1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Big Bang. You don't be on nothing. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 2: I be on okay, So let me ask Big. 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 3: Nick right now. 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 4: Visit the new website today, Big factspod dot com dot com. 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: What's up, my brother? How you feeling? 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 3: I'm good. How you doing? 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: Man? 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 5: You you're stacking up a lot of wins. We're gonna 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 5: talk about the wins when we actually we're gonna start 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 5: this conversation by talking to you about you know, you 11 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 5: got a strong hold on the females. 12 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: Man. You got a big female fan base. 13 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 6: Man? 14 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: Is that is that by accident or design? 15 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 4: I mean I kind of I grew up with all women, 16 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 4: so like I do it's like subconsciously. I don't think 17 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 4: I do it on purpose, but I do it like subconsciously. 18 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 4: I was in another interview, I was I think I 19 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 4: was a gilly. I was telling them like how I 20 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 4: used to like I used to have a problem with 21 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 4: like women authority, like when I was younger, and then 22 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 4: like I had to grow out of it, like kind 23 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 4: of like my daddy used to just be telling me 24 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 4: I got like one mama and stuff like that. And 25 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 4: then because I had like resentment towards my mom because 26 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 4: she like it was like once another man came in 27 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 4: her life and stuff, it was like I ain't want 28 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 4: to share. So then yeah, when I got older, it 29 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 4: was just like I had to learn that my mama 30 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 4: needed a life too. But I was always taught to 31 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 4: like respect women, protect, provide stuff like that, So it was. 32 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 7: Like, but you kind of felt like like y'all were 33 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 7: all y'all had, and she didn't really have any business 34 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 7: including anybody else in. 35 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 3: That mixed fact. 36 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, because I grew up it was me, my mom 37 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 4: and my sisters for the lonestly Like yeah, like and 38 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 4: I'm the baby though, but I'm the only boy. I'm 39 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 4: an old boy in the house. So like I had 40 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 4: to move with my dad to teach me like certain 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 4: values because you can't get it from a woman, Like, yeah, 42 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 4: a woman can't teach you how to be a man, 43 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 4: so a certain extent, Yeah, you're right, Yeah, Like it's 44 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 4: just certain things men can do that you can teach 45 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 4: a man that a woman would never be able to 46 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 4: relate to because she's not a she's not a man. 47 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 4: So it's like certain certain habits and stuff I was 48 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 4: picking up. It was kind of girly and stuff like 49 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 4: that that my dad just wasn't having it like you 50 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 4: feel me. So, yeah, I just moved my dad. I 51 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 4: got certain values from that and I appreciate it. 52 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: So how do you feel about it? 53 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 7: When people say or like make the A lot of 54 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 7: men that grow up in single parent households raised by 55 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 7: women are kind of bitchy and kind of bitchy. 56 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think it's stereotypes really are it'd be. 57 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: Some emotional more emotional certain stuff. 58 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 3: Just to it. 59 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 4: Because you got to think like as a kid, when 60 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 4: you're growing up, you a sponge. 61 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 3: You don't know what you you don't know, you don't know. 62 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 4: What life is. All things like even that's learned behavior. 63 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 4: That ain't something that you know coming out the womb. 64 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 4: Like I want to be racist. If I come out 65 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 4: the womb and my mama told me you always evil 66 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 4: and y' always against everything we stood for, I would 67 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 4: believe that because of everything. I think your parents like 68 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 4: God to you like, so all that's learned behavior. So 69 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 4: even if for men, if he's growing up with. 70 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 3: All girls, that's that's. 71 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: Why I was trying to That's why you had to live. 72 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, Like certain tendencies you're gonna pick up, Like like 73 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 4: if I stay in the South too long, I'm gonna 74 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 4: have an accent exactly. So if I'm if a baby 75 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 4: is around women, young men is around women too much, 76 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 4: he gonna pick up those certain values that they just 77 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 4: have naturally and they ain't even trying to push it 78 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 4: off on them. 79 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:47,839 Speaker 3: But that's just them being a woman. And that's all, 80 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: you know, That's. 81 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: Just an environment. 82 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 8: Hey, Outside of that, what's some things you feel like 83 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 8: you had to unlearn along the way, just you know 84 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 8: what I'm saying. Some you know how we create habits 85 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 8: within ourselveom not knowing what's some things that you grew 86 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 8: old and you like, man, I gotta I can't do 87 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 8: that no more. 88 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: I was. 89 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 4: I was content for a long time, Like I was 90 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 4: just content with like life and stuff like that. But 91 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 4: now I'm like, I'm just more intuitive and I'm ana 92 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 4: go get her. Just like for the longest I felt 93 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 4: entitlement and stuff like that, I had to grow out 94 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 4: of that and stuff like that. So that's certain certain 95 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 4: things like that I just had to grow out of it. 96 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 5: So it's skill a baby. This is from an old 97 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 5: rant I think you did on Twitter. I don't know 98 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 5: if he was playing a serious or whatever. The case is, 99 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 5: are you anti bbls when it comes to the females. 100 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: I like women exactly how they are. 101 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 4: I don't really trip like if I like you, it'd 102 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 4: be more like it'd be more or less I'm a 103 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 4: because you can look the best in the world to me, 104 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 4: and you can irritate my soul, so I wouldn't even 105 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 4: want to be around you. 106 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 3: So it's not really like. 107 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 4: It's not really like, of course, like the first first 108 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 4: meeting a person. 109 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 3: You'd be like, damn, she looked good, like you feel me. 110 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 4: I don't got like I didn't talk to girls without bbls, 111 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 4: I didn't talk to girls with bbl's or it ain't 112 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 4: like that's a requirement for to talk to me, you know, 113 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 4: I just like off the first five minutes. I probably 114 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 4: know if I like you, you probably talking about something I 115 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 4: don't even want to talk about. 116 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 7: And then speaking of like your major connection with women. 117 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 7: You recently collaborated with Tayana Taylor for creative direction. 118 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: How did that come about? And how is that going? 119 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 4: I DMed her because I just hearing about how talented 120 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 4: she is. I saw her Usher tribute. I be paying attention, 121 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 4: I be studying music like you know people's declines, people 122 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 4: uphills like you know, so I'll just be paying attention 123 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 4: of what can take me to the next level. Like 124 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 4: I ain't one of them people that just feel like 125 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 4: I can do it all. 126 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 3: I would rather be helped. 127 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're gonna go far like that. 128 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 3: I just rather be helped. 129 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 4: I see she worked with a lot of people, and 130 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 4: I see her creative direction. It takes people up here. 131 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 4: I've never seen it, like nobody decline. 132 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 3: That's what. That's all right, that's all right? 133 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 5: What is because what what? What defines a bad chick? 134 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 5: What makes a bad chick bad? What puts the bad 135 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 5: in bad chick? 136 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 4: To skill a baby me, I just like real women, 137 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 4: I want something soft. I don't really want nothing that 138 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,559 Speaker 4: want to be a street And you're like, I won't 139 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 4: like you feel me. I didn't been in the streets 140 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 4: my whole life, So. 141 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 5: It was like a female is like sliding a ride 142 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 5: into some like street shit, some hardcore street that's a 143 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 5: turnoff for you. 144 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 3: No, that ain't no turnoff. What you like is what 145 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 3: you like. 146 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 4: But like, just don't be in a mix, like you 147 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 4: ain't gotta be a you ain't got to do the 148 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 4: same shit I'm doing being. 