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Speaker 1: What's up, my brother? How you feeling?
Speaker 3: I'm good. How you doing?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: You you're stacking up a lot of wins. We're gonna
Speaker 5: talk about the wins when we actually we're gonna start
Speaker 5: this conversation by talking to you about you know, you
Speaker 5: got a strong hold on the females.
Speaker 1: Man. You got a big female fan base.
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: Is that is that by accident or design?
Speaker 4: I mean I kind of I grew up with all women,
Speaker 4: so like I do it's like subconsciously. I don't think
Speaker 4: I do it on purpose, but I do it like subconsciously.
Speaker 4: I was in another interview, I was I think I
Speaker 4: was a gilly. I was telling them like how I
Speaker 4: used to like I used to have a problem with
Speaker 4: like women authority, like when I was younger, and then
Speaker 4: like I had to grow out of it, like kind
Speaker 4: of like my daddy used to just be telling me
Speaker 4: I got like one mama and stuff like that. And
Speaker 4: then because I had like resentment towards my mom because
Speaker 4: she like it was like once another man came in
Speaker 4: her life and stuff, it was like I ain't want
Speaker 4: to share. So then yeah, when I got older, it
Speaker 4: was just like I had to learn that my mama
Speaker 4: needed a life too. But I was always taught to
Speaker 4: like respect women, protect, provide stuff like that, So it was.
Speaker 7: Like, but you kind of felt like like y'all were
Speaker 7: all y'all had, and she didn't really have any business
Speaker 7: including anybody else in.
Speaker 3: That mixed fact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I grew up it was me, my mom
Speaker 4: and my sisters for the lonestly Like yeah, like and
Speaker 4: I'm the baby though, but I'm the only boy. I'm
Speaker 4: an old boy in the house. So like I had
Speaker 4: to move with my dad to teach me like certain
Speaker 4: values because you can't get it from a woman, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: a woman can't teach you how to be a man,
Speaker 4: so a certain extent, Yeah, you're right, Yeah, Like it's
Speaker 4: just certain things men can do that you can teach
Speaker 4: a man that a woman would never be able to
Speaker 4: relate to because she's not a she's not a man.
Speaker 4: So it's like certain certain habits and stuff I was
Speaker 4: picking up. It was kind of girly and stuff like
Speaker 4: that that my dad just wasn't having it like you
Speaker 4: feel me. So, yeah, I just moved my dad. I
Speaker 4: got certain values from that and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: So how do you feel about it?
Speaker 7: When people say or like make the A lot of
Speaker 7: men that grow up in single parent households raised by
Speaker 7: women are kind of bitchy and kind of bitchy.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think it's stereotypes really are it'd be.
Speaker 2: Some emotional more emotional certain stuff.
Speaker 3: Just to it.
Speaker 4: Because you got to think like as a kid, when
Speaker 4: you're growing up, you a sponge.
Speaker 3: You don't know what you you don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 4: What life is. All things like even that's learned behavior.
Speaker 4: That ain't something that you know coming out the womb.
Speaker 4: Like I want to be racist. If I come out
Speaker 4: the womb and my mama told me you always evil
Speaker 4: and y' always against everything we stood for, I would
Speaker 4: believe that because of everything. I think your parents like
Speaker 4: God to you like, so all that's learned behavior. So
Speaker 4: even if for men, if he's growing up with.
Speaker 3: All girls, that's that's.
Speaker 2: Why I was trying to That's why you had to live.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like certain tendencies you're gonna pick up, Like like
Speaker 4: if I stay in the South too long, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have an accent exactly. So if I'm if a baby
Speaker 4: is around women, young men is around women too much,
Speaker 4: he gonna pick up those certain values that they just
Speaker 4: have naturally and they ain't even trying to push it
Speaker 4: off on them.
Speaker 3: But that's just them being a woman. And that's all,
Speaker 3: you know, That's.
Speaker 2: Just an environment.
Speaker 8: Hey, Outside of that, what's some things you feel like
Speaker 8: you had to unlearn along the way, just you know
Speaker 8: what I'm saying. Some you know how we create habits
Speaker 8: within ourselveom not knowing what's some things that you grew
Speaker 8: old and you like, man, I gotta I can't do
Speaker 8: that no more.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 4: I was content for a long time, Like I was
Speaker 4: just content with like life and stuff like that. But
Speaker 4: now I'm like, I'm just more intuitive and I'm ana
Speaker 4: go get her. Just like for the longest I felt
Speaker 4: entitlement and stuff like that, I had to grow out
Speaker 4: of that and stuff like that. So that's certain certain
Speaker 4: things like that I just had to grow out of it.
Speaker 5: So it's skill a baby. This is from an old
Speaker 5: rant I think you did on Twitter. I don't know
Speaker 5: if he was playing a serious or whatever. The case is,
Speaker 5: are you anti bbls when it comes to the females.
Speaker 3: I like women exactly how they are.
Speaker 4: I don't really trip like if I like you, it'd
Speaker 4: be more like it'd be more or less I'm a
Speaker 4: because you can look the best in the world to me,
Speaker 4: and you can irritate my soul, so I wouldn't even
Speaker 4: want to be around you.
Speaker 3: So it's not really like.
Speaker 4: It's not really like, of course, like the first first
Speaker 4: meeting a person.
Speaker 3: You'd be like, damn, she looked good, like you feel me.
Speaker 4: I don't got like I didn't talk to girls without bbls,
Speaker 4: I didn't talk to girls with bbl's or it ain't
Speaker 4: like that's a requirement for to talk to me, you know,
Speaker 4: I just like off the first five minutes. I probably
Speaker 4: know if I like you, you probably talking about something I
Speaker 4: don't even want to talk about.
Speaker 7: And then speaking of like your major connection with women.
Speaker 7: You recently collaborated with Tayana Taylor for creative direction.
Speaker 2: How did that come about? And how is that going?
Speaker 4: I DMed her because I just hearing about how talented
Speaker 4: she is. I saw her Usher tribute. I be paying attention,
Speaker 4: I be studying music like you know people's declines, people
Speaker 4: uphills like you know, so I'll just be paying attention
Speaker 4: of what can take me to the next level. Like
Speaker 4: I ain't one of them people that just feel like
Speaker 4: I can do it all.
Speaker 3: I would rather be helped.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're gonna go far like that.
Speaker 3: I just rather be helped.
Speaker 4: I see she worked with a lot of people, and
Speaker 4: I see her creative direction. It takes people up here.
Speaker 4: I've never seen it, like nobody decline.
Speaker 3: That's what. That's all right, that's all right?
Speaker 5: What is because what what? What defines a bad chick?
Speaker 5: What makes a bad chick bad? What puts the bad
Speaker 5: in bad chick?
Speaker 4: To skill a baby me, I just like real women,
Speaker 4: I want something soft. I don't really want nothing that
Speaker 4: want to be a street And you're like, I won't
Speaker 4: like you feel me. I didn't been in the streets
Speaker 4: my whole life, So.
Speaker 5: It was like a female is like sliding a ride
Speaker 5: into some like street shit, some hardcore street that's a
Speaker 5: turnoff for you.
Speaker 3: No, that ain't no turnoff. What you like is what
Speaker 3: you like.
