WEBVTT - #515 - Reason 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.120 Ya ya, y'all. What's the deal? 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.600 Sha boy Reason check me out on the Bootleg Cap podcast. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:04.960 Wes West. All right, y'all. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.440 Before we get into the episode, we gotta do this. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.600 We just dropped these T shirts to celebrate five hundred 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:14.240 episodes of the bootlet Cap podcast. Yes, this is out, little 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.800 daytona five hundred vintage flip. All five hundred episodes are 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.680 on the back. Yes, you can do the gray, or 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.000 you could just go black. 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My guy Reason is back, Yes, yes, 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.600 finally after Yeah, he missed the podcast when he rolled 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.840 out porches, but he's here. Two years later. Welcome sir, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.959 I apologize about that. It's all good, man, it's all good. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.320 You had a lot going on, yeah I did. I 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.560 had a lot on the messiest album out of all time. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.479 Yeah yeah, but we're here. How you been, man, I've 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.360 been good. I've been good. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.440 Just rebuilding, you know, finalizing the team, finalizing projects. I'm 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.679 trying to drop three this year, so I just been working. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.160 Like I was telling my manager Jy, like I'm exhausted, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.679 but a good exhausted, like not not like burnt out. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.319 So yeah, I mean for you is that kind of 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.679 like it's got to feel good to be like I 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.720 can put out three albums this year and it's up. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.319 To you, right, it's up to me. And knowing that, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.240 like if I wanted to come out, it'll come out. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.479 It's like little things like I was. I was talking 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:43.840 to the team and like when we dropped out of 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.039 joint with Bo's not what you think, that was the 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.640 first joint that I've ever dropped that wasn't at least 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.920 a year old. So that was crazy for me, Like 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.280 I've never put out a song that wasn't at least 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.360 like at least a year at least a year, like, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.160 so I was still emotionally connected with it. Cause that's 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.680 one of the things, like whenever I would drop music, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.600 it would be hard to talk about me because I 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.400 wasn't even that person anymore. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.920 You know, It's crazy people don't realize like artists they 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.440 I guy, what you call demoitis is that in yea 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.760 where you get tired of your own ship hasn't heard it. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.480 You either get tired of your own ship or you 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.680 hear it one way so long that then when it's 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.280 about to come out, the label might like make a 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.080 last minute change to it, and now you hate it 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.120 because you're like or you're like, no, I like the original. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.040 I like the original, or the fans don't know but 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:25.679 the fans don't know. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.440 Or you figure out you couldn't clear the sample, you 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.440 got to remake the sample, and now you hate the record, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.840 but they love it, but you hate it. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.000 And it's like, yeah, that's got to be refreshing, man, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.720 Yeah it feels. It feels good for you. Man. So 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.480 are you strictly independent? Do you got a distro situation? Like? 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.360 What is I got like a partnership distro situation? A 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.760 lot of distros came to me It was funny because 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.440 a lot of labels like right when I left, of course, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.000 like I had a lot of deals on the table, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.400 but they were all just like throwing money my way. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.480 But I just kept telling them like, bro, I just 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.080 got to like the last thing I want to do 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.239 is you know when money comes long term, I'm like, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.480 why would I go into another situation like that? But yeah, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.720 like a partnership distroal situation though, yeah, one that's like 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.720 under Next Records. So yeah, Next Records. I think they 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.079 got like Bennie the Butcher Davies, like a few people 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.720 that's in that pocket. So that was another thing that 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.320 interests me because it's kind of like in the wave 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.640 of kind of what I wanted to do. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.160 Speaking of waves, wave shout out to my mama. Yeah, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.239 I appreciate it, yo, Uh talk to me like for you, man, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.800 what is the last couple of years been like? Because 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.680 I feel like you probably found out one who like 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.960 some of your real friends are and who were just 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.640 like showing the street man, what was the process like 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:41.760 going through that? Man? 