WEBVTT - #403 - Lil Vada 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.720 Hey, Little Veda in this Bitch. Check me out on 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.000 the Bootleg keV Podcast. We're gonna rent it up on 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:05.440 the game. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:14.240 Oh yo, Boutleg keV Podcast Special guests here. Little Veda 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:14.600 is here. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:16.520 Welcome Little Veda in this Bitch. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.360 What's up man? 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:17.880 What's the deal? 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.240 Bro? Well, I was just having this conversation with our buddy. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.080 I don't know if you know you know Gabe. See, 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.319 he's blast DJ. He used to be a Power one six. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.600 He's uh DJ's on a serious. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:29.440 I might have heard of him. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.040 Uh, but we're talking about like la rap. Right, let's 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.919 say southern California hip hop if you will. And uh, 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.920 it's been a drought. The only thing in the last 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.479 year that's popped is you and three and old. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.280 Baby yeah three shout out to him. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.279 And it's uh is the I mean you've you've kind 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.360 of like figured out this, uh, this formula of yours. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.240 I want to get into it. But first of all, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.760 before we do that, like give me kind of some 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.000 of your background. What part of cal are you from? Uh? 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.560 How long you've been rapping me? Give me the whole 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.759 rundown show. Shit, I'm from south central La. Me I'm 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.959 twenty eight. I've been moving around all throughout LA, like 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.960 my whole life, like since I was a baby. I 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.000 don't know if you're familiar with all the streets, but 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.039 I grew up on third ave of exposition, moved from 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.320 there to like forty eighth and second half, efty, fourth 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.600 and third out just like you were moving around. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.080 Moving around like every three or four years. My whole life, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.240 I was moving, but just all throughout LA. I went 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.520 to Tom Bradley in elementary, I went to Pond's Middle 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.600 School in uh Cuver City, and then I graduated high 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:33.760 school at Dorsey High School. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.840 Okay, yeah, that's what's up? Yeah, And so what about 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.560 like because I barely maybe heard of you maybe about 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.920 a year ago. Now you're I think him Beezy came 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.280 up here where he was supposed to come up here, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.480 but his manager was here, and I think he manages 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.960 you too, or he did, yeah he did yep. And 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.760 he was like Yolo Vada and I was like I 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.640 keep hearing that, and you were getting booked in Arizona 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.280 like little spots. Who the fuck is this guy on me? 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.240 And I'm not, I mean, I'm on TikTok. You go 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.880 to my TikTok page. Check out my content. But I'm 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.240 not on TikTok like that. Yeah, I'm not swiping and oh, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.000 what's this song on this? 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:07.320 You know? 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.639 But you're going crazy on TikTok and shit, But how long? 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.560 Like what's the music journey like for you? 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.560 Like? Man, I really I've been doing music since twenty 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.079 seventeen for real, but I didn't take it serious till 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.680 twenty twenty. That's when I really put my foot on 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.240 the gas and started getting on around the city. I 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.160 had this song called Gangsters and Wretcht and I have 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.600 put like four artists on it, like as Bad, Chef 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.960 Boy Killer, a Front Fanatics. Then I got Roocie on it, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.560 so I can't yeah, shout out Roucie. I came off 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.720 the rip trying to like be on some like unity 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.160 right unit, bring everybody together, and I made like a 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.440 banger and for the whole first minute of the song 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.520 is just me gassing probably like I think like thirty 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.440 two bards or something. And then everybody else got like 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.200 a sixteen And that's what got me buzzing in the 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.520 city for real in twenty twenty. And then I didn't 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.120 blow up for real for real until wap it came out, right, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.000 That's what changed everything for me, changed my life. But 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.320 that was just a year ago. That wasn't long ago. No, 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.160 that was just a year ago. Before that, I was 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.320 still working nine to five? 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:08.440 Where was your last nine? 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.360 Last line of five? Uh? Stizzy? I worked Stizzy warehouse 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.040 dispensary at the warehouse. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.520 Though Steezy, you know they don't sponsors. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.560 They reached out once, right, Yeah, that was just like 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.480 a little over a year ago probably, Like so. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.440 You were like just like helping with the like the package. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.440 Yeah, packaging everything, putting the labels on, shit like that. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.240 My last job on me just in twenty twenty two. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.239 Like at the end, that's fire. Do you still get 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.680 like Stizzy? Like if you need to know, No. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.040 I don't really go there like that. I don't really 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.400 smoke like that big smoke. Nah. I just stopped drinking too. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.160 Oh good for you for the new year. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:44.720 What inspired you to stop drinking? 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.160 Just I'll be going too crazy? Yeah, I'm a shot 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:49.680 of clock every five minutes type of. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.680 And you're in the club a lot because you get 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.680 booked in all the clubs. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.160 Now, I've been booked all year. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.600 So what was your like drink of choice, tequila, I'm assuming. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:04.040 Yeah, for Cosa Migos red everybody off the Casa always. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.480 I just wonder when the tequila era is gonna end. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.480 I don't think it's ever going in. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.600 Because it went from like the Henny era, so Rock 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.720 had to run us white boys had Fireball for a 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:15.160 little bit. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.880 Uh yeah, I never now it tasted that. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.440 Fire hose fire. What I was off that ship for 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.159 like eight years of my life. That's crazy, but but 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.000 it's it's one hundred percent. The pandemic created the tequila wave, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.960 think so oh yeah, because everybody was getting the d 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.960 D and then they were able to go get that 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.919 in the nineteen forty the nineteen forty two and the 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.479 fucking Colossa zool and then Costa Migos just blew the 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.840 fuck up in the pandemic. So now everyone drinks tequila, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.000 which is probably the best liquor health wise you could drink. Yeah, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.280 I mean, it's all bullshit. It's liquor. But if you 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:50.920 had to pick. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.240 One, definitely gonna be. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.120 That's what's up? You have f cancer on your face? 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:55.839 What inspired that? 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.200 I lost my dad to cancer in twenty sixteen. Oh, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.520 Damn what kind of can pancreatic and then it wind 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.520 up spread into his liver like later. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.960 That's tough. That's tough, man. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.520 Yeah, but that's what pretty much inspired me to even 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.000 wrap for like tell my story and shit like that. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.359 It's dope too, because you know, when we think of 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.600 like LA hip hop, a lot of people who don't 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.760 live here or who just kind of perceive whatever LA 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.039 hip hop or the scene is like here. I feel 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.080 like sometimes they think of negativity first because of some 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.240 of the politics, some of the gang stuff that happens here. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.480 But like, right, you know, I think back to like 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.640 rewind to like two thousand and eleven, twelve, even twenty ten, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.760 the party music that was getting made you know, like 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.040 YG even before that with the jerk movement, and you 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.080 know what I'm saying. So it's dope to see like 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:49.360 like the stuff we're talking about, like it's fun, it's 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:50.960 party music, right, you know what I mean? 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.119 Like not definitely that uh, that wave like those years 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.080 that you just mentioned at all, that's inspired my whole 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.920 career and like you see the samples I'll be doing 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:00.480 to be like a lot of songs from back then. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.599 That's when I was like in high school and going 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.720 to the little clubs and ship you feel me here 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.520 on YG Joe Moses tied out a sign all those 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.560 I just I'm trying to bring back that type of energy. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.279 Just it's missing, feel me. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:12.440 It's definitely missing. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.640 It's missing in general in music. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.960 Yeah, for show for show, like mostly out here though. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.480 I know, like no especially here, but just in general, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.680 Like I'm thinking, like damn, like the club records that 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.279 I could play that are current, that are between like 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:31.000 ninety five bpms and like one ten, it's just it's 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.400 really your ship and three one oh baby, that's current. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.800 There's nothing else that's true. There's nothing else I don't 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:37.400 even funk with. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.520 Under like like one ten no more. I'm should be 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:41.360 like one twelve. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.200 And no, your ship's up there. Yeah crazy, I gotta 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:51.120 beat match. So I'm curious. When I heard your stuff, 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.839 I was like, there's no way any of these samples 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:54.159 are clear. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.080 They are now. They are now, but they weren't for 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.039 a while. Yeah, nah, hell no, because I was like, damn, yeah. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.920 This is motherfuckers. He's just running. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.680 Yeah, you feel me. I was just I didn't really 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.800 know much about the business part of the music industry. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.920 When I was coming up, I was just young, hungry, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.600 and like I said, that era of twenty eleven, twenty twelve, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.040 YG and all that, I was like in love with 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.760 that that era of music. So I just wanted to 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.760 like put my own taste on those beats. So when 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.840 I was coming up, you know, I didn't know nothing 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.560 about clearance samples or anything. That I was just I 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.960 hear a remix, I turned that motherfucker on and guess up. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.360 And then once I started catching some steam and I'm like, okay, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.640 I got to learn the business side, right. But that's 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.200 when I started getting lawyers and you feel me? 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.800 And why isn't it say, like did anybody anybody hit you? Like, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.800 does Tiger reach out to you and be like, hey bro, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.960 this is cool, but like I'm gonna need my bag. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.160 Tiger definitely reach out to me, and I don't know 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.720 I'm gonna need my back. Shit. It was more on 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.800 some let me help on remixed type shit. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.760 Okay, okay, okay, I don't know what happened, but that's 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.200 the thing. It's like, yeah, get on the remix so 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.560 then we can actually clear it. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.840 Right, got to have it. But I don't know, like 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.960 I feel like all the artists that that's coming up 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.880 right now is getting remixes with much more ease. I 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.520 don't know if you notice that, but like like three 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.800 ten Baby like Boom, he got like five popping, crazy 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.040 ass artists on the remix, and I feel I haven't 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.480 had that opportunity yet to. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.040 Just I think it's gonna happen. I think, so who 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.000 I think, I think. I think a lot of it 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.800 is like, well one like Soolk City. Solk City is 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.120 a fucking big record. It's huge, huge record. And I 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:41.120 think that you know, uh that his team is he's 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.280 got a good team run. Yeah, for sure, he does 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.400 have a great team of rush. Shout out to my guy, Gentry. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.480 I don't know what your team's like, so I can't 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:49.120 speak to your team. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.880 Well, I'm independent for sure. I just got a manager, 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:52.720 you feel me. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.120 Recently you just got a new manager because you told 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:57.080 me you had your old manager. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.160 Yeah, I have to get rid of that situation. But 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.880 I do have a new man now. But I'm still independent, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:02.440 like I don't have to. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.960 Is your is your stuff just straight? Just ro kid? 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:05.680 Yeah? 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.760 Oh ship? So how hard is it too clear? These 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.160 big records after they're already out. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.959 Well, it just depends on who you know for real. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.360 Because okay, what songs all together if you sampled so far. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.640 Ship because it's a lot as far all right, So 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.360 as far as like after I got on wop It, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.400 Eat It Up Up, that's another one sample I sample 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:32.040 lean back Well, you know the song is, yeah, Rex City, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.640 you feel me lean back up to me? 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.679 The toughest was the toughest. Is the toughest one to 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.480 clear usher? Yes, it has to be. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.319 Yeah, that was the toughest one. We got it all 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.160 taken care of now, but that was definitely because that's 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.080 a that's a mega hit, right. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.080 There's like one of the biggest songs ever. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.560 Me And that's that's one that I was like, I 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.320 didn't touch it like them there. I think it was 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.360 like four years into my career that I wanted to 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.440 do it. I'm like, damn, I want to do yeah, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.160 but I'm like, that's too big of a hit. Let 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.160 me let me chill on that one. As soon as 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.240 I did it, wop It took off. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:06.840 Damn me. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.000 It's like, damn, it'd be like that though, Like songs 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.199 that I that I want to do, like Rack city. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.480 I want to do that beat years ago. I'm like, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:16.920 let me just hold on to it. I gotta do 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:17.559 something special. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:19.840 So do you have a producer that knows how to 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.360 speed up the ship the way you like it? 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.360 Oh? Yeah, I'm like them. My producer shout out load 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.040 of great uh scumming Uno. And then my engineer he 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.560 also producer, his name Marv. He makes a lot of I. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.720 Say, for what you do, an engineer really can just 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:33.080 do it? 