Speaker 1: Boutlet Cavs show special guests in here my guy one
Speaker 1: of the greatest rappers alive. His name's Absol. Welcome sir,
Speaker 1: Thanks for it's been a long time. I miss you, man,
Speaker 1: miss you too. Man. I feel like I want to say, like,
Speaker 1: the last time I interviewed you, interviewed you was on
Speaker 1: the back of a bus in Tampa, Florida or Tempe, Arizona,
Speaker 1: one of those two places, and it was on the
Speaker 1: Smokers Club tour. Mmm. I don't know, man, it was
Speaker 1: a long time ago. With Joey. Yeah, we've had a
Speaker 1: couple of like tour bus interviews for sure. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about that too. Getting back on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good times. Explain to me because you were kind of
Speaker 1: breaking down off the mic a bit. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: like the high you get after it's been a while
Speaker 1: since you've been on the road, but just to create
Speaker 1: and put so much, you know, blood, sweat and here's
Speaker 1: into your art and then hitting that stage literally literally,
Speaker 1: and then hitting the stage and just seeing the people
Speaker 1: sing along, seeing the people react, seeing that people come
Speaker 1: alive for you. What's that like, man, feeling the people
Speaker 1: you know? I can't really but I see what you do.
Speaker 1: I'm not right, right, yeah, yeah, I'm not and you
Speaker 1: can hear and we got yeah, we gotta get this
Speaker 1: very clear. I'm not I'm legally blind. I'm not blind.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're yeh yeah, legally yeah yeah. But like I
Speaker 1: was saying, like it's excuse me. That's one of the
Speaker 1: main reasons why, like we took a while to drop
Speaker 1: the album, like I said, so excuse me anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: we was gonna drop in twenty twenty, but you know,
Speaker 1: the pandemic of course, and I wasn't just about to
Speaker 1: drop an album just to stream, you know. I need
Speaker 1: to go out and feel the effect, you know, feel
Speaker 1: the people, touch the people, you know, shake hands, and
Speaker 1: really feel the reception, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: what Like, like I was saying, like it's performing for me.
Speaker 1: You know, Recording is one thing, like you know, write,
Speaker 1: writing is writing. Creating is one thing is one is
Speaker 1: one craft. Recording is another craft. Performing is a whole
Speaker 1: other craft. So like like I was telling you, it's
Speaker 1: kinetic like the performance the performance aspect because like you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, at least one time when I go
Speaker 1: on tour, every time, it never feels I get dogs sick,
Speaker 1: like I can't do it, and then Top calls like
Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to get this money or what
Speaker 1: you're gonna let the people down or what? Right? You know?
Speaker 1: So you know, I suck it up, get on, get
Speaker 1: on stage, and as soon as I get on, as
Speaker 1: soon as I touch the stage, I am healed, no
Speaker 1: matter what you're going through physically wherever, I am healed
Speaker 1: completely because and I know it's it's a spiritual thing.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a kinetic thing for getting the energy
Speaker 1: from the people and reciprocating it obviously, And as soon
Speaker 1: as I step off of the stage, I'm back sick
Speaker 1: right away, right away to the bus to go to sleep. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, you could call it a high,
Speaker 1: but I think it's more, it's more spiritual, it's more
Speaker 1: it's more personal. You know what I'm saying. Would you
Speaker 1: consider yourself to be a because I think there's a
Speaker 1: difference between being a religious person and a spiritual person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a side of the pendulum do you swing on?
Speaker 1: If any? I mean, there's a you know, it's there's
Speaker 1: a there's a balance between the two because you know,
Speaker 1: I obviously, you know, grew up in the Christian Church.
Speaker 1: I am the black lived pastor, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But you know, I do you know, I ask questions.
Speaker 1: I do, you know, study theology and I'm into it
Speaker 1: all and you know, all of the messages are you know,
Speaker 1: relative an essence? You know what I'm saying. So, you know,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I'm just kind of in between,
Speaker 1: somewhere in between the two. Somewhere in between the two.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, I you know, I I
Speaker 1: tell you I'm a Christian, right who asked questions. What
Speaker 1: do you mean that's you're a Christian who also asked questions? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a Christian who asked questions. Yeah, that's fair there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was kind of like more atheists
Speaker 1: for a long time, but once I started doing a
Speaker 1: lot of like heavy like psychedelics, it's just I'm just
Speaker 1: more like I don't know now, you know. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: and that's what the wisest man knows. He knows nothing,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so it's like, and
Speaker 1: it's crazy how atheists is such a that word is
Speaker 1: just so strong, right, atheist, that's such a strong it's
Speaker 1: a harsh word. If you just say say, yeah, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: people look at you like you say, I'm a Satanist.
Speaker 1: You might as well tell certain people there. Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but you know, like I said, man, do
Speaker 1: what thou wilt? You know, Yeah, I definitely believe in aliens.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't even want to go here. Thing,
Speaker 1: I ain't got enough time. Nobody if aliens are real? Right,
Speaker 1: So if they're real? If if if they so we're
Speaker 1: doing that, I think they are. Okay, so do you
Speaker 1: think they are? I'm not saying if are you saying
Speaker 1: that they are? I've seen some ship man. But if
Speaker 1: if we find out aliens are a thing, right, doesn't
Speaker 1: that poke holes through a lot of the religions of
Speaker 1: the world Or No? No, no, because if because when
Speaker 1: you do the research, they're they're there, they're there, you know,
Speaker 1: the serpent, the serpent that was the uh you know,
Speaker 1: that was the like they were there whole time. We
Speaker 1: just didn't look at it through the proper lens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just because they're very they're very poetic, you know,
Speaker 1: just and that's just the you know, the whole you know,
Speaker 1: the Christian Bible. They're all there. There, there's you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you choose to, if you choose to
Speaker 1: look at it, you choose to dig in. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: They're always there. There's always beings, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like unexplainable beings that you know, this, this, and that
Speaker 1: you know neph alone just all kind of Have you
Speaker 1: ever witnessed the UFO? Yeah, and I give you this.
Speaker 1: UFO means what unidentified flying object? If you, if you
Speaker 1: could be a Southwest if you, if you, if you
Speaker 1: saw it, why isn't it? Why is it unidentified? Mm hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just on that, you know. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: you know what I'm kid, I'm trying to play like
Speaker 1: I've seen I've had a couple of UFO. Yeah, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Listen Strawberry Fields, shut up to the Beatles.
