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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Boutleg keV Show. We got a special guest,

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Speaker 1: my guy Kyle is here. Man. Thank you keV, Thank

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Speaker 1: you keV. Yes, shouts out to keV Man. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: are we back to independent now? We're back to independent, bro,

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Speaker 1: which is how it all started. It's how it started.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's like, that's home for me, you feel me?

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Speaker 1: Independent is like that's comfortable. That's how I know operate best. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like you know, for people who don't know you,

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Speaker 1: kind of like there was like a cool wave of

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Speaker 1: like you guys like yourself. There was the guy who

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Speaker 1: looked like he should be in like a fifties movie

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Speaker 1: with the glasses. Uh, fucking gorgeous looking guy with the

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Speaker 1: hair you would make musical. No, no, he kind of

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Speaker 1: he was kind of like the GZ that didn't make it,

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Speaker 1: the GZ that didn't make it. Gorgeous looking guy front

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Speaker 1: of the fifties. Oh you mean do you why? D

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Speaker 1: you why? And then futuristic and like you know what

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Speaker 1: do you why? Though? Is actually he's doing he's doing

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Speaker 1: some cool ship. Yeah, he's doing his thing. Do I

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Speaker 1: do you? I? But I just remember like that it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like you know, like because I was real

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Speaker 1: cool with Futuristic at the time, and so like I

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Speaker 1: would kind of always see your shit and his shit,

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Speaker 1: and but like independently you kind of got it out

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Speaker 1: the mud. So you know, there's a lot been going

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Speaker 1: on with you, man. Yeah, yeah, what brought you back

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Speaker 1: to kind of leaving the major label system and getting

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Speaker 1: back to what you what you know best? You know what?

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Speaker 1: For me, it was like when when I when I

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Speaker 1: partnered with you know, a major, It was a cool

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Speaker 1: experience because it's like, damn, you know, you have his

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Speaker 1: budget for everything. Everything you're doing is coming out at

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Speaker 1: like the top tier things. But you start realizing pretty quickly,

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Speaker 1: like there's not much that they can do for your

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Speaker 1: music to like explode at this this expectation that they've

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Speaker 1: set you at now, you know what I mean. Like,

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Speaker 1: really all of my success was organic as fuck, you

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Speaker 1: feel me? Like my marketing advice from people I was

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Speaker 1: working with was to do this, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, well, you're getting paid for this, and

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Speaker 1: they're no shit, they're getting paid a lot for that,

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Speaker 1: you know, and and you got to recoup whatever they're

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Speaker 1: getting paid exactly. And so and it's no like shade

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Speaker 1: to them at all, because my time working with Atlantic

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Speaker 1: was awesome. But I just realized, I'm like, oh, financially,

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Speaker 1: it makes way more sense for me to just do

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Speaker 1: this thing myself, because that's all they're asking me to

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Speaker 1: do anyways, Just be you and hopefully something pops off.

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Speaker 1: But if it doesn't pop off, we're gonna be like disappointed,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And now it's like being independent.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting back to just making music because I think

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Speaker 1: it's cool, not because you're chasing. I'm chasing some sort

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Speaker 1: of smash and especially for me, the smash record they

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Speaker 1: want me to chase is like a diamond song, Like

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I cannot repeat that

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Speaker 1: success for you at the drop of a dime. And

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Speaker 1: also I don't want to spend the rest of my

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Speaker 1: career trying to repeat that for y'all, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. And then also like just all that goes

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Speaker 1: into that, right like like in the major label system,

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Speaker 1: they're going to force you into the studio of people

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Speaker 1: that you don't want to be with and all that,

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Speaker 1: and then they're going to maybe force the song to

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Speaker 1: drop that you might not feel crazy about. But then

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Speaker 1: they put all this fucking money behind it, and then

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Speaker 1: you're like, well, what what the fuck? Like I gotta

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Speaker 1: fucking that comes out of my fucking that you add

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Speaker 1: to my balance? Yeah, yeah, one one, that's adding to

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Speaker 1: my tab and then two it's like really and and me,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I'm really easy to work with, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm impressionable, right, Like I'm nice, I'm easy going, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like flowing with it. And now I'm noticing that

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Speaker 1: like the team I've built, you know, is sort of

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Speaker 1: pushing me in a direction that it's not necessarily good

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Speaker 1: for me. It's not healthy for me, you know, Like

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Speaker 1: it's not healthy for me as an artist. Like I

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Speaker 1: was put here to make music and to like honestly

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Speaker 1: go against the grain. It just so happened at this

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Speaker 1: one moment in time, me going against the grain became

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Speaker 1: the popular thing. But if you ask anybody who's ever

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Speaker 1: worked with me, I'm always in the studio trying to

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Speaker 1: do whatever is most left. That's just how I operate, right,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so when you have this whole building

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Speaker 1: behind you and it's like nah, we going left, They're like, no, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: fuck go right, man, go nah, I can't you know? Yeah? No?

