1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast club morning. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: Everybody is d ch Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got special guests in 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: the building. Album out this Friday, Tory Lanes or some south. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: How you doing You tired? I'm tired, seen your tweet. 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: But I gotta sleep in three hours after the Breakfast 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: Club in the morning. Yeah, that was about three hours ago. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: I was a Starlets, yall was out. I think it's 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: a tradition that every time I come here, I go 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: to Starars first. I just had to do that. What 11 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: was happening in a Starlets last night? The regular ship? 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: You know how much you spent last night in Starlets? 13 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: Nothing crazy? What's nothing crazy? The Tory Lanes not like 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: three thousand dollars, nothing crazy. It was mad late. It 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: was just it was like literally thirty minutes left. I 16 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: didn't even get to spending money. Okay, now sorry for 17 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: what now that your new album? First of all, you 18 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: are you signed to a major? Are you independent on 19 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: I'm independent, fully independent U one Umbrella Records. You know 20 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: we distribute to create. But for now and that's how 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: you won it? Yeah, for sure, I've always wanted to 22 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: be independent and you know, be able to touch the 23 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: money that the labels touch, just being an independent artist. 24 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: So yeah, one, so you prefer the independency over of course, 25 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: it's a lot more freedom. You could do whatever you 26 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: want drop whenever you can't get canceled. You ain't got 27 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 1: to worry about somebody telling you what you know, feeling 28 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: you're good, you're You're able to just kind of move freely. 29 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: And I think just for me being such like an 30 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: eclectic artist and an artist who's just like kind of 31 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: all over the place musically, that's good for me, Like 32 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, to be able to move 33 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: and do what I want to do musically whenever I 34 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: want to do it. Now, let's got off with the 35 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: title of the album. Sorry for what? What is the 36 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: title expressing the talking about? UM? I think for me, 37 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: you know, I've always been a very unapologetic person when 38 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: it comes down to my craft and to the things 39 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: that I enjoying, the things that I love and I 40 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: feel like UM, when we was creating an album, When 41 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: creating an album title, you know, and listening to the 42 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: music and how it's sounds, it sounds unapologetic, but it 43 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: also gives you that like resilience, that that that uh 44 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: standing in the wind when it's blowing, you know, and 45 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: and um, I feel like it's just about staying tall 46 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: and you know, staying true to you and you know, 47 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: being unapologetically yourself. So I called it sorry for what now? Recently, Uh, 48 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: you got into an alleged altercation. But an R and 49 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: B artist, August, I've seen him look man, Like I said, 50 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: I'm here to just answer about the album. Well, is 51 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: there an open investigation with the LAPD because I saw 52 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: they said they were looking into it again, couldn't tell, 53 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: you don't know, but you know, like I shouldn't here 54 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: for the album in positivity, I know, you know. And 55 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'm always here to answer all 56 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: the questions and stuff, but I'm really just here just 57 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: preaching positivity today. Like you know what I'm saying. Everything 58 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: that's been going on in my life and the things 59 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: that's been going on around me, I just try to 60 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: keep positive, you know, So no disrespect, but I'm just 61 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: not here to talk about just one last question that 62 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: we've seen that you walk by each other and he 63 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: put his hand out, did y'all. Did you ever knew 64 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: that yall had a problem, because I'm sure if y'all, 65 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: if you knew it was a disagreement, you wouldn't put 66 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: your hand out. No, I mean, just generally speaking, regardless, 67 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with anybody. And I wrote 68 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: for him before this. You know, it's not it's not 69 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: one of those oh so you penning stuff for its 70 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: projects or something like that. Well for Meeking August the 71 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: record they did under that. Okay, yeah, okay, that's probably 72 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: why because I guess he had an issue with the 73 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: freestyle that you did talking about the situation. And sometimes 74 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: I like, I like, I like how we're doing this, 75 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm here to talk about. I 76 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: like where you guys are going. It's great. Do you 77 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: ever have like, um, you know, you've been through a lot, 78 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: like you said recently, and now you're trying to do 79 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: all positivity, But do you ever feel like if there 80 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: were people that were not in your corner? Than are 81 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: you forgiving of that? As you know, as time passes 82 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: to think about it? Is just like I can never 83 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: be upset about someone's opinion, you know, and when there's 84 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: people who have opinions. It's like whatever they thought at 85 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: the time was just whatever they were feeling at the time. 86 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: And I know that, you know a lot of people's 87 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: opinions have changed up and down about me. And you 88 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: know it's not of me to be a judge or 89 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: to be God or to be playing God's role and 90 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: judging people. I forgive everybody, you know, I don't forget, 91 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: but I forgive so you can work with somebody who 92 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: might have said something negative about you. Of course, I'm 93 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: a I'm about this money, you know. It's like I'm 94 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: about getting to the money. I'm about getting to the business. 95 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: I don't hold negative feelings about anything anybody said about me. 96 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't forget that you said it, 97 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: but not to you know, to not forgive you. It's 98 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: just bitter And I'm not a you know, a bitter 99 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: hearted person during the ant say, during that time, during 100 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: this time, of course, you know, people took sides and 101 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: nobody knows the truth. And I'm sure we'll never know 102 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: the truth until it comes out in court. Do you 103 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: always do you look who you work with depending on that, 104 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: Like for instance, right, and I'm gonna bring up August, 105 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: I'll see, but not to do with you. But when 106 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 1: the thing happened with August, everybody made jokes, right, Everybody 107 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: talked about it, everybody threw a line in the rap. 108 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,799 Speaker 1: Everybody though, But it was the culture, right, something happens 109 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: to Angeli et, something happens to me, everybody's gonna have jokes. 