Speaker 1: They get called me.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the ball show. I go by the name
Speaker 2: of Ferrari Simits. I go by the name you know,
Speaker 2: be to my lay is in the building.
Speaker 1: Yeah to the show.
Speaker 2: What's up, sir?
Speaker 1: He was acting like he was a little bit nervous.
Speaker 2: He was like, what y'all about to ask me everything?
Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: And what's up? Brother?
Speaker 2: What brings you to the States? I know you got
Speaker 2: the music going is popping.
Speaker 3: What brings me to the States? I'm looking for a girlfriend?
Speaker 3: You are, yep, that's why I came to the States.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, now, I know you are from Nigeria.
Speaker 2: Do you have multiple wives in Nigeria? You're looking for
Speaker 2: a girlfriend in the United States.
Speaker 3: My friend, I've been searching in Nigeria.
Speaker 1: It's not working.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying there's probably too much going on
Speaker 2: not to answer, not to go straight into the foolery.
Speaker 2: But do you have in your country? Do you have
Speaker 2: multiple wives?
Speaker 1: Is that something that.
Speaker 3: I don't That's something I don't even encourage. I'm okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm mind to that you just one woman,
Speaker 3: not really one woman, but like marrying multiple wives? I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't believe in that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can't do your thing as much as
Speaker 3: you But like marrying multiple wives doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm single. I came to the US to
Speaker 3: find myself a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so what are we talking about today?
Speaker 1: So? Okay, your girlfriend? Does she have to have a job?
Speaker 3: Definitely?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: What if?
Speaker 2: What if she's checks all the other boxes and they
Speaker 2: don't have a job, doesn't have a job. Maybe she's
Speaker 2: in school or maybe she.
Speaker 3: I can manage. I can manage, Okay, I can manage.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And what's your type?
Speaker 4: Type?
Speaker 3: That wout put me in trouble. I can't say that.
Speaker 2: Do you have a preference?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just like pretty women. You know.
Speaker 2: That's good answer, that's answer yoh man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just have to keep it simple.
Speaker 1: All right. Let's start to.
Speaker 2: Show, let's start to shut down. Shout out to Warner Records, man,
Speaker 2: because they sent me an immaculate press.
Speaker 1: Kid on you man.
Speaker 2: Two point eight billion global streams, four hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: two million USA streams, twelve million Spotify monthly listeners. Singer
Speaker 2: and songwriter, God damn, bro, You're popping for real, for real.
Speaker 2: I just want to, like I said a camera, I
Speaker 2: just want to mention on the ground.
Speaker 3: Bro, Yeah I'm popping, I'm messing on.
Speaker 2: I just want you to mention me on your Instagram.
Speaker 5: I got you right, But how does it How does
Speaker 5: that make you feel to know that you have a
Speaker 5: mass all this international success.
Speaker 3: It's a blessing. It's a blessing. It's just it's just
Speaker 3: what I feel like to me, it's like, it's work.
Speaker 3: This just have work to do because you have a
Speaker 3: lot of people looking up to you. You have a
Speaker 3: little fun too, who want more of you. You know,
Speaker 3: your artistry just needs to as you grow, the funds grow,
Speaker 3: so you just need to be there to lead, to
Speaker 3: show them what's right and what's wrong. So it's a blessing.
Speaker 3: I love being who I am. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: it's also there's a lot of responsibility to that. You know.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, to add to what you said,
Speaker 2: I feel like afrobeats had this big explosion in the US.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's settling now and it's becoming a
Speaker 2: real genre where people can have a lane in the US,
Speaker 2: such as artists like you that you guys can come
Speaker 2: over here because correct me if I was wrong. It
Speaker 2: was a little bit more dancehall Caribbean music that was
Speaker 2: big in the United States first, and then afrobeats kind
Speaker 2: of came second, and it was this big wave burna
Speaker 2: boys and everything. Now I'm hearing your name and other
Speaker 2: artists of your stature, the vedo.
Speaker 1: David Dough is a.
Speaker 2: Big, big, big But listen, you're big too.
Speaker 1: I did my homework.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of us in Nigeria.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of us in Nigeria who are big.
Speaker 3: But somehow I feel like the US always comes last
Speaker 3: before they discover.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that? I don't know, why do
Speaker 2: you why do you believe?
Speaker 3: You feel like the US just are so into what
Speaker 3: they already.
Speaker 1: Know, like like rap music and stuff like that, Like they.
Speaker 3: Already just that so into that. So it's like before
Speaker 3: they begin to recognize another artists, it just takes a
Speaker 3: bit more time. You just you have to, you know.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of big artists from Nigeria. I
Speaker 3: can mention one hundred if we're still but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but David Dough is he's a legend. He's a big, big, big.
