Speaker 1: Yo, what's up. It's Millies and you could catch me
Speaker 1: on a bootleg cav podcast. It's the Bootleg cap Podcast.
Speaker 1: Special guests in here, Blanco six on the way April seventh,
Speaker 1: April seventh, Yo, Millies is here man, Welcome, sir, my boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to a potential NBA Finals matchup between
Speaker 1: your Celtics and my Phoenix Sons. If Kad is healthy,
Speaker 1: I love that. I'd love to go in there and
Speaker 1: get that sweep and just celebrate and sweet it's a
Speaker 1: sweet four to one or something like that. We'll overdue
Speaker 1: for a title, though, I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: you guys have enough titles to last. You. You know
Speaker 1: who's overdue for a title, The Phoenix Suns. You know
Speaker 1: how many we have? How many? Zero? Oh? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta stay that way for a while because like Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum got to have his run. You know, he's having
Speaker 1: Runny Brown and gotta have there run. Yeah. Anyway, I've
Speaker 1: been seen you fucking court sided all the Celtics games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are those tickets? Run? You? I don't pay? How
Speaker 1: does that work? It's like you just got to be
Speaker 1: like really iconic and influential in the city of Boston
Speaker 1: and then they'll hold you down. It'd be crazy for
Speaker 1: them to not give you free tickets, right, Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it too much though, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's like because you don't like, let them think
Speaker 1: I pay ten thousand to pay ten thousand of pop,
Speaker 1: so you're getting free tickets square side. That's that's amazing
Speaker 1: is that through a player, through the pr or somebody
Speaker 1: at the Celtics, they just know what's up. They're like,
Speaker 1: we gotta tap in with the hottest rapper now. Honestly, like,
Speaker 1: that's that's one of the greatest things that's ever happened
Speaker 1: to me in my career as far as like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's dope, selling out shows and all of that shit
Speaker 1: and you know everything that comes with rap. But I
Speaker 1: used to get hype when people would give me a
Speaker 1: T shirt so to give me courtside Celtics tickets to
Speaker 1: the finals. But you got because I wrap finals tickets
Speaker 1: and yeah, come on stop. Wow, Like I really sat there,
Speaker 1: met pissed and kiss watching the Celtics Wi Warriors as
Speaker 1: if I if I had came back, like if I
Speaker 1: had been in another game, we would have won. Again bro,
Speaker 1: and I got a maca the court side record. I
Speaker 1: think that's why they let me back like that, because
Speaker 1: they're like, you're kind of like the actual, like leprecha,
Speaker 1: I am lucky. Yeah, for sure, they should have flew
Speaker 1: you out to the Bay for those fucking Warriors. I
Speaker 1: should We would have won, for sure. It's something about
Speaker 1: the energy, you know. But yeah, that's like one of
Speaker 1: the biggest accomplishments of my life. Like, thank my plug
Speaker 1: so much, and just thank the organization. They treat me amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember last year I sat Court signed for the
Speaker 1: first time at a Sun's game and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like a dream come true. And you sat
Speaker 1: in the balcony right, Yeah. I mean I've sat everywhere,
Speaker 1: but I never sat court signed until last year, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is insane. No, it's different. It's
Speaker 1: just like, you know, I'm a are you like a
Speaker 1: die hard basketball fan, I'm a diehard Celtics Fanah, so
Speaker 1: growing up, like you imagine a Celtics fan, and you
Speaker 1: got to understand, like I really know the experience, Like
Speaker 1: I'm from I'm from two train stops away. So we
Speaker 1: would get on the green line and take it to
Speaker 1: leech Man watch Ron Mercer. Yeah, crazy all that Antoine Walker,
Speaker 1: antwoyn Walker Man, shout out to Antoine. That was the
Speaker 1: shots of the Celtics. Man. I remember watching Antoine Walker
Speaker 1: as a kid and then he went to the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: and kind of flaked out. But you know what was
Speaker 1: great about the Antoine Walker jersey is when what's his
Speaker 1: name the other Walker came to the semble walk Kemba came,
Speaker 1: it was the same number, same last names. He could
Speaker 1: bust out the o G Antoine Walker jersey. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing. It's fire it was. That was like a
Speaker 1: short lived moment, but kind of a travesty that Antoine
Speaker 1: Walker's jersey isn't retired because he kind of was like
Speaker 1: the best player on the Celtics for at least four years.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah he made the All Star team. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he made the All start to Walker wig
Speaker 1: You remember to Walker Wiggle? No, I just remember m
Speaker 1: m yeah. So listen, man, uh, how many blancos are
Speaker 1: you going to do? Seven? Seven? I'm capping it that
Speaker 1: seven is that because it's like just it just feels right.
