WEBVTT - #142 - Baldacci 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:12.879 Pim Pim pim pim. It's like my uh my voiced 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:19.440 air horn. It's the Bullet cav Show slash Podcast. Welcome 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.760 to the fucking show Man. Appreciate everybody rocking with us. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.440 I don't even know what episode number this is. We've 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.119 even cranking these bad boys out like crack in the eighties. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.520 We got a dope interview today. There's this guy. His 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.519 name is Baldocci. That I pronounce it right. I want 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.560 to get it right, Baldacci. Okay, I don't want to 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.920 fuck that up. He goes by, uh the face of 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:46.840 La on Instagram, a guy whom I met a couple 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.559 of years ago with Yellowolf before the pandemic. Dope Mexican 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.840 rapper from LA. But he's got a crazy story Physically, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.360 he's an intriguing dude. His whole entire face is tattooed. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.360 Got a lot of crazy stories. This guy was shot 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.039 five times with the ak and survived. This guy's been 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.240 in and out of prison his whole life. You know, 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:14.680 just absolute interesting story here. You know, if you do 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.640 not know who this guy is, that's fine. That's why 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:18.959 we did the interview because I was like, you know 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.679 what I want to talk to that guy because I 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.600 know he's gonna have an interesting story. We're gonna have 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.960 an interesting conversation, and we sure the fuck did. All right, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.080 so stay tuned for this interview and make sure you 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.920 go to odd Socksofficial dot com. 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Welcome man, Yes, sir, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.720 welcome brother. How's first of all you got you got 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.360 a lot of stuff you've been working on. Man, you 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.040 just showed me you got some of your own hemp 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.520 Raps coming out with the album in their Hamprass new 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:25.040 album coming out. For people who don't know your story, man, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.000 just kind of give me like a quick breakdown, Like 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.400 where you're from. I'm from. I'm from South La Florence District, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.280 you know, born and raised growing, you know, I was 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.639 born in Inglewood, California, brought to a street called Converse, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.040 which that's my block there. We basically turned into our 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:45.280 block basically, and it's uh, it's it's in Florence area, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:46.880 you know what I mean, Like that's that's where I 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.960 was basically raised at. That's why you see I got 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.880 a Converse All Star on my hand, because literally an 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.760 All Star from the block. You know, certain that only 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.840 a couple of us have that in and out of 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.360 the system. Let's get that mic right here in the middle. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:01.920 It's just so we can get make sure in and 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.600 out of the system, you know, back and forth dealing 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.840 with you know, whatever came with me being in that area, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.079 growing up in that area and part of you know 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.960 what I mean, the gang and stuff like that. I 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.480 was back and forth in jail, but I made the 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.640 best out of it, you know, after several years of 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.880 being in and out of the system. I just decided to, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.680 you know, go fly the right way and try to 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.200 make something of myself that at the end of the day, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.840 it's not you know, nothing negative, it's turning the negative 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.919 into a positive. Basically with my music, do you well? 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.080 First of all, when was the last Like when did 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.440 you get out last? So originally I parode from the 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.440 federal system in two thousand and eleven, close to twenty twelve, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.960 I was dealing with probation. Probation was real hard for 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.680 me because I had people giving me record deals and 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.680 that I couldn't sign because of the probation. The probation 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.960 wouldn't let me sign anything that wasn't like somebody saying, hey, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.200 here's fifty thousand dollars, we're gonna put you to work 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.760 in the studio. He's like, you know, I've had several 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.880 people come through this through through here and basically say, oh, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.000 I got a record deal. Oh, but if they're not 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.560 offering money, because a lot of those record deals were saying, hey, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:21.600 we're gonna attempt to make money with with you with you. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.120 So with that, he was like, you know, I've had 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.680 a lot of that going on, and where I went 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.000 to the studios and I pull up and it's just 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.480 a bunch of dudes smoking weed. They're not recording, So okay, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:32.960 I you know, I had to roll with the punches 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.880 and deal with that probation. And the only way I 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.200 was gonna be able to get off that probation was 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.240 me doing violations to get it done faster. And that's 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.080 what I did because I couldn't travel, couldn't leave. You know, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.640 it was just one It was a one track thing 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.000 for me. And if I didn't have a studio or 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.360 a label paying me, then I had to have a job. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.479 So I had to go with the whole job thing 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.080 for a little while, and it was just you know, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.440 it was it was rough, if it wasn't easy. How 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.200 long ago did you get off probation? I got off probation. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.720 I want to say two thousand and sixteen. It's crazy 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.280 because I feel like they, you know, if you're out 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.520 and you're trying to make something of yourself, like that 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.800 probation is kind of like it's kind of like an 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.120 invisible jail, right, Like it's a way to keep you 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.040 in the system. Like it definitely held me back from 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.880 a lot. You know, there was so many opportunities that 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.760 had risen and that were presented to me that I 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.000 wasn't able to capitalize on, and I wasn't able to 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.400 jump on, you know what I'm saying. And it's like 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.520 where when we're sitting here trying to get something positive done, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.320 like I feel like that should be allowed, you know 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.600 what I mean, That should be respected and appreciated rather 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.799 than to trying to keep you in that that hole 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.640 that you just climbed out of, you know, by me 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.599 getting off probation, I felt like I climbed out of 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.960 a hole, you know, because it took so long. It 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.159 was you know, bobbing and weaving and still having one 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.599 foot in and one foot out. Music can still be 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.440 on the streets. Like that was not easy at all 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.560 over overall, like over your life. How many years were 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.920 you incarcerated? Man? I got locked up when I was 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:16.880 thirteen years old, and you know, in and out I'd 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:22.880 say it just oh man, from thirteen to well fifteen 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.200 or something like that, and then from sixteen to eighteen, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.679 and then from eighteen to twenty four, from twenty four 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.240 till I was thirty two, I believe, or something like that, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.440 Like it just was I gave them a lot of 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.080 years of my life, you know what I mean. It's 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.680 hard for me to just say one number only because 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.560 I did do small violations in between six months here, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.560 three months, they're eight months. They're like, you know, it's 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.719 just hard to calculate all of that unless you sit 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.680 down and really say, hey, and which there's dates that 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.919 I was in the system that I don't even remember. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.839 That's crazy because it was so much, you know, I 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.359 just I was flipping calend Yo. It's crazy because, uh, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.160 both of my cousins who one of them still in prison, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.320 one of us pass away, they had the calendar tattoos 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.160 all the years. Yeah. I never did that because I 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.520 would have had that going down my whole arm. That's crazy, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.160 you know what I mean. I would have needed more 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.520 room for that, Like I just anyway, Yeah, you're right. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:20.880 I mean I got a little bit of room like 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.880 on my legs and stuff. Other than that, my body's 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.320 filled up back chess face as you gotta see, you know, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.480 you know, with the prison thing, like obviously you know 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:35.320 there's different politics in prison than outside of prison. Would 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.920 you say, is that accurate? You know? I feel like 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.480 everywhere you go, you know, you step on the metro, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.200 they have rules, you know what I mean, you step 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.840 on a bus in the street, they have rule. Everywhere 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.160 you go, You're gonna deal with rules. That's just part 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.320 of the part of life. You know. When you get 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.240 to where you're going, you figure out what's going on. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.160 And that's basically how we roll. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.920 It's like, I don't. I don't really how can I explain. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.160 I don't like practice or you know, any of that. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.680 I just wherever I get to I'm at, I basically, 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.720 you know, try to roll with the punches and roll 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.920 with what's going on and just go the right direction, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.760 just fly a straight kite, you know. Would you say like, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.560 because you know there's I feel like when you're locked up, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.640 when you're incarcerated, usually there's like every group of people 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.560 has like a shot caller, somebody kind of helps, you know, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.400 maybe kind of navigate who's who's coming in, who's coming out, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:38.040 like help navigate the politics and situations on the yard. