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Make 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.760 sure you download the iHeart app and subscribe to Against 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.480 the Chronicles For my Apple users, hit the Purple Michael 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.800 on your front screen. Subscribed to Against the Chronicles. Leave 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.080 a start rating the comment jear what it do you know? Where? 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.759 We had another episode of the Gangster Chronicles and I'm 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.080 with the homie. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.120 Big Steal in the house. Man, I don't know how 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.679 much Battle REP you followed? Eight you watch better rep? 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.200 Not too much necessary? You know, God damn it? Out 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.479 of so much doing this kid shit right now. So shit, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.040 trying to get this kid ready to get to school. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.400 Man, I ain't pretty much doing a goddamn thing right now, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.480 but school school, school, for sure. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.959 Yes, it's time, man, Karan going to this first year 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.080 of college. Man, shut out to nephew up there doing 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.520 this thing. Man, you shoot Chris up in Seattle, Man 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.399 for his second go round up there. Man. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.480 Yeah, but the battle rap scene is pretty large. Man. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.920 You can't even you can't doubt it. You get me. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.560 It's been around for a long time. Man, so we 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.520 I think we need that. Man, We need we need 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.560 those uh those uh those rap expressions. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.400 You feel me, Yeah, for sure. So today man, we 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.000 got like this dude right here, like the lebron James, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.800 the just the ultimate, just a battle rap. Every time 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:10.000 I turn around, he just out there serving the motherfucker geeks. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.360 She got him yo yo yo was going on. It 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.639 was popping, man, oh Man, same old thing. Man appreciate having. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.800 Show, Oh for sure, Man, we appreciate you even more, playboy. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.120 So the thing he was man like, I was telling 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.160 your cousin shout out the spit fire. The thing man 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.840 that initially drew me to you was the fact that 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.480 she was a West Coast cat. Yeah, and he was 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.880 keeping a gangster. You know what I'm saying. You look 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.800 looked at us like, man, that dude like a crip 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.679 or something. You know, he from somebody's neighborhood. You know 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.200 what I'm saying. Then you know, Phil was like, that's 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.119 my cousin. I said, for real. You know what I'm saying, Man, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.239 how did you get into battle rap and stuff? Man? 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:47.760 Man? 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.720 Uh, to be honest, like I washed battle rap coming up, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.480 you know what I'm saying, Like as you know, like 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.280 you say, Spa, he did the battling. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:55.720 You know what I'm saying. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.040 It was the first nigga already seen like battling. You 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.800 know what I'm saying as far as like on that level. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.200 You know I'm saying that really get some notoriety from it. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.399 So I always tuned into it, like my nigga ali 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.280 be battling in the hood, different shit like that. We'll 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.920 watch the reed dollars, the murder mooks and shit like that. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.079 You know, So I always watched it. I never really 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.000 thought i'd get into it, you know what I'm saying, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.799 Because I rapped you know, I go to the studio 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.560 A Records like the next nigga, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.000 So I was always into rapping and doing the rap shit. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.360 But as far as when I finally just like stepped 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.680 into that field, it was just it was like it 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.239 was like damn, like some spur of the moment, some 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:26.840 random shit. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:27.440 Man, My god. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.600 Kevin Parks, he got a league in the Orange County, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.239 the Riot, you know what I'm saying, which now I'm 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.679 like co owner with him now, but at the time 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.440 it was all strictly him and he just was doing 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.080 it out of Orange County, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.400 So I knew a partner who was battling up there, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:41.800 like who would go up there and just do little 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:42.600 local battles and shit. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:43.960 He always tell us about like y'all. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.400 Be going to Santa Ana going to Fullerton man battling 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.200 niggas and shit, like yeah, like we be in the hood, 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.200 Like yeah. We never really go with him though and 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.560 catch the motherfuckers. We never really had no chance to 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.640 go tune in to him. So one day he like 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.320 hit me, like yo, man, they called me to come 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.440 up here in battle. They said, we I mean bring 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.640 some other motherfuckers with us. Man A got litte hundred 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.440 dollars tourn it out of some quick shit. It weren't 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.400 really nothing, but we just didn't like, fucking man, let's go. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.080 We aint never really peeped. It, never went out here 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.160 with you went out there. They just had some freestyle 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.840 shit going on. Like I say, we wrapped, so we 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.560 just did the little freestyles fucking around that day, and 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.200 then the people out there was like, man, y'all should 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.520 do this, Like y'all should y'all should start battling. Man, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.640 So then they end up tapping in on me. And 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.520 like I say, like probably like a month from that day, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.560 I had my first battle on camera, you know what 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.479 I'm saying, that shit on YouTube when I battled this 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.000 cat named King Rico. And then after that it just 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.560 kept going, you know what I'm saying it like it 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:30.960 was just like on something like I say, some spur 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.280 of the moment, just went out there with the homy 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.240 fucking around freestyling, and the niggas who was bucking battles 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:36.479 was like, man, we want to see y'all do this 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:36.880 shit more. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.000 And we just kept going on it. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.320 So you was just on your a sinction after that, man, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.240 King Rico. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.680 Do then yeah, man, all y'all did he man, you 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.359 know what I'm saying, served him Saturday? 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.760 You served him? Man? So what was like, when did 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.400 you know, man, that this shit was gonna be something? Though? Like, like, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.800 when was that moment when you said, you know what, man, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.360 I made it? And I don't think none of us 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.240 ever really said we made it, you know what mean? 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.080 Because you always still feel like, man, shit, she can 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.200 go bad in any minute, But what was that moment man, like, Man, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.039 I'm really doing this shit like it kind of trip 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:08.800 you out. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.120 So, like I say, so, those was all like early battles. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.920 It wasn't really no money if all, it wasn't really 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.520 nothing going on. My first time I battled in front 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.880 of this cat named Nords who was at the time 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.279 working for U Areel with your smack and you know 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.160 the U are Reel, you know what I mean. So 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.599 he was at one of the battles. I did a 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.359 battle out, I did a battle. He was there like 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.200 hosting it or whatnot, you know what I'm saying. So 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.720 after the battle, I didn't have no Twitter. I already 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.919 had none of that. And after I did the battle, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.800 I remember of my boy telling me, like, yo, man 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.080 to do nords Man. He on Twitter, Man, he tweeted 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.440 about you man, tweeted about your battle man telling people 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.719 like it's this dude from Compton who like the next 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.280 who next up? Like you know what I'm saying. I'm 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.920 like yeah, like he said, like he came to the battle, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.880 said all that. So they ended up calling me later 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.240 on like Yo, you want you to come to New 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.159 York do a battles When they had this stuff caught 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.960 the proving grounds in order to get on you all 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.120 real used to have to go through this process, caught 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.120 the proven grounds, the PG process where you they'll just 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.640 get different people from different states and they're just you know, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.200 see who the you know who the best one, and 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.240 they end up you know, advancing on to getting their 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.080 chance to really be in a part of their platform. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.880 So I went to New York. I say, that was 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:12.880 my first time really. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.160 Saying like damn, like like this real, like you know 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:16.480 what I'm saying, like cause I had to really take 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:17.839 that leap of faith. Like I said, it wasn't no 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.680 money of us, So we have to buy our own 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.280 flights for our own rooms, do all that to really 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:23.680 do it. So I'm like, at this point, I gotta 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.200 really be really to take it serious because if I'm 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.760 finna spend three four hundred on a flight, five six 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.200 hundred on the room, they gotta go out here and 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.920 be ready to win, because I ain't evenna waste no 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.760 thousand dollars and all that just cook. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.360 You know what I'm saying. Is it prize money or something. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.800 It wasn't even no money involved like this really just 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.920 like nigga, just the proving ground, Like it ain't nothing. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.080 I go out there and win or lose, win getting shit. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.600 You know what I'm saying, Your dude, you just gotta year. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.359 You just going like to see if you're gonna make it. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.400 And they battle the battle that I ended up doing, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.680 it didn't even drop. So I don't even so not 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.360 only did a nigga go out there and did all that, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:54.880 but I ain't never even get to see the battle 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.000 of footage nothing, you know what I'm saying. It Really, 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:58.880 like I said, it was just like a test to 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.760 like proving yourself. So I was one of the times 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.279 when I'm like, okay, this this is a turning point 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:04.599 to where it's. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.120 Like if you serious with this ship. You gotta really 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:06.960 take it serious. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.279 Because you know it ain't no guarantee that it's gonna 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.680 blow or ain't. So it's like, if you're gonna go, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.200 you might as well it's gonna go now. I just 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.880 be like, man, fuck all that. Man just finished doing 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.360 what you're doing. Do some other shit to make some 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.560 money or get your name out there. So I say, 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.520 I went out there, I did my thing. A lot 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.320 of people liked the battle who was there, but nobody 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.280 got to see it. The battle never dropped, never came out, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.920 so I kind of got discoursed. Ain't gonna from Like, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.400 I ain't fuck with them niggas no more. Like you 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.680 know what I'm saying, I'm cool nigga that spent a 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:30.960 thousand dollars flew to New. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:31.880 York, whipped the nigga ass. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.640 I'm feeling like they mad because I didne went out 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.920 there and whooped the nigga and all this like. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.440 They might have had something to do. What you think 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.320 they might have been made. That's how I was looking 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:39.560 at it. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.040 Yeah, on the rear, I'm looking at it like that, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.880 like damn, cause the nigga I was balting, he was 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.920 from the East Coast. This happened in New York, So 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.640 I'm like, oh, this was probably they was probably thinking 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.480 I was finna come be the sacrificial lamb. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:48.800 I didn't. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.000 Yeah, you probably figured a lot of that ship is 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.000 set up for u FA favoritism. It was set up 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.680 for the favorite teams, like the hometown he wrote hit 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.200 Me Up, get Me Make Me Crazy? 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.960 Yeah, plus New York and New York almost to a point, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.000 rightfully slow because they're the birthplace of hip hop. New 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.000 York kind of is like oh, la nigga from Compton, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.720 come out here and serve saying, yeah, he ain't you 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:18.320 served up? But you can walk there ruin the plans. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.080 Now Yeah, so now it's like, yeah, they feel back 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.920 from me. So it goes on now fast forward. They 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.600 had hit me back though, like you know what I'm 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.800 saying to like come back again, like yeah, man, like 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.840 but like on like I say, it ain't dropping nothing, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.600 but they on my phone like trying to gasp me 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:30.760 like even need you come back again? 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:31.040 Do it? 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.400 So I'm like, oh, this is what they trying to do. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.400 Like I don't already ran through one nigga nosk another 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.880 test Like I'm already off it now though, like now 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.800 I'm straight, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm cool, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:39.560 but it's. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.120 A league that uh shout out my guy organic. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.920 They had the league King of the Dot is really 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.439 based out of Canada, but they did a lot of 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.480 West Coast events. So at the time, they had this 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.400 spot caught the bunker out in there lay where they 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:50.040 would do battles. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:50.679 They would host of that. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.679 They don't got it no more, but they would, so 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.559 I heard they they tapped in on me, like, yo, man, 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.080 would you battle on the bunker? I battled this kid 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.199 named Sane out of Inglewood at the time, you know 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.200 what I'm saying. And when I battled him, it just 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.440 so happened, Like all the stars alone, this shit gonna 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.440 be on pay per view. It's a lot of big 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.440 names on the court at the time, like a Verb 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.960 and the Sorest dudes who've been doing it for a 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.839 long time. So it's like I'm at the bottom of 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.839 the car. They're like, Finn, open this joint up. It 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.760 just so happened. Like I say, the night before, I'm 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.959 still you know, I'm still hanging out, so I'm I 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.240 don't I'm knocked outsleep by the time the battle comes, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.160 cause the day before I've been up all night doing 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.320 all type of other shit. So when they hitting me, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.360 it's probably like five six o'clock. I'm just now like, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.160 oh damn, I ain't gonna lie. I forgot all about 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.040 that shit type type vibe, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.240 So when I get there, now it's probably like eight, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.839 like three foul battles then already went on, So the 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.600 pay per view already rocking, people talking about it. It's 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.199 like probably one more battle before it's my battle now like. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.000 Before the main event. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.079 But I get there, so now I'm like, it's like 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.880 light's camera action, like, oh he got a battle, like 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.280 you still like you showed up and now all eyes 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.440 on me. I think I went crazy in that battle versaying. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.559 But it's on pay per views, live people watching it. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.560 So now at this time, everybody like, yo, who is 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.400 this dude? Like you know what I'm saying, Like niggas 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.480 is tuned in like this nigga he knew like they 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.439 ain't never seen. I say, I only had like one 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.680 or two battles that came out on a half or 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.439 something like that. I would have no big name and 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.120 had no gang of views. But now this is a 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.200 this is a card where the whole like battle rap 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.480 culture tuned into you know what I'm saying right when 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.040 they see me go crazy on Now, I think that 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.160 was like the moment where everybody like took notice, like, Yo, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.720 this dude, whoever Geechee is like this nigga nice? Like 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.160 you know what I'm saying, consated for that one compensated 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.600 for that won't make sure? 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.800 Yeah, yeah, definitely it's cheesing faulls. Yeah. Yeah, at least. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.400 Some money involved, trying to pay your dues at some port. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.160 You gotta, you know, some got to turn into some 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.440 financial success. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.160 Yeah, gotta be straight up. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:38.720 Yeah. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.680 In the beginning, status I say for battle rap like 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.600 on the come up, it ain't really Now it's different though, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:45.600 it's a lot more opportunities. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.520 You. I think this, like two thousand and seventeen is the. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.680 Platform to to, you know, want to get somewhere else, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.360 like to the next level of you know, making records 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.320 or deal or some shit like that. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.840 I ain't gonna lie it used to be like that. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.600 I think Now it's people that really aspire to be 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.880 battle rappers though, like it's dudes who really like, they like, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.960 they not even trying to make records they like in 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.840 the mirror, practicing a battle bars, trying to be battle rappers, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.120 because it's certain motherfuckers that make a better living than 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.120 dudes who making records that ain't really hot. You know 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:18.880 what I'm saying, Like, you gotta think if I'm at 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.080 the level I'm at now, I do a show ten 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.960 minutes of rapping, man, I get fifty thousand. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.800 You know what I'm saying that you feel this? 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.160 Dudes up there wrapping ten twenty thirty minutes, You know 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.040 what I mean? They probably getting four thousand or something. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.480 You know what I'm saying, they might can do three 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.319 shows that whole weekend and make fifteen twenty. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:34.920 You know what I'm saying. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.439 I'm up there ten minutes, I'm already done, got my 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.680 whole fifty I went home. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.400 Now, you know what I'm saying, I'm done. You feel me, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.520 I come back two weeks later, do it again. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.480 Or I can go do a little four thousand dollars, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.880 a little show in a small city with some small 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.520 name type of thing. So now it's more lucrative. Like 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.800 you see, you got people like Remy ma got a 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.480 whole battle rap league. You know what I'm saying. You 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.400 know what I mean, Like Smack, he's been around for years. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.640 They done partnered up with caffeine. You know what I'm 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.520 saying that the deal was, Drake is a part the caffeine. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.200 You know what I'm saying. He doesn't been at my 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.600 battles hosting that rize. Money gets large gets larger. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:10.000 Now as far as these uh, these are these A 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.000 list rappers basically having you know how like a motherfucker 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.280 might have a side basketball team or you know how 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.520 niggas have the basketball team or whatever. So niggas is 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.520 doing these battle leagues. Now, okay, it's like that. That's 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:25.400 that's cracking. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.440 It's turning into that now, like where you got a 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.240 lot of the A list rappers who probably come to 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.679 these events or athletes, you know what I'm saying. They 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.240 come to these events and they put money up in 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.800 different things of that nature where they might sponsor certain dudes. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.520 You know what I'm saying, Like I done been at 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.800 certain events where you got catch like Gerald mccooy. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:42.480 You know what I'm saying. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.160 NFL story, who been at that joint and he come 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.360 to a battle and be like your twenty more thousand 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.640 on the battle or you know what I'm saying. Such 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.560 you know what I mean, just on the top of it. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.920 And like I say, now it's contracts, so it's not 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.080 even really no prize money. It's like this guaranteed bridge. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.720 It's like deposit back in. Like you know what I'm saying, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.559 but year you getting paid, so you not going to 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.600 go now held up, it's already is locked in. We 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.920 signed a contract, you send a deposit. Then after I'm done, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.080 you send the other money once the job done. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:10.760 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.600 It might be like I say, judging involved on certain 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.280 on top of it, if somebody want to do that, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:16.680 you know what I mean. It is certain battles that 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.800 go down like that where I did a battle. I 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.320 think a lot of people know me and my brother 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.520 rum Nitty we had a battle where it was one 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.120 hundred and fifty thousand on the line. You know what 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.480 I'm saying, me versus him? Uh Drake hosted it like 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.360 two years ago on like known not the main events, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.360 like the biggest. It's out of that a summer man's 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.079 considered like the super Bowl, a battle rap you know 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.920 what I'm saying. So, but we did that and we 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.680 split that. But like, yeah, that's just few and form between. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.480 Like usually it's it's boot boot boot sign it, you 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:43.880 know what i mean, Like anything else. You know what 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.280 I'm saying, it's locked in, you know what I mean 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.000 when you at a certain level. But like, but like 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.839 it's not everybody getting that. I'm not gonna sit in 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.200 act like this is the whole battle rap culture now, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.920 you know what I'm saying. It's some niggas who, like 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.400 you say, you gotta pay they due, They gotta pay 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.080 their way to get there, get their name up, and 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.640 you know, go through the trenches. I've been doing this 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.600 shit for years now, you know what I'm saying. In 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.040 the battle everybody, It's like it's probably about one name 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.200 or two names on the on the list of battle 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.960 rappers you can write down that I ain't battled. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:06.560 You know what I'm saying. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.400 It's like probably one city you can name it, I 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:09.600 ain't been in, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.359 Yeah, for real, you know you mentioned those big mainstream 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.960 stars like Drake, and I see different rappers that they 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.800 have taken the interest in the battle rap arena. As 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.360 far as like those I would called mainstream rappers. Do 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.200 you think it's anybody out there capable of stepping into 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.240 the arena doing the battle records? The battle rap shit 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.800 can be brutal, and that's way different. Hell No, we 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.640 saw how that Joe Button shit turned out. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.080 Yeah, I think you. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.120 I think the difference is like somebody that's on that 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.120 mainstream level of them, they don't have like they would 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.360 have to have a time, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.920 cause it takes time to really because you gotta be 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.080 zero dark thirty. Sometimes you gotta lock that door and 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.960 like shut shit off, like he was saying earlier, and 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.440 he got it worrying about the kids. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:49.880 You got to think. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.440 I got three kids, But they gotta be times where 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.280 it's like when I came in, I got a battle 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.120 coming up. I got to block all this shit out 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.280 right now because I got to write this damn Remember 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:58.960 this shit had this shit locked in it. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.560 It's only one time. It ain't no studio where I 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:02.160 could punch it in. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.080 Once I'm in front of these two three thousand people, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.160 I gotta say this shit crispy one time, you know 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.560 what I'm saying. So I think a lot of times 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.040 those A list people though they got the skill level. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.920 Because rapping is rapping. You can rap, you can rap. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.000 So I'm not saying they ain't got the skill to 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.360 do it, but they might not have a time to 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.240 focus in to really just zone in on an opponent, 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:19.480 and then they got. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:19.880 More as stake. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.680 It's more for the average battle rapper to talk about 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.040 with them, you know what I mean? They life is 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.160 probably more on and that's one of the key things 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.040 in battle rap, being able to pick apart something. So 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.400 if you if your whole life is on YouTube, your 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.000 whole life is on the vlogs, I can talk about. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.200 All that, like you know what I'm saying, basically, you 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.000 you so, like basically, when you know you're scheduling the battle, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.080 you know who you're fin the battle, so you get 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.800 to basically dissect the motherfucker feed into they background they passed, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.240 you know so, because I've noticed that, you know, it's 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.200 a different format dude, they give you. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.320 Back in the day, it was like freestyling, Like people 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.680 to just meet up, freestyle, come off the top of 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.840 the dome, say some ship has some free boars of. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.640 Something that they ain't gonna use on the record. Now 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:05.400 It's like, nah, I. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:10.480 Know September fourteenth, I'm battling John John, and all right 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.800 now I need to focus on John John all the 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.640 way from July today up until September. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.280 I got another I can say with motherfucking composure and 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.720 mind state, gotta really be settled, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.560 To get it because you know what I'm saying. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:31.960 You know what I'm saying. Yeah, because you gotta be 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.040 able to have to talk still. They get to talk 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:40.280 about the leather pads bad and you be you. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.760 Again, you will go you have pants doing on up. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:54.280 The mother I did talk about Brian. They get to 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.000 talk about that WHODDI hacked the motherfucking leather pads? 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.560 You know what telling you know? 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.640 And that's how it get like they dissected that deep though, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.399 like something you got on or to the point of 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.119 your nigg It could be anything. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:09.520 You could have. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:17.119 Been real nigga talked about nigga when you was five 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.840 and pissed on yourself and the. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.320 Raids on that part. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.000 You know, he'll be. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.119 Doing some straight fed investigation with his battle rap Tide. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.159 Just heard man, the crip Ma is having a battle 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.439 right he's having a battle. Yeah, that's real interesting. You 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:41.000 know what battle. I have to clarify something I did 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.760 not call Cryp crypt Mark on the episode last week. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.560 A few niggas was hitting me about that. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:46.800 Man. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.399 They was like, man, you need because you know you 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:55.720 did that ship on purpose. You slipped that ship out. Yeah, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.000 called him crypt Mark. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.840 Why these dudes in this room, they don't know me 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.000 twenty years Mark is not even a part of my vocapulary. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:05.640 I don't even talk. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.480 It's all. It's all good, nigga, it's all good. You slip, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.680 you slid the crip mark out there. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:12.200 It's all. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:21.000 It's it's it's it's nothing. He said, many he said. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.480 Listen what he said. He said. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.160 It wasn't no purpose. But it did slip out there. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.320 Did the crip mark slip out there? 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:29.880 Just yes? 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:36.680 Or dog didn't crip out there? That was in the 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:42.880 second slip Check it out. Niggas is real upset about that. Yeah, 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.240 nigga told me dog. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.280 Tripper right now, No, not crip Mac not tripping. 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:49.440 He got a little. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.480 Fan base, so you know based this like, oh, man, nigga, 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:55.800 you know you did that ship on purpose. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.119 Steal me on Instagram dog. He said, well, you need 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.720 to tell Steve this. He needs to explain himself on 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.280 the next episode. I be thinking that nigga probably got 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.560 a hold. He got a little fan based niggas. Dog, 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:09.280 that's really. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:10.840 All that you owe that nigga. 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.399 You owe that nigga some cock eys, chicken nigga and 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.359 some others, and a case of. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.320 A six pack. Don't even give him the faulty royal 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:22.480 blue tea shirt. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.119 That niggas get that. Do you owe that nigga fifteen 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.200 piece of cock? Guysnigg you don't. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:30.399 Forget the old English nigga. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.879 Yeah, you know, we're gonna We're gonna sit there. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.000 We're gonna he gonna my nigga still gonna sit in 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:37.760 that right over, Specialty Liver. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.600 We're gonna get Uber eats to break that right all over. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.800 You gotta fix that shut out to the homie Crip 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:44.800 mac Man, you know, going back. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.480 He said, Crip Mac this time it's same Mark. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:54.040 It's Mark Crip Mack. So we have mainstream catch that, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.600 you know, trying to go in the battling When Joe 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.000 Buttons had his battle dog and he came up there 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.639 and Joe Buttons for the record this. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.240 Slaughter eminem put it together or something like that. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.160 And this is not no you know that, why would 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:11.840 you have I don't even know Joe Button, So this 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:13.880 is not no think of me. But he's the guy 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.600 could think of the most recent memory that attempted to 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.399 jump into that, you know, into that ring. That's a 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:20.160 whole different rim. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:21.440 Now that's a fun. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.720 So I saw him at a point he pulled out 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.600 his paper like he had his rip raps roting down quick. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.200 You think that was one of those points to where 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.000 he just kind of lost focus right in the middle 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:32.720 of that and start forgetting this stuff in kind of panic. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:34.880 I think it was just like like when you get 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:36.520 up there, because I think it was a cannabis who 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.440 did something like that, pulled his but no button that 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:43.280 said he was gonna walk off. I think he quit though, 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.359 like and walked off like he's just done. Like he 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.520 like you ain't gonna listen, Like I think when it 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.159 comes to them dudes, like like you said earlier, like 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.200 it would come a point where like if you doing 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.159 a show and you come you come from rapping and 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.400 you're doing the show, you know the crowd he's there 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:57.720 to hear you now they coming in here, you know 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.720 what I'm saying. But in battle Wrap, it's like fifty 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:01.240 fifty they coming to hear you. But at the same 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.720 time they also coming and like like see you fuck 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.760 up too, Like once you fuck up, now that part 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.920 of the show is like boom, get the fuck out 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.159 of here, like you trash or whatever. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:11.080 The other dude killing you. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.440 So that moment when you're seeing something that the crowd 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:14.680 ain't feeling, they gonna let you know. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:15.320 That it ain't dope. 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.399 And that's an ego hit for a rapper, like you 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.359 don't never think the shit you rapping ain't dope. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:20.879 So you're getting up. He got there. 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:22.919 Have you got that armor on? 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:24.080 Gotta have that armor on. 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.760 You got to be able to take the motherfucking good 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:27.440 with the bad. 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:27.840 Nigga. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.840 If you if you slipping fall, nigga, you slipping fall, 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:32.199 you know how we do it. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:32.520 Nigga. 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.840 If it's a crowd, the niggas around you slipping fall, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.280 we gonna point laugh, you know, like I don't mean 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:40.840 nothing by it, but nigga, you feel it's funny. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.960 Is a motherfucker and ship you know you gotta. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:44.560 Get over it. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.760 Motherfucker you're supposed to be ever, like we always say, 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.399 you gotta be able to play ship out you get me. 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.480 Damn fuck it, nigga. He's supposed to throw up his 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.600 hands to go, I got my ass kicks, you got it, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.760 you get it. But to walk off and be like 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.879 I quit that just you know, it just goes to 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.800 show you're not built for certain shit you feel see. 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.960 And I think that come with us, like like it 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:09.919 just come with the backgrounds, like you gotta think us 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:11.879 we coming from a from a street background. So that's 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.120 why it was so easy for me to navigate through it, 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:15.959 cause it's like, oh man, what's the worst. Then they 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:18.440 gonna say something like man, we coming from ducking shots 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.679 and all kind of shit, like oh he finla. He 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.680 can say whatever you want to say this dude, I 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.720 don't even believe it, like you know what I'm saying, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.080 Like he can say he could get up here for 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.680 we finish. You finna pay me to call this nigga 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:30.199 a bunch of shit that I really can say that, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.760 I can really feel bad about this dude. And I 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.400 could just listen to him say some shit real quick, 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:36.679 and I know the people that came with me know 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.240 everything you saying is made up, it's lies, it ain't real. 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:41.160 You don't got nothing to stand on it, I think. 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.399 But some people, when you get to attacking them, now, 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:45.919 if it is real and it's hitting you now, you 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.840 can see the reaction like damn, like oh shit, he 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.320 said something that that hurt me. Like that's why in 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.640 battle rap it's tough because certain things that you say 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:55.800 might not it might not even affect the crowd, but 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.240 it's affecting the person that you're talking to for sure. 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.639 Now that's affecting them when it's time for them to wrap, 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:02.960 because usually you want to if you ain't got the 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:04.879 skill of rebuttering or you know what I'm saying, Like 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:06.600 I say something about what you got on right now 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:07.959 you want to be able to get back on me, like, man, 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:09.160 this costs more than the. 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:09.879 Ship you got on. 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:11.520 And if you ain't that dude, I'm talking about what 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:13.320 you got on and you deep down really feel like 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.399 this all you could afford, you broke. Now when it's 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:17.639 your time to wrap, you you choking up like that. 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.320 It's secure, you know what I'm saying, a lot of 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:22.280 these dudes deal with that. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.560 You know what I'm saying fuck a lot of dudes up. 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:24.800 Man. 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.560 Let me ask you this, though, bro, the Math off 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.159 of dude was known for punching niggas. He was known 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.679 for punching niggas out, yeah, straight up and then the 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:36.000 homely disaster from out here shout out, you know, I 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:41.640 know this did stole on him out here. How would 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:44.760 you react being from Compton, A nigga put his hands 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:47.239 on you, Because I've seen niggas get brutal shout out 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:47.480 to the. 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:49.160 Home why is that? 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:51.959 Is it because they can't take the heat they started 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:52.919 throwing punch you. 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.440 I don't know why Math was punching on niggas. 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:57.840 Though, ain't getting too personal. 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:00.680 What was it on the times when Math hit dudes? 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:02.800 I think the first one was like the most notable 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:06.639 one was what to do with adults or whatever? And 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.000 he had his hat like this and he rapping and 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:11.000 hat like on his nose, damn near and I think 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.320 he says something like man like, get out my face 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:15.879 type ship dude on the back up he swinging on 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:16.639 eim or whatnot. 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:20.760 So with that I would say this with me, I'm 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:21.560 not going for it anyway. 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:23.439 You put your hands on me in a batter counsel Christmas, 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:26.480 we fucking you going, it's going It's gonna keep going. 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:32.520 On like it's safe to provoking. It's going up. 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:34.760 But I think you have to understand in battle wrap, 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:37.400 you gotta still be able to like and math grew 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:38.679 from that for years. I don't want to keep that 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:39.960 on him because he done had a lot of battle 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:41.639 since then where he ain't put his hands on nobody 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:43.320 in him and DearS they you know what I mean? 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.760 That that how that situation played. I was unfortunate, But 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:48.800 for the most part, you gotta understand, like it's it's 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:51.520 unwritten rules. It's like you can you can rap, you 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:53.200 can say what you want to say about the motherfucker, 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:55.480 but you shouldn't be touching nobody and no battle like 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:57.399 it ain't no reason for me to be battling And 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:57.760 then I'm. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:24:59.760 Grabbing you and doing all this because you. 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.520 Know what I'm now at this point, Like you know, 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:03.240 I'm like, if I'm not gonna let you grab me 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.800 in no conversation, I'm not gonna let you grab me 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:07.920 on stage. You know what I'm saying that certain battles 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:09.840 have rapports with each other, Like you know what I'm 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:11.800 saying where they might have that conversation like, look, we're 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:13.480 gonna get a little physical, like you gonna you know 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.160 what I mean, But they understand it, ain't they about 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:16.960 But if you don't got that rapport with somebody, of 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:18.719 course it's gonna go left. But you gotta think. Now, 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:20.600 a lot of these dudes is peers. They've been knowing 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:22.280 each other for years. They do in state to state, 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:24.760 place to place, doing shows together, so they know each 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:27.080 other at this point where it's like, you know, if 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:29.719 you battle, Let's say, who Kupmak from the Battle Active. 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:32.159 Active is known for the pocket check, So I'm not 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:33.960 saying when he do the pocket check it ain't real. 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.080 But if you've been battling with him, you know that's 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:41.960 his move. He might go for He might go for 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:44.800 it though, because if if krip Mak pay attention to battles, 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:46.200 you know, that's what Active do. 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:47.080 You know what I'm saying, So. 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:51.520 I don't know Meigg. It's a rapper though, Quip mank 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.919 got an album coming up. Oh shit, word doing this 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.880 is in the process of recording the album right now. 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:01.240 This battle might be a crazy might putting out this 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:03.680 ship man, You gotta think about it. Dog, Crip Mac 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:06.920 has a fan base. When you look at this metrics, 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:10.280 I get all that, but see see this is where 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.040 if you can get two percent of them, people by 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.440 all want to get a plack up in this motherfucker. 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:22.119 Now, c when you say ship like that, that fucks 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:25.080 with a nigga like me, man, like a real artist, 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:27.679 man who's been putting out records. Now you want to 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:32.359 tell me like, like, my nigga can get a platinum 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:33.080 record off of. 