Speaker 1: At what to do is D Boy two twenty three,
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Speaker 3: We got a special guest in here, D Boy. What's
Speaker 3: going on, bro.
Speaker 1: And what's the deal? D Boy two twenty three. Yeah, welcome.
Speaker 1: We're looking out man.
Speaker 3: For people who don't know.
Speaker 2: Man, you're from Carson, yes, sir, uh and you kind
Speaker 2: of you come from the bou Yard Tribe lineage of
Speaker 2: hip hop, so kind of break down like your direct
Speaker 2: relation with Bouyard Tribe. And for people who don't know,
Speaker 2: Boyd Tribe is a fucking legendary Samoan rap group out
Speaker 2: of Carson that super slept on you know.
Speaker 1: To be honest, right right, So yeah, the bout Yard
Speaker 1: that's my family. My dad, Oh yeah, my dad don't see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so my pops he that's Cobra, Yes, yeah, so Cobra,
Speaker 1: that's his brothers. You know, there's all my uncle. So
Speaker 1: that you know, that's how I'm tied in. So well yeah, basically, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, picking up the torch right now, trying to
Speaker 1: run with the type shit. You know.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, is there anything like because they
Speaker 2: had a lot of independent success. I mean they had records.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember the last album I think I
Speaker 2: bought it. There was that album that had m is
Speaker 2: it eminem and trick trick.
Speaker 3: On the song.
Speaker 1: I think that was eminem and be real, be real.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean they have like like a lot
Speaker 2: of like independent success throughout the nineties and the early
Speaker 2: two thousands and shit like was it always kind of
Speaker 2: like in the cards for you to try to like
Speaker 2: get into the music game, like.
Speaker 1: Nah, like, uh I I didn't think. I didn't think
Speaker 1: I was ever gonna be rapping, so I just kind
Speaker 1: of like, uh like i'm I'm, I'm, I'm barely in
Speaker 1: the game type shit with this, like you know, as
Speaker 1: far as uh my rap career probably like going on
Speaker 1: three years right now. So uh, I never took I
Speaker 1: never I never even visualized me being a rappers, like
Speaker 1: you know, that was my possilim thing. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: uh I used to have flows, I used to have
Speaker 1: rhymes like you know, I used to write some shit down.
Speaker 1: I used to spit it, but I never took a
Speaker 1: series until you know, one day I went and laid
Speaker 1: that ship down in the booth and then uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's when you know, it was kind of like a
Speaker 1: uh it was kind of like an ongoing joke with
Speaker 1: me and my homies, like I'll be spitting the same
Speaker 1: verse like three four times around them type shit, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're like, man, oh, here comes d Boy again
Speaker 1: with the same old ship, you know, like and then
Speaker 1: I laid it down and it was just kind of
Speaker 1: like oh damn, you know, like it ain't funny no more.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, oh damn, he's hard. So then
Speaker 1: that's where I kind of took it and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know, fuck it. Like if I'm gonna wrap and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take, I'm gonna make something out of it.
Speaker 1: Then uh yeah, you know I'm gonna carry the legacy
Speaker 1: for you know, for me and Min.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, like, uh, prior to you taking like
Speaker 2: like taking rap serious pretty much in the streets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, your thing. Yeah. So you know my posting
Speaker 1: them they bang we I'm from the same hood as
Speaker 1: they am, so I basically picked up them traits before
Speaker 1: I picked up the rap traits.
Speaker 3: Right, so you followed them footsteps.
Speaker 1: The wrongs footsteps, you know. So it's I kind of
Speaker 1: went down to down the banging path and you know,
Speaker 1: it was just it was just to the point where
Speaker 1: you know, it's just kind of like, man, I didn't
Speaker 1: give a fuck about nothing. It was just like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm from the Bang. I'm ready to I'm ready to
Speaker 1: do life for this ship type ship. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: about to crash out over over banging and then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just kind of like damn, I fell
Speaker 1: into the music just like damn. Now yeah, cause it's
Speaker 1: kind of like that Shiit say. It kind of saved
Speaker 1: my life and my perspective on things. So it was just.