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Speaker 1: Was it like because when you have a record like

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Speaker 1: I Spy, which is like, like you said, it's diamond,

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Speaker 1: It's not diamond, but it's going to be diamond. It's

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Speaker 1: like seven crazy going eight times insane and it streams

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Speaker 1: like two hundred and fifty million times a year. It's insane.

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Speaker 1: It's like one of those insane hit record anomalies. And

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Speaker 1: was it like a curse? And I mean, obviously you're

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Speaker 1: gonna love the money, you go love the head. That

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Speaker 1: shit put a lot of money in your pocket, But like,

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Speaker 1: is there a curse? That's the reason I can go independent.

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Speaker 1: I never need to be with I probably never need

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Speaker 1: to be with a major again because of that song.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing, And it's like that's where my

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Speaker 1: true joy is coming from, me being able to do

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Speaker 1: art the way I want to do it, not because

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Speaker 1: I do it to make money Financial Pillow exactly. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But do you think, like, just in terms of like

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Speaker 1: Atlantic's perspective, when that's like your first I mean, I

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Speaker 1: guess kind of your first record with them, If you

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Speaker 1: feel like and it's like a diamond song, it kind

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Speaker 1: of like the expectation now is like exactly, So it's

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Speaker 1: like no matter what and that, and you're like, yo,

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Speaker 1: I'm like an artist, I do like cool artistic shit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm like I got here for a reason, but now

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Speaker 1: I'm those guys are going to have you be like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we got to follow this up straight up. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I don't like take anything away from them

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Speaker 1: and what they're trying to do. I think just for me,

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Speaker 1: like the situation just no longer fits what makes what

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Speaker 1: brings me joy, and that's what life is about. You

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Speaker 1: feel me having as much joy as possible until you

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Speaker 1: finally are no longer here, and I think, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: just didn't add up for bringing me joy anymore, because

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Speaker 1: it's like y'all, one, you're like, our idea for how

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Speaker 1: to pop this off is just to me to shoot tiktoks,

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Speaker 1: like I can do that all my own straight up,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the advice. Thank you for the advice. Then two,

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Speaker 1: it's like okay, yeah, that that song that y'all want

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Speaker 1: me to follow up is like a once sent a

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Speaker 1: generational song, Like, so I can't dedicate the next five

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Speaker 1: Like I said, like now we're going left fucking God

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Speaker 1: please right, Nah, I can't. It felt like there was

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Speaker 1: a couple of records that you dropped that like felt

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Speaker 1: very forced. Yeah, you know, and I I agree. The

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Speaker 1: thing is with me, I can kind of make any

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Speaker 1: kind of genre of music, right, And that's not like

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Speaker 1: trying to big myself up too much. It's just the truth,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, like I can go in the

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Speaker 1: So like I'm always down to try some shit. But

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Speaker 1: not how our is supposed to be. Made you feel

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Speaker 1: me like Quincy Jones told me, And it's the truest thing.

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Speaker 1: The moment you're in the studio and you start thinking

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Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about. God gets up and leaves,

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Speaker 1: And if God is not in there making songs with you,

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Speaker 1: what makes you think it's gonna be hard. It's not.

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Speaker 1: Everything that's fire in the world is fire because God

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Speaker 1: helped it be lit like that, Like, if he's not

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Speaker 1: just some of those records, I felt like, we're we're

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Speaker 1: And it also like obviously the situation was probably very

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Speaker 1: there is a notoriety that comes with that. There is

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Speaker 1: a you know, and I feel invisible and like, you know, shit,

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Speaker 1: you got into the acting game. The Netflix movie was

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Speaker 1: super dope. Yeah, I'm just trying to remember that. I

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Speaker 1: just remember you puked yes after party after parting. That

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Speaker 1: shit was great. It was like realistic too. It was

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Speaker 1: But the only thing is it was really close to

