WEBVTT - #229 - Neek Bucks 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.480 Bootleg cap Podcast. Special guests came all the way from 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.760 New York City. Man out here shooting music videos, doing 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.560 big shit. Nick Bucks, Yeah, with's sub cat. Welcome man, 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.559 Thank you Rob representing Harlem, Sir. For people who don't 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:13.800 know who you are, Man, kind of give me like 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.599 a little background and like, obviously you're from Harlem, but 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.239 just kind of how long you've been rapping and kind 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.599 of you know, you've obviously been killing it. I told 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.720 you you had one of my favorite albums. It was 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.720 like early twenty twenty one year album drop right, Yeah, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.440 I like right after was it. I don't know if 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.880 it was Quarantina right after, might be right after, Yeah, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.559 But nah, Man, give everybody kind of run down man, 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.760 just kind of your history books. East Harlem, you know 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.640 what I mean, Young Spider, you know, one of the 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:44.640 hardest from my size. You know, just real story, real authentic, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.239 authentic music, you know what I mean. I fuck with 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.560 the people. Yeah, I've been to East Harlem once, No twice. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.880 I got off on the train at the wrong stop. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.520 Oh yeah, I was in Harlem and then I got 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.520 off early. I got off with the wrong stop to 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.240 go see a girl like I don't know ten years ago, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.000 so shout out to Harlem and then I was out 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.960 there shout out to both Degga bands. I got yep, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.600 Barrio for sure. He's definitely an East hallm representative. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.319 I go Hall for that. I'm affod to cut you over, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.280 but I go Hall for the East Side because you know, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.360 when people think about Hall of Them, they think about, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.440 you know, one area, you know, like of course Dip said, 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.040 you know, forty eighth Linux, but it's bigger than that. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.040 The East Halem is like our own little lane, you 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.119 know what, I'm right, And it's like heavily like Latin 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.280 community as well too, right, No, it's diverse. It's diverse, ok, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.560 Like East Hall them is very You got Jamaicans, you 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.920 got African American, you got Puerto Rican, you got the Dominican, Mexican, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.200 you got were real diverse, but were small, but you know, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.200 were real diverse, did you feel like, because you know, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.040 with the Brant prices in Manhattan are so crazy, it's 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.160 like insane. Sometimes I just get bored and go on 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.200 Zillo and just look at apartments in New York just 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.160 to see and I'm like, fuck, has there been like 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.840 a lot of gentrification in Harlem because it feels like 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.200 Harlem is still kind of like an extension of Manhattan, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.280 but it's probably a lot more affordab with a lot 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.080 of people been moving in in that area and shit, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.480 now it is it is. You know, we got it's 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.800 malls being built, you know, all kinds of things. So 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.200 you know, when things like that come into the community, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.960 they gentrified, you know what I mean, It makes things 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.760 more expensive one hundred percent. So like is it becoming 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.639 like a lot like least affordable to stay in your 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.800 own hood? Now? Yeah, they got they got these new buildings. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.840 They got a lot of new buildings being made, you know, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.160 like with a lot of amenities and stuff like that. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.360 So you know it was a very expensive. Yeah, I 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.600 see it changing. How long have you been rapping? I 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.560 want to say I took raps serious, like when I 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.639 was sixteen. I've been rapping way before that. I fell 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.440 in love with it like when I was nine, of course, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.800 or what made you fall in love with it? G Unit? 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.400 You know, the Unit was like a big influence to me. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.760 My dad used to sell like old school music, so 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.880 when I was a kid four three five years old, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.320 he would push me around while he sold this music. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.239 So he would tell like love like burn CDs type 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.400 shit he would sell. At the time, it was tapes. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.440 Then CDs came a little That's what I used to do. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.519 That's how I got my name. I used to be 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.480 at the Swat meet, was fucking CDs, mixtapes, all the 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.640 junet radio shit. I used to be fucking getting it in. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.960 So definitely pirrating a lot of people's music back in 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.200 the day before I was anybody. Well year it was done? 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:24.560 You said two thousand, uh four oh five oh six? Okay, CD? 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.880 That's like when did CDs come in? I don't even remember. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.760 I just remember the transition the nineties nineties, right, Yeah, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.880 it was the nineties. It was like, nah, it might 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:36.160 not have been in the nineties. It was early nineties. Yeah. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:37.520 When I was a kid, I had Dogs You Stay 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.360 on CD. No, I had it on tape, but then 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.720 I got it on CD and like, yeah, CDs was 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.240 like mid nineties because I had I bought uh, like, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.360 what what would you say, man, I bought a quimini 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.440 from Walmart. So it was probably like ninety seven where 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:55.560 it was like kind of like the norm ninety It 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.119 was like ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight was kind 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.480 of like because I remember buying CDs. I don't remember 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:07.040 many tapes, but Boys the Men in Bone. Yeah, well 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.600 look when CDs came out, people still kind of use 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.280 cassette tapes. Yeah, same thing with now people Like there's 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.080 still people who have CD books. I don't know who 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.760 they are. They don't even make college Like you know 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.960 what they say. Country music still sell CDs. So if 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.760 you go to Walmart ever, they still got CDs there, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.440 but it's all country. Yeah tough. I don't know. I 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.200 think some of them rednecks ain't smart enough to figure 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.360 out the streaming respective. I mean, it's probably still money 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.200 in there. Yeah. My car does not have a CD player, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:35.839 so it's like, what am I supposed to do with 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:43.760 this CDs in the eighties, it was mid nineties. It 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.200 was mid nineties for sure. Yeah, because I had like 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.440 a nice little CD book in like ninety eight, like tiny, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.279 little single page one, you know what I'm saying. CD 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.280 book was crazy, but had all that the worst part 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.000 was when someone broke into your car and jacked your 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.120 fucking CDs. That was it's like you lost your life. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.599 You ever had your CD stolen. 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So you know when I said a neighborhood whole, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.400 you know that's the impact I got on my neighborhood. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.680 You know the same how big you know Hope is 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.080 and what he mean of course to the game. Also, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.960 you know, I feel like my story related is you 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.880 know how it was hard for him to kind of 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.440 get a deal. You know, it wasn't really respecting what 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.760 he had going on and how he built this team 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.920 and group of people and just went crazy with it. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.200 I mean I see a lot of that and myself. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.560 So that's why I went with that. What was for you? Like? 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.960 Are you are you still independent? Like? What is your 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.280 label situation? So I'm with my knock now. You know 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.800 I got a product took over that monarch. Shout out 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.240 the monarch, you know what I mean? They you know, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.720 taking care of me. Did you find that it was 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.760 like hard for you to get a deal or get 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.040 a deal that you like, were comfortable with signing, because 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.480 I think like it you if you have any sort 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.280 of buzz, you could probably get some sort of situation, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.280 but the terms are probably terrible, right, Yeah, that's yeah, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.640 you say you said it the right way, like find 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.640 a deal that fit me, because you know, I did 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.440 so much alone already, so I just wanted to make 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.480 sure that whatever situation come, you know what I mean, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.280 they just add on to what I had going on, 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.760 and it makes sense as far as the business. So 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.960 you were pretty much strictly independent up until when I 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:41.120 want to say, yeah, this year, like recently ship what 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.240 is a I mean thighborhood. All that was done through 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.440 distribution just distro, Yeah, just distro. Wow, everything been you 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.080 know alone? What was the hard Like? You know, I 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.880 feel like there's gifts and curses to being fully independent. Yeah, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.160 you want to keep more of your money, but you 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.360 gotta also work a lot harder, to work a lot harder, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.160 and you know you just gotta you gotta Yeah, without 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.680 that machine, you gotta you gotta do a whole lot 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.000 more and I mean, I'm used to it now, you know, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.960 I've been doing it so long, So that's a beautiful thing. Man, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.800 who would you say were your biggest influences growing up? 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.320 You said G Unit obviously for sure, Dipset of course, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.600 you know I'm from Harlem. Yeah, just just THEMB really 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.840 dipsett in Unit Unit. That's why I watched you know 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.000 on TV. So if you had to go with one, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.559 if you had to, let's say you're on an island, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.199 you could only take all of the dip set discography 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.560 or all the G Unit discography mixtapes included, Which which 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.600 c D book are you taking? I'm not gonna be 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.120 politically correct and say hall them. I gotta go with 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.720 the Units made me do it. You gotta go get 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.400 rid of that trying man. Beg for Mercy. Beg for 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.120 Mercy was crazy, all the junior radios, and you can 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.960 include the documentary from the Game Into Day because that 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.360 was a G Unit album. Yep, Hunger for More, Hunger 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.280 for More was crazy, and even the Young buckshit, Yeah, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.000 Buck was hard. Now that I go back and I 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.880 listen to even the massacre, I feel like it's slept on. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.439 Of course, there's so much good fucking records on there. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.120 I feel like the massacre was like somehow doesn't get 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.880 enough respect because it wasn't as big as get rid 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.400 of that try. But I'm like, yo, there was some 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.880 real crazy rap shit on there. Ski Mask Way Baltimore 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:25.040 love Thing, shout out to motherfucking Physician of Power. Even 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.680 the what was the disc record he had Piggy Bank 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.400 was hard? Damn that ship was hard. Yeah, fifty was 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.079 flavoring back in the day. Have you been able to 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.599 meet him at all? Yeah? I mean every time I 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.120 see you, filf I take a pic with him, like 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.520 it's the first time. You know what I'm saying. I 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.000 just racked my fifty send picks up. Well, have you 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.160 tried for the future, No, not yet. I ain't even 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:45.640 I didn't even get a chance to really you know, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.760 kick it with him like how I wanted to. But 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.640 every time I see him, I left No, Like, yo, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.840 you're motivated me to do this ship right real. I 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.000 let him know that every time. 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And you know want to help me further 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.719 what I got going on. So I'll just be mowing that. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.640 I'll be on my own vibe. Help me under because 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.120 I think in New York obviously it's been a good 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.600 year for New York hip hop. Joey Badass put out 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:10.560 a great project, Obviously, the Griselda guys have been going crazy. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.160 Benny Conway obviously that's not New York City, it's Buffalo. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.360 But the drill scene is so big. Do you feel 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.480 like not being a drill artist right now and being 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.040 from New York has it's like nationally, do you feel 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.200 like it hurts you? I don't think so. I think that, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.080 you know what I do, I built a kind of 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.719 a fan base all over you know what I mean. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.480 I think if this was probably like five years ago 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.880 and this was going on, then maybe like if I'm 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.120 coming out and it's like, oh, you're doing this. But 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.280 I think I built enough of a fan base, you know, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.400 in different places that people still support what I got 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.480 to say. You know, what does your take on the 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.760 drill scene? Because it's pretty crazy, man, that's crazy. A 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.880 lot of dope music but also a lot of crazy shit. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.440 Like it's like some serious like man, I'm like, fuck man, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.680 these kids are like really that they all hang out 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.160 on the record. You know what I'm saying. I mean, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.400 I embrace it. I listened to it. I love because 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:05.920 I'm a fan of music. I'm a fan of what 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.840 they got going on. I mean, I feel like I 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.280 kind of play the role of, you know, the middle 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.480 when it comes to all that stuff, like I don't 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.120 yeah because you're younger. Yeah I'm young, but I got 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.240 it like a real mature Oh the soul. Yeah, you're 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.120 like somebody who the young kids could fuck with. But 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.720 also like if you're me and you're an old head, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.080 yeah I can appreciate it, nah, for sure. But I 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.800 played it. I played the kind of the role of, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.960 you know, embracing all of them. You know, they a 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.160 lot of them call me for advice and yeah, you 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.800 know what I mean, they come to the studio, you 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.320 know what I mean. I play that role with them. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.360 So I embrace it. I love it. I don't like 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.280 the violence, of course I don't. I don't like when 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.640 it go further than music because it's music. But you know, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.960 other than that, yeah, shout out to all the Jill rappers. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.280 Yeah that's important. Who all do you have on this 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.840 new album? I mean two chains and whiz Yeah. We 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.600 went heavy on this one. We got two chains, whiz, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.640 Selo selo green see green. Yeah, we got shild yeap tink. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.120 Shout out to man I every Scott one of the 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.360 most talented you know people in the game. Am I 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:09.120 missing anyone? Oh? Yeah, Benny, Bennie and Rayner Chef I 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.760 cannot record. Yeah, shout out Darren. You on the beat too, 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.800 for sure. Shout out to Bennie. Man I got, you know, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.880 every time I get on platforms, I gotta shout my 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.520 guy out and took me on tour with him. You 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.080 know what I mean. Give me a chance to you know, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.840 get off the block and ship my talent with the world. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.000 Benny and his team are great. Shout out to Jake. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.920 Shout out to Tony the Narrow. Shout to my guy, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.560 My guys, So you were on the road. Was Tony 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.120 the Narrow on the road with you? Tony? That's my brother. Yes, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.400 that's my Tony is just so yeah, that's my guys. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:38.640 And I could go on and on them. He's the 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.800 kind of guy I like, Yeah, we party together, that's 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.480 my We always have fun. Together and here and holding 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.720 nothing back any opportunity. Yo, I got this opportunity for you. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.520 Very unselfish. Yes, the whole cut super fire. Shout to Bennie. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.800 Shout out to them, and uh yeah, so ray Kwan Benny, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.560 you Darren your beat tough me. Wow. Yeah, I gotta 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.440 hear that. Yep, Yeah, we're gonna put it off. Yes, crazy. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.360 How did you end up working with Wiz? So? Shout 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.560 out the hit Maker. You know, him and hit got 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.080 a relationship. I had this song and I told him, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.840 I'm like, Yo, where is this sounds crazy? On this? 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.400 So he called him Whizz got it done, no problem. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.280 And when I finally got a chance to meet with 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.640 you know what I mean, it was love. We clicked instantly. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.960 He fucked with my vibe, I fuck with his and 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.080 that's my guy. Track to hit Maker. He produced a 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:33.600 song yep, yep, yeah, the executive produce producing. Wow, that's big, heavy, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.160 that's super big. How did that end up happening? He's 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.600 a great guy too, Shout yeah. I mean, man, hit 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.640 Maker is one of the most you know, hardest working 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.000 producers I've ever seen in my life. 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Yeah, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.600 so it was just like I said, like the same 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.080 thing with wiz Me and Hick click automatically and worked 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:34.800 from the first day I met him. Yeah, and he 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.479 just got some big records on him at all times 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:44.159 and for sure awards. Yeah, that's real. That's I'm surprised 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:45.800 to he tried to get you over to make a 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.199 sound imprint. I mean, yeah, that's family. I'm in make 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.840 it sound. I'm in yeah on the album shout a 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.040 Crazy album together. Ye would you say that like having 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:58.879 him involved kind of like put you in a position 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.359 to maybe have more commercial rec on this project. Yeah, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.520 So that's a that's the conversation I have, Like, you know, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.040 even with my brothers on the block or with my manager, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.800 I feel like this project right here was those songs, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.840 was the big songs. You know you heard my music. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.720