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:39.559 Yeah, just my engineer, all right, So drums under it 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.120 all the beats that I got that y'all hearing it 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.120 don't sound like that when a producer send it to me. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.480 It sounds like some whole other ship. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.440 The engineer got to put his hands on here. Yeah, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:53.720 which is producing? Yeah for sure, definitely. Yeah, it's interesting 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.160 because I liked it. I like it because what you're 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:01.280 doing is it is it's just a new taste. It's fun, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:02.199 you know what I'm saying? 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:02.800 Right? 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.200 And is there is is have you decided? Have you 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.320 have you fucked around with doing anything not that isn't sample? Basic? 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:12.920 Yeah, I'm about the I'm about the turn of my 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.240 album actually today how. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:16.679 Much of it is samples? How much of it is 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.120 because you're kind of known for that. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.320 The only samples are the songs that y'all heard already. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:20.880 Oh nice. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:21.959 Yeah, so it's. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.280 Like same bpm range though it's like that you're that's 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:24.640 your bag. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.600 I'm versatile. I got a whole different range that people 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.720 don't even know about. That's why I haven't been doing 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.760 any interviews because I really been one people to just 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.760 hear a different side of me first. You feel me 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.760 right now? Everybody think I'm just the club guy. I 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.760 got all these type of turn up bangers, which I do, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.920 but I got a whole nother side to me. So 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.080 now that I'm about to put this project out, I'm 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.320 open to like doing interviews, you know, just so people 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:48.760 could get a different side of me. First. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.960 Well you you obviously you alluded to being fully independent 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.040 like that can't be. Uh, everyone's got to be on 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.319 your line though. I mean maybe not everybody, but a 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.439 lot of people are banging. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.880 Their line I'm sure since the beginning. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.600 So what has been the reason why you haven't try 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.200 to go with a label yet? 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.920 I feel like I haven't reached my full potential yet. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.560 Well, yeah, because you're whatever deal you're saying, right, now 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.280 they're going to fuck you in some capacity. I mean, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.120 I don't want to use the word fuck you, but 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.480 but they might have the leverage you could. You could 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.600 put this album out, build up a lot more leverage, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.000 and then come back to the table and get a 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:27.679 much better deal properly. Yeah, definitely, that's crazy. Man. It's 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.120 wild too, because man, I feel like, you know, there's 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:38.360 been so many dope LA artists that I'm going to 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.200 tell you this, be careful because sometimes I've seen this 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:49.840 happen where people will overthink themselves out of being bigger 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.800 because they want to stay independent a little longer. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:54.480 I see what you're saying. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.240 I've seen this happen, and I mean some of the 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.679 bigger LA names ever had a really big record. I'm 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.240 not talking about recently. I'm talking about Le's say, the 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.240 last ten or twelve years. I had opportunities to take 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.800 deals and like maybe elevate things to another level and 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.640 we're like, nah, not yet. So just be careful with that, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.600 you know, because you never know. If the album comes 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.240 out and it doesn't do what you hope it does, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.520 then it can hurt you with your talks. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.800 Nobody noticed, but I'm putting my album out through a 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.520 distribution coming. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.600 Oh you're doing distro, yeah, Empire not create, oh create 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.679 shouts to create creates doing that thing. Yeah, yeah, that's 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.800 a good creates. You want to partner like that, you 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.520 know what I'm saying, somebody who's will give me some 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.800 label services but not fucking exactly. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.240 Yes, Oh yeah, that's the way to go right there 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:38.680 for sure. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.320 Yeah that's smart. So I'm excited to hear what you guys. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.400 So is there any remixes being worked on? Uh? 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.679 Yeah, I got a lot of h I got a 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.400 lot of remixes on the way. I'm just I've just 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.800 been saving everything for real, Yeah, just getting ready like 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:53.360 for the album. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.760 Have you had like like a good experience with some 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.280 of the OG's on the LA side of hip hop 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.800 in terms, because you there's no way everyone's in the 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.800 club here. They all are at fucking uh you know 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.320 the clubs they're they're all Dragonfly, They're all at Kingpin Monday's, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.160 They're all here in your records, so they know your ship. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.240 Has it been a positive experience with any of these guys, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.400 anybody reached out like you said, Hey, I don't know 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.360 how I you know, like you mentioned earlier like three 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.200 one old Babies got five of these. He got mustard, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.320 blue Bucks, fucking blue face all on the remix. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:35.400 But honestly, I feel like, uh, I'm been having good 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:40.720 and bad experiences. I'll say more bad than good for sure. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.360 Like a lot of people reach out to me. I'm 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.840 not gonna throw them names out there, but niggas will 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.440 reach out and be like, fuck with what you're doing 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:52.560 with your movement, let's do something. And I'm in the 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.680 studio night, I'm at the studio right now. What you're 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.000 trying to do. I'll never hear from them again. Wow ever, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.240 And it just kind of make me feel like, damn, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.200 Like is it because I'm only doing remixes? 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.600 Mm hmm. Maybe they don't. Maybe they don't think the 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.840 record will get cleared. That might be it. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.200 Maybe, but I got that side handled though, well now 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.320 they know, Yeah, we'll see. Maybe they fuck with me now. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.160 Nah. I mean either way though, that's that's that's dishing 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.400 genuine though, Like, don't reach out to me if like 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:24.640 we can't go get in and cut. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.640 Some I'm really but I'm really like from the slum, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.240 like I'm from La You feel me? So to get 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.000 hit up by these people that I looked up to. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:35.120 It's a big deal. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.560 It's a big deal to me, Like I don't I 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.280 don't like Hollywood about it or nothing. I'll take that 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.120 ship to heart. When I first started blowing up off 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.760 a whop It and Tiger DM me, I cried, I'm 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:48.480 not even gonna lie. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:49.040 Wow. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.280 I cried because that was my first not because it 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.720 was Tiger. It was just like, but that was my 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.280 first time getting uh, getting notoriety from somebody. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.600 Big, and that reaffirms that you're on the right path exactly. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.720 I'm talking about this at the very beginning of January. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.200 Whip people up. In December, I lick at my phone. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.760 I wake up from a nap when my son I 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.960 look up Tiger wop It remix. I'm like, what the fuck? 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.520 I show my mom. I started screaming. I couldn't believe it. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.560 That's so far because that's a moment that could change 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:16.600 somebody life yet. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.920 Now, because I mean, even if nothing comes from that, 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.200 it's like, well shit, if Tiger saw it and fucked 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.720 with us, that means I'm on the right path exactly. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.800 I'm sure you've had other dms like that. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.200 Yeah, it's been a shitload of him, But I'm saying 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.720 that that first one, like that's what really got me 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.320 emotion them for real. But I'm just saying like, throughout 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.600 this process and this path that I've been on, I've 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.800 run into a lot of situations like that, Like people 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.440 will tap in with me and speak positive and then 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:42.280 I'll never hear from you. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.600 What about the guys who you do hear from, who 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.280 you have had positive experiences with? Who are they? Man? 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.200 Shout out Tied Dallas Sign. That's like he's the best. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.520 I fucking love Tight all the Sign. I owe him everything. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:58.840 He's actually one of the more like genuine good human 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:05.879 beings I've known him in twenty ten eleven. Yeah, and uh, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.119 I mean he just invited me out to Vegas and 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.600 I was hanging out with him and his daughter and 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.720 we were chilling with Kanye all night. He literally was like, man, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:21.000 come out, Kanye, and I was like the coolest night 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.439 of my life, to be honest, I'm like in a 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.560 room with like, I mean, you know, I'm there with Tie, 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.600 but Kanye is there, and fucking. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.520 Legends Tiger's there and she's there, and yeah. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.200 A little Dirk was there uh Kid Cuddy was there. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.240 This is the album, This was in the fuck at 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.000 the at the Four Seasons in Vegas and Kanye's Sweet. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.040 They were finishing the album and then it turned into 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.560 like a party and then somehow India Love started cutting vocal. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.200 It was so ready, Bro, it was and I'm shrewed 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.560 the fuck out and I'm. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.080