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Speaker 1: My guy, what's up a long time star Court Day?
Speaker 1: What up? keV? How are you feeling? Wrong? To see you? Man?
Speaker 1: Good to be here. I was just telling uh Dwight
Speaker 1: the story about the time I, uh me and head
Speaker 1: went to the Kanye event. Yep. We ran into you
Speaker 1: at the bus little bus where you had to catch
Speaker 1: a bus in Hollywood, yep, yep, And you were by yourself,
Speaker 1: Del and you had just moved out to LA a
Speaker 1: day or two before, like I think we you were
Speaker 1: you had come on the show before that, but it
Speaker 1: was like you were like just like enjoying the LA ship,
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. We ran new it
Speaker 1: was the kids see Ghosts kits ghost and we took
Speaker 1: a bus there and like, yeah, it was it was
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. That was a crazy last night. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a vibe and I think I tweeted you were
Speaker 1: signing the waiver and it said good music on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I took a picture of you, said oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: signed a good music. That was a real thing. That
Speaker 1: was a real thing. That was a real thing. People
Speaker 1: thought I was signed a good music. Yeah. So what's
Speaker 1: up man? How's first of all, congrats because the album
Speaker 1: is incredible. Thank you, bro. That mean the world to me.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. That's it, you know, as dope as the
Speaker 1: first project was, I feel like you leveled up with
Speaker 1: this one. I feel like it was more cohesive. It
Speaker 1: feels just more personal, like, thank you, bro, thank you.
Speaker 1: That means the world. Appreciate that for real. It took
Speaker 1: your time, Yeah, I did, you know. I feel like
Speaker 1: you could have followed up, you know, within a year
Speaker 1: with the way the last album went. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like you really took your time with this project.
Speaker 1: Obviously you gave us, I ad Epe gave us some taste,
Speaker 1: but like what was for you, Like was that on
Speaker 1: purpose to like really not rush the sophomore album? Yeah? Now,
Speaker 1: it was a string of things. One, you know, this
Speaker 1: pandemic right, I'm really a touring artist, like I make
Speaker 1: music to perform it. And two is like I always
Speaker 1: wanted to sort of set myself up to where I
Speaker 1: have an expectation of taking my time with albums. Not
Speaker 1: an expectation, but it's just patient myself career wise, career wise.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. I know I could always deliver high quality
Speaker 1: album every two years. You know, if I would have
Speaker 1: dropped the album in twenty twenty, like back to back,
Speaker 1: right after Lost Boy, it wouldn't have been good, you know,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, it wouldn't have been at the level
Speaker 1: to where I needed it to be. And so I
Speaker 1: just really I had to live a bunch of life honestly,
Speaker 1: to talk about some new things, you know, and go
Speaker 1: through some shit in order to express that into music.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it wasn't a purpose. It's funny though, the
Speaker 1: day that Lost Boy came out, I remember I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be like another two years before I
Speaker 1: drop another album. I'm like, nigga, what And I'm like, all,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see but and but it's not like I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there for six months and then I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I got a year and a half left. Let's get
Speaker 1: it done, like I'm working every all time, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: whole time. But I just didn't want to rush shit
Speaker 1: and just put some shit out just to put some
Speaker 1: shit out, just to feed the algorithm. You know, I
Speaker 1: just want it cause I know I would look back,
Speaker 1: like twenty years from now, ten, fifteen years from now,
Speaker 1: however long it may be, and be like, I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that I took my time with this album, Versus
Speaker 1: I'll regret it more if I just rushed and put
Speaker 1: out an album Versus now I took this time out,
Speaker 1: all this time and creating and cultivating this album and
Speaker 1: putting all the energy, all my effort into it versus
Speaker 1: just throwing some shit out, rushing it out just to
Speaker 1: put it out. Plus, if we think of like the
Speaker 1: all time greats, right we're thinking like Kendrick, we think
Speaker 1: of a lot of these guys nahs, like, you know,
Speaker 1: they took their time from it. I mean, these guys
Speaker 1: take their time, Like, for sure, Hole's not dropping every
Speaker 1: twelve months, you know what I'm saying. For sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a couple. Everybody got their own path. J for
Speaker 1: a while, he covers every year every summer. Jay Z.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid. But you know, yeah, jay
Speaker 1: Z's the greatest of all time. For Shure, everybody got
Speaker 1: their own path. And it's not like I'm looking at
Speaker 1: like a Kendrick blueprint or like, Okay, Kendrick dropped three
Speaker 1: years in between his first and second now or two
Speaker 1: years between. It's freaking seven out. So I got it.
Speaker 1: It's just what naturally how I progress. Like I recorded
Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of songs, but I knew what I
Speaker 1: wanted to say, what point I wanted to get across,
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to make a complete, cohesive body
Speaker 1: of work. And I knew I just wanted to take
Speaker 1: my time, not with like actually creating, but with just
Speaker 1: finishing everything up. No, I feel like over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, we've seen you in the studio with
Speaker 1: so many people, yeah, where it's like, oh shit, oh shit,
Speaker 1: he's in with oh man, Like how much music did not?
Speaker 1: Like you said you recorded hundreds of songs, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how tough was it? Because twelve Like obviously there are
Speaker 1: songs that are already out. Yeah, like when you put
Speaker 1: when you when the album came out, you said, press
Speaker 1: play from one to twelve consecutively. Yeah, that's how I
Speaker 1: want you to listen to the album for sure. How
Speaker 1: hard was it to keep it so tight, because you know,
Speaker 1: it could have been twenty songs it could have been
Speaker 1: you know, for sure, not as hard as you think,
Speaker 1: because every song that's on the album, as soon as
Speaker 1: I recorded it, I knew it made me feel a
Speaker 1: certain way. I was like, yeah, I really like this one.
Speaker 1: It was two songs that I left off the album
Speaker 1: that I really three songs that I really really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to deluxe some or
Speaker 1: just wait and saving for a whole new like body
Speaker 1: of work or a whole new idea, just put it
Speaker 1: out there, whatever, but it was three songs that I
Speaker 1: left out that I really like loved. But at one
Speaker 1: point in time, every single song that's on the album
Speaker 1: was like my favorite song that I made at the time,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah, And it
Speaker 1: just they just happened to fit together. It's do that
Speaker 1: you have to be put Freddy on the album because
Speaker 1: you guys also did the record with NAS for Spotify?
Speaker 1: What's that for Spotify? Life is like it was for Spotify?
Speaker 1: Life is like a dice game, right, I'm super you
Speaker 1: know what's crazy. I was really hoping you and Benny
Speaker 1: would have worked together put you guys on the text
Speaker 1: like yeah, but yeah yeah rock with Bro have to
Speaker 1: get you and Freddie you know, to have him on
Speaker 1: the record. How how was that, Like, how did you
Speaker 1: guys relationship kind of grow from maybe that life is
Speaker 1: like a dice game to you know, him hopping on
Speaker 1: that joint. Uh. To be honest, like, I don't like
Speaker 1: to say things are more than what they are, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Freddy just it's always just been
Speaker 1: a mutual respect as fellow artists and peers, and whenever
Speaker 1: we see each other, it's just love and respect, you know.
Speaker 1: And he seems like from you know, my interactions with him,
Speaker 1: which haven't been like too many, but he seemed like
Speaker 1: a stand up guy, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: even more than that, I just knew his vocal tone
Speaker 1: on Champagne Glasses would have sounded like really good, and
Speaker 1: it did. For sure. He did. He delivered. He definitely
Speaker 1: delivered on the album you talk of about you got
Speaker 1: your Pops pressure Washer Van Yeah, yeah, which which is dope,
Speaker 1: by the way, So explain that. So your your dad,
Speaker 1: you set him up with a business. You hooked him
Speaker 1: up with a little small business like tool. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he already had his business like going, and he didn't
Speaker 1: and you know, he didn't like call me and asked
Speaker 1: me anything. It's just something I wanted to sow a
Speaker 1: seed into his business, you know. And but it's just
Speaker 1: small things like that, that's just that makes me. That
Speaker 1: makes what I do worthwhile to me to where I'm
Speaker 1: able to just like, Okay, let me just sow a
Speaker 1: seed in this business right here, invest more so like
Speaker 1: invest into it, you know. And it's a dope thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I feel like family's obviously very important
Speaker 1: to you. It's been a big theme of both your projects.
Speaker 1: On Mama's Hood, you talk about your boy who you lost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I was just on the phone with his
Speaker 1: mom too, literally yesterday, Juwan Ross, I was on the
Speaker 1: phone with his mom and my bad. I was just
Speaker 1: thinking out loud, you know, but I was just saying
Speaker 1: like that that was like a kind of a crazy verse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's so many people who probably have
Speaker 1: been in that position where they got a friend who like,
Speaker 1: you know, they like you know, did you like it
Speaker 1: felt like you had some sort of guilt, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, survival's guilt. Yeah, I think that's a real thing,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people go through that.
