WEBVTT - #499 - D-Boy 223 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.000 At what to do is D Boy two twenty three, 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Go check me on the Bootleg CAV Show. Much love. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.160 Before we start the episode, man, I gotta remind everybody 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.680 that we are on the radio in eighty cities every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.280 single day across the country Man Real ninety two to 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.720 three every day Monday through Friday in Los Angeles, Wild 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.760 ninety four to one in Tampa, Kkfur, and Phoenix. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.639 We're all over the place, Miami, Vegas. We can go 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:24.160 on and on. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.840 We want to give a shout out to our latest affiliate. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.880 Shout out to Knoxville, Tennessee, Man Hot one oh four 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.519 point five for being the latest city to join the 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.320 Bootleg CAV Show network. All right, now, I don't ever 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.400 really talk about the radio show on the podcast, keep 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:38.760 them separate. But if you want to listen to the 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.800 radio show, you can click the link in the bio 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.040 for a list of all the cities you can listen 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.240 to at. 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:45.520 Yeah, that makes sense. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:51.559 Let's get to the interview, Yo, Bootleg cav Podcast. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.280 We got a special guest in here, D Boy. What's 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:55.000 going on, bro. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.480 And what's the deal? D Boy two twenty three. Yeah, welcome. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:00:59.840 We're looking out man. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.000 For people who don't know. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.640 Man, you're from Carson, yes, sir, uh and you kind 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.039 of you come from the bou Yard Tribe lineage of 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.559 hip hop, so kind of break down like your direct 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.039 relation with Bouyard Tribe. And for people who don't know, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.360 Boyd Tribe is a fucking legendary Samoan rap group out 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.520 of Carson that super slept on you know. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.880 To be honest, right right, So yeah, the bout Yard 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.880 that's my family. My dad, Oh yeah, my dad don't see. Yeah, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.279 so my pops he that's Cobra, Yes, yeah, so Cobra, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.399 that's his brothers. You know, there's all my uncle. So 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.120 that you know, that's how I'm tied in. So well yeah, basically, uh, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.319 you know, picking up the torch right now, trying to 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:40.520 run with the type shit. You know. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.880 I was gonna say, is there anything like because they 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.000 had a lot of independent success. I mean they had records. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.880 I mean I remember the last album I think I 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.680 bought it. There was that album that had m is 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:51.960 it eminem and trick trick. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:52.280 On the song. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.040 I think that was eminem and be real, be real. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:56.920 But yeah, I mean they have like like a lot 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.320 of like independent success throughout the nineties and the early 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.160 two thousands and shit like was it always kind of 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:04.520 like in the cards for you to try to like 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:05.960 get into the music game, like. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:12.200 Nah, like, uh I I didn't think. I didn't think 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.440 I was ever gonna be rapping, so I just kind 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.600 of like, uh like i'm I'm, I'm, I'm barely in 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.320 the game type shit with this, like you know, as 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.720 far as uh my rap career probably like going on 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.280 three years right now. So uh, I never took I 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.960 never I never even visualized me being a rappers, like 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.080 you know, that was my possilim thing. And uh, you know, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.639 uh I used to have flows, I used to have 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.600 rhymes like you know, I used to write some shit down. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.000 I used to spit it, but I never took a 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.600 series until you know, one day I went and laid 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.040 that ship down in the booth and then uh yeah, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.480 that's when you know, it was kind of like a 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.640 uh it was kind of like an ongoing joke with 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.360 me and my homies, like I'll be spitting the same 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.800 verse like three four times around them type shit, you know, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.200 and they're like, man, oh, here comes d Boy again 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.400 with the same old ship, you know, like and then 0:02:58.440 --> 0:02:59.919 I laid it down and it was just kind of 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:03.000 like oh damn, you know, like it ain't funny no more. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.560 It's kind of like, oh damn, he's hard. So then 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.400 that's where I kind of took it and I'm just like, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.760 you know, fuck it. Like if I'm gonna wrap and 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.440 I'm gonna take, I'm gonna make something out of it. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.760 Then uh yeah, you know I'm gonna carry the legacy 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.080 for you know, for me and Min. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.240 I'm gonna say, like, uh, prior to you taking like 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.320 like taking rap serious pretty much in the streets. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:28.600 Oh yeah, your thing. Yeah. So you know my posting 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.920 them they bang we I'm from the same hood as 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.919 they am, so I basically picked up them traits before 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.559 I picked up the rap traits. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.160 Right, so you followed them footsteps. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.840 The wrongs footsteps, you know. So it's I kind of 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.520 went down to down the banging path and you know, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.360 it was just it was just to the point where 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:48.720 you know, it's just kind of like, man, I didn't 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.360 give a fuck about nothing. It was just like, man, 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.600 I'm from the Bang. I'm ready to I'm ready to 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.680 do life for this ship type ship. You know, I'm 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.360 about to crash out over over banging and then uh, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.560 you know, it's just kind of like damn, I fell 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:04.360 into the music just like damn. Now yeah, cause it's 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.040 kind of like that Shiit say. It kind of saved 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.360 my life and my perspective on things. So it was just. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.600 Almost like you got you got a reason not to 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:14.160 crash out. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.680 Yeah, and then it's just like to to this point now, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.880 like where I'm at now, it's kind of like it's 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.600 just like, uh, you know, I kind of got a 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.600 purpose now, so it's more of on like a, uh, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:32.360 I got something to lose, rather than being going from 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.480 fucking like I don't give a fuck what I lose 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.440 type shit, you know what I mean. So that's the 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:38.920 kind of path that I was going on. Like you 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.479 can ask my family, my homies whatever, like they know 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.480 like I was. That's I was with the business, you 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.760 know what I'm saying, and me being rapping and me 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.640 getting all this feedback from woop the whooping, you know, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.800 and just seeing the things that I'm capable of is 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.799 what kind of just like wow, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.600 That kind of just changed my perspective on Shiit Like man, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.760 you know what, like you know it's big. It's a 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.040 bigger picture than what I'm normally used to, you know 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:08.920 what I'm saying. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.680 Yeah, I feel like that's that's almost like, uh, I 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.120 feel like when you're in that that that that environment 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.360 unless you maybe have a kid or you know, I. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.440 Know you're you're you're fresher fatherhood. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.600 Right well, ship my baby do any day now? 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.280 So you got a baby coming anytime? 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.839 Yeah, the do day was a Friday, so she being 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:27.960 stubborn so. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.040 Couldn't funk around to be right now. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.680 It could be right now, And I got an ad kay, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.160 I got a bounce man. So now. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.080 But I'm saying, like, you know, obviously that's something else, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.640 another purpose that you have now. But I think that's 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.240 another thing like when you when you're in a certain environment, 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.760 like you kind of feel like you know, there is 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.440 no there's no bigger picture. Like you said, it's about perspective, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:47.039 you know what I'm saying. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.560 It's like yeah, so it's like, uh, all right, now 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.840 I got a kid. My music is going good. Like 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:58.880 from where I was at mentally six years ago or 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.240 even in the getting like it's I feel like it's 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.200 been a whole three sixty flip on me right, because shiit, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.240 I just man, you know, I just feel like I 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.360 was like a minister society type shit, you know, like 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.760 just just like I wouldn't say it like that, but 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.080 just and I'm not trying to label myself like just 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.320 on something like damn, I just I just didn't give 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.120 a fuck, you know, like cares like you know what 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:21.960 I'm saying, Like this. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.840 Almost like living life with no consequences. Yeah, it's like 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.840 you know, because if you don't care about the consequences, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.160 then you you're really like. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.599 Yeah, yeah, but you know that that comes with a 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.840 lot of pain to the people that do care, you 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.479 know what I'm saying. So it's just like, you know, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.760 along the way, I know my family they probably watched 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.760 this shit, and I know they gonna they more happy 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.600 for me now because they kind of see what type 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.880 of path that I'm going on and where I come from. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:48.680 You know, there were a lot of a lot of 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.720 people that you know, my family or whatever, they were 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.080 scared about I was going, you know what I'm saying, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:55.760 And I feel like if I never picked up the 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.960 music type shit, hey, you know, it probably would have 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.680 went that way. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:04.120 Did You're family, your dad, your uncles. Did anybody try 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.520 to steer you out of the. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:10.200 Oh, everybody my hanging, Like, none of them wanted that 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.920 from me, My family, even my family that's from the hood, right, 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.800 they was like my big cousins or you know, everybody 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.440 else from there, or even homies, even homies that aren't 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.800 family that watched me grow up. Was like, nah, you 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.720 know what I'm saying. But I just took it upon 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.760 myself because I already had it and started in my 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.280 head like fuck that. Like, you know, I was already 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:34.880 so how would you say it? 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:39.240 Uh, maybe not institutionalized, but not institution But I was 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.840 so programmed, Yeah, like I was so and then I 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.880 was so intrigued with with the lifestyle you know what 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.440 I'm saying, and how they moved. Like my older homies 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.680 from my generation, they were like all stars to me. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.400 So it was just like damn, I want to be 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.440 like them. I'm fucking like, this is the life. I'm 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.400 from the choos, right you know. So But to get 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.280 back to what you're saying, like, yeah, nobody wanted that 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.080 from me. Yeah, you know, I'm older now looking back, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.520 and I understand. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.800 Now why it is. That's why they you know, try 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:08.640 to preach that to me. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.680 Do you have any other siblings? 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:12.200 Yeah? 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.400 Did they kind of follow similarly? 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:15.040 Or nah? 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.400 No, Nah, you're like the black sheep. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.880 Yeah, the black sheep. Like you know, my I got 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.160 my little brother, my little sister. You know they they did, 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:23.720 they doing good, you know what I'm saying. But me, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.720 I want a whole different route, right. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.720 Was there anything like, uh, while you're you know, going 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.079 crazy in the streets that like where you were kind 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.000 of like to the point where like you might have 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.800 lost your freedom for real, or there was like a 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.080 situation where things got a little hairy where you almost 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.680 maybe lost your life. I mean maybe multiple times, I'm sure, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.679 but you know, was there ever like a wake up 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.120 call like situation like that? 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.160 There was a there was a lot of times. Yeah, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.480 there's a lot of times some things I'm not going 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.760 to speak on, like a lot of situations, a lot 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:00.679 of you know, a lot of drama, right that would 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.360 usually make somebody think like that, But during that time, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.040 I'm so into the banging that it's just like, hey, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.959 it is what it is, this is what comes with it. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.680 So it's like I never like fell back like oh 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.959 like damn, that's just so crazy, I don't want to. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.000 It was just like I knew what came with this 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.760 part of that type of life, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.360 So it was you know, getting shot at fights, phase 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.319 hitting the county jail, you name it. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.640 County jail is everybody says it's like LA County Jail 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.360 is the most fucking just wild place to go because 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.959 it's like a free frog, right. I feel like, cause 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.040 if you end up in prison out here, there's more 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.400 of an organized program right as to where in the 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.400 county jail, it's. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.439 Like everybody banging in the county jail, right, So it's 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:49.040 like so. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.160 It's like you might be in a holding cell with 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.800 you know, your your fucking ops. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.320 And you're gonna have to You're gonna have to run that, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:59.640 you know what I'm saying. So it's more it's I 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.800 wanna it's more structured the in the pin to where 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.080 its like more rules and right and people kind of 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:06.760 like go together. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.760 Like I was talking to Greco a little bit about this. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.200 He was like, Yo, you might fight, you know, squabble 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.120 with somebody in the county jail, but then if you're 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.200 end up in the pen with them. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.320 Yeah, when you get to the pen. It's a different 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.160 situation because then it's like it goes by, you know, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.880 like numbers, like you know you're gonna ride with who's 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.640 riding with you type ship? So yeah, it's different. It's 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:27.360 different over here. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:28.640 How did you get the scar in your face? 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.480 There was a lot of events that day that I 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.840 wouldn't like to speak up on, you know what I'm saying, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.480 So yeah. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.440 To say, man, it's it's it's it's a very. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.480 I just know it, just know it was. It was 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:42.800 it was slice, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.120 It was it was a blade or a razor. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:47.560 No, it was glass. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.840 It was glass. Oh so it was it like a bottle. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.920 Something like that. Okay, yeah, damn. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.959 But you know what, now that you're a hip hop artist, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.400 that scar looks sick like. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.079 Yeah, yeah, but you know, every but more a lot. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.640 The more bigger you get, the more people are gonna 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:03.080 have a lot. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.960 Of people are asking them about me about it. But 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.360 it was like some things and I don't want I 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:11.559 can't say certain things. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.880 Then an altercation happened. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.440 Altercation happened. That's all last was broken. Yes, that's a 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.840 fair point. Okay, so you're related to my guy KT. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.240 Yeah, shout out someone with K t Uso KT the balls. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:26.640 You know what I'm saying, My dog in Vegas. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.280 I love that guy so much, which means you're also 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.439 related to the USOS from the w w E. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.360 Yeah. Yeah, I'm tied in with them too. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.880 Shout out to the USOS because I always I feel 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:42.319 like anytime I've ever came in contact with the Simoonan 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.600 and Homie on the West Coast, they're all related to 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.439 the USOS or to like Roman. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.839 Rings, Yeah something like that. Yeah. I wouldn't say I'm 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.000 related to Roman Rings, but hey, man, shout out to them. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.040 You know, they're doing any thing out there but you. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.280 But you're related to Jimmy and j Uso. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.760 Well yeah, we're tied in. Yeah, somehow, some way we 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.800 tied in. You know, you know they they know what's 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.920 so you know, and uh, you know, none but love 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:02.199 for them. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.880 I just say, do you grow up like because in 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.120 your like there's so many famous wrestlers that come from 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.160 your culture. Do you just grow up automatically fucking with wrestling? 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:13.960 Uh? 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.439 You know, I never thought of it like this, think 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.520 about it, like you know what, but I would say, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.040 like as someone's for us to see that and like 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.120 how much of an engagement that they're getting that that 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.160 I would say, like it's something to be proud about. Yeah, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.119 you know what I'm saying, because it's like, uh, someone's 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.600 like we're small, such. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.839 A small minority, such small but at the biggest. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.079 Level, but we're gonna make an impact from football. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.080 I would say, offensive and defensive lines. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.120 Yeah, football, she wrestling too, and then you know yeah, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.960 and then even with the with the music with the 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.079 bou Yard, like uh, when the bou Yard came out 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.079 and didn't nobody know what the fuck they was? You 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:55.600 know what I'm saying. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.720 I think a lot of people out there in Mexican. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.240 Yeah, so like, uh now, I don't know, maybe that 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.920 I should let them talk about it, but I think 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.000 they'll cover this with you later type shit. But you know, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.040 during that time, there was no identities for some more facts, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.680 you know what I'm saying. It was like who all right, 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.400 some more like who, like what are they? Then you know, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.360 the y'all came out with the long hair, with the braids, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.480 big tatted up. You know what I'm saying, They're like, Okay, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.719 they're the smallst that's them with the long hair. Yeah, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.040 you know what I mean. And it just kind of 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.400 like set the tone for everybody. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.920 I think, even just the thought of like there being 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.160 like bloods from la that weren't black. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:32.560 Yeah, it was like crazy. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:33.120 Yeah. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.080 It's almost like when a lot of people when they 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.000 first heard of Stupid Young being like a cryp from 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.640 Long Beach, You're like, wait, there's Asian. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:39.920 Crips, Like what is going on? 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:40.920 Yeah? 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.640 But nah shout out to uh to boo ya tribe man. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.360 So for you, man, like, would you say there was 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.520 like a specific moment you said you you know, you 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.560 started realizing like, yoh, I'll sound hard when I'm rapping, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.080 But was there like a specific moment in which you 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.600 realize like you were catching some traction and that there 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.000 might be something that you need to take serious in 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:02.800 this hip hop shit? 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.560 I don't like. Uh, I've spoke on this subject a 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.680 lot on a lot of past interviews, and sometimes I 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.559 want to feel like a broken record, but everybody knew 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.480 that's watching. Yeah. One time, my homie he hit me 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.680 up and he was like, hey, uh, you know, we 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.280 was on some faded ass ship like we was in 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.120 the hood, and then we put up to this spot. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.880 He got the whole He got the whole setup in 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.000 his garage type shit or in the living room, and 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.920 he was like, man, lay you know, lay something down. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.840 And then you know, I laid my first track down. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.400 After that we had put it out. And once we 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.800 put it out, just like the kind of response that 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.800 I got to, like, you don't know when when you 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.400 drop something, if something or. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.960 Not, if it's organic or if it's just your homies 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:47.320 being like. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.920 Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, you gonna know 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.720 the difference between You're gonna when that feedback comes in, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.400 You're gonna be like, Okay, my ship might be a 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.760 little whack or not. No, No, I was getting some 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.800 good ass ship and I'm just like, damn, you know, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.280 fucking with it. So I'm just like, man, you know, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.320 let me uh, let me see what I could do 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:06.600 with it. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.680 And then from there you were like, yo, let's book 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.360 some studio time or yeah. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.200 And after that, because that was like basically a feature 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.920 on his ship, and then I went and did my 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.240 own track. I flipped that a Connected for Life by 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:19.800 Mac ten fucking classic. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.560 But yeah, it's called and by the way, that is 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.640 one of my favorite beats ever and might be I 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.840 know it's not a west Side Connected song, but it's 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.240 it's like one of my favorite Westide Connection songs because 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.800 they're all on it great record. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.240 Yeah, So I flipped that and I and I called 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.560 it respected for life. So then I put it on YouTube. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.120 I'll put it on YouTube. That was my first my 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.360 first single ever. And then that's what kind of just 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.119 like put me out there, you know what I'm saying. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.400 Yeah for for people who don't know, like. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.880 When when I when when, Like I think of like 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.760 the whoop movement right and meet the woops. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.160 I think of like Jay Worthy. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.160 Oh yeah, shout out to shout out to Worthy and 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.880 all the home I got, I got, I got something 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.280 on the way with them. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.000 Those guys are obviously, uh you know they they just 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.160 had a big moment coming out with Kendrick hit his on. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:08.000 The Kendrick album. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.600 Uh, but you're not necessarily from the same part of 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.960 LA that they're from in terms of like. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.240 So that that so my hood is west Side coursing 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.200 their original west Side Bompton par God at the same time, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.720 we correlate got it. That's them the homies hit a 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.880 shout out hitter Hop out wires thirty jay Worthy. I'm 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.920 saying my homie Mary Rugers, great guy toy, So you 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.000 know they know who I am. Y'all saying I got 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.080 nothing but love for them. I was on that first 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.080 Meet the Boots with them. Oh yeah, there's summer vacation 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.600 they drive. I'm on that album with the Fire. Yeah. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.440 So yeah, man, shout out to them. I got some 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.840 more ship with jay Worthy coming in Man, Me and 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.560 Worthy got the Worthy when you see this, man, we 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:54.920 got a banger come in now. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.120 Jay Worthy is like one of the most underrated dudes period. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.920 Yeah, for sure, you got an ear and RN. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.040 He's rat like he's got all these I mean, he's 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:04.880 got such a crazy catalog, it's crazy. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.200 I feel like Worthy probably one of the most plugged 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:08.440 in people right now. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.160 And he's got his fingerprints on everybody. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.000 Sure, man shots on me pee Worthy right. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.679