WEBVTT - #108 - G Perico 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.520 All right, man, bulet Cap Podcast special guest, the guy 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.880 Gee Perico is in here. Man, Welcome, Man, what are 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:07.280 you trying to do this for a while? Man, I'm 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.639 glad to finally get you up here. Bro. Man, it 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.959 was a rough morning. My fucking car got told and 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.240 we're here. My fucking my other car wouldn't start this. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.680 I was gonna draw my low key say if it 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.560 wouldn't start. But was it old school? Nah, it's a 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.520 twenty twenty. I hadn't drove it in like eight months, 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.919 and then I drove it the other day and I 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:27.760 had to get a jump, and then this morning it 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.320 didn't start again. I'm like, fuck, Well, look you're here, man, Welcome, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.720 And first of all, you've had an interesting journey in 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:39.199 this music shit right, So like originally I remember, you know, 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.440 when you were starting to Buzz, you tapped in with 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.720 Fuzz over at Priority. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the Priority thing 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.560 didn't work out at all. I'm not saying it didn't 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:52.040 work out Priority Bill, They shit it like went left right, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.000 but it helped me a lot right right, like they 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.040 did good with you. But I just think like obviously 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.520 Priority didn't last. Priority didn't. That shit was around for 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.200 like a year, right right right then you end up 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.120 with rock Nation, which was you know, I feel like 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.440 rock Nation is an interesting company because it's so great 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.280 at so many things. But I'm not sure the label 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:19.920 side fits la artist. How was your experience because it 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.720 was about two years you were there? Yeah, two years? 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.520 How was the two years over over there? I mean 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.040 the way I look at it, like, you know, outside 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.920 of the label, because the label was it was musical chairs, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.640 like they was trying to figure out they got They 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.680 went through so many employees. I remember every like it 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.840 felt like every nine months there was like everyone the 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.760 rock Nation got fired and they hired a bunch of 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.840 it was it was. It was crazy. Yeah, sooner than that, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.560 I went to a few different project managers and so 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.000 they was trying to figure it that out. But like 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.680 my whole thing, like I learned so much being able 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.240 to be over there, because I get to I get 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.880 to talk to sit in the office with Jay Brown, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.480 and I get to sit with Emory like they like 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.200 every day with Emory though calls every more. I just 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.440 talked to him this morning, and that's like that's a 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.800 billion dollar circle. How often do you get to hang 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.079 around a billion dollar circle. So I'm like a fly 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.320 on the wall soaking up game and like that part 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.680 of the situation was priceless. So so you know, I 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.359 don't it was great for me. For you getting off 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.800 Rocktation and deciding to go with Empire going to independent route, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.359 what was the deciding point for you? And and were 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.040 you like did you ask to get off the label? 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.079 Like how did that happen? Yeah? So, I mean naturally 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.760 I'm an independent dude, you know what I'm saying. That's 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:44.200 how you got here. I don't like like having to 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.359 basically asked for permission to do anything, like you know 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.280 what I mean, because like this is this is art 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.280 and it's no specific way that you do ship. When 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.000 you get with a label, you stuck in this, in 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.120 this box, I'll call it the chain of command that 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.000 you got to go through this and man, they gotta 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.000 understand your idea and then you got to go through 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.320 Its a lot. It's too much, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.359 So I never really wanted to sign a record deal 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.079 in the first place, you know what I mean. So 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.600 you know, as time went on, it was just you know, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.480 time for me to jet. I asked to go and 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.480 they real true players. You know what I'm saying. They 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.520 let me go. Like I was out, I requested to go, 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.840 and I was out in a week. You know what 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.120 I mean? Yeah, I think like the type of shit 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.760 you make, bro, It's like it's like you being independent 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.840 makes the most sense exactly. You stacking up your catalog. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.640 You just kind of keep building on what you have, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.880 that core following that you have. You know what I'm saying, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.800 how has it like? You know, the last year? I 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.560 feel like it's been about what nine months since you've 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.280 been on the Empire? A year? Yeah? About nine about 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.520 nine months? Nine months? Yeah? Yeah? So how has that been? October? 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.880 Ten months? It's crazy, it's October ten months, so we're 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.480 going on ten months. How's it been? Man? Because obviously 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.240 I feel like if the music output has been high 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:07.000 and man awesome, bro, like I could see everything and 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.600 you know the thing with Empire that's dope, Like they 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.240 get you the rope. You know what I'm saying. You 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.560 could either hang yourself with it or climb up you 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.720 know what I mean. And it's like, you know, when 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.320 you sign with a major label, right, it go like this, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.359 you get your what I should have did when I 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.040 signed with the major, I should have took my advance 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.720 instead of going to do my shit and Sean, you 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.080 know I love cards and shit. Instead of doing that, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.719 I should have spent all that money on the music 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.080 and shit myself and just got the money back from 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.760 him later. Yeah, because you had to use that budget, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.880 and then that budget you got to pay that back 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.960 right on top of the advance. And so I should 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.640 have just took the advance and jump started myself. But 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.880 see this the thing between indies and majors, well, Empire. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.480 I don't know all indies, but like Empire, and then 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.360 I had a situation with priority. Just the thing like 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.080 when you sign with a major, they give your advance, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.920 but you gotta have some shit going or you gotta 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.240 have the entire office convinced for your budget to even 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.280 open up, you know what I'm saying. So you gotta 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.479 jump through loops and do a gang of shit to 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.839 even get going in the first place, even after you signed, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.800 after you did all the work and sign for them 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.760 to approve video budgets and all of this shit gotta 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.239 make sense. It's so much shit, so much fucking red tape, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.800 that you gotta cut through Now with Empire, whatever you 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.880 fucking sign, whatever your budget is is right there. You 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.479 could go get straight to it immediately. You ain't got 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.320 to waste no time. Now if you fuck it off, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.000 that's on you. Now. If you do your thing then 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.640 I mean naturally, if you're a businessman, you're gonna do 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.120 your thing. So I mean that's the great part about Empire, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.440 Like they just let you go. Well speak to that, like, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.400 because I do think a lot of mistakes that get 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.120 made is what you just said, right, You got an 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.840 advance from a major and maybe you didn't spend it 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.680 in the smartest way, and I'm expluraging, and a lot 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.840 of people don't realize, like, you know, you get that 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.760 advance and your music has to make that much money 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.560 back times whatever your terms are. Otherwise the conversations get 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:16.160 dry and well also also otherwise you're you're not gonna 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.520 see any money off your music, you know what I mean, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.760 Like that's your big nut and you got to kind 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.559 of make that shit stretch, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.200 So what was like, like, if you're if you're you know, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.559 young independent artists watching this, what would be some advice 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.400 you'd give them? As far as you know, taking the 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.920 advance or I mean, I would say, like with the advance, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.360 invested like straight back in yourself, pay some bills, but 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.719 invested straight back into the business. Because at the end 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.000 of the day, if the music not going and you 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.560 ain't got nothing cracking in the people face and marketing 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.240 and going, like what that advance mean, Like you got 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.800 chain and some money and some it means zero, you 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.680 know what I'm saying. So I would say, like from 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.200 my personal experience, I didn't do it. I wish I 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.200 would have did it with that specific play. You know 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.800 what I'm saying, it'd probably be a different situation right now. