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Speaker 1: New York City. Man out here shooting music videos, doing
Speaker 1: big shit. Nick Bucks, Yeah, with's sub cat. Welcome man,
Speaker 1: Thank you Rob representing Harlem, Sir. For people who don't
Speaker 1: know who you are, Man, kind of give me like
Speaker 1: a little background and like, obviously you're from Harlem, but
Speaker 1: just kind of how long you've been rapping and kind
Speaker 1: of you know, you've obviously been killing it. I told
Speaker 1: you you had one of my favorite albums. It was
Speaker 1: like early twenty twenty one year album drop right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like right after was it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was Quarantina right after, might be right after, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But nah, Man, give everybody kind of run down man,
Speaker 1: just kind of your history books. East Harlem, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Young Spider, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: hardest from my size. You know, just real story, real authentic,
Speaker 1: authentic music, you know what I mean. I fuck with
Speaker 1: the people. Yeah, I've been to East Harlem once, No twice.
Speaker 1: I got off on the train at the wrong stop.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was in Harlem and then I got
Speaker 1: off early. I got off with the wrong stop to
Speaker 1: go see a girl like I don't know ten years ago,
Speaker 1: so shout out to Harlem and then I was out
Speaker 1: there shout out to both Degga bands. I got yep,
Speaker 1: Barrio for sure. He's definitely an East hallm representative. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I go Hall for that. I'm affod to cut you over,
Speaker 1: but I go Hall for the East Side because you know,
Speaker 1: when people think about Hall of Them, they think about,
Speaker 1: you know, one area, you know, like of course Dip said,
Speaker 1: you know, forty eighth Linux, but it's bigger than that.
Speaker 1: The East Halem is like our own little lane, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm right, And it's like heavily like Latin
Speaker 1: community as well too, right, No, it's diverse. It's diverse, ok,
Speaker 1: Like East Hall them is very You got Jamaicans, you
Speaker 1: got African American, you got Puerto Rican, you got the Dominican, Mexican,
Speaker 1: you got were real diverse, but were small, but you know,
Speaker 1: were real diverse, did you feel like, because you know,
Speaker 1: with the Brant prices in Manhattan are so crazy, it's
Speaker 1: like insane. Sometimes I just get bored and go on
Speaker 1: Zillo and just look at apartments in New York just
Speaker 1: to see and I'm like, fuck, has there been like
Speaker 1: a lot of gentrification in Harlem because it feels like
Speaker 1: Harlem is still kind of like an extension of Manhattan,
Speaker 1: but it's probably a lot more affordab with a lot
Speaker 1: of people been moving in in that area and shit,
Speaker 1: now it is it is. You know, we got it's
Speaker 1: malls being built, you know, all kinds of things. So
Speaker 1: you know, when things like that come into the community,
Speaker 1: they gentrified, you know what I mean, It makes things
Speaker 1: more expensive one hundred percent. So like is it becoming
Speaker 1: like a lot like least affordable to stay in your
Speaker 1: own hood? Now? Yeah, they got they got these new buildings.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of new buildings being made, you know,
Speaker 1: like with a lot of amenities and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So you know it was a very expensive. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: see it changing. How long have you been rapping? I
Speaker 1: want to say I took raps serious, like when I
Speaker 1: was sixteen. I've been rapping way before that. I fell
Speaker 1: in love with it like when I was nine, of course,
Speaker 1: or what made you fall in love with it? G Unit?
Speaker 1: You know, the Unit was like a big influence to me.
Speaker 1: My dad used to sell like old school music, so
Speaker 1: when I was a kid four three five years old,
Speaker 1: he would push me around while he sold this music.
Speaker 1: So he would tell like love like burn CDs type
Speaker 1: shit he would sell. At the time, it was tapes.
Speaker 1: Then CDs came a little That's what I used to do.
Speaker 1: That's how I got my name. I used to be
Speaker 1: at the Swat meet, was fucking CDs, mixtapes, all the
Speaker 1: junet radio shit. I used to be fucking getting it in.
Speaker 1: So definitely pirrating a lot of people's music back in
Speaker 1: the day before I was anybody. Well year it was done?