110 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: Of course, something happened with you. Everybody has jokes. But 111 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: now when it gets down to and it goes to 112 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: that music making process, how do you decide who you 113 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: want to work with, who I'm not going to work with? 114 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: Or is it just like I don't care, it is 115 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, yeah, like I said, like 116 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: musically in business business wise, like I'm about whatever makes sense, 117 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and whatever feels like it's 118 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: the thing that I should be doing. I don't discriminate 119 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: per situation or you know, whatever's going on. I just 120 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: I still reach out to everybody, and you know, some 121 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: people will be either ready to do it in a moment, 122 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: or some people won't or for whatever reason. And sometimes 123 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: it's not even always the reason that you think, sometimes 124 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: just other reasons, you know. But nah, I've never don't 125 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: I don't look at people like that. It's just kind 126 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: of like, you know, if you want to make something 127 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: and it makes sense and it's gonna make us money 128 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: and we can get to the business, let's get to 129 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: the bag. Why not? Was also gonna say when when 130 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: it came to it, you know, you had people picking 131 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: side or whatever and not knowing the real of what happened, right, 132 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: and some of these people you were friends with, you 133 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: know what I mean, how did that affect your relationship 134 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: moving on? When it comes to it. I mean, I 135 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: feel like, at least in my mind, because a lot 136 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: of those people you've done things for before, you know, 137 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: I wrote a lot of a lot of these things. 138 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: But I will say this. I will say this. You know, 139 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: the way the way it's painted in the media, you know, 140 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: they would have you thinking that, like nobody fucks with me. 141 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: But like I talked to everybody that I've spoke to before, 142 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,799 Speaker 1: you know, and even throughout this um, there was moments 143 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: when it was a little bit more like crucial to 144 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: go out in public and do certain things because you know, 145 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 1: and it wasn't that people had an issue with me. 146 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: Is just people didn't want to backlash coming from something 147 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: that you know, they weren't involved in or whatever the cases. 148 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: And I think that just for me, like I've always 149 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: been a guy that's been good at kind of assessing 150 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: the situation and kind of seeing, like you know, who 151 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: moves a certain way. And like I said, it all 152 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: falls down to this. It's like I forgive, but I 153 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: don't forget. So it's like, again, I can't base no 154 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: situations off of how you moved in the past or whatever. 155 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And how did you not fold? Right? 156 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: And everybody can say, oh, I'm not a fold I'm strong, 157 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm gonna staying ten feet downs. But that's 158 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: that's bullshit when it comes to most days, right. And 159 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: the reason I say that is because, I mean, you know, they, 160 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: you know, they, you know, tried to ban you DJ's 161 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: from playing your records. They tried to and who knows 162 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: who they is, but you know, they tried to make 163 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: sure that your record wasn't spending on radio. They tried 164 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: to ban you from clubs and venues and you know, 165 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: um performances. So so how do you not fold when 166 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: all that's going into play? I mean, because it wasn't 167 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: a time when Nikki was not fucking with Tory Lane. 168 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: It was and it was that mean time, but you buckle, 169 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: I always kind of felt like the world didn't fuck 170 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: with me before that. So it's like, you know, I've 171 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: I've I never that has never affected me. Um, But 172 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: I will take you into my world force for a second. Right, Um. 173 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: You know, you know when you do something fucked up. 174 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: Before you do that, you can't say the world and 175 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: fuck with you, right, pandemic. No, I don't mean, I 176 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: don't I don't like, I don't mean like something the 177 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: pandemic that the world fuck of course, of course, but yeah, definitely, 178 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: I mean that was you know, that was a solid 179 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: like two three months that was which was which was amazing, 180 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: Like you feel me, um, But I'm just saying like 181 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: this in an overall like, Um, you know, when like 182 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: you have a day that something happens on the internet 183 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: and like you said, you know, a bunch of people 184 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: will start making memes and laughing and dah da da da, 185 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: and you feel like, oh my gosh, it's the end 186 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: of the world. You gotta understand, like I've I've learned 187 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: to live over there like a million people that are 188 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: hating on you order to imagine that for two and 189 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: a half three years straight. It's like you get to 190 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: a point where it's like it's kind of normal for me, 191 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. And I know artists 192 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: are always like yo, I'm not you know, I'm not 193 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: scared of the comments or I love my haters. They 194 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: see three, four or five ten comments saying the same thing, 195 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: you look at it and you're like, damn, Like, as 196 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,719 Speaker 1: an artist, I need to pay attention to whatever. It's 197 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: like if you post a picture right now and you 198 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: got two thousand comments, but twenty of those comments that 199 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: are like back to back happen to be like, yo, 200 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 1: envy your nose as big as shit. Bro. You might 201 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 1: look in the mirror and be like, yo, it's my 202 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: nose really really big as shit. But but over a 203 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: period of time of a million people telling you this 204 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: every single day, you start to be like, well, if 205 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: my nose is big, so be it. I'm not tripping 206 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: on that. You know, you start to accept whatever flaws 207 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: that people are trying to pick and pick at you, 208 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: and then it gets to this point where you really 209 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: actually don't care about like the hatred or whatever the cases. 210 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: I kind of live over here, I'm not allowed to, 211 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: you know, live in that place where artists live, where 212 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: it's like, yo, if I just keep doing something good 213 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: and you know, the people are just gonna love me 214 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: and Dada da dade, it's more so like whatever I'm doing, 215 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: Nigga's gonna hate it regardless, but I'm gonna keep on going. 