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Speaker 1: my life. But I think that was just the star

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Speaker 1: as aligning. Like the kids supposed to be maxed that's

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Speaker 1: one thing. Like his dad's supposed to be in the Marines,

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Speaker 1: you gonna be doing more acting and stuff? Like yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: hell yeah I did. I was. I was lucky enough

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Speaker 1: to be in this uh Russo Brothers movie called Cherry

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Speaker 1: Fire starring uh yeah, starring Tom Holland, Michael Gandalafini, Sierra Bravos,

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Speaker 1: the two named Forrest Good like Spider Man's in it.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, I mean the movie's already out.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen this. Yeah, it's already came out of

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Speaker 1: Apple and by the way, Tom, That's why, because who's

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Speaker 1: got my dog? My dog? Shout out to Apple plus

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Speaker 1: ted Lasso's gas. Yeah, ted Lasso's Hey, Cherry's gas. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna check it out my free my free Uh what

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Speaker 1: was it? The free trial ran out? So I was like,

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Speaker 1: all right, well I knocked out ted Lasso. Now I

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Speaker 1: gotta sign up. I'm too busy watching you get a

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Speaker 1: fire stick and just call it a day, bro, Just

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Speaker 1: go on, bro, I got over that ship. Cody trying

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Speaker 1: to link sloading being all fucking slow. I'm like, dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pay for everything. What am I doing?

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Speaker 1: You'd be like thirty minutes into a fucking bootleg link

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Speaker 1: on your hacked fire stick and this ship would freeze.

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Speaker 1: You'd have to find a new link. It was not

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Speaker 1: for sure, pay for the ship, man. Just just pay

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Speaker 1: for keV. You got it, bro keV, you have it,

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Speaker 1: you got it. I have every everything else. So I'm

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Speaker 1: a fucking paramount. Plus watching Apple plus Yellowstone right now,

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Speaker 1: get Apple plus you watch Yellowstone. I do. It's it's tight.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the real it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: the real, like cowboy version of succession. That's all it's

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Speaker 1: succession with like guns and more alcohol. That's like, that's

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Speaker 1: Dunton is a fucking gangster ass bitch. She's lit. She's lit.

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Speaker 1: so bad. Like it's not so bad. There's a bunch

418
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,480
Speaker 1: like I'm in this situation with this label that I

419
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,879
Speaker 1: don't like, you know, Like it's like I can't promote

420
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 1: myself or do anything in the middle of the pandemic.

421
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,120
Speaker 1: I'll know what to do. But I started focusing on

422
00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 1: things that just genuinely brought me joy, and I started

423
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: realizing how much I don't need this situation with this label,

424
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: how much I don't need all this promotion and you know,

425
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 1: and this tours and these festivals and these things I

426
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: thought were completing my life so much. It's like, no,

427
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,280
Speaker 1: I need to like make music and have fun, and

428
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: I need to remind people that all they need is joy, right,

429
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,639
Speaker 1: And so that was that was a meaning behind the title.

430
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 1: It's just a word of affirmation that was helping me.

431
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: And then with that, when I started making an album,

432
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 1: it was like this low fi album and like it

433
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 1: was sad shit. It was like beats to study too.

434
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,119
Speaker 1: I was for real interest music. I just throw that

435
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: shit on. There's like like one where like Homer's yeah

436
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, so but I'm in there were like top

437
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 1: tier producers like playing like low fi beats, like yeah,

438
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: were about to do this shit. They has like two

439
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 1: sounds in it. They're looking at me like no, we're not,

440
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 1: you know, but I was really I was really like

441
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: on that. And then I realized, like, bro, that's not

442
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,919
Speaker 1: the superhero version of yourself that you claim to be,

443
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,919
Speaker 1: you know, like you claim to be somebody who's going

444
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: to help somebody forget about their worries and about their

445
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,440
Speaker 1: shit and like, look on the brighter side. So don't

446
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,640
Speaker 1: you dare drop this sad ass album in the middle

447
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: of all this sad ass shit, bro. And so I

448
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 1: went up. I left La. I went to Miami because

449
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 1: La just was like so sad at the time. We

450
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: really took COVID. Not that we took it serious, because

451
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 1: we should all take it serious, but we kind of

452
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: took it overboard, yeah a little bit, you know, a

453
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,680
Speaker 1: little bit. We took it a little overboard, and Miami

454
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: was kind of doing a complete opposite. I went to Miami.