Speaker 1: You said two thousand, uh four oh five oh six? Okay, CD?
Speaker 1: That's like when did CDs come in? I don't even remember.
Speaker 1: I just remember the transition the nineties nineties, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the nineties. It was like, nah, it might
Speaker 1: not have been in the nineties. It was early nineties. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I had Dogs You Stay
Speaker 1: on CD. No, I had it on tape, but then
Speaker 1: I got it on CD and like, yeah, CDs was
Speaker 1: like mid nineties because I had I bought uh, like,
Speaker 1: what what would you say, man, I bought a quimini
Speaker 1: from Walmart. So it was probably like ninety seven where
Speaker 1: it was like kind of like the norm ninety It
Speaker 1: was like ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight was kind
Speaker 1: of like because I remember buying CDs. I don't remember
Speaker 1: many tapes, but Boys the Men in Bone. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: look when CDs came out, people still kind of use
Speaker 1: cassette tapes. Yeah, same thing with now people Like there's
Speaker 1: still people who have CD books. I don't know who
Speaker 1: they are. They don't even make college Like you know
Speaker 1: what they say. Country music still sell CDs. So if
Speaker 1: you go to Walmart ever, they still got CDs there,
Speaker 1: but it's all country. Yeah tough. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think some of them rednecks ain't smart enough to figure
Speaker 1: out the streaming respective. I mean, it's probably still money
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah. My car does not have a CD player,
Speaker 1: so it's like, what am I supposed to do with
Speaker 1: this CDs in the eighties, it was mid nineties. It
Speaker 1: was mid nineties for sure. Yeah, because I had like
Speaker 1: a nice little CD book in like ninety eight, like tiny,
Speaker 1: little single page one, you know what I'm saying. CD
Speaker 1: book was crazy, but had all that the worst part
Speaker 1: was when someone broke into your car and jacked your
Speaker 1: fucking CDs. That was it's like you lost your life.
Speaker 1: You ever had your CD stolen. Nah, that's before that shit, man,
Speaker 1: when you had this like collection of music that you
Speaker 1: spend all this thousands of dollars on and someone got
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Speaker 1: and took your CD book, I shuld fucking make you
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Speaker 1: let's get back to the interview you. I was telling
Speaker 1: you that the album that I really got hip to
Speaker 1: you on was the album you drove last year, Neighborhood Hole. Uh,
Speaker 1: crazy body of work. For sure. You got a new
Speaker 1: single Autum two Chains. Obviously you just shot a new
Speaker 1: video with Whiz, so I know you're prepping the new album.
Speaker 1: But talk about Neighborhood Hole. Why did you like? Why
Speaker 1: that title? So you know when I said a neighborhood whole,
Speaker 1: you know that's the impact I got on my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: You know the same how big you know Hope is
Speaker 1: and what he mean of course to the game. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like my story related is you
Speaker 1: know how it was hard for him to kind of
Speaker 1: get a deal. You know, it wasn't really respecting what
Speaker 1: he had going on and how he built this team
Speaker 1: and group of people and just went crazy with it.
Speaker 1: I mean I see a lot of that and myself.
Speaker 1: So that's why I went with that. What was for you? Like?
Speaker 1: Are you are you still independent? Like? What is your
Speaker 1: label situation? So I'm with my knock now. You know
Speaker 1: I got a product took over that monarch. Shout out
Speaker 1: the monarch, you know what I mean? They you know,
Speaker 1: taking care of me. Did you find that it was
Speaker 1: like hard for you to get a deal or get
Speaker 1: a deal that you like, were comfortable with signing, because
Speaker 1: I think like it you if you have any sort
Speaker 1: of buzz, you could probably get some sort of situation,
Speaker 1: but the terms are probably terrible, right, Yeah, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: you say you said it the right way, like find
Speaker 1: a deal that fit me, because you know, I did
Speaker 1: so much alone already, so I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that whatever situation come, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: they just add on to what I had going on,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense as far as the business. So
Speaker 1: you were pretty much strictly independent up until when I
Speaker 1: want to say, yeah, this year, like recently ship what
Speaker 1: is a I mean thighborhood. All that was done through
Speaker 1: distribution just distro, Yeah, just distro. Wow, everything been you
Speaker 1: know alone? What was the hard Like? You know, I
Speaker 1: feel like there's gifts and curses to being fully independent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to keep more of your money, but you
Speaker 1: gotta also work a lot harder, to work a lot harder,
Speaker 1: and you know you just gotta you gotta Yeah, without
Speaker 1: that machine, you gotta you gotta do a whole lot
Speaker 1: more and I mean, I'm used to it now, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been doing it so long, So that's a beautiful thing. Man,
Speaker 1: who would you say were your biggest influences growing up?
