WEBVTT - Episode 549 | Akeem Ali 0:00:35.659 --> 0:00:37.510 Good old Saratoga. I know y'all just put it in 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.710 this bottle. That's 100% what we did. 0:00:41.070 --> 0:00:43.350 I'm on my Icelandic now, though. 0:00:43.650 --> 0:00:45.790 That shit is good. Saratoga and Icelandic actually got two 0:00:45.810 --> 0:00:47.150 of the best sparkling waters, too. 0:00:47.210 --> 0:00:47.390 Yeah. 0:00:47.570 --> 0:00:48.970 Saratoga sparkling water is crazy. 0:00:49.150 --> 0:00:49.309 Yeah. 0:00:49.770 --> 0:00:52.880 The Icelandic now in the glass bottle. Yes. The water 0:00:52.950 --> 0:00:53.659 game changer. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.920 Oh, no. They sparkling water in the glass bottle. 0:00:55.940 --> 0:00:56.140 Yeah. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.040 So, no. We can record this. 0:00:58.060 --> 0:00:58.480 No. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.280 It's not an ad. We just believe in this water. 0:01:01.300 --> 0:01:04.990 I ordered in glass bottles. I ordered on Amazon. Glass 0:01:05.050 --> 0:01:08.910 bottles of this water. Game changer. They sent me the plastic. 0:01:09.940 --> 0:01:11.020 So it happened before. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.880 And I was like, I said, yo, I ordered glass 0:01:14.900 --> 0:01:16.479 because it's more for the glass bottle. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:16.980 Yeah, of course. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.480 So I hit Amazon back. I said, hey, I ordered glass. 0:01:20.500 --> 0:01:23.530 They sent me plastic. They refunded me the last time 0:01:23.569 --> 0:01:26.310 I bought like three cases of it. So this time 0:01:26.350 --> 0:01:28.149 they sent plastic in and I went to go do 0:01:28.170 --> 0:01:31.270 the same thing. That option no longer exists. Because they 0:01:31.290 --> 0:01:32.950 never had it. So even if you order the glass 0:01:32.990 --> 0:01:35.300 bottles and they send plastic, you can't even be like, yo, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.600 but I ordered glass. I want a refund. They will 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:38.339 not refund you anymore. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.380 I only see them at my deli. I don't see 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:41.140 them at every other deli. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:42.619 Yeah, so now that's what I got to find, like 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.340 a grocery store to actually go in and buy the 0:01:45.380 --> 0:01:45.900 glass bottle. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.180 Go to Whole Foods and get that glass sparkling. 0:01:49.300 --> 0:01:49.720 Icelandic? 0:01:49.740 --> 0:01:51.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's not like, you know, some 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.110 of them be like super carbonate. It's like a crisp, 0:01:54.310 --> 0:01:57.150 clean bubble. Right, yeah. And it's like not like super 0:01:57.190 --> 0:01:59.630 bubbly to where it's like strong as a Coke or 0:01:59.690 --> 0:02:04.870 a Sprite. It's like soft bubbles that's just like really soft. Yeah, 0:02:05.170 --> 0:02:06.610 I'm a fancy nigga now. I just. 0:02:07.570 --> 0:02:08.389 I can tell by the top. 0:02:08.730 --> 0:02:10.550 You know what I'm saying? 0:02:10.630 --> 0:02:13.610 If y'all haven't noticed yet, we are joined by the 0:02:13.690 --> 0:02:18.880 very talented, the very charismatic, the most viral nigga probably 0:02:18.980 --> 0:02:22.260 on Instagram when it comes to any rapper, any artist. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.859 You can't open Instagram without seeing this gentleman. We are 0:02:24.900 --> 0:02:28.880 joined by Akeem Ali. It's in the building today. 0:02:29.180 --> 0:02:30.410 I appreciate it. Appreciate it. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.660 We've been trying to connect with Akeem for a while. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:32.960 Yeah. 0:02:33.460 --> 0:02:36.760 Roy, you remember years ago I played Kimi Casanova. 0:02:36.780 --> 0:02:37.020 Mm-hmm. 0:02:37.460 --> 0:02:40.079 On the old show. And, um, a lot of people 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.400 hit me after I played the record, like, yo, is 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:42.160 he joking? 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.020 Is he for real? 0:02:43.060 --> 0:02:46.300 Like, I'm like, no, he's rapping for real. This is 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.620 a character that he created. 0:02:48.419 --> 0:02:50.470 Um, but the bars was always there, but talk to 0:02:50.530 --> 0:02:56.609 us about the character, Kimi Casanova, obviously, uh, what most 0:02:56.650 --> 0:02:57.850 people probably know you from. 0:02:58.290 --> 0:02:58.549 Yeah. 0:02:58.889 --> 0:03:00.830 Like how did that whole idea come about? 0:03:00.870 --> 0:03:02.490 Was that something you was like, I need to create 0:03:03.110 --> 0:03:07.280 kind of like an alter ego, uh, Was it intentional? 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.059 Like this is going to just grab people's attention because 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.040 the aesthetic of it all is so different. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.190 I just kind of didn't know. It was more so 0:03:14.210 --> 0:03:18.630 of an act of desperation. Okay. And so it was 0:03:18.650 --> 0:03:21.210 supposed to be the name of a song. I named 0:03:21.230 --> 0:03:24.250 the song Kimi Casanova. Right. And people liked it so 0:03:24.310 --> 0:03:28.160 much that they thought that's his name. But it was like, no, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.240 this is not who I am. It's just like, you know, 0:03:30.260 --> 0:03:31.520 I'm naming that song that. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:31.880 Yeah. 0:03:32.139 --> 0:03:33.980 And it just stuck, man. And so I just had 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.450 to be the character and like do that. And it 0:03:36.470 --> 0:03:40.369 was like a. let me just create content type of situation. 0:03:40.410 --> 0:03:42.110 And so like, even now where you see me doing 0:03:42.130 --> 0:03:43.770 like different freestyles for the CDs that I'm going to 0:03:43.790 --> 0:03:45.110 be going on tour to, it was like, I had 0:03:45.130 --> 0:03:46.400 to turn it to serve mix a lot. I had 0:03:46.410 --> 0:03:47.960 to turn into like bone thugs. I had to turn 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.800 into like, you know what I'm saying? And take that 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.100 character on. And it was like that type of thing. 0:03:52.620 --> 0:03:55.960 But it's like, it's stuck. And it's like most people's introduction. 0:03:55.980 --> 0:03:58.980 And it's like, nah, you hear it now. Like, and 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.740 we don't want shit, but that. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:01.020 Yeah. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.500 Just stuck it, man. And had to wiggle myself out 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.690 of that. Because I had like pigeonholed myself into it. 0:04:07.730 --> 0:04:09.900 How did you get out of that? Because that's tough. 0:04:10.300 --> 0:04:11.300 That's a gift and a curse. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.080 Yeah. A lot of fucking work. I had to kind 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.740 of like ooze or ease who I really was back 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.920 into it. You know what I'm saying? Because for a 0:04:20.940 --> 0:04:23.090 long time, when people would see me out and I 0:04:23.110 --> 0:04:25.440 didn't have a fro. man, why you ain't got on 0:04:25.460 --> 0:04:26.940 the front? Why you don't have on the ascot? Where 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.029 your bitches at? And I was just like, where your 0:04:29.050 --> 0:04:31.970 bitches at? Yeah, it was just like, all types of shit. 0:04:32.050 --> 0:04:34.110 I would have led with that question. Yeah, yeah. Where 0:04:34.150 --> 0:04:34.950 your bitches at? 0:04:35.029 --> 0:04:37.760 Nigga, I'm in here grabbing milk. I can't bring no jug. 0:04:37.820 --> 0:04:38.539 I'm like, what the fuck? 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:40.560 Like sparkling water. 0:04:40.580 --> 0:04:43.320 Yeah, I'm just grabbing some sparkling water, brother. Yeah, yeah. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.030 But yeah, man, it was... That shit was a lot 0:04:46.070 --> 0:04:47.880 of work, but I maneuvered my way back into like 0:04:48.630 --> 0:04:51.039 regular content. And even now it'd be people like, he 0:04:51.060 --> 0:04:52.640 need to go back to Kimi Casanova. And when I'm 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.280 doing too much Kimi Casanova, he need to go back 0:04:54.300 --> 0:04:58.219 to Akeem Ali. And so it's good because it sets 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.279 the tone for me being able to give everything back. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.109 and so it's nothing that's too far left or too 0:05:03.170 --> 0:05:05.290 far right and it's like if he puts out akim 0:05:05.330 --> 0:05:07.250 ali music well we he kind of came out like 0:05:07.270 --> 0:05:09.130 this first for y'all who didn't know yeah if he 0:05:09.150 --> 0:05:11.370 do kimi casanova it's like well he kind of been 0:05:11.390 --> 0:05:13.370 doing that for months we didn't know and so it's 0:05:13.390 --> 0:05:15.860 like boom perfect you you go through the storm and 0:05:15.900 --> 0:05:18.580 it's like like hectic at first and then when you 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.960 get out of it it's like now i can do 0:05:19.980 --> 0:05:21.180 what the fuck i want to do right yeah you 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.740 know what i'm saying drake makes a caribbean album it's 0:05:23.779 --> 0:05:27.200 like nobody or international albums like well Right. He kind 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.350 of been doing this. He gave us moments of this. Yeah. 0:05:30.380 --> 0:05:32.450 So we can't say we didn't know or he's experimenting 0:05:32.470 --> 0:05:34.870 or losing it. We've had this the whole time. 0:05:34.910 --> 0:05:36.610 You're a Kendrick fan, you can. Huh? 0:05:38.210 --> 0:05:38.469 Man. 0:05:39.089 --> 0:05:42.650 But I want to talk about just that whole moment 0:05:42.670 --> 0:05:43.890 because this was 2020. 0:05:43.890 --> 0:05:44.590 Yeah. Right. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.760 Now, when I first saw the video, like a lot 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.980 of people, that was the first time I. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:51.440 Heard the record. 0:05:51.620 --> 0:05:51.840 Yeah. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.729 I saw the video and immediately I was like, I understood. 0:05:56.750 --> 0:05:58.979 I said, okay, I see what he's doing. 0:05:59.100 --> 0:05:59.270 Yeah. 0:05:59.390 --> 0:06:01.620 But I'm listening to the lyrics though. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:01.900 Yeah. 0:06:01.940 --> 0:06:03.820 Because that's where I come from in music. I'm listening 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.360 to what you were saying. So immediately I knew like, 0:06:06.380 --> 0:06:08.140 I'm like, no, he can really rap though. This is 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.739 obviously a character that he's created. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:10.409 I like it. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:10.740 Yeah. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.710 But I was like, I wanted to see if it 0:06:13.730 --> 0:06:15.550 was just for the moment, if that's who you were 0:06:15.570 --> 0:06:17.970 going to be or you want to transition out of 0:06:17.990 --> 0:06:20.350 that and really show people who, who your true self was. 0:06:21.350 --> 0:06:23.690 Then seeing what you were doing as far as just 0:06:23.750 --> 0:06:24.469 rapping in the car. 0:06:24.690 --> 0:06:24.890 Yeah. 0:06:25.730 --> 0:06:27.870 Seeing all those videos, I'm like, okay, no, like he 0:06:27.890 --> 0:06:30.730 can really, really rap. Was that something you feel like 0:06:31.310 --> 0:06:33.650 took people a while to catch on to? Like, yo, 0:06:33.670 --> 0:06:35.790 but now I'm really, because I even hear it in 0:06:35.810 --> 0:06:37.850 your bars, you say it a lot, like none of 0:06:37.870 --> 0:06:38.510 these dudes. 