Speaker 1: They get a little bit called me. That's right man
Speaker 1: reporting live from Atlanta Jojah Ball Alert Show. You know
Speaker 1: b T.
Speaker 2: What's good y'all?
Speaker 3: This man has turned to a rapper? Now, god, man,
Speaker 3: how does it feel?
Speaker 2: It's shocking? Bro.
Speaker 4: It caught me off guard for real, because you know,
Speaker 4: I grew up thinking I'm be an NBA star, So
Speaker 4: she just caught me out the blue.
Speaker 2: But I'm here for it.
Speaker 3: Do you ever get that it'sh to like wanna wanna
Speaker 3: still play ball?
Speaker 2: I still do.
Speaker 4: I like hooping, bro, Like I get a call tomorrow
Speaker 4: and get to it. But I feel like this moment
Speaker 4: my life now, like this the path I gotta take on.
Speaker 3: Now, how did you know the song was starting to move?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like, uh, you know, correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, But I feel like this song kind of
Speaker 1: like blew up like overnight.
Speaker 3: Yeah it did.
Speaker 4: Actually, I mean I dropped it on the stream on
Speaker 4: neon stream, went to sleep, and then by the time
Speaker 4: I woke up, my shoes flooded.
Speaker 5: So you know, I'm trying to see who picked like
Speaker 5: how to get picked up?
Speaker 2: What was it about dropped the song? Bro? You said,
Speaker 2: what how to get picked up?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Like who who heard it to where it went?
Speaker 5: So damn viral the way did it did?
Speaker 4: But we did that stream neon live stream. It was
Speaker 4: a live stream and I played it in my whip
Speaker 4: and then I guess they you know, they screamed record
Speaker 4: or do whatever. They did it so they heard the
Speaker 4: song and my next day everything was like.
Speaker 2: Drop that ship. You played drop.
Speaker 4: So it's like, damn, I had to start figuring out,
Speaker 4: like I gotta put a team together. Now we gotta
Speaker 4: ship and I'm about to start rapping. That's how it's
Speaker 4: gonna be.
Speaker 3: So who's the first person that you call?
Speaker 1: Was like, bro, you gotta get on my team.
Speaker 4: I said, I hed demo up first my brother and
Speaker 4: then yeah probably. I just told him like we need
Speaker 4: this ship gonna get serious quick, so like we need
Speaker 4: some the right way to go about things.
Speaker 2: You know, he's trying to be out here just freestyle.
Speaker 5: How fast did that happen? Did that process happen?
Speaker 4: Like they I got my people together, crazy people together.
Speaker 4: We took then within a couple of days. That's crazy
Speaker 4: take meetings.
Speaker 5: I fucking wish.
Speaker 2: That's crazy taking meetings after that.
Speaker 1: So with the with the success of you know, your
Speaker 1: new record, Like, do you do you feel the difference
Speaker 1: from like the level of like with basketball, Like is
Speaker 1: it like do you feel like a little bit different
Speaker 1: now that you're switching over and you're doing music full time?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: It's they both on a professional level, So it's like
Speaker 4: it's still I still know how to carry myself, be
Speaker 4: around people, talk to folks and all that because I've
Speaker 4: been doing it. But it is different, Like mentally, I'm
Speaker 4: up a lot more, I'm traveling a lot.
Speaker 2: I feel like it touched like a bigger.
Speaker 4: Crowd because you know, not everybody may not hoop or
Speaker 4: like that shit, Like everybody don't like basketball, bro, but
Speaker 4: it's music everywhere, bro, even overseas they might not even
Speaker 4: know our language and still tune into some shit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: What's the difference like in schedule, Like in your schedule,
Speaker 5: like when you were playing ball, how is that schedule
Speaker 5: different than rapping? Like you got up and then you
Speaker 5: had to go to practice or you had to eat
Speaker 5: right to do this, and then what's the difference now that.
Speaker 4: You were I still got a lot of like my
Speaker 4: basketball traits. I still be up like at five and ship,
Speaker 4: I don't need too much leap I'm always ready to go,
Speaker 4: Like for shows, I say, like basketball helped me with that.
Speaker 4: I don't go into shows like oh damn, like it's
Speaker 4: hell of people right right, I know, keep be geeked up.
Speaker 4: It feels like I got a game on some But it's.
Speaker 5: A little different though, because it's like now it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, first people was coming to see everybody. People
Speaker 5: came for you know you or this. Now it's like nah, nigga,
Speaker 5: we come to see you.
Speaker 4: It's more locked in for show, like I do notice that,
Speaker 4: Like I like that though I could beat myself now
Speaker 4: if you're here to see me, you know, team ball,
Speaker 4: like you can't basketball.
Speaker 3: It's more since yeah.
Speaker 4: It's censored as hell, like you can't say this, you
Speaker 4: can't do that, you can't roll a certain way like
Speaker 4: all that. I like with the music though, you could
Speaker 4: like they gonna rock with you if you do your
Speaker 4: your own.