Speaker 1: You said G Unit obviously for sure, Dipset of course,
Speaker 1: you know I'm from Harlem. Yeah, just just THEMB really
Speaker 1: dipsett in Unit Unit. That's why I watched you know
Speaker 1: on TV. So if you had to go with one,
Speaker 1: if you had to, let's say you're on an island,
Speaker 1: you could only take all of the dip set discography
Speaker 1: or all the G Unit discography mixtapes included, Which which
Speaker 1: c D book are you taking? I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: politically correct and say hall them. I gotta go with
Speaker 1: the Units made me do it. You gotta go get
Speaker 1: rid of that trying man. Beg for Mercy. Beg for
Speaker 1: Mercy was crazy, all the junior radios, and you can
Speaker 1: include the documentary from the Game Into Day because that
Speaker 1: was a G Unit album. Yep, Hunger for More, Hunger
Speaker 1: for More was crazy, and even the Young buckshit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Buck was hard. Now that I go back and I
Speaker 1: listen to even the massacre, I feel like it's slept on.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's so much good fucking records on there.
Speaker 1: I feel like the massacre was like somehow doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough respect because it wasn't as big as get rid
Speaker 1: of that try. But I'm like, yo, there was some
Speaker 1: real crazy rap shit on there. Ski Mask Way Baltimore
Speaker 1: love Thing, shout out to motherfucking Physician of Power. Even
Speaker 1: the what was the disc record he had Piggy Bank
Speaker 1: was hard? Damn that ship was hard. Yeah, fifty was
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Speaker 1: meet him at all? Yeah? I mean every time I
Speaker 1: see you, filf I take a pic with him, like
Speaker 1: it's the first time. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: just racked my fifty send picks up. Well, have you
Speaker 1: tried for the future, No, not yet. I ain't even
Speaker 1: I didn't even get a chance to really you know,
Speaker 1: kick it with him like how I wanted to. But
Speaker 1: every time I see him, I left No, Like, yo,
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Speaker 1: I think because you know there's no gimmicks. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm what you see is what you get,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: in people's circles. I'm not you know, on anybody line
Speaker 1: about features. It's like, if you respect what I do
Speaker 1: and you fuck with me, then you know you're tapping
Speaker 1: with me. And you know want to help me further
Speaker 1: what I got going on. So I'll just be mowing that.
Speaker 1: I'll be on my own vibe. Help me under because
Speaker 1: I think in New York obviously it's been a good
Speaker 1: year for New York hip hop. Joey Badass put out
Speaker 1: a great project, Obviously, the Griselda guys have been going crazy.
Speaker 1: Benny Conway obviously that's not New York City, it's Buffalo.
Speaker 1: But the drill scene is so big. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like not being a drill artist right now and being
Speaker 1: from New York has it's like nationally, do you feel
Speaker 1: like it hurts you? I don't think so. I think that,
Speaker 1: you know what I do, I built a kind of
Speaker 1: a fan base all over you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think if this was probably like five years ago
Speaker 1: and this was going on, then maybe like if I'm
Speaker 1: coming out and it's like, oh, you're doing this. But
Speaker 1: I think I built enough of a fan base, you know,
Speaker 1: in different places that people still support what I got
Speaker 1: to say. You know, what does your take on the
Speaker 1: drill scene? Because it's pretty crazy, man, that's crazy. A
Speaker 1: lot of dope music but also a lot of crazy shit.