0:06:38.310 --> 0:06:40.090 Can rap better than me. Like, I don't know if 0:06:40.150 --> 0:06:41.970 y'all have caught that yet. 0:06:42.130 --> 0:06:46.210 Yeah, they can't. What I will say is like, now 0:06:46.270 --> 0:06:50.779 the Kimi Casanova character did help elevate the branding for me. 0:06:51.810 --> 0:06:55.849 On a branding level, that shit did wonders once I 0:06:55.890 --> 0:06:58.979 learned that nobody gives a fuck about how good you rap. 0:06:59.460 --> 0:07:01.960 It's about how it's packaged or what it looks like. 0:07:02.020 --> 0:07:04.140 Because there's people who've come before me who rap really 0:07:04.180 --> 0:07:06.460 good or people who you've heard rap really well. And 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.150 it's just nothing attached to it that people can attach 0:07:10.170 --> 0:07:14.730 themselves to or associate themselves with. It also helped me 0:07:15.790 --> 0:07:19.370 rap different subject matter. So it's like when you hear 0:07:19.410 --> 0:07:22.010 Kimi Casanova, you expect fly shit from like a player, 0:07:22.450 --> 0:07:24.590 like pimp type, boom, boom, boom. So I can just 0:07:24.730 --> 0:07:27.570 rap about that shit all day fucking long. And I 0:07:27.610 --> 0:07:29.590 don't have to say shit about nothing else, but that's 0:07:29.610 --> 0:07:31.610 what you expect from that character. So when I'm doing 0:07:31.650 --> 0:07:34.280 my car freestyles, it's like, like battle rap based or like, 0:07:34.340 --> 0:07:36.920 you know what I'm saying? Like one minute. And it's 0:07:36.940 --> 0:07:39.280 just like me just, wham, wham, wham, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar. 0:07:39.620 --> 0:07:42.660 And then over here in my personal, I can rap 0:07:42.700 --> 0:07:44.420 about something. So it just opens the gate to just 0:07:44.500 --> 0:07:48.210 prove like whatever lane is there or wherever I'm at, like, 0:07:49.010 --> 0:07:51.730 you you do not win against me like you know 0:07:51.750 --> 0:07:53.090 what i'm saying and so it just helped me learn 0:07:53.110 --> 0:07:55.410 how to like elevate my opinion for real for real 0:07:55.770 --> 0:07:57.210 and that's what i you know i don't give enough 0:07:57.250 --> 0:07:59.690 credit to that character for that yeah because i had 0:07:59.710 --> 0:08:02.040 to i was forced to talk about different and still 0:08:02.060 --> 0:08:03.980 make it sound good yeah like it still has to 0:08:04.020 --> 0:08:06.420 be like you know like your book yeah. 0:08:06.380 --> 0:08:08.460 I think like ludacris i think was similar in that 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.620 way too he was packaged so well and his his 0:08:10.940 --> 0:08:14.070 videos were so amazing sometimes i think people forget how 0:08:14.170 --> 0:08:15.650 good of a rapper Ludacris is. 0:08:16.350 --> 0:08:16.650 Yeah. 0:08:16.750 --> 0:08:19.230 And people forget, like, people just want to hear bars 0:08:19.370 --> 0:08:23.780 or they either want to hear, like, relatability. Technique is 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.660 a thing that is, like, lost, like, certain times. Like, 0:08:26.780 --> 0:08:29.740 technique is so fucking important and, like, I tell people 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.120 from a technique standpoint, there's, like, three or four people 0:08:32.140 --> 0:08:35.120 who are, like, gods or like dogs when they come 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.290 to that shit like Eminem a technique guy for sure 0:08:38.570 --> 0:08:41.530 technique like you know I'm saying and I can't say 0:08:41.570 --> 0:08:44.950 that Eminem or G were like out bar Wayne or 0:08:44.970 --> 0:08:47.390 a side how to Prince but it like you know 0:08:47.410 --> 0:08:49.330 when it come to technique you had these people who 0:08:49.350 --> 0:08:52.250 were like or like a fucking Lupe yeah you know 0:08:52.270 --> 0:08:53.550 I'm saying and so it's like. 0:08:53.530 --> 0:08:55.410 Students of the real yeah um. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.319 Now, you've mastered this thing of, like I said, anytime 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:08.620 I open Instagram, I'm seeing Akeem Ali, whether it's. 0:09:08.050 --> 0:09:08.930 Promoting the tour. 0:09:09.090 --> 0:09:09.270 Yeah. 0:09:10.900 --> 0:09:13.280 Was that something that you came up with on your 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.800 own or do you have like a team of people 0:09:14.830 --> 0:09:16.469 where y'all just sit down and throw ideas and like, 0:09:16.870 --> 0:09:18.130 how do we attack the algorithm? 0:09:18.170 --> 0:09:20.689 How do we, you know, get more visibility? 0:09:21.070 --> 0:09:23.469 How do we let people know that this tour is coming, 0:09:23.490 --> 0:09:25.790 this tour is happening, but in a unique Akeem Ali way? 0:09:26.190 --> 0:09:27.750 So my book agent called me one day and he 0:09:27.770 --> 0:09:29.750 was like, man, you know, the ticket sales ain't doing 0:09:29.790 --> 0:09:32.380 so good in this market or none of the markets. 0:09:32.620 --> 0:09:35.520 You know what I'm saying? And I was like, he 0:09:35.540 --> 0:09:37.839 was like, well, do you think you could get online 0:09:37.860 --> 0:09:40.860 and do like a freestyle tour? for just New Orleans 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.520 and see how that works. If it goes good, you 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.600 can think about doing more. And I'm like, yeah. So 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.180 I sit down one day, I do shit like, I 0:09:50.230 --> 0:09:52.250 treat this like a job, like don't know about how 0:09:52.270 --> 0:09:53.530 to tell me to clock in. So I get up 0:09:53.550 --> 0:09:55.190 some mornings at like 3.30, 4 in the morning and 0:09:55.210 --> 0:09:57.270 we'll sit at the table and just write all fucking day, 0:09:57.910 --> 0:10:01.670 literally for like eight, nine, 10, 11 hours. And got up, 0:10:02.059 --> 0:10:03.580 wrote the new Orleans freestyle. And I was like, you 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.840 know what? While I'm writing New Orleans, I'm gonna do 0:10:07.059 --> 0:10:11.140 the Carolinas. I'm gonna do Memphis. I'm gonna do X, Y, Z. 0:10:11.179 --> 0:10:12.460 I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.679 keep going. You know what I'm saying? And so doing that, um, 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.990 I did it, dropped it. And people was like, we 0:10:21.030 --> 0:10:23.729 like this. And I was like, hold my beer. You 0:10:23.750 --> 0:10:25.290 know what I'm saying? I'm going to be right back. 0:10:25.309 --> 0:10:27.050 And he gave me that idea and he was like, 0:10:27.090 --> 0:10:28.670 just do one of them. And I was like, you 0:10:28.710 --> 0:10:30.490 know what? I'm just going to do all the shits. 0:10:30.610 --> 0:10:33.250 You know what I'm saying? And I had seen one 0:10:33.270 --> 0:10:36.670 of my partners, Dearsilas, he had done it a couple 0:10:36.700 --> 0:10:38.209 of times for cities he was going to, but I 0:10:38.220 --> 0:10:39.660 was like, you know, and I always want to give 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.380 him credit. You know what I'm saying? For seeing it 0:10:41.780 --> 0:10:44.000 there first, because he'd be like going to Dallas and 0:10:44.020 --> 0:10:45.940 he like turned into whoever he needs to be for 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.459 that or going to Houston. And he like takes on that, 0:10:48.620 --> 0:10:49.740 you know what I'm saying? And so I was like, 0:10:50.140 --> 0:10:52.220 I'm gonna do this shit for every fucking city though. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:11:05.910 And every time you open your Instagram, Twitter, <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>. 0:11:06.050 --> 0:11:12.020 <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>. 0:11:11.700 --> 0:11:20.960 <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> 0:11:21.900 --> 0:11:22.760 yeah man. 0:11:23.059 --> 0:11:25.219 Is it is it i remember mo you said to 0:11:25.260 --> 0:11:27.589 me after i did that eminem said if this don't 0:11:27.630 --> 0:11:29.590 sell tickets we never going back again. 0:11:29.390 --> 0:11:31.510 Yeah that's how it be and i told i told 0:11:31.530 --> 0:11:34.310 people i'd be telling people that from these cities y'all 0:11:34.330 --> 0:11:36.200 be like come to this city come to my city 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.140 come and see us nobody ever comes here and then 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.699 i didn't like literally went out like i dropped the 0:11:40.780 --> 0:11:44.040 ep and a project and had to do 40 more songs. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.300 These ain't like 30 second freestyle. These are full, like 0:11:48.380 --> 0:11:50.900 I'm having to engulf, I'm having to like study, do work, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.490 go to some of these places, look at what's there, 0:11:53.809 --> 0:11:56.170 figure out the culture, call people and be like, hey, 0:11:56.190 --> 0:11:58.230 is such and such still open? Is that still a thing? 0:11:58.610 --> 0:12:01.990 Like I'm having to do dead live research for motherfuckers 0:12:02.010 --> 0:12:04.809 to be like, great, we still won't buy a ticket. 0:12:04.870 --> 0:12:06.390 And I'm like, what the fuck did I just do 0:12:06.450 --> 0:12:09.230 all of this shit for? And then motherfuckers is like, 0:12:09.470 --> 0:12:12.220 they don't pay attention, they like, Oh my God, you 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.570 should come to this city. I'm like, motherfucker, I'm telling 0:12:14.590 --> 0:12:17.810 you I'm going on tour to this city with this freestyle. Yeah. 0:12:17.970 --> 0:12:20.869 Like naming shit in your city. And he's like, I 0:12:20.890 --> 0:12:22.250 could be like doing a Houston freestyle. They'd be like, 0:12:22.730 --> 0:12:24.630 come to Houston and see us on tour. Yeah. 0:12:24.650 --> 0:12:26.740 All right. Just listen to the freestyle. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.640 Like, did you hear anything I fucking said? And then 0:12:28.700 --> 0:12:30.880 I like, I'm going on tour. Get your tickets. Then 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.620 the motherfuckers would be like, see all of the tour 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.540 dates and be like, Come to Itawamba. I'm like, this 0:12:36.580 --> 0:12:38.520 ain't enough. Come to Africa. Motherfucker, I'm not selling the 0:12:38.540 --> 0:12:40.610 tickets where I'm going. First of all, like, give me a... 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.730 I'm like, fuck with me. I'm like, what the fuck? 0:12:45.750 --> 0:12:48.410 Come meet me here and then maybe I can get 0:12:48.429 --> 0:12:49.010 to that shit. 0:12:49.030 --> 0:12:51.210 The worst shit is when you do like individual flyers 0:12:51.250 --> 0:12:53.290 for cities and then all the comments will be from 0:12:53.350 --> 0:12:53.870 another city. 0:12:54.330 --> 0:12:54.670 It's like. 0:12:55.530 --> 0:12:57.930 yo we in chicago tomorrow and all the comments is 0:12:57.950 --> 0:12:59.530 like why you're not in dallas yeah like and. 0:12:59.470 --> 0:13:01.729 Then i go to dallas and no one from dallas 0:13:01.750 --> 0:13:02.510 came i will tell. 0:13:02.390 --> 0:13:04.220 You the worst i will tell you the fucking worst 0:13:04.910 --> 0:13:07.020 go to dallas the show don't sell out or it 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.700 don't come out you wanted to or it may sell 0:13:08.780 --> 0:13:11.920 out or you a few shorter selling out leave come 0:13:11.940 --> 0:13:15.880 to dallas yeah yeah yeah yeah brother sister oh they. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.320 Didn't know you they like oh you was here like 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.880 i was i just was here last night christ but 0:13:19.900 --> 0:13:22.969 that's i mean i you know It's kind of a 0:13:23.050 --> 0:13:25.950 good and a bad thing because obviously people are engaging. 0:13:25.990 --> 0:13:27.410 People are saying they want to see you come to 0:13:27.450 --> 0:13:29.550 my city. But then it is, like you said, I'm 0:13:29.590 --> 0:13:32.460 sitting here writing all of this, shooting these videos for 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.839 the promo for the show, and it's still not connecting 0:13:35.900 --> 0:13:39.260 to certain people. Is that something that you look at 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.980 like you're doing something wrong, you're not doing enough, or 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.420 some people just ain't going to ever connect to it? 0:13:46.059 --> 0:13:47.140 All three of them. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.319 Okay. 0:13:47.460 --> 0:13:51.750 It's something that I'm not doing... to win you over. 0:13:51.770 --> 0:13:53.040 You know what I'm saying? 0:13:53.420 --> 0:13:58.430 Because it's like, All right, so like we were just 0:13:58.450 --> 0:13:59.830 talking about the water. Out of all the waters that 0:13:59.850 --> 0:14:01.810 are out there, you chose to drink the water you 0:14:01.830 --> 0:14:04.790 were drinking. But it's like Ozarka is sitting over here 0:14:05.010 --> 0:14:07.340 or you got like fucking Pure Life like, hey, I exist. 0:14:07.860 --> 0:14:10.660 And it's something they're not doing to pull you in. 0:14:10.700 --> 0:14:12.860 Like you've been drinking it before or you subscribed to 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.340 it or had a bottle of it. It's like, yeah, no, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.280 I just don't want that. So what is it that 0:14:16.300 --> 0:14:18.280 y'all are not doing? And we can't be mad at 0:14:18.300 --> 0:14:21.370 you for not drinking our water. It's just like you 0:14:21.390 --> 0:14:23.570 do what you want to do. But if I'm the 0:14:23.630 --> 0:14:25.650 water company, I'm like, hey, what do we need to 0:14:25.690 --> 0:14:28.170 double down on? How do we need to like capitalize 0:14:28.210 --> 0:14:31.240 on X, Y, Z markets or like target this demographic 0:14:31.250 --> 0:14:35.020 of people in this area? Like, how do we do 0:14:35.060 --> 0:14:37.280 the thing to like, you know, scale our business larger? 0:14:37.740 --> 0:14:39.760 And that's what I'm always thinking about. Like, it's not 0:14:39.780 --> 0:14:41.240 that they're not buying the tickets. What am I not 0:14:41.340 --> 0:14:43.910 doing that's making them not want to buy the tickets? Yeah. OK. 0:14:44.090 --> 0:14:45.330 I mean, because even. That's a great way to look 0:14:45.390 --> 0:14:45.510 at it. 0:14:45.510 --> 0:14:49.030 Yeah. Like even when we fired our previous booking agent. 0:14:49.970 --> 0:14:52.330 I was still thinking on the accountability side of like, 0:14:52.390 --> 0:14:54.570 we would put our London vlog out and all the 0:14:54.610 --> 0:14:56.550 comments would be like, damn, they was in London. I'm like, 0:14:57.090 --> 0:14:59.010 what the fuck are we doing? How the fuck did 0:14:59.030 --> 0:15:00.710 a person that follows us not know we was in 0:15:00.750 --> 0:15:01.250 London last week? 0:15:01.290 --> 0:15:02.670 That's not a booking agent problem, though. 0:15:02.710 --> 0:15:03.170 I know it's not. 0:15:03.510 --> 0:15:03.810 Oh, okay. 0:15:03.830 --> 0:15:05.990 So, no, we took accountability on that regard. 