216 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: And my mind set it's so tunnel vision on that 217 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: that nothing really bothers me. And I was gonna ask, 218 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: you know what the with the new project, in all 219 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: your music, do you feel like no matter how great 220 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: the music is, right, how great the record you make, 221 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: how well it does, it'll always get blocked out from 222 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: the other stuff. I mean, for now, while I'm in 223 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: a situation that I'm in, and you know, for any 224 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: artist again, I bring you into my world, you know, 225 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: the artists, you get to be excited. Yes, I made 226 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: this ship, like this shit is fire. I made that ship. 227 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: It's like I'm making ship that's firing. No it like ya, 228 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: this is not getting play, this is not going away. 229 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: You could be like, but here's the difference, right, It's 230 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: that my my mind, in my hustle, in my drive 231 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 1: is so deep and the people around me care so 232 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: much about us just popping and getting our stuff done 233 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: that I don't run into situations where it's like, well damn, 234 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: this is gonna slow me down. Now, I'm like, well, 235 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: all that means is I just need to do double 236 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: what the artist is doing. I need to do double 237 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: the amount of volume to reach what they're reaching because 238 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: they're doing it through an algorithmic playlist. I'm getting these 239 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: numbers now organically. So now what artists are getting from 240 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: these editorial playlists I'm actually touching organically. You gotta gotta understand, 241 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: like I got sixteen point something million monthly listeners on Spotify. 242 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: When I'm looking at other artists, and I'm talking about 243 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: like pop popping artists. When I'm looking at other artists, 244 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: they don't have the same It's not even like it's 245 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: like half of what I have. But it goes to 246 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: show you that the volume, the dedication and the amount 247 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: of times I'm gonna keep striking, I'm not gonna stop 248 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna keep making hot shit. I'm not a 249 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: one hit wonder. I'm someone who knows how to make music. 250 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: So to me, it just gives me extra drive. It's like, 251 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: all right, cool, I just gotta work triple times that 252 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: average artists. But that's never been an issue for me. 253 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: It's like, no matter what you put in front of me, 254 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: I'm lying hearted, you know what I'm saying. I'm a leo. 255 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: My mom always told me I was a wolf, and 256 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: she said, you know, wolfs we fighting packs and and 257 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, a wolf's 258 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: always gonna bring it back home to the pack. And 259 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: like that's just kind of how I look at it, 260 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: Like it's a lot of people who depend on me, 261 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: my family, my friends, you know, my team, and I 262 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: always want to make sure that they know that through 263 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: any any weather, through anything, through any storm, I'm gonna 264 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: bring it back, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's 265 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: that's That's what I kind of pride myself on. It's 266 00:12:54,360 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be resilient through anything. And yeah, when 267 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: you make music, Yeah, I was, I was gonna ask you. 268 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: Tweted out that a Buggie was the only feature on 269 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: the project, but he was also the only person you 270 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: reached out to. Yeah, well and my brother, my brother, 271 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: Yoko Gold. He was also the only feature on The 272 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: Day Star, the album that came out but um, but yeah, 273 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: they're the only two features. And I didn't even reach 274 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: out to him. He was actually recording in a studio 275 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: that was like across from our studio, one called Camp David, 276 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: which I used to record all my records and I 277 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: still do some time time. But he was in there, 278 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: and then he came inside the studio and I hadn't 279 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: seen this niggame mad long, like like mac get some 280 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: of this world on lips draw shit, um, but I 281 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 1: hadn't seen the niggaa mad long. And when I seen him, 282 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: it was just so refreshing because I hadn't heard like 283 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: new music from him and stuff like that either in 284 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: a while. And just seeing him, you know, he's like, 285 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: you know, he had a tat on his face. He 286 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: was like this new guy, like you know what I'm saying, 287 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: and he was just so ready to work, And it 288 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: was so refreshing just to see somebody that in my 289 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: times of working, who's always been a partner with me, 290 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 1: like when we when we work, Um, just to see 291 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: him so motivated and just ready to go, it's just like, 292 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: all right, bet, I'm gonna do this one song with you. 293 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 1: I was gonna leave a project like how it was. 294 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 1: But you know, I'm gonna leave you on there and 295 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my brother on there and then that's 296 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: that's it. Like you know, I was gonna ask, you know, 297 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: with with your music and your songs. And the reason 298 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: I'm asking is, you know, with artists now, it seems 299 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: like every judge, DA prosecutor go through this song to 300 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: try to connect something. If you have to be careful 301 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: what you write in your song because you're like, oh, 302 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: they might try to use this and say this is 303 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: concerning to this, especially for somebody that doesn't know our culture. Um, 304 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't really say while shitting my 305 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: music like that to that point, I'm I'm more concerned 306 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: about what I gotta say on Twitter, like I gotta 307 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, and that's another thing 308 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: I know. You know, time after time, this is always 309 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: a time when a story will come out about Tory 310 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: Leans and then the narrative will be wild, y'all. Gotta know, Like, 311 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: as much as I would like to like love to 312 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: tell y'all, nigga's a narrative. I can't not allowed to 313 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: even an open case until that's done. You're there's gonna 314 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: be a couple narratives that you're just not gonna get 315 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: because I can't speak about them. So it's like, you 316 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: know why I don't. I don't play around or dance 317 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: around those lines or try to play with those people 318 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: over there. It's like, nah, so you see them. I 319 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: mean like you see some of these blogs and be like, well, 320 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: Tori said this is the song you must be concerning. 