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.880 Take the advance and invest it in yourself marketing and 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:14.000 promo videos, digital campaigns like spending on that, you know 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.040 what I mean, and make the label open up your 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.920 budget or you know. But it's also crazy too because 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.760 like once you're on a major label, it seems as 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:28.200 if things get everything gets more expensive, everything is more 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:33.640 like you go into the studio, Like as an independent artist, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.000 you go to the studio. I mean, sure, you could 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.400 book my studio for sixty bucks an hour with an engineer. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.560 They gonna put you at paramount whatever and then you'll 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.160 see the bill on your and you're like, wait a minute, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.800 how wait what? Yeah? Yeah, it's like everything even the video, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.400 it's like yo, like like like I was saying, like, bro, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.480 you got here doing doing doing you. You know what 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.600 I'm saying. You got your own video people you got 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.280 I mean, it's your city, you know what I'm saying. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.520 So I think a lot of people don't realize, like 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.960 pay attention to the little details when they do something 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.120 like hey man, not every studio session needs to cost 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.400 that's three hundred dollars an hour, because before you know it, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.840 you'll be like, uh, they'll send you or you audit 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.040 the books or ask how much you spent and they'd 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.680 be like, yeah, one point five million, and you'd be like, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.640 wam where the fun where spend? Yeah? How much you spent? 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.040 I spent some money. You spent some money, I'm assuming, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.920 so let me be cause like, did you recoup it? 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:33.320 Rock Nation? Nah? Not all the way did they? But 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:34.800 they were cool with just kind of saying you know what. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.840 So it's basically like, uh, they got your catalog that 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.520 you dropped over there. Yeah, not on a few dollars, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.880 not a lot though, but you could drop freely now 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.800 without having to Yeah, I can do whatever. I'm on 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.600 solid on their part. Nah, they like. That's like the 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.040 thing about like rock Nation, like I never have anything 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.640 bad to say, Like it's dope. People over here like 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.000 awesome people for sure, you know what I mean. It's 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:03.360 just I feel like I just didn't have my thing 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.840 all the way figured out, and you know, like me personally, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.600 when I got something figured out, I'm aggressively moving in 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.600 that direction. So it was kind of like I was 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.360 in limbo trying to I was like a fish out 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.360 of water in certain situations, you know what I mean. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.720 But like everybody over there great, oh Mars Sherry, Like 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.640 I said, Emory is my guy, you know what I'm saying, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.800 So that Emory, I hope one day I interviewed Emory 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.120 and talk about his story because his story is crazy. Yeah, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.120 you think about like I mean, I guess maybe just 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.240 the perception of what happened, Like he kind of took 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.319 it on the chin for hole, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.920 So Hope could stay out and do it stay and 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.160 then he gets out and he's brending Rockney's It's it's 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.240 so fire. Yeah, shout out to emy. So you've also 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.040 been like doing a lot just on the entrepreneur ship, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.360 Like you launched your obviously you got the shirt on. Yeah, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.400 blue T shirt. Blue T shirts becoming a staple. Yes, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.559 this is like the best ship that I fucking created. Bro. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.640 I didn't expect it to do what it's been doing. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.800 But uh man, this shit is crazy. Yeah for people, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.880 I mean, obviously the concept is amazing. Yeah, because you know, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.320 for people who don't know your affiliations, they can google them. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.360 We're not going to talk about them officially. But it's 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.320 a white shirt with red lettering, but it says this 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.520 is a blue T shirt. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.440 when I when I started it, I was sitting in 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.480 the back of one of my shops and shit, and 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.840 I'm like, man, I want to start something new because 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.000 the last ship that I had was the way I 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.559 branded it, it was so limited to my hood at 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.200 this point that shit is just a click in my 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.760 hood at this point, you know what I'm saying. So 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.160 it's like, Man, what can I do universal to, you know, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.760 really get the bag and really get through the people 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:50.200 without having to explain a long shit on what this is. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:54.439 And like, this is self explanatory, like however you take it, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:55.760 you know what I'm saying. At the end of the day, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.680 it's perception, but like you know, so many people, uh 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.480 fuck with it, like you know what I'm saying, like, oh, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:08.880 white guys, young kids, like old ladies, young everybody like 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.280 you know, gravitates to the to the blue T shirt ship. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.280 And when I dropped it, it went so crazy, Like 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.920 I never had sales like that on anything. You know 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.360 what I'm saying. That ship was crazy. No, it's it's 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.800 it's dope because I mean you've got the tattoos, which 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:28.360 is fire. I just think it's simple. It's simple, and 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.040 it's like clean as fuck to wear. And like you said, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.720 like you know, if someone gets it sow way out sweater, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.120 that's not to explain. Yeah, you know, you know what 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.360 I'm saying exactly, Like this is just something where it's 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.760 like there's probably kids in Oklahoma rock on that shirt 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.280 right now or some ship, you know what I'm saying. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.320 And it's definitely a we gotta we got a nice 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.920 little audience out here. Something that I feel like you've 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.120 done a good job of doing in LA is working 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.920 with a wide spectrum of artists here, And I want 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.880 to say you were kind of like the class before 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.960 the Roucies and the Hikes and those guys like you 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.080 were active before them in the music game. But I 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.640 kind of feel like you are a part of that 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:13.280 initial class that was like not as divided as we've 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.679 seen LA be in the past. Yeah, definitely. And with 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.600 LA hip hop, there's always politics no matter what happens, right, Yeah, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.960 for sure. And you know we've seen street politics equal 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:28.920 artists that want to work with each other not working 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.719 with each other in the past, for sure, you know 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.800 what I mean. Like I remember talking to c about, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.560 like why you never work with Nipsey and it's obvious, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.520 right yeah. But at the same time, like I feel 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:42.320 like the new generation of Los Angeles artists, to a 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.520 higher extent than I've ever seen at least, have done 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.440 a great job of either putting that stuff to the 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.960 side and working together or just automatically just tapping in 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.800 with each other. And obviously there's always going to be 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.520 some drama, you know what I'm saying. But what is 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.760 it about LA right now that you feel like has 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:04.880 a really united feel to it? You know, naturally, this 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.720 is the Gang City, the Gang culture. So like you said, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.679 it's uh, you know, people that I run with might 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.360 not get along with. You know, people that I want 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.760 to work with run with. But what's going on right 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.400 now is like a lot of the artists that's up 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:25.880 be coming not really gang affiliated to a certain extent, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.600 you know what I mean. A lot of people didn't 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.720 they didn't grow up gang banging or don't really have 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.280 like the super gang bangers around in the mix. And 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.480 it's it's it's just a lot more players, a lot 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.920 more people about their money, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.719 And the ship and I think it's dope, you know 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:46.160 what I'm saying. I actually was tripping one day when 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.680 I when I noticed what was going on. I'm like, shit, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.400 everybody working together and it's no problems, you know what 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:56.280 I'm saying, which is like never happened out here. Hopefully 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.560 it keep going. But hopefully it keeps going. It's just like, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.120 you know, a lot of people able to look past it, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.040 and then a lot of people like not wrapped up 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.199 in the gang shit so deep that you know, they 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.120 letting that shit hinder whatever happened. I wish I was 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.880 that good, you know what I'm saying, I'm like, I'm 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.640 tied into the shit. Like yre's certain people I'm never 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.680 gonna work with, like and they might be cool or whatnot, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.040 but it's just like just like where I come