Speaker 4: But like, just don't be in a mix, like you
Speaker 4: ain't gotta be a you ain't got to do the
Speaker 4: same shit I'm doing being.
Speaker 3: Outside doing all that, Like I ain't really into that.
Speaker 4: I like, no, I just like coming home to a
Speaker 4: lady that cook clean, play in my hair, like baby me.
Speaker 3: I want to be baby.
Speaker 9: So I don't know, like I ain't having like.
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, newfound success and fame. What's
Speaker 8: some of the obstacles and temptations that you have to shake?
Speaker 4: I mean just being so young and having a little
Speaker 4: like miud success. I want to be young, like I
Speaker 4: want to go do what young guys do, Like I
Speaker 4: want to go party. I want to go do all that.
Speaker 4: But it's a lot of people that just depend on me,
Speaker 4: so I can't just go do wild stuff or go
Speaker 4: do with everything.
Speaker 3: I want to do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4: I just be I'm really a granddaddy for real, for real,
Speaker 4: like everybody I hang with probably thirty forty. So I
Speaker 4: want to be super turn and young and go out
Speaker 4: every night. And I want to do that, but like
Speaker 4: my mama, bills be due like my mama, like big houses,
Speaker 4: nice cars.
Speaker 5: How you protect your energy, like how you stop yourself
Speaker 5: from like reacting to shit that you might see on
Speaker 5: social media that'll take your energy. One place or whatever
Speaker 5: the case is, because you always seem pretty calm and
Speaker 5: cool and collected and like, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: you don't be rattled.
Speaker 4: I mean I went through a lot, so like when
Speaker 4: stuff be negative and I can't control it, I don't
Speaker 4: try to control it.
Speaker 3: I just let it be.
Speaker 4: I don't stress over nothing I can't control. If I
Speaker 4: can control it, like narratives and stuff like that, I try.
Speaker 4: I try my hardest. If I care about it, I
Speaker 4: explain myself. If I don't, I won't say nothing. So
Speaker 4: that's just really what it is. A lot of stuff
Speaker 4: is what it is. And then I just been put
Speaker 4: in certain predicaments and situations where I just being calm just.
Speaker 3: Got me out of it.
Speaker 7: So when it comes to like your personal situations, is
Speaker 7: it easier for you to just try to block it
Speaker 7: out and ignore it completely or do you have to
Speaker 7: deal with it so that it doesn't come back up again?
Speaker 4: It depends on what it is you got to get.
Speaker 4: Like an example of a personal situation.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, like something with a female, like with a female,
Speaker 2: like what.
Speaker 7: Like okay, like like a like a female that you're
Speaker 7: dealing with and you guys have a disagreement about fucking anything,
Speaker 7: like anything like like something that may be like minuscule
Speaker 7: or minor to you, but it's a big deal to her,
Speaker 7: and she continues to make a big deal about it.
Speaker 7: But you don't understand why she keeps making a big
Speaker 7: deal about this.
Speaker 4: I mean, I grew up with a lot of women,
Speaker 4: so I know they make a big deal out of
Speaker 4: like minor stuff, but it's a big deal to them.
Speaker 4: So if I can, I will try to change it.
Speaker 4: If I can't, I can't. I can't help it. But
Speaker 4: as a man, I feel like you should pay attention
Speaker 4: to the woman that you you're dealing with, what.
Speaker 3: She like, what she values and stuff.
Speaker 4: So a lot of times you can, but a lot
Speaker 4: of times you can't, Like you got to, like when
Speaker 4: you're dealing with people who got to make sacrifices.
Speaker 3: Like if that's on both ends, right.
Speaker 8: What's the biggest shift since you you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 8: You got on what's the biggest shift in your life?
Speaker 4: The biggest shift in my life is like dealing with
Speaker 4: family and friends, people being titled it they expectations be
Speaker 4: like real high, but they be forgetting that it's a
Speaker 4: hundred people that expectations high. So I try to do
Speaker 4: what people need and not what they want. But a
Speaker 4: lot of people don't get that because they're not in
Speaker 4: like my position. So I try to explain it and
Speaker 4: deal with it as I can. But a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't understand that once you get success, it's one
Speaker 4: hundred people that needs you. I got three people that's
Speaker 4: in the face. I got my mama, I got me,
Speaker 4: I got females that I'm dealing with.
Speaker 3: I got my friends, I got my uncles.
Speaker 4: I got everybody. But since let's say I'm dealing with
Speaker 4: you and Jay. Yeah, but Jay well off and you
Speaker 4: might not be. She feels like, because we are family,
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to do what I did for you for her.
Speaker 4: But you need more than she need.
Speaker 9: You know, Yeah, you maintain peace and control your sanity though.
Speaker 4: I stay away from people, keep my circle small. I
Speaker 4: love everybody, but I just people don't understand. So once
Speaker 4: I figured that out, I just stay away from people. Uh,
Speaker 4: And that just helped me stay sane because I'm a
Speaker 4: care and I just try not to care.
Speaker 3: But if I'm around you.
Speaker 4: Like, I can't be around you and watch you go
Speaker 4: through something and not feel it.
Speaker 8: Do you think being being in a committed relationship and
Speaker 8: being an artist.
Speaker 9: Is like hated for hated for artists.
Speaker 3: It's hard, especially for a person like me.
Speaker 4: You gotta think, like my whole like come up as
Speaker 4: better based off girls, So you gotta think the temptation
Speaker 4: is there every day, Like every day, it's all all
Speaker 4: the way around me, and I try to be selective
Speaker 4: pick and chools, but it's hard for anybody. You got
Speaker 4: to understand that we ain't living in a world where
Speaker 4: you got to go outside to meet somebody.
Speaker 3: My dream girl could dm meet every day.
Speaker 4: There could be five of them, like you know, so
Speaker 4: it's tempt it's tempting, but I try to stay away
Speaker 4: from that type of stuff.
Speaker 8: How hard is to believe that somebody flow you and
Speaker 8: you successful?
Speaker 9: How hard is for you to believe like they really
Speaker 9: want you?
Speaker 3: I go off energy.
Speaker 4: I'm an energy guy, so I ain't really like a
Speaker 4: person that's going to be like I could meet you
Speaker 4: today and like trust you more than a person I
Speaker 4: knew for ten years, and then I'm an energy guy.
Speaker 4: I go off, how I watch you treat other people,
Speaker 4: how you treat me, what you say, I'm like one
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about some of these wins and
Speaker 5: I want to see how you how you feel or
Speaker 5: felt when you first discovered these wins. First off, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four Double XXLF Freshman Class Salute on that. Well
Speaker 5: you got that information. How does that feel? You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, That's a big accomplishment.
Speaker 4: It felt great because I felt like I was solidified
Speaker 4: and solidifying myself in like hip hop, like because everybody
Speaker 4: don't make it. I like doing stuff that everybody don't
Speaker 4: do or can't do. So that was like big for me,
Speaker 4: especially being from Detroit, Like we had a couple winners
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, but like we really like the
Speaker 4: last few artists that have been selected for XXCL, like
Speaker 4: we're really in the streets, like I'd have seen these
Speaker 4: guys growing up, like I'd have been shot at i'dn't
Speaker 4: been shot, Like you gotta think like that, like this
Speaker 4: big for me, Like everything I do be big for
Speaker 4: me because like bro, I don't feel like I was
Speaker 4: supposed to do.