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:37.760 What man being Crip, My nigga off a content off 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:38.920 of fucking off. 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:40.120 Nothing more than Krip Mac. 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:43.439 Game change. So that's what that's like. 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:45.960 You don't change my nigga going to paint your hair blue, 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:46.640 pink your beard. 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:49.840 Let me tell you something. 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:54.080 First off, I'm not a fucking gimmick, straight up, you 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:58.680 know what I'm saying. I don't advertise being from the hood. 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:03.840 But niggas know what it was. If you it was 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:07.240 what it was like I've always learned and was taught 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:11.520 from an early age. Niggas wasn't flamboyant, and we wasn't 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:15.800 you know, we wasn't flashy and flossy, and it wasn't 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.520 all like nowadays, Like, man, come on, man, I'm really 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:24.880 I'm I'm real curious man, because every like he's finna. 0:27:24.600 --> 0:27:26.199 Really battle rapper niggas. 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:30.640 Yeah, Nigga's finna be digging in like like Nigga back 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:34.120 in grade school, you was this and you come from 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:34.760 here and. 0:27:34.840 --> 0:27:37.080 I want to gainst active actor from Grape Street. He 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:39.240 been doing this for a long time? Is this you 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:39.919 know what I'm saying? 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:41.879 Is this a publicity stuff? 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:45.200 You know what? Man? I don't know? You know what I. 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:48.600 Mean, because who chose Who's who chose that? 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:51.520 Who chose this? Like who said this. 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:54.399 League is a lust wanted disaster league gt X, You 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:55.040 know what I'm saying. 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:56.920 So it's a publicity stuff. 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.840 So that's you feel like, I mean, you had to 0:27:59.880 --> 0:28:01.639 be at least disaster because it's his league, you know 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:04.239 what I'm saying, Probably, like you know, initiated it. 0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:04.880 You know what I'm saying. 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:07.000 I ain't with I ain't with No don't think he 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:10.080 could do it though, like he Man, I'm. 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:13.400 Is a real purist dog doing that at all? Man, 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:14.440 it's a hip hop. 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:16.879 Don't get he'll did he get up there and do 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:19.040 nothing with I ain't gonna lie better rap for me, 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:21.159 I'm the same way with it, Like I don't know 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:24.000 if like what it's like. 0:28:24.680 --> 0:28:28.719 To just go the fuck off. Man really just stopped 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:32.320 ahead stage right now. 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:38.360 Five because oh. 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.680 What hey, but that But that's what I'm saying, want 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.640 against his real battle this world today. 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:47.000 Man, But he going against a real better repper, That's. 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:51.840 What I'm saying, Like, because you already know that's just 0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:55.000 like putting butter Bean up against Mike Tyson and ship. 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:58.200 You get me, it's a fucking my nigga from Grape 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:01.080 is gonna you know, he's a fucking veteran. 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:05.320 Like, do you banking on what the promoter is banking 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:08.680 on Butterbean possibly catching one and slipping one in? 0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:09.040 Oh? 0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:12.280 No, you you and we talking about people are and 0:29:12.320 --> 0:29:15.320 win them all. Man, Now you now you join Now 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:18.840 you are one. Now you joining the motherfucker. You joining 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:22.960 the motherfucker. You joining the motherfucking ranks of all these 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:27.560 other motherfuckers. You cannot be serious to say, oh, he's 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:31.520 banking on butter Bean and catching What are you fucking kiddy? 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:34.120 Means to me, this is the philosophy, right, This. 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:37.400 Is niggas gotta stop with this internet ship man. 0:29:37.600 --> 0:29:40.840 The philosophy. Hey, this is the philosophy right here. We 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:43.680 are expecting Mike Tyson to beat the fuck up burder Bean. 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:46.800 That happened, people gonna be entertaining. They gonna go home. 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:49.880 But Butterbean fucking around and get lucky and throw awkward 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:51.920 ass punching hit Mike is certain way and not Mike 0:29:52.000 --> 0:29:54.280 on the canvas. Niggas go be like, oh my god, 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:57.480 you know what niggas gonna You know what nigga's gonna say. 0:29:58.120 --> 0:30:00.600 You know what niggas gonna say. No, know what niggas 0:30:00.600 --> 0:30:05.600 gonna say when that happened, set up, set up, set up? 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.080 Oh ship, really, but do you. 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:11.240 Think that's like fair? 0:30:12.080 --> 0:30:14.200 I'm saying you think that's unfair to like somebody like 0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:16.680 an active then like if if he going in with 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:18.880 the landscape. But like, all this dude gotta do is 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:21.760 say something that's halfway decent and now it is over 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:25.520 exclstead exploited. 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:30.360 Let's yeah, let's say Krip walk up that motherfucker spit 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:33.000 the most eloquent, poetic gangster ship in the world. 0:30:33.040 --> 0:30:35.360 Niggas like, oh my god, when the niggas still be 0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:35.960 killing me? 0:30:36.160 --> 0:30:36.360 Man? 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:39.680 Why niggas still be killing me, man, you love to 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:44.280 ride that motherfucker that that motherfucking butchatical bull. You like that, 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:46.400 but you like to get up there and ride that 0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:52.800 motherfuck You'll ride that mother will this nigga still be 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:57.120 like krip Back for to get up there. Nigga like nigga. 0:30:57.520 --> 0:30:58.800 He fit to killing nigga. 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:05.320 Man, he might my nigga. You know, fucking with a 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:07.440 nigga like me, you gonna pay twenty nine ninety nine 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:08.320 watching the nigga. 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:12.480 I'm gonna set up the motherfucking crip mac big steel 0:31:13.000 --> 0:31:13.880 fucking battle. 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:19.880 Is he gonna serve you? No? 0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:21.720 I want to hear, nigga. 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:25.520 I'm setting it up, Brian nigga, big steal, motherfucking crip 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:29.680 back battle rap nigga who goes serve? Who is he goes? 0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.840 Now put yourself in the same shoes you just said. 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:35.640 Butter Bean fit the cume He to catch you. 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:36.080 Nigga. 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:39.400 You finn to be sitting on the ground. Nigga, they 0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:42.400 gonna beat you. 0:31:41.360 --> 0:31:48.120 Would not happen a correct crip back your rap hey, Man, 0:31:48.240 --> 0:31:53.560 look at he stuck crip hey and you battle rap 0:31:53.680 --> 0:31:57.000 you leagues whatever I want it set up the gangster 0:31:57.160 --> 0:32:00.000 raps battle Crip Mac and Big Stick. 0:32:00.040 --> 0:32:02.320 Hell, we can make a heaven man, Crip back and 0:32:02.360 --> 0:32:07.160 still live said, he's surface. Yeah, he's like making heaven. 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:08.200 I'm with it. 0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:08.760 They got that. 0:32:09.760 --> 0:32:12.960 We put these God got a got got a motherfuck 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:16.480 got got a motherfucking family pack of cock. Gosh, nigga, 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:19.960 the fucking six pack right down, niggak. 0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:22.080 We're doing there, nigga. 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:25.960 Yeah, what you want your ship extra spicy a mile 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:26.920 Niggas see with me. 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:28.720 I don't want no chicken, my nigga, I don't want 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:32.320 no beer. Some need some increments. I need some increments. 0:32:32.600 --> 0:32:33.680 Know that this is the fun. 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:38.680 This is public this is a publicity stuff motion. I'm 0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:42.440 not I'm fifty years old to ranking no better ship. 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:45.960 I'm not trying to wrap nigga. Sit up here and 0:32:45.960 --> 0:32:48.720 tell me, Hey man, I give you five thousand years, 0:32:48.880 --> 0:32:52.560 you got you, you gonna get it. 0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:10.960 You get back on the ship. Though, this actually raises 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:15.080 into a good point. Dog, when does it come disrespect 0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:17.200 for motherfucker stepping into your ring? You know you say 0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:19.280 you played all the dudes don't pay money to get 0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:21.760 the shows. You're taking this shit serious. And there's some 0:33:22.000 --> 0:33:24.640 other nigga coming out here and that's not no disrespecting. 0:33:24.640 --> 0:33:27.560 Nobody was trying to do this ship. But you see 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:29.600 ship like that, you're like, man, that nigga don't give 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:31.880 my blood swiating tears this ship and these niggas are here 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:32.600 playing with this ship. 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:34.800 Nah yeah, Nah, that's definitely you know what I'm saying, 0:33:34.800 --> 0:33:37.720 it's because it is it's looked at like that, like you. 0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:40.160 Have to at least take the craft serious for show. 0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:40.800 You know what I'm saying. 0:33:40.800 --> 0:33:42.920 I think it's the It's the same way like he said, 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:44.600 man being the purest and hip hop. If you just 0:33:44.640 --> 0:33:47.600 see somebody that's making an album, making a record and 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:49.960 you're like, man, this dude ain't really taking the craft serious. 0:33:49.960 --> 0:33:52.080 He ain't really writing his own ship. Like you know 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:53.120 that that's frowned up on. 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:54.640 You know what I mean. You ain't writing your own ship. 0:33:54.720 --> 0:33:55.000 You don't. 0:33:55.200 --> 0:33:57.560 You don't really got know the ship you write rapping 0:33:57.600 --> 0:33:58.800 ain't really you. You know what I'm saying. 0:33:58.840 --> 0:34:00.680 All this shit is make believe. So it's the same 0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:02.920 way coming into like the battle arena. If it's something 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:05.320 like you just coming and playing with the niggas who 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:06.880 do this twenty four seven, they gonna be like man, 0:34:06.920 --> 0:34:08.319 what is this like, you know what I'm saying, Because 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:10.120 that's a check that could have went to somebody who 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:11.640 really do this, you know what I'm saying. So that's 0:34:11.680 --> 0:34:13.360 just any way you're gonna look at it like, you 0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:14.600 know what I'm saying. So I feel like, whenever you 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:17.760 get into anybody arena, you gotta really take that craft series, 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:19.680 really prove that you really you know what I'm saying, 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:21.520 That that's not just no no fluke thing, you know 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:23.319 what I'm saying. I think a lot of times that's 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:26.120 why when the main stream artists who do come and 0:34:26.160 --> 0:34:28.200 get into it, a lot of the times the real 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:29.640 issue be like they did. 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:32.040 Some one and done shit. They just showed up one time, 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:34.080 got on, you know what I'm saying. 0:34:34.080 --> 0:34:36.319 The ones who end up getting loved be the dudes 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:37.719 who like, now, they tried it one time, but they 0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:39.560 came back again to like really see if they really 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:41.400 can do it, you know what I'm saying, and stuck 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:42.719 with it, you know what I mean, because they like, 0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:44.560 fucking I fell on my face on that first one, 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:46.520 but I'm gonna do it again, you know what I'm saying. 0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:49.160 So I think that's kind of the difference. If you 0:34:49.200 --> 0:34:51.400 really see somebody that's really serious with it and they 0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:53.080 really taking this shit like like you know, this is 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:54.600 what they want to do, then you know, nigga. 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:55.640 Gonna have to respect it. You know what I'm saying. 0:34:56.000 --> 0:34:57.799 For sure, it is like on some game banging shit, 0:34:57.800 --> 0:34:59.560 you see a nigga that just want to bang the 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:01.799 hood some shit just because it looked cool. But then 0:35:01.840 --> 0:35:03.120 it's like, h nah, he coming to the hood. He 0:35:03.200 --> 0:35:06.000 hanging out here a participant. Now it's like, okay, it's cool, 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:08.759 we believe you. Now, yeah, he real gaz, He a 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:10.239 part of this shit, and he ain't just pop up 0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:12.800 because it's a funeral or hood day real quick to 0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:14.520 throw the shirt, don't take the pictures with the homies 0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:16.080 and leave. You know what I'm saying, He can't to 0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:17.600 really fuck around. It's the same way, you know what 0:35:17.600 --> 0:35:19.160 I'm saying, Like you gotta really show niggas that you're 0:35:19.160 --> 0:35:21.480 really doing this. So yeah, battle rappers just like that. Man, 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:23.319 they want to see a motherfucker take this shit for real. 0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:26.200 Hell yeah, you gotta take it serious right now. Man, 0:35:26.239 --> 0:35:29.640 as far as your battles, man, have you ever had 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:31.640 to walk there and destroy somebody you looked up to. 0:35:32.360 --> 0:35:35.799 Yeah, I don't battle some of my favorite battlers, man, Like, 0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:37.440 like one of my favorite battles that I have, I 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:39.480 won't even say I destroyed even because I felt like 0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:41.160 it was a good battle. I felt like I got it, 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:42.840 but I definitely felt like it was a good battle. 0:35:42.920 --> 0:35:45.000 Like one of my favorite battlers was like Arsenal, you 0:35:45.040 --> 0:35:47.759 know what I'm saying, Arsenal saying Arsenal. Yeah, you know 0:35:47.800 --> 0:35:50.680 what I'm saying, real disrespectful. He's been doing it for 0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:52.080 a long time. So that was like one of the 0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:54.400 battles when I like getting ready for that battle, like oh, 0:35:54.480 --> 0:35:55.759 like damn, Like this is a nigga. Who would I 0:35:55.800 --> 0:35:57.040 used to watch this shit. I used to see this 0:35:57.120 --> 0:35:59.520 nigga talk crazy, say the craziest shit to. 0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:00.520 A nigga, you know what I'm saying. 0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:02.520 So when I finally got that battle, that was one 0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:04.520 of them, like one of those moments for me like okay, 0:36:04.560 --> 0:36:06.680 like like I know I'm really in this ship right now, 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:08.200 like you know what I'm saying. Like though I battled 0:36:08.200 --> 0:36:10.040 a lot of niggas, that battle right there was the 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:11.640 one where I knew like, yeah, I'm I'm in the 0:36:11.719 --> 0:36:13.120 ring with the niggas who really do this shit. 0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:15.279 You know, all right, I'm a name. I'm gonna say 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:17.840 a few rappers that you have battle, yeah, and I 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:20.080 want you to tell me what you feel the bottle 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:21.640 murder moot. 0:36:22.120 --> 0:36:24.640 Murder, moo murder moo mook a legend. 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:27.759 I ain't gonna now that battle right there specifically was 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:30.160 in New York. I felt like I won that battle. 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:32.759 But I but I say the consensus. I felt like 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:34.600 he got the battle because he was at home. 0:36:34.680 --> 0:36:37.400 And you know, I was gonna ask you, is like, 0:36:38.480 --> 0:36:40.200 did you feel that element there? Man? 0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:42.000 Like, think of this New York. We're not gonna let 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:42.759 you walk out of here with that. 0:36:42.920 --> 0:36:45.440 I understood it before I went out there, because I 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:48.200 just battled the loaded Lux who also from New York, 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:50.239 and he came to Cally and battle me. So when 0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:52.200 he came out here, I got him, and I felt 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:54.040 like it's just like one of them things. It's like 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:56.640 a motherfucker come to your yard and and you whip 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:58.239 his ass. Now you go over there, They're like, Noah, 0:36:58.239 --> 0:36:59.560 we we can't let him win over here. 0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:01.160 So I say, ain't be doing that. Man. That was 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:02.480 my second nigga. I was gonna give you. 