from 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.160 and the shit that I believe in, it's like, you know, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.520 it's or I just got to just know that a 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.960 person is genuine, you know what I'm saying, Because I 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.120 don't want to be doing music with somebody and then 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.000 later on they cool with me, but they on some 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.120 shit this in my hood or something like, you know, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.880 So I think that's what stopped a lot of shit previously, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:49.600 and what's bringing shit together is like, motherfucker's not really 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.120 like yeah, like you talk to like like kids and 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.000 they'll be like, yo, like I really didn't grow up 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.400 that way. My uncles were or you know, I grew 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.760 up in an area, but like I wasn't active. So 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.560 it's a lot easier for me to re across the 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.280 aisle and work with you know exactly. And that's dope, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.520 you know what I'm saying, because a lot of you know, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.280 like over the years, a lot of people didn't a 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.800 lot of people from the previous time didn't grow up 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.120 gang banging, but you know, for that image and that 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.720 certain thing, and it's surrounding people like they let that 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.800 shit hinder shit, Like you know, it's a lot of 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.640 It's I can't really name too many artists from Los 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.160 Angeles right like in the last even in the last 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.320 ten years that actually really grew up gang banging, you 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.240 know what I'm saying, like or in the mix, you 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.160 know what I'm saying. But you know, Motherfuckers is affiliated 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.400 and you know, the image and the people around fuck 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.440 sit up. I mean, yeah, it doesn't hurt record tales 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.480 for people to believe you're a gang member. Oh that 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.480 shit is great, especially for LA artists, Like that's what 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.600 this shit is about, like just the land of the 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.560 gang bang here in Chicago, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.840 it's kind of it's kind of you know, also that's 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.040 unfortunate because you know, like you said, like, I'm sure 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:00.920 there's a lot of artists of people who got wrapped 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.400 up in some shit they never need to get wrapped 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.760 up into just for just for the cloud or the image, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.360 you know what I'm saying. It's like, you know, it 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.040 is what I was talking to Whack a couple of 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.760 weeks ago, and he was like, definitively, like, you know, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.960 I could never in good faith tell anybody to get 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.800 involved in gang shit. You know what I'm saying. I've 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.840 been there. I took those lumps to be in a 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.720 position where I could tell people that's not the way 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.200 to go. Like I'm assuming you kind of feel similar. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.160 My whole thing with the you know how I look 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.440 at it is uh, because the gang is a community. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:37.720 First of all, who do we just talk to this 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.200 said gang bang wasn't necessarily a bad or being in 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.880 a gang rather necessarily isn't a bad thing. Yeah, d 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.560 Smoke just said, it's definitely and it doesn't start as that, right, 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.040 It's definitely not because the gang is naturally the community, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.000 you know what I'm saying. And you know, everybody from 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.800 the gang since the beginning of time is not a 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.480 fucking killer, you know what I'm saying, or or even 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.080 not people that commit crimes. Like I got big homies 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.800 that my whole entire life knowing them. They had jobs 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.320 and they was family men, but you know, they was 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.960 a part of the community and they showed they support 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.399 which is necessary, you know what I mean, and helping 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.600 like younger homies find their way. You know what I'm saying. Now, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.040 if if everybody from the area just decided to, man, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.520 fuck this shit, I ain't talking to nobody, I ain't 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.440 dealing with where does that leave the people that come next, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.800 you know what I'm saying. So it's like a real 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.439 thin line. But I definitely wouldn't tell nobody to go 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.400 kill nobody, or go do no shit like that or 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.280 commit no crimes. I would say, like, all right, if 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.080 that's where you're from, you know, represent where you're from, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.479 But you don't have to be a fucking gang banger. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.560 You could be a doctor, a lawyer, fireman, a fucking 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.480 cop if you want to, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.879 But you know, I wouldn't just say like fuck the 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.760 hood like that, you know what I'm saying. I would say, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:05.000 like crips and bloods originally started as like community organizations, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.159 right like you're like you said, like, I mean, you 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.800 know that's what That's one way to look at it, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.400 you know what I'm saying. But like when you really 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.720 think about it, like it was like just a gang 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.440 of young dudes fifteen fourteen sixteen, like doing knucklehead shit 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.160 in the community, you know, what I mean. I mean, 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.760 it didn't start off as some killing shit like we 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.800 killing each other, but you know it was definitely like 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.560 always at odds with some type of shit. That's how 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.480 crip really started, you know what I mean, like it 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.080 get deep. I don't even want to go into that. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.399 But hey, so let me ask you this because this 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:39.880 is something I had to learn. Had had to teach 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:44.879 me this when I first moved to La. Not what 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.159 hats are okay to wear anywhere in La. I know 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.440 there's only a few La hat Black La black LA 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.639 heads always like black LA Hat's the only one. But 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.760 you know, like I'm black LA hat. That's really it. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.800 The Diamondback that right there, Uh, Campa Bay TB Santana 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.359 black you know what I mean, twenty bloods you know 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:14.840 what I mean are the Arizona Diamondbacks avalon anthis park. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:24.000 You know, a black LA had it's the safe, safe bet. Yeah, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.600 black La had is probably as neutral as it kid, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.960 you know what I mean, at least if you're gonna 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.320 in the valley. If I haven't had any issues in 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.040 the valley, Oh yeah, the valley. You know, it's dope 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.000 about the valley. So when I got out of I 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.000 got out of prison and shit in twenty fourteen twenty 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.800 the end of twenty thirteen, I was living in a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:49.119 studio on a hundred nighth in Broadway, and somebody have 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.359 got a hold of my social and shit. While I 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.880 was in jail and fucked my running your show. Nobody 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.480 would rent me no apartment, like my credit was fucked up. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.200 So I finally got a spot a day before, a 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.320 day before my homie just got off the Feds, Like 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.679 a day before they took how many homies was it? 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.560 Seventy two homies to the Feds? Wow? So the day 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.159 before I got an apartment in the Valley and Sherman 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.640 Oaks and shit, and basically the Valley is like what 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.120 kept me out of trouble in the mix and helped 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.159 me transition into the music and the business. Because had 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.479 I studyed in LA, I probably would have like just 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.800 been in trouble. Yeah, people don't like everyone comes, you know. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.119 And it's crazy too because like you know, I was 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.200 just talking to d Smoke about this. We're talking about 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.040 how like a lot of people come to LA and 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.159 they think it's the place where you come get your packs, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.199 you come fucking hit mail rows and then you end 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.000 up getting robbed, right right. It's tricky. It looked cute, 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.920 it looks beautiful all here, but it's like everyone does 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:46.960 the same shit. They come to LA. They ran a 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:51.840 fucking some nice ass car. Yeah, they go to cookies, yeah, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.960 and then they try to go yeah they you know, 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.640 and it's like and then on the other end there's 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.040 people who move. Everyone moves to the valley. I feel 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.280 like everyone is either in North Hollywood like like here, 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:07.480 but this is a valley where it's not La though, 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.320 No it's not. People don't realize that, like, and I 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.080 think that's like, like you could be comfortable wearing a 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:14.600 lot of shit in the valley. I'm not saying that. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.360 You know, there's some areas over here shitty in North 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.119 Hollywood that are sketched. You know, they got some gangster spots, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.840 you know, coma obviously van eyes. But I feel like 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.119 a lot of people don't realize like the level of 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.720 comfort to just walk freely where certain shit is not 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:32.879 the same over on this side of the mountain. This 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.920 is actual LA. This is like not this is the 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.080 free world right here, basically the valley, Like it was 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.480 like when I got over here. Bro, it was like 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.000 a culture shock, you know what I'm saying. Like I 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:46.440 always stayed like on the outskirts of the city, but 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.520 my whole life always been, you know, something centered in 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.960 the hood spots, whatever's going on, whatever we're doing. Like 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.919 so when I came here, it was like, Damn, this 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:57.600 shit is smooth, you know what I mean. I had 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.040 the time to like really just figure myself out and 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.800 figure my thing out. Put you know, LA for motherfuckers 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:07.160 that don't know, like LA is basically when you cross 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.119 I ain't even gonna say Olympic Pico, south of Pico, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.119 that's l A, you know what I mean, that's what 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:18.240 like north of Pico, Like that's not really not that's 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.960 like it's nice. Mail Roads don't even count as LA. 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.879 That's like it's West Hollywood at the moment. Are you 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.679 still living in l A in the valley? Now? I 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.800 got I got a spot in the valley, in a 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.080 spot in l A. I was gonna say, like, well, 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:36.920 not in l A, l A. I got a spot 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:41.719 in fucking West Hollywood, right West hollywoods High right now. Yeah, 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.040 everybody getting robbed over there. You see the video of 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:46.800 the guy. You see the video of the guy in 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.240 the Lamello ball jersey and they try to run up 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.000 on him and he was served. I was like, yo, bro, 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:55.960 it's it's wild because I feel like like that that 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.240 that influx of money, that influx of cash in the ghetto, 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.480 Like it was like I wasn't around when crack came out, 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.200 but I heard stories. I'm thinking maybe this was similar. 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.600 Like everybody had a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, eighty thousand, 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:14.119 everyone hit and everybody discovered mail rolls, and now the 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:16.560 money is gone. It's like, all right, we over here 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.920 hit lah shit. Yeah, you know it's crazy. During the pandemic, 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:23.960 like you said, like that Edd, money was that PPP 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.600 shit was booming. That shit was awesome. Man. I hear 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:28.840 a lot of people talking shit and talking down on 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:32.200 people that did it. And but it's like, bro, if 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:34.920 a nigga was broke, you'll be talking down on them too, 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.879 you broke ass niggas. Ooh, I'm happy Edd, I'll be 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.280 hearing niggas saying bitch ass shit like that. But it's like, bro, 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.680 like what is motherfuckers to do? He ain't selling crack 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:45.920 to your mama. I can't wait to see like in 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:49.439 like ten fifteen, twenty years, like the documentary about the 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:53.280 pppedd shit, it's gonna be crazy. It's like an era 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:58.480 like everyone was riding crazy, everyone got ice right. It's 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.359 people like I know for a act were like dead 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.919 ass broke and then like ninety day all out. I'm like, 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:11.440 what the fuck You're driving a fucking Badley? What happened? No? Possibly, 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:18.520 it was pretty easy, and everything was you got to 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.400 think about it. The world was froze like I would 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.479 work or anything. You know. I had friends who were like, bro, 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.399 you got an LLC yo, I'm telling you, look, you 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:30.840 could get like one hundred K. And I'm like, but 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:35.399 I don't. But I'm good. Look, so look that's crazy 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:38.520 you say that. I got like four LLC's, right, well 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:41.000 a little more than that now, But at the time 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:45.720 I had four LLC's and like, I signed up for 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:48.680 one and got a proved for ninety G. I didn't 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:50.760 even take it though. I'm like, man, I don't even 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:53.800 really need that ship. And then I read the stipulations 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:57.280 all my shit legit. I'm like, man, I'm not about 0:24:57.280 --> 0:24:59.600 to be checking in and nobody for no fucking ninety 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.159 g He's like it was tempting though I wanted to, 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:06.679 but because I just I opened. I just opened the 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:09.640 studio in February of twenty twenty, and then the pandemic hit. 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.080 I mean, our ship was booming because all the studios closed, 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.520 to at least the major studios closed. Yeah, but we 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:17.200 never closed. I was like, I don't give a fuck. 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:19.639 I just opened this shit. I invested a lot of 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:22.200 my own money in this place. We're going. We don't 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:24.840 have a store front, people don't music not stopping. Yeah, 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:28.320 so we thrived in the pandemic. But I was it 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:31.560 was definitely When it's that much money and it's that 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.760 easy to get, it's hard to say no to, which 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:36.280 is why I understand why a lot of people did. 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.199 But I, like he said, I think, I mean a 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:42.040 lot of people going to jail now, right, A lot 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:44.359 of people going to gym. And then I thought about 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:46.040 it too, like all right, I do one of these 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:52.320 like I'm fuck that bro, Like, yeah, no, you were smart, man, 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:54.600 I don't want to fuck another car and not already 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:57.000 got like four of the motherfuckers. That's basically what that 0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:58.600 would have been, you know what I'm saying. But like yo, 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:00.960 just get a new whip. You say you have a 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:04.120 cars like your weakness. What what what is like your 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:07.879 prize possession vehicle that you have right now? Probably the 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.360 VET the C eight. Is that that new one? Yeah, 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:13.680 it's the same with Freddy Gibbs. Probably hasn't. Yeah, yeah 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:15.720 he got a orange, He's got the orange rue. Yeah, 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:19.040 here's just blue obviously. Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, that 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:21.640 thing is like the new Qurvette, because like a Corvette 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:23.240 went from like being like you could get like a 0:26:23.240 --> 0:26:26.040 fire one for like seventy five thousand, the new joints 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:28.320 are like north of one hundred and Yeah, it's marked 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:31.440 up their fire though. It's like you're driving a fucking lambow. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:35.040 It feels like, Yeah, it's definitely a fun car. But 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:39.919 I'm already thinking about a couple other vehicles that i 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:44.760 want in the next few months. I'm like holding back 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.760 from I'll be spending too much money, man, I mean 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:51.479 cars are not the most wise investment. Yeah, yeah, so 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:54.960 I'm holding back, but I want to get a I 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:57.720 mean thinking about getting the may Back, the new may Back. 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:00.480 I seen them, Yeah, the twenty one may Back and 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:02.840 like you know what I'm saying, Oh yeah, you're crazy 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:04.280 and then be my next It's just gonna be my 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:06.720 two veo coach fuck around. Just go buy a house 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:08.760 in Santa Clara and rent it out to someone that's 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:12.320 much better place to put your back, right. So that's 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:14.200 that's what I said. I said, I gotta at least 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:16.359 get like this in twenty twenty two. I gotta get 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:19.439 at least like two properties before I do any like 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:23.720 income property though, yeah, warehouse. I need a compound, y'all. 0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:26.040 Rent all these houses and recording and need to get 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:29.760 a compound. And bro get a studio. Get up. You 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:31.880 should just get one spot where you have your studio. 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:35.560 You buy all your machinery to make your own shit exactly. 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:39.160 Cut out the middle man man, and then and then 0:27:40.000 --> 0:27:42.240 once you make all that money back, then go get 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.480 the may back. Yeah. Yeah, you don't need a maybag man. 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:48.280 That shits a I feel like I do. I know 0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:52.280 you do, but you don't. I've been having this conversation 0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:54.400 with my wife all the time. I'm like, listen, our 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:56.520 cars are paid off. We're good. Like, if there's what 0:27:56.600 --> 0:28:01.480 these bitches stops working, we're right right right. The only 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:04.480 car I'm gonna fuck off is the Tesla truck, the 0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:07.560 cyber truck. Whenever cyber truck looks crazy, that will be 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:11.920 the stupid purchase I make. That cyber truck is crazy. 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:14.640 But like, bro, it's about thirty cars I want, Bro, 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:17.960 I got a problem. Yeah, it sounds like so I 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:20.280 need to I need to drop a few more projects 0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:22.200 and ship. You know what I'm saying. I gonna say, 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:29.440 like when you drop music now, like is the first 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:33.480 of all have you noticed like a difference in the 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:38.080 the like the money you make versus being independent versus 0:28:38.160 --> 0:28:40.240 you know, because how many projects did you drop on 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:43.360 rock Nation? Was it two? Uh too? Yeah? And then 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:46.440 you just dropped something that I had about fucking I 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:49.280 record so much? Bro, were you able to keep those 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:53.640 songs projects? I mean I got them, but they sound 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:56.360 like from that time you know, I hear you. So 0:28:56.400 --> 0:28:58.440 it's like you know what though, That's something that artists 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:00.920 do a lot, is that they'll have songs that are 0:29:00.920 --> 0:29:04.360 old to them but are still fucking fire. Yeah. Yeah, 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.360 I probably need somebody to come through and listen to 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:09.560 that ship like this. Yeah, that shit happens all the time. 