Speaker 1: So to hear you talk about it and I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think like people might have expected that from you,
Speaker 1: because I think we look at you it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, like a not a street rapper. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Like to know that one of your best friends got
Speaker 1: into a shootout and passed away, and like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: made you feel it was like, you know, a pretty
Speaker 1: vulnerable moment on the album. Was that something that like
Speaker 1: happened and you knew right away, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: make sure I share this with the world. It's it
Speaker 1: was a kind of like therapy. Noah, it wasn't. More
Speaker 1: so I got to share it with the world. It
Speaker 1: just happened. I wrote that song the week, you know,
Speaker 1: I found out he got killed, and U, this is
Speaker 1: somebody I'm with every day in high school. We played
Speaker 1: basketball together. Even when I go to college. You used
Speaker 1: to always come up and visit me, and you know,
Speaker 1: and all of these things. So when he got killed, man,
Speaker 1: I just felt like guilty, Like, man, I could have
Speaker 1: saved him, like I single handedly. I felt like, man,
Speaker 1: I might as well have pulled the trigger because I
Speaker 1: could have just saved him, you know. And when that
Speaker 1: beat came on, it just gave me like those vibes.
Speaker 1: And I say that to say that it's unfortunate that
Speaker 1: it takes, you know, like I said, a lot of
Speaker 1: my music, it's a real life experience just transmuted into
Speaker 1: emotions and musical form, and unfortunately, sometimes it's something as
Speaker 1: tragic as that sparks a song, you know, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a crazy thing, man, It's an unfortunate part of life.
Speaker 1: Like I lost a lot of people that I grew
Speaker 1: up with. Rest in peace, a little Tony, Rest in peace,
Speaker 1: Fly Brandon and one of my friends got killed in
Speaker 1: middle school. Brandon Tony got killed right after we graduated, Juan.
Speaker 1: And it's just so many people I grew up with,
Speaker 1: you know, that I'm with day to day. We live
Speaker 1: in the same neighborhood, this and that, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: be a day later, I'm like, Damn, were just walking
Speaker 1: home from school together. They get killed, you know, And
Speaker 1: so it just really been bugging me because it's something
Speaker 1: that I've gotten used to, you know, people that I'm
Speaker 1: with every day and going to school with getting either
Speaker 1: killed prematurely before they're eighteen years old in some cases,
Speaker 1: or getting locked up for a super long time. And
Speaker 1: it's something I've like grown accustomed to, it used to
Speaker 1: to where like I may not even shed a tear,
Speaker 1: you know, And it's not because I'm not empathetic or
Speaker 1: I love him, I'll miss him, but because I'm just
Speaker 1: so used to the shit, and I'm thinking it's normalized
Speaker 1: to me. So I'm thinking it's normal. When I'm talking
Speaker 1: to other people about they like, nah, you get desensitized. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean keeping it with your homies, like talk about
Speaker 1: how the intro and your boy Shiloh being part of
Speaker 1: the album, how that like like kind of give people
Speaker 1: the background on who Shiloh is, and yeah, you know
Speaker 1: he's got the interlude and the Yeah, yeah, so shatout.
Speaker 1: That's my brother. Like we we from and we're not blood,
Speaker 1: but we always was with each other since day one.
Speaker 1: So we always used to tell everybody who was brothers.
Speaker 1: We was both like light skin or whatever, So this
Speaker 1: is like my brother and he was rapping as well,
Speaker 1: like before I was not before I was but at
Speaker 1: the same time, but he was popping before I was,
Speaker 1: and me seeing him like that close, but he was
Speaker 1: still like super heavy in the street shit, you know.
Speaker 1: And so me seeing him like glowing up in his
Speaker 1: way just on some straight street. Buzz On didn't have
Speaker 1: no manager, didn't I was his manager at one point
Speaker 1: in time. Yeah, Yeah, I was managing him because I
Speaker 1: just knew, like, Okay, I know how to upload shit
Speaker 1: to like a tune corde, I know how to monetize it,
Speaker 1: just the regular basic shit, small shit. And so me
Speaker 1: seeing him go up that kind of a lot of times,
Speaker 1: it just takes you seeing things, especially up close, to
Speaker 1: understand that you can attain the same sort of things
Speaker 1: even to a higher level. And us growing up together
Speaker 1: and him getting locked up for twenty five twenty four years,
Speaker 1: to be exact, for a murder, that's something that that
Speaker 1: messed up with me psychologically because I end up blowing
Speaker 1: up or getting on the scene or so the year
Speaker 1: after he gets locked up. So I'm like, damn, if
Speaker 1: I was able to, if I was at where I'm
Speaker 1: at now, he might be in a whole different situation,
Speaker 1: you know. But that's why I thought it was very
Speaker 1: important to highlight where he's at, you know, on the
Speaker 1: intro and in the loud as well, that's dope. I
Speaker 1: was just on the phone with a matter of fact
Speaker 1: when I came in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 1: So when he like, yeah, I mean, how long is
Speaker 1: he gonna be? Is he got a while? Or yeah
Speaker 1: he got twenty four years? Shit? But we're working right now,
Speaker 1: working with a bunch of he got a team of lawyers,
Speaker 1: and I'm working with Robert Rooks from Reform and a
Speaker 1: couple other guys to really put all the resources that
Speaker 1: we have now and able to in order to get
Speaker 1: him out, as well as my dog Mac, his cole defender,
Speaker 1: who got thirty years, another one of my dogs. So
Speaker 1: this is just just trying to utilize this access to
Speaker 1: relationships I have to be able to help, especially so
Speaker 1: close to hime. Do you with with what you know?
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: during kind of what happened like in June of twenty twenty, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like there was a lot of I feel
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of fake wokeness, sure, a
Speaker 1: lot of predatory you know, people were doing a lot
Speaker 1: of posting and a lot of shit just for to
Speaker 1: make themselves feel good. Sure it was very trendy. Absolutely, No,
Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent all day. But you obviously ended
Speaker 1: up getting arrested. I think my song was there, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: was Trade there? Yeah? Yeah, Trade the Truth? Yeah. What
Speaker 1: is your take on that? Man? Because I do feel
Speaker 1: like we see it now right, Like there's hell of
Speaker 1: shit that's still going on in the world, but it's
Speaker 1: not as trendy it was because it's not as trendy
Speaker 1: for sure. You'll see like a lot of artists like that,
Speaker 1: like you were like, oh, a lot of people for
Speaker 1: that matter, Like like like, what is your thought on that? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, because as somebody who like really sacrificed their freedom, yeah,
Speaker 1: to you know, push against injustice. You know, does it
Speaker 1: kind of make you feel a certain type of way
Speaker 1: when you when you kind of notice it's like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of bullshit going on too. You know, at
Speaker 1: first I did, because again, this is something I've been
Speaker 1: doing since I was like a kid, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm far from an activist. I don't have all the answers.
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect, but I was going to you know,
Speaker 1: Filando Castill protests as a kid Mike Brown and as
Speaker 1: a teenager on my own free will. And the only
Speaker 1: difference now is actually have a platform. And I actually
Speaker 1: got a felony from getting arrested that day, Like I
Speaker 1: just got that removed, Like off my I couldn't even
Speaker 1: like travel overseas or anything because I had a felony. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. And so I just got to remove, thank God.
Speaker 1: And so I say all that to say, at first,
Speaker 1: I used to get mad because I see a lot
Speaker 1: of people just doing it because it's trendy and you know.
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know, especially artists. You know
Speaker 1: what the term that I use for it was. I
Speaker 1: forgot the term I had for it, but I can't
Speaker 1: remember off the top of the head. But I can't
Speaker 1: really I forgot the term. I can't remember off AnyWho.
Speaker 1: But at first I used to get real mad at like,
Speaker 1: you know, all the fake actors, activism, the fake wokeness whatever,
Speaker 1: especially from entertainers and things that nature, because I know
Speaker 1: they're doing it for their own internal benefits so that
Speaker 1: people can be like, oh, yeah, you're a real one,
Speaker 1: you really. But then I thought about it, even if
Speaker 1: they intentions aren't pure and coming from a real and
Speaker 1: pure place, at least they are getting the message out
Speaker 1: there the people that need to see it to that.
Speaker 1: That's it. Even if you know, like even if you're
Speaker 1: the biggest person on the planet and you don't really
Speaker 1: believe in the cause and you're just doing it from
Speaker 1: an impure place, well, at least you're you're showcasing the
Speaker 1: problems that we got going on in the world in
Speaker 1: general to your platform to where people may be educated
Speaker 1: on it want to do something about it. So I
Speaker 1: don't get add at it, honestly no more. I used to.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's a James Baldwin quote. To be
Speaker 1: black in America and just somewhat aware of what's going
Speaker 1: on is to be enraged all the time. And I
Speaker 1: try to stay aware of everything, but I try not
Speaker 1: to let everything get me super enraged, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: If you really, like, if you really pay attention to everything,
Speaker 1: that you're going to be mad all the time. It's
Speaker 1: gonna penetrate your peace, No, it is for sure, and
Speaker 1: it does. Like it's hard, especially it's again survivors remorse,
Speaker 1: as in even you know, with just my immediate circle,
Speaker 1: but just with the whole community as a whole. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to do everything and give as much as
Speaker 1: you can possibly to everybody, but it may not even
Speaker 1: be possible. You know. On the project you talk a
Speaker 1: bit about like signing like young, and you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like you're one of the more smarter young artists
Speaker 1: we have as far as I feel like you're very
Speaker 1: self aware. Yeah, started on label high level. What you
Speaker 1: got on your shirt right there. Appreciate you. I gotta
Speaker 1: get you some gears. Well, you know, when you're a
Speaker 1: kid like you, who I mean, when did you sign
Speaker 1: officially our eighteen seventeen? I believe so like nineteen. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that, like you know, you probably have learned a
Speaker 1: lot since then, for sure our business, maybe about your
Speaker 1: own contract, and I'm sure like with your own label,
Speaker 1: Like what are the things that you're applying to, like
Speaker 1: being a CEO, having a label, having an imprint that
Speaker 1: you've learned from your own path to you know, being
Speaker 1: on a major label as a as a young unproven artist.