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.760 Was that ever a position that you were in, I mean, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.680 I don't. I wouldn't say that. I usually, like I said, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.319 I'm not trying to drive no airplane and shit I'm 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.199 a passenger and I'm just you know, trying to get 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.120 to our destination properly. And that's about it. That's fair. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.120 That's fair. You know, when we think about prison, I 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.880 wass here would hear crazy stories about riots going on 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.120 in prison? Like when were you ever a part of 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.160 any of the or witness any of that stuff? All 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.200 of that comes along with, you know, you being incarcerated. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:08.920 You don't even gotta go look for it. It's gonna 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.880 find you, you know, it definitely find you. You know 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.840 a lot of the a lot of times. So I 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:19.360 started off going to a level three prison, which level 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.440 two's and level ones are a little bit lighter on everything. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.240 Level threes and level fours are a little bit higher 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.439 on you know, respect level, just you know, just different things. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.280 So while I was there in the level three prison, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.320 you know a lot of people would say, hey, look, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.040 if your points don't go up, you're gonna get sent 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.760 to like a level two or a level one, which 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.000 you're not gonna like being the fact that you already 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.320 started in a higher prison where the respect level is 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.319 much higher, where you know, there's a lot more going on. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.360 So points just so what do you mean points? So 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.640 we there's a point system while you're incarcerated. It's like, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.360 if you do good, your points drop, so you go 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.520 to a different jail. Yeah, they'll send you to somewhere 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.679 else and then like a less security, like a lower 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.040 security or whatnot. If your if your points go higher, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.120 then you go to a higher security, or you stay 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.960 where you're at, depending on their their like their way 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.720 of monitoring your points. So my points were gonna drop 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.320 because I hadn't gotten no you know, right ups. No, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.199 I haven't gotten in trouble. So a lot of people 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.240 were like, you might want to, you know, spike up 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.120 your points, get a little right up for this, get 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.160 a little right up for that. And then I had 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.080 an older homie that came up to me and told 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.240 me straight up, he said, don't go jack up your points. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.800 It's gonna come to you when you least expect it. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.120 You don't need to are gonna come, don't even look 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.280 for it. So and they did. I started getting right 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:49.120 ups for fucking alcohol and I don't even drink. Start 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.520 getting right up for this that dad getting caught knives, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.920 Like just if all that stuff came on its own, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.840 I didn't have to go look for it. So the 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.040 idea of like one like like not your make yourself, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.600 but the idea of your peers of getting your points 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.760 higher to stay where you're at, is that based on 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.240 just like, Hey, you're already here, you're already established, you're 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.760 comfortable or comfortable. You know, if you go to a 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.120 new prison, you might need to hit reset on start 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.319 over network and everywhere you go. Like I said, it's 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.840 a different differ, it's a different ball game. And like 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.040 I said, that they want you somewhere where. Of course, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.440 anybody in general, not just me or any of my 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.880 friends or anybody in general, would love respect more than 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.640 someone that's being disrespectful or you know what I'm saying. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.400 So in those places, the higher levels of prisons, there's 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.800 more respect. That's fair. I don't know. Did you see 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.880 recently Whack was on Clubhouse talking about how you would 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.199 never sign a Southsider? Did you see that? I heard 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.480 about it, and I didn't really pay too much attention 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:49.720 to it. I talked to him about it a bit, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.559 and he was just like, you know, I obviously have 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.880 Mexicans I signed. He's like, but I was locked up 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.720 for X amount of years, and you know we were 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.560 at war, and like I couldn't sign the South Side 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.320 or because my comrades that are still incarcerated will look 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.280 at me a certain way. Was that like, like, is 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.320 that something that as you know? Because I feel like 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.480 I guess I never I didn't grow up in La 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.600 so I guess like the beef between Blacks and Mexicans 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.400 was something I never really witnessed because it was never 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.800 something that happened in Phoenix where I'm from. Right, But 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.160 how serious like in prison, Like you guys are enemies, right, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:27.480 I mean in prison there's a whole rules. Nobody is 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.640 really your enemy, and you know what I mean, It's 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.120 just things happen while you're in there. And they could 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.079 be with the officers, it could be with another race, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.360 it can be with whoever. It's just not one certain 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.480 crowd that you don't like and wake up and say, hey, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.120 I hate these people. Because if you hate somebody, they're 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.800 right across the day room from you. You can go 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.400 get them. There's no I hate them, but they can 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:52.960 stay on their side of the day room. I'll stay 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.960 on myself. It don't work like that. If I hate somebody, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.319 I'm coming for you. You know what I mean and 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.680 as far as what you know, Whack one hundred said, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.000 you know, I feel like every man has their own opinion, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.080 or every man has their own choice. If that's what 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.600 he chooses, that's his opinion, so be it. You know, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.400 there's people from our side, you know, Hispanics that don't 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.600 like blacks, and that's their decision, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.480 that's their opinion. It's just all it's just all part 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.319 of you know, being a man and taking these these 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.760 these like how can I say, like stop taking everything 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.200 to the heart man, you know what I'm saying, at 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.840 the end of the day, just roll with whatever's going on. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.200 And do you do you feel do you feel like 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.840 it was hard for you at any point in time 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.360 to like leave behind that prison mind state, maybe like 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.160 leave behind some of the ideas in the politics of 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.199 going to being locked up in a position that you're 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.480 in and like and then also get out be a 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.200 free man, try to stay on the right track and 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.480 also succeed in as an as an artist. Well, it's 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.680 always hard being the fact that, you know, one thing 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.400 I can't give up is my homies. I love my homies, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.000 you know, and I still you know, associate, communicate, whatever 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.640 you want to call it. With some of them that 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.120 are family, basically they grew to be family over the years. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.080 It's like it's not about us going to go look 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.280 and try to find an enemy now or oh it's 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.840 us trying to sell drugs now. Like now, it's just 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.400 say what's up, my boy? How you doing? Oh? Look today, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.880 I did this, I did this music, I did that. So, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.720 like the good thing about my homies is they respect 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.800 what I'm doing. They appreciate what I'm doing, and you know, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.520 they still got love for me. They haven't switched up. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.760 They haven't, you know, basically like I've seen other you know, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.080 artists that are from certain gangs that they can't go 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.880 to their neighborhood because their homies don't fuck with them 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.240 like that. You know what I mean. My homies do 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.720 and that's a blessing, you know what I mean. And 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.320 they see what I'm doing, they see that I'm doing 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.880 something positive and they respect it. What would be your advice, Right, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.560 Let's say you're talking to a kid who's from where 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.520 you're from and then getting mixed up and some shit 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.040 that maybe you got mixed up in, and you kind 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.920 of made that mistake. First, how would you advise somebody 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.400 to try to like avoid kind of made doing some 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.520 of the things that you did that you know, right? 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.400 I mean I feel like I all I can do 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.520 is give my advice and give my you know, incentitive 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.880 on what can happen if they lead and going that route. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.320 I mean, it's their choice to make. I can't make 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.840 the choice for them, and I'm going to respect whatever 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.960 it is they decide to do. I'm not gonna sit 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.320 there and nag or try to preach or cause it 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.800 took me a lot to get to where where I'm 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.920 at in my mind state. It wasn't overnight, and it 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.000 wasn't somebody just telling me, hey, if you take that road, 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.240 this is gonna you know, I heard that so many 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.280 times and I just it went in one ear came 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.320 out the other. I just kept going going for what 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.520 I knew. That's straight, that's real. How long have you 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.160 actually been rapping, like writing rapping? Like how long have 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.520 you actually been like kind of applying yourself to being 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.440 just a writer? Right? So I started young, like with 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.960 with like I love music. So I started, you know, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.880 when I was thirteen years old before I started going 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.320 to jail and stuff. Like I would go to like 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.400 my neighborhood parties and grab the mic and you know, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.480 a certain part of a beat, like a bounced rock 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.600 skate beat, the old school beat. I would just sit 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.960 there and you know, rap about neighborhood stuff and gangs 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.160 and all that kind of stuff. And I had the 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.480 crowd of the people dancing. So I'm sitting there like, okay, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.760 like they really feeling this, like you know what I mean, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.760 Like I'm really they're not just sitting here laughing at them, motherfucker, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.480 or else they wouldn't even be sitting there trying to 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.240 dance or bobbing their heads to it, like they would 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:30.960 have been laughing like you know. So I felt that 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.240 they you know, they gave me that motivation to keep 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.760 pushing and keep going with it. And like I said, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.240 so much time in the system that you know, when 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.720 I would get somewhere, it's like say, if I write 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.440 a dig kick off on the yard, then we get 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.560 locked down. So all that time locked down, I'll sit 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.040 and write music, you know, write music. I'll work out, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.960 bird bath, do whatever it is to get through that day. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.400 But at least an hour or two hours rocatered to 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.080 my writing. You know, I didn't stop when I came home. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:03.160 I had six years or five or six years of notebooks, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.919 notebooks filled up. I still have them that I haven't 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.919 touched that you started anything from there. I got hooks, 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.879 I got you know, versus twelve bars, eight bar, sixteen 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.640 bar verses like I got music for days in that 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.840 folder and then folders. And when I came home, I 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.120 learned how to use the phone to write my lyrics. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.560 So I just pushed that aside and said, okay, cool, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:26.679 I could do it off of here. Now. I got 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.480 one hundred and one hundred and twenty songs plus that 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.439 ain't been released that I just got sitting there, Like, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.439 I got a lot of music. You know, you mentioned 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.600 a bird bath. What's the bird bath? Bordbeth is when 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.960 you're not allowed to go take a real shower cause 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.240 they're because you know, you can't come out of your cell. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.560 So you got a shower with that sink and that 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.000 toilet that you got right there, you know what I mean. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.159 You put towels towards the door kind of stopped the 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.080 water from going out onto the tier because nobody likes 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.080 water on your tier. You know what I'm saying. People 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.359 try to fish, people try to walk through there. They 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.800 can't because there's a puddle of water and soap, which 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.600 is nasty. It's all your dirt water, you know what 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.840 i mean. So you you know, you put up the 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.360 towels a certain way to where you see which way 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.399 the water goes. If the water comes this way, you 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.240 make sure that part is blocked in so the water 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.920 stays in your cell you know. You put up a 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.679 sheet or blanket whatever it is to cover your celly 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.679 so your celly ain't watching. You wash your ass, you 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.560 know what I mean. Of course, soap up, you know, 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.960 throw you get a cup water, you know, pour water 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.240 all over yourself. Soap up whatever you can. And the 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.840 same thing. You fill up your sink where you put 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.560 a little piece of maybe I don't know, an envelope 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.600 or whatever that it'll hold the little hose down so 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.960 the water don't go down. Fill up the sink with 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.800 the water. Then you just dunking your cup and just 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.520 pouring it over yourself. You make sure you shower. It's 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.200 a shower, but it's called a bird bath, you know 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.800 what I'm saying. Then after that you get your your towels, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.440 you pick up all that dirt water and just wring 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.040 it all out into your toilet. You know, it's it's 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:54.720 it's a little hassle, but once you learn how to 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.959 do it, and they're refreshing, you know what I mean. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.520 You're clean. You can lay back on your bed and 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.639 smell good, like you know, and you would do that 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.720 only if you were under lockdown, right, which a lot 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.720 of the times we were, so sometimes that was almost 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.399 every day because I think they'll give you a shower 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.960 like every seventy two hours, seventy two hours, like seventy 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:13.040 two hours, and it's like, I'm not gonna sit there 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.920 and wait for those seventy two hours. I'm gonna shower. Yeah. Yeah, 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.679 especially if you've got a cell mates to work and 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.639 you're working that out, like you know, that's why you 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.760 get that program. You clean your cell you know, one 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.560 day he cleaned it, one day. I clean it one 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.400 day he like, you know, we take turns and shit, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.280 and it's it's like I said, the respect level is 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.199 a lot better when you're in you know, places like that. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:35.919 What happens if you get a cell mate and it 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.520 doesn't work out, You don't get along with them. Is 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.959 it like like what happens? Then it's like a forced roommate. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.000 You can't even vet the guy like you know what 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:46.680 I mean. It all depends, you know what I'm saying. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.439 There's certain ways of going about it and getting you know, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.400 your rooms moved around, and you know what I'm saying, 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.639 you put with somebody you're a little bit more compatible with, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.480 or somebody you know from the streets. Like myself, I 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.800 kind of refra rained from having my own homies in 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.159 the cell because I felt like, you know, after a 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.480 little while, your own homies get comfortable, you know what 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.400 I mean, Like they know you from the streets, they 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.800 love you, and it's like they get real comfortable whatever 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.760 it is, you know. So I kind of just so 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.240 that we could keep that same love and same respect, 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.600 Like I selled up with other dudes that you know 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.240 what I mean, I didn't know like that, So that 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.679 way the respect stays stays there. That's interesting, you know. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.280 So the last time you got out, what was for you, 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:35.040 like the I guess the thing that changed where you 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.360 really focused on staying out for good and focusing on 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.240 the music shit like full time. So the first time 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.960 I told a couple of people before the first time 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.159 I came home was in two thousand and five. That 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.280 was from the state prison. And when I came home, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.560 I had to I had just did close to six years. 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.520 I came home and I told myself, Hey, whatever it 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.600 takes to get some to get paid, do it. You 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.840 know what I'm saying, Whatever you need to do, get 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.639 this bread, go get it. So I did. But I 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:11.040 did that, like I told myself, legal or illegally. So yeah, 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.239 I mean yeah, when you say whatever it takes, it 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.639 didn't matter, you know. So I was running around acting 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.720 a fool, getting money, you know, on the streets. But 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.399 it was not legit, you know what I'm saying. I was. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.399 I was acting a fool, like I said. So I 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.320 seen that I was able to do that, and I 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.200 went back to the system. I went back to the FED. 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.320 You end up, you ended up getting caught up for 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.640 the ways you were getting money. Why did you get 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.560 like what you get caught up? I got. I got 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.040 caught up on a on a Rico recordeeron extors in 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.000 a conspiracy case, and w ended up going to the 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.600 FEDS and ship you know for phone calls, you know, 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.040 talking about though whatever. You know what I'm saying, I 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:47.119 ended up getting caught up. Anyways, after that, you know, 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:51.320 now I'm sitting in you know, federal federal custody U 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.000 doing my bed and telling myself in my mind, if 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.600 I told myself the first time that I'm going to 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:01.320 get out and get paid, no matter what it, I'm 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.560 gonna get it, and I did that, I said, maybe 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:07.800 I could do that again, but righteously the right way. 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.720 I'm gonna get out, get money, get paid, legitly do 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.400 my music, and just go as hard as I went 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:21.200 back then. Now but with this and hey, did it again? 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.840 Have you ever thought about because I feel like people 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.040 would pay you to come and speak to them, right. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.200 I feel like you could be like a motivational speaker man, 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.119 you know, like I always see like there's like motivational 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.399 speakers who have crazy backgrounds. You could go speak at conventions, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:39.439 you can speak at leadership shit like I feel like 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.560 you got a crazy story. I actually did that a 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:43.280 little bit. I did that a little bit with a 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.800 company that I worked for when I first came home 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.200 from the FATS. They had me going to like schools 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.000 and talking to the kids and it was funny because 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:53.480 you know a lot of the teachers would sit there 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.040 and look at me like, oh shit, who are we 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.560 bringing into our school? But when I leave, those kids 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.520 would be asking for me. They would get at you know, 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.040 my boss where I worked at and ask him, Hey, 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:06.919 is he coming back. The teachers would be like, we 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.920 need him back because now this kid that didn't listen 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.600 to me for all these years is listening to me 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.360 and now this like they really enjoyed what I brought 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:19.000 to the table. And funny that I ended up catching 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:24.840 the violation through my probation officer that you know went 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:27.560 and said that, oh, I made an album while I 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.560 was on probation, which I shouldn't have done, the Baldacci Code, 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.159 which is my album. Well, you weren't even allowed to 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:35.800 record nah, because he said that when did you get 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.760 the time to go record that? When you're supposed to 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:39.840 be at work, when you're supposed to be this, when 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:41.440 you don't have money for this or you don't have 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:45.000 money for that. Like I came home and my music 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.480 carried the money, like I didn't need to have money. 