Speaker 1: Nothing is Real. That is a great song to eat
Speaker 1: rooms on and listen to. Man, have you ever have
Speaker 1: you ever ate trooms all listening to that song? Man,
Speaker 1: it's a fucking great song. I've been I've broke through
Speaker 1: to the other side, putting many many times while listening
Speaker 1: to the Beatles. Well, I mean that was a Pink
Speaker 1: Floyd reference obviously, but yes to the Beatles. Also, you
Speaker 1: know who's the best in my opinion if you're fucking
Speaker 1: Shrewman Hard Tame and Paula. Bro, Wow, that's not You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right, and that's more like that's more like the
Speaker 1: d that's just like, you know, they got a song
Speaker 1: called let It Happen. Yeah, yeah, oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 1: I love hours A time I was, I was at
Speaker 1: a Joshua Tree of my wife and everybody does it
Speaker 1: loves to go to well fucking you know, I guess
Speaker 1: it's the la hips. The tree is the is, the
Speaker 1: is the psychedelic. It's like the psychedelic Walmart. It's like
Speaker 1: the commercial like we have to, we have to go
Speaker 1: to Joshua Tree. We have to. You know. That's so
Speaker 1: ill write that song on for two hours straight though,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the greatest song I've ever
Speaker 1: heard in my life. I can attest to that great
Speaker 1: fucking record man, right shot and Polo how that mean? Man?
Speaker 1: If you ever see this man, I never even knew
Speaker 1: that Tame and Paula was one dude until like six
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Speaker 1: sounds like a band, right, yeah, Yo, Tam and Paula
Speaker 1: is headline of Coachella. And then I'm like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: just the dude. He's like, you know, like a really
Speaker 1: just talented alien level musician. I guess right, It's like
Speaker 1: that's fucking kind of crazy, right, very talented guy. Yo.
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Speaker 1: this new album, man, because it feels like probably, I mean,
Speaker 1: it feels like one of the most personal bodies of work.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start off by saying, that was such an
Speaker 1: excellent segue from you know, the Extra Terrestrial to my
Speaker 1: my most personal album. Yeah, I'm so honored to her.
Speaker 1: Thank you, of course. Man. This album is I mean, look, man,
Speaker 1: it was highly anticipated. I feel like, as somebody who's
Speaker 1: been a fan of you for the last ten plus years,
Speaker 1: to me, this felt like your strongest body of work
Speaker 1: and that's saying a lot because you've had so many
Speaker 1: of those correct and you know, you know I also,
Speaker 1: I also have a bone to pick with you because
Speaker 1: I did not make your listen. But in your defense,
Speaker 1: I know what you're going to say. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. It's a little too late. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I hadn't fully like, it wasn't enough time, you know,
Speaker 1: I put the list together, right, Yeah, and then your
Speaker 1: album dropped on the twenty first, right sixteenth sixteenth. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: so I did not fully like Live with your album.
Speaker 1: I listened to it on the plane once exactly, but
Speaker 1: I didn't get to like Live No right exactly, So
Speaker 1: I I kind of disqualified anything from the last release
Speaker 1: from from December. No, Yeah, I get that. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: That's why I said, I'm just just fucking around with you.
Speaker 1: But you know that means a lot coming from you
Speaker 1: though that you know what I'm saying. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: When I do next year's list, I'm going to just
Speaker 1: include the end of December as well, and you'll be
Speaker 1: on there. Unless you know, some some some crazy might happen.
Speaker 1: You never know. I doubt it, but you know, that,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I appreciate that it was,
Speaker 1: but that's my explanation for sure. It's truthful and I
Speaker 1: believe it. Yeah, I believe it. And excellent list too,
Speaker 1: by the way, thanks man, excellent list. Yeah. Man, it's
Speaker 1: it's really not it's just man like I went in.
Speaker 1: You know, my last album was very heavy on the ears.
Speaker 1: It was very dark, if you will, you know, I
Speaker 1: just went I felt like I was, you know, just
Speaker 1: going a little too left, a little you know, too
Speaker 1: much Joshua Tree. I didn't wrong with that, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But you know I took I took
Speaker 1: like a year and a year and some change off
Speaker 1: to you know, just you know, get back center. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just kind of wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: go in, you know, and challenge myself. What I usually
Speaker 1: do when I when I create, you know, I have
Speaker 1: a concept. I go in with a concept because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm old school. I'm all about more people did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm all about bodies of work. I grew up reading
Speaker 1: Source magazine. I want five mics of course, so that's
Speaker 1: my whole thing. Yeah, but what I did this time
Speaker 1: was I just literally just I just went in and
Speaker 1: worked and and and just let it and let it happen.
Speaker 1: I see where you're just tied everything together. Look at that.
Speaker 1: I can't stop so and and the you know, the
Speaker 1: concept is kind of created. It's created itself. You know,
Speaker 1: it just kind of if it was so personal, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, it was very open, it was very vulnerable,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd like I didn't really I tried not
Speaker 1: to listen to too much music, like on my own.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't you can't stop the music though,
Speaker 1: you know I can't, you know exactly. That was That
Speaker 1: was my whole thing. So I wanted it to sound
Speaker 1: like me. I really, really really you know, leaned on
Speaker 1: my producers this time, and I didn't. I didn't more
Speaker 1: so pig beats, you know, I you know, I'd let
Speaker 1: them challenge me. Like, you know, one of the I
Speaker 1: think it's like track three or four. I tweeted this, uh,
Speaker 1: this beat switch up. It is fucking crazy. I forget that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about that beat switch up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to because we had dropped. We had dropped
Speaker 1: that was like the appetizer. We had dropped the first
Speaker 1: version and so like you know, I wanted to do
Speaker 1: something you know, special for the album, like just you
Speaker 1: punch rapping exactly, you know what I'm saying. So you know,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of it was it was a
Speaker 1: roller coaster, but like like I said, it means a
Speaker 1: lot that you uh, you know, you enjoyed it. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I think like being vulnerable is probably one
Speaker 1: of the greatest qualities like the greats can have, you know.