Speaker 1: I Mean, God created the world in six days and
Speaker 1: rested on the seventh. Mmm, you had that god number,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the god number. You have a seven
Speaker 1: on your face as yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a dad
Speaker 1: of that seven seven. All right, this new uh Blanco?
Speaker 1: You somehow got a stand interpolation cleared? Yeah, what is
Speaker 1: the process of getting Eminem clearance? So the process of
Speaker 1: getting an Eminem clearance is not getting Eminem to clear it,
Speaker 1: it's getting Dido to clear it. Because it was her
Speaker 1: vocal and it was her sample, nothing off of the
Speaker 1: stand sample. So when I came out with the ship
Speaker 1: like and told everybody, I'm like, I just cleared the
Speaker 1: stand sample because to me, those words people don't know
Speaker 1: that that she was. That song was her sample that
Speaker 1: she said for her. So basically how it happened, I was,
Speaker 1: I was out here in l A. I laid the song,
Speaker 1: you know, just on some freestyle shit because I'm really independent,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how it goes without clearing samples.
Speaker 1: I stay away from all of that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I never even thought it would be possible.
Speaker 1: So I laid the song my man Tens just on
Speaker 1: the iPhone real quick, did a video of me like
Speaker 1: singing and shit, in the crib and you know, it
Speaker 1: got millions of views online, so my distribution perfect Time Music.
Speaker 1: They were like hitting me, like, yo, this shit got motion.
Speaker 1: I think we should try to clear it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: go ahead. And he found some lady who knows about
Speaker 1: clearing samples, and then she got it to Dido and
Speaker 1: Dito okated, you know, took a little percentage of the
Speaker 1: record and yeah, and we had it. So a lot
Speaker 1: of my fans were mad because the song was like short,
Speaker 1: but that's the way that I did it in the
Speaker 1: studio because I'm like this like a freestyle for me
Speaker 1: to listen to her like to put out on YouTube.
Speaker 1: So by the time I got this sample cleared, I'm like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'm gonna just put it out in his
Speaker 1: raw form, and I did an extended version that comes
Speaker 1: with the albums. That's the process of getting an Eminem
Speaker 1: sample cleared. Just just get one of the records that
Speaker 1: he sampled, so you don't have to know. Yeah, it'd
Speaker 1: be like if someone's tried to clear sing for the moment,
Speaker 1: be like, it's not an Eminem song, it's an Arrowsmith. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I would still say I cleared the sing for
Speaker 1: the moment sample. Oh man, you and Ray Sherman got
Speaker 1: a song coming, so maybe me and Swale we got
Speaker 1: a diss record coming against against Jimmy. That was kind
Speaker 1: of a weird thing. Man. I saw that, I was like,
Speaker 1: why the fuck was somebody? And I know Jimmy, He's
Speaker 1: a good dude. I just I just didn't understand, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it's just a way to promote your
Speaker 1: own ship, but I don't understand the thought process of
Speaker 1: shitting on somebody else to promote your own ship. You
Speaker 1: know what it was? I think I think my ship
Speaker 1: was getting traction, like my ship was having motion online,
Speaker 1: Like well, damn, we kind of thing the album that
Speaker 1: was their rollout, like we cleared the stand sample. But
Speaker 1: I'm a marketing guys, so I already know that. So
Speaker 1: as soon as as soon as I cleared it, I
Speaker 1: put it out there, and you know, sites at rap
Speaker 1: started picking it up and it started going crazy. And
Speaker 1: the next day I saw like Sway Lee's camp pushing
Speaker 1: his ship on Twitter. Sway Lee cleared the same I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, they're panicking. They must have saw my my
Speaker 1: joint out there, and uh, that's when my ship kept
Speaker 1: going crazy on academics and this, and it helps and
Speaker 1: it just helps your ship. Yeah, Slim Jimmy rolled about
Speaker 1: it and it brought more a win and so you know,
Speaker 1: Solution and I really liked them as a group. I
Speaker 1: talked to sway Lee. You know, sway Lee's cool and
Speaker 1: I could never have beef with like Ray Trema. That's
Speaker 1: like being a bully like that. Yeah, you know whos
Speaker 1: on the new album. I got g Herbo on there.
Speaker 1: I got Jada Kiss, I got Burner. I got Dave's
Speaker 1: Big Burns on the album Big Burns on the album. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get him to shoot this running gun,
Speaker 1: you know, because burn like to shoot running gun videos.
Speaker 1: You gotta the band man. And now he's like big
Speaker 1: billionaire burn So he's by the way, he's been big billionaire.
Speaker 1: Like no, he's on like Forbes list, like right now
Speaker 1: now everyone knows he's telling it. I knew this shit.
Speaker 1: I was telling my homies like a while ago. But
Speaker 1: I shot a running gun on his album before where
Speaker 1: we just you know, ran around and shot the video.
