Speaker 1: All right, man bout bleat Cap.
Speaker 2: We hear Blast his debut album, Let's Get It, which
Speaker 2: is a crazy thing to say out loud. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: you have bodies of work obviously. Yeah, well six tape
Speaker 2: sclore your shit, like right. But then, like when I
Speaker 2: listened to the album, I understood why this is like
Speaker 2: the debut album.
Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to hear exactly.
Speaker 2: I get it, like this was like you telling like
Speaker 2: like your story using skits like for you, like, how
Speaker 2: important was that for you to like make sure like
Speaker 2: because we don't hear skits anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's what I grew up on, you know,
Speaker 4: thinking about fifty cents get rich and I try and
Speaker 4: just making it bigger than just the music. So I
Speaker 4: knew for my debut it had to be received on
Speaker 4: a grand level. And I'm a huge fan of music
Speaker 4: in general, but concept albums just what I was raised on.
Speaker 4: So it was only right that's what I gave to
Speaker 4: my fans for my debut.
Speaker 2: Explain to me because like, if you open it, by
Speaker 2: the way, where I want to go pizza and Burbank,
Speaker 2: everybody come eat to fucking pizza.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you coming through rolling up like the President,
Speaker 2: but explain, Like, if people open the album on Spotify,
Speaker 2: you'll see it's like broken down into four discs, right,
Speaker 2: which is also something that's kind of like a callback
Speaker 2: to like when we were growing up and you go
Speaker 2: buy a double disc album.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Explain.
Speaker 2: Why you did that, because if you listen, like it's
Speaker 2: almost like every time a disc ends, there's like a
Speaker 2: transition into the next portion of the album.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it's a concept album, but it's about this character
Speaker 4: named Bertie and he has a father son relationship with
Speaker 4: his dad big E. So it's broken down into different
Speaker 4: parts because the first part is the introduction of what
Speaker 4: he's finna go through, right, and he gives them three
Speaker 4: life lessons a woman you got no visit deal with
Speaker 4: any of disguise as a friend and a man in
Speaker 4: the mirror.
Speaker 3: So each chapter he.
Speaker 1: Goes that life lesson, Yeah, he goes.
Speaker 2: So I didn't know because I know, like on track too,
Speaker 2: it's like the skip between the father and son, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I didn't know if that was like a literal
Speaker 2: interpretation of like you and your dad's relationship or this
Speaker 2: was was this something that like, you've made these characters up.
Speaker 4: It's indirect, it's an alternate universe of you know, my
Speaker 4: personal experiences. But I just like to keep my business
Speaker 4: private and put it in an art form.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: And even like I thought it was like there was
Speaker 2: that interlude where you had the girl talking.
Speaker 1: About like, you know, I was taught if at.
Speaker 2: Anything that's worth getting, you gotta work hard for it
Speaker 2: than her homegirls, Like now you're misinterpreting what you're.
Speaker 3: Saying, but the woman you got no business dealing with
Speaker 3: skin for sure.
Speaker 2: And the other thing that I thought was jope about
Speaker 2: this album and why I said, like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: his debut album for sure, because there is the narrative
Speaker 2: about blast songs that they all quote unquote sound the same.
Speaker 1: You threw that shit out the window on this album.
Speaker 4: Sure it was mandatory, I think, but this album I
Speaker 4: reverted back to my childhood, like what made me fall
Speaker 4: in love with music in the first place. And it
Speaker 4: was a combination of different genres, different you know, different
Speaker 4: regions all put into one pot. And I know I
Speaker 4: did a good job of like, you know, a foundational
Speaker 4: sound to where people are because you have your sound. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: but it's not all I am, you know, and this
Speaker 4: displays that perfectly.
Speaker 1: Oh so good.
Speaker 2: Like I was like telling now Vic, I was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: that tie record that ship is that production on that
Speaker 2: ship is so left field, but it sounds so good.
Speaker 4: I'm predicted they wasn't expecting that for me and tied
Speaker 4: to La or just on some shit like that.
Speaker 3: Is I like throwing niggas off?