Speaker 3: Almost like you got you got a reason not to
Speaker 3: crash out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it's just like to to this point now,
Speaker 1: like where I'm at now, it's kind of like it's
Speaker 1: just like, uh, you know, I kind of got a
Speaker 1: purpose now, so it's more of on like a, uh,
Speaker 1: I got something to lose, rather than being going from
Speaker 1: fucking like I don't give a fuck what I lose
Speaker 1: type shit, you know what I mean. So that's the
Speaker 1: kind of path that I was going on. Like you
Speaker 1: can ask my family, my homies whatever, like they know
Speaker 1: like I was. That's I was with the business, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and me being rapping and me
Speaker 1: getting all this feedback from woop the whooping, you know,
Speaker 1: and just seeing the things that I'm capable of is
Speaker 1: what kind of just like wow, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That kind of just changed my perspective on Shiit Like man,
Speaker 1: you know what, like you know it's big. It's a
Speaker 1: bigger picture than what I'm normally used to, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that's that's almost like, uh, I
Speaker 2: feel like when you're in that that that that environment
Speaker 2: unless you maybe have a kid or you know, I.
Speaker 3: Know you're you're you're fresher fatherhood.
Speaker 1: Right well, ship my baby do any day now?
Speaker 3: So you got a baby coming anytime?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the do day was a Friday, so she being
Speaker 1: stubborn so.
Speaker 3: Couldn't funk around to be right now.
Speaker 1: It could be right now, And I got an ad kay,
Speaker 1: I got a bounce man. So now.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, like, you know, obviously that's something else,
Speaker 2: another purpose that you have now. But I think that's
Speaker 2: another thing like when you when you're in a certain environment,
Speaker 2: like you kind of feel like you know, there is
Speaker 2: no there's no bigger picture. Like you said, it's about perspective,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, so it's like, uh, all right, now
Speaker 1: I got a kid. My music is going good. Like
Speaker 1: from where I was at mentally six years ago or
Speaker 1: even in the getting like it's I feel like it's
Speaker 1: been a whole three sixty flip on me right, because shiit,
Speaker 1: I just man, you know, I just feel like I
Speaker 1: was like a minister society type shit, you know, like
Speaker 1: just just like I wouldn't say it like that, but
Speaker 1: just and I'm not trying to label myself like just
Speaker 1: on something like damn, I just I just didn't give
Speaker 1: a fuck, you know, like cares like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like this.
Speaker 2: Almost like living life with no consequences. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: you know, because if you don't care about the consequences,
Speaker 2: then you you're really like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but you know that that comes with a
Speaker 1: lot of pain to the people that do care, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: along the way, I know my family they probably watched
Speaker 1: this shit, and I know they gonna they more happy
Speaker 1: for me now because they kind of see what type
Speaker 1: of path that I'm going on and where I come from.
Speaker 1: You know, there were a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: people that you know, my family or whatever, they were
Speaker 1: scared about I was going, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And I feel like if I never picked up the
Speaker 1: music type shit, hey, you know, it probably would have
Speaker 1: went that way.
Speaker 2: Did You're family, your dad, your uncles. Did anybody try
Speaker 2: to steer you out of the.
Speaker 1: Oh, everybody my hanging, Like, none of them wanted that
Speaker 1: from me, My family, even my family that's from the hood, right,
Speaker 1: they was like my big cousins or you know, everybody
Speaker 1: else from there, or even homies, even homies that aren't
Speaker 1: family that watched me grow up. Was like, nah, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But I just took it upon
Speaker 1: myself because I already had it and started in my
Speaker 1: head like fuck that. Like, you know, I was already
Speaker 1: so how would you say it?
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe not institutionalized, but not institution But I was
Speaker 2: so programmed, Yeah, like I was so and then I
Speaker 2: was so intrigued with with the lifestyle you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, and how they moved. Like my older homies
Speaker 2: from my generation, they were like all stars to me.
Speaker 2: So it was just like damn, I want to be
Speaker 2: like them. I'm fucking like, this is the life. I'm
Speaker 2: from the choos, right you know. So But to get
Speaker 2: back to what you're saying, like, yeah, nobody wanted that
Speaker 2: from me. Yeah, you know, I'm older now looking back,
Speaker 2: and I understand.
Speaker 1: Now why it is. That's why they you know, try
Speaker 1: to preach that to me.
Speaker 3: Do you have any other siblings?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did they kind of follow similarly?
Speaker 1: Or nah?
Speaker 3: No, Nah, you're like the black sheep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the black sheep. Like you know, my I got
Speaker 1: my little brother, my little sister. You know they they did,
Speaker 1: they doing good, you know what I'm saying. But me,
Speaker 1: I want a whole different route, right.