Speaker 7: So do you feel like the Double XL Freshman cover
Speaker 7: Nation and like being picked to be on that is
Speaker 7: like the Rap Niggas starter Kid in the first step
Speaker 7: to get into Grammy.
Speaker 3: No, not at all. I don't feel like everybody that's
Speaker 3: on XX artist or a great.
Speaker 7: Rapper, but nah, But I mean it's just like getting
Speaker 7: that recognition. Do you feel like that can push people
Speaker 7: to motivate them to want to go harder to get
Speaker 7: to that Grammy status.
Speaker 4: No, because some people it depends on what you're rapping
Speaker 4: for or what you're doing music for Some people in
Speaker 4: it like it's different levels to music. Like some people
Speaker 4: not gonna take that step to be like all right,
Speaker 4: I need creative direction. I'm not that creative feel me.
Speaker 4: It's all type of steps that you need to take,
Speaker 4: like some people. Some people in it for the money.
Speaker 4: Some people don't want to be stadium artists. Some people
Speaker 4: don't take their time to have stage presence or give
Speaker 4: them a good show.
Speaker 3: Like it's all what you're in it for. Some people
Speaker 3: just want the money or know the right.
Speaker 1: They said any else.
Speaker 5: Another win is something that had to feel good was
Speaker 5: throwing the first pitch at the Detroit game, right, how
Speaker 5: they feel being from Detroit to being able.
Speaker 1: To do that.
Speaker 3: No, that was bigger than XXL to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because this whole town.
Speaker 4: Yeah, only because like with the Tigers. That's not like
Speaker 4: that's our team, but they don't do a lot of
Speaker 4: urban acts and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Like so you got to be special to do some
Speaker 2: shit like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Like I feel like.
Speaker 4: Culturally, like our culture and Detroit like far as hip
Speaker 4: hop and music were not accepted by everybody, you know,
Speaker 4: because a lot of stuff be true that people talking
Speaker 4: about a lot of people scared of Detroit. Like it's
Speaker 4: just we got this narrative on this that people try
Speaker 4: to stay away from us.
Speaker 8: What's the shit you've seen in this industry? You'd be like, man,
Speaker 8: i'mna stay away from that.
Speaker 4: Oh, a lot of people be fake, a lot of
Speaker 4: people be tender. Like a lot of people be doing
Speaker 4: all types of stuff. A person's people in this industry
Speaker 4: that just say stuff just to talk. I'm not a
Speaker 4: person like that. Like you know, people be going behind
Speaker 4: people back and doing stuff. I'm like, what you see
Speaker 4: is what you get. Like when they come to me, Like,
Speaker 4: if I don't like you, I'm not gonna say nothing
Speaker 4: to you. I'm gonna work past you. If I do
Speaker 4: fuck with you, I'm gonna fuck with you for real.
Speaker 4: Can't nobody tell me nothing wrong about you? I ain't
Speaker 4: gonna be talking about you behind I ain't talk about
Speaker 4: nobody that I don't like behind their back, like you
Speaker 4: gonna hear from me like this is just how I am.
Speaker 4: But like stuff like that, like a girl can listen
Speaker 4: to your music, say your name, Nah, a nigga don't
Speaker 4: like you, but it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 7: So, like speaking of Detroit and like a lot of
Speaker 7: things that you've been doing in the city. One of
Speaker 7: the things that a lot of people might not know
Speaker 7: about is you did a fifty thousand dollars gun buy
Speaker 7: back that took a lot a lot of weapons off
Speaker 7: the street. So what what kind of like motivated you
Speaker 7: to do that? And how did that really? Like be
Speaker 7: successful and come about?
Speaker 4: Always said, when I got successful, did anything, I ain't
Speaker 4: gonna lie I looked up to the neighborhood dope man
Speaker 4: like but like it wasn't like because he's so dope.
Speaker 4: Like it was because like when I was growing up,
Speaker 4: the dope man took care of the neighborhood like you
Speaker 4: feel me. So I always wanted to take care of
Speaker 4: my neighborhood like you know. So when I got successful,
Speaker 4: I ain't want to just keep eating off people I
Speaker 4: want to the same people that's pouring into me. I
Speaker 4: wanted them to feel like they can make it too,
Speaker 4: like you know, so, and then we got a lot
Speaker 4: of violence. I'm a vict I'm a victim of good violence,
Speaker 4: so that was important to me.
Speaker 3: But I do more than that, Like I.
Speaker 4: Give pull up to the kids schools, give them shoes.
Speaker 4: I'm not a person that just gonna broadcast it dope,
Speaker 4: but there's something I'm looking to do every month, every day,
Speaker 4: like regardless, I'm helping people.
Speaker 7: And speaking of the schools, you've alsold two things that
Speaker 7: I want to like make sure that everybody knows about
Speaker 7: that they might not know. On an annual yearly basis,
Speaker 7: you pick five students and give them twenty thousand apiece
Speaker 7: to help with their college essentials and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, send people to Prime and then get I gave.
Speaker 2: And you send the you send the girl and her
Speaker 2: date to get like you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah it turned out yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: But I just remember being in high school and I
Speaker 4: needed stuff like that. So I don't just want to
Speaker 4: be standy, Like I make a lot of money off music,
Speaker 4: so it's like, and I be nothing without the people
Speaker 4: that listen to my music. I'm nothing, so like giving
Speaker 4: back to them is nothing to me, because like I'm
Speaker 4: not literally nothing without them, Like they changed my life.
Speaker 8: Yes, what you think make you unique? Like make everybody
Speaker 8: stand out from everybody else.
Speaker 4: I think everybody else is more like into the hype
Speaker 4: and I'm not, and people think like I'm a regular
Speaker 4: person than I am.
Speaker 3: Like I try to show people that I'm regular.
Speaker 4: I don't do drugs, I don't drink like so like
Speaker 4: when people everybody else being extra, I'm not like I'm
Speaker 4: just I'm a cool guy.
Speaker 3: I just want to I walk around a lot.
Speaker 4: With no security, people can touch me. I take five
Speaker 4: hundred pictures of a day. It's just cool. Like I'm
Speaker 4: just grateful to be here. So I don't be looking
Speaker 4: at the celebrity as like I'm better than nobody. I
Speaker 4: only feel like fame just me more people know me
Speaker 4: than that know you. I don't feel like that define
Speaker 4: me as better than you. I feel like a lot
Speaker 4: of people walk around with that that he's on they
Speaker 4: chest like they superman.
Speaker 3: But I just feel like I'm just blessed for them.
Speaker 9: Nah, for real.
Speaker 5: Another one of the big wins I forgot to mention
Speaker 5: is nominated for twenty twenty four b T Hip Hop
Speaker 5: or Breakthrough Artists.
Speaker 1: Right, it's big, that's big.
Speaker 5: Clap it up, you know what I'm saying. We got
Speaker 5: to clap it up. How does that feel? And it
Speaker 5: doesn't feel like like man win and lose is a
Speaker 5: win regardless. Just to be in that conversation.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's big to me only because like I've
Speaker 4: been watching BET since I was a kid, like this stuff.