Speaker 1: You know? Sure man talk to me on this album.
Speaker 2: You obviously had a lot of features Adison, Pact, two Chains,
Speaker 2: tied at a sign.
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting tons of people, but.
Speaker 2: It's obviously, uh, your your first foot forward in terms
Speaker 2: of the album space. Was there any sort of features
Speaker 2: that almost made the album or that?
Speaker 3: Definitely, But we're gonna put out at their left too.
Speaker 4: So there's a good luck sing Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Did you already have those songs figured out?
Speaker 3: And how so a couple of them?
Speaker 1: How soon before we get it?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's still in the works right now, so I don't
Speaker 4: want to give you a concrete date.
Speaker 3: But it's definitely happening.
Speaker 1: Is the deluxe disc five?
Speaker 3: Oh? I didn't even think about that. I'm not as well.
Speaker 2: Spot.
Speaker 1: This club is the dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's fire. You know, we talk about the
Speaker 2: moment we ran for West Coast hip hop right now,
Speaker 2: and you know, I feel like you and Roddy have
Speaker 2: been carrying the torch in terms of commercial success with
Speaker 2: music over the last few years, in terms of like
Speaker 2: you turn the radio on, no matter what city you're in,
Speaker 2: you're gonna hear Roddy Rich can hear blasts, right, But
Speaker 2: I feel like with what's happening with the pop out
Speaker 2: and not like us and this moment, it feels like
Speaker 2: a once in a decade or two opportunity for LA
Speaker 2: to take hip hop back like it was in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Like do you feel that too?
Speaker 4: I feel that same energy. It's crazy because Roddy just
Speaker 4: hit me too. Even behind the scenes. It's not what
Speaker 4: I love about. It is not just on the surface,
Speaker 4: Like I'm talking to niggas that I've never really talked
Speaker 4: to and we've been rubbing showed s for years. So
Speaker 4: just that at Genu with connection, it felt like this
Speaker 4: is what the city really needs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you always hear that, right, Like people will
Speaker 2: always say that about LA, Like LA artists don't move
Speaker 2: together like they're doing it last.
Speaker 3: Right, right.
Speaker 2: I feel like now it's like, yo, that moment kind
Speaker 2: of just made it because everybody's.
Speaker 3: Like, man, it's crazy. He just called me. We just
Speaker 3: talked on the phone for like twenty minutes about nothing
Speaker 3: that's crazy, nothing that I had to do with music,
Speaker 3: so shit like that.
Speaker 4: Just keep the energy organic to where the music is
Speaker 4: just a cherry on top one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: It was just so it was so dope to be
Speaker 2: at the Forum and seeing you come out BEINGO, come
Speaker 2: out Rambo. I mean, it was just it was just
Speaker 2: it was obviously dope for you. Did you understand the
Speaker 2: gravity of the moment, Like.
Speaker 3: Nobody knew what they was walking into, you know, So
Speaker 3: like being.
Speaker 4: There, I was more of a fan than happy to
Speaker 4: be on stage. I was just happy to be there.
Speaker 4: But that shit was heavy, like Nigga, I'm still digesting
Speaker 4: the whole night.
Speaker 1: Like the weekend, just on the side of the stage
Speaker 1: and the hoodie.
Speaker 3: Like lebron Ja.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: It's like crazy, like the guys you didn't make it
Speaker 2: on stage, you know, Rick Ross was there.
Speaker 1: Nobody talks about.
Speaker 3: Rick Ross was right.
Speaker 2: You know, it's regularly for you man, talk to me
Speaker 2: about your important to this album for you and like,
Speaker 2: you know, you've done things you and Vic and the
Speaker 2: Eagle Movement, you guys have done things your own way.
Speaker 2: From the jump, you guys took a non traditional route
Speaker 2: to the music industry in terms of working with Rebel Records,
Speaker 2: in terms of like the staff that you guys put together,
Speaker 2: the creative control you guys put into everything, whether it's
Speaker 2: the music, videos, the artwork, to merch everything from day
Speaker 2: one has been high level. How important is it like
Speaker 2: to kind of like get this body of work out.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's like three or four years in
Speaker 2: the making, and like so much hard work and so
Speaker 2: much I mean, you got hit records, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like everything is important.