Speaker 1: Now for sure, just freedom, creative freedom obviously it goes
Speaker 1: without saying, right, allow our artists to control their own destiny,
Speaker 1: you know, and given whatever knowledge we may have or
Speaker 1: not that we may have that me and the team
Speaker 1: have through our you know, years of experience to the industry,
Speaker 1: because like, I'm not ever going to say here and
Speaker 1: pretend like I got all the answers and I know everything,
Speaker 1: but I will give the information and knowledge that I
Speaker 1: have and utilize even more than that, the resources, the relationships,
Speaker 1: the roller decks that we've been able to build through
Speaker 1: operating at the level we've been operating that and used
Speaker 1: that to build artists. We have our own team of
Speaker 1: in house creatives, in house videoographers, photographers, creative directors, management,
Speaker 1: in house A and r's just and everything we want
Speaker 1: to utilize just to build you know, not just artists, producers,
Speaker 1: creatives in any multifascets. Yeah, do you have a Have
Speaker 1: you signed your first artist yet? Uh? No, we haven't. No,
Speaker 1: no noes are actively looking. Man, I'm looking like crazy,
Speaker 1: like I can't wait to go on the road for
Speaker 1: people to come up to me and wrap and pitch
Speaker 1: that stuff because I don't want to. It was a
Speaker 1: couple of artists that I was like very close to signing,
Speaker 1: but I was kind of getting anxious, if you will,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to sign somebody just to sign somebody,
Speaker 1: but it would be a disservice to them. Just breathe,
Speaker 1: take your time. It's no rush, it's no rush. The
Speaker 1: right person will come to you. Yeah. It's always works
Speaker 1: out that way. It always works out that way. One
Speaker 1: hundred you you're one of the few guys in your
Speaker 1: generation that's got two songs with Eminem. Yeah, shout out
Speaker 1: to Eminem killed the remix on the album Thank You
Speaker 1: killed his remix. Yeah. Either way, I'd like to point
Speaker 1: out your manager is a crazy person. He tried to
Speaker 1: tell me Eminem is one of the biggest club artists
Speaker 1: of all time. Club artists, he said, he said, club Ace,
Speaker 1: your man's burnt out. He's right in there. Yea burn
Speaker 1: that's burn the clubs you be going to, Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's not shout out to Eminem, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he he does stadiums, you know, and you're not listening
Speaker 1: to the club I say off to say, well that
Speaker 1: a con record, Yeah, that one that I mean, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Nate Doug Shake. But these are also like still
Speaker 1: getting played now. But like you know in like you know,
Speaker 1: bars and ship. But yeah, yeah, for sure, another story.
Speaker 1: Nice little slight to ace. Yeah, yeah, that's he burned.
Speaker 1: But eminem As obviously put his arm around you. Man,
Speaker 1: he's obviously a fan of what you're doing, Like talk
Speaker 1: about your guys' relationship and has he given you any
Speaker 1: advice or Yeah. So right before I did the Killer
Speaker 1: remixed for him and we had like an hour and
Speaker 1: a half conversation about just life, about music, hip hop,
Speaker 1: all different types of things, and you know, just he's
Speaker 1: always been showing me genuine love and support very early on.
Speaker 1: And you know, I appreciate all love and public support
Speaker 1: I get because it's not like, you know, I'm signed
Speaker 1: to him, you know, so he doesn't have to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't ever feel entitled for anybody to show me
Speaker 1: any love. So whatever genuine love and support I get
Speaker 1: publicly from any from fellow peers, fellow artists, DJ's such
Speaker 1: as yourself and your platform as well, whatever love I get,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. And I say that to say
Speaker 1: he was just showing me a lot of love publicly,
Speaker 1: and we had a dope conversation and he was just like, man,
Speaker 1: we just got to get some work in whatever I
Speaker 1: seen you something, and yeah, we gotta get something in
Speaker 1: and I'm like beat and so we probably had that
Speaker 1: convo like June twenty twenty wow. And I didn't send
Speaker 1: him the record for him to get on until like
Speaker 1: February twenty twenty one, and because I was just like
Speaker 1: I was trying to find a song for him. But
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, this is eminem bro. It's been
Speaker 1: like ten months since like he told me he got
Speaker 1: me with a record. I'm like, let me just fucking
Speaker 1: get this shit, you know, like and no waste that opportunity.
Speaker 1: And so I knew Parables was the one automatically because
Speaker 1: his vocal tone fits that's slim shady all day. His
Speaker 1: vocal tone fits that perfectly, and he has a dope thing. Honestly,
Speaker 1: So were you intimidated to get on that remix? Like
Speaker 1: did you like like did you did you write harder?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Like? Nah? Nah? Honestly, m M
Speaker 1: he Oh you know what I did? I did my
Speaker 1: first verse for Killer Remix, right, I sent it over
Speaker 1: to him am and I did it and it was
Speaker 1: more on some like three stacks he forty type of
Speaker 1: and then him called, he was like, y'all, I wanted
Speaker 1: you to be like a little more like lyrical like
Speaker 1: on some rap rap shit on it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, like whatever. So I he had me
Speaker 1: like redo my verse on some more rap because at
Speaker 1: first I just wanted to because you know, that song
Speaker 1: is more like a rap rap rapord. It's more of
Speaker 1: like a vibe sort of thing, and so that's why
Speaker 1: I gave that. He was like, I want you to
Speaker 1: you know, like attack it. You know. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, let's try that. If I'm goin ask
Speaker 1: you to redo your verse, redo your verse for sure,
Speaker 1: one hundred man, if anybody you know on they song,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't ever been asked that before, but
Speaker 1: if anybody asked me to redo it, because I asked
Speaker 1: people to redo their verses all the time for my
Speaker 1: song for my album. Not all the time, but I
Speaker 1: will in a heartbeat anyone on this album that you said, hey,
Speaker 1: can you do something different? No, actually everybody was one
Speaker 1: and done with this, but I've done it before, like like, okay,
Speaker 1: I like this one because I just always want to
Speaker 1: paint the best picture. Whenever you add an artist to
Speaker 1: your song, where you get added to another artist song,
Speaker 1: they already got the camvus it's like what color palette
Speaker 1: you want to add to this, you know, and vice versa.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the burden of like being like the
Speaker 1: young Like I feel like when you came out and
Speaker 1: that slim shady freestyle came out, and yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like you were like a much needed breath of fresh
Speaker 1: air in the climate that was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: because when was that? I was a twenty nineteen eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. So I feel like you kind of like
Speaker 1: infused like some fresh air that was needed in a
Speaker 1: real in my opinion, one of the worst fucking errors
Speaker 1: of music was like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: But do you feel the burden of being like the
Speaker 1: chosen One, the golden Child? If you will, because I
Speaker 1: feel like that's kind of like what I think A
Speaker 1: lot of people look at you like that, like you're
Speaker 1: from a younger, younger generation, one of the only people
Speaker 1: who are really pushing like bars and pushing like you know,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of just quality and real you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Do you feel that not really?
Speaker 1: To be honest, I always just wanted to be I
Speaker 1: just want to be me, like honestly, And it's not
Speaker 1: like I appreciate whatever, but are you aware that people
Speaker 1: look at you that way? I try not to think
Speaker 1: about it too much, you know, because I don't want
Speaker 1: to go in the studio with that approach, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got to be the save you save this s
Speaker 1: to keep this ship. They're like, Nah, that's not it.
Speaker 1: I just go in and create music. I just want
Speaker 1: to make good music, man like at a high level,
Speaker 1: and I value good music and good songs over just
Speaker 1: like trying to bar bar bar bar bar rap rap rap.