Speaker 2: Was there anything like, uh, while you're you know, going
Speaker 2: crazy in the streets that like where you were kind
Speaker 2: of like to the point where like you might have
Speaker 2: lost your freedom for real, or there was like a
Speaker 2: situation where things got a little hairy where you almost
Speaker 2: maybe lost your life. I mean maybe multiple times, I'm sure,
Speaker 2: but you know, was there ever like a wake up
Speaker 2: call like situation like that?
Speaker 1: There was a there was a lot of times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of times some things I'm not going
Speaker 1: to speak on, like a lot of situations, a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, a lot of drama, right that would
Speaker 1: usually make somebody think like that, But during that time,
Speaker 1: I'm so into the banging that it's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, this is what comes with it.
Speaker 1: So it's like I never like fell back like oh
Speaker 1: like damn, that's just so crazy, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: It was just like I knew what came with this
Speaker 1: part of that type of life, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it was you know, getting shot at fights, phase
Speaker 1: hitting the county jail, you name it.
Speaker 2: County jail is everybody says it's like LA County Jail
Speaker 2: is the most fucking just wild place to go because
Speaker 2: it's like a free frog, right. I feel like, cause
Speaker 2: if you end up in prison out here, there's more
Speaker 2: of an organized program right as to where in the
Speaker 2: county jail, it's.
Speaker 1: Like everybody banging in the county jail, right, So it's
Speaker 1: like so.
Speaker 2: It's like you might be in a holding cell with
Speaker 2: you know, your your fucking ops.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have to You're gonna have to run that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's more it's I
Speaker 1: wanna it's more structured the in the pin to where
Speaker 1: its like more rules and right and people kind of
Speaker 1: like go together.
Speaker 2: Like I was talking to Greco a little bit about this.
Speaker 2: He was like, Yo, you might fight, you know, squabble
Speaker 2: with somebody in the county jail, but then if you're
Speaker 2: end up in the pen with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you get to the pen. It's a different
Speaker 1: situation because then it's like it goes by, you know,
Speaker 1: like numbers, like you know you're gonna ride with who's
Speaker 1: riding with you type ship? So yeah, it's different. It's
Speaker 1: different over here.
Speaker 3: How did you get the scar in your face?
Speaker 1: There was a lot of events that day that I
Speaker 1: wouldn't like to speak up on, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 3: To say, man, it's it's it's it's a very.
Speaker 1: I just know it, just know it was. It was
Speaker 1: it was slice, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It was it was a blade or a razor.
Speaker 1: No, it was glass.
Speaker 3: It was glass. Oh so it was it like a bottle.
Speaker 1: Something like that. Okay, yeah, damn.
Speaker 2: But you know what, now that you're a hip hop artist,
Speaker 2: that scar looks sick like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but you know, every but more a lot.
Speaker 3: The more bigger you get, the more people are gonna
Speaker 3: have a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people are asking them about me about it. But
Speaker 1: it was like some things and I don't want I
Speaker 1: can't say certain things.
Speaker 3: Then an altercation happened.
Speaker 2: Altercation happened. That's all last was broken. Yes, that's a
Speaker 2: fair point. Okay, so you're related to my guy KT.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out someone with K t Uso KT the balls.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, My dog in Vegas.
Speaker 2: I love that guy so much, which means you're also
Speaker 2: related to the USOS from the w w E.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm tied in with them too.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the USOS because I always I feel
Speaker 2: like anytime I've ever came in contact with the Simoonan
Speaker 2: and Homie on the West Coast, they're all related to
Speaker 2: the USOS or to like Roman.
Speaker 1: Rings, Yeah something like that. Yeah. I wouldn't say I'm
Speaker 1: related to Roman Rings, but hey, man, shout out to them.
Speaker 1: You know, they're doing any thing out there but you.
Speaker 3: But you're related to Jimmy and j Uso.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, we're tied in. Yeah, somehow, some way we
Speaker 1: tied in. You know, you know they they know what's
Speaker 1: so you know, and uh, you know, none but love
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 2: I just say, do you grow up like because in
Speaker 2: your like there's so many famous wrestlers that come from
Speaker 2: your culture. Do you just grow up automatically fucking with wrestling?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, I never thought of it like this, think
Speaker 1: about it, like you know what, but I would say,
Speaker 1: like as someone's for us to see that and like
Speaker 1: how much of an engagement that they're getting that that
Speaker 1: I would say, like it's something to be proud about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because it's like, uh, someone's
Speaker 1: like we're small, such.
Speaker 3: A small minority, such small but at the biggest.
Speaker 1: Level, but we're gonna make an impact from football.