Speaker 4: I think everything aligns to where it protects the creativity
Speaker 4: because I'm trying to be in it for the long run,
Speaker 4: you know. So at the end of the day, if
Speaker 4: I'm able to have my business in order, then it
Speaker 4: only enables the music to be ten times better. So
Speaker 4: and I love how artists is able to thrive independently.
Speaker 4: Now it's like we can win, We can connect with
Speaker 4: fans at the click of a button. On the other side,
Speaker 4: of the country, like things like that is what I
Speaker 4: protect and what I check. So I just put my
Speaker 4: all into the music and you know, keep my business intact.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite? Give me like two or three your
Speaker 1: favorite songs on the album. I can't ask you what
Speaker 1: your favorite is because I'm sure.
Speaker 4: They're probably gonna switch, but right now I want you
Speaker 4: to know. And then ten Summers are better. It's the
Speaker 4: final track with Kamasi watching, which is fire, Grand Finale, Beautiful,
Speaker 4: the Grand Finale.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how hard was it to sequence the album because,
Speaker 2: like with a concept album, while you're recording it, do
Speaker 2: you know like where it's gonna go or do you
Speaker 2: like go back and say, oh this fits in this man.
Speaker 4: We probably had like four different versions of the track list.
Speaker 4: But you know, my boy City James, who helped me
Speaker 4: come up with the script behind the short film My
Speaker 4: boy c B and sound Wave pretty much made it
Speaker 4: just like a roller coaster to where it was unpredictable,
Speaker 4: but it's still aligned with the story of the short film,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of different versis.
Speaker 2: How was it working with a guy like sound Way
Speaker 2: from is an architect who a lot of the early
Speaker 2: Kendrick and all of Kendrick to be those underrated producers ever.
Speaker 3: Exactly, they need to show that man.
Speaker 1: Wow, but he don't got to tag.
Speaker 3: His catalogs speak for this.
Speaker 1: But you know what's crazy is like the producers with
Speaker 1: no tag, they ever get the props and love that
Speaker 1: they deserve.
Speaker 3: That's that's his whole character. He don't care about He
Speaker 3: don't care.
Speaker 2: Like Tara smart Imagine Terry Smartin had a tag, they
Speaker 2: almost would be very un terror.
Speaker 3: Smart life exactly. No shout, I'll sound you man.
Speaker 1: Deluxe on the way?
Speaker 2: Are you are you like once you get an album out,
Speaker 2: are you like kind of kicking back or you like
Speaker 2: now it's time to go and work with Roddy.
Speaker 1: Now it's time to go.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean I'm trying to stay active.
Speaker 4: We're still gonna be doing activations after this that along
Speaker 4: with the album and then you know, you got tour
Speaker 4: as well, so I'm excited to get back on the road.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I still want to stay active with other
Speaker 4: artists as well.
Speaker 3: From the city.
Speaker 1: Most important were you bringing out on tour with you?
Speaker 3: You know yet haven't announced that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he trying to get the exclusive high now it's
Speaker 4: coming something someone from LA.
Speaker 3: I don't worry about nothing. I don't worry about nothing.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's the tours coming soon, end the summer.
Speaker 3: Actually in a couple of months, end of summer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like September fall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fall summer narrative.
Speaker 3: Man, we'll look.
Speaker 1: The album is out right now. I appreciate you coming.
Speaker 2: Through the pizza shop, absolutely enjoying some vegetarian pizza.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You got to get back on the meat man.
Speaker 3: Pause, super pause, and we're going to end on that note.
Speaker 4: Guy, superpaslastic vegetarians.
Speaker 1: I'm on keto.
Speaker 2: I can't even eat pizza, but yo, the album is amazing, brother,
Speaker 2: the amazing body of work.
Speaker 1: Congrats man, there it is fire good ship