Speaker 5: Ship, like you feel free.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'll just be how I am now ship
Speaker 4: and then if it gets filmed, it gets film.
Speaker 1: Now, when the record came out, everybody was hitting you
Speaker 1: up to do the remix everybody. How did that make
Speaker 1: you feel when you seen like dang, you got like
Speaker 1: you know, Booty money bag yo, all these guys are
Speaker 1: hitting you up to get on the remix.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I don't know that was It was hard
Speaker 4: to pick one, like, you know, I didn't want to
Speaker 4: like oversaturate the song and nothing by picking Hello folks.
Speaker 4: But I just leaned into little Wayne because that's what
Speaker 4: I grew up on. Bro, Like, that's probably one of
Speaker 4: my goats. I've been listening to Carter two, Carter thre'es
Speaker 4: Fools and all that, and even the mixtapes like the
Speaker 4: Dedication and shit on Spindrilla, so I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I gotta get that sound and shit, I'm like, yeah, well,
Speaker 4: a lot of people money Back hit me, Wayne and
Speaker 4: Eli Chopper and like a lot of rappers for I
Speaker 4: ain't even get through all of them for real, many
Speaker 4: fresh a lot of old school dudes.
Speaker 3: Booty hit me, how'd you get this sound?
Speaker 1: Because I know you you from Cali and the sound
Speaker 1: is like totally different than you know what you hear
Speaker 1: in California.
Speaker 4: I say, my cousins and my family and shit, like
Speaker 4: I got cousins in Baltimore that used to live with us,
Speaker 4: like probably the roots of my voice of the sound
Speaker 4: probably come from over there. I don't know, bro, but
Speaker 4: like this how I grew up talking and I've been
Speaker 4: hearing my whole life.
Speaker 2: Why you talk like that? You're not from the South,
Speaker 2: Like all right, I don't know, but that's what it is.
Speaker 5: Though, did you have did you have the beat first
Speaker 5: or the song first?
Speaker 2: The beat first? I always get the beats first.
Speaker 5: Okay, some people be doing different. Okay, so when you
Speaker 5: heard that? Okay, okay, I don't make no songs pre
Speaker 5: made and where the wool? Like you do that?
Speaker 2: So school?
Speaker 5: Like what what was that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: I like that sound like a tune.
Speaker 4: I like a lot of rappers just make music, bro,
Speaker 4: Like you can't really you can't.
Speaker 2: Like I like when you, oh you.
Speaker 5: Just did what was that? That's what you be doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be swinging and ship.
Speaker 4: You know, I might hit a little jiggy walking dance
Speaker 4: too hard.
Speaker 3: So what the first rap look like? What's the first
Speaker 3: rap chick looked like?
Speaker 2: To you? Man?
Speaker 4: That's shit nice? It come in fast, like just like
Speaker 4: how hoops would for real. But for me, I know
Speaker 4: that's not probably how I go for everybody. But we
Speaker 4: did that ship like my team put it together like
Speaker 4: that real professional contract.
Speaker 5: Where does the where does the money come from? Like
Speaker 5: I know, people be like like how do rappers really
Speaker 5: get paid? Like how like what is it? Streams?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: What's Yeah?
Speaker 4: The shows for sure, the shows mainly are gonna get
Speaker 4: your cheese from shows performances. Then the rest of that ship,
Speaker 4: like overseas is a lot of money too. I mean,
Speaker 4: but I don't know the rest of that ship. Like
Speaker 4: you get your money up front from the labels, I would.
Speaker 2: Say, like whatever your label.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now do you think do you think some some NBA
Speaker 1: stars are jealous? Because I feel like it's it's a
Speaker 1: couple of NBA stars, you know, they.
Speaker 3: Want to be artists, you know.
Speaker 1: And it seems to me like you the first NBA
Speaker 1: started really transition over to you know, to doing music
Speaker 1: facts successfully.
Speaker 4: Might I don't know, I might have ruff like feathers
Speaker 4: or something, but you know, like I don't never be
Speaker 4: tripping on that ship either.
Speaker 2: You mad, you can hate me, you love me, bro,
Speaker 2: just don't touch me.
Speaker 4: Do no weird shitting person And I'm cooling Like That's
Speaker 4: how I move for.
Speaker 3: It seems like the NBA. It sounds like the NBA
Speaker 3: is supporting you.
Speaker 1: More from from like a musical standpoint, because.
Speaker 4: I did come from over there, like playing all them dudes,
Speaker 4: so like they know, they probably know me, know my
Speaker 4: brothers and ship, so it's like they probably feel like
Speaker 4: they can relate real like, oh yeah, that's a old
Speaker 4: nigga doing his rap shit like that, so they probably
Speaker 4: tap in.
Speaker 1: And I bet you everybody wish they had brothers like you,
Speaker 1: because when I tell you your brothers, they go hard
Speaker 1: for your music because you see them posting on the
Speaker 1: instant story like everything.
Speaker 4: Even when I shoot on my music, they tap me
Speaker 4: that Zoe be writing to my songs, like he'll be
Speaker 4: in the car playing my ship like it's out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's how you guys just grew up though,
Speaker 5: like supporting each other all the way through.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of supporting love. I do genuinely think
Speaker 2: that Zo rock though, like he rock with that ship.