321 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: He must be advising to this. You'd be like, oh, yeah, 322 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: I go again. I'm gonna get in trouble for something 323 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: that I didn't even do. Well. Well, nah, I just 324 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: go well, there's another story I can't talk about. But 325 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: he's like, all right, whatever the narrative is that they're saying, 326 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: I gotta run with it, and I gotta wait till 327 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: there's a time when I could talk about it. So, 328 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: now that this album's coming out this Friday and you're 329 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: kicked off the tour, hold on, I'm just joking. I 330 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: want you to explain. Now. We're not gonna get into 331 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: this deep. But I was never on a tour. You 332 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: did three days, two dates, two dates. They called me 333 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: for this for the third one, but we canceled. It 334 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: wasn't enough money. I'm not being funny and I love Rod, 335 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's not one of those 336 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: things like where I'm trying to disrespect or whatever cases. 337 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: But if we're just being like honest, I do real tours, 338 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: like I really sell tickets, like for real, for real 339 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: by myself. So you did two shows. I wouldn't be 340 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: on an R and B tour with a comedy thing. 341 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: I just I like the way that they did it. 342 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: I thought it was dope, Like, yo, you could do 343 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: these two shows. I did it. I wasn't really contracted 344 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: to do at Yeah, and it was two songs each each. Yeah, 345 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't supposed to be some set like they could 346 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: only afford two songs. I mean, like you gotta understand, 347 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: like like if I'm gonna go for thirty thirty forty minutes, 348 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: it's gonna cost somebody around one fifty something like that. 349 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: If it's a four set sixty minutes, gonna cost you 350 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: around two to something you're asking me for You got 351 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: forty grand for me, Like it's gonna get you two songs. 352 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: So you did two songs, like you are supposed to 353 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: be on the third day and you're not on that tour, 354 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: you wouldn't. I didn't even know that was a tour. 355 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: I just thought it was a weekend that they were doing, 356 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: you know which, which again, there's always a time when 357 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: there's a narrative and like I said, I gotta watch 358 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: it and be like, ah, even me like talking about 359 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: it now, I'm not trying to wake nobody up and 360 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: start something new with whatever, you know what I'm saying, 361 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: I'd just be trying to stay out the way. Like 362 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 1: you know, there are ways that you feel like you 363 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: should move a little differently, being that every time something happens, 364 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: like I saw the article in Madame Numar, it's like 365 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: mute Tory Lanes after the August I seeing an incident. 366 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 1: But do you feel like, okay, you know, there's this 367 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 1: like aggressive aura that people are saying, this is how 368 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: Tory Lanes is. And so being that you have some 369 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: open cases something, there's no aggressive aura about me. There's 370 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: aggressive narratives that are never that are only told by 371 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: one side. But there's there's anybody who really knows me 372 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: or seeing me or is around me is like one 373 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: of the most gentle, nicest people in the world. And 374 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: I say that just because like I'm a nigg who 375 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 1: plays too much like I'm always laughing, I'm always joking around. 376 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: I don't I'm not a guy who's like just tough 377 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: and terry. I never portrayed to be a gangster. I 378 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 1: never portrayed to be a thug. I never portrayed to 379 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: be any of those things. I stand on business and 380 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: I stand on positivity, but I stand on what's right 381 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: at the end of the day. The difference is, you know, 382 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: in the last two three years, is that it's not 383 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,719 Speaker 1: that Tory Lanze has gotten more aggressive. It's that stories 384 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: come out and Tory Lanes can't explain himself anymore. Tory 385 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: Lane is a very outspoken person. I'm very outspoken. I 386 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: love I'm always there to be like, nah, no, this 387 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: is what happened. Stop. I'm always there to be outspoken. 388 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm outspoken artist, but I'm not allowed 389 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: to do certain things. Certain things correlate to this and that, 390 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: and the people that don't need to be looking into 391 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: this start looking into that and this, and then it 392 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: turns into something. You know, But again, like, it's not 393 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: that that Tory Lanze has gotten more aggressive, It's that 394 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: the narratives have gotten more aggressive since other narratives have 395 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: been aggressive about me, and it's like, let's just pile 396 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: these on while he can't talk. I see you still 397 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: got that Playboy airring on, So let me ask you 398 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: say exactly. You have a song on the album right 399 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: where it's called this Ain't Working, And I'm like, does 400 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: Tory Lanez want to settle down and get married and 401 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: have a bride? But then you have other songs where 402 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: you're like picture with some people out and about too. 403 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: You have other songs where you're, you know, just being 404 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 1: a guy running around doing him and sucking her and 405 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: her friends and everybody else. So what does Tory Lanz? 406 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: Could that matter? Say? You know, it's twenty songs on 407 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: the album, so we get both of those things. Yeah, 408 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: that's something that you struggle with within yourself. Like on 409 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: one hand, maybe I want to be I don't know 410 00:19:54,280 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: if I'm like super great with like commitment in relationships. Um, 411 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: I've seen you in five pictures now, five pictures with 412 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: the same person. It's starting to feel like it's almost 413 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 1: a relationship. I mean hey, I mean like, like, you know, whatever, 414 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: if you got your your opinion on whoever you're seeing 415 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: me with But I mean, like I'm just talking about 416 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: in my real personal life, Like I think that I 417 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: have an issue sometimes with commitment. I mean, why is that. 418 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: I think it's hard to find somebody who matches my speed. 419 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: You know, I'm a real like rock star, and sometimes 420 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: like the things that I do are just like really 421 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: spontaneous and dat. I don't think I found, like, you know, 422 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: my person that's like exactly like me, you know what 423 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And maybe it's not Maybe I'm not supposed 424 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: to be trying to find a person that's exactly like 425 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: supposed to be coming to the top rafters of the 426 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: club's performing anymore. I am oh boy, Oh I am 427 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: oh I am. I just you know, things, things, things change. 