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.480 Like I like, I like here, like I remember tied 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:13.600 all the sign played me his album like two years ago. 0:29:14.080 --> 0:29:16.240 It was like the greatest shit I ever fucking heard. 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:18.320 And he didn't put it out for like a year 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:19.560 and a half, and then it came out and it 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:22.360 was still good because he's tied. But I was like swapped. 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:25.240 I hit him. I was like, bro, what happened to that? 0:29:25.400 --> 0:29:27.080 Like the album you played me with one? You were 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:30.880 grammy a man? That ship. Man, I'm like, bro, that 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:33.480 it'd be like that once you when you in there 0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:37.240 are listening to it so much, for sure, critique and ship, 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:39.520 and you know it gets like that ship. Your own 0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:41.360 shit gets played out to you before the world even 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:44.440 hears it, for sure. Yeah. Sure you record a lot now, 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:47.520 Like are you often? Hell yeah, hell yeah. I keep so. 0:29:47.880 --> 0:29:51.280 I keep a studio, some speakers in interface everywhere I'm 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:55.760 at at my house, at the studio house, h anywhere. 0:29:55.760 --> 0:29:57.720 I got a studio in Ocean, Saw and Ship. Hey 0:29:57.760 --> 0:29:59.360 what up man? We got to interrupt the interview real 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:02.200 quick to tell you about our family at odd Socks. 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Ocean tide, Oh nice ocean side 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:12.920 fire yeah. Yeah, So what brought you over there? Somebody 0:31:12.960 --> 0:31:17.360 I'll do business with? Yeah, one of my business over there. Yeah, 0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:21.360 Ocean Side is a it's like I've only I've only 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.320 got an in and out burger there. But my sister 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:24.960 would say in and out. As soon as you pull 0:31:25.040 --> 0:31:27.000 up in that welcome to the the Ocean Side, then it's 0:31:27.000 --> 0:31:31.360 in and yeah. It's just like, uh, where I stop 0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:32.800 and get food on my way to go DJ at 0:31:32.800 --> 0:31:35.360 Flux in San Diego. It's like it's a dope little 0:31:35.360 --> 0:31:37.440 beach city. I heard it used to be slummy and 0:31:37.480 --> 0:31:39.680 ship now it's nice, you know what I mean? But 0:31:39.920 --> 0:31:42.960 military city. Yeah. So the company, the company that I'm 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:47.080 with that I partners in Urban Water. We basically got 0:31:47.080 --> 0:31:50.320 water in all the hotels and it's a water company. Yeah, 0:31:50.360 --> 0:31:52.480 why that's big. I gotta get you some water ship 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:55.920 some cases come through not Essentia. Yeah, we got we 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:58.880 got much better water than that right there. It's called 0:31:59.000 --> 0:32:03.160 Urban Water Company. Yeah. Yeah, So what's the like, what's 0:32:03.200 --> 0:32:06.880 the everyone has a like what's special about your water? 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:10.040 The pH levels? The or is it just good water? 0:32:10.040 --> 0:32:12.480 I mean it's like there's water snobs. So we got 0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:16.560 spring water, alkaline water, uh CBD water. What a CBD 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:19.920 water is like just for us? Basically, Yo, there's some 0:32:20.280 --> 0:32:23.080 fucking THHC water that I saw at the dispensary and 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:24.800 I was like, who the fuck is stupid enough to 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:29.080 drink a fucking highest ship bro? Again, you can't. You 0:32:29.080 --> 0:32:33.479 can't get rid of that high right, drink it. Let 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:35.520 me tell you a story about an edible bro to 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:38.080 save my life. Like, if I didn't eat this edible bro, 0:32:38.240 --> 0:32:40.920 we wouldn't be sitting here having this interview. It wouldn't 0:32:40.920 --> 0:32:45.479 be no gepri eco nothing, so I can talk about it. 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:50.360 This is fucking twelve years right, So we wash about 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:52.920 to go hit a lick basically, And I'm not a 0:32:53.040 --> 0:32:55.480 robber or a jacker or any of that ship. I'm 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:57.760 like a hustler, player, pimp, you know what I'm saying, 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.440 gangster Like that's my thing. You know what I'm saying. 0:33:00.480 --> 0:33:02.560 I know how to hustle it up. But uh so 0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:04.520 I was already out of my lane, you know what 0:33:04.520 --> 0:33:06.680 I mean. But at the time, like I was down, 0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:09.120 you know what I mean, just took a loss and shit. 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:12.160 So we go sculpe the shit out and shit, and 0:33:12.200 --> 0:33:15.040 it's like a dispensary before. They was popping up everything. 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:19.760 So every dispensary that was around that time was booming. 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:22.920 So we go in check it out and dude, give 0:33:23.000 --> 0:33:28.120 me a fucking a peanut buttered like oatmeal type cookie. 0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:31.640 That's an edible though, right, And we hadn't stopped and 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:34.200 got nothing to eat. We just been on one all day, 0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:36.720 so I'm hungry as fuck. I knocked the cookie back. 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:40.840 It was cookie, knocked the whole cookie back. Right. By 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:43.080 the time we get back to the hood, I'm tweaking. 0:33:43.120 --> 0:33:46.960 I can't sit still. I'm like, I'm thinking too much. 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:50.440 I'm looking at everybody, my mouth white and shit. I'm like, fuck, 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:53.960 I'm tripping, right, so I try to lay down. We 0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:57.360 finally got food. I couldn't even eat. Nigga's like, gee, 0:33:57.400 --> 0:33:59.640 you treat you acting weird, bro. I'm like, I know 0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:03.000 this fucking edible. So long story short, they leave out 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:04.640 the dog go to hit the lick. I ain't seen 0:34:04.640 --> 0:34:07.400 them niggas since then. Oh and this was about twelve 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:12.000 years ago. I ain't seen them niggas since. I ain't 0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:14.879 heard from him or nothing. Wow, you know what I mean? 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:18.239 So what happened? Yeah, who knows? What happened to you? 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:23.520 The edible saved me, man, damn straight up yup. I 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:26.360 had a time where I had an edible that I 0:34:26.360 --> 0:34:28.040 was only supposed to have like an eighth of but 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:31.759 I did the same thing. It was so fire, and 0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:35.120 I ate the whole fucking edible. I was tweaking, Bro, 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:39.560 I was hallucinating. I was uh, I was it was. 0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:41.240 It was like I was like going to a concert 0:34:41.320 --> 0:34:43.719 and I was supposed to interview both the artists of 0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:50.360 the concert. So I eat the edible and the first 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.200 it was a yellow Wolf and Rich concert. So Rich 0:34:53.320 --> 0:34:55.600 is one of my close homies, and so I eat 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:57.319 the edible. I don't feel nothing right. So I'm on 0:34:57.360 --> 0:34:59.680 the bus, I do the interview whatever. I'm like, Man, 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:01.880 I ate it. I don't feel shit. Bro, I'm chilling, 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:03.839 you know what I'm saying. She's like, cool, I'm about 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:05.200 to go on stage. So we go. We going to 0:35:05.280 --> 0:35:07.440 the show, and as soon as this fool goes on stage, 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:12.600 kick bro. Like, I couldn't move my legs. Bro. My 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:15.239 legs felt like I'm like with my boy and I'm like, Bro, 0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:17.680 I can't walk. My legs feel like they're playing it 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:22.560 into the ground. And then every everyone in the in 0:35:22.640 --> 0:35:26.840 the concert. I could hear everyone's conversation like I could, 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:30.480 like it's probably a thousand people at this show. I 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:34.279 look across the room and like, hone in on someone 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:37.400 having a conversation at the bar in the middle of 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:40.040 a concert happening, and here exactly what the fuck they're saying, 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:43.960 Like I had superpowers, yo. Then I look up on 0:35:44.040 --> 0:35:48.680 stage Rich is performing and next to him there's an 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:55.920 animated Garfield the Cat, like a statue with slot machine 0:35:55.960 --> 0:35:58.600 eyes going through like with dollar signs in his eyes, 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:01.880 and I bro I started freaking the fuck out, and 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:04.280 then like everything that could have happened that made my life, 0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:06.480 like like I like, if you were tripping, all the 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:08.560 weird shit that could have actually happened in front of 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:12.000 you that night actually happened. Like some Native American dude 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.239 like walked up on me and started freaking out, like 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:16.239 asking me for my photo and started telling me like 0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:18.960 about his tribe and shit. And this dude was like 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:22.640 Native like fucking cat all kinds of fucking shit on 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:25.000 his head, and I was like, I didn't think he 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:27.680 was real. So I was telling my boy, I'm like, 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:31.080 do you see this in front of the guy. I'm like, 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.080 do you see this motherfucker right in front of me? 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:36.719 The guy's like, I hello, I'm right here, and I'm like, 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:40.799 are you real? Bro? It was I was puked. It 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:45.560 was the brigain. Yeah, that was the last time I did. 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:48.719 I've done edibles in like very small doses, but like 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:50.600 that night. And then there was a night me and 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:54.319 Freddie did uh. We were in Texas and I did 0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:57.759 shrooms and an edible and he did shrooms and I 0:36:57.800 --> 0:37:00.960 thought I thought they were RUMs. Is the shit? No, no, no, 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:03.360 for sure, Yeah, I got some shrooms for if you 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:05.440 need him. But uh, but no, I did a I 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:11.080 did shrooms and an edible. We were uh. Freddie Gibbs 0:37:11.080 --> 0:37:13.360 went out there to do Joe Rogan in Austin, so 0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:16.480 I went with him and we went to a comedy 0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:19.720 show and I was like, you know what, Joe Rogan's coming. 0:37:20.160 --> 0:37:22.920 I started doing shrooms because of Joe Rogan. I was like, 0:37:23.000 --> 0:37:25.600 fred let's eat some fucking shrooms. So we fucking each 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:28.239 take like we eat a lot of fucking shrooms. But 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:31.160 I had also eaten a lot of edibles. Like I 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.120 was just on some fucking shit. I was out of town. 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:36.960 I was drinking. I was eating that, bro the worst. 