Speaker 4: I never imagined myself doing like being on BET, going
Speaker 4: to the awards, being a part of the awards, like
Speaker 4: I've been going to the awards for the last couple
Speaker 4: of years, and then I told myself this year like
Speaker 4: if they invite me, I ain't going unless I'm part
Speaker 4: of it. So I guess that was like God just
Speaker 4: telling me, like go like you hear me. So that's
Speaker 4: that was big. Like I can name my favorite moments
Speaker 4: at BT, like when Chris Brown did to Michael Jackson
Speaker 4: tribute and cried like that's just like big to me.
Speaker 4: So you performing, No, I ain't performing, but i'ma be there.
Speaker 1: That's all that matter.
Speaker 7: So another thing as far as like city stuff in
Speaker 7: Detroit that you're really big on, it's real estate.
Speaker 2: I heard you have like a couple of apartment buildings.
Speaker 2: You got like eight houses.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of real estate and Detroit.
Speaker 7: But so do you have any like plans to do
Speaker 7: development on a larger scale or do you want to
Speaker 7: just kind of keep it like smaller commercial and the
Speaker 7: residential side.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm gonna do larger commercial stuff. It's just you
Speaker 4: gotta build your portfolio to that.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I'm like one of the youngest black developers in Detroit.
Speaker 4: So like, you gotta build your portfolio.
Speaker 2: That's big, y'all. Cone, we need to get some wine
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 4: You gotta build any of that though, like they don't.
Speaker 4: You got to prove yourself, like when it comes to that,
Speaker 4: like you got to think that's like that's like a
Speaker 4: it's kind of.
Speaker 3: Like of a white people's sport.
Speaker 4: Like sure, today most of them buildings and stuff, like
Speaker 4: they've been on for a hundred years.
Speaker 3: So like right now they're trying to sell me a
Speaker 3: hotel and stuff.
Speaker 4: But you gotta understand, like when you're buying a hotel,
Speaker 4: it's not just you buying a building. It's five million
Speaker 4: got to go into it just to fix it up.
Speaker 3: Stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So like finding investments and investors that believe in you
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. You got to prove yourself, like
Speaker 4: you gotta like this is what I'm about. This how
Speaker 4: fast I can.
Speaker 3: Get this done? So that's just what it is about.
Speaker 5: Okay, what else those you got outside of the music,
Speaker 5: like goals you want to accomplish outside of just you know,
Speaker 5: hip hop and that culture.
Speaker 4: I just want to be like, I want to be multifaceted,
Speaker 4: So like I be doing all type of stuff, Like
Speaker 4: every every week, two days out of the week, I
Speaker 4: go to acting class, I go to do all type
Speaker 4: of stuff, Like I just be wanting to do everything. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll be doing everything. I ain't like, I want to
Speaker 4: be a cultural icon one day. So when people just
Speaker 4: be talking about me about music and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: they don't even be knowing. I don't really care because
Speaker 4: like my whole mind is expanded to some whole other
Speaker 4: stuff that nobody can't even fathom.
Speaker 3: Like that, I'm thinking.
Speaker 9: About who the goat from Detroit?
Speaker 4: Yeah see this is like a conversation like far as what,
Speaker 4: Like I got in trouble all.
Speaker 8: The time, go to Detroit. It no matter what they did,
Speaker 8: they ain't gotta be no rapper. It ain't gotta be nothing.
Speaker 8: It's just like when it comes.
Speaker 4: When it comes to being a gangsters meet, when it
Speaker 4: comes to being a uh multi selling artists, eminem when
Speaker 4: it's come to breaking doors down his teeth. When it
Speaker 4: comes to being different, it's sada. When it comes to
Speaker 4: being a street nigga that made it, it's dad, like
Speaker 4: you feel me. When it comes to Empire women, it's
Speaker 4: meat like it's different.
Speaker 9: Big shot, that's solid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these different like everybody everybody got like everybody goes
Speaker 4: to their own in their own lane. You feel me
Speaker 4: because everybody doing different stuff, Like you know.
Speaker 3: That's all right?
Speaker 5: And speaking of Detroit and ghost Ship, like, is it
Speaker 5: October second? Is your big birthday?
Speaker 1: Badge?
Speaker 5: Every time I open my Instagram, that's all I say
Speaker 5: is about your birthday. It's making me want to pop
Speaker 5: out to it. A man, tell us a little bit
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 4: Oh last year I started it, I saw like five
Speaker 4: six thousand tickets, but like the city has shut me
Speaker 4: down and stuff, so I had to like that's how
Speaker 4: I start getting to like being.
Speaker 1: Shut you down? What you mean they shut you down
Speaker 1: in the middle of some of that.
Speaker 7: Because weren't you having problems with like the police officer,
Speaker 7: like one particular police officer, So what the hell, Like
Speaker 7: did you get that resolved?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They felt like so bomb.
Speaker 4: They felt like since how my name was coming up
Speaker 4: and a lot of stuff, they felt like that that
Speaker 4: I was the reason a lot of stuff was happening.
Speaker 3: But but you're a great person.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, I feel like this unless you catch
Speaker 4: me in an actor doing something I ain't doing, so
Speaker 4: don't don't put that on me like he give I
Speaker 4: get back to my community and do all this type
Speaker 4: of stuff. So I don't feel like they should have
Speaker 4: did it. But I looked at I like I played
Speaker 4: Devil's advocate, So like if somebody my name do keep
Speaker 4: coming up and stuff, I gotta accept what come with that.
Speaker 4: But that come with like anything with success. So I
Speaker 4: took my time with it this year, and I just
Speaker 4: I actually get with the police. I do like the
Speaker 4: gun buybacks and stuff like that, just to build a
Speaker 4: relationship with them because I'm out the streets. I ain't
Speaker 4: but I told them like I ain't telling them nobody.
Speaker 4: So that's why I really got in trouble, Like that's
Speaker 4: why I was really the police was against me because
Speaker 4: they thinking I'm gonna tell on somebody.
Speaker 3: But I ain't like that.
Speaker 4: I wasn't raised like that, So I just do stuff
Speaker 4: with them to be proactive, Like I help get the
Speaker 4: guns off the streets I'm pulling up if they hadn't
Speaker 4: like events.
Speaker 2: For the buying them donuts and shit.
Speaker 4: No, but I do stuff like I buy like that
Speaker 4: uniforms and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I do like that.
Speaker 8: Do you think do you think an artist can be
Speaker 8: successful one feed in, one feed out the streets?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, it depends on what you define the success though,
Speaker 4: Like what's your definition.
Speaker 9: Like a stadium stadium artist?
Speaker 3: Not for real? Not for real?
Speaker 4: You can, but you can't because like your focus not
Speaker 4: gonna be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a full time sport.
Speaker 4: This ain't this ain't you got to think like this
Speaker 4: a billion dollar industry?
Speaker 9: How hard was it? A transition?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 4: It was very hard because you gotta think, like I
Speaker 4: came up at a time where I had just got shot,
Speaker 4: I'm beefing hard, I'm doing all type of stuff, So like.
Speaker 3: It was hard for me like just letting go.
Speaker 8: Do you how hard is it to like be normal
Speaker 8: now knowing that the people just because you changed and
Speaker 8: you successful now.