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.279 Yeah, you know, loaded Lux came to Lord of Luz, 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:08.000 came to me. Yeah, Loaded Lux came to me, came 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:09.920 to Kelly. I feel like I got that one. So 0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:12.080 I battled Muk after that. So I and Muk is 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:14.120 a like I say, not only a legend, but he's smart. 0:37:14.360 --> 0:37:16.640 So like when I the most credit, I give him this. 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:19.040 He knew how to play the optics of the game too, Like, 0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:22.360 so me battling there, he painted the picture already a 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.640 West versus East on the stage, like he made him 0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:26.919 pick a side. As the raps going on, like, yeah, 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:28.600 you know why I don't like this nigga. It ain't 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:31.000 cause no beef. That's something real with me. It's cause 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:33.400 he from the same city that killed Biggie's on that 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:35.960 I was like everybody in that motherfucker like, how we 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:37.080 gonna cheer for this nigga? 0:37:37.080 --> 0:37:39.080 And we love big you know what I'm saying. So 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:40.759 it's it's already like put him. 0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:42.040 On and put him in between a rock and a 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:44.000 hard place, like it don't matter how dope he is. 0:37:44.080 --> 0:37:46.120 Nah, man, you heard what Mook said. Man, that's right. 0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:47.960 We can't we can't give it up to a nigga 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:49.920 that he's from the same city that took one of 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:50.560 our legends. 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:51.200 Like it ain't personal. 0:37:51.239 --> 0:37:53.239 I ain't like he trying to kill me physically in 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:55.640 that motherfucker said It was no tension like that, But 0:37:55.680 --> 0:37:58.239 it's enough to where it's like, damn ah, now fuck that. 0:37:58.320 --> 0:37:59.920 You're right, you know what I'm saying, Like we're rocket 0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:01.880 where he shifts it. 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:04.840 Shit, that's and that's being a veteran knowing enough to like, 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:07.240 if I say certain shit, now I got the crowd 0:38:07.239 --> 0:38:08.720 with me and take it from him he got. 0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:10.799 Now I gotta fight even harder. Now I gotta get 0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:13.640 up there and say something with it. Don't matter what 0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:14.040 you say. 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:14.560 You know what I'm saying. 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:16.360 I got dare to be like a biggie my cousin. 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:21.680 You look at Mama. 0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:25.759 You know what I'm saying, Nigga, mom, where we go exactly? 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:26.279 You feel me? 0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:28.160 So that was one of those. But what is what 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:31.279 is is a legend? What is the ultimate goal for 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:32.520 the battle rapper? 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:36.080 Okay, I feel like speaking to me, my ultimate goal, 0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:37.719 Like I feel like I've kind of reached it, you 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:39.279 know what I'm saying as far as like, you know, 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:41.040 just getting to the top of this field out of 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:44.160 won like multiple like awards of being the number one 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:46.359 battle Rapper of the year multiple years in a row. 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:47.279 You know what I'm saying. 0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:49.520 Like I say, like my goal was was kind of 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.640 pretty much regions to be solidified to where if I 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:54.279 stopped today, it's like you can't tell the story of 0:38:54.280 --> 0:38:56.320 battle rap without like bringing up geechee gotta you know 0:38:56.320 --> 0:38:57.920 what I'm saying. Like, So that was my goal to 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:00.560 where when you get to talk about legendary figures in 0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:03.040 that sport, in that realm, my name gonna be brought 0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:05.319 up when you talk about a one top battles and 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:08.839 battles of the year, like views numbers all that. It's like, nah, 0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:10.640 I remember, yeah, he you know what I mean. You 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:12.640 could us a conversation, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:39:12.800 --> 0:39:14.799 I'm a part of that. So I think the goal 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:17.600 for everybody should be something like that. It's like any 0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:19.680 sports you will, like if you're playing basketball, you want 0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:21.320 to be amongst that top fifty. 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:22.799 You know what I'm saying. You want to be you 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:23.960 want to be in that Hall of fame. 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:26.200 You want to be able to wear motherfucker, can you 0:39:26.320 --> 0:39:27.840 got something to stand up on with You know what 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:29.520 I mean when they talk about the sports you was in. 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:31.520 You want of the names that that get remember you 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:33.400 know what I mean with the lights your jersey hung up, 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:34.640 you know, So that's really the gold. 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:36.759 I feel like battle rappers get their recognition. 0:39:37.800 --> 0:39:39.680 I feel like it's getting there now, you know what 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:42.040 I'm saying. I feel like it's getting there now, Like 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:43.640 you're starting to see more of them, like you see 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:46.840 on wild'n Out You got three folk five battle rappers 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:49.399 on there from clips hit Man Hower Conceded and see 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.960 Sharon Like these dudes is on TV. You know what 0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:54.520 I mean weekly like off of their skill in battle rap. 0:39:54.560 --> 0:39:56.839 You know what I'm saying, Like you're seeing that you are, 0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:58.960 You're starting to see more battle rappers do songs with 0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:00.839 mainstream artists like Freeschool Server. 0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:01.680 We seen him. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:05.280 Songs from Misi Jada on down Like dudes doing features 0:40:05.280 --> 0:40:06.919 with these cats, you know what I'm saying, dudes working 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:08.840 with them. So I think now, like I say, the 0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:10.759 sport is getting a little more light on it to 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.000 the point where people are starting to, like, you know what, 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:16.399 like no dudes for not just being battle rappers, but 0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:18.319 that's the field they knowing from you got math how 0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:19.920 for like you brung up he got one of the 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:21.560 top podcasters. 0:40:20.920 --> 0:40:22.879 In the world. Now, you know what, I'm still all 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:23.759 off a battle. 0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:27.800 Rap seeing that it's like the fiftieth year anniversary of 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:34.880 hip hop whatever? Do you feel battle rappers should be 0:40:35.040 --> 0:40:37.640 recognized in that field as well? 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:41.920 Man? I just think it's hip hop expands. It's just 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:42.880 a part of the culture. 0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:47.520 So you know, you y Lane, and then you see 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:49.480 what all these lists they do, So why don't you 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:54.200 compile a list? Since you really know battle rapping and 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:56.840 you really into it, why don't you compile a list 0:40:57.280 --> 0:41:03.760 of what you feel is the greatest top fifty battle rappers. 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:06.120 You know what, if I was gonna put a list 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:09.040 like that together, I think stuff like that, man, is 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:09.920 all because it's. 0:41:09.760 --> 0:41:12.400 Been around for It's been around for how many how 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:13.000 many years? 0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:15.759 What you say? Shit? Battle rap been around since the 0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:16.840 beginning of hip hop? 0:41:16.920 --> 0:41:20.960 Okay, so it should be it should be significant battle 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:26.279 rappers who you know gets the recognition, you know, just 0:41:26.400 --> 0:41:29.160 like we're doing with And I don't even say that 0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:31.840 shit for myself because you know, you see motherfucker's contemplate 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.759 all they made this list how come you ain't here 0:41:34.880 --> 0:41:37.000 and they ain't got your shit here? And I never 0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:40.080 trip off a shit like that. But you don't never 0:41:40.280 --> 0:41:47.520 see that field considered in the gal of regular and 0:41:47.560 --> 0:41:50.680 not just saying regular hip hop. You don't see like 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:55.360 when motherfucker's mention motherfuckers are mentioned. You know this nigga 0:41:55.440 --> 0:41:58.680 was a lyricist, or Cube was, or Biggie or Wooter. 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:02.680 You wo motherfucker, don't never go, what's my nigga battle rapping? 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.320 He was killing motherfuckers? You feel what I'm saying. 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:08.000 You know, any list I would ever be involved with 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:11.040 would definitely have to be some would have to be subjective. 0:42:11.600 --> 0:42:13.680 It wouldn't be just based on what I think. So 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:15.600 what I would do if I did put a list together, 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:18.319 we ever start putting together list, we would have a 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:20.799 panel to pass back the cats for us to make 0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:25.759 sure that it's one hundred face. Scar to me is 0:42:25.800 --> 0:42:28.960 one of the greatest scarfaces. This dude right here you 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:32.799 should have You want to coolgie relation mothers a long time. 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:35.439 When I when if I have my list of top 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:39.240 gangster rapper rappers ever and I'm putting together top five, 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:42.560 it's gonna be ice Cube. It's going to be m 0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:45.879 C eight. It's going to be cool g rap It's 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:50.920 gonna be I say, Scarface already, I played Scarface. I 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:52.880 will want to put all the ghetto boys up in there. 0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:55.160 But if I have the final, the final two, Spice 0:42:55.160 --> 0:43:00.440 one and probably Big Mic like that, you on that 0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:03.160 Big Mike. Big Mike was a hard motherfucker. Big Mike 0:43:03.280 --> 0:43:05.480 was one of the motherfucker most legendary gangster. I'm talk 0:43:05.480 --> 0:43:08.160 about niggas, then cound really spit, Yeah, I ain't talking 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:10.800 about niggas. Is just out there talking about gunning niggas 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:13.480 down and how much dope they code. And I always 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:16.040 have to give an honorable mention. And I know a 0:43:16.040 --> 0:43:18.200 lot of people might hate this. I wouldn't put him 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.520 in the top five, but he would be right in 0:43:20.600 --> 0:43:24.400 my top teen outside of it. Rick Ross, Rick Ross 0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:29.160 a bad motherfucker with the top you know what you 0:43:29.239 --> 0:43:32.520 gotta Ross in that top five to Ross is in 0:43:32.560 --> 0:43:37.240 the pantheon, a rap dog, a rap. I wouldn't say 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:40.640 that would be disrespectful to people like him, the Cube 0:43:40.680 --> 0:43:43.680 and all that, just to say, okay, right there, but 0:43:44.360 --> 0:43:48.320 Ross is definitely in that thing. Ross has incredible wordplay 0:43:48.480 --> 0:43:50.879 and he survived in the tech from fifty cent. At 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:53.040 that time when fifty cent was that nigga, fifty cent 0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:56.600 was just maul and niggas. Niggas was avoiding problems with him. 0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:59.680 Fifty one of the top gangster rappers too, though fifty 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:00.000 is a whole. 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:05.600 I think it's at that stuff. And you know what, 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:08.759 I'm being real disrespectful right now, see that it's hard 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:11.120 to compile a lists because I'm thinking about the nigga 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:14.520 the game. Yeah, yeah, the game was a game. Was 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:17.719 a rapping ass nigga Dog he could rap, dog. I 0:44:17.840 --> 0:44:19.560 listened rap though, like me. 0:44:19.880 --> 0:44:23.640 I feel like gangster rappers like am of course, like 0:44:23.680 --> 0:44:25.840 it's it's different gangsters in different regions and ship. But 0:44:25.840 --> 0:44:28.080 I feel like West Coast is gainst the rap, like 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:30.360 you know what I'm saying, Like how trap music is 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:32.239 South and you know what I'm saying, Like you know 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:34.759 what I mean, Like every region got they they think. 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:36.520 So it's like I feel like like a list of 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:39.160 Gainst the rap for show like it gotta have West 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:41.120 Coast heavy in that ship, you know what I'm saying, 0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:43.040 because they're the god for the the birthplace of it, 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:45.200 like n w A all that that's you know what 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:48.080 I mean rap, You know what I'm saying, that's what started. 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:49.440 And then like you say, man, you go from the 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:51.319 m c A so on down on up and just 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:53.480 continued with that with that lane of like nigga, this 0:44:53.560 --> 0:44:55.200 is what we you know, I mean, like you can't 0:44:55.360 --> 0:44:57.080 you can't even be a gainster before you know, I 0:44:57.120 --> 0:44:58.279 mean the West, Like, you know what I mean, it's 0:44:58.320 --> 0:44:59.320 a game banging started that. 0:44:59.400 --> 0:44:59.560 You know. 0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:02.520 That's the thing about rap period though, man, especially when 0:45:02.520 --> 0:45:05.040 it comes to certain genres like gangster rep like battle 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:07.680 rappers and stuff like that. A lot of people that 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:10.480 put these lists together, some of these dudes is twenty five, 0:45:10.560 --> 0:45:12.680 twenty six years old. To me, if you go put 0:45:12.680 --> 0:45:14.399 together list, your a has got to be at least 0:45:14.400 --> 0:45:17.440 thirty thirty five years Or if you would do this 0:45:17.560 --> 0:45:19.960 within the industry and on stage of shit, we might 0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:21.640 take you. But if you some motherfucker that don't went 0:45:21.680 --> 0:45:24.439 to Harvard and shit, and you your first hip hop 0:45:24.480 --> 0:45:26.960 experience was you listening to eminem and some shit like that. 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:33.640 Basically, when they compile them lists, I think they should, 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:36.360 like you said, with a panel, they got to have 0:45:36.600 --> 0:45:40.680 somebody who was at the forefront of the yester years 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:44.160 of hip hop, somebody who knew hip hop from the beginning, 0:45:44.280 --> 0:45:47.879 so they could be included in those discussions. When you 0:45:47.920 --> 0:45:51.920 want to speak on the new stuff, you gotta have 0:45:52.040 --> 0:45:54.680 somebody to be like, well, wait a minute, so and 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:58.239 so was doing this. Cool g Rapp was doing this. 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:04.560 Fucking you know, Gang Star was doing this, Ghetto Boys 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:08.160 was doing this, King T was doing this. You have 0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:11.200 to be able to have somebody to vouch for that, because, 0:46:11.440 --> 0:46:15.520 like you said, if you got motherfuckers who graduated fucking 0:46:15.640 --> 0:46:21.000 college four years ago, they not thinking about Grand Master Flash, 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:24.480 They not thinking about UTFO and shit like that. 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:26.600 They like shit, nigga. 0:46:27.719 --> 0:46:30.600 Old school to me is fucking like you said, Eminem, 0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:35.200 old school to me is fucking anything that happened in 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:36.960 the two thousands and up. 0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:37.960 Feel me. 0:46:38.360 --> 0:46:41.800 You asks a lot of motherfuckers today what they consider 0:46:41.920 --> 0:46:44.719 old school hip hop, and they don't know shit past 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:45.280 two thousand. 