Speaker 1: Like it's like some serious like man, I'm like, fuck man,
Speaker 1: these kids are like really that they all hang out
Speaker 1: on the record. You know what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: I embrace it. I listened to it. I love because
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of music. I'm a fan of what
Speaker 1: they got going on. I mean, I feel like I
Speaker 1: kind of play the role of, you know, the middle
Speaker 1: when it comes to all that stuff, like I don't
Speaker 1: yeah because you're younger. Yeah I'm young, but I got
Speaker 1: it like a real mature Oh the soul. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: like somebody who the young kids could fuck with. But
Speaker 1: also like if you're me and you're an old head,
Speaker 1: yeah I can appreciate it, nah, for sure. But I
Speaker 1: played it. I played the kind of the role of,
Speaker 1: you know, embracing all of them. You know, they a
Speaker 1: lot of them call me for advice and yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they come to the studio, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I play that role with them.
Speaker 1: So I embrace it. I love it. I don't like
Speaker 1: the violence, of course I don't. I don't like when
Speaker 1: it go further than music because it's music. But you know,
Speaker 1: other than that, yeah, shout out to all the Jill rappers.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's important. Who all do you have on this
Speaker 1: new album? I mean two chains and whiz Yeah. We
Speaker 1: went heavy on this one. We got two chains, whiz,
Speaker 1: Selo selo green see green. Yeah, we got shild yeap tink.
Speaker 1: Shout out to man I every Scott one of the
Speaker 1: most talented you know people in the game. Am I
Speaker 1: missing anyone? Oh? Yeah, Benny, Bennie and Rayner Chef I
Speaker 1: cannot record. Yeah, shout out Darren. You on the beat too,
Speaker 1: for sure. Shout out to Bennie. Man I got, you know,
Speaker 1: every time I get on platforms, I gotta shout my
Speaker 1: guy out and took me on tour with him. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Give me a chance to you know,
Speaker 1: get off the block and ship my talent with the world.
Speaker 1: Benny and his team are great. Shout out to Jake.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Tony the Narrow. Shout to my guy,
Speaker 1: My guys, So you were on the road. Was Tony
Speaker 1: the Narrow on the road with you? Tony? That's my brother. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's my Tony is just so yeah, that's my guys.
Speaker 1: And I could go on and on them. He's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy I like, Yeah, we party together, that's
Speaker 1: my We always have fun. Together and here and holding
Speaker 1: nothing back any opportunity. Yo, I got this opportunity for you.
Speaker 1: Very unselfish. Yes, the whole cut super fire. Shout to Bennie.
Speaker 1: Shout out to them, and uh yeah, so ray Kwan Benny,
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Speaker 1: How did you end up working with Wiz? So? Shout
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Speaker 1: a relationship. I had this song and I told him,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, where is this sounds crazy? On this?
Speaker 1: So he called him Whizz got it done, no problem.
Speaker 1: And when I finally got a chance to meet with
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it was love. We clicked instantly.
Speaker 1: He fucked with my vibe, I fuck with his and
Speaker 1: that's my guy. Track to hit Maker. He produced a
Speaker 1: song yep, yep, yeah, the executive produce producing. Wow, that's big, heavy,
Speaker 1: that's super big. How did that end up happening? He's
Speaker 1: a great guy too, Shout yeah. I mean, man, hit
Speaker 1: Maker is one of the most you know, hardest working
Speaker 1: producers I've ever seen in my life. You know, he
Speaker 1: pushed me to work all this sure. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, he don't. I thank him every chance I get.
Speaker 1: He allowed me to say thank you, man, get ahead
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Speaker 1: introduction with y'all? Like, how did that? So? So Billy
Speaker 1: Billy manages me, you also manages hit? Oh that's perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was just like I said, like the same
Speaker 1: thing with wiz Me and Hick click automatically and worked
Speaker 1: from the first day I met him. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: just got some big records on him at all times
Speaker 1: and for sure awards. Yeah, that's real. That's I'm surprised
Speaker 1: to he tried to get you over to make a
Speaker 1: sound imprint. I mean, yeah, that's family. I'm in make
Speaker 1: it sound. I'm in yeah on the album shout a
Speaker 1: Crazy album together. Ye would you say that like having
Speaker 1: him involved kind of like put you in a position
Speaker 1: to maybe have more commercial rec on this project. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's a that's the conversation I have, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: even with my brothers on the block or with my manager,
Speaker 1: I feel like this project right here was those songs,
Speaker 1: was the big songs. You know you heard my music.