428 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: I do. I do look at, you know, certain things differently. Um, 429 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: just as I get older, and I do see myself 430 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: settling down though, don't get it twisted, Like I don't 431 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna be a bachelor, playboy my whole 432 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: life or something wild shit like that. I know, I'm 433 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: you know, eventually going to start getting up there. And 434 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: so my thing is, it's like I just want to 435 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 1: find something that that's my speed. And I think that 436 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, um, when it happens it or happened, who 437 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: is this ain't working about thing because you use a 438 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: little Lauren hill Cadence on that X fact a lot 439 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: of the songs, there's no there's there's not like a 440 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: bunch of songs on here that are like all about 441 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: the same person. There's I always draw from all of 442 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: my exes anytime I talk about like toxic shit or 443 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 1: whatever the case is, or I always draw from like 444 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: just things that I went through, you know, with girls 445 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: or whatever the cases. And so like, it's no one 446 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: specific that I'm talking about on that specify myself as 447 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: toxic when it comes to relationships. Nah, I'm not the 448 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 1: toxic one. I don't ever feel you know what I 449 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: feel like though, I feel like and and all people 450 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: who've been in a relationship can relate to this in 451 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: some sort of way. I feel like I have a 452 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 1: problem with trying to fix people and then I end 453 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: up in some toxic shit like for trying to fix 454 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: this person, like you know what I'm saying, or trying 455 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: to be with a person that it's like, you know what, 456 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: I know that they just they just don't get it 457 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: because someone never really told them the right way. I 458 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: wanted those people, and then I realized, Yo, I'm in 459 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: some wild would want to fix somebody. No, I just 460 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: feel like I feel like sometimes when I meet people 461 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: who uh don't have enough love in a life, or 462 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: they just like lonely or like super like uh, not confident. 463 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: Like I hate when I meet a beautiful girl who's 464 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: not confident. It makes me just want to be like, yo, 465 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: let me just take you out of the town to 466 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: just show you who you are, Like you know what 467 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: I'm saying. But then you wand up hurting them all 468 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: because you take them out on the time they fall 469 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: in love with the guy, but you're not ready to 470 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: settle down now. But you know, I think it is 471 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: it's I think in the process of of me trying 472 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: to give that extra arm of support and love or 473 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: whatever it is that a lot of times people are 474 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: not ready for it, and it's like the reaction to 475 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: it because it's something that they never got. Sometimes it's like, 476 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: you know, it's like a shock to them or something 477 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: like that, Like you know what I'm saying, could you 478 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: get that stems from somewhere? And if you can't work 479 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: on that and someone's just trying to say here, this 480 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: is what you deserve, this is what you need, but 481 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: you still don't feel that because of whatever. Yeah, accept that, 482 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,199 Speaker 1: Like I'm what what's the word an EmPATH? Where you 483 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: feel like what everybody like when I when I when 484 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: I talk to people, and this could just be regular 485 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: people too, Like even if I see a bum on 486 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: the street, or if I see a homeless person on 487 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: the street or something like that and they tell me 488 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: yo u yo, I'm really They've genuinely give me a 489 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: story that's like and I just really like them, like 490 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: I really feel for that person. And I think that 491 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: would be my problem in relationships is that sometimes I 492 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,959 Speaker 1: feel too deep into people, was like passed and I 493 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: want to help them change they you know they outlook, 494 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: but it's like that's some some things that just not 495 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: of you. Therefore, you know, other people to kind of 496 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: get over themselves, you know what I'm saying for other 497 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 1: people to go through themselves. Do you feel like you're 498 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: underrated or you don't get the amount of love and 499 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: respect that you should as as an artist? I think 500 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: I think people would say I'm underrated. I rate myself. 501 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: I rate myself ten out of ten. As you should, 502 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: you know, And I think that at the end of 503 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,239 Speaker 1: the day, as long as I feel that way, the 504 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: realization of the world will come. There was a time when, 505 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think that I was rated enough 506 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: to be on the Breakfast Club, or I didn't think 507 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: that I was popping enough to be here. I'm saying 508 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: there was a time before my first interview here. You 509 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I used to be watching this 510 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: like YO, when I get to that point, I'll be 511 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: popping enough to do X y Z. But if if 512 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: I ever stuck on that thought, I would have never 513 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: got here. So, um, just a thought of like being 514 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: underrated to me, it's not a real thing to me. 515 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 1: I'm I want to denounce that away from me. You 516 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm not underrated. You know my 517 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: time is gonna come when it comes. And that's just 518 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: it got. You know that when the Baby did a 519 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: song with you years ago, you know, people got mad 520 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: at the Baby for doing it all. Then he released 521 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: the song the Boogie Maire recently, and now you know 522 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: everybody hits the Baby again. What was your thoughts When 523 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: he releases music and he talks about his life but 524 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: don't people do it all the time. Everybody hates the baby, Well, 525 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: they're upset with him for a record he release today. 526 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,479 Speaker 1: Let's asking some questions, that's all. I don't think everybody 527 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: hates the baby. I think, um, I think again, that's 528 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: the way that they paint things. And I think that, 529 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 1: you know, you got to realize that there's people out 530 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: here that spend money to push narratives into your face 531 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: and make you feel a certain way. If I spend 532 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars on a post and I'm a major label, 533 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: or if I'm a major corporate, I spend one hundred 534 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on a post that's like, Yo, this guy 535 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: is wrong. Over a period of time, you're gonna be 536 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: bringing while you keep seeing that shit, you're gonna think, 537 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: like you said, well, everybody hates this guy. Everybody doesn't 538 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: hate that guy. Everybody doesn't hate whatever person they're saying. 