WEBVTT - #276 - Tink 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.680 It's the bluele Cat Podcast bluele Cats Show Special guest 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:08.800 tink you very talented, Thank you, thank you so much 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.800 historically uh leveled talented person, Like the levels of talent 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:17.080 you possess is historic. Thank you. No, I really appreciate that. Yeah. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.520 I think it's been dope to just kind of witness 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.079 like the last few years the run you've been going 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:26.560 on doing it independently. Yes, sir, I've been a fanny 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.200 for a very long time. So it's good to see you. No, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.080 thank you. I mean a lot, Like you said, three 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.440 years i've been independent. It's a different vibe, different energy. Yeah, Like, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.680 how do you because you've kind of been through the 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.040 ring or if you will, you've had like a long 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.320 journey throughout the music industry, right, You've been on the 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.400 major label side. You've been working with guys like Timbolin, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.440 guys like this guy over here who has a bad 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:54.440 cigarette smoking problem. AKA. But like for you, like, how 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.000 how does it feel to kind of like have a 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.279 little bit more freedom now? And it feels like you're 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.680 doing a lot of stuff on your terms now. Yeah, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.479 that's what makes it fun. To be honest, it feels 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.039 like I'm just being myself now. Yeah, when I was 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.360 first like in the industry or in the game, it 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.319 was a lot of labelheads over my situation. So you know, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.440 I'm just getting back to myself and really you know, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.640 being authentic again. Yeah. With the music, I'm able to 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.760 say what I want to say, you know, work with 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.680 who I want to work with. Yeah, it's just that freedom. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.000 Yeah for you, Like I feel like when you first 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.440 came out, too, there was like kind of it was 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:29.880 kind of like a weird time to be like a 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.320 female artist who does like hip hop, slash, R and B. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.039 You're kind of like a hybrid artist, right, And now 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.600 I just feel like it's all lining up for you. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.360 How do you feel about just kind of the landscape 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.920 of music in twenty twenty three as opposed to when 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.600 you first came in. Obviously the industry's changed a lot. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.720 You know, Yes, I feel like it's it's more accepted. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.120 Like you say, back then, it was kind of I 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.360 was like the I don't want to say, the only 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.480 one doing it, but it was rare to hear like 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.400 a rapper. You might have been the only one doing it, right, 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.840 I hate to say it like that, but maybe she 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.400 was a female like Lauren Hill. Yeah, so like in 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.160 my generation, I was the only one doing it, so 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.240 it was you know, it was it took me a 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.560 minute to really you know, just put put it out there. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.000 But now it's honestly, I feel like the game is 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.200 just more accepting. Yeah, you know, we got like artists 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.880 that are doing like rock and rap. You know, I 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.280 feel like the music, the genres are blending together more 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.280 and it's I think it's resulting in better music too, exactly. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.840 People are free. Yeah, so yeah, I think, uh, you know, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.160 I've always just done me. I've never really put a box, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.600 put myself in a box, right, But yeah, it's working. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.280 It's working out for sure. You've had some dope records too. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.600 Thank you. I'm glad you brought up the rap. I 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.679 think people forget that I can really wrap. You could 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.000 rap rap? Yeah, I can really rap. I mean you've 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.240 been on your R and B tip like some real 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.480 ill R and B ship, but you're you can rap. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.840 That's I mean, I don't. That's what got me as 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.720 a fan, was like, oh this call she could bar out, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.280 but she also dish. But what's so crazy? Rap is 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.760 like so hard to really for me, it's really hard 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.080 to like kick down a door and rap right like 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.840 the female the female rappers. You know, it's just a 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.440 different ball game. I feel like R and B people 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.400 are more like receptive to my R and B songs. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.640 When you first came out, what year was it like 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.679 on a major label? Twenty fifteen, So twenty fifteen. The 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:27.560 landscape of being a female rapper quote unquote, it's way different, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.760 way different. It was really like Nikki Yep and then 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.520 Queen Nick and yeah, shout out to Nikki. And then 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.680 there was twenty fifteen. It wasn't a lot of female rappers. Daje, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.520 daj Love, she was like twenty fourteen, you know, but yeah, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.120 it was definitely tough because and it kind of there 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.320 was like this female renaissance if you will, around twenty 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.800 seventeen twenty eighteen, where it was like, and I look 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.560 at music currently, specifically hip hop, there's like a lack 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.320 of real records in rapper right now. Like if you 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.920 really think about like what has been the smash this 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.520 year that you go to the club and it's like automatic, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.520 like there's ship to play, for sure, there's ship to play, 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.600 But the days I just there's not like like these 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.400 dudes ain't making anthems no more at all. Now Glorilla 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.640 is making a fucking anthem, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.440 I love like Megan's making real records, you know what 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.000 I mean? Shit Coiler Ray the Players record is a dope. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.160 That's a hit. It's a hit, you know what I mean. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.640 I just feel like dudes are just like kind of 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.480 like women are taking over. To be honest, I hear 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.520 more of the girls rapping than I do the guys, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.240 and they're making just better songs absolutely, and we know 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.359 our audience too, like you know, women are speaking for women. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.560 So yeah, you know, do you feel like you should 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.920 have got nominated for a Grammy? Uh? I don't want 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.800 to say that now. I think you know, I'm really 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.520 hard on myself. I'm a hard critic, So I got 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.400 a lot of work to put in still right, and 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.279 like I say, I'm really just getting my foot in 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.360 that door again. Yeah, so with time, and I don't 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.120 really make music to like be nominated nowhere. I feel like, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.600 you know, if it happens to happen, happens, it happens, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.159 and I'm grateful, but you know that's not like the 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.279 end all for sure. Like I said, so many artists 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.160 that never really got there. Yeah, got their Grammy or 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.080 got their awards, but I mean not barely. Just won 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.040 the Grammy last year and it was like twenty twenty 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:33.800 five years later after he's deserve Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah no, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.440 So yeah, this new album is well, first of all, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.440 explain the title. So my new album is called Thanks 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.760 for Nothing, and it's going to be released in February. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.880 And I really wanted to make a project that was 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.520 like geared towards the women, of course, but Valentine's Day 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.320 is coming up, and you know me, I'm always speaking 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.640 for my ladies. Yep. I'm always talking about heartbreaks and 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.080 relationship issues, and that's like my So I was like, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.440 it's perfect time. Thanks for Nothing, it's the album. Is 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.320 that what you tell like X, That's what I tell 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.279 my ex. Get you go through a breakup, it's like, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.040 thanks for nothing, thanks for wasting my fucking wasting my time. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.800 That's it, you know, thanks for nothing. Is that the 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.800 hardest part about going through a bad breakup where it's 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.160 like I just wasted like some prime real estate in 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.720 my life with this fucking guy. Of course, that's the 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.040 that's the worst part about it. You can't get time back, 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.239 but you can get lessons from it. True, that's the upside. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.159 You know you always learn, Yeah, learn from everything. But 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.080 I like how you said that though. It's like, man, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.200 it took my time and wasted it. That's true because 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.360 you're in your twenties early thirties, Like you're like, yo, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.160 like this is the prime of my life. Yeah, don't 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.760 take that lightly, don't waste my exactly, and I'm twenty seven, 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.960 so like it is like that prime you know that age, right, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:57.240 you know your Yeah, but you know we don't have 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.320 no more time to waste. So you and a mister 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.760 Berg a hit maker? How many times platinum? One hundred 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.080 millions of I mean, where are we at berg over there? 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:12.840 Excuse one hundred and twenty So nonchal disguis crazy, super talented, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.520 got a ear for hit records. How you guys have 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.559 been working together for a while now. But in terms 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.920 of your guys is cohesion. It's almost like the R 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.200 and B version of like DJ Premier and Goou from 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.800 Gang Star, or like you guys are like very much 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.120 like in sync with each other and putting these records together. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.920 Explain like your guys' relationship and the chemistry there. You 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.320 know what's really dope about us working together. Were both 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.320 from Chicago, Yes you are, yep. So when I when 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.960 I met hit Maker, it was very comfortable. You know, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.640 like I'm an artist where I like to kind of 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.320 go on the studio alone and you know, I like 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.160 to just kind of be free and have the room 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.320 to myself. Right when he came in, it was easy 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.360 to work with him. I didn't feel like bombarded. It 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.520 wasn't like, you know, singing like this, do this. A 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.360 lot of producers are pushy, right, and it's not like that. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.480 Why and he understands me too, Like we're from the shat, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.960 so he get my lingo. You know, he understand my language. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.840 So it just made it really easy. Yeah, I feel 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.400 like you guys, are any of your guys like because 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.840 he is? He did he did the whole album. Yeah, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.440 the whole album. Executive produced the whole album. Wow. So 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.680 so that's major, you know what I mean? Like, like 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.840 you say, one hundred and twenty million, it's a long 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:30.440 a billion, close to a billion, thirteen billion streams. Yeah, 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.280 that's major. It's a lot, you know. Yeah, super slept 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.840 on guy over there sitting on the on the rug 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.560 over there. We need more chairs by the way, Sorry, guys, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:38.840 it's the first day of the new place. We need 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.160 more chairs. It's obvious. Yeah, congrats, it's really nice. Yeah, 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.800 the front building is where it's at. But nah, we're here, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.760 uh for you? Is there any features on this album? 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.480 So I have one feature, very very very special feature. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.640 Should I give away the surprise? Guys? So Ti dollar 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.480 sign is on his album sign? Yes, listen, that's like 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.520 legendary for me. I really really, you know, just always 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.320 have been a great fan of Alien. That's hie. He's 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.600 just so good. 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I feel like that's why I 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.600 really lean on. I want to credible. You love so os. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.120 That's a great album. Yes, yeah, she did her ship, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.680 you know, and says is like a pioneer. She's like 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.400 in her own laying her own world. Yeah. So yeah, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.439 she inspired me a lot. You know what it is too, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.840 It's like, you know, you're an amazing female R and 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.520 B artist when you can get like a dude to 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.520 like appreciate and this is true because you're you're you're 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.920 the same type of artists where you can like because 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.800 there's a lot of female R and B for me 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.199 that like, well, this is not I can't relate to this. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.960 It's like, you know, I'm not a scorned woman. But 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.640 then when I be hearing your ship or I'll be 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.320 hearing scissors shit, I'm just in like yeah, and that's 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.920 that's the beauty of it. But what's so crazy? I 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.400 feel like a lot of guys are they get like 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.240 upset behind my music because I kind of keep it 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.440 too real and too honest. So I'm glad to have 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.400 your support, you know what I mean As a guy, Yeah, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.400 a lot of guys I see it all the time, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.840 like man, you know, my lady's mad at me because 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.120 of you, or you got me in trouble. You know 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.400 I would, okay, give me like a song lyric that 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.320 might've got a guy in trouble that Dave got a 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:56.640 record don't tell nobody with Jeremiah. So that's like dropped 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.320 it a long time ago, but to this day goes crazy, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.720 like way the guy is cheating keeping on the DL ship. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.360 You tell you with the bros and you out with 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.360 a bitch. Oh yeah, say you're at the crib and 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.080 you leaving her place, pull up to the crib nigga 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.120 line my face. Wow. So just real ship like that. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.680 I I love to come round and like same way 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.280 the guys rapping like they drop bombs and shit. That's 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.040 how I'm coming for the women. I love it. So yeah, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:27.360 I'm glad to have some support from the males. Might 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.120 have forgot about. Oh shit, how could I overlook? So 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.920 the last record we just wrapped it. That's why there's 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:39.360 another feature with Young Blue and it's called Stingy. Amazing record. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.680 You know, working with Blue is so, you know, so easy. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:47.400 He's got a super dope tone too, very unique. Come on, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.360 So Stingy is dropping really soon. It's gonna be on 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.880 radio as well, produced by your maker and it's a vibe. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.640 You know. Were you guys in the studio together for 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.640 that one, No, we weren't. He actually uh sent it 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.320 to me and we kind of just went back and 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.760 forth with it until it was right for you. Like, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.880 what is your like writing process? Because obviously being able 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.920 to rap, being able to like do the lyrical shit, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.080 but also being able to like write songs, like, are 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.280 you open to input, like when it comes to like 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.960 top lines or hooks or shit like that, because obviously 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.320 you're in the studio with Berg. Berg is obviously a 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.440 great songwriter. Yeah, because I'm open now. I used to 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.720 be really really like, you know, I kept my music 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.360 really to myself. I'd write it at home and go 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.920 to the studio cut it by myself. You know, nobody 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.480 would hear my shit until it kind of was about 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.120 to release. But now working with it, he kind of 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.440 introduced me to working with other writers. You know, He'll 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.920 he'll have the studio open and it'll be like ten 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.240 people in the booth at once. So I think it's 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.840 good in the industry. Honestly, everybody's taking taking you know. Yeah, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.440 