149 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 3: Outside doing all that, Like I ain't really into that. 150 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 4: I like, no, I just like coming home to a 151 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 4: lady that cook clean, play in my hair, like baby me. 152 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 3: I want to be baby. 153 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 9: So I don't know, like I ain't having like. 154 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, newfound success and fame. What's 155 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 8: some of the obstacles and temptations that you have to shake? 156 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 4: I mean just being so young and having a little 157 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 4: like miud success. I want to be young, like I 158 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 4: want to go do what young guys do, Like I 159 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 4: want to go party. I want to go do all that. 160 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 4: But it's a lot of people that just depend on me, 161 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 4: so I can't just go do wild stuff or go 162 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 4: do with everything. 163 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 3: I want to do a lot of stuff. 164 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 4: I just be I'm really a granddaddy for real, for real, 165 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 4: like everybody I hang with probably thirty forty. So I 166 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 4: want to be super turn and young and go out 167 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 4: every night. And I want to do that, but like 168 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 4: my mama, bills be due like my mama, like big houses, 169 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 4: nice cars. 170 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 5: How you protect your energy, like how you stop yourself 171 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 5: from like reacting to shit that you might see on 172 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 5: social media that'll take your energy. One place or whatever 173 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 5: the case is, because you always seem pretty calm and 174 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 5: cool and collected and like, you know what I'm saying, 175 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 5: you don't be rattled. 176 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 4: I mean I went through a lot, so like when 177 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 4: stuff be negative and I can't control it, I don't 178 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 4: try to control it. 179 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 3: I just let it be. 180 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 4: I don't stress over nothing I can't control. If I 181 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 4: can control it, like narratives and stuff like that, I try. 182 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 4: I try my hardest. If I care about it, I 183 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 4: explain myself. If I don't, I won't say nothing. So 184 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 4: that's just really what it is. A lot of stuff 185 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 4: is what it is. And then I just been put 186 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 4: in certain predicaments and situations where I just being calm just. 187 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 3: Got me out of it. 188 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 7: So when it comes to like your personal situations, is 189 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 7: it easier for you to just try to block it 190 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 7: out and ignore it completely or do you have to 191 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 7: deal with it so that it doesn't come back up again? 192 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 4: It depends on what it is you got to get. 193 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 4: Like an example of a personal situation. 194 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 2: Mmmm, like something with a female, like with a female, 195 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 2: like what. 196 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 7: Like okay, like like a like a female that you're 197 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 7: dealing with and you guys have a disagreement about fucking anything, 198 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 7: like anything like like something that may be like minuscule 199 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 7: or minor to you, but it's a big deal to her, 200 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 7: and she continues to make a big deal about it. 201 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 7: But you don't understand why she keeps making a big 202 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 7: deal about this. 203 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 4: I mean, I grew up with a lot of women, 204 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 4: so I know they make a big deal out of 205 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 4: like minor stuff, but it's a big deal to them. 206 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 4: So if I can, I will try to change it. 207 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 4: If I can't, I can't. I can't help it. But 208 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 4: as a man, I feel like you should pay attention 209 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 4: to the woman that you you're dealing with, what. 210 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 3: She like, what she values and stuff. 211 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 4: So a lot of times you can, but a lot 212 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 4: of times you can't, Like you got to, like when 213 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 4: you're dealing with people who got to make sacrifices. 214 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 3: Like if that's on both ends, right. 215 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 8: What's the biggest shift since you you know what I'm saying, 216 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 8: You got on what's the biggest shift in your life? 217 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 4: The biggest shift in my life is like dealing with 218 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 4: family and friends, people being titled it they expectations be 219 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 4: like real high, but they be forgetting that it's a 220 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 4: hundred people that expectations high. So I try to do 221 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 4: what people need and not what they want. But a 222 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 4: lot of people don't get that because they're not in 223 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 4: like my position. So I try to explain it and 224 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 4: deal with it as I can. But a lot of 225 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 4: people don't understand that once you get success, it's one 226 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 4: hundred people that needs you. I got three people that's 227 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 4: in the face. I got my mama, I got me, 228 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 4: I got females that I'm dealing with. 229 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 3: I got my friends, I got my uncles. 230 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 4: I got everybody. But since let's say I'm dealing with 231 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 4: you and Jay. Yeah, but Jay well off and you 232 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 4: might not be. She feels like, because we are family, 233 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 4: I'm supposed to do what I did for you for her. 234 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 4: But you need more than she need. 235 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 9: You know, Yeah, you maintain peace and control your sanity though. 236 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 4: I stay away from people, keep my circle small. I 237 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 4: love everybody, but I just people don't understand. So once 238 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 4: I figured that out, I just stay away from people. Uh, 239 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 4: And that just helped me stay sane because I'm a 240 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 4: care and I just try not to care. 241 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,439 Speaker 3: But if I'm around you. 242 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 4: Like, I can't be around you and watch you go 243 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 4: through something and not feel it. 244 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 8: Do you think being being in a committed relationship and 245 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 8: being an artist. 246 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 9: Is like hated for hated for artists. 247 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 3: It's hard, especially for a person like me. 248 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 4: You gotta think, like my whole like come up as 249 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 4: better based off girls, So you gotta think the temptation 250 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 4: is there every day, Like every day, it's all all 251 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 4: the way around me, and I try to be selective 252 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 4: pick and chools, but it's hard for anybody. You got 253 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 4: to understand that we ain't living in a world where 254 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 4: you got to go outside to meet somebody. 255 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 3: My dream girl could dm meet every day. 256 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 4: There could be five of them, like you know, so 257 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 4: it's tempt it's tempting, but I try to stay away 258 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 4: from that type of stuff. 259 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 8: How hard is to believe that somebody flow you and 260 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 8: you successful? 261 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 9: How hard is for you to believe like they really 262 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 9: want you? 263 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 3: I go off energy. 264 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 4: I'm an energy guy, so I ain't really like a 265 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 4: person that's going to be like I could meet you 266 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 4: today and like trust you more than a person I 267 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 4: knew for ten years, and then I'm an energy guy. 268 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 4: I go off, how I watch you treat other people, 269 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,719 Speaker 4: how you treat me, what you say, I'm like one 270 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 4: of them. 271 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 5: I want to talk about some of these wins and 272 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 5: I want to see how you how you feel or 273 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 5: felt when you first discovered these wins. First off, twenty 274 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 5: twenty four Double XXLF Freshman Class Salute on that. Well 275 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 5: you got that information. How does that feel? You know 276 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 5: what I'm saying, That's a big accomplishment. 277 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 4: It felt great because I felt like I was solidified 278 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 4: and solidifying myself in like hip hop, like because everybody 279 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 4: don't make it. I like doing stuff that everybody don't 280 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 4: do or can't do. So that was like big for me, 281 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 4: especially being from Detroit, Like we had a couple winners 282 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 4: and stuff like that, but like we really like the 283 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 4: last few artists that have been selected for XXCL, like 284 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 4: we're really in the streets, like I'd have seen these 285 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 4: guys growing up, like I'd have been shot at i'dn't 286 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 4: been shot, Like you gotta think like that, like this 287 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 4: big for me, Like everything I do be big for 288 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 4: me because like bro, I don't feel like I was 289 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 4: supposed to do. 290 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 7: So do you feel like the Double XL Freshman cover 291 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 7: Nation and like being picked to be on that is 292 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 7: like the Rap Niggas starter Kid in the first step 293 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 7: to get into Grammy. 