0:15:06.250 --> 0:15:09.610 Like, even with infrastructure being fucked up, it does fall 0:15:09.670 --> 0:15:11.050 on us at the end of the day of not 0:15:11.110 --> 0:15:14.970 reaching our own fans. But- Part of me thinks that's 0:15:15.110 --> 0:15:18.410 also an algorithm thing, too, that it's tough to control. Like, 0:15:18.430 --> 0:15:20.720 how the fuck do you follow us? You pay for 0:15:20.780 --> 0:15:23.200 our Patreon and you still this still did not get 0:15:23.300 --> 0:15:25.920 on your phone. That's a battle that I've yet to 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.960 figure out. I don't understand that algorithm part where I 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.350 can't even reach the people that follow me anymore. 0:15:31.850 --> 0:15:35.270 It's an attention game. I learned this. And I think 0:15:35.290 --> 0:15:39.370 the guy from the who created the Savannah Bananas, the 0:15:40.070 --> 0:15:40.790 baseball team. 0:15:40.860 --> 0:15:41.010 Yeah. 0:15:41.530 --> 0:15:43.450 And so they was trying to find a mascot and 0:15:43.490 --> 0:15:45.590 it was like, what do we do? Or how do 0:15:45.610 --> 0:15:47.330 we make this a thing? And it was like, when 0:15:47.370 --> 0:15:49.710 he decided that the mascot would be like a banana, 0:15:50.050 --> 0:15:53.250 people were fucking pissed. And it was like, we don't 0:15:53.290 --> 0:15:55.710 want to be bananas. Like, oh, whatever. He's going to 0:15:55.770 --> 0:15:58.930 fucking ruin. And you know what? At the time it 0:15:58.950 --> 0:16:00.500 would seem like such a bad thing. You'd be like, 0:16:00.510 --> 0:16:02.840 oh no, I'm upsetting the people. Or somebody is going 0:16:02.860 --> 0:16:05.640 to say something bad or they're going to send threats. 0:16:06.100 --> 0:16:07.660 It's not about whether it's right or wrong. It's not 0:16:07.700 --> 0:16:09.580 about whether people like or dislike it. It's about whether 0:16:09.620 --> 0:16:12.400 it gets attention. Because if you can't bring attention to it, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.730 it gets absolutely nothing, right? So it's like, it's like 0:16:17.830 --> 0:16:20.790 almost if a tree falls, No one there did it happen. 0:16:20.830 --> 0:16:22.650 Like if it didn't have attention or eyes on it, 0:16:23.170 --> 0:16:25.109 does it even matter? And so it was so bad 0:16:25.170 --> 0:16:27.600 that it turned out to be good. Like because the 0:16:27.620 --> 0:16:30.660 banana idea is fucking ridiculous until we win a game. Right. 0:16:30.740 --> 0:16:32.620 And we can celebrate or we can have something that's 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.360 like marketable. Like everybody, we sell bananas at the games 0:16:35.420 --> 0:16:37.220 or it helps the economy or these are the ways 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.760 that we can do X, Y, Z. And it's like, oh, OK, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.840 I'm a proud banana now. You know what I'm saying? 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.970 And it's like, no, fuck you. Because at first you 0:16:42.990 --> 0:16:44.770 hate it. You gave me all type of shit about 0:16:44.950 --> 0:16:46.670 an idea that you just didn't understand. You don't know 0:16:46.690 --> 0:16:48.490 what it takes to get here or how to put 0:16:48.530 --> 0:16:50.070 some of this shit together. You don't understand the shit 0:16:50.090 --> 0:16:52.340 that y'all thought about me, said about me and like 0:16:52.380 --> 0:16:54.420 tried to like shut down. You know what I'm saying? 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.940 And so it's like get attention. Once you get the 0:16:56.980 --> 0:17:01.500 attention for the thing about, you know, the algorithm, once 0:17:01.570 --> 0:17:04.010 it gets attention, if somebody says something negative in my comments, 0:17:04.609 --> 0:17:05.990 I respond and I pin it to the top. 0:17:07.010 --> 0:17:07.950 They say something negative. 0:17:08.050 --> 0:17:11.170 Yeah. OK. Yeah. Like this shit is trash. He can't 0:17:11.210 --> 0:17:12.530 rap as good as he think he does. He's not 0:17:12.550 --> 0:17:14.830 better than Kendrick. He's not better than this person. Why 0:17:14.869 --> 0:17:16.990 does it even matter? He's gay. He's this or he's 0:17:17.090 --> 0:17:21.050 too flamboyant. He's too. Pin it. I don't care about 0:17:21.090 --> 0:17:22.810 how you feel about me as long as you feel something. 0:17:23.390 --> 0:17:23.550 Right. 0:17:23.570 --> 0:17:27.090 Because guess what happened? You just tricked yourself into telling 0:17:27.109 --> 0:17:29.530 your algorithm. Well, you just tricked your algorithm into like 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.810 showing you me again. Don't you know, when you comment 0:17:32.869 --> 0:17:35.449 on something, when you like something, enough to comment on it, 0:17:35.530 --> 0:17:38.280 share it, whatever, whatever the algorithm say, oh, they must 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.780 like this. They're subscribing to it. They're commenting on it. Oh, 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.439 and then what happens is now you got to come 0:17:43.460 --> 0:17:45.540 to your own defense in my comments and respond to 0:17:45.580 --> 0:17:48.140 other people. And the algorithm don't know whether it's good 0:17:48.180 --> 0:17:50.470 or bad. It just keeps saying, oh, they keep responding. 0:17:50.590 --> 0:17:53.170 They must like this thing. I don't give a fuck 0:17:53.210 --> 0:17:55.130 what you say about me. Say something. 0:17:55.550 --> 0:17:55.770 Right. 0:17:56.250 --> 0:17:57.590 So I can make you look bad. How are you 0:17:57.609 --> 0:17:59.629 trying to make me? You know what I'm saying? And 0:17:59.690 --> 0:18:02.000 now the algorithm is going to say, because these apps 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.300 are designed to keep you on the app. Yeah. You 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.100 know what I'm saying? It's not just like with certain 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.159 keywords or certain shit that you do. You can't say, 0:18:08.980 --> 0:18:10.740 click the link or do X, Y, Z, because it 0:18:10.780 --> 0:18:13.120 doesn't want you to go to external sources. It wants 0:18:13.140 --> 0:18:15.700 to keep you in that app. And that's how it's designed. Right. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.140 You know what I'm saying? If you don't want more, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.540 I want to keep you a Walmart sharper. Why the 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.140 fuck I got shit going on about target X, Y, Z, boom, boom, boom. 0:18:21.340 --> 0:18:23.419 And so it's like, what I got, whatever I got 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:24.850 to do, keep you here. If you don't like me, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.870 you still got to see me. Yeah. Right. Even shit 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.530 you don't like. Sometimes you send it to people like, bro, 0:18:28.550 --> 0:18:31.350 look at this or check this out. It don't, it 0:18:31.369 --> 0:18:34.410 don't matter whether it's right, wrong, up, down, purple, green, left, right. 0:18:35.060 --> 0:18:35.940 It just gets attention. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:36.380 Yeah. 0:18:36.420 --> 0:18:38.700 And that's what the algorithm is based off for these 0:18:38.940 --> 0:18:42.260 apps is gain the fucking attention and stop worrying about it. 0:18:42.270 --> 0:18:43.750 We base it off feelings a lot of the time. 0:18:43.770 --> 0:18:46.189 I feel like this. I feel like, no, get the 0:18:46.230 --> 0:18:49.909 fucking attention. And that is the base level. If it 0:18:49.950 --> 0:18:51.650 can keep them on the app, you win it because 0:18:51.690 --> 0:18:53.419 the app will keep showing it to them. Right. You 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.880 know what I'm saying? It may not be this post, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.160 but that's how you strike virality for life. One post down, three, 0:18:58.180 --> 0:19:00.740 four posts down because it's showing that. The same motherfucker 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.680 that said something bad about you or, man, I don't 0:19:02.700 --> 0:19:04.380 know what the fuck they talking about. And you got 0:19:04.420 --> 0:19:06.889 people on there coming. We get offended sometimes. Like, they 0:19:06.930 --> 0:19:09.149 don't know me. Why would they say that? I don't 0:19:09.170 --> 0:19:11.130 give a fuck what you say. You just talk about 0:19:11.150 --> 0:19:12.910 my grandma, my dog. You call me what you want. 0:19:13.410 --> 0:19:15.290 Pin it. And I'm going to say something so you 0:19:15.330 --> 0:19:17.149 can argue with me. And I'll sit up and go 0:19:17.190 --> 0:19:18.629 back and forth in the comments with you just so 0:19:18.650 --> 0:19:20.190 you can keep on coming. 0:19:20.270 --> 0:19:24.190 So you do subscribe to that type of interaction is healthy. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.380 for the algorithm, as far as your content, of going 0:19:28.420 --> 0:19:31.020 back and forth with negative content. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.740 For the sake of getting the job done. And then 0:19:34.790 --> 0:19:37.369 another thing is too, even if you're a fan of 0:19:37.410 --> 0:19:39.070 me and you see something, you'd be like, hey, this 0:19:39.090 --> 0:19:41.469 is too far on the king, bro. Come on, y'all 0:19:41.490 --> 0:19:44.489 didn't have to do this. What it does is when 0:19:44.530 --> 0:19:47.450 you come and come in it also boom triggers your 0:19:47.540 --> 0:19:50.680 algorithm everybody was coming under a comment it triggers your 0:19:50.740 --> 0:19:53.960 algorithm like and so i'm just even though you're seeing 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:55.740 all types of shit and that's why i stay in 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.700 there and stay engaged with those people because it's gonna 0:19:57.740 --> 0:20:00.280 keep popping up on your algorithm yeah every time you 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.220 say something about me i'm gonna be like somebody was 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:03.840 like the most gay rapper ever i'm like. 0:20:04.510 --> 0:20:05.710 They say you're gay? 0:20:05.990 --> 0:20:09.790 Well, so, the persona, or Kimi Casanova, is meant to be, like, 0:20:09.830 --> 0:20:13.020 a 70s, like, pimp. Like, and if you looked at 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.380 the 70s, like, niggas wore makeup in the 70s. They 0:20:15.420 --> 0:20:18.780 had high waters on, like, tight pants. Niggas wore crop tops. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.470 And they were very, like... they had very like feminine gestures. 0:20:23.550 --> 0:20:24.909 It was very like, you know what I'm saying? And 0:20:24.930 --> 0:20:26.639 so when I'm playing a character, I'm going to play 0:20:26.660 --> 0:20:29.060 the character. Like now, however it looks to y'all, it's 0:20:29.100 --> 0:20:30.800 like whatever, whatever. And at first I used to get 0:20:30.820 --> 0:20:33.280 offended because I'm like, motherfuckers don't know me from the character. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:34.800 And it was just like, but if you're looking at 0:20:34.820 --> 0:20:37.040 the character, you assume that is me. Right. And so 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:38.820 I was just like offended and shit at first. But 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.190 once I learned, I was like, Oh nigga, that's not you. 0:20:41.230 --> 0:20:43.530 You're just playing. I'm like, you letting people like troll 0:20:43.550 --> 0:20:44.950 you into like, and that's when I had started learning. 0:20:44.970 --> 0:20:46.770 They're going to keep saying shit, but you have to 0:20:46.790 --> 0:20:49.010 figure out a way to flip it and like trigger 0:20:49.030 --> 0:20:52.250 people to say stuff and then keep them there. because 0:20:52.270 --> 0:20:55.379 you're you're reacting once you once you start reacting i 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.780 can control you if you don't do nothing it's just 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.300 like if you look at it in bypass you never 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.060 did come in i never knew you were there once 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.399 you start reacting boom got you yeah let's hone in 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:04.919 on that like let's see let's see what's going on 0:21:04.940 --> 0:21:05.379 right here. 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:09.400 But i mean nothing about the kimi casanova i mean 0:21:09.510 --> 0:21:13.320 well sitting with the leg crossed maybe The only two. 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.290 People who sit with their legs crossed are women and 0:21:16.350 --> 0:21:20.090 really rich people. Men with a lot of shit. 0:21:21.290 --> 0:21:21.470 Right. 0:21:21.510 --> 0:21:25.000 Can you pull up the Jay-Z New York Times interview 0:21:25.020 --> 0:21:28.420 and just do Google images? Jay-Z had his whole thigh 0:21:28.460 --> 0:21:29.820 over his other thigh. We were taught not to sit 0:21:29.859 --> 0:21:31.900 like this because that's for women. The older I got, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.710 I was like, every rich white man that I see 0:21:35.109 --> 0:21:37.150 sits like that or every person that got a lot 0:21:37.170 --> 0:21:39.760 of money, they'd be like, and they lean into it. 0:21:39.770 --> 0:21:42.730 And I was just like, see, we hit the motherfucking 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:43.600 goddamn guy like this. 0:21:43.619 --> 0:21:46.040 You know what I'm saying? See, you got some money, 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.439 but you ain't got this type of money. You feel 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:50.959 what I'm saying? You got some shit. Now, he ain't 0:21:50.980 --> 0:21:53.840 got no money. There's levels to it. You know what 0:21:54.100 --> 0:21:54.680 I'm saying? No money. 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:55.140 But show money. 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:57.680 Some more money. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:02.810 Yeah, but I don't see nothing about, you know, I mean, 0:22:02.830 --> 0:22:05.410 they call anybody gay, but I don't see how people 0:22:05.430 --> 0:22:08.879 will see the Kimi Casanova character and say, you know, oh, 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:10.740 he's gay. Like that to me, that is, you know, 0:22:10.780 --> 0:22:11.659 it ain't for me to decide. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.080 You know what I'm saying? And it's like, I just 0:22:13.140 --> 0:22:14.520 love that you feel something about it. 0:22:17.670 --> 0:22:20.030 Maul, you see Damaris over there just overpaying for wireless? 0:22:20.310 --> 0:22:21.990 She does that from time to time. 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And it was 0:23:20.390 --> 0:23:22.109 like an attention thing. And that's why I was like, 0:23:22.150 --> 0:23:23.989 it was a mistake. But people liked it more than 0:23:24.030 --> 0:23:27.149 I wanted them to. And so then I was just like, shit, 0:23:27.250 --> 0:23:28.830 I made a mess. Now how do I clean it up? 0:23:29.450 --> 0:23:31.669 You know, I got a mop. I got a broom. 0:23:31.780 --> 0:23:33.899 I got some Bounty Quicker Picker Upper. I got a 0:23:33.980 --> 0:23:35.600 dish towel. Like, what the fuck do I use? And 0:23:35.619 --> 0:23:38.730 so it's like, with the tools I got, just... shimmy 0:23:38.770 --> 0:23:40.330 all that shit together clean it up and like make 0:23:40.369 --> 0:23:42.619 it look presentable so now it doesn't feel like a 0:23:42.670 --> 0:23:48.480 gimmick it just feels like and i accidentally like superbly 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.740 trapped myself into becoming a like a brand master and 0:23:51.780 --> 0:23:54.000 like branding some shit or like learning how to market 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.560 because like i was just doing shit pressing buttons and 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.139 making mistakes and it taught me how to like brand 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.020 and like you know my director right that scene right 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:02.679 there he was like we were shooting last week and 0:24:02.700 --> 0:24:06.040 he was like yeah you um you don't care about 0:24:06.060 --> 0:24:10.119 looking stupid or failing or being wrong he was just 0:24:10.140 --> 0:24:13.300 like you just have this thing where like because some 0:24:13.340 --> 0:24:14.899 of that don't be looking like you think you'd be 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.139 looking but it's like you don't have that button in 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:18.860 your head that says i shouldn't be doing this because 0:24:18.900 --> 0:24:20.500 it wouldn't look right to people it's just like yeah 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:22.900 do it and show people the process show them like 0:24:22.980 --> 0:24:24.159 it ain't always what you think it is in the 0:24:24.180 --> 0:24:26.320 beginning or it turns into something different And so if 0:24:26.340 --> 0:24:28.199 you've seen me before, it's like, you know, you go 0:24:28.220 --> 0:24:30.500 from rapping in your car to like, I can't stop 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.170 seeing a nigga. But at first it's just like, you know, 0:24:33.250 --> 0:24:36.270 or you, you got the pimp persona or you got this, this, that, 0:24:36.290 --> 0:24:38.270 and then some of the videos or songs I've put out, like, 0:24:38.310 --> 0:24:39.810 I haven't even liked all of them, but it's like, 0:24:40.330 --> 0:24:42.859 I don't have a button that says, don't do it. 0:24:43.150 --> 0:24:44.109 You willing to just try it. 0:24:44.230 --> 0:24:46.450 Just try it. You know what I'm saying? And let shit... 0:24:47.780 --> 0:24:50.500 you can't make it perfect if it doesn't exist. It 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:52.360 has to be a thing first for you to even 0:24:52.420 --> 0:24:55.940 start nitpicking, removing, putting stuff into place and trying to 0:24:55.980 --> 0:24:58.139 make it perfect. And so people get so caught up 0:24:58.180 --> 0:25:01.430 in perfection. If you're a perfectionist, you probably won't be rich. 0:25:02.090 --> 0:25:03.510 If you care about what people think. Perfection is the 0:25:03.530 --> 0:25:05.669 biggest problem to start. You feel what I'm saying? And 0:25:05.710 --> 0:25:09.340 so it's like, get the thing into existence first, make 0:25:09.380 --> 0:25:13.100 it exist and then fix it. Like, a Tesla didn't 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:15.220 just come out like what it is today or the 0:25:15.260 --> 0:25:16.859 car you drive or some of these shoes that we 0:25:16.900 --> 0:25:19.719 wear shit like you know what I'm saying motherfuckers wore 0:25:19.820 --> 0:25:21.840 twigs on their feet you know what I'm saying for 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.240 shoes you know what I'm saying in the BC days 0:25:24.300 --> 0:25:26.320 and it's like now we got boots that come up 0:25:26.340 --> 0:25:28.460 to here and shit like moon boots all type of 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:31.240 shit like to cover you but just make it exist 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:37.050 we don't wear Jesus sandals but you know it's people 0:25:37.090 --> 0:25:38.640 are all fucked up they just care too much about 0:25:38.660 --> 0:25:40.669 what people think man. 0:25:40.590 --> 0:25:43.649 You ever felt like with knowing that i don't want 0:25:43.670 --> 0:25:46.580 to say well yes negativity to some degree based on 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:51.760 your comments of pinning those type of responses to lean 0:25:51.820 --> 0:25:54.040 more into negativity i think you've done a great job 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:56.939 of not doing that but has that felt like maybe easier. 0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:59.500 I'm not a negative person i don't like that like 0:25:59.580 --> 0:26:01.959 i'm not like a i don't want negativity but when 0:26:01.980 --> 0:26:05.290 it's there i'm like Everything that's happening is for me 0:26:05.330 --> 0:26:08.300 to see things a certain way. So it's like stop 0:26:08.390 --> 0:26:11.480 fighting against it and like start using it. Yeah. If 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:15.280 negativity is coming my way, I'm like, come on. Like, 0:26:15.300 --> 0:26:17.770 what's up? Like, fuck, we here. If y'all gonna be 0:26:17.810 --> 0:26:19.790 negative and if all this is going to be is negative, 0:26:20.230 --> 0:26:22.649 like find a way to make my negative a positive. Like, yeah, 0:26:23.150 --> 0:26:25.429 I'm not going to fight that. negative with the negative, 0:26:25.450 --> 0:26:26.870 you know what I'm saying? I'm just going to be like, 0:26:27.170 --> 0:26:29.840 I'm just going to use it for what it's used for. 0:26:30.150 --> 0:26:31.800 Like if that's that energy that's over there and shit, 0:26:31.820 --> 0:26:34.580 like capitalize on it, figure out a way to do that. 0:26:35.020 --> 0:26:38.700 You know what I'm saying? We got, we got crazy 0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:41.960 motherfuckers out here or people like, just crazy and like 0:26:42.180 --> 0:26:45.689 not mentally ill, but just like do shit. And we 0:26:45.710 --> 0:26:48.270 have managed to make a place for those people. Right. Like, 0:26:48.350 --> 0:26:49.990 you know what I'm saying? And all of the negative 0:26:50.030 --> 0:26:51.250 shit that they can do, like people go out and 0:26:51.310 --> 0:26:53.070 kill people. People go out and cuss people the fuck out, 0:26:53.109 --> 0:26:53.669 beat people up. 0:26:53.830 --> 0:26:54.070 Right. 0:26:54.510 --> 0:26:56.669 Oh, let's create a place to keep all of these 0:26:56.690 --> 0:26:57.260 people together. 0:26:57.430 --> 0:26:57.650 Yeah. 0:26:57.710 --> 0:26:59.619 Like create places for that shit. Positivity. 0:26:59.660 --> 0:27:00.220 And reward them. 0:27:00.660 --> 0:27:01.000 Yeah. 0:27:01.020 --> 0:27:03.879 Like we got spaces for everything. Like, you know what 0:27:03.900 --> 0:27:06.560 I'm saying? It's like, oh, positive people come over here 0:27:06.580 --> 0:27:08.199 and let's kumbaya in the park. And like, you know 0:27:08.220 --> 0:27:10.440 what I'm saying? Hold up. peace signs and smoke weed 0:27:10.460 --> 0:27:13.270 together we're like oh y'all believe in Jesus we got 0:27:13.290 --> 0:27:15.290 a place we got all this church y'all can come 0:27:15.330 --> 0:27:17.010 here like make a place for all of this shit 0:27:17.030 --> 0:27:18.490 you know what I'm saying so how did. 0:27:18.430 --> 0:27:21.510 The relationship with you and Lou Will come about. 0:27:22.970 --> 0:27:25.899 My partner my barber we cut each other hair and 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:28.520 he went to he cut Lou hair too you know 0:27:28.540 --> 0:27:30.459 what I'm saying so we both we was both barbers 0:27:31.060 --> 0:27:32.699 and he was at Lou house cutting his hair one 0:27:32.740 --> 0:27:34.919 day and he was like my boy he do music 0:27:35.590 --> 0:27:37.550 X Y Z blah blah blah he was like what 0:27:37.570 --> 0:27:41.419 shit play me something Played him something and wham, got him. 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:43.240 And then he wanted to meet me, you know what 0:27:43.260 --> 0:27:45.320 I'm saying? He heard the music and he's just like, shit, 0:27:45.340 --> 0:27:46.659 all right, well, I think I want to sign you. 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:50.500 And I'm just like, me? All right, nigga, yeah, let's 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:53.780 do it. Yeah, and so from there, we just kind 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:57.440 of like kicked it on some cool shit, like homeboy shit, like, 0:27:57.869 --> 0:27:59.929 You know what I'm saying? Just formed a relationship and 0:27:59.950 --> 0:28:01.310 shit like that. And at first I was just like, 0:28:01.470 --> 0:28:04.390 I was skeptical about all this shit. Signing to somebody 0:28:04.490 --> 0:28:06.950 or doing business with somebody and there's a bunch of 0:28:06.970 --> 0:28:08.330 people in your face at one time, it's like picking 0:28:08.550 --> 0:28:12.110 the best stranger. I don't fucking know y'all. And you're 0:28:12.130 --> 0:28:14.190 my homeboy's homeboy. That don't mean you're the same person 0:28:14.490 --> 0:28:16.189 to me. Or you're going to be the same way 0:28:16.210 --> 0:28:17.409 to me that you are to him. You know what 0:28:17.430 --> 0:28:19.609 I'm saying? So it was just like shit. Doing it 0:28:21.130 --> 0:28:26.090 was cool starting out. Luckily we became like homeboys or 0:28:26.109 --> 0:28:28.220 friends first because some of this this shit that we 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:30.060 didn't have to tell each other or say to each 0:28:30.119 --> 0:28:32.880 other or express them been like enough to make motherfuckers like. 0:28:33.380 --> 0:28:33.880 We not fucking. 0:28:33.900 --> 0:28:34.480 Fall out in the street. 0:28:34.540 --> 0:28:34.960 Yeah. 0:28:35.100 --> 0:28:37.980 Yeah. Yeah. But I don't, you know, I tell people, 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:40.260 I don't mind people having big feelings towards me, getting mad, 0:28:40.340 --> 0:28:42.520 cussing me out, saying your piece and just being like, 0:28:42.740 --> 0:28:44.640 I was tripping. Well, forgive me. I'm like, all right, 0:28:44.820 --> 0:28:45.500 fuck it. You know? 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.880 So you and Will, so you and Lou Will creatively, 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:50.520 have y'all had y'all differences on. 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:53.240 On the business? 0:28:53.510 --> 0:28:53.870 Oh, yeah. 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:58.010 On the business tip? Hell yeah. Yeah, we done had differences. Like, yeah, 0:28:58.030 --> 0:29:01.090 hell yeah. We bumped heads like a motherfucker. But, you know, 0:29:01.710 --> 0:29:05.350 we was just friends. I noticed, like, at one point 0:29:05.370 --> 0:29:07.360 in time, I was calling him. He wasn't answering my 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:09.740 phone calls. And I'm like, nigga, I'm your artist. I 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:11.160 ain't got no money. I can't do X, Y, Z. 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:13.700 You know what I'm saying? And then he'll pick up 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:15.080 the phone one day when I call him. Like, yeah, 0:29:15.100 --> 0:29:18.260 I ain't gonna lie. You can shit. You done blew me. Like, nigga, 0:29:18.530 --> 0:29:20.320 this shit... You know what I'm saying? I'm spending money 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:21.340 on X, Y, and Z and you ain't trying to 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:22.580 do what the fuck I want to do because it's 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:24.740 my money, it's my investment. You know what I'm saying? 0:29:25.020 --> 0:29:27.460 And I'm just like, well, on the other hand, I 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:29.020 got a child on the way or I got this 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:31.870 going on and I can't depend on people to do X, Y, Z. 0:29:32.370 --> 0:29:34.930 And no capacity shouldn't artists or anybody be depending on 0:29:34.990 --> 0:29:37.350 another grown man, unless you're a woman maybe or a child, 0:29:37.750 --> 0:29:40.530 another grown man to fund their lifestyle or fund. their career. 0:29:40.630 --> 0:29:42.330 It's not Lou's dream to be a rapper. It's mine. 0:29:42.350 --> 0:29:44.790 And so I had to start taking accountability. Like, stop 0:29:44.890 --> 0:29:46.070 asking for shit. And if you're going to do shit 0:29:46.090 --> 0:29:49.520 your way, make your own way. Won't nobody be offended. 