0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:47.480 I had to get reminded one day because you know, 0:46:47.520 --> 0:46:49.279 we got a radio show that we're doing too. So 0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:51.799 I was talking to the guy that's about to start 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:55.040 putting our stuff in the syndication, and we pretty much 0:46:55.080 --> 0:46:57.640 thought of a new format. Dog it's pretty much a 0:46:57.680 --> 0:47:01.120 dope contemporary hip hop. No, okay, that's like a lane 0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:04.000 like you figure like the most recent song you may 0:47:04.040 --> 0:47:06.840 play from that is maybe a Hustling by Rick Mark Ross. 0:47:07.360 --> 0:47:09.880 You know what I'm saying. You might put a hustling 0:47:09.920 --> 0:47:11.759 in there something like that, but you would hear the 0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:14.279 hood took Me Under in that mix. And we go 0:47:14.440 --> 0:47:16.800 play these cats new records too, because they have new records. 0:47:16.840 --> 0:47:19.160 It's like the problem, that's the part of hip hop. Man, 0:47:19.680 --> 0:47:22.400 A big part of the problem with hip hop is 0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:25.400 this is that they give everybody an age limit. Everybody 0:47:25.400 --> 0:47:27.759 get a shelf life. Okay, this nigga's passed thirty five, 0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:29.879 so we not gonna play him no more, even though 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:32.839 he's put out ten more records after that last one, 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:34.680 we keep playing over over again. How come he don't 0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:37.359 deserve to get Honor Mintion, Honorable Mintion. This man got 0:47:37.360 --> 0:47:40.080 a banging ass new album. Why is West Coast Radio 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:43.719 not playing it? You feel what I'm saying. And one 0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:45.719 of the things I did want to know with battle Rap, 0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:48.600 and you could tell it's progressing, is they've become better 0:47:48.640 --> 0:47:50.640 at actually making songs because it's some of them dudes 0:47:50.640 --> 0:47:52.719 that can write their ass off, but when it come 0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:55.080 to making a song, he's just like one long ass verse. 0:47:55.640 --> 0:47:58.560 Now the music you hear music from battle rappers that 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:01.560 may sound a little West Coast, may sound trapped, and 0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:03.840 you like, damn that ship. You know that's him because 0:48:04.239 --> 0:48:06.239 meat meals. Didn't he come from the better rap world 0:48:06.280 --> 0:48:06.960 at rapping world? 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:07.520 Yeah? 0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:10.560 Like him better transferred over. He don't sound nothing like 0:48:10.560 --> 0:48:12.200 a nigga that would be a better rapper for real, 0:48:12.320 --> 0:48:12.680 for real. 0:48:13.080 --> 0:48:15.520 I think like now, like now everybody kind of is 0:48:16.480 --> 0:48:18.279 like in that in that realm, like you know, that 0:48:18.360 --> 0:48:20.000 was the that was the early stages, like that battle 0:48:20.040 --> 0:48:21.680 rappers can't make music, you know what I'm saying. Now, 0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:24.319 it's like, nah, that's that. That's stigma pretty much gone. 0:48:24.400 --> 0:48:26.560 Like dudes is really out here like putting together dope 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:30.440 music really. But the issue I think is when you 0:48:30.480 --> 0:48:32.279 get set in a certain box that's kind of where 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:33.480 people just want to see you at, you know what 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:35.440 I'm saying. So it's like, so that's why a lot 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:37.759 of times the goal was always to try to hurry 0:48:37.800 --> 0:48:39.719 up and get to making the music, because you get 0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:41.839 to doing battle rapping, that's all they want to see 0:48:41.840 --> 0:48:43.919 you do. Like you could be dropping, like you said, 0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:45.600 one of the best albums that's out, but it's like, oh, 0:48:45.600 --> 0:48:48.520 I mean with your next battle Like Nigga, Nigga just 0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:50.560 dropped this. You ain't heard this record, this video going, 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:52.600 nah man, when you battling negs, I want because that's 0:48:52.640 --> 0:48:53.520 what they want to see you do. 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:54.279 You know what I'm saying. 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:57.879 It's like motherfucking uh, Michael Jordan, this is usual him. 0:48:57.880 --> 0:48:59.080 For for instance, you know what I'm saying. 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:01.399 I wanted he went to try to play baseball because 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:02.919 what he wanted to do, you know what I'm saying. 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:04.120 But it's like, nah, I men, we gotta see you 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:05.560 back on that court. It don't matter if he was 0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:07.880 knocking home runs out the park, if you would have 0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:10.439 been crazy and baseball wouldn't matter, you know what I'm saying, 0:49:10.440 --> 0:49:12.239 Because it's like, nah, Nigga, like we we know you 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:14.359 from balling, you know what I'm saying. So it's kind 0:49:14.360 --> 0:49:15.919 of like that in Battle Rap where ITA's like, now, 0:49:16.320 --> 0:49:18.719 dudes are really trying to like break through that thresholder 0:49:18.719 --> 0:49:20.080 like let me show y'all we can do music. You 0:49:20.080 --> 0:49:22.080 got a lot of artists that's out there in Battle 0:49:22.120 --> 0:49:24.600 rep that's making sure they putting albums out consistently, trying 0:49:24.640 --> 0:49:26.759 to you know, break that threshold so they not just 0:49:26.800 --> 0:49:28.719 stuck and just always having to do battlerap. 0:49:28.719 --> 0:49:30.560 You know what I'm sure, because you've worked on the album. 0:49:30.719 --> 0:49:31.560 Working on one right now. 0:49:31.600 --> 0:49:34.560 Man, I got an album coming out called Lumagatti, been 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:36.160 working on it for a minute. You know what I'm saying. 0:49:36.160 --> 0:49:38.239 I just dropped some car out of Nowhere too a 0:49:38.280 --> 0:49:39.040 couple of months back. 0:49:39.040 --> 0:49:39.520 You know what I'm saying. 0:49:39.640 --> 0:49:41.920 I try to stay consistent with the music as much 0:49:41.960 --> 0:49:43.800 as I can too, just so I can, you know 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:45.680 what I'm saying, make sure I'm stay consistent in my 0:49:45.760 --> 0:49:47.919 fan base, you know what I'm saying, face with the music, 0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:50.319 so they ain't just stuck on it when your next battle, 0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:51.880 when your next battle is well, like you know, to 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:53.400 where they like looking for the music, you know what 0:49:53.440 --> 0:49:53.880 I'm saying. 0:49:53.880 --> 0:49:55.399 So that's something I'll say. 0:49:55.400 --> 0:49:56.880 I was blessed with like being able to like have 0:49:57.000 --> 0:49:59.480 my podcast where I can talk about my music. I can, 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:00.880 you know what I'm saying, I could keep my fans 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:02.840 kind of engaged with what I do outside of just 0:50:02.840 --> 0:50:04.880 the battle rap. So like, yeah, man, I'm working on 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:07.239 the album right now, Man, I called a Lumagatti I got. 0:50:07.600 --> 0:50:09.279 I got Beano on the on there. You know what 0:50:09.280 --> 0:50:09.680 I'm saying. 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:12.440 I got records with r j Uh, Sue Surf, you 0:50:12.440 --> 0:50:14.040 know what I'm saying, free him. Man, got got a 0:50:14.160 --> 0:50:16.800 production from j Nouri. You know what I'm saying. 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:17.920 Uh, you know my. 0:50:18.200 --> 0:50:22.399 Guy Larry making all the heads, Larry j Jane, Larry Jane, 0:50:23.200 --> 0:50:25.840 bad boy, they got to dudes some of the coldest, 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:27.839 you know what I'm saying. Like, So like, yeah, man, 0:50:27.920 --> 0:50:30.560 I've been working, man, definitely standing staying in tune with that. 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:32.839 So that's that's kind of like my goal like right 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:34.960 now is to really make sure I put out the 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:37.839 best music I could put out. Like like you said earlier, Man, 0:50:37.840 --> 0:50:40.239 it's especially trying to get get on the radio on 0:50:40.280 --> 0:50:42.360 the West and do all this shit is different, you 0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:44.160 know what I'm saying, Like it's not as easy as 0:50:44.520 --> 0:50:46.200 as other reasons, like you know what I mean, like 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:48.239 where they just got access. You know, we gotta we 0:50:48.239 --> 0:50:49.759 gotta fight a little harder to kind of get on. 0:50:49.880 --> 0:50:51.400 This is the number two market in the world. 0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:53.399 Yeah, we gotta play. You know, LA is the number 0:50:53.400 --> 0:50:55.239 two market in the world. It's kind of you know 0:50:55.280 --> 0:50:57.680 what I'm saying, Yeah, as hard as you start on 0:50:57.719 --> 0:50:58.400 at the top. 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:01.400 You know what I'm saying exact, Yeah. 0:51:01.000 --> 0:51:02.719 You're starting off at the top, you know. And I 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:04.760 want to go back to something eight and said earlier. 0:51:05.719 --> 0:51:08.239 You are really a purist. I know you hang out 0:51:08.239 --> 0:51:10.600 with the likes of DJ Premiere and you know people 0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:15.800 like that in that category. Do you think it's fair 0:51:15.840 --> 0:51:20.120 of us? Sometimes it's so called elder statesmen, the gatekeepers 0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:24.279 to probably tell some of these dudes to qualify them, like, 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:25.840 you're not qualified to be doing this. 0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:36.600 It's too much access now. Like when I started rapping, 0:51:37.680 --> 0:51:43.200 it was it was like it was a hard club 0:51:43.320 --> 0:51:50.080 to get in, you feel me. It wasn't accessible as 0:51:50.120 --> 0:51:52.879 it is just you know, just like with how they 0:51:52.920 --> 0:51:56.759 say the statistic the statistics are with kids who come 0:51:56.800 --> 0:52:00.279 out of high school looking to get a college scholarship. 0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:05.680 To play, it's a fucking gang of kids, you feel me. 0:52:07.320 --> 0:52:10.040 I looked at that number and they say, well, it's 0:52:10.080 --> 0:52:14.600 about maybe sixty thousand kids who get offered scholarships to 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:18.320 go to college, but it's probably over a million fucking 0:52:18.440 --> 0:52:22.280 kids more than that. Bro who playing sports, who trying 0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:25.960 to get like you get me. It's an exclusive club 0:52:26.560 --> 0:52:28.680 where it used to be for me. When I first 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.799 started rapping, it was hard as fuck to get a 0:52:31.840 --> 0:52:32.399 record deal. 0:52:32.880 --> 0:52:33.440 You get me. 0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:39.239 The gate keepers of the labels, they weren't letting you in. 0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:41.359 I don't give a fuck about that hip hop shit. 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:48.399 No no, So it took niggas to break the gate open, right, 0:52:49.160 --> 0:52:52.480 So niggas like open the door a little bit, and 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:56.560 then it still was like, Okay, y'all want to come 0:52:56.600 --> 0:53:00.680 in here. Oh, motherfucker, you got to be on point. 0:53:00.880 --> 0:53:03.439 You got you gotta be on point to be here. 0:53:03.800 --> 0:53:06.560 I mean, there was niggas like like I'm saying, you 0:53:06.600 --> 0:53:10.200 had niggas like Cube, You had niggas like rock Him. 0:53:10.680 --> 0:53:17.640 You had niggas like LLL, like niggas who specialized in lyricism. 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:20.200 And it wouldn't nobody else liked them. It wasn't none 0:53:20.200 --> 0:53:21.920 to compare them. Niggas was the beginning. 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:28.440 But nowadays, you know, and to each his own, hip 0:53:28.480 --> 0:53:31.120 hop is all over the place. Man, you know what 0:53:31.120 --> 0:53:36.520 I'm saying, there's you know, you could say like there 0:53:36.560 --> 0:53:41.239 should be you know, niggas the gatekeepers should go. Oh no, man, 0:53:41.280 --> 0:53:43.839 you gotta go back to the drawing board. Oh no, man, 0:53:43.920 --> 0:53:46.840 you gotta But how you gonna tell me that, nigga? 0:53:46.880 --> 0:53:48.640 When I can go in my kitchen and turn on 0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:52.600 my little computer with my microphone and put out whatever 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:56.919 the fuck I want to And tomorrow it's tomorrow. It's 0:53:57.000 --> 0:54:02.839 on YouTube for the world to have, you know. And basically, 0:54:03.000 --> 0:54:05.799 now it's your opinion, because even though you might go 0:54:05.920 --> 0:54:10.000 this shit is garbage, there's somebody going this shit hard 0:54:10.040 --> 0:54:10.960 as a motherfucker. 0:54:11.040 --> 0:54:14.520 Yeah, you get me. We didn't have that back then. 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:21.600 Everybody who went that's garbage went that's garbage. You didn't 0:54:21.600 --> 0:54:24.799 have motherfuckers going, well, hey man, I kind of like 0:54:24.920 --> 0:54:25.959 that garbage. 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:26.719 You get me. 0:54:27.160 --> 0:54:31.840 Now it's open nigga, Your fucking ten year old kid'll 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:34.440 be telling you, oh man, this shit is the fire 0:54:34.600 --> 0:54:38.480 right here me the most RinkyDink shit you ever heard 0:54:38.560 --> 0:54:41.960 in your life, and it's making your head hurting, you like, 0:54:42.080 --> 0:54:45.680 what the fuck is this? But then it's twenty fix 0:54:45.800 --> 0:54:49.720 fucking ten year olds loving that stupid shit. This music, 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:51.719 this gear towards And that's what I'm saying. It's like 0:54:51.760 --> 0:54:55.400 an adult contemporary hip hop now because I listen to 0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:58.040 all hip hop and oldies. Yeah, so on my car, 0:54:58.200 --> 0:55:00.440 my playlist, you gonna hear ghetto bull Is. You go 0:55:00.560 --> 0:55:03.600 hear Akoolgie rap, You go hear m C eight, you 0:55:03.680 --> 0:55:06.160 go hear you know, just this plathorugh of different niggas 0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:06.400 like that. 0:55:06.520 --> 0:55:09.399 You not go hear the a lot of the newer shit. 0:55:09.520 --> 0:55:10.960 You're not gonna hear none of that new stuff. Like, 0:55:11.040 --> 0:55:12.880 I'm not gonna see it, even though I respect to 0:55:13.000 --> 0:55:15.080 young thug, it was very familiar this music. I'm not 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:18.000 gonna sit with the listen of that. That's not my lane. 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:19.799 You fee what I mean, It's not my lane. That's 0:55:19.800 --> 0:55:22.399 not my thing. So I think hip hop is splin 0:55:22.480 --> 0:55:24.440 it off in the different stuff now dog to wear 0:55:24.480 --> 0:55:26.600 that ten year old. I can't be mad at them 0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:31.239 because really that stuff we may think sound like garbage 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:34.360 is actually keeping the hip hop tree alive. You know, 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:34.960 it's a part of that. 0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:37.960 It's like it's just like I learned that too. 0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:41.239 It's just it's really what they generation dealing with, and 0:55:41.280 --> 0:55:44.680 that's and it is really the music that's speaking today time. 0:55:44.760 --> 0:55:46.800 You know what I'm saying, Like, of course you Bobby 0:55:46.840 --> 0:55:48.720 not gonna get it, like you said, man being fifty 0:55:48.960 --> 0:55:52.799 somebody that's twenty right now doing they doing a whole 0:55:52.800 --> 0:55:54.520 different type of drug than a nigga was doing. 0:55:54.719 --> 0:55:58.400 Yeah, a motherfucker do a motherfucker add twenty. Want to 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:02.000 hear some intelligent speech you getting Hell no, nigga, I'm 0:56:02.040 --> 0:56:04.279 perker setting out right now, Nigga. I want to hear 0:56:04.400 --> 0:56:08.400 niggas say some stupid ship like, motherfucking my asshole is 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:11.360 this color? And I want to hear mother fucking say, Nigga, 0:56:11.600 --> 0:56:12.920 I want to hear what fuckers say. 0:56:12.840 --> 0:56:15.080 Jump off the roof and do some stupid ship. 0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:18.960 Nigga, take your gag, your motherfucker halucidative of drugs and 0:56:19.160 --> 0:56:22.040 we fucking bitches off of drugs and you don't. 0:56:22.400 --> 0:56:24.879 It's in our day. You was frowned to punt if 0:56:24.880 --> 0:56:27.680 you had about doing the drugs, if you was on 0:56:27.800 --> 0:56:30.280 cracking cocaine or something. Niggas like, nigga, you a smoker, 0:56:30.360 --> 0:56:33.560 Nigga head like you're straight up, you fucking dope. 0:56:33.760 --> 0:56:36.799 You're doing anything but weed. Nigga, You motherfucking dope here. 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:38.880 And this was a gang of homies who was dipping 0:56:38.880 --> 0:56:39.960 them cigarette like. 0:56:39.920 --> 0:56:43.200 That in the hood. But you know, you're sure to 0:56:43.280 --> 0:56:49.520 hear nigga, Hey, we frowned, say something like that. 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:55.480 I tell niggas all the savage and everybody say, what you. 0:56:54.840 --> 0:56:56.719 We just had a thirty two a savage. 0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:57.360 We just want to. 0:56:58.960 --> 0:57:01.880 I came from a different cold man. It's just different. 0:57:02.000 --> 0:57:08.400 It was just different. Man is like and the niggas 0:57:08.520 --> 0:57:13.640 is like, like they are they everything. They give me 0:57:13.719 --> 0:57:17.360 all that shit, nigga everything, nign just fuck me up, 0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:19.520 give it to me and then I'm a gonna make it, 0:57:19.600 --> 0:57:21.919 and then I'm gonna make a record off this shit, 0:57:22.080 --> 0:57:25.240 and you get me and people are influenced, and you 0:57:25.440 --> 0:57:29.160 just feel me. Younger generation look at us. Old elder says, man, 0:57:29.160 --> 0:57:31.080 you niggas don't know shit. I used to do the 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:34.240 same thing when I was eighteen nineteen. You was thirty 0:57:34.320 --> 0:57:37.720 or forty. Niggas, you can't tell me shit, you old motherfucker. 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:42.840 You don't know nothing. But then, like I said, you 0:57:42.920 --> 0:57:45.720 transition and you grow up one day and then motherfuckers 0:57:45.760 --> 0:57:49.360 that's doing that shit, hopefully they make it. They gonna 0:57:49.400 --> 0:57:51.560 be what we are one day and the motherfucker gonna 0:57:51.560 --> 0:57:54.520 be like Man, God damn, I used to say something. 0:57:54.520 --> 0:57:57.600 The stupidest shit I used to be telling niggas to 0:57:57.640 --> 0:58:01.360 get perked out and fucking lean doubt. And I used 0:58:01.400 --> 0:58:04.080 to do it. I destroyed the danger youth man without 0:58:04.120 --> 0:58:07.360 what's coming. Yeah, but you know it's like I said, 0:58:07.360 --> 0:58:09.320 it's the generation, the generational gap. 0:58:09.600 --> 0:58:12.919 You know. I I want to be a smart motherfucker. 0:58:13.040 --> 0:58:15.320 I want to be a dumb nigga, you feel me, 0:58:15.680 --> 0:58:18.200 even though I was hood, I want to be a 0:58:18.240 --> 0:58:20.600 smart nigga. I ain't want to be like a because 0:58:20.640 --> 0:58:23.240 they all looked at us as dumb niggas. Man, you 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:26.560 feel me. We were all dumb niggas and and just 0:58:26.600 --> 0:58:28.680 to be able to now niggas look at you and 0:58:28.760 --> 0:58:31.960 you hold a conversation. Niggas look at you like damn 0:58:32.920 --> 0:58:35.840 motherfucker can speak, and the motherfuckers because they looked at 0:58:35.960 --> 0:58:38.960 us as dumb niggas to hear. But I didn't want 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:43.000 to conform to the stereotype of what people thought niggas 0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:45.800 should have been coming from where we came from. 0:58:45.840 --> 0:58:46.560 You know what I'm saying. 