Speaker 1: But now I'm trying to do one with him where
Speaker 1: I just follow him for two days. See like the
Speaker 1: life of Burning incorporated into the video. But yeah, he's
Speaker 1: on there. Man, I'm gonna forget people side of James,
Speaker 1: this incredible artist named side of James. You'll be hearing
Speaker 1: of a super talented I forget who else she Heroya
Speaker 1: said that, yeah me you. Yeah, I feel like you
Speaker 1: and Berner because Berner likes to do collab albums with people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, he's done now. I love to
Speaker 1: collabor collab albums with people. I feel like it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard. If you and bern it did like a
Speaker 1: whole little fucking six or seven people, that'd be hard.
Speaker 1: I actually get fans that come to my shows, like
Speaker 1: in Chicago and different places, and it'll be like, yo,
Speaker 1: I met you through burn A lot of Mexican guys,
Speaker 1: the Mexicans of Burner for sure, a lot of Mexican
Speaker 1: fans I got through Burner. So what was did he
Speaker 1: reach out to you? I got a I got a
Speaker 1: mutual acquaintance with him. My man Taba like a like
Speaker 1: a og from my city, and somehow they linked me
Speaker 1: with him. But yeah, it was all love. And then
Speaker 1: he was like, come get on my album. You know.
Speaker 1: I came to his session. I had to beat right there.
Speaker 1: I wrote my ship right there. I got to feel dope, man,
Speaker 1: because like you are not a new artist by any means.
Speaker 1: Like it's like I'm not a new artist, but I'm
Speaker 1: a brand new artist. But we told the story before,
Speaker 1: Like I met you at south By Southwest in like
Speaker 1: two thousand. Yeah, I remember I was walking home in fourteen.
Speaker 1: Probably I was walking home in the streets drunk. Nobody
Speaker 1: at the same hotel, No, I think you Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you was in the line line for something we're we're
Speaker 1: at like a hotel bar summer. It was like it
Speaker 1: was like by the valet or the bar at the
Speaker 1: that hotel. That's like I remember. But I can remember
Speaker 1: walking down Sixth Street right lost. Yeah, I remember walking
Speaker 1: down Sixth Street and nobody knowing me. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of less towers, like yeah, a lot of less tattoos,
Speaker 1: but just nobody knew me anyway. Now they recognized me
Speaker 1: through the mass. I'd be having a shisty mask like this,
Speaker 1: hands in my pockets, ship like this, and they like
Speaker 1: mills and be like wow, bro. But yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: I remember seeing you because I was walking down Sixth Street.
Speaker 1: You know, I said, that's pool Calf. I forget even
Speaker 1: where I knew you from, but I was kind of
Speaker 1: like back then, I was like on the blogs, allied
Speaker 1: with my interviews and shit like two Dope boy days.
Speaker 1: That's why I love seeing your shit go up because
Speaker 1: even at the time, to me, you were like popping, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So you really popping. But
Speaker 1: it's got to feel good to be on such a
Speaker 1: long journey of being up by taking this Rapture series
Speaker 1: to end up doing you know, records with some legends
Speaker 1: and then obviously Lincoln with Snoop Dog, and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, there's like I feel like you've
Speaker 1: had so many moments in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: where like, you know, do you feel like validated. I
Speaker 1: know you've always know, but like to kind of get
Speaker 1: the peers to kind of get that co sign that's
Speaker 1: got to mean a lot, man. Yeah, I picked up
Speaker 1: a lot of cosine, like I picked up a lot
Speaker 1: of co signs in rap. But then like I got
Speaker 1: co signed by the money, That's what That's the one thing,
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't turning the profit from this shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were kind of doing it. I was doing it
Speaker 1: just getting by like I would make money. I've been
Speaker 1: getting paid for features for twelve thirteen years, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That would you say? That was
Speaker 1: kind of more of the bread and the butter, like
Speaker 1: I could get features I'm doing. It wasn't get hot,
Speaker 1: It wasn't no real money, you know. And the second
Speaker 1: I did get a little real money, I just put
Speaker 1: more back into myself. The pandemic did it for me
Speaker 1: for real. But like I would say, like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: validation from you know, whether it's like you know, I'm
Speaker 1: signing to kiss and I'm like Snoop is like a
Speaker 1: big supporter of mine and all these guys in the game,
Speaker 1: you know, and and so so it's that, But then
Speaker 1: it's I see it reflecting in my bank account, like
Speaker 1: I got accountants now and ship, and I'll be like damn,
Speaker 1: like I really made it, Like I shed a tear
Speaker 1: on a plane one time, like for real, Like I
Speaker 1: just had a crazy day and I just shed a tear,
Speaker 1: like I couldn't believe it, like because I was really thinking,
Speaker 1: I can't believe that I was dumb enough to believe
Speaker 1: in this ship that I made happen, Like yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's hard work. Yeah, it's hard work and sacrifice, and
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes you just got to be dumb
Speaker 1: enough to believe, you know, if that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the real shit. I mean, you had a lot
Speaker 1: of I feel like you had a lot of like
Speaker 1: like uphill battles to fight being the white dude wrapping
Speaker 1: about street ship. Yo, bro, it's almost impossible. It's like
Speaker 1: an uphill battle on roller skates when you think about it, Like,
Speaker 1: because I'm actually doing something that's never been done correct,
Speaker 1: Because you know, we know all the different type of
Speaker 1: rappers that came through hip hop, and it's never been
Speaker 1: a white rapper with the streak content to run around
Speaker 1: with jewelry on, really in the trenches, really moving around,
Speaker 1: really co signed by the right people like that. It
Speaker 1: just hasn't happened ever ever ever. You know, there's nothing
Speaker 1: close to it, except if you're looking at like my guy,
Speaker 1: like like Paul Wall in Houston, but his content was
Speaker 1: more that Houston content. It was like it wasn't like
Speaker 1: my ship. I'm telling intricate street stories to the point
Speaker 1: where I'm talking about nationwide, whether we're in Chicago, Minnesota, Cyprus,
Speaker 1: projects in East New York, wherever, the fuck we at.