Speaker 5: So making music in Nigeria. Do you guys do the
Speaker 5: the other artists? Are you guys like all friends, y'all
Speaker 5: all hang out?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, oh, go ahead, I allow you to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's as much as yeah, as much as
Speaker 3: there's love, yeah, there's still like a lot of competition,
Speaker 3: and I feel like that's what keeps that's what makes
Speaker 3: an industry strive. You know, when it's too much love
Speaker 3: and everybody's just eating one from one place, it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, everybody's relaxed, but there's a lot of competition
Speaker 3: and that's what keeps us up. That's what like you know.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so it's not like it's not like fighting
Speaker 3: like gone and killing.
Speaker 1: It's just like I want to I want to make
Speaker 1: better music.
Speaker 3: I just want to make better music. I want to
Speaker 3: be the best and stuff like that. It's just like
Speaker 3: very healthy competition.
Speaker 5: So that's why we don't see a lot of collaborations
Speaker 5: with not jeering artists.
Speaker 3: I think that there are a lot of collaborations, but
Speaker 3: not just as much as my piano, you know, like
Speaker 3: the South Africa there's a lot of collaboration with South
Speaker 3: Africa music. That's also a lot with Nigeria, but the
Speaker 3: South African one is just like you know, every single
Speaker 3: record that's collaboration. Nigerian's like we just like to do
Speaker 3: our thing, you know. It's like to that's a bit
Speaker 3: of collaboration, but not as much.
Speaker 2: Question. So growing up for you, your your parents because
Speaker 2: I know I'm Caribbean, so like sometimes my parents is like,
Speaker 2: hey man, you gotta be a doctor, you gotta be
Speaker 2: a lawyer. I was like, I'm gonna be on the radio,
Speaker 2: and it was like my mom was like, yo, nah,
Speaker 2: we're not doing that. I don't never heard. I ain't
Speaker 2: never seen nobody make a whole bunch of money on
Speaker 2: the radio. This is younger for me. Is that almost
Speaker 2: the same for your parents or because I kind of
Speaker 2: hear I heard tem story. Her parents was like yo,
Speaker 2: nah nah, we need you do something else. I don't
Speaker 2: know about this music stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Me for me, I mean that's very famous. As
Speaker 3: if every famous stand in Nigeria, every parents wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to see their kids become become an artist. Really, radial
Speaker 3: radio is a big deal, was a big deal in
Speaker 3: niger I don't know about it now, yeah really, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think radio was something that every parents would want
Speaker 3: to see their kids. I don't know, Robert, but for
Speaker 3: you for music, for me, for music. My mom had
Speaker 3: always been she'd always got my back, She'd always like, YO,
Speaker 3: go for it. But I know a lot of my
Speaker 3: friends because I started as a producer. I used to
Speaker 3: produce for a bunch of artists in my streets. I
Speaker 3: know a lot of them that sneak to the studio
Speaker 3: to make music with me because their parents wouldn't allow
Speaker 3: them to do that. They want they have to be
Speaker 3: doctors or something. Yeah, but the more people like me emerge,
Speaker 3: the more people just like begin to understand that this
Speaker 3: is actually something that is possible, doesn't necessarily That's why
Speaker 3: I feel like I also have a lot of responsibility
Speaker 3: to teach the younger generation how to. You know, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of misunderstanding with what the music chance should
Speaker 3: be and what music Chians have been in the past.
Speaker 3: You know, there's always just that thing of music chance.
Speaker 3: I just like, do draw kill each other. Of course
Speaker 3: I'm still there in America and stuff. But like, that's
Speaker 3: why I feel like I have a lot of responsibility
Speaker 3: to teach the younger generation how to this can actually
Speaker 3: just be It could be something.
Speaker 1: That could actually be a career.
Speaker 3: It could be a career, it could be a very
Speaker 3: good life. You know, you can make something really good
Speaker 3: out of it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so how did you know when your music
Speaker 1: start to travel?
Speaker 3: My music started traveling from two two thousand. So I
Speaker 3: used to be a producer, because everybody already are familiar
Speaker 3: with that story. I started. I put out my first
Speaker 3: my first song, do Not Distop. But I didn't need
Speaker 3: tell none of my friends that I was my record
Speaker 3: because they only knew me as a producer. So for
Speaker 3: the first time I made a record, I put it
Speaker 3: out and everybody was just accepting it so much. They
Speaker 3: loved it so much, and especially because they didn't know
Speaker 3: it was me.