294 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 3: No, not at all. I don't feel like everybody that's 295 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 3: on XX artist or a great. 296 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 7: Rapper, but nah, But I mean it's just like getting 297 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 7: that recognition. Do you feel like that can push people 298 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 7: to motivate them to want to go harder to get 299 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 7: to that Grammy status. 300 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 4: No, because some people it depends on what you're rapping 301 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 4: for or what you're doing music for Some people in 302 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 4: it like it's different levels to music. Like some people 303 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 4: not gonna take that step to be like all right, 304 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 4: I need creative direction. I'm not that creative feel me. 305 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 4: It's all type of steps that you need to take, 306 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 4: like some people. Some people in it for the money. 307 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 4: Some people don't want to be stadium artists. Some people 308 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 4: don't take their time to have stage presence or give 309 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 4: them a good show. 310 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 3: Like it's all what you're in it for. Some people 311 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 3: just want the money or know the right. 312 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: They said any else. 313 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 5: Another win is something that had to feel good was 314 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 5: throwing the first pitch at the Detroit game, right, how 315 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 5: they feel being from Detroit to being able. 316 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: To do that. 317 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 3: No, that was bigger than XXL to me. 318 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, because this whole town. 319 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, only because like with the Tigers. That's not like 320 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 4: that's our team, but they don't do a lot of 321 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 4: urban acts and stuff like that. 322 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: Like so you got to be special to do some 323 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 2: shit like that. 324 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. Like I feel like. 325 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 4: Culturally, like our culture and Detroit like far as hip 326 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 4: hop and music were not accepted by everybody, you know, 327 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 4: because a lot of stuff be true that people talking 328 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 4: about a lot of people scared of Detroit. Like it's 329 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 4: just we got this narrative on this that people try 330 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 4: to stay away from us. 331 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 8: What's the shit you've seen in this industry? You'd be like, man, 332 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 8: i'mna stay away from that. 333 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 4: Oh, a lot of people be fake, a lot of 334 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 4: people be tender. Like a lot of people be doing 335 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 4: all types of stuff. A person's people in this industry 336 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 4: that just say stuff just to talk. I'm not a 337 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 4: person like that. Like you know, people be going behind 338 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 4: people back and doing stuff. I'm like, what you see 339 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 4: is what you get. Like when they come to me, Like, 340 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 4: if I don't like you, I'm not gonna say nothing 341 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 4: to you. I'm gonna work past you. If I do 342 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 4: fuck with you, I'm gonna fuck with you for real. 343 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 4: Can't nobody tell me nothing wrong about you? I ain't 344 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 4: gonna be talking about you behind I ain't talk about 345 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 4: nobody that I don't like behind their back, like you 346 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 4: gonna hear from me like this is just how I am. 347 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 4: But like stuff like that, like a girl can listen 348 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 4: to your music, say your name, Nah, a nigga don't 349 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 4: like you, but it is what it is. 350 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 3: Like. 351 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 7: So, like speaking of Detroit and like a lot of 352 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 7: things that you've been doing in the city. One of 353 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 7: the things that a lot of people might not know 354 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 7: about is you did a fifty thousand dollars gun buy 355 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 7: back that took a lot a lot of weapons off 356 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 7: the street. So what what kind of like motivated you 357 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 7: to do that? And how did that really? Like be 358 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 7: successful and come about? 359 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 4: Always said, when I got successful, did anything, I ain't 360 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 4: gonna lie I looked up to the neighborhood dope man 361 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 4: like but like it wasn't like because he's so dope. 362 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,199 Speaker 4: Like it was because like when I was growing up, 363 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 4: the dope man took care of the neighborhood like you 364 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 4: feel me. So I always wanted to take care of 365 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 4: my neighborhood like you know. So when I got successful, 366 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 4: I ain't want to just keep eating off people I 367 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 4: want to the same people that's pouring into me. I 368 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 4: wanted them to feel like they can make it too, 369 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 4: like you know, so, and then we got a lot 370 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 4: of violence. I'm a vict I'm a victim of good violence, 371 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 4: so that was important to me. 372 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 3: But I do more than that, Like I. 373 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 4: Give pull up to the kids schools, give them shoes. 374 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 4: I'm not a person that just gonna broadcast it dope, 375 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 4: but there's something I'm looking to do every month, every day, 376 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 4: like regardless, I'm helping people. 377 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 7: And speaking of the schools, you've alsold two things that 378 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 7: I want to like make sure that everybody knows about 379 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 7: that they might not know. On an annual yearly basis, 380 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 7: you pick five students and give them twenty thousand apiece 381 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 7: to help with their college essentials and stuff like that. 382 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, send people to Prime and then get I gave. 383 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 2: And you send the you send the girl and her 384 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 2: date to get like you know. 385 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 3: Yeah it turned out yeah yeah. 386 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 4: But I just remember being in high school and I 387 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 4: needed stuff like that. So I don't just want to 388 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 4: be standy, Like I make a lot of money off music, 389 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 4: so it's like, and I be nothing without the people 390 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 4: that listen to my music. I'm nothing, so like giving 391 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 4: back to them is nothing to me, because like I'm 392 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 4: not literally nothing without them, Like they changed my life. 393 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 8: Yes, what you think make you unique? Like make everybody 394 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 8: stand out from everybody else. 395 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,920 Speaker 4: I think everybody else is more like into the hype 396 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 4: and I'm not, and people think like I'm a regular 397 00:18:59,200 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 4: person than I am. 398 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 3: Like I try to show people that I'm regular. 399 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 4: I don't do drugs, I don't drink like so like 400 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 4: when people everybody else being extra, I'm not like I'm 401 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 4: just I'm a cool guy. 402 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 3: I just want to I walk around a lot. 403 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 4: With no security, people can touch me. I take five 404 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 4: hundred pictures of a day. It's just cool. Like I'm 405 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 4: just grateful to be here. So I don't be looking 406 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 4: at the celebrity as like I'm better than nobody. I 407 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 4: only feel like fame just me more people know me 408 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 4: than that know you. I don't feel like that define 409 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 4: me as better than you. I feel like a lot 410 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 4: of people walk around with that that he's on they 411 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 4: chest like they superman. 412 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 3: But I just feel like I'm just blessed for them. 413 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 9: Nah, for real. 414 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 5: Another one of the big wins I forgot to mention 415 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 5: is nominated for twenty twenty four b T Hip Hop 416 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 5: or Breakthrough Artists. 417 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: Right, it's big, that's big. 418 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 5: Clap it up, you know what I'm saying. We got 419 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 5: to clap it up. How does that feel? And it 420 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 5: doesn't feel like like man win and lose is a 421 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 5: win regardless. Just to be in that conversation. 422 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 4: I mean, that's big to me only because like I've 423 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 4: been watching BET since I was a kid, like this stuff. 424 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 4: I never imagined myself doing like being on BET, going 425 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 4: to the awards, being a part of the awards, like 426 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 4: I've been going to the awards for the last couple 427 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 4: of years, and then I told myself this year like 428 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 4: if they invite me, I ain't going unless I'm part 429 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,479 Speaker 4: of it. So I guess that was like God just 430 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 4: telling me, like go like you hear me. So that's 431 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 4: that was big. Like I can name my favorite moments 432 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 4: at BT, like when Chris Brown did to Michael Jackson 433 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 4: tribute and cried like that's just like big to me. 434 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 4: So you performing, No, I ain't performing, but i'ma be there. 435 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: That's all that matter. 436 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 7: So another thing as far as like city stuff in 437 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 7: Detroit that you're really big on, it's real estate. 