Speaker 1: I got real street people Miami, the killers come to
Speaker 1: me and say, Bro, I fuck with your shits so
Speaker 1: hard the way that you yeah, the way that you
Speaker 1: break shit down, Like I'm really embraced in the trenches nationwide.
Speaker 1: And no, it's ill because because nobody would have like
Speaker 1: people used to think like this shit was impossible. And
Speaker 1: I'm still not, Like I've never had an editorial playlisting
Speaker 1: on Spotify like that. Really, Hell no, bro, I got
Speaker 1: six hund than fifty thousand, So there's still things that
Speaker 1: give me, Like I love Spotify, and I know y'all
Speaker 1: will give me all of my It's coming instant because
Speaker 1: I learned to not be the rapper like to learn
Speaker 1: a bridge and complain. So I'm not complaining. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying the other rappers three million on Spotify, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got six hundred and fifty thousand without one with one
Speaker 1: percent editorial playlisting. Right, My shit's a little different, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's I mean, you're about to
Speaker 1: headline a tour, yeah, and I'm about to sell out
Speaker 1: a tour across the country hard tickets. So I had
Speaker 1: to do all my shit. keV I swear to God,
Speaker 1: I had to do all my shit by just showing
Speaker 1: and proving because the industry did not fuck with me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something I never told anybody in life.
Speaker 1: No major label ever reached out or showed interest in me. Never. Never,
Speaker 1: Still to this day, I used to lie about it. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: there's interest today. Of course there is today. On God
Speaker 1: in Heaven, there's an interest today. But I used to
Speaker 1: lie about it my whole career. I swear to God,
Speaker 1: just to people, though, you know, just be like I'd
Speaker 1: be in an interview. They'd be like, yo, so anything going, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know a couple of majors interesting? Lie yeah, like
Speaker 1: or I used to, you know, chill with girls and
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, so you know Atlantic Records they were
Speaker 1: actually talking. Never no major looked at me. And I've
Speaker 1: been grinding for thirteen years, and I watched all their
Speaker 1: artists come and go, Like I watched all these people
Speaker 1: who are right here with me get signed. I don't
Speaker 1: know where they are. I'm here, you feel me? So
Speaker 1: would you even consider the major route now? That third Never?
Speaker 1: I'd have to have the most unique deal ever, because
Speaker 1: once you start feeling the feeling of your catalog, you know,
Speaker 1: really residual income here, bro, I don't got it, like
Speaker 1: you know, I'm waking up on a certain dollar amount regardless,
Speaker 1: right because of my catalog. I couldn't imagine what it's
Speaker 1: like to not have a streaming catalog and you only
Speaker 1: get these checks and then you live off those You're
Speaker 1: pretty much I'm like, really bad money. I got a
Speaker 1: big evance on my last ship, and I thought I
Speaker 1: was rich, rich rich rich rich rich rich that time.
Speaker 1: I was in California. Oh my god, because you know,
Speaker 1: I never really had money like that. I got that money. Boy.
Speaker 1: We stayed in there. We stayed in the house for
Speaker 1: like first thing. We stayed in the house somewhere in
Speaker 1: LA with the with the basketball court. Fucking how very
Speaker 1: much a night that is? Yeah, it was like I
Speaker 1: don't know, three four thousand the night we stayed there. Necessary, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we stayed there. SRTs all type of Carl. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a chain here, this is new, this is
Speaker 1: fairly new, I think serious. Huh, Yeah, kiss just gave
Speaker 1: me this change. This is through kissing Masa. You know,
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