Speaker 9: The people that's upset ain't changing successful yet.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like it's hard for me to I
Speaker 4: think people around me want me to be less normal
Speaker 4: than I want to be normal, Like I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: normal regardless, like people wanting me to walk around like
Speaker 4: and weird, Like all right, I'm doing this. I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm doing a job. I might be good at
Speaker 4: my job, but it's just a job.
Speaker 3: It ain't.
Speaker 4: It don't define me like it do, but it don't
Speaker 4: like this ain't this don't like I said, it don't
Speaker 4: make me better than nobody.
Speaker 3: This is just my job.
Speaker 8: No, I'm saying, like you know how they say like
Speaker 8: like your past can come back to you, like how
Speaker 8: you deal with that mentally knowing that you're on a
Speaker 8: different path, but you also live this life. So when
Speaker 8: you go back home and the same people there, how
Speaker 8: like how is that like the.
Speaker 7: Same niggas you were into it with the same niggas
Speaker 7: that didn't like you and all that kind of shit.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like they gonna they really weren't like you.
Speaker 4: Gotta think they fans now, A lot of the fans,
Speaker 4: but then a lot of stuff, like any like any
Speaker 4: street guy, you just gotta lay down, Yo, you feel
Speaker 4: me like, it's just you gotta let people people don't
Speaker 4: understand in the urban community. Stop they don't understand. Stop,
Speaker 4: don't mess with me. Please, don't mess with me. They
Speaker 4: don't understand it. So then you gotta go a different rail.
Speaker 4: But I try to stay away from people so I
Speaker 4: won't have to do that type of stuff. But my
Speaker 4: problem is is I go to events by myself. I
Speaker 4: still try to be regular, like my little cousin, the
Speaker 4: number one quarterback in the nation. I gotta go to
Speaker 4: these football games, and everybody not coming with me.
Speaker 3: I'm going by myself sometimes.
Speaker 4: So it just be stuff like that where people will
Speaker 4: feel like are he accessible? But then it's just stuff
Speaker 4: going And then you feel like how you balance that
Speaker 4: shit though? Like far as what like how you balance
Speaker 4: it out?
Speaker 8: Like mentally, like knowing that it's haters out there in
Speaker 8: your city that hate you for the old you? How
Speaker 8: do you balancee like being out by yourself and doing
Speaker 8: all that do whatever be on your mental.
Speaker 4: I put God first. Facts feel like nothing that gonna
Speaker 4: happen to that God don't want to them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do you deal with any like nervousness or anxiety
Speaker 5: at all is when it comes to anything performing or
Speaker 5: a big moment or anything like that, do you deal
Speaker 5: with it at all?
Speaker 4: Not performing, I got social anxiety. Like if I'm around,
Speaker 4: Like if I perform in front of fifty thousand people,
Speaker 4: I'm cool, Like I was on Travis Scott tour. I
Speaker 4: was doing that like it was cool. I could do
Speaker 4: my job, But like socially.
Speaker 7: I'm awkward, Like the same shit with me, like in
Speaker 7: a like in a club setting or in a setting
Speaker 7: where it's like too closed in or like too many people.
Speaker 4: Seeing me the other day at Copper Cove, like I
Speaker 4: just I can move around. If you talk to me,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to you. But like I'm just not
Speaker 4: just like okay, yeah. It's like I'm not seeking it,
Speaker 4: Like it's not like something I'm to die for. Like
Speaker 4: I just want to be regular sometimes I just want
Speaker 4: to be around people and just have a good time,
Speaker 4: like enjoying myself. I like seeing people happy. That's what
Speaker 4: makes me happy.
Speaker 5: Like if you could be a rapper and never be
Speaker 5: seen and be successful, would you do that?
Speaker 3: Never be seen?
Speaker 1: You just a voice?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like kind of like how her was exactly. I
Speaker 3: do that for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 9: You got to know that my ship ain't.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even wear a dreary if I ain't, like,
Speaker 4: if it was like pivotal to what I got going on.
Speaker 4: I'm not like a diehard, Like I'm not like, I'm
Speaker 4: not like that. I come from like a sports background,
Speaker 4: so like I wouldn't even be wearing clothes and doing
Speaker 4: all that.
Speaker 3: I just you know what I'm saying. I wouldn't like be.
Speaker 4: Buying special clothes and stuff like you feel me like
Speaker 4: I'd be chilling, Like I'm a chill guy. Like I
Speaker 4: sit at home, like my house always clean because I
Speaker 4: don't go around my house.
Speaker 3: I just be in one room.
Speaker 8: It's it's crazy you said that, because how important is
Speaker 8: it you feel like it is to look the part
Speaker 8: like you got all these hit songs, all these accoladesy
Speaker 8: just so when I see you, do you feel like
Speaker 8: I have to see you? You get what I'm saying,
Speaker 8: you saying, I wouldn't even I wouldn't even be into
Speaker 8: that if I ain't have to do that, right, it.
Speaker 3: Depends on what setting. Like.
Speaker 4: In the right setting, you might catch me with some
Speaker 4: bullshit on like the real but like my manager had
Speaker 4: to force me to like, yeah, you gotta start putting
Speaker 4: clothes on and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So and then like.
Speaker 4: Culturally, like from Detroit, like people like to wear clothes
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 3: But me personally, I'm not really that type of guy.
Speaker 3: I'm chill.
Speaker 4: I like to sit in the background. I still like
Speaker 4: I'm sitting in a club, people looking at me. I
Speaker 4: got my shades on. I'm watching the whole club like,
Speaker 4: I ain't even I don't really think about some bullshit
Speaker 4: for real, I ain't even like you know, I ain't
Speaker 4: think about nothing else.
Speaker 3: I got my shades on. They think I'm high, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm looking you dead and yo, I you don't even
Speaker 4: know like I'm that tarfect guy.
Speaker 7: So let me ask you this because another thing that
Speaker 7: a lot of people out here might not know. You
Speaker 7: have a very extensive writing credit list for a lot
Speaker 7: of people. Yeah, So, being that we were just talking
Speaker 7: about being like a faceless rapper or whatever, would you
Speaker 7: ever get to a point where you would be tired
Speaker 7: of rapping and you would be cool just doing your
Speaker 7: writing things for all the people that you've done writing.
Speaker 4: For for sure if I like, because I look at
Speaker 4: music like as an industry and a business, I don't
Speaker 4: look at it like, all right, I'm supposed to be
Speaker 4: the biggest rapper in the world. I want to Should
Speaker 4: I go make beats, play the keyboard anything like? Yeah,
Speaker 4: people don't understand how much money people be making. I
Speaker 4: actually got the writing ship because I was studying how
Speaker 4: Future was doing it. Yeah you know, and like somebody
Speaker 4: was just telling me, like everything come through Atlanta, go
Speaker 4: through Future a lot, and I was like, you hear me?
Speaker 4: And then I was just saying, like he making money
Speaker 4: off everything, he going to write, he producing ship like
Speaker 4: feel me.
Speaker 2: And he plays the flute all kinds of shit.