Speaker 3: I would say, offensive and defensive lines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, football, she wrestling too, and then you know yeah,
Speaker 1: and then even with the with the music with the
Speaker 1: bou Yard, like uh, when the bou Yard came out
Speaker 1: and didn't nobody know what the fuck they was? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people out there in Mexican.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like, uh now, I don't know, maybe that
Speaker 1: I should let them talk about it, but I think
Speaker 1: they'll cover this with you later type shit. But you know,
Speaker 1: during that time, there was no identities for some more facts,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It was like who all right,
Speaker 1: some more like who, like what are they? Then you know,
Speaker 1: the y'all came out with the long hair, with the braids,
Speaker 1: big tatted up. You know what I'm saying, They're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're the smallst that's them with the long hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it just kind of
Speaker 1: like set the tone for everybody.
Speaker 2: I think, even just the thought of like there being
Speaker 2: like bloods from la that weren't black.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's almost like when a lot of people when they
Speaker 2: first heard of Stupid Young being like a cryp from
Speaker 2: Long Beach, You're like, wait, there's Asian.
Speaker 3: Crips, Like what is going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But nah shout out to uh to boo ya tribe man.
Speaker 2: So for you, man, like, would you say there was
Speaker 2: like a specific moment you said you you know, you
Speaker 2: started realizing like, yoh, I'll sound hard when I'm rapping,
Speaker 2: But was there like a specific moment in which you
Speaker 2: realize like you were catching some traction and that there
Speaker 2: might be something that you need to take serious in
Speaker 2: this hip hop shit?
Speaker 1: I don't like. Uh, I've spoke on this subject a
Speaker 1: lot on a lot of past interviews, and sometimes I
Speaker 1: want to feel like a broken record, but everybody knew
Speaker 1: that's watching. Yeah. One time, my homie he hit me
Speaker 1: up and he was like, hey, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: was on some faded ass ship like we was in
Speaker 1: the hood, and then we put up to this spot.
Speaker 1: He got the whole He got the whole setup in
Speaker 1: his garage type shit or in the living room, and
Speaker 1: he was like, man, lay you know, lay something down.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I laid my first track down.
Speaker 1: After that we had put it out. And once we
Speaker 1: put it out, just like the kind of response that
Speaker 1: I got to, like, you don't know when when you
Speaker 1: drop something, if something or.
Speaker 3: Not, if it's organic or if it's just your homies
Speaker 3: being like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, you gonna know
Speaker 1: the difference between You're gonna when that feedback comes in,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like, Okay, my ship might be a
Speaker 1: little whack or not. No, No, I was getting some
Speaker 1: good ass ship and I'm just like, damn, you know,
Speaker 1: fucking with it. So I'm just like, man, you know,
Speaker 1: let me uh, let me see what I could do
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: And then from there you were like, yo, let's book
Speaker 2: some studio time or yeah.
Speaker 1: And after that, because that was like basically a feature
Speaker 1: on his ship, and then I went and did my
Speaker 1: own track. I flipped that a Connected for Life by
Speaker 1: Mac ten fucking classic.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's called and by the way, that is
Speaker 2: one of my favorite beats ever and might be I
Speaker 2: know it's not a west Side Connected song, but it's
Speaker 2: it's like one of my favorite Westide Connection songs because
Speaker 2: they're all on it great record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I flipped that and I and I called
Speaker 1: it respected for life. So then I put it on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I'll put it on YouTube. That was my first my
Speaker 1: first single ever. And then that's what kind of just
Speaker 1: like put me out there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah for for people who don't know, like.
Speaker 2: When when I when when, Like I think of like
Speaker 2: the whoop movement right and meet the woops.
Speaker 3: I think of like Jay Worthy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, shout out to shout out to Worthy and
Speaker 1: all the home I got, I got, I got something
Speaker 1: on the way with them.
Speaker 2: Those guys are obviously, uh you know they they just
Speaker 2: had a big moment coming out with Kendrick hit his on.
Speaker 3: The Kendrick album.
Speaker 2: Uh, but you're not necessarily from the same part of
Speaker 2: LA that they're from in terms of like.
Speaker 1: So that that so my hood is west Side coursing
Speaker 1: their original west Side Bompton par God at the same time,
Speaker 1: we correlate got it. That's them the homies hit a
Speaker 1: shout out hitter Hop out wires thirty jay Worthy. I'm
Speaker 1: saying my homie Mary Rugers, great guy toy, So you
Speaker 1: know they know who I am. Y'all saying I got
Speaker 1: nothing but love for them. I was on that first
Speaker 1: Meet the Boots with them. Oh yeah, there's summer vacation
Speaker 1: they drive. I'm on that album with the Fire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, shout out to them. I got some
Speaker 1: more ship with jay Worthy coming in Man, Me and
Speaker 1: Worthy got the Worthy when you see this, man, we
Speaker 1: got a banger come in now.