539 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: I feel like when you go outside into the world 540 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: and you see how people react with you, there's a 541 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: big difference between the Internet and people, and like there's 542 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: a ratio thing that I always do and I think 543 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: that the world needs to do. When you start thinking 544 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: that everybody hates somebody. You need to look at the 545 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: ratio of the numbers, right, A lot of artists you'll 546 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: get maybe let's say, let's look at the artists like 547 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: the baby since you brought him up right, I see, 548 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: he'll post a picture, get say, like maybe five hundred 549 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: thousand likes on something. And let's say it's one of 550 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: those days where like you're saying, someone's upset at him, 551 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: and a bunch of comments are in his comments. You'll 552 00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: probably have like three thousand and six thousand comments. Maybe 553 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: a thousand of those or five hundred of those are 554 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: like Yo, fuck you da da da da da whatever 555 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 1: they're saying. But then when you look at the ratio, 556 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,719 Speaker 1: it's like, Yo, five hundred thousand people like this picture, 557 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 1: one thousand of them niggas is talking shit? Who really 558 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: is greater? That's why it's like, I don't I can't 559 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: go off of Joe. Everyone's saying that. No, everyone's not 560 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: saying that. A couple of comments that you've seen are 561 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: saying that got go out into the world. It's a 562 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: big place. Now, aside from music, what are some other 563 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: things that you are dipping your finances into, um Man, 564 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to fully say it, but I am 565 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 1: definitely in the medical field now in a major way, 566 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: and I think in a major way that's going to 567 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: affect our culture and our community just for years upon 568 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: years and generations after this. How did that happen? I 569 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: when I was in this situation that I was in, 570 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: I started looking at things like, you know, if they 571 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: were to ever be able to take this from me, 572 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Just in case, let me 573 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: make sure you know I'm being smart. I'm being an entrepreneur. 574 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: And it woke up this energy and me that I've 575 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: I've never I've never experienced before. Um. I think one 576 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: of the greatest things that I did. You know, we 577 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: owned on Don Taboo with with Corey todd Um and 578 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,360 Speaker 1: Shamara Todd from Jamaica. I don't know if you guys 579 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: ever been to Taboo in Jamaica, but it's like, you know, 580 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: the biggest club in Jamaica. There's three of them in 581 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: the West Indies, and then we got two of them 582 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: in Miami. So yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, that's 583 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: the hottest club in Miami. I'm not even saying that 584 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: because we're I'm here. I promise you like you know what. 585 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm literally yeah, and you know me, I'm not going 586 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: anywhere doing it, but the vibe is just so great. 587 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: Us best food in the city past eleven o'clock is 588 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: nothing to eat out there like after a certain period 589 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: of time. So it's like you gotta depend on which 590 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: club's gonna be right for you. We got the best 591 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: food in the city and there's two of them. So 592 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: there's Taboo Miami and Taboo A twenty six um, and 593 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: I own both of those with Korey and Shamara. So um. 594 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: That's another thing that we were doing. It's just a 595 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: it's a lot of little different like little business plays 596 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But ultimately, you know, I care 597 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: about the music. That's my first love and you know, 598 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: the most important thing to me, So you know, I'm 599 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: always on that. Also, I'm doing this TV show too, Okay, 600 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: I've been shooting this TV show. What's it about? Um? 601 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: It's actually based off this song that I had called Pieces, 602 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: And it's like a story about a girl who got 603 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: raped by her uncle and she turns into the like 604 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: the street and like a lot of it's just like 605 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: a lot of different stories that kind of come into 606 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: one as like different pieces of the story. But U, 607 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: I just wanted to be able to do something that 608 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: was dope and show off my acting skills because you know, 609 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: I got tired of like not getting the roles for 610 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: some of these big films, like I would be like 611 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: auditioning for Yeah, I was big. What's the biggest role? 612 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: Now I was auditioning from big stuff. I did the 613 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: Uh I almost got the role for um, it was 614 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: it King Richard the Will the Will Smith movie. Uh. 615 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: For the for the I was supposed to be the aggressor, 616 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: the dude who got shot up at the corner store. 617 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: They had me read for his parts, and um, every 618 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: time I've done it like a power I was supposed 619 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: to Uh. I was supposed to do Uh Joey badass part. Okay, 620 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: you know, no he does. He does an incredible job, 621 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: but like that type of character. Every time I've always 622 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: like read, I've always get I've always gotten called like 623 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: multiple nice guy or something to change his whole I 624 00:30:53,960 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: mean artists, artist art You know what I'm saying is 625 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: it's like you're accomplished. No, now you're going in front 626 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: of people and you know, I look at things that 627 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: that exact way I'm not Tory Lanes. I don't expect 628 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: no special treatment. But because of that, I always had 629 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: incredible self tapes, Like incredible. They brought me back for 630 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: that part about three times. Don't get it to this one. Yeah, 631 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: they brought me back. They made me talk to the 632 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: main lady and like, you know what I'm saying. But 633 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like I said, I 634 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: feel like my time with my time will come. You're 635 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: gonna see me on the screen and be like, yo, 636 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. He could have played that role too, 637 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: But my thing is just like you know, like I said, 638 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: like the time will come in and like everything that 639 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: I never got, I always just taught myself how to do. 640 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: Like when they told me, oh, I'm not singing on 641 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: your song because you're not a big enough rapper. I 642 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: taught myself how to sing. I sucked that singing before. 643 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: I taught myself how to sing. When a video guy 644 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't shoot my videos, I taught myself how to shoot. 