455
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: I was like, this is amazing. Yeah, me too. I

456
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: was like that, I feel like life is normal again.

457
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: Straight up. Life was normal out there, and it just

458
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: was like kind of like an escape for me. And

459
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: I went out there and I made as much turned

460
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,919
Speaker 1: happy music as I could, and I did it in

461
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 1: an environment where I had fifteen people in the studio,

462
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: which I never do, right, And that's why when I

463
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 1: hear this album, I'll go out to the club or

464
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: something like that, which I never fucking do anyways. But

465
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,199
Speaker 1: then I'll go out there and I'll hear it played

466
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: with all this other exciting music and it fits right

467
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 1: in for the first time, you know, because a lot

468
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,439
Speaker 1: of my music is always so personal and so just

469
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: me by my side studio. This shit is vibing because

470
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: I did it with like fifteen people in the studio, Like, Hey,

471
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,679
Speaker 1: what's up? Y'all. I'm Kyle. I don't know none of y'all,

472
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: but I need to have a really good time right

473
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: now because like it sucks back home. Let's make an album.

474
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,199
Speaker 1: And that's sort of how we did it, you know.

475
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: That's how I've been in the studio with Game a

476
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: few times last month, and there's a lot of fucking

477
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 1: people in there, man, rappers be operating. No, No, I've

478
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 1: been to a lot of sessions over the years. I

479
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: mean maybe thousands, not a thousand, maybe a thousand, maybe

480
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 1: like five hundred. But if you've been to thousands of sessions,

481
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, were like I have a couple

482
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: of artists I work for a week, but like the

483
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: Game had like a legitimate, like fifty sixty people in

484
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 1: the studio, and I wanted to guess I was gonna

485
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: be like it was a lot bro Yeah, and like

486
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: maybe like five of them were actually contributing to like

487
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: the music. Yeah, people hitting houka, fucking drinking. Like I'm like,

488
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: this ship is fucking crazy. It's like playoffs in here. Yeah,

489
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: the fuck is going to see there's a path look

490
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: for me. Like I always thought that that shit was weird,

491
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: but I thought it I think it adds, like for him,

492
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: like wherever he is creatively right now, Like that's like

493
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: that now it is juice. It helps because like yeah,

494
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: like for me, like I always thought that she was weird.

495
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, how the fuck can y'all focus about like

496
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: telling like this really personal story in front of all

497
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: these people? And that's the key though, Like when you

498
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: have other people in there and music is loud on

499
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: two big ass speakers, everything you're doing is impacting their mood.

500
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: So if you turn around and you see these sixty

501
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: people all just fucking chilling on their phone, like you know,

502
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: if their vibe is fucked up, that's because the music

503
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: you're making is not geared for entertaining large amounts of

504
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: people at once, you know. So it's like a cheat

505
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: code kind of in a way, Like you need to

506
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: have other people in there and you captivate their vibe.

507
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: Like my fiance she's a DJ, right, and the homie

508
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: that an r this project, just Demmy, is a DJ,

509
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: and so I have them set up in the lobby

510
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: right with two big ass speakers and mixers. Now y'all

511
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 1: are going DJ in the lobby, And so when people

512
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: walk in to the studio. Yes, wow, people, Keaton is

513
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: making them a drink. Right, every sixty minutes, everybody in

514
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: the studio needs to take a shot. This is a rule.

515
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 1: If you're not taking this shot, you're leaving, you know

516
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 1: what I mean, unless for whatever reason you don't drink.

517
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: It's party religion something like that. But they're gonna take

518
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: the shot because we're making party music. We're making music

519
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: to help people forget about their problems. So if you

520
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: don't want to be in here where the studio is at,

521
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: well we're making in the lobby. There's loud ass music

522
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: and you're taking a shot out there too, So everybody

523
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: is entering this sort of zone of like this is

524
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: a party, you know. Side note, I wish it was

525
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: kind of the SoundCloud days because you could just throw

526
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: the lo Fi album out just to just just to see,

527
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: just like yo, let's I mean, the LOFA album is there.

528
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: I could put it out like I right, I can

529
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: literally do me a hardcore like fans are gonna be

530
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: in the comments like, yo, we want to hear the

531
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: fucking Lofi album. Man, I'm be like, I'll give it

532
00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: to y'all. It's sad, yes, but you know, do you

533
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: feel like now that like, you know, because when you

534
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: were independent, the industry was way different, right, Like it'd

535
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: be fair to say that you built a lot of

536
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 1: your following on YouTube, right straight up? Yeah, yeah, but

537
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,239
Speaker 1: like just in general, you know, back then it was

538
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: you could still purchase stuff on iTunes. They're streaming wasn't

539
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: as big in what that was like what twenty thirteen twelve?