Speaker 1: I think you know, if you even if you think
Speaker 1: of someone like, oh, we don't look at it's like
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable guy. He's had some pretty vulnerable moments
Speaker 1: that we don't really you know, think about. But is
Speaker 1: it hard? Was it because you got really personal on
Speaker 1: this album? Was there ever like a point in time
Speaker 1: where you're like, man, maybe you recorded some ship and
Speaker 1: you question whether or not you like like it come
Speaker 1: out or you know, because when you share your life
Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, there's consequences, whether it's your family or
Speaker 1: the greater circle. You know, just said that you don't
Speaker 1: necessarily want because I'm sure when you record it's therapy
Speaker 1: and then what comes out is something totally different, right, right, Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I mean there's there, there are those moments, but you
Speaker 1: know you gotta you know this name for the faint
Speaker 1: of heart. You know, you gotta have courage, you gotta
Speaker 1: be brave, you got you know, you gotta understand that.
Speaker 1: You know, I understand that. You know, my my testimony
Speaker 1: can can can help. You know, we all just we
Speaker 1: all just really want to know that we're not alone.
Speaker 1: Everybody's going through it, everybody's going through something, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just you know, when I'm when I have those
Speaker 1: moments where I feel like spent much. Man, my mom
Speaker 1: might not need to hear this, you know, I just
Speaker 1: remember that, you know it's just for you might help
Speaker 1: a fan, I might help somebody else out you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And you know it's got to be
Speaker 1: like an interesting burden to carry, like cause you kind
Speaker 1: of have throughout your career talk to fans personally have
Speaker 1: probably been like, yo, you help save my life or
Speaker 1: yo literally and so when you literally when you're getting
Speaker 1: ready to release music, you kind of know like, damn
Speaker 1: this this can affect someone's path, right, Like I think
Speaker 1: artists take that lightly sometimes yeah, for the good or
Speaker 1: for the bad? Right, And I don't like I said,
Speaker 1: like I always say, you know, like when people, when
Speaker 1: I meet people, when they say, you know, man, you
Speaker 1: don't even understand man, like you saved my life, and
Speaker 1: I I'm I'm very serious, adamant about saying, no, you
Speaker 1: saved mine, you know, by giving me a voice, by
Speaker 1: by listening. Like so we go hand in hand. You
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying, Yeah, one the other. It's a
Speaker 1: very so you know, it's the reciprocity is very important
Speaker 1: to me, you know, and I'm grateful. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 1: What I thought was dope was when you jumped on
Speaker 1: Russ's Chomp project. Was it Chomp to you on Chump? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it the second one? Chump one or two? Which
Speaker 1: one was it? Was it twenty twenty one or twenty
Speaker 1: twenty anyway, Well you were on one of the chumps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I know Russ has always been like a huge
Speaker 1: fan of yours. Any time I've ever talked to him,
Speaker 1: he's always brought you up as like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: my brother, the young legend man. Yeah, and like it's
Speaker 1: funny because like he had shared some old dms or
Speaker 1: he was hitting you up yeah, like twenty eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he used to like harass me on Twitter Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was so cool. And now you jumped on his
Speaker 1: ship and then now he's on your ship. Like ye
Speaker 1: talk about your relationship with a guy like Russ, who
Speaker 1: I think is given a lot of free game to
Speaker 1: a lot of artists out there. Yeah, he doesn't. He
Speaker 1: doesn't keep the game behind the lock locked doors, right right.
Speaker 1: I think some people might take his messaging the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I think he's a great guy. You know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know he means well, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he that's what he just he's just he's just a
Speaker 1: free spirit for at heart, and he just he just
Speaker 1: means well, I mean he's he's he's just trying to
Speaker 1: be of service. But I just I think he's just
Speaker 1: like the definition of dedication. He's the definition of dedication
Speaker 1: and consistency. And you know, he's he's really you know,
Speaker 1: he's very he's very skilled. He's very intuitive, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, you know, and he could rap
Speaker 1: his ass off. No, that's what I'm saying. Like he's
Speaker 1: he's he's really skilled. So you know, and that's like
Speaker 1: I said, man, that's that's it's the young legend and
Speaker 1: like as somebody like you grew up when he read.
Speaker 1: When he reached out to me, I had like I
Speaker 1: had kept hearing his name and I had and I
Speaker 1: had heard his records, but I didn't you know, put
Speaker 1: a face to it or you know, but you know, Uh.
Speaker 1: He reached out to Punch, and Punch sent me the
Speaker 1: record and then I was like, oh, oh this is cool,
Speaker 1: Like would you like, should I do it? He was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I love his hustle. So I'm like, all right, yeah, cool.
Speaker 1: So he gave me his number and then I reached
Speaker 1: out to him and then we had to talk and
Speaker 1: then he sent me like the old tweets. Yo, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. So then I did my research. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh this is this guy. Oh wow, yeah, oh for sure.
Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, shout out to I should say,
Speaker 1: like coming from your roots, right, yeah, you used to
Speaker 1: work at a record store. Yes, grew up in a
Speaker 1: record store, had a crib in the record store, reading
Speaker 1: Source magazine as a kid, caring about bodies of work.
Speaker 1: You're a fan first, right, You could tell that about
Speaker 1: how you wrap some of the people you work with.