Speaker 1: I'm allver. I do it for the streets. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I love real rat, but you gotta
Speaker 1: have them records. You know what I'm saying. If you
Speaker 1: don't have them records, you're gonna be doing one thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jay had those records on his album and
Speaker 1: everybody you know, that's what big project is. This project
Speaker 1: is the records. It's letting the world know I can
Speaker 1: make music. You know what I mean. I mean, give ride,
Speaker 1: try and head in the club and twenty one questions
Speaker 1: just that. Just that. So you feel like this is
Speaker 1: kind of like your level up, my level up one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Bigger beats, you know what I mean, great
Speaker 1: features musically, it sound good, my cadence, everything sounds well.
Speaker 1: I feel good about it. Do you have the name
Speaker 1: of the album yet? Yeah, Blessed to the Max. You're
Speaker 1: the first one I know that, though I ain't say
Speaker 1: this yet. So the name of my album called Blessed
Speaker 1: to the Max. That's dope. I like that. Why that title, man,
Speaker 1: because I'm blessed. You know, you got bullet in my head.
Speaker 1: You know, I maybe to survive. I'm still here lo
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Speaker 1: did you get shot? Twenty eleven? Shit? How old were you?
Speaker 1: Like a kid? I want to say, like seventeen, fu
Speaker 1: seventeen yep. So what what happened? Man? I want to say,
Speaker 1: it was like the wrong place for wrong time, you know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's all you know, yeah, like different energies collided,
Speaker 1: you know, it was. It was just the wrong place
Speaker 1: at the wrong time. So you got shot in the
Speaker 1: head and the head or didn't go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: For every time I tell the story, people think I'm crazy.
Speaker 1: So you got shot in the head, didn't go to
Speaker 1: the hospital then, because I ain't know, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I was shot. I thought I got grazed. So a
Speaker 1: couple of years after I figured out I had a
Speaker 1: bullet in my head. So I lived like three years
Speaker 1: with the bullet in my head before I found out.
Speaker 1: So that's to the Max, bro for sure. How did
Speaker 1: you find out that the bullet was in there? So,
Speaker 1: Like I was still in school, I was having these
Speaker 1: like sinus problems and ship in my head was killing me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I want to go get the sinus checked out.
Speaker 1: You know, they give you the MRA right, and they
Speaker 1: told me like, yeah, you got like a piece of
Speaker 1: metal in your head. Maybe that's where it's coming from.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the fix it. No, no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: because it was the siginus issue. This wasn't bothering me.
Speaker 1: My bullet wasn't bothering me. It was the sinus issue.
Speaker 1: So when I got the MADS for the signings, the
Speaker 1: pain went away, but I still got the bullet in
Speaker 1: my head. That's how I discovered it. Yeah it's still here.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it can't go nowhere. It makes sense to
Speaker 1: take it out, right, yeah, because it'll start fucking things
Speaker 1: up the fuck. Yeah, bro, blessed the Max. How did
Speaker 1: your parents feel when they found out that there was
Speaker 1: like I'm sure they knew about the incident, but like
Speaker 1: I mean, they thought it was great. So I went
Speaker 1: I went home to my step mom. I put some
Speaker 1: like bastuation, you know what I mean, little ointment on it,
Speaker 1: and I going on about life like we nobody knew
Speaker 1: when we found out, it was like, oh that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah yeah. I feel like if you were
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of rappers would just be
Speaker 1: talking about that all the time. Yeah yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean for me, it is not nothing to glorify. It is.
Speaker 1: It is. I'm blessed. I think, of course every day,
Speaker 1: but being shot in I ain't trying to use that
Speaker 1: as you know what I mean. I just think back
Speaker 1: to fifty and we all knew he got shot nine times?