0:29:49.970 --> 0:29:51.840 And that's how I got myself to like right here. 0:29:51.860 --> 0:29:55.380 And it was just like, okay, shit. I noticed like if, 0:29:55.880 --> 0:29:59.860 and we're just, is logical. You're spending money on a 0:29:59.880 --> 0:30:02.180 project and somebody don't listen to you. It's like, why 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:03.660 the fuck am I spending money for you to just 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:05.560 do what you want to do with my money? 0:30:05.580 --> 0:30:06.560 You have to learn that though. 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:08.740 Yeah. And it's a gamble. I'm gambling on you because 0:30:08.790 --> 0:30:10.510 it's not guaranteed. Any of this shit is going to work. 0:30:10.770 --> 0:30:13.510 Also on the other side, if I'm signing someone, I'm 0:30:13.530 --> 0:30:15.590 signing them because I think their vision is incredible. 0:30:15.730 --> 0:30:17.210 And sometimes you got to leave them the fuck alone. 0:30:17.390 --> 0:30:18.630 That's part of your investment. That's true. 0:30:18.670 --> 0:30:19.070 Literally. 0:30:19.090 --> 0:30:22.870 To me, as someone that's worked with artists, I'm investing 0:30:22.890 --> 0:30:25.130 because I think you have the vision that you want 0:30:25.170 --> 0:30:25.390 to do. 0:30:25.410 --> 0:30:27.280 Like, I'm going to shut the fuck up and let 0:30:27.300 --> 0:30:28.380 you do what you want to do. I'm here to 0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:29.280 fund your vision. Yeah. 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:32.260 But when you don't know that, and there's been, we've 0:30:32.300 --> 0:30:33.880 sat on the phone day in and day out and 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:35.960 just say, hey. we've gotten calls from labels and we 0:30:35.980 --> 0:30:37.200 get on the phone like yeah nigga I don't know 0:30:37.220 --> 0:30:38.479 what the fuck going on or I don't know what 0:30:38.500 --> 0:30:39.840 to do or I don't know none of the lingo 0:30:39.860 --> 0:30:41.260 they were talking about and we get on the phone 0:30:41.300 --> 0:30:42.860 and say that like he like I don't know what 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:45.730 I'm doing and I'm like yeah me neither and so 0:30:45.750 --> 0:30:48.830 that's where it's like he got the funds I got 0:30:48.850 --> 0:30:52.890 the talent but we still don't know what eggs to 0:30:52.910 --> 0:30:54.590 put in what basket you know what I'm saying and 0:30:54.610 --> 0:30:57.430 so it's like you can't just we spent a lot 0:30:57.470 --> 0:31:00.100 of money in the beginning just throwing eggs in random 0:31:00.140 --> 0:31:03.080 baskets and it wasn't working and I was just like 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:06.340 fuck it when he stopped giving me eggs, I was 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:10.080 just like, fuck it. I turned into a chicken. Pop 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:12.380 my own shits out and just get this shit grooving 0:31:12.420 --> 0:31:14.110 some type of way. And so that's where, that's what 0:31:14.120 --> 0:31:16.110 we're seeing the effects of right now. Like, and all 0:31:16.130 --> 0:31:18.310 this shit you're seeing, it ain't taking like a big budget, 0:31:18.410 --> 0:31:20.690 a whole lot of money. It's just taking like studying, 0:31:20.850 --> 0:31:24.229 watching shit, learning and like capitalizing on it. Like when 0:31:24.250 --> 0:31:27.370 you get a moment, like when God gives you the ball, ball, 0:31:28.050 --> 0:31:29.890 like ball like a motherfucker. 0:31:29.910 --> 0:31:32.930 Well, like you just said too, also we have to, First, 0:31:32.970 --> 0:31:35.730 just start and create something and then we work on 0:31:35.790 --> 0:31:37.430 it and then we figure it out and perfect it 0:31:37.450 --> 0:31:39.630 and get it to a place that we're all happy. 0:31:39.670 --> 0:31:42.840 But the fact that, you know, Lou even gave you 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:44.820 a shot and was like, listen, I want to invest 0:31:44.880 --> 0:31:47.420 in you. That takes a lot because a lot of 0:31:47.460 --> 0:31:49.340 times people don't want to invest in you. They think 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:51.960 you got some talent. That don't mean they're going to 0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:53.980 put you in a position to give you opportunity to 0:31:54.060 --> 0:31:55.520 create your dream and your vision. 0:31:56.220 --> 0:31:57.680 He was smart because he knew labels and shit was 0:31:57.700 --> 0:31:58.500 calling to at the time. 0:31:58.520 --> 0:31:58.840 Yeah. 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:00.540 This was one of the things where it was like. 0:32:00.780 --> 0:32:02.620 Absolutely. There's motion over it. 0:32:02.660 --> 0:32:02.860 Yeah. 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:04.960 Ain't got to do too much work. And then he 0:32:04.980 --> 0:32:06.320 got in and he was like, bam, got you. 0:32:06.500 --> 0:32:06.760 Right. 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:08.680 There's something happening already. I just want to be a 0:32:08.700 --> 0:32:10.070 part of it. 0:32:10.240 --> 0:32:12.710 But even that bump does help too when you're negotiating 0:32:12.730 --> 0:32:14.650 with labels. Like, I got a bank over here. 0:32:14.830 --> 0:32:17.530 Yeah. I have access to some capital. 0:32:17.790 --> 0:32:19.950 I think that hurt us a lot of times too. Okay. Why? 0:32:20.110 --> 0:32:22.440 Because knowing that you got a bank. and it's like 0:32:23.220 --> 0:32:26.500 because they assumed like so you walk in the labels 0:32:26.540 --> 0:32:28.640 some people know who he is some people don't know 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:30.070 or some people just don't give a fuck we know 0:32:30.090 --> 0:32:31.940 but we don't give a fuck like that's his money 0:32:32.180 --> 0:32:34.180 right he's not us and he don't have the infrastructure 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:35.950 that we have and they see it all the time 0:32:35.990 --> 0:32:38.230 where athletes or people who make a lot of money 0:32:38.250 --> 0:32:40.270 try to invest in or get into the music business 0:32:40.670 --> 0:32:42.890 they know that you don't know what's going on how 0:32:42.910 --> 0:32:44.970 to operate any of this shit at that point okay 0:32:44.990 --> 0:32:47.950 so sometimes it hurt us it's like okay, you got money. 0:32:48.290 --> 0:32:51.060 We don't have to offer you so much money. Okay. 0:32:51.080 --> 0:32:52.940 Y'all seem like y'all got to figure it out. And 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:54.440 then like a lot of times people was like, Hey, 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:56.800 I thought you had a deal because, and you know, 0:32:56.860 --> 0:32:58.970 we independent. So it's just a person who sees the 0:32:58.990 --> 0:33:02.180 talent and they're spending their money. And then it's like, uh, 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:05.660 You're not major or signed until you're signed to a 0:33:05.720 --> 0:33:08.000 major label for people who don't know. So it's like 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.020 you saying, hey, bro, I believe in you and I 0:33:10.060 --> 0:33:12.520 want to sign you to me. But you're not a label. Right. 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:14.780 Or y'all ain't a label. You know what I'm saying? 0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:17.290 And people would think I'm signed. But now that I'm 0:33:17.310 --> 0:33:19.670 signed to y'all. Now what? Because guess what? Y'all want 0:33:19.690 --> 0:33:22.830 to get this podcast on a network because y'all aren't signed. 0:33:22.850 --> 0:33:26.550 It's like independence. It's like. that is separate and so 0:33:26.590 --> 0:33:28.250 it's like even y'all are trying to make strides to 0:33:28.270 --> 0:33:30.570 like if I can get my shit on goddamn Hulu 0:33:30.610 --> 0:33:32.770 Netflix Peacock at the same time that would be fucking 0:33:32.810 --> 0:33:34.950 great or if I can shine to somebody who guarantee 0:33:34.970 --> 0:33:37.070 me X amount of dollars per month or per year 0:33:37.370 --> 0:33:39.650 that would be great and that's the goal and man 0:33:39.670 --> 0:33:41.390 when I tell you bro that shit was just so 0:33:41.450 --> 0:33:44.540 nasty like on some some crazy because motherfuckers always was 0:33:44.580 --> 0:33:48.380 like we didn't know exactly what we needed or how 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:50.840 to ask for it and we also was just like 0:33:51.180 --> 0:33:53.280 you know what I'm saying give us an offer. And 0:33:53.300 --> 0:33:55.070 then when somebody giving us an offer, it don't sound 0:33:55.130 --> 0:33:57.510 right or don't sound like something we feel like we 0:33:57.530 --> 0:34:00.030 can take or everybody be comfortable. And it's also, you 0:34:00.070 --> 0:34:01.590 don't know what the fuck to look for because I 0:34:02.490 --> 0:34:04.600 have never been in this position. You're not a music nigga. 0:34:04.620 --> 0:34:07.820 That's dangerous because, you know, sometimes those labels, they smell that. 0:34:08.370 --> 0:34:09.589 They're like, yo, they don't know what they doing. 0:34:09.790 --> 0:34:10.370 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:34:10.489 --> 0:34:12.569 You know what I mean? Like, yes, they have access 0:34:12.610 --> 0:34:15.190 to some capital, but they don't know what they doing. 0:34:15.250 --> 0:34:18.490 And luckily, we didn't sign or didn't do anything because 0:34:18.590 --> 0:34:19.890 now I would be like, fuck. 0:34:20.170 --> 0:34:20.390 Yeah, yeah. 0:34:20.450 --> 0:34:22.569 And I'm glad that I had to, like, you know, 0:34:22.630 --> 0:34:24.630 me and Lou kind of, like, bumped heads and I 0:34:24.670 --> 0:34:26.330 had to, like, do the shit myself or start, like, 0:34:26.410 --> 0:34:30.090 executing on my own. It's taught me so much that now, 0:34:30.450 --> 0:34:31.960 and he'll tell you, like, I sit back and let, 0:34:32.420 --> 0:34:34.859 let bro do his thing and sometimes I'd be like, damn, like, 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:36.660 I ain't gonna lie, he called me one time when 0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:38.589 I was on tour last year, he was like, ain't 0:34:38.610 --> 0:34:41.400 gonna lie. You, you hitting that motherfucker. Like you, you, 0:34:41.540 --> 0:34:43.759 you doing your thing. Like for real. Like you, he said, 0:34:43.780 --> 0:34:45.279 you putting this shit together for real. You know what 0:34:45.300 --> 0:34:48.299 I'm saying? And that was just like, whether he gives 0:34:48.340 --> 0:34:49.960 it to me or somebody else like makes it happen 0:34:49.980 --> 0:34:52.060 for him, it's going to happen. Like it's my shit. 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:52.680 It's going to happen. 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:53.020 Right. 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:53.540 Yeah. 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:57.430 Because we even saw that with like Meg and Carl Crawford, 0:34:57.469 --> 0:34:57.700 I think. 0:34:58.350 --> 0:34:58.610 Yeah. 0:34:58.770 --> 0:35:00.790 And again, I don't know their personal business, but you 0:35:00.810 --> 0:35:04.190 just saw that maybe a label did take advantage of, 0:35:04.700 --> 0:35:07.020 somebody with some money and a very talented artist. 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:09.180 You can't say that about Meg though. You can't say that. 0:35:09.660 --> 0:35:09.960 How so? 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:12.219 You shouldn't say that about Meg. Why? That was just 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:13.569 some clickbait so people can look at it. 0:35:13.590 --> 0:35:16.430 I was wondering what the fuck you said. I was 0:35:16.450 --> 0:35:17.589 waiting for the end of the bit. 0:35:17.650 --> 0:35:20.290 If it gets attention, if it gets attention, you clickbait 0:35:20.330 --> 0:35:22.049 that shit and be like, they had an argument about 0:35:22.070 --> 0:35:23.489 Meg this day and then you see me like, you 0:35:23.530 --> 0:35:26.700 can't say that. Why? Why not? Let me see what 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:27.020 he said. 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:30.740 Yeah, exactly. Jackson, Mississippi. 0:35:31.840 --> 0:35:35.460 Do we think that Rappers from Mississippi may be better 0:35:35.580 --> 0:35:37.109 at the internet than anybody else. 0:35:37.390 --> 0:35:38.529 If we're, if we're going to rank. 0:35:39.530 --> 0:35:40.549 Right now. Yeah. Hell yeah. 0:35:41.530 --> 0:35:42.770 I mean, Soulja Boy started everything. 0:35:45.770 --> 0:35:49.770 Yes, but I'm like, there's a lineage of Soulja Boy. 0:35:49.850 --> 0:35:52.650 I got mixed feelings about how Soulja Boy like, and 0:35:52.890 --> 0:35:55.520 Soulja Boy, if you're hearing this, you don't fuck with us. 0:35:56.140 --> 0:35:58.950 That's fine. But don't play both sides of the fence. 0:35:59.330 --> 0:36:01.969 I understand. And don't get on the enemy until I say, 0:36:01.989 --> 0:36:07.339 Akeem Ali, you a bitch. And don't do all that. Akeem? 0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:09.660 I know how to fight. I ain't saying I want 0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:11.700 to fight. Don't take that the wrong way. But don't 0:36:11.719 --> 0:36:14.520 get on there doing all that. But, like, we barely 0:36:14.540 --> 0:36:16.480 have anything, and we'd be so proud to big you 0:36:16.560 --> 0:36:18.259 up and, like, speak on your name and just say, like, 0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:20.250 you know what I'm saying? But just fuck with us. 0:36:20.260 --> 0:36:21.839 Don't fuck with Ali. Give us a little credit. You 0:36:21.860 --> 0:36:22.640 know what I'm saying? 0:36:23.020 --> 0:36:25.359 Okay, so I'm trying to figure out, are you upset 0:36:25.380 --> 0:36:28.460 with Soulja Boy because... He's from Bompton now. 0:36:28.540 --> 0:36:29.100 I'm not upset. 0:36:29.760 --> 0:36:30.780 And he's not from Mississippi. 0:36:30.820 --> 0:36:31.900 I can't tell him what to claim, but I would 0:36:31.920 --> 0:36:34.800 tell people I'm from Jackson, Mississippi, tried and true, proud, 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:37.180 born and raised, but I wouldn't be the artist that 0:36:37.200 --> 0:36:38.029 I am without Atlanta. 