Speaker 1: How much of like keeping your ear to the new
Speaker 1: wave of what's going on on or discovering new artists
Speaker 1: are you still doing because it's tough, right, It's tough
Speaker 1: because it's a lot. But you know, I I just
Speaker 1: kind of look at it as you know, if it
Speaker 1: hits my desk, you know, yeah, that's when it hits
Speaker 1: when it if it wants it hits my desk. You know,
Speaker 1: it's something to consider, you know, And I just you know,
Speaker 1: have mine. But but but like I said, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm losing my I'm losing my opinion. I found myself
Speaker 1: becoming a critic. And I just think as a as
Speaker 1: an artist, as an artist, I don't think that's healthy
Speaker 1: because you know, me being someone who can you know,
Speaker 1: honestly say I've I've influenced a lot of great new artists,
Speaker 1: you know, like Russ who would tell me that I'm
Speaker 1: you know I've influenced him. I can't. It's it's a
Speaker 1: different I just found myself becoming a critic like who
Speaker 1: you know, like called like oh that's wag you know
Speaker 1: this and that. But it's like artists art, and it's
Speaker 1: it's open for interpretation, is it's objective, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: not for everybody, it's for who it's for. And I
Speaker 1: mean these are just these are kids, these are these
Speaker 1: are these are people, you know, just trying to make
Speaker 1: something of themselves, man, just trying to trying to be successful,
Speaker 1: trying to leave their mark on the world. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm practicing just you know, just being a listener versus Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't just and as an artist though, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Now, See, you know, somebody like yourself,
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of have that platform to you know,
Speaker 1: hold those those discussions, right, which is warranted. Right, We
Speaker 1: have to have that because it is you know, it's
Speaker 1: competitive at the end of the day. It's it is
Speaker 1: a sport, you know. Yeah, and it's the number one
Speaker 1: genre music in the world, so exactly, so we're going
Speaker 1: to have opinions. People are gonna, right, but I've just
Speaker 1: founded as myself as an artist that could hinder my
Speaker 1: my you know, I'm worried so much about how this
Speaker 1: isn't good for the culture that I'm not focusing enough
Speaker 1: on your shit, exactly. That's fair. Yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: get bitter, and you know, you just I think it's
Speaker 1: funny how like throughout our whole life, there's always been
Speaker 1: like some version of like the real rap versus the
Speaker 1: commercial ship. Yeah, and it just keeps like reinventing itself,
Speaker 1: like error by era where it's like, you know, twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen it was it's that SoundCloud mumble shit you know
Speaker 1: what I say? Yeah, right, and it's like I just
Speaker 1: feel like there's always this like conversation about like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's that's that there's always a genre of a subgenre
Speaker 1: of hip hop that's like easy to kind of write
Speaker 1: off as like ey But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if you can kind of understand, there's certain places for everything,
Speaker 1: Like if I'm in the club, I love hearing all
Speaker 1: this shit. You know what I'm saying exactly. There's a
Speaker 1: time and a place for if I'm on a road trip, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I would love to listen to
Speaker 1: Herbert exactly, so you know what I'm saying, Like, and
Speaker 1: then you look at you know, like just twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: mumble rap on SoundCloud. These guys getting millions of views.
Speaker 1: They're getting millions of views for a reason. There that
Speaker 1: era that I mean that was just as examp. No,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. They were getting a lot of
Speaker 1: views based on everything but the music though. That to
Speaker 1: me that that was like peak Instagram antiqu Oh okay,
Speaker 1: well see that opens up a whole nother. There was
Speaker 1: like Instagram influencers getting record deals in twenty sevens, right,
Speaker 1: you know that's a whole you know, like, but you
Speaker 1: know we got through that. We did get through that.
Speaker 1: I feel like we kind of got through outside of
Speaker 1: the NFT rapper that just that was signed to Capitol
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Speaker 1: I got to ask quick though, I was scared. Have
Speaker 1: you seen this new Uh, there's like this new program
Speaker 1: that it like, well, it's like AI generated. Have you
Speaker 1: seen it where you could like tell it to write
Speaker 1: you an essay or a song or whatever and it'll
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Speaker 1: a song about day on the bus and then it'll
Speaker 1: just right like a or I know, I know they
Speaker 1: have an AI for every for everything though, but I
Speaker 1: mean that's just fucking sketch. That's that's not that's see.
Speaker 1: Let's check this out. Man. Huh, you're not what a's
Speaker 1: time to be alive. Would you buy a Tesla robot
Speaker 1: for your house to like help you around, like you know,
Speaker 1: like maybe like a butler. I would not not a
Speaker 1: Tesla one. No, No, I would not. I like I
Speaker 1: like when I go when I go to stores, I
Speaker 1: like to I like to I don't like to self
Speaker 1: check out. I like to deal with people when I
Speaker 1: when I talk on the phone, I asked for the operator,
Speaker 1: I hit zero over and over representative, representative, customer, servicestmers operator.
Speaker 1: I don't I like to deal with people. That's just
Speaker 1: me and listen. No, for sure, that's the most frustrated
Speaker 1: ship is when you call somebody, talk to a human
Speaker 1: being about something. Yeah, you could use our self automated system. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I mean, and guess what you know, that's the future.
Speaker 1: That's technology we can't can't hide from me, can't run
Speaker 1: from it. But you know that's just me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: fucking to me some of the ship they're talking about. Well,
Speaker 1: how is it We've made all these movies that are
Speaker 1: a warning of what happens if we go down this
Speaker 1: path too much? Didn't nobody watch these fucking movies and
Speaker 1: we're still turning this ship up? Like what is happening?
Speaker 1: Like nobody saw a fucking Terminator or eye robot? Like
Speaker 1: the fuck is going on with these people? You're not
Speaker 1: getting the neuralink chip? No, yeah, you think Elon could
Speaker 1: be alien? They say, like Terminator was. I think Terminator
Speaker 1: was the prequel of the Matrix. I think ship. I
Speaker 1: didn't hear that. Looking at that now and watch all
Speaker 1: of them in mind, go ahead, Yeah, I think if
Speaker 1: we're talking about aliens, if anybody is kind of an alien,
Speaker 1: it's probably Elon Musk. Oh yeah, yeah he's an interesting cat.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Elon, if you're watching this, man, yeah, just
Speaker 1: I just I just need one B. Just give me
Speaker 1: one man, I just please, I rap really well. Check
Speaker 1: out my album. Wait what did you say you need
Speaker 1: one B? What is that? A billion? Oh? A billion? Okay,
Speaker 1: just just throw me one man. You got you got plenty,
Speaker 1: just run, he said. He said a lot on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Check out my new album, man, Herbert. It's out now. Man.
Speaker 1: It's very personal, you know what I'm saying. I put
Speaker 1: everything I had into it. I just need one billion, man.
Speaker 1: Just look out for your boy. Man. Yo, when you
Speaker 1: look back at like early TD days, I think back to,
Speaker 1: like I think the first time I probably met you
Speaker 1: was it was probably like twenty ten. I was living
Speaker 1: in Vegas and Kendrick had a show at a place
Speaker 1: called the Forbes Lounge and you opened two dope boys
Speaker 1: was there doing the expos on you guys. Shot to
Speaker 1: my guy shaking those guys Mecca. But uh, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just crazy to see and I remember you guys
Speaker 1: were the first guys who, like, during the mixtape era,
Speaker 1: was making me buy shit on iTunes. It was frustrating
Speaker 1: as fuck, man, So like everybody's fucking apps. I was
Speaker 1: calling it the mixtape and I gotta fucking go on
Speaker 1: iTunes and spent twelve dollars on this fucking thing. Very
Speaker 1: smart obviously, but just like to see like what this
Speaker 1: whole thing has become. Sometimes we like don't realize that
Speaker 1: we're in it, and we don't sit back and appreciate
Speaker 1: where we came from. I'm like that exactly because it's
Speaker 1: like I don't like, I remember if I as a kid,
Speaker 1: if I if I could just make thirty grand a
Speaker 1: year doing radio, you'd have told me I made it.