Speaker 1: You know, we always gonna I love this hip hop show,
Speaker 1: we always gonna get the raps off. But I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to make good music. And I say that to
Speaker 1: say I have my own expectations. I try not to
Speaker 1: live into or fit into anybody else's expectations because that's
Speaker 1: not what's going to make me happy. What's gonna make
Speaker 1: me happy is being the best person, the best artist
Speaker 1: that I can be. What was the bigger deal for
Speaker 1: you a Wayne feature or an m feature? Hmm, because
Speaker 1: they're both goats for sure. I don't know. They both
Speaker 1: were like huge for me at the time, especially when
Speaker 1: I did the Wayne video, Like a lot of times. Man,
Speaker 1: My my new word for this year, past six months
Speaker 1: is just gratitude, just living in the moment more and
Speaker 1: just infinite gratitude. Because before it would just be like
Speaker 1: I do some crazy dope shit. I'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's next, Let's keep it going tunnel vision. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: get wrapped up in like just the work that you
Speaker 1: don't even realize what you're doing. Yeah. I always tell
Speaker 1: people sometimes you got to stop and say, Man, if
Speaker 1: you talk to yourself five years ago, he'll be like like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck. Nah. For sure, it's a balance because
Speaker 1: you can't take that and get complacent and smell your
Speaker 1: own hot horse too much, like man, I'm shit, I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, but you got to appreciate it absolutely. And
Speaker 1: so one of those moments was I was at the
Speaker 1: the Wayne video shooting. We were shooting sinister shout out,
Speaker 1: shout out, hit boyfriend the video goat right now, yah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he been doing that joint boy, And so I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the video and I'm like, oh, wow, Like that's Wayne,
Speaker 1: that's Wayne, bro. That's that was the biggest thing for
Speaker 1: this is weezy. This is arguably you can argue the
Speaker 1: best rapper whatever, like his his that eight run like
Speaker 1: Carter three, no ceilings. I mean we can go with
Speaker 1: card two. We can go on for days about this
Speaker 1: man catalog and his impact and influences. He got too
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Speaker 1: there somebody who you wanted to get on the album
Speaker 1: that maybe just the schedules, didn't a line or you
Speaker 1: couldn't get it turned in on time. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: really close to happening. Not really, man, Everybody who I
Speaker 1: wanted on the album is ended up on there. You know,
Speaker 1: because as soon as I make us, even like chronicles,
Speaker 1: as soon as I make a song, I'll be like
Speaker 1: because most of the time I try not to put
Speaker 1: features because it's like, when it's features, you gotta if
Speaker 1: you want to shoot a video, you gotta work around
Speaker 1: everybody's schedule things of that nation multiple yeah, exactly, and so,
Speaker 1: but every song that has a feature, as soon as
Speaker 1: I made that song, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get this person on it. As soon as I made today,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm getting gunned on this joint. And these
Speaker 1: just all happen to be people I got genuine relationship
Speaker 1: ships with. So it's not like I'm paying for any feature.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's just straight swaps you know, all
Speaker 1: of the features on the album, you didn't have to
Speaker 1: pay for it, didn't have to pay it down for
Speaker 1: straight swaps respect. So it's like, hey, Lna, I got
Speaker 1: you when you need a feature, Yeah for sure. It's
Speaker 1: love because I feel like if it's just a money
Speaker 1: play for somebody, like I don't even charge anybody for features. Bro,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, if you're doing a feature,
Speaker 1: its because you're genuinely fuck with the artists. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: And so I say all that to say that, and
Speaker 1: these are people I'm actually like close with and like
Speaker 1: have like genuine relationships with for the most part, and
Speaker 1: so like Gunn, as soon as I made Today, I'm like, Gunna,
Speaker 1: this is the one we made that join in Australia.
Speaker 1: As soon as I made Chronicles, I don't know why,
Speaker 1: I was like I got to get her and Dirk
Speaker 1: on this. You know, those are both people I'm cool with,
Speaker 1: like mad cool with every single song. You know, With
Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder, I ended up cooking with him for like
Speaker 1: a week before I got him to do Harmonica. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you say you were cooking with Stevie Wonder for
Speaker 1: a week, Yeah, that's crazy. So you're in this like
Speaker 1: I'm in the studio with him in person, hanging out
Speaker 1: with Stevie, hanging out with getting the gym, studio, getting
Speaker 1: the gym, the real gems, the real knowledge. They don't
Speaker 1: make them like him anymow. This is Michael. His stories
Speaker 1: that he got about like your icon's icon, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's just the most unimaginable thing man Like for
Speaker 1: he talks about like Obama pulling up on him at
Speaker 1: the studio like before he was president. You know, like
Speaker 1: his story is just different. Bro, No, he's talking about
Speaker 1: Little Mike, you know, like, yeah, I remember one time
Speaker 1: I was in there with Bro, what what was the
Speaker 1: Little Mike's story? It wasn't. He just brings up like
Speaker 1: small like things like like he's Michael Jackson's big homie.
Speaker 1: That's so crazy. You gotta think that this is Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson's big homie and now he's your big homie. Good company?
Speaker 1: Hergo connection? Was he like just a fan of yours?
Speaker 1: Like like that's a you know what's crazy because I've
Speaker 1: seen Stevie Wonder pop out before, I want to say,
Speaker 1: at a Anderson Pact show, Oh do, but he's out
Speaker 1: like you I've seen Stevie Wonder three or four times
Speaker 1: like a random ship, and I'd just be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he lived life, brother, he's living He lived a good life.
Speaker 1: But he just was up on like like how did
Speaker 1: that happen? Like so somebody from his team reached out
Speaker 1: to somebody on my team to Dallas, I believe, shout
Speaker 1: out Dallas and they was like, yo, like Stevie want
Speaker 1: to like lock in with Corda And I was like,
Speaker 1: what Dondal Dundale. So I pulled up on him and
Speaker 1: we just started out. He had me work on the
Speaker 1: record for his and Blase Bla, so we're working on
Speaker 1: this can't put in the hands of Faith. We're working
Speaker 1: on his record, and like day two or three, he's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: if you want me something on your album, then I
Speaker 1: got you. And I'm like I had my laptop and
Speaker 1: my hard drive with me like say less, I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: can I get you to play harmonica on this? Because
Speaker 1: I like using people's like almost if you know Steve,
Speaker 1: you want to you know him playing harmonica isn't a
Speaker 1: hidden talent, but to like the average just music person,
Speaker 1: they may not know him playing harmonica. Same with like
Speaker 1: j Cole gave him to produce on him to make
Speaker 1: a beat. You know, like I like using people's hitting
Speaker 1: talents and and and highlighting him and so I say
Speaker 1: that to say, yeah, just locking in with him, like
Speaker 1: it's crazy, Like he just matter of fact he called
Speaker 1: me to day the album drop. He facetimed me and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to speak in my truth. May
Speaker 1: speaking my truth. It's an interesting way for Stevie Wonder
Speaker 1: to call somebody his FaceTime. He uses it pretty adept.
Speaker 1: I didn't believe he was blind when I first met him.
Speaker 1: I feel like when you he's been as blind as
Speaker 1: he's been, like as long he's just been for sure,
Speaker 1: he knows how to move. Yeah, for sure, he's definitely
Speaker 1: blind by the way, but he's like super It's not
Speaker 1: a crutch for him. It's just like Daredevil kind of
Speaker 1: like on Netflix. You're like, this guy is not blind, Like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he's just he's been blind for he's seventy years. I
Speaker 1: don't know when he went blind, but he's been blind
Speaker 1: for a long time. It probably also helps that he
Speaker 1: was once not blind. And he's a rich blond man
Speaker 1: rich blind like super rich. If you're gonna be blind.
Speaker 1: You gotta be rich blind. So it's like it's so
Speaker 1: much probably like in mind you this is just like
Speaker 1: me inferring, me guessing. It's probably like so much technology
Speaker 1: he has like access to to make him being blind
Speaker 1: like super easy because he's just like filthy rich, you know,
Speaker 1: so for real. So shout out to Stevie Wooder. You
Speaker 1: I saw you allude that you you have an unreleased
Speaker 1: Juice WRLD song. Yeah I do, yeah you obviously I
Speaker 1: remember when that tour happened. Yeah, it was like super
Speaker 1: early on, super early on. I feel like you didn't
Speaker 1: even I don't even know if the WHITEBN mixtape was
Speaker 1: out yet. No it wasn't. It sure wasn't. And it's
Speaker 1: like all I had was three songs, all short, and
Speaker 1: two of them was damn freestyles, you know yeah, and
Speaker 1: that whole set was unreleased. But man, that was like
Speaker 1: it's some real historical ship because just looking just at
Speaker 1: my what I've done or just that's something all gonna
Speaker 1: be able to tell my kids, Like mam, my first
Speaker 1: time ever tour was on I was Torn with Juice
Speaker 1: World and Juice This is his first tour too, So
Speaker 1: this is both of all first time first, like being
Speaker 1: that motherfucker like that was the first tour ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it happened fast for him for sure. That was first
Speaker 1: tour ever. So it was clever on that tour. No,
Speaker 1: he wasn't clever. It was me Juice World and Little Mosey. Wow.
Speaker 1: And I'll just be looking back even at like the
Speaker 1: Marquis like Juice World cord under it, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And so I say that to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do. We definitely got to unreleased in a song
Speaker 1: that you are interested in even releasing or in the
Speaker 1: future probably you know. I never wanted like when he
Speaker 1: came out. It wasn't like, man, I gotta put this
Speaker 1: funny enough. Man. Our last text between each other was
Speaker 1: like about the song, you know. And I say all
Speaker 1: that to say that, you know, when he passed, it
Speaker 1: wasn't like it's not something I want to capitalize on
Speaker 1: and drop this record because I know it's going to
Speaker 1: be it's gonna go up. Yeah. Yeah, one is a
Speaker 1: great song, by the way. Two it's on some rap ship.
Speaker 1: But I never wanted to like capitalize off of friend's death.