0:36:38.739 --> 0:36:39.009 Gotcha. 0:36:39.050 --> 0:36:40.670 I'm never going to mislead you. And he could be 0:36:40.690 --> 0:36:42.270 from Atlanta. I just don't know how he grew up. 0:36:42.270 --> 0:36:43.950 Well, he's from Bompton. He told Floyd Mayweather that to 0:36:43.989 --> 0:36:44.590 his face. 0:36:46.450 --> 0:36:48.589 Oh, man. I'm repeating what he said. I can't say 0:36:48.610 --> 0:36:52.530 where the man from. Yeah. Mr. Drake, Drake, Draco. Draco. Yeah. Draco. 0:36:53.360 --> 0:36:56.020 Big soldier, man. Boy, soldier boy, man. 0:36:57.140 --> 0:36:57.839 Kiss me through the phone. 0:36:58.910 --> 0:37:01.210 I can't say where you from, man. I don't tell 0:37:01.250 --> 0:37:04.190 you none of that, but it's like, give credit or 0:37:04.210 --> 0:37:05.740 pay homage. And I'm not saying that you have to, 0:37:05.760 --> 0:37:07.680 but I got to pay homage to Atlanta because I 0:37:07.719 --> 0:37:09.000 wouldn't be the artist or I wouldn't be sitting here 0:37:09.020 --> 0:37:11.340 in front of y'all without the director right there. shooting 0:37:11.420 --> 0:37:13.420 and hitting me up with ideas on me back and 0:37:13.440 --> 0:37:15.899 forth and bouncing ideas off him. My photographer right there, 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:19.200 like Letitia Marie, Kevon Price. Like I can't be without 0:37:19.219 --> 0:37:22.950 B-Flat or without, you know, Roy O'Oylands or without Kelton. 0:37:23.530 --> 0:37:25.090 I can't be the artist that I am right now 0:37:25.110 --> 0:37:26.910 without some of these people who've helped or put me 0:37:26.930 --> 0:37:29.270 in position. Like I met Lou in like Atlanta, like 0:37:29.770 --> 0:37:32.529 Atlanta has like started my career. And so I can't 0:37:32.550 --> 0:37:35.169 just ever be like, you know, fuck them folks. Like 0:37:35.730 --> 0:37:37.330 if you was in Mississippi when this shit started, like, 0:37:37.750 --> 0:37:38.989 This is a part of some of the shit that 0:37:39.010 --> 0:37:40.730 you like your friends or your surroundings or the people 0:37:40.750 --> 0:37:42.770 that were there with you. They helped you do some 0:37:42.790 --> 0:37:44.190 of this shit. Or this is the reason why you, 0:37:44.570 --> 0:37:47.290 you probably was raised in Atlanta and influenced by it wholeheartedly, 0:37:47.330 --> 0:37:49.700 which same with me and Jackson, right? You don't get 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:51.680 the type of nigga that I am without the Jackson 0:37:52.219 --> 0:37:55.790 in me. But it's like, At what point do you say, like, 0:37:56.190 --> 0:37:57.950 shout out to all my people in Mississippi? And maybe 0:37:57.969 --> 0:37:59.450 he's done it. I just haven't seen it. But it's 0:37:59.469 --> 0:38:01.150 just like we'd be trying to claim Soulja Boy and 0:38:01.170 --> 0:38:02.760 people were, Soulja Boy from Mississippi, Soulja Boy, Soulja Boy. 0:38:03.090 --> 0:38:04.870 And he'd be like, I ain't from no motherfucking Mississippi. 0:38:04.950 --> 0:38:07.150 And I'd be like, whoa, nigga, what are we doing? 0:38:07.590 --> 0:38:09.720 Is this so bad that you just can't say anything 0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:11.940 from there? Like, what's up? You know what I'm saying? 0:38:11.980 --> 0:38:14.040 But we, yeah. If you mean my rapper has been 0:38:14.140 --> 0:38:15.819 the best on the internet from Mississippi, yes, I am. 0:38:16.680 --> 0:38:17.000 Gotcha. 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:18.460 I am the best on the internet. 0:38:19.340 --> 0:38:20.419 The best rapper on the internet. 0:38:20.620 --> 0:38:24.000 Yeah. Me and Dearsilas and one other rapper that I 0:38:24.020 --> 0:38:26.750 got to give his credit, LaRussell. It's two people that 0:38:26.790 --> 0:38:29.430 I get a lot of my marketing from. I looked 0:38:29.469 --> 0:38:31.170 up to how LaRussell marketed. At one point, you could 0:38:31.210 --> 0:38:34.210 not see LaRussell on the internet. Three, four, five years ago, 0:38:34.290 --> 0:38:37.580 you could not see that. I said, God, are they 0:38:37.620 --> 0:38:40.440 paying him to do this? Who's behind this? And I 0:38:40.460 --> 0:38:41.560 got so sick of seeing him, I just had to 0:38:41.580 --> 0:38:41.840 follow him. 0:38:42.140 --> 0:38:44.560 You're a better rapper than Lil Russell, but he's incredible. 0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:47.299 I'm a better rapper than everybody. It ain't just him. 0:38:47.480 --> 0:38:52.150 It's everybody. It's you, your best friend, your grandma, your dog, 0:38:52.630 --> 0:38:56.570 all y'all. Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy, too. Shit, I'm a 0:38:56.570 --> 0:38:59.109 better rapper than Soulja Boy. I'm not fucking with you. 0:38:59.250 --> 0:39:00.350 I'm a better rapper than all of you. 0:39:00.370 --> 0:39:00.650 But I'm good. 0:39:00.730 --> 0:39:06.020 I work hard. very very hard for very fucking long 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:07.319 to be this good and it ain't just like it's 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:09.460 a he popped up out of nowhere and it's like 0:39:09.860 --> 0:39:12.259 he's just started rapping you've seen me consistently for six 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:15.560 years straight yeah rap this good be this present and 0:39:15.580 --> 0:39:17.600 like you know what i'm saying it ain't like oh 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:19.319 like you just said oh okay he can really rap 0:39:19.340 --> 0:39:20.930 this ain't a facade he didn't pop down and like 0:39:21.250 --> 0:39:23.650 pull some shit and just hit struck struck by uh 0:39:23.710 --> 0:39:26.750 look you know i'm saying no i've worked very fucking 0:39:26.770 --> 0:39:29.210 hard to be this good and why am i doing 0:39:29.230 --> 0:39:30.910 it if i'm not better than all y'all niggas, man? 0:39:31.410 --> 0:39:32.030 Come on, dog. 0:39:32.090 --> 0:39:34.819 Is there anybody that you've reached out to to work with? 0:39:34.860 --> 0:39:36.780 I thought you were going to say anybody. I was like, 0:39:36.840 --> 0:39:37.560 hell no. 0:39:37.580 --> 0:39:39.260 That's your name, Jesus. 0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:42.460 Devontae Burns or God. 0:39:42.540 --> 0:39:45.620 You tried to work with and they weren't as. 0:39:47.250 --> 0:39:49.250 Receptive as you would have liked them to be? Like 0:39:49.270 --> 0:39:51.089 you reached out to them? Yeah, I reach out to people. 0:39:51.130 --> 0:39:52.450 I used to reach out to people all the time. 0:39:52.770 --> 0:39:54.029 When people didn't get it from me or when people 0:39:54.050 --> 0:39:56.390 didn't see it. And I see people now who like, 0:39:56.410 --> 0:39:59.399 I done DM'd them before. Man, listen to my project, 0:39:59.420 --> 0:40:01.370 but could you check me out? And they didn't see 0:40:01.410 --> 0:40:03.549 it because I was a nobody. And then it's like, 0:40:03.570 --> 0:40:06.900 years later, like, boy, that boy Akeem Ali. I'm like, chill, bitch. 0:40:06.980 --> 0:40:09.980 Right, right. I'm just like, I'm just glad they recognized me. 0:40:10.000 --> 0:40:12.340 What's the Sierra record doing for you, though? Because that's 0:40:12.460 --> 0:40:13.480 a great look. 0:40:13.540 --> 0:40:13.940 Man. 0:40:14.260 --> 0:40:16.319 And how is that connection happening? 0:40:16.780 --> 0:40:21.009 Okay, so right here, my photographer, Letitia Marie, is one 0:40:21.469 --> 0:40:23.850 of the people who work very close with KP. KP 0:40:23.870 --> 0:40:27.469 hit me about the record. Okay. Yeah. uh kawan prether 0:40:28.050 --> 0:40:30.040 uh he hit me about the um record and was 0:40:30.060 --> 0:40:32.799 just like you know c got this record and we 0:40:32.820 --> 0:40:34.839 thought you would sound good on it me i'm just 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:36.940 like because sometimes people will have you do records and 0:40:36.980 --> 0:40:39.480 not use them oh yeah and so i'm just in 0:40:39.500 --> 0:40:41.040 the groove of like i'll be working so much i'm 0:40:41.060 --> 0:40:42.560 like yeah i'll do the record it's sierra if she 0:40:42.620 --> 0:40:45.640 use it whatever if she don't whatever i'm so used 0:40:45.660 --> 0:40:47.160 to writing and putting shit out i'm just like fuck 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.360 it and i sent it to him he was like 0:40:49.380 --> 0:40:51.700 oh boy you killed this motherfucker and i was like 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:54.569 appreciate it And I'm just thinking nothing of it. It's 0:40:54.610 --> 0:40:56.969 sitting in my phone. Then one day, somebody hit me 0:40:56.989 --> 0:40:58.989 and was like, hey, it's me. And she wants to 0:40:59.030 --> 0:41:01.480 know when can you do content or shoot a video 0:41:01.500 --> 0:41:03.719 or something. I'm like, oh, yeah. And I'm still not 0:41:03.739 --> 0:41:05.660 thinking nothing of it. Even now, I'm just kind of like, damn, 0:41:05.700 --> 0:41:08.140 it's so surreal. Because I'm like, I grew up watching 0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:10.239 Ciara on a money car. Like, you know what I'm saying? 0:41:10.260 --> 0:41:12.320 Doing her thing on top of a money Carlo. And 0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:14.160 it's just like, now I'm sitting on the back of 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:16.759 a Chevelle. You know what I'm saying? Rapping my verse 0:41:16.780 --> 0:41:17.050 with her. 0:41:17.060 --> 0:41:18.489 That's the air driving. Crazy. 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:21.770 Yeah, I'm just like, fuck. You know, it's... very sweet 0:41:21.870 --> 0:41:23.850 you know what I'm saying very kindred spirit man like 0:41:23.910 --> 0:41:27.969 nice um man it was just like damn you know 0:41:28.430 --> 0:41:30.469 and it was almost just kind of like while I'm 0:41:30.870 --> 0:41:32.540 sitting on the backseat rapping I just wanted to be 0:41:32.560 --> 0:41:33.560 like is she. 0:41:33.500 --> 0:41:39.900 Real yeah that's you yeah you for real what's your 0:41:39.920 --> 0:41:44.070 last name I'm like shit no the song is dope 0:41:44.090 --> 0:41:46.210 though thank you I appreciate it the song. 0:41:46.070 --> 0:41:47.989 Is dope I like the visual for the album I 0:41:48.010 --> 0:41:50.410 mean for the song as well um. 0:41:50.510 --> 0:41:52.200 And i just think that's fire that she had the 0:41:52.239 --> 0:41:55.640 record and yeah wanted you on it not the other 0:41:55.660 --> 0:41:56.280 way around. 0:41:56.140 --> 0:41:58.359 And was ready willing to like you said just shoot 0:41:58.620 --> 0:41:59.420 a visual for. 0:41:59.300 --> 0:42:00.640 I think it was a mixture of things too like 0:42:01.420 --> 0:42:03.580 meeting people who've known people or who meet people and 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:05.839 like they believing in a vision i don't think that 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:07.980 she just had like let's put a keemali on i 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:09.839 think somebody saw a vision for her and hey this 0:42:09.860 --> 0:42:11.540 guy would be good but at any rate she could 0:42:11.560 --> 0:42:13.260 have heard and been like yeah nah fuck that somebody 0:42:13.300 --> 0:42:15.779 else and she heard and it was like I like this. 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:18.100 You know what I'm saying? It takes a lot for 0:42:18.140 --> 0:42:19.510 a motherfucker to just like it. You can like it. 0:42:19.540 --> 0:42:21.259 He can like it. That don't mean she going to 0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:22.839 like it. She going to like it. Everybody don't feel 0:42:22.860 --> 0:42:24.219 the same about it. So for everybody to be in 0:42:24.239 --> 0:42:28.259 agreeance and like, hey, this is the guy. And like, yeah, 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:30.279 I was like, shit. That's dope. Yeah, man. 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:33.210 Do you also got into the joint with Money Long 0:42:33.230 --> 0:42:33.529 as well? 0:42:33.910 --> 0:42:37.149 Yeah. Well, it's on her album, but nobody knows that. 0:42:37.190 --> 0:42:40.150 But y'all will hear that later on. Y'all will hear 0:42:40.190 --> 0:42:40.489 that later on. 0:42:41.060 --> 0:42:42.799 I see what you're doing with these features, man, with 0:42:42.820 --> 0:42:46.820 the women, man. It's still some Kimi Casanova in there. 0:42:47.300 --> 0:42:49.940 What? What do you mean, man? 0:42:49.980 --> 0:42:51.700 Everybody's married in that situation, too. 0:42:51.820 --> 0:42:52.239 No, no, no. 0:42:52.300 --> 0:42:54.920 Everybody's married, but it's a lot. It's just like you 0:42:54.960 --> 0:42:56.880 in this picture, you and money right here in this picture. 0:42:56.900 --> 0:42:57.580 Money isn't married. 0:42:58.210 --> 0:42:59.070 Money isn't married. 0:42:59.590 --> 0:43:03.840 People think she's married. I don't want to have a 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:09.060 misperception or people be like, isn't she married? My bad, Iceberg. 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:12.520 I saw y'all at the BET Awards on the carpet. 0:43:13.719 --> 0:43:18.509 The aesthetics was very, very nice. Just putting that out there. 0:43:18.530 --> 0:43:21.850 Do with that what you will. I like the record. 0:43:22.510 --> 0:43:22.930 What record? 0:43:23.950 --> 0:43:24.760 Don't you have a record with her? 0:43:25.290 --> 0:43:26.049 What record have you heard of? 0:43:27.340 --> 0:43:28.020 I've been seeing y'all. 0:43:28.060 --> 0:43:31.760 You saw, you saw me in a video of hers probably. Yes. 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.020 And yeah, so that was a record that was off 0:43:34.060 --> 0:43:35.340 her album and it was for a rollout. 0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:35.840 Okay. 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:38.259 So we did the video and it's just like, you know, 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:42.469 the video looks so fucking amazing. So good. Uh, the 0:43:42.510 --> 0:43:44.950 richest by money long ago streamed at the day. I 0:43:45.390 --> 0:43:49.330 also streamed the Lulu. I think that's out. Um, yeah. 0:43:49.690 --> 0:43:50.210 Support her. 0:43:51.290 --> 0:43:53.029 And support Akeem Ali. 0:43:53.150 --> 0:43:54.359 Yeah. Support me. 