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.000 People were hitting me up, hey, come record at our studio. 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:53.159 We got you. You don't got to pay nothing like 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:55.800 that type of shit. That's what they didn't understand. He 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:58.240 was looking at my social media and like, you got 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.119 a bent lee on your last post, you got money 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.159 to pay for these these house arrests or this. Dad. Like, 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.479 I'm like, bro, that's not my bingley. And once you 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:09.159 see that, you know, once you look at that and 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:11.960 picture that like that, you're you're turning into a fan, bro, 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:13.480 Like you know what I'm saying, Like this is just 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:16.320 part of y I you know what I mean, Like 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:18.960 this is what you're This is what also people are. 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:21.439 You can record at home in your closet for fucking right, 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:23.920 three hundred dollars a guitar center right, And he didn't 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:25.840 understand that, you know, I had to kind of explain 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:28.480 to him. So he finally took me to jail for that, 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:30.760 and took me to jail for being with my son's 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:34.359 mom because she was on a federal custody as well. 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:37.640 But when we got there, she was pregnant. My judge 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:40.199 was like, Okay, what is he here for. He's like, oh, 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:44.439 you know, he's here for the violation for recording this 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.840 album and talking about gang stuff and murders and whatever. 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:50.520 He thought that I was talking about. He just put 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.000 his little concoction of stuff in his brain, right, Oh, 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:56.040 he's this is what he's talking about. Then he said, oh, 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.760 he's also in violation for being with the kid's mom 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:04.359 or my pregnant baby mom, and for missing a drug test. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:06.399 So those were the three things that I was there for. 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:09.360 She kicked out two of them. She kicked out the 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:14.720 main CD album thing, she kicked out the baby mama thing, 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:17.120 and all she left me was the mister drug test. 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:23.080 He asked for a year added to my probation and 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:25.080 a year more in custody. He wanted me to go 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.800 back to jail. So she said, you know what, I 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:32.200 have twenty seven letters from teachers and from all these 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:35.000 people saying how he's such a good guy and how 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:38.879 he's doing so well with hisself. Should I believe the 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:41.879 twenty seven letters of people or should I believe you? 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.120 Like She's like, I'm kind of like struggling to see 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:47.399 who I'm gonna believe. And also I believe it was 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:51.639 a comment on social media that Kamala Harris had left. 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:55.240 She left to comment on your social media, not exactly mine, 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:58.440 but the people that were like that, I worked for before. 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:01.520 They put up a post of me going to speak 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:03.359 to the kids, and she left the comment like saying 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:06.000 that's great or that's awesome or something. So you know, 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:08.480 of course they screenshoted. They used that towards my advantage 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:11.359 as well. She seen that she ended the time that 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.000 Kamala Harris is the This was before she's the attorney 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.359 general or this the attorney or some I don't think 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:18.080 she was what she is now right right, Well, she 0:26:18.119 --> 0:26:20.800 definitely wasn't vice president, but at amportant time, I think 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:22.800 she was attorney. Yeah. I think that's when she was 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:25.119 attorney tenal or something like that. So they say she 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.080 locked up a lot of people. Yeah that's crazy. Yeah 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:30.120 so she I mean it helped me in a sense though. 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:34.919 That's great going forward. You know, the judge, she was 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:36.640 a sister, you know what I mean. So she was cool. 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.840 She was actually taking the time to read. She actually 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:42.560 applied herself to all of the information. She real like 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:45.200 some judges would just look at the probation officer, look 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:48.400 at me. Yeah this guy, Yeah, I don't care what 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:51.000 you say. You got going like you're gone. So that 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.280 helped me and instead of giving me a year in 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:57.240 custody and a year added to my time. She gave 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:02.119 me ninety days in custody and termination of probation, so 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:03.920 that kind of was a blessing. It was the best. 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:06.560 Could you'd rather go knock that three months and then 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:08.760 we'll do this. They're free, no reading the book? Yeah 0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:10.359 what I mean, like, I'm not even tripping. 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Let's get back to the podcast. 0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:32.440 For three years bro of probation, well actually four years 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:35.400 of probation, I wasn't able to smoke weed, and that's 0:29:35.440 --> 0:29:37.840 my thing. I smoke what like, I'm a fucking weedhead, 0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:41.000 you know, so I had to, you know, compromise. I 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:44.360 was smoking spice. Oh that' shit's dangerous. Bro. I would 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:46.640 pass the blunts of people and they would pass out 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:49.040 right next to me that I grabbed my blunt back 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:51.520 and keep smoking. You were smoking spice, like how often 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:56.120 thirty blunts a day? Bro of spice? Spice? Thirty blunts 0:29:56.120 --> 0:29:57.720 a day. That's where they were around me. My brother, 0:29:57.920 --> 0:30:00.040 he'll tell you, did you have any episodes on that? 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:03.200 I did, but not to where it freaked me out 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:05.240 completely because I already seen what it was doing to 0:30:05.280 --> 0:30:07.680 everybody else. So when it'll hit me in that little 0:30:07.720 --> 0:30:10.280 weird state, I just kind of ride it out and 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:12.240 just sit there and wait and be like, what what 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:14.480 is that weird state feel like? Because I think we 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:17.520 think of spice, it's like an adrenaline when we think 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.560 of the guy in Miami who fucking was wild out 0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:23.520 and you bite somebody. Yeah, I ain't never get no, 0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:26.479 but like, like, what's like the craziest spice? Like, what 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:29.560 is that? What is that? It's just a crazy adrenaline 0:30:29.640 --> 0:30:34.160 that I got while I was, you know, smoking. I've 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:36.080 been with some of my homies and we're smoking and 0:30:36.160 --> 0:30:40.040 my homies get a whole picture in their head like 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:42.280 they're about to kill us, take me home type shit, 0:30:42.320 --> 0:30:44.000 and I'm like, bro, we're good. We have the gas station, 0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:46.760 like we're just gonna get gas, don't trip, and I'm tripping. 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:49.880 I'm tripping type shit. So I know it affected different people. 0:30:50.640 --> 0:30:52.880 Majority of the people that it did affect while I 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:55.360 was with them, their first and instant, like, their first 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:57.600 thing that came to mind was I'm gonna die. They 0:30:57.640 --> 0:30:59.800 would always grab their head and oh my god, I'm 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:02.440 about to die, and I'm like, bro, you're not just chill, 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:03.960 you know what I mean? You never felt that way. 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:07.200 I got to word. I mean, you were day man. 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:10.000 So I built a hell of a coma. You're still here, 0:31:10.360 --> 0:31:14.360 but thank god, man, And everywhere in neighborhoods that I'm 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.840 not supposed to be in standing in line trying to 0:31:16.840 --> 0:31:18.840 buy spice to where the dudes will come in and 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.600 be like you from Florence and I'm like, yeah, you know, 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:23.160 you're not supposed to be right, like, yeah, I'm just 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:24.880 gonna get something from the store real quick. I'm good. Like. 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:27.640 So you were like seeking out spice everywhere, no matter 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:29.120 where you had to go type shit. And it was 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:31.360 funny because it started becoming illegal. So you go to 0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:34.520 one little smoke shop like, oh, we don't got it 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:35.920 no more. But you could go two blocks to the 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:37.800 right and make eleven where is right there? And you're like, oh, 0:31:38.160 --> 0:31:40.160 on my way. Like, you know people who got locked up. 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:42.960 A smoke shop owner in Arizona got locked up because 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:45.640 he was I think he was like one of the 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:47.840 distributors of that shit. A lot of people I know 0:31:47.880 --> 0:31:50.800 who are like in that industry got got hit with 0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:52.640 some serious charges and that dude had to go to 0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:55.000 jail for a few years over spice. Bro, I've seen 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:57.080 people just take a hit and just start having a 0:31:57.120 --> 0:32:00.840 seizure right next to me. Bro, I'm like, what the hell. Yeah, 0:32:01.080 --> 0:32:02.880 it kind of reminds me of like I guess in 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.720 the nineties when people were doing angel dusts right right. 