Speaker 4: He the type of ship like He'm talented for real,
Speaker 4: for real. People won't know because they not that's not
Speaker 4: the focus point, but they don't know. Like if I'm
Speaker 4: writing for you, I'm getting more money off your song
Speaker 4: than you is, then you are exactly. That's why, like
Speaker 4: I don't really speak on it because I just rather
Speaker 4: just be my business, Like you feel me, That's just
Speaker 4: something that I'm doing. If you need a hook or something,
Speaker 4: I'll help you, like if you need to make a
Speaker 4: song or something like that. But that's because I'm really
Speaker 4: into studying the music industry, like I ain't really trying
Speaker 4: to be just one dimensional.
Speaker 8: For if you, if you could have chosen another general
Speaker 8: music to blow up in, I signed the rap what
Speaker 8: It'll be.
Speaker 3: R and B for sure. I don't listen to rap
Speaker 3: for R and B.
Speaker 9: What's your favorite R and B song?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Summer Walker Session thirty two. I go through your love
Speaker 4: letters soot it makes me feel better.
Speaker 3: I ain't got you all out my head.
Speaker 4: I'm sending in you one text at that time, and
Speaker 4: I know you were bouy your phone, so girl, I
Speaker 4: ain't too proud to be yeah and said it has
Speaker 4: been said.
Speaker 10: Okay, I you to know.
Speaker 3: You don't know what it is, and I need you
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 10: You don't know say it. You don't know what love is.
Speaker 10: If you don't put up a five, you don't know love,
Speaker 10: no facts if you up.
Speaker 2: Okay, front row Okay, and.
Speaker 9: I knew what's up?
Speaker 1: Baby?
Speaker 8: You got a Detroit legend in the building avenue on
Speaker 8: the second row.
Speaker 7: He's sitting over there by my manager, Shorten theire Okay
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 5: The skill of Baby R and B album is coming
Speaker 5: I don't care what I said, you're gonna call something like that.
Speaker 4: Though I got some R and B stuff, I just
Speaker 4: want to perfect it first. Okay, I got to use
Speaker 4: auto tune sometimes. Yeah, hold that note.
Speaker 8: I'm already seeing myself, bro, that's how Yeah.
Speaker 2: That nigga was called back in the days.
Speaker 3: I thought, No, I'm not.
Speaker 8: Said anything else.
Speaker 7: So look another thing that I wanted to ask you
Speaker 7: to now that we're talking about, like the softer side
Speaker 7: and the R and B and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Why do you.
Speaker 7: Think it is that like women, children and even just
Speaker 7: people in general are drawn to you.
Speaker 3: I'm a real person.
Speaker 4: Like, like I said, people be feeling like they're not
Speaker 4: real people. I think people can relate to me. I'm childish,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm loving, and I'm caring. I ain't trying to
Speaker 4: hide the fact that I cry. Like I don't care,
Speaker 4: like what it is is what you get with me?
Speaker 4: Like I don't care like.
Speaker 3: How it looks. Yeah, I don't care how it looks
Speaker 3: because like.
Speaker 4: I'm not looking to be judged, right right, So I
Speaker 4: don't really care, like for real what I I don't
Speaker 4: feel like I'm less mainly because I got emotions.
Speaker 2: You know exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel like I know what I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do with if a nigga run up on me too,
Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, I'm gonna laugh about it too.
Speaker 1: Like what does Atlanta mean?
Speaker 5: The skill of baby Man, the culture of Atlanta, the music,
Speaker 5: the everything Atlanta?
Speaker 1: What does it mean to feel like.
Speaker 4: New York and Atlanta is like one of the meccas
Speaker 4: of hip hop? Like I feel like New York was first,
Speaker 4: but I feel like Atlanta is like the place where
Speaker 4: like y'all breed like success, like in different ways, Like
Speaker 4: I feel like you.
Speaker 3: Gotta come to Atlanta to besful.
Speaker 5: Why you think Atlanta and Detroit so similar, Like it's
Speaker 5: always like Atlanta niggas and Detroit niggas always kick it
Speaker 5: and get along and ship like that.
Speaker 1: Why you think it's like.
Speaker 4: Because because Detroit niggas really country and we don't like
Speaker 4: to admit it. Like all our family from the country.
Speaker 4: So like most Detroit people, if you ask them where
Speaker 4: they daddy or their granddaddy's from, they gonna say, are.
Speaker 3: They from he from Georgia? From Alabama? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Skill a baby is in the building at Revolt World.
Speaker 5: We're gonna take some questions from the audience to anybody
Speaker 5: want to hollerand skal a baby, ask them a question,
Speaker 5: holler as, how are we doing this? Shah, y'all find
Speaker 5: shy holler shot. We're gonna unless y'all holler as skill
Speaker 5: a baby. You know what I'm saying. So what what
Speaker 5: what you once? You got cooked up coming like soon musically?
Speaker 5: What's next musically? Because you've been banging them dropping a
Speaker 5: lot of bangers, you know what I'm saying, projects and
Speaker 5: all that, But what can the fans look forward to
Speaker 5: you next?
Speaker 1: From you next? Musically?
Speaker 4: I'm really just trying to perfect, Like, uh, I'm trying
Speaker 4: to take my sound to another level, you know.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 4: Right now, I feel like I got comfortable doing certain stuff,
Speaker 4: and I feel like all right all the.
Speaker 3: Time, Like.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I think like a lot of my
Speaker 4: stuff just been repetitive, you know, And I'm I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm like I criticized myself the most, so I know,
Speaker 4: like like there's just me just being critique of my
Speaker 4: own self. Feel like I'm comfortable with certain sounds and
Speaker 4: certain beats and certain cadences. I feel like I just
Speaker 4: need to step out my comfort zone and do something
Speaker 4: like that. People don't expect me to do, you know.
Speaker 2: But that's why you're like perfecting the R and B
Speaker 2: thing before you put it.
Speaker 3: Out right, But not just R and B.
Speaker 4: It's like even music with more substance, Like I feel
Speaker 4: like boom, I know how to make something that that
Speaker 4: can go crazy in a club, Like that's just easy
Speaker 4: for me, Like I could do that, right. I want
Speaker 4: something that like people around the world can listen to
Speaker 4: and feel like, not even when you're just in the club,
Speaker 4: like even if you're just going through something like I
Speaker 4: want to protect that side of myself when to come
Speaker 4: to music.
Speaker 8: Okay, when you made your first hit song, was you
Speaker 8: surprised or you knew it was a hit?
Speaker 4: I was surprised you ain't did it before. So you
Speaker 4: don't know what people don't like. That's one thing about this.
Speaker 4: You don't know what people gonna like out put all
Speaker 4: of it out. But then it's like some people want
Speaker 4: certain things from you, but then other people don't. Like
Speaker 4: Some girls like the women records, some girls don't. Some
Speaker 4: guys like what women like. Some guys want you to
Speaker 4: talk about the streets. But people got to understand that.
Speaker 4: Like like an artist like me, I rap about what
Speaker 4: I go through.
Speaker 3: Like when I was doing all that.
Speaker 4: Street shit, I was in the streets like trying to
Speaker 4: do bullshit. So like it's it ain't easy rapping about
Speaker 4: that you ain't going through right now, Like you know,
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 5: Do you think that the artists that continue to do that,
Speaker 5: even when they completely remove from that, do you think
Speaker 5: that that hurts their progression?