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Sign up right now with promo code Rory Mall. 0:45:03.410 --> 0:45:06.589 That's polymarket.us and use promo code Rory Mall to get 0:45:06.630 --> 0:45:08.630 a $ 50 bonus when you deposit. 0:45:08.290 --> 0:45:12.489 Just $ 10. 0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:19.779 Texture Tape 3 is available now. 0:45:19.900 --> 0:45:20.580 Yeah, hell yeah. 0:45:21.660 --> 0:45:24.460 What was that process for you finally getting that together 0:45:24.500 --> 0:45:26.740 and getting that out on DSPs? 0:45:27.360 --> 0:45:29.859 I wrote some of that shit on tour last year 0:45:30.660 --> 0:45:33.140 just in passing some of those songs. Some of them 0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:35.779 I had already prepared. Some of them just came up 0:45:35.820 --> 0:45:38.629 on like, you know, the biggest song off there right now, Mesh, 0:45:38.890 --> 0:45:41.049 wasn't even supposed to be on there. I was trying 0:45:41.070 --> 0:45:43.070 to find a song that went in between like Latex 0:45:43.110 --> 0:45:46.680 and Yarn. And just got home from the studio one 0:45:46.719 --> 0:45:49.219 night and just literally started humming a voice memo into 0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:51.480 my phone and just like went to the studio, recorded that. 0:45:51.980 --> 0:45:55.339 Stuff like Ray Young was more curated and just writing 0:45:55.380 --> 0:45:58.359 it and passing while I'm jotting down lyrics every day. 0:45:58.420 --> 0:46:03.010 Stuff like acrylic. I think I started writing acrylic on tour. 0:46:04.230 --> 0:46:06.330 Spandex was a song that I just kind of like revamped. 0:46:07.020 --> 0:46:11.300 Wool was something about some crazy shit. Silk was, you know, velvet. 0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:13.239 I was coming from a baby shower one day and 0:46:13.280 --> 0:46:16.420 literally just made the hook to velvet just on mistake. 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:18.940 I was just in the booth doing runs and just 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:21.319 came up with that and was just like, all right. 0:46:21.340 --> 0:46:23.529 You're doing a lot of that more too. Like letting 0:46:23.570 --> 0:46:26.350 people know that you actually have like, you can, you can, 0:46:26.370 --> 0:46:28.310 you can rap and kind of hold a melody. 0:46:28.510 --> 0:46:28.690 Yeah. 0:46:28.730 --> 0:46:29.690 My name is Talented. 0:46:30.530 --> 0:46:31.290 Talented. 0:46:31.510 --> 0:46:32.630 Yeah. Talented. 0:46:34.370 --> 0:46:36.710 Welcome to my TED Talk. Welcome to my TED Talk. 0:46:36.870 --> 0:46:39.010 You know what I'm saying? I'm talented and welcome to 0:46:39.270 --> 0:46:45.930 my TED Talk. This is my best project out right now. 0:46:45.989 --> 0:46:50.110 Most artists say their latest project is their best. 0:46:50.130 --> 0:46:54.310 I intentionally don't put out my best shit. People think 0:46:54.330 --> 0:46:58.569 they have heard the pinnacle of me rapping. No. Not 0:46:58.610 --> 0:47:02.340 to be funny about it, but To be in all seriousness, 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:05.980 you haven't heard me decline rapping. Or you haven't heard like, 0:47:06.540 --> 0:47:07.859 maybe you don't like it as much as you like 0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:10.160 something else, but you can't say it's lacking bars or 0:47:10.180 --> 0:47:14.379 that it's lacking like the Akeem Ali-ness of it. Like rap, 0:47:14.620 --> 0:47:17.340 rap wise, this is good. Songs, this is good. I 0:47:18.500 --> 0:47:20.620 got shit so wicked sitting in my phone. I'm like, 0:47:21.270 --> 0:47:22.989 my ears bleed sometimes when I'm listening. 0:47:23.030 --> 0:47:23.790 Why are you holding it? 0:47:27.739 --> 0:47:29.470 I'm not. I just put out a project. 0:47:29.710 --> 0:47:31.270 Nah, but you just said you got some shit in 0:47:31.310 --> 0:47:31.709 your phone. 0:47:31.750 --> 0:47:34.509 Yeah, it's going to come out. It's going to come out. 0:47:35.090 --> 0:47:36.069 Just not texture tape? 0:47:36.090 --> 0:47:39.660 I'm thinking about doing a texture album. And that's going 0:47:39.680 --> 0:47:40.540 to be the end of that. 0:47:41.239 --> 0:47:41.900 End of that series? 0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:44.980 Yeah, the end of that. But this is getting people 0:47:45.660 --> 0:47:48.299 in a groove. Shout out to my photographer, Letitia. She 0:47:48.340 --> 0:47:52.549 shot this. The artwork? Yeah, and then somebody else put 0:47:53.330 --> 0:47:57.350 the three over it. Um... Shout out to her for that. 0:47:57.370 --> 0:47:59.950 Shout out to Ari. Kevon, he was there that day. 0:47:59.969 --> 0:48:03.320 We shot like the velvet visual. That's a whole velvet wall, 0:48:03.340 --> 0:48:06.180 suede wall type shit. So like, yeah. 0:48:08.200 --> 0:48:10.359 How do you time out putting projects? Like you say 0:48:10.380 --> 0:48:12.640 you have stuff that's unreleased. You want to do the 0:48:12.680 --> 0:48:15.340 texture album. Like how long do you wait in between? 0:48:15.400 --> 0:48:17.560 Do you kind of judge that off algorithm shit too? 0:48:17.700 --> 0:48:19.399 The way you go with social media, like? 0:48:19.670 --> 0:48:21.150 When you're independent, you kind of just do what you 0:48:21.170 --> 0:48:23.489 want and it's like a different structure set up. Like, 0:48:23.989 --> 0:48:25.810 I'd be wanting to take like the Youngboy or the 0:48:25.870 --> 0:48:27.609 Larry June approach and just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 0:48:28.010 --> 0:48:30.300 But for my shit, it's like, give it a minute. 0:48:30.340 --> 0:48:32.640 Let it settle in. Like, live with it sometime. Like, 0:48:32.660 --> 0:48:34.160 I don't want to drop another project at least until 0:48:34.180 --> 0:48:37.500 like another year and a half, two years and just 0:48:37.540 --> 0:48:39.680 let people live with this one. Yeah. I don't want 0:48:39.700 --> 0:48:41.700 to be hungry to just drop music all the time. 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:44.010 But when it drop, it needs to be like, this, 0:48:44.310 --> 0:48:46.640 what the fuck is he doing? And when you hear it, 0:48:46.650 --> 0:48:48.610 you're going to be like, I thought this nigga was bullshit. 0:48:48.750 --> 0:48:51.399 I thought he was playing, but he's really not fucking playing. 0:48:51.420 --> 0:48:53.540 You know what I'm saying? So far, I've been right 0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:56.080 about everything I said I was going to do. So far, 0:48:56.100 --> 0:48:57.660 I've been right about everything. 0:48:58.450 --> 0:49:00.830 What do you think the biggest misconception about you is 0:49:01.070 --> 0:49:01.569 as an artist? 0:49:02.989 --> 0:49:04.290 I think a lot of people just think I give 0:49:04.330 --> 0:49:07.290 a fuck, man. I don't know. 0:49:07.610 --> 0:49:09.440 And they just be thinking- I thought it was the 0:49:09.460 --> 0:49:11.260 gay pimp. 0:49:10.840 --> 0:49:16.370 Thing, but yeah. Fuck all that. I just be like, shit, whatever, shit. 0:49:16.890 --> 0:49:18.410 I don't be giving a fuck about a lot of stuff. 0:49:19.739 --> 0:49:21.549 And people be thinking I do, but I just be like, 0:49:21.570 --> 0:49:23.500 y'all do y'all thing, man. And I'm just going to 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:25.640 sit over here and chill and rap and just vibe, 0:49:25.760 --> 0:49:29.860 you know? Nah, but people be thinking I'm somebody they 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:31.279 can play with. And I'm not. 0:49:33.170 --> 0:49:33.950 Who be thinking that? 0:49:34.239 --> 0:49:36.560 Everybody You seem like such a Just a cool In 0:49:36.580 --> 0:49:38.239 your own zone Type of dude Like I. 0:49:38.219 --> 0:49:40.040 Don't I be trying to convince people of that But 0:49:40.060 --> 0:49:41.620 they don't give a fuck And so I just be 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:44.989 like Alright People think I'm just like Talking shit When 0:49:45.010 --> 0:49:46.469 I be saying I rap good Or they just be 0:49:46.489 --> 0:49:47.390 like He can't rap. 0:49:47.270 --> 0:49:49.029 This good I've never heard of him Anybody that sees 0:49:49.170 --> 0:49:51.890 Anybody that sees your videos Or hear your bars They 0:49:51.930 --> 0:49:54.859 can't not say you don't rap Like, anybody that listens 0:49:54.900 --> 0:49:56.859 to rap and they hear you rap, they're going to say, yo, 0:49:56.980 --> 0:49:58.080 this dude can rap. 0:49:58.300 --> 0:49:58.960 You'd be surprised. 0:49:59.420 --> 0:50:00.900 No, that's just niggas just hating. 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:04.759 You'd be surprised. I'm telling you, like, they'd be on 0:50:04.780 --> 0:50:08.380 some shit, Patch. I'm telling you. They'd be disrespecting me 0:50:08.560 --> 0:50:10.410 in my own hood. Can't do that. 0:50:10.640 --> 0:50:11.910 That's just them. 0:50:11.969 --> 0:50:15.790 Having that video with Ciara, music coming with Money Long, like, 0:50:16.530 --> 0:50:17.430 That changes all of that. 0:50:17.570 --> 0:50:19.589 I will tell you like a very big misconception that 0:50:19.630 --> 0:50:21.509 a lot of people have around what I do is 0:50:21.530 --> 0:50:23.509 that they think that I have it all figured out 0:50:24.090 --> 0:50:27.029 or that I got it all put together or that 0:50:27.310 --> 0:50:29.680 I have more than I already do or that I'm 0:50:29.880 --> 0:50:31.880 probably rich or that I'm like, you know, you see 0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:33.259 people on the red card. I got invited to the 0:50:33.280 --> 0:50:36.120 fucking BET award. Like I'm not rich or famous. And like, 0:50:36.140 --> 0:50:37.880 you're in a video of Sierra. You must have a 0:50:37.900 --> 0:50:39.399 million dollars. No, I don't have none of this shit 0:50:39.440 --> 0:50:41.219 figured out. I don't have it like y'all think I do. 0:50:41.660 --> 0:50:44.180 I'm just one person who just decides not to quit. 0:50:45.130 --> 0:50:47.110 Keep pressing them buttons. Like when you're playing a game 0:50:47.130 --> 0:50:48.210 and you don't know what to do, you just start 0:50:48.250 --> 0:50:50.830 pressing shit. I'm that nigga. Like if I'm losing, I'm 0:50:50.850 --> 0:50:53.010 going to just start doing shit. And I just press 0:50:53.180 --> 0:50:54.920 all the buttons at one time. And like, you know 0:50:54.940 --> 0:50:57.469 what I'm saying? So I don't have it all figured 0:50:57.530 --> 0:50:59.290 out or I don't have like this grand, you know 0:50:59.310 --> 0:51:00.690 what I'm saying? People be like, can you listen to 0:51:00.730 --> 0:51:03.270 my stuff or give me some advice? I can tell 0:51:03.290 --> 0:51:04.650 you to stop going, but then you're going to be like, 0:51:04.690 --> 0:51:06.800 he trying to be funny. I mean, don't stop going 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:08.759 or don't quit. You're going to think I'm being funny. 0:51:09.300 --> 0:51:11.980 Keep going. That's literally the answer to all of this shit. Like, 0:51:12.000 --> 0:51:14.100 don't stop. You know what I'm saying? And just like, 0:51:14.140 --> 0:51:17.739 make sure you got the right direction. Right execution. I 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:19.440 was telling somebody the other day, you know what's crazy? 0:51:19.460 --> 0:51:22.360 They was like, why people be like, why ain't I 0:51:22.410 --> 0:51:26.239 further ahead than what they think I should be? You know, 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:28.300 if you stand at the top of Madison Square Garden 0:51:29.340 --> 0:51:32.070 and shoot a basketball into the hoop and make it, 0:51:32.400 --> 0:51:35.859 that shit is so impressive, right? Still two points though, right? 0:51:36.100 --> 0:51:36.460 Or three? 0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:41.140 It's three. No, it's not even. It only counts when 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:42.600 you're playing inside of this rectangle. 0:51:42.920 --> 0:51:43.319 That's true. 0:51:43.860 --> 0:51:45.620 You know what I'm saying? And when you're shooting on 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:47.680 the correct goal and when it's your team's turn to like, 0:51:47.700 --> 0:51:50.810 or when you've stolen the ball or got possession, It's 0:51:50.850 --> 0:51:53.520 impressive from way up there. But until you learn how 0:51:53.540 --> 0:51:55.859 to like do execution, like you got the fastest car 0:51:55.880 --> 0:51:58.600 on the track, but you're outside the fucking, like you're 0:51:58.620 --> 0:52:01.210 out of bounds or you're on the fucking side wall 0:52:01.510 --> 0:52:03.830 riding and you're faster than everybody, but you never crossed 0:52:03.850 --> 0:52:05.390 the finish line because the finish line ain't on there, 0:52:05.710 --> 0:52:08.029 like over there. And so it's like, have all of 0:52:08.050 --> 0:52:11.810 these things and be good. Execution matters And how you're 0:52:11.830 --> 0:52:13.759 doing it Where you're doing it When you're doing it 0:52:14.140 --> 0:52:15.799 All of that shit matters That's a fact You know 0:52:15.820 --> 0:52:17.540 what I'm saying And so Some of it is very 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:20.400 impressive Like Hot Sauce can Put his ball on his 0:52:20.440 --> 0:52:22.379 shirt And throw that motherfucker around Boom boom boom boom 0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:28.069 But You know what I'm saying My guy And not 0:52:28.090 --> 0:52:31.210 that He's fucking phenomenal Lead the shooter Okay Yeah Motherfucker 0:52:31.230 --> 0:52:34.009 can shoot a basketball From outer space Right Why don't 0:52:34.030 --> 0:52:37.340 he got Steph Curry money Right You know what I'm saying? Like, 0:52:37.680 --> 0:52:38.879 why don't he got Kevin Durant money? 0:52:38.900 --> 0:52:40.480 There's other nuances you have to learn before. 