Speaker 2: And so why did you do that? Was somebody making
Speaker 2: you frustrated to deal with and you was like, know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just do this ship myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because yeah, they were. It was frustrating because I, like,
Speaker 3: the ideas are just stuck up in my head, you know, so.
Speaker 2: You put the ideas out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the ideas are just stuck in my head
Speaker 3: and giving me sleepless nights. And I tried to make
Speaker 3: artists do that, but it's not them you know, that
Speaker 3: is me. That's my personality. I'm trying to impose on
Speaker 3: other artists. So I used to write for them and stuff.
Speaker 3: So like it got to the point where I'm like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I have to just do this myself.
Speaker 5: Well you realize, like y'all suck, let me let me,
Speaker 5: let me go do what y'all should be doing.
Speaker 2: We know, way listen.
Speaker 5: You said y'all suck, let me go do what y'all
Speaker 5: should be doing. Was listening to me and then you
Speaker 5: go and blow up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean as soon as I as soon as
Speaker 3: I put out my first song, do all this stuff,
Speaker 3: and I made everybody understand. And that was me thinking
Speaker 3: I instead of getting some some hate you know, from
Speaker 3: my from my friends and myself.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a bit of hate because they all
Speaker 3: love the record, and when.
Speaker 2: They didn't know, they was like, why you didn't give
Speaker 2: it to me?
Speaker 3: Why didn't your stuff like that? Then, but more people
Speaker 3: was listening to my city radios was taking it up
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And then I did the second song,
Speaker 3: Hello Brother, and I started getting label invites, you know,
Speaker 3: deals and stuff like that. I just I just knew
Speaker 3: that you know, this is my pat This is definitely
Speaker 3: my question.
Speaker 2: So as you're growing up and as you're getting into
Speaker 2: the music, what artists from America that you kind of
Speaker 2: really liked because I, you know.
Speaker 3: I loved Drake. I have always Drake. Okay, Drake from
Speaker 3: Canada though, yeah, and he's from Canada, but of course
Speaker 3: Drake is.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Yeah, we loved Drake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've always loved Drake. I've always loved Kendrick.
Speaker 3: I just kind of hate to see the two of
Speaker 3: them go to war, like, yeah, I've always loved I
Speaker 3: think I think.
Speaker 5: That was good for hip hop. Yeah, that was its
Speaker 5: lo as. No, it was no blood ship.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That was a moment that was I would say friendly,
Speaker 3: but that was not friendly, didn't it didn't look that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad nobody got hurt.
Speaker 2: So, so you was growing up with listening to Drake.
Speaker 3: I listened to Kendrick a lot. I listened to Tupac
Speaker 3: so much legal So it's just like that that line.
Speaker 1: Of Man Tupac music was traveling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, people, we listened to Tupac a lot in
Speaker 3: Africa off till today. We're still wow in Nigeria. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a little people going to.
Speaker 2: Now, I do have a question for you music. Educate
Speaker 2: me on this question. Now, being from Nigeria, are there
Speaker 2: parts in Africa that you are not allowed to go
Speaker 2: to to perform, like to to a point where it's
Speaker 2: like a problem or no.
Speaker 1: No, he said, go anywhere.
Speaker 3: No, I can't go anywhere I expect, But but I
Speaker 3: can go anywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: Okay, let me let me spend it. There is there
Speaker 5: some artists that can't go anywhere in Africa, I.
Speaker 2: Believe, so outside of Nigeria. What's your favorite country to
Speaker 2: visit in Africa?
Speaker 3: In Africa?
Speaker 4: Kenya, Kenya, Ghana, Ghana, Rwanda, Rwanda. Yeah, South Africa, it's
Speaker 4: a lot. It's a lot of beautiful place places. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but Kenya Kenya has a vibe, such a big vibe,
Speaker 4: the coast, Mumbaisa, the islands and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: South Africa too, you should visit definitely.
Speaker 2: Now, when you come to the States, is there a
Speaker 2: specific you know, state or city that you be like,
Speaker 2: I gotta come there when I come to America.
Speaker 5: L A l A Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I love l A.
Speaker 3: But of course I love Atlanta too because of the community.
Speaker 3: It's very big.
Speaker 2: You got a big afro big I'm a piano crowd
Speaker 2: here too.
Speaker 3: Very big. And then when you have this kind of community,
Speaker 3: it's easy to find stuff like food, like and it's
Speaker 3: just there for you if you're like home. So yeah,
Speaker 3: Atlanta La busting d C. Yeah, it's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 2: All right, So now before we get up out of here,
Speaker 2: let let's talk about you trying to find this lady. Man. Now,
Speaker 2: are you serious, really trying to find Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I've been looking for one. You want an
Speaker 3: American woman, not necessarily American.