540
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: Being independent now that the industry has changed so much,

541
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: is like are you having to still kind of I mean,

542
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: you know the music industry. You have very smart people

543
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: around you, but like, what are the things that you're

544
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: practicing now to try to kind of repeat the success

545
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: that you had, you know back then. That's a really

546
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: good question. I think the industry has changed big time.

547
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: I think back in the day, it was about like

548
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: brand personality on YouTube, right because the YouTube is a

549
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 1: video of this guy. Do we think this guy is cool?

550
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: What's his story, what's he look like, what's he from?

551
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: You know, like you capture all these things and everybody

552
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 1: so heavily on YouTube, and now in the streaming era,

553
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of more like, all right, does this sound

554
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: out of these fifty thousand songs? I listen to does

555
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: it capture me? And so I think the name of

556
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: the game now is really focusing on your micro fan base,

557
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: right you them? Yeah, your fan base is this? My

558
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: fan base is this, Like I'm a very famous person,

559
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: Like I walk your monthly listeners are fucking huge on

560
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: spot when I walk down the street, Like people are

561
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: going to recognize me type shit. Now, dually, you're also

562
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: very unique. People are like, oh, it's the guy with

563
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: the great hair. That is what I'm talking about. Ya,

564
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: So it's here and then, But I can't focus on

565
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: this in today's world, right, I have to focus on this,

566
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: this smaller amount of people that are really into everything

567
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: I do. I engaged, engaged, I need to super serve them.

568
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: They're buying merch there, they're buying everything, They're keeping things afloat.

569
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: I need to super serve them. And as I'm super

570
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: serving them, something will raise its hand and then appeal

571
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: to all these people. That's how you do it. And

572
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I notice in today's independent game

573
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: because the music is easy to make. The music don't

574
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: cost nothing to make, you know, So it's about dropping

575
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: as much quality product as you can to these people

576
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: who fuck with you and then kind of the something

577
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: breaks out of that awesome then you're on. Yeah, but

578
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: those people are gonna be keep your lights on. They're

579
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: gonna exact bills. I would tell every artist that, I'm like, yo,

580
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: if you've got a core fucking fan base, like feed

581
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 1: them what they want and then something's gonna break through. Exactly.

582
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: You're independent, like it only makes sense. Like you know,

583
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the name of the

584
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: game is to support yourself off of music, straight up,

585
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: support yourself off of songs. And in the streaming world,

586
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: that's what you do. You upload the song and he

587
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: immediately starts paying you. In the YouTube world where I

588
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: came from, it's like, no, you build as big of

589
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: a brand as you can and you go on tour

590
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: and that's what pays you. Music didn't pay nobody, right,

591
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: you know. So now it's like, and these people love you,

592
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: they'll listen to everything, so give them is much as

593
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: possible in tapping with them, like I'm on Patreon, I'm

594
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: on Twitch, I'm on Patreon, Discord, I'm on all that

595
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: shit because these people, me and them, we are friends.

596
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: I haven't heard of many artists on Patreon, so kind

597
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: of because obviously in the podcast space, it's a lot

598
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: of podcasts creators that go on Patreon. It's kind of

599
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: like only fans, but without Pussy and Titch exactly. Yeah,

600
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: it's only fans with I would be a hyper sexualized yr.

601
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: So like if you you know, like if you have

602
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: a Doupe podcast, you might some people will have be

603
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: on Patreon and they might do a bonus episode. Yeah,

604
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: they might have, Like you might get the episode before

605
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: everyone else, type, shit, how do you use it? So

606
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: what I do is I just give them the music first.

607
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: If I have a song that's coming out next month,

608
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: they have it right now, you know, like not for nothing.

609
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: And I know this is gonna piss people off. They

610
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: had the album like a day and a half in advance,

611
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: the whole thing, every song, mastered, the whole shit, and

612
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: I gave it to them first. I'm not getting none

613
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: of them plays recorded. I'm not none of that. You know,

614
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: those streams aren't counting for anything except for their excitement

615
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: and their enjoyment. So I try to give them as

616
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: much as possible first. And you're monetizing that probably at

617
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: a better rate. There, you're monetizing streams damn yeah straight up. Yeah, fact,

618
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: like yeah, fuck the streams, like these people are paying

619
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: how much you charge a month? Five dollars a month? Yeah?