438 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 2: I heard you have like a couple of apartment buildings. 439 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 2: You got like eight houses. 440 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 3: I got a lot of real estate and Detroit. 441 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 7: But so do you have any like plans to do 442 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 7: development on a larger scale or do you want to 443 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 7: just kind of keep it like smaller commercial and the 444 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 7: residential side. 445 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 4: Actually, I'm gonna do larger commercial stuff. It's just you 446 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 4: gotta build your portfolio to that. 447 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 3: Right. 448 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 4: I'm like one of the youngest black developers in Detroit. 449 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 4: So like, you gotta build your portfolio. 450 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 2: That's big, y'all. Cone, we need to get some wine 451 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 2: or something. 452 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 4: You gotta build any of that though, like they don't. 453 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 4: You got to prove yourself, like when it comes to that, 454 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 4: like you got to think that's like that's like a 455 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 4: it's kind of. 456 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 3: Like of a white people's sport. 457 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 4: Like sure, today most of them buildings and stuff, like 458 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 4: they've been on for a hundred years. 459 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 3: So like right now they're trying to sell me a 460 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 3: hotel and stuff. 461 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 4: But you gotta understand, like when you're buying a hotel, 462 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 4: it's not just you buying a building. It's five million 463 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 4: got to go into it just to fix it up. 464 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: Stuff like that. 465 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 4: So like finding investments and investors that believe in you 466 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 4: and stuff like that. You got to prove yourself, like 467 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 4: you gotta like this is what I'm about. This how 468 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 4: fast I can. 469 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 3: Get this done? So that's just what it is about. 470 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 5: Okay, what else those you got outside of the music, 471 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 5: like goals you want to accomplish outside of just you know, 472 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 5: hip hop and that culture. 473 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 4: I just want to be like, I want to be multifaceted, 474 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,719 Speaker 4: So like I be doing all type of stuff, Like 475 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 4: every every week, two days out of the week, I 476 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 4: go to acting class, I go to do all type 477 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 4: of stuff, Like I just be wanting to do everything. Yeah, 478 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 4: I'll be doing everything. I ain't like, I want to 479 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 4: be a cultural icon one day. So when people just 480 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 4: be talking about me about music and stuff like that, 481 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 4: they don't even be knowing. I don't really care because 482 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 4: like my whole mind is expanded to some whole other 483 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 4: stuff that nobody can't even fathom. 484 00:22:58,640 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 3: Like that, I'm thinking. 485 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 9: About who the goat from Detroit? 486 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 4: Yeah see this is like a conversation like far as what, 487 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 4: Like I got in trouble all. 488 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 8: The time, go to Detroit. It no matter what they did, 489 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 8: they ain't gotta be no rapper. It ain't gotta be nothing. 490 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 8: It's just like when it comes. 491 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 4: When it comes to being a gangsters meet, when it 492 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 4: comes to being a uh multi selling artists, eminem when 493 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 4: it's come to breaking doors down his teeth. When it 494 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 4: comes to being different, it's sada. When it comes to 495 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 4: being a street nigga that made it, it's dad, like 496 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 4: you feel me. When it comes to Empire women, it's 497 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 4: meat like it's different. 498 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 9: Big shot, that's solid. 499 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, these different like everybody everybody got like everybody goes 500 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 4: to their own in their own lane. You feel me 501 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 4: because everybody doing different stuff, Like you know. 502 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 3: That's all right? 503 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 5: And speaking of Detroit and ghost Ship, like, is it 504 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 5: October second? Is your big birthday? 505 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: Badge? 506 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 5: Every time I open my Instagram, that's all I say 507 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 5: is about your birthday. It's making me want to pop 508 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,239 Speaker 5: out to it. A man, tell us a little bit 509 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 5: about that. 510 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 4: Oh last year I started it, I saw like five 511 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 4: six thousand tickets, but like the city has shut me 512 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 4: down and stuff, so I had to like that's how 513 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 4: I start getting to like being. 514 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: Shut you down? What you mean they shut you down 515 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: in the middle of some of that. 516 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 7: Because weren't you having problems with like the police officer, 517 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 7: like one particular police officer, So what the hell, Like 518 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 7: did you get that resolved? 519 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 5: Yeah? 520 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 3: They felt like so bomb. 521 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 4: They felt like since how my name was coming up 522 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 4: and a lot of stuff, they felt like that that 523 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 4: I was the reason a lot of stuff was happening. 524 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 3: But but you're a great person. 525 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 4: I mean, like, I feel like this unless you catch 526 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 4: me in an actor doing something I ain't doing, so 527 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 4: don't don't put that on me like he give I 528 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 4: get back to my community and do all this type 529 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 4: of stuff. So I don't feel like they should have 530 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 4: did it. But I looked at I like I played 531 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 4: Devil's advocate, So like if somebody my name do keep 532 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 4: coming up and stuff, I gotta accept what come with that. 533 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 4: But that come with like anything with success. So I 534 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 4: took my time with it this year, and I just 535 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 4: I actually get with the police. I do like the 536 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 4: gun buybacks and stuff like that, just to build a 537 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 4: relationship with them because I'm out the streets. I ain't 538 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 4: but I told them like I ain't telling them nobody. 539 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 4: So that's why I really got in trouble, Like that's 540 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 4: why I was really the police was against me because 541 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 4: they thinking I'm gonna tell on somebody. 542 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 3: But I ain't like that. 543 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 4: I wasn't raised like that, So I just do stuff 544 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 4: with them to be proactive, Like I help get the 545 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 4: guns off the streets I'm pulling up if they hadn't 546 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,120 Speaker 4: like events. 547 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 2: For the buying them donuts and shit. 548 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 4: No, but I do stuff like I buy like that 549 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,239 Speaker 4: uniforms and stuff like that. 550 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 3: I do like that. 551 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 8: Do you think do you think an artist can be 552 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 8: successful one feed in, one feed out the streets? 553 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 3: Yeah? 554 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 4: No, it depends on what you define the success though, 555 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 4: Like what's your definition. 556 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 9: Like a stadium stadium artist? 557 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 3: Not for real? Not for real? 558 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 4: You can, but you can't because like your focus not 559 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 4: gonna be there. 560 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a full time sport. 561 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 4: This ain't this ain't you got to think like this 562 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 4: a billion dollar industry? 563 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 9: How hard was it? A transition? 564 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 3: Though? 565 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 4: It was very hard because you gotta think, like I 566 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 4: came up at a time where I had just got shot, 567 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 4: I'm beefing hard, I'm doing all type of stuff, So like. 568 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: It was hard for me like just letting go. 569 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 8: Do you how hard is it to like be normal 570 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 8: now knowing that the people just because you changed and 571 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 8: you successful now. 572 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 9: The people that's upset ain't changing successful yet. 573 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 4: I don't feel like it's hard for me to I 574 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 4: think people around me want me to be less normal 575 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 4: than I want to be normal, Like I'm gonna be 576 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,959 Speaker 4: normal regardless, like people wanting me to walk around like 577 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 4: and weird, Like all right, I'm doing this. I feel 578 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 4: like I'm doing a job. I might be good at 579 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 4: my job, but it's just a job. 580 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 3: It ain't. 581 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 4: It don't define me like it do, but it don't 582 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 4: like this ain't this don't like I said, it don't 583 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,120 Speaker 4: make me better than nobody. 