Speaker 3: Jay Worthy is like one of the most underrated dudes period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, you got an ear and RN.
Speaker 2: He's rat like he's got all these I mean, he's
Speaker 2: got such a crazy catalog, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel like Worthy probably one of the most plugged
Speaker 1: in people right now.
Speaker 3: And he's got his fingerprints on everybody.
Speaker 1: Sure, man shots on me pee Worthy right.
Speaker 3: There for sure? For sure. What is it like for
Speaker 3: people who don't know about Carson? Carson? Obviously from a
Speaker 3: hip hop perspective.
Speaker 2: When I was growing up, it was tribe, it was
Speaker 2: rass cast Bishop Lamont. But what was it like growing
Speaker 2: up in Carson?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Because for people who don't know It's like that's like
Speaker 2: all like hell of Simones are in cool Carson, Like
Speaker 2: y'all got that shit seld up over there.
Speaker 1: I mean like growing up in Carson, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like my generation and maybe even the next like it
Speaker 1: was like it was different, man, but it was like
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was fun. It was a little
Speaker 1: you know, everybody was doing their ship. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're a real divers city, right like uh I had
Speaker 1: said this before, you know other people boy, feeling like
Speaker 1: we might be one of the most diverse cities. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying we are the divers city in La County,
Speaker 1: but man, we got Filipinos, Mexican, great food, and yeah, Blacks,
Speaker 1: Asian Samoans, you know what I'm saying. But uh, it
Speaker 1: was cool though. You know, but when you when you
Speaker 1: come to Carson, you're gonna know about the Simons, Like
Speaker 1: it's it's a village over there. You know.
Speaker 2: What's in the restaurant like like like if pe don't
Speaker 2: know what is like what is the cuisine? Like is
Speaker 2: there and is there a spotting Carson we need to
Speaker 2: tap in with to go get go get some good.
Speaker 1: They got two they got to uh some on spots
Speaker 1: right now, it's powatsas and polygrill. But yeah, man, some
Speaker 1: mos Man, that's that food that's gonna put your ass
Speaker 1: to sleep. You know what I'm saying. It's that ship heavy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So you better be ready
Speaker 1: to eat type ship.
Speaker 3: Right Like what is the rice?
Speaker 1: Definitely rice for everything, you know what I'm saying. Got rice,
Speaker 1: there's uh, you know, chicken, there's some some greens we
Speaker 1: call paalu sami. We got our fish called oca and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, man, we are we got a variety of
Speaker 1: ship you know what I'm saying. Y'all can come touch
Speaker 1: down and figure it out for yourself.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about obviously, shout out to Esteban Orio.
Speaker 2: He's got a long standing relationship with your family. Talk
Speaker 2: about you know, your guys's relationship and has he has
Speaker 2: he kind of you know, given you any game?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, man, you know what, man, estebarn esterebarn'
Speaker 1: is a real genuine person right there. Man. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been in my family longer than than I've been around,
Speaker 1: you know, so, uh, you know, he's been around for
Speaker 1: like the I think, like the whole beginning of my career.
Speaker 1: And uh, man, he been he's been schooling me all
Speaker 1: types of ship he been putting. I have projects, I
Speaker 1: got videos with him and uh yeah, man, just just
Speaker 1: for me to be around that type of greatness and
Speaker 1: a legend like like who he is? Man, that means
Speaker 1: a lot, you know.
Speaker 3: But uh, because he directed one of your videos, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we went to New Zealand together, which is
Speaker 1: sick by the way. Yeah, so we went to New
Speaker 1: Zealand together. He flew out there with me, man.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, what was that like going to
Speaker 3: New Zealand?
Speaker 1: Shocking?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: Just a culture shock because it was just different from
Speaker 1: uh what I'm seeing out here and then out there
Speaker 1: we're not we'ren't like my people ain't the minority. It's
Speaker 1: like more of the majority, you know. So it was
Speaker 1: just kind of different. It was a different feel to
Speaker 1: see someone's being the bus drivers, the people that serving
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of people who aren't hip,
Speaker 2: like think New Zealand is like a bunch of like
Speaker 2: white folks, but it's like a.
Speaker 1: Lot like yeah, they got a whole they got they
Speaker 1: got a whole different uh you know thing up there.
