 1: Motors Sports because they do all their cars. They've been
Speaker 1: for like mad years. Shout out to George and Jack.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there was a there was an episode with Chris.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was real.
Speaker 2: It was for the show, but it was hilarious every
Speaker 2: time I see it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Kim was interested at the time,
Speaker 1: but she was funny.
Speaker 2: I think you should give it a shot, man. I
Speaker 2: think she's I mean, she's single, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just shoot her a DMI. Just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: she only has two undred million followers.
Speaker 2: Shoot her DM with you know, the Armenian flag and
Speaker 2: be like, hey, I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure I'm the only one that's going to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Let me take it to get some good food in Glendale.
Speaker 2: Where would you would say you would take her to Raffis.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's obviously Armenian, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: she's super tapped in into the Armenian Armenian like restaurants
Speaker 1: and culture. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe she is, So you're saying that'd be the restaurant,
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 1: Would probably, you know, I'd be giving Rafy's way too
Speaker 1: much love. Like every time I've never gotten a discount,
Speaker 1: but every time someone asked me, I bring up Rafy's,
Speaker 1: you know, and I post what everybody always says, Rafe's
Speaker 1: is amazing. I was there the other day. Carousel is
Speaker 1: another one, both in Glendelle. Yeah, I haven't really thought
Speaker 1: about where I would take Kim.
Speaker 2: Did you start thinking we've got to manifest this man.
Speaker 1: We've been manifesting ship lately.
Speaker 2: So Kim, k you guys would you guys would literally
Speaker 2: own Armenia.
Speaker 1: We would broken can go with own Armyia. She's like,
Speaker 1: I already own Armyia.
Speaker 2: I don't need Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. What's up, y'all?
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Speaker 2: outside of nas You've done some big records with You've
Speaker 2: done records with some fucking legends, Like what is the
Speaker 2: record that almost happened or that you thought Mike could
Speaker 2: still happen in the future, that you haven't worked with
Speaker 2: somebody in terms of just like an artist, because I
Speaker 2: know we had discussed in the past. You had almost
Speaker 2: did something with eminem back in the day. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: today that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Probably the craziest almost story was Nipsey because I had
Speaker 1: just just started working with Scott. I didn't have literally
Speaker 1: none of these features yet we just start cooking up
Speaker 1: and my partners. You know that's from the Cannabis game.
Speaker 1: He just randomly brought up like, you know, I'm mad
Speaker 1: cool with Nipsey and the team. And this is when
Speaker 1: Victory lat was everywhere and Nipsey my favorite rapper, like
Speaker 1: especially then right that album, Like I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: Nipsey to one, and he's he called him right on
Speaker 1: the spot, you know what I'm saying. And he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we work in this and this and that.
Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to my guy, you know, so
Speaker 1: briefly introduced us. We started slowly building that relationship. Never
Speaker 1: met in person yet, right, and then he connected me
Speaker 1: one of his team members. I send the record over
Speaker 1: and he hit me back saying, Yo, nip fucks with it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's down to do it. I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 1: if it's possible, I'm trying to be in the studio,
Speaker 1: all these features except Meth and French, all the other
Speaker 1: industries in the studio together. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's a different energy, bro. Like I feel like the
Speaker 1: NAS record would have wouldn't have been that if it was.
Speaker 2: If you guys weren't vibing with each other on.
Speaker 1: The hook together and shit like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: if I can, which nowadays obviously not easy, especially for
Speaker 1: like a big artist like that. But anyway, I asked
Speaker 1: him and he's like, yeah, no problem, I'm gonna hit
Speaker 1: you, you know, top of the week and we set it
Speaker 1: up and that Sunday he got he got killed.
Speaker 2: Bro damn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, crazy, crazy story. So yeah, rest in peace,
Speaker 1: Rest in peace. Besides that, yeah, I've been around a
Speaker 1: lot of people and it's like, you know, me and
Speaker 1: Ross talked about doing something at one point. You know,
Speaker 1: I learned like, you can't take too long when these
Speaker 1: opportunities come take off. We talked about this in the
Speaker 1: last interview. It was a brief como with takeoffs like YO,
Speaker 1: send me something. Because I offset and I had Quavo.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, you the only MiG I and do
Speaker 1: a record with yet you know what I mean. He's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what we're doing is send me something. And I lagged
Speaker 1: on it, you know what I'm saying. But it's not
Speaker 1: just because I lagged. It's like I felt like I
Speaker 1: didn't have the right record yet because I hate having
Speaker 1: mediocre records. I see this all the time with a
Speaker 1: big name for sure, and you click on it. It's
Speaker 1: like it's cool. That doesn't do nothing for you, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, for your career. But the way
Speaker 1: to smash if you have really something undeniable and then
Speaker 1: you have a big on.
Speaker 2: It it just helps. Then you got something, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, You have a this is a one
Speaker 2: of one jacket you have on yes, sir, okay. So
Speaker 2: when Jeff Hamilton, when he does so, how much is
Speaker 2: this jacket?
Speaker 1: So basically this this jack is kind of a funny story.
