WEBVTT - Lil Ronnie 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.000 R and B Money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:13.240 We are thank you, Jake Valentine. We are the authorities 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.280 on all R and B. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.000 Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank Valentine. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.600 This is the R and B Money Podcast. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.840 The authority tell him what it is on all things. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.800 R and B. Can I add family to that? 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.120 R and B Ribs and Barbie and family. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.200 Ribs and barbecue. Yeah? 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:44.839 Uh today, m hmm. This is the start of a 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:49.000 beautiful day, mister Valentine. We are in Atlanta. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:50.000 I love it. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.400 We're on the soil. Yeah, we got we got our 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.400 feet in the grass. You see what I'm saying. We 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:00.000 are at Enore Studios. Now, you't know what's special about 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.800 Eni Studio. Especial about this studio. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:10.320 Man me, there's a boy, he little boy. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.240 Boy been raising his little boy. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:21.680 Yeah, A songwriter, a producer, a businessman. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.960 Sir, you haven to see what I'm saying. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.480 Because when you get the credits and you get the money, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.000 you gotta do something with it. Yeah, you gotta turn 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.679 into something larger than life. The legacy has to be 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.440 something tangible that you can pass down to your chip. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.360 H oh. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.360 I don't want to dwell too much on the intro. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:47.400 I want to get to the. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.760 Nigga grety of what the fuck is going on? 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.320 We are in this man's studio, E. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:02:00.600 Norse Studios in Atlanta, our Forrida Georgia, and he's here 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:01.120 in the building. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.320 We're gonna talk that ship. Give it up a little, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:03.760 Ronnie and. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.280 Yeah, welcome to Atlanta, baby, Yeah, welcome to Atlanta. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:11.480 Bro. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.160 Thank you for having us, brother man, thank you guys 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:16.320 for coming. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.160 I couldn't wait for this. Yeah, I couldn't wait for this. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.360 How long have you been there? 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.400 We go back, man, it's a long time. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:25.679 Man. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.639 We go back to your first bends. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.200 Yeah, yeah, the one I got kicked out. We got back. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.920 We go back to your first bends. You fremendous for 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:34.280 having that. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:44.200 Look get that, We get this. Wait a minute, my sons, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.000 where was he? 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.240 Now? 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:48.040 Wow? 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:55.440 Listen, bro, you've you've always been up to something. That's 0:02:55.440 --> 0:03:00.360 a great way to put it. Always always, always, yeah. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:05.560 And you've always seen that thing through yeah m hmm. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.440 Always. Somebody always say, oh, you ain't seen a little 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.600 right such much? Are you tripping? 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.480 You ain't been a little right such and such? No, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.560 I ain't even know you have those like them. You 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.280 ain't like You've always been that. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.000 Ryannie's the living boom boom room. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.360 You ain't been a raised boom boom you heard about razoo. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:32.120 Oh, everybody was up in there last night. That was 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:36.080 the Quaver was in there. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.080 I know you. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.880 It's one of them things like you have to, like 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.520 my dad just put in me. If you say you 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.200 go do something, do it. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.760 And even matter if you you got to take the loss, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.040 if it comes out your mouth, you need to stick 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.000 stick to it and do it, you know what I mean. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.160 So I've just always had big dreams and I just, 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.480 you know, wanted to make it happen. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.280 Isn't there wasn't there an event at your house? What 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.320 was that at your house? That was at your house? 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.840 That was little? Yeah, at your house? Yeah? It was 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:21.640 crazy first of all, So why is Rodney's house so big? Yeah? 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.440 That I was stupid, man. It was a it was 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.720 a blessing. I mean, how can I say this. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.440 I just always wanted to make money, enjoy what I 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.560 would I do, But also seeing all the people that 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.680 blew money and got to a certain level then didn't 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.960 have it anymore, right, nothing to show for it. So 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.840 I always just wanted to, Like you said, keep the 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.760 legacy going, like do something with the money. Anytime I 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.440 had a hit record, I would put some money over 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.919 to invest to go to another level. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.400 You know what I mean is some money at that 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.560 party too. At that party, yeah, yeah, I shot some 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.839 some NBA guys thought you sho did? 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:08.360 Uh? 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.800 The only shooters in the building with Kennith for Reid. Yeah, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:14.760 you have to name them. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.040 You'll hear this, and like to what else was it? 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.400 Was it? Everybody? 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:20.839 You had? 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.480 Somebody? It was one of the what's my guy was 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.000 a ballaholic? Or was it hot sauce or no. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.320 It was like like three or four guys, you know 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.440 Overseas league guys, you know, and one and then they 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.440 and they didn't know that the R and B guy. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.520 Had a set shot. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.119 Oh you want to you don't want to play five 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.760 from here? From here? 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.240 No problem? I see anybody with my set shot. I 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.400 want good money at your house, man. That's that's I 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.200 remember that day. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.880 Finally, that was the goal of that house was just 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.440 to have great memories and a lot of fun. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:56.840 Yeah. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.679 I walked through the house. I was like that house insane, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.160 Bro was insane? You live here? 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:02.960 Yeah? 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:10.919 Yeah, doo doing pool? 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.240 You saying that right. The funniest thing is when that 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:18.640 episode happened with ray J. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.560 He had just left my house, no way on everything. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.800 He literally was at my house for a couple of weeks, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.000 and it was like white Rose Royce, black Rose Royce. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.040 That's when I had a white woman and a black one. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.120 That's when I had a white yeah, And it was okay, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:41.280 we're not talking about a woman. We're talking about yeah 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.440 he was. And then he went with Mayweather and had 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.559 that whole I was like, Okay, ray get it baby, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.080 popping it. Listen, I don't I don't care where you go 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.320 in the world. If there are three people in the 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.200 room having a conversation, they all had a moment with 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:58.440 ray J. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:00.480 Yeah, right. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.520 Now, it's funny to have a new thing called threads. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.000 Ray J is a threat. Ray J is the three 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.320 red is a thread. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.880 Everybody can be attached to something. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.800 Ray Yet absolutely be in this game. If you're not, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.080 you don't know Ja, you ain't. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:21.440 You ain't really got ray Jack A little Ronnie. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.040 So let's get into the Let's get into the music, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.239 all right, Let's get into the music, bro, Like, let's. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:29.520 Go back city. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.800 You know what I'm saying ribs and barbecue, ribs, barbecue. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.920 You know it's okay, I think it's Barbara. Don't do that. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.560 Don't do that. It's cool now. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:44.440 It's everything from the everything, everything like everything. What are 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.680 you saying it's another barbecue plays in Kansas City. Are 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.760 you trying to go like barbecue or something is better 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:51.160 or something? 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.720 I'm just saying, like, listen, I'm from Milwaukee, man, there 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:54.920 was a little. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:08:01.960 Never heard anything Milwaukee barbecue. You got Milwaukee Bucks, you 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:03.120 got Milwaukee barbecue. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.320 Because beer, y'all got bird, we got got bird, we 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.600 got bir AND's rib tips. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.360 It was second to none. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.080 And then well we had those into my My great 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.520 grandfather Paul Lewis used to get on that grill. Un 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.080 Norman used to get on that grill. I would roll 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.120 with you with that, I believe that. And they got 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.520 so by the time you know, you know, I go 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.560 to the famous places that you know, say they have 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.040 this city? Did they speak if they speak of the 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.040 barbecause I'm like I've had some home grown. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.720 Yeah, home is different. Is it from anything that's an 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:41.240 actual like establishment? Because your uncle, my brother ron Ryn, 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:46.800 little black ass get to work and I will say this. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.040 I've been a lot of places and people that know me. No, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.880 y'all both know I love to eat. I mean Gates, Fireman, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.880 Gates fire I like Gates fire Man. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.360 I can't front on Gates. Maybe they had just pumped 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.720 it up so crazy for me that when I. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.080 Find got it, I was like, No, it's that thing? 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.920 Is that? Let me let you hold on to that. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.320 Then yeah, let's go there. Let's let's go there. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.320 You want some sauce, because I got some sauce. You 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.320 go home with it and everything and put it on 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:19.360 your Memphis barbecue. I'm older, Let's get to Kansas City. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:21.079 When was the moment? 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.720 When was when did you figure out that you know 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:31.679 that you could do this and and possibly do it 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:32.439 at a high level. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.280 It was real early for me. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.880 I went to performing arts schools. So I went to 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.600 uh performing arts middle school. Then I went to see 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.480 high school. I actually went to performing arts schools my 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.319 whole really yeah, grade school, middle school, in high school. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.520 What was kind of like your major? I guess in 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:49.360 the sense music? 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:56.440 Just music, yeah, musicians right alto sex yeah, okay, all state? 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.120 Oh huh, middle school, high school, first year state. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.240 About the church, it's really band can't. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.560 And you know, Kansas City is known for jazz of course, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.200 you know, so we had one of the top bands 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:13.000 in the nation. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.800 Can you beat Cosion playing the sacks. I will let 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:25.720 Cosion have sacks off, but I let him live. He said, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:31.280 you live live, Let Coach live. Bring my sacks out. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.960 I'll be like Coach out there, you know, doing national anthems. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:34.360 Bro he. 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:41.400 Don't want, don't want, he don't want that. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:47.120 Yeah, we'll get to that. Yeah, okay, performing, come on me. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.400 We actually had First of all. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.280 I'm a church nigga said that because I'm a church 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:55.839 nigga too. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.640 Yeah, before school in church. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.080 We just a badass church. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.720 So growing up, you gotta play whatever to make it 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.600 through Sunday service, you know what I mean. My dad's 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:14.920 incredible pianist, organist, father's a preacher, uncles or bishop's grandmother, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:16.400 church state. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.720 Mother. It's all official. You know what I'm saying. Ko Church, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.400 you know, so I had to had to play. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.559 What was great is my family is a pretty big 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.480 family in Kansas City, well known. So my teachers knew 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.560 my family and they wouldn't let me play the instruments 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.280 I played at church. So it was like, no, you 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.640 can't play. You got you gotta do something different. So 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.200 that was instilled in me and I started playing all 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.480 the wood winds. And then middle school we had a 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.080 program called Applied Technology Music Theory. We were basically making 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.800 beats on kate walk m. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.160 Hmm in middle school. So in a performing our. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:03.920 School, everybody got a group. Everybody's a rapper, everybody's a singer. Man, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.880 somebody's like, yo, we heard you. You're making beats. Can 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:07.679 we get some stuff? 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:07.839 Man? 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.040 I sold my first beat for fifty dollars when in 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.600 middle school, I said, oh, this is popping. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:15.720 I made this in five minutes. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:21.600 You're gonna give me whole fifty. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.720 You was at the corner store acting up with that 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.080 fifty dollars. Man. It was honey on me, hub above, 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.120 honey buns on me. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.400 Well, you know it's an extra money because we already 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:31.400 made money playing at church. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.400 You know what I mean. Of the people that come 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.880 on the podcast, my pops. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.760 Pops did not play that, Like my pops will be like, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.600 however you go in, that's how you go in. So 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.720 if you go in free, don't ever think about getting paid. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.839 But if you negotiate from the beginning and get what 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.520 you feel is comfortable and they agree to it. You'll 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.400 be said, I should have played at your father. Yeah, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.120 what wasn't no free baby do that? 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.600 This church we do that. I got a bunch of 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:02.559 slave labor out of me. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:07.240 Yeah yeah, So I mean after I was doing all 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.880 that stuff for schoolmates and stuff like that, I never 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.439 forget my homeboy, Romeo Rondell. Here's a big barber in 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.040 the city. But he also had a label, and man, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.080 he started buying all my beats, all of them. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:28.120 It's called barber shop records. Start buying records. I get it. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.680 Shout out to Romeo round now, Like he was the 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:31.640 first one that was. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.560 Like, yo, man, you gonna make it. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.760 He was like, your your music is musical. It's not 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.040 the regular stuff that's going on out here. He's like, man, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.200 you're putting music in it. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.240 Like what year is this? This is. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:51.720 I graduated in two thousand and one, so this is nineteen. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.040 Who you in middle school? School? 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.400 High school? All your yeah, buying beats? Are you making? 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.480 I'm making him at Katewalk at this time? 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:03.920 Right? 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:09.959 So then what ends up happening again? Another when your 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.480 father plants seeds and do well with people. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.200 It was a cat named don Juan. He's a big producer. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.719 He did all Tech nine stuff, like he still do 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.680 a lot of people's a lot of Western as well. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.360 So don Juan, my daddy put him on as a 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.360 drummer when he was younger, and he used to travel 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.680 with my father Sore was like intertwined family and everything. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.400 So he was one of my favorite people, like who 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.040 I used to try to be, like playing drums and stuff. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:42.360 So middle school, I asked one his cousin, I'm like, yo, Where'sdwan. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.640 He was like, yo, bro, that's don Juan. Like he's 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.320 working with QD three Quincy Jones. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.640 Tech nine is his artist. I'm like, what he making beats? 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.360 So he gives me his number. I call him. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.440 I'm like, Dwan is this little Ronnie? He was like 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.960 big Ronnie Son like little little Ronnie. I was like yeah. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.240 I was like, man, I'm making beats. And then he 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.680 just like got silent, and I. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.920 Was like, what's wrong. He was like, Nigga, I didn't 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.800 put it two and two together. I've been hearing your 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.200 name around the city and I just didn't put it together. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.120 He was like, tell your daddy brings you out to 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.840 my house right now, right now, right now. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.880 And he was in the suburbs. He was making making money. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.560 That bad Take nine, he's killing fifty seventh Street road dogs. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.560 Go out to his crib studios and home studio. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:47.280 Incredible MPC, three thousands, tritons, trinities, dat machines, everything you 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:52.160 can imagine, right And he looked at me his like, Yo, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.480 Pops did wonders for my life. I'm gonna help you 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.880 out do the same thing. This is what you need 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.720 to do. I'm give you all my sounds to my MPC. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:03.240 You're gonna have. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.520 All the you know, that's a big thing starting out 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.680 as a producer, trying to use trying to use the 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.240 the trit and drums or something like that. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:13.160 I hate it. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.280 Sound bro gave me. He was like, you have to 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:21.400 pay for those sounds. The people were selling sound packs. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.320 No it was it was crazy. So he basically gave 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.000 me the blueprint. He's like, get you a trite and 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.400 get you this, get you that. And then I was like, yo, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.640 this shit is spensive. So I had to get a job. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.680 I worked at white Castle's churches. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.360 Chicken they was all at one was a. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.360 Lifeguard and that was the difference too, Like all your 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.320 friends be like, bro, why are you why are you working? 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.160 It's like, man, how I'm supposed to pay for this equipment? 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.800 So just start hustling. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.960 But that's where the hustle starts, right, And that's where 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.040 you identify whether you're serious about this ship or not, 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.320 whether you really got passion for what you're willing to do. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.520 You know what I'm saying in terms of doing what 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.200 you have to do to get to what you want 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:00.680 to do, right. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.080 I tell producers all the time how easy they have 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.000 it right now, like that you can just. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.639 Go get some drums off of a website, like you 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.520 don't have so accessible. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.520 You don't have to hook no many time piece up 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.440 to your MPC and started with your triton and try 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.399 to figure out it's insane. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.960 I bought a music store was going out of business 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.879 and was selling like all of their CDs for like 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.880 on like fifty cent or something like that. I bought 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.359 like four moving boxes of CDs from them, and I 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.160 would just have sampling days all day. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.439 I would just sample from no CDs. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.480 Trying to find an open spot for that that snare 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.080 or just or just a sound or just an eight 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.479 bar thing that nobody had ever heard before. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.440 Like just getting that, trying to get that. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:08.280 Yeah, not on the mouse and dragging it and dropping 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.600 it in and it just automatically sinks up formats to 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.199 the to the tempo. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.760 What came from a different day. It's crazy, super crazy. 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:20.480 Well it wasn't. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.080 You couldn't just put it in another key, yeah, because you. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.320 Felt like you know what I was talking about. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.440 To one of my interns, I was like, bro, y'all, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:35.280 y'all got YouTube, y'all can look something up and someone 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:36.520 else will tell you how to. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.160 We had to open up the manual and read all 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.320 the words. We didn't even know. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.480 What they meant or know somebody and go to their 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.800 house and sup with them for a week. But but 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.840 the older guy that'll be irritated if you're trying to 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.400 call them, like he's like, hey, bro, read the book. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:56.959 First, like that, that's on like the first two pages. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.119 I'm talking my daughter the other day because we're just 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.040 talking about like just things that she wants to do, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.160 like on social media, and I said, you are so 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.280 blessed to live in an age. First of all, I'm 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.640 happy that you're asking these questions. I'm saying, you want 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.720 the information. I was like, unfortunately, some of this information 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.000 I don't have. I said, but guess what, there are tutorials, 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:24.840 thousands of tutory on how to do anything. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.880 Yeah you kidding me? Yeah, it's crazy. I say. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:34.840 You are young, you are still absorbing. Search out the 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:42.280 information you want and download that information. Yeah, I wish, 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.240 I wish we have, man. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.360 What that's how our pers were talking to us. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.520 If y'all had right now, this is the truth though, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.760 it is it is if I could take this information. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:03.080 Back then the twenty four year old me, it's crazy. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.640 Or if I could bring the twenty four year old 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.040 me with that talent and that drive and that space 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.560 to this space right now, I was a maniac. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.320 Yeah yeah, it's super crazy. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.920 So after don Jan gave me the game, then it's 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.520 just like I think, while me and Jay became like brothers, 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:29.680 because like Kansas City and the Bay are like intertwined. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.560 For sure, It's it's crazy, like the city is a 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.520 West Coast mob beat tight, you know what I mean? 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.200 So what ended up happening like Young Mouth of be 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:46.280 over my house, Mac dre oh bro I had like 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.119 Pops had to come to me one day, it's like niggas. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.320 You selling drugs like these niggas coming in with all 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.480 the gold teeth and slanging beats. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.439 You get your jobs right, you get your money together right. Okay, 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:02.600 what equipment did you buy? 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.800 MPC three thousand was my second purchase. First purchase was 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.960 the Triton. Did you did you try to learn the 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.840 sequence on the tripe? Had to had to. My setup 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:19.040 was sequence in the Triton and basically have it control 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:24.520 the MPC trigger, so when I pushed start on my Triton, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.520 it'll triggered up my drums. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.040 Yeah, so you just have to have a little for 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:33.240 the eight bar loop on the drum, and like you 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:35.440 set up you. 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.000 Know, then you you elevate this a little bit more money, 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.840 get that Proteus two thousand and more. 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.040 Fat, but you just got the regular stock. Yet you 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:44.840 can't afford them. 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.160 We used to kill me as you start talking about 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:59.080 those modules. When I first met Timberland, I understood why 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.520 he was well. I mean, of course his brain works different, 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.600 but I also understood the other advantage he had over 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:05.480 all of us. 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.240 He got everything first unlimited. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:13.280 I didn't know this was a until I would buy 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:14.040