Speaker 1: I'd have been happy the rest of my life. So
Speaker 1: I don't ever like go back too much and think
Speaker 1: to myself, like, damn, like how far you came? Do
Speaker 1: you ever do you ever like take the time to
Speaker 1: appreciate the journey that it's been and how how you
Speaker 1: guys are like have shaped the culture. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: this album is about. It's about like going it's nostalgic,
Speaker 1: It's about getting back to the root of it, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we did more with less. Let's getting back
Speaker 1: to the foundation. Like that's why it's like simply called Herbert,
Speaker 1: it's simply my name. It's simply about that, like what
Speaker 1: it took to get to this point, Like, and I
Speaker 1: felt like I was getting too far away from that.
Speaker 1: You know, I was just becoming this you know, this
Speaker 1: this this this character even you know, I was becoming
Speaker 1: apps sold versus you know, this album is for This
Speaker 1: album is for the people who will never call me
Speaker 1: apps all that that I'm still Herb. I'm still I'm
Speaker 1: still a little Herb. I'm still Herbert. It's for those people,
Speaker 1: and it just so happens to it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know of course, I mean, yeah exactly, because you know,
Speaker 1: it's just about your foundation is everything. Man, the tree
Speaker 1: grows from the bottom, and if you just if you
Speaker 1: when you forget that and you you know, you get
Speaker 1: too far away from that without acknowledging that, without you know,
Speaker 1: appreciating that, right, you know, you could, you know you could,
Speaker 1: you could lose you could lose yourself in this man,
Speaker 1: very very easy. Yeah. And I think it's like sometimes
Speaker 1: we do ourselves a disservice by not reflecting and not
Speaker 1: yeah maybe once every few months, just sitting back and
Speaker 1: just appreciating what you what you got exactly, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: And it's not it's not a because you could you could,
Speaker 1: You could you could easily like start what a should
Speaker 1: have cutting too, yeah for sure. And then and then
Speaker 1: also looking at your peers and then being like, ah, man,
Speaker 1: you know I should, but but that's not it. It's
Speaker 1: just about like man, like, it's about just the just
Speaker 1: the journey and just appreciating the journey and what it
Speaker 1: took to get here and you know, everybody that was
Speaker 1: involved and you know everything that you know, It's just
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's very important that we stay connected,
Speaker 1: you know, to the to the bottom. Yep, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And that's that's that's basically what the
Speaker 1: album is about. It's not it's not that deep this time, right,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not. It's really not that deep this time.
Speaker 1: It's just really about the last album a little deeper,
Speaker 1: a little Jesus. Yeah, I took it to Cairo. It's hieroglyphic,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I mean, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a classic you know to me. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm saying, like, so this was me
Speaker 1: just trying to get back toself Man before before all
Speaker 1: of this stuff. You know, can you give me any
Speaker 1: sort of insight because I know a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, have already gotten over the fact that the
Speaker 1: black hippie Album of Lores came and went. You know,
Speaker 1: but how many songs or if any, were set aside
Speaker 1: for this this detox of a dream that we all had.
Speaker 1: It could be zero. It could be three. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many, how many, like how many records were
Speaker 1: like conservatively like, Okay, if we do this black hippie thing,
Speaker 1: this is this is in that folder on that hard drug.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm gonna say. That's why I say again,
Speaker 1: we did more with less, so you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to you know, yeah, but fuck wack hippie man dumb.
Speaker 1: I'm the best rapper at all them that niggas can't
Speaker 1: rap with me, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: we do know Q can owt golf you though, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's that's been that's been proven. Right. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: uh he's on that golf course. Jesus Christ. Has he
Speaker 1: ever have you like gone like actually when he Have
Speaker 1: you been golfing with him? No? Not yet. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: I with your vision situation, I'd waste time. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, with your vision situation, is you going golfing
Speaker 1: the safest thing? I mean, I know, I know you're
Speaker 1: not blind blind, but like I mean to say this,
Speaker 1: it's not a safety issue. He just was like, Bro,
Speaker 1: you be holding us up. I'm not gonna have you
Speaker 1: out there. We're trying to you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like he's like a fucking pronoun. He's really he really
Speaker 1: does that ship. So that's just the whole thing. But
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm sure I get out there. Just
Speaker 1: I've never like been on an actual golf course. Have
Speaker 1: you been to Top Golf? I went to That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You saw me on top school. Top golf
Speaker 1: is cool, But I'm saying, one day I want to
Speaker 1: like go on the actual golf course and get in
Speaker 1: the cart the card, have some beers and you know,
Speaker 1: shoot the ship, meet the meet the rich people. You know,
Speaker 1: shoot the ship, meet the rich. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's great. You feel me join a country club? You know,
Speaker 1: I want to do the whole thing. I want to
Speaker 1: do the whole dance. Man, give me a nice Omelet
Speaker 1: you know, those country clubs are expensive. That's what I'm saying. Man,
Speaker 1: give me a fifty dollars Omelet you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like enjoy life. The only do you ever watch a
Speaker 1: Curby enthusiasm? I love Kirby. It's my favorite show ever,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite shows. The only thing I relate
Speaker 1: to country club Ship is everything that him and Jeff
Speaker 1: because they're always about that episode with the Swan. There's
Speaker 1: a million episodes the Country Club. Man. If I get
Speaker 1: like Larry David's age, I'm gonna join me at country
Speaker 1: club for sure. I'm gonna get wrapped up in a
Speaker 1: bunch of old fucking politics with these old fucking people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just looks great on the show. I can't wait
Speaker 1: till the next season. Oh, the last was amazing when
Speaker 1: he was fucking that annoying politician lady bro. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Would you where would you rank? Like,
Speaker 1: give me your top five like sitcoms, like or comedy.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm just terrible with the top five. Just
Speaker 1: give me five of your favorites. Now. No, we're not
Speaker 1: talking about dramas. We're not talking about the breaking bads
Speaker 1: of the world with the sopranos. I'm talking about just
Speaker 1: funny shows. Funny shows, man, Oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: do this with you. I seriously can't, man, because I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this, Like after I watched Curb, that made
Speaker 1: me go back and watch Seinfeld. Yeah, I was, I saw.