Speaker 1: But you know, and it was all love, Like, uh,
Speaker 1: when I'm out here, you know you or even just
Speaker 1: not even just out here, just in the States period,
Speaker 1: like you no matter where you at, you know there's
Speaker 1: like somebody tripping somewhere you feel me, not like that.
Speaker 1: But when it was out there, it was kind.
Speaker 3: Of like, uh, you let your guard down a little.
Speaker 1: It was like it was love, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying that they're not tripping out that
Speaker 1: they probably is, but where I was at it just
Speaker 1: felt like everything felt good, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And they just you know, show nothing but loving respect
Speaker 1: to us, and you know it made us feel good.
Speaker 3: That's dope.
Speaker 2: Man. Now I was my New Zealand. Anytime you see
Speaker 2: pictures in New Zealand, it looks fucking fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the food was fucking bomb. Yeah, the food
Speaker 1: was bomb.
Speaker 3: For you.
Speaker 2: Uh, Like, are you like when you're when you're like
Speaker 2: obviously got uh the new record out west Side ye
Speaker 2: G's but are you like putting together like a project
Speaker 2: a mixtape like what's what's are you doing a single
Speaker 2: out of.
Speaker 3: Time or are you playing it out so so?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I dropped the mom I dropped the album
Speaker 1: and I think either August or July caught the Flame
Speaker 1: Boys and uh yeah that that was my first body
Speaker 1: of Yeah album that I dropped during this year. But
Speaker 1: then the homie that was on the thing with me,
Speaker 1: we did the whole collab, he kind of went and
Speaker 1: caught some time. So it kind of like fucked me up.
Speaker 1: I mean not fucked me up, I fucked up project Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know, we gotta do the videos we got
Speaker 1: and they got to push the music. And this was
Speaker 1: right when we dropped it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So then it just kind of threw us back. So
Speaker 1: you know, since then, I was just you know, trying
Speaker 1: to bounce back. I dropped a few singles, so you know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm gonna wrap up twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four and I'm gonna come through twenty twenty five bangings.
Speaker 1: So I got, uh my new album coming in February.
Speaker 3: Who you're working with?
Speaker 1: So I got a few I got a few features
Speaker 1: on there that you know, I'm trying to connect with, So.
Speaker 3: Maybe jay Worthy.
Speaker 1: I got Jay Worthy on there for show. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: got Roddy Rats on there.
Speaker 3: Roddy raxs is fire. I said, you guys did did
Speaker 3: the record with a Cypress.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, with Cypress, so we did we did one
Speaker 1: track and then I did two tracks with him, so
Speaker 1: we let we put that one out with Cypress and
Speaker 1: then I got one more. That's that's a banger.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, Roddy Racks is hilarious too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said he's his bars be so fucking like
Speaker 2: vintage like nineties.
Speaker 3: Sugar Free Ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he'd be going. And Doug, I've been seeing too,
Speaker 2: like you've been able to do like a lot more
Speaker 2: shows and ship.
Speaker 3: Like what was it like?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I saw you with me.
Speaker 1: I just did a show in Fresno and that was
Speaker 1: with a game. I was with mac ten and mag Ten,
Speaker 1: sugar Free, DJ Quick, uh Magic and them. Man, it
Speaker 1: was a it was a different vibe because you know,
Speaker 1: shout out to my management, shout out to Heaven. Then
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying from the DKG. You know
Speaker 1: that's my manager for for whoever that don't know, have
Speaker 1: been learning a lot of it up for me.
Speaker 3: So yeah, legend man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you know that was my first arena. That
Speaker 1: was my first arena performance.
Speaker 3: What was that like though? Because you guys went on early,
Speaker 3: so you got to kind of get that.
Speaker 1: But it was crazy because by the time I got
Speaker 1: on stage, it was already packed. Was yeah, so it
Speaker 1: was kind of like after me, it was RBL posse
Speaker 1: oh fire. Yeah. So when I went on, h like,
Speaker 1: at first I'm reading the crowd because I'm in the back,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking. I'm like, man, they don't look too crowded.
Speaker 1: But then by the time I got on there it
Speaker 1: was it was a crowd. So I don't know, it
Speaker 1: was different, man, because I think the biggest shit I
Speaker 1: did was in New Zealand, and that was a festival
Speaker 1: and it was like just just that I feel like
Speaker 1: that prepared me for this arena show, right, just to
Speaker 1: have that vibe and that you know, it's a different
Speaker 1: from just having a show back home type shit. So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it was crazy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I usually don't be getting stage fright type shit, but
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of look, oh, I can imagine
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and just like getting the
Speaker 1: vibe hearing the music all through the fucking arena.