645 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: I taught myself how to edit. When a producer wouldn't 646 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: produce my music, I taught myself how to produce. On 647 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: fruity loops when they wouldn't record me. I bought pro 648 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: tools and learned it myself. So when they told me 649 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get the role for these Will Smith 650 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: movies and these Dot of the Dogs, I'm going to 651 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: do it myself. Okay. So now I'm on You know, 652 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: I'm on set playing five jobs, being director, editor, and 653 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: a actor. But the hard workers are gonna pay off 654 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,719 Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I believe in myself. Bro, 655 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: when I believe in anybody around me. You know what 656 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're already filming this. Yes, I got nine 657 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,239 Speaker 1: minutes of it. I showed to you. When we get 658 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: off to you know, when you want to sign a 659 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: major label deal, if somebody came at you or are 660 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: you feeling like you're making too much? I know you've 661 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: said that I have things changed. Somebody might come at you. 662 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: But some type of offered you a wild check. A 663 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: couple of years ago, they offered me a wild But 664 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: y'all gotta understand while everybody was saying UH, was saying like, yo, 665 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: he's who's gonna sign him and who's gonna I gotta 666 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: understand that year what was that two twenty one? There 667 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: was twenty or twenty one twenty twenty because the end 668 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, I signed probably the biggest deal that year, 669 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: like as far as just distribution and on a distribution 670 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: independent arm like shit that no one has seen my ship. 671 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: My ship was eighteen point seven million dollars that I 672 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: signed for twenty two months of distribution, not of major 673 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: label obligations of distribution. I don't need to play this 674 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 1: game with y'all, Like you know what I'm saying. I 675 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: don't need to. I don't need to play this game 676 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: with y'all because I'm silently gonna do what I do. 677 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and I'm never like yo. Um, 678 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: let me break down a gem for y'all real quick 679 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: and for any artists they really need to hear this 680 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: off this show right, look at this when I was 681 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: with Interscope, right, and I want artists to really pay 682 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: attention to this. When I was with Interscope and we 683 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: made music, let's say I didn't drop music for a 684 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: solid year a year and a half. Tory Lanes solidly 685 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: or whatever it is, made sure that his streams were 686 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: about three million streams, like with all the music, three 687 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: million streams a day off one million streams. Artist gets 688 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: five to six thousand dollars every Friday or every other friday. Right, 689 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: So that means that when I wasn't dropping shit and 690 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: I was at home, some label was sitting on their 691 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 1: ass collecting fifteen thousand dollars a day off of Tory 692 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 1: Lane's music. But that music, if it was made by me, 693 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,720 Speaker 1: then I would be sitting at home, scratching my ass, 694 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: fucking making fifteen thousand dollars a day. If I'm popping 695 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: and I'm making songs, then it's I'm probably gonna do 696 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: around like seven million streams, six million streams a day, right, 697 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: just with all my music in general. Let's just let's 698 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: call it five million streams. Let's just say that, just 699 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,919 Speaker 1: make it easy, right. That means that someone's making twenty five, 700 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: you know, thousand dollars a day off of my music. 701 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: So in four days they made one hundred grand guys, 702 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 1: let's do the numbers, guys, Like, how long are we 703 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: gonna let this ship just rape us? Like? Do you 704 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: think though without Interscope you wouldn't be as popular as 705 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: you are? Because sometimes, first of almost, I want to 706 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: let y'all know this, I love Interscope for everything that 707 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: they did for me, because at the end of the day, 708 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,279 Speaker 1: they are the people who take the chance. But I 709 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: want y'all to know something right here, right it's at 710 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: that moment when a label comes to sign you that 711 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,120 Speaker 1: you're usually really popping. You're popping enough that people are 712 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: looking at you and they're probably starting to kind of 713 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,320 Speaker 1: pay you for things, and they get you at that point. 714 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,239 Speaker 1: And usually artists signed for four to five albums. And 715 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: when you signed for those four to five albums, by 716 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: the third album, we don't want to really hear you 717 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,799 Speaker 1: no more because we heard everything you got to give. 718 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: It's very rare for artists to be able to get 719 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 1: out of that situation in the first place, but then 720 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: to get out of the situation and still be relevant 721 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: enough to go independent. You're never gonna have it. So 722 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: all your best songs are made during that period of time. 723 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 1: All of the our favorite artists's best songs are made 724 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: during like unless you're like, you know, the Drakes and 725 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 1: the people who really went on longer. But like a 726 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 1: lot of our favorite artists who didn't like go far, Far, 727 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 1: Far Far, but they're like, you know, I just love 728 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,360 Speaker 1: that album or I love that artist the best songs 729 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: came out in the majority of time that they were 730 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: with the label. So all that money, of all that 731 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: creative stuff that you're doing, it just went straight to 732 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: a label. Now at that point when you're about to sign, 733 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: you're popping enough to just keep going. It's just you 734 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: just gotta learn how to use everything that the label uses. 735 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: The label doesn't hire people that they employ or whatever cases, 736 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 1: they outsource people that you can employ. And once you 737 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,799 Speaker 1: learn that, like the world is yours. But I guess 738 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: some people might be in financial situations where they're not. 739 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: But like you said, if you're popping enough, then you 740 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 1: should have money coming in. You're in a financial situation 741 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: because you're not independent all of that money. It doesn't matter. 