Speaker 1: Jeff Hamilton is my man, Like I got in a
Speaker 1: couple of jackets and I got introduced to him through
Speaker 1: some mutual friends and we became homies. And then one
Speaker 1: day I had a video shoot with be Real for
Speaker 1: a song called Godflows, and b Real Studio is literally
Speaker 1: maybe a block or two away from Jeff Hamilton's like
Speaker 1: showroom store or whatever. So I hit Jeff. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: you think I can borrow a jacket for the shoot?
Speaker 1: He's like, h of course, come through. So I go
Speaker 1: over there and my boy found this one kind of
Speaker 1: hanging in the corner. It's like a one of one custom,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's like, yeah, I did
Speaker 1: that for a rapper. I don't have to mention him.
Speaker 1: But he's like, basically he ordered it, but then he
Speaker 1: never picked it up. You know what I'm saying, ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. But he's like, I don't care to me.
Speaker 1: My jacket's are art, you know, I hang them up.
Speaker 1: I don't give discounts this and this and that. So
Speaker 1: I'm like he's like, yeah, take it for the video.
Speaker 1: I'm like, perfect, this is a perfect vibe for the
Speaker 1: be Real video. This that I went we shot the video.
Speaker 1: On the way back we go to drop it off,
Speaker 1: my boy's like the whole time during the shoot, my
Speaker 1: boy's like, Yo, this shit is too fire, Like I
Speaker 1: need that jacket, you know. But I didn't think he
Speaker 1: was serious. Right, We went back to Jeff Hamilton and
Speaker 1: he went up to him. He's like, yo, I need
Speaker 1: to cop that jacket. You know, what's my price? He's like,
Speaker 1: I really don't give discounts. He gave him like a
Speaker 1: thousand bucks off, so he paid nine thousand cash on
Speaker 1: the spot. I'm like, bro, And then he's like, well,
Speaker 1: you wore in the video already, so now everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: think I borrowed your jacket. Just keep it for now.
Speaker 1: So technique, this is not my jacket, but everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: think it's my jacket.
Speaker 2: Nine thousand dollar jacket. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dog, Yeah, Jeff Hamilton is a beast tho bro.
Speaker 1: Everything he does. Like every time I wear Jeff Hamilton jacket,
Speaker 1: you get compliments by everyone that will yo sick jackets,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Time, bros.
Speaker 2: So, I feel like I've known you for so long,
Speaker 2: but you were being so like kind of there was
Speaker 2: like a period of time where I felt like you
Speaker 2: were just like everything. In the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: You've just been letting shit fly. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna continue?
Speaker 1: Not for sure?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna continue that same amount of output?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I kind of learned. You know, two years ago
Speaker 1: we put the project out with Berner, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: really ready to continue the buzz I got off that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I put the King James
Speaker 1: record out and then kind of like I wasn't ready
Speaker 1: to keep up. You know, it's a content game now,
Speaker 1: and like, no matter how good the shit is, you
Speaker 1: got to follow it up, right, So this time I
Speaker 1: made sure to be ready. So this album is definitely
Speaker 1: like my the one I've been like working on, but
Speaker 1: I'm like deep into the next one already. So yeah,
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep going. Do you feel twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, do you feel being an
Speaker 2: Armenian rapper? Is it that much harder to kind of
Speaker 2: get through some of the doors and get to get
Speaker 2: people to kind of check you out?
Speaker 1: I think it definitely. You know, hip hop is growing, right,
Speaker 1: and it's becoming so much more universally accepting. Right, It's
Speaker 1: the biggest genre exactly, so slowly it's getting I guess
Speaker 1: less and less. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we all know what the culture is, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and we all know the initial doors. A
Speaker 1: lot of people are not just down to support just anything,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's gotta come for So
Speaker 1: I definitely had some certain hurdles, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: that really did it? You know what I'm saying. It's
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Speaker 1: and everything.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, what would be the advice you would
Speaker 2: give because you've kind of, like you said, you've been
Speaker 2: doing this for ten years plus and you kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, the end of the day, you make mistakes,
Speaker 2: you correct you you're probably still learning as you go
Speaker 2: behold in the world. What would be the advice you
Speaker 2: would give, like one or two things for an independent
Speaker 2: artist that's just like maybe in a rut that that
Speaker 2: you know they can't figure out, like do I drop music?
Speaker 2: Maybe they're hesitating too much, Maybe they're overthinking this ship.
Speaker 1: What's overthinking and hesitating is not it's not the move,
Speaker 1: but really what it is is consistency. So once you
Speaker 1: feel like you know you found your sound, you find
Speaker 1: you know you're you're laying or whatever. Now you just
Speaker 1: got to stack up on the music, stack up on
Speaker 1: the content, and then just go and and understand that
Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot of groundwork, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, A lot of you know, probably several years.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bank on just going viral. Maybe that'll happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the lottery, right if we go buy a lottery ticket
Speaker 1: right now, what's the chances right so that that happens
Speaker 1: to one in that fucking hundred million. Maybe, But if
Speaker 1: you consistently put out quality ship, you know, the fan
Speaker 1: base slowly grows, you know what I mean, and you
Speaker 1: grow your own That's really the only way.