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.200 I was talking to my brother about that ship, like 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.360 I didn't see that coming. There were certain relationships. There 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.560 were certain relationships that I didn't know were as strong 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.120 as they were, Like I left, and then we became 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.640 even closer and tighter and people reached out and was 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.280 just like, yo, you know, I just want to let 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:59.720 you know, like you know, I fuck with you, our 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:01.480 rock with you, like you've always been solid. You know, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.880 we locked in, And so I had more of those 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.520 than the other way around. But then there were certain 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.560 relationships where him like niggas un followed me like yeah, 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.800 like it's followed me like don't answer the phone no more, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.680 and I'm just like all right, bet. But I always 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.560 look at stuff like that as a blessing because it's 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.200 it's better to kind of know than to you know, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.560 have a situation where you know, people just if they 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.559 feel like they got to choose side, which I've always 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.440 tried to like tread the line of making people not 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.880 feel like they have to choose sides and telling the 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.000 story in a way to where you know, people don't 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.360 feel that way, but if they feel like they got 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.880 a cheoe sides, people choose sides. And there's just certain 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.040 relationships that I had where it's still love on my end, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.520 but I could tell that it was like, oh, so 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.800 you was just fucking with me because I. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.560 Was TD, you know what I mean, which is it's 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.920 all good. Was there anybody with TD that like they 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:46.960 used to keep in contact with? 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.400 I still I still talk to Ray and then I'll 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.880 still talk to DOCIH shout out to Doci. She's going 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.800 fucking insane. Yeah, but I knew that was the day 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.320 I met Doci. I told Moose, was like, she's fucking 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.240 like yeah, Like I think. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.839 You were there when she had a little like introduction 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.400 to LA party where she performed and it was like 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.920 some airplanes shure, yeah, yep, yep. I was just like, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.479 what the nah, bro? 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.280 Like the the thing about Dochi that's so special, bro, 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.400 is that if you like, from the day I met her, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.839 if you have a conversation, she's always talking like long term, 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.200 like she's always she was always thinking like nine steps ahead, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.599 and to be that young black woman in this industry 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.200 where it's at right now because the best time for 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.600 black women also talented and to have like that type 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.440 of mind, I was just like, yeah, she's out of here, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.200 you know what I mean. So those are probably the 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.400 only two though that I still like keep in contact with. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.360 If I run into niggas though it's love and I 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.640 just running a start not too long ago. Yeah racist, yeah, yeah, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:48.559 she was so purpose. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.440 I feel like it's crazy, like how she rolled out 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.480 her career because she like this new album is like 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.320 really like a boombab rap album. Yeah yeah, but like 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.840 her biggest record prior to this was the what it 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.720 is before that, it was The Persuasion. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.040 Yeah, that's what I tell people, bro, It's like her 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.200 her bag is like I genuinely believe. And I see 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.400 some of her fans, so the dochik don't come from 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.120 me but I because they hate comparing. But I genuinely 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.839 believe she's gonna be like as big as Beyonce in 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.599 the Rap. I genuinely yeah. I literally have said that. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.160 I think she's going to be there. There will be 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.599 a day where she's the biggest artist on the planet. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:24.880 Yeah. I mean she had my Alma of the Year 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.080 last year. A lot of people want, you're fucking crazy. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.480 I'm like, well, you haven't heard the album. And then 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.840 all of a sudden, the Grammy buzz starts rolling and 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.120 everybody gets hip and then that fucking uh she did that? 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:34.400 Uh? 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:40.080 DENIALA is the river with the Yeah, kids, that shit's over. TikTok. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.120 Yeah wow Yeah for you man. You said, you know 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.039 when when you when you came in, you were like 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:47.760 kind of had to get away a little bit. Was there, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.720 like a like a reset you had to go through 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.840 because I feel like you've had like a you've had 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.000 like a great career for an artist, especially someone who 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.560 makes fucking real ship, you know what I'm saying, But 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.200 like rap rap music of get thrown in the blender 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.760 in terms of like leaving TDE and some of the 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.440 shit that was out there were like like how did 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.360 you kind of prepare yourself mentally for like this new 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:09.840 era of your career. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.360 I definitely had to hit a reset. I was living 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.400 like too close. I call it, like living in your 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.560 work when you live in like Hollywood and shit like that, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.040 you know what I mean. Yeah, so it's like everywhere 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.120 you go, you know what I mean, It's just like 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.440 music or entertainment shit, you know what I mean. So 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.920 kind of moved out a little bit east and whatnot. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.080 And then I just got back like in the studio alone, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.320 like just on some studio shit, like trying to rEFInd 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:34.120 the love. 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.080 For it because I had lost the love for it. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.480 It started feeling like I was like just clocking into work, 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.240 like when I would go to the studio at the 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.280 TD Base, like I would feel like literally, I started 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.200 feeling like when I had a job, like Okay, I'm 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:46.960 here and I'll be looking at the clock like how 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.800 many more hours of my session? 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:49.280 You know what I mean. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.840 And so when you're when you're in a creative job 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.200 and you feel that way, it's never gonna go well 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.600 because your mind got to be in a certain space 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.280 to even want to create, you know what I mean. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.960 And so it's funny. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.280 I was talking to my boy about it, and I 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.160 was sending him the ship from me and Kas's project 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.400 coming out, and he was like, bro, you got like 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.880 way better. And I told him, I was like, I 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.360 don't think I got way better. I just think I 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.040 started liking it again, you know what I mean. I 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.640 started liking doing music again. So I wasn't kind of 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.920 just punching the clock anymore and just kind of getting by. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.360 Yeah, you love what you do, You're better at You're 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:20.720 just better at it. You get what I'm saying, You're 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:21.360 just better at it. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.760 And I think that you know that RESET really helped 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.400 me I got away from I wasn't kicking it, you know, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.320 at industry places no more. I wasn't kicking it with 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.000 artists nomore. I was just with the homies, you know 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.760 what I mean. And then when I was in the studio, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.320 I was just with my engineer, Kaitel, and we was 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.480 just like throwing shit at the wall. Don't We're not 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.720 looking for a single. We're not looking for We're just 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.199 looking to just like get shit off, you know what 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.959 I mean. And so wrote out all of my feelings, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.560 the feelings that I can't, you know, necessarily talk about 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.960 about everything that happened, just to get those out, and 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.440 then started falling back in love with it. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.439 And yeah, so yeah, yeah, I mean that's one thing 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.160 that you kind of mentioned in passing. Obviously, you and Cosben, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.040 you guys had my favorite song on the on the 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.600 Dreamville project. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I know 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.199 the fans have been waiting to see what's gonna happen 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.360 with this, Yeah, year, long time. The theory of an 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.280 album between you two, Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's one 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.760 hundred percent coming. It's probably a lot easier to make 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.080 happen now, to be quite yeah, yeah, and Coz has 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.880 some label situations, not with Dreamville but with Interscope if 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.079 I can't say that cause I'm sorry, but he's he's 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.120 figured that out now too. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.079 So now it's like super easy, you know what I mean? 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.080 And uh, same thing with us Bro. We had like 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.920 forty five records, and because every time we would lock 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.280 in for like three months and do some records, then 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:34.920 we would. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:35.920 Hit a wall, you know what I mean. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.880 And then it was on my end, I'm like, okay, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.920 I know with TD, I'm probably only gonna drop once 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.240 every two to three years. Do I want to waste 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.760 my drop with cause, like you know what I mean. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.200 So it was always a thing like that. And then 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.720 with Kas, same thing, you know, with him, not the length, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.120 but just like him being like okay time and wise 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.200 does it make sense? But now with me independent with 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.920 him like basically independent, it's super easy. Like the track 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.120 list is basically locked in. We're just finishing up a 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.280 couple of loose strings kind of like concept. No, actually 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.560 it's funny because we actually like it sounds a lot 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.959 different than I think people are gonna like assume it 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:08.400 a sound. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:09.800 It's it's super fun. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.920 It's a lot of raps of course, but we got 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.199 like a lot of records that like, it sounds like 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.000 very very much LA. And I think that's different because 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.439 me and Cos both don't necessarily sarirely have like the 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.520 typical LA sound, right, Yeah, but it sounds very LA 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.400 and it's it's a fun album. We had a lot 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.959 of fun making this ship over the years, for real, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.839 Like we got some of my favorite records I've even 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.360 ever made period on this album. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.800 So yeah, you put Ransom and Coyote on a song together, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.760 which is so awesome and random and random is Ransom 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.000 is like one of the most prolific independent rappers bro ever, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.120 Like this guy is a fucking beast. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.600 Yeah, shout out my Doug Ransom mixtape. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.640 Legend, Independent Legend, and the Coyote obviously on the new 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.360 side of the La Ship. They're going crazy. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.440 Yeah, I gotta, I gotta my schedule being crazy. We're 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.000 shooting a video for it. But I also got to 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.760 you know, they go crazy with the content. I need 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.679 to catch up with them and they go crazy. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.400 Have the best videos in the game. Crazy independent bro. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:09.760 They be having mariachi bands behind them in the Instagram videos, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.679 like full blown and these are like real Mexicans, Like 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.599 these are real Mexicans with the hats playing it Like 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.680 that ship is crazy to me, bro, Like they. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.600 Do not play with the content is something like because 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.599 I because I knew them when they were signed with 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.800 Whack Yep, and they've kind of gotten into this like 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.640 funk where they couldn't release when they were kind of similar, right, 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.199 so then they just started dropping it on Instagram and 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.040 that's when I just saw the flips and yeah, all 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.040 of that. Yeah, and then everything they do is on 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.559 the phone. Yeah. Yeah, bro, that ship is crazy. But 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.000 people would think that they have like a content, it's not. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.600 It's like it's like Guapo and and they're just they 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.040 they do their own ship. They just do their own cut. Yeah. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.480 No, they're they're super They're super inspiring to me because 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.280 they like so everything about me and Coyote's relationship is random. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.440 Like I met them in the barbershop and didn't even 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.040 know they do me at first, and then well the 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.240 that's what I'm saying, Like, yeah, so they cut next 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.800 to my barber at the time, and then like. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.040 Something ended up coming up in conversation. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.199 I was like, y'all do music and I was like, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.000 send me some shit, and then they were hard and 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.520 I'm like all right, bet, And then i started following 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.880 them on the Gram and I'm seeing the video. I'm like, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.160 all these niggas is like crazy. So I met him 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.720 like when they were still signed the Whack but started 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.320 doing the videos and so I'm like, okay, they actually fired. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.920 So we did that record a while ago, but we 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.679 did it before Porches actually, so yeah, definitely a while ago. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.160 And I was gonna put it on Porches but ended 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.640 up holding back off of it, and then they were 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.079 about to put it out and I told them that 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.320 they could, but then we talked about doing this project, 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.600 so I was like hold on. So yeah, it ended 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.760 up working out. And then Ransom I actually met him 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.959 through my engineer, and I just I wanted another rapper 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:44.240 on it. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:44.960 I don't know why. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.559 I just felt like a posse cut and so yeah, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.599 but it worked though, and they versus they smoked it. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.160 They smoked it. Yeah. Are you already kind of like 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.079 like honed in on your album, like in terms of 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.120 like is it like kind of coming together? 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:58.600 Yeah? 