620
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: Is there different tiers or just one? There's different tiers,

621
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: So what's the highest tier? I believe the highest tier

622
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: is fifteen dollars I think, And it just comes with

623
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: higher levels of access, you know, more shit I can

624
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: give you before I can give it to anybody else.

625
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: That's big. Get enough people doing that, there's you know,

626
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: you get enough people doing that, and once again, you

627
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about taking no advance from nobody,

628
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, being in some shitty loan situation. And really

629
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Speaker 1: really what it was for me too is realizing, oh,

630
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: I'm massively successful in music, right, Like I Spibe is

631
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: a billion something stream song, you know, maybe going towards

632
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Speaker 1: two or some shit like that. You know, playing with

633
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Speaker 1: me as like was five hundred million streams, Like Hey

634
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Speaker 1: Julie is another Golder platinum record. Like there's massive success.

635
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: But in order for me to be truly like rich

636
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: as fuck, I need to be doing all that shit

637
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: independently by myself. You know, it's real. That's how you

638
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: actually reach like masterpiece status or somebody like that who's

639
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: genuinely wealthy off their music. You need to just do

640
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: it yourself. And in today's world, I have these people

641
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: who are supporting me, who love me, my homies right this,

642
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: my family, who're gonna keep things afloat no matter what,

643
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: whether I'm up down sideways. And then I have all

644
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,840
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645
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: I'm having to go through, all this yellow tape. I

646
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,320
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647
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648
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,360
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649
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650
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673
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: like we just saw. I mean, there's been a lot

674
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: of people just not even Atlantic, but just specifically, like

675
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: the major label game is, like there's a reason why

676
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: companies like Empire are thriving. And you know some of

677
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: these distro companies that offer label services because they're giving

678
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: you like a serious, like, shit, you got more of

679
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: the chunk of the pie than anyone then them, and

680
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: that's how it should be. That's and I would say too, sorry,

681
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: I'll get your finish go ahead. I would say too,

682
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: I'm not anti like company, you know what I mean.

683
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm anti royalty shares and master ownings being so in

684
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: favor of this company for you to essentially still do

685
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: all the work. Yeah, because there's people who like, you know,

686
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: if you do a major label deal and they give

687
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: you thirteen percent of your album, that's like amazing, that's

688
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: like whoa. People are like, oh, you're killing it. But

689
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: that's like not even a norm. Like some people like

690
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: they'd be lucky to get eight points on their own shit,

691
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: which is crazy. If you get smacked like that, I would.

692
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: You're now you're pulling up to the office ready to

693
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: It's like what do we do well? You know, like

694
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: yg just talked about it on the Bronze Shit, he

695
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: was on the Bronze HBO show and he was saying

696
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: how he's never made he's never got a check off

697
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: his royalty yet, Like his whole career is crazy. It's

698
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: just advance, advance, advance man, And that's cap because that

699
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: shit is crazy, bro, because when I think about somebody

700
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: like YG, like me being from southern California has been

701
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 1: a literal staple in my like young adult life since

702
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: I was like fifteen, for sure, right since I was

703
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: a child, like we wanted to dress like YG, listen

704
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: to YG, b like YG. For somebody to be that

705
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: successful for so long and still never gotten a royalty thing, like,

706
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: it's fucking so ridiculous because as rich as he is,

707
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: he's had to have made them ten times. It's just

708
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: that it's that advanced thing, right, It's like, Okay, if

709
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: I turn in an album, I get, you know, whatever

710
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: you worked out individually, you know. So it's like some people,

711
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think. I think like the industry

712
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: is starting to smarten up. Artists are starting to realize,

713
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: like I know some people who will just pass on

714
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: the advance and be like, no, I'm good, like you know,

715
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: do the service. Yeah yeah, no, it's crazy. So that's dope.

716
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: So are you just doing straight tune core, straight distro

717
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: kid or not? So we're doing so I'm like still uploading, yeah,

718
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: uploading things through like distro Kid and stuff like that.

719
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: But still I'm working with a company that's really just

720
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: my managers and it's independent and they're they're my managers. Yeah,

721
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: and they're pitching to Spotify and pitching to playlists and

722
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: shit like that, and that's all we're doing. That's dope.