584 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 3: This is just my job. 585 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 8: No, I'm saying, like you know how they say like 586 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 8: like your past can come back to you, like how 587 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 8: you deal with that mentally knowing that you're on a 588 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 8: different path, but you also live this life. So when 589 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 8: you go back home and the same people there, how 590 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 8: like how is that like the. 591 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 7: Same niggas you were into it with the same niggas 592 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 7: that didn't like you and all that kind of shit. 593 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 3: I don't feel like they gonna they really weren't like you. 594 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 4: Gotta think they fans now, A lot of the fans, 595 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 4: but then a lot of stuff, like any like any 596 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 4: street guy, you just gotta lay down, Yo, you feel 597 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 4: me like, it's just you gotta let people people don't 598 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 4: understand in the urban community. Stop they don't understand. Stop, 599 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,199 Speaker 4: don't mess with me. Please, don't mess with me. They 600 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 4: don't understand it. So then you gotta go a different rail. 601 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 4: But I try to stay away from people so I 602 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 4: won't have to do that type of stuff. But my 603 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 4: problem is is I go to events by myself. I 604 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 4: still try to be regular, like my little cousin, the 605 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 4: number one quarterback in the nation. I gotta go to 606 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 4: these football games, and everybody not coming with me. 607 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 3: I'm going by myself sometimes. 608 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 4: So it just be stuff like that where people will 609 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 4: feel like are he accessible? But then it's just stuff 610 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 4: going And then you feel like how you balance that 611 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 4: shit though? Like far as what like how you balance 612 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 4: it out? 613 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 8: Like mentally, like knowing that it's haters out there in 614 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 8: your city that hate you for the old you? How 615 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 8: do you balancee like being out by yourself and doing 616 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 8: all that do whatever be on your mental. 617 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 4: I put God first. Facts feel like nothing that gonna 618 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 4: happen to that God don't want to them. 619 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, do you deal with any like nervousness or anxiety 620 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 5: at all is when it comes to anything performing or 621 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 5: a big moment or anything like that, do you deal 622 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 5: with it at all? 623 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 4: Not performing, I got social anxiety. Like if I'm around, 624 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 4: Like if I perform in front of fifty thousand people, 625 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 4: I'm cool, Like I was on Travis Scott tour. I 626 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 4: was doing that like it was cool. I could do 627 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 4: my job, But like socially. 628 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 7: I'm awkward, Like the same shit with me, like in 629 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 7: a like in a club setting or in a setting 630 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 7: where it's like too closed in or like too many people. 631 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 4: Seeing me the other day at Copper Cove, like I 632 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 4: just I can move around. If you talk to me, 633 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to you. But like I'm just not 634 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 4: just like okay, yeah. It's like I'm not seeking it, 635 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 4: Like it's not like something I'm to die for. Like 636 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 4: I just want to be regular sometimes I just want 637 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 4: to be around people and just have a good time, 638 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 4: like enjoying myself. I like seeing people happy. That's what 639 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 4: makes me happy. 640 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 5: Like if you could be a rapper and never be 641 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 5: seen and be successful, would you do that? 642 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 3: Never be seen? 643 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: You just a voice? 644 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, like kind of like how her was exactly. I 645 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 3: do that for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 646 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 647 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 3: Yeah that's crazy. 648 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: What's up? 649 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 9: You got to know that my ship ain't. 650 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 4: I wouldn't even wear a dreary if I ain't, like, 651 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 4: if it was like pivotal to what I got going on. 652 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 4: I'm not like a diehard, Like I'm not like, I'm 653 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 4: not like that. I come from like a sports background, 654 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 4: so like I wouldn't even be wearing clothes and doing 655 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 4: all that. 656 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 3: I just you know what I'm saying. I wouldn't like be. 657 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 4: Buying special clothes and stuff like you feel me like 658 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 4: I'd be chilling, Like I'm a chill guy. Like I 659 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 4: sit at home, like my house always clean because I 660 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 4: don't go around my house. 661 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 3: I just be in one room. 662 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 8: It's it's crazy you said that, because how important is 663 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 8: it you feel like it is to look the part 664 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 8: like you got all these hit songs, all these accoladesy 665 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 8: just so when I see you, do you feel like 666 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 8: I have to see you? You get what I'm saying, 667 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 8: you saying, I wouldn't even I wouldn't even be into 668 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 8: that if I ain't have to do that, right, it. 669 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,239 Speaker 3: Depends on what setting. Like. 670 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,719 Speaker 4: In the right setting, you might catch me with some 671 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 4: bullshit on like the real but like my manager had 672 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 4: to force me to like, yeah, you gotta start putting 673 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 4: clothes on and stuff like that. 674 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 3: So and then like. 675 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 4: Culturally, like from Detroit, like people like to wear clothes 676 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 4: and stuff. 677 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 3: But me personally, I'm not really that type of guy. 678 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 3: I'm chill. 679 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 4: I like to sit in the background. I still like 680 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 4: I'm sitting in a club, people looking at me. I 681 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 4: got my shades on. I'm watching the whole club like, 682 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 4: I ain't even I don't really think about some bullshit 683 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 4: for real, I ain't even like you know, I ain't 684 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 4: think about nothing else. 685 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,239 Speaker 3: I got my shades on. They think I'm high, I'm not. 686 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 4: I'm looking you dead and yo, I you don't even 687 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 4: know like I'm that tarfect guy. 688 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 7: So let me ask you this because another thing that 689 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 7: a lot of people out here might not know. You 690 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 7: have a very extensive writing credit list for a lot 691 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 7: of people. Yeah, So, being that we were just talking 692 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 7: about being like a faceless rapper or whatever, would you 693 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 7: ever get to a point where you would be tired 694 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,479 Speaker 7: of rapping and you would be cool just doing your 695 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 7: writing things for all the people that you've done writing. 696 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 4: For for sure if I like, because I look at 697 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 4: music like as an industry and a business, I don't 698 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 4: look at it like, all right, I'm supposed to be 699 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 4: the biggest rapper in the world. I want to Should 700 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 4: I go make beats, play the keyboard anything like? Yeah, 701 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 4: people don't understand how much money people be making. I 702 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 4: actually got the writing ship because I was studying how 703 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 4: Future was doing it. Yeah you know, and like somebody 704 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 4: was just telling me, like everything come through Atlanta, go 705 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 4: through Future a lot, and I was like, you hear me? 706 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 4: And then I was just saying, like he making money 707 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 4: off everything, he going to write, he producing ship like 708 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 4: feel me. 709 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 2: And he plays the flute all kinds of shit. 710 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 4: He the type of ship like He'm talented for real, 711 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 4: for real. People won't know because they not that's not 712 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 4: the focus point, but they don't know. Like if I'm 713 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 4: writing for you, I'm getting more money off your song 714 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 4: than you is, then you are exactly. That's why, like 715 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 4: I don't really speak on it because I just rather 716 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 4: just be my business, Like you feel me, That's just 717 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 4: something that I'm doing. If you need a hook or something, 718 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,959 Speaker 4: I'll help you, like if you need to make a 719 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 4: song or something like that. But that's because I'm really 720 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 4: into studying the music industry, like I ain't really trying 721 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 4: to be just one dimensional. 722 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 8: For if you, if you could have chosen another general 723 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 8: music to blow up in, I signed the rap what 724 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 8: It'll be. 725 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 3: R and B for sure. I don't listen to rap 726 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 3: for R and B. 727 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 9: What's your favorite R and B song? 728 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 3: Uh? 729 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 4: Summer Walker Session thirty two. I go through your love 730 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,479 Speaker 4: letters soot it makes me feel better. 