Speaker 1: So if it never comes out, like, I'm cool with that.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's rapping, like trying to tell people like
Speaker 1: Juice WRLD was like one of the nicest still ill
Speaker 1: like crazy. He chose to be like a fucking dude
Speaker 1: the super hits like Gollly like Male off the Dome
Speaker 1: we be Like. I remember when he came in freestyle
Speaker 1: for me in head, I was just like floored. I
Speaker 1: was like Jesus Christ, like this guy's you gotta tell
Speaker 1: him to stop. He's a savant. You gotta tell him
Speaker 1: to stop because you gonna keep going. But like I said,
Speaker 1: it's just something that's more so like for my memories
Speaker 1: and for the archives, and you know, God willing if
Speaker 1: you know obviously when when it comes to postmis releasing
Speaker 1: music whenever that time comes from. So why did you
Speaker 1: said that that word right? Because I don't know how
Speaker 1: to say it. Every time I read it, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I said it coactly postmiss. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to. I honestly might have mispronounced it. Who knows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the comments let us we'll find out later. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's never something I want to be like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just release this. It might come out years from now,
Speaker 1: I might not ever come out. You know, I'm just
Speaker 1: always it's something that's the sacred to me, more than
Speaker 1: anything more than JOHNA just you know, capitalize off of friends.
Speaker 1: You are a part of like a generation of artists
Speaker 1: where your peers are dying, are dying for sure at
Speaker 1: like a rate that we've never seen in hip hop?
Speaker 1: Is this more than like that ninety six ninety eight era? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, it's not even close. Yeah, it's not even close. No,
Speaker 1: for sure, Like does that like you know, I mean
Speaker 1: I always tell like I have some close friends that
Speaker 1: I you know, I'll just be like, yo, you gotta
Speaker 1: chill cause like I don't want to wake up one
Speaker 1: day and like you're out of town and you get
Speaker 1: shot or something like, yeah, it's fucked up. It's a
Speaker 1: wild time. Like and I feel like you're like I,
Speaker 1: like I said, like you're kind of one of the
Speaker 1: bright lights in our culture where it's like you're not
Speaker 1: promoting certain things, You're you're not in the lot of bullshit,
Speaker 1: you're not stirring up shit on the internet, you're not
Speaker 1: talking about drug use shit like that. But like, like
Speaker 1: is it like you know, these are your peers, these
Speaker 1: are people you know, these are people who you've seen
Speaker 1: at parties, Like yeah, for sure. It's sad because nobody
Speaker 1: can relate to you like other artists can. We all
Speaker 1: are our peers, like you said, we all appears and
Speaker 1: coworkers in this ecosystem of music, and so to see
Speaker 1: people that you're on like early shows we've done early towards,
Speaker 1: whether you've seen them at festivals or you know, Juice
Speaker 1: World was the only one I was like really like
Speaker 1: genuine close with in a real real way, like really
Speaker 1: my like one of my closest friends. But just seeing
Speaker 1: you know, like the Doph situation that broke my heart
Speaker 1: and how many other set I can't even think of
Speaker 1: everybody at the top of my head, you know, crazy,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Yeah, It's like it feels like once every
Speaker 1: like sixty days, it's like, what the fuck, what is happening?
Speaker 1: It's a wild time, man, that's ridiculous. So there is
Speaker 1: going to be a Deluxe possibly possibly, I don't know
Speaker 1: everybody the Deluxe these days. Yeah, yeah, you know what's funny,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was going to do a Lost
Speaker 1: Boy Deluxe like way way like when it first dropped
Speaker 1: before everybody, Well, I can't even say, because people have
Speaker 1: been doing deluxes for thirty five years. But I think
Speaker 1: UZI kind of kicked off this new deluxe. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, it definitely did one hundred percent. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I kind of just like letting the
Speaker 1: idea and the project just be an idea and what
Speaker 1: it is as a complete body of work and just
Speaker 1: going into something new. But I'm not sure, honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You've had a lot of big moments in
Speaker 1: your career. You've been on records with the big people,
Speaker 1: You've performed all the awards. I mean, you've had some
Speaker 1: huge moments. What was the one moment that you can
Speaker 1: reflect on that you felt either the most nervous or
Speaker 1: where you really had to like kind of pinch yourself like, shit,
Speaker 1: this is actually about to happen, or this is happening.
Speaker 1: You know what? Man? It was probably the day I
Speaker 1: got the Best Rap Album Grammy nomination, like Dad was
Speaker 1: in and I can't wait to win them things in
Speaker 1: the future, Like you know, nominations are great infinite gratitude,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna win them things. And were you nominated
Speaker 1: alongside it was me? Tyler the Creator? Yeah, ego won it. Yep,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I think he should have won Album of
Speaker 1: a Year, like you know, I'm not. I wasn't on
Speaker 1: what he said after those awards is true, like yeah,
Speaker 1: they should. They kind of just bunched them in with
Speaker 1: hip hop. I mean, yeah, for sure, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: rap album. It was a great album by the way, amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing album. You should have won Album of a Year,
Speaker 1: like for sure. And but I was happy to see
Speaker 1: him win because he earned it. He's been in the
Speaker 1: game for a minute. It was his time, you know.
Speaker 1: And I was just like the wall, I just gotta
Speaker 1: pay my dues, bro, Like he doesn't pay his dues.
Speaker 1: He didn't put out great albums that didn't get recognized,
Speaker 1: so it was just his time. But I think he
Speaker 1: should have won at the highest level, which is Album
Speaker 1: of a Year. I agree. And so yeah, like I
Speaker 1: sailed that to say, probably getting nominated for Best Rap
Speaker 1: Album at that I just remember, that's the most like
Speaker 1: I lived in the moment. I was already on vacation
Speaker 1: at the time. I was in Turks and Kko's and
Speaker 1: then I watched like them announcing the Grammy nominations, and
Speaker 1: I remember because they said my name last because they
Speaker 1: say it in alphabetical order, so I heard the first
Speaker 1: four names and then I ain't hit my name and
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, and so Yan I was like because I thought,
Speaker 1: I was like, I thought I wouldn't go because I
Speaker 1: just knew I was going to get it for sure.
Speaker 1: I knew I was gonna get it. And then when
Speaker 1: they said my name, lad my heart sung. When I
Speaker 1: think my name didn't get called it and I heard it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, let's fucking go. I didn't even care about
Speaker 1: the Best Rap Song nomination. I just wanted that album album.
Speaker 1: That's what mattered. Bodies of work you want to be.
Speaker 1: You know, people get Best Rap Song and nominations all
Speaker 1: the time, but best Rap Album that's a big deal
Speaker 1: now for sure, especially up against you know, like A
Speaker 1: Coler and things of that nature. So I was like
Speaker 1: that that was probably the most like I lived in
Speaker 1: the moment, saw the moment for me. What were your expectations,
Speaker 1: because there's your first week numbers are out right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like a narrative that you know it might
Speaker 1: have underperformed. How do you feel about that whole conversation? Man,
Speaker 1: it's funny, man, because like, I don't I took the
Speaker 1: label off anyway. I don't give a ship to Ralph's Water, right,
Speaker 1: all right, that's what you got me drinking keviv. What
Speaker 1: if it now fucking with you? Water's water baby? No
Speaker 1: pH levels in this. But it's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 1: I used to order like seven eleven water from Postmates
Speaker 1: just from like just pure laziness of not going AnyWho.
Speaker 1: That's a whole different story. But you know, with the
Speaker 1: first week things, like, I'm at the the point of
Speaker 1: my career to where I'm not worried about no first
Speaker 1: week numbers and I know it's fucking oh he's saying
Speaker 1: that because of now it's I said this with my
Speaker 1: last album. I said it from the very beginning, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm not pressed about no ship like that. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about what my tour is going to do
Speaker 1: because I'm a torn artist, you know. Oh, so I
Speaker 1: make music to perform it. So when if my tour
Speaker 1: is sold out off the album, then I know it's
Speaker 1: done what it's supposed to do. And again, I waited
Speaker 1: two and a half years in between it without like
Speaker 1: any touring and not this ain't no excuse or anything.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, I make music to tour, So
Speaker 1: as long as my tours are sold out and my
Speaker 1: merch and people are like loving the music, That's what
Speaker 1: I cared the most about. You know? Is it cause
Speaker 1: like there is a truth right to artists these days
Speaker 1: in major situations for the most part, do you make
Speaker 1: your money? I mean we're gonna get to how you
Speaker 1: made seven million dollars okay, allegedly, allegedly without dropping a
Speaker 1: fucking song, but no, but like in general, you know,
Speaker 1: yg was just talking about on he was doing the
Speaker 1: Barbershop Talk with Lebron and he was saying how he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen a cent off of any of his album
Speaker 1: sales this whole time he's been on death Chat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So is it like, is it indeed like you're touring
Speaker 1: your merch, your endorsement situation? Yeah, Puma Coulture, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: fucking everywhere. You know what I'm saying, you appreciate it?