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.959 Yeah, So like so so it's funny, like I know 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.160 everybody's calling this one album, but it's really a mixtape, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.560 and I mean like not like everybody says, oh, I'm 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.240 dropping a mixtape and then it's like an album. Like 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.679 when you hear it, it's like a mixtape. You can 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.520 hear you hear me talking to the fans. It's really 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.040 a thank you to the fans. And it's probably something 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.600 I'm gonna do continuously between albums. So it's really kind 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.760 of like a life update, kind of like Little Wayne 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.720 did with the dedications when he was stopping. Just talks 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.160 like that. But album wise, yeah, I'm probably like sixty 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.080 percent done. I'm kind of like in feature mode, trying 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.840 to figure out what features I want, figuring out like Okay, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.880 what do we want the singles to be. I already 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.400 have a concept and so yeah, I'm probably like sixty 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.439 sixty five percent done, but that won't come out till 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.319 that'd be the last project this year, so that'd be 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.360 like my first independent like solo album, you know what 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.000 I mean since the split stuff like that. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.800 Man, Yeah, yeah, how have the fans been because there 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.079 are a certain amount of fans who are kind of 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.240 just like cult members with TD for sure, with your 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.360 benefit from yeah, of course, of course, right away. But 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.640 then I'm sure there's also a portion of those fans 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.720 who might back up off you once you leave the label. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.560 Is that something or have the fans. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.760 Solid Honestly, the fans have been The fans have been 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.599 like consistent all the way throughout, like the fans that 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.040 didn't because you know, there's TV there's a wide number 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.840 of TD fans, and there's TD fans that they don't 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.240 like any artists besides the Big Four, you know what 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.000 I'm saying, and then there's artists that you know, they 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.000 only fans that they only, like I said, were shot 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.400 or whatever. So the only the fans that didn't like 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.400 me before they were consistent, and they still don't like me, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.240 because when you saw with TD, there's gonna be TD 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.120 fans that don't fuck with you. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:29.960 It's just how it works. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.920 But the fans have been pretty The only fans I 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.600 really lost were fans that I shot myself in the 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.240 foot in But I had to do that to get 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.440 out of the the label deal. When the when the 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.240 Dot and the Drake beef started, I felt like topping 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.680 them were kind of like dragging their feet a little bit. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:46.360 I don't think purposely. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:47.560 I just think they had a lot of shit going on, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.760 and I knew that if I kind of like sparked 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.080 a fire a little bit, that they'd be like, we 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:52.720 got to separate from this. So I kind of like 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.800 started tweeting shit on the side of Drake purposely because 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.000 I saw how how yeah, so there's fans that hate. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.960 Me for that? And wait, wait, what was the main 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.040 the main tweet that fans hated you for they hated 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.080 me when I remember that was just like you just 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.080 like yeah, this is crazy. But I was purposely doing it. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.280 So I was talking to my boy LTA and he 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:12.520 was like, bro, you got to turn it up if 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.640 you want to get out of here in this year, 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.680 Like this is gonna drag, Like I know how because 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.920 he's the lawyer. He does contracts, Like I know how 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.320 this ship works, Bro, it should have take two and 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.720 a half years unless you turn it up. So I tweeted, uh, 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.880 it was right after Push Ups Drop. I tweeted like 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.800 y'all hating this beat switch up his fire and then 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.520 I like let it sit for like ten minutes and 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.720 deleted it. It went crazy and then you know what 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.320 I mean, And I still had the reason TD So 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.520 it looked like insane, right, look like super crazy. So 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.800 I tweeted that and then I also I had a 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.520 rap radar that I did, I mean, not a rap radar, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.000 the grain room. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:46.800 Why am I on the radar? 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.000 On the radar, Yeah, on the radar that I did 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.880 over a drake beat. But this was before the beef 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:51.480 even started. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:52.520 Wow. So they hit me. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.160 They're like, yo, we was about to drop it, but 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.240 we don't want to, you know, damage your situation. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.280 Run that, run it, run it. Let's do it like 0:15:59.360 --> 0:15:59.560 run it. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.720 And so that I had like five million views on Twitter, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.360 and it was like mixed reviews, like some people like 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.080 this think of gas and this shit fired, don't matter. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.400 Then other people like, what the fuck are you wrapping up? 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.720 Because you know, fans think you recorded it today, you 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.280