Speaker 1: I watched Seinfeld first. I never I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand. I was younger obviously, But I mean
Speaker 1: I never understood it until I saw a Curb. I
Speaker 1: watched Curb, and then I went and watch Seinfeld's fucking brilliant. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then I watched for some like, for some reason, I
Speaker 1: watched fucking Fraser. I love Fraser Solids funny as, which
Speaker 1: was a off of years. Yeah, and then like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just on I've been on that, like I've just
Speaker 1: been on the like watching the old joints that you know,
Speaker 1: you know, the Sopranos, Sopranos, Ray Donovan, Oh, Ray Donovan?
Speaker 1: Is that I just I can't do that. I can't
Speaker 1: do the face. But not a lot of people fuck
Speaker 1: with Ray Donovan. That's Matt looks like Ray Donovan. By
Speaker 1: the way, I think that's just I think I think
Speaker 1: it might be racist. Yeah, you're just told me all
Speaker 1: white people look the same. And I'm looking at that
Speaker 1: right now. He looked like Ray Donovans. Watch what you
Speaker 1: get a good look at? Maybe if he gets a
Speaker 1: good cut, watch it. Yeah, exactly, Ray Donovan was crazy. No,
Speaker 1: but Sopranos, what about did you fuck with the wire?
Speaker 1: Of course the Wires? I rewatched during the pandemic for
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Speaker 1: it's the go to me. Yeah, the wires, I got
Speaker 1: the wire breaking bad sopranos. Those are my three on
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Speaker 1: the Boon Dogs I liked. I like like New Girl. Oh,
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Speaker 1: New Girl's funny as hell. Fucking do you ever watch
Speaker 1: fis for Family? The Bill Burr shit, he's got to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the cartoon, right, that was pretty funny, Happy endings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you watch any stand up ship? Yeah, you're like,
Speaker 1: who's like, like, like, what's I want to see? JB
Speaker 1: Smooth so bad Live. He's so funny. He's hilarious. Man,
Speaker 1: if you think about like his character is like so
Speaker 1: iconic on TV. Oh bro bro that whole when they
Speaker 1: had that fucking episode where he was like fixing ship
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Speaker 1: I always kind of consider you to be kind of
Speaker 1: like one of the like rap Jedies. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: yeah I am when we talk about a Jedi. Yeah
Speaker 1: was he I don't know. I wouldn't held the gun. No,
Speaker 1: you're like Luke Skywalker mix Windle. I didn't get too
Speaker 1: deep into Star Wars. Overrated franchise. Don't say that it's
Speaker 1: a little overrated, don't say that it's good. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that Star Wars, like Clone Wars, the cartoon series,
Speaker 1: is the best thing that they ever put out. But
Speaker 1: with that being said, who's in the club with you? Man?
Speaker 1: In your opinion, who's in that Jedi club? Wow? Mm
Speaker 1: hm the Jedi Club Man, Jesus, I hate naming names, man,
Speaker 1: I'm with the guys, man, and let's and let's do this.
Speaker 1: Can we say that before you start naming names. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna then I'm asking you this on the fly, so
Speaker 1: you might leave some names off. I'm gonna leave some
Speaker 1: names off. Man. I have to say, you know, Kendrick,
Speaker 1: of course, man, he's but you know, me and Kendrick
Speaker 1: are Kenning ryu You know what I'm saying. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: Ken He's Ryo. Of course I have to say that.
Speaker 1: I gotta give it the cold of course. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I have to say Drake, but Drake, like it's like unfair.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like a cheat, cheat code. He's a
Speaker 1: cheat cold, but he doesn't cheat. He does it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. Drake is Drake, Man, No, Drake's Drake. Drake, Drake, Drake,
Speaker 1: He's Drake. I'm not gonna leave him out. You got
Speaker 1: Big Sean killed, by the way killed that verse on
Speaker 1: your house went went off, Joey badass of course, of course, Jed.
Speaker 1: I love Jed, I love Chance, I love Uh, I
Speaker 1: really love Mike Jenkins. Yo make his fire his fire
Speaker 1: earl of course, Vince, of course, you know Jesus christ Man,
Speaker 1: the guys man. There's a lot, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Jedis out there. Man, I don't want to what about this.
Speaker 1: I just got under an argument with my boy. We
Speaker 1: were arguing about the two most underrated rappers ever and
Speaker 1: the argument was between Black Thought and Sean Price Jesus
Speaker 1: christ Now, I said Sean Price because Black Thoughts got
Speaker 1: the accolades of the roots, being on TV, Grammy, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Who do you think is the most underrated rapper of
Speaker 1: all time? See your hip hop ad? Cannabis cannabis fuck, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's understood. Yeah, I had him on the show
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, that's that's Cannabis is my fucking He's
Speaker 1: like the reason. But anyway, would you consideruen like one
Speaker 1: one of the biggest influence, one of the biggest influences
Speaker 1: and he knows this, like, yeah, two thousand BC was
Speaker 1: I feel like was like a lot of people passed
Speaker 1: over that project because and I loved even I love
Speaker 1: cana n word. I battle you on a net, I
Speaker 1: battle you in the flesh, battle you over the phone.
Speaker 1: You could call me collect I battle you for the respect.
Speaker 1: I battle you over a blank check. I battle you
Speaker 1: with a gun on my neck. I battle you standing
Speaker 1: over the toilet with my dick out. I battle you
Speaker 1: juggling a hand grenade with the pin out and the
Speaker 1: stolen car with the fan number ripped out, drinking again
Speaker 1: in style, doing a three six the spin out shout
Speaker 1: out to Cannabis. You guys ever worked together? We Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's a peculiar guy. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: he's But like I said, yeah, no for sure, No,
Speaker 1: for sure. That's a great answer. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is definitely one of the most underrated rappers ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think it's like because he's kind of like
Speaker 1: the lyrical spiritual miracle, Like when people say that, but
Speaker 1: they're talking about like him, kind of they're talking about him,
Speaker 1: but like the one that makes sense with it. But like,
Speaker 1: I think that he I think Cannabis got what he
Speaker 1: wanted out of raph Yeah that's fair. I think he
Speaker 1: got exactly what he wanted out of this. So how
Speaker 1: long are we going to have to wait for another album?