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:38.920 It was like the most paranoid, freaked out night of 0:37:38.960 --> 0:37:41.680 my life. Bro. We're in this fucking bar on Sixth 0:37:42.040 --> 0:37:44.080 and I thought that these dudes were gonna kill Fred. 0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:47.640 I was like, he says, some ship in my ear, 0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:51.640 like hey, and this all happened, Yo, Watch the motherfucker's 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:54.920 over there man. Wow man, Bro. And you know when 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:58.120 Fred when he's drunk, he's wild man. He's drunk and 0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:01.680 on shrooms. And so he's like, Yo, I'm gonna go 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:03.920 peep the back door of this bar, make sure we 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:07.000 got an exit route. And I'm like, so he's telling 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.560 me that there's some dudes like Iron eyeing him right, 0:38:09.719 --> 0:38:11.360 and we're in Texas. I don't know no bunny in 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:13.720 fucking Texas, And all I could think of was, Fuck, 0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:16.319 we're gonna die like Pop Smoke died. We're gonna die 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:18.560 like Pop Smoke died. And I'm gonna be with this motherfucker. 0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:24.040 I might die too. Bro, I'm like losing my fucking bud. 0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:26.560 And I'm like, Brian, Brian Moses is our homies, a comedian. 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:29.359 I'm like, Bro, did he just tell me to look 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.960 out and this guy is not doing ship. I'm supposed 0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:33.759 to be like his muscle. I'm like, it's me and 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:36.359 him and a girl. And I'm like, so it's on 0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:39.560 me to like, I'm fucking tripping balls. How am I 0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:41.880 supposed to help in this if we get into some ship, 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:44.960 I'm in no use here. It was. It was a 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:47.719 terrible night, but yeah, edibles for me after that night, 0:38:47.760 --> 0:38:53.000 I'm good. Shrooms. You fuck with shrooms? Yeah, well, I 0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:55.680 got too many shrooms one day though. I took too 0:38:55.719 --> 0:38:58.440 many strom in a shower, right, and I said, I'm 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:00.520 gonna I'm gonna stop taking them broke, because I see 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:03.640 how people get spacey off of that ship. Right. I'm 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:06.120 in the shower and I got the face towel in 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:09.239 my hand and I looked down at it and I 0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:12.200 was like, man, people treat me just like this face towel. 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:15.120 You know what I'm saying, Just use me and throw 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:17.480 me on it, you know what I'm saying. I'm like, wait, 0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:22.560 hold up, bro I'm fucking tripping. Yeah. Nah, you know, shrooms, Uh, 0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:25.160 they're changing. I mean people like if you if you 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:27.280 do that, have you heard of doing a hero's dose? 0:39:27.400 --> 0:39:29.960 A heroes though, how much is that? It's supposed to 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:33.359 be at least the eighth but I think it's two eighths. Yeah, 0:39:33.360 --> 0:39:36.040 I've done hero dose. Yeah, if that's what that is, 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:39.480 I think it's two eighths. That's a lot. And it's 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:43.720 supposed to be like like the changing your life amount 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:46.040 of shrooms, Like you do it and you just like 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:49.759 work through all the problems in your life, like it's yeah, 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:51.880 it makes you like it kind of makes you a 0:39:51.880 --> 0:39:55.560 little too calm sometimes for me, Like I don't like 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:59.120 being that calm. What got you in? What got you 0:39:59.160 --> 0:40:01.680 into doing shrooms? Because most rappers are very uh they 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:04.000 think it's like meth. Like if I bring up, like, 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:05.560 hey you do shrooms, a lot of rappers like, what 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:08.359 the fuck is wrong with you? Broh. I'm like, bro, 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:10.560 it's not. I didn't ask if you smoke crack. So 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.640 I walked into Uh, I walked in the studio one night. 0:40:13.719 --> 0:40:15.719 Well I had been seeing it around and shit, I 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:18.239 walk in the studio one night with my partners and 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:21.839 shit big they big dudes too, and everybody in there 0:40:21.920 --> 0:40:26.200 got sunglasses on and shit right, and I'm like, damn, 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:29.160 what's going on in this motherfucker? Right, And I'm used 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.279 to being around like I grew up on the East Side. 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:35.120 I'm used to motherfuckers being on coke all the whole shit. 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:37.279 So I'm like, damn, maybe everybody up in here on 0:40:37.360 --> 0:40:43.080 blow or something, right, And like somebody said something and 0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:46.480 everybody just started laughing and it just turned in. It 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:48.879 was like super quiet. I guess people was quiet because 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:53.759 I walked in and I'm like the sober guy. Yeah, 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:57.000 and then they said something. Everybody started laughing and they're like, yeah, 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.719 we on shrooms, whoo whoo. So I took a little 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:02.200 piece and I didn't feel I was scared though it 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:05.759 took like a super small piece, didn't feel anything. So like, 0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:09.279 as months progressed and ship like I'll be taking more 0:41:09.320 --> 0:41:11.960 and more. And then that last time I took so 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:15.279 much like I was fucking tripping. It was awesome, though, 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:18.279 but I don't think I could be that cool. Have 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:22.680 you heard of d MT? Nah? So DMT is like 0:41:23.800 --> 0:41:28.719 that's the closest thing to looking like smoking crack, but 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:32.120 it's so. D MT is it's a molecule that your 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:36.160 brain produces when you're born and when you're dead, so 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:39.640 when you die, DMT gets released when you when you're born, 0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:45.600 it gets released. So there's a frog that sweats d 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:49.640 MT that's based in the in Arizona, the desert right right, 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:53.560 So they take it off a frog, so and then 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:57.680 they actually the obviously, uh in the Amazon the frogs 0:41:57.680 --> 0:42:01.600 there as well. But you smoke DMT. You have to 0:42:01.640 --> 0:42:05.080 freebase it though, so you literally have you literally have 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:07.879 to smoke it from out. You literally have to smoke 0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:10.399 it from a crack pipe just you know, obviously there's 0:42:10.400 --> 0:42:16.919 no crack, but it is like, uh, you smoke d MT, 0:42:17.320 --> 0:42:19.000 you hit the you hit the pipe, and then you're 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:21.800 just you're just gone for fifteen minutes in another planet. 0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:26.680 And people say that like it expands your mind to 0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:30.640 like realize like how small in the world you are, 0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:34.600 Like it opens like a portal to like it's I 0:42:34.680 --> 0:42:38.359 fucked that because it's like once you certain people get 0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:42.520 too smart and then they just like hear like it's 0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:45.279 the purpose in life and things that they need to do. 0:42:45.600 --> 0:42:50.239 Just like I feel like, I mean, you might be 0:42:50.280 --> 0:42:52.760 down for DMT though in the right in the right setting, 0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:56.840 I'm kind of like not like super heavy on shrooms, 0:42:56.880 --> 0:42:58.680 Like I don't trying them. A couple of times did 0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:01.200 a lot one time and was like, yeah, I'm kind 0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:05.040 of cool, but like, I don't, bro, I feel like 0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:08.160 that shit just I like grew up around drug addicts. 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:10.880 I'm from the ghetto. You know what I'm saying. Everybody 0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:14.319 is a fucking addict to something. Alcohol for sure, for sure, 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:19.080 coke uh weed as like recD weed is nothing that 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:24.200 don't feel as far as like so it's like, bro, 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:27.960 certain drugs that take you somewhere and open your mind 0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:30.359 up and bring you somewhere. I feel like it kind 0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:33.879 of like steals. It's still your passion for whatever you're 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:36.960 trying to do, like you just fine with existing. However, 0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:39.880 that's just me from the outside looking in at certain 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:43.600 people that I know like that just found that special 0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:46.240 place in the world, Like it's just happy and cool 0:43:46.360 --> 0:43:52.000 and fuck that. I still need my motivation. Yeah, I'm tripping, 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:54.640 like fuck this, we gotta get this done. And you 0:43:54.719 --> 0:43:58.480 know what I mean, I need that. Talk about your 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:01.160 relationship with Grido because you obviously you know all three 0:44:01.360 --> 0:44:05.160 Grito's got twelve thousand songs that no one's heard yet. 0:44:05.280 --> 0:44:07.319 Free my boy Grito, So me and Greedo got a 0:44:07.320 --> 0:44:11.840 whole project together, right, So when Greto was because you know, 0:44:11.880 --> 0:44:14.719 Greto been out for a long time. Yeah, for a 0:44:14.719 --> 0:44:16.360 long time. He's been out for a long time. But 0:44:16.400 --> 0:44:20.200 when he started blowing up as Greto and like, motherfuckers 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:23.840 was only you know what I mean? Uh, I remember 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:25.760 he was talking that shit, y'all. I just did twelve 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:29.360 songs today. I did twenty songs today. So I'm like, 0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:32.120 the next time we get in the studio, like I'm competitive, 0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:34.279 you know what I'm saying. Like that's how the g 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:36.640 Worthy project came about. We would talk about that, but 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:38.759 like when we get in the studio, I'm like, man, 0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:41.000 this is motherfucker not about to run circles around me 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:43.399 in here, you know what I'm saying. So every time 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:46.239 a beat came on, I'm trying to rush into booth 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:49.279 because he just he here the beat and he just 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:53.360 casually walks into booth and comes out in five minutes 0:44:54.080 --> 0:44:56.480 with the shit done, you know what I'm saying. So 0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:01.080 when everything come on, I'm trying to in there, you 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:02.960 know what I mean. And we at the end of 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:04.960 the night, we ended up with a project. One of 0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:09.919 the songs came out on first A good Job First, 0:45:10.200 --> 0:45:13.080 FK first he dropped. He dropped one of the songs 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:17.440 that we did that night, and we still probably got 0:45:17.440 --> 0:45:22.040 about like fifteen songs in my computer and shit probably 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:24.160 dropped some more of that ship. But that's basically what 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:27.000 that so his creative processes. Have you ever seen anyone 0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:30.279 record that fast? Because I mean from what ts tight 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:32.920 no TK was telling me, Like the amount of songs 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:38.040 he has, it's insane. Yeah, Like it's almost like you 0:45:38.040 --> 0:45:41.040 don't believe it until you see, Like damn, I like 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:44.320 this guy drops music like still out in the machine. 