Speaker 1: Is that really where you're you're getting your bread and
Speaker 1: butter financially for sure, unless you were like fully independent
Speaker 1: and you own your masters, like you're going to get
Speaker 1: most of your majority of your bread from uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to out other entities. Do you own your masters? Nope, No,
Speaker 1: not yet, not yet. That's what I was kind of
Speaker 1: alluding to earlier, because you're when you sign men sign
Speaker 1: young like you signed early. Yeah, for sure. So I
Speaker 1: feel like you've already kind of leveled up where you
Speaker 1: where you are mentally and kind of understood how I
Speaker 1: own a percentage of them, but I don't. You own
Speaker 1: your masters is like you percent und so the next
Speaker 1: go round, that's got to be in the deal, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I gotta. Look, I don't want to misquote
Speaker 1: you know what my situation is anything, but I gotta
Speaker 1: But it's on the way all the way. Would you
Speaker 1: with the way the industry is kind of moving and
Speaker 1: you're seeing like a lot of artists have real success independently,
Speaker 1: would that be ever a route that you would explore
Speaker 1: in the future. I don't know, honestly. I really fuck
Speaker 1: with Atlantic Records, you know, at this point in time, right,
Speaker 1: But I say that to say I really fuck with them, honestly,
Speaker 1: Like it's high level under Atlantic. Now it's a whole separate,
Speaker 1: instantly separate. Yeah. Yeah, Like I got full control on
Speaker 1: my own ship. Like creative control on everything. It's like
Speaker 1: they just do they just put it out honestly, you know.
Speaker 1: They they're enthusiastic about your ship. Like like I talked
Speaker 1: to everybody over there, so everyone's always talking about your ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, And that's why I signed with Atlantic,
Speaker 1: because that enthusiasm and that excitement and passion, you know what.
Speaker 1: Julie Greenwald, Mike Causer, Dallas, so many other plan Rey,
Speaker 1: so many Craig Common, all those people over there there
Speaker 1: were like, you know, really enthusiastic and really excited about everything.
Speaker 1: And so I say all that to say that I
Speaker 1: like why, I'm honestly not even though no like politically
Speaker 1: correct shit. It's like if it wasn't, i'd say it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two, the album is out, Uh fucking you're
Speaker 1: doing Coch Yep. The pandemic is still kind of going on. Yep,
Speaker 1: we're still in the pandemic. Yeah. No, it's wild, Yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. We just like, all right, it's just
Speaker 1: because the for economic reasons that were not shut down. No,
Speaker 1: for sure we should be shut down. If we were
Speaker 1: still shut down, it might be the end of America
Speaker 1: for sure, Like finance for sure. All the way, there'd
Speaker 1: be so many people killing themselves and you know it'd
Speaker 1: be done. I'd be pissed off personally. Yeah, I feel like, like, god,
Speaker 1: damn I toured, Like, yeah, it's crazy. Are you? Are
Speaker 1: you going to tour the album? Yeah? Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: I tour in two weeks. It starts in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Starts in two weeks. Who's opening I'm not sure yet. Honestly,
Speaker 1: Oh shit, well, I mean for two weeks away. You
Speaker 1: might want to figure that shit out. Absolutely. I was
Speaker 1: hoping for high level artist honestly, yeah, exactly, like we
Speaker 1: gotta find somebody. Ship ship. Yeah. I saw that Namir
Speaker 1: was at the release party. Yeah, I appreciate you for
Speaker 1: DJ and that you and zach VIIa. That was a
Speaker 1: very random night because I go to the party and
Speaker 1: Ace comes to me in a panic and he's like,
Speaker 1: I need you to DJ, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't have my laptop. He was like, get it here,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, damn, you must really
Speaker 1: fuck with a that's my dog. Yeah. So I got
Speaker 1: I had, I got a laptop delivered, and my the
Speaker 1: laptop that was delivered, Nico Blitz's, was not compatible with
Speaker 1: whatever fucking dj. It was a struggle. Well I said
Speaker 1: that to say the album release party was an incredible event.
Speaker 1: You shout out Dave Chappelle. You had Dave Chappelle do
Speaker 1: stand up. Yeah, he hosted, he jammed out. Yeah. There
Speaker 1: was a blunt circle backstage. It was him, Steve Herkle, Simba,
Speaker 1: somebody else was there. Oh sada baby. Yeah. It was
Speaker 1: the most random blunt circle I've ever I was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is Dave Chappelle, Steve Virkle, Jahill, is it Hill White? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can tell you got later that night too. Man,
Speaker 1: the same day my album dropped, Me and Dave went
Speaker 1: to go pull up on Kanye and yeah, so after
Speaker 1: the album release party, you pulled up on Kanye with Dave.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And ab actually ab ab happened to be there.
Speaker 1: That's my boy. Shout out a B and y'all got
Speaker 1: to this is my first I met Kanye before, but
Speaker 1: this is the first time I got to like chop
Speaker 1: it up with him on some like you know, on conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, and like, you know, this is one of
Speaker 1: my idols, one of my biggest idols, I said ever
Speaker 1: for sure, Like I've said it a dozen times, and
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, were you album just dropped now?
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, play it for me, and he was
Speaker 1: just dope, man, just to sit play my album that
Speaker 1: just came out thirty minutes ago with Kanye and Dave
Speaker 1: and just kick it with him, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying on some some chill shit? What what was? What was?
Speaker 1: Did he give you any feedback on the album or
Speaker 1: just any any gems at all? I didn't ask for it.
Speaker 1: I just feel like Kanye's just when he talks, it's like, man, man,
Speaker 1: he's the one. Yay he played like some unreleased music,
Speaker 1: like we're just playing track for track, you know, like
Speaker 1: unreleased stuff, and man, Yay's the one bro. I got.
Speaker 1: I And I was a lot of times when I
Speaker 1: meet like people I've idolized I would not be too
Speaker 1: cool for school, but like, you know, cause I'm from Maryland. Bro.
Speaker 1: We never we used to call it like man, you
Speaker 1: on dick, like you dick riding whatever, whatever. And I
Speaker 1: never was the type like I meet one of some
Speaker 1: of the biggest people you can think of. I never
Speaker 1: asked for a pick. I never like it just be
Speaker 1: just chopping up on some human and human shit. But
Speaker 1: one of my biggest regrets was when I met Kobe,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to tell him like what he meant
Speaker 1: to me, like growing up, how much of an idol
Speaker 1: he was to me. So when I met Yay, I
Speaker 1: just had like in a real way, I tell him like, man, like, Nigga,
Speaker 1: you my biggest influence. I say that, I said when
Speaker 1: I'm in an interview and they asked I say that.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, you better tell him, nigga, Like you
Speaker 1: know what. I moved to La, took a bus by
Speaker 1: myself with thirty year old strangers. Blue le Kevin DJ
Speaker 1: had to come to your release party for sure. Did
Speaker 1: you get any free merch that night? Remember we're trying
Speaker 1: to grab dud. Yeah I did get it. Yeah, good looks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely got it that fire merch by the way,
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, of course it's gonna be fire merch. How
Speaker 1: did the Dave ship because obviously you and Ve shappardy
Speaker 1: from the same region, you know for yeah DMV. Yeah
Speaker 1: from the d MV. Like it's not a he sat
Speaker 1: on stage that you call him to come and do this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he came. He came, and you know, he was
Speaker 1: like Yo, look, everyone have have their Nobody was allowed
Speaker 1: to have their phone out. One's phones was in bags
Speaker 1: except mine. Yeah wow, and whoever else that footage? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But uh, in general, like it was a very like
Speaker 1: he was doing it because he obviously genuinely fucks with
Speaker 1: you as a person, as an artist, et cetera. But
Speaker 1: how did that relationship Like what are the roots of
Speaker 1: you and Dave Chappelle? We what did I first meet Davit?
Speaker 1: I can't quite recall honestly when I first met him,
Speaker 1: but again, we both from the same area. Whenever I
Speaker 1: first I first met him, like we just we birthed
Speaker 1: both virgos, excuse me, and like he's one of my idols.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I saw you when you're
Speaker 1: on stage and the way I feel like that was
Speaker 1: one of those moments where you were, like, fucking Dave
Speaker 1: Chappelle's next to me on my album release dage. Yeah, Nah,
Speaker 1: he's the one, bro, Dave Chappelle is the one. But
Speaker 1: like not even like he's It's not too many people
Speaker 1: that like unequivocally who you can say they are the
Speaker 1: best what they've done or what they do. He is
Speaker 1: actually the best at what he does. He's the greatest
Speaker 1: comedian of all like alive, you can argue of all time.
Speaker 1: I would say he's top three. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: like him prior to George Carl But he's the greatest
Speaker 1: comedian alive, correct, right, and to me anyway in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm a little biased, right, But but even
Speaker 1: before he's the greatest. But you know, the Chappelle Show,
Speaker 1: even my sense of humor, man, it's like super like
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle influenced. And so we just continue to build.
Speaker 1: I would even when I was making this album, I
Speaker 1: will go up to Ohio to go see him. It's
Speaker 1: because it's like in the middle of nowhere. I just
Speaker 1: get timed for peace and quiet to think on things.
Speaker 1: Because he's got like a compound. Yeah, yeah, he got
Speaker 1: he got a town, he's got a little he got
Speaker 1: a town he has Ohio. Did you go to any
Speaker 1: of those comedy shows he was doing, Yeah I did, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. I went to a couple actually, And he's
Speaker 1: just always somebody that has shown me love, just been
Speaker 1: He's always a phone call away, man. I just call
Speaker 1: him ask him for advice about certain things. And you
Speaker 1: know how to maneuver and how does he do this
Speaker 1: and do that? You know, like he's really like the
Speaker 1: greatest man. Like welling up on Kanye with Dave Chappelle
Speaker 1: is like, kid, Dave is the one who introduced us.