731 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 3: I ain't got you all out my head. 732 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,959 Speaker 4: I'm sending in you one text at that time, and 733 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 4: I know you were bouy your phone, so girl, I 734 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 4: ain't too proud to be yeah and said it has 735 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 4: been said. 736 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 10: Okay, I you to know. 737 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 3: You don't know what it is, and I need you 738 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 3: to know. 739 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 10: You don't know say it. You don't know what love is. 740 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 10: If you don't put up a five, you don't know love, 741 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 10: no facts if you up. 742 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 2: Okay, front row Okay, and. 743 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:37,879 Speaker 9: I knew what's up? 744 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:38,320 Speaker 1: Baby? 745 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 8: You got a Detroit legend in the building avenue on 746 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 8: the second row. 747 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 7: He's sitting over there by my manager, Shorten theire Okay 748 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 7: like that. 749 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 5: The skill of Baby R and B album is coming 750 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 5: I don't care what I said, you're gonna call something like that. 751 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 4: Though I got some R and B stuff, I just 752 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 4: want to perfect it first. Okay, I got to use 753 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 4: auto tune sometimes. Yeah, hold that note. 754 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 8: I'm already seeing myself, bro, that's how Yeah. 755 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 2: That nigga was called back in the days. 756 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 3: I thought, No, I'm not. 757 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 8: Said anything else. 758 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 7: So look another thing that I wanted to ask you 759 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 7: to now that we're talking about, like the softer side 760 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 7: and the R and B and all that kind of stuff. 761 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: Why do you. 762 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 7: Think it is that like women, children and even just 763 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 7: people in general are drawn to you. 764 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 3: I'm a real person. 765 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 4: Like, like I said, people be feeling like they're not 766 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 4: real people. I think people can relate to me. I'm childish, 767 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 4: I'm I'm loving, and I'm caring. I ain't trying to 768 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 4: hide the fact that I cry. Like I don't care, 769 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 4: like what it is is what you get with me? 770 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 4: Like I don't care like. 771 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 3: How it looks. Yeah, I don't care how it looks 772 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 3: because like. 773 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 4: I'm not looking to be judged, right right, So I 774 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 4: don't really care, like for real what I I don't 775 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 4: feel like I'm less mainly because I got emotions. 776 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,240 Speaker 2: You know exactly. 777 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel like I know what I'm gonna 778 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 4: do with if a nigga run up on me too, 779 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, I'm gonna laugh about it too. 780 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 1: Like what does Atlanta mean? 781 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 5: The skill of baby Man, the culture of Atlanta, the music, 782 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,760 Speaker 5: the everything Atlanta? 783 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: What does it mean to feel like. 784 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 4: New York and Atlanta is like one of the meccas 785 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 4: of hip hop? Like I feel like New York was first, 786 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,400 Speaker 4: but I feel like Atlanta is like the place where 787 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 4: like y'all breed like success, like in different ways, Like 788 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 4: I feel like you. 789 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 3: Gotta come to Atlanta to besful. 790 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 5: Why you think Atlanta and Detroit so similar, Like it's 791 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 5: always like Atlanta niggas and Detroit niggas always kick it 792 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 5: and get along and ship like that. 793 00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: Why you think it's like. 794 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 4: Because because Detroit niggas really country and we don't like 795 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,759 Speaker 4: to admit it. Like all our family from the country. 796 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,040 Speaker 4: So like most Detroit people, if you ask them where 797 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 4: they daddy or their granddaddy's from, they gonna say, are. 798 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 3: They from he from Georgia? From Alabama? Yeah? 799 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. 800 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 1: Skill a baby is in the building at Revolt World. 801 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 5: We're gonna take some questions from the audience to anybody 802 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 5: want to hollerand skal a baby, ask them a question, 803 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:31,560 Speaker 5: holler as, how are we doing this? Shah, y'all find 804 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 5: shy holler shot. We're gonna unless y'all holler as skill 805 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,439 Speaker 5: a baby. You know what I'm saying. So what what 806 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 5: what you once? You got cooked up coming like soon musically? 807 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 5: What's next musically? Because you've been banging them dropping a 808 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 5: lot of bangers, you know what I'm saying, projects and 809 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 5: all that, But what can the fans look forward to 810 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 5: you next? 811 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: From you next? Musically? 812 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 4: I'm really just trying to perfect, Like, uh, I'm trying 813 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 4: to take my sound to another level, you know. 814 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 3: I feel like. 815 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 4: Right now, I feel like I got comfortable doing certain stuff, 816 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 4: and I feel like all right all the. 817 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 3: Time, Like. 818 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 4: I don't know, I think like a lot of my 819 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,960 Speaker 4: stuff just been repetitive, you know, And I'm I'm like, 820 00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 4: I'm like I criticized myself the most, so I know, 821 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 4: like like there's just me just being critique of my 822 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,879 Speaker 4: own self. Feel like I'm comfortable with certain sounds and 823 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 4: certain beats and certain cadences. I feel like I just 824 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,240 Speaker 4: need to step out my comfort zone and do something 825 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 4: like that. People don't expect me to do, you know. 826 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 2: But that's why you're like perfecting the R and B 827 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 2: thing before you put it. 828 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 3: Out right, But not just R and B. 829 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,480 Speaker 4: It's like even music with more substance, Like I feel 830 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 4: like boom, I know how to make something that that 831 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 4: can go crazy in a club, Like that's just easy 832 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 4: for me, Like I could do that, right. I want 833 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 4: something that like people around the world can listen to 834 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 4: and feel like, not even when you're just in the club, 835 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,080 Speaker 4: like even if you're just going through something like I 836 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 4: want to protect that side of myself when to come 837 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 4: to music. 838 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,440 Speaker 8: Okay, when you made your first hit song, was you 839 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 8: surprised or you knew it was a hit? 840 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 4: I was surprised you ain't did it before. So you 841 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 4: don't know what people don't like. That's one thing about this. 842 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 4: You don't know what people gonna like out put all 843 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,479 Speaker 4: of it out. But then it's like some people want 844 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 4: certain things from you, but then other people don't. Like 845 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,319 Speaker 4: Some girls like the women records, some girls don't. Some 846 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 4: guys like what women like. Some guys want you to 847 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 4: talk about the streets. But people got to understand that. 848 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 4: Like like an artist like me, I rap about what 849 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:49,520 Speaker 4: I go through. 850 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,440 Speaker 3: Like when I was doing all that. 851 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 4: Street shit, I was in the streets like trying to 852 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 4: do bullshit. So like it's it ain't easy rapping about 853 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,080 Speaker 4: that you ain't going through right now, Like you know, 854 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:03,239 Speaker 4: I agree. 855 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,239 Speaker 5: Do you think that the artists that continue to do that, 856 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 5: even when they completely remove from that, do you think 857 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 5: that that hurts their progression? 858 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,840 Speaker 4: I feel like they started trying to people that's not 859 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,120 Speaker 4: that that's removed theirselfs and better their life that keep 860 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:26,040 Speaker 4: trying to do that type of artistry, you always see 861 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 4: them fucked up because like they might be successful in 862 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 4: that type of artistry, but their life like they on drugs, 863 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,320 Speaker 4: they don't. They trying to do bullshit. That's why I 864 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:42,280 Speaker 4: ain't gonna lie. Like like a lot of I feel 865 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,080 Speaker 4: like a lot of rap artists and stuff be passing 866 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 4: away because like we trap ourselves. Like after you successful, 867 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 4: if you're successful, bro, you're supposed to move on with 868 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,360 Speaker 4: your success. People chasing that same high like fame. 869 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,879 Speaker 9: Is high good Yeah, not a good point, bro. 870 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,600 Speaker 4: So niggas be chasing that same highlight when they first 871 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 4: came out, but nigga. When you first came out, you 872 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,280 Speaker 4: were dirty, You was dusty. You wasn't getting fifty thousand 873 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,880 Speaker 4: in the show. You wouln't getting a hundred thous. 