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:46.960 I think he just learned how to just have a conversation, 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:49.839 not like he just learned how to be like one 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:52.920 with the music, if that makes sense, Like because like 0:45:53.040 --> 0:45:56.400 he bro he's I know for sure he's not thinking 0:45:56.480 --> 0:46:00.359 hard about nothing. The beat come on, he talked, and ship, 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:04.360 yeah walk in and then walk back out like you 0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:06.239 know what I'm saying. The only time I seen him 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:10.920 like like pressure and that ain't even pressure was like 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:13.879 when he pressing the engineer like give my ship. Sounded right, 0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:16.719 like you know what I'm saying. But outside of that, 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:20.799 he like that niggas like water, like just what are you? 0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:25.160 The joint project that you're sitting on. Is there any 0:46:25.200 --> 0:46:28.520 sort of idea when that's gonna We've been talking about it, 0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:31.080 and she's on your album a couple of times, right, Yeah, 0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:33.520 he on there. He called me one day and Ship 0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:37.640 and and he's like, man, put out some of that Ship. 0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:41.239 And I thought about it, So I took jay Nauri 0:46:41.440 --> 0:46:44.400 actually took a piece from one of the joints and 0:46:44.760 --> 0:46:49.080 mixed it in and too sexy and and uh, we 0:46:49.280 --> 0:46:51.440 just had a conversation and Ship. We was talking. I'm like, 0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:53.239 I'm gonna record it, you know what I'm saying. And 0:46:53.280 --> 0:46:56.120 we just talking Ship, and I chot pieces from the 0:46:56.160 --> 0:46:58.960 conversation and put them inserts on certain songs and Ship, 0:46:59.320 --> 0:47:03.040 how's he doing? Uh? You know, how's the spirit? Bro? 0:47:03.280 --> 0:47:06.520 He fucking he better than me. Put it like that. 0:47:06.840 --> 0:47:10.719 I'm not stressing. He popping that shit. He talking like 0:47:10.800 --> 0:47:12.520 he out on the streets, you know what I'm saying. 0:47:12.600 --> 0:47:15.839 So I know when he get out, he's not gonna 0:47:15.880 --> 0:47:19.040 have a problem getting straight back into it. Like he 0:47:19.280 --> 0:47:22.239 like a special, one of a kind type motherfucker. Like 0:47:22.239 --> 0:47:24.160 I ain't never seen nobody like him, you know what 0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:26.360 I mean. Yeah, I thought one of the doper moments 0:47:26.440 --> 0:47:29.759 that I saw kind of the original verses was him 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:32.680 and RJ and nobody got hurt at the Novo. Yeah, 0:47:32.760 --> 0:47:35.799 I was fire. That was fire. That was super far 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:37.640 and he woke my game up about a lot of 0:47:37.640 --> 0:47:43.400 shit too, like what just basically like, uh, just me 0:47:43.600 --> 0:47:47.120 being like back to like being a fucking gang banger 0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:52.440 from the streets. Like sometimes the uh, the mentality of 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:55.799 that a carry over into this. But this ain't that, 0:47:56.000 --> 0:47:57.759 and that ain't this, you know what I'm saying, So 0:47:58.040 --> 0:48:02.560 like being able to free entry the twol you know 0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:05.919 what I'm saying, is real difficult. That's why you don't 0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:08.719 see a lot of artists like myself or with the 0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:12.560 background like myself cracking or on the scene. It's because 0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:17.760 their eparate. It's too fucking real, you know what I'm saying. 0:48:18.239 --> 0:48:22.759 And it took a while for me to understand that, Bro, 0:48:22.920 --> 0:48:25.680 this is entertainment. All these niggas doing this shit, these 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:30.320 niggas cripping extra hard and blooding extra hard. It's a costume. 0:48:30.480 --> 0:48:32.840 It's for the you know what I'm saying, so like 0:48:33.800 --> 0:48:37.880 and me coming from the real life and like shedding 0:48:37.960 --> 0:48:41.040 blood for this shit. Sweat tears years of my life, 0:48:41.080 --> 0:48:43.160 you know what I'm saying, actually putting in work for 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:46.480 the ship and like living it. It's like, you know 0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:48.680 that part of me is hard to turn that part 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:52.120 of me off and accept they're separate. Yeah, accept the 0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:56.120 entertainment aspect of it. Like motherfucker's acting super hard and 0:48:56.200 --> 0:48:57.840 like they this and that, you know what I'm saying. 0:48:57.880 --> 0:49:01.440 So that's why a lot of like real ones not 0:49:01.480 --> 0:49:03.239 in a mix, you know what I'm saying. So I've 0:49:03.280 --> 0:49:04.880 just been learning how to accept it, you know what 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:08.880 I'm saying. And you know that was probably hard, like 0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:11.680 because you're very difficult. You get into the hip hop 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:14.279 world and like you said, there's a lot of perceived 0:49:15.080 --> 0:49:20.239 gangsters involved, but it's separate, right. It's like, look, there's 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:23.640 the entertainment industry and then there's the other shit, and 0:49:23.800 --> 0:49:28.440 it's hard to mix both and make it because I mean, really, 0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:31.000 you're more of a target when you become a public figure, 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:32.920 you know what I mean. For sure, you're more of 0:49:33.040 --> 0:49:35.600 like you know, I mean, shit, all the rico shit 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:38.400 that's happening, all the fucking that shit is so that 0:49:38.440 --> 0:49:41.839 shit is so fucking spooky, bro, it's insane. They could 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:44.239 just snatch you up and say that you're doing some 0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:47.080 if they feel like it, say you're doing some criminal shit, 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:51.319 Like who really, what successful artists or successful business man 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:55.520 really has time to run a function in street gang 0:49:55.640 --> 0:49:58.799 or street activity. Like now, if you got tied to 0:49:58.840 --> 0:50:01.360 this shit, you can't help that. And then nine times 0:50:01.360 --> 0:50:03.759 out of ten, you're not gonna turn your back on 0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:08.640 your people. So yo, Like my presence, my presence in 0:50:08.680 --> 0:50:10.879 the street life right now with my homies and shit 0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:14.920 is just for sheer motivation and like, bro, we need 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:17.880 to be doing this, this and this fuck that it's 0:50:18.360 --> 0:50:21.080 no life into the shit that's been going on for 0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:23.839 I just told my homie the other day, Bro, like 0:50:23.960 --> 0:50:27.600 one of my young homies, like, Bro, you're not Bro, 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:30.879 You're not gonna be special or do anything different, or 0:50:31.880 --> 0:50:35.520 you're not gonna be who you want to be doing 0:50:35.560 --> 0:50:37.760 the same shit that been going on in the hood 0:50:37.800 --> 0:50:40.719 for the last fifty years, you know what I'm saying, Like, Bro, 0:50:40.880 --> 0:50:45.320 we got homies from since sixties seventies that kill niggas 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:47.520 and do the crazy shit and go to jail forever. 0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:50.319 Like what makes you think that you're gonna stand out 0:50:50.360 --> 0:50:52.759 and be special doing the same exact shit and we 0:50:52.840 --> 0:50:55.360 know that outcome. Bro. Yeah you already seen this movie 0:50:55.400 --> 0:50:57.480 play out. There's people who did this for you just 0:50:57.520 --> 0:51:00.560 to show you like, yeah, yo, it's decades of seeing 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:03.920 it though. Bro. We got hundreds of homies, maybe a 0:51:04.040 --> 0:51:07.600 thousand homies in jail with life and like they wish 0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:11.239 they wouldn't have did this shit. So it's like, bro, 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:14.919 and that's why that's why my transition into this shit, 0:51:15.360 --> 0:51:17.600 Like sometimes it's difficult, but when I look at that, 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:20.480 it's like, all right, I could be doing this and 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:22.480 be stuck in and out of prison. Who wants to 0:51:22.520 --> 0:51:24.320 do that? Who gives a fuck about that? You know 0:51:24.320 --> 0:51:27.000 what I'm saying. It's like, all right, do something different? 0:51:27.000 --> 0:51:28.880 What can I bring different to the hood. So my 0:51:28.960 --> 0:51:32.880 presence is bringing that different shit and making it cool, 0:51:33.040 --> 0:51:36.560 Like all right, let's do music, let's do clothes, do 0:51:36.719 --> 0:51:39.560 all right? You water? You don't rap? Or yeah, water, 0:51:39.680 --> 0:51:43.239 you don't rap? All right? Uh, you don't even want 0:51:43.280 --> 0:51:45.560 to be in the entertainment shit. Okay, it's real estate, 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:48.840 it's other business shit like, and it's fine. You steal 0:51:48.960 --> 0:51:52.319 a homie, you still cool, Like fuck with niggas talking 0:51:52.320 --> 0:51:53.919 about you know what I'm saying. You know what it is, manute. 0:51:53.920 --> 0:51:55.640 I think it's a lot of it is there is 0:51:55.680 --> 0:52:02.160 feeling like you, like you, everyone is guilty of trying 0:52:02.200 --> 0:52:04.400 to fit in, trying to fit in and being and 0:52:04.400 --> 0:52:07.920 feel like they're included. And I had to I had 0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:11.680 a difficult time with that ship when I came into 0:52:11.719 --> 0:52:14.880 this because you know, naturally I'm in the forefront of 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:18.040 all the ignorant shit, and then when I transition over, 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:20.840 now I'm missing it and I'm not there, and then 0:52:21.040 --> 0:52:23.600 it's people saying slick shit when I ain't around, like 0:52:24.360 --> 0:52:28.480 that shit. Was very difficult transitioning over and being able 0:52:28.520 --> 0:52:31.399 to accept it. But it's like, once you get over 0:52:31.520 --> 0:52:35.400 into the transition, it's all worth it, because motherfucker's gonna 0:52:35.400 --> 0:52:38.080 follow success and want to be like success regardless, you 0:52:38.120 --> 0:52:41.480 know what I'm saying. Was it hard also to ignore 0:52:41.800 --> 0:52:44.520 when you hear someone saying some wild shits, Very fucking 0:52:44.640 --> 0:52:47.080 difficult because you got a lot to lose while the 0:52:47.080 --> 0:52:49.440 motherfucker probably talking crazy and got shit to lose. Bro 0:52:49.719 --> 0:52:52.480 Very difficult, and I had to realize that, like, all right, 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:56.799 my contribution to the area, like there's always been one 0:52:56.880 --> 0:52:59.239 million from the jump, you know what I'm saying, like 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.359 I keep spot for homies to go to and shit 0:53:01.440 --> 0:53:03.600 for people to go to. So nine times out of ten, 0:53:03.719 --> 0:53:09.040 somebody lending a negative opinion about me ain't even had 0:53:09.120 --> 0:53:12.879 any contribution to the area in a positive or negative way, 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:16.080 like in any type of way that makes a difference anyway. 0:53:16.120 --> 0:53:19.239 But yeah, that shit was like super difficult for me 0:53:19.280 --> 0:53:21.719 to uh, I hear all that shit, you know what 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:25.239 I'm saying. And at first it was super difficult to 0:53:25.280 --> 0:53:27.080 turn the other cheek because I'm used to the action, 0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:30.759 like nigga, what's happening? But bro, I worked entirely too 0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:32.799 hard and you got a lot more to lose. Man. 0:53:33.000 --> 0:53:35.719 It's and it's not only me. Yeah, it's like a 0:53:35.719 --> 0:53:38.360 lot of people. Partner that's working with me, and he 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:40.719 putting in these fucking hours with me, you know what 0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:42.800 I'm saying, and other people that believe in me and 0:53:42.920 --> 0:53:46.080 might be invested, and they got families, and so it's 0:53:46.080 --> 0:53:48.600 bigger than me at this point. So for me to 0:53:48.640 --> 0:53:51.440 go backwards and do some dickhead shit not only like 0:53:51.560 --> 0:53:55.480 fuck letting people down. I'm I'm fucking people shit up, 0:53:55.560 --> 0:53:57.960 you know what I'm saying, And you know, people could 0:53:57.960 --> 0:54:00.399 be anywhere it's a big world. Like it's so many 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:03.520 different ways to make money, and like the music game 0:54:03.640 --> 0:54:05.719 is like worse than a fucking Loto. You'll win a 0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:08.080 lot over before you fucking be big. And this ship, 0:54:08.120 --> 0:54:11.399 you know what I'm saying. So, you know, I think 0:54:11.440 --> 0:54:14.799 about that too. That's some real shit. There's so many rappers. 