Speaker 1: By the way, I gotta make sure credit him on that.
Speaker 1: I just think of like Kanye being on the Chappelle show.
Speaker 1: The Double XL cover that Dave Chappelle curated. It was
Speaker 1: dead press to quality. I think Kanye was on there too, anyway.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that cover? You're probably a young child,
Speaker 1: yeah that Yeah. Yeah, you're a big basketball guy. How
Speaker 1: you feeling about this year so far? Because I know
Speaker 1: you're not Wizards. I'm Wizards all day? Hey yeah addition
Speaker 1: by subtraction, Yeah, Westbrook goes the Wizards are good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Bradley Bill's I know
Speaker 1: you can correlate those two. But Bradley Bill is balling
Speaker 1: and Kuzma's bawling. Yeah, boy, Kuzman is nice. Yeah. How'd
Speaker 1: you ask something to prove? Yeah? Yeah, you and KD
Speaker 1: got a cool relationship, right, Yeah, yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: we were cool. I'm not like again, I don't like
Speaker 1: to exaggerate anything. But that's like, that's the homie. You know,
Speaker 1: he from the same area. He always show love and
Speaker 1: support my music. He's a real nigga. Who is your
Speaker 1: If you had to give me like your top five
Speaker 1: d m V rappers of all time excluding Corday who Okay,
Speaker 1: top d n V rappers of all time, Yep, gotta
Speaker 1: go wide of course, gotta go Shot Lizzie, Okay, gotta
Speaker 1: go Fat Trail, Free Fat Trail again, Free Fat Trailer again.
Speaker 1: I did a record with him too when he was out.
Speaker 1: We got some shit together, so boom boom, because those
Speaker 1: are just the three that kicked in the door, kicked
Speaker 1: open the door for me. Wile a Fat Trail, Shot Glizzie,
Speaker 1: Big Flock, and Cue the Fool Okay, Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: gotta put logic in there as well as far as
Speaker 1: just massiveness, big selling records, selling out arenas. But those
Speaker 1: five were like the most influential for sure. But you
Speaker 1: definitely got to put logic in there for what he
Speaker 1: done and opened up the doors. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: if there's anyone else that I'm thinking from the d
Speaker 1: m V that I used to really, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of them. Yeah, that's it. Shout
Speaker 1: out to the DMV man and then of course Corday.
Speaker 1: Now yo, so the album is out. You know, Rico
Speaker 1: Nasty's from the DNV as well. I did not know.
Speaker 1: Yeah on the whole Brent Fayez, Oh yeah, Brent's fucking
Speaker 1: Brent Fire and I was just going to you know,
Speaker 1: but Brent Fayaz and Rico Nasty, those are the two
Speaker 1: people honestly that in that like inspired me the most
Speaker 1: coming out of dn V because we all not the
Speaker 1: same age, but all was coming up. Well, they was
Speaker 1: up way before I was. They was already like but
Speaker 1: they weren't superstars quite yet in like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: But they showed me because I thought you had to
Speaker 1: be on some street shit to blow up out of
Speaker 1: DNV because that's what everybody was doing, like you know,
Speaker 1: the cute fool Shabaz, big Flop Gunu, all of these cats.
Speaker 1: Shout out to all of them. I feel like Brent's
Speaker 1: one of the more underrated guys. Like when we just
Speaker 1: think of like how he came up, how he was independent,
Speaker 1: just like now he's the ones business model. First of all,
Speaker 1: the music is incredible, but high level everything else that
Speaker 1: comes with, like his story, like how they were just
Speaker 1: operating just so independent for so long as R and
Speaker 1: B singers, Like, Yeah, we always think about all these
Speaker 1: rappers that are independent as fuck. He shout out to Russ,
Speaker 1: shout out to Dolph, shout out to all these independent dudes. YEA,
Speaker 1: Like Brent Fires is really independent as a motherfucker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on a whole other level on some R and B shit. Yeah, nah,
Speaker 1: He's one of the ones. And seeing him and Rico,
Speaker 1: they both was in their own they whole like own lane,
Speaker 1: you know, not following like the DMV trend, both on
Speaker 1: their own lane doing the executing at a high level.
Speaker 1: So those two motherfuckers right there was inspiring the shit
Speaker 1: out of me. What is on the binge watch list
Speaker 1: for Corday recent? Like, what are you binge watching at home?
Speaker 1: If you're at home chilling with the lady, what do
Speaker 1: you guys throwing on? I don't really binge watch anything,
Speaker 1: to be honest, bro, I've been I'm even Like the
Speaker 1: day my album came out, after I linked up with
Speaker 1: Ya and after the album release party, I went straight
Speaker 1: back home and got in the studio row but you
Speaker 1: don't watch TV, not that your four Nah, don't. I
Speaker 1: gotta tap into that, honestly, Like, I'll like watch I
Speaker 1: Love to Be a Mess series. I got to watch that.
Speaker 1: That ship was super fire. Shout out Little Meat fifty.
Speaker 1: That shit was incredible. You ever watched Curby Enthusiasm? Nope?
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's the funniest show ever. I've heard that
Speaker 1: recently from somebody else, Larry David. He's just old. He's
Speaker 1: a guy who wrote Seinfeld, so it's like a bro.
Speaker 1: I just heard this from somebody. It's the funniest show
Speaker 1: like all time. I don't know who recommended me this,
Speaker 1: but somebody literally recommended me. Curb your enthusy as excuse me,
Speaker 1: curb your enthusiasm within the last two weeks. You gotta
Speaker 1: tap in. Yeah, I must have to. What about your
Speaker 1: favorite movies ever? Give me three movies that come to mind. Okay,
Speaker 1: top is top movies ever? Now this pornography count porn movies? Yeah? Sure, hmm,
Speaker 1: you say, what who's this? We'll get to those. Who's
Speaker 1: your favorite porn star everts of all time? All time? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: you gotta go with the pop Eyes chick. Just for
Speaker 1: the culture because like that was just a moment in time.
Speaker 1: The Popes. You never seen the pop Oys jump? You
Speaker 1: recommended curb your enthusiasm. I recommend the pop Eyes jump.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like just top three. We'll do the
Speaker 1: porn stars first, then the movie. Sorry, the movie. Let's
Speaker 1: do the movie. Let's do the movie. Three movies Friday.
Speaker 1: This is just some ultimate, just nigga shit, to be honest,
Speaker 1: but it's just my truth, my top three. It's a
Speaker 1: great movie, change my life. Great movie Friday, six years old,
Speaker 1: talking like Smokey Damn. What's another movie I love? I love? Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a random one because I just got asked
Speaker 1: this question. But Glorious Bastards, Oh so good. I loved
Speaker 1: that because I'm a history fucking fiend. I love history,
Speaker 1: so whenever people incorporate like history and it's some shit.
Speaker 1: I guess the most underappreciated Quentin Tarantino movie. Great movie.
Speaker 1: I was at the comedy store a couple of days
Speaker 1: ago and Quentin Tarantino was sitting in the booth next
Speaker 1: to us by himself, fucking laughing his like, the guy
Speaker 1: had the loudest fucking laugh in the whole place. But
Speaker 1: it was like it was kind of surreal to be like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I live in LA and sometimes you go
Speaker 1: to the comedy store and you're sitting next to the
Speaker 1: greatest director of all time. Yeah, one more glorious Bastards Friday.
Speaker 1: Can it be TV show or just strictly movies? Give
Speaker 1: me a TV show? Fuck it? I would say the
Speaker 1: Chappelle Show. But if I can't say the Chappelle Show,
Speaker 1: I would say Boondocks. Boon Docks is amazing, amazing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: boon Docks is up there. Okay, porn Stars, and then
Speaker 1: the interview's over, Okay, porn Stars. I can't remember, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's been such a minute because like I used to
Speaker 1: love porn as a kid, as a teenager, but it's
Speaker 1: like a vice bad. It's really bad for you. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's like I like, after I've finished, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what is wrong with me? I'm sure
Speaker 1: terrible human? But it's like the most every time you
Speaker 1: jerk off, and you know, sometimes you got porn Hub
Speaker 1: open and you end up with like eleven tabs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, you're gonna have some credit cards, get scammed
Speaker 1: and ship and then you're like, damn, what did I ah,
Speaker 1: like what about yeah for sure? Like yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: not the wave honestly, like I can you never know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get right because you just start like,
Speaker 1: oh this is a cool tap, like a cool thumbnail.
Speaker 1: You're like, then you just you end up in a
Speaker 1: place that you didn't know you we're gonna end up
Speaker 1: in thirty minutes prior and man thirty forty five or
Speaker 1: like on a man man. I really can't name like
Speaker 1: the names off the top because it's been a minute.
Speaker 1: I'm not just trying to be on some cool nigga
Speaker 1: shit like oh you know, I don't want but I
Speaker 1: can't think of it. No one name not off the
Speaker 1: door Popeyes, I forgot her name. I can just tell you,
Speaker 1: like the scenario it was, it was shot up, was
Speaker 1: shot in Adam Popeyes. This is like this is culture
Speaker 1: keV like at like this is this is called many
Speaker 1: years ago? Is this about five four to five years ago?
Speaker 1: My prom he's a creep. You know what the Popeyes?