0:52:40.500 --> 0:52:42.940 You feel me? And so it's just like, we could 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:44.840 just post this motherfucker up and just pass him the 0:52:44.860 --> 0:52:47.960 ball and just. Yeah. Every time. It just don't work 0:52:47.980 --> 0:52:48.380 that way though. 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:48.720 Yeah. 0:52:48.800 --> 0:52:49.080 You know? 0:52:49.360 --> 0:52:49.860 Absolutely. 0:52:50.160 --> 0:52:50.610 Yeah. Yeah. 0:52:50.620 --> 0:52:52.410 Oh man, we really, really. 0:52:52.450 --> 0:52:54.969 Hold on man, I'm going on tour. Oh, yeah, no. 0:52:55.190 --> 0:52:56.969 Let the people know. Listen, we want you to plug everything. 0:52:56.989 --> 0:52:57.520 I'm going on tour, man. 0:52:57.530 --> 0:52:59.049 Let the people know where they can find you, when 0:52:59.070 --> 0:52:59.610 they can see you. 0:52:59.850 --> 0:53:02.239 I'm going on tour. Y'all buy tickets to see me 0:53:02.300 --> 0:53:04.440 on tour. Now, let me tell y'all, because people tell me. 0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:05.399 Are you going to rap it, though? 0:53:05.900 --> 0:53:07.420 Am I going to rap it? Yeah. No, no, no. 0:53:07.440 --> 0:53:09.759 It's too much shit to rap. Hold on. Let me 0:53:09.780 --> 0:53:10.120 see if I can. 0:53:10.160 --> 0:53:11.080 Also, send us the image. 0:53:11.120 --> 0:53:14.859 We'll put it up right here when you say the dates. 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:18.880 When you coming to New York, or are you? Because 0:53:18.940 --> 0:53:20.520 I sound like one of the niggas in the comments now. 0:53:21.380 --> 0:53:24.840 Right. Right. What is my New York date? Hold on. 0:53:24.860 --> 0:53:26.590 Let me look this up because let me tell y'all 0:53:26.620 --> 0:53:30.250 exactly how y'all embarrassing y'all city and state good people 0:53:31.790 --> 0:53:33.790 by not showing up the way y'all said y'all would. 0:53:34.670 --> 0:53:35.549 Where's New York at? 0:53:35.670 --> 0:53:36.490 November 5th. 0:53:36.510 --> 0:53:37.770 November 5th. Damn, y'all. 0:53:37.870 --> 0:53:38.529 It is right there. 0:53:39.870 --> 0:53:45.410 Yeah. November 5th. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Now, this is missing the 0:53:46.610 --> 0:53:51.569 fucking Las Vegas date. which is October the 14th is 0:53:51.630 --> 0:53:55.290 missing Las Vegas, which is October the 14th. Okay. Um, 0:53:55.370 --> 0:53:58.650 let me tell y'all some of these ticket sales. Um, Columbia, 0:53:58.670 --> 0:54:00.950 South Carolina, y'all are okay, but you do need to 0:54:00.989 --> 0:54:03.290 build on your ass out of 1200 tickets. I've only 0:54:03.310 --> 0:54:07.330 sold four 21. Okay. Um, Orlando, Florida, you need your 0:54:07.430 --> 0:54:10.509 ass beat out of 816 tickets. I've only sold one 35. 0:54:10.510 --> 0:54:12.830 This tour starts in like a week and a half. Yeah. 0:54:12.850 --> 0:54:13.649 You feel what I'm saying? 0:54:13.670 --> 0:54:13.870 Yeah. 0:54:14.810 --> 0:54:19.880 Um, Who else? Miami. 950 tickets need to be sold. 0:54:19.980 --> 0:54:22.840 Only 265 sold. Y'all told me to come to Miami. 0:54:22.860 --> 0:54:23.500 What the fuck happened? 0:54:24.239 --> 0:54:26.279 Did the promoter say it's a good walk-up crowd? That's 0:54:26.300 --> 0:54:28.860 my favorite thing. It's a big walk-up town. 0:54:28.940 --> 0:54:29.950 A thousand people gonna walk up. 0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:33.280 It's a big walk-up town. 0:54:33.360 --> 0:54:35.259 And then when the show ends, they're like, hey, there 0:54:35.280 --> 0:54:36.080 was a Marlins game. 0:54:36.420 --> 0:54:39.020 Man, but watch this though. Tampa Bay. 550 tickets need 0:54:39.040 --> 0:54:50.089 to be sold. 234 sold. Oklahoma City, 851 tickets need 0:54:50.110 --> 0:54:51.750 to be sold. 187 have been sold. You need a 0:54:51.790 --> 0:54:53.880 belt on your ass. You might need to shove a 0:54:53.900 --> 0:54:58.500 belt up y'all ass. San Diego, 705 tickets need to 0:54:58.540 --> 0:54:59.960 be sold. Only 91 sold. 0:54:59.980 --> 0:55:01.270 Las Vegas, I'll belt up your ass. 0:55:01.280 --> 0:55:02.640 Las Vegas, 750 tickets need to be sold. 0:55:02.739 --> 0:55:03.480 Only 118 are sold. 0:55:03.500 --> 0:55:05.600 Who else? Omaha, Nebraska, only 119 tickets out of 600. Denver, 0:55:05.620 --> 0:55:06.840 only 124 out of 450. Oh, Portland, you need to 0:55:06.860 --> 0:55:09.080 belt up your ass, pull through your mouth, and whoop 0:55:09.100 --> 0:55:11.050 with the belt because out of 550 tickets, only 79 0:55:11.050 --> 0:55:27.960 have sold. New York, Irvin Plaza. The Trailblazers have a 0:55:27.980 --> 0:55:30.600 game that day. Watch this. New York, you need a 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:33.960 Timberland boot that's the size 15. Shut up your ass. 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:37.080 Because out of 1,100 tickets, only 151 tickets have been sold. 0:55:37.100 --> 0:55:37.520 It's funny now. 0:55:41.050 --> 0:55:42.109 Thanksgiving, you know. 0:55:42.230 --> 0:55:44.830 Yeah, Little Rock. Little Rock, you need the same treatment 0:55:44.850 --> 0:55:47.129 New York got, but somebody need to wrap you upside 0:55:47.150 --> 0:55:48.830 your fucking head because out of 1,300 tickets, only 85 0:55:48.830 --> 0:55:49.430 have been sold. 0:55:49.450 --> 0:55:50.760 The Clintons will solve that one. 0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:57.160 Who else? Birmingham, 182 tickets sold out of 1,000. Huntsville, 0:55:57.160 --> 0:55:59.680 133 tickets sold. Only shows that are sold out. And 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:02.560 I had to do a second Atlanta show. or Jackson, Mississippi, 0:56:02.600 --> 0:56:05.930 my hometown, and Atlanta, right? Y'all tell me to come 0:56:05.950 --> 0:56:07.370 to these places, and if you're not a fan, I 0:56:07.410 --> 0:56:10.110 get it. I'm not forcing you to buy tickets. Tickets 0:56:10.150 --> 0:56:11.989 are only $ 30. I've been promoting this tour for five 0:56:12.010 --> 0:56:14.350 and a half months. It costs five fucking dollars to fart. 0:56:15.300 --> 0:56:17.500 You poop, it costs you $ 5. And you can't say 0:56:17.500 --> 0:56:20.560 $ 5 a month, $ 4 a month. You spend, come on, bro. 0:56:21.480 --> 0:56:22.460 I just spent $ 10. 0:56:22.160 --> 0:56:22.799 Right. 0:56:22.820 --> 0:56:23.240 Just then. 0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:25.090 Just breathing. In New York, maybe $ 20. 0:56:25.020 --> 0:56:27.239 It cost $ 20 fucking dollars to breathe. 0:56:27.239 --> 0:56:28.400 $ 40 an hour to walk outside. 0:56:28.420 --> 0:56:30.070 And y'all tell me to come to these cities. And 0:56:30.090 --> 0:56:32.330 then y'all say, oh, he's complaining. He's a crybaby. He's 0:56:32.350 --> 0:56:34.049 doing this. Oh, he's trying to force us. He's trying 0:56:34.070 --> 0:56:35.450 to pocket. I'm not trying to pocket watch you. If 0:56:35.489 --> 0:56:37.650 you're a fan or if you know somebody. And this 0:56:37.690 --> 0:56:40.310 is me advocating for myself because maybe the algorithm isn't 0:56:40.390 --> 0:56:41.989 showing you. So the people who got tickets and you 0:56:42.030 --> 0:56:44.589 do support me, I love you. I appreciate you. You 0:56:44.610 --> 0:56:46.540 mean a lot to me. I want your business. I 0:56:46.580 --> 0:56:47.900 want your support. I want your love. And I want 0:56:47.920 --> 0:56:50.040 to reciprocate that to you and for you. I do 0:56:50.080 --> 0:56:52.260 appreciate it, and I am grateful to be in this position, 0:56:52.300 --> 0:56:53.980 all right, that you're taking time out of your busy 0:56:54.020 --> 0:56:57.140 day schedule life to spend effort, time, money, and energy 0:56:57.360 --> 0:56:59.669 on me. But for the people who haven't seen this, 0:57:01.510 --> 0:57:05.290 I'm bringing this belt. I'm bringing them Tims. And if 0:57:05.330 --> 0:57:06.760 you ain't got them tickets, don't hop on. I'm going 0:57:06.780 --> 0:57:08.259 to hop on my live. Tell me how you a 0:57:08.280 --> 0:57:10.600 fan and you ain't got no ticket. And if y'all 0:57:10.620 --> 0:57:12.180 not at the show, I'm coming back up here. I 0:57:12.200 --> 0:57:12.759 know where y'all live at. 0:57:12.860 --> 0:57:15.500 Oh, no, I'll be at the show. All right. I 0:57:15.520 --> 0:57:16.760 got it. I got to see what you do. 0:57:16.780 --> 0:57:19.300 Money bag, man. 0:57:19.400 --> 0:57:20.500 Algorithm. You got to attack that. 0:57:20.560 --> 0:57:22.120 One last thing. I want to give a shout out 0:57:22.160 --> 0:57:23.150 to some artists in Jackson. 0:57:23.410 --> 0:57:23.530 OK. 0:57:23.550 --> 0:57:24.870 All right. I'm going to get a shout out and 0:57:24.890 --> 0:57:26.050 I'm going to leave y'all alone. Get out your hair. 0:57:26.070 --> 0:57:28.130 All right. So shout out to some artists and some 0:57:28.150 --> 0:57:30.410 platforms in Jackson, Mississippi from the I love. 0:57:30.590 --> 0:57:31.930 I love I love that you're doing this, by the way. 0:57:31.990 --> 0:57:36.510 Yeah, man. Appreciate it. Antusay, Franchise, Hollywood Luck, J. Scott, 0:57:36.550 --> 0:57:40.680 King King, Tricky Hudson, Dollar Black, D. Horton, 2TV, Gnarly J, 0:57:40.740 --> 0:57:43.960 Fat Dizzle, Malik Cash, Casting Boy Dre, Jules, Ariel J, 0:57:44.320 --> 0:57:47.430 Kiera Archie, Lake Forest D, Air Slim, Hershey Black, Flawless, 0:57:47.470 --> 0:57:51.450 Vitamin C, B. King the Goat, Kenny Pahina, Navia, Dev Mac, Kamikaze, 0:57:51.470 --> 0:57:55.430 Mojo Kids, Cool Jazz, Coke Bumaye, Dear Silas, Trilluminati, Nico, 0:57:55.510 --> 0:57:59.270 Polo Baby, King Heem, Lil C, Doe Hicks, Dirty Costello, 0:57:59.330 --> 0:58:02.650 Slim Pusher, The Joker, Cool KM, RBA School, Jody Boy, 0:58:02.710 --> 0:58:06.710 Ray Kincaid, Donald Vegas, DJ Finesse, Don Juan, that's my DJ, 0:58:07.610 --> 0:58:10.730 DJ T. Lewis, DJ Reese, DJ PM, DJ Pretty Ricky, 0:58:10.750 --> 0:58:13.730 DJ Scrap Dirty, DJ Twigga, Fly Walker as a producer, 0:58:14.110 --> 0:58:17.530 Markel producer, Rashad Street producer, C. Gutter producer, One way 0:58:17.550 --> 0:58:20.150 to produce it Now some platforms That y'all can subscribe 0:58:20.170 --> 0:58:23.780 to too Rita Brent My dog Cousin Tim Jonathan at 0:58:23.800 --> 0:58:27.610 Tapped In Reviews Bars to Blow Squirrel World Crystal Sturt 0:58:27.660 --> 0:58:30.340 on SC Money TV Fox Cave Chronicles 601 and Park 0:58:30.380 --> 0:58:34.520 Michaela Phillips Big Mooch Portia C Alexis Noble Shout out 0:58:34.560 --> 0:58:37.960 to all y'all My closest friends You know Chuck and 0:58:38.280 --> 0:58:42.480 Javadric Goddamn Brian BJ Tim Rolo Shout out to my 0:58:42.520 --> 0:58:44.300 dogs My sister Shout out to you I love you 0:58:44.320 --> 0:58:45.700 I don't say my sister's name Because I don't want 0:58:45.740 --> 0:58:46.920 to know Who my folks is For real like that 0:58:47.740 --> 0:58:51.040 y'all niggas be weird and you know all my people 0:58:51.080 --> 0:58:52.600 back at home man if you ever in jackson if 0:58:52.640 --> 0:58:54.620 y'all go visit jackson go eat at johnny t's go 0:58:54.680 --> 0:58:57.010 eat at uh go to m bar go to names 0:58:57.050 --> 0:59:01.370 and faces elf jones shit fourth lounge trio um a 0:59:01.390 --> 0:59:04.510 couple of businesses and places you can go to what 0:59:04.550 --> 0:59:06.690 is looking like in jackson just go eat at the 0:59:06.710 --> 0:59:07.729 places i told you to eat. 0:59:07.690 --> 0:59:09.890 At they shaking ass in them places. 0:59:09.950 --> 0:59:13.200 I Go do what I told you. I don't go 0:59:13.220 --> 0:59:13.840 to the booty club. 0:59:14.300 --> 0:59:15.280 What? Why? 0:59:15.820 --> 0:59:18.700 Why? I work hard for my money. Yeah. All that 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:20.750 complaining I do about not having the money just to 0:59:20.770 --> 0:59:21.350 go in there and be like. 0:59:21.370 --> 0:59:21.710 Take it. 0:59:21.770 --> 0:59:22.190 There you go. 0:59:23.800 --> 0:59:26.040 Yeah, but sometimes you need, you know, inspiration. 0:59:26.140 --> 0:59:30.120 No, and I'm going to tell you something. As hard 0:59:30.140 --> 0:59:33.900 as I work for my money, give me all my 0:59:33.940 --> 0:59:37.240 money in rolls of quarters. I'm going to knock somebody 0:59:37.280 --> 0:59:40.200 out in this bitch. I'm throwing him. I'm throwing rolls 0:59:40.240 --> 0:59:42.240 of quarters. 0:59:42.430 --> 0:59:43.220 It's $ 5 a quarter. 0:59:43.340 --> 0:59:45.590 Lumped and knotted up. Lumped up. 0:59:45.750 --> 0:59:48.990 The texture to Hakeem Ali. Listen, man, go get them tickets. 0:59:49.490 --> 0:59:52.230 Have you been to Jackson? I've never been to Jackson, Mississippi. 0:59:52.650 --> 0:59:53.370 Oh, man. Okay. 0:59:53.810 --> 0:59:56.320 I've been twice. PJ and I got robbed in New 0:59:56.380 --> 0:59:58.220 Orleans and then we drove to Jackson, Mississippi. 0:59:58.240 --> 1:00:03.160 And got robbed again. Damn. We came home after that. 1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:04.280 I just had it. 1:00:04.540 --> 1:00:05.200 Barely made it. 1:00:05.260 --> 1:00:07.460 All of our stuff taken to New Orleans, robbed, and 1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:09.560 we went to Jackson, Mississippi with the shirts on our 1:00:09.620 --> 1:00:11.660 back and somehow made it back to New York. 1:00:11.740 --> 1:00:12.030 Fuck you. 1:00:12.040 --> 1:00:12.500 We made it. 1:00:12.540 --> 1:00:14.300 Jackson took us in. Nigga, we made it. 1:00:14.630 --> 1:00:17.189 No, some of the greatest people, nicest, most genuine people 1:00:17.230 --> 1:00:18.590 you'll ever meet in your life from Jackson. 1:00:19.740 --> 1:00:21.660 Jacksonville it was a cool city the time that we 1:00:21.680 --> 1:00:23.020 spent there for sure. 1:00:22.960 --> 1:00:25.440 Akeem Ali we appreciate you man this has been long 1:00:25.500 --> 1:00:27.440 overdue it's a pleasure to finally have you in the 1:00:27.460 --> 1:00:30.060 studio anytime you back in New York you want to 1:00:30.100 --> 1:00:30.820 come through pull up. 1:00:30.860 --> 1:00:33.080 I'm going to be back tomorrow. 1:00:33.760 --> 1:00:35.660 No definitely for the show you definitely got to come 1:00:35.680 --> 1:00:37.240 through whenever you get to the city before the show 1:00:37.480 --> 1:00:39.920 come kick it with us Detection Tour go get those 1:00:39.960 --> 1:00:45.090 tickets now support Akeem Ali real talent real bars I'm 1:00:45.120 --> 1:00:47.070 that nigga he's just ginger Peace. 1:00:48.270 --> 1:00:48.830 The gender niggas.