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:18.360 I don't know. I think it's Spotify. There's like I 0:54:18.400 --> 0:54:20.839 forget how many songs a week it uploaded. It's something, 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:24.080 it's something ridiculous close to them. It's a few hundred thousand, 0:54:24.120 --> 0:54:27.160 it's a lot, and you gotta think like, okay, and 0:54:27.239 --> 0:54:29.719 being able to cut through that, like to even be 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:34.760 in the top couple hundred people or the top thousand people, 0:54:34.840 --> 0:54:41.080 like that's fucking huge. Yeah, that's that Shit's it's almost impossible, right, Yeah, 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:43.919 talk about the g Worthy shit? G Worthy? Oh yeah, 0:54:43.920 --> 0:54:48.320 so the g Worthy that was another night that was crazy. 0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:50.280 So when I walked in, we walked in the studio 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:54.319 and I was like, I had like a cold, so 0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:57.440 I got night whil trying to like open my shit up, 0:54:57.560 --> 0:54:59.359 you know what I mean. And then as soon as 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:01.520 I walk in, this was the first night I met Cardo. 0:55:01.640 --> 0:55:03.520 We've been talking on the phone and shit, you know, 0:55:03.640 --> 0:55:08.000 Cardo he up on everything new that's up and coming, 0:55:08.160 --> 0:55:11.920 anything that's a thing, Like he just got some sense 0:55:12.040 --> 0:55:15.440 on how to like, Oh yeah, that's so he up 0:55:15.480 --> 0:55:17.759 on everything new. So this was my first time. And 0:55:17.880 --> 0:55:20.319 then just meeting them as soon as we walk in 0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:23.520 jokes bagging, I felt like we've been knowing each other 0:55:23.560 --> 0:55:27.239 for years, bros, you know what I mean. And Jay 0:55:27.280 --> 0:55:31.760 Worthy had already started on a song, so the competitiveness 0:55:31.760 --> 0:55:34.960 in me woke up inside. I'm hot, Oh this nigga? 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:39.839 What all right? So now it's like we basically in 0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:41.680 my mind, I didn't say it out loud. I don't 0:55:41.719 --> 0:55:43.840 know what he was thinking, but every time something come on, 0:55:44.520 --> 0:55:46.880 I'm trying to get on there first. That's why sometimes 0:55:46.880 --> 0:55:49.439 you hear him first, sometimes you hear me first. That's 0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:51.439 like who ate. At that time, I was still riding 0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:56.560 my wraps. And then while we're doing this Cardo, Polyester, 0:55:56.800 --> 0:55:59.520 Diamond Ortiz, they over there making the beats. So we 0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:01.759 did all all that ship in one night one night, 0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:04.759 and the next the next day we did the album cover. 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:07.040 You know what I'm saying. Wow, So this was like 0:56:07.080 --> 0:56:09.080 a one night process, you know, what I mean, and 0:56:09.120 --> 0:56:12.239 we was just all in there, just were joking, having 0:56:12.280 --> 0:56:16.920 a good time, but just the aggressive competitive spirit was 0:56:17.000 --> 0:56:20.359 also there, and that shit was till this day. That's 0:56:20.440 --> 0:56:23.040 like some of my top streaming ship. That's what everybody 0:56:23.400 --> 0:56:26.920 you know a lot of Yeah, Cardosh got had a 0:56:26.920 --> 0:56:30.279 great run just doing full projects with people and yeah, 0:56:30.920 --> 0:56:32.719 you know, running it up Larry. He just drops up 0:56:32.719 --> 0:56:35.919 with Larry June, right, that's Friday. Yeah, Cardo was amazing. Man, 0:56:35.960 --> 0:56:39.280 he just he got something about him. Man. Yeah, Cardo, 0:56:40.440 --> 0:56:42.799 you know, I think he's under appreciated too. We talk 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:46.120 about the best producers. Yeah's Cardo definitely up there. He's 0:56:46.200 --> 0:56:48.799 up there for sure. Who are you a fan of 0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:51.239 right now? In LA? That's that you're maybe not you know, 0:56:51.280 --> 0:56:54.040 did you just not anybody who's maybe under you, but 0:56:54.080 --> 0:56:56.080 just someone who you just can acknowledge, Like, man, I 0:56:56.080 --> 0:56:59.000 really fuck with their ship. I mean I'm really I'm 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:02.799 enjoying the whole LA scene right now. Like I love 0:57:02.920 --> 0:57:07.279 what uh, I love what rumble like rambles fire like 0:57:07.440 --> 0:57:11.759 rumble like rumble like definitely like like Draco came and 0:57:11.840 --> 0:57:13.839 changed the game, you know what I'm saying, And then 0:57:13.880 --> 0:57:17.280 I feel like rumble was taking it to like adding 0:57:17.400 --> 0:57:18.960 his twist on it. You know what I'm saying. That 0:57:19.040 --> 0:57:22.439 got everybody rapping like him, Like love what Rumbo doing. 0:57:22.440 --> 0:57:25.600 I love what Draco doing. I love what Rouchie and 0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:29.640 Shike doing. I love what a man. It's so many 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:32.400 people like right now on the come up. That's that's 0:57:32.440 --> 0:57:35.280 out here far oh g Z killing you know what 0:57:35.320 --> 0:57:40.240 I mean. I hate starting to name names because you 0:57:40.320 --> 0:57:43.080 know what I mean. But uh, like I'm just I'm 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:44.800 really a fan of the whole city, you know what 0:57:44.840 --> 0:57:47.920 I'm saying, Like I'm for the just La ship, Like 0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:51.200 I'm like a diehard La nigga. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:57:51.400 --> 0:57:55.360 it's crazy, Like Draco, like the output he has is 0:57:55.400 --> 0:57:57.480 also insane. Yeah, I don't even know how many he 0:57:57.520 --> 0:58:00.440 got out last year. We interviewed him like a can'tgu 0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:02.320 I don't even think he meant on for a year yet. No, 0:58:02.400 --> 0:58:06.440 he hasn't and he's put out six albums. It's fucking insane. 0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:10.160 It's like Jesus man, Guys, it's a lot. I hope 0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:12.440 him and We're gonna have Hiking Broutchi up your next 0:58:12.440 --> 0:58:14.360 I hope they figure out their issues, you know, because 0:58:15.160 --> 0:58:17.280 I was like, the first body make more money that way? 0:58:17.520 --> 0:58:21.920 Hey for sure, man, what is next for you? Man? Uh? 0:58:24.240 --> 0:58:25.520 I got a lot of it. I got a few 0:58:25.520 --> 0:58:27.200 things on my sleeve, you know what I mean. But 0:58:27.560 --> 0:58:31.680 more music, another project. So like with the everything that 0:58:31.720 --> 0:58:33.840 I'm in dropping, I ain't even really spend no money 0:58:33.840 --> 0:58:36.600 on marketing at all. So the top of the year, 0:58:36.680 --> 0:58:40.360 we're just going crazy heavy marketing. I'm opening up, I'm 0:58:40.440 --> 0:58:42.720 spending the budget, you know what I mean, the top 0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:44.800 of the year. So we're just gonna finish off the 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:47.880 year probably another project or two. I got something the 0:58:47.920 --> 0:58:49.960 collab project besides the Greed. Do you have any other 0:58:50.000 --> 0:58:51.919 any other artists you want to try to collab with them? Yeah, 0:58:51.920 --> 0:58:54.080 it's a it's a few people that I'm working on 0:58:54.200 --> 0:58:56.080 and working with, you know what I mean. It's gonna 0:58:56.120 --> 0:58:58.760 be dope when we when we announce it and ship, 0:58:58.800 --> 0:59:00.760 you know what I'm saying. So, I mean next year, 0:59:00.960 --> 0:59:03.120 I just wanted to just level everything up and then 0:59:03.160 --> 0:59:05.120 I've been shooting these short films and ship. So I 0:59:05.120 --> 0:59:07.000 got a couple of short films that I'm about to drop. 0:59:07.120 --> 0:59:09.000 Oh fire, Yeah, I want to get into the acting. 0:59:09.040 --> 0:59:11.560 I did a couple of movies. Uh, I did like 0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:13.880 two movies last year. I did a movie this year, 0:59:14.080 --> 0:59:16.240 you know what I mean, like some actual real movies. 0:59:16.600 --> 0:59:18.680 You know what I mean? Are you getting like what what? 0:59:18.680 --> 0:59:20.560 What kind of roles is are you getting? Like type 0:59:20.560 --> 0:59:24.000 casted is like the game. Yeah, the first ship I 0:59:24.040 --> 0:59:27.400 did was a It was type cast and they had 0:59:27.440 --> 0:59:29.920 me being I kind of hated it because it's like 0:59:29.960 --> 0:59:33.080 you got me playing a La dude like I'm at 0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:36.880 I'm like the epitome of La gangster. Like you don't 0:59:36.880 --> 0:59:39.360 got to tell me what to say, like that's what 0:59:39.360 --> 0:59:42.080 you do. Yeah, I'm gonna give you the raw, uncut shit. 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:45.320 But like the last movie that I did was U 0:59:46.120 --> 0:59:48.320 and I think it might turn into a TV series, 0:59:48.520 --> 0:59:52.120 So I'm gonna be a real current character. Yeah, fucking 0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:55.640 Vanessa del Rio, which is like one of the first 0:59:55.720 --> 0:59:59.080 ethnic porno stars ever, Like before her, it was nothing 0:59:59.120 --> 1:00:02.520 but white girls and shit. She like Afro Latina from 1:00:02.560 --> 1:00:06.720 out the seventies, like just doing like crazy porn and 1:00:06.840 --> 1:00:09.400 should do some research. So yeah, I'm in her bio 1:00:09.560 --> 1:00:12.800 pic and oh ship, Yeah, oh that's fire. I'm in 1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:15.400 our bio pick. It's like some pictures floating around and 1:00:15.480 --> 1:00:18.040 that they promoting the movie where I got the afro 1:00:18.280 --> 1:00:20.880 and the bail bottoms and ship. So that might be 1:00:21.560 --> 1:00:22.920 that might that's the one that I end up being 1:00:22.920 --> 1:00:27.200 a series. Yeah, that's fire. Yeah, that's an interesting story. Yeah. 1:00:27.240 --> 1:00:30.280 So you know, I'm in there doing my thing, you 1:00:30.280 --> 1:00:33.880 know what I mean? And uh, yeah, I'm in there 1:00:33.960 --> 1:00:36.680 doing my thing and uh and then the ship that 1:00:36.720 --> 1:00:38.640 I'm working on, Like, I got a couple of movies 1:00:38.680 --> 1:00:41.480 just like type Cast, and then I got some you 1:00:41.520 --> 1:00:43.520 know that I want to expand on that because I 1:00:43.560 --> 1:00:45.720 really want to do this acting ship, bro, you know 1:00:45.760 --> 1:00:49.200 what I mean. Yeah, we just watched you Smoke video 1:00:49.240 --> 1:00:51.560 the other day. You were in it. That's the longest 1:00:51.600 --> 1:00:54.360 video I've seen a long time. Yeah. Yeah, I was 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:57.439 fun when we did that video too. Yeah, everybody was there. 1:00:57.520 --> 1:00:59.720 You are j I was like like, this is fire. 1:01:01.120 --> 1:01:03.520 What your like relationship? Did you have a relationship with 1:01:03.600 --> 1:01:06.760 d Smoke prior to him obviously getting the notety from 1:01:06.760 --> 1:01:10.080 being on the show. Yeah, So D Smoke actually box 1:01:10.120 --> 1:01:14.200 at Broadway Boxing Gym, and you know that's where my 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:18.200 studio was under there and my first store was also 1:01:18.320 --> 1:01:20.840 up under there. So I met him like years before 1:01:20.880 --> 1:01:23.760 he blew up. And I didn't even know he was 1:01:23.840 --> 1:01:27.080 talented like or sung or anything. I just know he 1:01:27.200 --> 1:01:29.080 was a boxer. Nigga. That fuck nigga's up, you know 1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:33.040 what I'm saying. And I remember you had a boxing 1:01:33.160 --> 1:01:35.480 match like one day that I had to pop up 1:01:35.480 --> 1:01:38.040 down there and ship and he kicked somebody ass, you 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:39.960 know what I mean. And then I don't know if 1:01:40.000 --> 1:01:42.680 they want us to say this yet, but me, d 1:01:42.840 --> 1:01:46.600 Smoke and David Gross actually owned that building. Now, oh 1:01:46.760 --> 1:01:50.160 congrats and in the boxing gym or spoiler alert, I 1:01:50.240 --> 1:01:53.400 hope they're not mad at fire Yeah, so we uh 1:01:53.440 --> 1:01:55.880 you bought the building so yeah yeah yeah, and we 1:01:55.880 --> 1:01:58.720 we own a Broadway boxing so it came with a business. 1:01:58.760 --> 1:02:02.240 So now you smoke business Parders yep. Oh that's fire 1:02:02.320 --> 1:02:07.320 Man yep. And the crazy thing like we were speaking 1:02:07.360 --> 1:02:10.840 on it like bro, like if the opportunity ever present itself, 1:02:10.880 --> 1:02:13.040 I love to own that building. He liked me too, 1:02:13.560 --> 1:02:18.080 And the opportunity presented itself like sixty days later, Wow, 1:02:18.440 --> 1:02:20.200 and we in there, you know what I mean. So 1:02:20.600 --> 1:02:23.000 the building that means a lot to both of you guys. Yeah, super, 1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:25.760 because I changed my whole life right there in that building. 1:02:25.840 --> 1:02:28.240 Like from a hunt from the valley to one hundred 1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:32.240 and eighte every day. That's where I transition into all right, 1:02:32.600 --> 1:02:35.120 out of having to do criminal ship, Like all right, 1:02:35.120 --> 1:02:38.440 and now I'm creating opportunities for people in the area. 1:02:38.480 --> 1:02:41.360 You know what I mean. Scrats, Man, that's huge. That's 1:02:41.400 --> 1:02:45.160 what I look. You know, that's a that's a nice investment. 1:02:45.200 --> 1:02:48.960 That's not a that's not a may back. It's a 1:02:49.000 --> 1:02:52.120 super dop investment. So and that's why I say I 1:02:52.200 --> 1:02:53.680 want to give me a may back. Man, He's like, yeah, 1:02:53.680 --> 1:02:56.960 I made a good one. Now immunicate bad. But but yeah, 1:02:57.000 --> 1:03:00.439 I'm definitely gonna uh looking to grab other properties and shit, 1:03:00.560 --> 1:03:03.040 like I gotta I got like a nice I think 1:03:03.080 --> 1:03:04.880 this is the first time of my life, Like I 1:03:04.920 --> 1:03:10.000 got a like serious future plan and it's actually like 1:03:10.200 --> 1:03:13.440 beyond possible. But the numbers is so big and crazy, 1:03:13.560 --> 1:03:17.840 like it's like I'm in a great position right now. Yes, man, congratulations, 1:03:18.600 --> 1:03:21.919 uh looking forward to the new music. Yeah, and man, 1:03:21.960 --> 1:03:23.880 thanks for pulling up man, thanks for having me