if you've been in like an actual studio session, you 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.320 kind of know what it is. It's like it's like 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.760 a bunch of it's just a free flowing flow of ideas. Yeah, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.639 and we get a lot of shit done quicker. Like 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.480 it could be the engineer given ideas to exactly and 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.879 for some reason they never get any credit. Shout out 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.040 to the engineers, yeah, shout out to source. You know, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.560 sources engineering my last album. So we've been working really 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:24.200 really hard. But yeah, everybody has like a input into 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.919 the ship now, so you know we're coming harder. What 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.760 is uh? So the Grammys just got wrapped up? Uh 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.879 Harry Styles when I'm in here. But for you, what 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.200 was your favorite album? Okay? I don't even want to 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.440 go Grammy cycle because it's a little confusing to remember 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.800 what came out from September to September. But what was 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.320 your favorite album last year? My favorite album last year? 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.560 I like underground like artists, not even underground, but like 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.040 Brent Fire's. Brent Fire's album is crazy toxic. I played 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.640 that ship out, very toxic, toxic album. I love it, Yes, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.239 So for me that was my top album, you know, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.440 and I don't mean to say underground, but I love 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.159 like you know, people that aren't may not be on 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.840 a radio twenty four to seven, so those are He's 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.960 a beast. His band is crazy too, super crazy paining. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:19.560 What about on the hip hop side? Hip hop side? Man, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.399 it might have been a light year for REP. I 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.680 mean there was some good ship. There was like a 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.359 Kendrick Pusher te okay, okay, okay, what else was dope Blast? 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.640 Year Future Okay, future, damn near R and B artist 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.560 now like wait for You, It is like a brilliant 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.000 R and B record. I feel you, But yeah, I'm 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.359 still locked in with R and B. I guess I 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.639 didn't really turn into much much better on that R 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.120 and B shit. Yeah, I've been going through it. So Okay, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.280 the guy who won Best R and B Album that 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.040 Chris Brown did not know who he was? Did you 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.760 know who he was? I didn't know who he was 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:59.560 at all? Okay, but you know, did you some someone knows? 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.080 Though some one knows. Yeah, but I do feel like 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:08.680 Chris deserved he deserves Listen. I think Chris Brown is 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.800 probably him or Jamie Fox in terms of just talent 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.880 in one body, the most talented motherfuckers in the world, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.080 because like, Chris Brown can dance, he can sing, he 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.360 can pay an entertainer, he could fucking uh, he could 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.840 play basketball. I just mean talent, I'm not even tomorrow, 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.640 just everything. And then you got Jamie Fox. You could 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.960 do stand up, he can act, he can that's crazy. 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.000 He is a comedian as well. Those two are like 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.639 the two unicorns. If we're just talking about raw talent, 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.280 Chris Brown's like I feel like I feel like sometimes 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.280 we don't appreciate Chris enough. Absolutely, I do feel like 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.360 he's like the closest we have to Mike. He's our Mike. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.920 He's our Mike for sure. So yeah, to see somebody 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.399 else win like that, it did break break our hearts. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.600 You know, I felt I felt Chris on it because 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.639 Chris Brown's almost hard it was. I mean, look, I 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.359 don't even like the other guy. I didn't listen to 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.800 his album, so it could be better. And that's the thing. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.200 I hadn't heard of it. I didn't listen to Harry 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.080 Style's album. That's lot of Grammys. You know, we gotta 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:12.399 be careful giving, you know, give any award shows too much. Well, 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.520 you know what they did this year. They realized nobody 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.200 was watching, so they just made that ship hip hop 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.439 as fuck, right. I heard they had a hip hop tribute. 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.120 It was not just that, it was like the whole 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.000 show ended with like jay Z wrapping out of the 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.680 Last Supper when DJ Khalad and Little Baby did freestyle 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.840 at the Grammys. This is amazing. It was amazing. Well, 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:35.640 I'm glad to hear that. Though we do need more, 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.400 you know, just more involvement. I don't want to suck 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.000 up his name. I think it's Jesse Collins, the guy 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.480 who produced the Grammys, but he's the guy who always 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.080 does to be who's been doing the BT wars the 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:46.560 last few years. So they had to kind of tap 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.040 in because and then people were talking about the Grammys 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.040 in a positive way this year. Yeah, but that's the thing, 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.199 you know. Rap really influences everything. So you know, if 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.640 you want people to tune in, you gotta you gotta 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.640 balance it out. Yeah, for sure. Have you been able 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.000 to link with like someone like Scizzy who you're a 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:04.840