Speaker 1: We did we? Did you? I mean, I know Pop
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Speaker 1: I think they was dissing each other on that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: to the interview, Like do you feel like sometime times
Speaker 1: have you ever had like found yourself in the middle
Speaker 1: of of like being friends with two people who have
Speaker 1: problems with each other? Yeah, I stay away from all that. Men,
Speaker 1: I got we got. I got my own problems. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't be trying to get into nobody's situations. Then
Speaker 1: thank got nothing to do with me over some rap ship.
Speaker 1: That is the right approach for sure. I don't know rap.
Speaker 1: This is music. Yeah. The problem is is like usually
Speaker 1: that happens and you should be in the middle and
Speaker 1: be like, hey, look y'all, this is on some rap
Speaker 1: like you said it's not some street ship. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: certain things you just certain things you just stay out of.
Speaker 1: You you know, you don't want nothing to do it.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gouy certain things, I just don't want
Speaker 1: none to do it. Would you say, obviously you have
Speaker 1: the Ray Kwan Benny record. Is there enough on this
Speaker 1: album for the fans who really fuck with you, for
Speaker 1: the street ship, for the for the rapping ship to
Speaker 1: really kind of appease them? I mean I got a few,
Speaker 1: I think I think I think so. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: so because something I was going back and forth with
Speaker 1: about my project. But I feel good about it. I
Speaker 1: think so? Is it? Uh? Do we have a date yet?
Speaker 1: Not yet? Now? Yeah? Do we gotta date? November eighteen?
Speaker 1: It was almost two years of a wait, right yep,
Speaker 1: for sure? For sure ship. So you've been working, man,
Speaker 1: Are you gonna make everybody wait that longer for the
Speaker 1: for the the next time? I gotta keep guessing that
Speaker 1: I gotta show, I got to show on what's going on?
Speaker 1: What is something for you man? Like? Obviously, Uh, you've
Speaker 1: kind of had to do the independent thing. What would
Speaker 1: be some advice you would give artists who are were
Speaker 1: in a similar situation that you're being independent, having to
Speaker 1: do everything yourself. That you mean, I feel like, never stop,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? You gotta stay consistent. You
Speaker 1: can't stop. You gotta keep going. I mean just discouraging,
Speaker 1: you know it come. Being discouraged happens, but you gotta
Speaker 1: keep going. Do you think do you think there was
Speaker 1: ever a point in time where you had hit like
Speaker 1: a low in your career it made you kind of
Speaker 1: reconsider whether or not you wanted to really do this
Speaker 1: rap shit? Yeah, I mean it's gonna be plenty of
Speaker 1: them nights. You have plenty of those. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: with whatever you do. But yeah, I had plenty of
Speaker 1: those nights. But you know, I kept pushing and I'm here.
Speaker 1: That's Gope man. Anybody else from Harlem that you want
Speaker 1: to shout out and the East Harlem rappers that you
Speaker 1: feel like? Yeah, h four Records man, shout out the popularity? Man?
Speaker 1: Is your label? Yeah? So you got a label? You
Speaker 1: signed the artists, yep, yep, for sure to launch it soon. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got one artist already. Nah, but that's who I'm
Speaker 1: working with closely, dope? Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's up with
Speaker 1: Bodega bams Man shout at the Bodega bands. Man, I've
Speaker 1: seen his team. I seen Old Live, Old Lives. Brother,
Speaker 1: my man, Luca and are the same person, the same
Speaker 1: person I want to work with Bams. He's one of
Speaker 1: the guys who you know, motivated me to do this.
Speaker 1: I told you he from the East side of Harlem.
Speaker 1: So seeing somebody strictly for my Poppies album was so fuckingall. Man,
Speaker 1: I gotta I got a chance to, you know, move
Speaker 1: around with them when they was in New York City
Speaker 1: a lot of times. Yeah, and I love you know
Speaker 1: what they did and doing still as an asap crew
Speaker 1: tapped in with you at all Rocky my brother, that's
Speaker 1: my guy. Yeah, Yeah, that's my brother. The album's coming
Speaker 1: November eighteenth. November eighteen, Blessed to the Max. Blessed to
Speaker 1: the Max. New single with Wizz is coming. It's coming
Speaker 1: soon to Change Records. Mask Up is out now and
Speaker 1: make sure you go get it on streaming platforms. The
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