Speaker 3: So it was just like, how long did you have
Speaker 3: to do? Ten minutes?
Speaker 1: I did ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by the time you get through ten minutes, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, not for sure, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: But that ten minutes for like an hour. It was
Speaker 1: like a hour for sure. But you know what, like man,
Speaker 1: I I get that nervousness, but already know I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do my thing. Once I got on there, it was
Speaker 1: just like every other show. Man. I just went up
Speaker 1: there and you know, had the crowd rocking.
Speaker 2: Who would you consider to be like your biggest influences
Speaker 2: outside of your family in terms of just the hip
Speaker 2: hop shit?
Speaker 3: Like could you grow up listening.
Speaker 1: To man a lot of like even mag ten and
Speaker 1: all them, you know, like mag Ten of Quick, I'm
Speaker 1: listening to all that shit on repeat, Bone Thugs in Harmony,
Speaker 1: and then's just everybody else that was growing up that's
Speaker 1: all part of the La rap scene. Joe, Joe, Moses,
Speaker 1: r J, Nip, you know what I'm saying, YG and
Speaker 1: all that shit, Like, you know, like it was hard
Speaker 1: for sure. You know, they all play some on this
Speaker 1: music shit.
Speaker 2: I wonder what are your thoughts on just like the
Speaker 2: new landscape of like gang culture and politics being so
Speaker 2: openly discussed.
Speaker 1: On this podcast on podcast.
Speaker 3: And even like members of it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't fuck with that shit, Like whatever that's happening
Speaker 1: within your hood and your homies or whatever that's even
Speaker 1: on the streets should not be broadcasted on these platforms,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And then it's just like
Speaker 1: that ship ain't gangster to me, because it's like you're
Speaker 1: letting all these other people know what's going on within
Speaker 1: y'all ship, and then now everybody else's opinion is getting
Speaker 1: caught up with y'all hood and it's just.
Speaker 2: And then like tiktoks get made, yes, and then people
Speaker 2: make YouTube documentary like the YouTube documentaries, you know.
Speaker 1: What, I what I feel about it, It's like they're
Speaker 1: making a mockery out of Game Bang, where a lot
Speaker 1: of motherfuckers that really put their life on the line
Speaker 1: for this ship. It's just like, damn, this is what
Speaker 1: it came to, like, y'all just like it's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's content now and it's just like
Speaker 1: and I just feel like it makes it more of
Speaker 1: a joke. That's why more snitching is going on, more
Speaker 1: you know, bust ass ship. Motherfucker's doing weird ship. It
Speaker 1: keeps going on because we're letting We're letting it happen.
Speaker 1: You know, we're like, we're giving it to the world,
Speaker 1: so then everybody's changing everybody's perspective on and we're giving
Speaker 1: everybody else.
Speaker 2: Say, yeah, I think when you overexpose like a culture
Speaker 2: that's not supposed to be exposed, it's supposed to be
Speaker 2: you know, held tight, I feel like people don't take
Speaker 2: it as serious anymore, and they maybe become desensitized to
Speaker 2: like how they're supposed to maybe maneuver.
Speaker 1: And then the public And I'm not gonna speak on
Speaker 1: every hood because I know like that don't agree with it,
Speaker 1: like even for mine, Like there's certain shit. I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna go against my morals to for her likes, for like,
Speaker 1: to speak out to the crowd for them to try
Speaker 1: to get my point of view on something. Because if
Speaker 1: it's real, homie, you know what I'm saying, And y'all
Speaker 1: tripping and we tripping, ain't nothing to talk about, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like we're gonna get We're gonna
Speaker 1: get busy, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, explain to me New Simo and Mafia Music.
Speaker 3: Is that the label?
Speaker 1: So that's a so the buya they were some more
Speaker 1: Mafia Okay, So this is the New Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: I came out with the New Samore on Mafia. My
Speaker 1: second album is New Samore and Mafia Volume two. So uh,
Speaker 1: it was just like you know, if you ever looked
Speaker 1: at the bout Yard, they were like a unit, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's what I kind of
Speaker 1: picked up off them and type shit, and that's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep going.