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:09.040 And it's funny that it light's basically like the same, 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:11.840 like it flames of It's something that whatever chemicals it 0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:13.640 was that they were putting in there, they're not good 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:16.960 for people. And on the bag and the packaging it 0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:19.000 says not for human consumption. That's what a lot of 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:21.720 people will get mad at me about, like you're reading that, 0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:24.800 what are you still doing? You know? But I'm like, 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:27.200 I can't smoke weed. This is the closest I get 0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:29.280 to week because nine out of ten times that I 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:31.600 smoked that blunt. It makes me feel like I'm high, 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:35.320 like I smoked the blunt wheat. Wow, the spice. That's 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:38.000 fucking crazy. And then they're notting you for spice. No, 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:40.000 I don't come out, don't come out on your test. 0:32:40.080 --> 0:32:42.480 So after all that was done, you know, I got 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:46.160 off probation, I went straight back to weed immediately cut 0:32:46.160 --> 0:32:48.640 the other bullshit away. And you know, did you ever 0:32:48.680 --> 0:32:50.240 were you ever involved in any other drugs? Like, did 0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:52.560 you ever have any any errors where you were anything 0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:54.080 When I was younger, you know what I'm saying. I 0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:56.720 tried stuff. I tried smoking primos, I tried all the 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:59.280 little all the little bullshit, you know what I mean. 0:32:59.320 --> 0:33:01.640 But it's just nothing never stuck with me. Nothing never 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:06.000 caught my attention like that. And I just you know, 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:07.880 that's not mean. I know some people like well go 0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:10.480 to go to prison and like because of the time 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:13.640 or because of boredom or whatever, they pick up like heroin, 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:16.200 and kind of it happens. It happens. You know, I 0:33:16.720 --> 0:33:19.520 myself chose not to. I'm the type of person that 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:22.120 if I like something, I like and I'll keep doing it. 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:24.960 So I don't want to even test myself like that, 0:33:25.000 --> 0:33:27.160 you know. So I'm happy that I like weed because 0:33:27.160 --> 0:33:28.800 I'm gonna keep doing that, you know what I mean? 0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:32.040 Real quick, my dad's called me six times in a row. 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:41.640 Oh my dad's got COVID. Oh I call you, well, 0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:48.560 Papa's got COVID. That's my dad. Anyway, we're talking about spice. Yo, 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:51.440 help me understand something because something that I had zero 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:56.080 well now I wouldn't say zero clue about, but after 0:33:56.120 --> 0:34:00.600 I moved to La I guess I was lightly put 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:02.920 on my radar about like something I really didn't know 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:07.520 much about because I always would hear about our Mexicans 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.759 from from northern California and Mexicans from southern California and 0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:18.840 this huge beef what's it Northan's And yeah, what is what? That's? Like? 0:34:19.360 --> 0:34:21.160 Kind of break that down for me, man, because I'm 0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:23.719 not very like I think a lot of people might 0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:25.600 hear about that. But if they're watching this, this it's 0:34:25.640 --> 0:34:28.200 pretty crazy, Like it's like a serious thing, right. I 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:30.880 just feel like, you know, everybody has their own side 0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:32.719 where they grew up, you know what I'm saying. They 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:35.399 grew up in a certain part of California. We grew 0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:38.840 up in a certain part of California, simple as that. 0:34:38.880 --> 0:34:40.920 It's like no other way really to explain it is. 0:34:40.960 --> 0:34:43.120 So if a Northern California Mexican gets locked up in 0:34:43.160 --> 0:34:45.799 southern California, do they have to go to like PC 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:48.879 yard or are they or is it bad for them? 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.160 It's like it's like every everything else, you know what 0:34:52.239 --> 0:34:54.480 I'm saying. It's like when you get put in a 0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:58.399 position where you can't do anything about what you're going. 0:34:58.440 --> 0:35:01.360 I'm sure that the stop officers that make their calls 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:03.239 on whatever, they you know what I'm saying, whatever they 0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:05.920 choose to decide, they know where people belong and where 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:09.080 they don't, you know what I mean. That's crazy. And 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:15.440 do those politics spill outside of prison? Bro? I'mna be 0:35:15.480 --> 0:35:18.919 honest with you, there's so much like stuff that has 0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:20.719 changed over the years that I haven't been in the 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.840 system to kind of understand with the latest answer to 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:25.359 that like that, you know what I mean. Like it's 0:35:25.400 --> 0:35:29.960 just it's a life of you know, constant, constant moving 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:31.840 and you know what i mean, just like I said earlier, 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:35.000 just got to roll with the punches and whatever's going 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:36.920 on is what's going on, you know what i mean? 0:35:36.920 --> 0:35:41.480 It's like we just adapt basically. You know, right, when 0:35:41.480 --> 0:35:44.839 did you first start getting the tattoo in your face? 0:35:44.840 --> 0:35:47.239 In your head? Man? Because some of these tattoos look 0:35:47.280 --> 0:35:49.399 do some of them look very very old? Right? Right? 0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:52.920 I was when I first got I had got a 0:35:53.040 --> 0:35:55.680 F thirteen on my chin when I was like, right 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:58.000 before I went to juvenile Hall, I was about thirteen 0:35:58.080 --> 0:36:00.759 years old. I put a F thirteen with a LA 0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:04.359 on top of my chin. I had that I was. 0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:06.799 I went to that before I started tattooing, like my 0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:09.040 whole body, like I still had some tatto on my body, 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:12.839 but I went to the face like right away. And 0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:17.080 my my grandma, she was like, oh, she seemed that. 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:18.880 When I was younger, I used to go stop by 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:21.719 this this jewelry store and always look at this chain 0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:23.399 that I liked. You know, I would just go look 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:25.479 at it ask him to try it on. I didn't 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:27.359 have no money, but I would still go look at 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:29.480 it and let me see that chain and try it 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:31.759 on and they'll put it back. They knew damn well 0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:33.080 that I'd have no money. They were like, he's just 0:36:33.080 --> 0:36:35.520 here looking at the damn chain. So she came up 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:37.719 one day and told me, Look, if you take off 0:36:38.000 --> 0:36:40.719 that tattoo on your chin, I'll get you that chain. 0:36:41.680 --> 0:36:44.000 So I was like all right, but I still didn't 0:36:44.040 --> 0:36:46.239 even think about it until, you know, being in the 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:49.560 system before I got I came home one of the 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:52.200 times I had a court order for them to take 0:36:52.239 --> 0:36:54.480 it off, and I had to go through Homeboys Indus 0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:57.640 Street to where they were gonna excuse me, erase, well, 0:36:57.760 --> 0:37:02.400 you know yeah, and you know, I reached out to 0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:04.400 my grandma and I told her, Hey, I'm going to 0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:06.080 take it off then so I could get that chain. 0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:08.799 But I really had to take it off, like you know. 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:12.360 So she bought me the chain, I got the laser 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:15.600 tattoo removal, and then I started getting more tattoos on 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:18.680 my face and then she was like you worked me basically, 0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:21.400 like She's like I told her, I you told me 0:37:21.480 --> 0:37:24.520 just to take off that tattoo, and I couldn't. I 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:27.239 can't get some more. So you know, it turned out 0:37:27.280 --> 0:37:29.759 like that. After that, she was just like she wasn't 0:37:29.760 --> 0:37:31.560 trusting me no more when it came to that shit. 0:37:31.680 --> 0:37:34.600 You know, She's like now, but yeah, like I started 0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:37.279 young with the tattoos on my face thirteen fourteen years 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:40.440 old was there. I mean, when you have tattoos like 0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:42.560 you have, I'm assuming that there's some that you regret. 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:44.520 Is there any tattoo that comes to mind that you 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.719 regret more than others? Maybe like female names and shit 0:37:47.840 --> 0:37:50.759 over the years being young and dumb and you know 0:37:50.800 --> 0:37:52.359 what I'm saying, in the heat of the moment where 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:55.759 you're like, go get your name tattooed tomorrow, right, you 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:58.239 know what I'm saying. So but now it's like I 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:00.719 just I just plastered over those moment fuckers now like 0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:03.680 ain't no, ain't no, biggie. I feel like, what's dope 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:07.879 about like your your appearance is First of all, people 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:11.280 are intrigued. I think when they see you, like who's that, right, 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:13.080 Like who's the guy? And then they hear the music 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:16.000 They're like, oh shit right? And then I also feel 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:19.000 like you could be in any fucking movie, like so 0:38:19.040 --> 0:38:21.520 many people have been telling me, Bro, you're missing out 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:24.840 on all kinds of acting bread like I started to 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:27.120 have when I first came home from prison. I started 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:32.040 doing the whole. I mean, you're gonna get type casted, right, No, yeah, 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:34.200 you're gonna be You're gonna be like the big homie 0:38:34.200 --> 0:38:36.600 in the hood or they're always gonna choose me for 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:40.000 certain certain road. Sure, but the money's green. When I 0:38:40.040 --> 0:38:42.000 first came home, it's like I didn't have a car, 0:38:42.280 --> 0:38:43.879 so it was hard for me to get from point 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:46.080 A to point B. I was sharing with the girl 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:48.080 that I was with at the time, but she also 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:50.680 had to work, so it was like some days I 0:38:50.680 --> 0:38:52.480 couldn't make it. Some things I could. So I think 0:38:52.520 --> 0:38:55.320 the central casting kind of got tired of me pulling 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:58.080 up lad or Okay, So so you just you would 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:01.600 have hard times getting to like of locations and stuff like, well, 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:03.279 now it's it's different. You know, I got my own 0:39:03.320 --> 0:39:06.239 stuff and it's like a lot easier. But maybe I 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:08.399 would have to reapply or something, you know what I mean. 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:11.279 But yeah, man, I just seen recently that a lot 0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:14.680 of people started tagging me to this uh all Hell 0:39:14.800 --> 0:39:17.040 the King. I guess it's a Disney movie that I 0:39:17.080 --> 0:39:19.160 came out in. So they're like, damn, You're in a 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:20.919 Disney movie. You at the flood like, you know, people 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:22.279 tagging me. I'm like, oh shit, I didn't know. And 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:25.279 we did that like six years, seven years, and then 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:31.160 obviously Originals thing was dope. That was dope and missed 0:39:31.160 --> 0:39:33.560 the cartoon like that was a dope. They definitely made 0:39:33.560 --> 0:39:36.719 that happen, bro, You know, I was appreciative one hundred percent. 0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:40.319 You uh, you know I told you when I first 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:41.879 kind of got put up onto you you had linked 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:45.520 with Yellow Wolf, Yeah, which is also kind of he's 0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:48.719 heavily tattooed, but also kind of random. Right, you guys 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:51.640 ended up. I mean I think you've told the story before. 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:53.560 Essentially he came here, he was looking for a place 0:39:53.560 --> 0:39:58.000 to shoot his show, came to your neighborhood. You guys connected, bonded, 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:02.680 ended up doing some music. Who are some other artists that, 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:06.400 like you would want to work with him? Some people 0:40:06.440 --> 0:40:08.440 might not expect you be, like, you know, working with 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:10.560 because I think the Yellowolf thing is one of those. Yeah, 0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:14.040 Yellowolf was definitely like a surprise to a lot of people. 