Speaker 2: So anything you learned from Burner, because you got you
Speaker 2: were on the road with Berner, you do a project,
Speaker 2: I mean you've been around him a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Burner's a beast man. The way what I learned
Speaker 1: from Berner is just this output is so incredible, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: He runs this like massive company, right, and then he
Speaker 1: still puts out multiple projects a year, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And I see how he does it, and
Speaker 1: you know, for every artist is different. But he he
Speaker 1: books the studio for a week and that's all he
Speaker 1: focuses on, and he boom, he drops a week, boom
Speaker 1: and then move on to the next thing. He don't
Speaker 1: have the time to sit there for a year or
Speaker 1: for six months, you know what I'm saying. So but yeah, man, really,
Speaker 1: just the work ethic that the consistency, the output is crazy.
Speaker 2: You know, was there was some man he got some
Speaker 2: crazy ass fans too.
Speaker 1: Man, I seen, you know, I went on tour with him.
Speaker 1: One of the dopest tours I've been on. Yeah, you'd
Speaker 1: be surprised every single show sold out. Everyone's singing along
Speaker 1: to every song, and then the smoke is not normal.
Speaker 1: Even he'd be backstage because I would go on right
Speaker 1: before him, So every night I would get off, he'd
Speaker 1: be like, how bad is it today? Like how bad
Speaker 1: is this smoke? Because we be wrapping up there live.
Speaker 1: He's a big boy saying it hits you like, bro,
Speaker 1: I can't breathe in this motherfucker, you know what i mean?
Speaker 1: Like super fire alarm box fire alarms went off every
Speaker 1: at least every other show.
Speaker 2: What about it? Anything different or any anything you might
Speaker 2: have learned from Chris Webby, who you're also close with,
Speaker 2: also was on the road with, who also was an
Speaker 2: independent juggernaut.
Speaker 1: I would say I learned a lot from Chris Webby
Speaker 1: because he was like one of the first people I
Speaker 1: went on tour with, the whole touring aspect the show
Speaker 1: at how he put his show together. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I started using one of his drummers as
Speaker 1: my drummer. Then I started using his DJ. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I started realizing what I'm missing in my live show.
Speaker 1: That's not just all about me, and I can't just
Speaker 1: carry the whole shit, right, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: if you have the right DJ that's strong on the mic,
Speaker 1: that's helping, you know what I mean. It's almost like
Speaker 1: hype man, but not a hype man then you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like certain elements and the way he
Speaker 1: does it bro is like again, it's consistency. He started
Speaker 1: this thing with Webby Wednesdays.
Speaker 2: Oh dropping hell of records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, every Wednesday he was, but he was doing
Speaker 1: it the right way, right. He was cooking for like
Speaker 1: three four months and then the rest of the year
Speaker 1: he would hit him every week. At the end of
Speaker 1: the year, he would hit him with an album, same
Speaker 1: cycle for like five years. He's been doing that and
Speaker 1: I've seen it grow, Like he's getting hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of streams. So he's killing you know what I mean, every
Speaker 1: every year and every show, Like I've been on like
Speaker 1: three four tours with him.
Speaker 2: That's just crazy.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Webby, my brother.
Speaker 2: Great guy. Man. Yeah all right, so the album's out
Speaker 2: me and go run it up. Yes, Crazy features intro's Crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's one of my favorite songs. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: features are crazy, but honestly, I'm just really proud of
Speaker 1: the whole the whole project, like how came together. I
Speaker 1: feel like Scott brought out of me what I hadn't
Speaker 1: been able to show to the world yet. Like I
Speaker 1: knew I had this potential, but I didn't have the
Speaker 1: right you know what I mean, the right music, the
Speaker 1: right everything to really shine. That's what good production does,
Speaker 1: I guess you know what I'm saying. So you have
Speaker 1: any Kim Kardashian stories for you, Scott, No, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he told he just told me that they've been together
Speaker 1: a long time ago, but he wasn't really talking like
Speaker 1: greasy or anything. Yeah, he was with everyone, apparently everybody.
Speaker 1: He was. He literally was with everyone.
Speaker 2: He's mister, He's literally I hit it first.
Speaker 1: He's the one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kim is just one of the names. Bro, Like, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: That short, little talented guy with those glasses and all
Speaker 2: that weed.
Speaker 1: Talent does a lot. Talent does that boy starts on
Speaker 1: them keys, want you give him every time? I'm impressed,
Speaker 1: like every single time in a session, Like Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: he did it again.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, man, you know what I mean, like, well,
Speaker 2: go run the album up. It's out right now. We
Speaker 2: got a freestyle that's crazy. You can watch ye and uh,
Speaker 2: your new album is out, but you already got in
Speaker 2: the tank.
Speaker 1: Work but right now mean out right now produced by
Speaker 1: Scott Storage. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Tour coming.
Speaker 1: I'm working on it, but we're doing the Rocks the Roxy.
Speaker 1: If you're in LA Thursday, May fourth, Uh, definitely pull
Speaker 1: up to that. And we got your boy Alexis on
Speaker 1: the on the line up.
Speaker 2: Were hanging out, man, my bro. Appreciate you. Thank you, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: Love Fire