723
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: That And then all the same services that like a

724
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: major company was doing or hiring out. I'm just going

725
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: to those people because you solo and hiring them myself. Right,

726
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: I'm hiring the press team, hiring the digital marketing team,

727
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: like there's still a team around, but there's no reason

728
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 1: why you can't pay for it for yourself. Also, hello,

729
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: not even a major label can guarantee a spot on

730
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: a fucking playlist. All they can do is fucking pitch

731
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: it as well. Now they might these people might listen

732
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, well, they listen way stronger.

733
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: I'll say that I'll do with even me putting this

734
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: album out, I'm like, oh, y'all are listening way stronger

735
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: to that. Like, like I said, I think all companies,

736
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: I think that they're awesome. I just think that what

737
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: they do is awesome. I just think that the business

738
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: needs to be way more in favor of the artists

739
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: because so much of the job is way more on

740
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: the shoulder of the artist. All I gotta go on

741
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: Instagram and make the ship. You gotta be fucking on TikTok.

742
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 1: You gotta be you gotta do everything, and then they're

743
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: just gonna come through with a canister gasoline. And then

744
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: once you have the fire, Once you have the fire,

745
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: you got to start to fire yourself, exactly. So when

746
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: I was just like, if I got to start to

747
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: fire myself, my gym and needs some more this money, exactly,

748
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: And if I start to fire myself, I'll just go

749
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: fuck with somebody else and just be like, oh look

750
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: I got this fire, Now put some gasoline on it.

751
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: For this this is what I'm offering you a fraction

752
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: of the thing to put the gasoline on it. And

753
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: that's make it make sense. But you got to get

754
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: out of that first situation to even have the power

755
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: to do that. You know, I'm really not anti company,

756
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm anti the business of how much they're taking on

757
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: it Was it easy for you to break away? Like

758
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: did you just fulfill your contractual obligations or did you

759
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: ask to leave? I asked to leave, and it's and

760
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: it's and it was it was easy to break away because,

761
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: like I said, the people there like like we have

762
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: a good relationship, Like I love them, they love me.

763
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: And it was always easy to work. It was never

764
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: like static, Like I never had like let me a

765
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: fuck the label moment. I never did that because they're people.

766
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: They're people doing their jobs. You know, that's it. They're

767
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: really just people doing their jobs. Just the business of

768
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: it wasn't right. So I'm like, yo, you know. And

769
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: by the way, my song was so massive that my

770
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: fucking advance checks are crazy. So do y'all really want

771
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: to do? You want me to turn another album? And

772
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: you want me to turn me another album and you

773
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: come me to this bat ass check? What do you

774
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: want to do? You know what I mean? Because and

775
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 1: I was also kind of like making low five music

776
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: at the time, probably like look y'all want this now

777
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: fire album or what? Yeah? Nah, we don't actually, And

778
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: it's cool because I kind of want to move on too,

779
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: So it's like it's love. You know. It was good.

780
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: It was It was actually really seemless, really easy. That's dope, man. Yeah,

781
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: Well the albums I've heard horror stories. Are you doing

782
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: anything else that you could talk about coming up? Yeah, bro.

783
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, yeah, album is out. It's

784
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: the hottest album of the year. Okay, it's just listen.

785
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean it is January, it's February. So far we

786
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: got the hottest album. And yeah, I'm going on tour

787
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: for this album and the tour starts in March. So

788
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: are you excited to get back on the road. Fuck, yeah,

789
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 1: I'm excited to. I'm excited to just see the people

790
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: when they went back to the music and I haven't

791
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: done that so long. And like, as you noted from

792
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: like twenty twelve, it is kind of when I started

793
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: my independent grind that whole time was just supported by

794
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: like ten people, thirty people, one hundred people, four hundred people,

795
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: a thousand people, five thousand people, forty thousand people out

796
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: of show who are connecting, like, and your live show

797
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: is dope as fuck, Like I think the first well,

798
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: I feel like I might have saw you a south By.

799
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: I think we first. I don't know when we first met.

800
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: It was like twenty twelve or twenty thirteen. I think

801
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: it was south By, But there was a when you

802
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: opened up for g on which tour was that that

803
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: was the uh you had like inflatables and the uh

804
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: these things happened to her and I had these big

805
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: ass palm tree and yes, yeah on the boogie board.

806
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: Yeah you came out on the boogie board. Yeah yeah, yep, yep.