Speaker 1: Not long at all? Okay, I'm telling you it only
Speaker 1: you know. I don't want to blame the pandemic want
Speaker 1: to blame. You know, I'm to blame. No one else
Speaker 1: is to blame. Let's kill the let's kill the let's
Speaker 1: notize the time and punch or holding our shelfing us
Speaker 1: and all of that. Can we normalize? We do hear
Speaker 1: that a lot. That's cool and they think it's cute,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, just let them blame us. Bro, Listen, this
Speaker 1: is the game. Like we're really family. We don't we
Speaker 1: put out We put out product that we all feel
Speaker 1: is great because we all represent each other. And that's
Speaker 1: just how it is. But if I want, if if
Speaker 1: I if I feel strong enough about anything, I have
Speaker 1: the creative control to do it. So let's just set
Speaker 1: that recond straight. So the narrative that because we hear it,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter which artist we can name on the label,
Speaker 1: if we wait, if the if it's too long before
Speaker 1: we get an album, the fans always say it's punch
Speaker 1: or it's top exactly. No, we're gonna get rid of
Speaker 1: that narrative here. We're going to get rid of that
Speaker 1: narrative here, please. And I'd like to point out you
Speaker 1: guys have like quality control wise, probably like when we
Speaker 1: think of like artistic integrity, like the highest of any
Speaker 1: lap hop scene, and dream Vielles right behind you, closing
Speaker 1: a great job of curating his roster and finding a
Speaker 1: great artist. But absolutely with that like quality, it's not
Speaker 1: Michael Waveable ship Like nah, that's That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because we all, I feel like, you know, luckily, I
Speaker 1: think we all came in with the same premise. Like
Speaker 1: we all like came in like you got to understand too,
Speaker 1: like you know we could we're from like let's not
Speaker 1: let's not get it twisted, bro, Like we're from La. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We all enemies, Like we're not supposed to be friends,
Speaker 1: none of us. That was our whole premise. Like we
Speaker 1: came in like trying to you know, unite, unite and
Speaker 1: try to you know dead the you know the the
Speaker 1: generational you know curses, you know, try to try to
Speaker 1: try to end this, you know this the cycle you
Speaker 1: know that was. We came in with that premise and
Speaker 1: the fact just that alone, like aside from the you know,
Speaker 1: the creative aspect that we you know, the chemistry that
Speaker 1: we have, we came in with that same premise because
Speaker 1: we are not supposed to be friends. We are all
Speaker 1: enemies politics, La politics, l a politics. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you know, if you know, you know, if if
Speaker 1: you don't, I mean that's that's cool too. But just
Speaker 1: know like that alone was powerful enough for you know,
Speaker 1: for all of us that we were able to be
Speaker 1: These are my best friends, these are my brothers, these
Speaker 1: are family than me. And and the fact that it's cool,
Speaker 1: the fact that it's been it's been accepted. You know,
Speaker 1: there was no I ain't have to I ain't have
Speaker 1: to go argue with you know, with the with the
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Speaker 1: do feel like too, you guys have kind of influenced
Speaker 1: a new generation a LA artists whom aren't letting politics
Speaker 1: get in the way of working together as maybe ten
Speaker 1: or twelve years ago that would have been the case. Now,
Speaker 1: not to say that because that still happens. It still happens.
Speaker 1: If it happens, it's because it's a real thing, and
Speaker 1: we can't it's a real thing. Like Scott, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like the new generation like they work together so much
Speaker 1: more in LA, and I yeah, I feel like we
Speaker 1: I feel like we set the stage for that to
Speaker 1: be possible. I can I can honestly say that with
Speaker 1: all you know, with the you know, with the utmost respect,
Speaker 1: not trying to be like we started this ship. You know,
Speaker 1: we we set the stage for that, you know that
Speaker 1: that idea like you know, red and blue may green
Speaker 1: like yeah, like put us we're brothers, like we all
Speaker 1: fighting the same fight. Just happened to be born where
Speaker 1: we were born. Born, we were born, we're from where
Speaker 1: we're from. We did what we did. You know, this
Speaker 1: happened to this happened. You know what I'm saying, My my,
Speaker 1: my homie might have did this to your homie. My
Speaker 1: family member might have did this to your family member,
Speaker 1: but this is us, and the cycle got to stop somewhere.
Speaker 1: Who's the second greatest rapper from Carson? Oh you're number one,
Speaker 1: I'd say, well, I mean if I'm number one, then
Speaker 1: we gotta gotta I mean, I gotta go rass Cast.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, because nature of the threat alone,
Speaker 1: it's like right exactly, so yeah, if we're gonna get it,
Speaker 1: you know, so you see there you see the connection.
Speaker 1: I mean was that because like I remember one time
Speaker 1: Razs cast walking, I literally did you know I did
Speaker 1: threatening nature? Like on my last I did that based
Speaker 1: off nature. You know, we've had that talk and his
Speaker 1: sons are fire. Bro, He's got those twins in the
Speaker 1: Contra Coast Contrast, and like I met them early because
Speaker 1: I had you know, I had Teacher Moses on my
Speaker 1: last album too, and I didn't they I don't know
Speaker 1: if they were rapping yet, but they she bought them
Speaker 1: there and they were just like flies on the wall.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't even pay no attention because I was
Speaker 1: just a big fan of Teacher and that's when I
Speaker 1: had met them. And then just to see what they've
Speaker 1: become is like they're kind of like, Yo, I feel
Speaker 1: like they give me remnants of because remember back in
Speaker 1: the day, man, we be a fan of somebody off
Speaker 1: of a freestyle we got caster, Yeah, you'd be like, yo,
Speaker 1: I got this Joe Budden freestyle or this what was
Speaker 1: the stretching Bobido fucking freestyle from Big l the seven
Speaker 1: minute freestyle? You know shit like that. I feel like
Speaker 1: the Coast Contra shit is like the new version of that,
Speaker 1: because like, I'm gonna keep it real with you, bro,
Speaker 1: I just said this, I don't care how anybody feels
Speaker 1: about this Coast Country is like it's really the real
Speaker 1: black hippie Okay. I like that. Actually we could have
Speaker 1: switched names, like they should be Black Hippie and we
Speaker 1: should have been Coast Contra. It would have made more sense, Darren.