Speaker 2: Would would you ever try to get them to come
Speaker 2: out of retirement or you know, maybe maybe get get
Speaker 2: some of your fam on a record. I mean there's
Speaker 2: a documentary being worked one by Estegan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know the last ones here is my
Speaker 1: pop say on Gotti. You know, so a lot of
Speaker 1: them ain't here no more. So you know they already
Speaker 1: make their impact, you know what I'm saying. I wish
Speaker 1: I you know, that probably would be something that I, like, damn,
Speaker 1: I would want, But I'm gonna just let their legacy
Speaker 1: and what they've done already, it's already stamped for sure,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So now just from from
Speaker 1: my job is just to continue it, to keep that
Speaker 1: name going.
Speaker 2: What do you feel like, five man, how you're feeling
Speaker 2: about the new year? Are you are you would you
Speaker 2: say you're ten toes in on the.
Speaker 1: Music, I'm ten toes all the way now, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would just say that because anybody who comes from
Speaker 2: like your background, I always say, like, if you aren't
Speaker 2: ten toes in, if you're like I got one foot in,
Speaker 2: one for out.
Speaker 3: You're cheating yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no for shure. So that that that's a lot
Speaker 1: of battle that I've been.
Speaker 2: For sure, because no matter no matter what you do,
Speaker 2: you're always gonna have people hitting you, homie hitting you,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But you got to understand, like, yo,
Speaker 2: you're on a mission, dog like, and there's so many
Speaker 2: artists that are coming out every day that like, in
Speaker 2: order for you to even be able to compete, you've
Speaker 2: got to be all in on this shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm all the way in, man. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to make that choice if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep on doing what I'm doing. Because I'm keep
Speaker 1: doing what I'm doing, it's gonna end me up in
Speaker 1: two places, you know what I'm saying, or in jail.
Speaker 1: Like as much as cliche as it sounds, that's true though,
Speaker 1: it's literally true, true as shit.
Speaker 3: Ever.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying hundred percent. Yeah, So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to you know, better myself, make something
Speaker 1: happen and leave behind my own legacy.
Speaker 2: Would you say, like you getting like news about you
Speaker 2: having a baby was like, well, first of all, when
Speaker 2: you first find that out, that's got to be sick, like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, do.
Speaker 3: We got to take another test to double check?
Speaker 2: You know now that it's like here, it's about to happen, Like,
Speaker 2: are you nervous?
Speaker 3: Has it like even hit you yet?
Speaker 1: You know what? Like even the whole time, I feel
Speaker 1: like it didn't really hit me yet, but now it's
Speaker 1: hitting me because it's like, all right, like my I'm
Speaker 1: about to have a whole my my little me here
Speaker 1: in any other day, So it's gonna be different. I
Speaker 1: ain't experiencing it because she ain't here yet. So when
Speaker 1: she gets here, I know it's gonna be might it
Speaker 1: might suck me up? You know what I'm saying. Sure,
Speaker 1: I don't know yet, but you know I'm excited and
Speaker 1: uh you know for sure you know I want to
Speaker 1: make things better for her living type shit.
Speaker 3: You know, when is the album coming out? Man? I
Speaker 3: know you said that the top of next.
Speaker 1: Year, well, we got it plan for a February twenty third.
Speaker 1: February twenty third. You know what I'm saying, the name
Speaker 1: of the album New some More on Mafia Volume two, Volume.
Speaker 2: Two, that's the name of the album. Uh for sure,
Speaker 2: Jay Worthy's on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Yeah, we got a banger that That
Speaker 1: one's probably my most favorite one that's gonna be on there.
Speaker 2: Out Fire Yeah nah, yeah, he's he's crazy. Is Cypress
Speaker 2: got any production on there?
Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know if I don't think Cyprus is
Speaker 1: on this one, but I might have to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the homie right.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you can still you know, switch the
Speaker 2: album up for sure. You got three months man. Well look, dude,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you coming through hanging out. Man, We're gonna
Speaker 2: also have you rap do your thing. But people can
Speaker 2: go follow you online with your I G D.
Speaker 1: Boy Underscore two twenty three.
Speaker 2: You got plenty of music out right now, peoplen go
Speaker 2: stream it and uh yeah, and you got merch and
Speaker 2: ship all that shit.
Speaker 1: I got merched. I got a whole bunch of merch.
Speaker 1: Well follow my merch page D Boy two twenty three. Merch.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of new shit coming out this year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, we got albums on the way, new
Speaker 1: music on the way, new cllabs on the way. He
Speaker 1: shout out to my management, shout out to Big Hea.
Speaker 1: Yeah man, you know we got ship lined.
Speaker 3: Up, my guy, d Boy two two three.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, brother, Yeah much love man much