807
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just I mean, congrats. The tours March March.

808
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: How many dates? I think it's like thirty dates. Oh shit,

809
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: you're out here, bro, come on, man, man, it's in

810
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: a while because it's what been at least two and

811
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: a half three years on the road. Three Yeah, at

812
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: this point, it's been three and a half years since

813
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: I've been on the road, which is kind of like

814
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: a fucking time for text portal. You know, it's almost

815
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: like my career. I'm doing have like a career, I'm

816
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: doing my thing. It's like going, then COVID happens and

817
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: fast forward three it's like three years up and disappeared.

818
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: Do you know do you find it easier now? Because like,

819
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: you're someone who came up with a cult following. I

820
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes when you have as much success as

821
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: you had with a record, it's easy to kind of

822
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: deviate away from like those people you were talking about. Yeah,

823
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: did you feel like I've seen it happen with a

824
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: lot of artists, right, Like I don't want say names,

825
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: but you know people who just had huge records, but

826
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: they kind of came up a certain way. Did you

827
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: feel like it was a little bit harder for you

828
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: to kind of super serve your like og hardcore fan. Yeah,

829
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: you know what It's like, this is a perfect analogy.

830
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: It's like, imagine you throw a party, right and you're

831
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: all there and it's a party and everybody loves it.

832
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: We have this, we have this Kyle super Duver Gang

833
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: party going on, and it just those people are there,

834
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: and then somebody leaks to address and then twenty thousand

835
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: motherfuckers show up and then you and now all these

836
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: people are in the party and you have to pour

837
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: all of them drinks, and like it seems like to

838
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: your core fan base, like, oh, maybe he doesn't care

839
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: about us as much, because when they come to the

840
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: Kyle concert now now the same way you said the

841
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: RAMS bros Are coming to the Rams game. When they're there,

842
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: now their shoulder to shoulder with the Kyle brothers fucking

843
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: going exactly. So I think that it's not that it

844
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: was hard to super serve them. I mean, well, it

845
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: was because there's yellow tape. I got to go through

846
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: with the records I'm releasing and all this shit. So

847
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: I think it was a little harder to connect with them,

848
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: just them. But that's what's so great about to play

849
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,959
Speaker 1: something right now. I feel like I'm back to like, Hey,

850
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: what's up y'all? Oh my god, that was a blur

851
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: at COVID all that shit. Like I love y'all and

852
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: I love you guys for letting me just make music

853
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: and be me. I'm so ready to do that with

854
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: y'all again, you know what I mean. That's dope. Well

855
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: there it is. Man, appreciate you pulling up. Go get go,

856
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: go check out the album. Check out the album. It's

857
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: not so bad. It's out right now. Tom Holland a

858
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: nice guy. Tom Holland is that's my homie, shouts out Tom.

859
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: He is the coolest. That's like your peeps. Huh that's

860
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: my dog. Yeah, he's great. Like I hang out with

861
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: him and in Day at the same time. You know what,

862
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: I actually only kicked it with in Day once. It

863
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: was at his It was at his uh. He had

864
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: like it was like a movie. After it was like

865
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: a really really tiny, little gathering, but I got like

866
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: super lit so nice. I think I embarrassed myself. Actually,

867
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: I think I like tried to get on a table

868
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: and perform my sp or some ship. It was like, Yo,

869
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: you guys want me to do I spy because I'm here, Yeah,

870
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: do it. Hey, I'll be here by the way. The

871
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: song right, yeah, y'all know the song. Yeah. I was

872
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: like smashed, so yeah, but now he's he's great. Every

873
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: time I'm in London, he shows me a good time.

874
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: And like at a best Buy in Atlanta, no way. Yeah.

875
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: She was in line in front of me and she

876
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: had this really tiny, little white security guard but he

877
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: looked like he's a murderer. Yeah that's that real. That's

878
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: how you know you're cracking. Security guard looked like a

879
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: normal bro. But I was like, uh. I was like

880
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: I just finished like euphoria and I was like, hey,

881
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: he's a day I fuck. Would you like? Yeah, they

882
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: should give you a fucking Emmy for that ship, you know.

883
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, thank you, thank you. I was like,

884
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: all right, we'll go buy your hard drive. Yeah yeah,

885
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: there it is. Man. Shout out to the Hoummy Kyle.

886
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: Go check the album out. Bulet Cash Show boom, Let's

887
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: Gone fire,