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:15.640 And like I said, it was one of the artists 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:19.640 that I kind of you know, spoke into existence from 0:40:19.640 --> 0:40:21.879 being incarcerated listening to him to where I told myself 0:40:21.920 --> 0:40:24.040 I'm gonna come home and I want to do a 0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:26.160 track with him, right, And it happened the same with 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.879 Crooked Eye, you know, shout out to Frank Nitty Homi, 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:31.680 Frank Nitty plugged us up and made that happen, you 0:40:31.680 --> 0:40:35.000 know what I mean. We we had a nice little 0:40:35.040 --> 0:40:38.120 session in the Gritty Arc studio and you know, got 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:40.880 to know crooked even before that, the fact that we 0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:44.160 did the track prior, you know, times prior than that, 0:40:44.200 --> 0:40:46.160 we would be in the studio vibing out and you know, 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.720 chopping it up and real cool people, solid and humble, 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:52.560 you know. Honestly, myself, I think I want to do 0:40:52.600 --> 0:40:56.359 a track with fifty cent. I be insane only because 0:40:56.360 --> 0:40:59.840 I listened to like his music. That's basically like a 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:02.480 lot of the music influence that I used to, you know, 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:05.640 listen to, and it's like I got out and a 0:41:05.640 --> 0:41:08.480 lot of people like when I drop Hoogs or when 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:11.280 I drop certain songs that will be like that Cadence 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:14.759 reminds me of fifty that right, you know, and I'll 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:17.279 be like, maybe it's because I listened to them so much. 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:20.160 I don't know, you know, I'm creating my own music, 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:21.960 so it's like I don't feel like it sounds like 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:24.880 anybody in general. But then again, the fans and the 0:41:24.880 --> 0:41:27.279 people that are listening are the ones that right, it's 0:41:27.320 --> 0:41:30.040 their opinion, you know what I'm saying. You Also, I 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:32.880 heard a few of the records you did with Homiechris 0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:35.000 Coke from Arizona. Oh yeah, I don't know when those 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:37.480 are going to come out, but they're crazy. Yeah. No, definitely, 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:40.000 he's amazing. He's a beast man. I gotta give it 0:41:40.040 --> 0:41:43.280 to christ Lyrically, he's a fucking monster. One of my homies, 0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:45.759 Mommy Scrappy, had tagged me to something that he, you know, 0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:47.759 he was doing, and the scraper was like, man, check 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:49.760 this food out, my boy, he's dope. So I listened. 0:41:50.360 --> 0:41:52.080 I'm like, damn, he is dope, you know. And for 0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:54.759 me to come off of my not I don't want 0:41:54.760 --> 0:41:58.240 to say like like my my high horse or anything, 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:01.120 but I feel like, you know, you got it was 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:03.480 a spot already to where it's like I don't have 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.200 to go listen to every single thing that people throw 0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:08.400 at me. So it's like for me to come and 0:42:08.440 --> 0:42:12.040 listen and actually feel like, oh, bro's dope, like it's 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.960 it was something to me, you know. So whenever that happens, 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:17.520 I usually hit my boy, my manager John and telling 0:42:17.520 --> 0:42:20.040 them straight up like hey, find this dude for me, 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:23.480 you know, get at him. Let's work. We gotta pay 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:25.640 for the studio, they got it, whatever, whatever it is, 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:28.319 just let's figure it out. Let's make something happen. So 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.560 we reached out to him and he was like more 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:32.319 than happy to do it because he had already heard 0:42:32.320 --> 0:42:35.000 of myself as well too. So he's like, you tell 0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:39.120 me when, and he came out, yeah, book the studio. 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:41.319 It was dope, and I was like, oh, oh yeah, nice, 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:42.799 you know. So we made it happen, and we got 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:45.480 a couple tracks and we actually recorded like four songs 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:47.480 that night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I heard I think 0:42:47.480 --> 0:42:49.120 I heard almost I think I heard all. Yeah. We 0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:54.759 were like back to back with it. Oh it's good, 0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:58.799 it's fine, it'll pick up. Oh oh on the camera. Okay, good, 0:42:59.320 --> 0:43:02.400 there you go. I like that. That's why he's the manager. 0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:07.080 So just right now, I feel like we're kind of 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:10.680 in the middle of like a renaissance of like Mexican rappers. 0:43:11.440 --> 0:43:13.399 I feel like when I first got in the radio 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.240 and when I was growing up, it was like MC magic, 0:43:15.280 --> 0:43:18.440 Little Rob, like obviously Baby Bash was doing this thing. 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:22.120 But I feel like right now there's so many dope 0:43:22.440 --> 0:43:27.240 Mexican MC's artists that are just killing it on all levels. 0:43:28.320 --> 0:43:30.800 You know. Snow, the product was just nominated for Latin Grammy. 0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:33.879 You know, we can go up and down. I mean 0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:35.800 LA is kind of the epicenter of like where a 0:43:35.840 --> 0:43:37.520 lot of these young kids are really killing it in 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:40.000 Latin and the Latin hip hop scene, just in hip hop, 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:43.399 and they happen to be Mexican. How do you feel 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:48.319 about like the current state of like Mexican rappers? Man, 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:50.120 I love it, and you know, I respect the fact 0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:52.239 that everybody's out there trying to get where they where 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:54.319 they feel they need to be, or people that are 0:43:54.360 --> 0:43:57.719 just pushing and going for what you know what we've 0:43:57.760 --> 0:44:02.279 never really been able to accomplish, which is opening that 0:44:02.400 --> 0:44:04.920 door for you know, the Mexicans and for the Hispanics 0:44:04.920 --> 0:44:07.319 and you know people that've been trying to do this 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:09.759 for us for years. You know, we've had episodes, you know, 0:44:09.960 --> 0:44:12.480 kid Frouds like of course, yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:15.720 The people that did get there, they're trying to shine, 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:17.680 you know what I'm saying. But I feel like the 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:20.040 door wasn't completely kicked in for it. I Mean there 0:44:20.080 --> 0:44:21.680 was always like one or two guys at a time. 0:44:21.719 --> 0:44:23.080 But I feel like now, I mean I can think 0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:25.120 of like twenty five dudes off the top of my head. 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:27.720 That's the difference now and then. I feel like social 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:31.399 media and everything else has brought that for a little 0:44:31.480 --> 0:44:33.719 made it a little easier for us to be able to, 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:38.919 you know, show showcase what we got and learn from 0:44:38.960 --> 0:44:41.600 each other. Which not everybody's gonna sit here and tell 0:44:41.640 --> 0:44:43.880 you that they that they learn from each other. But 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:46.640 if I see a dope artist that I can learn from, 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:50.279 I'm definitely gonna soak up game. I'm definitely gonna appreciate 0:44:50.320 --> 0:44:53.080 whatever he's putting out there. You know, everybody out here 0:44:53.120 --> 0:44:56.040 got their chests out and think, oh I'm the biggest, 0:44:56.040 --> 0:44:58.800 I'm the baddest, And that's why I don't fall into 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:02.440 that cat glory with my mind state. I stick to 0:45:02.600 --> 0:45:06.600 what myself, my boy Peter built, which is JR for 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:10.080 my label. Like everybody that's from my label jokes, you know, 0:45:11.080 --> 0:45:14.840 just just everybody that's on the team and on the squad. 0:45:15.920 --> 0:45:18.279 I try to push them to push me, if that 0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:21.120 makes sense, Like, you know, I'm trying to like at 0:45:21.120 --> 0:45:24.160 the same time they're working on stuff. I tell them 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:27.480 don't get caught up with waiting on me, you know 0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:30.439 what I mean. Keep doing what you're doing. Keep doing 0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:33.279 what you're doing. You guys might pop before me. Who 0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:36.120 knows shit. Then you're gonna have to bring me like 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:38.680 what I'm gonna bring you if I pop, Like, it's 0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:41.080 just a it's a square, you know what I'm saying. 0:45:41.080 --> 0:45:43.360 And at the end of the day, it's like, we 0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:46.960 gotta cover every corner in that square. And that's how 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:49.239 I feel like it needs to be done. You know, 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:51.600 help each other. Help, Yeah, let's help, you know what 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:54.959 I mean. Tell me the story about when you were shot? 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:57.640 Was it five times by Ak? Yeah? Five times with AK. 0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:03.640 I was eighteen years old, wrong place, wrong time type shit, 0:46:03.960 --> 0:46:08.719 parked in a driveway and you know, two people came 0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:11.000 up and sprayed up the whole car. Bro. We had 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:14.080 thirty six thirty six holes in the car. How many 0:46:14.120 --> 0:46:16.400 people were in the car? Three of us? Anybody not 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:19.640 make it. I'm the only one that got hit. Oh shit, 0:46:19.800 --> 0:46:23.080 So there was holes throughout that whole car. You know, 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:25.200 my brother was actually with us, My brother was in 0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:30.000 another car and behind us or whatnot. It was. It 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:31.719 was tragic, bro, You know what I'm saying it was 0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:36.959 something that you know, I relive every day because I'm 0:46:37.000 --> 0:46:42.120 still dealing with pain. I'm still dealing with issues from 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:44.680 you know, they were caused from that. I got hit 0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:47.840 two times in my back, two times in my side, 0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:50.640 and one time in my arm. I'm missing a kidney, 0:46:50.800 --> 0:46:55.160 a spleen, half a liver, half a pancreas. Both my 0:46:55.239 --> 0:47:02.160 lungs collapsed. My ajorda was torn completely. They had to reconstructed. 0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:05.000 I was in a coma for a month and a half. 0:47:05.040 --> 0:47:08.160 It was insane. My mom would be by my bed side, 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:10.879 the girls that I was messing with at the time 0:47:10.920 --> 0:47:13.359 were by my bad side, like the my homies would 0:47:13.400 --> 0:47:16.319 all pull up. Like at one point, the doctor came 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:18.880 out with my bed after the first surgery and seeing 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:22.120 three hundred people there and couldn't believe that there was 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:25.040 three hundred people even in the hospital, right, He's like, 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:27.000 all of you guys are here for bed one and 0:47:27.040 --> 0:47:29.919 they're like yeah. He was like wow. He's like, well, 0:47:30.320 --> 0:47:32.319 let me tell you excite something. He wants to live. 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:34.960 He's fighting. So the first surgery he's like, but I 0:47:35.000 --> 0:47:38.000 can't promise you the second surgery is gonna go The 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:40.799 same when I came out of the second surgery. He 0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:44.520 told my homies he's here, he's gonna stay, and they 0:47:44.719 --> 0:47:47.000 went crazy. They want to go barbecue and do all 0:47:47.040 --> 0:47:48.600 kinds of city. They want to be a party. You know, 0:47:49.160 --> 0:47:50.920 Was that the only time you were shot? Yeah, that 0:47:50.960 --> 0:47:53.400 was the only time. That was more than enough. That 0:47:53.480 --> 0:47:57.200 was more than enough, right that some real shit enough 0:47:57.480 --> 0:48:02.920 damn yeah? Yeah, and then yeah they Uh so, I 0:48:02.960 --> 0:48:07.840 had these bunch of different, you know, little machines tag 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:10.440 to me, and one of the nurses came into the 0:48:11.840 --> 0:48:14.080 to the room where I was at and I couldn't 0:48:14.120 --> 0:48:16.000 talk cause I had a tube like you know, in 0:48:16.080 --> 0:48:20.880 my throat, at my side of my right here, like underarm, 0:48:21.440 --> 0:48:24.120 just tubes everywhere basically, and I couldn't really speak. I 0:48:24.160 --> 0:48:27.480 couldn't speak at all. The lady came in and was like, oh, 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:29.439 I'm gonna take you off of these machines. I'm gonna 0:48:29.440 --> 0:48:31.600 try to walk you. And I had just got shot 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:33.239 like a week and a half before, so I was 0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:36.759 like walk me like. I was looking at her like no, 0:48:36.960 --> 0:48:38.520 Like the only thing I could do was kind of, 0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:41.840 you know, shake my head kind of get her to 0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:45.319 understand that I'm not ready to walk. She's like, oh, 0:48:45.360 --> 0:48:48.640 you're fine, She's unplugging all the shit, and I'm like 0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:50.680 like no, like you know what I'm saying in my head. 0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:54.040 I was screaming, but I couldn't say nothing. So she 0:48:54.160 --> 0:48:56.799 took me off of the bed, sat me up, and 0:48:56.880 --> 0:48:59.560 I guess when she sat me up, an air bubble 0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:03.040 rope or like right rose to my to my brain. 