874 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 8: Can't get that hunger back, that same hunger that's gonna 875 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,279 Speaker 8: be hungry for something else. 876 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 3: All right, boom right, you get it right? All right? 877 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,840 Speaker 3: You smoking weed? 878 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 4: Your first time you smoke weed, you were blitzed, like 879 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,719 Speaker 4: youre out your mind, like you it felt like you 880 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,200 Speaker 4: high as hell. But then like then you were like, damn, 881 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,480 Speaker 4: this wee week is hell. You might smoke the same 882 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:35,399 Speaker 4: weed but it's weak. 883 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 3: But then you stop. 884 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 4: Smoking weed and then you could get the same high 885 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:41,439 Speaker 4: off the same weed. 886 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,359 Speaker 8: Yeah, what's the transitional coming out the club and being 887 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,759 Speaker 8: like a toy artist and a ticket hard ticket seal artist. 888 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 4: I was actually talking to Future about that shit. It's like, 889 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 4: all right, boom all last year they was giving fifty 890 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,280 Speaker 4: sixty thousand to go to the club. 891 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,640 Speaker 3: That's shit, right. But if somebody giving you that. 892 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 4: Nigga's going to pay you going to pay forty dollars 893 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,839 Speaker 4: to get in the club, They're not going to see you. 894 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,360 Speaker 4: You feel me, when you're trying to sell hard tickets, 895 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,920 Speaker 4: you feel me, because they you're going to do the 896 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,360 Speaker 4: same shit in the club, especially if you're not giving 897 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 4: a show. So it's like you got to learn the 898 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,399 Speaker 4: business when it come to that tool, Like you got 899 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,640 Speaker 4: to know when to pull out, when to go do 900 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 4: all this, you know, cause some of them Meigg's getting 901 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,279 Speaker 4: a million dollars a show, like a lot of them, 902 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,279 Speaker 4: a lot of them like you feel me. But they 903 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 4: creative direction. It's so crazy, like they really know what 904 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,480 Speaker 4: they want to do. They perfecting their craft. 905 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 3: You feel me. 906 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 8: It's crazy because you can be getting fit in a 907 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,319 Speaker 8: club had to start at like a five hundred people 908 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:41,960 Speaker 8: venue to sell tickets. 909 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying. 910 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 8: You can sell out a club two three thousand people, 911 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:46,880 Speaker 8: but no tickets. 912 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:47,279 Speaker 1: Try to. 913 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,880 Speaker 3: It because halving them people is going to the club anyway. 914 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:53,200 Speaker 3: Reveal me. 915 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,800 Speaker 4: It just happened to be you going. So it's like, 916 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,560 Speaker 4: all right, I'm really going. But like I'm about getting 917 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 4: a club for forty dollars. If I could go to 918 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:06,280 Speaker 4: the club for forty dollars and see motherfucker jay Z Tupac, 919 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 4: even some of the artists now, like if if I 920 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 4: could go see motherfucker Future for forty dollars. You think 921 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,400 Speaker 4: I ain't going to see future crazy, I about to 922 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 4: go listen Plutoski whatever, you just drop fire. Yeah, he 923 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,719 Speaker 4: was gonna crazy about it. You think I ain't about to 924 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 4: go do that in the club? I about go do 925 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,759 Speaker 4: that for forty dollars for sure. 926 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,279 Speaker 5: Hey, we're gonna go to the audience to take some 927 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,200 Speaker 5: questions for a skill of baby. 928 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: What we got? 929 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 3: What we got? 930 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:36,319 Speaker 2: How y'all doing? 931 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:40,319 Speaker 11: So I'm an independent artist by myself for I really 932 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 11: don't have a team. So my question would be to 933 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,480 Speaker 11: you is basically, what advice would you give to an 934 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:47,959 Speaker 11: independent artist with no team? 935 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:48,279 Speaker 3: For real? 936 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 11: Like do you think it's possible to even get on 937 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,640 Speaker 11: the level that you're at with no team? And like 938 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,799 Speaker 11: how would you go about it? Because I do everything myself, 939 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,640 Speaker 11: but it's like it kind of takes me from being 940 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:05,799 Speaker 11: the artist, but it's like it's prospering. So I gotta 941 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 11: keep going, you know what I'm saying. But I don't 942 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 11: know how far it can go with no teams. So 943 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:12,520 Speaker 11: we'll be your advice. 944 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,800 Speaker 4: I mean, when it comes to being girl is different 945 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,480 Speaker 4: because y'all gotta have a glam team, y'all gotta have 946 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,640 Speaker 4: here and makeup all that stuff. So when it come 947 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,080 Speaker 4: to that, yeah, but like I feel like a lot 948 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 4: of independent artists, like you gotta what that if some 949 00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,560 Speaker 4: brutal honesty they told me when I was like not 950 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,879 Speaker 4: doing so well like with music, was like I ain't 951 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,280 Speaker 4: But why would you get a manager? Fifteen percent if 952 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 4: that ain't coming in like that? You feel me, so 953 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,880 Speaker 4: like fifteen to twenty percent nothing that is like you 954 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,000 Speaker 4: don't want to do that, So you just got to 955 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,439 Speaker 4: push through all that and keep making music, Like keep 956 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,879 Speaker 4: making music that don'll never stop making music, y'all never 957 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,719 Speaker 4: know where your music gonna take you, like if you 958 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,080 Speaker 4: keep knocking at the same door as going eventually opening 959 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 4: something facet like you feel me when it come to 960 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,080 Speaker 4: girls like I can't speak on like glam teams, but 961 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,239 Speaker 4: like management and stuff like that, get a management team 962 00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,359 Speaker 4: when you got something to manage, you know, And that's 963 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 4: that's really important. Like don't a lot of artists they 964 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,280 Speaker 4: don't end up with a lot of money because before 965 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,279 Speaker 4: they start making money, they owe money. So people putting 966 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,480 Speaker 4: up money towards making enough money and now you owe 967 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,680 Speaker 4: a niggas one hundred and two hundred thousand. He didn't 968 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,880 Speaker 4: put you in a contract and now you go to 969 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,840 Speaker 4: a label he can have for what you make, only 970 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,160 Speaker 4: because you felt like you needed to do that. But 971 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 4: I feel like, just push through it. If it's what 972 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,759 Speaker 4: you love, just keep doing it, and then that door 973 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:44,280 Speaker 4: will open. 974 00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,719 Speaker 7: And I feel like, So another thing that might be 975 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:53,240 Speaker 7: useful is a lot of the things in the first 976 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,799 Speaker 7: initial stages that you would need, like a management team 977 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,600 Speaker 7: or even just like a regular team to do. You 978 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,960 Speaker 7: can and talk to people. You can ask questions. You 979 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,239 Speaker 7: can look on YouTube and you know, just kind of 980 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,760 Speaker 7: find out like how do I start my YouTube page 981 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,239 Speaker 7: so that I can monetize it and start making money, 982 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:20,239 Speaker 7: How do I monetize my Instagram? How do I get 983 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,040 Speaker 7: pitched for playlisting with Spotify? 984 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,400 Speaker 2: Like all those types of things. 985 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,879 Speaker 7: You can research on your own and do the best 986 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,840 Speaker 7: that you can to get those wheels turning and to 987 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,719 Speaker 7: get those wheels started. So, like he said, by the 988 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,200 Speaker 7: time you get ready to have something that needs to 989 00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,000 Speaker 7: be managed, you already have motion and you already have 990 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,440 Speaker 7: an idea of what's going on, so that when you 991 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,759 Speaker 7: do get a team, your team can go ahead and 992 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 7: kind of just fall into place and help, and you'll 993 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,120 Speaker 7: also know what's going on so that your team will 994 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,360 Speaker 7: never be able to cheat you facts. 995 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,920 Speaker 4: That's important because like Jay was saying, like before before 996 00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,719 Speaker 4: I got any success off music, and it was just 997 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,279 Speaker 4: seeing I was making more money than a lot of 998 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,840 Speaker 4: Detroit artists and stuff like that, because like I said, 999 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,960 Speaker 4: they was having people fund them and do all this stuff. 1000 00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,439 Speaker 4: And I've learned it was fied six ways. I could 1001 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,680 Speaker 4: make money off one song, just one song. I was 1002 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,600 Speaker 4: making money off YouTube. I was making money off distro 1003 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,960 Speaker 4: kid that you got publishing checks that come through every 1004 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 4: three months. So like if you keep putting out music 1005 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,160 Speaker 4: and say you make five hundred dollars one thousand dollars. 1006 00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,840 Speaker 3: Every month off one project. 