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:51.200 A lot of niggas push that issue right now, like 0:58:51.360 --> 0:58:55.480 just dumb illiteracy type of motherfuckers like I don't get 0:58:55.480 --> 0:58:58.960 the decisions and whatever. And it's like niggas is living 0:58:59.040 --> 0:59:02.880 up to the stereo type of what people say hip 0:59:02.880 --> 0:59:05.479 hop rappers are supposed to be just dumb and lit. 0:59:05.640 --> 0:59:08.600 You see niggas is going to jail left and right, 0:59:08.680 --> 0:59:11.960 and you see niggas is doing shit just like God damn. 0:59:12.240 --> 0:59:15.960 I would have never done that shit like I would 0:59:16.000 --> 0:59:17.880 have never because we was taught different. 0:59:17.920 --> 0:59:19.320 We was taught at different code. 0:59:20.320 --> 0:59:24.240 I looked at old g's and the shit that they said, Nigga, 0:59:24.280 --> 0:59:26.960 you took the heat like nigga, you don't do this shit. 0:59:27.160 --> 0:59:28.200 You don't do this shit. 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:30.439 You don't act this way, you don't do this shit, 0:59:30.520 --> 0:59:31.640 even though you hood. 0:59:31.960 --> 0:59:33.840 We just followed different cold. 0:59:33.880 --> 0:59:36.800 These the kids is lost today because a lot of 0:59:36.840 --> 0:59:41.360 their heroes are the are the rappers, and a lot 0:59:41.400 --> 0:59:45.320 of them are in different places than we was as youngsters. 0:59:45.360 --> 0:59:47.840 You give me a lot of youngsters wouldn't let us 0:59:47.920 --> 0:59:50.560 do dumb shit, man, you feel me. A lot of 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:53.960 niggas cared about, you know, the way the hood looked 0:59:54.320 --> 0:59:56.080 and how it was represented. 0:59:56.280 --> 0:59:56.560 Nigga. 0:59:56.560 --> 0:59:59.520 We wasn't gonna be looked at as the dope head hood. 1:00:00.040 --> 1:00:03.840 Everybody over here smoked out and on sherm and everybody 1:00:03.960 --> 1:00:07.320 taking percosets and lead and all you get your ass 1:00:07.360 --> 1:00:10.680 taken advantage of dead back. Yeh, yeah, you know, it's 1:00:10.720 --> 1:00:12.120 it's a different time, man. 1:00:12.280 --> 1:00:14.480 One thing that surprised me about the day though, man, 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:19.040 as a concern you know battle rap, is that it 1:00:19.160 --> 1:00:21.240 seemed like it's a lot of niggas into that shit. 1:00:21.320 --> 1:00:21.520 Doog. 1:00:21.600 --> 1:00:24.000 It's way more niggas not dogs. When I saw you, 1:00:24.080 --> 1:00:27.360 I said, Man, the Crypston'm infiltrated the battle rap. 1:00:27.200 --> 1:00:30.160 World because like, like he said, like it's still it's 1:00:30.160 --> 1:00:32.200 that pure r form you dig know what I'm saying, 1:00:32.240 --> 1:00:34.760 It ain't got it like it got its weirdos in 1:00:34.840 --> 1:00:36.360 this in this goofballs like. 1:00:36.400 --> 1:00:37.160 Moments and shit. 1:00:37.480 --> 1:00:38.919 But for the most part, you know what I'm saying, 1:00:38.920 --> 1:00:40.640 it's still it's still got that gutta. 1:00:40.840 --> 1:00:42.560 You know what I'm saying, It still got that to it. 1:00:42.640 --> 1:00:43.240 You know what I'm saying. 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:46.200 Where motherfuckers is still keeping that that that integrity. You 1:00:46.200 --> 1:00:48.480 know what I'm saying, line like where nigga ain't crossing it. 1:00:48.520 --> 1:00:50.280 You know what I'm saying, Where it's still some structure 1:00:50.720 --> 1:00:52.240 involved in it. You know what I'm saying, Like the 1:00:52.760 --> 1:00:56.360 the the hierarchy or the Jesus who've been doing that 1:00:56.400 --> 1:00:58.400 shit for a minute and battle rap is still able 1:00:58.400 --> 1:01:00.400 to They still have some type of you know, they 1:01:00.440 --> 1:01:02.320 still got culture. It's still culture there, you know what 1:01:02.320 --> 1:01:05.000 I'm saying. So, like you say, now in hip hop, 1:01:05.520 --> 1:01:07.640 you cold, you can see the disconnecting the culture. 1:01:07.640 --> 1:01:08.240 You know what I'm saying. 1:01:08.240 --> 1:01:10.880 You can see the disconnect from somebody that's just coming 1:01:10.920 --> 1:01:13.400 in the game to having respect for somebody that been 1:01:13.440 --> 1:01:14.640 in the game for a long time. 1:01:14.680 --> 1:01:16.040 That you know what I'm saying. Because you gotta think 1:01:16.080 --> 1:01:16.680 the tar's chain. 1:01:16.720 --> 1:01:18.560 They looking at it like, yeah, all right, when you 1:01:18.560 --> 1:01:20.600 started rapping, yr y'all probably was getting this. But now 1:01:20.640 --> 1:01:23.160 we coming in, we getting this much money. All I 1:01:23.160 --> 1:01:25.240 gotta do is do this thing right here. I only 1:01:25.320 --> 1:01:26.880 like you said, I don't even gotta go to the 1:01:27.000 --> 1:01:29.040 record label. Man, I can grab my phone, drop this 1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:31.760 on TikTok and the label come holler at me, ain' said, 1:01:31.800 --> 1:01:34.120 Because I done got a million views off of a 1:01:34.200 --> 1:01:36.720 thirty second clip of my song and everybody singing it 1:01:36.760 --> 1:01:38.320 and doing my dance. Now you know what I'm saying, 1:01:38.320 --> 1:01:40.120 I ain't. I ain't listening to no nigga, you know 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:42.520 what I'm saying. So now it's as to disconnect and 1:01:42.560 --> 1:01:44.840 battle rap. It's like it's still like, nah, man, it ain't. 1:01:44.840 --> 1:01:47.560 It's only certain platforms that you're gonna be able to 1:01:47.560 --> 1:01:49.080 get that on. You know what I'm saying. It ain't. No, 1:01:49.320 --> 1:01:51.400 you're not gonna be able to just oh man, just today, 1:01:51.440 --> 1:01:53.400 I'm gonna just do my battle, me and you and 1:01:53.560 --> 1:01:54.520 we just make some money. 1:01:54.600 --> 1:01:55.960 Like nah, Like, it don't work like that. You know 1:01:56.000 --> 1:01:56.880 what I'm saying. You ain't gonna be. 1:01:56.920 --> 1:01:59.560 To just go on TikTok battle yourself and just get 1:01:59.640 --> 1:02:01.600 put on and get put on the battle of me. 1:02:01.920 --> 1:02:03.120 You know what I'm saying. Like, you know, it don't 1:02:03.120 --> 1:02:04.440 work like that. You know what I'm saying, Like, you 1:02:04.440 --> 1:02:06.120 got to really put something in, put some pain in it. 1:02:06.200 --> 1:02:07.840 You get a lot of the niggas come up to 1:02:07.880 --> 1:02:10.000 you when you're in traffic because you're a regular dude. Yeah, 1:02:10.600 --> 1:02:13.120 good dudes. When you walking through the Lakewood Mall somewhere, 1:02:13.680 --> 1:02:15.520 niggas come up in your face and start rapping. 1:02:15.760 --> 1:02:17.440 Now, I don't get no niggas rapping, you know what 1:02:17.480 --> 1:02:19.600 I'm saying. Thank God, you know what I'm saying, because 1:02:19.640 --> 1:02:21.120 I ain't trying to even deal. 1:02:20.960 --> 1:02:24.200 With that of your face. 1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:27.600 I usually get a motherfucker that show a nigga I 1:02:27.640 --> 1:02:28.760 love though you love. 1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:33.200 That Lakewood Lake talking about that Lakewood. 1:02:32.640 --> 1:02:38.800 Mall love that. 1:02:38.800 --> 1:02:42.480 That's what niggas hang out at. I was personally frequent 1:02:42.560 --> 1:02:48.680 other established. But I know about that. I knew about that. 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:53.440 My niggas still saying, I personally I frequent others. 1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:55.240 Back in the day. The Lakewood was the one. So't 1:02:55.280 --> 1:02:57.160 mad at you. It was backing that was the one. 1:02:57.200 --> 1:02:57.960 You know what I'm saying. 1:02:58.080 --> 1:02:59.960 Yeah, but you don't get a lot of niggas. 1:03:00.040 --> 1:03:01.960 I'm probably not trying to rap, but I do get 1:03:02.000 --> 1:03:04.120 a lot. Like I say from my DMS, just in person, 1:03:04.160 --> 1:03:06.360 I'm always getting mother fuckers. Like I get a lot 1:03:06.360 --> 1:03:08.640 of love people that recognize me and you know what's 1:03:08.720 --> 1:03:10.760 up god d dah. But I probably get a lot 1:03:10.760 --> 1:03:13.040 of motherfuckers. That's like trying to like get booked on 1:03:13.040 --> 1:03:15.120 the league or something like, Yo, you know what I'm saying, 1:03:15.160 --> 1:03:16.480 like he give me a shot, man, I mean let me. 1:03:16.560 --> 1:03:18.120 You know what I'm saying, like, yo, let me hear 1:03:18.320 --> 1:03:19.080 my battle footage. 1:03:19.200 --> 1:03:21.400 Something it hard to get into? Is it hard to 1:03:21.440 --> 1:03:23.040 get into and get established? 1:03:23.120 --> 1:03:25.440 Yeah? Hell yeah, I mean, like I think. 1:03:27.200 --> 1:03:30.120 Because it's so many battle rappers now though, like it's 1:03:30.160 --> 1:03:33.760 that ship, like it's like it probably when it first started, probably, 1:03:33.760 --> 1:03:36.360 like I said, you could point them out, you knew, like, okay. 1:03:36.080 --> 1:03:37.640 Mon, it first started, it was authentic. 1:03:37.720 --> 1:03:40.680 It was all you know, murder battle, Battle read dollars battle. 1:03:40.800 --> 1:03:43.840 You probably can name the thirty dudes. Who's getting oversaturated 1:03:43.920 --> 1:03:45.680 Now it's oversaturated. Man, it's battle. 1:03:46.080 --> 1:03:48.360 It's oversaturated. It's a thousand league. 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:52.560 They posted somebody is making money doing something that appears easy. 1:03:52.920 --> 1:03:56.000 Niggas that niggas that have hustles and scamsit at home 1:03:56.040 --> 1:03:58.120 and say, man, I could do that ship. You see 1:03:58.160 --> 1:04:00.480 they just gave this nigga a million dollars. Next thing 1:04:00.520 --> 1:04:01.280 they do that's like. 1:04:01.240 --> 1:04:03.480 It's rappers, it's a million. 1:04:03.280 --> 1:04:06.520 Leads rappers, it's a million podcasts. Now. We were first 1:04:06.640 --> 1:04:08.600 established this stuff. We was kind of the first people 1:04:08.640 --> 1:04:10.840 doing what we were doing. The show has changed tremendously 1:04:10.880 --> 1:04:14.640 since that time. But I've seen a whole bunch of 1:04:14.640 --> 1:04:15.600 people come and go. 1:04:15.800 --> 1:04:18.919 Because everybody think that like take this for people think like, okay, 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:21.120 let me get some camera to gets somebody's sit right here. 1:04:21.280 --> 1:04:22.120 We're finna get money. 1:04:22.160 --> 1:04:23.520 They just think we. 1:04:23.440 --> 1:04:26.040 Do two three episodes. I know some kind of it's 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:29.240 sixty thousand in the text somewhere. Then they realize, like, nah, Nigga, 1:04:29.240 --> 1:04:31.080 you gots the really bigga. This this I don't know 1:04:31.120 --> 1:04:33.320 what you think Nigga's making on YouTube, but you got 1:04:33.360 --> 1:04:35.400 to work and work and work and work and work 1:04:35.600 --> 1:04:38.000 to even see a return on something, to even make something. 1:04:38.000 --> 1:04:39.840 The way you can keep the keep this shit going. 1:04:39.880 --> 1:04:41.280 A lot of this shit is the money you're putting in. 1:04:41.320 --> 1:04:43.200 Is when people realize that you gotta put your own 1:04:43.200 --> 1:04:44.800 money in to do that. 1:04:44.600 --> 1:04:46.840 That's when it's going back. You know what I'm saying. 1:04:49.560 --> 1:04:52.120 We want to clarify some things when it comes to podcast, 1:04:52.160 --> 1:04:54.000 just for the people, like cause I get people ask 1:04:54.080 --> 1:04:56.200 me all the time, how do you do this and 1:04:56.280 --> 1:05:00.560 do that? And when you ask them, what they plan 1:05:00.760 --> 1:05:02.320 is like what's your plan? Well, I want to get 1:05:02.320 --> 1:05:05.240 a deal somewhere. It's like the music shitting. So this 1:05:05.280 --> 1:05:08.520 is what I tell them. I get people all the 1:05:08.560 --> 1:05:10.280 time to try to tell me what my numbers, Oh, 1:05:10.320 --> 1:05:11.920 that's why your show ain't doing this and that, and 1:05:11.960 --> 1:05:15.200 it's like I say, okay, reach a million motherfuckers a month, 1:05:15.800 --> 1:05:17.720 and so I listen to them and I talk to 1:05:17.760 --> 1:05:20.440 them and I say, what is it that you're trying 1:05:20.440 --> 1:05:22.240 to accomplish? I want to get a DLA. Okay, what 1:05:22.320 --> 1:05:24.000 I have to do? I got this camera, that camera, 1:05:24.040 --> 1:05:26.320 and I tell them, well, first of all, the podcast 1:05:26.440 --> 1:05:29.440 is really in its purest form, just audio. This is 1:05:29.520 --> 1:05:32.240 really a reaching that vent of us putting stuff on 1:05:32.280 --> 1:05:35.000 YouTube and all that stuff, You're reaching a whole different 1:05:35.040 --> 1:05:38.880 base of people, right, And so I get somebody excited. 1:05:38.920 --> 1:05:40.640 Hey man, I got a YouTube video that did three 1:05:40.720 --> 1:05:42.960 hundred thousand views. That's cool. So do a million other 1:05:43.000 --> 1:05:47.760 people if you can get your audio to a certain 1:05:49.240 --> 1:05:51.320 place to where you're getting a certain amount of listeners. 1:05:51.320 --> 1:05:53.080 Because people listening to metrics, there are a lot of 1:05:53.120 --> 1:05:56.240 things involved. How long somebody is listening to your show, 1:05:57.720 --> 1:06:00.360 the subscribe as you've got, the frequency of downs, the 1:06:00.480 --> 1:06:03.080 quality of that subscriber. See YouTube. I'm gonna tell you 1:06:03.120 --> 1:06:05.360 something about YouTube. The reason a lot of people don't 1:06:05.360 --> 1:06:07.720 get chests from YouTube is because the people that typically 1:06:07.800 --> 1:06:10.360 watch YouTube don't spend a lot of money that's not 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:15.240 attracted through advertise. They would rather reach a million people 1:06:15.320 --> 1:06:18.120 dog that's going out to purchase something than two million 1:06:18.120 --> 1:06:21.680 people who ain't gonna buy shit, right, you know, five 1:06:21.760 --> 1:06:25.080 hundred million people that ain't go buy shit, So that 1:06:25.240 --> 1:06:28.040 audience is worth a lot more money, even though it 1:06:28.080 --> 1:06:30.360 may be in less amounts. I think we maybe got 1:06:30.400 --> 1:06:33.320 like maybe three hundred thousand subscribers or something like that. 1:06:34.200 --> 1:06:35.840 I didn't never have to go out and pich the 1:06:35.920 --> 1:06:38.840 Jameson chronicles nobody. I never sent nobody enoughing. People were 1:06:38.880 --> 1:06:43.680 calling me. They was calling us from Spotify, this company, 1:06:43.720 --> 1:06:46.960 from Ben's time, and this company. So I tell people, 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:48.760 if you do what you do when you're good at it, 1:06:48.760 --> 1:06:51.000 somebody go reach out to reach out to you. Same 1:06:51.000 --> 1:06:53.080 thing that happened with you on your battle ret you 1:06:53.240 --> 1:06:55.440 was consistent in what she was doing. Did it happened. 1:06:55.840 --> 1:06:58.520 I never went into anything I made money off of. 1:06:58.920 --> 1:07:01.560 When I was in music, got made money as an executive. 1:07:02.120 --> 1:07:04.280 When I wanted to podcast, I made money. But I 1:07:04.280 --> 1:07:06.320 didn't jump in neither one of those ventures with the 1:07:06.360 --> 1:07:08.920 plans to make money. I did it because I just 1:07:08.960 --> 1:07:10.760 want to excel at it and be the best at it. 1:07:10.800 --> 1:07:15.560 So if you really strive towards perfecting your craft and 1:07:15.560 --> 1:07:18.040 being dope and some shit, the money is gonna come. 1:07:18.960 --> 1:07:20.280 I don't think you had to go out and look 1:07:20.320 --> 1:07:22.080 for a record deal, did you no? 1:07:23.080 --> 1:07:27.120 I basically you know, we started rapping, making demo tapes. 1:07:27.680 --> 1:07:31.960 Motherfucker heard it and there you go. That's what I'm saying. Man, 1:07:32.000 --> 1:07:33.960 All you gotta do is like sugar Free say, if 1:07:34.000 --> 1:07:37.200 you stay ready, you ain't got it wasning overnight, you get. 1:07:36.360 --> 1:07:41.320 It looked like sometimes you know, and sometimes. 1:07:40.760 --> 1:07:43.640 Motherfuckers do you know, you can see a motherfucker in 1:07:43.680 --> 1:07:47.120 the same position as you, and you'll look up and 1:07:47.160 --> 1:07:49.280 be like, damn, I've been doing this shit three years. 1:07:49.640 --> 1:07:53.240 This motherfucker came out three days ago and he where 1:07:53.280 --> 1:07:55.480 I've been trying to get in three days? 1:07:55.760 --> 1:07:56.440 You getting. 1:07:56.600 --> 1:08:00.320 But sometimes I just tell motherfuckers and I perfect example, 1:08:00.400 --> 1:08:02.280 I tell my son that ship all the time. 1:08:04.080 --> 1:08:04.960 Some of us. 1:08:07.040 --> 1:08:11.080 Get the ship overnight, but it's some of us who 1:08:11.120 --> 1:08:14.160 got the grind and work to get that overnight success too. 1:08:14.560 --> 1:08:16.920 You know me, I said, So, don't take it as 1:08:17.000 --> 1:08:21.839 any different. If you know, like you going to this school, 1:08:22.240 --> 1:08:25.920 but then the homie going to this school, you get me. 1:08:26.520 --> 1:08:30.719 It's grind might be a little smoother, but you still 1:08:30.760 --> 1:08:33.400 on the same road. You get me. You just got 1:08:33.400 --> 1:08:36.280 to start from a different place. And sometimes that make 1:08:36.360 --> 1:08:38.439 you a little more humbler when you got to grind 1:08:38.479 --> 1:08:39.320 a little harder. 1:08:39.720 --> 1:08:43.120 So that's that's all you feel me, But they don't 1:08:43.160 --> 1:08:45.680 think it. Sometimes the grind it looked like it be 1:08:45.720 --> 1:08:48.280 overnight because it's new to them, Like they ain't seeing you. 1:08:48.880 --> 1:08:50.919 But if you've been knowing, you've been working this whole. 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:53.360 Time, man, please and nigga see you tomorrow. See you 1:08:53.400 --> 1:08:56.240 went from blue shoes to gray shoes, and be like, oh, nigga, 1:08:56.240 --> 1:08:59.320 you balling. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You got 1:08:59.320 --> 1:09:02.680 the great jors today. Yesterday you had the blue ones on, 1:09:02.800 --> 1:09:04.080 and now you got the great ones on. 1:09:04.439 --> 1:09:05.519 Nigga, you balled. 1:09:05.880 --> 1:09:08.839 Niggas see perception of that because a lot of niggas 1:09:08.840 --> 1:09:14.280 don't understand the complications of trying to get to the grind, 1:09:14.600 --> 1:09:17.599 especially the niggas come from your normal settings or home. 1:09:17.640 --> 1:09:18.639 These up thereas like. 1:09:18.640 --> 1:09:20.479 Spend a lot of your own money, Like when y'all 1:09:20.520 --> 1:09:23.599 made these demos that y'all have, you gotta spend your money. 1:09:23.800 --> 1:09:26.360 You have to buy tape. We had to buy TDK tapes, 1:09:26.479 --> 1:09:28.240 you know what I'm saying. We had to go out 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:30.679 and buy records and ship the Nicks and do all 1:09:30.720 --> 1:09:33.800 of that. Look here, and we had seen years old 1:09:33.880 --> 1:09:35.839 and we had to pay for studio times. 1:09:36.160 --> 1:09:36.400 Shit. 1:09:36.560 --> 1:09:39.200 That shit wasn't free like it was, but it was 1:09:39.280 --> 1:09:41.680 just it was like and then niggas start like, you 1:09:41.800 --> 1:09:44.960 niggas as crazy as fuck. Y'all could be buying dope 1:09:45.000 --> 1:09:47.720 sacks and re upping and ship and you niggas going 1:09:47.760 --> 1:09:48.560 to the studio. 1:09:48.800 --> 1:09:53.800 Like when I first went the podcasting, the nigga told me, man, 1:09:53.840 --> 1:09:55.880 you're wasting your time. Don't nobody want to hear no 1:09:55.960 --> 1:09:58.639 niggas talking and doing all this and that? And I said, man, 1:09:58.640 --> 1:10:02.280 we go see. We can damn sure find out. And 1:10:02.320 --> 1:10:04.720 I spent a lot of money. Man. It's like, in 1:10:04.840 --> 1:10:06.439 order to get the show where it was at, dog, 1:10:06.479 --> 1:10:10.559 I was already like sixty thousand, Yeah, I was already 1:10:10.640 --> 1:10:12.960 sixty thousand then, man, because you gotta remember, I put 1:10:12.960 --> 1:10:18.000 the show together based on three different personalities, and sometimes 1:10:18.040 --> 1:10:19.800 I had to kick gas money in and there. All 1:10:19.920 --> 1:10:22.280 kind of shit is studio on top of studio time, 1:10:22.520 --> 1:10:24.760 you're trying to convince somebody to do some shit. Now 1:10:24.760 --> 1:10:26.559 you gotta start trying to put some money in their pocket. 1:10:26.760 --> 1:10:28.960 Yeah you know what I'm saying. So It's like it's 1:10:28.960 --> 1:10:29.439 a lot. 1:10:29.360 --> 1:10:30.960 That come with this shit. You know what I'm saying, 1:10:31.000 --> 1:10:32.519 It's a lot munch of stress, man. You know what 1:10:32.520 --> 1:10:34.559 I'm saying. I've seen some shit like this on Instagram 1:10:34.560 --> 1:10:37.120 where a nigga be like people be confused like having 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:39.479 right because everybody like they got motion, but motherfucker be 1:10:39.520 --> 1:10:42.240 like having motion and having progress, Like I'm a fucker 1:10:42.240 --> 1:10:44.200 got emotion, but like motion is just I could be 1:10:44.200 --> 1:10:46.360 going like this, I ain't going nowhere, but I'm in motion. 1:10:46.840 --> 1:10:48.519 Nigga gonna be having no progress though, you know what 1:10:48.520 --> 1:10:50.320 im saying. Niggas ain't going forward, you know what I'm saying. 1:10:50.320 --> 1:10:52.559 So like he said, to be perception, moen fucker's be's 1:10:52.600 --> 1:10:54.280 looking at it one way, just thinking of this, but 1:10:54.320 --> 1:10:56.479 they don't know how much it takes to have progress 1:10:56.479 --> 1:10:58.400 with this shit, like you say, to have a strong team, 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:01.080 like I done went through different co on my podcast. 1:11:01.160 --> 1:11:05.000 We had people meeting with all that shit, different location. 1:11:05.040 --> 1:11:07.280 You know, went through all that because motherfuckers don't like 1:11:07.320 --> 1:11:08.840 I ain't got that. You gotta have people that got 1:11:08.880 --> 1:11:11.080 that same vision that see it all the way through. 1:11:11.120 --> 1:11:13.360 Like nigga ain't gonna beat tomorrow, man, it ain't gonna. 1:11:13.120 --> 1:11:13.800 Be the next week. 1:11:13.960 --> 1:11:15.519 But by the time we get there, we're gonna be 1:11:15.560 --> 1:11:17.000 straight when we get to where we're going, you know 1:11:17.040 --> 1:11:17.439 what I'm saying. 