WEBVTT - BLXST On Becoming a Savage and Home Invasion 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.520 What's up? 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.640 Its way up at Angela. Yeah, I'm excited for this 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:04.720 one because Blast is here in the building with me. 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:05.760 Hey, what's up? 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.240 You know I've been wanting to get you on this 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:08.039 show for a while. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.680 My producer will tell you, and I know, like things 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:12.559 have somehow never lined up properly. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:13.120 True. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.040 Yeah, that radar Now, he'll tell you. I'm I'm always 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.000 like I really like Blast, I really like his music. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.640 Thank you and so and so this newest project, Labor 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.959 of Love, is not a disappointment at all for me. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:25.840 I really enjoy it. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.880 Wow, thank you. That means a lot. That means a 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:29.760 lot coming from a legend like yourself. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.520 Well, listen, you're in a new chapter of your life, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.440 so congratulations on that too. You know what's fascinating to 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.320 me that you manage yourself? 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:38.960 Yes? 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:39.839 Do you enjoy that? 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:41.599 Absolutely? Not. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.280 Okay, that's what I was saying. I kind of manage 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:44.840 myself too. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.040 It's not something that I like say with pride. It's 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.479 just the reality of where I'm at right now, you know. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.280 But I still have a team around me that help me, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.720 you know, move around and make good decisions. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.040 Do you answer emails like yes, as yourself or do 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.640 you pretend to be someone else. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.640 Well, I just don't say nothing, you know, I don't 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.360 leave a name at the end of the message. I 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.000 just say, you know, I just respond accordingly. 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.319 Are you on point, like as far as somebody books 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:13.280 you for something. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.880 Yeah, I'm on time. I stay on time, you know, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.440 I think. I I just respect professionalism. So that's just 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.160 who I am as an artist in general. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.640 And just so y'all know he was here on time. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.920 And it's always a surprise to me. When you came in. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.119 They were like, Okay, Blast is in agreement, I say, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:29.440 on time and everything. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:30.840 Yes, okay, we. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.520 Try to keep that reputation a lot. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.400 Well, let's discuss labor of love. You even started off 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.880 with just something very poetic about love is more than 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.640 a feeling. It's actual labor and showing up. And so 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.480 when you talk about this love that you have, it's 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.400 love for not just music and your career, but also 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.200 for family, yeah, and other things as well. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.920 Yeah, fatherhood, you know, love for self, love for the 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.760 relationship I'm in, you know, all of the above, and 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.240 the work that goes into that word love, the labor 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.680 behind it. Hence the title labor of love, because for love. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.920 Love for me is more than just the feeling. It's 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.120 the sacrifice and everything that goes behind it. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.120 Yeah, and I want to say, judging from this album, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.559 it feels like you're argumentative. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.480 I don't know, Wow, that's the energy you picked up. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.960 I mean, do you like to argue? 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.560 I like to have a good debate, a healthy debate. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.360 That's what I would like to frame it. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.840 As you know, it feels like there's some fussing going 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.920 on but you. But it also feels like you're the 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.040 type of person that will get right back into bed 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.160 with your lady and act like nothing happened in spoon, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.079 that's is that who you are? 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.240 I like the spoon I say that, but you know, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.040 I don't like to act as if nothing happened though, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.519 you know, I like to move on. I like, of course, 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.320 I like to move and I like to, you know, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:55.079 make sure everything that do happen don't define our entire relationship. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.919 So you know, maybe maybe an argument is what I do, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.000 just my immature version of myself and learning how to communicate. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.519 But it's not something that I want to be defined as. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.560 You know, I wouldn't say you're defined as that, but 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.400 some people do Like I tell my man his love languages. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.760 He does like to like beef a little bit with me. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.120 Yeah, he get a kick out of that. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.359 And then I think guys like to do that and 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:20.480 then they like to make up. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.200 That's funny. I feel like girls just like that. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.639 Okay, I feel like. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.640 It's not spicy unless you got something to fight for. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.560 That's how y'all look at relationships now. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.960 I know that you've consciously slowed down, like touring, and 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.520 it's been two years since you put your last project out, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.160 and I have to think that's also label changes and 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.560 things like that. Was it like logistical but also family time. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.280 Man, it was a lot of things that went into 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.160 that really just you know, locking in with myself and 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.240 you know, financial ups and downs and restructuring my team 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.680 and just locking in with how I want my future 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.400 to be in general. So I think when you wearing 0:03:58.400 --> 0:03:59.960 a lot of hats, it kind of slow you down 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.920 as a creative because you playing the you know, the 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.640 business side too. But I think in actuality kind of 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.640 helped me more than it hindered me because it gave 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.040 me a more aligned focus on what I really want 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.400 from the game and what I want to put in 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.120 the universe instead of just making music that feel and 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:16.720 sound good. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.960 People from the outside looking in would not think you 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.159 have financial ups and downs man, because you've had so 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.360 much success not just as a solo artist, but also 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.640 on other people, you know, songs as a guest artist, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.200 also touring, also the accolades. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.680 Like for me on the outside looking in, I would 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:36.599 think it was straight. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.520 Yeah, I think from like that's a that's a good point. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.280 You know, every superhero go through something, and I think 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.839 for me, as I gained success, my overhead got bigger too. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.160 So it's not I make I still make money, but 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.400 my overhead is up there and a lot more exactly so. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.280 And that independent grind is also different. It's not like 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.520 someone's handing you a budget. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.320 Yeah, when you got to put up your own money, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.880 it's like you bet on yourself every play. So it's 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.120 not like, you know, somebody just fronting you a million 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.480 dollars and you get to play around and have room 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.160 to just make a mistake. It's like every mistake I 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.120 make is gonna hit me harder than you know, just 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.480 another person that got the bag from somebody else. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.480 Going to independent route, would you say no, pun intended 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.880 that was chosen or is it something. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:24.640 That I think for me, I can't help but to 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.800 acknowledge the ones that came before me, like the Nipsey Hustles, 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.440 you know, and just the culture that I come from. 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.800 It's about betting on yourself because I feel it's much 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.560 more valuable when you take that risk and learn from 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.240 your own mistakes. And I just applied that naturally. It 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.000 wasn't something intentional, but I just knew how I wanted 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.719 to create leverage, and I understood that this was a 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.440 business from a jump, So that was my mentality. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.239 Other than this, what were you doing like before? 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:55.440 Before music? 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:56.320 Yeah? 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.840 Man, I was just running around being the kid. But 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.600 I started making music while I was a kid, around 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.640 sixteen seventeen, so this was always the thing. Outside of that, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.840 I was probably just skateboarding, you know, just being a 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:09.560 little bad kid. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:10.480 Are you still good at that? 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.320 Hell? No, it's too late for that now. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.320 Well you say it's too late, you're still Yeah. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.200 Once I broke my ankle, it was over with. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.000 I was watching I'm sure you don't watch the show, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.400 but I was watching The Ultimatum. I don't know why 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:23.960 this is so funny to me? But one of the 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.839 guys on the show broke both of his legs at 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.000 the same time because he tried to do a backflip. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.440 Yeah, that was me for Shure. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.120 And he said no going back from there. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.600 Yeah. So you know, once you get older, your bones 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:37.039 just don't. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.000 Yeah, everybody trying to play basketball, get back on the court. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:40.960 It's over. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.240 You out for two weeks. You got to take off work. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.840 Yeah, you don't have time for that. It's over with now. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.599 This is a very personal album, labor of love, because 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.440 you did everything for it, rote produced, yes, right, and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.039 that was something intentional also, or was it just like 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.720 I don't have time to wait for other people? 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.960 It was intentional in a sense that I wanted every 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.400 piece to feel like it came from an authentic place 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.360 and you know, the sound that people fell in love 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.440 or blast for. In my early days, when my name 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.600 first started getting in a game from No Love Loss, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.240 I was heavily producing every song too, you know. So 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.080 I just wanted to circle back to the roots and 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.680 just get a fans exactly what they loved me for. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.640 Sometimes you just got to get a people what they. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.120 Want, right, Yeah, and they did. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.080 I mean, I think it's good to experiment with different sounds, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.080 but it's a you know, it's hard because you want 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.760 to please your fans, but you also want to have 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.400 the freedom to move around through different types of genres. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.360 And I did that too, as far as like experiencing 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.360 different sounds, different genres, working with other producers, because that's 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.800 what you tend to do as you gained success and 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.320 move around the industry, you start working and collaborate with 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.480 different people. But for this project, I wanted it to 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.920 feel like me and have something that I can be 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.600 proud proud of ten years from now. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.640 You know, you know that's song on their Home that's 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.040 a how was that writing that? Because reliving certain things 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.720 that have happened from your youth and then now seeing 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.640 this happen to you as an adult, like I know 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.640 you weren't in the house, yeah when there was a 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.920 home invasion, but even having a decision to put that 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:17.840 on the album. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.520 Man, yeah, I think it's more healing now that I 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.760 look back at it. But you know, it's funny because 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.400 being in New York, it made me feel eerie every 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.680 time because I was in New York when it had happened. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.560 But it was it was a moment that I'm proud 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.160 of as I look back, because it's like I could 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.840 turn my pain into art for not only me, but 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.360 for my son too, because we both went through a 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.800 traumatic experience around the same age, and it kind of 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.560 made me look at it through a kid's eyes, but 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.080 also now that I'm an adult, I could look at 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.439 it from a you know, a wider point of view, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.480 you know. So I think it was dope to connect 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.520 with my son on that and kind of just be 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.880 an example of a superhero, like, yeah, we can go 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.920 through things and things gonna happen. This is a part 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.400 of life. It's gonna be ups and downs, but you 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.559 got to learn how to adapt to your circumstances. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.079 Man, that home invasion stuff in La, it's crazy. It's crazy, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.000 you know. Me Being from New York, people have always 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.840 act like New York is so dangerous. But I feel 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.920 like La is a different type of like the things 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.480 that happen is different than here. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.400 Every city got their own things. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.000 Because it's more spread out. I think that's part of 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.920 it too. It's more spread out, like our houses are attached, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.800 We're so in close quarters that it's something happens. People 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.280 really like if somebody does something in my house and 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.000 god hate but I feel like there's so many people 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.719 that would see that happening, and the neighbors, you know 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:38.240 what I mean. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.320 Yeah, I think for me it's kind of crazy because 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.640 I felt like I moved out the hood, so to speak. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.440 But you know, shit like that still happened, and I 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.280 became even more of a target actually, But also it 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.920 kind of helped me develop a relationship with my neighborhood, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.040 even though I'm the rapper on the block. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.680 Now you know, you're on the block association. Do y'all 0:09:59.679 --> 0:09:59.920 have that? 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.880 Yeah? Damn near. We all got a group, a group 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.080 thread and all kinds of things. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.000 I mean, you gotta do that. And there's nothing better 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.760 than feeling like the neighborhood's looking out. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.640 Nah. For sure, it's good to be a part of 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:11.800 the community. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.120 When they're like, do you see this just happen? And 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.080 I have the citizens app that'd be always having me. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:15.960 I got that too. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.439 I got to take it off for a little while 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:19.079 because I was like. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.240 For sure, you gotta you gotta be careful how much 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:25.200 you tend to it. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.240 Now, let's talk about some of the songs that I 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.920 love on this album. I like something about it that 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.840 gives me a good feeling, like a good vibe, like 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.320 a you know, old school, old school. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:38.760 What's old school love to you? 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.800 Old school love to me is? It's probably not you, 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.840 you know, it probably goes against with the now is. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.560 But for me, it's just about being a provider, you know, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.000 making your woman laugh, making her feel good, and just 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.280 taking care of the household. You kind of control the 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.319 temperature of what's going on. So in that song, it's 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.680 kind of me being humorous, you know, and just not 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.400 letting the small things be a distraction to what we 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.000 really have going on overall. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.240 Yeah, you've been together for how long now with. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.240 Your girl over ten years? 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.439 So that's quite a transition in your life from where 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.439 you were ten years ago to where you are now. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:19.920 Yeah, how is that? 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.360 Growing together and seeing like how you've evolved? And I'm 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.360 sure she has too. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.880 Man, we was kids together, you know, so it's every 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.240 day is a growing pain, especially when you've been with 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.600 somebody through your twenties and coming of success too. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.400 Yeah. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.120 You know, so you sometimes you feel like, okay, was 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.160 I'm missing out on some things? But I think, you know, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.560 having somebody that can identify you being a human and 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.640 you growing. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.120 And you know why they're there too. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.200 Yeah, and understanding that you know they have their own 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.600 individual purpose. I think it's everything for me, and that's 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.319 all I ask for. I'm obviously not perfect, she not perfect, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.959 but every day we figure out how to be imperfect together. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.160 I promise you you don't want to go back out 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:09.720 there anyway. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.000 Yeah, it's nothing outside for me. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.400 There's nothing outside for you, because imagine having to start 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.240 all over and you don't know. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.800 Like that's my biggest fear. Every time we argue and 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.160 I feel like, all right, I'm out of here. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:23.679 I'm stuck. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:25.720 Nothing outside. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.719 And you know, for her too, like you guys have 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.560 two sons together. Y'all been together for so long. She 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.480 knows you better than anybody. I can't even imagine what 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.360 it must feel like to be famous and then try 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.760 to date somebody, you know, brand new. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.679 Yeah, it's scary. It's the thought of it is scary 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.080 a long because you know you want something real, and 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.520 that's the closest thing I got to something real, Like 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.480 she knew me before any anybody knew who Blast was. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:54.840 So how can you replace that? 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:56.200 Now? The album cover? 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.240 I want to talk about that artwork too, because that's 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.640 something that was important for you as well. Uh, that 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.840 is a house that your grandfather built, that was your 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:04.560 childhood home. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.480 Yeah, correct, my childhood home on the east side of 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.160 LA to be specific. And yeah, my grandpa he moved 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.520 from Louisiana to Oakland and then they stopped in LA 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.679 and that's where my foundation was. You know, he made 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.679 a house for a kid like me to be a dreamer. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.720 So the house is you know, sentimental for me just 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.120 to go back and connect to my roots and have 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.880 it as a symbol of what I feel love is. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:31.320 Does he still live there? 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.199 Yeah, he still lived there. He's stay in the back. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.160 A nice house. And you said he built it with 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:36.920 his own hands. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.840 See everybody say that it might be the way that 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.839 I'm saying it in the but no, he definitely hired 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.920 people to do. Probably have it a nail or we're 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:49.840 gonna act like he did. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.160 Okay, do you remember buying your first home? 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.240 Yes, I do. It was it was a leap of faith. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.440 It was a leap of faith. It was right after 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.280 no love loss, so I was going crazy. I had 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.199 the song chosen, you know that took me over to 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.240 it took me from blast to blast. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:08.880 You like, thank you. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:13.200 TikTok, Thank you TikTok, changing my life. But yeah, it 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.959 was a beautiful home and I still own it to 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.440 this day. So I'm proud to say that. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.800 You know, you talk about Chosen and what a big 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.400 song that was for you. Sometimes though, people have a 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.360 huge song like that and then it's hard to when 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:28.840 you think you have to like top that. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.920 Were you thinking that at that time? 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.640 Nah? I think it was like a cherry on top 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.760 because that was my first project. So for me, I 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.440 wasn't even expecting that type of success. So when it came, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.800 it was just like, okay, let's just right the wave. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.200 I think over time, you know, you start having conversations 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.680 and people try to put it in your brain like Okay, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.280 you got Chosen, it's double platinum, what you're gonna do next? 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.600 But for me, I had a foundation before Chosen, Like 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.360 I had a fan base before Chosen from the sixth 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.560 tape to Know No Love Lost, and the Chosen was 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.280 on a deluxe, so it just added to the momentum. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.360 Yeah, I mean things like that. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.920 Labels try to make it happen and do campaigns and 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.400 figure out ways but that just went on its own. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.040 Yeah, I mean it's good for leverage. Luckily, you know, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.360 my next deal was right after that, so I was 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.800 in position to say, Okay, now I want to do this. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.240 I want to do this, and I got a bigger bag. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.800 But you know, ever since then, I've just been continued. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.600 You know, I don't like to look at music like 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.800 I got to chase a hit, just like making a 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.520 body of working connected with the fans one by one. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.000 You know what I like about this album. First of all, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.320 it's always totally my vibe. I love a good R 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.680 and B, but it's got a hip hop type of 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.320 vibe to it. Yeah, that's the kind of music that 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.720 I enjoy listening to, like when I'm not at work anyway, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.440 And you know, we played this on the radio too. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.320 I really enjoyed the song work Work feature and shying right. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.240 Yes, that's one of the ones that give you that 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.600 real deal that a lot of people don't talk about, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.680 you know, because my father was damn near a rolling stone. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.400 He got three baby mamas, and I was just you know, 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.280 spelling that I don't want to be a fruit of 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.400 that tree, you know, just trying to change the generational curse, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.920 and I'm sure a lot of people can connect to it. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.440 And you're the youngest, right, the youngest. 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.840 The youngest boy. I had three older sisters, two older 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.360 brothers and not even grow up with him, you know, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.160 And I feel like family is important, so I just 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.840 try to, you know, change the generational curse and keep 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.320 my family tight knit. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.360 How what did your mom used to say to you 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.840 about your dad growing up? Because I know that's tough 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.320 to being a mom. And like you said, your dad 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.920 was a rolling stone kind of, I. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.280 Mean I wasn't. I probably was exaggerating by stone. He 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.720 definitely was getting active at an exact age. He had 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.640 his first kid when he was fifteen. Wow, so he 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:53.960 was outside, you know. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.880 But so your oldest sibling is how. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.560 Old she got to be her fifty? Wow? 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:01.320 That's crazy. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.120 I don't know. Yeah, she's kind of up there, okay, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.960 but yeah, I forgot the initial. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:08.720 Oh what did your mom used to say to you 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.760 about your dad growing up? 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.760 I know he was trying it in your life. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.679 But she didn't really Like my mom is cool, like 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.600 she don't really judge people, you know, So he was 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.479 just doing his thing. He was kind of just like 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.720 if I had to describe my dad, he just like 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.680 he's so light. Everything is a joke, Like he don't 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.520 take nothing serious. So that's where the friction came with 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.200 my mom, Like she wanted to build a foundation as 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.840 a family, and he was just every moment was the moment, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.639 like he didn't plan for the future. So that's the 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.960 only thing that I can think of. But I think 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.440