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:07.399 So I passed out. I passed out when she did 0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:09.759 that because I didn't I didn't know what was going on, 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:13.440 but the air bubble rose to my brain and it 0:49:13.520 --> 0:49:16.799 caused something up there to where it made me pass out. 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:20.080 The doctors came and tried to get me back. They couldn't. 0:49:20.440 --> 0:49:23.560 Then the doctor finally got me back with something sauce 0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:26.719 and stuff. So when I woke up, he's like, move 0:49:26.800 --> 0:49:29.239 your right hand. So you know, I moved my right hand. 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.200 He's like, move your right legs. I moved my right 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:33.560 leg and he's like, move your left hand. And I 0:49:33.719 --> 0:49:36.560 tried and nothing would move. Move your left leg. It 0:49:36.560 --> 0:49:38.799 wouldn't move either. It was parallel. It was paralyzed from 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:42.040 half of my half of my body. So they had 0:49:42.080 --> 0:49:44.759 to take me to Long Beach Memorial Hospital. And they 0:49:44.760 --> 0:49:47.560 put me in a diver's tank. Wow, which I guess 0:49:47.560 --> 0:49:49.719 the divers when they dive too deep they get those 0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:51.680 air bubbles over their brains. So they deal they deal 0:49:51.719 --> 0:49:54.120 with the same stuff in a different form. So they 0:49:54.120 --> 0:49:56.080 put me in a diver's tank to where it was 0:49:56.160 --> 0:49:58.520 like at an angle. My feet were towards the ground, 0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:03.879 my face was like up here. They put I still 0:50:03.880 --> 0:50:05.640 remember they put on a movie. They brought like a 0:50:05.640 --> 0:50:08.719 little sliding screen with a movie and uh, they put 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.920 on something about Mary. Remember they still put that movie on, 0:50:12.120 --> 0:50:15.520 and then like within three minutes to four minutes, I 0:50:15.640 --> 0:50:18.320 was out. So I guess they gased that like tank. 0:50:18.880 --> 0:50:20.239 You know, they put you to sleep, so put me 0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:22.239 to sleep, and then I guess they turn up the 0:50:22.280 --> 0:50:25.279 pressure while you're sleeping. They brought me out, and he's like, 0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:27.719 move your right hand. I moved it right, legg moved it. 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:30.879 Movie left it with him. Budge. He's like thrown back in. 0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:33.640 So they put me back in there. I don't know. 0:50:33.719 --> 0:50:35.600 I don't know how long I'm staying in there again. 0:50:35.719 --> 0:50:38.520 But they put the same movie back on, turn the 0:50:38.600 --> 0:50:41.839 gases on or whatever. And when they finally pulled me out, 0:50:41.840 --> 0:50:44.279 he's like move your left hand. I was able to 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:47.719 move my left hand and to cray for sure. For sir, 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:50.319 I had one of the top fifty doctors in the world. 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:53.080 His name was doctor Essencio. He's from Brazil. Wow, he 0:50:53.239 --> 0:50:56.440 was at USC hospital. He definitely is blessing. And you know, 0:50:56.480 --> 0:50:59.640 if I ever had the chance to show my appreciation, 0:50:59.800 --> 0:51:01.320 that would. Man, you know what I'm saying, And this 0:51:01.600 --> 0:51:03.799 is definitely a blessing. I have been under his yeah, 0:51:03.840 --> 0:51:05.640 because you know, if you don't have the right doctor, 0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:07.360 they might have just been like, oh, you're fucked. That 0:51:07.760 --> 0:51:09.160 was what they were saying when I was walking in 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:11.640 there like this one's done, and that doctor was like, nah, 0:51:11.680 --> 0:51:13.440 bring him to me. He was just there doing like 0:51:14.120 --> 0:51:18.160 a study or a seminar. That's the stars of aligning. Man, 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:20.320 one of the top fifty in the world. Bro, that's big. 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:25.520 That's big. Outside of you getting shot obviously when you're eighteen, 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:29.359 what's the closest brush with a serious life and death 0:51:29.440 --> 0:51:35.279 situation you had while being incarcerated? Man, I feel like 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:38.920 every day is just a brush with being close to 0:51:39.239 --> 0:51:43.040 life and death. Because they could switch from all smiles 0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:46.799 to you know, place being on fire, like from one 0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:49.080 second to the next. You don't know what's gonna take place. 0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:51.959 I've seen people go in with violations of seven months 0:51:52.000 --> 0:51:55.319 and then end up with, you know, the rest of 0:51:55.320 --> 0:51:58.600 their life having to be incarcerated because happened in jail. 0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:02.400 Anything can happen at any time. Just never let your 0:52:02.400 --> 0:52:04.680 guard down and just you know, is it hard to 0:52:04.760 --> 0:52:09.160 let go of that mentality? Oh? Very very I feel 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:14.840 like you gotta want something bad enough to be able 0:52:14.880 --> 0:52:17.200 to and it's never gonna go away, you know what 0:52:17.239 --> 0:52:18.880 I'm saying, It's never gonna go at the end of 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:22.799 the day. It's like your mentality is there still now, 0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:25.640 whether you choose to like mess with the volcano or 0:52:25.760 --> 0:52:29.560 just leave it alone. That's where that's where all of 0:52:29.600 --> 0:52:32.000 this falls in place. Like you know, I'm doing music, 0:52:32.640 --> 0:52:37.000 I left all the you know, the untampered with, Like 0:52:37.239 --> 0:52:39.279 I just kind of just don't mess with it and 0:52:39.360 --> 0:52:42.759 just keep you know, keep my cool and respectful and 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:45.640 still go about things the way that I know that 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:48.359 I should be going about things, you know what I mean, 0:52:48.440 --> 0:52:52.040 Like certain stuff that even on podcasts like this, that 0:52:52.080 --> 0:52:53.640 I'm not gonna sit here and talk about, you know 0:52:53.680 --> 0:52:55.439 what I'm saying. At the end of the day, it's 0:52:55.440 --> 0:52:58.080 like it's all respect, but there are certain subjects I 0:52:58.080 --> 0:53:00.239 won't touch, and then there's certain subjects that, yeah, we 0:53:00.239 --> 0:53:02.080 could talk about because it's something that already happened, its 0:53:02.120 --> 0:53:04.360 events in my life. Of course. You feel what I'm saying. 0:53:05.280 --> 0:53:08.200 With your new album, we're gonna have your manager come 0:53:08.239 --> 0:53:10.000 in and kind of give us a little breakdown of 0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:11.680 some of the business stuff you guys are going on. Becau, 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:15.200 it's pretty impressive. I'm gonna take a piss break, yeah, 0:53:15.480 --> 0:53:16.960 and then we'll come back and we'll have your manager 0:53:17.000 --> 0:53:20.279 hop on. Hey, we gotta stuff the podcast, man, real quick. 0:53:20.280 --> 0:53:24.919 Appreciate y'all for watching. Really mean it. Subscribe, like leave 0:53:24.920 --> 0:53:26.799 a comment, even if you're one of those dickheads who 0:53:26.880 --> 0:53:29.480 leaves the comment you're always interrupting the guests because it's 0:53:29.520 --> 0:53:31.839 my fucking podcast, and I don't know i'd like to 0:53:31.880 --> 0:53:38.080 talk to anyway. 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It's it's effort effort. 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:57.719 We just put the X in the middle because you know, 0:54:57.760 --> 0:55:00.400 at the same time it's f fort, you know, so 0:55:00.440 --> 0:55:04.279 it's still like to the past. You know, it's the 0:55:04.440 --> 0:55:07.160 f fort. I can dig it, I can dig it. 0:55:07.960 --> 0:55:11.359 How'd you guys meet prison prison? Yeah, so you guys 0:55:11.360 --> 0:55:15.560 were locked up together two thousand and two. We we, 0:55:16.520 --> 0:55:17.920 you know, met each other. We were two of the 0:55:17.960 --> 0:55:21.799 youngest kids on that yard that we were at and 0:55:22.239 --> 0:55:26.919 just kind of clicked. We had a like a boom 0:55:26.960 --> 0:55:30.279 box in there with two tape cassettes, so somebody had 0:55:30.360 --> 0:55:32.920 rigged it up to where the ox plug was a 0:55:32.960 --> 0:55:36.440 microphone in there, so you would put like an instrumental 0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:38.319 on this side, a blank tape that you wanted to 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:41.160 record over on this side, play them and then wrap 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:44.400 into the box plug. And we have tapes like we 0:55:44.400 --> 0:55:46.400 would make tapes in there. So we're making tapes and 0:55:46.400 --> 0:55:50.960 sending them out to the streets. He came, he went 0:55:51.000 --> 0:55:52.640 home before me. I started a few years left when 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:53.960 he went home. I had. He went home in O 0:55:54.080 --> 0:55:57.279 five and I started like three or four years left. 0:55:57.480 --> 0:56:00.680 When I came home, he had got caught up the FEDS, So, 0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:03.000 you know, I'm hitting up his grandma and she's like, 0:56:03.360 --> 0:56:06.799 he's busted again. So since I since I came home, 0:56:06.840 --> 0:56:08.640 I was trying to like link back up with him, 0:56:08.840 --> 0:56:10.440 and he had, you know, the FED case going on. 0:56:10.560 --> 0:56:15.840 So finally in twenty thirteen twelve or thirteen, two thousand, 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:21.239 two thousand and thirteen, I came home and Uh, I 0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:23.920 was cutting hair for a studio. So I was cutting 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:27.000 hair for a studio. Like I was just here's some 0:56:27.080 --> 0:56:30.560 video studios, so they would do music videos, commercials. Barbara 0:56:31.400 --> 0:56:33.360 I was yeah, yeah, yeah, So by trade, I was 0:56:33.360 --> 0:56:35.760 a barber. So I was cutting hair and the studio 0:56:35.800 --> 0:56:38.759 I worked for had actually done one of his videos. 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:41.719 So he's showing me like all the past projects that 0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:44.000 he's done. I was like, that's my boy, Like, can 0:56:44.000 --> 0:56:46.759 we get a hold of him, So went to the channels. 0:56:46.800 --> 0:56:49.200 He's in the FEDS again, So I'm doing a violation. 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:54.200 So one day the studio hits me up to come 0:56:54.239 --> 0:56:55.920 help him with the with the video. I pull up 0:56:55.920 --> 0:56:58.239 and he's there. He just came home maybe a week 0:56:58.320 --> 0:57:01.759 or two before. Literally the next day I went and 0:57:01.800 --> 0:57:04.760 met up with him, and for the next three years, 0:57:05.520 --> 0:57:07.960 probably four years, I saw him every single day, like 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:11.680 we're together every single day, moving around doing this music. 0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:14.520 Ten days after we link back up again, I quit 0:57:14.560 --> 0:57:17.120 cutting hair at the barbershop I was at, and we 0:57:17.280 --> 0:57:21.840 started running with this wow, and we've been Yeah, we've 0:57:21.840 --> 0:57:23.840 been doing that since. How many years has this been since? 0:57:23.880 --> 0:57:28.280 You guys? Usually two thousand and six, fifteen or sixteen 0:57:28.920 --> 0:57:32.800 sixteen is when we started started running. So I came 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:34.800 home in thirteen and he was still back and forth 0:57:35.320 --> 0:57:38.080 doing his violations. So a few years after I came 0:57:38.120 --> 0:57:41.360 home is when we finally linked back up and we've 0:57:41.400 --> 0:57:44.840 been we've been running since. So you guys have the 0:57:44.880 --> 0:57:47.880 new album coming out, which is what's dope about it 0:57:47.920 --> 0:57:51.560 is you guys aren't putting it straight to the the streaming platforms. Yeah. Now, 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:53.800 we did that with the with the Plant with the 0:57:53.840 --> 0:57:57.800 Plan B album. That was kind of our first getting 0:57:57.800 --> 0:58:00.720 our feet wet into doing something ourselves, was like, instead 0:58:00.760 --> 0:58:03.640 of just recording the music and letting somebody else figure 0:58:04.000 --> 0:58:06.040 So we had to figure that album out from beginning 0:58:06.080 --> 0:58:09.560 to end. So we we we did that. It got it. 0:58:09.880 --> 0:58:13.400 You know, good reception kind of opened a few more doors, 0:58:13.640 --> 0:58:17.720 but we did see that that, you know, with the 0:58:17.800 --> 0:58:19.480 kind of music that we have in the project that 0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:22.840 we're coming out with, streaming right away is not going 0:58:22.920 --> 0:58:26.960 to be our best way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, 0:58:26.960 --> 0:58:27.920 at the end of the day, you're doing this to 0:58:28.000 --> 0:58:31.880 try to support you the fan base, the core fan 0:58:31.920 --> 0:58:35.320 base that we have is strong. So also we're thinking 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:37.440 that more as something for those people that have been 0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:41.840 here supporting, they're going to get these these this physical 0:58:42.240 --> 0:58:44.320 package that we're putting. So what is the physical package? 0:58:44.360 --> 0:58:46.040 So what's the name of the album? Give me the whole? 0:58:46.680 --> 0:58:48.600 There's no official name of the album. It's a double album. 