Speaker 1: You know about the Popeyes, bro, you curb your enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Popeye'es porn for sure, It's gonna go on h X
Speaker 1: videos and typing Popeyes and see what pop is maybe
Speaker 1: on porn hub. I'm not sure about X videos. Shout out,
Speaker 1: shout out to the hub of Hub is life, Hub
Speaker 1: is life. Well, look, I appreciate you pulling up man,
Speaker 1: the album is dope. Appreciate you having me. I was
Speaker 1: telling this to Ace. I think I had the album
Speaker 1: maybe like a week early, and cohesively is like perfect,
Speaker 1: Like you know, thanks you back, Like I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the first album, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know you you improved on the second one. Man, Nah,
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate that. That means the world to me.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I got away three years to get the next. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm coming. I'm the world is back open like a pandemic.
Speaker 1: I'm coming. You know every artist has their uh, their
Speaker 1: era to where they just start dropping ship and start
Speaker 1: going crazy. I think this is this is why I
Speaker 1: like doing that. How'd you make seven million dollars? This
Speaker 1: is the last question. Okay, you know, for all you know,
Speaker 1: I could have been lying, man. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: it's a nice flex. So how'd you make you know, uh,
Speaker 1: less than seven million? I mean, how'd you get in
Speaker 1: lessons without putting out music during the pandemic. Man, just
Speaker 1: being more honestly, being more mindful of my business, more
Speaker 1: mindful everything I do as a business expense, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a write off. I'm investing in the real estate,
Speaker 1: stocks and bond This is just how you attain wealth
Speaker 1: in general. Just more so generalizing my turn, not saying
Speaker 1: how I made more or less right but now, but
Speaker 1: like you're actually putting money into yeah, yeah, in stocks, bonds,
Speaker 1: real estate. I'm not too big on the crypto way
Speaker 1: because I would have to do a lot more research
Speaker 1: on that. But I'm super like old school more so
Speaker 1: with my safe stocks. I found a couple of gold
Speaker 1: mines like Neo and i Owe, which is like the
Speaker 1: Chinese Tesla. And I got into the stock market at
Speaker 1: a great time. This is when COVID first happened. When
Speaker 1: it first happened, everything was super low. No no no, no,
Speaker 1: dal Jones on the nineteen thousand. Right now it's at
Speaker 1: like thirty seven or something like that. So I dumped
Speaker 1: into it. I was just like, I have, I'm in
Speaker 1: this blessed position to have access to all this extra capital,
Speaker 1: So I just dumped in it. You know, doing certain
Speaker 1: brand endorsement deals things of that, nature like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean your fly ship with the latest one is coach right, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not coach on Puma all day. Oh Puma. I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like someone told me you were coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was, but you know how it didn't work
Speaker 1: out and it's not and it didn't work out. But
Speaker 1: I'm Puma all day, Puma, Pum all day. What is
Speaker 1: their biggest non rap check been so far? Don't don't
Speaker 1: tell us how much? Just yeah, where was it from? Puma?
Speaker 1: Puma all day? Fucking poom man? They man, I had
Speaker 1: to downgrade my lifestyle when the pandemic happened. I'm like, ship, nigga,
Speaker 1: we might have to start motherfucking doing swipe up so
Speaker 1: on the stories and promos and ship for It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, ship nigga, how are we finna do this?
Speaker 1: We ain't doing shows like ship now. But you know
Speaker 1: I didn't have to downgrade my lifestyle at all. That's good.
Speaker 1: They gonna give your own sneakers soon, yes, on the
Speaker 1: works right now, Yeah, because Cole sneakers fire. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like you're you gotta get your sneaker man. You
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's already. It's gonna be high level.
Speaker 1: Are you be involved in the silhouette and the design? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: My boy Ian Rutlish, my boy I and Michael excuse me,
Speaker 1: shout out to him has been helping on a design
Speaker 1: as well. So it's gonna be imello. It was a
Speaker 1: Puma guy. Yeah, yeah, now Puma and I've been with
Speaker 1: Puma like Earth. They've been rocking with me early, like
Speaker 1: remember a mellow before a bunch of not saying you
Speaker 1: know whatever, but I remember a lot of these cats.
Speaker 1: They've been rocking with me early early. You know. They
Speaker 1: was in the location my Locations video Location Ships video
Speaker 1: was paid for by Puma, you know. So I called
Speaker 1: them like my fairy godmother man like, because they they're
Speaker 1: just they treat me well over there, like no even
Speaker 1: like for my the Hourum release, they sent me like
Speaker 1: fucking Acespace bottle and like, man, they like they treat
Speaker 1: me really well. Like when I'm doing things in conjunction
Speaker 1: with Puma, they'll like fly me on like the Puma jet,
Speaker 1: like I really fuck with that company. Man. Even more
Speaker 1: than that, they're like very and I'm not just saying
Speaker 1: this because I'm getting the check up for sure, this
Speaker 1: and that, because with as an artist is a fine line.
Speaker 1: You can't become like too brand heavy because you lose
Speaker 1: like you're you'll just look like you'll do whatever for
Speaker 1: a dollar, you know. So I try to remain like
Speaker 1: very reclusive when it comes to brand alignment thing anybody.
Speaker 1: And I think the less brand deals you have is
Speaker 1: more cool because I could just because of like who
Speaker 1: I am and the type of the lane I'm in,
Speaker 1: I can fucking be cashing out brands all the day.
Speaker 1: But but but I'd be sletting myself out in the
Speaker 1: long term if I'm just taking every single brand deal
Speaker 1: every Yeah, for sure. And so I say that to
Speaker 1: say that Pulma has been in alignment with what I
Speaker 1: have for my vision and they're always like helping with
Speaker 1: community projects, things that I'll never like have on camera,
Speaker 1: these things that's just for for my good karma and
Speaker 1: to actually help people they really like into the community
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. So they got to do
Speaker 1: a commercial with you, LaMelo and the best Puma athlete,
Speaker 1: the starting center for the best team in the NBA,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Aiden. Yeah, oh you are shout out CP three.
Speaker 1: That's my boy. Yeah, that's my dog. He's a grown
Speaker 1: ass man. Now that's my boy. Like he'd be showing
Speaker 1: me mad and mad mad love and he's just like
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, we met? How did mean CP three meet?
Speaker 1: We met? Oh? Because you know, my family lives in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. You know, I was born in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: You know, I was raised a lot of Maryland. But
Speaker 1: my I talked to Rhapsody about that. She was like
Speaker 1: that boy from Carolina. Yeah yeah, yeah for sure, but
Speaker 1: but a lot I was I grew. I was born
Speaker 1: in Raleigh, North Carolina. Like, my family lives in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and so it's that Carolina connection. And yeah, he just
Speaker 1: shows like a lot of love. Man, gives a lot
Speaker 1: of insight and whatever. Like he's one of the ones real.
Speaker 1: He's probably the best point guard of Like I think
Speaker 1: it's your point guard top five all time. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like probably the best leader in the NBA over the
Speaker 1: last like twenty years. Bro. Yeah, every team he goes
Speaker 1: to gets instantly better, like playoff not even play off
Speaker 1: the Thunder two years ago. Bro. Yes, yeah they're at
Speaker 1: five seed. Yeah, like no, bro, because it's like a
Speaker 1: piece of advice CP three is given. Man, just just
Speaker 1: lock in and stay working, like and just realize what's
Speaker 1: your goal and just stay true to yourself, and you'd
Speaker 1: be fucking pulling up to these games. You flew to
Speaker 1: Phoenix to go to the finals game. I was at
Speaker 1: the finals. Yeah. I was late for it too, I
Speaker 1: can I know. I was sitting like up above and
Speaker 1: I saw you come in, like yeah, like end of them. No, no,
Speaker 1: it was like five minutes left in the fourth court.
Speaker 1: I was upset about it. I know. I had a
Speaker 1: sent me He's like, Yo, do you want to go
Speaker 1: to the Sun's game with Corda And I was like sure,
Speaker 1: and then he was like, yo, he's gonna be super
Speaker 1: fucking late. And I was like, well, I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just get my own ticket, yeah, because I can't miss.
Speaker 1: I mean we ended up losing that game. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I was there for Yeah, I went there. Really does
Speaker 1: support CEP. Honestly, You're at a lot of games though
Speaker 1: you're like a real fucking basketball and man, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in a blessed position. But I've never been to
Speaker 1: an NBA game, not courtside really, like I've never my
Speaker 1: first NBA game. No, no, no, no, I've never went
Speaker 1: to an NBA game as a kid. So my first
Speaker 1: NBA game was you know, me being an artist. So
Speaker 1: I've always been courtside. Bro, it's a blessing you worked
Speaker 1: into the plumid deal. No no, no no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, this is this is just how you splurge. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't spend no, I don't spend no money on it.
Speaker 1: It's like either a player lookout or like somebody just
Speaker 1: randomly called like yo, you want to go to the
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So like me having this
Speaker 1: relationships with players, they'd be like, yo, pull up on
Speaker 1: the game, bro, I got you doing doing amazing. We'll
Speaker 1: shout out to my guy Corde. Appreciate you pulling up,
Speaker 1: Appreciate you having me. I always love Yes, easy money
Speaker 1: Yeah boom