1007 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 4: If you put out Foxmo projects, now you making five thousand, 1008 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 4: but that's just off one avenue. Then you got YouTube, 1009 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,680 Speaker 4: you putting out videos, you monetizing that. So it's like 1010 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000 Speaker 4: it's all about what type of success you want to 1011 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,279 Speaker 4: be as an artist anyway, But I would say just 1012 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:48,800 Speaker 4: study the music business and understand everything that's that somebody 1013 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,960 Speaker 4: could come at you with music and then get you 1014 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,360 Speaker 4: a team once you start making money. 1015 00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,399 Speaker 5: Dope information, Dope information dope information, Who's next? 1016 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,520 Speaker 1: The question for skill of baby, big fact, Live remote World. 1017 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,520 Speaker 12: Let's go, how do you how do you get over 1018 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,239 Speaker 12: the fear of success and to build your confidence when 1019 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,719 Speaker 12: you know you're talented and you know you're gifted, or. 1020 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,879 Speaker 3: You know you know you have what it. 1021 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,560 Speaker 12: Takes, but you gotta you can't get you can't get 1022 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,040 Speaker 12: over that fear of becoming successful or the unknown. 1023 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,279 Speaker 4: See that's I had to tell my sister about that, 1024 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,359 Speaker 4: like the fear of an unknown. That was like a 1025 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,000 Speaker 4: big thing with me and my sister because she like 1026 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,720 Speaker 4: she got a culinary degree, but she like she's scared 1027 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,239 Speaker 4: to open the restaurant. So one day I just was like, 1028 00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,920 Speaker 4: all right, go make a bunch of dinners. 1029 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:40,480 Speaker 3: And I was. 1030 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,560 Speaker 4: I was successful as a rapper when I was doing this. 1031 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,520 Speaker 4: I was like, go make a bunch of dinners. I'm 1032 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,600 Speaker 4: about to sell them for you. She made more money 1033 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,920 Speaker 4: that she did, be in a head shift somewhere, and 1034 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,160 Speaker 4: she's like, damn, I really could do this. So like, 1035 00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,200 Speaker 4: I don't think like I don't think like fear is 1036 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,439 Speaker 4: a bad thing. I feel like when you go into 1037 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,600 Speaker 4: stuff not being humble and you're not scared to take 1038 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,000 Speaker 4: a risk you going and being arrogant. That's when you 1039 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,920 Speaker 4: feel I feel like fear is good, Like all right, Uh, 1040 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,279 Speaker 4: the higher the risk, the higher the reward. So it's like, 1041 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,640 Speaker 4: if you ain't scared to do this, it's like. 1042 00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:15,600 Speaker 3: Why you doing it? 1043 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,560 Speaker 4: Why you ain't even taking no risks like you feel me, 1044 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,120 Speaker 4: that's the whole thing were in it for. Like we're 1045 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,560 Speaker 4: trying to get big success. We ain't trying to like 1046 00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,120 Speaker 4: all right, I'm about to go to work every day 1047 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,960 Speaker 4: and like that's cool for a minute. But when it 1048 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,680 Speaker 4: come to your dreams, you gotta take real risks, like 1049 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,359 Speaker 4: you gotta really be scared of this ship, Like I'm 1050 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,120 Speaker 4: scared to feel like I'm scared to not do good. 1051 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:37,960 Speaker 3: I gotta. 1052 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,759 Speaker 8: If you if you ain't, if you ain't in fear, 1053 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,040 Speaker 8: your your dream ain't big enough. You know what I'm saying. 1054 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,200 Speaker 8: You're supposed to be scared. Like anytime I walk out, 1055 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,080 Speaker 8: I don't care whatever I walk out to. I got butterflies. 1056 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:53,800 Speaker 8: I don't care if it's two people in the audience, 1057 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,200 Speaker 8: it's gonna be butterflies. 1058 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,000 Speaker 3: Gotta put that pressure on yourself like everybody. 1059 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,719 Speaker 4: If like but the biggest things, like I ever got 1060 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,000 Speaker 4: success from I put a lot of pressure on myself 1061 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,000 Speaker 4: and it was like make or break, Like, all right, 1062 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,040 Speaker 4: if I don't do this, I ain't paying my bills 1063 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,479 Speaker 4: like you feel me even when if I go shoot dice, 1064 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,560 Speaker 4: like if I don't make this money, I'm going home. 1065 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,160 Speaker 4: I'm really about to cheat you for real. I'm going 1066 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,560 Speaker 4: home and pay my bills for real. So I'm about 1067 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,640 Speaker 4: to do like I ain't about to do no whole 1068 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,440 Speaker 4: shit to a nigga, nothing like that. But I'm for sure. 1069 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,080 Speaker 3: I got to win. 1070 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,560 Speaker 4: I got it win Like, this's no other options, no plan, 1071 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,759 Speaker 4: beat this ship like I gotta win. 1072 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:39,880 Speaker 3: So the fear like that's what you what? 1073 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:41,560 Speaker 1: We got? One more more? 1074 00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,560 Speaker 6: What's going on your my nay instinkface. I'm a DJ 1075 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,880 Speaker 6: engineer and producer, and my question I'm doing, not how 1076 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,080 Speaker 6: you doing? My question is for you, bro, what's the 1077 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,440 Speaker 6: most direct route for me to get some beats to you? 1078 00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,200 Speaker 3: Uh? Day in this front row? Right here? Oh there 1079 00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,440 Speaker 3: go wine Wine, raise your hand. That's my managerog want. 1080 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:04,280 Speaker 2: In a white T shirt. 1081 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,000 Speaker 6: Appreciate you? 1082 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:06,640 Speaker 3: Nah? 1083 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,439 Speaker 9: I like that? How you have been there? 1084 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:11,319 Speaker 3: Yeah? 1085 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:12,719 Speaker 2: We got yeah, we got some more more? 1086 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:13,040 Speaker 1: One more? 1087 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,279 Speaker 3: Let's go, Hey, what's handling man? 1088 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,839 Speaker 13: My name is Jay from the A the City Boys podcast. 1089 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:19,719 Speaker 3: Shout out. 1090 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,160 Speaker 13: My question to you is I heard Future say that 1091 00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,680 Speaker 13: he found the glitch in the matrix. So my question 1092 00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,000 Speaker 13: to you is, how did you hack your brain to 1093 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,520 Speaker 13: find that focus or find that avenue to be successful. 1094 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:37,560 Speaker 3: That's a good question, that is a great question. I 1095 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,319 Speaker 3: feel like success come with sacrifice. 1096 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,759 Speaker 4: I was just talking about earlier, like I lost my 1097 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,000 Speaker 4: whole childhood to this shit, like I swear to God, 1098 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,399 Speaker 4: Like when I was fifteen, my whole family got mad 1099 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,920 Speaker 4: because I stopped playing basketball and shit like that. But 1100 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 4: like I figured out that I didn't. I loved basketball, 1101 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,160 Speaker 4: but I ain't love that will come with it. I 1102 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,880 Speaker 4: found something I love. I was like doing music, and 1103 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,759 Speaker 4: I just put my all into one thing. You feel me, 1104 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,200 Speaker 4: And I said, my life is gonna be based if 1105 00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,240 Speaker 4: I'm gonna do something, they gonna know me for music, 1106 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,319 Speaker 4: like they gonna know me for this, Like I don't 1107 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:14,000 Speaker 4: give a fuck if I'm an ass wrapper terrible, you 1108 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,439 Speaker 4: gonna know me for trying hard doing this. I'm gonna 1109 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,279 Speaker 4: keep doing this shit. You gonna know me for this shit. 1110 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,319 Speaker 4: And eventually, like when you put ten thousand dollars in 1111 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:23,160 Speaker 4: you're gonna get. 1112 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,440 Speaker 3: Better, like you're gonna you feel me. 1113 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,240 Speaker 4: It's just put your head down and you just run 1114 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,799 Speaker 4: with something like you feel me eventually gonna be successful. 1115 00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,600 Speaker 4: And I think that's what it is. It's like people 1116 00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,279 Speaker 4: lose focused when they like when you take an ill 1117 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,480 Speaker 4: or you you like, everything don't go your way. You 1118 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,160 Speaker 4: get discouraged. And I feel like that's the biggest thing 1119 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,840 Speaker 4: with what like with her question, like the fear, like 1120 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:52,439 Speaker 4: people fear failure, but failure breeds success, Like I'm gonna 1121 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,960 Speaker 4: feel a hundred times, but I'm gonna keep getting back up. 1122 00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:55,839 Speaker 3: It's just like a fight. 1123 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,239 Speaker 4: A nigga might not want to fight, you know, he 1124 00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,520 Speaker 4: might beat your ass, but if he knows you're gonna 1125 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,080 Speaker 4: hear him hard than his shit, he gonna stop trying 1126 00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:05,640 Speaker 4: to just run up on you though, Like if you 1127 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,439 Speaker 4: I'm going to succeed one of them times, I'm gonna 1128 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:09,920 Speaker 4: get up and I'm gonna beat you the fuck it. 1129 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,600 Speaker 4: So that's what you just gotta go with your mindset 1130 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:13,080 Speaker 4: like that. 1131 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:18,279 Speaker 5: Fact words some skiller baby word some skiller baby at 1132 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,640 Speaker 5: Revote World, Man, we appreciate you coming to chop it. 1133 00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,080 Speaker 5: Up with us. 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