0:58:48.640 --> 0:58:51.600 Actually is I'm the name of the Face of l A. 0:58:52.440 --> 0:58:55.800 That's kind of what we're what we're you know, so 0:58:56.480 --> 0:58:59.440 also makes sense that's your I G you know, so 0:58:59.600 --> 0:59:02.400 I want to name it that just some you know, 0:59:03.320 --> 0:59:06.160 I feel like, you know, I'm not only It's not 0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:08.240 only me, it's the face of LA. It's like all 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:10.080 of us are the face of LA. We're from here, 0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:12.280 you know what I mean. We all represent the same 0:59:12.320 --> 0:59:15.320 thing and trying to shoot for the same direction. So 0:59:15.360 --> 0:59:17.400 it's like all of us are in this together, you 0:59:17.400 --> 0:59:18.960 know what I mean. And I'm gonna make sure this 0:59:19.000 --> 0:59:22.520 album speaks to everybody and for everybody. Like the way 0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:27.080 that people you know, relate to each other in certain situations, 0:59:27.680 --> 0:59:29.680 you know, A huge, a huge part of the music 0:59:29.720 --> 0:59:34.120 industry in LA has always been built around artists either 0:59:34.200 --> 0:59:38.680 speaking about the street life or in rare cases, an 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:41.280 artists actually beaten from the street. Like it's mostly you know, 0:59:41.320 --> 0:59:42.960 an artists that grew up around there that's kind of 0:59:42.960 --> 0:59:45.280 telling the stories that they've seen and then they kind 0:59:45.280 --> 0:59:47.880 of morphed into that image of you know, he's a 0:59:47.880 --> 0:59:51.800 street dude. We're kind of you know, the face of 0:59:51.960 --> 0:59:55.480 LA is what we've been pushing because everything that the 0:59:55.640 --> 0:59:57.800 entertainment as far as music has been based around and 0:59:57.840 --> 0:59:59.680 even but he was like LA is shown as like, 0:59:59.760 --> 1:00:02.640 you know, street culture, gang culture. That's what draws people 1:00:03.200 --> 1:00:09.040 to to LA outside of Hollywood, and for somebody to 1:00:09.120 --> 1:00:12.400 be actually from that environment, grew up in that environment, 1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:15.360 it's actually you know, certified from that. And to be 1:00:15.400 --> 1:00:18.360 able to come out of that and try to try 1:00:18.400 --> 1:00:23.439 to showcase and tell his stories in an art front 1:00:23.440 --> 1:00:27.240 of music, it's kind of like coming full full circle 1:00:27.320 --> 1:00:29.720 to where now we have an actual representative, you know, 1:00:29.800 --> 1:00:33.480 kind of like a Nipsey. Nipsey was was did it 1:00:33.520 --> 1:00:36.000 the street way, and he was a street dude, and 1:00:36.040 --> 1:00:38.880 there's not a lot of those in this industry that 1:00:38.920 --> 1:00:41.640 we're in that we're learning as we've got more and 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:45.640 more into this industry, so you know, it's just kind 1:00:45.640 --> 1:00:50.400 of a representation of of the l A people. Like 1:00:50.400 --> 1:00:53.440 like all of our friends, even if they're not from gangs, 1:00:53.440 --> 1:00:55.760 they're there. If they're hanging out with us, they look 1:00:55.840 --> 1:00:59.040 like us, and they're gonna be assumed to be part 1:00:59.080 --> 1:01:00.600 of what we're a part of. That's just like the 1:01:01.000 --> 1:01:04.160 hip culture in la is to look like like a 1:01:04.200 --> 1:01:06.040 street dude, and it has been like that since the nineties. 1:01:06.920 --> 1:01:10.000 The style may have changed, but the the intention is 1:01:10.040 --> 1:01:12.640 still there. Like the intention, you know, what's cool is 1:01:12.720 --> 1:01:15.000 to look like, you know, like you're from the streets, 1:01:15.120 --> 1:01:17.800 whether you are or or not. And for us being 1:01:17.840 --> 1:01:19.760 street dudes, we want to look like we're not from this. 1:01:19.920 --> 1:01:21.760 I mean, we we're tatted up, but we're trying to 1:01:22.000 --> 1:01:26.160 trying to we're trying to break out of that. So 1:01:26.200 --> 1:01:29.560 it's just been a learning experience, and especially as two 1:01:29.640 --> 1:01:33.080 dudes that had no you know, music experience. I mean, 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:35.240 the fact that you're able to go from being a 1:01:35.240 --> 1:01:38.320 barber to straight to this and even even me going 1:01:38.320 --> 1:01:40.360 to be a barber was a huge thing for me 1:01:40.440 --> 1:01:43.320 because I never because that's legit money. Yeah, it's legit money. 1:01:43.360 --> 1:01:46.919 I've never done anything like that, so it was It's 1:01:46.960 --> 1:01:49.800 definitely been a learning experience. I feel like like if 1:01:49.800 --> 1:01:52.200 we had a little more knowledge, we could, you know, 1:01:52.440 --> 1:01:54.440 maybe done things a little bit quicker. But I'm happy 1:01:54.440 --> 1:01:57.040 with the growth that we've had because it's been organic 1:01:57.080 --> 1:02:01.439 and right. It's a learning process, you know for people 1:02:01.440 --> 1:02:05.320 who don't know what's the Like, there's a package coming out, 1:02:05.400 --> 1:02:07.600 is this is it on February first? We're so we're 1:02:07.600 --> 1:02:12.600 doing April first, April Fool's day. Man, make these explain 1:02:12.640 --> 1:02:14.240 how people are gonna be able to purchase the album 1:02:14.280 --> 1:02:16.640 and the form that it's going to come in, So 1:02:17.160 --> 1:02:19.040 you want to go ahead. I just was going to say, 1:02:19.080 --> 1:02:20.720 you know, we're doing it on April first, you know, 1:02:20.760 --> 1:02:22.959 because a lot of people joke around with that date 1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:26.000 and you know, take everything as a joke. So we're 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:27.600 coming strong and we want to make sure that we 1:02:27.800 --> 1:02:31.200 see that we ain't joking. Ye, we ain't playing with 1:02:31.240 --> 1:02:33.720 this album. You've heard a few a few tracks on it. So, 1:02:34.960 --> 1:02:36.800 as we talked about before, he got hit five times 1:02:36.840 --> 1:02:38.680 with an AK So we're going to do a physical 1:02:39.360 --> 1:02:41.880 album package that the album is going to be on 1:02:41.960 --> 1:02:43.760 USB's and the USBs are going to be shaped like 1:02:43.800 --> 1:02:46.560 a K bullets. It's going to come in an amimal box. 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:51.040 We're also printing out laser printing bill that's the action figures. 1:02:51.200 --> 1:02:53.200 So the package is gonna come with the album, the 1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:57.640 action figures, and Uh, we've been uh in partnership with 1:02:57.960 --> 1:03:01.160 a hemp wrapp company called Billionaire Hemper Apps for the 1:03:01.240 --> 1:03:03.800 last two years. We've been developing a product, the product 1:03:03.840 --> 1:03:07.480 that we showed you. So we're gonna have two flavors 1:03:07.520 --> 1:03:11.520 of hemp wraps tobacco free hemp praps with his face 1:03:11.600 --> 1:03:13.800 our label branded on him. They're all going to be 1:03:13.840 --> 1:03:17.080 dropping on the same day as the album. So when 1:03:17.120 --> 1:03:18.960 you get this package, you'll get the box with the 1:03:19.720 --> 1:03:22.720 with the AK forty seven bullet USB's, you'll get the 1:03:22.760 --> 1:03:25.640 action figure, and you'll get some of the Hemp wraps. 1:03:25.920 --> 1:03:28.960 So I say, it's kind of for our core fan 1:03:29.000 --> 1:03:32.280 base that's been rocking with us. Give them something that 1:03:32.320 --> 1:03:34.640 they can purchase and have that's not going to be 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:39.520 the same thing that everybody else has before we let 1:03:39.520 --> 1:03:43.880 the album stream. That's smart Mans And then UH, there's 1:03:43.880 --> 1:03:46.760 a cookbook, a jail cookbook you're working on. Yeah, we 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:49.400 wanted to make a prison cookbook, like a thousand or 1:03:49.400 --> 1:03:52.280 one hundred ways to make a top ramen, because there's 1:03:52.320 --> 1:03:56.880 so many top yes inspired pretty much cuisine. Prison cuisine 1:03:56.960 --> 1:03:59.760 is all based around a top ramen. Yeah, so what 1:03:59.840 --> 1:04:01.840 you can do with the top ramen? Adding to it, 1:04:02.600 --> 1:04:05.120 make it spread, make a sandwich, whatever. Okay, give me 1:04:05.160 --> 1:04:08.000 the If let's say you're in prison, what's your number 1:04:08.040 --> 1:04:10.720 one meal you could cook up. If let's say let's 1:04:10.720 --> 1:04:12.160 say you could cook a meal for somebody from the 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:14.280 outside the coming to visit, what would be that one? 1:04:15.800 --> 1:04:18.160 I mean the cookbook that you're like, this is fire. Well, 1:04:18.160 --> 1:04:20.360 if it ain't a spread, of course, because there's plenty 1:04:20.360 --> 1:04:22.880 of different ways to make spreads, I'd say a manwich. 1:04:23.000 --> 1:04:26.800 They're called manwiches, swear. You take the soup, you leave 1:04:26.840 --> 1:04:29.560 the soup where it's in the package, You put hot 1:04:29.600 --> 1:04:31.240 water in there, let it sit for a little bit, 1:04:31.280 --> 1:04:33.000 pour out the hot water, so you still got the 1:04:33.040 --> 1:04:36.240 whole noodle that opens up basically like a book, and 1:04:36.280 --> 1:04:38.200 you put that on the bread. You know, there's certain 1:04:38.240 --> 1:04:40.640 ways you make the beans. You spread the beans across it. 1:04:41.080 --> 1:04:43.360 You know, you could use little pieces of pepperoni, cut 1:04:43.400 --> 1:04:46.600 little slices of pickle, you know, whatever little ingredients that 1:04:46.640 --> 1:04:48.480 you put a little bit of the seasoning pack and 1:04:48.720 --> 1:04:51.440 you know, you put it together with pork rinds and 1:04:51.440 --> 1:04:52.960 stuff like that, and then you get a big old 1:04:53.000 --> 1:04:57.400 monster sandwich that tastes like it's from Tommy's. Wow. Wait, 1:04:57.480 --> 1:05:00.680 so I still eat them. So there's noodle was inside 1:05:00.680 --> 1:05:03.480 of the bread, so it's bread noodles, But the doodles 1:05:03.560 --> 1:05:05.440 is just in the brick like how it comes to square. 1:05:05.840 --> 1:05:07.840 It's just loosened up, a little loosened up a little 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:09.920 bit from just cook like that, you know, but it's 1:05:09.920 --> 1:05:12.520 still in. There's a lot of carbs, man, that is 1:05:12.600 --> 1:05:15.200 you know that. I'm not saying it's a healthy boy, 1:05:15.200 --> 1:05:18.880 but that's something that you guys still make, still make them. Yes, yeah, 1:05:18.880 --> 1:05:20.600 I made one the other day. I want to say, 1:05:20.600 --> 1:05:22.520 like a week ago, I made one of the girl 1:05:22.800 --> 1:05:24.600 why do you still? Even my homie just came home 1:05:24.760 --> 1:05:26.400 a year ago. He's like, why do you eat this? Ship? 1:05:26.520 --> 1:05:32.040 Like he's good, you can't take over the years. I'd 1:05:32.040 --> 1:05:35.000 always have people like you're making that, you're just jinxing yourself. 1:05:35.040 --> 1:05:37.160 And I'm like why Because I'm eating a soup, Like, 1:05:37.680 --> 1:05:39.280 what the hell do they gotta do? I'm not out 1:05:39.280 --> 1:05:41.920 her cousin. I think you should do a YouTube channel man, instead, 1:05:42.520 --> 1:05:44.560 I mean do the cookbook, but the YouTube channel. If 1:05:44.560 --> 1:05:47.080 you do, like to show the recipe a week, man, 1:05:48.000 --> 1:05:50.200 that shit will go crazy. Trust me, the YouTube money 1:05:50.560 --> 1:05:56.200 serious man. Right, that's a good idea because because people 1:05:57.160 --> 1:06:03.680 unfortunately people don't. I don't think people go to cookbooks anymore, right, 1:06:04.960 --> 1:06:07.960 download or something. Well, they get everything online. I mean honestly, 1:06:08.000 --> 1:06:11.280 they just go on YouTube. Now that's true. So if 1:06:11.320 --> 1:06:14.400 you if you on YouTube the other day, exactly, if 1:06:14.400 --> 1:06:17.040 you started a YouTube channel where you were just creating content, 1:06:17.240 --> 1:06:20.800 doing recipes, bro, that ship would go crazy. And then 1:06:20.840 --> 1:06:24.880 you have special guests come on. Well maybe artists who 1:06:24.880 --> 1:06:26.920 have been in jail or artists that haven't. But just 1:06:27.040 --> 1:06:29.160 if you've got a relationship with Crooked Eye or whoever, 1:06:29.240 --> 1:06:32.880 have them come on and everybody does a different you know, 1:06:33.160 --> 1:06:35.200 you make them, you make them something and then they 1:06:35.520 --> 1:06:37.720 they taste tested on camera. That should have go crazy 1:06:38.040 --> 1:06:40.360 for sure. That's a good idea. Yeah, then you might 1:06:40.360 --> 1:06:45.000 fucking end up on Vice. But I'm saying like you 1:06:45.080 --> 1:06:48.000 might get your own show on vice for real, like 1:06:48.280 --> 1:06:50.520 that'd be crazy. And then if it goes super crazy, 1:06:50.560 --> 1:06:53.960 start a fucking restaurant. You got a kitchen, start a 1:06:53.960 --> 1:06:57.000 little corner, man. I'm telling you bro right now. The 1:06:57.080 --> 1:06:59.200 cookbook is cool because you know you I mean I 1:06:59.200 --> 1:07:00.480 would just do a living to in that, but to 1:07:00.480 --> 1:07:04.720 really maximize like that, like a coffee table book, just 1:07:05.040 --> 1:07:07.880 you're you gotta you gotta do the video content. You 1:07:07.920 --> 1:07:09.560 gotta do it the right way. You can't do it 1:07:09.600 --> 1:07:12.360 where it looks all half assed and Bria and ship. Yeah, 1:07:13.360 --> 1:07:16.280 that'd be big, honestly, sure, Yeah idea. Definitely gonna keep 1:07:16.280 --> 1:07:18.360 that in consideration. Yeah, run that up all right. So 1:07:18.360 --> 1:07:21.080 April first, the album's coming out. Uh, when are you 1:07:21.080 --> 1:07:22.640 guys going to a pre order for it? Because I'm 1:07:22.680 --> 1:07:26.960 assuming to get that much stuff made is probably uh 1:07:27.000 --> 1:07:29.640 the production is. It's do you want to get an 1:07:29.640 --> 1:07:31.200 idea on like how many you need to get made? 1:07:31.280 --> 1:07:33.280 Or you gotta know we've kind of got all that 1:07:33.280 --> 1:07:35.520 that worked out. We're gonna do a very limited run. 1:07:36.160 --> 1:07:39.280 It's probably gonna total maybe a thousand pieces, a thousand 1:07:39.280 --> 1:07:41.720 pieces and how muchything will be numbering album. It's probab 1:07:41.720 --> 1:07:43.320 going to be one hundred and fifty bucks for that package. 1:07:43.360 --> 1:07:46.160 It's not bad. Hundred fifty bucks a thousand of them. 1:07:46.160 --> 1:07:48.840 You got one hundred fifty bands. Yeah, just those collector 1:07:49.040 --> 1:07:52.480 those collector action finish loan bro like those are those 1:07:52.480 --> 1:07:56.080 are and we're putting money into this, like those things 1:07:56.080 --> 1:07:58.480 aren't cheap. Yeah, it's not like you guys. Yeah yeah, yeah, 1:07:58.520 --> 1:08:02.480 because it's not like you're we're not. We're not. Yeah. 1:08:02.520 --> 1:08:04.960 The over the overhead on what you guys are making 1:08:05.040 --> 1:08:10.200 isn't isn't. Yeah, we're not. We're not spending charging Yeah. Yeah, 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:13.280 we're to make it the collectors and that's that's dope collected. 1:08:13.400 --> 1:08:15.800 You know. Well, ship Man April first, is there a 1:08:15.840 --> 1:08:18.560 website or obviously your your i G all that like 1:08:18.840 --> 1:08:22.920 we're the best place to so his i G is 1:08:22.920 --> 1:08:25.479 always going to be the best because that's where he's at. Mostly. 1:08:25.880 --> 1:08:29.320 We do have a website. While that the Beast dot com. 1:08:29.360 --> 1:08:32.640 That's probably gonna be switching over to uh when we 1:08:32.720 --> 1:08:34.720 do the album, it will probably just be like an 1:08:34.720 --> 1:08:40.759 effort web page. Uh, we'll have a link though exactly 1:08:40.840 --> 1:08:43.280 where to go to. We probably will have pre sales 1:08:43.360 --> 1:08:48.840 just because we're getting finished with with everything that we 1:08:48.880 --> 1:08:53.559 need finished to have the stuff to start type. Yeah. Yeah, 1:08:54.120 --> 1:08:56.560 that's more of what we've been waiting on to to 1:08:56.800 --> 1:08:59.519 even put any pre orders out because I don't have 1:08:59.600 --> 1:09:02.920 the I don't have the action figures in my hand yet. 1:09:04.120 --> 1:09:06.880 So once we have everything then then we can put 1:09:06.920 --> 1:09:09.479 out a presale link. I think there it is. Well, look, 1:09:09.479 --> 1:09:12.040 go support. Appreciate you pulling up man, Thank you brother. 1:09:12.160 --> 1:09:15.080 Following go go support the album. 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