Speaker 4: I feel like they started trying to people that's not
Speaker 4: that that's removed theirselfs and better their life that keep
Speaker 4: trying to do that type of artistry, you always see
Speaker 4: them fucked up because like they might be successful in
Speaker 4: that type of artistry, but their life like they on drugs,
Speaker 4: they don't. They trying to do bullshit. That's why I
Speaker 4: ain't gonna lie. Like like a lot of I feel
Speaker 4: like a lot of rap artists and stuff be passing
Speaker 4: away because like we trap ourselves. Like after you successful,
Speaker 4: if you're successful, bro, you're supposed to move on with
Speaker 4: your success. People chasing that same high like fame.
Speaker 9: Is high good Yeah, not a good point, bro.
Speaker 4: So niggas be chasing that same highlight when they first
Speaker 4: came out, but nigga. When you first came out, you
Speaker 4: were dirty, You was dusty. You wasn't getting fifty thousand
Speaker 4: in the show. You wouln't getting a hundred thous.
Speaker 8: Can't get that hunger back, that same hunger that's gonna
Speaker 8: be hungry for something else.
Speaker 3: All right, boom right, you get it right? All right?
Speaker 3: You smoking weed?
Speaker 4: Your first time you smoke weed, you were blitzed, like
Speaker 4: youre out your mind, like you it felt like you
Speaker 4: high as hell. But then like then you were like, damn,
Speaker 4: this wee week is hell. You might smoke the same
Speaker 4: weed but it's weak.
Speaker 3: But then you stop.
Speaker 4: Smoking weed and then you could get the same high
Speaker 4: off the same weed.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what's the transitional coming out the club and being
Speaker 8: like a toy artist and a ticket hard ticket seal artist.
Speaker 4: I was actually talking to Future about that shit. It's like,
Speaker 4: all right, boom all last year they was giving fifty
Speaker 4: sixty thousand to go to the club.
Speaker 3: That's shit, right. But if somebody giving you that.
Speaker 4: Nigga's going to pay you going to pay forty dollars
Speaker 4: to get in the club, They're not going to see you.
Speaker 4: You feel me, when you're trying to sell hard tickets,
Speaker 4: you feel me, because they you're going to do the
Speaker 4: same shit in the club, especially if you're not giving
Speaker 4: a show. So it's like you got to learn the
Speaker 4: business when it come to that tool, Like you got
Speaker 4: to know when to pull out, when to go do
Speaker 4: all this, you know, cause some of them Meigg's getting
Speaker 4: a million dollars a show, like a lot of them,
Speaker 4: a lot of them like you feel me. But they
Speaker 4: creative direction. It's so crazy, like they really know what
Speaker 4: they want to do. They perfecting their craft.
Speaker 3: You feel me.
Speaker 8: It's crazy because you can be getting fit in a
Speaker 8: club had to start at like a five hundred people
Speaker 8: venue to sell tickets.
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: You can sell out a club two three thousand people,
Speaker 8: but no tickets.
Speaker 1: Try to.
Speaker 3: It because halving them people is going to the club anyway.
Speaker 3: Reveal me.
Speaker 4: It just happened to be you going. So it's like,
Speaker 4: all right, I'm really going. But like I'm about getting
Speaker 4: a club for forty dollars. If I could go to
Speaker 4: the club for forty dollars and see motherfucker jay Z Tupac,
Speaker 4: even some of the artists now, like if if I
Speaker 4: could go see motherfucker Future for forty dollars. You think
Speaker 4: I ain't going to see future crazy, I about to
Speaker 4: go listen Plutoski whatever, you just drop fire. Yeah, he
Speaker 4: was gonna crazy about it. You think I ain't about to
Speaker 4: go do that in the club? I about go do
Speaker 4: that for forty dollars for sure.
Speaker 5: Hey, we're gonna go to the audience to take some
Speaker 5: questions for a skill of baby.
Speaker 1: What we got?
Speaker 3: What we got?
Speaker 2: How y'all doing?
Speaker 11: So I'm an independent artist by myself for I really
Speaker 11: don't have a team. So my question would be to
Speaker 11: you is basically, what advice would you give to an
Speaker 11: independent artist with no team?
Speaker 3: For real?
Speaker 11: Like do you think it's possible to even get on
Speaker 11: the level that you're at with no team? And like
Speaker 11: how would you go about it? Because I do everything myself,
Speaker 11: but it's like it kind of takes me from being
Speaker 11: the artist, but it's like it's prospering. So I gotta
Speaker 11: keep going, you know what I'm saying. But I don't
Speaker 11: know how far it can go with no teams. So
Speaker 11: we'll be your advice.
Speaker 4: I mean, when it comes to being girl is different
Speaker 4: because y'all gotta have a glam team, y'all gotta have
Speaker 4: here and makeup all that stuff. So when it come
Speaker 4: to that, yeah, but like I feel like a lot
Speaker 4: of independent artists, like you gotta what that if some
Speaker 4: brutal honesty they told me when I was like not
Speaker 4: doing so well like with music, was like I ain't
Speaker 4: But why would you get a manager? Fifteen percent if
Speaker 4: that ain't coming in like that? You feel me, so
Speaker 4: like fifteen to twenty percent nothing that is like you
Speaker 4: don't want to do that, So you just got to
Speaker 4: push through all that and keep making music, Like keep
Speaker 4: making music that don'll never stop making music, y'all never
Speaker 4: know where your music gonna take you, like if you
Speaker 4: keep knocking at the same door as going eventually opening
Speaker 4: something facet like you feel me when it come to
Speaker 4: girls like I can't speak on like glam teams, but
Speaker 4: like management and stuff like that, get a management team
Speaker 4: when you got something to manage, you know, And that's
Speaker 4: that's really important. Like don't a lot of artists they
Speaker 4: don't end up with a lot of money because before
Speaker 4: they start making money, they owe money. So people putting
Speaker 4: up money towards making enough money and now you owe
Speaker 4: a niggas one hundred and two hundred thousand. He didn't
Speaker 4: put you in a contract and now you go to
Speaker 4: a label he can have for what you make, only
Speaker 4: because you felt like you needed to do that. But
Speaker 4: I feel like, just push through it. If it's what
Speaker 4: you love, just keep doing it, and then that door
Speaker 4: will open.
Speaker 7: And I feel like, So another thing that might be
Speaker 7: useful is a lot of the things in the first
Speaker 7: initial stages that you would need, like a management team
Speaker 7: or even just like a regular team to do. You
Speaker 7: can and talk to people. You can ask questions. You
Speaker 7: can look on YouTube and you know, just kind of
Speaker 7: find out like how do I start my YouTube page
Speaker 7: so that I can monetize it and start making money,
Speaker 7: How do I monetize my Instagram? How do I get
Speaker 7: pitched for playlisting with Spotify?
Speaker 2: Like all those types of things.
Speaker 7: You can research on your own and do the best
Speaker 7: that you can to get those wheels turning and to
Speaker 7: get those wheels started. So, like he said, by the
Speaker 7: time you get ready to have something that needs to
Speaker 7: be managed, you already have motion and you already have
Speaker 7: an idea of what's going on, so that when you
Speaker 7: do get a team, your team can go ahead and
Speaker 7: kind of just fall into place and help, and you'll
Speaker 7: also know what's going on so that your team will
Speaker 7: never be able to cheat you facts.