1:11:17.439 --> 1:11:17.880 But you got. 1:11:17.920 --> 1:11:20.200 It's just like today, you got to the days I 1:11:20.240 --> 1:11:22.519 got we talk about boy my boy. They got a 1:11:22.520 --> 1:11:24.479 podcast on my on my network. Man, we be dazed. 1:11:24.520 --> 1:11:25.920 I'll be like, I only feel like coming up here. 1:11:26.240 --> 1:11:29.040 So you got a network show, studio in network, you 1:11:29.040 --> 1:11:30.400 know what I'm saying. We got the no studio on 1:11:30.479 --> 1:11:32.840 podcasts My boy, A D and T Money. They do 1:11:32.880 --> 1:11:34.920 the standing on business podcasts. You know what I'm saying. 1:11:34.960 --> 1:11:37.240 They got their own channel as well. But they started off, 1:11:37.280 --> 1:11:39.320 you know, working on our network just to get their 1:11:39.400 --> 1:11:41.680 fan base up and get their viewership up. But they 1:11:41.680 --> 1:11:43.800 got the standing on business podcasts. And then of course 1:11:43.800 --> 1:11:46.439 I dropped like battles on my network and different stuff 1:11:46.479 --> 1:11:47.840 like that, you know what I'm saying. So yeah, but 1:11:48.000 --> 1:11:50.000 that's how we That's the goal of what I'm trying 1:11:50.000 --> 1:11:51.760 to do with the YouTube channels, to kind of just 1:11:51.800 --> 1:11:54.439 have different you know, like not just my podcast with 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:57.280 somebody else podcast, somebody show, whatever they. 1:11:57.160 --> 1:11:58.519 Want to do, you know what I'm saying. Where it's 1:11:58.560 --> 1:11:59.719 kind of like, you know, like a network. 1:11:59.720 --> 1:11:59.840 You know. 1:12:00.040 --> 1:12:03.080 That's where I took Digital Soapbox, like three four years ago. 1:12:03.160 --> 1:12:06.040 I saw where it was going, and I started hosting, 1:12:06.120 --> 1:12:07.880 you know, putting clips of other people's shows on the 1:12:07.960 --> 1:12:10.120 action YouTube chounds. And that went from me because I 1:12:10.360 --> 1:12:13.720 understood the audio, so I was putting audio out in. 1:12:13.760 --> 1:12:16.400 At one time, man Digital Soapbox had a roster of 1:12:16.479 --> 1:12:19.680 like twenty five shows. But what I saw was it 1:12:19.760 --> 1:12:23.080 became a roster of twenty five people with headaches. I 1:12:23.080 --> 1:12:26.240 didn't hear it twenty five more headedche because the first 1:12:26.240 --> 1:12:28.240 thing people would ask, they would hear one show, get 1:12:28.280 --> 1:12:31.080 an add How come we didn't get no reads. You 1:12:31.120 --> 1:12:33.120 need to start doing your job and get us some money. 1:12:33.160 --> 1:12:35.840 And it's like it just became a headache box, like 1:12:35.880 --> 1:12:40.360 you start letting motherfuckers going. I realized having three good shows, yeah, 1:12:40.439 --> 1:12:42.599 I would rather have one good show and you just say, okay, 1:12:42.600 --> 1:12:45.280 we're taking people as they go along and have twenty 1:12:45.280 --> 1:12:45.880 five headaches. 1:12:46.080 --> 1:12:49.040 Trying to trying to have thirty shows might look good, 1:12:49.080 --> 1:12:51.839 but then, like I said, you're gonna have the headaches 1:12:51.880 --> 1:12:54.000 of thirty when you really should just deal with two 1:12:54.080 --> 1:12:54.639 or three. 1:12:54.760 --> 1:12:56.439 That's what I'm saying now. So what I did is 1:12:56.479 --> 1:12:59.639 I condensed all of them shows down to the five 1:12:59.680 --> 1:13:02.479 shows that were just great. Sure was that really? Like? Yeah? 1:13:02.479 --> 1:13:05.120 And the ones who understood what y'all was doing, understand 1:13:05.120 --> 1:13:06.280 how to work with Big Court. 1:13:06.320 --> 1:13:08.559 He was down with us. Big Court came to me 1:13:08.600 --> 1:13:11.000 one day and say, hey, man, Revolte hollered at me, Man, 1:13:11.040 --> 1:13:13.559 go take that revolt deal. That's what that's what we're 1:13:13.560 --> 1:13:16.320 here for. That's the purpose of us doing this. All 1:13:16.360 --> 1:13:18.400 this deal is an incubator. This meant for you to 1:13:18.400 --> 1:13:21.040 go fly, brother, straight up. If I'm not ever man 1:13:21.120 --> 1:13:24.320 as man for establishing this independence, man, go do your thing. 1:13:24.520 --> 1:13:27.120 Anything helped, he asked me. He said, Man, need you 1:13:27.160 --> 1:13:28.920 to help me with this? And that no problem. Bro, 1:13:29.439 --> 1:13:31.800 still my boy to this day. That's my dog right then. 1:13:31.840 --> 1:13:33.679 You know, I'm proud of that. You know, but that's 1:13:33.680 --> 1:13:35.960 what it should be. And if you don't, because your 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:38.519 team is only as good as its weakest link. If 1:13:38.560 --> 1:13:41.519 everybody around you, man is hanging on your shoulders. What 1:13:41.640 --> 1:13:44.599 happens when you hit a rough pack? Sw something happened? Dog? 1:13:45.040 --> 1:13:48.679 Shit do happen? Oh? Yeah, yeah, shit do happen? Dog? 1:13:48.720 --> 1:13:50.919 Everything and the motherfucking ir rest. 1:13:50.720 --> 1:13:54.120 To everyone everything starts. Yeah, yeah, it just happens. Sometimes 1:13:54.520 --> 1:13:55.960 you need to have you a nigga man that you 1:13:55.960 --> 1:13:58.960 can hear a man, yeah boy doing bad little reg in. 1:13:59.000 --> 1:14:01.800 The twenty Yeah, yeah, so I can get back to 1:14:01.840 --> 1:14:03.120 the next If you don't. 1:14:02.920 --> 1:14:05.360 Got cats around you trying to they should be trying 1:14:05.400 --> 1:14:07.920 to surpass you, but not in the negative when real talk. 1:14:08.000 --> 1:14:10.200 They should be trying to use you to say, okay, man, 1:14:10.240 --> 1:14:10.519 you know. 1:14:10.520 --> 1:14:11.960 What be able to get to where I'm at. 1:14:12.000 --> 1:14:13.439 So then if you, like you say, if you fall, 1:14:13.520 --> 1:14:15.000 I can you know what I mean, give you that 1:14:15.040 --> 1:14:17.000 olive branch this time to pull you back like that's 1:14:17.200 --> 1:14:18.640 and that's what this shit really supposed to be a 1:14:18.640 --> 1:14:20.479 But that's why even this conversation though though you know 1:14:20.520 --> 1:14:22.800 what I'm saying, because it went from so many different ways, 1:14:22.840 --> 1:14:24.639 but the ending where it's supposed to end, like you said, 1:14:24.680 --> 1:14:26.720 man on some like that's what's gangster like man. 1:14:26.800 --> 1:14:28.640 Dudes who come from a certain. 1:14:28.400 --> 1:14:30.559 Background, but now they able to tell these stories and 1:14:30.600 --> 1:14:33.600 give games. Somebody gonna watch this and don't start a podcast, 1:14:33.600 --> 1:14:35.479 but don't have the right mindset now because they're gonna 1:14:35.479 --> 1:14:36.840 be like Damn. Let me not go in that shit 1:14:37.040 --> 1:14:39.360 thinking straight money. Let me go in that motherfucking thinking 1:14:39.360 --> 1:14:40.439 about doing something. 1:14:40.320 --> 1:14:41.080 I actually wanted. 1:14:41.040 --> 1:14:44.000 Tom, I gotta stack bricks bricks first. Let me lay 1:14:44.040 --> 1:14:45.960 that foundation and all that. You know what I'm saying, 1:14:45.960 --> 1:14:47.679 before I get up and just be thinking I'm gonna 1:14:47.720 --> 1:14:48.720 be getting millions off of this. 1:14:48.760 --> 1:14:50.080 You know what I'm saying on the real. 1:14:50.160 --> 1:14:52.960 Before we go, Man, I'm gonna leave everybody out there 1:14:53.800 --> 1:14:57.760 just listening to us or watching us with some motivation. Yeah, 1:14:58.320 --> 1:15:01.160 you got three people up here now, man, who all had, 1:15:01.280 --> 1:15:03.880 you know, exceeded expectations for where they were supposed to 1:15:03.920 --> 1:15:05.680 be in life. Cause we all had people told us 1:15:05.680 --> 1:15:07.960 when we was kids we wouldn't go be shipped at 1:15:07.960 --> 1:15:12.200 one point. You started off where you started the city 1:15:12.200 --> 1:15:15.400 of Compton. You know, being born into a place like Compton, 1:15:16.479 --> 1:15:18.559 it's almost like being born with a monkey on your 1:15:18.600 --> 1:15:21.599 back immediately, because you know, odds are the odds increased 1:15:21.600 --> 1:15:24.439 if you live in Compton. Chances are you may get shot, 1:15:24.760 --> 1:15:27.040 Chances are you going to start some cripping, Chances are 1:15:27.040 --> 1:15:29.160 you gonna start some blood. This man come from the 1:15:29.160 --> 1:15:33.040 same place you from. I come from a place, man, 1:15:33.080 --> 1:15:35.640 where we dirt poor. When I came to California. I 1:15:35.680 --> 1:15:38.080 came out to this motherfucker seventeen years old with fifty 1:15:38.120 --> 1:15:40.879 dollars in my pocket. My nigga, I just turned seventeen 1:15:40.960 --> 1:15:44.240 three weeks before, with fifty dollars in my pocket and 1:15:44.360 --> 1:15:46.599 two pair of pants because they had stole my luggage. 1:15:46.600 --> 1:15:51.000 When I was I want to go, they stole my luggage. 1:15:51.800 --> 1:15:55.160 I look closed my mama, just my little teen shirts 1:15:55.200 --> 1:15:55.680 and shit she. 1:15:55.640 --> 1:15:58.880 Gave because skilled and got off the bus, my nigga, 1:15:58.960 --> 1:16:02.599 saying I had two pair of pants. Ticket. You called 1:16:02.600 --> 1:16:06.280 my mom, teell you, Mom said, baby, come on home. 1:16:06.600 --> 1:16:07.520 You know what. 1:16:09.680 --> 1:16:12.519 Your ass on the bus and get back off. 1:16:12.920 --> 1:16:15.439 A nigga was so poor we had to piece up 1:16:15.439 --> 1:16:17.680 the ticket. They used to sell plane tickets in the 1:16:17.680 --> 1:16:20.360 back of the newspaper back in the day, voltures three 1:16:20.400 --> 1:16:24.360 hundred dollars. I worked at this little Denny's dog for 1:16:24.479 --> 1:16:26.760 like all summer to save with them three hundred dollars, right, 1:16:27.920 --> 1:16:30.559 I bought that ticket, dog, and then I said the 1:16:30.560 --> 1:16:33.479 ticket with the foxer was the Vegas. We didn't have 1:16:33.560 --> 1:16:35.640 no internet to go Google, no ship back then, so 1:16:35.680 --> 1:16:37.880 I actually had to go to the library to figure 1:16:37.880 --> 1:16:42.960 out how far last Vegas was, so I had to 1:16:43.080 --> 1:16:45.639 coordinated to where I got. The motherfucking flew into Vegas 1:16:45.720 --> 1:16:50.439 with my volxuer, caught the fucking bus, had to walk 1:16:50.479 --> 1:16:52.439 out the long I'm so country. I don't realize the 1:16:52.439 --> 1:16:55.080 airport bigger than motherfucker. I'm thinking I'm just gonna get 1:16:55.080 --> 1:16:56.920 off of there and get to walk to a bus somewhere. Now, 1:16:57.080 --> 1:17:00.000 walked about two miles to go to a fucking bus. 1:17:00.080 --> 1:17:02.639 Us asking niggas like a weirdo would look at Jamiyah 1:17:02.680 --> 1:17:09.800 and a like where this nigga from the greyn. I 1:17:09.880 --> 1:17:12.360 turned my back for a minute to call my mama right, 1:17:12.760 --> 1:17:15.280 tell her, hey, I'm in Vegas right now, because she said, 1:17:15.320 --> 1:17:17.240 as soon as you get to where you all call me. 1:17:17.600 --> 1:17:20.880 So Mom's answered the phone, she crying, oh my baby 1:17:20.960 --> 1:17:23.200 is out there. I turned my back for a second. 1:17:23.280 --> 1:17:27.720 My main bag is my shoes, and that motherfucker all 1:17:28.160 --> 1:17:30.080 get a little bag. I got on my shoulders door 1:17:30.120 --> 1:17:34.439 that shit gone. This one nigga tell me man, because 1:17:34.439 --> 1:17:36.400 he just look. I'm just man, I'm a young nigga. 1:17:36.400 --> 1:17:40.200 I got tears from I'm like, what am I gonna do? 1:17:40.320 --> 1:17:40.519 Man? 1:17:41.920 --> 1:17:45.840 So luckily I didn't have my motherfucking looked big change 1:17:45.840 --> 1:17:48.040 I had in there. Dog, I went ahead and got 1:17:48.040 --> 1:17:50.639 my bus ticket man a Long Beach, California, and ain't 1:17:50.640 --> 1:17:52.559 looked back, my nigga. I got down the Long Beach 1:17:52.760 --> 1:17:57.320 bus turned them down there, six miles from Long Beach 1:17:57.320 --> 1:17:59.120 City College where I'm supposed to be. Dog, I'm so 1:17:59.439 --> 1:18:03.160 dumb and ain't playing shit right right, So a nigga 1:18:03.240 --> 1:18:06.880 walked three miles to Long Beach City, right. But when 1:18:06.920 --> 1:18:09.080 I got there, my nigga, by the time I got there, 1:18:10.280 --> 1:18:12.439 the sun has start coming out. So I just sat 1:18:12.479 --> 1:18:15.679 on the stairs of the athletic of the athletic department, 1:18:16.200 --> 1:18:18.320 and I look, my nigga, I'm a nigga from Ohio, 1:18:18.400 --> 1:18:20.439 man from the motherfuckering east side of Cleveland. And I 1:18:20.439 --> 1:18:23.120 look up in the stars. See the palm tree. I say, nigga, 1:18:23.120 --> 1:18:26.200 I made it. It's some bigga said, I'm here no 1:18:26.280 --> 1:18:27.240 matter what the fuck. 1:18:27.080 --> 1:18:30.400 Happen, somewhere we wanted to be though. 1:18:30.479 --> 1:18:33.080 Yeah, And I think about man where I'm at right now, 1:18:33.160 --> 1:18:36.280 my nigga. Sometimes I want to fucking cry and be like, 1:18:36.360 --> 1:18:39.360 God is fucking good man? Now, straight up, God is 1:18:39.400 --> 1:18:41.280 good man. I don't made a whole bunch of money. 1:18:41.400 --> 1:18:43.719 My nigga been placeds I never thought I was seeing. 1:18:44.280 --> 1:18:46.479 Don't met people, man, And sometimes you got to get 1:18:46.479 --> 1:18:49.600 smacked around to remember. Shout out to my nigga. Take it. 1:18:49.600 --> 1:18:51.760 He came out here a couple of months ago and 1:18:51.840 --> 1:18:53.960 he was just so like, man, my nigga. He just 1:18:53.960 --> 1:18:56.000 got the fit. He said, my nigga, you do a 1:18:56.080 --> 1:18:58.479 show with MC eight. My nigga, this nigga your friend, 1:18:58.600 --> 1:19:01.240 that nigga your friend. You doing this. You're looking at 1:19:01.280 --> 1:19:03.360 my little crib and shit, shit there you don't. And 1:19:03.439 --> 1:19:05.880 he's like, nigga, you did it, my nigga, I'm proud 1:19:05.880 --> 1:19:07.200 of you. This nigga got tears and this. 1:19:07.400 --> 1:19:10.840 I'm like, every everybody's success is what you make it. 1:19:10.920 --> 1:19:11.120 Man. 1:19:11.360 --> 1:19:14.920 You ain't gotta be a billionaire and fly private jets 1:19:14.960 --> 1:19:19.360 to feel like you've accomplished something. You know, just the 1:19:19.360 --> 1:19:22.840 fact that you was nigga, I'm finna get up out 1:19:22.880 --> 1:19:26.479 of East Cleveland, That's what I'm saying me. And just 1:19:26.600 --> 1:19:28.840 the fact that I'm gonna get up out of here 1:19:29.360 --> 1:19:33.720 and go somewhere else and just establish a foundation. 1:19:34.600 --> 1:19:38.439 Is that's enough for some niggas. So that's why I say. 1:19:38.280 --> 1:19:41.839 You, you can't look at every other motherfucker's success. 1:19:43.240 --> 1:19:45.040 You gotta make your success your own. 1:19:45.120 --> 1:19:45.320 Man. 1:19:45.800 --> 1:19:48.479 You gotta be comfortable with where you sit now. If 1:19:48.479 --> 1:19:50.719 you want more, you gonna go hard and go grind 1:19:50.800 --> 1:19:55.360 for more. But everybody you know who has come from 1:19:55.400 --> 1:19:59.639 a difficult motherfucking walk of life or poverty or niggas 1:19:59.680 --> 1:20:02.240 know what it's like for your parents to be on 1:20:02.400 --> 1:20:05.800 food stamps or you know, just low income or living 1:20:05.840 --> 1:20:08.640 in one of them areas. Just to be able to 1:20:08.680 --> 1:20:11.840 look up and say, damn, you know, I'm able to 1:20:11.880 --> 1:20:14.920 pay some bills. You know what I'm saying. My kids 1:20:15.080 --> 1:20:17.559 is cool, you know, and and it ain't got to 1:20:17.600 --> 1:20:20.639 go through the situations that I had to go through. 1:20:20.960 --> 1:20:23.240 You know, you can just count that up as being 1:20:23.280 --> 1:20:26.400 successful right there. You know what I'm saying. I tell them, 1:20:26.400 --> 1:20:30.120 motherfucker all day. Just for the fact that I got 1:20:30.120 --> 1:20:33.200 a kid and he ain't got no jail record, ain't 1:20:33.240 --> 1:20:35.439 got nobody pregnant or no or. 1:20:35.400 --> 1:20:36.719 He don't claim a gang. 1:20:37.320 --> 1:20:40.919 That's a lot that's successful a lot of us as niggas. 1:20:40.960 --> 1:20:45.040 You feel me, So that's it right there. Everything else 1:20:45.160 --> 1:20:49.519 is extra. My nigga, being able to motherfucking eat when 1:20:49.600 --> 1:20:51.960 you want to eat or smoke some good weed or 1:20:52.439 --> 1:20:54.919 or you know, that's that's all. 1:20:54.720 --> 1:20:58.400 Extra hey, man, So salute to you man for doing 1:20:58.400 --> 1:21:01.599 the most gangster shit ever. Man, establishing your own change, 1:21:01.600 --> 1:21:04.160 you know what I'm saying, Man, that's what this whole 1:21:04.200 --> 1:21:06.360 show is all about. Man, you know you made it 1:21:06.400 --> 1:21:12.120 my niggas. So any aspiring rappers looking to get on 1:21:12.240 --> 1:21:15.519 man with your league, what's your suggestion to them for 1:21:15.520 --> 1:21:16.920 their course action? Yeah? 1:21:17.000 --> 1:21:19.679 Man like yeah, So if you're an upcoming battle rapper 1:21:19.680 --> 1:21:21.320 and you're looking to try to get your chance to 1:21:21.360 --> 1:21:23.439 battle on the right, it's a few ways. 1:21:23.439 --> 1:21:23.960 We got an. 1:21:23.840 --> 1:21:26.519 Instagram, uh, the Ryan Rap battles on Instagram. You can 1:21:26.600 --> 1:21:30.320 d M the Instagram. I don't also run the page 1:21:30.320 --> 1:21:32.400 a few of us, so somebody gonna ask for at 1:21:32.400 --> 1:21:34.240 all times you DM. You know, it's a way to 1:21:34.439 --> 1:21:36.120 go about if it's your first battle ever. You know 1:21:36.160 --> 1:21:37.560 what I'm saying, it's it's a it's a feed to 1:21:37.640 --> 1:21:39.360 start up to get your first battle on there, you 1:21:39.400 --> 1:21:41.080 know what I'm saying. On the platform. But if you 1:21:41.080 --> 1:21:42.760 got footage and you already been in there, then yeah, 1:21:42.760 --> 1:21:45.360 you can send the footage in and we we we booked, 1:21:45.360 --> 1:21:46.760 you know what I'm saying, Like, we got we got 1:21:46.840 --> 1:21:48.800 small events that we do kind of locally that we 1:21:48.840 --> 1:21:51.120 do out here in California, and then you know, you 1:21:51.200 --> 1:21:53.280 good enough, you make your name, you make it to 1:21:53.320 --> 1:21:55.120 the some of the bigger ones. We got a big 1:21:55.120 --> 1:21:57.320 event going on in Atlanta at King of Diamond's on 1:21:57.400 --> 1:22:00.000 a September the third. I'm gonna be battling this chain 1:22:00.120 --> 1:22:03.200 Coffee Brown. She got a Sam Bernardino. We got rum 1:22:03.280 --> 1:22:04.320 Nitty going against. 1:22:04.080 --> 1:22:04.840 Jazz the Rapper. 1:22:05.160 --> 1:22:07.360 Got a lot about about four, five, six other battles 1:22:07.360 --> 1:22:09.600 that's going down, you know, September the third, And a 1:22:09.640 --> 1:22:11.400 few of the cats who you know who started off 1:22:11.439 --> 1:22:13.920 with us locally will be on that car too. So 1:22:14.000 --> 1:22:15.200 this is a big cart that a lot of people 1:22:15.200 --> 1:22:16.479 are gonna be on. So some of these up and 1:22:16.479 --> 1:22:18.760 coming dudes will get the chance to be showcased. The 1:22:18.760 --> 1:22:20.600 same way that I told y'all earlier, I got the 1:22:20.600 --> 1:22:22.840 battle on pay per view. It's gonna be the same way. 1:22:22.880 --> 1:22:24.160 It's gonna be long, it's gonna be a pay per 1:22:24.200 --> 1:22:26.400 view event, be a pay per view event, it's gonna 1:22:26.400 --> 1:22:28.840 be live tickets on sale already that you can be there. 1:22:28.880 --> 1:22:31.759 If you in Atlanta September the third King of Diamonds, 1:22:31.760 --> 1:22:32.840 it's gonna be gonna be lit. 1:22:32.840 --> 1:22:34.599 Man, it's gonna be It's gonna be a var man. 1:22:34.880 --> 1:22:37.720 That's it. Man. We appreciate you man come to sit 1:22:37.800 --> 1:22:41.240 down with us, because what I said when I gave 1:22:41.280 --> 1:22:46.240 the opening statements, man you are you are definitely man 1:22:46.320 --> 1:22:48.720 gonna go down because you're still so young. Man. You 1:22:48.800 --> 1:22:50.280 got a whole bunch of other shiits you go do. 1:22:50.720 --> 1:22:52.120 So I don't want to make it sound like you 1:22:52.280 --> 1:22:56.800 finished yeah, because you still descending right. You definitely man, 1:22:57.000 --> 1:23:00.439 are looked at as one of the greatest battle rappers 1:23:00.479 --> 1:23:04.720 of all time. And it's the range of time of 1:23:04.800 --> 1:23:07.679 what you accomplished that was amazing in itself. It's almost 1:23:07.720 --> 1:23:10.160 like you just came in and boot boot boop boop 1:23:10.160 --> 1:23:13.439 and just said, Nigga, I'm I'm gone now, you know 1:23:13.479 --> 1:23:16.360 what I'm saying. So salute to you and all y'all 1:23:16.360 --> 1:23:20.320 out there. Man, make sure make sure while you're doing 1:23:20.320 --> 1:23:23.519 it right now, going to your Spotify or iTunes and 1:23:23.600 --> 1:23:28.679 download that Lessons Lessons too, Right one and two, Lessons 1:23:28.680 --> 1:23:32.800 one and two Right Now legendary album Man Got e 1:23:32.960 --> 1:23:35.760 forty on there and got Premo on it. Man, ship banging, Man. 1:23:36.080 --> 1:23:38.160 You know what my favorite song is what you go 1:23:38.360 --> 1:23:40.040 through when they come through. It was like your shir 1:23:40.640 --> 1:23:42.080 you hell yeah, that shit hard. That shit made me 1:23:42.160 --> 1:23:47.519 want to fight. That ship is hard for sure. It's official. 1:23:47.600 --> 1:23:48.400 Y'all know what they do. 1:23:50.000 --> 1:23:52.479 Tune in, man, we got it cracking, you know, Nick 1:23:52.520 --> 1:23:54.720 episode man, so y'all toned. Now we're about to get 1:23:54.800 --> 1:23:57.960 up out of here and Gainst the Chronicles official cheer. 1:24:03.439 --> 1:24:06.160 If my notes will girl like Pinocchio, We're gonna tell 1:24:06.200 --> 1:24:07.320 you the truth and nothing but. 1:24:10.320 --> 1:24:11.280 That is not your. 1:24:13.240 --> 1:24:16.240 Well. That concludes another episode of the Gainst the Chronicles podcast. 1:24:16.320 --> 1:24:18.600 Be sure to download the iHeart app and subscribe to 1:24:18.640 --> 1:24:21.600 the Gangst the Chronicles podcast For Apple users, find a 1:24:21.600 --> 1:24:23.600 purple micae on the front of your screen, subscribe to 1:24:23.680 --> 1:24:26.479 the show, leave a comment and rating. Executive producers for 1:24:26.520 --> 1:24:29.960 The Gangster Chronicles podcasts of Norman Steel Aaron M. C a. Tyler. 1:24:30.280 --> 1:24:32.920 Our visual media director is Brian Wyatt, and the audio 1:24:33.000 --> 1:24:35.759 editors tell It Hayes. 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