Speaker 1: She got to be American. How tall does she got
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 3: She doesn't have to be an American woman.
Speaker 2: You're single and you're looking for a woman to be
Speaker 2: your lady.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 1: For brown, brown eyes, blue eyes, green.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't really, I don't really. You don't
Speaker 3: discriminate on discriminate. I don't mind. As long as your
Speaker 3: your human being, you're pretty.
Speaker 1: Does she have to know your music?
Speaker 3: Yes, she has to know my miss y'all know what
Speaker 3: I'm into, Okay, feeling you have to So if you
Speaker 3: don't know my music and you want to d M me.
Speaker 2: So you're you're checking d ms and you're reading dm.
Speaker 3: Once in a while.
Speaker 5: Okay, you might have to look a little bit more
Speaker 5: often after this come out.
Speaker 2: Get clipped up. Oh my god, before we go though,
Speaker 2: explain your name is that your real name?
Speaker 3: My name is my Lee, that's my real name. My
Speaker 3: name is my real name is Stanley or my d
Speaker 3: d all. My is my middle names, my family name
Speaker 3: basically Nigeria when you everybody takes on from your dad
Speaker 3: to like, my dad's name is Alma, so my name
Speaker 3: is Stanley. Oh my my kid's name is going to be.
Speaker 1: With the lay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ladies, like late is an expression of urgency in
Speaker 3: my dialect. So I'm like Ferrari, right, and maybe you
Speaker 3: yeah that sounds.
Speaker 1: Artist l you know what, Yeah yeah, yeah, it sounds.
Speaker 3: Like sounds cool right, yeah. Yeah. It's a tribal thing
Speaker 3: where it's like when somebody is beyond the reach and
Speaker 3: they just need to hear your voice to understand that
Speaker 3: you're calling them. You're like Feerrari Ley, you scream the
Speaker 3: leg They just once they hear the voice, they know
Speaker 3: that you're calling them. So I just kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: took it as part of my identity.
Speaker 2: Fine, yeah, so new single out right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Moving is out now, Clarity of Mind is on
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 1: The album okay, and when can we spend the album?
Speaker 2: When's the date on that?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't have a date on the album right now,
Speaker 3: but it's definitely coming.
Speaker 1: You just gonna tell the label. I'll tell you'all already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that you always.
Speaker 3: I like that you always bring things out. You just
Speaker 3: say it for me, like you know.
Speaker 1: Because I know listen, I got superpowers up here. I
Speaker 1: just be knowing what people want to say.
Speaker 2: Don't laugh. But what's your manager's name again? Abika tell Aka?
Speaker 2: We're gonna send them twenty five dollars invoy. He messed
Speaker 2: up our little roll over here. He got that permanent
Speaker 2: crease over there. We're gonna need a new now. But
Speaker 2: we appreciate you pulling up. Listen, man, we're friends now, man,
Speaker 2: ferrari la.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So every time you can't Tatlanta, you gotta pull up
Speaker 2: on pull up man.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for having me today.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Now, one more question. I know you don't like collapse.
Speaker 3: No, don't say like that, but.
Speaker 5: Like that, well, anybody that you were want to collab
Speaker 5: with even though they're a competition.
Speaker 3: Oh no, like no, like I have to make this class,
Speaker 3: so like like they are my competition. You feel me
Speaker 3: like I've always just been I've always been my competition.
Speaker 3: But like you can't de nighted fact that the game
Speaker 3: is a game. You feel right about that it's a
Speaker 3: game and we are all like just putting puzzles together.
Speaker 2: So who would you.
Speaker 1: Like to work with them?
Speaker 2: From Nigeria?
Speaker 3: From Niger David?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 3: Okay, David, David has been.
Speaker 1: I'm about to call him good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually we have a song already coming out, so.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell us.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to say that, but I'm very excited
Speaker 3: about the record because we got Yeah I am David,
Speaker 3: Like it was something that I didn't I didn't imagine
Speaker 3: would be great, you know, would be this cool. Well,
Speaker 3: like yeah, the way we got our long and David
Speaker 3: is such an amazing person to you, He's super cool.
Speaker 3: He's an amazing person. The way we got along and
Speaker 3: the way we make this record happen, it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: What's the name of it? I'm going to say, I'm
Speaker 1: about to text David.
Speaker 2: Hey, man, we lay, we lay well listen man, we
Speaker 2: appreciate it. We can't wait for the music to come out.
Speaker 2: Especially we got to hear some snippets or something. Man,
Speaker 2: we're gonna figure that out going on. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: we'll appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: On my Lave Ferrari La btl A right here on
Speaker 2: the ball Alert Show.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1: Love MHM