Speaker 1: They saying you had better, They say you got better
Speaker 1: songs coming out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, personally I do.
Speaker 4: I got a lot, like better songs than Tweaker. I
Speaker 4: feel like, but that ship coming.
Speaker 1: What do you feel like is gonna be the follow up?
Speaker 1: I know, I know you know. The tweak is like
Speaker 1: it's still new, you know what I'm saying. But but like,
Speaker 1: what are some songs that you like excited for like
Speaker 1: a lot of people to hear.
Speaker 4: I got some shit called Shook the Game. I ain't
Speaker 4: going like, I ain't putting that shit out, y'all got
Speaker 4: wait wait to the album for that. I got some
Speaker 4: shit called shoot the Game, bro. I got like a
Speaker 4: couple songs and shit called booted Up. That's O D
Speaker 4: probably like I could see me doing that ship on
Speaker 4: the stage, Like I got some music like that too.
Speaker 5: I don't really see you just.
Speaker 2: Ain't dropping everything right now.
Speaker 5: I don't really see you like folding on the pressure
Speaker 5: just because of how you were raised and what we
Speaker 5: see how you was raised. But do you feel like
Speaker 5: that you do have a lot of pressure on you
Speaker 5: after Tweaker, you know, like your career after that.
Speaker 4: Hell no, I always like told us like this ship,
Speaker 4: this ship LIKEE like real pressure is like you waking up,
Speaker 4: you ain't got nowhere to live type shit, or you
Speaker 4: know about no money at all? Like you know, that's
Speaker 4: real life situations that niggas go through. So my apostles
Speaker 4: like you know, whatever, life may seem heavy and you
Speaker 4: get through it.
Speaker 1: For real now, nothing nothing on nothing on social media
Speaker 1: like bothers you at this point.
Speaker 4: Hell no, bro, especially since me from like a kid bro,
Speaker 4: I done heard it.
Speaker 2: I done heard it all broad spectrum too.
Speaker 4: It's like, I know, I know what the net like,
Speaker 4: You're gonna say what you want to say at the
Speaker 4: end of the day.
Speaker 2: But niggas ain't with me every day, so I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't fall into that.
Speaker 5: You know, it was the craziest ship you done seen
Speaker 5: or heard. Motherfuckers say, mmmm.
Speaker 2: Shit, craziest shit that I don't like.
Speaker 4: The most shit I don't like is when the niggas
Speaker 4: try to say I'm like a dead bee pops or something.
Speaker 2: Because I be with my young niggas every day for real,
Speaker 2: I've raised them up. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of shit be misleading sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know other things too. You know, everybody say something,
Speaker 4: but I don't get too worked up for I don't
Speaker 4: be mad over than that.
Speaker 2: I really don't go on my ship.
Speaker 5: That's respect.
Speaker 4: I just do a performance and put my phone down
Speaker 4: and hang out with the game.
Speaker 2: See what's happening, all right?
Speaker 1: So we got a segment on the show. It's called
Speaker 1: you Got me fucked up. Literally, name something they got
Speaker 1: you fucked up?
Speaker 2: Right now? Uh?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: A lot of the life coaching got me fucked up.
Speaker 4: I'm a grown ass nigga at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, you feel me.
Speaker 4: I'm twenty six, bro, Like I ain't trying to hear everybody.
Speaker 4: I ain't trying to hear your views on ship. Damn
Speaker 4: show think different. We go about life different, like I
Speaker 4: just know this. So it's like, I really don't want
Speaker 4: your advice on my ship, my situations.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd rather just do my own ship. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it got me real fucked up. How niggas think they
Speaker 2: you know, they gonna tell you how to live and right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right? We okay, we got another segment. It's called
Speaker 3: do you Like Me?
Speaker 1: So, uh, you know you can talk about your crush
Speaker 1: if you have a crush on somebody, and you can
Speaker 1: look at that camera right there and tell them how
Speaker 1: you feel.
Speaker 2: Do you like me? They know who you are. It's love?
Speaker 2: Oh way, man, it's love. It's love. I love y'all.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: What birthday?
Speaker 1: Uh? We got this thing called the mental health check in. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're having a bad day. What are
Speaker 1: the things that you do when you have a bad day.
Speaker 1: When I have a When I have a bad day,
Speaker 1: I like to go for a walk.
Speaker 5: I have a bad day, I just smoke one. Can
Speaker 5: I say that, Yeah, of course this ball alert.
Speaker 3: We can say whatever.
Speaker 4: The day is real bad and then you know it
Speaker 4: build up some ammo to write some music. I might
Speaker 4: put a song down some studio. No, I just write
Speaker 4: in the kitchen wherever I'm at. You makes a song
Speaker 4: in like an hour or two. I really tap in.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Jello, we appreciate you, my guy. And
Speaker 1: right here battle or show Jojo Alonzo.
Speaker 4: Mm hm