Speaker 4: That's important because like Jay was saying, like before before
Speaker 4: I got any success off music, and it was just
Speaker 4: seeing I was making more money than a lot of
Speaker 4: Detroit artists and stuff like that, because like I said,
Speaker 4: they was having people fund them and do all this stuff.
Speaker 4: And I've learned it was fied six ways. I could
Speaker 4: make money off one song, just one song. I was
Speaker 4: making money off YouTube. I was making money off distro
Speaker 4: kid that you got publishing checks that come through every
Speaker 4: three months. So like if you keep putting out music
Speaker 4: and say you make five hundred dollars one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Every month off one project.
Speaker 4: If you put out Foxmo projects, now you making five thousand,
Speaker 4: but that's just off one avenue. Then you got YouTube,
Speaker 4: you putting out videos, you monetizing that. So it's like
Speaker 4: it's all about what type of success you want to
Speaker 4: be as an artist anyway, But I would say just
Speaker 4: study the music business and understand everything that's that somebody
Speaker 4: could come at you with music and then get you
Speaker 4: a team once you start making money.
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Speaker 1: The question for skill of baby, big fact, Live remote World.
Speaker 12: Let's go, how do you how do you get over
Speaker 12: the fear of success and to build your confidence when
Speaker 12: you know you're talented and you know you're gifted, or.
Speaker 3: You know you know you have what it.
Speaker 12: Takes, but you gotta you can't get you can't get
Speaker 12: over that fear of becoming successful or the unknown.
Speaker 4: See that's I had to tell my sister about that,
Speaker 4: like the fear of an unknown. That was like a
Speaker 4: big thing with me and my sister because she like
Speaker 4: she got a culinary degree, but she like she's scared
Speaker 4: to open the restaurant. So one day I just was like,
Speaker 4: all right, go make a bunch of dinners.
Speaker 3: And I was.
Speaker 4: I was successful as a rapper when I was doing this.
Speaker 4: I was like, go make a bunch of dinners. I'm
Speaker 4: about to sell them for you. She made more money
Speaker 4: that she did, be in a head shift somewhere, and
Speaker 4: she's like, damn, I really could do this. So like,
Speaker 4: I don't think like I don't think like fear is
Speaker 4: a bad thing. I feel like when you go into
Speaker 4: stuff not being humble and you're not scared to take
Speaker 4: a risk you going and being arrogant. That's when you
Speaker 4: feel I feel like fear is good, Like all right, Uh,
Speaker 4: the higher the risk, the higher the reward. So it's like,
Speaker 4: if you ain't scared to do this, it's like.
Speaker 3: Why you doing it?
Speaker 4: Why you ain't even taking no risks like you feel me,
Speaker 4: that's the whole thing were in it for. Like we're
Speaker 4: trying to get big success. We ain't trying to like
Speaker 4: all right, I'm about to go to work every day
Speaker 4: and like that's cool for a minute. But when it
Speaker 4: come to your dreams, you gotta take real risks, like
Speaker 4: you gotta really be scared of this ship, Like I'm
Speaker 4: scared to feel like I'm scared to not do good.
Speaker 3: I gotta.
Speaker 8: If you if you ain't, if you ain't in fear,
Speaker 8: your your dream ain't big enough. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: You're supposed to be scared. Like anytime I walk out,
Speaker 8: I don't care whatever I walk out to. I got butterflies.
Speaker 8: I don't care if it's two people in the audience,
Speaker 8: it's gonna be butterflies.
Speaker 3: Gotta put that pressure on yourself like everybody.
Speaker 4: If like but the biggest things, like I ever got
Speaker 4: success from I put a lot of pressure on myself
Speaker 4: and it was like make or break, Like, all right,
Speaker 4: if I don't do this, I ain't paying my bills
Speaker 4: like you feel me even when if I go shoot dice,
Speaker 4: like if I don't make this money, I'm going home.
Speaker 4: I'm really about to cheat you for real. I'm going
Speaker 4: home and pay my bills for real. So I'm about
Speaker 4: to do like I ain't about to do no whole
Speaker 4: shit to a nigga, nothing like that. But I'm for sure.
Speaker 3: I got to win.
Speaker 4: I got it win Like, this's no other options, no plan,
Speaker 4: beat this ship like I gotta win.
Speaker 3: So the fear like that's what you what?
Speaker 1: We got? One more more?
Speaker 6: What's going on your my nay instinkface. I'm a DJ
Speaker 6: engineer and producer, and my question I'm doing, not how
Speaker 6: you doing? My question is for you, bro, what's the
Speaker 6: most direct route for me to get some beats to you?
Speaker 3: Uh? Day in this front row? Right here? Oh there
Speaker 3: go wine Wine, raise your hand. That's my managerog want.
Speaker 2: In a white T shirt.
Speaker 6: Appreciate you?
Speaker 3: Nah?
Speaker 9: I like that? How you have been there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We got yeah, we got some more more?
Speaker 1: One more?
Speaker 3: Let's go, Hey, what's handling man?
Speaker 13: My name is Jay from the A the City Boys podcast.
Speaker 3: Shout out.
Speaker 13: My question to you is I heard Future say that
Speaker 13: he found the glitch in the matrix. So my question
Speaker 13: to you is, how did you hack your brain to
Speaker 13: find that focus or find that avenue to be successful.
Speaker 3: That's a good question, that is a great question. I
Speaker 3: feel like success come with sacrifice.
Speaker 4: I was just talking about earlier, like I lost my
Speaker 4: whole childhood to this shit, like I swear to God,
Speaker 4: Like when I was fifteen, my whole family got mad
Speaker 4: because I stopped playing basketball and shit like that. But
Speaker 4: like I figured out that I didn't. I loved basketball,
Speaker 4: but I ain't love that will come with it. I
Speaker 4: found something I love. I was like doing music, and
Speaker 4: I just put my all into one thing. You feel me,
Speaker 4: And I said, my life is gonna be based if
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do something, they gonna know me for music,
Speaker 4: like they gonna know me for this, Like I don't
Speaker 4: give a fuck if I'm an ass wrapper terrible, you
Speaker 4: gonna know me for trying hard doing this. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: keep doing this shit. You gonna know me for this shit.
Speaker 4: And eventually, like when you put ten thousand dollars in
Speaker 4: you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: Better, like you're gonna you feel me.
Speaker 4: It's just put your head down and you just run
Speaker 4: with something like you feel me eventually gonna be successful.
Speaker 4: And I think that's what it is. It's like people
Speaker 4: lose focused when they like when you take an ill
Speaker 4: or you you like, everything don't go your way. You
Speaker 4: get discouraged. And I feel like that's the biggest thing
Speaker 4: with what like with her question, like the fear, like
Speaker 4: people fear failure, but failure breeds success, Like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: feel a hundred times, but I'm gonna keep getting back up.
Speaker 3: It's just like a fight.
Speaker 4: A nigga might not want to fight, you know, he
Speaker 4: might beat your ass, but if he knows you're gonna
Speaker 4: hear him hard than his shit, he gonna stop trying
Speaker 4: to just run up on you though, Like if you
Speaker 4: I'm going to succeed one of them times, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get up and I'm gonna beat you the fuck it.
Speaker 4: So that's what you just gotta go with your mindset
Speaker 4: like that.
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