742 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,319 Speaker 1: Now when I break it down it and I'm saying, 743 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: you're a million dollars a day? Are a million players 744 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: a day? Is this much money? That doesn't mean that 745 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 1: Johnny over there from the Bronx is gonna make that. 746 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: Maybe he might get fifty thousand plays, but that's gonna 747 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 1: equivalate to whatever it equivalates to, and he's gonna get 748 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,799 Speaker 1: that every Friday, you know what I'm saying, Like it's 749 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: gonna come to his pocket. Every friday's gonna land in 750 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,839 Speaker 1: his bank account faithfully like a job. And all all 751 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: Johnny from the Bronx has to do is keep dropping 752 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: music and it's gonna keep stacking. So why would you 753 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 1: not save your best songs and your best stuff for 754 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: that moment for yourself. In that moment, you're gonna make 755 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 1: all that money. It's just that artists don't understand how 756 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: much money there is out here. And that's why it's like, 757 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 1: you know, I've always been wanted to kind of take 758 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 1: those steps for people, like you know, Um, it's times 759 00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,919 Speaker 1: that I can't do certain things and I'm not able 760 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: to do certain things, and I got to call on 761 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: people that, you know what helped me do certain things 762 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,320 Speaker 1: and help certain things. Shout out to my uncle Speedy 763 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:06,680 Speaker 1: to you know what I'm saying, it's my dog. He's 764 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: helped me through a lot of this and just this 765 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,319 Speaker 1: independent route and taking it there. But like you know, 766 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: anything that you can't do, you can learn how to do, 767 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 1: and if there is somebody who can help you do it, 768 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 1: you can outsource them and pay them the same money 769 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 1: that the label is paying. You know, it doesn't it 770 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,799 Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't it's not really expensive. And then think 771 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 1: about it. You're an artist. This is for artists signed 772 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,239 Speaker 1: to the label. You're an artist. You're already signed to 773 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 1: the label. You're going you're doing shows, you're getting money. 774 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: Start looking at your money and realizing, like, fuck me 775 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,920 Speaker 1: buying this chain right now. If I take this hundred 776 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and I put this into this department, this department, 777 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 1: this department, and find out who these niggas are hiring. 778 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 1: The guy in the digital department doesn't cost twenty grand. 779 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 1: He costs three thousand dollars to do whatever it is 780 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,399 Speaker 1: that he's talking about. The guy on TV costs seven 781 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,480 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. The guy it doesn't you know. It's it's 782 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: things you can put your money into that's gonna really 783 00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: change your life. And as an artist, you got the 784 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,399 Speaker 1: money to do it, So do it. Sorry for what 785 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 1: are you good at? Apologizing? If I have to? Yeah, 786 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: And I know when I when I need to apologize. 787 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 1: I'm not a dickhead. I'm not somebody who you know 788 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,839 Speaker 1: can't apologize or like doesn't know when he's wrong, Like 789 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,879 Speaker 1: you know, I know when I'll be wrong, and when 790 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I can take up for it for sure. 791 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: And I gotta ask this, how's your hair holding up? 792 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you got to apologize saw a 793 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: camera guy. I do apologize, yo, but because I was 794 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: so sincere when I was telling him, like yo, you 795 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: come over that camera. Nah. But but all up now. 796 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,360 Speaker 1: But it's it's good. Um. I'm actually you know, it's crazy, Angela, 797 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 1: Like I'm trying something brand new right now, and it's 798 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: it's not into full form for like formentation, but it's 799 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:49,279 Speaker 1: not a full form. But for a long time, guys, right, 800 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,799 Speaker 1: We've always been like yo, Tory, the guy the hey, 801 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: the guy with the with the hero and the thought 802 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 1: of the dot. For a long time, I've been dealing 803 00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 1: with these things. But I've been dealing with them for 804 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: reason because me I am gonna be what is like 805 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,360 Speaker 1: the messiah of black people and colored people getting the 806 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: hair back. Just feel me, y'll feel me. I'm not 807 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,279 Speaker 1: in a good hair day right now. I woke up, 808 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: it just came here. But look check this out. I'm 809 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,160 Speaker 1: gonna grow my hair right, I'll promise you. But I'm 810 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,279 Speaker 1: doing it with a product that I've created. Like you 811 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I went I talked to the 812 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: African ladies, the Haitian ladies, African Dominican ladies, everything, and 813 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,880 Speaker 1: I and I and I've learned that all of the 814 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: things for your hair that you need, like naturally for 815 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,920 Speaker 1: your hair to grow, are in the earth, like you 816 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,319 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And it's really just a concoction 817 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,880 Speaker 1: that you create in order for you know, for elixir 818 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,640 Speaker 1: for your hair or for things I need to grow. 819 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: I promise y'all. I don't know the name for it yet, 820 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,520 Speaker 1: but I promise you guys, I'm coming back with the 821 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,760 Speaker 1: with the put the cream in, the in the stuff 822 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,879 Speaker 1: that's gonna make your hair come back, and it's gonna 823 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: be and you're gonna know it's authentic because y'all see 824 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,319 Speaker 1: y'all seeing the patch head, y'all seeing the ship that 825 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 1: I had to go through. You feel me. You're gonna 826 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,000 Speaker 1: be good too, I know you. Like everything, that's the 827 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 1: whole thing. You gotta believe it's gonna work for Charlemagne. 828 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,799 Speaker 1: And that's that's insane, because yeah, he tried. He got 829 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,399 Speaker 1: like the robots here, like the Georgia. I got him. 830 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 1: I got him. And you know what else is crazy 831 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: that That's another thing I wanted to say. On the 832 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 1: medical side. Um, the doctor that did that did my 833 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,640 Speaker 1: hair originally and showed me like, you know, yo, you 834 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 1: can do hair restoration and stuff like that. I'm actually 835 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,920 Speaker 1: gonna team up with him and We're gonna bring hair 836 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: restoration down in Miami to the medical stuff that I 837 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 1: was telling you about. Okay, um so yeah, so I'll 838 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,360 Speaker 1: be like one of the first UH hip hop artists 839 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,160 Speaker 1: to bring hair restoration like in real reality, like the 840 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,799 Speaker 1: machines and the doctors and and actually, yeah, like help 841 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 1: people really get their edges back without the cream and 842 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: stuff like that, you know what I mean, The cream 843 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,520 Speaker 1: of secondary feel the game change for a lot of 844 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,319 Speaker 1: you guys. I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to 845 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,240 Speaker 1: tell you it's like a BBL for men. I'm sorry 846 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,399 Speaker 1: for out to play what you wanna get into. Um, 847 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,040 Speaker 1: I don't even know jever what you want to get 848 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,359 Speaker 1: into and whatever you want to play. The eight Boogie one, 849 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,239 Speaker 1: the one broad call with a boogie. Okay, well let's 850 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,760 Speaker 1: get into it right now. It's Tory Lanes. We appreciate 851 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: you for joining us. The albums out tomorrow. Thank you, 852 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 1: bro Ill Love thank y'all, and it's the Breakfast Club. 853 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:24,919 Speaker 1: Good morning,