Speaker 1: They're incredible, man, he don't act me. So new albums
Speaker 1: before the next two years. You say, we get Ano
Speaker 1: another album in the next but by twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: up we have another album. Yes, okay, tour midyear, summer spring,
Speaker 1: very soon line lining it up as we speak, very soon.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, So new tour coming. Obviously you have not
Speaker 1: seen the fans for a while, so be on the
Speaker 1: lookout for that. Wait, please show up, please come out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a great time. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of surprises, a lot of things in
Speaker 1: the store. It's going to be We're going to have
Speaker 1: a great time. Merches out, Merches Out. March is available.
Speaker 1: I think we got the vinyl. I think it still
Speaker 1: might be some you know we you know, we make
Speaker 1: cassettes with the Walkman the Box, which is which is
Speaker 1: super super dope. You know, Like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: my first demo was on cassette. Like I come from that,
Speaker 1: Like two questions before you leave one. Yeah, you brought
Speaker 1: up the source earlier. What's an album that didn't get
Speaker 1: five mics? It should have got five mics. First one
Speaker 1: that comes to your head, I'll start Doggy Style. Doug
Speaker 1: Style only got four and a half mikes. Fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: I think what's the name Wayne? I don't think the
Speaker 1: Carter the first one, the first one they slided him.
Speaker 1: Yeahman Jr. Was my ship, Jesus christ I missed my dogs.
Speaker 1: Come on, oh man, I think they slided Wayne on
Speaker 1: the Carter. I think they had to rewrite the blueprint.
Speaker 1: I don't think they gave the blueprint five mikes the
Speaker 1: first time. I think they had to. They didn't give
Speaker 1: reasonable doubt five mics. Yeah, they didn't give reasonable five mics.
Speaker 1: They didn't give but they went back and gave the
Speaker 1: blueprint five. I remember that, though. I don't think thirty
Speaker 1: six Chambers got five mics. Jesus Christy what I'm saying? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I mean I come from that airlight to where
Speaker 1: it's like it mattered. Yeah it mattered. Yeah that Like seriously,
Speaker 1: the last thing, tell me about the craziest psychedelic trip
Speaker 1: you've ever been on. We will leave with a good
Speaker 1: trip story or a bad trip me I wish I
Speaker 1: could tell you who brought us the shrooms. That would
Speaker 1: be so fucking crazy, but I won't out of respect.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you off camera, random famous person bought your rooms.
Speaker 1: It'll be so it'll be so crazy. Uh, Kim Kardashian shrooms, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to Kim. You know what I'm saying? How me? Uh,
Speaker 1: with all due respect, that was That was not she's single, man, No,
Speaker 1: not even that. I just love Kim. She's just she's
Speaker 1: just dope. Kim is just dope. I didn't even mean it.
Speaker 1: I didn't even mean she's just dope. Uh, what's her name?
Speaker 1: Me and q dis shrooms together for the first time,
Speaker 1: and we were literally telepathic, like literally like you guys
Speaker 1: were fucking on the same wave, like we were bugging
Speaker 1: the funk out. And I was laying down on the
Speaker 1: ground on my head. You can ask me, I swear
Speaker 1: I would I buy on the ground like like almost
Speaker 1: like in the feet, right mm hmm. And then he
Speaker 1: asked me in his head, he said, bro, are we
Speaker 1: mind bouncing right now? In his head? And I said, yes,
Speaker 1: we are, Bro. Stop you're tripping me the fuck out.
Speaker 1: And this is a true story. That's my that was
Speaker 1: my illess psychedelic experience. And you can ask him. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Really happened. And then we went on to do an
Speaker 1: excellent show. Oh you guys did that before show, sir,
Speaker 1: kudos to you. Was that like the best show ever?
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but I have done. I have done
Speaker 1: one excellent on my last tour, off off of the Yeah.
Speaker 1: See the thing is yeah. But before I go ahead,
Speaker 1: before I continue, be careful, guys, you have to be careful.
Speaker 1: Please be careful. Microdoes first like listen, just just psychedelics
Speaker 1: are mind altering drug substance. Just be careful. You gotta
Speaker 1: be careful with anything to do with anything that you do.
Speaker 1: Please be careful. I just want to be I need
Speaker 1: to say that because I've kind of been. You've been
Speaker 1: on the part I've been. I'm the third eye guy.
Speaker 1: You've gotten to the edge of the cliff, dark side
Speaker 1: of the moon. I'm I'm and I'm kinda I kind
Speaker 1: of represent that for sure. That a right, which is
Speaker 1: not which I own. I'm not. I'm not saying that,
Speaker 1: but I just really want everyone to hear from me.
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful, be careful. You got to be
Speaker 1: around the right people. You gotta be the environment, in
Speaker 1: the right environment, be safe, and and if you're gonna
Speaker 1: do d MT, be really in the right environment. Do
Speaker 1: it with intent. That's not these aren't. You don't do
Speaker 1: sykes to get high. You do it with intent. You
Speaker 1: do it with intent to to to experience, to learn,
Speaker 1: to to to gain, to get a message, to expand,
Speaker 1: to to send. Just I just want to make that clear,
Speaker 1: like we're not it's important. Yeah, it's important. We're not
Speaker 1: doing it too because it's not get high. You do
Speaker 1: it for therapeuticgree therapeutic self discovery, self discovery for those
Speaker 1: that's I just want to make that clear. I'm like
Speaker 1: some ship you do and go to the club even
Speaker 1: never condone that exactly. I just want to make that clear,
Speaker 1: just coming from me because I've you know, been kind
Speaker 1: of like a you have a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: that and what it can do for you, right, you know,
Speaker 1: people come up to me like, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to bring me Hey, man, eat this ship. Listen Tripballna. No,
Speaker 1: it's not that kind of party. I respect it, man,
Speaker 1: We'll listen. Herbert is out some great body of work.
Speaker 1: Have fun, though, have fun. Yeah, that's just you know,
Speaker 1: a nice It comes along with it albums out man,
Speaker 1: go support it. I appreciate the time, brother, appreciate you.
Speaker 1: So my guys, Yes, sir Fire